1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - MLB All-Star Game: July 20th, 10am

Episode Date: July 20, 2022

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Live, I say. Live. Exceptional stuff going on. Good show. Great show. I'm going to try to effort and see if Charles Phillips calls us from Mary Ellen. But we can tell you, the menu is just phenomenal. I peek from time to time.

Just to look at the pictures and then on their website. So you can just go to Maryellons.com. But the menu items show out. And to have, when they put the hot, the hot buttered wings, when they put those pictures up there, when they put the brisket that he just pulled off, right? Stop. When he gets into, when he just pulls the ribs out of the smoker, right?

You're making it so hard. It's just layered slattered. I don't fight you. Here's what I figured out last night. though. I could eat from Mary Ellen and not I don't want to not eat the meat but he his

sides are so good that I could just eat the sides and still catch theitis. Like I could still catch the post Mary Ellen's nap. You could give me a plate of beans, cornbread, mac and cheese

and I would sleep like a baby. Yeah, like it like a deep sleep too. Oh yeah. Like unfair. It would be a mouth wide open snore. Like so it's, it's, this is, this is the dilemma, right? And I, I battle myself. Sometimes I want to fight Charles when he posts those pictures.

Well, because he gets it while it's still smoking. Exactly. Like he posts those pictures and I'm just like, I want to fight you because I don't have that right now. I don't have it right now. It's not in front of me and I dislike it. And the real cheat code is that when he, you go in, you get to pour your own drink, right? Tyler's upset. He just got incredibly hungry.

I'm just saying he has the cherry Pepsi on the show them machine. Now, I used to be a Sierra Miss maniac. Really? Yeah. Like it was like, but my jam of all jails. He's got orange crush. Crush is good. Crush is really good.

So we'll find out they're open today. we'll find out, you know, the brisket, the pulled pork. The brisket sandwiches is also a cheat coat. It's really not fair because you should take off the top bun and eat each thing individually in the sandwich. But you should also just dive in the deep end. And this is the brisket sandwich is where I wish I could like take my jaw and un, like, dislocate it. Like a snake. Right?

And fit the whole thing in there. I tried the hot links. How were those? Perfect. Right. Because he's figured out how to get the skin perfect. Crispy? Look.

Right. But then you get hit with the with all the splash. Right. You get hit with all of that. Have you had the ribs? Yeah. Well, see, he cheated. He sent some.

He pulled some. The last time we were out there, he was literally just pulling them. they were still smoky and I did a thing that I don't do anymore which is I stood over my kitchen counter eating the rib and dipping it and eating the rib and dipping it and eating the rib

and dipping it eating the rib my next trip out actually we're going out there tonight catfish it's catfish and it's the whole catfish whole catfish so the last time I went I had the rib

I got lemon pepper wings. For the first time I had lemon pepper wings, got them from there. Again, shouldn't have done that because now I get lemon pepper wings from anywhere else. And I'm like, these are good, but they're not Charles's. Right. Like, they're good. But it's just his are, his were just different. Well, the fact that you could crunch the rib and it still pulls off the bone juicy.

Yes. But I got the ribs, the lemon pepper wings, the fried chicken, can't go wrong. baked beans and the mac and cheese can't go wrong you can go to me and me and rachel sat at the table when we're eating it we gave ellie a little bit and she wanted more when i was yeah just get her the side of mac and i wanted to be like here you have this i don't i want to eat this macch give her the side of give her a whole thing of mash either the mashed potatoes and the mac and cheese

she's a big fan of both you can do both uh the collard greens um is exceptional uh the coleslaw is off the charts then he's got the pecanon and crust of special spots which again if you need like a thing that you can do like just handy watching a ballgame that's the jam um i am a big shrimp and get grits guy and not a seafood guy no but but i'm just i had grits for the first time from there and i was like okay and then his his spaghetti has a sweet italian sausage oh he makes spaghetti too yes sir yes sir well damn with the sweet italian sausage. People are upset at us. I'm sorry. It's 10 o'clock. I'm just getting you ready. They open 11. Eric called me an angry little man right now, which is true. Tyler had a crush this

morning. Big Slim says we're killing him with this food talk. I'm sorry. Tonya John's asking if we've ever had pork belly burnt ends. Yes. Oh, burnt ends is a jam. I'm a Carolina dude. You remember. That's a big thing there. So you can go to Maryellons.com. They have a VIP club. Which gives you discounts. They have a VIP club. It gives you discount. I have to sign up. And you get loyalty rewards.

