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Logan Henderson held Texas to one hit over seven innings as Milwaukee beat the Rangers 6-1, handing Texas a third straight loss and leaving the club two games behind Houston. Danny Jansen’s solo homer was the only damage against Henderson, while Milwaukee piled up 14 hits. 

Austin gets into why another dead offensive night makes the smaller managerial debates feel secondary, the Brewers’ pressure game versus the identity Texas said it wanted, Cody Bradford’s long-term role, Jack Leiter’s new biceps setback, September roster decisions, and what Henderson’s emergence says about the Rangers’ ability to develop top-of-the-rotation pitching. Then it’s Cal Quantrill and Saturday’s response game. Leiter is being shut down for a few days after experiencing right biceps soreness during his latest rehab outing. 

Chapters / Timestamps

  • (00:00) - Rangers Held to Two Hits in a 6-1 Loss
  • (08:27) - Bradford, Skip and the Offense
  • (15:00) - Offseason Reset and Roster Decisions
  • (20:08) - Milwaukee’s Identity vs. Texas’ Margin Problem
  • (27:22) - Carter, Baserunning and Why Texas Won’t Run
  • (32:41) - September Call-Ups and Leiter’s Setback
  • (40:35) - Henderson and the Rangers’ Pitching Development
  • (44:36) - Milwaukee’s 14-Hit Formula and the Power Debate
  • (51:58) - Houston Pulls Away and Saturday’s Quantrill Preview
  • (58:37) - Final Takeaways and the Weekend Response

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Hi and welcome to another edition of Right

on Rangers Live, coming at you after a

6-1 Texas Rangers loss to the Milwaukee

Brewers.

A little bit of the same if we're

thinking about the last week or so of

baseball for Texas.

The Rangers only amassed, what, two hits tonight?

Two hits?

Is that it?

Depressing.

Depressing night of offense.

I mean, this is a team that we

knew coming into the year was not going

to be any kind of offensive juggernaut.

I mean, this is pathetic.

This is pathetic, man.

I really do not know what I can

take away positively from tonight's offense.

I mean, the pitching, little bit of a

different story, right?

Little bit of a different story with the

pitching.

I have no clue what you take away

offensively.

12 strikeouts tonight?

Foscue with the single?

Danny Jansen with the home run?

I guess the Danny Jansen home run?

I'm at a loss with this offense, man.

I understand that coming into this game, Henderson

was hot.

Let's not pretend Henderson is a scrub.

These aren't, and no disrespect intended, but these

aren't the angel starting pitchers that have less

than 10 starts in the big leagues.

I mean, Henderson, 9-2 this year.

Clearly, he plays behind a pretty good team.

Look, in his career, he is 11-2

overall.

He's pitched 100 innings in the bigs, and

he has a .87 career whip.

This dude's pretty good.

I'm definitely not going to give the Rangers

a free pass tonight, not by any stretch,

but I will say if we're being totally

fair, you do look at Logan Henderson and

you say to yourself, we ran into a

good one tonight, but you also say to

yourself, this is just about the same as

what we always get.

This isn't a hot offense that just happened

to get shut down by Logan Henderson.

This is a cold offense that stays cold

against good pitch.

And I've always made this point.

I mean, you guys know this.

I've always made the point.

You have to beat good pitching in October.

You have to beat good pitching in the

playoffs.

There's no way around it.

You have to figure out a way to

break through against the top arms in baseball.

At the beginning of the year when we

were facing Christopher Sanchez and Chris Sale and

a number of really elite starting pitchers, you

would get a lot of the cope after

the game.

Come on, it's Sale.

Dude, come on, it's Sanchez.

It's like, yeah, man, but you got to

break through against these guys eventually, or at

least that quality, that type of pedigree.

I understand if we want to get super

technical.

Yes, those guys are in the NL, Sale

for the Braves, Sanchez for the Phillies.

It's still the point.

The sentiment remains.

You can't just brush these off as a

well, it's their ace, so it's okay that

we lost today.

That's the kind of crazy that I've called

out all year long.

So can we acknowledge Logan Henderson is a

very good pitcher?

Yes, we can.

Can we also acknowledge that the Rangers have

pretty consistently failed against above average pitching?

Yes, we also can.

I did a post.

I forget if it was a real or

a post, but the Rangers numbers against the

top pitchers in the game are pretty abysmal,

and it's not just like, well, yeah, bro,

but everybody's going to have those numbers.

It's pretty abysmal what the Rangers have done

against some of the top arms in the

game.

It's even worse when you're looking at some

of the not top arms in the game

that have managed to shut down this Rangers

offense as well.

It's just sad.

I know they're missing Josh Young.

I understand they're missing JJ.

Man, this team is not a JJ away

from being some kind of competent elite offense.

They're just not right now.

They're not.

And that is the cold, hard truth, the

cold, hard reality where we're at right now

with Texas Rangers baseball in 2026.

Now, I know a lot of the comments,

the posts going around social media, season over,

just throw in the towel.

And I'm not mad at anybody.

You guys know this, man.

I don't get pissed off or in my

feelings about anyone that's ready to call it

in at this moment.

This is a depressing, deflating loss.

If you're a diehard, you're emotional after games

like this.

I know I am.

I don't I don't love a game where

you watch two hits for all nine innings.

Trust me, it's much more.

I've always said this.

It's so much more enjoyable when I actually

get to talk about wins.

I know that there are some people out

there.

Bando, I'm glad, by the way, I saw

your comment, man.

Bando, I saw I saw what you said,

like appreciating the positivity.

I look, this really is my heart.

Like, I do try and see as much

positivity as I can.

I know some people feel the exact opposite

about me and about the channel.

Unfortunately, when you're a losing baseball team like

the Rangers are right now, they they lost

more games than they won.

Right.

They're a losing baseball team by that definition.

When you're a losing baseball team, there's typically

more bad stuff to talk about than good.

I mean, there there are sadly less positives

when the team loses more games than they

win.

I feel like I shouldn't have to say

that out loud, but here we are.

Here we are.

And so I don't fault anybody who's venting

it, who's letting it out tonight, letting it

rip tonight.

I've always said, man, you got to let

people you've got to let the diehards that

care about this team.

Hey, you've got to let them vent it.

It's frustrating.

You guys know where I stand.

This team is not trustable.

They're not trustworthy.

You cannot trust this squad.

You don't know what you're getting any given

day.

But are they eliminated?

Is there no chance?

No, there's a clear chance that the Rangers

can still make the playoffs.

I'm not sitting here with any illusions that

Texas is going to go on some kind

of epic World Series run that would surprise

me.

