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Eh hadn't had a complete, I mean, a quality start since July eighteenth. Dang, is that right? Yes? He went two and a half months without a quality start and said, guys, don't worry, I'm saving it for the peoffs. It's the playoffs, yep. And now they can go Daane Dunning with extra rest, Jordan Montgomery on normal rest, Nathany Evaldi on little extra rest because they're gonna get the day off on Monday. Game three will be Tuesday here, as we advanced to play Baltimore because we
beat that hell out of the Rays last two days. This is five, or son, this is five? Okay, yeah, it's now three five seven. So game one Saturday, Game two Sunday, Monday off, yep. Game three here Tuesday, m h Tuesday night. Game four here Wednesday
night. Party. Yes, and we need to get loud, unlike what happened out there in Tampa Bay. I read a big article about in the Athletic about that whole scene, how embarrassed they all are, and even interviews with people who are there, like, I don't know, I don't get it. Nobody was here, even the fans that were there, and they had it out like the yellow rally towels and you didn't see them. Everything about it was just sad. You did hear the over aggressive PA guy going
much noise. It's just like they're not really reacting to that dude. And they tried in the first inning when who's elfin was at their picture of their picture and he had two strikes and you could hear them like trying to make noise, and it was almost sad to hear their the effort. What a bizarre thing they got going in Tampa. It did have I think I said this yesterday, it felt like watching a COVID. Yeah, baseball game.
Remember when they started allowing, like, Okay, we're gonna allow five thousand fans in and you got to socially distance and all that. Yeah, that's what it felt like. Cardboard cut out. Greg Abbot's back there cheering. I mean, that was weird times, very odd. And they only got a couple of years left in that stadium. They're building a new stadium that they got figured out. They had a thirty year lease with the trop Is that gonna help? Do they eat their fans even care? Or is it
all about that stadium. It's a ninety nine win team, Like it's a good team. Can I just say the Rangers have won all seven playoff games they've ever played at Tropic Cannafield. I don't want the trap to go anywhere. Keep that thing, Keep that disgusting trash can there. They're a little smaller, a little smaller, more intimate, knowing that you're not exactly gonna I mean, they're coming up on their twenty fifth year. I think crazy. It's a long you know, it's not like they're brand new, and
they're typically really good. Right, you're in and you're out, crafty, good, smart organization. Yeah, just nobody goes they They couldn't combine both games to reach forty thousand fans. I guess there's a big issue with Saint Pete being over the bridge or a little ways from Tampa, and then people don't want to cross, and I think traffic is a mofo. But whatever it was, man, I mean, there's no excuse for the other teams that showed out yesterday, and granted they weren't all in the middle of the
day, but that was pathetic. But I don't care because we smushed. Danny pulled a piece of audio from the ABC broadcast. The Playboy player was Sean mcdonut, the Finger Sean McDon you know, I was reading about Sean mcdonut too, who you are disrespecting a little bit. He's a hard working guy. He's got games like every day of the week. I just think
he sucks. He's one of the few people that have called games for all four of the Big Four, which is hard because that hockey cutoff is pretty serious for most broadcasters, all four of the Big Four, and then tennis, golf, the Olympics, college basketball, college football. He's one of the very few people that have got like the Big seven or eight. Oh. He needs to be respected, not be called a finger. And mcdonut, no, that's the thing about him. Like there's a big self serving
article about him in the Athletic and it's just just amazing. And I can't even get my name in the Dallas Morning News. Tried Happy Birthday night, he said, won the freaking the Dallas Mornings for their nice article. Well we'll talk about that. At seven point thirty. Here's Sean mcdonut, the finger from ABC on the crowd at Tampa yesterday and on the third Goot Seger and some boons starting to come down from the group. I'm not sure we could call it a crowd. The group here at the truck. He almost
kill Kirtchak with that. Amazing the article that I was looking at this morning that I saw that headline that the Finger makes fun of the Troup crowd. I don't know, I can't remember where it came from, but apparently he was a longtime Red Sox announcer. Is that correct? The Finger? Yeah? Yeah, I know that. Yeah. And it said at the bottom, it's like, you know, it's funny that he's taking jabs at the fans at Tampa Bay when the Red Sox playoff attendance was literally zero. Okay,
that was pretty funny. Though the group, the group booze running down from the group. They Evan Carter got a lot of more. It's weird thing to do, like a big resets again, like yesterday we told you he was full count. There's a lot of that. Evan Carter, though twenty one years old and thirty six days old, became the eleventh youngest player to ever hit a home run in the playoffs. He doesn't care. Number one was Andrew Jones at nineteen apup. Do you remember those days? Actually?
Do? He's going? Bryce Harper also at nineteen, Manny Machado at twenty Miguel Carprera at twenty, Mickey Mantle at twenty. He's in that company. Yeah, third American with Mantle and Harper I think. And then they showed the Jorge Solaier number of each bases first nine times in his career in the postseason, right or was it nine? I thought he was nine and and and Carter was six. I think whatever. It was incredible start.
