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Rays BEAT Guardians, ADVANCE to WORLD SERIES vs. Brewers | Ross & Rizzo MLB Playoff Reaction · Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Anthony Rizzo with my partner, David Ross. Rossi, I
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  Speaker 1: have to give you flowers to start this show. Back
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  Speaker 1: at the end of September, when we were doing our
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  Speaker 1: playoff predictions and our brackets, you had the Tampa Bay
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  Speaker 1: Rays playing the Milwaukee Brewers in the World Series. And
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  Speaker 1: after tonight, Tampa beating the Guardians 7-3 in Game 6,
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  Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Rays won the American League pennant, and
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  Speaker 1: are going to the World Series, Rossi.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, just going out on a limb, picking the
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  Speaker 2: two best teams in the game, best team in the
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  Speaker 2: American League and the best team in the National League,
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  Speaker 2: picking those two was not a hard decision. But I
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  Speaker 2: know sometimes we get caught up in the Dodgers or
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  Speaker 2: the market and can they handle it like the small ball,
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  Speaker 2: no home runs, you know, little.
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  Speaker 3: Stuff like that. But it's nice to be right. That
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  Speaker 3: is for sure.
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  Speaker 2: I'm pumped for the Tampa Bay Rays. Here in our
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  Speaker 2: home state of Florida, that'll be fun. I get to
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  Speaker 2: cover the World Series, and this will be driving distance
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  Speaker 2: for me. So that'll be nice, easy travel when we
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  Speaker 2: get to games three, four, and five.
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  Speaker 3: But, yeah, man. So, Paul, what an atmosphere down in Tampa.
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  Speaker 3: The trial was rocking, bro. Rocking.
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  Speaker 1: And Lauren Shahadi said it, too, a full-circle moment, not
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  Speaker 1: being able to play baseball there last year. They're having
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  Speaker 1: to borrow George Steinbrenner Fields. the Yankees spring training complex
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  Speaker 1: all year, kind of a grind for them there, right?
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  Speaker 1: It's a beautiful spring training complex, but it's not a
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  Speaker 1: big league stadium. So for them a year later to
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  Speaker 1: be going to the world, they just won the American
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  Speaker 1: league pennant. Like they're going to the world series. They're
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  Speaker 1: playing the brewers, the two, like you said, Rossi, the
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  Speaker 1: two best teams in baseball. And rarely does that happen
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  Speaker 1: anymore where the two best teams are meeting each other
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  Speaker 1: in the world series.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like looking back on it, like just, the, the
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  Speaker 2: way these two teams play and their style. It's so awesome.
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  Speaker 2: They showed highlights of the last time they were going.
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  Speaker 3: And I was on that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, eight Red Sox team that they beat in game
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  Speaker 2: seven to go on and play the Phillies who ended
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  Speaker 2: up winning the whole thing. But we had a couple
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  Speaker 2: of celebrities. Did you see Tyler glass now or Rosa Raina?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: V Dickie V getting his legend. He's always been there.
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  Speaker 3: He's been there since day one.
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  Speaker 2: So, Pretty cool to see that place just lit up
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  Speaker 2: with all the fans and celebs around.
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  Speaker 3: What a game.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was going to be a ho-hum game
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  Speaker 2: early on, starting off. It looked like the Rays had
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  Speaker 2: so many chances to bust that thing open. Tons of runners.
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  Speaker 2: There's traffic everywhere. We get some infield ends, not able
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  Speaker 2: to get runners in. Guys You know, I was thinking
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  Speaker 2: about talking a little bit about, you know, some of
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  Speaker 2: these young guys swinging early with bases loaded. You feel
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  Speaker 2: that adrenaline rather than having the at-bat. They only scratch
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  Speaker 2: out one with the bases loaded. You know, a couple
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  Speaker 2: times I just thought it just, they were teetering with, like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: don't mess around and fuck this up because you guys
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  Speaker 2: got this game by, you know, you had it in hand,
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  Speaker 2: but they could never stretch the lead until some big
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  Speaker 2: homers late.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Junior Caminero and Yandy Diaz both hitting two-run homers.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, just you see it in their celebrations. You
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  Speaker 1: see it in the dugout how happy those guys are,
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  Speaker 1: how excited they are to send this team to the
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  Speaker 1: World Series. I mean, bro, Yandy Diaz called game, right?
