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Which MLB teams have the best chance to make a playoff run? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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You're going to have a ton of money to spend.
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Why not putting in one of the top three offensive players in
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the league? We're going to be looking at
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Aaron Judge and saying that he can't win the big game, Michael
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A game where? You got to go before.
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www.worldwidesportsradio.com. I want to say something before
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the show starts. What really gets me poppin every
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single day is watching some of these old movies.
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And there's one particular movie, it doesn't get old for
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me. I can watch it over and over and
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over again. And everybody that knows my
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background, I have an Italian background and one of my
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favorite movies of all time is Goodfellas.
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So what I was doing today to get charged up, get ready for the
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show is watch Goodfellas. And and what's so crazy about
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that movie is there are parts in that movie.
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No matter how many times you watch it, there are things that
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you see that you you really never recognized.
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And there is a part in the movie when Joe Pesci is burying, you
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know, he's burying the, the mafia kid or the mafia guy with
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Robert De Niro and his group and, and they're burying I'm,
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I'm like, everybody knows the story.
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And he, he does something on camera that I didn't notice.
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And he puts his, as he's burying the guy puts his finger in his
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nose. So he's like picking his nose on
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camera while he he's, he's burying a body during, during
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the movie. So I never noticed.
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And I was watching and I was like, wait a second, I rewinded
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it and the guy has his finger in his nose.
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So I, I mean, I don't know any killer that actually kills
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somebody and he's burying somebody that actually puts his
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finger in his nose while he's, you know, you know, ending this
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man's life or burying this guy. So I don't know, it was
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something that really stuck out to me in the movie.
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I, I again, it's a movie that I can never get sick of.
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I can watch it over and over and over again.
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And it's one of those movies that I, I'm a Joe Pesci fan.
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It doesn't matter what movie Joe Pesci is in.
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I love it. I I mean, some of the movies
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that he's been in, movies that you probably don't even remember
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in the 80's, the late 80s, early 90s, I mean, you know, My Cousin
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Vinny, you know those kind of movies.
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But there are the movies that he has been in that you probably
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don't remember because they weren't as big as some of the
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movies he's been in. And I can watch any one of the
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movies that he's been in. It could be a love story, could
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be a drama, it could be action, it could be a killer movie.
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I love Joe Pesci. So what are you?
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What are you saying over here? I don't know what time he's
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doing over here. Anyways, yeah, we have a great
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show lined up for you guys. We're just under 2 weeks
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remaining in the MLB regular season.
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Several American League and National League playoff races
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are coming down to the wire. The Mariners are on fire with
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A10 game-winning streak, taking over the lead of the American
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League West on the Astros by 1/2 a game.
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They will face off this weekend in a three-game series that
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could both decide the West or maybe allow a wild card
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contender to back back into the race.
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The AL Central is nearly decided with the Detroit Tigers having a
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5.5 game lead on the Cleveland Guardians and 10 games up on the
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Royals. The Guardians have gotten
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themselves into the thick of things in the wild card race and
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after mid season struggles trail the just the Boston Red Sox by
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2.5 games for the last playoff spot in the American League.
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The American League East is also virtually over with the Blue
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Jays on a six game-winning streak, pulling them five games
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ahead of the Yankees, who have the top wild card slot by a game
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over the Astros in two games over the Red Sox.
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The only other contender for the Wild card are the Guardians and
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the Texas Rangers, who sit 3.5 games back from Boston and a
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game behind the Guardians for the last spot in the National
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League. The Brewers became the first
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team to clinch a playoff spot as they have their division mates
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the Chicago Cubs, who control the top wild card slot in the
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National League. The Phillies became the first
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team to clinch their division already with the Mets falling
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back to the pack going two of eight in their last 10 games and
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are now only 1.5 games ahead of of the Donny backs for the last
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playoff spot in the National League.
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After being tight with the Phillies for a long stretch of
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the season, the Dodgers lead the National League West by two
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games over the Padres and both teams have 11 games remaining.
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The Padres hold the second wild card spot and are 4.5 games up
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on the Mets. Still in the hunt are the
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Diamondbacks 1.5 games out, the Reds are two games out and the
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Giants are three games out. I want to go with the National
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League first because the National League is more
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interesting than the American League.
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I mean, there's nothing interesting about the American
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League. I don't.
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I don't think the Guardian, the Guardians are sneaking in.
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I am. I'm not surprised Seattle has
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taken advantage of the last 1213 games of the last two weeks.
