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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Monday edition of Fair Territory. I'm
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Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal, coming from New York City right now getting
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Speaker 1: ready for tonight's broadcast of Game three of the Division
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Speaker 1: series Yankees Blue Jays, Blue Jays leading to nothing. But
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Speaker 1: of course I want to start off with last night's proceedings,
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Speaker 1: and particularly the proceedings in Philadelphia, where the Dodgers took
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Speaker 1: a two games to non lead four to three victory
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Speaker 1: over the Phillies. We are steamrolling toward a potential Dodgers
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Speaker 1: Brewers and LCS, both teams the Dodgers and Brewers leading
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Speaker 1: their respective division series two games to none, and a
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Speaker 1: Dodgers Brewers NLCS would be big market versus small market.
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Speaker 1: It would be in the eyes of some referendum on
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Speaker 1: whether the sport needs a salary cap. But let's not
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Speaker 1: get into all that just yet. We have some more
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Speaker 1: fun to discuss regarding these two series, and of course
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Speaker 1: the two American League Division series going on as well.
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Speaker 1: The Dodgers all regularly season I found to be frustrating.
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Speaker 1: I thought they were coasting. I wondered, like a lot
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Speaker 1: of people, including their manager Dave Roberts, whether they would
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Speaker 1: be able to turn it on at the appropriate time.
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Speaker 1: I guess we have our answer. They've won nine straight games,
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Speaker 1: including the first two of this series, thirteen of fifteen.
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Speaker 1: The starting pitching looks like nothing else in the sport
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Speaker 1: right now, so dominant, and we've seen that in these
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Speaker 1: first two games in Philadelphia. They took those two. They
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Speaker 1: had that frantic bottom of the ninth last night, the
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Speaker 1: hold on, which started with Blake trianon kind of an
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Speaker 1: odd decision by Dave Roberts, then featured the wheel play,
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Speaker 1: of course, but the story of this series so far
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Speaker 1: is what Otani has done, and it's what Snell has done.
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Speaker 1: As Jason Stark wrote this morning in The Athletic, in
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Speaker 1: a span of thirty nine batters at one point, when
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Speaker 1: you look at Otani first and then Snell, they allowed
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Speaker 1: two hits. Two hits in thirty nine batters. And as
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Speaker 1: well as the Phillies have pitched Sanchez and Lozardo, they've
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Speaker 1: been outpitched. And the Phillies again in the postseason, are
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Speaker 1: struggling offensively. Now. I would suggest that a big reason
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Speaker 1: they are struggling offensively in the postseason is because the
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Speaker 1: Dodgers pitching has been so good. But Turner, Schwarber, and
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Speaker 1: Harper right now two for twenty one. You could say
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers are kind of in a similar spot Otani's
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Speaker 1: one for nine, Otani bets and Freeman just four for
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Speaker 1: twenty five combined. But the Dodgers have found a way
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Speaker 1: to win these two games. And as we go forward here,
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Speaker 1: it's almost difficult for me to imagine any team outpitching
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers what they have right now. In addition to
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Speaker 1: three brilliant starters, of course, I'm talking about a Tani
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Speaker 1: Snell and the game three choice, your Shinobu Yamamoto, who
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Speaker 1: will be most likely a top five sal Young finalist,
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Speaker 1: We're also talking about a bullpen that, yes has struggled,
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Speaker 1: continues to struggle, but is currently fortified by four other
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Speaker 1: are starting pitchers, four Glass now Kershaw, Sian and of
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Speaker 1: course Roki Sasaki, who has emerged as a pretty fair
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Speaker 1: closer in recent days. So right now you have a
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Speaker 1: situation where the Phillies are scraping. They're going back to
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Speaker 1: LA It's hard to imagine them winning this series, of course,
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Speaker 1: And then if the series ends at some point and
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Speaker 1: the Phillies end up losing, there are gonna be a
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Speaker 1: whole lot of questions about the future of this team,
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Speaker 1: how they're going to go forward. Schwarber and real Muto
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Speaker 1: are free agents. You would think the Phillies want them back.
