April 16, 2024 • 23 mins
The Rangers lost as soon as we started up the Sports Desk! What’s up with them?? Jack Leiter is being called up to start for the Rangers on Thursday! Micah Parsons is missing voluntary workouts but it isn’t a big deal. Caitlyn Clark was taken no. 1 overall in the WNBA Draft last night! Blake Griffin has retired! Then we find out what day it is!
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All right, just getting rolling todayon this business Tuesday. Hope you're conducting
business wherever you are, and Ihope it's going swimmingly for you. Swait
business needs to proceed certainly right now. Though. The business we must conduct
has to do with this at thesports desk, Hey, everybody, Jeel
(00:37):
Shuley here at the sports desk.We got a lot of stuff, but
let's start with the Rangers, becausethis is going down right now as we
speak, Detroit, Game two offour on the road in this series for
the Rangers and the Tigers and things. We're all knotted up at to a
piece. And and that isn't thescore anymore. Now it's four to two
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Detroit. Looks like a little bitof a bullpen breakdown once again for the
Rangers. And it is final courtesyof Urania and Jacob Latz gave a couple
of hits right off the bat,and now yeah, it's a final score.
The Rangers lost. Arrangees aren't doingso good lately, guys, No,
no they're not. We're going toneed the baseball players to play the
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game better. This is what we'regonna need. What's like puzzling, I
guess is the offense, because thatwas supposed to be the thing that was
going to be our major strength andwas going to kind of balance out whatever
pitching struggles we were trying to workthrough. As we were trying to figure
out what the rotation was going tolook like, what the bullpen was going
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to look like, who the closerwas going to be, all that stuff,
it was kind of the thought was, well, look at all these
guys who can hit. Yeah,and I think it started downhill as soon
as Josh Young got hurt. Yeah, you haven't had Nathaniel Lowe yet.
And when you look at how thereplacements for those guys are doing, the
answer is not very well. Andthen you have to add on the part
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that makes me sad because I wasreally hopeful that it was just going to
be an awesome ride the entire way. But neither Evan Carter or Wyatt Langford
has been very good yet not bad, just like ad not bad but not
good. So really, outside ofwhat Adoles hits the ball over the fence
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and Marcus Simeon, I just haven'tbeen real good yet. No, we're
gonna need it to come around.And anyway, anytime you look for offense
to cover up for subpar pitching orsub standard pitching or pitching that's not what
it was last year and not whatyou would like for it to be.
Anytime you're looking to offense to coverup for that, that almost never worked.
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Sound it just doesn't. Yeah,they haven't had a ton of pop
this year. No, they haven't. Well, it's probably better when one
side's not trying to pick up theother side and everybody can just play freely.
Yeah, play loose, play loose, And maybe the offense was sort
of The hitters are knowing they havesome high expectations, especially some really young
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players, and it gets in theirhead. Who knows. I mean,
it's still very early. The Rangersdid win last night, and following that
victory, they were nine and eighton the season. Now we're nine and
nine on the season, five hundredhere through nearly twenty games. And going
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back to last night's game, whichwas a one zero victory in Detroit,
what's his name, Lorenzo Marenzo?N Well, he walked the Nathany Vivaldi
World Series tightrope. He sure did. My guy walked everyone and then was
like, okay, but I guessI'll just get out of this with double
plays all the time. But heplayed with fire, yeah the whole game
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and got out of it. Andhe ended up throwing five scoreless innings.
Yep. Getting out to Detroit lastnight, and this was his Rangers debut,
A good Rangers debut from Lorenzen.Left solid, you know, fairly
solid. I'll take no earned runsfor sure, I accept. And he
was playing against his former team.He was an All Star in Detroit in
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twenty twenty three before he was tradedto the Phillies where he threw that no
hitter like early on in his Philliescareer, and then things kind of went
downhill and then came to Texas inthe off season, and apparently he's playing
with a very large chip on hisshoulder. About how that all kind of
played out for him last season?Does he have the tattoo of a big
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chip on his shoulder? Former Cowboyscorner Anthony Brown, when he was drafted
in the sixth round, got aruffle tattooed on his shoulder. Oh my
god, that's amazing. He hada literal chip, has a literal chip.
He had a ruffle with ridges.I think I'd get a cheeto on
mine he would salsa. Here wego, Here we go. Here's Anthony
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Brown's tattoo. It's a it's clearlya ruffle with ridges and the number one
eighty nine below it, because that'sthe draft pick that he was number one
nine. Oh my god. Yeah, yeah two looks like it hurts.
It's got all kinds of lines andall the little ruffel indentations. That took
some work. Yeah, I did, stupid chip. I mean, I
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guess, whatever it takes, man, whatever it takes. So a good
start for learnsing last night. Andthen the bullpen did get it done last
night, and late in the gamethey went with le clerk, then Robertson,
and then Kirby Yates, who gothis first save as a ranger.
So the bullpen worked way it wassupposed to. Yeah, I guess.
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I mean, we knew they'd bemixing and matching things and trying to figure
out what to do with everybody thatthey mixed in match did well? Yeah,
held up his end. Are youguys surprised that the two times since
he's been yanked out of the closerrole that the clerk has been awesome?
