This is the downbeat on ninety seven one. The freak just watched the video
of Chapman drilling Chas McCormick in the right inner thigh with one hundred and four
mile an hour fastball late in the game. Yeah, and I remember when
that happened. I was thinking, First of all, I didn't think it
was intentional, because I don't think Chapman knows where the ball is going to
end up half the time. He's a wild ass man. But just the
timing of it and the way, you know, the way things went down
with uh, you know, adult adules getting getting hit and all that crap
happened, and him waking up the astros. He's like, dude, don't
taint this, you know, with something like this. And I was so
glad that measured minds and steady hands did not allow anything more than didn't allow
that to be anything more than probably what it was and just a wild ass
pitch. Yeah, and it was Chas McCormick. True, Like if that
was Maldonado or L two Bay, yeah, or a lot of a handful
of guys, I guess you could start looking into it. Yeah, things,
So someone sent me a link to the Houston Wikipedia that has been updated
with their new mayor, Dulas Garcia. I do appreciate a good, quick,
quick Wikipedia bit and it'll lasts for like five seconds. I've gotten a
lot of texts, so if you want to text anything in the that you
saw on the broadcast whatever, we are live from Houston. We were at
the game last night. Absolutely incredible experience, so much fun. But two
on four seven, nine seven, if you have any questions about how it
all went down and how it looked in in stadium, I certainly will read
them on air. One guy and I don't know if it was Brody,
but it is wrestling related, so I assume it's Brody, although there's not
some obscure reference in the text, so maybe it's not him. But this
is kind of cool because last night at the American Airline Center was Monday Night
Raw. That's right, and he says, what's up, guys? Yesterday
they had Monday Night Raw at the AC and during the damn near sold out
arena. During the damn near sold out arena, there was chance of Let's
Go Rangers, Astro sucks and f the Astros during the show. It was
amazing hearing eleven thousand people cheer on the Rangers during the show like it was
a watch party with some wrestling. That's wild. I wonder did they have
screens up showing the game. No, yeah, there's no way they would
do that. People just keep it up on their bones. Yeah. I
don't know if you were watching it live on their phone or how they were
taking it in, or you know, if you're psyched to have Monday Night
Raw in town and then damn it, Game seven, what do you do?
But they were definitely keeping their finger on the pulse. One thing about
yesterday obviously. Then the MVP that actually didn't play the game was unequivocally Kevio.
I don't think there's any argument keV Oh. Kevin Turner dressed up as
Super Mario for the duration of Game seven in Houston last night was outstanding.
But you also, Kevo, get a good MVP vote for your social media
posts now if they if you were following our trip via the freak accounts,
I think I had had a pretty good run on my Instagram downbeat Dan nine
seven to one on Graham. But dude, the response, the interaction,
the views, it was really cool to see, you know, people kind
of taking that journey with us, and all of that stuff's posted. It's
TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, you can find that stuff out. There's some
really fun stuff. And you were great with all your weirdness yesterday, keeping
everybody kind of linked in with us and connected with us as we made this
wild ass trip. Man. Yes, say, I did not expect this
to happen when we were watching the game. When we were watching Game six
on Sunday night, which seems like a week ago. It's Tuesday morning right
now. It was less than forty eight hours ago that the tech started going
around. It's like, wow, game seven, what if? And then
Mikey comes up with the idea yesterday morning, what if we just go?
And then it all just came together. Industries of ideas. It's like a
probably a bad one, but you know they're a little bit to it.
Maybe is not the worst idea. Well, I'm happy we all greenlit this
thing. This has been an incredible experience. It was fun being in there.
We mentioned the mass exodus a few times. It started maybe the sixth
inning and then you're like, are they just going to the bathroom? And
they clearing out and then let's go Astros chance started turning in a let's go
Rangers chance yep, and then we all sort of did make our way down
to the area behind the Rangers dugout. We were down there right when the
last out happened. There's video of that on those socials mentioned. Yeah,
I got a good video of the second strike with the clerk on the mound
and then I guess with a ground infield grounder. Yeah, that ended the
game and the little bit of celebration about a minute long clips on Twitter,
on TikTok and Zach our program director was a big help too. That's what
I wanted to say is that house was so packed last night that cell service
was horrible bad. Like I was trying to send a two or three second
high Malcolm, you know, I'm at the ballgame video to my son That
took literally twelve minutes to go through on an iPhone. Yeah, because service
was just bad because everybody was on it. But it was wild to see
how as the game ended and people started leaving, Oh I can actually send
some text here, I can actually post something on Twitter or whatever. But
yeah, that was the sight to see and the layers of the of the
exodus. You know, like you said, it's kind of started in the
sixth, but it wasn't a real, I mean, a real commitment to
leaving because most people stayed. And I remember saying to you guys, well,
I think it was I think it was ten to two, I believe,
and they had the three shutout shutout innings the Rangers did. And then
I said, if we get one more run and this thing gets to be
eleven to two, this place will be empty. And I'll be damned if
I guess it was was Evan Carter got on base with a single and then
got maybe doubled in or something like that. We ended up going up eleven
to two at that point. That's right. Always had another home run too,
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the solo bomb, but the run that
got us to eleven, that was the straw that broke the Astros back.
