Wake up, your little sleepy head. It's time to get your stupid ass
out of bed. To you about the most important thing in the most important
thing in what else? What else could it possibly be? And are fighting
Texas Rangers? It's so I love. I mean, how about like,
how often? How much did you think of cowboys this weekend? I crossed
my mind and they were playing Monday. I know we had some preparation work
for the show today, which we'll get into at seven o'clock. We'll do
some Cowboys, but it's gonna be rangerscled in throughout the morning because it is,
without question around here the most important thing in the world. I feel
like the Cowboys deny it as almost an unwelcome responsibility, unwelcome responsibility. The
story Three Cowboys Mike McCarthy to play caller. Oh my god, you nailed
it. Unwelcome response, welcome responsibility, Like we kind of just have to
do it. Yes, yes, I do, especially to especially because like
I know you, I think you were about to say, this is There's
man, there's nothing like having your baseball team relevant in the fall. Yeah,
it's unlike any other playoffs, but every other playoff is unlike that.
Playoff. There is incredible how unique the four major sports vibe about their playoffs.
Yeah, well, I don't know what do you think's a higher tension
level Hockey or baseball? And that's that's it. It's a different timee atension
because I think the hockey tension is where you're constantly grinding it, like your
body is just completely tensed up at all times. Baseball it's like a bipolar
up and down, up and down, up and down, because there is
time to kind of decompress in between pitches. You get the long commercial breaks
in between innings, so you get time to kind of process the stuff.
Yeah, it's different. They're all different. And most baseball games are within
reach almost always. I mean last night certainly was. It was never comfortable.
No, hockey is just all stress all the time. Unless you get
to like a three goal lead, then you can that's not necessarily out of
reach, but then you can maybe take a breath. It's not just pure
hell the whole time, but baseball everything, it's you're right, it's a
different type of tension, a slower burn, but it doesn't go anywhere.
It's just so hard, hard and stressful, and you're i don't know if
this applies to hockey, but in baseball, you guys being lifers, just
so pessimistic, you're expecting the worst to happen. But these bastards haven't lost
the game yet. It's incredible how I've I mean, what's the longest wednesdreak
of the year. Well, I don't know, I know the number on
Hedge. He's asses down to seven, that's true. And you guys think
he has a seven eleven tattoo. Now, yeah, he's definitely had a
seven eleven. It's the seven that's on there that were it's green and the
eleven is an orange and a weird color scheme for a butt cheek. The
one thing I was thinking about last night though, because just kidding, who's
on seven on a Sunday night and you're considering all of your options and what
time you have to wake up in the morning. You know a lot of
people probably want to get it work on a Monday. We'll get hit to
better ly on a Sunday night. I found this from I found this yesterday
morning. I threw this into the document here because I thought it was interesting
because playoff Times and John Smoltz mentioned it on the broadcast multiple times last night
and last week in the Baltimore series. In the playoffs, you know,
he basically talked about the Rangers offense like a basketball team won a fast break.
You know, if you're a pitcher, you could step off and take
a deep breath and look around. No. No, these playoff games were
unwatchable the last few years. And it's not just because the Rangers were out
of it because I tried to get into it playoff baseball. No, they're
four hour games every freaking time. Yeah, even longer in the playoffs,
and it was just tedious. The average game this year was two hours and
forty minutes, down twenty four minutes from last season. That's amazing, And
there is no that's a lot the playoffs can't extend that the game might move
a little slower. Maybe maybe there's an extra commercial throat in I don't even
know that what the rules are on that, maybe during the commercial break,
But other than that, that game was moving. The game start at seven
to fifteen once they got done with a Rod Jeter and David Ortiz's JO session,
and then seven fifteen we were done by ten. Yeah, yeah,
it was great, felt boring no, you know, it does help when
both starting pitchers go as deep as those two guys. That's the key.
It is the key when you don't have a bunch of mound visits and pitching
changes and whatnot. But boy, I love that pitch clock. Yeah,
I love just seeing it looming over there on the side and it's like eight
second secnce. No stepping off, no throws over to first anymore. No
mind games, you know, between the mind games of the pitcher catcher with
the hitter and all that stuff. It's just fantastic. No tightening up your
batting gloves. Yeah, no Garcia parring everything that's velcrow in your whole body.
Yeah. I mean, if the action held up it's into the bargain,
then that could be fine. But it doesn't. There are more strikeouts
than hits. It was very long overdue to make the changes that they have
slowly made. But and baseball purists, you know, you freak out every
little change and you raise a stink. But dude, these were genius.
