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You're listening to the downbeat seven one
the Freak? Are we going to Leah?

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Here is this Leah? Yes,
ma'am. I heard the song somewhere

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the other nine too. We have
a big party Thursday night at the Echo

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Lounge in Dallas. We want you
to be there. It's free if you're

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there before six. Today is the
one year anniversary of ninety seven one,

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the Free Entomber Third twenty twenty two, Happy birthday radio station. We did

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it one year, and I envisioned
forty more or go for forty one years.

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Yeah, so twenty sixty four we
will shut it down. We'll be

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all jumping out of airplanes and writing
in pot air balloons. By then,

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I'll be seventy six, dude,
I'll be in my prime. Yeah,

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i'll be ninety. Would you say
forty years? Yeah? Ninety five.

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I ain't making it. I ain't
making it. We know that well.

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We want you to be at the
Echo Lounge with us on Thursday night.

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Quaker City Night Hawks, Brandon Funk, Ohmel Pizza will be playing. All

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the host will be there hanging with
you. We might have Rangers on.

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We're gonna talk a little Rangers in
a minute, I want to give people

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the chance to win something. Here, Danny two one four or eight one

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seven seven eight seven one nine seven
one, if you can answer my Rangers

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trivia question, then you we'll get
a chance to win something. I'm gonna

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tell you what that thing is,
because that'd be spoiler and call in.

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If you don't want it, we'll
just give it to someone else. But

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we'll take color. What is it
alien amp farm tickets. We'll just go

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right from the top, we'll go
down. If you can answer my question,

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then congratulations to you. You win. If you can't, well,

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because the Rangers are in the playoffs, unbelievable, the weird wild card round

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and it's bizarre. This is your
two of this, I know, and

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we're gonna have David Murphy, former
Ranger Great David Murphy's going to join us

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at around nine oho five this morning, just about an hour from now.

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I do want to know his thoughts
on this. It's weird, but you

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know, it gives more teams a
chance, which I like it does.

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I want to know his thoughts on
it if he were currently playing. It's

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one thing for us to have thoughts
on it. You know, we're not

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in the game, and he's now
a broadcaster commentator. You just kind of

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wonder. I guess for us it's
good because it's more baseball, but it's

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a player. Do you really want
to play potentially three games on the road

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just to get in the actual real
tournament? The Rangers would not be in

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the playoffs if it was not like
this. Let's true, Raise would be

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your wild card team. The Orioles
are the one seed. They are one

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hundred and one games, So you
have this game as a three games,

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and then the Alds is now five
games in the championship series seven games.

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It's still little longer path to get
in. That's why I was kind of

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frustrated the Rangers didn't handle their business
in Seattle. But more on that in

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a minute. I have kind of
a bit of a interesting Rangers Raise preview

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with some funny things from it.
Let's go to caller number one and see

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if they can get it. I've
got Rangers trivia, okay, and I'll

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tell you what you win after you
get it. Right. What's your name?

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They are? Jr? Yes,
sir? Where are you calling from?

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JR? I'm in Mansfield right now, okay, Junior? Or is

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that like a John Rogers. What
are you going with there? That's junior,

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okay Jr. And he's in Mansfield, so he which is close to

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Arlington. I often call Mansfield South
deep South. Arling kind of is right

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in a way, so he should
be a pretty pretty connected to all things

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Ers Jr. What do you do
for a living? I'd drive a truck,

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all right? All right, boy? You got a big family.

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I just me and my kid,
my wife. All right, you big

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Ranger fan? Oh yeah, okay. You can see us Thursday night at

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the Echo Lounge. That is the
playing hot Dog hot Dog free if you're

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there before six and then everyone could
swing that. But it's only nine seventy

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one. My question for you Jr. Then is we're gonna go back the

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Rangers In twenty ten and twenty eleven
their first round, they played the Tampa

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Bay Rays, who they played today. In twenty eleven Game four, okay,

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one Ranger hit three home runs as
the Rangers won four to three to

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advance to the American League Championship Series. Game four one Ranger hit three home

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runs? Who was that Texas Ranger? Was that Beltra? It was Adrian

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Beltrac correct? This guy? This
guy I knew it when he said I

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knew it when he said man's fields
like this guy knows rangers. He's got

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it. Well done, man.
So here's your here's your story, JR.

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I have tickets to the DFW Italian
Festival this Saturday and lost comanas.

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You still you still with this?
JR? Oh yeah, okay, cool.

