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World Series Game 1 REACTION: Brewers escape CRAZY 9th inning to BEAT Rays in Game 1 | Ross & Rizzo · Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered

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  Speaker 1: He lets out this huge roar, right? Like, we just
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  Speaker 1: won the game. He's celebrating. And then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, oh, man, I need to lock back in
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  Speaker 1: right now. In the World Series. Welcome back to another
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  Speaker 1: episode of Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered. I'm Anthony Rizzo with
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  Speaker 1: my partner, David Ross. Rossi, Game 1 of the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: Brewers winning 3-2. You were boots on the ground in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 1: How was it?
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  Speaker 2: Buddy, it was.
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  Speaker 3: Everything you expected roof was closed. It was a beautiful night,
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  Speaker 3: but something to have there's it's crazy foggy here. So
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  Speaker 3: they closed the roof, which made it extremely loud. I
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  Speaker 3: went down to sit with a friend of mine that
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  Speaker 3: used to watch our kids in Boston and for one inning,
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  Speaker 3: and I had to go back up cause I thought
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  Speaker 3: it was going to be horse.
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  Speaker 2: It was, it was that loud in there. I was screaming.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody stood up. I stood up the whole time I
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  Speaker 3: was in the, in the stands. Um, it was electric
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  Speaker 3: in there, man. Great atmosphere. Great start, the introductions. Shout
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  Speaker 3: out Brandon Woodruff, who was on the roster and got
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  Speaker 3: a huge ovation when they called him out. That was
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  Speaker 3: really cool, seeing the journey of injuries he's gone through.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, man, great start. It feels like these two
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  Speaker 3: teams are so identical, and the game kind of played
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  Speaker 3: out like that. The timely hitting is the team that
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  Speaker 3: I feel is going to win each game.
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  Speaker 1: No doubt. How was it driving in? So Rossi was
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  Speaker 1: with ESPN. He was doing pre- and post-game, did some
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  Speaker 1: SportsCenter stuff. Sounded great, as you always do. How was
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  Speaker 1: it driving in? How many Miller highlights did you see?
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  Speaker 1: How many brats? Take me through the scene of the
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  Speaker 1: parking lot there in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, thanks, Padna. I appreciate the compliments. There
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  Speaker 3: was tailgating everywhere, and we got there, so we went
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  Speaker 3: on early. We left the hotel at 1 o'clock for
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  Speaker 3: the 8 o'clock game, so I was there most of
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  Speaker 3: the day. Beautiful day. People out tailgating. The smoke from
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  Speaker 3: all the grills were in full force.
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  Speaker 2: Lines everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: Were around the corner for every venue. I went down,
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  Speaker 3: like I said, when I went down to see my friend,
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  Speaker 3: the merch store, the memorabilia store, still had probably 40
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  Speaker 3: people outside of it trying to get in. And this
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  Speaker 3: is in like the sixth inning. It was packed everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: Got some good food. They had these little food trucks
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  Speaker 3: on one of the levels.
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  Speaker 2: It was amazing. Got some barbecue, brisket, which was amazing.
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  Speaker 2: It was... We had... We had the full experience in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't throw down a beer, which is maybe I'll
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  Speaker 3: do that after I get off this pod and hang
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  Speaker 3: with some of the buddies.
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  Speaker 1: You got to get you a spot at Cal. Let's
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  Speaker 1: get to the game, bro. Instant replay. Thank God. You
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like, ninth inning, one out. McGill
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  Speaker 1: thinks he gets a double play to end the game.
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  Speaker 1: Cash challenges. Pratt's foot comes off second base. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a double play. They get it right. But what a letdown. Like,
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  Speaker 1: talk to me through Trevor McGill's mental state there. He
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  Speaker 1: lets out this huge roar, right? Like, we just won
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  Speaker 1: the game. He's celebrating. And then all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: it's like, oh, man, I need to lock back in
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  Speaker 1: right now. In the World Series.
