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Well, what if I gave you a Madness Monster card to play? I'm intrigued. Does they change things? Madness Monster card? Damn it? I do want to Madness monster. Yeah you do. But I don't want to battle him and anything. I want to work together with him to do something great. Well, that isn't just like our music that we make together. What do you want to take on the glens. I don't want to do that. I like them too. I'm just gonna skip it. You
asked a good question in the break kat. How are we gonna kidnap Jeremy Allen White tonight if we don't go to the after party? Ah? Was that so ripped? And he's probably five ft seven, he's very short. He's a very short man. We're gonna get his ass in my trunk. You don't have a trunk. You go to geep his trunk. KT's got a trunk. I have a hatchback. You actually have a legit trunk. You have a trunk. Yeah, that's cool, all right. You need
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like prediction number one or two on his list. Now ship that I thought about last night. So the Rangers declined their option on Mitch Garver. Nah, doesn't mean Mitch Garver's not coming back, but it means he's probably not coming back, and quite frankly, he's just a DH. So. But if you think about something when it comes to signing Otani, if you give
him a big contract with a lot of money. Mac Scherzer's contract expires after twenty twenty four, Otani can't pitch in twenty twenty four because he's gonna have Tommy John surgery. Hypothetically he could pitch in twenty twenty five. Mac Scherzer is gone then, so basically Otani could serve as Max Scherzer's replacement if you
sign him while also hitting next year. So that part makes sense. The big question is you're committed to Corey Seger through thirty one, see me in through twenty eight, to Grohm through twenty seven, Like do you want to pay these kind of like steep luxury tax payments all these years? And is the pursuit now that you've won one, is the pursuit of winning multiples worth adding another guy who has arm troubles. I mean, you did with de Grom, but you'd never won one before, So who cares? Is that
worth it? And that's why I wonder if eighty two year old Ray Davis how he thinks about those things, what his plan is with the team. Does he want to sell the team? Does he want to make it a thing that keeps it in the family? All very important things when it comes to signing shoheo Tani, because Antani essentially is your DH next year. Keep in mind there's not I mean, there's no spot for some people next year.
Why at Linkford will play next year on this team may not make the opening to your roster, but Adooley Scaliote and Evan Carter is your outfield that ain't going nowhere. Your infill is set your weak Lincoln in the lineup as a whole as gold Glove winner Nate Low, the whispers that Evan Carter moves to center trade Liote, Yeah, and why it plays left. That's possible, and that's an up well, I don't know if it's an upgrade. We hope it's certainly an upgrade. Very possible. You could do that or
keep them. And maybe Leoti's a part time player on this team. But I mean, I think there's a lot of teams who'd be interested in giving you some pitching help for starting dynamic elite center fielder and Leodi Leoti could go hit three hundred one day too, Like I am not giving up on that. Yeah, I just want to be that team that does that for once. And this doesn't even feel dirty, No, this is This doesn't feel like the heat loading up with Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh. It doesn't feel
like ring chasing. Does they already have one? Because we have enough developed players. Yeah. Yeah, it's going to be a blend no matter what. And the Rangers were what in payroll this year? I believe something like that. They were in the top ten. I think it all comes down to the what's in the head of Ray Davis, And he probably doesn't even know. I'm sure he knows a lot more than you give him credit for. Are you saying like he doesn't know because he can't think, or he
hasn't decided yet, because he hasn't decided. Okay, that you're inferring something else. Is it like the dirty little secret of baseball finance that they're all making so much money and you're essentially just asking how how much more or less do we want to make next year? Yeah? I mean you can sign Otani to the largest deal in American sports history, which is probably what you're looking at right and still have massive profits next year, don't you. You're
not losing money. Think of the profits that the exponential increase in profits by being as relevant as they were this year in the playoffs and as good as they were World Series. That's got the value of winning the World Series. Think about this, the value of maybe winning three out of four years World Series. Look what that did for the Cowboys franchise. We're damn near thirty.
We are thirty years after their thirty one years after their first Super Bowl, and that is still the touchstone for this team or those early nineties. They're still profiting off of that three out of four year run thirty years ago. Just adding Otani, okay, go ahead, almost covers the luxury tax bill that you would have to foot. I think discussion is more like, well, what does that luxury tax bill look like in five years? Because it has escalators in it and it keeps going up and up and up.
