00:00How can you not be romantic about making the playoffs in the middle of June?
00:04One, because you made me mad during the break.
00:06One.
00:08One.
00:09A couple of people are believing.
00:12Don't stop believing.
00:13A couple of people are believing in the Texas Baseball Rangers.
00:18You want Las Vegas, or you want the Geeks?
00:21Which one first?
00:23Let's go Vegas, since they screwed me over last night again.
00:26Ha ha! Las Vegas believes in the Texas Rangers of all the second-place teams in Major League Baseball.
00:35Vegas thinks the Rangers have the third-best chance of any of them to outright win the division.
00:41So only the Rays at plus 220 and the Cubs at plus 280 have better odds than the Rangers at
00:50plus 320 of all the second-place teams.
00:53So if you go eat division by division, the Mariners are minus whatever, and they're the Rangers at plus 320.
01:01And then the Astros and Angels down there.
01:03And then in the NL West, it's the Dodgers and the Padres and Rockies and Diamondbacks.
01:08Each one has got their own number assigned to it.
01:12Now, the question is...
01:13So they think the Rangers have a better chance of making the postseason than the Yankees?
01:17No, no.
01:18The Yankees are favored in the East.
01:19Okay.
01:20So the Rays are the second-place team.
01:22Rays are the second-place team.
01:23So the Rays have a better odds of winning the East than the Rangers do of winning the West.
01:29Second-place.
01:30Right.
01:31So this is just second-place teams.
01:32Now, the question is, is this more belief in the Rangers, or is it more uncertainty about the Mariners?
01:46I would think it's the uncertainty about the Mariners in the West.
01:49I would think.
01:51Unless you're going to sell me on some more crap, that this team is better than I think.
01:56Well, I mean, I can't really sell you on it.
01:58Okay.
01:58I don't have...
01:59You just have to feel the AC or the heat being turned up for yourself.
02:02Right.
02:02So you got to start sweating around that neck.
02:04A little neck sweat.
02:04You know, you get neck sweat at the new place, which I got last time I was there.
02:08It was warm.
02:09It was warm.
02:10Right?
02:10A little neck sweat.
02:10Just a little bit.
02:11Very uncomfortable in our suite.
02:12Yes, I agree.
02:13The suite was very uncomfortable.
02:14The suite was nice.
02:15You know, when you get outside the seats, you know, outside the AC.
02:19As Peyton would say, when he dropped that foul ball, he said, I let it fall to the pores.
02:27I'm so mad I missed that, him dropping the ball.
02:30He didn't really drop it.
02:31It was two sections over.
02:32I'm so mad I missed seeing him, like, get a read on it and try to, like, that would have
02:36been so perfect.
02:38So, because, like, the Rays are currently in first place.
02:41Or at least they were as of yesterday.
02:43And they're not the faves in the East.
02:44And the Yankees are without Aaron Judge until, like, August almost.
02:48So, Vegas is buying in.
02:51I would ask, should we, too?
02:53Um, but it's, there's nothing.
02:56I don't really have, I can't really sell you that hard on it.
03:00Because the offense is just so inconsistent.
03:03Some days, I mean, look, did yesterday feel like a six-run game?
03:08Ah, six runs with extras.
03:11With extras.
03:11Not when it took four.
03:12And a ghost runner.
03:12Not when it took four hours when you're thinking this is 10-8.
03:16Right.
03:16Yeah, I mean, obviously, yeah.
03:18Because, obviously, you go in extra innings.
03:19But it was, so it was a four-run.
03:20Which, that feels more like what it was.
03:23But I don't even think it felt, it felt more like, like, maybe like a three-run outburst.
03:27But, uh, it's just, there's a lot of inconsistence.
03:29Three-run outbursts.
03:31That's all.
03:31That's what it felt like.
03:32I mean, three runs around here has felt like an outburst at times.
03:35Yeah.
03:35Um, but, now we move over to the geeks.
03:39The nerds.
03:40They've got the Rangers in the post-season.
03:44Um, right now, the Rangers playoff odds.
03:50Bobby, I know you haven't seen this, right?
03:52I haven't seen it.
03:52He's not looking at anything baseball-related except 160.
03:55Oh, he's looking at baseball-related stuff, and it's just 1980.
03:58What percentage chance do the Rangers have of making the playoffs, according to, like, the, you know, the.
04:03The little ESPN thing?
04:04Yeah, that FPI, or whatever it is.
04:06Um, 51%.
04:1264.8.
04:14They have not watched them.
04:15This is why you can't play baseball on a calculator.
04:17They, like, they may make the playoffs.
04:18That is not a 64% chance with the way they've played.
04:21Night.
04:22That's night.
04:22It's not just the way you play.
04:24It's the circumstances around you.
