All right. One year ago today, this station launched. Have your Borthday Free. The Texas Rangers are in the playoffs. Hot Dog, it's the Outland coming. I'm ready to get up their ass about it. Danny, enjoy the ride. Soak it in, kat soak it in. Let the wave of playoff baseball gently wash over your naked body, wash away your sins. Yes, baptism by baseball. That's Danny Bayliss. Buddy Max Roy's gone. What's he doing? There's no way he's He's not doing anything today,
right, probably flying back afternoon. Yesterday was Nigra falls fun. Yeah, if you believe all of that TikTok craft that's out there, believe those posts which I've convinced or AI generated in fake deep fake. Nah, we know where he really is. It's ten Bull's ten Bull getting Yankee Yankee in hot Ton with sixty men, like a bunch of Yankees who are done for the year. Oh man, how good is that? I wish I knew more
about that situation. I don't, I mean, like in general, No, no, no, no, no no, no, We're I've just now moved on from that. Oh okay, I got you know the situation with Yankee baseball about how Steinbrenner passes away hands over the team, I guess posthumously to his kid who doesn't know anything and just essentially run runs payroll through the roof and then runs the team into the ground with care. Dad.
Yeah, just screw it. The baseball sucks. Seriously. They got to be those spoiled brats up there that think the Yankees are supposed to win the World Series every year. Have got to be just scratching their ever loving receding hairlines. It's funny. One of the guys that they wanted the Rangers to sign, you're some people on the rangister sign it's a picture that's your Carlos Rodon picture contracts. We end up getting Roy Andrew and Eovaldi and Hainy with
that money, and Carlos Rodon his er was like six eight seven. I was like, oh my god, he got destroyed this year. The point is Rangers playoffs today. I've got like an ultimate preview type thing at eight. I can't believe they're playing playoff baseball today. It doesn't seem real and
feel right, does it. Yeah, it's because they took six or seven years off of operating as a franchise well, and then they did what they did and kind of teased us like two different ways multiple times during the season. Yea, you know, they teased us thinking this wasn't our year before
the season started, that next year was supposed to be the year. And then they come out of the gate just badass, like what they're still good, unexpected but let's go Yeah, and then injuries happen and then they start, you know, dropping, and then it looks like there's no way they're going to make the playoffs. And they make that little run. For about what ten days, it seemed like they were just unstoppable. And then we get to the last what five six days of the season and you're like,
there's no way they don't win the division. Well, they don't win the division, but they're in the playoffs, and you know what, once you have a day to kind of process it all and put it all into perspective, I'm with you. We just need to be thankful. Yeah, it's playoff baseball. It's something we don't see around these parts that often. Let's just enjoy it regardless of what happens, not be negative about ago moon. You're just gonna get crushed in the first You don't have to worry about watching
him at your birthday party at Echo Lounge because't gonna be playing. You know, we could do that, but let's not. Yeah, let's not have fun with this. Is there anything we should have all learned about the Rangers? Yes, it does suck. They couldn't get one more win over the weekend and have a week off. Yeah, But the one thing I've learned about this team is whenever you think you know something about what's gonna happen, you really don't say what you think. They're dead and it's like they're just
gonna trick you. So you have a pretty good idea what the bullpen is, but that's you know, this team has been nothing if not full of surprises all year long, man, all season long. In every possible way that you could imagine a surprise happening, the Rangers have kind of delivered it well. Also, the uh the other thing about all of that too is last year when they did this new playoff format that I didn't know about because
the Rangers missed it and I didn't pay much attention. There were big upsets in this first round because the Rays are favorite, the favorites. They play all three of these games at home, so the raise our favorites. But last year there were upsets in this round, so that's good too, so anyone can win it well that We'll talk to our good friend, former Rangers outfielder current Bally analyst David Murphy at nine o'clock today. That's cool tuning for
them to talk to David. He's thinking about the series. Also, have a Ray bracket stick around for that'll be funny. How old is birth now? Is he forties? Early forties? But he's uber late thirties or early forties. You know how to quick googie. We'll take us to the Promised Land here Danny forty one? Okay, just jerk here. What was his run here? Like? What years? So? I think he got traded here in like oh seven? Okay. I believe he was a part of
the Eric Ganyer trade, if that makes sense. I thought he came from that. Did he come from Boston? Boston? Yeah, yeah, yes, he was in a package that sent relief pitcher Eric Ganyer to Boston. He was a He came here as a part of the rebuild, the John Daniels rebuild, and did He just as much a part of this thing as we talked about Matt Harrison Els, no question. Yeah that to share trade and all that stuff. He was an asset to this team for sure,
