We can all die happy, normal and innocent men and women because we've been waiting for this for a lot of our lives. It's finally done. The Texas Rangers are the World Series Champions, and the downbeat is here. To start off your morning drunk, Let's talk baseball DFW. Danny's dressed up as a cow. So you're always wearing a Ranger shirt. I wouldn't be caught dead wearing There's so many designs on your shirt. I believe it was a giveaway park one day. But I put it on. I'm like, dude,
all right, I'll just see how this looks. And I put it on. I was like, oh my god, I look incredible. This is from the Laborman collection. But I haven't one extra button down to show a little bush. You are showing up. I can't talk. You're showing up your chest. Fubes. Thank you. You need a medallion, bro, like a big gold Yeah you have a gold chain. Damn. This is gonna be a weird one today. Are we doing all this stuff we
said yesterday? If we want to, If we don't want to, I know, I'm gonna take another hit of this champagne, This Star champagne. That you brought up here. We're loosely authorized to just get hammered all day. I think it was Actually they consider firing us all the time. Sober so right? Is this champagne blowed everywhere? That's what I'm set the trash count. I don't think it's like it is in the movies. Did you shake it up? Yeah? It was in his backpack. This cow outfit
is gone. You got your social media. It's too hard. You just danced with these two champagne bottles and you humped the air for thirty seconds. So yeah, it's shaken up. Maybe maybe I here you go. I don't think this is going to be as exciting as it is on the TV. Okay, Oh you're gonna make such a mess. Oh yeah, that
was a good one. Hell is all right now? Speech toast? Uh yeah, I would like to introduce the longest tenured Ranger fan in this room to properly talk about the magic of the last month, the last six months. It was typically last night. Here's Danny Bayless, a guy who definitely has bally here. Don't open up all we're gonna drink all day. Yeah. One the time I had two of these nice glasses. By the way, this is crystal. This is worth as much as your car, Kevin,
is this Weatherford crystal? Dude? It might be this is like some family hand me down that I didn't even know I had. You know, I have glasses way in the back, and You're like, what is that for? I've never seen that. Who needs a glass? I go straight from the tap, my man, my guy, two of these Jack Sparrow, kind of stumbling around right for your own due. It is weird buying a champagne. I've never I don't ever really bought champagne either. What's kota?
Is that kaipa champagne? Anyway, there was like different categories, and I asked you, I'm like, allright, is this just this is regular champagne? You looked at this way more than I did. And then I was that I was squatting down to the lowest rung that you of the cheap stuff was, you know, because I mean it gets up to I don't
know, I guess they're Champagne. It's thousand dollars. I have no idea, but I mean their upper level stuff was sixty seventy bucks, and I'm like, well, I need at least three bottles, so that stuff is right out. The cheapest was like eight bucks. What'd you go with? What price? Point twelve? Okay? So bad. It does smell like that bit that comes up in your mouth right before you're gonna vomit. Yeah, that's why it's great. So I lude cheers. We did it.
I mean they did it. They did. We didn't do anything they really just honestly, it's just a bunch of strangers wearing the same uniform if we're being honest. Yeah, from I'll never meet him or get to know them. Many cigarettes, Yeah we have cigarettes? Okay, JJ did bring us a cigar? I know, one cigar? Like tiny trouble if we have just empty bottles in here all day. But if we fi up with cigar in studio, that's probably gonna be frowned upon. Right. My brother knew
what it was. He was like, I got a cigar. If one of the boys wants it, that's very sweet. Cool, n I need to get to know your brother to get him on one day? What do we think boys? Time we go to bed? That was Uh, that was wild. So for me, it was the night of I was just gonna stay at home at about five o'clock, I went, I don't think I want to stay home tonight. I got a feeling or whatever it was, that little hunch you wanted to be around your peeps. I don't have
a lot of peeps. It's just like you go somewhere. So we went and had a delicious quick dinner, and then I went to ride or wrong from twelve years ago as I went to the Barley House, That's what I thought when I saw your your post. Yeah, I couldn't really make out exactly where you were, but I was like, that looks like he's at the Barley House. I was leaning on the exact same stump I was leaning on twelve years ago when Game six happened. Is that right? Yes,
the same stump was there, and that same pillar. You exercised the demon last night, Kevy. I exercised the demons. Yeah, I did, and it was awesome. I was so it felt it had to be there, it had to happen there. Did you sleep at all a little bit? I mean, I get home. I didn't drink too hard during the game last night because of our job. Afternoon drive Kevin would have been sleep.