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Speaker 1: They don't have obvious internal replacements. Rob Thompson as manager,
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Speaker 1: I would say he has done a good job. He
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Speaker 1: is not the problem. But I would expect if the
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Speaker 1: Phillies go out there to be some kind of change.
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Speaker 1: So that's Philadelphia and La the Brewers. Last night they
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Speaker 1: took it to the Cubs yet again, and we're seeing
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Speaker 1: here a big market, small market matchup, of course, and
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Speaker 1: the small market team yet again Milwaukee prevailing in a
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Speaker 1: big way. They have been the Cubs tormentors for quite
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Speaker 1: some time now and it's just continuing in this series.
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Speaker 1: So last night, a team that is twenty second in
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Speaker 1: the majors in home runs, the Brewers hit three homers,
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Speaker 1: including two three run shots, and that was the difference
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Speaker 1: in the game. The three run shots by Andrew Vaughan
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Speaker 1: and Jackson Curio massive home runs. This is not necessarily
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Speaker 1: what the Brewers do typically. What they did in Game
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Speaker 1: one was more typical, but here they are. They didn't
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Speaker 1: even use Quinn Priester in their bullpen game. Yes, that
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Speaker 1: was a bullpen game in which they prevailed last night.
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Speaker 1: They had hinted in using Priester, but they preserve him
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Speaker 1: for Game three and the miss last night, My goodness,
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Speaker 1: three scoreless innings, hit one hundred and four miles an hour.
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Speaker 1: He was absolutely brilliant and dominant and electric. It was
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Speaker 1: also fired up. It was really cool to see. So
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Speaker 1: the Cubs obviously in deep trouble here. And if your
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Speaker 1: Cubs fan, I'm sure you're wondering, man, if we only
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Speaker 1: had Kate Horton, if we only had Justin Steele going
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Speaker 1: back further, sure that's fair, but the Brewers are without
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Speaker 1: Brandon Woodruff, and the Cubs just have not matched them
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Speaker 1: so far in this series. From a starting pitching or
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Speaker 1: any kind of pitching standpoint, Matt Boyd on three days
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Speaker 1: rest in Game one. Never a good idea to pitch
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Speaker 1: a guy on three days rest in the postseason. The
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Speaker 1: numbers are staggering against it, but the Cubs felt obviously
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Speaker 1: that was their best option, and then Imanaga in Game two.
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Speaker 1: He has allowed a ton of home runs lately, thirty
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Speaker 1: one in the regular season total that is fourth in
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Speaker 1: the Majors and then even more recently twelve home runs
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Speaker 1: in his last six starts allowed. Wasn't a shock last
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Speaker 1: night to see him allow a few more homers. So
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Speaker 1: the Cubs, I don't know how they're going to figure
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Speaker 1: this out with the Brewers over time, but here are
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Speaker 1: the Brewers, and not counting the COVID season, the last
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Speaker 1: time the Cubs finished ahead of them, the last time
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Speaker 1: was twenty seventeen. And for the Brewers, if they do
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Speaker 1: prevail here, and it certainly looks like they will, this
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Speaker 1: will be a huge thing for them because they have
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Speaker 1: lost five straight opening round series, four wildcard series, and
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Speaker 1: division series. They have yet to kind of break through
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Speaker 1: in this new era of Theirs, this era of Council
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Speaker 1: and now Crat Murphy. This would be a big thing.
