You're listening to the downbeat on ninety seven to one the freak get it. We say no disco. It ain't no country club either. That Sheryl Crow. I think, Mike, Oh, I thought you were been morphed back into your parrot. I listened to that audio. That was funny. That was I mean me, failing is funny. When you turned into a bird live on the air. Yeah, yeah, that was funny. Oh we
were talking about MacCall on the tree. Yeah, and he got so worked up but he started screaming like he was the bird, flapping his arm. Yeah, and he stood up and he kind of did his eyes and he kind of did look like a bird like I was buying it, but he's not. And that's all you need to be. Yeah, you don't have to be anybody other than the authentic, real you. You don't have to be a bird to impress me. You don't have to be a funny bird. I mean it's cool when you you know, if you want to,
but don't feel like it's essential to be loved. I'm just Kevin, Yep. We love you and you're enough. You're enough, thank you. Yes, and never tas a bird. No, it's a terrible plan, could get thrown in jail for that for many years. It may seem like a good idea at the time, but do not do it. What do you guys think is the funniest comedy, especially if it's attached to a pirate? Oh yeah, it's killed. It's glued onto a pirate and get killed in
one second? What were you saying? Say? What do you guys think is the funniest comedy movie of all time? Don't answer? Eight o'clock will discuss watch Stepbrothers last night for the ALBUMO Draft House. Does it hold up? Yeah? Some discussion and discussion there it does it? It does two. You can talk back on the iHeartRadio app. Always checking your text calls, always get good tech messages every once in a while. Fella just sent one in that was really moving, like that type of stuff. Call in
whenever. But right now, let's do sports. We a lot of stuff. My Jack Talk order was now sports at seven, Cowboys at a minute, MAVs in a minute, Stars have won five in a row. Good job. Do we have the hottest team in every league? But uh, the hottest but I mean technically we have the defending champions who kick it off tomorrow night. It's sort of want to start real quick because tomorrow at seven we'll have Ultimate Ranger preview segment with Fun that's at seven tomorrow. We'll also
have Tom Glavin the pitcher. Yeah, we have Tom Glavin on at nine o'clock tomorrow about that. Yeah, but time opening day starter for the Braves of Atlanta is we were painting the outside corner with a circle change, driving you nuts, and you're up there like, dude, it's only like ninety four, change the change, and then that's when the fastball pops inside. But after that circle change outside all day, I know where it's going.
There's nothing I can do. Dribbler second base, you're out Pine grab it. How could you have glab him? And then Maddox the next night. I must have drove batters for ten plus years, insane, throw it hard, and then Smoltz comes in throwing ninety nine, and you think that's a witch throwing ninety nine, talking crap about the hitter's favorite team, just being a jerk. Facing Glavin and Maddox back to back, these two, it's kind of craz hated f and Glavin. So as we're leaving the movie,
last night and almal draft house and listeners are filing out. We're standing by the door just giving him bub by bubbah. Yeah. We were like a new married couple saying godbye to everyone leaving the reception, you know, the receiving one. Yeah, there you go, thank you bye. And I started with fist bumps. Then I switched a handshakes and shoulder touches, had a couple of cigarette hugs. Hugs. Yeah. But this one guy goes,
did you see what happened with Jordan Montgomery? No one knows, and he goes, he's signed with the Diamondbacks one year, twenty five million dollars. Jordan Montgomery to the Diamondbacks, turning down his lifelong free hertato barbecue. Bold move, Montgomery, bold move, you're paying full freight, Montgomery. Yeah, for all your hurtatoes. I would have taken the free over live
fool to startle going on. Huh. So I kind of love it because the Yankees and the Astros were rumored to be in on him, and you know Yankees clearly the reason you don't like them too much. With the Astros, like, oh, it sucked if he went to the Astros and we can't buy him because bally so to the Diamondbacks, who just cut Elvis Andrews. By the way, he did not make the opening day rosters, but he had a pretty good audition against the Diamondbacks. You know, yeah,
kind of see firsthand what he's all about. It's kind of like I kind of liked a lot now, right, I got after everything I happened last year, like a pull for the Diamondbacks next year. Cool. I don't have a team that I care about too much, but outside of the Rangers. But it was like, yeah, great, don't go to Houston. That's where it would suck. Uh. So there's that one. More Ranger stuff tomorrow, including the white Langford hype video and more just opening day at
the ballpark. But you get me boned up for WYA at Langford tomorrow. Mack could do it right now, or I could save it for tomorrow. I think tomorrow. I don't know. I know tomorrow's opening Day Tomorrow. Kevin wants to do a big opening day package tomorrow. He called for the ball good early this morning. Yeah, I'll come up with something later for
it. Bennetts Skin and the Speakeasy will be out opening Day tomorrow. We had Sunday Side Chick in touch, Credit Union and Addison Coffee Roasters getting them all out to opening day, So thank you and make sure you get some Java John's over at Addison Coffee Roasters. You can do that and Chicken from Sunday Side Chick. But MAVs last night start at nine, so movie ended around nine. It all worked out eight forty five or home. I mean when I was home, it was the last two minutes of the first quarter.
