The Dumb Zone FREE - The Dumb Zone 3-28-24

Episode Date: March 28, 2024

Subscribe to The Dumb Zone - Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneIn this episode of The Dumb Zone, we're hitting the road and bringing you a special broadcast from a literal bus, parked right in the heart of the action for the Texas Rangers' opening day. Our mobile studio is abuzz with excitement, laughter, and the occasional whiff of barbecue as fans prepare for the big game.But it's not just about baseball today. We've got a lineup that includes an impromptu visit from former Rangers reliever Mike Adams, who shares his unexpected journey from basketball courts to major league mounds. Plus, we dive into the dark clouds gathering over Sean "Diddy" Combs' empire, as shocking allegations and bizarre behaviors have us questioning the true nature of the music mogul's influence.And just when you thought things couldn't get any more bizarre, we delve into the latest updates from Hood County, where peacocks roam the highways and dead dogs find unexpected burials. It's small-town life at its most raw and real, and we're here to dissect every quirky detail.We wrap things up with a discussion that's as intriguing as it is uncomfortable: the marriage of Abby Hensel, one half of the famous conjoined twins, and the myriad of questions that arise from such a unique union.So climb aboard The Dumb Zone bus, where the conversation is as unpredictable as a Texas weather forecast. Whether it's sports, scandal, or the simply strange, we're covering it all with our signature blend of humor and irreverence. Listen now, and join us for an episode that's sure to be talked about long after the final out. (00:00) - Open-ing Day with Jared Sandler (44:25) - Dave Raymond (01:41:45) - Viewer Mail (01:50:40) - Mike Adams (02:10:40) - News ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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The Dunzo, Dunzo, Dunzo. Some of the Astros have got to be thrilled. You know, you go through spring training, it's one thing, only one star last year, and tonight for Brad Peacock, start number 69 in his career. Nice. And it's been a good one so far. And look at that end. He's at 69 pitches in start number 69.

Very nice. All right, all right, all right, all right, all right. Very nice. Happy opening day. We're at opening day. Well, we're not. We're at opening day. Well, we're not. We're outside. We're in a bus. We certainly are.

Like a literal bus, not like an RV. Yeah. A bus. Yeah. It's incredible. What memories we must have just sitting in these seats when Blake was opening the window to put the wire, like just to push them together and then pull it up. Yeah, I think, remember when John Stossel used to go to hotel rooms with a black light?

Or, like, look how disgusting. There is semen all over these sheets. I don't want to put that in here. So we're in a bus. Hi, I'm Dan. That's Jake. We have Blake here who's setting everything up and kind of panicking. But I can't believe how good of a job.

He's the master. We could not do anything without this guy. No. I'm serious. That's why we pay him so much. Yeah. That is why he makes more than anybody who has ever made. Yeah. I'm serious. That's why we pay him so much. Yeah. That is why he makes more than anybody who has ever made

Dallas radio history. So, oh, also here in the bus with us, let's just say hello to the most famous guy. Like, if this bus exploded right now, the headline is Jared Sandler.

Of course. Here's Jared Sandler. Jared Sandler joins us in the bus. That's not true. Yes, it is. It would be Texas Rangers radio play-by-play man and two podcasters. You'd be... I'm out.

Yeah, you're out. Yeah, Blake would be the odd man out here. I think you guys for sure would be the bigger story. But how would they describe us? Right. Former pioneers in the sports broadcasting world? It would be you, and you know it. I don't think so.

You think MLB.com or MLB TV is running a piece on us? No. And we're here because this is a 690 remote. I would say this one takes the cake. Yeah. I would say this one takes the cake. Yeah. Just a couple minutes in, I'd say thus far, I think the best one. Yeah. No, it's going to be pretty tough to top.

Sorry, Wired Will. We're here because of a guy named Letty. That's right. That's Letty. Yeah, we appreciate you guys being here. You look like a Letty. My name's from the boots. If you ever go to the stockyards, That's right. That's Letty. Yeah, we appreciate you guys being here. You look like a Letty. Yeah. My name's from the boots.

Like, if you ever go to the stockyards. Okay. Letty Boots, that was my family. That's your family? Yeah. That was my great-grandfather. It was his last name, and he had all girls, so the name died. So my dad named me Letty to keep it going.

But, yeah, my whole family's leather workers and all that stuff. Okay. He's the most famous one in the bus. Yeah. I really got slidered. Do you have a trust fund? I wish. I want a trust fund. It's a lot famous one in the bus. Yeah. I really got slided. Do you have a trust fund? I wish. I want a trust fund.

It's a lot of fucking boots, but yeah. Okay. He's got a closet full of boots. Not even my size. So you get free boots. All right. You're right. How many Keystone Lights in are we?

Probably three-ish and an IPA and a Jell-O shot. He made a really interesting decision. He had a Keystone light and I said, I haven't seen one of those in a while. And the next beer he had was an IPA. And I'm like, are you just doing math, like plus minus to get to... And now he's back to Keystone. The Keystone's hydrating.

It is 1230 and the game starts at like 7. It's going to be a long day today. You know, usually this kicks off at 3. Well, yeah, I'm just saying. We kind of got that down. From what I understand, you guys do this every year. You should be pacing.

You should have like, this is the way I do it. Don't you think Letty looks like he could handle it, though? He does. Like me, you'd be like, you'll be asleep in your car by 3. Yeah. Letty looks like he's ready to go to pound town. This is our 17th year, I believe, on the bus. We've been coming for well over that.

You ever meet Jared Sandler before? I haven't. It's pretty sweet, isn't it? Oh, man. It's really sweet. What a moment. What a big letdown. When the bus blows up later, they'll be like, he was with Jared Sandler.

That's true. Yeah. The last words Jared Sandler spoke to Letty. How you doing? And then Letty's telling the news what happened. His hair was perfect, but then all of a sudden we smelled gas. You do not own this bus. A friend of yours does.

Well, no, we own it. It stays at my place of employment except for one day a year. Yesterday, we were a little nervous yesterday. We took it for a little spin, and we're like, oh, the brakes are a little soft, guys. Okay, so you only started once a year. Don't tell Billy, the driver behind you.

Yeah. So there's a big platform on the top of the bus. Have you been up there, Jared? I saw it. Okay, it's insane. It's pretty ridiculous. Yeah. They have karaoke.

Okay. They literally have a karaoke machine up there. They have, from what I understand, you have some bongs. You've named them. That's new for this year, they told me. Up there is the beer bong. It snakes all the way down here. If you're just walking by the bus and you're like, hey, Ranger fan, they'll call you over.

You do a quick Frank the Tank. The names of the bongs? El Bongi. Love it. What's of the bongs? El Bongi. Love it. And then what's the other bong? What do you name it? Jose LeChug. Yeah, Jose LeChug.

We need to work on that. Jose LeChug? That's good. You're a low on that one. Everyone gives El Bongi. I like Jose LeClerc getting some love. Yeah. Okay.

I mean, we did try to DFA him, I think. But he was a postseason hero. Yeah. You give away jello shots to those walking by? Yeah. Yeah, we do a lot of hooping and hollering. Yeah. We try to make sure everyone's having a good time, you know? Okay.

But the first ever night game. Yeah. That's why we're hydrating with the Keystone, sir. Okay. Yeah. We've got to pace ourselves a little differently this year. We had down the 2 o'clock start, but the 6.30 is throwing some kinks and things. Well, this is incredible.

Did you know the back story, Dan? No. Of how they acquired the bus. So all of us, the Corps, went to UNT. We played lacrosse there. And at some point we were like, hey, we need a bus to travel. So we bought the bus, kind of redid it. It used to have a divider there with something that we probably shouldn't talk about in 2024 behind there,

partition, a couple mattresses and some situation back there for road trips and stuff. And then we were graduating, and we're like, man, hey, new team, guys coming up, look at this bus we're giving you. And they're like, we don't want that fucking bus. So we kept the bus in the family. Chad's dad took it, and he does bicycling, and so he added the rooftop. And this bus has been all over the country. Yeah, they just kept the bus.

It's awesome. So you didn't really have to pay for it. No, we paid $2,000, I believe, when we bought it. Okay. My mechanic at work yesterday was like, strong. This thing's strong. I was like, it's leaking out of every hole possible. He's like, tap it off.

Don't mess with it. It's the coolest looking tailgate thing I've seen here. Yeah. Again, this would be tough to top for a 690 and for the lot. Like, there's a $300,000 RV. Whatever. $, this would be tough to top for a 690 and for the lot. Like there's a $300,000 RV. Whatever. $2,000 bus. Where's their Obongi?

I sent Blake the video. Knox jumped off the bus one year. Jim Knox. He had us try to catch him in a chair. That didn't work out. When you go to a college game or like Buffalo where you hear about how great the tailgating scene is, this is like the thing you look for, right?

Like not the standard whatever fancy RV or just the generic barbecue. This is like – Yeah, this is the feel of the fan. Yeah, this is – Like if anyone is walking by and doesn't stop by here and take a crack at Jose LeChug, they're not doing it right. And we've got more coming. We've got the crawfish bowl coming shortly. Today?

Yeah. We'll feed you guys. You might stick around. I have to have my wife peel them for me. I'm a baby. You look like a suck-the-head type guy. Okay. I'm going to take that as a compliment.

You can suck a golf ball through a compliment. Yeah, no. You can suck a golf ball through a hose. Hey, look, there's Jeff Cavanaugh. Oh, wow. Oh, hey. Now it's a party. Nice. Dallas Media's own Jeff Cavanaugh, who is at... You're going to have to re-rank the desk when the bus blows up.

Wasn't he talking about... Tanking. Hand him a microphone if you have one. Yeah, tanking was a big topic the other day. I believe he's with the radio station where they're allowed to be on with us. You told me about the tanking to Jamie Newberg's class, and then when I was driving home, because I think that was in the studio that day. I don't know.

I was driving home, and I heard Kavanaugh doing a segment on it too. He does it every day. Oh, you mean on Newberg. On the tank that day. I don't know. I was driving home and I heard Kavanaugh doing a segment on it too. He does it every day. Oh, you mean on Newberg? On the tanking thing. Yeah, yeah. He does tanking every day. Yeah, so I think you beat him too is what I'm saying.

Of course. Yeah. Of course. We broke that news. Hey, Jeff. Hey, guys. Hey, Jeff Kavanaugh. Welcome to the bus.

Thanks. It's a kick-ass bus, man. Thanks. I like it a lot. I'm going to stay. You can. You're welcome. Well, I don'tass bus, man. Thanks. I like it a lot. I'm going to stay. You can. You're welcome. Well, I don't know that I'm really authorized.

No, you're fine. We have plenty of food, beer, jello shots. I should probably be gone before 2. I got a thing I got to do. Is something happening today? Hey, look over there. Yeah, I don't know what's going on. There's a lot going on here.

Yeah, but from what I understand, you and your group of buddies, too, have been doing this, not just the bus, but you've just been doing the opening day tradition. Yeah, we're on 20 years strong. Because I have one of the guys walked up to me, and he's like, hey, here's a picture of me and you in 2007 outside of whatever, the ballpark, for opening day. Maybe when – what comedian do we have out here?

Bobcat Goldthwait. Yes. That's right. It was extremely confusing, but you had Bobcat Goldthwait from the parking lot of Rangers opening day. I didn't know he told jokes. I thought he just yelled. It was a little bit of both.

And you couldn't get him to leave. Yeah. Right. What else does he have going on? Three segments. Yeah, he is Police Academy 12. Were you there? No, I've just had to go through that audio, and y'all are like, okay, well.

All right. It's Bob Doopie. He'll be at the Addison Improv. It's actually Rangers opening day, so let's get to Kevin Millwood. Don't you guys have a thing like this, you and your little buddies? Yes. Whoa. Little buddies.

Little buddies. Are you doing something tonight? Yeah, we're on the other side. I'll join them tonight. You going to get a yard-long margarita like you did a couple years ago? Maybe. I don't really know. The only photo I have of him at opening day,

he's sipping like a red and green swirled yard-long margarita. You never know what opening day brings. Sure. Oh, you know what? I forgot. I wanted to plug our merch site. Did you see what they put up there today? Did not.

Let me show. I saw it. It looks like the local team's stuff, Jake. But it's Dumb Zone instead of the local team's names. That's right. Let's see if the Rangers' own Jared Sandler is impressed by these. Do you think that's legal? Do you think we're allowed to?

I don't know if I'm allowed to comment, but... It looks very Ranger-ish. I do love them. Yeah. So you can go to dumbzone.com and then click on the merch thing there. Right, Blake? Is that a better way to do it? Don't tell John Blake.

I might have to have a friend buy some of those. Like Shohei? Yeah, like Shohei. He's going to be my e-pay. Aw. All right, well, we're here. Thanks, buddy. Yeah, we're resetting now.

We're on a bus. Yeah. We're at opening day. Let's talk some baseball with Jared. Okay. What do you say? Yeah, sure. What do you got?

He's giving us his valuable baseball time. I got nothing. Oh, man. How many games are you slated to do this year? I think 80 on radio and 10 on TV. TV. That's right. That's where the big bucks roll. He's growing up. Yeah. Do you actually get paid more when you do the TV game? on TV. TV. That's right. That's where the big bucks were.

He's growing up. Do you actually get paid more when you do the TV game? I do. Okay. Yeah. Do you get per diem for Radio Road? Yeah, when we travel, I get per diem. Okay.

It changed after the most recent CBA. Negatively. But we get it. No one's going to feel badly for me. Is there anything better than picking up an envelope of cash? So, you know what? I don't know. I mean, it makes no difference because a penny is a penny,

but it now gets direct deposited. Oh, boo. I used to love when it was so valuable. Because your wife and stuff won't know if they just give you the cash. Right, for one. And two, I never carry cash. And so it was always, it was never like

a hard set number. It was like, you know, something in $7.36. I remember that they would like put literal coins in the envelope. But I don't keep cash.

So like for valet or tipping, it was always so valuable. And there are a lot of like... Valet, Dan. That's how these people live on the road. No, stop it. And there are a lot of like... Valet, Dan. That's how these people live on the road. No, stop it. But there's like etiquette. Just throw the...

Yeah, yeah. There's etiquette. Like when we travel, you're supposed to tip these people. I don't carry cash. And so... And I don't know. When you guys go to a hotel,

how often do you guys tip the people when they turn over your room? Do you tip at all? Yeah, a little bit. I leave money when I leave. But the guy who brings your luggage rack up, he's just kind of standing there. You might not see him again. Can I tell you, that's a big change.

Two years ago, they stopped. The procedure was we get to a hotel, we go up to our room, and then when we're ready, we call down and someone brings our bag up, which that seems cool, but then you got to tip. Well, for Corey Seeger, tipping a guy $20 to bring your bag up, what does that mean? I'd like to keep that $20. I'm very capable of taking my own bag up to my room.

Two years ago, that changed. Now, we are allowed to go and get our bag and bring it up to our room if we'd like. If we want them to bring it up, they can. But I always go and bring up my own bag. Okay. Some places don't give you the option, even if you're a regular guy.

Because I used to be the only one in our traveling party that would tell, I didn't want the maid in there any day. Yeah. I just wanted, I'll just sleep on the same thing. Speaking of the black light. Bring my own towel anyway. Weird, you know, so. Yeah, I know.

