6-27 Segment 1 - The rumors are true: 590 The Fan is shutting down at the end of the week

The rumors are true: 590 The Fan is shutting down at the end of the week

Episode Transcript

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Hello, good morning. This isHot Takes Central. I think I think
it's gonna be fun. Now you'rea camp. Charlie and Tim on five
ninety the fans, Oh Baby sevenO four in Kirkwood, Missouri. Hot
Take Central coming at you, CamJans and Jim Mcat Hayes Cole here Bartemas

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on the twos and the threes.We got Charlie Mala coming in at eight
forty. We're doing our thing.It's Thursday. It's beautiful out. Get
up and get him into the AudiExchange text line in Kirkwood, Missouri eight
five five two eight two eight twofive five. You could also call into
the market Appliance phone lines same number. Eight FI five two eight two eight
two five five. Uh yeah,yeah, well no, I didn't even

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know how to start this. Youknow, I didn't know what to do.
I'm gonna I did pretty get onthe intro though, I'm gonna be
yeah, I'm glad. I'm notone. You know you want to trade
me? Now? Trade me now? Now we'll get through it. Man.
We're professed my entire time here tryingto steal your chair until right now,
right now, you know what Imean. So here's what, here's
what you want to go. Yet, here's what I've been trying to get

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this station for years. I've beenfired, hired, fired, hired.
I killed it. I finally killedit. He finally killed You did what
on me? What do me?Says? Jam it and the eye.
It's on me. It's on jimI feel bad. I feel bad you
too. I like working with youguys a lot man. Dave's obrist has

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been very good, you know,great to deal with. A good guy.
Yeah, not his fault, anduh it's unfortunate. But uh,
had I been a better broadcaster,that's right, maybe he wouldn't have ended
this way. So it's on me, it's on Jimmy, so just blame
him. But it is true thestory. I don't know if you guys
heard or not, but the stationwill shut down as of Monday. Our

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last show would be Friday. Everybody'slast show on this year station's Friday.
And it is a sad day,man, like you know, getting up
early. Like, don't get mewrong, it's a pain in the ass.
But if I didn't like coming inhere and bringing the heat every damn
day, I wouldn't have done it. Like I just wouldn't have and I
would have tried to find something elsebecause it's not easy. But guys,
it's been fun. It's been it'sbeen a fun three years now with us,

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two and a half with us,been here for I think seven or
eight, right when I retired,started working at five ninety and a lot
of ups and downs. But man, oh, man, I had a
damn good time and I do feelyou know, yesterday was just I mean
just just a god awful long day. I mean, I can't even get
into it, but but man,I just I feel like I feel proud

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and you guys should too of youknow, the audience. Man, like
our fans like we we started thisthing. They stuck by us. Yeah
we get chirped, Yeah we getchirped, Cole, we do you know
what. They come back every dayand they know that we're going to bring
the heat for me. And youguys are great on the text line to
calling in to just being involved.If there's anything that we you know,
like we want to have a meetup, you guys show up. And I

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just I feel really, really reallygood about that. Man. I had
a great time trying to entertain allyou guys. We're all of us trying
to entertain all you guys out there, and I know you guys appreciate it
too, but we appreciate you aswell. So if you want to stop
buying, bring some cologgison, youknow that will be fine, or some
emoss. I don't give a damn. Bring in some bloody Mary's. I
don't care. These are our lasttwo days of request, exactly exactly.