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I think Seattle has the pitching, Seattle has the
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bullpen and they got one of the best hitters and one of the
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hottest hitters in baseball. So and he's probably going to
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win the American League MVPI. Don't think you can argue that
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now as good as Aaron Judge has been throughout the season.
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But the National League is interesting because I don't know
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who's going to win the National League no matter who gets in.
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I think all these teams are even even keel.
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I mean, if the Mets get in, are you going to think you're going
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to just run right through the Mets?
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The Mets have a lineup that has Lindor, Soto, Pete Alonso,
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Vientos. I mean, Vientos was the hottest
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hitter in the National League, and Soto was the hottest,
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hottest hitter in the American League last season.
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Vientos got hot in the second-half and finally started
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to hit. And Sotos, one of the hottest
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hitters in baseball. Are you going to just run all
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over the Mets if they sneak into the playoffs?
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I don't think so. Even with the young pitching
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they have with McClain as their number one guy, Sanga is not
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going to probably be called up, and if he does, he's going to be
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in the bullpen. The Chicago Cubs are
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interesting, and the reason why I think the Chicago Cubs are
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interesting is because I think they have a lot of depth in
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their lineup. They have one of the best
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outfielder outfields in all of baseball.
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They have a good pitching squad and their bullpen has been
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sensational. In the second-half of the
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season. They've been outlasted by a
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Brewers team that has just been so very hot since the All Star
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break. I I mean, they've been the
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hottest team in baseball. If you look at that record, I
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could you remember a team that has the record the Brewers had
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since the All Star break. Could you remember a team that
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has a record this good? I, I don't, I don't I can't, I
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can't remember the Brewers are dangerous.
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But am I going to trust the Brewers, even if they're the
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number one seed in the in the National League?
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Am I going to trust him after what I've seen over the years
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choking, no matter how talented they are, they're not going to
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have to play in the wild card game like they did last year.
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And you know what happened to them with the Mets.
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Pete Alonzo had a three run home run in the eighth inning and so
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long to the Brewers and Devin Williams is now in New York
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Yankee and choking as we we talk about all the time, Phillies.
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I expect the Phillies to be the most dangerous team in the
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National League. And the reason why is I think
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they have everything to win now. They lost Zach Wheeler for the
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season. That's going to hurt them.
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They lost their number one guy. He is as good as any pitcher and
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he's been as good as any pitcher in the last three years of
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baseball. But I still think they have
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enough depth. They added some good arms at the
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trade deadline. I think they have a very good
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bullpen and their lineup is ridiculous.
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This could be the best lineup in all of baseball depth wise.
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And I love Thompson Yankee guy. I I think he's one of the more
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underrated managers in all of baseball.
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The Dodgers, they're the most dangerous and the reason why is
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they are deferred. And what I mean by that is when
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the season is almost over, you're not talking about what a
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Shay Otani almost pitched a no hitter yesterday.
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We're not even talking about that.
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We're we're talking about a team that has a tremendous amount of
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depth. Now they're pitching staff has
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not stayed healthy, but they're getting healthier.
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This is a good bullpen. This team has all the layers to
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win another championship this year, the Padres, not so much.
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I, I, I don't know what it is with the Padres.
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I'm not betting on the Padres. I'm not because every time I bet
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on the Padres, I lose. So I'm not a betting man and my
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money is not towards the Padres. I think the Padres have a great
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lineup. I I really do.
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I think they're really good and losing King, is he out for the
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season now? No, he pitched.
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He actually pitched yesterday against.
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I didn't even know he came back. He pitched yesterday against the
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top five runs in the first inning.
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All right, so King is he came back.
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I didn't even know he came back. If if King's not at full
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strength, do they really have a number one?
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Do they really? I mean, the Padres got
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tremendous amount of depth in their their pitching squad is
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they have a good pitching staff, but do they have a bona fide #1
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And then that's the problem because you, you know, teams
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always play out. They always have an ace.
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The Yankees have an ace, they have Max Freed, The Mets have an
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ace. Well, we think they have an ace,
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a young guy in McClain. I mean, the Phillies have two
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aces even without Wheeler. They might have three.
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They have two All Stars. I I mean, all these teams are
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Otani. I mean, we know that the Dodgers
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have an ace. All these teams have aces, but
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the the Padres don't. So I'm not betting on the
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Padres. And as far as the Reds are
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concerned, I want to see the Reds make the playoffs because I
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know goodies going to be jumping and tell me, I told you, I told
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you Terry's the best matter of baseball.
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I I can't wait till he comes in and he will be in hopefully a
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little bit later. That's going to be a rough show.
