April 10, 2024 • 23 mins
The Rangers bullpen is a mess! SO MANY pitchers are getting hurt around MLB! How much are sidepieces making in pro sports?
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And jumped out and put him up. This suit got him just run into
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mister d out there. He's goingto be in here a little bit and
tells us that he's going to befocusing on an area of town that he
normally does not. Oh and thatis sunny south of Dallas. Oh so
stand by for that. That's comingup in just a bit. But before
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we get to that, we havethis this is the best damn oh my
god, coming up in just abit in the best damn sports segment period?
How much does it cost to havea side piece? And pro sports?
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But before we get there, wehave very serious you wanted instant speculation.
Oh, go ahead, I mush. You think it costs to have
a side piece, and it's quitepricey. I feel pretty sure if you
wanted to stay on the low low, how much do you think it that
makes it even more pricing? That'spretty tough. Yeah, I'll have the
numbers for you, Okay, Butfirst you guys catch the games last night.
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Boy, great job by the Starsthree to two win. That was
great. Mavericks really took care ofbusiness against Charlotte. I had a great
time. Where are you headed,y'all? See that Ranger game. Though.
Yeah, all right, Emily Jonesat five o'clock today. We talked
to her every Wednesday. Not herfault about the Rangers. I think it
is. We're gonna talk about theRangers bullpen for just as a reporter.
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Do y'all know that she's a reporter, one of the best, if not
the best, in the whole league. She's not out there throwing the pitches.
She's top ten for me for sure. To stop it, well,
she's top one for me. Ohyeah, So jose Le Clark blew a
save. Jose L Clark has beenabsolutely awful this year. And Bruce Boche
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if you're listening, stop just stopit. Uh somebody else. It's somebody
else, it's not jose La Clerk. And look, you're done with him
altogether. I you know what,maybe, Look he built up some credit
last year. They asked a lotof them in the postseason and he did
a lot for them, and theyhave a world effing series. So I
have some love for jose Le Clerkin my heart. They had a really
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bad bullpen, but he did hisjob. Spores did his job in the
playoffs. Chapman kind of did hisjob. It's just real wild ass.
I hope he didn't. I betthe stats are good in terms of like
e er it was. I justtried so hard to make Chapman happen,
and I just I couldn't. Iwant to look this up in my brain
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chat. I'm kind of right therewith you on then. Yeah, now
that he's gone, we can admitthis, right. I was very very
uneasy every time he killed him.He was good for them in a very
uncomfortable way. I need to findhis playoff stats, game logs, pitching,
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postseason, and I'm gonna get there. Let's see, I have to
scroll lot he's played in some playoffs. Yeah, okay, so for the
really desperate for the Rangers in thepostseason, his era was two three seven.
That is wonderful that way. Uh, he just really liked playing around
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with it a little bit, walkingpeople and letting the ball get hit hard.
And it was a wild ass anyway. So now my tree of trust
with the Rangers in the bullpen rightnow, there's literally two people in it,
and one of them gave up ahome run last night. Uh.
David Robertson is in the tree oftrust. Kirby Yates is in the tree
of trust. He's been good forthis team so far. The guy I
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called Uranus has been really good forthem. But I'll let you know when
he achieves tree of trust status.Yeah, he's not there yet, Joseal
Clark has certainly there is here isfourteen point four. He's given up runs
in four of his five appearances.He can't close anymore. Don't do it,
And I'm sure Bruce Boch he's notgonna say that out loud until he
has to, which will be afterhe has to go save a game.
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And it ain't la Clerk that heruns out there, which will be at
their next opportunity problem before he tellsus about it. He's going to do
it now. I don't think LeaClerk will get the ball in the ninth
inning with a three run lead orless, or maybe if it's three,
he'll be like, you know what, maybe he could pull it off and
we get some confidence back. Idon't think he'll get back out there.
I think we're done with it.In honor of that, I have come
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up with my list of people whoshould be saving games for the Rangers,
and I have the number of peoplebefore I get to Jose Leclerk. Okay,
let's run them down. Number one, David Robertson. He has saved
games in Major League Baseball, Likehow recently. Let's see David Robertson.
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He's saved I think one hundred andsixty five hundred and seventy five games.
