The Morning After – May 19th, 2025

The Morning After – May 19th, 2025

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They get two. Their record is two and one. That’s what matters. I’ve had people texting me now Saturday night. Car just won the series. Tell Doug. Gosh bless it. Tell Doug. Car just won the series. Well, I’m happy they did it. I’m just saying big picture. It’s meaningless. But I disagree. It’s like they they what? They out hit the Royals yesterday. Does that help? No, they lost the game. That all that’s all that matters. 95 and one in their series. That doesn’t matter. Stifsier says it does. What does it say, Tim? Aka the real record. That’s right. The only record that matters. I don’t know how you could argue against this. 26 and 21. That’s what matters. Not how many series wins they have. But if you keep winning those series, then that overall record will look even better. Well, if you win every game, your record will look better. True, but we like to compartmentalize a 162 game season. How about this? Maybe this will lift your spirits. Beautiful morning, boys. All is right in the world. The Jets were bounced from the playoffs. The Battlehawks are in. And Codleville is still a human waist dump. It isn’t. It’s from Buck Shoalter’s slightly used jockstrap. Oh gosh, I didn’t think we’d go there this early. Not this early. Zip code shaming not on the dossier. H the verdals are soaring. That’s from the 314. How about that? Make that change your mind? Uh it doesn’t my mind didn’t really need changing. I didn’t really have some strong opinion on whether they’re soaring or not, but they they are definitely playing a whole lot better. The starting pitching has just been amazing. Saturday night’s game a buck 49. You would have thought it was a getaway day game. Oh yeah, a little noon on a Thursday. We complain about long games. That’s a little too too short. Too brisk. Yeah, you’re very settled in. Royals probably didn’t sell a whole lot of beer and hot dogs that night. No. A buck 49. It was outstanding. You want it to last about 2 and a half, don’t you? As a fan if you go. Oh, I had what they call an opportunity in the business. So, I was at TV on Saturday. Oh, that’s great for exposure. Yeah. Chance to uh you know, for a different audience and uh had a Battlehawks pregame show in the morning, which is a different opportunity, but really watched the game from start to finish and it just flew by. Great defense, great pitching. That was fun. Buck 49 though, if you’re in the building, that’s probably a little too quick. Yeah, that’s that’s not enough. We’re never happy. No, no. Right about 2 and a half, 2:45. That’s about the sweet spot. Starts to get long about the three-hour mark. But does the time of the game matter if you win the series? No, it doesn’t. It doesn’t. The series as long as you win. I think you pulled your oblique digging in on this take. I think I moved a big planter out in the backyard. I think that’s what did it. Oh, so it wasn’t like a a a moment where you felt it? No. This is just like you’ve woken up and got us. Well, that that’s actually probably good news that it wasn’t like a traumatic injury. It’s kind of gotten worse the last two or three days. I didn’t even notice it at first. Is it because you’re working on your your hip turn to increase club head speed 14 to 18? No, I can’t really do much of a hip turn right at the moment. How will that impact your play at the DOTM? Well, hopefully I’ll be all right at the DOTM. Gives me a couple gives me what, a week and a half. Well, you’re going to have to work with some people to get to get right. All right. Uh Jackson hasn’t spoken yet and he’s already ruined the show. That’s from the Grape Ape Autodetailing. I really don’t like the sentiment, but I love the texture. I’m a Grape Ape Autodetailing lemming. Doug, was it a sex injury? That’s from Mano. God, was it? I told you what it was. I went the heavy pot. You said you thought it was. I think it was Martin. You caught that. I think that’s what it was. I didn’t do anything else. That required a lot of heavy lifting unlike the Battlehawks game which was four hours. That’s from Mr. Bo James. Oh my. Was it really a 4hour game? Pass Jackson. Maybe not quite four. Thriller. An absolute six lead changes on Saturday. And now guess what? They’re hosting a playoff game. And you’re wondering why, Doug? Do you want to know why they’re hosting? Because this the only place it attracts any fans. No. No. That’s the reason St. Louis is hosting the UFFL championship. But the division championship, which they call a conference championship, will either be DC or St. Louis with a better record. One of those two is going to have a better record. DC has a scheduling conflict. So St. Louis conveniently gets to host regardless of record. How about that win for us? Now, I think that actually happened with the NFC Championship game when the Rams played the Eagles and Donovan McNab. Uh, the Vet had a scheduling conflict. So, they let I don’t think so. What was the conflict? They need to sweep up the place a little bit, clean it up, spruce it up, or was there some event really? The Cardinals get in with 83 wins as a bottom wild card. They’ll get to host because the Padres’s have a scheduling conflict. It’s another tractor pull. Okay. Very popular. ETO is playing Petco Park and they will not move the show. Now in a tractor pull the thing you try to do is just pull a heavy object as far as you can. Is that it? You crowdsourcing tractor pull in all your years over at the guy who went to Leoo KG. What do you got on tractor poles? What’s the object? What are they trying to do? Uh Doug. Oh, I think it’s just pull heavy weights. I think so. I think they rev them up and then see I think when I went to that Washington County Fair a couple years ago which was remarkably foul. They had tractor pull going on at that thing. Really? It’s just who’s got the better engine in the tractor. I think so. Wow. Going mudding. Okay. Well, I got to get the more tractor pulls clearly. Doug, tractor pulling is known is known as the world’s heaviest motorsport. Did you know that? No. The goal of tractor pulling is to determine the strongest machine and the best driver. Different to every other motorsport in the world, it is not about the speed, but about the distance pulled. The pulling truck is a minimum of 30 ft wide by 320 ft long. Does that help clear it up? It does. Not really. It it it doesn’t it it still makes me wonder why you would pay money to get a ticket to watch it, but I guess people do. I wouldn’t have thought motocross would be as popular as it is, but when they had that motocross at the dome, a lot of times they sell the place out. This show would be much easier to listen to if Doug was shut his damn mouth. It’s from the 573. Wow. I got to get this rant off my chest here. Then we’ll get to some calls. Then we’ll get to some calls. Then we’ll get to Watch your mouth. Watch your mouth. Dan Alowski, you’re welcome to call in and scold Doug this morning. 314974101. Caller and Thompson, sponsor of the phone lines and design air, sponsor of our email today, the morning after ateststl.com. Doug, down the stretch we come in the month of May. And uh with the weather expected to be rainy for much of the next seven days, Memorial Day weekend, Doug, rainy and somehow cold. Oh, how is that possible? Well, we have a high of 61 on the first day, a high of 67 on Friday, a high of 67 on Saturday, a high of 71 on Sunday, and a high of 71 on Monday with rain in the forecast throughout today and tomorrow and Memorial Day weekend. And I wonder if that’ll alter Jackson’s uh Memorial Day plans cuz you got a cigarette boat uh once we went over to HD1. You took that bonus money really and got a cigarette boat. You talked to Mark Hannah at Evergreen Well Strategies invest in a cigarette boat, right? 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Um that’s something we’ve actually done well and today I mean facing them good arms especially the back end there with uh their eighth inning and nth inning guys. I mean they did a really nice job. It’s tough to score on those guys but we had opportunities throughout that game and just uh didn’t get the big hit and that’s what it came down to. We’ve done a nice job of driving in some runs. Today we didn’t. Um, and that that’s that’s where it lies. Ashot, I live now for the sound effect. And I don’t care what the sound bite is. I’m just waiting for that little ender. That’s Jackson’s counter offensive to Doug’s critique of the fade out/abbrupt audio clip. I like it very much. Yes, put that to bed. The the Cardinals win the series in Philadelphia, win the series in Kansas City. And if you’re taking a look at the two losses, um, you would point to games that I think you would say they probably should have won both. As kind of weird as that sounds, it sounds like like a college football fanroader uh, hosting a podcast and, you know, trying to spin the team into uh, being undefeated. But the reality is in both cases and you know just in a coincidence uh the Cardinals had the tying run on and they had Nolan Aronado and Wilson Contrarus coming up. They had that in Philadelphia in game one of that double header that they lost and they had that yesterday afternoon after Donovan’s fourth hit and Aronado up and in the same case he fouled out just like he did to Bryce Harper against Philadelphia and so the Cardinals were not able to convert. So, with that said, as as weird as it might sound, I kind of like that because even in this case during this hot streak, when they’re not winning, they’re right there to either tie it or take the lead, as was the case here in these recent losses to Philadelphia and Kansas City. Yeah, it it’s been about the pitching, I think, for the most part. Yes, it has. It’s just one night after the next they get shut down starting pitching. I I’m not sure anybody saw this coming, but boy, it’s it’s undeniable that their their starting pitchers have been about as good as anybody in the league here over the last 2 three weeks. Miles Michael’s erra after the Fenway start and I think I asked him what was that like at Fenway and stuff. His RA after that start was 11.25. That was uh your pep talk. Yeah, he was on the show and I was like uh what was it? You know, kind of toughening things. Talk about it. is he right now is 3.77 and it does look like in that game Saturday night game that cruised on by it does look like he’s just lollipop it up there. Yeah, it works. Six shuted innings, two hits on Saturday. So it’s the playoffs Doug game one starting pitcher Liore I’ I’d say right now they’ll probably go with Sunny Gray but Livby would be a good choice. Mike looks like a guy who could throw the ball 110 miles an hour. big strong guy and yet he’s probably the probably has the least velocity of all their starters. But he’s proof that if you have control in within the strike zone and you change speeds, you can get people out. And I think it was Rick Horton on the radio said they told him not to worry about walking people cuz sometimes they said he was too accurate. He was just putting it because he was always throwing strikes and they said don’t be afraid to pitch out of the zone a little bit and you might walk some players but maybe you won’t put it right down the middle like the meatballs and it’s an interesting take yeah they’re telling them it’s okay to start walking people cuz I’m sure as a hitter when you see somebody who’s not doing 98 mph you want to get up there go up there swinging and so if you know if you put that a little bit off the plate you probably get some guys out by being overly aggressive. the visual that struck me on Saturday. They had two really good defensive plays back to back. Boy, did they ever to get out of the jam. They had the double play, they turned and then Donovan the diving stop up the middle. But after the double play and that rundown, Aronado looks so excited. I’m like, this is a guy who could not wait to get out of St. Louis. Now, you could debate, well, he was open to a trade, but I think he was excited about that idea. Ends up still being here. team’s now winning some games and he looked genuinely excited just I would love to know and he’ll probably never say it his emotional connection to the team now as opposed to in the offseason when he just sort of thought he was gone and now he’s here and seems to really be enjoying this squad and look at the Tigers tonight. Isn’t that a good model of what the Cardinals I guess they’re trying to do because it’s not a if you look at that lineup it doesn’t wow you. You don’t see star not household names, right? And yet they can rake. They can rake. It’s just a really solid team and they have the best record in baseball, the Detroit Tigers. And it’s not loaded with star power. It’s a lot of guys that are homegrown. They’re just pretty good. Mhm. Well, the Cardinals may get there. Herrera certainly looks like the real deal. Holy smokes, does he hit all he does. I wonder if it’s time to move him up a little. Maybe bat him fourth if he’s going to bat. He’s hitting 429 at the moment. I I think I might want to see a few more at bats out of him. So 429’s good. It’s very good. It’s better than anything Roger Hornsby ever did. I think I’ll give you five to one. Five to one on your money. Okay. Up to a $100 bet. So $500 is sitting there. And I know you love to bet. Yeah. If you could name over the last week the three Cardinals with the highest OPS. The highest OPS. Did you say the three Cardinals? I’d say contr Herrera, Donovan, and uh it’s already it’s already over. It’s over. Okay. Son of a is Burley in there. Uh Berles is number one. The TMA bump. Martin Herrera’s two and of course Poso is three. Keep adding more catchers. More catchers. I would not have gotten the Poso plan. Six catchers. Good. Tried to entice you with five to one. You declined the offer. You think six catchers is the number? I four seems to be working out pretty well. St. Louis catchers. Uh the third lowest is Nolan Aronado for the record. His OPS is 268, but Berles’s at 1400. Herrera 1393 and Poso. Now this is a small sample size theater, but a thousand. Uh Donovan is fourth as he has been raking as of late. Mason win at five. Rounding it out, Jordan Walker with the key at bat. Now, granted, it’s a one-off, but hey, it mattered on Saturday night. And uh his home run, his third of the year, got the Cardinals the win on Saturday night. You have that uh fun with audio. I have him with Alexa after the game, dodging the Gatorade bass. They were coming for me multiple times. How’s it feel to contribute on both sides of the ball today? It felt pretty good. I mean, it feels pretty nice. hopefully to keep it going and uh yeah, for sure. Walk me through that at bat with a home run. Uh yeah, I mean uh I don’t know. He’s really good at uh slowing it. Uh oh. Oh, you got to stand here and take this one. There he goes. He earned that one. A nice shower. You did a pretty good job on that one. I I had to. I saw it coming from my way. But anyway, um yeah, pitcher over there is really good. Um, he does a good job of slowing guys down, so I had to look for, you know, a select pitch and, uh, he gave me one to hit and I’m glad I could execute. When you see the defense that this team’s executed all season long, I know you’ve been part of it. But watching your infield work tonight, what does that do for you? Unbelievable. I mean, that’s game saving plays right there by Donnie. Um, hell of a play, heck of a play by Mason at the end of the end of the game. Um, so I mean, it’s just unbelievable stuff, you know, on the defensive side. Pitchers are holding it down, man. And I think it’s all good. I got You already got me, bro. You already got me, bro. I don’t care. You need it, bro. This is what big victories do, I guess. So, you know, if it’s if it’s worth it, for sure. Um, but yeah, what I was saying, I mean, defense all around, pitching all around, man. And I know we got a good offensive club, so we’re dangerous team and help to keep it going. It’s all worth it. I think that’s called ash to agot. It’s all worth it. That’s what they used to say. Bats used to be made of ashwood. I don’t know why a ball was called an agot, but somebody’s hitting. Mike Shannon said it a few times. Ashgot. Norland Gorman does not have his eye back. Stop playing stupid song. That’s from the gray summit grey goose guzzler. Nolan Gorman got his eye back. We’re trying to will it. We’re trying to make it happen. Burns has happened, Doug. Uh the Cardinals sent out. Did you see that by chance on the Cardinal social media? Angry Birds. Did they really? They did. Oh man. Yeah, it’s all happening. And our beak is bone dry here. So, you’re saying the Cardinals should I’m not saying anything. I’m just observation. VS2’s got the gear, right? That’s right. It’s got younger gear out there on the market. Bone dry beak. Bone dry. Bone dry beak. Jackson, you’d like to wet your beak. I I’m not saying anything. Just uh observations. Okay. Bone dry beak. Who wants that text inbox name? You can get it starting on June 1st uh as Jackson will update the text names. You can text into the program 314399646. We need longer sound bites. That’s a total pack. Well, they complain about anything. I like that. Knock it off or we will shut down this text inbox. Oh, help me. I like that walker clip. It’s a great visual. The bucket dumping that they like to do can lead to bad sound bites, but it’s kind of it’s it’s visually entertaining. I think that Contrarus lives for that. Oh, yeah. I enjoyed it. Good for Walker. He needed a moment. Big swing for him on Saturday. He needed that. Even if it’s just one moment, I think when you’re slumping like he is, he knows all the pressure that’s out there on him. Great to see that moment. Uh I do have an Ali. I need Ali. It’s kind of like Mosaic. End of the day. End of the day. We had about a 10-year run where every Mo sound bite had end of the day. Ali uses Nice job. Nice job. There’s a little meter I keep there with the nice job meter. I’m just going to let him know. We’re going to I just want to freshen it up a little bit. He’s done better about ending his sentences. And yeah, he used that used to be his thing. Like and as an editor of sound. Yes. It was like every time he would end it with Yeah. I was like, “You don’t need to like vocally put a period on your sentence. We We got you. Can you give me Give me that sound effect and when I’m listening to I’ll be down there at the ballpark. I’ll just hit it. So he doesn’t have to do the Yeah. I’ll just on my phone play that. It’s a good pop. It’s a real good. It’s right in the screws. You’re struggling with the hockey one. However, I added something new to the hockey. Oh wow. We were some hockey. We think we think the one you had might have been from the Afton rank. Sure. Well, hockey nonetheless. Well, if Walker continues to hit, Ali’s going to have a tough decision to make with the lineup every night because they they couldn’t get him in the game at all yesterday after he hit the game-winning home run the night before because they got Burles swinging the bat. Well, you need Scott running around in center field. Bar the ball well. Herrera’s got to be in the lineup as a designated hitter. So, where do you put Walker? I mean, Walker really hadn’t hit and I know, but if he does, I mean, had like I said, he had the home run on Saturday. if he starts to show that uh he’s got it figured out a little bit, they’re going to really have to be creative with the lineup to get him all in. They brought Walker in as a defensive replacement. How about that for Alec Burles? Uh two lowest OPS’s with the Cardinals in the month of May or Walker and Gorman. And Jackson continues to play that song despite the Gray City Summit goose. Yeah. Some could be why his beak is bone dry. Yeah. Well, it’s I like the Nolan Gorman song. With Gorman, yeah, not being in the lineup makes sense. Walker, it’s like, oh, it’s the great battle between him and Burl. So, like, what are you going to do? You know, maybe try Walker at catcher. I guess you could play the left right thing, left-handed hitter, right-hand hitter thing, depending on the starting pitcher, right? Tough to have runway when something like that’s going. Runway is our theme. Uh, ladies and gentlemen, you are welcome to participate in the program. So