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Just good day, fail proof fell Mart Rangers back in the playoffs.
Now, Mike, you were gone Monday and Tuesday. So I'm gonna let
you comment on this first, because there was a little chaos over the weekend
when the Rangers did not do enough to get this bye and not have to
be messing with the wild card. So before we talk about yesterday's game.
Yeah, did you have thoughts on what went down on Sunday? I know
you were at an NFL game, you know, so it's hard to like
pay attention because the MLB stupid doing Day one sixty two during NFL Sunday.
Yeah. No, I was locked in on my my uh social media following,
but I didn't watch any of it. But unfortunately that leads to just
seeing the reaction too. And I know the big story was they were mad
that they were partying on Saturday and then had champagne in their eyes on Sunday
and couldn't do anything. I don't think you aren't. They was mad.
They opened the door for cynicism, I think is what I would call it,
because I definitely was making jokes about they're get destroyed on Sunday and then
sure enough, like when they popped bottles on Saturday night. Yeah, the
Astros game was in the ninth inning. They were acting like the Astros game
hadn't started yet. The Astros was in the ninth inning, but they weren't
partying. Emily Jones made it very clear too, and so did Devon Grant.
They've been both very clear. Their general manager came out and made a
statement and chastised the guy that originally sent the tweet. He was Houston,
yet Astro's reporter that works for MLB dot com. He was the one saying,
well, the Rangers decided to go all out last night and party.
Meanwhile, Houston head to the grind nose to the grindstone. They've got more
work to do. And it showed. And then Chris Young came out yesterday
and he pretty much ripped the guy. And then what Emily was getting a
s from Astro's family was taking craft from astros fans because she was trying to
protect the team, and she was kind of going, look, no,
they didn't they partied. They didn't party. They were pop bottles for thirty
minutes, and they went home because they knew they had a game tomorrow at
noon West Coast time, which is true now. I well, there were
a big Portcha Ranger fans though, who were going, well, still need
to win tomorrow. Yeah, and we had they have a bye and they
looked f and hungover on Sunday. So well, you can piece that together
in your head, I suppose, and blame whatever you want to. But
had they won, they would have been off until like Saturday this Saturday.
Yeah, correct, Yeah, I mean that would have been awesome, But
I don't know. I was just stoked they made the playoffs. Man,
we had this wild ass Space Mountain roller coaster for the last how many months,
and they battled back and they did it. That's the ultimate. So
like we're good, just glad they made it. Absolutely and I think,
like it whatever, the Astros played well enough to like earn it too,
Like sure, the Astros won five of their last six to get in there,
so it's not like so they won the division. Yeah, so ash
was when the division and the Mariners are eliminated. Yeah, the Astro's got
to buy and then the two seed, which we could have been if we
would have just won one more game. But I blame it more on a
roll as Chapman blowing and save on last Thursday night whatever we get to yesterday
game happened at two o'clock. Yeah, as I said, yesterday or maybe
yeah it was yesterday or Monday. That to just make the playoffs, the
Rangers just had to do the bare minimum, which was what win one game
they needed because the number positive outcomes. Yeah, and they did. They
did the bare minimum. They won their one game. All they had to
do to win the division and have a week off was to do one tick
above the bare minimum, and they were unable to do that, which is
disappointing, and yeah, we're gonna come in here and be really disappointed on
Monday. Unfortunately, those guys have to turn around. They have one day
of rest, not even rest. They had to fly across the country just
sleep deprived to get to this to Tampa to play a game yesterday afternoon.
They don't have time to be disappointed. It's like, all right, well,
whatever we're int we got to take two of these three, let's go.
And what did they do yesterday? Did not expect that at all.
Man. They said during the game yesterday that Bochi was like fine, but
he's like until the moment we were flying over Dallas on our way from the
West Coast to Tampa. He's like, there's a little moment where I was
like, I'd rather be landing right now. Yeah, resting a bit,
but dude, who cares. You don't get to pick the exact road map
that lies ahead, you know, but you do if you win another game,
all you do. If you do I mean when they're not good enough
to just call their shots and win because they run out on the field.
If Sunday was a competitive effort, I would feel better about it, all
of it. But it just matters over. I'm happy makes the playoffs,
yes, and optimism probably wasn't through the roof going into a three game all
on the road series, which is very weird. But now it should be
the new rules. That was great, That was great yesterday, Well,
they do really good. Our guy Jordan Montgomery overshadowed because we traded for suers
were first, and then he got it tacked into it. Okay, he's
pitched like a maniac, and for some reason the team's never gave him a
lot of run support. I think he was like eleven and twenty one and
like in games that he pitched this year and it's like, oh he's a
monster. Actually a free agent next year. I don't know how much money
he made yesterday, probably a lot. But the Rangers, first of all,
hey, the game feels so much better when you get up like one
nothing, even you're just like, okay, we struck first. It feels
so good when you do that. Poor Tyler Glass now of the Rays,
because not only was his defense choosing to kick the baseball around the whole game
when we it hit it hard. It hit him right in the leg.
