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Pete Crow-Armstrong makes MLB history, Cubs, White Sox, Padres CLINCH, Vladdy's $500M | Ross & Rizzo · Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered

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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to another episode of Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Anthony Rizzo with my partner David Ross. This is
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  Speaker 2: our last regular season show before Rossi. We go live
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  Speaker 1: Expertise. Expertise.
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  Speaker 2: That's the word I was looking for. I'm still new
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  Speaker 2: to this whole new, you know, getting used to this thing. Rossi,
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  Speaker 2: what's going on? How was your week? How was your Friday?
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  Speaker 1: Bro, great week. It feels like I had Boston, Cleveland.
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  Speaker 1: It was cold up there. It was like packed house.
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland's fighting for a playoff spot. Boston just clinched. It
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  Speaker 1: felt like playoff baseball out there. We had a 1-0 game.
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  Speaker 1: Great game. Good pitching. Chapman back. He looked phenomenal in
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  Speaker 1: his outing. It felt like playoff baseball because of the weather.
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  Speaker 1: It started to get a little cool, so I wore
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  Speaker 1: my hoodie today. It was nice. What about you? You've
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  Speaker 1: been running. I checked the gram. Did you get 16
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  Speaker 1: miles in, bro?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, 16 miles.
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we got the marathon coming up October 11th in Chicago.
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  Speaker 2: I'm running on behalf of my foundation. Anthony Rizzo Family Foundation.
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  Speaker 2: If anyone wants to donate, everything helps for pediatric cancer. But, bro,
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  Speaker 2: this 16 miles was a grind. I did 20 last week,
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  Speaker 2: 16 this week. That was the end of the long runs.
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  Speaker 1: and you're kind of coming into to i bet the
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  Speaker 1: shoes the socks like everything i bet matter.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah Bro, a lot happened this last few days
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  Speaker 2: since our last show. We got both Chicago teams clinching,
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  Speaker 2: which hasn't been done, I don't think, ever on the
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  Speaker 2: same day. Shout out to the White Sox for their
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  Speaker 2: incredible season against the playoffs. And then the Cubbies, not easy.
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  Speaker 2: Ever since I said they should maybe tank and play
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  Speaker 2: the Braves, they decided to not really score any runs,
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  Speaker 2: so I was getting a little nervous.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I got a good line about that. You told
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  Speaker 1: him to tank and I text Happer yesterday and a
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  Speaker 1: couple of the boys, I said, Hey, congrats. And, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Happer hit me back. He's like, just, just trying to,
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  Speaker 1: trying to, to make Rizzo's prediction not come true. So
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  Speaker 1: it was, it was funny. He's listening. Uh, shout out Happer,
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  Speaker 1: you know, shout out Happer. Longest 10 year. Cub. His
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  Speaker 1: last game at home. Uh, and during the regular season,
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  Speaker 1: a true staple in Chicago, uh, Shout out to him.
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  Speaker 1: That had to be an emotional day. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So Ian Happ every day, every year, his last game
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  Speaker 2: of the season in left field, he takes a baseball,
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  Speaker 2: he signs it, and he puts a couple hundred dollar
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  Speaker 2: bills in there and throws it out to the left
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  Speaker 2: field bleachers to show his gratitude for them, for their support.
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  Speaker 2: And this year I thought it was awesome that the
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  Speaker 2: bleacher bums were all showing their support to Ian. They
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  Speaker 2: signed a ball to Ian, throwing it to him. And
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  Speaker 2: just the love there. You know, when you play in Chicago,
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  Speaker 2: when you play for any fan base for a long time,
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  Speaker 2: but especially the Cubs, you get, you know, ingrained in
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  Speaker 2: that culture. And these fans come to know you and
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  Speaker 2: love you. And the bleacher bums there at Wrigley are amazing.
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  Speaker 1: They're loyal.
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  Speaker 2: So that was a really cool moment for him.
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  Speaker 1: That was cool. That was cool. I thought that was
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  Speaker 1: really cool.
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  Speaker 2: Show the love to the fans.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then, I mean, bro, the Cubbies, man, they clinch.
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  Speaker 2: PCA joins the 40-40 club. We knew it was going
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  Speaker 2: to happen, right? I mean, 45 homers, 40 stolen bases.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the video. I mean, modified pitch out, too. And
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  Speaker 2: safe by a mile.
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  Speaker 1: Man, you could tell the fans were into it. As
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  Speaker 1: soon as he took off, you heard cheers. And everybody
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  Speaker 1: just kind of waiting on this moment. You know, this
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  Speaker 1: guy has brought so much joy. And back to Wrigley
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  Speaker 1: and the Cubs. But what a stud. The way he's
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  Speaker 1: handled a lot of situations this year. You know, some good,
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  Speaker 1: some bad. He's such a great model for baseball, I think.
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  Speaker 1: And a good, so much young talent. And he's one
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  Speaker 1: of them. And definitely, I feel like he's got the
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  Speaker 1: MVP locked up, obviously. But 40-40 is an impressive stat.
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  Speaker 1: to put on your resume and just going to be
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  Speaker 1: one of many that this special year is going to
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  Speaker 1: be in his trophy case. That's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's incredible. We had friends there sending us pictures
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  Speaker 2: and videos of the whole scene there at Wrigley. And
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  Speaker 2: this time of the year at Wrigley Field, it's electric.
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  Speaker 2: So congrats, Pete. Seventh member of the 4040 Club. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go over these names, Rossi. Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Jose Canseco,
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  Speaker 2: my personal favorite, Alfonso Soriano. Ronald Acuna Jr. and Shohei Otani.
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  Speaker 2: That is as elite as you can join right there, Pete.
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  Speaker 2: So congratulations to you and your family that moment. Did
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  Speaker 2: you see that moment after the game, him and his
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  Speaker 2: mom hugging? It was like an extended hug and just
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  Speaker 2: the love. After you clinch, it's such a great moment
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  Speaker 2: with all your families when you get that time.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, such a great moment in Wrigley. Matthew Boyd, seven innings.
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  Speaker 1: looked really good, sharp, you know, Cubbies win two to ones,
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  Speaker 1: a tight game, a perfect day at Wrigley, all the
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  Speaker 1: celebrations you watched, you know, like that's, it took me back, right?
