November 2, 2023 • 36 mins
The Texas Rangers have won the World Series for the first time in franchise history. Longtime MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi joined Mike and Kerry to recap the Rangers epic win. And South Carolina coach Shane Beamer's family didn't invite him to Halloween because he's 2-6!
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Speaker 3 (00:28):
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some breaking news in our sporting universe.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Breaking news from Fox Sports. The Texas Rangers have just
won their first World Series championship in franchise history. They
have just completed a five nothing victory over the Arizona
Diamondbacks as Josh Spores just got the final out with
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a swinging strikeout to complete Arizona's four games to one victory. Again,
the Texas Rangers are the World Champions of twenty twenty three,
as they just closed out the Arizona Diamondbacks in five games.
No announcement yet on who the series VP is going
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to be. We presume it's going to be Corey Seeger,
but Marcus Simeon with a two run home run finishing
things off there on the top of the ninth inning
could be a candidate as well.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
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for the Diamondbacks and in the bottom of the ninth
and the frame job attempted by the catcher. Yeah, just
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I'm gonna hold it here, get.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Your photo opportunity.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I got it and then Smith. You know, while we
did see Marte strikes out looking to end the back
to back innings with strikeouts, standing dumbfounded as the umpire
makes the gesture, we saw the hugging, all the excitement,
Adolas Garcia running out there. Unfortunately he wasn't able to
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participate in the last couple of games, so hopefully he
also doesn't jump into the freight too much to uh
hurt even more.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Man, he's going to dive in. There's no recovery. He's
got time. Yeah, yeah, he's got time.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
But it's anyway. He's sentiment middle linebackers.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Yeah, he definitely can play on Sundays as well, but yeah, no,
it's nothing like seeing the team a bunch of grown
men after a hard, long season of ups and downs,
because it's part of it. You know, there was time
when Texas during the middle, during the back end of
the back, the back end stretch of the season, they
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were playing some of the worst baseball out there and
to kind of figure it out last day lose the division,
have to fly away, fly all the way out across
country to win that series. And just what they did
in this in this postseason, Man has been remarkable and
obviously a lot of really talented team, but yeah, the
result they had to get it done is just it's amazing.
It's it's beautiful to see.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Folks looking to cash their tickets now in Las Vegas.
Fifty to one long shot before the season, despite all
the spending and the additions. Yeah, and just look at
the division. They ended up losing it, as you said
to the Astros, and a lot made a lot back
and forth between the gms there about partying, celebrations, etc.
And then they got to send them home and here
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they are, the first in franchise history. You know, pretty
exciting the last couple of games when you start bringing
out the luminais because there are a lot of characters. Now,
me as a baseball card collector obviously a baseball fan
all my life, ye, but guys like Fergie Jenkins, sure
he's remembered as a Cub long run as a Texas ranger.
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When you can bring out Nolan Ryan, he looks like
it can still throw a fastball for you. And Pudge Rodriguez,
who now really does embody the Pudge Moniker, But you
know what, look, he had a long run in a
Hall of fame career. He leaned out in those first
couple of years after retirement, and then you get on
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the banquet circuit a couple of times in the meat
get you. But here we are, the Texas Rangers are
your baseball champ pions. And now we can go and
let's hear how it ended on Fox.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Sixty third season's Rangers series. You just let it breathe.
(05:30):
I was like, we're still waiting, but it's like a
cut to it. It's like a movie, right, like the
cut too. Now you hear the music, you hear the ambiance,
the sound cut to all these growing men jumping too
but down celebrating.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
It's no but if you're on television, which obviously Joe
Davis and John Smoltz were, you're just letting the picture
say the story exactly, as well as the fact that
you've got the crowd, huge noise. Again, owing to World Series,
Super Bowls, et cetera, there's the corporate but certainly enough
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Ranger fans to go in and make a ruckus here.
I didn't look at get in before Game five. I
gotta imagine if you were a Texas Rangers fan and
you made your way to Arizona. You probably got yourself
at a little bit of a discount for Game five
and you're able to watch your team come away with
its first franchise World Series win. Joppa Morosi is on
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the field right now, probably getting ready to be doused
with beer and or champagne or whatever else is going on.
He'll join us in a little bit. But I mean
five game World Series. We talked about wild cards, We
talk about the getting hot at the right time. Rangers
led the division for a long stretch right and made
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a couple of acquisitions, bought in. They did not pay
off as they hoped, But here we are anyway, the
one that they did before the season and bringing Bruce
Bochi in. As we talked about a little bit last
hour Loo vintage. You know, we can talk about antel,
talk about the changing face of the game, all the
rules changes that you have to go through. And here
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he pulled all the right strings, just as he did
all those years with the San Francisco Giants. YEP, and
now the Texas Rangers reign supreme in the the baseball universe.
Corey Seeger another World Series.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Win for him.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Uh Love Love's life in Arlington. We had the mister
October graphics from yesterday, right, all the comparisons game for game,
RBI for RBI with Reggie Jackson. So here we are
on November first, and we crown a champion.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Yeah, man, it's uh, it's it's a beautiful thing. I
love the new blood. I love guys getting a chance
to kind of cement their legacy once the playoffs started.
You know, a lot of these guys have great numbers
and obviously paid really well playing uh professional baseball. But
when you get to October November and have a chance to, uh,
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you know, do the things that these guys have been
doing insistent basis, especially with the Rangers and who they
had to go through in the gauntlet that they had
to go through in this postseason to get there, and
then to beat your arch nemesis along the way and
get it done. It's just a beautiful thing.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I think we always have the underdog stories, right, this
one fifty to one. Yeah, right, dismissed in the American
League because we talked about all those teams in the
Al East and waiting for them to make run because look,
there's always going to be wagers on the Yankees, kind
of like when people run to Vegas to escape the
Chicago winners, there's always a lot of early money placed
down the cups, right, it's usually throwing away. Yeah, And
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you know, as we look at this squad, rebuilding quickly
because that's what you can do also if you open
the pocket. Yes, you know, as our executive producer Justin
Prosper points out, i mean, look at their record the
last couple of years. I mean we're in the hundred
loss club.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I have no hope as a White Sox fan because
I'm part of that one hundred loss club here in
twenty twenty three. So I'm not expecting turnarounds because theyn't
pay him any anything. They tried to go to the
Braves model, and only one guy right now is proven
to have been worth any of that money, and that's Lewis,
Robert everybody else. And it can't stay on the field.
But it's not about them. It's about this team, this
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moment and the ability to turn things around. And I
think one of the things to me that's refreshing that
something you and I were talking a little bit off
air carry is with all of the emphasis and rule
changes to go towards small ball to some degree get
away from the three outcome at bats. Out of the
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Rangers were predicated on the three outcome at bats, and
that was my fear going in as Jason and I
had picked the series before it started, and he took
the Diamondbacks. Part of the reason looking that maybe a
little more depth that's starting pitching, but more so the
ability to not have a bunch of zeros up there
that you would manufacturer a run, maybe not have big innings,
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but at least keep the pressure on, keep the Rangers
going to the bullpen, and just to add add on
a little bit here and there, and other than Game two,
where it was basically a conga line around the bases
behind the efforts of Merrill Kelly, we didn't see that.
