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Heggie's ass is now showing a six, we believe with the tattoo.
All I could find when it came to jiffs and memes was Michael Jordan holding
up six when he went a six title And I found one of Burton Ernie
holding up a six. So that's good enough. Weird, weird start,
they like. Screw it, it's Framber time. Framber's the lefty who they
want to tell you every time he starts a national televised game. And I
know this because we played him in May and the ESPN broadcast is doing the
same thing. He's just such an emotional guy. I mean, if he
can keep it together, he's got the best stuff of any pitcher in the
league. He's just so emotional. Though, Will he lose his focus?
Oh, it's a shame. He's such a hothead because his stuff is outstanding.
Maybe he's just good and some days that's good. It's not. Yeah,
maybe it's just that to blame everything, I'm being emotional. He looked
pretty calm. I don't know, not the first man through the ball in
the right field. No, he looked a little rattled real early. Well
he's got crazy eyes. Okay, maybe that's it, and it's he was
sweating, which I don't blame him for. But I just keep going back
that what Gabby Rodriguez thing in Baltimore. Who's a good picture and Framber's a
good picture. And then I had a moment in the first thing where I'm
like, are these teams scared of the damn Rangers lineup? It's all relative.
I understand they're not literally frightened, but I don't know. I started
thinking, maybe everyone is just scared of this monster right now. And then
I mean, the Astros was a whole settle down and the Rangers got virtually
no hits after the first inning or two. But I was it gave me
a lot of confidence. I'm like, maybe they're just terrified of this murderer's
row. It was an interesting game plan strategy because you saw a lot of
first pitch swinging out of the Rangers in that ending, and that's what got
him on That's what got him on the board over and over and over.
My god, Yeah, I mean that that she lacking happened so quick,
and I think it stunned them for a while. Yeah, you know,
and it's one thing too, and we'll get to Uvaldi in a moment,
I'm sure, but you know they were trying to chip away. But look,
those those solo shot home runs are great for the crowd. And I
know they said this in the the booth last night, but I mean the
Rangers are looking at those going that's fine, Yeah, okay, no problem,
ain't nobody on base. The two hits in the first two pitches they
saw was awesome way to start, okay. And then I've been hard on
John Smoltz a lot in this series so far, in the last series,
but he made a really good point with Robbie Grossman back in the lineup,
you know, hitting their like he is a little different than Seger, who's
looking to swing at the first pitch. Robbie Gressman is looking to work account.
So it's just a pretty good balance there if you needed it. Because
like the Simon hit and then the Segar dumps one into left field. I
don't know what you guys, I watched the first inning or the top of
the first inning, just kind of standing up five feet away from the TV,
kid, because that was I don't know, just heartbreat was up and
you were doing it again, the white dad on election night. Yeah,
I was doing that again, standing up three feet from the screen. And
every every base hit, every run scored, it's another precinct in and keep
in mind to you in that first inning, It's not like the Rangers just
every time they got a hold of the ball were just lacing ropes, you
know, to the wall. And they had a lot of good fortune on
their side too, a lot of seeing eyeballs and perfectly placed little loopers.
An error didn't didn't hurt their cause at all. So I mean, it's
it's just like anything else. Man, it takes skill, but it also
takes right place, right time, good fortune, luck, chance, whatever
that may be. And man, so far through seven of these damn games,
the Rangers, it's kind of all falling in their direction. Even though
there's some white knuckle moments, it's they have still working lost. It's amazing,
dude. Robbie Grossman barely made contact and then Framberg Valdez got it and
threw it right at the Rangers first base coach, you know, And I
was like, Okay, so you're good. One run scores and then I
think the next one was a dolly's just ripping one into right field to nothing
more on him in a minute too. Is he's a new he needs to
be the new MLB logo. Honestly, the cartwheel was incredible. Yeah,
and then garb rips one in the left as yet him and Grossman in the
lineup as they went with the play to start Evan Carter on the bench,
another boachy magic touch. I love that too, because not only I love
the strategy of it, but I also love the confidence that they have in
Evan Carter because the second that Framber's out, Carter is right back in.