It's just something about that, dude. Yeah, I don't know what to
make of him anymore, but Iwill say this, if you found a
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place where he works, leave himthere, he's going to be the closer
by the end of the year.But he probably was. He's gonna be
nails in the sixth and the seventhand other guys are gonna stumble a little
bit, and he's gonna get backthere and he's gonna be good, and
we're gonna be like, what inthe hell is wrong with you? In
aprils? Yeah? Perhaps, orwhat if somebody like Kirby Yates is just
that owns that role. That wouldbe fun and they don't have to mess
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with moving la clerk back to theclerk. I mean, if they could
find a way to use the bullpenjust as it was set up last night
and like it's set up now,groovy, Yeah, just mixing match,
Yeah, bullpen by committee like Whiteyball. Yeah, like why Whitey ball
was right? Whitey ball was aboutstealing bad but it was bullpen by committee
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too. I was writing about it, Okay, Yeah, I agree.
What do you think, Mike?There was a bullpen by committee element to
Whitey ball. I know my Whiteyball, you do. Whitey ball was
tell Vince Coleman and Lonnie Smith andWillie McGee to steal all the bases.
Just run man look at all threeof them and tell him saying, what
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do you guys? Go up thereand just beat the ball into the left
side on the ground and the leftside and run your ass off. So
Whitey Ball was the manager telling theblack players to run fast. That's what
white Ball was. I guess itworks, Yeah, it did elsewhere in
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Rangers world. Big news today aswe learned that Jack Lighter is going to
get the call up to the majorleagues and he will be making his major
league debut on Thursday against the Tigers. We were talking about this before the
season began. Would he start upat this level? He had a much
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better spring training than I think peoplewere perhaps expecting out of him. The
Rangers obviously still trying to figure outtheir rotation early on in the season.
We've had a couple of injuries,and now we are going to get the
long awaited debut for Jack Lader onThursday. I'm trying not to get too
excited because we did have from whatthe twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three
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seasons, it was like, oh, crap. I thought we were going
to have this absolute stud front ofthe rotation. Holy crap, did you
see him a Vanderbilt. I'm tryingnot to get too excited, but in
round rock this year eras three seventyseven whatever, right, that's fine.
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Fourteen and a third innings pitched,twenty five strikeouts, three walks. Okay,
he's striking out everybody and he ain'twalking people. The Jacklider that we
thought we could have might still exist. And if that happens, my god,
will I be excited. I wishi'd bought all his rookie cards like
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six months ago. I thought theywere free. I'm trying to manage expectations
here, yeah, trying not toget give it. What if, well,
what if if that's the way itplays out, that'd be pretty good.
What if we answer to our TexasRanger woes. Is a guy that
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we thought, nope, just ain'tgonna make it, and then suddenly spring
training, in a few weeks ofminor league baseball and he turned it all
the way around. What if?What if? Come on, let's do
it. Then the next year,Kumar Rocker, who knows, I don't
know that we were expecting to seehim this early, but obviously they're gonna
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see what else they have and they'regonna give it a shot with him.
They are expected to select his contractfrom Triple Eight prior to Thursday's game.
Then they're gonna have to add himto the forty man roster and he will
become the fourth first round draft choiceto debut for Texas this season. The
fourth first round draft picks and somepictures, I'm sure. Yeah, there
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the names, uh Wyatt, JustinFoscue, Davis Winthel, oh and cole
Win who debuted the oh yeah,because they needed more arms. Yeah,
and they brought him up. Maybewe'll do this at four o'clock, but
I want to or people get textin now to two four seven eight seven,
because I was trying to think aboutit. The day that the Rangers
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drafted Jack Lighter, I was sosure that they had drafted a guy that
was gonna lead their rotation for adecade and just be such a stud.
Yeah. I cannot think of aguy in the history of DFW sports in
my life. When he was picked, I was more excited and more sure
that we had a stud. Reallythat day, I was so happy everybody
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was, and he was the numbertwo overall pick. I don't remember who
number one was off the top ofmy head, but I remember the Rangers
had two and I was like,man, what if that number one team
didn't pick Jack Lighter? And thenthey didn't, and I was so happy
and so excited, and so forthe last two years I've been so sad
because it was like, uh oh, but I don't remember on the day
that somebody was picked by the hometownteam being as excited as I was for
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Jacklider. And if that comes backaround, I'm gonna be very happy.
Yeah, it'll be interesting to seehow it goes. Right now is a
good time for him to come upand help, because I didn't realize the
Rangers are in the middle of itseventeen game and seventeen day stretch, so
it's a tough one right now.And then they have Cody Bradford on the
il Dane Dunning going to start tomorrow, and then we will see Jack Lighter
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on Thursday, which means that AndrewHaney's going to get another rest before that
three game set with the Braves.How about we give him lots of breaks,
a little break, Yeah, Idon't know. It will be really
interesting. All eyes will definitely beon Jack Lighter and the Rangers on Thursday,
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and unfortunately it was a loss inDetroit today. We should tailgate somewhere
Thursday for Jack lder Day. Okay, I'm done, let's do it.
