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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Spooky season. Early voting has been opened in Nebraska for
a couple of weeks. Now, my friends in Iowa, today
is a day. If you're on the Iowa side, you
want an early vote in person, county auditor's office, find
their website, figure out where you need to go, what
you need to have, have a driver's license, valid form
of ID. That way you can do that. But guess
what that is open for anybody who's within the range
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of my voice, assuming you are not. You know, it's
dangerous to say that because we have people that listen
on the app in like fifteen different states or something,
you know, So I'll be honest. I only know the
rules for Nebraska and Iowa. My bad. If you're in
Nebraska and Iowa. Here's the easy thing early voting. You
can do it now until election day. Valid photo ID
that you can give to your county auditor. That way
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you can get in there being bang boom. How's that?
It's us a World Food Day? So take take We
had hand washing Day yesterday, food Day today. It's pretty generic. Yeah,
pop quiz, but what's the second most listened to country
other than the United States of the Emory Songer show.
You have the you have the they have the data.
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I mean one would guess Canada probably do Canada. I
don't even. I don't even. They're not even on this list.
Canada does not like the Emery Songer show. I haven't
gotten my reach into Canada yet, and no one from
Canada listens. I'm gonna have to give some pootine on
the show. I think Trudeau probably just blocks it. Anything
right wing. Yeah, you're probably right. Yeah, he puts one
of his eyebrows directly on I'm not even that right wing.
Like I just I talk about conservative politics, you know, Like,
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what do you want from me? I like, you know
the chicken wing guy? Oh that guys, I'm not right wing.
I'm not left wing. I'm chicken wing. That's nice. Yeah,
I'm like put that on a T shirt. Yeah, that's
a good right in Canada. Right there, it's pretty good.
What about the West Wing? Oh, I'm west wing. I'm
whatever gets me to the West wing. That's the wing.
I yes, I think most people are like that. Hey, so,
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so who is it? They play cricket here? Cuba? Hah?
They Bangladesh? No, I don't know if Bangladesh is on here,
but yeah, they play cricket here. Pakistan they're known for
their curry. Pakistan huh huh, China they don't. But Pakistan
and these guys aren't very friendly with each other. Iran hah.
You think Aron's listening to my show, that's probably not
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a great sign. Let me look, I don't see them
on the list either. This list is pretty fascinating though,
All right, Well, shoot, England, India, India. Yeah, people in
India listening to this show. People in India. Number three
is Barbados. Okay, Yeah, I'm losing I'm losing faith in
this list being at all relevant. Nicely done, though, Hey,
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a couple of things here. First of all, we were
playing a little biological warfare in here because I had
a big sneeze and you gilted me for you know, sneezing.
It's a big sneeze, but you said, basically, what I
should do is just sneeze right at you next time.
That way, you know me, you know, could get each
other sick in this bubble. Yeah, I need the germs.
But I made the point that I was earlier this month,
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a couple of weeks ago, and you didn't even kind
of catch anything. So maybe you're just a man of steel.
Maybe a sneeze like that which was not necessarily in
your direct direction, it builds up your immune system indirectly
because your spidey sense your body's immune sysm's like, oh,
better bulk up. There are germs in the area. I
guess it's weird.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
There's been a bunch of people sick around me lately,
and you've gotten it yet, Lou Garrig iron man over there,
Cal Ripken Jr. I have to tell you this baseball
is a great sport. You love baseball. I like baseball.
You see what happened to Tropic Canna Field. We'll get
to Kamala Harrison a bit. Yeah, that's that. The roof
came off that was supposed to be housing people that
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were there to help out, and then we watched the
video of the roof just getting ripped apart. You know, right,
isn't that crazy? Well, guess what. The Tampa Bay Rays
officially are not going to be able to play there
starting next season. And you made the point, Matt, as
soon as this happened that they made need to be
on the move while they're repairing their roof. They're not
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gonna be ready by March, they say, already six months out.
There's no way they're gonna be ready. They're looking at
backup plans. Yeah, what was your idea? Well, you know,
we'll take them. We got our arms opened wide. They
don't even have to stay, they just can, you know,
just be here for as long as you need. We'll
be your Airbnb. Really yeah, we'll be and we're really nice.
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I'm gonna throw this out here, okay, and again, if
you're here to listen to politic talk, we'll get there.
Trust me. Kamala's on Fox and You today. We'll talk
about that. But I wanted to start with this because
I like Omaha. I like Omaha a lot. I like
baseball a lot. We have the storm Chasers over here
right well. Tropic Canna Field, which is home of the race,
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has a general capacity that roughly in the twenty five
thousand range. It opened with a capacity over forty five thousand,
but they have slowly been shrinking that because they have
a heck of a time trying to fill that place
up for any baseball games. It's located in Saint Petersburg,
not necessarily Tampa, and so it's far enough away from
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the main big city that a lot of people aren't
even interested in making the journey over there for baseball games,
and the race have been actually a really good franchise
over the last decade, well twenty five thousand people. You
know what else is the size of about twenty five
thousand people Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, which shits roughly
at twenty four thousand people outdoor venue. But one of
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the weird things about this, not only is it the size,
not not only is Charles schwab Field the size of
Tropic Canna Field matt but there's no permanent minor league
baseball affiliate that plays there. Yeah, Creighton plays there. Their
season wraps up by early mid May. Their home season anyway. Now,
Charles schwab Field hosts the Big Ten Tournament and then
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hosts the College World Series. That's three to four weeks
of you know, maybe some scheduling snaffoos that I'm sure
Omaha wouldn't want to lose if they were to woo
the Tampa Bay Rays for a temporary home. But let's
just play ball here, Let's just let's play figurative ball,
and let's just pretend like we can figure those logistics out.
Why wouldn't the Rays pick a place like Omaha? Now,
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first of all, the Kansas City Roads would have big
beef with this, so very unlikely for this to happen
because not only Kansas City very close to Omaha geographically,
but also their Triple A affiliate plays in a suburb.
But if they were okay with this, where else are
they gonna go? Can you give me a place that
has a baseball field that can house a Major League
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Baseball team with the clubhouse for a full season potentially
and have the opportunity to make them feel at home
while showing support to you know, an area which otherwise
and no disrespect to the Kansas City Royals or the
Stormchaser or anything, but seems to be kind of a
free agent in the baseball market. Mm hmm. I know
a lot of cub fans that are over here. Some
Colorado Rockies fans live on my street. People like the Twins,
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like the Cardinals. You like the Cardinals on top of
the Royals, and I'm sure there are those Bandwagon Yankee
Dodger fans that are around. Be a great way to
get some Tampa Bay fans up here, well, not only that.
