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Speaker 1: Here with the Rangers manager Skip Schumacher. It's just such

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Speaker 1: an easy thing to call you Skip because you're the

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Speaker 2: Actually, no, my dad didn't love the name, I think initially,

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Speaker 3: And I could do a lot of.

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Speaker 2: Things athletically, but I couldn't Skip, And he thought it'd

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Speaker 2: be funny if that happened, if you nicknamed me it.

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Speaker 3: And here I am, so my mom calls me Jared.

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Speaker 1: Still, any of your players call you Jared? Any of

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Speaker 1: your players know that's your name?

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Speaker 3: I bet you half of them have no idea.

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Speaker 1: Any idea.

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Speaker 3: So here we are.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna start calling you Jared. I just like Jared.

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Speaker 1: But then then I'll still call you Skip, So it

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Speaker 1: won't it won't make any sense. What's the transition been

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Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, I was very fortunate to have,

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Speaker 3: Got to learn from him.

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Speaker 2: But they're very like welcoming as far as the front

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Speaker 2: But very grateful for this opportunity.

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Speaker 4: SKIP give us the field coming into in the camp.

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Speaker 3: Six clubhouses is awesome? Right now? You know, it's a

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Speaker 2: We have what ten gay ten days and lost their

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Speaker 6: You talked a lot about, you know, wanting to change

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Speaker 6: what happened last year a bit. You know, the team

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Speaker 6: We know that you have one of the most talented rotations.

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Speaker 5: You know in baseball.

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Speaker 6: But if you were to pinpoint one thing that needs

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Speaker 2: Well, I think our our offense has to to get going,

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Speaker 3: A perfect fit here.

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Speaker 2: Great kid, hard worker and can only get better, you know,

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Speaker 2: I think you find different ways to win. And I

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Speaker 3: But you know, we have some ideas in that cage.

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Speaker 4: See Keek Skip what's it?

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Speaker 2: Man, I love being in a big league clubhouse. Grateful

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So you know, I'm very grateful for this year

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Speaker 3: But I get to see it.

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Speaker 3: It's hard, yeah, but I'm grateful for that.

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Speaker 1: Does your does your wife? Is your wife a good filmer?

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Speaker 3: The opposite direction.

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Speaker 2: Yes, sing in the back, Yes, yeah, I prefer one

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Speaker 1: Then I'll take it and pluse whoever he gets a

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Speaker 3: Person right, exactly right.

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Speaker 1: They punch out. You're like, no, no, you can't go.

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Speaker 3: Any audition still is still happens in high school?

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Speaker 1: Okay?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Skip Schumacher a family man first.

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Speaker 5: We love it. Skip, Thank you so much for joining

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Speaker 5: us today on Found Territory.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Congrats on your Indiana championship.

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Speaker 1: We don't bring that up. We don't.

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Speaker 5: Is so mad right now that you just mentioned that.

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Speaker 3: Skip, But it makes my show. I watched the show

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Speaker 3: all the time, so I knew I had an in it.

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Speaker 3: There were you.

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Speaker 5: Were you cheering.

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Speaker 3: For I'm sorry?

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Speaker 5: Were you cheering for Ieu? In the natty?

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Speaker 5: Come nager cheers for Iu over the U. We love it.

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Speaker 3: Name see you guys, Thank you.

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Speaker 6: All right, Let's get to our season preview of the Rangers.

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Speaker 6: Let's take a look a little bit about their additions

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Speaker 4: That, Well, I think I think the McKenzie Gore acquisition

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Speaker 4: it in Texas and that's a I mean, that's about

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Speaker 4: a good of one two threes you can find.

443
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but the bullpen, the bullpen obviously is a little

444
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Speaker 1: bit of word worrisome, just because you gotta figure it out.

445
00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:05,919
Speaker 1: Skip's gonna have to figure that kind out. I know

446
00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:09,480
Speaker 1: they brought in some new guys here, uh to try

447
00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:12,440
Speaker 1: to help that out, but it's a little bit it's

448
00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:14,199
Speaker 1: kind of been their Achilles heel and then can they

449
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Speaker 1: hit enough? I mean, I know they they traded Simmy

450
00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:19,040
Speaker 1: in for a Nemo. They need Langford to finally take

451
00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:22,520
Speaker 1: that next next step a couple of years in secret

452
00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:27,119
Speaker 1: needs to stay healthy. Can Higashioka and Casey Jansen or

453
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Speaker 1: Danny Jansen Sorry, I filled the catching role void left

454
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Speaker 1: by Jonah him who wasn't great the last couple of years.

