Most Important Thing in the World

You're listening to the down Beats on nineties seventy one free Hey, seven o'clock, we'll break it down for you. Cowboy was dunked on the Eagles thirty three to thirteen last night, and we'll give you all the good CD details of that victory. And then at eight we did have some predictions there are some points that might be on the table. You're kidding after our press that mess. Yeah, So we'll get to that at eight and find out. There's a little buzz online. A lot of the people were like, I

think he deserves a point. No, I think he deserves at least half a point. We'll get to that at eight. Mike Story's gone this week, going to New Orleans for a few days and going to uh, you know, crank out the rest of his vacation days. He will be back next Monday and Tuesday, though, so you know, it's kind of that time of year, a little shifting in and out and things like that with everyone one. But we got you here. I'm Kevin with Danny and j J. Let's go ahead and do this. I think we should. We

should draft fight. Obviously, this town most important thing in the world is typically the Cowboys on a Monday when they have John Legend and attendance and Barry Switzer. But I thought we did this because it's kind of happened on Friday into Saturday, and I think it's a little pertinent, and it was something that we were waiting for the shoe to drop, so and it finally happened.

Show he O Tani, maybe the best athlete that's ever lived, possibly signed a ten year, seven hundred million dollar contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers. So he realized that there's no team in the city that he's in and he's like, I'll just go there for seven hundred million dollars for a little

bit of just just to help you here. The Rangers as a whole are paying Corey Seeger, Marcus Simeon and Jacob deGrom six hundred and eighty five million dollars over the course of their contracts, So twenty two years, six hundred and eighty five million dollars. There, ten years, seven hundred so seventy million a year for a guy who can only hit. He can't pitch this next year, and he can't play defense this next year because he was not

allowed to throw because he's having Tommy John surgery or has had it. He can only DH, so for one of those ten years, he's he's dhing for the entire season. Yeah, I saw that he wouldn't get to shitch first one. Yeah, until twenty twenty five. He's how old he is? Thirty? No, he's not thirty, but he's he's you know, he's twenty nine, So okay, he'll be thirty in July. Wild you wonder. I mean, we were projecting what five hundred million, six hundred

max. I think six hundred was the number I'd kind of settled in on because I thought they could just kind of look at it as a thirty thirty thirty to the high best hitters in the league, and thirty to the best pictures. Maybe the best pictures get up to forty. But just knowing that he got once he got hurt, I thought that was going to dip down, and it didn't. I'm sorry, I don't see it. I don't see making that kind of an investment in one dude when there's so many other

needs to be filled. You know, I'm glad the Rangers didn't spend this kind of money. I don't think they had it to spend, and you had mentioned, you know, the Mavericks are dealing with this as well, maybe the Stars to a certain degree, but the TV situation here is so in flux. Yeah, and the TV contracts for the teams, especially those three, it's just such a wild card right now. It's hard to determine where this revenue would even come from to be able to pay that bill for

Otani. And I just don't understand. I mean, dude, I get it, he's great. Maybe he's the greatest baseball player of all time, but he's still one guy. And it takes so much more than that. This has got to be so much more, has to be about so much more other than just winning and making your team better. You have to factor

in. This is about a profile thing for the Dodgers as well, sending a message to their fans, getting consistent turnout, ticket sales, marketing, all all the things that are adjacent to baseball but not necessarily connected to wins

and losses, playoffs, World Series, things like that. So I'm glad the Rangers didn't bite on this too hard, but I think once it gets to that number, it's like, okay, cool, Well, yeah, I mean, you just kind of you lower your little sign that you have at your auction and go, okay, I guess I won't be taking home the Stevie Ray Vaughan guitar today. You go ahead and take that collector from

Japan. So he The previous biggest contract in baseball was Mike Trout four six million, okay, So he crosses that by over two hundred and fifty million. Wow, the highest for North American team sports in total. Pat Mahomes Patrick Mahomes at four hundred and fifty million dollars okay, And he sounded a big fatty, which he probably shouldn't have because the quarterback contracts are going to keep going up and he could have got more. But ten at four fifty

is what Patrick Mahomes signed. Also, you have Damian Lillard making fifty million a year for the Bucks, Lionel Messi sixty million a year to come play for Miami in FC Dallas. It's the like, but it's the duration of the MLS. It's the duration of the contract and all the money in baseball is guaranteed. Yeah, so he's not going to be the best player in baseball when he's thirty nine years old. No, But this is the whole thing is when you get a guy who is the you know, Japanese Taylor's

with Beyonce or whatever you want to call it. Right he's legitimately the biggest thing they have and then you throw that right there into your fan base and they have TV money. And I was reading it a little bit on it yesterday too, and it was basically the Dodgers kind of had a down year in signing last year, Like they didn't sign a lot of people, which makes sense that they knew he would be a free agent. So it's kind of like but you know, he also did like pretty quiet negotiations with the

Mets. GM said they never got in on it, like he never reached out, but like the Blue Jays were a rumored team. I heard the blue Jays. I mean there were reports that he was going to Toronto over the weekend. I felt like the Kawhi Leonard thing, like here's another team just to kind of I mean, we knew Kawhi was going to get like max money, but like, just here's another team to add some intrigue in baseball. It could be a bid. It's a huge economic thing right there.

