You're listening to the downbeat, the freak Happy Friday for the downbeat. Just it's a little preview of the bigest trending thing in the world, The new Beyonce album. Let's Tell a little bit of a couple of tracks was opening night last night in one hour. A little bit of audio from the vaultpark. Yeah that's all right, Yeah, someone chose f music a yeah, well either way, well reseat what well? I mean whatever I got done? All that over? Yeah, we have a turn cut with a naughty
naughty word in it. Yeah, like forty he didn't have an E in front of it. I know sometimes those slip past it's not true would be on me. That was one of my return cuts too. That was that was holler. So yeah. Audio for the Ballpark at eight, Yeah, fun, that's gonna be interesting. It's gonna be very interesting. And we were told they didn't do the Cotton Eyed Joe last night, but uh,
what did actually happen at the ballpark last night? We should do in Sports at seven, Sports at seven, now Sports at seven, all right, So it all happened. They dropped the banner a tear in the eye of Jonaheim as the banner was unfurled, and that was pretty cool. Uh. Now I again had to go to a charity dinner. Yeah you did, and beautiful. I did throw in the request, can we get the private room so I can watch Opening Night? Right? And some giant idiot had
that room instead of you. You were saying, no, I'd not say it, he said, some giant idiot. No, I said, one of the best humans ever to grace this. What did he ever do? That's so great? Dirk had the private room. But it's okay. So I was not watching pitch by pitch as I would have normally been. But yet you're here alive on the radio to report about it. Yeah, because that's all the I know what happened, and I get to watch a quick
recap of it and saw the end and all the good stuff. But I'd like to go to something I did see the first pitch Michael Carter with had incredible head of hair. Oh yeah, I loaded that beautiful head of hair for eighty I don't know, yeah, seventy five or something. I don't know. He's up there. Okay. Well, first off, Greg Abbott in the house. I thought he kind of held the ball up his head like he was about to throw it. I'm like, what is this?
Where'd Michael Carter go? After two days of yelling about this, We're gonna go to the bullpen? And yeah, Pudg just crouched downying throw it, okay, come on, And then Michael Carter goes out. Did you see it? He throws up like the chick on the floor. It took him a full minute to release and pud Yeah. Now Pudg is like, I've done this that one thousand times? How many poor first pitch catches as Pudge had to be rolled out there for He's like, again, all right,
I know how this works. And the guy wouldn't throw it? Well, they hold out. I don't know. I think he thought someone was gonna signal him now it's time. And I kind of thought you standing out there, Pudge in the squat and all the cameras they're ready to go, that would indicate that, yes, it is, in fact time, mister Carter. I thought he was just shaking off Pudges pitcher. Ah, what's more now it's time than Pudge waving at you? Though, like I thought he
froze up. I thought the moment was too big for him. And that's why I wanted a celebrity out there to handle Night one, and we'll do Michael Carter. There's fewer fans and attendance, and everyone's not riding the emotional hive of the banner dropping. What do you guys think about the banner? Oh my god, I don't know. Man, Did you want a little spy more spice to it than they they bought it on? Timu the dude,
I thought the same thing. I don't know, I'm trying to be a jerk about it, but I was like, ah, I you know what, and I'm fine with the actual banner. But just like every other person who has access to the World Wide Web, I couldn't believe it was all bunched up and wasn't straight. Well, it wasn't straight. It remained wrinkled and bunched up throughout the game. I don't know how that happened, Okay, especially when they the dome it was seventy four degrees inside, it
was seventy two degrees outside. No chance at first pitch, no reign in the forecast. But then I told myself, you know what, they made this decision because they didn't want it to be windy dealing with the banner and Texas wins come blowing through their you know banner that's a little more permanent looking than that thing. I mean, look, we got a banner. Yes, I don't want to bitch about it looks cool and even the all white
is Okay, it's not very exciting or unique. It's effing big and it's a there's a big World Commissioner's trophy on it, so as Arrangers won it, so like, yes, and that's leaning into the gold accent, you know for their Okay, riddle me this, who unless you're the Braids,
I think whatever? Did do? They have authorization for like one year to add the gold because that should be every World Series champ and only in that next season they can use that is either alternate jersey like the gold trim that then that you can't use it next year and whoever wins this year, you know, unless you know, only the raining or defending World Series champ can use this get to wear gold. Bouchie said that that is what they did
with the Giants. Oh okay, So I don't know that every team does this, and it might be that every team does this, but in his three World Series wins with the Giants that next year they had the gold outline. Players love it. They get to keep those jerseys, you know, dude, Okay, if no other reason than to sell crap. Did you see how many people were wearing those lids in those jerseys last night in the