And it's just so rare to have a dude like that that looks so comfortable, like they belong and they don't care, and that is what that dude does. I love that he is just blowing up on it. I mean, maybe not a national scale just yet, but man, he keeps it up, and this team keeps anything close to what they did the last couple of days up. That dude is having his moment. So from a strategy standpoint, maybe tomorrow we'll talk about the Orioles and what they're actually up against.
Without one hundred and win one hundred and one win Orioles, those they're running Robbie Grossman out in the three hole. He hasn't done a lot of that this year. He's been a part time player pretty much all year. YEAP honestly, but they started at the end of the y year because of injuries and stuff, and Josh Young was hurt and then Adulis was hurt not putting him in the three old and now it's like, maybe just go ahead and do it with Evan. I don't think that's overwhelming him. I saw.
I think Jamie Newdberg tweeted that as well, that he needs to move up. And then do you think, well, do you mess with what's worthing? Yeah, maybe you just don't mess with it because there is a certain like we were talking with Emily Jones yesterday, she popped on with us on the downbeat her six to ten that having that strength at the bottom of your lineup is man, that's an asset, dude, and not a lot of teams have that. You know, next year I bet they go Carter
Simeon Seeger and probably rework that a little bit. Yeah, But now, I mean, that's something you mentioned yesterday, Mike, that Bochi wanted to go right left, right, left, right left, and that's what everyone wants to do. So because the new bullpen roll where you have to be in for three pitchers, I agree. There was the moment yesterday in the game where Simeon hit into a double play and hopefully he gets hot because he was not good the last two days. It's been to a double play.
There's a runner at third with two outs and they said, okay, we'll walk Corey Seger, and ever since Corey Seger gets intentionally watched like those our chance. Yeah, and here's Robbie Grossman. It's like, ah, that's it's not striking fear into the heart of the opposing opponent. You'd like for that to be Nate Low, but he got super cold, you know, down the stretch. So there's no I don't know what the solution is, and maybe the solution is nothing. You just keep pounding because you just put
up five and seven runs in a playoff game. Yeah, I kind of lean toward leave him where he is. He definitely is worthy of being far higher up the lineup. But that's I mean he I don't think that dude is anywhere close to fragile or anything at all. But no, leave him man. It's working, And I guess it's easy to say it's working after the last two days. But it's easy to say it's working when you give
up one run in two games against Tampa. Yeah, yeah, because that's the real story, Yes, the fact that our pitching is somehow alive. Yeah, I mean, have get shut out one game and then it's going okay, yeah yeah, well get let's put him up there. So maybe let that happen first before as you do that. I love the bullpen didn't have to be used. That was just great. Now, are you guys have you guys thought about what's coming up this weekend? I mean, have
you guys thought about everything that's happening. Because I was sitting there watching just kind of paying well, the game was ended and I was kind of just parting around the laptop and I was like, I wonder, we know the game Saturday game one. I wonder what's going to happen? Well, then every game that happened last night or yesterday ended all those all four of the three game series ended in two oh sweeps. So note Thursday game three needed
for any of that. We're locked in leaders to go on Saturday, and the Rangers drew the early straw on Saturday. It's it's it's fade to complete for them. If they're in the playoffs, they're always going to play at one, well, noon on Saturday. Do you know why though, because of Billy Joel. Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks are the reason the Rangers play
at noon on Saturday. Because at Baltimore's stadium whatever it's called, it's Camden Yarns whatever, there's a Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks concert that night and the door's open for that concert at four thirty. Music starts at six. Who Rangers Orioles at noon right in the middle of Texas, Oklahoma on Saturday, at the same stadium at Camden Yards. Yeah, that is going to be in cluster. I'll give you extra ratings, give me extra ratings. Are
you serious? That's how do they even logistmally do that? Because the baseball playoffs aren't, like you know, I mean, the NFL can't do this total completely. But it's still kind of up in the air. Who's going to do it now. Baltimore's had the one seed and they've known Baltimore was going to play at home on Saturday for a week, but the Billy Joel Stevie Nicks thing was booked before. Baltimore sure was the one seed in the
American League, So I don't know how they do that. Do you have if you have a three hour game, Let's say, okay, so they first pitch is at one o'clock twelve twelve hour time. Yeah, one o'clock their time, one o'clock their time. Yeah, that's so. Let's say that the game goes till by the time everybody's out of that stadium, it's gonna be four thirty or five, right, How you've got to set up amps and crap. Yeah, Kevin has to go help with soundcheck, love
soundcheck. Well, you have to put all flat right, ten thousand chairs right, and you have to cover the infield and then come back and play on Sunday. And this is my fear, and this is a prediction. But so the most exciting three teams left to the playoffs from an emil B standpoint, clearly, it's the Dodgers, It's the very fun Atlanta Braves, and it's it would be the Phillies. It's not any of these teams in the American And maybe the Astros get the fourth just because they've been there the
last few years. Twins ain't ain't drawing Baltimore even though they're the one seed, is not going to capture the interest of America, and the Rangers aren't either, So it's Dodgers Braves. That's what they want to be in primetime because there's a concert Saturday night. Are they going to make Game two Rangers Orioles be a primetime game so they have time to take care of the field, recover the field. The one thing that I beg that goes up against
the Cowboy game stay stay out of primetime Sunday night. Please put Rangers Orioles at three o'clock. We do not need Rangers Orioles competing with Cowboys forty nine ers. And I think that the baseball powers that be are smart enough to go, geez, the Cowboys are on NBC Sunday Night. Ye avoid that. Yeah, I think they would be smart enough to realize that, But it's the MLB. They're not smart enough to know where their ass is.
