041824 200 What's on Mike's Mind

When will tipping stop?? Rhynes has some baseball notes for you! 

Episode Transcript

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Let's begin the show by starting it. Look at us, Hey, look
at us, Look at us?Who would have thought not me? Two

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oh five is the time. Thatis five minutes past two pm Central daylight
time, according to the Tower ofthe Friendly Merchanty. Here tuner is set

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to ninety seven to one of thefreak. This is the speakeasy warmus.
Greetings to one and all, nomatter where you be, no matter how
you be, receiving this radio transmission. It is Thursday, the eighteenth of
April, and we are locked in, loaded aerodynamic, ready to roll,

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try stuff, and ready to go, ready to edify you in that way
that we do for the next fourhours until the witching hour of six o'clock
tonight. I would be Mike Rener, joined by Jeff Cavanaugh, by Julie
Dobbs, and over there at thehelm it is shoopy. What's going on?

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Everybody? Whoa wow? Groovy?Good times? Well that gets us
off to a pretty hot start.Hey man, that's hot. Hey what
else? Shoopy? I don't know. That's about all I got. All
right, the room like that.That's good, that's nice. We're good.

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Let's go home. It's all Igot to offer. Y'all see we
lost Haley. What Hailey Charles.No, No, Haley Cavender, one
of the girl twins, and she'sgonna come to TCU and play basketball.
She's not she's out, but she'snot in. She didn't go to heaven

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or anything. No, she said. It makes it sound like she's really
gone. No, no, no, no, no, She's gonna go
back to Miami play with there's sisteragain. Oh yeah, guy, it's
weird because we're just talking about themyesterday. Yeah. I thought we're gonna
have a Cavender twin. Yeah.I thought we're gonna have a basketball but
we're really excited. Yeah. Iwas gonna go get season tickets to the
Frogs. But she's so the dreamdied, dream died. She decided she

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wanted to play again, and she'slike, I guess i'll play here because
Jake Ferguson's my boyfriend and he's onthe Cowboys, So I guess I'll play
at TCU. And her sister's like, i'll play too. I'm gonna go
back to Miami where we were.She's like, Oh, if you're gonna
play, I guess i'll go withyou. So we lost her so Jake
Ferguson couldn't keep her here. Idon't know. I've been trying to get
a hold of him. He hadn'treally answered yet. I don't have the
same poll as some people at ourstation. Not me. No, I

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was thinking of Ben Rogers. Iwas listening to him today. Yeah,
his fight with his mailman is myfavorite thing going on in the world right
now. Ben Rogers mailman won't bringhim the mail for days at a time
because sometimes he blocks the mailbox.Oh well, he shouldn't do that.
And so Ben got somehow Ben gotthe cell phone number of his local congressman

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and he's calling him right now totalk about his mailman. Quite a minute,
who blocks the mailbox? So apparentlyBen didn't realize, but sometimes he
would block the mailbox, and sothe mailman would like leave a note that
like, we can't deliver the mailif you block the mailbox. Does how
do you parking on the street?Oh they got mailboxes like out there on

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the okay, okay, all right, yeah, yeah, So his spiteful
mailman will take the time to writea handwritten note about why he's not delivering
the mail and put that in butwon't put the mail in and then then
him are feuding. Yeah. Seethat's another thing about suburban living. I
just don't understand. Over there insleepy Lakewood, we all have mailboxes on

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our porch. That's right, mymail and we know our mailman. Yeah,
it sounds like suburb mailmen are pwords. Just drive around their little
truck and don't get out right andit it's like, if I have to
get out of my truck, Iain't doing it, And that, to
me, is the work of acoward. So I'd like to salute my
mailman who parks in front of myhouse and then walks. Yeah, because

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he's a badass. I can seeboth sides, because it would be frustrating
if you've told the person that livesthere not to park in front of the
mailbox so you can do your job. That would be frustrating if that person
continued to park in front of themailbox, like they just don't care about
you and your job. However,if you're the mailman, you have one
job that's the maize to deliver themail. There might be some roadblocks or