Don't you think people would go, oh yeah, Like, let's
say they played eighty one. Let's say they have to
be displaced, and they can use their minor league facility
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in Durham for a couple of weeks there while we're
doing the College World Series. They do a couple weeks
worth of home games over in Durham, North Carolina, where
their triple affiliate is. Okay, let's say we have them
for like seventy three games. You don't think that for
seventy three games that we could you know, fill that
place up, make them feel like welcome and make major
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League Baseball be like someth's going on there? Like like like,
didn't they do a major league game here as part
of the College World Series one year? Pretty sure they did?
Sounds right there was there was one one game that
they played there. I'm just trying to figure out what, like,
who's not making this phone call in what are the
hurdles to putting us in this conversation? Because where else
are they going to go? Oakland? They're going to Oakland
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Royal's played the Tigers June thirteenth, twenty nineteen. There you go, yep,
in what was Tdameritrade Park now Charles schwab Field. Yeah,
it can be done. It can be done. Well, I
got thoughts on this. This has the ability. They could
expand this up to thirty five thousand people. You cannot
tell me this is not one of the premier baseball
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facilities in the United States of America that isn't on
the hook with the contract for an entire full six
month Major League Baseball season or minor league baseball season
or independent ball. This thing. Outside of the Creighton baseball games,
which there aren't that many at home, they're done by
the early part of the Major league season. We have
a week of the Big Ten Tournament, two weeks of
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the College World Series. Other than that, especially the last
half July August, September. What do you think is going
on there? Who's playing baseball at Charles swab Field, Omaha? Nobody.
Who's to say that the Tampa Bay Rays couldn't take
residents in Omaha for a year. I'm just throwing that
out there. I'm trying to nfs something here, just seeing
you know, in Kansas City, like, what are they upset
at the proximity? We can cut plenty of people down
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there and still go to their game. We can talk
about things. Yeah, this is what we're talking about. I
think two twenty news Radio eleven ten kfab and Raised
Song theer. I'm just saying. The stadium size of Tropicana
Field they and Charles Schwab Field here in Omaha's about
the same. We don't have a tenant that lives there
except for Creighton Baseball, which is mostly done by mid May,
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and then of course the Big Ten in College World Series,
Big Tin Tournament, College World Series. So it's thinking, you know, like,
how do we make this conversation a thing where maybe
Omaha gets to, you know, snag some games from the
Tampa Bay Rays and prove to Major League Baseball that hey,
we could be a legitimate market up here. TAM's on
our phone line of four h two, five, five, eight eleven, ten, Hey, Tim,
what do you think about all this?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I was just curious, does Omaha have direct flights between
Tampa Bay and if not, couldn't they also add that
for a year while we were host team.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
There's got to be a way, you would think, Timm,
I'm on the website right now that's got flight schedules
right now. But they're connectors through Saint Louis or Atlanta
or Chicago, a lot of these main hubs. But you
would think that it would be something that if is
not accommodating, it could be accommodated. And maybe there is
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stuff that I'm just not seeing right now of a
way to get direct flight, because that'd be easy. I'm
looking Frontier actually, now that I'm on Expedia dot com.
It's showing me a bunch of Frontier flights over the
next month at least that look to be Tampa to
Omaha and back direct. Now, I don't know how many people.
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I don't know how many people are into Frontier, but
I've done Frontier down to Orlando and back and that
was easy. So I don't know. You know, I think
you're onto something here, Tim, And then all of a sudden,
like some people in Florida will be looking like, hey, yeah,
I'll go watch my baseball team play in Omaha, and
then all of a sudden like, wow, Omaha's actually really cool.
And now, all of a sudden, Omaha gets a bunch
of good will from people that otherwise would never have
come here.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I'm sure our hotels would appreciate it too.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Oh yeah, I mean, come on at the end, if
you got a bunch of Tampa displaced people that want
to watch some baseball, heck yeah, we're ready for that,
tam good stuff. Thanks for the call. Let's go to
Jeff on the phone line four two, five to five,
eight eleven ten. What do you think, Jeff.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I think you've got a thousand people that listen to
you to go to baseball games. And I think one
hundred of those people would write a letter to the
Tampa Bays general manager and say, hey, we need we
know you need a home for the next year. Omah
has got a great place to play. We're inviting you
to come to Ohaha to play. And the thing is
they're going to move their players here. It's not like
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they're going to base in Tampa for that six months. Yeah,
and Omah has got great communication with other airports they
met they used charter planes or if they use the
commercial and we're sentill relocated East coast, West coast. I mean,
Kansas City's not far away. But if one hundred people
from Omaha roll the general manager letters say this is
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what we've got here, come Dome Mall, We'll go to
your games. We'll promote it. And I don't know what
the average attendance is in Campa.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Not good.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I have a feeling that it's probably seven thousand. We
are to be able to get seven.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Jeff, Jeff, I think easily we would have a better
atmosphere for them because we were starved for that sort
of thing. But also their stadium down there is no
we're close to the city center of Tampa. It is
in a suburb. This is literally downtown.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I've got a niece and a nephew in law that
live in Tampa. They're baseball fans. I'm gonna run it
by them. But the first thing is, if you gave
me the name and the address of the Tampa Bay's
general manager, and I'm driving now, I can't write it down,
but you gave me the address today, tomorrow and the
next day, I would catch it somehow and I'd write
them a letter. I think other people would.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Also like a good grassroots effort. I like the idea
of putting us on their radar. Jeff, thanks for the
call today. That's good stuff. Okay, Tom's on the line
real quick. Hey, Tom, thanks for calling in today. What's
on your mind?
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Aye us Before we get too far ahead of the
thing and get the car before the horse. Somebody needs
to check with the NCUBA first, because I believe their
contract with College World Series Inc. Limits how many games
can be played at the field because they want to
preserve the pristine conditions of the field for the CWS.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yeah, and you're right, Tom and Creighton also would have
a say at this. And you mentioned the nc DOUBLEA.
I'm sure Kansas City the Royals because I'm sure there's
some territorial rights thing that's pretty archaic that baseball still
observes because their minor league affiliate is in town as well.
I'm sure there's going to be a lot of hurdles
when it comes to those things. But let's just I'm
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with you, let's not put the car before the horse.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
But just like hey, also there's also some logistics involved.
