Lukewarm to Scorching: The Rangers Just Got Dangerous - Can They Keep It Up? | DLLS Rangers Podcast - Rangers Today

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Okay Rangers fans breathe. It's okay, a deep breath on
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breath for how long for this to happen. It's happening. Breathe.
We're back to talk about it on the DLLs Rangers Podcast. Yeah,

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(03:03):
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the way that the Rangers did abs. I said, breathe
because it feels like we've all been holding our breadth, right.
It just feels like, you know, and what was going
to happen at the trade deadline, and none of these
things are officially decided yet, but at least at least

(03:27):
done this off day, I think we can breathe.

Speaker 6 (03:29):
Yeah, you got to feel good about where the Rangers
are to start the second half of the season. The
game ebbs and flows. There's gonna be ups, there's gonna
be downs. You just can't ride the high highs too
high or the low lows too low. There are some
you know, pieces of the puzzle that the Rangers do
need to address. We're going to get into that. But

(03:50):
you've got to feel good about where things are right now.
Some good news today. We're going to get into you
hope it's good news. Yeah, but yeah, you got to
good about how this homestand is starting out.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, it started out well. And really we mentioned that
last night on our postgame edition of the DLS Rangers podcast,
and we were talking about, you know, well, ended this
all start. When did they begin to get this going?
It really did start on June the seventh. Since that date,
abs this team has been twenty four and fifteen. That's

(04:26):
eight games over five hundred. You know, if you do
that every forty games, I mean that's what that's thirty
nine if you do eight over every forty games. Yeah,
we've got a pretty good season going. So they did
begin to turn it around on June the seventh, and
they've really taken it to a better level and a

(04:47):
new level here lately. There are three games over five
hundred at fifty three and fifty and that's the first
time they've been there since May the seventeenth. The wheels
really shot off in May, and thank goodness, they're back on.

Speaker 6 (05:04):
Right, and you just hope that they hold on to it. Also,
I took a look at your stat since June twenty seventh,
the Rangers are hitting two forty six, so I'll take that.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
It's okay. Yeah, two fifty team batting average in that
time is not bad at all. They have five series sweeps.
We mentioned this on the show last night. All of
those series sweeps are at home, and that's not that
surprising and it's not bad. But only one of the

(05:34):
other five has come in that window since June seventh,
and that other one was a Chicago White Sox sweep
that they were able to manage sometime later in June.
But the reality is, even in the start to the season,
they actually had a couple of those sweeps in the
month of April when they were going well, Tampa Bay

(05:55):
being one of the teams that they were able to sweep.
So really nice to have gotten back into the business
of sweeping teams and really nice to see that the
way that the Rangers have done it abby is so varied, right,
and it doesn't it doesn't require or you know, have

(06:18):
an absence of offense, and there was so many games
that they were even winning earlier in the season there
was no offense. Okay, so if you just look at
a couple of the games here recently, you go, oh, gosh,
last night two to one, the Rangers only had four hits.
They didn't get any offense. Yeah, you know what, they didn't.

(06:39):
But the other two games they won six to two
and four to one, and they got plenty of offense.
They padded their lead late in the game. They did
the things that good teams do. The other two games,
we mentioned it. One of the games they got almost
nothing from Corey Seger, Marcus Simeon and Adolius Garcia. The
other game, all yeah, they accounted for all six of

(07:01):
the irbis. Right, So, when you're sharing the offensive load
that way, when you're you know, playing that sort of
team a connected team game, those are the kinds of
things that allow you to breathe, right, allow you to
just take a deep breath and say, Okay, I think
it's it's beginning to click. Fortunately, you know, there's still

(07:24):
a couple of months left, still more a little more
than two months left in the regular seat.

Speaker 6 (07:29):
Yeah, tons of baseball to be played. I think the
thing that's interesting is that when the Rangers won in
twenty twenty three, there was a formula to their success.
The starting pitcher had to go six innings, had to
and then their offense had to score four runs, and
then you were hoping that the bullpen pulled through. And
it's almost like.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
And it didn't. More times than not it did not.

Speaker 6 (07:53):
So if you didn't have those those three things, it's
almost like the Rangers couldn't pull off a win. And
you know, I think now the fact that they are
winning in different ways is fantastic. You don't want to
be predictable as a baseball team. The trend the first
half was if they don't score four runs, they don't

(08:15):
win win games. Now there, I know it's early and
there's only been a few games in the second half,
but right now there is no formula and that's a
good thing. There's method to the madness, but it's unpredictable.
It is keeps other teams on their toes.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yeah, and their runs per game average is up over
five during this stretch right and there, and it was
three point three. I mean, they were not getting to
four runs a game. And that's why at one point
in this season they were six games under five hundred.
The formula this year is a little bit different. You're
not necessarily going to get automatic six out of everybody

(08:55):
you wish you could. But you've gotten unbelievable pitching, and
you've got an unbelievable bullpen from guys that none of
them were here last year, none of them right, and
but the and look, you've gotten six from plenty and
you'll continue to. But the reality is, with guys coming
back off of injuries and guys like Rocker and Lighter

(09:17):
who have not ever had a big workload here at
the major league level, you have to manage them a
little bit differently than those guys that they were managing,
you know, back even as recently as twenty twenty three.
So this is this is all good. In fact, along
those lines, the Rangers have now tied a team record

(09:40):
by allowing two or fewer runs in seven straight games.
The last time the only time they did that was
back in nineteen eighty three, which was also the last
time they had an ERA better than they have now.
And they'd allowed one or fewer runs twenty eight times

