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Ross & Rizzo DEBATE if White Sox have RUN OUT OF GAS after Guardians FORCE Game 5 · Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered

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  Speaker 1: Jose Ramirez has woken up and is being the dude
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  Speaker 1: that we've seen for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: So this is a guy that posts up every single day.
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  Speaker 2: So to see him come alive, man, especially how long
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  Speaker 2: he stayed there. He took the team-friendly deal because he
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  Speaker 2: believed in the Guardians. He believed in that organization and
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  Speaker 2: wanted to stay there.
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  Speaker 3: And loves it there.
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  Speaker 2: And he hit the big home run there in the
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  Speaker 2: fifth inning to put them up 3-1. Welcome back to
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  Speaker 2: another episode of Ross and Rizzo on We are here
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  Speaker 2: talking about game four of the ALDS. Guardians versus the
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  Speaker 2: White Sox. Guardians beating the White Sox 9-5 to force
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  Speaker 2: a game five in Cleveland. Rossi, I was there for
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  Speaker 2: game three. The stadium was loud. The White Sox were
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  Speaker 2: able to silence them. And then in game four, primetime
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  Speaker 2: night game blackout there on the south side. And the
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  Speaker 2: Guardians come in there again and take two. from the
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  Speaker 2: White Sox on their home field. Got to be a
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  Speaker 2: gut-wrenching feeling. I feel like those White Sox fans are starved.
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  Speaker 2: They haven't clinched a home series, playoff series, on the
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  Speaker 2: south side since 1906, Rossi.
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  Speaker 1: That's been a minute. That's when I was a rookie.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to beat you to the punch. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to beat you to the punch. That place was electric, man.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like this is just a– this series is
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  Speaker 1: kind of following suit for what they did during the
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  Speaker 1: regular season, the back and forth, uh, the place was
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  Speaker 1: electric jumping off to, uh, the socks jumping out to
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  Speaker 1: a two Oh lead.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, man, the back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: That happened this year, we saw some of those games
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the season where, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: had the walk off in Cleveland, um, you know, feels
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  Speaker 1: like these guys, nobody ever goes away. And it's always
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  Speaker 1: these bullpen matchups and these arms and who's, um, who's
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  Speaker 1: crisper coming out of the pen, whose guys are kind
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  Speaker 1: of fresher and look like some guys are running out
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  Speaker 1: of juice out of those bullpens.
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  Speaker 2: No doubt.
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  Speaker 1: No doubt.
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  Speaker 2: At least they have the off day, uh, tomorrow and
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  Speaker 2: then going into game five, everyone should be available. But
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  Speaker 2: the guardians, man, you got to give so much credit
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  Speaker 2: to the guardians and Steven vote for keeping his team
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  Speaker 2: in it and believing right.
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  Speaker 3: Believe land.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that's always their motto. Um, but bro, they,
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  Speaker 2: they just, They could have folded so many times, and
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  Speaker 2: that whole crew, I feel like, has so much late
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  Speaker 2: season and September experience and postseason experience. I know they
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  Speaker 2: haven't gone too far, but these guys have played in
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  Speaker 2: big games, and they have not shown any quit.
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  Speaker 1: Bro, Jose Ramirez has woken up and is being the
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  Speaker 1: dude that we've seen for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he dealt with the hammy, right? Did a hand-made issue?
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  Speaker 3: Some hand issue. I don't remember exactly.
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  Speaker 2: He posts pretty much every single year. I mean, we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about a guy who plays a lot of baseball games, Ross.
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  Speaker 2: I have his baseball reference page up. Other than this year, 20-25,
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  Speaker 2: 158 games.
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  Speaker 1: 24, 158.
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  Speaker 3: 23, 156.
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  Speaker 1: 22, 157.
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  Speaker 2: 21, 152. So this is a guy that posts up
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  Speaker 2: every single day. So to see him come alive, man,
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  Speaker 2: especially how long he stayed there. He took the team-friendly
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  Speaker 2: deal because he believed in the Guardians. He believed in
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  Speaker 2: that organization and wanted to stay there and loves it there.
