Speaker 1: Kabooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts.
Speaker 1: Right now in the air ywhere and a Happy Saturday?
Speaker 1: Idiot is National Ask a Stupid Question Day? And it
Speaker 1: is the Fifth Hour with Me Ben Maller and Danny
Speaker 1: G Radio as we were back at it on a
Speaker 1: college football kind of a Saturday. Hello, Danny G Radio.
Speaker 3: Where do babies come from?
Speaker 1: I cannot answer that question. I cannot Why are we here?
Speaker 3: Why is the sky blue? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What is it the very top of the world? Why
Speaker 1: can't we go there?
Speaker 3: Danny?
Speaker 1: What is going on?
Speaker 3: My mom told me that when I was a toddler,
Speaker 3: I would ask her questions like that and she is like,
Speaker 3: stop asking me. Shit, I don't know the answer to.
Speaker 1: Did we actually go to the moon?
Speaker 3: Danny? Maybe?
Speaker 1: Is the earth flat? Is it round? Is it hollow?
Speaker 1: I need to know Danny, I need to know the
Speaker 1: answers to these questions. On this podcast, we will have
Speaker 1: straight A's stormwatch a Gangsters Paradise, much other random random
Speaker 1: observations from the last few days, as we are known
Speaker 1: to do on this podcast, but I thought we'd start
Speaker 1: with this. Back on Thursday, Danny, they played the final
Speaker 1: game ever in Oakland. There will never be another baseball
Speaker 1: team likely in Oakland again. The Athletics played and there
Speaker 1: was some vandalism, but it wasn't nearly like what we
Speaker 1: thought was going to be. It was rather rather controlled.
Speaker 1: Of course, the Oakland Police had like one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty officers or something like that out there. They had
Speaker 1: six hundred security guards. I mean, it was over the top,
Speaker 1: but I watched some of it. I was busy. I
Speaker 1: couldn't watch the whole game, but I watched some of it.
Speaker 1: And I'm not an A's fan. I talked about it
Speaker 1: on the Overnight Show a little bit, but it just
Speaker 1: bums me out when these teams relocate and it just
Speaker 1: seems so unnecessary to me. I don't run the business
Speaker 1: side of these things, but it just seems like they
Speaker 1: really effed it up. And I had some stories some
Speaker 1: I wanted to share here about my experience with the A's.
Speaker 1: I was a radio stringer way back way back in
Speaker 1: the day, many many years ago, when I was starting
Speaker 1: out in radio, one of my first jobs. And so
Speaker 1: back in those days before the Internet, in the Stone Age,
Speaker 1: they would use a reporter to call in and you
Speaker 1: have updates on the game and to get audio after
Speaker 1: the game. So I did that for several years before
Speaker 1: I became a talk show host full time, and in
Speaker 1: that time I covered the Dodgers and the Angels and
Speaker 1: all the teams in LA and I got a phone
Speaker 1: call from some executive for the Oakland Athletics. It's probably
Speaker 1: the late nineties, I forget exactly what year, but he's like, Hey,
Speaker 1: we're looking for somebody in Anaheim to do this thing.
Speaker 1: We were a sponsor and we want a live update
Speaker 1: from the Big A when the A's are on the
Speaker 1: West Coast. So I was like, yeah, I mean I'll
Speaker 1: do it. It's a paying gig. Of course I'll do it.
Speaker 1: And so I did that for a couple of years.
Speaker 1: It was called the Coca Cola like Road Report or
Speaker 1: something like that. It was like PEPSI was the sponsor
Speaker 1: and It was a long time ago, but I got
Speaker 1: a check every month from the Oakland Athletics and it
Speaker 1: was it was you know when you get those checks, Danny,
Speaker 1: you don't want to actually spend the money because it's
Speaker 1: so cool to have the actual paper check. Well, it
Speaker 1: wasn't a lot.
Speaker 3: Of money, it wasn't hard to save it.
Speaker 1: Then well, they don't even have checks like this anymore.
Speaker 1: It was it was just a check that had the
Speaker 1: Oakland A's logo on it and it said from the
Speaker 1: Oakland Baseball Club or whatever. And so I like, well, man,
Speaker 1: I'm on the A's payroll. I mean, this is all
Speaker 1: eighty nine cents. Yeah, I'm getting like, you know, fifty
Speaker 1: bucks a game or something like that. But whatever it was,
Speaker 1: and I don't even think it was that much. So
Speaker 1: I did it and then became kind of friendly with
Speaker 1: some of the guys worked on the broadcast. And so
Speaker 1: then when the A's would come to Anaheim, I would
Speaker 1: hang out in the A's broadcast booth. They would they
Speaker 1: would welcome me in, and it was really just a
Speaker 1: wonderful experience as a radio nerd to see how the
Speaker 1: broadcasts were done. And I had heard as a kid
Speaker 1: and I thought I was gonna be Ben Scully, but
Speaker 1: I would listen to far away broadcasts of different different teams,
Speaker 1: and I would get the Giants out of the Bay Area.
