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Brewers SHOCK Dodgers: 1 win away from SWEEP and advancing to WORLD SERIES | Ross & Rizzo REACTION · Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered

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  Speaker 1: Anthony Rizzo and David Ross here on Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered.
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  Speaker 1: Game 3 of the NLCS. The Dodgers lose to the
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  Speaker 1: Brewers 6-2 on their home turf. The defending back-to-back champions
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  Speaker 1: are on the brink of elimination, Rossi. Let's get right
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  Speaker 1: to it. Jake Bowers. My God. 12 pitches off Yamamoto
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  Speaker 1: for the walk to start a rally. And then 11
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  Speaker 1: pitches off Blake Snow when their team loses the lead
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  Speaker 1: They're winning 1-0. They lose the lead to 2-1. He
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  Speaker 1: comes up 12 pitch at bat. Or I'm sorry, 11
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  Speaker 1: pitch at bat. Two-run homer to put the team up.
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  Speaker 1: My God.
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  Speaker 2: That was insane. We got a good game tonight. The
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  Speaker 2: back and forth. The Dodgers finally come through. I mean, Bowers.
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  Speaker 2: What a homer. What a bat. Again, this guy found
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  Speaker 2: off some nasty stuff. Blake Snell was locked in until
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  Speaker 2: that at bat. You know, throw in. Obviously, he got
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  Speaker 2: jumped first pitch of the game, but Snell was nasty.
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  Speaker 2: That ball was a rocket. That ball was crushed.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Snell threw him everything. Yeah. Threw him everything.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what? I played with Jake in 2023.
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  Speaker 1: He was with the Yankees. And he'd been through a
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  Speaker 1: lot in his career. He was up and down. He
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  Speaker 1: was the Rays. He opened up about kind of his
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  Speaker 1: mental health journey, about believing– everything you read on Twitter
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  Speaker 1: and how that affected him. It just goes to show
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  Speaker 1: for any young kid or parent out there that's doubting
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  Speaker 1: their kid's ability, he gets with the Brewers and gets confidence.
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  Speaker 1: You just see it's all up here. His ability is there.
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  Speaker 1: He got with the Brewers and he got playing time
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  Speaker 1: and he made the team out of 24. He almost quit, Rossi.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard that story on the broadcast. It was
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  Speaker 2: a great um great story about his wife telling him
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  Speaker 2: he had to go back and get major league insurance
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  Speaker 2: because she was pregnant like what a what a story.
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  Speaker 1: Like just never giving up you know what i mean
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  Speaker 1: giving it that one more it reminds me of uh
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  Speaker 1: what was it anthony banda last year the reliever for
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  Speaker 1: the dodgers a couple years ago and he came out
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  Speaker 1: of nowhere again and he was like yeah i was
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  Speaker 1: done i was going to give it one more chance
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  Speaker 1: and he came back and was a either back-to-back champion
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  Speaker 1: or a World Series champion with the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 2: So, I mean, just Jake Bauer's 26 pumps this year,
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  Speaker 2: 26 tanks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, his previous was 12.
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  Speaker 2: Right, and finally getting an opportunity to play every day, too. Like,
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  Speaker 2: he got sporadic at-bats last year, kind of a matchup. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like, Blake Snell, obviously, was absolutely dealing and
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  Speaker 2: has that type of a bat and absolutely leans on one.
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  Speaker 2: What a big one. And that's like a dagger. That's
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  Speaker 2: a dagger for the Dodgers. You're trying to get that
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  Speaker 2: shutdown inning. Like Will Smith, catcher's rake. Got to say
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  Speaker 2: that again. The raking all postseason. I'm glad Will got
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  Speaker 2: on the board.
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  Speaker 1: When that ball went off the wall, I said the
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  Speaker 1: Brewers win. Obviously, it got out of the inning, but
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  Speaker 1: as soon as that ball went off the wall, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like the last two years, that ball's over for
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers, right? It's a game of inches. In the
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  Speaker 1: last two years, it's gone their way most of the time. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: they've earned everything that they got. But when it went
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  Speaker 1: off the wall, I was like, that's even deflating. Usually,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like that's a grand slam. Grand slam is 4-1.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? The game's out of reach.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing's out of reach with this Brewers team. But I
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  Speaker 1: feel like that's just the way it's going right now
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  Speaker 1: for the Dodgers where it's like Will Smith breaks out
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  Speaker 1: of it. Huge hit. They only get two runs out
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  Speaker 1: of it, right? D.L. Hall now coming in.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to say, that was just like the story.
