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Will the YANKEES survive elimination? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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  It is the worldwide sports radio network.
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  The New York Yankees get blown out in both games one and two in
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  Toronto to start the ALDS. Can the Bronx Bombers bounce
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  back at home Tuesday? Or Vlad Junior and the Blue Jays
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  sweep the squad at home? The New York Jets and Giants
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  wait for it lose again. The Jets were hapless against
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  the Cowboys while the Giants shot themselves in the foot over
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  and over again down by the Bayou and Nola blowing a very winnable
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  game. Ken Dart and Fields turn their
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  seasons around for New York or these teams destined for top
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  five picks and possibly new leadership.
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  And after we whip around the rest of NFL coverage for Week 5,
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  we will hear from some downtrodden Penn State fans on
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  their historic collapse versus windless UCLA in a jam packed,
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  fully loaded, filling job for the Mouth who is down South.
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  So you got the fish cast for your live Monday Night edition
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  of Jabba and the Mouth. Pointing in one of the top three
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  offensive players in the league. We're going to be.
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  Looking at Aaron Judge and saying that he can't win the big
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  game. Michael Jordan.
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  Said I played 82 games. You don't see the fun?
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  Doing that, a game where you got to go.
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  Before I told you giant feet Saquon Barkley at.
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  What is up, everybody? It is Aaron Fishman in tonight,
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  filling in for Errol Marks is down in Florida.
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  The mouth is down South. Yes, he is.
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  But we're still here with the great Jabba Chamberlain and of
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  course, Speedy Petty not taking calls exactly tonight because if
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  I'm hosting, that doesn't exactly work with the
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  soundboard. But we have a couple of people
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  calling in for a special segment on their beloved Penn State
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  football program, which is going through a lot of stuff tonight.
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  We got a whole bunch of great stories for you, a lot of
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  baseball, a little bit of football, but definitely some
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  playoff stuff that we got to get into before we do that.
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  Jabba, how we doing down in Nebraska, buddy?
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  Good. Man.
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  It was literally a miserable day today.
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  It was rainy, dreary, cold. It feels like 48 right now.
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  Yeah, it was just one of those days where it was kind of just
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  just blah. You know how you get those ones
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  every once in awhile? This was definitely today.
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  That that's coming to us. This was like the nicest day
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  we've had in a long time, at least for us was like 85, sunny,
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  like kind of a light breeze in the morning.
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  It was really beautiful. I know it's the end of it.
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  As a football coach, we had a game on the weekend and it was
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  hot in October and we're like everyone's going to cramp up.
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  Luckily, we were able to to really kind of outclass that
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  team, get guys out early. Nobody cramped up for like the
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  first time ever in one of our one of our hot weather games.
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  So we'll knock on wood. Maybe that's going to come back
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  to bite us from the karma police over time.
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  But it, it was definitely good and it helped us get the WS.
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  So, you know, that's all all important.
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  But you know, Speedy, how are you over there today on the
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  island? You always get a little bit more
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  humid on the island and for me it's a way more buggy on the
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  island than in other places. Yeah, it wasn't buggy, but it
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  was pretty hot in the in the morning and in the afternoon
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  when I was out with the dog. And I always joke because my my
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  grandparents, they had, they haven't been there in a while,
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  but they had a house in Florida for a while.
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  And obviously that the dog has been down there a lot.
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  So I was joking. He always wants to stay at war
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  in the heat. He's like a real Floridian.
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  She wants to sunbathe, like I'll take her out to the park and
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  when it's like 90 out and you think that she wants to leave,
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  she don't want to leave. He wants to find a patch dirt
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  and just hang out and sunbathe because she's a Floridian dog.
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  It's 100% true. These, these dogs from down
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  there, they love it. It's crazy.
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  You would think they wouldn't because they got the fur.
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  It's look it. Some dogs are wonderful animals.
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  I'll tell you what's not a wonderful animal.
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  Those buggy insects. This time of year, it's their
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  last hurrah. It's the last hurrah.
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  The one that bothers me the most, and I don't know if you
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  have them over there, Jabba, is these goddamn lanternflies.
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  What's a Lantern fly? So you haven't seen them?
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  If you don't, if you haven't heard this name, it's like this.
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  I don't know, Speedy, how do you describe them?
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  They're like these flying, hopping, gross little monsters
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  that destroy all the trees they're an invasive species
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  from. Oh, we call them tree bugs.
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  Because there's only been like 2 years of them right now as far
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  as I know, where they just like and they get like start off one
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  color then they have they're like red with spots later on in
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  the season and they like hop on you.
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  One jumped in my car as I was in a Duncan Dr. thru almost drove
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  into the the goddamn thing, the the menu because the lanternfly
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  jumped at me in the Duncan Dr. thru.
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  But no, not fireflies, Tommy fireflies.
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  Everybody knows no. Fireflies are different.
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  I know what he's talking about. I've heard the name Tree Bog
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  more than I heard what you were saying.
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  Yeah, yeah. When you said yeah I've tree
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  bugs here, but is do you guys call them fireflies or lightning
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  bugs? Fireflies is all I've heard.
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  I've heard them both ways. I I don't really know but it
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  look. We would we would catch them in
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  Mason jars. Yeah.
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  And then you have like a light. We said that somewhere in the
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  sleep away camp went to Sleep away camp as a kid.
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  That was something that we did for sure.
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  But. Oh yeah, believe it.
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  You know, like that's fun back in those days, but there's a lot
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  of fun that's going on around the sports world today.
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  I mean, we got NLDS going on as we're speaking, Dodgers,
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  Phillies. Look, possibly the two best
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  teams have to play each other in divisional series.
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  That happens. You know, that happens often.
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  I remember 2003, the Yankees, the famous Aaron Boone home run,
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  the classic 7 game series of the Red Sox.
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  What happens in the World Series?
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  They're flat, you know, they they they used it all up.
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  Josh Beckett was throwing 100 hundred out of out of high
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  school or college and AJ Burnett on that team, a bunch of other
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  big time guys. And they just didn't have enough
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  left to face that team. And I thought, you know, the
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  Yankees and Red Sox were by far the best teams that year.
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  They faced each other, you know, probably the same thing the
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  following year, but you know, that's the brakes, as they say.
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  We got a bunch of things to talk about.
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  We got the Yankees we're going to get into in a second with
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  their collapse in Toronto. But before after that, we'll
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  talk about the real bright spot that came out of that Boston
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  series Java. We're going to talk about Cam
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  Schlittler in a little bit, but I'm going to tell you just a
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  little spoiler. I'm pretty excited about Cam
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  Schlittler after that performance.
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  I don't. I don't think you're the only
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  one, my man. We will absolutely talk about
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  that. I want to step on it.
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  We'll get into the rest of the visual round and we got to talk
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  about The Jets and the Giants. Look, everyone knows I'm a crazy
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  Giants fan. I'm not perhaps very rational
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  about my Giants, even though I know it's probably not going to
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  be good. It's I always have the hope.
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  Well, that hope is mostly gone. Speedy.
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  I don't think after losing to Spencer the Rattlesnake Rattler
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  down in the Bayou that this season is going anywhere other
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  than a top five, top six pick, so we'll get into that tonight.
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  Let's start it off right off the bat with the Yankees not doing
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  anything at the start of this series against the Blue Jays.
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  After riding high off of winning a pivotal game three against the
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  Red Sox and the Wild Card Series, the Yankees have been
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  thoroughly dominated by the AL East champion Toronto Blue Jays
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  in the first two games, the ALDS losing game 110 to 1 and Game
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  213 to 7. The Blue Jays have already hit
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  eight home runs in this series, including two each from Dalton,
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  Var Show, Alejandro Kirk and Vladimir Guerrero Junior, who
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  had a back breaking Grand Slam in Game 2.
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  Yankees pitching has only gotten 7 strikeouts in the first two
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  games, while Yankees hitters have already struck them out 21
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  times. Literally exactly 3 times as
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  much. The Yankees offense has been
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  mostly anemic until they were down double digits in Game 2
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  after getting no hit by rookie Trey Yes Savage for five and a
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  third innings, striking out 11 times against a surprise Game 2
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  starter. Veteran Kevin Gausman was
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  effective in game one, only allowing one run.
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  Luke Weaver's struggles continued in game one and he has
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  yet to record an out this post season, while 19 game winner Max
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  Freed had his worst start of the year in Game 2, allowing 7 runs
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  and eight hits over just three innings pitched.
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  AL batting champion Aaron Judge has four hits and two walks this
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  series, but no other Yankee has more than two hits in one walk
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  and Cody Bellinger is the only one with a home run.
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  The Yankees return home tomorrow for game three on the brink of
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  elimination with 18 game winner Carlos Rodan on the mound
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  against trade deadline acquisition Shane Bieber for the
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  Blue Jays. Well, here it is, boys.
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  That's what we thought might happen.
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  The Yankees kind of go all out against the Red Sox team that
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  was completely depleted. They did not have Roman Anthony,
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  no Lucas Giolito. They couldn't turn us around
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  lefty with Giolito. So they put in some younger
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  guys. They tried lefties and they just
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  didn't have the roster. Marcelo Meyer didn't make it to
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  the end of the season. That guy, unfortunately has been
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  hurt a lot in his young career. He's another one of their big
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  pieces for the future. This is just not the year for
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  the Red Sox yet. They took the Yankees to the
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  brink. Now we'll talk about Cam
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  Schillinger, his great performance in that game, on the
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  brink game three. It was wonderful and I will talk
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  about it. But we got to talk about the
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  negative because the Yankees didn't show up for this series.
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  They went to Toronto, same record as them in the regular
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  season, lose the tiebreaker. So they lose the AL East and
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  they just get the doors absolutely blown off of them.
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  12:50, It wasn't even competitive.
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  And then in the second game, before they get any hits,
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  literally any hits, they get no hit by a rookie that no one's
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  seen. What do you have three starts
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  before this in Major League Baseball?
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  He started in a ball. He was an A ball guy and I I was
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  reading, you know, like the the Blue Jays used them as their,
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  you know, like surprise, he's their, you know, little ace up
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  their sleeve. OK, that's great.
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  You have an A ball pitcher that's, you know, Rose through
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  the minors who obviously has great stuff, but it's amazing to
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  use him in Game 2. This is not a team with a great
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  pitching staff, yet they bombarded the Yankees with great
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  pitching in the first two games. And Vladimir Guerrero junior is
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  does very well against the Yankees.
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  Let's face it, and he's for real child.
