Rangers vs. Dodgers FUTURE World Series Preview | RANGERS POSTGAME - Rangers Today

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The games don't get a lot better than that. The
outcomes do, but the games don't. Three fantastic games, only
one of them won by the Rangers. Today another one
run loss, this time one nothing at the hands of
the Dodgers. We break it down, talk about this unbelievable

(00:21):
series and of course gets you ready for the next one.
It's all coming next. It's the DLLs Rangers postgame Podcast.
Oh my goodness, it was such a great series. Again,
outcome twice didn't turn out the way you'd want it to.
The Rangers win one by one, they lose one by one.
That was today one nothing, and of course that game

(00:43):
on Friday was pretty much a one nothing game until
the end it became a three nothing victory by the Dodgers.
Hi there, welcome back into the DLLs Sports Studios. It's
the DLLs Rangers Podcast. We see all of your comments
already in the chat and we do appreciate it. Siate
you being here, John Radigan, here with you, Elijah Smith.

(01:04):
The profit is over there as he gets ready to
take care of all these things technical and Jeff is
going to join us from globli Field. In just a moment,
there was a playoff atmosphere out there all weekend long,
never better than last night after a Doley's hit the
walk off home run, the two run shot to win
that game yesterday. But it was pretty good out there today.

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This was what they call a pitchers duel, as no
one scored in this game until the eighth inning, and
that's really only because you know, a sac fly is
what allowed that winning run to score. Now, the Dodgers
did lead off the inning against Chris Martin with the
single followed by a walk a flyout, and then Freddie

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Freeman came to the plate and he hit one. The
flyout by the way to right field included a great
throw and a great deek. It was the throw by
a Dooleys Garcia and the deep by Corey Seeger to
keep shohe Otani, who had walked at first base. All
great plays at that point. But there you had a

(02:11):
runner at third, and you had Freddie Freeman at the plate,
and he hit it to left field and and he
drove the run home. It was deep enough to get
the run home and deep enough to separate the Dodgers
from the Rangers in this game. One nothing was the final. Yes,
I see all the comments in the chat about the
lack of hitting, and we're going to talk lots about that,

(02:32):
no question, we will talk lots about that. We will
also talk lots about what was just a wretched call
at the end of the game. And I'm not one
to bring up calls, and I don't even blame the
umpires on the field. That's a bang bang play. But
when you look at it in slow motion, it was
pretty clear that Wyatt Langford was safe on that steal.

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So I'll be anxious to hear from Jeff, who's gathering
postgame reaction to this one, what's being said in the
clubhouse and in the media room about that last play
of the game. But to me and you, if you
were watching on TV, you heard Dave Raymond and Mike
Bassett just you know, like, let's just get rid of
replay right. If we can't get it right, that's the

(03:15):
point of replay is to get it right. And they
got it wrong. I mean, it was pretty clear they
got it wrong. I don't know, I know that they
see more angles than we do, but to me, to Mike,
to Dave, there was a definitive angle from out behind
the play and you could see Wyatt Langford's cleat touching

(03:37):
second base before the tag was reapplied. Yes, Wyatt Langford
left the base. His foot left the base as he
popped up after the steal. He was safe by the
way initially his foot left the base, but the tag
also left his leg and then wasn't back before the
foot reconnected with the base. But more on that, more

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from Jeff and from the clubhouse about that coming up,
and more on the hitting coming up. But let's at
least start with the story of this game, which is
Tyler Malley, and he may well be the story of
the season in Major League Baseball. He's been called by many.
Mike Bassett included at the end of the game today

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the best pitcher in baseball so far this year, and
today was arguably and I believe it was his best
outing of the year. Tyler Mallee throws seven innings of
two hit baseball. Obviously no runs allowed. He walked three
and he struck out four. Look at the numbers there
and they're just fantastic, very efficient. As he threw ninety

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one pitches in this game. Ninety one was just fantastic
to get through seven innings and to preserve in any
way that you need to a bullpen. Now, they do
get an off day tomorrow too, so that was not
a great consideration. The consideration and letting him go out
there for six and for seven was the fact that
he was just cruising. He was doing so well and

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shutting down this Dodgers offense. And that's the thing. People
in Los Angeles likely are not saying terrible offense. You know,
they're nodding their hat, tipping their hat to great pitching.
Jacob de Gram and Nathan Vivaldi and Tyler Malley and look,
Glasnow was really good today. He had to leave because

(05:30):
of the injury. But then they you know, they've got
a stout bullpen, you know they and they used and
Dave Roberts used it. He used six relievers in this game,
seven pitchers by the Dodgers, just in order to make
sure that they could keep their team his team in
this pitchers duel. None of those pitchers, however, Glassnow included,

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were better than what Mallee was today. Mally was just fantastic.
He got through so many in one, two, three fashion,
and he's just you know, he threw efficiently. As a
great game and a great season thus far, by Tyler Maley.
So there you see BC, thank you. Dodgers a two

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twenty seven and the Rangers are two twenty one at
this point in the season. So not much separating them
that these two teams in that regard, uh and and
so again neither first of all, both of them are
going to hit as a team better than that. Both
of them are, and it'll happen. It's just a matter

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of patience. It's just a matter of time. We see
lots of instances in this game where the ball was
absolutely smoked out into the outfield. You know. One of
those was the the Josh Smith hit out there into
the in the ninth inning. One of them, which was

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just before the final out of the game, one of
them was a Marcus Simeon shot to the wall at
one hundred miles an hour with a run around. It
looked like, in fact, that that was going to be,
you know, possibly a two run homer after Jonah had walked.
This was in the fifth inning, and after Jonah had walked,

