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Good afternoon, Tim Lewis.

D.T. Ask what a 4-1 FMK M-O-X.

Happy Wednesday.

Happy almost opening day.

What are we?

A week and a day.

A week and a day.

Hey, days, baby.

Nice.

Nice.

Eight days.

Hey, baby days.

Eight sleeps.

Eight days.

Come on, baby.

When did that become a thing?

Sleep.

Sleep.

Sleep.

Sleep.

I think it's when kids are reading for Santa.

No, I know, but like that wasn't a thing my whole life

until like the last 10, 15 years.

Because they haven't no MC.

No, it's just nobody said it.

Someone said it to me in the last couple years

for the first time.

Yeah, yeah.

That's what I'm saying.

It's not that new, but it's not.

Yeah.

Like it doesn't go back to when you and I were in school

or whatever, or even when we were in our 30s.

That doesn't go back.

Maybe it was, but you just didn't know about it

because we didn't have the internet.

Good being could be could be the first person I ever heard say

it was my little sister and she's 18 years younger than me

and she said it sometime in her adulthood.

Maybe they were a book or about or something about it.

You know, anyway, I don't know.

And then the kids maybe it was a kid's book

and there's something like that in there.

I don't know.

Today is national awkward moment day.

Should I tell the story of my awkward moments today

at the doctor?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

So I don't think there's so much awkward

as they are pretty funny.

So I had my exam today, yearly exam.

And my doctor is a concierge doc,

which means he has fewer patients

and he spends more time with each of his patients.

So I got like 90 minutes and it's very, very thorough.

And all, you know, blood test, EKG, the whole the whole

and so I'm getting ready to go to the doctor today

and I'm putting on my boots

and I'm like, I should probably cut my toenails.

But he's not a podiatrist.

So I doubt he's gonna take my boots and my socks off.

So I think I'm fine.

So I go through, you know, 99% of the exam

and I'm sitting there and he goes,

can you slip those boots off for me?

And I go, God dang it.

So boots come off.

I'm like, at least the socks are staying on.

He just wants to make sure that my feet,

make sure you still have feet.

On the right side.

Yeah, right, you didn't switch them.

And then the socks come off and he's looking,

he's looking, he's like, you're wiggling my toes

and making sure everything works.

Yeah, yeah.

And I'm just like, and then he goes up.

Would you like me to trim these toenails for you?

He offered to give you a pedicure.

Oh, and I was like, I got it.

I got it, I'll do it when I get home.

And he's like, no problem.

I do it all the time.

It's not the easiest thing to do.

I can do it for you.

And I was kind of really wanting him to do it

because I hate cutting my toenails as you know, clearly.

And I'm like, no, I think I'm okay.

I'm all right.

And I think the exam's done.

I've embarrassed myself as much as I'm going to.

And he says, okay, just one thing I'd love to do.

We should probably do a prostate exam,

a rectal exam.

Save the best for last.

And I'm still sparting from the toenails.

Because that just happened.

Yeah.

My boots are still unlaced.

Okay.

And he says, time to do a rectal.

Okay.

And my response is I stand up, turn around,

drop my pants to the floor, bend over,

turn back toward him, and say these words.

Is there anything else I need to do?

And he, I've known him for a long time.

He's a friend.

Does he laugh?

He just goes, I think I got it from here.

I think we're good, buddy.

Assume the position.

Back to the toenails real quick.

What state were you in?

A toenail?

Yeah.

Were you like a talent or not?

No, no, no.

I wasn't to corn chip.

Okay.

It was just like, they should have been cut.

But it wasn't like I was going to be, you know, I got you.

Slice and pee.

If you were on the beach, you wouldn't have felt like,

oh, I should put my dogs away.

Had I gone to a pool party, I would have cut them.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Put it that way.

Okay.

Well, now you know.

Next time you go for your physical, it'll be like,

right?

Take care of that too.

Because you go to get my feet.

Mm-hmm.

You never be too careful.

It's like whenever someone's coming over to your house

and you're, you know, they're not coming into your room

because it's like a deacon from your church or something.

But your mom's like, go get your room clean.

Right.

He might poke his head in there.

Just clean it up just to be safe.

Now, you know, learn from my mistakes.

My favorite thing along those lines when I was a kid

for a little while, we would have like somebody come into

like clean the house because my parents both worked.

And it'd be like once a month or whatever.

And my mom would always like, hey, make sure you clean your room

for the cleaning lady.