I'm going to call it out like it

is right now.

If you still have a ton of faith

that Texas is going to be hoisting the

trophy in early November, you are a better

man or woman than I.

But I think at this point, mathematically still

in it, in a mediocre to subpar American

League and American League West, there's still a

shot.

But but I don't trust this team.

I do not trust them to consistently win

ballgames.

I don't trust them to give me a

consistent brand of baseball night in and night

out.

We're not talking about winning every game.

We're talking about just just playing consistent ball,

man.

I mean, I know I've submitted to you

guys the most consistent thing that this team

does.

Is lose in a multitude of different ways

and win in a multitude of different ways,

you never know what you're getting with this

team.

And going back to that comment just from

a moment ago, it's more losing in a

multitude of ways than winning in a multitude

of ways.

This team will lose 13 to one, they

will lose a tight to one ballgame.

Today, I would say you're kind of getting

close to blowout territory six to one.

I mean, I know that's not a crazy

deficit, but nevertheless, five plus runs.

Not a super competitive ballgame at the end

of nine, although you did have some chances.

Danny Jansen had an opportunity to tie the

game for one runners on first and second

didn't work out.

It's a frustrating team because you just never

know what you're going to get on a

given night.

Never know what you're going to get.

Skip Schumaker, the conversation I know going around

a little bit.

Duck Deuce, what's good?

Comment from TikTok, Skip is terrible as well.

I think there are some things you point

to in this ballgame.

Skip going out there and leaving Bradford out

there doesn't work out for him.

I posted during the game, I like the

move in that at some point, somebody's got

to step up and be a dog on

this team, man.

You get mad at Skip when he pulls

guys too early and maybe you want to

argue and go back and forth the context

of Bradford and how many pitches he was

at and what he was looking like in

that sixth frame.

I actually like the move to leave Bradford

in.

I'm not going to play Monday morning quarterback.

If it works out, everybody's saying what an

awesome move it is, I actually like the

move.

It would have been a really amazing moment

for Cody had he got that third out.

I don't trust that Tyler Alexander comes in

and doesn't give up the run anyways.

I know he came in and got to

wrang out no clue what he would have

done coming in against the nine hole.

You can't sit here and tell me it's

a foregone conclusion, 100% certainty that Alexander,

if he comes in for Cody Bradford against

the nine hole hitter, who would go on

to give the Brewers a 3-1 lead,

right?

You just can't tell me that it would

have been foolproof one way or the other.

I think leaving Cody in gave Cody an

opportunity to show some grit, show some metal,

and unfortunately he didn't get the job done.

Didn't get it done.

And here we are.

The thing that I need to make sure

I say out loud though is when you

have just two hits, when you score one

run, the Skip moves matter a little bit

less in my humble opinion.

They just matter less and less.

You've got an offense generating two hits.

Yeah, you guys know I'm always down to

nitpick something.

Carson, appreciate the gift by the way.

Thank you so much.

Appreciate the follow too.

Man, I definitely stopped worrying so much about

managerial decisions when the offense does something like

this.

Again, I'm happy to chat through.

I'm happy to shoot the breeze about just

about anything.

You guys know this, but it's harder for

me to get passionate about a skip argument

tonight when the offense is going to hit.

It just is.

We keep on rolling, man.

We are going to go through as much

as we can.

You guys know I'm going to be checking

comments here and there.

Texas, by the way, if you're just joining

us, loses game one of three to Milwaukee.

Pretty brutal contrast, honestly, right?

Brewers piled up 14 hits before they scored

their sixth run.

Texas had two total hits tonight.

Logan Henderson was incredible.

Seven innings of one hit ball, one run

ball, no walks, throwing a lot of strikes,

seven strikeouts.

By the way, Houston already won tonight.

This score, the final, makes the Rangers pretty

much at a three-game deficit.

You've got a two-game deficit in the

standings, but with the tiebreaker secured by Houston,

you've essentially got to clear them by a

game, right?

You are going to have a three-game

deficit after tonight.

It just doesn't make this result any cheaper,

man.

It is an expensive loss when you take

an L like this, and Houston goes ahead

and gains a game on you too.

All right, we'll pause.

We'll take comments along the way.

I will try and get through as much

of Substance as I can.

Feel free to drop something in the chat.

Copy and paste if I miss something, man.

Not trying to duck anybody, but obviously time

constraints.

I try to go past as many of

the repeats and things of that nature as

I can, but you guys keep the good

stuff coming.

Win 11-2 on Monday and then lose

the next three.

Just perfection.

Comment from Antonio YouTube.

Antonio, what's good, my guy?

Thanks for hanging out.

Yeah, that's the Jekyll and Hyde nature of

this team, isn't it?

You win 11-2.

You're feeling outstanding.

A bit of a hit parade.

You've got pretty good pitching.

Not great pitching, but pretty good pitching from

Kumar Rocker keeping you in a ballgame.

And then you totally soil the bed for

three straight games.

And that's where we're at.

That is where we're at.

And that's been the Rangers in 2026, hasn't

it?

That's been Texas.

Big emotional win.

Walk-off win.

Extra innings win.

Blowout win.

Offense looks amazing.

And then next game, totally flat.

Nobody can get a hit.

And the pitching is falling apart and you

lose miserably.

That is where we're at with this team.

Nothing, nothing really is consistent or makes sense

with this ballclub.

You think, hey man, great win.

You have this comeback.

You have an extra innings walk-off and

you're just feeling like the club is going

to and they just never do.

They don't.

They don't latch on to the big moments.

They let them pass them by and they

come out the next game looking like a

totally different team.

Jose, we try and keep it PG here

on the show, my guy.

Maybe there'll come a day where I'll let

it rip a little more, but we try

to keep the show PG as much as

possible.

I think we all know what really needs

to be said.

Nate, it is a good thing you were

at a fantasy football draft.

Comment from YouTube, Nate, what's good, man?

Good to see you.

Yeah, this would have been a good night

to do your fantasy football draft, 100%.

Jrock from TikTok says, I say nobody's off

limits trading this offseason.

I think there's probably a couple.

I mean, Walcott, I feel like you probably

keep Walcott around at this point.

I mean, maybe if somebody wows you, wants

to do some kind of massive overpay, like,

all right, but I think he'll be around.

I don't think he's going to be traded.

You know, could you trade DeGrom?

Could you trade Evo?

Could you trade Corey Seager?

It's going to get a little harder with

Corey Seager, right?

Because his 10-5 kicks in.

He's been with the Rangers five years and

he has 10 years of service time.

So you automatically activate the NTC right there.