455
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Speaker 1: That doly S Garcia isn't here anymore. So do they

456
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Speaker 1: have enough offense? That's kind of been the thing with

457
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Speaker 1: the Rangers last year. If you look, they actually pitched

458
00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:42,160
Speaker 1: really well, they just couldn't score any run. So can

459
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Speaker 1: they figure out the offense? Can Skip Schumach or Alexon

460
00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:46,880
Speaker 1: tro On the new some of their new hitting guys

461
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Speaker 1: figure out this offense and help them score enough runs

462
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Speaker 1: because in globe life, Globe life is a pitching part,

463
00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:54,000
Speaker 1: but you also have to be able to score more

464
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Speaker 1: than the other team. And if you don't do that,

465
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be it's gonna be trouble.

466
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Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, Aj you mentioned the offense. We talked a

467
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Speaker 6: lot about the offense with Skip Schumacher earlier, but when

468
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Speaker 6: you look at that projected starting lineup, We talked about

469
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Speaker 6: Brandon Neimo stepping into that leadoff role, and and and

470
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Speaker 6: you look at these guys and you think, okay, there's

471
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Speaker 6: a lot of there's a lot of talent there. But

472
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Speaker 6: that was their their weakest link last year was their offense.

473
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Speaker 6: What what do you think of this starting lineup?

474
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Speaker 7: Well, it's just about.

475
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Speaker 1: Oh sorry, I think it has potential. But you need

476
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Speaker 1: John Peterson. He had a terrible year last year, Right,

477
00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:33,280
Speaker 1: got off to a terrible start. Nemo at the top

478
00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:36,760
Speaker 1: is nice. Why Langford again needs to take the next step.

479
00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:40,280
Speaker 1: Corey Seager needs to be healthy. Josh Young needs to

480
00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:42,680
Speaker 1: be healthy. Right, there's a there's a there's some question

481
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Speaker 1: marks here. Josh Smith, there's been an All Star. Can

482
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Speaker 1: he do it on an everyday basis only playing second base?

483
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Speaker 1: Like Skip Schumacher talked about, I think this offense has potential,

484
00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:53,800
Speaker 1: but again, they got to prove it, and they gotta

485
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Speaker 1: and they got to figure out how to hit the

486
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Speaker 1: four seam fastival. That has been a thing for two

487
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Speaker 1: years with this Texas Ranger Team White. Why can't they

488
00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,120
Speaker 1: hit the four team fastball? That's the one pitch everybody

489
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Speaker 1: is supposed to be able to hit.

490
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Speaker 4: I will say, you know who can hit the four

491
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Speaker 4: steamed fastball is the guy that got behind the plate,

492
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Speaker 4: the four eyed, the four eyed Grindy, Danny Jansen that

493
00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:14,880
Speaker 4: they got back there. That boy can hit a fastball.

494
00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,520
Speaker 4: So hopefully that'll rub off on the rest of the lineup.

495
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Speaker 4: But you're right, it's it's it's a lineup full of

496
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Speaker 4: of what ifs. A lot of good players, but can

497
00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:27,160
Speaker 4: can they stay healthy? Can they repeat what they've done

498
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Speaker 4: in the past. Can Josh Smith continue to be a

499
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Speaker 4: good player? And can can Young come back and and

500
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Speaker 4: be this first round you know, third base savior that

501
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Speaker 4: they're hoping for. He's shown flashes of it, but he hasn't.

502
00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,040
Speaker 4: He's still fairly early in his career, but he's had

503
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Speaker 4: some injury. But can he can he do that? Can

504
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Speaker 4: he make that jump to become a superstar like they're

505
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Speaker 4: hoping he can? Can secret stay on the field when

506
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Speaker 4: secers on the field. He's the best lietended hitter maybe

507
00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:57,639
Speaker 4: in the game. When he's hot. I mean, I don't know.

508
00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:01,200
Speaker 4: I mean, you got Otani and Bryce and some of

509
00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:03,399
Speaker 4: these guys, But when Corey Seeger is hot, there's you

510
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:05,720
Speaker 4: saw it in the postseason a couple of years ago.

511
00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:09,720
Speaker 4: There's nobody that you want to face less than Corey

512
00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:12,000
Speaker 4: Seeger when he's hot. So can you stay on the field?

513
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Speaker 4: Can he? Can he do that? Can Nimmo be a

514
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:15,600
Speaker 4: good spark plug at the top of the lineup for

515
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:19,800
Speaker 4: this team? Can Jock Peterson do something? Can he? He

516
00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:21,880
Speaker 4: was just awful to start the year and that's hard

517
00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:23,480
Speaker 4: to come back from. It's hard to dig yourself out

518
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:24,879
Speaker 4: of that hole when you get off to a start

519
00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:27,520
Speaker 4: like that. So there's just a lot of what ifs

520
00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:31,960
Speaker 4: on this team, and if those what ifs turn to

521
00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:34,600
Speaker 4: a positive, it could be a really good team. Because,

522
00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,760
Speaker 4: like you said, they're pitching is pretty nails. Their bullpen

523
00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:41,440
Speaker 4: is to be to be determined. But can they score

524
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Speaker 4: some runs and give these these big time starters a

525
00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:46,520
Speaker 4: little bit of cushion because if they can, I mean

526
00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:48,080
Speaker 4: watch out.

