Panic Button

KT is hitting the Rangers panic button, is it too soon?

Episode Transcript

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Boy, the Master's Bet coming upat nine. Someone's gonna have a rough
payoff next week. That's coming upat nine again. Yeah, now speaking,
when's your NASCAR shirt getting worn?Dude? Pay off you for reminding
me it is time to buy that. Yeah. Well the Dayton five hund

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was in February. Yeah, soit is time to buy that. I
mean I did buy the photo withme and Bill Elliott and Vin Diesel.
I already bought you a NASCAR shirtwith Bill Elliott on it. It wasn't
my size, No one's my size. So here's the thing. As Mike
just said in the break, someof the cards will be shown at seven,

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the Master's Bet at nine. Also, I'll tell you what if Joe
follow I'm doing this. I'm doingthis. Mike is not promoting this.
I'm promoting this for Mike. Ifyou're gonna take on me and Mike and
some golf action going to Mike's Twitteraccount, I'll just say that, Yeah,
contests set up at Mike's aroy.That's S I R O I S.

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It's not a pretty link, butI think it's last tweet I sent.
Yeah, there's only one hundred spotsand a little golf thing. I
think there's thirty last of last night, thirty spots were gone, thirty five.
Now thirty five are gone. Sothat's fill that up. Let's get
that filled up to one hundred.By the end of the show, sixty
five spots are left. I thinkit does cost twenty bucks or something.
That's a twenty dollars plan. Butyou could win. You'd win big bucks,

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could win big Bucks, and youcould beat me and Mike, which
that's a badge of honor you canwear forever. What huh did you say,
badge? I said badge. Ididn't hear that. It was something
different, didn't here, badge.So see if the cards are shown at
seven, maybe that'll help you.Yeah, it's gonna be one name to

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win the Masters at seven o'clock andthen a big Master's bet. We're putting
together at nine kids this week.Damn it it is and it starts tomorrow,
and I know a ton of peopleare gambling on it and getting down
getting dirty. He got the ladies, yam, We have got the lady.
I'm getting filthy with it. Mysteriousinjuries popping up. Oh dude,
did you hear about the wrist?Oh? My god, I've heard about

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the wrist. You heard about thefingery. Oh you know, I heard
about the fingers. Hear about theshaft. I don't know. I've heard
about the shaft. I have newCaddie. Oh my, you hear about
the shoulder. This oldes shit.I didn't hear about the shoulder. Good
god, seven o'clock. Pretty excitedfor seven far Maddie. Did you have
a golf background? O? Ido? I played for like sixteen years.

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Whoa Christina text me because she heardthat she's up. She says,
uh, pretty sure, Maddie isa really good golfer. Just FYI all
right, sixteen years? Yeah,you still play kind of yeah your handicap.
I don't know if you went andplayed, what would you shoot right

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now? If I haven't practiced ina while, so probably shoot like mid
eighties. Hi, I love whenthey do that. Oh dude, I
suck. I haven't played in forever. I'd probably should, you know,
mid mid eighties, low eighties.Well, let's say, do you like
to gamble when you play golf?I like to make bets on the whole.

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I really don't part take in gamblingon other people playing golf. But
you're doing other forms of life gambling. I think I tried once and it
was not for me. What's yourbest best round you've ever shot? Oh?
I think it was seventy seventy four. A little bit above part just
a little bit me too. Thislook at Maddie seventy four my adult life

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in high school, I was justseventy one. But that was high school.
When you've played all the time,seventy four? Dude? Would she
kick our ass? Yes? Iwant to see this. This will get
me out of the course. Thiswill get you out on Maddie. Just
wipe the nutsacks. God wow,okay, uh. Well, the Ben

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and Skin Show and the speakeas you'regonna be at the PGA District in Frisco
right there at the headquarters. It'sthe Monument Realty PGA District. That's the
that's the title sponsor. But they'regonna be in the top golf lounge Friday.
I'm going out there after the show. I've been told that we could
maybe get on the par three course. Yeah eleven. If that's happening,