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  But I mean, I don't know where you throw it to that guy at this
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  point where he's locked in like this.
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  Not not just him, but I mean their their lineup as a whole.
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  Kurt, you got VAR show. It's it's crazy like, and it's
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  always, it's, it's interesting to see that they always, you
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  know, pitching out does good hitting.
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  But right now it's kind of the opposite.
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  I mean, the Yankees giving up 23 runs, that's never happened
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  before. And that's literally one of
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  those things, like you said, Fish, it's you.
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  You've got Aaron Judge, who everybody you know, knows is
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  great. But what what's happening to
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  everybody else? Belly's the only one with the
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  home and he's, you know, on a bad wheel and nobody else has
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  really stepped up. You can't expect one guy to get
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  you to the World Series. You know, everybody's kind of
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  got to play their part and do it.
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  And Derek came out and kind of said the same thing.
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  It's like, who needs to step up? And he just went throughout the
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  entire roster. He's 100% right.
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  And, you know, this kind of goes back what we talked about before
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  where, you know, they always want to blame, you know, Cash
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  and Boonie and all those guys. But you know, when you've got
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  Judge, who is obviously the guy that's got four hits, but nobody
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  else has more than two and we've only got one home run.
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  That's, that's been our MO all year of, of winning games.
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  What we saw, you know, obviously in division series, we didn't
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  need to hit home runs to score runs and, and did it in a
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  different way. But now when you come out and
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  you know, you savage and doing what he's done, it's they've
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  never faced before, he's never faced them.
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  So it's kind of a catch 22. You don't really know what to
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  expect. I mean, and, and then that was
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  the highest swing and missed percentage the Yankees had all
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  year, 58.1% And he has the highest arm slot other than
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  Justin Verlander, but he's 2 inches taller than him.
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  And then you got Vladdy, who, you know, just kind of is more
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  so coming into his own and becoming, you know, that dude,
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  right? And his talks about the articles
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  that have come out about how he's always wanted to be here,
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  you know, his dad and, and all those things where, you know,
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  he's kind of just putting together.
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  And we're not even talking about the guy that, you know, was the
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  hits leader for a long time and Bichette not even on the roster.
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  And so you got guys that are literally, you know, stepping up
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  and, and doing the things that they need to do with, you know,
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  some some decent pitching. And, you know, you didn't expect
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  these young guys to to do what they've done on both sides.
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  And then obviously, Kevin Gossman, it's, you know, just
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  the splitter there. And then you got to face another
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  splitter. And then it's like they're
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  trying to piece their bullpen together as well.
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  So it's it's not what I would have expected in those first two
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  games for sure, especially with the runs.
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  And then everybody's like, well, they fought and clawed back,
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  right? Well, yeah, I was already out of
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  hand at that point, if you ask me.
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  But they're a different Rd. team.
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  They are home team. So it's chips in a chair, right?
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  They're not out of it. They can't lose tonight because
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  they don't have a game. So I think it's going to be one
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  of those things where we just kind of have to take it an
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  inning at a time. And you know, it's it's going to
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  be tough, but there's going to you're going to have to scratch
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  and claw and somebody's going to have to step up.
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  There's going to have to be a big hit that, you know, they,
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  they talked about Stan having basically the, you know, the
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  knock in the face kind of talk. If you've got to punch me in the
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  face right now to get me going and in the division series in
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  the postseason in October, then I don't know where we missed
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  because I I wasn't a big fan of meetings anyways, because like
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  we're really, what are we doing? Unless something like
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  catastrophic and like, Hey, we need to just sit down, chill.
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  We've just lost eighteen in a row, like, you know, certain
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  things like that. But we are in October.
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  We've been grinding. We know what our team is, what
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  what is a hey, you know, win or go home talk.
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  What is what does that even do? Like we get it, man.
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  If I need to be like talked to and like kicked in the rear end,
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  then I shouldn't even be in this position anyway.
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  So are they going to have it? I would venture to say there's
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  probably a talk of, hey, we're you know what, we're still in
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  it. We're a great team.
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  You know, the the status quo with cliche stuff that's going
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  to go on. And then I think that's that's
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  probably what's going to happen. It has to be something.
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  Given a bunch of sorry speed, I was going to give you something,
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  but I just to comment on that job.
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  I've given those speeches, you know, like to my high school
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  teams, and you get carried away and you think you're saying
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  something that's like real motivating.
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  And then you don't even realize you're kind of like, you might
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  get off target. Sometimes I'm real happy at the
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  end of it. I'm like, yeah.
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  Go this way. Good.
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  Sometimes it's like, hey, you probably shouldn't have said
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  that. Sometimes someone goes, hey,
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  that didn't come out right, you know, And you it doesn't do as
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  much as you think, you know, like you can only like with
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  kids, you can try to get them focused and pumped up about
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  themselves. And I try to do that.
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  But with professionals, Java, like, like you said, what is I
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  mean, Giancarlo Stanton obviously carries a lot of
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  weight because he's a physical freak of nature and he's been
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  he's been in this game and has accomplished so much in this
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  game. So he's going to carry that
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  weight. But you know, like, talk is
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  cheap, man. Like, you got to do it yourself.
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  If you're not intrinsically motivated at this point in your
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  career, like, for example, like an Anthony Rendon who's
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  apparently more motivated to play golf and act like he's hurt
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  all the time than do anything. He's not collect checks, doesn't
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  care at all honestly. Forgot that name until you
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  brought it. I was like, man, like people go
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  to prison for less than that. Bro it's crazy he's stolen like.
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  With nine figures. 9 figures that he's taken from them.
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  And I honestly don't think he's in any hurry no to get back.
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  It's it's like the Paul George, like hangnail injuries that he I
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  think he has a. Lot of those times when you see
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  these types of identities when it comes to playoff matchups of
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  division rivals, like in football and in hockey, I think
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  it's a little different when you see like, all right, you can
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  game plan it for a certain way. And then especially when a team
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  blows him out, you're like, all right, we're going to play the
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  same way what we did. And you saw that kind of thing.
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  You've seen this kind of thing in playoff hockey to like even a
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  team like the the Hurricanes 2 years ago playing against the
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  Rangers and they dominate in the regular season, then the Rangers
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  able to beat them in the playoffs.
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  In baseball, I think it's a little different because I think
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  you look at Toronto like they dominated the end of the season
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  against the Yankees too. And you're kind of thinking, OK,
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  the Yankees can make the adjustments.
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  And I was one of those people that was thinking that the Blue
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  Jays were kind of a fraudulent type team.
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  Like are they really as good as a one seed as perceived because
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  they weren't supposed to be good?
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  There was a team that was getting all the pitching staff
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  is like all veteran right-handed pitchers that like, I guess they
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  have different stylistically pitching identities.
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  But still, is it something that you say, all right, can we we
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  there's tape on these guys, maybe the Yankees.
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  These are all these veteran hitters that can figure them
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  out. Kevin Gau has been obviously his
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  experience with the Yankees, but it's not always all positive
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  experience. And then obviously somebody like
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  you Savage, who they don't have any tape on, it's a whole
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  different story. But still, it's something that
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  it's a little different in baseball that you realize.
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  And it's also the effect of the bye week.
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  Like, all right. So far, since the new playoff
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  formats come out, it's been split among buys helping teams
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  and buys hurting teams at first. Year I was I was going to ask
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  you what do you what do you got? I did.
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  I personally thought like the momentum of game three and and
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  getting that start from Cam would kind of like push us into
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  with only that basically travel day and then them being kind of
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  stagnant for a week. I thought that would kind of be
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  in the favor of the Yankees. But the numbers that have been
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  like you said, speedy, kind of like wishy washy where you it?
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  I don't think it really matters. It's been an even split pretty
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  much since the new playoff format in 2020.
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  Houston was the only team that got that one with the by the
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  first year. Everyone else lost with the by
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  the first year. Then it was an even split in
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  2023 and then last year kind of shifted back where the Mets were
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  the only wild card team that won being the Phillies.
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  And so it's a mixed bag that you thought would be beneficial is
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  like you're saying to the Yankees that had that kind of
• 19:46
  spark that had that they also won the game before just they
• 19:50
  had a two game-winning streak going with that combined with
• 19:53
  again more postseason experience.
• 19:54
  The Blue Jays this core having a very negative postseason
• 19:57
  experience too. They've got 2 blown leads the
• 20:00
  first year they played against Seattle where they were blowing
• 20:02
  these four and five run leads. And then they stunk up the next
• 20:05
  year against the Twins, who on paper, never thought of as.
• 20:08
  That good of a team in even in 2023, it just played in a weak
• 20:11
  division. So that's the only thing that
• 20:13
  that's the other thing that voted well against or for the
• 20:16
  Yankees as well. And I picked the Yankees to lose
• 20:18
  the first round against the Red Sox.
• 20:19
  I was thinking it was going to be the Red Sox making this role,
• 20:21
  but I was like either one of these two teams are going to
• 20:23
  beat the Blue Jays. I just didn't trust them.
• 20:24
  Everything streamed fraud for the Blue Jays on paper, and they
• 20:28
  have shown that they have a lot more young talent that is
• 20:31
  hitting than giving credit for. They've had some of these random
• 20:33
  spark guys throughout the year and they're pitching.
• 20:36
  It wasn't going to be enough. And this kid, you Savage kind of
• 20:40
  thought with this random thing. We discussed it about a month
• 20:42
  ago when we were talking about the Mets collapse.
• 20:44
  Like are these young kids, even if the Mets made the playoffs,
• 20:47
  are they going to be ready for the moment?
• 20:48
  But so far you've seen it with we'll get we'll get into
• 20:50
  Schlitter later. And now this kid, you Savage,
• 20:52
  that are just four starts in or something like that and ready
• 20:55
  for the moment. I look, it's it's amazing what
• 21:00
  he did, but my problem is why are the Yankees still making the
• 21:04
  same mistakes they've made all season?
• 21:07
  Luke Weaver comes into game one in a tight spot and can't get a
• 21:12
  single guy out, the same way he couldn't get a single guy out in
• 21:16
  the Red Sox series. Don't you think that's a guy
• 21:20
  that you put in when we're down 12:50, not when we're trying to
• 21:24
  keep it close? I don't understand some of those
• 21:27
  decisions with the pen. It's the same type of decision
• 21:30
  that he made with Devin Williams earlier in the season, putting
• 21:32
  him out there in those spots. And guess what?
• 21:34
  If we won one more of those games then we lost with the
• 21:37
  Devin Williams blowing it, we would have had home field and
• 21:41
  the Blue Jays would have had to use up their ya Savage
• 21:44
  experiment in the, you know, the wild card.