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Speaker 1: And certainly we've seen them be the best team in
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Speaker 1: the Majors all season long. It seems to me now
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Speaker 1: casual fans who might be watching this are seeing why
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Speaker 1: they do a lot of things really well. Brewers up
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Speaker 1: to nothing in that series. Now the series I am
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Speaker 1: on the Yankees and the Blue Jays. We go to
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Speaker 1: Game three tonight at Yankee Stadium. The Blue Jays have
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Speaker 1: outscored the Yankees twenty three to eight in this series,
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Speaker 1: but it has all taken place at Rogers Center, where
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Speaker 1: the Blue Jays were absolutely electric and brilliant in any
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Speaker 1: other great adjective you might want to use. In the
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Speaker 1: first two games. I said this unfair territory yesterday. I'll
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Speaker 1: say it again today. I do see a pathway for
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Speaker 1: the Yankees to get back in this series. Obviously, it
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Speaker 1: starts tonight. Rodin has to beat Shane Bieber, and then
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Speaker 1: Game four, of the Blue Jays are throwing a bullpen game,
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Speaker 1: the Yankees will have Cam Schlitzer that would seemingly favor
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Speaker 1: the Yankees. And then Game five back in the Rogers
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Speaker 1: Center where the Yankees are one and eight, it would
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Speaker 1: be freed In Gossman. And who knows how Ya Savage
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Speaker 1: will be used, if at all, in Games four or five,
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Speaker 1: coming off his brilliant seventy eight pitch performance on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: but he is an option at some point four or five.
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Speaker 1: All hands on deck in a Game five, And yes,
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Speaker 1: the Yankees would have that Rogers stigma hanging over them
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Speaker 1: the one and eight record, But at the same time,
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Speaker 1: when you get to that point, if you get to
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Speaker 1: that point. Again, all bets are off, You've got a shot,
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Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens tonight. It is a huge
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Speaker 1: test for the Yankees, a huge test for Aaron Judge.
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Speaker 1: As I wrote yesterday, Vladimir Guerrero in two days, in
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Speaker 1: those games at Rogers Center in two days produced more
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Speaker 1: electrifying moments in the postseason than I think maybe Aaron
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Speaker 1: Judge ever has the game one homer in the first
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Speaker 1: inning for Guerrero, and of course the Grand Slam in
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Speaker 1: Game two that turned a five to nothing lead into
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Speaker 1: a nine nothing lead. So Yankees obviously in trouble here,
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Speaker 1: but again they're coming home as opposed to the Phillies,
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Speaker 1: and that gives them something of at least a chance.
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Speaker 1: I would say. The other series, the final series we
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Speaker 1: should discuss here, Mariners and Tigers. This has been an
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Speaker 1: interesting series, low scoring, both games decided by scores of
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Speaker 1: three to two. The Mariners finally win a postseason game
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Speaker 1: at home for the first time since two thousand and one.
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Speaker 1: They do that in Game two, a game that the
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Speaker 1: Tigers had tied up late and easily could have won.
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Speaker 1: Didn't work out that way. So now it goes back
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Speaker 1: to Detroit, and we'll see what happens here. I am
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Speaker 1: not convinced one way or the other that either of
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Speaker 1: these teams is going to dominate in the next two games. Tonight,
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Speaker 1: we have Logan Gilbert seemingly with a pitching advantage over
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Speaker 1: Jack Flaherty, who has been at times brilliant and at
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Speaker 1: times inconsistent. So this is a series that it seems
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Speaker 1: like it's gonna go more longer than some of the others.