And then I would leave her at 20 when I left if we were there for like a week. And I thought that was pretty cool. Right? I'm'm great guy no that's great aren't i awesome yeah thank you that's really what i wanted to hear um but yeah now like you have to ask for them to clean your room every day do you know that well some places i mean i've done a switch some places just have like the sign that you can put on the door yes or flip it to no they're kind of putting it on you like oh do you want to save uh water and the

earth but if not not, we'll come and change your sheets every day. But if you'd like to be a good human then don't hit this. Anyway. Don't hit this. Where are the Rangers? What's their over-under this year on wins? 88, right? Yeah, someone sent me a

text this morning. 88 and a half. And where were they last year? 90? No. No. At the beginning of the season. Oh, it might have been. Oh, 70 where were they last year? 90. No. No. At the beginning of the season. Oh, it might have been. Oh, 70s. Yeah, it was sub-80. Damn. Yeah, they were not expected to finish over 500 last year.

Doesn't it almost... I better win the World Series. Nice. Doesn't it feel weird? Like, it doesn't really still feel real, I think. No, it does not. It does not. Because it kind of came out of nowhere.

Well, half the Metroplex couldn't watch the games. That didn't help. Yeah, that still doesn't help, does it? No. You bring that up. I can't put my finger on it either. Maybe it's because the Stars had those battles and came up short for a few years and then won and the Mavs obviously had 0-6 and then all the years

and they finally got over the hump. It's not that the Rangers didn't, but it wasn't like a part of this team. 10 and 11, that was like a different era. This team came out of nowhere to win, and it happened so quickly. There wasn't like a multi-year progression to get to this point where they came up short in the playoffs three years in a row. I don't know. Had they won in like 2013 or something, it would have felt like that.

Yeah, yeah. And if I can interject, I really think the fan base wasn't – you know, baseball people knew that Haim was an up-and-coming badass. Lowe won a silver slugger. I don't think the general population realized that. No, I think you're right. You know, and so last year kind of snuck up on when we all looked – us baseball people looked at it and go, this is a really

good lineup if they can put it together. But I don't think the majority of people just didn't know that. Bought their team. Yeah, that's what everybody said. He just bought a team. He just bought a championship. And they're just like, how come he didn't sign Shohei? Now we're mad.

So, DeGrom and Scherzer, is it August? Scherzer mad. So, DeGrom and Scherzer, is it August? Scherzer may. So, they made a decision, I guess technically today or maybe yesterday. To not put him on the 60? Yeah. So, that means they're pretty confident that he'll be back in mid to late May. DeGrom, early August if there aren't any setbacks and it's smooth sailing.

Hang on. But you don't know what you're going to get either. Yeah. Yeah, the whole – the idea that, oh, hey, just they'll be fine and then these three guys will come back and, you know, they'll be a huge boost. Tyler Malley. Okay. The guy they signed.

Okay. Yeah, that's nice in theory, but you don't – like Malley and DeGrom are Tommy John guys. I feel great about them next year because, you know, typically you give them that extra buffer of time, they're fine. I think both those guys are going to be badasses next year. But this year it's just a crapshoot. And with Scherzer it's a back thing.

Like, I hope he's okay. But it wasn't like he was, you know, Johnny Ace last year with the Mets or the Rangers. But they also don't really need him to be. I think they just need him to be a reliable starter who can take the ball every five days. Are you worried about the rotation? I'm worried about the depth of the rotation.

I think the Lorenzen acquisition was huge, not because I expected him to be an all-star like he was last year, but because now when one guy inevitably goes down, and you always use 8, 10, 13 starters, you're now turning, maybe it's Cody Bradford. Whoever gets bumped out of the rotation and Jack Light are at a good camp. You've got seven guys you feel good about giving you competitive starts, but after that Jose Ureña maybe. That's kind of why they kept him around

and they're going to have him in the bullpen to keep him in the organization. But the starting depth is, I think, what is a legitimate concern. And you just got to hope they stay healthy the first couple months. Yeah, that was the worrisome part for me is you had Heaney kind of spot starting there in the playoffs. And then now he's your two. So I think I don't know what order they'll throw him in. I think John Gray is your second best starter, but it might make sense to break up Evaldi and Gray

because Heaney, Dunning, and Bradford, at least for right now until Lorenzen's in there, aren't guys you're expecting to give you 90 to 100 pitches. We've seen the way they've used Heaney and Bradford. That's more 50 to 70 pitches. If you break those two guys up, Evaldi and Gray, you better protect your bullpen. So we're getting a real seam head.

Jake knows all this stuff, big seam head. But that's what I think. I think they might consider that when structuring their rotation. What are you most excited about? I think I already know the answer. Like for today or just in general? The season. I mean, honestly, the answer is probably the same. Seeing the banner and getting to celebrate with the fans in the ballpark will be awesome.

Whatever happens this year, I don't have the mindset of, oh, it's gravy. They can go 0-162. I'm way too competitive for that. But this is incredibly special. You know, they win the World Series on the road, and yes, there was the parade, but this is the first time in Globe Life Field where they can celebrate and recognize everything with the fans.

And I think the Houston-Texas rivalry will be as fun this year as it's been since the Astros went to the American League, just because now the Rangers finally have skins on the wall that they can push back with. And so I think that will be pretty cool too. I thought you were going to say Wyatt. Yeah, I know. I'm excited.

Honestly, I'm excited for Corey Seager every time he bats. Like, if he can stay healthy, I think we're watching a guy who will get to the Hall of Fame. He's got to stay healthy, and that's obviously been a little bit of a road bump. But, yeah, I'm excited for Wyatt. I'm excited for Evan. Their lineup is so good.

But, yeah, I guess my head's still focused on the banner and the ring and that whole deal. I don't really live in the past. Yeah, no, that's you and Marcus Simeon. Although you mentioned the parade, and that brought a smile to my face remembering that parade. I'll spare. Dan's not a fan of the parade. You don't like parades?

I love parades. But it was clear that this World Series victory came out of nowhere. Oh, okay. When it came to being able to plan a... like, oh my gosh. Really? We got a parade? How do we do it? That's the opposite of Laura Miller, right?

Yeah. Like planning in the first round of the playoffs? I don't think they had a parade route ready and all that. Yeah, they weren't prepared for it. Cass, what are your expectations of Wyatt? Man, I don't know. I was reading a bunch of stuff over the last week, and I heard you talking to Nate Lowe about batting after him in spring training,

and I got really fired up. It's pretty good, huh? I don't know. I mean, people are comparing him to like that he has the athleticism of Mike Trout. Yeah. Which is just insane. And, you know, I think he could be an all-star as a rookie. I don't know how much he's going to play.

I mean, he's going to be DH most days, right? So the reality is that stuff all works itself out. One injury to an outfielder, he's in there every day. And then they're going to try and DH Adolis every once in a while to keep him fresh. If Laoti doesn't hit against lefties, then he might not start against lefties. And now you move Evan Carter to center and Wyatt to left.

So I think he'll DH more than he plays left field. But I don't know that he's going to overwhelmingly DH and only sparingly play the outfield. I think they want to try to get him into left field as much as they can. But if he's mostly a DH and Shohei's gone,

it's a pretty decent path to an all-star game if he's actually as good as we think he is. Yeah, no, 100%. He is... I would be floored. I said this earlier today. If you are – it's always dicey in baseball to put your chips in on a rookie who's not had a single plate appearance. I just look at, like, the athleticism.

He's, like, a really good runner. Like, he's fast. The body. I mean, he's built like a house. The guy's 22 years old, and he carries himself like he's been in the league for 10 years, and the disposition and, like, I don't know. I feel pretty good about pushing all my chips in on this guy, being a stud at some point.

There might be ups and – or there will be ups and downs this year. He's a rookie. But, man, I mean, this guy, you tell me he makes 10 all-star teams, I'm not taking the under on that. He is that impressive. I don't care about the stats in spring training. It's just like the body, the movement, how hard he hits the ball, the way he hits righties and lefties into all fields.

I don't know. I haven't seen anything like this. It's pretty fun. I'm just hesitant because it's right on the heels of Josh Young really surprising us. Leote sort of kind of came out of nowhere offensively. And then, of course, Evan Carter. It's like how many guys and rookies can we count on like this?

Yeah, but, dude, think about this. Prior to that, we were like it was nothing. Yeah. You have to go back a long way. We were hanging our hat on Gallo, Mazzara, Odor, and, like, what was that, right? So, like, I get what you're saying, but if it does even out, then maybe it's evening out. And I will say the one thing that this organization in recent years

has shown to be pretty good at is developing hitters. They got to step the game up on the pitching side, but they have shown an ability to develop hitters. And I think, you know, the mischaracterization with that is it doesn't just stop in the minors, right? Like they have helped guys when they get to the big leagues continue to grow and develop. And I think they've got a really talented hitting staff

at the big league level, which helps. So I think that's a big part of the conversation that sort of gets lost as well is that this is a coaching staff now that helps guys grow when they get to the big league level, which the development and growth shouldn't stop once you become a major leaguer. Bought their team. Well, it seems – and all of a sudden it seems like they're good – they're built to be good for a while. Yeah.

And that seems kind of out of nowhere too after so many years of trying to just build something. And it's just – it's fascinating to me still just how they did it in a weird, different way. The inverse. They got their huge free agent signings before they were good. That's just not how you usually see it done. That's just a testament to Chris Young, I guess. That's CY. I mean, obviously it's that and a briefcase full of money.

Do you call him CY? I call him CY. Yeah. KG, CY, all and a briefcase full of money. Do you call him CY? I call him CY. KG, CY, all the initials. JK, DM. Obviously the money is the thing. Somebody else could give you the money. You know what? Okay, so I heard

this the other day. Sorry, go ahead. I was going to say that free agent class. So the Rangers signed Seager and Simeon. The other guys who are out there who they didn't have interest in, Carlos Correa, that hasn't worked out. Javier Baez, that definitely hasn't worked out. And Loveham, DFW guy, but Trevor Story, that hasn't worked out.

So you can back up the bricks. You've got to pick the right guy. Yeah, it's not easy to pick the right guy sometimes, and they've done a good job of that. Like, research what kind of guys they are, what kind of prep they put into their thing. Are they going to follow up? Are they robots? Yeah, yeah, because that's what they

signed, right? Yeah. They signed robots, and I feel like that's also great for the young guys coming up to see these guys. Yeah. Like, oh, this is what I do? This is how I just be boring? You know, it's not whatever, Dez in charge of the room. Yeah, I mean, those teams before were fun, but they were also, you know,

they were wild ass. I don't know if you wanted, like, to bring up a – Mike Napoli to teach you how to – He's hitting El Bongi. They've been really good for Josh Young. Yeah. In particular. I've heard him say that. Yeah.

Yeah, just the approach, all that kind of stuff. But I was going to say, though, I was talking to somebody about the Bally thing the other day, and they were saying, you know, the Rangers, once Bally leaves, the Rangers get $100 million a year from Bally. Yeah. $100 million a year. And so that is a huge problem moving forward. But it's not just for them, though.

Right. Oh, yeah. So it'll be pretty much even itself out. Yeah, but the Rangers had one of the better deals, I think, in Major League Baseball. And that's the way Major League Baseball teams differentiate themselves is by deals. Well, it's local TV. It's local money. So that's why the Yankees are so huge.

The Dodgers are so huge. They get huge local money, where the NFL obviously shares all money. So, I don't know. Moving forward. The good news is they have a few good young guys that are cheap. We got a business update

from our business insider over here. Bringing up a good point. Hey guys, they have a patch. You guys see they got the patch now? Jersey patch now. First time. That's got to be worth a bunch of money.

Ray Davis' old company, Energy Transfer. They got a patch. Oh, you're selling advertising on the stage now? Yeah. That was a big

announcement yesterday. Oh, okay. How did I miss that? How did you miss that? It's got to be worth... You got to get the updated jersey with the patch. How is a patch not worth

Jordan Montgomery? What happened to... We got a patch. What happened to the game I love? I know, man. I never wanted to see a patch unless it was for somebody like an owner that died. Or his wife died or something like that. They're selling Globe Life Park

or Globe Life Field in Choctaw. What are they calling it now? The one across the street? It's Choctaw Stadium. Choctaw Stadium. Big weekendaw Stadium. Choctaw Stadium. Big weekend over there. They still got the bell over there? They got the Renegades.

No, they don't have the bell. Do you remember the bell? The AmeriQuest bell? Yeah. That was quite an era. Yes, it was. Are you guys sticking around for the game, or are you just busting it out here? No, we're heading out.

He's going to the game. He goes every year. Yeah, with the yard. He's our representative. Okay. So he'll tell us what happened. I'll report back tomorrow.

Yeah, if he can make it in in time. That's a good question. I kind of would have liked to go tonight. But I honestly kind of didn't know that we had tickets.

Well, you still can. Maybe that was my fault. At this point, you have tickets? They're spoken for now. Somebody else. Letty Boots We had tickets. Well, you still can. Maybe that was my fault. At this point, I'm... You have tickets? They're spoken for now. Somebody else. Lady Boots bought us tickets. Yeah.

You sticking around for the game? I heard they weren't a suite. Yeah, Dan was gone. Or it was a suite, but he wasn't... The cuisine was a bit off for him. Yeah, there's no salmon? Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh.

No salmon. Be careful with those. No, they're clean. Okay. Yeah, you got to watch? Oh, my gosh. Look at that. No salmon. Be careful with those. No, they're clean. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, you got to watch what you eat around here. It could be laced. Laced!

Are these Fruity Pebble cookies? I haven't heard anybody say laced in forever. Fruity Pebble cookies. Okay. I'm in. You know Blake's down. Yep. Yeah, Blake's down for anything, especially if it's laced.

Laced. Yeah, Blake's down for anything, especially if it's laced. Laced. Yeah, getting nuts. I'm just glad Blake's in a good mood today. Are you sure? Yeah, at least. He can't take jello shots. He has a game to call. I wish I could.

If you guys can get Dave, I mean, it's a nationally televised game. I think Dave always works hard, but I think his responsibilities are a little bit on the lighter side today. Maybe you can convince him. We got you. For Jose LeChug. Yeah.

If you can get that on video, that'd be amazing. He probably doesn't want that. That's a guy gunning for his job. No, stop. Blake, shut up. I heard they have heroin. Yeah, yeah.

It's the last thing I need. I love Dave. I told you guys off air. I don't know what I would do without Dave. Yeah, but what's the rivalry? What's the rivalry like? There's no rivalry. No, he just wants to say this publicly.

No, there's no rivalry. We'll tell you guys the truth later. Dave's really good at what he does. He is not threatened at all, nor should he be. And I know that the more I talk about this, you guys are going to bring it up. I was going to say, why do you keep – It just stops. Yeah, why do you keep thinking about it?

Jared said he hopes you die. Screw you guys. I want to give you a little today in Twitter. Okay. Because I saw this on Twitter today. ESPN's Tim Kirchhen launching a baseball podcast with his son. Oh. Not so good.

This is the worst impact that Bill Simmons has had on the industry. Do you think it's him that started? Doesn't he podcast with his daughter sometimes? Well, I mean, oh, yeah. Zoe? Shut up. Stop knowing that. What are they calling it?

I don't know. Girl Dad? All I have is the headline. You know they have a lame name. Kirk's a really good basketball player. Really? He's not taller than, he's smaller than I am. Legendarily good. The ESPN games? Spring training pickup games back in the day. He would run the game.

Wow. Yeah. Like five for you. Ask anyone. I never got... He's had double hip replacement, so I have not gotten to see that version of Tim Kirkson. But apparently a Steve Nash clone on the floor and will yell at you. He is intense.

I love that. I just gained a whole lot of respect for Tim Kirshen. We're back up after the daughter thing. Yeah. Probably it was Simmons, right? Like what? There's obviously a ton of nepotism. I thought it was you and Chappie.

That is 100% your bit that I let happen because I'm a good teammate. And it's also that's in reverse. That's true. Simmons also did that, but I was okay with that. I drew the line at. So, Zoe and I at the Kings game last night. We're going to talk about that on the pod.

So, Jared, you know his struggles. You know there's a D in that, right? Pod? Pod. I don't know. I don't know. Pie. So, Jared, you know his struggles. You know there's a D in that, right?