(10:01):
this season, and that's tied for first in Major League
Baseball with Detroit. Surprisingly, I mean, Derek Scooble hasn't pitched
twenty eight games, so maybe he has. I don't know,
but I don't know how that. I don't think Tigers
are doing. I mean, Casey Maies is a good pitcher too,
is an All Star, although shouldn't have been over Nathan Evaldi,
but you know whatever, and you know, but I don't

(10:22):
think they've gotten that much out of Flairty this year.
They don't have the depth of pitching as good as
they started this season. They don't have the depth of
pitching that this Rangers team does. Nobody, nobody wants to
see this Rangers team get hot like they are. Nobody
in the American League anyway, because you get to a
playoff series and you've got, you know, Jacob de Gram

(10:43):
and Nathan Evaldi in a playoff, a short playoff series especially,
that may be all you need. And those two guys
are going to be extremely tough to beat. So it's
it's great timing for the Rangers. Evaldi will be back
told you this last night. He's making planning on making

(11:03):
the start tomorrow. He feels great and he feels, you know,
like it was they were just they were exercising an
abundance of caution to skip a start and give him
a little more time. And look, that's also something that
will pay a dividend at the end of the year.
If we are talking about on October run.

Speaker 6 (11:23):
Right, and that's you know, the Atlanta Braves. I think
if there were a series that you can err on
the side of caution, maybe it's this one. You don't
have to waste the bullets if you don't need to,
especially with the previous series, would be Oakland Athletics. Credit
where credit is due. Every club is, you know, in
Major League Baseball, professional athletes. But if you don't have

(11:46):
to play Nathan Valdi, are you going to Probably not.
Patrick Corbyn stepped in and did the job pretty well, in.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
My opinion, ridiculously well. He's been unbelievable in the last
I mean all season. The last two starts have been
silly good. It's great to see what Patrick Corbyn has done.
He allowed five hits in the game last night, but
three of them were back to back to back, one
of them an infield hit that drove him out of
the game in the sixth inning. But you know, Patrick
Corban more than did his job last night, allowing only

(12:17):
one run and then the bullpen closed that door. Now, yes,
the Rangers need a closer. They know that. You know that.
Justin I see you're asking how much would David Bednar
cost with at least a year of control? A lot
prospect wise, not a lot money wise. They could afford
a David Bednar right now, but the prospect price goes

(12:39):
up when the years of control are still available. Right,
So someone like a Felix Bautista we see today goes
on the injured list for Baltimore, He's got two years
of control left. First of all, I don't think Baltimore
really would have traded him. But the prospect price for
a guy with two years of control left and only
making five hundred or only five hundred was in the

(13:00):
left this year, Yeah, that prospect price would have been steep.
So you know, all those things are considerations as they've
approached the trade deadline. And and those are all things
that Chris Young just you know, eats, breathes, and sleeps
as a former major league pitcher, he knows all of this.
And my my favorite thing, I'll never forget this when

(13:22):
when the Rangers signed to Gram and I was doing
a show with Mark maclamore and Bally at the time
to do the introduction the introductory press conference for Jacob
de Gram, and I said, you know, Mac, you know
the guy's been hurt for a few years. I mean
he's been off and uninjured. Why are you so sure

(13:44):
that he's going to be great here? And Max said,
because Chris Young is Yeah, he said, Chris Young knows
what he's doing now. Nobody can predict that he was
going to blow out his elbow. I mean he had
to have Tommy John surgery. But look how good Acob
Degram has been since. And that is what Chris Young.

(14:04):
He is like a scientist on it. He's a guy
with experience looking at all the same things that we
look at, all the analytics everything else, but the way
his eyeball sees things, having pitched for as long as
he did more than a decade, he sees it differently.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (14:25):
I mean he sees the business side of it first
and foremost, because it is a business. But then he
also sees the player side of it. He also understands
what he can ask of his players. And I think
that's what makes him such a great GM because he
knows what he asks. He's probably done it as a player,
and I think to that point, I think the players
can go to him and be a bit more truthful.

(14:48):
He probably had a very honest conversation with Jacob how
long do you want to play in Major League Baseball?
What do you have left in you? And those conversations
are going to go different when it's pitcher to pitcher
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Speaker 2 (15:03):
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Rangers a huge spreadsheet. Yeah, and I think it gives
the Rangers a huge advantage when they are recruiting free agents,
but also when they are analyzing who is available on
the trade market. There's not a lot in the Rangers
farm system that's sort of high profile that they're willing

(15:27):
to trade right now. So the reality is, I think
they're probably going for one of the rental guys out
there and it probably makes the most sense. So, you know,
more of that will come as we talk about this
trade deadline that is fast approaching now, but they're definitely
in the market right now. As of today where we

(15:50):
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Speaker 2 (18:32):
All right, so it's Hall of Fame weekend. It's a
really cool class. The first Japanese player, first player born
in Japan will go into the Hall of Fame, certainly
not the last, but each row goes into the Hall
of Fame, and it's he's an amazing Obviously he was
an amazing player in Japan. He was an amazing player

(18:55):
here and he's still amazing out there just doing so
many works charity and just helping him being fun and
funny and enjoying his retirement in such a huge way.
I think it's you know, it's a great headliner for
this Hall of Fame class, there's no doubt about that.
But another headliner is CC Sabbathia, who was you know,

(19:23):
he was that big body type, right, He was as
large a personality as he.