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  Speaker 2: And he hit the big home run there in the
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  Speaker 2: fifth inning to put them up 3-1.
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  Speaker 3: I feel.
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  Speaker 2: Like the fifth and sixth inning was the entire ballgame there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean? You're exactly right.
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  Speaker 1: Like, would the White Sox answer back after 2-0 and
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  Speaker 1: then he hits that big, two run Homer to take
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  Speaker 1: it three, two. And you're like, okay, kind of silence
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  Speaker 1: the crowd. And then they answer back with two of
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  Speaker 1: their own, you know, just grinding it out.
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  Speaker 3: Hit by pitch.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not, she just on cue. Uh, it feels
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  Speaker 1: like you, I mean, what would you have in your career?
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  Speaker 1: I think he has like 30 something this year. What's
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  Speaker 1: your highest in the season?
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  Speaker 2: And 32. I, I, fun fact, not about me, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm only the second me. And, um, man i'm blanking
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  Speaker 2: white saw he's on the indians it'll come to me
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  Speaker 2: only 30 30 players in major league history 30 homers
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  Speaker 2: 30 hit by 30 there's only there's only two.
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  Speaker 1: Of us nice only two nice rare air but they
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  Speaker 1: they you know that's kind of the the like i
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  Speaker 1: said like these two teams just it feels like just
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  Speaker 1: that boxing match just going back and forth you know
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  Speaker 1: what it kind of And maybe it's because Cleveland and
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  Speaker 1: I just relate everything to our time.
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  Speaker 3: Don Baylor. Don Baylor. Shout out Chris Tran. Another way
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  Speaker 3: to give us that name.
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  Speaker 1: But it felt like, and this was kind of like
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  Speaker 1: when I was thinking about who I'm going to pick
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  Speaker 1: for the game, it's our game, our series with Cleveland
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  Speaker 1: kind of was like, we didn't get going to a
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  Speaker 1: little bit later offensively in the world series. And like,
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  Speaker 1: if you look at our last five games, it feels
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  Speaker 1: a lot like, you know, we send it back to Cleveland,
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  Speaker 1: you know, win game five. And then we bust out
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  Speaker 1: in game six offensively. That's what it felt like Cleveland
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  Speaker 1: did yesterday on the road. So going back home a
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  Speaker 1: little bit momentum, the offensive rolling, they got Gavin Williams
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  Speaker 1: who came out of the pen last night to close
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  Speaker 1: it out, starting game five and a winner take all, Um,
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  Speaker 1: it just felt a little bit about like that back
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  Speaker 1: and forth that we had and the momentum just feels
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  Speaker 1: like it's all guardians right now for me.
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  Speaker 2: No doubt. It has to be right. It's a, a
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  Speaker 2: young white Sox team that I feel like was so emotional,
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  Speaker 2: wanted to win so bad for that home crowd and
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  Speaker 2: celebrate here in Chicago and go face the Rays.
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  Speaker 3: But that wasn't in the story. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: It, and it was a good baseball game. It's, this
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  Speaker 2: has been good baseball, right? Got teams, and what I
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  Speaker 2: mean by that is the guys have responded when they've
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  Speaker 2: gotten punched. Both teams are throwing punches.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: And the fact that the Guardians go up 3-1 in
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  Speaker 2: the fifth and then the White Sox respond, for me,
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  Speaker 2: the last two games at home for the White Sox,
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  Speaker 2: they just haven't got that big hit. You know, they've
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  Speaker 2: grinded out runs, but they didn't get the big dagger hit.
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  Speaker 2: They've had so many opportunities. Bases loaded, guys on second
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  Speaker 2: and third, and they, you know, sack fly or they
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  Speaker 2: only get one run in at a time where, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Joe Adele gets the.
