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Home field edge debate, AJ’s M’s-Tigers breakdown, Chourio’s hammy · Foul Territory

• 0:02
  Speaker 1: We got a lot to do today, a lot to do.
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: AJ doing a great job. Love listening to the Tigers
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: Mariners series going on right now, and we're gonna dive
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: into that one coming up in just a moment. But
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: before that, the annual rest versus rust discussion. I don't
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: want to spend more than thirty seconds on it, but
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: based on what Milwaukee and Toronto alone did, are we
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: cool to say? Who fing cares?
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: Does it matter? Because the teams that got rest won
• 0:34
  Speaker 2: some games and the teams that got rest lost some games,
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: So what does it really matter? I'm I've been banging
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: on this trum forever. I don't think it matters. But
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: that's just me. Teams matter, and.
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it matters to the Red Sox, it matters
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: to any of the teams that got bounced in the
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: last round, right because.
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: I'm talking about that team still playing. I'm talking about
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: teams still playing scot those teams that are home their home,
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: they don't care about the rest. We've got lots of
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: rest now. But I want to get rid of.
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: The narrative that it's like, oh, you can't hit coming
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: off that right, like the Brewers and the Blue Jays
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: they can hit.
• 1:09
  Speaker 2: You're right, And the Dodgers had a chance to win
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: that game and didn't. Sorry, krats, And also listen to
• 1:17
  Speaker 2: Mariners ran into no hitting except for calin Julio. Their
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: layoff didn't seem to hurt them at all. They seem
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: to be doing just fine. Callin Julio or are swinging
• 1:26
  Speaker 2: it all right? And Plannka went deep off Scooba last
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: night twice and he had a week off. So I listen,
• 1:30
  Speaker 2: if you lose, you cry about the rest, and if
• 1:33
  Speaker 2: you win, nobody cares. So just win, baby, as Al
• 1:35
  Speaker 2: Davis would say.
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: That's right. And also you meant Philly's had a chance
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: to win first the Dodgers, right.
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: Sorry, sorry, yeah, I got you. Just red Eye last night, Scott,
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: get you that red Eye. Yeah, I'll de Detroit, It'll
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: get you.
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: You're in prime form, all right, Krats, Rest versus rest?
• 1:52
  Speaker 3: Last word, it's gonna be fifty to fifty forever. Who
• 1:56
  Speaker 3: really cares? My biggest thing, Go ask the Red Sox
• 2:00
  Speaker 3: they want to rest. Go ask all the teams have
• 2:02
  Speaker 3: played in the first round. Everybody wants rest because there's
• 2:05
  Speaker 3: half those teams every year go home. So you never
• 2:08
  Speaker 3: want to play that Wildcard round boom exactly.
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: All right, So it's Monday, we're back. We're recapping the weekend,
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: and we're also doing postgame shows this week. So we'll
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: lay out the schedule for this evening. There are two
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: games tonight, and we will be on after the second game.
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: That's Milwaukee and Chicago. There you go, Cubs and Brewers,
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: nine o'clock East Coast time, eight o'clock Central out there,
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: and we'll talk about that one. Plus we'll do our
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: recap of the prior game as well, the Dodgers and
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: the Phillies. So you'll get thoughts from us tonight, and
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: then of course we'll keep recapping tomorrow. But let's charge
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: chout one to one Tigers and Mariners. Let's start there.
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: That's the most recent game since our show, right because
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: that was Sunday night, and that's along with Adam Wainwright
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: and Adam Amin i'll call in the game on Fox.
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: AJA thoughts on the one to one series heading to
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: Detroit here.
• 3:09
  Speaker 2: Well, Detroit had a chance to really take a stranglehold
• 3:12
  Speaker 2: with Schooble pitching last night and the Mariners, listen, Luis
• 3:15
  Speaker 2: Castillo did an amazing job. These have been two awesome games.
• 3:17
  Speaker 2: If you haven't watched these two games now, granted, if
• 3:20
  Speaker 2: you like offense, you're not going to see a lot
• 3:21
  Speaker 2: of that. But if you like pitching and a couple
• 3:24
  Speaker 2: some clutch hitting and a lot of strategy, these are
• 3:27
  Speaker 2: the games for you because there is like who should
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: they bring in? When should they take the starter out?
• 3:31
  Speaker 2: Who should they pinch hit for? Should they bunch? Should
• 3:34
  Speaker 2: they run? What should they do? And the game on
• 3:37
  Speaker 2: Saturday went extra innings and the Tigers won three to two,
• 3:40
  Speaker 2: and with a clutch hit from Zach McKinstry after a
• 3:43
  Speaker 2: leadoff walk in a wild pitch. And then last night
• 3:44
  Speaker 2: Plonka with the two homers off schoobl Spencer Torcosson with
• 3:48
  Speaker 2: a huge base hit, and we can debate pitch calling
• 3:51
  Speaker 2: all day long. Cratzy as you know. And then all
• 3:54
  Speaker 2: of a sudden, to Calin Julio show shows up back
• 3:57
  Speaker 2: to back doubles of Kyle Finnegan, a guy who has
• 4:00
  Speaker 2: now pitched in four or five days, and the Mariners
• 4:04
  Speaker 2: beat the Tiger three to two. And if you didn't
• 4:05
  Speaker 2: see the guy crying in the stands that we showed
• 4:08
  Speaker 2: on Fox, it was incredible. The guy in a banana's
• 4:10
  Speaker 2: hat because it was the first win for the Mariners
• 4:13
  Speaker 2: in Seattle since two thousand and one, two thousand and
• 4:17
  Speaker 2: one since they won a home playoff game, and the
• 4:19
  Speaker 2: Seahawks had just lost and late in the game, so
• 4:21
  Speaker 2: they were already all riled up. They're facing school and
• 4:24
  Speaker 2: then they win through to two. There was a lot
• 4:26
  Speaker 2: of emotions in Seattle on the crowd there has been awesome.
