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is First of all, Max Surezer is a madman. Uh. And he threw a bullpen yesterday and Nevin Grant tweeted that he yelled finally as he came up from the dugout, and they kind of talked about him on the broadcast yesterday and it was very interesting. And he's kind of crazy, like it's almost like a guy who should just drink at a red bull at all times. And maybe that's why his eyes are messed up. I don't know. You don't have to get hype when you stay hype, Kevin, Oh my
god, I want to stay hype. Do you know the people out there that stay hype? I want to be those people. Yeah. That was a second bullpen session, and they said the first one was just sort of a go out there and go through some motions, but apparently yesterday he cranked it up. And yeah, he said, this is first significant action since the injury happened on September twelve. Yeah, sure, As I said,
last week was a light bullpen. This one was real I was able to step on it more and it was pain free, all right, So he's just considering all options. I mean, so the fact that the bullpen gets rest great, the fact that now that you took care of business so fast, Jordan Montgomery, Nathany Evaldi pitched so well, and they will get full
rest before their next start. Dane Dunning will get full rest instead of having to pitch on three days rest today, Like closing that thing out yesterday was so huge for obvious reasons, but also for those literal, tangible reasons of these starters need to stay on their actual rotation. They've done it all year long, and you get them off of that. They are creatures of habit and it screws things up, and Dane Dunning can as hell. This n
is probably the weakest between Montgomery and Eavaldi. If you make Dan Dunny your fourth guy though, and get Max Scherzer back in the mix, see, I almost think more likely Surezer would come back in the bullpen. That could make sense too. And actually that way like that, you're not taxing him, you're not risking next year, but you're getting something out of him. I mean, he could be the damn closer. Is he going? Is he going full full effort? Though, that's the thing that would about bullpen
guys. Guess who go maximum effort for a short amount of time or the starters who can stretch their effort out. Yeah, that would be completely up to him how he feels. I would love him as a starter, certainly, But he's such a vet, he knows and if he's like, let's I can get you too on any given day, and if you can make it through kind of a full go bullpen session, that's obviously more symbolizing of what a reliever would do than a than a starter. But I don't care,
fine many whatever or anything. On the broadcast yesterday and Tim Kirchin was like, it's unlikely that he would pitch in the ALDS or the ALCS. I liked evans last line in the article, even your Grand of the Dallas Morning News, his last sentence was to stand out to me because even Chris Young was like, he's probably not gonna pitch it, like three weeks ago, and then Max Scherzer's intensity. We played the audio the day he got
hurt. But here's evans last line in his article, It star remains unlikely that Scherzer would be an option for the Rangers in the Division Series if they advanced, But things seemed to change quickly with him. I mean he, like you said, he feel a light one and the third they've said on the broadcastterday hitting ninety miles per hour. That's not gonna be good enough.
But there's something about Max Scherzer and what he's about and his almost crazy man mentality that I kind of think there might be nothing stopping him outside of going into the doctor's office there and just winning an argument. Like I think that's how it could happen. Yeah, and then there you go and he's in
your rotation. I don't know. And now that he's seeing you know, after the last two games, there's got to be like kind of like an energy injection for him to want to even come back, maybe more than he did before, to see how great this team's playing, to the play and stuff. Does that make sense at all? Like it's like, oh my god, this thing is kind of I really want to even get back more than I wanted to before. Well, I believe he had a trade cause,
like he would not have came here if we were not good. Yeah, he's all about like, I don't care about anything except October. Yes, and he's a vet. If he's a young guy, the decisions out of his hands. But in his case he does get a big loud vote. The loud vote for the Rangers is the fact that he is under contract for twenty plus million dollars next year. Yeah, so it's interesting. It's
interesting the Rangers. How great would it be if the old guy's on this team, that schures A is somehow able to come back and pitched at some level of effectiveness and you get something out of Chapman. Oh my gosh, Yeah, I mean Chapman, the way they talked about him like he will only be a three batter guy now, and they're almost like talking about him like he was out of gas and they did ride him on the stretch.
They did, boy, give it him a week. But I bet there's some psychological thing about these old, older dudes that have been in the game a long time that the grind is the grind and they kind of somehow just automatically. Maybe you're not as engaged in the regular season, but when playoff time comes around, that psycho focus comes into play playoff time could be cool.
