WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:05.000 You're listening to the downbeat on ninety seven to one The Freak. All right, 2 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:11.160 h thirty minutes scuttle butt. Arlington should be prepared for the World Series. 3 00:00:11.199 --> 00:00:13.480 They have a lot of big events, but there's something they're missing. 4 00:00:14.439 --> 00:00:18.320 If that is at seven thirty, that's one good tease. Eight o'clock goes 5 00:00:18.359 --> 00:00:24.679 Pepper Pavilion three, scorching hot predictions for Cowboys Rams Sunday at noon. We 6 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:29.039 won't forget about the Cowboys, the four and two Cowboys right in the thick 7 00:00:29.079 --> 00:00:32.320 of it. In the NFC Ding Goods Morning News eight thirty, you have 8 00:00:32.359 --> 00:00:36.520 the latest on the Shooter in main end. Much more as we will continue 9 00:00:36.799 --> 00:00:40.600 to have a bit of a World Series primer this morning here on ninety seven 10 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:43.000 to one The Freak. We also have a mosquito on the Hulk on the 11 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:46.840 Bit and Skin Show a little bit later ten am to two with Mike the 12 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:51.880 Mosquito Mescato is this week's celebrity guests on Picks with Glenn's and then also, 13 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:58.119 um no, I don't know if anything else we can warm up, Oh 14 00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:02.520 right, we can whack them mole just kind of changing it. Yeah like 15 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:06.079 that, I don't know. Fresh let's just do the intro for this segment. 16 00:01:12.439 --> 00:01:19.879 Broadcasters, What's happened in My Brain? Now? Sports at seven? 17 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:25.040 All right, Sports and seven Today brought to you by Panda Foger. Annoyed 18 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:29.799 by pest North Texas. 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How when you think of how this 38 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:50.240 team was built, there's a bunch of things that have to fall in line 39 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:53.479 if you're gonna do especially if the Rangers have done full rebuild. I think 40 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:57.319 it's important. If you're gonna do a rebuild and blow it up, you 41 00:02:57.439 --> 00:03:00.120 might as well just go ahead and bite the bullet and tear it down with 42 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:04.039 the studs. Did y'all know that the longest tenured Texas Ranger is Jose le 43 00:03:04.120 --> 00:03:07.520 Clerk, Yeah, twenty five year old. Your second longest tenured Texas Ranger 44 00:03:07.560 --> 00:03:13.719 is Leote Taveres, who is just now this year, not a prospect anymore. 45 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:15.680 Oh, he's the one of those twenty five Sorry, yeah, he's 46 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:17.599 twenty five. And they tried to start him in center field last year. 47 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:21.360 He didn't hit well in the beginning, and there was like, let's let 48 00:03:21.479 --> 00:03:23.919 him develop a little bit more. We're not ready to win this year anyways. 49 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:28.680 And then he was awesome all year long. Incredible. It's weird that 50 00:03:28.719 --> 00:03:34.280 the longest tenured is jose Le Clerk and he looks the youngest. He looks 51 00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:38.280 the most baby faced. Step two draft an All Star that works. Josh 52 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:45.199 Young eighth overall pick in twenty nineteen. The history of Texas Rangers first round 53 00:03:45.240 --> 00:03:47.960 pick since the year two thousand. It's a way worse hit rate than the 54 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:53.919 NBA one ones that we talked about. Yet, good God, is it 55 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:57.719 horrible. It's so bad, But there are some instrumental things that help. 56 00:03:58.639 --> 00:04:02.199 I'll be real quick here march to Sheriff two thousand and one. Good led 57 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:09.240 you to your World Series ten years later, No doubt right, that was 58 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:13.560 a haul that they got for him. Here is where it gets bad. 59 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:16.240 Oh two, Drew Meyer, Oh three, John Danks, Oh four, 60 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:20.240 Thomas Diamond, Eric Hurley, and that too. Oh five, John Mayberry 61 00:04:20.279 --> 00:04:25.720 Junior O six, Casey