We didn't see that opportunity, and we watched the Rangers
still being able to dial up big innings and use
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the long ball, as evidenced by that Simian four hundred
and six foot blast that basically you know the line
from the Dark Knight rises and Bain goes. I didn't
know which was going to break first, your spirit or
your body. In that moment, everything went for the era
Arizona Domas.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Everything's going on. But that's the beautiful part about sports
in general. Right, you get a chance to rewrite the narrative, right.
I mean the Rangers coming into this postseason, the whole
big thing about them not being here right now in
this moment was their bullprint, their bullpen and how bad
it had been all year now. For them to come
in this into this postseason and perform the way that
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they performed was as It's just crazy. That's what makes
sports so great. You can never fully tell the whole
story until the game start playing. And so to see
these guys get through it and continue to hit the
ball like they had for most of the year, but
also pitch and step up and pitch the way that
they pitch, that's why they're champions.
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(11:37):
and I were talking about it because we're watching the
Bulls and the Mavericks. Yeah, multiple screens, that's the beauty.
It's a lot going on in studio experience. Keep the
head on a swivel. We've got Lakers and Clippers. Clippers
looking to extend their regular season dominance. I must always
point that out over the Lakers. But that's one of
the games that we had on. But we also had
the Bulls and the Mavericks. And you just asked the questions. Man,
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everything's so close, right, four point spread, three and a
half point spread, yet it's always on. It's like those
algorithms are as long as the board in front of us, right,
with a lot of code and a lot of variables
mixed therein. And we can do the same thing where
we talk about the aptitude and the ability and matchups pitching, hitting,
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All the sample sizes are great, but in the moment,
who gets it right. It's a matter of a game
of inches.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Right.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
We watch in the NFL a game of inches between Hey,
that's a great tackle. Verse, Maybe you get a little
bump with the helmet, it's fifteen yard penalty and the
drive continues. Same thing with baseball framing a pitch, maybe
it's a ball. Maybe you get strike three called. Maybe
you get an opportunity to get a better swing because
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a guy misses his pitch just that much.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
That's crazy. Like what's becoming one of the best plays
in professional football now, the under three own football because
the defensive back has its back turn. He can't gaze
with a ball with the receiver can, and so you
just just run back through. You just run back through him.
It's like one of those things where it's not a
real skill, but it's a skill.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
No, I'm trying.
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Speaker 6 (13:26):
He struck him out looking it's over. It's over. The
Rangers have won the World Series. Ranger fans, you're not dreaming.
After fifty two years in Texas, sixty three years of
the franchise, the wait is over.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Louisiana Hot Sauce, Texas Rangers Radio Network on the call,
that's it. Franchise wins its first World Series fifty two years.
All eyes turned to Jerry Jones. Okay, that'll be tomorrow.
Tonight we go out live to Arizona. Talk to our
guy MLB network prognosticator for your Detroit Lions and a legend.
(14:11):
It's our guy, John Paul Morosi at John Morosi where
you find him on Twitter.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
JP.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
It's a final Bruce Bochie working his magic again.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
How are you, buddy, Bruce Bochie? He is going to
the Hall of Fame for a reason, my friends. The
creed is being played certainly throughout the state of Texas
and probably further beyond than that. It is an extraordinary story,
the team that really when the postseason began, few people
outside of Fort Worth, in Dallas and Arlington probably gave
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much of a chance to it. And again probably even
some Ranger fans were a little concern based on how
they ended the regular season. But they have a chance
to write their own script in October, and they do
it now on the first night of November, the first
ever championship in the history of that French JP.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
If I can ask what was the vibe like when
Gallon was dealing and that no hitter got to the
sixth inning?
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Well, I should be clear first, I'm not actually in
the tonight, but but I that the the rather clinical
way in which he was pitching led me to believe
that the Dinadacks were going to find a way to
win this game. And actually a short time ago, Mitch
Garver was saying on it will be network a very
good point. I think about how he was describing that
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Gallon was so far down in the zone and down
below the zone tonight to where I think the Ranger
hitters just couldn't couldn't square him up. But obviously zero
hit through six innings, so I think that it was
a command performance by Gallon, and I just think it
was so unique that it was a Q shot, almost
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accidental base hit probably and I ironically the least impressive
hit that Corny Seeger had all World Series. That got
it going in the seventh and change the momentum, and
then of course Evan Carter, the twenty one year old
follows and the momentum belonged to the Rangers from there
and Mitch Carver with a huge hit, so I think
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for them it was a matter of staying close and
as impressive as the offense was late for Texas, the
MVP of tonight was NATEI Evaldi for being able to
dance in and out of trouble in the early innings,
because the diamond Backs very easily could have been leading
that game three nothing for nothing by the middle innings,
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by the time the Rangers offense finally woke up, but
they weren't because of how well Evaldi pitched in traffic.
And that is why you trust a veteran starter. You
think about the way that this Rangers team has built
and Auto las Garcia is an amazing story in so
many ways, and Josh Fores gets the final outs. But
you have to invest in the right players if you
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want to win, and they brought in some high character
guys who are superstar level players Seeger Semion Evaldi come
to mind. Obviously, Shures are injured by the end of
this World Series and Jacob de Gram injured by the
middle part of the season. But you've got to credit
the Rangers ownership in front office for investing in talent,
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believing that they had the right ingredients to win. And
then you add in as a final flourish the superstar
free agents. They have done that and now they're World
Series champs JP.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
It's funny how baseball works, right. We thought that the
Gram and Shers, the maybe winning a World Series and
on another team, but winning it with the Rangers being
dealt being dealt mid season season. But I want to
talk more about the Rangers, man and how how they
were able to flip the switch. I mean, I know
you've been around it a lot and seeing some miraculous
things throughout the postseason from from teams throughout the annals
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of history. But to see the teams, you know, kind
of falter down the stretch and lose the division on
the last day, have to fly out East and win
a series there. But to get to this point right now,
how did they get this done?
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Ok, It's a great question, and I think it starts
with really good pitching early on in that wild Card
series to get momentum going again. And this is a
team that while you look at the Diamondbacks, they had
to go with a bullpen game in Game four. They
just didn't really have an option for example on the
Diamondbacks front. The Rangers had that success. They were able
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to turn the momentum around because they had the starting
pitching to do. So you go back to the very
first playoff game they played this year. It was against
the Rays. Jordan Montgomery started. Rangers won that game for nothing.
The next game, Evaldi's on the mound, They win that
game seven to one. They gave up one to run
in two games in that round, both on the road,
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and then of course they started the road again against Baltimore.
They were able to silence them as well and keep
things moving. It's the tempo and rhythm that are created
by your starting pitchers. And then when you've got superstars
playing like super upper stars and putting quick points on
the board the way that Seeger has done and Garcia
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and Semion here lately. That's the formula. It's we saw
in this game today, and you can get to a
certain point in the playoffs by manufacturing runs and keeping
the line moving in many cases, and the Royals won
the World Series this way seven eight years ago. But
it's hard to do because you get a base hit
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and then you wonder is this the time to steal?