Come over.

Like, why am I cleaning for the clean lady?

And then what's your hat?

Is that what you're paying her to do?

It's a very common thing.

Yeah.

But again, I get it.

She's not there to do my laundry, you know.

Sure.

Showed her.

I also just realized I haven't had coffee all day.

Which is weird because I, you know, like most people

have my morning routine.

I have a two cups coffee.

But I was fasting.

No.

So, you know, I drink coffee.

No, I know.

I mean, you get coffee from like down, you know,

the coffee shops in the area or whatever.

Yeah.

You still three sugars or three sprinkles from two creams?

No.

No.

I am wet cream.

I was dry cream for a while.

Okay.

So I'm back to the wet cream.

That sounds bad.

Yeah.

Don't say that.

And let me just say that a few more times.

And one splinter.

Wow.

Just one splinter.

Just one splinter because I'm using my fruity flavored coffee.

And then I microwave it immediately for 27 seconds.

Are you still on the hazelnut?

Yeah.

I'm not sure what it is.

It could be like, it's the hazelnut praline cream.

Sure.

You know, frosted flanks, whatever.

Or whatever.

Yeah.

I don't like flavored coffee.

Yeah, I kind of only like flavored coffee.

I just want to taste the coffee.

I drink Folgers every morning, just black Folgers.

And if you're like a...

You're like an annual trucker.

Yes, yes.

But if someone gets me like a fancy coffee,

like a fancy Starbucks or something, I'm like,

I don't want to taste the French vanilla.

I just want to taste the coffee.

But when did you start drinking coffee?

I would take sips of it whenever I was like in high school and stuff.

But I really, it was when I started working in radio

that I started drinking coffee like regularly.

And you don't drink it at all, right Andrew?

No.

No, not in the slightest.

No care for it.

And I do.

No.

Never once.

He says coffee.

Never once.

I mean, I tasted it.

Never once.

It's not a cigarette.

I mean I tasted it.

I'm sure I tasted it at some point.

I don't remember when.

And I thought it was nasty.

And I'm like, I don't need that.

Yeah, he doesn't even want to try like coffee flavored ice cream.

No, I don't like any.

I've had those.

I hate them.

Or like coffee flavored candies.

Or as a couple of times I thought it was like,

ooh, that's going to be chocolate.

And like coffee and I had spitted out like a little kid.

Yeah.

Hey, I don't know.

I love the smell though.

Like when it's being made in the morning and you wake up,

you're like, oh, that's a great smell.

It's one of the very few things for me where the smell is amazing

and the taste is just.

Yeah.

When feed was little, I mean little like four.

She'd be like, daddy, daddy who she called me,

made me coffee.

And so I would.

And it would just be like the smallest amount of coffee.

It was basically creamer and sugar with some coffee in it.

But we'd sit there and have our coffee together.

Aw, that's cute.

That's funny.

I think she still drinks it like that.

I hadn't thought of that in a long time.

That's a really sweet memory.

So you switched the amount around in that one.

Oh, yeah.

Where it's the amount of creamers actually what the coffee would normally be.

Yeah.

And then the coffee is the amount the creamer would normally be.

Pretty much.

Yeah.

Pretty much.

So coffee flavored bulk.

Yeah.

Very much so.

So yeah, we're talking a little bit.

We were texting back and forth a bit during the WBC last night,

the championship game.

Venezuela beat the USA.

Congratulations of Venezuela.

I watched them play the Dominican Republic.

Yeah.

So I feel a little bit of like camaraderie with them.

You know, they're good.

But yeah, Team USA is taking it on the on the nose.

I mean, they could.

They should to a degree.

But I mean, I know we're America and we don't care.

But the other two big favorites also lost.

Yeah.

Like the big heavy favorites were the United States, Japan, and Dominican,

and neither the other two were even in the final game.

It was interesting to be that most of the...

Sure, there were people saying we sucked.

We didn't hit.

That would definitely not hit.

But mostly it was the Riz.

We have no energy.

No, no.

We have no nothing cool about us.

No.

We're very much the straight, you know, matter of fact.

And if they had won, then somebody made a really good point about this.

If you play like that and you win, it's just confidence.

And when you play like that and you lose people think you don't care.

Good work.

And it's neither of those things.

They just got beat.

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In a little place like this?

I don't think so, Jennifer.

Oh yeah, huh.

Discover's accepted where I like to shop.

Come on, baby.

Get with the times.