Kiker. None of those guys gave you anything except 62 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:28.439 maybe John Danks, who you were able to trade for a prospect, but 63 00:04:28.519 --> 00:04:31.759 nothing good. T thousand and seven, Blake Bevin helped you get Chris Cliff 64 00:04:31.839 --> 00:04:35.959 Lee, so you go, okay, great succuss, Julio Borbone who played 65 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:41.720 on the twenty ten World Series team, chocolate E Tiro Judge chocolate E Tirou 66 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:47.160 Uh, Tommy Hunter who game Tommy Hunter. And then you had Neil Ramirez 67 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:50.000 and that Dregg who helped you get Matt Garza in twenty thirteen, so they 68 00:04:50.040 --> 00:04:55.199 kind of had some action there. Justin smoke in two thousand and eight helped 69 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:59.839 you get Cliff Lee, so success there. Tw thousand and nine they had 70 00:04:59.879 --> 00:05:05.720 a number fourteen pick Matt Perk who didn't sign the TCU kid. Twenty ten, 71 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:12.040 Jake Skull, Kellen Deglan, Mike Olt and Luke Jackson nothing. Those 72 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:15.079 are all first rounders, yes, because they had a bunch of com picks. 73 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:23.160 Twenty eleven Kevin, Matthew Zach Coone nothing, twenty twelve Joe gallow and 74 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:28.839 then Louis Prince and Louis Princeton helped you get Jonathan Lacroix and Jeremy Jefferies. 75 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:33.600 So the twenty sixteen playoff run, get help there? Twenty thirteen Chee Cheekin 76 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:39.240 Zales and Travis de Merritt nothing, twenty fourteen, Louis Ortiz nothing. Twenty 77 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:42.040 fifteen. Dylan Tate, he was the number four pick of the draft. 78 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:46.639 You actually traded him for Carlos Beltron to help you in the twenty sixteen playoffs? 79 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:51.000 Some maybe the girl porn man? Which one of Dylan Tate? Yeah, 80 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:58.120 I'd press play? Twenty sixteen. Cole Reagan's I think a JJ's face. 81 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:04.759 She made stinky face thinking about you pressing play and what would happen afterwards? 82 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:15.279 Let Kevin go Ov shake that tiny d Is that you giving yourself to 83 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:20.959 encouragement? Yeah? Dylan myself sinks broken? What is she gonna do? 84 00:06:21.279 --> 00:06:28.879 Yep? How did Dylanate get her head stuck into another washing machine? Why? 85 00:06:28.920 --> 00:06:35.879 Common problem? Why is this happening so often? Too early? I'm 86 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:41.439 stuck? I agree, get stuck in a washing machine. It's way too 87 00:06:41.480 --> 00:06:44.399 early for Dylan Tate to go answer the door and pay for the pizza. 88 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:48.439 Twenty sixteen. Cole reagans that got you, of course, Chapman, Right, 89 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:54.040 Yeah, who was you know? Is it wal As Chapman twenty seventeen, 90 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:56.600 You got Bubba Thompson twenty eighteen, cole Win Triple A trying to figure 91 00:06:56.639 --> 00:07:00.879 out twenty nineteen Josh Young and we still don't have any idea twenty twenty one, 92 00:07:00.040 --> 00:07:04.439 Jack Lder twenty two, Kumar Rocker will ever give us anything? It's 93 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:08.319 weird. In the year or two after the draft, you're like, all 94 00:07:08.360 --> 00:07:11.519 right, dude, just wait. Rocker is gonna be amazing, you know, 95 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:15.279 Jack Lder of course counting on them, and then they just slowly their 96 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:17.879 names fade away into the oblivion of most of those you just name. It's 97 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:26.279 amazing. I remember being in the height of my baseball nerddom. It was 98 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:32.160 probably in the mid nineties that I started subscribing to a publication called I think 99 00:07:32.199 --> 00:07:38.120 it's called Baseball America, which focuses on minor league players, because I thought, 100 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:42.279 I need to know who these kids are coming up when the draft comes 101 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:45.480 around. I want to have these guys scouted and know, you know a 102 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:50.480 lot about these players, and man, in baseball, it doesn't freaking matter. 