Now he's an old man. Now, he's thirty nine years old. He
has one hundred and seventy five careersaves. And the last time that he
was a closer, he saved eighteengames last year. Okay, And I
know he got taken out last night. And I know he's an older player,
and I don't know if he's somebodythat you can trust just all through
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the summer in September, but yeah, just for now. Two, I
don't know, put the bullpen backon a little bit more of an even
keel. Let guys settle into rollsa little bit. I'd do it,
And it might help with Clerk,Yeah it might. Hey, look,
yeah, we have a two runlead, and you are going to pitch
in the sixth. Yeah, andyou can get back on track. Maybe
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we can start inching you back.I'll bet if you look at his time
here, he's got situations like thatbefore we'd have a few tough outings and
then that that, you know,not use him for a while, and
when they did start using him again, it would be in a little bit
of a less pressurized situation. He'dhave some success there and then started waking
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working his way back into one ofthe more significant roles. I'm gonna look
at last year because last year he'dlost the closer job in like a day,
didn't he Yeah, he lost itreal quick. Yeah, I mean
that scenario may have played out lastyear. Last year he blew a save
on April eleventh and then did notget a save. It's a year go
tomorrow, and then did not geta save after that until August twenty eighth,
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So they yanked it and he gotit back at the end of the
year. Okay, then and inbetween he was good. Then I would
say, that's what they need tolook at doing here. So yeah,
so David Robertson, go close thegames. My option number two is Josh
Spores if he comes back and hisarm hasn't fallen off. Yeah, once
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he's back, option number of theconcern. Option number three is Kirby Yates.
Option number four is Josh spores ifhe comes back and his arm is
falling off. All right, theseare just the guys I would rather have
close games. Jose le clerk.Number five is Jose Urina. I'm gonna
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I'm gonna learn his FN name Urana. I think it's a Aranya his number
five. Number six is brock Burke. I think it's gonna get weird.
Number seven is Jacob Latz. Numbereight is Yarin Rodriguez. Now I can't
stand to see a little bit moreof Jacob Latz. We have to put
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him in front of Burke for you. Yeah, I can do that.
He's a left hander, all right, Jacob Latz, Brock Burke, Yerry
Rodriguez. Mail this to Bochie,Grant Anderson. Okay, So that's one,
two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight nine.
That's the nine guys I've got infront of the clerk for the closer
job. Number ten Ron Washington,Oh, all right. Eleven is Rangers
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Captain. Twelve, I got tohave let clerk over him. Yeah.
Twelve is Pat Green and or BobbySessions. Oh, either of them.
Thirteen Mike Reiner, you're asking forreal trouble there. Fourteen Rangers communications director
John Blake fifteen, Emily Jones,Wow sixteen, jose Leclerk. So that's
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where I got him. If youwant to know when I want him closing
games, it's after Emily tears herrotator cuff. That's when jose can close
a game. Oh man, that'sabout the only time I've ever been ahead
of John Blake on any list.Okay, now there is the very serious
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and interesting to me conversation of what'sgoing on in baseball with all the pictures
getting hurt. So it happens aton, right, Tommy, John is
all over the place. Yeah,it does. And I've been following this
story too, and you the allkinds of speculation about possible reasons that this
is happening, and all of themcould very what possibly be. Yeah,
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and so trying to get to thebottom of it is one thing. But
just to illustrate how insane it ishow much pictures get hurt these days.
On ESPN dot com, they havea thing that is their ACE rankings,
and so it's baseball's best starting pitchers. And the guy who does it is
Kylie McDaniel, And he said,I've done editions of these ACE rankings at
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the start of the last few seasons, but this year's version felt different.
Going into twenty twenty four, wehad a number of injured ACE or ACE
adjacent pictures from last year Jacob deGram, Walker, Bueller, Shoho Tani,
Sandy Alcantara, while long term aceslike Schrzer, Verlander and Kershaw had
fallen out of that tier but werealso hurt. Then the recent rash of
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injuries hit another half dozen pitchers whowould figure in these rankings going down since
the start of spring training. Intotal, nearly half of the starting pitchers
in the three tiers. The threetop tiers of starting pitchers, nearly half
of them are injured right now weare two weeks into baseball. In fact,
here's a fun fact. The onlycy Young Award winners from the last
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fourteen years that are active this weekBlake Snell and Corbyn Burns, two guys
that have won cy Young's in thelast fourteen years, are actually active,
and those are pretty recent winners too. So what he did was he had
to do his list differently, otherwisethe article wouldn't have had enough words.
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So he did his ACE rankings,but he included healthy and injured in each
tier. So currently in baseball,you have four aces who are healthy Zach
Wheeler with the Phillies, Kevin Gossmanwith the Blue Jays, Corbyn Burns with
the Orioles, Logan Web with theGiants. It's four, you have five
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who are hurt. So more ofthe top tier of pitcher are hurt than
are healthy. Twelve or so daysinto baseball, Garrett Cole, Jacob de
Gram, Walker, Bueller, Spencer, Strider, Fran Ravaldez just got hurt.
