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LCS Update · The 3-0 Take

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take, where we talk
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all things Major League Baseball.
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Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes.
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It all starts right now. Oh, welcome back to the three O
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take presented by C Kick. This is episode 476.
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I'll be your host Kyle Cordon. I'm here with my Co host Nate
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Reyes. Nate.
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Who's Kyle Corwin? I don't know who that is.
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Last I heard of that guy, he was hanging out in Virginia or
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something, you know, like. 60° down or back back home down here
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in Miami. Yeah, it's a.
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It's a cool 85. Welcome to Miami.
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Miss Worldwide Three O 5 Pee Boo.
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That is, did you see him? Is he there?
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I didn't, but I'm about to see T pain tomorrow.
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No biggie. Wait, really?
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Any T pain fans out there? Yeah, he's, he'll be the
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performer at the conference I'm at for my work, so that'll be
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sick. Shout out the shout out the the
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conference. What is it?
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What is this for? What is the conference?
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For it's for Adobe. Just a bunch of creators down
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here, A bunch of Adobe casters. Bring it in T pain.
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Just bringing in T pain, no expenses spared.
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T pain just shows up and just a bunch of white dudes with
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glasses. Bunch of no, it's a lot of
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nerds, if I'm being honest with you.
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You got podcast down here, you got videographers, you got
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illustrators, graphic designers, all the like.
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Goggles. I'm honestly.
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Probably the minority, honestly. I'm like one of the few somewhat
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normal folks or normal people look down here.
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Yeah, there's a. Yeah.
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Is Elon a robot down there? No.
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No, that's. Not but I've been able to catch
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some games. Don't worry there.
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Good. And we're going to, we're going
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to talk about it. We're going to talk about it.
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You want to talk? You want to talk?
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Mets, Dodgers, little, little bit of a check in.
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I know there's probably people wondering like, yo, why are you
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guys doing an LCS update so soon?
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They've only been there's, I mean, heck, there's only been
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one ALCS game. There's been two LLCS games.
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Well, would you just rather us not check in and just wait till
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next week? You just want to wait.
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You want us to wait till the end?
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No, we're not going to do that. We're going to.
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We're going to talk. About like recaps?
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How do you like recaps? We didn't kind of a recap.
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We didn't even recap the end of the NLDS.
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We didn't. We had to make a prediction.
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Two different predictions. Three different predictions,
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Four different predictions. I think it was, I think it was
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four. I think there was like, I think
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there was four different scenarios that that had to play
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out or could have played out and, and we had to make picks on
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all of them. But yeah, and, and back to my
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point though, there's only been three games, but I'd say a fair
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amount has happened. A lot has happened a.
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Lot has happened. A lot of things we got to talk
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about. So let's get into it.
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Let's talk, Let's talk Mets and Dodgers.
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The the aforementioned series with two games wrapped up game
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one. Whoa.
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I'm just going to go ahead and say it.
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But it's a little but right in the mouth.
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Can I just, can I just, can I just go ahead and say it?
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Unless you're a rather a Dodgers fan.
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Unless you were a Dodgers fan, not not that enjoyable of a
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baseball game, if I'm being honest with you.
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And I got some kickback on social, boy that I get some
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kickback on social for that take.
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And I'm going one, I'm not surprised you.
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I mean, people just like to argue about anything and
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everything, but I'm going, yeah, well, people get the the problem
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was here. Here's the issue.
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They kept pointing to the fact that like this was such a
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historic outing for the the the Dodgers that it was their their
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third straight shut out the the scoreless inning streak that
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they matched. Lot of Dodger storylines, one
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would say. One could say that's pretty
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obvious in a nine nothing victory, but.
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Right. But like you, you remove that
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element of it like if you're not, if you're just like an
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average fan. Yeah, you want something
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entertaining? You want something close.
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Yeah, and maybe you're not too. Maybe you're not all that
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closely tied to said storyline or said postseason feat or or
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record or or whatever it may be. You don't really care.
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You just want some good baseball, and it wasn't really
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that good. A baseball game is 9, nothing.
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Postseason game. Yeah.
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With that said, though, that and and just hear me, that's not me
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complaining about the game itself.
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I mean, it's a postseason game. I'm going to watch postseason
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baseball regardless. I'm just saying we've seen more
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entertaining games, That's all I'm going to say.