Speaker 1: Every once in a while, I could scan the AM
Speaker 1: dial and find a grainy, faraway feed of the Athletics,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't normally from Oakland. It was like a
Speaker 1: station in Fresno or something would come in where I live.
Speaker 1: So I heard Bill King. I had heard him a
Speaker 1: lot on NFL films from his work with the Raiders,
Speaker 1: but he was a by play guy for the Athletics,
Speaker 1: and I met him and hung out with him off
Speaker 1: and on when I was at those games. And Ken Korak.
Speaker 3: Yeah there was also Ray Fosse. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Ray was doing TV at that time, so I was
Speaker 1: in the radio booth. But it was It was great,
Speaker 1: and I have one of my favorite stories, just absolutely crazy.
Speaker 1: It was an August game in Anaheim, very hot. The
Speaker 1: A's were not a playoff team, the Angels were not
Speaker 1: a playoff team, so I'm The way it worked is
Speaker 1: the broadcasters sat in the front row and I sat
Speaker 1: in the second row, and I had the stats and
Speaker 1: the scores out of town scoreboard before before the internet again,
Speaker 1: So I was updating the scoreboard for the guy who
Speaker 1: dubbed it. So I'm sitting there and it's like the
Speaker 1: I know, it was the third inning. They were switching
Speaker 1: broadcast role, so it was like the end of the
Speaker 1: third inning, and then ken Korak was going to take over.
Speaker 1: So Bill King gets up and he walks up a
Speaker 1: couple of stairs behind me, and there's a lot of
Speaker 1: room there and and ken Korak jokingly said, well, Bill's
Speaker 1: going to get down to his underwear now, and I thought, well,
Speaker 1: that's funny, you know, that's that's pretty funny. And hand
Speaker 1: to God Bill King. And he was an old man
Speaker 1: at that, I mean, he didn't live much longer than that.
Speaker 1: I don't know when he passed away, but you know,
Speaker 1: it was the ninety So he took off his pants.
Speaker 1: I think he had shorts on. Actually, whatever he wanted,
Speaker 1: he took it off. And he walked back down to
Speaker 1: sit next to Ken and he was in his tidy whities,
Speaker 1: and it was it was wild. Wow, he really did it.
Speaker 1: That's that's nuts. But a very nice man lived on
Speaker 1: a boat, I think in in northern California somewhere, so
Speaker 1: that's my experience. But and I went to a few
Speaker 1: as games, not many. And now you were I think, Nanny,
Speaker 1: you were there much more than I was. I mean,
Speaker 1: you were you spent time in the Bay right when
Speaker 1: you were growing up.
Speaker 3: My mom went from Massachusetts to San Jose with her family,
Speaker 3: as I've talked about before, met my dad in high
Speaker 3: school there in San Jose, and then came down here
Speaker 3: together in Thousand Oaks, California. And then they bought a
Speaker 3: house in Simi Valley before moving to Woodland Hills, so
Speaker 3: they would go to Dodger games. But then they found
Speaker 3: out something about southern California. Ben, even back then you
Speaker 3: could sell your house and make a lot of money
Speaker 3: from it. Absolutely, my mom was telling my dad, I
Speaker 3: want to go back up to the Bay. Ben, I'm
Speaker 3: not kidding you. My mom and dad moved back and
Speaker 3: forth from the Bay to LA I can't even count
Speaker 3: on two hands. Got to go to my first Dodger
Speaker 3: game listening to Vince Scully when I was in kindergarten,
Speaker 3: really into baseball. When I was twelve, me and my
Speaker 3: older brother would convince our older friend Dion Hawes. Probably
Speaker 3: you two when you were kid, you had like that
Speaker 3: one older friend who had a car. Yeah, we would
Speaker 3: convince Dion to drive us to Oakland for A's baseball
Speaker 3: because even though we were Dodger fans and that's what
Speaker 3: we really knew as youngsters, that was the closest team.
