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MLB’s playoff seeding problem, Inside Brewers’ unique brand of ball, Phils FLY, Ketel Marte wore WHAT?! · Foul Territory

• 0:13
  Speaker 1: Monumental week in baseball. I mean, the reactions on social media,
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: reactions from people around the sport rejoicing. This could be
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: a new era in baseball for the Angels. We covered
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: it as breaking news on yesterday's show. We are going
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: to cover it again today with Sam Blum, who will
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: be a guest. And the Tarps Off crew felt like
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: they had a part in this. They show up, they
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: take their shirts off. And they say, sell the team. Well,
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: he listened. Goodbye, Artie, if you couldn't hear it from
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  Speaker 1: the Tarps Off crew. It's fair. You guys get ripped, AJ,
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: as players for one bad game. What about 20 bad years?
• 1:15
  Speaker 2: Bye-bye, Artie. That's what they were saying. That's kind of
• 1:18
  Speaker 2: what everyone's saying right now, right? I mean, except for
• 1:20
  Speaker 2: people that were directly related to him. Who was it,
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: 11 straight losing seasons for the Angels? It's crazy. It's
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: crazy for a team. And honestly, that's a big market.
• 1:30
  Speaker 2: They want to be part of Los Angeles. But if
• 1:32
  Speaker 2: you go to Anaheim, there's really only one thing in Anaheim. Yes, sorry,
• 1:35
  Speaker 2: the Ducks. But then it's the Angels. They could be
• 1:37
  Speaker 2: the Padres in Anaheim. There's a lot of money in
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: Orange County. People used to love to go to Angels games.
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, go see the Rally Monkey. Go sit in
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  Speaker 2: that club that was right behind home plate. That used
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: to be the biggest deal when the Angels were good.
• 1:51
  Speaker 2: And now it's just become like, okay, well, we can
• 1:53
  Speaker 2: get cheap tickets to the Angels, so we'll go watch
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  Speaker 2: Mike Trout. To not take advantage of this market, to
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: not take advantage of the fact that they had the
• 2:03
  Speaker 2: two best players in the game for six years playing together.
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  Speaker 2: It's good for Artie. He made some money. It was
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  Speaker 2: bad for baseball. It was bad for baseball. And now, hopefully,
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  Speaker 2: this next iteration of the Angels is going to move
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  Speaker 2: in the right direction.
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. And in honor of this sale, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: talk about something that Angels fans hopefully will be able
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: to taste again. We're going to spend 10 minutes and
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: charge the mound on the playoffs. So let's go over
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: playoff seating. Do we like the current format? I want
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: to show this Buster Olney tweet to kick this off.
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  Speaker 1: As we had the Yankees and Red Sox battle this
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: past weekend, we talked about how maybe they kept Wilson
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: Contreras going to see if they could pass the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: Now it doesn't seem like that'll be the case. Other side,
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  Speaker 1: you have the Phillies and the Cubs going back and
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  Speaker 1: forth on their wildcard seating for the top two spots,
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: which represents who would get home field, but it's not
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: just that, right? So Buster said the playoff picture in
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: the American league is a classic example of why MLB
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  Speaker 1: should recede in the playoffs round around as it stands. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay would play the winner of the Red Sox
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  Speaker 1: Yankees wildcard series. Those are the three best teams in
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: the American League. On the other side of the bracket,
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  Speaker 1: the White Sox would play the winner of the Guardians
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  Speaker 1: and Astros series, with one of those teams advancing to
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  Speaker 1: the ALCS. So his point is that you have the
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  Speaker 1: three best records getting rid of each other. AJ, do
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  Speaker 1: you agree with Buster that we should seek changes here?
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  Speaker 2: It's almost as if somebody has been talking about this
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  Speaker 2: for like a week now, about how The White Sox
• 3:44
  Speaker 2: at least a week, if not more. Maybe Buster tuned
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  Speaker 2: in to the show because I've been saying for a
• 3:50
  Speaker 2: couple weeks now that the White Sox, because they're the
• 3:53
  Speaker 2: two seed, are going to have an easier path than
• 3:55
  Speaker 2: the AL East on the other side, who's going to
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  Speaker 2: have to beat each other up. to play the White
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  Speaker 2: Sox and or the wildcard round winner, to me, the
• 4:03
  Speaker 2: division winner should be rewarded. Okay, the first two seeds, fine,
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  Speaker 2: give them a bye. I don't have a problem with that.