I think there are going to be some

trades in the offseason.

I don't think that the Rangers are going

to stand pat with this club.

Now, look, I've been wrong before.

I've been wrong before when it comes to

the roster construction of the Texas Rangers.

See why?

Look, he has made some interesting, I'm putting

this nicely, interesting moves over the last two

or three seasons.

I just feel at this point, you really

have no clue what Texas is actually going

to do.

I think we all have a pretty good

idea of what they should do.

They need some kind of soft reset.

I don't know if it needs to be

a hard reset, like you just sell off

everybody.

I think you have to be mindful of

the value that you can potentially get for

some of these guys.

Hey, Carson with the Galaxy, man, thank you

so much.

Really appreciate that.

Not needed, but much appreciated, my guy.

Thank you, truly.

Hey, it's definitely, I think, all players potentially

minus some of the up-and-comers.

I don't think they're going to trade Langford.

I don't think they're going to trade Walcott,

but I think veteran players, if you consider

Langford a veteran or Carter a veteran, I

don't know.

It's hard for me to think about them

that way, even though technically, yeah, they are,

but I probably think about trading the older

veteran players and the guys that are in

the mid-20s to early-20s I'm hanging

on to.

I think Josh Young is on the trade

block.

I think you could potentially see if you

can get anything for Ran and Nemo.

I do think you trade as many of

the older veteran players as you can.

I do think you try and go a

little bit younger offensively.

That, to me, is what I would do.

I will miss some of the guys that

I have grown to appreciate and love cheering

for, but if I'm just thinking baseball business

brain here, not at all worried about the

sentiment or who I like or who I'm

a fan of, I would pretty much be

willing to trade every veteran offensive player, especially

the ones that are 30 plus or even

in their late 20s.

Like Josh Young is going to be, I

think, 29 going into the 2027 season.

I would have Josh Young on the trade

block.

I think there's a team out there that's

already built to win that could really use

a player like Josh Young, DHN.

The Rangers need to get more versatile.

They need to get more athletic.

They need to get a little younger.

Right now, they've got a lot of platoon

slash one-dimensional players.

We've talked about this.

I feel like ad nauseum, but we'll keep

saying it for the people in the back.

We need to get more athletic.

We need to get younger.

We need to get more versatile.

We can't keep playing all of these one

-trick ponies.

Guys that can only hit lefties, can only

hit righties, can only play one position, aren't

very good at playing that one position, but

their bat is better than anything else we've

got, so got to keep them in the

lineup.

That, to me, is kind of where we're

at.

That being said, hope this team goes on

some kind of crazy run over the next

month.

Anything can happen.

We know this.

There's crazy things that have happened in this

game.

Look, you guys will hear me keep it

real.

This isn't good.

This isn't good.

There's no way to spin this positively.

The only thing you really have to hold

on to is that the Rangers are not

that far out of a playoff spot right

now mathematically, but that's totally just going in

blind, not having even considered how the team

actually plays on a night-to-night basis.

You bury your head in the sand, or

in this case, you bury your head in

the standings, and you feel a little bit

better about yourself and your fandom of the

Texas Rangers, but when you actually consider the

games that you've had to endure this year,

like I said, I'm not giving up on

this team, but I don't trust this team.

Maybe that is a weird juxtaposition, an oxymoron.

I have no clue what you want to

call it, but I just know from my

years watching this game, and some of y

'all have watched baseball much longer than I

have, but I've been around the game for

a while, and I know better.

Anything can happen.

Crazy things can happen in this game.

We've seen it all too many times, but

I don't trust the Rangers on any given

night.

I could see them totally getting blown out.

I could see them putting together a quality

game.

I could see them, you know, scoring 10

runs randomly.

Anything can happen with this team, and I

think more often than not, when you have

a team like that, it's very rare that

kind of squad ends up winning it all

at the end of the season.

The teams that win find consistent ways to

do it.

I mean, look at the Brewers, right?

They don't hit homers, but consistently, they put

pressure on defenses.

They steal bases.

They put the ball in play.

They bunt.

They do so many different things to keep

teams on their heels, and so I think

the Brewers, they're going to have to exercise

some of the October demons.

We all know the struggles that Milwaukee has

had trying to win that World Series Championship,

right?

But for the regular season, I see a

lot of consistency with this Brewers team.

It is the consistency I think Texas idealized.

I think at the beginning of spring training,

the Rangers wanted to be what the Brewers

are.

I really don't think skip came into the

preseason wanting the Rangers to be this slugfest

franchise.

I think that he wanted to see Texas

become a little bit more like the 2023

Marlins, like the 2026 Brewers.

I put out a pod last night, did

one on the off day, and it's really

alarming.

At the beginning of the season, Skip Schumaker

talked about the Rangers needing to be better

at taking the extra base, at stealing, at

putting pressure on defenses.

We've used that term a lot tonight.

It's actually wild that last year the Rangers

did everything on that list, everything that I

just listed out that Skip talked about at

the beginning of the year.

The Rangers did every one of those better

in 2025 under Bruce Bochy.

They took the extra base at a better

clip.

They took the extra base 46% of

the time last year.

That was their extra base take rate.

This year, the Rangers are at 34%

when it comes to taking the extra base,

down 12% from last year.

The Rangers had stolen over 100 bases at

this time last year.

I don't think they're anywhere close to triple

digits at this point.

They do pretty much everything worse that Skip

Schumacher and Chris Young wanted this team to

do better in 2026.

In 2025, taking the extra base, stealing, and

putting pressure on defense, done much better by

Bruce Bochy's Rangers than Skip Schumaker's.

Is some of that personnel struggles?

Sure.

What we'll throw out of bone.

But I will say for the biggest part

of Skip's hiring being squeezing every last drop

out of this roster, skip ball, winning on

the margins, it's just not something you've seen

with this team really at all this year.

It is too bad.

And it leaves you wondering, what is this

squad going to do next year?

What is this franchise going to do next

year?

We've already started talking about it.

And I do not want that to be

any kind of indication that I'm giving up

or throwing in the towel, but it's hard

not to talk about it on nights like

tonight.

That is for sure.

G-Man, what's good?

I don't know.

Comment here.

Does our manager seriously believe that this is

going to get better?

I think he's hoping just like all of

us, G-Man.

I don't think he has a ton of

confidence that the team's going to turn it

around if you got him in a quiet

moment.

I don't think there's a lot of people

that do.

I think anybody that is really putting out

there strongly that this Rangers team is going

to go on a run.

They are going to figure it out.

I mean, they are just totally talking nothing.

I mean, talking absolute nothingness, man.