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Speaker 1: Certainly when you're tied one to one, that would be
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Speaker 1: the obvious conclusion. Ken, But with schoolble looming still and
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Speaker 1: with the Mariners pitching being what it is, I would
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Speaker 1: expect low scoring games to continue, assuming Flowerty tonight is
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Speaker 1: going to be the Jack Flaherty we saw at times
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Speaker 1: in last year's postseason, at times during the regular season,
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Speaker 1: but not always in either case. All right, we'll be
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Speaker 1: Well well, well, time out for the inside. I dished
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Speaker 1: the part of the show where I talk about maybe
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Speaker 1: maybe something else entirely, And today I want to talk
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Speaker 1: about one of the favorite things that I do in
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Speaker 1: the television part of my job when I work for
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Speaker 1: Fox Sports, and that is interviewing parents. And I believe
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Speaker 1: i've mentioned this before on the show, but I just
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Speaker 1: take such enjoyment out of it, because really, every time
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Speaker 1: you do it, it's in a successful situation for the
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Speaker 1: player and the parents. Most often in major league debuts
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Speaker 1: is when this happens, they are routinely overjoyed. So on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: in Game two, after you Savage pitched five and a
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Speaker 1: third scoreless innings with eleven strikeouts, hitless innings, I interviewed
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Speaker 1: his parents, Dave and Cheryl, up in the stands in
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Speaker 1: Rogers Center, and I just kind of want to share
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Speaker 1: with you guys how this came about, because this one
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Speaker 1: was a little bit different. So again, I've been doing
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Speaker 1: this a long time now. This is my twentieth year
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Speaker 1: at Fox. I remember Daniel Nava, Nava coming up in
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Speaker 1: twenty ten for the Red Sox, first pitch Grand Slam
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Speaker 1: in his first Major league at bat, interviewing his parents.
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Speaker 1: I remember Cole Tucker when he came up for the
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Speaker 1: Pirates in twenty nineteen, hit a home run and interviewed
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Speaker 1: his parents. That was cool. Twenty twenty two NLCS the
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Speaker 1: Nola Showdown between Austin Nola of the Padres Aaron Nola
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Speaker 1: of the Phillies interviewed their parents in the stands. All
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Speaker 1: these things are great. Never interviewed a parent in a
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Speaker 1: postseason game when their son is coming off the performance
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Speaker 1: that trey Y Savage did. And actually, initially this interview
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Speaker 1: was not going to happen. The morning of the game,
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Speaker 1: I contacted the Blue Jays and said, hey, if you
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Speaker 1: Savage pitch as well, I would like to interview the parents.
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Speaker 1: What do you think Can you tell me the seat
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Speaker 1: locations and we'll go from there. And the Jays replied,
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Speaker 1: you know what, this is something where we want to
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Speaker 1: ask the player first, and we do not want to
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Speaker 1: talk to you Savage on the day of his start.
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Speaker 1: The next time, if you just let us know a
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Speaker 1: day in advance, we'll talk to him and we'll see
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Speaker 1: what happens. That answer frustrated me. I will lie At
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Speaker 1: the same time, I did understand it. Now you might say, well,
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Speaker 1: what's the big deal about asking a player if a
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Speaker 1: reporter can talk to his parents, But starting pitchers generally
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Speaker 1: are left alone the day of their starts. And Treya
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Speaker 1: Savage was making his fourth major league start, So I
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Speaker 1: can understand where the Blue Jays were coming from, and
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Speaker 1: I can even understand why they would want his approval,
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Speaker 1: because not all players would be comfortable with their parents
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Speaker 1: being interviewed. And I could speak for myself here. My
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Speaker 1: dad has passed away, but if he was ever interviewed
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Speaker 1: about me, I would not have been happy about it.
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Speaker 1: He would have taken things, probably in directions that I
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Speaker 1: would not have been comfortable with. So I understood the
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Speaker 1: whole thing. But then the game is progressing. The Blue
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Speaker 1: Jays go up nine to nothing, they go up eleven nothing,
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Speaker 1: they go up twelve nothing, and I text an official
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Speaker 1: from MLB who was working the series and on the
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Speaker 1: broadcast sides. He's a sign to really organizing the broadcast
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Speaker 1: interviews and different things, and I said, hey, it would
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Speaker 1: be nice if we can interview Trey Savage's parents, don't
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Speaker 1: you think And he agreed, and he said, you know what,
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Speaker 1: let me ask the Blue Jays and we'll see what
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Speaker 1: they say. And the Blue Jays said, you know what, Okay.