The almost aces he has eleven ofthem that are healthy and eight that
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are injured, including Max Scherzer.The third tier of pictures. And here's
one that if you're a Ranger fan, if you have an explanation for this
one, Boy, am I everopen to it? Because I'm gonna have
to look up his numbers while hewas here. Do you guys remember once
upon a time when we traded forEraldist Chapman before he started honking his mom's
boob? Yeah? Do you rememberwhat we traded for Eraldest Chapman. Not
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at the top of my head.No, Well, one of the guys
that we traded for, Eraaldist Chapmanwas Cole Reagan's was the main Yeah,
yeah, yeah, that's right.And the reason that we did that is
because Cole Reagan's was a prospect thatwe've been waiting on to be worth of
dam forever and he was awful.What happened. He now falls into the
third tier of starting pitching in majorleague basement. It happened immediately he started
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opening day for the Royals. Wow, well he was he got he got
pitch, He got out of hereand he got good. He could not
pitch, he was not good.He got there and he's like ball kiss.
I don't know, I don't know. It's not like a different pitching
coach that tells him something that sticks. You know. It could be that,
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it could be a number of things. I mean, probably that's the
easiest thing to grab onto. Forthe proletariat like us, that's probably the
easiest thing to grab on onto.He got together with the pitching coach who
talked to him in a way thathe could understand and connected with him and
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made everything that probably a lot ofthe stuff they were trying to tell him
here, but they just didn't connectwith him. They did there. Yeah,
you know, it just made senseto him coming from another voice,
you know, Yep, with pictures, they say, sometimes guys just have
to hear another voice. That's ashame when you use that kind of pitching,
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I mean, and we've been cursedin that regard since oh god,
forever. Just about developing starting pitchingfor the Rangers has just been like a
it's been a never And then someof them go somewhere else and it's like,
oh, he was good, andit's like, what are y'all doing
over here? What are y'all doing? But anyway, that aside, the
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third tier of starting pitcher in MajorLeague Baseball, ten of them are healthy
and there are nine of them thatare injured. So half of the best
pitchers in baseball are hurt right now, and that has become a huge thing.
It's like what is going on?And there are so many theories that
if you ask different players, you'llhear different things. If you ask different
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you know, training guys and doctorsand stuff like that, you'll hear different
stuff. Like I think Spencer Striderof the Braves, who was recently hurt
unprompted, started talking about it andhe was talking about the pitching clock and
that what else did he say?I know the pitching clock was part of
it. So you've got players whoare blaming the pitching clock. You have
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that, you have the way someguys grip the baseball. You have the
fact that all teams want are guyswho throw hard. There are three or
four other things that made its wainof that conversation as well. I think
justin Verlander is is he the onewho said, I don't remember if he
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is grip or the ball guy?Yeah? Yeah. Some say it's the
ball. They say they changed theball and it started jumping out of ballparks
more, and they were like,oh okay, and that pitchers are now
thinking I have to not let theball go in play or it's going over
the fence because they've juiced the ballup. And so he's like, we're
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throwing as hard as we can,and we're spinning it as hard as we
can. Because the fact that theygot rid of the sticky stuff to grip
the ball has been brought up bypitchers that say, throughout our entire lives,
there's something you were able to use, and now they took it away,
and you can't hold the ball thesame and you can't grip it the
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same, and that's different. Andthen the theory that I think is probably
the biggest factor probably is that forthe first time ever, I believe like
once upon a time, if youheard about Tommy John surgery, it was
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in major League baseball. Yeah,yeah, that's where you had Tommy John
surgery. Over time it became majorand minor league baseball, in college baseball,
and now, if I heard itright, I believe there are more
Tommy John's outside of pro baseball youththere are in pro baseball. We're destroying
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people as children, is what's happening. There are kids out there who have
I don't know how many been successfulat this, but who have tried to
get Tommy John on purpose when theywere teenagers and they weren't even hurt.
Wow, because they just viewed itas this will be part of my life.