103 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:55.560 It's so hard to figure out, man, It's impossible, especially pictures 104 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:59.879 too. You know, it's like playing roulette, But I imagine our success, 105 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:03.000 that's right. What you just illustrated is probably close to every teams though, 106 00:08:03.079 --> 00:08:07.319 right. I don't know. Do you think that's an outstanding of a 107 00:08:07.480 --> 00:08:11.279 poor track record a first round pick making it or impacting the big league club 108 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:13.920 in any way? Yeah? I bet that's about right. Yeah, it's 109 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:16.920 hard in baseball, man, as hard on you as like one or two 110 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:22.160 of those to hit to help get you a Cliff Lee trade. Now, 111 00:08:22.199 --> 00:08:26.160 an you think that way rather than the guys you're drafting helping you this year's 112 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:28.240 first round pick. Why at Lengther though, is probably your starting left fielder 113 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:33.919 next year? And then figure out what happens with Evan, Carter, Leoti, 114 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:37.240 and Adulis because that's gonna be a bit of a log jam. They 115 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:39.960 look like they're in good shape, man, for a while, as young 116 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:45.240 as they are. But we said that in twenty ten, and they were 117 00:08:45.720 --> 00:08:48.799 twenty twelve and twenty thirteen. Teams might have been just as good as twenty 118 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:52.919 ten and twenty eleven, maybe better even, and just didn't get it done 119 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:56.559 in the playoffs, didn't finish the deal there to start a new window. 120 00:08:56.000 --> 00:09:01.440 Here we go and the twenty fourteen if they didn't have injury chaos, I 121 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:03.919 think they would have been fine, because they went to the playoffs in twenty 122 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:07.279 fifteen to twenty sixteen, and people forget that. Maybe the twenty fourteen was 123 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:11.159 like a terrible year and wash was out and there's a lot of things that 124 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:18.440 happened, but the window was still open for success for six seven years and 125 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:20.960 then they finally had to rip it off. The other thing, you have 126 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:24.919 to make the most of the bargain. Ben adlst Garcia, who they I 127 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:30.919 think it's wild that we're playing the divingbacks. The Rangers acquired Garcia for cash 128 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:35.200 from the Cardinals in twenty nineteen, not cash de roy cash of money. 129 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:39.840 He was designated for assignment from the Cardinals to make room for a picture named 130 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:48.759 Kwang Young Kim Okay. So then he gets here and then in February twenty 131 00:09:48.759 --> 00:09:52.480 twenty one, they're like, he's not gonna make the team, and they 132 00:09:52.639 --> 00:09:56.639 defa'd him and no one took him, and he ends up getting called up. 133 00:09:56.360 --> 00:10:03.159 But any other MOLB team could have got into Delis Garcia for free basically, 134 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:09.320 and he was and didn't wasn't he good like rate when he got time, 135 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:11.200 when he finally got here, he was good fourth and the rookie of 136 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:15.159 the year, I think, and in twenty one. And that's the whole 137 00:10:15.159 --> 00:10:20.000 thing is it's weird free agent until twenty twenty eight or something because he's still 138 00:10:20.039 --> 00:10:22.639 a baby, even though he's a little bit older for you know, his 139 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:28.159 age to finally get here. It was he strikeout man, strikeout man, 140 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:31.320 wild ass, strikeout man, chase guy, for sure, because it's the 141 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:33.039 same. It's the Nelson Cruise story all over again. It really is. 142 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:37.240 Yeah, but just looking at Garcia, I don't know how you can't be 143 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:39.480 like, well, let's maybe give him a shot. Yeah, I mean 144 00:10:39.559 --> 00:10:45.159 just as a mountain, especially when he looks like AI created baseball player. 