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  Speaker 2: In the wildcard, the division winner should be rewarded because
• 4:12
  Speaker 2: there should be some incentive for being a division winner. Now,
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  Speaker 2: when it gets to the next round, I have no
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  Speaker 2: problem that they want to reseed when it gets down
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  Speaker 2: to the final four in each league because why is
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  Speaker 2: it fair that the Rays and the Yankees or Red Sox,
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  Speaker 2: who both will have a better record than the White
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  Speaker 2: Sox at the end of the year, have to beat
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  Speaker 2: up on each other before the White Sox and or
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  Speaker 2: the Guardians and or Houston, as it sits right now,
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  Speaker 2: would play each other to get a chance. It just
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  Speaker 2: doesn't seem fair. But this is the way Rob Manfred
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  Speaker 2: and his owners drew it up. This is the way
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  Speaker 2: they like it. But I wish when they got to
• 4:43
  Speaker 2: the Final Four, they would do a reseeding. I think
• 4:47
  Speaker 2: the owners can get behind this because they sit there
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  Speaker 2: and they go, we want the best series because the
• 4:52
  Speaker 2: best series go five games, seven games away. That's extra
• 4:55
  Speaker 2: cash in their pockets. They can get behind it. And
• 4:57
  Speaker 2: it's not about, to me, it's not about necessarily what's
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  Speaker 2: fair and what's not fair. It's about making the regular
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  Speaker 2: season matter. Okay, we're in. We're in. It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: Like if you have the best record, but you don't
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  Speaker 2: have the buy, it's one of those things that, hey,
• 5:15
  Speaker 2: you know what? You can be rewarded for continuing to
• 5:18
  Speaker 2: play out the season. And I don't think we have
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  Speaker 2: historically bad like issue with load management but you make
• 5:25
  Speaker 2: the regular season matter when you do that reseeding when
• 5:29
  Speaker 2: you get a team that gets the fifth seed they
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  Speaker 2: don't have to play the number one seed type of thing.
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: Can we rack some tweets from fans replying to this
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  Speaker 1: let's do a few in a row and then we
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: can look at the playoff bracket too also we did
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  Speaker 1: a poll yesterday on our show should mlb reseed teams
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  Speaker 1: after each postseason round 55% of you said yes. David
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: replied to that Buster tweet and said, every playoff or
• 5:57
  Speaker 1: tournament should be reseated. The whole point of regular seasons
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: is you gain an advantage in the postseason, and that
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  Speaker 1: advantage should last the entire postseason, not just the first round.
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  Speaker 1: What else you got for me? Yes, from Rick. Reseating
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  Speaker 1: should always be the case when possible. NFL has it right.
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  Speaker 2: They do. They definitely do. Well, no, that's not true
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  Speaker 2: because the winner of the division still gets to host
• 6:25
  Speaker 2: a game. Remember 7-9 Seattle beat the Saints in the
• 6:29
  Speaker 2: Beastquake game? Remember they were 7-9 that year and they
• 6:32
  Speaker 2: had to host the Saints and they beat them in
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs. So they don't recede until after the first round.
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  Speaker 2: They give the division winner an advantage and then they recede.
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: Can we show the last one too? Because I think
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: you guys are going to disagree with this one. Zero
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: Drift said the fix for this would be to use
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  Speaker 1: an NBA style of seating. Just go top six records AL,
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: top six records NL, and use that from the jump. Well,
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  Speaker 1: then we're not rewarding divisions anymore.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's what they're going to get to. Once
• 7:05
  Speaker 2: they add two new teams, expansion, they're going to get
• 7:08
  Speaker 2: to two 16-team leagues.
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you can still have divisions in those leagues.
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  Speaker 2: The NBA has divisions? You can't do this. NBA has
• 7:19
  Speaker 2: the East and the West, don't they?
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  Speaker 1: Wait, but let me ask you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they have divisions.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't think they mean anything. No, they don't
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: mean anything. For MLB, I think there's still meaning to
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: a division. I think it's cool to have that. Now,
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: when we have realignment, right, with 32 teams, you could
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: go top seeding, right, and do the NBA style. Or
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: let's say the playoff format stays the same here and
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: you still have six teams making it. You have... If
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  Speaker 1: you have four divisions, you have four division winners and
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  Speaker 1: two wild cards. The two wild cards don't get– they
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  Speaker 1: would get the bottom two seats here. Or do you
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  Speaker 1: like where the wild cards could be above everyone? I
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: mean that's up to you guys. That's what we're asking here.
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: Can the wild card seat for the realignment be above
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  Speaker 1: the division winner?
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  Speaker 2: No, it shouldn't be because you should be rewarded for
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  Speaker 2: winning the division. Okay. And that's a rare case. It's
• 8:15
  Speaker 2: a rare case. I get it.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's not.
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  Speaker 2: Just because like this year, the American League East. This year,
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  Speaker 2: there'll be two. Right. I don't think that's always going
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  Speaker 2: to be how it is. I get it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that happens frequently, Kratz.
• 8:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but not.
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: It does. When you'd have not three or not even
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  Speaker 1: two most of the time, but you often will have
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  Speaker 1: one team in the wildcard seat that's better than a
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  Speaker 1: division winner. That's not uncommon. Let's look at the current
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  Speaker 1: playoff picture. So we've got the Rays holding a bye
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  Speaker 1: along with the White Sox. And then the path for
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: the Rays would be to go against. Wait, is this right?
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  Speaker 2: No, that's not right. That's not right.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's flipped.
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's flipped. So the Rays would take on the
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  Speaker 1: winner of the Yankees and the Red Sox. Yeah. And
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  Speaker 1: then the White Sox would take on the winner of
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  Speaker 1: the Astros and the Guardians.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we were talking about here.
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  Speaker 2: That's what it could look like if they switched it.
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  Speaker 1: Right. And then for the other one, again, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it would be the Brewers in the one seed taking
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  Speaker 1: on the winner of the Phillies and Cubs, and then
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers as the two seed would take on the
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: winner of the Braves and the Padres. That one's more like, okay,
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, all those teams are pretty damn good.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think they made these decisions because baseball isn't, okay,
• 9:43
  Speaker 2: you have a week to reseed and figure out your travel.
