The downbeat on ninety seven to one, the freak seven o'clock new presidential candidate who changed his name to literally anybody else will call in and as a local guy school teacher took a nice guy. I touched him on the phone for a couple of minutes last night, but he also seemed very busy, so knock out one of his media obligations. This morning, at seven oh five,
we're tracking the Baltimore bridge collapse. It's the Francis Scott Key Bridge was hit by a cargo ship from Singapore, not intentionally, but we do know that this happened overnight round one thirty am and the ship hit a pillar on the bridge. The bridge then collapsed overwater. They were construction workers who were on the bridge at the time. Not a lot of traffic. I believe the roads were closed for construction, but they were construction vehicles and construction workers
were on the bridge in the water. Two people have been rescued, but they're now in the kind search and recovery portion of this is a bad scene. I was reading that the BBC reported that the ship lost power before it hit, that actually lost power a couple times before it hit, and that it the captain was unable to steer the ship at the time of impact. Not fully confirmed, but that's one report that's out there that might explain why
something like this could happen. Twelve twenty seven am Central time, So you're looking at five six hours ago. Yeah, I didn't know It'd put my phone up for the night, but it was the first thing I saw it. Fifteen this morning. I did go to bed reading about Puffy. Yeah, look up reading about a bridge. Yeah, terrible as far as as
the distraction Puffy needs though. As far as rescue, search, rescue, and recovery efforts, Baltimore Fire chief says that their authorities have detected vehicles submerged in the water using sonar. Says our sonar has detected the presence of vehicles submerged in the water. I don't have account of that yet, he said. Emergency services are using sonar, drones and infrared technology as part of their search for people in vehicles who may have fallen from the Key Bridge into the
Patapsco River. While knowing how my mind works, it didn't take long for me to go back to season two of HBO's original series of The Wire and think how many times. This bridge was probably featured in b roll shots in that wonderful series, A very maligned season by most folks, but one of my favorites. It was fine, it was great. It's like, why are they putting macnaulty on a boat? There's more to it than that. But yeah, I bet the I wonder how the Subotka family is handling all
of this. I saw this to thirty to thirty five thousand vehicles a day appear on this bridge. Well, so they were just working on it overnight and it was going to open up for rush hour traffic. I think it was probably are you saying it was closed or no? It was. I saw that it was closed the whole bridge really, not just and I've just been a portion of it was closed and they put it down to two lanes
for regular vehicle travel. Come and fill in a pothole or something. Yeah, I mean it's kind of amazing they because they did save they said two people out of the water, right, Yeah, that's sort of amazing right there. One hundred and eighty five foot fall into the water. You think that would kill you on impact? Right? Am I crazy? There? No? Yeah? I mean I guess at the bridge's highest point, which I who knows if they were there. Yeah, but yeah, just to
save two. And they said that die evers within an hour or so. We're in the water. I mean, that's an amazing rescue response. But you have to find two. That's good. And they're still you said looking for seven. Yeah around road. Guess right now, I guess that's hard to believe to me as big as that chunk of bridge was. Also, this is this is I guess it's more of a thought on the northeast in what it's like up there to hear was reading. The collaps is blocked off
the entire port of Baltimore. So container ships, cruise ships, et cetera. Are all gonna be trapped in the harbor or re routed to Virginia, where yeah, if that is their thoroughfare and that and I mean that entire stretch of river is closed. We rarely go we're gonna have to reroute you to another state. We never say that here. I'm sorry, you're gonna
be rerouted to Oklahoma, Arkansas? I I don't know. Then, Yeah, there's there's the fire department saying seven people miss We'll get ready for the triumphant return of the phrase supply chain back into our vernacular gifts because we're focusing on the mortgage. Yep, this is a this is a bad deal. That is huge. I mean the traffic and people Baltimore. Like I've just just following a couple of threads and people are just going, oh my god, my traffic, my my commute to work is going to be brutal.