When they had that Royals Detroit single game here, I
think two years ago, MLB forced them to improve the
lighting to MLB standards.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Right, Yeah, and I'm sure that would have to happen.
But this, I'm just looking at this as a possible
you know, if we can get through all of those hurdles,
you know, the NCAA, the College Wald Series, the Big
Ten Conference, the Creighton Blue Jays and the Kansas City
Royals and the Omaha storm Chasers and all that stuff.
We can find a way over all of those hurdles
right and make Omaha at least a contender to land
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this team for some time next year when they need
a home. Maybe that's a way that we can, like
we can audition as a potential major league city, kind
of like Oklahoma City did in the NBA when the
Hornets were displaced out of New Orleans for a bit,
and then a few years later, all of a sudden,
the Oklahoma City thunder were a thing. I'm just throwing
that out there. You know, appreciate the call, though, Tom,
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It's a good stuff. Hey, if you've got thoughts on
this to baseball, we got some emails coming in. I'd
love to chat with you. Four h two five, five,
eight eleven ten. I know it's not it's not as
easy as just you know, calling the Rays up and saying, hey,
come to Omaha. But it's kind of fun to talk about,
isn't it. You know, like the idea, this could be
a chance that Omaha has to, you know, be the
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heroes for a franchise and all of a sudden, maybe
build some goodwill with maybe some of these major league
cities or major league organizations and become a major League
city of some kind in the future. Just throwing it
out there. It's just an idea. You can call us
at four h two, five, five, eight, eleven, ten two,
twenty nine, News Radio eleven ten kfab. Emery Sunger on
News Radio eleven ten kfab. I blame Taylor Swift. Why
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it's my American right to do so. I think this
is her fault. Did you see her and Travis Kelseyer
at the baseball game at Yankee Stadium the other night?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Good for in them. They literally just they they went
and started to take over the baseball account now too.
Oh how romantic. And people are like, why do you
care so much? She's just going and living her life,
And I'm just like, I don't need to see Spike
Lee on at course side unless he's like literally jawing
with Reggie Miller and it becomes a part of the game. Yeah,
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then that's a different thing. I don't need to see
Jack Nicholson sitting courtside at the Laker game cheering on
The Lake Show doesn't need to see it with that
signature sneer in the glasses and him clapping. I don't
need to see that stuff. I don't need to see
owner Steve Balmer going crazy for the Los Angeles Clippers. Yeah,
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get that guy out of here. That guy goes crazy.
Who cares about that guy. He's got a lot of money.
Good for him. Hoping Their new arena, by the way,
looks pretty cool. Yeah, So why are you showing me
a fan up there in the box. It's clearly better
than us, and she's there with her her man, who's
a three time Super Bowl winning tight end. It's great
tight end, he's very good, but also just kind of
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a jaggalloon. Why are you showing me this? Why do
I care? Why does the announcers have to keep bringing
up that she's there? Is it some sort of monumental
feat that Taylor Swift showed up to a Yankee game?
You see Bill Belichick when he was on the Manning
cast and the camera's pan to Taylor Swift. They just yeah,
them and the Mannings both just sat there, just sat
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there and waited for it to stop. Yeah, which is
what every normal football fan does, just sits there and
waits for that camera angle.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
To be done.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Hey, why are we spending time doing that?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Can we go back to the game?
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Please?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Can I can I not see the fans? Do I
have to look up there? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
There was.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
There's already enough reasons to this, like the Kansas City
Chiefs at this point, and you just keep giving me more. Right,
it's just another one. If she was dating like Dak
Prescott or something. And the Cowboys. Remember when that happened
with Romo, Oh, Jessica Simpson with the pink Cowboys jersey. Yeah,
I mean that was kind of a scandalous thing, right,
Oh yeah? Were people all up in arms? Though not really?
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You know why because Dallas wasn't winning. Nobody cared because
they didn't have a reason to hate the Cowboys beyond
them just being the cowboys. Remember when Aaron Rodgers was
dating Danika Patrick, he was Yeah, what happened to them?
I don't know. That seems like a temperamental relationship. It
definitely was. But she showed up a couple of pocket
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fights and then great afterwards. Oh come on, I bet
it was come on, life in the fast laying Am
I right on? Iyahuska or whatever? He liked, hwa iyahoska.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
It's like off brand ayahuasca that doesn't really give you
a trip. It just makes you blind for a couple whiles.
I don't. I don't trip, man, so I don't. I
don't know what it's called. Anyway, we were talking about
baseball and we were talking about the Tampa Bay Rays.
They are with that at home. A couple of side
notes to this. I saw on Facebook today there was
a video from the Florida Aquarium. And lost in all
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of this is that there was a ten thousand gallon
ray tank in right center field at Tropicana Field full
of actual cow nos stingrays. Well, nobody thought about the
darn rays when the hurricane hit. The razors out there
in their fish tank, live in life, and then all
of a sudden the roof's gone. They don't they don't notice,
they don't care. Well, they eventually had to h They
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went in and they rescued the rays out of their
fish tank and relocated them to the Florida Aquarium. They said,
they all have no idea that anything different is happening,
and they're all eating and behaving normally. Let's all be
like the rays. Right, Let's let's let's be like those
cow nose stingrays and dropic can of field. The roof's
caving in on us. We're getting actively picked up and
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moved to a different place. Life is not the same,
but we don't care where we were unaffected by this
as a whole. Let's live life like that. Hey, and
the outside roll can do whatever they want to us,
but we're still us at the end of the day.
I like it. Good job, Good on you. Cow no stingrays. However,
there's not going to be cow no stingrays at Raise games,
probably unless the rays go to a place that have
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steam rays. H Well, you know what place has stingrays.
The Henry dor Ley Zoo and aquarium, several of them. Actually,
you can feed them. I don't know if they have
cownose stingrays, but they have stingrays. I fed them. Have
you fed them? No, you can go feed stingrays. They
have a stingray cove over there.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Right.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
You get a little piece of fish in your hand,
You just put it in your hand, and then you
put your hand under water while you're holding it, right, Yeah,
and then the sting ray just comes along and seze
your hand and then just like gets on your hand
and just guzzles it down. You can feel its little mouth, huh,
maneuvering the food into it. Isn't that how the Steve
Irwin died? Why do you have to go there? Well,
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inquiring minds want to know, Well, why do you have
to why did you have to bring that up?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
That?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Okay, that stingrays have not killed many people, okay, but
the one they did, let's face it, it was a
bad one, all right. The stingray PR people have been
trying to do their best to make sure that you know,
we understand that stingrays or defense only type situations. And
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from what we know, Steve was in shallow water, didn't
see the ray there went and was kind of like
laying down on like as they were filming something. He
was laying kind of along the shore line and laid
right on top of this stingray, which in defense then
you know, used its barbed stinger and unfortunately got Steve
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in a bad place. Right, May he rest in peace,
a true advocate for wildlife and education. But don't blame
the ray did He didn't mean just he was about
to get squished, and like that was the only way
that he knows how to avoid that. Well, you can't
exactly bite somebody. He can't make noises. Murder seems like
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an overreaction. That's all I'm saying. Slight overreaction to murder.
