September 11, 2025 • 6 mins
"What does it say when you're missing four of your five best players… and suddenly that's when you turn it on?"In this electric episode of The Ben and Skin Show, hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive deep into the improbable resurgence of the Texas Rangers — a team that’s defying odds, injuries, and expectations with a playoff push that feels straight out of a sports movie.From Corey Seeger’s emergency appendectomy to Marcus Semien’s broken foot, the Rangers have been battered and bruised — yet somehow, they’re thriving. The crew breaks down the stats, the vibes, and the hilarious chaos behind the team’s new identity: “The Little Rascals.”
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Mountains around the sports k tod Twins as.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
All the sports all right, guys. So on August twenty eighth,
which is about two weeks ago, the Rangers' chances to
make the playoffs were four percent. Nice, but they've continued
to win. If you go back even a week before that,
the Rangers are fourteen and four in that three week
span and the Astros are ninety nine. So they've picked
(00:31):
up about five games on the Astros in three weeks
and that's why they stand now, well, they stand a chance.
They are still two and a half games back of Houston.
They're one and a half games back of Seattle for
the wild card. So it's all kind of mumbo jumbo.
But the key here is Seattle's got the tiebreaker over you, Houston.
You still have three games with them, and if you
(00:52):
win one, then you have the tiebreaker over them.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
There's what fifteen games left?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
There's about fifteen you know, there's seventy seven and seventy so, yeah,
fifteen games left.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
What does this say when you're missing four of your
five best players and suddenly that's when you turn it on.
It's crazy. It is crazy. I think it says two things.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I think a the pitchings continued to be awesome, So
good job everyone there. I think by far the best
dr in the league. It's not even close. Second place
is not even close to them. Number two, I think
it says that there's a lot of random stuff and
a lot of guys just had bad years at the
wrong time. And then three, this is like the danger
of giving out those long term contracts. The guys start
(01:31):
to wear down. Guys who've never been hurt before start
getting hurt. I mean, dude, an emergency appen deck to
me for Corey Seeger, what are we doing like that? Never?
I mean, I guess that could happen to anyone, right,
And they found a way to be fine because of
good vibes. They're calling themselves the little rascals. We've got
a little thing now that we kind of haven't had.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
We need a thing else.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
We needed to write the number of games left on
Austin Hedges's butt crack or claw something. Yeah, so we
kind of got that thing back. A bunch of guys
who shouldn't be in the Major League is just kind
of doing the right things. Though. We're kind of bunting
a guy over here and you're kind of just doing
the boche thing. You know. I wanted Boch You to
be fired in May because I was just kind of
(02:11):
happy to go, kind of.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Bored with it.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
And I'm also worried that the manager in waiting is
going to take another job next year, and I would
hate for that to happen. They're now rumors, butch He's like,
I'm having such a good time, I'll come back next year,
and they're like, okay, yeah, cool, And I'm like, I
don't want to lose the manager in waiting because this
guy won't go.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
This is a unique situation because of the stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Earlier in the year.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Was it Kevin malar Is at the guy Pollar that
was saying, you know, hey man, it's just not any
fun and the place is steriled.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
So you hear those things, and then.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
After the fact it's easy to project and go oh
wedding when all their best players went away, so clearly
those guys weren't the leaders. I mean were you know
how it is it's easy after the fact go well,
this must be the narrative. But it is pretty interesting
to watch it all unfold and let your mind go crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I saw Sebastia Walcott had a walk off hit two
for the rough Riders. He's in Frisco right number one
prospect for the Rangers, one of the top five in
all of baseball, and he's a shortstop. Just make you wonder,
I wonder what they're gonna do with it. Talking about
him being a right fielder too, is that right?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, so it's always the power to develop with him.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Yeah, but it's always hard to move a high paid
appendectomy guy.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, have a dectivey guy. Yeah, but like he could
be back to help you. I mean, Simeon broke his
foot like that was a freak injury thing. It wasn't like,
you know, he tried to play through it too, because
he's Marcus Simeon. But then like, also, they've been beating
good teams. The Brewers the best team in baseball. They
swept him. The Astros are really good and just beating them,
and they have a chance, like it's still like a
twenty six percent chance. It's not like above tomorrow. There's
(03:47):
like all this is coming full circle for me though.