145 00:10:45.159 --> 00:10:48.799 Like he doesn't perfect, he doesn't look like he's ever been DFA right, 146 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:52.600 Yeah, Like, grab your little bag and head out of the facility. 147 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:54.960 We don't have enough room for you. We need to make room for a 148 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:58.720 from middle reliever. You see these seventy five lockers we have, we don't 149 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:03.279 have turned in your books, and that giant sulks out of the building, 150 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:07.279 Like, I don't know, I feel like the leash on that dude would 151 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:09.759 be real long to see what he's capable of. And as soon as they 152 00:11:09.759 --> 00:11:11.879 put him in, he has a thirty home run. And if you're gonna 153 00:11:11.879 --> 00:11:13.720 rebuild it, you're gonna make lots of trades. Lanceleyn traded to the White 154 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:18.399 Suckx for Dane Dunning. They traded for Nathaniel Lowe. Two months later they 155 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:24.519 acquired Josh Bores. Then they traded Joey Gallo for Ezekiel Durant and Josh Smith, 156 00:11:24.559 --> 00:11:28.440 who helped us this year. And then February twenty twenty one, they 157 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:33.200 traded Elvis to Oakland and a cash switch off for Chris Davis. But you're 158 00:11:33.240 --> 00:11:37.759 throwing there was Jonaheim, your everyday catcher. Then they went all in with 159 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:43.120 Simeon Seeger John Gray, knowing they may not be ready to win in twenty 160 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:46.799 twenty two, but they had to go ahead and do it, spending five 161 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:50.240 hundred million dollars in a couple hours. And then that kind of set everything 162 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:56.240 up. And then I think it's like ours, I mean, is that 163 00:11:56.320 --> 00:12:00.559 same day or no, it was two day forty eight hours. Really do 164 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:03.360 it within two days? Really? And if you think about it, two 165 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:09.320 the big splash of the trade dead line was Max Scherzer. Jordan Montgomery is 166 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:11.200 the guy you got. The big splash in the off season was Jacob de 167 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:16.200 Gram. But Nathany Evaldi. I mean those are your one two punts. 168 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:18.360 That's the funny thing. It's like luck there too. You know, in 169 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:22.639 a perfect world, if all all pitchers were healthy right now, Ivaldi and 170 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:26.919 MANI would be your three and four. Yeah. And now there you're one 171 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:31.399 and two and Sure's your three yeah yeah, And you know that's a they're 172 00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:35.480 in the World Series with that man, that's the thing that's mind blowing down 173 00:12:35.480 --> 00:12:39.159 and they should not be here. And we have pretty much max confidence in 174 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:45.120 Evaldi right now. Like if you had a one game the Rangers asses on 175 00:12:45.159 --> 00:12:48.200 the line, we would pick Ivaldi to start it right, yeah, and 176 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:54.320 then Montgomery to come off away over Sureser. Yeah yeah. Oh. I 177 00:12:54.360 --> 00:12:56.399 thinks is the wild card of the series once again. Yeah, can you 178 00:12:56.440 --> 00:13:01.200 get anything out of him? And hasn't provided much confidence that you know he's 179 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:07.879 gonna have the Sureser game, but encouraging. It's encouraging that in Game seven 180 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:11.360 they got just enough out of him. He got a couple of little jam 181 00:13:11.559 --> 00:13:16.200 yes, he got out of jams, minimized whatever he improved from his last 182 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:20.679 start, right, Yeah, and if so, the way this is working 183 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:24.399 though, the way the Rangers are gonna attack this with Evoldi going tonight, 184 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:28.000 the Diamondbacks are going with who has been their third best pitcher but was their 185 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:33.000 ace and the All Star Game starter in the National League, Zach Gallen. 