It's you didn't mean to murder it. He could have said,
excuse me. He can't That's what I do. He doesn't
speak pardon me. He cannot even make noises. He could
have given the old Midwest op. He might be able
to blow like bubbles, but like Steve also was probably
making bubbles with his movements. Okay, and let's be honest,
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you're probably not going to notice that from something that
you're laying on top of. You know, a spider's not
going to bite you, except for when it feels like
it's about to get squished. Okay. Everything has its own
defense mechanism. The ray had a defense mechanism. It just
got Stephen the wrong spot and murder him. Anyway, we
have rays. You can feed the rays at Henry door
Ley Zoo and Aquarium. And all I'm saying is, who's
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to say we couldn't, you know, have some Henry door
Ley Zoo knights over at Charles Schwab Field for the
new home of the Tampa Bay Rays, the new temporary home,
and make the players and the Rays fans that decide
to come up for a game feel at home. If
we can get this done now. Jenna emails in and says,
the idea that Nebraskans have any loyalty to the Royals
is a myth. If any major league team decided to
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make Omaha their home, they would receive a warm welcome,
and Omaha residents would welcome the Rays. I don't know
if our friends at the storm Chasers feel the same way.
I'm just gonna throw that out there, not because what
Jenna is saying not true. It's just that they want
to protect whatever footprint they do have here, especially the
storm Chasers themselves. Just like, Okay, well, if there's baseball
in Omaha, and you're telling me there's a baseball game
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going on at Warner Park in Papillion, and there's a
baseball game going on downtown at Charles Schwap Field involving
major league players, what do you think baseball fans are
going to go do? They're going to go see the
baseball team that has major league players. It's going to
make it. I think life difficult and probably a financial
hit and attendance hit for the Storm Chasers at Winner Park.
We're spitballing here. I'm not advocating for anything specifically. We're
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just spitballing and workshop and how you know Omaha can
get on the map in a bigger way here. I
got some more emails here from people who think have
thoughts about the Tampa Bay Rays and Omaha potentially trying
to woo them for you know, a portion of their
schedule at least because they can't play at Tropic Canna
Field because Hurricane Milton knocked the roof off. So you know,
there's that. It's two forty eight News Radio eleven ten
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kfab and resung. If we can get through the hurdles
that likely would you know, come with trying to negotiate
with the College World Series and the NCAA and the
Big Ten Conference and creating Blue Jay Baseball and the
Storm Chasers and the Royals who likely have some sort
of footprint territory thing that can protect them from stuff
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like that. Well, with that being said, there has been
another city already linked to this team before, and David
wants to remind me of that. And you know what
city I'm talking about, of course, right, come again, the
city that's not Tampa Bay that has been associated with
this franchise over the last few years, as they've been
talking about potentially new stadiums the Rays. Yeah, second, second city.
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They even talked about splitting time there. They did half
and half. Yeah, I don't know, I must have missed
this news. You got to get on the internet. Yeah,
what is it again? What's the what's the website? How
do you get to the internet? Internet?
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Dot go?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
That's what I go to. That's a bad one. Don't
go there.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
No.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Montreal, oh, Montreal, sure, sure have a bag at do
They just are their bats bag attes bag at bats.
They're hard enough to beat bat bag at bats. The
Montreal Expos were a team for like, I don't know,
thirty five years. So my guess is that I think
there they probably know what baseball is up there. They
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David says, you know, Tampa Bay was gonna split time.
They were planned twenty twenty eight, they were going to
start splitting time there, but that has fallen through. I
don't know what the plan is. I'm sure that's where
the first call is going to be honest with you,
is that, Hey, can we go play in Montreal now,
I said, I replied to David, said, I'm not even
sure that they have a spot though that could house
a major league team, and he said, well, Olympic Stadium
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is still open. Well, Olympic Stadium was the whole problem
to begin with in Montreal. The Expos played at Olympic Stadium,
which is not baseball specific. This was one of those
big you know, like the Oakland Coliseum and the original
Bush Stadium in Saint Louis and all those multi purpose
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cookie cutter stadiums that literally three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh,
river Front Candlestick, like all of those stadiums basically were
there to serve multiple purposes like baseball and football, and
for Olympic Stadium. Montreal hosted the Olympics, and that was
like they used that for like track and field and
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stuff like that. It was like concrete turf, terrible for
the health of the player. It was nasty on the inside,
not updated whatsoever. You had all these different people in
Montreal who probably cared about baseball but had no reason
to go spend their hard earned money to watch what
usually was a not very good baseball team play in
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a terrible facility. I mean, think about the Rays. They
can't draw fans in Tampa slash Saint Petersburg, and they
can't draw fans there while being a good baseball team
and having at least some modern amenities in that stadium.
And now you're going to go to a place built
in the nineteen seventies that already has been notorious for
being just a dump in general. And think about the
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body owder from all those French Canadians. Oh, come on, anyway,
David says, I remember a few ceiling tiles falling during
some of the games, and the bad views of the field. Yeah,
it wasn't made for a baseball stadium until after the
Olympics because nobody thought about sightlines and things like that.
So if they're going to Montreal just to play an
Olympic stadium, that we should take that out as a
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stinking insult. Steve also said there is a direct flight
to Saint Petersburg from Omaha on Allegiant air as well,
So Allegiant goes to Saint Pete you can't get to
the Tampa airport as well. It looks like through Frontier airlines,
so there are some direct flights there if Tampa fans
wanted to come and watch their team on a direct
flight to Omaha. I don't know a lot of it
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makes sense to me. We'll move on. Coming up next.