527
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Speaker 1: Also with I mean they're in a tough division. The

528
00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:56,560
Speaker 1: Mariners are really good, right, the Astros are supposed to

529
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Speaker 1: be good again, Sacramento A's are on the on the

530
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:06,280
Speaker 1: up right, and then the Rangers, you know, depending on

531
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Speaker 1: where you want to put them in, the Angels or

532
00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:10,359
Speaker 1: the Angels. We all know that and they the fans

533
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,480
Speaker 1: don't care if they win or not. They just want affordability.

534
00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:14,520
Speaker 1: They just want to go to a cheap, cheap parking.

535
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:18,200
Speaker 1: So I mean, they don't really care. Apparently that's not

536
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,440
Speaker 1: what the fans said on Twitter yesterday. That's a whole

537
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:21,800
Speaker 1: different We don't have time to even get into that.

538
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,000
Speaker 1: But they're in a tough division, so they they're they're

539
00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 1: behind it. They won the World Series two years ago

540
00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 1: and have had a major, major drop off since then.

541
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Speaker 1: So can't Chris, you can't Skip Schumacher find the right

542
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Speaker 1: mix to make this team a contender in a tough

543
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Speaker 1: American league.

544
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Speaker 6: West Well, but you kind of touched a little bit

545
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Speaker 6: on the starting rotation and and the bullpen. We know

546
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Speaker 6: that that rotation is, as you said, nails and and

547
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Speaker 6: you know, you look at it. You look at Jacob deGrom,

548
00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:52,119
Speaker 6: Nathan and Valde, McKenzie, Gore, Jack Lyder, Jacob Latz, and

549
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:55,280
Speaker 6: then also you've got a guy like Rocker in there

550
00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 6: trying to take a significant step forward and trying to

551
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Speaker 6: compete for a role. When you look at that starting

552
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,280
Speaker 6: rotation with I'll start with you, I mean, you you

553
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:05,920
Speaker 6: kind of alluded to it, but what.

554
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Speaker 5: Do you see.

555
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:11,120
Speaker 4: I see it potential to be one of the best

556
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Speaker 4: rotations out there, the top three, especially uh. And then

557
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:17,919
Speaker 4: you got guys like like you got young guys that

558
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,879
Speaker 4: are trying to prove themselves and become a guy in

559
00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:24,639
Speaker 4: the league, especially guys that you brought in that were

560
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,560
Speaker 4: supposed to be like they were supposed to be the guys.

561
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Speaker 4: I mean, I remember Kumar Rocker being talked about like

562
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 4: a like a Steven Strasburg. Strasburg come out of college.

563
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 4: I mean he was at Vanderbilt. He struck out everybody

564
00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 4: and it was it was it was dominant, pure dominance.

565
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Speaker 4: And so now he gets a little bit of adversity.

566
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Speaker 4: He's probably never had much adversity in in his pitching

567
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:49,159
Speaker 4: pitching life. I don't know a ton about his uh

568
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:52,240
Speaker 4: come come up, but watching him a Vanderbilt, I don't

569
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,679
Speaker 4: imagine that guy really ever got hit. And now he

570
00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:55,960
Speaker 4: just to the big leagues and he probably had a

571
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Speaker 4: e RA. He had e RA with a five that

572
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Speaker 4: started with a five for maybe the first time in

573
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Speaker 4: his life. So how can he how can he manage that?

574
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:05,360
Speaker 4: How can he make adjustments? Because being a good big

575
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,440
Speaker 4: leaders all about making adjustments. The game, it's gonna find

576
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 4: a way to expose you, and can you adjust to

577
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:17,280
Speaker 4: find success when that happens, That'll be him and Lighters biggest,

578
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:19,960
Speaker 4: biggest hurdle. And then you got a guy like Jordan

579
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,600
Speaker 4: Montgomery who we talked to Skip about. I mean, Jordan

580
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 4: was a guy. I mean he was a guy guy

581
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Speaker 4: when he was in Texas and had his issues in

582
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:33,439
Speaker 4: Arizona with injuries and what all went down there. But

583
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Speaker 4: now he's back at a familiar place where he's had success.

584
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 4: He has that comfortability of I pitched well here, these

585
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 4: people know me, this is I know Dallas. You know

586
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:45,760
Speaker 4: that there's something to say about that when you go

587
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 4: to a stadium that you're familiar with and that you

588
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 4: have had success there and you feel that. So can

589
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:53,119
Speaker 4: he channel that and when he gets back and healthy,

590
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 4: can he step in and be the old money? And

591
00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 4: if so? I mean, look, that's there's a lot. There's

592
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:04,480
Speaker 4: a lot to be admired about this rotation, but it's

593
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 4: it's all about what happens. Come come game one and

594
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:10,680
Speaker 4: can you sustain it to Game one sixty two?