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  Speaker 1: He said it before the game. He said yesterday, it
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  Speaker 1: all ends tomorrow. We're going to win tomorrow. And then
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  Speaker 1: in the eighth inning, he hits a two-run homer when
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  Speaker 1: the Guardians started coming back, a little bit of momentum
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  Speaker 1: in the eighth or in the seventh. In the eighth,
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  Speaker 1: he hits a two-run homer and says, game.
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  Speaker 2: Game.
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  Speaker 3: Game over.
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  Speaker 2: I called it. I told you guys we're not playing
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  Speaker 2: a game seven. It's over tomorrow. And, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: fact that he put his money where his mouth was is, one, impressive.
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  Speaker 3: Like, obviously, you want to have confidence.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't think that was, like, bulletin board material like
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  Speaker 2: everybody tried to make it out to be.
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  Speaker 3: But you want to have confidence in your team.
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk about Junior's home run trot. That
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  Speaker 2: guy knows how to put on a show when he
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  Speaker 2: hits a big homer. He had– You know, back in
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  Speaker 2: the day when he was playing winter ball, there's a
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  Speaker 2: viral video of him taking forever going around the bases. Well,
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  Speaker 2: he topped that tonight with the 47 celebrations he had
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  Speaker 2: going around the bases.
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  Speaker 3: Like, he's such a kid. It's so infectious.
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  Speaker 2: I just started laughing about the third celebration and the
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  Speaker 2: people he was pointing to.
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  Speaker 3: What a cool feeling, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 2: For him, his speech afterwards of, like, You know, getting
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  Speaker 2: the fans involved. This is for you, Tampa. What a
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  Speaker 2: cool moment for him and his young career.
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  Speaker 3: That was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I absolutely love? You said him talking afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: People at home and fans don't understand how hard it
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  Speaker 1: is to come over from a foreign country and learn
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  Speaker 1: the English language, to learn the culture here. And a
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  Speaker 1: lot of these guys, the easy thing to do is
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  Speaker 1: have an interpreter, right? Because it's really hard.
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  Speaker 3: Things.
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  Speaker 1: When the microphone's in front of you, it's really easy
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  Speaker 1: to lose things in translation. And I really admire and
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  Speaker 1: respect that maybe he doesn't speak the best English, but
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  Speaker 1: he's so confident that he doesn't need the translator. He
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  Speaker 1: does the best he can. And that is such a
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  Speaker 1: hard thing that he's doing, and he's doing it on
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  Speaker 1: a national level. And I just respect and admire that
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  Speaker 1: because I know so many guys will just, hey, have
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  Speaker 1: the interpreter. Cause that's easy and safe. So it's just,
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  Speaker 1: it's such a hard thing that he's doing that I
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  Speaker 1: think gets overlooked by anyone just watching the game casually.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It was, it was, it was a cool moment for him. And, uh,
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  Speaker 2: and Yandy, like what a, what a big, big Homer.
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  Speaker 2: It looked like he was sitting all over that change
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  Speaker 2: of Yandy.
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  Speaker 1: He like, I love the celebrations. I think it's, it's
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  Speaker 1: really easy for any older player like yourself, Rossi, no offense.
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  Speaker 1: I know you managed. I know you're managed. I know
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  Speaker 1: you manage, so you're in with the times. But I
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  Speaker 1: love the celebration. The celebrations are easy to tick older
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  Speaker 1: players off, but it's the emotion and the excitement of
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  Speaker 1: everything that goes into hitting a home run that guys
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  Speaker 1: celebrate with their team. And for the most part, all
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  Speaker 1: these guys are celebrating directly towards their own team. There's
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  Speaker 1: no disrespect to anyone else. They're just enjoying the moment.
