You're listening to the downbeat on ninety seven one the freak, I am game five twelve hours away, twelve hours from right now. Yeah, jeez, where this song takes me back to state championship season because this was the theme song of our football team in nineteen eighty three eighty four. Really yes, And the coach once asked me, Bayless, do you have the eye of the tiger? And he said, I don't know. Really that means I barely have the eye of a common house cat. Means it's going to get
much of me this season. There was he like pumped, going around the room. Yeah, and then like looking most people the eye and saying, you know, hey, he was Yeah, Tommy Sloan, coach Sloan, he was the our head coach that led us to victory that year, nineteen eighty four. The championship was played in eighty three and I think godly December, I believe late late November, I don't remember, but yeah, he was. He was like Jimmy Johnson, intense, very intense, diminutive,
probably like five six five seven and kind of rotund. And he was also like our hardcore advanced math teacher. So the dude was incredibly smart as well, double threat. Yeah, and he was no nonsense and man, when we won state that year, he got scooped up by I think a three
A school and like Archery City or something like that. Three A Archer City at the time, maybe yeah, two or three A. But he went on to a bigger school and yeah, Johnson's never to be You got the chirp of the bird never seen again, Yes, sir, yes, sir. Coach what was his name, Coach Sloan, Coach Sloan, Tommy Sloane. It's funny how like impactful coaches were to us in high school, you know, like I had coached Sprague, right, and I'm like a man,
he's a coach Sprague. And in my head it'd be like, man, if I saw coach Sprague in a grocery store, I'd go say hi, and he would just blink and have zero clue who I am, you know, like I'm my coach Sloan, Like you tell him, Danny Bayless, good to see it. Hey, I don't recall you, young man. He was the one that told me if I spend as much time in the weight room as I did plunking guitars, I might make a end up
a good football play, make a good living playing football. Playing football, coaches do remember their their players a little more than the big city guys, I do believe probably, But man, they have fast hears from some of my coaches if they do this, if they coach at the same spot for twenty plus years, like the one I just mentioned it Sprague coach Sprague coach
John Sprague and his redman chewing Tobacco. I saw my basketball coach so when my mom passed away in eighteen, would drove out to Knox City for the funeral and that morning went to the diner in the one restaurant in town, basically, and Coach Underwood, my high school basketball coach, the guy that when I quit basketball my senior year, drove to my house and made me sit in his pickup truck out in fully dazed and confused, like the movie
Days and Confused, where the coach is trying to talk to you out of quitting athletics. I played football, and I quit athletics. I just wanted to goof off my senior year, and he's made me sit in his truck for an hour trying to convince me to not quit basketball. I mean,
coach, you've seen me play. I'm terrible. So anyway, he was at the diner that morning before my mom's funeral, and he didn't see me, and I went up behind him and I said something to the effect of and it was during basketball season, and I think I said something to the effect of, hey, coach, you need a six or four center to
come off the bench and give you one rebound in five fouls tonight. He looked up at me and he goes, you know, actually we could use you, Like, yeah, yeah, Coach Underwood was cool, though I liked him, you said. Diner two weeks from today is diner for the Bets Freaking Chill movie series with the speakeasy. That's some movie the month we at the ALBMA draft House theaters. Go to draft House dot com for your tickets or ninety seven one the Freak dot com for your tickets. Let's do
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Go to hands Dot Hands slash Hands for all the latest information and updates on hands. Hands. You can't wank without them. Okay, yeah, whatever, the salesperson's an over. Yeah, bullet points, fantastic, thanks hands. Okay. So we get to the top of the second inning last night, after a sleepy first inning for both teams, Josh Young doubles, leote walks and a wild pitch scores Josh Young from third one nothing. It's always
a good sign when we're up one nothing. And I say that to start with Josh Young because I thought that was the guy who needs to be the other right handed bat who does a little work tonight. Because and last night, because as we learned right before the game that a Dooley Scarcia and Max Schures are both were taking off the roster. So bit of finality feeling to
it. I don't know it's over, Yeah, I mean I guess if you know, you know, And they said a Dooley's took a couple of cuts and yelled ideos mio and put his hand on his side and that's that. Yeah, he went to find some hot dogs for the gang before he gave a speech to the team, a big, powerful speech. Yes, did you need a translator? He said, do it for Bomby, do it for me. Bomby no translator. But they said he was vulnerable. Oh, he showed us some weakness, you know, a hard man showing
that. You know, every bad boy has a soft side. Well, at least he's has his hands. So Derek Jeter was like, the one thing I'll say this in the pregame show, the one thing I'll say as a guy who drove all night to be here, that they can't disappear. Mac Suzer had always said, they've got to be in the dugout, just be one of the guys. I was like, they're not going anywhere. It's the World Series. What are you talking about. You're not just leaving.