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Marcus just crushed one to the wall and left and
it was just not quite deep enough. But the Rangers
were squaring up the baseball all day. They definitely had
more barrels today than the Los Angeles Dodgers did, So
the offense will come around, Yes, for now it will,
you know, make you fall asleep. It's a one nothing

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game now, me personally, and I know Jeff's the same way.
I love a pitcher's duel. I absolutely love the drama
of the fact that every single pitch can completely change
the game. It remained that way until the ninth inning,
especially when in the ninth inning the Rangers leadoff man
got on base. Of course, that was Wyatt Langford, and

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he had an inn beatout, an infield single on on
a play that there was almost no way they were
going to get him at first base, and they didn't.
Tyler beat it out, or rather Wyatt beat it out
by a few steps. But anyway, because he's on base,
one swing of the bat and the Rangers have another
walk off. And of course, yesterday's walk off so dramatic

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and so much fun. But we understand your concerns. We
see them. You have to look at all things, and
all things are basically the big picture, I should say,
not all things, but the big picture is positive. The
Rangers started the day tied for the best record in
the American League with the Yankees and the Tigers, all

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three of those teams at thirteen and eight. Now, the
Yankees did go on to win today, and we'll talk
about them a little bit more in the program later
in the program, but thirteen and eight were they? So
now they're fourteen and eight, whereas the Rangers fall to
thirteen and nine but still tops in the American League West.
They get tomorrow off and they had to Sacramento for

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a three game series with the A's their first chance
to go there, and you know, obviously that's going to
be a very unique situation, one which many players are
not that excited about. Something else we can talk about
either later today or tomorrow. But you see that Jeff
has joined us now, and Jeff the lead. The lead

(09:24):
of this game certainly is is malle Tyler Malley had
such a great game, So you've got the lead and
then the horrific ending where it just flat looks like
the umpires got it wrong. So what was the first
thing Bouch and those guys were talking about in the clubhouse, Well.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
They were they were asked about it, and Bochie thought
that that upon review, that Langford was safe. Langford's thought
that upon review he was safe. But he said that
he was talking out there with Miguil Rojas and and
Mookie Betts and that they basically determined that the umpires

(10:06):
were going to make the call that they made, they
weren't going to overturn the call. So, uh, I thought
it was a little little clo I thought it was
kind of clear cut. I mean, I you know, it
looked like you just fanned and missed the whole the
whole thing. After why I came off the base or
no doubt he came off the base. He did get
back down. And you know if if if you know,
the player tags him with this forearm, well that's not

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tagging him with the ball. So I don't I don't
know what uh the umpires found. I mean, it's not
their call. Once it goes to New York, you're kind
of you know, they don't have any response. They just
say that's what the call was, and that's that's that's it.
So but you know, the call aside, it's hard to
it's hard to win with zero runs, and so that's

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that's really kind of where my my focus was after
the game, and Bruce Bochie was delayed getting to the
media room. He's usually pretty prompt, and he said that
they were talking about ways to get the offense going.
And because you know, three and a half weeks, almost
a month now, you're really kind of at a point

(11:12):
where it's it's it's time to get going, and you know,
maybe they're going to mix some things up. I thought
today they tried that with Dustin Harris at center field,
in center field instead.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
Of Ta varis.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
You know why at Lankford is back.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
That should that.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Should help, I would think, And you know, but to
be honest, you know, the Rangers hit a lot of
balls hard today, it's still nothing to show for. They
were still hitless with runners and scoring positions. So, you know,
is it an approach thing at that point? You know,
do you get the best from pitchers? At that point
you see more breaking balls. But you know, when you

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see several balls hit over one hundred miles per hour,
including too by corysiver Seeger that were out, they're doing the.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
Right thing.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
And the the their their expected batting average on those
balls is pretty high. But that you know, it's it's
still no runs and that's still the main problem with
this team.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, and off the bat when I was talking about
this just before you came on, jeff Off the bat
that Marcus Simeon shot in the fifth inning, uh, you know,
with with Jonah on first base, I thought that was out.
I think both the announcers thought that was out. And
then the Josh Young right there at the end of
the game. I thought that ball was going to get
down for sure into the corner and left field, and

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that may in itself, with with speed on the basis,
that may have tied it up. But so there were
these hard hit balls that, like you say that said,
they were all caught.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah, and I thought, I thought, you know, Burger there
and what was at the second inning, I thought that
was a home run. I thought it was going to
go into the Rangers' bullpen and it was up over
one hundred miles an hour. Yeah, but you know, the
Dodgers hit some balls hard. It's part of the game.
But they're just really they didn't even find any holes either.
They got to hit they had they had less fewer

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hits than the Rangers did. They had the one that
got down than a walk, than a fly ball, and
then a sacrifice fly and that's that's the game. You know,
so it's it's unfortunate because there's so little margin for
air for the bullpen in a situation like that, there's
no margin for there's no margin for a I mean,
this isn't and you know, you take your hat off

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the Tyler Mallley. You did all he could do. And
you know, I wrote today, you know, the pitching staff
is giving the Rangers a chance to win. And they
all believe that the range that that the offense is
going to get going. And what the Rangers are doing
on the mound, it's it's not rocket science. It's they're
throwing quality strikes and they're not hurting themselves, you know,
and and it's it's basic stuff. But there are a

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lot of teams out there that can't do it well.
The Rangers are doing it. They have the guys who
are veteran guys who are going to be able to
sustain it. So I think the pitching is for real.
I don't think this is a three week aberration. I
do think it's an aberration for the offense. But something
has to give here, you know, And maybe it does
start with with the lineup. Maybe it does start with