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  Speaker 3: Their whole team jumped the kind of rail. You know
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  Speaker 3: you're on the top step. It's getting hairy. You get
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  Speaker 3: the ground ball, double play, catcher running. It all is
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  Speaker 3: kind of playing perfect. Bryce Durang, who's a phenomenal fielder,
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  Speaker 3: going to win another gold glove this year. makes that
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  Speaker 3: aggressive play, but what a play. Turn around, Pratt can't
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  Speaker 3: stay on the base, and it literally looked like, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: even if, I don't know how high definition it is
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  Speaker 3: in New York, but it looked like there could still
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  Speaker 3: be a spike on that thing. I mean, it was
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  Speaker 3: like this close, and they got it right, and credit
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  Speaker 3: to Cash for keeping his cool and not thinking it's over,
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  Speaker 3: and they still had a chance to win it, but
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  Speaker 3: Trevor McGill stepped up in the moment, punches out, the,
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  Speaker 3: for the final out.
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  Speaker 2: And it was just a crazy ninth man.
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  Speaker 3: And I think, you know, I think somebody had said this,
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  Speaker 3: it feels like every game is going to be like
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  Speaker 3: this come the ninth inning. Somebody's gonna have to lock
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  Speaker 3: it down. And the Brewers bullpen, man, with your rebate,
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  Speaker 3: Aaron Ashby is absolutely filthy. I said this on air
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  Speaker 3: is like, it reminds me of the run Andrew Miller
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  Speaker 3: was on in 2016.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he was rolling through the post season.
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  Speaker 3: Right. And, um, And Aaron Ashby's stuff is just so nasty,
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  Speaker 3: and he was in cruise control out there. I thought,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I know it's game one, but in the
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  Speaker 3: back of my mind, is Murph going to let him
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  Speaker 3: pitch the ninth again because he was so clean and dominant?
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  Speaker 3: But goes to McGill and gets the win, man. The
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  Speaker 3: place erupted. It was loud.
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  Speaker 2: It was loud and fun.
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  Speaker 3: There's something about the warm summer air and a cold
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  Speaker 3: corona with Lyme that makes the roar of the crowd
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  Speaker 3: sound a lot like the roar of the waves.
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  Speaker 4: That's because this is our playa, and the best seats
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  Speaker 4: are always wherever you're sitting.
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  Speaker 3: Whether it's a weeknight game under the lights or a
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  Speaker 3: Sunday afternoon in the sun, you know baseball isn't about
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  Speaker 3: rushing around. It's about settling in, letting the game come
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  Speaker 2: Nothing.
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  Speaker 4: So find your seat, your Corona, and your line, because
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  Speaker 4: real fans know the only thing better than nine innings
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  Speaker 4: is extra innings, especially on the playa.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we had Nick Martinez versus Jacob Mizorowski. Miz is
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  Speaker 1: a good man. I mean, look, for all the kind
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  Speaker 1: of narrative around him, he hasn't been the dominant ace.
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  Speaker 1: He's been pitching well. And I know we talked about
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  Speaker 1: that in our pregame show. He hasn't been that dominant ace,
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  Speaker 1: but five innings, one run, maneuvering through, maybe he's he's gas.
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  Speaker 1: He's never pitched as many innings in his life. This
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  Speaker 1: is his second year in the big leagues, his first
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  Speaker 1: full season. So Brewers have won all three games he's played.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I thought he, I thought he put this guy
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  Speaker 2: forward tonight. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, like you, you get the guy who's led all
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  Speaker 3: of baseball and strikeouts and he's been, he's going to
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  Speaker 3: win the Cy Young best pitcher in the national league.
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  Speaker 3: But his outings have been just not as clean, I
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  Speaker 3: think in the post season. And it, and I said
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  Speaker 3: this before, it was like, a youthfulness to his outings
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  Speaker 3: in the postseason where just harnessing those emotions in that environment,
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  Speaker 3: I think, is something.
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  Speaker 2: That we learn, right?
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  Speaker 3: And you know and I know because we had experience
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  Speaker 3: in those moments, but we know the emotions that we
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  Speaker 3: go through and how to harness those.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to learn that.
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  Speaker 3: And I think he's had a bunch of young moments
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  Speaker 3: and going four and a third, I think, the last
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  Speaker 3: two postseason starts. He didn't have a great postseason start
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  Speaker 3: last year that was dominant. And I thought tonight he
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  Speaker 3: looked way more poised, executing pitches, going deeper in the game.
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  Speaker 3: He only had 78 pitches. I think Murph had him
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  Speaker 3: at the top of the lineup. Yandy coming back up
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  Speaker 3: after five, third time through, all those kind of analytical numbers.