You know what, you know what it was great to see that. In a lot of cases like these, when you have free agents, the Rangers are always in the conversation, but I always feel like the Rangers are used as a leverage tool and never taken seriously. You didn't even really hear about the Rangers being used as a leverage tool. Now, that may be because that all of the negotiations, all of the negotiations by Otani's desire were

kept somewhat you know, clandestine. But yeah, it was just nice to have them not be just kind of like an oversight in all of this. But look, man, when you've when you've just won the World Series and you have what probably in all likelihood will be your one and number one and number two starters, not even really a factor, I mean, not a factor really at all in the playoffs. Obviously de Grom didn't play a bit insures there was eh kind of meh, kind of meh. But do you

have both of those cats coming back? Probably one of them, obviously one of them will start the year and the other will join them, who knows, maybe by the All Star break hopefully You're kind of like looking at your situation, especially when you see what Valdi is capable of. Yeah, I mean, why would why, Yeah, why would you spend five hundred million on Otani just for the fact of getting the biggest name in sports? Maybe

that would be the only like that you would have to know. And there are people who it's their job to find out he ain't the biggest in sports, not American sports people know whose job is to get projections for you. Maybe the biggest name in baseball, but he ain't the biggest name in sports. Yeah, No, that's probably still Lebron honestly, right, I think you could probably list five NFL players that come to mind. Makes you.

Yeah, I when you ask Americans about who the most famous player in American sports is, I bet Otani is probably not in the top ten, dude, Yeah, because NFL is king. Yeah, probably, and so was Lebron. Now this is all kind of lays into what you just said a

minute ago. According to Ken Rosenthal late last week, the Rangers seem unlikely to bring back Jordan Montgomery due to the financial uncertainty of losing their local TV deal, which is going to happen because Bali did not have their ducks in a row and we all know the story and We've talked about it a lot,

so that's going to affect them. I wonder how much the ballet thing affected Mark Cuban getting ahead of this Las Vegas Sands deal so we could sit there and go, okay, the valley thing, and and I know a lot of people got tired of hearing me bitch about it. I remember getting feedback from people, you know, which is whatever feedbacks feeds back. Yeah. I do look at it and listen to it. But some things do need to be talked about, like what you're going on and on and on

with, like, yeah, because it's going to f us eventually. More, it's more than just not being able to watch the game. It's more everything. It's more than just an inconvenience for keV Oh yeah, it's an inconvenience for the Rangers and the MAVs. I don't like that. It limits your your your spending options for sure. Yeah. I think the Rangers are fine, and I think as is, even if you lose Jordan Montgomery, which I mean that's not a done deal. No, no, not done,

but I mean he may want to come back in Red Sox. And you know, I started mentioning names, you know, the Yankees and Mets are going to be a part of that. So it's like, well, I think if the Rangers can make a competitive offer comparatively to what other teams would try to seduce him away with, you know, and maybe pay a little bit less, they're still dudes. Ray Davis still owns this team, you know. Yeah, he's a very very very very wealthy man and probably

worth more than is reported. The guy does quite well. Yes, so it might not. They might not be relying on television revenue as much as other teams, but dude, they just they couldn't be more high profile now than they ever have been, which I think would give not only free agents, yeah, free agents that that are theirs, but also free agents that are out there to look at this thing and go, good grief, man,

see why has something badass going on? John Daniels created the Core See why grab the torch and has absolutely been killing the final leg of that marathon or that that relay and the staff that they put together. It's that's an allure to you know. Granted, yes, in sports, guys want to get paid, for sure, but I think there's still something to the fact that dudes do want to win. They do want to win championships. I hope that we've not as a society becomes so jaded that that money is everything.

This is why baseball is different to me though, because baseball owns you for six years before you can even go get decent money. So like if Jordan Montgomery's like, okay, so I was owned as a minor leaguer for six years and maybe arbitration or whatever, and then it's like, now I can get a contract for the first time. Yeah, that's true, and what are you gonna do? Sign a one year and maybe that's the way to go. I mean, his MLB star has burned out because of allegations.

But Trevor Bauer did a big article like five years ago that was very interesting. He was like, I kind of just want to travel and see America. So I'm my plan is just to sign a one year deal with teams at max value, which is something when I said that's stupid, get ten years of security or whatever, but it was it was an interesting article. Now he's not pitching because he might have sexually assaulted a girl. There's a lot of that story. Jeez, that's a whole other thing. But

that's a you're center. Jordan Montgomery like, hey, George, come on, but I was running back one time, one year forty million when he could go get five years twenty five million. I don't know. I don't know what you do there. That's just fun and that's how the Rangers should operate. Probably. No, like now, like you're paying a big commitment to de Gram who might get hurt again. Since you've done a few of those, it might be let's do short term commitments for higher money. Yeah.

I like that because you have your your core yeah set for years. I tend to agree though. They spent their money really wisely, man, and it's easy to say when you when you're hoisting the World Series trophy. Yeah, we spent our money wisely, but that could have gone the other way. They got a lost Game seven in Houston. Absolutely, and then we're maybe having a different discussion. Oh we're bitching. Yeah, like, damn it. Thanks to the Little Morning Downbeat. Yeah we brought it home.