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  Speaker 3: Bases and triple. That's what I was going to say, yep.
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  Speaker 2: It's like that one hit changes the entire– wins the
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  Speaker 2: series for the White Sox. But they just haven't gotten it.
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  Speaker 2: But they've been fighting. They've been clawing. They've been grinding.
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  Speaker 2: Their pitchers are probably a little bit on empty, the
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  Speaker 2: back-to-back games. But they have an off day. They'll be
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  Speaker 2: able to reset, and adrenaline will take over for game five.
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  Speaker 2: So that's going to be fun. Saturday night in Cleveland, primetime.
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  Speaker 2: They're the only game on. It's going to be fun
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  Speaker 2: baseball to watch.
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  Speaker 3: I tell you who's loving this, Kevin Cash and the
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  Speaker 3: Tampa Bay Rays. Like, go ahead. Play five.
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  Speaker 2: No doubt.
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  Speaker 3: Spend them all.
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  Speaker 1: Like, you hit it on the head, man. it's been
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  Speaker 1: a real cool back and forth. That's what you love
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  Speaker 1: about baseball, the comebacks, the never quit. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we saw, you know, so you could tell how bad,
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  Speaker 1: and I know the season's over, but like Steven Vogt
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  Speaker 1: was taking nothing for granted yesterday, like bringing in Kate
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  Speaker 1: Smith in the eighth and extended him. I mean, he
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  Speaker 1: threw a lot of pitch, looked like he started to
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  Speaker 1: run out of gas a little bit and then bring
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  Speaker 1: it in Patrick, you know, I'm sorry, Gavin.
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  Speaker 3: Williams, to, to close it out.
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  Speaker 1: Like these guys are, are taking no chances and it's
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  Speaker 1: that time of year already. You know, it feels like
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  Speaker 1: in the past we get some of that in the
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  Speaker 1: game sevens of the world series or the game six isn't,
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  Speaker 1: but right now it's like, no, no, no. The, the
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  Speaker 1: DS game five, whatever it takes to move on. These
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  Speaker 1: guys are, are, are scratching and clawing.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm with you. Like, we feel like the socks
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  Speaker 3: get some sack flies.
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  Speaker 1: Here and there with the bases loaded or the hit
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  Speaker 1: by pitch stuff where, but they don't get the break
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  Speaker 1: open blow, the bases clear and double, you know, that
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  Speaker 1: the Cleveland have gotten.
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  Speaker 2: No doubt.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good point.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, a lot of line drives at people a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Both ends.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, both ends where ball off the bat, you're like, oh, man, right?
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  Speaker 3: I do what scares me. Grant Taylor did not look good.
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  Speaker 3: That's all right. It's one game. It's one game. I know.
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  Speaker 3: I just like. It's a lot of emotion. Like Fetty
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  Speaker 3: throwing that ball up into the stands.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see that? It's a lot of emotions for
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  Speaker 1: the young guys. That's what happens on young teams. I know,
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  Speaker 1: and you've got to– that shit takes a toll over
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  Speaker 1: the long– you run out of juice.
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  Speaker 3: Like expending that, screaming. You know, I know it's part
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  Speaker 3: of it, but.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, the only way you know you run out of juice, Rossi,
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  Speaker 2: is by going through it. All right, and they're going
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  Speaker 2: through it. They're going to learn.
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  Speaker 3: Part of the journey. I just was telling Landry. It's
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  Speaker 3: all part of the journey.
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  Speaker 1: Landry had them up here in Nashville, and Landry had
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  Speaker 1: a volleyball game, and we had lunch yesterday, and I
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  Speaker 1: was just talking about kind of the ups and downs
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  Speaker 1: of like a season. I was like, just part of
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  Speaker 1: the journey. It makes the story better at the end.
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  Speaker 1: A little adversity never hurt anybody.
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  Speaker 3: In, what was it, 24?