And ya if y'all remember the Boachie every other year
World Series thing. Yes, I'm just this just feels a
lot like twenty twenty three because we all thought they
were out of it. Tomorrow in New York work, they
play the Mets and Jacob de gram is starting, which
is where he came from.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
He can only go five innings.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Now, well, it's fine, he'll take your five.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Worry about his health a little bit.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
But they only lose what he pitches. Now you know that, right,
They'll they'll run off five in a row, and then
he'll get out there and then they'll lose.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Somehow. It's unbelieving he's Anthony Davis. Kind of yeah a
little bit, you know. It's like you kind of worry
that he's gonna get hurt every time he moves.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Oh, you got the full year so far.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I see his shoulder pop out of place.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I have a thought this morning. I went to the gym, guys,
and as I was riding the bike. I was riding
the bike today, Christina. I ride this old bike where
every time you like turn your legs, a rubber fist
comes up out of the seat. Uh huh, right, it
is quite the workout, ye though.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Yeah, what huh are you getting your sack tender eyes?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yep? So uh And I'm listening to a podcast in
my phone, roly paying attention. But they have the little
TVs and they have a get hards on or get
up or whatever. Yeah, what is that get going? What's
that show?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
It's called Bloodplalls Fan.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
There's always random guys on there that I've never seen
before too. It's very strange. But they were like, you're
your five best odds to win the NFC, and it
was Eagles Packers, and then it was forty nine Ers
whose quarterback is going to about to miss some time
George Kittle's hurt, Like they're McCaffrey's bank. Like, dude, the
forty nine ers are the third best, and I was like, okay,
(05:21):
Then put the Cowboys on there. Then it was the
Buccaneers and then the Commanders.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I was gonna say, I marked the Commanders up there.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I just talked to myself into the Cowboys being a
top three team in the NFC. I don't know that
the Buccaneers are better than the Cowboys right now.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
No.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I think if you're if you saw Week one, you
should absolutely be encouraged by that.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
And that's also the thing with NFL.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
There's usually two or three teams they're like Okay, they're contenders,
and then you really don't know unless you're just a
horrible team that's rolling out Gardner missionw at your quarterback
or whatever. You have no idea how it's going to
shake out because everyone's just right there.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I feel the NFL they could use a running back,
Like if they had, like a really awesome running back,
I think i'd feel differently.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
But I was surprised.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I thought they were better than I expected them to be,
which gave me a little bit of hope for the
rest of the season. But the way it goes being
a Cowboy fan, that'll surely be dissipated over time.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
We'll get into this and cussing the Cowboys, but I
read something this morning that got me really excited about
the defense. We'll do that with all the other stuff
and cussing the Cowboys. Coming up at five four. It
is the Bit and Skin Show ninety seven point one.
The Eagle coming up next, a crazy story on what's
going on in Dallas that ties the Dallas site to
Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
We'll do all that next
Mountains around the sports k tod Twins as.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
All the sports all right, guys. So on August twenty eighth,
which is about two weeks ago, the Rangers' chances to
make the playoffs were four percent. Nice, but they've continued
to win. If you go back even a week before that,
the Rangers are fourteen and four in that three week
span and the Astros are ninety nine. So they've picked
(00:31):
up about five games on the Astros in three weeks
and that's why they stand now, well, they stand a chance.
They are still two and a half games back of Houston.
They're one and a half games back of Seattle for
the wild card. So it's all kind of mumbo jumbo.
But the key here is Seattle's got the tiebreaker over you, Houston.
You still have three games with them, and if you
(00:52):
win one, then you have the tiebreaker over them.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
There's what fifteen games left?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
There's about fifteen you know, there's seventy seven and seventy so, yeah,
fifteen games left.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
What does this say when you're missing four of your
five best players and suddenly that's when you turn it on.
It's crazy. It is crazy. I think it says two things.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I think a the pitchings continued to be awesome, So
good job everyone there. I think by far the best
dr in the league. It's not even close. Second place
is not even close to them. Number two, I think
it says that there's a lot of random stuff and
a lot of guys just had bad years at the
wrong time. And then three, this is like the danger
of giving out those long term contracts. The guys start
(01:31):
to wear down. Guys who've never been hurt before start
getting hurt. I mean, dude, an emergency appen deck to
me for Corey Seeger, what are we doing like that? Never?