That guy was pitched really good yesterday and he got zero help. I have
that as I want to talk about at some point, but since you mentioned
it, was it Adules hit one one hundred and ten miles an hour off
the dude's inner thigh. And then I'm like, that bruise has got to
today and tomorrow and if and when he pitches again, it would still be
there, just be the size of a dinner plate, one hundred and ten
off his soft part, your inner thigh. Something's not really designed to handle
hot shots. And then I was thinking, what if that clipped him right
in the balls? You know? I mean it was only three inches away,
right, Yeah, ruined from where you know, and you can't pitch
with a cup on. You can't pitch with a cup on, so they're
kind of back there, like, uh, sure you have pitcher's been hit
balls like Detective Einhorn, like they're kind of tucked back. Yes, but
even when you get hitting the balls, it's usually from the front. Yeah,
it's not up and from the back. At one hundred and ten.
I don't know. I just couldn't stop thinking about that because bad enough he
got torch in the leg like he did with Garcia one hundred and ten,
brutal. Evan Carter's amazing. That dude's unbelievable. Man. Look, I'm
not gonna lie. I don't because of Balley mostly, but I'm not locked
into every damn Ranger game. I more read about him and see the highlights.
But I watched every pitch of that game yesterday, which was really fun.
But yes, as good as Montgomery was, Evan Carter was the dude
that stood out as almost because they said it right at the beginning, like
he was known as full Count in the minors, like he just the greatest
natural eye, and they even ask him about He's like, I don't know,
I just is what I I'm just play baseball. I try my I'm
determined balls and strikes. But he's just inherently very good at seeing balls and
strikes, and he did it in the very first at bat. They're like,
ah, full Count, just like we told you, incredible. That
dude just looks like a vet, like he's just a such experienced player and
he just turned twenty one. Right, Yes, you know Chris young Maid
comments about when we call him up, we want to call him up in
a position like he'll hit at the top of the order and never go back
down. But when they call him up this year, you can get things
going with the offense. Let's work him in easy. It made sense to
make him hit nine. I don't think they plan on him calling him up
this year, but he just continued to progress in double A and the little
time at triple A they had need to he just people being hurt had need
when people got hurt. But I was interesting on the broadcast whatever it had
been tipped off to them that like they considered putting Evan Carter in the three
hole. Yeah, I know, Boach. He wanted it to be left
right, left right to make it home for bullpen decisions for the Rays potentially
later in the game, which is smart. Plus don't fix it with Evan
Carter, Like, yeah, he's worthy of putting him hell anywhere in the
lineup. Yeah, but if he's comfortable in ninth. I was also surprised
he's he's wiry, strong, but he's not like big No, he's it's
kind of like the Jersey just kind of hangs on him. He looks like
kind of a Sean Green back in the day. Okay, he's just got
this twisted metal blue Jayson Dodgers great Sean Green. Yeah, you know Leoti
Taveres when he first got caught up, was very wiry, and then he's
like beefed up a little bit and still fast and plays great defense. And
I mean Evan Carter could play centerfield too, yeah, just like you know
Leoti does. But that's like a great defensive outfield. There are a few
plays the Evan Carter diving catch. There was a play where Randy or Rose
Arena hit the ball in the right field no radio Rosrino was on second base
and the guy at the ball the right field and Adulis tracked it down all
the way across to the corner. But it was like, hey man,
we used to have games where we put like, you know, Vladimir Guerrero
out there, or would Nelson Cruz have gotten to that? It was like,
I don't know. So that was very good. And that takes me
to our first clip of audio. For some reason, in the first inning,
when Randy A. Rose Arena came up to the plate. They just
shifted into his bat without announcing his name and through it to their MLB insider
Jeff Passing doing a song. That's how I knew it was full national broadcast.
Oh no, he didn't think diarrheaville. I don't think I've heard this
what this is. I couldn't believe this was happening. Bottom of the first
inning. Oh yeah, that's what it was. Right of a playoff game,
one guy gets out, Radio Rosarina is next, and then it goes
to a package high fly ball and right Garcia Hazard won out. There's a
guy who he hits his name Randia Rosa Raina. Every time he takes a
swing, it is a thing, gets run and round the basis. He's
just past as a hyenas. There's a guy who hits his name Randia Roseareina.
Every time he takes a swing. It is a thing. It's buena
running round the basis. He's this past as a hyenas. By Sean,
how much money can I give you to do that? I'm wondering if jeffs
is happy to play that or not. That's our primary information. Guy saying
like that, that's our future. Here is a rosa rain as we said
at the outside. Okay, he had a bit of a stretch with the
hyena rhyme run like it's like he's not about today's broadcast, though it's kind
of poorly done. That sounds like Danny one hour before his White Elephant shift
starts and he has to tape together a song and make it someone he worked
all night on it. Does Jeff Passing have so much sway at ESPN now
because he's the chefter of baseball that he can just go, hey, guys,
I'm gonna record a quick thing on my phone. He got a funny
bit, would be a good bit, Jeff. We're gona do a quick
hit when Randy Roseareina comes up. So we're gonna just hitch you down.
If you have any stats or anything you want. I got more than stats.