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  Speaker 2: When we were playing the Royals in the first round, Hector,
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  Speaker 2: or Carlos Rodon, comes out in the first inning I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if you remember this game I remember that
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  Speaker 2: blowing absolutely smoke. I'm not kidding, Rossi. In my entire career,
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  Speaker 2: it was the most electric first inning I've ever experienced
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  Speaker 2: in my entire life. He walked off the mound in
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  Speaker 2: a different state of mind. I'm not kidding. I have goosebumps.
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  Speaker 2: My hair's thinking about it. And he freaking blew his, like,
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  Speaker 2: come to third and fourth, his adrenaline was down and, uh,
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  Speaker 2: but he learned from that.
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  Speaker 3: He learned from that.
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  Speaker 2: And, but it was like these, this is what the
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  Speaker 2: playoffs all about. It's about being emotional, controlling your emotions,
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  Speaker 2: trying to control your emotions while being emotional. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I said it to you in like the glass case
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  Speaker 2: of emotion stuff, right? Like half joking around half serious, like, dude,
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  Speaker 2: this shit is crazy.
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  Speaker 3: It's a ride. It's a ride. I miss it.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you what, like there's times I don't, miss
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  Speaker 1: playing baseball like it's hard and your body and and
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  Speaker 1: the grind you know we talk about the dog days
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  Speaker 1: of august and you hate everybody but right now i'm
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  Speaker 1: like i would give my left nut to be in
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  Speaker 1: a duck out it is it is uh it's a
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  Speaker 1: fun time of year that back and forth that emotion
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  Speaker 1: like that those nerves and energy and getting out there
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  Speaker 1: and competing in that environment with everybody rocking and getting
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  Speaker 1: a big.
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  Speaker 2: Hit it's what you it's what you train for in
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  Speaker 2: the offseason It's what the dog days are all about.
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  Speaker 2: It's what the struggle is all about. It's about these moments.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, game five is going to be great. There's
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  Speaker 2: no secrets. There's no hidden scouting reports. Every guy knows
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  Speaker 2: what each pitcher is going to try to do to them.
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  Speaker 2: Pitchers know what hitters are looking for. So that's why
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  Speaker 2: these series, the game five is going to be a
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  Speaker 2: coin flip. I just think that the Guardians have too
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  Speaker 2: much experience going back home to not finish this out.
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  Speaker 2: But then again, I want to say the White Sox
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  Speaker 2: getting out of guaranteed rate or rate field, getting out
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  Speaker 2: of Chicago and going back on the road and being
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  Speaker 2: those road underdogs again, they could feed off of that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I just want a good baseball game. What do you got, Rossi?
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  Speaker 1: Give me your prediction here. Okay, I'll do my polymarket pick,
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  Speaker 1: but I want to explain it first.
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  Speaker 3: I think... I'm with you.
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  Speaker 1: Like, I love the Gavin Williams starter. I think this
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  Speaker 1: is where the starter is going to pay off to
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  Speaker 1: go to the bullpen rather than the White Sox. Kind
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  Speaker 1: of their journey has been kind of mixing and matching.
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  Speaker 1: And at the end of this, they've seen everybody Cleveland has.
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  Speaker 1: And that place is going to be rocking. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the momentum I talked about earlier, I think I just
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  Speaker 1: give the edge to the Guardians. But if you're a
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  Speaker 1: polymarket kind of guy, The Guardians are 57% to the yes.
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  Speaker 1: That's maybe the highest number we've had to close out
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  Speaker 1: the series. $ 100 gets you $ 170. White Sox are 44%
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  Speaker 1: to the yes. And $ 100 trade gets you $ 216 back.
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  Speaker 1: And I know I talk about winning money, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: going with the Guardians. I feel like they've got all
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  Speaker 1: of them. Jose Ramirez is locked in. That's the player
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  Speaker 1: to watch.