• 21:47
  And we would have been able to be all set up for them.
• 21:49
  And maybe Luke Weaver could have had some time to work out his
• 21:52
  tipping of the pitches that he's trying to get back in his
• 21:55
  rhythm, which apparently is the issue with him.
• 21:57
  I mean, job, you tell me like that guy, they're saying that he
• 22:00
  was tipping, so he's trying to stop tipping, but now it's
• 22:03
  messed up his mechanics. I mean he seems like there's no
• 22:07
  chance in him getting this right before next season, to me at
• 22:10
  least. It's, it's weird too, because
• 22:12
  there was, there was an article on it today where, or it might
• 22:16
  have been the other day where it just, it was talking about how
• 22:19
  this, this is where I think sometimes paralysis by analysis
• 22:22
  comes in because they were talking about, oh, the, you're
• 22:26
  the most watched with iPads and the, and the angles and all the
• 22:29
  cameras and stuff. Well, they can know what pitches
• 22:33
  mean. They still got to hit it.
• 22:34
  It comes down to executing and it comes down to, I could tell
• 22:39
  you exactly that it's a fastball.
• 22:42
  That doesn't necessarily mean you're going to hit it.
• 22:44
  So I I think for him too. And and we've kind of seen this
• 22:48
  and, and you kind of touched on it.
• 22:50
  There's been a little bit of like the, it feels like the same
• 22:54
  of what they did with Devin Williams.
• 22:56
  Like you said, like try to let him figure it out in these like,
• 22:59
  but that's early in the season. And like you said it, people are
• 23:02
  people are like why the the season is too long, but we're
• 23:05
  talking about something early in the season that affects this,
• 23:08
  this this whole season, right where we are like, well, if they
• 23:12
  would have not, I guess, experimented with him trying to
• 23:16
  get him back then we have home field.
• 23:18
  But now you're doing it with Luke Weaver in this situation.
• 23:22
  I somebody's going to have to step up because somebody's going
• 23:24
  to have to eat those innings anyways.
• 23:27
  But is, is right now the time to try to get him, you know, off
• 23:31
  the schneid? I don't, I don't think so.
• 23:34
  You can, you can get him in in innings where it's, it's not
• 23:38
  high leverage and you know, Booney came out and said that,
• 23:41
  you know, they're still going to use them in high leverage.
• 23:42
  It's just, it's tough to be able to do it and try to regain your
• 23:46
  confidence And, and obviously he knows he's good enough.
• 23:49
  He's done it. But when you're grinding and
• 23:52
  then it's magnified by 5000 because it is the playoffs and
• 23:56
  you haven't done anything, You know, it's a little bit
• 23:59
  different than Devin Williams in April and May, right where it's
• 24:02
  like, OK, I can grind through this and get.
• 24:05
  But now it's like, well, I, this wears on me for the whole thing.
• 24:08
  And now I've got to try and refigure, recalibrate, however
• 24:11
  you want to word it what my delivery is.
• 24:14
  Because now everybody's saying they have every pitch.
• 24:16
  So it's tough. I mean, it's tough when they
• 24:19
  don't know what it is because these guys are great.
• 24:22
  But now you're, you're literally like, probably, I would say
• 24:26
  overthinking everything. It's like, well, OK, now my
• 24:29
  pinky's out now. Are you focused on executing and
• 24:32
  being committed to the pitch? Read about, OK, my front
• 24:34
  shoulder's closed or hey, my, my toe is angled.
• 24:37
  Like there's so many things now you worried about it where you
• 24:39
  forget you still got to throw it over the plate no matter if they
• 24:41
  know it or not. And also I.
• 24:43
  Like Hitch in the golf swing, right?
• 24:44
  I also think Jabba, like you have these instances where
• 24:47
  contracts like play into that too, because you have GM's that
• 24:51
  maybe either made a bad trade or made a bad contract telling the
• 24:54
  managers, oh, keep playing these guys, it'll eventually work out.
• 24:56
  And I think that you're dealing with, especially with a bigger
• 24:59
  market team, you deal with that kind of conflict when it comes
• 25:02
  to these either higher priced bad contracts that don't work
• 25:04
  out or in this case a trade that didn't work out because Caleb
• 25:07
  Durbin is doing very well in Milwaukee and Devin Williams was
• 25:10
  pretty rocky all year with the Yankees.
• 25:12
  You're trying to justify that kind of thing to work when
• 25:15
  obviously you have David Bednar that's come in and played very
• 25:17
  well. You have these other relievers
• 25:19
  like Fernando Cruz, younger relievers, homegrown guys that
• 25:22
  have worked out and you just try to justify it.
• 25:24
  And just overall the balance of that kind of thing can happen
• 25:27
  where you try to still try to cater to what I guess either
• 25:30
  Cashman or the front office did or just say, all right, these
• 25:33
  are the best players that we should have in this situation
• 25:36
  based on splits or based on career batting averages against
• 25:40
  this guy or whatever. And those are the kinds of
• 25:42
  things that have to you have to look at in the postseason as
• 25:44
  well. You should.
• 25:45
  These contracts, these trades should not matter.
• 25:48
  I just see a hungrier team in Toronto than what I see in New
• 25:52
  York. That's what I see, a team that
• 25:54
  is playing together and wants it really badly, wants to beat the
• 25:58
  Yankees, really badly, wants to prove that even though they had
• 26:01
  the same record, it wasn't a tie, that they were the team of
• 26:04
  the AL East. And I think they're just going
• 26:07
  to, they might just shove tomorrow as well and it might be
• 26:10
  a sweep. And we have to deal with losing
• 26:12
  on our home field like we did in the World Series last year.
• 26:15
  And I'm pretty afraid of that. Look, we got Rodan 18 game
• 26:19
  winner had the season everyone was hoping that he would have.
• 26:22
  I mean, that's a big part of the reason why the Yankees are here
• 26:24
  is Rodon and Freed, who did absolutely nothing in game two.
• 26:28
  I mean, I can't explain what happened to him.
• 26:29
  I mean, Java, it'd be better to explain it to me.
• 26:31
  But before we do like Rodon is that guy.
• 26:35
  If he can, he is more than capable of doing it.
• 26:38
  But I don't I hope that Boone learns his lesson from the Red
• 26:41
  Sox series because he left them in too long and he let two guys
• 26:44
  on in the top of I think it was the 7th and it led to, you know,
• 26:47
  the game getting tied up or the Yankees falling behind rather.
• 26:51
  And that's something that another thing Boone's done where
• 26:54
  he's left guys in because remember, Rodon got that one
• 26:56
  pitch double play after he got into a whole load of trouble in
• 26:59
  the 6th. I I could have sworn like that
• 27:02
  was like, Oh, thank God. All right, now you can take him
• 27:04
  out. You can get to the pen and now,
• 27:06
  now we're good. No, he left him in there.
• 27:09
  Now I love that Rodon's a guy who's not going to he's never
• 27:12
  going to say I want to come out right.
• 27:14
  So you love that from your pitcher, but it's another one of
• 27:17
  those things. Is Boone going to learn from his
• 27:20
  mistakes or is he just like, this is how I do it, even if the
• 27:23
  results are poor? So I don't know.
• 27:25
  Look, we'll find out well next time that we are on the show on
• 27:28
  Thursday, we're not going to be on Wednesday next episode
• 27:30
  because there will be back on Thursday.
• 27:31
  So we're pushing it Thursday. If the Yankees win the next two
• 27:35
  games, you know, we'll either be talking about a Game 5 or we're
• 27:37
  doing a postmortem on the season on Thursday, boys.
• 27:40
  But before we do that, let's talk about the one great bright
• 27:44
  spot of the Yankees, which was that Game 3 performance by
• 27:49
  rookie pitcher Cam Schlittler. Oh man, I'm so excited to talk
• 27:54
  about this. So here we go.
• 27:56
  In more positive Yankees news, rookie pitcher Cam Schiller had
• 28:00
  a massive performance dominating in his post season debut in a
• 28:04
  win or go home game three versus the Red Sox in the Wild card
• 28:07
  round. Schiller pitched 8 scoreless
• 28:09
  innings and struck out 12 Red Sox hitters.
• 28:12
  Didn't allow a single walk. Schlittler is the first pitcher
• 28:15
  in baseball history to have 8 scoreless innings.
• 28:18
  Girl walks in 12 KS Langs also mentioned so there had the third
• 28:21
  most strikeouts by rookie in their postseason debut.
• 28:25
  Blue Jays rookie Treya Savage, as we talked about with 11, is
• 28:29
  now 4th on that list behind Schlittler.
• 28:32
  She also mentioned Schlitter threw 64 pitches at 98 miles an
• 28:36
  hour or faster since pitch tracking started in 2008.
• 28:40
  That's six more than any other pitcher in a playoff game, and
• 28:44
  second most ever behind Hunter Green, who threw 67 in a game in
• 28:48
  2022. Of the 107 pitches Schlittler
• 28:51
  threw in the 8 innings, 96 were some kind of fastball fastballs
• 28:55
  for Seamer, A sinker or cutter, which was just under 90% of his
• 29:00
  pitches thrown. To make matters even sweeter.
• 29:02
  And this is the part that to me just really warmed up my heart.
• 29:06
  Schlidler, who grew up a Red Sox fan and lives in South Boston,
• 29:10
  AKA Southie in the offseason, had a little extra motivation in
• 29:14
  this one as he told reporters that some prominent Boston fan
• 29:18
  influencers went too far online harassing his mother in the lead
• 29:23
  up to the game. After the mic drop performance,
• 29:26
  Schindler took to social media, grabbing another mic to troll
• 29:31
  some of these haters, making fun of their takes and telling them
• 29:34
  to get ready for Bruins season. Schlidler will likely start Game
• 29:38
  4 on Wednesday if the Yankees are able to keep their season
• 29:41
  alive tomorrow night versus the Blue Jays in game three.
• 29:46
  Oh man, was this great. I look, the Yankees might get
• 29:50
  swept in this series, but at least we had that iconic moment
• 29:55
  where Cam Schlittler, a rookie, showed up.
• 29:59
  Looks like to me, I thought I was watching Garrett Cole on the
• 30:02
  mound for a while with the way, not the way he was pitching,
• 30:05
  just the composure every inning. He walked off under calm
• 30:10
  control. And I was looking at him and
• 30:12
  he's even got the hair, kind of like how Cole used to have it,
• 30:14
  too. And I'm just looking at him
• 30:15
  like, Oh my God, did we just get a rookie Garrett Cole?