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you know, Josh Smith batting leadoff, maybe you go Smith
Seeger Langford and drops Simeon down to five or six.
You know, Jake Berger batt at eighth today, jonah Heim
batted ninth, and again Leo diy Tavaris was on the bench,
and then Flangford coming back. They very easily could have

(14:36):
optioned Dustin Harris, but he's been too good, and so
Ezekiel Duran got the got the short end of the stick,
although it was deserved. I mean, he needs to go
down there and get at bats and get his bat
woken up. But it's the it's the thirteen hitters on
on the on the roster now that then have to
do it. They need to get help from anywhere. Hitting coaches,

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I think, I think that the offense is definitely going
to be under the microscope here for the next few weeks.
And I wouldn't be making any long term real estate
investments if I were the hitting coaches that I think
that their jobs are on the line. I really do.
I just it was last season and then it's it's
hasn't gotten any better to start this season with kind

(15:19):
of the same personnel, but also personnel that was brought
in to do better, and so far that hasn't happened.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yeah, you acquired the pieces to fix this, and so
far it hasn't been fixed. So I will talk more
about that. We'll talk with you and through some of
the comments that you have left for us, and we'll
also get two more specifics about the great pitching, not
only from today's game, but from the weekend. It's all
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Speaker 1 (18:16):
All right, let's start this segment with our sleeper leader board,
because we couldn't be more proud of our own Jeff,
thank you very much. Man, Look at it, thirteen and four.
We don't have another picker at this juncture who is
over five hundred. I mean, Jeff is just running up
the score, and Jeff, I'm guessing you probably have some

(18:37):
more to add to that. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
I think I think I went to five and three
last week. Somewhere in there. I was a little bit
above five hundred. I tried my hand at golf and
it didn't go very well, so we're not going to
do that for a while. But I think I have
one active right now. So yeah, I'm just instead of
just doing it giving the updates every day, I'm just

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doing it in one big dump. So I should be
I should be near I should be somewhere around twenty
and seven after this or eighteen and seven. So yeah,
only other ones are eating my dust, and I don't
feel bad about it.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
No, I don't think you should. And yeah, I'm not
even sure they can eat your dust. I don't think
they can see your dust at this point like that,
I think up there might be somebody else. He's so
far in the lead. Okay, so let's talk about Tyler Madley. First.
I assume you had a chance to hear and talk
with him after the game.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yeah. Yeah, And you know, these guys are very gracious pictures.
They don't talk about oh yeah, that guy, that guy,
I owned him all day. You know, he had no
chance or anything like that. They give credit always to
the to the catcher. In this case today it was
Jonah Hine, you know, and calling a great game and

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then knowing the game plan sticking to it. Mike Maddox
isn't the game plan, Maestro. That's one of his strengths
that that he's been known for for a long time.
He can break down a lineup. So, you know, I
thought the big guy was that was the Freeman there?
What was it? The third inning? Really really a chance

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for Freeman, who hit the two run homer yesterday, to
do some damage there and get the Dodgers going, but
ended up striking out. I mean, it's a good at bat,
a good little battle. But Mally said, you know, they
had a base open, so he's like, if we walk him,
it wouldn't have been the worst thing in the world.
But he wasn't going to hit anything hard. I was
not going to give him anything to hit, and it
was just a matter of executing the pitches that Maddox

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had visited right before that at bat. They talked about
how they wanted to go about it, and they did
and it worked out well. And you can't say enough
about Mally. I know he walked three guys today. Maybe
there's some pitching around there.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
I'll go the walk.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
His last walk was lead off walk. Definitely not wanting
to do that, but you know, sometimes you got to
navigate a lineup sometimes you can't just go out there
blow the doors off of him. You got to be
smart and selective, and Tyler was everything today. So continued
great work for him. You know, it's it's picture of
the month type of stuff. He'll probably get. He'll get

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one more start on this road trip and then then
it'll become time to vote on player on Pitcher of
the Month, and he's gonna I think he'd be a
leading candidate. I can't imagine he wouldn't be.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yeah, he certainly has to be, given what he has
done thus far this season. Stole with an era under
one in the you know you mentioned the third inning,
couple of runners on and Freddie Freeman at the plate,
and he comes in, he gets breaks him out on
a top at bat. In the fourth inning, he surrenders
the leadoff double and then gets the next three. And
then in the fifth and sixth he threw five pitches

(21:47):
to retire the side in the fifth inning, Jeff and
nine pitches to retire the side. And the sixth inning.
We're talking efficiency there, and really, you know, those two
innings allowed him to get into the seventh inning and
allowed him to get through the seventh inning in this yes,
because you know he was just so efficient in those

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two frames.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
Well, and I mean, and that's what happens when you
throw quality strikes. You know, they may hit it, but
they're not going to hit it hard, and you know
sometimes that'll bite you. You'll you know, you'll see a
flare drop in or a little infield hit that they're
just you know, he can't make a play on but.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
Good, you know.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
And he used definitely a wide variety of pitches, a
lot of splitters. He struck Freeman out there in the
third with the fastball, and you got Migill Rojas there.
I think his last out was a pretty good little
strikeout to get Rojas. So you know, it's it's just
doing the little things, is what Nathan Valdi called him,

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you know, And and that that means every holding runners closer,
which the Rangers have done a better job of lately,
you know, fielding your position, but you know, listening to
the catcher and avoiding trouble when you are behind accounts,
you know, going to the hitter's cold zone in the
striking zone when you're down two to one or two
zero and getting back into it and getting it out.