And if it's not, then you're hoping that you can
string two or three hits together in an inning, and
it's hard to do. What you can do, though, is
when you get extra base hits or you take advantage
of a defensive misque the way that tonight and then
semi in it the two run homer. It's quick offense.
Otherwise you're asking your hitters to string together three, four,
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five hits in an inning and it's just hard to do
that against quality pitching at this time of year. So
for me, the essence of the Rangers is veteran stable
starting to and then power bats. Garcia who is not
afraid of the big moment, and that goes back to that.
I think the way you grew up around the game,
playing a lot of high level international tournaments in Cuba
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international baseball, growing up, the stage was not too big
for him. And Seeger another guy who was around winning
in the playoffs from a very young age with the Dodgers.
It's experience and talent and power and skill that's expensive, Carrie.
These are not cheap players to go out and sign.
And so this is a very powerful way as we
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begin the conversation in the days ahead about free agency,
what's gonna happen next. Every agent is gonna unfold the
payroll of the Rangers and say, listen, look at how
much these guys signed for. You want to win, you
want talent, you better pay for it. And that's part
of the story of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
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As we commemorate the Rangers winning the World Series. Yeah,
you mentioned it, stringing hits along. I thought that was
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might have been the undoing right when we talked about
it starting the series. You know, Carrie and I talking
about a little bit tonight, JP. But something you, I
and Jason had talked about before was, you know, to
get him on, get him over, get him in kind
of the get away from the three outcome world of
Major League Baseball. And they sure had plenty of opportunities.
And I can't say enough about what of Ald he did.
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The stat line doesn't look great other than the stat
that mattered, the zero earned.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Runs, right what And that's managing innings, that is that
is something that and this is an exact contrast to
the way the Diamondbacks felt they had to manage the
game yesterday. And of course yesterday they had the bullpen game.
And as soon as you bring in three or four
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or five different relievers out of the pen. It only
takes one. And then, to borrow the popular board game,
it's it's a jinga all of a sudden, there you
go and the whole tower falls down. And that is
that's the issue with the bullpen game. Whereas Evaldi is
a stable pitcher who has been in the World Series
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before five years ago one with the Red Sox. He
is the second best pitcher ever from Alvin Texas, which
is no criticism because number one is Nolan Ryan. So
that's totally cool. And so you give a guy with
the ability to get deep in the game the chance
to find his way. The opposite, of course, is you
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go in, you pull the reliever out, you bring the
next guy and hope he's got his stuff, and if
he doesn't, you're in trouble. And that was the case
the Dbacks last night. The game got away early Arizona
battle back. They battled Evaldi throughout, but that was just
the case of a veteran pitcher having the ability to
locate fastball in the outside corner at different times he
was able to get to move on with the fastball.
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I was just really impressed by his ability to make
big pitches at big times, and that is a skill
that has learned over many years in.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
This game, za Pe, I mean, obviously fair enough, we're
talking about a lot about the Rangers. They just won
the World Series. But let's talk about the Diamondbacks a
little bit, a little a little bit of a surprise
that they made it this far. Would you call it
them being ahead of the schedule a little bit here,
or they got a little lucky or what do you
feel about the Diamondbacks from this point right now to
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even maybe next.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
Year ahead of schedule? I think in a lot of
ways carry but with a lot of future ahead for
this group they've got, I think a lot of the
same pieces that you see with this team right now.
And yes it's a tough division. We expect the Padres
will probably find a way to be better, that Giants
will be better as well. The Dodgers are still the
Dodgers as far as I'm concerned. But you like this
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young pitching and Gallon to finish the World Series with
a tremendous start for him today, that's a really nice boost.
Brandon fought. We have seen I think a young pitching
star born Corbyn Carroll what he did in the NLCS
along with Katel Marte. They're on that team for a while,
Christian Walker. They just at the end, I think situational
hitting failed them a little bit, that they didn't really
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have that kind of an offense probably to go swing
for swing with a team like the Rangers when they've
got guys like Seeger and Garcia. Honestly, it was an
amazing win for them to beat the Phillies the way
that they did with all the stars that Philadelphia has.
But Carrie, I think it's a great story Arizona. You know,
if having played in Arizona, it's a great sports area
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that they love their teams. It's a ballpark that I
think has needed a bit of love here in recent
years to bring it up to the major League standard
of being back to me and one of the best
in the Majors. And I just think that this World Series,
in this playoff run overall to shine a light on
what a great baseball town the Phoenix is. The whole
state is a great baseball state, and so I think
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it was a proud moment I'm sure for Arizona throughout
with a really likable team and a great manager, toy
Levello again, he got that team passed some ball clubs
in Milwaukee and in with the Dodgers and with the Phillies.
Each time, honestly, the other team was favored. So I
think it's just a tremendous feather in the cap of
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toy Levello and the Diamondbacks. And they were able to
get as far as they did. They probably lost to
a deeper team, to be honest with you, but the
future is really bright for the Diamondbacks and the Dodgers
that they've been the team to be in that league
and that division certainly for a long time. But they
had better watch out because this Diamondbacks team I believe
is going to be back in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Yeah, plenty of moves to be made for the Dodgers
in hot stove and Frostberg did say hey too soon
when you mentioned Seeger and winning with the Dodgers, and
I apologies. Yeah, but you know, he's only the second
World Series MVP with multiple teams.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
It's amazing, haven rd It It's just it's extraordinary what
he's been able to do. And you know, we talked
a bit last night about the Hall of Fame conversation.
It's an interesting one because he's now been able to
build that part of his legacy. I think he still
has five or six more years of star level production
before I can say yes, he's definitely in, but longevity
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is there. I think he loves the game. You can
just tell he brings a certain stoicism in a good
way about the way that he plays and carries himself.