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The game itself though, I mean, like you said, a little bop from
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the Dodgers, that was. Right in the mouth.
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Right away that was big when OK, so when this game kind of
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wrapped up and not that I'm skipping ahead to the end
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already, but with after game one was in the books, where was your
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head at with the with the whole Met's magic?
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Honestly, I I felt like it was dampered a little bit.
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Is that a word? Dampened.
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No, you're you're tampered. And dampened.
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Tampered and dampened. Tamp.
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Tampened. Yeah, it was tampened.
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I like dampered. Dampered.
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I feel like that's a word. Damper.
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No, that's a tough one. Yeah, I I'll be honest.
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Just like I'm not. Going to play the, I'm not going
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to say I'm not going to like play the hindsight game because
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that's not fair. You asked my reaction after game
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one, before Game 2 happened. My reaction?
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Was like something. Yeah, see, it was, it was
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dampered. You asked what the magic was
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like. That's a weird that that when
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you, when people ask for it in a sentence, that's just like a
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weird thing. Like I kind of put a damper on
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it. Not like it was dampered.
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It just sounded weird. It didn't, it didn't, didn't
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scratch the brain, right? You know, that's all.
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Anyway, continue. OK.
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Carry on, carry on. I.
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Felt like he's getting to me down here.
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Felt like it was just, you know, maybe a little maybe it's run
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its course. You know, I, I honestly think
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that there was a little bit of like a like a spillover from the
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Dodgers Padres series. It not that the Phillies didn't
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put up a fight, but that like they didn't really put up a
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fight, you know what I mean? Like they didn't really, you
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didn't get the best version of the Phillies and the Mets.
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I felt like getting through that coming into like, yeah, they're
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hot, but like coming into a Dodger team that's just
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literally fending off the San Diego Wolves, you know what I
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mean? Like the Padres were like, that
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was a great series. That was like a you came out of
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that battle beat up, bloody, bruised, but you like proven,
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you know what I mean? It's like with that, like those
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Spartans in 300 where you're like, go out and live with the
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wolves when you're 5 years old, then come back and you're a man.
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That's what the Dodgers came back as.
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They came back as a man. And the Mets were like, whoa,
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you know, Kodaissinga didn't look great, did not look great,
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looked pretty rough. And he starts 3 or 4.
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Walks. He's still figuring it out.
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Like I, I think that's so hard for for Mets fans to wrap their
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mind around and like for baseball fans to remember that
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like this guy would probably still be doing like rehab starts
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if this was a normally scheduled thing.
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So he's having to like figure things out in the post season
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against a team that just came out of a super emotional
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victory, you know, So I'm, I'm not surprised with the outcome
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of game one. I was just, I think where was
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the, I want to say it was like the 3rd or 4th inning.
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I think the Dodgers were up six and then the Mets had a couple
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knocks. It was something weird, I don't
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remember exactly who. I do remember Winker.
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It was a knock to Kiki playing center Winker round second super
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hard. Like kind of acts like he's
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going to 3rd. Then he gets stuck in the middle
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and does a little hesitation. Kiki throws behind him at 2nd
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and just get some a little like out of whack.
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Man's land and it. Felt like that was the that was
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like the typical Mets moments in games that they're behind, like
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they start to get a little groove back, they string a
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little something back, they get a punch in.
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A lot of these series have been like all of a sudden it's a tie
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game. But it felt like there could
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have been something there and then Kike kike in in in the
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postseason. I think Kiki and Giancarlo
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Stanton are like. It's a mystery.
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It's like the. 820 October, just like October, they're Hall of
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Farmers. But yeah, that was that moment
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where I was like, interesting. You know, they were down.
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They were down a bunch. Why is Winker being like overly
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aggressive and then hesitates? So that was an interesting
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moment, I thought. Against mind you, apparently the
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greatest pitching staff ever assembled as of late like this
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was this was the entire thing coming into the post season or
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really even before that. I mean, I won't go as far as say
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as like second-half. I mean, I think I think it
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really got time to hit the panic button with the state of their
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their staff, maybe like the last month of the season.
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But this was the talking point. It's like we know what this
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offense is capable of doing. And even with like a, a, a
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banged up Freddie Freeman who's been just like going through.
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It he's been tossing it. We knew that the offense was
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going to be fine, but the the pitch, it was like you just
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don't have any pitching and that and people keep like why?