Pod? Pie. No, Jared, you know how he's struggled all these years and all that kind of stuff, just working the minor leagues. I mean, you've done it right. You've worked your way up. You're now trying to worm your way in and stealing some of Dave Raymond's limelight 10 games during the year.

So, how do you feel about, like, I can't even remember his name now. Is it Flip Carey? Who's the latest Carey? Chris Carey. Chris Carey, the great, great grandson. Yeah. I met him the other day. It's from training.

He's like 20. Yeah. And he's the lead play-by-play guy for, what is it, the A's? Yeah. He's doing, he's splitting splitting so he's doing all their home TV games, right? He beat out his twin brother for the job. I know that

only because he tweeted him, like, keep your head up, bro. Your time's coming. He is very bro-y. He absolutely is coming. In fact, he might leapfrog right into Jared's job. Rangers will hire him. I made some comment, I was like, oh, you know, we're in Oakland, get a Jared's job. Oh, no, for sure. Rangers will hire him. I made some comment.

I was like, oh, we're in Oakland. Get a meal or whatever. He's like, yeah, or get some drinks at the bar or whatever. He's just like, let's go at a party. He's doing that. But the best part was – He's in his 20s, right? Yeah, I think he's like 22.

Oh, my God. The best part was I was asking him – I made a comment because Eric met him, Eric Nadel met him a couple years ago maybe when he was doing double-A baseball and went to Frisco. And Eric, there was an off day, Eric drove to Frisco to go and meet him because Eric's friends with his dad. And I said, oh, you know, Eric says good things about you.

And he said, yes, Mr. Nadel has been very good to me. And Mr. Hicks seems like a really nice gentleman or something like that. Like some kind of like, you're calling him Mr. Nadel, been very good to me. And Mr. Hicks seems like a really nice gentleman or something like that. Like some kind of Mr. Nadel, Mr. Hicks. And three years later, he's like, now you're the old guy. Yeah, that's pretty gross. Yeah. That's pretty gross. Although the A's are probably paying him like $30K.

So it's not like board op money. Yeah, the A's are pretty notorious for that. Is that Blake Jones money? Yeah. Oh, no. Come on. That's are pretty notorious for that, right? Is that Blake Jones money? Yeah. Oh, no. Come on. That's like per show for Blake, right? I was going to say, yeah, that's per.

That's previous life, Blake. That's what they paid to get him out here today. Are they still in Oakland this year? Yes, this year. Yeah. And then next year it's Vegas but not the Vegas stadium? Don't know. Yeah, it could be Reno.

It could be kind of the Northern California area. It could be, it could be Reno. It could be kind of the northern California area. It could be Vegas. But the stadium they hope to play in long term is not going to be ready for a few years. Boy, they're almost like having the commanders of the Giants.

That's probably a free win. Just a team that spends absolutely no money. No money on, like, training staff and facilities and salary. It's like, alright. And broadcast booths, right? Yeah.

Yeah, like the rat or raccoon or whatever. Possum. Is that the worst broadcast scene? It's not. The view is actually really good. But it just is, like, it hasn't been updated since 1980 or whatever. I mean, like stained walls and odd spacing,

but it's not the worst view at all, but it's just not kept up very well. What is? Washington. Really? I'm not joking when I say the birds. That's newish. Yeah, but that's the problem is that all these new ballparks are pushing the press box higher and higher because they make

money on suites and seats. So, I mean, that's why, you know, we're pretty high up. We're not as high as Washington. Washington, legitimately, like the birds are, like they will fly beneath you. I know, I wish I was like making a joke. I am dead serious. I finally experienced it for the last time last year. There are birds that are... I'm not going up there. Crazy? It's pretty absurd. I like that stadium as a fan.

Yeah, I know. It's a cool park. Yeah, I like it a lot. So, best stadium? For view or just in general? Just everything. What do you like the best? What's your favorite place to travel?

I think Wrigley's really cool. The booth stinks. The booth is smaller than, like, this seat. Like, I have to sit on Matt's lap. But Wrigley's, like, the fans, the vibe, the bar scene right around Wrigley with Wrigleyville, like, they've got it figured out. You know, like, with the subway, it makes it so easy.

It's so cool to just see people get off the subway and roll into the game. I mean, like I wish we had something like that. That would be pretty sweet. But Wrigley's awesome. The Philadelphia fan base, like they – that's pretty cool. See? Petco. These guys give me crap about it all the time because they say I want to be from Philly.

No, dude, their fans are pretty awesome. I understand that Dallas people can't lie, but their fans are sweet. And then San Diego's got a beautiful park and the best food. I think Petco Park's got the best ballpark food. And it's right downtown, too. Yeah. What about PNC? Have you been there?

PNC's cool. Yeah, no, no. PNC's a beautiful park it's PNC's got the best view cause you look out and see what the Allegheny I'm not like views for me

are cool for five seconds and then my ADD like moves on like I've seen the view like I don't like what am I gonna do just stare at it yeah

like so I've had that conversation with my wife before she's like look at it I'm like yeah I am I don't like when we go to've had that conversation with my wife before. She's like, look at it. I'm like, yeah, I am. When we go to a hotel, the first thing my wife does is open the window to see what our view is. I could literally stay at a hotel for a week and not even think once. I wonder what my view is.

But it is by far and away the prettiest view looking out in baseball. I had a good experience there because they closed the bridge after the game, and the crowd just walks across the bridge over the river and into downtown. Yeah. It was a cool scene. The players will sometimes, if you go at the right time, players will either walk to and from on the bridge. So if you want to catch a visiting player and the weather's nice,

hang around on the bridge, and they'll be walking across to the downtown hotel. It's pretty neat. Boy, young me just so envies you. But not now. I don't now. But young me, like my bit, like when I saw those guys or the local radio station would have on the guys that were going across country to go to every ballpark in a month or whatever, I was like, oh, those are the coolest guys in the world. One day.

Yeah, I absolutely vowed I would do that. I'm going to have a workbench at my house. I have a few things I always wanted. A workbench. And I do. I now have a workbench at my house. All right. I've just put stuff on it.

I don't really work at it. Hang your laundry. But yeah, man. And now you've been to every stadium and probably even double. Not ever. So this year I will check off. I have not been to the new Braves Park, Truist. I'll go there in a few weeks.

And I have not been. There's one more. Is it Dan L. East since you haven't been to the Braves? Oh, you know what? This is actually really random. I have never been to Cleveland. I've never been to Cleveland. I've never been to, and I'll do that in August.

I've never been to, I wish I went in the 90s when it was Jacobs. I've never been to Progressive. I would usually tell people to go outside the left field and go look for my brick, because I have a brick. But they've removed those bricks. Oh no! and go look for my brick because I have a brick. I will go.

They've removed those bricks. Oh, no. And I have a chance to acquire that brick. I just got to get to Cleveland somehow and get that brick. Do you want me to get it for you? Huh? Can I pick it up for you when I go? Yeah, maybe.

I'm serious. I'd pick it up. That should be in the studio. Yeah. WHK Radio is where I worked, and they bought us all bricks. The perks of radio. Yeah, yeah. Doesn't that seem so foreign to think a radio station nowadays would spend money on that?

Oh, my gosh, for sure. But I guess they wanted to spend money, yeah, I don't know, to promote the station. Somehow, somehow. Yeah, like, so it said WHK. Hey, you know what? As you're walking by, you're like, I'm going to listen. We should check it out. Yeah, it said WHK and Dan McDowell.

And, yeah, I believe that got us a lot of ratings. Fellas. It's been real. I got to head out. You going to take your jello shots or any of these cookies? I'll take a cookie. The jello shot may be a little risky. I would.

I mean, they say it's cool, but I would be careful. Okay, then he says it's cool, but I would be careful. Okay, then he says it's cool. We go way back. The cookies. Yeah. Okay. Just stay away from some cookies.

A Fruity Pebble cookie. All right. That's the great Jared Sandler. Appreciate you guys. Thanks, Jared. It's Jared. You ever heard that before? Look, I will pick the lowest hanging fruit.

I am not creative. Thanks, dog. There he goes. About to slay some ass. Jared Sandler. What's on the show today? Our show? Oh, I thought you were asking Kavanaugh. I. I mean, that would work, too, I guess.

Yeah, what do you got coming up, Kavanaugh? He's got Mike Reiner. What do you think he's doing on opening day? Really lean on baseball Jesus today. Lean on baseball? We're going to do Reiner ranks it. Ah, yes. Stuff about baseball.

And I'm hoping Hot Dog is high on the list. Yeah. My top left fielders. Yes. Ranger history, Rusty Greer. No, I'm sorry. I've just been sitting here awkwardly because Billy invited me out to the thing, and he was like, yeah, you know, there's a dumb son of a bear.

I'm like, yeah, that's cool. He's like, Mike Adams is going to be out there. I'm like, yeah, that's a buddy of mine. I'll say hi. And then I'd sit down, and I have a headset and a mic, and I'm like, what am I doing, Billy? What am I doing? It's up to you, man.

All right, well, I love you guys. If you're looking for an on-ramp, then that's tough, too. Yeah, we don't really do that. Like, we don't really extend it. Look at this straggler. Oh, that's tough. All right, well, you guys have a kick-ass show. Nice to see you's tough, too. Yeah, we don't really do that. We don't really extend it. Look at this straggler. Oh, that's tough. All right, well, you guys have a kick-ass show. I see you.

You, too. You, too. There's Jeff Cavanaugh. He's from... Somewhere. Was from The Fan. Can I... Oh, my gosh.

He's currently from The Freak and YouTube. We thought we had the most famous person today on the bus. This is insane. Oh, my gosh. Look at this. Hi, Dave. Look at this. Dave Raymond.

Dave Raymond. Golly. You guys. Took it up a notch. Joining us now in the bus the bang bus is oh is that what this is the bang bus you might want to just get these cold again because yeah so they don't go bad man i can't wait to tell you all about how jared was ripping you oh my god he's like past his time doesn't really understand the new rules. Isn't working today.

No, yeah. Also true. Yeah. The great Dave Raymond. Yeah, that's right. I guess that's the bittersweet part of winning the World Series. You don't get to do the first game. Yeah, that part sucks.

Yeah. Well, the first game today, anyway. But it's the postseason games. Yeah. They're doing nothing. Yeah. All the losses that you had to endure over the years, and you don't even get to taste the sweetest.

At least John Smoltz was super likable. Yeah, I think most DFW fans were pretty happy about his work. You know, we had those two exhibition games. There was some guy down just beneath the booth the other day, and he yelled right before the start of the game, he turned, hey, hey, hey. We looked down there, and he's got some homemade T-shirt. I think it said, suck it, Smoltz.

Something like that in a different life that definitely would have been Dan oh yeah yeah I guess yeah as you're traveling

from ballpark to ballpark yeah yours would have been Ted Cruz face on there or something yeah I think I had a huck the buskers whoa hey

yeah for a Texas Nebraska game so that ain't right no not as a husker oh you're a husker Whoa, hey. For a Texas-Nebraska game. That ain't right. No? Not as a Husker. Oh, you're a Husker. Well, I grew up in Nebraska.

Okay. Go Big Red, GBR. Yeah, but then you left as a player you could. I thought you went to Stanford or something. I did, but no, no, no. You can be any red school. That's right. It's where you grew up, right? Yeah, that's true.

Also, one team plays football. The other team has a football team. Oh. Stanford's been good over the years. They actually have been, yeah. Yeah. Not recently. This is just good school.

Cuck the Fardinal. Cuck the Fardinal. Right? Cuck the Fardinal. Yeah. Wasn't Stanford always one of those teams that doesn't have an S in the end of the name? Yeah. It used to be a big trivia thing because there was only like five of them.

Now it's like every WNBA team. Yeah. Those all end in X. Yeah. A lot of X. X, X, X. A lot of X. No.

Yeah. You wouldn't watch that anyways. No. Not the WNBA one. So I've seen some stuff of the new digs, right? The new studio. Potential. Awesome.

Potential. That's not a thing? Well, we're trying it out. We're trying it on for size. We do like it so far. And the building is trying us on for size. However, what if this was our traveling studio? Could you imagine we're doing a remote,

and we don't have to go into your restaurant to do the remote. We just park this out front. Yeah, I just want to be clear that if any restaurants would actually like us to come inside, we will do. Well, I'm just saying. The worst salesman of all time. Because I will say, you don't have to go into your shitty, dingy, dingy restaurant.

Terrible food. No, we would like to come to your restaurant, dingy restaurant. Terrible food. No, we would like to come to your restaurant. I want to be real clear about that. Also, worth noting, March 28th, kind of a nice day. It's a beautiful day. June 28th, not as pleasant in this bus. No, probably not. But the AC is a little non-existent.

Well, we'll get a sponsor to AC this thing up. Now he's back in the game. There we go. Give us a call. Yeah, they've been'll get a sponsor to AC this thing up. Now he's back in the game. There we go. Yeah. Yeah. Give us a call. Yeah, they've been bringing this out here for like 20 years. Really?

Yeah. Pretty sweet. They said Jim Knox once jumped off the top of it. I find that very easy to believe. You know, he's scared of heights. He's scared of heights. Really? Yeah.

And yet he would still do stupid stuff like he would climb up, you know, on the catwalks in Toronto. Love the game. And then we'd come back down and they'd be like, dude, that was awesome. He'd say, I just about threw up. What? Noxie? Yeah, I don't like heights.

What the hell are you doing climbing around up there? I don't know. What do you guys need? Yeah. He was a gamer. Yeah. So, Dave, you expressed to me off the air you're very concerned with the Rangers' spring training record being one of the worst in baseball.

How are they going to get out of this mess? Yeah, I know. That was troubling. And, you know, it's that early read you get on a team, right? Like, where's the heart? Negative momentum. Where's the heart? Where's the heart? If you can't build chemistry here.

It's feed up. You won it all and now it's like just relax. Oh, we're just going to show up and win. Maybe they'll just roll over for us. It's unbelievable. We had four times? They need a more experienced manager I think that could lead.

Championship pedigree type. He's clearly a postseason guy, right? I mean, I think, that could lead. That could be. Championship pedigree type. He's clearly a postseason guy, right? I mean, Boach knows his way around when the stakes are at the highest. Now, when the stakes are at the lowest, where was he? No. Where was he? No, he's not checking in every day. He's sitting on a resin chair outside the dugout behind a screen.

Yeah. Not worried about the spring training record. Were you concerned? Hey, is Washa manager again? Yes. Where is he? He's in Anaheim. Oh, Anaheim.

Yeah, in the division, baby. Man, that's so great. It's great for him, but it's going to suck for us the first time we see it. Oh, yeah. The feelings will be raw. When he's windmilling Mike Trout around third or whatever. Oh, my gosh. Get the last hit of a heater before he has to wave somebody home.

Do you think he will turn that around in Anaheim? Was the key getting rid of Otani and bringing in Walsh? Was that the key to the Angels' big turnaround? Probably, yeah. I just want good things for Wash. Yeah. Do you feel like Anaheim is the right place, you know, the L.A. scene is the right place for, you know, kind of a toot head? Oh, toot head.

He did it one time, remember? That's right. He had anxiety. Yeah. I always do that. Right. I ask my doctor for that. A little get hyped up.

I'm like, all right, what can I do to calm down? During the whole trial, you should be like, oh, my God. In the bathroom. You forgot about the... Just geeked out. Get a brief recess, Your Honor. Yeah. I have a medical condition.

So what is your schedule? Jared says he's filling in for you for 10 games. Yeah. And we're like, why? This guy, you just came off of four months vacation. You haven't done a damn thing in four months.