186 00:13:33.720 --> 00:13:39.240 So he's been their third best, their hottest arm is will go against Surezer 187 00:13:39.240 --> 00:13:43.039 for Game three. It looks like so Zach Gallen is uh and Danny's got 188 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:48.159 a little bit on Zach Gallen, who's the was the ace for the Diamondbacks 189 00:13:48.200 --> 00:13:52.279 all year long, but he's struggled a little bit in the playoffs. Yeah, 190 00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:56.240 I've got it. I've got some uh little known facts you know about 191 00:13:56.240 --> 00:13:58.559 some of these players that you're mentioning as we kind of get to know the 192 00:13:58.600 --> 00:14:01.240 Diamondbacks a little back. You mentioned Zach Gallon. Not a lot of people 193 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:05.600 know this, but in college in North Carolina, he minored in jazz studies 194 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:13.000 and hosted his own overnight music program called Creamy Gallons of Jazz. Wow, 195 00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:16.320 that's all. That's great. God, we should try to find it. 196 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:20.519 I've not heard that anywhere else. That's why you need to listen to the 197 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:26.320 downbeat every day at six am. Creamy gallons of Jazz. I we should 198 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:30.600 find some audio of that. I have a jazz podcast you've been working on 199 00:14:30.679 --> 00:14:35.960 k T. Yeah, I think that name is is available now that he's 200 00:14:37.799 --> 00:14:41.879 gone in a different direction with his career. I could just see Norm doing 201 00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:46.480 it and just wasn't enough gallons of gas last night. It's all right there 202 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:48.960 for you, So I know. I didn't know that. That's that's interesting. 203 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:54.000 Yeah, North Carolina guy. Is that all you had on had on 204 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:56.240 him? No? No, that's that's all I had on him. I 205 00:14:56.240 --> 00:14:58.559 got some stuff on the other places to the bullpen. But the other starter 206 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:01.759 or too, Merril Kelly, and he's been their most successful starter d in 207 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:05.720 the postseason. He's given him only five runs and seventeen innings. Merrill Kelly 208 00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:13.200 looks just like Meryl Hodge, very strange. Now in the bullpen, they 209 00:15:13.559 --> 00:15:16.519 have a guy who's closing for them, Paul sea Wald six for six and 210 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:22.279 save opportunities, has not given up a run in eight innings. So if 211 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:26.159 you get to a part of the game when sea Wald comes in, you're 212 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:31.799 screwed. Yeah, I have a little something on Seawald too. Not many 213 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:35.200 people know this, but as a hobby, Paul Seawald in his free time 214 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:41.840 he plays rhythm guitar in a Southern rock cover band called Molly Hatchet Wound. 215 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:46.200 Huh that's something. Gosh, how does he have time to do that in 216 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:48.039 the office? Yeah, you know, I mean, look, these guys 217 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:50.879 like to have fun. That's yeah, yeah, just no, he won't 218 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:54.639 be performing at Jay Gilligans tonight. Maybe he gets to play at Innings Fest 219 00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:58.639 and at spring training. Possibly he got it to the bats. Look, 220 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:03.759 Ranger have lived off home runs. Diamondbacks are manufacturing runs, and they steal 221 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:07.080 a lot. Is a big series for Jonahan behind the play and the Rangers 222 00:16:07.080 --> 00:16:11.320 pictures holding runners. They have a ton of stolen bases. Rangers had five 223 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:15.399 games this postseason where they scored seven or more runs. In fact, postseason 224 00:16:15.480 --> 00:16:19.279 run total seventy one for the Rangers, fifty one for the Diamondbacks. That's 225 00:16:19.320 --> 00:16:22.279 what they do. Pretty big discrepants. It's starting to kind of look like 226 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:26.639 their regular season now, you know, as these sample sizes get larger in 227 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:30.679 the playoffs, it's like, yeah, this is pretty reflective of what they 228 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:36.679 do. But Arizona had the second highest postseason batting average after the seventh inning. 