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It's the downbeat. I'm ninety seven
to one the freak you know where lay

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it to us in thirty minutes.
Got some election results, Some things come

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down in the pike. What happened
yesterday put you know on that many more

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things as well. We really want
to tease to eight o'clock where we break

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out something called music Madness. It'll
be one Danny Bayless against one Mike's Aroy

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and you, the listener, can
call in it two one four or eight

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one seven seven eight seven one nine
seven one to ride, choose a horse

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to ride with, and they will
go to battle for you and try to

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get you a pair of Green Day
tickets. I considered any one of my

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closest friends, and I I think
I'm gonna decline battling with him at anything.

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I don't want to do that.
That does not make it more fun.

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Well, what if I gave you
a Madness Monster card to play?

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I'm intrigued. Does they change things? Madness Monster card? Damn it?

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I do want to Madness monster.
Yeah you do. But I don't want

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to battle him and anything. I
want to work together with him to do

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something great. Well, that isn't
just like our music that we make together.

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What do you want to take on
the glens. I don't want to

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do that. I like them too. I'm just gonna skip it. You

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asked a good question in the break
kat. How are we gonna kidnap Jeremy

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Allen White tonight if we don't go
to the after party? Ah? Was

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that so ripped? And he's probably
five ft seven, he's very short.

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He's a very short man. We're
gonna get his ass in my trunk.

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You don't have a trunk. You
go to geep his trunk. KT's got

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a trunk. I have a hatchback. You actually have a legit trunk.

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You have a trunk. Yeah,
that's cool, all right. You need

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to drive tonight, Drive to your
house and then walk. Yeah, then

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we can walk from my house.
Throw traffic's gonna be nuts. Throw some

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rope and a bottle of water in
your trunk. I think I'm just gonna

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uber because I don't really want to
walk in a in a suit. Tell

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me you're don't wearing a suit.
It's a freaking red carpet premiere. I

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don't want to show up looking like
a hay seed. I'm gonna tell everyone

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that's just your Bastards of Soul suit. It's barely even a real suit.

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Yeah, I'm gonna do Mikey T
shirt and jeans. It's like a hay

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seed. These dudes are in Dallas. They're gonna be wearing jeans and flaid

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shirt. Dude. National media photo
op for the world premiere of this huge

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Christmas movie that's coming out or Christmas
time release film that's coming out in Dallas,

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Texas. No, they're not gonna
show up in tankies, have spual

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okay, sport codes. Uh,
button down shirt, maybe no tie,

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but they're gonna look cool. Was
that efonk on bearfoot? Yeah? Oh

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yeah, in honor that'd be funny. You shouldn't walk down Jefferson promposition over

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there. Don't do that sprain his
ankle and a pothole. Know, it

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hurts, it cows, it curls. Well, we'll plan our kidena and

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our off air and now our attire
and parking. There's a lot of things

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to plan out when it comes to
this. Is we're going to see the

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the whole backboard. Thank your first. All right, one MLB expert over

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at the Athletic Jim Bowden unleashed the
big thing today him he thinks Otani will

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sign with the Texas Rangers. That's
like the first of his Yeah, it's

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like prediction number one or two on
his list. Now ship that I thought

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about last night. So the Rangers
declined their option on Mitch Garver. Nah,

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doesn't mean Mitch Garver's not coming back, but it means he's probably not

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coming back, and quite frankly,
he's just a DH. So. But

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if you think about something when it
comes to signing Otani, if you give

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him a big contract with a lot
of money. Mac Scherzer's contract expires after

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twenty twenty four, Otani can't pitch
in twenty twenty four because he's gonna have

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Tommy John surgery. Hypothetically he could
pitch in twenty twenty five. Mac Scherzer

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is gone then, so basically Otani
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sign him while also hitting next year. So that part makes sense. The

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big question is you're committed to Corey
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through twenty eight, to Grohm through
twenty seven, Like do you want to

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pay these kind of like steep luxury
tax payments all these years? And is

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the pursuit now that you've won one, is the pursuit of winning multiples worth

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adding another guy who has arm troubles. I mean, you did with de

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Grom, but you'd never won one
before, So who cares? Is that

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worth it? And that's why I
wonder if eighty two year old Ray Davis

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how he thinks about those things,
what his plan is with the team.

