Can Rangers Catch A Win Against Mike Trout & Angels?

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two of the best players in the game on display
tonight at Globelife Field as Mike Trout and Corey Seeger
will try to lead their teams to victory. Hi, there,
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Speaker 2 (02:33):
Oh yeah, Mark, Yeah, we're struggling. We're last.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
I can't believe that's going to stay that way for long.
And even the guy from Denver and Denver they were
the first one. They were way out in front. I mean,
it's hard to catch them. But anyway, he was like,
it's a marathon, not a sprint.

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Rick Welts the president of the Dallas Mavericks. They had
a thing today and they didn't they had a press
conference and they didn't allow it to be recorded, no
recording devices, and they hand selected the media. Our own
Tim Cato was one of the people in there.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
And it's just another instance of us to be able
to say, thank god, we don't cover the MAVs. Yeahhhh, god,
they just keep stepping on it.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, stepping on rakes every everywhere they go, stepping in it,
you know, wheneverever you want to say it. And uh,
first of all, I guess the genesis of the no
recording implements is to make sure nothing goes viral. But
you know, don't you want to be at least quoted accurately, right,

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and your words to the right need to be to
be show instead of you know, sometimes they're going to
lose a lot in print, So I think that's terrible.
And plus, you know, you have a fan base still, right,
you deserve to at least let them know what you're
feeling and to be accountable for your actions. Right. And

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it completely.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
Excludes television, uh, you know, because it's a visual audio medium,
and in a way it excludes radio as well, which
is an audio.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
So yeah, and you know, transcribing is so hard, right,
you're gonna but they're gonna give a transfer. Isn't that nice?

Speaker 3 (05:38):
I wonder if I wonder if they might alter that
transcript at all anyway that that they just won one
pr nightmare after the other ever since what was it
February second and the Luca trade. So anyway, fear not,
the Rangers will not trade I guess the I guess

(05:59):
the closest comp right now would be Wyatt Langford, right, yeah, young,
and it's not quite there yet because he hasn't been
in the league as long as what Luca had. But
he looks like he's got superstar written all over him,
and the Rangers won't trade him after five or six years.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah, you know, it just seems like I was trying
to think of that. I mean, what's what's the equivalent,
you know, and what what's the shelf life on this?
I mean, because it's kind of unprecedented. You never, you
just don't see these superstars get traded. So you know,
how long are fans and media going to be up
in arms about this? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (06:34):
You know, I mean again, at our age and and
throughout our lives, we've heard about just the ridiculous Babe
Ruth trade, right, and this may be the next version.
I mean, it literally may go down as that.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, but like, yeah, I guess so, but least although
I think Ruth was technically sold, yeah, but still he
was you know, and I think what the Red Sox
were having some financial levels or their owner was and
and yeah, so that's that's an equivalent, you know. But
like Wayne Gretzky when he was traded from the Oilers,
he asked to be traded right because his wife wanted

(07:11):
to be the actress. The lady wanted to be in
Hollywood and all that stuff. I just you know, I
don't know, John, I just know there's nothing like You
can't think of one.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
There's nothing like it. So anyway, it's it's a game
day for the Rangers, and it's it's the blessing and
the curse of baseball. The blessing and the curse is
that there's a game every day. Now, in this case
for the Rangers, it's every other day, since they had
yesterday off.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
They'll take that.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
But when you've had a terrible road trip, a one
in five road trip, you like to get back out
there again right away and play. And especially you like
getting back out there again and playing at home.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Yeah, you know, I do sometimes think about the you know,
the the scene in bull Durham when you know they're
going through it bad and and and uh crash. Davis
says man, we need a rain out. Yeah. They're like, oh,
that's not going to happen, and he goes, I can
get you a rain out, and they turn on the sprinklers,
of course, and by god they get it rain out
and then turning they start going. So you know, maybe

(08:14):
yesterday is the Rangers rain out. They're sure, sure's heck
not getting sures heck not getting one here at a
global life field unless the roof somehow get stuck open
and it rains. But it is going to be open tonight,
and boy, I mean it looks like a great day.
I would though contend that. And I was thinking about
this because you know how much I don't like it

(08:35):
when the roof's open. But the wind is coming from
the east, the east northeast.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
Which is rare for here, right, non prevailing wind. Which
way does the ballpark face east northeast?

Speaker 2 (08:47):
So I mean the I think the wind is coming
into effects going in. Yeah, I think I think that
might have something to do with it. That's just me
being a conspiracy guy. Buck on that Mike Trout and
you're six run, that's right. So but anyway, yeah, you know,
you get you get to play the next day, And
that's what I kind of try to convey to the

(09:08):
kids of my son's team. It's like, oh, yeah, you
guys just played like crap, but guess what, got a
game tomorrow. Yeah, you know, and you got a chance
to redeem yourself and get better and all those things.
And uh that that is a great thing about baseball.
You know, you move on quickly from the loss if
you If you can't move on, then you're in trouble.
And so you know, that's why that's why good closers

(09:30):
and good relievers, they have a bad outing, they might
be needed the next day. Sure they can't. They can't
go out thinking about that. And uh, you know, starting
pitchers get a little break because they can think about
their start and work on it and all that stuff.
So maybe they're the exception. They don't get the chance
right away. But you know, you go for four or
four strikeouts and you're regular, you're going to be in
the line of the next day and with a chance
to redeem yourself. Yep.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
And every manager has a saying or a phrase, you know,
wash it off, right, just jump after that game, jump
in the shower and wash it off, no matter what happened,
and it truly it has to apply to the good
as well as the bad, right, because if you if
you have a great game, or if you have a
game like Tampa did yesterday, I think they scored nine

