00:00Chris Young was with us on Monday and he said, just talking about the season in general,
00:20this is not what we expected and I expect our players to be as equally embarrassed as
00:24I am about how we've played.
00:26Is that a fair way to put the season and do you get that sense from any of the players?
00:31Oh I think so, yeah.
00:33I think they're all disappointed at how it's gone this year with the offense.
00:42I'm sure as a group, yeah, it is embarrassing for us to play the way we did last year and
00:53end up having the season go like this.
00:56It's not over, but I'll say this, I check with guys if they need a day, whatever, they
01:04all want to play.
01:06They all want to try to finish strong and I think that's important for the club, for
01:10the fans, for all of us.
01:12You never know, you still could get on a crazy streak.
01:15We've been saying that for a while, but ran into a buzzsaw last night, obviously.
01:23I think we've got to look at, each of us has got to look at each other, I mean ourselves
01:30and us as a group collectively and just say, hey, we've got work to do.
01:36I've said this game is for the humble or the guys who are about to be humbled and it's
01:43a humbling season for us.
01:50As a lifelong Rangers fan, we never experienced what we experienced last year.
01:55All three of us, since we were a kid, it was the pinnacle of our Rangers fandom.
02:00The other thing is, we've never experienced defending a title either.
02:05You've gone through that a few times.
02:07How trying is a season after defending a title?
02:12It's got to be a long offseason.
02:13I've just always been curious of, is it kind of like a little bit of a lull after that
02:19or how do you get the guys to rally back after winning the big one?
02:25It's obvious I haven't had a lot of luck.
02:33I look at every championship and next year they've all been a little bit different.
02:38The first one, I go back to San Francisco and Posey got involved in that home plate
02:44collision.
02:45We lost him, but we hung in there.
02:46We played pretty good.
02:49One year it was the pitching that we lost two or three starters that year that made
02:55it tough.
02:56But still, we all have injuries, the teams, and you've got to find a way to overcome them.
03:05We've had a tough time doing that.
03:08I'll repeat myself on this, you need your guys to have their normal years and that has
03:12not happened.
03:13It's hard to put a finger on why I'm already tired.
03:19I don't think it's complacency.
03:20It may have adjusted to us, but this is why we've got to look at ourselves and figure
03:30a way that we can come back and be the team that we were last year.
03:37That's what we're hoping to do here the next six weeks is figure that out now.
03:43We go into offseason and have a lot of confidence about where we're at and the guys that we
03:48have.
03:49You look at this core group, there's not a better core group, I think, in baseball.
03:55We're playing up to our standard.
04:00It's important again that we realize how important these games are for us to finish strong.
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