WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:05.080 You're listening to the Downbeat on ninety seven to one the Freak. Good morning, 2 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:10.359 Metroplex. I hope you're doing excellent. We definitely are here broadcasting live 3 00:00:10.439 --> 00:00:15.160 from Houston today. I'm Kevin Turner with Danny Bayliss and Mike Siroy. We've 4 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:21.760 got JJ Jackson back at the station in DFW, but prosper Ford hooked us 5 00:00:21.839 --> 00:00:26.920 up with a Ford expedition to take down to Houston yesterday. After the show. 6 00:00:27.399 --> 00:00:31.440 We went to Minute Made Park last night and enjoyed the Rangers thrashing of 7 00:00:31.480 --> 00:00:38.000 the Astros to advance to their third ever World Series. And no, we'll 8 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:41.359 get our head right for that a little bit later. I think Game seven 9 00:00:41.399 --> 00:00:46.679 of the NLCS is tonight between the Phillies and the Diamondbacks, and the World 10 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:52.039 Series starts on Friday, and we are going to enjoy that for a few 11 00:00:52.520 --> 00:00:55.960 for a couple of days before we get our mindset for that. And we're 12 00:00:56.039 --> 00:00:59.520 having a big Ranger party today here on the station and especially here on the 13 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:03.400 show. We were one of the very few, maybe only radio shows in 14 00:01:03.519 --> 00:01:10.319 DFW to have the balls to say screw it, let's go and take it. 15 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:14.560 Yeah, they kept telling us to go and take it. It's what 16 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:17.200 they said. They made an official hashtag out of it, like what am 17 00:01:17.239 --> 00:01:19.879 I supposed to be? We listened, watch and let it happen. I 18 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:25.200 imagine, just like most people waking up right now or whatever. That's how 19 00:01:25.319 --> 00:01:26.760 when I woke up, You know, it takes your second first in a 20 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:32.599 strange hotel to register where you are and then realize what time it is. 21 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:36.599 Okay, we're okay, I'm a good you know, and then maybe sixty 22 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:41.159 seconds later it hits me that the Rangers are going to the World Series. 23 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:49.480 Amazing and one every road game they've ever played, Yeah, and one Game 24 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:57.200 six and seven on the road against the Nemesis team with great pitching they had 25 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:00.760 to go against, and to do it so powerfully in in dominant form yesterday 26 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:06.239 stress free. I mean if you can call a Game seven and the Alcs 27 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:08.479 stress free. I mean once the thing got going. Those first few innings 28 00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:13.360 were stressful, for sure, but once they started piling on the runs with 29 00:02:13.400 --> 00:02:16.800 that powerful offense, it kind of was stress fee free for the back half 30 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:21.800 of that game. Just a pleasure, man. I couldn't believe when you 31 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:23.599 register it when you wake up, and I hope people are waking up and 32 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:28.560 tuning into us and feeling as good as we felt. We woke up and 33 00:02:28.560 --> 00:02:31.080 feel right now, the Rangers are going the damn World Series. Yeah, 34 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:36.159 it hadn't sunk in yet. No, yeah, because the chaos of yesterday 35 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:38.000 for us too, it wasn't just chill get excited to watch the game. 36 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:40.319 Oh my god, you know. Hell, even when the game ends, 37 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:42.960 you're like, what time is it? How long do we want to stay 38 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:45.759 for this post game celebration? How do we get an uber out of here? 39 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:50.159 Is there a you know, rideshare pickup area and whatever? I'm glad 40 00:02:50.159 --> 00:02:53.120 to went to the hotel and said, where do I go get some chips? 