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  Speaker 2: For game five. If the White Sox can keep Jose
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  Speaker 2: Ramirez down, he's hot. He's a superstar. We didn't even
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  Speaker 2: talk about Gavin Williams coming in in the ninth, and
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  Speaker 2: I just want to hit on that. Coming in on
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  Speaker 2: his bullpen day, which would be his side session day,
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  Speaker 2: throwing close to 20 pitches, high leverage, right? He was
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  Speaker 2: warming up for a while. That'll be something to watch
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  Speaker 2: in game five, but I don't think it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be an issue at all because there's going to be
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  Speaker 2: such a short leash on him in that, right?
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  Speaker 1: Any.
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  Speaker 2: trouble, you know Stephen Vogt will have guys ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone is available for Game 5.
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  Speaker 3: So, going to be a great one.
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  Speaker 2: Tune in on Saturday night in Cleveland. Cleveland's going to
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  Speaker 2: be rocking. Good for the Guardians fans. I have to say,
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  Speaker 2: I'm rooting for the Guardians. I just have such a
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  Speaker 2: soft spot for Cleveland, right? I want to see them
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  Speaker 2: have success.
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  Speaker 3: It's fun to be in the media and just flip-flop
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  Speaker 3: back and forth on it.
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  Speaker 2: Dude, literally, I think I've gone from rooting for this team,
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  Speaker 2: that team, Dodgers, Yankees, that's like.
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  Speaker 1: I'm rooting for him because that was my pick to
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  Speaker 1: start this whole thing off. So now they've got to
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  Speaker 1: close it out for me. I'll be four for four
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  Speaker 1: in the championship series if the Guardians get there.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go, Cards.
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  Speaker 2: You've been in the media before. You've managed.
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  Speaker 3: You have experience. I'm a rookie.
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  Speaker 2: My emotions right now are getting me.
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  Speaker 2: all of our questions, all of our fans' questions, hottest
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  Speaker 2: First email is from Garnett Shear. I've been re-watching some
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  Speaker 2: of the 2016 playoffs on YouTube, and while Minori Kawasaki
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  Speaker 2: was ineligible for postseason play, he still traveled with the
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  Speaker 2: team and got a ring. I was wondering about the
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  Speaker 2: role that the players that can't play but travel with
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  Speaker 2: the team have during that time of the season.
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  Speaker 3: That's a great question.
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  Speaker 1: Great question, and Kawa, as we called him, was one
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  Speaker 1: of those guys, a great player, but not on the roster.
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  Speaker 1: You loved having him around. He made an imprint when
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  Speaker 1: he came into spring training. He karaoke-ed. Everybody loved having
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  Speaker 1: him around. He had the funniest sayings. He was just
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  Speaker 1: a good vibe at that point, waiting there for his
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  Speaker 1: time in case somebody got hurt and you need defensive-type players,
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  Speaker 1: but solid player. Um, was really fun to be around,
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  Speaker 1: helped us out all year, uh, when he was up and, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when I, you say you're rewatching game seven
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  Speaker 1: in 2016 and watching some of those tapes. Um, the
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  Speaker 1: fun part, I do that every year, right before spring
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  Speaker 1: training starts, I'll watch the 2016 and 2013 games.
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  Speaker 3: World Series movies. Turn the page. And it is, bro.
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  Speaker 2: I laugh.
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  Speaker 1: I cry, bro. It's good for the soul. It is
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  Speaker 1: just like takes me back. Like I was amazing. Look
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  Speaker 1: how great our team was. Just a little, just a
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  Speaker 1: little dig me session for my career. But I'm serious, bro.
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  Speaker 1: You should try it. It's therapeutic. I cry every year.
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  Speaker 1: I cry every year. It's like the happiest thing. And
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  Speaker 1: you realize what you realize is like going through that,
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  Speaker 1: the back and forth that happens and what it takes
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  Speaker 1: to win. a championship and it's like, I'm exhausted when
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  Speaker 1: I'm done watching it.
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  Speaker 3: It was like, it's so healthy.