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I have to witness goodies celebrating the Reds steal the
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Mets playoffs. I think he should be cheering
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for the Guardians. You, you, you want to hope that
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they get in. So maybe he's, he's doing a
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broadcast with the Guardians because he's been doing such a
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great job with the Guardians all season long, but and the Giants
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aren't making the playoffs either.
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I, I, I can't see the Giants winning.
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They got to win like probably 8 of their next 11 games to even
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sneak into the play. I.
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Don't see and I think they play three against the Dodgers next.
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The Diamondbacks are interesting because if the Diamondbacks
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sneak in with the young players that they have and, and by the
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way, this might be the best young outfield in baseball,
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that's how good they are. They're dangerous because we've
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seen what they've done. They've been to a World Series.
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They lost against the Texas Rangers.
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So in the National League, to me, Speedy, that's the way I
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look at what is going on in the National League.
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Yeah, it's that's the reason why is you're seeing a lot of these
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young, confident teams get going in the second-half of the season
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amidst the struggles that the Mets have had.
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And now you're seeing three teams be right there.
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It was really just the Reds for a while.
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Like the Reds were the team all right, right near the Mets.
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They were kind of playing pretty steady a lot of the year.
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Then they had a little bit of a slump.
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Now that the Mets are slumping, they've gotten back anywhere.
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The Diamondbacks sold at the trade deadline and they've
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gotten it going now. And I remember last year I
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called them very unlucky, probably besides the Braves,
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they had the next worst injury luck last season.
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And the Mets were able to sneak in over them last year just
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getting into the playoffs. But they always had really good
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talent. They didn't trade a lot away,
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but they still sold enough where it seemed like they were giving
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up on it. The Giants, I agree with you.
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They had their chance when they traded for Devers to get going.
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They slumped really badly once Devers got there.
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Not his fault necessarily, but their offense never really
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gotten it going. Now they're finally are.
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So yeah, I think if there's any team that would steal a spot, it
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would probably be the Diamondbacks as well.
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And I agree with you, they would be a tough out if they do get in
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the Cubs pitching. I don't necessarily trust in a
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longer series. I think maybe they could win the
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first round with the Padres. They're both kind of top heavy
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teams. I don't.
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I'm taking the Cubs over the Padres.
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Their pitching has actually held up surprisingly well.
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I was worried they didn't do enough of the deadline but
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they've held up surprisingly well.
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The the Dodgers and the Phillies are definitely the two best
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teams. Milwaukee I know looks good on
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paper. I still have questions with
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their offense though too. But you're right, it's
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interesting to think of. The last team that reminds me of
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the Brewers that have won a World Series with the Kansas
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City Royals? Jabba's Kansas City Royals.
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Yeah. That, that that's what they
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remember because they play small ball.
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The Brewers play small ball. That's what they do.
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They play small ball. They.
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Didn't have the bullpen we had though.
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No, no. No, but they still have a good
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one like probably the most comparable bullpen wise said the
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Royals of the of your time was probably is probably the Padres.
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But do they have enough starting because their starting pitching
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is all coming back from injuries.
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Like fish is saying in the private Dylan Cease has not been
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great this year and you Darvis just came back.
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Michael King just came back. So like, you know, you're
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trusting a a lot of these older guys in that set of roles.
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I agree with Errol. I think the Phillies, they were
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my pick at the start of the year.
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I think they are definitely the most dangerous because I know
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everyone says, oh, the Phillies bullpen is a question mark.
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How many good bullpens are there among the playoff teams right
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now? It's really only the Padres, the
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Mariners and. And honestly, I think they have
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the National League MVP and Kyle Schwarber, I think he's been, I
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think he's the National League MVP.
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He's been so good. As good as Juan Soto has been,
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Kyle Schwarber has been the most important player on his
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Philadelphia Phillies team. And by the way, a Philadelphia
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Phillies team that's in first place in the National League
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East to the Mets, who are right now free falling, you know,
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trying to crawl into the playoffs.
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If you would ask me who the MVP of the National League is, it's
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Kyle Schwarber. He has been unbelievable,
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unbelievable this year. Yeah, 53 home runs for a bulkier
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guy. I mean, it's not and it's not a
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Cal rally like today because he's playing, not playing the
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catcher, but he has a catcher's body like.
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Playing hold on one second. Kyle Schwarber has done this
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before. Maybe not 53 home runs, but he
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is. He has been an all around power
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hitter. I remember him with the Cubs.
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The Cubs are probably a shaking their heads while they let him
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go, but I remember when he was a catcher for the Cubs and they
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moved him to the outfield. Yeah.