There is nothing you can point to that

this Rangers team is going to go on

a crazy run.

I think there is some evidence like, hey,

they might win a series.

They might win a couple series in a

row.

But there's not some crazy underlying stat that

is yet to be found that is clearly

the reason why the Rangers are going to

figure out and why everybody should still be

hopeful.

Anyone who is getting really on that or

erring on that positive side tonight is just

being disingenuous.

I got to call it like it is,

y'all.

I'm sorry, my guy.

Comment from YouTube.

The feedback is that I am not doing

a very good job talking people off the

ledge tonight.

I'm going to keep it a buck with

you guys, man.

I am not at all in the mood

to try and sugarcoat this.

I'm just not.

I'm not.

This is a very bad game and this

has not been a good week of baseball.

Everything that you've seen this week is an

indication of why you just feel like this

club does not quite have what it takes

to go on a deep run into October.

Now, again, I think what you hope for

is the consistency.

And let me be clear on this, the

consistency that this team just makes no sense

from night to night.

And so tomorrow they could come out and

look incredible.

Cal Q on the mound.

Here's the talk off the ledge right now.

Here's the talk off the ledge.

Cal Q, Cal freaking Quantrill on the bump

tomorrow.

You've got a lefty throwing.

So, you know, you've got some guys in

the Rangers lineup that do like facing the

lefties.

Jake Burger, much better against the lefties.

You've got some other guys that are going

to be in the lineup as well that

are definite spark plugs.

Cody Freeman.

There's a number of different guys that I

do like getting to be inserted into that

lefty lineup.

But Cal Quantrill, I think has got to

be the biggest reason you feel good about

the Rangers being competitive tomorrow.

I think that Cal is going to go

out there and give you a five or

six and probably one to two earned runs

at the most, maybe even a zero.

I'm not proclaiming victory tomorrow by any means,

but I do think you got to feel

like the Rangers have a pretty strong opportunity

to win a ball game with Cal on

the mound.

Things I never thought I would be saying

in 2026, by the way, the one game

that Cal Quantrill is pitching, I feel like

I'm in some alternate universe right now.

Like the one game where Cal's pitching this

series against the best team in baseball.

We're saying out loud that this is the

game right here, the Cal Q game, baby.

Isn't baseball great sometimes, man?

I mean, look, you got to laugh.

I tell you guys this.

I think with this game, you had some

mourning time.

You had some grieving time as the game

started slipping away late.

I know that in the first few innings,

Danny Jansen, it's the home run that kind

of piqued my interest.

But then the Brewers start piling on late

and you can see the writing on the

wall.

The offense isn't going to find it.

And, you know, they didn't give up a

few more runs to just put the icing

on the cake.

I just think it is a crazy baseball

world we're living in where Cal Q is

the guy you feel like is going to

be the one to stop the skid, man,

to stop the losing streak.

Fascinating times.

Fascinating times, man.

All right, what do we got?

What else?

My thing is, if Carter's in the lineup,

just freaking bunt against a lefty, you can't

hit a single off of him.

Hey, a weird play with Evan Carter.

Antonio, appreciate all the comments tonight, man.

Weird play with Carter.

Didn't think that was a legit interference call,

by the way.

Very convinced that if that ball sails over

the first baseman's head, if that ball sails

left, if it goes right, they're not going

to call interference on Evan.

The only reason they called interference was because

the ball hit him.

And I think that clearly that is going

to always get attention.

But if you're not going to call interference

when the ball goes left, right, high, you

cannot call it when it hits him in

the back.

And Evan Carter on the dirt when he

was hit, you're not automatically out if you

touch the grass at some point.

You're not.

You're not automatically out.

I thought it was a little bit different

that Skip didn't argue that a little bit

more.

That would have been the game-tying run.

Carter has a ton of speed.

I thought that was a little weird that

we didn't get more of a rebuttal from

Skip Schumaker at a pretty pivotal point of

the game.

Evan Carter gets on base there.

You steal second.

I mean, they haven't stolen Evan a lot.

The video I put out right around game

time today, I had a crazy busy day,

y'all, but got that video out right

around game time.

I just don't understand why this team doesn't

steal more.

They've got so many players that are fast.

They've got Wyatt Langford.

They've got Evan Carter.

Zeke Duran is speedy.

They've got a lot of guys that can

fly around that diamond, man, and they just

do not steal that many bases.

They don't.

They're not an aggressive team in that regard,

and I do think they need to become

one over this last stretch of games over

this last month of the season if they

are really interested in doing something special.

I think it's ridiculous that the Rangers have

only stolen, I forget what it was, like

70.

They've only attempted like 70-something steals all

year.

Their stealing percentage is actually pretty solid.

I think it's like 75% is their

stealing rate.

It is wild to me that they haven't

done more.

Yeah, I mean, Sugi, what's good?

I know, I think it's the first time

I've highlighted a comment of yours, man.

Sorry for passing you up, but this is

a great one.

Analytics have shown that stealing bases is no

longer worth it.

I feel like it's a valid question to

ask.

Are analytics playing into the Rangers not being

more aggressive on the base pass?

It could be a legitimate thing.

I haven't heard Skip or anybody really talk

about this, but you have to ask the

question.

I do wish that the Beats would ask,

go back to Skip before the season started

in Surprise.

There was so much talk about Skip Ball.

I mean, that's not his phrase.

That's my phrase.

Skip Ball, stealing bases, putting pressure on defenses,

playing small ball, right?

First to third.

There was so much talk like that when

Skip was getting hired and before the spring

training season even began.

And you've kind of seen the team take

a pretty massive step back, even from 2025

in that department.

It is definitely something that I think needs

to be asked.

I would love one of the Beats to

pick up the question and present it.

And maybe now's not the time, but I

would kind of tend to disagree.

I think that right now is a very

relevant time.

The offense isn't getting the big hit.

Can you be doing more to manufacture runs?

Gee, man, Duran's pretty fast.

I did look at the advanced stats the

other night on all of our runners.

I think Duran definitely could be in that

mix.

He's not as fast as Carter or Langford,

but I would say he's in 1B territory.

If Langford and Carter are the 1As, I

think Duran is a 1B.

He's pretty quick out there.

But beyond that, I agree.

They don't have a ton of guys that

you feel great about stealing a bag.

It's another reason why I want to see

this team get a little bit younger, get

a little bit more athletic, get a little

more versatile out there.

100%.

Yeah.

Antonio, it's a great point.

When you have a 75% steal rate,

but you're attempting less than a couple stolen

bases every series, it doesn't matter.