And that's when everybody left, and the only people sticking around were the ones
that were either hardcore lifelong Astros, faithful ones that wanted to see the celebration
be part of a baseball a historic baseball moment. But it was Ranger f
ing nation on that on that that third base line man, and it was
really cool. Where they let us down there to get behind the dugout with
our buddies. For the Yeah, for the most part you had to kind
of sneak in there and be a little creative. But the ticket got it
felt like it felt like a home game, you know, for for just
that that that those sections that were you know, kind of concentrated behind the
Rangers dugout, it felt like a home game. Well the players, and
the players like almost kind of they recognize you for a minute, you know,
and maybe it's maybe it's obligatory. They should have came a little closer.
Okay. I I was a little disappointed, and because they do their
party and then they start wheeling this giant stage out and I assume the broadcast
goes to commercial and hell, they may go over to Jeter and Poppy and
everybody, and there's enough time. You know, the crowd's going nuts.
The remaining Ranger fans were there and there's a few waves and all that.
But then I thought they'd go to the stage and then do the run over,
uh, you know, and give that crowd some love. But they
kind of didn't. They kind of just made it back to the dog.
There was the walking of the wags, the wives and girlfriends as they allow
that floodgate to open, and all these blonds just sort of flock onto the
field, holding blond babies in most cases. And then then the team gets
there, you know, makes their speeches, gets their trophies. They all
hug their families, which is cool to see too, man, because when
they're up on stage waving at their kids or whatever. Yeah, just cool
moments, man. But I did think coming over and just acknowledging the hell
out of those the fans that were losing their minds was probably warranted. But
man, your head's spinning, and who knows the proper protocols? Yeah,
winning the American League in that moment, getting on a stage on you know,
visitors tour, did either of you notice? And I don't know who
these women were, but it was a line of about ten women, and
I thought they were possibly wags of the Astros because they were all in Astros
gear. Because they filed out left the field down the third base line,
and they all turned to the Rangers faithful right there behind the dugout and were
light clapping, go congratulations, guys. You know, I thought that was
really it. Those are some older women. I don't know who those are,
Like, I think that office owner. Okay, got hurting and yeah
kind of that was cool. Grau, Yeah, yeah, I thought that
was really nice. There was a when I was we were going down to
the lower bowl. You know, they were not fully green lighting it,
but they were kind of letting people in, right, but they weren't fully
going. And then Mike and Danny just finally go and Danny goes, Danny
and Danny goes, Mike Soroy goes through. He stops me and he goes,
you guys have tickets for this section, And I pointed, uh to
Kevy Oh, who's still in his uniform, and then I go, I
go, kevy Oh has him on his phone and the guy and Kevo grabs
his phone and there were our sections not even nearer where we're trying to access.
The guy looks at him and he goes, you're fine, Mario,
and just like he lets him go through. That kind of the where I
just kind of stop and look at my phone. I'm like, if I
don't do anything, this guy's you know, he's ready to get to the
line of people behind me. Yeah, so I just kind of go I
didn't have a plan. My mind went blank for a minute. Huh,
And I was gonna looked at my phone and went head down, and he
goes, come on, Mario, you missed that well, because yeah,
you powered through. You did the right thing, and that's why you pointed
me and say he's got him and I'm already down and the yeah, He's
like go ahead, yeah, yeah, you don't point the guy behind you
say Mario's got it. Well, look at if I pointed Mario or KEVEO.
And then I get to go on through and whatever happens to Kevio,
well that's his problem. I'm lost in a sea of blue and red.
Try finding me because I'm not. I'm no longer dressed as a cow.
JJ. Can you get that audio from the guy from Game seven? I'll
call for that in a second, the guy that I got in the concourse.
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friends. It is the Let's Freaking Chill movie series. So me and Mikey
kind of went up for a little stretch, get a beer, take a
wee Wii. This is kind of after all the really the first hour and
a half of the game was really tense, the first three innings. So
this is about the top of the fourth bottom of the fourth inning, and
me and Mikey went for a walk, just kind of stretched out. I
was sweating bullets too, as Mario, so getting out and getting some space
whether than me cramped in, was nice. But a listener stopped us and
his name was David. So this is our brief interaction with David, a
listener who we motivated yesterday. Hey, it's me and Kevio. I ran
into David. Oh David, where are you from? Uh? Parlston?
So what's your story? Man? We were in the concourse goofing around.