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  Speaker 1: Like that's the stuff you miss, like being able to
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  Speaker 1: party with the boys, such a grind over the 162
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  Speaker 1: that you mentioned. And you get to celebrate, do the
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  Speaker 1: beer and champagne, you know, all the, all the speeches,
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  Speaker 1: all the fun stuff. I felt bad for Breggy. He
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  Speaker 1: couldn't get any champagne in his eyes. So he was
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  Speaker 1: dry and, But, you know, I'm sure he's ready for
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  Speaker 1: another round and celebrate again. I do want to go.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was really cool that they pointed out
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  Speaker 1: and brought to the center of the circle before they
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  Speaker 1: popped bottles the training staff and the support staff. And
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  Speaker 1: with what they've dealt with injuries, I've got a list
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  Speaker 1: for you. And it's elite when we're talking about how
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  Speaker 1: many days on the IL. Like, can you imagine if
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  Speaker 1: the Cubbies had Justin Steele healthy, Cade Horton? Um, Matthew
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  Speaker 1: Boyd was on the IL twice. Jameson Tyon, Eric Cabrera, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Ben Brown, like the, I mean, they've dealt with some
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  Speaker 1: serious injuries to the pitching staff along with Saya and
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  Speaker 1: Dansby and, you know, the guys that have also been
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  Speaker 1: on the IL and then the bullpen, uh, Porter Hodge,
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  Speaker 1: Hunter Harvey's been out all year, Daniel Palencia twice on
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  Speaker 1: the IL and Phil Maton. So like shout out PJ Manville, uh, Frange,
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  Speaker 1: like all the guys in that training set. The training staff.
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  Speaker 1: the guys, man, that, that was cool that they got
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  Speaker 1: recognized because they dealt with some adversity. I liked what
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  Speaker 1: Alex Bregman said. He said, we're calloused and ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they've had some adversity they've went through. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: and it's nice to have some, some of that during
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  Speaker 1: the season and still come out in a wildcard spot
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  Speaker 1: that they'll be in and be able to get to
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  Speaker 1: the postseason and play October baseball.
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  Speaker 2: No doubt. I mean, they're one of the best teams
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  Speaker 2: in the National League, hands down. They have the best offense,
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  Speaker 2: best defense. Their pitching is not so great, right, on paper. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you got Gaussman and Clay Holmes at the
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  Speaker 2: top of that line with Matthew Boyd, the three of them. Like,
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  Speaker 2: they can take you deep, right? I think a couple
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  Speaker 2: bullpen guys can get hot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So they have a good combo. When you clinch, what
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  Speaker 2: I don't think fans understand is it's so many emotions clinching.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's why you see guys celebrating so much
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  Speaker 2: because you start this journey at spring training of 162 game.
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  Speaker 1: Voyage, right?
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  Speaker 2: And there's gonna be so many ups and downs and
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  Speaker 2: it literally takes every single person on the inside, behind
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  Speaker 2: the scenes to make it happen, right? It takes... Like,
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  Speaker 2: I remember so many times before a game, I would
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  Speaker 2: just be saying to myself, man, there's so many people
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  Speaker 2: up in the concourse getting this game ready. People, the ushers,
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  Speaker 2: seeing people to their seats, the food vendors, right? The
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  Speaker 2: parking attendants to just make it so we can go
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  Speaker 2: and play a two-and-a-half, three-hour game. So I always love clinching.
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  Speaker 2: I love when I see teams clinch and really enjoy
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  Speaker 2: the moment. With the Cubbies, though, I mean, last– Last
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  Speaker 2: show I said about them playing the Braves, maybe it's
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  Speaker 2: an easier route to get deeper. And it just had
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  Speaker 2: me thinking, Rossi, and this is kind of a, I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking to Cubs fans. We are not settling for a
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  Speaker 2: three-game wildcard series at Wrigley. We are not settling for, oh,
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  Speaker 2: we get to the DS again and our team's exciting.
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  Speaker 2: That is not, Rossi, in my opinion, I'd take it
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  Speaker 2: a little personal, that is not what we established there
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  Speaker 2: with our group. of turning a franchise around and expecting
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  Speaker 2: to win every single year.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: We were expecting the world series and that's it. And
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  Speaker 2: I know the guys on the inside there are expecting
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  Speaker 2: that as well, but you know, they get to that LCS.
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  Speaker 1: Great.
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  Speaker 2: But we want a world series. Like I want a world,
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  Speaker 2: another championship in Chicago. I said it when we did
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  Speaker 2: the champions gate, hopefully there's a few more of those
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  Speaker 2: champions there because the city deserves it. So, I hope
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  Speaker 2: fans are not getting complacent with just a wild card
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  Speaker 2: or a DS round for the Cubs because this team
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  Speaker 2: is good enough to go deep.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt. No doubt. You hit it on it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's well said. And you hit it, too.
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  Speaker 1: Those guys in that dugout see the ultimate goal as
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  Speaker 1: being the World Series. So it's fun to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: It's fun to try to plan it all. I still
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  Speaker 1: think that the home field advantage is so important. These
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  Speaker 1: guys got to switch from partying and celebrating to like,
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  Speaker 1: we still have three games to play with.
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  Speaker 2: They have a double header tonight.
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  Speaker 1: What's that? Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: In Boston after celebrating and you know, that had to
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  Speaker 2: be fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. They got some work to do and some,
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  Speaker 1: some adversity still within the season. But I want to
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  Speaker 1: go back to, we're talking about the city of Chicago,
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  Speaker 1: the white socks. I mean, What a great turnaround. 2024,
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  Speaker 1: they were 41-121. 121 losses two years ago. And then
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  Speaker 1: 25-60 in 102. And then Will Venable coming in last year,
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  Speaker 1: having that season, making the moves in 2026. They're 81-77
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  Speaker 1: and playing for an AL Central first round bye and
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  Speaker 1: a championship in their division. So Congrats to the White Sox.
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  Speaker 1: They have been a young team that's been exciting to watch,
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  Speaker 1: and nobody had on their playoff radar, and these guys
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  Speaker 1: have done nothing but go out, again, have some adversity,
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  Speaker 1: young players stepping up. The development of the pitching staff
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  Speaker 1: has been really good. They've got some good young arms
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  Speaker 1: that can be completely dominant, and it's been fun. Congrats
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  Speaker 1: to Will Venable. I'm anxious to see. I heard Jesse
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  Speaker 1: Rogers on TV yesterday saying, that Will Venable should be
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  Speaker 1: the runaway manager of the year. I don't know about
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  Speaker 1: that with what Chad Tracy has done in Boston, but
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  Speaker 1: there's two really good candidates right there that aren't deserving
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  Speaker 1: of manager of the year.