I mean, I guess that could happen to anyone, right,
And they found a way to be fine because of
good vibes. They're calling themselves the little rascals. We've got
a little thing now that we kind of haven't had.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
We need a thing else.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
We needed to write the number of games left on
Austin Hedges's butt crack or claw something. Yeah, so we
kind of got that thing back. A bunch of guys
who shouldn't be in the Major League is just kind
of doing the right things. Though. We're kind of bunting
a guy over here and you're kind of just doing
the boche thing. You know. I wanted Boch You to
be fired in May because I was just kind of
(02:11):
happy to go, kind of.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Bored with it.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
And I'm also worried that the manager in waiting is
going to take another job next year, and I would
hate for that to happen. They're now rumors, butch He's like,
I'm having such a good time, I'll come back next year,
and they're like, okay, yeah, cool, And I'm like, I
don't want to lose the manager in waiting because this
guy won't go.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
This is a unique situation because of the stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Earlier in the year.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Was it Kevin malar Is at the guy Pollar that
was saying, you know, hey man, it's just not any
fun and the place is steriled.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
So you hear those things, and then.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
After the fact it's easy to project and go oh
wedding when all their best players went away, so clearly
those guys weren't the leaders. I mean were you know
how it is it's easy after the fact go well,
this must be the narrative. But it is pretty interesting
to watch it all unfold and let your mind go crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I saw Sebastia Walcott had a walk off hit two
for the rough Riders. He's in Frisco right number one
prospect for the Rangers, one of the top five in
all of baseball, and he's a shortstop. Just make you wonder,
I wonder what they're gonna do with it. Talking about
him being a right fielder too, is that right?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, so it's always the power to develop with him.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Yeah, but it's always hard to move a high paid
appendectomy guy.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, have a dectivey guy. Yeah, but like he could
be back to help you. I mean, Simeon broke his
foot like that was a freak injury thing. It wasn't like,
you know, he tried to play through it too, because
he's Marcus Simeon. But then like, also, they've been beating
good teams. The Brewers the best team in baseball. They
swept him. The Astros are really good and just beating them,
and they have a chance, like it's still like a
twenty six percent chance. It's not like above tomorrow. There's
(03:47):
like all this is coming full circle for me though.
And ya if y'all remember the Boachie every other year
World Series thing. Yes, I'm just this just feels a
lot like twenty twenty three because we all thought they
were out of it. Tomorrow in New York work, they
play the Mets and Jacob de gram is starting, which
is where he came from.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
He can only go five innings.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Now, well, it's fine, he'll take your five.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Worry about his health a little bit.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
But they only lose what he pitches. Now you know that, right,
They'll they'll run off five in a row, and then
he'll get out there and then they'll lose.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Somehow. It's unbelieving he's Anthony Davis. Kind of yeah a
little bit, you know. It's like you kind of worry
that he's gonna get hurt every time he moves.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Oh, you got the full year so far.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I see his shoulder pop out of place.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I have a thought this morning. I went to the gym, guys,
and as I was riding the bike. I was riding
the bike today, Christina. I ride this old bike where
every time you like turn your legs, a rubber fist
comes up out of the seat. Uh huh, right, it
is quite the workout, ye though.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Yeah, what huh are you getting your sack tender eyes?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yep? So uh And I'm listening to a podcast in
my phone, roly paying attention. But they have the little
TVs and they have a get hards on or get
up or whatever. Yeah, what is that get going? What's
that show?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
It's called Bloodplalls Fan.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
There's always random guys on there that I've never seen
before too. It's very strange. But they were like, you're
your five best odds to win the NFC, and it
was Eagles Packers, and then it was forty nine Ers
whose quarterback is going to about to miss some time
George Kittle's hurt, Like they're McCaffrey's bank. Like, dude, the
forty nine ers are the third best, and I was like, okay,
(05:21):
Then put the Cowboys on there. Then it was the
Buccaneers and then the Commanders.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I was gonna say, I marked the Commanders up there.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I just talked to myself into the Cowboys being a
top three team in the NFC. I don't know that
the Buccaneers are better than the Cowboys right now.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
No.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I think if you're if you saw Week one, you
should absolutely be encouraged by that.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
And that's also the thing with NFL.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
There's usually two or three teams they're like Okay, they're contenders,
and then you really don't know unless you're just a
horrible team that's rolling out Gardner missionw at your quarterback
or whatever. You have no idea how it's going to
shake out because everyone's just right there.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I feel the NFL they could use a running back,
Like if they had, like a really awesome running back,
I think i'd feel differently.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
But I was surprised.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I thought they were better than I expected them to be,
which gave me a little bit of hope for the
rest of the season. But the way it goes being
a Cowboy fan, that'll surely be dissipated over time.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
We'll get into this and cussing the Cowboys, but I
read something this morning that got me really excited about
the defense. We'll do that with all the other stuff
and cussing the Cowboys. Coming up at five four. It
is the Bit and Skin Show ninety seven point one.
The Eagle coming up next, a crazy story on what's
going on in Dallas that ties the Dallas site to
Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
We'll do all that next
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