I'll take quick buzzer here, Greoby, let's see here. We discussed yesterday
the fact that Ceedee Lamb was notparticipating in the voluntary workouts with the Cowboys
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right now as he's hoping to geta whole new contract figured out. And
Micah Parsons also not a part ofthe voluntary workouts. But we're not gonna
worry about this one either, becausehe likes to go do his own thing
when it comes to his training inthe off season, and I'm guessing he's
going back to that place in Austinwhere you gotta I think so. So
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yeah. So in football, andI'm sure in every other sport. I
just happened to know more about footballthan the other sports because I pay lots
of attention to the football. Butin football, a lot of guys in
the off seasons, they go tospecialists to do something very specific to whatever
it is that they're trying to getdone. Yeah, and so like CD
is sending a message by not beingthere of hey, my money, and
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Mike is doing the exact same thinghe did last year, which is,
no, I'm spending my off seasonwith a very specific training in mind to
like last year, it was tobulk up a little bit without losing explosiveness.
This year, I don't know theexact goal of what he's doing,
but a lot of guys do this. They find very specialized things that they
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think serve them better than oh,I'm going to be in the weight room
with my teammates on the first dayof voluntary stuff like now I'm going to
be down here working on a specificpass rush move. I'm gonna be down
here working with And there are guys. We've reached the point in sports where
there are dudes that are very specializedand cost a bunch of money. And
if your guy is there, he'sdoing a good thing. He's not doing
a why are you at camp?No? No, no, because I'm
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busy. I'm getting better. Ifhe knows what's best for him and it's
going to this place off campus.Yeah, so just another thing I guess
to keep an eye on. Butyes, not that big of a deal
for the Cowboys. Micro Parson's doinghis own thing. I'll take a quick
buzzer here, Grooby, you're gonnaworry about either of the two of those
things. Worry about Ceede Lamb.Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
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I asked Jesse Holly today. Iwas like, what would happen if
you weren't at voluntary beginning of offseason? But he said, he said,
oh, it's different for guys likeme. We are volunteer old.
Yeah, where we're gonna be.Do you do everything asked of you?
Plus more? Yes, we discusseda little bit at the top of the
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show. But Caitlin Clark was draftedlast night and the w NBA Draft by
the Indiana Fever, going number oneoverall, and that's what everybody expected to
happen. Now they'll be on TVeverywhere. Mm hmm. The Dallas Wings
picked up a pair of guards inthe draft's first ten picks. Let's go.
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J C. Sheldon was the fifthpick, Jeff, that's the one
you predicted yesterday. Yeah, Ineeded some help at guard. You know,
we had very specific goals in thisparticular draft, and the guard position
is where we were really laser focusedin and have her available at number five.
I thought was a blessing for theteam and a great pick. And
I'm going to be getting a jersey. Are you the general manager? Yeah?
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I talked at GM. We talkedabout it. We talked we'd talked
about it. Els J. Whatare you going to do about your bigs?
Well, we feel like we're okayat the bigs. We feel like
we got some big people that cando the stuff for the bigs too.
And uh, we were looking,we were finding we got a guard.
Which one are you most excited aboutthe bigs? Yeah, well I probably,
uh saw to Somali, Uh huh, she's probably. I'll take a
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quick buz here groovy. Let's justsave him. Eighteen and eight last year,
four point four assists Blake Griffin retiringfrom the NBA. He posted on
Instagram today that he will be callingit a career after fourteen season. Didn't
know he was still here? Youdid it? Nope? I did.
He was thirty five years old,mostly because you know he did kindle gender
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so sometimes he's in the gossip collegen. He didn't play basketball this year.
I assumed he already had retired.No, he hadn't okay retired yet.
He was the first overall pick intwo thousand and nine, spent seven and
a half seasons with Clippers, wherehe made the All Star Team six times,
and he is retiring. Goodbye,calling think I was going to be
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so great. He was awesome fora little while, pretty good, but
he was so dunky that what bodyparts did he hurt? Like? He
was just such an explosive ass addbody and it's like when that started to
go, it was like, allright, the end because that's what you
had. M hmm, jump highdunk ball. What you got? Quick
buzzer here, Greenby. Let's talkabout the Mavericks here for just a little
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bit because they are getting ready forthat first round matchup with the Clippers that
is going down on Sunday on theroad, and they have their first practice
today in preparation for this playoff series. And we talked yesterday about this a
little bit, and it seems likethe main X factor for the Mavericks is
just that everybody's healthy. I mean, assuming everybody's healthy, on paper,
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I think we have a definite chanceto win this series. Yes, Derek
Lively is the one that's in question. But the news coming out of practice
today is that he participated fully inpractice today. Let's go. Jason Kidds
said that they will see how hefeels tomorrow, so that's good news for
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Derek Lively and the Mavericks. Lucatalked to the media today for the first
time about this playoff series and hewas just you know, Luca, he
it was funny. One part thatmade me laugh is when basically all the
reporters are kind of asking the sametype of question, like, so,
talk to me about your chemistry withKyrie and how big of a difference did
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those trade acquisitions make, And Lucakind of said, I'm asked the same
question every single day. This iswhat I'm always asked. But yet,
no, You're in the playoffs.Ready for more? Yes, yes,
we got we got better players,and we got and we got better.