Speaker 6 (19:30):
Was a person I mean Teddy Bear though.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
Oh absolutely friendly, happy, loved his teammates and helped his teammates.
And in fact, you had a chance to talk to
one of his former teammates.

Speaker 6 (19:44):
I did, Nathan Valdi. I talked to him earlier this
season just on where that leadership came from. I don't
think it's something that you just naturally have. I think
it's something that a great baseball player passed down to you.
Now you're passing down to others. He said he had
a long list, but one of them was CEC Sabbathia.
So I talked to CC during All Star Week and

(20:07):
just talked about what Nathan Avaldi could mean to a club.
He called him the perfect picture for an organization to
have because he's a leader, and not only by example,
but just the conversations that he has. I mean, I
think for young players not named Jack Lyder that grew
up in the Big Links with a professional baseball playing dad,

(20:27):
but for younger guys like Kamara Rocker, that's I mean.
Kamar is a pretty shy, timid guy. You know, Nathan
Valdi goes up strikes conversations. It's down at his locker
next to him. Hey, I was looking through these charts,
so that you had to kind of be taught that
he learned that from CC. And so I asked Nathan
Valdi what he thought on CC getting the call to
the Hall. Yeah, you're good.

Speaker 7 (20:49):
Yeah, No, I mean it means a lot to me.
You know, Cec is one of my all time favorite
players that I was able to play with and teammates
with some top notche Everything he does, it's for the team.
Everything he does going out there on the mountain and stuff.
So for him to say those things about me, it
means a lot to me.

Speaker 8 (21:03):
When you think about the Hall of Fame player that
he is what sticks out to you most.

Speaker 7 (21:07):
I just remember the way that he was out there
on the mound attack, and I mean he was always prepared,
ready to go out there for the games, and you
know he's going to leave it all out there on
the field. And to me, there was no doubt that
he would make the Hall of Fame. Everything that he
was able to accomplish in his resume, and you know,
again the teammate that he is in the clubhouse and
the guy he is on and off the field, it's incredible.

Speaker 8 (21:26):
I shared with him, you know, the team player that
you kind of are, and how you're taking this roster
kind of under your own wing and you know, creating
that team chemistry element and also sort of a pitching
coach role.

Speaker 6 (21:38):
How much did he plan to?

Speaker 7 (21:39):
Yeah, and a lot of that stuff. It's the stuff
that we learn along the way, right and from him.
He's one of the big ones that I learned a
lot from and being able to you know, kind of
following his footsteps. You know, it means a lot to
me everything that he was able to do for us,
and you know, just yeah, try to learn from the
best along the way.

Speaker 6 (21:57):
I was Luke Jackson singing Alicia que in the back
before a few roster moves. But man, Cci, what a
force to be reckoned with six six, three hundred pounds
coming at you. Yeah, that's scary. No, it's it's a
really great class and a really cool thing about Ichiro

(22:18):
is you mentioned the word retired? Is he though? Because
he's always in a baseball unities and you love to
see it, you know when that's how you know how
much the game of baseball meant him. It wasn't a job,
it's it's truthfully hit his life and it's a really
fun and nostalgic class and well deserved.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
Yeah, I'll say this too. The other you know, modern
era player going into the Hall this weekend is Billy Wagner.
Billy the kid, who, of course was the five to
nine lefty reliever. In fact, he's the first left handed
reliever to go into the Hall of Fame. Five to
nine opposite say right opposite from CC Sabbathia, and he

(23:04):
threw a hundred from the left side and it was nasty.
And little did we know until we were looking around
a little bit today at his story and Abs confirmed
this for us. If it weren't for one Todd Jones
getting hurt, Belly Wagner may have never been a relief pitcher.

Speaker 6 (23:25):
Yeah, baseball is a silly game. You kind of, as
a player, prey on your friend's downfall. And I say
that in the most respectful way because somebody had to
get hurt for my dad to get called up. So
it's it's a little bit weird that, you know, it's
at the expense of somebody, but now he's a Hall

(23:45):
of Fame player. I told my dad, don't feel too
bad about it, because you know, Eventually Billy became who
he is and that made him disposable for the Astros.
And I think that don't feel too bad about it
because he's going on the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
Oh and I think that players come to terms with
the fact that right the cream rises, right, Billy Wagner
was going to figure out a way now whether he
had been a starting pitcher or a relief pitcher. It
was coincidental that your dad was there as a as
a relief pitcher and got hurt, and they said, we
got no other options right now.

Speaker 6 (24:19):
Let's try hundred.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
Yeah, let's try Wagner. And it works out pretty well.
And that's the reality, is right, That is exactly what's
kind of happening. Necessity, mother of invention. It's what's happening
with John Gray right now. Right the Rangers don't need
him as a starting pitcher. He's back, he's healthy. They're
going to use him in the bullpen. He is so

(24:43):
excited about the opportunity to use that wipeout slider in
the fastball and that's it. He doesn't have to put
together a plan of how to massage the roster three
times and throw people different, set them up one way
and throw them different the next time you face them,
and then different again the third time. Just go in
there and throw you in or shoot your best bullets.

(25:04):
And that part of being a relief pitcher absolutely is
thrilling to John Gray.