41 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:57.159 Yeah? Yeah, because I had one meal yesterday at Brahms at what 42 00:02:57.360 --> 00:03:00.479 noon? Yeah? You misplayed that? Did I did? I didn't want 43 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:04.280 to leave the seat. You guys got up and got some snackies at the 44 00:03:04.280 --> 00:03:08.159 ballpark and I don't know, I don't know. I just was I don't 45 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:13.560 think you enough, No I do. I had to like what we were 46 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:21.599 bringing. Beers, Yeah, crushing some some craft beers called my my schalob 47 00:03:21.960 --> 00:03:30.039 Ultrath like that, my schalob Utra. So we talked about the game. 48 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:32.479 Let's let's try to do as much game stuff as we can because there was 49 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:36.080 so much that went down. I want to start with the pitching, don't 50 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:46.120 you, because I feel like that was as unlikely of an outcome considering what 51 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:50.159 we knew and what we didn't know. What we knew is that Houston was 52 00:03:50.159 --> 00:03:54.800 throwing out a beast. That's what we thought a crocodile dud beat slowly, 53 00:03:55.000 --> 00:04:03.159 Yes, el Repteel, who's fastball defies physics and gravity and rises, Yeah, 54 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:08.800 as it nears the catcher's mix. You must swing a full baseball above 55 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:13.479 where you think the ball is right because this magical man. And then on 56 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:19.720 our side, the unknown was what's mac Sure's They're going to have one of 57 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:24.879 the two biggest psychopaths of baseball. SO called him the speakeasy yesterday or they 58 00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:28.319 called me five point thirty in the hotel room, and I was telling him 59 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:31.399 I was pumped up about the biggest psychopath in baseball, and Ryner goes, 60 00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:34.000 are all this chapman? I said, Oh, no, no, no, 61 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:39.240 I guess I guess sure There's would be the second biggest. We got 62 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:44.040 the we have both the crazy guys, but honestly, yeah, we so 63 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:49.120 unknown, unproven. After his comeback. You know, you can say what 64 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:53.759 you want about that first start, but it wasn't great. He was not 65 00:04:53.879 --> 00:04:57.920 sharp, No, he wasn't sharp. He he struggled a little bit with 66 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:04.680 his breaking pitch. The velocity question was answered in his return. Yeah, 67 00:05:04.839 --> 00:05:09.279 ninety five. I think he hit ninety six one time to really okay, 68 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:12.759 is he going to improve upon that? Is it going to be worse? 69 00:05:13.319 --> 00:05:17.959 So I was pretty I don't know if I was. I was almost already 70 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:24.040 accepting that it was going to be a struggle, that this game was going 71 00:05:24.079 --> 00:05:27.959 to be tough, and I kind of was anticipating and expecting a Rangers loss. 72 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:30.399 And even when we got up to that you know, three to zero 73 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:32.720 lead, which turned out to be a three to one lead, I'm still 74 00:05:32.959 --> 00:05:35.800 just come on, look, they're going to get schers are out of this 75 00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:39.879 game and three and a third, which they did, and then it's time 76 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:43.519 to go to the bullpen, and then and then all bets are off. 77 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:46.720 Man. As Ranger fans, we know that we've watched this season. It's 78 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:49.879 the worst bullpen and one of the worst bullpens in the history of baseball that's 79 00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:57.000 made it into the postseason and you just kind of expected for this thing that's 80 00:05:57.079 --> 00:06:00.519 bent and not completely broken throughout this entire run, it's got to break at 81 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:04.439 some point. And I'll be damned if that thing did not hold together for 82 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:08.839 the entirety of the game until it was just meaningless runs at the end. 83 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:14.319 Despite Cherser's stat line and duration, I think he was was pretty good and 84 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:16.720 he got out. He put himself into things, but got himself out of 85 00:06:16.759 --> 00:06:19.160 them. I mean, in al two v double to lead out the game, 86 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:25.319 fine, l two VA's a monster, and then you give up one 87 00:06:25.399 --> 00:06:28.439 run and there's a guy on third, and then you you get Brandley to 88 00:06:28.879 --> 00:06:30.720 ground into a double play, like cool, get out of it. And 89 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:33.920 the second inning you got a guy on base, and then you get two 90 