Happy Friday Metroplex, the day we've all been waiting for the NBA in season tournament. He has been geared up for that or what you know, a little more than you're making it sound. Okay, okay. Once uh, once they got Christopher Malta Santy doing commercials for it. With the heist commercials. That almost worked on me. You know, it wasn't enough for me. With the Ocean's eleventh theme it's a new trophy. No, I'm not saying it works, but yeah, I actually am curious about in the season
tournament. Well something on that for you. At seven o'clock got just a tiny nug JJ pulled some Mike McCarthy audio too. It's Cowboys Eagles week. You almost forget a little bit that At seven also more Ranger stuff because we're the World Series champions. The sync in with you Daniel starting to the emotion went to, uh, I thought it was over. You know, you have a few tiers after the game and you think it's you're past that. But boy, I don't know if either one of you guys went down this
little little rabbit hole yesterday. But the people filming their dads watching the final out, you know, what I did see some of those yesterday, about four of those. One was a dad that maybe looked like he might have been about ten years older than me. There was one of a couple of brothers, some friends of ours, friends of ours, Yeah, yeah, friends of ours reaction videos and that means they're made men speaking of Christopher Molta
Sante and I can't. I wish I could deny it, but I sat there and watched these and they the emotions just came back, and it's that empathy kind of thing where you you feel great for the people that this truly, truly is deeply important to. Yeah. I almost feel like a fraud for having even a welling up of tear when they won, just because I have not paid one due to the Texas Rangers or the gods of baseball.
I'm not far removed from where you are, man. I the first Rangers game that I have gone to since they opened that new stadium out there Mikey in Arlington, was in Houston. So you've never been one. I've never been to a damn Rangers game at the Guilf never. That's okay, man, a lot. We'll get you in Malchi's and tickets. Yeah, I'm waiting on him to get old enough to yeah, you know, really appreciate
it. But yeah, that was I realized that not only was that the first game Ranger game that I've seen since they opened the new stadium, it's the first game that I've watched in full all year until the playoffs started. Oh, you ain't alone on that though. There's a lot of Channel man crying and screaming that probably saw about twenty pitches this year, and a lot of people. Yeah, I've been living with uh conchle pneumonia with newmcnclenemonia for
a long time. I've been wanting to talk about it. Okay, good neumcconkle. I wanted you to talk about it. That's why I wanted to open the door. I've been living with Roxy for about a year. And she goes, I didn't realize that you watched that much Rangers, And I was like, no, you didn't realize that they play one hundred and sixty two games. Because once I got my BALLI situated after two weeks in April, it was pretty much every night they're on, Dude that has been locked
in and youren't looking at my stupid computer. The irony is that you were able to watch all the Rangers kind of because of her. Yeah. True, that's a little hook up there. Yeah, because she works for the cable places that actually carries ballats. I don't think I need that. Yeah. How many people do you think fans watched every inning of Ranger baseball this year? How many? It's so hard to do that. Oh no,
not ten? Five? Like ten pitch got them tired? Like do you think over the twenty five people watched every the Nursing Home crew every I know what I want to say a Ranger because if you go to the bathroom or something, I don't want to dan you for missing what. I just try a Paul dB arm murky. Where's Tom Green? He's he's handsome. He's just sixy mofo, that Tom Green. Remember when they had Nolan, Yeah, Nolan was good. He threw no hitters. Before that. John Daniels
ruined. He whooped that Robin Ventura's ash. He showed me that. Yeah, boy came in tired. Boy came out there thinking he wanted some of the legend, and he got what was coming to him. He got a noogie. That was Grandma in the third inning, not gonna make it to the bullpen. It's good for her heart. It's good for her heart if
she doesn't see the bullpen. I had a moment that was the the moment that kind of said, I'm getting there, like a full exceptance, because I thought of I was reading this Levi Weaver article yesterday and then I thought about it this morning. And I don't know why, but I thought about
it this morning. Don't copy it. I read you this quick paragraph David Clyde the nineteen nineties Yankees A Rod, David Freese, Joe Saunders, ocular carotitis, Jose Bautista, Marwin Gonzalez, Corey Klueber's won inning as a Ranger, opening a new stadium only for a disaster to strike in the first year twice, and hosting a lot of historic moments of late for other teams for fifty one years is the legacy of the Texas Rangers. Just enough to promise