Right.

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Welcome back DGS on KimoX.

Late start today, obviously, because of Cardinal baseball.

Another game tomorrow, so we'll be starting out about the same time.

Somewhere between 230 and 3.

Speaking of baseball, Ray, do you have a question for wheels?

Yeah.

Can you explain what's going on with Ken Rose and Thal?

Because my Twitter feed is just full of journalists defending him

and calling him the salt of the earth kind of guy

and he doesn't deserve what's happening to him.

But I don't even know what's happening to him.

I'm just seeing the reaction.

I'm not seeing the cause of all of this.

Well, a lot of it is just people that are bros

who don't actually really follow baseball

and they get mad about stupid things.

What keeps circulating, and this is from last year,

which is why I'm not sure why it's still a thing.

But last year on a post game in Milwaukee,

Ken Rose and Thal was walking backward.

Like there was a post game interview thing.

He was going to be talking to someone

and they were going to support some gainerade on the guy

or it was ice water.

I don't know what it was.

And he backed up and he backed into a cameraman

and the cameraman went falling over and then he looked back

and he had this really like stank face on.

What the hell are you doing behind me?

And that's the freeze frame that everybody seems

to be talking about is that he had this face like,

what the heck, bro?

That clip is really the start of all of this?

I mean, because I've seen the clip.

I mean, it just seems like an awkward moment.

It was.

It was.

It was.

And Rosenthal apologized for it later.

He wasn't like, he's like, I wasn't mad at the guy.

I was just surprised that there was somebody behind me.

He didn't take him when he was down.

And he didn't go help him either,

which is why people were criticizing.

Because he didn't like walk over and be like,

oh man, you okay or anything like that.

But you guys are, I mean, you guys will get this.

I think most people would when you're doing TV

and you've got an earpiece in and somebody's talking to you

and you're trying to do another thing,

you're not really in the moment.

And that's, and that's the root of it.

There is some other hate for Ken

because he's kind of a dork.

Like, you know, he wears a bow tie in every game.

Like, that's how people perceive him.

I don't think he's a dork.

I knew Ken pretty well 20 years ago.

Like, we both worked for the sporting news at the same time.

He was the major league baseball guy for the sporting news.

I was the minor league baseball guy for the sporting news.

We did some work together.

I don't, we're not like buddies or anything like that.

He's not a bad guy.

He's fine.

But it's a lot of people who just want to jump to conclusions.

It's basically guys, this is just what happens on the internet.

And especially when the freeze frame of him,

like given a mean look, kind of like mean mug in the cameraman on the ground.

You know, that's what everybody focuses on

is that moment where they freeze the frame and he's like,

it was a nothing burger.

Now, I understand people that don't think he's great on TV.

I like Ken.

Ken's a better writer than he is a TV guy.

But that's basically it.

It's that.

And sometimes he comes across as being snooty and all that.

It's kind of the way he is.

Man, it's just crazy that that one moment, which I get it.

I mean,

when you're wearing a bow tie, you're playing in dangerous games.

Let's be honest.

That's all I want to say.

Barstools, the one that blows this up because barstools

got to find some hot takes somewhere somehow.

And look, I'm not like, I don't want to defend Ken across the board.

He does some things that are a little annoying.

Sometimes he acts a little bit smarter than he is.

And we all do that.

Like we're all in all of us have had those moments when we're on the air

or we're in a, you know, on the field talking to someone where you screw up

or you say something stupid.

But yeah, this stuff blows up because, you know,

the bro's on bar stool will get mad about something.

And then I really like, yeah, we hate that guy.

Like he's fine.

If you don't think he's good, that's fine.

But if you think he's some kind of like raging jerk with a Napoleon complex,

that's like the opposite of Ken Rosenthal.

He's a pretty passive dude.

I'm going to ask this question is if I haven't been alive for 61 years.

But have we always had bros or is this incarnation new?

I mean, what was the revenge of the nerds all about?

Is about the bros who always picked on the nerds

and the nerds getting their revenge?

I think the dynamic has always existed.

The guys who are or think they are the cool guys,

crappin' on the nerds, crappin' on the people they think aren't as good as them.

I don't think that's new.

It's amplified though.

It's like we gave all of them a bullhorn

with the way things go on the internet.

And like, I don't know.

It is such a stupid thing for people to be like that in their feelings about a TV guy.

I don't love Tom Verducci.

He's the guy that annoys me more than anybody.

