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Christmas in October · The 3-0 Take

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  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome. To the three O take where we
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  talk all things Major League Baseball, here's Kyle Corwin and
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  Nate Reyes. It.
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  All starts right now. Welcome back to the three O take
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  presenter by Sea Kick. This episode 477.
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  I'll be your host Kyle Corder. I'm here with my Co host Nate
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  Reyes. And Nate, hello.
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  I don't think so. I don't think.
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  So. No, no, no, I'm not taking that
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  trombone nonsense. We finally got a shot of life in
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  this series, and you're going to start us off with the trombone.
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  I am. I am.
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  I'm hurting. Can do you care about your
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  friend that's hurting? Not if.
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  That friend's a Yankee fan. I I hate to say it.
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  I hate to say it. What?
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  It's what a time, man, we, like I said, we finally get a shot of
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  life into the series. And I I understand it's at the
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  expense of your Yankees, But I mean, you got to admit that was
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  that was a a baseball game. That was a baseball game.
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  And I know that, you know, that was a baseball game because even
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  though it didn't go the way you obviously wanted it to go, I
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  know you were feeling something when when everything that
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  happened in that game happened. Like that was quite a roller
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  coaster. So yeah, yeah, I felt every.
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  I felt the good and the bad I felt.
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  Which tells you all. You need a good game.
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  That is, that is a good, good game.
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  I won't. I won't disagree there, but.
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  Do you want to delay? Well, let me ask you this
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  because you know the the the the blessed Mets Dodger series has
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  turned into such a snooze fest that we didn't even wait till
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  the official end of the game to start.
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  That's true this episode. It's true.
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  So how how do you want to go about this?
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  You want to do a start? Mets.
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  Dodgers. Yeah, let's get this.
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  Let's get this. You want to delay the
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  inevitable. Yeah, let's get this nonsense
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  done here. So you want to you want to push
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  off the pain till later in the episode I.
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  Do I do? I do because I'm in a good mood
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  and I don't want to ruin that. It took me a while to get to
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  this good mood. So that's.
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  Fair. That's fair, you know.
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  What I mean few hours and and some food.
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  All right, let us let's, let's talk of Mets, Mets, Dodgers.
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  Sorry, I had to push it, push the broadcast to the Instagram.
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  Why even bother at this point? I mean, talk about talk about a
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  story. And yes, for the record, I'm
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  writing the Mets off. There's there's no hope.
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  There's no hope. It's over.
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  It's done. Talk about a narrative that
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  flipped on its head seemingly overnight.
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  And I know it's only been since Monday since we talked last, but
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  I feel like even then you're feeling like, all right, Mets
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  magic still alive. But two days, what, 2-3 days
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  later? See ya.
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  Yeah, I think this is what like some of the some of the fears
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  that I had, I mentioned I don't know if it was before this
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  series or maybe the last series with the Phillies, it was their
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  Mets pitching starting. At some point it's going to
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  relate to the back of their baseball card.
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  And as awesome as a story that, you know, Manaya and Severino
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  have been and, and even, you know, like Kodai Singa coming
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  back and like rushing to get back and like, those are good
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  stories and they've had good performances and, and have done
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  exciting things, but they're going to regress to the mean at
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  some point and the offensive side of things.
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  Like you can only come back. I said this, you can only come
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  back so many times. You can't come back every game.
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  And, and I know that before the series, none of us saw Dodger
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  pitching doing what they're doing.
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  None of us predicted this. But either way, you knew that
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  offense was going to be there. We we know this offensive
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  production from the Dodger side. So it's tough, man.
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  It's tough. It it's hard to throw Kintana in
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  into that mix as well. But it's it's hard to rely on,
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  let's face it, 5th starters for most rotations.
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  Like I know a team gets hot and they and they're and anything
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  can happen. I know that they've been 1 foot
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  in the grave multiple times in this post season and the offense
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  has been the one that's kind of build them out and giving them a
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  chance to get back into it. Literally, yeah.
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  But like those are those are 5 starters.
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  Those are back of the rotation starters for majority of of
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  teams. These guys are potentially not
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  even I I can like if we're looking across the way in the
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  other league and and looking at like other teams comparison like
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  I I see Nestor, I see Marcus Stroman, I see guys that aren't
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  even getting starts right now. It's.
