April 8, 2025 • 32 mins
Well, it looks like the Rays cannot stop losing in Arlington as a series sweep over the weekend makes it nine-straight losses against the Rangers at Globe Life Field. We talk about that and more on this latest episode of the podcast.
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Welcome back everyone since latest episode raise the roof
I'm your host Alex Murphy with me as always the boys are here.
Gibby and Evan how are we doing?I know last weekend wasn't a
great series but like overall how we doing?
Pretty good, Alex. I'd like to say congratulations
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for the Gators, even though I'm not a Gators fan.
Congratulations to them for winning basketball national
championship for college. Won the whole tourney.
I was hoping they would play Michigan State in Final Four.
Michigan State did not make it that far so there was no 2000
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NCAA championship rematch in thesemi final of that.
So I was very disappointed in that.
But congratulations to the 40 Gators.
You all deserve it. Had a really good team this year
and Houston just threw it away. So it was it was fun.
It was a fun game to watch for sure.
But I'm doing great, Alex. That's about it.
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Yeah, Evan Hate him. Yeah, Ditto.
I will. Congratulations to Florida.
I was not cheering for them. So sorry to any listeners who
are a Gator, but that was a tough watch.
It was a really tough watch, that ending ending poor Sharp
because dude is a baller. But just you remember there were
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kids when you were watching thatlast minute.
It's like, Oh yeah, these guys are 20 years old.
But yeah, it was a hell of a game, hell of a hell of a Final
four. But unfortunately with the race,
just the text as well as continue.
So we can get into that a littlebit more, but.
Yeah, yeah, one final Congrats from from me to all of our
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listeners who are Florida fans, especially Bree and David.
He used to be part of us came onfor a couple episodes, a bunch
of other people that I know in the raised Discord server, so.
Oh man, can we talk about David David's play a few weeks ago?
I I saw that too. You didn't see, you didn't see
him. The equipment manager who made
that diving catch, that was David.
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Oh, was it? It was him, yeah.
No, really. Yeah, it was.
What a play. Yeah, former guest of the pod.
If you guys saw that equipment manager who made that amazing
catch coming out of the coming out of the back fence that they
had there at Florida Stadium, yeah, he made a diving catch.
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It was crazy. Good for.
Him he he was all over ESPN for a few days.
It was great. Good for him, I'm glad.
Yeah, good for David. I'm glad, I'm glad.
Yeah, well, let's go into let's go into way more depressing
topics being the Rays playing inArlington, TX.
Because now the Rays have lost nine straight games at Globe
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Life Field. For some reason, they cannot
beat the Texas Rangers on the road.
I don't know if those struggles continued or were previously
there when they were playing at Globe Life Park, formerly known
as Rangers Ballpark in Arlingtonwhen they were playing there.
But things just haven't gone well when it comes to the Rays
playing on the road, especially against the Rangers.
They got swept this series, as you could tell by what I was
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just talking about. They had some fights here and
there, but for the most part, itwasn't really anything that was,
you know, of note. They just, they didn't have
enough firepower in the end. Taj had a really bad inning.
It just kind of blew up in his face.
The pitching was OK, but it wasn't as it's been, you know,
it wasn't what it was the first two series of the season.
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Offense definitely had some morestruggles.
But yeah, do you guys like, I don't even know what the hell I
watched. Yeah, I mean, there's really
nothing to talk about the first two games because it's literally
just, you know, Zach Littell hada bad start and then Taj Bradley
had a bad start. But then Drew Rasmussen gives
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you three hits, 1 earned run in five innings, and you just, and
it's just throw it away. Garrett Clevinger didn't look
too good. I mean, Yoshida has given up
runs in both his last two outings, I believe, or he's
given up some. It might have been the last
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series, but I don't know. Things have just not looked
overly good in that regard. I mean, yeah, losing that,
losing the last game, the series, the Sunday game was that
was tough. I mean, that was that was really
the story of the series, just the offense didn't come through
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when we needed it and our bullpen failed us at the at the
most crucial time. Yeah, I just.
Not usual. It's it's very frustrating
considering I feel like most of these games that we've lost, the
Rangers have been kind of coin flips.
Obviously Friday's kind of, it wasn't like that Friday, the
Raiders dominated the entire game, but the other two games
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could have gone either way easily.
Saturday was kind of, I think Saturday kind of just was
encapsulated this whole series as of late.
I mean, I'm looking at the statsnow.
The Rangers are they're 14 and three against us since 2023 in
general. So that's not a good.
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I mean, obviously they won the World Series in 2023.
However, they were not good lastyear and they still won five and
one against us. So that's a pretty piss poor
performance against them. They just they just have our
number and I think Saturday kindof was a pretty good example of
just how much they own us. I mean, we out hit him by 6.
We had ten hit, we had ten hits.They had four two, we had two
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errors, which could be the the the difference there.
But just the long ball hurt him.Of course, Taj, some of his
fastball placements were just nowhere near where they needed
to be. Horrible, horrible start for
him. And like I will say, he was able
to get through 5, which I guess that was kind of a moral
victory. But after giving up four in the
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first, but four walks is way toomuch.
Somehow we only had 82 pitches, which I'm not sure how that's
possible with four walks and seven strikeouts.
But just really frustrating lossthere considering we at least
they fought. They fought back.
And Mason Montgomery made a goodpitch in that 7th inning.
Langford just somehow got to it.Not sure how, but and then yeah,
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Sunday was just another one of those frustrating games where
they were dead, We were dead in the entire game.
And then Yanni had a great hit. Yeah.
And it's just frustrating how you said it got 2 quick outs.
I mean, I think he had two quickouts and like 6 pitches or
something and then gives a back-to-back hits to lose.
But yeah, it's just they just own us and we just cannot win a
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game there for some reason. But just one of those things.
Yeah, I will say they put up a fight at least in the last two
games of the series. I mean, you get it tied at 4-4
and then you give up the, you know, immediately give up the
lead in the 8th inning and then you tied at 3-3 and then you
give up the lead of the ninth. Like, it's not like they were
out of the games by any means. The game that they were really
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the only game that they were really out of was the first game
in the series where they were down 4, nothing came back,
scored two. And then the Rangers kind of put
it away with that, you know, onespot in the in the bottom half
of the 7th. But yeah, I mean, at least they
were in it. But like, I, I, I don't know,
like, I don't know if if it's too early to start taking moral
victories and things of that nature.