He reminds me a lot. I know, I've made the
comparison of utterly Chaseley. He's got a lot of that
same way about him, where he's very serious, loves the game,
plays it hard, never gives you anything in terms of
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he's not going to bear his soul in an interview
like last night when Kenny asked him about how he
was wincing around the bases. He just gets it. He's
really really good, even great, I think, and any changed
that day. I remember I was actually in Texas covering
that the day that's Emian and Seeger signed with the Rangers,
and it was two years ago. In my goodness, it
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has changed the franchise there ever since.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
All right, last one for you, JP. We got plenty
of time to talk Hot Stove and the chaos that
will be free agency in trades first Boche. With this title,
he's tied with Walter Alston and Joe Tory with four
World Series wins under his belt. Only Connie Mack, Joe
McCarthy and Casey stangle with more.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
See the greatest manager of the mine era.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
And that's an important distinction there modern era, because you know,
you look at and you compare him, is he is
he a full contemporary of of Larusa and Torri because
they both had shortly remarkable career. It's it's hard for
me to necessarily put him ahead of Larusa. But obviously
the four World Series rings is unique, and I do
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think that there's a there's a very compelling argument that
if you look at it this way, the full wild
Card era, so from ninety five to now, I do
think he's the best manager of the wild Card here
in terms of what he's been able to achieve at
the highest level. Dusty Baker's got a claim to Certainly,
Dusty got his World Series ring, but at this time
of year, winning the biggest games there are to win,
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and I think in every case, Mike, you think about
those Giants teams, maybe you would have said they were
favored in twenty fourteen, but they certainly weren't favored against
Texas and ten. They were not favored against the Tigers
in twelve. And while you may have said at this
point by the time they got to the World Series
they were favored against the Diamondbacks, at no point during
(28:43):
the journey where you're saying, well, it's inevitable the Rangers
are going to win the World Series or even make
it there. So I think that the way that he
was able to get the most out of his teams
win when the playoffs began. He never really had the
team that people thought was gonna win at all, and
I think that's the measure of a great manager. He
was always finding guys, whether it's Josh Fores on this team,
(29:05):
whether it's Travis is Chicawa on the team back in
twenty fourteen, or Marco Scudrou in twelve Linseicom. He was
always bouncing around in different roles. He just got the
most out of his personnel always, and that to me
is the mark of a great manager.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
John Balmerosi our guest MLB Network Jason Smith Schell with me,
Mike Rman No Smith tonight, Carrie Rhodes x NFL Pro
Bowler and all Rookie team participate in our in his
stead tonight as we commemorate the end of this MLB season.
It's only appropriate you get to exhale from the on
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field of baseball while the Lions also have a bye week,
so you don't have to have prediction this week.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
Right, So here's what I'll say though, just thin case.
Should I give it to you an hour or should
I wait for another time to convey it to you?
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Well, you want to go at justin about the Chargers
coming up there?
Speaker 5 (29:56):
All, here we go, here we go. And I'm gonna
have Carrie check my math on this, Okay, Carrie, I
want you to check my math, make sure that I'm
I'm mostly in a correct area here. But I'm gonna
say the Detroit Lions will defeat the Chargers by a
final score of twenty seven to seventeen.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Oh that's pretty good, Jackie, I like that, actually, yeah,
twenty seven seventeen. Yeah, the Charges are definitely making mistake
to give them that extra extra little cushion.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Yeah, I think it's twenty seven to seventeen. It's almost
a similar Actually, the sort of a similar margin by
which they beat the Raiders. Obviously, I understand it's been
quit the fallout since that game there on Monday evening
here in Michigan. But I like the way the Lions
are playing right now. The thing is they're able to
run the ball when they need to in golf. I
(30:44):
think that golf and Laporta combo's really gone well. So
I like what the Lions are doing right now. Detroit
is long overdue, Carrie. We mentioned this a lot. They're
long overdue for some good sports stories, and I think
the Lions are going to give us one here this fall. JP.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Yeah, they're playing really well. Man. They're my second best
team in the NFC right now, and so to see
them step up to where they are right now and
to really buy into what Dan Campbell has those guys
brewing up over there, man, it's really special. It's really
exciting to see.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
I love it, Cary Well, Carrie. When I hear from you,
I'm smiling here to hear my friend, I feel even better.
So thank you, Thank you for affirming all the options
and that I've got right now. That means a lot.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Now I got you back, Jap the most positive guy
in media. It's our guy, John Paul Morosi. Thanks for
helping us cover this like a blanket all throughout the playoffs. JP.
You know we love you and appreciate your input, insights
and friendship, and we look forward to hot stove with you.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
We do with with arms with arms wide open?
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Right?
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Isn't that? That? Isn't that our eyes wide open?
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Right? With arms wide open? You got it?
Speaker 5 (31:51):
There you go arms. That's what I thought it was
arms wide open as I was hearing the song play
in honor of the Rangers, their band this fall. Well done.
Thank you, You're the best.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
JP. We'll talk to you soon, Bunny.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
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to go back to. In the National Football League, Raiderland
the Cardinals and Kyler Murray the Bears in the next
round of lunacy of what they're doing. Where we're at
at mid the midpoint, I'm Goos said midsummer of the season.
It has been a horror story for many franchises this year, Carrie,
(33:12):
but this one I thought was kind of fun. South
Carolina head coach two and six Shane Beemer. You know,
criticism and certainly you have a season like that. The
local reporters, the questions are going to be a little
more pointed. The poison pens are going to be out
because you make enemies along the way. That's just the
way the way it works. And they wait until you're
(33:33):
down and they come and get you, but you never
thought it would happen in your own house. Now, anybody
out there, you know, kids, nephews, nieces, friends and their kids,
you know that the thing that they do at the schools,
there's always the Halloween parade before they get after it
for the half day of school and watching a Chuck
Brown Halloween, The Great Pumpkin and all that fun stuff
(33:56):
or whatever movie they show. You know, everybody parades around.
They play some of the old Halloween classics, maybe some
of the music from horror films. His family told him
not to come. Yeah, yeah, quote. I could take criticism.
I get it from my own family FaceTime, my wife
and kids every day. And today they were telling me
my son hunter at a Halloween parade at his school.
(34:17):
I was there for it last year because it was
out of Monday. My wife was telling me that he
had it today, and I said, well, why didn't you
guys tell me? My son said, it's because you're two
and six and you need to be in the office working.
Please don't think I can't take criticism, because I get
it worse at home. Now. Anybody that's gone to those parades,
(34:37):
they're endless, all right. Now we're gonna get all the
princesses to dance together, okay, because you've already done all
the grades, and now we're gonna start separating by character
so they can go again and again and again, and
two hours later, it's like, all right, we killed the day,
go home. But being told by your family beat it,
(35:00):
I mean, my my goodness, man Frostburg. You've been through
some of these Halloween parades with your kids.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Oh, not just Halloween. They tell me to beat it
all the time. Yeah, wow, there.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Is that, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
But yeah, the Halloween parade one of the insufferable because
you get a bunch of parents that show up and
you know, you know what they're drinking in those cups.
It ain't coffee and tea.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
It's you know what, what I take from all all
of this is your family's your own worst enemy. And
a lot of times that's the truth. And I'm saying
that in the half joking way and also a half
truth way. It's where if you want the truth, you're
gonna get the truth.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
To remember, the kids pay attention to though.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Yes, right, that's the thing.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
Right.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
The wife's saying, well, I know you're stressed, you're two
and six, you're feeling it. Just I didn't want to
bother you with another event that would take away from
your work week. I mean, that's being a good supportive partner.
I think maybe a little bit of backhand depending on
how she said what the mood is right, depending on
you know, you read into tone and inflection it all.
But the kid, I mean, the kid sees all. They
(36:04):
see the kids hearing it, they see it here at all.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
But they also as much as you are their favorite
person and their role model and all those things, the
truth is you're two and six and you suck right now,
and they're going to tell the truth about that as well.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
And that's just that's how it is. The kids cut
to the chase, no question about it. He's Garry Rhon's
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Speaker 3 (00:28):
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some breaking news in our sporting universe.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Breaking news from Fox Sports. The Texas Rangers have just
won their first World Series championship in franchise history. They
have just completed a five nothing victory over the Arizona
Diamondbacks as Josh Spores just got the final out with
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a swinging strikeout to complete Arizona's four games to one victory. Again,
the Texas Rangers are the World Champions of twenty twenty three,
as they just closed out the Arizona Diamondbacks in five games.