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I'm in and well yeah, andI even's doing a check on Friday morning.
He's gonna find out if the wirelesscan extend that far, you know,
we can do some live on theair action because Ben and Skin are
terrible golfers. So we could evendo like a two v two type thing.
Yeah, you know, alternate shotIan. That'd be fun play by

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play. Who would you pick asyour partner, Ben or Skin? Well,
Skin's a better golfer than Ben,but so yeah, I would pick
Skin. That's a good strategy.But Ben could be good if he would
try it. Ben doesn't have thepatience for it. Didn't Ben his Ben
can smack it either admit or getbusted. Lubing up his driver, yes,

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with magmatics, yeah, he lubingup his driver. Well about that
part, but loubing up his driver, I was gonna let it go.
Well, you did say badge ofhonor. You did this very segment.
So in golf, Danny, I'venever done this, but it's crossed my
mind. I've heard about putting vassalineon your driver. Yeah, if you

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lube up vasoline whatever, the frontof your driver, the face of the
driver, it gets rid of thespin that you would be putting on the
ball. I don't know how straightit goes, Like if you have a
wicked slice. I don't know ifit eliminates half of it or most of
it, but yeah, I guessyou just don't really spin the ball.
And the only risky run is Iguess someone else touching your driver or touching

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the golf ball or seeing it's covercoated in grass or whatever other thing exposes
you. It's highly illegal, right, oh, completely yeah, And I
guess he didn't know. He didn'tknow. He Kinsler told him to do
it, and then Mike Maddox islike, what do you do? It's
very confused as he's just greasing hisdriver on the first two A nice smear.

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I mean, like it's a bagelbreakfast on the weekend. No,
he thought everyone did it. Ilove that Ken's was behind it too.
Yeah, they should tell that storyon Friday from the PGA headquarters because a
few wacky golf stories, uh,the most bats crazy stuff I've ever seen.
Those. We were playing Sandpiper inCalifornia right off the ocean and Ben

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left after like hole six. He'slike, I'm I don't will play anymore.
He just took off uper back toVentura, like because he's playing bad.
But you know, the most beautifulcourses in the world. He's like,
I don't want to do this.I hate golf. It is like
poor Man's pebble beach. Sh It, it overlooked. You were touching the
Pacific. Yeah, it's amazing.He just hates the He hates golf,

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but he also likes it. Helikes golf clothes and he can like he's
always been very confused. I mean, he just says he's like the one
of bad, not a bad golfer, but a golfer who's uh, you
know, not a top twenty favoriteto win a tournament wins. He's like,
so the best guys don't even win. And I'm like, well,
it's golf. It's just different.I don't know, it's it's it's interesting.

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So yes, I would pick Skin. That what's wild. I've played,
Like me and Jeff played against Benand Skin one time. It's weird
because Skin is not very good.But he can and if he practiced and
spent time on it, he couldshoot in the high eighties, low nineties.
But he'll play. But he'll ifhe's got a playing partner, will
coach him like and I'm like,dude, stop giving them advice. You're

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just slowing up the round and youdon't need to be giving any one golf
advice. I love him, butit's amazing. I'll take Ben. I'll
team up with Ben. I wantcash if I need golf advice. Yeah,
Danny is a champion, He's cashon his bag, He's the ding
whisperer. Is that the first everApril Fools Open? Danny's the inaugural April

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Fools Open champion. I would havewon it back to back and now this
year some guy named Steve one SteveI think Davy one. Yeah, okay,
good at least exactly. Yeah.The team photo was like, huh
were these people? I know thatguy and I think that guy grew a
beard, but the rest of you, they said, Davy smashed like a

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three hundred yard drive three hundred Ohyeah, homeboy practice and he's got experience.
The problem is is that that thattournament used to be pure. It
was people that have literally never swunga club on a golf course anything other