• 30:19
  Is that what we're looking at right now?
• 30:21
  A guy who's got ice in his veins and on top of it, hates the Red
• 30:26
  Sox? Like on a personal level, which
• 30:29
  is what I've always wanted from my players.
• 30:32
  I mean, pump this into my veins, Java.
• 30:34
  This is this is what every Yankees fan has been wanting
• 30:38
  forever. I mean, it's part of the reason
• 30:39
  why we love you as a player so much is that intensity, the love
• 30:42
  for competition, the love for going at the big, you know,
• 30:46
  teams that the big rivals not like just showing up against the
• 30:49
  Marlins, you know what I mean? Like showing up against the Red
• 30:52
  Sox, going after them And then not only, you know, doing it and
• 30:56
  then rubbing it in, rubbing it in.
• 30:59
  I loved that every second of it. It made me so happy.
• 31:02
  So even if they don't, they don't get past this to me.
• 31:05
  What an iconic moment. It's very exciting for the
• 31:08
  future because now you have a rotation next year that should
• 31:11
  feature Cole back with Freed, Rodan and Schlittler.
• 31:16
  You got Clark Schmidt probably hanging around the periphery
• 31:18
  coming back from injury. You got Luis Heel who's, you
• 31:21
  know, obviously the season, it was like a truncated season for
• 31:26
  him coming back from injury as well.
• 31:28
  He was the rookie of the year the year before.
• 31:29
  He's not where he was last year. Maybe he can turn around.
• 31:32
  That's six guys right off the bat that for a lot of teams he
• 31:37
  got. Four of those guys are one or
• 31:39
  two pitchers and then the others are probably 3-4 guys, not 5
• 31:43
  starters like Clark Schmidt started the season.
• 31:46
  You forget Clark Schmidt was untouchable at the beginning of
• 31:49
  the season. He was playing like an ace and
• 31:51
  he's their fifth guy. This team could be really good
• 31:56
  going forwards as of right now, if they get to game four, I'll
• 31:59
  tell you what I got trust in this Cam Schlittler to get us to
• 32:02
  game five. I would love to see that.
• 32:05
  I hope we see it. Jabba.
• 32:07
  He must have had some I, I was a goosebump in like inducing
• 32:11
  because I, I, I couldn't believe what I was watching, man.
• 32:13
  Him to do what he did in that situation.
• 32:16
  We've seen that you know, kind of this whole post season guys
• 32:20
  young kids that you didn't expect to be in the situation.
• 32:22
  They are pitch well. I mean you had you got to tip
• 32:27
  your hat when these young kids come to these situations and you
• 32:30
  know early for the Red Sox. He he wasn't supposed to pitch
• 32:33
  that game but and he didn't pitch terrible and you got
• 32:36
  anybody could have pitched against Cam that day and it
• 32:39
  probably would have been a tough battle.
• 32:41
  But the composure you touched on.
• 32:43
  But for me, it's like watching how he just methodically goes
• 32:50
  about it showed a little bit emotion, which I like, but you
• 32:53
  obviously he's not a huge emotion guy.
• 32:54
  And we we he there's enough starts to kind of see what his,
• 32:58
  you know, demeanor on the mound is.
• 32:59
  But and this is without and if you look at his number, his
• 33:02
  secondary, like his curveball isn't that great.
• 33:05
  Just imagine when he gets that over and he continues to get not
• 33:08
  to say he's not comfortable, but gets a whole season.
• 33:13
  I mean, because he started in Somerset and I know going
• 33:18
  through the grind of minor leagues and then getting to the
• 33:21
  the postseason and having, you know, kind of, you know, a mark
• 33:24
  on you as a young kid that that's helping a team win it.
• 33:27
  You know, it can weigh on you a little bit.
• 33:28
  But I think the most impressive thing was is he was able to
• 33:33
  separate it because, you know, he he didn't get ahead of
• 33:36
  himself and clap back on social media.
• 33:39
  But I don't know if you guys saw some of his clap backs though.
• 33:42
  They were phenomenal, like the one to the chick and the Red Sox
• 33:46
  jersey and he's like not this year.
• 33:48
  I mean the stuff that drinking that dirty water like the dude
• 33:53
  like and live your best life dog.
• 33:55
  Like you had that 24 hours and the crazy part is, and we've
• 33:59
  talked about this, like you can tell me I suck.
• 34:01
  You can tell me whatever you want.
• 34:03
  I don't care. But like when you go in the
• 34:05
  family and especially, you know, him still living in South
• 34:09
  Boston, like I could only imagine some of the stuff that
• 34:13
  he heard. And like, you know, from your
• 34:14
  boys is one thing, right, Because that's, you know what
• 34:17
  you're going to get from your boys.
• 34:18
  And that's it. Man, it was, it was fun to see.
• 34:21
  I, I think when he just continues, I think he's going to
• 34:24
  get better. He has a great group of guys
• 34:26
  around him to get him better. And, and you can kind of see all
• 34:30
  that, that starting group of guys kind of their demeanors
• 34:33
  kind of mesh together as far as the kind of the way they handle
• 34:37
  some things, you know, motion every once in a while, But you
• 34:40
  know, it's, it's just fun. And, and you saw those guys
• 34:42
  afterwards, after he got done, they're like, they're like, how
• 34:45
  do you feel? I was like, well, literally, I
• 34:47
  was fanboying like I, I was, I was a fan.
• 34:49
  I, I wasn't watching it as like, you know, dissecting his
• 34:52
  sequences or his delivery. Like I was watching it as a fan
• 34:55
  as as a lot of us were, and when when you get somebody in that
• 34:59
  position doing what they like, it's so fun to watch because
• 35:04
  it's just the game is there And and I don't know.
• 35:07
  And like I said, this is this is the manager, whatever talk, but
• 35:12
  that's a game that and he and Cam even said he talked about
• 35:15
  load management. He talked about have you ever
• 35:17
  gone into as deep as that game? They're like, no, usually at 95
• 35:21
  pitches. It's kind of when and Booney
• 35:23
  just kind of was like he's throwing strikes.
• 35:25
  I love the fact like that. It felt like there was a little
• 35:28
  feel to running him back out there, right.
• 35:30
  And mind you, he didn't have that many stress feelings like
• 35:33
  as Freed did in game one. We saw kind of what happened.
• 35:35
  But I I loved it because it felt like I'm watching the game.
• 35:39
  I'm not watching numbers. And it felt good for him to go
• 35:43
  out because it it's damned if you damned if you don't, though,
• 35:46
  right? Like if they send him back out
• 35:47
  and he gives up, you know, he gives up the booty as this show
• 35:50
  it likes to do on this board, then you're like, oh, he should
• 35:55
  have taken them out. But I just love that it, it felt
• 35:58
  like a real feel move. It played the way it should
• 36:02
  have. And that's why I love the feel
• 36:04
  aspect of it in these. And I'm excited for whatever
• 36:07
  happens to watch this kid grow in confidence and and just see,
• 36:13
  you know, everything just get that much better and and and
• 36:16
  continue to develop because right now he's a stud.
• 36:18
  I think it's just that the Sky's the limit for the kid.
• 36:21
  Before I get to my statement, I just want to give a shout out to
• 36:23
  Donnie in the comments section who's saying that he's about to
• 36:27
  have neck surgery next month and his mom stage 4 breast cancer.
• 36:30
  So Donnie, I'm wishing you and and your mother all the best in
• 36:33
  everything medically with you and thanks for listening.
• 36:36
  Donnie Clark, new listener in the comments section.
• 36:38
  So I was going to mention with him too.
• 36:39
  Jabba. That was the dilemma that you
• 36:40
  always get with younger pitchers.
• 36:42
  Like maybe not as early as as Schwitler came up obviously this
• 36:47
  late in the season, but like I reference it with the Mets in
• 36:50
  2015 with Matt Harvey. Like they brought him out for
• 36:52
  the 9th and it didn't work out. Then you have situations like
• 36:55
  Houston, their first playoff run in 2017 with somebody like Lance
• 36:58
  Mcculler. So I think it was in the second
• 36:59
  year in the league, but he was just coming off of injury.
• 37:01
  They let him go long in those games against the Yankees and
• 37:06
  against the Dodgers in the playoffs.
• 37:07
  And they made that kind of thing work and a bullpen that I
• 37:11
  thought was very questionable at that time, they kind of patched
• 37:13
  together and they kind of made that thing work.
• 37:15
  And you've seen it with some of these newer teams as we've seen
• 37:19
  it with younger teams now that have had more success in the
• 37:21
  playoffs. And they get scrutinized when it
• 37:24
  doesn't work. And it's easy to just judge
• 37:25
  hindsight to make that kind of thing work because you have to
• 37:29
  have certain things that factor into why you would pull a guy.
• 37:32
  But there was no reason for it when he wasn't addressing really
• 37:35
  any hard contact. It's like he's a 12 strikeouts
• 37:39
  velocity that was never dropping off really at all and didn't
• 37:42
  walk anybody. There was no reason to ever
• 37:44
  think to take him out in the eighth inning whatsoever, even
• 37:47
  when he was even when he was getting up there in the as a
• 37:50
  pitch count because you're like, OK, a hundred pitch is
• 37:52
  considered a quote UN quote threshold.
• 37:54
  Now, granted, every pitcher is going to be different with that.
• 37:56
  But when your stuff does not look like it's deteriorating
• 37:59
  whatsoever, especially with that level of strikeouts and the Red
• 38:03
  Sox not adjusting to fastballs, not just it's not like, OK,
• 38:06
  we're having trouble with your breaking stuff.
• 38:08
  We're having trouble with with your change up.
• 38:09
  They didn't adjust to fastballs. Yeah, he has three different
• 38:12
  types, which I always have. I've always, I'm obviously not a
• 38:15
  player development guy, but Java, I would imagine like
• 38:17
  having a cutter and having a 2 seamer gives you a lot more
• 38:19
  action than just having a traditional 4 seamer and just
• 38:22
  relying on velocity. And that made it hard for him.
• 38:24
  It's the top 2. And I always said pitchers
• 38:25
  should do that kind of thing to give some variety in a high
• 38:28
  giving age. And the Red Sox just said no
• 38:30
  adjustments. Yeah.
• 38:33
  And he, he pitched all four quadrants.
• 38:34
  If you, if you look at it and it is not when you're that, when
• 38:38
  you're have that ability to be able to cut it and sink it, to
• 38:41
  be able to, to handle both sides of the plate.
