00:00You're an idiot and you don't know baseball.
00:03Ranger fans, you're not dreaming.
00:08How can you not be romantic about baseball?
00:11How can you not be romantic about being a playoff team?
00:16Six.
00:17Mail in.
00:18I can be very unromantic about it.
00:20They are in the postseason as of today.
00:25I am kind of hoping for them to make it just to...
00:30Now, Bobby's never going to admit being wrong,
00:33but I want Bobby to be proven wrong
00:36and have them win a playoff series.
00:40How would you...
00:42Be real.
00:42How would you...
00:43And I agree with you about the quality of the team that they are.
00:46Yeah.
00:46How would you...
00:47What would make you feel wrong or say...
00:51How far would they have to go?
00:55Win the AL.
00:56Dang!
00:57In terms of for me to...
00:58Because I'm not saying like...
00:59The whole point to me was not that they couldn't do that.
01:02It's that it's worthless to me.
01:04Like I don't...
01:04Win the American League is worthless.
01:05No, no, no, no.
01:06Short of that.
01:07I don't care about going on any sort of a run against a weak American League
01:10that you're not actually going to make the World Series
01:12and you shot yourself in the foot moving forward in the name of doing it
01:16after you just won a World Series a couple years ago.
01:18Oh!
01:19A run is a nice thing to have when you haven't won recently
01:23or you haven't like reached the heights.
01:24You reached the heights a couple years ago,
01:25so getting to the ALCS doesn't really mean anything to me.
01:28I understand what you're saying.
01:31I just think this baseball franchise hasn't done enough
01:38to be able to poo-poo a playoff run or berth.
01:43You know, like get in...
01:45This team has only made the playoffs.
01:46Have they made the playoffs ten times in their history?
01:49I mean, I'm just...
01:50Like, just get in, man.
01:51I am very...
01:52I've been very consistent with this with all the teams.
01:54Yeah.
01:55Like the Mavericks, I don't care about getting into the play-in
01:58and then winning a series and upset.
01:59That doesn't mean anything to me.
02:00Like, Cowboys, I really don't care about it.
02:02You get into the wild card and then you lose a wild card game.
02:04That just doesn't move it for me.
02:06Especially when, with Texas,
02:08the future is so bleak with your roster building.
02:11Like, you just don't have a lot of resources.
02:13Where to me, it's like,
02:14was it worth it to pop into the playoffs
02:16and go, hi everybody, bye everybody,
02:17in the name of not having resources into the future?
02:20Well, they would play the Astros
02:23in the first round as of right now,
02:26which is so stupid that you would have,
02:28the way this works,
02:29that you would have the Red Sox and Yankees
02:31who are going to have the second and third best records
02:34in the American League, most likely,
02:36playing each other in the opening round.
02:38It's like the stars on the wild playing.
02:40Right?
02:41It was just dumb.
02:42It's a dumb system.
02:43But, that's what it is.
02:45Right now, the Rangers are in the third spot,
02:50in the third wild card.
02:51They're technically tied with Cleveland
02:53at a game under .500.
02:55Okay.
02:57Overreactions or not?
03:00Hit me.
03:00Chris Young will not be the GM of the Rangers
03:04when the new CBA begins.
03:08Ooh.
03:09Whenever that is.
03:11It could be.
03:11Let's see why that's Ray Davis
03:13trying to cut the lights off there.
03:15Lights just flickered.
03:18Not an overreaction.
03:19I'm assuming they don't win the World Series this year.
03:20If they win the World Series,
03:21I mean, that changes everything.
03:22Bold of you.
03:23Bold of you.
03:24Not an overreaction because he gets let go or he leaves.
03:27Not an overreaction in the classical sense of,
03:29like, when we do this,
03:30of, like, is it a reasonable discussion?
03:31It's a reasonable discussion.
03:32I don't know that he's going to be let go
03:34or that he would...
03:35I think it would be him being let go.
03:36I don't think it would be him leaving.
03:37I'll say it's an overreaction.
03:39It's an overreaction.
03:40I had to think about it, though,
03:42but I think he'll be the GM.
03:44I think...
03:45Because of the American League
03:48and how watered down it is.
03:51Now, obviously, if they don't win the World Series,
03:53I think he leaves on his own.
03:54If he's gone, I think he's fired.
03:56I don't think he's gone because he leaves.
03:58What did you just say?
03:58I think he leaves, period.
04:00Whether they fire him or he leaves on his own,
04:03I don't think he wants anything
04:06to do with the money situation.
04:08Better be sure you can get another job, though.
04:10Better have your nest egg for a long time
04:13or make sure you can go and get another job.
04:15I know.