game, like the fans. Yeah, I could not. They made so much money just on that, because that's why alternate jerseys even really exist, is to sell more crap. Fine, and it's it's a cool thing to have, Like I was glad to get. I got one for my birthday, just one of the caps with the World Series. It's got the World Series champions on the side and then the t is just all gold and you're never you may never get one again, right, so hell yeah you want
one, absolutely so I love that. Alright, take back bitching about the banner. The banner was great. I love the design of it. I just thought they could have used like a heavier stock of cloth and maybe something a little more ornate as far as the tie down mechanism, because it just looked like twine. I thought, like MLB is like hand issuing here's your World Series banner, and it looks like that. For every team though, you know, it just seems I don't know, but you just kind of
there's nothing unique about it, right, you had to centsh it. There's the reveal. Actually I haven't even seen the actual reveal yet. There it goes, Okay, so they've dropped it down. Okay, it wasn't set up. And then another curtain move reveal. So I guess they didn't know how it was gonna hang. Yeah, they'll straighten it out. Yeah, you know by tonight it'll be perfect and it'll remain perfect all year. But yeah, okay, I like that reveal how they drift draped it down and
let it go. Yeah, did did you guys get a little bit of like oh yeah, and just like a little more like edge. Just to call back to Nathan e Evaldi, just kind of watching him, remember him dominating the playoffs. He was great last night? He was he was so good? Was he? Yeah? But dude, six six innings to earned runs, that's wrong with that? On opening day. A lot of pitchers
aren't throwing eighty eight pitches on opening day. I was really surprised when I looked up and I was like, he's at eighty five right now, and still throwing, you know, yeah, I guess I bought into the was it ESPN whatever announcers saying every ball that people are hitting is over one hundred miles an hour and a few were to the warning track, but that was all early. I guess he's settled in pretty nice. We got the Adults home run, which when I was listening, I was on the radio and
they were announcing players. It sounded to me like Adoles was the loudest pop, Like you got a big one for Simeon, a big one for Seeger of course, probably the second biggest one for Seeger, but it was adultys. It kind of by far, which maybe that's just fan favorites what he is and how he is sort of like our you know, the superhero of that thing. He might not be a top five best player on your team, and that's not a shot at it. Maybe he's kind of like what
and I think maybe they said something like this last night. He's kind of like what a big Poppy was to the Red Sox, almost like a mascot, the lovable, cuddly dude that just destroys you who was out of the league, And yeah, they just like, you know, who should get a little bit of credit. He gets no credit for anything because they did nothing but lose here. No, Chris was the guy who was like real big on Look, we need to absolutely find a way to keep him in
the organization. It's all here, and when it finally comes out, you're all gonna know what. We can't just cut him. They were going to cut him again. Yeah, and he's almost out of the league because four years ago he was about half that size. He really hit the gym in the last four years and now he's just absolutely massive from head to toe and he's just mashing home runs. I just think he's really changed his body. He's really worked out hard. Dude, have you ever had a protein shake?
What he'll do to your figure? And just instantly just pull that audio and wait, wait a few months, replace those cupcakes with protein shakes. Yeh, whoa l bombie. Find a picture of him. It hit Adla's Garcia Cardinals, Okay, and find an image him. Oh man, Yeah, that's different. It looks like Profar. Yeah, he looks like carrick'son Profar. But then he just just crushing it in the gym. And now now he's a world series you know, lsm VP type and just smacking home
runs. So yeah, dude, hell you big moment of the game. It's three to two, bottom of the ninth Travis Jenkowski. Oh what L Blondie solo shot? Yeah that we're going with L Blondie at L Bombie. Yeah, okay, that was last year that started L Blondie. They said he has eleven career home runs. I mean, I clearly know Jankowski is not your slugger, but he's been around for a few years. Eleven in his career. He gets in there, just had no doubt. Jared what
no doubt? Even though the bugles like, oh, oh, I guess he would. We were just kind of thinking, maybe get on, you can go ahead, tied up right now, it's beautiful Jenko. So Janko ties it. So Boachi had other options he could have gone with because he was pinchating for h Ezekiel Durant, and they had a first baseman on the roster who probably won't be on the rostra all year. His name's Jared Walsh, probably here until Nate Lo gets back. But Walsh had a season of
twenty nine home runs. So he had a season of eighteen more home runs than Jenko's career total and Bochie just pushing buttons goes. You know what, I think Jenko's got us here, not the power hitter. Nay might have been trying to start a rally, and you know, I wonder if he would have pinch hit and put Jenko in there had the game been tied at that point, because a lot of people would argue it should have been tied at that point. Yeah, after what happened with him behind the plate.