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:38.720 strikeouts after McCormick's sole second. So back to back strikeouts to get out of 91 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:42.920 there. That's bawling. And even in the third fine Bregman hammered that ball 92 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:46.959 too, Is that the one left center? Yeah? On that, yes, 93 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:50.000 and then you give up a triple so fine, things are looking poor 94 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:55.439 and you yank him and hell, that's where the Bochi factor comes in, 95 00:06:55.480 --> 00:06:58.319 where he knows what he's looking for. Whatever it is, the craft that 96 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:00.920 we would have no idea stuff behind the stuff behind the stuff, you know, 97 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:04.639 or maybe quite as simple as hard hit balls. But he knew what 98 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:08.199 to do, and he knew he had the you know, had Montgomery to 99 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:10.399 come in, and we didn't know that. We didn't see really who was 100 00:07:10.439 --> 00:07:13.439 warming up because you couldn't see it in the in the stadium. They had 101 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:16.040 a visibility into the Rangers bullpen. Yeah, which is like an indoor bullpen. 102 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:19.279 Yeah. Uh. But until that door swings open, we're like, 103 00:07:19.399 --> 00:07:25.720 Okay, I guess Montgomery, which we expected to be available, he's trotting 104 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:28.759 out here, let's go. He was the rock star last night. Man. 105 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:31.680 He kept that thing while it was still close. And look, the 106 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:35.519 floodgates opened, you know, in the middle innings, late late middle innings 107 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:42.079 for the Rangers, where their offense finally did what we've known they're capable of, 108 00:07:42.199 --> 00:07:46.240 which they've done numerous times throughout the regular year, and that they we've 109 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:48.639 just been hoping, haven't We all talked about that. It's like, dude, 110 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:53.240 we're just waiting for that for that Ranger ten run game where they all 111 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:57.199 just go bananas. And they finally did it in a game seven and their 112 00:07:57.240 --> 00:08:01.399 pitching was damn good enough there, you know what. Their pitching was pretty 113 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:07.519 damned exceptional yesterday, pretty damned exception exceptional. And I know that Adulus is 114 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:11.240 the MVP, and he should be, but if you gave away a silver 115 00:08:11.319 --> 00:08:18.199 medal MVP, I don't see how it's not Spores because that dude delivered every 116 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:22.199 time he got into the games, and he pitched in what seems like all 117 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:28.120 of them. Yeah, god he does. How eight or nine playoff appearances 118 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:31.279 once you threw four? Yeah, he was in five of the Houston games 119 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:35.799 and that was last night. Was the first earned run he gave up, 120 00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:39.600 like it's always a little wild ride. He kind of look. Maybe it's 121 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:43.080 his face. He doesn't care about anything. He choose the crap out of 122 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:48.840 that gum. Is it gum or tobaccy it's gum bod beard, Yeah, 123 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:52.759 which I don't know if is cut the way it's supposed to look or if 124 00:08:52.799 --> 00:08:54.799 it's just that's how she grows in. But yeah, you're right, man, 125 00:08:54.840 --> 00:09:00.360 Spores underrated important part of how this thing all shook it out. And 126 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:03.600 they basically said, you're part of our one two three punch to get out 127 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:07.200 of games when we have a lead and risky for sure because we saw what 128 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:11.879 happened in the regular season. He was streaky though. I mean he put 129 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:16.399 together a string of about a month and a half of really good, shut 130 00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:18.559 down pitching and the kind of lost it at the end there. So he's 131 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:22.320 still young guys, still kind of finding his way. There was some straight 132 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:28.519 heat, yeah, and