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Bottom of the eighth inning.
Minnesota adding on 6-2 ball game and
unfortunately the Rangers season just continues to slip
away.
Astros leading 6-0 as well.
Not looking good and it is all but
over for Texas in the 2026 season.
Gotta finish it out.
We've been with you for 161, well not
quite but probably at least 145 plus ball
games if I had to guess.
Gotta finish it out.
Have to see it through to the bitter
end and here we are.
We are going to talk all things Game
162, finish this one out with you and
hopefully enjoy each other's company at the very
least.
For one more show in the regular season
here in 2026.
You have a lot to go through today,
a lot to unpack.
I'll try to fit it all into one
show.
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Absolutely.
But look, this one I don't know that
we can continue to talk about in terms
of optimism and hopefulness unless you have just
an epic comeback here by Texas or by
the A's of Sacramento at this point.
And that game is 7-0 with the
Astros threatening by the way.
Bases loaded now.
So Rangers really had an opportunity coming into
this weekend.
You would have swept.
It's I think it's the toughest part about
this.
If you would have swept the Twins, you
would have the division celebrating.
Unfortunately, you get embarrassed on Friday night.
Jacob deGrom lets the team down in his
biggest start of the season.
And the offense doesn't come to play either.
Two quick runs and never score again.
And then today in what is definitely an
urgent situation, you have Texas only scoring two
home runs by Diaz and home runs by
Jansen, your two catchers, the only positive outcome
for Texas offensively.
Just that I have to say my reaction,
not anger, just sadness.
It's definitely a season of what could have
been.
I look back and I checked all of
the losses this year.
It was kind of a painful experience, honestly.
But last night after the show, I just
thought to myself, man, how many games did
Texas have right in front of them for
the taking?
And it was a lot.
It was a lot.
It's just a really disappointing run through all
the different games that Texas lost that you
could have won.
Very winnable games.
And just reflecting on things that we've talked
about already, how many Rangers fans would tell
you it's a long season?
Dude, it's one game out of 162.
Do people understand we're, I mean, not anymore
if we lose this game, but we essentially
lost out on the playoffs by one game,
by one game.
And how many times did I try and
remind people that's all it's going to come
down to?
It's going to come down to a game
or two.
It always does.
And you're going to look back on these
losses and you're going to wish that you
would have played them with a little bit
more urgency instead of continuing to say, man,
we're going to figure it out.
The team is going to reach its ceiling.
They just haven't hit full potential yet.
All those euphemisms, man, throw them out the
window, flip some tables in April.
Like that's the point here, right?
It's okay to have a little urgency in
April.
And if skip would have come out or
CY would have come out and said
something along those lines, who could fault them?
I mean, if you would have said in
the media after a bad loss in April,
you know, these losses matter too.
We don't want to look back on these
losses in April and regret because we were
too worried about slow play.
And we were too worried about overreacting.
Don't get no hit by the Astros.
That to me, soldier.
I talked about that list that I went
through of all the losses this year.
To me, that that's the most embarrassing loss
of the season.
The nine, nothing, no hit by the Astros
is the most embarrassing loss of the season.
Speaking of embarrassing plays old man Seager, they're
not quite able to bend over and get
to that one.
That ball's got to be caught.
You know, Foscue, I know some of you
guys don't have the game on anymore, probably
watching Cowboys.
That's ridiculous from Seager.
I know it doesn't matter, but it just
puts a little bit of a cherry on
top of all this.
What a ridiculous base hit there.
These just can't bend over far enough, man.
Come on now.
Disappointing.
We're going to do a Cowboys show later
today.
So I do want to just let y
'all know that right now.
We will do a Cowboys show later today.
Second half is not even quite upon us.
So just know if you're here for Cowboys,
we will definitely be hopping on in the
fourth quarter.
I know some of you guys are ready
to be done, but I definitely want to
talk this one out and hear from you
guys.
Sorry about the video playing, by the way.
I think I accidentally hit the space button
or something weird.
My bad.
Cowboys aren't having much better of a time
right now either.
Javante Williams' fumble, and the Ravens are about
to make it at least a one-score
game here, maybe a two-score game.
Bradford in the game, by the way.
First and second, two outs.
Six to two, twins, if you're just joining
us.
And on the other side, you have the
Astros now up eight to nothing, going into
the bottom of the seventh inning.
A's good for nothing.
Good for nothing, but it wouldn't have mattered.
That's the part that I focus on.
It just wouldn't have mattered.
The Rangers and the effort, it's just a
very quintessential way for this season to end.
This is a very fitting way for the
season to end.
This team really could never step up in
a big game.
I mean, I know there's a couple of
times I'm being a little bit exaggerative.
I'm being a little bit hyperbolic, but it
felt like over and over this team could
just never step up in a big game.
Today's a big game, and you just came
out with very little edge, very little momentum.
After a nice win yesterday, you needed urgency
today.
I do think the Skip Schumaker pull of
gore was absolutely 100% the wrong move.
I know some people were telling me he
was getting hit hard.
He didn't have his normal fastball velocity.
I totally get that he wasn't perfect, but
he had retired seven in a row.
I don't understand pulling gore there.
No feel.
That was totally, we have it mapped out,
and we're going to go ahead and pull
the trigger on the game plan that we
discussed before the game.
There was no feel involved in that move
to pull gore.
No feel.
I definitely feel like that was CY and
Skip sat down, and they said, hey, we
want to get MacKenzie Gore through the lineup
one time, and then when a certain hitter
comes around the second time, let's go to
Silseth.
That, to me, is 100% what they
decided to do.
You don't pull a guy who has just
retired seven in a row.
You don't pull that guy.
You at least let gore get in a
little bit of trouble.
You don't sit him down when he has
retired seven straight.
Seven straight.
It's crazy.
What are we going to do this offseason
as an organization?
I definitely think that the Rangers have some
soul searching to do, but I don't know
how much they actually will do.
I put out a tweet right before I
got on the show here, and I just
feel like you might see them run this
back.
That is honestly my worst fear, is that
they try to run this back.
I don't think it's as crazy of a
conclusion as you think, that they decide, we're
just going to keep the same guys.
It's the lockout.
We don't want to do anything crazy.
We don't want to rock the boat too
much.
It's a little bit uncertain.
There might not be baseball.
I definitely feel like it's a possibility that
they run it back again.
G-Man, I appreciate you, man.
I saw your comments earlier.
Yeah, Josh Jung, he definitely is going to
need to heal up this offseason, and hopefully
it's nothing career altering, but appreciate that information.
I enjoyed chatting with all of you guys
as well.
Wednesday night is typically my offseason pod for
the Rangers.
Hope you guys will consider hanging out even
in the offseason.
We do a show every Wednesday night for
Rangers baseball.
Works out well.
Thursday is NFL.
Obviously, Saturday, Sunday, football.
Friday night, everybody's doing their thing, and there's
college football going on Friday nights as well.
Wednesday night has been a nice night to
get together in the offseason and talk Rangers
ball.
This Wednesday will be our first offseason pod,
and we will see what happens in the
immediate aftermath of the season.
We'll also do some playoff baseball talk in
general.
That'll be our show moving forward.
I know the games are obviously not completely
over yet, but with the Astros leading 8
-0 and the Rangers down four runs here
in the top of the ninth, it's looking
all but over.
We will start on Wednesday.