Well, then. I am loyal. Yeah. Well, I just wanted to, you know. So, and then crowbait says, but, but, but,

that's what I want to go for is the catfish. Where is this again? I know you say it all the time, but I don't know where it is. He says, I know Mary Owens, but I mean the address.

The address, 2801, Pine Lake Road. Lincoln, Nebraska. Mm-hmm. They're currently closed. They open an 11 today, I believe, and I need to text Carl, Charles, and ask him if you'll call it and give us a... Yeah, they open at 11 to 2 and then 4 to 9 today, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Saturday. We're supposed to go out because I have a meeting with him later today about some other stuff, because he has a retail space.

He has an event space attached to the restaurant. Yes. Which is really nice. That's a really, like for birthday parties, that's a very nice. It's a very nice space. So if you're looking for something good to eat today, that would be my suggestion. Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul, I would suggest that,

and I will see him later today. We were talking about the All-Star Game last night, and here's the thing for most sports, that they're trying to figure out how to make these All-Star games meaningful, how to make them interesting, how to make them watchable. Yeah. And as the league spin the wheel and try to figure out what to do, now they had set up, you know, listen, if they go to extra inning, we'll go home run derby.

Which I was kind of rooting for just to see what kind of chaos it would be. Right? Like, okay, you're going to end a baseball game with a home run derby. Like, weird. But each team could pick three players, and that's what you were going to do. I mean, I'm going to be honest, I'd pick the AL for that one. Right. Right.

Like, that's what that was. although the leading home run hitter, the National League swarber, the home run king is Juan Soto. So they would have, you know, they'd have trotted up. But, you know, I mean, you got the leading home run hitter

in the entire league and Aaron Judge and John Carlos Staten who made them all look like a rubber ball last night. Yeah, yeah. So I think from an interesting standpoint, like a part of the fan base would have said yes, a part of it would have frowned at that it wasn't traditional, it wasn't classic.

It would have been interesting, though. But a sidebar happened and the thing that happened with Major League Baseball in the All-Star game last night is a thing that I now want. So just like Monday Night Football where they started the Manning thing as a just kind of added value. Manning cast. It became the thing. Yep. Like now, I'm sorry, that's how I want to watch Monday Night Football is with the Mannings and whatever conversation is having.

And whoever they have. Right. Whoever they're having. The Manning's at Mike Tyson. Well, but the Manning's giving you Manning's IQ. Mm-hmm. As a fan, I'm never going to get that from the analyst. Like, Romo can never give me what Eli and Peyton can give me,

especially the way they give it. I don't know, on a scale of interesting, Peyton and Eli are way up the chart ahead of Romo and company. So that's just give me what I want. Like, I'm going full Batista, give me what I want. But what Major League Baseball did last night with the All-Star game was to mic up certain players. And sometimes that can be catastrophic.

That can be awful, because you can pick the wrong people. Yep. But last night's micing of certain players, first of all, I need every catcher to be miced up. Yes. Also, I want the manager or the bench coach.

Bench coach. Give me the bench coach, right? Yeah. Give me the DH. The guy who really doesn't have anything else to do. Just, just, all like I just go hit. Hit. Right?

Like, give me that dude, right? And that's a pretty interesting guy on most teams. But what happened was the players gave so much awesome sauce last night. I kind of want the first baseman, especially when somebody's on first base. Catchers first baseman. Get your center fielder who, because the center fielder reacts to everything. Do you want the center fielder or one of the side fielder? No, I want the center fielder because center fielder is the quarterback of the outfield.

Okay. And because from positioning standpoint, he has the best view of the pitcher and the catcher. He relays information from the infield as well. There's a ton of it, right? And he reacts to everything. Like the right fielder is not going to react to a ball down the left field line. Center field does. Yes.

But having Mr. Trevino give so much of his personal story and the way. he processed baseball that there's literally no way for an analyst who's not playing the game currently can give the fan like he gave so much sauce between the communication between pitcher and and catcher even if it's not a pitcher that he that throws to him on a regular basis his his analytics over pitch location pitch selection and then the story itself. So let's give we've got a couple of clips. Do you want the at bat or him? Let's give the at bat

because that that one's a little longer. That's fine. We've got nine minutes. We've got nine minutes. We're going to this is not a nine minute clip, but I want you to hear what a hero sounds like. An absolute

hero. Like I became a fan of this guys as soon as I heard him talk. Rico? Here we go. Y'all keep talking to me. I don't mind. It'll be all right. Wow. I can't believe I'm an all-star, man. If somebody had told you that you would be doing this, you would have said what?