I mean, not the number one story today, but this was gonna help plot. I mean, like you said earlier, imagine that's one of our major highway intersections just disappeared for whatever reason. You know, you don't have to apply something terrible to it. It was just gone. Yes, it would be chaos everywhere else, and that's going to affect everyone in that city. I can't even imagine. I've also pulled up some well, maybe we'll
do a little bit later. We tracked this all morning long. But some other big bridge collapses and in history, but we'll cover that a little bit later. Let's deal with sports right now, which we normally do at seven. We'll do it now. Yeah, sports, it's kind of like morbid morning. Well, let's be fair and balanced. We were up semi late watching a pretty important Mamicks game. I'm sure you guys have great thoughts on it. Oh, Danny did the Bally? Did the Bally bug infect your
intestines last night? Oh? I streamed? I figured it out stream. Did some big old gal what pop on there and ask you to come meet her? She's only five minutes away if you want a live local connect. Well, I'm basically on year three of doing this now. Due to my lack of availability to easily access the Bally's broadcast, I've been able to strategically click off the pop up before it reveals the content of the pop up, so I don't have to see so you know where the pop up's coming.
Yeah, finger mouse is ready, It's ready to go, So before the images are revealed to me, I'm able to click it off. Now that been part is, you know, if I'm trying to watch a MAVs game and the kids around, I don't want him seeing some spandex in normanity, all in all of her nude glory there for him to see. And personally, you know, I'm fine with it, but you may have missed out on an opportunity with your true one and only. Yeah, who was only
five miles away. They popped off because of your quick, negligent finger. Why are there always so many local singles in my area? I know, right, I don't understand they never show up at Alamo draft House on movie now. You know, it's just a bunch of dudes. Maybe tonight your night, dude, Maybe tonight is your night, and we welcome all of our dude friends the Draft House seaters tonight, big come and get the fire
d Yeah, a few tickets left, a few seats available. Oh yeah, we're doing good though, But yeah, there are a few on there. So if you want to join us for step Brothers tonight, it's game day, you know, if you're like I wasn't sure what my schedule was, you can still get one of a handful of tickets. Still some good ones for our little party this evening at Alamo Sedars. I was a little nervous when the Mavericks gave up forty one points in the first quarter, and
then I settled into we'll be alright, we'll hang in. We're not the old MAVs. The old MAVs were. If you're not shooting well, then you're probably gonna end up losing. The new MAVs can withstand that and went in different ways. They can get out shot from behind the arc and end up fighting through it because we get the lob goblins. Now, I'm going with it. Let's keep it going. Everyone in on it. No, No, there's some better or we just don't need anything. But I don't
hate it. I feel like I am at a restaurant and they brought me my wrong order. But it still looks pretty good, so I'll eat it. So that's how I feel about the knob Goblins. The knob Goblins. It's different. It's okay until we eat it, we'll go with it. If there are the knob Goblins, they wouldn't be able to catch somebody on the posts of the knob. What is it, lob goblin? Lob Goblins said? We if Lively keeps growing his hair out, we call him sideshow
Lob. That's really good because he does. I mean he does have there. Yeah, here's nuts. You mentioned that this isn't the old Mavericks. It's not the old Jazz either. I mean that team, as talented as they are, you know, and they do. They've got some some really great components. But when it got down to you know nutc crunch time. What an aimless bunch. That's the team that traded away all the players.
That was a team that in the fourth quarter, when the Mavericks finally scratched back and took the lead and then took that expanded that lead to what was about twelve points. That was a team that was looking at each other with the with the sheer expression on their faces of we don't know what to do now, we want to go home? Yeah, yeah, except for Laura Markin and who frightens me? And he's really good. Yeah, he is good. Seven feet, made six threes. He just jacked. Just did
a Smith Junior draft, right, I think that the same year. I think he was the seventh pick twenty seventeen. Think we took DSJ eight maybe is that right? I think so? Or was marketing in the Luca draft. I don't know. It's just questions that I ask on days like this, there are questions that the answers are readily available. I thought this because you end up with Luca has another performance where he has well, he had twenty nine. I think you easy triple double. Kyrie gets his twenty seven.
