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Yeah buddy, here we go. It's our number five of the GBAC Nation here on 1-0-5-3. The FanDul is time now to talk Rangers with Jared. Around the basis, Prop Around Tripper is brought to you by Uber Eats, and Sandler himself with a Rangers preview is brought to you by Blue Nail Roofing. So salute to our sponsors, and Jared, good evening to you as we get set to kick off a three-game set with the White Sox. How the hell are you? Gavin, great, brought us nice to see you. Chief, Lucius, hair looking great, man. God, sexiest guy in the station right there. Number two is Eric, brought us, number three. Gavin. I'll take it. Yeah. Yeah. I appreciate it, man. Thanks for the, everybody's fighting for fifth after that, I think. But like, that's like me saying to you, like no one would ever look at me and be like, you're better looking than Ryan Reynolds, right? So like, I get it. So, I mean, I think ranking behind Lucius, Eric, and brought us, I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, right? That's like, no. No, no, it's fine. It is what it is. And, you know, by the way, great hair. Yeah. You know what? I appreciate it. I don't know if it's true. This is my mid 30s crisis, and I don't really care. And you know what? I don't have any TV more the rest of the year anymore. So I really don't. Oh, so that's weird. It's about to get real nasty. Yeah, I'm about to go. I might even just try to be like Andrew Chafin for Halloween, so I got to start. I love that. That means you got to get that bald eagle tattoo in that one spot. Like, you got like a fake one. No, it's got to come on committed. Will you, will you do the tattoo for him? Of course I go. You know, I have the experience. Yeah, I know you do. What's up with the sport coat you had on the other day? The lining in the sport coat? Oh, yeah. So, well, my guy etiquette Don Don Sanders, he outfits pretty cool. He outfits some folks and he supports the charity. So I, you know, I like supporting people who support the charity. Right. What are we listening to? Just fire. I don't know. You got to sound like you were in a bath house compliment in each other. I was complimenting you, sir. Yes. You know, I just had to add in Eric and brought us so that I didn't get upset. Yeah, because you know, Eric gets really hit on me, man. Loose, you know, you're my number one. Yeah. Yeah. He, and so he, I, I'm not tall. And I have weird kids go. No, dude. He has to use so little fabric to suit you that he's fine with yeah, it's free ads for. Yeah. No, these aren't, I pay, but I also have weird legs because I have like thick legs, but I'm not tall. So I don't have long legs and it's always a pain in the butt to find suits and so rack. Yeah. And so, you know what? I treated myself and got a few suits and then he does these custom linings. It's just a part of it, right? Like I could be boring and do nothing, but so I've got a few different. I got one from my dog. I got one from my favorite teams. I had one that was made specifically for the Rangers, you know, World Series. Well, the championship logo, the logo and then the ring. And then I got one. I got another one. I forget what that is. But anyway, yeah, it's, it's, it's really cool. Cool. And did we also learn that what you have working between the hip and the knee is pretty impressive? I, so, you know, I, I was born to be a catcher. I was born to be, you know, my, my dad is a soccer player. I don't know. But like he's got massive legs, like calves, thighs, whatever, you know, and I don't know, like if some of that's hereditary or genetic or whatever, but like I've always had from the knee to the waist. It's not, it's not like White Langford, but yeah, I've always said I could, I could squat on you. I could, I could do a little squatting on you. I'll pass. I would love to know about this baseball team is, is the minor leagues now the most interesting story with DeGrom tonight. I mean, how put that in context? Yeah, I mean, yeah, you got DeGrom tonight. Camar Ocker is up in AAA. Jack Lider is going to start tomorrow. So, I mean, I, I guess minor league adjacent in that regard, right? But yeah, I guess so, you know, Emiliano Tiodo Winston Santos, just kind of following the progress. Is it the most interesting thing? I guess, you know, ice cream flavors, right? But you know, to me, like Corey Seager, just hitting home runs right now is pretty cool. He's at 199. He's, you know, when he gets the 200, we'll be making history in various measures. But yeah, I think when you think about next year, obviously the continued growth of Camar Ocker, what you get from Jack Lider, what you get from Jacob DeGrom. I mean, those things are all relevant. Sure. Can I ask you, and I'm sorry, this is really not a baseball question. But can I ask you, at this time last year, how you felt to how you feel now? You know, I mean, last year, I mean, you're, you're thinking you're, you're getting into September and you're thinking, maybe the team not playing great, but maybe we're good