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It's a big ass four pack,
dude, So you can do whatever

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and crush the great food thanks to
our friends at Italy Benny Keith Food,

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Banjee Wines, Campari and Petegrino.
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love its Italian birds. You a
big old boy? Are you a normal

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size fellow? Are he is?
Yeah? You might have made Jr's family's

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weekend. You can take the wife
and the kid and just mack down on

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some lasagna, some olives, maybe
some wine. Go crazy, go nuts,

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JR. My kids old enough to
drive, so I got the dd

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COVID. Hell yeah, purf you
are. This is just turned out to

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be a great weekend. Is that
is a great age when they're old enough

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to drive but not old enough to
drink and just drive drunk ass daddy around

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all over the damn Metroplex. But
Jr. Will put you on holes so

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cool. JJ will get your information
and this Saturday you can go to the

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Italian Heritage and Food Festival in Los
Calenas, brought to you by DFW Italians.

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What a thing, all dais?
We get Jr Talking to JJ.

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Yeah, so good. Asian Beltry
nailed it. So yeah. There was

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game four that was twenty eleven.
I wouldn't have gotten that. So twenty

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ten when the Rangers played in the
playoffs, the way that went down was

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if if I don't know if you
remember this show, I do. I

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was there. I think I went
to every home the home games good.

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So this was best of five series. Game one, cliff Lea goes seven

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innings, we win Game two,
and then we bring it back home.

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I think Tommy Hunter Pinched pitched Game
four. I remember that that. Me

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and Machine went to that and Rangers
lost Game three and four at home,

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and we were all like, crap, here we go again. And then

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other first round exit cliff Lea versus
David Price and cliff Lea through a damn

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complete game. We were off to
see the Yankees. I all know what

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happened there. We got to watch
a neffy strikeout a rod I mean swinging

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was he was swinging right. I
can't remember looking at oh crap. I

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think he looked. I think he
looked. Yeah, that's right. Yeah,

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makes it even better. Yeah.
In twenty eleven, we played the

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race. We lost game one,
but then we won game two, Game

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three, and then game four.
It's like an afternoon game, just like

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today. Adrian Beltrey hits three solo
home runs, the Rangers win four to

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three, and we go on to
beat the Tigers, and then we go

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to the World Series and we don't
have to talk about how that ended.

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And the Tigers series that was the
big Nelly cruise coming out party, wasn't

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it. Yes, he was.
They don't go to the World Series without

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Nelly in Detroit. You won't see
me blaming anything on him. No,

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they're never there without him. I
mean he went on a heater. Ya,

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he shouldn't have been in the game
that laid So Rangers and Rays they

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play on the very odd situation where
they're playing on ABC. Didn't think you'd

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see that. Huh. When you
think of weird of Baseball, you don't

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really think of ABC. But I
guess they're they're directly tied in with ESPN,

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right, give me all that.
Yeah, you think of Fox and

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maybe NBC as a as as Baseball
networks, but ABC. Do you have

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any idea who's calling the game?
I was trying to look that up right

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now because I'm assuming it's just ESPN
guys who they've they've sent down. But

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I truly don't know, and I
was trying to look it up just a

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minute ago. I'll see how I
can find it in a second here or

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what we need to know about this
series. There's a lot of interesting storylines,

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believe it or not, and this
is where the first one is a

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little a little heavy, but it's
it's a good story. Was this the

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low family? Yes? So,
Nathaniel Lowe's awesome. He's twenty eight.

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I believe his little brother, Josh's
twenty five. Josh plays for the race,

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correct, Nathaniel used to, and
then John Daniels traded for him a

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few years ago, and then he
came here. So he was in the

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same system, but there were roommates
in like Class A and but so Nathaniel's

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about three years older, and Josh
low was really good. He hit two

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ninety two this year. He's become
a really good player. Three months ago,

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devastatingly handsome. Yes, Josh low
is he is. I pulled up

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the Baseball Reference chart last Nuns and
that's the hell of him. Head shot

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there, Yeah, a mug shot. Well, three months ago they were

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gonna play in Tampa Bay and it
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in an MLB game against each other. So there if their parents lived in

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Florida about an hour from from Tampa
or Saint Pete and their parents, Wendy

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and David hosted nearly a hundred people
and a suite for the game, friends

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and family. What a huge day. She had the cool half jersey.

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You know, you see this,
I guess what the Chiefs and Eagles played

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with Donna Kelsey. But that night
though, she passed out in the suite.

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Now, they kind of wrote it
off as hey, it's been a

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busy day, a lot of people, a lot of socializing, interviews on

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the field. They kind of made
it a big deal. The media made

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it a big deal, which is
fine. You know, so you like

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watched this not to mention just the
fact that, oh, my two kids

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are about to play each other,
Like there's a lot going on so they

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just kind of chalked that up to
just an overwhelming day. So she passed

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out, Oh man, don't you
know. But they didn't worry about it

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too much, and Nate loo even
said, Nathaniel Looe even said, like

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he kind of laugh things off,
and her family were kind of, you

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know, we don't get too worked
up about stuff. Two weeks later,

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she had a seizure and she lost
consciousness in her car. Now she was

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able, she's behind the wheel of
the car. She's able to regain to

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get the car in park before she
lost complete control. Jus. So she

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passes out, wakes up to an
EMT and then they take her to the

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hospital and she gets the evaluation done
and she was diagnosed with brain cancer.