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So all these things again, like I said in the
first part, really basic stuff. It's like, yeah, of course
you want to throw strikes, but they have to be
quality strikes and you have to be able to do
it with all your pitches to keep these guys off balance.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
And you know, through.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Twenty two games now, the Rangers are doing it as
well as any team in the major leagues, and their
rotation is doing it probably better than anybody I know.
They entered today tied for first with the Reds in WHIP,
and they were second in Baseball and e RA. It

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improved today, It got better today. You only allow run
run in nine innings and your team IRA gets better.
Your your rotation ERA, I should say, definitely got better
with no runs in seven.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Yeah, and in fact it came out during the game
after the starter, after Mallley was out of there. They're
actually in first in each category now, Jeff with the
one three five ERA and the zero point zero, zero
point seven zero WHIP, So you know, tops in baseball
among starting rotations in each of those categories. You know,

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those are the two that matter the most for pitchers. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
Well, yeah, look, as bad as the offense has been,
this team is four games above five hundred. Right, the
pitching is giving the offensive chance to do what it
did Saturday. You know this, these hitters can run into
a can run into a pitch and hit it out
and win a game.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
They can do that.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
They need to do it more frequently, obviously. But but
while they're not able to do that, while they're only
having I don't know, three or four guys who are
hitting the ball at you know, one at one time,
and the rest are ice cold. You know, just give
the team a chance and you never know what's going
to happen. And so when they're when they're playing these

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one run games, and what was today their first one
run loss? I think it might have been. You know,
that tells that tells you that they're doing the other stuff. Well,
you know, they had a really good defensive game. Dustin
Harris today in center field was terrific. His first game
in center field. He was very very good. Now it's
not his first career, yes, south the first I've ever

(25:27):
played it. He played a lot in the Myers. It's
a big league game in the in center field, he
was great, you know, and and so you just get
get the do what you can to win. Like winning
baseball as best as you can and uh, and good
things are going to happen. So hey, you know the

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then Bruce Bochy, mister silver lining, he said, my takeaway
from this homestand is it was a pretty good homestand
and it was. The Rangers went four and two.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
Now they go back on the road where they haven't
been as good. But if they can go and split
you know, the road trip, or maybe even maybe even
win it. Hey, this team is still going to be
in really good shape. And again they all think the
hitters are going to come around. Everybody. They look at
the lineup, they are like, these guys are too good.

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But as you pointed out a couple of weeks ago, John,
we were saying that last year about this team. So
you know, it's it's I think it's on the verge
of being a being a front bunner, front burner. Holy crap,
the water's boiling issue.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
Yeah, we got to do something. But yeah, in the meantime,
patience and you try to do the little things that
you can there too, You've talked about it. The reason
the pitching is so good is because they're doing the
little things. There are little things like that that can
be achieved in every at bat too, And obviously many
of those are such minutia that we may not even

(26:58):
recognize them. But some of those little things are not
being accomplished right now. You start accomplishing those on an
every at bat basis, and you watch this offense come around.
And I really did think, because he's such a such
an emotional player, that something like yesterday's game might really
have a lasting effect or you know, be the beginning

(27:19):
of something special for Adulies. Now again, the other pitcher
often has something to say about that, you know, and
I think it was I think it was Earl Weaver
that said, momentums only as good as the next day's
starting pitcher. So, yeah, you know, last night came out
there pretty good.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
Yeah, well, okay, there were eleven balls hit over one
hundred miles per hour today's game, and the Rangers had
eight of them, you know, And and so it's you
know that that's a frustrating day. But within within that frustration,
you're like, hey, you guys hit the ball hard a lot,

(27:56):
and it was it was different guys. It was it
was Singer twice, it was Simion twice, but it was
Garcia Josh Smith, Josh Young there in the ninth and Burger.
So I mean there, that's that's more than half your
lineup right there, and they'll start to fall. You know,
that's just bad luck. And so now it's still a zero,
and it's still a loss, and it's still an ongoing problem,

(28:18):
you know. And you know, if you're presenting a case,
you know, about the offense and you're the you're the offense,
you're the defendant, you're like, we're hitting balls hard. You know,
we've had some injuries in the lineup. You know, we
just got you know, Josh we missed Josh Young for
a week were we just got why at Langford bat.
You know, this offense hasn't been a whole, you know,

(28:41):
all season and and and now that it is. But
now that it is whole, it needs to start going.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
Yeah, no doubt about it. It does, and and there's
every reason to believe that it will still. And one
of those is that against really good pitching, a really
good pitching staff by the Dodgers, the Rangers did what
they did as far as those that hard hit ball
percentage goes. So more coming up as we continue to
wrap this one up. We'll talk more pitching, more offense,

(29:11):
more of what you think about this one. We'll get
to some of the things that happened in baseball throughout
the weekend, and we will preview this upcoming road trip.
So I'll come in next. It's the DLS Rangers podcast, you.

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(31:36):
haven't talked about. Let's go back, because when you have
a Jacob de gram performance like we had on Friday night,
it almost gets lost in the wash here. I mean
that was again, and I get I'm sure you know
we didn't get to do a postgame show that night,
but I'm sure there would have been a lot of
chatter and chat about the lack of hitting that night.