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some obstacles in your day, butyou still got to try your hardest to
deliver the mail to the people.Yeah, y'all ever leave traps in the
yard for the mailman? No,I do not want to trap the mailman
when I come home to make surehe's keeping it on the sidewalk. But
now, on the other hand,uh huh, it's quite possible. Knowing
how Ben is, and we alldo know how he is, and there

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are times when he can be somethingof a pretty serious irritant, it's possible
that he has done something to irritatethe mailman, just like he does to
people up here. Yeah, buthe pretends that he hasn't. Right in
the air, he's get real nice. He's like, and I love the
mailman while he's explaining, oh yeah, of course on the air. Yeah

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yeah, even said he he's like, I tried to make it right with
him, Like I was going togive him a hundred bucks and tell him
that I appreciate him, but hedrove away and he won't deliver. My
mind, he was going to givehim a hundred bucks, that's what he
said, give him a hundred bucksfor not delivering the mail as much to
deliver the mail. Most mailmen thatI know, if they think they've got

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one hundred dollars coming to him,they will hang around and pretty much do
whatever they have to do within reasonto get it. I think that's probably
true. How long before the mailmanstarts asking us for tips like they do
everywhere? Will I get Starbucks drivethrough? Mine has to be a while
away. First, he has toask me to stop setting traps in the
yard. Then we could get aroundto tipping. Yeah. I like to

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put obstacles out that he has tojump over from the sidewalk. It's probably
coming though, yeah, because everybodyis. And it's just so awkward.
I know I've talked about that.I know we've talked about this before,
but it's just so awkward. Doy'all feel like when somebody asks you for
a tip on their little machine,they'll say, oh, there's a question
there that you have to answer firstbefore you pay, before you put your

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card in, and it's like,would you like to tip one? I've
started getting confident enough to just sayno tip, Like if I'm driving through
a Starbucks, Yeah, yeah,I'm driving through a Starbucks. I'm already
paying seven dollars for a coffee,which is ridiculous, and all they do
is hand it to me. ButNow this is this is my new fear.

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When you say no on the littlemachine, but you still have to
interact with them. Do you noticea difference, because I'm sorry to notice
a difference. I'll drive in andthe girl on the drive Hi, it's
a beautiful day Starbucks. What wouldyou like? Oh, I hope you
have a great day, ma'am.There's just one quick question. If you
could please answer this question and thenyou can insert your card and then you
answer the question, you say no, and then they just look up at

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you. There's no comment. Yeah, see you later. Yeah, mm
hmm. Well, I mean you'vedisrespected their work. But it's just because
you're complaining about the price of theproduct that you choose to buy. Fault
doesn't mean you have to not it'sthe principle of the thing. It's not
their fault. But I hate sayingno and then still having to interact.

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We do have a fight on thetext between delivery people. Now a guy
in the four six nine. Wedon't get paid to get out, oh
seven three seven. Every UPS driverhas to get out of their truck.
So shout out to the UPS driversand yes, postal workers are p words.
N I'm delivering right now, Ben'smailman is a pe, so who

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knows. I don't know. Allright, let's build a sure you get
paid more if you're on a walkingroute than if you drive. Right,
there's gotta be a pay difference,right because my mailman's working. I'll bet
it's all about seniority in that game. All right. It's a pretty sweet
job, I think though, towalk around, walk all around, just
have your little pack of mail,and you're getting a really good workout every

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single day. You don't have togo to the gym. I bet it's
have a fight night parcel versus postals. Yeah, I bet it's not a
sweet job starting next month. No, when it's one hundred and eighty,
Yeah, and you're walking, that'sprobably not fun. You'll probably have a
camelback. Yeah, and they're hopingthat somebody's kids out front played in the
sprinkler, you know, the thingwhere you put the water on your back

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and then you have the straw inyour mouth as you walk along. Oh
yeah, yeah, okay, it'spretty intense. So whoa, whoa,
there's a ranger game on, Likethere's just something happened that really pissed Josh
Smith. Off. No Smith geta couple of big hits, all of

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a sudden it gets He must havefelt like it was thrown at, or
maybe he got hit or something.My TV's got snakes on. Mike's mind
is fueled by Celsius Essential Energy drinks. Uh well, I came across a
couple of baseball notes that I thoughtwere worthy of bringing to your attention if