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  Speaker 2: Dude, Morikami, Montgomery, and Vargas all have 30-plus home runs
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  Speaker 2: for the White Sox. Maybe guys that the national baseball
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  Speaker 2: fan aren't Under the radar, these guys are under the radar.
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  Speaker 2: Morikami's been huge coming over from Japan and what he's done.
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  Speaker 2: Montgomery and Vargas, 30-plus home runs. I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people know that. Look, on the other
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  Speaker 2: side here, if you're a White Sox fan, you're happy
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  Speaker 2: to be in. You're happy for a three-game set or
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  Speaker 2: home playoff games, and you're excited going into next year.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy the expectations, how they're so different when you're
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  Speaker 2: a team that's excited to be in. And whatever happens, happens.
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  Speaker 2: But no matter what, it's a good year to where
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  Speaker 2: you're the Cubs or the Yankees, Dodgers. It's all or nothing.
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  Speaker 2: All or nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think the White Sox, I'm interested in this
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland White Sox race. Do you think they've got enough
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  Speaker 1: to overcome the Guardians? Guardians got a one-game lead on
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  Speaker 1: the White Sox with three to play. I think the
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  Speaker 1: Guardians have the Royals who are playing decent baseball. And
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  Speaker 1: the White Sox got the Rockies who absolutely stink right now. But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it seems on paper that you would think
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  Speaker 1: the White Sox would overtake it and the White Sox
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  Speaker 1: own the tiebreaker. So, you know, they're in pretty good
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  Speaker 1: position to win the division, which is another cool step
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  Speaker 1: to get a bye for the first round of the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, with the teams they're playing on paper,
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  Speaker 2: you want to say yes, they do. But I just
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  Speaker 2: think the Guardians, this is what they do every year.
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  Speaker 2: And they're so battle tested, I feel like, with their
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  Speaker 2: experience that these three games aren't going to phase them.
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  Speaker 2: Steven votes going to play these games as one game,
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  Speaker 2: playoff games and make sure they win one game at
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  Speaker 2: a time.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So, um, not to say we'll Venable isn't, but I
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  Speaker 2: just feel like the guardians are so they've been there
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  Speaker 2: and done that. So I have to lean towards the
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  Speaker 2: guardians in this situation, but it would be nice to
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  Speaker 2: see the white socks. I think it would be, it
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  Speaker 2: would cap off a great story for them all year.
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  Speaker 2: And what I love about this white socks team is
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  Speaker 2: whenever I see videos of them, um, circulating online, you
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  Speaker 2: just see a group of guys that genuinely seem like
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  Speaker 2: they love each other. And you don't always get that, Kate.
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  Speaker 2: There's so many years where you're on good teams and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the team likes each other, but not
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  Speaker 2: the whole team. And it just seems like that entire
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  Speaker 2: White Sox team has really come together. And I believe
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  Speaker 2: that's a huge part of why they're having so much
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  Speaker 2: success this year, for sure. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And they've got every guy on the roster is 26
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  Speaker 1: or younger, which is crazy, right? And then They do have,
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  Speaker 1: it does feel like they like each other, the culture there.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Not to keep quoting Jesse Rogers, but he was talking about,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: he doesn't talk about culture too much, but that team,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: it feels like they've got the right culture and all
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: the guys are on the same page and like each other.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: And they've got some edge. I love some of the
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: young guys they have that have this edge and kind
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: of a grit to them. And I'm excited. I'm excited
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: for this postseason and the AL Central race is fun
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: all the way down to the wire, which is makes
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: it more exciting for us. Yeah.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: How about, how about I just crazy, the white socks
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: or the guardians are going to get a first round
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: by and the red socks and Yankees to, to pretty
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: much 90 win teams are going to be going at
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: it to play the Tampa Bay race in the next round.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: So that's crazy.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: And then you have the American league West with the
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Astros and the Rangers, the Rangers currently have a, uh,
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: they're tied with three to play. So that's going to be,
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, Astro's on the tiebreaker, so the Rangers need
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: a little bit of help. But that side, that bracket
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: of the AL seems like a cakewalk if you were
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: the Yankees, Red Sox, or Rays. You want that side.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: But the side that the Yankees, Red Sox, and Rays
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: are on, any team can come out of it.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Well, that'll bring us to our polymarket pick of the day.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: It's not too late to pick a side in the
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: AL West. A trade on the Astros currently is at 70%
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: to the yes. So $ 100 gets you $ 139. A trade
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: on the Rangers is only 34% to the yes. So
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: $ 100 would get you $ 281. I agree with the odds
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: and I'm going to go with the Astros. I just
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: feel like that little bit of playoff experience they have
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: around there. And, you know, if they pitch to Jordan,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: we'll see if they do that. But, you know, Jordan Alvarez,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: the year he's having, you know, it's always nice when
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: you've got an MVP caliber. I feel like caliber player
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: puts you over the edge. But the Rangers won't go away.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: The Astros just can't seem to take– neither team can
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: seem to take off. So my polymarket pick of the
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: day or pick of the week, let's say, would go
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: to the Astros.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Well, Astros play the Twins. I'm sorry, Astros play the
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: A's and the Rangers play the Twins. So, I don't know.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: I was talking to Jock Peterson yesterday saying, come on,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: we got to get me in. We got to get
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: the Rangers in. I'm dangerous. He's a problem. Shout out
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: to Jock. 20, 25 plus pumps this year.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Friend of the program.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Friend of the program. I always tell Jock on a
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: contract year, he's always dangerous. So, but yeah, I mean that...