04:26No, I know, but, like, there's nothing about them that says, like, man, they are just so underperforming relative to
04:31the other teams in their division that they're still behind.
04:33Like, it's, there's still a. . . .
04:34Yeah, but it's the circumstances around you.
04:37They are. . .
04:38But why is it better than Seattle, for instance?
04:40Is it better than. . .
04:41No, it's not.
04:42Seattle's an 89% chance of making the playoffs.
04:44It's not better than Seattle.
04:44Because they think Texas could still get in the wild card.
04:47But here's the thing, okay?
04:49So, Seattle is 89% chance.
04:53Then Cleveland is 86.
04:55The next American League team is the Rangers at 64.8.
04:59After that, that's ninth, by the way.
05:01After that, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th.
05:04You've got to go all the way down to 14th with Toronto.
05:07And Toronto, the gap between the Rangers at 64.8 and Toronto.
05:12Toronto, Toronto's 36.3% chance of making the playoffs.
05:16That is a massive gap.
05:18Look.
05:18Now, a week later, a week from now, this could be flipped on its head.
05:22I'm going to admit something.
05:24It's not the best thing to do on the home of the Rangers.
05:26It's not going to be good.
05:27I know what you're going to say, and I 100% agree with you.
05:29It's not going to be on Twitter in the fan text.
05:31Right, Aiden?
05:32It's not going to be good.
05:34Aiden's going to clip it.
05:35On Twitch especially.
05:37And it's hypocritical on top of it all.
05:42If the Cowboys were in this same exact situation, I'd be much more excited, optimistic, and positive.
05:49And I need to call into question my attitude and my, not disgust, but my temperament and my reaction to
05:59whenever you bring up these types of optimistic things.
06:02And my emotional rejection of it.
06:06Why?
06:06Why am I doing it?
06:07I know why.
06:08I thought you were going somewhere else.
06:09And why am I being hypocritical?
06:10Because if the Cowboys were in this, I'm like, all right, you're still there.
06:14Still got a chance.
06:14I'm excited about the possibilities.
06:16I'm rooting for these other teams to lose in the NFC East to move us up.
06:20I'm being hypocritical about it, and I'm being negative about it.
06:24I thought you were going somewhere else.
06:25It's like rewarding.
06:26You're being rewarded for mediocrity.
06:29Right.
06:30Well, if that's the case.
06:31Where did you think I was going?
06:32I thought you were going to say that you know that they're here.
06:35But you're bored watching this team.
06:38Well, I am bored.
06:39But all these things, being in it, this is a good thing.
06:45It's a good thing.
06:46But I'm not reacting.
06:47I don't have an internal reaction of good.
06:49Well, I think football.
06:51This is better for us.
06:52It's better for the station.
06:53It's better for the Metroplex.
06:54If you're in it, it'll be more exciting for trade deadline.
06:56You make the playoffs.
06:57That's better for everyone.
06:58It's easier to watch a frustrating team once a week than six times.
07:03They are, because the analogous, like if you want to take it like what time of the year
07:09it is, like it would be the Cowboys are currently three and four, and the Eagles are three and
07:15three, and we have 10 games or 11 games left to play.
07:19And where it's like, well, that's right there.
07:21Whereas, it's like, okay, over the next 10 games, we've got these 10 critical moments
07:25that we can evaluate and talk about, and there's so much riding on these.
07:28Whereas, if this was the case with 10 games left in the Rangers' season, you'd be more
07:32into it, probably.
07:33You'd be more like, oh my gosh, there's so much weight on this.
07:35Whereas, that just feels like, this is a marathon, though.
07:38There's 100 more games they have to play.
07:40So, it's also just a little bit like, it's exhausting almost to think about what could
07:44occur over, that's why baseball is just such a, it is a grind.
07:48Or, to your point, I feel like a lot of the mystery has been removed, whereas in the
07:55NFL, right, with 10 more games, one game a week, it's like, oh, what could happen?
08:00Whereas, you've already seen 65 games.
08:02I've seen 65 games, 66 games, and what I think is a lot of evidence.
08:05Yeah, Raiders, Eagles, Chiefs, that little three-game stretch.
08:09That's 30 games.
08:10People like, oh my gosh, look at this.
08:13It threw our world upside down.
08:14It's a different football team.
08:15Like, they did change.
08:16They've completely, they figured this out, and this, and so it, like, it can just.
08:20You can see change in the NFL much, much quicker.
08:22You see a baseball change, it's like, all right, it's 10 days.
08:24Oh, okay.
08:26It's the Colorado River, like, cutting the Grand Canyon.
08:29It's just, like, very slow.
08:30It takes a while.
08:31And, like, the change is not, you don't feel great about anything until you're several
08:35weeks into it.
08:36And that's the instant gratification that baseball doesn't have, that football does.
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