They kind of came late though, Luca was icy early. Yeah, and I was even thinking, I mean, he might be going through whatever. I mean, it's pretty funny that it's still triple doubles. Even if lucas in a wooden slump. He'll say that was he three for thirteen at one point, like he was cold, and we said two of his worst shooting performances of his career have been in the last ten days or so two
weeks. So I was like, oh, man, if he's cold and you know they're winning, like that's kind of amazing to show that the other dudes, you're picking him up and wait till he gets normal or god forbid hot again and they're gonna be that much better. But yeah, he was two of eleven from three. I mean, he's just it's I'll say it again, and I've said this about a game or two since the trade.
The difference in this game is that in Utah near impossible to win. I think they've won only one game in like their last almost twenty games up there. That's a game they lose. I think before the trade, I really do. I don't think they find a clear path to come back and win that thing without maybe a last second Luca Magic three to take it to overtime or something like that, but that was a decided victory by the end of
it. When it was all said and done, the Mavericks beat them, and you know, the last couple of minutes were just kind of window dressing. Let's just kill the clock, and it has never really any any real need for concern. It wasn't a close game, per se, and they trailed for what three quarters? Basically, we all roll with me on something for a minute. Yes, shoot, I thoughout this last night. Well,
I'll brushing my teeth before I went to bed. Dirk Luca okay, Jason Terry, Kyrie Irving, PJ Washington, Sean Marion okay, can't see where I'm going here, Dante ExHAM weirdly, and this could all change depending on how they end up with the playing kind of the Jason Kidd roll. This sounds crazy, but good defense, not gonna give you a ton offensively. I'm trying to think like Tim Hardaway comes and plays like who was to give us? Like this is all flimsy, But I'm just comparing this team
to kind of the title team Who's payghow. I kind of think it might be Tim Hardaway Junior. Okay, but if that needs to be ExHAM or it needs to be Jayden Hardy, I guess Gafford Lively is your Tyson Chandeler element. Now I'm get in some tough spots here when you start looking for who's the JJ Brea, you know, maybe there's your Jaydon Hardy, but JJ brew I got key minutes and started in some games, and he's like, I getting a problem there. I think more Brea than Yeah, than
Marion. But you kind of start to see where you can kind of go, okay, is there some sort of like it's all different, I know, and it's all loose, but you kind of see now that the depths there, like, okay, I'm not saying go on a title, but the depth is so good. The cocaine kangaroo can't even get on the wood. Yeah. Well he hurt? Right? Is he is? He still hurt? Okay? My bad? Yeah? He rolled his ankle up. Yeah. And what did they say about Powell that he's played thirty minutes since
the All Star break? See? Ye, Powell is now jan MAHEMEI he might be Brian Cardinal, Right, Cardinal got minutes like Cardinal might be Josh Green Weirdly, I don't know. There's ways to get there. It's keep going, it's all flimsy. Corey Brewers got to play a role in there somehow, and maybe that's your exhum I don't know, but I'm forgetting to Sean Stevenson jesus. Yeah, and you don't have Jason Kidd yet. Yeah. I mean, as I was leaning X over there, hold on Derek
Jones Junior needs a spot. Maybe he's your Stevenson. Maybe seem shooting threies. It's not the same team. We know. It's not the same team. I know, but you see the past to get in there at Luca usually high score Kyrie usually five to ten points behind him, and then who else came through? Tim Hartley's thirteen points in the first half last night. Huge. What you have. What you're saying is you have a collection of players that provide depth and pretty defined roles, and they have their rotation.