Yeah, thank you for asking.And he was asked about this current team
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compared to the last two teams thathad playoff matchups with the Clippers and why
this one could be different and hesaid, we have Kai. Oh that
Holly said as messed up. Hedidn't say we have going one better.
Okay, I think the Mavericks aregoing to tan their hide. Ooh,
I like it. I like it, and it will not go so games?
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Oh? How many? How many? We six? Tops? Six
is the round? Yeah, pickingyour last home game is a good time
to win a series. Yeah,take it in game six a good time?
Yeah wow. But if they haven'tgot the attention of Basketball America already
after this, they will if theydon't have it after that, once we
thwack Oklahoma City's ass in the secondround, we'll have their attention. Yeah.
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I love it. I hope sotoo. I'm feeling really good.
I don't know how you could watchthis Mavericks team late in the season and
the way they were playing and notfeel good about the playoffs in that matchup
with the Clippers, but then historysays it's always a tough matchup and we
usually don't come out on top.So hey, hey, that is both
sides of the coin. I guess, different team, but I think that
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the way this current team is playingand the makeup on this team right now
is much better. So that isall going to get get going on Sunday.
The team will just continue to kindof rest and practice until then,
which is beautiful, and they geta little bit of time to prepare them.
Let's see here, I'll take aquick buzzer here, groovy, No,
let's check it. Oh, guesswhat dayes? Guess what day is?
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Huh? Anybody? Well, Dirk, today is Day of the Mushroom,
also known as Mushroom Day. Ohhow do we celebrate? Well?
I have an idea. Hey,you do mushrooms? I brought I brushrooms.
Man, I brought mushrooms. Youdid? Yes? Would you guys
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like to enjoy a day of themushroom for the rest of the showy fun
show, I'll go shrooming, allright, stay tuned for the rest of
the show is Mike and I aregoing to trip balls? You are?
Do you have the magic kind?Yeah? I have the good kuy,
just the kind that are on asalad. No, why would you want
a mushroom that's not fun when there'skinds that are fun. I don't know.
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I've only had the unfun kinds.Well, well, the unfund kinds
not that great. They're pretty mushy. Yeah they're not very good. Y're
pretty awful. The other kind aremushy too, But then that's what they
turn your brain into. Yeah,then stuff my brain didn't need any help
turn into mush. Then things changeone what's your favorite drug? Oh?
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Today is free Cone Day and it'sa picture of an ice cream cone.
And I googled to say why isApril sixteenth Free cone Day? And I
can't find an answer. But maybesomewhere there's a free cone. Aren't all
cones free? Like? Don't theyjust come with the finished product? Or
do they up charge for the cone? Well, i'd imagine if you know
they charged for the cone? Really, because a cone usually costs more than
a cup, even if it's justone scoop. That's not very fair.
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Yeah, you guys like the waffleor the other one? I like them
both. I like the waffle.I don't like ice cream cones. What?
Sorry everybody? What? Yeah?Not even a big ice cream person
for being honest? What do youmean? I mean just what I said?
What do you mean? What doyou I don't eat ice cream really?
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If anything, I'll eat free.You don't. You don't like it?
You're telling us that's right. Ihave sensitive teeth. What does that
even mean? You don't bite theice cream? But it's cold, it's
too cold. You lick it?It's too cold. You give it a
licked. You don't know how toice cream? I don't, and I'm
just fine. We're going to teachyou. I don't need to force myself
to eat ice cream. I'm ina good spot right now. What's the
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name of the not waffle cone?What do they call that one? I'll
know it if you say it,and if you don't say it, then
I won't know it. But i'llknow if you're right when you say it.
What's the not waffle cone? Oh? Wait, regular, No,
it's called a sugar cone. Sugarcone, which sounds better than a waffle
cone because sugar is delicious, butthe waffle cone is better because you want
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to you want to hold the shape, which the waffle will do for you.
Do they really have flavor the wafflecone? Yeah, bit like it's
kind of eating like cardboard. Theweird thing is the one thing in those
sugar kind of tastes sugary. Yeah, sugar cone is just kind of there,
taste more bland. Yeah, whocares about the rest of the days?
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Happy birthday to Martin Lawrence. Thatone is very important. He's fifty
nine years old today. There's noother bad boys coming out. If you
guys are keeping track. There's goingto be a number four. But really
bad played right field by Evan Cartertoday. Oh yeah, I just missed
the ball. Yeah it was anaccident, but that was just one under
and run. We lost by two. Akon is fifty one chance. The
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Rapper thirty one. Selena no longerwith us would have been fifty three.
Bill Belichick seventy two. I thinkthey're having a birthday party for him somewhere.
I think he is doing mushrooms andKareem Abdul Jabbar's seventy seven. Happy
birthday everybody. Coming up next,It's time for Jeff's Bucket of Crap.