Yeah, so let's just go aheadand do it. Yeah, so
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let's just get it knocked out.Wow. And that's just that. Why
would that be? I think somany more Tommy John the way they're teaching
kids to pitch. No, Ithink it's that we've gone from once upon
a time, like you played highschool ball, you played college ball,
and that was what you did,and then you played major league ball,
and now when you're nine or tenyears old, you play on whatever your
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little youth team is, and thenyou have your travel team, and so
like there are places where there's apitch limit where you can only throw so
many. But then the kid whomet his pitch limit on his one team
then goes to his travel team andhe's the game one starter. And you're
doing this year round. Yeah.Yeah, that's the other thing. Some
of these kids played baseball year round. I know. It's crazy. It's
kind of like how in basketball withAAU and everything, like, players are
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coming into the NBA pretty much alreadybroken down in terms of their knees and
legs and stuff like that. Becauseonce upon a time, if you were
twelve years old, fourteen years old, fifteen years old, you would play
baseball during baseball season, and thenyou would run track, or you would
play football, or you would playbasketball, or you do all these different
things. But we've reached the pointwhere if your parent thinks you're a good
baseball player at nine, you're playingbaseball, yeah, and you're pretty much
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picking a position then yeah, likeyou're pitching or you're hitting, or you're
playing shortstop, and that's it,and on the test for that with an
eight year old boy, we're seeingit kind of start and then it's does
he have a sport he likes thebest. He goes back and forth like
NFL or sorry, he wants tobe in the NFL, so he says
football. Let him play multiple sportsor basketball. He plays football, basketball,
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soccer, baseball. Play them alluntil you're not good enough to play
them. Yeah, that's what we'retrying to do. It makes your parents
kind of go crazy, all ofthe traveling around, or not traveling but
taking to practice here and there orwhatever. Yeah, but yeah, that's
interesting the number of guys who aregreats in a pro sport and you're like,
oh, what you do as akid, Like they're gonna tell you
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I played this and this and this, Like I could look this up,
but I bet you. Luca playedsoccer, and I bet you he says
it helped at basketball. Yeah.Well, a lot of the greats are
just so naturally gifted too, Likesome of them aren't even on these little
teams, will just go throw theball around with their dad or whatever,
and then age ten, eleven,twelve, they're like, well, maybe
i'll try this and they're just reallygood. But it is hard to not
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as a parent because when you seeother people starting to kind of accelerate their
kids or whatever it is, youwant them to be able to keep up.
But I know that's not the rightthing to do, especially if you
got money, Like, how doI not hire a pitching coach that I
can afford to be my kid tobe better? Why wouldn't I put him
on the best team I can putthem on and get him to go play?
And why wouldn't I do all thesethings the answers because he's gonna have
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Tommy John surgery all the time,right show out? You know what I
think i'd look at first if Iwas in that situation where you know,
a kid was showed some promise,I think the thing I would look at
first is number one, does hereally love the game? And number two
is he willing to really work atit? You know, at the end,
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if I don't get the answers Iwant to either of those things,
then then I don't think i'd bequite so eager to, you know,
go to those more extreme measures withhim. Yeah, the extra money,
get the extra lessons, do theclub. Yeah, whatever I mean if
I'm gonna do that. Then Iwant the kid to really feel it.
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Yeah, and it's hard, Yeah, because they're not wired that way.
Yeah, that way. I stillwant to go play and do anything to
do to you. They're not likeI just want to practice sports all the
time. They got all they gota lot of other things running through that
head of theirs. Speaking of money, let me pay off the te's real
quick. The answer to how muchdoes it cost to have a side piece
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girlfriend if you're a professional athlete andthem not tell everybody about it? Gilbert
Arenas told us. Gilbert Arenas went, what was he on? Uh,
probably some sort of podcasts. Yeah, I'll find it if I find it.
But he says that it costs aboutsixty thousand dollars a month is the
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going rate for an NBA girlfriend toshut up? Wow, if you have
an NBA girlfriend and you want herto be an NBA girlfriend and not talk
about things because you're married or whatever, yeah, sixty sixty thousand dollars a
month and radio girlfriends twice that.Yeah, it's true. My favorite part
is that he clarified that typically thesewomen will be seeing multiple NBA stars simultaneously,
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but and they will share, andthey will share the total monthly figure
to get to sixty thousand dollars amonth. Aren't there enough women in the
world that yes, NBA stars don'tneed to share them. Maybe they're like
the same Instagram hussies. There's alot of Instagram hussies. A lot of
people would date these NBA players andget paid to do it. Sixty grand
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a month, so sixty forty threethree, sixty seven hundred and twenty thousand
dollars a year. I think theplayers ever swap stories about them? Oh
yeah, sure. And the reasonthat they pay it is because if you
don't, you end up in aheadline that I see and bring to the
air about how many girls say thatAnthony Edwards is the father of their baby
in the last twelve months because theanswer is three? Oh my god,
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they might not be getting paid.I was reading a couple of days ago,
and I can't remember who it was, but it's some real run of
the mill NBA guy. I can'tremember who it was, but I mean,
it's nobody that you'd brag about.And actually, whoever it is,
I remember thinking he's kind of toreup for that, but he was saying
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he's got seven kids, seven kids, seven baby mamas. Oh oh wow,
that's living man, that's you're gonnalive it up like a challenge to
do. Just make sure you're sockingenough away to pay for eighteen years?
