The Rangers are ready to begin the 2nd half of the 2024 season, and the first 10 games they play out of the break are supremely important to their chances of defending their World Series championship. Mike & Reg discuss why these upcoming series against the Orioles, White Sox and Blue Jays are vital to second half success.
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00:00Baseball for the Rangers back on your home of the Rangers Texas 105 through the fan tomorrow
00:20evening they'll start a three game set with the Orioles and that that's you're on and
00:24running like you're often running in that instance you're currently four games behind
00:28the Astros five games behind the Mariners we've had conversations about will they sell
00:32won't they sell and answering those questions and more I think all starts with these next
00:37ten games doesn't it Mike it really does I look at the Rangers and Josh Smith said it
00:42with Leslie McCaslin on the postgame interview last game of the first half of the season
00:48till you get to the all-star break and said they knew that that Astros series they didn't
00:52want to admit it they weren't gonna say it but then he said it he's like look we know
00:56we're not stupid we do lie to you to make sure that it doesn't sound like you know we're
01:01putting more importance on this game than there should be but we knew that there is
01:05more importance on this series and we didn't want to let you guys know until the series
01:10was over and we won the series that we knew that we needed to probably win this series
01:14so that Chris Young and the Texas Rangers front office meeting during the all-star break
01:19didn't go this team just isn't gonna do it yeah so after beating the Astros in that series
01:24at least Josh Smith and the players felt like they did enough that the conversations
01:30might be stopped or at least the rumors would be stopped on what the Rangers would be doing
01:35selling wise in the second half of the season till you get to July 30th is the trade deadline
01:41so at least for right now those conversations are on hold on which way the Rangers are going
01:47to go and that's why Reggie this first 10 game stretch of the season it's seven home
01:54games and three road games the Rangers really need to play well to make sure that this team
02:03stays together yeah