• 4:28
  Speaker 2: So I hope Detroit matches that crowd.
• 4:31
  Speaker 3: I saw a bunch of people online saying these are
• 4:32
  Speaker 3: boring games because there's not a lot of offense. Why
• 4:35
  Speaker 3: would I want to even watch this series? This is
• 4:38
  Speaker 3: the reason these games are so close. It hinges on
• 4:42
  Speaker 3: one pitch. It hinges on your pitch selection, It hinges
• 4:47
  Speaker 3: on the fact that you know how to get a
• 4:48
  Speaker 3: guy out because both these offenses are kind of struggling
• 4:52
  Speaker 3: minus Holy Ow and Cow, but every pitch what could
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  Speaker 3: change the trajectory of both these teams.
• 5:00
  Speaker 4: I think the Mariners are the better team.
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  Speaker 3: I think the Tigers had their chance, and I think
• 5:07
  Speaker 3: it's swung back in the favor of the Mariners. Oh wait,
• 5:11
  Speaker 3: except the Mariners now have to go as as aj says,
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  Speaker 3: East of Spokane, So we'll see how they play. I
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  Speaker 3: think they still have the advantage, but they're out of
• 5:20
  Speaker 3: their friendly confines. And I have no idea why that
• 5:23
  Speaker 3: guy was crying.
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: That's true though. It's two weeks too for the Tigers
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  Speaker 1: and now they're back home. What aj you're you're going.
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  Speaker 2: To defend eleven eleven eleven Street?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 2: I think guys, listen, it was awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
• 5:37
  Speaker 2: The guy has yeah, I like he's having a moment,
• 5:39
  Speaker 2: all right, he was having a moment, had a moment
• 5:42
  Speaker 2: just come on, yeah, I mean.
• 5:43
  Speaker 3: Not about a game, but I mean, come on, that
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  Speaker 3: was twenty four years ago.
• 5:47
  Speaker 4: How old was that guy? How old was that guy? Eleven?
• 5:51
  Speaker 2: I don't know how old he was, but it was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: It was an awesome shot by our director Mitch Regan.
• 5:54
  Speaker 2: So way to go camera, guys, and Mitch for nailing
• 5:57
  Speaker 2: that shot.
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: Also careful and I'll tell you why. And then you'll go, oh,
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: what if, for example, there's someone close and he lost
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: them and he's thinking they would be loving this moment
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: right now? Just throwing that those kind of ideas out
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: there because that's what happens so often with other teams
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: that hadn't say, won a World Series in forever, and
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: you have emotions and tears, and often they're connected to
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: lifetime memory, experienced, family, friends, situations. Just throwing that out there.
• 6:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one.
• 6:28
  Speaker 2: Sure anyway, And by the way, no, but by the way, listen,
• 6:31
  Speaker 2: I don't know what's going to happen in this series.
• 6:33
  Speaker 2: But now it gets really interesting because the Mariners are
• 6:36
  Speaker 2: so much better at home than they are in the road.
• 6:38
  Speaker 2: And they come to Detroit, where they did sweep the
• 6:40
  Speaker 2: Tigers right before they All Star break, but it was
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: a different team. They get Flaherty, who pitched really well
• 6:45
  Speaker 2: in the Wildcard Series, as we know, the bullpens get
• 6:47
  Speaker 2: a day of rest, and then Logan Gilbert. Everyone was
• 6:51
  Speaker 2: shocked he didn't pitch Game one or two. Nobody really
• 6:53
  Speaker 2: got a reason why. It was just kind of we
• 6:55
  Speaker 2: want Castillo and Kirby to pitch one and two. There
• 6:57
  Speaker 2: wasn't really any reason given other than oh, we like
• 7:00
  Speaker 2: and Gilbert in Game three. So the Mariner has been
• 7:02
  Speaker 2: terrible on the road, as we know, they were the
• 7:04
  Speaker 2: best home record, I think in baseball this year in
• 7:05
  Speaker 2: the American League. So I don't know what's going to happen,
• 7:08
  Speaker 2: but it's just it's intriguing as hell. These games are
• 7:11
  Speaker 2: tight because neither one of these teams has really hit
• 7:12
  Speaker 2: the ball very well. So much, like I said, so
• 7:15
  Speaker 2: much strategy with these two managers. When are they bringing
• 7:17
  Speaker 2: in first game the Kerry Carpenter home run? He have
• 7:20
  Speaker 2: brought in Gabe Spier to pitch to him instead of
• 7:22
  Speaker 2: letting Kirby face him for the third time? Who carry
• 7:25
  Speaker 2: Carpenter owns? He's now five for eleven with five homers.
• 7:28
  Speaker 2: That's it. He's five for eleven with five homers. No singles,
• 7:30
  Speaker 2: no doubles, no triples, just he just hits homers off
• 7:33
  Speaker 2: of them and they let him pitch to him and
• 7:35
  Speaker 2: he hit the home run, and then the bullpen usage
• 7:36
  Speaker 2: and the way it went down. I mean, if you
• 7:38
  Speaker 2: talk to the people in the media around those games,
• 7:40
  Speaker 2: they are like, man, you second guess everything in these series.