• 38:44
  It's, it's pretty impressive. And and these young kids now you
• 38:47
  see it and you know the schemes of the world and you know the
• 38:51
  schools and schools not that old, but it's he was held back.
• 38:55
  With injury at the beginning of his career.
• 38:56
  So yeah, exactly. And but that that kind of goes
• 39:00
  back to something you talked about like in the, you know, his
• 39:03
  pitch count or whatever. And you see all of these guys
• 39:07
  when Cam talked about it at 95, that's kind of when they would
• 39:10
  start talking to me. School's career highs 108 back
• 39:14
  in the day, dudes were throwing BP with 108 pitches you know
• 39:18
  and. How many pitches did Al Leiter
• 39:20
  throw in that in that World Series game?
• 39:23
  What was it like 160 or something it?
• 39:25
  Was like 163 or something. 1 something crazy yeah and that's
• 39:31
  you know then then they go throw BP or they play long toss so it
• 39:34
  it's definitely different where you don't see it as much there's
• 39:37
  a few guys that that have that in the game where they like
• 39:40
  Nope, you're not taking me out but you've got to earn that
• 39:43
  right and there's very few guys that have earned that.
• 39:46
  I think we can probably count on one hand right now that are
• 39:49
  playing where you'd be like, hey, what do you think, big
• 39:52
  fella like you know, this one's on you.
• 39:54
  And so you you have those guys. But I think when you start
• 40:00
  seeing it in the playoffs in certain things where we've seen
• 40:03
  it bite them in the butt on the other side of it right where I
• 40:07
  mean the obvious infamous Ray's taking Snell out when only four
• 40:12
  hits in the World Series and we've seen what happened because
• 40:15
  the numbers where. That was what Errol was really
• 40:20
  like because Josh, who hosts Game on our network, and myself
• 40:24
  also were really big fans of Kevin Cash and Errol's like he's
• 40:26
  overrated. Like he scrutinized Kevin Cash
• 40:29
  forever when that happens. It's still, I mean, it still
• 40:32
  gets brought up and that's one of those things where you're
• 40:35
  just like, you're not wrong. Definitely not wrong.
• 40:39
  Well, let's get into the rest of these playoff games.
• 40:41
  We got a couple of get. Speaking of Snell, he's pitching
• 40:44
  right now. In fact, they just took him out.
• 40:45
  I'm sure you're not surprised. One hit, four walks, 9K.
• 40:49
  Well, Dave Roberts is another one that preemptively does it
• 40:51
  early too, and a lot of people criticize him for that.
• 40:55
  Look, you know, if you're going to be and look the Blue Jays
• 40:57
  manager, he, he took out, who do you take out in the third inning
• 41:01
  in game two? He took out the starting
• 41:03
  pitcher. Not, not game two, Game 1, he
• 41:05
  went quick. No, it wasn't the Blue Jays.
• 41:07
  It was Seattle. It did it early.
• 41:09
  It was Seattle. Seattle, that's right.
• 41:13
  So let's get in. Let's get into the rest of these
• 41:14
  guys we have. The other series in the ALDS
• 41:18
  between the Tigers and Mariners is knotted up at 1 after both
• 41:22
  teams won a game by the score of three to two.
• 41:24
  Tigers won game one with Carrie Carpenter hitting a key to run
• 41:27
  Homer and Zach Mckinstry getting the game-winning hit in the 11th
• 41:30
  inning. In Game 2, the Mariners behind
• 41:33
  Jorge Polanco's two home runs off of Tarek Schuble and Julio
• 41:37
  Rodriguez's 8th inning RBI double which drove in possible
• 41:41
  MVP Cal Raleigh which give Seattle the lead for good in
• 41:45
  that one. In the NLDS, there's action
• 41:47
  tonight with the Brewers and the Cubs.
• 41:49
  Brewers are leading one to nothing.
• 41:51
  That game starts at 9:08. They dominated the Cubs in Game
• 41:54
  19 to three, including six runs in the first inning against
• 41:57
  Matthew Boyd, who for some reason was pitching on short
• 42:00
  rest Jackson Cheerio led the way from Milwaukee with three hits
• 42:04
  and three RBIs, but left the game with right hamstring
• 42:06
  tightness. He is playing tonight in the
• 42:09
  other NLDS series, which some believe contain the two best
• 42:11
  teams in baseball. Game one went to the Dodgers,
• 42:14
  who came back to beat the Phillies 5 to 3.
• 42:17
  The Oscar Hernandez's dominant postseason continues with A3 run
• 42:21
  home run in the seventh inning, but in the Dodgers ahead for
• 42:23
  good. Likely NL MVP Shohei Otani was
• 42:26
  over 4 at the plate and allowed three runs in the first inning
• 42:29
  as a pitcher, but settled down completely after that, striking
• 42:33
  out nine batters and keeping the Dodgers in striking distance.
• 42:37
  Game 2 is in action as we speak. It is 4.
• 42:39
  Nothing in the 8th inning. Blake Snell just mentioned it.
• 42:43
  Domination for him. Lizardo had another good game.
• 42:46
  Three hits, two runs, one walk, 5 KS in his six innings.
• 42:50
  The Philly bullpen gave up another two.
• 42:52
  It's 4 nothing. Fish, how do you end up doing on
• 42:54
  your fantasy team? How did did I do?
• 42:57
  I helped. Lizardo was actually one of the
• 43:00
  best guys that I traded for he because he had 216 strikeouts
• 43:05
  this season and he he's a guy that he's I always try to look
• 43:08
  at the guys that have the high K rate that maybe they got
• 43:11
  through, went through some bumps in the season, but they were
• 43:14
  really good for a stretch that you never know as a fan what
• 43:17
  happened, but you just assumed something happened and you just
• 43:20
  hoping that he could find it. And that was that's what I
• 43:23
  thought was going on with him. He he finished really strong,
• 43:26
  Sean and I didn't finish strong for me when I traded for him.
• 43:29
  So with that sweeper that I thought, well, look, I thought
• 43:32
  the sweeper was going to make him into that new pitcher that
• 43:35
  we all talked about. Turns out not enough at least.
• 43:39
  Hence why the Mets fired their whole like freaking staff.
• 43:43
  Look, he looked good the year before.
• 43:45
  I, I don't, I, I don't know, man, that's a problem.
• 43:47
  But let's, let's quickly, let's quickly talk about each one of
• 43:50
  these series before we move on. I want to get into the ALDS
• 43:55
  first, the Tigers and Mariners. These are two pretty evenly
• 43:58
  matched teams. You would you would like to see
• 44:01
  maybe a little bit more depth in the Detroit lineup then you see.
• 44:05
  But they have they traded for, I think one of the most underrated
• 44:09
  moves at the deadline was the Tigers acquiring Finnegan for
• 44:12
  their bullpen. He has been fantastic for them.
• 44:16
  That is the guy that they sorely, sorely needed.
• 44:19
  Now that you kind of have him and vest back there late in the
• 44:22
  game with a couple other guys. They're they're a lot more sound
• 44:26
  taking some of those pictures out early beside school, you
• 44:29
  know, who obviously gives them great length.
• 44:31
  It's I like their staff. And on the other side, the
• 44:35
  Mariners, it's like they should be better than what they play.
• 44:40
  I think that they should have a better offense with Josh Naylor,
• 44:43
  Juanio Suarez, you know, you got you got Rodriguez, who's, you
• 44:48
  know, perennial All Star starting out of the gate in his
• 44:51
  early 20s. And of course, there he is,
• 44:53
  right there on the screen. Cal Raleigh.
• 44:56
  Cal Raleigh hit sixty home runs this season.
• 44:59
  This team should be a should be better than Detroit because
• 45:02
  their pitching is good too. Kirby started the first game
• 45:05
  wasn't enough. Is Gilbert's healthy enough to
• 45:08
  go right now? Is he going?
• 45:11
  Logan Gilbert. Yeah, he pitched Logan
• 45:13
  Gilbert's. I don't think he pitched, yeah.
• 45:15
  I think. They're going to wait it out for
• 45:17
  later in the series. I.
• 45:18
  Guess yeah, he was. Yeah, they're going to wait.
• 45:20
  They have enough gas to. Make up.
• 45:22
  Though the old flexor tendon earlier this year, Job, if you
• 45:24
  remember correctly, and of course his arm's not right, but
• 45:27
  they're going to try to get what they can out of them.
• 45:29
  Got Castillo over there who's been a good pitcher in this
• 45:32
  league for a very long time, and that's what you need in the
• 45:34
  playoffs. You would think those are the
• 45:36
  types of guys that you want, but Castillo is on a short leash.
• 45:39
  So Gilbert is scheduled to start game three, though apparently as
• 45:42
  of. OK, so then it is Gilbert,
• 45:44
  because Gilbert, I would say before he was hurt, could be
• 45:47
  considered a top 10 to top 15 pitcher in this game.
• 45:50
  If he's healthy, he's as good as anybody.
• 45:53
  And Kirby's, Kirby's something like three years in a row with
• 45:57
  200 innings before this year. I think he got hurt a little bit
• 45:59
  this year, but that guy gives great length.
• 46:01
  He's also in his 20s still that that's a team that has a lot
• 46:05
  going forwards. I think they're really
• 46:07
  impressive. I I think Seattle's going to win
• 46:09
  this series, but Detroit's pesky man.
• 46:12
  They play a lot of platoon stuff.
• 46:14
  Like Kerry Carpenter hit that home run and then he wasn't in
• 46:17
  the next game. You know, it's, it's a very
• 46:21
  strange team, Detroit. And obviously they're being
• 46:24
  pieced together by a manager that was forced out of the
• 46:27
  league for a little bit because of some banging of some trash
• 46:30
  can. Not what was it Hinch was with?
• 46:35
  Am I right with that? Yeah, Hinch was the trash can
• 46:38
  banger and at least A. Trash can banger.
• 46:42
  Yep. You know, with the buzzers and,
• 46:45
  you know, Beltran and Cora and the fun bunch, you know, it was,
• 46:50
  I'm still bitter about that 2017 season, Jabba.
• 46:53
  I'm sorry the Yankees haven't won, as, you know, since you
• 46:56
  were there. And, you know, that was our best
• 46:59
  chance. And now we're sitting here with
• 47:01
  this team that's very incomplete and we're looking at, you know,
• 47:06
  I think that Mariners team is pretty good.
