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Speaker 3: Yeah, dude, lots of Rangers news, right, that's a that's
Speaker 3: where we're at right now. There's a lot of good
Speaker 3: things going on and a lot of bad things happening
Speaker 3: with their sports teams. But Ranger news coming out the wazoo.
Speaker 3: I don't at the wazoo.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, so been using this. No one ever
Speaker 1: says coming into the wazoo, that's true. I've never heard that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I always pull out of the metaphor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And we will be at opening day Thursday, that's
Speaker 3: the breaking news, not this Thursday, next Thursday, but on Thursday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we wouldn't be at Opening Day when it was
Speaker 1: an opening day. Yeah, we'll be at the one that's
Speaker 1: actually happening on Opening Day on a Thursday, the twenty
Speaker 1: seventh of March against the Red Sox, right Red Sox.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we'll be on as the game's happening,
Speaker 3: which is kind of cool. Actually yeah, and uh yeah,
Speaker 3: so if you're going to open a day party on
Speaker 3: Way and party on Guarth.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, we're getting there early too, Like we're gonna
Speaker 1: be at Live by Low's starting at noon. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: come on out and hang out with this all day long,
Speaker 1: and then once we're off the air, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: like a postgame after party.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's a great way to go take in Opening Day
Speaker 1: without having to buy tickets if you if you're not
Speaker 1: going to go to the actual game.
Speaker 2: Hang out with us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, drink beer with us, pregame, during game, and post game.
Speaker 1: We're just admitting that we're going to drink beer on
Speaker 1: the air that day.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, I'm so. Here's what's going on. Can you
Speaker 3: guys name the Rangers starting rotation?
Speaker 2: Nope? De Gram. You have Aldi? Oh great, just got hurt.
Speaker 2: Oh somebody else got hurt too.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 1: Okay, so they don't know two of the five starters.
Speaker 1: I think they're well, I think we know now, okay.
Speaker 2: Oh is it lighter? No, they've done soccer today. Oh
Speaker 2: they signed a guy today. They signed a guy today.
Speaker 2: Is de Gros good to go?
Speaker 1: Baby?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: But he's he's easing into it. This is my favorite
Speaker 1: thing about de Gram. I may have ever seen the
Speaker 1: other day. He was doing a bullpen session and I
Speaker 1: was the Cubs or somebody they were playing.
Speaker 2: Their pitchers were all just standing around and watching him.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Like that's the level of respect that like
Speaker 1: people in baseball think he's the best best pitcher in
Speaker 1: the entire game. We just haven't seen him in two
Speaker 1: years because he's been hurt the whole time.
Speaker 2: You know who I think he is. I think he's
Speaker 2: the Anthony Davis of baseball.
Speaker 1: Let's go it could be like, let's trade him for
Speaker 1: the baseball Who can we get?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: TONI so e of all these your opening day starter
Speaker 3: and then de Gram and then Tyler Molly.
Speaker 1: Yes, he's another he's been hurt. Huge upside, but he's
Speaker 1: been hurt. They got him last year and he basically
Speaker 1: missed the whole year.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, and last week John Gray took a line
Speaker 3: drive off the wrist and broke his wrist. So he
Speaker 3: will be back around juneish. Cody Bradford, who is going
Speaker 3: to be your fifth starter.
Speaker 2: He's hurt.
Speaker 3: He has had to be shut down, so like, okay,
Speaker 3: so we get these guests with jack lighters. He finally
Speaker 3: found it, so maybe it's going to be Jack Lder.
Speaker 3: Today they signed a guy and his his numbers are
Speaker 3: absolutely awful, but I love this signing. This is a
Speaker 3: signing that this team needs. His name is Patrick Corbin.
Speaker 3: Patrick Corbin has thrown the third most innings since twenty
Speaker 3: twelve for a left handed pitcher his era. The last
Speaker 3: four years. It's six five, six, let's go six like
Speaker 3: it's bad, let's go. But he thirty one starts, two starts,
Speaker 3: thirty one like he is.
Speaker 2: Like slot him in there. He's head, get drilled. But
Speaker 2: you don't have to do bullpen games. He's the A C. Green,
Speaker 2: He's AC Green. Let's do that.
Speaker 1: So thirty five starts in about six runs, so one eight,
Speaker 1: So we're we're going to we're going to give about
Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty runs when he starts.
Speaker 2: But it's okay, that's all.
Speaker 3: But you don't have to do bullpen games. Yeah, those
Speaker 3: guys out, those guys get hurt.
Speaker 1: They don't have to make a decision on a lighter
Speaker 1: yet or Rocker because Rocker.
Speaker 2: Just Hitatis Junior in the head.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Rocker's gonna need to go down to triple A right,
Speaker 3: which is because going into this camp, I would have
Speaker 3: thought it was the other way around.
Speaker 1: You would have thought that lighter, that Rocker was closer
Speaker 1: than lighter. But did they Lighters looked great, Lighters looked good.
Speaker 1: The lighter is throwing harder than he really ever has.