Wednesday night will be our first offseason show.
Playoffs will be upon us, so it'll be
fun to talk about some playoffs.
I think I've told you guys I love
playoff baseball.
I'm not one of those fans that if
the Rangers aren't in it, I can't watch.
I'll watch.
I definitely will need a couple of days
to get over this one.
I'll have some content out over the next
couple of days as well from the pod,
but Wednesday, I'll be ready.
We'll talk Rangers offseason.
We'll talk playoffs as well, see what's going
on.
They'll start Tuesday.
Astros are going to be playing the White
Sox, so we become big-time White Sox
fans, the fighting Will Venables.
Let's go.
Hopefully, they can knock out the Strohs in
round one.
That'd be the plan.
Keep on rolling.
Jayrock, what's good?
Yeah, Cowboys are not looking great today.
They are down 17-10.
Field goal just kicked after the Javante Williams
fumble.
We will be talking Cowboys a little later
on today in the fourth quarter.
We'll keep rolling.
A lot of people are asking about next
year, and Brian makes a good point, YouTube
comment here, if there's even baseball next year.
That would be terrible for me.
I'm really trying to be optimistic.
You guys know.
Clearly, I want to see baseball played.
We all do, but I tell you guys,
this is not my only gig, but it's
one of them.
Just for the sake of business, I surely
hope there's baseball next season.
I've got a couple of other plans, if
there's not, for whatever reason.
Corey Seager, looks like he is going to
go deep here to make it a 6
-4 ballgame.
Let's see what happens.
Rangers trying to make it interesting here.
You're still not going to get nine unanswered
runs from the A's, but finishing on a
winning note, it's a very small consolation prize.
Very small consolation prize.
Let's see.
Matt says, I can't watch October until the
Astros are eliminated.
I do think, for me, I'm always going
to find a way to watch, especially when
they're playing.
I want to see the Astros get eliminated,
just like they do for us, man, just
like they do for the Rangers.
You know they're watching for that reason too.
I'm not even shy about it.
I know that that's kind of like the
back and forth diss between fan bases.
Like, oh, you're more worried about the Astros
than the Rangers.
That's just what you do when you're a
fan.
You worry more about your team, of course,
but there's no shame in hate watching the
division rival.
No shame in it.
That's what I will be doing starting Tuesday.
Appreciate all you guys.
Thank you so much.
Hey, Jacob, thank you for the gift.
I appreciate that, man.
Means a lot.
Not needed, but much appreciated.
We'll be watching Yankees Red Sox, that's for
sure.
That's the matchup, isn't it?
Yankees and Red Sox in the wild card.
That's going to be fun.
See, this is the kind of stuff I
don't like to miss out on.
That's going to be a classic series.
Playoffs, actually, because of the Rangers futility, I've
actually been able to watch a lot more
of the playoffs and not worrying at all
about what's happening with my own team the
last couple of seasons.
Not really the place I'd like to be,
but I guess the silver lining.
That will be another chapter in an epic
rivalry.
Nate, well said.
YouTube comment there.
Let's see what we got.
Rangers had it in their hands, Brian says
from YouTube here.
That's what makes it frustrating.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, they absolutely had it in their
hands.
There's no doubt about that.
So many bad losses this year.
I mean, we were here talking about most
of them.
Nine nothing, no hitter at home against the
Astros, probably the most embarrassing.
To me, that's the most embarrassing loss of
the season.
The Astros, nine nothing, you get no hit,
a combined no hitter.
That one is by far the most embarrassing.
Burger's going to and Rangers are down to
their final out of the season.
I think the Minnesota loss on Friday night
was probably number two for me.
Most embarrassing losses.
I think Friday night's loss to Minnesota was
number two on the list.
You had the 15 to one July 17th
game against Atlanta.
July 8th at home, that was MacKenzie Gore
starting.
You got blown out by the Angels 13
to one.
That was up there.
Most embarrassing losses of the season.
I do think the Boston loss where you
gave up the three run bomb at the
end.
Latz, that was number five for me.
You lost to Minnesota on June 16th in
Arlington by a score of 12 to two.
The Mets seven to two loss about four
days ago.
Rangers season coming to a close here.
Ezequiel Duran flies out to left field and
that'll do it for 2026.
The Rangers finish in second place in the
AL West.
The Astros are now division champions.
Tough day.
Yeah.
Well said Dave Raymond.
They got close.
They got close.
Come on now.
Tough day.
It's right there for you.
Tough, tough season.
Just kind of hit me now watching that
final out.
But look, we put a lot of time
and a lot of heart into the show
and into covering this team much like you
guys do at home.
And it always hits me hard at the
end.
And I really don't know where the team
completely goes from here.
I know what I would do.
I would definitely be blowing some things up.
That's for sure.
Not a hard, not a hard fire sale
or anything like that or a hard reset,
but I would be making some trades and
I would be turning over this roster a
little bit.
I don't know if the Rangers are going
to do it.
In fact, it's not going to surprise me
if they run it back again next year.
It's just not going to surprise me.
I think the Rangers very well may do
that because of the lockout.
Now, clearly you've got guys on the one
-year deals.
You're not going to have Cal Quantrill back
next year.
Cal is probably going to get paid nicely
somewhere else.
Elias Diaz, he might walk.
I hate that Elias Diaz might not be
a Ranger in 2027, but I'm not sure
Elias Diaz is going to be back.
He should be.
Danny Jansen definitely came on well, I think
the last week or two, but it's really
too bad.
I know he was hurt most of the
year, but just started off so poorly.
And then in general, I think I want
to make sure this comment gets read out
loud.
Swolger, YouTube comment here.
Appreciate you, my guy.
No more platoon players.
Need more everyday players.
100%.
The Rangers just have way too many one
-trick ponies.
I've said this multiple times.
They have way too many guys that are
only good against right-handed pitchers.
They're only good against left-handed pitchers.
They can only play one position, and maybe
that one position they can't play very well.
You've got guys that are not extremely athletic.
You've got a few guys that are very
athletic.
Carter, Lankford, Duran, and there's others.
But you've got a lot of guys that
are slow, old, and you need to do
a bit of a reset.
I don't think you need to sell everybody,
although I don't think there's really anyone untouchable
on the roster.
I do think a player like Zeke Duran
would be nice to keep around.
He can do so many different things on
a field.
I'm not saying that he is, you know,
totally untouchable either, but in terms of what
you're paying him and the control that you
have over Duran, I really think that Duran
should be a guy that you probably try
and keep.
He could be a solid piece of a
rebuild.
You're not paying Ezequiel Duran a ton of
money, man.
And he does so much stuff, and he's
a good presence in the clubhouse.
Plays with energy and passion.
You definitely love to see guys like that
out there.
I'd love to see this team get guys
that are more passionate and energetic out there.
Look, I will definitely tone down the political
correctness a little bit on this last show.
And I'll just say this, so many times
we kind of get told about this team,
they just have a certain way of doing
things.
You know, they just kind of handle their
business.
You didn't handle your business this year.
And most of the guys on the team
play pretty emotionless.
I don't think it's something that fans really
care for or care to see.
And I don't think that the last three
years looking at the results, I don't think
that you can continue to run it back
with some of these same dudes.
But I kind of got tired of people
defending the lack of emotion and passion coming
out of this team.
And now that they've missed the playoffs for
three straight years, I think it's really time
to let loose a little bit.