You're not putting that to good use at

all.

You're just not.

Appreciate all you guys hanging out.

Yep.

Jrock with you, 100%.

Crazy comment is from TikTok.

Crazy how much speed the Rangers have, yet

so many bad base runners.

And I mean, look, Cam Cauley, that's another

guy with some wheels.

I was shocked.

I don't know about you guys.

And let me be clear.

I don't want anybody to get it twisted.

Whether you're listening on the pod tomorrow or

now on Saturday morning, or whether you're listening

right now on the live, like we don't

necessarily think, I don't think any of us

think, oh man, if Cam Cauley was stealing

more bases, the Rangers would be winning a

lot more ball games.

I don't think anybody feels that way, but

I do think that when you stack things

up and it's just crazy that Cam with

all that speed, wasn't a guy that was

going a little bit more at will.

And some of these guys, Evan Carter, I

think he's been thrown out once or twice

this year has great steal rate.

I have no clue why Evan Carter isn't

getting more of a green light.

Maybe these guys just aren't trusted on the

base pass.

I mean, that definitely could be a thing.

It could be.

Bring Osuna back.

Comment from Antonio here, YouTube again, season died

when he got demoted.

Oh, you're preaching to the choir.

You're preaching to the choir.

Now look, I probably would not make my

official take the season died when he got

demoted, but oh, I love the line.

I love the line, my guy.

It's a bar as they like to say,

as the kids like to say, it's a

bar.

It feels not coincidental.

You started kind of ticking down when Alejandro

Osuna and the demotions began.

Some of these guys that have given you

life are good clubhouse presences.

We know Alejandro Osuna, a good clubhouse presence.

I 100% think they need to get

him back up to Arlington.

I know they had him up for a

little bit there with waiting for one of

the injuries.

I think he was on taxi squad.

They ended up promoting O'Hoppe.

Cool.

We'll probably see O'Hoppe tomorrow, by the way.

I think they desperately need to get Osuna

back up.

I think he will probably be one of

the call ups.

Then I think they'll probably call up maybe

Robby Ahlstrom again.

Maybe Gavin Collyer.

I don't think they're going to call up

Teodo or anyone else.

I think it'll probably be either calling up

Collyer or they'll call up or recall Ahlstrom.

I think one of those two things will

happen for sure.

We'll see what happens with Macko.

Macko pitched tonight.

That's the guy the Rangers got in the

Josh Smith trade.

He got hit around a little bit tonight,

didn't he?

I wasn't expecting a whole lot out of

Adam Macko.

Didn't really feel like that was a huge

get or anything like that.

Look, prove me wrong.

But when they traded Josh Smith for Macko,

like a part of me understands like you

didn't necessarily have a role for Josh Smith

any longer.

And so you might as well see if

you can get something, some kind of lottery

ticket for him.

And that's kind of what I see Adam

Macko as a lottery ticket.

He might pop.

He very well might fall flat on his

face.

You never know.

We'll see what happens.

But at this point, I see the Rangers

when rosters expand to 28 calling up Osuna,

but then probably calling up one of the

relief pitchers that's down there.

I think that would probably be the move.

We'll see.

It'll happen in a couple of days, right?

September 1st, I believe, are the call-ups.

So they were, yeah, the Brewers coming from

J-Rock here on TikTok.

They were doing a lot, doing a lot

of bunting tonight, really frustrating the Rangers.

That's what happens though.

When you can bunt the ball well, you

make the defense really frustrated really quickly.

Cody Bradford today was not great.

He didn't have any strikeouts.

This is a big reason why in my

mind, I think Cody is probably best served

as a change of pace guy in the

bullpen.

I really do appreciate the starts that Cody

gave us.

I'm not trying to be prisoner of the

moment here and overreact, but Cody is a

guy that throws a lot of strikes and

a team like the Brewers that really do

a nice job putting the ball in play

frequently.

This is a guy that is going to

have a little bit of a tough time

against a team like that.

Brewers love going the other way.

They walk.

They do not let you just throw a

bunch of bad pitches and bail you out.

Cody, I mean, we talked about this.

He finally went up against a good team.

You had him pitch against the Giants, then

the A's, then the Angels.

The Angels, I think, actually worked like twice,

right?

He pitched against a lot of bad teams

and you finally saw him against a good

team.

Granted, maybe the Brewers aren't the most fairest

of teams to evaluate him on, but I

always felt like this was going to be

the true litmus test for Cody.

He's been back about a month now.

I don't think it's totally unfair to add

this, at least to your evaluation of him.

I don't think this is any kind of

throwaway start.

I think you're seeing what happens when Cody

and a guy with his repertoire goes up

against a team that is pretty frequently on

the attack.

For a guy like Cody that's never going

to be a big swing and miss guy,

the recipe was not great.

It was not great.

I do think Cody Bradford is going to

be the long relief guy or he is

going to be a guy that you will

maybe put in for an inning or two

as a bit of a change of pace

arm.

Maybe you have a hard-throwing righty that's

out there and then you want to go

to Bradford, a little bit of a soft

-throwing lefty, right, upper 80s fastball, can hit

90 here and there, has a decent change

up.

I think that probably is the play.

But look, Jack Leiter, he's going to be

shut down.

I think Jack, I don't know if you

heard the news, but I'm assuming suffered some

kind of setback and so he was going

to be pitching out of the bullpen.

It looks like he is going to be

stopping throwing here in the next, well, in

the immediate future.

Rangers shut down Jack Leiter as new issue

arises in rehab outing.

I'm going to see if I can get

this read only.

Evan Grant's probably going to paywall me here,

but I will definitely see if I can

get some information out your way.

Biceps thing.

So he's dealing with the ankle, right?

That was the big thing is the ankle.

He slipped on the on-deck circle and

so the ankle was the issue, had the

procedure to remove some things from the ankle,

help it to heal better.

And now he's got a biceps issue.

So Jack Leiter, not going to most likely

be a big factor down the stretch here,

at least in the regular season.

Could you get him back for the post

-season and have him play in the bullpen,

play out in the bullpen?

Yeah, I think so.

But not really the news you wanted to

hear.

I think you were hoping Jack could come

back and be a nice arm for the

Rangers to be a reinforcement for the starters.

Yeah, a couple of things to pivot to

here.

I definitely do agree on the comment that

CY not buying 100% the right thing

to do.

I don't think this team is, you know,

one or two players away.

Now that I kind of see the full

picture here on August 28th, I don't think

that they are one or two players away.

I always said do one thing or the

other, man.

Go out and get like a blockbuster trade

deal done or just, you know, sell, sell,

sell.