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Does he want to sell the team? Does he want to make it a

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thing that keeps it in the family? All very important things when it comes

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to signing shoheo Tani, because Antani
essentially is your DH next year. Keep

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in mind there's not I mean,
there's no spot for some people next year.

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Why at Linkford will play next year
on this team may not make the

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opening to your roster, but Adooley
Scaliote and Evan Carter is your outfield that

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ain't going nowhere. Your infill is
set your weak Lincoln in the lineup as

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a whole as gold Glove winner Nate
Low, the whispers that Evan Carter moves

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to center trade Liote, Yeah,
and why it plays left. That's possible,

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and that's an up well, I
don't know if it's an upgrade.

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We hope it's certainly an upgrade.
Very possible. You could do that or

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keep them. And maybe Leoti's a
part time player on this team. But

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I mean, I think there's a
lot of teams who'd be interested in giving

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you some pitching help for starting dynamic
elite center fielder and Leodi Leoti could go

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hit three hundred one day too,
Like I am not giving up on that.

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Yeah, I just want to be
that team that does that for once.

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And this doesn't even feel dirty,
No, this is This doesn't feel

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like the heat loading up with Dwayne
Wade and Chris Bosh. It doesn't feel

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like ring chasing. Does they already
have one? Because we have enough developed

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players. Yeah. Yeah, it's
going to be a blend no matter what.

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And the Rangers were what in payroll
this year? I believe something like

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that. They were in the top
ten. I think it all comes down

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to the what's in the head of
Ray Davis, And he probably doesn't even

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know. I'm sure he knows a
lot more than you give him credit for.

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Are you saying like he doesn't know
because he can't think, or he

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hasn't decided yet, because he hasn't
decided. Okay, that you're inferring something

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else. Is it like the dirty
little secret of baseball finance that they're all

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making so much money and you're essentially
just asking how how much more or less

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do we want to make next year? Yeah? I mean you can sign

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Otani to the largest deal in American
sports history, which is probably what you're

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looking at right and still have massive
profits next year, don't you. You're

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not losing money. Think of the
profits that the exponential increase in profits by

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being as relevant as they were this
year in the playoffs and as good as

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they were World Series. That's got
the value of winning the World Series.

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Think about this, the value of
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Series. Look what that did for
the Cowboys franchise. We're damn near thirty.

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We are thirty years after their thirty
one years after their first Super Bowl,

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and that is still the touchstone for
this team or those early nineties.

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They're still profiting off of that three
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Just adding Otani, okay, go
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bill that you would have to foot. I think discussion is more like,

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well, what does that luxury tax
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it has escalators in it and it
keeps going up and up and up.

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But I think having yeah, I
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You're right, and and the I
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is a must watch or a stop
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oh, I'm going to check out
the Rangers tonight. O Tani might be

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that we've already done this with you, Dar too, and he's number one

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on the list. But I'm just
saying it is the most viewable, marketable

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and marketable dude in the sport,
and I'm not sure how close it is

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and the value of having him on
your team heck when when you go to

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other ballparks. But that's what I'm
saying about the finance. I don't know

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what that means, Like, yes, I agree, but what does does

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Jersey sales in Japan go wild?
It can't hurt the bottom line, I

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would imagine, right, is there
a television deal. I bet it does,

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because now Otani fans have to buy
a new jersey, right, But

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is that enough to like? Is
that where the wow? Just you know,

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you're like, oh, get no, Tani. That's going to change

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how the Rangers are viewed in an
entire continent or certainly a nation. But

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I don't know how. I don't
know how that's quantified now it is there's

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money in that obviously, or is
it just guaranteeing that you're going to sell

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out every time he pitches, I
suppose, or ticket sales or lineup every

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night? Yeah, he's your DH
So dude, this happen with Darvish.

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There was the Rangers' popularity, attendance
all went up when they had Darvish,

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the entire Asian fan base that they
all became Ranger fans all right, like

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out of nowhere, people who never
cared about the Rangers all of a sudden

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did. And we forget about it
because it didn't end great with you,

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Darvish, And we traded him for
Willie Calhoun and he just wasn't you know,

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he wasn't he had when he missed
a year because of Tobby John and

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all that stuff. But when he
got here, think about that buzz.