We have to stop with this business-like
mentality.
They're not handling business.
There's no business being handled.
You missed the playoffs three years in a
row.
So can we stop with the, hey, look,
they just handle their business, man.
They just kind of do the right thing.
And, you know, there's a lot of good
guys and they just handle their business.
There's a lack of emotion in which this
team plays the game.
You look at so many different other Rangers
teams and it's hard to miss.
I mean, and I see it so much
doing my Rangers history posts.
I mean, it's a night and day difference
when you look at the 2010 team, when
you look at the 2026 team, night and
day.
And I'm just tired of the excuses being
made of why it's fine, why it's okay
that this team for the most part plays
pretty emotionless for 162.
Robert Garcia, Alejandro Osuna, those are the guys
that probably show more emotion than anyone.
Zeke Duran a little bit as well.
But so many of our players, even that
are energetic, I feel like are overshadowed by
the bigger players on this team that just
kind of go through the motions.
To me, I'm sorry.
Like I know I try, I typically try
not to play the psychologist role, but like,
there's definitely a mental issue with this team.
There's, there's a mental issue with this team.
They, they don't get up for the big
games.
You've seen them fail in big games so
many times.
And you know, the, the mentality that the
April and may games don't matter, Cody, you're
talking about it right now.
Like the mentality that the April and may
games don't matter.
Don't overreact.
It goes along with what I'm saying, because
every time this team struggled, all you heard
was basically no emotion.
Nobody was ever getting pissed off that we
were losing these embarrassing games.
I started listing some of them off, right?
You know, you lose to the athletics nine
to two on September 2nd, you lost to
Houston on July 31st, 11 to two.
You lost that raise game in late July
that you punted on.
Remember that game where we didn't use Latz
totally punted on that final game where you
could have won a series against the rays.
There's so many, and you know what, after
every one of those embarrassing losses, we just
got told the same thing.
I'll just, just wasn't our day today.
And you know, we, we haven't really seen
the best of this team.
That was the reminder, literally all season long.
We haven't seen the best of this team.
This team hasn't even hit their ceiling yet.
And JK, I'm with you.
Where are all those people?
But here's what I've always told you guys
is so tough for me is it's such
a catch 22 for me as a, as
a creator for the Rangers, uh, not working
for the Rangers, but obviously for the team,
um, making content based on them is all
the people that love to do the optimistic
stuff the entire season, all the people that
like to clap back at those that are
overreacting early on.
I mean, what am I supposed to do?
Go and find all those tweets and tweet
Adam, you know, update like, you know, what
am I supposed to do?
I don't want to be a jerk.
I'll maybe, maybe you guys want to fight
that battle.
I don't want to fight that battle.
It's a lose, lose for me in a
way.
All I can do is just give my
genuine takes and not worry about what happens
afterwards, but I'm not going to go back
and find all those tweets and holler at
those people.
See, I told you, it's just not the
thing that I want to be known for
doing, but I understand the frustration I do.
I definitely in, uh, in my frustration, I
want to do things like that, but I
know it's just not worth it.
It's not worth my time, but all those
people that did that to a lot of
you guys into me this year, dude, relax,
dude, it's April dude.
They played 30 games.
I just will never listen to those people
again, those people.
And this is the most critical I'll get.
Those people are optimistic and I appreciate that.
But at the same time, those people are
kind of a part of the problem.
Rangers baseball in general.
And I know that this is getting into
like Josh Hamilton territory, like when he exited
Arlington and went to LA, but there's not
enough passion.
There's not enough passionate fans that don't put
up with mediocrity.
I've said that, and I'll continue to say
it.
There's way too many fans that are just
interested in sugar coating everything and only being
positive, never criticizing the team.
In fact, you're not a real fan.
If you don't ever criticize this team, I
would love.
And I know some people like there'd be
a lot of Rangers fans would say that
like the Boston fans and the New York
fans are toxic.
I actually appreciate that.
Some of those fans are as passionate as
they are.
We could use more of those types of
fans.
Now look, getting nasty, you know, vile obscene,
you know, attacking other people.
Yeah, obviously I'm not talking about that kind
of stuff, but I am talking about a
refusal to be okay with losing a refusal
to be okay with it.
I'm just never okay with losing.
And I can't sit here and say that
I'm ever going to be running my account
in the way that maybe some others would
like me to.
Hey, just, just be a fan.
Just be positive all the time.
I can't do it.
I can't, uh, you guys know if there's
a good thing that's happening on the baseball
field with Texas, you guys know I'm going
to be posting about it.
If there's something bad that happens in the
course of a game, I'm probably going to
be posting about that too.
I try to be very fair in that
way.
But one thing I'm never going to do
is sugarcoat ever.
Christina, appreciate the comment.
YouTube comment got chewed out in the ranger
subreddit for saying something negative about the team.
I'm not shocked.
I get blocked left and right by people
that don't, that I don't even say anything
vile or obscene.
They just don't want the negativity.
They don't want any criticism.
They just want to bury their head in
the sand and pretend like everything's fine.
And you know, if we would have made
the playoffs today, how many accounts would have
been like trying to dunk on me or
other people that were critical at any point?
There would have been a ton.
The reality is though, I'm not going to
be doing that same thing to them that
we didn't make the playoffs.
I'm dealing with my own emotions.
I love this team so much.
And I hate, hate that they are going
to be sitting on the couch in October.
I hate it.
It is what it is nano.
I'm with you.
Rangers fan for life.
Never going to stop cheering for this team.
And those of you that joined in for
the first time this season, man, I appreciate
you nano.
Thank you for the gifts.
It's not needed, but it's much appreciated.
It really is never going to stop covering
this team.
If you joined up and started following the
show for the first time this season, I
just want to say, first of all, thank
you.
I really appreciate it.
This was the biggest year for right on
Rangers.
You know, out of all the, this is
the fourth year I've been doing this.
This was the biggest year by far I've
ever had.
And a big part of that is, is
you guys, a huge part of that is
you guys and you showing up each night,
even when it wasn't the most fun thing
to talk about.
Even when we were frustrated, it definitely couldn't
have been done without all you.
So thank you for all of you that
showed up each night commented that engaged with
all the posts that shared it with other
diehards mean so much.
This was the biggest year I've ever had.
And I'm sad that next year might, might,
we might not have baseball next year because
there was so much good momentum built up
this year.
And I hope it can continue next year.
I'm definitely praying that it all works out
and there's not a lot of baseball missed.
I'm going to try and continue to be
positive.
I'll definitely cover the off season.
Like there is going to be baseball, but
I'm a little bit worried at this point.
I'm not going to lie a little bit
worried that there may be some games missed.
And obviously none of us want to see
that happen, but it looks like it might
be a little bit inevitable, but we'll be
here.
I think you guys have seen the, the
one thing I am is consistent.
We'll be here.
And you know what?
We'll get through this.
We'll mourn for a couple of days.
We'll watch them play off baseball, cheer on
the white Sox against the Astros.
Hopefully we'll Venable and company can put the
Astros out of their misery.
It was a tough year for them too.
They had a lot of injuries, a lot
of issues.
Of course, I'm not cheering for them to
do anything special in October who would be,
but we'll see how white Sox fare.
It's definitely, I think, wide open in the
American league.
And we'll talk about this more on Wednesday
show.
I always do kind of an, in general
covering of the playoffs, kind of tell you
who I think will win.