enough kind of. But how did you feel then to how you feel now? Yeah. So if you, if you remember, this time last year, we were on the verge of the Astros coming to Texas and not just sweeping the Rangers, but like it was a bloodletting, right? I mean, Jose Altuve, I think it like 46 home runs in that series. Right. And the was the finale of that series, he had three home runs and three innings, right? Or maybe a second, whatever. At that point, you're like, whoa, you know, this isn't, this ship isn't leaking. It is sinking. It's taking a water bath. Yeah. And I think in the days leading up, I mean, gosh, where we, this time last year, where we played the Mets, maybe, because I know the Mets series lined up with the first week of the US Open. So around there. And so the first game in the Mets series, I think we won with a Nathaniel low walkoff base hit. It was kind of a comeback in the ninth inning and then maybe one in the 10th or wouldn't have been a walkoff. I'm sorry, game winning hit in the 10th or whatever. But like even that, it felt so difficult to get that one win. Yeah. Right. Like the wins were so hard to come by this time last year. Okay. This, I mean, my feeling this year, it's like, I mean, resigned to what it is, right? It's been that way now for about a month, but you like that this time last year, you're thinking, well, so you weren't thinking maybe we were going to go on a run. You weren't. No, I wouldn't say, I don't think, I mean, walk. Okay. Eric always says this. And it's like this in baseball, sports, life, whatever. It's usually never as good as you think. It's usually never as bad as you think, right? So driving home from that Astros game, what in which they completed the sweep, like obviously the feeling there's like, wow, this is not going to be shot. But like even after, I mean, I came on air and I said it, I said it all month. I was like, Hey, enjoy the ride. You don't know. We had people calling in saying, I don't want the team to make the playoffs. They're just going to get bounced. It's like, what sort of a dumb take is that like this team hasn't been in the playoffs since 2016. You get in and you never know. I did not expect what happened last year to happen, right? No one did. I don't think anyone could have with the way the season ended predicted that. If you told me that they had a chance, I would have said you're crazy. It just, they were not writing in with Big Mo, but I think to me brought us in any of these sports, football, basketball, hockey, baseball. One of the biggest fool's errands is to ride high on the team that is going into the postseason with a lot of momentum. I just feel like it is now maybe the Eagles last year is different because they looked broken for like eight weeks. But like the team that's got a lot of momentum. I mean, hackers. Yeah. Right. So it just, I don't, I don't, but yeah, this, this upcoming month, September last year was a total rollercoaster. It's Jared Sandler's Rangers preview here on the fan. We're back with more questions and to take you up to the six 30 pregame. Nothing is more important than getting a good night's sleep. And when you don't get the rest, you need your whole day is thrown off. That's why it's so important to choose the right mattress. Sleeping on a purple mattress is truly a unique experience because purple mattresses are made with a gel flex grid. 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I would love to see everyone there. And you'll be answering off the record baseball questions. I'll be answering depending on how much you donate. Yes. Okay. I agree. Different donation levels will be different levels of candor. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. You're asking about ABS? Yes. ABS. Yeah. Interesting. So we actually had a meeting majorly baseball. Thanks to John Shambi over the last couple of years has done a really good job. Boog. Yeah. Boog helped organize. We don't have any representation or union or anything, but he reached out to majorly baseball and said, Hey, guys, like you guys need to do a better job of keeping us abreast on what's going on. I mean, we're, you know, we're a walking billboard for the league and whatnot in a lot of ways. And so they've done a really good job of this and which I had a meeting the other day about kind of where things stand with that. So, you know, they've been testing stuff in the minor leagues, right? That's a beautiful advantage that baseball has that other sports maybe don't with the minor league system and the ability to test out some of these things. So automatic balls and strikes have been tested in a lot of different ways. First thing is the most negative feedback that they've gone is when it's all automated. So if you look at it, it's like a partial automation with a challenge system, no automation at all, which is what we have in majorly baseball presently, or everything is just automatic, you know, automatically called a baller strike based on technology. The automatic, you know, just from start to finish is the one that's