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And we did it. And we would like to think once again. Our
friends are prosper Ford for lending us a brand new Ford expedition to take down
to Houston, just so we didn't have to cover any costs via you know,
ground travel. But I told when I returned it to prosper Ford,
I said, oh, how smooth it was. I'm like, man,
I got going pretty fast and you don't realize how fast you're going. He's
like, oh yeah, ninety ha yes, watching us, we averaged more
than that computer oh no to track your average speed. And they used to
have that on highest speed reached and all that. They have that on race
cars. It was called like the red line or something where it would show
what your highest RPMs were. So your crew chief, if he wasn't eating
ice cream ice cream, would be able to tell you know where you pinned
it at RPMs. Wise, they know, oh hell yeah on that car.
Yes, on that car. Car is everything. They were able to
plug in a little USB plug into the car. They probably know second by
second what you did in that car. They probably had a live app and
we're watching us camera. They probably have camera and audio of everything we said
in that car, which is probably not good. Well, but it was
nothing but complimentary to prosper Forward, because good god, I haven't been a
It's like being a Nike guy. I've been a Nike guy forever, but
then you try a pair of Nikes, You're like, oh my god,
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am on Monday morning. We got another hour to go here, Mike before
we do the weekend. Whack them, moll wipe a butt. Let's do
Rangers Diamondback stuff. You found something was kind of cool, expert picks for
the World Series winner, MVP and all the stuff. So MLB dot Com
threw together, you know, we like polls, and they had fifty eight
MLB dot Com voters weighing in on all these questions basically, and I have
the results, and I think it's sort of fun. I mean, we're
all curious where we stand. I think we are cautiously optimistic. We certainly
can win this World Series. I don't think anyone here in the organization or
fans are paranoid about about this thing, like, oh my god, we
don't belong on the same field as the Diamondbacks. That is certainly not the
case. If anything, it might be taking a little bit toward dude,
we can win this World Series. We're maybe going to the favorite. We're
the favorite, so anyway, fifty eight voters. Question number one was who
will win the World Series? Play fifty eight voters. Voter one said Range,
No, no, no, I don't think we should do it like
that. Would that take too long? Smart though, sid that's very stupid.
Oh I'll say forty seven, said the Rangers. I bet it's less
than that. I will say thirty six, very very close. It is
thirty of the fifty eight picks the Rangers. Twenty eight picked the d Backs.
So they're disrespecting our Rangers. Okay, they the majority picked them to
win. Oh okay, that's the best way to look at it. Now,
got nobody believed in us at MLB dot com. This is a pick
them, even the majority did. Don't you feel that way though? Like
everything you just said that first that you read, this is a pick them.
But you know what I don't have. I'm not jaded like you guys
with a life long fear of everything Ranger whatever. So sports gun to my
head, I would I'll pick the Texas Rangers to win the blanking World Series.
Now, I ain't saying nothing about it. I'll pick them. It's
still I wouldn't be shocked if the other thing happens. But yes, if
I had to pick right now, and I am the guy losing uh picks
with glenns, I mean, I guess I would pick the Rangers. If
the sports gun was loaded with Rico's cheese, I'm the game that seems pretty
harmless. Otherwise, I'm the gag. Can't even go to the Barley House
anymore because I can see the pillar of where I was leaning on when the
Rangers lost Game six twenty eleven. No, you were there that night,
Danny. They asked him how many games the series will last? Who cares?
Six to seven? Is what they picked? Who which player will hit
the most home runs? And again there's fifty eight votes on this, so
the numbers are spread all about what player will hit the most home runs in
the upcoming World series. Corey seeger Bomb, the one Legged Christian Walker,
and then Adoli Scarcis Garcia. The favorite among the voters with twenty one votes
is Corey Seager to lead the series in home runs, although that is twenty
one votes with nineteen votes, the second ranked player is Adoleys Garcia now voter
nine voted for Adils all the way down with six votes is the one legged
Christian Walker and then three votes for Evan Carter, two votes for Josh Young,
and then you get down to Tom Fan with two and then one vote
Court Corbyn, Carroll whatever, Gary l Low. But yeah, heavy leaning
toward the powerful Texas offense leading the way. Singer and Garcia the top two
vote getters. All right, which player will record the most strikeouts? Let
me quickly get a prediction. If it's not one of those three, let
me just throw in Mitch Garver is my dark horse home run to do it
all, And realistically you could win the series in the leading home run hitter
hits two two, three, Yeah for sure, So it's not might not
take that many strikeouts, and real quick we saw, you know, when
everybody wants to compare Bomby to Nellie Cruz, he was fantastic offensively against Detroit
Alcs kind of disappeared, you know, so it would it would make sense
that it would even out for him. They have a great series and then
maybe one that's not so great. Most strikeouts? What player will record the
most strikeouts? What Pitcher, Zach Gallon. Zach Gallen is second with thirteen
votes. Screamy Gallon of Jazz, Jordan Montgomery Nope, he got five votes.