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And again, this is not me tryingto be depressed and things like
that and being, you know, criticizing team because again,
it's worth still 1st 10 games ofthe season that that that we're
talking about here. Honestly, it's probably just the
fact that the Razor just cursed at that stadium.
Yeah, that stadium doesn't like us considering I mean we're one
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of we're the first team to play there home series.
That's our stadium. Technically huh?
Said one of the first cuz the. Cuz the other yeah.
Yeah, they played the NLCS there.
Yeah, OK. But yeah, yeah, we're the third
team to play there and Rangers are the 4th.
That's wild that the Rangers of the team to play in her own
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stadium. It was it was very generous, but
yeah, fuck that stadium for sure.
Till the day I die. Yeah, Evan, any, I mean like any
like, like what were the main positives that you took out of
the series, if you had any? Rasmussen Rasmussen looked
great. Aranda still looks incredible.
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These guys have brought up consistently just.
It but. There there is something like I
get that Tasha still decently young, but like when I feel like
he's got to stop doing that, like, I mean, he's got to stop
having those implosions especially.
Usually it's one inning, Usuallyit's a little later in the game
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than the first inning. Usually he kind of cruises
through the 1st, 3 or 4, then second and third times around he
gets blown up. But it's just it's frustrating.
It's like when is he going to make that next step?
And I once again, I skip that he's young, but at the same time
it's it's this is what, third season in the major leagues?
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Like he's got to start. He's got to he's got to stop
with that with those extremely crooked innings.
But yeah, Fairbanks look great in the 8th inning, too.
I I didn't mind that from cash using Fairbanks gets the top of
the line up on that was Sunday'sgame, I believe.
But he he looked incredible. Yandi had a big hit, which he's
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been struggling. Kind of kind of reminiscent of
last year. Just really just a rough
beginning to the year. But yeah, other than that, I
mean, Mangum kind of continued. Obviously he's cooled down a
little bit. Obviously he couldn't keep up
what he did in the first series that he was up.
But yeah, there's definitely some there's definitely some
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things to look forward to it just getting swept that early
and getting swept. I mean, the Raiders are a good
team too. We got to give them credit.
They're I think they're eight and three.
I think they were eight and two after on I think they lost
yesterday, I believe. Yeah, they're eight and three
now. So that I mean, they're a really
good team. Obviously their two years
removed from the World Series title last year.
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I think they were just, I don't know what the hell happened last
year because they were very, they still were very good World
Series Hangover possibly, but they're a really good team.
It's just frustrating how we were right there in both of
those games and we couldn't comethrough.
But that's what happens. And hopefully we get a couple
breaks during this home, Stan. Yeah, Gibby, any, any guys that
stood out to you, maybe surprises, guys that kept up
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what they were doing? I mean, definitely Rasmussen,
like I already said, I mean, I feel like every time Rasmussen
comes to the mound, there's probably the highest chance of a
no hitter being thrown. Like like he's probably the
player that's due up next to getone of those honestly, but other
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guys that that really stood out.I mean, obviously Jake Mangum
has continued his Mississippi Ichiro self there.
There was a few plays that he beat out some pretty good ground
balls or or some fast defense. And then I mean, I mean Brendan
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Lau is just, I, I think he won with your pick when he picked
Brendan Lau every time because Imean, that's just how it goes
like. That's what I do.
He's he's got a different, he's got a different aura about him
this year, I mean. I like.
More walks. He's getting big hits.
He doesn't look injured, he looks healthy.
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Oh well, now you said that. All right, well, you know what?
We should cut that. No, we don't need to, he.
Looks centered as of now or sorry he looks healthy as of
now. Yeah, Yeah, yeah.
That's. Why?
I was gonna, I was gonna. So you guys already brought up
Aranda? And and Meisner dude.
Yeah, I was gonna bring up Meisner.
Meisner's been like, it's it's one of those things where like
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same thing with Mangum. The Rays just needed to give him
a chance. I know Meisner had a chance last
year, but it was just he didn't look great.
I think the fact that he's getting consistent playing time
now and he is a reliable starteron this team, like he's showing
what he can do and he looks really solid.
I'm really, really excited aboutwhat I've seen out of him.
I'm very excited about what I'veseen out of Aranda.
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I've been like, we've all been waiting for this moment for so
long, Tom, to see what he can really do.
And he showed it, as we've talked about so many times.
He showed it in September of last year that he was, you know,
he was able to take that next step and he's now really taking
that next step and he's looking really solid.
I will say if these are like theworst versions of what the Rays
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have had in terms of pitching, Like even though Taj blew up in
his start, I still think that itwas a gutsy performance out of
Taj. He was able to get through and
was able to put innings and, and, and, and eat innings after
what he did. And didn't Lattel pitch into
like the 7th inning? Am I going crazy and thinking
that he pitched into the 7th inning and then kind of blew up
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after that? Lattel Yeah, he did some
innings. Yeah, like, I mean, I have, I've
been so beyond impressed out of what I've seen out of Zach out
of here. Wait, when the hell did LATEL
pitch? Did he pitch on Friday?
Am I going crazy? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He pitched on Friday. I know he gave up five, and some
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of those were unlucky. But I mean, again, he's given
the raise like 6-7 innings rightnow, which is, you know, the 55
earned is not ideal by any means.
But like, that's really impressive out of a guy who was
only a couple years removed frombeing a waiver claim and
essentially being converted intoa starter.
So the Rays have gotten some really good value out of him.
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Another reason why thank goodness the Rays did not trade
him because he was the odd man out of this rotation, at least
in my opinion, coming into the year.
And the fact that Shane's heart,thank God they didn't trade him.
I still think this rotation is good.
I still think this bullpen is good.
They want I, I think this bull pan, I think team Yar Ray is
like 6th in the league right now.
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So it's like top 10. They're top ten in like most
pitching marks. Like I just want to think that
this is a blip on the radar and it's just one of those things
where they're just unlucky against the team.
Because I know that this team is, is better than what they've
showed so far. And I feel like that series just
pissed everyone off more for thefact that like they they just
can't win in Arlington than the fact that like, this team isn't
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good 'cause I mean, they scored runs.