Speaker 1: I mean, he had to go out to college like
Speaker 1: he was before. Coming into spring training on it, it
Speaker 1: was like, okay, well he didn't throw hard anymore, and
Speaker 1: he did something and he can throw like ninety eight
Speaker 1: or ninety nine.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: He also does not know where the plate is and
Speaker 3: that's a problem. Yeah, man, but that's okay.
Speaker 2: It's like angels in the outfield. He might he might
Speaker 2: have hurt his arm. Yeah, I know, Well that's a
Speaker 2: whole that's the worry.
Speaker 3: Like with all these guys like putting him in these
Speaker 3: positions that they're not ready to be in yet and
Speaker 3: talking about is he going to be a closer? Jeff
Speaker 3: Passing a ESPN is a reporter guy. He said, this
Speaker 3: is like a day before John Gray got hit in
Speaker 3: the wrist and Cody Bradford to be shut down. Like
Speaker 3: on the same day he said that Lighters should be
Speaker 3: closing for the Rangers by May. But that's not the
Speaker 3: case now. He is a starter and has to be
Speaker 3: a starter. You don't even though they don't have a closer. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but I don't want that. I don't want to use
Speaker 3: a first round pick as a closer. This is not
Speaker 3: anywhere near as valuable.
Speaker 1: What is the whole idea he's going to be closing
Speaker 1: by May because he's not good.
Speaker 3: As a starter yet and he hasn't proven to be
Speaker 3: good in then.
Speaker 2: I think I think so too.
Speaker 3: But I do think your last you know, ditch effort,
Speaker 3: effort at getting something out of him is bullpen And
Speaker 3: I think that's what they were thinking.
Speaker 2: But we're not.
Speaker 3: But he had a great camp, like a great camp.
Speaker 1: He's back in trench as a starter, but it could
Speaker 1: be it could be too. That is just temporary. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what happened with CJ. CJ was fill farting round
Speaker 1: in the bullpen until he became a starter. The problem
Speaker 1: with him is he's never had like three straight minor
Speaker 1: league starts that are good in a row. Like he'll
Speaker 1: have like one or two and then he goes and walks.
Speaker 2: Seven guys and what happened? Dude?
Speaker 3: But looks like he's probably, which is exciting to me.
Speaker 3: If you're watching the team like he's in the rotation,
Speaker 3: that's wonderful. Huge MLB dot comers, the Rangers is the
Speaker 3: tenth best lineup in baseball, So that's good. Uh, Corey
Speaker 3: Seeger the tenth player best player in baseball?
Speaker 2: FI have ninth. So what was the tenth best player
Speaker 2: in the NBA? I mean, what's the rest of the team.
Speaker 2: I don't know. That means Jacob du Grom the twentieth
Speaker 2: best player in baseball.
Speaker 1: And people are just gonna put him wherever because no
Speaker 1: one knows if he can stay healthy. But if he's healthy,
Speaker 1: he might be top three player in the sport.
Speaker 3: Evan Carter listed as the number fifty seventh best player
Speaker 3: in baseball and the third best center.
Speaker 2: Fielder that's cool. I don't know what.
Speaker 3: He cannot hit a lefty, so he's a platoon guy
Speaker 3: right now to me.
Speaker 2: And he's a young guy with back problems. That's scary
Speaker 2: white lank for the number eight left fielder. I think
Speaker 2: he's dude. Breakout. Yeah, it's time breakout, you know.
Speaker 3: See how your guys the new guys Jake Berger and
Speaker 3: Jack Peterson are fun. Yep, Burger guy Burger better smarish.
Speaker 3: But I think Today's to me is I like it
Speaker 3: because it's like, Okay, well, we don't have a lot
Speaker 3: of money to spend. Who's a cheap guy that sucks
Speaker 3: but will get us through the first couple of months
Speaker 3: that are going to be hard on us. Like that
Speaker 3: is what winners do. That's absolutely good. Rangers Fan Optimism
Speaker 3: poll Rangers fans third highest in the MLB of all teams.
Speaker 2: What is that things are good? Well, how do you
Speaker 2: feel by your team? Whatever?
Speaker 3: Blah blah blah. Take the answers, get some type of percentage?
Speaker 3: Do you do this for all the teams?
Speaker 2: All right? And the Rangers are their best they have
Speaker 2: and I used to be dialed in on their young
Speaker 2: players and stuff. I'm not really that much anymore.
Speaker 1: But they have a shortstop who's like a top five
Speaker 1: player in the sport, and then they have a relief
Speaker 1: pitcher who's like insane.
Speaker 3: Also was a starter who, by the way, is going
Speaker 3: to be having Tommy Johns.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's pretty given right every Yeah, it's a ranger thing, man,
Speaker 1: get it knocked out.
Speaker 3: Sebastian Wallcott's the number two prospect in baseball or whatever.
Speaker 3: We don't know if he can hit yet. He's got
Speaker 3: to go play a double A. He'll be in first
Speaker 3: go I think cool? Which they have Rollertown at the ballpark. Yeah. Uh,
Speaker 3: Joey Gallo is going to be a picture now.