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and he'll let you know that he's white. Josh Allen. But like, are they together? Because you don't see or hear. I haven't heard or seen anything about them lately. Well, I don't know if it's because of the teething, but you notice the Bills and the Chiefs aren't as dominant. You know, they're living a celebrity lifestyle that you just you gotta focus on the game. You gotta focus on what's happening in between the lines. I'll

tell you about my Chiefs hot take Chiefs. I found the Chiefs to be highly likable with Patrick Mahomes, but just the Travis in your face all the time in every commercial and the tailor thing, plus Patrick Mahomes grapping about the refs yesterday on a call when the guy was cooly lined up off sides. The Chiefs are losing very good points that they had stacked up for a long time. I think people are starting to go. I don't really like them

anymore. It's just yeah, and you went for a long time like the Brady haters, just watching the watching that that group exponentially grow over the years. You know, I'm sorry, Patrick Mahomes. You don't get handouts like are we supposed to not call penalties because a cool play happened? We're gonna talk about that, right, I think? I hope so, and you I want to play. You have the audio. I understand what the grinpig

was and it's like, I've got the audio, Okay, good. I think it's the frustration with receivers and he doesn't want to put it out on them, so he's trying to put in another It was hard. I really believe that it was hard to tell, and I did believe in the moment. We'll talk about later. Most death is fifty. He was born Dante Terrelle Smith. What was wrong with that name? I've known that fun fact

my whole life. Dante Brenda Lee is seventy nine. Danny the singer, the singer really because she's the one that did the cool rocking around the Christmas tree. I can't none of her tunes come to mind right away. I'll be kicking myself when people go, dude, you did this. Oh yeah, that's her. You could have told me that she died in nineteen sixty nine at the age of eighty, and I'm like, yeah, I believe it had no context or idea of her time frame. She's four foot nine.

No, uh, yeah, really four nine, that's what she's listed at. Yeah, huh, she's got to be taller than that. Nobody's four nine. Well, she had a song called Dynamite and they called her little Miss Dynamite because she's four nine. And that's another fun fact that I've always known. And I'm telling you, you've known your whole life, and I thought I would work that in it. He knows the god given birth name of most deaf in the height of Brenda Lee. This guy is a

fount of information. Jermaine Jackson's sixty nine. Hey, no, uh, the oldest? No? No, who's the oldest Tito boy? Yeah, Rebe's the oldest, but Tito's no. No, Jackie's the oldest boy. How many were there there were nine. There were nine, but they were the Jackson five and I think who the four? They didn't have talent. They all talent, They were all part of the They all sang, They all have some kind of like music, whether it was big or not.

Daddy forced that on. I think Marlon was a twin and I think the twin died. Oh that's like yeah. I think it was ten total like it it would have been ten, but yeah, it was nine. Hey, Danny on TV right, there is wrestler Chris Jericho who will join us in the studio tomorrow at nine. Do your homework tonight, KT read everything you can on Chris Jericho. I think I'll watched the interview he did on NBC five. Uh, Nicky six is sixty five? Can I just say

this, and it's no offense to any Motley Cruz and Nicky six? Yeah, author of the Heroin Diaries. I don't know if there's a band that I don't understand more than Motley Crue. They're terrible. There's an era of music that I don't understand more than that, that early mid EIGHTI I don't get it. Man. He didn't appeal to me. No, no, no, I get it. I get why it wouldn't. It was a silly time. It was a very very silly time in music history. It's

uh, the cocaine years. You know. It's funny looking back at the time when I was listening to that and you know, thinking that was the coolest music on the planet, and all of the other stuff that was happening concurrently, The Cure, the Smiths, you two, all that stuff, which you were a dork if you listened to by my group of really smart friends. Now years later, Oh, you were into the Smiths when you were in high school. You're really cool. Oh you were listening to Rat

and Docin. What a douche. It flips, you know, But at the time it was like, oh, so cool. And then you get older and you don't care what anyone thinks. I wish the thing, and I love the Smiths, and I love The Cure, and I don't listen to Docin or Rat anymore unless it's forced upon me, or you're in the mood for sedge to Han of nostalgia on a case. Oh yeah, John

Carey's eighty farted. The other day, Ray Mysterio Junior's forty nine. That's a wrestler Brody and then the late entrepreneur James Craft would have been one hundred and forty nine. He created cheese asteurized cheese, his cheese product. Way to go, James Craft, you did it. There's your birthday's for this day in history. The other one I would say that I wanted to add onto this is that Playboy magazine published its last nude issue on this day in

twenty fifteen, and then they folded like a cheap lawn chair. What have we done for the last eight years without nude Playboys? I can't even find a naked woman anymore now that Playboys stuff printing nudes in their magazine has been a rough coat. More different places that I can orgasm from. Jeez Ken the moon, okay, the cheese moon. Coming up next. How did the Cowboys dismantle the foe, the Philadelphia Eagles? And are they going to

the Super Bowl? We'll tell you next to ninety seven won the Free