We kind of go through each series.
So if you still want to talk baseball,
we'll definitely still be talking playoff baseball on
Wednesday.
And then we'll be covering any Rangers news
that surfaces over the next few days.
We'll probably get some, I'm sure there's not
going to be maybe a ton of decisions
being made, but I'm sure over the next
72 hours, there absolutely will be raise red
Sox Yankees.
I think those are the only legit teams
in the AL.
Yeah.
I think the raise to me are probably
the team I'm looking at the most.
I just think they've got, they've got some
ball players, man, that just play the game
the right way.
And they've got Caminero, obviously the power,
they've got some great pitching.
I think the rays are probably the team
that I'm looking at more than any, but
Hey, nevertheless, we'll see how it plays out.
Nice thing is I don't really have a
dog in the fight.
Really.
The only dog is whoever's playing Houston.
That's the dog in the fight this year
for me.
I'm not even going to lie, Gerald.
Thank you for the comment comment from YouTube
here.
Appreciate the realism all the way through Austin.
We don't, we don't need false hope.
We need to make moves.
Unfortunately, we didn't sell the farm and let's
come back with a chip next year.
Look, I definitely feel like the farm is
going to be an interesting situation.
I know some people feel like we need
to restock the farm.
I just think either way, you need to
get new people need to get new people
in the mix.
Whether you trade pieces on the farm to
try and get better, whether you sell, we
just need new bodies.
We cannot do this again next year.
And that is honestly my biggest fear.
It is my biggest fear that we run
this team back next year.
And we do four years in a row
of this same team that will disgust me
more than anything.
I would love to see not everybody, but
at least somewhat of a reset.
I do not want to see them, you
know, trade one guy, let one guy walk
and, you know, bring back mostly the same
lineup.
It doesn't work.
This isn't working.
You missed the playoffs three years in a
row and make J to answer your question.
A thousand percent.
Yes.
You absolutely should have CY on the hot
seat.
He should have been on the hot seat
this year.
You missed the playoffs two years in a
row.
You should absolutely be on the hot seat.
And honestly, I think that skip probably should
be on a warm seat.
I don't know if I would call it
a hot seat, but I do think that
skip should be on a hot seat.
I don't think skip seat should be cold.
That's for sure.
I think he will get next year.
I don't think he's getting fired by any
means.
That would shock me.
I do not think skip will be fired.
I do think next year, if they don't
make the playoffs again, you could potentially see
skip in a parting of the ways.
Skip's biggest thing this year was, you know,
we were supposed to have him doing more
with less, right?
And you could argue that last year there
was, there was a little bit better pitching,
but you could argue we had a worse
offense last year.
Stats wise, that might be accurate.
And skip actually, I felt like did less
with more in that regard.
Now, again, the pitching was better last year
under Bochy, but you actually had this team
do worse last year.
Last year, they were at least 81 and
81, 80 and 82.
This year, you got worse under skip.
You didn't get better.
You got worse.
I definitely think that skip should be on
a warm seat and that if they missed
the playoffs next year, there should be serious
consideration to parting ways with him.
I know that Jared Sandler, and I know
that there's some others around the team that
really believe in skip.
I don't understand where that belief and hope
comes from after watching this.
It's my personal opinion and it's an opinion.
It's not rooted in fact, but I think
they're a little too close.
They all interact with skip a ton guys
like Jared.
They, I mean, they take the plane together,
man.
Like they, they're with skip a lot and
I'm sure skip is a good dude.
I, we don't get to see that side
of skip, but I'm sure that skip is
not a bad person, but I just think
a lot of those guys are too close
to the situation to really give you an
accurate opinion, to give you an accurate conclusion.
To me in this case, I think knowing
more actually gives less credibility because if you
watch this team and you watch last year's
team totally without knowing who the manager was,
everybody would tell you that this looks like
a worse team.
This team played worse defense, made more mental
mistakes and in general looked lost more in
big games than they ever did last year.
Skip had one good season with the Marlins.
JK says that one good season with the
Marlins in which they won a lot of
one run games.
I think I went through this with you
guys.
They were something like 30 plus wins and
like less than 15 losses.
Like it was like a, almost a 700
winning percentage skip had with the Marlins in
2023 when he won manager of the year
and they made the playoffs, which is not
sustainable.
If you know anything about one run records,
that is not sustainable.
Skip to me, I think was a little
bit overhyped.
I hope that next year, kind of like
will Venable will Venable was not good in
year one with the white socks, made some
rookie mistakes that were pretty publicized.
And then this year he's led the white
socks to the playoffs and nobody really expected
them to make it to the playoffs.
It is possible that maybe skip sophomore season
is a little bit better, but I do
think that the jury is out and the
seat should be warm.
We'll see what ultimately happens, but I would
imagine next year, CY seed is hot
and skip seed is warm.
And we'll see how the team comes out.
Skip to me definitely could have been a
little bit more assertive and passionate with this
team.
I'm seeing a lightning.
Appreciate Joel.
Appreciate the comment.
Skip seems to have no passion.
He's just there.
I bet he is passionate behind the scenes,
but this team just needed a little bit
more vocal.
They needed to be a little bit more
vocal about what was going on during the
season needed to be a little bit more
vocal about the shortcomings, what guys were not
doing, right?
There was really only a few guys that
maybe are a bit untouchable or intimidating to
skip.
I think the idea here is skip in
year two needs to be a little bit
more assertive.
You had him maybe stepping back a little
bit, allowing CY to get a little
bit more in the mix.
I hope that skip becomes a little bit
more of his own voice in person.
It didn't feel like there was enough leash
or leeway way too much.
See why involvement.
And that's just outside looking in based on
what I've heard.
And based on what I've heard, skip say
specifically, I'm not a big fan of front
offices with their hands in the cookie jar
constantly.
And that to me is CY I
mean, skip at the beginning of the season
said that CY.
And he talked every day about lineups and
about pitching matchups and mapping out who's going
to pitch on certain days and in certain
situations.
To me, I don't want my front office
doing that all the time.
I really don't.
That's me though.
Ray Davis, I know is going to be
the subject of a lot of criticism as
well.
Not spending enough money on this team.
I mean, the Rangers are not a bottom
feeder when it comes to money spent, but
they spend more.
Yes.
But let's be real.
I've said this so many times as well.
This year, you had a lot of money
wasted on certain contracts.
You have, first of all, the jock Peterson
contract.
I don't care what jock did this year.
I really don't.
It was a better year, but it was
not a worthwhile contract.
The jock Peterson contract was a failure.
He was terrible last year.
He got better this year and was one
of the better hitters on the team.
That's not saying a whole lot, but he
was one of the better hitters on the
team this year.
But the jock Peterson contract overall was a
failure.
It wasn't worth it.
Like it wasn't you.
You had a lot of other contracts that
you can talk about as well.
The Chris Martin contract was bad.
The Danny Jansen contract is bad.
I know Danny had a couple of good
weeks, 10 the season.
That was a terrible contract.
Elias Diaz outperformed Danny Jansen for veteran minimum.
And then of course the Tyler Mahle contract
was bad.
You basically paid what 24 million for less
than 20 starts of Tyler Mahle.
I mean, Tyler Mahle was making deGrom money
per start.
He started, I think, I think Tyler Mahle
started 18 games with the Rangers over his
two years.