• 9:46
  Speaker 2: Like some of these series end, game three of the
• 9:49
  Speaker 2: wildcard series will end, and you're flying to the next
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  Speaker 2: city and they don't want to have to make other
• 9:56
  Speaker 2: teams wait. Do you think that's why they do it?
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: say that again maybe game three game three of the
• 10:06
  Speaker 2: nl wild card series the two wild card series plays
• 10:10
  Speaker 2: and you're waiting to find out where you're going game
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  Speaker 2: three is already done you're waiting you got to fly
• 10:16
  Speaker 2: the next day the other team flies and the other
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: direction because they thought if yeah but the one team's
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: sitting at home it's only the team that wins it
• 10:24
  Speaker 2: has to fly because the other team's at home the
• 10:27
  Speaker 2: top two seeds start at home yeah just just coordinating
• 10:31
  Speaker 2: travel with the team that wins they have to figure
• 10:35
  Speaker 2: out if they're going to in this case la or
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: they're going to milwaukee because if they win you know
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: what i mean I don't really care.
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: You didn't get the higher seed. So whatever you have
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: to do travel-wise, the higher seed gets to wait for
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: the team to come in.
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's why you have a traveling secretary.
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: You have an assistant to the traveling secretary. I mean,
• 10:55
  Speaker 2: you have all these things. And besides, the hotel room
• 10:59
  Speaker 2: is already booked for each team. They do that stuff
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: well in advance. So, I mean, that to me shouldn't
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: be the issue. If they're worried about, oh, I have
• 11:08
  Speaker 2: to go to L.A. instead of Milwaukee, okay, fine. You
• 11:11
  Speaker 2: just fuel up the jet a little bit farther. It's
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: the same plane. You just put some more fuel on
• 11:15
  Speaker 2: that bitch and drive away. So why do they do
• 11:19
  Speaker 2: it this way when the other leagues don't? I think
• 11:23
  Speaker 2: it's more for the media. In what way? Honestly. Like
• 11:28
  Speaker 2: their travel? Mm-hmm. Or for Fox or TBS to advertise it?
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, they could just say Dodgers versus Lois Seed.
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: Whoever's first. Yeah. I mean, they do that in football.
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: They do in football. That's what I mean. Like there
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  Speaker 2: has to be a reason they do it. Cause I
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: don't feel like, because this is their moneymaker. This is
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: the reason we added more teams. This is it for
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: more teams into the playoffs so that major league baseball
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: gets more money. I don't think it's just a, ah, whatever,
• 12:00
  Speaker 2: you know, this is how we'll do it. And there
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: has to be a reason.
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: There is a reason. Do you guys want to know
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: what it is?
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: They like a clean bracket.
• 12:13
  Speaker 2: You want a March Madness style bracket?
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. They were really into the bracket thing
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: on the marketing when I was there towards the end.
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: They like a bracket. You don't get a bracket.
• 12:30
  Speaker 2: So you can just have a graphic of a bracket
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: of where the teams are going to go and play?
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: That's a true thing?
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: I think that's part of it. I think that they
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: like it to traditionally be set up and then it's
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: a traditional bracket and you don't recede. I don't think
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: they're like, oh, we're hard and fast on this. We'll
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: never change this. But I do think that was part
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: of the mix here. I do know for a fact
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: that they were very into marketing the playoffs as a bracket.
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: It's a big thing. I'm sure they probably still do it.
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: I see it on the website. Obviously, I don't watch
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: the channel, but I'm sure they do it there. They
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: were big on promoting the bracket. I mean, we like
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: to show the bracket. Brackets are easy to comprehend.
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: I like the way it looks. 100%. But I also
• 13:09
  Speaker 2: think you should have the best series, the best teams
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  Speaker 2: rewarded for having the best entire season. And I think
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: reseeding does that. NBA does it, right? NBA....
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, you guys got to help me out.
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: I'm so confused. Yeah, we got the playing. We're like,
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: there's so much to give. We got the plan. We
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: got the curtain. We got the, there's so many freaking
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: made up terms, but they, the NBA did the, does
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  Speaker 1: the NBA reseed?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't think so. I think they
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: do a straight bracket. Right. So if one verse eight,
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  Speaker 2: then yeah, they get the four or five.
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  Speaker 1: Got it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So NFL recedes, right? At some point. NBA doesn't.