Yeah, there's yeah, but you've never been afternoon drive, So, sir, many years, many years of great success in afternoon drive, not many people know about No one knows about it, the same people who think ever been first I'm hearing I'm a great friend of yours and I'm like in this industry and I had no idea. So yeah, no, no one knew. Well, yeah, but you're selfish. You just kind of think about yourself and that I am narcissistic. I'm not self Okay, you take
that back, but it was. It was great to look at me. Is my shirt look great? It does look good? Okay, So when it's over, it's over, Like right after it happens, there's always jumping around and everything that people are doing. I was just kind of like, it's five. Nothing kind of knew this is gonna happen here. There's five nothing we knew. But then I got a call from my dad and my parents living only and it's my mom my dad, and my dad never does
FaceTime, doesn't I ever? Your dog died from when you were a kid. I never had a dog. Thank you for bringing that up. In fact, I was it shouldn't hurt. German shepherd raped me at the age of six. But that's why I have a bit of a dog complex. But today a whole other thing. Go Rangers. It was my mom, my dad, my brother, his wife, his two daughters or three of them. One's a baby and they like face timing and they're like, all we're in Ranger stuff and they're like, hey, it was I was just
starting. Yes, baby, I know, I know a bit of a puss, but it was awesome right there, back against the stump. They had added a type of big outlet you know, that made it really uncomfortable to the USB ports, some voltage box. It's tough to really lean back the whole game. Was there anyone else leaning on it? You asked them to move? There actually were a couple of frat bros. Like he was like, hey guys, a little space please, this is I need for me. I need the spot, And uh yeah, one kind of cool.
You went and leaned on the same pole. I don't know why, just had a feeling at five o'clock because you could have been like, well, why wouldn't you, Why would you do that? Do you think they were gonna win? What are they lost last night? And you're going to lean on the stump? But it just ended up that way. I watched the game inside, and the ninth inning, I walked out to the stump and leaned, what'd you guys do? Uh? Yep? All alone? Responsible man? Yep? And was it for dinner? La bank katta?
Okay? So I did my favorite I wanted my favorite meal and if it were to happen, and I wasn't. At no point have I been so elated thinking that it's gonna happen and so confident. But I also haven't been fatalistic about it, thinking they're going to just you know, lose. Anything's possible. Yeah, I only think that when Chapman comes in, I mean,
yeah, it's always a wild ride. I think I had one tweet about this game until last night, for the whole playoff run, if I'm not mistaken in it was about is there a collective groan of no when they announced or when he pointed to Chapman to warm up to warm up? And this may have been in the Tampa Bay series for all I know. But I didn't get like, I didn't activate or get super immersed in, you know, the participation on social media like we did in twenty eleven, where
just every pitch is life or death. And I don't know if that's a better way to watch the game. Where your emotions are just bipolar every five seconds during a playoff run. It's taxing. I know that. But this year was different. Man. But like I said last night online, man, when it actually happened and you start reflecting and it all comes back to you, it was emotional. I mean, I don't and you know what, I don't feel embarrassed for having feelings about a dumb baseball team. And
like Kevin said, a group of strangers all wearing the same clothes. But I don't know, it really hit me. And I think when the waterworks really came on last night is when they interviewed, very briefly, Mike Maddics and the guy that's been in the game a million years, he's been here before. He knows about the history here, he knows about this organization. He's an old school dude. And to see him tear up, that's that's
when I lost. Yeah, it was Maddox. And then this morning, you know, I woke up, I got four hours, maybe four hours of sleep, the alarm went off, and it's just that immediate, Oh my god, I'm so tired. And then I woke up for two seconds and realized what today meant and what last night meant, and the energy is just okay. It's better than coffee. Yeah, sorry, Java, John, wherever you may be. It's better than coffee. And I feel great.