News Radio eleven ten kfab
Spooky season. Early voting has been opened in Nebraska for
a couple of weeks. Now, my friends in Iowa, today
is a day. If you're on the Iowa side, you
want an early vote in person, county auditor's office, find
their website, figure out where you need to go, what
you need to have, have a driver's license, valid form
of ID. That way you can do that. But guess
what that is open for anybody who's within the range
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of my voice, assuming you are not. You know, it's
dangerous to say that because we have people that listen
on the app in like fifteen different states or something,
you know, So I'll be honest. I only know the
rules for Nebraska and Iowa. My bad. If you're in
Nebraska and Iowa. Here's the easy thing early voting. You
can do it now until election day. Valid photo ID
that you can give to your county auditor. That way
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you can get in there being bang boom. How's that?
It's us a World Food Day? So take take We
had hand washing Day yesterday, food Day today. It's pretty generic. Yeah,
pop quiz, but what's the second most listened to country
other than the United States of the Emory Songer show.
You have the you have the they have the data.
(01:10):
I mean one would guess Canada probably do Canada. I
don't even. I don't even. They're not even on this list.
Canada does not like the Emery Songer show. I haven't
gotten my reach into Canada yet, and no one from
Canada listens. I'm gonna have to give some pootine on
the show. I think Trudeau probably just blocks it. Anything
right wing. Yeah, you're probably right. Yeah, he puts one
of his eyebrows directly on I'm not even that right wing.
Like I just I talk about conservative politics, you know, Like,
(01:35):
what do you want from me? I like, you know
the chicken wing guy? Oh that guys, I'm not right wing.
I'm not left wing. I'm chicken wing. That's nice. Yeah,
I'm like put that on a T shirt. Yeah, that's
a good right in Canada. Right there, it's pretty good.
What about the West Wing? Oh, I'm west wing. I'm
whatever gets me to the West wing. That's the wing.
I yes, I think most people are like that. Hey, so,
(01:56):
so who is it? They play cricket here? Cuba? Hah?
They Bangladesh? No, I don't know if Bangladesh is on here,
but yeah, they play cricket here. Pakistan they're known for
their curry. Pakistan huh huh, China they don't. But Pakistan
and these guys aren't very friendly with each other. Iran hah.
You think Aron's listening to my show, that's probably not
(02:17):
a great sign. Let me look, I don't see them
on the list either. This list is pretty fascinating though,
All right, Well, shoot, England, India, India. Yeah, people in
India listening to this show. People in India. Number three
is Barbados. Okay, Yeah, I'm losing I'm losing faith in
this list being at all relevant. Nicely done, though, Hey,
(02:39):
a couple of things here. First of all, we were
playing a little biological warfare in here because I had
a big sneeze and you gilted me for you know, sneezing.
It's a big sneeze, but you said, basically, what I
should do is just sneeze right at you next time.
That way, you know me, you know, could get each
other sick in this bubble. Yeah, I need the germs.
But I made the point that I was earlier this month,
(03:01):
a couple of weeks ago, and you didn't even kind
of catch anything. So maybe you're just a man of steel.
Maybe a sneeze like that which was not necessarily in
your direct direction, it builds up your immune system indirectly
because your spidey sense your body's immune sysm's like, oh,
better bulk up. There are germs in the area. I
guess it's weird.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
There's been a bunch of people sick around me lately,
and you've gotten it yet, Lou Garrig iron man over there,
Cal Ripken Jr. I have to tell you this baseball
is a great sport. You love baseball. I like baseball.
You see what happened to Tropic Canna Field. We'll get
to Kamala Harrison a bit. Yeah, that's that. The roof
came off that was supposed to be housing people that
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were there to help out, and then we watched the
video of the roof just getting ripped apart. You know, right,
isn't that crazy? Well, guess what. The Tampa Bay Rays
officially are not going to be able to play there
starting next season. And you made the point, Matt, as
soon as this happened that they made need to be
on the move while they're repairing their roof. They're not
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gonna be ready by March, they say, already six months out.
There's no way they're gonna be ready. They're looking at
backup plans. Yeah, what was your idea? Well, you know,
we'll take them. We got our arms opened wide. They
don't even have to stay, they just can, you know,
just be here for as long as you need. We'll
be your Airbnb. Really yeah, we'll be and we're really nice.
(04:24):
I'm gonna throw this out here, okay, and again, if
you're here to listen to politic talk, we'll get there.
Trust me. Kamala's on Fox and You today. We'll talk
about that. But I wanted to start with this because
I like Omaha. I like Omaha a lot. I like
baseball a lot. We have the storm Chasers over here
right well. Tropic Canna Field, which is home of the race,
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has a general capacity that roughly in the twenty five
thousand range. It opened with a capacity over forty five thousand,
but they have slowly been shrinking that because they have
a heck of a time trying to fill that place
up for any baseball games. It's located in Saint Petersburg,
not necessarily Tampa, and so it's far enough away from
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the main big city that a lot of people aren't
even interested in making the journey over there for baseball games,
and the race have been actually a really good franchise
over the last decade, well twenty five thousand people. You
know what else is the size of about twenty five
thousand people Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, which shits roughly
at twenty four thousand people outdoor venue. But one of
(05:28):
the weird things about this, not only is it the size,
not not only is Charles schwab Field the size of
Tropic Canna Field matt but there's no permanent minor league
baseball affiliate that plays there. Yeah, Creighton plays there. Their
season wraps up by early mid May. Their home season anyway. Now,
Charles schwab Field hosts the Big Ten Tournament and then
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hosts the College World Series. That's three to four weeks
of you know, maybe some scheduling snaffoos that I'm sure
Omaha wouldn't want to lose if they were to woo
the Tampa Bay Rays for a temporary home. But let's
just play ball here, Let's just let's play figurative ball,
and let's just pretend like we can figure those logistics out.
Why wouldn't the Rays pick a place like Omaha? Now,
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first of all, the Kansas City Roads would have big
beef with this, so very unlikely for this to happen
because not only Kansas City very close to Omaha geographically,
but also their Triple A affiliate plays in a suburb.
But if they were okay with this, where else are
they gonna go? Can you give me a place that
has a baseball field that can house a Major League
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Baseball team with the clubhouse for a full season potentially
and have the opportunity to make them feel at home
while showing support to you know, an area which otherwise
and no disrespect to the Kansas City Royals or the
Stormchaser or anything, but seems to be kind of a
free agent in the baseball market. Mm hmm. I know
a lot of cub fans that are over here. Some
Colorado Rockies fans live on my street. People like the Twins,
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like the Cardinals. You like the Cardinals on top of
the Royals, and I'm sure there are those Bandwagon Yankee
Dodger fans that are around. Be a great way to
get some Tampa Bay fans up here, well, not only that.