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  Speaker 2: The pitchers are just coming in, shutting it down. Not
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  Speaker 2: letting that third run score was huge. Keeping it 2-1,
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  Speaker 2: you feel like they're right there. And obviously giving it
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  Speaker 2: right back. And then, back to back. I mean, Garrett Mitchell.
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  Speaker 1: First time in Blake Snell's career. Really? To lefties. Back-to-back
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  Speaker 1: home runs to lefties. The fact that this is what
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  Speaker 1: I love about what Pat Murphy's doing. He's playing his guys.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Andrew Vaughn could have been
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  Speaker 1: playing first base for Jake Bowers there. He's playing his
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  Speaker 1: guys that got him here. He's not going off the
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  Speaker 1: left-right matchups for the most part. He's playing his guys,
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  Speaker 1: and it's paying off big time. I mean, what a
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  Speaker 1: turn of events a year later, right? They were down 3-0.
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  Speaker 1: They got swept last year. Now they're up 3-0 on
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  Speaker 1: the brink of going to the World Series for the
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  Speaker 1: second time in franchise history.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. What a, I mean, it's just such a cool
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  Speaker 2: story and you know, they've earned it. Like, I don't
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  Speaker 2: even know, like, it's nice to see good teams get
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  Speaker 2: on the big stage and prove it. And, and they're
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  Speaker 2: right on the cusp of going to the world series
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  Speaker 2: about to sweep the two time defending world champs. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty special stuff they're doing. And I think everybody loves
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  Speaker 2: the way that they're playing the game, but tonight they, they,
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  Speaker 2: they win by the Homer. I know they added some
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  Speaker 2: on late, but, basically slugging the homer. I like Pat
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  Speaker 2: Murphy's quotes. Like, yeah, we may not have been at
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  Speaker 2: the top of the league in home runs, but, like,
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  Speaker 2: we did hit homers this year. You know, we do
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  Speaker 2: have guys that hit home runs, and that showed up tonight.
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  Speaker 2: So congrats to the Brewers in winning game three. I
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  Speaker 2: thought that was one of the best games. Jackson Chirios
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  Speaker 2: continues to absolutely rake the way he started that game.
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  Speaker 2: If you're a Dodger fan or even that dugout, you
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  Speaker 2: just feel like you can't breathe when you're down to,
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  Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, boom, first pitch of
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  Speaker 2: the game. It's like, man, it's just not going our way.
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  Speaker 1: First pitch?
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  Speaker 2: First freaking pitch. You know, like, his third of the playoffs, he's, what,
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  Speaker 2: 22 years old?
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  Speaker 1: Third leadoff, Homer.
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  Speaker 2: Leadoff, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about. Time for second in Major
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  Speaker 1: League history. Only 22 years old. First is Kyle Schwarber.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to our boy Schwarbs, friend of the program.
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  Speaker 2: Friend of the program.
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  Speaker 1: Always got to throw him in there. Love that. I mean, Churrio, bro. Contreras.
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  Speaker 1: Another hit, like just this team, man, like they are,
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  Speaker 1: the numbers say they're going to the World Series, right?
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  Speaker 1: You cannot count the Dodgers out. You just got to
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  Speaker 1: win one game. Rossi, we were down 3-1. Obviously, the
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  Speaker 1: numbers stated that we weren't going to come back. Still
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  Speaker 1: have a long way to go to punch their ticket
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  Speaker 1: to the World Series, right? Being in L.A., they have
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  Speaker 1: Glass now tomorrow. Then they have Scooble tomorrow. If you're
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers, you can really rally around this. But do
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  Speaker 1: they have enough mental fortitude to rally around this? This
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  Speaker 1: being three years in a row, they're going for it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're grinding. It was good. Otani's at-bats looked
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  Speaker 2: a little better. He got a knock there late.
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  Speaker 1: Walk, hit by pitch.