(31:57):
Although Yamamoto was pretty good too, But but Jacob was,
I mean, he was better. He was much better.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
And I uh, as you know, John, I chose youth
baseball over Rangers baseball, but I was watching it from
from behind the fence there at at down a Waxahatchie, John.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
And and the thing I noticed, the thing that Jacob
talks about the most is that when he's commanding the
outside corner, lower outside corner, he's in good shape. And
so I would look at the you know, the game
tracker and and there are a lot of bad bats, boy,
where he was dotting that corner and or missing just
off of it begetting some chase. So you know, it

(32:42):
looked really good. He said, yeah, it's it's still a
work in progress, but it's closer. It was a lot closer.
I mean, that was really good stuff. And you know,
his he also had a little more fastball velocity, which
which was pretty apparent, and he said that it's a
mechanical thing when he stayed closed more often than it
just naturally comes. So it doesn't seem like a big difference,

(33:07):
you know, ninety nine and ninety eight as opposed to
ninety six ninety seven, but it is. And you know,
the one mistake though, is still a fastball that it's
the pitch that seems to be giving him the most
trouble as he comes back. But that was a big
step forward. That was that was a vastly different Jacob
mc gram. He had worked on it a lot. And again,

(33:30):
these guys that just don't don't pitch on on Monday
and wait around five days and don't do anything until
their next start. They work every day throwing the ball,
working on their mechanics, watching video getting to where they
they once were or need to be.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
And that's that.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
That might be the most encouraging thing that happened this
weekend for the Rangers was to see the gram pitch
like he did. And you know, if if that's the start,
if you remembered as a start, you know, giving up
one run in seven innings and losing might be the
start of good things for Jacob de Graw.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
Yeah. And you know you mentioned, too, Jeff, the four
and two record in this homestand and how Boach had
talked about that. I remember in our last show on Thursday,
somebody in the chat said that, you know, we got
to go four and two in the homestand and we
were like, yeah, why not better than four and two?
And of course they were only you know, at least
today anyway, or run away from being better than four

(34:29):
and two and not that far away on Friday. But
the point is, you'll you'll take that against this Dodgers team.
You know, it really helps to sweep the first team
that comes into town, and especially when at that time
that team was a first place team, the Angels.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
Yeah, you know again, and you can go look at
the Rangers schedule and you can go in compare it
to the MLB standings and it's like, holy crap, good team,
good team, good team, good team, good team. Know, they
really haven't played a terrible team yet.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
They don't.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
They haven't had a White Sox or a Rockies yet,
you know. And yeah, okay, so Tampa Bay is in
last place. They're nine and thirteen. The Mariners are in
second place, right the Cubs. The Cubs are leading the
Central in the other league, so you kind of get
the point here, and the Red Sox have kind of sputtered,

(35:27):
but now they're back over five hundred. So that is
another thing that Bruce Bochi mentioned. These teams that they're
playing are pretty good and know how to pinch. You know,
you just saw three really good starting pitchers from the
Dodgers and the Angels didn't throw their best guys, not
that they have great guys, but they did. They did

(35:48):
throw Kakuchi and the Rangers won that game. So there
are there are things that are you can look at
that also can kind of make some sense out of
the offensive woes. But you know, the Rangers at home, okay,
they've played the Red Sox and the Rays, now the

(36:12):
Angels and the Dodgers pretty good teams, all right, So
to be as good as they are at home against
those teams and to have so much success at home,
that's good. That's good that you're winning those games, especially
when the offense is stinking it up. But it's been
a tough schedule.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
It really has been.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
You know, the a they're ten and twelve as the
Rangers head out that way. San Francisco's cooled off a lot,
but still a good team, and who knows who you're
going to face, And you don't know the Sacramento ballpark
very well, and unless you've played there in the minors,
like I'm sure some of these guys have, actually I
know they have. But nevertheless, it's still going to be different,

(36:57):
and you're not quite sure how it's going to play.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
Yeah, no, that's definitely something will have to consider. When
the Rangers had out that way, there's no doubt about that.
And I talked to Sean Armstrong actually about that in
the clubhouse earlier this week, and he said, none of
them are excited about going to play in this minor
league ballpark. They're just not you know, and in fairness,

(37:23):
I mean, you know, first world problems and all that,
but it's a lot about amenities and things like that.
But he's been there and he said, you know that
the only place and again they're not even playing there
this year. He said, the only place that's worse than
that than what Sacramento will be because he knows, is Tampa.
And of course they're not playing in Tampa this year.

(37:44):
They're playing in Steinbrenner Field up there, spring training facility.
But you know, you know, Sean said, well, yeah, but
they built that for the Yankees, so it's pretty nice, right,
And again a lot of a lot of it is
just amenities. A lot of it is clubhouses and weight
rooms and you know where you can you know, convene
to have you know, a pre game or postgame meal

(38:06):
and those kinds of things.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
Yeah, you know, I saw John Daniels over the this
last week, and you know, visiting players don't mind. Didn't
never really minded going to Saint Pete from like the clubhouse.
The visiting clubhouse is huge, and the food is really
really good. Now, the batting cage is no good, the

(38:31):
dugout's weird. Of course, you have the field with the
rings and it's hard to catch fly ball, so there
are a lot of problems with the chop. Some of
them were blown away. But uh yeah, you know, now
going to Sacramento, I talked to Jake Latz about it,
and he, you know, because he had played there a
few years ago, and and he said, it's just no good.

(38:53):
You know, it's it's not a good ballpark. It's an
old ballpark. And now they've they've made changes, you know,
and we'll be forced them to make changes. They have
upgraded the clubhouses and they had to build a family
room for any you know, family members who come along.
But you know, what's what are the batting cage situations
going to be? Like? You know, if you're in the bullpen,

(39:16):
you have to go to the bathroom.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
Where do you have to go?