I think I made it home and turned it on and it was like nine minutes remaining in the first Man that that's Cedars location for Alamo is so great. It's twelve minutes from my house. Yeah, right, straight shot up thirty. But yeah, I think Mikey and I stuck with the whole thing. Yeah, I know you couldn't see it all. I think I turned it off when the MAVs got up by thirty. Ha. Yeah,
I got out of hand, I guess. But you guys know more than me, because when the Mavericks got up by twelve midway through the third quarter, I said, I'm good. Well, the story of the game was the third quarter, and boy, they unleashed hell on Sacramento. Sacramento in that third quarter as good as they looked in the first half. And that's a really fun, interesting team and if you live in that area, you have a lot to be excited about. But they looked like in that third
quarter what the Jazz looked like in the fourth. A few nights back, everything was working for Kyrie. It was the Kyrie Show. It was also the Derek Lively show because he neutralized, not only neutralized, but he made Sibonis look incredibly ordinary. Yeah, he did, and that's hard to do. Man. That dude is a human box score and he was held at twelve. But I wonder how low that is for him. I mean, he's he's the only dude right ahead of Luca on triple doubles. I was
looking at his numbers the other day. Does he have more than Luca? He has twenty five and Luca has nineteen. I think he does have a few games of like under twenty points. Okay, he scored eleven in their last game, and yeah, but still, I mean he's awesome. Yeah, he averaged nineteen point seven a game. But yes, first in the league in rebounds, and if you play like prize picks, and stuff, and you want to bet the over on Sabonis rebounds, it's usually like fifteen
and a half. Yeah, that's incredible, Like that's what the bet is. It's he's gonna get around there. He had eleven last night, and he was challenged by Lively. The ball was he got the ball knocked out of his hands a number of times, every shot was contested. He was out rebounded by Lively. It was incredible. It was the Lively Kyrie show in the third quarter. I couldn't have been happier, just because it just
continues to show how balanced and spread around this team is. That it's so nice to go into a game, especially a high leverage game like that, and know that if Luca's not perfect, you still have a really good chance. I saw Followell and De Maris. I guess they do a podcast or a streaming thing talking MAVs looked really good, but they played a clip.