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And that ruined it because Joe Madden put him there and then he
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got hurt. He had that bad injury and he
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came back during the World Series and then ended up being.
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A spider tried to play, Kelly threw it and locked up.
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I think Kyle Schwarber is by far the best player in the National
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League this year and he has a the reason why the Phillies are
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the probably the most dangerous team in in baseball, especially
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in the National League, is because of him because you could
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put him anywhere in that lineup. You could bat him first, second,
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third, 4th, 5th. The guy isn't he can hit
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lefties, he can hit righties. Go look at his numbers.
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It it's unbelievable what this guy has transformed his is the
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way he hits on the Philadelphia Phillies.
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He is the best player in the National League.
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He is the bona fide MVP for the National League.
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I last comment before you go job, I just want to say Kyle
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Schwarber, probably for a left-handed hitter too, has been
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one of the best playoff players we've seen in recent years too
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with many different teams. He was great with Boston.
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They almost made it to the World Series.
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He was amazing with the Cubs. And think about all the pressure
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with the Cubs trying to break the curse of the Billy Goat.
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Yeah, no, I mean, Philly's got the division.
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The Cubs clinched the playoff spot today.
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Cubs will be interesting to see what Kyle Tucker comes back.
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Obviously Palancia is I had a crazy year.
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The dude's arm is great. So but he's going to come back
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late. He got he got banged up.
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Padres just the starting pitching is is crazy because you
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had guys that that know you can do it, but coming off injuries
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back end. I mean offensively they they can
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score. They can do some things that
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way. I just the Brewers, it's just
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they get there and then that's about it.
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There's there's there's not enough guys on that team that
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know how to win. For me personally, I just
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they're obviously with the depth of the pitching and how they've,
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you know, been able to produce the pitching that they have.
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I I'm I'm very, very interested to see what they're going to do
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with Miz and you know, if they're going to run them out
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there And, and do you know what he said?
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I, I disagree on the bona fide, obviously.
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And you know who I'm going to say like he he goes and throws 5
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no hit innings and then hits his 50th Homer.
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There's no bona fide in what Kyle Schwarber's doing.
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He's DH ING that's it that's it. So not just that the bonafide is
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is not not even in that vocabulary when you got a guy
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going that literally tried to talk himself into staying in the
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game and then the dude gives up a hit the next inning.
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So bonafide is is not even in the question.
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It'll be it'll be a good race. It's Kyle deserving of of some
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really good accolades. 100% but five no hit innings then go go
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hit your 50th. Vegas has.
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Schwaber winning Vegas has Schwaber.
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Winning. Oh no yeah at the same time,
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like should Aaron Judge lose the the Home Run Derby or the Home
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Run Derby that MVP? No, I.
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Mean he's having a they're. Going to do everything they can
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to give the Cal rally. I just I just don't get I
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understand the catcher aspect of it, but it's act like the dudes
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curing cancer. He's just a catcher.
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That's a really good hitter. And if you look at him
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historically and numbers wise and speedy you as as the
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alphabet guy and analytical dude.
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He's not even in the he's not even in the top ten of a switch
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hitting like season. Yeah, I I think there were some
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there were some down advanced stats in the second the last two
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months of the season for him besides the home runs.
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So maybe that's. What you're it's a home run, but
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and obviously the first like top, I think the top 15 Mickey
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Mantle's like 11 of them chippers in there.
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You got Ken Singleton in the top 20.
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Like there's it's Mickey Mantle and like.
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Everybody else. Everybody else.
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Yeah. And so it's just it's what he's
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doing is crazy. And then obviously the Mariners
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record is Griffey all over the board and, you know, obviously
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not with Cal doing what he's doing.
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So yeah, I mean, it's it'll be interesting to see what, you
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know, those come down to. I I think the the races should
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be fun. It's with this little that there
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has to be something crazy that happens.
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And we've seen it before where it happens.
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And you've got a lot of these teams to where some of the most
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dangerous teams to play right now are the spoilers because
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it's like, we got nothing to play for.
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Like let's go ruin somebody's season.
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Like we've seen it. The Orioles did it to the Red
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Sox. Like we've seen that before.
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And so there's there's been plenty of times where where it
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happens and there's there's a bunch of injuries.
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There's there's literally like you don't know if they're going
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to come back or how they're going to hold up.
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What are you going to do? We saw Otani said he's not
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adverse to them, you know, playing him in the outfield.
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How do you balance that? Do you take the chance and risk
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it? I don't know.
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So it's this is a fun time. Yeah.
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And everybody's kind of the things that, you know, I've read
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and and saw. It's kind of like you don't take
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that chance. I mean, I wouldn't.