many different ways to do so. Michelobra YouTube chat YouTube.com/tmma stl. Call in calier and thompson phone lines 314974101 and text it to the air comfort service. Text inbox 314399646. The programs called TMA and it airs here on 101 ESPN the TMA STL YouTube channel. Doug, the doggies. Yeah, boy. The doggies. What do you say? What do you say? It’s It was almost no words to describe what happened when you didn’t see the game. Whoa. Again, Tim, because I had this opportunity on Saturday. Yeah, that’s a hell of an opportunity for you. Sitting at the Tofox felt like Rich Gould texting me every Sunday. You know, I don’t like working on Sundays. And I would always write back, “But you don’t really like working on Mondays or Tuesdays either.” There I was Saturday, but taking in all of the sports activity. Actually, it wasn’t bad because cards were on. We were watching City and then the Jets game. The Stars. Uh doggies did not play well, Doug. Did not play well at all. Oh yeah. One of their more lackluster performances in a long time. They haven’t won a game since March and it’s almost June. That’s not good. No. And even the Die Hards are really getting worked up now. Why no Maple Leafs talk? That’s from Arthur Fonzerelli. He’s known as Fonza in the Michelobra YouTube chat. Well, guess what? It’s uh coming your way. A game seven last night in Toronto with Craig Barubi behind the bench and Doug, it was a thriller. It wasn’t a thriller. That one I did watch and it was just it was just amazing how little the the Maple Leafs had. I mean, they were just in games and games dominated by the Panthers in every sense of the word. They had nothing. and the fans again. At the start of the playoffs, I was hoping if the if it wasn’t going to be the Blues, I’d like to see Toronto win for their fans, die hard fans, kind of the capital of hockey in the world. I think a lot of people in St. Louis shared your thoughts cuz they love Craig Baru. Yeah. Haven’t won since the 60s. But then to see their fans turn on the team in the in the playoffs, game five, so many of them left after two periods throwing stuff on the ice. Same thing last night. Somebody threw a jersey again last night. I saw a lot of empty seat. you’re going to give up on your team in the playoffs and then they were booing them when the game was over. Come on. Did it remind you of Rocky 4 when the Soviet crowd turned on Ivon Drago and started cheering for the American side? Didn’t see the picture, Tim. So, it didn’t Sweet Mother of Mercy. I can’t believe what I just heard on this show. I didn’t see the picture. Didn’t see Rocky four. I don’t think so. No. Frank’s got it on a loop in his kitchen. Have you seen that? Maybe just a bit of it. I I missed most of it. I noticed under y talk Tim it says continental y talk Austin Matthews parenthesis lights on nobody’s home type stare I like that description for us only nice papers I like that but don’t you think as a as a fan base you could support your team in the playoffs even if they don’t do well they gave you a great regular season they took the defending champs to game seven and you’re still going to boom on the way out that seems wrong to me salty bald dude from uh bald Dad from Caseyville. WTF, Doug? What? You think you ought to boo your team because they didn’t win the playoffs? Their play didn’t match up to your extreme expectations. Boy, you’d have done it differently had you been the head coach. It It happens. It was a pretty bad performance, though. It wasn’t a good performance. You still You still don’t boo your team cuz I I think if the Leafs lose in the second round this year with Brew, like, well, we got through the first round. and it’s still not good enough. They’re still going to be really disappointed that they can’t get through. But the way they flamed out in games five and seven at home, I mean, they just worked in both just to lay an egg and to have the series under control, winning those first two games. Bernie Federero called the shot. Said, “I like the Panthers.” He did. It’s unbelievable. So now I think Toronto, even though they did get through the first round, which had been an issue for them, they’re right back where they were in terms of fan angst and franchise disappointment. Biz Nasty had really been pushing for the Leafs. He had the Leafs tie on last night. Uh here he is in between periods when things weren’t looking particularly grand. H I mean, what else do you visitor? Uh I guess I guess you could boo like the fans there, but you’re not going to be doing that. But do you understand why they did? This is brutal. This is men verse boys right now. Completely unprepared. Uh I think they’ve lost every single 50/50 puck battle. Uh don’t know else how to describe it, but pathetic performance. I still have a problem with them booing though, Liam. I mean, last time I checked, the hockey game 60 minutes, not 40 minutes. So, as poorly as you might have think, you might think the Leafs have played, you got to give the Florida Panthers a ton of credit. They’re the defending Stanley Cup champions. They ratcheted things up a little bit. If you’re the fans in Toronto, cheer your team on. Give the guys a little bit of optimism. To to be fair, I think they did after the Florida scored a couple times. If I paid 5K for lower bowl seats and that was the effort I got for 60 minutes though, there’s still a chance. Okay, that’s fair. I’m going to still believe. I’m just saying I’m okay with the booze if that’s the effort you put forward. The one thing that I’m seeing right it totally took away from the fact that you kind of dumped out mid thought shiny object. Right. I dumped out hit the post. What? Oh, I hear what you’re saying. I like that. Can I hear that? Can I just hear that sounder again? Yeah. Here you go. I’m seeing hit the goal. Takes a It wasn’t a very quick slap shot. It took a while to get there. I would agree with Doug in in that moment like just hang in there. I would boo. I think it’s okay at the end there and the effort there at six to one. Good god. But three 0 you still had a I kept thinking if just get that one that 3-1 goal then you’re right back in it. I kind of think the fans are a bigger part of the team than what maybe a lot of other people do. A cheering fan a fan base that’s going nuts for a home game. That can help. That can matter to players. And I’m sure it can matter when your own fans are starting booing you and throwing stuff on the ice. It it it matters when things like that happen to a team. And as a as a fan base, I just don’t understand turning on this team you supposedly loved all year and now they don’t win the last game and so you hate them. You boo them. I I just don’t think that’s right. It matters. It matters. They won the game six on the road Friday against the wall. It was bad. What? What about the chief, Tim? What the chief say? The chieftain uh had this to say following the festivities last night in Toronto. All right, hit the lever, please. Pale. Well, I look at, you know, I think the moment’s too big for him, you know. I think it’s We went to Ottawa and won game six and won a series. We went to Florida and won game six to make it a game seven, you know. So, the moment’s not too big. it. For me, it’s all it’s all between the years. It’s a mindset. Um, these guys are capable of doing it. Um, you just got to execute it and we didn’t execute it. We didn’t execute it in game five. We didn’t execute it in game seven. You know, I don’t have an answer for that why, but that’s that’s the bottom line. I was waiting for the goalpost. Wow. Wow. Wow. I think that’s a more recent. I I told that this like right before the program, so I apologize. Okay. All right. It’s okay. No apology. Is is that apology accepted? Okay, I’ll let it go this time. Don’t necessarily need confirmation. Return to center. Toronto’s 47 million core four group of forwards scored only once in four games after game three. Uh that was Austin Matthews it down in Sunrise. following a pattern late in series that’s persisted for years where they get tighter and less effective the more that is on the line. How about that little statistic? Fun facts for no and tell. The core four Mitch Mner was going through it on the bench last night, right? Uh well, I just think you ought to stick with your team all the way through through the thick and thin. the Blues are going to be my team forever. And if they don’t win, I’m not going to boo them because they didn’t win. Even if the performance wasn’t what it should have been or if it looked like they didn’t give an effort, they were just thoroughly outplayed by a very good team. Uh they they also lost their starting goalie. Wool was pretty good, but they didn’t have stol forget how you pronounce the name. Uh Stan Stovall was Stan Stoall the 80s market. also a competitive bodybuilder left for Baltimore because that’s not who I was talking about because they have a better bodybuilding scene in Baltimore. We we got off track. I felt they lost their number one goalie. That’s how I’m going to counter crowdsourcing from now on. Dude, we get it. You work out guy. I did feel bad for Joseph Wald in that. Yeah, that was tough. He He wasn’t going to stop too many of those. There was a couple of them he didn’t have much of a chance on, but he certainly didn’t cost him that game. But still, for the the second round of the playoffs, Toronto didn’t have its number one net minder. Laid down. They laid down on Saturday night, Tim, when the Jets lost in overtime. I felt bad for Shley. I mean, his dad dies Friday and he’s, you know, we’ve talked about him on this show a ton. He’s been was targeted and knocked out and didn’t play and Shen got him good and then he comes back to play and they’re the Jets who were rooting to lose and they lose in painful fashion in overtime with him in the box on a power play goal. Yes, the only penalty called in the game and I mean it was a was kind of a necessary one to take considering the Stars were on the attack. And I woke up, heard the news about what had happened with uh Mark Schiffley’s father passing away um overnight. They have an elimination game in Dallas. He finds out about it, decides to play and and I found myself pulling for the Jets. I found myself going into the game, I wanted to watch how, you know, the whole thing played out. uh was watching with uh my older son and uh I was I I know and I was wa I watched all of the Jets postgame with Lowry uh and uh Arneal and they they their biggest thing as crazy as it might sound but from a human standpoint you can understand it and have a great deal of respect for it. They wanted to make sure they did not give up the goal while he was in the box. of course they don’t want to give up a goal in general because their season’s over, but in particular and I thought and I’m and I think the fact that they were cognizant of that uh you know it just it’s it’s a hockey culture thing. It’s across the board. The Dallas Stars fans went out of their way to raise a bunch of money for the charities that Shiffley is involved with in Winnipeg. Made $55 donations. His number on a sweater being 55. Um, I thought that was a great thing, uh, from the Dallas fans to do. And, uh, and so it’s an amazing thing. That’s what got me to a point where I could actually watch that series, which I, you know, being now 15 days since the debacle in Winnipeg. I was sitting there pulling for the Jets. Crazy as it might sound, but I would imagine plenty of people can understand that’s and I had and and Shley is the one who gets the goal. I was the fact that he played then he scores the first goal of the game. I wasn’t pulling for him. I couldn’t go there, but I felt bad for him. And then the Shley Hellabuk hug at the end of the game, a lengthy hug between those two. It was it was hard to watch it and not be emotional knowing just the personal side of it. A guy plays a hockey game the day after finding and his dad had not been sick or anything. So, it was a sudden death, which I guess you could always argue, well, death’s always sudden, but there was nothing leading up to it. Guy plays the game and then they lose. Their season ends in overtime. And that’s the nature of sports where they did it to the Blues in unbelievably heartbreaking fashion and then their season ends in overtime in a game six. I was right there with you. My wife was like, “F them.” But I couldn’t help but pull for him. It was gut-wrenching. That’s from Fuy. Yeah, I think some people felt that way. He must have been numb just that whole day just kind of in a fog and in the middle of it always got to play this game with a season on the line and yet he did. He played very hard and played well. Played very well. So Canada now is down to Edmonton their chance to end the streak. Doug, you put a tariff on that franchise, the Oilers, I believe, but they could still win a cup. Yeah, that’s the last Canadian team. Mhm. Dallas, Edmonton, Carolina, Florida. Just as we broke down when the playoffs began. Jackson, didn’t you have that final four? Of course, spread zone. Yep. Well, after after watching the Panthers play, I don’t know who’s going to beat them. I don’t know anybody’s playing that well. Got the goalie. Got the veterans. Toronto had a fantastic regular. They had 108 points. Won their division this year. They’ve lost their last seven game sevens. Why are we still talking about hockey? It’s from big tough. Why are we talking about Toronto? Canada sucks. Hot takes, Doug. The WTF was about you not watching Rocky 4. That’s from Ryan. Boom. I didn’t watch it. Nothing. Maybe a clip or two. I’m in the news, sweetheart. We’re in a trade war with Canada. Beat them. That’s from the total package. Beat them. beat anyone from Canada. So, we’re pro Dallas. How are we not talking about golf, Doug? They are not happy with the topic. No, I I’m real close to blocking everybody. You want to talk about golf? If you followed the lead of the text line, this show would be even more add. Oh, talk about Nope. Don’t talk about hockey. Nope. Switch baseball. What? Football. Bhawks Jackson will like this one from the Loomster. Who cares about the hockey game? Talk about the game seven people actually watched. SGA is a bad man. That’s from the Loomster. Another terrible game to watch. Another blowout. Uh up until the the fourth quarter, the Thunder just started. Absolutely. And late in the third, they dominated, but it was a good first half. But no WNBA talk. Caitlyn Clark at a triple double. That’s from NB2020. We can’t get to it all at the same time. I I’ve got the pen raised and if I have to I will suspend every one of our listeners. Everybody who texts in suspended. What about the Michelob? Maybe just everyone listening. Just send the message. Send a strong and powerful message. You’re all all of you right now in your car. You’re all banned. Doug, can you clear the text line? Clear out. Clear the lines. All right. Shut it down. Shut all of it down and clear the line. Oh, we’re starting fresh. That should do it. Starting first. Okay, let’s see if that helps. That’s good. Starting. You just cleared them, right, Jackie? Yeah. Oh, yeah. You’re welcome to get suspended by texting in 314399646 in the Michelobaltry YouTube chat. YouTube.comtmastl. The program is called The Morning After and it is presented to you by Brown and Crooppin. This is Jackson with the Sports Center update. That’s driven by Johnny Landoff Chevrolet and Johnny Landoff Autoplex. The Cardinals take two of three from the Kansas City Royals. Make that another series win, nine on the campaign for the Redbirds. They’ll try to get another one this week against the Tigers. First game tonight, 645 first pitch. Sunny Gray on the mound for the Red Birds. Those are sports center update driven by Johnny Wandoff Chevrolet and Johnny Wandoff Autoplex. See the mandalf.com Chevy together we drive. Are you kidding me? Laies are slaying the My favorite part right here. This is our year. We’re swinging our way. This is the year that are coming jazz flute. This is Ron Burgundy. Well, the Tigers will be in town tonight. The question that I have been pondering since they left for the road trip, which was incredibly successful, is what will the crowd look like when these Redbirds return to town? the the issue and why I don’t know if we’re really going to be able to see what kind of attendance uh and and really judge if fans have gotten back on board is the forecast over the next two days is really uh troublesome. So from that standpoint, I could see uh postponements uh cancellation and that could discourage people from going to the ball game. If you would have had the weather that we had over the weekend on Saturday and Sunday, uh that could have changed things, but uh tonight and tomorrow, it’s supposed to be lots of rain in the St. Louis area. And so therefore, I don’t know if we’ll really be able to draw a conclusion. Well, the next two days, 2, three, may not be a really good barometer. See what I did there with barometer to tie it into the weather. Pretty sick. That was pretty sick. But I I’m sure it’ll be a slow progression to build back the fans that that they’re not all of a sudden going to have 45,000 at a game because they’ve played so well over the last few weeks. But I think it will build as as the season goes if they continue to play well. Martin, if I sent an overunder, and I’ll do it for tonight, even though I I think delays are live, if not a postponement, if I were to set an overunder of and we’ll do it. It’s so tough because there’s there’s the there’s the announcement and then there’s what’s actually in the building and of course we don’t know. 28,000 sold. Is that what you’re saying tonight? 