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than putt putt like, and that'sthat was the case for me. I'd
never been the top golf I've neverswung a club and hit a drive.
What cash did that was so effectiveis he took me out early and said,
grab an iron and just get asmooth swing. Then get you to
hit it straight and let's just dothat smart. It was smart. Yeah,

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yeah, it was so that's allyou hit was just seven irons,
just uh, tortoise. Yeah.The problem was Tom Bridwell. It was
a phenomenal golfer. He was mycaddy the next year. He assumed that
I had maybe improved and was tryingto get me to do things that a
real golfer would do, and Ididn't. I didn't, you know,

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I didn't feel the nuances the thingsthat I needed to do, especially in
the short game. He's like apoint it right, I'm gonna point here,
and you want to hit it thereand it's gonna get about about three
quarter speed. I'm like, yeah, right, what, yeah, you
know what. It's interesting, justsimplified the game to a point where it
was it was the tortoise winning therace, where all these other guys are
out there just trying it up.Yeah. We still always have a steady

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hand, all right, That's oftenwhat's required and nuanced situations. Kevin segue,
I guess we don't need an interruptfor this steady hand. Huh m
hm. First, Boach, shehas a steady hand. As he met
with the media last night after theRangers four to three lost to Oakland,

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when Jose Leclerk came in and gaveup a two run home run, blew
the game. Okay, I didn'twatch any of this last night. I
was locked and locked on MAVs.But I caught the maps and they were
up by twenty five. I know, but I can't stop watching them.
I saw Twitter and you freaking outabout the clerk and panicking on April close.

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This team sucks. April ninth,This team sucks, and they're leading
the Ale West. Let's see ifyou have a steady here are they're leading
the Ales or they tied to theleading the Ale West, leading the leading
bro Look, how many games havethey played at ten? Go ahead,
Kevin. Look this is worse thanusual because this is not the first time

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Jose has done this this year.It's the third time he's done this this
year. Okay, Okay, howmany times they do it last year?
About a thousand. Actually he washurt for the good fortune of it in
closing the bullpen last year. Look, I'm sorry I've been watching the Lincoln
Special on Apple TV. I pagingDoctor Freud. Amazing, Wow, Wow,

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Old days on Masters Week. Youknow, all right, I don't
think that's part of the reconstruction PresidentJohnson, Kevin not Danius, No,

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no, no, I'm just saying, look, it's eleven game or not
even not even ten percent? Howlong are we gonna do this? We're
gonna do this. Everything's fine alwaysbecause we won World Series last year?
Is that the thing? Because I'mnot gonna come in here every day they
blow a slate, good lord,blow a sage, or lose a game
late, laid in the game andlaid in I'm not gonna come here and

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listen to you hit the red buttonfor six months. Dude. Okay,
but you know these things are gonnahappen. I agree, But a few
a percentage of the season. Thisis the Cowboys lose their opener because their
kicker missed a thirty one yard fieldgoal for the win, and we would
be freaking out about that. Itwould be no, no, no,
it would be if the Rangers werezero to eleven. Yeah, well yeah,

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there's no I guess there's no greatway to do that. But The
biggest concern with the Rangers so farthis season through eleven games is the bullpen,
and specifically the closer, who hasconsistently been poor m H. When
there's other guys who could go.Probably, they'll figure this out. I
don't know that they are. Imean, you heard the owner's comments.

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They're not adding to this. Theymight do something cheap, but they're not
adding a big contract. Well,they're not just gonna keep handing him the
ball to close games. If thiscontinues, they'll figure something out. That's
a boach. You said it's tooearly, so he said if it was
June, i'd be concerned. It'sApril. While I was like, well,
I'm concerned. Here's why I'm concernedbecause after this three game series with

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the A's, you get Houston,then you get I think the Tigers,
then you get the Braves. Like, the schedule does not let up,
and we got dudes hurt, andyou can't lose to the A's. The
team was actively trying to to lose. Now you'll lose. If you play
the A's ten times, you'll probablylose one of those. Two of those.