Agree, it's so much better for us. Yes, I don't think that.
I don't know if the game was ever in and at risk of just
disappearing, but it has waned in popularity. They don't market their players as
their players. Maybe that's this way. Their players aren't as market as marketable
as other sports, so the public perception of the game is that it's boring.
But I think these changes could could go to great links in saving this
game long term. Yes, for sure. But that said, I really
wonder what the national interest is in this series. Probably pretty damn low.
I was thinking about not paying attention to last night Sunday night football game,
and when I got on Twitter after the game, all of my timeline was
talking about the last play in Bills and Giants. Yeah, So, I
mean the answer is, don't go up against football anytime you can, right.
This is why I've been clamoring for baseball. When most teams, well
a lot of teams have some form of an indoor situation to start their season.
First of all, they could take eighteen to twenty games off their season
if they wanted to. They don't because the owners get money from the gate.
That's fine. Start your season in March, not late March. Early
March to mid March. Start your season then have it wrapped up. Your
most important games of the season happen in the heat of football. So tonight
game one of the NLCS. If you don't care about Rangers astros A three
thirty to day and you want to watch Phillies, Diamondbacks, no, Cowboys
and Chargers, you're gonna take the cake there. And then they're off on
Tuesday. I mean that there'll be an LCS game tomorrow night, but the
Rangers are off on Tuesday. But it just stay away from football, I
agree, But isn't I mean baseball essentially plays in every month that the weather
allows it to be played. I mean, because every year there's always a
couple Opening Day games where they're freezing. Yeah, and there's snow. I
mean not every year the snow, but it's definitely happened. And then you
run in to these late late games where I mean, obviously not down here,
but if you're far en off north weather, I don't know, it's
almost impacts the game unfairly, and I like, you shouldn't be playing in
sleet. No, I agree, But if it already happens anyway, who
cares? If it happens two or three more times. If I'm not talking
about this happening for seven to ten games, I guess it could be if
you started, No, I'm talking about middle of March. If you even
start the middle of March, I think you are bringing in potential weather that
could which already happens on March thirtieth, So who cares. Yeah, but
if you have full series wiped out because of a late snowstorm, I don't
know. I agree with you in principle that, yes, avoid football at
all costs. How much of a bigger deal with the Ryder Cup have been
if they avoided playing their biggest day on Sunday? No, I agree with
that too, you know, but you can't do it all, man.
We have a lot of sports. Basketball's first two months of the year.
Basket ball goes kicks ass, but it's all during football. Then the Super
Bowl happens and NBA is like, oh, it's all Star Break, We're
off for a week. It's amazing they still allow this to happen. Avoid
the King, but it wasn't always the King to a level where killed the
king. You can't kill the king. Okay, yes, you can't kill
the king, but it was I mean, these sports been around a very
long time, longer than football. In the case of baseball, so is
track and swimming. And badminton the all bad. They should reschedule everything.
They avoid the King. They should just play what Tuesday mornings, that's when
they play tomorrow morning, the World Badminton League. There's a big one tomorrow
in Wales. I did stumble upon like the Rugby World Cup this weekend,
d and people were losing theirs. It was England versus Fiji. Al ready
for people to lose their minds. Y'all's wait, young ones coming and the
beginning of November, right and Farmers Grand Pickleball National Pickleball Championships, and that
is gonna be nut to butt dude, that's gonna be packed out of Brookhaven.
Just wait, Oh, you won't be able to make it to work
on time. The wait, the cars will be backed up on the tollway.
You'll see, just wait, won't see. I won't see kevot.
It's gonna be a big deal, That's what I'm telling. Okay, good,
I hope it is. They avoid the King. So how I don't
know. I don't even know. If you're a Ranger fan, you know,
yeah, I am maybe just kind of by yesterday I think, I
mean, the MAVs are the team that I have well, I mean all
MAVs stars and Rangers. I've embraced them all. I grew up with just
the Dolphins, no other pro sports in South Florida. I was an exposed
fan growing up just because I needed a baseball team and they disappeared. So
it made me a perfect free agent. Absolutely. What you got your guys
emotional state? Were you riding high on the highs and feeling down on the
lows? And and how was? Because I don't I know. For me
last night it was a lot different than it was, you know, twelve
years ago when they were just starting to be relevant in the postseason and make
these deep runs and get into the ALCS and make it to the World Series.
Because that was I was an emotional wreck for those times. That wasn't
the case last night. I was pretty damn flat lined for the most part.