Where's our OJ tailgate gonna be next
All right, just getting rolling todayon this business Tuesday. Hope you're conducting
business wherever you are, and Ihope it's going swimmingly for you. Swait
business needs to proceed certainly right now. Though. The business we must conduct
has to do with this at thesports desk, Hey, everybody, Jeel
(00:37):
Shuley here at the sports desk.We got a lot of stuff, but
let's start with the Rangers, becausethis is going down right now as we
speak, Detroit, Game two offour on the road in this series for
the Rangers and the Tigers and things. We're all knotted up at to a
piece. And and that isn't thescore anymore. Now it's four to two
(01:03):
Detroit. Looks like a little bitof a bullpen breakdown once again for the
Rangers. And it is final courtesyof Urania and Jacob Latz gave a couple
of hits right off the bat,and now yeah, it's a final score.
The Rangers lost. Arrangees aren't doingso good lately, guys, No,
no they're not. We're going toneed the baseball players to play the
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game better. This is what we'regonna need. What's like puzzling, I
guess is the offense, because thatwas supposed to be the thing that was
going to be our major strength andwas going to kind of balance out whatever
pitching struggles we were trying to workthrough. As we were trying to figure
out what the rotation was going tolook like, what the bullpen was going
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to look like, who the closerwas going to be, all that stuff,
it was kind of the thought was, well, look at all these
guys who can hit. Yeah,and I think it started downhill as soon
as Josh Young got hurt. Yeah, you haven't had Nathaniel Lowe yet.
And when you look at how thereplacements for those guys are doing, the
answer is not very well. Andthen you have to add on the part
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that makes me sad because I wasreally hopeful that it was just going to
be an awesome ride the entire way. But neither Evan Carter or Wyatt Langford
has been very good yet not bad, just like ad not bad but not
good. So really, outside ofwhat Adoles hits the ball over the fence
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and Marcus Simeon, I just haven'tbeen real good yet. No, we're
gonna need it to come around.And anyway, anytime you look for offense
to cover up for subpar pitching orsub standard pitching or pitching that's not what
it was last year and not whatyou would like for it to be.
Anytime you're looking to offense to coverup for that, that almost never worked.
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Sound it just doesn't. Yeah,they haven't had a ton of pop
this year. No, they haven't. Well, it's probably better when one
side's not trying to pick up theother side and everybody can just play freely.
Yeah, play loose, play loose, And maybe the offense was sort
of The hitters are knowing they havesome high expectations, especially some really young
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players, and it gets in theirhead. Who knows. I mean,
it's still very early. The Rangersdid win last night, and following that
victory, they were nine and eighton the season. Now we're nine and
nine on the season, five hundredhere through nearly twenty games. And going
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back to last night's game, whichwas a one zero victory in Detroit,
what's his name, Lorenzo Marenzo?N Well, he walked the Nathany Vivaldi
World Series tightrope. He sure did. My guy walked everyone and then was
like, okay, but I guessI'll just get out of this with double
plays all the time. But heplayed with fire, yeah the whole game
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and got out of it. Andhe ended up throwing five scoreless innings.
Yep. Getting out to Detroit lastnight, and this was his Rangers debut,
A good Rangers debut from Lorenzen.Left solid, you know, fairly
solid. I'll take no earned runsfor sure, I accept. And he
was playing against his former team.He was an All Star in Detroit in
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twenty twenty three before he was tradedto the Phillies where he threw that no
hitter like early on in his Philliescareer, and then things kind of went
downhill and then came to Texas inthe off season, and apparently he's playing
with a very large chip on hisshoulder. About how that all kind of
played out for him last season?Does he have the tattoo of a big
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chip on his shoulder? Former Cowboyscorner Anthony Brown, when he was drafted
in the sixth round, got aruffle tattooed on his shoulder. Oh my
god, that's amazing. He hada literal chip, has a literal chip.
He had a ruffle with ridges.I think I'd get a cheeto on
mine he would salsa. Here wego, Here we go. Here's Anthony
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Brown's tattoo. It's a it's clearlya ruffle with ridges and the number one
eighty nine below it, because that'sthe draft pick that he was number one
nine. Oh my god. Yeah, yeah two looks like it hurts.
It's got all kinds of lines andall the little ruffel indentations. That took
some work. Yeah, I did, stupid chip. I mean, I
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guess, whatever it takes, man, whatever it takes. So a good
start for learnsing last night. Andthen the bullpen did get it done last
night, and late in the gamethey went with le clerk, then Robertson,
and then Kirby Yates, who gothis first save as a ranger.
So the bullpen worked way it wassupposed to. Yeah, I guess.
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I mean, we knew they'd bemixing and matching things and trying to figure
out what to do with everybody thatthey mixed in match did well? Yeah,
held up his end. Are youguys surprised that the two times since
he's been yanked out of the closerrole that the clerk has been awesome?