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: They get in, right? They play the last wild card seed,
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: which is either going to be the Guardians or the
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: White Sox. And then either the Guardians or the White
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Sox have a bye, so whoever wins that plays them.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: So it's like, God, MLB needs a receipt so bad
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: to break all this up, right? You want the best
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: teams to be playing as long as they can, and
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: the best teams don't even have a chance when they
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: have to play each other so early in the playoffs.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: So that's going to be an interesting one. I mean, look,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: this is what makes the beauty of baseball so amazing,
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: in my opinion, right? It's April 25th. You lose two
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: out of three. You're the manager, Rossi. The media is saying, man,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: that's tough. You lost two of three to the Colorado Rockies,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: a team that's not supposed to be good this year.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: And you're like, yeah, it's just one series. We'll get
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: back on it. It's not just one series. It's not
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: every single game matters. Every one of them. And it's
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: coming down. It's proving again. It's going to come down
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: to the last game of the season, which there's going
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: to be tiebreaker scenarios all in play. It's the beauty
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: of 162, man. It's a long game. It's a marathon.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: We're going to have a good finish here.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: We love it. We love it.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Padres clinch a playoff spot. They're back in the playoffs,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: back in the dance after their I mean, atrocious start
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: to the season, right? It seemed like none of their
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: superstar players were going to ever get another hit again,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: and they are all well on their way. Manny has
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: been doing what Manny does. Tatis is hitting a home
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: run every other night, it seems like. That's, I mean,
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: they clinched at Dodger Stadium, which I know has to
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: feel good for them after seeing the Dodgers have all
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: their success, so.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: And they're playing well, right? They're in that race for
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: home field advantage. They're leading the wild card right now.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: I think the Cubs would have to go to San
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Diego as how it sits right now, but they still
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: got a tough, I mean, Arizona's, they finish in Arizona.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Arizona's playing really good baseball, was chasing the Padres and
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: making it hard on them, but the Dodgers went in.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: I thought the Padres, excuse me, the Padres went into
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium. I thought the Padres had the toughest schedule
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: the last six with the Dodgers in Arizona, and They
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: took two or three from the Dodgers after getting blown
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: out the first night. So they're hitting on all cylinders.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Their pitching looks good. Like you said, their lineup's deep.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: They still got to go into Arizona and play good baseball,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: and I'm sure the Arizona Diamondbacks would love to knock
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: them out. But home field advantage, I think, is the
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: most important here in this NL Central or in the
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: NL wildcard scenario.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: I agree, bro. Just think about the three home field
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: advantages are Literally game-changing. At Wrigley, at Petco, or at
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: the bank in Philadelphia. I mean, no one wants to
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: go in there as a visitor in the playoffs. But,
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: you know, A.J. Preller, man, the Padres president of baseball operations,
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: he just keeps doing it. And if you're on that team,
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: you have to respect him. that he just continues to
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: believe in his team. They were dead at the deadline.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: There was talks about Mason Miller getting traded. You know
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: what I mean? And he said, no, no, no, no, no.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: I believe in this team. He goes out and gets
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: starting pitching, and the team turns it around. They've been
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: the hottest team in baseball for a while now. I mean,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: if they get in and they host home field advantage,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: it always seems like the Padres are a streaky team.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: So if they can get that home field and get
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: the momentum– early in the playoffs I mean last year
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: they lost to the Cubs at Wrigley there was no
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: momentum right so another team in the National League that's
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: definitely a threat to make it to the World Series
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: and not win it.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: And you know as well as I do momentum is
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: everything going into the postseason feeling good the guys having
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: good at bats feeling good in the box and the
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: pitching the pitching is going to make or break it
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: but their bullpen to me is one of the best
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: in baseball I mean they're absolutely dominant with Mason Miller
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: on the back end of that more home They've got
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: some absolute studs back there. And if they get past
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: the first round, I feel like they know the Dodgers
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: the best. When you're in division, you know those guys best.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: And so I think that might be the best second
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: round or after the wild card would be the best
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: little kind of matchup. Not that I'm rooting for those guys,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: but it is definitely a star-studded lineup that I feel
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: like can go toe-to-toe with the Dodgers, who seem to
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: be the Dodgers kind of come back to life a
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: little bit. Shohei's still struggling a little bit, but So
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Mookie's starting to turn it around. Freddie Freeman's hot. Their
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: pitching's good. I thought Glass now looked really good last night.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Gave up some runs late that weren't his, but he
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: gave up. He looked really good. Let's see where Blake
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Snell's at after kind of coming off. I don't know
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: if he's pitched since he came off the mound, but
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers look good. We're in the thick of it, baby.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: How about that?
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Totally forgot about Tarek Scooble. That's a shame on my part.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Yep. But, I mean, Rossi and I are going all
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: in on the MLB playoffs. Every series, every game, every reaction.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: We're going to be doing shows. We're going to be
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: doing preview shows. So, I'm really excited for these matchups
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: coming up, especially this wild card round because there's so
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: many different scenarios. That's going to be so much fun
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: to break down. A couple other big stories from this
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: week I feel like that are kind of getting lost
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: in the sauce is– The Red Sox and the Mets
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: hiring their interim managers and making them their full-time managers.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Congratulations to Chad Tracy and Andy Green on their new deals.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Congratulations to them and their families. I know a lot
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: of hard work to become a manager. Rousey, as you know,
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: there's only 30 of them.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Those guys getting, well, let's talk about Trace
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: real quick and coming into all that adversity and just
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: feeling like a calming force when things, you know, in
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: that market, as you know, it's a New York, Boston,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: some of these media markets can be really negative and
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: it got pretty, pretty dark there for Craig Breslow and
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: that group. And for them to, to get on that run, uh,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: actually when we were there doing Red Sox Yankees and
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: they swept the Yankees and just went on that, that
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: amazing run to get them back in the race. And
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: then I played real steady baseball. Uh, they need Wilson back.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Wilson Contreras having a career year for him, uh, highs.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: He's over 900 OPS, uh, and career highs. And, Home runs, average, RBIs, runs,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: all kind of stats is career high for him. So
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I think he'll be back this weekend against the Cubs
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: and get him back locked in. They need that bat,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: but their pitching is elite. Garrett Crochet, I watched him
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: throw a live BP up to 94, 96. They're talking
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: about maybe him being a bridge guy, if he can
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: bounce back in the bullpen, adding to Garrett Whitlock and
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Broadus Chapman look phenomenal, as we talked about. Like, that
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Red Sox team is really in on a cylinder. So,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: congratulations to Chad Tracy. And my guy Andy Green in
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: New York. So pumped for him. Getting back in the dugout. Well-deserved.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: He's such a calming force. Knowing... those guys that have
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: come in from the Meyer leagues, directing those guys, uh,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: or watching them kind of get drafted and developed. And
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: now he's got a lot of those guys, um, on
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: his team and watching those guys perform young, young studs. So, um,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: congrats to the two managers got extensions. Uh, we always
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: like to give shout outs there. It's hard to, it's
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: hard to, like you said, get that job and then
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: have some success. So, um, congrats to both.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: I think what Chad Tracy's done there in Boston has
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: been really incredible. That, that whole turnaround, um, doing games there.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: I did a game there with NBC early in the
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: season where this team was just completely dog shit. Sell them.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Sell the team. People going after John Henry's head, calling
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: for Craig Breslow. They fire Alex Cora. Then I'm there
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: when they sweep the Yankees. We were there, Rossi, which
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: was kind of their turnaround. I think it was their turnaround. Really,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: they had a weird game in Colorado and some flight
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: issues that turned it around, and Caleb Durbin had a
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: broken pinky, I believe it was, and they were going
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: to give him off, and he said, no, I'm playing,
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: and then goes, hits a home run the next day
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: versus Cam Schlitter, which is a lot of people on
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: the inside there saying that was a big turnaround for
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: that team, but what Chad Tracy's done, how he's gotten
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: his guys together, saying, hey, this is what we're not
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: doing well, let's talk about it, right? It seems like
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: his communication from what I've gathered talking to him, as
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: a former player, Rossi, I was I was lit up like, wow,
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: this guy gets it, man. I know his dad. Jim
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: was a manager for a long time, played in the
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: game for a long time, and he grew up in
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: the game, but it is not easy to.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jim Tracy was my first... Black and white TV. Yeah, oh, God.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: I love you so much. The communication is everything, right,
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: for big leaguers, and it seems like Trace has done
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: that and congrats to him and Greeny coming in. with
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: the Mets, this one for me, and I love Andy Green,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: this one for me is kind of a head-scratcher, Rossi,
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: because they started out saying this is just a two-month rental, right?