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  Speaker 3: But I thought he was really poised tonight. I didn't
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  Speaker 3: know this going in, but one of our guys said
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  Speaker 3: he had really struggled in the second inning was where
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  Speaker 3: he was having some trouble.
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  Speaker 2: He had such a clean second.
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  Speaker 3: And I thought that just really kind of carried him into–
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  Speaker 3: to the rest of his outing.
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  Speaker 2: So really, really nice start for him. And then, and
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  Speaker 2: then Nick Martinez rough first, right.
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  Speaker 1: And settle down.
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  Speaker 2: It settled down.
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  Speaker 3: He gave up three hits in the first and only
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  Speaker 3: two after that five innings and gave up those, those
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  Speaker 3: big runs early on, but he settled in and, and,
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  Speaker 3: and got out of some big jams, some nasty, nasty
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  Speaker 3: pitches there. And some big critical moments that really stood
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  Speaker 3: out to me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, bro. You know who I'm so happy for is
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  Speaker 1: Christian Yelich. They said on the broadcast, When Pat Murphy
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the year named him captain, it
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  Speaker 1: was the most meaningful thing in his career. And all
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  Speaker 1: the work he's put in, he's won an MVP, he's
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  Speaker 1: won batting titles. He's been an elite player for a
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  Speaker 1: long time in the game. And for him to say
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  Speaker 1: how meaningful that meant, especially through the year he's had,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't the best year, right? And he comes up,
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  Speaker 1: his first at bat, he's been in the league, what,
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  Speaker 1: 13 years?
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  Speaker 2: 14 years he hadn't been to the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: And first at bat, triple to get the Brew Crew rolling.
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  Speaker 1: Pat Murphy hitting him third. He didn't hit third, I think.
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  Speaker 1: The last time he hit third was the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: August in that lineup. And Pat Murphy goes and hits
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  Speaker 1: him third in Game 1 of the World Series. And
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  Speaker 1: what an exhale for that dugout, right? That whole clubhouse,
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  Speaker 1: the entire team. Him being the captain, him getting that
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  Speaker 1: big hit, putting the team on the board with a
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  Speaker 1: weak layoff, right? They get out of it. Miz gets
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  Speaker 1: them through the first. They're up 2-0, bottom of the first. Like,
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  Speaker 1: what a good moment for him, bro.
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  Speaker 2: Great moment.
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  Speaker 3: I think anybody that knows Christian Yelich and been around
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  Speaker 3: him and watched the way he plays and how classy
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  Speaker 3: he is was excited for him in that moment, I guess,
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  Speaker 3: unless you're a Rays fan. But let me tell you
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  Speaker 3: a cool story I heard at dinner last night. We
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  Speaker 3: go to dinner over here at Ryan Braun's place, Carnivore,
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  Speaker 3: and Tim Kirkson tells me before Yellich would accept the
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  Speaker 3: captain tag, he called the former captain Robin Yount to
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  Speaker 3: make sure he was okay with that.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Talking about a captain moment. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: He's not only thinking about himself, he's thinking about the
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  Speaker 3: people that have come before him, the history of the organization,
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  Speaker 3: and the fact he was going to wear that seat.
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  Speaker 2: That's respect. That's respect.
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  Speaker 1: That's why, I mean, that's why, that's who he is.
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  Speaker 2: That's why you like him even more now. Like, I
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  Speaker 2: already like the guy, and you like him even more now.
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  Speaker 3: Like, to do that was a, when Timmy told me
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  Speaker 3: that story, it was like another feather in his cap.
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  Speaker 2: That was cool. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Bro, how about the Relay When Hamilton was going for
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  Speaker 1: third by the race. I mean, you want to just
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  Speaker 1: talk about good baseball? That's it right there.
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  Speaker 2: Check out this relay.
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  Speaker 1: This is a nice swing right there. Nice short swing.
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  Speaker 2: One of the fastest players in the game. Victor Mesa Jr. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: there's the stumble that cost him. And a clean relay
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  Speaker 2: to get a great tag. Boom! Caminero Jr. loves it.
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  Speaker 1: I love his emotion. What a play, bro.
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  Speaker 3: One of the fastest players in David Hamilton. Hits the
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  Speaker 3: ball down the line. You got probably one of the
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  Speaker 3: best arms in the outfield. And Victor Mesa Jr. And
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  Speaker 3: a perfect catch and throw relay. Hamilton stumbles a little
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  Speaker 3: bit around second, probably cost him one out. You're supposed
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  Speaker 3: to push the envelope there.