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  Speaker 1: And I really do love to see it.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what you're exactly right when you're celebrating with
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  Speaker 2: your team. I think we've all been in that moment.
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  Speaker 2: If you've hit a big home run in your career,
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  Speaker 2: you turn into a little leaguer, right? Like you turn
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  Speaker 2: into a 12 year old running around the bases. And
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  Speaker 2: that feeling is just it, all that excitement, all that energy,
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  Speaker 2: that adrenaline just comes out. I tell you who I
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  Speaker 2: want to touch on too. There was drama in the eighth,
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  Speaker 2: the guardians absolutely battled their ass off to get back
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  Speaker 2: in this thing and had a chance to tie it really.
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  Speaker 2: and Kevin Kelly came in in the eighth, threw three change-ups,
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  Speaker 2: and said, not on my watch. That's big balls right there.
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  Speaker 2: Coming in, bases loaded, World Series berth kind of on
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  Speaker 2: the line, or game six. It's not game seven yet. But, man,
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  Speaker 2: the way he handled that moment after others had kind
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  Speaker 2: of fallen apart or not had their stuff was so impressive.
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  Speaker 2: So shout-out, give Kevin Kelly his flowers. Not a strikeout
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  Speaker 2: guy and end up punching out Rokio there with three changeups.
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  Speaker 2: He came in and was just absolutely nasty.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, big spot there too. I remember texting
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  Speaker 1: in our group saying, no, Brian Baker, this would be
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  Speaker 1: the time for a four-out save. And your manager comes
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  Speaker 1: on and says, well, it would be three days in
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  Speaker 1: a row. He's a one-inning guy. So I was like, okay.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's the trust that you need to have
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  Speaker 1: in your bullpen, and it takes all 26 to get
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  Speaker 1: it done. Kevin Kelly's been there doing it all year.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Cash said after the game, he's like, he said,
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  Speaker 1: The Rays fans have seen this all year. We've done
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  Speaker 1: it all year. Now the world's getting to see it, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: How good that team has been. So, again, Kelly, Kevin Kelly,
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  Speaker 1: a guy maybe not everyone knows on the national stage,
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  Speaker 1: comes in in one of the biggest moments in the
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  Speaker 1: game to shut down the Guardians there. So just an
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  Speaker 1: overall complete series from the Rays.
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  Speaker 3: Good defense.
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  Speaker 1: Taylor Walls, exceptional on shortstop.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, man. How about that double play coming across there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Coming across for that double play.
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  Speaker 1: He's, like, flying.
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  Speaker 3: He seems like he's everywhere. He does feel like he's everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: And I go back to, like, when we won in Boston,
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  Speaker 2: it felt like Steve and Drew, our shortstop, when we
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  Speaker 2: won in 13, he didn't allow their offense, the St. Louis' offense,
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  Speaker 2: to get going because it felt like every ball up
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  Speaker 2: the middle, every backhand, like, he was making plays right
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  Speaker 2: and left. And you know how demoralizing that is from
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  Speaker 2: an offensive standpoint because the Guardians really, you know, they
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  Speaker 2: had some traffic, but it really didn't get anything going
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  Speaker 2: until late.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what too, Rossi? And this is a
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  Speaker 1: perfect segue to our Corona Playa.
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  Speaker 3: Playa of the week.
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  Speaker 1: Freddie Peralta winning the ALCS MVP was just dominant. Three games,
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  Speaker 1: two as a starter, one in relief two days ago. Tonight,
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  Speaker 1: five and a third, one earned run, 12 innings overall
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  Speaker 1: with one earned run over three outings, Rossi. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's the formula, right? He comes over from the Mets.