Exactly. You're right. I think moves a lot. Huh? I think it's nasty. Yeah, yeah, Travis, I didn't see it. Throw it again. I didn't see it. Yeah, let's go. Hey, run Jose. I need that ball, man. That's my first all-star here right there.

I think they think you should have gotten too, Jose. Yeah, please. I'll take it, man. This is unreal. Thanks. Thanks, crony. Am I stealing here? No, no chance.

Okay. We don't want that. What's up, babe? Congratulations, bro. Run? They want me to run. These dudes want me to run. Do it.

It's good TV. No, Travis is looking at me. You're going to pick me off, man. You can't pick me off. I got family and stuff watching. Listen, if all of us at some point is that kid

who looks at themselves at some point and go wow can we believe this this this happen can you actually believe this I can't believe I'm an all-star I can't believe I'm an all-star I can't believe we're here

you're just having the time of his life just you know I rooted for him so hard I didn't know of him from like I knew the name from the batting from the from the from the score but I didn't know of him I didn't realize how good of a season he was actually having until I went to vote for the all-star and he was one of the final two catchers for the AL and I was like oh he's actually having a really good like that's a guy that's on a team that I root for but

I didn't I knew he was having a good season I didn't think it was all-star level season but he's an all-star human being and I absolutely just got giddy he went behind the plate and the communication between him and his pitcher was just off the chart's good. Rico, if you would. What do you want, man? What do you want? Let's go cut her in. Okay.

All right. Here away. All right. Get there. Sir. Do you want this ball? Yeah. Saving that ball?

You get to get that for the trophy case. Why not? Why not? that's sort of graciousness and awareness, right, that he took care, the job of a catcher to take care of his pitcher. It was Nestor's first strikeout in an All-Star game. Right. Let me take care of you. I got you covered.

The communication, like him asking for every hitter that came up, he congratulated them on being an all-star. Every single hitter on the opposing team, he congratulated him for being an all-star. Whether it was their first or their fifth. Right. Like, congratulations. And he's doing that in his first all-star game. He's like, hey, good job, guys. Like, that sort of awareness.

And I just love the- His journey, right? Oh, yeah. But I just love listening to him and Nestor just go back and forth where he's like, hey, what do you want? And, you know, Nestor would say something. He's like, okay, let's do it. And he's like, hit that, hit the spot.

And then Nestor's just walking back. And he's like, all right, talk to me. What do we want? He goes, cut her, cut her in high and in. Throws it, that's the strikeout pitch. Like, they're just, just go up there just like, all right, this is what you want to do. Right here. Hit the spot. Come on.

Like, you hear that. And for a guy like me who never played baseball, I enjoy watching baseball, but like, you know, those conversations, I've never heard those conversations before. Again, I hope Fox, ESPN, I hope they all paid attention because that's what I want. That's gold. And you heard it during spring training where they would mic up the outfielders and they would kind of talk. And it was, it's hilarious, because Mookie, I think it was Mookie Betts when he was with the Red Sox in spring training, you know, a ball was hit to him.

And, you know, he's sitting there, he's like, I'm going to get this. Nope, nope, I'm not going to get this. I'm not going to get this. I'm not going to get this. I'm not going to get this. He's going to get this. I'm going to run over here. I'm going to throw to the cutoff man.

We can stop him at this bait. Like, it's great. Like, just the whole process of thinking, like, you don't think about that if you're just watching the game. Only the people that are playing the game are people who have played the game think about that. But like I said, me, a guy who's never. never played baseball. I don't think about that. Like, oh, you have to take this angle to get this

ball. If it bounces here, it hits off the wall here because there's the curve. And then you have to think, am I going to throw it to, you know, first, second? I'm going to throw it to the cutoff man? He's not going to throw down here. He's not going to try to pick me off. Maybe he will. Should I have taken the extra base? What does the bench want? The bench is telling me I should have had a double. Like all those things. When you're at bat, you're like, oh, I didn't, I didn't see that. That's nasty. Whoa, whoa. The, one of the amazing things about this was him as a catcher calling where the location was down in the dirt

etc but him as a hitter nope down the way that's in the dirt breaker in the dirt before it gets to it yeah breaker in the dirt up in his own too far then him on base as a base runner calling what was being thrown he's like he's gonna go breaker here down in the dirt and as it was being thrown he would call

location like up and away and on the hands I'm just not sure. Like now you've, my uncle used this phrase, the poops out of the pig. He actually said a different way. But once the poops out of the pig,

well, now the poops out of the pig, and I know how good baseball broadcasts should be. Like, that's everything I never knew I wanted. Now the only can, I mean, they can do it every game. Are they willing to do it every game? Well, do it game of the week.