And then you need a two-week vacation in the middle of the season. You know what? Here's the truth. When I showed up, that was the initial bargain that they offered. I didn't ask. They offered. I would have said

I want to work. And I'll do those for free. Yeah, because I'm so into baseball. Right. You would have. Probably would have. And that's fair. That's why you are you. In a bus for $690. Crackling for money. Right.

Yeah, I don't know. It's a thing that teams have gotten into over the years. It's really. They've always done it here. They've done it for a while. It's Gen Z. It's the whole softness of this generation. They have.

They've done it for a while. Yeah. Even this year, I told them, they kept calling like, what games are you going to take off? I don't know. Do you go ten in a row? The first couple of times I did, because I never really

had a summer vacation. I had younger kids. And so, I was like, geez, yeah, we'll take ten days right around the All-Star break and it would be a two-week time out. It was kind of cool. But anymore, I don't do that. I just pick a couple of games here and there. Okay.

Really, I don't like it. I don't like, as an example, missing tonight's game. But when it happens in the regular season, right, it's game 44, and you're in Anaheim, and it's's Friday and Apple's coming in to do the game. It's just disruptive. So I like getting the day off. But I hate missing the game.

You kind of got to stay tuned to what's going on. So it's not really a vacation because you can't come back and not know what happened in the last two weeks. And then you don't watch it the same way as you would watch it if you were working it. So, something will happen, and invariably your

partner will remember a detail from the game. Yeah, but you remember the ball that was hit over the... Not really. I think I wrote it down on my scorebook, but no, I didn't take particular note of that ground ball, right? Because then what's his face to this?

Oh, jeez. So, yeah, I don't know. I'm not a big fan of missing the games. Do you score the game? Oh, yeah. I'll score tonight's game as an example. Okay. Yeah.

But even as you're calling it? Oh, of course, yeah. Oh. Yeah. Does everybody do that? Does that help you remember because you've written it down or something? No, I mean, it's just you refer back to stuff constantly. And then other games.

And you have your own little shorthand. Yeah, you have your own little shorthand. There's a lot of similarities, but, yeah, everybody's a little bit different. Yeah, I think everybody does. There are very few, even the analysts. But a lot of analysts will just do, like, the score sheet. Even the lowly analysts. Well, yeah. But a lot of analysts will just do like the score sheet. Even the lowly analysts. That's kind of the way they gave up.

Well, play-by-play guys, it's a must. It's almost impossible, I would think, to do the job without doing it. The analysts, you could get away with not doing it. But most of them do. And at the very least, they'll do that game and just have it in front of them and they might trash it right afterward um but very very few just show up and don't and i i don't it's interesting like maybe that just started because there's a lot of time down you're like well i'm just sitting here you know maybe i better write something down i

don't know do you have a tablet now? I do, yeah. I do it on my iPad. Okay. So you save them all. Yeah. Yeah, so now you can roll back. I have, like, on my iPad right now, I have, I think, six or seven seasons of every game, spring training regular season.

And so you just, you have a question or something, oh, in 2017? Yeah, I can search real quick. Wow. You better back that thing up. I know, and I don't do that. I don't do that stuff. It doesn't back up to the cloud and you can pull it up on your computer? With China and everything?

I don't want them having my data. Everything. Yeah. Have our Babib or Exwoba? Yeah. What are you talking about? That'd be crazy. Hey, in the wrong hands.

Yeah, out there scraping my data? No, thank you. No, I don't like the cloud. I don't do much in the cloud. How is the... Because I have a... Dave Raymond. Anti-cloud.

I'll yell at a cloud. Yeah. I'll be damned if I'll back something up in a cloud. Okay. We got sued by a cloud. Yeah, we don't like the cloud either, man. They're mean. Tell us about some new rules this year.

New rules. Some stuff I've seen on the Twitter is people upset about the blocking second base rule. It's a little goofy. It's just kind of like that is already a rule. Correct. But they are now enforcing it harder. Right. Like, do you remember that year?

I don't know. Every year, or different sports will do this, but they'll say, hey, this has been a rule, and we have never really enforced it, and we're now going to. We call it a point of emphasis. I think they did it one year with, like, balls and strikes, and everything real up was, you know, for a month or so.

Everybody was bitching about it. The NBA does this every year, too. Just try to re-emphasize. Is that what's going on after the All-Star break? They're now emphasizing a certain rule? Yeah, scoring's down. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah, new rules. What is that blocking? Are they actually

emphasizing this? That is it. It's a point of emphasis this year. We just had a call on this again yesterday with Major League Baseball. And they're like, yeah, it's just the rule has been around forever, yada, yada, yada. But it's a point of emphasis. We've got to start calling it.

We've got to start enforcing it. And in spring training they did it a couple times, and it was just dumb. Like it happened to Seager. It was really dumb. He wasn't trying to impede anybody's progress. There was plenty of room to get into the bag, the whole thing. But technically, as you interpret that rule, yeah, yeah, I guess, you know, he was in the wrong.

So they rang him up on it. Well, on the call yesterday, they said, really what we're trying to do is crack down on the egregious stuff. Because this has become a bit of an issue, right? Pick off over to first, and the first baseman just throws his knee right down in front of the base so his lower leg is it. So you're just sliding into his lower leg. Oh, gotcha. So they're over that.

They're like, this is dumb. And they do it at second base on occasion. Guys had gotten pretty bad about it. And so there are two arguments that they have. One is, well, we just don't want anybody to get hurt. We don't want guys coming in with their spikes, you know. Oh, boy, I don't want anybody to get hurt. Okay.

Really what they don't want is they don't want nonsense out there again, right, where people are sliding in, clearly safe, but never, couldn't get to the bag. I've always, I've wanted for the longest time, when they used to do that, I was like, just get the fattest guy you can find, have him sit down on first. No one can ever touch it. This is the sumo wrestler

goal. Yeah, just seal it off. My 900 pound life, whatever, right? You've got a no-hitter every game. It's so dumb. So, obviously, this is to prevent that. They're on to me.

I think the weird thing about this is that it's a bang-bang play sometimes, and it's a judgment call, and you can't review it. Yes, it's not reviewable, which is goofy. That's what's weird. I don't think I realize that. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I think umpires, once we get into the season,

maybe they'll do a little thing here for a couple weeks where they'll be tough guys and they'll really hold the line on this, but then they'll back off and it'll be normal again. And so if you do it, and you do it obviously, yeah, they'll call it. But if it's incidental, they'll let it go. I'm sure they will. I hope they do. That's the stuff that drives me crazy when they tweak the rules is when they take a little bit of the judgment away from these umpires who are extremely good at what they do.

And it's just, it's to the point now, they're going to run into a problem at some point, getting people who want to become umpires. Why would you want to do that right now? Every single call is scrutinized on 4K, high definition, super slow-mo cameras from six different angles. You're a human in the heat of the moment trying to get it right. And they do what? 99% of the time. in the heat of the moment trying to get it right.

And they do what? 99% of the time. But then that one time where by a whisker somebody tags Simeon's middle finger of his batting glove sticking out of his back pocket. And everyone's like, oh, oh, yeah, there it is. I don't want to be under that kind of scrutiny. I don't want to be held to that kind of a standard. I just think it's stupid. And I do think that these guys have the you know it's just like

you got to have a little feel you know what's happening in the game you know the temperature the uh the guys in the battle and a play we had a couple couple years ago how to play ended it on a slide at second base and they they invoked some stupid double play rule at the time, holding the bag or whatever, and tinted the slide. And it changed the game. And it was so dumb because everybody on the field understood exactly what was going on. And it was just normal baseball plays that have been for 120 years. But now, you know, by the most technical interpretation of this rule,

we've got a violation here, so let's redo it. It's just dumb. Let the guys who are on the field adjudicate it the way it's supposed to be done. It's a separate topic, but I feel like this is a problem that is going to touch all sports. Because the NBA, the players will not stop talking about how bad the officiating is this year. And it really kind of is not great, but they're bigger, faster, stronger.

The court dimensions are still the same size. Yeah. And on top of that, you have all the angles and the zoom in. And on top of that, gambling. Yeah. So now it's like I don't want to touch that. Yeah. If it's a bang-bang call and I blow somebody's six-leg parlay, I don't know.

It's not. Right. It's a different world now. I feel like the reason you would want that job, though, is you can't get fired like Angel Hernandez. I think the only way you can get fired is if you are working with the mob and admit to gambling on every game that you didn't ref. Yeah, yeah. No, I meant he said umpires. Oh, yeah, umpire.

I feel like they have a really pretty strong union there. Yeah. Decent, but it's not as strong as it used to be, man. Really? I don't know. And they get a lot of pressure now coming down from Major League Baseball. It's just I don't know how desirable that gig is anymore. You get to go to a lot of baseball games.

Yeah. How many home games do you get as an umpire? I don't know. I guess I never thought about that since it's a rotating crew. Yeah, you're just on the road all the time. I wonder if they get two weeks off in the middle of the season. They do. They actually get a lot of vacation.

Oh, okay. Damn, that backfired. Bam. That's what the great Dave Raymond will do to you. Yeah, so I'll take a couple of days, Dan. A couple of days, here and there. We have a series in Seattle where the first two games of the series are taken by Apple and Fox, I think, Friday and Saturday.

So then we do a Sunday game, and then we come home. And we're coming from L.A. It's a night game in L.A LA on a Wednesday or something like that. And I was like, well, what the hell with it? I'm not going to do that game. I'll take that one game off. I'll just go home from LA after that night game.

So it does kind of clean up some of that stuff. How old are your kids? I don't know. I've hardly ever seen them. I have two in college, okay. Are they in high school? I have two in college, and one is a sophomore in high school. So it's not the same, right? It's not like it was even five years ago. Yeah, you don't have to be home.

No. Yeah, they don't care. Are they impressed by your career? No. Okay, yeah. Well, my kids really aren't now, but they used to never be oppressed either when it was a more impressive career. Is his dad working above the garage again? His kids have taken to calling us unemployed.

That's not right. We know that's not right. Well, we kind of are. Unless we're employed by 6,000 people. Technically, we are. You are. You're self-employed. You're a business owner. I'm a small business owner. Yeah. You are. You're self-employed. Yeah. You're a business owner.

I'm a small business owner. Yeah. Or a managing partner. Yeah. Probably a managing partner. Yeah. Yeah. This company is manager partner.

You happy CJ's gone? Jeez, dude. Finally. Yeah. Right? Yeah. Yeah. No, man.

That sucks. But speaking of home games, he told me, and maybe I bored you with this before, when he was interviewing, he called me and told me what was happening. And he said, you know, I sat down with my wife and I was looking at my career, 19 years, minor leagues, major leagues as a player, you know, Japan, Korea, et cetera, and then 11 years broadcasting. Korea, et cetera, and then 11 years broadcasting. In those 30 combined years working in baseball,

he worked and had his primary residence in the same town one month in 30 years. Jeez. One month. So that's why he's doing that. Yeah. Going back home. So it's home for him, yeah. So are you making sure you're not going to do the Atlanta game? Just so you don't have to run into him?

No, I'm going, man. You're so awkward. I'm going. Yeah. Okay. Who's your main guy now? So it is split pretty much, I was going to say down the middle, but that's hard to do when you have three.

So it's thirds. So it'll be David Murphy, roughly 50 games. Dave Valley, roughly 50 games. And Mike Bassett, right in that Murphy roughly 50 games, Dave Valley roughly 50 games, and Mike Bassett right in that neighborhood of 50 games. Do you think Dave Valley sounds like Joe Rogan? Look for it. Interesting. Yeah.

Yeah, I was going to say, there's a little bit of a resemblance too. Yeah. Just a ball. Where's Dave from? He's from New York originally. Okay. Well, the first time I ever heard him on a call, I was really confused as to what Rogan was doing calling a moonshot from Adolis.

I'm going to have to dial that one in. Yeah. All right, I'm going to have to think about that. Yeah. Did you guys, you and CJ used to hang out? I mean, it sounded like you were friends. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So you'd hang out off the... Yeah. So we knew each other before either of us got this job. We used to work together in New York when we were working for Major League Baseball.

I'd gotten fired from Houston, ended up at MLB.com. Fired? Yeah. What for? Or unrenewed or whatever. Oh, okay. Yeah. No, just that new ownership change when Jim Crane came in.

It just blew everybody out. I'm not a fan of his. I'm not either. Between no one else, just between us. Yeah, right. I hope you didn't have a non-concern. Yeah. He's not my flavor.

But, so yeah, they got rid of all this. So I was in New York working for Major League Baseball, and CJ was as well. And it was early in his time, and so I was doing some show, and they told me one day, they're like, oh, CJ Nikowski's going to come on with you, whatever, Thursday or something. I said, oh, okay. So I called around some guys I knew who played with him and stuff, Brad Ausmus. And Brad told me this great story when they were playing together. CJ got really pissed at something.

He was in Detroit, and he had rough inning. And the last out at long last occurs at first base. He's covering. They flip him the ball. He touches first, and then he turns, and his fans just giving him all kinds of crap out in left field. And so he fires it out to left field at him out of anger, right? But it lands on a warning check.

I was going to say, that's a long throw. Couldn't get it all the way there. So we found some video. You don't see him throwing it it but you see a shot of the opposite dugout the opposing team's dugout they're on their rail like this leaning and you see them all fall the ball and then just laugh as they go it's the greatest so i brought that up in the first like 40 seconds of our interview and he handled it like cj would handle it right just like doesn't skip a beat he's all over it making fun of himself only this guy's the best

and uh so when i got the job here they were looking for somebody to do some games and i i mentioned cj oh you helped him get the job i did yeah okay yep and what did he do turn out stabbing the back left so well i know you've spoken highly of Jared as well, so. Watch out for that. God, that's right. He's the one filling in for you, right, for the ten games. Ooh, yeah. That too, Brute?

Yeah, be careful with that. Is that what's going on? You think he's coming to get me? I think we have talked about this before because I was talking about Bassick. If he's actually doing a game while the Mavs are playing, if he's going to be able to handle it. Yeah. I think he'll be great.

I mean, we're going to find out. We're definitely going to find out. Oh, boy. Playoffs are coming. I mean, that's the thing. Playoffs, hey. Yeah. Or I think, in fact, when you were on last,

somebody yelled at me on email because I never finished that story. Wasn't it that? Yeah. Do you recall that? Yes. Yeah, I started talking about when Bassick was pitching for Washington and his pitching coach actually told him, you can use this in a game perhaps, that his pitching coach,

like he told his pitching coach wouldn't put him in the game. Like they didn't want him to get up to warm up because he was so locked into a Mavs playoff game. It was like Mavs Sacramento or something. So they did that? He was a pitcher, but they all knew don't warm up Bassett. Don't even bother. We're using the other lefty tonight.

He's a mess. Yeah, only in the most extreme circumstances. They basically had a 24-man roster that night because Bassick was just mentally he was not going to be able to be in the game. Like he'd be on the mound thinking about the Mavs. Like he really loves the Mavs. I know. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. He really loves his Rangers, too. Oh, yeah. That's the thing about Mike. There's not a lot of gray area. He's all... I mean, I think when he was on the ticket, they used to make fun of him for just not

having any knowledge of anything outside of sport. Yeah. Like, he does not know any pop culture. He doesn't know... You won't be able to joke with him about a TV show. Like, because all he is, he's hardcore into sports. He is pretty, yeah, I'm going to have to test that, though. That's interesting.

I've only worked with him once, but yeah. I will watch that. I will watch for that. We will play the audio. That's right. Because I have a feeling how it's going to go. No kidding. So if I make a reference to The Office or to Seinfeld...

And what is he, probably early 40s? If that even. Is he that old? He's definitely older than I am. Everybody seems to be getting older now. He's definitely a few years older than I am. Yeah, okay. So you could pick something late.

