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Rangers checkup: Trade deadline direction, Corey Seager’s IL trips · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: All right, we're back. I can't call him an insider.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna call hi an outsider. Uh, he should be
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  Speaker 1: outside because he's too comfortable in Texas's indoor ballpark. Evan
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  Speaker 1: Grant with a what are you? Who are you at
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  Speaker 1: the Dallas Morning Post?
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  Speaker 2: What is it Dallas Morning News? Thanks for your love
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  Speaker 2: of journalism, a Jane, I.
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  Speaker 1: Mean, from one journalist to another, Evan, You're welcome.
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  Speaker 2: What do you got from me? Before we get into
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  Speaker 2: pope talk?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, I Ken has to call
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  Speaker 1: me the eminence, your eminence, so I don't know, we
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  Speaker 1: have to come up with something for you to call me.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's even better because you've actually bought me food before.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like Ken, So I can't be I can't be
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  Speaker 1: as you know, harsh on you as I am on Ken.
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  Speaker 2: You can be. Yeah, you can be much harder on
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  Speaker 2: Ken than me. True. True.
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  Speaker 1: Plus you're bigger than Ken, so you might actually be
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  Speaker 1: able to get a punch in. So I gotta I
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  Speaker 1: gotta be careful.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, me and you, I will. It'd be just like
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  Speaker 2: Odor and Tista. I'd be the Batista in that.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, okay, that's fair that's fair. I got the
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  Speaker 1: reach advantage, that's for sure. So yes, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: I was in Italy. I know you love food, so
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  Speaker 1: I love Italy.
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  Speaker 2: Let me just let me say this. Look before we
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  Speaker 2: get into anybs. That was awesome that you got to
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  Speaker 2: meet the post that you got to present them the
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  Speaker 2: ball from from two thousand and five, absolutely awesome. And
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  Speaker 2: Italy is a it's a magical place. Was that your
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  Speaker 2: first trip.
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  Speaker 1: No, I've been over there a couple of times. That's why. Chrats.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever been to Italy?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so I just want to say this. I know
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  Speaker 1: Evan's been over there multiple times. I've been over there
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  Speaker 1: multiple times. The food in Rome is the most overrated
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  Speaker 1: thing in the world. Now, other cities besides Rome, like Milan, Venice, Florence,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the other cities are the food is great.
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  Speaker 1: But I have to say the food in Rome it
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  Speaker 1: kind of sucks. Evan.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I'm a fan of Taverna Trylosa, been
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  Speaker 2: there several times. I know Mark Kanna was just there.
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  Speaker 2: He was posting from all over Europe on his trip.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big hit with the baseball crowd. But there's
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  Speaker 2: great food all over Italy. There's no shortage of great
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  Speaker 2: food in Italy. There's more touristy places in Rome for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And by the way, why can we not cook
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  Speaker 1: pasta right like crowds? I don't know. Crowds probably is
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  Speaker 1: gluten free and pasta free. But why can we not
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  Speaker 1: cook pasta the way they cook pasta in Italy? It
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  Speaker 1: is like perfect every time, it's like the perfect pasta cooked.
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  Speaker 1: It's soft but hard, it's like perfect. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: it's aldente. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I know it is the ad thing and I know
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  Speaker 2: this is this is cooking with Aj and Evan. This
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  Speaker 2: is a great episode. But yeah, the pasta in Italy
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  Speaker 2: just tastes differently. The wheat is. The wheat is a
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  Speaker 2: better quality I think, and it is cooked perfectly. And
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  Speaker 2: when you get a perfectly cooked pasta, when you get
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  Speaker 2: that little snap and it's still chewy but softs, it
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  Speaker 2: adds a whole different layer to the experience.
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  Speaker 1: That's great.
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  Speaker 4: It's great.
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  Speaker 1: Crats one day. I hope you get to get over
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  Speaker 1: there because it is a different by the way, and
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  Speaker 1: by the way, speaking of places that people love, I
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  Speaker 1: went to the place that invented alf feta chini Alfredo.