Yeah, eighteen years? How muchis a good round of unprotected love and
worth eighteen years of child report?I don't think so. Use the old
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school method, guys. A monthto get out of there at that certain
time you know when that is,and y'all are crazy. That's the best
dance sports segment period. Coming upnext, A damn good one coming up
next. I saw him farting aroundout there. You'll stay up to date
and keep it moving with mister Dallas. Next
And jumped out and put him up. This suit got him just run into
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mister d out there. He's goingto be in here a little bit and
tells us that he's going to befocusing on an area of town that he
normally does not. Oh and thatis sunny south of Dallas. Oh so
stand by for that. That's comingup in just a bit. But before
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we get to that, we havethis this is the best damn oh my
god, coming up in just abit in the best damn sports segment period?
How much does it cost to havea side piece? And pro sports?
(00:49):
But before we get there, wehave very serious you wanted instant speculation.
Oh, go ahead, I mush. You think it costs to have
a side piece, and it's quitepricey. I feel pretty sure if you
wanted to stay on the low low, how much do you think it that
makes it even more pricing? That'spretty tough. Yeah, I'll have the
numbers for you, Okay, Butfirst you guys catch the games last night.
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Boy, great job by the Starsthree to two win. That was
great. Mavericks really took care ofbusiness against Charlotte. I had a great
time. Where are you headed,y'all? See that Ranger game. Though.
Yeah, all right, Emily Jonesat five o'clock today. We talked
to her every Wednesday. Not herfault about the Rangers. I think it
is. We're gonna talk about theRangers bullpen for just as a reporter.
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Do y'all know that she's a reporter, one of the best, if not
the best, in the whole league. She's not out there throwing the pitches.
She's top ten for me for sure. To stop it, well,
she's top one for me. Ohyeah, So jose Le Clark blew a
save. Jose L Clark has beenabsolutely awful this year. And Bruce Boche
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if you're listening, stop just stopit. Uh somebody else. It's somebody
else, it's not jose La Clerk. And look, you're done with him
altogether. I you know what,maybe, Look he built up some credit
last year. They asked a lotof them in the postseason and he did
a lot for them, and theyhave a world effing series. So I
have some love for jose Le Clerkin my heart. They had a really
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bad bullpen, but he did hisjob. Spores did his job in the
playoffs. Chapman kind of did hisjob. It's just real wild ass.
I hope he didn't. I betthe stats are good in terms of like
e er it was. I justtried so hard to make Chapman happen,
and I just I couldn't. Iwant to look this up in my brain
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chat. I'm kind of right therewith you on then. Yeah, now
that he's gone, we can admitthis, right. I was very very
uneasy every time he killed him.He was good for them in a very
uncomfortable way. I need to findhis playoff stats, game logs, pitching,
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postseason, and I'm gonna get there. Let's see, I have to
scroll lot he's played in some playoffs. Yeah, okay, so for the
really desperate for the Rangers in thepostseason, his era was two three seven.
That is wonderful that way. Uh, he just really liked playing around
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with it a little bit, walkingpeople and letting the ball get hit hard.
And it was a wild ass anyway. So now my tree of trust
with the Rangers in the bullpen rightnow, there's literally two people in it,
and one of them gave up ahome run last night. Uh.
David Robertson is in the tree oftrust. Kirby Yates is in the tree
of trust. He's been good forthis team so far. The guy I
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called Uranus has been really good forthem. But I'll let you know when
he achieves tree of trust status.Yeah, he's not there yet, Joseal
Clark has certainly there is here isfourteen point four. He's given up runs
in four of his five appearances.He can't close anymore. Don't do it,
And I'm sure Bruce Boch he's notgonna say that out loud until he
has to, which will be afterhe has to go save a game.
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And it ain't la Clerk that heruns out there, which will be at
their next opportunity problem before he tellsus about it. He's going to do
it now. I don't think LeaClerk will get the ball in the ninth
inning with a three run lead orless, or maybe if it's three,
he'll be like, you know what, maybe he could pull it off and
we get some confidence back. Idon't think he'll get back out there.
I think we're done with it.In honor of that, I have come
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up with my list of people whoshould be saving games for the Rangers,
and I have the number of peoplebefore I get to Jose Leclerk. Okay,
let's run them down. Number one, David Robertson. He has saved
games in Major League Baseball, Likehow recently. Let's see David Robertson.
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He's saved I think one hundred andsixty five hundred and seventy five games.