Don't stay in the middle.

I still say I would have liked for

the Rangers to have maybe done a little

bit more selling.

I think standing pat, yeah, on one hand,

it is nice that they didn't buy, but

on the other hand, I think it is

a missed opportunity that they really didn't sell

at all either.

It is what it is at this point.

Uh, Roy, what's good?

Uh, yeah, that's right.

I don't, I don't do no hat very

often, but I'm not even gonna lie to

you guys.

Uh, it is hot here in Vegas.

And, uh, those of you that, that know,

have been around for a while, the studio,

uh, it's, it's humble beginnings here right on

Rangers.

The studio is out in the garage.

The garage is not air conditioned.

I said no hat tonight.

It's very low maintenance though.

I love the cut.

No maintenance, baby.

Just, uh, trim it up, edge it up

a little bit here and there.

Good to go.

It's, uh, it's definitely something that over the

years I had to get used to.

Hair was thinning out a little bit.

Finally said, ah, forget it.

Forget it.

Just, uh, embracing it, coming home as Scott

van Pelt likes to say, and here we

are.

Appreciate that, man.

You guys are too nice.

Uh, look, let's go do a couple of

final points as we wrap up our show

for tonight.

I've got a few things that I was

thinking about as the game was going on,

some which I've already got to some that

I still need to get to, but Henderson

tonight, uh, I just keep thinking about the

game he pitched and it is wild how

you, you've got these players on other teams,

up and comers, guys that are pretty green.

Henderson doesn't have that many starts in the

big leagues and he's looking incredible.

And I think Henderson reminds you of what

you wish the Rangers did better, which is

develop really good starting pitching.

I think you can kind of gas up

Jack Leiter.

You can gas up Kumar rocker a little

bit, but at the end of the day,

both of them have not been consistent.

I think when you watch Logan Henderson dominate

tonight, it really does put into perspective the

fact that the Rangers have struggled to really

create an ace like the brewers were able

to with Henderson.

I think this guy is an ace.

The ERA is sitting at two 48 right

now.

He's at a two 30 career ERA.

This guy is legit.

101 innings pitched 119 career strikeouts.

Uh, Brandon, you know, I would say this,

we're talking about elite and I just don't

think Cody Bradford, you can put him in

the same vein.

Uh, look, Cody to me is, is a

good solid pitcher.

He's not on Logan Henderson's level, right?

He's not on this level.

So, I mean, again, I know this is

hard because we, we love certain guys love

cheering for Cody Bradford, love, love cheering for

Jack Leiter.

Uh, Kumar rocker definitely want to see him

do well.

I want to see all these guys do

well, but I don't think there's any denying

you have no clue what you're going to

get from some of these guys on a

night to night basis.

Cody Bradford's a nice arm.

He's he is not on Logan Henderson's level

right now.

We're talking about developing arms that are ace

level arms.

I don't think Cody Bradford, maybe we're going

to have to agree to disagree.

I don't think Cody Bradford is ever going

to be an ace level arm.

Antonio, I tend to agree with you.

I see him as a very solid number

three, number four starter.

Logan Henderson looks like he could be the

top of rotation guy on a number of

different teams.

I mean, he probably is with the brewers

right now, fourth round pick, uh, out of

a Texas, a Texas guy.

Yeah.

Houston, Texas, by the way, Logan Henderson, Houston

boy went to McClennan community college.

Look at that and drafted by the brewers.

Yeah.

I mean, soldier, this is what I don't

like to think about comment from YouTube here.

100%.

It wouldn't surprise me if Leiter, Rocker would

be on a different team.

They'd be a lot better.

I do.

I try not to think about that because

in an alternate universe, I do feel like

Jack Leiter and Kumar rocker are like these

dominant aces.

And, you know, they're like the talk of

major league baseball, you know, how like the,

the Ms is like, you know, always constantly

on the homepage every time he pitches.

Like, I think there's an alternate universe where

Jack Leiter and Kumar rocker Vandy boys are

always getting hyped up on MLB.com, but

their development with the Rangers has been a

journey to say the least to, to keep

it nice.

It's been a journey and Logan Henderson.

I think watching him pitch tonight, it does

remind you of what the Rangers have failed

to do with their own young starting pitching.

And we're not talking about developing, you know,

a, a solid, you know, back end or

the rotation guy.

We're talking about developing aces.

We're talking about developing number one, number two,

starting pitchers.

It's something that has alluded Texas.

Uh, look, we talked about on the pod

last night or this morning, depending on, uh,

how you want to think about it.

We talked about the margin test.

Milwaukee just wins games on the margins, man.

They, they bunt, they steal, they take the

extra base.

Uh, Bradford didn't help things with that throwing

error, right?

You had things set up pretty much station

to station from Milwaukee in that first inning.

Milwaukee really forced Texas to execute from batter

number one and Texas pretty immediately cracked starting

with the Cody Bradford throwing here.

Not an easy play by the way for

Cody, but that's what happens when you put

pressure on a defense.

I still say we might get caught up

a little bit in the small ball component

of the brewers, but they accumulated 14 hits

tonight.

I know a lot of us are going

to gravitate towards man, the buns, they, they

did the back to back bun thing.

And you know, they were, they were doing

that all night moving guys, you know, from

first to second, second to third, the, the

brewers had 14 hits tonight, man.

Like I think the, the lazy take is

small ball.

I mean, these guys can hit the ball

all over the yard.

They don't hit it out of the park

very much.

The brewers, I don't know if you caught

this stat that I threw out on the

pod, but the brewers have hit the least

homers in major league baseball.

I I'm not exaggerating.

The brewers have hit the least amount of

home runs in major league baseball.

Yet there's only four teams.

As of this morning, there were only four

teams in the game that had scored more

runs than Milwaukee.

That was a mind blower for me because

I've been getting told all season long that

players like Alejandro Osuna are worthless because they

can't slug.

I've been getting told that all season long.

He can't slug bro.

It's not, it's not even worth giving him

a lineup spot, bro.

All he does is hit singles where we

need somebody with pop.

No, you don't.

No, you don't.

The brewers are case study numero uno, man.

They are the number one example.

You don't have to hit home runs to

win a baseball game.

You don't get on base, force the other

team to make plays.

They just need guys that can produce and

get on.

And then you never know what can happen

from there.

You get way too enamored sometimes with the

exit below.

You get way too enamored with the launch

angle.

How many extra base hits does he have?

Blah, blah, blah.

Does he get on base?

Does he get on base?

That's all I care to know.

It's all I care to know.

The Rangers need to get that through their

heads.