And I think they paid him 24 million.
[Editor's correction: Mahle's Rangers contract was two years, $22 million.]
So he's making deGrom type money every time
he goes out there, every time he went
out there and stepped on the mound.
And Mahle was dominant when he was healthy,
but he wasn't healthy enough.
A lot of wasted money.
And so anybody that is just heavy on
Ray Davis, I would encourage you push back
a little bit.
Chris Young has not spent Ray Davis' money
very well.
There's been a lot of bad contracts that
we could probably continue to go on and
on about.
It's unfortunate.
It's not all CY, it's not all Ray
Davis, but CY has whiffed way too many
times.
Look, MacKenzie Gore today, I think, should have
been given an opportunity.
I bring up Gore because we're talking about
moves that CY has made, right?
Gore actually didn't look terrible today.
Gave up the run right away, but retired
seven straight.
And then Skip inexplicably pulls him for Silseth.
That to me was a big time whiff,
again, devoid of feeling.
He just didn't have a lot of feel
in that move.
That was totally, hey, we want to go
to Silseth at this point.
We don't want MacKenzie to go past XYZ.
That to me is just not at all
what you want to do in that moment.
I don't care that Gore's fastball was ticking
down a little bit.
I don't care that there were a couple
of balls hit hard.
He had retired seven in a row.
And Silseth coming into the game, even if
you believe that MacKenzie Gore wasn't his sharpest,
bringing Silseth into the game isn't exactly meaningfully
improving your chances there.
It's not.
I mean, if you bring in Latz, okay,
and you're not going to bring in Latz
in that moment, but bringing in Silseth versus
a MacKenzie Gore that has retired seven in
a row, that does nothing for me.
Absolutely nothing.
Let's see, not letting Seager go hurt this
team.
Seager, I think is going to be an
interesting subject this off season, but I honestly
think the Rangers are in a really bad
spot.
You did not with Seager, let's be specific.
And I don't think they're in a great
spot, by the way, moving forward.
My outlook on Texas next year, and I
think it is just because of the rawness
of the loss today.
So I'm going to say that full disclosure.
I don't feel very optimistic that the Rangers
are going to be a dominant team in
2027.
I think that you're going to have to
see what they decide to do in the
off season.
But without knowing what the plan really is,
and with knowing that the Rangers probably aren't
going to spend a ton of money, I
don't feel extremely hopeful that the Rangers do
something special in 27.
Hope springs eternal when the new season comes
around.
And I think I will definitely get on
that page eventually.
But I don't feel like right now, looking
at this team, you feel a lot of
hope for next year.
And that was a big reason why I
really thought this year, you should kind of
go for it because the division was wide
open.
A lot of people wanted to see this
team sell.
A lot of people wanted to see this
team stand pat.
Some of you guys were on the page
that I was.
I just said, don't stand pat, do one
or the other.
And I always prefer that you try and
win.
I don't think that the farm system needs
to be overly emphasized over winning right now,
because you don't know when you're going to
have these opportunities again.
Like I said, bring up Walcott, start them
on Saturday.
You didn't need them on Saturday.
Look, it didn't matter ultimately bringing up Walcott.
I think they should have brought up Walcott
sooner.
I think they should have brought up Walcott
at the beginning of September.
See if he can light a fire like
Evan Carter did on September 8th, 2023.
I thought they should have brought up Walcott
at that point.
Have him DH.
Yeah, they needed to do something drastic and
instead they really just decided to do the
same thing over and over again, which is
the definition of insanity when you're not successful.
And the Rangers have now missed the playoffs
three years in a row.
Next year is going to be an interesting
year in general.
But I mean, think about the roster right
now.
You figure Walcott will probably be up next
year, right?
Walcott will probably be up on the squad.
I don't think that there's any way he
isn't unless he really does poorly in spring
training.
If he looks like over his skis in
spring training, I could see them maybe leaving
him down.
Otherwise, it feels like he absolutely is going
to be a starting player on this team
in 2027.
I don't know why you wouldn't have him
starting at this point.
I really don't.
I think Walcott needs to be the third
baseman.
Josh Jung transitioned to DH, maybe first base.
I think Young is probably going to be
around next year.
I feel like the injury, if you wanted
to trade him, the injury probably hurts your
chances there.
And I know there was some talk among
Rangers fans and even around, you know, some
of the other analysts in the sport.
Maybe you have Young on the trade block,
see what you can get for him.
I do think JJ was the best pure
hitter on the team in 2026.
I don't think there's any question in that
regard, but I do think that he's limited
in his game.
He's not going to give you a lot
defensively.
Clearly he is not the most fleet of
foot.
He's getting slower every single year since he's
been into the league.
JJ is limited.
He's very one dimensional and he's also injury
prone, whether that's bad luck or not.
He's injury prone.
He's been hurt every single year.
Feels like since he came into the league,
maybe minus 2022, where he only really played
in September.
Josh Jung is a guy that I think
a lot of teams around the league would
be interested in, but with the injury, I'm
just not sure how much his value is
going to hold.
I think Josh Jung could definitely be a
player that helps Texas next year, but you
have to weigh everything out.
Young is going to start an arbitration here
pretty quick.
I think you have him until 29.
I think you have three more years left
of Young.
Two or three, not sure off the top
of my head.
That to me is a good crossroads to
examine where you're at with the player, how
much you really value the player, where you
see the player going.
I do think it's a real discussion.
Is this a one hit wonder for Young?
I don't think that that is a totally
out of left field, terrible question to ask.
Is Young going to repeat what he did
this year with the bat?
You'd like to say yes.
You also have to realize after injuries to
Josh Jung's wrist in 2024, he was never
the same player as he was in 2023.
He finally got that back this year.
Even this year, I know he had a
couple of home runs at the end, but
he didn't really have the same pop as
what he had in 23.
In 23, it looked like Young could be
a 20 to 25 home run guy.
This year, he was hitting the ball better,
but he still really didn't have the same
exit below or power that he demonstrated in
2023.
I do think that Josh Jung is a
player that probably going to be one of
the most interesting watches in the offseason.
First of all, how does he get better?
How does he heal and progress in his
recovery?
Then also, what do the Rangers do with
him next year?
I really don't think you can run Josh
Young back at third base.
The body, you need to be healthy.
Third base, a taxing position.
I would be trying to move Josh Jung
off of third base for a number of
reasons.
JK, I'm with you on Burger.
Burger drives me nuts, either strikeout or home
run.
Burger, to me, is way too streaky.
I know there's going to be a lot
of casuals that point to the RBI total.
I think that Burger is a guy that
you definitely consider getting on the trading block
and seeing what you can get for him.
Burger, to me, could be a nice platoon
guy next year.
Maybe he's a guy that you work out
a little bit more at third base so
he can be a first base, third base
option.
Burger, to me, is another one of those
guys that is a little bit too one
-dimensional.
You don't have a lot of options with
Burger.
You really don't want to have him play
third base because you've got better options at
third base.
He wasn't great at first base this year.
He had his moments.
I know that he had the errorless streak,
but nevertheless, he didn't really overly impress you
with the glove at first base this year.
I definitely feel, at this point, Burger and
Young have similar issues, but Young is clearly
the better hitter.
They're both a little one-dimensional, but Young,
with the season that he had at the
plate, much, much more likely to stick around.
If they run Burger back at first base
every day next year, that would be extremely
disappointing to me.