Speaker 2: Saw that. I did not see this, and I'm very intrigued.
Speaker 1: He you know, and I used to We had heard
Speaker 1: that he had once touched like ninety eight or something
Speaker 1: on a radar gun.
Speaker 2: The article I was reading yesterday said he got to
Speaker 2: ninety four. I thought he was higher than that.
Speaker 1: But that's a hard thing to do to just say, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm going to be a pitcher, but wish him the
Speaker 1: absolute best. Could that happen to the guy in the
Speaker 1: steak the Sizzler parking lot? Wouldn't you like an infielder
Speaker 1: and then became a pitcher after he got out of prison.
Speaker 2: And went to a steakhouse. It didn't work out well.
Speaker 1: If you're talking about Matt Matt Bush. Yeah, Matt Bush.
Speaker 1: I thought he was a badass infield. Process short he
Speaker 1: was just drafted number one overall. Joey Gallows story brover.
Speaker 2: That guy, Let's do it. I think he had another
Speaker 2: incident recently in Arlington.
Speaker 3: Let's get Let's get Gallo to a Sizzler parking lot.
Speaker 3: I think if Joe gout like, it's not that hard
Speaker 3: to me if you pitched as a kid and in
Speaker 3: high school, to pick it back up to me, that's not.
Speaker 1: Not that hard if you were a high school pitcher
Speaker 1: to get the most the gifted hitters in the world out.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I saw a couple of tweets a couple.
Speaker 1: About the logic of what he said, if you pitched
Speaker 1: in high school, it's not that hard to go get
Speaker 1: all the hardest hitters. I was a pretty good shooter
Speaker 1: in high school. I don't know why I can't go
Speaker 1: knock down some three in an NBA game.
Speaker 3: Contextually, I should add that saw a couple of tweets
Speaker 3: that were like it's gonna take her three years to
Speaker 3: turn him into a And he's like talking about his
Speaker 3: age and I'm like, no, they'll send him back to college.
Speaker 2: What else does he do for a living? He now pitches.
Speaker 2: That is his job.
Speaker 3: Now he will depend the miners in pitch. He works,
Speaker 3: it works, and.
Speaker 1: He would know the chess match and how to pitch
Speaker 1: to a batter. Obviously, the question is how much velocity
Speaker 1: does he have, how much movement, how many secondary pitches
Speaker 1: does he have?
Speaker 2: How much control does he have? I have no idea.
Speaker 2: What the inswer that would take three years. It's either
Speaker 2: you're out of the league or you it didn't take
Speaker 2: three Like this is.
Speaker 1: Quick thing, right or it's a it's a quick thing,
Speaker 1: unless they're like, hey, that's great. You can throw one
Speaker 1: pitch ninety five miles an hour. Do you have a curveball?
Speaker 1: Do you have a slider?
Speaker 2: We're gonna go spend a couple of years developing secondary pitch.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Don't ask Wash because he'd say it's
Speaker 2: incredibly hard. Incredibly hard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, yes, if you want to do it at
Speaker 3: a high level. But he just got cut. When not cut,
Speaker 3: but he's basically having to decide that he's not a
Speaker 3: hitter for the White Sox, a team who lost the
Speaker 3: most games.
Speaker 2: Old, he's gotta be like thirty three, right, Well, that's
Speaker 2: a good question. I don't know.
Speaker 1: He was high school teammates with Bryce Harper, right, thirty one, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's thirty one. He's the Amari Cooper of baseball. It's
Speaker 1: wild a career batting average of one ninety four. That's
Speaker 1: good man, pretty good.
Speaker 3: But a couple of years ago, or well, a couple
Speaker 3: Ranger years where they were absolutely terrible, like top ten
Speaker 3: MVP type of guy. Yep, there you go. There's your
Speaker 3: Rangers update. The Mavericks play tomorrow night. Cowboys haven't done anything.
Speaker 3: They don't do anything. Ever. A lot of mock drafts
Speaker 3: have them taking the other running back who I've been
Speaker 3: telling you about, Hampton from North Carolina. Mel Kuiper's big
Speaker 3: hair was talking about that second. Yeah, he is a
Speaker 3: second best ringing back. No, no, second round, No at
Speaker 3: twelve what Noah, everyone's drunk right now. We're just making
Speaker 3: stuff up right now. This is a silly season for this.
Speaker 3: They would take him over genty or they're saying GENTI
Speaker 3: gent would go first and then Hampton would go. But
Speaker 3: Hampton is the clear. He might be better than gent
Speaker 3: Genty's a fumbler.
Speaker 2: I don't like that.
Speaker 3: But whatever. They're not taking running back at twelve. They're
Speaker 3: not doing that. They're not doing they need a wide receiver,
Speaker 3: though I think they're.
Speaker 2: Gonna do that. They need to trade back or trade
Speaker 2: back corner trade back.
Speaker 3: Because they did sign Ishmael Muakwamu to play the.
Speaker 2: Jordan Lewis role. Huge. Okay, it's not gonna happen. Yep,
Speaker 2: everything sucks all right.
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