595
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 6: Hey, j what do you think?

596
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 1: I mean? I think this rotation has a chance to

597
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:20,000
Speaker 1: be special if money comes back and healthy and if

598
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,359
Speaker 1: the top four or special they have depth and you know,

599
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:26,159
Speaker 1: Rocker lets Lighter and in the top three or as

600
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,359
Speaker 1: good as anybody. So I think I think they have

601
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 1: a chance to be special. But like always in every team,

602
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:33,359
Speaker 1: it comes down to how healthy can you be? Can

603
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 1: Degram stay healthy? Can of all these stay healthy? Can Gore?

604
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,640
Speaker 1: Do you continue to grow on what he's done? Can

605
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,159
Speaker 1: Lighter be healthy? It's it's there's a lot of ifs

606
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 1: everywhere on this team. There's a lot of ifs. If

607
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:44,480
Speaker 1: they all go positive, it could be a great year,

608
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 1: and if they all are ifs, it could be not

609
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:48,160
Speaker 1: a great year.

610
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 6: Okay, Well, we also want to talk a little bit

611
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 6: about the projected bullpen. Last year, their bullpen was quite

612
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:57,520
Speaker 6: good three point six two ERA. They were fifth, that's

613
00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 6: fifth in the majors. They rebuilt the p a bit

614
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:03,399
Speaker 6: for twenty twenty six. They're looking for a closer to

615
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 6: emerge among that group. But when you look at this

616
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 6: projected bullpen for the Rangers, what comes.

617
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:15,399
Speaker 4: To mind, it's, uh, we'll see, It's a lot of

618
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 4: we'll see. And that's the thing about the bullpen is

619
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 4: you got you gotta step in. I mean, you look

620
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 4: at a guy like my boy Brad Keller last year

621
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:29,359
Speaker 4: with the Cubs, big big, we'll see steps in and

622
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 4: is one of the best relievers.

623
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Speaker 1: In the game.

624
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 4: So with the bullpens, like you only got one ending

625
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 4: to come in into your job, and so you do that,

626
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 4: You do that job, and then you do it for

627
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 4: a couple more times, and that confidence grows and now

628
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 4: you're like, Okay, I can do this, and then out

629
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Speaker 4: of nowhere, all of a sudden, you got to You

630
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 4: got Away Davis with Kansas City in twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen,

631
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 4: that is was a very average starting pitcher and now

632
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 4: he's one of the best relievers of all time and

633
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 4: it just comes out of nowhere. So you're kind of

634
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 4: hoping with a little bit of that with with this

635
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 4: Texas bullpen because there's not a ton of guys.

636
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 1: That have a lot of.

637
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 4: I guess you would say a lot of intimidation behind

638
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 4: their names when they go out to the bullpen to

639
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 4: get warmed up. And so yeah, it's a lot of

640
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 4: a lot of we'll see with this group, but that's

641
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 4: not necessarily a bad thing.

642
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 6: What is that.

643
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 1: Street home, Alabama actually no, it's all summer long story.

644
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 1: You can't I can hear it. You guys can't, but

645
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 1: I can't.

646
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 3: Well, you just look like you're just going like this

647
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,280
Speaker 3: in silence. We were like, what is he doing?

648
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 6: Okay, I'm not even gonna ask you to comment on

649
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 6: the bullpen AJ because you're in your.

650
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 1: Own well said, they got a lot of ifs. It's

651
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 1: all about ifs. So this team if if if if

652
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 1: if this guy has a career, if this guy has

653
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 1: a career, if this guy has a career. There's just

654
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 1: a lot of IFFs.

655
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Speaker 6: Okay, bet question you cannot avoid a j I'll start

656
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Speaker 6: with you since wit just carried you for that part

657
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Speaker 6: of the second.

658
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Speaker 3: When you look at the Rangers, had them come on.

659
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Speaker 6: Exactly exactly when you when you look at the Rangers,

660
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 6: take a look at their win total productions for twenty

661
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 6: twenty six from Fangrafts. But guys, I want to know,

662
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 6: are they a playoff team? Is this team a playoff team?

663
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 6: Can their offense take a step forward this year? Their

664
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 6: rotation is obviously elite. Can their bullpen be as good

665
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 6: as they were last year? Even though they're going through

666
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 6: a little bit of a rebuild with that.

667
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 3: What do you think.

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Speaker 1: I think they're closer to the eighty three point five

669
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Speaker 1: wins than they are the eighty or eighty one. I

670
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 1: think are they a playoff team? The Mariners are really good.