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What's up with all the the the Dodger hate?
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Like what's up with the anti Dodger sentiment with with these
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pics and with these posts on social?
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It it. Came down to pitching.
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This is why This is why I didn't pick the Dodgers over the
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Padres. It's why I didn't pick the
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Dodgers over the Mets. But apparently that doesn't
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matter. Apparently they're just going to
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string together one of the best like, well, I mean, prior to
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game two, I mean one of the best three-game stretches you you
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possibly could. Tie the record.
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I mean, that's what that's what I'm saying.
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And and anybody who said they saw this coming, you're lying
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through your teeth. Nobody saw this coming.
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That's the frustrating part. But well, I say frustrating
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because it's like I have to, I have to like I have to like
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defend the, my reasoning when this is what everybody was
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saying. Like everybody was like the the
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Dodgers need help on that side of the ball, but they're like,
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no, we're good. Matter of fact, we're going to
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go set some records while Reddit and and I don't know, I mean,
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obviously it didn't necessarily translate to game two of the
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series. Talk a little bop bop from the
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from the Mets right there in game two, courtesy of Mark
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Vientos. Who, I don't know.
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Rough game one, rough game one, and answered.
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I think he had three punches in game one so came back with a
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vengeance. I don't know if if you've seen
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some of these numbers floating around on Vientos.
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Dude, he's at you. Remember that?
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Was that 15 with Daniel Murphy? He's in like.
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Oh, really? He's he's like in Daniel Murphy
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air right now. In fact, I'm pretty sure.
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Hold on. Let me let me pull it up here.
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Make sure. It's a row back name.
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How about that? Where are we at here?
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How about that? That sort of thing?
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Probably not. Probably not.
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I literally had it is I can't seem to find it, but it was it
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was about the the RB is he had comparative to Daniel Murphy
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back in 2015. And if you recall like that's,
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that's the moment that or moment that's like that stretch of that
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postseason that Mets fans recall so easily because of how
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dominant he was. And if you don't recall just
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what kind of planet Daniel Murphy was on, you need to go
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back and look at the numbers trying to find.
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Oh yeah, yeah, With 11 RBI is already this postseason, Vientos
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has matched Daniel Murphy's total from 2015.
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He's one shy of the Mets record of 12, which was Curtis
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Granderson as well as John Olerud.
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Talk about a throwback name in 1999.
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From 99. Yeah, and.
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There's our, I mean, there's a lot of baseball left
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potentially. That's what I'm saying like that
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that for this. That's a good category, dude.
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That's a good. That's a good, it's a good group
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to be hanging out with. Those are some big names, so.
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Those who aren't paying all that close attention to Mark Vientos,
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which I don't know how you couldn't be because he's he's
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make, he's serving as a difference maker in more games
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than not at this point on on this run for the Mets.
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But if you're not paying attention, you need to lock it
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in. They they need to, they need to
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start putting up some mark Vientos is up in like 6 batter
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alerts on, on, on these broadcast a la Shohei Otani.
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Yeah, 'cause it's a good chance you're going to see some, some,
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some marquee magic. Yeah, yeah, dude, I think it I
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think it does start with unfortunately, I mean, not
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unfortunately I I'm not going to sit here and pretend like I'm a
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Mets fan. OK, so maybe it is unfortunate
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for some people, but like Lindor just always seems to be the eye
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of the storm. Just always seems, you know what
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I mean? Like get shut out Dodgers tire
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record and then bop lead off home run.
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And it's just like immediately jump starts and gets things
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going. I mean most of the stuff what
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they put up 6 through 2 put everything up in 2.
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Was it 632? So yeah, that was the.
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Most 632, yeah. That's an immediate response.
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It's an immediate answer. And it starts.
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With that. On, on the Lindor thing and, and
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kind of tying it back to the Vientos thing.
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I got to, I got to, I got to bring Mark Vientos back down to
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Earth a little bit 'cause I don't know if you saw his, his.
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You were the ones just complimenting you.
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I just, I know I'm saying like I have to bring Mark Vientos back
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down to Earth, even though I was the one that just.
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You built him up. You you built him up.
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You're going to bring him back down.
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I got it. I got to tear him back down a
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little bit. Not a whole lot, just a little
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bit. Just a little bit.
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You started this. Bring him up.
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You're bringing him down. OK, Yeah.
