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Reach for it. Uh raiders l tough one last night. And I'm not
saying I was calling something some world you know, revolutionizing thing, but I
did kind of go I got a feel in churger's going to be just fine
in the first inning and then it's going to hit a bump, and he
hit a bomb. Did you make one hundred dollars? I received a venmo
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will get you for this and sent me in my fifty dollars. Yeah,
and then skin ohs you fifty two. Yes, we'll see if he pays
up. And what were you betting? How onny innings shirts are left?
So the over under Vegas over under on outs for back Schurzer last night was
twelve and a half, So basically, could he go four and a third
and he couldn't. Now he got twelve outs, so I was a little
nervous. Yeah, but the problem with that is five runs scored, gave
up a home run, and really you could just tell, like the command
there was a two I think the one that jumps out she is O two
to Jordan Alvarez, who's a monster, and he hit him in the back
foot with it the rare backfoot pegging. You don't get that a lot.
And they had a hurt loading the bases and scoring, and it's just tough
and the Rangers' offense didn't get going until the fifth inning when Josh Young hit
a two run home run, because Christian Hobvier was dealing pretty good, and
I think the Rangers were no hit through four innings, so trouble, I'll
say, mac Shuzer. What mack Schuser was doing last night, it was
the fourth longest layoff of any player in postseason history. There were a couple
other test cases. One of those test cases was a guy who was just
filling in on the World Series roster because someone got hurt in Game one of
the World Series. There are a couple others of pitchers who were just had
no bleak injury, or there was another one was an arm injury, but
some trying to come back after a seventy game layoff. Well, what mack
Scherzer was doing was like unprecedented, a top five event in baseball history.
The layoff that he had been on just doesn't happen. They probably wasn't ready.
It's easy to say probably wasn't ready. I think Rangers were looking to
see can we get three innings or four innings and keep them at one or
two runs. But I thought, and you guys can tell me if you
disagree or not. I thought the way Boachi managed the game after Suzer was
out, Granted, you were down five to nothing, but some of the
decisions that kept happening were We're gonna save as much of our bullpen as we
can and in case we need him on back to back days on Thursday and
Friday. I'm not saying Will Smith shouldn't get in the game. I think
he was trying to get Alvarez out and that was the play there. But
like Chris Stratton getting as much time as he did, kind of seeing what
John Gray and Martin Prez have in a short roll late in the game,
I thought Bochie was managing that game to preserve spores Chapman and Leclerk. Yeah,
he spread. He spread the workload out amongst a lot of guys last
night after Schureser exited. Uh, Stratton, man, I almost texted you
guys last night. But you know, when you get down five to nothing,
the way you watch a game changes. And the Rangers kept it seemed
like every time they would start making a little bit of a push, making
a little bit of a thread, and granted all due to Josh Young,
the Astros would answer, just to kind of push them back down and make
them realize no, not to guys, but man, I thought Stratton,
I don't like I didn't like his strategy at all. Dude, that guy
is a nibbler. He does not go after dudes at all. I mean,
he's trying to nibble and nibble. And when when I think it was
Smoltzi said oh, and he's got five pitches, I'm like, yeah,
it's probably about two or three too many for this Astros team. Give me
a guy that can throw two pitches effectively, that can locate them. I
don't care. I don't care if we see him again. I don't think
he is the pitcher to face that lineup at all. You know, seven
to four, I think when this happened bottom of the fourth and there was
a ball that was launched out into the left center field gap by a Doley
Scarcia that would have scored a run for the Rangers, and Michael Brantley made
a diving catch to end the inning. Yeah, man, if that goes
it's seven five, A Doles is standing on second, the tying runs come
up to the plate, who knows. You know, That's where it felt
like something special might happen, and then Brandley made that catch and bummer,
But you can't be mad at the first loss of the the playoffs. Are
seven and one in the playoffs so far, like nothing to be mad about.
Okay, did we all think they were going to just sweep their way
through the whole month? I did not like these things happen. It's okay,
and I didn't have a great feeling about last night, which anyone can
say after the game. But just given what we knew what we were dealing
with, we knew it was going to be a largely comprised bullpen game.