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  A valid point. As that comp and it's on their
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  shoulders to keep the Mets in it and eventually it's it's running
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  dry man. And I was sitting there I think
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  it was the 6th inning when they started to make a little push.
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  It was like 7 two tonight and bases loaded 2 outs.
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  Winker takes it to the track and right.
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  And I thought it was out off the bat.
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  And it just felt like that was the moment of their season.
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  It, it, it felt like it's all done.
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  Like if that's not going out and it's a 76 ball game and that,
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  that place is going to erupt. And all of a sudden it's, you
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  know, you steal this game and, and now it's at, you know, it's
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  at 22 in the series. Like that changes everything.
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  And it just came up a little short.
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  And I, I think it's like the perfect metaphor and, and micro
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  like it in that moment. It's like a microcosm of all of
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  these things kind of just fizzling out in a way.
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  Is it weird to say? No, I, I'm with you and no, I
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  the reason I'm, I'm making these facial expressions is I'm like,
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  isn't it kind of ironic? I mean, I'm not going to, I'm
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  not going to kick the guy when the team pretty much signed
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  their own death warrant tonight, but isn't it kind of ironic that
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  Jesse Winker was the guy behind it all like.
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  Yeah. This seemed to be the guy that
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  gave him the jolt when they needed it from time to.
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  I mean, he he wasn't like he wasn't the the catalyst of this
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  post season run. Like he he played.
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  He certainly played a big. Role in this big moments and and
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  the. Fact that he is the one that and
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  I can't I I really can't disagree with you like that.
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  That kind of it felt like that when when you see that that ball
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  is not making it out, you're going that's it.
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  This was their only shot because you just know the offense is
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  going to continue to pour on, which is exactly what they did.
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  And and by the by the 7th, Citi Field is down to like 20%
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  capacity. And, and that kind of tells you
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  the story you need to know of this series because I mean, this
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  has just been a absolute beat down on behalf of the Dodgers.
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  It's been thorough. It's been thorough like it on
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  all fronts. It's been thorough.
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  We knew, again, we knew this offense was going to be there.
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  We knew this lineup is capable. Like you're going to, you're
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  going to get struck by one of these MVPS a couple times in a
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  game. It's just going to happen.
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  And tonight was Mookie's night. Otani is Otani and is Otani.
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  He's been doing what Otani does. Otani's fifty for his last 20
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  with runners in on base. Yeah, it's.
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  Mookie Betts is hitting 350 this series.
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  Which Mazie has looked good? Muncie has He's gotten on base
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  in 12 I. Think it's just ended.
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  It just ended in his last step back.
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  His eyes are back. OK, Last I saw it was 12.
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  The 8000 fans that were in City were, you know, kind of gave
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  like a sarcastic cheer, but. I mean, a post season record,
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  you've got Muncie doing that. You've got Mookie who like we
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  talked about did not show up in the postseason like at at any
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  real point in his career. And you've got him showing up,
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  like I said, show he's doing what he's doing.
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  Once you've got those pieces in place and you just get half
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  decent pitching and that's that's.
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  The thing you know, Yamamoto look good tons of punch outs
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  tonight. Bullpen, we know has been the
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  story all series, but I was like even these last couple innings,
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  I'm looking back and I know it's a blow out, but like you see
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  these defensive substitutions close, you know, close to the
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  end of the game for whatever teams leading most of the time
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  in the postseason. And you look at like, OK, Kevin
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  Kiermeyer is arguably one of the best center fielders of this
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  generation. You know, Chris Taylor stepping
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  in paw haste is stepping in like you, you, you.
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  They're very complete and how they can tighten up, tack on
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  like it's there's not a lot of holes right now.
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  And that's scary. That's real scary.
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  I'm terrified if the Yankees can make it to the World Series.
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  I'm terrified if Cleveland, If you're a fan of of the Guardians
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  and you feel like you got a chance to make it, I would be
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  shaking in my boots too. Like this when all things are
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  clicking. This is what they spent their
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  money on. This is what they're invested
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  in. And as much as some fans can
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  hate the Dodgers, it's like there's got to be a respect for
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  these names. They're going to do what they
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  do. And right now all of them are
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  seemingly doing it at the same time.