(10:13):
runs in an inning, right and a twenty seven minute
inning or something like that. So if you have a
great game, it doesn't mean you're that team, doesn't mean
you're going to do that tomorrow. Wash it off, be
ready for tomorrow. If it's bad, maybe even more important,
wash it off because don't let that one bad inning
or that one bad game turn into two. So you

(10:35):
know that was and every manager has that message, delivers
that message in one way or another to these guys
to know, you know, wash it off. It's time and
players that don't get to this level without knowing that
there's not one guy on the ranger in the rangers,
you know, or an organization right now in the clubhouse
anyway that's worried about the one in five road trip.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Right. And then the flip side, what you say that
is you know you've got to forget the good ones,
because the saying is this game will humble you. Yes,
you think you have it figured out and all of
a sudden, you're humbled. And I think right now there
are a lot of guys who are being humbled, but
they're trying to wash it down the train. Right, Let's
get our let's get our our sayings here and then

(11:18):
put them, put them all into effect, all of our cliches.
But yeah, you know, the game will humble you. You
you know, the the other team practices and and has
the opportunity to play the next day too, and to
improve and get better, and they generally, they generally will.
I'll be curious to see how many runs the race
score today. Yeah, no, they won't. They won't score. And

(11:42):
it's just little things like that. You know, you can't
ride the highs you want. You want to ride the highs.
You could, but you got to know, Hey, I can't
take anything for granted. I can't cut out you know,
my pregame routine. I can't do anything. It's all got
to stay the same and so and and that's on
the flip side too. These guys believe in their routines
and believe that what made them eighteen and twenty five

(12:05):
million dollars year players is eventually going to work. So
but I'll be I'll be curious to see if, if
anything happens today with the lineup. You know, Kakouchi is starting,
so he's left handed, and so I would suspect that
Jack Peterson won't be playing. So Jock needed a rain out,
Jock needed a big ru Yeah, and so what are

(12:27):
you gonna what's you know? We have Plar in there,
we have both catchers in there. Where are you going
to stick Josh Smith? So some some curiosity heading into
the clubhouse today at three pm? And then again the
rotation changed.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
Yeah, and we're going to get to that in the
next segment. So we appreciate the question all about sports
Zone because there has been a change to the rotation.
That's what we're talking about in the next segment. A
couple more items about this game tonight. First, and of
course Mike Trout was the lead. But Mike Trout doesn't
have the highest war on his team. That goes back

(13:08):
to the old guy Byron Ironron.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah, yeah, we needed the rhyme. But Kyron Yron Tyron,
Karen Parrisyron Parris, He's he's got the third best war
in baseball or in the American League. I should says
behind Judge and somebody else is off to a great start. Uh,
and he's a he's a rookie and he's got you know,
five bombs and five stolen bases and and again it's

(13:32):
fifteen games for them. I mean it's a small sample size,
but but he's uh, you know, that's a that's a
guy to watch. That's a fun Another sidebar to this
game is go watch what old Paris does out there. Yeah.
And you know, I again, I used to feel to
to name the Angelna because you know, you knew who

(13:52):
they their guys were. They were established guys. You know,
even before Mike Trout, you could go back Tory Hunter, Vlanger, sure,
all those guys. But now it's like, okay, Mike Trout
and who else.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
Yeah, And it's still weird for me, and it will
be when we're out there and see him this week.
It's weird for me to think of him in right field, right,
you know, it's strange. Yeah, he's had he's had some
problems out there too. It hasn't it hasn't been smooth ceiling.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
No.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
Well, again, it's not as easy as you think. And
corner outfields, the corner outfield positions can greatly vary by
ballpark right right, the center field. I mean, obviously some
ballparks have a slightly bigger center field, but center field
is kind of center field, you know, right field, left
field can vary greatly by by the dimensions and the

(14:44):
structure of a ballpark.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
You know.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
See, you know no greater example than Fenway Park, or
or really for both right and left and you know,
or minute may or whatever we call it, daycon daycon, dikon, dikon,
whatever it is. So anyway, let's get to that pitching
rotation stuff next, because it has changed. Jeff got it
from the horse's mouth. We talk about that and gets
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Speaker 3 (17:18):
I'm glad my name's not on there. I'd probably be
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a bunch of Sam two and seven. Maybe he probably
he probably picked the Stars in the last six. Boy,
that's another team. Holy mother. I mean they last night.
They you know, man, six in a row. They're leaking

(17:38):
oil right now.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
Hopefully that a good time to be doing it either.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
No, no, they got one one regular season game left,
so we'll hope they figure that one out. Anyway, the
Rangers have a chance to figure it out tonight. They
do need to get more offense. We know that Uh,
and they have changed the rotation Jeff and Uh. It's
interesting because this is something that typically is not a

(18:03):
Mike Maddocks play.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah, but it is kind of a unique situation because
they had they had two days off a day off
bookending the Mariners series, so there was an opportunity to
try to do something if if they wanted to, and
they wanted to, you know, Patrick Corbin was in line
to start today, which means he'd be in line to
start Sunday. I don't and then and then the other

(18:28):
thing is on the other side of the next off day,
Jack Lder could be back. Yeah, and are they off Monday?
They are, OK. So this is an opportunity for the
Rangers to get one more start out of Patrick Corban
and then what the cargion that's right, whether he ends

(18:49):
up in the bullpen, or whether he ends up staying
in the rotation and somebody else falling out of the rotation,
which would basically just be uh, Kamar Rocker would be
the only choice there. I also think that by going
Molly Corbyn tomorrow, Kamar Rocker, who moves up ahead of
Jacob deGrom by moving him up to the Thursday game.