Don't you think people would go, oh yeah, Like, let's
say they played eighty one. Let's say they have to
be displaced, and they can use their minor league facility
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in Durham for a couple of weeks there while we're
doing the College World Series. They do a couple weeks
worth of home games over in Durham, North Carolina, where
their triple affiliate is. Okay, let's say we have them
for like seventy three games. You don't think that for
seventy three games that we could you know, fill that
place up, make them feel like welcome and make major
(07:40):
League Baseball be like someth's going on there? Like like like,
didn't they do a major league game here as part
of the College World Series one year? Pretty sure they did?
Sounds right there was there was one one game that
they played there. I'm just trying to figure out what, like,
who's not making this phone call in what are the
hurdles to putting us in this conversation? Because where else
are they going to go? Oakland? They're going to Oakland
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Royal's played the Tigers June thirteenth, twenty nineteen. There you go, yep,
in what was Tdameritrade Park now Charles schwab Field. Yeah,
it can be done. It can be done. Well, I
got thoughts on this. This has the ability. They could
expand this up to thirty five thousand people. You cannot
tell me this is not one of the premier baseball
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facilities in the United States of America that isn't on
the hook with the contract for an entire full six
month Major League Baseball season or minor league baseball season
or independent ball. This thing. Outside of the Creighton baseball games,
which there aren't that many at home, they're done by
the early part of the Major league season. We have
a week of the Big Ten Tournament, two weeks of
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the College World Series. Other than that, especially the last
half July August, September. What do you think is going
on there? Who's playing baseball at Charles swab Field, Omaha? Nobody.
Who's to say that the Tampa Bay Rays couldn't take
residents in Omaha for a year. I'm just throwing that
out there. I'm trying to nfs something here, just seeing
you know, in Kansas City, like, what are they upset
at the proximity? We can cut plenty of people down
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there and still go to their game. We can talk
about things. Yeah, this is what we're talking about. I
think two twenty news Radio eleven ten kfab and Raised
Song theer. I'm just saying. The stadium size of Tropicana
Field they and Charles Schwab Field here in Omaha's about
the same. We don't have a tenant that lives there
except for Creighton Baseball, which is mostly done by mid May,
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and then of course the Big Ten in College World Series,
Big Tin Tournament, College World Series. So it's thinking, you know, like,
how do we make this conversation a thing where maybe
Omaha gets to, you know, snag some games from the
Tampa Bay Rays and prove to Major League Baseball that hey,
we could be a legitimate market up here. TAM's on
our phone line of four h two, five, five, eight eleven, ten, Hey, Tim,
what do you think about all this?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I was just curious, does Omaha have direct flights between
Tampa Bay and if not, couldn't they also add that
for a year while we were host team.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
There's got to be a way, you would think, Timm,
I'm on the website right now that's got flight schedules
right now. But they're connectors through Saint Louis or Atlanta
or Chicago, a lot of these main hubs. But you
would think that it would be something that if is
not accommodating, it could be accommodated. And maybe there is
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stuff that I'm just not seeing right now of a
way to get direct flight, because that'd be easy. I'm
looking Frontier actually, now that I'm on Expedia dot com.
It's showing me a bunch of Frontier flights over the
next month at least that look to be Tampa to
Omaha and back direct. Now, I don't know how many people.
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I don't know how many people are into Frontier, but
I've done Frontier down to Orlando and back and that
was easy. So I don't know. You know, I think
you're onto something here, Tim, And then all of a sudden,
like some people in Florida will be looking like, hey, yeah,
I'll go watch my baseball team play in Omaha, and
then all of a sudden like, wow, Omaha's actually really cool.
And now, all of a sudden, Omaha gets a bunch
of good will from people that otherwise would never have
come here.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I'm sure our hotels would appreciate it too.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Oh yeah, I mean, come on at the end, if
you got a bunch of Tampa displaced people that want
to watch some baseball, heck yeah, we're ready for that,
tam good stuff. Thanks for the call. Let's go to
Jeff on the phone line four two, five to five,
eight eleven ten. What do you think, Jeff.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I think you've got a thousand people that listen to
you to go to baseball games. And I think one
hundred of those people would write a letter to the
Tampa Bays general manager and say, hey, we need we
know you need a home for the next year. Omah
has got a great place to play. We're inviting you
to come to Ohaha to play. And the thing is
they're going to move their players here. It's not like
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they're going to base in Tampa for that six months. Yeah,
and Omah has got great communication with other airports they
met they used charter planes or if they use the
commercial and we're sentill relocated East coast, West coast. I mean,
Kansas City's not far away. But if one hundred people
from Omaha roll the general manager letters say this is
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what we've got here, come Dome Mall, We'll go to
your games. We'll promote it. And I don't know what
the average attendance is in Campa.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Not good.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I have a feeling that it's probably seven thousand. We
are to be able to get seven.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Jeff, Jeff, I think easily we would have a better
atmosphere for them because we were starved for that sort
of thing. But also their stadium down there is no
we're close to the city center of Tampa. It is
in a suburb. This is literally downtown.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I've got a niece and a nephew in law that
live in Tampa. They're baseball fans. I'm gonna run it
by them. But the first thing is, if you gave
me the name and the address of the Tampa Bay's
general manager, and I'm driving now, I can't write it down,
but you gave me the address today, tomorrow and the
next day, I would catch it somehow and I'd write
them a letter. I think other people would.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Also like a good grassroots effort. I like the idea
of putting us on their radar. Jeff, thanks for the
call today. That's good stuff. Okay, Tom's on the line
real quick. Hey, Tom, thanks for calling in today. What's
on your mind?
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Aye us Before we get too far ahead of the
thing and get the car before the horse. Somebody needs
to check with the NCUBA first, because I believe their
contract with College World Series Inc. Limits how many games
can be played at the field because they want to
preserve the pristine conditions of the field for the CWS.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yeah, and you're right, Tom and Creighton also would have
a say at this. And you mentioned the nc DOUBLEA.
I'm sure Kansas City the Royals because I'm sure there's
some territorial rights thing that's pretty archaic that baseball still
observes because their minor league affiliate is in town as well.
I'm sure there's going to be a lot of hurdles
when it comes to those things. But let's just I'm
(13:43):
with you, let's not put the car before the horse.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
But just like hey, also there's also some logistics involved.
When they had that Royals Detroit single game here, I
think two years ago, MLB forced them to improve the
lighting to MLB standards.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Right, Yeah, and I'm sure that would have to happen.