Who knows anything can happened. Didn't think this was gonna happen if the starters look anything like the last couple of days and they can keep it right around there, and then if for some reason you can inject sures are into the bullpen, and does that not just snap fix the bullpen? In theory, I don't think there's fixing this bullpen. That's historically the worst. Yeah,
but one big, good, consistent arm can fix a lot. And I've liked Heeney in the bullpen a little bit too, like coming in there and just kind of throwing smoke, and a guy's been starting all year long, and he's like, looks like he's he could do this role. He maybe do two innings, pitch the seventh and eighth, maybe as long as he's not walking. Dudes, I know it's interested. I can't wait for this series. I'm just jacked for Saturday. It's gonna be fantastic. Are
you hoping that Will Smith misses the flight? They could leave him off the playoff rostra and it wouldn't kill me, But also, what are the other options? There's not the other thing. I really want them to sign Jordan Montgomery now and that's more than that game. It's just looking at everything he's done since he's been here, and I'm like, why not we paid everyone?
Martin Presley coming off the books. His sixteen million is coming off the books this year, so he'll be a free agents to come back and be in the bullpen. Great whatever. I would love to pay Jordan Montgomery five years at a one hundred million dollars Ray Davis, would you maybe, big old tank country boy. Ray Davis's type of guy, a guy who looks like he's had oil field experience. The Broncos cut Randy Gregory yesterday and a move that skin deemed two years ago. I can't believe that the Hot Dog
Boys screwed this thing up. When the Cowboys had tweeted out that they had signed Randy Gregory and then ten minutes later we realized that he had signed with the Broncos a five year, seventy million dollar deal, and now he has been cut, played ten games, ten games once set the Broncos one second. Oh well, I think there's another thing where Sean Payton said, we just felt like other guys were playing better, so we want the best players
possible and all that stuff. I don't know. Randy Gregory was a good player when he was here. I don't know that I ever realized that because he was never on the field all the time, and he had a couple of dumb penalties that stand out in people's mind. Randy Gregory was really good here. So he's a free agent. He's a free one year three and a half. Let me go ahead and tell you in one word what every member of the Jones family would say if you ask them about bringing Randy Gregory
back here. No, I hate him just because of what he did to him right in principle and then changed his mind at the last minute. I would say, they're not innocent in this either. But yeah, they think that they were trying to put pull some BS clauses in his contract. And I can tell you that with one hundred percent confidence, based on what I know about all that they were trying to put some BS clauses in the contract that Denver's like, No, I was reading that after he got binched,
he asked to be traded or and they did try to trade him. Well, yeah, probably nobody bit Look, he was just cut him weed and anxiety dude, right, Yes, So sometimes specifically the anxiety angle of that it just can work somewhere and it doesn't work somewhere else. I mean, look at Joey Gallo for the Yankees. I mean there is I mean for a minimal investment. Maybe he's comfortable here and maybe he reverts back into something
close now the relationship. Maybe he's severed beyond repair. I don't know, but he just may be an uncomfortable there and then you get your head out of it and that's what you get. But maybe you come back here for low, low money and you feel comfortable. And the Cowboys have taken flyers on free agents with much more complicated, much many more complications attached to him
than Randy Gregor, a ton more money than this one would cause. And aren't the things that kept him out of games regarding suspensions due to him self medicating his anxiety, aren't those a lot more lax in the modern day. Yeah, Well, the NFL's answer is, no, we're gonna suspend you,
so let's take out any structure. Yeah. No, structure is good for that, and for people who are dealing with that, and people are dealing with that will tell you that structure is very important to getting over those things or to fighting those things, and the NFL is like, no, you're suspended, can't be around the team. Oh, you can't be around your friends and infrastructure. Okay, great. And by the way, Joey Gallop dropped from the playoff roster for the Twins ahead of their two games with
the Blue Jays. Now they will take on the Ashtros. They could add him to the playoff roster there, but doesn't look like it because he's been playing bad, kind of kind of wild, because I thought that was gonna go better. At least a minute, I thought Minnesota was gonna be a good spot for him. So there is that. A couple of sports notes Rangers at noon on Saturday, Texas o U Saturday, We'll have a big
weekend warm up tomorrow. Get your lined up for the weekend. We're one week away from the Star season Open Stars Season, which means for what, less than a month away from the map. Yeah, a few weeks from the MAVs, I mean the MAVs. We're gonna air the MAVs preseason game from Abu Dhabi tonight here on the Freak. I mean, all this and the weather breaks, it's all happening and we're not even in a sports station. What more do you want? We do it all? What more do
you want? What movie we do? Is this? Yeah, good job kings driving around the desk professional like Joe our brother. I have injuries to prove my brother. Yeah, it's time once again for Rest played with JJ. The lady but the sin in cinema. So without further ado, we got movie reviews with the original screen, the twenty century Bucks. It's JJ on air, on YouTube and all these socials. A simple click will help her out a little bit. It's j J. Jackson, our movie expert.
