Speaker 1: I'm very excited at the top of the hour because
Speaker 1: we have food news, and anytime there's food news, I'm stoked.
Speaker 1: We will definitely get to that. But man, it's been teased,
Speaker 1: it's been talked about. Right now it's time for this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's time Texas Rangers. Yeah, wow, it is baseball season.
Speaker 2: No, yep, it's a baseball time in Texas, you might say, Okay,
Speaker 2: so this is very strange. The Rangers hired for the
Speaker 2: first time ever in Bruce Bochie's career. He's their old manager.
Speaker 2: If you didn't know, they fired a coach, It's never
Speaker 2: happened with him ever in his career. He's like the
Speaker 2: oldest guy. And they hired a podcaster to be their
Speaker 2: new hitting coach. Oh my god, did they hire Rogan?
Speaker 2: They didn't hire Joe Rogan. They hire Theo Vaughn. They
Speaker 2: didn't hire the lady from Cereal. Okay, this is Brett Boone.
Speaker 2: Brett Boone just played for the Mariners, A little short guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Jose Conteko accus tim of taking steroids back in like
Speaker 2: the two thousands, although they never cross paths like you
Speaker 2: can go look it up. Apparently the research has been
Speaker 2: done like, I don't know, and Teko claim to his
Speaker 2: book that Boone told him he was doing steroids, and
Speaker 2: then like you look it up and they're like, there's
Speaker 2: never a path where they were in the same place
Speaker 2: at the same time.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, can Saco's really credible, I know,
Speaker 1: but I do think everyone was taking steroids pretty much
Speaker 1: every player. I'll tell his player except Ben Greed.
Speaker 2: Well, Michael Young wasn't he had an extra grind. And
Speaker 2: this the reason I pulled this is two reasons. Ay,
Speaker 2: the Renier's new hitting coach is on a podcast breaking
Speaker 2: the news to everyone that he's been hired as a
Speaker 2: new hitting coach. B how it happened. And actually the
Speaker 2: third thing is why Dirt Novitzky really needs to be
Speaker 2: involved with the Maverick still okay, the idea that he
Speaker 2: is not. You will find out in about ten or
Speaker 2: fifteen seconds why it's important that guys like Dirk are
Speaker 2: involved in the organization. Still moving forward.
Speaker 3: This completely came out of left field.
Speaker 2: It started.
Speaker 3: I went up to USC, my alma mater, I threw
Speaker 3: out a first pitch. I ran into an old buddy
Speaker 3: of mine, Michael Young, and he's with the Texas Rangers,
Speaker 3: and we just started talking and you know, we had
Speaker 3: a ten minute conversation, gave each other a hug. I said,
Speaker 3: give see why which is Chris Young, my new boss,
Speaker 3: the president of the Rangers, and obviously the skipper Bruce
Speaker 3: Bochie's who is this I played under in two thousand,
Speaker 3: but we become you know, I've been have a really
Speaker 3: good friendship with him for a lot of years. And
Speaker 3: I get home and the phones are gonna It's Bruce
Speaker 3: Bochie And the first thing I thought is this is weird.
Speaker 3: So I answered the phone as I do, and I said, Bruce,
Speaker 3: I now can't get enough. You want to come back
Speaker 3: on the podcast because we've had Bruce on quite a
Speaker 3: few times. And he said, now, Boonie, it's a different call,
Speaker 3: and he kind of ran it by me, and uh,
Speaker 3: he said, why don't you think about it? And you know,
Speaker 3: I talked to my wife and I talked to the
Speaker 3: people you know, close to me, and it didn't take long.
Speaker 3: I definitely I don't know that I ever consider myself
Speaker 3: a hitting coach or a coach in any capacity. I
Speaker 3: you know, managing seems intriguing to me. So what if
Speaker 3: there's a guy to get back on the field. Bruce
Speaker 3: Bochi's number one on my list.
Speaker 2: Okay, so there you go.
Speaker 1: So they're taking outside the box here.
Speaker 2: There they're two things. I think. I think it is
Speaker 2: thinking outside the box. I think it's a just like
Speaker 2: this is a good idea and we need to change.
Speaker 2: And I think Chris Young is an impatient person, and
Speaker 2: I think he is like, no, this is bs. We've
Speaker 2: signed all these contracts, let's go. We're going now.
Speaker 1: Time is of the essence.
Speaker 4: I love that, Yeah, because you know, you've got this
Speaker 4: opportunity where you have de Grohm and he is arguably
Speaker 4: the best pitcher in baseball. He's in the and your
Speaker 4: whole staff is pitching. You're pitching. That's the hardest thing
Speaker 4: for you to get. It's always been the hardest thing
Speaker 4: to get in Texas. And you have it and you're
Speaker 4: blowing it because now you can't hit.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: Here's the other issue. If he doesn't do well, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be like why do you hire a podcaster?
Speaker 4: Or my god?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so thinking. He said some things about he's
Speaker 2: not like analytics guy, like he's going to come in
Speaker 2: and learn from these other guys and the Rangers do
Speaker 2: have a structure that two or three other hitting coaches
Speaker 2: are involved there. This is almost it. John Daniels will
Speaker 2: be criticized for a lot of things, but he too,
Speaker 2: like Chris Young, and Chris Young learned a lot from
Speaker 2: John Nails was aggressive and always made people mad. That
Speaker 2: Matt Garza never worked out here ryand him throwing names
Speaker 2: from ten plus years ago, I get it right, But
Speaker 2: they always at the trade deadline, made big trades to
Speaker 2: go for it, to effing go for it, and it
Speaker 2: didn't work out. Many times it did not work out.
Speaker 2: But Chris Young learned a lot of this from John Can.
Speaker 2: I think that's important to know.
Speaker 1: I would like to end this segment with one final thought.
Speaker 1: KT mentioned the guy with the acts to grind. You
Speaker 1: hear that phrase? You never hear the girl with the
Speaker 1: ass to grind? Right, you know what I'm saying, which
Speaker 1: it seems like that's sexist not to say that. I agree.
Speaker 2: Yepp oh there it is all right.
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