Speaker 6 (25:11):
Yeah, I mean he's had a great attitude about it.
I think if you look at I mean, he has
a he calls it a rubber band arm. If you
look at extending your career to max potential, it's probably
in that relief, you know, opportunity. I want to circle
back on Billy Wagner though, because an interesting element of
this is that his son Will Wagner is playing for

(25:34):
Toronto against the Tigers this weekend. So Sunday, your dad's
going to be in the Hall of Fame and you're playing.
I'd imagine he's playing and they're not going to send
him to Cooper's town. But your dad's getting inducted into
the Hall of Fame. And then you're playing a baseball
game or Major League baseball. I mean, that's a pretty
it's pretty cool think you win at life.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
At that point. Yeah, that's that's a pretty cool that's
a pretty cool sidebar. So and then you know the
others that are going into the Hall of Fame this
weekend as elected by the Classic Era Committee. Our Classic
Baseball Era Committee are Dick Allen and Dave Parker. And

(26:15):
overdue for Dave, we mentioned it earlier in the week.
He's passed away recently from Parkinson's or effects of Parkinson's,
and so he's had a speech ready for fifteen years
and his son David will read it. So that makes
me sad. Yeah, I mean, I hate that Dave Parker

(26:36):
didn't get and he knew he was going in, he
lived that long, but he didn't get to go. Experience
to joy and the beauty of Hall of Fame weekend.
Hall of Fame Weekend in Cooperstown, New York is just unbelievable.
The weather, of course it can rain and it can
get hot there too, but the weather is typically just fantastic.
And that little idyllic town, this little slice of Americana,

(27:01):
old time town. I've been there four times, I think,
and it never disappointed.

Speaker 6 (27:08):
It matches, you know what baseball is, America's pastime. Yeah,
I mean it depicts that so well.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
And that museum is ridiculous, unbelievable. Yes, Ryan, I covered
Pudge going in Nolan. Yep, I covered Nolan going in.
I covered Eric Nadell when he won the Ford Frick Award.
I guess that's it. And I was thinking for because
they had a plan at Bally last year for me

(27:37):
to go cover Adrian. Yeah, and then suddenly they pulled
the plug on all the money. How did that work out? Yeah?
They had us all, they had booked the house, they
had maybe they hadn't quite booked the flights yet, but
we did. We had such a great trip and you know,
actually Humble Bragg we won an Emmy for our Pudge coverage,

(27:59):
so we were so excited. Yeah, we kind of got
the band back together. We're excited to go back for
Adrian last year.

Speaker 6 (28:05):
But man, if you win an Emmy, think you just
kind of find the money somewhere, wouldn't you. Also a
nod to first time on the ballot Ian.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
Kinsler, Yeah yeah, Ken's.

Speaker 6 (28:17):
Maybe not, but no he's.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
I don't think he'll be back. I don't think he
got the necessary votes to be on the ballot. So
it's too bad. But it.

Speaker 6 (28:29):
I've had this discussion with my dad about it. I
think even the mention and the consideration is such an
honor because the Hall of Fame is no joke and
I know players are very sensitive to the word and
if you do not belong there, they don't They don't
want to touch that with a ten foot pole. So
I think even just the mention is something that Ian

(28:51):
Kinsler is.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
Very proud of and should be really yeah, absolutely should be.
And Ken's did so much that uh he you know,
is absolutely worthy of being considered. But you know the
best for reasons, right, it's in a very very exclusive club.
So but anyway, it's a really fun weekend. I did see.

(29:17):
I think we should mention the because I mentioned Eric already.
The Ford Frick and the Writer Award is uh. Thomas
Boswell and Tom Hamilton will get the Ford Frick Award.
There's a bb W a uh Career Excellence Award, and
then there's the the Ford Frick Award two for the

(29:38):
best announcers. So that's really fun. It's a fun, fun weekend.
If you've never been, you know, go and it's really
crowded on the weekend of the induction. So if you
just want to enjoy the museum, which is fantastic, go
when it's not induction week. But if it was. I

(30:02):
guess we don't have anybody eligible or like on the
verge of eligible like we did Adrian. But if you
can ever go on the weekend that a Rangers you know,
player or former Rangers getting in there, I was gonna.

Speaker 6 (30:14):
Ask, who do you think is going to be the
next one?

Speaker 2 (30:17):
It could be, Uh, could be the Grom right, he'll retire.

Speaker 6 (30:22):
You wouldn't go as a Ranger though, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
I don't know he might. Michael is a ma what
do you think I think he would go in as
a Ranger? Nelson Cruz probably is not. And uh, it'd
be interesting to see if he went in as a Ranger. Right,
he did damage here, he got his start here, but

(30:45):
he did hit all those home runs elsewhere, you know,
So yeah, no, but now that he's not a Hall
of Famer, and I know there'd be a lot of
Rangers fans who wouldn't even want to hear about that
given what happened. And so anyway, Hall of Fame Weekend
very cool. We got more coming up. We're going to
get to that Rangers speed story because in baseball, speed

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Speaker 6 (32:21):
And rads was going to bring his Fedora.

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I forgot my Fedora. Next week next week I'll bring it.

Speaker 6 (32:28):
So speaking of triple digits with a fastball, guess what.
It's also triple digits.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
In temperature temperature.

Speaker 6 (32:37):
It is hot.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
I don't think we've had them yet though, have we officially?

Speaker 6 (32:40):
My car says it, Okay, you know what. I believe it?
So one hundred degrees plus and we're off today. We're
off today because the Rangers are off today. Technically we're
off tomorrow too, so rads we got we got more
than twenty four hours to kill some time.

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is what you're telling me.