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So Josh lives about an hour from
his parents, so he left the race

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for a few days. Nathaniel went
home during the All Star break, which

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is run around that time, to
go be with them. He didn't leave

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the team because it was here,
you know, it was just kind of

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tough, but all Star break he
left and went and he said that he

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didn't want this is all kind of
came out yesterday. You know, he

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did not want this to be a
big story. He didn't want this to

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stand out from the series, but
you know, he was pretty uncomfortable by

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the brother versus brother thing in June. It kind of seems like a guy

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he's like, he'll do media very
good. He's one of the more outgoing

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guys in the team, but he
just doesn't want things to overshadow, you

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know, it's like team sport type
mentality. He didn't even want to make

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this story public, but his brother
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so it got out, so he
had to answer some questions about it yesterday.

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So the mom's going through some chemo
and and some you know, radiation

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treatments. They're aggressively going after this
thing. Yeah, and she's got to

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be young. She's probably forty six, yeah saying he's twenty eight, she's

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fifty six, Josh twenty five.
So yeah, so she's not gonna be

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able to be this week. And
that's kind of a story. Yesterday,

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he's kind of a bummer, but
interesting that there's like the brother storyline and

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that and hopefully, you know,
they get that figured out and she's doing

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okay. It is funny when you
get the you know, brother on brother

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battle opposing teams, and they've had
this story up on the screen behind you

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on Fox Ford. Yeah, I
mean not currently we're watching that weird weather

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guy. He's nice guy, weird
you believe they having Andrews alone. It

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scares me. I dream about that
man. This forecast sometimes scare me.

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I kind of like it this week. But it's always funny when you get

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the brothers competing against each other because
they're brothers, They've got you know,

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a connection of chemistry. They're probably
their own way of speaking, you know,

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the inventing their own language. But
they did show one clip where I

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believe Nate was on uh as a
runner on first base and Josh was holding

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him on the bag and Nate can't
see him, but Josh is behind him

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just doing like making faces at him
and doing kissy face, knowing the camera

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is going to be on him,
just trying to ridicule his big brother.

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But just stuff like that, I'm
sure we'll, you know, get to

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hopefully get to see some of that
dynamic in action over the next three days.

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Okay, offenditt Our announcers for today's
game at two on ABC faars ahoy.

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I'm guessing the Finger. Sean McDonagh
is your play by player. I

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freaking can't stand why is he the
finger? Because he looks like a finger?

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Pull up a picture of him,
dude, Okay, he does.

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He looks like a finger. How
do you look like a finger. He

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used to do Monday Night Football with
John Gruden before four Old Treko got in

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there. Sw yeah mcdonnah yeah mc
d o n O U g h.

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He looks like a finger. You'll
know his voice when you hear it too.

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He's a very preachy guy who has
more opinions than he shoot on a

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broadcast. He's the guy most likely
to pull a Tom Brennam and My Awards

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if if we do our twenty twenty
four hot water pools, but we'll caught

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the hot tub. Maybe we'll call
it, or we tell the people who

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we think we'll have allegations. He
does look like a finger. Yes,

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I right? How could someone look
like a finger? Yep, he does,

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Sean McDonough, we have finger.
The lead female analyst, Danny Jess

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Mendoza. I actually think she's good. He is pretty good. And then

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Tim Kirchin will be there as well, and Colly Harvey will be your sideline

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reporter or dug out reporter. Okay, so when when this team drew the

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Rangers race for all where they're like, yeah, okay, well our other

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options would have been a Rod,
A Rod get Blue Jay's Twins with Michael

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Kay. That would have sucked.
I wouldn't want a Rod. You heads

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you win, tells you win more? Uh d backs Brewers. Tonight you

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get John Schambie and Doug Glanville.
Doug Glenville's good and then uh un,

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let's see the other game is Marlon's
Phillies. Carl Ravitt should be in there

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with David Cone, Eduardo Perez?
Would you consider that your wild card a

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team? That's what That's what ESPN
would They got a lot of They don't

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have a lot of big markets like
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Kind of surprised they didn't throw us
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mean, but Tampa Bay runs it
yeah so little yeah, but yeah,

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and we don't really have any I
guess Seegers pretty he'd be the most high

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profile, highest profile player. Yep, that would have been and de Gram

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Sure, Jordan Montgomery's our ace going
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ninety games, Tampa Bay won ninety
nine, and they didn't win the division

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because Baltimore won one one hundred and
one games. Well, remember when Tampa

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was just running away with that thing
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Did anybody give Baltimore a puncher's chance? This is kind of be their year

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to be on the come to like
the Rangers. Yeah, not to hundred

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games that Yeah, I don't know. I think baseball. I like it

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when the o's are good. Yes, it's just nice to see. Yes,

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it's nice to see something other than
Ni Boss come out of the East.