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Speaker 1: They allowed that MLB official to approach the parents in
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Speaker 1: the stands ask their permission if I could come up
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Speaker 1: there and interview them, and everything from there proceeded. The
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Speaker 1: MLB official texted me back and said, we're good, go
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Speaker 1: ahead up there. I did that, and I had a
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Speaker 1: stage manager, a person down on the field with me
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Speaker 1: who knew the ballpark better than I did, got me
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Speaker 1: to the seats and you saw what happened if you
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Speaker 1: were still watching by that point. Dave and Cheryl were great.
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Speaker 1: And what was unusual about this interview different than some
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Speaker 1: of the others. Usually it's conducted with the parents sitting
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Speaker 1: down because the games are I don't know, close, and
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Speaker 1: people are watching and they don't want to be standing
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Speaker 1: up and blocking the view of others. But in this case, Dave,
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Speaker 1: you Savage Tray's dad said, you know what, I want
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Speaker 1: everybody up behind me, because there were family members, a
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Speaker 1: lot of family members, it seemed like, behind him, and
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Speaker 1: other people maybe from other Blue Days families as well.
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Speaker 1: So everybody stood. Dave stood, Cheryl stood, brother Cole stood.
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Speaker 1: He's in college right now, but he was up. They
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Speaker 1: had driven up from Pennsylvania for this, and you could
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Speaker 1: see the excitement of the parents. Hear the excitement of
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Speaker 1: the parents. They gave great answers to the questions. They
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Speaker 1: were regular people, as almost all baseball player parents are,
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Speaker 1: and it was just a fun interview. So it was
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Speaker 1: the kind of thing that kind of makes my job
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Speaker 1: even more fulfilling. It's always fulfilling, it's always great. But again,
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Speaker 1: that is maybe the favorite thing that I do, interviewing
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Speaker 1: parents in joyous moments like that. And when you have
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Speaker 1: parents who were as down home and as cool as
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Speaker 1: Dave and Cheryl were, well, it doesn't get any better
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Speaker 1: than that. So that was it. That was the story
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Speaker 1: behind that interview. I want to thank, obviously Dave and
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Speaker 1: Cheryl for being so accommodating with their time and being
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Speaker 1: willing to do it. I also want to thank the
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Speaker 1: Blue Jays for ultimately deviating from their policy, I guess
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Speaker 1: you would say, And I want to thank the MLB
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Speaker 1: official who helped as well. Worked out great, and who knows,
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Speaker 1: maybe we'll have another moment like that later in the series.
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Speaker 1: Maybe Cam Schlitzler's parents will be the next ones that
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Speaker 1: we interview. But he's already, I don't know, pretty accomplished
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Speaker 1: All right, we're back. We'll get to grilling Can in
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Speaker 1: one second, But first I want to address the ongoing
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Speaker 1: situation regarding the managerial merry go round. Rick Groley wrote
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Speaker 1: about it today for The Athletic and brid of course
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Speaker 1: did an outstanding job as always. It's a very interesting
17:53
Speaker 1: situation because there are so many jobs open. We've seen
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Speaker 1: the Texas Rangers fill their position as expected with Skips Drumacher,
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Speaker 1: and now it remains to be seen just where these
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Speaker 1: other ones are going to go. We've got three interims
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Speaker 1: still to be decided Colorado. I would expect that to
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Speaker 1: be a change because a new general manager is coming
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Speaker 1: in to replace Bill Schmidt. Washington still has to decide
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Speaker 1: on Miguel Cairo. Baltimore still has to decide on Tony Mansolino.
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Speaker 1: I wrote last week about David Ross and his interest
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Speaker 1: in becoming a manager again. And there are two jobs
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Speaker 1: in particular that I think are the most appealing, and
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Speaker 1: maybe three the most appealing right now. The ones open
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Speaker 1: is Atlanta. I don't know that there's any question about that.
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Speaker 1: Most everyone in the game expects the Braves to be
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Speaker 1: back and back in a big way next season. They're
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Speaker 1: going to do some things in the offseason, and they're
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Speaker 1: also going to be healthier than they were, so I
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Speaker 1: would expect that job to be one that is highly contested.