doesn't never seem too concerned about anything. He doesn't 133 00:09:28.519 --> 00:09:31.759 see a guy getting rattled or anything with him. As they say, the 134 00:09:31.840 --> 00:09:35.399 moment wasn't too big for him. Cavioh you know, and a wins our 135 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:39.000 stat and we don't really worry about with pitching, you know anymore like we 136 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:43.799 did back in back in the old days. But technically computers technically because of 137 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:48.080 how it went. Jordan Montgomery gets the win, So three and zero in 138 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:52.440 the series. Jesus so he had three wins in the series. The other 139 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:54.240 thing, well, get go ahead. No, I was gonna say, 140 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:58.480 it's just look, it is what it is, and every every Rangers game 141 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:05.960 is, especially when you get beyond Montgomery and if all day it's it's a 142 00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:09.919 it's a damn roller coaster. It was a wild ass ride no matter how 143 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:13.600 big you're leading. There were times last night, I'm like, even when 144 00:10:13.639 --> 00:10:16.559 they brought in the clerk, we're thinking looking at the score of okay, 145 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:22.279 eleven to two, right three or four four, And I'm like, all 146 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:26.200 right, so if Jordan goes yards will be eleven seven, They're still fine. 147 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:30.600 Like you're just pay count doing the math on the worst possible thing that 148 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:33.039 could happen. Meanwhile, the only people that are left in the stadium are 149 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:39.759 wearing red and blue and Mario Coffs, which was red and blue. So 150 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:41.720 at what point in the game, because it was a nice little boxing match 151 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:46.600 early and it was four to two, I guess yeah, four to two. 152 00:10:48.799 --> 00:10:50.080 I don't want to say there was much confidence, like you just said, 153 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:54.039 hell the ninth inning, I was still a little bit stressed. But 154 00:10:54.120 --> 00:10:58.639 it was when Evan Carter hit that double that seemed to land in the dirt 155 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:05.720 on the right field line that scored a Josh Young and Semion beauty, and 156 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:09.960 it was that's when I was like, wow, okay, so that made 157 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:16.240 it six to two. That was a moment where you just went, okay, 158 00:11:16.240 --> 00:11:20.039 there's the extra run, Like you're thinking we had to have more runs. 159 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:22.000 We did. Four to two wasn't gonna hole yeah, and you can't 160 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:26.720 call them insurance runs in the in the fourth inning when it's a four to 161 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:30.440 two game. And but we're all thinking it like I'm like a run an 162 00:11:30.440 --> 00:11:35.720 inning, like anything, every single one could could make the entire difference on 163 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:39.600 who wins this game. If you're sorry, No, it's just those matter 164 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:43.879 of inches, man, Like every sport is on sole level. And before 165 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:50.080 that play, the Evan Carter double was when Seger ripped it off of Ray 166 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:54.159 used leg or whatever at first base. Yes, to the basis, like 167 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:58.919 if you remember in game it's a game four, game five, Well, 168 00:12:00.279 --> 00:12:03.159 there was a good, great play that Bray you made the other day where 169 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:05.879 a ball was ripped and he was playing in and he was kind of leaning 170 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:09.120 back and he got the force out at second base. And it's like, 171 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:13.440 if he makes that play, then that maybe doesn't happen. If Bray was 172 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:16.759 able to make that play. But because Seeker rips the ball every time he 173 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:20.279 makes contact pretty much, it just puts a lot of pressure on him. 174 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:22.799 And then adul List is up and I remember we were going it was six 175 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:26.279 to two and we were going, he's about to just he's about to swing 176 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:31.279 no matter what, like he's about to just rip, and he put together 177 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:33.440 like a patient bat, and I think it was two to one, I 178 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:35.200 think, and he just hits a little ground ball in the left field. 