04:15I know.
04:16Now, I do think there's...
04:17There's only, what, 30 of these things,
04:18as they say.
04:18There's only 30 of them.
04:19I do think there are teams that would
04:22go for a guy who
04:25has won a World Series in that role.
04:28Okay.
04:29Whether or not he's given the credit for it or not
04:31because of how the team was constructed,
04:33I do think there's a team out there.
04:35Can I, if he's out there listening
04:38or if he's having someone out there listening right now,
04:40just pass on a message to Chris Young.
04:43If you are here when the next CBA kicks in,
04:49whether you stuck it out or they decided to stay with you,
04:52I would just say take the time when there is a strike
04:55or whatever else to just do some reflection
04:59on how to best apply your competitiveness.
05:01Because at times, I think it has blinded you
05:05and made things difficult.
05:06And there's plenty of times where people get blinded
05:08by whatever goal they have or whatever else.
05:10I think some, if he's going to be here,
05:11I think some self-reflection is very important for him.
05:14Overreaction or not,
05:16the front office has lost the clubhouse.
05:21Ooh.
05:22That's a really good one.
05:24I do think that Skip had to go in there,
05:30soothe things over.
05:32But you, and I think if you got swept by the Giants,
05:36I can maybe buy more into it.
05:39You got the Orioles here.
05:43I don't know.
05:45They were distracted for a day.
05:47It was the day it happened.
05:49They were all clearly distracted.
05:52They rallied to win and get like,
05:53I mean, they blew that lead at one point,
05:55but they rallied to come back and win the other night.
05:57And then they shut things down yesterday.
05:58So I don't think it's like a permanent problem,
06:00but it was definitely a problem that day.
06:01I'll say overreaction.
06:03Overreaction.
06:04But I'll find out.
06:05I'll find out by the end of the day.
06:06Let's go.
06:07Overreaction.
06:09I mean, Jacob Grom says he wants to be here.
06:12We don't know how much of that is just,
06:15you know, media treatment
06:16or not wanting to relocate.
06:19They said all the right things yesterday
06:21with Nimmo in the postgame and all that stuff.
06:23So right now I'll say overreaction
06:24because you won the Giants series.
06:26I'll say overreaction as well.
06:27I do think that...
06:28The best deodorant
06:29is not the one Bobby's wearing today.
06:32I did put deodorant on.
06:33Okay, good.
06:35I do think that, you know,
06:37the team,
06:38the players probably wanted you to buy.
06:40The fact that you didn't sell,
06:42that is probably good for them too.
06:44They probably didn't want you to sell.
06:46Like, these guys want a chance to do something.
06:48So who all got floated out there?
06:50It was Jock, Latz, deGrom, Evaldi, Seeger.
06:55Seeger's been hitting at least better
06:57since he got back.
06:59Jock, since this whole thing broke out,
07:01he's two for his last nine.
07:03And then we haven't seen Evaldi or deGrom pitch yet.
07:06So I guess it's a little undecided right now.
07:07If Evaldi and deGrom go out there
07:08and they just look, like, mentally out of it,
07:10then that'll be an indicator.
07:12Overreaction or not,
07:13the Rangers,
07:14as little of a chance as it is,
07:16have a better chance at winning a World Series this year
07:19than they would have had they blown it up
07:22and tried to win one in 2030.
07:25Say it again.
07:27What a difficult question.
07:28It is a difficult question.
07:29And I was trying to figure out a way to word this
07:31and maybe somebody smarter
07:32who was an English major, not a minor,
07:34could help me out on this one.
07:35Can I adjust the question real quick?
07:38And it's based upon another topic that you have.
07:42Overreaction or not,
07:42the Rangers have a better chance
07:44to win the championship this year
07:47than the Cowboys.
07:51I think the...
07:53I think the Cowboys have a better chance.
07:54I think the Rangers could end up being in the playoffs.
07:57I don't think the Cowboys are going to be in the postseason.
08:00So that's...
08:00Oh!
08:00To me...
08:01Dang, Bob!
08:02You're supposed to be a homer.
08:04I would say that it's a coin flip to me.
08:08If the Cowboys are good enough to get into the postseason,
08:10then that means they've taken steps defensively
08:12they didn't anticipate.
08:13So if you're telling me both of them sneak into the postseason
08:15who's got a better shot,
08:16at that point I'd say Dallas.
08:17I just think Dallas has a smaller chance to get in.
08:20Woo!
08:21Who's got a better chance to win their title this season?
08:25Man.
08:26See, here's the other thing.
08:27It's actually an R.J. Choppy question.
08:28The NFC is so good.
08:31And the American League is so bad.