But this, I'm just looking at this as a possible
you know, if we can get through all of those hurdles,
you know, the NCAA, the College Wald Series, the Big
Ten Conference, the Creighton Blue Jays and the Kansas City
Royals and the Omaha storm Chasers and all that stuff.
We can find a way over all of those hurdles
right and make Omaha at least a contender to land
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this team for some time next year when they need
a home. Maybe that's a way that we can, like
we can audition as a potential major league city, kind
of like Oklahoma City did in the NBA when the
Hornets were displaced out of New Orleans for a bit,
and then a few years later, all of a sudden,
the Oklahoma City thunder were a thing. I'm just throwing
that out there. You know, appreciate the call, though, Tom,
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It's a good stuff. Hey, if you've got thoughts on
this to baseball, we got some emails coming in. I'd
love to chat with you. Four h two five, five,
eight eleven ten. I know it's not it's not as
easy as just you know, calling the Rays up and saying, hey,
come to Omaha. But it's kind of fun to talk about,
isn't it. You know, like the idea, this could be
a chance that Omaha has to, you know, be the
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heroes for a franchise and all of a sudden, maybe
build some goodwill with maybe some of these major league
cities or major league organizations and become a major League
city of some kind in the future. Just throwing it
out there. It's just an idea. You can call us
at four h two, five, five, eight, eleven, ten two,
twenty nine, News Radio eleven ten kfab. Emery Sunger on
News Radio eleven ten kfab. I blame Taylor Swift. Why
(15:26):
it's my American right to do so. I think this
is her fault. Did you see her and Travis Kelseyer
at the baseball game at Yankee Stadium the other night?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Good for in them. They literally just they they went
and started to take over the baseball account now too.
Oh how romantic. And people are like, why do you
care so much? She's just going and living her life,
And I'm just like, I don't need to see Spike
Lee on at course side unless he's like literally jawing
with Reggie Miller and it becomes a part of the game. Yeah,
(15:53):
then that's a different thing. I don't need to see
Jack Nicholson sitting courtside at the Laker game cheering on
The Lake Show doesn't need to see it with that
signature sneer in the glasses and him clapping. I don't
need to see that stuff. I don't need to see
owner Steve Balmer going crazy for the Los Angeles Clippers. Yeah,
(16:13):
get that guy out of here. That guy goes crazy.
Who cares about that guy. He's got a lot of money.
Good for him. Hoping Their new arena, by the way,
looks pretty cool. Yeah, So why are you showing me
a fan up there in the box. It's clearly better
than us, and she's there with her her man, who's
a three time Super Bowl winning tight end. It's great
tight end, he's very good, but also just kind of
(16:35):
a jaggalloon. Why are you showing me this? Why do
I care? Why does the announcers have to keep bringing
up that she's there? Is it some sort of monumental
feat that Taylor Swift showed up to a Yankee game?
You see Bill Belichick when he was on the Manning
cast and the camera's pan to Taylor Swift. They just yeah,
them and the Mannings both just sat there, just sat
(16:56):
there and waited for it to stop. Yeah, which is
what every normal football fan does, just sits there and
waits for that camera angle.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
To be done.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Hey, why are we spending time doing that?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Can we go back to the game?
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Please?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Can I can I not see the fans? Do I
have to look up there? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
There was.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
There's already enough reasons to this, like the Kansas City
Chiefs at this point, and you just keep giving me more. Right,
it's just another one. If she was dating like Dak
Prescott or something. And the Cowboys. Remember when that happened
with Romo, Oh, Jessica Simpson with the pink Cowboys jersey. Yeah,
I mean that was kind of a scandalous thing, right,
Oh yeah? Were people all up in arms? Though not really?
(17:34):
You know why because Dallas wasn't winning. Nobody cared because
they didn't have a reason to hate the Cowboys beyond
them just being the cowboys. Remember when Aaron Rodgers was
dating Danika Patrick, he was Yeah, what happened to them?
I don't know. That seems like a temperamental relationship. It
definitely was. But she showed up a couple of pocket
(17:55):
fights and then great afterwards. Oh come on, I bet
it was come on, life in the fast laying Am
I right on? Iyahuska or whatever? He liked, hwa iyahoska.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
It's like off brand ayahuasca that doesn't really give you
a trip. It just makes you blind for a couple whiles.
I don't. I don't trip, man, so I don't. I
don't know what it's called. Anyway, we were talking about
baseball and we were talking about the Tampa Bay Rays.
They are with that at home. A couple of side
notes to this. I saw on Facebook today there was
a video from the Florida Aquarium. And lost in all
(18:29):
of this is that there was a ten thousand gallon
ray tank in right center field at Tropicana Field full
of actual cow nos stingrays. Well, nobody thought about the
darn rays when the hurricane hit. The razors out there
in their fish tank, live in life, and then all
of a sudden the roof's gone. They don't they don't notice,
they don't care. Well, they eventually had to h They
(18:50):
went in and they rescued the rays out of their
fish tank and relocated them to the Florida Aquarium. They said,
they all have no idea that anything different is happening,
and they're all eating and behaving normally. Let's all be
like the rays. Right, Let's let's let's be like those
cow nose stingrays and dropic can of field. The roof's
caving in on us. We're getting actively picked up and
(19:11):
moved to a different place. Life is not the same,
but we don't care where we were unaffected by this
as a whole. Let's live life like that. Hey, and
the outside roll can do whatever they want to us,
but we're still us at the end of the day.
I like it. Good job, Good on you. Cow no stingrays. However,
there's not going to be cow no stingrays at Raise games,
probably unless the rays go to a place that have
(19:33):
steam rays. H Well, you know what place has stingrays.
The Henry dor Ley Zoo and aquarium, several of them. Actually,
you can feed them. I don't know if they have
cownose stingrays, but they have stingrays. I fed them. Have
you fed them? No, you can go feed stingrays. They
have a stingray cove over there.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Right.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
You get a little piece of fish in your hand,
You just put it in your hand, and then you
put your hand under water while you're holding it, right, Yeah,
and then the sting ray just comes along and seze
your hand and then just like gets on your hand
and just guzzles it down. You can feel its little mouth, huh,
maneuvering the food into it. Isn't that how the Steve
Irwin died? Why do you have to go there? Well,
(20:10):
inquiring minds want to know, Well, why do you have
to why did you have to bring that up?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
That?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Okay, that stingrays have not killed many people, okay, but
the one they did, let's face it, it was a
bad one, all right. The stingray PR people have been
trying to do their best to make sure that you know,
we understand that stingrays or defense only type situations. And
(20:36):
from what we know, Steve was in shallow water, didn't
see the ray there went and was kind of like
laying down on like as they were filming something. He
was laying kind of along the shore line and laid
right on top of this stingray, which in defense then
you know, used its barbed stinger and unfortunately got Steve
(20:56):
in a bad place. Right, May he rest in peace,
a true advocate for wildlife and education. But don't blame
the ray did He didn't mean just he was about
to get squished, and like that was the only way
that he knows how to avoid that. Well, you can't
exactly bite somebody. He can't make noises. Murder seems like
(21:18):
an overreaction. That's all I'm saying. Slight overreaction to murder.