• 7:43
  Speaker 2: It's awesome and it has been. It's been awesome. Yeah,
• 7:45
  Speaker 2: it's not the thirteen to seven or whatever the Yankees
• 7:48
  Speaker 2: Blue Jays game was yesterday, but at least they have
• 7:50
  Speaker 2: been close games and there's a lot to talk about.
• 7:54
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• 8:22
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• 8:25
  Speaker 2: Right, we were in commercial. I was like, well, I
• 8:29
  Speaker 2: didn't realize this was live. I know, sorry, this is
• 8:31
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• 8:37
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• 8:40
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• 8:42
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• 8:44
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• 8:47
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• 8:56
  Speaker 1: What about Brian Wu not being involved here for this
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: the pectoral inflammation since our last show is when we
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: learned that he's officially not part of this series. To me,
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: it makes game three even more critical for the marriage.
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: Is Bryce Miller rumored to Yes.
• 9:13
  Speaker 2: He starts scheduled. He's scheduled to start in game four.
• 9:16
  Speaker 2: Now how long will we go? It all depends on
• 9:18
  Speaker 2: Game three, I think. But these managers are riding their
• 9:20
  Speaker 2: bullpens hard. Other than Schooble, like the ultimate we talk
• 9:25
  Speaker 2: about X factors, the ultimate wildcard is schoobl because Hinch
• 9:28
  Speaker 2: knows that he can get seven innings like he did
• 9:30
  Speaker 2: last night. And listen to people that say, oh, scoobld
• 9:32
  Speaker 2: and Pitchell. He went seven innings, gave up two solo homers,
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: punched out I think nine. I think in seven innings.
• 9:37
  Speaker 2: One walk that's usually pretty good, that's usually really good
• 9:42
  Speaker 2: against the team that won their division at home. That
• 9:44
  Speaker 2: it's been way better at home. So Schooble pitch really well.
• 9:46
  Speaker 2: He made two mistakes other than that, and then Finnegan
• 9:48
  Speaker 2: came in and gave it the two doubles. But man,
• 9:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, listen, I don't know what we're gonna get
• 9:53
  Speaker 2: out of Logan Gilbert, but it's gonna be fascinating to watch.
• 9:55
  Speaker 2: And then Bryce Miller when he starts. He might go
• 9:57
  Speaker 2: well one time through maybe, and then they're gonna run
• 9:59
  Speaker 2: to their bullpen, which has been great, So we'll see
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: how it goes. But Jack Flaherty tomorrow and then Casey myyes,
• 10:05
  Speaker 2: I mean if you look on paper, you're like, man,
• 10:07
  Speaker 2: I think maybe the Tigers have a little bit of
• 10:08
  Speaker 2: an advantage because they're at home. But you could have
• 10:11
  Speaker 2: said that about Game two and the Tigers lost a
• 10:13
  Speaker 2: schoobl game with a chase chance to really put their
• 10:15
  Speaker 2: foot on the Mariner's throat and put them away maybe,
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: but they didn't do it.
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that makes this one pretty tough to predict right now, Crass,
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: You've got a team that struggles away from home and
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: they're down basically their best starter this year, right, I mean,
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: Brian wu was their best starting pitcher and he was
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: durable and going deep into games for them. It's a
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: massive loss for this team, whether it's in the division
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: series or the next round, it is going to burn
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: them because they had a big three and a half ish.
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: I guess you could put Castillo in there. He looked
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: really good in Game two. But man, you're so much
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: more dangerous if you're the Mariners. If you have a
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: guy who's a legit number one for the entire twenty
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: twenty five season in your rotation.
• 11:00
  Speaker 3: I mean you would think Logan Gilbert's a legit number
• 11:02
  Speaker 3: one too, he just hasn't been this year. To me,
• 11:06
  Speaker 3: if AJ's right and it's going to be bull down
• 11:08
  Speaker 3: to the bullpens, Mariners have the advantage.
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  Speaker 4: I get it.
• 11:12
  Speaker 3: The Mariners have gotten you know, their bullpen got cooked
• 11:15
  Speaker 3: last night because Castillo went four and a third or
• 11:18
  Speaker 3: four and two thirds. But the Tigers have been using
• 11:23
  Speaker 3: their bullpen. But this is where the wild card and
• 11:26
  Speaker 3: the layoff comes into play. The Tigers have been playing
• 11:29
  Speaker 3: their bullpen, has been pitching every single day, and to me,
• 11:34
  Speaker 3: it's going to catch up to them somewhere. And if
• 11:38
  Speaker 3: it becomes two teams that are playing bullpen games, I
• 11:41
  Speaker 3: think it's advantage Mariners.
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: And just want to shout out the other historic part here. Yeah,
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, Seattle hadn't even won a postseason game at home,
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: like we talked about at the top there, so that's special.
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: I think Julio Rodriguez being the big, big long term
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: money guy for them showing up big with some clutch
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: knocks in the first two games is huge. So some
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: shout outs there, and then one other thing. I started
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: to mention AJ the Tigers. They looked up. They hadn't
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: been home in two weeks.
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, eleven game, it's a long time. They're probably happy
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: they get to change underwear.