• 47:08
  I think Speedy, you were saying you think they're going to go to
• 47:10
  the World Series. I had I picked them to go to the
• 47:12
  World Series because I they were also a team that again, their
• 47:15
  first playoff, their first playoff year 2022 with this
• 47:18
  core. They they had those comebacks
• 47:20
  against Toronto and then they were doing well against the
• 47:22
  Astros until their bullpen led by Mets legend Rafael Montero at
• 47:26
  that time, among many others, blowing a lot of leads and they
• 47:30
  but they still hung tough. So I knew this team was going to
• 47:32
  be close for a while. My thing is, I just wasn't sure
• 47:34
  if they were even going to make it because Texas was coming a
• 47:36
  long late in the season. Then they had a massive losing
• 47:39
  streak. Literally after the game I went
• 47:41
  to when the Mets, the Mets collapsed against them.
• 47:43
  They lost nine in a row. I think after that, Texas did
• 47:46
  and they missed the playoffs. Then Houston.
• 47:48
  It's probably the big collapse we didn't really talk about as
• 47:50
  much was just as bad as the Mets and what we thought Detroit was
• 47:53
  going to be at the time in the regular season.
• 47:56
  So I just wasn't even sure if they're going to make it.
• 47:57
  But I said if they were going to make it, they are very well
• 47:59
  built because of the pitching depth they have.
• 48:02
  They probably have the on paper best bullpen among the American
• 48:06
  League teams and probably besides the Padres and the
• 48:08
  Brewers, probably there were better ones in baseball and
• 48:12
  among those playoff teams. So I thought they were very well
• 48:14
  built. I thought they were the best
• 48:15
  team at the trade deadline getting, like you said, getting
• 48:18
  nailer and getting some more offensive depth than they really
• 48:22
  needed because their top end offense was always very good for
• 48:24
  a while, but their depth was still a concern.
• 48:28
  I think they're very well built and it was just a matter of if
• 48:30
  they had a university, which I did think they did because
• 48:33
  throughout the year we were saying, OK, Cal rally, is he
• 48:36
  going to drop off at any point? Is the 60 home run pace that
• 48:40
  he's on? Is it going to?
• 48:41
  I think he and the team has played with that kind of chip on
• 48:44
  their shoulder because of that. And I always thought they're
• 48:46
  structurally have been well built.
• 48:49
  And it was just finally their front office was aggressive,
• 48:51
  both giving them the contracts like they did with Rodriguez and
• 48:54
  Colorado, they paid this offseason and then finally
• 48:57
  making those big trades for get some power in their lineup with
• 49:00
  Suarez and with Naylor and to go along with those guys.
• 49:03
  So I think they're very well built right now.
• 49:05
  I definitely think they if they advance in this series, they're
• 49:08
  going to beat whoever comes out of the Blue Jays or the Yankees
• 49:10
  series. And I just think they're a
• 49:11
  little more built now. The Tigers are interesting too.
• 49:13
  Fish, like you were saying, they just lack a little depth.
• 49:16
  That's why I worried about them a little more in a longer
• 49:18
  series, like a shorter series with Cleveland, like they both
• 49:20
  kind of play the same way. So it's like, all right, which
• 49:23
  team is great here is going to come out of this And Detroit
• 49:26
  just willed him. Well, just a little more playing
• 49:29
  the small ball, but in a longer series, do they have enough
• 49:31
  pitching death? I mentioned the stat last week,
• 49:33
  I think besides school Bowl, like the pitchers had a 5.7 E or
• 49:37
  A or something in the starting rotation and they went with an
• 49:39
  unconventional approach in game one, kind of going with that
• 49:41
  opener, kind of those, they've like four or five of those
• 49:44
  different types of hybrids and they made it work in game one
• 49:46
  but lost Game 2. So still advantage goes to
• 49:49
  Seattle even with the series sifts into Detroit.
• 49:51
  So I'm still going to take him at the moment.
• 49:53
  Yeah. Let's it's a fun series.
• 49:56
  No, no, it's a fun series. And yeah, and Speedy, I'm just
• 50:00
  you touched everything. But I think you are right.
• 50:03
  If they get in, because then they're going to get Brian Wu
• 50:05
  back, hopefully. So that just adds more depth to
• 50:07
  to what they can do. And, you know, just it's
• 50:11
  frustrating. I don't know if you guys saw his
• 50:12
  interviews or not, but you could just tell the dejection in his
• 50:15
  voice, like, you know, not being on the roster for, you know, I
• 50:18
  mean, shoot, he's but you went six innings for 23 starts in a
• 50:23
  row before it didn't happen, man.
• 50:24
  He's been consistent. And you know, it sucks to to
• 50:27
  grind with your buddies and and do all the work and then you got
• 50:30
  to sit there and watch. It's probably just eating at
• 50:32
  him. So he's trying to get back.
• 50:33
  But yeah, it's it's going to be tough.
• 50:35
  They, they're so deep now with what they've got and it's, this
• 50:39
  is a fun series because they play completely different, kind
• 50:42
  of the same. But then it's just back and
• 50:44
  forth and it's been, it's been a really, really fun series
• 50:47
  because you don't know, you've seen it.
• 50:48
  They've scored two, then they scored two.
• 50:50
  They scored one, they score one. I'm talking with everybody, you
• 50:53
  know, on social media and it's like, OK, I got to recorrect
• 50:56
  myself because they just scored again.
• 50:58
  So no, it's it's been a really fun series.
• 51:00
  I want to quickly go through just the Cubs and the Brewers
• 51:04
  because we've only seen one game.
• 51:05
  The next game is going to start in about 1/2 hour.
• 51:07
  The Cubs and Brewers are two teams that, you know, the NL
• 51:12
  Central strong division. The Brewers, no one really
• 51:17
  thought they were going to have the season that they had.
• 51:20
  They've got AI mean Jabba. I think they had the most.
• 51:23
  Did they have like the most wet plus run differential in the
• 51:27
  league this year? And I think there's something
• 51:30
  where they were just the best power hitting team in baseball
• 51:33
  for most of the season. Maybe it was the NL.
• 51:36
  They have been just awesome they got then they're getting it from
• 51:39
  guys that you don't expect. They have a lot of guys that are
• 51:42
  like 15/15/2020 type of guys. They got Yelich there.
• 51:47
  They got Contreras for some veterans, but they have a lot of
• 51:51
  young guys. Bryce Tarang has had a great
• 51:54
  season at second base. He's one of the five or 10 best
• 51:57
  second baseman in baseball in his just second year.
• 52:00
  He's really had a coming out party this year.
• 52:02
  Caleb Durbin, Yankees gave up for Devin Williams.
• 52:06
  He's come on late in the season. You got Sal Frelick, who's a
• 52:09
  nice little outfielder, kind of like a motor guy that could play
• 52:13
  at the top of the line up or you know, the bottom against, you
• 52:15
  know, same handed pitching. You got to have guys like that.
• 52:18
  Reminds me of Brett Gardner, to be honest with you, the right
• 52:21
  fielder version of Brett Gardner.
• 52:22
  Maybe not as good as defensively, but you know, like
• 52:24
  you need guys like that in your lineup and they just have those
• 52:27
  types of guys. Freddie Peralta has been
• 52:29
  fantastic this season. He's I don't know how many wins
• 52:33
  he had. He might have had 18 or 19 by
• 52:35
  the end of the year, Freddie, but he was absolutely fantastic.
• 52:38
  He's another one of the guys I traded for in the fantasy team.
• 52:40
  That was didn't work out for me. Java, I had traded for Shohei
• 52:44
  Otani and Jose Ramirez. I thought I was I was set except
• 52:48
  I lost Corey Seeger to an appendix and I lost who else one
• 52:53
  of my and Kyle Tucker with the leg and he was just terrible the
• 52:56
  second-half and it did me and just didn't have enough.
• 52:58
  But guess what? Nobody cares about fantasy.
• 53:00
  This is the real time, and we've got the Cubs and Brewers facing
• 53:05
  off for all the marbles. The Cubs?
• 53:08
  Are they healthy enough to compete with this Brewers team
• 53:10
  in this series? I don't know.
• 53:12
  Saya Suzuki had a bad second-half of the season.
• 53:15
  He's playing hurt. Kyle Tucker is a shell of
• 53:17
  himself. They don't have their guys
• 53:20
  hitting on all cylinders. So I worry that combined with
• 53:23
  their pitching being a little hit or miss, I don't know if
• 53:26
  they have enough to beat this Brewers team.
• 53:29
  But, you know, we'll see how it goes.
• 53:30
  What? Do you think, yeah, it's the the
• 53:34
  Brewers. I mean, obviously nobody
• 53:35
  expected Murph is, is an unbelievable manager is he's I
• 53:41
  got to know him a little bit in college, playing against him
• 53:45
  when he was at Arizona State and then obviously ended my career
• 53:48
  in Milwaukee. And then just seeing him from
• 53:51
  afar, just an absolute stud. He eats pancakes out of his
• 53:55
  sweatshirt. You gotta like anybody like
• 53:58
  that. And tacos and.
• 53:59
  He's got. Tacos.
• 54:01
  Too, Yeah, tacos, yeah, I mean, it's pizza just lets it out and
• 54:05
  doesn't care. But I think that's the manager
• 54:08
  that needs to lead that team with the guys that they have.
• 54:12
  They obviously, you know, have the talent there, but there's,
• 54:16
  you know, some young kids that come up.
• 54:17
  You've you've got those guys in the Yelch's of the world that
• 54:20
  aren't the, the big raw, raw kind of type guys.
• 54:23
  And, and Murph is, is that one and just a just a baseball dude,
• 54:27
  just gritty, just grinds and, and understands how to win.
• 54:30
  And you saw obviously, you know, he's, he's had some injuries
• 54:34
  that every team has, but he's battled.
• 54:36
  He's he's kind of navigated his his way through the waters of,
• 54:39
  of getting guys healthy and in getting in the right situation.
• 54:42
  So that series and, and it's kind of, you know, funny council
• 54:46
  going back back against the Brewers and, and seeing what
• 54:49
  they've got. And I just, I don't think that
• 54:52
  Cubs are deep enough. I I think their bats are going
• 54:55
  to have to kind of pull him through.
• 54:57
  And like you said, these, these Midwest Cubs fans that can name
• 55:01
  like Carrie Wood and Mark Pryor that don't have any idea who the
• 55:04
  heck he's even on the team right now.
• 55:06
  When he when he yell at you like, oh, they're great.
• 55:08
  This had another thing. But yeah, I got a couple buddies
• 55:11
  though that are true die hard Cubs fans.
