Texas radio host with a Rangers tattoo on his butt places a wager on the World Series.
While Chris “Mad Dog” Russo is well-known for breaking his wager during the MLB Playoffs, at least one radio host prevailed in their wager on the World Series.
Manager Bruce Bochy asked catcher Austin Hedges a question to start off the celebrations after the Texas Rangers defeated the Baltimore Orioles and advanced to the American League Championship Series. “Hedgie, what’s the number on your a** right now? That’s all I need to know.” Bochy’s question set off a frenzy of celebration and conjecture about whether the Rangers were monitoring Hedges’ butt for their “magic number.”
Bochy asked Hedges, “If the Rangers win it all, I’ll get a tattoo with the number zero on my ass!” 97.1 The Freak’s Jeff Cavanaugh responded on air. It’s a brazen declaration to promise to get a butt tattooed if your team wins a championship. It’s absurd to promise to get a butt tattoo when your team is only eight wins away from a championship.
Cavanaugh was forced to choose after the Rangers won their first World Series title in team history last week. He could follow in the footsteps of Chris “Mad Dog” Russo, who openly broke his bet to retire if the Arizona Diamondbacks made it to the World Series. Cavanaugh went for the latter, throwing his a** in the jackpot.
A permanent butt tattoo is still a pretty big wager to settle, though not as bad as having to eat horse poop or retire. A tattoo artist was in studio on Monday afternoon on The Speakeasy, which was hosted by Cavanaugh, Julie Dobbs, Michael Gruber, and Dallas sports radio legend Mike Rhyner. The wager was settled.
Before he removed his pants to allow the artist to start her work, Cavanaugh declared on-air, “I’m a man of my word, so we’re gonna tat up my butt.” After the Rangers won the World Series, Cavanaugh gained more notoriety than Russo, a lasting memento, and perhaps even a warning not to bet too much.
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Rangers, who were there to support the Lanarkshire band Saint PHNX, were taken aback by the ‘crazy’ reception K-Pop girl group STAYC received when they invited them to play at Ibrox Stadium.
When the Korean Pop group performed at the US Grand Prix in Texas last month, Scottish Premiership fans noticed that some of the band members were wearing Glasgow Rangers shirts rather than Texas Rangers shirts.
Fans on the other side of the Atlantic were shocked to see STAYC sporting 1996–1997 Gers replica jerseys. The vintage attire was sponsored by McEwan’s Lager, a brand that was strongly linked to the team during their successful Nine-In-A-Row era.
Consequently, the Glasgow team arranged for the Korean artist to meet their Rangers-fanatical supporters.
Before STAYC yelled, “We love Rangers,” to Govan punters outside Edmiston House, the Wishaw brothers Stevie and Alan Jukes from Saint PHNX gave them a tour of the historic grounds.
In an interview with Lanarkshire Live, Stevie discussed the entire experience, saying: “We are huge Rangers fans, and the club asked us to come as another musical act to welcome them.
“We greeted them, gave them a tour of the stadium, recorded a TikTok featuring Scottish slang terms with them, and showed them around the museum with Rangers Chief Executive James Bisgrove and John Brown.”
Everything was enjoyable and lighthearted. They were very, very clever. We’ve worked in the media for a while, and they were really enthusiastic
“They even danced with Broxi Bear to their song ‘Teddy Bear,’ asking questions about various strips and players. It was hilarious because they were game.
Stevie clarified that Saint PHNX is familiar with K-Pop, saying, “Outside of the band, we write a lot of songs for our American publisher, which is owned by a Korean conglomerate.
We did have a general notion of who these Korean pop artists were because we pitch and write for them frequently, but we were unaware of their exact magnitude.
But it was crazy because, after announcing on social media that they would be at the stadium, roughly 1,500 people showed up. To be honest, it was a little strange.”