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: It was pretty funny. Hinchester in his office and we're like, oh,
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: you get to go home. And they didn't actually take
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: the red eye home. They took there. They spent the
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: night interflying. I think they get home maybe four or
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: five o'clock this afternoon. So the Mariners took the red
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: Eye and got here early this morning, and the Tigers
• 12:30
  Speaker 2: shows to spend another night in the road. If I
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: was on those Tigers teams, I would have been like,
• 12:34
  Speaker 2: give me the heck home so I can sleep in
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: my own bed. I don't want to sleep in another hotel.
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: But they chose to do it the way they do it.
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: Teams have all these sleep schedules and all that stuff,
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: and oh man, it's just it's it's fascinating how this
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: is going to go.
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: Does Gabs Fire have to face Carrie Carpenter now? In
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: those kind of moments, like if you're mid game and
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: you're thinking about it, and it's a one or two
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: run game and there's too much pressure. You have to
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: just bring him in as the kryptonite.
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: Him and him and Calen Ferguson have to face that
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: pocket of Riley Green and Kerry Carpenter.
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that to me was the big change from
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: game one to game two.
• 13:12
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: If there's one thing a manager can can impact it
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: that and Kratz. The move was made by Dan Wilson.
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: It's like, if I get beat this time around, okay,
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: but I'm not going to get beat with the same
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: exact strategy.
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: Because you may not ever get to another at bat
• 13:25
  Speaker 3: like you, Like I get it, you might want to
• 13:26
  Speaker 3: try to get by him and Kerry Carpenter's shown that.
• 13:31
  Speaker 4: I get it. He caught him that time.
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: But until he can beat Spire or Ferguson, can't can't
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: let it, can't let it happen. You got it, That's
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: where you gotta go to. So you're gonna live and
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: die on that hill.
• 13:45
  Speaker 4: Mm hmmm.
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: One more quick shoutouts. I don't know, I don't remember
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: if we really said his name much yet, but Zach
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: McKinstry has had an awesome year and had the clutch
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: knock in Game one. Otherwise, who knows. Maybe the Mariners
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: do get themselves a little walk off action and then's
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: too to Detroit.
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: Zach mckinchry had a great first half. Don't don't look
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: at his second half numbers because no, boy, no, he
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: had a great first half. He did not have a
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: good second half. I'm sorry a lot of it. But
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: you could say that about a lot of these Tigers. Also,
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: by the way you talk, we're going to talk Tiger's territory. Cody. Cody,
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: who's on Tiger's territory, walked right by me, blew me off.
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: I had to call him out on it in Tiger's
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: club house. I was like, oh, I don't say hi,
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: you're fired.
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: Wow. And with that Tiger territory. If if you're mad
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: at Aj because you think that he's favoring the Mariners,
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: then the Tigers and the Tigers and the Mariners, then schoolball,
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: then Kirby whatever, then you can listen to Cody Stavenhagen
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: and the Tiger Territory crew part of the Ft network.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: Maybe he's just a little grumpy because he doesn't have
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: the club. He's washing underwear and socks like Schoogle had
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: to get because they ran out of things on the road. Hey,
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: there's a manager's search going on. There's many of them, actually,
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: So Kurtzuzuki interviewed for the Giants opening A catcher being
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: interviewed by catcher Buster Posey, forty one years old, sixteen
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: seasons in Biggs. Currently a special assistant to the GM
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: with the Angels, Nick Huntley is in the mix for
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: the Giants' opening job. No guarantees, but the Rangers executive
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: and former catcher with the Giants is according to John Hymen.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: The last one was according to Robert Murray. But anyway,
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: this former Giants catcher well respected and Buster Posey's backup
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen. Well, AJ sounds like
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: Buster Posey is interested in hiring a catcher.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Kratz was available. Kratz was a catcher.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: Krowts played for the Giants. Didn't he play with Buster Posey?
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: White Krauts Krowts, Why a don't you getting an interview?
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: Matt?
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: Come on, put your name in that ring. You want
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: to you know you want to do that?
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: Who said I didn't? Who said I don't like traffic?
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: In San Francisco, who said, I don't like a forty
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: five minute commute three miles away.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: You don't have to You can do a boat. You
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: didn't live across the street. You can just walk. You
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: don't even need a commute, you don't even need a car.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: I know Buster, I know, I know Buster likes Nick.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: I know Buster liked Nick a lot because I came
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: to I came to San fran in nineteen and I
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: think it was something that Buster and far Haan didn't
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: quite agree because Nick didn't have the receiving numbers like
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: they really wanted, and so that's why they brought me
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: in to fill in for a little bit until they
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: found until Voter got healthy. But so I know he
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: really liked Nick as a person.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: Injury suck. We do have some injury news to hit
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: with the Cubs Brewers series. Jackson Cheerio missed time with
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: a hammy. Then he left the game even though he
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: had a game's worth of production with a hammy issue.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: We'll see how much of a factor it is for
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: the rest of the series. I mean, he had gone
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: three for three in the first couple innings of a
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: shellacking that the Brewers put on the Cubs in that
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: first game. AJ concern level for Cheerio. I mean, he's
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: a big part of the team. I know this is
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: like a sum of parts kind of team and organization,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: but Jackson Cheerio is special.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Oh he's very special here. They did play a long
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: time without him though, so they've used to playing without
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Jackson Turia. But in the playoffs, you want your best
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: players out there, and I think he's gonna try to
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: be out there no matter what. Man, what a first
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: two innings you had to what three hits in two
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: inns for youngest guy ever, first to ever have three
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: hits in the first two innings or something crazy. But
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: they're they're gonna need him if they want to make
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: as deep a run as the Brewers think they can do.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: So they have already enough injuries, let's let's get Jackson
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: back healthy because he's fun to watch.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: I mean, who are they gonna fill in with that's
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: better than him?