And typically in these situations where you've got like two superstars, even though you do have two really great scorers and guys that create their own shots, blah blah blah with Luca and Kyrie, they're talking about, you know, well, where's this team gonna get there. Who's their third scorer. It's made so much sense. Their third scorer is their center position combined. Okay,
it's true, because you can't. You can't night in night out depend on Timmy on PJ or Timmy right, but you can night in night out depend on your sinners to deliver the goods. Yeah, offensively and defensively. And the centers are depending on those guards getting the ball, and no guards get centers the ball better than our boys. They're the best passers in the league. Yep, you know what they're doing. They didn't want the last game. I didn't see it too much last night, and it was demerous talking
about it on the radio as well. Right here. In ninety seven won the Freak, the home of the Mavericks, and it was the big to small pick and roll, and there was I think PJ or as Gafford and or PJ or maybe it's more Gafford taking the ball on top of the key and then they have Kyrie rolling yep to the bucket. And I don't know Gafford was that good of a passer, but he kept he keeps finding,
you know, a nice easy bounce past the middle of the lane. It's Kyrie and Luca, who, as far as finishing anywhere around the rim, might be the best two in the league too. I hate to keep saying best to at everything, but good god, they're both incredible at it. And if you have that twist with the big man on the outside, run on the pick and roll back to the little guy, I don't know,
man, their options are limitless. It seems like they and it seems like every time we every time they take the court, it's a new wrinkle. It's something that you know that they've got a lot of tools in their box, is what I'm saying, and we and they keep pulling out a different one every night. Man. Yeah, it's kind of like they're sharpening different weapons. Yep, for you know, a run a few weeks from now, Dude, I am. I think you can officially issue a red alert
to the NBA look out. I think after you beat Sacramento, when you have the exact same record as them going in a game they really needed, wanted for seating and all that, you go to Sacramento and win by thirty six, spread alert. Nbaan that good our game and a half out of be in the four seed. Well, PJ. Washington fourteen and thirteen. I always feel like he has a quiet, good game. Yeah. Yeah, it's he'll be hyper criticized if he doesn't make threes, you know,
when he gets his open three pointers and things like that. I'm less concerned about him making threes than I am what he does mid range and around the and around the rim. But he's a good defender. He's a better than average defender. Day is one thing about dude. I don't know if you guys focus a lot on team defense or individual defense with the MAVs, and I am not ready to say that Luca is a I'm not even going to
say that he's a good NBA defender. But compared to last year and the way he's evolved to where we are from the beginning of this season, he is no longer a liability. He cares, he moves his feet, he can, he cares, and you can tell he gives a damn about playing defense. What now, I think he's enjoying it, dude, I really do, because I think he's seeing some fruits of his efforts manifest I mean, you saw him go to the ground last night, Yeah, on a
loose ball. Footwork is outstanding, and he's big and wide, move his body. The thing is now that Kyrie's here, and so that's your extent because this is it's outrage when he sucks and everyone's yelling Tim Hardaway Junior is gonna get twenty points for this team. Look out. Yeah, that's really good games for him. It's insane to think. But if it is playoffs, I mean, okay, I don't know what to really say. This
team goes where Tim Hardaway takes him. But he's a perfect example of a dude who some nights you get nothing and those are the you know, but when he's shooting well like he did last night, he's two nights in a row basically, and if he gets you more than fifteen sixteen points, he's like, how if you add that little element to everything else that is consistent
about this team, I think you are looking at a frightening bunch. They had a player like that in twenty eleven when they made their run and he wasn't night in, night out, but you had that relevant performance by this player, and I that's who I think. Tim Hardaway is the person that just kind of unexpectedly has it on that night and he carries you. He's Paysia. He could be Paysia. Who just who the the other team is?
Like Jesus, we weren't. We didn't think about you. And the thing is Tim took it to the rack a few He dunked more than Paysia though, And that's what yeah, trying to yeah, side by side, make the guy that you, yeah, one of the last guys you think about when you think about the Yeah, the Maps Championship run was a sleeper just out on the on the elbow or out on the wing in the wing, knocking down because we know how he goes man and and and if he
dude, you've seen the Tim Hardaway show. When he gets hot, he's for a decent little amount of time, right, and it'll disappear for a month. And we kind of said that a few weeks ago. We're like, you know what, fine, be cold now because we kind of know how this goes. You can be cold in February early March. But if that dude's hot, I mean he is a very dangerous three point shooter.
He is absolutely And if you just add that into what we just said, this high low pick and roll and all this stuff, defense was like Jesus, somebody guard, Tim freaking heart away out there, get out there, please. And this goes back to Danny's he's got nineteen points. It goes back to Danny's point about Luca playing defense when Kyrie's out and he's got to do everything on offense. He's managing the game in his minutes and he's going,
I can't go as hard as I want to on defense. A couple times you'll see this in the game where Luca is kind of catch his breath a little bit on offense and Kyrie's just kind of handling it, you know, on one side of the ball, and they can get through a couple of minutes like that because Luca's working his ass off on defense and he's still the best scorer in the league. And I know that changes, but it'siding.