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It was credible. It was it
was incredible, and they were and he

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was awesome. He was really good. If the Rangers start twenty twenty four

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with Otani in their lineup, are
they going to have three? Are they

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gonna They're gonna have the top three
MVP candidates on their team? Yeah?

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My god, I mean outside of
a Aaron Judge or whatever getting back in

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the mix, it's gonna be ridiculous. So March this year, the Rangers

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have valued at two point two three
billion dollars. I'm just fascinated with the

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money because you're gonna sign it due
to a five hundred million dollar deal and

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it's it is still worth it.
Yeah. And now if you are Ray

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Davies, what do you I don't
know how much that giant contract affects income

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the next couple few five years and
if it all weighs out, yeah,

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if it equals more income. Or
is Ray Davis saying we finally have a

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champion. I'm making less money because
there's a lot of baseball teams to make

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a lot of money. Just sitting
back and saying, oh, yeah,

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we really hope we feel the good
team this year, sign No. One

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and then laugh on their mountain of
cash. And that's the blueprint for ownership

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success in baseball. Well, if
we had what three or four home games

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playoffs? Like, we didn't have
that many home games, so they didn't

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maximize that playoff run as much as
they could have in terms of profit at

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home. Maybe that's part of like, well, what have we get in

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the playoffs again? And well,
if we start having more playoff home games,

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I think about how much extra money
that would be. Yeah. Well,

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I also think that the age of
Ray plays a factor into this because

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if he were the biggest factor in
if he were a forty five year old

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owner, you might think more fiscally
and economically than you would legacy, and

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because you're thinking, well, let's
be a healthy organization financially for a number

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of years because I'll have time to
do this here again or in another market

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again. But with Ray Davis at
eighty two years old, you kind of

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hope that as a fan that he's
thinking, I'm all about leaving my stamp

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on this city, on this team, as the guy that brought multiple World

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Series to Texas Rangers. Before you
know, I leave this and what does

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another billion of my net worth really
mean? Absolutely, it does mean everything.

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Billionaires who have one billion dollars are
dying to have two point five billion

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dollars. Like it's we want to
say, go you got enough money,

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which comes back to what I originally
asked, It's like what it depends on

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what's in the mindset of Ray Davis. Is he thinking? Is is he

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at a place in his life where
he's thinking profit, profit margin or legacy.

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I've heard both on that too,
that he for years I'd heard that

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he only cared about profit margin,
was looking to flip. And then I've

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also heard over the last couple of
years that no, he does vias a

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legacy piece, he would give it
to one of his kids. Neil Leebman

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is the co owner. You know, Like there's a lot of a lot

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of mixed signals on that. Your
value of the club, if you are

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going to sell, the value of
the thing goes up immensely once you sign

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old time. Well, and it's
already gone up because that number was March

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of this year. Yeah, and
winning a world championship definitely increases that value.

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But baseball is the one thing where
you can get a wild ass billionaire

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who says yes to everything. That's
what Steve Cohen just did with the Mets,

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and they blew the roof off the
record, you know, payroll numbers,

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and they sucked. But I mean, like Ardi Moreno back in the

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day was like, watch this,
give me everyone. You want a mad

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millionaire or mad billionaire in charge of
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It seems like the Rangers have the
best of both worlds. Like you

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said that, there's developmental talent that
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expensive free agents, and I mean
that's the that's the formulae. Angels and

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Mets had notoriously crappy minor league systems. The Rangers because of the work done

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by John Daniels and Chris Young,
which now John nails out here or whatever.

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But all of that there's a pretty
good pipeline of that. Now that

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will fade off because you get,
like, hey, a lot of top

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picks. One guy texted in,
it's the status of Lighter and Rocker.

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Well. Rocker had arm surgery.
Jack Lder, nobody knows, had pretty

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much lost all feel for pitching,
took a few weeks off, came back

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closed out the year. Strong there's
another first round pick. He was a

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top ten pick. Cole Win struggled
at Triple at their dudes, who are

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there could play the one thing that
everyone talks about White Langford. There's no

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questions White Langford plays and it will
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and Evan Carter. I'm sorry,
there is a young core nucleus. You're

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right set and Mikey, you you
grew up and you remember this era.