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: Is my thing.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: There's people that can't do as well as he does.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: But when you're talking about having the best players out there,
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: you always want the best players. And he wasn't even
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: at one hundred percent. He's still coming back from his
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: previous injury a little bit slowed down, but they need
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna say they need him back in there,
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: but they are a better team with him in the lineup,
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: bar none, hands down.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Can they win this round without him?
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: No doubt? Yes, Humming, I don't even think. I mean,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: we didn't get to talk about it, but you guys,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you guys talked about it. Maybe I don't know, No,
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: we didn't.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: I know what you're gonna say, Boyd.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Matt Boyd, like you never have anyone ever gone into
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: a game one of a playoff series doing a guy
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: on short rest? And I don't think. I don't know
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Mad Boys ever pitched on short rest, but it shouldn't
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: look like he'd ever pitched on short rest because that
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: game was over as soon as the first inning happened.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, I listen, I was watching that, and we
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: know where I stand on the Cubs. And I went
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: and took a shower and it was one nothing Cubs,
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: and I came out and it was ten pitches in
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: and it was three to one Brewers, and I was like,
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: holy crap, what happened? And then it just kept going
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: and going, and when the defense fell apart. That was
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: that was a strange game for the Cubs. But gosh,
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, I just don't know that. I mean, I
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: know they had to go three games with the Padres,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: but man, they threw Matt Boyd on short rest in
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: the first game of a series like that was It
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: seemed odd to me.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: And Matt Boyd, you know, was an incredible signing for them.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: I had a huge first half, he was an All Star.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Wasn't as good in the second half, especially in his
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: last I want to say, like eight starts or so.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: So you're looking at all of that and you're like,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: is he tired? Because last year, remember he's coming off surgery,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: he went like fifty something innings and eight appearances I
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: think almost two hundred innings one hundred almost one to
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: eighty this year, right, So add all of that up.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Is that who you want to start on short rest?
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: It has nothing to do with Matt to me, Kratz,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: it had more to do with just the durability factor
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: here for somebody who hadn't pitched like that. And yes,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: to answer AJ's question three times in his career, all
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: of them a long time ago, like twenty fifteen, sixteen
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: and seventeen one time each of those years. So to me,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: it was like a risk and it completely bombed. Right,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: That's what happened there. I mean his stuff was not
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: as sharp as it usually looks. They were hanging breaking pitches.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: You know, even the fastball wasn't as sharp as it
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: usually is. Is that what you saw?
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it looked like he was not crisp. And you're
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: gonna go right to the short rest. And I've been
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: in these meetings with Craig Council down the stretch end
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: of the season, our best pitcher was Julie's Chessine. I mean,
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: nobody's gonna say, oh, twenty eighteen, the Brewers rode the
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: back of he's just seen No. We kept asking him
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: to throw on short rest, short rest, short rest, short rest,
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: and the picture is always in that moment gonna say
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: yes I can go. I have never seen heard been
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: a part of a meeting where a pictuer goes, I
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: don't know, man, like I just I'm not gonna have it.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: So if you're a manager, you're anization, and you go
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: to that guy and say, can you give it to us?
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Can you give us game one? Because then we'll have
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: you back in game five too, if we need you
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: like you're our best shot. Even at eighty percent, picture's
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: always going to be like one hundred percent. This means
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: the world to me. I want it, and it didn't
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: work out for him.
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• 21:44
  Speaker 1: and the Blue Jays stat note that I think probably
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: stood out more than any other eight home runs so
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: far there severely outslugging. The Yankees seven strikeouts in their
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: first two games, so they're doing both and aj the
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: only time this is happened. More homers are about strikeouts
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: in the first two games of a postseason two thousand
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: and five, White Stocks six homers, four k's in two games.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Guess who had two of those homers Scott and I'll
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: think he had one only. I mean he had two
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: all year and they were both in the postseason. But
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: but I don't know if I had any strikeouts. So yeah,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: I was two on the plus side, zero on the
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: negative side. That's pretty good. That's pretty amazing. Actually, if
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: you think about it more home and now back twenty
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: years ago was a little different. But in today's game,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: because I just watched the series with the Mariners. I
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: watched two games with the Mariners and the Tigers, and
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: they strike out, it's like ten, twelve, fifteen, whatever. We're
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: going to strike out fifteen times a game. We're still
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: gonna try and win. But to eight homers and seven
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: punch outs, especially against now that I mean Freed and Heel,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: but Freed is the big one who usually gets punch outs,
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: and the Yankees bullpen supposed be able to get punch outs.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: So kudos to the Blue Jays.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: You said it's different. You said it's different, but you're
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: not facing any You're not facing a fourth and fifth
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: starter in the postseason. You're not facing the sixth guy
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: out of the bullpen. I don't care if it's nineteen
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: fifty four or twenty twenty five. You're facing the best pitchers.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Those stats, those stats to out homer your strikeouts is awesome.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: That is an amazing stat.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: That's why I were at the best postseason team of
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: all time Crats, And I'll stand by that one because
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: we went eleven and one in the postseason and didn't
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: strike out and hit homers and we're just awesome and
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: through four complete games. So I know people ask me
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: I think we did. I had to do the breakdown
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: for Fox. They asked me to do it for Fox.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: One the best five postseason teams since two thousand. Of
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: course mine was number one? Are you kidding me? But yeah?
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: Who else did you have up there?