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For sure. I like it.
Kevin Cash is the manager of the

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race. Coolest manager name in the
league. I've got a couple other options

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for you. Let's go raise great
and current Twins manager Rocco Baldelli. It's

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to me Iroco Baldelli. Maybe you
can meet him at the Italian Thing this

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weekend. Will be at DFW Italian
Festival this weekend. I've got it confirmed.

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It's to me, uh, maybe
Bud Black. Bud Black's pretty cool

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named. Bud's pretty cool. It's
zams Uh, Dusty Baker, it's a

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cool name. Bruce Bocci just reeks
of hard ass. Yeah, which Kevin

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Cash, this is pretty cool,
raised or without one of the best players,

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wonder Franco. In fact, they
cleaned out his locker yesterday. Now

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they say, we just had to
make room. It is nothing long term.

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We had to make room for the
other guys because he's not gonna be

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with us. They removed photos and
signage that featured him from Tropicana Field,

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though the one attached to some underage
kids. I'm glad you asked Danny because

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he is on the MLB administrative leave
list. Yeah, because there are multiple

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investigations going on about his alleged inappropriate
relationships with one or more minors. I

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don't fourteen was the earliest rumor the
youngest. You presented this story back in

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a number of weeks back, and
I couldn't fully grasp or get my head

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around this because it seemed like a
lot of it was conjecture, not a

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lot of hardcore facts. Yeah,
maybe rumor. I don't know. I

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just didn't really Still, Yeah,
they're maybe instigating this in the Dominican Republic,

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and they're kind of like, we
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it's not really like enough but there's
two and it's like social media post.

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But it's enough and an egregious enough
of an act. You know that we

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gotta get him. Keep in mind
they gave him a big contract. In

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fact, he just finished year two
of eleven, year one hundred and eighty

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two million dollar contract. He had
the fifth best war in the American League.

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But they went twenty eight and fifteen
without him, using six different shortstops.

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They found a way to survive.
Now we lost Jacob deGrom, John

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Gray's on the injured list, Max
Scherzer, we were trying to hope to

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get back. The Ray's best pitcher
is a guy named Shane McClanahan. Not

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around Danny on the injured list.
He got hurt out for the year.

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Rangers went four and two against them
this year. But their Game one starters,

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Tyler Glass. Now that's who we'll
have to deal with today. He

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shut us down back in June,
allowing one run in six innings. Another

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story you're gonna hear a lot today
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Remember at the home run derby,
there are the two Cuban buddies. Instead

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of buzzing buddies. They were Cuban
buddies and they were in the Cardinals farm

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system and they came up together a
really good friends and now they're kind of

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studs on each of their teams.
So you're gonna get a lot of that

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story either way, man, playoff. Baseball's back. We got our Quasi

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Ace going the big hefty. Jordan
Montgomery's a big old, big old boy.

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Lord. That's a tank. Jordan
Montgomery goes today and then tomorrow to

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ob Eovaldi, and then we'll figure
out what we're gonna throw out there in

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Game three, probably Dane Dunning.
You gotta look, you gotta take your

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shot, man. And like like
we said earlier, this this has been

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a year of surprises at every turn
with this Ranger team. No reason to

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uh think that's going to change.
The athletic experts eighty percent and said Rays.

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Twenty percent of them said Rangers.
And the Dallas Morning News they're four

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experts. All of them picked the
Rangers. That's Evan, Tim Callishaw,

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the other guy, Sean McFarlane and
Kevin Sherrington. Interesting, they'll picked the

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Rangers in two or three games because
they're like they're unpredictable Homers, absolute homers

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hot. You know who I'm picking
Homer, I'm picking the Rangers. Oh

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yeah, jerk and picked the Rays. It's no fun. It's no fun.

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It's so fun. Well, if
David Murphy on at nine to see

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you know what he thinks about this
series. David Murphy obviously works at Valley,

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used to play for the Rangers.
Uh and he's a good friend of

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well and a good friend of ours. But he's a guy who've known for

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a long time. So well,
I have David Murphy on at nine o'clock.

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But first, what's coming up in
NINGUS morning News? We might start

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with the damn sports section in Dingo's
Morning News, because on his podcast,

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Micah Parsons comes to the defense of
a current NFL brother who got ripped by

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a previous NFL brother