Could you keep Burger on as a platoon
player, a bench player, a nice power right
-handed bat that you bring in against lefties?
Yes, but for me, I want to see
some changes, man.
I do not want to see them continue
to run out the same guys.
Foscue, to me, had a nice year, but
Foscue is another one-trick pony.
All he can really do is hit lefties.
He's not a great second baseman.
Definitely had a nice little run of defense
this season, but nobody's rating Justin Foscue's defense
in the organization, trust me.
They would much rather play somebody else at
second base.
That's why Nicky Lopez continued to get as
many starts as he did.
Let's go to a couple other comments here.
We have, what do they do with Burger
and Jock?
Bando, what's good?
Bando, I know you've been commenting a lot.
Thanks for your patience, man.
Jock, to me, you're not bringing Jock back.
That would be, to me, asinine to bring
Jock back at $18.5 million.
I don't know why they would do that.
That does not sound smart to me, but
maybe they will.
Maybe they'll say, hey, we don't want to
let him walk.
We don't really have any better options, so
we're going to bring back Jock.
I wouldn't be bringing back Jock and spending
$18.5 million on a part-time player
that can only hit against righties.
That is a lot of money to spend
on a part-time player that doesn't hit
against lefties.
That's not at all what I would be
interested in, but it wouldn't shock me if
the team runs it back with Jock.
Again, I said that at the beginning of
the show, and I've said it pretty often.
It's just not going to surprise me.
For everybody that complains about spending money, if
you go spend $18.5 million on the
Jock mutual option for next year, and it
is a mutual option, the Rangers and Jock
both have to agree on it.
They both have to come together.
I think Jock would be happy to sign
that.
I don't know that he's getting $18.5
million on the open market, and that's why
I don't think the Rangers should do the
deal.
Now, the nice thing is you can retain
his services, and if he's able to do
what he did this year, it's not a
bad bat to have, but at the end
of the day, it's just not a guy
I want to see be brought back at
$18.5 million.
I think you could use that money in
other places.
I would go sign a pitcher.
They really, I think, are going to need
pitching help at this point.
I would rather spend $18.5 million on
a good starting pitcher per year than I
would to run it back with Jock.
TV rights are questionable next year, Zach says,
which are terrifying.
So many question marks next year.
So many question marks next year.
Like, I totally agree.
There's a lot of uncertainty.
A lot of uncertainty.
By the way, checking the comments here and
there, I'll let all y'all duke it
out in the comments, but Astros fans, congratulations.
I hope y'all lose next round, but
look, not a great year for either team,
if we're being honest, but Astros could make
it a great year.
We've been saying that with the Rangers, not
a great regular season for either team, but
obviously the Astros go to the playoffs, better
season for them.
No denying it, no denying that at all,
but hopefully they won't be playing too much
longer than the Rangers.
I think last year, a couple of years
ago, I should say the Tigers exit, hopefully
something like that in the wild card round
for them.
I don't know.
I think the White Sox being so young,
I could see the Astros overtaking them.
You know, sometimes the young thing and kind
of the lack of experience works to your
advantage.
Sometimes it doesn't.
Curious to see how that's going to work
out.
Armando question on TikTok, do I think they
bring Gore back?
They could trade him, but he's under contract
for next year.
They definitely could try and flip MacKenzie Gore.
That to me is maybe something to and
I don't think it would be the worst
thing in the world.
I have heard around the league, you know,
that there's still some people with high opinions
of Gore and there's always going to be
a team that feels like they can fix.
You know what I mean?
There's always going to be a team that
feels like, man, we could, we could turn
him back into a dominant starter.
The Rangers, they weren't using them, right?
There's always a GM that feels that way.
Always.
We will see what they do with Gore.
That is going to be questionable.
I would be offloading Gore.
I don't think that next year is the
year to retain his services.
He's going to be a free agent and
I don't think you're going to resign him.
I would absolutely try and see if you
can get a little bit of farm capital
for Gore in a trade in the off
season.
I'm definitely not at all married to the
idea of keeping Gore around for 27.
The only way you keep Gore around in
27 is if you're legitimately planning on spending
money and being a contender.
If you're not really going to go all
in, I say the same thing that I
said at the deadline, either sell players, trade
them away, or go out and make some
splashy moves so you can be competitive, but
don't try and run it back and do
this mediocre thing because then you're just missing
out on opportunities to capitalize on the value.
J.J., appreciate the comments there.
Armando, you're going to have deGrom and Evo.
I don't think they're going to trade those
guys.
As long as CY is in charge, I
don't see them dealing deGrom or Eovaldi.
First of all, the trade stuff gets interesting
with deGrom.
He has the no trade clause, right?
I don't think Eovaldi does.
Maybe he does.
I think he's done the five-year thing,
so I think Evo probably does at this
point.
I'd have to look up the rules on
Eovaldi, but it's the 5-10 rule.
Evo's got 10 years of MLB experience, and
he's played with the Rangers, I think, for
five seasons now, right?
We got him in 22, was it, or
23?
Was 23 Evo's first year with the team?
It's a 5-10, so CY has done
five years.
I think it's next year that is Evo's
fifth year, so you probably could technically trade
Eovaldi without any kind of veto needed, right?
Yes or no.
I don't think they're going to trade Evo
or deGrom, and I know that some of
you guys are saying they should trade CY.
They can't trade CY unless he agrees to
it, and I don't know if CY is
going to agree to it or not.
You might legitimately be stuck with CY unless
you're just going to release him outright, which
they're not going to do.
If they decide to really dig their heels
in, it could get ugly and to the
point where maybe CY would be open to
a trade, but I don't think they want
to make it ugly with CORY CY.
I'm not saying CORY CY is going to
be holding the organization hostage or anything like
that.
Look, he signed the contract that he did.
He's entitled to it, but I think they're
going to try and be careful with CORY.
Even moving him off of shortstop, they appear
to be kind of hesitant to do.
I think it's definitely going to be CORY
CY back at shortstop next year.
They would have to do a crazy convincing
job to get him to move off of
shortstop.
I think it'll be CY at short, Walcott
at third, opening day 2027, whenever that may
be.
Yeah, I believe that the Rangers are going
to get creative at first base.
I don't think they're going to run it
back with JAKE BURGER every day, regardless of
the RBI total.
I know a lot of casual fans like
to point to that.
If you JAKE BURGER all 162 or however
many games he played, BURGER is limited.
He doesn't hit righties well.
He doesn't play a particularly good first base.
You could keep BURGER around in a platoon
type role if you like to have a
right-handed power bat.
You could definitely use him in certain situations
late.
Maybe you could give him some work at
third base so at least you have some
flexibility in where you could play him.
I'm not saying I want to see JAKE
BURGER at third base, but I'm just saying
I would try and make him as versatile
as possible next year if you are going
to keep him.
He doesn't have zero value, but if YOUNG
goes to play first base, then Walcott could
easily play third.
I think you should DH Josh YOUNG a
lot next year whenever there's a lefty.
When there's a lefty on the mound, Josh
YOUNG should be the guy.
FOSCU to me had a nice year.
I'm not running it back with FOSCU though.
That's just my opinion.
I know some of you guys like FOSCU
and appreciate what he gave and I'm not
saying I don't appreciate FOSCU's season against lefties.