No announcement yet on who the series VP is going
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to be. We presume it's going to be Corey Seeger,
but Marcus Simeon with a two run home run finishing
things off there on the top of the ninth inning
could be a candidate as well.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
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I'm gonna hold it here, get.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Your photo opportunity.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I got it and then Smith. You know, while we
did see Marte strikes out looking to end the back
to back innings with strikeouts, standing dumbfounded as the umpire
makes the gesture, we saw the hugging, all the excitement,
Adolas Garcia running out there. Unfortunately he wasn't able to
(02:51):
participate in the last couple of games, so hopefully he
also doesn't jump into the freight too much to uh
hurt even more.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Man, he's going to dive in. There's no recovery. He's
got time. Yeah, yeah, he's got time.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
But it's anyway. He's sentiment middle linebackers.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Yeah, he definitely can play on Sundays as well, but yeah, no,
it's nothing like seeing the team a bunch of grown
men after a hard, long season of ups and downs,
because it's part of it. You know, there was time
when Texas during the middle, during the back end of
the back, the back end stretch of the season, they
(03:30):
were playing some of the worst baseball out there and
to kind of figure it out last day lose the division,
have to fly away, fly all the way out across
country to win that series. And just what they did
in this in this postseason, Man has been remarkable and
obviously a lot of really talented team, but yeah, the
result they had to get it done is just it's amazing.
It's it's beautiful to see.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Folks looking to cash their tickets now in Las Vegas.
Fifty to one long shot before the season, despite all
the spending and the additions. Yeah, and just look at
the division. They ended up losing it, as you said
to the Astros, and a lot made a lot back
and forth between the gms there about partying, celebrations, etc.
And then they got to send them home and here
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they are, the first in franchise history. You know, pretty
exciting the last couple of games when you start bringing
out the luminais because there are a lot of characters. Now,
me as a baseball card collector obviously a baseball fan
all my life, ye, but guys like Fergie Jenkins, sure
he's remembered as a Cub long run as a Texas ranger.
(04:32):
When you can bring out Nolan Ryan, he looks like
it can still throw a fastball for you. And Pudge Rodriguez,
who now really does embody the Pudge Moniker, But you
know what, look, he had a long run in a
Hall of fame career. He leaned out in those first
couple of years after retirement, and then you get on
(04:53):
the banquet circuit a couple of times in the meat
get you. But here we are, the Texas Rangers are
your baseball champ pions. And now we can go and
let's hear how it ended on Fox.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Sixty third season's Rangers series. You just let it breathe.
(05:30):
I was like, we're still waiting, but it's like a
cut to it. It's like a movie, right, like the
cut too. Now you hear the music, you hear the ambiance,
the sound cut to all these growing men jumping too
but down celebrating.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
It's no but if you're on television, which obviously Joe
Davis and John Smoltz were, you're just letting the picture
say the story exactly, as well as the fact that
you've got the crowd, huge noise. Again, owing to World Series,
Super Bowls, et cetera, there's the corporate but certainly enough
(06:01):
Ranger fans to go in and make a ruckus here.
I didn't look at get in before Game five. I
gotta imagine if you were a Texas Rangers fan and
you made your way to Arizona. You probably got yourself
at a little bit of a discount for Game five
and you're able to watch your team come away with
its first franchise World Series win. Joppa Morosi is on
(06:23):
the field right now, probably getting ready to be doused
with beer and or champagne or whatever else is going on.
He'll join us in a little bit. But I mean
five game World Series. We talked about wild cards, We
talk about the getting hot at the right time. Rangers
led the division for a long stretch right and made
(06:43):
a couple of acquisitions, bought in. They did not pay
off as they hoped, But here we are anyway, the
one that they did before the season and bringing Bruce
Bochi in. As we talked about a little bit last
hour Loo vintage. You know, we can talk about antel,
talk about the changing face of the game, all the
rules changes that you have to go through. And here
(07:06):
he pulled all the right strings, just as he did
all those years with the San Francisco Giants. YEP, and
now the Texas Rangers reign supreme in the the baseball universe.
Corey Seeger another World Series.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Win for him.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Uh Love Love's life in Arlington. We had the mister
October graphics from yesterday, right, all the comparisons game for game,
RBI for RBI with Reggie Jackson. So here we are
on November first, and we crown a champion.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Yeah, man, it's uh, it's it's a beautiful thing. I
love the new blood. I love guys getting a chance
to kind of cement their legacy once the playoffs started.
You know, a lot of these guys have great numbers
and obviously paid really well playing uh professional baseball. But
when you get to October November and have a chance to, uh,
(07:58):
you know, do the things that these guys have been
doing insistent basis, especially with the Rangers and who they
had to go through in the gauntlet that they had
to go through in this postseason to get there, and
then to beat your arch nemesis along the way and
get it done. It's just a beautiful thing.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I think we always have the underdog stories, right, this
one fifty to one. Yeah, right, dismissed in the American
League because we talked about all those teams in the
Al East and waiting for them to make run because look,
there's always going to be wagers on the Yankees, kind
of like when people run to Vegas to escape the
Chicago winners, there's always a lot of early money placed
down the cups, right, it's usually throwing away. Yeah, And
(08:36):
you know, as we look at this squad, rebuilding quickly
because that's what you can do also if you open
the pocket. Yes, you know, as our executive producer Justin
Prosper points out, i mean, look at their record the
last couple of years. I mean we're in the hundred
loss club.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I have no hope as a White Sox fan because
I'm part of that one hundred loss club here in
twenty twenty three. So I'm not expecting turnarounds because theyn't
pay him any anything. They tried to go to the
Braves model, and only one guy right now is proven
to have been worth any of that money, and that's Lewis,
Robert everybody else. And it can't stay on the field.
But it's not about them. It's about this team, this
(09:12):
moment and the ability to turn things around. And I
think one of the things to me that's refreshing that
something you and I were talking a little bit off
air carry is with all of the emphasis and rule
changes to go towards small ball to some degree get
away from the three outcome at bats. Out of the
(09:34):
Rangers were predicated on the three outcome at bats, and
that was my fear going in as Jason and I
had picked the series before it started, and he took
the Diamondbacks. Part of the reason looking that maybe a
little more depth that's starting pitching, but more so the
ability to not have a bunch of zeros up there
that you would manufacturer a run, maybe not have big innings,
(09:57):
but at least keep the pressure on, keep the Rangers
going to the bullpen, and just to add add on
a little bit here and there, and other than Game two,
where it was basically a conga line around the bases
behind the efforts of Merrill Kelly, we didn't see that.