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  Speaker 2: He's fast.
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  Speaker 3: He gets that on any other team. He probably is
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  Speaker 3: safe at third base. But the Rays fundamentally sound good baseball.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I feel like these two teams are so
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  Speaker 3: evenly matched and they're so similar that there's great defensive plays.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, how about on Yelich's triple? DeLuca almost caught
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  Speaker 3: that damn ball.
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  Speaker 2: That was insane. It was insane.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he catches that ball. It's a whole different game, really.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Right? Yeah, for sure. For sure.
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  Speaker 3: And Nick Martinez is one of the best. So another one,
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  Speaker 3: it's so fun to do games because you get these
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  Speaker 3: little nuggets.
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  Speaker 2: He was one of the.
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  Speaker 3: Best, I think, top four or five starters in ERA
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  Speaker 3: throughout the season in the first inning, and that was
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  Speaker 3: his worst inning tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's playoff baseball. That's October baseball there.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: Which is crazy because them not going with Rasmussen– in
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  Speaker 1: Game 1, right? We thought for sure. I understand it
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  Speaker 1: in so many different ways. My take on it is
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  Speaker 1: Freddie Peralta did not want to throw Game 2 in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 1: He'd rather throw Game 3 in Tampa, right? So, by
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  Speaker 1: moving Rasmussen back one game, there's no story of Peralta, right?
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  Speaker 1: Because I know Cash came out and said, oh, we're
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  Speaker 1: just giving him an extra day. You don't get extra
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  Speaker 1: days in the playoffs. There's no such thing as extra days, right?
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not, like, calling out Cash here, but it's just,
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  Speaker 1: unless he's hurt, right, unless he's grinding, which he very
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  Speaker 1: well could be, it's October 23rd, right? So that was just, like,
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  Speaker 1: head-scratching because Peralta went there earlier in the year and
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  Speaker 1: got lit up a little bit. He loves pitching at
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  Speaker 1: the Trop. If Rasmussen throws game one and they move
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  Speaker 1: Peralta to game three, that becomes a huge headline.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know. Well, here's my take.
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  Speaker 3: So, one, like you said, the manager knows the team best,
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  Speaker 3: and if they need maybe an extra day, he kind
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  Speaker 3: of explained in his press conference the reason why. But
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  Speaker 3: watching the game and being boots on the ground, here's
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  Speaker 3: what you don't see. Freddy Peralta headed to the bullpen
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  Speaker 3: with the closer in the third or fourth inning.
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  Speaker 2: So, I would assume.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. You can see it on the broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they did say that?
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  Speaker 1: No, they did not.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, so I watched him walk in between innings. You
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  Speaker 3: know how the closure goes late? And so he walked
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  Speaker 3: out there with it, and I'm like, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: It's his side day.
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  Speaker 3: He's probably going to throw an inning if they get
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  Speaker 3: the lead. Obviously, they never took the lead, so he's
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  Speaker 3: not going to spin that bullet. But I was thinking
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  Speaker 3: maybe they're throwing him there to bridge it to some
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  Speaker 3: other guys in the bullpen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I do like Cash, how he managed that game. He
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  Speaker 1: showed no panic, in my opinion. It's almost... I know
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers won this game, right? But the Rays have...
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  Speaker 1: They chinked the armor a little bit, I feel like,
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  Speaker 1: in McGill. To where that ninth inning was, you're on
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  Speaker 1: your feet. And now, if tomorrow McGill's in the game again,
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  Speaker 1: and they they clip him for a run or two.
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  Speaker 1: He hasn't given up a run yet. Then, what does
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  Speaker 1: Pat Murphy do? You know what I mean? That's two
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  Speaker 1: games in a row. They're like, oh shit. You know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean? So, it's just, that's something to watch
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  Speaker 1: for because the Rays are, the Rays are in that
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  Speaker 1: clubhouse today feeling good about themselves saying, look, this is
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  Speaker 1: our team. We lost the game. We still fought. That's
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  Speaker 1: who we are. And the Brewers, on the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: are just riding that high still. They still have yet
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  Speaker 1: to really be punched in the face. They were the
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  Speaker 1: better team tonight. They got the big hits, but, Just
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  Speaker 1: something to look for in game two.