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There's no way you can bring him out of the bullpen, obviously.
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So that'll be interesting. But I think that it's shaping up
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to be kind of what we thought it was going to be.
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There might be the Mets may do something crazy.
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I mean, who knows, But there's their striking distance with
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some of those teams that that could could make some moves,
22:06
which speedy, you said it too. It's like the Diamondbacks were
22:09
like, all right, we're out of it.
22:10
Like let's just yard sale the entire well, you didn't yard
22:14
sale enough because now it's like, hey, we just played
22:16
ourselves into a chance. Well, they were trying to buy
22:18
high with a lot of those pitchers.
22:20
They didn't. Besides Mel Kelly, they.
22:21
Didn't get the. Offers they wanted, so why not
22:23
keep them at that? Point yeah and I mean with the
22:26
Padres, you had Nick Favetta obviously step up.
22:28
He signed that four year deal with the Padres and you know now
22:32
it's you get you get a little dead presidents in your pocket
22:35
and some comfort level. It allows you to pitch, you
22:37
know, a little bit different and with some comfort and we're
22:39
seeing that he's always been a grinder, you know, even with the
22:42
Red Sox and stuff like that. So this is going to be a fun
22:45
time of the year because there's going to be somebody that, you
22:49
know, drops the ball, no pun intended, and and we got
22:51
somebody that sneaks in so. I also think I know a lot of
22:56
people probably wondering why I didn't really attack the
22:58
American League, because I already know what's going to
23:00
happen in the American League. The Blue Jays are going to win
23:03
the American League East. I'm not betting on the Blue
23:05
Jays. I'm not as good as the Blue Jays
23:08
have been really throughout the season.
23:11
I, I still think they're not the best team in the American
23:14
League. I still think the Yankees are
23:15
the better team. But I, I've been very impressed
23:18
with the Red Sox and their bullpen and what they've they've
23:21
provided. And if the Yankees do wind up
23:24
getting the number one seed in the the wild card, they're
23:27
matched up against the Red Sox. So the Yankees are going to have
23:30
to go through the Red Sox to move on.
23:32
And that's not easy. That's not going to be an easy
23:36
argument as a Yankee fan to see the the Red Sox and the Yankees
23:40
playing say, oh, the Yankees are the bonafide team to knock off
23:43
the Reds. I don't know if that's true.
23:44
The Red Sox are young, they're hungry and they know that the
23:47
Yankees are not a playoff hitting team.
23:50
They have not been that way really a long time since 2009.
23:54
Honestly, they can't hit in the playoffs.
23:56
The fact that the Yankees made the the World Series last year,
23:59
I thought it had a lot to do with the Yankees pitching and
24:02
timely hitting by Giancarlo Stanton and Juan Soto.
24:05
That's that's the and Glaber Torres too, in certain parts of
24:09
the game, but they didn't have enough to really get there.
24:13
The American League was just so weak.
24:15
The Guardians were the team that matched up against the Yankees,
24:17
the American League Championship.
24:19
I I don't think the Guard, the Guardians aren't going to make
24:22
the playoffs this year, so. I mean, but that that's a crazy
24:26
that they're always in the conversation though, because
24:29
obviously in in this is my opinion.
24:30
This is opinions of a lot of people.
24:32
They have the most underrated player in baseball, hands down.
24:35
Not even a question in Rammer and Jose Ramirez, but they're
24:38
always in the question. They're always grinders.
24:40
I think Stephen Vogt is the right guy for that team for what
24:45
he can do. Oh, great minds think alike
24:47
fish. Oh, boy.
24:49
And it just it works because that, you know, he allows them
24:52
to be them and you know, they're not out of it.
24:55
Like, it was funny that you brought it up saying that Goody
24:58
cheering for the Reds because he said it.
24:59
But I was like, dude, wouldn't you want to cheer for the
25:01
Guardians now that you've covered them for?
25:04
That show would be so rough if the Reds get in the playoffs and
25:07
the Mets pull off a historic collapse.
25:10
Oh yeah, because he'll be like, yeah, I told you so.
25:12
And Tito and Tito obviously is that guy too.
25:15
But yeah, they're they're always in the conversation.
25:19
It I I'm interested to see what they who they send to the pen.
25:23
If you know, if it plays out, if it ended today, you know, do you
25:27
send Will Warren or Cam? Obviously you're going to run
25:30
one and two out there and Max and and Rodon.