Now he's an old man. Now, he's thirty nine years old. He
has one hundred and seventy five careersaves. And the last time that he
was a closer, he saved eighteengames last year. Okay, And I
know he got taken out last night. And I know he's an older player,
and I don't know if he's somebodythat you can trust just all through
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the summer in September, but yeah, just for now. Two, I
don't know, put the bullpen backon a little bit more of an even
keel. Let guys settle into rollsa little bit. I'd do it,
And it might help with Clerk,Yeah it might. Hey, look,
yeah, we have a two runlead, and you are going to pitch
in the sixth. Yeah, andyou can get back on track. Maybe
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we can start inching you back.I'll bet if you look at his time
here, he's got situations like thatbefore we'd have a few tough outings and
then that that, you know,not use him for a while, and
when they did start using him again, it would be in a little bit
of a less pressurized situation. He'dhave some success there and then started waking
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working his way back into one ofthe more significant roles. I'm gonna look
at last year because last year he'dlost the closer job in like a day,
didn't he Yeah, he lost itreal quick. Yeah, I mean
that scenario may have played out lastyear. Last year he blew a save
on April eleventh and then did notget a save. It's a year go
tomorrow, and then did not geta save after that until August twenty eighth,
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So they yanked it and he gotit back at the end of the
year. Okay, then and inbetween he was good. Then I would
say, that's what they need tolook at doing here. So yeah,
so David Robertson, go close thegames. My option number two is Josh
Spores if he comes back and hisarm hasn't fallen off. Yeah, once
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he's back, option number of theconcern. Option number three is Kirby Yates.
Option number four is Josh spores ifhe comes back and his arm is
falling off. All right, theseare just the guys I would rather have
close games. Jose le clerk.Number five is Jose Urina. I'm gonna
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I'm gonna learn his FN name Urana. I think it's a Aranya his number
five. Number six is brock Burke. I think it's gonna get weird.
Number seven is Jacob Latz. Numbereight is Yarin Rodriguez. Now I can't
stand to see a little bit moreof Jacob Latz. We have to put
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him in front of Burke for you. Yeah, I can do that.
He's a left hander, all right, Jacob Latz, Brock Burke, Yerry
Rodriguez. Mail this to Bochie,Grant Anderson. Okay, So that's one,
two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight nine.
That's the nine guys I've got infront of the clerk for the closer
job. Number ten Ron Washington,Oh, all right. Eleven is Rangers
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Captain. Twelve, I got tohave let clerk over him. Yeah.
Twelve is Pat Green and or BobbySessions. Oh, either of them.
Thirteen Mike Reiner, you're asking forreal trouble there. Fourteen Rangers communications director
John Blake fifteen, Emily Jones,Wow sixteen, jose Leclerk. So that's
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where I got him. If youwant to know when I want him closing
games, it's after Emily tears herrotator cuff. That's when jose can close
a game. Oh man, that'sabout the only time I've ever been ahead
of John Blake on any list.Okay, now there is the very serious
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and interesting to me conversation of what'sgoing on in baseball with all the pictures
getting hurt. So it happens aton, right, Tommy, John is
all over the place. Yeah,it does. And I've been following this
story too, and you the allkinds of speculation about possible reasons that this
is happening, and all of themcould very what possibly be. Yeah,
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and so trying to get to thebottom of it is one thing. But
just to illustrate how insane it ishow much pictures get hurt these days.
On ESPN dot com, they havea thing that is their ACE rankings,
and so it's baseball's best starting pitchers. And the guy who does it is
Kylie McDaniel, And he said,I've done editions of these ACE rankings at
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the start of the last few seasons, but this year's version felt different.
Going into twenty twenty four, wehad a number of injured ACE or ACE
adjacent pictures from last year Jacob deGram, Walker, Bueller, Shoho Tani,
Sandy Alcantara, while long term aceslike Schrzer, Verlander and Kershaw had
fallen out of that tier but werealso hurt. Then the recent rash of
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injuries hit another half dozen pitchers whowould figure in these rankings going down since
the start of spring training. Intotal, nearly half of the starting pitchers
in the three tiers. The threetop tiers of starting pitchers, nearly half
of them are injured right now weare two weeks into baseball. In fact,
here's a fun fact. The onlycy Young Award winners from the last
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fourteen years that are active this weekBlake Snell and Corbyn Burns, two guys
that have won cy Young's in thelast fourteen years, are actually active,
and those are pretty recent winners too. So what he did was he had
to do his list differently, otherwisethe article wouldn't have had enough words.
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So he did his ACE rankings,but he included healthy and injured in each
tier. So currently in baseball,you have four aces who are healthy Zach
Wheeler with the Phillies, Kevin Gossmanwith the Blue Jays, Corbyn Burns with
the Orioles, Logan Web with theGiants. It's four, you have five
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who are hurt. So more ofthe top tier of pitcher are hurt than
are healthy. Twelve or so daysinto baseball, Garrett Cole, Jacob de
Gram, Walker, Bueller, Spencer, Strider, Fran Ravaldez just got hurt.