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So it's just yesterday it was weird, man, it was. You know,
it's just like a club to thehead, you know. Uh.
But everything always work works itself out. I feel it always does, you
know, when you're down and outand you you know, it's in my
life and my experience, everything worksout. You keep working hard, you're

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nice to people. Things just takecare of itself. That's just my opinion
on it. But it does suck, man, it sucks. It's you
know, first of them again.You're right about the audience. Thank you
to the folks at home will listento help with us and supported us.
But five ninety has a rich history. I know there's been a lot of
ups and downs, but I hopesomebody buys us, not necessarily for our

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show. I mean it'd be great. Yeah, but five ninety should be
still standing. I agree, youknow, yeah it should. You know,
I think thirty years in the sportsformat, if I'm not mistake,
has it been around that long.I think it's been around longer than that.
But I think music transition to sportsin the nineties, if I'm not

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mistaken. I got to double checkthat. So it's been around. It
was music first, and then Iguess you guys started at thirteen eighty though,
was it thirteen eighty? Oh?We started? We started five to
ninety five, Okay, then wewent back. I can't even remember.
I mean, it's been crazy.I've been doing radio in this town a
long time with the Grind and itwas the morning after we ping ponged around

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now this for going on three years. It was a good run. And
uh, I like, I reallyenjoyed working. I know him and Charlie
and smooth Brain, smooth Brain,Brendan Maddie, I mean, Schmorgasboard,
Nate Seth everyone, Tuna would buythis. Tuna as wealthy as he is.

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That's a I was thinking that toowealthy and get call standing have stand
by the station. Oh, thatwould be so helpful. Wouldn't that be
something? So I'm sitting here onWikipedia what it's saying that on April fifth,
nineteen ninety three, they switched toa it was K Easy K and
they switched to a sports format K. So that would be thirty one years.

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But you got to remember the oneyear hiatus where they transitioned to the
man. Yeah, so subtract workedsubtract that year and this is the thirtieth
year. Okay, But we've hadsome good shows, man, in the
last three years. There's some there'ssome doozies out there, Oh my god,
really really good different you know,yeah, maybe a little hostile at

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times. I'm we entertained you.I'm upset apparently I'm upset we didn't make
it in the twenty twenty four election. Yeah, I mean apparently made it
to the debate. I know,we have one that would have been great
just through just through November. Justlet me see what happened so we could
report on it a little bit exactly. Damn. But we had some damn

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good shows, man, We reallydid. I laughed a lot in this
here studio, you know, youknow, as missing from this particular run,
like every various incarnation of this radioshow or my role in one.
There's always been a villain, mright, like Hadley, the guys from

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Atlanta, Yeah, the guy whowas gonna do man and the woman.
Yeah, there is always a villain. There's no villain here because Dave's Obrust
is a good dude. Yeah,that's the big difference for me. There's
no villain. There's no kind ofunderpinning of rage or anything. There's no
drama, you know, only onthe show right when we created it.

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Yeah, but there wasn't any outsidedrama coming in. You know, guys
fighting each other like this, it'snothing due. He let us do what
we want as long as we stayedwithin the bounds of the FCC. He's
let us say and do it.We teetered on that a little bit,
Yeah, little bit, just alittle bit. But that's what you do.
That's the dumb buttons for it.That's what you do. A couple

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of slip ups here and there.You know, the podcast listeners get to
hear it three hours, jacked upon coffee. I might throw Obama once
in a while. He's got todelete it. And why do I sound
like RFK now? Oh geez,what's going on with my voice. Well,
you've been working for thirty two hoursstraight. Yeah, you know,
was that afu? Yeah, dude, I had the Cardinals won, but

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you get that news Like Cam wasgood enough to call me and tell me.
I had to like, all right, I still have eighty seven other
things they gotta do. I know, Like Andy and I were like,
it just just happened. We hada we had a meeting that didn't go
great. It was something separate,you know, and uh, and we're
talking on meeting. We had Bennershows up at at our studio and we're

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just talking. We're just looking ateach other. Just two bombs hit us
at once, and then we gotto go right to Benner and I were
interviewing him. It's out today,by the way, and I don't remember
any of it. My mind wasjust racing the whole time. Jimmy's like,
what do you say. I don'tknow. I couldn't I couldn't concentrate
and he couldn't concentrate. It's gonnabe okay, But it's like, just
had so much on my phone's blowingup like no other. So this was

