00:00Well, Schwarber had a ball that traveled choppy.
00:03Their pitcher on the mound, Christopher Sanchez,
00:05showing why he is absolutely lights out.
00:08The Rangers tried late.
00:09Ultimately, they fall 5-3, game one to Filthy.
00:12Yeah, they tried.
00:14They realized the game started in the ninth inning.
00:17That's kind of how it worked.
00:18Thank God Bobby's not here.
00:21Thank God he is not here.
00:23Yeah, he was on the text.
00:24He was, he was, he was.
00:26You know, I was in a blocking mood.
00:28Blocking mood this week.
00:30Had to block Ritma.
00:31Oh, yeah.
00:32For the golf.
00:33For the golf.
00:34I'll never unblock that fool.
00:37This, this was, this was more of the same.
00:40That's the unfortunate aspect of this is,
00:43it's one day, it's one day.
00:46It doesn't mean a thing.
00:47They got 161 more.
00:48But of the one time, the one time you wanted to get off to a good start.
00:52It's like this year, you have back-to-back, mid-offensive seasons.
00:57Real mid.
00:58And then you want to get off to a good start.
01:00You got all this hope.
01:01The hopium that we all put ourselves in.
01:03And you got there, and a thud.
01:05I mean, you got two guys to second base.
01:07What, through seven innings?
01:09Yeah, for the first five or six innings,
01:12I was, I was calm and cool, and I was fine.
01:15And then, innings seven and eight,
01:18rolled around, it was take,
01:20it felt like it was taking forever.
01:22Oh, yeah.
01:22And I started getting angry.
01:23And I started getting ticked off.
01:24Because at first, I was, all right, we're like through six innings, two hours.
01:27They're going to lose, but at least it's going to be two hours, two and a half hours.
01:31And then it started dragging out until the comeback.
01:33But that seventh and eighth inning, I was starting to get irritated.
01:36The whole time, I was trying to stay disciplined.
01:38I was texting with Sandler.
01:39He's like, people are going to freak out.
01:40People are going to be mad about this.
01:41And I was like, I'm not going to get irate with an absolute stud against you.
01:47He's starting game one for a reason.
01:49I think he's got the sub 2-9 ERA.
01:52We all know about Christopher Sanchez.
01:54If you don't, you do now.
01:56So, I was trying to temper the anger.
01:59He's a good pitcher.
02:00There's no doubt about it.
02:01Now, the Rangers had a really good one on the mound, too.
02:04But, yeah, Sanchez, he's a stud.
02:06But, and for a guy who's like, I mean, his career kind of blossomed late.
02:11I talked about that on the broadcast.
02:13But, yeah, like, it's no shame to go out there and get shut down by Sanchez.
02:18But to look kind of anemic doing it at the same time, you know, not really threatening,
02:25not having a whole lot of run creation moments.
02:29I mean, that just wasn't really something that was popping until late.
02:33You know, look, if you get to a team's bullpen,
02:35and that's why it's important to get to a team's bullpen early,
02:37because you get into there, and then, you know, all it takes is one guy to have an off day.
02:42And the next thing you know, the game changes.
02:44And it changed because of Jake Berger.
02:47Corey Majors is looking good to start off the season.
02:51He came back from Surprise, Arizona with the K&C Masterpiece,
02:54and he said, man, I'm feeling like Jake Berger.
02:58He's going to break out.
02:59You had some other people saying it with a Rangers preview.
03:02He ends up with three hits, the two-run homer in the ninth, Corey Seager with two hits,
03:08and you actually have a tying run on after the Jansen RBI single.
03:13So that makes it 5-3.
03:15Evan Carter, here we go.
03:18Here's a moment.
03:20Ground out.
03:20Yeah, and look, just keep on the field.
03:24He'll get his hits eventually.
03:26Well, pinch hitting for one at bat.
03:28That'll help more.
03:29That'll help more, right?
03:31You know, you're sitting here in the seventh inning,
03:32and Berger's got as many hits as everybody else on the team combined.
03:36He had a game.
03:37He had a hell of a day.
03:39It'd be great.
03:40But Jake Berger figures out how to hit.
03:41He figures out how to have a full season.
03:44You extend the lineup.
03:46But, again, I mean, like this is – it's one game,
03:49and that's the thing of opening day.