to inflate the balloon, but more disappointing pinpricks than you can count. And then I thought of that this morning on my drive in and I kind of went, I don't care anymore. I don't care or not a joke. Hey, Randy Galloway kind of summed it up with Ben and Skin yesterday when he said that just the the ill effects of twenty eleven for him are just wiped away. I think you are the you were on that yesterday. I thought that was well put when you said it. He said, you don't
get sick anymore, won't you know? I just can I put myself in that headspace and that that that mental position of what it would feel like if I had to sit down and watch Game six of twenty eleven, and I'll just be like, Okay, it's fine. I think it's just like we think of the MAVs and O six, you know, like you're and even now you look back, what like a tiny percent, like, man, I wish I wish the Refts had a screen. Yeah, and they you know done, like that would be nice, But you don't think about it
all that much. It doesn't matter all that much. We did it because I think that you got to the top to want that the one before after you get the first is just pure greed kind of kind of But isn't the goal to win it all? And win it all bunch times accumulate a stack of like Kevin Carter rings. Yeah, when it ever were just getting started twenty Let me ask you guys this. You know this team is built for speed and longevity in theory. Do you think that you'll feel the same way
if they don't return in the next year or two. Did you feel in two thousand and twelve when the MAVs didn't run back the same team and give it another shot? Were you disappointed then? And if you were, it, I bet it was short lived just because you're like, oh, well we got the Larry. I mean, it's fine. There was a strike. There was a strike shortened season, so the enthusiasm for the season was delayed by two months. It's interesting because you need one, you need one,
and there's nothing like the first one, you know. I mean, I don't have kids, but that's what you don't say out loud, like, yeah, that first one, that first day was the biggest moment of my life. And the second or third kid, I mean, you know, certainly you love them as much, but it's got to be it has to be slightly deluded, only because that life change is that different, and you can apply that to this. But every time someone wins another one,
every news newsman asks him, you know which one's the sweetest? This one, you know, And they always say something special about this year, the one that they just got, and I almost tend to believe them that they're all these are all my kids. They tried to Pannyovaldi down with that, and yeah, when a Rod and Poppy and Jeter were speaking with him, and he sidestepped it quite deftly. Because he's a he's he's going to be a manager if he wants to be. Everyone's like, yeah, he's awesome.
By the way, he wears number seventeen, the number of Nelson Cruz who retired yesterday. Yeah, I saw that. What a cool circle of events, the same number that Nelson Cruz will or you know, a lot of people don't hate Nelson Cruise. They just hate the moment. But I don't blame him. How cool is that? Like he gets to call it quits. I was like, that's almost for him too. Yesterday and Andy Chavez, Andy Chavez, he getting his ass out there. He told Wash,
I'm too nervous, freaking out. Man, I'm too scared. I don't think I could do it. Can kit and face cover all that ground? Yes? He could have he actually there's really all he could do. But I don't want to do too much side roading on that. But what is is there there have been a finality to what happened, why Nelly was still out there. I've heard that Wash didn't want to remove him because he wanted his guys on the field when the trophy was lifted or when the final
out was recorded? Did Indy panic? Was their miscommunication? Nothing ever definitive has been reported on that. You know what I think the answer is, because there's a lot of that does create a lot of theories from people who don't know, is that Here's what I think. I think Washington left him out there. I think Nelson Cruise wasn't that great. It was reliable of an outbuilder for that, and he could have replaced him with Indye Jovis he
didn't. I don't think it was like absent minded this and I don't think it was because he wanted his people out there. It's probably because this game's close still and what if I need his bat again? Maybe maybe not. I don't know, man. I may have just taken a rumor and turned it into a fact in my head, but I thought it was maybe to the point where Andy Schavez took a few steps out of the dugout and called
him back. That's what I've heard, and whether or not that's someone saying it once and that being so juicy that it start Oh my god, Nelson Cruise was so excited he wanted to celebrate, so he was running in, taking a step in to go celebrate. The ball went over his head.