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: I'm sure people in the comments are going to go crazy. Sorry,
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: I don't pay attention to the other sports as well
• 14:11
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• 15:54
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• 15:56
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• 15:58
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  Speaker 2: made the error. Basabe made the error, and Koss was
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: the shortstop. I believe his name was Koss. And the
• 16:08
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• 16:12
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• 16:15
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• 16:18
  Speaker 2: was walking him off the field with his arm around
• 16:20
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• 16:24
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• 16:26
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• 16:30
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• 16:31
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• 16:35
  Speaker 1: But no, I'm with you. I saw that clip with
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: him walking.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: Off with him. The ball was traveling, but I think
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: the Pirates scored their first 10 runs all on singles.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: I don't think they had one extra base hit. And
• 16:47
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• 16:51
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• 16:54
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• 16:59
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• 17:04
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• 17:07
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• 17:13
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• 17:15
  Speaker 1: much lately since– or sorry, the Pirates. But we'll bury
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: them at some point officially on a segment like we're
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: going to do later for the Tigers. But the mission
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: of being competitive in September failed. A little better this year,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: but not good enough. Failed. Not good enough to be
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: talked about in September. Right? We're not talking about them.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Bullpen failed them.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: And I'm not talking Luke Weaver. I'm talking in the
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: first half it failed them, and then it led them
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: to this point. Well, they couldn't spend on everything. It's unfair.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: We spent our $ 101 million, so that was it. We
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: couldn't add another $ 8 million reliever or two.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Pitchers that shoved. Gavin Williams, you're on the list. Seven innings,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: two hits, one walk, 13 strikeouts for a Guardians team
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: that needs to pile some wins together. They beat the
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Blue Jays. That one was a 6-1 final. I want
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: to throw in one more pitching performance that was just
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: pointed out by somebody in our chat, and I agreed.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: I had it written down for around this time period.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Anyone see Freddy Peralta last night after the home run
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: from Francisco Lindor? Looks like he's starting to figure it
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: out with the Rays. Six innings, three hits, one run,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: no walks, seven strikeouts. I didn't pay attention to this
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: in particular, but one of the commenters, Chris, said he
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: had a no-hitter after the first inning.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Freddie P doing it right. Got to the race, starting
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: to figure it out. Took a couple of starts. They're
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: starting to get him right. And he's pitched well his
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: last few times out. And yeah, I mean, when door
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: hit the lead off Homer, you're like, Oh, if you're racing,
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: you're thinking, Oh, here we go again. And then he
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: just went into nobody's touching me the rest of the way.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: It was, it was pretty good to watch how he
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: was in control of that game. Trusting, trusting in what
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: they're working on takes a little bit of time. We
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: even set it on here. It's not going to be
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: an immediate turnaround. Like, Oh, well we fixed them. It's
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: just slowly progressing to being a guy that they can
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: count on in the postseason, possibly, if he continues this
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: through September.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: I think certain teams need to evaluate what their pitching
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: changes look like from a pitching program perspective. I'm not
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: even talking about one particular pitching coach, but from Freddie
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: P to be a mess with the Mets and then
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: go to the Rays and pretty quickly clean it up.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Pointing out names, I'm just saying, are you sure you
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: guys made the right call? Mm-hmm. Do you remember growing
• 19:41
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• 19:44
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• 19:46
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• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what he said.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: That's what he said.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: That's what he said.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: That's what he said. It's going to keep going. It
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: just is.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: No.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: People want to hear about it. Yes. No.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: I'm Nolan Aranato. I'm Nolan Aranato from now on. Sorry, Nolan.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Take your 10 gold gloves and We're going to chat
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: about it.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: The reason that the Cattell Marte story continues is he
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: wore a hat that had some messaging to it. And
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: then there was, as Mark Craig put here and some
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: others from the athletic wrote about lots of chatter about
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: his choice of hat that read made the bridges. I
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: burn light the way. Okay. So when, when you're finally
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: showing up after weeks off and then you wear a
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: hat that has some messaging on it, you're going to
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: get questions, right? It's not like, dude, where's my car?
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: It's a real message that makes you think, okay? And
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: then Zoltan. Zoltan. Then you have Tori Lavello saying, I
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: want to move past this Cattell stuff as quickly as possible.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: I think if you chop up those words, maybe he's
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: taking some accountability. He feels like he's done some things
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: and he wants to get better. That's how I read it.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: That's what Tori said. Here's what Cattell Marte said. I
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: didn't know what it was. I didn't know I had
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: that hat on. I didn't know. I just put it on.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's super, super innocent that you're putting on a
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: pretty meaningful hat and it can be interpreted in a
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: variety of ways. But the reason this story continues is
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: that people are going to ask a question like that.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: When you have a hat like that on Garrett Cole,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: right after he finished his career with the Astros goes
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: into the clubhouse and puts a Boris cap on, right?
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: That just means, Hey, I'm a free agent. This time
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: is done. I'm not going to be on this team again.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I'm hitting free agency, right? That is a message. Quetel
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Marte is not stupid, AJ. He is well aware that
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: what he says or does as a major league star
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: player is going to be scrutinized, right? This is him
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: with all of the lights and cameras on him. So
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: if you're going to wear a hat like that and
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: then say, oh, I don't know, I just found, I
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: was just looking for my hat sayings and this is
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: the one that I picked up randomly. Do you believe that?
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Okay. No, I don't believe that. But that's the answer
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: he gave, so we have to believe him. Also, I
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: want to say this for all the Twitter people out there,
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: and this is my least favorite argument of all time,
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: and I know Kratz gets this too, and it's just
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: a dumb argument. We were not as good of players
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: as Cattell Marte. We understand that. Okay? I know. I
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: played for, Kratz played for, you know, whatever. How many
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: ever years? What was it? 12 years? Kratz 13? How
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: many years did you play? Parts of 11 in the
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: big leagues. 19 total. Parts of 11. Okay, thank you.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: I played parts of 19 years in the major leagues.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: I was not as good of a player as Cattell Marte. Okay,
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: let's just get that out there. But I did play
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: with some players that were actually better than him. One
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: of them was Barry Bonds. And you know what? For
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: all the crap that Barry Bonds took, he always showed up. OK,
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: he always showed up to a game and people talk
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: about him like he's the worst person in the world.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: He always showed up. Now, did he play? Now, there
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: were days where he didn't play, but he showed up.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: I played with Adrian Beltre, who's in the Hall of Fame.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Guess what he did every day? He showed up and
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: he played every day. I played with Freddie Freeman, who's
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: going to the Hall of Fame. Guess what he did?