It's not like last year where like they just couldn't score at
all. Like they scored, they put up,
they put up two rallies, like they had a chance to win two
games out of that series. They just didn't end up in their
favor. And I think it's just more of an
annoyance thing than anything. Yeah, and another thing about
Aranda, like he's made a couple nice plays at first, too.
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Yeah, he's a really good at first.
He's for how for how horrible people talk about his defense.
And I mean, that was the main reason why he it took so long
for him to get brought up. He has not looked like a subpar
first baseman at all. Not at all.
He's made every single play he'sneeded to make so far.
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And I just, I'm not seeing wherethose narratives are coming from
yet. But I I also some of the
management by cash is kind of confusing Saturday.
Why is Caminero Caminero I feel like should be in the line up
every day, especially considering we had an off day or
yesterday on Tuesday. Like I'm I'm not exactly sure
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why he's not in the line up two days before an off day.
I mean, but. And you didn't even pinch him.
I'm not like in the 9th inning you choose morale over him like
that. I don't know.
That's one of those moves where it's like you give your
Youngstad a chance. Considering Morrell is not great
either. Like, I don't know, that kind of
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boggled my mind. Some of the bullpen management,
I believe in Sunday's game, Saturday's game, I thought it
was fine. Once again, Montgomery made a
great pitch. I thought just better piece of
hitting. And then, yeah, Clevenger being
the first guy out didn't make a whole lot of sense.
I will say Clevenger's fastball this year has been very good.
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Seger's just Seger's, somehow. Oh, Seger.
No idea how, no idea how he hit that ball out, but it wasn't a
good pitch. But I'm.
Telling you this team, like the Rangers just pissed me off
because they have guys that are,I mean, they have guys that are
really good, like Seger at his best as an MVP candidate, Simeon
at his best as an MVP candidate.And both of them have been top
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three, top five MVP guys before.But like, the team is just a
pesky team. I mean, I had, what, 5 All Stars
two years ago, I think, yeah. They're really good.
So they're really good. It's just it's just frustrating
once again, just being right there, so close and not getting
it done. But it's early in the season and
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we have a young team, so hopefully they'll learn from
this. But.
And an injured team. If you guys didn't see the news
today, another one of the the depleted Ray's outfield that
seems non existent as of right now.
Jonny DeLuca, who has had a really good start to the season.
Let it be known, Jonny DeLuca has looked really, really solid
at the plate. I know the power hasn't been
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there, but he's been hitting andhe's made some good plays in the
outfield. He is currently out with a right
shoulder strain. I wonder if that is from the
catch that he made, the diving catch that he made recently.
I believe that that was in Burlington.
No couple weeks. A couple days ago he made a
diving catch. Am I going crazy and thinking
yes? If it was Friday, I didn't.
I didn't watch Friday's game, but.
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Well, if if that diving catch was the result of that, then I
mean, he, you know, was laying out trying to get the ball.
So But yeah, he will be on the 10 day IL with a right shoulder
string. And in his place will be Coco
Montez, who is making, I believe, his second Major League
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or is now going to have his second Major League stint after
making a brief stint with the Rockies in 23.
More importantly, he's a USF guythough, so I I don't know how
many USF guys that the Rays havehad other than Shane, but he's
at least the second USF alum whohas played for the race.
Yeah, I mean, it's pretty awesome, but I I bet a lot of
people wanted to hear a different name, but.
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I don't think you know it's. It's they're not on the 40 man.
Deluca's only gone for 10 days. I I wouldn't want to bring that
name. They're also not on the 40 man.
Yeah, exactly. Not neither of them.
So let's let's chill out with that.
You know, I saw that a lot. I saw a lot of that.
It's like, all right. But you know, it's not, it's not
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the time yet, guys, hold on. Who?
Who's the second guy that you're?
Thinking we're talking. About talking about.
Bringing up like people want to bring up.
Chandler. Chandler.
I knew you're talking about Chandler, but I forgot about
Eloy. Speaking of Chandler Simpson, I
must bring up the fact that Chandler Simpson beat out an
infield single hit to first base.
And I think that is one of the most insane things.
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And he wasn't even like, at his quickest, beating out a midfield
signal to first base like it's, yeah.
Was that the one where he outranthe dude to first base when he
was like? It was like a decently hard hit
ball to first base and he outranthe first baseman to first base,
which is. Honestly, he wasn't.
Yeah, in the 1st 2 seconds of it, he wasn't going as hard as
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he could. And then he realized it's like,
oh, I could actually beat this guy.
And then he took off. I mean, yeah, he's been
incredible. He's.
I mean, it's it's truly incredible what he's been able
to do this year. And I mean, it's only a couple
games then. So a lot of, I mean, great
things that that we're seeing onhim.
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Very excited. Another thing I just saw this
was just announced. So I guess breaking news quote
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So there are some local, local things there for fans.
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They did 1/5 of the season back.Let's go.
Let's. Go.
We did it. Let's go.
Yeah, so the games are April 11th, May 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd,
June 13th, 20th, July 9th, 11th,18th, 25th, August 1st and 22nd
and September 5th and 19th for anyone interested.
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Also, I want to say one more thing about the series and.
Yes. In Texas, the catchers have to
be a do a do a better job of even making stolen base
attempts. Like even close because they
were. I think I'm counting the Rangers
stole seven bases combined on Saturday and Sunday's games.
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And I swear none of those attempts were even close that to
to getting them out. And I'm sure there's some blame
to put on the pitchers to hold the runners better, but like the
the catchers have to be able to to control the base runners a
little bit better. And they were just, they were
both Janssen and Rortfred were horrendous in that.
I don't know if you guys noticedthat as well, but.
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Well, at least I mean, it's funny because it's like Danny
made like one really, really good caught stealing thing early
in the season and it seems like he hit his quote already, which
is it's like not what I'm looking forward.
To that, that was his nice play for the month.
Yeah well well let's hope that that's not the case.
And let's go on to talking aboutthe Angel series because that's
the first series in this 13 gamewrote homestand that the Rays
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will be having, which is the 1st13 game homestand that they've
had in like 2 decades. So pretty crazy stuff, but
again, weird circumstances. Does anyone have the pitching
matchups for this? And then we can go into keys to
the Scary's and pick a player. I do.