Speaker 3: We hated the San Francisco Giants, obviously being Dodgers fans,
Speaker 3: but the Oakland A's were okay with us because, you know,
Speaker 3: in our region we had the modesto as we got
Speaker 3: to see Mark McGuire and Jose Canseco come through. I
Speaker 3: have an old picture where I I'm posing with a
Speaker 3: young Jose Conseco joja By. It was so fun to
Speaker 3: see these guys blossom into major league players in Oakland.
Speaker 3: So we would we would beg Dion, please take us
Speaker 3: to an Oakland game, and once in a while he'd
Speaker 3: be like, all right, you guys, pay for gas and
Speaker 3: I'll take you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wasn't that expensive back then.
Speaker 3: Not at all. And Dion was one of those cool
Speaker 3: kids where he was just a few years older than us.
Speaker 3: He had a nice pickup truck and he had a
Speaker 3: booming system in it. Whenever he would pull up to
Speaker 3: our house, he'd be bumping some Eric b and rock him.
Speaker 1: Come on, Pippin, get your tims on.
Speaker 3: My older brother and I we were in kind of
Speaker 3: a weird position being Dodgers fans. But you know, baseball
Speaker 3: is very regional, and especially back then, as you know, Ben,
Speaker 3: we couldn't unless we were surfing the am doll like
Speaker 3: you late at night with an antenna trying to pick
Speaker 3: up games and other cities. You weren't getting coverage of
Speaker 3: other Major League Baseball teams the way you were your
Speaker 3: local team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like a stone age. Like I told
Speaker 1: younger people, I'm like, well, I to see, like the
Speaker 1: Toronto Blue Jays. I had to watch this week in
Speaker 1: baseball and maybe they would show a highlight of the
Speaker 1: Toronto Blue Jays.
Speaker 3: Maybe you know it.
Speaker 1: It was on sat like Saturday morning, it would be
Speaker 1: this week in baseball.
Speaker 3: That's exactly true. If you tried to explain that to
Speaker 3: a kid right now, they wouldn't understand at all. So
Speaker 3: it was a strange thing. It was like, Eh, we're
Speaker 3: not exactly A's fans, but by family, we're kind of
Speaker 3: related to the A's. And we get to the Oakland
Speaker 3: Coliseum in nineteen eighty seven, one of the first A's
Speaker 3: games that we attended very late in the year, and
Speaker 3: in fact, it was Reggie Jackson's final home game playing
Speaker 3: in Oakland.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's cool.
Speaker 3: It was very cool now think about it. Reggie Jackson
Speaker 3: was literally on his last leg, but he was one
Speaker 3: of those guys where, even though he was an old
Speaker 3: player at the time, whenever he would come up to
Speaker 3: the plate, it was very special because man, he could
Speaker 3: hit a home run, still has power to hit it out.
Speaker 3: That's exactly what happened on this night. My older brother,
Speaker 3: i think, wanted to make this game count. We didn't
Speaker 3: get to go to very many baseball games in general,
Speaker 3: and so he looked around, elbows me and he starts
Speaker 3: a Reggie chant in our section. Okay, And it starts out,
Speaker 3: you know, just him, It's just my brother doing it,
Speaker 3: and he won't shut up. He's one of those annoying
Speaker 3: kids in the stands who's trying to get everybody else
Speaker 3: in the stands to follow him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 3: The little annoying kids where you're like, shut up.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And my older brother finally gets our section into it,
Speaker 3: and our section now is chanting Reggie. Then the section
Speaker 3: next to us picks up on it and they go
Speaker 3: and it was kind of like the wave because the
Speaker 3: next thing you know, the entire stadium is chanting Reggie's
Speaker 3: name and Ben that at bat, Reggie knocks one out.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable. Reggie was bigger than life and all at the
Speaker 1: end of his career. At that time, he was like
Speaker 1: one of the biggest stars in baseball. And now have
Speaker 1: you seen those photos of like Reggie Jackson next to
Speaker 1: the modern slugger, he looks like a backup infielder. But
Speaker 1: when we were younger, I mean, he's amazing. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Reggie Jackson.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I mean at this point of his life,
Speaker 3: he was like a balding, kind of had a little
Speaker 3: bit of a bare belly. Yeah, he looked like a
Speaker 3: former player already, even though he was still in a
Speaker 3: major league uniform.
Speaker 1: But Ricky Henderson said about the A's leaving Oakland, he
Speaker 1: was asked if he was sad about it, and he said,
Speaker 1: this is such a classic quote by Ricky Henderson. He says,
Speaker 1: I have too much money to be sad about the
Speaker 1: A's leaving leaving Oakland. Isn't that not on brand? You're
Speaker 1: an ass hat?