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  Speaker 1: It's a reminder about the things you said and the
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  Speaker 1: things that guys did and like how you just got
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  Speaker 1: to keep pushing forward, bro.
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  Speaker 3: It's, it's healthy, but good question.
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  Speaker 2: That was, that was an all time rant from one
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  Speaker 2: guy traveling with a team to you watching spring training.
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  Speaker 3: It's not about me.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't want to make it about me,
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  Speaker 2: but it's about me. I think it's a huge role.
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  Speaker 2: I think that, The guys on the bench mean everything
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  Speaker 2: to a baseball team on a daily basis, especially throughout
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  Speaker 2: the season. That support on the bench throughout the grind
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  Speaker 2: of 162 means everything. And in the playoffs, too, it's
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  Speaker 2: such a tense environment. You need guys on the bench
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  Speaker 2: to be there, to be kind of that safety blanket of,
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  Speaker 2: all right, we got this, we're good, bring the good vibes,
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  Speaker 2: bring the loose vibes. Cowell was that for us.
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  Speaker 3: For sure.
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  Speaker 2: We've, I think pretty, I correct me if I'm wrong,
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  Speaker 2: but we like made sure Kyle was with us because
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  Speaker 2: a lot of times they don't let guys travel and
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  Speaker 2: you see it with the white socks with Mike Vassell.
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  Speaker 2: He's he had Tommy John surgery. He was such a
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  Speaker 2: vibe for them in that clubhouse on the field that
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  Speaker 2: they ended up taking him on the road. You never
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  Speaker 2: bring guys who have Tommy John surgery on the road
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  Speaker 2: with you during the regular season. but that's how much
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  Speaker 2: he meant to that clubhouse culture there for the white socks.
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  Speaker 2: So it means everything. So great question. Great question.
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  Speaker 1: All right. YouTube comment from Ryan winter five, five 41.
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  Speaker 1: What is your opinion or takeaways on the near future
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  Speaker 1: expansion teams? And explain how that would look. Love the
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  Speaker 1: pod and go Cubs.
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  Speaker 3: Nice, Ryan.
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  Speaker 1: Nice.
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  Speaker 2: I think that– I think it's inevitable we're going to
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  Speaker 2: add two more teams and you'll have 32 teams and
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  Speaker 2: then you break that down. I think what you're going
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  Speaker 2: to see because of the playoffs is you're going to
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  Speaker 2: see an east and west and you're just going to
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  Speaker 2: have seeds. Now, if they go east and west and
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  Speaker 2: they do divisions– Within the East and the West, they
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  Speaker 2: have to make it to where if you win your division,
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  Speaker 2: you get rewarded. I'm not sure how that's going to work,
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  Speaker 2: but it just seems inevitable that we expand to more
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  Speaker 2: teams where that is to be determined. I know there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of talks about Nashville.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe Utah. I'm sitting in Nashville right now, baby. I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: let's go.
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  Speaker 1: Music City needs a team. Come up here, every team
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  Speaker 1: going out on Broadway. Leasing Broadway girls alone.
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  Speaker 2: But I think that's how you expand it. And I
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  Speaker 2: think eventually you just have an East and a West
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  Speaker 2: and you start receding in the playoffs. So the best
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  Speaker 2: team plays the worst team and then you keep receding
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  Speaker 2: throughout the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. I don't know what team's going to get, there's
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  Speaker 1: like all the teams are in the mix, Portland, Utah,
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  Speaker 1: I think Charlotte, Nashville, all these different, different things. But
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, the reseeding stuff would real really
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  Speaker 1: help or kind of realignment of, of the divisions. And
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  Speaker 1: it will help a lot of the travel and some
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  Speaker 1: of the, the, the grind of, of maybe the one
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  Speaker 1: 62 or we'll see, but a great question.
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  Speaker 3: Great question, Ryan. I think that, I think that'll be
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  Speaker 3: really healthy.