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: I'm not taking the job afterwards. I'm just here to
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: fill the gap. and I'll be back in the front office, right?
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: That's what David Stern says. That's what Andy Green said. Obviously,
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: this is what they say. That's not what anyone knows.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: Obviously not. But why not wait till the offseason and
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: go and interview a few people and then name Greeny
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: the manager, right? Which they believe in Andy Green that much,
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: and the player feedback must be that high of him,
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: that the players love him, that He got that job,
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: so shout out to Greeny. That was a head-scratcher to me, thinking,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: why not go out and see who's available? Maybe call D.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Ross over there. That one just seemed a little weird.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: I talked to Andy a little bit. We did their
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: game two weeks ago with Baltimore. I talked to him
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: a little bit. He's a buddy, and I don't think
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: anything changed on his end. I think it was a
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: big family decision. He's got two his twins, his youngest
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: to our seniors and graduating and wanted to like, you know,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: I think if he would have went back to the
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: front office, there's a good chance he was going to
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: get the GM job. Uh, and they just hired, uh,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: I'm blanking on the name. Um, but from, from the twins, um,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: I'll think about that guy, Chris Trantho in the chat, but, um,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: you know, he was going to have to move to
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: New York to be the GM, um, in theory, uh,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: be around David Stearns all the time. And I think
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: his family got on board more than he changed his mind.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: I think they were enjoying seeing his success. He probably,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, loved being down there.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: I think it was less about his decision and more
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: about his family and making sure they're on board. Derek Falvey.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thanks.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, that's awesome for him. We had Greeny
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: in Chicago. He was your bench coach and I loved him.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: He was awesome. And I saw his comments. when he
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: first had the job, his first open presser with the Mets,
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: and he was like, look, I've learned a lot from
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: my first time managing. There's things I'm going to do differently.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: I've had a lot of time to reflect on it.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: So I feel like a lot of time for these managers,
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: the second time around, they kind of can really look
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: back at what went on the first time and pick
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: and choose what they want to take with them. So
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: hopefully for the Mets, this is, you know, he's there
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: for a long time and the Mets can turn it
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: around because I just do feel like when, when the
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: big markets are good, seeing the Mets be good, um,
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: and competing for, for championships year in and year out
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: just makes the game better.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: So, yeah. Well, we went in there in 15 when
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: that place is rocking, it's tough. It's a tough place
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: to play.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: So, Oh, no doubt, bro.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: No doubt.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: And they, and coming from a, coming from a, um,
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: a Miami dolphins fan. I know what it's like to
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: be starved of greatness. So I can relate to the
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Mets fans and most Mets fans here are also jets fans.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: So they have nothing really to look like the Mets
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: are all they have to look forward to.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: So, well now with Jackson dark and hurt, even if
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: you're a giant, like it's, it's, it's not, it's not
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: looking good, but yeah, shout out, shout out green. The
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: one thing I want to comment on, you made a
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: really good point right there just from sitting in the seat. Like,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: When you get out of the seat of being a
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: manager and you're able to reflect and watch kind of
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: unbiasedly and without that trying to win every second and
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: every pitch from the manager and every little angle you
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: can possibly wrap your brain around, there is this kind
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: of like, oh, I would do this differently or I'd
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: do that differently or watching other guys, how they do things.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: I think even I talked to Scott Harris a little bit,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: as I know you do, And he had Gabe Kapler
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: in San Francisco in his second time. And we've talked
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: a little bit like, you know, they've had deep conversations
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: about second time managing. You definitely look at things a
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: little bit differently and learn a lot when you're able
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: to step back for a minute.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt. And I'm sure Greeny has. And look, Greeny,
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: I love him. Bright man for the job. He's been
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: great since he's been there. So hopefully they go into
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: the offseason and gain a lot of momentum because it
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: seems like the guys love him there.
• 34:16
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• 34:16
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  Speaker 2: A couple of controversial things going on around the league, Rossi.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Drama for your mama.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: Which I think is just blown out of proportion. But
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: when you're a superstar, these things happen. Vladdy Guerrero Jr.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: 's comments about his $ 500 million contract saying that they're
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: paying me for what I already did, not what I'm
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: going to do. How about that? I think Rossi, my
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: take is.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: It got lost in translation. I think if you're going
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: to question Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 's work ethic, I mean,
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: he posts every day. He plays. He seems to play hurt.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: He's the heartbeat of that team. He comes from a
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: baseball family. His dad played until he was like 50, right?
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: I don't think questioning his integrity and how much he
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: cares about being a superstar is there. I think maybe
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: getting a little bit lost in translation is later on
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: in that interview, he was like, look, I didn't have
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: a great year, but I tried every day my hardest, right?