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a long, long day. Butagain, man, like when you it's
always up and down. Dude,they'll come back up. You work hard
some people. I'm just telling you, it all works itself out. But
it was it's tough, man.That was that that sucked. My dad's
pissed. You know, what's hegonna do now when he walks bare Yeah,
he can only listen to my podcastso much. He wants to hear
us talk for three hours. Man. That's just like he gets up and

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he gets excited for it, youknow what I mean. Yeah, and
you never know who's going to beon this show in any even day.
Oh no, the problem. Tuneinto your podcast. It says right there
who your interview? Itam stricken soand so man oh man, So this
is like this show is kind oflike the Mystery Jersey Night. Yeah,
yeah, Mystery Size Jersey. Ohlord. But uh, if you guys

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have anything to say, man,you guys could call into the market Appliant's
phone lines eight five five two eighttwo eight two five five. You want
to text in, you want tochirp, you want to you know,
just say whatever, man, I'llread anything. You know. We've appreciated
all you guys out there for agood thrill. I mean, since we've
been doing radio. I guess it'sGod. When did I start sixteen?
It was a sixteen Yeah. Hehad a brief stint with one on one

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Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah,and yeah, right when I retired,
I think it was sixteen. Istarted where you were breaking down the Vikings
linebacker. Oh my god, wasI an idiot? I sounded so just
so dumb more than usual. I'mliterally trying to keep up with their conversation
of their Randy Freddy character. Andgod, who else was on that damn

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thing? Oh the football player thatwent to Carrie this, No, no,
no, the other one, thebig lineman, Marcus far No,
no, no, no, nono, Marco de maark Arco. There
it is DeMarco. He's ragging downthe secondary. Randy could break down anything,
and I'm just like hi, andI have to chime in. Oh
god, I remember listening back sometimesI'm like, oh god, ah,

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But then you get better. Ifigured out how to just bowl crap my
way, you know, you,I know how to keep I guess in
a way, just keep tabs oneverything just a little. Your better surface
is the lead voice too. Yeah, I just just keep tabs so I
could keep a conversation going, youknow what I mean. But then I
didn't know how to stuff. Ididn't know what to watch. I remember,
like I wrote, I was writingdown everything with a pen first time,

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and I didn't know what, youknow, what to look up,
so I just would write down justnonsense. And I look back on my
notes, I'm like, I didn'tuse any of it. So this I
learned a lot. Mike Matheeni,what about them? Bah blah blah blah.
Got I know about Mike Methane becausewe're gonna have the mom Onnitor,
But this, that and the other, I mean, just a lot of
what about them? Wiping out ofthe game. I never watched anything,

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So but you learned a lot.Well, yeah, I'm playing, but
you learn a lot man in radioand I and I do love it,
and I still want to keep doingit somehow, somewhere doing something. So
it's fun coming in here. It'sfun talking, shooting a breeze, get
your flow, you know, chirpinga little bit, reading a text line.
I'm gonna miss it, man,I don't know what's gonna happen,
Mabe. Things will pop up herein the next couple week. I don't

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know. I don't know, butuh well, again it always worked this
way itself around man, So letme read a couple of these bad boys.
Get them in again eight five fivetwo eight two eight two five five
Morning boys listening and learning? What'sthe sale of the price? What's the
price? Sanderson wants to know this, So listen to you guys. Almost

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every day my morning walks will notbe the same. What do I listen
to? Now? Well, listento us tomorrow too, because we're gonna
still be on tomorrow. But uhagain, we'll we'll keep we'll keep everybody
up to date with what's going onand stuff like that. Cameron Andrew Streaky
call in before they shut her down? Or are we just gonna play stricky
drops Vigo he's gonna pick me upat ten o'clock. Maybe he could pop

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in here. I mean, Andy'shad his show for really long time too,
he's been doing it. He hasgolfing together today. No, No,
we're going out to I r C. Talk to Chrissy pond Off,
go talk to some patients and stufflike that, which I like to do.
But yeah, he's we're not We'renot golfing. It's actually I would
golf today. It's not that badout today. Yesterday was Yesterday was nice