671
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Speaker 1: We were there yesterday. I picked them to win the

672
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Speaker 1: AL this year, So I think the Mariners are definitely

673
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 1: a playoff team. And then you got Blue Jays, Yankees, Orioles,

674
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 1: Red Sox. It's probably two of those three, if not

675
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:56,120
Speaker 1: three of those four are in the playoffs. So there's

676
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Speaker 1: four five. And then you throw in an AL Central team,

677
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 1: which probably the Tigers. So are they a playoff team?

678
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 1: They need all those ifs to check the box to

679
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 1: be a playoff team. But did they have a chance. Yes,

680
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,720
Speaker 1: But I also feel like they need a lot to

681
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 1: go right, So I think they're gonna come up just short,

682
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 1: kind of like they did the last couple of years.

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00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, i'd agree with that.

684
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 1: I don't.

685
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 4: I don't foresee them. I think there's too many teams

686
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 4: that are gonna enter the wild Card ahead of them,

687
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 4: and I don't foresee them taking taking up for Seattle.

688
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 4: Although I will say that I think they're closer to

689
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 4: Seattle than than some people might realize. I mean Seattle,

690
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 4: Seattle's gonna pitch. I mean they got some they got

691
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 4: some arms, but I mean they lost two of their

692
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 4: best bats last year. And uh, I know they got

693
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 4: They got Donovan to come in and fill that Polanco void,

694
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 4: and I think he's a really good player. But you

695
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 4: know you got you lose out on Polanco and and

696
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 4: and Euhenio and uh that's those are those are two

697
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 4: big shoes to fill, especially with what they did in

698
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 4: the playoffs last year. So I think that gap is

699
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 4: a little closer than you think. And if like we talk,

700
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 4: like we've been saying, if a lot of this stuff

701
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 4: goes right, I think they're closer to Seattle than I

702
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 4: think Seattle would like to like to admit. But standing

703
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 4: here today, I don't. I think Texas is just out

704
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 4: of the playoffs. I agree with you there, AJ.

705
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 5: Mariners would like to admit we like that.

706
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Speaker 2: We like that.

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Speaker 6: Well, that's the Rangers season preview and we will be

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Speaker 6: right back after this.

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Speaker 1: Here with Tyler, Exam and Tricia, let's just get to

720
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Speaker 1: it X Ray Texas Ranger now, so let's just get

721
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Speaker 1: the Ray love out of the way, because she once

722
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 1: covered you when you were on the Rays. You almost

723
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 1: threw a perfect game. She was there, so let's just

724
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 1: get it over with now. Go ahead, you guys can

725
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 1: have your moment and we'll go back to putting me in.

726
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 6: I just like, don't understand the hate for the raise

727
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 6: a j that you that you clearly have deep in

728
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 6: your heart. But yes, Tyler and I were with the

729
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 6: Rays at the same time, and yes, Tyler, you almost

730
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 6: threw a perfect game and the guy who broke.

731
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Speaker 1: It up you now play with him.

732
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Speaker 7: I can't how about that. We actually went golfing the

733
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 7: first week out here, and I and I didn't make

734
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 7: the connection. I forgot and of course he brought it up.

735
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 1: How does that come up?

736
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 7: He apologized, He said, hey, man, sorry, I was like,

737
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 7: what did you not know?

738
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 1: For one? Right away?

739
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 7: No, no, not because that's amazing. Yeah, and then he

740
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 7: you know, he goes. Then then he was like the

741
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 7: change up down in a way like, oh my god, yeah,

742
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 7: well part of it.

743
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but oh, I mean I've been I've unfortunately I've

744
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 1: caught a perfect game, and I've been eight and two

745
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: thirds and given up a perfect game, so I'd never

746
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:12,319
Speaker 1: forget it. So the fact that you forgot that kind

747
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 1: of is mind boggling with me a little bit.

748
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:17,839
Speaker 7: Well, yeah, I don't know. I mean, it was one

749
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 7: of those weird days.

750
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Speaker 6: It was.

751
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:23,719
Speaker 7: It was like I didn't even remember it was him.

752
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:25,840
Speaker 7: I remember the pitch, I remember it being not my

753
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 7: greatest pitch. I remember him capping it into short right field.

754
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:34,320
Speaker 7: But yeah, he brought it up almost immediately.

755
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Speaker 1: Wow. I give him credit for for apologizing immediately. But

756
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 1: you know, also also Tritian, I guess we could have

757
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 1: a love. He was at White Song for a while too,

758
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 1: so I guess I apology from.

759
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 5: Danny as well.

760
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Speaker 6: Actually, though, if you could ask for that, Tyler, I

761
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 6: would like that apology because we all love to cover

762
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 6: those types of things, and I was like, this is

763
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 6: gonna be the perfect like the first perfect game ever

764
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Speaker 6: freaking Danny.