03:51You overreact to it.
03:52We all do.
03:53We all overreact to opening day.
03:55They go around the league.
03:56Paul Skeens, Aaron Judge, I mean, everyone's overreacting to their performances
04:00on opening day, and it doesn't really matter.
04:02I mean, you're going to have a million opportunities to fix it.
04:06The problem with the Rangers and the offense yesterday is that, yeah,
04:09they're going to have a lot of opportunities to fix it,
04:11but they've shown us over the last two years this is what the offense is.
04:14And that's unfortunate.
04:16We talked to Brett Boone, as we will every other Wednesday here on the show.
04:20We talked to Boone about the problems with the ball traveling
04:23and how it got inside some guys' heads last year in Arlington.
04:27That was the total opposite yesterday.
04:30I could not believe the Schwarber ball got out, and Bassett couldn't either.
04:34How about the next one?
04:35The home run to make it, boom, five zip, yeah,
04:39who's suing his parents, by the way.
04:41We'll get to that.
04:42But that ball looked like a lazy fly ball.
04:46And, you know, the wind, and I have people come back and say,
04:50the wind's three miles an hour.
04:52Yeah, if that's three miles an hour, I'm eight foot three.
04:55Yeah.
04:55That wind ain't three miles.
04:56That was a 30-mile-an-hour wind.
04:58I mean, that flag was whipping.
05:01And there's no reason that Boone's home run goes out on a normal day.
05:06And it looked like Nate was going to get out of that.
05:08Fifth inning, first and second, no one out.
05:12Strikes out Schwarber, strikes out Bryce, and then, boom,
05:16basically with the game-ender with the three-run shot going opposite field.
05:20First time Nate has allowed more than three earned runs in an opening day start.
05:25But he wasn't bad.
05:26No, he wasn't bad.
05:27The Schwarber home run, he hung that.
05:30That was a classic April, March, or whatever, pitch.
05:35Didn't have a great feel for the baseball.
05:37I don't know what the humidity level was there,
05:40or being able to really grip the ball.
05:42But, I mean, that was classic, just not in mid-season form yet.
05:46He hangs it, and he hangs it to the wrong guy.
05:48He hangs it to the guy who led the NL in home runs last year.
05:51He hangs it to the guy who was going to push for the Major League home run lead this year
05:57and win the home run championship this year.
05:59I mean, he hung it to the wrong guy.
06:01The Boone one, I mean, I think it's up in the air.
06:04It's wind-dated.
06:04What are you going to do, right?
06:06Now, the Rangers should have hit some flat balls.
06:08Yeah.
06:08That'd be nice.
06:08That would have been nice.
06:09Sanchez, that change-up was unfair.
06:12Baseball savant had Sanchez as the only pitcher in the sport to have two pitches in the top 15 last
06:19year.
06:19His sinker.
06:20Oh, wow.
06:21And the change-up.
06:22It was automatic, and he was basically unbeatable and perfect at home last season.
06:28Yeah, and that makes sense why he's so good.
06:29I mean, you have two pitches in the top 15 of that pitch.
06:32I mean, as a starter, I mean, you've got to have at least three.
06:36At least three.
06:37He's older, though.
06:38He's at 29, right?
06:39Yeah, he's at 28-29 from the Dominican.
06:41He didn't really get going until he was about 27.
06:45And that's going to help out Philly long-term because it may keep his salary down.
06:49They're not going to have to give him a 10-year deal.
06:52The way the stupid MLB rookie salary wages go.
06:55But he's a treat.
06:57He really is.
06:59All right.
06:59Are you freaking out?
07:00After game one, are we doing a Rangers overreaction?
07:03Overreaction or not?
07:04Or not.
07:04After 5-3 in Philly on your home of the Rangers at 877-881-1053.
07:10877-881-1053 to hit us up on the Frankel & Frankel injury attorney text line.
07:16And then, of course, thank you, baseball, with the stupid off day today.
07:20Before you play.
07:21What are you doing?
07:23They're doing that because of.
07:25Look, they should fix this by just not playing games in Philadelphia and Detroit and Boston in middle of March.
07:33They do this in case there's a rain out and they don't have to make up games later on in
07:39the year.