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  Like the Mets just don't have a chance.
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  Hand up. I laughed at the literally go
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  back and listen. I pretty much signed off last
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  episode laughing at the notion that the Dodgers could go up two
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  to one coming back to or or coming to City Field with Walker
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  Buehler on the mound. And what does Walker Buehler go
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  out and do? Punch outs over 4 innings.
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  Shoved endless ball. We got to, yeah, we got to, you
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  know, redefine what studly starting pitching looks like
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  nowadays. But that was that was every bit
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  of what you would want out of a Walker Buehler who struggled
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  for, I don't know, years at this point.
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  So Dodger fans, you got to be real happy right now.
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  Real happy. I think they're the only slight
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  thing they could be bummed about is not getting to see their team
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  celebrate at home because this thing's done.
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  This thing is not going back to LA, we know that much.
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  Yeah, I mean, you talk about that, the game that Bueller
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  started, that was their what, their 4th shut out as a staff in
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  the previous five games. Yeah, and then Yama motor
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  tonight. What 20?
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  Darn. Gave up two had eight, eight
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  punch outs. I mean, look, the the reality of
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  it is the Dodger, the Dodgers right now are making people look
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  stupid, us included, because and, and I feel like I'm
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  repeating myself at this point, but there was, you mention it,
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  they were able to button themselves up.
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  There was there was holes that you could have identified coming
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  into this postseason as as reasons as to why they wouldn't
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  even make it out of the NLDS. They make it out of the NLDSUK
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  you, you say, OK, well, they're going up and which is kind of
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  the narrative or the the angle I took awesome.
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  You came out and to and to your point, you said they came out of
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  the the NLDS beaten and bloodied by the by the Padres.
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  So you take that, you combine it with the fact that the Mets are
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  just seemingly the, the new, the you fill in, fill in the the
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  blank of the team of destiny at this point.
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  Some thought it maybe was a Tigers that that died off fairly
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  quickly. You, you, you plug the Mets into
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  that. The Dodgers are like, that's
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  cute, but need we remind you that we are the Dodgers and they
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  are the Mets? Yeah, yeah, it's, it's tough,
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  man. And, and like I said, I think
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  the Mets had a a fun story and it's fun to be able to look
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  back, you know, over the last few years and kind of find some
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  type of comp that, you know, the team of destiny.
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  You kept mentioning that like, you know, sometimes it just
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  defies, you know, what looks, what it looks like on paper.
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  But like I'm I'm when you say it out loud and you hear some of
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  these names of big moments that you're relying on Jesse Winker,
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  Jeff McNeil trying to come back and pinch hit Severino Cantana
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  like. For the record though, if this
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  is it, not to not to cut you off, but if this is it for
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  Severino's 2024 season, job well done.
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  He finished it off. I mean I I think he gave up two
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  runs, but zero. Earned.
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  I get that. I get that and job well done.
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  Like I he did pitch well. My issue is that like for a
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  World Series winning team, these aren't the names you should be
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  mentioning. These aren't the names that you
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  should be relying on. And this is just kind of all
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  they got, man. They're riding high on some
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  crazy vibes and big moments and it and it's worked.
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  But again, like they're eventually going to regress to
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  what the back of their baseball card says.
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  And you're starting to see that a little bit.
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  I do feel for Nimmo, by the way. Brandon Nimmo's toughing it.
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  You can see him sluggishly trying to get around the bags
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  like he's hurting. I was, I was thinking that same
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  thing too, not just Nimmo there. There's a handful of guys that
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  are still are still alive in this post season that are, I
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  mean, Rizzo's a guy Freeman. I know Freeman didn't get the
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  start tonight, but I mean, he's been.
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  Mentioned McNeil. Like rushing back, You know,
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  Sanga rushing back. That I mean you got to you got
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  to tip your cap to to to a handful of these guys.
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  Yeah yeah, when you could easily take the out and be like my team
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  has has done fine without me thus far.
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  Like no, I want to contribute. I want to I want to partake in
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  like these games that are before me and and do what I can to make
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  an impact make a difference in the game.
