Ray Davis

right? Like, oh, when I was a boy growing up playing baseball.

I mean, that's what I hear here in Texas from Ray Davis.

I don't know if other owners do that or not.

But, yeah, I mean, what's the old axiom of actions speak louder than words? Don't tell me you love the sport.

What effect will it have on the labor discussions? None.

What effect would it have on Ray Davis, who likes to save money? Eesh.

I don't know.

We might want to consider that one.

So you're spending a lot of money But at the same time, it's very top-heavy, and the players that you are spending a lot of money on are aging.

That being said, the debate I think that is really relevant here is, are the Rangers' problems primarily financial, like what you hear most of on X and on social media in general? Is it primarily financial? Ray Davis just not spending money? Is it more developmental? And that's been a hot topic as well, the Rangers and their ability to develop talent.

Or is it evaluative? Are they making the right decisions within the organization, who to play, who not to play, who to promote, who not to promote? Or is it a combination of all three? Perhaps maybe that is where we end up landing with this whole thing.

Still, the 2027 roster.

Hard to argue with that one.

Ray Davis left a bad taste in JD's mouth.

You know, I think there were a couple people who did that.

But, you know, JD has since said elsewhere that he was kind of thinking 22 might have been the end for him.

Shot in the air, it's Mickey Locke, the manager of First Visit, every single day.

On tomorrow's show, I'll be back, and I'll be talking about the, for lack of a better word, the buy low options on the free agent starting pitching market, which probably, knowing Ray Davis, is going to be where the Rangers end up shopping, is kind of in the bargain bin.

Next guy on this list, we're going to go a little bit faster through these next few, but Casey Mize is...

Pretty much a mid-tier free agent option.

And by God, it didn't crash, so good for them.

Um, but yeah, you know, how much w- how much revenue are, or is the, the network making? How much is it eating away at Ray Davis' fortune? A very small amount, by the way.

It's not like it's costing him billions of dollars a year.

Uh, it's costing him probably what he could spend for breakfast this morning.

With Corey Seager, yes, you could look to trade away that contract and give yourself some financial flexibility, but...

Those dollars have to actually go to productive players, and if the Rangers traded away Corey Zeger and Nathan Evaldi and Jacob Grom, I don't think those dollars are going to be spent by Ray Davis on productive baseball players.

I think they will be spent on whatever rich people spend their money on, a copy of the Magna Carta.

Or, I don't know, some private island where you can wear no pants all day if you want to because it's your private island and you own basically the country.

There's a domino effect here, there's no question about it.

And the X factor in all that is if you move those guys, is Ray Davis gonna say, "Well, that's great.

We now have a $75 million payroll," or is he gonna say, "Okay, you can take that money and reallocate it"?

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