There's so many dumb things. It's like, no, but if Danny and I heard the same thing, it was that he he was on his way out, and then Wash called him back to have like he was told that you're going to replace La and then Wash decided, you know what, I want my guy out there to to be on on field when when we get the final out and called him back. Now, that's like you said, he could just be complete silly baseball legend rumor at the time, I remember
being shocked that that was like reputable. Whoever said that, I know me too, But I don't ever remember seeing it in print. I don't ever remember seeing it officially reported or anybody ever commenting on that. I know Wash would never see a story from ESPN, And it ended amazing that we can talk about this now and not feel like I have to go diarrhea. Chaves told Fox sports dot Com that he thought he was going in and was called back. They called me in from the field. I was surprised. I
didn't know. Uh, oh, you're the winning we were winning the game by trans I didn't think it was that big of a deal. I didn't sleep that night just thinking of that. Oh no, well yeah, see, I mean that's him saying that's him saying it. They called me in from the field. Well, you know whatever, he's might have been jealous. Yeah, and again series I've also heard maybe I've I do remember that now. But then there was also people disputing it, like Wash wouldn't confirm
that or something like that, because you know how reporters are. They get one quote and then they immediately run to the other guy to to catch him in a lie or to confirm it or whatever. Wonder if Emily Jones knows, I mean, I bet she's up, Emily, if you're up organizing things, call us. Yeah, Mike, what'd you do last night? I did something? And I kind of have a weekday embargo on fun. It just seemed to be that way sometimes. My embargo started in twenty eighteen
on fun. I don't like that. I know. Iine started three months ago because Danny and I, the famous whiskey boys of Dallas, were plunk down in the morning yeah with keV oh the morning party vibe. That's right, and then stopped me. Sometimes I can still do it, but I can't. You know, back to back's not good. And well it didn't stop us yesterday morning at six o'clock, slamming shamps. By the way, La, do you feel yesterday actually pretty awesome. There might be something to
just getting drunk in the morning rather than at night. Yeah, that's a little nap. When I got home and I was great. The show just flew by, kind of did The last hour was a little bit like walking in quick sand. Yeah, I was about done, but uh, leading up to that it did sore. But yeah, if you happen to sleep in because you parted your nuts off the night before, understandably we just got hammered. We drank. There was drinking yesterday morning. Three bottles of champagne
and a half a bottle of tequila. Yeah, the down beat, you get that nap, nap got a hard nap. That was an easy one. You got one. I got a good, big, more clean nap than usual. Yeah. Yeah, and then I felt good. Yeah. I wasn't groggy or brain foggy. I was like, I think I could go do some yardwork or something, or maybe I could go for a jog. Did you do either one of those things? No? No, no. I watched an episode of the Morning show. All right, what did
you do? Mikey? Maybe you could have gone to a concert? Oh wow, he ramped up. That's what I did. How many beers? Did you have? Three beers? Double drunk? Three beers? The show started at eight twenty and they cut off beer sales at nine. I don't know. That's just a minor grow. Yeah, there's your Dallas concert venue for you right there. The American Ice watched Juice, got beers, sat down, went to go get another out of beers. All close. Uh.
I went and saw Queen. What wow? The band Queen really didn't even know they were playing. Didn't either, and they are playing tonight, I believe as well. At the UH Mayor it Can air Line Santa it was Queen featuring Adam Lambert. Uh who said it is Roger Taylor on drums. I don't know Deacons hadn't been playing with him for Roger Taylor, Brian May or the Ogs. Yeah, Brian May, who famously broke his ass while planting some plants. What did he do? He broke his ass?