And you still look as unlikely and fun and great as winning seven in a
row to start your playoff run is. You still are who you are,
and it's a team with a flawed bullpen. It's a team that is hot
and cold offensively, and you're playing the reigning world champions that have done very
little to nothing up to the point. So it was all aligned for last
night's game to happen. It could have been a lot worse than it was.
I'm surprised it wasn't a lot worse than it was, Yeah, because
they did keep battling. Yeah, I mean they battled back a few times
to get it into like all right, striking distance, yeah, like I'm
not going to bed yet, range absolutely, you know, And then the
damn astro just kept putting on Insurance, couldn't stop. Yeah, you know.
It's just like you get that feeling that they're gonna keep getting one.
It's what we've been doing to these other teams too, like every time they
get one way, almost like a race it, you know, yeah,
insurance, so whatever, kind of crazy to change everything you feel when you
get behind, even like when it was at one run on the past or
the wild pitch or the pass ball, I guess it was what they would
call it. It was one not damn. That's the first time we've been
losing in the series and feels like in the playoffs. But I turn around
again tomorrow. I mean give them today. I don't. I'm not not
paying it all man. It happens to me like every year when I stare
at him. But the Altwove thing is pretty wild. That dude is five
to six. I mean, it's such an odd outlier. He's so well
like after he his damn home run high heat that he just smashes and when
he goes back to the dugout and high fives everyone. You lose him in
the dugout, like he's so tiny, and the fact that that dude five
six, even imagine what you have to do coming up, you know,
to prove yourself and everyone's got to look at you and think right like yeah,
and then not only prove yourself to hit now twenty five postseason home runs
to be in second place, four behind Manny Ramirez, who you look at
and like, there's a ballplayer that is a that's a masher. I mean,
there's a very good chance that al Twove, by the end of his
career, is the all time leading postseason home run. Now, those numbers
are a little skewed because there's a lot more postseason games than there used to
be, I understand, But not only do you make it, not only
do you excel, You're probably gonna be the all time smasher in postseason history
and you're five to six. I had told uh Rocks last night we were
watching the game, and I was like, that guy right there that they're
interviewing right now in the dug up, he should be the most likable player
in baseball, but he is not. Because of a the Astros be the
controversy and see the unproven buzzer that he was wearing. Yet Astros Finzels who
wears the proof. And I guess innocent until proven guilty. But you know,
I don't know your Your actions do explain a lot. Yeah, and
the face you make just say a lot too. You know you're just make
an O face for no reason without owing. You know, he was definitely
telling his teammates to stop grabbing at him whatever that was six years ago.
He should be the most likable guy. Yeah, it's not like you didn't
want them to not or to pull his not want him to them to pull
his shirt off because he didn't want to expose his beer belly. Yeah,
he's a pro athlete. Yeah, he's probably shred under there. And I
feel like so it's like sixty three pitches for sureser, I feel like too
many. We will see how he recovers, and the Smolt's at a good
point as a pitcher who's jumped around too and pitched in every role in the
playoffs starter or he's like how he recovers from this will determine which duh.
But ideally he's available for eighty pitches next time, and maybe the command's a
little bit better and you go through your normal routine instead of just pitching a
sim game and going out there, you know, just because you wanted to
pitch. With hindsight now that we have, would you have rather seen them
cobble something together, maybe a two man starting rotation, not not rotation,
but a strategy last night, and have sure as their workout of the pen,
maybe a one inning situation. It is easy to second, yes it.
Yeah, I didn't think that really. I thought about it, but
I thought this is probably the best option considering just his history, that he's
earned this and he it's probably the best spot for him is to start.
But you know, I guess if you're gonna get if you're going to put
him out there in the first inning, he hasn't pitched in so long that
I don't think you give him enough leash to allow him to work himself out
of trouble. Yeah, that's the only thing that I would have done differently
is maybe yanked him a little bit earlier than they did and maybe had somebody
I don't know if they did. They didn't really show the bullpen early on
in the game. But I don't know if somebody was ready to go at
the beginning, because I think he could have gone out there and thrown one
pitch and tweaked his arm and then what do you do? You know,
I'm sure if it's an injury, you get all the time you want to
prepare your your reliever to come in. But I don't think you wait for
that. I think that you look at what's happening and say, oh my
god, this his slider sucked. Given that this slider was absolutely terrible and
he has to have that pitch. His velocity was fine, location wasn't great.