The almost aces he has eleven ofthem that are healthy and eight that
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are injured, including Max Scherzer.The third tier of pictures. And here's
one that if you're a Ranger fan, if you have an explanation for this
one, Boy, am I everopen to it? Because I'm gonna have
to look up his numbers while hewas here. Do you guys remember once
upon a time when we traded forEraldist Chapman before he started honking his mom's
boob? Yeah? Do you rememberwhat we traded for Eraldest Chapman. Not
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at the top of my head.No, Well, one of the guys
that we traded for, Eraaldist Chapmanwas Cole Reagan's was the main Yeah,
yeah, yeah, that's right.And the reason that we did that is
because Cole Reagan's was a prospect thatwe've been waiting on to be worth of
dam forever and he was awful.What happened. He now falls into the
third tier of starting pitching in majorleague basement. It happened immediately he started
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opening day for the Royals. Wow, well he was he got he got
pitch, He got out of hereand he got good. He could not
pitch, he was not good.He got there and he's like ball kiss.
I don't know, I don't know. It's not like a different pitching
coach that tells him something that sticks. You know. It could be that,
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it could be a number of things. I mean, probably that's the
easiest thing to grab onto. Forthe proletariat like us, that's probably the
easiest thing to grab on onto.He got together with the pitching coach who
talked to him in a way thathe could understand and connected with him and
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made everything that probably a lot ofthe stuff they were trying to tell him
here, but they just didn't connectwith him. They did there. Yeah,
you know, it just made senseto him coming from another voice,
you know, Yep, with pictures, they say, sometimes guys just have
to hear another voice. That's ashame when you use that kind of pitching,
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I mean, and we've been cursedin that regard since oh god,
forever. Just about developing starting pitchingfor the Rangers has just been like a
it's been a never And then someof them go somewhere else and it's like,
oh, he was good, andit's like, what are y'all doing
over here? What are y'all doing? But anyway, that aside, the
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third tier of starting pitcher in MajorLeague Baseball, ten of them are healthy
and there are nine of them thatare injured. So half of the best
pitchers in baseball are hurt right now, and that has become a huge thing.
It's like what is going on?And there are so many theories that
if you ask different players, you'llhear different things. If you ask different
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you know, training guys and doctorsand stuff like that, you'll hear different
stuff. Like I think Spencer Striderof the Braves, who was recently hurt
unprompted, started talking about it andhe was talking about the pitching clock and
that what else did he say?I know the pitching clock was part of
it. So you've got players whoare blaming the pitching clock. You have
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that, you have the way someguys grip the baseball. You have the
fact that all teams want are guyswho throw hard. There are three or
four other things that made its wainof that conversation as well. I think
justin Verlander is is he the onewho said, I don't remember if he
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is grip or the ball guy?Yeah? Yeah. Some say it's the
ball. They say they changed theball and it started jumping out of ballparks
more, and they were like,oh okay, and that pitchers are now
thinking I have to not let theball go in play or it's going over
the fence because they've juiced the ballup. And so he's like, we're
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throwing as hard as we can,and we're spinning it as hard as we
can. Because the fact that theygot rid of the sticky stuff to grip
the ball has been brought up bypitchers that say, throughout our entire lives,
there's something you were able to use, and now they took it away,
and you can't hold the ball thesame and you can't grip it the
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same, and that's different. Andthen the theory that I think is probably
the biggest factor probably is that forthe first time ever, I believe like
once upon a time, if youheard about Tommy John surgery, it was
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in major League baseball. Yeah,yeah, that's where you had Tommy John
surgery. Over time it became majorand minor league baseball, in college baseball,
and now, if I heard itright, I believe there are more
Tommy John's outside of pro baseball youththere are in pro baseball. We're destroying
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people as children, is what's happening. There are kids out there who have
I don't know how many been successfulat this, but who have tried to
get Tommy John on purpose when theywere teenagers and they weren't even hurt.
Wow, because they just viewed itas this will be part of my life.