179 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:39.679 They had scored two runs and it was eight to two, and then we 180 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:43.080 were going looking around, and that's what that's when he started going, Okay, 181 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:46.159 this is happening. Yeah, it was still early. It's still the 182 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:50.679 top of the fourth. Like they've left the seventh, They've had three chances. 183 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:56.320 Yeah Houston has at that point, but eight to two is certainly not 184 00:12:56.360 --> 00:13:01.320 insurmountable. But that's that's a lot of runs. And that that's the moment. 185 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:07.679 I think it felt pretty damn good. It did, but it felt 186 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:13.960 pretty damn good. The beauty of posting that four run top of the fourth 187 00:13:16.039 --> 00:13:18.600 was something that the Rangers struggled with a couple of games ago, if I 188 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:22.279 or maybe yeah, a couple of games ago, if I'm not mistaken, 189 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:26.080 was we were complaining about the shutdown inning. It's like every time that the 190 00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:30.320 Rangers go within striking distance, get within two runs, you know, to 191 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:35.519 shorten that lead, then they go back out and let Houston tack on one 192 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:41.279 or two. But after that four run fourth, the Rangers posted three scoreless 193 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:46.080 bottom half innings in the fourth and fifth and the sixth, and that was 194 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:50.120 key massive because look, even okay, you're up eight to two if you 195 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:56.519 give up three runs three and look, they they were great about not letting 196 00:13:56.759 --> 00:14:03.600 Houston do anything with men on base. You know, they minimize the damage 197 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:07.879 that you knew that they're capable of doing. And even if you know Houston, 198 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:11.240 let's say that they get solo shots in the bottom of the fourth, 199 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:13.799 the fifth, and the sixth, well then it's eight to five and that's 200 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:18.679 not feeling good. But by the end of the sixth inning, you know, 201 00:14:18.759 --> 00:14:22.720 we knew that this thing was probably over. It was what at that 202 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:28.240 point it was ten to two? Ye is that correct? And that was 203 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:30.600 the one that just made it by like an anche. And that's when we 204 00:14:30.679 --> 00:14:35.840 started seeing the wave of people, the mass exit it start. The waves 205 00:14:35.879 --> 00:14:41.279 started after the after Houston posted nothing in the bottom of the six people started 206 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:46.679 filing out. Six was where Garber got hit yep, And we were sure 207 00:14:46.679 --> 00:14:50.919 he got hitting the balls, yeah, off his penis. It did look 208 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:54.919 like that from where we were. And then we found out later that it's 209 00:14:56.039 --> 00:15:00.200 Ribs. I think it's Ribs. Because again we didn't get any replays on 210 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:09.039 the It was also allegedly fine after the game effect that there's audio of him 211 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:11.600 kind of being funny in the clubhouse. I don't want to play because it's 212 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:16.960 not super clean as he's yelling for Bochie to get the lap dance chair. 