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