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  Speaker 1: The Rays identify something that they see why he was
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  Speaker 1: the ace in Milwaukee and the player that they traded
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  Speaker 1: for in New York. They unlock something. He says that
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  Speaker 1: he feels like he's 10 feet tall there. And even
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  Speaker 1: after the game, during his speech, he's saying how much
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  Speaker 1: he loves these guys. You see how genuinely happy all
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  Speaker 1: of those guys behind him were for him. He's been
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  Speaker 1: there for two months. So that culture, that, that, just
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  Speaker 1: tells me watching how good that culture there is in
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  Speaker 1: that clubhouse, how excited all those guys were.
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  Speaker 3: And he had that change up working early, man.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about Freddie Fastball and how Domini was his
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  Speaker 2: last start with the heater. But man, the changeup just
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  Speaker 2: kept those guys off balance. You could tell that thing
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  Speaker 2: had some nasty sink to it. He was throwing it
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  Speaker 2: down away early, getting swing and miss, getting soft contact,
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  Speaker 2: getting the ground balls, relying on his defense.
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  Speaker 3: Like, I felt like every.
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  Speaker 2: Time the Guardians had something going, there was a double
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  Speaker 2: play right around the corner, and that's a credit to
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  Speaker 2: Freddie and that pitching staff. You know who, you know,
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  Speaker 2: talking about the Guardians pitching staff a little bit, like,
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  Speaker 2: all those guys that started all five starters staying healthy
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  Speaker 2: all year. It looked like it just finally, they ran
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  Speaker 2: out of steam here at the end of this thing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you're going to those bullpen guys didn't have a,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of starters go deep, which the race did.
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  Speaker 3: And it caught up to them a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: You know, those guys giving up runs late that hadn't
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  Speaker 2: given up any runs, um, get to that point. And
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  Speaker 2: then they give up the two big homers where there
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  Speaker 2: are two horses. So, um, Yeah, you've got to have
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  Speaker 2: a complete team in this time of year. In a
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  Speaker 2: seven-game series, we've talked about it, and it's hard to
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  Speaker 2: go to those bullpen guys over and over again because
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  Speaker 2: they're going to catch up or they're going to sit
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  Speaker 2: on a pitch. They're going to see how the ball
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  Speaker 2: moves when it comes out. Stuff's going to tick down
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  Speaker 2: a little bit, all that adrenaline.
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  Speaker 3: And the Rays took advantage of it, man.
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  Speaker 2: That was impressive, but the Guardians pitching, it looks like
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  Speaker 2: they just ran out of dudes.
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  Speaker 1: No doubt. I think Well, Kevin Cash said it too.
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  Speaker 1: Once this team gets playing daily, right, the back-to-back games
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  Speaker 1: and into a groove, you're going to see our hitters
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  Speaker 1: start hitting. And sure enough, he was absolutely spot on
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  Speaker 1: with that comment. But, yeah, the Guardians staff, Hunter Gattis
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  Speaker 1: threw in nine of the 11 playoff games they're in.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Even if they do sneak this series, these guys will
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  Speaker 1: be on absolute– E going into game one of the
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  Speaker 1: World Series. Usually E on game four or five of
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  Speaker 1: the World Series. Completely empty or being pushed in, towed in.
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  Speaker 1: But that's where the five-game series and the division series
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  Speaker 1: is a little tricky. You lose in that series, it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of... I wish we could see a seven-game series there.
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  Speaker 1: I wish the Yankees and the Rays could have played
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  Speaker 1: a seven-game series. Because they both have depth.
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Even, even the guardians in the white socks, right? The
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  Speaker 1: white socks made this run because they have a group
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  Speaker 1: of pitchers that they literally leaned on every day, seven
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  Speaker 1: game series. You can't do that. And playing four in
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  Speaker 1: a row, not saying that exposed the guardians because they
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  Speaker 1: were right in these games. And these, this team grinded
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  Speaker 1: the guardians. They're really good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Really good team. Like they, Steven vote has those, has
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  Speaker 1: those boys playing at a very high level. Um, Maybe
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  Speaker 1: guys that on the national stage people aren't hearing of,
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  Speaker 1: but Stephen Kwan, Jose Ramirez, who is the rookie chase.