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: I think two was the two thousand Yankees because they
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: were the end of the three peat two thousand and
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: four Red Sox for three. I think Dodgers last year
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: we're five and four.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: Was I can't say Royal.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Was one of the twelve, the twenty twelve Giants, the
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: twenty twelve Giants just because I think that was the
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: best team of three the three that they won. I
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: thought the twelve team was the best team.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Hey, alexand Thoppolos spoke over the weekend at his end
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: of season media session. They said they're working on the
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: next manager. But he did mention AJ that if Brian
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Snicker wanted to continue managing, he would have been given
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: that opportunity. Of course, some brave Patroll fans online were like,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: I don't believe you. But he didn't have to say this,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: and eventually it could get disputed by someone, So I
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: believe him.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Why not?
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: I think they would have let him come back for
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: another season and then finish it if that's what he
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: wanted to do.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: This was one Snid's decision. I feel like I don't
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: feel like Alexandobos was lying about this at all. I
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: think I think this was what Snitt weighed his options.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: He's got grand kids, a game, an opportunity to still
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: be part of the organization for his fiftieth year in
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: the organization. Yeah, would have been cool if he would
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: have been managing. Yeah, but he went through a lot, man,
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: and he's won a World Series. He was there with
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Bobby forever and one of the cool things was, I
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: don't know if you'll knew this or not, but in
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Bull Durham he was and Susan Sarandon's wall, he was
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: the little baseball card that is under mirror in early
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: in the movie. So, France Sticker has done a lot
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: in life, done a lot for the Braves organization. He
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: deserved to go out the way he wanted and this
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: was the way he wanted to go out.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Now the Braves will look for their next manager, and
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: somebody is going to have a position where you can
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: jump into a lot of talent very quickly. This is
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: a much more coveted job than quite a few of
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the other spots. You know, it's a big one. This
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: isn't going to be a first year Guy New segment,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Larry pressure Cooker. We're talking about the Phillies Dodgers series.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: So Kratz, obviously you're watching most of the Phillies games
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: this year, and you see what happened in Game one
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: where the Dodgers take them down five unanswered runs. I'm
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: going to actually start here. Is the home field advantage
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: more fun for us as a narrative in a storyline
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: than the actual impact they've lost for of their last
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: five games at his Citizens Bank Park. They've had other
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: bad losses there, what a couple of years ago when
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks took them down. I'm not trying to slight
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: the Phillies in general. I'm just more slighting the home
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: field advantage discussion that we like to talk about and
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: that looks and sounds fun, but does it really do anything.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: No.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Maybe there's something with a team not playing at home,
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: like they're not as comfortable, so you're playing against a
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: team that's not as comfortable, but it doesn't mean Citizens
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Bank is any more Like, Oh man, I'm so nervous
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: these fans are really they just feel like they're really
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: getting on me too much. I don't know if I'm
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: going to be able to hit. I've never met a
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: player that's said, I'm not going to be able to
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: catch the ball in the outfield If I can't, if
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: the Citizens Bank fans are going to be crazy, They're
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: crazy out there.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: I've been played, I've played with guys who at home
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: they're home team fans boo them and hate them so
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: much that they didn't like playing at home during the
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: regular season. But those are few and far between softer players,
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: but not in No, No, I don't think. I don't
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: think it has the It's more a media driven, like
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: fun story.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: The smallest, no, the smallest home field advantage in any
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: sport is baseball. To me, it doesn't It doesn't do anything. Now,
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: I remember playing in the Metronome in the playoffs and
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: it was loud as all get out, but it never
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: really affected a game. I mean, yeah, I don't know,
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: the white roof affected more games than the crowd noise
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: did so, and the turf affected more games than the
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: crowd noise did so. Was it loud yeah? Was it awesome? Yeah?
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: But at the same time, I mean, hopefield advantage in
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: baseball just just doesn't do it a lot for me.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: It's cool because guys get get you know, the cheers
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: and the moments when the home runs and all that
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: happened are great and got guys crying because they just
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: can't believe that their team won a playoff game. But
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: other than that, it doesn't do a lot.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: I will also say though, that I think the fact
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: that Baseball doesn't have a neutral site for their final
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: game of the season is the greatest part of it.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: Like I would hate a neutral site for Baseball championship games,
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: like I hate that the Super Bowl is won at
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: a city that near the teams playing. I love the
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: fact because it's such a long season, fans have a
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: part of it. They feel like they're a part of it,
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: and they ride along with this team. So I don't
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: I wouldn call it an advantage. I would just call
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: it like we look at the Mariners. Look at the Mariners.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: The Mariners play really well at home. Maybe they're just
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: a really good team and their travel sucks, so that's
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: why they don't play good on the road. They're out
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: on the East Coast for nine days, being in a
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: different time zone. Maybe that's why they don't play well
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: on the road. Maybe they're just a good team and
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: when they're in more of a comfortable situation, sleeping time zone,
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: families around them, all those things that has nothing to
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: do with like what's going on in the stadium.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Also, if you want to factor in ballparks, AJ, some
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: ballparks play very different, right.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: But Mariners Seattle Mariners for sure, Like in this series.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia is obviously a hitters park. But like the Dodgers,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: I think I have more homers than the Phillies this year.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: So it's not like, oh, the Phillies have this advantage.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: They're this home run hitting team and the Dodgers aren't.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Like the Dodgers are loaded with power.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Agreed, Yeah, ballpark factor is a big deal. But you know,
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Seattle is a huge difference because of the ballpark, the
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: worst hitting place in the in the league. So yeah,
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: does it matter. I mean, the fans are great because
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: they get behind you and they're you know, they make
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: they make moments. The fans make the moments. The players
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: do the things, and then the fans and the way
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: they cheer and the reaction makes a lot of the moment.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: So does it?