He's 46. Oh, okay. You are old. Yeah, He's 46. Oh, okay. You are old. Yeah, that's what I keep forgetting. So, yeah, pick something like late 80s. See how it goes. How long have you been here? Early 90s.

Drop a news radio reference on him. Maybe Carlo. I love Phil Hartman. Carlo from Shears. I don't know. See. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I guess I won't Hartman. Carlo from Shears. I don't know. See. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know. I guess I won't do that. I'll have to come up with the sports stuff. How long have you been here? Not the bus. I've been here 115. No. Texas.

Texas? Texas Strong. Yeah. My first year full-time here was 2017. Pretty sure. Okay. This is year eight full-time here was 2017, pretty sure. Okay. This is year eight full-time. So you don't care about Wash? No, I care about Wash.

I love Wash. You don't have dreams of Wash? But I don't have the same. I didn't spend the same kind of time you guys did. But when I was with Houston and we'd play interleague games against the Rangers, that was, I mean, I looked forward to it so much just for my wash time. Because for some reason, managers do this cool thing, man. They take legitimate time for radio broadcasters.

Not always for the TV guys. Oh, really? But, yes, but team radio guys, they, I don't know, they'll just, yeah, come on in, close the door. And so you go in, you close the door. And the next thing you know, Wash is just beating you down with F-bombs and this F-ing guy and that and that F-ing guy and this. It's the greatest.

It is the greatest baseball conversation because you realize immediately, I'm not getting coach speak. Yeah. He's giving me the real poop. Is he smoking? Oh, yeah. Yeah, okay.

He's ripping heaters. It's fantastic, man. Yeah, okay. He's ripping heaters. It's fantastic, man. Have you ever heard the speech, the leaked locker room speech from the World Series? No. I think it might have been. It had to have been the Cardinals because, yeah, somebody recorded it. I think it was before Game 7 when they had blown Game 6.

Yeah, you should find that because he's in there. He's like, they're out there asking me about carp, Matt Carpenter. They're asking me about carp. I tell them, motherfucker, carp. He just – you say an F-bomb. He just throwing F-bombs at the locker room the whole time, and I'm like, I would like to run through a wall for this man right now. Yeah. And that must have propelled them to a victory then.

Here's cynical Dan. Did I buy Dan? Yeah. Nice. Just a logical guy. Yeah. Obviously, that speech must not have been good then. Maybe he shouldn't have sworn so much.

Yeah, that's probably what it was. Probably what it was. It could be. Isn't it something, though? Josh Hamilton was offended. It's tricky, though, the F-bomb, right, or the overswear because – Lose impact. Well, it can, right? If you're a guy who, you know, I don't know, there's a big game,

and so now you're going to be all fired up and run that nonsense out there. It may not feel authentic, but that's the thing with Walsh. It's like you knew when he started down that road. It's like, okay. This is real Walsh. We've removed all the BS veneer, and now we're getting the real Walsh. And that's just how he speaks, and you know that's how he speaks. And so you know it's real.

There are other guys who do it, and you're like, okay, thanks for the show. That was impressive. Yeah. But, you know, I'm moving on. We've definitely all had coaches of both type. Yeah. Did anyone else fire you? Or did you move on on your own accord from everywhere else? Oh, yeah. Those were all

on the baseball side. Yeah, those were all just moves. Okay. I got fired from the Olive Garden many years ago. Yeah? For eating breadsticks. Oh, no way. Imagine that.

It's unlimited, I thought. So did I. Yeah. So did I. Like, he's got a breadstick tree out the back. There's a huge drawer, right? One of those big metal drawers. It must be 50 to 100 breadsticks in there.

Seems not unreasonable. If they could just see you now. That a guy might just take one and eat it. Yeah. Yeah, if you got fired, though, you were taking 12. Yeah, I was going to say, they don't fire you for one. Could you eat it all in one bite? Yeah, that was pretty good.

You'd stuff that in there pretty... Yeah, Blake, maybe that is sort of like what happened. And maybe I was a little gluttonous. I was hungry. You're in the Olive Garden. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't work there. What's this guy doing back here?

That job sucked, too. Really? Oh, it's a terrible job. Your worst job? Yeah, probably. That was probably the worst. What did you do? What were you?

Just a waiter. So it's like salad, right? It was a bottomless salad and unlimited breadsticks for like two bucks. Hell yeah. I'm very familiar. I bet you are too. There's no way you didn't enjoy that. Oh yeah, for sure. I mean, I'm not so much of a salad guy, but any place that works with

that has an unlimited or endless option, the waiters are hating that. You're just shuttling back and forth. No one there takes it seriously. The customer, whatever, here's $7 for my $6.30 meal. Yeah, so I mean 10% wise you're not exactly raking for the fact that you had to make seven trips to that table. It's the worst. So you can't talk about this with Bassick.

What is Dave Raymond watching these days? Do you watch stuff like on the plane? Yeah. I save stuff. Catch through. So, I don't watch as much stuff during the off season. Roll through series? Because I'm like, oh, I'm excited.

I want to watch that one. Yeah, yeah. Give us some recs. Well... It's short for recommendation. Oh, yeah. Thank you. Well. It's short for recommendation. Oh. Yeah, thank you. So I've been saving the golf stuff from Netflix.

Full. Season two, full swing. Okay. So I'm ready to fire that up. I haven't heard anything about that. I've heard it's really good. Oh, really? Yeah.

Season one was good. Yeah. Yeah. I just feel like I didn't hear buzz about season two, but go ahead. If Jake did. No, I know. It dropped. Jake's in golf circles. But go ahead. If Jake did. No, I know. It dropped. Jake's in golf circles.

That's right. That's right. Do you golf? I do. As much as possible. Bring the sticks on the road? I like to, yeah. Okay.

Blake's a masher. He's a masher? Oh, he's awesome. Yeah? He's a power hitter. I can put it down there, but then I'll chili dip it and five putt. Oh, yeah. That part sucks. I hate that.

Sculling across the green. I'm horrible. Yeah, but he'll hit a 300-yard hole. You put it on the green and won. You want me on your scramble team, but you don't want to play with me, no. Okay. I'd play with you. Okay, well.

We should go golfing, too. There's no way he means that. What? Okay. I'd play with you. Okay, well. We should go golfing, too. Best friends. There's no way he means that. What? Let's go. Let's go. He means the first part. No one's paying attention to you, Dave.

Hey, you know that show? Well, you don't know this show, probably. I bet you haven't seen this show, and I don't know if you'll like it. It's something like... Seinfeld. Somebody Somewhere. It's on Max, HBO Max. Is it everything, everywhere, all at once? Nope, nope, nope. This is a series

and it's in Kansas. It's in Manhattan, Kansas. And it's just the life of these people in Kansas. Sounds riveting. It's a reality show? No, no. It Sounds riveting. It's a reality show? No. No, it's a whatever.

It's a scripted show? Very high. 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Somebody somewhere. Roddy T's gave it 100? Yeah. No one says Roddy T. I do now.

Somebody somewhere. No, I need recommendations. Yeah. I'd be interested in what you think of that one. Here's the thing. It's different than other shows you watch or have watched. I love that they call it Max now, too, so everybody can say, you know, HBO. Yeah.

The worst rebrand of all time. Yeah, that's terrible. You fly with a team, don't you? Yes. Yeah. We were just sharing our war stories about how they'll fly through storms. Yeah, that's terrible. You fly with a team, don't you? Yes. We were just sharing our war stories about how they'll fly through storms. Yeah, right? They don't mess around.

No. The scariest moment of me and Jake's life. Yeah. Stars playing. I thought we were dead. Really? Where were you going? We were coming home, but I don't remember where.

Maybe in Montreal. It might have been Montreal, yeah. The last leg of the trip. But flying through a thunderstorm, and we're out of our seat, and the players are dicking around like nothing's wrong. I might have held Blake. It was dramatic. Yeah.

Stuff flying everywhere, and I guess they're just used to it. He turned to me. He's like, I've always fucking hated you. Thought we were crashing. A commercial that, he turned to me. He's like, I've always fucking hated you. Thought we were crashing. A commercial flight would not have taken off. No. Yeah. You know.

They're like, all right, we got a schedule. Let's get back to it. God, there was one we were landing. It's a long time ago now. But we were landing in a bad storm. And it was like, I don't know what the winds were, the crosswinds or whatever. What do you call that? Whatever. Starboard winds.board it's like it was i mean it must have been 70 miles an hour or something and that plane was working so hard and you just just feel it buffeting against that wind

and so what happened what i didn't realize was in those conditions, like, they just gun it harder. So as you're coming into land, it's like you can hear the jet just going, it's just squealing. And it's like it is fighting through that as hard as it can. And so then you hit that tarmac going, you're like a rock skipping across the lake. Oh, it just, that was rough. Like, I always wonder if those pilots are better than regular commercial pilots. Like, you know how the stewardesses are hotter on the Stars flight or whatever? Care to comment?

I've never been on a Stars flight. But, like like do they go a little above and beyond right the food's better oh my gosh I don't I can't have

so as a pilot yeah I can't have all these this multi-million dollar you know Dave Raymond contract going down in flames has he been in a dog fight yeah

ooh the pilot yeah that'd be cool has he buzzed the tower yeah not just is that still a thing what dog fighting dog fights I mean Ooh, the pilot? Yeah. God, would that be cool. Has he buzzed the tower? Yeah, not just like... Is that still a thing?

What? Dog fighting? Dog fights? I mean, does anybody shoot bullets from plane to plane? Because we have robots doing it. We have drones. Yeah, there's robots up there fighting each other. Some kid in a base in Topeka, Kansas on his fourth monster.

The energy of the day just nuking villages and other robots. So maybe that's what we're headed toward is like just a matchup at the arcade one day. Send your three best video game nerds.

Yeah. We'll send ours. Just roll a quarters. Do war that way. Maybe that's what we should do. We're sending ours. Just roll a quarter. Do war that way. Maybe that's what we should do. We're sending Ninja. Who's the best? I think that's the last guy I've heard of,

and that was probably 10 years ago. Yeah, me too. He's old news. You know why he's not good anymore? It's because he's 29. Like that's too old? Ninja's basically John Madden in the game. Yeah.

Remember his era? Well, now he just calls games. Sorry, Dave. Sorry. What's my reference for today? Yeah. Who's the top gamer that all the kids would know? PewDiePie?

No. He just does dumb videos. Dr. Disrespect is pretty popular. Okay, does dumb videos. Dr. Disrespect is pretty popular. Okay, I like that. Dr. Disrespect? Yeah. That goes hard. Yeah.

This is Dr. Disrespect. He knows all the cheat codes. What are you going to do during the game? Ooh, that's a good question. Yeah, where do you sit and stuff? I'm actually, today, my wife is coming, and we're going to sit in seats. Really?

Like real fans. I did that last year for one of the World Series games, and I promised myself that I would never do it again, and here I am, the very next game that I go to in this ballpark, I'm going to sit in the stands in a seat. Dressed like that? Yeah. He plebes.

Yeah, where's your Ranger jersey? You're the only guy on this bus without one. You don't even own one, do you? What do you mean a Ranger jersey? You realize I don't play. Neither does Luddy. Yeah, but you're a fan. Yeah, I don't either.

Look at me. Well, I'm going to work. Do they give you stuff? Do they give you pullovers and stuff? No. Oh. No, not really. Give me a suitcase.

Get a discount at the school. You get a suitcase? Get a suitcase. I do get a discount. Do you get a clothing budget? No, no clothing budget either. Thank you. Oh, man.

Take some notes. Yeah. Clothing budget. Yeah. And what was the other stuff I should be getting? Wednesday's off. So that means you're already here. The wife is just showing up later?

Yeah. That's cool. Get to leave separately. That's awesome. I think that's awesome. Yeah, and you don't want to bring sand to the beach. I mean, we're here at the bus. We're at the bang bus, bruv.

Yeah. Yeah, she'd be pretty jealous right now. She knew. You can get some jello shot. You might as well do it. Yeah, well, I've got a little jello shot here. Be careful what... Beer bong.

Be careful which... Beer bong. I will not do a beer bong. They named him El Bongi and Jose LeChuck. You don't even have to go... Yeah, you can just do it from down here. Yeah, they pour it up there. Well, how come I haven't seen anybody?

They're behind you doing it. Oh, I see. I see. Oh. Yeah, they have a karaoke machine. They class it up for us. Yeah, karaoke. Up there if you want to sing a tune before.

In fact, we'll authorize you turning it on if Dave Raymond will sing a song. Pass. You ever done karaoke? Yeah, I've done karaoke. On top of a school bus? Not on top of a school bus. Everybody's done karaoke, right? Have you?

Yeah. I certainly have. Yeah, of course. You've never done karaoke? I think I came up in the heyday of karaoke. Probably so. Was bigger maybe 20, 30 years ago, don't you think? Yeah.

Kind of depends. Kind of depends. Maybe for you, but like for Shinsu Chu, it's... It's big now. It's big, baby. Really? Yeah. Now, it's been a couple years, but...

Karaoke, very popular in Asia. Yeah. If you're going to kick it withw, you're doing some karaoke tonight. Okay. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah, he loves it. You know, he moved into my neighborhood.

Well, yeah. He bought two houses, tore them down, and made one giant house. Dang. And that's one you bought, and then where does he live now? We're unemployed. No, it was just such big buzz when he was moving into the neighborhood. Yeah. Like, Chew.

And my wife, all she knows his name is Chew. That's the last ranger she can name is Chew. Yeah. People in the neighborhood, though, have had a chance to bump into him, get to know him a little bit. Like, he's delightful, right? Everybody loves him. I don't know about that. I think he stays in his compound.

From what I understand. It's karaoke, 23 hours a day. Yeah, you can always hear it from a couple streets over. Yeah, head up there. What's your song of choice if you are going to karaoke? I mean. You don't have a go-to? You don't have a go-to? I don't have a go-to.

Okay. The heyday for me is past. Because I used to do it with my, when I did high school play-by-play, my partner always loved karaoke. He was the son of the owner of the station, and his go-to was Brandy. So we knew we had to go with Chris Worf to karaoke. For Brandy. And listen to him do brandy. Thank you.

Yeah, we're good, man. I'll transport him over there if you need me to. What was your go-to? Oh, I think I just had a variety. You know, probably a Beecher song. Pretty versatile. You know, yeah. Throw anything at me.

Maybe some Young MC. He will do Young MC on you. Yeah. It's at tracks. So elsewhere in Today and Twitter. I was giving him Today and Twitter before you got here. Yeah. So we're kind of, this is just a continuous event.

I'm starving. Oh, you want a break? Well, let's do this and then. There's just a couple quick hits. I have a sports one and a political one. I'm going to do them both. What order do you want? I know the sports one so I'm excited about this.

Okay, well we'll end with that then because I know it's good. The political one comes from sports mayor. Oh my gosh. Do you know sports mayor? I don't think so. Sports mayor is Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson. Okay.

Who loves tweeting about sports. We don't really know what else he does. Right. But he'll tweet about how. He switches parties. Yeah, he does do that. We know he does that. That he wants, you know, hey, second baseball team downtown.

Why not? Hey, second. Loves a sports bet. That's the thing. Loves sports bets. Made a bet with Arizona. Made a a sports bet. That's the thing. Loves sports bets. Made a bet with Arizona. Made a bet. Sure.

But they're weak. Like 15, 20 years ago when Mayors did this. He'll make a bet with Matty Parker for SMU, TCU. Yeah. Like, whatever. Yeah. He's just a dork. All he tweets about is sports.