I bet I bet you though, Kevy Oh were just pulling your hair
out. I'd avoided thinking about it pretty much all weekend. At about six
o'clock, I want, I'm getting kind of nervous. Yeah, what is
this nervous energy that I don't know why? Maybe I was just hungry.
Why do you have a different why do you feel differently. I don't know.
I don't know. Maybe it's just because I'm a little older, and
you know, I've kind of been able to put maybe to grade the importance
of things in life, you know, and realize that I've already been down
this road twice with this team, and and know what that that roller coaster
feels like. And I don't know if I've just naturally decided not to get
on that emotional ride, which I feel like I'm probably missing out because it
is a lot of fun to be biting your nails the whole time. I
mean, I want them to win. And yes, and when the clerk
recorded that final out, especially on a fastball, I thought for sure he
was going to go to his sinker for that. Anyway, challenged him up
and in with that fastball and got that last I did fist on me go.
Yes, I was. I was into it at that point. But
all the other stuff, I wasn't just an anxiety mess because they made it
to the World Series that year. Those two years and COVID changed Danny's perspective
on life and everything. COVID had nothing to do with my perspective on life.
But the climate change is affecting Danny's moods. We did it weird that
a climate changers just collecting all these plastic forks getting ahead of climate. I
don't know how it works, Hey, Climio, stop hoarding the climate.
Yeah, look out scientists a lot. Yeah. I just figured that Kevy
oh was was just a basket of nerves over there in his little tiny house.
And Richardson, could anyone not have been in the eighth inning? We
all know it was happening, so big, big, big problem with this
guy who need to stop doubting, right, the guy who's led them to
perfection in the playoffs. But I was like, why would you take out
Jordan Montgomery at the seven? Let's talk about what goddess at that point,
because you did have a pretty damn uh uh October pitchers duel for the majority
of that game, and Jordan Montgomery out battled Verlander. Yeah he did.
And and it's really funny that for you know, the way these two teams
have been positioned as being these you know, offensive powerhouses, and especially the
way the Rangers have just been rolling through the playoffs just out batting people.
It's kind of lost on people that man, they're starting pitching has gone deep
into games. Their bullpen seems to have figured out their woes, even the
bend don't break bullpen. But I was the most surprised. I was is
at the outcome. I did not expect a two to nothing game, especially
being on the positive end of that country ship he was dealing. That was
cool, man. He's he's really is, and he's a free agent right
after this. See he is a free agent. And I would say that
Martin Perez, sixteen million dollars comes off the books, all right. Will
love to lock him up. Put that sixteen and come up with about seven
or eight more and give him five years because if you can get a healthy
de Gram, which is I mean, that's such a wild card. But
with Schuzer, de Gram, Eovaldi and George Montgomery and John Gray will be
here too. Something else man, And not to mention Dunnings earned a spot,
yep, I mean there's a lot there. He just paints. He
paints a beautiful picture. Yeah, and for that size, you kind of
think he might rear back and have a little more gas in the tank,
but he doesn't really. He just he just works those corners, touches the
outside. I love the little red dot. Yeah, I love my red
dots, especially when they call it a ball when it's clearly a red dot.
A couple of times against US yep and John Smoltz goes Man. These
homps have done a great job in this series. Like right after a bad
call, like time that better. If you want to compliment the amps,
you know what, he goes huh, he gets the ball back and just
those again. He has a quick like what I will say, not mad
about it. You know that had a couple of what you know to us
watching it on TV, we're pretty glaring mistakes where he called two balls that
were but they were strikes but they weren't or whatever. But I thought he
was really good. I thought that behind. I thought that the homeplate umpire
was actually really good last night because there was some pitches and if it just
touches that that implied strike zone that they have on screen, even if it's
a little bit outside and it shows red. He was really consistent through the
night, and that's a hard ass job. And almost he was so good
early on that I thought he's got a buzzer in his ear or something that
is transit that is relaying the information of this this digital strike zone to his
ear because he was making some really tough but good calls, I thought,
But yeah, he screwed up a couple times, so I guess that's to
be expected, him said of Montgomery. Nothing straight, nothing's the same,
same release point, the balls get on you. They call him a big
guy. Sometimes he steps on the brakes with the curve ball. Other times
he just rams in a four seamer on you. Makes my job easy,
it really is. It's really artful pitching. It's beautiful craft, and it's
a whole it's different when you see that. We fall in love rightly so
with these power pitchers and just watch them dominate, and you know, I
don't want to be Braves guy, but you know, back in the day
it was Maddox of course, and Glavin just painting the outside all day long,
and it's kind of thrown back to that. Man. It's a different
style and it is really beautiful full to watch. Well. Then, these
guys are obviously the best at what they do, and if you get your
timing right, you can hit one hundred and three easily for them, pretty
easily to get around one hundred and three mile an hour fastball if they get
their timing right, and what Montgomery does is disrupts your timing. Verlander's call
the same way all night long. We had two horses out there last night
giving it. They're all and look if you're if you're the Astros, and
they told you that that Verlander's gonna go seven and give up two, earned
you take it well, and then it look at the little things too.