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  Speaker 1: Not this trip. My last trip is the worst alfredo
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  Speaker 1: I ever had. I don't know what it's called. Anyways,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna go back to baseball now because I'm getting
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  Speaker 1: yelled at by producer Lady for talking about things that
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  Speaker 1: are not baseball. And this is like the second or
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  Speaker 1: third thing we've gotten off of baseball. So let's talk Rangers.
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  Speaker 1: The Rangers are in this thing. If they can only
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  Speaker 1: play outside of Globe life all the time, they can
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  Speaker 1: score some runs. So what is going on in Ranger world?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I think the biggest issue is if
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  Speaker 2: you look at their record, they're five hundred on the road,
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  Speaker 2: which is great, They're five hundred at home, which is terrible.
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  Speaker 2: And they have a lot more home games the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the way that they can hopefully make up some
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  Speaker 2: ground for themselves. They're in a stretch right now with
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  Speaker 2: sixteen and nineteen at home at Globalive Field. It is
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  Speaker 2: time for this offense to go. It is time for
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  Speaker 2: them to find a way to score runs now. The
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  Speaker 2: big obstacle in all of this is that your two
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  Speaker 2: best players are Corey Seeger and Wyatt Langford, and both
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  Speaker 2: of them have missed at least half of the season,
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  Speaker 2: in Langford's case, more than half the season, and both
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  Speaker 2: are currently on the IL. So it's hard to really
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  Speaker 2: get a feel for what your offense is when you're
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  Speaker 2: missing your two best offensive players.
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  Speaker 4: But what is wrong with the stadium? What is the
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  Speaker 4: issue that a team? When you look across the league,
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  Speaker 4: it is home and road splits goalore not for the Rangers.
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  Speaker 4: What are they What are they doing to try to
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  Speaker 4: combat this issue? That's been an issue for a little
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  Speaker 4: while now.
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  Speaker 2: It's been really an issue since the start at twenty
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  Speaker 2: four And the only thing that really sticks out is
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  Speaker 2: if you hit a ball to center field, you have
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  Speaker 2: got to hit it one hundred and seven miles an
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  Speaker 2: hour or harder to get it out. It is a
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  Speaker 2: bigger center field and for some reason, balls tend to
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  Speaker 2: die there. But we just went through a June and
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  Speaker 2: they weren't home all that much in June, but when
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  Speaker 2: they were home, balls were flying out of there. So
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  Speaker 2: it's inconsistent, and that leads me to think that there's
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  Speaker 2: some degree of weather involved, even though it's an indoor stadium.
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  Speaker 2: But you've got these the thing I want I would
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  Speaker 2: like to look at, and I've heard some rumbles. I
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  Speaker 2: haven't gotten my real sit down from the Rangers on this,
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  Speaker 2: but at the top of the stadium, you guys have
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  Speaker 2: both been in there. You know you've got those kind
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  Speaker 2: of translucent panels, and I think there's somewhat permeable, and
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  Speaker 2: I think the air around the stadium actually has an
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  Speaker 2: impact on that, and that may have some impact on
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  Speaker 2: how the ball flies. But the Rangers will tell you
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  Speaker 2: that last year they started off awful at home, and
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  Speaker 2: as the season progressed, they saw that effect where the
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  Speaker 2: balls weren't as negatively impacted kind of take place. I
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  Speaker 2: don't have any definitive answers. They clearly don't have any
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  Speaker 2: definitive answers, but there's certainly a difference in how this
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  Speaker 2: team plays at home versus on the road.
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  Speaker 4: Kip, I've been looking for the best deals for the
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  Speaker 4: All Star Game tickets in Philly. Where are you gonna
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  Speaker 4: get some tickets from?
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  Speaker 5: I'm going straight out to Rife Field. If Harper and
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  Speaker 5: Schwarber both joined the home run derby, I want to
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  Speaker 5: be catching the hometown guys hating them, So I'm going
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  Speaker 5: out to the Rife Field kind of where I think
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  Speaker 5: I could get the best chance of catching one of
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  Speaker 5: those home runs.