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: So, these things happen, man. They played the last game
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: of the season last year. You go into the offseason,
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: sometimes you just don't have good years. Now, his year
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: for a superstar is unprecedented, right? Like, down years are,
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: you're still popping 25 homers and driving in at least 70,
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: 80 runs, right? But, I don't think there's anything to
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: worry about with Vladdy as far as work ethic and
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: all of that. But what do you think?
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's only got nine home runs and I'm
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: sure first time going all the way to game seven
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: of the world series, you know what a toll that
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: takes on your body. I don't care how old you are.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: And I know, I think he signed a 14 year deal.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Like they're expecting him to be good for the long haul,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: but you know, there, there is a point to the
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: reason why you get the, the contract is because you're
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: banking on the player being a version of himself, you know, that,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: that they've seen leading up to that. And, you know,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: the front offices are trying to figure out the law
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: of averages and how good they're going to be for
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: the long haul. And he's young, a dominant player, but
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: they're also investing in the person when you get that
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: kind of contract and their work ethic and how they
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: post and how they, what they do in the community.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: And when you give somebody that much money, the one
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: thing that I would say is like, this should be
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: a poly market. hard take is freaking... I'm betting on
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Vladimir Guerrero next year. I don't know about you guys,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: but I guarantee you he goes into the offseason with
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: a chip on his shoulder, and he's going to come
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: back with a vengeance. And, you know, could he have
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: worded that better? Sure. But he's kind of right as well. Like,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: the reason why he got the long-term deal is because
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: of what he put up before. It's not an excuse
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: for the bad year he's had, but I'm banking on.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: You know what?
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Polly market in the yes. I'm going in the yes.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: Shout out Polly market. But to his point, Rossi, right?
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Like when, when, when I was in a slump personally,
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: I would, I would lean on my resume. I would say, look, man,
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: like I drive in a hundred almost every year. I
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: hit my home runs, right? I I'm going to put
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: up my numbers.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: I'm not having the greatest month or couple of weeks,
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: but I would rely on what I did in the
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: past for my future of, You know, psyche.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just taken way out of context. I
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: don't think there's anything that anyone in Toronto needs to
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: worry about. You have a great franchise player. So, Vladdy,
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: on the Ross and Rizzo unfiltered show, we have your
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: back here.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: We got you, Vlad.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: The Marlins, Rossi, are... First off, we're talking about the
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Marlins in late September, so I guess that's a good thing.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so, man.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: Good young team, man. They were up and down all year.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: Really good, really bad, really good, right? Up and down.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: That's kind of the definition of a young team. But
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: what they're doing, have you been paying attention to what
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: they're doing with Sandy Alcantara?
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: Alcantara? Yep.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: Two saves in September while starting games as well. Yuri
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Perez came out of the bullpen. So what they're doing, Rossi, right,
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: is their starters are going five or six innings, and
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: then on their bullpen day, which is two days later,
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: they're using them in the game instead of practice, right?
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: What the fuck are we doing?
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Well... The one thing I know, Daniel Moskos, their pitching coach,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: was one of my staff. And I feel like the
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Marlins have to be outside the box, right? No, they don't.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: What do you mean by that? Hold on.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, like, they're not going to sign... these big
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: free agent pitchers. They don't go out and sign.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: They trade them all away.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: I know. That's my point. I'm a Marlins fan, Ross.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: I'm from South Florida.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: Hey, I'm rooting for them. I love what their manager
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: down there is doing. You knew they were going to
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: be a little bit more like the Rays when they
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: hired their president of baseball operations and Gabe Kapler as
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: the GM. They're going to be outside the box and
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: think outside the box. He's always been a little bit
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: that way. I think the true test is this is
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: either groundbreaking and everybody's going to copy it in some way,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: maybe not the big market teams, and I don't know
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: if pitchers would be on board, or it's going to
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: be a disaster and guys are going to get hurt
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: and they're going to lose the good pitch they have.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: It has to be a disaster, bro. There's too much
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: wear and tear and stress on your body to expect
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: a starting pitcher to go out there and compete and
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: throw up to 100 pitches At the highest level in
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: the big leagues. And then two days later, you're going
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: to put them in a fire situation to come and
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: close out a game or pitch high leverage for one
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: inning where they're just going to go blow it out.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: It's risky.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe. Right now, okay, a couple times. In the playoffs,
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: I can see this happening, right? But what, like, I
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: don't know, man.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: It does feel a little bit like playoff baseball for them,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: and they've only started it at the back end of
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: the year. So is it these guys are built up
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: and they have more confidence in it? You wouldn't do
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: it at the beginning of the season when guys aren't
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: built up and stretched out and their routine. I think
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: knowing pitchers' individual routines is going to be really important
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: because some guys go to the pen and they're either
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: working on some stuff or they're really letting it eat.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: And some guys just want to do a little touch
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: and feel every couple, you know, a couple of days,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: a real light workload and pitchers getting on board with
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: that is really tricky. I think you have a guy
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: in Sandy Alcantara that's like, I'll do anything. I love
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: this organization. And, you know, personally, does it feel like
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: they're taking advantage of that a little bit? Yeah, it does. Right.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: It does.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: And he's coming off Tommy John surgery too.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: A couple of years ago.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Right. So, yeah.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: Man, I don't love it. I mean, bro, like what
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: you said, the Marlins have the Marlins. The Marlins have had,
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: the Marlins do a good job historically of having really
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: good players.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: Right? They just traded Pablo Lopez a few years ago.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: They've traded Christian Yelich, MVP. Giancarlo Stanton, one MVP. JT Realmuto,
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: Jazz Chisholm, Luis Uribe, Jorge Soler they had.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: Edward Cabrera for the Cubs. Cabrera, right?
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: They always have a good back-end bullpen.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: So....
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: I don't understand why they would be risking players' health
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: right now. And I don't understand why the players are
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: saying yes to this. There has to be something that
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: we're not seeing and the numbers that they're looking at
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: has to have the players bought in.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: That's what I would say. That's a great point.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: I mean.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: Dude, Sandy's coming off. I don't know. I don't know.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: I want to learn more about what they're looking at,
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: to your point, and what the messaging is. I think
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: it's a lot easier without a true veteran. Max Scherzer's
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: not doing that, I would assume, if he's there. But
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: they don't get a lot of those guys, and they've
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: got young guys that are bought in. And so, yeah,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: it's tricky. But I think to comment deeply– on this.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: I'd love to know what they're looking at and, and
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: are they trendsetters? Are, are they setting themselves up for,
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: you know, everybody to, to make fun of it so far?