Well, you said hey and stopped us. Well, I just had to
say that you guys were my inspiration to be here in Houston today. At
eight point thirty this morning, I pulled tickets, came home, told the
wife, I'm coming in like a hurricane and we're going to He just tend
to watch the game. Baby, where's your wife? Mat She's in the
bathroom, mauth I wait, actually she's right here. Hi, it's me
Cavio, Hi Cao. Welcome to Game seven. Thanks David. Yes tomorrow,
I gotta work tomorrow, but I have my own business so I don't
have to worry about it. I called the shots wanta bases there anything you'd
like to say to Dingo? Uh? Hey, then go what's up with
the pig? We all want to know you won't say it. Thank you
so much, David rock On, Hey, he love you guys. That
was awesome. I love it. He goes, Hey, it's a meat
caveo. So what are you guys doing? Just go in the baseball game?
Normal KT American voice. Oh that's great. Yeah that was I think
three people said that they heard us yesterday mornings and screw it. I'm doing
the same, David n I got a text involving Corey Seeger and Marcus Simmons
at interesting one. At least, what's more likely Adoles continues this incredible heater
or Simeon and Seger both show up with their full capabilities or bonus both of
those things, Daddy, both of those things would be nice. But if
Adolis does anything like what he just did in the ALCS, uh, we're
gonna have a bigger party in about ten days. I mean, you can't
maintain record breaking performance like you had. I mean, fifteen RBIs the I
think, the most in any postseason series ever, Yes, by any player
ever. I mean, and I said it's a cash a few games ago.
It's like Arci is very feast or famine, and we are feasting.
The feast has been very fun and very fulfilling. So to maintain that as
a dream. But man, I don't know how long a hot streak can
last, and he is. It usually seems like a series to series proposition
where a guy will get hot in a series. Because we talked about in
the comparisons Nelly Cruise are very apropos. You didn't see Nelly take that into
you know, the next the next round. Yeah. In fact, I
don't want to say he disappeared, but it was nothing like he was against
the Tigers. Yeah, and crazy hot even I don't know, you know,
but it's Monday or it's Tuesday. Yeah, sure, we got until
Friday. Like that's a big enough gap to take a deep breath. But
when you do what he did Sunday night, that was the you know,
for remember four strikeouts, golden sombrero. I knew like that was That's the
famine part of adult these Garcia. You rarely see the feast and the famine
happen in the same damn game. Yeah. Yeah, And I think that
these guys, you know, the longer you have the playoff run obviously the
Last Ones World Series, it ends there no matter what for everybody. But
the longer you go, I think then the sample size is large enough that
you end up overall being who you are. Like for example, I mean,
how Touvy. At one point they showed his batting average last night up
on the screen, and his batting average for the postseason was four fifty.
Yeah, that's ridiculous. I mean that's insane. You would just you would
assume that had they advanced and went onto the World Series, that he would
have gone cold just to be who he is. Yeah, you know,
I just don't know how how big Bumbino can just sustain that well A Seegar
has gotten lumped in with Simeon unfairly. I think I think that's just because
things were going bad Friday when we end up blowing the lead and going down
three to two, and you're just feeling the thing that Rangers fans feel sometimes.
But Simeon to me, and I think it's stats pulled over your Simons
playoffs. Uh three thirty three average on base Okay, let's just do ops,
which is great. League average OPS would be eight hundred. He's eleven
twenty seven. That's Simon's OPS for that's for the playoffs. Okay, three
thirty three. That's three home runs six RBIs I mean for the playoffs?
Like five doubles? Like he hits the ball hard almost every time. He's
alcs was worse than it was against Baltimore Tampa. All right, fine,
Simeon, and this is where you, like, I think legit conversations could
be had next year your leadoff hitters Evin Carter, So it's that's gonna happen.
Simeon. One ops of five hundred. Okay, this is where the
argument comes into play. I think he'll get it together because he's, yes,
Marcus Simeon, who is a beast of a player. But dude,
man, this is an extended cold street. But he on Sunday night,
he was two for three with two walks, and that is that the game
where he had that smoke liner that got caught. Yep, yeah, those
are hard. Maybe he's coming out of it and he's had diving stop that
saved two runs. And he was one for five last night with with a
walk like it's not and he's going to run like it's not nothing though it's
not nothing. And he's a good hitter and you need his glove too.