25:32
So, yeah, I think the AO kind of is going to play itself into
25:37
what it is. Red Sox it it, it could get
25:41
interesting some of those guys that that are coming in and they
25:46
have the experience, you know, the Bregmans of the world that
25:49
come in. And and so then then you got the
25:52
Astros and who knows what, what the Astros have up their sleeve
25:56
as, as people would like to say. Well, they're getting a lot of
25:59
their offense back. That's the biggest key with
26:01
them. I actually was looking at the
26:02
standings their their offense like in the league wise is very
26:06
average. Like just looking at it now,
26:08
getting Alvarez back, you think hopefully and you providing.
26:12
The no, he's done. He's already done.
26:13
Now he's they did announce that. OK.
26:15
Yeah, they said, they said significant and he's yeah, so
26:20
and, and he, he came back. Did you see his numbers when he
26:22
came back? Yeah, that's what I was saying.
26:23
Like I thought like. If he.
26:25
Did have that another set back like that, it would be really
26:28
lethal for what that could do to that.
26:29
But now you're seeing it with Seattle now, climbing into that
26:32
now. Seattle's not the dangerous team
26:34
in the American League. The dangerous team is the
26:35
Tigers. The Tigers are young.
26:38
They're To me, they've got all the power in the world in that
26:41
lineup. They can hit for average.
26:43
I think they're as dangerous as any team in the American League
26:46
because they have nothing to lose.
26:48
Now, obviously that story that came out that does definitely
26:51
gives a little bit of a brush fire for the organization.
26:54
But what this could completely hover over what we heard over
26:58
the last week on what happened with the Detroit Tigers over the
27:02
last couple of years. If Detroit somehow sneaks into
27:04
the World Series and wins the World Series this year, nobody's
27:07
going to be talking about that, no matter how big of a story
27:10
that became. And maybe there's more behind
27:13
it. If Detroit wins a World Series
27:16
or goes to the World Series and challenges whoever they match up
27:20
against, nobody's going to be talking about it would be like
27:22
this team is the team that being the American.
27:23
Who's going to match up against their ace though?
27:26
That's the problem and that's why I think they're dangerous.
27:29
I don't know Max Freed. I I mean, and I don't know if
27:32
that I just. Probably have the best shot.
27:35
I don't know. I'm not talking about the
27:37
National League. We're talking about the American
27:39
League, Speedy. We're talking about who's coming
27:42
out of the American League. And right now, if you look at
27:45
all the teams that are going to be fighting to get out of the
27:48
American League, the two teams that really, if the Yankees
27:52
somehow get through the Red Sox, if they match up against the Red
27:54
Sox, I think the Yankees go to the American League
27:56
Championship. Because if they match up against
27:58
Seattle or they're matched up against the Astros, I think
28:03
they're better than both of those teams.
28:04
I do, I think they're both better than both of them.
28:07
So I think that the, in my opinion, it would be the Yankees
28:11
and the Tigers in the American League Championship, and it
28:14
would be Max Freed versus, you know, the name that I can never
28:17
pronounce, so I'm not. Even going to bother.
28:19
So I'm not even going to bother so, but the fact is right now,
28:25
Tarek, by the way, I got it, there it is, right?
28:28
Am I right? It's the last name we get, we
28:30
get the first one. No, I'm not doing that anyways.
28:35
Yeah, but the the American League is really rests.
28:38
It rests on the Yankees getting through out of the wild card
28:41
spot with the Red Sox if they matched up against them.
28:44
I'm worried about the Red Sox because they got nothing to
28:46
lose. They got all these young guys.
28:48
They want to run right through the Yankees.
28:50
You've heard some of the young guys that have never been in
28:53
these playoff games against the New York Yankees telling that
28:56
that, you know, this is what I always wanted to be a part of.
28:58
I wanted to be a part of this, this, this banter about who's
29:03
better, the Yankees or the Boston Red Sox.
29:06
So that's, that's fun. That's going to be fun.
29:09
But it's scary as a Yankee fan. You don't want to see that as a
29:11
Yankee fan. Could you imagine this young Red
29:13
Sox team go right through the New York Yankees in what, four
29:17
games, three games? And, and to me, that's scary.
29:21
And I, and I think it could happen because I don't trust if
29:24
Aaron Judge has to show up in the playoffs, he's got to show
29:27
up and he's got to hit, which he hasn't done.
29:31
Yeah, and that's the one thing too.
29:33
And you've got obviously no playoffs standing.
29:36
But what Soto did and whether you like him or not, I don't
29:39
really care. That's neither here nor there,
29:41
but to you got it. You're going to have to have
29:43
somebody like that. And that's the part that we
29:47
don't really know if there's anybody on the Yankee lineup
29:51
that really, you know, could have that effect that, you know,
29:54
Soto has. Obviously, Stan, you know, Stan
29:57
could go 5 for six with two homers, a double.