We didn't see that opportunity, and we watched the Rangers
still being able to dial up big innings and use
(10:20):
the long ball, as evidenced by that Simian four hundred
and six foot blast that basically you know the line
from the Dark Knight rises and Bain goes. I didn't
know which was going to break first, your spirit or
your body. In that moment, everything went for the era
Arizona Domas.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Everything's going on. But that's the beautiful part about sports
in general. Right, you get a chance to rewrite the narrative, right.
I mean the Rangers coming into this postseason, the whole
big thing about them not being here right now in
this moment was their bullprint, their bullpen and how bad
it had been all year now. For them to come
in this into this postseason and perform the way that
(10:58):
they performed was as It's just crazy. That's what makes
sports so great. You can never fully tell the whole
story until the game start playing. And so to see
these guys get through it and continue to hit the
ball like they had for most of the year, but
also pitch and step up and pitch the way that
they pitch, that's why they're champions.
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(11:37):
and I were talking about it because we're watching the
Bulls and the Mavericks. Yeah, multiple screens, that's the beauty.
It's a lot going on in studio experience. Keep the
head on a swivel. We've got Lakers and Clippers. Clippers
looking to extend their regular season dominance. I must always
point that out over the Lakers. But that's one of
the games that we had on. But we also had
the Bulls and the Mavericks. And you just asked the questions. Man,
(12:00):
everything's so close, right, four point spread, three and a
half point spread, yet it's always on. It's like those
algorithms are as long as the board in front of us, right,
with a lot of code and a lot of variables
mixed therein. And we can do the same thing where
we talk about the aptitude and the ability and matchups pitching, hitting,
(12:22):
All the sample sizes are great, but in the moment,
who gets it right. It's a matter of a game
of inches.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Right.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
We watch in the NFL a game of inches between Hey,
that's a great tackle. Verse, Maybe you get a little
bump with the helmet, it's fifteen yard penalty and the
drive continues. Same thing with baseball framing a pitch, maybe
it's a ball. Maybe you get strike three called. Maybe
you get an opportunity to get a better swing because
(12:50):
a guy misses his pitch just that much.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
That's crazy. Like what's becoming one of the best plays
in professional football now, the under three own football because
the defensive back has its back turn. He can't gaze
with a ball with the receiver can, and so you
just just run back through. You just run back through him.
It's like one of those things where it's not a
real skill, but it's a skill.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
No, I'm trying.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
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Speaker 6 (13:26):
He struck him out looking it's over. It's over. The
Rangers have won the World Series. Ranger fans, you're not dreaming.
After fifty two years in Texas, sixty three years of
the franchise, the wait is over.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Louisiana Hot Sauce, Texas Rangers Radio Network on the call,
that's it. Franchise wins its first World Series fifty two years.
All eyes turned to Jerry Jones. Okay, that'll be tomorrow.
Tonight we go out live to Arizona. Talk to our
guy MLB network prognosticator for your Detroit Lions and a legend.
(14:11):
It's our guy, John Paul Morosi at John Morosi where
you find him on Twitter.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
JP.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
It's a final Bruce Bochie working his magic again.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
How are you, buddy, Bruce Bochie? He is going to
the Hall of Fame for a reason, my friends. The
creed is being played certainly throughout the state of Texas
and probably further beyond than that. It is an extraordinary story,
the team that really when the postseason began, few people
outside of Fort Worth, in Dallas and Arlington probably gave
(14:43):
much of a chance to it. And again probably even
some Ranger fans were a little concern based on how
they ended the regular season. But they have a chance
to write their own script in October, and they do
it now on the first night of November, the first
ever championship in the history of that French JP.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
If I can ask what was the vibe like when
Gallon was dealing and that no hitter got to the
sixth inning?
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Well, I should be clear first, I'm not actually in
the tonight, but but I that the the rather clinical
way in which he was pitching led me to believe
that the Dinadacks were going to find a way to
win this game. And actually a short time ago, Mitch
Garver was saying on it will be network a very
good point. I think about how he was describing that
(15:30):
Gallon was so far down in the zone and down
below the zone tonight to where I think the Ranger
hitters just couldn't couldn't square him up. But obviously zero
hit through six innings, so I think that it was
a command performance by Gallon, and I just think it
was so unique that it was a Q shot, almost
(15:50):
accidental base hit probably and I ironically the least impressive
hit that Corny Seeger had all World Series. That got
it going in the seventh and change the momentum, and
then of course Evan Carter, the twenty one year old
follows and the momentum belonged to the Rangers from there
and Mitch Carver with a huge hit, so I think
(16:10):
for them it was a matter of staying close and
as impressive as the offense was late for Texas, the
MVP of tonight was NATEI Evaldi for being able to
dance in and out of trouble in the early innings,
because the diamond Backs very easily could have been leading
that game three nothing for nothing by the middle innings,
(16:31):
by the time the Rangers offense finally woke up, but
they weren't because of how well Evaldi pitched in traffic.
And that is why you trust a veteran starter. You
think about the way that this Rangers team has built
and Auto las Garcia is an amazing story in so
many ways, and Josh Fores gets the final outs. But
you have to invest in the right players if you
(16:54):
want to win, and they brought in some high character
guys who are superstar level players Seeger Semion Evaldi come
to mind. Obviously, Shures are injured by the end of
this World Series and Jacob de Gram injured by the
middle part of the season. But you've got to credit
the Rangers ownership in front office for investing in talent,
(17:16):
believing that they had the right ingredients to win. And
then you add in as a final flourish the superstar
free agents. They have done that and now they're World
Series champs JP.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
It's funny how baseball works, right. We thought that the
Gram and Shers, the maybe winning a World Series and
on another team, but winning it with the Rangers being
dealt being dealt mid season season. But I want to
talk more about the Rangers, man and how how they
were able to flip the switch. I mean, I know
you've been around it a lot and seeing some miraculous
things throughout the postseason from from teams throughout the annals
(17:49):
of history. But to see the teams, you know, kind
of falter down the stretch and lose the division on
the last day, have to fly out East and win
a series there. But to get to this point right now,
how did they get this done?
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Ok, It's a great question, and I think it starts
with really good pitching early on in that wild Card
series to get momentum going again. And this is a
team that while you look at the Diamondbacks, they had
to go with a bullpen game in Game four. They
just didn't really have an option for example on the
Diamondbacks front. The Rangers had that success. They were able
(18:22):
to turn the momentum around because they had the starting
pitching to do. So you go back to the very
first playoff game they played this year. It was against
the Rays. Jordan Montgomery started. Rangers won that game for nothing.
The next game, Evaldi's on the mound, They win that
game seven to one. They gave up one to run
in two games in that round, both on the road,
(18:45):
and then of course they started the road again against Baltimore.
They were able to silence them as well and keep
things moving. It's the tempo and rhythm that are created
by your starting pitchers. And then when you've got superstars
playing like super upper stars and putting quick points on
the board the way that Seeger has done and Garcia
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and Semion here lately. That's the formula. It's we saw
in this game today, and you can get to a
certain point in the playoffs by manufacturing runs and keeping
the line moving in many cases, and the Royals won
the World Series this way seven eight years ago. But
it's hard to do because you get a base hit
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and then you wonder is this the time to steal?