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I think you a rugged road cooler because you want
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Speaker 2 (33:41):
Yeah, you kind of see how that could work with
the rugged road right here, don't you. You know you
got the cooler right here, just open it up and
reach in for another you see what I'm saying. So yeah,
uh yeah, or hard that would be good for demand
cave right there. Okay, so yeah, you know you know
you're you're talking about it already in the chat. I

(34:02):
tweeted about it last night after it happened. Wyatt Langford
is very fast. But last night's play, last night's game
changing play, is all about baseball IQ and all out hustle.
And that's what I was tweeting about, was hustle. And
then I saw that was I put good old fashioned hustle,

(34:26):
and that was what Boat said after the game. That's
just all out hustle, right, That is the kind of
play that changes games as it did last night, and
maybe abs maybe just maybe changes seasons. There's always that
game you look back on right in a season, in
a good season, and you go, oh man, that one

(34:46):
was it? Right? Who knows if this will be it?
I don't know if there has been one yet that
I would say for sure is it. So there's plenty
of candidates, no doubt. But that play last night, ma
In had us up off off our seat. It was
so great. You know, even Mike Basset on the broadcast

(35:07):
that what made him think on a pop up to
the shortstop, Yeah, that he should get on his horse
and go. And that's Tony swin Meal. Yeah, that's just
the way Wyatt Langford thinks. That's just the way Wyatt
Langford plays the game. And he walked, you know, he's
on first base. He walked, and he used his speed

(35:30):
to score the winning run in this game on a
pop up that fell between the shortstop and the left
fielder because of miscommunication out there. That kind of thing
is just fantastic. Last night in the Blue Jays game,
there was a very similar thing where George Springer is
on first base for the Blue Jays and they're playing

(35:52):
the Yankees and they're trying to win the series. They
need to win the series, and his buddy Blad Guerrero
Junior comes up and he hits one to the wall,
to the corner, and you know, again, you know, George
Springer's like, it's it's still not easy to score from first,
you know, no matter where the balls are were and
he said. They had a quote He's running around third

(36:15):
base like screaming, ah, you know, and but smiling and
fired up. And then same thing with Wyatt had first
slide in there and just beat the throw. Those are
the kind of momentum plays, right, that help a team
not only win, but you know, have some momentum, have
some fire, right And so anyway, I just love speed

(36:40):
on a baseball field. And the reality is as I've
been to back in the day when I was working
at Channel five, I'd go to the Cincinnati Reads, among
other teams always had a tryout at various high schools.
So they'd be there in January, I think, lovely, and
they go have a tryout and everybody, of course comes.

(37:02):
They're all former high school players or current high school players,
and you know, they've got their glove and their bat
and their you know everything, and they're good to go.
And the and the you know scouts who are kind
of running this thing, say all right, put all your
baseball gear down and come over here. And they take
them out in the outfield and they just start timing them.
You don't even get to touch a glove. It's speed.

(37:24):
That's what they're looking for. If you don't have whatever
their maxim is, or it didn't. I don't think they
do this anymore, but in those days, if you didn't
have their maxim, whatever your forty time was, if that's
what they were looking at her thirty time, Okay, thanks
for being here. Yeah, take your glove and your bat
and go on home. Have fun, you know, go play
in the sandlot. So speed's huge, I think is the

(37:46):
whole point. It's it's old.

Speaker 6 (37:47):
School baseball, yeah, you know, and that's something you can't
really teach. And also you have to really have a
lot of confidence in yourself to do that. That's I
think what I like most about it is White Langford
believed he could do it. You know. I think there's
a handful of players that wouldn't even try because they
know they're not gonna get it. Whyatt Langford, though, I

(38:10):
believe that is the most enthusiastic I have seen him.
After he hit this for the cycle, he might have
smiled a bit his first home run, I'm sure, since
it took some time, maybe, but that is the most
enthusiastic I've seen him. And then that led me to
draw the conclusion he's kind of like Corey Seeger very stoic.

(38:34):
You know, it doesn't show a ton of emotion, but
that one moment, like that one photo of Seger in
the World Series. I mean everyone can do that, and
it's the best photo because it never happens, you know,
not the secret doesn't do amazing things. It's just he
doesn't react to his amazing.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
The players said it. I mean, it's not just our observation.
The players said when Corey Seeger acts like that.

Speaker 6 (38:56):
That and why Langford I think the same. You know
you see that big smile. Yeah, momentum carries into it.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
Yeah, so you did a little deep dive on some
of the speed on this team. Now, the fastest player
in the league right now.

Speaker 6 (39:13):
Is Bobby Yeah, thirty point three feet per second.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
Okay, that's hard to measure or imagine, but that's fast.
Let's just put it that way. It's very fast, very fast.

Speaker 6 (39:26):
But the second place isn't isn't far behind. I mean
we're talking about a millisecond of a millisecond in comparison,
but you might be shocked with who the fastest ranger is.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
Yeah, I was.

Speaker 6 (39:38):
Chat if you have any guesses before I say it,
I'm gonna give you like a few seconds.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
Yeah, and again it's it's when you think about it,
it's kind of usual subjects. But I think the point
you made last night, which I thought was good, usual
suspects usually don't include someone built like a full back,
like why, oh you mean like.

Speaker 6 (40:01):
Six foot tall and two hundred and twenty five.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
Yeah, I mean he's a he's a fireflot that's a
lot of weight.

Speaker 8 (40:06):
To me.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
It has that kind of speed. So we're not seeing
any guesses. So the fastest on the team.