Loves sports. And this sort of stuff. Well, today, he says on Twitter, I unveiled the flag of Kharkiv, Ukraine, in Dallas City Hall's flag room. Kharkiv Mayor Igor Tarikov and I agreed to display each other's flags after signing a friendship agreement last month. Which sounds super gay. The most generic, hollow sentiment and statement you could possibly make. Dallas continues to stand with Ukraine, and there he is. Picture of sports mayor with his hat and the Ukraine flag. I'm kind of hung up on the flag room.

They have a room of just flags. And what did they unveil in Ukraine? Flags. America? They probably already had one. Yeah. Is there a Dallas flag that they're flying in Ukraine right now? That's right. With pride?

Because he's friends with Sports Mayor. We signed a friendship agreement. That literally sounds like something that my daughter says when she comes home from school. Was it a yes, no, maybe agreement? Where do you think whose tax dollars did he use to mail that flag to Ukraine?

Ours. Yeah. Hard-earned tax dollars. he use to mail that flag to Ukraine? Ours. Yeah. Hard-earned tax dollars. God, he sucks so bad. He really does. And the last thing on today in Twitter is, have you guys seen the video and then the picture that's floating around? Many pictures of Caleb Williams at the basketball game the other day.

I have. Was he at March Madness? I don't know where he was. I think it was, wasn't it a USC women's game? I think so. Yeah, I think so. Okay, so I'm not that impressed at his court side seats. I think he probably could have got them for the men's team also.

He is Caleb Williams. He's Caleb. Yeah, he's the number one pick. also. He is Caleb Williams. Yeah, he's the number one pick. The big controversy here, Dave, is one, maybe just the way he's kind of flowing to the music.

That's one that could be controversial. It depends. But then he's waving around his pink iPhone that are accentuated by his pink fingernails. Pink fingernail polish that he has on as well.

And so there's a lot of draft nicks. You have to add this to the whole, I think it was the Utah game that they lost, where, you know, everybody was memeing him for going over and crying with his mom, and she's covering him up. But I don't know, man. That guy can ball. And I think really he's kind of the first Gen Z quarterback that's going to go at the top of the draft.

And so people are like, what is this? This is weird. Well, meet one of those kids. Trust me. They're weird. To us, you know, this is a different generation, like the TikTok generation. They're just different.

I don't know. I had blue hair, you know, at some point. I had bright red hair at some point. I probably had black fingernails at some point. And Jake has said this before. Like, there's no irony anymore. No, exactly. He's not trying to do a bid.

He's not trying to make a statement. He's not trying to make a statement. It's just everything, irony is completely gone. He's just like, I don't know, I think this looks cool. So the one thing on him that would have been brought up when I was growing up that is totally ignored now is the earring. The earring? Yeah, he has an earring. We're so far past that.

Do you feel like, do you remember that? Oh, my gosh, yeah. What ear? Left ear. I think that means you're gay. my gosh, yeah. That was a. What ear? Left ear. I think that means you're gay. And I never really knew, was it left or right? I don't know. That's why I never pierce my ears to be safe.

I'll just avoid it. I certainly can't have somebody think I'm gay. Bonds, I remember when Bonds had his. He had like a cross. Oh, yeah. I was like, I'm not even being subtle about it. This is hanging across off my left ear. Whoa. I was like a cross. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I was like, I'm not even being subtle about it. This is hanging across off my left ear. Whoa.

I was like, whoa. What does that mean? What's going on? Yeah, I mean, obviously the problem is he's going to be in a locker room with guys who are 30 to 35. We're like, who is this guy? Like, this is weird. But eventually he'll have a bunch of other Gen Z teammates.

Yeah. On the teammates. Yeah. On the Bears. Yeah. On the Bears. What was controversial about the movement, the dancing? I can't remember what song it was, but it was definitely kind of a flowy, slow. kind of a flowy, like slow... If you're doing that with the pink iPhone

and pink nails, it looked like it... Dance from a... Yeah, you guys' generation, you're like... It could have been a little... What's on top of that cookie? Sprinkles? Fruity Pebbles. Oh, there you go.

You could have called... Fruity Pebbles might have been what comes to your mind. That was impressive. Thank you. Really. Wow. Yeah. So, anyway.

Well, thanks, Dave Raymond. Well, Dave, I know you've got to go. You've got a long day of work over here. Why do you have to be over there at 2.30? What are you doing over there? Well, I'm going to go over and explore the clubhouse and, you know, chat with guys. Kind of walk over to the national guys and give a tip or two. Anybody feeling a little hoogie today?

Maybe ask Simeon how he's feeling. How's his swing doing? Yeah. Yeah. Just see what's happening, man. Just hang out. Somebody might say something. You might see something. And if you see something, man. Just hang out. Somebody might say something, might see something. And if you see something, then what do you do?

That's where it all comes from. It all comes from Major League Baseball announcers. You never know, man. Something might come up. Oh, can I tell you one thing, though, before we go on? I know you've got to eat. Anything for you, Dave Raymond. Opening day, right?

Happy opening day. Happy opening day to you. You guys are obviously here to celebrate. I wished you happy opening day on text. You did, which was kind of emotional for me, getting that. Because I know that you feel strongly about it. Yes. You weren't just goofing.

So I love opening day. Everybody loves opening day. Last time I was on your show, we ended with my struggles with the baluster. Closing remarks from Dave Raymond. And I was having trouble with Big Baluster and fixing my Which is a piece of wood which goes to the ground.

A spindle on your staircase. So it's a hell of a challenge if you've broken one or three. And so we put the call out. and we got a lot of people who reached out now most of them for one reason or another couldn't work out they couldn't help uh their lathe wasn't big enough to accommodate the length of wood whatever well there's this one guy jordan inge who reached out and we got to communicating a little bit and he wanted to try it.

And so he did. He did an incredible job. He had never done anything like it before, but he had a lathe. He's got a workshop. This guy's an unbelievable artist with wood. He has these beautiful bamboo fly rods, all sorts of stuff.

He has this cherry wood floor in his house that he did on his own, just a piece of... Amazing, amazing guy. Anyway, one of the first times I'd met him was hanging out over at his place with him. We were talking about baseball, and he had some scars. He'd been hurt by baseball, by the Rangers in particular, by Nelly. Yeah. So talking about baseball, I was like, wow, he's really working through some stuff here. And he hadn't been to a game in a long time.

Kind of had lost interest in the game. Jeez. It's kind of a shame, right? But what are you going to do? We get to the end of the process. We're trying to figure out how to even the score a little bit since he'd done all this great work for me. And he's like, you know, when we talked at first,

you mentioned maybe tickets or something opening day, something like that, right? I said, yeah, yeah. I said, but I didn't want to revisit that because I think I don't want to hurt you. You know more now. He's like, yeah, man, it was a lot. And as I was talking to you that day, I realized, like, I wanted to try and stop myself. Like, what am I doing talking like this about baseball to this guy?

And he was almost unaware that he had the feelings that he had. But it was, like, cathartic. And so he's kind of over it. And he's interested in getting back to baseball and stuff. And so he wanted to open it. So he's kind of over it. And he's interested in getting back to baseball and stuff. And so he wanted opening night. So he's coming tonight. And he's bringing his dad. And I would say about opening night, right,

you don't always remember the details of the game or whatever. But there will be a lot of folks who remember hanging out here today at the bus. They'll be looking around. Some are going to have a little more trouble than others. You look around and you see people cooking out or whatever here. They're all tailgating and having a good time. They'll remember a lot of these

details. They won't remember the game, but they'll remember opening day, being with their family or friends, the weather, just the excitement, the anticipation of the season. For guys like Dan and me, who grew up in the Midwest, upper Midwest, where the weather was always shitty, it was a signal that, dadgummit, good weather might not be here today, but it's coming.

It was always such a big, big day. And so I'm really happy for Jordan and his dad. I think it's going to be great. And I hope they have one of those really memorable days. And knowing Jordan the way I do now, like he is, it's going to be a really special day for him. But I know it will be for a lot of other people too, of course, when they unfurl that banner.

Are you guys coming to the game? No, unfortunately. Absolutely. Blake is. Just be honest. Blake is. Why are you that way? What do you mean?

Why do you do that? You don't know if I'm going to not be there. You his. Why are you that way? What do you mean? Like, you know, why do you do that? You don't know if I'm going to not be there. You take a tender moment. Yeah. And it's. I'm trying to support you. Just say absolutely. There's everything that joked to you, Dan. Absolutely not.

Anyway. It's because you mock it. Yeah. So it's a special day. And I have to thank you guys. And just everybody. So you got it. Yeah. So it's a special day, and I have to thank you guys and just everybody. So you got the barrister. Look, it's all in, painted. It looks great.

Like you would never. It's the best looking baluster in my circle. You got a baluster, not a barrister. Yeah. Baluster. Yeah. Jordan has the opening day tickets. Yeah.

His dad's going to get to spend a day with his kid. Yep. Because of the dumb zone. All because of Dumb Zone. All because of... Yes. And I've got a new friend. I mean, he's the greatest guy. And I told Blake this a while ago.

I meant to circle back on this. But you guys really should have him on. Fascinating guy. Fascinating life. Just the artist's life, you know, and the path you take and things like that. It's just wild. Maybe we'll get the two of you together someday.

Yeah. Yeah. Since he's your boyfriend now. Okay. Again. Since you love him. It was really nice coming out just with us.

Jake, you know, it's always great to see you, Jake. Yeah, you too, Dave. Thank you,

Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave. Blake. Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave. Woo!

Woo! Ba-dum-ba-dum. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, guys. Y'all not working like a team? I got to shut the studio down, yo. All right, the only way I open the studio up now, y'all got to walk uptown to the Bronx

and get breast milk from a Cambodian immigrant. I only drink the finest breast milks. Go out there and milk a Cambodian. It's 100% Cambodian, yeah. It's the real shit. Rasmus, you made my day. You're listening to The Dumb Zone. Don't

fuck me. We are recording live to tape today from a bus. Bus. Opening day. Rangers opening day. Your prediction, Blake. For today or the whole season?

Jake. Alright, I agree. 90 wins, 22 to 3 tonight. Cubs. Oh my. A lot of complacency when you win a World Series.

I forgot to do this earlier, but we've had a lot of things going on. I want to do this because we've got a bunch of birthdays. You know how it is. Sure. This one, I missed it the other day because of email. Ha ha. Ha. It was hotmail. Ha. It was hot mail.

Ha. It was hot mail. Hmm. My name is Kiffer Gregor. Oh, Greg Wire. I believe. It says then in parentheses Greg Wire. Yeah, I think you have the names backward, but sure.

What do you mean? Look. Kiffer. Go ahead. He's 31. Long ago when I lived in Chicago, I waited in line at someplace for Jake, Bob, and Killer. Do you know who he is?

Yeah. Au Cheval. Au Cheval. Leaders are Jake, Dan, and Joe calling random NFL players gay. Keep up the good work. Hope to make it to Dallas for a visit to the Dragon Den from Kiffer Greg Wire. Yeah, great dude. He definitely did.

I mean, it felt like the most ridiculous exertion of our power ever. It was like one of the top-known burger places in America, and they're open until midnight. And it was like a three-hour wait. He said he lived across the street. Just to eat a burger, it's a three-hour wait? Yeah. And so he stood in line for us.

I kind of remember. So we landed, and you guys went there late night. We ended up eating at like 1230. And it absolutely lives up to it. It's an incredible burger. Great place. Probably not worth the three-hour wait. They got a Boca burger?

They do not. No beyond or anything. Another related one. I hope this reaches you and the guys as it is coming from an inferior email service. My name is Preston. the guys as it is coming from an inferior email service my name is preston saturday was my brian cardinal birthday day 19 subby 4296 jake you might remember me coming in hot today as the other guy in the luca slovenia jersey at fight night a few years back i remember there remember there was a guy. Why, did you have one too? Yes, I have several. I have Real, two Slovenias,

four Mavs. My leaders are Jake's four fig cat, the video guy laughing in the background, and the guy that paid for the transcript. Can I tell you a little cat story real quick, even though I know we're somewhat short on time? You've got all the time in the world.

So as you know, because we were talking, I took the cat to the vet yesterday. Rabies shot, which initially you would do like in your first trip, but the breed are very specific. Oh, that's right. Your vet was mad that you said I can't do that now. Yeah, so I went back to the whatever six-month checkup and the rabies shot. And come in, they weigh her or weigh him that's important um and then the the vet comes in and uh she's checking uh the cat up cat is a male and she didn't really flip all

the way back in the paperwork so she's looking at the paperwork she's like okay we're gonna do rabies today um and she's feeling binks up. And she's looking like at his backside. And she calls the tech over. She's like, Vanessa, come look at this. And she lifts the tail up. And they look at me and they go, you got a little girl. And I'm like, what do you mean? Like, it's pregnant or it's, what do you mean?

They were like, this is a girl. What? And i'm like no i mean we get the breeder the breeder's very thorough we got it from a breeder and they were like there's no testicles here and i called the wife and i'm like hey just making sure like he's been i was like he's been neutered they're like he's way too young there's no way plus i feel a vulva and i called the wife and she's like, yeah, he's neutered. And she flips a little bit further back in the paperwork. There's the breeder paperwork, and it has male neutered marked on it.

And she's like, I guess. She's like, I can't believe these breeders that they would neuter a cat that young. I've never seen a cat neutered this young before, but I guess. And I'm like, what about the vulva? And she's like, I must be feeling something else. So for about three minutes, I thought Binx was a female cat. It was the weirdest experience. The lady was like, you have a little girl on your hands here.

I'm like, you're not very good at your job. Yeah, I was going to say, we might need a new vet. Yeah. First, the attitude they gave you towards the – Well, they gave me attitude this time, too. Like, she started petting the cat. She's like, I can't believe they did that to you at such a young age. And I'm like, well, listen, if this cat breeds with something else, that cat is going to be deformed.

How does she know what a vulva feels like? Well, that she should, you know. She's a doctor. She's a vet. But it was really a weird experience. They were both very sure. So, anyways. And I, you know what happened?

Next is I thought, like I often do, I'm going to make one joke. And I was like, I guess I have a trans cat. And that did not land. Didn't go over? Oh, my gosh. She was already mad. It's in the news? Yeah.

I mean, what's more topical? I thought, you know, it did not hit at all. That's from Preston McDonald. That's a very – I bet that guy has a butler. Oh, he's got a Lucas Lavinia jersey. Yep. Now on to today's birthdays. My finance is obsessed with the show and listens every day.

His name is Trevor. Day 2, DF 970. His birthday is today. He's been trying to convince me to have a 690 remote at the wedding. That would be awesome. So if he actually gets a birthday shout-out, I will make room in the budget. Maybe from Abby. I'll definitely do a wedding.

Yeah, for sure. That would be a lot of fun. I'll drag something out of there, though. Warning. No, no doubt. Let me get that bridal party. Warning. So as long as you're comfortable with,

you know, with somebody, you know, hooking up. A couple of us on the prowl. I'd like to, uh,

okay, I hope this is a different Trevor because now it's, I hope, I want to wish my husband Trevor day two DF.

Same. A happy 35th birthday. What if one is a husband, but he's engaged with the other one? His leaders are TC, Jake, and Monty. Please tell him, hell yeah, he'll know what special way I'll wake him up. From Erica Moffitt.

P.S. More Blake book recommendations. Yeah, of course the wife wants a book rec from Blake. Yeah, what was the last one? Gone Girl was really good. Magpie Murders was great.

Man, I'm having a trip. The problem with reading on a Kindle is I don't know what the book is called anymore. That reminds me. I've got to do my Belichick book report. I'm kind of like that with songs. People ask me, like, that artist, what's your favorite album? I'm like, I don't really remember.

Kind of all is there on the magic machine. Day three, dumb F here. Wish my sister-in-law a happy birthday. Carrie Loinette. She's a big Dumb Zone fan. Her birthday was on Business Wednesday. She was hoping for a 690 sit-in for her birthday. I chose the pro bono option instead.