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  And what I mean not to not to jump ahead here, but Rizzo's
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  what was his first day be back or something the other night or
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  he got the start. It was like AR behind single.
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  Yeah, Lace the line, drive up the middle.
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  Yeah, it's, it's very cool to see.
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  It's just, you know, like I said, it's they're I think
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  they've just kind of run out of magic, man.
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  And it doesn't help that you've run into a well oiled machine at
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  the moment in the LA Dodgers. Which again, that and kind of to
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  put a bow on this, that that's the take away here is that it,
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  it should come as no surprise if you look at how this team was
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  built on paper, that this team is a buzz saw at this point in
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  the year. I just didn't I I just didn't
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  think it was actually going to come to fruition the way that it
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  has. And that's that's hand up
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  moment. I, I, I said, and I still don't
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  think I'd call it a cakewalk to the World Series.
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  But I mean, you revisit my, my take from back in March and I'm
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  like, I, this is not going to be a cakewalk for this team.
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  And, and there's a lot of things you got to take into account
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  there. And I think you could still say
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  that it's been an uphill climb for this team to get to the
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  World Series presume assuming that they get to that point.
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  But you know, I'd. Hate to say it, but it's just it
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  felt like, and I know it's 5 versus 7 games, but like it, it
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  felt like the DS between the Dodgers and the Padres was like
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  the real NLCS. You know, they just, it felt
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  like that was like the heavyweight matchup.
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  I, I, on a separate note, and we'll get into this at some
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  point, I think when, when this, you know, when the post season's
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  over and, and the trophy has been hoisted.
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  But I, I think, I think baseball needs to consider some type of
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  restructuring to the, the playoff format and the way
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  things are lined up. It's just, there's certain
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  things that just, I don't know, like I, I'd like to see it a
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  little bit differently, but overall, what can you do?
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  What can you do when 2 MVPS are going nuts in the third?
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  MVP is just toughing it out for for the whole world to see, you
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  know? Well, it's not an MVP, but what
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  can you do when John Kenzie Noel steps to the plate?
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  Am I right? Am I?
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  Am I right? I mean.
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  You you had to know deep in your bones that that was happening.
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  I don't care. There were two There were two
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  things that I said out loud during this game.
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  Two things that I said out loud. One, I hated the layover of
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  Weaver going back out for the 9th.
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  I hated that, and I hated the way Holmes, AB with David Frey
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  felt. Those were the two things that I
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  said to myself out loud. I was watching in the shower
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  before dinner. I had my phone on the outside of
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  the glass and I'm like wiping the freaking fog off of.
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  I've been there, I've been there.
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  The. Steam off of the window so I can
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  look at the phone. I'm like, got it all the way up
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  and I'm like still loud in the shower.
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  But you got to set it on a that's a rookie move.
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  You got to set it on like a ledge or like a, a shampoo
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  holder or like a rack or something.
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  I can. Get it in the rack in the
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  shower. Yeah, I know.
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  I thought I should. Probably.
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  We do have like a little shelf. Maybe we'll do that next time.
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  But you know, those were the two things that I said out loud, you
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  know, was just like I, I didn't like the layover.
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  And look, I don't I'm not going to sit here and and be that that
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  fan that completely takes away from Jacenzi Noel's moment.
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  Like that crazy moment. Stephen Vogt has been pressing
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  pinch hit buttons all series just over and over and over.
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  And it's been coming up dry until this point.
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  I'm not mad at Luke Weaver, I'm not mad at Clay Holmes.
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  I'm mad about multiple things with this game.
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  But Aaron Boone's decision to continuously make him come out
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  for four and five out saves over and over and over.
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  If you're going to use Clay, use him in the eighth, bring him
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  out. And I know you get weird and
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  nervous when somebody's on base. Yeah, I know you get a little
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  crazy. But with Austin Wells back
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  there, I feel better movement wise for him than Trevino Bling.
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  Bring Clay Holmes in for the 8th.
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  Let him shut that down. He's look great.
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  Let him shut that down and let Weaver have a true clean night.
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  But the bot top 9 lasted a little bit.
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  It was a little bit of an extended inning.
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  Yeah, it's not. It's not warm in Cleveland.