(19:13):
I think that kind of gives him a little bit
of a breather so that he doesn't have to face
the Dodgers, yeap, you know, and he's he's a young guy.
He's a talented guy, but he's he's a little inconsistent,
and start against the Dodgers on April eighteenth may feel
like Game six of the world absolutely to him. So

(19:33):
you know, let him breathe a little bit easier. Not
that the Angels are pushover by any means, but they're not.
They're not the Dodgers. So I think I think those
factors kind of came into play. You give de Grom
the rest, give him the off day to help monitor
his innings, to continue working toward that goal, and maybe

(19:54):
give him another day to work on his mechanics between starts,
and then you know, EVOLDI on Saturday, and then you're
back with Malley on a normal rest on Sunday for
the series finale, the home stand finale, and then you
get that off day, and then the Tuesday would be
Corbyn's day. Well you know what, it might be Jack
Lyder's day. Ye So that's kind of the way I

(20:14):
see it, And and so we'll see how that plays out,
But that's kind of I'm trying to read the tea lead.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
And it also feels like when you've had some struggles lately,
it feels like you like your chances better on the
opening game of this series, right with the guy Tyler
Malley's had the rest because of the off days. I mean,
Patrick Corbin's only pitched the one game he did well, right,
but you know he's only pitched the one. Tyler Malley's

(20:43):
had two good starts in a row after a rough
one to start the season.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
So yeah, yeah, and you feel like that's trending the
right way. And you know, I don't know the Angels
lineup as well as I once did, but you know,
maybe maybe a left he's not a good matchup for them.
I know that Mike Trout at bat's right handed, so
that's a pretty good starting spot. Uh. And so there
are a couple of things that may have come into
play here, but I really think that it's on the

(21:10):
back end when when you know Woburn's next start would
be next Tuesday, but that would also coincide with lighters
opportunity to come off the injured list and pitch in
place of Corbor.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
Yeah, and the rocker piece of it makes so much
sense to keep him from the Dodgers. I mean, that's
like you say, it's going to be full right if
you pitched him Friday night against the Dodgers, a Friday
night game in the spring, beautiful weather, Rangers, Dodgers, tons
of Dodgers fans there as well as obviously plenty of

(21:44):
Rangers fans. That's a that's an atmosphere there now.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
Yeah, And you know the thought and when they when
they drafted him, and even this year is that you know, well,
you know, and you put him on the big stage,
it's gonna takeover. The adrenaline is going to take over.
He loves the big stage, and that may all be true,
but this is this is a way bigger, different stage.

(22:10):
And if he's not right, I'm sure he loves the
big stage when everything's clicking right, I don't know if
he loves the big stage when he's not quite sure
about himself yet. So I think this is just a
good breather. You know, put the coaches, the manager and
the coaches. Their job is to put guys in position
to succeed, and I don't know that starting him against

(22:31):
the Dodgers puts him in that position, So give him
an angel start, all right, He's going to be fine,
and he's going to it's not like you're pitching him
on three days rest. You know, he's got he's got
ample rest. Uh. And I just think that's the that
that factor into the decision too.

Speaker 3 (22:49):
Yeah, And I think it's I mean, especially when you
work through all these things, it's it's a wise decision.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
It's going to, uh, you know, work out. Well.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
I would bet for the Rangers and even if it doesn't,
and nothing you can do about it. Now, this is
the way they're going notes you know, coming up in
the chat, I love Misty. What's that name again, Leon
Leon Leon saying you know, yeah, that on base percentage
is the worst in Major League Baseball. It's that's that's

(23:20):
got to be the focus right of this game and
again then this series. But it's got to start. You know,
it's one game at a time.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yeah, you don't have to hit your way on the base.
You can get on base in a couple of different ways,
and you know, grinding on advanced and drawing walks. You know,
Kakuchi can be susceptible to that. But I you know,
you've got to create opportunities. And if you create the
opportunities goes back to our lobs and risks talk. Yep,

(23:50):
you create the You know, you may leave a bunch
of runners, but at least you gave yourself an opportunity.
And if you're collecting hits and runners and scoring position
and you have a lot of guys on, you're going
to score a bunch of runs. So it's a matter
of doing that. You know. They they can't hit the
long b all the Rangers, and they basically won a
game against the Rays last home stand strictly by hitting

(24:10):
home runs. That's fine, all right, you have that just
in case you're sputtering, but it's not always going to
be there. And right now, the Rangers, I don't want
to say they're one dimensional. They really have no dimensions. No,
I mean the running the home runs.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
I mean it is the only category in which because
justin Dustin Harris Homer that was their only run. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
And that's the only category in which they're not in
the bottom third or worse of offensive categories and in
base in the American League right now.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yeah, it's again, we we've talked about it for I
don't know a week or so. Now they need to
they need to, they need to get a going here
and they do. Yeah, and all about sport zone more
small ball. Well, you know you gotta you gotta score runs.
If if that's the way to do it. If you
get the two guys on and Leodi Taveris' is up,