Speaker 6 (40:12):
Sam Haggerty, Yeah, twenty nine feet per second? And then
why at Langford next twenty eight point nine. Then he
goes Evan Carter and ezy Giel Duran and Alejandro Osuna
and he guesses on the slowest.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
Yeah. I think we all know. It's rowdy, rowdy, rowdy tules.
But but and again, so the Reds did this whole
thing about speed. It's got to be speed. It's got
to be speed. Can you make a career in baseball
if you don't meet that? Maxim Well, I would suggest
to you. And I don't know this, but Corey Seger

(40:46):
probably didn't. Probably on the list, right, and he's like
fourth worst, fourth Rangers.

Speaker 6 (40:53):
The Rangers again, Jake Berger significantly faster than Corey Seegeres
he wrap your head around that.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
Yeah, sou So the reality is like, yeah, that's what
everybody's looking for. But if you can do all these
other things, you know, Cecy Sabbathia is going into the
Hall of Fame. I don't reckon he ever could have
beaten that standard that the Cincinnati Reds were looking for. Right,
So it's not the only thing, but it's certainly a

(41:19):
way people were weeded out and are weeded out all
the time in all sports. Right, you need and want
that speed in all sports. And so anyway, pretty cool
because the Rangers have it, and that kind of speed. Haggarty,
We've seen it. Haggarty's you know, done some amazing things

(41:40):
on the base paths. You know, there was another game
one of those that might be the game was when
I think Haggarty walked, he stole second. On the next pitch,
he stole third, and then he came home on like
a ground out, you know, I mean they won. Those
kinds of games are just fantastic.

Speaker 6 (41:58):
He's got like almost fifty pounds less than why who Haggard?
He does Yeah, yeah, yeah, which is crazy.

Speaker 2 (42:05):
He looks like and by the way, he's about to
come back to the ankle is feeling better and we
should see him back playing baseball again.

Speaker 6 (42:17):
Oh. When I talked to him, he said he was
anticipating Friday.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
Friday.

Speaker 6 (42:21):
But Sam is the oldest on the list. He's thirty one,
so everyone else on that list is like low twenties.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
Yeah, so yeah, So a quick question in there. Could
John Gray be the closer? He'd certainly be an option James,
but I think they're thinking of him more as the
setup guy, especially in the short term with Chris Martin
on the shelf, probably possibly until the first of September.

(42:50):
So that's where I think they're going to put Gray
for now. Could he evolve into a closer having done that, Yeah, yeah,
I think he could, depending on the result else and
depending on you know what, you know, if he has
that mindset right. He's only pitched out of the bullpen
now eight times John Gray. I thought it was a

(43:14):
lot more in twenty twenty three than it was. Four
in the regular season, three in the postseason. That's it.
And he showed all of us enough in those seven
outings during the twenty twenty three season to go. Whoa
John Gray could be a bullpen guy. So yeah, I
think there is tremendous upside, even closer type upside for

(43:37):
John Gray. But you have to remember this too, is
he willing to make the long term investment into that
position because he's a starting pitcher and they make a
heck of a lot more money than closers do, and
if he had a big body of work as a closer,

(43:58):
he could possibly get you know, the hater nineteen million
for the most part. Yeah, for the most part, closers
don't get anywhere near the money that starting pitchers do.
So it's a really good question. Yeah, it's a good question.

Speaker 6 (44:14):
But also we were kind of having this discussion before
he even got injured during the off season. We know,
I mean, this was like one of our favorite topics.
Where's jonga you're going to go? Because the starting rotation
is so good and because if there's anybody that can
make the switch, I think it can be John Gray.

Speaker 2 (44:31):
Yeah, because of his stuff, right, because he admittedly has
a rubber arm. Now I'll say this, They're going to
be careful with him in the start here because he's
never thrown on back to back days. So you know,
in those starts, those appearances in the World Series, there
was always time between him because of the playoff schedule.
So he's you know, he's got to figure that out, right,

(44:55):
he's learning on the fly. But when you have that
stuff and that mentality, and like we say, he said
it rubber Arm, hey you got a pretty good shot
at doing this thing. So anyway, uh yeah, those are
some of the things we want to get to our
cleanup segment coming up next, and there's a lot of
things to talk about that are fun and exciting as

(45:16):
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Yeah, that's cool.

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Speaker 6 (47:49):
Jeff takes the cake. He's got like twenty now.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
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we're going to try to get hats as soon as possible.
So I know they're working on that. So in the
cleanup segment, nice to see you Darvish back on the
mound for the padres. You know, he's he's had his
injury woes this season. Another guy that's just getting unbelievably

(48:18):
you know, long in the tooth, I don't want to
say old long in the tooth. His career seems to
have flown by. But you Darvish is back. He's ready
to go, he's ready to roll, and he's a guy
around here. I always liked him. I think fans liked him.
He gave us something at the time that he was

(48:38):
here that was so unique. The number of pitches that
guy could throw, the crazy things he could do with
the baseball. You know, he was he was a good one.

Speaker 6 (48:50):
Yeah. But with you, Darvish, did you know that he
was kind of thinking about retiring because of the injury.

Speaker 2 (48:57):
Yeah, I'm not surprised. Yeah, I mean, and he may
still after this season. Or who knows what, and you
know it would be too bad. But because I think
he's still a really really good pitcher when he's.

Speaker 6 (49:10):
Healthy, I appreciate, you know, I respect calling it when
you see fit. I think there's a few other players.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
Oh yeah, you're talking about Orlander and and sures her again.
Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean, and I forgot.

Speaker 6 (49:26):
No one to hold him, no one to fold him,
you know what I mean. Yeah, go out, go out
on the top when you can.