Speaker 2 (39:19):
I know I heard somebody talking about it at the
you know, was it Legends Field where Tampa is playing.
If you're in the visiting bullpen, you have to go
across the diamond into left field to get to the bathroom,
so across across the whole outfield. And so it's these
are neither are ideal situations. And then the weather is

(39:42):
a factor too, because this time you're in Sacramento, it's
it's Okay, in the summer, it's going to be smoking hot,
and the Rangers go back there in August where it
may be one hundred and ten and twelve degrees. And
that's why they had to get rid of the turf.
It wasn't turf field and now it's grass. But it's
it's not going to be great for players, and yes,
like you said, it's these are first world problems we're

(40:04):
talking about here. But maybe they can make the most
out of it and have some fun with it, and maybe, hey,
maybe it'll remind them of their days in the minor
leagues and maybe you know, they had a kick ass
game there and they can channel that. Whatever it is
they need something. But it's going to be interesting to
hear what they have to say about about that place.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
Yeah, it'll be interesting to hear after the fact because
obviously Lats and Armstrong neither one have seen the changes yet, right,
Those were made to accommodate these major leaguers that are
now coming to play there and will be playing there
for about three years now. So it'll be an interesting series,
there is just no doubt about that. It'll be fun

(40:44):
to see the Rangers playing, you know, in a different environment,
and you know, who knows, maybe it'll some of these
guys will channel the channel their inner minor leaguer where
they were dominant, right and get going off right right.
The trip, the trip that included an Oakland and a
San Francisco in the past was always one of the

(41:06):
greatest four players too, because you got to hunker down
in the same hotel for like, you know, a full week.
And that's just in the in the world of going
three nights here, three nights there, three nights here, go
get on a plane, three nights there, get on a plane,
three nights there, you know whatever. It was always nice
and I did I think I did two of those

(41:26):
trips Jeff, where you were in San Francisco for a
full week, and it's great. I did.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
I did two as well, But I only once did
I choose to stay in San Francisco for the the
whole week, and there was an off day in the middle.
So it's like, man, I've got an off day in
San Francisco, And I mean I probably just stayed in
bed the whole time, but uh, to be honest, and
probably went out had early dinner and maybe a few

(41:54):
early cocktails. But to your point though, and that's why
that's why I covered baseball. Uh, John is better than
covering any of the other sports. You know, if you
have you know, if you have back to back road
games in the NBA, that's that's a tough get. That's
a tough travel day, you know, and you know, and

(42:14):
even if it's just a day off and you're traveling
on your off day, it's it's so baseball at least
does have that going for it. You know. The road
trips are general, you know, minimum two days, but you
get there the night before.

Speaker 1 (42:28):
At least.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
The Rangers are traveling to Sacramento tonight and they're off tomorrow,
so I'm gonna have an off day. I heard there's
some wine country expeditions planned for some of the players,
I think golf for others. You know, Lake Top is
only two hours away, so maybe maybe you can sneak
up there to to Tahoe and and and have a
fun afternoon and evening. But yeah, that's that's the that's

(42:54):
the saving grace of the long baseball season is that
the road trips you at least can unpack your suit
case if you choose to do so.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
Yep, no doubt about it. So no unpacking for the
Rangers this time. It's three in Sacramento. I'll probably bus
over to to San Francisco from there, but I would
think so yeah, no, yeah, yeah, I think they would.
But anyway, we got more to talk about. We'll talk
more with you some of the chat comments that you've had.
We'll talk a little bit about some unique things happening

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in the world of baseball today, and we'll continue to
set up this series on the road for the Rangers,
who are still four games over five hundred and that
thirteen wins already on the year. We're back to do
all that right after this on the DLS Rangers Podcast.

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encourage you to have fun with us as a diehard. So, Jeff,
a couple things I heard pregame that I just wanted
to bounce off you. One. Eric Nadell interviewed Bruce Bochi
on his pregame post or pregame show, and he was
talking about course at that point, still about Adols' walkoff,

(46:03):
and he's got five walkoffs as a Ranger, which ties
it for the most in Rangers history. And everybody agreed that,
you know, one of the probably the biggest walkoff in
Rangers history, was authored by Adolies in Game one of
the World Series. Of course, you don't want to sleep
on the Corey Seeger home run that preceded in that game,

(46:24):
but a Dooley's home run was unbelievable. But anyway, Eric
asked boats. He says, the analytics guys don't think there's
such thing as a clutch hitter. What do you think
bris and Boats said, Oh, they're definitely, definitely clutch hitters,
and Adolies is one of them. You know they always

(46:45):
say Big Poppy was that kind of guy. Clutch hitter.
Corey Seeger is a clutch hitter, right. There's some guys
who have a different focus and a different sort of
mindset when they approached the plate in a situation like that,
it seems like they can even black everything out further
and have sort of a more tunneled focus. I agree.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
I also agree that there's an art to collecting RBIs.
I know that you have to have somebody on base,
but you know, like if there's a runner, let's go
back John Well before I was on the beat. If
Juan Gonzalez came up to bat with a runner and
a scoring position, there's a hell of a chance that
one was going to find a way to get him home.
And you know there is an art to it. You

(47:31):
can you can. You know, they say you can't control
what happens when the ball comes off the bat. I
don't agree with that entirely. You can hit a fly ball,
and you see the veteran hitters do it. Honestly, when
I think of a great guy who could do that
in Rangers' history was David Murphy. If David Murphy came

(47:52):
up with the runner a third and less than one
out or less than two outs, that run was scoring,
all right, David Murphy was hitting a sacrifice fly. You know,
I you may think I'm crazy, but I just remember
that as being one of his strengths.

Speaker 1 (48:04):
So I I agree.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
And and you know, jonah Heim is kind of falling
into that category because I think he has three or
four walk off hits. Dude, why at Langford had three
last year? You know, but yeah, seeger uh And and
you know, a clutch at bat can be early. On
that home runn he hit in Game seven of the
the al I guess it was Game six of the

(48:29):
al CS.