30:00
He could also punch out six times.
30:02
Ballinger's pretty good in the playoffs, too.
30:04
I. Mean, yeah, that's the only one
30:05
that that that that was where I was going is like, that's about
30:09
and hell, who knows? Nobody even thought Trent
30:12
Grisham was going to play as much as he had.
30:14
I mean, coming into spring training, it was like, hey, he's
30:16
going to play. He was a throw in Dan.
30:18
I mean, literally like, hey, throw this guy in, like, oh, we
30:20
don't want him. He's got 32 homers and so that
30:25
that could happen. Belly's obviously been there
30:27
before he gets it. I'm interested to see if they
30:31
rush Roman Anthony back for the Red Sox, what they're going to
30:34
do with him as far as because obliques suck, if that's really
30:38
depending on where it is. Maybe if he wasn't so shredded
30:41
because you can't pull fat. One of the greatest quotes.
30:45
I think. It was by John Crook, I think.
30:47
You sure wasn't Noah Syndergaard because he's had these oblique
30:50
problems and that pretty much. Yeah, because career because
30:53
he's shredded. Like there's you can't, I mean
30:55
the dude literally and it's crazy when I actually did it,
30:58
don't know how I did, but I did. Were you pulling on the?
31:03
Fat, but yeah. So yeah, there it was.
31:06
There was I had, I mean, I still got like 2-2 ABS, that's about
31:10
it. But so I don't I.
31:15
Gotta put you on a I gotta put you on a regiment.
31:17
I could get you. I could get you cut off.
31:20
I could definitely get you cut off.
31:21
I'm good. What?
31:22
I'm what you don't trust. Me where I'm at.
31:26
You don't trust me. No, I don't.
31:27
Honestly, I don't, no. I went to school for that, by
31:30
the way. I went to school for training.
31:32
Yeah, I'm actually right. I'm actually.
31:34
I can read AI can read a book. It's not about, it's not about a
31:37
book. It's the way you train yourself.
31:39
It's the way you put yourself. In I know this I was a
31:41
professional athlete, I get. It all right, but what so you,
31:44
you don't think I can get you cut up?
31:45
I, I know I could get you cut up 100%.
31:48
You give me 3 months and you'll be cut up.
31:51
Three months. I can do it myself all right,
31:53
but what do I want to be cut up? For I don't know.
31:55
I'm just anyways. But back-to-back to the
31:57
injuries, never going raw. Yeah.
32:02
Well, I'd be eating a lot of raw stuff that went over like a fart
32:04
in church. Yeah, for sure.
32:07
But yeah, I don't, I don't see, I don't see them rushing Roman
32:11
Anthony back to get it. And there's a lot of young dudes
32:14
in that lineup. But yeah, I just, I just wanted
32:18
to get to the playoffs because there's going to be some crazy
32:20
stuff that happens. And then going into the
32:21
playoffs, yes, we're going to have the same kind of band of
32:26
teams that we've had. Hopefully maybe there's some mix
32:29
UPS in there and some upsets and guys go further.
32:32
But yeah, there's there's going to be injuries that play a part.
32:36
There's going to be people that diarrhea down their leg and lose
32:40
a chance to get in the playoffs. What?
32:41
Diary down the leg. What was that?
32:44
What does that mean? Yeah, I was just talking about
32:46
the Mets. Oh, what the hell is that?
32:50
You've never diarrhea down your leg?
32:52
No. The way they're playing, they
32:53
may have to adopt them as a superstition to turn them their
32:56
season around. By the way, Grisham just went
32:58
deep again with a three run Homer.
33:01
Maybe you should ask him to. Maybe you should ask him to
33:04
train you. By the way, look at Trent
33:08
Grisham. You don't.
33:10
The dude's not cut up, I can guarantee you that. 2022 Mets.
33:15
He does Trent Grisham. He does have a great mustache
33:18
though. Yeah, I don't know about that.
33:20
I don't like it. I mean that lip lettuce is
33:25
fierce. Anyways, ladies and gentlemen,
33:28
my deuce of the day, the deuce of the day.
33:31
You log, not a log. I don't have a log, but you
33:34
know, that sounded like diarrhea down the leg.
33:47
I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen, My deuce of the day goes to
33:50
Stephen A Smith. Stephen A Smith last night went
33:55
well. Yesterday was talking about one
33:58
of his employees, and I mean employees, because she was one
34:02
of his employees. And he was speaking high over
34:06
Molly Queer. I don't, I don't watch the show.