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  Speaker 3: Boy, we didn't even see that what's so impressive about
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  Speaker 3: the Brewers' bullpen is Jojo Romero didn't throw in either
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  Speaker 3: the D.L. Hall.
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  Speaker 2: So, like, they've got more arms down there.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, they're nasty, bro.
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  Speaker 2: They're nasty, and they're so deep.
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  Speaker 1: You have to score. When you get your opportunities, you
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: have to score. Caminero in the ninth inning. This is
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: his second year in the big leagues, Rossi, right?
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so, yeah.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: The fact that he had that good of an at-bat,
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: the poise he had there, even taking the 1-0 pitch
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: fastball in, you see so many young players trying to
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: swing out of their ass on that pitch and have
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: their moment. And that just tells me how advanced and
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: mature he is as a young player, not trying to
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: hit the 10-run home run. You know what I mean?
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: He's just up there taking his at-bat.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: He walked fast.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: In a huge situation, he takes his walk. That is
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: so hard to do. And any young player out there,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: seeing that and him keeping his poise is one of
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: the most impressive at-bats of the game.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: Well, and how about the Rays stealing second, third?
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: Now you're like, now your ball gets super tight. Yeah,
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: fearless too, bro.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, they get thrown out twice, which is a
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: perfect segue to our playa of the game.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Playa!
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Our Corona Playa of the game, William Contreras, two for
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: three with an RBI single, and a walk through two
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: base runners out was nasty.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: First of all, I mean, again, I hate going to
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: negative town, but what was Victor Mesa Jr. doing with
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Yandy Diaz, second base, two outs.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: And Mesa's only given up three stolen bases in, his career,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: his two years.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: What are we.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Like, that was a head-scratcher. He's probably caught up in
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: the moment trying to make something happen, right?
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: It was probably the only, like, real bad.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: I mean, the other throwout was Chandler Simpson, who never
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: strikes out, right? 3-2, so you're running on with a
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: contact guy. Totally understand that. And William Contreras, playa of
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: the game. makes an amazing throw with Chandler Simpson falling
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: over the home plate. He has to throw over the batter.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: That's one of the hardest ones for a catcher is
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: when that guy's falling over.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: You don't feel like you release it all the way.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: And he makes a spectacular throw to catch another guy
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: trying to seal a base.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: That first one is third. That was a head-scratcher. But
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: shout-out William Contreras for playa.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: You know what I love, too? I love Murph in-game
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: when they interview Murph and they're saying how– you know,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: how Miz is doing. And he's like, you got to
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: give credit to William Contreras, man. He's, he's such a leader,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: their relationship. He guides him through games. He talks pitching
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: to him all the time. And then Miz after the
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: game saying how, uh, he's such a leader in the clubhouse.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: So that's, that's just good stuff. You want to hear
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: from the catcher?
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Hey, it's post-season the catchers, Rossi. It's the post-season. Starts
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: with two hits and a walk. It's a pretty good
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Pretty good start to the postseason.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: We had one of our producer guys for ESPN was
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: already crowning him the MVP. I'm like, hey, we got
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: a long way to go.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Let's chill.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: But I'm all about giving the catchers the love. But
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: let's chill for a minute.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Every little mistake in this game cost them, right?
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: DeLuca, diving play, just missed that ball, right? Hit his glove.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Should have made the play. He'll tell you he makes
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: that play most of the time. Mitchell in center field,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: that missile off Cameron Arrow's bat.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Missile. Right?