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  So for Luke Weaver to get hot on short notice because of that
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  back-to-back home run, which we got robbed of, Judge, I told you
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  was coming and to do it off a Class A the way he did, big boy
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  status like that's. What's going on with Class A?
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  Class A don't look right, but that's what I'm saying is that
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  like Boone pressing that over and over again, my biggest
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  takeaways in what pisses me off the most and what I was fearful
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  of the most was that this, this is how the Yankees have lost
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  their games throughout the entire year.
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  If you've watched them at all, this is how they've lost
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  questionable defense, specifically from the infield
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  and big, big base running blunders, huge base running
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  blunders, costly. This is how they lose and back
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  end bullpen. Now.
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  It's been nails so far up until this point, but those are the
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  three things that make the cocktail of a Yankees loss, and
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  we saw all of it today. It's a bad game.
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  It's a bad game. And here's how it sounded in
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  Spanish. Electric moment, you got to give
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  credit where credit's due. You got to give credit where
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  credit's due. That change up backed up down
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  and in an incredible moment, incredible bat flip and I'm
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  nervous to be honest. The David Fry thing I kind of
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  saw once once I saw Clay Holmes coming out in the 10th.
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  I was like this is too close to a save opportunity.
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  This isn't and this isn't this isn't going to get to the 11th
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  unfortunately. But again, like, you know,
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  Stephen votes been pressing these buttons, pressing these
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  buttons, and it's been strange to see because it has not worked
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  until this. It's been very strange to see.
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  But for Joe Kenzie Noel, man, that guy's got I I I it's just
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  it reminds me so much of like prime tweak.
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  I see so much in like a very quick hands strong can
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  absolutely obliterate a baseball in the inner half.
• 26:20
  That's what it feels like from him.
• 26:24
  And yeah, just not not not good man, not good.
• 26:35
  Other stuff with the Yankees. When I told you that Rizzo looks
• 26:39
  old and cold coming in to sub in at first that was brutal.
• 26:44
  And then a couple couple mistakes on the bases that just
• 26:49
  were a little strange. And a lot of these things can
• 26:53
  like the Yankees have gotten here because of the big boppers
• 26:57
  and the big there's our guy Ryan Rib.
• 27:01
  A lot of those things can be covered up by the big bops, you
• 27:04
  know, by the big men and and big performances by your your core.
• 27:09
  But like, there are these moments still show up and it's
• 27:12
  still ugly. Sorry, did you say big bop?
• 27:16
  Big bop again. I mean, you know something
• 27:32
  special is going on when you've got your Spanish broadcaster
• 27:36
  singing Christmas songs at the top of his.
• 27:39
  Lungs. I can't hate on it.
• 27:41
  I really can't. I don't even dislike the
• 27:43
  Guardians, to be honest. Josh Naylor is the only one that
• 27:46
  bugs me. I don't like there's no one else
• 27:49
  on there like they're they're a likable squad.
• 27:51
  Stephen Vogt's a likable manager like that.
• 27:55
  It's the tough thing is, is that like, again, I've seen how this
• 28:01
  team loses. I've also seen it come in
• 28:06
  consecutive like a streak almost in a way that they're bad.
• 28:11
  Baseball can kind of just show up and be there for us, you
• 28:15
  know? It's like a fart that just
• 28:16
  lingers, that's what. That, and you got to wonder,
• 28:20
  like, was that more than a fart like this is?
• 28:22
  Yeah. Do.
• 28:22
  I need to be worried. Here.
• 28:24
  It's still here. All right, Well, let me It
• 28:26
  hasn't passed. Well, let me ask you this.
• 28:29
  Would you? Can you really classify game
• 28:33
  three as bad baseball? Let me rephrase.
• 28:39
  How much of this are you putting on the Yankees losing it versus
• 28:44
  the Guardians? Just having a couple massive
• 28:47
  moments that if your team is going to do anything in the
• 28:51
  postseason, regardless what team it is, you're going to have to
• 28:54
  have some of these moments throughout, which they, I mean,
• 28:57
  they've had they've had a couple scattered throughout, but I
• 29:00
  think they were due for a big moment like this.