But I think having yeah, I think having Otani just pays for that. You're right, and and the I don't know how much any specific MLB player is a must watch or a stop down for National Baseball viewers to go, oh, I'm going to check out the Rangers tonight. O Tani might be that we've already done this with you, Dar too, and he's number one
on the list. But I'm just saying it is the most viewable, marketable and marketable dude in the sport, and I'm not sure how close it is and the value of having him on your team heck when when you go to other ballparks. But that's what I'm saying about the finance. I don't know what that means, Like, yes, I agree, but what does does Jersey sales in Japan go wild? It can't hurt the bottom line, I
would imagine, right, is there a television deal. I bet it does, because now Otani fans have to buy a new jersey, right, But is that enough to like? Is that where the wow? Just you know, you're like, oh, get no, Tani. That's going to change how the Rangers are viewed in an entire continent or certainly a nation. But
I don't know how. I don't know how that's quantified now it is there's money in that obviously, or is it just guaranteeing that you're going to sell out every time he pitches, I suppose, or ticket sales or lineup every night? Yeah, he's your DH So dude, this happen with Darvish.
There was the Rangers' popularity, attendance all went up when they had Darvish, the entire Asian fan base that they all became Ranger fans all right, like out of nowhere, people who never cared about the Rangers all of a sudden did. And we forget about it because it didn't end great with you, Darvish, And we traded him for Willie Calhoun and he just wasn't you know, he wasn't he had when he missed a year because of Tobby John and all that stuff. But when he got here, think about that buzz.
It was credible. It was it was incredible, and they were and he was awesome. He was really good. If the Rangers start twenty twenty four with Otani in their lineup, are they going to have three? Are they gonna They're gonna have the top three MVP candidates on their team? Yeah? My god, I mean outside of a Aaron Judge or whatever getting back in the mix, it's gonna be ridiculous. So March this year, the Rangers
have valued at two point two three billion dollars. I'm just fascinated with the money because you're gonna sign it due to a five hundred million dollar deal and it's it is still worth it. Yeah. And now if you are Ray Davies, what do you I don't know how much that giant contract affects income the next couple few five years and if it all weighs out, yeah, if it equals more income. Or is Ray Davis saying we finally have a
champion. I'm making less money because there's a lot of baseball teams to make a lot of money. Just sitting back and saying, oh, yeah, we really hope we feel the good team this year, sign No. One and then laugh on their mountain of cash. And that's the blueprint for ownership success in baseball. Well, if we had what three or four home games playoffs? Like, we didn't have that many home games, so they didn't maximize that playoff run as much as they could have in terms of profit at
home. Maybe that's part of like, well, what have we get in the playoffs again? And well, if we start having more playoff home games,
I think about how much extra money that would be. Yeah. Well, I also think that the age of Ray plays a factor into this because if he were the biggest factor in if he were a forty five year old owner, you might think more fiscally and economically than you would legacy, and because you're thinking, well, let's be a healthy organization financially for a number of years because I'll have time to do this here again or in another market
again. But with Ray Davis at eighty two years old, you kind of hope that as a fan that he's thinking, I'm all about leaving my stamp on this city, on this team, as the guy that brought multiple World Series to Texas Rangers. Before you know, I leave this and what does another billion of my net worth really mean? Absolutely, it does mean everything. Billionaires who have one billion dollars are dying to have two point five billion
dollars. Like it's we want to say, go you got enough money, which comes back to what I originally asked, It's like what it depends on what's in the mindset of Ray Davis. Is he thinking? Is is he at a place in his life where he's thinking profit, profit margin or legacy. I've heard both on that too, that he for years I'd heard that he only cared about profit margin, was looking to flip. And then I've also heard over the last couple of years that no, he does vias a
legacy piece, he would give it to one of his kids. Neil Leebman is the co owner. You know, Like there's a lot of a lot of mixed signals on that. Your value of the club, if you are going to sell, the value of the thing goes up immensely once you sign old time. Well, and it's already gone up because that number was March of this year. Yeah, and winning a world championship definitely increases that value. But baseball is the one thing where you can get a wild ass billionaire
who says yes to everything. That's what Steve Cohen just did with the Mets, and they blew the roof off the record, you know, payroll numbers, and they sucked. But I mean, like Ardi Moreno back in the day was like, watch this, give me everyone. You want a mad millionaire or mad billionaire in charge of your baseball team more than any other sport. It seems like the Rangers have the best of both worlds. Like you said that, there's developmental talent that is with this team and a combination of
expensive free agents, and I mean that's the that's the formulae. Angels and Mets had notoriously crappy minor league systems. The Rangers because of the work done by John Daniels and Chris Young, which now John nails out here or whatever. But all of that there's a pretty good pipeline of that. Now that will fade off because you get, like, hey, a lot of top picks. One guy texted in, it's the status of Lighter and Rocker.