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  Speaker 1: And I think Manfred is, I think that's going to
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  Speaker 1: be his last little legacy is, is adding those last
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  Speaker 1: two teams and whatever goes down this, this year.
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  Speaker 2: That means they'll need two more managers, Rossi.
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  Speaker 3: Just saying. Hey, I'm a content creator now. Are you
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  Speaker 3: trying to kick me out? You like working with me?
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  Speaker 3: What's going on?
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  Speaker 2: Last email is from Bill. The question is for me. Rizzo,
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  Speaker 2: how hard was it to step away from playing and
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  Speaker 2: what made you want to step into media so fast?
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  Speaker 2: Do you still miss playing or are you happy with
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  Speaker 2: the transition? I kind of knew going into 24 that
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  Speaker 2: especially after I got hurt and broke my arm that
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  Speaker 2: I remember telling Emily, I was like, hey, let's enjoy
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  Speaker 2: these last two months. Not really sure where it's going
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  Speaker 2: to go after this. And I told my family in
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs, hey, you know, I told them the same thing. Like,
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  Speaker 2: enjoy this ride. I'm not telling you I'm retiring after
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  Speaker 2: this season, but it's a possibility, right? So then the
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  Speaker 2: way the offseason unfolded and the teams that were interested
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  Speaker 2: just didn't really suit. My wife was pregnant. I had
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  Speaker 2: some interest from San Diego and some other teams and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, you know what, for what it takes
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  Speaker 2: to be an elite player, I just felt like I
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  Speaker 2: just couldn't give that anymore. And we were having our
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  Speaker 2: first child, which has been the best thing ever. And
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  Speaker 2: I was like, you know what, I just went to
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  Speaker 2: the World Series with the New York Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: Like, I'm good.
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  Speaker 2: Like, I'm happy. The grind is so hard. Do I
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  Speaker 2: miss playing? I miss playing for the first time this
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  Speaker 2: opening day.
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  Speaker 3: For about.
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  Speaker 2: Four pitches. And then you see.
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  Speaker 2: And then you see guys just throwing a hundred. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, no, I don't miss that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then I really miss... What do you miss the most?
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  Speaker 2: What do I miss the most of plane rides?
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  Speaker 3: Just the.
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  Speaker 2: The struggle.
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  Speaker 3: The camaraderie. Like the.
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  Speaker 2: I miss the guys... Like hanging out in the clubhouse.
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  Speaker 1: And like.
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  Speaker 2: Just talking baseball. And having fun. And joking around. Those
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  Speaker 2: are the things you miss.
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  Speaker 3: And then.
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  Speaker 2: The struggle. I love the struggle. As much as I
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  Speaker 2: embraced it and wore it on my sleeve, it's what
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  Speaker 2: fuels you. I remember so many times at my locker
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  Speaker 2: just sitting there laughing. And guys were like, why are
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  Speaker 2: you laughing?
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  Speaker 3: Why are you smiling?
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  Speaker 2: You fucking suck right now. I'm like, because this is
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  Speaker 2: what makes it so much better. This is what makes
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  Speaker 2: the sunny days so much better.
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  Speaker 1: If you love the struggle, you would have loved to
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  Speaker 1: have my career.
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  Speaker 3: That's all I'll say.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But, no, I don't miss it. I do not miss
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  Speaker 2: it at all. I love getting to hang with my
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  Speaker 2: pal all the time, my best pal, Rossi. And the
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  Speaker 2: broadcast itself has been a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 3: So, good question.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for getting me in my feels. Thanks, everyone, for listening. Again,
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  Speaker 2: Ross and Rizzo on Filtered, Game 5 of the ALDS.
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  Speaker 2: We will be with you right afterwards. And then we
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  Speaker 2: are on to the Championship Series.
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  Speaker 3: Rossi.
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  Speaker 2: Six teams left. After Saturday, there will be four remaining.
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  Speaker 2: Cannot wait.
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  Speaker 3: Rizzo, Ross, out. Peace.