The Rangers end the first half in Houston with a three game set against the Astros. With the opportunity to gain some ground on both Houston and the division-leading Mariners, can the Rangers finish the first half of the season strong? What do they have to do to keep your optimism alive?
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00:00I also agree two out of three.
00:17That would get you to within three and a half games of the Astros at the break.
00:22If you lose the series, you would either be five and a half or seven and a half games
00:27behind just Houston, not to mention Seattle, and you're already losing the season series
00:32four to three.
00:34We're not ahead in the season series.
00:36We're losing it four to three.
00:38Crap, I read something wrong.
00:40You only have one more series with Houston in the second half.
00:43You host them August 5th to August 7th.
00:46So it does feel like, I mean, and this is not fair because you still have a lot of baseball,
00:52but it feels like if you lose this series, even two one, man, that's going to be bad.
00:58Well, you start going, how many times am I going to believe that makes sense?
01:04We're getting to the point where you're getting closer and closer to game 100.
01:09And by the time you get to game 100, if you need to go 50 and 10, you're like, we're not
01:15going 50 and 10, especially if you've played.
01:18I mean, I get this.
01:19I did play in 07 and the Colorado Rockies might have gone like 25 and one to finish
01:24that year.
01:25And I'm not making up.
01:26I'm not exaggerating that number.
01:27That's how crazy it was.
01:29And they got into a one game playoff situation and won that game.
01:34And then they went on and went to the world series, got swept, got swept after sweeping.
01:39I think in the playoffs, they didn't lose a playoff game in the national league.
01:42Then they got swept by Boston and the world series.
01:46But I don't want to get to a point where we're going, well, if we win every game in September
01:50I think we might make a wild card spot.
01:51Yeah.
01:52I don't think that's going to happen.
01:53So at some point you need to get back to 500 before August.
02:00And then at that point, you're asking to play 15 games over 500.
02:04You've played, you've played only 500 baseball through a hundred games.
02:08And then at that point you're like, well, maybe if you play 15 games over 500, the final
02:13two months, maybe you sneak into the playoffs.
02:16If you just start doing the math and start seeing how your team's played through a hundred
02:20games and going, it's probably not going to happen.
02:22Yeah.
02:23No, that's, I mean, that's a really big factor is can you do enough consistently to convince
02:28yourself that you're that good.