It's tonight once again. We're recording on Tuesday.
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Tonight's game will be Baz versus Kyle Hendricks, tomorrow
will be Pepio versus Kikuchi, and Thursday's matinee will be
Littel versus Jose Soriano. That's honestly those aren't
horrible pitching matchups and you say I.
Mean this is. Doesn't Kikuchi own us too?
Yes, he does. So that.
Dare I say this is a better Angels team?
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I mean, this is the beginning ofthe season and they always show
this at the beginning of the season where they're actually
like have a positive record. And it's like, oh, is this the
new Angels? Is this the new?
And then promptly, promptly, Mike Trout gets injured the next
week and then they fall off. But maybe this is a different
kind of team because I mean, pitching's been there.
They've had a lot of high scoring games and the offense
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has definitely been there, not from certain guys, but so this,
I mean, they haven't faced the best teams in the MLB, but they
did win the series against the Cleveland Guardians.
So I mean. Are you telling me that the
White Sox aren't one of the greatest, aren't one of the best
teams in baseball? One of the greatest fan bases
as. We've the White Sox is 2 and
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seven right now. That's like significantly better
than they were last year. What are you talking?
About yeah, I mean, that's like 60 games, probably wins, right?
Oh no, it's a little less. It's probably like 50 that
they're on track for right now. Yeah, it's not.
I mean, it's better than 30 or whatever the hell.
Yeah. OK, so keys to the series again.
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The Angels are a team that can hit.
They have guys that can hit. They have Logan Hoppy, they have
current healthy Mike Trout, Jorge Solaire, other guys that
I'm blanking on right now that if you guys could.
Can we please like somewhat limit Mike Trout?
I don't think we've ever done itlike he.
He hits three home runs every series we play him.
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I know, I know, he's an unbelievable hitter and 1st
ballot Hall of Famer, but like, can we please limit him some
just a tiny bit? Like, yeah, two home runs this
series. That's my goal.
Can we just limit only two? Oh my God.
Oh, Hoppy's a that's. Is that too hard to ask for?
Forget about Trout, we got to limit Logan.
Oh hoppy, he's got 5 homers. Yeah, I mean. 3:40 to 5:00 too.
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Oh. He's good, man.
He's got like, that's like crazyfor like a catcher, jeez.
Poor guy, he's betting 345 and he only has 9 RBIs.
I feel like that's kind of. Is that not kind of a crazy
stat? That's not great.
Yeah, I feel like he should havelike at least 12 or 13 or
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something like that, but. Sean Wells not having a great
year. Solaire's got 2, Trout's hit
188, Kyron Paris is 444 when he's actually in that line up
and hitting Luis Rengifo is not really having a great year.
Yeah, it's really. They have a really interesting
line up. Like they do like they've guys
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like it's just, yeah, Renhifo, Solaire and then they have
Moncada, Tim Anderson and Darnell.
Just very, very strange. But they have power.
They have they have the capability of hitting a ton of
home runs. Yeah.
I mean they have 13 this year. I don't think the race have
anywhere close to that. Irene Paris.
Yeah, Kyra. Paris is another reason they're
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winning. It's not even like the guys you
would think there is like Tim Anderson is on the roster, but
he's only hitting like 200. I mean, Taylor Ward is not
hitting too good either. I mean, even Mike Trout's not
hitting too good to start the season.
So I mean, like, let's keep that.
Let's not awakened Mike Trout yet, you know, like say that for
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when when the next guys, you know, let's keep him a little
bit more pissed off. It's like I don't know how this
team is 6 and three. Like I'm just looking at the
stats and it's just like there'stwo players that are just
jumping off the page. It's Kyron and it's Lauren Hop.
So I mean, I don't I don't even know what to say about this
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team. And obviously they have Travis
Darnaud, so you know that's that's going to give him like 10
wins this season. Let's be honest, even though
he's hitting a 111, he's doing really bad.
Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter he's still I
would still take him. Me too.
Take him in hard way. He's the one case where numbers
lie. Numbers are lying.
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You guys don't realize man, if you.
Pick some. Players.
Yeah, yeah, I was going to say, Evan, let's start with you.
Who you picking? Where did I say the pitchers
were again? Three guys that are pitching.
Baz Pepio and the tell I'll go with Baz tonight pitching
tonight. He had I mean he he looked I've
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been negative this this episode,but he's been he would looked
incredible in his first start ofthe year.
I mean, that's what we had been hoping to see throughout all of
his injuries and we've been excited to get him back.
I mean, 6 innings, 10 strikeouts, no walks.
Like that's zero runs. Like that's, I mean, that's a
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6th outline. So I'll pick him to continue
that. I mean, to continue that
success. And then I'm not sure.
I don't think they've come out with the lineup for tonight,
have they yet? But I'll pick, I'll pick Yandi.
I'm going to say hopefully, hopefully that double on, I
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think it was the 8th inning on on Sunday's game.
No idea how that was in RBI. That was hilarious watching Rd.
run around the bases. Don't know how that he didn't
score on that. But yeah, hopefully that wakes,
wakens him up and he can continue that success.
No Gibby he got. Pitching wise, I'll go with
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Pepio. I mean, he's always solid.
He's gonna he's gonna keep us inposition to win a game.
So I'll pick him. The last time I picked Taylor
Walls, my hitter, and it just didn't work out.
I really want him to just hit one ball and that's just it's
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just not looking too good. So I'm gonna stop picking him
for now, see if he doesn't like my picks and actually does
something in this series. So we gotta pick.
I'll pick a Rhonda because, I mean, he's just been hitting the
crap out of the ball and he's gonna be a key to winning this
series against the Angels. And pitching or did you already
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pick a pitcher and I'm an. I think I picked Pepeo.
Yeah, OK. That's cool.
I'm still gonna go Beelao as always.
I will go with Danny Jansen behind the plate as well 'cause
I wanna see him do something 'cause the catching position has
just been brutal this year for the Rays and I am going so.
Is Alex Jackson still? Can we pick him up or?
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No, no, no. Stop.