(25:02):
have him drop a bunch, yep, you know, have Marcus
Simeon try to hit a fly ball. You run that way, manufacturer.
I'll tell you it's one of the things I've loved
about the new view, for lack of a better word.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
Of stealing, right steels had just started to go away,
and now because of various circumstances and a bigger bag
and all that, it's it's easier to steal. And when
you advance a runner, when you get a runner from
first base to second base and then maybe even from
second to third, you know, without having to work too

(25:37):
hard at it. Gosh, that's great, you're in scoring position.
I love saying that guy get to third with one
out or no outs.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
I mean, yeah, there's nothing like that like the eighty
five Cardinals with Vince Coleman and Willy McGhee. Vin's when
you get on steal second, Willie would get him over.
And Tom Hurr, who at ten home runs that year,
eight home runs but he had one hundred and ten
RBIs yeah, you know. And then Jack Clark was there
in the fore hoole and maybe he could, you know,
hit a home run and get Tommy her home. But

(26:06):
you know that wash Whitey hers one that was Whitey balling.
It worked out pretty well for him. They lost one
World Series that they probably should have won, and then
the next one you could argue in eighty seven they
should have won it too. But those are those were
I mean, that's that's what I think of when I
think of manufacturing runs. And of course it was the
National League at the times you had the pitcher bunning

(26:28):
and but yeah, stealing bases Jack, I like to see it.

Speaker 3 (26:34):
That Jack Clark reference reminds me of one of my
low points in covering the Rangers, Poor Charlotte, Florida. Will
Clark's first press conference at spring training.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
Now he called him Jack. He says at the beginning
of the press conference. Hi, everybody, you remember Will's voice. Hi, everybody,
don't call me Jack.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
And he goes through a whole long press conference, and
I swear to God like that was just planted in
my brain. So at the end, I just go, all right,
thanks Jack, And it probably seemed like I was trying
to be a cherk and I really wasn't.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
Don't call me Jack. We became good.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
We were you know, I don't know if we were
that day, but because he probably thought I was being
a smart alec.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
But anyway, that.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
Was that was a real live mistake that that didn't land.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
Well, well, okay, that's all right. You've recovered, have I? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (27:28):
Yeah, anyway, so we're going to get this offense going.
That's one of the keys of tonight and the thing
to remember too. And so it's so what's the word
boring lack of a better word, It isn't even about
one game, right, it's about one at bat like that,
and that's it seems so strange, but they each guy

(27:50):
has to just go up there and win the at bat, right,
And if you go up there and win the at bat,
then it slowly starts to add up.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
Yeah, and I knew, wonder you know what you know,
does what would Marcus Simeon leadoff double? He's already hit
a leadoff homer. This year. Yeah, with a lead off
double and then Corey Steeger following with a single, an
RBI single. Would that get the offense going? Would it

(28:19):
be something as simple as that? Would it be Jock
Peterson doing anything productive? Right? You know, whether honestly, whether
it's a sacrifice fly, Yeah, moving the guy over, he's
you know, he hits the ball in the second basement
all the time. You have a runner a second, no ounce,
and he hits a grounder a second. Hey, you know
he's gonna go back high five the something. They just

(28:41):
need something, and maybe it is something that simple. Maybe
a Jack Peterson hit will lighten everybody up. But boy,
I don't, I just it's time, you know where I'm
a I'm tired of talking about the offense. Yeah, and
and be you know, it's you just know, this team
can be a lot of fun offensively, and then overall

(29:04):
with the potential and the rotation and the early results
from the bullpen, this team could be a lot of
fun and be really really good. But they got to hit.
They do.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
And you know, again, as we mentioned yesterday, through it
all the Rangers, well now they have there's only one
team in the American League that has more wins than
the Rangers. But basically, yes, today they were sitting there
and everybody in the American League that was at the
top had nine wins and that's what the Rangers still
have there at nine and seven. So you know, see
if they can have a good homestand you win two

(29:36):
out of three in both those series, and you know
you're liking you know, thirteen and nine a heck of
a lot better than you like this. Yeah, for sure. Anyway, tonight,
that's it. Today is Jackie Robinson Day. It's also tax Day.
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Speaker 3 (32:24):
Then you're just functional mitochondria. Then you're just I'd surf
to the ball, that's right. Anyway, it's a it's a
very cool day. It's Jackie Robinson Day. Nineteen ninety seven
was the year that Major League Baseball decided that they
would honor Jackie Robinson by retiring his number forty two,
and the players that had previously worn prior to that

(32:48):
date that had worn number forty two were grandfathered in, right,
they were allowed to continue wearing number forty two. And
but but since then, nobody's been issued the number forty two,
which I think is just it's a wonderful tribute to
a guy who who endured so much. I mean, baseball

(33:11):
is hard enough, but the things that he endured are unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
Right, And you know, if you haven't read about him.
The movie that came out not long ago was very
good with the late Chad what's his name, Chadwick. Yeah,
he's late. Did he die he had cancer? Yeah, he
kept it. He kept it a big secret. He did
all those you know, Marvel movies without letting anybody know