28,000 sold. So Detroit on the schedule. Most folks aren’t grabbing the even though they’re good in advance. It’s not a game you’re looking to go to. Kids are starting to get out of school. Still a Monday. I’m going to go a little under. We go a little under just shipped to the underdog. Yeah. How far under are you going to go? 279999. I’ll say 28,000. Oh, so you’re calling for a push. You’re betting on zero and double of zero for I think maybe they’ll surprise us tonight. Did you call the exact same number as Tim? That’s rare in this game. Oh, did you say 28,000? I’ll say 28,0001. You’re taking over,000. So Tim, you have a very small window this back to lock this in. That’s going to be a tough win for you unless it’s exactly maybe they round up round up the attendance Doug stop being such an attendance Homer that’s from big tough now the topic is fine but the opinion is not attendance has not well I don’t think the attendance is going to go down because they’re playing so well and because school’s now out and the weather should be better school out well for most people it is I think is it really I think there’s graduations well yeah older kids. I think most middle school, grade school kids got a day or two to go. Probably got a carnival right around the corner. That’s right. St. Gabriel, of course, ruining theirs by moving it to October. Okay. Yeah, I think it’ll go up gradually, but steadily as long as they play well. Doug, you seem extra feisty today. I can help you release those emotions if you need. That’s from producer Joe’s Ascav. Didn’t need that. Just didn’t need it. If the old man’s satisfied, then everything’s just fine. There’s our commissioner of the fantasy baseball league, producer Joe. I’m going to suspend him. I didn’t like Producer Joe or Producer Joe. I don’t want to suspend him, but it’s just something that has to be done procedurally. Producer Joe, who no longer works at the show, has nonetheless been suspended. Joe, just for the drop. Suspended. Yes. Suspended a period of two days. Not the texture, the drop. Yeah, it doesn’t feel very good. I know it doesn’t, Joe, but it’s all part of the process. School’s not out. an exclamation point. Three or four college kids in on my street that are out now. They’re done. They’re finished for the year. There’s some that are out. I would say I think I think Lindberg I I believe has this week to go. How about the Flyers? Yeah, I think this is it. Parkway still goes next week. That’s from the 314. Okay. I don’t know if there’s something we can say that won’t be attacked. Like every colleges are done. Every congratulations. All the parents are texting where their kids go to school and that they still have school. I don’t think they’re necessarily looking for a lot of fifth graders to finally come down to Bush Stadium, but college kids. Yeah. College. Yeah. Doug, did you ever hear the drop when Lindberg’s band played the Roseb parade and Will Frell did the broadcast? They had like an alternate broadcast of the Roseb parade and the Lindberg band is going by and Will Frell starts reading prominent alumni of Lindberg. Yeah. and he goes, “Oh, Glenn Zimmerman, Fox 2 weatherman.” And he does a whole bid and said, “So sorry to hear about his death.” And he does he does a whole thing about Glen Zimmerman just freewheeling. And then in the end he goes, “Sorry to hear he’s dead.” If we could uh Doug, uh I don’t know if you have your phone at the ready, but uh we just received a new group text from producer Joe and me and you are included. And it’s just a middle finger emoji. And it sounds like producer Joe is listening to the program and he is not happy with the suspension. Well, you know what we do with that? We put a tariff on the middle finger. The middle finger has just received a 20% tariff. That won’t feel good economically. I mean, we’ll feel it. We’ll all feel the pinch. We we we cleared it up. Doug is a [ __ ] Get it together, Doug. School goes till the end of the month. Stick to talking about Cardinal series wins. That’s in the six. Let’s go to the end of the month. Tim Rockwood still going? Uh, yes. That’s from the 636 South and also Master the Custodial Hearts. Lutheran South is out. We’re getting updates school by school now comfort like a Bob Hamilton vehicle. Text in box 314399646. That is how you can uh text into the program. And we of course welcome people calling in. This gentleman is omniresent Doug. Uh he won the January listener of the month. He’s on the Caler and Thompson phone lines. He said the Cardinals would win 90 to 95 games. I think he’s the only person in the state of Missouri and of course the bystate region who said that. His name is Pestus and he’s from Fesus. Good morning, Pestus. Good morning, gentlemen. How you doing? Oh, we’re doing fine. Okay, Doug. Yeah, get over it. Get over what? Just deal with it. Deal with what? Deal with it. Victories are victories no matter what. That’s right. Victories are victories no matter what. Is that what you said? That’s what I said. Okay. Well, yeah. I wouldn’t argue that. How can I argue that? What? Why would I argue that? Okay. You don’t. But you’re in a kicked off mood no matter what. I’m not. It’s because of the oblique. It’s the sprained oblique. Uhhuh. Okay. That’s what you get for chasing grasshoppers. Chasing grasshoppers. Okay. Okay, gentlemen. Here’s the thing. All right. Tonight’s attendance, you have to look at the bigger aspect of the situation. The city is in a mess and a lot of people are hurting. I don’t know how many people are going to feel like going to a ball game when they have to try to figure out where they’re going to live. Well, that’s true. It’s a good point. It’s a good point. A lot of people hurting today. Yes, they are. Thank God. I hope nobody up there is hurting and that everybody was safe up there. But tonight, we got more bad weather coming. Just look out for your elderly people and try to get them through that. Yeah. And as far as the Cardinals, they’re on a rip roaring stage to take a lot whether they Yeah, they’re behind two games now because of the stinking Cubs. But here’s the thing you got to remember. Cubs acronym Cubs considered useless by September. Sick. Oh gosh. Sick moment in show history. All right. Very nice. Very nice analysis. All right, Pis. I’m sorry, Pa. I apologize. We haven’t been able to get to you in recent weeks. I know you’ve been on hold, but I apologize. It’s uh Jackson’s fault. No, I’m not going to blame it on Jackson. Okay. Well, I did. Okay. I’ll blame it on the little P. Oh, okay. Okay. Oh, but Jackson’s okay. Yeah, he is. Hey, Jackson, I have a question for you. Jackson, you taking questions or? Sure. What do your parents do for a living? Boy, this sounds like parties in the park. Jeez. Um, my father is a retired educator and my mother is a journalist. Okay. I was just curious and if you would have said you didn’t want to answer, I would have respected that. Can I ask you pestus why you wanted to know that? I was just curious to name uh Jackson Briquette and everything. It’s the last name Briquette is famous in St. Louis for some type of fencing company or something. I understand. Okay. And I was just wondering. All right. Now, no, I don’t know anything about fences. That’s okay. Wooden or otherwise? Wooden. You don’t nothing You don’t know nothing about wood or otherwise? Uh, yeah. Timber really isn’t my Bailey Wick. More of a textiles guy. Get really naughty with that one. Okay, watch it, Mr. Watch it. Doug is in a banning mood. That’s right. Nope. But anyhow, everybody stay safe. Look out for the weather tonight. Watch out for your elderly neighbors and everything. And wherever you can help your neighbors right now, please do it cuz they need a lot. Yeah. It’s a It’s a nice message. Thank you. Very true. Thank you. Thank you, Doug. Did you post this? Okay, gentlemen. You have a great day. Thank you, Pastor Doug. There’s our listener of the month from the month of January. I’ve asked Jackson for an addition to the buzzer. When a call gets a little length, and that was a pleasant call, but when a call gets a little lengthy, we have the buzzer handy. We do. And we’re going to add Elliot Davis’s ringtone. I suppose there could be some people a little leerary about the weather if we see potential dangerous weather again tonight wanting to go out. I mean, I think there’s a good chance that the Cardinals, you know, they may postpone the game this afternoon before it even gets to a chance. uh going by weather.com, which uh they think tends to be more accurate than the iPhone app weather. Uh storms should begin uh in the midafter afternoon and then kick up at both uh 7 8 9 and then throughout the area around 10 and 11. And so considering what happened in the St. Louis area on Friday, I would imagine the Cardinals will be especially conscientious. I think that was that’s the worst tornado that I’ve been around for in St. Louis and I was wondering if it was the the worst ever and not even close reading in 1896 St. Louis and East St. Louis, 255 dead, a thousand injured in the third deadliest tornado in United States history. 1896. That was before structures were built with, you know, steel and concrete, most of them, as they are today. And before the warning systems, I’m sure that people had no idea anything was coming. On uh Sunday, my wife was watching video of some of the destruction. She said, “It’s from Doug Vaughn.” And I said, “What?” She said, “Doug Vaughn’s Facebook.” I didn’t know you were out. Were you out there chasing storms? Well, we went to Forest Park because we got a wedding coming up there in November at the uh the uh reception is at the visitors center. We said, “Let’s go see if it’s still standing.” And most of the buildings at Forest Park are okay. The MUN looked fine and the visitor center had some those barrel tile roofs off, but the trees are leveled. The golf course just trashed. Big, huge, enormous trees all over the place. Has to be in the hundreds of trees that are down in Forest Park. Really amazing. I don’t imagine the golf course will be open for months. Yeah, they’ve been posting a bunch of updates and stuff on how they’re cleaning it up, but it’s I mean, not only are they limbs falling everywhere, but that destroys greens that can mess up so many different things. You know, those big trees along Skinker that really long hole along those trees are gone. Yeah, there’s a huge hole on the uh par three number six. I mean, massive. That’s been there forever. Just completely uprooted. Like the earth below it’s like gone. Really? It’s great. All these trees I’ve been seeing this big ass trees went down. It’s not just the roots that are down. It’s like the uh like the circumference around it of earth is also just out of just pulled out. It’s crazy. It’s amazing how the big trees tend to go and the smaller trees survived it all. You think it’s cuz the bigger trees are probably a little older. I guess I guess that’s what it is. And the tennis center looked unscathed. That looked fine. Well, and they were saying some of the destruction North City is the combination of really old trees and some houses that were really old that were not structurally sound. And you combine those two, the the visual of it was true devastation. If you saw some of the flyover video of like North St. Louis, Sunset Hills, we had about 3 minutes of rain and one big gust of wind and that was it. And I was thinking, well, that wasn’t much for all the buildup. That wasn’t much of a storm. And then you start to watch the news, you go, holy smokes, I had no idea. Yeah. missed me by about a quarter mile. Then it went right through Clayton. I live in the Brentwood area. I mean, it was a huge Were you at your place when it happened? Uhhuh. Huge power line down near my place, but I only lost power for like a a minute. So, luckily very lucky in that sense. But big portion of my area out of power. Power lines down everywhere. And then obviously Clayton got ran through when I’m right next to that. Crazy. And and like the thing is it was a gorgeous day before it all happened. 20 30 minutes just brutal. And then gorgeous day after. Like so weird, you know, and as tornadoes are, you can go on one street and it’s total devastation. One street over, nothing happened. Yeah. It looks like nothing happened. Yeah. Right. Guys, bigger trees catch more wind. That’s from Trey Mason, who probably Missouri shut down in 2013. They don’t give with the wind like the smaller ones do. Maybe. Did somebody take the name Trey Mason just to troll you Missou fans? Is that what it is? Yeah, it’s rough. Brings me back. I was down there. Were you at that Martin? I was not at Was Chuck Marlo there. Chuck, was Charlie there, Doug? Maybe. I don’t know if he was there. You don’t remember. Was Zach Chad at that game? I don’t know. Rich G was probably not. Yeah, I’d rather not make that trip. It’s starting to sound like you’re questioning his work ethic. No. No. He was very loyal to the studio, Doug. He felt it was important to kind of command the show from the studio. And if you’d like to do it for me, that’s fine, too. Options. Uh, hello. Can we talk about the devastation from the storms? I told you guys the storms were coming in Friday. Tornado hit just a mile from my house. Tons of huge trees and debris everywhere. Some streets look like a war zone. We got through it with no power outage, but the but that changed yesterday. Crews had to turn power off to fix lines. So, we’re almost 24 hours without power. Thoughts and prayers are appreciated. That’s from Sharon and Clayton. She has sent in some images. Oh. Oh, I’m sure that was frightening time for people in the path of that. Holy smokes. It was a rare path. I mean, it’s kind of going down like Delmare City right through Delmare, Central West End. Typically, they’re up right around that I70 line. Yeah. I I mean, all weekend in Brentwood area, uh, all the street lights were out. So these huge intersections, you know, four-way intersections, three lanes a piece, are all trying to go on like a stop sign. It’s brutal. Brutal. Well, and now we hear that there’s more severe weather possibly coming over the next two days than starting midafter afternoon. So, taking it back to how we got into the conversation with bad weather in the forecast and with the understandable sensitivity uh in the metropolitan area from what took place on Friday and plenty of people still dealing with what’s transpired. I could see the Cardinals taking a conservative approach to how they handle calling a game off uh tonight. And so therefore on the attendance front, I don’t know if we really get a ga good gauge. Weirdly, and I don’t really know what’s uh causing it. Just kind of an outlier from a forecast standpoint. It’s supposed to be for Memorial Day weekend. Pretty cool. Uh and precipitation’s in the forecast there. So we might not get a gauge when the Diamondbacks come to town this weekend. Was the best day Thursday? And they’re not playing Thursday. No, they’re they’re they’re playing Thursday. Are you talking about the No, Cardinals are not playing Thursday. Um, I’m saying the best window of weather appears to be Thursday and yet they’re not playing. I don’t know what the Tigers schedule is and I will crowdsource it if I can to see if they would say what is the Tigers schedule against Cleveland. Uh, maybe Cleveland would agree to come here aka like the UFFL play right here. Football League dates tend to cooperate like that. do tend to do that with. So maybe Cleveland could just come here and knock out a game while we play a triple header with the Tigers. We’ve got this figured out. It It is good when they can announce it in advance. I’m sure the Cardinals are talking about that right now. Uh Jackson’s buddy. Uh and and I mean relatively close friend because he didn’t invite Jackson’s girlfriend to his wedding, but Sweet Sweet Kai. He’s close enough friend for Jackson to ignore the Plow Hawks wedding. Friend of the show. Uh weather modifications no joke. They’ve got to stop seating the clouds. That’s from Sweet Sweet Kai. 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And I know there’s really no way to do it, but man, games five and seven in Toronto where you would think that that team and that building would be rocking and in full support instead ends both times with booze and fans leaving early. Well, honestly, Tim, the first thing I thought, you know, watching that game last night was was actually about the Florida Panthers to be honest with you. To me, I’m like, man, that like that’s a good little win run that this team has gone on, you know, back-to back uh Stanley Cup finals, winning the Stanley Cup, another conference final. I mean, that’s they they the teams, no matter who they are in the East Toronto Maple Leafs or the Tampa Bay Lightning, whoever, they they’ve run into a pretty good juggernaut there in the in the Florida Panthers. Then really just how good hockeyy’s been in Florida with them at Tampa over the last six or seven years is dang impressive, too. But when you look at Toronto, I mean, I I don’t know that you can be surprised. I think they they got the coach they need that knows how to get it done. I think that what they did this year is actually a pretty solid year getting to that second round, getting to game seven of that second round. But but it shows you where they’re missing some pieces and the real ch and I don’t know maybe there’s another one I’m thinking uh at least from a or missing from a blue standpoint. But unless they trade Mitch Mner between now and July 1st, Mitch Mner, who’s a, you know, 100point player, is going to basically walk, right? And they’re going to have nothing for him. And there’s a lot of people up in Toronto that are up in arms about that. A lot of fans are. And I was thinking, I mean, I I don’t know the last time we saw a free agent in hockey just kind of walk like that, you know, that that’s got that kind of offensive ability in a long time. I mean, I know it it hasn’t happened hasn’t happened with the Blues, I think, since uh uh since, you know, since Brett Hall when you look at the offensive side of it, but it’s a it’s a fascinating story now where they may lose one of their top top players to to free agency. I think they have to. I don’t know how they can go ahead and keep him even even if you know somebody like Tvaris is gone, but like I don’t know how that works without getting somebody back. Like that’s that’s a tough pill to swallow. It’s going to be an interesting offseason. Well, the whole narrative about the Leafs is that they choke and they never win in the playoffs. I felt win in a first round series, and I said this earlier, if you lose in the second round to the Florida Panthers defending champions, it’s not disastrous, but the way they lost in this series, the way they laid an egg at home game five and game seven, don’t you think we’re right back where we started with the talk about the Leafs? I think you are a little bit because that that comes down to just some some some character issues as a team, right? But it also look that in the first year of of Biruby up there too, there’s only so much so many moves that they could make, right? I mean, it’s it’s hard to do a complete roster overhaul. Um, you know, I think the team that might have tried the most overhaul this season was the Colorado Avalanche, right? And and they didn’t make it out of the first round of the playoffs. So to me to me that that’s a telling loss. It tells Toronto exactly where you need to go. But but in terms of how you adjust your roster because as we talked about this last week, I I just don’t the difference between the quality of play in the East and the quality of play in the Western playoffs is just heaviness, right? And Florida is bringing something that no other team has right now. Now, the next one closest to that would be Carolina. So I think we’re due for a great Eastern Conference final there. But, uh, they it’s just you’ve got to be able to grind it out down low and you’ve got to be able to to hit and you’ve got to be able to take hits. And that Toronto team is not built that way. Yeah. You talk about Carolina, they’ve been awfully good, too. They their record’s eight-2 so far in the playoffs. I don’t hear a lot of people picking them to go all the way. You think they have a chance to beat the Panthers? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I think they do. I think, you know, they they’ve caught up to Florida a little bit. I think they’ve got a solid lineup top to bottom. If they get the goalending dug from Frederick Anderson, they’re Yeah, they they could definitely be the ones to to knock uh the Panthers off off the top spot there. They the the the Carolina Hurricanes are built very much like the St. Louis Blues were built in 2019. They’re built uh to me kind of heavy like Washington in 2018. Um and and really without that true the true superstar, you know, I I there’s they’re as complete a team as as you can get. So I yeah, I think that they’re a team that that could absolutely do it. The thing about Carolina is just isn’t a whole lot of weakness in their lineup. It doesn’t matter which one of their top forward lines you’re playing against. It doesn’t matter which defensive player or or defensive grouping you’re playing against. They are just as consistent and well coached as as any team in the league. Curves, where were you emotionally on Saturday with the Winnipeg Jets? The story of Mark Shiffley playing the day after his dad died. We were saying earlier and Tim said he found himself pulling for Winnipeg. I wasn’t quite that invested, but I also felt really bad for them the way it ended, which I never thought after what happened in the Blues, I never thought I could feel bad for the Jets, but I did on Saturday. I did not I did not feel listen I could separating it. I did not feel bad for the Jets. Um, but having, you know, gone through it just a couple months ago myself, uh, it was it was hard to watch that handshake line at the end of that game, wasn’t it? I mean guys, this is that that just the the human side of sports, you know, of when it kicks in, especially this sport in hockey and and you know, even after a tough battle of of a of a seven game series, what you end up seeing, you know, with the handshake lines or whatever, but you could tell that the how respectful the Dallas Stars were and supportive of Mark Shifley to have played that game, you know, when his dad unexpectedly passed, you know, just the night before like that man it. Yeah, you park the sports, don’t you? And the human side just kicked in. And that what an absolute powerful moment that is. That’s not one I’m going to forget for a long long time watching that handshake line. Yeah, you see the the referee in the in the Maple Leaf game last night, Chris Rooney, took a a stick to the eye. That looked bad, too. I I wonder if they’ll ever put a little more equipment on the on the officials. Uh you know, the funny Well, no, I shouldn’t put it that way. The interesting thing about So, first off, Chris Rooney is one of the the the best referees in the league. So, I you hope he’s okay and and and you hope he’s able to go and and and be good there. I don’t remember a playoff season where we have seen so many referees get replaced during a game because of injury. That one I I’ll be interested to to hear how some things get reported on or when we get a chance at our broadcast meetings to talk to Steven. Welcome. uh you know in in September and ask about about that because they have they’ve got an extra referee and extra lineman now at all these games and ju just amazingly how many times they’ve actually had to use them. We saw Wes McCauley have to go in as a linesman you know in one of these games. So yeah that’s that’s a little frightening. I I think these referees are about as equipped as they can get. Just sometimes sometimes in sports wacky stuff happens and that that one that one’s a shame and you hope he’s okay. So they don’t do the ebug version like Daddy Padre who won a cup Doug here in St. Louis. They don’t just have a fan come into the game and start officiating. Did they finally eliminate the Ebug? Like who is the Is there an emergency goalie? Did we resolve that? Okay, th this is an interesting one because in the playoffs you can bring up a third goalie, a non-rostered goalie. Okay, so the St. the St. Louis Blues did that, you know, with their two goalies in the minor leagues and eventually had Colt Ellis up here once Springfield season was done. You so you could go down into your minor league system, you could bring up a third goalie, right? And then, you know, he can he can go on the ice and practice, but there’s basically he’s non-rostered and and not officially on the team. All right. Kind of like an Ebug. There are teams though that didn’t do it. So, in that first round, Montreal, who had their starting goalender get hurt, Montreal had to go the ebug route. And I’m and I was going back and forth with somebody in the in in the Blues, you know, management side on the front office side going like, why would you do this? Like, you’re in the playoffs. You they put a rule in place and and and and are allowing you to bring somebody in that is actually a goalender. Why are you having to go the Ebug route in the playoffs? Like to me, they almost made a catastrophic mistake there. So, uh, the Blues did not. The Blues ended up, you know, having that third goalie through the whole way. So, in the playoffs, you have that option. The regular season, nah, they’re going to keep going with it. There there’s there’s kind of, I guess, a romantic aspect to that little thing in hockey, and it’s fun to watch. So, the Canadians could have had a man off the street tending goals for them during the playoffs. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Had they had that goalie that their next I don’t remember which was who their backup goalie is. If if that had happened, Yes. they had to they had this guy already getting set and ready to go in case they needed him in the playoffs. Wow. It’s crazy. Curbs, did I see you were doing some cleanup duty? Your your niece maybe down in the West End. Well, yeah. Did she uh Lars, she’s okay. She She was one of those one of the buildings that that took some of the hits from as many did from that tornado. So, she had her windows blown in and her mom and dad got over there, helped out. So, yep, everything’s uh everything’s good and safe with her. Thanks, Martin. And we’re uh you know uh compared to some of the others that that got hit, she’s okay. So, that’s that’s all good news. And the good news is you saw nice and safe. That was a crazy day. That was a crazy day. Yeah, we were we were just talking about it in the uh in the previous segment and uh man I I mean people knew that storms were coming but I don’t think I was I was looking up when you brought up Doug what 1893 was that the one that you said that you looked up? So it was I was either either way late 1996 late 19th century. Um, and of course, you know, structures weren’t what they are now, warning systems weren’t what they are now. Um, but man, the way that that came up and how it cut through, you know, the core of the city, that’s uh that’s something else. What did you What did you see when you were down there? The the reports of the National Weather Service talking about it being at times a mile wide, being on the ground, you know, for, you know, something like 20 miles and and traveling at 55 miles an hour. And Laura said she could see the rotation. That’s when they do get down there. So, they they were down in the basement of their uh apartment building and uh um there was the one I mean it was a tornado that ripped the the spires off the off the old arena right in the uh was it early 60s maybe 50s I think. Uh that when that the two spires that used to be on those towers that they they never rebuilt it was a tornado that ripped ripped those things off. beat. It just it does happen and being here, but man oh man, like as as bad as it was in some spots, I’m I’m glad it wasn’t worse like what we saw in Kentucky. Yeah. I I heard Dave Murray saying that it’s rare for cities to get a tornado because it’s so dry and that because of that, you almost never hear about a tornado going through a major city. That’s why it tends to be more like rural. But, uh, scary stuff on a Friday. Curbs, what’s what’s next for you other than, uh, volleyball and soccer practice? the blue the business of the blue is a little quiet this time of year and I do think marketing wise boy they got a whole hell of a lot better story to tell this summer than they did the last two years. Uh listen I I think first off on the ice what what this team did and what uh Doug’s team from a front office standpoint did they gave they gave the business side uh a great summer ahead to look forward to. I mean, look, if you’re a Blues fan, you’ve got to be really excited about what could happen and does this team come out of the gate on fire to start next year. So, so that’s exciting. There’s some events. Uh they’ve got that uh that that very popular um team sale coming up so fans can get the information for that on the website at st louisblues.com. Uh that’ll get open to the public. and uh you you know so there there’s plenty of team stuff going on from that standpoint where uh you know still work you got to renew your radio network things like that uh you know as we’ve got all those affiliates around Missouri and southern Illinois which is good so we got some work to do and then Gabby graduated on Saturday which was uh which was awesome a great ceremony for Parkway West and we’ve got districts uh starts today for the soccer team so we’ve got a soccer game tonight Martin and so that one will be And uh then honestly I get this is when I become you know also a sports fan like I’m fascinated to see some of these rumors on what’s going to happen with City here because they just continue to be just dreadful you and in and what’s going on down there and and that’s just hard to imagine that that’s clearly an organization that’s a little bit lost in terms of the original direction they were coming out of uh when they first started. So for two years later uh they’re a they’re a boat of drift right now. So, I’m fascinated to see if if something happens early this week on that one. And then I’m loving watching what the baseball team is doing. So, you guys know I’m as big a Cardinal fan as anybody. So, this is uh we look forward to getting down to the ballpark and having some fun and and and who knows, more sports. I like it. Huh. When do you get your month and a half vacation to the Caribbean? Oh, wow. Uh man, I I don’t know. Three kids. That Caribbean’s going to have to wait till another couple get through college, I think. No. Yeah, we’ll hold that one. Yeah, but you know what? I’ll just get a couple of bags of sand from Lowe’s or something like that. Put it in the backyard, you know, play a little Zack Brown band and just just pretend I’m somewhere cheaper, too. There’s your beach. There’s There’s There’s your beach. Well, he’s he’s he’s got his butt in the sand somewhere. Where? 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Okay, next time the skippers on, we might have to bring this up. But I I’ve said I want the species to prosper. I just don’t want to be involved with it, which I think is a fair place to be. Uh Doug, uh the Philadelphia Phillies have a situation in their bullpen and that has led to talk of the possibility of them doing business with the Cardinals. Yet again, this was already out there as it was. And by out there, this isn’t like the Cardinals and Phillies and reports of talks, but Jim Bowden of the Athletic writing that it would make sense for the Phillies and the Cardinals to do business on Helsley. Uh now Jose Alvarado has been suspended 80 games. He’s the left-handed reliever. Uh been picking up saves in Philadelphia suspended and uh is also ineligible for the playoffs after testing positive for a substance that’s banned under MLB’s PED policy. Uh so um if the Cardinals were to get approached by the Phillies about Helsley, what would you say? I’d say okay for a package that would include Bryce Harper, Trey Turner, and Kyle Schwarber. Three for one. We’ll throw in a couple of players to be named later. Wow. Uh I would say uh right now if I’m the Cardinals, I would say no. We’re going to try to win this year. That’s that’s what I would say. I’m not sure that’s what they will say, but I would say we’re too close. We’re playing too well. Not going to give up on the team right now. What message would that send to everyone else on the on the team right now if they say, “Sorry, no, you’ve really played great, but uh we’re not going to win this year, so we’re going to trade the closer.” I don’t think they do it. You’re in a weird spot where you’re trying to sell the fan base on this transition, and that involves runway and involves kind of refreshing the roster, but you’re also trying to kind of win them back. So, if you say, “Hey, trading Helley is part of this model we told you about. We’re retooling a little bit and we can get some good return here. The value’s up, but at the same time, those fans are saying, “This team never cares about the fans. They don’t want to win.” And then you’re telling those people, “You’re right.” So, you go around the room, h what do you want to do? I think we should trade them. Mo, what do you want to do? I don’t know. Keep them. And then who decides? The thing is, the Phillies might be desperate because they already were in a situation before Alvarado went out with just Jordan Romano and now they have nobody and they have obviously an offense that we saw them to a week ago. Their offense, their lineup is stupid. Like it’s crazy how loaded they are. They might really need somebody and if they might back up the Brinks truck for Hell’s Doug’s asking price is not unreasonable. I I mean, maybe not that much, but they might they might package up a lot to get a really high quality closer. I I think you’d have to have that. I’m not saying you wouldn’t listen to any trades. You’d be stupid not to listen to what teams offer. I think they’ll do that, but I wouldn’t just deal them away to to deal them away. Say, we got to get younger. Yeah, sure. Give us a a double A prospect. I wouldn’t do that. They got a pitching situation across the board. Nola went on the IIL. That is not something that’s been common in his career. Cardinals rad. and they said, “Okay, that’ll do it. We’re going to put them on the IIL.” Uh, so they are scrambling as it is. They brought up uh Doug, do you see Mick Ael? Mick Ael. I don’t believe I did. Oh, wow. I’m surprised the prime ministers weren’t all over Mick Ael. He comes up yesterday and uh and now I realize it was with the Pirates. And Martin, you were saying nobody’s playing better. Yeah. You got to really watch close. Yeah. The Pirates. I want to look at the record. uh 15 and 32 on the season. Mick Ael comes up and he outdles Paul Skins yesterday to win his major league debut and he struck out nine uh in his major league debut, but he will be getting sent down uh to the minors following the game. So, how about Helsley for Mick Ael? Uh, sure. All right, the deal done. Maybe that. Maybe that or for skins if they want to trade into the Pirates. He’s got to wonder what he has to do to win a game. He’s got an RA of 244, record of three and five. Gives up one run every time he goes out and loses. Pirates are 15 and 32 as mentioned. 17 games under 500. And yet they have seven more wins than the Rockies. It’s unbelievable. Which sit with eight wins as we approach Memorial Day weekend. Sweet mother of mercy. Well, if you’re the Cardinals and you were serious, they decide, okay, the time is right for Helysey. What would you want in return? What position would you want to beef up? I here’s I think you take from a big picture standpoint if slash when you get to the point and May is a little early even for the Phillies and what they’re dealing with with the pitching health for a team that’s 10 games over 500 and has the lineup as Jackson referenced that they have but they got a bullpen situation now they got a rotation uh IIEL situation with Nola are the Cardinals open for business that’s That’s the bigger picture. You get into starting to talk about prospects and who would who would it be? Then you’re, you know, you’re talking to a handful of people who actually know who’s in the Philadelphia Phillies minor league pipeline and the listening audience. But specific to the question of would you as a fan be on board with the Cardinals if the Phillies or whomever came calling for Helley? That’s and and then obviously I’m asking people individually and I realize therefore it’s rhetorical but that’s that’s a decision that the organization may have to make within the next 6 weeks and and it certainly sends a message if they were to trade him that sends a significant message. I mean, for a team that has superseded, I would imagine, almost everybody, minus Pestas from Fesus’ expectations at this point just by playing at a 553 clip. Um, what does it do to the fan base? What does it do to the guys on the major league roster? And, uh, and I don’t I truly don’t know what direction that they would go. No, I don’t I don’t doubt that they would listen to anything. And you’d be a fool not to listen to anything. I’m just wondering like what what position group the Cardinals would want to bolster. I guess you could always use starting pitching, but if the Phillies are hurting for starting pitching right now, they’re not likely to give you one that somebody that’s close, even in the minors. They could use another bat in the outfield, but that does that mean that you move on from Jordan Walker? I’m I’m not sure. Yes, Trey Hellsley. Grapho can close. That’s from the three on four. Yeah, I’m trying to think of a comp. Remember when Milwaukee was in the They were maybe even leading the division. They traded hater. Oh, that was a moment. And the clubhouse was like the clubhouse probably. Oh my god, that’s it. And they did have Devin Williams who they could insert into the role, but even he was devastated. Yeah, that was a bad message. So when they traded hater, so this group that seems to all like each other, that’s part of the storyline, the chemistry of this young group, the runway, even though the young group includes a really old rotation, we still call them young. Agree. But they seem to all be on the same page. They’re playing winning baseball. What does it do to the room? You say you got this hammer in the bullpen. Yeah, we’re going to get rid of that. I think that it’s tough, especially while you’re trying to win fans back in this retooling model. It that’s a tough call. I agree that it’s too early to make it. Maybe a month from now, you feel completely different about the team, but if because of the potential desperation the Phillies feel now and if they were to lose a couple games because of that bullpen here over the next week that they were to be aggressive, do you consider it? you know, and that’s that’s the question. Of course, being open to listening doesn’t mean anything. That’s that’s that’s only smart to do. But if they were to put something compelling on the table, uh that is clearly about the future and not about the present, what does that do with the fan base? And I’d be I’d be real curious on that. Um, you know, because I think the mindset for fans here over the last three weeks approximately has changed substantially. Yeah, I think it’d be a tough way for them to go right now because if if you’re just trading for prospects, sometimes they work and sometimes you get nothing out of it. And for an organization trying desperately to bring the fans back, I think to trade away their one all-star and one of the best closers in the league, I think that’d be a tough message to send to a fan base. So, unless they’re really bowled over by something big, I wouldn’t think they’d do it. There was a texture that said, “Why not extend him?” And that’s another thought. Can you get a reasonable deal? Can you sign him? And then that kind of takes that off the table completely. But I don’t know what the payroll next year where they’re looking. You know, you’re going to have some dollars coming off. You got some high price pitchers. So send him. Somebody else can close. Just don’t want to get caught at the end of the year with our pants down and no honey. That’s from the co-founder of the Fairmont Park Players Club. Well, do you consider getting caught with your pants down if he if he pitched well enough to keep you in the race the whole time? I don’t. But no, honey, guys. Cardinal fans are the most fair weather spoiled brats in baseball. We’re having a solid season with some young guys playing well and people still [ __ ] and moan. Doug, that comes from nipping holes. Nipping holes. Yeah, I guess so. No, sure they do not. Detroit Tigers sold last year and still went to the playoffs and did some damage. That’s some Bret Holes mullet. I guess that’s the question is can you move on from Helsley, get a lot if you can get a good package and still be competitive in the race. I mean, they have bullpen pitching that’s rock solid outside of Helsley. Kyle Lehey is one of the best pitchers in all baseball this year. Yeah, maybe the Cardinals uh come back in game seven of the NLCS and beat Helley with a blown save. to advance to the World Series as he’s pitching for the Phillies as he blew the save for the Cardinals against the Phillies in 2022. Doug, have you thought about that at all? I think about that constantly. Keeps me awake at night. That and the oblique strain. Hell, for real, Muno. We need more catchers. For real. I love that. Yes. Especially over north of 30 catchers for him on all catcher lineup. All they do is rake. I think they have to consider any moves. How will it affect their ability to win series? I think that’s probably I think that is what they’re discussing in the room. How does it affect our ability to win a series? Can you win a series without games? Yeah, Doug, you don’t like those at all. Martin, ever anybody tweet at you with an um Yeah. Not that I recall, but that would stand out. Um yeah. Uh, are we going to talk about golf at all? That’s from Big Tough. Maybe if we don’t want to, we won’t. Uh, Doug’s work husband. Frank, would you say the PJ matters? Because I mean, I know it’s a major, but they moved it to M. Does the PJ championship still matter, Frank? It matters. It matters. Okay. I don’t know what the hell they’re doing in Philly, man. That portaotty guy. It did sound like him right there. All right. Uh, we’ll go grant big toughs wishes. Uh, and we welcome you to participate in the conversation. The Michelob YouTube chat is, uh, wonderful. Aaron in St. Chuck, who has her nipples pierced, is in there, and she says, “I’ll take the over pee pe.” Uh, she’s talking with one of the wealthy members of the PP family. The PP estate is what I call it at this point. Adam Wellie’s in there talking to Kitty Bates and Jackson. And uh, you hold on. The name of your cat is cat. If I were to get a cat, and you guys know I’m against domestic pets. Um, if I were to get a pet, it would be a cat, and I guess I would name it Catty Bates. They don’t usually get last names. That’s why my cat would be different. You’re against domestic pets. So, that means you could have a pet that’s not do like would be outside, I guess, domesticated. Like a farm cat just running around outside. That’s okay. Like I’m on board with adopting like one of the animals at the zoo, you know, or like adopting a a lion out in the adopting a lion. Yeah. Well, not not that you would not that you would host um check your lease, but sponsoring one, you know, so that can get Okay. Do you think the lease in Brentwood’s going to allow that? Might have a thing about lions in there. I want to read close, but they’re docel wel 308 friends have gathered in the Michelobra YouTube chat. They’re talking it over. YouTube.comtmastcl. You can get in there and talk about catty baits. Hell yeah. Uh this is TMA when I want to Good. This is Action Jackson with a Sports Center update brought to you by Celiga Heating and Cooling. The Thunder defeat the Nuggets yesterday 125 to 93. They win that series and they will advance to take on the Minnesota Timberwolves in the Western Conference Finals. That was another Sports Center update brought to you by Sigga Heating and Cooling, a Dyken heating and air conditioning dealer. There’s firecrackers in the sky. A bottle rockets on the 4th of July. Roman candle wars in my backyard. Run for me and you won’t get too far. Sparklers, screamers, and streamers. Cherry bombs, smoke bombs with your moms. Kids playing with the papers in the street. Burning them snakes all over the concrete. So good. It’s a fourth of July. So let’s cate your friends and family now. Don’t you be late. It’s a celebration tonight. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. July is hot and so are your fireworks. before you can shoot them. Make sure your lighter works. Once when I was a kid, I took a rocket to the arm. Now I wear these goggles to shield my eyes from harm. Oh, there you go. This is acoustic sessions and we’re giving you a Fourth of July song from us to you, the fans. Thanks for listening. Enjoy your Fourth of July. And of course, be safe. Be safe. Nice little sentiment there. Wonderful sentiment. Was that for real? I mean, were they trying to do something good? I think tried and achieved. Thank you. Thank you. Sorry, guys. Have you ever been hit by a firework? This guy took it in the arm. I’ve been I had one whiz by. Yeah. And that was Yeah, that was scary. Yeah, it is. We had a bottle rocket war I think out over in Alangqua in there. You know those three holes that set aside there? Mhm. Off Berry Road. 11 12 and 13. Yeah. Doug, is it 11, 12? I don’t know the hole number. Yeah, it would be because 10 comes around then you get down the hill there. And we live near there. We would always run around and mess around. I’m sure they loved it at Algangquin. We had a bottle rocket war and you’d load up the old Coke bottles and shoot them and launch those babies. And was it cousin Steve Doug that I think your neighbor cousin Steve? Oh yeah. He got me with one and it went off in my armpit. in your armpit and it How’d that feel? I I survived. All I know is I had this Big Daddy Flanigans t-shirt my sister got on spring break and I looked and there’s just a giant hole in that t-shirt. Singe off the hair from where the uh bottle rocket went off. But live to tell Bottle Rocket Wars don’t remember that. I didn’t have Bottle Rocket Wars. I tried to blow up a whiffle ball once with a firecracker. just put the firecracker in the the plastic whiffle ball trying to see how and it like went off in my hand. My ears were ringing for a week later. I bet stunned me. Wow. You could use those whiffle ball bats to launch bottle rockets. Oh, sure you could. We don’t recommend any of this. I stand with acoustic sessions to be careful out there and wear proper eyewear. M I know a guy who’s they were shooting him off in his neighborhood and one of them went right along the street and then hit the curb and then came up, hit him in the eye, took out his eye. Oh. Oh wow. Wow. It can get crazy. Oh yeah. Well, shouldn’t listen to the song. Amateur pyrochnics often go poorly. Yes, they do. That’s a fair take. Ask any er nurse on the 4th of July. Who was the comedian that said you lose an eye? His parents told him everything was dangerous. And his punchline for everything was, “You’ll lose an eye.” Was it Jeff Alman? Maybe. Weren’t they shooting a lot of fireworks down downtown last year, Fourth of July when they had it at the arch? Some of the citizens came out and were shooting bottle rockets at people on their way to the car. And Roman candles, too. I think they were firing them. Guys, I lit screech up with a Roman candle at Tallaladega back in ’07. I was on a three-day coke binge. That’s from the recovering alcoholic from Belleville and Webster Grove. Sarah stories of an unfortunate incident with Dustin Diamond Martin, friend of the program. Uh, and we’ll have a tribute coming up later this week. Uh, you’re welcome to get involved. 314 399646. That’s the air comfort service text line. And of course, you can call him like Pestas did and the audience enjoyed it. Call Thompson for 97410. Big Tuft has been raging that we have not talked about the PGA Championship. Uh Scotty Sheffller, Doug, wins his third major championship. And the current four major champions are the current four major champions, PGA Championship, Scotty Sheffler is the current champion, right? Rory won the Masters. That’s correct. Uh and then there were of course the US Open and the and the British Open champions. That would round it out. ‘s going to scold you. It’s the Open. It’s the Open. It’s not just the Open. It’s the British Open. It’s the Open. Stop it. You know who I am. Stop this elite. You remember the US Open last year. There you go. Nice. Matt and of course the Open, right? And the winner there would round out your four. Xander Schoffley. Shley. Yeah. Point being, I didn’t think I even needed to mention the name. It was You have uh four I think marquee the top four players. You can make a case. You know, John Ram made a little hunt yesterday and then fell apart at the back. Uh but Scotty Sheffller uh walked away with that thing, sweatfree even though he really wasn’t playing that great the first couple of days and then yesterday he had an issue where he was hitting the ball left. Made an adjustment on 10, restored order and carried his third major championship unfortunately uh just like Ken Morau. Was that at Harding Park in 20 years, Tim? I just uh the uh the W maker trophy uh tumbled the top tumbled off the W maker trophy as he lifted it up. That trophy there needs to be a manual on it, I think. Yeah. Apparently, it’s really heavy, too. Uh Scotty Sheffle now three major championships. And he had to use a new driver because his driver failed the test. That’s correct. Rory Mroyy’s driver also failed the test and that got a lot of attention. But I was watching Sheffller’s post round comments and he said it’s very common for this to happen and I guess what he was trying to say is the story with Rory might be getting a little overblown because it made it sound like that he did something wrong to win the Masters, but he said drivers get pulled and tested regularly. Yeah. Usually because they they’ve been used too much, which I found interesting. They say if you use it too much, it it develops more spring. I guess it might actually hit a ball farther the more you use it and then it becomes illegal. Yeah, it was very first takey a little while ago. The the caption on the screen they were debating did the Knicks win that series or did the Celtics lose it? And I bring this up because Tim for you. Yeah. Did John Rom lose it or did Sheffler win it because John Rom imploded? Yeah. I think he was five final three holes he was five over par. Well, Martin, as you might be aware, cuz uh you probably are going to get a a notification today, the Tam Avenue Capital Partners are having a cash call. Uh and uh those are those are rare. We haven’t had one in the last 48 hours. I monthly. Uh but uh I was out enjoying a wonderful golf course on Saturday afternoon. Jackson, where was I playing Saturday? Saturday afternoon, you ask. Where do you think I was playing? Oh, man. is on the public side or the private side. I mean, I’m a South City meat and potatoes. Say less. Riverside. Um, uh, Fox Run. Oh, nice. Yeah, Fox Run. Uh, and I was riding along with Compadre of mine who, uh, enjoys throwing a wager around and we were monitoring a very deep leaderboard and I thought, we’ve got, uh, we’ve got value here. John Rom plus 5,000. Threw a little $25 bet on that. that would have paid 1,250. And the Tam Avenue Capital Partners noticed that he decided to shoot five under and press eject. And uh and so Martin, you’ll you’ll just if you could just wire that money over, right? Uh by three today, please just because we have a we have a couple bills we need to pay. Uh so maybe 2:30 maybe you could get that. I got to meet this 17year-old from Fox in a parking lot over at the Arnold Cracker Barrel. He was tied for the lead. was tied for the lead. What? He finished it like what, six off, I think. I like how he said that this is the most fun he’s had on the golf course in a long time, which does means that the live check, I guess, cleared already. He doesn’t have to doesn’t have to worry about any money coming in. He did. He did say this is the most fun I’ve had on a golf. The green mile got him. I like that that they call it the green mile. Is it the last three holes there? It’s called the green. DJ Championship needs more juice. You know what I’m saying? And like the Masters obviously is dripping in in juice. And the US Stop saying juice. Sorry. The US Open has like the thing where it’s impossible. Like the rough’s so deep and they make it so hard. Then the Open. The Open. Correct, Doug. British. Uh it’s like the oldest tournament and it’s got so much history. The PGA just needs it needs something. It needs some lore. Yeah. Something like that. Yeah. It used to be the last major. So it was like, well, even if it’s not like the one with the most storylines or narratives, it’s like the last time we’re going to see major golf for, you know, 6, eight months, but they moved it to get out of the way from the NFL and college football, right? And play in different cities so it’s not boiling hot, you know. So what would you like to see them do to gain some sort of I don’t know if there’s anything you can do? Michael Kim’s a great follow on the Twitter tweets and he was asked that question yesterday evening while he was waiting for his flight uh out of Charlotte to Dallas and said it’s you know what is the identity of the PG championship said there really isn’t one and it’s a lot easier said than done in order to create one. Yeah. Oh for sure. I know people don’t really care well most people don’t really care to see guys shoot like 20 under in a major. Sometimes it’s going to happen because of conditions. So Sheffler wins his third. Uh it’s his first non-masters major. kind of a weird stat. But the thing is, and I know people say this, it it’s not intended to be a slight. He just it’s not just because of his appearance, but also the way he carries himself. I mean, the guy’s only 28, you know, and he looks 45. He really does. But, uh, he’s he’s consumed with and that’s what usually happens when somebody and it’s not just golf, but somebody achieves greatness, they’re consumed with it. He was asked yesterday, you know, how he dials in. And he goes, “One of my favorite things to do is to practice.” He goes, “I just” He goes, “It’s weird, but I just love to sit there and practice.” And so I don’t necessarily see this stopping anytime soon. Uh so Scotty Sheffller winning the career grand slam, I would say, is a pretty fair bet. It’s kind of probably just a matter of what age will he do it by. I’d be surprised. And because he’s almost vanilla, it’s amazing to think a year ago he was in the middle of the country. The arrest, it was a year ago today, I think, actually, that he was arrested. The arrest in Louisville, I’m like, this guy somehow created a ruckus. This guy Nike leaned into that with their uh advertisement right after his win. Best player in the world. Guilty. Nice Minwi bet, Timmy. Doug, that’s from Hottie Totty. Boy, you took it hard there, didn’t you? Minwi finished T2. T3. Yeah, T3. T3. I think T2 at his club championship over the weekend because he had to take a flight back out of Charlotte on Friday after he decided he didn’t want to stick around for the weekend. He didn’t like it though. Martin, again, we got a cash call. Uh, so if you could just get that money. Yeah. Thanks. Um, you’re you’re basically asking people to send you money because you lost it gambling. Uh, well, I’m going to disagree. We call it a cash call. Okay. Put a little pile over here, Doug. Pile pile. I’ll give you a little bit. You give me more back. That’s how it works, Doug. That’s That’s how you run AM radio. Uh, you’re welcome. Email in the morning after insidest.com designer heating and cooling email of the day. That is how you can partake in said program and compete and see if you can figure out how a way to beat this Jerry Big Tank Delveio. There there are these theories that Buck Swope is Jerry Big Tank Delvecio and I just don’t think that he is. I just don’t think that he is. Now I could be wrong. Uh but I just don’t think I think that he is. But maybe I’m off. You know built such a brand. I don’t think he would. I don’t want to mess with the brand from that. I don’t want to mess with the brand. The morning after inside STL.com. This is TMA presented by Brian and Crooppin. 101 ESPN and the TMA STL YouTube channel. Tim Mccernin here for Universal Windows Direct. May officially the kickoff to home improvement season. The weather’s warming up. Memorial Day right around the corner this weekend. And now is the time to tackle those big projects you’ve been putting off. Whether it’s drafty old windows or a worn out front door, Universal Windows Direct has the ultimate offer to get your home ready for summer and beyond. Right now during their home improvement season sale, you’ll get an incredible 50% off your windows. Yes, half off. You heard that right. You can upgrade your home with beautiful energy efficient windows for half the cost. But it gets even better. 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You’re the producer. You’re failing at your job. Get it together. That’s from chairman’s pocket partner. Got Nick. It’s funny because they’re not in the team. Grow up. I actually I didn’t I’m trying to find a grow up. Sweet sweet Kag told to log off. Sometimes it’s just best. Um I’ve been looking at music, birthdays, other things. I can’t find a damn theme for today. Oh no. I’m going with some of our more class. I mean, unless you guys want some Sam Smith as he turns uh what is he turned about 34 today? Sam 34 today. I I don’t know. How about money? We were talking about Scotty Sheffler in the last segment, and I was wondering how much money he’s made. In 2024, last year, he made $104.3 million. That’s prize money, bonuses, endorsements. Guess who was the world’s richest athlete, who made the most money in 2024 in the world? It’s not even close. Formula 1. I was going to go Formula 1, too. That’s interesting that we went right there together. Huh. It’s always when you’re both wrong. Okay. Soccer. It is soccer Formula One or soccer because anything that’s global that’s Oh, it’s probably Mbappe. No, he’d be in ninth place. Darnell Kohl’s. Mbappe only made $110 million. Oh, no. Ronaldo when he signed with the Ronaldo made $260 million just last year. He signed with the Saudi Arabian team. And was he doing HD2 or something? He’s doing Saudi Arabian soccer and HD2. His salary is $215 million a year. Good. Yeah. It’s like Yeah. And there’s three St. Louisans in the top 51. Oo, Tatum. Tatum is number 51. In there, probably number 34. Who’s the other one? Who was the other one? St. Louis. That kind of ballpark. Man, this has to be Kohl’s. It’s not Darnell Cole. Not Sergeant Baseball. Danny Padre. No. Number four baseball. Yes. St. Louis. Not number four. Not number four. The third guy of the St. Louis, who’s in the top 51 baseball player. He ranks 41st. He made $54 million. Sherzer is right. Nice. Nice papers. And here’s a surprising one. I kind of like this list. Who’s number two on the list? Who’s number two worldwide on the list? Formula One. No. Golfer? No. Soccer? No. Wow. Tom Brady? No. Endorsements? Such basketball? Yic? No. LeBron? No. Kohl’s. Oh, Jaylen Brown. No. No. Damn. I feel smarter because I’m looking at the name. Initials SC. Oh, Steph. Yes. He made 153 million last year. 100 million in endorsements. Yeah. Under Ar HD2. Yeah. He does Bayer HD2. Under Armour uh sponsor that show. Wow. And number three, you would never get Formula 1. Formula 1. No, it’s not Formula 1 soccer. No, you’ll never get it. Tennis, probably. Tyson Fury. Oh, really? Did he even fight last year? $147 million. $147 million. 140 million from boxing. 7 million from endorsements. I don’t even remember him fighting last year. Here’s where boxing’s at. Caller Ellen says, “I love a guessing game.” I do, too. Uh, you can participate in the guessing games by texting in 314 399646. That’s the Air Comfort Service text inbox. Uh Martin, uh there’s some unhappiness in the text inbox. Uh this gentleman says to your thing about another happy customer. Yeah, another happy customer. What does that make? Like 10 now. So I thought, let me do something that you’ve enjoyed doing here over the seven months you’ve been on the presentation. Text history. And he’s just not happy. Uh I’m about to This was uh from May 9th. I’m about to get in my car and drive 45 minutes to work. Any chance you goobers are going to talk sports? And then unfortunately last Wednesday still listening. I would rather hear from some random sports guest and almost any of your silly listeners tweets and posts. That’s from the 618. He is not happy. Dumb ass. Hey, come on. So you’re saying body of work, Tim. Body of work. Not happy with the show. Consistently. Body of work. And we got called goobers. We don’t need that kind of talk. No. Clean it up, pal. And it’s hurtful. Clean it up. It’s very hurtful. How about this from Arbor Day? I miss caller Ellen. How about that? Yeah. Welcome to call in. That’s exactly right. Open phone lines. Doug cleared out the text line. We always clear out the phone lines and that’s why nobody’s calling. Stop talking sports. More tornado talk. Damn it. 314. Damn it. I like it. Yeah, there’s some force there at the end. That’s their own sounder. That’s the texting version of a sounder. Did you guys get into your basement? Did you retreat into your basement? I’ll have one. Oh, sorry. With the benefit of hindsight, I probably did not handle the situation particularly well. I was with a compadre of mine, Jackson uh his uh Matte enjoys throwing a wager around. And uh does that describe all of your friends? Now that I’m kind of thinking through it, as I was saying it, I was going, “Yeah, who do I hang out with that doesn’t enjoy throwing a wager around?” Uh and he is uh in the process of building house and we went by there more importantly because he’s building a simulator. Yeah. In the basement. Uh so they’re throwing a wager around has worked out for him and uh and I wanted to check it out and we got out and the sirens are going off and we just walked in and but the guys working on the house they they didn’t think anything of it and then I saw like the gust of wind out of the south was a huge amount. and going, I mean, I guess if they’re all fine with it, it’s kind of like when you’re on a plane and you look at the flight attendants and and try to pick up the tell and the behavior even though they’ve been trained to act like everything’s fine no matter what. Uh I’m like, I guess I’ll walk around in here and uh yeah, that was probably not the best thing with benefit of hindsights. We’re fortunate in our stupidity. Yeah, I had to drive downtown and I was trying I was monitoring the weather and the storm activity and I think I was just a little behind it because I was listening to the radio up and down the dial and it was kind of moving through Richmond Heights, Brentwood, central corridor and I was just a little behind it. By the time I got downtown, I’d go to the dome. It had just stopped raining and all of a sudden the sun was out. It was warm and 80 like nothing had ever