Get away, get away. We'll, we'll take Darno,
Actually darno. Yeah, we'll take, yeah, we'll
take the Aura farmer and then I will take Mason Montgomery to
bounce back. I know that was just a just a
good swing on a good pitch, but you know, those sort of things
can rattle a guy early on and I'm hoping that he can he can,
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Welcome back everyone since latest episode raise the roof
I'm your host Alex Murphy with me as always the boys are here.
Gibby and Evan how are we doing?I know last weekend wasn't a
great series but like overall how we doing?
Pretty good, Alex. I'd like to say congratulations
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for the Gators, even though I'm not a Gators fan.
Congratulations to them for winning basketball national
championship for college. Won the whole tourney.
I was hoping they would play Michigan State in Final Four.
Michigan State did not make it that far so there was no 2000
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NCAA championship rematch in thesemi final of that.
So I was very disappointed in that.
But congratulations to the 40 Gators.
You all deserve it. Had a really good team this year
and Houston just threw it away. So it was it was fun.
It was a fun game to watch for sure.
But I'm doing great, Alex. That's about it.
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Yeah, Evan Hate him. Yeah, Ditto.
I will. Congratulations to Florida.
I was not cheering for them. So sorry to any listeners who
are a Gator, but that was a tough watch.
It was a really tough watch, that ending ending poor Sharp
because dude is a baller. But just you remember there were
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kids when you were watching thatlast minute.
It's like, Oh yeah, these guys are 20 years old.
But yeah, it was a hell of a game, hell of a hell of a Final
four. But unfortunately with the race,
just the text as well as continue.
So we can get into that a littlebit more, but.
Yeah, yeah, one final Congrats from from me to all of our
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listeners who are Florida fans, especially Bree and David.
He used to be part of us came onfor a couple episodes, a bunch
of other people that I know in the raised Discord server, so.
Oh man, can we talk about David David's play a few weeks ago?
I I saw that too. You didn't see, you didn't see
him. The equipment manager who made
that diving catch, that was David.
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Oh, was it? It was him, yeah.
No, really. Yeah, it was.
What a play. Yeah, former guest of the pod.
If you guys saw that equipment manager who made that amazing
catch coming out of the coming out of the back fence that they
had there at Florida Stadium, yeah, he made a diving catch.
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It was crazy. Good for.
Him he he was all over ESPN for a few days.
It was great. Good for him, I'm glad.
Yeah, good for David. I'm glad, I'm glad.
Yeah, well, let's go into let's go into way more depressing
topics being the Rays playing inArlington, TX.
Because now the Rays have lost nine straight games at Globe
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Life Field. For some reason, they cannot
beat the Texas Rangers on the road.
I don't know if those struggles continued or were previously
there when they were playing at Globe Life Park, formerly known
as Rangers Ballpark in Arlingtonwhen they were playing there.
But things just haven't gone well when it comes to the Rays
playing on the road, especially against the Rangers.
They got swept this series, as you could tell by what I was
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just talking about. They had some fights here and
there, but for the most part, itwasn't really anything that was,
you know, of note. They just, they didn't have
enough firepower in the end. Taj had a really bad inning.
It just kind of blew up in his face.
The pitching was OK, but it wasn't as it's been, you know,
it wasn't what it was the first two series of the season.
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Offense definitely had some morestruggles.
But yeah, do you guys like, I don't even know what the hell I
watched. Yeah, I mean, there's really
nothing to talk about the first two games because it's literally
just, you know, Zach Littell hada bad start and then Taj Bradley
had a bad start. But then Drew Rasmussen gives
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you three hits, 1 earned run in five innings, and you just, and
it's just throw it away. Garrett Clevinger didn't look
too good. I mean, Yoshida has given up
runs in both his last two outings, I believe, or he's
given up some. It might have been the last
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series, but I don't know. Things have just not looked
overly good in that regard. I mean, yeah, losing that,
losing the last game, the series, the Sunday game was that
was tough. I mean, that was that was really
the story of the series, just the offense didn't come through
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when we needed it and our bullpen failed us at the at the
most crucial time. Yeah, I just.
Not usual. It's it's very frustrating
considering I feel like most of these games that we've lost, the
Rangers have been kind of coin flips.
Obviously Friday's kind of, it wasn't like that Friday, the
Raiders dominated the entire game, but the other two games
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could have gone either way easily.
Saturday was kind of, I think Saturday kind of just was
encapsulated this whole series as of late.
I mean, I'm looking at the statsnow.
The Rangers are they're 14 and three against us since 2023 in
general. So that's not a good.
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I mean, obviously they won the World Series in 2023.
However, they were not good lastyear and they still won five and
one against us. So that's a pretty piss poor
performance against them. They just they just have our
number and I think Saturday kindof was a pretty good example of
just how much they own us. I mean, we out hit him by 6.
We had ten hit, we had ten hits.They had four two, we had two
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errors, which could be the the the difference there.
But just the long ball hurt him.Of course, Taj, some of his
fastball placements were just nowhere near where they needed
to be. Horrible, horrible start for
him. And like I will say, he was able
to get through 5, which I guess that was kind of a moral
victory. But after giving up four in the
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first, but four walks is way toomuch.
Somehow we only had 82 pitches, which I'm not sure how that's
possible with four walks and seven strikeouts.
But just really frustrating lossthere considering we at least
they fought. They fought back.
And Mason Montgomery made a goodpitch in that 7th inning.
Langford just somehow got to it.Not sure how, but and then yeah,
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Sunday was just another one of those frustrating games where
they were dead, We were dead in the entire game.
And then Yanni had a great hit. Yeah.
And it's just frustrating how you said it got 2 quick outs.
I mean, I think he had two quickouts and like 6 pitches or
something and then gives a back-to-back hits to lose.
But yeah, it's just they just own us and we just cannot win a
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game there for some reason. But just one of those things.
Yeah, I will say they put up a fight at least in the last two
games of the series. I mean, you get it tied at 4-4
and then you give up the, you know, immediately give up the
lead in the 8th inning and then you tied at 3-3 and then you
give up the lead of the ninth. Like, it's not like they were
out of the games by any means. The game that they were really
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the only game that they were really out of was the first game
in the series where they were down 4, nothing came back,
scored two. And then the Rangers kind of put
it away with that, you know, onespot in the in the bottom half
of the 7th. But yeah, I mean, at least they
were in it. But like, I, I, I don't know,
like, I don't know if if it's too early to start taking moral
victories and things of that nature.