Yeah, just press play on this file. I think he wasn't at
the game, like Jeff is pass and was doing another game and he was
not doing that game. What if they have consultants that are like, you
know, they got these guys at the freaking Dallas that they're always doing these
songs. So strip mall, Steve and this other guy named Dongo or something,
we want you to start doing songs. Okay. I'm not even a
musician, man, I don't play an intest. I don't care. We
need that. We need this today, today game. You have eight minutes.
There's just one kick drum behind it. There's nothing else to it.
There's a guy who hits his name Randy A. Rosereina every time he takes
a swing. It is. I think it's okay. I don't need any
top over it. Sean, how much money talked over it? It's like
a singer opening the door. I don't know, man, that was weird,
don't Kohlee Harvey is your dugout reporter, and let's go down to him
in the top of the third. His name is Kohlie Kohlee Harvey. Yes,
very little about him. I don't really watch a lot of baseball outside
of the Rangers, but Kohli Harvey. And here's what he said. Here's
Coli. Oh, guys, I gotta tell you that the Rangers, aside
from this last step bad here, they haven't really much sounded like a team
that's been short on sleep them. Okay, So I want you to know
this. When they're showing the dugout, they're not showing KLi. They're showing
the dugout. It looks real boring in there. It doesn't look like anything
is going on. Oh guys, I gotta tell you that the Rangers,
aside from this last step bad here, they haven't really much sounded like a
team that's been short on sleep. Them sitting right next to the out right
now and so far today they have been chirping and clapping and cheering each other
up with a lot of noticeable life. It kind of reminds me of being
next to a little league dug out of her A lot of that kind of
cheering seems like a good sign for a team that's had a wild spent forty
eight hours they have, Indeed, Robbie Gross been a deep first day.
They weren't knowing it. No one was talking at all, and they all
looked tired. Why do you sound like a Native America? When he said
short on sleep them? What does they play that again? Did he say
sleep them? Short on sleep them? So I gotta tell you that the
Rangers, aside from this last that bad here, they haven't really much sounded
like a team that's been short on sleep. Them sitting right, well,
you have dug up report as crowl fly across plane rangers not good enough.
Sleep them, Sleep them, but sound very into chirpy, chirpy get little
league as great Buffalo once wonder Sleep them very strange. It's like they're not
doing hay bat or batter chance like a little league team either. Why would
he? Why would? It was a weird throwaway report. But I don't
know Coley do better today. I think sometimes you're just scheduled to do a
hit and you got nothing. We're atmosphere sucks. Okay were we talking about
that at all? Because that was depressing? Okay, before some of the
numbers and stats and everything came out there, I was like this I wrote
down. I'm like, I think this is the most depressing environment for a
playoff game in any sport ever, because you know you're not seeing it in
hockey, no matter what the hell is going on. It was awful.
And that was before that was before they were even losing. I think I
thought that you're not seeing in the NBA, you're not seeing in any other
major league baseball. You know what hockey market you had, hockey, basketball,
NFL? What they would never do put a playoff game at two pm
on a Tuesday. Yeah, okay, never do that. That's doing too.
But we talked about this yesterday. It's like as as good. Think
about how good the Rays have been for a long time. They're always in
the playoffs, it seems like every year, and how what a bummer it
must be to those guys that bust their asses, that bring home, you
know, winning seasons year after year after year in the playoffs, that they
have to go home and host playoff games in that absolute toilet and nobody goes.
I turned the game, could not believe the turnout for that, for
a freaking playoff game. So nineteen thousand people showed up fifty three hundred below
the listed capacity and, according to whatever the stat things, the lowest attendance
for a postseason game since nineteen nineteen. It would have been better at nine
times, like the lowest attendance for MLV postseason in one hundred and four years.
I mean, the place is already a garbage can, but you can't
give them a two pm Tuesday start, just like efing people who like the
Rangers and got a chance to watch them all year, or at work yesterday
and can't watch the playoff games we live in a world now where you have
multiview on television. Okay, you can't tell me though first pitch that that
there would have been that that place would have been sold out. It would
okay, but not a lot, dude, it would have been a lot.
But we've seen it's the worst. Yes, it's the worst fan base
and all of sports that they don't show up when they're deep into the playoffs.
Yeah, we've seen a ton of empty seats at the Trot when that
when that team is rolling. Because the three other playoff games yesterday, I
mean granted two of them were at night, but it was Banana in uh
in Minnesota, in Milwaukee and Philadelphia ball it was nut. I kind of
skimmed through those last night, tool But you know what, good for the
Rangers. I mean, that's just a little bit of a luck of the
draw. We're going to the third box and there's not gonna be really any
home field advantage. I turned that game on and I thought COVID came back.
It's Tampa. They don't. We'll have a little bit more at nine,
including Randy a Rosa Rena Rose Arena. He raced a horse and maybe
we'll talk about IVOLDI getting to go today and how what happens if the Rangers
were to pull it off today and things like that that could be a little
interesting. Is they won four nothing. Jordan Montgomery beasted through up and down
the lineup. Who We'll have more on that throughout the show today. That's
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