We lived in an instant-gratification world long before it was invaded by our smartphones and Twitter accounts. Now even immediacy seems slower than dial-up internet.

So that's part of the problem many of us had with Rangers manager Jeff Banister Sunday. He has to exist on a different plane where the only thing that matters is where his team stands after 162 games. A manager who makes knee-jerk reactions pretty much becomes Billy Martin ... which is how he came to manage the New York Yankees five different times.

But all that does is explain why Banister gave Sam Dyson one more shot at closing a game in Seattle. Doesn't mean he was right. He was almost certainly wrong to try, and the results illustrated as much.

So do the changes made Monday. Matt Bush has been installed as the team's closer. Keone Kela, disciplined and sent to Triple-A for what teammates considered a don't-give-a-crap effort in a spring B-game, has returned to the big leagues. And Dyson landed on the disabled list with a right-hand contusion, the product of one of many mistakes he made in the season's first two weeks.

If you feel like Banister could have made these changes after Tuesday's meltdown in Anaheim -- Dyson's third straight bad outing and second blown save -- you are correct. But as any former beat writer who never had to practice fielding bunts or take a turn in the cage can tell you, the baseball season is one long slog.

Banister's best hope for smooth sailing was that Dyson's inning of work in a lost game Saturday signaled a turning point. Dyson registered a 1-2-3 shutdown inning, just like he did for Team USA throughout the World Baseball Classic. Perhaps the work Dyson had done with pitching coach Doug Brocail to reinvigorate his sinker had paid off.

That was Banister's fervent hope. He has this thing to deal with called "options." And if Bush is now the best option, remember that any responsibility bestowed on him will always qualify as some degree of risk. It's less of a risk to count on Bush this season than it was in 2016, when he was almost fresh out of 3 1/2 years in prison.

It will be less risky in 2020 than it is today, assuming he has continued to deliver 98-mph fastballs. But at this stage, less that one year into an improbable second chance (some would contend it's a higher number than that), Bush remains a risk.

I felt Jeremy Jeffress was the best option. His track record -- 27 saves in 28 chances for Milwaukee in 2016 -- and the ability to keep Bush in his eighth-inning role, where he has dominated, made it preferable. Of course, Jeffress spent a month on MLB's restricted list last summer following a DUI arresthere, so who knows how the Rangers feel about his dependability.

Jake Diekman, who saved four games a year ago and has the demeanor for the job even if his nasty left-handed stuff can get erratic, isn't available until mid-summer following multiple surgeries to manage his ulcerative colitis.

Risks are everywhere.

On top of all this, Banister has his own Twitter account where he shares others' words of inspiration that provide a clue into his thinking.

Negative thoughts are lies. Don't believe the lies.

I need to live by the truths I hold instead of the feelings I feel.

And the truth is that Dyson was a solid closer and Bush was masterful as an eighth-inning guy on a 95-win team. So it's easy to cross one's fingers and hope for a return to 2016. That's not to say Banister manages by process of blind faith.

He has earned one Manager of the Year award in 2015 and finished second in 2016 by showing a willingness to make decisions and move on. We feel like he made quick decisions to remove past closers, but Neftali Feliz and Shawn Tolleson actually held those jobs until mid-May before a change was made.

So 12 games is an awfully short time to lose faith in Dyson, although his performances suggest this should have happened after Game 7 Tuesday night in Anaheim.

The Rangers will move on now. As manager of a club that suffered a pair of three-game sweeps in the first two weeks, Banister hopes Bush has enough closing opportunities for any of this to matter after 150 more games.

Twitter: @TimCowlishaw