And if it's not, then you're hoping that you can
string two or three hits together in an inning, and
it's hard to do. What you can do, though, is
when you get extra base hits or you take advantage
of a defensive misque the way that tonight and then
semi in it the two run homer. It's quick offense.
Otherwise you're asking your hitters to string together three, four,
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five hits in an inning and it's just hard to do
that against quality pitching at this time of year. So
for me, the essence of the Rangers is veteran stable
starting to and then power bats. Garcia who is not
afraid of the big moment, and that goes back to that.
I think the way you grew up around the game,
playing a lot of high level international tournaments in Cuba
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international baseball, growing up, the stage was not too big
for him. And Seeger another guy who was around winning
in the playoffs from a very young age with the Dodgers.
It's experience and talent and power and skill that's expensive, Carrie.
These are not cheap players to go out and sign.
And so this is a very powerful way as we
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begin the conversation in the days ahead about free agency,
what's gonna happen next. Every agent is gonna unfold the
payroll of the Rangers and say, listen, look at how
much these guys signed for. You want to win, you
want talent, you better pay for it. And that's part
of the story of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Job Baum Morosi our guest at John Rosie where you
find him on Twitter, MLB Network is where you see them.
You hear them with us breaking down on Lions in
Michigan football, film and of course everything major League Baseball.
As we commemorate the Rangers winning the World Series. Yeah,
you mentioned it, stringing hits along. I thought that was
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might have been the undoing right when we talked about
it starting the series. You know, Carrie and I talking
about a little bit tonight, JP. But something you, I
and Jason had talked about before was, you know, to
get him on, get him over, get him in kind
of the get away from the three outcome world of
Major League Baseball. And they sure had plenty of opportunities.
And I can't say enough about what of Ald he did.
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The stat line doesn't look great other than the stat
that mattered, the zero earned.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Runs, right what And that's managing innings, that is that
is something that and this is an exact contrast to
the way the Diamondbacks felt they had to manage the
game yesterday. And of course yesterday they had the bullpen game.
And as soon as you bring in three or four
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or five different relievers out of the pen. It only
takes one. And then, to borrow the popular board game,
it's it's a jinga all of a sudden, there you
go and the whole tower falls down. And that is
that's the issue with the bullpen game. Whereas Evaldi is
a stable pitcher who has been in the World Series
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before five years ago one with the Red Sox. He
is the second best pitcher ever from Alvin Texas, which
is no criticism because number one is Nolan Ryan. So
that's totally cool. And so you give a guy with
the ability to get deep in the game the chance
to find his way. The opposite, of course, is you
(22:43):
go in, you pull the reliever out, you bring the
next guy and hope he's got his stuff, and if
he doesn't, you're in trouble. And that was the case
the Dbacks last night. The game got away early Arizona
battle back. They battled Evaldi throughout, but that was just
the case of a veteran pitcher having the ability to
locate fastball in the outside corner at different times he
was able to get to move on with the fastball.
(23:04):
I was just really impressed by his ability to make
big pitches at big times, and that is a skill
that has learned over many years in.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
This game, za Pe, I mean, obviously fair enough, we're
talking about a lot about the Rangers. They just won
the World Series. But let's talk about the Diamondbacks a
little bit, a little a little bit of a surprise
that they made it this far. Would you call it
them being ahead of the schedule a little bit here,
or they got a little lucky or what do you
feel about the Diamondbacks from this point right now to
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even maybe next.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
Year ahead of schedule? I think in a lot of
ways carry but with a lot of future ahead for
this group they've got, I think a lot of the
same pieces that you see with this team right now.
And yes it's a tough division. We expect the Padres
will probably find a way to be better, that Giants
will be better as well. The Dodgers are still the
Dodgers as far as I'm concerned. But you like this
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young pitching and Gallon to finish the World Series with
a tremendous start for him today, that's a really nice boost.
Brandon fought. We have seen I think a young pitching
star born Corbyn Carroll what he did in the NLCS
along with Katel Marte. They're on that team for a while,
Christian Walker. They just at the end, I think situational
hitting failed them a little bit, that they didn't really
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have that kind of an offense probably to go swing
for swing with a team like the Rangers when they've
got guys like Seeger and Garcia. Honestly, it was an
amazing win for them to beat the Phillies the way
that they did with all the stars that Philadelphia has.
But Carrie, I think it's a great story Arizona. You know,
if having played in Arizona, it's a great sports area
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that they love their teams. It's a ballpark that I
think has needed a bit of love here in recent
years to bring it up to the major League standard
of being back to me and one of the best
in the Majors. And I just think that this World Series,
in this playoff run overall to shine a light on
what a great baseball town the Phoenix is. The whole
state is a great baseball state, and so I think
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it was a proud moment I'm sure for Arizona throughout
with a really likable team and a great manager, toy
Levello again, he got that team passed some ball clubs
in Milwaukee and in with the Dodgers and with the Phillies.
Each time, honestly, the other team was favored. So I
think it's just a tremendous feather in the cap of
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toy Levello and the Diamondbacks. And they were able to
get as far as they did. They probably lost to
a deeper team, to be honest with you, but the
future is really bright for the Diamondbacks and the Dodgers
that they've been the team to be in that league
and that division certainly for a long time. But they
had better watch out because this Diamondbacks team I believe
is going to be back in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Yeah, plenty of moves to be made for the Dodgers
in hot stove and Frostberg did say hey too soon
when you mentioned Seeger and winning with the Dodgers, and
I apologies. Yeah, but you know, he's only the second
World Series MVP with multiple teams.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
It's amazing, haven rd It It's just it's extraordinary what
he's been able to do. And you know, we talked
a bit last night about the Hall of Fame conversation.
It's an interesting one because he's now been able to
build that part of his legacy. I think he still
has five or six more years of star level production
before I can say yes, he's definitely in, but longevity
(26:22):
is there. I think he loves the game. You can
just tell he brings a certain stoicism in a good
way about the way that he plays and carries himself.