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But the A's are trying to lose. I mean like that one,
just that one fell a little different. Evan Carter hit a home run to
put you ahead. The offensive strugglingCory Sigrad the night off. Every time
you call someone up, he getshurt. Foscue gets his first Major League
Baseball hit a couple of games agoand then goes to the d L with

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or the I L with an oblique, so they call it Davis Winzel for
his MLB debut last night. Youhave all these things moving sports, got
hurt injured list. They're not addinganother starting pitcher. They're gonna hope that
these guys are healthy in June.It may not matter. In June.
The Astros are still good. I'mnot freaking out. I'm really not.

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It's just like I have a hardtime going to the what we want a
World Series when the clerk's blown threesaves. I know that last year was
last year. I know this yearwas this year. But we did we
did learn some things about a baseballseason that we should have probably already known
before last season happened. But it'sway too early to be remotely concerned now.

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Granted, yeah, if they tankand their bullpen is garbage and it
keeps them out of the playoffs,then you can point back to this moment
Kevin. He goes, SOE,I told you guys, I was right.
But what are you really winning inlife with that? Yeah? No,
what do you win? Nobody caresyou win if you look back and
say, see, I was right. What this is a million other people
saying I'm looking for I was right. Anything I'm looking for. Everyone's looking
for that. They love that,people love that they do. See.

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So there's a moment last night whenthey summon the clerk and he comes out
of the bullpen, and you know, there's a guy that opens up the
bullpen door. M hmm. Onthe TV shot the security guard who's opening
up the bullpen door, and they'rethey're trying to focus in on the clerk
who's about to run out, andthe security guard goes, he makes the
throat slash sign and I like thecraft, we're about to blow a safe.

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He knew the clerk wasn't ready.And when clerk still looks like is
one of Ben and Skin put ita while back. He still looks like
he's seeing Earth for the first time. Every time he's on the description freaked
out, he looks around the stadium, Like, wow, he cues up
the manson lamps. Can't throw astrike into what he does it's t right
down the middle. I mean itis nuts. He does have that like

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what just happened to look on hisface all the time seventh inning? I
don't know, man, And maybehe gives up runs then. But they
signed David Robertson and they signed KirbyYates to like help out the bullpen.
It's like, I don't care whocloses the game. I don't don't wait,
well, but you gets the A'swho are about to play in a
ten thousand person stadium. It's embarrassing. They lost by one round to the

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A's. And this is the problemthat because they lost last two years,
lost by one run to a majorleague baseball team. Wow, shocking,
But they've lost three in a row. That's what this is. Yes,
just like the MAVs. Remember whenthey went on there a little losing streak.
We all couldn't help it, likeGod, we might need a fire
kid today. Yeah, we tryto not be that those people. And

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what happened once they added a coupleof pieces and got healthy. Now they're
gonna win the NBA championship, right, I worry about the adding pieces thing.
They basically said, we're up againstthe tax line. And guess what,
people say things until their feet areput to the fire and they have
to make decisions. They say thingsall the time. But I admire your
guys balanced take on this. Iwant to be mad about jose La Clerk

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for twenty four hours, and I'mgonna I'm gonna wash it away, you
know what. I think. I'mokay with him being mad. You can
be mad. And you know it'sa third time in eleven games traces back
to next year. It does seemto be it was a weakness last year
for the majority of the regular season. It turned out not to matter when
it mattered most. But there's noguarantee that that exact thing would happen.

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So I understand identifying early season weaknessthat may need addressing. Yes, but
you are panicking. I'm not payingare panicking. It takes so much.
I'm panicking to repeat. It takesso much to even win, and a
lot of it is luck. It'skind of like coming in here and and

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being upset that you didn't win Powerball. Yeah, Kevin, I mean I
did Josh Young getting hurt destroys meA. Dully's had bases, loaded,
no outs and hit into a onetwo three double play. Ouch, it's
just not you know, it justsucks.