229 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:41.879 So clutch situations team, No moment too big, And they've got a 230 00:16:41.879 --> 00:16:45.960 little good veteran leadership out of Tommy Fam. Tommy Fam known for his fantasy 231 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:49.600 football slap with Jock Peterson a few years ago. And Tommy Fam plays. 232 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:52.440 He probably won't start every game, but he plays, and he's a kind 233 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:56.360 of one of the leaders of the team. Then you have something on Tommy. 234 00:16:56.440 --> 00:16:57.919 Yeah, Tommy Fam, it's funny you brought him up. He is 235 00:16:59.039 --> 00:17:04.640 also the opted brother of Dallas Ebola survivor Nina Fan and in fact fostered her 236 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:08.160 dog, Bentley while she was recovering from the deadly virus in twenty fourteen. 237 00:17:08.279 --> 00:17:11.480 Wow. Yeah, something you might not have known. And so it's a 238 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:15.759 bit of a homecoming of sorts for him. Yeah, and he's staying with 239 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:19.039 Nina while he's in town. I'm sure she's doing really well, by the 240 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:22.519 way, if anybody was wondering, Yeah, yeah, good. They also 241 00:17:22.559 --> 00:17:26.240 have Christian Walker, who he was a bit of a journeyman, but he 242 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:30.880 you know, he's he's a long ball threat. And danid you you had 243 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:37.160 some stuff on Christian Walker too. He's a sneeze. Yes, Christian Walker. 244 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:38.960 Wow, what story with this guy? You guys are gonna believe it. 245 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:45.119 For his senior science project in high school, he invented a prototype high 246 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:51.240 speed motorcycle that could reach top speeds of upwards of three hundred miles per all. 247 00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:56.279 Yeah. Unfortunately, his dreams were shattered when he lost his left leg 248 00:17:56.400 --> 00:18:00.279 when he launched his bike through the storefront of a five Guys Burgers in Pennsylvania. 249 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:03.960 He is the only pitcher in the history of the major leagues to successively 250 00:18:04.039 --> 00:18:08.519 play with a prosthetic leg. Whoa he has one leg. Yeah, he's 251 00:18:08.599 --> 00:18:12.079 thirty two. And that's the thing about him, a little bit of the 252 00:18:12.119 --> 00:18:17.880 late bloomer because he had to rehabilitate his leg, the leg, so that 253 00:18:18.519 --> 00:18:22.440 was an important thing. And then also as long as we're talking about the 254 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:26.799 Diamondbacks offense, when you talk about Perdomo, I mean, Perdomo is a 255 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:29.759 name that I think is going to be a household name by the end of 256 00:18:29.799 --> 00:18:33.400 the week. Yeah, he's huge. I had a little something on him 257 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:38.079 too. Back in twenty twenty one, while dining at an upscale sushi sushi 258 00:18:38.119 --> 00:18:45.720 restaurant in his native hometown of Santo Domingo, the Dominican. He jumped into 259 00:18:45.720 --> 00:18:51.160 action and performed the heimlich maneuver on a desperate Cardi b who was apparently choking 260 00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:55.519 on an eel roll. Yeah, saved her life, which is why I 261 00:18:55.640 --> 00:19:00.000 thought that story, you know, would have gotten more national attention this week. 262 00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:03.039 A lot of people were just hearing about it first. Now he's a 263 00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:07.839 clutch performer. Yeah. Both teams have narrowed their circle of trust in the 264 00:19:07.839 --> 00:19:14.519 bullpen. Obviously, us it's Luclerk Chapman's bores and trust is a bit of 265 