(33:39):
about him. Yeah. Anyway, it's a good movie. And you know, Harrison,
I think Harrison Ford's in it too, He's branch Rickey.
It's a great story, you know, And it was a
time when it needed to It had needed to happen
obviously for a while, and I think on the heels
of World War Two maybe it was a little more
accepted though, as the movie portrays, and as the Hall

(34:01):
of Fame portrays, there was a lot of racism out
there and a lot of terrible things said and sent
to Jackie Robinson. But part of the reason why he
was the Choices because they felt he had the character
to withstand it all. And so anyway, he opened the door.
Larry Doby followed pretty quickly thereafter in the American League. Yeah,
and then really you saw a golden era of baseball

(34:24):
with terrific stars and guys getting opportunities, you know, like
you know, William May he played in the Negro leagues
for a while before he got got through. So it
is a good day to honor him. And yeah, it's
great that the numbers retired. I know some people there's
a movement to retire twenty one for a ritic Clemente,

(34:46):
who you know, died doing what he loved to do,
which is provide humanitarian aid. So there's a movement for
that too. But this one is an is a no brainer.
So many, so many people, and not just African Americans,
but internationally too. You know, it opened the floodgates for
for generations of players overseas who otherwise might not have

(35:11):
gotten the opportunity without without somebody Jackie Robinson breaking down
the door. So yeah, I mean, good day.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
Most of the Cuban players you know that have you know,
dominated this game over the years, they wouldn't have been
able to play the Dominican players. There's so many others
this is it's just it's an unbelievable accomplishment. And it's
it's to me, again, shockingly unbelievable that some of these
atrocities existed, even beyond Jackie. I mean, we've seen recently

(35:42):
some of the things that Reggie Jackson has said in
the seventies about the horrific treatment that he received on
the road. It's just it's unconscionable to me. And so
I think it's awesome that Jackie Robinson is honored in
this way. And today is not only about honoring him,
but it's about trying to help bring baseball back to

(36:05):
the inner cities because it is such an expensive game.
Jeff was talking yesterday, I think off air, but about
having to go buy a new bat. Well, you know
that's one thing for families like ours and probably like yours,
But for some families, buying a new bat is just
it's not an option. Your bat broke, you're gonna have
to borrow somebody else's right. So, but they's so That's

(36:27):
what I love about what they're doing over there at
the Mercy Street Complex and all the things that the
Rangers MLB Youth Academy is doing. And that's an MLB initiative,
but the Rangers support it unbelievably well to bring baseball
back and make it more available to those kids in
the inner cities. So it's a wonderful initiative. Let's look

(36:48):
at the people who were kind of grandfathered in. This
isn't a complete list, but some of the people who
wore forty two for the longest, and of course Mariano Rivera,
I'm certain he was the last guy to wear forty two. Yes, correct,
and he was. He went out in style. He really
went out in style. And he and he is quoted,

(37:10):
you know, it has been since as saying, you know,
I especially as a New York guy because that's where
Jackie was. The Dodgers were not in Los Angeles in
those days. So as a New York guy, I'm honored
to wear that and just so honored and hope so
bad that I have been able to bring the right
focus and the right level of not only respect, but

(37:34):
a success to that name and to that number. And
certainly Mariano Rivera did the only player ever to be
unanimously elected to the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
Yeah, his name is not Marty Rivers. It's Mariano Rivera
from Panama. So he also benefited from Jake Robinson. Yeah, no,
that list so to Dave Henderson Amon who won an
MVP Award, and Dave.

Speaker 3 (37:56):
Henderson he wore it from high schoo. Dave wore it
from high school on. It were fourteen seasons in the
big leagues. He started wearing it in high school and
it was not lost on him in the seventies. I
think it would have been maybe the eighties when he
was in high school. Whichever it was. That Jackie Robinson,
you know, paved the way for him to be able

(38:18):
to play, not just not play baseball in high school,
certainly he'd have been able to do that, but to
play baseball, to have an opportunity to play at the
major league level. So so many of these people did it,
not only to you know, I mean some of them
just had the number given to him, right, But some
of them there was a reason they wore the number

(38:39):
forty two and love everything about that.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
Joe the Rangers numbers Guru pointed out that Mark Sagmohen
is the last Ranger to wear to wear the number.
The others are mostly coaches, at least early on Nelly Fox,
who's in the Hall of Fame, he wore forty two
and seventy two. Jackie Moore wore two different stints. George Medick,

(39:03):
I think I'm saying that right, metch Meditch, pitcher, Wayne Twilliger,
old Twig coach, Scott Coolbaugh, which is as Keith Kreole
never heard of him, Dan Smith, Dennis Cook and sagmo One. Oh,
I forgot that sr anders Cook wore that number.

Speaker 3 (39:21):
Yeah, and Sagmulin, by the way, made his debut on
April fifteenth, nineteen ninety seven, and they played like twenty
one games for the Rangers, but then after ninety seven
it was retired.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
So well there you go.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
Yeah, and it should have been retired sooner in all
all accounts, but it wasn't, and they've done the right thing.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
We mentioned that.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
Just the other day she had a birthday and Rachel
Robinson turned one hundred and two and she will spend
his wife will spend part of this day at the
Jackie Robinson Museum in New York and will there again
they're going to raise funds and that what they're doing
is they are raising funds to get care packages to

(40:05):
the needy out there in that area in New York.
So that's fantastic. I can't believe in all the times
I've been to New York, I've never been to the
Jackie Robinson Museum.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Yeah, I mean either you haven't either.