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Speaker 1: I don't know and have no feel really for which
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Speaker 1: way Alex Anthopolis wants to go. What Weiss is certainly
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Speaker 1: someone who has managed before. He was on Brian Snicker's staff,
19:03
Speaker 1: but I don't know that they want to have that
19:06
Speaker 1: kind of continuity. They might want to change, and Anthopolis
19:09
Speaker 1: has not hired a manager in Atlanta. He's had Snicker
19:12
Speaker 1: the whole time, so he's going to probably want his
19:15
Speaker 1: own guy with his own stamp. That would be my expectation.
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Speaker 1: Baltimore is another interesting job, and the Orioles, yes, they
19:23
Speaker 1: have work to do this offseason. They have to reconstruct
19:26
Speaker 1: virtually their entire bullpen, and more than anything, they need
19:30
Speaker 1: to find the top of the rotation starter that they
19:32
Speaker 1: didn't get last year. It turns out that Trevor Rodgers
19:36
Speaker 1: kind of emerged as that guy in the second half
19:38
Speaker 1: of the season, and Kyle Bradish is coming back, So
19:41
Speaker 1: you've got two top of the rotation types kind of
19:44
Speaker 1: in place, but at the same time they need one
19:47
Speaker 1: more so that's another interesting job San Francisco as well.
19:51
Speaker 1: The Giants have some holes to fill. They've got to
19:54
Speaker 1: get better in a number of different areas. But it
19:57
Speaker 1: seems like Nick Huntley, the former catcher, is favored for
20:00
Speaker 1: that job. And that job two is appealing because Buster Posey,
20:04
Speaker 1: as President Baseball Operations is going to want to win.
20:07
Speaker 1: So we're gonna see how this all plays out in
20:10
Speaker 1: the next few weeks. I do expect maybe even more movement,
20:15
Speaker 1: especially if the Phillies go out, because then the question
20:17
Speaker 1: of Rob Thompson would come up. And I know Yankee
20:20
Speaker 1: fans are waiting, well, if we get swept, what about
20:22
Speaker 1: Aaron Boone. I don't see it. I don't see it
20:25
Speaker 1: because of the way this is happening. It's not Aaron
20:27
Speaker 1: Boone's fault that his team is getting pounded here. It
20:30
Speaker 1: just happens to be that they've run into a hot club.
20:32
Speaker 1: But we shall see in the days and weeks ahead.
20:36
Speaker 1: All right, with that, let's get to grill and can
20:41
Speaker 1: first question comes from Richard Proctor, who asks what are
20:43
Speaker 1: the chances of any expansion news this offseason? That, Richard,
20:48
Speaker 1: actually is a really good question, and I don't know
20:50
Speaker 1: the answer to it. So Rob Manfren's position as commissioner
20:54
Speaker 1: has been the whole time, Wait till Tampa Bay and Sacramento,
20:59
Speaker 1: it turns out, now gets resolved, Wait till the two franchises,
21:02
Speaker 1: the A's and the Rays have their stadium issues all set.
21:05
Speaker 1: They're not quite there yet, so I would not expect
21:08
Speaker 1: an announcement this off season. Yes, the A's have a
21:10
Speaker 1: plan they're going to Las Vegas. Construction is underway. The
21:14
Speaker 1: Rays have new ownership, but they yet or they do
21:18
Speaker 1: not yet have a stadium plan in place. So once
21:20
Speaker 1: that happens, and I do expect it to happen in
21:23
Speaker 1: relatively short order, then at that point I would expect
21:27
Speaker 1: Manford to proceed, But not before that, and maybe not
21:31
Speaker 1: before the next round of the labor negotiations because that's
21:33
Speaker 1: going to take precedence, and the next agreement does not
21:36
Speaker 1: expire until December one, twenty twenty six. So there's your
21:40
Speaker 1: non answer, but I would not expect it to be
21:43
Speaker 1: this offseason. All right, next question here, This one comes
21:47
Speaker 1: from Bernie Suarez. Us Is Dave Roberts going to finally
21:50
Speaker 1: give in and say Sasaki is the closer in this case?