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And again, this is not me tryingto be depressed and things like
that and being, you know, criticizing team because again,
it's worth still 1st 10 games ofthe season that that that we're
talking about here. Honestly, it's probably just the
fact that the Razor just cursed at that stadium.
Yeah, that stadium doesn't like us considering I mean we're one
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of we're the first team to play there home series.
That's our stadium. Technically huh?
Said one of the first cuz the. Cuz the other yeah.
Yeah, they played the NLCS there.
Yeah, OK. But yeah, yeah, we're the third
team to play there and Rangers are the 4th.
That's wild that the Rangers of the team to play in her own
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stadium. It was it was very generous, but
yeah, fuck that stadium for sure.
Till the day I die. Yeah, Evan, any, I mean like any
like, like what were the main positives that you took out of
the series, if you had any? Rasmussen Rasmussen looked
great. Aranda still looks incredible.
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These guys have brought up consistently just.
It but. There there is something like I
get that Tasha still decently young, but like when I feel like
he's got to stop doing that, like, I mean, he's got to stop
having those implosions especially.
Usually it's one inning, Usuallyit's a little later in the game
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than the first inning. Usually he kind of cruises
through the 1st, 3 or 4, then second and third times around he
gets blown up. But it's just it's frustrating.
It's like when is he going to make that next step?
And I once again, I skip that he's young, but at the same time
it's it's this is what, third season in the major leagues?
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Like he's got to start. He's got to he's got to stop
with that with those extremely crooked innings.
But yeah, Fairbanks look great in the 8th inning, too.
I I didn't mind that from cash using Fairbanks gets the top of
the line up on that was Sunday'sgame, I believe.
But he he looked incredible. Yandi had a big hit, which he's
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been struggling. Kind of kind of reminiscent of
last year. Just really just a rough
beginning to the year. But yeah, other than that, I
mean, Mangum kind of continued. Obviously he's cooled down a
little bit. Obviously he couldn't keep up
what he did in the first series that he was up.
But yeah, there's definitely some there's definitely some
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things to look forward to it just getting swept that early
and getting swept. I mean, the Raiders are a good
team too. We got to give them credit.
They're I think they're eight and three.
I think they were eight and two after on I think they lost
yesterday, I believe. Yeah, they're eight and three
now. So that I mean, they're a really
good team. Obviously their two years
removed from the World Series title last year.
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I think they were just, I don't know what the hell happened last
year because they were very, they still were very good World
Series Hangover possibly, but they're a really good team.
It's just frustrating how we were right there in both of
those games and we couldn't comethrough.
But that's what happens. And hopefully we get a couple
breaks during this home, Stan. Yeah, Gibby, any, any guys that
stood out to you, maybe surprises, guys that kept up
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what they were doing? I mean, definitely Rasmussen,
like I already said, I mean, I feel like every time Rasmussen
comes to the mound, there's probably the highest chance of a
no hitter being thrown. Like like he's probably the
player that's due up next to getone of those honestly, but other
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guys that that really stood out.I mean, obviously Jake Mangum
has continued his Mississippi Ichiro self there.
There was a few plays that he beat out some pretty good ground
balls or or some fast defense. And then I mean, I mean Brendan
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Lau is just, I, I think he won with your pick when he picked
Brendan Lau every time because Imean, that's just how it goes
like. That's what I do.
He's he's got a different, he's got a different aura about him
this year, I mean. I like.
More walks. He's getting big hits.
He doesn't look injured, he looks healthy.
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Oh well, now you said that. All right, well, you know what?
We should cut that. No, we don't need to, he.
Looks centered as of now or sorry he looks healthy as of
now. Yeah, Yeah, yeah.
That's. Why?
I was gonna, I was gonna. So you guys already brought up
Aranda? And and Meisner dude.
Yeah, I was gonna bring up Meisner.
Meisner's been like, it's it's one of those things where like
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same thing with Mangum. The Rays just needed to give him
a chance. I know Meisner had a chance last
year, but it was just he didn't look great.
I think the fact that he's getting consistent playing time
now and he is a reliable starteron this team, like he's showing
what he can do and he looks really solid.
I'm really, really excited aboutwhat I've seen out of him.
I'm very excited about what I'veseen out of Aranda.
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I've been like, we've all been waiting for this moment for so
long, Tom, to see what he can really do.
And he showed it, as we've talked about so many times.
He showed it in September of last year that he was, you know,
he was able to take that next step and he's now really taking
that next step and he's looking really solid.
I will say if these are like theworst versions of what the Rays
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have had in terms of pitching, Like even though Taj blew up in
his start, I still think that itwas a gutsy performance out of
Taj. He was able to get through and
was able to put innings and, and, and, and eat innings after
what he did. And didn't Lattel pitch into
like the 7th inning? Am I going crazy and thinking
that he pitched into the 7th inning and then kind of blew up
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after that? Lattel Yeah, he did some
innings. Yeah, like, I mean, I have, I've
been so beyond impressed out of what I've seen out of Zach out
of here. Wait, when the hell did LATEL
pitch? Did he pitch on Friday?
Am I going crazy? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He pitched on Friday. I know he gave up five, and some
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of those were unlucky. But I mean, again, he's given
the raise like 6-7 innings rightnow, which is, you know, the 55
earned is not ideal by any means.
But like, that's really impressive out of a guy who was
only a couple years removed frombeing a waiver claim and
essentially being converted intoa starter.
So the Rays have gotten some really good value out of him.
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Another reason why thank goodness the Rays did not trade
him because he was the odd man out of this rotation, at least
in my opinion, coming into the year.
And the fact that Shane's heart,thank God they didn't trade him.
I still think this rotation is good.
I still think this bullpen is good.
They want I, I think this bull pan, I think team Yar Ray is
like 6th in the league right now.
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So it's like top 10. They're top ten in like most
pitching marks. Like I just want to think that
this is a blip on the radar and it's just one of those things
where they're just unlucky against the team.
Because I know that this team is, is better than what they've
showed so far. And I feel like that series just
pissed everyone off more for thefact that like they they just
can't win in Arlington than the fact that like, this team isn't
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good 'cause I mean, they scored runs.