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: He showed up every day. I played with Mark Burley,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Paul Canerco, Tori Hunter. name them i played with all
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: these guys right these are all some of the best
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: players of all time you know what they all did
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: they all showed up every day sorry and when they
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: wore they all knew when i wear a hat that
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: says something that people are going to ask me questions
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: about i better be prepared to answer the question not
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: say oh i didn't even know i had that hat
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: on i didn't it surprised me when you put the
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: hat on and it's that color green it's not like
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: it was a black hat that that That hat is screaming.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Read me what I say. When I'm, if I'm walking
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: down the street anywhere and I see that hat, I'm like, man,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: what does that hat say? Cause it is so bright.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: It burns my eyes. So listen, Tori Lovello can say
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: whatever he wants about, you know, what, how he interprets it.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: You tell him our take and say, he didn't even
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: know what hat he had on. Maybe he just wore
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: like crap said, cause he matched his shirt yesterday. But
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: at some point you got to just take accountability for
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: your actions. That's it. At some point you got to
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: take accountability and you got to be held accountable. Every
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: action we make, excuse me, as an adult, I'm held
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: accountable for. If it's, I wanna do this, I wanna
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: do that, I wanna do this, whatever it is, there's
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: consequences to actions we take. And at some point you
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: have to be held accountable. It just can't always be,
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: It's okay. He won't do it again next year in
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: 2027 for the fifth straight year. There's got to be
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: some sort of accountability. And I think that's why the
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: story keeps going is because he doesn't have the accountability.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: It's always, Oh, I didn't know. I didn't know. I
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: didn't know. Okay. If you didn't know, I'm sure someone's
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: told you by now you have to show up. Well,
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: you didn't know your hats on backwards and you look
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: like an idiot. Oh, I have a skull cap.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: That's the other thing. I have a skull cap on,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: which is a hat. And also, by the way, I
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: have a full head of hair. So people are like,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: you're trying to cover your baldness. No, I have a
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: full head of hair. You know why I wear a
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: hat backwards? Because I don't want to comb my stuff.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Unlike Crouch, he looks sexy as hell in his bald head.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Mr.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Clean.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Wait, I have an analogy for you guys. So everybody
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: has a family member who maybe, it could be extended
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: family member, whatever, gets in some trouble. It's like, oh,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: look what, you know, aunt so-and-so did again or something, right?
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Let's say that same person who gets in trouble frequently
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: or maybe doesn't show up. How about they don't show
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: up to stuff? So there's your direct correlation, right? They
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: were supposed to show. I bought them a ticket for
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: a couple hundred bucks for a game or for a
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Broadway show. They didn't show up. Well, they better show
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: up to so-and-so's wedding than they show up. They wear white.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: You're going to get talked about, okay? It is a
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: free world, but it is a free world to scrutinize
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: what you're doing. And you're a star in the sport.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: So like you can act like, well, I don't know.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: I just pick stuff up. Like on the most days. Okay.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: There's one day here where the whole baseball world is
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: watching you. So don't act like you can just pick
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: up any sayings and throw them on. And it doesn't
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: mean anything. They're looking for something. And when I say they,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, everyone that includes us, we're covering this, right?
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Look at AJ. Does he want to cover this every day? No,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: but this is becoming a story.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Wait.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: And this is a distraction. This is a full fledged distraction.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: We are at the point, AJ, where Tori Lavello has
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: to start looking up meanings of a saying on a
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: hat to try and figure out how he is going
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: to defend him. You don't think that's distracting a manager
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: that has enough going on to try and manage a
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: team into a postseason that he's got to be sitting
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: there with AI or Google or whatever and being like,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: let me see how I can answer this to the media.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: You've got to be kidding me, bro. Can you just
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: stop for one second?
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: That goes to accountability. That's the accountability. That's the accountability.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: And the problem is nobody wants to say it because
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: they all want to be good teammates to them, right?