Because Tom Verducci is always trying to act like he's one of the guys.

And you're not, dude.

You're a baseball writer.

But those guys come from an era where the big TV networks were just getting started

in big sports coverage.

So what did they do?

They hired all the writers.

They hired Peter Gammons and they hired Ken Rosenthal and they hired...

It did on the football side too.

That's Chris Mortensen.

That's all those guys.

They hired all these writers and then you put them on TV because they were the people

that were already connected.

Well, they're not, they're not necessarily TV people.

So they're not going to be the smoothest.

They're not going to be the sharpest on camera.

They're not going to be maybe the best in that live moment because they're,

their background is as a writer.

But they know their stuff.

And that's why they're there because they're good behind the scenes and reporting.

Dude, so the incident, the video you were referring to wheels, that was...

I was a year ago.

It's blowing my mind.

Yeah.

This is crazy.

I mean, it just seems like such blatant.

Like, I don't like this person.

So I'm just going to take the opportunity to try to make the situation seem a thousand times

worse than actually.

Did something actually happen?

Did someone do a big takedown or something?

I mean, one of the bar stool guys went off on him.

Okay.

And now he's walking it back.

He's like, oh, I was a little hard on him.

Yeah, you think because now people who actually know the guy and know the sport are telling

you to shut up because you'll see it.

If you've seen it and anybody looks it up, you'll see everybody that works with the guy

who would know if he's a jerk or not are coming to his defense.

If he was a jerk, you know what you would hear?

Crickets.

Yeah.

You would hear nothing because the people that are on the inside that know he's a jerk would not defend him.

But the people who know him have been around him.

And again, I don't know him anymore.

I haven't talked to him in probably 15 years.

But I did know him for a period of time.

He's a nice quiet guy.

And I also think part of this is kind of that bully mentality because Ken's a small dude.

You're like, I'm a short dude.

Ken is shorter than me.

And he might weigh 115 pounds, 130 pounds.

He's a really small guy.

God, I could so beat him up.

And I think that's part of this is it's these guys.

It's like you themselves.

It's like these guys, you know, it's because bar stool big cats.

The guy that kind of the one that blew this up recently.

And he's one of those guys that's like, one more big guy.

And like, because I get, I don't know, he's mad because the nerd has a better job than he has.

Or because the nerd is on TV.

I don't know what's going on in that.

I just don't, I don't understand.

Ken's, I'm not calling Ken a nerd, but that's the perception.

Because he's a little guy who wears bow ties.

And he wears bow ties every game for charity.

And he auctions them off and he raises awareness for various causes.

So, you know, like that.

Yeah.

Well, speaking of bar stool wheels, do you have any friends who have ever worked there?

No.

No.

Okay.

Yeah, I'm just wondering.

Like what?

I mean, okay.

That's an idea of what the culture is like.

But I wonder like, I don't know.

What's day to day like there?

It's just feel a sense of job security working at a place like that.

I mean, they do well.

Like they, they have, you know, those podcasts do incredibly well.

You know, they make, I think they all, those guys that are prominent like that guy, Big Cat.

They probably make pretty good money.

And they have a great, they have an audience.

But obviously, it doesn't mean that they're going to be thinking things out.

Like they're, they're not about that.

They're, they're, they're the, they're the bros.

I mean, that's what, that's the approach.

That's what they're, they're listeners like.

And that's fine.

That's what you are.

But then when you're wrong, then you're just going to have to face people telling you you're wrong.

So they're like us.

I mean, they're, they're like the broier version of us.

Yeah.

And, you know, they, they do various events.

They have, you know, there was a, there's a big viral thing with them now.

One of their guys got into it.

You remember the basketball player, Jason Williams?

Yeah.

Point guard.

Yeah.

He was, he was super like, I mean, behind the back, he had all the trick stuff.

He just wanted a very good shooter.

But he played in the NBA, wanted an NBA championship.

There's a whole video of him yelling at a barstool guy at a, at a, like, a, basketball pickup thing

that they were doing, because the guy was just being a turd.

So it's like, it's kind of their brand.

And sometimes it's funny, and sometimes it's really stupid.

But barstool's not my thing.

So probably the wrong guy to offer a opinion on there on the content.

And we're in here, and we're in here, and we're in here, and we're in here.

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Accept Discover?

In a little place like this?

I don't think so, Jennifer.

Oh yeah, huh.

Discover's accepted where I like to shop.

Come on, baby, get with the times.

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