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Froze for a second.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: That's one of the hardest balls I've ever seen hit live.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: That ball was smoked.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: In 2017, Rossi, looking back, 2017, I remember outfielders taking
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: these weird routes to balls and misplaying balls, and I'm like,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: big leaguers. Dave McKay, first base coach for the Cubbies
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: back in the day, long time first base coach, amazing
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: first base coach, said big leaguers do not misfly balls.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: That was a missile line drive. But it had me
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: thinking back in 17, 18, 19 when the balls were jumping.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: The outfielders were misreading balls. And the fact that Mitchell
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: misread that ball like that, I was like, Ooh, that
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: ball had a little extra life to it. It seemed like, right.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: I'm getting a little suspicious. Yeah.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: But again, like David Hamilton, game of inches, Victor Mesa
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: throws them out. What a play, man. That was, that
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: was exciting. That's exciting. Baseball for me.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: That's a good baseball to evenly matched teams. I can't
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: wait for game two. And that leads me. to my
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: polymarket pick. Raise 45% to the yes. $ 100 gets you
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: back $ 214. And the Brewers, 55% to the yes and
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: $ 100 gets you $ 175. I really like Drew Rasmussen. I
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: think he's an absolute stud. He's been one of the
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: best pitchers this postseason. I got him having a big
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: game and tying this thing up for the raise.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: 1-1.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: The top of that lineup hit. I know Yandy Diaz didn't,
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: but Chandler Simpson had two knocks.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Johnny Diaz had good at-bats, though, bro. His first two at-bats,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: he hit the ball well.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Aranda, yeah, he had two line drives. Aranda, three
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: for three with a walk. Like, they're feeling pretty good.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: They're kind of in rhythm and carrying over that better
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: offense at the top from the last series with Cleveland. So,
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: bottom of the lineup did not perform as well, but
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: the top of the lineup is where I feel like
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: they need to– that kind of carries that offense, and
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: that is why I'm taking– The Tampa Bay Rays.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, hey, we both took the Rays the
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: first game.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Both lost.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: I'm sticking with you. I think the Rays win tomorrow
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: and the series starts in Tampa.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: I love that.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: That's my prediction there. I think that the Rays, tomorrow
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: is a must win, I feel like, for the Rays. Obviously,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: every game is a must win. It's a seven-game series.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Going down 2-0, the odds are against you, but if
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: they win tomorrow, then they That's really the first time
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: I feel like Milwaukee's getting punched in the face in
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: this playoffs, and the Rays need to do that.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: And the Brewers have been so hot, to your point.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: They've been so hot and rolled through. It feels like
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: they've rolled through the postseason, only losing one game to
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: San Diego. So they've been so dominant.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, congrats to the Brewers fans, man. Congrats to Milwaukee,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: the organization. Looked like just an unbelievable night there.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Bro, this whole city.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Played a lot of games there.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Remember Chicago when we were in the World Series? The
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: whole city was kind of lit up. It just felt
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: like there was an energy about the city. Everybody's wearing
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: a coat and stuff. I walked down today to get
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: breakfast down that third ward area and my coffee spot
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: that I love. And there was Brewer's stuff everywhere. People
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: were rocking jerseys. I saw Ben Sheets' jersey. I was, like,
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: fired up. I played with him in Atlanta. Like, just
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: old school.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: They had all the guys.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Out.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Jenkins was getting them fired up. Ryan Braun did a
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: pregame thing. This place has got a good buzz about
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: it right now here in Milwaukee.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: My first manager, I was actually going over this. I
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: played in Chicago for 10 years. I had four managers.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Isn't that wild?
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Anyways, my first manager, Dale Swaim, played for the Brewers.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Can't fire the players.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: He said no matter what, in all these big games,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: he almost guarantees you the winning run or the tying
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: run will come to the plate in the ninth inning
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: all the time. And every time the ninth inning, the
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: tying run or winning run comes to the plate, I
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: always think of Dale Swayman.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: That pops in your head.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Him playing at Milwaukee, I was thinking.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Of him more tonight.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: We got our boy Kenny Chesney going on tour next summer, Rossi.
• 23:56
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• 24:34
  Speaker 1: good one. That's a big one for me, Rossi.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: We've been in the vibe room. We've been in the
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: vibe room. That's a spot. That's a spot.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: And with Church and Sheryl Crow, like, I mean, what
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: a tour it's going to be. It's always good. He
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: always ends in Boston at Foxboro. He always starts in Tampa.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: I've been to that one. Maybe we'll have to have
• 24:53
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• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Ooh, with Kenny on it?
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: On 626.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Kenny on it?
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: 626.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: That'd be nice.
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• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Let's get to our Tim Buss daily ball bag questions,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: our mail bag where me and Rossi answer questions via
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: YouTube comments. Our Instagram comments. We love interacting with you guys.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: You can email us at rossandrizzo at gmail.com. Our first
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: is a YouTube comment from JeerXIX. The Super Bowl is
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: known for its intense two weeks of media coverage. With
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: the World Series starting only a few days after the
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: end of the CS, how much does it ramp up
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: the World Series?