• 55:13
  And, you know, they, they got some arms back and Polancia out
• 55:15
  of the bullpen and they they've they've used him in in weird
• 55:18
  situations, which, you know, the postseason kind of just makes
• 55:22
  that happen sometimes. So I just don't think they have
• 55:26
  a deep enough lineup to be able to get to the Brewers.
• 55:29
  But you never know. The Cubs are the Cubs.
• 55:31
  And and we've seen what council did with with the Brewers lineup
• 55:34
  too, and they're kind of similar, but kind of not.
• 55:37
  And you know, he's he's he's done those things before.
• 55:40
  So this this series should be interesting too.
• 55:42
  It's difficult, I think when you had to maneuver the injury with
• 55:45
  Kate Horton and I think that would kind of forced the hand of
• 55:47
  having to pitch Boyd on short rest.
• 55:49
  And obviously they didn't like you're saying like because they
• 55:52
  don't have the depth, they didn't really have a good backup
• 55:54
  plan if he ended up struggling. And obviously they got the run
• 55:56
  in the first inning with the Michael Bush home run, but it
• 55:59
  just fell apart after that. And it's hard where there were
• 56:02
  another team, like I was saying with Detroit, I don't know how
• 56:05
  much they're built for a longer series because of that.
• 56:07
  Now, their offense at their peak capabilities this year, we've
• 56:10
  seen them be a top five offense in baseball this year.
• 56:12
  Just a matter of which version of Kyle Tucker you going to get.
• 56:16
  Pete Crow Armstrong the last two months of the season really
• 56:18
  struggled too. I think he had like a 698 OPS or
• 56:21
  something the last two months of the year.
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  There was instances where he was getting benched if he wasn't
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  playing good defense a lot of the time.
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  So that type of offensive firepower that you thought you
• 56:31
  had for a while was still kind of stagnant.
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  Now they're pitching actually picked it up.
• 56:36
  I was worried they didn't do enough after the deadline, but
• 56:37
  they picked it up the when the offense was struggling.
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  So they still were never in danger of missing the playoffs,
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  but it still was showing they didn't really have that kind of
• 56:45
  identity. Now they last first round, they
• 56:47
  played a Padres team that was kind of top heavy as well.
• 56:49
  They had pitchers that were just coming back.
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  So I'm like, OK, they'll probably be fine to win that
• 56:53
  series with their offensive capabilities that they do have
• 56:55
  and the top end pitching that can be strong.
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  But it just for this types of series, it was not as big of a
• 57:02
  depth piece. And like the Brewers, Jabba, you
• 57:04
  were mentioning it with like you have all these different types
• 57:06
  of Pat Murphy trusts a lot of these types of young guys with
• 57:10
  the mentality that he has. And Fish, you were mentioning
• 57:12
  statistically speaking, they have a lot of 1515 guys, but
• 57:15
  they don't have a lot of guys that are like going to play all
• 57:17
  the full time playing time. Somebody like free look like you
• 57:19
  mentioned, like he sometimes doesn't play against certain
• 57:23
  splits. And a lot of these types of
• 57:24
  infielders in the same kind of boat too, because they lost
• 57:27
  Willie Adamus this offseason. And because of that, they just
• 57:31
  have a system that is very different where normally teams
• 57:34
  would build up the pitching depth a lot more.
• 57:35
  The Brewers, we would talk about a bunch of the demotions that
• 57:38
  they had to send the young guys down and the more offensive guys
• 57:41
  will come up. And it's just a system that's
• 57:43
  very unconventional for today's game, where in today's game you
• 57:46
  want to build up more bullpen depth, more pitching depth so
• 57:48
  you can make the offense work overtime.
• 57:50
  And the Brewers just did the opposite.
• 57:53
  Let's talk about the big series. And before we get out of this,
• 57:56
  the Dodgers and the Phillies. Shohei Otani gets hit up for
• 58:00
  three runs in the first inning. Looks like the Phillies are
• 58:03
  going to be able to take the game.
• 58:05
  You've got to be able to win the game if you get to Shohei Otani
• 58:09
  because you know it's not going to last.
• 58:10
  He was able to shut him down after that.
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  And then consistent playoff performer to Oscar Hernandez
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  with another. He's going off.
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  He's 2. He's 2 for 3:00 tonight. 2 for
• 58:22
  three tonight, they're winning 4 to 1.
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  Looks like we're getting up to a big at bat here.
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  Kyle Schwarber's up with the man on one out in the eighth.
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  It's 4/1. She hands in for Snell.
• 58:33
  I think they might be taking him out or they're talking to him on
• 58:35
  the mound, but I don't have the game up.
• 58:37
  Just looking at the game. Cast this Dodger team.
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  I think we all forgot that they're the best team in the
• 58:44
  league because they've been banged up and having all this
• 58:46
  stuff. You realize who their closer is.
• 58:48
  Now it's Roki Sasaki and he's throwing 100 and. 101. 100 and
• 58:54
  100, and it's just like, Oh yeah, we have this guy too.
• 58:59
  Oh yeah, we paid this guy too. Yeah.
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  Just a closer off the, you know, it's better than most guys that
• 59:03
  you can even find anywhere in your system.
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  And they're bringing them in now.
• 59:09
  Snell is a Cy Young. He's awesome.
• 59:12
  Shohei Otani, awesome. The rest of their staff.
• 59:16
  I mean, if Clayton Kershaw is your worst guy, is he on the DS
• 59:20
  roster? Nope.
• 59:21
  Kershaw. Not Clayton Kershaw.
• 59:23
  And he had double, he had double digit wins.
• 59:26
  Double digit. Wins and a mid three era.
• 59:30
  You realize how good that team is?
• 59:32
  Man, It's crazy. They've got Mookie Betts and
• 59:35
  people forget that Mookie Betts is there just cuz he was a
• 59:38
  little down this year. You forget.
• 59:39
  Remember he had that weird stomach thing the beginning of
• 59:41
  the year and he lost like 50? Pounds lost like 20 lbs or
• 59:43
  something. It was something ridiculous.
• 59:45
  And guess what? He made it through the whole
• 59:47
  season. He's just fine.
• 59:49
  He could play any position. I think in entire game,
• 59:52
  basically, maybe except catcher. They got Otani, which is going
• 59:55
  to win the NLMVP. You got Hernandez.
• 59:58
  Freddie Freeman, you forget about him.
• 1:00:00
  He's one of the best first baseman in the last decade.
• 1:00:02
  And then they have all these other role players, Andy Pajes,
• 1:00:05
  who's been this great, you know, revelation in the outfield for
• 1:00:09
  them. And then they've got Kiki
• 1:00:10
  Hernandez, who's just always there in the playoffs, finds a
• 1:00:14
  way to make. He always finds himself in the
• 1:00:16
  middle of it Some, like somewhere.
• 1:00:18
  Tommy Edmond. Hasn't had a good year, but you
• 1:00:20
  know he'll get involved. Max Muncie, same thing.
• 1:00:23
  You know those guys are going to get involved.
• 1:00:24
  They got unlimited money. They just do It's crazy.
• 1:00:28
  It's not fair. And even the Phillies who have a
• 1:00:31
  great roster, who have great pitching, although they did lose
• 1:00:34
  Zach Wheeler and I think that's probably the difference is
• 1:00:37
  they're going to need then you need everything to play with
• 1:00:40
  this Dodgers team. I think these are the two best
• 1:00:42
  teams in baseball. And I don't think it's, I don't,
• 1:00:45
  I don't even know if it's close. The Philly, Honestly, Phillies
• 1:00:47
  were my the World Series pick at the start of the year because it
• 1:00:50
  felt like a team that had the right mixture of a playoff
• 1:00:53
  identity combined with the veterans combined with on base
• 1:00:56
  machine and got teams that walk a lot.
• 1:00:58
  And they're kind of doing the opposite of that.
• 1:01:00
  You're seeing them swinging first pitch all the time now and
• 1:01:02
  it's just counterintuitive to what they're supposed to be as
• 1:01:05
  an identity. Like you can, you could swing
• 1:01:08
  first pitch like you look at a team like the Brewers that have
• 1:01:11
  all these like more of the power hitter, less of the power
• 1:01:14
  hitters and more of the on base guys that get that just get on
• 1:01:16
  base and swing first pitch. That kind of identity works.
• 1:01:18
  Jabba, the Royal team you played with was a lot like that, a
• 1:01:21
  swinging first pitch type of team and it worked for the way
• 1:01:24
  they were trying to play baseball.
• 1:01:25
  I don't think the Phillies are like that yet.
• 1:01:26
  They're trying to be like that swinging first pitch all the
• 1:01:28
  time and it doesn't make as much sense.
• 1:01:30
  Now there are points in the game where it's like Otani, like are
• 1:01:33
  they going to be able to get to him because he's trying to pitch
• 1:01:36
  and hit at the same time? I was questioning if pitching
• 1:01:38
  him game one was the right strategy compared to maybe later
• 1:01:41
  in the series, maybe go for a game three and maybe a game six
• 1:01:44
  type of not Game 6, but maybe out of the bullpen for a Game 5
• 1:01:47
  type approach would have been. Would it have been that to make
• 1:01:52
  sense? I don't know, but it looked like
• 1:01:53
  he was getting roughed up early and it affected his hitting.
• 1:01:56
  So I was surprised they were able to make that work.
• 1:01:57
  But Matt? Strong, didn't he strike?
• 1:02:00
  He struck out four times that game, right?
• 1:02:03
  Four times. Yeah, OK.
• 1:02:04
  And then I want to get to this reliever, to Matt Stromo, I
• 1:02:07
  thought was a good reliever for a while, even when he's going
• 1:02:10
  back to with the Padres. He's been really bad in the
• 1:02:12
  playoffs, even when he was with the Padres against the Phillies.
• 1:02:14
  And then last year he was really bad against the Mets.
• 1:02:16
  And yet they're still trusting him in a lot of high leverage
• 1:02:18
  situation. And Java, you were talking about
• 1:02:20
  tipping pitches before, too. There was accusations of that.
• 1:02:22
  And you can't do that kind of thing against an offense and a
• 1:02:25
  system that's so good, like the Dodgers.