Yeah. Well, because there was like many online panic when that lineup came
out and we're like, oh my god, no, stone cold Evan Carter.
And then the logic behind it made sense with the lefty righty and then
yeah, you're right, and they they said that the second Framber's out,
Evan is in, and then he was in defensively before the about even came
up, so they know what they were doing, and I guess it worked.
I mean, Grossman was involved at least didn't get a hit, but
he did scoring a run and the speed of Grossman calls the framber air four
runs, five hits, two errors at the top of the first like four
runs, and you're just like, the pressure's on. The pressure is clearly
on. A lot of air is sucked out of that building. Absolutely.
I mean they were the better team from the second ending on, Yes,
you know. I mean they pitched really well, the Astros did, because
that felt like a potential crush job. That that I think might have I
don't know how it works, but might have had lasting impact on the remainder
of the series. Double dig you do what we've been doing. You score
four and then you had two more and then a three pack in the sixth.
I mean, that could have been the whole good Lord, who are
these people? But the Astros got some confidence by in a loss. I
had a home run at home too, like crowd goes nuts, like when
Jordan Alvarez ripped that, I mean, crush it, but no one's on
for one. And then I thought it was really good. The first batter
of the top of the third, Joanaheim, It's like, oh, canceled,
what you did? Canceled? Yeah? And boy that that proved to
be a pretty damned important run too, the way our wild ass bullpen Riode
turned out. You know, let's do of all the and I want to
start with the point you just brought up, which they did mention that he
pitches the contact. He didn't, he didn't care. But a solo home
run okay, nice hit, cool, but man, he kept the bases
clean and when he did run into trouble, dude, dude, that serie,
that sequence against their nine to one and two was as good as you
could expect any pitcher to do in a playoff situation like that. That was
absolutely stone cold, ice cold, badass playoff pitching. The I had the
tweet written because he got the first when the bases were loaded and he struck
out the first two and I was like, oh my god, if he
strikes out the side here, still got the out, no problem. I
mean, that's top twenty, maybe way better moment in Rangers history. I
agree, And had he got the strikeout, I would have no doubt screamed
it was top ten. May be better than that, may top seven,
so like, because holy hell, because that Astros dugout was salivating at that
point. They're looking at that those that matchup. When those bases were loaded,
no outs and you've got those three guys coming up, you're you,
You're just it's a given that they're gonna they're going, they're gonna score.
Yes, they're gonna get something out of that, and you're just like,
get us out of here with one and they get nothing. Do you remember
the game one of the Baltimore games, and it was either Chapman or Spores
who walked the first two guys, which we were up by one. He
threw, yeah, eight straight ball, they want the first two guys I
think it ended up being Chapman though, and they end up hitting a hard
hit ball and Josh Young got it and they turned the double play. Yeah,
and it was like, oh my god, we'll remember that one forever.
This was times ten of that yep. I mean, unbelievable. And
it's like you could see him gear up a little bit too. He just
started throwing a little harder. I don't at the miles per hour. I
don't know if it would show that, okay on the on the gun,
but he started grunting and like you're like, okay, this is he's really
letting it hang right here. In the fifth so I think it was in
that inning. I had no idea again, Bally, but I had no
idea that he led the American League in batting average with runners in scoring position
all season, you know, pitching. I didn't know that, and they
show that. I'm like, good, Lord, Really, if all the
studs like, that's a mad like batting average whatever, you can discount the
importance of batting, but would running this morning position, I am the best
at shutting it down? He may be, And then to do what he
did, it just proves whatever you just said. Either there's more, he's
got more in the tank, or he's just such an artist that he knows
how to handle these situations the calmness required. He's the best to the American
League this year. And then the basis chucked and he did that. As
far as his ability and mental makeup and what it takes to be successful as
a pitcher in the playoffs, he may be the number one out of the
four remaining teams. Well, yeah, there's because look, high pressure,
I mean, the leverage is so heavy on these guys, and especially when
you've got three dudes on bases behind you and no outs and you're able to
get out of that jam. Yeah, I don't know many pictures that could
do that, not like that. There's pictures that would be thrilled with giving
up one, maybe two runs in that situation. A sack fly, you
know, a double play that that that that a run gets in, you
know, and you'd probably be happy with giving up two runs. But for
what happened to happen. And dude, I know we we don't mention this
enough, but not enough can be said about how effing good the Rangers defense
is. I mean, I know we had you had the one error.