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: But I guarantee you, Krasin, tell me if I'm wrong.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: I'm happy to be wrong. I'm wrong all the time.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: His teammates behind this blind closed doors are going, are
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: you kidding me? He wore that hat? You know they're
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: saying it? What are you talking about? Nolan Arenado said it.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Just not as many words. He's like, he's a really
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: good player. I don't really want to deal with this anymore.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: We need him in the lineup. That's what they've been
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: saying the whole time. Nolan's new. Nolan is probably the
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: least dramatic person. His only drama in his career was
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: the fact that he was like, going to be traded,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: not going to be traded, all this stuff. He goes
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: about his work day in and day out. And not
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: to belabor a point, but You 100% knew what you
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: were wearing. I'm sorry. I don't believe that you didn't
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: know what you were wearing. I knew. I put on
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: my FoulTerritoryShop.com Kyle Schwarber shirt. I knew it. And I
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: am the least good-looking, caring-about-what-I-look-like type of person. Your hat
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: matched your shirt. You knew exactly what you were doing.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Your eyebrows were perfectly manicured. You're a good-looking man who
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: comes to the ballpark. ready to go when you come
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: to the ballpark. But there is a standard to being apologetic.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: And in my opinion, complete outsider, he does not fit
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: the profile of being as apologetic as you would think
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: somebody that wants to actually be forgiven for what he's done.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Or maybe he just doesn't feel like it's as big
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: a deal as everybody else is making it out to be.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Definitely. That's definitely part of it. Because if you really care,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: you're having conversations with the team, with your team behind
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: the scenes saying, hey, how do I come out as
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: genuine as possible when I speak to the media? And
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: there were plenty of shots of this during that time.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: media conference again, like how many excuses can we make? Like, oh,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: well guys, like, you know, he's just different or like
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: he's sitting laid back with his arms crossed taking, you
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: can do that 99% of the time. No one's going
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: to care. Maybe the one time to not do that
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: is when you're trying to come back from two weeks
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: of ditching your team to explain what the situation was.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: It just comes off so poorly. The casino thing. I still,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: I don't think I'll ever get over that part. You're
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: not with the team for no reason. And then you're
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: at a casino having a time while your team is playing. Like,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, you guys are the ones that we go
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: to for this, not me, right? But if that was
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: my high school basketball team, I would be losing my
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: freaking mind. You know, like I'd be going to coach.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: You said it wasn't a big deal though, Scott. Didn't
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: you hear him say he didn't think that was a
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: big deal? He said, oh, it wasn't that big of
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: a deal. What's the big deal to that? I mean,
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: there's a huge deal.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: That's where he's lost.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. But again, going home. He's not
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: being held accountable. He's not. I'm sorry. And I love
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Tori Lovello, but by just, just someone needs to grab
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: them and say, this isn't the right way. And I
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: know they can't do anything because he's such a great
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: player and he's their best player on the team and
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: he's making so much money, but someone has got to
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: be able to get through to him. I'm sorry.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: I'm with you. And here's, what's going to happen to,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: I guarantee it, right? People feel comfortable coming on this
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: show and speaking their mind. And that's what we do
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: every day. There's no doubt that there will be some
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: teammates at some point who feel comfortable enough when they're
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: not on the team or when they're not playing anymore, whatever,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: to come on and give us more. Because we know
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: that most of that clubhouse is freaking pissed. Come on.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: At this point.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think a lot of people would just
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: be like, I can't really believe he did it. I
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: can't believe he. I don't think there's players that were like,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: who are going, well, he did it. I can do it. Like,
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: I think it's more of like, whoa, the exact reactions
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: that we've all had. Like, seriously? He's missed a game.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: He's opted out of not coming to the field every
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: season since 2023, at least one game in the year.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, unacceptable. So the saga continues. Maybe this is the
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: end for now, but don't you worry. If the Diamondbacks
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: don't make the playoffs, this is all going to pop
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: up again because– there were some losses created by him.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Okay. Here's the thing for the, for the fans at home. Okay.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Wherever you work, let's say I'm going to use, I
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: don't know, pick a company, Home Depot. Okay. You work
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: at Home Depot and you're the, you know, you're a
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: guy that works at Home Depot. You do the, you
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: do your job. And then the guy who's your boss, who's,
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: you know, let's say the assistant manager at Home Depot,
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: they just don't show up. They're like, nah, Let's say
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: it's an unloading day. You got a bunch of shipments in.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: You got to unload the trucks. The assistant manager was like,
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: you know what, guys? I'm not feeling it today. I'm
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: just not going to show up, not going to tell anybody, nothing.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: How would you feel at Home Depot? And then you're
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: doing extra work because you have to unload more stuff.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Like it's, it sounds like a dumb analogy, but that's
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: kind of what it was on his turn. Like you're just, Oh,
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: I'm the assistant manager. I'm better than everyone else beneath me.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: I don't have to show up today. And then the
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: manager goes, well, you know, he just misunderstood the directions
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: of having to show up. Okay. Okay. I'm going to
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: use this. This is another analogy. I'm going to, you're
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: fired and you guys can say I'm crazy. I'm a
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: part of a hunting lease, okay? There's like 20 guys
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: in this hunting lease. We have work days, all right,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: on Saturdays. And deer season's coming up to go hunting, okay?
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: We have a rule where if you don't go to
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: work days, you don't get in the lottery where you
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: pick where you go sit on opening day of deer,
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: opening weekend. Well, I haven't been able to go to
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: work days because I've been working on Saturday. I work
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: on Saturdays on Fox, okay? Guess what? Guess who can't complain?
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: And if I want to go hunting, I get the
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: last pick and I just got to go wherever I
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: got to go. You know why? Because I didn't go
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: and do the work. So therefore, you know what I get? Squat, right?