Speaker 1 (48:32):
That was huge. That was that was huge.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
It created so much momentum. But if we're talking late
innings and heroics and walkoffs, Doles has been as good
as the gets. And you know, his first home run
in his career wasn't a walk off, but it was
an extra innings at Tampa Bay. I mean, so his
you know, his very first career home run was a
huge home run that came late in the game. I

(48:55):
believe in it. I do believe in clutch hitters. There
are guys you do not want to come to the
play when there when the game is on the line.
Look at how about it? How about Enrique Hernandez?

Speaker 1 (49:06):
Right, all right?

Speaker 2 (49:07):
How does this guy keep getting in the postseason? Because
he's really good in the postseason?

Speaker 1 (49:10):
All right?

Speaker 2 (49:12):
So I do believe in the clutch gene, the clutch,
that there are clutch hitters.

Speaker 1 (49:19):
Yeah, I agree. I think it's true. I do think that.
As I mentioned that, I hoped and thought that might
be an emotional springboard for adulies. I see it. You know,
David asks, how do you think you get adults to
be more consistent? He's either been hit or missed. I
don't know. I mean, I know that's certainly what the

(49:40):
hitting coaches and what Bruce Bocci and everybody have been
trying to do. Jeff, that's that's a hit or miss
proposition there too.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
That's his whole career, all right. You know, the twenty
twenty three playoffs, he was fantastic, amazing, But you look
at his career numbers, his career averages below two fifty.
He strikes out a lot, and while he walked, was
trending the right way with walks. He still doesn't walk
a ton, all right. The strikeout today there to end

(50:13):
the eighth inning was pretty was pretty. I think he
was trying to hit a home run and just you know,
didn't have a good two strike approach. He should have
known a sweeper was coming. I don't know how the
catcher caught it. It was that bad of a pitch
and a Doula swung at it. So a lot of
it is staying within himself, staying within the approach, and

(50:33):
maybe it worked against him the home run yesterday. Maybe
he didn't recognize, hey, I'm in a situation to do
the same thing, and it was a quick short at
Matt and he was done for. But I do I
would argue that he at least recognizes this season, shortening

(50:54):
up with two strikes when to go for it. I
don't know if that was the time to do it,
but he does seem to have a little bit more
of that thought going through his mind this season. I
know it's early, but even even going back to spring training,
that seems to be more in his brain than it has.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
Been in the past. Yeah, no question about it, I think,
you know, to your point, it would have been with
a runner on second, you know, you got a guy
in scoring position, that might have been a time to
just go ahead and shorten it up, you know. But
again because again that it had become one nothing in
the top half of that ending. But it's way easier
to be to say than to do. Instinct also sometimes

(51:34):
takes over. So it's something we know Adulies is working on.
So that's a good thing. You know. Jim's down on
the e was it was a gym that's not on
the acquisition of both Berger and Peterson. Let me just
say this. My brother reached out to me yesterday at
Michigan and he said, I can get Jack Peterson from

(51:54):
my fantasy team. And I know he's terrible and one
of the reasons he's cheap. Right now, Well, what do
you think? And so this isn't just me saying stuff.
I told my brother get him. I think he's gonna hit.
I really do. I wouldn't especially, I wouldn't. I might
tell you guys, you know, do something, but I wouldn't
tell my brother get him. But I really do think
he's gonna hit. He thinks he's gonna hit. That's probably

(52:17):
the most important part of it. And again his baseball
card says he's gonna hit. Jeff, Yeah, you know, and
and you.

Speaker 2 (52:26):
Know he's gonna get hot, and the numbers are gonna improve.
You know, even if he pats two twenty to do that,
you know, the rest of the season, he's got a
bad about what two fifty or two sixty from here
on out.

Speaker 1 (52:38):
So there, there, there are.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
That's that's not a bad play, I don't think. But yeah,
it's it's been so awful, you know that that it's
it's gonna it's gonna improve. All these guys are gonna
get better. They're they're not oh, fifty hitters or one
eighty hitters or one forty hitters. It's gonna it's gonna
turn around. And you know, but you know, you keep

(53:01):
asking him, it's like, well, how do you how do
you do it? You know, it's like you just you
just stay patient, you just write it out. I mean,
I talked to Corey Seger today after the game and
that's what he said. And maybe it's easier for him
to say because he's getting hot, but Bruce Bochie said
the same thing.

Speaker 1 (53:17):
It's like you know.

Speaker 2 (53:17):
The question sent to him today was you know you
you you you stick, you stick with these guys. You know,
has it in your past? What what has told you
that it's going to work? He said, you don't have
any other choice. These are your guys, you know. And
at this point, the Rangers can't drop three or four
hitters from the lineup, you know. Uh, They're not going

(53:40):
to call up Blaine Krim and Justin Foscu, who are
hitting very very well at Triple A and say all right,
Burger and and Jack Peterson, you guys are out, you know.
They they did keep Dustin Harris again, uh, writing the
hot hand and and you know, when when you think
of Dustin Harrish like, oh, he's never been in the

(54:00):
majors before. But you kind of look at their next
three opponents and including today, including the Dodgers, uh, Dodgers
A's giants, their Triple A affiliates playing the Pacific Coast League.
Whe Dustin's been for a couple of years, so he's
not going into these games completely blind. He's faced a
lot of these guys, uh in the minor league, so

(54:22):
there's a little advantage of that too. But you know,
they're the problem. The problem with the offense is there's
not much you can do. You can't just you can't
just drop all these guys there. You know, you might
be able to shuffle the lineup, but you can't. You
can't cut anybody and just go out and find somebody better.
You know, you've gotta it's not it's not like the

(54:44):
NFL with a field goal kicker who's gone to the Heck,
you gotta. You got to ride these guys out and
understand it's a long season and that the percentages, which
is what a batting average is, they're going to They're
going to turn into these guys favorite.