07:40So they're like, we're going to do a game and then a day off in case there's a rain out
07:44we can play the next day as opposed to playing on Friday, having a rain out, and then having to
07:50do a double header already.
07:51So that's why they do it.
07:53I would just say play the games in warm weather climates or stadiums with domes.
08:00So, like, obviously, you know, the Rangers have a roof on their stadium, right?
08:05They still do.
08:05They didn't take it off in the offseason.
08:06They did not take it off.
08:07All right.
08:08Why are we playing in Philadelphia?
08:09If you played here, you could have started it today and then play Friday, Saturday, Sunday and not worry about
08:15it.
08:15And that's the good news, like, if you're, say, Skeens, right, you know, if you, yeah, the bullpen went nine
08:23innings yesterday.
08:24They don't play today, right?
08:25So it doesn't matter.
08:26They were able to do that.
08:28Skeens is the story throughout the rest of the sport, and I'm paying attention to those who are not including
08:35the tagline of him getting screwed in this out.
08:38Yeah, he did.
08:39Twice.
08:40O'Neal did not have a great game.
08:43And neither of those are counted as errors.
08:45I know, because it didn't touch a glove, right?
08:46I hate baseball scoring.
08:48I really do.
08:49Yeah, because, you know, we were talking about this at one of my kids' games.
08:52It was like it was a pop-up to the infield.
08:54It doesn't touch anybody's glove.
08:56Yeah.
08:56And it's like, how do you score that?
08:57I'm like, well, I mean, it's a hit.
08:59Like, nobody, you can't give an error to anybody.
09:02Nobody touched it.
09:03Like, what are you going to do?
09:03It just, it dropped in.
09:05I hate it.
09:06It's unfair to the pitcher.
09:07They need to have a team error.
09:11That's so dumb.
09:11If you can judge a hit in an error, you should be able to judge whether a pop-up is
09:17a play that's supposed to be made.
09:19Yeah.
09:19That ball goes in the air, and we all know, as baseball fans and followers and T-ball players.
09:25We know who has priority.
09:26We know which fielder has priority to call the other ones off.
09:30Yeah.
09:30Yeah.
09:31Or a team error.
09:32I don't care.
09:32Yeah, call a team error.
09:33Give credit to someone, just don't punish Paul Skeen's ERA, which now sits at 67.50.
09:39Oh, is that high?
09:40Pretty high.
09:40That's high.
09:41Yeah.
09:41Way more, it's more than Olivia weighs.
09:45She was there.
09:46Front row.
09:47Front row.
09:48Yeah, I would like to have them institute a team error law or ruling or scoring, because that's not fair
09:55to Paul's ERA.
09:56And the ERA, that's how these guys get paid.
09:58He punishes the pitcher way more than the fielder, who maybe it wasn't.
10:05You lose at the sun, whatever, man.
10:07I get it, right?
10:08It happens.
10:09One error versus an ERA.
10:11Now he's going to fix the ERA with a few innings.
10:13But one error against the ERA, you're not getting punished for that.
10:17No, you're not.
10:17He's not getting punished.
10:19They've got to change that up.
10:20Again, they can't give it to any individual, but just give it to a team.
10:23Anything else jump out from the other games?
10:26How much did you just stay glued to that, but for the basketball?
10:28You know, I watched, I had it on the Pirates-Mets game, because I wanted to keep an eye on
10:33the NBC broadcast.
10:35You know, because that game was on NBC.
10:38So, like, I was mainly just watching that one.
10:40I had initially tuned in for Skeens.
10:43You know, I initially had tuned in for Paul Skeens.
10:45I mean, I don't care about the Mets.
10:46I don't care about the Pirates.
10:48I was really tuning in for Paul Skeens.
10:50But, you know, that is a day.
10:51Like, that's, I love opening day.
10:53It is a very overrated day.
10:56Oh.
10:56Well, because the game doesn't mean anything, right?
10:59It's like, it's the most important game you'll play as a baseball player until September.
11:04But, in the grand scheme of things, Paul Skeens' ZRA of 67 isn't going to matter.
11:10The Rangers' offense, I mean, that will matter.
11:13But, you know, like, it's one game.
11:15So, it's overrated from the important standpoint.
11:18But, it's still fun.
11:19And, it's still one of my favorite days of the year.
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