Speaker 3 (40:17):
Now you have you gone over in Kansas City at
that negro Leagues Museum. I've been there a few times.
That's fantastic, But the Jackie Robinson Museum has got to
be a must see for me the next time I'm
in New York because I'm absolutely captivated by the story
and and again not only the horrible things that Jackie

(40:41):
had to endure, but the bravery, for lack of a
better word, of like a branch Ricky, you know, I mean,
like that's a big bold step. You know, walk into
the country club after you've been that guy, and see
how everybody you know feels about you and treats you,
and good for him, you know, and he he goes

(41:02):
down well in history, right, It's like he's, yeah, he
got tarnished in it and he did a lot of
things beyond signing Jackie Robbins basically the grandfather will of
the minor league system as it is and things like that.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
But yeah, that's that's certainly. I mean they're linked. Obviously,
Jackie gets all the credit, but you had to have
somebody who, you know, uh, stood up for him and
believed in him and pushed ownership that it was the
right thing to do, and it turned out to be
one hundred percent correct.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
One of the best Jackie Robinson days in Rangers history
involved Ian Kinsler. Yes, were you on the beat yet?

Speaker 2 (41:43):
I was? You were? Okay? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (41:45):
So yeah, Ian hit for the cycle in on Jackie
Robinson day.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
What year we know, two thousand and nine, two thousand
and nine, Yeah, so you were were you just on
the beat? Eh? Second year? Yeah? And it was against
the it was against the Orioles and day game, no right, no,
it was a night game. And anyway, it's six for
six cycle game. Yeah. I think that's like the only
one in history, right, I think it is, or maybe

(42:11):
it was the first. But he needed a triple late
not his last at bat he got. He had another
at bat following the triple, But yeah, what a day
for him, and he hit it. He hit it just
from the right spot. You know. The thing is that
everybody remembers that Kindler was pretty much a pull hitter,
but he hit that one to right center. Yeah, and
it got the right hot form. He was able to

(42:32):
make it the whole way.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
And that's amazing that he had seven at bats in
the game, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
He had six at bats? Oh you said he had
one more.

Speaker 3 (42:40):
No, the triple was and then the sixth at bat
was like a single or something to add to the cycle. Yeah,
that's right. Okay, So so pretty amazing. That was a
great day in Rangers history. And uh, you know one
of those great ways you know, to lack of a
better word, celebrate, Uh, you know Jackie Robinson on that day.
You sure always like to win on Jackie Robinson Day.

(43:02):
And I know we'll hear it from multiple players today
and should just the importance of what you know what
Jackie endured, not only for the game, but for certainly
for players of color.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
Right. And he was in Montreal with the tria A
club there. I think they were the Alouettes. I think
they were left just now what their football team is called,
So anyway, Yeah, for him to be able to do that,
it's great on baseball to not forget about it. Yep,
it really is.

Speaker 3 (43:35):
We appreciate Jackie Robinson Day, and of course we appreciate
everything Jackie Robinson did for this game and everything that.
And oh yeah, to make sure, in case you didn't know,
every player in baseball wears forty two.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
And I don't know that I've ever.

Speaker 3 (43:52):
Noticed this, but it's Dodger blue forty two on every uniform.
Okay have you ever noticed that? I haven't. I don't think,
and I'm gonna watch for it today, but every every
all the forty two's are in Dodger blue, and players
and managers will have a patch on their hat that
commemorates Jackie as well. So watch for the Dodger Blue

(44:14):
forty two's no names. Like I said yesterday, this is
the day when you when you can't tell the players even.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
With the program, because yes, they're all ware.

Speaker 3 (44:23):
You know, you can hear the manager, a new manager
on the bench, forty two get in there?

Speaker 2 (44:27):
Oh whoa which one yo? Run into each other? Yeah.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
So anyway, Jackie Robinson Day a great day, and it'd
be look the roof's gonna be open, It's gonna be
sunny at the start of the game anyway, and beautiful.
Get it out there and enjoy a little baseball with
the Rangers and the Angels tonight.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
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Speaker 3 (44:47):
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to talk about, including a gender reveal. Next it's the
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Speaker 2 (47:56):
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Speaker 3 (48:26):
They had to retire Ian kinsler numbers for in all
of Major League Baseball too.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
You can't have Jackie Robinson day in Ranger's history without
Ian Kins. That's exactly right, So very nice. Uh So.

Speaker 3 (48:40):
I am not a big fan honestly of the gender reveal. Right,
I just you know, I think we're making much ado
about nothing.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
But whatever. It's fine.

Speaker 3 (48:50):
That's the way of the thing, and that's the young
people do now, and good for them.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
It's fine.

Speaker 3 (48:55):
Like I'm not, you know, get off my law and angry,
but it's just like, you know, whatever. But so that's
a reason to have a party and I like parties,
so but anyway, I like this one. So yesterday Bryce
Harper and his wife they already have three children. Oh wow,

(49:16):
they have a boy and two girls. So they make
a deal with Trey Turner, and Trey is going to
hand Bryce a bat in the first inning of the game,
with the whole family gathered up in a suite somewhere
that I'm sure bright it's Bryce's sweet from when he
signed the big deal, and he's going to go out

(49:39):
there with either a baby blue or a pink batya.
And so Trey Turner retells the story after the game.
He says, I messed with him big time, he said.
Tray says, I went over there and I started swinging
a pink bat, and he says, Bryce goes.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
I knew it was a girl. I knew it was
a girl. And then he pulls the blue.