213 00:15:16.840 --> 00:15:20.559 So I'm not sure what was really happening in the Rangers clubhouse last night, 214 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:26.919 but it was probably just having a joke. Let's feel that like it's three 215 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:28.960 to one, it doubly sits the home run the fourth inning. He hits 216 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:33.159 a home run later in the game. And when we think back to twenty 217 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:39.399 eleven and how bad the World Series was and the big moment that we don't 218 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:43.039 like to talk about where the balls hit over Nelson and Cruise's head, I 219 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:56.559 don't think that emotional hardcore emotional Rangers fans fully properly recognize and remember how important 220 00:15:56.600 --> 00:16:02.320 Nelson Cruise was to getting you to that World Series and that Alcs against the 221 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:07.480 Tigers. Nelson Cruz was ridiculous. And I'll be damned, Adolice s Garcia 222 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:12.360 just had a Nelson Cruz series, and I'm gonna think about him in the 223 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:17.120 same way a guy who the Raiders had DF eight a couple of times, 224 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:23.600 basically had cut where other teams could go claim him. And they kept giving 225 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:29.759 him chances, kept giving chances developing him, developing him, and these numbers 226 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:37.200 are insane and they're kind of eerie. So in twenty eleven in the ALCS, 227 00:16:37.559 --> 00:16:45.480 Nelson Cruz hit six home runs and had thirteen RBIs, ads, five 228 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:51.759 home runs and fifteen RBIs on base or we'll call it. We'll call it 229 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:56.480 ops right now, what we'll say slugging. Let's do slugging. No ops. 230 00:16:56.720 --> 00:17:03.480 Nelson Cruz was a seventeen thirteen ops. Garcia is a twelve ninety three. 231 00:17:03.400 --> 00:17:07.359 But here's the one that stuck with me more than anything. His twenty 232 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:12.759 RBIs in the postseason ranks third all time for most RBIs in the playoffs, 233 00:17:12.920 --> 00:17:21.000 behind twenty twenty Corey Seeger and twenty eleven David Freese. Geez, really, 234 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:25.440 yes, well, there's a name from that's an evil ghost from the past 235 00:17:25.720 --> 00:17:27.599 that makes me feel like this is kind of meant to be. There ain't 236 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:32.079 no such thing, dude, maybe not. Don't start getting your head down 237 00:17:32.119 --> 00:17:38.279 that freaking mystical baseball lower garbage because I gave up on that crap a long 238 00:17:38.319 --> 00:17:42.880 time ago, Teams of Destiny, that fing team, all that crowd. 239 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:49.279 I looked up on Adulices Garcia. So I'll ask you this tricky one and 240 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:56.039 maybe unfair, but this is seventh year in professional baseball, three for the 241 00:17:56.079 --> 00:17:59.759 Cardinals, four for the Rangers. What do you think his career earnings are? 242 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:03.559 In his in salary? He hasn't been all these car seat Oh, 243 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:06.319 I know he hasn't been paid yet, because that's a part of the discussion 244 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:10.279 about the offseason plans of this team. Is he a guy they would spend 245 00:18:10.319 --> 00:18:14.640 money on? So I would say, because of the way baseball works, 246 00:18:14.640 --> 00:18:22.640 you're kind of controlled for six years under five million dollars in salary. He's 247 00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:29.039 in his entire baseball career two point seven million dollars. Now he got a 248 00:18:29.039 --> 00:18:32.720 two point five million signing bonus, So his total career earnings as a baseball 249 00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:37.440 player are five point two to one five million dollars. Jesus for that manag 250 00:18:37.559 --> 00:18:41.599 did he make in the last week? For that man who did what he 251 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:47.680 did for us yesterday? And all month? Yeah? The hell all year? 252 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:51.480 On some level, his salary is seven hundred and forty seven thousand dollars 253 00:18:51.559 --> 00:18:55.000 this year, Like, was that even possible? Right? And I look, 254 00:18:55.039 --> 00:19:00.119 you don't have the what pedigree or track record whatever of the you know, 255 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:03.000 Corey Seegers of the world who were making thirty five million dollars, but 256 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:07.720 he's thirty three three quarters of a million dollars. You think a thirty year 257 00:19:07.759 --> 00:19:10.720 old in this game would have made more money by it right now? Right, 258 00:19:11.960 --> 00:19:15.960 He's not a free agent until twenty twenty seven either, and his mob 259 00:19:17.079 --> 00:19:22.880 service time started, I mean technically in twenty twenty three. So it says 260 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:26.759 he's scheduled to make five point one million, which is essentially matching his career 261 00:19:26.799 --> 00:19:30.880 earnings next year. But I don't know the exact status of his contractor if 262 