It's you didn't mean to murder it. He could have said,
excuse me. He can't That's what I do. He doesn't
speak pardon me. He cannot even make noises. He could
have given the old Midwest op. He might be able
to blow like bubbles, but like Steve also was probably
making bubbles with his movements. Okay, and let's be honest,
(21:42):
you're probably not going to notice that from something that
you're laying on top of. You know, a spider's not
going to bite you, except for when it feels like
it's about to get squished. Okay. Everything has its own
defense mechanism. The ray had a defense mechanism. It just
got Stephen the wrong spot and murder him. Anyway, we
have rays. You can feed the rays at Henry door
Ley Zoo and Aquarium. And all I'm saying is, who's
(22:04):
to say we couldn't, you know, have some Henry door
Ley Zoo knights over at Charles Schwab Field for the
new home of the Tampa Bay Rays, the new temporary home,
and make the players and the Rays fans that decide
to come up for a game feel at home. If
we can get this done now. Jenna emails in and says,
the idea that Nebraskans have any loyalty to the Royals
is a myth. If any major league team decided to
(22:26):
make Omaha their home, they would receive a warm welcome,
and Omaha residents would welcome the Rays. I don't know
if our friends at the storm Chasers feel the same way.
I'm just gonna throw that out there, not because what
Jenna is saying not true. It's just that they want
to protect whatever footprint they do have here, especially the
storm Chasers themselves. Just like, Okay, well, if there's baseball
in Omaha, and you're telling me there's a baseball game
(22:48):
going on at Warner Park in Papillion, and there's a
baseball game going on downtown at Charles Schwap Field involving
major league players, what do you think baseball fans are
going to go do? They're going to go see the
baseball team that has major league players. It's going to
make it. I think life difficult and probably a financial
hit and attendance hit for the Storm Chasers at Winner Park.
We're spitballing here. I'm not advocating for anything specifically. We're
(23:08):
just spitballing and workshop and how you know Omaha can
get on the map in a bigger way here. I
got some more emails here from people who think have
thoughts about the Tampa Bay Rays and Omaha potentially trying
to woo them for you know, a portion of their
schedule at least because they can't play at Tropic Canna
Field because Hurricane Milton knocked the roof off. So you know,
there's that. It's two forty eight News Radio eleven ten
(23:29):
kfab and resung. If we can get through the hurdles
that likely would you know, come with trying to negotiate
with the College World Series and the NCAA and the
Big Ten Conference and creating Blue Jay Baseball and the
Storm Chasers and the Royals who likely have some sort
of footprint territory thing that can protect them from stuff
(23:50):
like that. Well, with that being said, there has been
another city already linked to this team before, and David
wants to remind me of that. And you know what
city I'm talking about, of course, right, come again, the
city that's not Tampa Bay that has been associated with
this franchise over the last few years, as they've been
talking about potentially new stadiums the Rays. Yeah, second, second city.
(24:12):
They even talked about splitting time there. They did half
and half. Yeah, I don't know, I must have missed
this news. You got to get on the internet. Yeah,
what is it again? What's the what's the website? How
do you get to the internet? Internet?
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Dot go?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
That's what I go to. That's a bad one. Don't
go there.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
No.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Montreal, oh, Montreal, sure, sure have a bag at do
They just are their bats bag attes bag at bats.
They're hard enough to beat bat bag at bats. The
Montreal Expos were a team for like, I don't know,
thirty five years. So my guess is that I think
there they probably know what baseball is up there. They
(24:52):
David says, you know, Tampa Bay was gonna split time.
They were planned twenty twenty eight, they were going to
start splitting time there, but that has fallen through. I
don't know what the plan is. I'm sure that's where
the first call is going to be honest with you,
is that, Hey, can we go play in Montreal now,
I said, I replied to David, said, I'm not even
sure that they have a spot though that could house
a major league team, and he said, well, Olympic Stadium
(25:13):
is still open. Well, Olympic Stadium was the whole problem
to begin with in Montreal. The Expos played at Olympic Stadium,
which is not baseball specific. This was one of those
big you know, like the Oakland Coliseum and the original
Bush Stadium in Saint Louis and all those multi purpose
(25:35):
cookie cutter stadiums that literally three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh,
river Front Candlestick, like all of those stadiums basically were
there to serve multiple purposes like baseball and football, and
for Olympic Stadium. Montreal hosted the Olympics, and that was
like they used that for like track and field and
(25:55):
stuff like that. It was like concrete turf, terrible for
the health of the player. It was nasty on the inside,
not updated whatsoever. You had all these different people in
Montreal who probably cared about baseball but had no reason
to go spend their hard earned money to watch what
usually was a not very good baseball team play in
(26:18):
a terrible facility. I mean, think about the Rays. They
can't draw fans in Tampa slash Saint Petersburg, and they
can't draw fans there while being a good baseball team
and having at least some modern amenities in that stadium.
And now you're going to go to a place built
in the nineteen seventies that already has been notorious for
being just a dump in general. And think about the
(26:39):
body owder from all those French Canadians. Oh, come on, anyway,
David says, I remember a few ceiling tiles falling during
some of the games, and the bad views of the field. Yeah,
it wasn't made for a baseball stadium until after the
Olympics because nobody thought about sightlines and things like that.
So if they're going to Montreal just to play an
Olympic stadium, that we should take that out as a
(27:00):
stinking insult. Steve also said there is a direct flight
to Saint Petersburg from Omaha on Allegiant air as well,
So Allegiant goes to Saint Pete you can't get to
the Tampa airport as well. It looks like through Frontier airlines,
so there are some direct flights there if Tampa fans
wanted to come and watch their team on a direct
flight to Omaha. I don't know a lot of it
(27:22):
makes sense to me. We'll move on. Coming up next.
News Radio eleven ten kfab
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