Thank you for being her favorite non-comedy, non-geofence podcast in the DFW Metroplex. Hosted by two former employees of a mega conglomerate that also has a producer out of Wiley. Okay. He says, congrats on the success. I would have been a day one dumb F, but I was holding out for the year subscription early on. No excuses from Josh. Let's go, man. And finally...

Sure, go for it. This is my last thing is finally I have dear heroes, per your curiosity of Jim Knox's whereabouts, he's now with the Houston Sabercats of Major League Rugby. Okay. Still comically doing his standard crowd shtick at the home games from DF number 943. So that's today's.

Hey, look, it's Mike Adams. It's former Texas Ranger Mike Adams. Okay, well, let's welcome him to the... We could just hold on the news and... Well, he could join the news. How's it going, man? We're going to do some news and stuff. Hey, former Texas Ranger reliever Mike Adams.

How's it going, man? Pretty sweet. What are you doing here? Hanging out. Yeah? Tailgating, enjoying it. I've hung out with this group for the past three or four years, I think, three to five years.

Where do you live? In Keller. Okay. Yeah. So I'm local now. Yeah, one of the guys was telling us that, like, he just reached out to you on Twitter one day and said, hey, you should stop by our tailgate.

And lo and behold, you did. Yeah. Like, why? You know, it kind of gave me the buzz. Yeah, I had to make some new baseball friends, some people to hang out with. We'll go to the game. Okay.

It's a pretty sweet bus. Yeah, man. I actually rode in it last year from Keller here, and then the ride back was a completely different ride, man. It was a – Okay, like nice – yeah. It doesn't say. He rode with me last year, and I was like,

I probably can't bring him back on the way back next year. Okay. This is your son? This is my son, yeah. Do you trust the bus? Like is it a little shaky? You know what, man? Originally, I was kind of like, this.

So they hadn't drove it, from what I understand, last year. They hadn't drove it since the previous year. So we went a whole year without being driven. And all of a sudden, it kicked right up, though. I mean, hell. As long as it kicks right up, that's positive. All right, let's talk Cowboys free agency. Oh.

Are you a big Cowboy fan? Yes, unfortunately. I'm like a, yeah, I've been a season ticket holder since 09. Do you have like a Cowboy room at your house? No, not no more. So when I was playing in Philly, I lived up in Jersey for the two and a half years that I was there. My daughter had just started school, so I'm over there in Eagle country. And so, yeah, in my basement I had a kind of themed cowboy just for the friends that I met over there that were big Eagles fans.

Just so they could see my pride. Yeah. Well, it's been a rough offseason. What offseason? What offseason? Exactly. He left for a couple weeks to see his daughter in France. He came back and said, what happened?

I'm like, nothing. I don't have to update you on anything. Isn't there cowboy news today? What did I have today? Is he setting up a joke? No, there, no. There's actually cowboy news. Okay.

Did you guys not see this yesterday? I heard something about C.D. Lamb, but I don't know. Where's my cowboy stuff for today? Here we go. What was Wash like? What was Wash like? He was awesome, man. I mean, he made it fun.

He held the players accountable just on their own. He never had to step in. He never had to get on anybody. He had two rules, be on time, play hard. He let the clubhouse be how it was. Did you ever smoke one of his cigarettes? No. Did you ever bum one?

No. I probably inhaled enough to smoke one, but no, I never bummed one of his cigarettes. I think that was my favorite story that Derek Holland told us is you Darvish got into his cigarettes one game. Hit him or something. You probably smoked them. Yeah. Did you find your cowboy note?

It was just the Ian Rapoport tweet. Did you see that? I can't. He blocked me. Oh. The Cowboys and quarterback Dak Prescott have a mutual understanding of his contract situation. With no offers from Dallas, despite him being in a contract here, owner Jerry Jones said,

We are where we are, locked and loaded for this year. No indication a deal is coming. He'll be a free agent. Now, is this coming from, because you always have to check, is this coming from the Cowboys or coming from Dax Camp? It's probably both. Like, who wants this out there? This is the first time I've ever considered, like,

what if he just doesn't want to be here? Why wouldn't you want to be here? I mean, Mike Adams stayed in the Metroplex. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah, he want to be here? I mean, Mike Adams stayed in the Metroplex. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah, he wants to be here. I think so. He's not a bigger name anywhere else.

No, but his name, I think if you start with the Cowboys. But he's also very hard here on him. Yes, that's part of the deal. Yes, but that's part of the whole Cowboy quarterback thing. But how often do these guys actually hit real – their contract? I mean, he's got some dummy years on the end of his contract, but how often does that happen? This is the real last year?

I thought next year was the last year. No, this is his actual – I think he still has voidable money. Yeah, there's like 40 – Yeah, he still has money on the contract. So he plays out this year. He still costs the Cowboys $40 million next year. I don't know about $40. Yeah, it goes down

if he's not here, but they owe him money. But he's going to be like $20 or something. And he could sign somewhere else. That doesn't happen that often. Did you ever get one of those cool contracts like that? I wish.

Yeah. Yeah. I wish I would have. Baseball's got great contracts, though. Baseball has great contracts, especially now. I mean, they areball's got great contracts, though. Baseball has great contracts, especially now. I mean, they are just getting absolutely handed money. Yeah.

It's crazy. So even you are saying, man, these days. And you just stopped playing. It's a big difference. If I was playing nowadays, I'd be making a whole ton of money. But, you know, economics, it is what it is. Yeah. I remember saying that. I remember somebody telling me, well, be glad it is what it is. Yeah. I remember saying that to them.

I remember somebody telling me, well, be glad you played when you played. You know, me and an older person and, you know, just how they just keep increasing. When was your last year? 14. Okay. That's not that long ago. Well, I guess it is now, huh? Ten years.

It is now, ten years. Yeah. That's a big difference. You wish you would have pitched in a dome here? It would have been a lot nicer weather-wise. The ballpark, the old ballpark was great. Yeah. It was a beautiful ballpark.

It was so damn hot. Right. So damn hot. But this place is unbelievable. Really? Yeah. Y'all don't like this place? Well, I mean, I like it.

I just loved the old place. It just doesn't feel like a baseball stadium. It is what it is. I mean. I mean, it's cool being 70 degrees. But we don't have to play in it. Yeah. Y'all don't like this place? Well, I mean, I like it. I just loved the old place. It just doesn't feel like a baseball stadium. It is what it is. I mean. I mean, it's cool being 70 degrees. But we don't have to play in it. Yeah. It's a little bit different.

But also, you don't have to sweat your ass off no more to go to a game. That's true. They probably have much better attendance in the summer than they ever were before. Imagine how they're, I mean, well, it doesn't matter if they play at the old ballpark and you ballpark. No, when you're a winner, they're going to show up. Yeah. You know, but yes, when it's not're a winner, they're going to show up. Yeah. You know, but yes, when it's not going as great, it's easier to go to the games.

Can Dak win it all? Oh, you played with Chris Young. Yeah, in San Diego. Yeah, I was trying to look at who you've played with. Yep. I think his generic question was, can Dak win it all? Yeah. What's Scott Harrison like?

I hope so. Scott Harrison? Harry, that's my dude. Harry was your dude? Mm-hmm. Our kids are pretty equal in age. Well, his sons and my daughter are pretty equal in age. And they were always watching.

In the kids' room, they're always watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Oh, that's big in my household. I'm so glad. Is it still a big thing now? Yes. It's a great day whenever they move beyond that. And you never have to hear the song again.

Yeah, hot dog. Hot dog, hot diggity dog. So that was mine and Scott's thing. Hey, it's a hot dog day, man. It's a hot dog day. That's awesome. Your kids play baseball? My son does, yes.

Okay, you forcing them into it? Yeah. Yeah. I told him, hey, if you ain't good, then you got to sleep outside. Pitcher? He pitches. He's not a, you know. How old is he? He looks like he's at a weird you know. How old is he?

He looks like he's at a weird age. Like he doesn't remember you as a player. Yeah, he doesn't. Yeah. Yeah, he was probably like three or four when I came out. Okay. Three, I think. So your kids don't have respect.

They got to watch a video to see. Yeah, well, he's. Like what do you do? He's seen video. He'll go back and watch it every now and then. Yeah. I mean, one day he'll truly, truly know who or what I did. You hope.

I hope. Exactly. What's Scott Posadnik like? Stop describing. Scotty Paz lives here in Keller or in Colleyville. Really? Yeah. Seems like a hotbed for people to just stay.

There's a lot of athletes here. There's a lot of athletes here. There's a lot of athletes here. Regardless of age. Oh, look, you played with Ben Greve. Yeah. He was a different dude. Arlington Martin, right? Go on.

I mean, just a quiet kind of. Oh, okay. Yeah. I wanted you to tell me some weird stuff. Oh, no, no, no, no. Some ditty stuff? What are you looking for? Yeah, I don't know.

You know? Ditty stuff. We're just fishing. We're on a fishing expedition here. We talk a lot about those, like the 2010, 2011, when you got here in 2011. I'm asking you about Wash. The team they have now is obviously dominant, championship, but Simeon and Seager are kind of robotic in a way about the way they handle their business.

Yeah. But those teams from a decade, decade and a half ago were just insane. It almost seemed like a movie. There were so many personalities involved from wash on down. Yes. Wash. You. Napoli.

Yeah. Elvis. Yeah. That was so fun, man. It was a fun team, man. I wasn't used to it when I came over here because I came from San Diego. And when I came into San Diego, Trevor Hoffman was there. So everything was kind of a little more serious.

It was still the older generation, I guess, kind of bringing you up. So I kind of came up in a very serious scenario, I guess. So when I came here, it was kind of like, what the hell? Everybody's like dancing in part. Not literally, but, I mean, it was just like a, man, it was different. A baseball party. Yeah, yeah. They were having fun.

It was a good time. Yeah, we could feel it. I wasn't used to that, man. I came from San Diego where we didn't win much. Yeah. Yeah, were you – so I'm looking at how you got here. Trade deadline? Yeah.

So you were big trying to get that arm to get him into the playoffs. Yeah. Did it work? Oh, yeah, it did. Of course. We got it almost done. Two at-bats ever. Yeah.

What was that like? It was cool. The first one was cool. It was, you know, one of your dreams to bat in the big leagues. Was it scary? No, not at all. Okay. Not at all.

I mean, because I knew what they were going to do. They were going to pitch me away and try to get me to strike out a rollover. So, you know, I was just kind of – I knew what they were doing. So I'm like, you know what, I'm going to try to go oppo, try to go with it and try to shoot it over like second baseman or first baseman or kind of shoot it in the gap or something. And I just rolled over and grounded out the second base. So you did actually.

I made contact, yes. Yeah, that's something. And my second at-bat, I was like, I really didn't want to do it the second time because I was like, man, I still got to go back out there and pitch. I don't want to be on the bases. You know, thinking I'm going to get a hit. Was this a little headache or something? Was there ever like an eight-run game or something?

Like why are they? No, it was probably a, I think the first one was like a five- or six-run game, something like that. And then the second one, I think it was – I want to say it was a two- or three-run game, I think. But I had to come in in the seventh, I believe, or sixth, and then they needed me to go back out for the seventh because at the time that was my role.

So they're like, you know, we had a two or three-run lead. They were like, all right, screw it. If there was runners in scoring situation, I was coming out. But if not, then they were going to let me hit just so I can go back out there. But after that, I was like, I'm good. I don't need to try to do this no more. So your second time, did you have like a mindset or you just kind of like, all right, let me try to hit one out?

Yeah, no, no. My second time I was like, I'm not even going to swing. Get back on the mound. So I stand there. Yeah, get out of here and go back and pitch. And then I got two strikes on myself and I was like, shit, I don't want to strike out. Yeah, you got to protect the plate. Yeah, I don't want to strike out.

Choke up a little bit. So I was like, you know what? Here we go. Boom, just ground ball. All right, perfect. Let's go. Okay, so you make – how do you have an ops? It says – or your ops plus is negative 100.

How does that happen? You can even have that? How do you have that in baseball? All right. Just tell them Saber Metrics ruined the game. Yeah, it kind of did, man. That must be a money ball thing. Yeah, I do remember the Adams-Ogondo-Feliz, like just the back end.

It just felt like we're just about to mow nine down here. It was just awesome. It was awesome. Yeah, we had a strong bullpen, man. It just wasn't strong enough. Oh, no. We kind of got a faraway look. That's, yeah, that's obviously before.

It's weird. We've been talking about this, how It's still weird to think that the Rangers are World Series champions right now. It came out of nowhere. Yes, it very much came out of nowhere. Your guys' team, if you had wanted... It was a build-up. The 2011 team was

what we were supposed to. The 2010 team, it was kind of like this, wasn't it? I wasn't as big at following the Rangers as then,, wasn't it? I mean, I wasn't as big following the Rangers then, but wasn't it kind of just, oh, wow, they're in the World Series, right? It wasn't like – Yeah, the first time they were in the World Series was a big surprise. Yeah.

But this one right here, I had no – I was like, okay, next year or this year they'll be good. You know, they'll kind of figure out their bullpen and stuff like that and they'll be fine. But, yeah, I mean, they just kind of pieced it together and got it to work and got hot and obviously got it done. What was Taylor Teagarden like? He's a longhorn.

He's a longhorn, yeah. Oh, that's right. You're from Texas, aren't you? Yeah. Where from? South Texas, right outside Corpus Christi in Sinton. Okay, Sinton. Yeah.

That doesn't sound like a big town. Maybe it is. No, it's a – well, now it's a 4A school. It's 5,500, 6,000 people. It's not small. No, it's like the size of Keller High. Where'd you go to college? Texas A&M Kingsville On a basketball scholarship

I played basketball my first two years of college And then went back to baseball You didn't play baseball the first? I guess you can't Yeah I could've You can? I could've, yeah

I was kind of the original plan I was like I got a full ride for basketball And then They were like If you want to play baseball you can also but baseball basketball season ended to a spring break and a bunch of my buddies were going to south padre so i was like no i'm not gonna play baseball i'm gonna go south padre okay so you

grow up i had to make life decisions right you grow up you're like the best probably the best athlete anybody's ever seen around there right like? Like, when did you ever play somewhere where you're like, oh, my gosh, now this is – you know, they always say some guys have, like, a difficult time getting to the majors and adjusting to, you know – if you grow up and you're the best starting pitcher all the time, maybe the best basketball player and all that, and then you go to kind of a smaller college, so I guess you were probably the best player there as well. I was the best baseball player there. But even at the time, I wasn't like super dominant or anything like that.

I mean, I was good. I showed, I guess, potential. But it really didn't come together until once I signed – I'm sorry, got in pro ball. And that's when I think it really – well, I know for a fact because my numbers show that's when it really took off for me. Did you get drafted? No.

Oh, wow. Nope. That's quite a story then. Yeah. Yeah. I have a very different story. Okay. We mean just how it all happened. Okay. Yeah. I have a very different story. Okay. We mean just how it all happened.

Okay. Yeah. How so? Well, I mean, I came up as a basketball star. I was good at baseball, but it wasn't my love, so I was more interested in basketball. Chris Young. Yeah.

Same thing. Yeah. And then go to college on a basketball scholarship, don't play baseball for two years. Decide. Me and the coach kind of get into it. I'm like, I don't want to play here. He doesn't want me to play there.

I'm going to transfer to another school in East Texas. A week before, I decide I'm not going to go. Come back and play baseball. Played three years of baseball. Second year of college, I guess I was player of the year, pitcher of the year, whatever. Humble. Yeah.