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  Speaker 3: Chase DeLauder. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: DeLauder.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, stud in the postseason.
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  Speaker 3: Stud, no doubt.
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  Speaker 1: So just got to give credit to them, but it
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  Speaker 1: just seemed like you said, Rossi, they just ran out
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  Speaker 1: of arms and just didn't have that full depth like
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  Speaker 1: the Rays had.
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• 16:08
  Speaker 1: we do that? Why do we have to be spending?
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: Why do we have to have a $ 300 million payroll
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: to do it? the Rays and the Brewers are consistently
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: doing year in and year out. Let's spend more money
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: on front office and developing and figuring out how do
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: we get these guys for cheaper. So I did see
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: the theory of now a floor is more important than ever.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: So again, just adds to the drama of what this
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: off season is going to bring.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: If I'm an owner, I mean, that's what I think
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: I heard Jim Bowden saying it. And I think it
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: was all the same thing where he's just talking about
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: what owners should be saying, well, why can't we do this?
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: Why, you know, It has to do with the people
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: running it. And what I kind of see.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: In this is the player that has real skills in
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: an area, like the contact skill, the control the strikes on,
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: the real defensive player that shows up every day and
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: plays elite-type defense. Like, those guys' values go up because
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: of what you're seeing. The speed guy. Chandler Simpson, like,
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: That's the scariest guy I feel like in their lineup.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: He can do so many things and put so much pressure.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Two strikes doesn't matter.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Doesn't matter.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: And then running the bases, you see some of these
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: walks with him at second. It's because they're having a
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: slide step. I'm seeing slide steps with a man on
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: second from the pitching staff. He just causes havoc, and
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: you always have to pay attention to him. And then
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: first and second, him coming up, left on left, everybody
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: knew he was bunting.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: He still was able to lay down a good bunt
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: and beat it out for bases loaded there early on.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: So that guy is an absolute menace. He's just straight
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: chaos when he gets in the box and on the
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: bases and a really, really strong player. So those types
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: of players, I feel like watching these two teams in
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: the World Series, you're going to get a better version
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: of baseball moving forward because of the copycat type league
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: that these guys, that these front offices kind of watch
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: and look and say, hey, how can we do things
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: a little bit differently? How can we you know, save
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: some money in some areas and get a, get a
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: real baseball player that, you know, maybe high baseball IQ
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: type player that can help us win. I think that's
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: going to help the market for guys that usually get underappreciated.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: Like myself.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I hear you. Nice shirt too, by the way.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: What's that say?
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Rizzo made me do it. I finally got my marathon
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: shirt in. It finally got, shout out obvious shirts.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: Appreciate it.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Rossi, I feel like with, big markets, right? You've played in,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: I feel like every big market except the Yankees. I
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: played in Chicago and in New York. That style doesn't
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: play there because you can't, the guys don't have the
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: runway for failure as much in the bigger markets than
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: they do in smaller markets. In smaller markets, their expectations
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: of the fan base are, oh, we're not good this year.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: It is what it is.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Red Sox, Yankees, Dodgers, who am I missing here? Cubs.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Mets.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Mets.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: That doesn't fly there. So that, I know it's a
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: copycat league and owners, why wouldn't you want to spend
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: the least amount of money for the best product you
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: can get, right? That's just business 101.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Well, I feel like some of the big markets, the
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: one thing that they could do is kind of cover
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: up some mistakes or a player that may not pan out.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: you know, the smaller markets kind of ride those guys
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: and let them develop at the big league level and
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: take their lumps, which is a luxury. Like you said,
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: I don't know that every market has for sure.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be, I mean, we're celebrating the
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: world series now and you don't have the thing about
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: this World Series is, Rossi? There's going to be a
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: first-time franchise winning the World Series. Tampa's been there twice.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Milwaukee's been there once, I believe, back in like 44
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: or something. Am I right?