• 29:03
  I mean, how how much are you giving credit to to one versus
• 29:07
  the other? I'm giving more credit to the
• 29:09
  guards because like game one and Game 2 didn't even feel like the
• 29:12
  Guardians because we talked about like back when they were
• 29:16
  playing the Tigers. Like the Guardians play tight
• 29:18
  baseball, good defense, good base running, good pitching.
• 29:23
  And every once in a while bats are going to show up, but it's
• 29:27
  not going to be at this explosion.
• 29:29
  And game one and Game 2 was like there is nothing.
• 29:33
  It seemed like they like, I don't know if they were nervous,
• 29:36
  but like really questionable defense, really bad defense, a
• 29:40
  lot of walks and it just didn't quite give me Cleveland guardian
• 29:46
  baseball vibes. This was Cleveland Guardian
• 29:49
  baseball. This was a lot better, much
• 29:52
  better. And I am nervous.
• 29:56
  I think I, I mean, I'm nervous that they'd still have two more
• 29:58
  games at home. I'm nervous that I've, I've,
• 30:03
  I've watched series leads get blown and it, it doesn't matter,
• 30:12
  you know, how much of A lead you got.
• 30:17
  It's, it's tough, man. I'm, I'm worried about momentum.
• 30:21
  I'm, I'm worried about a few different things for sure.
• 30:24
  So we shall see. We shall see.
• 30:30
  I don't know. What's the match up tomorrow?
• 30:39
  I got to look. Oh my.
• 30:41
  Shut up. Sorry.
• 30:50
  What were you saying? Oh, so we got Luisio, Gavin
• 30:55
  Williams lining up for tomorrow. Luisio getting his first start
• 31:00
  of the post season. I think if the Yanks can steal,
• 31:08
  steal one in Cleveland, I think it's got to be this one.
• 31:14
  It's got to be this one. Well, I mean they're up to one
• 31:21
  in the series. I mean they they all but had
• 31:25
  this one in the bags so they could have been looking at a a
• 31:29
  three O lead in this series. I would have felt really good
• 31:33
  about that. I was starting to feel really
• 31:35
  good about. That the track record of Major
• 31:38
  League Baseball you should feel. Yeah.
• 31:40
  Pretty good about a three O lead.
• 31:42
  Well, maybe. Maybe not you as a Yankee fan in
• 31:45
  particular, but generally. Speaking, that's what I was
• 31:47
  saying. I've seen these blown before.
• 31:49
  Generally speaking, you should feel good about a three O lead.
• 31:53
  But with that said, we are now looking, we're staring down the
• 31:58
  barrel and I it, it's, it doesn't come off the tongue as
• 32:02
  easily having seen what we just saw from Cleveland.
• 32:08
  But assuming everybody wakes up tomorrow, assuming the Yankees
• 32:12
  can kind of flush this and and hit the reset button,
• 32:17
  mathematically, we're staring down the barrel of a Yankees
• 32:20
  Dodgers World Series. Yeah.
• 32:24
  What are our thoughts there? And I by no means, by no means
• 32:28
  am I chalking in the Yankees, the World Series, Dodgers, yes.
• 32:34
  But given they have the lead with just a handful of games
• 32:38
  left, like I said, mathematically, we're standing
• 32:41
  on the barrel of a Dodgers, Yankees World Series.
• 32:43
  How do we feel about that? And by me asking this, I am, in
• 32:48
  case you're wanting, trying to get into your head a little bit
• 32:50
  about like, oh, let me get ahead of myself here and think about
• 32:53
  the Yanks in the World Series. Only hopefully for the rug to be
• 32:56
  ripped out from underneath you. But.
• 32:59
  You'd really root for the Dodgers, huh?
• 33:01
  You'd really you'd really do that?
• 33:04
  That's fair. You're at between those two
• 33:07
  teams. I'm not saying root for the
• 33:09
  Yanks. I'm just saying maybe, maybe you
• 33:12
  would appreciate your friend getting one for the first time.
• 33:15
  I. Absolutely would not.
• 33:16
  Why? Why?
• 33:18
  Who? Who do you think I.
• 33:19
  Am whatever. Unbelievable.
• 33:24
  Yeah, I mean. I, I will say I was thinking
• 33:27
  about it a lot more in the, in the 7th inning of tonight and I
• 33:31
  was thinking of that possibility a lot more now I got to, you
• 33:35
  know, pump the brakes just a little bit.