It's just something about that, dude. Yeah, I don't know what to
make of him anymore, but Iwill say this, if you found a
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place where he works, leave himthere, he's going to be the closer
by the end of the year.But he probably was. He's gonna be
nails in the sixth and the seventhand other guys are gonna stumble a little
bit, and he's gonna get backthere and he's gonna be good, and
we're gonna be like, what inthe hell is wrong with you? In
aprils? Yeah? Perhaps, orwhat if somebody like Kirby Yates is just
that owns that role. That wouldbe fun and they don't have to mess
(06:43):
with moving la clerk back to theclerk. I mean, if they could
find a way to use the bullpenjust as it was set up last night
and like it's set up now,groovy, Yeah, just mixing match,
Yeah, bullpen by committee like Whiteyball. Yeah, like why Whitey ball
was right? Whitey ball was aboutstealing bad but it was bullpen by committee
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too. I was writing about it, Okay, Yeah, I agree.
What do you think, Mike?There was a bullpen by committee element to
Whitey ball. I know my Whiteyball, you do. Whitey ball was
tell Vince Coleman and Lonnie Smith andWillie McGee to steal all the bases.
Just run man look at all threeof them and tell him saying, what
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do you guys? Go up thereand just beat the ball into the left
side on the ground and the leftside and run your ass off. So
Whitey Ball was the manager telling theblack players to run fast. That's what
white Ball was. I guess itworks, Yeah, it did elsewhere in
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Rangers world. Big news today aswe learned that Jack Lighter is going to
get the call up to the majorleagues and he will be making his major
league debut on Thursday against the Tigers. We were talking about this before the
season began. Would he start upat this level? He had a much
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better spring training than I think peoplewere perhaps expecting out of him. The
Rangers obviously still trying to figure outtheir rotation early on in the season.
We've had a couple of injuries,and now we are going to get the
long awaited debut for Jack Lader onThursday. I'm trying not to get too
excited because we did have from whatthe twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three
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seasons, it was like, oh, crap. I thought we were going
to have this absolute stud front ofthe rotation. Holy crap, did you
see him a Vanderbilt. I'm tryingnot to get too excited, but in
round rock this year eras three seventyseven whatever, right, that's fine.
(08:54):
Fourteen and a third innings pitched,twenty five strikeouts, three walks. Okay,
he's striking out everybody and he ain'twalking people. The Jacklider that we
thought we could have might still exist. And if that happens, my god,
will I be excited. I wishi'd bought all his rookie cards like
(09:15):
six months ago. I thought theywere free. I'm trying to manage expectations
here, yeah, trying not toget give it. What if, well,
what if if that's the way itplays out, that'd be pretty good.
What if we answer to our TexasRanger woes. Is a guy that
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we thought, nope, just ain'tgonna make it, and then suddenly spring
training, in a few weeks ofminor league baseball and he turned it all
the way around. What if?What if? Come on, let's do
it. Then the next year,Kumar Rocker, who knows, I don't
know that we were expecting to seehim this early, but obviously they're gonna
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see what else they have and they'regonna give it a shot with him.
They are expected to select his contractfrom Triple Eight prior to Thursday's game.
Then they're gonna have to add himto the forty man roster and he will
become the fourth first round draft choiceto debut for Texas this season. The
fourth first round draft picks and somepictures, I'm sure. Yeah, there
(10:24):
the names, uh Wyatt, JustinFoscue, Davis Winthel, oh and cole
Win who debuted the oh yeah,because they needed more arms. Yeah,
and they brought him up. Maybewe'll do this at four o'clock, but
I want to or people get textin now to two four seven eight seven,
because I was trying to think aboutit. The day that the Rangers
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drafted Jack Lighter, I was sosure that they had drafted a guy that
was gonna lead their rotation for adecade and just be such a stud.
Yeah. I cannot think of aguy in the history of DFW sports in
my life. When he was picked, I was more excited and more sure
that we had a stud. Reallythat day, I was so happy everybody
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was, and he was the numbertwo overall pick. I don't remember who
number one was off the top ofmy head, but I remember the Rangers
had two and I was like,man, what if that number one team
didn't pick Jack Lighter? And thenthey didn't, and I was so happy
and so excited, and so forthe last two years I've been so sad
because it was like, uh oh, but I don't remember on the day
that somebody was picked by the hometownteam being as excited as I was for
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Jacklider. And if that comes backaround, I'm gonna be very happy.
Yeah, it'll be interesting to seehow it goes. Right now is a
good time for him to come upand help, because I didn't realize the
Rangers are in the middle of itseventeen game and seventeen day stretch, so
it's a tough one right now.And then they have Cody Bradford on the
il Dane Dunning going to start tomorrow, and then we will see Jack Lighter
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on Thursday, which means that AndrewHaney's going to get another rest before that
three game set with the Braves.How about we give him lots of breaks,
a little break, Yeah, Idon't know. It will be really
interesting. All eyes will definitely beon Jack Lighter and the Rangers on Thursday,
(12:18):
and unfortunately it was a loss inDetroit today. We should tailgate somewhere
Thursday for Jack lder Day. Okay, I'm done, let's do it.