Speaker 3: I'm sure other people saw what Jeff Passen wrote the
Speaker 3: other day saying the Oakland A's were killed by greed.
Speaker 3: Don't allow the people responsible for this to spin it
Speaker 3: any other way. John Fisher did not have to move
Speaker 3: the team. Major League Baseball and it's owners did not
Speaker 3: need to be complicit in it. This was a choice,
Speaker 3: a wrong one. History will sneer.
Speaker 1: Well, what is He's going to make a lot of
Speaker 1: money going to Vegas eventually, But I yeah, I agree
Speaker 1: with the premise. The A's did not have to leave.
Speaker 1: From what I read, Baseball was going to cut off
Speaker 1: essentially all the welfare they were getting, right, That's why
Speaker 1: they left. They had to announce they were leaving because
Speaker 1: they weren't going to get the money from revenue sharing,
Speaker 1: and so that's why they did this when they did it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, why would Vegas is a great town. I
Speaker 1: love Vegas. I go to Vegas a lot, But Oakland,
Speaker 1: in the Bay Area, there's more people that live there.
Speaker 1: It's a bigger media market by far than Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: So from that standpoint in terms of television and all
Speaker 1: those things, it is a downgrade. We'll see how it
Speaker 1: plays out, But yeah, I agree, it didn't have to.
Speaker 3: Happen, so didn't have to happen. The only one thing
Speaker 3: I will say, and we've talked about this on our
Speaker 3: podcast before, it is pretty pathetic how they have let
Speaker 3: the city there in the flats of Oakland rot. And
Speaker 3: we've seen over the past couple of weeks people mention
Speaker 3: on their way to Oakland to go to one final
Speaker 3: game how they were disgusted by what it looks like
Speaker 3: surrounding the stadium there.
Speaker 1: Well, I had a call from Lance, the bus driver
Speaker 1: this week. Lance called up. His car was stolen from
Speaker 1: San Francisco, he lives there. He tracked it to a
Speaker 1: neighborhood in Oakland. So calls the cops. He says, I
Speaker 1: know where my car is, and since it was parked
Speaker 1: in a garage, they said, well, there's nothing we can do.
Speaker 1: He said, well, I know where it is. I know
Speaker 1: exactly where the car is. And they wouldn't help him
Speaker 1: at all. And so Lance thinks they're going to use
Speaker 1: his car in one of those neighborhood takeovers, you know
Speaker 1: where they take over the intersection and they ride their
Speaker 1: carton circles and burnouts and all that.
Speaker 3: And so, I mean, besides them losing their their sports
Speaker 3: teams there.
Speaker 1: In and out Burger right, they've.
Speaker 3: Lost, Oh, they've lost restaurants and businesses to crime. It's
Speaker 3: kind of like the wild Wild West.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's pretty bad now. The gangster's Paradise. I'll
Speaker 1: make this quick. But last weekend, Danny a fortieth birthday
Speaker 1: party for a friend of the wife. And when it's
Speaker 1: a friend of the wife, it's a friend of you.
Speaker 1: So I was dragged to Dave and Busters.
Speaker 3: Have you you've.
Speaker 1: Been to David Busters right over the years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh yeah. We take the kids there sometimes for
Speaker 3: their birthday celebrations. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So they were having a big birthday party and they
Speaker 1: wanted to go to one in a different part of LA,
Speaker 1: but it was all booked up. So they said, all right,
Speaker 1: let's let's go out to Ontario, in the Inland Empire
Speaker 1: in southern California, the Ontario Mills Mall. I think it's fall,
Speaker 1: so we we it's pretty far from what we are.
Speaker 1: We drove out there and a little rough, Danny, a
Speaker 1: little rough. It was, you know, it was a gangster's
Speaker 1: paradise kind of set up. There were a lot of
Speaker 1: shady looking people playing the games, and hey, the Eastern Own.
Speaker 1: As long as they don't bother me whatever, I don't care.
Speaker 1: So they had reserved a table, but we actually when
Speaker 1: we got there, the table wasn't ready because there was
Speaker 1: a party. They told us one of the people in
Speaker 1: our party that the table that we were supposed to
Speaker 1: get the party had been there for seven hours at
Speaker 1: the table at a daven Busters seven hours.