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Boldman It's all about ebb and flow, little yin and Yang.
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Humble him, humble him right now.
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What do you got? The the the comments after the
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game where he was talking about. Is this bulletin board material?
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No, no, it wasn't. It wasn't.
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But it was. It was just like a strange
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narrative to to sort of run with.
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But he talked about, I saw the Jordan memes floating around.
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I'm like, what is this about? And I look into it.
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I'm like, OK, I, I, I get why I'm seeing these now, but they
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are, they're talking to him at the game, he said.
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Because they asked him like, how'd you feel about being the
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guy at bat after they intentionally walk Lindor to
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load the bases? And he's like, to be honest, I
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took a personal mark. I, I know you're having a heck
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of an heck of a post season. I know I, for the reasons we
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just listed out, I'm still going to take my chances with you over
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Francisco Lindor. Buddy, come on.
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Yeah, come on. Yeah, To take it personal,
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that's just a baseball move. That's a business.
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That's a common sense move. So for you to sit there and say
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I took a personal, you're probably the only person that
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was surprised by that because everybody saw that coming big.
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Time. 100% agree. Springs down a little bit.
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I'm sorry. Yeah.
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Yeah, this is it. Just overall about the game.
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I I think what was excellent about Flaherty in game one was
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that it was able to conserve and make this game to bullpen game.
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It was happening anyway, but this bullpen game for the
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Dodgers a possibility. My issue is and and I don't
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think I'm crazy for feeling this way.
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I just, I don't know if I want to put all my cards on the table
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this early in the series. So you say, here's all my
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weapons. You're going to see it right
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away and you're going to see it throughout the series.
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And I get that. Like, they don't have a ton of
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options. They don't have much to work
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with. But like at the end of this
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series, when this starts getting into game five, Game 6, maybe
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even Game 7, and the Mets hitters are seeing your
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relievers for the 4th or 5th time at that point like that,
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that's going to show up. That's going to when, when a guy
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gets 3-4 ABS against the reliever in a week, that's going
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to play a role, That's going to play a factor.
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No, that's a great point. And, and for, for the people
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that aren't necessarily watching these, these arms that are
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making appearances night in and night out.
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And then they get to the end of the series.
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And the Mets, just hypothetically, for example,
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they have a they have a, a big moment.
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They string together some, some late inning magic.
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People go whoa, the Mets are back at it again, to your point.
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This was they they they laid the foundation for this by forcing
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the the Dodgers hand of of throwing.
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I mean, it wasn't even they're they're not even really forcing
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the hand of the Dodgers. This is just kind of where the
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Dodgers are at with with health and and personnel and all that.
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But I mean when when you when you bop some guys around, I
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mean, yeah, it kind of accelerates that process a
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little bit. But when you see these things
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happen late in the series, it's not always, but it a lot of time
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it's because you were able to force these guys into game
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action early. So then you you you accumulate
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those ABS A. 100% this is how you win series.
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In early games, yeah. And then you get to the end of
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the series and then the Mets are are coming back in the 9th and
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you go, how did that happen? Well, it's because they saw your
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late inning guys earlier in the series.
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Yeah, yeah. Then as great as the Dodgers
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bullpen has been for this stretch, that's everyone kind of
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limps to the finish line. That's how baseball is at this
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time of year. So it's it's going to be an
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interesting story, I. Mean I don't want to be too
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reactionary because we we just got done.
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I mean that that bullpen game, that Brazier started the game
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four of the DS Cansa Padres like just lights out, literally put
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up a zero. Like I don't, I don't want to
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sit here and say the same. I get it.
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I get it. I'm just saying this is a 7
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game. This is a 7 game set versus A5.
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It's just it's very different there.
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What was I going to say? Dang it, I had a good thought.
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I had another good thought. Oh, it was.
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It was something totally off topic.
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Not that off topic technically. Did you see that crazy Otani
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runners in scoring position? Dude he's hitting like he's
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close to like 850 over his last 20 ABS.
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What's going on? What is?
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I again, I feel like I keep drawing these, I feel like I
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keep drawing these parallels like people like if you're, if
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you're closely watching, if you're just like a casual fan,
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regardless which side of the camp you're in.
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This is super impressive. That is hard to wrap your head
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around. Like you could be, you could be
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a 162 baseball fan, you could just be the most casual.