Speaker 3 (49:58):
Bat out of answer to it, and up he goes
with the blue bat. Uh, And so it's a boy.
So they've got bookends. I don't know, maybe not, Maybe
they're gonna have more kids, but right now they're oldest
as a boy. Now they're younger, still be a boy
with two girls in the middle, And I just I
think it's pretty cool. It's a pretty cool way a
to involve your like tell your teammates, Look, we're family, right,

(50:21):
And Trey Turner said, so he's I was really honored,
you know, to be a part of this big And
he got a text from someone I assume the doctor,
I don't know whoever, like text this guy and tell
him if it's a boy or a girl. Uh, and
it's a boy. So that's interesting.

Speaker 2 (50:37):
Yeah, you know, I guess when it's four, it's like,
oh okay, right, like like that's the words. Most is
like going to the batter's box, you know, if you
have one of each, you know, it's like whatever happens happens.

Speaker 3 (50:49):
Yeah, and Trey did say he could tell Bryce was
really excited that it was a boy. I mean again,
not like he would have been going up there and
tried to like out if it was a girl, but
probably he was excited about it the bad So, but

(51:10):
there have been many baseball themed gender reveals and obviously
what typically happens, you know, they couldn't in a perfect world,
they would have, you know, stuffed the ball with pink
or blue and when Bryce hit it, it would have exploded.
Or at least that's the way most of these go.
It's some sort of a soft pinata ball or whatever.

(51:32):
And you know, however, it works sometimes a lot of times,
what I've seen is the wife will toss it and
the husband will hit it and uh and it'll it'll,
you know, explode, and it'll be either pink dust or
blue dust. And one time, and I don't remember his name,
there was a minor league player. So, yeah, he's a player.
He's lefty, but I'll do it right. And he's a

(51:54):
player of some ability, played in the minor leagues. And
and they're in and you know, you can tell it's
a nice neighbor. But he's made some money. And he's
standing there and his wife throws a pitch and he
takes it. I saw that one it it drops on
the driveway and it explodes on the driveway and he's
like pitching at his wife. I'm like, dude, you can't

(52:15):
take it right under, and you have to swing, even
if it's a bad pitch, you gotta get your bat
on the ball, go Vlad Guerrero on it.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
Something.

Speaker 3 (52:24):
You can't take that pitch now. So that got me
going down a rabbit hole.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
Today. Oh yeah, of.

Speaker 3 (52:31):
Different gender reveal things that have happened. And there are
a couple where like that ball didn't explode like it
was supposed to. So one of them, the wife tosses it,
husband hits it, pay him right back up the box
and hits her in the nose and no, no, yeah.
And then there was another one where the guy hits

(52:54):
it and boy, he pulled it and the camera was
kind of down what would be the third baseline. He
pulls it right hand, he pulls it right down the
line and it hit the camera and then you see
a little pink bit come right right in the camera.
So anyway, there's a lot of those baseball related gender reveal.
Also saw a little kid, like, you know, have the

(53:15):
little brother do it, and they put it on a
tee and a little kid goes up there and he
just thinks he's doing T ball and he hits the
ball and you know, it explodes either pink or blue,
and he got scared and he ran back to his
parents like, oh what happened. You know, he didn't really
know what he was in for. So gender reveals in
baseball they kind of go hand in hand. Apparently, Max Schurzer.

(53:39):
What do we got coming back to the US now
to get more looks at the thumb. He was on
the road with the rent with the blue Jays, and
he was throwing. He threw five days in a row.
Some days were good, some days were bad. And so
now it's it's bad. So he's coming back to get

(54:00):
another MRI. And you could the quarter he had a
quarter zone injection and that didn't do it.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
So and again, yeah, yeah, that doesn't sound good for
old Max. And you know this is just sounds so familiar,
you know. Yeah, it was just like last year. He
had good days, he had bad days.

Speaker 1 (54:18):
You know.

Speaker 2 (54:18):
He ended up seeing the thoracic outlet specialist in Dallas,
doctor Pearl, and they did the they did the injections
of botox into the shoulder. I guess, to put some
space in there to allow the nerve to work a
little bit better. It's all temporary, and it's all it's
all part of the unfortunately the end, right you know,

(54:43):
you know, because if you have if you have thoracic
outlet syndrome surgery, you're you're out six to eight months.
But it also takes velocity away from you and it's
already slipping on Max. So he'd have to be a
very good command pitcher and win with his off speed stuff.
I'm not saying he can't do it, but does he
want to do it at this point? You know? And

(55:03):
you know you if I'm him, yes, I want to
go out on top and all that stuff, have a
great season, but I also don't want to be like
Steve Carlton and be out there chasing stuff and trying
to hang on. And you know, it's not it's it's
it's an unfortunate situation, but one that others have run

(55:26):
into previously.

Speaker 3 (55:27):
No doubt, and he's you know, I think I don't
think he stated it specifically, but we know he's trying
to outlast Verlander. And Verlander's pitching today, by the way,
and you know, so he's not gonna outlast don't think
he's gonna outlast old Justin Verlander.

Speaker 2 (55:43):
Well, he hasn't been great Verlander. He struck out nine
in his last start, but he gave up a bunch
of runs and yeah, there you go. Leon posted the
O and oh yeah, yeah six geez yoh yeah, yeah,
I do. I do have him on my fantasy team, though, Okay,
I'm hoping for the best or old justin, but I

(56:04):
just think that it's not going to go great. I'll
tell you to be honest too.