If it's not figured out, it is well on its way. And it, like we were saying yesterday, it's amazing our perception of our head coach after getting players on the court that work together, you know, after acquiring some some talent that really balances out your your roster and your rotations. Yeah. Yeah, no one's talking about kid now now. And it's human nature, I think when that's the title that we still have in our heads to try to do those applications and don't blame you at all. I mean it's
even more like nebulous than what you're thinking is. I think of just like the magic factor, like you feel something weird going on, and since that trade, yeah, it feels very different. I mean it was never all we were was, you know, two of the ten best basketball players on Earth and then the ragtag misfits. But now with these two guys and Gaffer was great again last night, as was PJ. They're consistent, you know,
they're throwing down. They give those creative guards such pick and roll opportunities. I think this team does scare a lot of teams. They should look at any given unless it's garbage time at the end when the MAVs are blowing somebody out. There's never a time during the game where you don't at least have Luca and Kyrie or Kyrie on the court. There's not a time where you at least don't have Gafford or Lively on the court, and they're never
gonna play. They're never gonna play at the same time. I can't imagine a scenario where you'd have Danny Gafford and Lively on the floor at the same time. Luca and Kyrie play together a good amount, but they're never absent. They're always on. One of those guys is always on the floor, So you kind of swap out your bigs for another big, and they're both effective in their own ways. Trade made with Plafford's a beast, though, Dude, he is a beast. I had no idea who that guy was
or anything about him until he got here. Right now, you're almost like, well, how did we not at these notice him somewhere? See I heard the name, you know, And yeah, because my brother messes with
basketball cards, I've seen him. But he is just a force. It's a better finisher than people sold him as, Like like finishes, not ones that are all dunks, clearly, but it's god of like nifty, like little three feet away, a little touch over a defender, like that's hard to do on the fly like that, I can see the PJ Mary in comparison. Now defense, yeah, you know, and that was kind of his knocks that he wouldn't trying as hard as he could. And Charlotte,
Yeah, okay, they were losing. Well, they gave up what forty one points in the first quarter and then forty five points total in the second and third quarter. Yeah, like they can flip this defensive switch now that they may have wanted two a month ago. But like we said, maybe they just aren't capable of it. But now you got the horses. Also, trade happens immediate high of the trade good and then like the figure it out portion and that's where they dip down. All right, she got that
figure it out portion. A. Lets say it's Sacramento. You can get smoked by Sacramento to night. You're going, oh crap, and they gotta be Yeah, that's this is a It sucks. That's on the second half of back to back, but that's the team that they're essentially tied with, or they are they're exactly tied with Sacramentos. It's between six and seven in
the West. I mean, you're dancing on that playing game line. And don't you feel like that, Like that's let's make this a team that isn't dancing on the damn playing line, which they have been for a couple of years. Now, this is your chance, and they look like it. They look like a team that shouldn't be, that could continue to press forward. I mean seven and three in the last ten or eight and two in
their last ten. It's fun. It's fun if nothing else, I mean, you got a little bit of belief, and that's pretty strong too, but it's like rooted in quality play. But again, they're winning a lot if they're If you lose last night somehow, which was the game was in the balance with ten minutes to go or so, and then they just kind of stepped on their throat, which is fine, end up winning by ten. Good, but yes, you still have that like pang of God.
All right, can you lose to Utah and Utah? Yeah you can, so a remember Tuesday tonight and then Sacramento again Friday, so you're stuck in sec Grelino for a few days two days off. Though Phoenix lost to the Spurs without Wimby last nights. They're kind of creeping around too at the eight seed. Half a game behind, you got the tiebreaker on so that's good, and half a game up on him, so well, mass stuff,
what's the the O Tawny stuff. A little later in the show, obviously tracking that whole bridge situation in Baltimore, But coming up next, we've got what I believe to be is a guy who's trying to get on the ballots, the local guy for North Richland Hills. He changed his name to literally anybody else, and he's running for president. We'll talk to him now on ninety seven one. The Freak