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: 44 years, something like that. But a first-time franchise winning.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: And this is just completely non-biased. Not that I'm from
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: South Florida. Not that Florida is an absolute baseball factory
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: sending players to the big leagues at a very high clip.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: I think we're the best in the world down in Florida.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: I know Texas and California have different views about that.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Completely non-biased. I hope that the championship comes down to
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Florida and the Tampa Bay Rays win it. Just non-biased
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: being from Florida.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Well, I hope so, too, because I'll be right in
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: my prediction.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: I don't know if that'll ever happen, but we'll get
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: to our predictions another show. We'll have to get to those,
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: but I am happy for our state. I'm happy for
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: the city of Tampa and St.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Pete.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Kevin Cash and I go way back, played against each
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: other in college, and we're teammates in Boston. Super pumped
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: for him and that organization. That's his hometown. He grew
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: up in Tampa, so... You know, he pulled all the
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: right strings this postseason, used that bullpen, mixing and matching.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, he used a ton of relievers. A lot
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: of guys, the three batter minimum and out, and just
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: did a phenomenal job.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: So, yeah, the Rays are in the World Series.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Congratulations, Kevin Cash. The entire Tampa Bay organization and the
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: fans enjoy it. I know the first two trips weren't
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: that great. A little side story, Eric Hinsky, was one
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: of my, the best coaches I've ever been around, one
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: of my great friends in baseball, says every time he
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: used to go to Philadelphia after 09, the fans would
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: always give him the biggest cheer in Philadelphia because he
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: made the last out for the Rays in the World Series.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: And literally in our chat right now, our producer, Chris Chan,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: just typed, made the final out in 08. He's a
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: big Phillies fan, so.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Oh, man. Shout out. Shout out. Where are we partying
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: tonight in Tampa? Where's the spot? We got to get
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: some people to throw that in the chat. I don't know.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: There's a couple hangouts in Tampa that I think.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: I'll shout out my boy Dante Adan and his spot.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: John Boy in. Good night, John Boy in St. Pete.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: It's a good spot. And he has a country bar
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: there as well.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: I've been to the one in Chicago. That's the only one.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Good night, John Boy.
• 22:25
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• 24:08
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• 24:09
  Speaker 3: We've been in the Vibe Room. We've been in the
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Vibe Room. That's a spot. That's a spot. And with
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Church and Sheryl Crow, like, I mean, what a tour
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: it's going to be. It's always good.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: He always ends in Boston at Foxboro.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: He always starts in Tampa. I've been to that one.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Maybe we'll have to have a meeting in Chicago, maybe
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• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Ooh, with Kenny on it?
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: On 626.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: With Kenny on it?
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  Speaker 2: 626.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: That'd be nice.
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  Speaker 1: Our Tim Buss ball bag questions of the day, where
• 24:49
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• 24:52
  Speaker 1: from YouTube. You can email us at rossandrizzo at gmail.com
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: or comment on one of our posts on socials. First
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: email from Gavin Dow. One of my best memories as
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: a Cubs fan was Game 4 of the 2015 NLCS.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Not the game itself, but what happened after. Thousands of
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: fans stayed in their seats and started cheering for the
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: best season that we'd seen in so long. And we
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: stayed there until the team came out and acknowledged us.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: I know what it felt like as a fan, but
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: I've always wondered what it was like from the perspective
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: of players.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember that moment.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: We got it handed to us by the Mets in 15,
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: and they were the better team at that time. And
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: I think Daniel Murphy, I think we bring him up
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: every time we.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Talk about that team. He lives rent-free. Yeah, he does.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: He's in our dome, for sure. I remember that moment.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: You're kind of pissed because your season's over, so it's
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: hard to be in a good mood, but I definitely
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: feel like thinking the fans, and it's a tradition in
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Chicago at the end of the season, for sure, but
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: thinking the fans.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: There felt.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Different from other places I had played. And not all
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: of them, but they've got your back there. It's a
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: positive fan base for the most part. And you always
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: felt like that was one of, like he said, one
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: of the better seasons that they had seen in a
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: long time. And we felt that. It sucks when you lose,
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: and it's hard to be in a good mood appreciation.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: So you just kind of go out there and thank them,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: and then you kind of head it in is how
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: I remember it.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I always think it's so cool. Obviously, you want
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: to win the last game. And that year we were
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: heartbroken losing to the Mets the way we did, especially
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: just everything we built in 2015. So the fact that
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: pretty much the whole stadium was still there and we
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: came out and got to salute the fans was really
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: cool because they appreciated it. They were there the years