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  Speaker 2: So you couldn't tell too much from all that. Will Smith. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Will Smith. Maybe some guys, they just got a hit
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  Speaker 2: with some, they got that busted open with Will Smith,
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  Speaker 2: finding some hidden with runners in scoring position, but they
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  Speaker 2: just got to build on that a little bit offensively
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  Speaker 2: and get a good pitching performance coming out. Speaking of
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  Speaker 2: good pitcher performances, Robert Gasser did phenomenal, man.
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  Speaker 1: Bobby Gas, they call him?
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  Speaker 2: Bobby Diesel? Bobby Diesel. I like Diesel better. I like that. No,
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  Speaker 2: but he was absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: You're the manager, Rossi. Why are you pulling him after
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  Speaker 1: 72 pitches? I get I get, look, if you blow
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  Speaker 1: everything to go up 3-0, right? But it's, he's dealing. Like,
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  Speaker 1: that's the eye test in the game, right? But then
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  Speaker 1: on the other side, Snell was dealing, and Dave Roberts
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  Speaker 1: didn't pull him. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: So it's like, it's so easy for us to... It's
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  Speaker 2: so easy. Like, that's what's funny. It's like, when you
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  Speaker 2: hear people, it's like, nobody knows. It's so, like Joe
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  Speaker 2: used to say, it's so outcome biased, right? Like, whatever
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  Speaker 2: the outcome is, is how we judge people.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Bobby Diesel, you know, he had let, I think,
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  Speaker 2: three of the five innings, he let the leadoff guy
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  Speaker 2: get on, either base hit, I think he walked one there,
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  Speaker 2: and I think I texted our things, like, he's been
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  Speaker 2: more efficient, he's been better out of the stretch, it
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  Speaker 2: looks like his stuff's synced a little bit more, who
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  Speaker 2: knows what he was, what was synced up out of
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  Speaker 2: the windup or out of the stretch, but thought he
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  Speaker 2: was throwing well once guys got on base, and he
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  Speaker 2: had to kind of simplify some things, and got some
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  Speaker 2: lazy fly outs and all that, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't hate it at the time with the bullpen
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  Speaker 2: that the Brewers have. McGill didn't even pitch the last
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  Speaker 2: game they played two days ago. You knew he was fresh.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like Ashby's got a rubber arm. He's just
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  Speaker 2: got nasty stuff. I just love that. Uribe didn't have
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  Speaker 2: a good day. That's the bottom line. He didn't have
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  Speaker 2: a good night. That's kind of the bullpen. Sometimes one
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  Speaker 2: guy may have an off night, but his teammates picked
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  Speaker 2: him up and the offense picked him up. I think
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  Speaker 2: Good players make good managers. They make you look good
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  Speaker 2: when there's any of those decisions. That's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I like? It's this common message from
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers is D.L. Hall said it in his post-game interview.
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  Speaker 1: It's easy to go out there and pitch knowing that
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the guys in the bullpen are also
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  Speaker 1: nasty and they can just come in and clean up
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  Speaker 1: the mess. Right? Like that freedom. And then you had
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  Speaker 1: Bowers on the post-game saying, you know, Uribe.
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  Speaker 1: Got into a jam, we need to bail him out.
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  Speaker 1: And he's like, throughout the postseason, that's been our theme,
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  Speaker 1: and it's been more intensified as we've gone on. And
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  Speaker 1: that's everything I always say when I was playing into
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  Speaker 1: playoff teams. You think you're close throughout the regular season
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  Speaker 1: through 162. Every series, as you know, Rossi, you get
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  Speaker 1: closer and closer. The families get closer and closer. Everyone
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  Speaker 1: gets closer. And these guys are coming together more than
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  Speaker 1: they ever have. And it shows. There are one... one
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  Speaker 1: game away from being in the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and everybody on the, like you're talking about family,
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  Speaker 2: everybody's riding the same emotions and the same kind of
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  Speaker 2: journey and living and dying with everybody's success and failures.
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  Speaker 2: So the wives and all the staff that works with
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  Speaker 2: them and their families.
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  Speaker 1: No doubt.