08:35You know, so it's like, if the Cowboys were...
08:37I mean, you could start your question.
08:39Bobby just picked the Rangers by elimination.
08:41By elimination.
08:43Yeah, I'll say the Rangers.
08:45By process of elimination.
08:48Like, I feel better about the Cowboys roster and team
08:52than the Rangers roster and team.
08:54Yeah.
08:54Yeah, I do too.
08:55I do too.
08:56All right, overall, I'll say definitely next year,
08:59the answer is Dallas.
09:00And by the way, I don't agree that the NFC is so good.
09:03Really?
09:04No.
09:05I don't.
09:07The AFC, to me, is still better.
09:10Do you?
09:11Well, because, I mean...
09:12Well, the quarterbacks are better.
09:12I mean, the NFC West, there's three teams there
09:14that people really like, depending on if the...
09:17I mean, you would...
09:18I think a lot of people anticipate the North as bounce back.
09:20So you just don't...
09:20You wouldn't buy into the North bounce back?
09:23Um...
09:24I don't...
09:24I mean...
09:25First off, the East, we feel like is a toss-up.
09:28I think the quarterbacks are better in the AFC.
09:30Quarterbacks are better.
09:30But I think the teams are better in the NFC.
09:32Yeah, but I don't view the NFC as like a nightmare.
09:36Like...
09:36Yeah, me either.
09:36Like, I would pick Detroit against you head up
09:40because of what happened last year.
09:41But no one's scared of the Lions.
09:43No one's really scared of the Packers.
09:45Minnesota could surprise.
09:47No one's scared of anything in the South.
09:49And then you need San Fran...
09:52You need Seattle to be the same.
09:54San Fran to be the same.
09:55But I'm not...
09:55I'm not terrified of the 49ers.
09:57Yeah, this is not...
09:58This is not the 1986 to 1997 NFC run
10:01where they're just winning the Super Bowl every year.
10:03They're not...
10:03It's not some impossibility to think Dallas would be one of the better teams.
10:07I just...
10:07Yeah, like...
10:08Obviously, the quarterbacks are better in the AFC.
10:09I just think those teams...
10:10Like, you know...
10:11There's three NFC North teams, three NFC West teams
10:14that are all, to me, immediately better than the Cowboys.
10:16Yeah, the only team in the NFC I look at,
10:18and I say if Dallas played them 10 times,
10:19I think they lose all 10 times,
10:21is probably the Rams.
10:22That's the only one.
10:24All right.
10:25877-881-1053.
10:27Frank LaFranco fan text.
10:28Texas Rangers overreactions or not?
10:31Overreaction or not,
10:32Corey Seager will not see the end of his contract with the Rangers.
10:37Not an overreaction.
10:38Not an overreaction, a likelihood.
10:40So he waves it.
10:42He'll wave his...
10:42This whole waving thing is so dumb.
10:45Like, Rosenthal said the teams that, you know...
10:50Well, no, but he's got a full no trade at the end of the year.
10:52Yeah.
10:53So to every team.
10:54I mean, he's 32 years old right now.
10:56The end of that contract, he's 38.
10:58He's retired before then.
11:00Oh, man.
11:02Now that's an interesting one, because guys don't usually do that.
11:05He can either retire...
11:06His brother did.
11:08With a contract still?
11:10With money on his contract?
11:11Yeah.
11:12He can either retire or they'll work out a deal someplace to where he'll feel like is a better winning
11:16situation.
11:18Like, we're not talking about sending you to Vegas.
11:22We're not talking about sending you to...
11:26Who else?
11:27Colorado.
11:28Colorado.
11:28I think he wants...
11:30There's enough options to get around the no trade stuff.
11:33I think so, too.
11:35I don't think he sees the end of his deal here.
11:39So I was just proposing the overreaction or not.
11:42Yeah.
11:42And then, finally, it's a non-Ranger one.
11:46Overreaction or not, if dynasties are good for sports, then the Dodgers are good for baseball.
11:52Oh, that's a great one.
11:53The Dodgers need...
11:55It's an overreaction until there is an opposite force that meets the Dodgers in the other league.
12:02You need a foe that you feel challenges them for that dynasty to really matter and have weight.
12:09What's your answer?
12:11They're not good for baseball right now because the perception is that they're bad.
12:18They could just buy up everybody, and the way they operate with deferred money and all that stuff is bad.
12:24How bad would it be if they didn't need bullpen help in 2016 and they traded Yordan Alvarez for Josh
12:32Fields?
12:33They would have just been like, let's stick with Yordan, and then he was up at the majors with that
12:36team at this point.
12:38Overreactions or not?
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