Surprise

No one dared to make a scene.

Uh, my parents lived in Surprise, Arizona.

[laughs]

And the only s-

What?

...

Surprise is how shitty it is.

Like, literally, if you look up a Google search for the best 10 restaurants in Surprise, Arizona, at least when they lived there, McDonald's would show up on that list.

Not that one? No.

My first house was in – it was called Surprise, Arizona, which is like – if you look at Phoenix, Scottsdale is sort of – East, southeast of Phoenix, where Surprise is west.

Oh, okay.

Very far west of Phoenix.

Yes.

And he went to the backfields in Surprise, Arizona.

And surprise, Joe Musgrove was getting some work.

And I want to read directly from the article because I'm now not bringing this up for nothing because also since we started recording, Marty Caswell posted...

And so here's the other thing.

My daughter calls me the other day and says, hey, I'm on my way to Surprise, Arizona.

They live down in Scottsdale.

I said, what are you driving all the way to Surprise for? Because the Dollar General has a new load of squishies, and I have a list of things I have to get.

There's a guy on Instagram who has a great reel that says...

I will never be a billionaire.

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Rev Entertainment today unveiled the complete schedule for the college baseball series in Surprise, Arizona, where Nebraska, Oregon State, UC Santa Barbara and Vanderbilt will open their seasons February.19-21.

The tournament will feature six college baseball games over three days at Surprise Stadium, the spring training home of the Texas Rangers and Kansas City Royals.

Each day will include a college baseball doubleheader, with tournament games scheduled for 4.30 p.m. and 8 p.m. MST.

The college tournament will take place following the day's MLB spring training game.

Spring training game times are separate from the tournament schedule and will be announced at a later date.

The opening game of the college baseball series on Friday afternoon between Oregon State and Vanderbilt will draw national attention as two of the nation's winningest programs since 2020 face-off.

Oregon State will serve as the host school, making its 14th consecutive appearance in Surprise, while Nebraska and UC Santa Barbara have played at Surprise Stadium in past seasons prior to the inception of the college baseball series.

They said, look, we may be okay with um mass deportations or whatever but we actually don't want this thing in our backyard here and there's you know one prime example was in georgia in the small town social circle which voted overwhelmingly for trump in 2024 and you know the two presidential elections before that they're like yeah we're cool with this but actually not right here because we don't have enough water and we don't have like sewage processing capabilities so can you just do it somewhere else and they Well, it's not completely finished yet, but it seems like they're not going to build anything there.

In Surprise, Arizona, which is a more politically mixed jurisdiction, I've done a lot of reporting on this for Lookout, the people there were so aghast that there was going to be a detention warehouse in a neighborhood.

I mean, you could almost literally throw a baseball from the front door of this detention camp to a home.

I went and knocked on doors in this neighborhood, and people were like, what is going to happen? We want to sell.

to drive to the park.

I live in Surprise, Arizona.

There's a park with a big lake in the middle of the park.

And I just went to the park and walked around the lake at night.