and he was there for the two World Series runs. Okay, that's what I thought. Didn't trade him until it's like twenty or trade him twenty thirteen. He signed with them, so he was here for eight, nine, ten, left six years, and four of those years the best years in franchise history. I mean, twenty to twenty thirteen was just amazing. Man, it's rare that you get to kind of talk to a baseball friend,
and yeah, I want to focus when we talk to him. I do want to focus on kind of previewing what the Rangers are about to face, maybe his thoughts on this three game series and how the wild card works and is it really fair if he even like the format at all. But man, there's so many questions I have about baseball players, one of them being I'm sure in every clubhouse the dynamic is probably really fun, really lose for the most part, and those guys are just clowns, like they have a
time, they yuck it up. Why is it so rare? That you can have a baseball player that kind of brings that type of vibe and personality to the public, whether it be just the way he carries himself publicly, the way he handles interviews. You don't really see that happen in baseball guys really being full of that kind of comedic, vibrant personality. They kind of
just answer answer the questions by not answering them. And is it just because it's one hundred and sixty two games and they just go on autopilot when it
comes to dealing with the mediata. It's gotta be right, well, what they when I first started in the business of covering stuff, or are they so afraid to do anything outside of the construct of a straight interview for fear of being categorized as a goofball or not being taken seriously or take it out of context or see I think the pictures of the more eccentric guys and the guys who got to go answer questions every day, which is which for years
here it was Michael Young who just did it. He just handled it. Dirk did that too for the MAVs. Dirk didn't have to speak every night, and he did and Michael Young did every night, and he gave quick answers, and people might say he wasn't saying anything, but what he was doing is taking a hit so younger guys wouldn't have to deal with it. And Murphy was one of those guys too. If I was ever in a bind, like when I started, when I started the Ticket and oh nine,
I was still in college interning. Back then, we hadn't quite gotten to the point of we're gonna digitally send files. You know. It was go to the game, put your mike in the gang bang, take your microphone back to the station, uploaded into the system so they have something for the next day. I'll tell you what, if I ever got in a bind, I know I could always lean on two people, Michael Young and
David Murphy. Michael Young more for the group, you know, and then emotionally anything I need to And I need to get something for tomorrow's picture, you know, because it's just what it was for tickers and things like that. Sure, and I gotta get something, Okay, you try to get something to the gang makes because I'm not asking questions, I'm not therapy every day. That's for Jerry Fraley and Evan Grant and Emily Jones, And if
I did it, I'd probably be looked at. Funny. I could always go up to David Murphy and go, Murphy, do you like baseball? I've got a right hander tomorrow, Very Andrews and the man tomorrow. What do you guys gotta you know? Yeah, yeah, anything, let's go. Thank you. And that's so nice. He didn't have to do that, yeah, and you, And it would provide you a unique sound bite from a little one on one, right, as opposed to just the same
gang bang audio that every media members get. Looking back at it, what a waste of gas money though, Man, I could have just emailed all that over to the system imagining, which change also, it just seems like that always just seemed bizarre to me that you're gonna send a reporter out to the clubhouse to get the exact same audio that every other outlet is gonna have,
because competing outlets were just not willing to share. Well, right, what they would do, at least at that station was we'll farm this out to interns and it's experience, and bro I got I got a lucky my timing of working there. I mean, I was in the mix for Rangers playoffs going to the the World Series, but alcs there to get the tape. Did you go to New York? I didn't go to New York and travel, but like Home Game, alcs like there to get tape, MAVs
playoffs title run, you know there to get taped. That was pretty good time to be doing all that stuff. Yeah, especially as a young kid. I got in this game so late. I was twenty nine thirty, I believe when I got into the radio business, and I guess, I don't know if I'm fortunate that somehow I was able to skip over all of the kind of like fresh out of college grunt work. And I was often, you know, kind of teased about it at the previous station about,
oh, you never had to do any of that stuff. You just basically walked in the door and started producing the hard line. Which it wasn't that. It was far from the truth, you know. I did my tenure doing nights there, which was fun. Overnight, no, no, no, like evenings. We had a show that I think was like seven to ten or six to nine something like well, it was The Ender with Mark follow and Doug Anderson and and when Mark got the full time MAVs gig.