34:09
So I'm, I don't know much about her, but she was working with
34:11
him for over 10 years and spoke very, very highly of her.
34:16
But nobody knows why she resigned.
34:18
Nobody knows why she resigned. And then over the last 24 hours,
34:23
a story came out, which is bananas.
34:26
And everybody knows that Stephen A Smith just got $100 million
34:30
contract from ESPN. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I've
34:33
got news for you. Stephen A Smith just got a
34:36
second contract from SiriusXM radio.
34:40
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, he just got a three-year 36,
34:47
$1,000,000 add on. Yes, $36 million add on to his
34:53
$100 million contract with ESPN to join Mad Dog Radio, which
35:00
averages him now to make $40 million a year for the next
35:06
three years. You know what that smells like?
35:09
It smells like doggy, doggy Doo Doo.
35:11
That's what it smells like. I cannot believe SiriusXM Radio
35:16
is now paying him for three, 3 hours a day.
35:18
What is this guy doing now? He doesn't write his own
35:20
scripts. He doesn't do anything.
35:22
He talks about football like he knows football, barely knows
35:25
hockey, thinks he knows mixed martial arts, combat sports.
35:28
This guy's all over the place, and I mean all over the place.
35:31
I'd rather take a dump than listen to Stephen A Smith.
35:34
I cannot believe SiriusXM radio. By the way, Stephen A Smith is
35:40
making more money on Mad Dog Radio then Mayor Dog.
35:44
How completely ridiculous does that sound for SiriusXM radio?
35:50
Absolute Doo Doo. So my do so the day goes to
35:54
SiriusXM Radio for allowing this mishmash garbage to be signed
36:01
over there for three years, 12 million a year for $36 million
36:06
for the next three years. So that's my deuce of the day.
36:10
You can script it, you can sell it, you can flush it down the
36:13
toilet. It's absolutely disgusting that
36:16
this man is making $40 million a year.
36:18
He is making more than I would say 70% of the athletes right
36:24
now, 70% of the athletes. And he's just talking sports,
36:29
which by the way, he only knows one of them.
36:31
He doesn't know anything else. You think I'm going to trust
36:33
Stephen A Smith with his with his takes on football?
36:37
How about hockey? Remember the hockey season when
36:39
he was on ESPN talking hockey? What are we, what are we, what
36:43
are we doing here? What are these organizations
36:47
doing here? I don't get it.
36:49
And I'm not taking shots at Stephen A Smith.
36:51
I give him a lot of respect because his personality and my
36:55
personality are not all from one another.
36:58
But I, I just think that I, I, if you're going to go out there
37:01
and make that kind of money, you should know what you're talking
37:04
about. I just don't know if he does and
37:06
I, I don't get it. So that that's my dose of the
37:08
day. Anyways, that's it for a show.
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37:54
ridiculous. And yeah, that's it.
37:58
We'll be back on Monday. Speedy, who do we have on?
38:01
Daryl Reed, former Colts and Broncos defensive defensive
38:04
lineman. He's been on our show a lot.
38:05
Time to be determined. He didn't give me a time yet,
38:07
but he said Monday is. Good.
38:08
I like Daryl. He's he knows his stuff.
38:10
Yeah, he's he's a good personality, very funny.
38:11
So. Yeah, he is.
38:13
And he, he loves attacking me. So you guys are like that.
38:16
Daryl is, he's been on our show before and I've attacked his
38:19
takes on the Atlanta Falcons. So interesting personality, no
38:24
question. And who do we have on?
38:26
On Wednesdays as our our friend from the Pittsburgh Steelers,
38:29
Mister Jack's Ferry, will be joining us on Wednesday.
38:31
Oh I can't wait to hear Jack's bull crap that comes out of his.
38:35
Mouth fresh off the Steelers versus Jets game.
38:38
Please. That's the only thing you could
38:40
brag about. That's about it.
38:42
That debacle of a game in game number 2 was just absolutely
38:44
pathetic and I drafted one of his running backs and he just
38:48
absolutely embarrassed me. Yeah.
38:50
So Jack's Berry, we are working on some big guests and you know,
38:55
me and job have been speaking about it.
38:57
So we, I, I promise you guys over the next couple of weeks
39:01
we're working on live shows as well.
39:03
We're going to be doing some live shows before the new year.
39:06
So we're working on that. So when when the things start to
39:10
roll and we get closer to it, we'll let you guys know.
39:12
We'll make an announcement. So, but thank you to all the
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