765
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Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, but yeah, White Sox we have that connection.

766
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I forgot so white Buck is stronger than Rays.

767
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: Would just say that, Oh, come on, like the White

768
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Speaker 1: especially the last few years like he did, then you

769
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:12,840
Speaker 1: definitely deserve like an Emmy or something.

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Speaker 5: That's fair. That's fair, that's fair. At the time, he

771
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:18,279
Speaker 5: didn't have to survive the Rais. The Rays were good.

772
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Speaker 5: So yeah, I'll give you that. You get it.

773
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Speaker 1: That's true. That's true. So how is it life in Texas? Well,

774
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Speaker 1: I mean surprise actually with Texas with the Rangers.

775
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Speaker 7: Awesome, awesome. I couldn't have been more excited to sign

776
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Speaker 7: with the Rangers. I mean, I'm a Texas guy, I

777
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 7: live but so As. You're born in Chicago, so yeah,

778
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 7: but I lived there for like three months, okay, and

779
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,719
Speaker 7: then we got out. Most of my time was spent

780
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Speaker 7: in like the DFW area, grew up going to Rangers games.

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Speaker 1: So you know that I played for the Rangers. We

782
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 1: also have that connection for sure. Yeah, I think you

783
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,399
Speaker 1: played for the Rangers. Now it was a good bad year.

784
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 1: He lost in Game one sixty three to guess who

785
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 1: the Rays?

786
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Speaker 5: Well, yeah, and you brought them up this time than me.

787
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Speaker 4: I'm me.

788
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Speaker 7: But what's camp been like? Uh, it's been very relaxed. Yeah,

789
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 7: every everybody seems I don't know, I guess chill is

790
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 7: the right word. But this is now my fourth different

791
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 7: spring training with different teams, so you go in expecting

792
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 7: kind of the unexpected. You never really know new staff

793
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 7: as well. But everyone's been good. They've they've sort of

794
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 7: given me my own leash, which I respect and and

795
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:35,400
Speaker 7: prepare how I I guess I've I've gained experience on

796
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 7: you know, all the different spring trainings that I've been through,

797
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 7: but they've been great. I'm in a game today, I'm excited,

798
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 7: So it's been fun. I don't know the third, fourth, fifth.

799
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Speaker 1: They don't they don't give you the don't they give

800
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 1: you like the life.

801
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:51,359
Speaker 7: Probably have I just haven't looked.

802
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 1: You're watching us a win? Right? Yeah?

803
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 7: Absolutely, absolutely, Tyler.

804
00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 6: When in Rangers camp right now, I think the biggest

805
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:03,360
Speaker 6: storyline and obviously is Skip Schumacher coming in. And he

806
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 6: talked to us a little bit earlier just about kind

807
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:08,759
Speaker 6: of changing a little bit of like, I guess the

808
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 6: mentality right now for some of the hitters specifically, Obviously

809
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 6: I know you're not a hitter, But when you look

810
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,720
Speaker 6: at this group, how close do you think this roster

811
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Speaker 6: is to being the team that they want to be?

812
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 6: We know they finished around five hundred last year, but

813
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 6: to being that team that they know they can be,

814
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,239
Speaker 6: because you know, when you look at the talent you

815
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 6: guys have on the pitching staff and you look at

816
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 6: the talent you do have.

817
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 5: In the lineup, it seems like this team can be

818
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:33,839
Speaker 5: much better than they were last year.

819
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Speaker 7: Yeah, obviously the talent is there, you know, big names,

820
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 7: a lot of guys that have done in the past

821
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 7: who are still young and healthy and hungry. But what's

822
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:52,919
Speaker 7: exciting is seeing how everybody interacts in the clubhouse, which

823
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 7: I think is definitely the key to kind of the

824
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 7: separator between teams that have a lot of talent and

825
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 7: teams that are successful is the amount of fun that

826
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Speaker 7: they have when they show up to the ballpark every day,

827
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Speaker 7: and how we play for each other as well as

828
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 7: you know, the city and all that. But it's it's

829
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 7: been fun interacting with the guys it's I've been a ranger.

830
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Speaker 7: I've been in camp for I don't know, two or

831
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Speaker 7: three weeks, and I feel very comfortable. It's it's fun

832
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Speaker 7: interacting with new teammates in a in a comfortable way.

833
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Speaker 7: So I think that's the one thing that'll that'll separate us.

834
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Speaker 7: I don't know how you know this clubhouse has been

835
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 7: in the past. I just know how it is now,

836
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 7: and it's it seems like it's gonna be a lot

837
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 7: of fun.

838
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 1: What skips some message to you guys first date to

839
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:43,880
Speaker 1: come in and give a raw raw Was it a

840
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 1: raw raw speech? Was it more of a professional speech?