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You watched the Marlins basically trade cash
for World Series twice. You know this

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isn't that, this isn't similar,
This isn't the same. And I don't

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care, really don't care what which
category falls in as long as is that

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they're winning. I think it's it
feels better, feels more natural to have

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guys that you know, you draft
and and developed. It's more sustainable too,

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I think. Make no mistake,
the reason that the Rangers just won

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the World Series is because they paid
an s load for Corey. Seeger at

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Marcus Simeon so like it. You're
not exactly the tiny, little homegrown Texas

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Rangers, and we know that that
didn't work for their entire existence. Develop

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and the other side didn't work with
a Rode either, by the way.

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But yeah, it's both develop,
trades free agency. Something I think about

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this a lot with the Cowboys.
The Cowboys sit out free agency every year.

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They just do, like no one
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that week they sit out free agency. They draft to develop, do their

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best, and that's hurting them this
year because their their draft picks haven't played.

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They make thrifty trades in their opinion, which I would say the Brandon

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Cooks and Stefan Gilmore were very thrifty
trades. Also probably get ripped off on

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the Trey Lance deal. Well they
they definitely got ripped off on the Amari

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Cooper deal a couple of years ago. So like hit or miss there.

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But they do draft and development,
they don't sign free agents, do it

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all. That's how you win.
You're right, sign free agents, develop,

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you do all three. It's the
combination of the two. Because yes,

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you don't win the World Series without
Corey Seeker, but you don't get

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to the World Series without adults.
Yeah, no, yeah, I get

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that. I think our hope right
now is I looked at Ray Davis worth

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about three billion dollars eighty one years
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I think what we as fans need
to hope is that he, with all

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of his money and all this,
realizes that he just had the greatest moment

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of his life. I am tired, and now he needs to go sit.

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You know. That was the greatest
moment of my life. And I

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want to do that again and again, and I want to do it every

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year until I can't do anything anymore. Yeah, and I yes. And

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I was just looking up Ray Davis
kids because if he doesn't flip the team,

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there's daughter, right, he has
three adult children. I don't know

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which ones are. It would not
be it would be going to the daughter,

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I believe. Yeah, I don't
think it's going daughter. What are

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the names of those kids? Steven, Yephre, Yeah, mont de Core

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and Winniford, And I don't know. It's a rich, rich ass name.

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I've known Stephen for about twenty five
years. Why don't you, Why

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aren't you? Why are you best
friends with us? Why are you friends

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with us? Whore not him?
Y'all? Are y'all are much more stable,

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believe it or not. I do
believe well. So it is a

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window, a jar window, a
jar, I mean today it could be

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Yeah, man, free agency,
go do it. It won't happen.

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You don't think it's gonna happen.
Why not today? Ok? Iron Tall?

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Yeah, well that's true. Yes
or no? Yeah, you don't

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think you wouldn't make that move on? You know they wouldn't get any news

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because Zach e Fronvin Town. He'll
stretch out. He's gonna move with the

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Dodgers's gonna move with the Mariager.
He's gonna do the whole thing. This

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will take a while, This will
take one and then you also like the

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go your arm you'll never pitch again. Your arm is jacked. We're not

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gonna sign you. I'm okay with
that. But from afar, let's go

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get it. If he never throws
another pitch, he's still worth it.

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Just goes smash a lot now,
not from one hundred, not half a

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bill, no, or four hundred
now, but three hundred mil. Yes?

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Does he bat in games that he
starts pitching, Yeah, he does

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usually d h is unless and he's
a nice plays the outfield sometimes he is

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amazing. Yes or no? Right
now? Yes? Do you think do

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you think shohe Atani will be a
Texas Ranger. No, yeah, I

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don't, yes or no I don't. I don't. I feel too good

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to be true. Man, my
sports focus is so aimed at reverse basketball

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right now, hard for me to
even think about the off season. Now

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explain reverse. We were doing so
good and then we did that reverse basketball

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and the fists, the Dallas fists
go coming up next, I'm gonna tell

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you this, Austin Hader's story.
I'm going to do it. I'm going

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to do that next. Plus like
a tri election results, Mikey good news,

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well next to ninety seven won the
first