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you will today. One has todo with a big return. Albert Suarez
pitched in a game the other day. The last time he did that,

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his Giants battery mate was Nick Huntleyand was facing an Arizona lineup that included
Paul Goldschmidt before he got to theCardinals and JD. Martinez before he got
to the Red Sox. That wasa while ago. That was like twenty
seventeen, and he has not beenin the Major League since then. That
is two thousand, three hundred andninety five days. Took him a little

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break, if you're counting, hedid take him a little break. He
was still in the game. Hewas in Venezuela Triple A Japan, Korea,
Venezuela again, just waiting for achance that the Orioles finally gave him.
Last September, they brought him upto the minor leagues, and on

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Wednesday, the now thirty four yearold made good on the comeback, pitching
five and two thirds shutout innings,striking out four and walking down as the
Orioles completed a sweep of the Twins. Now, this is not the longest
gap between big league appearances ever.Paul Schreiber waited out twenty two years.

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I sent the guy from Matt aboutyou. I don't know Paul Riser,
all right, Oh yeah, PaulRiser. Close. Close. That's from
nineteen twenty three to nineteen forty five. Wait, what do you say?
Twenty three, nineteen twenty three,Okay to nineteen forty five between big league

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appearances. And the only reason thishappened, I mean, this is never
going to be surpassed. But theonly reason it happened the depression. He
couldn't afford a glove. You're close, Okay. It was World War Two
where the Yankees were short on players. Yeah, that didn't count. That
didn't count because all the hero theyhad to go be heroes and they couldn't

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feel the team, and so theyjust were had an open house and you
went and pitched. That don't count. I think our new guy has the
record. I hope he does.I'm not counting that, all right.
See if you count this, howwere you able bodied enough to pitch in
the bigs but you weren't able bodiedenough to go serve our country and defend

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us against the Nazis? Yeah?Yeah, what kind of patriot are you?
Here's the axis powers bearing down onus, our freedom at risk,
the world about to end, andwhat are you doing filling in for heroes
who are protecting you. Tan orHalk pitched a complete game shutout against the

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Guardians yesterday. And if you're oneof these who thinks, yeah, I
like baseball, okay, but thegames are just so long. Well,
the time of this game was acool hour and forty nine minutes. Can
I make a sad admission? What'sthat? Sometimes? I think the sports

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go too fast. Now, weall complained about baseball games, and I'm
like, yeah, let's get youknow, three hours under three hours,
that would be good. But sometimeswhen I'm watching a basketball game, if
it's like a six thirty star ora baseball game goes too fast, I'm
like, man, I wish therewas still more sport to happen. Now
what do we do? Yeah,now it's over, But I don't want

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to go to bed yet. I'veseen some baseball games where you know,
guys were up there swinging on thesecond or third pitch of every bat,
and pitchers had command, they weren'twalking guys and stuff. And I mean,
you look up and it's the bottomof the seven. I'm going,
wait a minute, may we justgot here? Yeah, I want to
do more sport. And now theycan't buy beer after the seventh or whatever,

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and I was really hoping to getone. Sad Well, this is
the shortest game, shortest nine inninggame, according to Baseball Reference. By
the way, I'm getting all ofthis from the work of the great Levi
Weaver wind Up. He is.Levi Weaver is the goat. The wind
Up is the Athletics Baseball newsletter.Yes, and if you're a baseball guy,

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it is a must read every day. Also check out Levi Weaver's fine
work on Spotify when he was amusician before he became a writer. Yes,
boys got skills he does in lotsand lots of ways. And now
he plays for an adult baseball leaguein Oak Cliff. He seems like he's
having a lot of fun. Yeah, yep, I hope he is.

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He's a great guy, and he'sone of those guys that you wish only
good things for. He's just thatsweet get. Time of the game was
an hour and forty nine minutes,and that is the shortest nine inning game.
And this is what really got megoing on this since the Galaraga imperfecto.