Yeah, he broke his ass. He fell down in his garden and broke his ass his gardens like in the last couple of years. Isn't he a studied astrophysicist. He's got something I think he is like that. Yeah, I think he's an astrophysicist and he's Sir Brian May, and also got me thinking, is that? How many sirs have I seen with my own two? Uh? Cartney, I've seen Paul Sir Paul McCartney, I've seen Sir Lewis Hamilton mix a lot. I probably have seen Sir mix a lot.
Yeah, you didn't know he was. What if you've seen local bands sir woman? Mm hmm. I don't think I know. I don't know if I've seen sir woman. Yeah. Brian May's get the face of every stereotypical nineteen seventies classic rock guy. Yeah, he kind of does. And the hair he won't give it up. So Queen featuring Adam Lambert at the American Allied Center and I wasn't supposed to go. There was a late cancelation and I was like, you know what, screw it, I'm in. It's
Thursday night with Rally. How was Lambert? Let me say as a whole and again they are playing there tonight as well. I had an absolute blast, dude, there it was. It was one of the most fun concerts I've seen in a few years, just fun. I knew probably sixteen of the twenty twenty something songs they played. Let's see Gotcha it's great. Yeah, I got it in front of me too, twenty five songs they played. I probably knew more than that, more than sixteen. It was.
It was so great, old ass crowd, but the crowd was hyped. He's good, okay, Adam Lambert is badass? How is he as a showman? Showman? There's so much to talk about that you guys won't care about, because Cash and I discussed this a lot. He's great, but he is so respectfully deferential to Brian May, Brian May specifically, and you
know Roger Taylor, the drummer. Some you can tell he doesn't want to make this the entire Adam Lambert show that that's it because he could and I would almost want him to crank it up another twenty percent and just be this this sex icon or whatever he's going for. He's gay, right, yeah, yeah, I mean yeah, I figured a lot of gay people are
sex icons. He is. He is, he is one. Thank you, thank you, because there's some moments where he's doing his the humping and is grabbing his can and thrustings and licking his lips, you know, like he's putting on this show. He knows what he's doing. But there's so much stuff, like they're saying, uh, want to ride my bicysical, which I forgot was a queen song, how could you? I guess why.
That's an amazing soot And he's on this glowing bike at the front of the stage and the bike's rotating and he's got his feet on the handlebars and thrusting upward really humping the okay because Steve, But he's almost laughing when he does it, like he knows he's putting on a gay sex party. Yeah, and it's awesome. The guy in the crowds is going nuts. So the clip that I saw was during the last song of their encore which I'm
sure you're about to talk about. But he looked like he was very respectful to Brian May. He wasn't. I just felt like he was kind of deferential to him. He was, Yeah, and I get that. I mean it was very much the Brian May show kind of which is weird because Adam Lambers dress is a f and terminator. There's a robot from the future, you know, I mean, there's He had probably eight or ten costume
changes, all sparkly, looked amazing in all of them. But then they'd be a Brian May solo where he's raised up on a tower and there's planets floating around him and he's just wailing on his guitar like there was enough Brian May love and warranted because he was he was cool. But I mean you can't take your eyes off Adam Lambert too, and he's his thing. So he walks out there after a few songs and Adam Lamber said, I can't believe I've been doing this with these guys for ten years. Yeah, and
I'm like, I would have guessed three. That makes sense. Ten years Adam Lambert's been touring with Queen. He's got it down he's got his voice. Obviously it's a little different than Freddy's. But there's a lot of like video of Freddy. Like right before the encore started, they had a huge video of Freddy doing the like and get the crowd yeah and you the crowd
was doing it with just this massive video of Freddie Mercury. And it was a great one because he did it, did it, did it, and then he did the hard one at the end and the crowd kind of got it. He goes if you like old video Freddie Mercury, like, Sosey says f you to the crowd. Man, I loved it. I was. It sounds like a great show. It was a great show. Go tonight. If he ain't got nothing, it sounded good, it sounded great. If Adam Lambert wasn't a part of the American Idol machine, this might
have gotten this would get less. First of all, a lot of people to go and the tour makes good money. But there is like a cynical like, oh, the guy from American Idols touring with Queen Badass. I knew that he was from the American Idol machine. I wonder it might change. It's like they just found a guy that sings like, you know, it was really sweet. He said that earlier Adam Lambert did. And then there was a little package of songs where it was just the three of them.