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  Speaker 1: Is if travel better when it's hot? Is that kind
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  Speaker 1: of what you're saying? It has to be hot, warmer
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  Speaker 1: and it's always hot in June, July and August of Texas, Like.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that would be my general That would
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  Speaker 2: be my general take is that it seems like if
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  Speaker 2: you get a little bit more humid air, a little
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  Speaker 2: bit hotter, maybe the ball does travel a little bit better.
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  Speaker 1: And they never play with the roof open. They never
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  Speaker 1: play with it open ever.
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  Speaker 2: Play about six games a year with the roof open
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  Speaker 2: in April, May and then a couple games in September,
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  Speaker 2: particularly like Sunday afternoon games in September. It's a beautiful
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  Speaker 2: stadium when it's open. It's a completely different stadium to
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  Speaker 2: me when it's open versus when it's closed.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean it's just too hot most of
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  Speaker 2: the year to play with the roof open.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on, cutch. They need to make them play with
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  Speaker 1: the roof open. We played in that old stadium. It
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  Speaker 1: was one hundred and twenty. We take the field. No
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  Speaker 1: one complain.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody's worried about you, Aja, They're worried about the fans.
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  Speaker 2: They don't want the fans to pass. Oh, the fans
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  Speaker 2: are fine.
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  Speaker 1: No, it makes sense. Okay, go ahead, Cratzy, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: There's not a lot of shade there when you open
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  Speaker 4: the roof. But one of the things, one of the
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  Speaker 4: things we have to look at is the two guys
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  Speaker 4: that are leading the team in home runs, two guys
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  Speaker 4: that were brought in last year to lead the team
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  Speaker 4: in home runs because they couldn't hit the four seam fastball.
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  Speaker 4: As a team, Berger and Petersenberger even spent a few
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  Speaker 4: days in the bushes last year both of them were
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  Speaker 4: brought in. Now this year they're leading the team in
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  Speaker 4: home runs. Is that a credit to see why saying Okay,
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  Speaker 4: we saw these were guys that were gonna be value
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  Speaker 4: for this team, it just took us two years. Or
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  Speaker 4: is that really a regression from the rest of the team.
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean, I think more of it is that
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  Speaker 2: these two guys have have found their footing, and I
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  Speaker 2: think that you know, in Jake's case, I can point
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  Speaker 2: to a pretty distinct mechanical change that I think has
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  Speaker 2: taking place. He's he's striding much more to the pitcher
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  Speaker 2: than he is, you know, pulling off balls, and I
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  Speaker 2: think that has given him much more impact. In Jock's case, look,
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  Speaker 2: he got off to a bad start last year, then
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  Speaker 2: he got hurt, missed like two months of the season,
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  Speaker 2: and I think he struggled with the dynamics of the
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  Speaker 2: team last year. I think the whatever dysfunction existed between
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  Speaker 2: Seeger and Simeon, I think probably impacted Jock Moore because
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  Speaker 2: he comes from that background of it's all about winning.
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  Speaker 2: It's all about winning, and so credit to both those players.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's where I think the credit lieses Both
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  Speaker 2: those players realized that last year was a subpar year
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  Speaker 2: and that they needed to make some changes and do
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  Speaker 2: some things differently. And I've seen Jock, I mean, since
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  Speaker 2: he's been moved into the leadoff spot. You know, he's
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  Speaker 2: not your prototypical leadoff hitter in any way, but he's
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  Speaker 2: hit a lot of leadoff in his career. He knows
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  Speaker 2: how to taken it bat there, he knows what the
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  Speaker 2: mission is there, and he's got the ability to hit
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  Speaker 2: with power there. And that's what we're saying. He had
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  Speaker 2: a in Toronto. You know, you guys were talking about
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  Speaker 2: torn and the Rangers just went up there and won
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  Speaker 2: four straight. But he had an eleven pitch at bat
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  Speaker 2: and the lead off the game ended it with a homer,
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  Speaker 2: and you could just tell at that point in time
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  Speaker 2: that that was a kind of a bat that changed that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to say it's the tempo sitter. I
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  Speaker 2: felt like that was a game a game changer.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's fair. Let's talk about some other guys, though.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned Cory Seger earlier. Now Michael Berre, a resident
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: ranger expert who works for US here at foul Territory,
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  Speaker 1: said that there's some fans growing a little bit weary. Levy,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a journalist like you, but I'm not exactly
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  Speaker 1: the right word of Corey Seeger him being injured all
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  Speaker 1: the time, saying he doesn't care. I know Cory Seger,
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  Speaker 1: he cares okay, and he wants to be out there.