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:18.519 a jump there. But and then for the Diving Backs it's Paul Seawaald who 266 00:19:18.519 --> 00:19:22.240 we mentioned, Kevin Ginkel, Ryan Thompson. Any innings not pitched by those 267 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:27.960 six players will lead to excessive heart palpitations and nail biting. For both teams, 268 00:19:29.200 --> 00:19:32.240 their middle release is not good, but their last three relievers are good. 269 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:36.480 Our middle relief is dog Gass, as we know, didn't say what 270 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:40.440 the Diamondbacks A lot of people picking the Rangers, and Rangers won six more 271 00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:45.920 games in the regular season. They beat the Brewers, who everyone thought had 272 00:19:45.960 --> 00:19:48.680 better pitching than them. They beat the Dodgers, who won the NL West 273 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:52.960 by sixteen games over them in the regular season, and then they beat the 274 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:57.079 Phillies, who were coming off a heater after beating the MLB best braves. 275 00:19:59.000 --> 00:20:03.200 The Diamondbacks have up to every stinking challenge you can imagine, and they have 276 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:07.559 every right to be quote this f and team like everyone thinks we are. 277 00:20:07.799 --> 00:20:11.599 Yeah, and that is something that makes me nervous. And that's why you're 278 00:20:11.599 --> 00:20:14.920 not gonna hear me go I think the Rangers are gonna win. I'm not 279 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:21.519 doing any of that because God knows at this point, seven game series baseball. 280 00:20:22.039 --> 00:20:25.039 I've been say it the whole time, right, some MIC's been trying 281 00:20:25.039 --> 00:20:27.440 to preach to us. The season's not over. It's baseball. Crazy crap 282 00:20:27.519 --> 00:20:34.200 can happen. Yeah, I'm optimistic only because the potential of the Ranger power 283 00:20:36.079 --> 00:20:37.519 might be the tipping point of this. And like, it's not like the 284 00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:41.960 Diamondbacks are so dominant if really anything, including starting pitching. I mean, 285 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:45.680 the back half of the bullpen is way way better than ours. Good defense 286 00:20:45.720 --> 00:20:48.799 too, They're very good defensive team. Good defense, which is such a 287 00:20:48.839 --> 00:20:53.559 weird one in baseball, but that obviously matters a ton stolen bases matter a 288 00:20:53.599 --> 00:20:59.200 ton moving runners is what they do. But yeah, I mean, I 289 00:20:59.200 --> 00:21:03.079 guess they're not scared now, but they are a really really good all around 290 00:21:03.079 --> 00:21:07.359 team. And the Astros are scary. Yeah, the Astros are way more 291 00:21:07.400 --> 00:21:11.359 scary. And I'd really be playing the diaving Necks than the Braves or the 292 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:18.039 Phillies probably, but it we need to get something out of Surezer or Heeny 293 00:21:18.720 --> 00:21:21.640 if they're gonna you know that, because they're getting something out of that fat 294 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:26.440 guy. The pictures have fat. You know one thing about fat fod fo. 295 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:33.160 Yeah, he finished dead last in his season of Is it cake really? 296 00:21:33.279 --> 00:21:36.119 When he was on there? Yeah, he did last. No attention 297 00:21:36.200 --> 00:21:38.640 to detail, he cannot, I think his teaching something. He can't even 298 00:21:38.680 --> 00:21:41.960 determine what is and what is not cake? Now, what a goober. 299 00:21:42.480 --> 00:21:45.759 So I wouldn't worry about him. It's just rubber they're cutting through. It's 300 00:21:47.319 --> 00:21:49.839 cake. That's clearly a real fire hydrant. He might have been the guy 301 00:21:49.880 --> 00:22:02.279 that designed the Mexican extraterrestrial what remember, No, Yeah, when Mexico extraterrestrial, 302 00:22:02.519 --> 00:22:06.640 Yeah, looked like the Aliens in a box. Yeah. Yeah, 303 00:22:06.680 --> 00:22:10.279 he just did a poor job on the cake. So I don't think we 304 00:22:10.319 --> 00:22:12.480 have to sweat ham. I've never seen two blanker stairs in my life that 305 00:22:12.759 --> 00:22:17.039 like, Now, what's he saying? Called back to a month ago? 306 00:22:17.240 --> 00:22:19.559 Oh god, I don't really remember what happened yesterday. Okay, coming up 307 00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:23.839 next why Arlington. It's sort of ready, but the one thing that they're 308 00:22:23.960 --> 00:22:27.680 lacking and not quite ready for when it comes to the World Series next on 309 00:22:27.759 --> 00:22:29.599 ninety seven won the free