• 33:40
  I, I fully like full honesty here.
• 33:43
  I'm pretty nervous. I, I think the only thing I can
• 33:47
  somewhat hope for is whatever kind of layoff the Dodgers have
• 33:55
  if they do finish out the series tomorrow, if there is a, you
• 34:00
  know, four or five day layover, that's all I can hope for is
• 34:04
  that there's some kind of cooling off that happens.
• 34:09
  Other than that, like I, I, I think they're the best team of
• 34:13
  the four. I think they're the deepest and
• 34:16
  I I haven't seen the Yankees deal with that type of offense
• 34:23
  yet in this post season. They haven't had to deal with
• 34:27
  that yet. So let's talk about a cakewalk.
• 34:29
  Yeah. So it's like, I don't, I don't
• 34:33
  know, man. For again, I need to I I cannot
• 34:38
  stress this enough. I know I I have.
• 34:42
  Faith in the guards. After tonight, a little bit of
• 34:44
  faith. Not, not a whole lot.
• 34:46
  But I think it injects. I think it injects a lot and
• 34:48
  again, like there's a couple things.
• 34:49
  It's still being in Cleveland is a big deal.
• 34:52
  Like that matters to have two more in Cleveland.
• 34:56
  And they talk all the time. You, you hear it all the time on
• 34:58
  these broadcasts. You, you see that, you see the
• 35:00
  numbers floating around when you're reading your articles or
• 35:02
  reading your tweets. Game 3 is a very pivotal game in
• 35:07
  a best of seven series. And you not only go out as a
• 35:11
  Guardians, you not only go out and win the game, you do it in
• 35:13
  the fashion that you did. That's, that's big.
• 35:15
  And. There's there.
• 35:19
  There's just something about the Cleveland Guardians that's like
• 35:24
  your best player doesn't get the recognition league wide that he
• 35:28
  deserves. And it's like a roster.
• 35:31
  It's like an island of misfit toys, dude.
• 35:34
  Like, they're all really good and they're all underrated and
• 35:38
  no one talks about any of them and they're overlooked.
• 35:41
  The entire roster is underappreciated, everybody.
• 35:46
  Aaron Boone said he didn't want you to do that.
• 35:48
  Oh, I know he doesn't want you to.
• 35:50
  Talk about how Jose Ramirez underrated.
• 35:52
  I don't think he's underrated, I think he's under appreciated.
• 35:56
  Fair was that was that comment just like a a kiss of death for
• 36:00
  Jose Ramirez this series? I mean, I know he he had a bop
• 36:03
  in what, Game 2? But yeah, he's he's hitting.
• 36:06
  He's hitting five points higher than Judge, who we know has
• 36:09
  been, yeah, not as not as great this post season.
• 36:15
  You know, sounds like a couple couple bombs.
• 36:17
  But Jose Ramirez hitting $1.79 this post season.
• 36:22
  Yeah, that's the other thing too, is that like he hasn't even
• 36:25
  clicked yet. And if he starts clicking, yeah,
• 36:28
  this lineup gets a little scarier.
• 36:32
  But it that what I'm saying is that like their backs against
• 36:38
  the wall, it, it feels like this is the perfect roster to have
• 36:43
  their backs against the wall. It feels like all of them are
• 36:46
  underappreciated. All of them are overlooked.
• 36:50
  It's just that's the kind of roster it is, including their
• 36:53
  manager, you know, So it's like, it just seems like I'm not
• 37:00
  surprised if they take the game tomorrow.
• 37:02
  I I'm not surprised if this momentum carries over.
• 37:06
  Glad you said that. Let's, let's, let's wrap it up
• 37:11
  there. Give me your give me your
• 37:12
  predictions on on how these these two series I don't want
• 37:18
  maybe finish out over the next few days or a couple days.
• 37:22
  I'm sticking to my Yankees in six.
• 37:24
  I I said that before, so it's still in play.
• 37:27
  I'm just going to ride that out. Hopefully, hopefully if it goes
• 37:35
  to seven. I'm really nervous, but I
• 37:37
  wouldn't mind seeing it back in New York.