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, but Milwaukee in Chicago, they've played at each
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: other's park for how many I mean, you know, fifteen
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: times a year forever, so they're used to going to
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: those places. The Dodgers have played at Phillies. They have
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: a bunch of veterans. The Phillies have played at Dodger
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Stadium a million times because they have a bunch of veterans.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: So I mean, the Yankees and Blue Jays play again
• 30:11
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  Speaker 1: M Yeah, Otani was not faced. You know, he pitched well,
• 31:40
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  Speaker 1: which is pretty rare for him. He gets the day
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: off now and then hops into the lineup.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because Christopher Sanchez, Because Christopher is really good.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Sanchez is let's not forgetting Christmas is really good. Yeah,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: dirty change up. He was top He's gonna finish top
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: three side in the National League this year. We do
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: have lineup he'll get to. I mean, I'm just saying
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: three to be safe in case I'm forgetting someone. But
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: you're right, he'll probably be number two. So we have
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: two injury factors here with this series to keep an
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: eye on. One is Will Smith returning right. We saw
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: him appear for the first time in Game one later
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: in the game, but he's not in the starting lineup
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: for Game two. So that's on the Dodgers side still
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Ben Wertvett, who actually took a pitch to the forearm,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: but he's shacked, so I don't think it bothered him much.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: If anything, you know, the trainers come out and look
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: at him, and I think he's just given a few
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: extra minutes for show hey to take a breath. But
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Will Smith's out and Kratz Arison Bader is not in
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: the starting lineup for Game two. He can't run yet
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: at one hundred percent. This according to manager Rob Thompson,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: he would probably or possibly, I should say, that was
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: the word he used to be available to pinch hit.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: He's been a great pick up for them at the
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: trade deadline. How much does this hurt?
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: It hurts if the Phillies and they strike out twelve
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: times again, just like they did the last time, Blake
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: Snell just kept throwing that curveball to him. Nick was
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: in the lineup that time. The lineup is essentially exactly
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: besides Mundo Sosa the last time they faced Blake Snell.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: So it hurts them. It hurts them because Bader was
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: doing well. It hurts them because maybe Nick hasn't gotten
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: a lot of at bats, but now they have the
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: guy who had the second most hits, had the best
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: series last year in the playoffs in Nick Costianas. This
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: team's back is up against the wall and they're facing
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: a dude who dominated him less than a month ago.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: And I don't care who's out there autto Camp's hitting ninth.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: You know, Nick Costianos is essentially in the middle of
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: the order. I think that six to seventh spot in
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: the playoffs is the prime location for big spots because
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: you're you're not gonna let the big boys hurt you.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: You're not gonna let Schwarber, Harper and maybe even Baum
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: if he's had some success against lefties, not gonna let
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: those guys hurt you. So it's at six, seven, eight
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: slot that's probably not your better hitters, but you can't
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: let them hurt you, or you can't let the other
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: guys hurt you. So you're gonna have to go after somebody.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and top three in the order is gonna have
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: to do better than one for eleven with six strikeouts.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Stars got to be stars. And I know it's only
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: one game, but star's got to be stars. Trey Turner,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarber, Bryce Harper.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: And why is Will Smith? Why is Will Smith okay
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: to catch five innings of a game but not okay
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: to start?
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: It's a great question for Dave Roberts. Should have them
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: on Dodger's territory.
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: You're here like a hand.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: That hand to me has to hurt more because after
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: the home run he got hit by the pitch by
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: robertson the curve ball and then the home run, he's
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: waiting for ta Oscar at home plate. And I mean
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: he's got the big Mitt thing on his right hand
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: and he's only high fiving with his left hand. Maybe
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: I'm making too much out of it because he's got
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: the big mint thing. But if he's okay to play, sorry,
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: I know. Ben Rovetz has called some amazing games. I
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: mean he has been. He has been the picture whisperer
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: or the pictures are just really good. But Will Smith
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: played almost half the game, I think, if not more
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: than half the game. I'm not sure how many innings
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: he he was in there for. But so he's not
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: good enough to start. I'm confused by that.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: I am too. I mean I thought I caught a
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: quote from him that he was almost one hundred percent.
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: Maybe it's game.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh you think he saw after catching for a
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: day and a half, I think.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: So, I don't know.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you mean his hand to sore, like his body's
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: sore from because he didn't play.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Maybe his body's I don't know why he did.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but he was lat in about a month.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: He hadn't caught it about him like he's been out
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: for a minute, you know, And then he gets thrust
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: back into the scene here. But he's played a lot
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: of postseason ball. I mean, you guys, tell me, if
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: you don't catch it all for a month and I
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: don't think he'd rehab games or anything like that, right
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: then you just jump right back into the playoffs. There's
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: a half game versus a game and then a day
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: off any of that matter, or you're like, nah, screw it.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: I mean I screw it. I'm saying screw it because
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: especially the day off following it. I'm in there.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think a rusty let's put it this
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: one here, here's a good example. Aji Prasinski, Aeric Kratz.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Aeric Kratz is calling great games. Aj Persinski hasn't played
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: for a month. He's gonna be rusty. Who do you
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: think is a better hitter? Who do you think is
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: gonna have more impact than their fore at bats in
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: the game in the playoffs? To me, it's a no brainer.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: Me at one hundred percent is still not as good
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: as eighty percent of Aj Perzinski.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: But Aj has very high pain tolerance. I don't know
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: what Will has.