841
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 7: It was more of I would say, more just being

842
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:53,960
Speaker 7: good teammates having fun. Talked about being an inflator versus

843
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 7: a deflator, always showing up, being positive, never finding negative,

844
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:02,279
Speaker 7: works uses stuff that can just sort of bring down

845
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 7: a team. I would say the overall message was play together,

846
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:11,280
Speaker 7: have fun because, like I said, we have the talent.

847
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 7: It's just taking that next step.

848
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 6: Tyler, I want to know what when you look at

849
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 6: you know, I know, obviously spring training is long and

850
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 6: you're just now starting games, But is there one guy

851
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 6: that you've seen that's kind of turned in some heads.

852
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 7: So far.

853
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:26,800
Speaker 6: We talked to Skip a little bit about that and

854
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:28,839
Speaker 6: Jake a little bit about that too. But is there

855
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,439
Speaker 6: one guy that you've been watching that that has caught

856
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:31,920
Speaker 6: your attention?

857
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:36,320
Speaker 7: Well, I don't know about one guy. I mean, just

858
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 7: because spring training is, games are so fresh right now

859
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 7: and the way we all are separated. I think I've

860
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 7: had a really fun time watching the ground, watching of

861
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:53,360
Speaker 7: all the watching the lighter of those guys who I

862
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 7: know are very good pictures. I've had a good time

863
00:39:55,640 --> 00:40:00,359
Speaker 7: watching them work in their bullpens, watching them prepare their

864
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 7: brains on certain pitch thoughts and stuff like that. And

865
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:08,319
Speaker 7: I continue I'm planning on continuing doing that watching those

866
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 7: guys pitching games. But so far, it's just been a

867
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:15,520
Speaker 7: lot of watching bullpens, and I have been very impressed.

868
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:19,800
Speaker 7: I mean, it's it's funny how you can be so

869
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,319
Speaker 7: different but play the same game. You know, I throw

870
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 7: ninety miles an hour. The ground throws one hundred.

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Speaker 1: Right because you're left handed.

872
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:28,279
Speaker 7: I am left handed.

873
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Speaker 1: That matters. That helps. That helps.

874
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Speaker 7: If that was right handed, we'd be we'd be in

875
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Speaker 7: some trouble. But it's fun watching those guys who I've

876
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:41,360
Speaker 7: either been on the other side of the league, or

877
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Speaker 7: for some of them, like a Valdi, was in high

878
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 7: school watching them work in the Big League. So it's

879
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:53,040
Speaker 7: fun watching them prepare, watching their process and also picking

880
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 7: their brains.

881
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 1: What was it like being in the Brewers last year?

882
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 1: What was so special about the Brewers? Every year they

883
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 1: figured out to be better than everyone expects. So what

884
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 1: does Murph do? What does Matt Arnold do? What does

885
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:07,439
Speaker 1: the ORG do to make them just seem like they're

886
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 1: just better than what you think they should be.

887
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:14,840
Speaker 7: Pat Murphy, I wouldn't say it's him, but he starts it.

888
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 7: He creates a culture, and it's almost like college a

889
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:19,759
Speaker 7: little bit.

890
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:23,400
Speaker 1: It's got that by the way. I brought that up

891
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,800
Speaker 1: to him, and he hated that. Well, if you're almost

892
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:28,840
Speaker 1: like you're running a college at vunts, hitting and running

893
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:31,120
Speaker 1: all these little things you guys do, most peig League

894
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:32,440
Speaker 1: teams don't do that. And here you are and you

895
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 1: have a bunch of little guys. Yeah, supposed to be

896
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 1: underdog and they just play like a college team. He's like,

897
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 1: I hate dad reference, so don't say that.

898
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:42,359
Speaker 7: Well, it's I wasn't referencing the way they play more

899
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 7: so just the mentality of doing the little things right,

900
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:50,840
Speaker 7: hustling every second of every play of every game. And

901
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 7: it's fun because even when I was I was there,

902
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 7: we were scuffling a little bit around five hundred, and

903
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:00,879
Speaker 7: there was no panic. It was all fun. He knew

904
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:02,719
Speaker 7: the talent was there, he knew things were going to

905
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:04,399
Speaker 7: get turned around, and eventually it did.

906
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 1: Do you have a nickname for you? Or did he

907
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:09,719
Speaker 1: know your name? Actually should maybe it is a better question.

908
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:10,439
Speaker 1: I think he knew.

909
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 7: Everybody just calls me Todd. That reference. Being in college,

910
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:18,960
Speaker 7: I had long, greasy hair, clean shaven, no mustache, and

911
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 7: I looked like Todd the painter from Wedding Crashers. Yeah, okay, yeah,

912
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 7: I don't look like him anymore, but obviously I got

913
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 7: no hair.