Yeah, so let's just go aheadand do it. Yeah, so
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let's just get it knocked out.Wow. And that's just that. Why
would that be? I think somany more Tommy John the way they're teaching
kids to pitch. No, Ithink it's that we've gone from once upon
a time, like you played highschool ball, you played college ball,
and that was what you did,and then you played major league ball,
and now when you're nine or tenyears old, you play on whatever your
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little youth team is, and thenyou have your travel team, and so
like there are places where there's apitch limit where you can only throw so
many. But then the kid whomet his pitch limit on his one team
then goes to his travel team andhe's the game one starter. And you're
doing this year round. Yeah.Yeah, that's the other thing. Some
of these kids played baseball year round. I know. It's crazy. It's
kind of like how in basketball withAAU and everything, like, players are
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coming into the NBA pretty much alreadybroken down in terms of their knees and
legs and stuff like that. Becauseonce upon a time, if you were
twelve years old, fourteen years old, fifteen years old, you would play
baseball during baseball season, and thenyou would run track, or you would
play football, or you would playbasketball, or you do all these different
things. But we've reached the pointwhere if your parent thinks you're a good
baseball player at nine, you're playingbaseball, yeah, and you're pretty much
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picking a position then yeah, likeyou're pitching or you're hitting, or you're
playing shortstop, and that's it,and on the test for that with an
eight year old boy, we're seeingit kind of start and then it's does
he have a sport he likes thebest. He goes back and forth like
NFL or sorry, he wants tobe in the NFL, so he says
football. Let him play multiple sportsor basketball. He plays football, basketball,
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soccer, baseball. Play them alluntil you're not good enough to play
them. Yeah, that's what we'retrying to do. It makes your parents
kind of go crazy, all ofthe traveling around, or not traveling but
taking to practice here and there orwhatever. Yeah, but yeah, that's
interesting the number of guys who aregreats in a pro sport and you're like,
oh, what you do as akid, Like they're gonna tell you
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I played this and this and this, Like I could look this up,
but I bet you. Luca playedsoccer, and I bet you he says
it helped at basketball. Yeah.Well, a lot of the greats are
just so naturally gifted too, Likesome of them aren't even on these little
teams, will just go throw theball around with their dad or whatever,
and then age ten, eleven,twelve, they're like, well, maybe
i'll try this and they're just reallygood. But it is hard to not
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as a parent because when you seeother people starting to kind of accelerate their
kids or whatever it is, youwant them to be able to keep up.
But I know that's not the rightthing to do, especially if you
got money, Like, how doI not hire a pitching coach that I
can afford to be my kid tobe better? Why wouldn't I put him
on the best team I can putthem on and get him to go play?
And why wouldn't I do all thesethings the answers because he's gonna have
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Tommy John surgery all the time,right show out? You know what I
think i'd look at first if Iwas in that situation where you know,
a kid was showed some promise,I think the thing I would look at
first is number one, does hereally love the game? And number two
is he willing to really work atit? You know, at the end,
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if I don't get the answers Iwant to either of those things,
then then I don't think i'd bequite so eager to, you know,
go to those more extreme measures withhim. Yeah, the extra money,
get the extra lessons, do theclub. Yeah, whatever I mean if
I'm gonna do that. Then Iwant the kid to really feel it.
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Yeah, and it's hard, Yeah, because they're not wired that way.
Yeah, that way. I stillwant to go play and do anything to
do to you. They're not likeI just want to practice sports all the
time. They got all they gota lot of other things running through that
head of theirs. Speaking of money, let me pay off the te's real
quick. The answer to how muchdoes it cost to have a side piece
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girlfriend if you're a professional athlete andthem not tell everybody about it? Gilbert
Arenas told us. Gilbert Arenas went, what was he on? Uh,
probably some sort of podcasts. Yeah, I'll find it if I find it.
But he says that it costs aboutsixty thousand dollars a month is the
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going rate for an NBA girlfriend toshut up? Wow, if you have
an NBA girlfriend and you want herto be an NBA girlfriend and not talk
about things because you're married or whatever, yeah, sixty sixty thousand dollars a
month and radio girlfriends twice that.Yeah, it's true. My favorite part
is that he clarified that typically thesewomen will be seeing multiple NBA stars simultaneously,
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but and they will share, andthey will share the total monthly figure
to get to sixty thousand dollars amonth. Aren't there enough women in the
world that yes, NBA stars don'tneed to share them. Maybe they're like
the same Instagram hussies. There's alot of Instagram hussies. A lot of
people would date these NBA players andget paid to do it. Sixty grand
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a month, so sixty forty threethree, sixty seven hundred and twenty thousand
dollars a year. I think theplayers ever swap stories about them? Oh
yeah, sure. And the reasonthat they pay it is because if you
don't, you end up in aheadline that I see and bring to the
air about how many girls say thatAnthony Edwards is the father of their baby
in the last twelve months because theanswer is three? Oh my god,
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they might not be getting paid.I was reading a couple of days ago,
and I can't remember who it was, but it's some real run of
the mill NBA guy. I can'tremember who it was, but I mean,
it's nobody that you'd brag about.And actually, whoever it is,
I remember thinking he's kind of toreup for that, but he was saying
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he's got seven kids, seven kids, seven baby mamas. Oh oh wow,
that's living man, that's you're gonnalive it up like a challenge to
do. Just make sure you're sockingenough away to pay for eighteen years?
Yeah, eighteen years? How muchis a good round of unprotected love and
worth eighteen years of child report?I don't think so. Use the old
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school method, guys. A monthto get out of there at that certain
time you know when that is,and y'all are crazy. That's the best
dance sports segment period. Coming upnext, A damn good one coming up
next. I saw him farting aroundout there. You'll stay up to date
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