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  Speaker 2: Cause it's like, you know, and it's a bit, not
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  Speaker 2: just the winning and all that, but you also, it's like,
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  Speaker 2: like the further you go, it changes people's lives. When
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  Speaker 2: you're talking about some of the, the playoff bonuses that
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  Speaker 2: you get as a player and to the staff and like,
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  Speaker 2: and really change people's lives. I want to go back
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  Speaker 2: to what you said about, you know, kind of the
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  Speaker 2: mentality of that bullpen. I had a, we had a
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  Speaker 2: really good bullpen Atlanta one year, like Kimbrel, Eric O'Flaherty,
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  Speaker 2: Peter Moreland, Johnny Venters. Like we had some dudes down
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  Speaker 2: there and, it was O'Flaherty had an amazing year I
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  Speaker 2: think he had like a 1-2 on the year as
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  Speaker 2: a lefty I repent and he said his mentality is
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  Speaker 2: like it doesn't matter like if I if I suck
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  Speaker 2: the guys behind me will come in and get everybody
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  Speaker 2: out you know and it's like free freeze those guys
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  Speaker 2: up to to kind of go out and just attack
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  Speaker 2: the zone and with their best shit you know that's
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  Speaker 2: that's kind of freeing and off also when you have
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  Speaker 2: the offense it just continues to put up runs and
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  Speaker 2: doesn't give away one pitch and one at bat like
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  Speaker 2: you know Good things are going to work out if
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  Speaker 2: you're on the bump.
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  Speaker 1: No doubt. Bro, I was watching this game, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: not lying. I was getting PTSD watching this Milwaukee Brewers team. They,
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  Speaker 1: for years, right, they are just the most... They were
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  Speaker 1: so positioned defensively every time. I swear I would play
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers, and I'd fucking hit missiles off them. And
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  Speaker 1: everywhere I hit them, they were standing. And I was like,
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  Speaker 1: these motherfuckers, man. Like, they're every... And today they were everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: They were making plays. That play in the first inning
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  Speaker 1: to rob Freddie of potentially extra base hits. Like, they're
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  Speaker 1: just so well positioned. And they've been that way for years.
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  Speaker 1: So I was watching this game, and I was just like, ah, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's coming back, the feelings.
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  Speaker 2: You're having flashbacks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's great. That's great. Do you think the Dodgers can
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  Speaker 2: overcome this deficit? What do the Dodgers got to do?
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  Speaker 1: They got to win tomorrow, right? It's glass now, right?
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  Speaker 1: It's glass now saying, I'm on my watch, right? They
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  Speaker 1: come out, jump, and get a lead. Obviously, that's the
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  Speaker 1: most important thing. And just throttle. Shohei looked good today.
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  Speaker 1: Getting on base, getting a hit, getting hit by a
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  Speaker 1: pitch on base three times. Will Smith broke out of
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  Speaker 1: it with that big hit. So those are two guys
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  Speaker 1: that can carry a team for two weeks, right?
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  Speaker 2: Right. Kyle Tucker continues to look good. He moved up
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  Speaker 2: in the order.
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  Speaker 1: Their pitching is good enough to literally shut down the
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  Speaker 1: Brewers for four games in a row. But it starts tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Do I think they can overcome it? Listen, they're the
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  Speaker 1: back-to-back defending champions. They've earned every right to come back.
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  Speaker 1: What they're looking at is going to be their If
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  Speaker 1: they do this, like, it would be incredible. And then
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  Speaker 1: they go on to win the World Series, right? But
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  Speaker 1: the mental fortitude right now that it's going to take
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  Speaker 1: for these guys to do this is something that I
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  Speaker 1: don't think anyone's ever seen before, right? It's been done once.
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  Speaker 1: Red Sox, what, back in 2004 when they won the
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  Speaker 1: World Series. Like, they weren't coming off back-to-back World Series champions.
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  Speaker 1: They're coming off an 86-year drought, right? Right, right, right.
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  Speaker 1: And losing to the Red Sox the year before. or
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  Speaker 1: losing to the Yankees the year before. So, I mean, Rossi,
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  Speaker 1: I want to hear your prediction. And if you're going
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  Speaker 1: to go with the Dodgers and go for the money,
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  Speaker 1: so be it. But their backs are against the wall.