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  Speaker 1: But what do you make of the fans I hate
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  Speaker 1: to even say that, getting a little tired of him
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  Speaker 1: not being on the field.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean it is. Look, it's nine il triumps
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  Speaker 2: in four years, and it's three this year. It was
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  Speaker 2: three last year. Fans are down on the team overall
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  Speaker 2: over the last two years, and they want to see
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  Speaker 2: better performance, and the fact that Corey has not been
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  Speaker 2: out there and won't be out there for one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and twenty games this year has frustrated them. I thought
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  Speaker 2: the one thing that was unfair. Fans can say whatever
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  Speaker 2: they want. The one thing that I think was really
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  Speaker 2: unfair was it took longer for him to get back
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  Speaker 2: from a concussion than just the seven days, and fans
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  Speaker 2: were accusing him of not wanting to get on the field.
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  Speaker 2: We all know that the concussion Protocol is a formal process,
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  Speaker 2: and we also know we're dealing with a brain injury there,
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  Speaker 2: and I think it's unfair to take shots at a
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  Speaker 2: player for that. I do think it's right at this
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  Speaker 2: point in time to ask questions. This is a thirty
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  Speaker 2: two year old going on thirty three. He's been on
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  Speaker 2: the ail now twice with a back issue this year.
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  Speaker 2: Does he have a back condition? And if he's got
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  Speaker 2: a back condition, does that mean that if you're looking
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  Speaker 2: at the future, should he move off of shortstop? Should
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  Speaker 2: he move off a shortstop in general? Just because of
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  Speaker 2: the amount of time he's spent on the il with
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  Speaker 2: soft tissue injuries at a position that is very physically demanding.
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  Speaker 2: And I think all of those are legitimate questions. I
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  Speaker 2: get that fans get frustrated, and I get on Twitter
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  Speaker 2: and in social media they lash out with some words
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  Speaker 2: that I think are our personal attacks. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: that part of it is fair, but I do think
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  Speaker 2: it's it's fair to question whether or not Seger should
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  Speaker 2: whether the best long term future for Cory Seger is
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  Speaker 2: still a shortstop can.
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  Speaker 4: You shed any more light on the Seager Simeon tiff
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  Speaker 4: for whatever there was that now time has passed that
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  Speaker 4: maybe more has come out about it.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't think those guys really got along, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And I think Marcus took a lot of pride in
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  Speaker 2: being out there every day, and maybe he had some
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  Speaker 2: frustration that Corey wasn't out there every day. But you
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  Speaker 2: don't if that's the case, And I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: took place between those two in terms of direct contact.
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  Speaker 2: You go out and do your job and let the
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  Speaker 2: other guy go out and do his, and we can't speak.
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  Speaker 2: Just like I just said, you can't speak for what
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  Speaker 2: somebody else is dealing with health wise in one way
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  Speaker 2: or another. And so I think that that Marcus could
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  Speaker 2: be on occasion, could be sarcastic in the clubhouse, and
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  Speaker 2: I think that that riled Quarry up in some ways.
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  Speaker 2: So Cory has taken the high road on all this,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't think Marcus has really spoken on it,
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  Speaker 2: and probably won't get a chance to ask Marcus until
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  Speaker 2: the Mets come in here the last home stand of
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  Speaker 2: the last home stand of the season, if he's playing
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  Speaker 2: at that point in time. But they were. They were
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  Speaker 2: guys who were headed in different directions and they approach
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  Speaker 2: things in different ways. And look, there are guys now
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  Speaker 2: like Corey. You know, I know that for a lot
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  Speaker 2: of for a lot of veterans, they look at guys
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  Speaker 2: who aren't on the field for batting practice or for
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  Speaker 2: infield practice, and they're like, well, this is how I've
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  Speaker 2: always done it. Well, it's not the way it's done
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  Speaker 2: in baseball one hundred percent anymore. Brandon Nimmo has a
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  Speaker 2: very detailed pregame ritual that doesn't put him on the field,
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  Speaker 2: and that's not caused any problems whatsoever. Corey has a
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  Speaker 2: very detailed ritual that doesn't put him on the field.