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But when that stat pops up on your screen, that's that's
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something where you're like, that's a typo.
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I haven't seen that dated sale but I I think it was before game
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two it was like 16 for his his last 19 with runners in scoring
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position. Yeah, 16 for 19, which I I
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believe came out to like 8. That's.
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Stupid. I don't know that's.
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Stupid. I think there's teams in the
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postseason that haven't even had that many hits. 842 square in
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position. That's nuts.
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That's different. He's a he's an alien.
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He really is. Tip of the captain Sean Maniah
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Sean Maniah, continuing to be a name that just steps up, takes
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the ball. Big true.
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Gives gives you quality innings. Big, big, big true, dude.
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Can we track this all the way back to the haircut?
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Can we run it back that far? Can we give it?
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Can we give it that much credit? I'm sure it it it impacted it I
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will I. Will it's a big move.
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I'm not going to put all of his success on that.
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Yeah, but. It's a big move, can't just
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ignore that. Yeah, I think it's a little bit
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more than just a coincidence. Yeah, people like didn't even
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recognize him. He does look good, though.
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I think they've what was it? Who's on that call?
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Who's in that broadcast last series with the Phillies?
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Who's in that booth? And the Mets?
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Would that have been, is that Fox?
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That'd have been Fox, because TBS had the American League, was
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it not Joe Davis or no, Joe Davis would have been LA, Yeah.
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Which is I got another a little piece of beef with that.
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Man, who was on that call? Why am I blanking right now?
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I'm struggling. Someone's yelling at us.
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I mean, I can anyhoos, I think they were, they were talking
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about how he's kind of dropped that angle down a little bit and
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it's worked for him and it's just like.
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Oh, was it you talking about Frank Gore?
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Was Frank Gore making this? No, because he was TBS but.
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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. He was.
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He was the Guardians Tiger Series.
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He's now the Yankees Guardian Series.
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He's in that with Darn. It was just, it was Wainwright,
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wasn't it? Wayne Wright, Wayne O and AJ Yep
25:26
is one of those two they talked about like the the lane change
25:31
with with Manaya kind of dropping down a little bit been
25:33
a huge factor huge role. Sorry, I guess we wasn't even
25:37
really that worth it to find it, but whatever.
25:40
Yeah, Geminis look good, man. Like it's it's good ball.
25:47
This is the point that I'm not trying to just be like a a met
25:52
hater, even though I kind of am a met hater.
25:57
This is the point that I was curious to see if the magic will
26:02
run out is when you go, you know, 27 game sets.
26:06
It's different with three and five game sets.
26:10
You got to prove yourself a little bit over 7 and you're
26:15
going to see these starters potentially twice like it's it's
26:19
going to be a big deal. You know, similar to the way we
26:23
saw the Tigers just hammer down Scooble to the point where you
26:29
know he got lit up in his last start for the Guardians to move
26:33
on. It's like.
26:36
We didn't even talk about that game, by the way.
26:38
I know we didn't even talk about whatever.
26:40
Last episode, what did I say before that start?
26:42
I said I'm not, I'm not writing off Scooble, but how many times
26:46
can you go to that? Well, how many?
26:48
Times and neither of these teams like the Dodgers or the Mets,
26:53
they don't have a very deep well when it comes to arms, when it
26:58
comes to repeatable success. It's like it's a good story of
27:02
what Minaya is doing. It's a good story of what
27:04
Severino is doing, but if you're going to, if you're going to
27:09
assume that Kodai Sangha is giving you somewhere in the
27:14
middle of between those two starts, you've seen him so far,
27:17
it's like. Better help you're hitting that
27:21
day. That's what I'm saying.
27:23
I just, I don't see the length, I don't see the depth pitching
27:26
wise for either team. Well, Game 3 slated to be
27:31
between Walker Bueller and Lisa Luis Severino, so that's kind of
27:36
an encapsulation of of exactly what you're talking.
27:38
About, but you've got to be like pitching for some kind of You're
27:42
going to get $12.00 this offseason if you don't make a
27:45
decent start, bro. And you already know how I feel
27:48
about Luis Severino this year. That's, that's been well
27:50
documented. So I'm, I'm, I'm look, I'm not
27:54
trying to be a Dodger hater here, but I'm not going to go
27:57
against what I've been saying this whole time about Luis
27:59
Severino. I'm going to.