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: So I'm like, oh, that's fair. You guys did all
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: the work. You deserve the first picks in the lottery.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: I don't get it because I haven't been able to
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: show up. Now, it's not my fault. It's a little
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: bit different, but it's kind of the same thing. If
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: you don't do the work and you don't show up,
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: then you shouldn't get the rewards.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, he's getting them. I mean, and to me,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: the analogy for what you're saying is that I just
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: think creating excuses again and again for him, like we
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: got to stop with that. Let's just call a spade
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: a spade. We're getting closer to that. In the week,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: let's dive into a former team of Eric Kratz's and
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: find out why they are so different, why they are
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: so successful in the regular season. And can that carry
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: into the postseason for a deeper October run. Let's talk
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: about the long ball. So this is one of the
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: best offenses in baseball, but they rank dead last in
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: home runs. A lot of Major League Baseball and the
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: teams within it promote pulled fly ball contact. The Brewers don't.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: They don't rank well in that category. But they are
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: a patient team. This is not like a slap-hitting team.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: They're among the most patient teams in Major League Baseball.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: This is from a Mike Petriello article that they don't swing.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: They're the only team with an opposite attack angle. And
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: they do actually capitalize with homers in situations with runners
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: in scoring position as well as most teams in baseball,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: but they barely swing. They're one of the most patient
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: teams in the last decade. They draw a ton of walks.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: They don't chase bad pitches. So, When we add all
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: of this up, and we'll mix in some more stats
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: as we go for a team that ranks third in
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: batting average in baseball, can this work in the playoffs?
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Because the article concludes with, hey, in the postseason, the
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: team that had homers, their opponent, wins about 80% of
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: the time. The Brewers haven't gotten past the division series
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: since 2018, and they make the playoffs just about every year.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Add it all up. Spit it out. Tell me what
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: you like and don't like.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: I don't like when people just throw the stat out.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: Whoever out homers the other team in the playoffs wins. Like,
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: tell me why that is. Why do homers play in
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: the playoffs? And the reason I think it plays in
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: the playoffs is because there's just too much good pitching
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: going on the entire time. Rarely are you getting any
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: kind of down guy. Rarely are you going... 80 pitches
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: deep into a starter. You get to 70 pitches, you
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: get to the second time through, the manager's hand is
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: right on the panic button. As soon as there's any,
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: let's go right to our highest leverage guy out of
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: the bullpen. I'm not saying this can't work in the playoffs.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: I'm saying that's why historically the home run really plays
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: because you're like, man, we just couldn't get anything going.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: Why can't you get anything going? Because it's a number one.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: It's a number two. It's a number one out of
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: the bullpen. It's a number two. It's the closer and
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: the game's over. And you're like, oh boy, that happened fast.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: Can this work? Yes, it can work. And the way
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: that it works is they trust that they can do
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: this against all of that good pitching. Have they done
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: it yet? Absolutely not. Do teams win that way? Not
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: historically or majority of the time. But that doesn't matter.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: This team has to believe what they're doing will work.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: The reason they have to believe it is because somebody's
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: not just going to come in and hit eight homers
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: in a playoff run. There's not that Daniel Murphy type
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: of moment on this team, except you just win the
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: games the exact same way. You line up against the
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: opponent that you have, and you execute your style in
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: the box, and you see if you're better than them
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: in the postseason.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Power is valued across the sport, right?
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: Ignorantly sometimes. Ignorantly sometimes.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: That's fine. Yeah, too much, too much. There can be
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: too much. I think a team on the other end
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: of that sometimes has been the Yankees, and you see
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: their approach in the playoffs sometimes, and you're like, yeah,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: that doesn't work either. Okay. But is there a happy
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: medium is really the question here, right? The power plus
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: the slug that we've seen from teams like, I would say, Toronto.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: We looked at Toronto last year, and they're like, oh, look,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: they all made contact. There was plenty of slug in
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: that lineup last year. Now, some of that slug disappeared
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: this year. Vladdy Jr. lost his superpowers for now. But
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: for Milwaukee, I mean, you've got two hitters with 20-plus homers, barely.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Jake Bowers has 23. Jackson Churrio has 20. I'm not
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: talking about the team approach as much as the personnel, too.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Should the Brewers be looking for a little more pop
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: to tap into when they're evaluating talent?
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Sure, sure, but you also have to understand how they
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: build their lineup. They have very little slugs in their lineup.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: Not slug, slugs. They have a very athletic lineup. They
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: have a very defensive-oriented lineup. Yes, Jake Bowers in right field,
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: probably not your most athletic, but you know what? They'll
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: put Jake Bowers in right field when, they're facing a
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: lefty because he'll go left on left and then you
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: have Vaughn at first base. And then as soon as
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: Vaughn comes out for a platoon advantage, defensive replacement type
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: of thing, then Bowers goes to first. So they have
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: to play their game. Should they try to evaluate for
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: more power? Absolutely. The thing that you have to understand
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: about these guys is it's not like their team is
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: filled with Chandler Simpson. These guys have power. Their approach
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: is clearly based on that graphic of the fact that
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: their attack angle, meaning they're not hitting the ball consistently
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: to the pool side, they're consistently hitting it to the
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: opposite side of second base. That is a crazy... It's
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: clearly focused stat that, in my opinion, really works. Because
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: Dale Swain was the hitting coach in 2014 and 2015.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: Did that Kansas City Royals team have uber, uber power? Hey,
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: you know what? Eric Hosmer was one of the best
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: power prospects in the minor leagues. Moustakas has a 30,
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: maybe even 40 home run season under his belt. Alex Gordon.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: We had guys with power. Salvador Perez. All guys with power.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: But in the K, at Kauffman Stadium, power gets diminished.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: Dale Swain said, look, teams that win, and I forget
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: what his stat was. It was like, if you can
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: get to 56% of balls driven in the air to
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: the opposite field with runners in scoring position, you have,
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: like over the last four years it was, that team
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: was the team that won the World Series or had
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: the best, most run score. So there's different ways to
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: cook the soup. I think some teams just automatically, ignorantly
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: sometimes go to You got to pull the ball more
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: and you got to pull the ball more in the air.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: You know why? Because those numbers are better. It's like
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: telling a pitcher, you got to throw just a little
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: bit harder. Why? Because the numbers from 97 miles an
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: hour to 98 miles an hour are drastically lower for
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: a hitter. Yes, I am not disagreeing with that, but
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: not everybody can do those things. And I think the
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: Brewers have done a great job of leaning into their ability.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: Now they have to be able to execute it in
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: the postseason. which I think with this lineup, they've played together,
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: they've had more experience together in the playoffs, and they
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: should know it works. They beat the Cubs. Everybody thinks, oh, man,
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Dodgers ran over them. They did. They did run over them.