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: It's been a pretty good success. A couple of good
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: outings from, um, no doubt.
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: Short term. I think it's short term. I think it works.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: The guy's super healthy, but post-season, I love it. Post-season,
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: 162.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: Look at Shohei, man. Shohei can't stay healthy. He's a
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: two-way player. Like he, historically he's having a problem staying
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: healthy and they, they pitch him once every seven to
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: 10 days.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Right.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So now you're asking the guy that's throwing a hundred, again,
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: a hundred pitches to go two days later. Maybe if
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: he's on six days rest, again, the numbers you'd have
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: to really dive in and see what they're thinking, but
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: you get organizations like this.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know if free agents and not that they
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: go out and get a lot of, but I don't
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: know if free agents would go there or there. You
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: would definitely, the agents would, would have conversations with, within that.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: And I think the other thing that stands out to
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: me about Sandy is that he leads major league baseball
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: in innings. Like, you know, most organizations are backing off
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: rather than, I mean, we can go right into like,
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: this is a whole, like the WBC thing, like with schemes.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: And I heard Logan Webb the other day, um, talking
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: about a little bit, you know, and, and the innings and,
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: and how much they put just the taxing of an
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: extra month on themselves. And, and, I get that, but
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: I also like, and this is a side note, kind
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: of off topic, but also I think we always choose
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: what the organization wants and the organization always has the say.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: And if it was up to the organizations, they would
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: never let guys throw extra. It doesn't matter what time
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: of year it is. There's all this talk of like,
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: let's do it in the middle of the season because
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: of the Olympics. The organizations are going to be like,
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: hell no, I don't want my horses going in the
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: middle of the season when I'm on a playoff push
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: and I want them in September. I don't know if
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: there's ever a good time. But to a man, the
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: guys you talk to, it's like, okay, maybe you sacrificed
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: a year where you didn't have such a great year
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: to do something really unique and special and play for
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: your country. And I think to a lot of those guys,
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: if you asked them, Paul Skeens was as bought in
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: as anybody and as mad as anybody I've ever seen
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: losing to Venezuela there in the last game. It's a
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: big deal to play for your country and an honor.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: I definitely got to feel like those guys, I know
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: those guys took a lot of pride in that and
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: You know, hindsight. Here's another point. I'm jumping all over
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: the place, but Garrett Crochet was one of the pitchers
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: that were, you know, maybe going to be on WBC.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: He chose not to because of how many innings he
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: threw last year. Career high last year for the Red Sox. Well,
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: he got hurt. If the same thing would have happened
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: to him this year and he would have pitched in
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: the WBC, everybody would have been blaming the WBC. I
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: don't know that the two coincide. I definitely think it's
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: more workload. but I'm just saying we look at it,
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: we look at such a negative, and some of these,
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: I think, guys are getting, you know, they're having to
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: answer questions about the WBC where I heard Daniel Polizzi
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: has been on the IL twice, and I hadn't heard
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: a whole lot of questions about his WBC appearances because
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: he was throwing BBs.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, they had to make a huge decision
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: there to let him pitch back-to-back, right?
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they were going to say, I know the
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: Cubs weren't happy about that.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: No, absolutely not.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: And these guys love their country. I love it.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: These guys love playing. It's great to put that USA
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: across your chest.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: No doubt. Let's get to our Tim Boss Ball Back
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: questions of the week, our daily mailbag questions where our
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: listeners can send us questions to rossandrizzo at gmail.com or
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: leave a comment on YouTube. Also want to plug next week.
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: when we are doing our preview series for the wild card,
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: if fans from that team want to send in questions
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: for that series or for their team, we're going to
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: answer on each breakdown we're doing.
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: Let me read this from, let me read this first one.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: Cause he's got a, he's got a little love for
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: you at the end of it. Emails from Brian Tanner.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: Question is at the beginning of the season, did you
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: guys think the Cubs would be this good? Why? And
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: if not, what changed for them to become the team
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: they are today? P.S. Rizzo, I was there for your
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: retirement ceremony, and it was probably the best game of
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: my life. Thank you for everything you have done for
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: the Cubbies. So shout out.
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Brian.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: Brian loves him some Riz.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a fun time. The retirement was special.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: They did it. The Cubbies treated me right there. No,
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: I did not think that the Cubs were going to
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: be a 90-plus win team this year because of their pitching.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: I didn't think that they went out and did enough
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: in the off season to solidify their bullpen. Um, I
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: thought their starting pitching was, was decent, but for 162 games, it's,
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: it's not going to be easy to win their offense.
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, Rossi, we talked about this. It feels like yesterday.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: Their offense is great. Their defense is great, but pitching
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: wins championships, right? So, um, It's a shout-out to Jed.
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: Shout-out to that entire organization, Craig Council, all the way
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: down for going through the adversity they went through with
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: all their starters getting hurt, their relievers getting hurt, and
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: still winning baseball games. That's a lot of pressure on
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: that position player group to continue to day in and
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: day out and go grind and score six runs give
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: up eight type thing and still win 90 plus games.
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: So I thought they were going to be good. I
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: didn't think they'd be this good. And on top of
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: everything they went through, they're way better than I expected.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: Well, we had this debate being you off off camera
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: early in the season of like, you know, I think
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: I probably believed him in them a little bit more.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: I thought Cabrera was going to be on the mound
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: a little bit more and do some things. I didn't think–
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: I thought Valencia was a legit closer coming off the WBC.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: And I knew, like, the pickups of Bregman and some
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: of the moves they made there. I just– I thought
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: the offense was going to be great. I thought it
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: was really deep. But those injuries, you know, like Steele
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: and Cade Horton, for them to overcome those injuries and
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: credit to the offense, one of the best in the game, like,
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: that's what's carried them because– They've definitely dealt with some adversity,
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: as we've mentioned.
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: Nice. This email is from William Menon.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: Menon.
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: Both of you had some heated moments in your careers. Example,
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: me charging the Reds. What's a moment either of you
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: had where you were so heated you thought about charging
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: the mound or getting into it with an umpire where
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: you didn't? What's running through your mind at that time?