Speaker 3 (56:10):
As we talked about, you know, the Rangers and what
they were doing and that they still needed starting pitching
during the off season, and Scherzer was sitting there for
so long, I'm like, man, when he did sign with Toronto,
I'm like, oh, if he goes up there, and again,
he didn't sign for that cheap, didn't he get fifteen
and a half million and a half Yeah, so he
got to more money than the Rangers were going to

(56:31):
be willing to pay anyway.

Speaker 2 (56:32):
But I was like, oh god, if.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
He goes up there and just has you know, this
rebound year, we're all going to feel bad. But apparently
that is not in the cards at this point. So
too bad, you know. Yeah, I think Sures's probably, like
you say, this is probably even a little past the
beginning of the end, right, Yeah. I think the beginning

(56:55):
was probably like the beginning might have been when he
got because he never got hurt in his regular in
his throughout his career, and then but when he got hurt,
you know, soon after the trade here in twenty three,
but he.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
Had been hurt that year, that's the year before that too,
So I mean it's not Yeah, it's not a great situation.
And you know, the Rangers, the money made so much sense,
with the Mets wanting to eat so much of it
out of it and all of that. But and and
when he pitched, Look, if you look at his stants

(57:30):
with the Rangers, they're pretty they were good. Yeah, he pitched,
he was pretty good. But yeah, it started, you know,
the forearm thing. And when he left the start in Toronto,
it had bothered him against the Astros, and then he
came back and was pitching well, and it hit against
the Blue Jays. So then he's everybody thinks he's done

(57:51):
for the for the year. He's able to come back
and pitch in the postseason and wasn't very good, although
he was. He was pitching pretty well in Game three
of the World Series when he had to leave because
of the back injury. Right, So then the back turned
out to be the least of his worries. You know,
it's just this lingering stuff that I guess now is
triggered by the nerve that attaches to his thumb. So yeah, yeah,

(58:17):
that's it.

Speaker 3 (58:18):
Padres get to eleven and zero at home, which is
pretty good. Tatis Junior two bombs yesterday, six in the
last five games for Tatis Junior.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
I mean he's hot.

Speaker 3 (58:32):
Yeah, yeah, he is certifiably hot. And as are the Padres.
We talked about it yesterday ten and now eleven and oh,
we'll keep an eye on it.

Speaker 2 (58:39):
At home. They're unbeatable. Yeah, eleven and zero. You know
Tatisse the motorcycle wreck and then the steroids suspension. You know,
that was a last year, but you know, he had
signed for a ton of money. He was a great
prospect and he's a good player. Yeah, and he's turned
out to be a fabulous right fielder, just fantastic. Yep.

(59:00):
And so I don't I'm not surprised by that. He
can be pretty It seems like he can be streaky.

Speaker 3 (59:09):
Yeah, and this is a streak, right they all can,
but yeah, this is a streak right here, that's for sure. Offensively,
Rangers would take it, no doubt, Yeah, no doubt. And
as for a streak on the pitching mound, Trek Schouble
his last two starts Jeff thirteen innings, scoreless, fifteen k's
pretty good.

Speaker 2 (59:29):
Pretty good, yeah, for your red hot Tigers.

Speaker 3 (59:32):
Yeah, the only to Oh yeah, I didn't mention that
the last time when I brought it up. The only
team in the American League with more wins than the
Rangers and the Blue Jays and the Angels and all
the other first place teams. Detroit Tiger. You're Detroit Tigers?
Mine yours? Who's ever they are?

Speaker 2 (59:51):
They got their tenth win behind schoolbl last night. Yeah, Yeah,
it looked, it looked really good.

Speaker 3 (59:56):
Yeah, he's one of those fun to watch, and I
always look. You saw Paul Skeen's last night too, faced
off against his former LSU teammate, the guys who were
one and two in the draft, Dylan Cruise. Dylan Cruise,
thank you, and he got the better of Dylan Cruz.
But it's so fun to watch watch Paul Skeene's pitch.

(01:00:17):
I mean, it's just fun, yeah, to see him and
the things that he can do. He's got that eighty
two eighty two mile an hour sweeper that moves like
a damn frisbee. So anyway, a schooble's the same way.
Some of these young pitchers are like that. We'll hope
Jack Leder is like that when he comes back to
and yeah, and we'll have fun with that. So anyway,

(01:00:40):
that's that's it. The Rangers play the Angels tonight. They
play the first of three. As we mentioned, the change
to the rotation as Patrick Corbyn will not be starting
tonight and rather it'll be Tyler Malley and that kind
of shuffles things all around. They've also shuffled Kamar Er

(01:01:01):
up a day. He's a day earlier, and that gets
Jacob de Gram out there on Friday night against the
Los Angeles Dodgers. So and somebody did her mind. I mean,
they're the Dodgers are struggling a little bit, so we'll
see maybe the Rangers got a shot.

Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
We'll see how it goes.

Speaker 3 (01:01:20):
First things first, it's the Angels tonight, and we will
be back tomorrow at one o'clock to talk all about that.
Watch for all the different content that will be produced
mostly by Jeff and probably Abby today from Globe Live Field,
and we thank you for watching us. We'll see you
tomorrow on the DLLs Rangers podcast.

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