Write yeh, it's interesting. How interesting how much they have moved the lineup
around, at least in this series, a little bit of shuffling movie guys
up and down. I think they're comfortable, like Boach, you knows they're
comfortable doing it. So it's like, I mean, when John Smoltz asked
the very pointed question do the Rangers speak Boach, he said, yes,
they speak. They go about their business, do they speak. I think
they can kind of handle it if they were to move things around. I
don't think they need to. I mean, he's put fifteen hits or whatever
they did against the Astro. I don't need to change anything. But if
Simeon gets going, even if Adulays comes back down to real life a little
bit good lord, and I now I look, I largely ignored Phillies and
Diamondbacks. I watched the end of one of those games, I think game
three or four. Pretty locked in tonight. Yeah, and we need to
get some sleep, boys, because tomorrow night Dallas Maverick's opening Night in San
Antonio, and you can hear that game here on ninety's Haven won the Freak.
And that's an eight thirty tip. Actually it's probably like an eight forty
one tip, because on ESPN maybe it's eight thirty. I'm convinced that after
the last I don't know two weeks that I'm never going to sleep eight hours
in a row ever again. You won't, Yes, you will? When
when is this gonna happen? When he dies? Sleep forever? Dingy man,
Well, hey, we'll sleep, ding move, Ding move you see.
I saw it on Twitter like raid as I was fluttering to bed last
night that Dusty Baker made I don't think he retired last night, but they
said that he's basically okay. Manager Dusty Baker eyeing retirement plans for twenty twenty
three season to be his last. I read something else that said it,
and this is who knows conflicting reports maybe, but it was that he was
not necessarily retiring, but he I thought it would be his last year in
Houston. Now. He had some comments before the season started towards their new
general manager and ownership, like can we get some more players? And one
of the big stories of the trade deadline, as hard as we've been on
rold As Chapman, one of the big stories of the trade deadline was the
Astros did not go get any lefty relievers. They could have used a good
situational lefty to get a seeger out here and there like that could That was
a big storyline that, like the Rangers made bullpen moves and the Astros did
not. Say what you want about Chapman too, He's he's a bender,
but he hasn't. I've been fearing it this entire run. The floodgates have
yet to open for him. Yeah. Can I say this too, at
the risk of like making any Razor fan roll their eyes or make the jo
motion with their hand. I thought it was awesome last night when Chris Young
went up there. First of all, loved that he's just going the pullover
in jeans. But I thought it was awesome that Chris Young mitched John Daniels.
He gives credit, said to Ray Davis, who deserves credit. By
the way, Ray Davis spending all this money deserves credit. I talked s
about that man for years, for him to spend all the money he did,
but for Chris to mintioning John Daniels, who I think Chris never really
wanted John to go. I think John was going to move on after last
year anyways, just to kind of do something else in life. Maybe not,
I could be wrong, but to men, because there are things that
have happened that do involve John that are good. Not even talking about what
happened ten years ago, the twenty ten to twenty eleven World Series that John
is largely responsible for. True, Dude, Ben Rodgers did this yeah,
part of a segment last week about the acquisition of lists the players and most
of Yeah, Yeah, it was John Daniels call or one of his you
know, heavy influence in saying, look at the free agent market in the
next couple of years. It's early for the rebuild. And he went to
Ray Davis and said, let's go get Corey Seeger and Marcus Simeon. Those
are good building blocks. Let's see what we got to do to get him,
because the middle winfield prospects are not free agents're gonna be there. The
trade for Nate Lowe, trading Elvis Andrews for jonah Heim. Yeah, I
mean you start looking at some of these moves and you're like, dude,
he's kind of deserves a lot of credit for being the architect. Yes,
of course, and Chris Young should get a ton of credit to and Chris
Jong you can tell. I mean, we we've known forever because we know
him, what a good, good dude he is and smart dude. I
think that's badass for him to mention it. Right when he mentioned John Daniels,
there was Ranger fans right by me, right to my right. You
guys were to my left. Yeah, and he goes, if John Daniels,
I don't get it, he didn't win S. I don't get it.
I'm like, WHOA didn't win S? Yeah, you know, he
took him to back to back World Series as we are right now. He
didn't play right field in twenty eleven, you know, he he he wasn't.
He didn't come out of the bullpen to close the game in twenty eleven,
and so you're you're a couple of things inches away from winning that World
Series, and the narrative completely flips on him. So I don't want to
hear that crap. That is nonsense. Yeah, but John Daniels didn't do
anything while he was here. Seventy five percent of the team that you saw
do what they did last night is because of him, you know. Also,
like we gotta we gotta goal quay. I hope we don't live in
this world where you do have to lose for five or six years to be
good at baseball, like Mike. The Astros did this first right like set
Out and then Dynasty, and it's like, oh, crap, do we
have to be bad and not do business for five or six years? Tank
Galli's pison, We're gonna see it. Jack Lider and Kumar Rocker, who
knows what they'll be. But Josh Young has proven to be great and then
white length are nice thing. So it's a lot of things. Maybe we'll
side that for later in the week. We need to give Boche some love
next. Yeah, he has barely been mentioned a lot. Dude. The
talkbacks are lit. I got a ton of talkbacks. We'll hear that your
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