He was very, very lucky to get the inside uh the inside corner
called for right handed batters. That happened about five times where it was clearly
a ball, and he got the call just basically because the right handed batters
were kind of crowding the plate a little bit. But those those should have
been balls. His location was not great, velocity was good, location was
eh, and his slider sucked. That should have been seen early on.
Somebody should have been warmed up and ready to go, and maybe you don't
give up five runs. That's my hunt that early. My hunch is that
Martin Perez would have been the guy because he let Martine pitch yesterday and my
hunch is that would have been the play if it was tight game and so,
and because sures are actually four instead of two, he might've been making
on two innings or three innings. Who knows what Buchi was thinking. I
don't know, but like he didn't get to that pitch count of seventy that
he had hit in the sim game. I mean, so if he was
effective, he might have been able to go out and get that thirteenth out
and I would be out one hundred bucks. But the Heini Dunning thing,
because that worked clearly there. That was their plan for this small sensu on
the Bark broadcast that I disagree with. He goes, you can't just rely
on Jordan Montgomery and Evaldi to get your your wins. I'm like, you
actually can. You can do one two punch. I've seen it with your
Braves teams before, where the Maddison Glavin will handle it. But that's also
you know, expecting and almost kind of guaranteeing to yourself that win. Those
guys pitch that you're going to win, and that's that's unrealistic, man,
absolutely, but Games Game seven would be mac suser if we go there.
That's and there's no that's just what you do. I wonder how he he's
feeling today, had thirty nine year old body's feeling today? After I heard
audio post to doing that, He's he's like, I know my body,
I'm good. As he's chugging a red Bull, He's like, I feel
good. He's like, I know how I'll feel tomorrow and this it's normal.
So that's good, you know. As far as his body's reaction to
the rushback, I also thought, I don't know if it was the altwo
Va home run, but like we discussed this and the pitch come the strategy.
I mean, the one thing I'm more confident than anything is that we
got Bochie on this, you know, like us kicking around options, who
gives a damn. He's on top of this. And it was the alto
Vay home run I think where they cut to Bochi and he glanced real quick
and knew it was gone, and then he locked back in at cherser.
I mean he was staring at yourser to see his reaction, his physical reaction
to this, to check in on him. To make those decisions, whether
it be to warm somebody up or whatever. I mean, that's all the
dude is thinking about. And he's Bruce Effnbo like he's going to maximize what
the right thing to do is. Like we're good and he was on top
of it. So whatever decision he made, in no position to question it,
you know well, and also like just knowing that la Clerk Chapman and
sports probably can't go three days in a row for them to not pitch last
night, there's a positive that we should look at. Yes, you know,
it's weird to be talking positively about the Ragers bullpen, but you have
to. With those guys right now, and your best two starters and your
entire bullpen that you've used all postseason. They were all just sitting there,
all fresh, and Houston had to use all of their arms last night.
They used their their three set up in nearest bray you and Presley, they
did and they burned them. Did you know Danny that Ryan Presley? Do
you know anything about him? Uh? Not outside of what they you know,
the mini bio they gave him last night. He is a massive fan
of you and me. What do you mean he's a big listener of our
former state show. Are you serious? Really? Yes, massive, he's
from here. I mean at least as of years ago. Hell, maybe
he's jumped on board of ninety seven one the ft said idiot doing Kevin just
passed out that idiot do it? Yeah, him and his wife came up
to the studio and I met him a couple of years ago. Okay,
Shockingly, his wife is absolutely beautiful. No way, club and smart and
fundy. Get a hot girl. Yeah, he throws fast, but he
would smile if he heard the name Danny Bayliss. Wow, that's weird.