28:00
I'm riding with, I'm riding with the riding with the Mets in game
28:04
Game 3. Oh, yeah.
28:05
All right. Fair enough.
28:07
Walker Buehler just hasn't. He has not consistently been
28:11
able to to to prove himself as a legitimate threat to provide you
28:18
the high quality output that he was giving you well before this
28:25
year. Well, look, we're going to get
28:27
into it here in a minute, but it's cold in New York.
28:30
Let's get into it. Let's talk.
28:31
A bit of a bigger ballpark in New York, so maybe, maybe Walker
28:36
has some room to breathe there a little bit more.
28:41
It's possible. It's possible.
28:43
Let's talk about it. Speaking of that cold weather,
28:45
I, I, I nearly shed a tear when I turned on the when I turned on
28:49
that guards Yanks game. And I, I see the the rosy red
28:53
cheeks in the mock turtlenecks. I'm going, Oh, this is October
28:57
baseball baby. Yeah.
28:58
Blown in the hands. Oh, the Letterman jackets in the
29:02
crowd. I love it, I love it.
29:06
I will say I was I was a little confused and not to bring up the
29:09
Miami thing again, but like if I was watching this game, the this
29:12
first game between the guards and Yanks back home, I'd have
29:15
been like, OK, this makes. Sense bundle up, yeah.
29:17
But I've been walking around these last two days.
29:19
I mean, I got beads of sweat rolling down my back.
29:24
It's so hot out here. Whoa, it's humid, man.
29:28
It's humid out here in Miami. You don't know about that humid
29:31
East Coast life, but. I don't it was still one O 2
29:35
today so that's. That's dry heat though.
29:38
It's dry heat, but this guards Yanks game.
29:42
Yeah. Hey, in case you didn't know,
29:46
Taylor Swift was at the game. And I tell you what, that
29:50
cracked me up because you could tell, dude, you could tell Major
29:56
League Baseball was having a field day with.
29:59
They were so giddy. They were like cutting to Taylor
30:02
Swift and Travis Kelce going like, oh, like, is this how
30:04
we're supposed to do it? Do we cut to them like every 3
30:06
seconds? This is fun.
30:08
This is fun. Guys, I think they get, I think
30:10
they're on the Fox payroll. You really think they're on the
30:13
Fox payroll? Well, no, this was this was TBS.
30:19
All true. Maybe they're getting paid by
30:21
all the networks. Getting paid by somebody?
30:24
Yeah. Did you see her mistakenly
30:27
cheer, cheer for this for the Yankees?
30:29
I did see that. That was nice.
30:31
I like that stupid. Just not a lot going on in that
30:38
noggin. I think any who's good game,
30:41
good game, you know? Well, I mean, you can't have a
30:44
song, you can't have a Welcome to New York song and then be
30:47
caught pulling for the guards. You know, does she she ever
30:50
Welcome to New York song? I don't know.
30:52
They played it on the broadcast. They really I'm that's what I'm
30:55
saying, but. The.
30:57
The broadcast was leaning into this hard.
30:59
Yeah. Anyway, enough about till.
31:01
And Kelsey's from Cleveland, obviously.
31:03
So like, that's the whole point of them being there, I think.
31:06
Which I get and I respect. And Spike Lee can't stand the
31:13
guy. He's so annoying.
31:14
He's so obnoxious. He's just there, man.
31:16
He's going to be. There till the always there.
31:18
I know. Look, they mentioned it on the
31:23
broadcast. I think Ron Darling did 27 walks
31:30
in the series against the Royals.
31:36
Another five tonight I believe. Maybe 6.
31:40
When I checked it was 6 but there was like still 3 innings
31:43
to go. At a certain point.
31:47
Give me the total on that because like I said, last I
31:49
checked it was six. I'm.
31:50
Going to find that for you. I don't know.
31:56
It may have it may have kept it six.
31:58
It was a lot though, a lot of wild.
32:01
Pitches 777 walks. Lot of wild pitches, a lot of
32:05
just careless. Like take, take better care of
32:08
the baseball. Yeah, I agree.
32:11
I for sure, and I'm not, I'm not sitting here saying that the the
32:14
Yankees like dominated this game by any means, but I think at a
32:19
certain point this is what I told you was going to be a
32:23
factor. Before the post season started,
32:25
the Yankees led the league in walks.