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: prior when we were losing 100 games, Rossi. I know
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: you weren't. You're, you know, Ricky Bobby, you want to win,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: put Ricky Bobby in. or boobie miles in. Um, but yeah,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: it was a really cool moment. Definitely for me.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Just so I think I remember them coming and getting
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: us out of the, we were on our way down
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: the cave and.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: They just said, Hey, all the fans are still here.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: Don't worry. You guys go out. So that was, that was.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: A really cool moment. Yeah.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Email.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Are you sure that Gavin.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Email from Alex Warda as someone who works at Wrigley field,
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: what's your favorite spot at Wrigley that most fans would
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: never get to see? Ooh, let me go first on this.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: I think the first one pops up in my head. Man,
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: there's so many spots that I feel like I love.
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: And I'll say I miss this when I miss the
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: old dugouts because I had a little perch up just
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: next to the middle steps that I sat at to watch.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: When I didn't play, which was 90% of the time.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: And It was, I had a view, I had Ski
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: right next to me, I had Hyder when we were
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: on defense standing next to me working the outfielders and
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: like Cesar or Lester or Lackey or somebody would come
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: sit next to me.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Like that, I miss, that was a really cool spot.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Up on top of those, whatever that little ledge was
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: there and the old dugouts. And I know everybody blasts
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: the old dugouts and how shitty they were, but Like,
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: when I was there, like, that was like our own
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: little party scene down there. Like, everybody was dancing and
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: bumping into each other. And, you know, the stars were
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: kind of crammed up against the bench. And all the
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: coaches were up against the wall. I just missed that
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: dugout and especially that perch up there to watch those games.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Got a lot of good memories from up there.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: I loved it. And the old clubhouse, too, I loved.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: The old clubhouse, we had this tiny room. It was
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: the players' lounge where that's the only place– You can
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: go to get out of the locker room, and you
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: literally were on top of each other at all times.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Travis Wood would bring in, like, after batting practice, Travis
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Wood would bring in those big 10-packs of Taco Bell boxes,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: or Lester would get Popeyes, and we'd get in there
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: just absolutely crazy.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, easy on Lester and the Popeyes.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we were sensitive.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: McDonald's.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Okay, Mickey D.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: My favorite spot, now that I'm not playing... has to
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: be Mr.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Ricketts' suite.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, he has a beautiful, it's like all bricks
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: in there. They've done it up with old memorabilia.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: It's wide, it's big.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: It fits your whole family. Plus like, I think it
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: fits up to 50, 60 people, the best view of
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: the park. Um, so really special to be in there
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: a few times this past year, but on the inside
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: and the clubhouse, um, I think the training room, if
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: you got to experience the training room and see everything
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: that's available to the players and all the cutting edge
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: technology and what goes into pregame and postgame, I think
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: you'd be really just intrigued by all of it and
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: be almost blown away because there are so many gadgets
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: in that training room that we have access to when
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: it comes to recovery, prehab, rehab, anything, you name it.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: We have cold tubs, hot tubs, saunas, float tanks that
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: regularly have the cryo tank. They have this red light bed.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Now nap room, like you name it. The training room
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: has salt pot.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Well, I would, one of my first things that came
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: to my mind when I managed, I would cold, cold
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: plunge every day and I would get in that, that
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: cold tub there.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: And it was like, it was absolutely freezing, but I
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: used to go in there.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: One of the first ones that was like my, my
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: starting routine when I would get to the, to the
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: field is go in there and just, get a nice
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: cold plunge in the cold tub for about three to
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: five minutes. And that was one of the first things
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: that popped in my mind, but I didn't think fans
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: wanted to hear about that.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: But you're right. That is a sick training. The training
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: room and weight room at Wrigley, I think, is just
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: top notch. It's pretty impressive.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: No doubt.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: All right. Last one.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Email from Amy Green from Knoxville, Tennessee. Revisiting a miserable moment.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Sometimes I think home runs are rally killers. Do you
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: think it would have been harder if Rajay had hit
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: a double off the wall instead of a home run
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: in game seven. Now the tying runs on base and
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: the rally continues. After the home run, yes, you're stunned,
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: but everything stops. You regroup and you go on to
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: the next guy. I always wanted to ask Joe, but
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: would like to ask you guys, get you guys' take.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Well, Amy, that home run by Rajay, I saw Roger
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: pop up my feed about he was talking about stealing
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: bases literally today. And I got like, ah!