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Oh where he got hosed by thestupid umpire. Yes, when a
guy was out by like three feetsafe Jim Joyce agree, Umpire, you're
a jerk, Jim? How thathappened? On June second, twenty ten.
The time of the game that daywas an hour and forty four minutes,

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and that was also against the ClevelandIndians. It was the shortest Red
Sox game since April twenty second,nineteen ninety nine, and that's an hour
in forty nine minutes, and theshortest nine inning game at Fenway Park since
May twenty fourth of nineteen seventy five. That was an hour and forty eight

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minutes. But the thing that gotme going was getting it got me thinking
about the Galarraga imperfect it Again.I hadn't thought about that in quite some
time. And do you everybody rememberthat? I do for sure, okay,
really, but I'm learning about it. Okay, Well it was he
was perfect for eight and two thirdsinnings and there was a play where he

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had to cover first. Ball washit to the first basement, he had
to cover first, and he wasclearly out clear when it was clearly out.
I'll show you the play, Julie. Here's the last player's two outs.
Perfect game underway, got it throughit. I mean, it's it's
a close play. But yeah,called him safe and he was not safe,

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and so a not just a nohitter, a perfect game was stolen
from him by an umpire because theydidn't ever replay. That's terrible. And
the neat thing about this is bothof those guys, Armando Galarraga, who
you know, on the whole ofhis career was just a guy. You
know, he wasn't a star oranything like that. But he and the

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umpiring question Jim Joyce, who hada lengthy career in baseball as an umpire,
both handled this situation with such incrediblegrace class they did. I was
stunned, Yeah, like Jim Joycefelt off Ohn unlike unlike the umpire that

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we talked about the other day,where he's like, I'll just go with
what I said on the field andthey're like, no, did you see
the replays again? And they're like, so you know you're wrong. He's
like, I don't know you're talkingabout. No. Jim Joyce was very,
very sad. Yeah, Jim Joycewas. Yes, I was wrong.
I blew it. Did his armsjust do the wrong thing? I
don't know. Maybe maybe he sawsomething that he or he thought he saw
something that he really didn't. Idon't know. I can't change it.

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Nope, No, he can't changeit. They didn't have replay then or
anything. No. Yeah, buthe did feel terrible if he knew he
was wrong and there was nothing thathe could do about it. There's an
article written in twenty twenty where JimJoyce said, I think about it still
almost every day. I don't wantto be known as Jim Joyce, the
guy that blew the perfect Game,but I think that's inevitable because I'm Jim

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Joyce, the umpire who blew theperfect game. Yeah, yeah you are.
And Armando Galarraga, I'm sure ittook him a little time but eventually,
and really probably sooner rather than later, he was accepting of the situation

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and really graceful about it. AndI think he and Jim Joyce did a
couple of you know, media thingstogether and everything, and they both handled
it just with the in the typeof way where you think, if I've
ever ever get into a situation likethat, I hope I can be that
way graceful. Yeah, but thisstory just made me think about that.

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Man. God, it's making mereread the article from twenty twenty where they
talked to Jim Joyce about it,and they're telling the story again. Jim
Leland comes out of the dougout obviously, and he's yelling at him, Jimmy,
you blew it. You blew it. Go look at the video and
when the game was over, itsays. By the time Joyce reaches the
changing area, he's now yelling,I hope I got it right. I

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hope I got it right. Hiscolleagues Darryl Cousins, Jim Wolf and Hudson
don't say a word. Before seeingthe replay, they surround Joyce by his
locker. He turns to Cousins andasks whether he made the correct call.
Cousins pauses, then says, Ithink he was out. Jimmy Joyce throws
his hat, rips off his shirtand pants, and paces the room,
yelling and cursing. He then watchesthe replay the only time he's seen it,

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and rages more. The only goodumpire Ever, he's actually mad at
himself for screwing up, as opposedto be like I didn screw up,
have you? Yeah? You gottaown it, right, Yeah, but
you'd be surprised how many of thoseguys have a really hard time owning something
like that. Yeah, but JimJoyce did, and for that, I

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for one will always think fondly ofhim and his time in the big leagues.
All right, well we're off androlling. It is time to make
our way towards that sports dea Jules, What do we got? Well,
it is time to discuss Jack Leider'sdebut that went down today in Detroit.
Don't tell every spoiler alert spoiler alertplus, who's the highest paid athlete in

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DFW? The answer may surprise you.