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  Speaker 2: It is. I love how you helped me segue to
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  Speaker 2: my polymarket pick. Dodgers are 58% to the yes, 100%
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  Speaker 2: get you 166%. So the Dodgers are favored, and somehow
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  Speaker 2: they're like, the Dodgers can't lose. But yeah, they keep
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  Speaker 2: getting their butts kicked. I mean, again, another beatdown. And
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  Speaker 2: the Brewers are 42% to the yes. 100 gets you
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  Speaker 2: to 29. I'm going Brewers for this week. I know
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  Speaker 2: they maybe don't want this many off days. Like, that
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  Speaker 2: was the whole thing that popped in my head as
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  Speaker 2: soon as that game ends. But yeah, the Brewers just
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  Speaker 2: feel like every bit of momentum, they're so focused and
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  Speaker 2: locked in every at-bat, and their pitching keeps being great.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah. Um, the starters keep, you know, when you,
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  Speaker 2: when you're on a staff like they have, and these
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  Speaker 2: guys are get that ball rolling and Murph talked about
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  Speaker 2: it in games, like you don't want to let your
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  Speaker 2: teammates down. And I don't think they're going to, I
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  Speaker 2: think they've got just that kind of grit. That's going to,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to push them over and sweep the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to brewers. That's crazy. I can't believe I'm
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  Speaker 2: saying that.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what?
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  Speaker 2: They earned it, man.
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  Speaker 1: Like they're earning it. They're earning it.
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  Speaker 2: They've done nothing yet.
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  Speaker 1: It ain't done yet. No, no, but your, your world
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  Speaker 1: series prediction is, one of them looks pretty good rossi
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  Speaker 1: i would.
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  Speaker 2: Be sick first podcast prediction and i get i get
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  Speaker 2: half of it right right.
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  Speaker 1: Cool yeah yeah yeah that'd be very cool so well
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  Speaker 1: that's going to be interesting tomorrow to see how the
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  Speaker 1: dodgers come out and i mean look they're champions they're
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  Speaker 1: not going to come out flat right they're going to
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  Speaker 1: come out with intensity i think they score early and
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  Speaker 1: but I also think the Brewers just keep the foot
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  Speaker 1: on the gas. Like Pat Murphy said, like step on
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  Speaker 1: their throats.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I thought was a big at bat
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  Speaker 2: that I thought was about to break it open for
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  Speaker 2: the Dodgers. I thought when Muncie came in, pinch hit
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  Speaker 2: first and second, like that was such a big at bat.
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  Speaker 2: I thought, I just felt like Muncie, he controls the
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  Speaker 2: strike zone. Your rebate was throwing the ball all over
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  Speaker 2: the place and he's got crazy pop and is all
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  Speaker 2: over heaters down in the zone, you know? And, um,
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  Speaker 2: You know, some nasty sliders Uribe threw him, finally got
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  Speaker 2: locked in on his slider. I think that's why Murphy
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  Speaker 2: probably kept him in a little bit longer than I
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  Speaker 2: think as a fan you would look at. It's like
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  Speaker 2: he hadn't had it, and then he locks it in
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  Speaker 2: off Muncie. So you give him Shohei, and Shohei walks,
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  Speaker 1: Let's get to our Timboss Ballback questions. of the day
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: where me and Rossi take all of the fan questions,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: whatever you guys want to hear about, maybe something you
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: don't know about. Email us, rossinrizzo at gmail.com. Leave some
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: comments on our YouTube page or our socials. We love
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: this part of our show. First email is from Eddie Horath.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: I was wondering what your feelings are about the proposed
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: shortened schedule for the regular season next year. Would the
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: weekly day off be helpful for players that play most
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: of the season? Also, I'd like to hear your opinion
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: of the proposed playoff idea. or the higher seeds pick
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: their opponents, I think that would really change how the
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: postseason runs.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll definitely touch on the shorter schedule. What is it, 154?