32:28
They're very much back to like the old school.
32:32
Let's just get on base and see what happens.
32:35
And it's and it's kind of work. To this point, their offense
32:38
hasn't clicked. Nothing's really clicked
32:41
offensively except for Stanton. I know Soto got into one, smoked
32:46
the ball up the middle. I think you owe me an apology.
32:49
You were, you were. Give me the side eye last
32:52
episode when I said, is it time to consider the fact that maybe
32:57
we're looking at a Captain Phillips situation where you've
32:59
got Giancarlo Stanton kicking in the door looking at I told you
33:03
to stay, I'm the captain now. I'm the captain now.
33:08
What did Judge do tonight? You go, oh, for what did Stanton
33:11
do? You get 1 into the left.
33:12
Tell me you watch. Center bleachers.
33:14
And you tell me that he looked bad.
33:16
That first strikeout shouldn't have happened.
33:19
The first strikeout shouldn't have happened.
33:21
I'm not. Concerned about that?
33:22
He's good hacks like I'm telling you it's he's coming out of
33:25
this. I saw a couple fly outs tonight.
33:28
Saw a couple fly outs tonight. I'm kidding.
33:31
He's not like he's not squaring baseballs up.
33:33
I mean, yeah, he may like, he may lean into one every now and
33:36
then, but I'm that. It's.
33:39
Besides the point, it's besides the point.
33:41
Well, as of right now, Giancarlo Stanton is the guy that's
33:45
leading that offense. Well, I mean, Juan Soto's
33:49
finding a way to to drive in runs and get off base.
33:51
But I'm saying in terms of like that all like just striking the
33:57
fear of God in the in the picture, that's that's Giancarlo
34:00
Stanton. Right.
34:00
I know, I know. It's kind of awesome.
34:03
It's kind of awesome. The man is a man amongst boys at
34:09
times when he gets in one, it can look ugly more often than
34:13
not. But during that period of of hot
34:16
streak, he could have had potentially two or three tonight
34:21
like he had just missed one. That first AB was sent to the
34:25
moon that that Stephen Kwan caught in left field There's
34:31
yeah, he's on it. But my whole point to this
34:34
conversation is the fact that like the Yankees haven't even
34:36
really found their their groove yet offensively excellent
34:40
excellent start from Rodon kind of toned back the cockiness and
34:45
burning out through two innings which was nice to see just kind
34:49
of calm go about your business. A lot of swings and misses.
34:54
I think he had like I think 1819 swing and misses like that's,
35:00
that's crazy. 9 punches. May have gotten up to 20 I
35:04
thought I saw. It's it's a good start.
35:06
It's a good start. Rizzo having some hacks that
35:10
like makes makes you think that the hand is is feeling pretty
35:15
decent. So yeah, yeah, big, big Luke
35:23
Weaver. Like I think we got we got to
35:26
start giving some love. Dude, this is I.
35:29
Was going to ask you about him. How How does Like, where's your
35:32
head at in terms of having Peace of Mind when you see Weaver
35:38
start to get loose in the pen? With a lead, it feels good.
35:43
It feels really good. Like it it's I think he's got a
35:50
really cool story for those who aren't familiar, like he's he's
35:53
a failed starter and you know was DFA Ed and it's like he's
36:00
figured it out. They talked about it on the
36:02
broadcast tonight. He has like athleticism on the
36:04
field as well. He does he holds runners really
36:07
well, which most closers don't do.
36:09
He's not super slow to the plate.
36:11
He's athletic off the mound and any kind of defensively, but
36:14
like the mentality he has, he's, he's like a, he's kind of easy
36:19
to root for. He's goofy, he's a little weird,
36:22
but he's also like super confident and he's, he's doing
36:27
his thing, man. I'm just, I, I got the 8th
36:31
inning, but the button being pressed for the 8th inning
36:34
tonight, I, it made sense just because of how that was
36:38
developing. And that to me felt like the
36:40
save more than the 9th. When Jose Ramirez is up, there's
36:44
two outs. He was the third, yeah.
36:48
Like that's the biggest AB of the night and we contact to the
36:54
right side man, like the fastball up, change up, down.
36:58
It plays. It really plays.
37:00
You can tell he's got a fastball that has like some life to it
37:02
that probably plays up even though it's only 9596, I think
37:07
it plays up higher. So he's he's dope.