Yeah. Where is he from here? Yeah? Okay, I mean,
look, I know who wouldn't be a fan of a guy who was just
featured in People Magazine and the Dallas Observer radio host of the Year. Yeah.
Yeah, he's also a huge People Magazine subscriber of course. Yeah.
Born Dallas, Texas. I'll be damn you know what. I raised an
Irving Uh, I'm looking, I don't know, American Heritage Academy and Carrollton
for the first three years of high school. So yeah, he's a he's
a local. Oh and then he transferred to uh Marcus High School in Flower
Mountain, his huge klepto, what he steals things. He's mad. He's
not a fan of your he's just making up Ryan Presley. I worked there
too, sort of anyway. I always think that when he rolls out,
and I actually like him obviously because of that. And he was a sweetheart
meeting him like he was. He's a reliever in Major League Baseball. He's
done a lot save last night, dude. Yes, And but when he
was up at the studio, he was like, oh my god, he's
wide eyed. It's just weird to see. So it's awesome. Definitely cheer
for Ryan Presley, but not not this week. Well let's call him.
I think he's busy. He's busy. Do you think Dusty Baker would be
mad if he found out that Ryan Presley did an interview with the freak?
He came up in studio in Dallas. I don't have his number enough Astro
seven and one at Global I Field this season, we've all been really drunk
on Evan Carter. Yeah, we should give rookie Josh Young a little love,
dude, crushing two home runs. You're right, And you know what
else we should give more love to Tavaris. Oh my god, who's twenty
five, and you just kind of put him on the back burner of like,
dudes, you're excited about But holy hell, that catch was incredible.
That cat's amazing and he's, you know, in the series, done some
damage with the bat as well. I don't like using the term effortless to
people that are elite, because they definitely put a lot of effort into being
being able to do what they do. But it just that catch was so
smooth. Yeah, yeah, it took There wasn't a lot of unnecessary motion,
and it's like he knew exactly what he was doing, had had a
plan and executed the plan and holds the ball up. And you can't say
enough, man about our defense, You really really can't. Outside of that
one, Josh Young err the other night where he you know, any anybody
would have misjudged that he had his glove where he thought that ball was gonna
go and it took a bad hop in one underneath it. But dude,
how about the seager deep in the hole, uh catch to flip to get
the forcet third last night, that was that was almost as incredible as the
Tavares over the fence catch. It shocked Josh Young. He was even ready
almost like he was on he was over there, wasn't on third base ready
to get the ball yet. But we've seen Ranger teams where pretty much,
especially in the playoffs, there's routine plays that just kind of become white knuckle
moments and just everything that they execute. I mean between uh Seeger and simeon
the middle infield plays you just feel so good about. Uh, it's just
such an asset. You know, a pitcher's got to take the mount for
the Rangers and just look behind them and go, I think I'm good.
Yeah, I can't imagine having a better eight dudes behind me to take some
chances here. Yeah, they're so good at defense. Man, they were
never they were never gonna sweep through the playoffs. No, And they used
a question mark pitcher the starter. They didn't touch their primary bullpen and they
they hung in there. Yeah, they battled back a couple of times.
Like I said, if that insurance doesn't come in, we had a real
tight one late in this thing, and who knows and looked they are good.
They and they also ran into a playoff pitching juggernaut last night. That
was just flawless through half the game. Were you guys not thinking, Okay,
we're def we're gonna get no hit. I mean, there's a reason
I think it Obviously you made it through through four innings. I think.
Hm. But good lord, that dude was I mean they kept talking about
it real calm, real cool and got a hell of a pedigree and track
record of postseason success. But yeah, Christian hof is a stud. And
don't you feel the top of the lineups kind of do a breakout? Yeah?
Oh yeah, we need Singer and Simeon to both start hitting the balls.
Yeah, the guys you've counted on and maybe taking for granted a little
bit about how often they never go into slumps. It's Simeon specifically. Yeah,
he's about in one seventy one. Yeah. In the post, little
more, little more there, and it's gonna come. Jose, you queerity,
your your your queedie, you're quitty er erkid, and there's the pronunciation
erkity. Jose erkety is your picture to night in the he pitched the game
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