happened. So, uh, probably should have stayed home, but I don’t I didn’t know what to do because I had some interviews lined up. So, was very careful about it. Doug, safety first is what I always say. Battlehawk second, safety first, but I was able to accomplish both. Thoughts and prayers to all. It was I mean, the visual of the flyover that I saw of the north city area is just it’s devastating. Yeah. Yeah. And you guys are take a while to rebuild there. I’m that guy that hears the sirens and meanders outside and looks up. I don’t see a tornado. I guess I’m okay. And then pays no attention. So, you go into some kind of inbreed dialect for some reason. I ain’t seen no tornado. In fact, I have never seen a tornado in my lifetime. I’ve lived in St. Louis more than 50 years of my life. Not one time have I ever seen a tornado. You’re talking about like the funnel and Yeah. Yeah. I hope I kind of hope I never do. It can’t be good. I would I would prefer not to. Yeah, some crazy videos being shared all over the internet that videos of people in their homes and they see it. It’s it’s fine one second and then another second later it’s absolute chaos. These whiners need to shut up and be grateful they don’t have real problems. I’m down in the dark in my basement trying to get in a workout because the garage door wouldn’t go up and I can’t go to the gym afterwards. I can’t take a shower because we have a tankless water heater. Therefore, no hot water when the power’s off. Time to go check into the rits. That’s from Sharon and Clayton Doug. She is the star of the Real Housewives. Dude, we get it. You work out, guy. Well, Sharon, call Sha for Door for the garage door. They’ll get that garage door open for.com. That’s that Jason Gas route. He’s going to take care of it right now. I bet he would. S h a f only one f. That’s a text that’s going to build a lot of sympathy. Uh, no one goes to their basement anymore because the hash big weather chicken littles tell us we’re going to die every week. Londoners took to bunkers less during World War II. That’s from our texture of the year. 2023, 2024. Arbor Day is the name. People are mad about that one. I mean, that ripped up houses, ripped massive trees out of the earth. But you think it’s never going to happen to me. And right, I’ve heard these sirens many times and nothing ever happens. And oh, it’s in the next county over so you have to go to your basement for eight minutes like and and nothing bad like I don’t get. I think the dilemma for the weather people is when the conditions are right, they warn you, hey, this is coming. It could lead to something real serious. And then when it doesn’t, the next time around, they say, “Look, the conditions are serious. It could lead to this.” Then people say, “Oh, yeah. The last time you were way off.” And their job is to tell you, “Hey, these this looks like this could be potential severe weather.” And then when it doesn’t happen, everybody’s like, “Ah, you boneheads.” And then when it does, oh, I didn’t believe you. Right. You can’t win. Yeah. You can imagine the heat they’d take if they didn’t warn people and then a huge tornado and they don’t know. It’s not it’s an exact science. Yeah, like all science. I mean, you never know. They have a crystal ball. I went to the basement. Wellington and Ash finished upstairs and then they joined me and Junior, too. That’s covering alcohol from people just telling their anecdotes. Okay, but that’s not the kind of conversation we were hoping for. Uh, let’s see. Kids to the basement, dads to the driveway with a bush light. That’s from Bret Hull’s Mullet. The dad’s walk. It sounds like the dads walk out there like you do. Yeah. I ain’t seen no tornado. When I do go to the basement, I usually put on a helmet. Shouldn’t you be wearing a helmet? That’s how people get hurt is things fall off the ceiling, hits them in the head. Some people put a mattress over them. Yeah, like a spare mattress they might have. But it seemed like that everybody you should have maybe a football helmet for everyone in the house. put it in the basement and if it come if you down there put on a helmet because that’s how you’re if you’re ever going to get hurt that’s probably how it’s going to happen. Something’s gonna fall on your head. I really do respect that and I think that’s the right take. However, I would love to see you just sitting by yourself in a helmet in your basement just kind of waiting it out. I’ve got a picture of just that. Why don’t we come up with TMA Tornado Helmets branding? Mhm. Uh um yeah. The only company that can fix my door is Amarind. It’s not a door problem. It’s a power problem or a lack thereof. Don’t you know how doors work? Sheesh. That’s Sharon. And no, you you unlock the garage door opener and the garage door will go off. You don’t have to have electricity, Sharon. You can release it manually and then you lift the door and you’re also getting your workout in. Jesus. Unless it’s so super high-tech that it doesn’t have a normal garage door. I I don’t think I’ve seen one like that, but it’s probably out there. I don’t know. I hope she’s not trapped in her house because she doesn’t realize you can turn the just hit the pull that little handle that’s sticking down. Yeah. And that’ll disengage it and you can manually push it up. She probably knows that. Sounds like a two Fox employee. I think I just got labeled Tim with for being big weather. Yeah, Arbor Day is coming after you and Doug. Here comes Doug and Marty to circle the wagons and protect their sugar daddy. Big weather. It’s like weather is the college football team and local sports is the women’s cross country team. That’s from Arbor Day. Don’t you want to be told that conditions are right for a killer tornado or killer storm? Wouldn’t you want to be You don’t have to watch, but wouldn’t you want to be warned? I’m I’m sitting in my uh bathroom on Friday. Yeah. No power. Just me and Steve Templeton on my phone just getting a the straight skinny. Never heard of him. Um, yeah. Doesn’t diaper boys sit around with a UV helmet on daily? Anyway, that’s from Stan the Caddy. That’s right. I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s very protective, but that’s not tornado worthy. I wouldn’t think so. No, I’m talking a full-fledged football helmet. Yeah. This is more like a like a batting helmet that like uh the bat boy wears, you know, Josh. Yeah. Not no ear flaps. More more insurance reasons. less so we’re going to save you from a 90 mph fast ball. I have no side entry door into my garage. The only way into the garage is the garage door. It’s a detached garage. That’s from Sharon and Clayton. She’s mad at the audience garage. So she can’t get in there. That’s more that’s that’s more relatable. A detached garage. That’s like a shed. So you’re saying Sharon has a shed? I mean a detached garage. I mean you I don’t know. So the big luxury mansions would have a detached garage also. Really? Yeah. Well, not really. Is it doesn’t seem very If it’s Clayton, it’s it’s possibly a a much older house. You could have a big old mansion that does have a detached garage. I’ve got one in the barnoff. Well, I have a carport. I’m just surprised there’s no other way in there. Not a a window or anything. Yeah. If you could get in side door, apparently not. She’s probably wise enough to know whether or not she can get in the road without our help. We thought we could fix it for her. Sometimes you find features in your home 15, 20 years after you purchase it. Yeah. But that would be a bummer to not be able to get in the garage at all and your cars are in there. I would think. Yeah. Sounds awful. Now, here’s where I’ll separate from big weather. I think the frustration is different when it’s the snow predictions. That’s when it gets frustrated. It’s severe weather. You have to put it out there for people. Hey, this might be severe. Be prepared. If it doesn’t happen, thank God it doesn’t happen. The snow predictions, I think, is what really works people up when it’s way off or there’s sort of a panic where a snowstorm is not on par with a potential tornado. I think that can be frustrating for folks. There are tons of detached garages in Clayton, Dork, Sher Clayton. I I didn’t mean to. There would be a dork. You You’re the dork. I didn’t I didn’t mean to give a take. I just was saying that Sharon hasn’t necessarily endeared herself to the audience a lot in this uh in this show. And I thought a detached garage would be a little bit more relatable. I don’t know though. I’m not a homeowner. I don’t have I don’t have a basement. I haven’t had a basement since I was 7 years old. Every home I’ve lived in, my parents house, no basement. Apartments never had a basement. Really? Sharon’s a poor. She doesn’t have a backup generator. That’s in the salty bald dad from Caseyville. She says, “No, it’s a brand new home we built two years ago. Builder wanted to maintain the look with the detached garage like the other old homes around us. There is life outside of Leoo.” That’s from Sharon and Clayton. All right, I get it. You got nicked. I get it. I didn’t mean for it to be a a personal attack. Really? Maybe you should log off, brother. I guess. uh email in is unfortunately Sharon’s down happy with Jackson and Leoo the morning after atstl.com for our design air heating and cooling email of the day. Uh is Brad Thompson? Yeah, he’s going to join us via the airink at 9:30. Yeah, I know. I I I was looking at the Well, I was looking at the uh YouTube and he usually pops up. Yeah, there’s a open that has that we have to play for Brad Thompson and Got it. That’s to do after the break. All right, sounds good. Brad Thompson next year in team. Doug vaugh here for Stifel and we’ve got news with Stiffel. We’ve got breaking news. You know what they’re going to do? We got the Dodm Open coming up next week and Stifel has announced that they will give each winner this year will get two weekly grounds tickets to the Stiffel Charity Classic coming up in September. That’s eight grounds tickets given away on Thursday, eight more on Friday. 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Friend of the program from 101 ESPN and the Cardinal broadcast. Brad Thompson joining us here for his Monday appearance. Good morning, BT. Guys, remember that computer I stole from work? Still got it. this yeah this ALink thing works so we could go on YouTube. I will say I don’t know if we talked about this uh but I was uh I was trying to convert some YouTube video or or music into an MP3 and I use some software that maybe I shouldn’t have used. So there are some popups on this every once in a while. I don’t know if somebody could fix that on that end. Yeah, I’ll get you to do that Doug. Yes. What are you on? Major techie. Yeah. What was it called? The what was the one before Napster? Limewire. Was it maybe Limewire? Yeah, that was the one back in the day. Limewire got him. Wasn’t the Napster guy always in Congress like testifying and Sean Parker. Sean Parker, who appeared in the social network and was played by Justin Timberlake. Oh, is correct. Wow. Feel good about this segment, Doug. I feel real good about this segment. Now, Doug doesn’t feel real good about the Cardinals because they lost yesterday and they won the series, but they didn’t win the game. I knew it was coming and that’s why I was ready to come out guns ablazing. Doug, look, unacceptable with runners in scoring position yesterday. Couldn’t couldn’t get anything going. Uh, but that being said, it’s been a lot more fun here as of late. But Doug, I I want to know your take on it right off the bat because I get the frustration. Well, I’m not really frustrated. I They They had 12 hits and only scored one run. That I’m sure that’s frustrating. But the the frustration comes from people saying, “Hey, we won the series. We won the series.” It doesn’t matter. It matters how many games you win. We don’t count series in the standings. Nice short-term goal, sure, but series wins don’t matter. It’s how many you win over the whole course of the season. That’s what’s got me fuming. I I I get it. I And I what what makes you so passionate is what makes you so good at what you do, Doug. How about that? It’s going to be hard to push back on any of that. And the only hope is the only thing that we can do is hope that they go out there and make you proud today. That’s the beauty of baseball. you play darn near every single day and you get to play the best team in baseball right now. I don’t know if anybody saw that coming with the with the Tigers, but uh it’s going to be a really fun series and I hope we see a lot of butts in the seats. Man, these are two great teams going at it. So, I wanted to I wanted to ask about the uh the attendance for this upcoming week. Kind of a weird situation though with what’s taking place in St. Louis with the storms on Friday and the prediction for severe weather uh today and tomorrow. Perhaps that will keep people away. We do want to talk about that. I want to make sure I ask this. When you guys were at your best and of course a world championship team, one of the things that stands out to me about not just the the streak, but also even the losses is that you can make a real case that the Cardinals should have won both the games they lost. Uh, and in both cases, they had runners in scoring position and a chance to tie it up, the one against Philadelphia and then yesterday afternoon as well. And I’m curious, in your experience, both from a broadcaster, Brad, but also as a player, even when your team loses, do you find that those really good teams also are in the game more often than not? Yeah, I think that’s very fair because you’re a complete team like that. When you have a complete team, and that’s exactly what the Cardinals have right now, you’re going to be in most games. Yeah, you’re going to have clunkers every once in a while. You’re going to have your starter give up seven and three plus or you’re just going to have some weird games. Uh but for the most part, you’re going to be able to compete in in different facets, and that’s exactly what we’ve seen this this club do. So, yeah, when you’re when you have a team where you know that the bullpen’s going to pick up the starters, that the offense is going to be able to pick up everybody, that you top to bottom, you’re rolling, you’re going to be in every game. And the the big key is all of the details being taken care of. And one of the biggest details we’ve seen with this ball club is their defense. Defense has been tight all season long. It’s the most outs above average in all of baseball. The guys are going to get it. Really showed up big time in that game too against the Royals. Probably well the I think best defensive game we’ve seen played all year and one of my favorite games uh in a one- nothing victory on the road. But yeah, you’re you’re in everything because you don’t have a glaring weak spot right now. Brad, I think you mentioned as well as Rick Horton on the radio side about Michael how they told him not to always throw strikes, be willing to walk uh batters. Was that after Fenway? Was that this off seasonason? Tell folks about that new approach. Yeah, so that that was uh after last season, too, because it was a big big issue. I think it was either he or Patrick Corbin, either way, not the neighborhood you want to be in, who gave up the most two strike hits last year. And Miles Michaels has always been a strikethrower. He always fills up the zone, which is good early. Uh but the the quality of his strikes, especially with two strikes, were not good. He was just in the middle of the zone far too often. just too many mistakes over the plate. And you’re seeing him with a a better emphasis with two strikes of really trying to bury some hitters and get them having the the the ball that looks like a strike with two strikes, right? That slider that starts on the outer third and ends off or the fast ball that starts in on the third and ends off the plate. His his misses with two strikes are so much better right now. they’re off the plate and yeah, that was a that was a thing that they really wanted to work on. I know it sounds stupid like throw less strikes, but in those situations, you’re already in charge. The batter is going to expand his zone. Your job as a pitcher. Miles Michaels is not going to be a big strikeout guy. He’s a get him off the barrel guy. Use that defense. And I just think he’s done a really good job this year of the way he’s using his arsenal. He’s pitched backwards. did a really nice job against the Royals of like dumping in that slower curve ball and stealing strikes with that and even finishing off some hitters with it, but it was a a thing that they wanted him to focus on and he has. He’s done such a better job with two strikes and after that clunker in Boston, he’s got a 2.17 erra over his last seven starts. I I know that last year was a bad year for him and often times Miles Michaels can be the whipping boy. He deserves a lot of credit for what he’s been able to do uh this season. The the entire pitching staff has really been impressive. I I see only the Royals and Phillies have more quality starts than the Cardinals in the major leagues. Should we be giving more credit to Dusty Blake and the job he’s done with the whole staff? Yeah, I think that’s absolutely fair. Doug, we’ve given a lot of credit and maybe it’s just because it was a fresh face and the offense is doing their thing to Brent Brown, but same thing could be said for Dusty and his staff. Uh they’ve worked really hard on tweaking the arsenals of some of these guys. I mean I think that’s a great example with Miles Michaelis. They’ve uh really tweaked the way that Matthew Liberator is working on things whether it be you know changing grips on his slider and working on his fast ball and how he finishes that and we’ve seen the differences uh that that has been able to make but the game planning has been really good. So Dusty, Dean Keffer, they definitely deserve a lot of credit in this as does do the catchers and mainly Pedro Pahes who’s been doing the lion share of it. I don’t think that you’re seeing this type of success from this pitching staff if Pahes hasn’t been doing what he’s doing. I mean, Pedro Pahes has been out there. Uh his game planning is great. He sticks with it throughout the game. He’s always checking in and making sure they’re they’re going down the right path. So everything that this pitching staff is doing right now and again being a staff that does not have all the swing and miss in the world, they have to be able to game plan. They have to be able to execute and they’ve done that. Brad Thompson, our guest here on TMA101 ESPN. You can watch the conversation. Brad is up on youtube.com/tmmastl. Uh circling back to the conversation with regard to attendance, uh I set the overunder at 28,000. Uh, again, tough to really gauge because the forecast is rough the next couple of days. Um, do you have any read on what you think it’s going to look like at Bush Stadium for this home stand with the Cardinals playing as well as they are? Well, Doug, first of all, I’m never betting an under, okay? I don’t care what kind of values there. I hate it. It’s the worst way to watch any game. You guys know this. Jackson’s going to scold you on that. God, I love you. And the numbers, I’m sure, Jackson cats. I get it. Well, I don’t get the cat part, but I I I understand it’s the only bet you’re winning as soon as the game starts. Okay, I get it. I get it. Uh but boy, that’s a horrible way to watch a game, not wanting to see anything good happen. Uh either way, um there are things that are more important than baseball, right? And you hit on them that we had the the horrible weather there, you know, tragedy strike in the region. So, there are things that people need to take care of and and that takes precedence certainly um over going to a baseball game. But I hope that we do see more people. Man, this this brand of baseball is so entertaining. And it’s also a good escape, right? Get to the ballpark and just kind of uh focus on something that that’s not the uh you know what what has happened maybe in in in your communities and and uh hopefully everybody is is okay that’s listening now. But it’s uh it’s been so good to watch this team and the way that they play. They play hard. They they are are doing it in every single