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: The amount of people that I saw. I was almost
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: tired before the game started. I saw everybody... in Major
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: League Baseball. I've locked in with Rob Manford, a couple
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: of his right-hand men, all the guys in MLB Network
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: that you know and work with, PV, Damp, Millar, me
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: and Adam Jones locked in.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: I saw Dex today. Dex is here.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: Of course, Dex only shows up when it's big-time moments.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: It was great seeing him.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Borzy is here. Hyder's here. I mean, all our, I mean,
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: so many, so many, I saw so many players today.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: I can't even name them all. And then people with MLB.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: It was so great.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: All on the field too.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Phil, Phil Roswich came out like to say, Hey, he
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: was awesome. Yeah. All on the track. I saw Saito.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: He's doing a pitcher that I play with in Atlanta.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: He's doing TV for Japan. Like it, like I saw
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: everybody is literally everybody.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: That I've ever known in baseball is here. And it's,
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: It's a packed house.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Media day yesterday and all the people around the track,
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: it was busy.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so every round it gets, there's more media and
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: more media.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: For me in.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: The World Series, I didn't take batting practice one time
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: in the World Series. I was just like, it's a
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: circus act out there. When you walk out there as
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: a player, it's so hard to keep your normal routine.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: And these are the biggest games. So I just did
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: my routine in the cage every game of the World Series.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: I didn't go out there one time. I went out
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: there to peak just to see the soap opera, and
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: then I went right back in. Yeah, it gets busy.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Good question.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: It's a lot.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Next email from Joe Amoroso. He is a second time.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: He asked a question a few episodes ago.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Great show, guys.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: My sons Nick and Jack listen along and have a
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: question for you. Have you ever been starstruck by meeting anyone? Also,
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: do you have a prized piece of memorabilia you have
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: received or kept?
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: From your own career?
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Ooh, you know what? The other day, Rossi, I was
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: on the Today Show before the wildcard games and Sylvester
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Stallone was there. And he was there and we did
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: our whole Rocky skit in 2016. And, you know, he's
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: been in a thousand movies, Rocky, like literally. And my
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: mom calls me or texts me before. She said, hey,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: did you meet Rocky, that's what she texted me.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: I'm like, what?
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: I didn't even realize he was here. I look up
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh shit. So I'm outside waiting to
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: do my hit and he walks right by me and
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: I froze. I was like, and I got, and I
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: just walked, I just moved out of his way.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: I was so struck. You should have given him the speech.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: I know, bro.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Bro, you should have given him the speech.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: I gotta tell you a story about I used your lines.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: You should have, that would have been amazing. It's, man,
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: you get stuck. I was in LA and then like,
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: Tom Cruise would come in. All these people would come
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: in Like big time actors and actresses But I had
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: like the biggest crush On Jennifer Love Hewitt When I
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: was younger And she came in and I was like
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Can I get a picture I was just like I
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: took a picture and said nothing I was like thanks
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: and left What year was this This is, I think, 2003, 2004.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: So you had to get.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: The team photographer for a picture?
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. John Suhu.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: There's no flip phones.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: John Suhu. John Suhu took the photo. And I was just, like,
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: fumbling all over. Like, I wanted to, like, ask questions.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: I didn't even know what to say.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: No game. No game. Zero. Brutal.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: Absolutely brutal. I'll tell you what, though. Memorabilia-wise, a cool
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: thing I have that I cherish... Um, we took that
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: golf trip in 2016 that Lester took me on that
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: we talked about. And I have that scorecard from our
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: guys and everybody signed at UKB and it's hanging up
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: in my, it's one of those cool things that I
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: think is like important to me, you know, and from my,
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: the boys and that special trip, um, that, and I've
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: got the scouting report from game seven and the wristband and, uh,
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: that I have from that, which is like, I think
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: it's just, I flip back through that stuff and I
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: love the wording and all the notes I wrote down.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: It's just really cool memorabilia piece for me.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for me, the memorabilia piece, I didn't really, I
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: wasn't really big on the memorabilia stuff. I mean, I
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: have Lester, Siamese stuff. You know what? As I go
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: grab this, I'll give you just a peek of some
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: of the memorabilia I have here, Rossi.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: Don't leave me.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: I want to show you something.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Where's my partner?