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, I got one that came... to mine first
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: probably the maddest I've been and it has to do
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: with you I was managing and we were having a
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: good year you were having a good year and you
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: went into Cincinnati and I think you hit like two
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: home runs the first game and then the second game
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: it was I think it was a day game on
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: a Saturday and you hit another home run in your
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: first at bat or second at bat and then third
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: at bat they threw one behind your head and I
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: was so fucking mad like I was seeing red, and
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: it felt like, for me, and I don't know, I
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: don't know their, I've heard great things about their pitching coach,
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: but it felt like it came from the dugout. It
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: felt like somebody told him, we got to make Anthony
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: Rizzo uncomfortable. And it was behind your freaking head, and
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: I think I got tossed out of the game because
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: I was just screaming at the umpire, like, what are
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: we doing? This guy's absolutely dominating his team. And when
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: I argue with umpires, I black out. I don't know
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. it just is diarrhea. The mouth is
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: coming out in an angry version of me. And, um, that,
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: that one's the first one that popped in my mind
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: where I just was seeing red and like wanted to,
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: I was a manager and the manager's supposed to have
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: the cool head. And I wanted to charge the mound
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: at that moment. I don't remember who was pitching, but
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: it was, it just was so disrespectful. It was so
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: fucking Bush league that, uh, excuse my language, but you
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: can tell I'm getting a little heated right now.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: Don't, don't mess with my boy, Anthony. Don't mess with Tony.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: You have one?
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, my moments with umpires, it really was like the
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: 3-1 pitch that they call a strike or 3-0 that
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: they call a strike, and then you end up striking out.
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: 3-1 to go to 3-2. That was clearly a ball.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: That would have been ball four, right? And I'm just like, hey, man,
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: a ball's a fucking ball, right? And there's one time
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: in San Francisco where I believe it was a 3-0
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: or 3-1 count, and Jordan Baker was behind me. the
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: home plate umpire and he calls it a strike i'm
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: like what the fuck jordan i just turned around we
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: have a great relationship jordan and i basically came up
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: together right jordan's great yeah we talk all the time
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: we talk i'm like what the fuck was that and
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: he looked at me ah and then i swung and
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: missed the next pitch it fouled it off and i
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: just screamed fuck right like pissed because that goes from
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: starting your day with a or i don't know if
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: it was starting my day but A walk to a strikeout, right?
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: That's a huge difference on psyche, stat line, everything.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: And he tossed me. And I'm like, what the fuck
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: was that for? Oh, you can't show me up like that.
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: I go, well, then call the fucking game the right way, right?
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: I'm screaming at him, pissed off. Like, you just took
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: the bat out of my hand. You knew that was
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: a ball. You admit it. And he tossed me. And
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: I was like, are you being sensitive today? Like, I
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: asked him if he wanted a candy bar. i love
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: this this is what you're talking i.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: Love them i love that i would say like why
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: are you so sensitive you know why are you so
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: sensitive i should i used to say that i.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: Get why they're sensitive all the time because they just
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: are constantly getting chirped at but yeah there are times
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: in games where you want to go crazy against another
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: team if you think they hit you or team you
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: don't have bad bad blood with or um, umpires, but
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: you have to be mindful of where you're at in
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: the game, the situation where the team's at. So there's
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: a lot that goes through your head in that moment
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: that you really need to, keep under.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: Control guys guys like me can get tossed guys like
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: you can't get tossed like they've got plenty of other
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: catchers to come in we don't have freaking all-star gold
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: glove first baseman to replace you so you needed you
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: needed this like you think about how many at bats
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: you would have got back on the challenge system you
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: would have got like you were you controlled his own
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: well you controlled his own back in my day back
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: in my day that was good stuff well man We
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: got postseason coming up, baby.
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: Well, we got one more, Rossi. We got one more.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, we got another one?
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: We got one more. Email from Luke. This is a
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: good one for you because you manage the Cubbies and
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: a lot of guys in that room. Do you have
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: one glue guy to pick from this Cubbies team this year?
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: Who would it be?
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: Man, one of my favorite players I've ever managed is
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: Nico Horner. He got paid, but he's not the guy
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: that is the face of the franchise anymore. But the
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: way he plays, the way he thinks about the game,
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: the way he talks about the game, his intensity every
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: single day, work ethic. Like, he is the exact example
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: of the guy you want setting the tone for your team.
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: I know Breggy's got leadership skills. I know Dansby, Happer
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: leads in his own way. Like, there's a lot of
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: guys they have there that are awesome guys. But for me,
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: Nico Horner has got to be the guy I would
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: go to.
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: Well, you know what the cool thing about Nico? What?
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: We first clinched in 2020. We did a little celebration
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: and talked to him about when we were popping champagne
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: and whatnot, or we almost all got in trouble for, uh,
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: I was like, dude, no goggles, especially your first time.
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: You never know when your next one's going to be.
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: And he's told me he never wears goggles now during
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: the champagne celebrations. Cause you really don't know when the
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: next one's going to be. You got to feel the
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: burn and how good it feels. So I love Nico. Um,
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: I got to give a shout-out to a guy behind
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: the scenes that I know is a glue guy. His
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: name is Danny Mueller. He is the head clubhouse attendant
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: for the Cubbies.
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: Nice.
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: He brings energy to a team on a daily basis
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: that makes it light, has fun, and you need that
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: throughout the year. I know he's not one of the players,
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: but Danny Mueller, shout-out to you.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: I was watching a clip last night of him. They
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: were interviewing Happ, and he was talking about just what
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: the emotions he was going through. And Danny Mueller just
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: is in the background pouring champagne on him going, this
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: guy's a Cubs legend. He's a Chicago legend. You know,
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: he was, he was, uh, he was screaming for the boys.
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: Danny, he does.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: And he's always got a positive attitude. He was one
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: of my, even as a manager, he would come and
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: check on you and lift you up. And, uh, definitely
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: a glue guy. That's a great call. I love that
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: call risk.
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: Uh, well, thank you everyone for watching Rossi Monday preview show.
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: That will be released on Tuesday morning. And then what
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: do we got? Wednesday, Thursday, or we'll release it Monday afternoon.
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: And then Wednesday and Thursday will be on doing all
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: of the postgame coverage, our live reactions, our thoughts. I
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: can't wait, Rossi. I can't wait for October baseball. It's
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: going to be a hell of a run. And you
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: and I are just getting started, partner.
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: Keep the emails coming. We want to answer all the
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: questions and talk baseball with you guys. Such good questions.
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: And I can't wait either partner. We're going to have
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: some fun this postseason. We got to, It's our in-season month.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: We got a month of just playoff baseball. Playoffs!
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: Ross and Rizzo out.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: Peace!