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: I believe that's what they proposed.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: I love it. To be honest, I think health in
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: our game is that nobody knows what to do with
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: pitchers that continue to get injured and I think rest
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: can help that just a little bit, you know, kind
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: of break in there, spread guys out a little bit longer.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Maybe they start to just fall on a six-day start
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: instead of the fifth day from a pitching standpoint. The
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: hell that an everyday starter goes through, as you know
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: better than I do, like that's a real grind. An
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: off day a week would be amazing. I remember, I
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: know they do it in the minor leagues now, but
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: I remember we had a spring training, the first WBC,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: and I was in Atlanta. And Bobby Cox, it was
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: extended by like two weeks. It was spring. So you
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: got there super early so those guys could train and
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: go off. But spring training was extended for everybody else.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: So he gave us every Monday completely off. Like, don't
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: come in. Nobody's coming in every Monday. And, bro, that
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: was my favorite spring training of all time because you
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: just had– you felt like you had a little bit
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: of life. Okay.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Maybe not of all time.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: As far as doing stuff outside, Disney's right there. We golfed,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: all that stuff with the boys. We had some good
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: spring trainings. Anyways, I think it's a great idea. I
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: think every player would be on board with that. If
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: they're not going to cut pay or how they're going
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: to balance all that out.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's all logistics-wise. Bro, if they do that right
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: and they go every Monday off or whatnot... I think
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: that there needs to be a rule about starters then
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: because starters need to go deeper. If they're going to
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: be on a six man rotation where, you know, they
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: flirted out the idea of losing your DH. If your
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: starter comes out before the fifth, things like that to
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: where maybe you can't take as many bullpen arms. So
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: your starters, you have to incentivize your starters to go
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: deeper in the game. If you're going to, if you're
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: going to have the off days like that. And then
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: for the playoffs, I, I just look when you're in game,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: like when you're competing, you don't care who you're playing.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Right. Right.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Like as a player, like it's easy for me to say, Oh,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I think the Cubs should play the Braves in the
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: first round.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Like, cause I'm on the other end now, but as
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: a player, it's whoever's in front of us, we need
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: to beat them. So to pick our poison, we're the
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: best team. Now we're going to pick our poison. Which
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: one do we want to play? And then you're saying,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Oh no, we want to play them. Like, I don't
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: like that. Just reseed it. Whoever's the best team throughout
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: the year, just reseed it every round. Until you get
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: to the World Series.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: You know what it feels like? It feels like that's
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: going to be one of those decisions that are made
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: outside of the dugout and the clubhouse. You know what
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: I mean? There's just too many people. We'll be getting
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: too many cooks in the kitchen when you talk about
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: making that decision. Why aggravate a team that you know
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: you've got to go in and beat no matter what?
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: You're just going to give them more fuel to the
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: fire and all that. I'm with you.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: I'm with you on that. Don't love it. Don't love it.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Rob Manfred has done... Everything he's done about all the
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: rule changes has been really good. So these are the
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: first talks of it. I'm sure whatever they settle on,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: it's going to be really good because, I mean, look,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: he's nailed every single rule change in my opinion. I
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: love every single one of them. So it'll be interesting
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: to see how that plays out.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: All right. Email from Justin Lackney. Who was the one
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: guy you played with that was far more talented than
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: their career numbers showed? Ooh, can I, can I say myself? Um,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: you know what I got? I got, I got a
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: guy that was well-respected while that I played with, but like,
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: I would say his career numbers didn't come off like
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: who he was when I first started playing against him.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: I played with Adam Dunn.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: And obviously he's almost has 400.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Home runs, bro.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: A great slugger. But I, I came up with this guy.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: First of all, He was a quarterback at Texas and
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: then went off to the minor leagues with the Reds.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: I played against him in the minor leagues. He played
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: center field. The dude floated.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Floated. Could run.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: He was stealing bait. He hit our second baseman, Mike Gonzalez,
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: in a double play. And he, you know, that old
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Albert Bell thing. He hit him in the minor leagues
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: and sent him flying like over second base. Bro, it
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: was not pretty.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: We're trying to get the young crowd here, Rossi, and
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: you're talking about Albert Bell, okay? Trying to get the
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: kids on this program.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Guys have seen the video. Kids, that's all they watch
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: is YouTube. They've got the video. Anyways, I just like,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Adam Dunn was one of the best players I've played with,
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: and he could carry your whole team for two months
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: when he was hot. It didn't matter, and he was
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: always getting on base. He's just like, I don't know
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: what his career numbers are. I don't know people's career numbers,
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: but I just feel like for how great he was,
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: he doesn't get enough love, in my opinion.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Maybe that's how I'm looking at it.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's how I'm looking at it. I'm trying to.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Think right now. 462 career home runs.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay. I'm sorry. He almost has 500 home runs, right? Yeah.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Made tons of money. Just struck out a lot. But
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying. You know who? But he
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: ended up having a really long career. Cameron Mabin. freak
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: athlete power speed insane defensively he was just really talented
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: and never really fully fully fully put it together for
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: an extended period of time but ended up playing for
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: I believe 10 plus years so he didn't win the
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: rookie of the year but he had a great ended
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: up having a great career but 15 years in the
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: show 15 years in the show And I just feel
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: like his talent was, like, I would see him hit BP.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: I'm like, God damn, bro. Like, I wish I could
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: have that type of power.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: He was a good teammate, too.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Great teammate. Great teammate. Great dude. Loved being around. I
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: played with him in San Diego, and I played with
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: him in Chicago. Loved being around him. Good question, Justin.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: That's a great question. I love it.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: That's one we need to circle back to. It takes some, like,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: studying on our end. Like, we got to look up
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: some numbers, but.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah. This next one is an email from Jeff Smith. Hi, guys.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: With a new stadium approved for the Rays in Tampa,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: do you think this is a wise move instead of
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: moving the team to Orlando? Since the Yankees series, their
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: attendance figures keep dropping during the ALCS. Does this city
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: actually deserve this team?