They've got a number of players that are

on the roster in the lineup because they

got pop.

You got Jake Burger.

You got Joc Pederson.

Wyatt Langford can definitely do a number of

other things, but he's got some pop.

You got a lot of guys that can

hit the homer and look, they're not doing

it a ton this year, but you got

some guys that are in the lineup because

they can hit the ball out of the

ballpark.

What they can't do and what they haven't

done consistently enough this year is just get

on base, man.

Arraez would have been nice.

We talked about him in the off season.

We talked about him at the trade deadline.

Arraez would have been nice.

We could use a guy like Arraez.

In a perfect world where the Rangers would

have bought either in the off season or

at the deadline, I would have loved for

them to have gone out and got a

rise, gone out and got a catcher, Rutschman,

Goodman, one of the the big names that

was available.

I think that you're definitely at a spot

though where you've got a lot of players

on the Rangers that you really have to

figure out and determine what's the future.

Josh Young, what's the future?

Is this guy really a dude you want

around for five or six more years?

Do we think Josh Young is going to

age gracefully?

You think about other players.

Evan Carter, that's going to be a tough

decision.

Do you really think Evan Carter is the

long-term answer at center field?

There's going to be a lot of tough

decisions to make.

I think the Rangers have to let go

a little bit of 2023 first and foremost.

I think they have to look at what's

happened since then.

And then I think you also have to

stop making all of your decisions based on

the hope that a player turns into something

big, the hope that a player rebounds from

a really ugly previous season.

You have to start operating in the here

and now, and that I think is where

the Rangers need to recalibrate.

There's a lot of guys on the roster

that they're not playing well, but they've got

too much potential to give up on.

How often do we hear that?

It's not going great, but they've got too

much potential.

We can't dump them.

We can't DFA.

We can't trade them.

We can't send them down to the minor

leagues.

They've got too much potential.

Where's that gotten?

Outside looking in right now.

Doesn't mean that the season is over, but

outside looking in right now.

We keep on going.

Few more things.

Look, Bradford tonight.

I already talked a little bit about Cody.

It wasn't his best night at all.

The contact, the lack of strikeouts tonight is

what really got him not giving up on

Cody.

Definitely rooting for Cody.

I think his story is incredible.

You know, there's a world where I think

had he pitched a little bit longer this

year, he would have been a lot more

in the running for comeback player of the

year.

He just doesn't have enough time, but had

he come back in June and pitched well,

I think it would have been fun to

watch him in that race.

Cody is a great comeback story, no doubt.

And he just happened to run into the

best team in baseball that really is disciplined

up at the plate.

Cody happens to be a strike thrower.

The Brewers happen to love getting strikes to

put into play.

It wasn't a great recipe and the Rangers

ultimately don't get enough offense for it to

even really matter.

You're just showing us they lose six to

one tonight to the Brewers.

Danny Jansen.

We've been hard on Danny.

Danny double play as I like to call

him from time to time.

Danny double play was the only answer tonight.

Lone run against Logan Henderson, fifth homer of

the year.

Cool for him being back in Wisconsin.

We know that Danny, he is a Wisconsin

boy.

He played for Milwaukee last year.

So there's some teammates over there on the

other side, little added juice for him.

But look, the nine hole hitter going deep.

Danny was hitting nine spots tonight.

That can't be your entire offensive plan against

the best team in the game.

Last thing here, last of my main points

as I was jotting down a variety of

things watching the game tonight.

Houston, they went tonight, they go up a

couple of games.

Uh, they made this loss even more expensive.

It's very unfortunate to have to always be

doing this scoreboard watching thing.

You know, if the Rangers were just winning

games consistently, you would care a little less.

I mean, you'd still be curious, but you'd

care a little less.

They're winning.

They keep winning.

They're going to be fine at the end

of it all.

Houston two games up, technically three games up.

You definitely are at a point where there's

no moral victories.

There's not a lot of silver linings.

You don't have that much time.

You've got 27 games left, 27 games left,

man.

We're going to preview the matchup for tomorrow.

Rangers are on Fox tomorrow.

What could go wrong?

Fox game coming at you.

What could go wrong?

National TV, babe.

Oh man.

I sure hope it is just one of

those unexplainable, inexplicable Rangers look like the best

team in major league baseball.

Just totally randomly for no reason, man.

I am hoping and praying for that.

Rangers again, uh, will be on Fox tomorrow.

Looks like the game is going to be

starting, uh, believe it like six 15 Texas

time.

I hope I'm right on that.

Yes, I was right on that.

Six 15 Texas time, by the way, um,

we have no probable.

Actually we do have a probable starter.

It's a Drohan.

Hope I'm getting that right.

Drohan Drohan for Milwaukee lefty six and five

with the three 84 ERA this year.

Uh, he has pitched really well for being

a rookie.

He went like, I think five in one.

It says here with the two 27 ERA

last year at triple a and in his

career, he is six and five in major

league baseball.

Three 84 career ERA is first bowl season

in the bigs.

He has gotten touched up a little bit

of late.

The brave's just touched him up for 11

base runners in five innings.

He only pitched two innings against Seattle.

Maybe he was in an opener roll Dodgers.

He went five and a third, three earned

runs, three walks, three hits.

So this is a guy that is going

to give up the free pass on the

other side.

Cal Quantrill has faced a number of brewers

players.

Chourio is three for five with the home

run against Quantrill.

So we look out for Jackson Chourio Contreras,

the catcher four for seven.

Frelick is one for three Hamilton over to

Ortiz.

The shortstop over for Sanchez, one for six.

Turang one for seven Vaughn five for 11

Yelich one for six.

So you basically got Contreras and Chourio as

the guys that you're really looking out for

Vaughn, the first baseman a little bit as

well.

I do feel like to an extent Cal

is on a little bit of a different

plane right now than what he was in

years past.

So I'm not sure how much stock you

put into these matchups.

I think Cal's on a roll right now.

He's feeling it.

I'll knock on wood for him, but I

feel he gives the Rangers a solid chance

to win tomorrow.

I'm not saying and proclaiming a surefire win

column with the Pat Green music playing in

the background, but I do think Cal is

going to give you six innings, probably two

earned runs and you're going to have a

shot.

The only question is, is he going to

walk off the mound, you know, trailing two

to nothing or two to one or the

Rangers bats actually going to decide to show

up that that is the age old question

here.

Buzzer curse.

Good job.

It's good.

That is hilarious.

The buzzer curse.

Actually, they were talking about it on the

broadcast.

Speaking of, I got to go in on

the broadcast a bit here.