He reminds me a lot. I know, I've made the
comparison of utterly Chaseley. He's got a lot of that
same way about him, where he's very serious, loves the game,
plays it hard, never gives you anything in terms of
(26:44):
he's not going to bear his soul in an interview
like last night when Kenny asked him about how he
was wincing around the bases. He just gets it. He's
really really good, even great, I think, and any changed
that day. I remember I was actually in Texas covering
that the day that's Emian and Seeger signed with the Rangers,
and it was two years ago. In my goodness, it
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has changed the franchise there ever since.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
All right, last one for you, JP. We got plenty
of time to talk Hot Stove and the chaos that
will be free agency in trades first Boche. With this title,
he's tied with Walter Alston and Joe Tory with four
World Series wins under his belt. Only Connie Mack, Joe
McCarthy and Casey stangle with more.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
See the greatest manager of the mine era.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
And that's an important distinction there modern era, because you know,
you look at and you compare him, is he is
he a full contemporary of of Larusa and Torri because
they both had shortly remarkable career. It's it's hard for
me to necessarily put him ahead of Larusa. But obviously
the four World Series rings is unique, and I do
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think that there's a there's a very compelling argument that
if you look at it this way, the full wild
Card era, so from ninety five to now, I do
think he's the best manager of the wild Card here
in terms of what he's been able to achieve at
the highest level. Dusty Baker's got a claim to Certainly,
Dusty got his World Series ring, but at this time
of year, winning the biggest games there are to win,
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and I think in every case, Mike, you think about
those Giants teams, maybe you would have said they were
favored in twenty fourteen, but they certainly weren't favored against
Texas and ten. They were not favored against the Tigers
in twelve. And while you may have said at this
point by the time they got to the World Series
they were favored against the Diamondbacks, at no point during
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the journey where you're saying, well, it's inevitable the Rangers
are going to win the World Series or even make
it there. So I think that the way that he
was able to get the most out of his teams
win when the playoffs began. He never really had the
team that people thought was gonna win at all, and
I think that's the measure of a great manager. He
was always finding guys, whether it's Josh Fores on this team,
(29:05):
whether it's Travis is Chicawa on the team back in
twenty fourteen, or Marco Scudrou in twelve Linseicom. He was
always bouncing around in different roles. He just got the
most out of his personnel always, and that to me
is the mark of a great manager.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
John Balmerosi our guest MLB Network Jason Smith Schell with me,
Mike Rman No Smith tonight, Carrie Rhodes x NFL Pro
Bowler and all Rookie team participate in our in his
stead tonight as we commemorate the end of this MLB season.
It's only appropriate you get to exhale from the on
(29:41):
field of baseball while the Lions also have a bye week,
so you don't have to have prediction this week.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
Right, So here's what I'll say though, just thin case.
Should I give it to you an hour or should
I wait for another time to convey it to you?
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Well, you want to go at justin about the Chargers
coming up there?
Speaker 5 (29:56):
All, here we go, here we go. And I'm gonna
have Carrie check my math on this, Okay, Carrie, I
want you to check my math, make sure that I'm
I'm mostly in a correct area here. But I'm gonna
say the Detroit Lions will defeat the Chargers by a
final score of twenty seven to seventeen.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Oh that's pretty good, Jackie, I like that, actually, yeah,
twenty seven seventeen. Yeah, the Charges are definitely making mistake
to give them that extra extra little cushion.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Yeah, I think it's twenty seven to seventeen. It's almost
a similar Actually, the sort of a similar margin by
which they beat the Raiders. Obviously, I understand it's been
quit the fallout since that game there on Monday evening
here in Michigan. But I like the way the Lions
are playing right now. The thing is they're able to
run the ball when they need to in golf. I
(30:44):
think that golf and Laporta combo's really gone well. So
I like what the Lions are doing right now. Detroit
is long overdue, Carrie. We mentioned this a lot. They're
long overdue for some good sports stories, and I think
the Lions are going to give us one here this fall. JP.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Yeah, they're playing really well. Man. They're my second best
team in the NFC right now, and so to see
them step up to where they are right now and
to really buy into what Dan Campbell has those guys
brewing up over there, man, it's really special. It's really
exciting to see.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
I love it, Cary Well, Carrie. When I hear from you,
I'm smiling here to hear my friend, I feel even better.
So thank you, Thank you for affirming all the options
and that I've got right now. That means a lot.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Now I got you back, Jap the most positive guy
in media. It's our guy, John Paul Morosi. Thanks for
helping us cover this like a blanket all throughout the playoffs. JP.
You know we love you and appreciate your input, insights
and friendship, and we look forward to hot stove with you.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
We do with with arms with arms wide open?
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Right?
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Isn't that? That? Isn't that our eyes wide open?
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Right? With arms wide open? You got it?
Speaker 5 (31:51):
There you go arms. That's what I thought it was
arms wide open as I was hearing the song play
in honor of the Rangers, their band this fall. Well done.
Thank you, You're the best.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
JP. We'll talk to you soon, Bunny.
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to go back to. In the National Football League, Raiderland
the Cardinals and Kyler Murray the Bears in the next
round of lunacy of what they're doing. Where we're at
at mid the midpoint, I'm Goos said midsummer of the season.
It has been a horror story for many franchises this year, Carrie,
(33:12):
but this one I thought was kind of fun. South
Carolina head coach two and six Shane Beemer. You know,
criticism and certainly you have a season like that. The
local reporters, the questions are going to be a little
more pointed. The poison pens are going to be out
because you make enemies along the way. That's just the
way the way it works. And they wait until you're
(33:33):
down and they come and get you, but you never
thought it would happen in your own house. Now, anybody
out there, you know, kids, nephews, nieces, friends and their kids,
you know that the thing that they do at the schools,
there's always the Halloween parade before they get after it
for the half day of school and watching a Chuck
Brown Halloween, The Great Pumpkin and all that fun stuff
(33:56):
or whatever movie they show. You know, everybody parades around.
They play some of the old Halloween classics, maybe some
of the music from horror films. His family told him
not to come. Yeah, yeah, quote. I could take criticism.
I get it from my own family FaceTime, my wife
and kids every day. And today they were telling me
my son hunter at a Halloween parade at his school.
(34:17):
I was there for it last year because it was
out of Monday. My wife was telling me that he
had it today, and I said, well, why didn't you
guys tell me? My son said, it's because you're two
and six and you need to be in the office working.
Please don't think I can't take criticism, because I get
it worse at home. Now. Anybody that's gone to those parades,
(34:37):
they're endless, all right. Now we're gonna get all the
princesses to dance together, okay, because you've already done all
the grades, and now we're gonna start separating by character
so they can go again and again and again, and
two hours later, it's like, all right, we killed the day,
go home. But being told by your family beat it,
(35:00):
I mean, my my goodness, man Frostburg. You've been through
some of these Halloween parades with your kids.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Oh, not just Halloween. They tell me to beat it
all the time. Yeah, wow, there.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Is that, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
But yeah, the Halloween parade one of the insufferable because
you get a bunch of parents that show up and
you know, you know what they're drinking in those cups.
It ain't coffee and tea.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
It's you know what, what I take from all all
of this is your family's your own worst enemy. And
a lot of times that's the truth. And I'm saying
that in the half joking way and also a half
truth way. It's where if you want the truth, you're
gonna get the truth.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
To remember, the kids pay attention to though.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Yes, right, that's the thing.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
Right.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
The wife's saying, well, I know you're stressed, you're two
and six, you're feeling it. Just I didn't want to
bother you with another event that would take away from
your work week. I mean, that's being a good supportive partner.
I think maybe a little bit of backhand depending on
how she said what the mood is right, depending on
you know, you read into tone and inflection it all.
But the kid, I mean, the kid sees all. They
(36:04):
see the kids hearing it, they see it here at all.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
But they also as much as you are their favorite
person and their role model and all those things, the
truth is you're two and six and you suck right now,
and they're going to tell the truth about that as well.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
And that's just that's how it is. The kids cut
to the chase, no question about it. He's Garry Rhon's
in for Jason Smith. I'm Mike Harmen. Thanks for being
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