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Okay. Jeff coming in hot.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Very hot, Jeff. Two Florida natives here. So, you know,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I think that the problem with the trop, right, even
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: if the trop, they blow it up, which they need
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: to do, and build a brand-new state-of-the-art stadium right there,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: you're still going to struggle with attendance. It's not easy
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: to get there, right? Like, it's not easy for all
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: the teams to get there. It's like putting the Marlins, right?
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: They move the Marlins down to Miami. That attendance is
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: going to struggle forever because people from Broward County and
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Palm Beach County now can't get down there for a game.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: To where when it was in Fort Lauderdale at Joe Robbie,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: as you played in at Rossi, people from Miami can come,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: people from Palm Beach can come, people from Fort Lauderdale go.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: So being in St. Petersburg, it's just logistically too hard
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: on a nightly basis to, I think, bring your family
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: out to the ballpark. To where if it's in Tampa,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: more centrally located, you can pull people from Clearwater, you
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: pull people from Dunedin, You would get people from St. Pete,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: all the Tampa people. Like, look at the Lightning. The
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Lightning are number two in attendance. That place
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: is rocking in downtown Tampa. Downtown Tampa is absolutely booming.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: So I think the team needs to stay in the–
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: not in St. Pete, but relocate to Tampa, not Orlando.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: That's my opinion.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I agree. All I've heard of is the
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: traffic getting in and out of there, going over the bridge,
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: how hard it is to get to a game. Obviously
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: the trop. Like, it wasn't even built for baseball, you know? So, like,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: they're going to build a baseball stadium in a more
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: fan-friendly area, and that's all you're going to need. It's
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: a great product. They're a great team.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Great organization.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: They got a great manager. Yeah. Like, Kevin Cash is
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: one of the best managers in all of baseball. And,
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: you know, they pull for spring training and all that
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: stuff for the Yankees. So, there's baseball, tons of baseball
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: fans in general down there. So, I agree with you, Rizzo.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, look, Orlando's an hour away. Like, what's the,
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know what I mean? Even more.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Even more.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Look, Florida's a baseball factory. You know what I mean?
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Having a team in Tampa, that would be a premier,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: like these Florida teams are premier destinations for players. You
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: don't pay for state tax. If you build a team
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: and you start spending money, guys want to come and
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: play in Florida, right? Yeah, yeah. It's Florida. Your spring
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: training's there. It's an all-in-one-stop shop. So I hope that
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: they get a deal done in Tampa and they keep
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: it in the Tampa Bay area. But I think just St.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Pete just doesn't work geographically for fans to consistently sell
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: out there.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Agreed.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Jeff, good question. Coming in hot on your hometown team.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: I bet Jeff lives in Orlando. That's probably why he
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: just wants to be closer. He's a dreamer.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Isn't that what they're calling the team, the Orlando Dreamers?
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Is that what it is?
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. But that's a wrap
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: on this episode, Rossi. Thank you, everyone, for watching and listening. Reminder,
• 29:00
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• 29:05
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• 29:09
  Speaker 1: here with you through the end. Brewers are one game away.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: From punching their ticket to the World Series for the
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: second time in franchise history. And tomorrow, Guardians raise back
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: at it.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: One o'clock. One o'clock. Tune in early.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Huge game three. Huge.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Huge.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Game three.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Huge. Huge.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: We'll see you guys tomorrow. That's it for us. Rizzo.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Ross.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Peace.