37:11
Dude, you want to you want to see some eerie look at Luke
37:14
Weaver's build compared to early MO?
37:17
Like young MO dude. It's, it's wild, it's true.
37:21
Very, very yes. Very similar builds right now.
37:26
Yeah, doing it in different styles, different ways, but I
37:30
mean that Clay Holmes just I if if they if they end up pulling
37:37
all this off and then they hoist the trophy, like I don't want to
37:41
hear another Yankee fan complain about that guy.
37:44
Like the for I can't imagine how hard that is to be a closer to
37:49
be dominant, to be an All Star, to be legally in the categories
37:55
at that point. He was dominating like at the
37:58
first half of the year, he was insane.
37:59
It it's impressive for somebody to like, take that, wear that on
38:05
the chin and figure out a different role and be like an
38:10
integral piece to success for their bullpen.
38:14
And what you mentioned about the Dodgers earlier, like the two
38:17
teams that we were most worried about pitching wise have looked
38:21
really good pitching really, really good.
38:24
The Yankees just gave up their the bullpen just gave up their
38:27
first run of the postseason tonight.
38:29
It's pretty impressive. Tonight.
38:35
Yeah, man, some. Some I mean, it's a good point.
38:38
Some storylines certainly being flipped on their head in real
38:43
time, which I mean is always cool to see.
38:46
I mean regard, I mean, I know people are just going to hate
38:49
teams just to hate teams and and you know, that's the way it is,
38:53
whether it's a rival or just a team that you just don't want to
38:57
see succeed in the post season. Regardless of that, it it from a
39:03
baseball fan perspective, it's it's cool to see storylines,
39:08
narratives, rather to see those flipped on their heads.
39:12
When you have just about every reason to believe something's
39:17
going to go a certain way, such as the Dodgers rotation or or
39:21
really staff as a whole being just a massive question mark
39:25
coming to the postseason. And then they come in and put
39:27
like, like we said, three, they're string to get the three
39:30
consecutive shutouts. And you know, I mean, outside of
39:35
like we said, outside of Game 2 have looked pretty strong.
39:39
And then with the with the with the Yankees.
39:42
Flipping that script. Pretty, pretty COO, pretty,
39:46
pretty, pretty COO. Anything else we got, Like you
39:51
said, there's only, I mean, if you're following these games,
39:53
you obviously know there's only one, one game so far in the LCS,
39:57
Game 2 on Tuesday, Tuesday night.
40:05
Travel day for the NL side of things, correct?
40:08
Then vice versa Wednesday. Next you'll hear from us should
40:12
be Thursday night. Yep, you got.
40:15
Anything else on this series? It's a long one.
40:22
It's a long one. After the win tonight, Paige is
40:25
like, you don't look that happy. And I'm like seven game sets a
40:28
little different. A lot of baseball left, A lot of
40:31
things can happen. Game ones don't mean as much as
40:36
they as they mean in a in A5 game set.
40:39
So seven games is just, I think people forget until it gets to
40:43
this point, the postseason. I think I I think I saw the stat
40:48
today and I can never remember how it translates from 5 game
40:54
set to seven game set. But I believe the stat I saw
40:56
today was reflective of game of seven game sets and I believe it
41:02
said the team that wins the first game goes on to win the
41:06
series 66% of the time. Yeah, 'cause the five game set
41:11
was like 78% of the time it was like in the 70s.
41:15
So yeah. So it's still an advantage,
41:17
don't get me wrong. But like, you know, there's a
41:20
lot of baseball left. All four teams are very good.
41:24
That's why they're in this position.
41:26
So you said it. The scrippies can be flippied at
41:31
any time, so shall look out. You know, I'm happy, but I'm I'm
41:37
not comfortable by any means. Yeah.
41:43
We'll get comfy for these next couple days of game action and
41:48
we will catch up with you guys Thursday night talking more LCS
41:56
action and then we will bring it on home to the World Series with
42:02
the recap. Well, maybe not.
42:06
We'll see. We'll see where the series are
42:07
at it. It may or may not be a recap,
42:09
we'll see, but you'll be hearing from us next Thursday and then
42:13
from out after that, who knows? Curveballs don't chase them.
42:20
We. Love you all as always, looking
42:22
forward to talking more baseball with you guys soon.
42:24
Until next time, stay filthy.