Nathan Eovaldi with twenty nine is a fairly significant pick by the writers or
whoever at alb dot com. They've got the Rangers absolutely mopping them up in
home runs and strikeouts, but only picking them to win by two votes.
The Diamondbacks have us in stolen bases. Next question, who will steal the
first base and win America a free taco? Kettle Marte? No, Corbyn
Carroll, Corbyn Carroll with forty nine votes. Then kettle Marte the only Ranger
appearing well with the top of the first Yeah, exactly, and Evan Carter
has two votes. Leody Taveries has won. Maybe Simeon Nope, he ain't
get on base. Yes, he is getting on basse. This is going
to be his series. I love that as a Sexy World Series MVP.
That would be fun. I bet you can get pretty damn good odds.
Would you imagine if Quick World Series MVP odds? It's Seger by a lot.
Okay, And I don't argue with that because he's done it before.
But if you can get Simeon if he got hot in this series leading off
set in the table, because I think early lead for the Rangers is gonna
be as important as it was against Houston Simons fifth, fifth, what is
it? What number? Fifteen? Okay? Uh Adoles, Seeger, Marte
Carroll, Simeon, Evaldi, Adoles his first favorite, uh on one of
them? On another one he is second on. So I had three back
and back yeah, and then and then you sorry, do this again,
Kettle Marty and Corbyn Carrol three and four but not even and then Sion and
then Simeon and Eovaldi. There are some you can find Eovaldi ahead of Simeon
well, and then Christian Walker Evan Carter. I mean fifteen to one.
I think Josh Young could be a sneaky World Series MVP too, you know,
yeah, someone like that. You'd have to bananas with the home runs.
You have a lot of candidates. Can that swing a hot bat?
If sures Are won you a key game three, in game six, it
could be him. Yeah, you know, last one with these nerds,
Uh, guessing who that is gonna happen? The World World Series MVP will
be Seeger fifteen votes. Corey Seger has the most, Yes, Adols gets
ten. Uh, Adols gets two. Huh okay, then Corbyn Carroll gets
well, Corbyn Carroll gets eleven. Then Kettle Marte uh no. Then you
have the Evaldi with five, Christian Walker with five, four to four for
Moreno and Simeon, and then Kettle Marte three and then uh you know,
someone threw down one for Evan Carter, one for Josh Young and then a
bunch of other weird Arizona dudes, including Paul Sea Walt with one vote.
Anyway, that's what MLB dot Com and there staff of geeks. What have
we learned just now? Oh? What have we learned? I think is
that the slight advantage Rangers. The Rangers were leading every single category except for
first stolen base and winning America Free Taco. Yeah. When you look at
the season, the Rangers offense way better than their's, the Rangers starting pitching
a little better than their's, the relief pitching Arizona way better throughout the season.
Arizona's defense a scoch better than the Rangers, yes, but very close,
and both teams who no one thought would be here. The Arizona two
years ago went fifty to one to twelve, and we two years ago went
sixty and one oh two, two teams no one thought would be here and
have done enough, and have kicked at something hotter than anyone else and have
played better than anyone else. So I still think it's us because we should
have been more than a ninety win team. Yeah, we should have been
one hundred and five win team. So I keep going back to that,
and you've got I just think it's so important get an early lead because whenever
you do, whenever Arizona does hand the ball to their bullpen, I think
it's gonna be minimal runs for the opposition. So it behooves you to be
up four to one, five to one by the time you get to those
middle innings when they when you knock the starter out first six innings. Huge
because the other thing to combine that is their offense from seventh, eighth and
ninth inning clutch batting the second best batting average in the playoffs. So they're
a good hitting team or have been in the seventh, eighth and ninth inning
somehow. Now that could be facing bad bullpens. There's a lot of things
going to it, but yeah, it's the whole thing. Every game that
the Rangers have won, they got out to an early lead, and every
again the Raiders lost in the playoffs, which is not many of them,
but the games and the Rangers have lost, it's felt like they were behind
and early. So jump on them. Have fun, all right, I
can't wait. That's tonight and that's a part of the weekend. Whack them'll
wipe a butt because it must get the some stuff out of the way to
MAVs tonight here in ninety seven in the Freak. Pregame begins at seven,
So crank the MAVs on. Watch baseball, do what you want. Tomorrow
U and T football they host Memphis, kickoff at two, pregame at one,
and then we've got the Saturday Steinline tomorrow at noon with Mark Stein.