That show kind of disbanded and they put in the hot spot. Well it's same time. The producer for the Afternoon Drive show took a full time program director gig in Kansas City and that job became available, and since I'd already had you know, a relationship with those cats for a year, interviewed with Mike and Greg and got the gig. And then that's where I remained from I think like the year mid two thousand until just you know, a year a year ago. It is always the cat was the producer, and then
he did the check. Morgan went to Kansas City for a couple of years. Yeah, came back. But that's so all. That's so I knew. I didn't know that you were that age when you got in though. Yeah, they ever think for me is pretty formal unpaid internships, sure, which which is the way, it's the standard, the standard route to get to say that with no bitching like that absolutely what it was, and I
was thrilled to have it. I feel like I didn't miss out on a lot of the infrastructure of this business, the nuts and bolts of this business, you know, doing the grunt work and and learning how to interact with athletes and how to manage yourself in a clubhouse and all that stuff, because yeah, just being in the clubhouse, Yeah, it felt like such an invasion of privacy totally. We have no business in there. I still hate
it. We should give them time and they're you know, I mean as what would what would happen though, is they would take advantage of that and they would just leave and then talk, and then you don't talk, and then you don't spread the grow the game, as golfers like to say. But like that for me was very good. I also, at that point in my life, was not good at socializing outside of people I knew very
well. And that's a small town crutch. Yeah that affected me. But I mean overnight board opping ten pm to six am sure taught me a lot and also taught me how to use time. I was going in and just using equipment and I was doing I'm sure I don't have to find them, but terrible bits practicing doing tickers or just doing even like segments, doing podcasts things like that during those over nine hours when all you really had to do is go push a button. Well, and now it's all automated for the
most part of me. I think they still probably do have a person overnight, but here it's all, yeah, yeah, they do. They still have an overnight person over there. But I wish we did. I mean, I wish we'd did it that way still, but you know, times have changed. I had one thought, I think the real quick going back to the guys chasing tape and people going into clubhouses where you know, in the fifties, it was what you had to do to get your reports because
everything was written. It was the written media. It was the newspapers. The guys had to go in there with the note pads and write in shorthand and then decipher that stuff later on that night and type it out and submit
it for press the next day. It's changed so much, but we's kind of still adhere to that old formula, and I think that could change because, honestly, dude, I think that the the percentage of athletes that enjoy talking to the media is probably about the same percentage of the media that really
wants to be there in those clubhouses chasing tape. I think there's a small percentage of just media nerds that just love it every time they walk into the clubhouse, it's like, hell, yeah, I'm getting great quotes today. I can't wait to do this job, cut up this tape, get it ready for our sports updates or whatever they're doing. I think that's a very
small percentage. Well, it's also a very few jobs, and it's just three people, and it's usually a stepping stone to you know, brighter, bigger career, something that is you know, I guess, more important or whatever. But it's strange that relationship that the athlete has with the media at that level. It's like it's like a necessary thing. It's a mechanical thing that you know, you have to do because both of them need the other to kind of survive. I guess in a way because the teams, the