gone the worst feedback from players, from fans, umpires, everyone, right? So it doesn't seem like that's the route majorly baseball is going to go. And we can get into why that does seem to make sense after testing, but it does seem like they're going to have a challenge system. How many challenges? I don't know. You know, there's been talk that maybe a two challenges a game. You know, maybe it's five. I'm not sure that they're still trying to figure that out. But I think what's really interesting is that they are they are leaning towards, it seems like having a strike zone that is tailored to your height and not your batting stance. So if you're six one, broadest, and you're six one, Dawson, and you're six one, Eric and Eric, you bat in a big crouch, but Dawson's upright and broadest is somewhere in the middle, you're going to have the same strike zone. And there are a few reasons as to why one, everyone, the movement is so inconsistent. My, my, my batting stance in the first inning might be a little bit different in the third inning by choice or maybe not. They, one of the things they noticed was, you know, hitters as the, as the game goes on, you dig into the batter's box. And so how you stand in the first inning might be a quarter of an inch or a half an inch higher than what it is in the seventh inning when the grounds given a little bit and you're a little bit lower and little things like that, you know, they said, you know, really can, can impact it. And so they're leaning towards a, a height based strike zone, not a stance based strike zone. So that was interesting. Very interesting. And, and, and when could something like this take over? It could be next year. And, and one of the questions I was asked was, are, you know, are we sure the league is moving in that direction? And the answer was no, right? There's no guarantee nothing has been decided. It does seem like it is heading in that direction. The challenge system has received, you know, very favorable response from, again, from everyone involved. That includes umpires. That includes, you know, players, coaches, fans. And it seems like that's the direction, but they are, they are still open to not moving in that way. And I just, I get the sense that is not likely. I do think we're getting it. And it seems like next year's strong possibility. Do you think Major League Baseball doesn't want to jack with the time of the game? That they got games at the times that they need? Well, I think they don't want to have more challenges and things like that. Yeah, I think so there, there are a few things. One, uh, yeah, I think the idea is the challenge will be so immediate that it would only add a few seconds. But yes, I think that that's a part of the right five challenges. I think three is the sweet spot. Are we challenging a computer though? It's either there or not. This isn't something that the human could have, but that's a, that's the whole play on buyers calling balls and strikes. You, you can challenge three of their calls as opposed to a computer calling every pitch. That, that's all I was saying at the beginning. That, that's the system that got, has gotten the worst reviews and seems frankly the most un, unlikely to happen. At least for the one to call a computer all, all calls is the worst one. Yeah, like full robot, full robot strikes. Yeah, that is not that is from a consumer standpoint, a fan experience. It is not received. Well, uh, the players don't like it. There's a lot of thought that like, Hey, you're going to really change the catching position. Now they can stick any one, catcher will become another DH. You can stick anyone. There's no, you're, you're taking value away from a skill set that has been groomed for years. And, uh, the players don't like that. You know, the players can complain all they want, but I don't, I haven't found any player who has said with a lot of passion, I want fully automated balls and strikes. Most of them want a challenge system. I mean, the, the business of baseball is going well. You know, I, I think you can see in the NFL how they've changed the kickoff and it does something to the game flow that's jarring from a fan experience. Yeah. You know, and as, as ideal as it sounds to have like certainty on, you know, a computer's vision compared to human bias, which is, I think is a whole nother set of problems, the game flow and the TV experiences is probably the most important thing. And that was one of the questions was because, you know, the, the strike zone we see, how much time do I don't want to get 45 seconds? Okay. How will the TV present the strike zone? Right? Because if there's going to be a challenge system, are you going to know the answer ahead of time? Are they going to take the strike zone away on TV? Like what that's going to be an interesting question. How that gets presented TV, TV wise, we got to be looking at the same thing the ums are. Otherwise, you're just misleading us and creating diffusion for no reason. 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