Yeah, it's not like they oh my god, my old bleakue, I'll see yuh ejected from the game and they're not allowed to return to the dugout. So they added Ezekiel Duran to the roster, probably won't play, but you know that's fine. And then you have mac Scherzer. They added brought Burke to the roster and brock Burke struggled to get them some mouths last night. But by the way, it's one nothing. So it's one nothing after that wild pitch, and then Simeon hits that triple down the left field
line and two runs scored. It's three nothing, and I'll just feel happy for sime In, yes, because he's been frustrating. I think we've all been not angry at him, but just like, come on, dude, I felt like he is a bit of a ticking time bomb, like it has. He's too good. Yeah, he's too good exactly, Yeah, yeah, don't lead the league in hits. And then this is who you really are in the World Series. Come on. And then after and by the way, that that Simon hits that triple, the reason he got the
hit is because with two outs, Travis Jenikowski gotta hit. Travis Jenagowski, your replacement for old Bomby. And then after simeon triple, Corey Seeger hits a big bomb to center field and it's five nothing. At the end of the top of the second all of that happening with two outs, Holy crap. Yep. He just felt like this is how we've been doing it. So it's kind of hard to believe when it happens. You see it and you're pomped, and you just keep going more and more and more because you
have a feeling it could go bad at some point. Heen dog is your MVP from last night though, to give them five innings and just shut it down. Andrew Heeny, the guy who forced creed on all of us, whatever you want to say about that, that was huge. Didn't expect him to go more than three. Yeah, well he was, even if he was pitching effectively, which he was. I don't know what they thought, so that was a little raw. I think the Metroplex is annoyed with John
Smoltz at this point. But I heard Jeff say this yesterday on the Speakeasy, and he said, I don't know why they're calling it a bullpen game. He started all year. He's right. We actually signed he need to a starter level deal, not like one of the best starters in the league. We signed him to a deal to come in and start a bunch of games for us this year, and he did that. I was kind of
missing out a bullpen game. Misunderstood yesterday calling it a bullpen game because it was a it was a literal bullpen game for Arizona for then Yeah where and they said, like if they said six outs, right, like, if things go incredibly well for ment to ply, he'll get six outs, and he got what four? He's a situational lefty relievers, they were his job is basically to get Corey Seeker out the first time. Yeah, yeah, you're right. That's crazy though in the damn game for the World Series to
do the backwards that's you're playing the backwards pitching strategy. You know, baseball has changed. Yeah, if that is your plan, I mean, full bullpen, throwing five dudes out, there is the plan if it goes good from a pitching standpoint. We were one of the more old school teams this year. I mean we had a lot of our starters went deep. Yeah, they also got hurt because of it. Probably you have all the miss time Sergier obviously, you know there's a lot of things that go in that.
But man, incredible, he gets a third inning. They had a chance to add to it. There's the bases loaded one out. There's the bases were loaded because Christian Walker, who has one leg, and muffed up ground ball, which I mean, dude, how many errors These teams have not had a lot of blunders. Yeah, yeah, first air of the series. Really, that's unbelievable either team. In Game four, and then uh so Leote strikes out, so there's two outs, bases loaded, Travis
chenikowskip to the plate and he rips a double right up the middle. Yeah, it's seven to nothing, and then Simeon hits a three run dogger and it's ten to nothing. And those five runs in the third inning all come with two outs, and Simeon is sitting there after three innings with five RBIs and a triple at a homer and house, and there a cycle watches on.
Yeah, they had the team cycle at that point, right, h So, ten nothing and he get your five innings and then they you know, once they got up to uh those it was eleven to one, and then all hell broke cleos well point towards the end. I think that one thing that I've learned, and it's a shame that it's taken me this long. Going into Game five of the World Series, but I'm done questioning King Midas. Oh no, you're done. That guy is legit, and like
I like, it's some groundbreaking thing to say. It's stupid to even have to say that. But every time you think, what huh, Look, he didn't use any real a listing a lister bullpen components last night. They are set. They are set for tonight. If Eovaldi can be efficient and not just get you know, creamed in the first three innings and stay in
the game, they should be pretty fine tonight. And if I don't know if it's instinct or strategy or winging it, like I'm can vi that Mikey and I are both convinced that that's what everybody in this world in life is doing, is just winging it. And he's just damn lucky. But I think the sample size on Boach is way too big to consider this just luck.