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: That's never judge. I know there's a pain time. Yeah
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: I don't.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't judge it. Never judge that because you
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: never know.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. I don't know. So that's a
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: thing because they mentioned it on the broadcast, even though
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: he said he's close to one hundred percent and laurn Trot.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: He's talking and you usually get information like that from
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: the coaching staff, and she's saying pain tolerance thing for him.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: So then I'm like, okay, which which one pain tolerance
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: thing or one because those two things are a little
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: bit different. But anyway, he's not in the lineup for
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Game two. We'll see if that's a factor. Maybe the
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Dodgers are like, ah, we don't care, We're so good.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: We'll just ease him back into the mix. The Dodgers
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: are playing for the World Series, just like they were
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: playing for October for most of the regular season. They're like,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: we're just we're prepping. We're we're getting load management in
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: for the World Series. I mean they're up one. Oh,
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: they're in control. Roki Sazaki's the best closer on the
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: planet now. Skip Schumacher is a skipper now again in
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball for the Rangers. And if you caught
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: what was it Thursday or Friday show, you probably already
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: had a good feeling about it. Kratz, what did you
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: say or what did you say? I can't talk. It's
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: probably some other teams interested. Well, that seemed to be
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: the case for people that were recording about it. And
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: he lands himself a four year contract.
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, got you gotta do it.
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: Maybe you gotta do a litle extra if you really
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: want your guy free agency. Skip Schumacher went to manager
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: free agency. So good for Skip. Good for the Rangers too,
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: because they're still on a spot where they want to
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: win and he's clearly shown that he can win in Miami,
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: so I'm pretty sure he can win with a with
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: a nice star studded lineup too.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this was all set up this way, aj that
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: he goes over to the Rangers to work in the
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: front office for a year and then Boachie is done.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was a manager in waiting kind of right,
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: is what they said. He went over there and everyone
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: this is one of the reasons why they thought Boachi
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: might only be there for one more year, and he was.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: And now Skip slides right in because there was you know,
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: thoughts of Skip maybe going to San Francisco had been mentioned.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: I know Saint Louis. But Ali's back again. There was
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: places where Skip's name had come up as a possible replace,
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: and now he's in Texas and they know him, he
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: knows the organization. Seems like a pretty easy transition if
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: you ask me.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, did a nice job with the Marlins. You got
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: the Marlins to the playoffs and got fired and got fired.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: But so did the yemended, so did the GM. Essentially,
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: they essentially pushed the GM at the time out the door,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: and Kim Ang, who built the team for two three years,
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: got him to the playoffs, and then they were like,
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: we're basically demoting you and going to hire someone above you,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: so you should leave. I mean that's they should have.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: You should ask Polar this because you can Skip Schumacher.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: You know. He mentioned some things going on there mm
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: hmm and changed some of them.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: Things the culture, the environment.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Well we just heard KP about the Blue Jays culture
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: and environment and he said it is a completely different
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: world there now. Coaching staff manager, I guess they matter.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: That's exactly what they do. X's and o's in the games. Sorry,
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: that's not you hope you get them right. But when
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: people are like menagerial decisions really really suspect all year?
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: Really? Really were they?
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: Because you went to the seventh inning guy and the
• 40:17
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• 40:19
  Speaker 4: It's paint by numbers, all right, Let's.
• 40:33
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• 40:53
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• 40:55
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: A j any last thoughts here obviously will be talking,
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: but any last thoughts on the series anything we didn't get.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: To No, I think I think we've covered all the
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: series pretty well. I just I'm interested to see how
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: the Cubs respond to getting slapped the other night. How
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: they come out today was showed on the Mound Bullpen
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: game for the Brewers. And also, you know what, how
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: the Phillies respond, because I know they had an off day,
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: but that's a game the Phillies are used to winning.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: In taoscar with the home run late and is a
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: deja vu all over again. As Jogi Barra said to
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: what happened to him against the Mets.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: Last year, that's true with me with the Cubs, I
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: just think about really the top two guys that would
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: be starting playoff games for them would be Justin Steele
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: and Kate Horton. To be missing both of those, everybody's
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: missing guys right now. I get that. I'm just saying
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: it definitely is showing a little bit when you're going
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: with Boyd on short rest. So we'll see what happens
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: for them the rest of the way. Here and a
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: shout out to Brett Phillips always brought a lot of
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: personality and flavor on the field, and he officially announced
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: his retirement at the famous photo from what was it
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty when he was flying around and he was
• 42:06
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• 42:09
  Speaker 4: Wait till he comes on.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: I can't wait till he comes on so he can
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: say he's a quitter and not a retirer.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: But we'll wait till he gets on here official announcement.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's retired and yet you guys aren't. It's amazing, Uh,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: Todd Father is hosting tomorrow. AJ's got the day game,
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: but he'll join us with a special guest from the booth.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: Very nice. Jerry Harrison Junior also scheduled to join us tomorrow.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: We'll talk a little Dodgers Phillies series with him. That'll
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: be after their game too, and then they'll have an
• 42:38
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• 42:40
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• 42:44
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• 42:47
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• 42:51
  Speaker 1: do our recap up the Phillies Dodgers series there. So AJ,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: we'll chat with you at some point tomorrow. Have a
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: good call tomorrow with the guys. Super fun to listen
• 43:00
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