Rays vs. Rangers: Can Tampa Overcome Past Struggles vs. TEX?

Uh, we also have an interesting one coming up with the, uh, with the Tampa Bay Rays here taking on the Texas Rangers, Quantrill for the Rangers, McClanahan for the Rays. I thought this price would be a little more expensive, but it's not, uh, Craig. Actually, it feels a little cheap for the Rays, but they're not at the top here for this one. Yeah. And I think because they haven't played as well on the road, maybe that's, what's factoring in, uh, to this one, uh, Quantrill has been a very big surprise to me, he was in Miami last year, didn't pitch. Well, the Marlins jettison him right around this time, about a year ago. And he ended up finishing with Atlanta. So I, you know, I, I guess, you know what, you know, some things that I didn't know going into this game, maybe is, you know, some things behind the line, which is the Rays are six and 16 in Texas and their last 22. So they just generally have not played well, well there at all. And I'm guessing that has something to do with this. Um, McClanahan, 80 pitches last time out five and two thirds. He beat the Padres. And so it's the back issues that, you know, sort of plagued him all season, if he gets through this game, I would imagine that he's got a good shot to win and they can sort of put these demons behind them, but they'll play four games this series and, uh, yeah, they have, uh, lost, uh, not only the six and 16, Joe, they've lost nine games in a row in Texas. Lost nine in a row in 2023. So I don't think I'm going to get in front of that tonight. Give me the Rangers. Yeah. I was going to say, I don't know that I'd be getting in front of that either. Uh, Rutgers, by the way, is just thrown another touchdown. Uh, and just like that extra point pending, it's going to be a 14 to seven. UMass lead. Uh, I don't, you know, again, read carefully in week one with these teams here, UMass, uh, about to kick the extra point 11 and a half minutes, uh, to go in this one here, uh, I don't know what to do with the Rangers. I really don't. Have you stuck a fork in them yet? Uh, as far as trying to win the actual West two games behind Houston now, is it, is it Houston's to lose then at this point by default, look at that price. It probably is only because there's 20 some odd games left in the season. If there was 50, I wouldn't even think about it, but we're at the end here. Uh, you know, the Rangers, I have them ahead of Seattle. Still 69 and 71 is Texas. Their run differential is not great. That means that they're really not a good team, but look, Houston, I'm assuming we can take a look or, or Chris can take a look at the schedule. I can almost guarantee that Houston plays Texas at some point. Again, I don't know when, I don't know how, I don't know where, but in the month of September, they're going to play each other, that's going to be three games, I would guess, and that could determine the division, Joe, it's going to, it's going to literally come down to that, uh, on whether or not, I'm wondering what the, we'll see, figure out what the season series is in that one. But my goodness here, uh, Texas is just. A hot mess here on, uh, they don't play each other. I'm shocked. That's a great information piece for me, just giving out false information here on the show. And Kauai was totally innocent. Yeah.