And I'll be damned if sitting in here Kevy Oh was out of the room, and I pulled up on Twitter the Eric Nadell radio call, which somebody had synced up with the the telecast, and it hit me again. And I'm sitting in here this morning by myself at you know, five forty five in the morning with tears welling up in my eyes. Man, So yeah, there's nothing to be ashamed of shedding a tear or two for a I don't know. It's it's pain, but it's also elation as well.
It's all of it. It's just emotion. It's just pure emotion. And lean into it because it hadn't happened ever before and it could possibly never happen again. There's never guarantees in this thing. No matter how good or bad your team is, you just don't know. And I'll be damned if it didn't happen for this freaking city last night, and I'm still on cloud nine. But there's a part of me that still doesn't even freaking believe it.
Manns from Hell. I can have a big problem with a lot of like team sports mentality and life that gets there out there a lot, because there are times when that's bad. But this is like one of those few things in a world that continues to be divided and all that, it's one of
those things we're still kind of all in that together. You hang out with people you had nothing in common with, don't agree on anything else about sure what the Rangers to win, you know, or the MAVs or Cowboys or whatever you know, and that is still cool and will always be cool until sports no longer exist when they replaced us with AI. But that's future. We need to get too far down that rabbit hole today, and that's why
it's cool. Did this feel for you guys? You know lifers more relieving or this celelation like I remember even me, like when the MAVs won, I was, I mean I I sports cried for sure, and I had a baby sports cry last night, but it was it was some reason. I mean, it was three seconds after the last strike but it was when was it low baby KK? Was he the one on the TV? Whoever?
They announced Joe Davis? Yeah, oh, even Joe Davis. And he just said it's over when he said scream Texas Rangers are World Series Champions, which is like nothing. It's just a basic sense, you know. And I don't know why that it hit me with you whatever. But then I thought of you guys, and I thought of everyone, Like the most I ever cries when I watch a group of people be happy, like I've
had friends run in marathons and stuff. Not me. Not just no, you don't need to, don't need to that body you see this, so I need to take another button down off this shirt. Some of those marathon people have weird bodies too. But if I stand at the end and watch like a friend of mine complete a marathon, I I'll ball, Oh my idea, like that's I can't even I wear sunglasses. I can't do it.
I'm well en up thinking about it. So I did. I thought of all you guys and all the people that everyone that I know here in town. I'm like, oh my god, this is just an incredible moment
of collective happiness, which I think is almost what sports is. It's this rare opportunity for whether it be sixteen thousand or one hundred and eight thousand, however many are sitting together in a stadium and then extrapolate it over the entire area where you live and just you know, for that one brief moment that ninety six percent of them are all just collectively happy and you can almost feel it. And that made me emotional. But that said, I was only
briefly emotional. I definitely sports cried pretty hard when the MAVs won, and I felt like that was more elation, and I don't know for you guys, this was more just like relief or it just feels good like it was it different than when the MAVs won. Let me say this about the MAVs real quick. I was the same way. It was elation, But like you said, you connect, you connect with the people that maybe this is
more deeply affecting and that's what brings on the emotion. And for me, yeah, lifelong MAVs fan since nineteen eighty, you know, followed that Ding Dong team for years and years and getting so close in two thousand and six. But I think for me, the emotion came out last night. Mike Maddics triggered it, and the emotion I felt was basically when Dirk ran off the court, I was like, oh my god, I'm so happy for that man. I love that man so much and he's meant so much to
me in this city, in this organization for so many years. Skinny little kid. We all know the story. I don't need to revisit that, but it was. It was seeing Dirk affected by it is what triggered it for me. It wasn't necessarily about me for myself, you know it was. And I think that's like you said, it's a connector. We talk about things that are negative that can happen to us as being great equalizers, like diarrhea. It puts us all on the same playing field, no matter
who you are, what you believe. When you've been there, you know it. And I'm no different than Brad Pitt when it comes to that,
We're on the same playing field when it comes to diarrhea. On the other side, sports elation and that communal thing that puts us all on the same playing field too, it all puts us as equals where no matter what you believe, no matter what color you are, what age you are, what sex you are, for that that moment, no matter what else is going on in the world and what you may think about it, there's one thing
that you can all agree on is that's badass. Yeah, I love you and I love you, and let's have some champagne and take her clothes off and do the helicopter with our junk and just go effing bananas. That's what it's about. It's the connecting element of it that it equalizes us all and kept almost ten o'clock on the nose last night almost everyone was happy together. Yeah, and that's just that's incredible. And dude, yeah she said that.