College football is a couple of good ones, but nothing crazy or local.
You have got the team in Utah and number eight Oregon, and neither team
can afford a loss to you know, stay in the mixed. I know
there's not a lot of good matchups. Honestly, nice one to watch is
if you care about Texas. I don't know if their quarterbacks hurt and their
number seven. They've got one loss, they got a chance to be in
the playoffs. Can I ask you dom Texas question. Yeah, do they
have arch Manning or not? Is he suit up? I think they would
like to not play him, to not use a year of eligibility. Arch
Manning? Yeah, they have Cooper's kid. You're kidding. It was like
the number one prospect in America is right, Yeah, but they're six and
one way he's gonna be a guy? Am I stupid for not? No?
No, not really no, because he wasn't you know. I don't
think anyone thought he would play this year with the guy they have, Quinn
Ewers and Quinn yours Is at least was big time NFL prospect when he started.
I guess they're going with red shirt freshman Malik Murphy over arch Manning for
now and then next year arch Manning time. Yeah. The three sons,
yes, I know, and the one that didn't play his kid is now
they say, hey, he would have been the best man. It's not
it's more than a joke. It's like, I guess they do say that
Peyton's got a and Eli have sons. I'm assuming, right, I know,
people think it's a joke, but they probably Arch Manning was highly thought
of. I think it is a joke. Cooper Manning was highly thought of.
I don't even know what Peyton Manning's so. Okay, Peyton Manning,
I think that's the younger ones. Right, has fraternal twins. Son Marshall
Williams and daughter Mosley Thompson, were born in March twenty eleven. They're twelve
years old. All right, that's uh twelve, seventh grade. Can you
imagine if you have like four other Mannings in the NFL, and between now
or in five years and fifteen years from now, they're doing a Manning cast
of their nephew. That'd be wild. That'd be very loud. Okay,
Eli, three generations of elite quarterbacks, that'd be unprecedented. Eli has four
kids, three daughters and one son, Charlie, And I bet Charlie plays
one day old's old Chucky. It's hard to find out, as long as
he doesn't get the spinal stenosis that Cooper got, because that could be in
the family. Carlie was four years old when this article was written in August
of twenty three. Yeah, so Charlie's four you're gonna have to wait a
while to start recruiting Charlie anyway, arch arch step one. So he could
say that again, JJ, just tell me somewhere, go ahead and tell
me that about someone on the text that's said that Arts can play in four
games without burning a year. Yeah, because based off of my knowledge from
college ball, like it's a certain percentage that you play in order to be
like be eligible for a red shirt. Yeah. Yeah, I think it's
like you can play less than I think it's like thirty percent or something.
They probably don't you play thirty percent. You're still eligible to be a red
shirt if you want. They probably don't want to burn him. Want to
keep winning games with this Malik Murphy guy. And then when viewers comes back,
you don't have any type of controversy and you have wasteed a year.
Good. Well, we were talking baseball. I'm sorry, I just got
a very interesting text because you know, we said the first steal of the
game when there's a Taco for America or whatever. Yeah, Taco bells and
I like card collecting a little bit, and apparently there's the tops chrumb Taco
fractor card that someone has like a card was in a regular pack of cards,
and if you hold the Taco Taco Refractor, that's the type of card.
If he steals the first base in the world series, the person who
has it, it's fifteen thousdand dollars Taco Bell gift card. I just want
the fifteen thousand dollars. I'm going to dinner. Could you how I want
to take you to burn through fifteen thousand dollars of a taco bell the rest
of my life. It depends on if that taco bell has a liquor license.
Yeah? True? Is there one like on the strip in Vegas maybe,
or like La or something? Seek out a fancy taco bell. Anyway,
I thought that's cool. There's Taco Fractor cards, and I imagine there's
them from every player. Sure, and if you're holding that card and they
get the thing you get, you get the diarrhea for life. Anyway.