I just think they need to prioritize Josh
YOUNG's health if they are going to keep
him on the team and so if that
does come to fruition, I would have FOSCU
most likely trade or I would try and
work out something different with him.
I would not run it back with FOSCU
in that role.
FOSCU one trick pony platoon player.
We need less of those.
We need more everyday guys.
I don't want a guy that only can
hit against lefties.
It's maddening to me.
I don't want all these dudes that can
only hit one type of arm.
deGrom is handcuffing the payroll.
Derek, thank you for the comment.
Yeah, it is.
It is a bit of a handcuff with
deGrom.
That's for sure.
The deGrom contract falls off the books after
2027 as does the Eovaldi contract.
That's going to be a lot of money
off the books right there.
That's going to be a ton of money
off the books.
I don't know if they will run it
back with deGrom in 29 if I had
to guess or in 28.
28 deGrom has a 20 million dollar option
which honestly might not be terrible.
You'll have to see where deGrom is at
but deGrom is making 38 million a year
this year and next year.
If you want to bring deGrom back in
28 you only have to pay him 20
million.
That's not as bad of a deal.
Like that is not as bad of a
deal to me.
You're going to have to pay a good
starter on the open market somewhere between 15
and 20 million per year anyways.
So if deGrom is healthy and actually like
still pitching okay, 20 million for one season
of deGrom might not be the worst thing
in the world and if that is like
a last ride type season for him from
a business perspective, I could see keeping him
around as he maybe passes up some milestones
but he's definitely not going to be an
ace at that point.
You're not thinking about deGrom as your number
one or even your number two.
You're thinking of deGrom as like a solid
number three or number four while you bring
up others or you sign others around him.
We'll see.
deGrom to me is a guy that you
know, he's on for one more.
He could still give you good innings and
he can still be really good at times
but he's not a guy I'm counting on
to be an ace anymore based on what
I saw at the end of the season.
Keep on going.
Appreciate all you guys hanging out.
Brennan what's good?
Elise Seager comment from YouTube.
Elise Seager showed some fight at the end
I guess.
Gotta make a serious step in either direction
before whenever next season is preferred deGrom wave
is no trade clause.
I don't think deGrom is going to wave
it.
I think he likes it in Texas.
Nimmo is there now.
He and Nimmo are buddies.
I think he's got a number of other
friends on the team.
Clearly he's got a family that probably doesn't
want to move again.
I think this truly was where deGrom wanted
to finish his career and he has earned
that right.
I don't think deGrom is going to be
moving in the offseason.
Maybe at the trade deadline they could convince
him one more time but at the end
of the day I feel like he is
probably going to be in Arlington until he
retires.
Maybe if he still wants to keep pitching
he could go do the one two-year
contracts with another team but I'm not sure.
Cowboys right now by the way score is
17-13.
Ravens they have the ball and they are
at the 41-yard line.
Their own 41-yard line.
Brandon Aubrey 59-yard field goal was just
blocked.
We will be doing a Cowboys live in
the fourth quarter which is almost at fourth
quarter so we will be taking about a
15 or 20 minute break and then we're
going to be doing Cowboys.
I do think that they will be taking
a lot of offers on different players if
I'm CY everybody is available.
Everybody.
I think the only player that I would
seriously consider keeping around because he's cheap and
he's the type of player that you actually
want to get more of, Zeke Duran.
And regardless of how Zeke finished the season
hitting he kind of had a little bit
of a skid to end the year.
You want more guys like Zeke that have
good arms, are fast, put the ball in
play more often than not and can play
multiple positions.
Duran is the type of player you want
more of.
Maybe you would love if Duran hit for
a little more power but you want more
players like Duran.
Athletic, they hustle, they play the game with
passion.
I want more players like Ezequiel Duran.
I want less players that either hit a
home run or strike out.
I want more players that are multi-dimensional.
They're good in the field, they're good enough
with the bat, they're fast.
They give me more than just a good
bat.
Duran to me is a guy that you
keep.
I would not be trying to trade, actively
trade Ezequiel Duran.
I would probably be taking calls on Wyatt
Langford.
I think Wyatt, you could argue, should be
kept around.
One bad year doesn't mean you should get
rid of him.
But I think there'd be a lot of
teams interested in Wyatt and I think that
there would be a number of GMs out
there that would be thinking that, kind of
similar to Gore, they could fix him and
get him back on track and really unlock
all the potential that he has.
I don't think Wyatt should be untouchable though.
I don't think Evan Carter should be untouchable.
Walcott and Duran are probably the two guys.
I mean, look, if I'm being totally selfish
and biased, I'd like to see Osuna kept
around.
I know some people are not Osuna fans,
but I'd like to see Osuna get kept
around, given a little bit of a runway.
I don't think he needs to be a
feature player, but I'd like him to stay.
I think he has some of the intangibles
you're talking about, plays the game with passion,
gives you a quality AB.
Defense definitely could be improved.
But then again, if he plays more, he's
probably going to get better.
That typically is how it works.
The more experience you get, you usually improve.
Not always, but usually.
There's very few guys though that I see
as being totally off the table for a
trade.
Appreciate all you guys hanging out.
Thank you so much.
Look, we've got just a few more minutes
on the show.
Darnell, what's good, man?
Next year, it'll definitely be interesting to see
what kind of season we have.
Baltimore, by the way, driving right now in
Cowboys territory.
Got a whole new field goal here.
Darnell, I appreciate all the comments on the
show throughout all 162, brother.
You know I appreciate you.
It means a lot, buddy.
Did I miss anything else that you said?
Trade deadline, told it all.
Yes.
The trade deadline, not doing anything at the
deadline was hurtful.
I think that is 100% accurate.
Not doing anything at the deadline hurt.
Darnell, you too.
Be safe.
Take care, brother.
Hope you pop by some of the videos
in the off-season.
Feelings on Schumaker.
Worse job than Bochy last year.
I think he did worse with arguably more.
Now, last year, clearly the pitching was better,
but think about it.
You had Mike Maddox and you had Bruce
Bochy and the pitching got worse under Skip
and Jordan Tiegs.
You had Evo still.
You had deGrom, although there was another year
of wear and tear on the tires, but
I think there's an argument, and it's a
pretty good one, that we actually performed, sorry
about that, worse under Skip.
I think there is an argument the Rangers
in 2026 were worse under Skip Schumaker than
Bruce Bochy in 2025.
I definitely feel like that is not a
hot take or out of left field.
This feels like a worse team than last
year.
Now, they had a better opportunity this year
because of how bad the AL West was,
but last year's team felt better to me
than this year's team.
You had really good defense last year.
You had gold glove defense.
The Rangers won the team gold glove last
year, and they had the best pitching among
the best pitching in the game.
The offense was not good, and I don't
think that that can be underscored enough, but
this year you were just bad in every
category.
The bullpen wasn't great.
Jacob Latz excluded.
The bullpen wasn't great.
The fielding wasn't great.
The mental side of the game felt like
the Rangers made more mental mistakes this year,
and then the pitching fell off.
You definitely, I think, according to a few
of you guys, the offense needs to be
prioritized.
You need to have a better offense in
2027.
We can't keep running back this same offense,
man.
It's not going to work.
We're going to get more of the same.
You're going to get a few weeks of
heaters from certain players, Jake Burger, Wyatt Langford,
and then you're going to get a lot
of cold, a lot of cold.