I'll take quick buzzer here, Greoby, let's see here. We discussed yesterday
the fact that Ceedee Lamb was notparticipating in the voluntary workouts with the Cowboys
(12:41):
right now as he's hoping to geta whole new contract figured out. And
Micah Parsons also not a part ofthe voluntary workouts. But we're not gonna
worry about this one either, becausehe likes to go do his own thing
when it comes to his training inthe off season, and I'm guessing he's
going back to that place in Austinwhere you gotta I think so. So
(13:05):
yeah. So in football, andI'm sure in every other sport. I
just happened to know more about footballthan the other sports because I pay lots
of attention to the football. Butin football, a lot of guys in
the off seasons, they go tospecialists to do something very specific to whatever
it is that they're trying to getdone. Yeah, and so like CD
is sending a message by not beingthere of hey, my money, and
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Mike is doing the exact same thinghe did last year, which is,
no, I'm spending my off seasonwith a very specific training in mind to
like last year, it was tobulk up a little bit without losing explosiveness.
This year, I don't know theexact goal of what he's doing,
but a lot of guys do this. They find very specialized things that they
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think serve them better than oh,I'm going to be in the weight room
with my teammates on the first dayof voluntary stuff like now I'm going to
be down here working on a specificpass rush move. I'm gonna be down
here working with And there are guys. We've reached the point in sports where
there are dudes that are very specializedand cost a bunch of money. And
if your guy is there, he'sdoing a good thing. He's not doing
a why are you at camp?No? No, no, because I'm
(14:13):
busy. I'm getting better. Ifhe knows what's best for him and it's
going to this place off campus.Yeah, so just another thing I guess
to keep an eye on. Butyes, not that big of a deal
for the Cowboys. Micro Parson's doinghis own thing. I'll take a quick
buzzer here, Grooby, you're gonnaworry about either of the two of those
things. Worry about Ceede Lamb.Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
(14:35):
I asked Jesse Holly today. Iwas like, what would happen if
you weren't at voluntary beginning of offseason? But he said, he said,
oh, it's different for guys likeme. We are volunteer old.
Yeah, where we're gonna be.Do you do everything asked of you?
Plus more? Yes, we discusseda little bit at the top of the
(14:56):
show. But Caitlin Clark was draftedlast night and the w NBA Draft by
the Indiana Fever, going number oneoverall, and that's what everybody expected to
happen. Now they'll be on TVeverywhere. Mm hmm. The Dallas Wings
picked up a pair of guards inthe draft's first ten picks. Let's go.
(15:16):
J C. Sheldon was the fifthpick, Jeff, that's the one
you predicted yesterday. Yeah, Ineeded some help at guard. You know,
we had very specific goals in thisparticular draft, and the guard position
is where we were really laser focusedin and have her available at number five.
I thought was a blessing for theteam and a great pick. And
I'm going to be getting a jersey. Are you the general manager? Yeah?
(15:37):
I talked at GM. We talkedabout it. We talked we'd talked
about it. Els J. Whatare you going to do about your bigs?
Well, we feel like we're okayat the bigs. We feel like
we got some big people that cando the stuff for the bigs too.
And uh, we were looking,we were finding we got a guard.
Which one are you most excited aboutthe bigs? Yeah, well I probably,
uh saw to Somali, Uh huh, she's probably. I'll take a
(16:00):
quick buz here groovy. Let's justsave him. Eighteen and eight last year,
four point four assists Blake Griffin retiringfrom the NBA. He posted on
Instagram today that he will be callingit a career after fourteen season. Didn't
know he was still here? Youdid it? Nope? I did.
He was thirty five years old,mostly because you know he did kindle gender
(16:22):
so sometimes he's in the gossip collegen. He didn't play basketball this year.
I assumed he already had retired.No, he hadn't okay retired yet.
He was the first overall pick intwo thousand and nine, spent seven and
a half seasons with Clippers, wherehe made the All Star Team six times,
and he is retiring. Goodbye,calling think I was going to be
(16:45):
so great. He was awesome fora little while, pretty good, but
he was so dunky that what bodyparts did he hurt? Like? He
was just such an explosive ass addbody and it's like when that started to
go, it was like, allright, the end because that's what you
had. M hmm, jump highdunk ball. What you got? Quick
buzzer here, Greenby. Let's talkabout the Mavericks here for just a little
(17:07):
bit because they are getting ready forthat first round matchup with the Clippers that
is going down on Sunday on theroad, and they have their first practice
today in preparation for this playoff series. And we talked yesterday about this a
little bit, and it seems likethe main X factor for the Mavericks is
just that everybody's healthy. I mean, assuming everybody's healthy, on paper,
(17:30):
I think we have a definite chanceto win this series. Yes, Derek
Lively is the one that's in question. But the news coming out of practice
today is that he participated fully inpractice today. Let's go. Jason Kidds
said that they will see how hefeels tomorrow, so that's good news for
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Derek Lively and the Mavericks. Lucatalked to the media today for the first
time about this playoff series and hewas just you know, Luca, he
it was funny. One part thatmade me laugh is when basically all the
reporters are kind of asking the sametype of question, like, so,
talk to me about your chemistry withKyrie and how big of a difference did
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those trade acquisitions make, And Lucakind of said, I'm asked the same
question every single day. This iswhat I'm always asked. But yet,
no, You're in the playoffs.Ready for more? Yes, yes,
we got we got better players,and we got and we got better.