Well, if you're telling the truth that they're going to try to turn that place from a baseball state into a concert venue in like an hour, they are they can handle the overnight strike of Billy Joel's stuff and get the thing ready to play earlier than primetime Sunday night. So logistically it shouldn't be that much of a problem. But boy, imagine the poor Rangers if they go
against Texas OU and then go against the Cowboys and Niners. Gosh, can't even get you know, And that's maybe what you deserve when your games aren't available to be viewed to half of your metroplex in the first place. These games will be on Fox. You'll probably get some Joe Davis, which I don't love, but maybe he'll get a lot of Dodgers games. Might get a little uh Migi, little Kevin Burkhart Kevin if he's still doing in baseball. That's not Mike Kevin. This is not Mike Kevin. Mike Kevin,
thank you. I'm your Kevio. So, yeah, noon noon on Saturday. Luckily, and I looked this up last night. Luckily, the Constitution allows us to have multiple TVs. I read that last night when you were reading the Constitution. Yeah, I just wanted to find out what they said about TVs because I know I kind of watch both. Can we make that instead of the phone case bet? The real bet is you have to read the whole Constitution and then take a quiz. Yeah, and pass Jingu's Constitutional
quiz. Do the Constitution audiobook. You gotta read it into a microphone and edit it. It's just one huge sheet of paper. Pain in the nuts to have to take a test on the Constitution. It does sound crappy. We could do the generic SAT bet though, that would be kind of funny. Let's save that for a big one. I kind of we have to go take the SAT. The other one for the S draft could be the one million dollars. Fill up the Amazon cart to a million dollars. It's
pretty easy to do, though, I don't have time for that. I want to do that one, but it has to be you can't have an item more than a thousand dollars. Oh my god, I do not have time. You have to fill your Amazon cart to one million and put your credit card everything in there, and you have to show yourself hovering over the click to purchase. But you have to just hover over it and then you
can delete it all. Then you have to delete every item. So now a stray cat fallster the roof of your cil lands on your well yeah, well, I mean it'll be declined, right he called the bank here hear me out. I'll send you a video of it. You're else is just it looks like I don't know, it looks like Normandy, but it's instead of sandbags, it's just Amazon boxes. Not only do I have a million dollars worth of stuff, I also had to fix my ceiling yet I didn't
even know I had a cat. I have to get a new cat. Whose cat is that? It's up mine? Well, there's that. Good job, Rangers, Dangers. They did it. Nobody believed in you, especially US US three did, but nobody else did. It was no stress. It's fun, very fun. It's gonna get stressful now it's gonna get baseball playoff. Stress is so fun and they didn't have to deal with any of that, So mentally, I think they're in a good spot. No
other game times announced. I am a little nervous about what they're gonna do to us. So there's only two games on Sunday too. For Game two, the National League will get game We'll do game two on Monday, so the American League game two on Sunday. Dude, they're not going to put one at noon. It's going to be a game at three point thirty and a game at seven. And is Twins Astros better than Orioles Rangers. Just for the sake of the Cowboys. They will do it right and put the
Rangers game early. What time do the I mean they put it off thought in all the scheduling. I mean, I know this one is there. They have no time to really think about it. But that is like rule one in cross sports scheduling is don't go against in the NFL if you can help, They'll started at four out there. It'd be maybe three o'clock our time, m something like the Texans and Ravens play at noon. So Houston and Minnesota, I mean Houston and Baltimore take out of it. They play
at noon. The Minnesota Vikings host the Chiefs at three twenty five. So someone is getting screwed here. Yep, yeah, the Twins are the Rangers. Who are they going to screw We're a bigger market, So screw Minnesota, right, yes, yeah, screw you Minnesota in your dumb twin cities. I mean the Vikings Chiefs is America's game of the week at three twenty five. I mean, you have to combine two cities to make up your
whole thing. I mean, what region would do morons? Wait a minute, oh yeah, we have a lot Yeah, we're the Minneapolis St. Paul of the South. We're a live we're fighting. Yeah, we are the Texas Rangers. What's our slogan when strangle October, go and take it, Go and take it. It's not oh, because it means they know they're going to be playing on the road road game. It's not come and take it because I feel like doing anything after that going oh, come up
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