I mean, I mean, yeah, well, just about being relieved related because it's the same thing almost in terms of having your chance and not getting it and then waiting for the MAVs five years for it. But that was still about Dirk, yes first, and it probably maybe it should have been about the MAVs first, but had become the MAVs. So yes, I agree. And last night, what connection like you're you could like this team and follow this team, but some deep connection with any of these players.
I mean, dude, your longest tenured to your second longest tenured players twenty five. Yeah, like, so it was about and what got me one the moment that got me as I thought about a bunch of people real quick, your longest tenure didn't even play in the game, and some people don't even care that he, you know, was on the team a month
ago, right, I thought. One thing that got me has got me tiered up last night is there's a video where Martin Perez hands the World Series Trophy to Adrian Beltray, who's there up where like a media passed or just behind the scenes. He's hanging out. I don't think he's employed by the Rangers either. I meant think he shows up the spring training as a consultant. He'll go to games and they play, you know, and the Angels
where he lives. But they gave him the World Series Trophy and he kind of he held it for a minute and he took a picture, and he'd tell he was like a little embarrassed by but he looked at it for a minute and I just was, Oh, it's for him, and it's for Michael Young, and it's for Eff and John Daniels who built a lot of this and will never get credit from it from half the fan base. I texted him last night and I just said, thank you. I love you, bro, like he did a lot. Does it still sit on red
it does? He did not read it, No response, no response. He'll get back to me once he's done just celebrating or coping. However he's going to handle it, you know, complicated for him. I would imagine. I thought about obviously easy with your family. You think about people who have died that you know who would have loved this, list them? Well, you know there's a lot of people. No, I think you're absolutely right, starting Granny Green. She had a huge crush on Tom Greeve,
and baseball is more like that, I think than Annie. You know, you think Eric who missed months of this season dealing with some demons and some mental health stuff that you know, he's been ballsy enough to talk about it. A lot of it and some of it we still don't know. But he missed a lot of the season. I mean, I told I told Rocks. I was driving home, told Rocks last night. I said, I hope if he wants to, I hope he retires and goes to Colorado
and lives a peaceful life. They might and they just give Jared Sandler the job. But if he wants to come back and do it, great, But I hope that, like he's just because he's straight to THEO of horsecrap. He has been through the one hundred and seven degree Sunday afternoon two thirty game that you're hoping if this game, maybe, if maybe it could be a picture's duel and we'll be out of there by five point fifteen and I can have a normal Sunday night. And instead, no, no, the
Rangers get rocked and they throw it. They put ted Todd Vin Poppel in the game, and then it's this four hour, four and a half hour game and you're not home till seven or seven thirty or eight. How many of those days he went through. It's just like Chuck Morgan, all those people, we're a part of it. I love that and I totally agree. I thought of John Blake, John Blake, Oh my god, Yes, just a wing nut and a wild dude. And we make fun of
him sometimes when he's in the background of a press conference. That dude's been there grinding, yeah, doing his job forever. And that would make me cry, just to think of a guy who knows he never played and doesn't matter, but to feel like we did it. I did it, you know, I did good enough, whatever that means, and it all works
in concert to get you there. Maybe one of the closest I don't know, relations to us that we have more of a day to day or week to week connection to Emily Jones, think about all of the I did, the ridiculousness that that poor lady's had to deal with on the field and somehow makes it fun, you know, still still enjoys your job and makes it fun and all. And how she's always connected with the players on that team and been able to get access to them and which otherwise, you know a