Speaker 2 (49:32):
Yeah, yeah, if you can, if you can, Yeah, that's
the thing. Uh So, anyway, that's good news. Did you
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Speaker 6 (49:43):
I did not see this.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
He's the Kentucky or the Connecticut player who threw her
first threw a first pitch at a Nationals game. She's
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date from twenty twenty one on purpose. Who is James Wood?

(50:06):
As he Fudd and James Wood went to the same
high school in Washington, d C. And went to the
prom together in twenty twenty one.

Speaker 6 (50:17):
Look at that? Yeah, talk to him at the All
Star game, did you. Yeah, first time All Star. Yeah,
it's going to be fun to watch. But oh yeah,
nobody has a better first pitch.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
Than Clay No, no, no, no, what's that local I
do as he has. I think it's become known right
that she is the girlfriend of Paige Becker's. Yeah, so
I guess she's not going to any more proms with
James Wood on that deal. But she's uh yeah, but

(50:50):
she's a delightful young gal and a great player. And
they were, of course both teammates at those Connecticut teams
that were that were so dominant. So yeah, but that's good. See. Oh,
Ryan thought he could stump me on that deal, but
I had the I had the gossip down there too, right,
he plugged in, I'll spill some.

Speaker 6 (51:07):
I got one for you.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (51:09):
Tops announced that they've partnered with the estate of Bob
Ross to create special MLB trading cards. So they're calling
that The Joy of Baseball and it releases July thirty first,
and it's like Paul Skins with a very scenic background.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
Who's Ross?

Speaker 6 (51:26):
Bob Ross? You don't know who Bob Ross is? Positive
what you don't know? He literally started like YouTube.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
Tutorials Oh really.

Speaker 7 (51:38):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (51:39):
Yeah, it's like a it's like.

Speaker 6 (51:43):
A top tier Halloween costume.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
I'm googling it for rats.

Speaker 6 (51:50):
You don't know this guy?

Speaker 2 (51:52):
What does he do?

Speaker 6 (51:53):
He's a very famous painter.

Speaker 2 (51:56):
Oh, don't pay attention to painters. Could I get him
to paint the house?

Speaker 6 (52:05):
Oh my lord? Well, first of all, rest In Ross.

Speaker 2 (52:10):
Oh he's dead too, got almighty?

Speaker 6 (52:13):
Wow, Rad's I.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
Don't pay attention to painters. I pay attention. Yeah, I
kind of know who? Yeah? Yeah, because uh, what's his name?
Saying about him? Right? No? That was Van, No, that
was Van Go. I I know about Van don McLean.

Speaker 6 (52:33):
Where is miss Cathy because I'm calling her?

Speaker 2 (52:36):
Oh and she's an art history I can't talk about.
I think that Bob Ross is he the guy you'd
see on the on the cable access show is doing
little pathy.

Speaker 6 (52:46):
Oh you just got called out. Has all the tea
but doesn't know who Bob Ross is.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
Yeah, I do have tea, though I don't know Bob Ross.

Speaker 6 (52:53):
I'm really calling miss Kathy.

Speaker 2 (52:56):
Yeah, you go ahead.

Speaker 6 (52:58):
Rad's showing his age. But the thing is is like
I wouldn't know who Bob Ross is, you know, right.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
He's more it seems like that would be a guy
more in my uh more in my wheelhouse. Age wise,
if I paid attention to painting, which I don't, sue me.
I did go to a play a theater.

Speaker 6 (53:19):
I'm going to send you. I'm gonna send you the
YouTube video. They're very therapeutic. He teach you how to
paint trees, and.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
That's what I thought he was. He had like a
cable access show PBS. I'd fly by that thing and go,
are you kidding me?

Speaker 6 (53:40):
Learn something new? Everything?

Speaker 2 (53:42):
God? Hey, ohen, do you know who Bob Ross is? Oh?

Speaker 6 (53:47):
Yeah he does, right, the painter?

Speaker 2 (53:49):
Yeah, I know it, But I never heard of him.
I mean, the only thing I ever saw was on
the PBS. I'd fly by there and I'd see him
doing a paint by number, and I'm like, I don't
need to learn. Yeah, no, I don't need therapy like that.
I'm not even yeah, I'm not even sad, right, and

(54:14):
Abby knows too. Abby knows too. I've never heard of again. Anyway,
apparently he's doing some baseball cards. Now, well he's not,
he's not, but yeah, yeah he's not. But anyway, so
there you go. I mean, yeah, PB, yeah, PB. I
do feel bad for PBS. I saw that story the

(54:34):
other day. They're losing two point seven million right off
the bat, so that's too bad. But all right, let's
talk about Pete crow Armstrong. Yeah, did you see that
kids set up a lemonade stand in Wrigleyville. They were
trying to raise enough money so that they could afford
to get a PCA Pete crow Armstrong haircut. Member he
bleached his hair and then he'd had stars all.

Speaker 6 (54:57):
Over it at Dennis Rodman vibe.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
I do too. I think that's so cute. So and
then to these kids, shock awe, surprise, Pete showed up,
and of course he gave them enough money that he
paid for their haircuts. So pretty cool. They could have
cared less about the haircuts at that point. They got
to yeah, yeah, Pete prow Armstrong.

Speaker 6 (55:19):
But now, I mean, how long are they going to
have this haircut?