00:19:30.880 --> 00:19:34.119 that's just like a last year one that you're like, you know, do 263 00:19:34.200 --> 00:19:38.400 you restructure that? Do you or sign him to a long termy and tear 264 00:19:38.440 --> 00:19:45.160 that sucker up? I mean, I don't he deserves's. Nelly was doing 265 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:48.359 this stuff, you know, into his late thirties that never made a ton 266 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:52.160 of money. He was a late bloomer though he was much like yeah, 267 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:56.359 for sure, for sure, And I'm glad that Nelson Cruz made money for 268 00:19:56.440 --> 00:20:00.920 a lot of years, a long time after he left and he was good. 269 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:03.960 Yep. You know, teams when they win the World Series tend to 270 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:07.359 maybe pay guys like him who may be thirty and just like, thank you 271 00:20:07.400 --> 00:20:10.480 for what you've done. We won the ones, so we did it. 272 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:15.759 Here's your fat contract. But I don't know that. I if I'm building 273 00:20:15.799 --> 00:20:23.599 the business and he is makes what he makes arbitration eligible for the next three 274 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:26.519 years, he's not. He's not a free agent until twenty twenty seven, 275 00:20:27.039 --> 00:20:30.559 three more years before he's a free agent. You don't have to pay him 276 00:20:30.599 --> 00:20:34.480 anything, No, you don't. But they also have like I mean, 277 00:20:34.599 --> 00:20:38.960 of all the guys him, Leoti, Taveres, Evan Carter, and then 278 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:42.039 you have this year's number four pick, why at Langford who is coming up? 279 00:20:44.160 --> 00:20:45.680 You got decisions to make the outfields. Not all of those are gonna 280 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:49.680 have bats. So, dude, Nelson Cruz played this year for the Podres. 281 00:20:49.720 --> 00:20:56.200 He's still still around two and he didn't have a double digit home run 282 00:20:56.279 --> 00:20:59.039 year until he was twenty eight years old. Yeah, nine for the for 283 00:20:59.079 --> 00:21:06.279 the Rangers and then just smacking for a good fifteen years after that. I 284 00:21:06.359 --> 00:21:10.000 don't know. Man Garcia is just a pleasure to watch. Now, I 285 00:21:10.039 --> 00:21:15.200 will say, uh, had the Rangers lost by like one run? We 286 00:21:15.279 --> 00:21:19.240 may be reviewing that. You're pimping a single off the top of the wall 287 00:21:19.440 --> 00:21:23.799 like he stood in the box for four seconds, as Kevin said, he 288 00:21:23.839 --> 00:21:26.559 sold it and made he still take a base to make up for it. 289 00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:30.039 It's like, yeah, exactly, and they did they Okay, they were 290 00:21:30.039 --> 00:21:33.519 aggressive on the base pass too or three steals? Yes, And I think 291 00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:34.079 you were right because you asked me in the game. I think it was 292 00:21:34.160 --> 00:21:40.079 him had one, and Carter had one and Garcia had one. But how 293 00:21:40.079 --> 00:21:41.480 do you pimp a ball that doesn't make it out? It look like he 294 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:44.720 was watching to see if it was fair or foul, like a no doubter. 295 00:21:45.039 --> 00:21:48.960 Yeah, I mean that thing was left center field. That's who he 296 00:21:48.079 --> 00:21:51.440 is, man. I know exactly, and you know what, don't change 297 00:21:51.480 --> 00:21:53.759 nothing, I guess, But how are you standing at home plate when that 298 00:21:53.799 --> 00:22:00.160 ball hits the wall and you barely make it the first get lost in it? 299 00:22:00.680 --> 00:22:02.759 He got lost in it? He did. He get lost in the 300 00:22:02.799 --> 00:22:07.799 moment and he thought. I guess he's right that almost everything he touches turns 301 00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:08.920 the gold. Right now, when you're h on a heater, Mike, 302 00:22:10.079 --> 00:22:11.960 there are no rules. I don't think you've ever been on a heater. 303 00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:17.519 Remember he said he was on a heater when he lived with Shippy. Yeah, 304 00:22:18.359 --> 00:22:22.319 telling us some stories on the way down, my sexual prime, my 305 00:22:22.480 --> 00:22:26.599 asexual prime. Okay, so here's what we do. Let's load up the 306 00:22:26.599 --> 00:22:30.240 phone. Yes, let's so. We'll take your text messages. You have 307 00:22:30.440 --> 00:22:34.480 text questions about what we went through, comments about stuff we might have missed 308 00:22:34.480 --> 00:22:37.680 from our vantage point down the right field line, and any thoughts that you 309 00:22:37.720 --> 00:22:41.839 have two one four or eight one seven seven eight seven one nine seven one. 310 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:45.799 JJ is back in the station taking your calls. We'll continue this live 311 00:22:45.880 --> 00:22:51.799 from Houston Ranger Party edition of The Downbeat Next on ninety seven won the free