Speaker 1 (54:58):
At some point. Yeah. And you know, Boach was asked
about that by Eric in fact before the game too,
where Eric said, you know, so you've got Dustin Harris
out there in centerfield and the od out. What's your
thought behind that? And we said this, I think on Thursday, Jeff,
we felt like Boach was going to find a way
to keep Dustin Harris in the lineup because of the

(55:19):
way he's hitting. And that's exactly what Boach said. He goes, yeah,
I got to keep that bat in the lineup. I
got to do whatever I can to keep that bat
in the lineup, And to your point, you know, maybe
there is you know, maybe there's going to be some
familiarity with some of the younger pitchers that he'll face
over the course of the next six games.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
Yeah, you know, it can't hurt, you know, you can't, can't, can't,
can't do much worse, right, And you know, the interesting
thing is they had drawn up two lineups today and
the first one posted was without why at Langford, Well,
Dustin Harris was going to bat fifth. I mean, but
what does that tell you? Yeah, a guy who's in
the open the year in the minor leagues and still

(56:00):
has less than ten games in the majors was going
to about fifth. That that kind of tells you where
the offense is, where their mindset is, you know, riding
the hot bats, trying to bunch them together, trying to
get hit strung together and maybe offer Adules a little
protection so maybe they'd have to pitch to him a
little bit more. And then you know, and that's kind
of you know, do you want you know, Josh Smith

(56:23):
batting third? Do you want to keep him there because
he is the he's you know, the Rangers second best
hitter behind Seger. Do you want to keep that combination going?
Do you want to get somebody on base ahead of
Seeger uh more more regularly? But you know, as I
as I've harped on before, the leadoff hitter is only

(56:44):
guaranteed the bat once. You know, it is Simmy and
I in the leadoff spot. And Simy and I think
let off two innings today, okay, but you're you know,
are you really gonna up end your entire lineup from
one at bat? You know? And then in theory of course,
you know the top of the lineup, we'll get an
extra at bat. But I think Josh Smith would get

(57:06):
one at the three to hold two an extra bat
of the three olds.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
So I don't know.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
I don't know what they're gonna do. They're gonna have
some time to think about it. They're going to talk
about it a lot. I think that talking about it
right after the game, while it's fresher on their minds,
maybe it's not the best time to do it. Maybe
due to over a couple of cocktails on the long
flights of Sacramento and and let cooler heads prevail, Let
let some foughts, uh You know some some deeper thinking

(57:33):
go into it, but I'm sure they've been talking about
it every day. I'm sure Donnie Eckert and and Justin
Veeley are pulling their hair out. You know. It's it's
it's just something that's aggravating. It's probably magnified because it's
at the beginning of the season. But the bottom line
is the Rangers continue to win games.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
So two quick notes from baseball today. One, the Yankees,
Max Freed had a no hitter that he took into
the eighth inning, and then the Rays were able to
manage a hit in that inning, although actually controversially it
really wasn't at that point because there was a scoring
change and a sixth inning hit ended up being hit

(58:16):
by Chandler Simpson. They had called it an error initially,
and the official score went back and changed it to
a hit, So essentially the no hitter ended in the
sixth inning, but only after a scoring change. Then another
hit was The Rays got one more hit in the
eighth inning, and it was seven and two thirds of

(58:37):
sterling work by Max Freed, a great outing by him,
and the Yankees win for nothing, but an interesting way
for a no hitter to end the other one. That's interesting, Jeff.
The Reds beat the Orioles today twenty four twenty four two,
twenty four to two, and it's the first time the
Reds have scored twenty four runs or more since nineteen

(58:58):
ninety nine.

Speaker 2 (59:01):
I'll do a lot for your run differential.

Speaker 1 (59:04):
Whatever.

Speaker 2 (59:05):
They lost three games in a row, one to nothing,
so yes they did. That's that's the crazy thing, you know,
that wasn't now long ago, and two of them were
doing the Rangers. One thing about the Rays that Chandler
Simpson's like a speed burner, so I'm guessing it might
have been an infield hit where there was pressure put
on the defense or something like that.

Speaker 1 (59:24):
And then.

Speaker 2 (59:27):
That that's that's interesting. And you remember there was one time, boy,
I think it was you Darvish was pitching against the
Red Sox and took a no hitter pretty deep into
the game. There was a fly ball hit by David
Ortiz to like medium.

Speaker 1 (59:45):
Right field and.

Speaker 2 (59:46):
Rubeet Odor went way back on it, and I think
Alex Rios was the right fielder and the ball fell
in between them and it was scored an air initially,
so it preserved the no hitter. Pretty late in the game,
and it ended up not working out, of course, but
I remember, I remember that, and it did get changed.
I don't know if I don't think it got changed

(01:00:07):
that day, but it got changed during the series. And
Big Poppy was pretty mad about it afterward, yeah, and said,
oh no, that's a hit. And then you did wonder
why the hell's are going to a door out in
right field. Yes, but that was one of many things
you could wonder about, Rubnette.

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
It sure is. Well, that's going to do it. We
appreciate you guys all being here today. We're going to
be back tomorrow and we'll give you a regular podcast
that it won tomorrow. I think we got one on
than a couple of noons, right, Yeah, I believe that's right,
And so check us out tomorrow, have your lunch with
us at noon. We'll be back. We'll be back Tuesday

(01:00:41):
and Wednesday as well, and you know, we'll figure Thursday out.
So thanks for being here with us today. Rangers had
a great homestand not the best of results in the series,
but hey, you know what, it was still fun. It
was baseball. It was a playoff atmosphere. We'll see you
tomorrow on the DLLs, rangers Pot cast long silly like

(01:01:04):
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