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: This right here, Rossi, means the most to me. This
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: is my Cooperstown.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: Pins.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's cool. When I went to Cooperstown as an 11-year-old,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: I have all the pins that I collected. So I
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: actually am going to frame this and put it in
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: my son's room and hang it for him. And then
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: hopefully he can go.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: That's a really cool piece. You know what they gave
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: us tonight that I thought was really cool?
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: We're in the auxiliary press box, and the Brewers gave
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: us a World Series Brewers pin.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would throw that out if I was you,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: but that's just me.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: No, I think it's pretty cool.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: I would probably put it on my daughter's board or
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: something for her, but I'm.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Like, I can't rock this. It's very cool to me.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: That's for the organization to give those to all the
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: media members. I thought it was really, really neat.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, very cool.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Very cool.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: All right, let's get to our last email from Jonathan Redwine.
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  Speaker 1: I grew up wearing 44 because of Riz. It's now
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: a number used in my passwords. Okay, Jonathan. So Jonathan Redwine.
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  Speaker 2: 44.
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  Speaker 1: How did you end up with 44? Jonathan, I ended
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: up with 44. My first spring training was Chicago. Otis Hellman,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Tom Otis Hellman, legend in the game. was our clubhouse manager.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Rest in peace, Tom. We miss you. Otis passed away
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: a few years ago, but was in the game for
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: 50 years. And he came up to me and he goes, hey, kid,
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  Speaker 1: I gave you number 44. That was Hank Aaron's number.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully you can live up to be like him. I
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, thanks, Otis. That's awesome, right? So he
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  Speaker 1: just put it in my locker and chose it for me.
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  Speaker 1: And I just, I always remember that story of him
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: telling me why he gave me that number. I was like, okay, well,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: If I could be half of Hank Aaron, I'll take that.
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  Speaker 1: So no pressure.
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  Speaker 2: No doubt.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: What was your first spring training jersey number?
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Do you remember that one?
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: No. I always wanted to be... It had to be
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: like in the 70s, I think.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was 86. I'll never forget that.
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  Speaker 3: Really?
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's because they were sending your ass out quick.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: You were 86. Yeah, because I was there to catch bullpens.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: My first big league. I was there to catch bullpens.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: I had number 86.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Like, who are you?
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I... I wanted to be number 21. That was
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: my goal because I was young. That was my high
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: school number. And my goal was to be in the
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: big leagues by 21. And it was a realistic goal.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's sick.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: And then when I got called up to San Diego,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: they just gave me number 27, which I loved because
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: that was the rock star number. You know, like 27
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: is a rock star number. That's what they say. But
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: that didn't plan out at all. Like 27, not a
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: good number.
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  Speaker 2: You got traded again. Yeah. 21 was my high school
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: and college number. Rossi, I will pay you.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: I will pay you any amount of money right now
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: if you can name all of your jerseys numbers that
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: you wore. Oh, man.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: No chance. No chance.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: I know you were number three. Where were you in Boston?
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Three in Boston, three in Chicago.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: That was my two World Series numbers, so I feel
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: like that's my lucky number. I was 21 in high
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: school and college. I came up with the Dodgers. I
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: was 40. Number 40 was my big league jersey with
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: the Dodgers. I would Went to Pittsburgh, 29. From Pittsburgh,
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: I went to San Diego and was, I think I
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: was number nine. I got to fact check. I think
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: I was number nine. And then I went to Cincinnati.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: I was 26. Then Boston. I don't know.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: My first time in Boston, I don't think I was
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: number three the first time. So I got, oh, Atlanta, I.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Was number eight.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: That was a cool one. I was like, Javi, that's
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: the number I grew up watching him.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: But a lot of teams.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: And my first time in Boston, I don't remember that number.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: I think it was 2026 again or something.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Was that 28 is what I was? Yeah.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: That's pretty good.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: Not bad. Not bad.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I usually forget like the 26 and 29 ones
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: is like the ones that were hard to remember.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: That's great.
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Too many jerseys.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Thank you, everyone, for watching and listening. Congratulations to both
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: fan bases today. Exciting times.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Game one.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: For the Rays and for the Brewers fans. Game one
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: is in the books. Rays are down. Rossi, they're not out.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Brewers are up 1-0 in the series. Tomorrow, game two.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: It's going to be exciting. 8 o'clock Eastern. We will
• 36:05
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• 36:08
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• 36:13
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• 36:16
  Speaker 1: the kids are doing. Rizzo Ross out.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Peace.