It's not like last year where like they just couldn't score at
all. Like they scored, they put up,
they put up two rallies, like they had a chance to win two
games out of that series. They just didn't end up in their
favor. And I think it's just more of an
annoyance thing than anything. Yeah, and another thing about
Aranda, like he's made a couple nice plays at first, too.
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Yeah, he's a really good at first.
He's for how for how horrible people talk about his defense.
And I mean, that was the main reason why he it took so long
for him to get brought up. He has not looked like a subpar
first baseman at all. Not at all.
He's made every single play he'sneeded to make so far.
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And I just, I'm not seeing wherethose narratives are coming from
yet. But I I also some of the
management by cash is kind of confusing Saturday.
Why is Caminero Caminero I feel like should be in the line up
every day, especially considering we had an off day or
yesterday on Tuesday. Like I'm I'm not exactly sure
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why he's not in the line up two days before an off day.
I mean, but. And you didn't even pinch him.
I'm not like in the 9th inning you choose morale over him like
that. I don't know.
That's one of those moves where it's like you give your
Youngstad a chance. Considering Morrell is not great
either. Like, I don't know, that kind of
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boggled my mind. Some of the bullpen management,
I believe in Sunday's game, Saturday's game, I thought it
was fine. Once again, Montgomery made a
great pitch. I thought just better piece of
hitting. And then, yeah, Clevenger being
the first guy out didn't make a whole lot of sense.
I will say Clevenger's fastball this year has been very good.
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Seger's just Seger's, somehow. Oh, Seger.
No idea how, no idea how he hit that ball out, but it wasn't a
good pitch. But I'm.
Telling you this team, like the Rangers just pissed me off
because they have guys that are,I mean, they have guys that are
really good, like Seger at his best as an MVP candidate, Simeon
at his best as an MVP candidate.And both of them have been top
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three, top five MVP guys before.But like, the team is just a
pesky team. I mean, I had, what, 5 All Stars
two years ago, I think, yeah. They're really good.
So they're really good. It's just it's just frustrating
once again, just being right there, so close and not getting
it done. But it's early in the season and
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we have a young team, so hopefully they'll learn from
this. But.
And an injured team. If you guys didn't see the news
today, another one of the the depleted Ray's outfield that
seems non existent as of right now.
Jonny DeLuca, who has had a really good start to the season.
Let it be known, Jonny DeLuca has looked really, really solid
at the plate. I know the power hasn't been
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there, but he's been hitting andhe's made some good plays in the
outfield. He is currently out with a right
shoulder strain. I wonder if that is from the
catch that he made, the diving catch that he made recently.
I believe that that was in Burlington.
No couple weeks. A couple days ago he made a
diving catch. Am I going crazy and thinking
yes? If it was Friday, I didn't.
I didn't watch Friday's game, but.
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Well, if if that diving catch was the result of that, then I
mean, he, you know, was laying out trying to get the ball.
So But yeah, he will be on the 10 day IL with a right shoulder
string. And in his place will be Coco
Montez, who is making, I believe, his second Major League
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or is now going to have his second Major League stint after
making a brief stint with the Rockies in 23.
More importantly, he's a USF guythough, so I I don't know how
many USF guys that the Rays havehad other than Shane, but he's
at least the second USF alum whohas played for the race.
Yeah, I mean, it's pretty awesome, but I I bet a lot of
people wanted to hear a different name, but.
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I don't think you know it's. It's they're not on the 40 man.
Deluca's only gone for 10 days. I I wouldn't want to bring that
name. They're also not on the 40 man.
Yeah, exactly. Not neither of them.
So let's let's chill out with that.
You know, I saw that a lot. I saw a lot of that.
It's like, all right. But you know, it's not, it's not
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the time yet, guys, hold on. Who?
Who's the second guy that you're?
Thinking we're talking. About talking about.
Bringing up like people want to bring up.
Chandler. Chandler.
I knew you're talking about Chandler, but I forgot about
Eloy. Speaking of Chandler Simpson, I
must bring up the fact that Chandler Simpson beat out an
infield single hit to first base.
And I think that is one of the most insane things.
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And he wasn't even like, at his quickest, beating out a midfield
signal to first base like it's, yeah.
Was that the one where he outranthe dude to first base when he
was like? It was like a decently hard hit
ball to first base and he outranthe first baseman to first base,
which is. Honestly, he wasn't.
Yeah, in the 1st 2 seconds of it, he wasn't going as hard as
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he could. And then he realized it's like,
oh, I could actually beat this guy.
And then he took off. I mean, yeah, he's been
incredible. He's.
I mean, it's it's truly incredible what he's been able
to do this year. And I mean, it's only a couple
games then. So a lot of, I mean, great
things that that we're seeing onhim.
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Very excited. Another thing I just saw this
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So there are some local, local things there for fans.
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They did 1/5 of the season back.Let's go.
Let's. Go.
We did it. Let's go.
Yeah, so the games are April 11th, May 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd,
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and September 5th and 19th for anyone interested.
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Also, I want to say one more thing about the series and.
Yes. In Texas, the catchers have to
be a do a do a better job of even making stolen base
attempts. Like even close because they
were. I think I'm counting the Rangers
stole seven bases combined on Saturday and Sunday's games.
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And I swear none of those attempts were even close that to
to getting them out. And I'm sure there's some blame
to put on the pitchers to hold the runners better, but like the
the catchers have to be able to to control the base runners a
little bit better. And they were just, they were
both Janssen and Rortfred were horrendous in that.
I don't know if you guys noticedthat as well, but.
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Well, at least I mean, it's funny because it's like Danny
made like one really, really good caught stealing thing early
in the season and it seems like he hit his quote already, which
is it's like not what I'm looking forward.
To that, that was his nice play for the month.
Yeah well well let's hope that that's not the case.
And let's go on to talking aboutthe Angel series because that's
the first series in this 13 gamewrote homestand that the Rays
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will be having, which is the 1st13 game homestand that they've
had in like 2 decades. So pretty crazy stuff, but
again, weird circumstances. Does anyone have the pitching
matchups for this? And then we can go into keys to
the Scary's and pick a player. I do.
It's tonight once again. We're recording on Tuesday.