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  Speaker 2: The question that you have now is you're not going
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  Speaker 2: to be out there and you don't take in field
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  Speaker 2: ground balls and you're making some errors, and Corey has
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  Speaker 2: made a few more errors this year. Should you be
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  Speaker 2: out there taking more ground balls? But the Rangers are
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  Speaker 2: paying him to hit, and whatever it takes to get
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  Speaker 2: him to hit, that's what's most important. Just hasn't been healthy,
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  Speaker 2: and it's a frustrat Just like you guys said, it's
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  Speaker 2: a frustration for fans. I think it was a frustration
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  Speaker 2: for It's certainly a frustration for Seeger, and I think
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  Speaker 2: it's been a frustration maybe for some of his teammates.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Evan, Where are the Rangers going right now?
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: Where are they going in the trade possibilities? There are
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: they a team? See why this is? Says quote when
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: we played together in twenty fifteen, I will never think
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: my team is out of it because I've lost too
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: many seasons by one game, so every game matters. And
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: I think he's kind of taken that into being a GM.
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: So what's there, What should be their outlook and what
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: do you think, based on cism their outlook for the
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: rest of the season.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: He's looking for a reason to buy. He's looking for
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: a reason to help this team. I do think the
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Rangers have to be realistic about some things in terms
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: of the fact that they don't have They have peeled
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: off a layer, maybe more than one layer of minor
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: league talent the last couple of years in pursuing trades
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: going back at twenty twenty three, so they are a
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: little bit thin on that front. I had him on
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: the Rangers The Morning News is Rangers podcast with John
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: Blake that we just taped this morning. It'll it'll drop
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: in a day or two. But we talked about whether
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: or not he thought he would get money from ownership
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: to add to the payroll if this team is in
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: position to go for it, and he said he was
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: confident based on the last few years, that Ray Davis
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: would add more money to the payroll. But I think
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: what's most important right now, Kratzy, is they've got to
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: play well. You know, they have been inconsistent. You guys
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: talked about the Blue Jays, and so much of what
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: you said about the blue Jays could also apply to
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: the Rangers. Rangers have played well on the road, they
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: haven't played well at home. They've played well against above
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: five hundred teams. They haven't played well against below five
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: hundred teams. They have been the You know, they have
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: exemplified inconsistency. And I think it is now time, with
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: three weeks with a favorable home schedule, for them to
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: give the ownership and baseball operations a reason to push forward.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: And if they do, I think there are a couple
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: of needs that really stand out for me. One is
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: I think they need a high leverage arm, a right
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: handed high leverage arm in the bullpen. Jacob Blatz has
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: done remarkable work transforming himself into a closer, and a
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: more than four of three out closer at that, but
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: I think they're a little bit short on the right
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: handed leverage side. Jacob Junas is on the il right now.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: He has had some trouble recovering sometimes when he's pitched
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: and not available on back to back days. Chris Martin
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: is healthy right now, but he also has to be
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: watched very carefully at the age of forty, so I
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: think the Rangers could use a right handed guy in
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: the seventh or eighth inning to get the ball to lads.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: The other thing I think they could use is they
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: need some insurance in the outfield, particularly a right handed
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: bat who can play some center field. Evan Carter is
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: starting to heat up a little bit, but he's still
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: hitting under two hundred. He doesn't play against lefties. Their backup,
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: their fourth outfielder when everybody's healthy, is Alejandro Asuna. He's
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: a lefty. They need somebody who can play some center
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: field and hit from the right side, and who offers
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: them some more protection if you do have Carter's been
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: on the aisle once this year. He's been on the
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: aisle every year since twenty four. Whyat Langford is on
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: the aisle for the second time. He's been on the
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: injured list every year since twenty four. You need some
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: insurance out there, and I think that would be the
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: other real high priority for them.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: We'd be remiss without asking about Skip Schumacher. How's he been?