Yeah, thank you for asking.And he was asked about this current team
(18:37):
compared to the last two teams thathad playoff matchups with the Clippers and why
this one could be different and hesaid, we have Kai. Oh that
Holly said as messed up. Hedidn't say we have going one better.
Okay, I think the Mavericks aregoing to tan their hide. Ooh,
I like it. I like it, and it will not go so games?
(19:00):
Oh? How many? How many? We six? Tops? Six
is the round? Yeah, pickingyour last home game is a good time
to win a series. Yeah,take it in game six a good time?
Yeah wow. But if they haven'tgot the attention of Basketball America already
after this, they will if theydon't have it after that, once we
thwack Oklahoma City's ass in the secondround, we'll have their attention. Yeah.
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I love it. I hope sotoo. I'm feeling really good.
I don't know how you could watchthis Mavericks team late in the season and
the way they were playing and notfeel good about the playoffs in that matchup
with the Clippers, but then historysays it's always a tough matchup and we
usually don't come out on top.So hey, hey, that is both
sides of the coin. I guess, different team, but I think that
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the way this current team is playingand the makeup on this team right now
is much better. So that isall going to get get going on Sunday.
The team will just continue to kindof rest and practice until then,
which is beautiful, and they geta little bit of time to prepare them.
Let's see here, I'll take aquick buzzer here, groovy, No,
let's check it. Oh, guesswhat dayes? Guess what day is?
(20:12):
Huh? Anybody? Well, Dirk, today is Day of the Mushroom,
also known as Mushroom Day. Ohhow do we celebrate? Well?
I have an idea. Hey,you do mushrooms? I brought I brushrooms.
Man, I brought mushrooms. Youdid? Yes? Would you guys
(20:34):
like to enjoy a day of themushroom for the rest of the showy fun
show, I'll go shrooming, allright, stay tuned for the rest of
the show is Mike and I aregoing to trip balls? You are?
Do you have the magic kind?Yeah? I have the good kuy,
just the kind that are on asalad. No, why would you want
a mushroom that's not fun when there'skinds that are fun. I don't know.
(20:56):
I've only had the unfun kinds.Well, well, the unfund kinds
not that great. They're pretty mushy. Yeah they're not very good. Y're
pretty awful. The other kind aremushy too, But then that's what they
turn your brain into. Yeah,then stuff my brain didn't need any help
turn into mush. Then things changeone what's your favorite drug? Oh?
(21:22):
Today is free Cone Day and it'sa picture of an ice cream cone.
And I googled to say why isApril sixteenth Free cone Day? And I
can't find an answer. But maybesomewhere there's a free cone. Aren't all
cones free? Like? Don't theyjust come with the finished product? Or
do they up charge for the cone? Well, i'd imagine if you know
they charged for the cone? Really, because a cone usually costs more than
a cup, even if it's justone scoop. That's not very fair.
(21:45):
Yeah, you guys like the waffleor the other one? I like them
both. I like the waffle.I don't like ice cream cones. What?
Sorry everybody? What? Yeah?Not even a big ice cream person
for being honest? What do youmean? I mean just what I said?
What do you mean? What doyou I don't eat ice cream really?
(22:07):
If anything, I'll eat free.You don't. You don't like it?
You're telling us that's right. Ihave sensitive teeth. What does that
even mean? You don't bite theice cream? But it's cold, it's
too cold. You lick it?It's too cold. You give it a
licked. You don't know how toice cream? I don't, and I'm
just fine. We're going to teachyou. I don't need to force myself
to eat ice cream. I'm ina good spot right now. What's the
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name of the not waffle cone?What do they call that one? I'll
know it if you say it,and if you don't say it, then
I won't know it. But i'llknow if you're right when you say it.
What's the not waffle cone? Oh? Wait, regular, No,
it's called a sugar cone. Sugarcone, which sounds better than a waffle
cone because sugar is delicious, butthe waffle cone is better because you want
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to you want to hold the shape, which the waffle will do for you.
Do they really have flavor the wafflecone? Yeah, bit like it's
kind of eating like cardboard. Theweird thing is the one thing in those
sugar kind of tastes sugary. Yeah, sugar cone is just kind of there,
taste more bland. Yeah, whocares about the rest of the days?
(23:12):
Happy birthday to Martin Lawrence. Thatone is very important. He's fifty
nine years old today. There's noother bad boys coming out. If you
guys are keeping track. There's goingto be a number four. But really
bad played right field by Evan Cartertoday. Oh yeah, I just missed
the ball. Yeah it was anaccident, but that was just one under
and run. We lost by two. Akon is fifty one chance. The
(23:33):
Rapper thirty one. Selena no longerwith us would have been fifty three.
Bill Belichick seventy two. I thinkthey're having a birthday party for him somewhere.
I think he is doing mushrooms andKareem Abdul Jabbar's seventy seven. Happy
birthday everybody. Coming up next,It's time for Jeff's Bucket of Crap.
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