Evan Carter slaps a base in the right field, could have easily just stopped
it first, but because of where it was, he had time to go
a second. They talked about the how kind of deeked the right fielder a
little bit gets into second base into scoring a scoring position, and then jonaheim
get who drove him in to make it one nothing. I mean, guys,
two months ago we were talking about is Jonaheime out for the year with
a wrist injury and needs risk surgery and they got to say an opinion on
it. They took their time with it and realize, Okay, if we
rehab this correctly, we can deal with this in the offseason and he can
hang in as long as the pain tolerance is there. And Jonahim is not
one hundred percent and he's catching, and he's one of the best like frame
rate catchers in baseball despite being huge and tall. And that's just a trade
the Raiders made a few years ago. He's in the Elvisandris trade, you
know, to Oakland years ago. And then you get your run in your
ahead and then Leoti with a little insurance run. You could have had more
injurs. Josh Spores does his job. But this is what the game comes
down to. This game comes down to putting a roll as Chapman in the
game against the team historically sucks against. And when we were all feeling it,
every single person, sure, we all were feeling it. It was
a collective no. He almost fed it up as Bregman hits one of the
track and Evan Carter has played that stupid wall in left field where it's a
short wall and then it turns into a deep wall. He didn't know where
the wall was, you know, and he jumps and he makes a catch
that could have just been over his head. It was so deep that I
couldn't even see him catch it. Really, yeah, it was. I
thought he was gonna hit high off the wall, and then you misjudge the
jump and then it bounces back and it's an easy double dude that that we
have a magic boy. We do imagined. Sometimes that's that's what you need.
And it is fun to see the narratives and the stories being created because
these things do happen in October. You don't remember anything about the regular season,
but you'll remember if the Rangers go on to win. You remember the
Evan Carter game, the Evan Carter defensive game, because don't don't forget.
Early in the game, he had a very important first yeah, first inning,
running catch that probably saved an extra base hit. He's a center fielder.
If they don't have a better center, you're absolutely right. He scores
what it turns out to be the game winning run, which was the first
run of the game, on a heads up base running play, and then
makes what was in all likelihood a game save catch to that little nook out
there and left center, which was time perfectly fifteen feet left. That thing
is long gone, but he's the story of the game man, and doesn't
tag up right well. He's advancing to second and then he touches second base
and goes past a little bit, but he didn't retrace so you have to
like hit the bag back to go back to first base and does not touch.
Simeon saw it immediately, and the next camera shot after Simeon is the
Rangers dugout frantically on it. And then it cuts to Altwove and now two
bays looking at second base, and he's got the same face, the same
guilty face he had on the time he hit the home run and told everyone
not to pull the buzzer off of his shirt. You can see it.
I watched the jiff of it. I did it again. I watched the
jiff of his home run, and it's like he's making the same face.
You could see it, and is the it's the face. I'm looking at
the thing. I'm looking at the incident where it happened, and I'm going,
oh no, Like he made the same face. Yeah. His look
of frustration when the official call came down after the replay was not one of
disbelieve or thinks that they got it wrong. It was like he knew it
and he was frustrated with himself for screwing that up. He should not screw
that up. I mean the ball players I agree in that. Like,
obviously, if you round the base, you need to come back. I
thought they may have had an argument for he was still parallel to the base,
you know, like I don't know, if you don't like cross the
plane of the back of the base, maybe do you not have to go
back? You know, I don't know the rule technically on it. And
clearly there was not much of argument. I mean it was it was cut
and dry, and in a world where we say, you know, officiating
evens itself out, I think that call kind of helps even out maybe the
mist what would have been called third strikes in that game. Yeah, so
you know, was really really just when they're trying hard not to get hit
the numb all game. Maybe we can talk more about Chapman later and that
that whole mindset and decision making and what a freaking roller coaster that dude is
every time he gets in the game. Yeah, we will sprinkle in Rangers
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did look it up. Eight game win streak, the longest they had this
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lost in the postseason, and go on the road and steal home field advantage
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