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: How's he been his first year as Rangers manager? Has
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: he been everything that he's been advertised to be?
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: To me, he has? I mean, he's been willing to
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: adapt to the personnel he has. His messaging seems to
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: be really good. I think he's very honest with how
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: he addresses the media, and I think he, you know,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: he's done a masterful job of trying to manage a
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: team that has not been healthy at all at all
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: this season. And so the fact that the Rangers, you know,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: we talk about the Blue Jays and maybe there is
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: a World Series hangover, maybe not. I would think for me,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: you get to the World Series and first time that
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: team has gotten to the World Series in thirty years,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: you'd think that there's more motivation to get back rather
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: than the hangover of having won it all. But I can't.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: I can't speak of the Blue Jays. All I know
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: is from the Rangers perspective that I think he has
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: done a really good job of managing less than a
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: full roster, and every day he has something that he
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: has to deal with. They've been creative in trying to
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: score runs when they've been without their biggest stats. I
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: think you know you've seen the im well. I give
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: all the credit to Jake Berger for his rebound. I
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: do think that Skip's relationship with him and the confidence
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: he has in him, I think that has certainly been
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: an asset. I think he has shown that in how
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: he's used Ezekield or in and not just had him
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: on the bench. And I think that goes with a
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: number of the bench players. And you guys know Skip
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: was a utility guy. He loves utility guys. He loves
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: guys that can step in and help when a team
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: is down. And so I think he's been a great
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: asset for this team this year. I just don't know
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: that he's been given the full deck to work with.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: That's fair.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: That's fair. Well, Skip is great. We all know that
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: right that Skip is great. We've had him on the show.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: He's an awesome guy to talk to Evan before we
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: let you go. What's the best burger in Texas? You
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: just are and why did you say McDonald's.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: I did not say McDonald's, and you know that, but
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: I just did. You just did another project with our
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: great food editor Sarah Blaskovitch where we tried to find
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: the best burger in Dallas. We ran we we had
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: fifteen on our final list, and we've got a lot
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: more that we'll probably have to update it with. But
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: it was an incredibly fun topic project to get into.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Three burgers for me that stand out in Dallas if
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: you've never been here too are sit down restaurants, neighborhood
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: services and goodwins. Just fantastic, well made burgers that everything
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: is fresh and everything just tastes like it was artfully constructed.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: And then if you're not have you if you haven't
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: gone into the smash burger craze, you've got to go
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: to Burger Schmerger and have their smash burger.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: It is the entry drug to loving smash burgers. So
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: I'll leave it at that.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Great by the way, I'll be there in about two weeks, Evan,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: so I'm expecting all the burgers laid out in the
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: booth like every one of them, including four US and
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: the Urbs. I just went the whole table when I
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: walk in to be Burgers and let me try them.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: All you here for the Seattle series.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: July twenty fifth. Is that Seattle? I think it is.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's Seattle. Okay, Yeah, we'll take carey. So just
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: about it's all about free stuff with you. You're learning.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: You you're learning. See you're you're you're learning. It's not
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: that hard to make me happy.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Maybe I'll learn to get a chance to say hillo
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: to you in Philadelphia. I don't know if I'll be
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: allowed here, but we didn't even talk about Jacob Latz.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: By the way, we.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Don't have Yeah. By the way, I'll have the Swiss
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: guard around me, so it might be tough for you
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: to get through them. I'm just saying. I'm just saying, Evan,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: all right, emigrant, thank you Dallas Dallas Evening Post, uh,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Dallas Morning News, Morning News.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: For Dallasnews dot com, whichever you prefer.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Evan. We'll see you in a couple of weeks.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Enjoy the All Star Game. Make sure you don't say
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: hi to me in Philly. We'll be right back with
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Mike Rizzo, another guy that kind of looks like Evan Grant. Sorry, Mike, I.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Don't do that to Mike. He's a good exactly you
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: Can say hi to me, Evan