I think there's something there isthing magical about him involved. Like you can't have the record that he has in elimination games in the sport of baseball and have his win percentage and just attribute it all to the Midas touch. You can't. There is some luck involved, But who cares, you know? And every I mean big picture the season and the success of this team and
pulling all the right levers one hundred percent, that is all bochi. But when it comes down to like one game, yeah there's there's some luck involved, but yeah, everything he touches seems to turn the good way. The only thing you could say is that Leclerk, if you know, would have
to pitch his third night in a row tonight, yep. And you could say maybe he could have left Smith out there for one more batter, which I'm theorizing that really the only lefty outside of Chapman that he wants to use late in games would be Will Smith, and that he didn't want Will Smith throwing twenty five pitches and being unable to go tonight because Will Smith pitch two
nights ago, it'd be three and row for him too. So I think he almost looked at it as I want to have Will Smith available tonight too as well, just in case. I wonder if you'd ever see and if tonight could be the night that you would see Chapman as the closer depending Yeah, I don't know, that's so nervous. Yeah, he's gonna be closer tonight, doesn't it like Chapman's been really good if you look at the numbers alone. As far as him not giving up any leads, yeah, he
hadn't done it. Yeah, it's just hard. It is hard, tough Sleddin, but yes he's been fine. It does what Boach, You didn't really put him in the game. So tonight we get creamy gallons of jazz. Mm hmmm, it's big game, Nate Eavaldi. This has worked out about as perfectly as it could have worked out, especially given the news that we got yesterday. So who's got How are we feeling? Yeah? I actually feel I mean I'm reluctant to say it. I feel good. Well,
you should feel good. You're up three to one. You should absolutely feel good. And I don't think anybody's counting chickens around here. I don't know. I think we all have been through enough to know not to do that, right. I'll just say when the f and World series tonight, you know, yeah, cause night, finish them, Yeah, finish them, finish them. Just missing around and you gotta face Merrill Kelly again that you don't want to do that, you don't want to come back here.
I don't know, it just life feels really good right now. I'm very optimistic. Yes, they could smack them tonight, but after what Look, I'm optimistic that they're going to win the World Series, but as tonight. When you say that tonight is their best chance as far as their starting pitcher, you got who you want. It sucks at Bombie's not going to be available. Sureser, don't care, you know, thank you for your service. We'll see you next year. Get well. Hopefully you can be an
effective component in this rotation next year. But that doesn't concern me at all. But their best option, their best chance of winning is tonight, which kind of if the series goes the way it's been, the unexpected always happens. You could see il Valdi just get rocked early, just absolutely rocked.
They go back to what they did in Game one and scamping around them, scamp infield, hits, stealing bases, going bananas on the bass paths, and the next thing you know, you're down five to zero and he's getting pulled and you're having to go to your bull. I mean, that is a very possible thing that can happen. That's what I fear, That's what I'm kind of afraid Arizona back against the Wall, salt rock solid statement kind of game beat, our best picture, our best big game picture. Gallen
was their best picture throughout the year. Yep, so creamy gallons of jazz. And then if it does, I mean, I'm not sweating the shores are thing either, but I would certainly love surez Aer if this thing does continue, continue, because then what is who is Game seven? The shures are gray bit in game seven, felt like that could work, and it will be John Grade in game seven, although Bochi said he would use John
Grade at night if you needed to. So there I go. I want to play this paper airplane audio and at nine o'clock we'll do our Ghost Pepper Pavilion predictions for the night's game. We'll tell you what's gonna happen. Here is ah, there's paper airplanes at this point, it's like eleven to one and then pay Fraer planes, which are the stand up for cancer signs that everyone held up after the seventh inning. They're throwing them down on the field,
thousands of these signs. And when I heard this, I thought that Joe Davis sounded a little bit like Beavis, and I thought that John Smoltz gave a Stephen Jones laugh, not quite making it. In fact, I believe they just sat our first official minor paper airplane delay. We had an announcement from the PA. All right, okay, a lot of Stephen Jones here one more time, not that one. Smeltz did the I heard Beavis a little bit, not quite making it. In fact, I believe we
just sat our first official miner paper airplane delay. Had announcement from the PAY it's a good vocal Gavin Gavin series. Yeah right, yeah right. That's us begging to do free Fall two at that time. Some fun. I think it's still looking at other things of late. So there's that. We'll talk more about the game a little bit eight o'clock. We have the Downbie duel coming up at eight. Got a scuttle Boy coming up for you next.
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