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too. It was actually really prettyup, really nice. It rained and
that cooled everything off. Yeah yeah, but it pissed you off, so
it just made your day long.That was a match see one. Oh
God, that was Andy and Hadley. Andy could have just said no.
You could have just said no,man, that's this. It's a fun

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show. Good luck to all youguys. If you think about it,
it's all Charlie's fault. Went downhillfrom there with a not consistent crew every
day. Thanks Charlie. Yale geta little bit of Charlie's fault too.
Top of the afternoon to you Andysomehow? Why does that make me laugh?
I don't know's gonna Hadley? Who'sgonna save the station? Andy and

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I are deep in negotiations. Atleast co found a new talent and can
tour the country as Jerry. Thereyou go. Yeah, we're still gonna
go to that comedy club. Ithink the ben Dog's gonna go. I
hope he does. I know heflirted with the idea. That's what I
do remember. I hope I hopehe commits. I do remember that about
it. I would love to meethim. I brought up. I don't

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know what the hell we're talking about. I'm like, yeah, I'm going
to a comedy club watching it.I go, what's his name again?
He said, oh, you andAery Spears. Yeah, hecause I'm thinking
about going there too. Like youlike him too. He's like, yeah,
he's hilarious. I'm like, cool, we'll be there. He is.
He's actually, you know, let'sdo it. Let's do it by
going with you. He's probably goingwith his girl who's pregnant. He could
sit with those though. He coulddo it every once. Yeah. Oh

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man, gosh, dang, I'mgonna miss all y'all. This is the
most fun I've had listened to asports show since the mid nineties Jim Rome
Jay in Texas. Hell yeah,but whoa damn baby. If we're second
to nineteen nineties Jim Rome, wehad a hell of a show. Wow,
damn. Jim Rome was hilarious.Man, he still is funny,

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dude, he still is funny.Oh lord, let's see here saying it's
so, I am so sad,Sue if I'm going to Glendale, Hey,
girl, yeah, I know itis so. It is what it
is, but you know, we'lluh, well but good next couple of
days, man, and we'll justgo from there. It's all you could
do. Who knows what's around thecorner? Who knows? Honestly, who

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don't know? I tell you whatis around the corner. The Cardinals keep
winning, Jimmy, they keep winning. Well, they lost the first game,
I guess, but they won thesecond one. Sorry, you won
the series. Win the series.That's what I meant. It's a good
Braves team. And there's still threeover five hundred and Burley is the best
player in the world baseball history,ever in the world. Stop doubting him,

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and good Liberta libertore we're supposed to. And we've talked about Libby a
lot on the show because I waslike, give them a shot, starting
right, and then it didn't workout. Give him another one, give
me shots didn't work out. Yesterday'syou figure is gonna go three and change
his previous emergency start. He foundout excuse me, he found out he

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was starting just before the national anthem. Yeah, because Kyle Gibson at a
back issue. So he goes outand he gives up Homer Homer double walk,
and you're like, oh, thisisn't good, but then he strained
out wasn't terrible yesterday six scoreless,struck out eight and looked like a guy
you want in your starting rotation.But it was somewhat similar, and that

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he started the day thinking that AldrePolante was going to start that game.
It was a pseudo emergency start becauseat the last minute there was a rainout.
Gibson was going to start. Thefirst game he wasn't great, and
then the second game was it wasTBD. But he found out last night

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Libby that he was going to start, so it wasn't like the previous start.
He literally got twenty minutes notice lastnight. Yesterday's game he found out
the night before so and he wasgood. So maybe it brings up that
question again, can he start?I mean his slider, he got five
punch outs on his slider. Hisslider looked like a thing of beauty had

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below on the fastball challenging guys usuallyright handers crush him. They didn't.
He was really good. Who elseam I thinking of? That played a
damn good game. That's playing prettysolid lately. Who am I thinking lately?
Who am I thinking? Not?Burley we're talking about Winter Donovan.
Uh no, no, great,they've both been great. Fine, somebody