single facet. The pitching, the defense, the the timely hitting. I mean, all of it has been great. So, I just feel like with the numbers that they’ve put up, the role that they’re on, they’ve won 12 of 14. They’ve won four straight series. By the way, they’ve dominated at home. Like, you go to Bush Stadium, you’ve seen a win more times than not, 15 and six is the record uh at Bush. I would love to see the atmosphere that we’re used to at Bush Stadium because I think these guys deserve it. It’s got to help a player a lot just in terms of of energy and the the energy they get from the crowd when the stands are full, doesn’t it? Or Doug, it’s it’s so Maybe we should talk about it more like when it happens. Like there are some ballparks and like we won’t call them out. It doesn’t matter, but like a Wednesday somewhere it sucks to go there. The atmosphere is terrible. You don’t hear anything. You really like you’re still competing. These guys are trying to make every pitch. They’re trying to get a big hit, but the atmospheres are terrible. You go to a place that is rocking, you when we went to City Field to watch the Mets, and I get it. Like, I understand why the Mets fans are showing up. They’re freaking good. They’re really good. Or you go to Philly, that place is jumping. And we’ve seen Bush Stadium like that, too. It is a different energy. Like, you just feel a little bit more. I mean, it it’s an early playoff vibe when you’re when your ballpark is pumped and everybody is watching. So, it really does give the team a boost. And look, they’ve been playing with plenty of energy. They don’t necessarily they don’t need a shot in the arm. Uh but I think they deserve it. I think they deserve that that support behind them. So hope more and more people can can come out to the ballpark. I just know this. You’re going to enjoy the product that you see. And I don’t know about you guys cuz I I’ve been to a lot of games. I’ve been to games as fans, certainly been as a player, and now been as a broadcaster. I never have a bad time at the ballpark. Like there it’s never like even if your team lost, it’s always fun to go to the yard. So, I hope that people get a chance to do that certainly this uh this week when when you have a great team in the Tigers coming in and then another big challenge over the weekend with the Diamondbacks. I said this earlier, Brad, I’d love to know the honest answer with Nolan Aronado where his head was at off season thinking, all right, I’m out of here. Fresh start going wherever and then, okay, you’re still here and you’re watching him Saturday night and it was after the double play he looked as as psyched as I’ve ever seen him maybe kind of like, hey, this is fun. I’m glad I’m here. Isn’t it interesting to think about where the emotions for him have been over the last few months, thinking I’m out of here and all of a sudden he’s here and actually maybe enjoying it. Yeah. Well, he looks like he’s enjoying it for sure. And it was something that we saw from Aronado even in spring training when and he talked about it there. Nobody expected Nolan Arnonado to be here this season. It was like the one thing that that was stated by the organization that they were going to try to do and just weren’t able to to move him. And uh I I’m glad he’s here. Like he is a he’s an impact player. He’s fantastic over at third base. You you know what the the back of the baseball cart looks like. But you’re right. I’m sure that he had a lot of things uh going on in his head this off season. He said he poured into the work instead of worrying about all of the rumors and all of the other stuff. Well, the work is paying off. And um I agree with you. The the one thing that he has stated that all he wants to do is win. Well, this club is winning right now and they got a lot of young players that have a lot to do with it, but veterans like him, I mean, he’s going to Coopertown, I believe, at the end of his career. Uh, he means a ton to the trajectory of this ball club. So, I think he is having fun. I think guys feed off of him when his attitude is like that when he’s all fiery. And I hope to see it for a long, long run this season. I think Ivon Herrera is probably having a lot of fun too the way he’s hitting. They just have to keep him in the lineup somehow at this point. Would you expect him to hit 500 this year? I would say five 550. I mean somewhere around there. I mean the Yeah. What the the thing with Herrera and you guys are watching every single day. He doesn’t have a noticeable hole in his swing or or with a pitch type right now. He’s staying on the baseball really well. He’ll drive the ball the other way. uh in game two of the series against the Royals when he had the pair of doubles like that looks good in the scorebook. It looked even better watching it because it was two pitches. One of them was outer half maybe off the plate away but it was with two strikes able to get the barrel to it. Shoots it right down the right field line and then the other one is in the right center gap. He’s using the entire field and he’s as dialed in as you’re going to as you’re going to get. So it’s going to be interesting to see down the stretch. I mean to your point of having to get him in the lineup every day. Absolutely. 100% he’s got to be there. It’s just how much how many reps he’ll end up getting behind the plate. Pah is doing a really good job. Poso whenever he gets an opportunity to get in there, he’s doing a good job, but you would like to free up that DH position to bounce guys around a little bit. So, that would just be a little bit of a challenge for Oi. But what a fantastic challenge to have to figure out where to squeak in a really good bat in your lineup. Yeah. I I if he’s going to DH, I guess that means we’re we may not see much of Gorman. Yeah. And it could affect Berles as well. Yeah. It’s a big challenge. And Berles is is heating up a bit right now, too. Hit the solo shot. He’s got uh three home runs in like the last week or something for him. So, you love seeing that. And and Gorman is the big one, right? Gorman and Walker, the two guys where we look at this and we’ve used this term runway a lot. Those are the guys that you want to see and figure out what they are. But right now with the way that they’re playing, it’s very hard. If you’re Olli, I would think it’s very hard to say, “Yeah, we want to find out more about Gorman, but this doesn’t make our lineup better.” Like, it’s right now when you’re when you’re winning games and you got some guys that are busting their butts, like you got to put out what you believe is your best lineup. And right now, it’s got Herrera in it. So, you’re right. It will come to the, you know, and Gorman is going to be the main one that probably gets less at bats. And I know in talking to Ali in the last couple of days about this specifically that they’re trying to figure out ways to get him in, but your lineup is is flying right now and the last thing you want to do is take a step back just because you’re trying to tweak things. Brad Thompson with us here on TMA. He’s with us every Monday giving us his perspective as the Cardinals begin a home stand and try to keep the momentum going from the road trip. Cardinals and Tigers scheduled for this evening, weather permitting, as the Cardinals take on the best team in baseball, the Detroit Tigers. The Cardinals five games over 500 against the best team in baseball, the Detroit Tigers. Doug, what would that have paid you at the beginning of the season? Um, I don’t I don’t know, but a lot. 17,500 to1 actually. Is that what it is? That’s what That’s what my book had it out. Uh, Brad, always enjoyed the conversation. Thank you so much. And we look forward to talking cats and series wins with you next Monday. Oh, and unders for sure. I can’t unders. Be a blast. You guys have a great show. Thanks, Brad. It’s Brad Thompson with us here on and he’s he’s on the YouTube. You can sit there and you can see him. Was he telling us to have a great show or saying you guys have a great show? I think hoping maybe we could come up with something that would count as a good show. Yeah, I think that might be might be it. Uh, email in the morning after inside.com designer heating and cooling email of the day. It’s 10:00 on the nose and contractually Martin has to go to on boarding right now. Well, I’ll stay just a tick long because I want to talk about Design Air and it’s their hour, the 10:00. We got the email of the day coming your way in less than an hour. But Design Air is all you need to know when it comes to your air conditioner issues, which will inevitably happen. 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This is TMA presented to you by Brown on 101 ESPN. This is Jackson with a Sports Center update driven by Johnny Landoff Chevrolet and Johnny Londoff Autolex. With Justin Bieber looking on, the Panthers defeat the Maple Leafs in Toronto 6 to1, winning the series as they will meet the Carolina Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference final starting on Tuesday. That was another Sports Center update driven by Johnny Londoff Chevrolet and Johnny Landoff Autoplex.com Chevy. Together we drive. Are you kidding me? Doug, you wanted Sam Smith in honor of his birthday. Is that what you said? I didn’t ask for anything. No. It’s his birthday. This kind of puts it in perspective, doesn’t it? What puts what in perspective? The Cardinal attendance figure series win. Oh, guys, it’s a World Series preview just like 2006 Birds and Five. That’s from Nipping Holes. Yeah, it is. Well, I It could be. Crazy things happen. That would be a crazy thing, but that’s what we’re rooting for, right? I’d love to see it. Mhm. I thoroughly enjoy the 06 World Series. I do, too. I want to see the Cardinals and Yankees play in the World Series, please. Well, that that’d be fine. I don’t really care who they play. I just want them to get in. I’d rather play the Tigers than the Yankees, even if the Tigers are playing better baseball. What’s that about, bro? I don’t want to see Aaron Judge. Um, why do you hate Paul Goldmid? Yeah, I do hate Paul Gold Schmidt and his 350 average. Yeah, maybe he wasn’t done. Is a guy not done just because he hits 350? Well, he’s not a catcher, so get lost, I say. Oh, you want you want all catchers on your roster? That’s your model. Where would the Cardinals be without the currently four catchers that they have on their 26-man roster? You know, I’m counting Contreras as a catcher. You know, uh I’d like to apologize. Uh earlier I said Paul Goldman’s hitting 350. What is it? 339. Oh, I’m going to take some time and reflect. He was hitless yesterday and it probably cost me a win in fantasy baseball. Oh no. The prime minister’s the death spiral. That is the 2025 campaign of the prime minister. Tied. I need like a couple of hits from him and I win. Nope. Uh oh. Kick rocks. That’s from ah John John. John John. Uh, you can tell us to kick rocks in the Micheloboltra YouTube chat. YouTube.comtmastl. Uh, they are mad at Martin for leaving. I see. I’m not debating how many hours the show should be on, but if it’s on, it should have Martin the full time. It’s from Jake and St. Genevieve. Well, you have to consider Jake and say Genevieve at these times. What do we have to do to get Martin for the full show? That’s Jake and St. Genevie. Calm down, Jake. Calm it down now. He’s not happy. Uh, switch over to Bubba the Love Sponge after 3 hours. That’s from Tiny Pee. Let’s go on. I don’t know. I was about to ask that question, but crowd sourcing, so I I held back. Uh, Jackson, what’s Charles Barkley saying? His ideal day. I enjoy this uh clip. He was on Spitting Chicklets. Oh, was he? Yeah, he uh he talked about just kind of his perfect days, you know. The cup is going back to Canada. Plain and simple. Go Oilers. Hey, thank you, Chuck. Thank you for coming on the show. Chuck, are you still on the Oilers? Did you ask me am I still drunk? Yeah. Well, first of all, I got a hangover. And if you go ask your first question is, am I drunk? If I got a hangover, that mean I was drunk yesterday, not today. And you’re getting today, too. I got a hangover. I got a hang. Yeah. Yeah. Because I had an off night and I went out and got drunk all night. It was a perfect day. I played golf. I smoked cigars and I got drunk. Then I got drunk last night watching basketball and hockey. And you know what I’m going to do today? I’m doing the spinning chicklets, which y’all guys got an amazing podcast. So then I’m going to go back to bed. I’m going right back to bed. Then I’m gonna get up and I’m gonna get drunk and watch hockey and basketball again. It’s a perfect day. You got any draws on right now, Chuck? You know, I burned all my draws like 30 years ago. And there’s the slapshot indicating he was talking about hockey. That’s right. On a hockey podcast. Anyway, yes, the hockey. Okay, so we got the slapshot. Yeah. Sounds like he lives a fun fun existence. Oh, I bet he does. And the money just pours in. Pours in. No drawers. And doesn’t have to wear drawers. He burned all his drawers 30 years ago. Famously says he does not wear underwear. Is he still a terrible golfer? Cuz he always improved. He had a mental thing. Yeah, he got rid of the hitch. The hitch is no longer Jake stuck in St. Genevie uses a floowby. That’s from shooter McGavin who not bad. You got to have a canister vacuum and it sucks the hair up and then cuts it right off and then it the hair goes in the vacuum. Not a bad little invention. Yeah. Charles Barkley Doug, would you like that life? You just sit there sit around and drink hockey. I don’t have to get drunk. My guess is there’s probably some wagering going on as well. That was implied for sure. He’s had an awfully good life though. Oh, hell yeah. She’s an NBA star. And yeah, you know what I envy? Everybody’s favorite. Jackson, you might know what I envy of his. Uh the fact that no matter what he does, he will always be he’ll be okay. He’s invincible. Yeah. He really can’t do anything. They fire him. Okay. He’ll just do exactly what he talked about for the rest of his life. They keep him around. He’s great. He’s uh in a can’t lose situation. Yeah. God bless. Uh all right. Email in the morning after inside.com. design air heating and cooling email of the day coming up. You can talk it over. Talk it over with Jake uh in that Michelobra YouTube chat and uh and he says, “I just like Martin. What’s wrong with that?” Nothing. Absolutely nothing. We appreciate it. But stop your whining. This has been going on for months. Seven months. Mhm. Uh Jake and St. Genevie and Martin will have a sit down. Okay. And they’ll work through this together. Uh this uh program is called TMA. It’s presented by Brian Coopin 101 ESPN. I want to make sure that I tell people that if they’re feeling a little sluggish today, they check out Mentality mentality.com/radio. Symptoms of low testosterone include low energy, low motivation, fatigue, you’re tired all the time, weight gain, muscle loss, especially belly fat, feeling anxious, moody or irritable, lack of focus or mental clarity, low libido, and that can strain relationships. Mentality is a local healthc care facility that specializes in helping men feel and perform at their very best. It’s board certified physicians providing a full physical consultation and blood panel analysis all during your first visit. 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You would have preferred to be at the symphony. That’s right. The Muny. Yeah, the MUN. Really? Fox Tiny Pee. They’re they’re they’re still going Doug in the Michelobaltry YouTube chat. Tiny peepee says, “I pay for it every day.” So yes, by poor I mean under seven figures. I’m not sure seven figures makes you rich anymore. I’m not sure what they’re talking about Hardy’s breakfast sandwiches. Do you have to have a million dollars to get parties? No, I wouldn’t say what’s going on. I said usually the I’m not going to say it. No, that’s not the way that it works. Look at your contract. That’s right. If I go, I gotta go. Um, you I would say seven figures. That’s obviously a millionaire. I wouldn’t think a millionaire’s breakfast starts at Hardies. That’s no shot at Hardies. That’s no to become the sponsor of the 10:00 hour and I will notify the sales rep that we probably going to need to turn our attention over contract on fire. Maybe in and out if they want to get into the market. Well, there are there are so many millionaires now that I imagine there are plenty who start the day at Hardies. Well, and in fair Warren Buffett famously would always start with that McDonald’s breakfast sandwich. So maybe I’m maybe I’m wrong and I’m wrong a lot. So Bill Clinton used to like stop into McDonald’s, didn’t he, while he was jogging? I’ve seen some commercials there with that where you just eat people’s food. Like that was the commercial. People would just like as a tribute would hand their food to the former president. No matter how much money you have, you still get hungry. No doubt. Hey, I’m And you pass by one of those places and you’re starving. It’s pretty easy to go bite. Uh Iggy is in the Michelobaltry YouTube chat and he uh says, “I cashed eight bucks in DraftKings this week. My bank account is now in three figures.” So, how about that? Three figure bank account. That is nice. At least $100. Uh yeah, I’d be curious what the winning roster was this week. The sharps tend to fade Sheffller and I would imagine faded Rory this week. Real random. I bet a lot of sharps were on Rahm because he was he’s got the potential to win but would be lowowned if I’m trying to, you know, figure out what the the strategy was this week. Um, but yeah, people were on Rory and then Rory didn’t talk to the media one time. I don’t like that. And I was wondering what your thoughts were on. I don’t I don’t like that at all. I think part of the reason you play for these outrageous sums of money is because the fans are interested in it. The fans pay a lot of that salary. And I think it’s not too much to ask for someone to spend five minutes after a round of golf or a baseball game or or whatever sport you’re playing. I think you can spend five minutes and talk to the people through the media. I don’t think that’s asking too much. I was uh thinking that he would talk after yesterday’s round and I know there were a lot of requests for him because uh one of the reasons why he really struggled this weekend was his driver and then Sirius XM had the initial report that his driver was flagged and he wasn’t able to use it uh when they tested and so then the question became is that the driver that he used to win the Masters and so that that then gets down that rabbit hole of conversation and then Scotty Sheffller said, “Well, we get tested and flagged quite often. It’s not as rare as people are thinking, and it just got attention because of the Rory thing.” I don’t I don’t know. I’d be curious what his reasoning was for it. Um, just to sit and take some qu I don’t know. I don’t I’ I’ I’d like to know. I I I I understood last year after he lost the US Open in a heartbreaking manner after missing two really short putts in the final three or four holes. Uh that that was that was heartbreaking in this case. He was just kind of like a guy playing at 9 in the morning, you know. Uh he was never in the mix. So I don’t know on that. I don’t uh I don’t understand that. I’d like to hear his side, but I don’t understand it. Yeah. I don’t think anybody’s going to say, “Hey, were you playing with a wrong drivers out of you want?” I don’t think anyone would take that approach. PGA boys can’t play with the live men without illegal equipment. Rory’s a clown. That’s from the 636. I don’t know that illegal. They probably don’t even know it’s illegal cuz it it apparently it comes from using a driver too much and then it gets too springy and then that that makes it illegal. So, how would you know unless it unless someone tested it, they probably don’t even realize that it’s illegal? I forget which player it was, but on the no laying up podcast they were talking about it and said that some players said that the distance is more in feet than yards. That it’s a very minuscule difference with these drivers. I always figured the more you hit them, the less distance you would get, but apparently it’s it’s the opposite. I thought the PGA had a dress code. The guy playing with the