Well. Rocker had arm surgery. Jack Lder, nobody knows, had pretty much lost all feel for pitching, took a few weeks off, came back closed out the year. Strong there's another first round pick. He was a top ten pick. Cole Win struggled at Triple at their dudes, who are there could play the one thing that everyone talks about White Langford. There's no questions White Langford plays and it will be good. Add that with Josh Young
and Evan Carter. I'm sorry, there is a young core nucleus. You're right set and Mikey, you you grew up and you remember this era. You watched the Marlins basically trade cash for World Series twice. You know this isn't that, this isn't similar, This isn't the same. And I don't care, really don't care what which category falls in as long as is that they're winning. I think it's it feels better, feels more natural to have guys that you know, you draft and and developed. It's more sustainable too,
I think. Make no mistake, the reason that the Rangers just won the World Series is because they paid an s load for Corey. Seeger at Marcus Simeon so like it. You're not exactly the tiny, little homegrown Texas Rangers, and we know that that didn't work for their entire existence. Develop and the other side didn't work with a Rode either, by the way. But yeah, it's both develop, trades free agency. Something I think about this a lot with the Cowboys. The Cowboys sit out free agency every year.
They just do, like no one talks about it that often, and that week they sit out free agency. They draft to develop, do their best, and that's hurting them this year because their their draft picks haven't played. They make thrifty trades in their opinion, which I would say the Brandon Cooks and Stefan Gilmore were very thrifty trades. Also probably get ripped off on the Trey Lance deal. Well they they definitely got ripped off on the Amari
Cooper deal a couple of years ago. So like hit or miss there. But they do draft and development, they don't sign free agents, do it all. That's how you win. You're right, sign free agents, develop, you do all three. It's the combination of the two. Because yes, you don't win the World Series without Corey Seeker, but you don't get to the World Series without adults. Yeah, no, yeah, I get
that. I think our hope right now is I looked at Ray Davis worth about three billion dollars eighty one years old, eighty one or eighty two. I think what we as fans need to hope is that he, with all of his money and all this, realizes that he just had the greatest moment of his life. I am tired, and now he needs to go sit. You know. That was the greatest moment of my life. And I want to do that again and again, and I want to do it every
year until I can't do anything anymore. Yeah, and I yes. And I was just looking up Ray Davis kids because if he doesn't flip the team, there's daughter, right, he has three adult children. I don't know which ones are. It would not be it would be going to the daughter, I believe. Yeah, I don't think it's going daughter. What are the names of those kids? Steven, Yephre, Yeah, mont de Core and Winniford, And I don't know. It's a rich, rich ass name.
I've known Stephen for about twenty five years. Why don't you, Why aren't you? Why are you best friends with us? Why are you friends with us? Whore not him? Y'all? Are y'all are much more stable, believe it or not. I do believe well. So it is a window, a jar window, a jar, I mean today it could be Yeah, man, free agency, go do it. It won't happen. You don't think it's gonna happen. Why not today? Ok? Iron Tall? Yeah, well that's true. Yes or no? Yeah, you don't
think you wouldn't make that move on? You know they wouldn't get any news because Zach e Fronvin Town. He'll stretch out. He's gonna move with the Dodgers's gonna move with the Mariager. He's gonna do the whole thing. This will take a while, This will take one and then you also like the go your arm you'll never pitch again. Your arm is jacked. We're not gonna sign you. I'm okay with that. But from afar, let's go get it. If he never throws another pitch, he's still worth it.
Just goes smash a lot now, not from one hundred, not half a bill, no, or four hundred now, but three hundred mil. Yes? Does he bat in games that he starts pitching, Yeah, he does usually d h is unless and he's a nice plays the outfield sometimes he is amazing. Yes or no? Right now? Yes? Do you think do you think shohe Atani will be a Texas Ranger. No, yeah, I don't, yes or no I don't. I don't. I feel too good to be true. Man, my sports focus is so aimed at reverse basketball
right now, hard for me to even think about the off season. Now explain reverse. We were doing so good and then we did that reverse basketball and the fists, the Dallas fists go coming up next, I'm gonna tell you this, Austin Hader's story. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do that next. Plus like a tri election results, Mikey good news, well next to ninety seven won the first