They were talking about how Evan Grant and

Jared Sandler proclaim that Corey Seager was back.

I think it was a couple of days

ago.

Did you guys hear this?

And Dave Raymond was talking about it.

And I guess Corey has not gotten a

hit since Evan Grant and Jared Sandler proclaim

that Corey Seager is back.

You can't make this stuff up.

No hits for Corey Seager since Evan Grant,

Jared Sandler said he's back.

All right.

Hopefully, Corey can get off the Schneid tomorrow.

Maybe we got to get Jared and Evan

doing a little bit of a recant.

Oh, it's rough.

It's rough in the streets.

Rangers drop in their third straight game tonight.

Cal Quantrill going to be asked to be

a stopper tomorrow.

We'll see what's able to happen.

Um, the broadcast, by the way.

I we're just, I guess, going to have

to listen to them slobber over this team,

this Brewers team all weekend long.

I hope they got some feedback tonight.

Like it was the first inning and you

heard about nine million compliments about the Brewers

immediately.

I get like a nod, like wanting to

give the Brewers their respect.

I like I totally get it.

I give the Brewers a little respect.

They're the best team in baseball.

But we had Dave Raymond and Mike Bax,

Baxic like waxing poetic about this Brewer squad

for, I would say, almost every other inning

and from the get go.

I mean, come on now.

I really don't want to hear that all

series.

I guess we won't have to hear it

tomorrow with the Fox broadcast.

We'll just have to listen to John Smoltz.

I don't know if that's better.

Smoltzy.

I don't know if he's on the call.

I'm just making that up.

I don't know if Smoltzy is on the

call tomorrow or not, but.

What is the best case scenario there?

I don't know.

You got to choose the lesser of the

two.

I like I do think whether it's intentional

or not, I agree with this.

Sometimes it does feel like there's more excitement

to get to watch a team that plays

consistently good baseball.

Maybe that's what it is.

I don't know.

I don't know.

But a lot of slobbering over the opponent

tonight from the Rangers broadcast booth.

A lot of slobbering.

Don't want to hear it for the entire

weekend.

I guess, like I said, we won't have

to tomorrow with the Fox broadcast, but that

was something else.

All right, let's land this thing and then

we're going to sign off for the night.

But tonight told me that Milwaukee style every

bit as annoying as advertised.

We knew that this team had speed.

We knew they could put the ball in

play.

The Brewers walk at an elite rate.

Henderson also reminded us that, you know, none

of that base running conversation that we talked

about last night on the pod with the

video I put out today.

None of the base running conversation matters if

you can't get to first base.

The Rangers, minus the Danny Jansen home run,

did that a grand total of once via

the hit.

Ugly night at the dish.

I am definitely a little bit unsure about

how much this this was Henderson just being

legitimately great.

I know we throw this out there a

lot.

Henderson has good stuff, man.

You don't hear me say this all the

time.

I know you hear Skip say it just

about after every single loss.

Whoever was throwing was great.

They've got great stuff.

I haven't said that after every loss.

I will say that having watched a little

bit of Logan Henderson tape in the lead

up to this one, dude is good.

He is a good arm.

But this offense just doesn't get any benefit

of the doubt.

They really don't.

They have been inconsistent all season.

I'm not giving them the benefit of the

doubt.

Logan Henderson, so good.

No, this is kind of what the offense

has been most of the season, especially most

of the last couple of weeks.

Now, look, they put up some runs in

the White Sox series.

I understand that.

I get it.

But a lot of those runs were coming

when the game was already far out of

reach.

It's hard to feel like those stats in

those runs were super meaningful considering the context

of the game.

Look, I'm watching to see how they respond

tomorrow.

Cal Quantrill on the bump.

Game one, definitely losing game one makes two

out of three a lot more complicated.

I guess maybe not.

You just got to win the next two.

It makes it more difficult, not necessarily complicated.

That's not a good choice of words, but

it makes it more difficult.

You got to win the next two.

I do think if the Rangers can get

out of Milwaukee without getting swept, you're just

hoping that Houston maybe drops a couple of

games here.

You really don't want to leave Milwaukee with

a four game, a five game deficit.

I guess the worst it could be is

four, but technically it's five because of the

tiebreaker.

You just don't want to see Houston sweep

and us drop three straight.

You got to win at least one here.

That to me is going to be the

biggest thing to watch the rest of the

weekend.

Can we get one?

Can we salvage one?

Maybe steal a second.

That would be phenomenal.

All right, y'all.

Appreciate all you guys hanging out.

By the way, I know we've talked about

the podcast a little bit.

Essentially, depending on the day, the past couple

of nights, I know a couple of you

guys were DMing me like, dude, are you

okay?

I just had a lot going on with

work.

Tuesday had a work event.

Wednesday was meet the teacher with my kiddos,

went up to my kids' school.

You walk around, see all the different classes

and stuff.

It was cool, but I decided to just

do traditional podcast format.

I posted those the next morning.

I'm probably going to try and do that

a little bit here and there still, but

I turn every live show into a podcast,

essentially.

I'll post the podcast every morning, really early

in the morning.

After midnight, most of the time for all

you guys that are in the DFW area

or in Texas, at least.

Also, we've talked a little bit about the

Discord too.

The Discord is a really solid group of

people that we've been going strong for the

past year plus now.

It's the one thing that I monetized on

the show.

It's $2.99 a month to join the

Discord.

As I always say, not needed, but much

appreciated if you would consider it.

You just have to become a member on

YouTube or a subscriber on TikTok, one of

the two.

$2.99 is $2.99. I totally get

that.

That is a monthly fee, by the way.

It just goes to support all the things

that I'm doing here.

Clearly, I think you guys know I'm trying

to make this something maybe down the road

that I can do a little bit more

full time.

All the ways that you support the show

are more than enough.

If you want to take your support to

the next level, I'd love if you'd consider

becoming a member on YouTube, subscriber on TikTok.

We'll get you into that Discord channel.

It's great.

Baseball, pretty much around the clock.

We get a little heated in there.

Definitely a great place to get a little

group therapy after some of these losses.

Would love to have you a part of

it.

Thank you for considering.

As far as the rest of the weekend

goes, tomorrow, we will look to go live,

seventh or eighth inning once again.

That will be the plan.

We'll do the same thing on Sunday.

I'll have some video out to you guys

tomorrow.

I will also have a couple of other

posts along the way.

Got a pretty full day planned for you.

Thanks for coming along for the ride.

Appreciate all you guys.

We are going to go ahead and sign

off for the night.

Hope you guys have a great rest of

your Friday.

As I always say to end every show,

God bless, and go Rangers.