There is more emphasis and focus that's been put on it. And boy, the uh you saw, dude, if you're an opposing team, you got to pick your poison. What do you do You saw Luca. They tried the double team Luca on a few possessions and that didn't work out. Dude. I'm looking at the teams ahead of the MAVs, am I drunk right now. I don't know a little bit. So Pelicans are getting back of the Pelicans a game and a half back of the Clippers, te Wolves,
Thunder, Nuggets. I don't want the Nuggets, clearly. I think the Mavericks would handle the Thunder. I think the Mavericks would handle Minnesota. I really don't want anything to do with the Clippers, who were the four. And I think the Mavericks would handle the Pelicans if they had to face them now. The way it goes right now, they would probably be taking on Minnesota. But you know, there's a lot of shuffling that can be done. They're gonna get they if they they could be careful they get up
to the five and La is the four. I don't know that I would love that, but they could end up passing the Clippers too. But I don't want anything to do with Paul George and Kawhi Leonard and James Harden and that thing is I mean that that's a good team, and I've just had enough with the Clippers over the years. Yeah, but that doesn't I don't
think any team in the in the West should scare the at all. You can hang with anybody right, Yeah, I think I don't know about scare you know, but you can't just discount the Thunder and the Tea Wolves because they are who they like. They're really damn good. They're very good. I shouldn't say we can handle them. I mean, they're dancing around the top for the best team in the Western Conference. But I don't I don't know. The answer is I don't know, but I'm not. I'm not
terrified of any team because of our team. And one thing you keep in mind, Look, nobody's putting them in the finals right now. But today is a good day because you can only, you know, go off of what they've done recently. And what they've done recently is they went to Utah second on a back to back on the road and beat them where they never win. They went to Sacramento, which is another tough place to play against a really good team, and absolutely smoked them. They've got two days off,
they got to face them again in their own barn. You've got to love their chances. And they're not going to go party in Sacramento. There's nothing to do. There's nothing to do in Sacramento. And I think this Ramadan thing is kind of badass. It's only for the team because Kyrie is the un I don't know, okay, debatable leader of this team in a way. I think maybe in that locker room he might even have more of
an influence on what sets the tone for this team than Luca does. And when your guy is doing what he's doing right now and not eating, he doesn't go out, you know, he's not out there partying. I think he kind of sets the tone for everybody because they're looking at him, going, this guy hadn't had any food. He's not having food, So we're bringing it back to food. That's a good thing. Food's good. Kyrie's not eating any food, he's not drinking any water, and he's going out
there and doing what he's doing. I mean, how much discipline must that take. You can't tell me. The other guys aren't looking at him going, we can't be effing around going out to the club and and staying out and not taking this seriously. Because this is the old one of the oldest guys on the team and he's he's he's kind of leading the pack right now because look at what they've done this month, it's incredible. He should get everyone else on the team not to eat food. Imagine how good they'd all
be. Maybe food is not the fuel that we've been told our whole lives. Yes, you don't even need it. Conspiracy, make a TikTok of that one too, because a penut many ideas at Sacramento at Houston, who's won nine in a row at Golden State? Always scary but fun as times and yeah, red alert yeah has been issued when they turn Association of National Basketball. When the MAVs flipped that game last night and took it from a close game to a twelve point lead, it reminded me of old school Golden
State. The way the barrage happened. You remember, we always talked about that. It's like when you're playing Golden State, it's gonna happen. The hurricane's coming. The thing you have to do is just withstand it and not get buried. Yea. And Sacramento couldn't do it last night because the storm came, and it came, and Kyrie and Luca made the He started making some threes and before you knew it, the MAVs are up by twelve and then they just ran away with it. But they they have that ability.
Man, they have that freaking Steph and Clay ability to just go off and make three threes in a row each and the next thing you know, you're down by fifteen, and you're like, how did this happen? It was like three minutes ago we were up by four. It's incredible what this team can do and how fast they can do it. I'm not gonna look through their whole schedule, but I don't imagine Sacramento got their ass busted by thirty six at home at any other point this year. No, I would be
highly surprised in a game that they should have been ready to. I mean they they said on the TNT broadcast last night, they talked about how Sacramento was treating this as a mini playoff series against the MAVs. Not a good debut, Homies. Yeah, well, Friday night rematch was there's some cowboy stuff a little later, maybe eight o'clock, first part, eight o'clock,
this dack thing that kind of took over eachday. But coming up next, I've kind of got a bone to pick with the Rangers and their opening night festivities. That's next. One ninety seven won the freak