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Tonight's game will be Baz versus Kyle Hendricks, tomorrow
will be Pepio versus Kikuchi, and Thursday's matinee will be
Littel versus Jose Soriano. That's honestly those aren't
horrible pitching matchups and you say I.
Mean this is. Doesn't Kikuchi own us too?
Yes, he does. So that.
Dare I say this is a better Angels team?
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I mean, this is the beginning ofthe season and they always show
this at the beginning of the season where they're actually
like have a positive record. And it's like, oh, is this the
new Angels? Is this the new?
And then promptly, promptly, Mike Trout gets injured the next
week and then they fall off. But maybe this is a different
kind of team because I mean, pitching's been there.
They've had a lot of high scoring games and the offense
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has definitely been there, not from certain guys, but so this,
I mean, they haven't faced the best teams in the MLB, but they
did win the series against the Cleveland Guardians.
So I mean. Are you telling me that the
White Sox aren't one of the greatest, aren't one of the best
teams in baseball? One of the greatest fan bases
as. We've the White Sox is 2 and
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seven right now. That's like significantly better
than they were last year. What are you talking?
About yeah, I mean, that's like 60 games, probably wins, right?
Oh no, it's a little less. It's probably like 50 that
they're on track for right now. Yeah, it's not.
I mean, it's better than 30 or whatever the hell.
Yeah. OK, so keys to the series again.
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The Angels are a team that can hit.
They have guys that can hit. They have Logan Hoppy, they have
current healthy Mike Trout, Jorge Solaire, other guys that
I'm blanking on right now that if you guys could.
Can we please like somewhat limit Mike Trout?
I don't think we've ever done itlike he.
He hits three home runs every series we play him.
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I know, I know, he's an unbelievable hitter and 1st
ballot Hall of Famer, but like, can we please limit him some
just a tiny bit? Like, yeah, two home runs this
series. That's my goal.
Can we just limit only two? Oh my God.
Oh, Hoppy's a that's. Is that too hard to ask for?
Forget about Trout, we got to limit Logan.
Oh hoppy, he's got 5 homers. Yeah, I mean. 3:40 to 5:00 too.
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Oh. He's good, man.
He's got like, that's like crazyfor like a catcher, jeez.
Poor guy, he's betting 345 and he only has 9 RBIs.
I feel like that's kind of. Is that not kind of a crazy
stat? That's not great.
Yeah, I feel like he should havelike at least 12 or 13 or
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something like that, but. Sean Wells not having a great
year. Solaire's got 2, Trout's hit
188, Kyron Paris is 444 when he's actually in that line up
and hitting Luis Rengifo is not really having a great year.
Yeah, it's really. They have a really interesting
line up. Like they do like they've guys
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like it's just, yeah, Renhifo, Solaire and then they have
Moncada, Tim Anderson and Darnell.
Just very, very strange. But they have power.
They have they have the capability of hitting a ton of
home runs. Yeah.
I mean they have 13 this year. I don't think the race have
anywhere close to that. Irene Paris.
Yeah, Kyra. Paris is another reason they're
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winning. It's not even like the guys you
would think there is like Tim Anderson is on the roster, but
he's only hitting like 200. I mean, Taylor Ward is not
hitting too good either. I mean, even Mike Trout's not
hitting too good to start the season.
So I mean, like, let's keep that.
Let's not awakened Mike Trout yet, you know, like say that for
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when when the next guys, you know, let's keep him a little
bit more pissed off. It's like I don't know how this
team is 6 and three. Like I'm just looking at the
stats and it's just like there'stwo players that are just
jumping off the page. It's Kyron and it's Lauren Hop.
So I mean, I don't I don't even know what to say about this
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team. And obviously they have Travis
Darnaud, so you know that's that's going to give him like 10
wins this season. Let's be honest, even though
he's hitting a 111, he's doing really bad.
Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter he's still I
would still take him. Me too.
Take him in hard way. He's the one case where numbers
lie. Numbers are lying.
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You guys don't realize man, if you.
Pick some. Players.
Yeah, yeah, I was going to say, Evan, let's start with you.
Who you picking? Where did I say the pitchers
were again? Three guys that are pitching.
Baz Pepio and the tell I'll go with Baz tonight pitching
tonight. He had I mean he he looked I've
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been negative this this episode,but he's been he would looked
incredible in his first start ofthe year.
I mean, that's what we had been hoping to see throughout all of
his injuries and we've been excited to get him back.
I mean, 6 innings, 10 strikeouts, no walks.
Like that's zero runs. Like that's, I mean, that's a
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6th outline. So I'll pick him to continue
that. I mean, to continue that
success. And then I'm not sure.
I don't think they've come out with the lineup for tonight,
have they yet? But I'll pick, I'll pick Yandi.
I'm going to say hopefully, hopefully that double on, I
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think it was the 8th inning on on Sunday's game.
No idea how that was in RBI. That was hilarious watching Rd.
run around the bases. Don't know how that he didn't
score on that. But yeah, hopefully that wakes,
wakens him up and he can continue that success.
No Gibby he got. Pitching wise, I'll go with
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Pepio. I mean, he's always solid.
He's gonna he's gonna keep us inposition to win a game.
So I'll pick him. The last time I picked Taylor
Walls, my hitter, and it just didn't work out.
I really want him to just hit one ball and that's just it's
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just not looking too good. So I'm gonna stop picking him
for now, see if he doesn't like my picks and actually does
something in this series. So we gotta pick.
I'll pick a Rhonda because, I mean, he's just been hitting the
crap out of the ball and he's gonna be a key to winning this
series against the Angels. And pitching or did you already
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pick a pitcher and I'm an. I think I picked Pepeo.
Yeah, OK. That's cool.
I'm still gonna go Beelao as always.
I will go with Danny Jansen behind the plate as well 'cause
I wanna see him do something 'cause the catching position has
just been brutal this year for the Rays and I am going so.
Is Alex Jackson still? Can we pick him up or?
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No, no, no. Stop.
Get away, get away. We'll, we'll take Darno,
Actually darno. Yeah, we'll take, yeah, we'll
take the Aura farmer and then I will take Mason Montgomery to
bounce back. I know that was just a just a
good swing on a good pitch, but you know, those sort of things
can rattle a guy early on and I'm hoping that he can he can,
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you know, come back from that. But I think with that being
said, that's going to conclude things in this latest episode of
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