Sorry, Tonight, at Dicky's Arena, we have a cover band playing Dicky's
Arena, a mini kiss cover band tonight. No, we don't. JJ
can creak me up here? Is it real kiss? There's a many kiss,
many kisses not playing Dicky's Arena? Is it real kiss? Many kisses
playing ticket stock. Oh yeah, yeah, I enjoy that. Yeah.
We got to night or tonight and tomorrow night at Doseki's Pavilion. Chris Stapleton,
But opening up for him is Charlie Crockett. I just want to play
Charlie and Chris. For Charlie, that's a good tour for him. Circus
is coming through. He said, suck it. This is good. Charlie
Crockett, Crocket you good. He's real good. This you songs called I'm
just an night ticket. I fear that you expect to get a so I'll
take a look at me now. I'm just a blown. Whenever I see
him play, I just imagine it's Steph Curry. Yeah, gonna look like
ye. They could be related for sure. Dan like sists in town,
this guitar player. But at me go hang with him. This is my
theme song. He be our new record, live record too at the rhyme
and it's outstanding. Does uh? Does Chris Tableton sing pair of jeans fits
just Zach Brown? Damn it? Yeah wrong? Bearded? Get it one
of these days? What does he sing? Watermelon wine or something? Chris
Stapleton, He does Tennessee whiskey, and that he has a cover with Snoop
Dogg Phil Collins of the Sunday Night Football Theme. Also tonight, Southside Ballroom,
we've got Thundercat in town. Yes, what you like Thundercat? That
sounds like a Tony Romo band. This is good to shake that. What's
your Thundercat got his inspiration to play bass from Dandy Baylists. Fun Factor read
that in an interview this week. That's a damn lie. He was actually
really good. He's like a legend tonight at Texas Trust to see you in
Grand Prairie. The Temptations still doing it, still doing it? How old
about thousand? Like all their kids? Or this is like the arch manning
of the Temptations. Yeah, breaking news tonight as Stereo live in Dallas.
What is that? I don't know, but you'll know this song right there,
Timmy Trumpet I used to for an MLB closure about to run out of
the bullpen. Oh yeah, this thing they're playing here, it's a guy.
It's not well, you see, there's probably more than I just said.
The coaching for the Rangers, they're all this Chapman. Who was it,
Einar Diaz who came out there now that's a former Rangers catcher from two
thousand as God the Actually I do think today might be close. That's hard.
It's one of the coolest videos when when Timmy Trumpett showed up to the
game, pops out of the dugout and starts playing it and the crowd's going,
it's Edwin Dias, you were not far off. I shouldn't have been
shamed for that. Tomorrow Night at the American Airlines Center, we have this
man guess it before he sings. I know this has probably had sex with
Jennifer Aniston and Taylor Swift. Probably from John Mayer. Correct, that's from
his sob rock album? Is that the yacht rock thing that he did?
I just to kind of make fun of him, but he liked that record.
That was a cool record, is actually good. And Tomorrow Night at
the Longhorn Ballroom a band one of their first tracks ever was called the greatest
heavy metal band in didn't It's the Mountain Goats. I was riding up his
Tampa the band where they're e ead singer sounds like he could be a mountain
goat first, and then it wasn't the top, and then the children standing
on the corner A corner. If your love is like a cyclhone and slump
and the weather's getting warner. I was getting out of jam. The mountain
Goats are still alive. Who short of Dave Matthews band. Would you go
to a concert tonight and miss Game one of the World serious? For I've
just to the Killers Killers instead of the Rangers. Uh yeah, a d
v art and tried to stay away from any outcomes. What if I went
and gave you a pitch by pitch in your ear during the whole concert.
That'd be distracting. Pitch by pitch ball ball. I'd like to experience Bob
if you're dressed of his detectives. Oh outside, take your baby yet,
take bab They get those microphones everything there, No, that's exact, Yeah,
exactly, I hear it. It's up Hello. He and I would
do it loud so everyone around could also get played by play by play.
They wouldn't have to worry about looking at their phone. Idiot. Hey yeah,
would they kicked me out? Moron? It's a deep cut? Shut
up? Yeah, and Dave singing? Remember two things real gently, that's
not a song, it's an album. Dad, Not only does he ruin
the concert, He ruins the game. They're about to do the trumpet,
so catch up in the game. All right, that's enough BS and Hot
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