In some ways, like I said at the
beginning of the show, it's a really fitting
ending, what happened today.
Very, very fitting.
I think that the Rangers had their moments
this year where they could have really taken
advantage of the context and the situation and
the cards that they were dealt, and they
just didn't.
They continually soiled the bed when it mattered
the most, and Friday night was a big
part of that.
You win on Friday night, you win today,
and you're division champions.
If you would have swept this series with
the twins, you could have been a division
champ.
You would have been the ones popping the
champagne right now, not the Astros.
But again, just could never meet the moment.
I remember making a video on that about
three weeks ago, maybe.
Meet the moment.
So tired of the Rangers having a big
chance to take control of their own destiny
and shrinking.
They just couldn't meet the moment.
Now, look, were there injuries this year?
Yes.
But let's be honest.
Even when this team was fully healthy, it
wasn't a contender.
I don't want the injury excuse to become
a prevalent thing here.
They were not a World Series team fully
healthy.
And look, push back on me if you
want.
You guys know I never, never mind disagreements.
It's actually what makes this fun.
I don't want this to be an echo
chamber.
But does anybody really think the Rangers fully
healthy were a World Series team?
I don't.
I think they needed to do more at
the deadline.
They needed to go out and get more.
Now, maybe there's an argument fully healthy.
They would have been better off at the
deadline.
Maybe they would have gone and got a
big name.
But I don't think this team as assembled
in the off season was winning it all
anyways.
I just don't think that that was going
to happen.
And so look, in the off season this
year, not really sure what's going to happen
with the lockout.
I'm not sure the Rangers are going to
get very aggressive.
I don't see that happening.
I think the Rangers are going to play
it pretty safe this off season.
I think a lot of teams are going
to play it safe unless something crazy unfolds
with the negotiations between the league and the
owners and the players.
All right.
Look, we have a couple of other things
to cover, and then I am going to
wrap things up.
We will be, and I'm going to plug
this a couple of different times.
Every Wednesday night, we do Rangers off season.
During the playoffs, we talk a little playoff
baseball as well.
So look, Wednesday night, we could be talking
about the Houston Astros getting eliminated.
Couldn't we?
That could be on the table, Wednesday night
discussion.
Astros swept by the White Sox in the
wild card round.
Could be the topic of conversation Wednesday night.
We don't know.
Maybe we'll be talking about the Strohs advancing
and getting beat up on by whoever's next,
the Rays or who's the other, the Guardians.
We'll see what happens.
We will see.
We'll be talking about any moves made in
between now and Wednesday as well.
Not sure that we'll have a ton of
Rangers news to report.
I have a few segments that have already
planned out and mapped out, but every Wednesday
we do a Rangers off season show.
And then throughout the off season, if anything
of importance happens, I'm talking about key signings,
trades.
We will do emergency podcasts for those as
well.
We'll hop on the live.
We'll talk about it immediately.
So that's the plan.
Wednesday though, circled out on the calendar.
I will try my best to advertise that
well, but I hope you'll come and hang
out.
We always still have a good time.
It's always fun talking about the new season
and what the Rangers may be up to
in the off season as well.
And just love getting together with you guys
and talking ball, talking shop.
It's always fun.
So Wednesday circled out on the calendars all
off season long starting this Wednesday.
I usually will go live around six 30,
seven o'clock, you know, central time, maybe
six o'clock.
I'll try and plan it out.
So that way you guys have advanced notice,
but it's always Wednesday just so you know.
All right.
Chase, I'm with you on this comment from
X here builder on Walcott blow.
Almost everything else up.
I keep Walcott.
I would probably keep Duran.
I selfishly, like I said, a little biased.
I would keep Osuna.
I would keep some of the young guys
like Cody Freeman, Cam Cauley.
I'd be keeping those guys.
I don't see a big reason to dump
all of your utility players.
Cody Freeman, for whatever reason, they really stopped
trusting him anywhere else, but third base.
Like I noticed last night, they did not
trust Cody to go play second.
I thought that was weird.
Like they had Duran move from third to
second.
Why would you have Duran move off of
third base?
He's got a better arm than Cody, probably
a little bit of a better glove.
I didn't understand why they're so hesitant to
play Cody at second.
And I know Cody has been on the
show.
Cody talked about he's willing to play anywhere.
So I know it's not Cody saying, no,
I don't want to play second base.
I thought that was kind of odd, but
I would keep some of those guys that
I just mentioned that can play in a
number of different spots.
Alejandro Osuna, I think his off season task,
can we drive the ball a little bit
more?
Can we get a little more power?
I think that's doable.
And then can we play some first base?
I know he's not the tallest guy, but
I think he needs to be able to
play first base.
He's a lefty, lefty, lefty throws left, bats
left.
When you're a lefty, you can only play
first base in outfield or pitch.
I think he needs to play first base.
That to me is a must.
I would love to see that happen.
And then we will see what they do
with the vets.
I think a lot of the vets are
actually going to be sticking around.
I don't expect them to be going anywhere.
Moving forward, things to look out for, clearly
off season moves, shakeups with the coaching staff.
We didn't even talk about Justin Viele.
I think Justin Viele needs to be gone.
That would be 100% what I would
be looking to do at this point.
I just don't think you can run it
back with Justin.
The offense was bad this year.
You had a lot of big names regress.
Think about a guy like Wyatt Langford.
Think about Evan Carter.
Josh Jung turned it around, but you absolutely
have to consider two of your top prospects.
This took massive steps backwards.
That to me is worthy of discussion, especially
when it comes to hitting coach.
Justin Viele and his spot on this coaching
staff needs to be under the microscope.
He has not done an outstanding job in
my book.
I know that he very well may be
an awesome guy.
That doesn't matter.
Sometimes when it doesn't work out, when the
offense is as bad as it was this
year, you got to reload.
It doesn't matter what the players are.
You have to reload.
They should have done it last year.
I think they got to do it this
year.
We'll see what happens.
By the way, Cowboys just scored 24-21.
I'm going to take a short break, and
then I'll be back on to talk Cowboys
with all y'all.
Appreciate you guys hanging out.
We will be back on Wednesday to talk
more Rangers baseball.
Just know I appreciate all you guys.
Thank you for the support all year long,
man.
It really means a lot.
Like I said, biggest year for Rangers by
far.
We grew, I'm not even joking, like 1
,000%.
Seriously, we grew that much this year.
A big part of that was because of
you guys.
I just want to say another special thank
you.
Again, you'll see us back on probably in
about 15 or 20 minutes to talk Cowboys.
It is a busy day here at Ride
on Rangers, but hopefully this Cowboys game ends
a little bit better than the Rangers game,
man.
I appreciate all the kind words.
Look, it's goodbye for now, but man, I'll
be back at it tomorrow dropping Rangers content.
We're still going to do a lot of
posting about the team on the offseason.
We'll also be shifting to football a little
bit more, basketball for the Mavericks when NBA
starts up.
There's a lot still going on with the
channel.
Hope you'll still pop in.
Even if you're not a fan of the
other teams that I cover here on the
show, hope you'll drop by.
Wednesday night, again, our Rangers offseason show.
Every Wednesday, hope you'll come and hang out.
It's a good time always.
We go for about an hour, just like
we usually do on these lives.
Hope to see you there.
Have a great rest of your Sunday.
Have a blessed week ahead.
As I always say to end every show,
God bless and go Rangers.