That was a weekal tip, which was you know, I don't look, I the onus is on on him to go get that ball and not argue yeah, while that other dude is just circling the basis is the ball just sitting there twenty feet from him? But why isn't that reviewal? I don't understand everyone's number one question. Has it never been? Is A? I guess not. I say they want to keep strikes non reviewable, so even
foul tips are involved. I don't know. And should there be a run scoring play balls and strikes caveat to that or something so, especially late in the game like that, when it's the leverages as high as it is, because you've got a guy on second base pitch comes in swing, miss the ball. I mean, you could tell Jonaheim was set up to catch the ball right where he needed to, and the ball was foul tip, just enough to chance to slightly change the trajectory of it to go off the side
of him's glove. Jonaheim thinks, Okay, that's a foul tip, and he just kind of stands up and the ball is what maybe ten fifteen feet from him and he's like, dude, that no, that was a foul tip. Come on, man. Meanwhile, who is the guy that scored the run? I'm not sure. I'm sorry. Anyway, he got the third base coach just goes, look, there's nobody covering home, and he'd never get to the ball in time to tag you or throw you out.
Go ends up tying, ends up taking the go ahead run in the bottom of the eighth or the top of the top of the ninth, it was Bush who scored, Yeah, top nine and the top of the ninth was Bush who scores on that. So they go up three to two and you find out it's not reviewable. I thought immediately that the boat you was all right, let's take a look at that and do the you know, the
ring with your finger around the top of your head. Let's go to the cameras, right, And I could not believe that that was not a play like that. And what if that had happened in the World Series. Yeah, And I don't know how many times that exact thing has happened, and I'm sure it's happened. But baseball is amazing how you can play one million games and something weird and not new again, because I'm sure that's happened,
but that's a very rare thing. When the catcher was didn't even make a move because he knew it was foul tipped ump doesn't know and then they ump just shrug because I didn't see it. And in the ninth inning, it's just it took ten seconds on video replay too. From the esp in cameras. It's very easy to just go into the dump and not not. But I'm the sky. I think the NFL has been doing honestly, very quickly.
They're like, okay, now, maybe there could be circumstances in baseball where if it's a close game or depending whether it's late in the inning, that late late late in innings, you somebody from New York just goes, hey, we need to look at this. It's a football rule. It's a run scoring play, right, Everything that happens on a run scoring play it can theoretically be reviewed. Sure, I love that, Like, why not and separate foul tips from balls and strikes? Yeah, you know it's
quite easy to do that. So that made you know the Jankowski home tying home run huge, so huge. And then you get to the tenth inning. Get to sell the Rangers new bullpen arms. Yeah, not bad, right, not bad? Can't be walking guys, But I David Robertson will be. He's a smiley man. Doesn't that feel better than Will Smith out there just lobbing eighty four mile per hour? Softiest, mister soft. Nobody hates Will Smith more than Kevy. Oh, I don't hate Will Smith.
He's probably a nice guy, but he doesn't need to closing games, just getting drilled. And then we have the big moment, the bases loaded. We all wanted it to be. Why at Langford? I think they get the force out at home on the fielder's choice and here comes Joanadheim and he rips it into the right center field gap. Rangers win and then it felt like maybe this is because it was the national broadcast. It felt like to me like everyone just left and went home. I never got the feeling that
there was some big party happening at the Globe last night. I got the feeling that everyone was ready to get home and beat traffic and get home for work. Now, maybe that was me thinking about wanting to go to bed. I hit the power button while they were still crowding around Joonaheim, so I wouldn't know. Well, I read a thing that was sent out from the Jamie Newberg substack this morning and he said the same thing. It just kind of felt like there wasn't a big buzz in the concourse. Oh really,
head he got to their car. People wanted to go home. Extra innings. It was a bummer. I the second that game was tied going into the tenth and like, yeah, I think I'm done. Maybe it's more just like opening days, a little bit of a longer day. You got to turn around and do it again today and the next day one hundred and sixty more or whatever. That's about the fans though not the team. I'm about the fans. Fans aren't off today, No, and and and
started drinking at two o'clock or three o'clock. And I think there's probably a big portion of that too. He's tired by ten. We think Evan Carter just was had a nervous first game. It was kind of weird because I mean, but you could argue misplay of that fly ball to the left field and that we've seen that move. Was it a misslayer, was it just to hit too hard? I don't know who, but I just there's a lot of times when he does the run back and jump high that we've seen
in his relatively short time with the Rangers. Maybe we're spoiled. Yeah, I don't know, but that one you can debate. But Okay, when he cuts off of first base and just gets doubled off in is that the bottom of the ninth or that's kind of basics? And then was it the national broadcast I think we're like, do you think Carter thought there was two outs? Yeah? I know they kind of debated it, like did he
think there was two outs and not one? When he just bolts? He's never you know what, he's never had an opening day, had day. So we can talk more about and we haven't even talked about why at Langford yet his interesting let's do that at A Yeah for sure. Uh no, that's all good. He's huge. Last night with the lineup, Josh Young hit third. Probably won't always be that way, Okay, having Carter at because that was awesome. Yeah, so uh yeah, yeah, we'll have
some audio from inside the ballpark things that at eight o'clock. It'll be Muccio funo guys. It'll be so fun coming up in the scuttle butt, guys, I've got tons of crap in the news to get to, including details on the cave underneath the NASCAR track what did it contain? Finally, and more on the freak