leader had sweatpants on. It’s from the 314. Jackson was wearing sweatpants yesterday. Someone was wearing sweats and then wearing Alex Norin was wearing sweatpants. Doug, was Alex Norway? I don’t know. Joggers. I I so I’ve kind of been without internet the last couple days because of the storms. So sports watching in general uh was few and far between for me. Um but I’ll take I mean I’m sure if he was look like he was wearing sweatpants, he was probably wearing golf joggers. Uh or rain pants. No, those are joggers. Those are fine. If Tim is only making seven figures, Hubard got a steal. That’s from MD 2020. That could be the living quote of all time. Are you going to break the gong if you’re only making seven figure? So he thinks you should be making 10 million or more a year for doing this. Oh god. Who’s to say that I’m not though? You know how many people in radio would be? Howard Stern. Count that as radio Rome. Um yeah. I don’t know. I mean, I don’t know what the the arrangement is on that. Uh Rush Limbaugh certainly did. Yeah. Yeah. Because pe people like on radio are also on usually other platforms, not just radio, whether it’s YouTube or a TV show of some sort. People in our industry who make the money now, they own their own thing. They do their own thing. It’s only fan season in the broadcast world. And I welcome it. I welcome it. I’m looking at Pix. Did you hear that? DTC is what I said to you. Yeah. Why did you say that? Direct to customer. Well, then say direct to customer. We’re on a we’re on a quick time. Yeah. Come on, dude. Okay. Uh I I looked up uh trying to find out Alex Norn’s trouser situation yesterday. Um but I I another picture come up of his the calluses on his hands, his gnarled. I mean, he looks like he has the hands of a witch. A witch. I You should look up Alex Noran’s hands with long fingernails painted in No, it’s just like the the meat of the fingers. Meaty fingers. We just had meaty fingers. Yeah, it’s like between him and and Tory Holt on gnarled fingers. Man, oh man, that’s rough. So, you do your cap even more for a strong performance this week. Absolutely. I If he went Timmy two gloves, I’d respect it cuz some of these calluses are gross. Huh. Grinder though, apparently. Okay. Jake Reynolds says, “Bill Clinton jogging and eating McDonald’s was an SNL skit, Jackie.” Oh, was that Daryl Hammond? I was talking about the one I think it was a skit because he really been Phil Hartman for that particular. Yeah. Why the great You said you saw commercials where he No, I thought I I thought I’m sure it was an SNL. Bill Clinton, his president, signed a deal with McDonald’s to do commercials, jogging in and out of McDonald’s. I think it was after his presidency, but I saw some it could have been SNL sketch media literacy on on a million today. Um, and he was walking into McDonald’s and then every customer is like, “Here here, m Mr. President, take like take my cheeseburger. Just take a big bite of it and hand it back.” I found it. He’s in there. Some are saying it may have been a photo op, but he’s in there and he’s sweaty as can be. You only have to do that once before that becomes the narrative. That’s what he always does. Did I even bring it up? Why am I trying to answer that? Why did you bring that up? I don’t I don’t remember. I forget. I was just too worried about Noran’s hands. That’s really sidetracked you. That’s the right pointer finger. My lord, guys, can I become the corporate sponsor of Dead Air when you’re all looking at pictures online and making me in articulate noises? That’s good. Yeah, I think Steifel’s interested in going both with the dossier. I think they would. Yeah. Yeah. 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Is it Chris Martin’s birthday? No, it’s just I love the scientist. Oh, this is Jackson’s favorites. That’s the movie theme. Some people have wondered if that’s the case anyway. Yeah, basically. But this song I really I love the scientist. I have to tell you, I am I am intrigued by 91 on the Steve Dossier, which we did not get to. Um, but it’s called Grifter’s Paradise. Grifter’s Paradise. What is What is gri what is what are we grifting on today? Uh it’s just the the the fever the Indiana fever in the Chicago skies game yesterday. You’re talking about Sophie Cunningham social media and her fit. Doug, did you see her fit? I didn’t see her fit. Okay. All right. So, is that what we’re talking about? No. No. We’re talking about Angel Reese and Caitlyn Clark. And you say that leads to Grifter’s Paradise. One like I’ve never seen before, honestly. Really? This is an alltime Grifter’s Paradise. There was he griff on that. There was a foul in that game. Kaylen Clark, that’s that all people are talking about a take foul. Make him earn it from the line. Angel Reese got a little upset with it. Natural emotions are high. It’s a basketball game and people are breaking it down like this film. There’s different angles of it that people quote tweet and give off some halfbaked bathing tape. Can you can may I ask a question? Always. All right. So, this is nice cuz he takes questions. Doug, you really ought to follow usually take them protocol. Is there is there anybody like who is established and making a nice living in this this industry who is who is really active on the Twitter tweets with the takes or is this like guy who wants to get it going? Mostly the former or the latter, but Robert Griffin III was someone I saw who was very active on it and it’s just like what what’s he who’s he employed by now? uh now at ESPN calling game at like the 11:00 games and I think he’s out at ESPN if I’m not mistaken. So I don’t I I think he might be independent currently. So then he might fall in the Yeah. So or you know looking to get picked up. Um I don’t know. I don’t know. That makes this grifters paradise. It’s just like dude like every single play does not need to like be a reflection on the state of the culture in America. Like it was just a basketball foul. Both of them after the game said it was just a it was a foul. Angel Reese was like, I got a little upset, but that happens. Kaylin Clark says, I nothing malicious behind it. But yet, it has to be here we go. Here’s your here’s your prompt. Take Smiths and you take it from there. Well, that’s that’s kind of the basis of the whole league right now, isn’t it? Caitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese, but it shouldn’t be. I get that it is, and there’s probably a lot of benefits to that, more eyeballs and everything, but like it it shouldn’t be. It shouldn’t be the entire focus of everything. No, but it is. Oh, and I’m not saying it’s not. I’m just saying it shouldn’t be. Most people couldn’t tell you any other players in the league besid besides those two. And that’s why I think like sucks, but I guess it’s probably in the long run better. You know, uh Brian Henchin, longtime texter here into TMA, uh who does indeed work for the Indianapolis Star Tribune. Sounds like he covered the game. Uh he says, “It is insane how crazy people are with this Reese Clark stuff. Truly insane. And I wrote about it from Reese’s side over the weekend and let me tell you, my mentions have been a minefield. That’s from Brian Henchin taking Angel Reese’s side in Indiana not playing well. I’ve seen a foul like that maybe a hundred times in my life and I’ve never seen it get this much media coverage. Again, like the Sapper film, like there’s legit different angles of it where people are taking it where it looks worse than what it was a you you’re not we’re not let you have an easy layup. You’re going to have to get it from the line. You’re not a great free throw shooter. It’s an obvious play. Angel got a little upset afterwards. That also happens all the time. I just didn’t get it. But grifter a grift. Grifters are going to grift. And Doug, this is called grifters paradise. I see. But when it’s the two biggest stars in that particular sport and they they’ve got a rivalry going and now they’re pushing and shoving. That’s what’s going to set people off. But it wasn’t a but it was a hard foul and then got upset afterwards. It wasn’t like they got into a fight. No, but they the refs had to get in there and separated and the other Chicago players came off the bench and everything. It was it was more than just a one foul and everybody walks away. It wasn’t a fight by any stretch. It was and it was ruled a flagrant on Kaitlin Clark which I think was wrong, but I’m not going to go off on Twitter and give some 10,000word think piece about it. Don’t say think piece. A thread. Every piece will be a think piece. Personal news. Yeah. Some personal news. I’ve turned to grifting. Uh that was no e easy layup for Ree. She’s not a good shooter. She can rebound, but that’s because she can’t make the shot. It’s from the 816. It was about to be a twoft shot, right? So you foul hard. And slapped the ball out of her hand and probably got her hand and Reese probably embellished a little bit falling down to make sure she got the foul and everything. And you’re exactly right. When it’s the two biggest stars, everything they do is going to be Yeah. You’re not You’re not wrong. Portoy cashed in on that triple double. Well, he had Caitlyn Clark to get a triple double. I think he put 25 grand on it. Really? He made more in that bet than the highest paid WNBA player makes in a season. Oh, really? Yeah. Wow. Cool WNBA talk. Guess we can’t talk about Rams relocation anymore. That’s Ernie Borkman and Doug Bjorkman. Suspend him, Doug. Ernie Bjorkman. Good idea. You just got yourself suspended. You got your You’re wondering how many days? Well, 2 days time and your name right now is going to the suspension log. Doesn’t feel good. No, I didn’t know. See, the thing is in the steifold dossier and I realize I’m probably the only one who has the organic living breathing document that is the steel dossier. Uh it says Grifter’s Paradise Caitlyn Clark under Fleer foul and Angel Ree postgame and then fever released statement after alleged racial slurs aimed at Skyar Angel Ree. So, I didn’t know what part was the Grifter’s paradise. Yes. I I don’t I I’m not as well verssed on the the latter there. It was It’s your dossier, is it not? No doubt. Um but the uh the first part, yeah, I was I was seeing that. I mean, like I I’ve couldn’t go two seconds scrolling on stuff. What? No matter the platform, you’re following the wrong people. I turned 30 on Friday. That’s all I saw. She go to the mountain. You have one hell of you have a well curated algorithm, brother. Um, but like I like most of my feed is basketball and so I’ve seen a lot of it. It’s just like oh man. But to be a grifter, don’t you have to kind of be making money in a sleazy kind of way? It’s a body of work thing. It’s a grift body of work, you know. Grift body of work. You got to build up, you know, so you might have components that that aren’t going to necessarily net you any money, but if you take in the whole body of work, it can. Yeah. I just I I think we can be better. But I get it. Okay. Easy topic to like kind of latch on to. OB Clarks is having a WNBA watch party this weekend. Go up there and let them know, pale. That’s from Steve in Wildwood. Hello. I’m here for the WNBA watch party. There seems to be a lot of ice hockey on your televisions and I don’t know why. Can I You can do whatever you want for just a moment. Are we Are we still in the running to get a team here? WNBA St. Louis. Yeah. I mean, wasn’t someone trying to put that together just a short while ago? Tatum had been talking about it. Yeah, St. Louis Rhythm. That’d be a great deal. I’m into that. But is that still a thing? Is that still a push? I am not aware NBA reporter. Sure. I’m not aware of any developments recently, but yeah, I believe Jason Tatum was um discussing that. Okay. At some point last season. All right. I don’t know. Be fun to have. Sure. It’ll be great to have. Well, don’t burp when you talk to me. I’m getting emotional just thinking about heard that I looked up and go, “What the hell’s going on?” I’m just so emotional thinking about Pro Hoops in town, man. I want it so bad. All right, we got the design air heating cooling email today coming up next. CMA 101 ESPN. This is Jackson with a Sports Center update that’s brought to you by Celigga Heating and Cooling. Uh the I7 series resulted in the ninth series win for the St. Louis Cardinals despite losing yesterday. 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And what they do is they focus on your free testosterone levels. Many doctors overlook free testosterone. This ensures your treatment is tailored to your body. So, if you’re dealing with low energy, low motivation, you’re tired all the time, weight gain, muscle loss, feeling anxious, moody, irritable, those are symptoms of low testosterone, check mentality out and see if that’s what’s causing your symptoms. Visit mentalityhealth.com/radio to find out more information. Uh, it’s mentality at mentality.comradio. Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for the design air heating and cooling email of the day. Well, that Jerry the big tank Delveio has been taking this competition over and he is back again today, but he’s not leading out. Uh, filter schmilter whippy dippydoo. Most guys would have been upset. Not me. For I deal with For I deal with in with a stern non plasty. That’s not a word I love. What in the world? That’s not a word. Plastency. Not now. It isn’t. You see, I fell in love this very weekend. He don’t care about what’s in style. He just likes the way I smile. It takes more than marble and tile. Living on love takes more than marble and this like a tiger and Thompson library. Uh living on love, buying on time. Without somebody, nothing ain’t worth a dime. Just like an oldfashioned story book rhyme. It sounds simple. That’s what you’re thinking. But love can walk through fire without blinking. It doesn’t take much when I get enough laying on Doug. Okay, that’s enough. That’s from Fogghorn. Peg Horn. Fogghorn. Peg Horn. He’s new. Morning, boys. I have literally heard none of the show today. I just wanted to share how much I love Tim. Oh, have a good day and watch out for the stars. That’s from the Den from Jefferson County. Dyn from Jeffco fell in love with another flash in the pan co-host again. You, the unsolicited co-host, dropped into the studio like a roommate’s new girlfriend at poker night. No intro, no contact, just a raspy voice and a warm seltzer. You attended a few classes with Jackson and Missou and have a nice set of Roderdicks on you, which in this business apparently doubles a res a resume and a cover letter if you want to be on air talent. Doug, did we choose the wrong major? Oh, no question about that. No question. The fan base shook. For two weeks, we tuned in like step kids meeting dad’s new girlfriend at Arby’s. Is that where stepchildren meet dad’s new girlfriend is Arby’s? Could be. Bob Evans. Yeah, if you’re hungry, they got a special. Smiling through the confusion, wondering if this was just a sleepover or a soft launch for being our new mommy. You were quickly dubbed gluten-free percoet. Unimpressed, crunchy, and vaguely pharmaceutical. You had the Doug. What does this mean? You had the energy of someone who micro doses breast milk. I just don’t know. done there. The liquid and not another one of Jackson’s stupid nicknames for his friends. That’s not a bad one though. Fourth Mic. Fourth Mike NPR Cadence on a show that once seriously debated hosting TMA Live in a moving Jeep Grand Cherokee with a bucket of beer and no breaks. You weren’t bad, per se, just wildly unprepared for a show where 40% of the content is callbacks to inside jokes from 2007. You laughed once during a Plowboy story about shoving a flaming hot Cheeto up his fivehole. And in the brief laughter, we experienced a single moment of connection in a sea of confused glances and forest banter. Then it was gone, never to return. like your appearances on the show. Me, a media relic loyal to the old guard. I treat Buck Swope like a Pulitzer finalist and believe the gold mage peaked during a remote at a car wash when Doug called in from his iPad. Big parking ticket. I didn’t adapt, I outlasted, we outlasted. That’s from Big Tank Delvecio, media man. Acting like it now. If you’ll excuse me, I got to go clear some markets. I’ll be back in June. Big tank Delvecio on his way to clearing markets. You called in during a parking ticket. Is that true? I don’t remember it. Someone called in during a McDonald’s order, right? God. Yeah, that was uh James Carville. That’s right. That is true. Yeah, he was a guest on the program. Oh, and finally, I’m not going to be much good to you today. I usually fill space in this part of my emails by roasting the Cardinals for inept roster management like converting their catchers to DH, roasting Pestas for his dumb calls, and roasting Libby Jack for his terrible audio clips. But the Cardinals have been outstanding over the last two weeks, led by their converted catcher/DH. Pestas had a great call, putting things into perspective in the wake of the devastating tornado, and Libby Jack’s production has been on fire over the last week. Love the Nat sound pops at the end of the clips. Reminds me of when Brian with an e- edited Ric Flair’s woo into the station promos. You should end all Frances eclipse with is that a new report? I suppose I can roast that reigning listister of the month for his terrible call on Friday where he called into humble brag that he played St. Louis Country Club. Not because he was invited, but because he was the high bidder on a tusome at a charity event held at a St. Charles bowling alley. Something I’m sure will never be allowed again now that the members have been made aware of the Hooser infestation. Steve also downplayed the severity of the forecasted storms, saying it was going to be all south and accused the two fox and four fox of scare tactics. He’s a horse’s ass for doing that. Yes, he is. So, um, yeah, we just going to let Doug off the hook for not seeing Rocky 4. Doug, you would seriously love it. It doesn’t get any more peak cold war Reagan era mid80s zeitgeist than Rocky 4. It’s also got Breijit Nielsen Stallone Gasin Flave looking even hotter than she was in Cop 2. That’s from Buck Swap DBA. The recess lady’s breast. Buck swoop. That’s what we have for the designer here. Heating and cooling. You know, well, it’s between Swopee and Dovecio. What Fogghorn Pegorn was saying, I frankly don’t know. Uh, I’m going to give it to Swopee today. There hasn’t been anybody seeing the ball like Big Tank seeing it since Blueberry Pop Pop. It’s Big Tank. I like the lazy fair attitude when it comes to grammar from Log Fog horn pegorn, but it’s all day. Delveio is unbelievable. What is going on with Jerry Big Tank Delvecio right now? This is fun to watch somebody kind of in a tiger 2000 form, you know, really where he just wins them all. He’s just going to win them all. This guy is really playing well and uh his tribute to gluten-free perks one or two appearances on the show and then not returning Chairman Curt’s texts. Not only not coming back on, but cutting correspondence. She hated it that much. Correspondence. She just seems to travel quite a bit, Doug. Oh, is that right? Her and all the Where’s she going? I’ve heard that one before. You wouldn’t know her. She goes to another school. Uh, we have BK and Ferrario coming up. Time to shut it down for Jackson Bennett, Chairman Kurt, Martin Kilcoin, uh, my brother Kevin Douglas, Elvin Von, I’m Tim McKern, and this is Bit TMA presented to you by Brandon Coopin on 101 ESPN and the TMAS STL YouTube channel.

The Morning After is the longest-running local sports morning show in St. Louis. Tim McKernan, Doug Vaughn, Martin Kilcoyne, and Jackson Burkett have the fortune of hosting the circus each morning from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. — LIVE.

00:00 – Show Open
28:30 – Leafs get trounced in Game 7
49:00 – Friday’s storms

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1:40:30 – Could the Cards and Phillies do business involving Ryan Helsley?
2:04:00 – PGA Championship

2:22:00 – Highest paid athletes of 2024
2:46:00 – Brad Thompson joins the show
3:10:00 – Charles Barkley on Spittin Chiclets

3:23:00 – Rory McIlroy didn’t talk to the media at all after the PGA
3:38:00 – Chicago Sky and Indiana Fever
3:50:00 – EMOTD