lot of us would not be able to do. She's got a real unique perspective on this as well. And I'm sure she'll be heard from at some point today, but happy for her. So many people like you mentioned Nadell seventy nine is when he started. Is that right? Yes, so you're
looking at forty five years give or take. Yeah. Unbelievable. And I wonder if he's I would imagine, is he long the true longest tenured Tom Greeve technically because he was a member of the Washington Senators franchise and still as I mean he I guess last year was his final year of doing any TV broadcasting and he was doing a paired down schedule. I'm sure they have him on the payroll in some form. Yeah, I probably agree, consultant whatever
it is. And even even like Chris Young, who had a great career, pitched here and it's just a damn good dude because we've all known him a little bit throughout the year years. You know, there is so many people. There's so many people who are involved in this, and guys who missed their chance in twenty eleven two being dude Nelson Cruz who is still in the league hanging on, you know, and a lot of people just have
It's been a punchline. I hope that goes away. You know what they talked about when the Cubs finally won THEIRS a few years ago, that Bartman stuff stopped. Yeah, if only stopped getting death threats he had to May he was finally able to move back to America's hiding in a matt Lower cave in Romania. We should call Bartman this morning. We should call reactions, get his thoughts. You can get Bartman on the phone. Get what does this mean to you? Steve? I don't know. I didn't watch.
We should say if anybody wants. None of us speak Romanian so well. He speaks English. He lives in Romania, he lived there, he's I don't speak Romanian, and neither is Danny. Kevin. Did you learn Romanian last night? Kevin? That's always spent my night. I sent my name on Romanians. They have their own language. They basically just copy Russia due lingo doesn't even have that as an option, a lingo. I like her. She's a good pop star. Okay, the official language of Romania's Romanian
has their own in your face. The more you know, we should open it up at some point or all day, even if you want to just you know, man, don't be don't bogart the phone, you know, bowguart the airtime. But if you want to shoot your load, Jesus and range, this is gonna be wheels off all day, right, Yes, given that I'm half a bottle of champagne, and yes, and this appears to be a California twelve percent Mike, I'm mandy to just swill of that
because this crap I bought is not good. Doesn't it taste like bile? Yes, it does. It tastes like heartburn ish. Yeah, it's cold enough. That's golf, Andre my Man fantastic two and four seven seven eight seven nine seven one All damn day. Jj'son there. Should be watching your phones, patrolling, have something you know, have an angle, but WA's you far away and we have to talk backs in the iHeartRadio. We'll probably
ditch the hot mop like we normally do it. We'll probably just air them all throughout the day because it's there for you and I sell ye Mondale, do your best world serious champions in Romanian. Get out of here, Get out of here, right out of here. That's for Bartman. I wonder if Bartman's on Facebook. Leave him alone. That's where you start. We don't need to get Bartman on the phone for no reason. I think we're having up Rico on it. Eight o'clock. Yeah, we have special guests
today. We might have giveaways today. You never know what songs are going to be busted out today. Yeah, uh, hell, we may play. We may unearth a new Beatles haunted what there's no way you have that it is an all morning party, isn't it? Boys and girls. Let's see what JJ was doing. Was she awake, rocking it, crying like the rest of us are just sound asleep, and like I don't care. She was tweeting? Was she yep, she was tweeting, she was watching.
I don't even know are we do we even have the most important thing in the world, or that's just all day long? Can I tease an angle? Yeah? I want to talk about how I really do believe that what happened last night heals all open wounds from what happened in twenty eleven, because I think that that ghost is buried. I think that that demon has in fact been exercised. And I want to talk about why I think that. Next, next, next,