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else that's that's kind of making amaking a mark. Oh, defensively,
Michael Sionair, it is there wego. I read your mind. It
took me a seconds. He's anathlete, man, he's really good.
He's going to be somebody who isgoing to be playing very very frequently if
and when the outfield returns to forumtalking about new bar and Edmond getting healthy,

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which did I read that Edmund hadanother setback or something range his ankle
taking grounders, So he'll be offhis feet for a few days. Not
really a big setback because he's gota wrist so he's gonna have to lay
off doing some stuff. But it'sdays, not a not a major one.
That's fine. But and Walker gettingSo when those three, if and

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when those three are ever in theoutfield at the same time, Michael Siani
is still going to be an everydayplayer as a late game defensive substitution because
he's just so good at that stuff. Man. He's really cemented himself as
someone who you want to see onthe field at some point in the game
every single day, not necessarily inthe lineup because you know that he did

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figure out hitting man, he didwell. He had two hits yesterday.
He can't hit right handers, hecan't bunt. I agree with you,
like he's he's not explored every aspectof his game. Yeah, he needs
to be better offensively, but it'scoming around. There was one point in
time when he's in that little twelvegame heater where I wanted hit him hitting

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lead off, and then I thinkI killed him because right after I said
that, he went back to beingnot so good. But I'm a huge
fan of his defense. I thinkvery highly of him defensively, and I
can absolutely see a situation where JordanWalker gets in at bat in like a
in the seventh or eighth inning,shuffle the pieces around, takeout Walker,

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put in seay and go out there. He'll dive and make a cat go
out there and close the door.Man, I had to wear a flat
jacket the other day. I don'tknow if he had it on yesterday.
Made another diving catch yesterday, butI think it was Saturday diving catch,
landing on his ribs and laid therefor a second. Had to come out
of the game later, and Isaid did you think you were in serious

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trouble there? Because he landed hardand he said, I didn't hear my
ribs crack, so I knew I'dbe okay. So the next day he
had sore ribs, went out thereand played, I think, he said,
at one game, and then hewas playing with like a little rib
protector. Yeah, I had todo that. You bruise bruis your ribs.
Man, it's a it still hurtslike hell. You roll your ankle

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hurts like go, you know whatI mean, even a high ankle sprain,
like god, that could affect youfor a long long time. Who
else am I thinking of? Anotherguy? It just keeps doing his thing.
Who is it keeps doing his thing? You trot him out there,
he does his thing. Who amI thinking of? Well, I've gone.
You have to remember, like classics, you have to remember he just

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saw a couple of highlights. Thinkabout who would be in the highlight?
Who all guy at the end?The guy I see, I know,
the guy at the end. Yo, hell, guy at the end.
Oh twenty eight? Well, yeah, I gotta remember. If you're watching
a highlight clip, all right,you have to you have to enter cam's
world. You got to enter myworld. What's going to be in there

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where you're going to throw the defensivehighlight? Right? Of course, now
you could talk about the offense you'regoing to show Burley, but we've already
talked Burley to death. So it'sgonna be Burley Donovan and then then Hellsley
is gonna be heading to the AllStar Game here pretty soon. I don't
know when the voting wraps up,but he's going to be representing the still

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angry at him. Are he's stillangry because he doesn't pitch when you want
him to pitch. No, he'sbeen doing they haven't. They broke the
other guys in the bullpen a littleby now, Yeah, okay, let
them try to wrest them guys.Don't be that guy. I want to
do like seinfeldt my clothes rest ofpitch every game. But there's the pitch
of the game. He Seinfeld waswas Geyago was supposed to eat a couple

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of innings, but he said hehad headache or something, got a little
dizzy. I don't I don't knowwhat he was supposed He's just I mean,
that's his first appearance that's coming backup and he got a clean inning,
didn't feel great, Get him outof there. Yeah. If you
don't feel good, you don't feelgood. It is what it is.