It's like whatever. So that second year they told me, hey, I had Kansas City and somebody else on me. They were like, hey, we're going to draft you. You're going to get drafted for probably 15th, 20th round. All right, cool. Do you have like an agent and stuff? No. Okay. You couldn't do that back then. All right, that's right. I'm older. No NIL for you? No NIL. And then don't get drafted. After the first day of the draft, they call me like, hey, you still want to stay in?

I'm like, sure. You know, we'll see what happens. The second day comes by, nothing happens. Come back for – so I don't get drafted at all after my second year of college baseball. And then go back, which I wasn't really expecting to other than the fact that they told me they probably were. Going into it, I was like – Yeah, I'm like player of the year. Yeah.

Yeah, I'm thinking I'm going to get drafted. And then – well, I kind of thought I was actually. Yeah. I'm thinking I'm going to get drafted. And then, well, I kind of thought I was, actually. Yeah. So going into my third year of college, you know, do well. Hey, we're going to draft you again.

I'm like, y'all told me that last year or whatever. Never happened. And then I had some draft goals. I don't get drafted. I had a couple of private tryouts with Toronto, Kansas City, and Milwaukee. And Toronto didn't want to give me a little bit of money. They wanted to give me like five grams. I was like, I got another year of college. I can pitch him and see what happens that way.

Milwaukee comes back like, hey, we'll give you this. I'm like, shit, maybe I'm not going to get nowhere near what I think I'm going to get. So I just took it, went in. And once I realized that, you know, I was able to get in there, they changed. I guess they taught me to work out and stuff. And then it all kind of came. Once I started working out, it all came together. I took it seriously. I wasn't – because in college, I was just partying.

I would party. And you were still good. Yeah. Okay. And, you know, I was a Friday night pitcher. Thursday night was college night. I did college night. Yeah.

You know, I did college night. A lot of specials. Yes. I was on those nights. Yeah. So I wouldn't go to class on Friday So I wouldn't go to class on Friday. I wouldn't go to class on Friday. I'd sleep until we had to go to the field, man.

See, that's what I always think about these dudes that, you know, the dudes that get paid at that age. Like, how do they do it? Like, you obviously got your head turned straight or whatever, but you had to get serious. If you hadn't done that, you would not have made it. No chance. I really wish I would have taken it serious in college

and then see what would have happened. Where would I have been drafted or what would my potential have been if I would have taken it serious in college? You could have been player of the universe. Man. Of the multiverse. It's so funny that you just end up hanging out with these dudes every year now. Yeah.

Yeah, it's fun, man. It's fun. We have a good time. You know, there's usually some good food, too. Hell yeah. Yeah, there's some barbecue out there. All right, well, I thank you for joining. We're going to kind of finish our show.

If you want to stay on, then stay with us. If you want to go mingle, you want to go mingle. I'm going to go get me some show. If you want to stay on, then stay with us. If you want to go mingle, you want to go mingle. I'm going to go give me some grub, man. Okay, yeah. They got a good spread. Appreciate it, man. Y'all have a good one. Thanks for coming by.

That's the great Mike Adams. Former Ranger great. Current bus participant. All right. Quite the day. All right. Well, let's start with the latest in Sean Diddy Combs, a.k.a. Puff Daddy, a.k.a. P. Diddy. Of course, we know they were rated as multi-million dollar homes in Miami and Los Angeles earlier this week.

Now people are looking for what they found. And before we get to that real quick, what's his name? Prince Harry was added to the lawsuit of one of the defendants in the southern district of New York. How's your wife taking that news? You know, she's really, you know, she's not as into the current stuff. That's right, you've said that. Yeah, she's really more into the old times

of women being oppressed. I think she probably tops out at Diana. Okay. But she would talk about, she watched, I think it was The Crown did Diana. It might have been a Diana movie, and she's just like, you really have no idea how hard they, they basically drove her insane. Like, yeah, you get to live a sweet life and stuff. It's awesome.

You're not going to have to work. But you can make a person crazy no matter how much money they have. And that's what they did. And that's kind of what they're doing to the old girl now i mean i participated in it she's got cancer and i'm like is she in the illuminati i don't even i don't even care what was the big rumor she had a botched butt lift i mean the biggest one was that he had knocked up another chick oh and that uh that she was going to keep it, and so she freaked out and took off.

So yeah, the other thing you'll see online is everybody is dredging up old Diddy content. And this is not like it came out of nowhere. Is that why you dredged up that Chappelle thing? Yeah, I mean, that obviously tells you that Dave Chappelle knew something was up at some point. But people have these videos of him with Justin Bieber when he was 13.

Oh, yeah. Oh, dude. He's like, we're going wild out for the next 48 hours. This is my brother, my son. And Bieber's like, ha ha ha. You think they were doing a little something? I mean, would you be surprised to think about the Michael Jackson, Macaulay Culkin stories?

Yeah. And then there was a video later. I saw a video where Justin Bieber was talking about Billie Eilish. And he's in present day, and he's like, you know, I just want to protect her. He's like, because I went through some shit in this industry when I was a kid because I didn't know what was going on. He's got this real prison looking stare on his face.

Oh, man. God, that's strong. Billie Eilish. Oh, yeah, the smell. You're good. I don't want to catch a contact, though. Yeah, Billie Eilish, her parents or at least her mom, right? In show business, so I think she had some kind of... Well, yeah, and I think Bieber's parents were like hungry to be famous.

Yeah. You know, but I think she lived at home for a long time. Like my kids' parents. Yeah. Hungry to be famous. Yeah. Just to be on a bus. Yeah.

But yeah, the stuff that you'll find now, it's everywhere. And people are, you know when TC the other day made a comment about like, hey, I think he's actually like the music industry's Epstein. And I'm like, no, he's just a weirdo. He's just a guy with a lot of money whose sexual proclivities kept going further and further and further. I'm here to tell you now I think he's the music industry's Epstein. Oh, man.

Yeah. Everybody needs industry's Epstein. Oh, man. Yeah. Everybody needs their own Epstein. I'm going to play a little audio, Blake, here. I thought you would enjoy this, Dan. I saw this clip of MSNBC talking about the Diddy case, and I think you'll understand. This is Joy Reid's show, the social and political commentator, Toray. I think you'll know pretty quickly why

I pulled this for you. And now this large, growing number of people who are alleging crazy stuff about him. These are things that people in the industry have been hearing about. It's giving R. Kelly, Toray. It's giving. It's

disturbing. You know, it's giving R. Kelly. That's right. It's giving. It's disturbing. You know, it's giving, R. Kelly. That's right. Yeah. No, that's the way to talk now. Yeah. That's the way you talk. You're giving jealousy.

And now it's time for some updates from a local small town. Oh, you want some Hood County breaking news? I do. Does this feel like a good day for it? Yes, it does. It's Rangers opening day. All right. You want some Hood County breaking news? I do. Does it feel like a good day for it? Yes, it does. It's Rangers opening day. All right.

We don't really have a special open for that. Let's see. But I bet we can get one. We will. Let's head over to Facebook. All right. Betsy Taylor's got a meme. Oh, okay.

That's my opening. What's the meme? Scientists are saying that the sun will burn out in 7 billion years. That means TxDot will have to finish road construction in the dark. That's a good one. They'll be working. They're slow. They're always construction. That's Betsy.

Jen is a little more serious. She says, I'm going to leave this right here. Motorcycles are going to be coming back out for the summer. Please pay attention while driving. It's important. They're dangerous. You know, you barely touch one of them, and all of a sudden you've got a fatality on your hands. And, yes, they've been in hibernation in this.

Be very careful with that. Yeah, watch the cord, the wire. It's not ideal. Whoa, Jim. Oh, Jim. Oh, Jim. You'd think everybody else seemed to understand coming that way. Don't go through this way.

But it's women, so they feel as if they can do whatever the fuck they want. Hashtag look twice, save a life. But yes, the motorcycles are coming out of hibernation. Right. As all the snow has melted. Yeah.

All right. Who did this? Okay, Julie Post. We're getting a little loud in here, aren't we? Yeah, we need to hurry up. It's okay. We're pretty closely done. To whomever thinks it's okay to dump your trash on 10 Top Road, shame on you.

Yep. Yeah. Hoping that the perp sees it. Apparently trash on 10 Top Road. Uh, hey, somebody lost their peacock on Temple Hall Highway. Uh, Ginger said someone

needs to come get their damn peacock, and I'll be damned, there's a peacock in the middle of the highway. Yeah. You'll see that in small towns. Like, people, small towns are the home of people who own wild stuff. There was a neighbor of mine that had a peacock when I lived in Dallas over by White Rock Lake. Some guy just had a peacock. Pretty loud and annoying.

That's kind of their bit, right? I don't know. It was down around the corner, so I didn't hear it. And let's end with this one. This one is weird. But my other neighbor had a goat, and that's loud and annoying. Yes. Very loud.

Yes. Yeah, I'd hate to live next to dirt, too. I just need to listen. Do we acknowledge that as a good joke? Oh, you weren't listening. All right, I'll say good. Thank you. The goat joke?

Yeah. I don't even really Thank you. The goat joke? Yeah. I don't even really want to... Yeah, never mind. It wasn't a throat goat joke. Okay. This comes from Anonymous. Okay, this is so bad they didn't even want to put their name out. I just need to state to the person that may live in or around Toler that dump your dead dog along Friendship Road with bloody blankets with it.

I mean, that's horrible. Yeah, I don't think you'd want. My 16-year-old son and I. I mean, ruining those blankets? Brought a shovel and dug a hole for it. But, yeah, someone dumped their dead dog on the road and told her. People will dump dogs out there, man. That's interesting that you would see that and then say, hey, let me go get a shovel.

And beat it. No, no. He dug a hole for it and threw it in the hole. It's country, man. Yeah. They love their animals out there. All right, we should probably. Well in the hole. Country, man. Yeah. They love their animals out there. All right, we should

probably... Well, apparently not. Well, somebody does. So, we should probably... I'm going to... Well, what? I had one more. Oh, you did?

Yeah. I got to do this one for you real quick. Abby Hensel has married Josh Bowling. Oh, damn it. You knew? I've got it prepared.

We can do it tomorrow. No, let's talk Brittany and Abby getting married. Abby gets top billing. Right. Yeah, so... I saw the Today Show had reported on that. Yeah, Abby has actually been married for several years, but the public didn't know. She married this 34, or their 34.

She married this guy in 2021. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, there's a photo of him in one wedding dress. Listen, I mean, there's a photo of him in one wedding dress. It's a very, listen, I'm being honest. This would be a very horrible existence, and the fact that they've been able to claw out happiness from it. They're both teachers. Well, yeah.

What do you think, one of them works on the docks, while the other one's doing sixth grade math? They kind of have to both be doing everything. However, that is my question. Can Britney be married? Well, this looks like a guy that would marry Britney and Abby. That's about the worst insult you could get. They are conjoined, but the bottom half of the body is all one.

And the top half, Abby controls one arm. Yeah, I have. And Brittany controls the other arm. And they each control their own head, obviously. So as far as self-pleasure. You have to ask these questions. Your sister is actually doing it to you. Well, but you both feel that. You have to ask these questions. Your sister is actually doing it to you.

Yeah. Well, but you both feel that. Yeah. You have two different brains. Do you think you have to be like, okay, just pretend that now is my time. When it's right arm, it's my time. You don't think about it. I know you're going to feel it, but don't think about it. And then you'll get your turn and I won't think about it.

But what if... It might just be double the O's. But is one of them a left-hander? I mean, it has to be. Yeah, I think your body can basically force you to... Okay, so she's ambidextrous. They. They are ambidextrous.

Do you think they're mad at like... What's her name? The actress? Actor? That was in Juno that goes by Lizaday now. Like, we're a they.

Are you serious? You're not a they. Like, as the they thing. No one else in the world can claim a pronoun like we can. I got two heads. Like, I'm literally a they.

From the today.com, according to pictures and videos on Bowling's Facebook page, the family enjoys nature hikes, ice cream, and snow tubing. I bet that's a – I have a lot of questions, and I don't deserve an answer to them. It's their, you know. They share a bloodstream in all organs below the waist. Abby controls the right arm and leg.

Brittany controls the left. Like, do they have sex? Yeah, they have to. How do you know? That's what you do when you get married. But if you're only married to Abby... That's what I'm saying. At some point, what if she wants to get married?

So now they've got... No, they only have... Their mom in a documentary, 2003 documentary called Joined for Life, Patty said her daughters were interested in having children one day. That's probably something that could work because those organs

do work for them said Patty and so Blake I'm saying the other the other twin could get married you're saying no

why not why does one of them get to claim the idea that they can be married I just think because they only have one thing down there. Well, I mean... Can one of them

only feel one wall? And also, it would be really, I would think, dangerous almost, because... Well, the one of them is just a Baylor virgin, right? Okay, that's how they pull it off. I get the left in the front, you get the right in the back. Dude, think about...

I mean, I'm not trying to be too graphic here, but think about the concept of performing on someone if you're a female. And there's just like... Is it a dude's dream? No, because only one of them is in love with him. I think they both have to be bought in.

No, they don't. Then how's it going to work? Does one wear a sleep mask if the other one's doing it? I think you have to. They're definitely not both sucking the guy off. I think they have to. No, they don't. No, they don't. No, they don't.

That's a bad... Is that cheating on... There you go. That's what I'm saying. They both have to be bought in. No, bought in. They don't both have to suck the guy off. Yeah, but if this... But if I had a... I don't know. You're already down there.

You have to be bought in to be down there. You can't be, like, talked into that. Now it's the main buzzer. I really wish I had answers to these questions. Now we're getting somewhere. Well... Like, they can't drive, right? Maybe if our guest booker works on something, we can get answers.

Book the guy? No, no. He's like, I just want Brittany. Yeah, not Abby. We got a guy? No, no. He's like, I just want Brittany. Yeah, not Abby. We got a packed show. All right. That's what you do. All right.

I already hit it. Mike and subscribe. Oh, yeah. Birthday. All I'll tell you is today is the death anniversary of Major League Baseball managing great come Posey

remember Cumberland Posey I remember him from birthdays but that's about it yes we used to talk about him but we never really said his name out loud on the air

that's a word I'd be interested in learning when that came about. The C word? Yeah. Yeah. And like when people decided to do a funny spelling. I mean, it can't be that old. As evidenced by the fact that Cumberland thought nothing

of his nickname. Yeah, come. And come and go. Yeah. Still see come and goes everywhere. You want to get some Letty closing remarks? Yeah, why don't you fire that on? We're done. You're done?

So now you're done. Am I on? You are. No. I just want to say thank you. How deep are you into the natural lights or whatever we're doing? Yeah. Keystone lights. I'm on that tipping point.

So things are going to get wild here pretty quick. You have three hours until game time. You, I don't need anything from you. You amateur softball look at me go. I can't tell you how many times I've said that exact same thing. From you, I don't need it. I do want to throw some compliments to Blake because he did do a lot. I know he's overpaid, but he does do a lot.

And he's also a marriage counselor. I think Jake was ready to jump on top. Dan was like, I got papers and bullshit or whatever. But thank you guys. Jake was ready to broadcast upstairs. He was all about it. The wind is now 1,000 degrees out guys. Oh, Jake was ready to broadcast upstairs. Oh, yeah. He was all about it. Yeah. The wind is now 1,000 degrees out there.

1,000. 70. We have umbrellas. I hope you guys want to come up. I think you're happy to be here. We'll do a big group photo. Is that cool? Of course.

On the roof? Yeah. No. But thank you guys. You're welcome next year. We'll figure it out. We would love to make this a tradition. Yeah.

So hopefully we brought a little bit to the table and thank you guys so much. You brought a lot. Thank you, brother. This is good times. Awesome. Adios, mofo. Thank you. Thank you. I don't give a fuck I said I don't give a fuck I don't give a fuck I don't give a fuck

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