Give me game of the week. players willing to wear the mics, which I don't, I don't see why not. Like, you're not, you're not giving away trade secrets. Like, this is kind of stuff that's just, just, it's common knowledge to the players, but to the fans, it's something new and it's getting to know, you know, the thought process. And that could help, you know, when fans are like, this guy's terrible, it's like, oh, this whole thought process he's going through, like, it's more than you think. It's all of it.

And I was, it was Christmas morning. It was fun. It was, like, just, it was, it was, it was, it was a, amazing to hear all of this stuff. Dusty says this. I love the mic players last night, but it was cool to see my eight-year-old kids' reaction to the flip behind the back for a double play. Yeah.

Like it's right. That's what the All-Star game used to be, was seeing baseball played at its highest level by its best players, and it was actually meaningful. Like we were connected. Access to the players gives you more reason to love the players. and to love the game. And the more you see behind it,

this is why when people talk about restricting access to the game and to the players and to the coaches, I lean away from it because our engagement in this thing should be based on how familiar, comfortable we are with the people playing it and people running. Like, don't forget the human part of it.

And the human part of it is that dude, Mr. DeViener is a great human. Like it was, oh, this is a reason. for me to root for that guy. And it makes it hard to root against certain players in the league when you go, okay, he's super likable. Well, that, okay. You know, great.

Now I got to root for this guy or at least be considerate of him. And to watch the players make plays in a game that were meaningful, even as they had fun in it, they were still competing. Yep. Right? That you don't try to make that behind the back play unless it means something. And it shows the work that you put in. The All-Star game used to all allow for some creativity with players.

Like you had guys that would come in and wear different cleats, different spikes, different arm-band, whatever. I think it's necessary. And by the way, of all the All-Star jerseys that they've ever, ever, ever, ever, ever- Those were done. The National League white with gold are the, give me those now. That like stone gray with gold, the American League was wearing, though? They were just both, they were both perfect.

You weren't trying to do too much. The American League, if the American League All-Star jersey just showed up, I would be thrilled. But if the National League All-Star, with your team's name on it, oh, like that, that, that, that, that's, that Soto Jersey, that Soto Jersey is coming home. I'm going to see how much a Nester Cortez-Az all-star jersey is. I would, I would actually wear. the Trevino All-Star Jersey. Because that was that was Major League Baseball at its very best humanity.

It was just cool to watch them compete and engage and be social about it, but being professional in it. Sharing information that we're never going to, we're never going to hear that conversation again if they go away from this. We're never going to hear those engagements. Nope.

We're never going to hear it. It's like they save this technology for, spring training and for an All-Star game. Like you said, game of the week. Give it to me. Well, here's the thing. If there's a pitcher who's not pitching that day, Mike him. If you threw yesterday and you're just there chilling, Mike him.

Yeah. D.H. Mike them. Bench coach, Mike him. And if the catcher, again, a catcher, it's easy because you can line it up within the chest protector. And it's not a big deal. It's a little muffled, but it's fine. You can still hear him.

Yep. And on the other side, give me the GoPro. Give me the GoPro. because the moment you put a GoPro on a centerfielder who has to go track a home run, America loses its mind. Well, have you seen the, you know, for the college world series,

the GoPro on the, on the umpire? I was watching that and I was just like, yeah, it's impossible to hit a baseball. Yeah, it just, it's amazing.

So to the folks who produced that, that last night, Bravo, whoever came up with the idea, give me a raise. Great job. Exceptional stuff. And then I'm going to throw the break

and go on a hunt to see if I can find this national's All-Star jersey. We'll do that. and then Tam Horwberger is on the way. We'll have Mr. Hoyberg when we come back. Download our app by searching 93.7, The Ticket, in your app store. You're listening to One-on-One with DP on 937 The Ticket in the Ticketfm.com.