• 37:39
  I think that'd be pretty cool. Mets are cooked.
• 37:43
  It's that's over tomorrow. Concur.
• 37:50
  Yeah, I, I mean, I in terms of how many games, I don't know, I
• 37:54
  think the the Yankees still find a way to to do it.
• 37:56
  And then obviously already talked about it.
• 37:59
  Mets are absolutely fried. Yeah, I mean talking talk about
• 38:05
  a, what's that? What's that imagery about A A *
• 38:09
  falling from the you know what? I you know what I'm talking
• 38:13
  about. No.
• 38:16
  What's the phrase? Come on, what is the phrase so?
• 38:29
  What are you typing in Star Falling phrase?
• 38:34
  Phrase that says * falling. Basically, you know, it's like
• 38:41
  that classic phrase. It's.
• 38:43
  Probably not even that good at this.
• 38:44
  Point A * Falling from the sky that burns up.
• 38:47
  That's not what I'm looking for you.
• 38:48
  Know. If you're listening, you know
• 38:50
  what I'm talking about. Yeah.
• 38:53
  He burns out quick. Something something to that
• 38:56
  effect. That's basically what the Mets
• 38:58
  are at this stage. They.
• 39:00
  Am I? Am I crazy that Lindor wears
• 39:03
  pants down tonight? Yeah, and I like it.
• 39:05
  For the first time in a while, I.
• 39:07
  I made note of that. I made a little mental note.
• 39:08
  I was like, you know what I like?
• 39:09
  I like. Pants down, Lindor looks.
• 39:12
  Great. Hold on.
• 39:12
  Yeah. Pause.
• 39:14
  Pause. That's what you wanted to say.
• 39:15
  That's what I was about to say, but you just rolled on through
• 39:17
  with it. I I helped myself.
• 39:20
  Pants down, Lindor. That's that's a good Nate out of
• 39:25
  context clip. Pants, pants down.
• 39:28
  Lindor looks real good. Yeah, mats are cooked.
• 39:34
  What are those probables real fast before we go?
• 39:37
  Flaherty and David Peterson. David Peterson was announced.
• 39:41
  Yeah, as I mean probables so. Well, you're everybody's cleaned
• 39:47
  it up for them tomorrow. The whole the whole pitching
• 39:51
  staff's got cleats on tomorrow. Tell you what I miss, I'm going
• 39:58
  to miss the the multiple games in a day thing.
• 40:00
  Once you, I mean, you're when you're getting four games in a
• 40:03
  day to start things off in the preseason, you get to the World
• 40:06
  Series like this sucks. Has this flown by?
• 40:09
  Is it just me? It's flown by, yeah, like real
• 40:13
  fast. I don't even who was in the wild
• 40:16
  cards like who who who matched up in those games.
• 40:19
  I don't even remember. I was at one of them Royals and
• 40:22
  OS That felt like last week. Yeah, yeah.
• 40:28
  Crazy. Wow man, I think we're just old.
• 40:33
  That's a problem too. Unbelievable.
• 40:52
  Anyway, let's get out of here good good catching up on these
• 40:56
  last few games. You guys will hear from us what
• 41:01
  what's our what's our next what's our next pod in order I.
• 41:07
  Think it depends. I think we are.
• 41:13
  Did we stay on Monday? We're lined up for Monday to
• 41:17
  recap potential games 5 through 7.
• 41:20
  Whichever of those are necessary but could.
• 41:23
  Be Sunday, I think. Yeah, that could change.
• 41:26
  Yeah, that's. Sunday.
• 41:27
  Sunday's very, very much in play.
• 41:30
  But yeah, all right, sounds good.
• 41:33
  Sweet. We'll talk to you guys in a few
• 41:35
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  are quickly rapidly approaching, if we're not already there, the
• 41:52
  point of not being able to buy tickets.
• 41:55
  Dude, have you seen some of these?
• 41:56
  I mean, as we're getting closer to the World Series and
• 41:59
  including potential World Series tickets, have you seen the
• 42:01
  prices on some of these things? It's getting worse, huh?
• 42:04
  It, it's just, I mean, who, who comes up with this stuff, man?
• 42:07
  I. Mean that could come in pretty I
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• 42:33
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