athletes, they they need the media to tell the story. Yeah, and and the nicer you are, I guess, the cooler you are than the cooler the story might be about you. And then the media needs the the hugeness, the fame, the popularity of the team of the athletes to get eyes on their paper. It just works both ways. But I don't think anybody really wants to do it. The majority of both parties ball don't want
to be there. Oh my god. I mean, if I got a sign to go do anything in the locker room, I just beating man. I don't want to do that. But it was like great when you're twenty yeah, and they've got your eyes on a bigger prize two twenty three whatever. But then at the time if that was a big part of my job. Now, like if they were since saw a playoff trip or something, though, like you said, let's say they sends to Tampa Bay, Yeah, to cover their absolutely go in the locker room after the game, of
course, like they'd be kind of a part of it. Probably I would be. I would be cool with that. We got sent on a few trips back in the day. We went to the ALCS in New York in twenty ten and we're I don't think we actually we almost got kicked out of and got flown back home because we got in trouble with John Blake, the pr man. He stepped on his field. Yeah, we were told it was okay, you know what, I don't want to relive that now you
shouldn't, and you know what, John probably doesn't either. Yeah, that's a great guy. But we did get to go to when we went to Wrigley. We did a fun trip and we took listeners and invited listeners and people that were transplants from the DFW area up to Chicago. Had a great time, and we were in the clubhouse at at Wrigley after after those games, and it was cool. I didn't mind that. But I was basically just kind of walking around following Corby around and I was doing wacky stuff with
players. But and he'll talk to anyone. But that wasn't like just a grind. That wasn't the grind. That was more of a special event. So I know what you're saying. So we'll have David Murphy at nine. We'll also have a little bit of a preview at eight and gut this crazy story that came out. Some things about this series that I learned a little bit last night, and a few things that's very interesting. It's Sports at seven at seven college football clean up. Some wild things. Some of them
involved Kevin James. I have some crazy audio that involves milking. And I also I have Somebodia from the Manning Cast last night. Their special guest is Will Ferrell. That's always fun. Yeah, I tried to watch a good portion of that, and it got to a point where I found it to be incredibly unwatchable. Really yeah, I mean the game was unwatchable. That didn't help. Oh yeah, to me, the game was the big problem. Last night. I actually died. Last night's broadcast was pretty good just
because Peyton was on one. Peyton was either angry or cooked out or something. Something was going on with Peyton last night. Uh so I want to talk. I got some clips from that I have. I don't think that I have the the the NFL love. I don't love football and love the NFL so much that I could watch an entire three hour game, well, just the Manning cast. I don't think the Manning cast would serve me best if if a twenty year old intern watches it and cuts it up and gives
me the TikTok version of it the next day. No, And that's kind of what I That's kind of how I view it. And also, if the game's not good like last night, it's just background noise. It's like every baseball game all summer. It's just on in the background, and I'm not really I'm looking at my computer. Usually there's a thing with old people at seven thirty you want to get into in the scuttle butt. There's an old lady who wants to get in the hot air balloon and it's been a
big thing on our show and the Hot air Balloon. That's a funny audio at seven thirty two Cans Morning News at eight thirty. Today, as we said earlier, is the one year anniversary of ninety seven one the Freak. In fact, we've got something we like to do sometimes is play why are you up? And if you give us a call at two one four or eight one seven seven eight seven one nine seven one, we'd like to find out why you were up. I did, We did have a call.