21:55
Speaker 1: Bernie I would say it really doesn't matter. Actions will
22:00
Speaker 1: speak louder than words, and at some point we're going
22:02
Speaker 1: to see Roki Sasaki continue on the way he is
22:06
Speaker 1: right now as the closer. That's what he is. He
22:09
Speaker 1: came in last night and closed, even though he wasn't
22:11
Speaker 1: the initial choice. So yes, perhaps Dave Roberts says it
22:17
Speaker 1: today on the off day, Perhaps he says it going
22:20
Speaker 1: into the next game. Perhaps he doesn't say it at
22:21
Speaker 1: all but just keeps using Sasaki that way. What matters
22:25
Speaker 1: is that usage, how he actually goes about the late innings,
22:30
Speaker 1: And I would expect from here on out we're going
22:32
Speaker 1: to see a whole lot of Rokie Susaki closing. All right,
22:35
Speaker 1: we've got time for one more. I believe, Okay, is
22:39
Speaker 1: Woodriff going to return for the NLCS? This comes from Drew.
22:43
Speaker 1: I would not expect that. I have not heard much
22:47
Speaker 1: on him lately, but my understanding was that he was
22:50
Speaker 1: problematic for the rest of the postseason. Now not on
22:52
Speaker 1: that series, and I might not have the freshest updated information,
22:56
Speaker 1: but I would be surprised if Brandon Woodriff came back
23:00
Speaker 1: and to shift the conversation a little bit to another injury.
23:05
Speaker 1: Bobaschet I was asked about him on FT yesterday and
23:07
Speaker 1: I said, I don't see him coming back for potential
23:09
Speaker 1: alcs because he's still is limping. When I see him
23:12
Speaker 1: in the dugout during the games, he's not moving all
23:15
Speaker 1: that well. So these questions obviously will be answered as
23:19
Speaker 1: we move forward here. But we will see if we
23:22
Speaker 1: see either of these guys again in the postseason. All right,
23:26
Speaker 1: one more question or no, let's see, yes, one more?
23:30
Speaker 1: Can we put the postseason format criticisms to bed? From
23:34
Speaker 1: foul territory? This comes well, yes, at least in this case.
23:38
Speaker 1: The two teams with the bys actually yeah, two teams
23:42
Speaker 1: with the byes, the Blue Jays and the Brewers have
23:46
Speaker 1: played exceedingly well coming out of those breaks. The Mariners
23:48
Speaker 1: have done okay, The Phillies have not, but they've run
23:52
Speaker 1: into a better club. So I don't know that we
23:55
Speaker 1: can put it to bed. Each team reacts in a
23:57
Speaker 1: different way to that layoff. But with the Blue Jays,
24:00
Speaker 1: Guerrero has talked quite a bit about this. He's benefited
24:04
Speaker 1: from the rest. Other players have as well. The Brewers
24:07
Speaker 1: perhaps were a bigger surprise in that obviously all players
24:11
Speaker 1: need rest, but with the style that they play, weren't
24:13
Speaker 1: sure they could turn it back on again. Yes, they
24:16
Speaker 1: have turned it back on again. So really, at this point,
24:20
Speaker 1: at least looking at this postseason small sample size of
24:24
Speaker 1: that teams seem to have figured out how to rebound
24:27
Speaker 1: from five days off and in some cases clearly it
24:30
Speaker 1: has benefited them. All Right, that is it for today's show.
24:34
Speaker 1: We will be back maybe Thursday, maybe Friday, not exactly
24:38
Speaker 1: sure yet, depends on the postseason schedule that show. The
24:42
Speaker 1: next one will be with Alana Rizzo in all of
24:44
Speaker 1: our usual places, YouTube, Apple, Spotify. Have a great week, everyone,
24:49
Speaker 1: enjoy the rest of the DS and we'll be talking
24:51
Speaker 1: to you soon.
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