914
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 6: I remember that because I got so confused. When I

915
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:38,320
Speaker 6: was with the Rays, they kept saying Todd, and I'm like, guys,

916
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,719
Speaker 6: who is Todd? We don't have a Todd on our team.

917
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:45,880
Speaker 6: And finally Tyler was like, I'm Todd, and I was like, what.

918
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:48,279
Speaker 5: In the world so rare?

919
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:50,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, I need to see a picture. I gotta figure

920
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:52,000
Speaker 1: out how I go see if we can find you.

921
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:54,120
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I I don't think I have any

922
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 7: pictures in my phone anymore. But it was like high

923
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 7: school college era of long kind of like the Beaber

924
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:02,440
Speaker 7: Swoosh era kind of thing. Probably didn't shower as much

925
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:04,440
Speaker 7: as I should, so a little mad it in my

926
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 7: forehead kind of look. But yeah, it's it's it's the

927
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 7: name that's followed me around everywhere.

928
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 5: Okay, Tyler or Todd, I have one more question for you.

929
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 6: I don't know if you remember this, but one time

930
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:19,720
Speaker 6: when I was with the Rays, I did a story

931
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:22,120
Speaker 6: on weird superstitions guys have Do you.

932
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 5: Remember what you said to me?

933
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:27,800
Speaker 7: No, but I do remember that. I'm pretty sure I

934
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:32,240
Speaker 7: made that up. But I remember what I said.

935
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:35,720
Speaker 5: You said, eat spaghetti the night before every start.

936
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 7: Yeah, I made that up.

937
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:43,919
Speaker 1: Hold up, by the way, I thought for totally fully true.

938
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 7: Gave you the first thing that roll into my head.

939
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 6: But he was a good sport about it because it

940
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:52,400
Speaker 6: was a day where, like, I mean, come on, sometimes

941
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:54,560
Speaker 6: you have days in baseball where you just need content.

942
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 6: I think we were playing like the A's or something,

943
00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 6: and I was like, you know what, screw it, I'm

944
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 6: gonna do a story on guys superstitions. So I went

945
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 6: up to Thailand and I'm like, hey, do you have

946
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:05,400
Speaker 6: a superstition? He was like sure, And I asked you

947
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:08,320
Speaker 6: that question. You go. I eat spaghetti before every start

948
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:10,400
Speaker 6: and it kind of exploded on social media.

949
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:12,239
Speaker 5: It's great.

950
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I don't especially now that I'm I

951
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:17,960
Speaker 7: haven't really been a starter for a few a few years,

952
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:21,840
Speaker 7: but a while it impossible to eat spaghetti before every.

953
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 1: So Tricia, I don't know if he does this. She

954
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:28,479
Speaker 1: might have a little fetish as far as food, because

955
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 1: she ate Merphed pancake pockets pocket pancakes last year. Now

956
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:34,399
Speaker 1: she wants to know about your you're eating spaghetti. I'm

957
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,399
Speaker 1: starting to wonder about if Tricia just does base does

958
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:41,279
Speaker 1: baseball content for the food maybe? So, I don't know.

959
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 5: I don't well and try different things.

960
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 7: It's fine.

961
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 6: I also had a quesadilla in a Pat Murphy's pocket,

962
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 6: so I didn't stop at pancakes.

963
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 7: Oh weird.

964
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:02,640
Speaker 1: Well I wouldn't admit that too loudly. Dere Tricia TV.

965
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 5: It's all over the place.

966
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:06,239
Speaker 1: Trying to make that go away. We're trying to make

967
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:09,359
Speaker 1: that go away. Okay, did you at the US?

968
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:09,560
Speaker 4: Oh?

969
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:10,840
Speaker 1: Actually, I don't know. I have to ask you, I

970
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 1: saw you in there watching. Yeah, absolutely cheer, yelling, scream

971
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:16,799
Speaker 1: like the rest of your teammates. Did I did? Sure?

972
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 1: Did you give Quantrill and Tigue a little bit of grief?

973
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 7: I haven't seen it. I think they've been hiding from us.

974
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 1: Because Skip said the tea ripped off his Canada jersey.

975
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 7: Yeah, well they weren't. They weren't in the clubhouse with us.

976
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 7: I think they were secluded.

977
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: Okay.

978
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 7: I don't blame them, but I think they've been hiding

979
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:33,520
Speaker 7: from us. I haven't seen him.

980
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:36,800
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, Tyler, thank you, Tricia. Tricia was excited to

981
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:39,400
Speaker 1: talk to a former Ray like yourself, so we appreciate

982
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:40,840
Speaker 1: you coming out here and joining us and wish you

983
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 1: the best this year. You can survive the White Sox

984
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:45,440
Speaker 1: last a couple years. You can survive anything, do anything.

985
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 5: Thanks Tyler.