Speaker 2 (55:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (55:23):
But it's cool, Like there's just so many cool stories
about what players can do on an off day, I
mean basketball related. But Wemby goes and plays chess when
he's in New York and he just goes and sits
like he's like anybody that wants to come play.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
You mean like in a park that kind of like
Central Park. Yeah, that's so cool. That's a really cool thing.

Speaker 6 (55:42):
So yeah, I mean, I I think it's really cool
that players do that, and it's something the kids are
gonna remember forever. But I do PCA is a cool guy.
He's good for the game of baseball. Yeah, I agree,
swag Swaggy.

Speaker 2 (55:54):
Yep, I agree. Did you see the Wiley Riley Wheaton
Paul Skeen story. Riley is a Make a Wish young
man and a really really good pitcher. And then he
was doing great. He's ten years old. He was doing
great through Little League and then he got this rare

(56:17):
heart condition and then you know, they had to care
flight him and it morphed into a cancer. But now
the cancer is in remission and Riley was able to
go back to pitching again. And in his first outing back,
Riley struck out ten. I mean, he's a good pitcher.

(56:39):
Good for him. He's in remission. He got back on
the field well. And then to Make a Wish people
came through and I love that organization so much, and
he made had an opportunity to go He's a Pirates
fan to go to you know, maybe the best ballpark

(57:02):
in baseball, and there we are and meet maybe the
best pitcher in baseball ultimately maybe the best ever. And anyway,
there you go. There's Riley with his family. Paul Sken's
played catch with him. Paul was really impressed with his yea, yeah,

(57:24):
he's look at the kid. I think he's like really good.
And so we we hope will pray that that the
remission stays and let's let's see how that turns out
for uh, for for Riley Wheaton. But but I love
so so much when a baseball player is humble and
down to earth enough to walk up to a lemonade

(57:47):
stand and and give them the money and meet those kids.
It doesn't hurt anybody. It only helps them and makes
them feel awesome. Or you know, when Paul skin goes
above and beyond with with the young man. He took
the family through the entire clubhouse, He introduced them to teammates.
You know, it wasn't just one of those things what

(58:09):
am I supposed to do? Okay, I say hi to
the kid. No, it's he embraced it. He embraced it
cool too.

Speaker 6 (58:15):
So the kids. Riley's nickname is Goat and that stands
for greatest of all time. So his buddy nicknamed him
Mini Goat after he got him a little trophy when
he was in the hospital. But he also said has
a dual meaning, and it means God over all things,
and that's truly what's gotten him to where he is at.
So yeah, that's just cool.

Speaker 2 (58:33):
Yeah. No, And I just noticed that your dad's in
the chat, and I imagine he's probably with me. He
didn't know Ross.

Speaker 6 (58:41):
He does know who Bob Ross is. He said, it's
like saying mister Rogers had a little cable access.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
Oh, is that we he did?

Speaker 6 (58:48):
Yeah, okay, I love mister Rogers very good.

Speaker 2 (58:51):
And in fact, I'll tell you this special part of
my I saw the mister Rogers documentary and I was
so impressed because he is he was a champion for,
you know, racial supremacy and in a time when when
civil rights were so important. And by the way, if
I may right now say I'm not cultured because I

(59:13):
don't know Bob Ross. I'm watching the Ed Sullivan documentary
and I didn't realize that really big show. Ed Sullivan
was also the same thing man he was putting African
American groups on TV when nobody would even consider it,
and advertisers are pulling their money and stuff. So I

(59:36):
like both those guys. I'm a big fan of of
mister Rogers, and I don't know. I'm not mad at
Bob Ross. I don't know what he did for for
the our civil rights, but I'm just saying I never
I never knew who the hell he was, and I
looked like it looked like a boring TV show to me,
so I didn't stop. That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (59:55):
Clearly, didn't need a little peaceful ambiance in your life.

Speaker 2 (59:59):
No, I didn't need. I'm go, go go. And last thing,
speaking of players who do so much for their community,
the Hub City Spartan Burgers have retired a number and
it is the number twenty one with Burger's name on it,

(01:00:19):
Jake Berger's name on it, which is so fantastic. He
did not come up through this organization, right, he did,
but he didn't play there, but they retired his number
for the benefit of why Jake Berger wears the number
twenty one, which is to bring awareness to those who

(01:00:40):
have the twenty first chromosome, the extra twenty first chromosome,
and that is the kids who have down syndrome. I
had a long, long conversation with Jake about that in
the clubhouse the other day. We'll talk about it at
greater length in another show. But anyway, I just love
that they did that, and Ashland, his wife, was online,
you know, on the one of the socials, talking about it.

(01:01:02):
So fantastic.

Speaker 6 (01:01:04):
They're a really cool family. I have a friend that
they Her husband played with Jake at another team, and
she was just kind of messaging me like, you guys
are getting one of the best, you know, rare, like
truly good people in baseball. You know, it's like a
diamond and the or needle in a haystack kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
Yeah, as opposed to hearing the opposite so often they
were like George Pickens, he's a bad guy or whoever. Yeah,
you know, yes, So anyway, man, it's been fun. Abs.
I appreciate having you fill in for Jeff this.

Speaker 6 (01:01:37):
We're gonna bring me some Bob Ross great.

Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
Yeah, bring me a Bob Ross video or something. And
the next time you see me, I'll try to remember
the Fedora And thanks to all of you for hanging
out with us. We're going to be back. Jeff will
be with us on Sunday. As we wrap up this
series against the Atlanta Braves, can we continue this hot streak?
Let's find out. We'll see a Sunday on the DLS

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