I didn't know you saw Saw a boys. I am ready, and why demand we start with that? I'm a big Saw guy. I've never seen any of them, man, I remember that first one coming out, and I was just thinking, like this taking like that gory horror and psychological thriller, like it was like a reset of horror films for a lot of people, really really good film. The first one I worked at. I don't think I ever told you I worked at Twisted Pictures, which is the
company that did Saw when I lived with Los Angeles. Yeah, and I read the Saw too script like before they did it. But that company essentially exists because of Saw. It a few million dollars to make and it made two hundred million dollars. It's one of those that's why horror there's such a unique genre. He can do something creepy enough, you can do it for cheap and make a ton of money. So twisted pictures exist because of Saw success. And now they're at a ten spot of movies. I can't believe
there's ten and you are you are gonna watch the original Saw? I want to sometimes movie really lovely horror movies. It's literally like, if it's well done, I'm all about it. It's cool. Wan to real cool. Yeah, ten movies later. It's crazy because I've only seen a couple of them, haven't seen all of them, because after a while, it's like it's a it's a lot to take in with the torture and how they're coming up with these ideas of do you know the you don't know anything about Saw?
No nothing. I mean I assume there's a saw blade involved, and you know what, we don't tell them anything if we're gonna watch this round. I just always think, like the original color in Color Batman, when there was always a saw blade, a circular saw, and a conveyor belt that was aimed straight at as crutch. Holy crap, hell, will Batman
get out of this tune in next week? Well? I think that was the remember the like the DVD cases, the first one was the saw so saw uh Salt Tan or sawt Eggs depending on how you want to say. It takes place between one and two. Oh really yeah, between one and two. Tobin Bell's back is he like eighty something? Now, that's the reason they have to do it then, because Kramer, Jigsaw and I really liked it. They had a really good job with this. I've only seen
a few like I have. I'm not as invested in saw as a lot of people are. I've seen a couple I've seen, like the first two or anything. I've seen like the Spiral one, which is like the law I saw, I think the one before that one. It's a lot of
films. But they really did a good job with this, and I think they've been doing a good job of kind of having like some kind of sympathy for this man, even though he's absolutely crazy, coming up with these crazy like torture games for people basically to learn to teach them a lesson, and yeah, he's he's trying to get uh, he's doing an experimental drug or experimental science to because he has cancer. That's I mean, that's not a
spoiler because he carries out through the franchise. He has cancer and he's on his last leg. He's trying to find some kind of hope and and and something to be able to for him to go on. And he's get introduced to this experimental drug, this experimental science project in this crew that's that they're doing. And it turns out there are frauds sout here. It comes you
know, of of best saw trap in this one. I mean, I don't know's I don't know if that counts as spoiler because these people find themselves in these incredible traps. Yeah, because usually it's one at a time they have is there kind of like a morality thing where they have to make a
decision. Yeah, Like he will if there's a picket pop like a guy who's going around stealing people from people, he will kidnap you and tell you, you know, he'll give you these little lines to kind of like draw out the scenario for you, Like you know, you're going around robbing people, and here's your chance to redeal. You know, he's giving you a chance to live, but in the most tortuous way possible. And it's usually one at a time, but in this movie, he it's it's a group
of them. So they're you know, they're watching each other battling, trying to survive, and it's brutal. It is so brutal. So I just think, I mean, just think of science, to think of hospital surgeries. I'm just gonna say that. And there's always a crazy twist at the end of it, and watch the twist coming, but you're just excited to see what's the big twist. So seriously, if I watched the first one, then this new one would be one and a half the next logical one
to watch before I saw. If you want to go chronologically, yeah, watch the first one and this one is in between two. But yeah, and then watch the second one. But most ones in the middle got real cheesy and they just want to death. And yeah, so that's why I was like after two, like I was good. Good. They do the same thing with all these They got Friday the thirteenth with Halloween, heck with Jaws, to a certain Digress ten. They put the cars in space right