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: Ah!
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: So, if he would have hit a double, it would
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: have been so much easier as long as the outcome
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: was still the same. It's crazy that we won the
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: World Series and 10 years later that home run still
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: haunts us as Cubs players, Cubs fans, and we won
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: the game. That's how big of a world series that
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: was that's how big of a home run that was
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: for rajay the whole like bro do you remember how
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: loud that stadium was rossi.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: When he hit that home run it was shaking it
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: was shaking i'll never forget lebron on the screen flexing
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: on everybody like i i'm i'm with you amy like
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: the the the home run can be a rally killer
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  Speaker 2: i get it like it kind of you know but
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Not that one.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: That one. You don't want that.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: I wish it would have been a double off the
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: wall because I think we would have got out of
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: that thing. But, yeah, not that one.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Not that one, Amy. Good question. Great question. Thank you, Amy.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Hey, being from Tennessee, this is a completely side note,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: so stick with me here. Now that I'm a runner, Rossi,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: I ran a marathon. I don't know if anyone knew
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: that talking here, but eight days ago I ran a
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Chicago marathon. It's not about me. Bro, there's this event
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: going on right now. I get targeted now, all this
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: running stuff. It's called the Backyard Ultra. And what it is, Rossi,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: it's the whole world's competing, like all nations. 15 runners
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: from each nation that's competing. They do a 4.1 mile
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  Speaker 1: loop and they repeat it. There's no finish. So they
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: do the 4.1 mile loop and they do it on
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  Speaker 1: the hour every hour. So if you run in 40 minutes,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: you have 20 minutes of rest for 24 hours straight
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: until the last man is standing.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: They're on day, they're going on day three. This is
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: night three right now.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: Until somebody just, until somebody, until you're the last guy.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Until the teams, until the teams like fade. Yeah, so.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: It's crazy.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: I'm following along on it. I'm like, dude, these guys
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: are insane. They're losing their minds. They're literally running on,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: they sleep for like four minutes at a time and
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: then the hour.
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  Speaker 3: I can't even understand that. I can't even, I can't
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: even fathom that.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Impressive, bro.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Backyard.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have the mental, I don't, I know I'm
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: not mentally tough enough to do anything like that.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: Not even close.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: Like, yeah, I couldn't sign up for that.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: I would get PTSD from signing up.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: They're, they're, the team USA is doing it in somewhere
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: in Tennessee, but. Anyways, Rossi, again, this has been so
• 34:38
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• 34:46
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• 34:50
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• 34:54
  Speaker 1: And we also love talking the game of baseball. So
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: congratulations to the Tampa Bay Rays, the Milwaukee Brewers. Game
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: one of the World Series is on Friday, Rossi. Cannot wait.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: We'll be coming.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Let's go.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: To you for a few episodes during the week. Maybe
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: we'll talk about some stuff that's going on around the league,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: but man, we cannot wait till Friday. Rizzo Ross.