Josh had the one air at third base where that would have happened to anybody,
and that was big and scary, but he more than made up for
it. And hell, that played deep in the hole that he made that
Oh my god, on the back end of the foul line. Yeah yeah,
throw good lord. I mean, now that's ridiculous. Who say about
YUVOLDI real quick, there's a lot of people who just jumping on board probably
the last two or three weeks. That's true with with Rangers baseball because of
the valley situation. It's Mikey, it's baseball. I personally took about seven
to ten years off of not watching any playoff baseball outside of Rangers because the
games were slow and boring. I'm really glad that they reset what he did
in the twenty fifteen World Series. Whatever year that was, I forgot.
I'm sorry, I don't know what year was Vivaldi, Yes, fifteen or
sixteen for the Red Sox, were he in a nineteen inning or eighteen inning
game, pitched six innings out of the bullpen, and then gave up the
game, losing you know, home run, but still pitched awesome. And
I'm glad they reset that because I forgot all about that. I might have
remember it at the time. I forgot all about that. And when de
Gram went down, there's a little panic here. He I. It's easy
to forget because he was hurt in the second half of the year. How
he carried this thing in was an all star, and how he carried the
whole pitching staff, you know, the first half of the year. And
we just haven't thought about him that way for a little bit because he was
hurt and never trying to figure all that out. And they almost did the
smart thing somehow. The Raiders have made every magic stroke happen because they basically
said no, get right, And basically he didn't pitch for over a month
just to get his arm right because his velocity was dipping, which is highly
concerning. And maybe they just did maybe they just wore out some of their
arms in April and May. But he is fantastic and was an All Star
for a reason. And here we are now going, is this our kolbe
Lewis moment? You know, maybe or maybe it's better than that. It
actually might be better than that. Well, let's move on to the later
innings and talk about how the collective tearing of clothes and gnashing of teeth happened
for the second night in a row. As uh, you know, the
slipperiest of all slopes were you? Were you curious that Boachie made the decision
to go with the exact same formula from the night before. The only difference
is asking your closer to get four outs instead of three. Uh spores,
Wow, I mean, you can't say enough about him. He's shown up.
He's a streaky bullpen pitcher during the year too. If this, if
he's on a good streak, it's the perfect time for that to happen.
And then comes Chapman. Yeah, and Ranger Nation is going really boachie again?
Last night wasn't scary enough? We were doing this well. Isn't that
the first run he's given up in the postseason. I mean it's scary,
but I mean those are also really good hitters. He's up against you.
I know it's gonna be uh. I'm not questioning white Knuckle for sure,
but who else? That's my question is And I texted this to you guys
last night. Does this show what he thinks of the other components in his
bullpen that he's willing on back to back nights to go with the exact same
formula, knowing that Chapman is going to be a roller coaster in one of
these days, it's gonna bite him. I fear that it's going to bite
him. But so far, boy egg on on our faces that have doubted
those decisions because they're working, and who knows better than him? It ain't
us or me. Maybe they got all the biting out in the summer.
Maybe so right, I don't know. He gives up there was three times
a week, but he gives up a smush, a massive solo again solo
shot home run, which kind of was meaningless. Yeah, just try to
get ahead too. Yeah, I agree with Smolter. He was doing just
a let me get up one and then we can really attack this guy.