space cars. But what was so good about the first one is the main jigsaw. It's Tobin Bell. Yeah, and they had to figure out a way to make sure he's still you know, viable and interesting, and that's why they made the timeline where it was. Yeah, good decision. When I go back and watch it too, because I just remember seeing it was crazy because it was really nothing like that that was out. Yeah, and it was a low budgeted film. I mean you can consider it low budget,
I guess at the time. And it made so much money, and the second one made even more because of how successful the first one was. Seriously, Saw one incredible when I saw Too and I went like, okay, I was even tired of it then that once we get the Saw Too. After Saw two, I was like, I don't need to see the third one anymore now, And you kind of get they don't want to see walls closing in on people. So that first one was Oh the budget was one point two million, Oh my god, what it made. It made
one hundred and three point nine million. That's a good investment. Yeah, it's a really good investor. That's enough money to make ten more, Yeah, and here we are here, we are all right, but it's really good and a lot of people who's who's been following it from the first one have said this is probably the best one since the first one. Yep, tomatoes and everywhere, it's the highest rated one since the first one at least
good. All right, what else? For sure? Try quick? Do you want to stick with the horror genre or you want to do something like court case drama? Court case, Yeah, the Bureau, Yeah, what's up Jamie Fox? I know a lot of people haven't really heard of this, and there's a couple of movies that are dropping that are coming to the streaming services, this one included. It's gonna be in select theaters this weekend and then it's gonna drop on Prime next weekend. The Burials based on a
true story. It takes place at ninety five. Jamie Fox plays will I love his name Willie Gary, Lily Gary. He's this injury lawyer, hot shot guy, big money like he only goes for cases he knows he's going to win, cases that he's going to give to make sure the person who wins gets big money, like twenty thirty million dollars Timi Lee Jones comes in
and he plays a character. Timi Lee Jones plays Jerry O'Keefe and he's a funeral homeowner in Mississippi and he's basically he's in debt and he's trying to find somebody to purchase a couple of his, you know, his funeral homes, so that he can successfully sustain his business. And he kind of gets jypped a in a in a deal between lowind Group, which is based in Canada, and they go to court and he's going to court to sue them because
they were pretty much stalling the paper, stalling writing in the contracts. Yeah, and it's a really good movie. It's so good. Jamie Fox is just he's just bigger than life on screen. Man. This is something that he just you can tell he loved to do this because I'm not gonna say it didn't take much for him, but because he has such a big personality, he could bring so much to a character. And he just brought so much to this guy. And Jamie Fox is the little attorney Tommy Lee Jones
character. Yeah, and this is does this movie occur primarily inside a courtroom? Yeah, they're in the courtroom they they do the they do the case in like a very poor part of of like a southern region. I think it's like Florida in between Florida must to be somewhere, and it's very mostly predominantly a black you know, gonna be a black jury. So they're like, you need to go maybe go get you a black lay because relate and and so he's not interested at first. He's like, there's gonna be a
twist in this. It's like not interested at first, and then he's like he wants to be as big as Johnny Cochran because obviously during the time O. J. Simpson Trial everything, he's like, I want to be this. I want to be considered the big loyal of the central you know, it's like Johnny Cochrane. So he's like, this is interesting. This Mike can get through the case. And a little race is involved obviously, you know, early early nineties, but uh, I really like, I really
liked it. Jamie Foxx, Tommy Lee Jones, Jurny Smola, if you know anything about her, she's Birds of Prey, Love love Craft Country, very good fel I mean, it's as simple as a courtroom drama, but it's very good, very good performances from all around the cast, and everybody holds their own in this movie. I really really liked it. I really did. Let's go rating. I like it it is I shall watch all right, JJ, thank you. Yeah. I do want to talk about
totally killer, though I forgets much one. Totally killer. Yeah, totally killer, totally killer, totally killer. We got hot mobs today, quick, neglecting our talk back hot mops. What do you hate hot mops? All of a sudden, Yeah, don't you put that on me, Ricky Bother quick. I promise it'll be a quick one. All right, one more review and a little bit of hot mop. Your talkbacks left on the iHeartRadio app. All coming up next on ninety seven to one in the Freak