Speaker 3: What do you do there for seven hours?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I have no idea. So we finally
Speaker 1: got a table and we had a group. There were
Speaker 1: probably about twelve of us all together, and we're eating,
Speaker 1: we're enjoying. You know, the food was really not very good,
Speaker 1: but we ate and pretended to like it and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. It's terrible. So whatever I was invited, I said, right,
Speaker 1: I'll go. And so then our waitress or a waiter
Speaker 1: comes over and there was another party right across from us,
Speaker 1: and she's she's in a bad mood, the waitress, and
Speaker 1: I said, oh, what's going on?
Speaker 3: Shocker?
Speaker 1: Apparently the group, and this was a group probably twelve
Speaker 1: to fifteen people, grandma, mom, dads, kids, little kids. They
Speaker 1: had eaten for about two hours and then left without
Speaker 1: paying their bill. They just took off and they didn't.
Speaker 1: They didn't pay their bill. We're not paying and they
Speaker 1: didn't eve say any in these percent like they were
Speaker 1: going to play games, and then they left. What are
Speaker 1: you doing? And this was a this had to be
Speaker 1: a ton of money, right. They were drinking alcohol, they
Speaker 1: had everything.
Speaker 3: So I got a bunch of losers.
Speaker 1: I know, it's like wild and you were allowed to
Speaker 1: do that in California. I think they don't really care,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it was. It was interesting that I had
Speaker 1: a good time playing the games. I didn't play too many,
Speaker 1: but but I mentioned yesterday on the podcast that I
Speaker 1: was watching the storm in the South through Florida and
Speaker 1: Carolina's and Georgia and then on the way up. And
Speaker 1: you've also been on storm Watch, right, Danny, this actually
Speaker 1: affected you more than me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's weird. I've never followed a hurricane or tracked
Speaker 3: one before where it affected me because of where we live, obviously,
Speaker 3: but in this case, we were set on the CNR
Speaker 3: show to broadcast live from the graduate at Hotels and Burn, Alabama,
Speaker 3: and it was supposed to be the pregame to the
Speaker 3: pregame to the game day the day before their big
Speaker 3: game was going to be you know, a lot of
Speaker 3: b Auburn fans, a lot of OU fans there in attendance,
Speaker 3: as well as you know, people in the region who
Speaker 3: listened to the Coveno and Rich show. There had been
Speaker 3: a lot of fans of the show that had RSVP'd,
Speaker 3: and the hotel was really excited to have the broadcast there.
Speaker 3: And then we start looking at the travel plans and
Speaker 3: we were scheduled to fly into Atlanta. We would have
Speaker 3: been landing in Atlanta right as the eye of the
Speaker 3: hurricane was over Georgia. We were tracking that to see
Speaker 3: if it was going to change. We get to Wednesday
Speaker 3: and Rich is pacing the halls of FSR, telling me
Speaker 3: in Coveno if we should fly into the eye of
Speaker 3: the storm. And I'm like, it's all right, dude, will
Speaker 3: be all right, and he's like, yeah, but even if
Speaker 3: we wouldn't we land, we're going to be driving in
Speaker 3: it because once we got to Atlanta, we were going
Speaker 3: to get a rental car drive for ninety minutes to
Speaker 3: get to Auburn in Alabama.
Speaker 1: Of course, I only ninety minutes out of Atlanta. I
Speaker 1: thought it was further.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, not a long drive from Atlanta, but
Speaker 3: it would have been an interesting drive through a hurricane. Finally,
Speaker 3: what happens is Dan Beyer live on our show does
Speaker 3: breaking news the Braves and Mets were canceled. Uh oh,
Speaker 3: we better talk to our boss Scott. So we do
Speaker 3: a group chat and we tell Scott, hey, you know us,
Speaker 3: we're all in, but the games are being canceled. Now.
Speaker 3: Not sure how many of our listeners are going to
Speaker 3: be able to attend this live broadcast. Yeah, yeah, that
Speaker 3: was one thing. We were all focused on our travel,
Speaker 3: obviously trying to fly into that area. But then when
Speaker 3: we really stopped and thought about it, we were like,
Speaker 3: wait a second, if Georgia is declaring state of emergency
Speaker 3: and we're trying to fly in, aren't the other people
Speaker 3: trying to fly out or drive out? At that point,
Speaker 3: our boss got a hold of the client and talked
Speaker 3: to the people in charge to the Graduate hotels, and
Speaker 3: they decided we better call this a.
Speaker 1: Couple of other Auburn games that you can go to.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's you know, because the powers out from
Speaker 1: when I was reading the Powers out all over you
Speaker 1: certain parts of the South, So, yeah, who's going to
Speaker 1: leave their house? Let me go to I want to
Speaker 1: leave my I don't have power here, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take off.