• 1:02:27
  Like the Dodgers, yeah, you could say they could spend the
• 1:02:30
  money all you want, but conceptually, like they've
• 1:02:33
  gotten like a lot of these little nuances, analytically
• 1:02:36
  very strong too, and player development wise, rebirthing all
• 1:02:39
  these players. Like look at somebody like
• 1:02:41
  Michael Kopac last year. That was a big part of their
• 1:02:43
  role was what top pitching prospect with the White Sox
• 1:02:45
  couldn't get anything going. And they do all the little
• 1:02:48
  things. Everyone says, oh, they just
• 1:02:50
  spend money to do all that. No, it's they're doing all the
• 1:02:53
  little things to make it work. And now they're proving that
• 1:02:56
  again. They are the most talented team
• 1:02:58
  when they're healthy. I thought just being it's hard
• 1:03:00
  to repeat being the Phillies. I think that I thought they had
• 1:03:02
  a core that was close for a while and I think their window
• 1:03:05
  is closing because they're going to lose a lot in the offseason.
• 1:03:08
  I thought it was the year for them, but they're going to have
• 1:03:10
  to prove a lot off this bullpen if they're going to have any
• 1:03:12
  shot to win this game and then win the series, really.
• 1:03:16
  Yeah, I mean, Dodgers too. It's funny.
• 1:03:19
  They always say, oh, you just bought a championship.
• 1:03:22
  I mean, they said that to us in 09.
• 1:03:24
  You still got to go out and perform.
• 1:03:26
  You still got to do whatever you want to call them, double D's or
• 1:03:29
  whatever and not those type of double D's, right.
• 1:03:35
  The deferred Dodgers or whatever, whatever people are
• 1:03:38
  calling them, they still have to go out and execute and score
• 1:03:42
  more runs and not let the other team score.
• 1:03:45
  So let's not let's not forget that they are really, really
• 1:03:49
  good at that and they have a really, really good lineup and
• 1:03:52
  really, really good arms. I mean, the crazy part to me is
• 1:03:56
  it's the first time ever in baseball history starter get the
• 1:04:00
  win and a Japanese closer get a save.
• 1:04:02
  And that's that's great for baseball.
• 1:04:04
  Like that isn't absolutely great for baseball.
• 1:04:06
  It's great for these young kids that, you know, know that they
• 1:04:09
  can have a chance, you know, and, and play.
• 1:04:11
  And and that's not just the Japanese we're talking about all
• 1:04:14
  over the world. Having these guys from
• 1:04:16
  everywhere to to know that you're you can have a chance to
• 1:04:19
  play and, and and play big situations.
• 1:04:22
  It's it's been really cool. And I think it's it's awesome to
• 1:04:24
  see, not awesome if you are a Phillies fan, but but it's great
• 1:04:30
  for the game. And it it's just the Dodgers are
• 1:04:33
  just, they can beat you from top to bottom and that's they can
• 1:04:38
  beat you with speed. They can beat you with clutch
• 1:04:40
  hitting and homers. And then, I mean, when you got a
• 1:04:43
  guy, you know, that can literally, you know, throw 100
• 1:04:47
  and go hit a Homer and then you got a guy, it's like, oh, let's
• 1:04:49
  make him a closer. Oh, OK.
• 1:04:52
  And then it's like, oh, we paid a guy 160 million, but he's been
• 1:04:55
  hurt, but let's, let's throw him out of the bullpen.
• 1:04:57
  So yeah, they have a, they have a plethora of options to beat
• 1:05:02
  you, and they're going to be tough to beat if they're kicking
• 1:05:05
  on all cylinders. It's going to be an interesting
• 1:05:08
  rest of the series. It's in the top of the ninth
• 1:05:10
  right now. Looks like the Dodgers are going
• 1:05:12
  to earn the driver's seat. They'll bring in Sasaki throwing
• 1:05:15
  101, probably the. No, he wasn't warming up.
• 1:05:17
  He was trying. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:05:20
  He's not bad either though, you know.
• 1:05:22
  No, it was, it was. Yeah, trying to invest here.
• 1:05:25
  We're we're warming up. Oh yeah, What?
• 1:05:26
  Whatever we'll give, we'll give Sasaki.
• 1:05:28
  Yeah, which, which one do you want?
• 1:05:30
  Sorry, sorry. We got options.
• 1:05:32
  My bad. Trying and LED the league in
• 1:05:35
  like saves for like 3 years in a row.
• 1:05:37
  Like Nah, power sinker. Yeah, we're good.
• 1:05:41
  It's it's just amazing. Well, before we get into more
• 1:05:44
  stuff of baseball and we do have our guest in, we'll talk about,
• 1:05:47
  we'll talk to him in a little bit after our break.
• 1:05:49
  But before the break, today's golf clap of the day.
• 1:05:54
  This deserves a golf clap. No doubt.
• 1:05:57
  Golf clap. Golf clap.
• 1:06:02
  All right, so I guess we didn't get the the graphic for that.
• 1:06:06
  Might be my mistake, but here we are in the golf clap of the day.
• 1:06:10
  Today's golf clap of the day goes to WNBA Commissioner Kathy
• 1:06:14
  Engelberg. On Friday, a report came out on
• 1:06:17
  ESPN that said there were a lot of inaccuracies in the comments.
• 1:06:22
  Injured Minnesota Link star and MVP runner up Nafiza Collier
• 1:06:26
  said, completely trashing the embattled commissioner for quote
• 1:06:29
  UN quote, the worst leadership in the world, amongst other
• 1:06:33
  things she had to say about her. The biggest bone of contention
• 1:06:36
  was that Engelbert denied telling Collier that WNBA
• 1:06:40
  players, including Caitlin Clark, should be on their knees
• 1:06:43
  in gratitude for the platform the league has given the women.
• 1:06:48
  Engelbert said she was confident she could repair the trust of
• 1:06:51
  the league, despite virtually the entire league supporting
• 1:06:54
  Collier's comments. Kathy Engelbert may be the last
• 1:06:58
  person to realize it, but it's time for her to step down.
• 1:07:02
  Nice sort of apology, I guess. But for tonight's golf clap,
• 1:07:06
  that goes to the commissioner of the West for not much longer,
• 1:07:10
  probably. There you go, golf clap, golf,
• 1:07:13
  clap for Miss Engelbert, and there it is.
• 1:07:16
  He's an idiot. Pretty pretty terrible we are so
• 1:07:22
  we'll be so here it is golf clap of the day.
• 1:07:24
  I thought it was a real good show.
• 1:07:25
  Thanks special thanks to Thomas Caranante, fan sided content
• 1:07:29
  director Co host of the Yanks go yard podcast.
• 1:07:33
  Follow him at X at Tommy's under score takes and find his channel
• 1:07:37
  on YouTube. He was fantastic really good
• 1:07:41
  stuff on the Yankees earlier tonight.
• 1:07:43
  We had a lot of fun. Thanks.
• 1:07:44
  Special thanks to Jake and Armando Horda coming on talking
• 1:07:48
  about their beloved Penn State Nittany Lions and the struggles
• 1:07:51
  they're dealing with over here. And a real special thanks to our
• 1:07:55
  intern Jared, who did all the work backstage as a producer for
• 1:07:59
  the first time while I'm here in the in the host chair.
• 1:08:02
  That's a great job by you, Jared.
• 1:08:03
  Thank you for all the work that you put in tonight.
• 1:08:05
  Was it? Jared was rocking a jersey too?
• 1:08:07
  What jersey was he rocking? Yeah, Jared, come on into the
• 1:08:10
  screen. You deserve to be in here for a
• 1:08:12
  little bit at the end of the show.
• 1:08:13
  You got some kind of Basketball Jersey going where we got you?
• 1:08:19
  I'll do it speedy. Here, here, I'll bounce out.
• 1:08:22
  No. No, you're fine.
• 1:08:23
  It's just me and Speedy are having a war of who's going to
• 1:08:25
  add us, add Jarrett right now with our clicker fingers.
• 1:08:28
  Jarrett, I think you might be frozen.
• 1:08:31
  So we're not going to see it right now, unfortunately.
• 1:08:34
  But Jarrett's done a great job for us.
• 1:08:37
  Errol will be back. We're not having the show on
• 1:08:39
  Wednesday because he's not going to be back.
• 1:08:41
  So we're going to have it on Thursday.
• 1:08:43
  So pay attention. The show will be on Thursday.
• 1:08:45
  By then, we'll know if the Yankees are going to Game 5 or
• 1:08:48
  we're doing a post mortem on the season.
• 1:08:50
  Also Thursday, speedy, the Giants face the Eagles.
• 1:08:53
  We're going to have to do the show live while that's going on.
• 1:08:57
  I don't know if I can handle that.
• 1:08:59
  That's going to be tough. One.
• 1:09:00
  I think they're going to get absolutely murdered.
• 1:09:03
  It's it's not good. It's not a good look for the
• 1:09:05
  Giants. But maybe the Eagles are a
• 1:09:06
  little, you know, struggling a little bit.
• 1:09:09
  Maybe Brian Dabel and Shane Bowen will cook something up for
• 1:09:12
  him. Speedy to.
• 1:09:14
  Only. Lose by 14.
• 1:09:18
  Honestly, if they lose, I guess losing is losing at this point,
• 1:09:21
  but I do hope it's a little bit competitive.
• 1:09:24
  Well, it should be good on Thursday.
• 1:09:25
  Who do we have coming on Thursday?
• 1:09:27
  Alright. Well, thanks to the new King of
• 1:09:29
  the Jungle for getting us these two guests, 2 very special
• 1:09:33
  guests. First one is Jane Butler.
• 1:09:35
  She's the CEO of the nonprofit organization Encourage Kids
• 1:09:39
  Foundation, based out of New York, supporting hospitalized
• 1:09:43
  children. So she'll be the first one.
• 1:09:44
  And the second one is a celebrity chef, Glenn Rolnick,
• 1:09:47
  who is the director of culinary operations for the Ala Carte
• 1:09:51
  Restaurant Group, where he's worked there for the last 11
• 1:09:54
  years in New York City. So both of them will be joining
• 1:09:56
  us at 8:45. That's great.
• 1:09:58
  You know, we've been trying to talk about get with some of
• 1:10:01
  these people that do these kind of functions, get our name out
• 1:10:04
  there, be be a part of some of those better functions that are
• 1:10:07
  going on, especially charitable things.
• 1:10:09
  That's something that job in the mouth is going to be looking
• 1:10:11
  forward to doing in the next calendar year.
• 1:10:14
  You guys are going to see us around.
• 1:10:16
  You're going to see us everywhere.
• 1:10:17
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  PD KK 87. Guys, it's been a wonderful
• 1:10:37
  night. I hope you guys get some good
• 1:10:39
  rest and we'll see you back on Thursday.
• 1:10:42
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