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: That doesn't mean that's what's going to happen this year. Right.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: And the Dodgers had some of the most dominant pitching
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: we've seen in the playoffs from starting pitching for sure, right?
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: It's tough to string hits together. Multiple hits together. That's
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: part of it, right? That's the basics of the sport, right?
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: Take a walk, hit a homer, boom, you got two runs.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: Try and rack five, six singles together to get two
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: runs like that against Glasnow, Snell, Yamamoto, Otani when they're
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: really prime dealing. Near impossible.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: And I ran the first year of our show, I
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: tried to run like a scatter report type of show.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: It got boring and long and Nobody really wants to
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: hear it, but that's how you, that's how you get
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: ready for a playoff game. And I can still remember
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: some of the scatter reports from years that I was
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: in the playoffs when I played in 18. And then
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: the other years when I wasn't even playing, cause you just,
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: you drill in that scatter report. You drill in the
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: fact that certain guys can't hit a breaking ball early
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: in the count or don't swing. And that's what enables
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: you to have success through a lineup in the playoffs.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: Hey, a shout out to I'm wearing the shirt today,
• 43:21
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• 43:23
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• 43:27
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• 43:29
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• 43:39
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: It's a great spot. It's great food. And John Kruk
• 43:42
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• 43:44
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• 43:48
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• 43:50
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• 43:53
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• 43:56
  Speaker 1: because sometimes he means it and sometimes just what he
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: says turns into a joke. So he's an entertaining guy.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: He goes viral, I mean, once every week or two
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: on the broadcast. We're at that status. It's that often
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: that he drops a line where people are.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: Like, what? He's one of my all-time favorites, Kruk. Love
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: that guy. He is. Yeah. He's the best. In real life,
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: he's actually watered down. on TV from what he is
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: in real life. In real life, you could just stick
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: your head in his office. It's around the corner from,
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's all their offices. It's around the corner
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: from their booth. You're like, Crocky, how you doing? He's like,
• 44:36
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• 44:39
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• 44:42
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• 44:47
  Speaker 2: Like his stories, and then he just goes off. It
• 44:51
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• 44:55
  Speaker 1: He is awesome. This is the show, by the way,
• 44:57
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• 44:59
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• 45:04
  Speaker 1: the Philly show, Kruki is still calling quite a few
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: Phillies games. So he'll have his take on what's going
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: on there. He'll have take takes on a little bit
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: of the rest of the league, past baseball stories, the
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: whole deal. So our guys over at the Philly show
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: do a great job. And there's good food there. Good
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: eats over at Manco and Manco. So I'm excited to
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: check that out. And AJ, we were talking about before,
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: Kratz and I, but the Phillies are also on fire.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, they might catch the Braves. We thought that was impossible.
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: They might catch the Braves. Like, seriously, they might catch
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: the Braves. They're what, two and a half or one
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: and a half behind them? It's close.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: Three going into the series. They got a bunch. You
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: got seven games coming up against them or something like that?
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: We talk about different hitters making adjustments, like PCA, controlling
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: the zone more. The Phillies dropping their strikeouts the way
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: that they have, I don't understand. I don't understand how
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: a team turns it around that quick. That specific thing
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: around that quick.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: Hey, let's slap. Mariners got back on the winning side
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: of things, and they have a new prospect, Laz Montes,
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: who hit a missile yesterday in the game, his first homer.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: But he also signed the Green Monster in the back
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: end before his debut, which many have done, as you
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: can see on here. Cool moment.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: I signed where nobody's ever going to paint over it.
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: I signed on the ceiling on the concrete in the
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: Green Monster. So, RIP to that. to that Sharpie that
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: I signed with because you're right on concrete. It's cooked
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: after that, but they're not painting over the concrete, so
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: mine's still up there.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Worth it. Worth it to ruin one Sharpie for that.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: And that was a rocket that he hit the center.
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: You see certain guys and you hear about the 80-grade
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: potential power, that type of swing, he may end up
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: in Japan or he may end up hitting 30 dingers
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: in the show. Mm-hmm.
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