Speaker 3: Come on, man, we got FEMA passes. Well you were got.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's true, you were gotting the street cred.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Like I still, I
Speaker 3: was down. I was like one of the ones pushing
Speaker 3: forward still like No, what we could do is we
Speaker 3: could fly into Dallas and then from Dallas straight into
Speaker 3: Birmingham and rolled up like in the Ghostbuster Mobile.
Speaker 1: That'd be awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the hotel win would have been boarded up, but
Speaker 3: we're still walking in with our comrades and our live
Speaker 3: broadcast equipment.
Speaker 1: Yes, we're here to save the day with a live
Speaker 1: radio remote right here. Yes, that's awesome. I drove in
Speaker 1: a tropical storm when I was back in Vermont, when
Speaker 1: I was in Boston a couple months ago, and that
Speaker 1: wasn't a hurricane, and that was pretty wild. The road
Speaker 1: was flooding a little bit, it was dark, there were
Speaker 1: no lights. I can only imagine what a hurricane would
Speaker 1: be like with the power out on those old country
Speaker 1: roads in the South where there's just nothing for miles
Speaker 1: and miles and miles, And I mean that would be
Speaker 1: like a horror film, wouldn't it, Danny, wouldn't you think?
Speaker 3: Oh for sure, And we're hoping and praying that everybody
Speaker 3: in that part of the country stays safe. At the
Speaker 3: time we're taping this. I'm not sure what's going to
Speaker 3: happen with the football games, but baseball was canceled.
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. If they'd been pro active, they could
Speaker 1: have had the Braves play on Monday and yep, earlier
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, and then they would have gotten the games in.
Speaker 1: But they didn't do that. So now they're gonna play
Speaker 1: a doubleheader on Monday most I guess that's going to
Speaker 1: happen now, And whoever wins the playoff spot, it doesn't
Speaker 1: really matter, Danny, because their pitching staff is going to
Speaker 1: be shredded from having to play all those games.
Speaker 3: But they oh yeah, trust me. Rich Davis, who's a
Speaker 3: big Mets fan, he had a take on the air
Speaker 3: saying that this was actually an advantage for the Mets
Speaker 3: because of how it affected the Braves pitching staff.
Speaker 1: That's one way to look at it.
Speaker 3: That's hopeful thinking by a Mets fan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wishful thinking by a Mets which is usually the opposite.
Speaker 1: Usually the Mets fans were porked. You know, we were done,
Speaker 1: we can't win and all that. All right, I have
Speaker 1: some other stuff. I think I'll save it for tomorrow
Speaker 1: the mailbag if I remember, and.
Speaker 3: Now, and I'm glad we got to reminisce a little
Speaker 3: bit about the Oakland A's because it is an emotional
Speaker 3: thing for sports fans. You know. I saw one of
Speaker 3: their broadcasters tearing up. You probably saw that video too. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the post game guys and bit was in tears and
Speaker 3: their dude next to them was choked up as he
Speaker 3: was saying goodbye. And it's really weird. It's like a
Speaker 3: piece of our childhood going to the wayside.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're getting older. We've seen a lot of teams relocate.
Speaker 1: Like I was saying about the other day, the Montreal
Speaker 1: Expose gone, Seattle SuperSonics, Hartford Whalers and Hockey, all those
Speaker 1: teams are gone. We've seen teams move multiple times. The
Speaker 1: Raiders have moved from Oakland to La back to Oakland
Speaker 1: to Vegas. The Chargers have moved. Oklahoma City was born
Speaker 1: from the Sonics. I mean, there's been a lot of
Speaker 1: name changes and relocations. The Charlotte Hornets became the Pelicans,
Speaker 1: and Washington Bullets are no more, the Redskins, the Guardians
Speaker 1: all that. But anyway, so college football for your your
Speaker 1: you're home, so you'll be watching later today, Danny.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, exactly a lot of college football today.
Speaker 1: I'll be watching as well. In baseball, most everything I
Speaker 1: care about is decide, although we don't know the matchups yet,
Speaker 1: and whether the Dodgers will end up with the number
Speaker 1: one seed or the Phillies will have the number one seed,
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. And then next week the
Speaker 1: baseball playoffs. And we have a wonderful rest of your Saturday,
Speaker 1: and we've got the mail bag tomorrow. We'll talk to
Speaker 1: you next time later.
Speaker 3: Skater by Fallacious