But then to make the change for clerk to get four outs, but you
didn't want to have a lefty facing or bray and I walks him and the
clerk walks him. Yeah. Yeah, And then but the clerk gets out
of that and then rests and then comes back through a half innging and that
comes out and and is perfect in the in the bottom that first one was
hit hard. The adule is caught in the warning track. The Jeremy pinaeah,
I mean it was like weird because like because not only let's go go
back to the eighth inning real quick. Leckirk walked Brantley too right after,
so he walks guys on first and second and you're just sitting there going and
Maddox went out and talked to him, and then it was two to oh
and Heim did the light. Hey, we put both arms out and go
settle down. And then somehow got out of the grand ball to Josh Young
I think, or the seeker and the Jermy Pina thing was just a guy
hitting a fastball. Yeah, the pitch did most of the work, it
seemed, yeah, and then that was there. It's just so perfect.
Here comes two of the big villains, the biggest villain, well, the
smallest villain, al Tuove and then Bregman. Like these are guys like,
I don't know, I don't really have anything bad to say about Jordan Alvarez,
he's a monster black Bregman and al Twove it makes me had punchable dudes,
Yep, it makes me so happy that al to l two a struck
out looking Yeah, that's that just makes me so happy. A guy that
you don't like just decides I'm gonna let this one go. Oh game over.
I remember mid season when they were asking Bochi about the bullpen, the
bullpen sucking, and he's like, look, this is baseball. He's like,
you can't. We can't just be great across the board everywhere all year.
That's not how this works. And this bullpen in the postseason has been
really, really good, incredible. Yeah, you know. Starting pitching obviously
has been good. Offense has been either great or certainly good enough. Like
you don't need it all to work all year, you need it all to
work at the end of the year, or most of it to work at
the end of the year, and you can even manage the other things that
aren't working. But the fact that we were getting quality bullpen working. I
don't really care about a solo shot when Garcia's serving it up there at one
hundred. Yes, skilled batter is gonna be able to turn on one every
now and again, and that's okay. But the clerk has been great at
slamming the door. And there's a one run game in the damn Alcs on
the road and they definitely got it done. Kudos the damn bullpen. Incredible.
It's really hard to believe that we are sitting here right now the way
that last week of that season went, and we are sitting here and then
the Rangers have not lost a playoff game, and they're coming back home with
five games left to win two and you're asking your opponent to win four out
of the next five to advance, not just like leading series, not just
playing well, not just staying alive. They haven't lost. Yeah, I
mean, I'm not saying anything, but that's just the truth of it.
And I have sure, sure it's gonna be weird we'll talk more about that.
Let's do that. I want to talk about what would happen and if
the floodgates open, and sure they're just wasn't ready, just real quick.
So Alexurigez, David Ortiz and Derek Jeter that postgame, you know, sitting
on the field with the Wagoneer guy, the wagoneer guy. So well,
not that part with Evil. They all love EVI, all leagues, they've
all played with him. But A Rod was talking about, you know,
Houston, they know what's in front of them because they've got the experience and
you know, they were a great road team. And then Derek Jeter dunks
on a Rod and goes, yeah, but the Rangers are better at home
too. That offense is just gonna be much better. And it was just
like, oh, he's right. It does kind of cancel that out,
clearly, not over clearly big question marks with your injured pitchers, we're gonna
be pitching. It's probably sures Are and John Gray the next two games.
I'm amazing if those two of the two starting pitchers, and yeah, I
mean the two home games of the Alcs and we know it. Sure as
are right and it's probably gray and four. Probably they could pull the plug
on that and go with Martine or Dunning or Heeni or whatever they want to
do. Some type of cocktail, I would imagine, But how are we
here? It's fun, man, don't want to change anything. There's nothing
better, keep it up, Just keep doing what you're doing. And luckily,
even like luckily, when there was a shooting at the State Fair,
it didn't kill anybody, so they get to enjoy it too. But some
people were injured, so we should handle that with the levity that it deserves.
A story that we discussed yesterday, the shooting at the State Fair,
well there's a new wrinkle or two. We'll discuss the update of the State
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