They had a protruding stage that went almost out to mid court, you know, and they had a full band and all this, but the three of them came out where it's just you know, just the drum kit, the computer, the guitar and Adam Lambert and they did some acoustic and some more touching stuff whatever. And Adam Lambert had introduced everybody as these legends, you know, and the crowd goes nuts, and they hadn't introduced really Lambert
yet. And then Brian May introduces Adam Lambert and it was really sweet because I'm cas Cash and I were like, I bet they hate Adam Lambert at this point, Teddy like this kid, but they introduced him as our our gift from God, Adam Lamber. They I had no idea we dealt with Freddy. They love Freddy. You could tell they love Freddy unless you know they're putting on a show. They do this a million times. But they
they were very sweet, obviously to Freddie Mercury. But it was really a cool intro like our Gift from God Adam Lambert that essentially extended you know it, let Queen give him another two decades, you know. And they didn't show signs of slowing down. It's funny when you look at their their set list from last night on set list FM, every song that they do underneath it, it just says Queen cover. I don't like that. Cash and I talk about that is that that's very much a legal thing. I mean,
in legality sense, this is a Queen cover band. Yeah, whatever that means. And there was a couple of things to say q AL like Queen Adam Lambert. Yeah, like there's some legal LLC that they have started this, not Queen or I don't know how it worked, but anyway, there's some incredible legality behind it. Because yeah, I noticed that they're all technically cover songs. It was extra So in the encore there was a specific
you got that. There was two things. Well, the first one was when Roger Taylor the had his drum kit rise up at the front and he did solo. There was two references to you know, they shout out Dallas a few times, but Roger Taylor gave it a very generic congratulations on you
a recent championship, and the crowds like a kind of right. It was very because I wanted to roll and I told Cash like, oh, we might get a real good congratulations World Series or something real, real, improperly delivered reference to Baseball that these guys don't give a damn voup or like when McCartney signed off as is a halftime thank you super exactly, we were hoping
for thank you. We're ready for thank you super Bowl. Also, Cash, who knows whatever, was pretty sure that Dirk was there in a suite, and so Cash got himself all worked up that at the very end of the show they might bring a special guest on to sing we Are the Champions. So then he got me fired up, and I'm like, that's he's not gonna and obviously I don't even know. Right, we discussed does Adam
Lambert have any idea the Rangers of the World Series yesterday? You know, but anyway, Yeah, they get to the encore and the songs they save there are we Will Rock You. Is how the encore starts, which was great Radio Gaga they played, and then they end the show with we Are the Champions. And Brian May, who a couple of times did this came out of the ground and the hydraulic thing through the smoke, which sounds more cheesy than it was, because it was amazing. By the end of it.
I'm like bright up in May, like, you know, I can't believe you haven't had that inserted into your contract to appear on the morning show every day, just to come out of the ground. Yeah, yeah, exactly, introducing GET two in ratings. I'm gonna have some hydraulics, some
salt in here, and I'm throwing my elbows around. Uh. He comes up through the smoke and he has got a white Texas Rangers jersey on right as they as he walks out to front and center to play like the wicked solo and we are the champions and the crowd season and you know, they went nuts. There was no verbal acknowledgment of it, but he was wearing a damn Ranger jersey. So that was kind of the only two where they
they actually knew it. You know what they could have said, you know, hey, I know the song's gonna hit harder today or whatever, but it was kind of a little goose. I mean, his goose bumpy. Anyway that you're in Dallas hearing Queen with an Oliver. I didn't know playing we have the Champions. The day after that that stuff happened, I didn't know they were doing two nights until last night because I was looking some worthy concerts this weekend or whatever. Yeah, I was like, oh, they
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