They hung up, but we had a caller call in a few minutes ago, which is happy birthdays. But we were talking. Let's face it, it's a question that we ask ourselves every day. It's more rhetorical because literally we do know why we're up. It's because our job starts, you know, at six By the way, we do start our show every day at
six am Monday through Friday. Yeah, you know, if you're listening right now, you already know that that remind people of But we were asked to do it so you know you scratch our back, will scratch yours Thursday night at the Echo Lounge. Absolutely? Uh, but yeah, it's uh, you know why we're up. But there's so many people that are out there on the on the roads right now, going somewhere. There's maybe people that are already at their job. Maybe there. We talked to a guy last
week that was coming home from his job breaking rocks in Runaway Bay. Yeah, I mean that's wild. You want to know your story too, well, we have a story. Let's find out this new story. Are you up? Hello? Coller? What's your name? Good morning, Hello Jim, good morning Hey. Question for you, sir? Why are you up? Because I am an idiot that moved to Corny but still works in downtown Dallas, and in order to get there to work on time, I gotta
be up about five o'clock, five thirty the latest. We'll get on the road and get to my job as on call of Jenner. Okay, so you're the guy that did that. Did you used to live in Dallas proper? Now we actually used to live in Ville, Okay, but still Lewisville's a little bit closer. So did you Okay? So Fourny you moved out there, you gotta cheaper house. You got more land for the buck and better schools for the kids that the plan. I had moved near the grandparents,
so preach oldcare and lot of help, good play. Isn't it funny when we're younger we make those big, bold claims. I'm never moving to the suburbs. I'm staying urban my whole life. And then you realize I can live in this shoe box for eight grand a month, or and my kids are going to a weird school. Or I can move thirty miles forty five miles away and have all of the luxuries that you are currently experiencing.
But you kept the job in Dallas. Therefore your ass is out of bed at five, I hear kids change things, Danny, Oh yeah, so much. Did you say you're an oncologist oncology? Nerth What does that mean? Cancer? Cancer? I treat patients in the infusing room, giving them chemotherapy, and I mean the therapy to treat their cancer. Oh my god, you're doing the Lord's work, sir. I feel like you should win something. Do you ever get to have fun and go to concerts and do
cool stuff? Or you're pretty much just treating cancer all the time. I mean both. It's having three kids and a one month old where I don't gonna do a deep fun thing. He's got a one He ain't going to Jimmy Eat World, dude, he's got a one month old. Okay, first of all, we don't have Jimmy World. We're talking. I got an option for you, but maybe your kids like Italian food. Do you
want a four pack? Now? I'm sorry. Do you want a pair of tickets to the All American Rejects or would you like a four pack to the DFW Italian Festival this Saturday? Or neither and we'll give it to someone else. I will go with neither, typically because I got family coming into town. Otherwise the popula thing actually would be great, but I got a the great Grandma coming into town this weekend. What about Thursday night? You're gonna come and see us at the Echo Lounge. He ain't going out,
dude. I'm trying to see if I get permission for all wife to go, because I really want to go terribly. Tell her that we said please, that Katie said please. You know, kat says that she'll probably agree because she just has no idea who he is actually, but I loves them to meet up the bill like the rest of the Metroplex. My friend, dude, if you make it out on Thursday, please come up. I'll buy you a drink if you're allowed to drink with a one month old at
home, and just let us know that you're the freak on cologist. Okay, I'll be good, all right, brother, Thanks for calling man. Yeah, yeah, it's good to find out why he was up. Thanks for doing what you do, brother. Absolutely well, I'll probably see you one day. I'm sure you'll be staring down at me wearing a medical masking. This is going to hurt a little bit. And you know what that call did for a lot of people, so it's gonna happen to a lot
of us. But that called it is that open up the opportunity for people to win all American rejects tickets or tickets to the DFW you Italian Festival sometimesder in the show. You know, in fact, I'll take if because we had other people call in that second call all American rejects tickets, pair of them, a pair of them. That third call JJ DFW Italian Festival tickets. Hell Yeah, that's going down. All American Rejects is Wednesday, the
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Not only you get to get on the air and talk to Kevin you win. Crap, What a great day. He didn't know who I am, and she didn't know I am. He knows who you are. Coming up next. This debut on Friday night in Las Vegas, and it has blown my mind. Next to Night seven, one freak