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World Series Game 4 Recap · The 3-0 Take

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take, where we talk
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all things Major League Baseball.
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Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes.
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It all starts. Right now.
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Welcome back to the Three O Take presented by Sea Kick.
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This is episode 483. I'll be your host Kyle Corden.
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I'm here with my Co host Nate Reyes and Nates Stop stop.
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I knew this was coming, but I'm still.
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Oh, we. Back.
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Oh my God. One game, one game, one game.
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With a whole lot of scoring going on, Sir, hopefully our
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back. Hopefully didn't use it all up
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in in one night. We are very back.
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We are back. It feels good.
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Feel really, really good. I was down.
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I was down, down low, down in the dumpsters.
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You've been in the dumps for the last just no, no air.
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Four nights just surrounded by trash, buried in stank.
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Just a little little opening, get some fresh air.
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All right, cut the bit, cut the bit, cut the bit, because I, you
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and I both know that you don't even believe in this, this
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confidence that you have right now.
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And I, I respect the, I respect trying to salvage what little
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enjoyment that you're going to get out of this World Series.
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But bit aside, what do you think it, where do you think this
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series is headed? I mean, we obviously got to we
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got to talk, talk about the game as a whole, but you know, big
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picture, zoom out. They they avoid elimination in
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game 4. Where do you how do you how do
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you foresee this series playing out?
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And spare me the shadow boxing hip hop vibe and Risen, whatever
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this is. We're going back to LA.
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That's all that matters. We're going back to LA.
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Got our Cy Young winner back on the mound tomorrow.
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Ain't no way Flaherty's going to run it back twice in the same
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series. We're going back to LA.
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That's all that's needed to be said.
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Big, big, big game, you know? Huge, huge game.
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Some would say, some would say a must win, some would say that.
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I was, I was absolutely waiting for Smoltz to drop that at some
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point tonight. I even tweeted it out.
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I was like, somebody let me know if if you hear Smoltz say that
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this is a must win game for the Yankees night because that'd be
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something he would say. But yeah, no, like by aside, I
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mean well, the in terms of the the game quality, like whatever,
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pretty, pretty garbage. But in terms of the series
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itself, huge, like massive avoid elimination and do it in
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convincing fashion. Like they they.
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Yeah. This wasn't by the skin of their
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teeth, you know they. Handled the Dodgers tonight like
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and and being able to put as put put up as many runs as they did
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helped him out in in more ways than one.
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And we'll, we'll obviously get into that, but man, Yankees,
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Yankees needed this. And the folks in the comments
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are hoping that your pizza oven work tonight.
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I mean. Just kidding, we went.
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We went with Mac and cheese and Dino Nuggets tonight, so you're
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going to have to run it back. Clearly, clearly winning right
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now. Are you the type of person
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that's going to run it back with Mac and cheese and Dino Nuggets
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tomorrow night? Don't tempt me.
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Don't tempt me. I will.
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You might have to. You might have to.
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Those things hit well. I mean, if, if, if the Yankees
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are if if you do that and the Yankees are able to repeat
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tomorrow night what they did tonight, you'll be you'll be
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Yankees will be looking looking pretty.
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But talking about this offense though, 11 runs scored tonight
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on behalf of the Bronx Bombers, which by the way, was four more
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than they scored in the first three runs of this series
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combined. They also had more extra base
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hits tonight than they had the the previous three games
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combined. And I also saw a note just
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before we hopped on from Justin Havens, the Nug, the Nug Chef,
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that the Yankees are the first, believe it or not, the first
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American League team to steal 5 bases in a World Series game.
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Really. That's kind of surprising.
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So they were, they were doing it All in all fronts.
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They were able to, you know, he'll was able to keep them
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close or keep things, you know, in the in the ballpark for the
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most part. And then the, the pen was able
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to to to hold it down the rest of the way.
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But I mean your, your thoughts. I mean, this seemed to be a
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pretty well-rounded effort. It was, I thought he'll look
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pretty good. I think like for sure emotions
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and and you know, just adrenaline pumping probably got
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him a little wild in the in the 1st a little bit in the second
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too. Actually, it was just a little
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erratic and like sometimes erratic when you throw 9798 can
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be a good thing because you never know when he hits the zone
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and sometimes you just kind of sitting there awkwardly as a
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hitter. You're like, I wasn't expecting
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that to not hit the backstop. Next thing you know you're
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striking out, you know, so sometimes it works.
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Not going to say he was lights out by any means, but I mean I I
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guess like. Can I just add something?
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I I I think the fact that he was able to do enough to warrant a a
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standing no walking off the mound, given the state of the
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team, given the state of the series, the fact that the like
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he in order to to get a standing O out of this crowd tonight,
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with the way these last two games have gone or last three
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games have gone, essentially, you you have to do something a
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little more than ordinary. And again, he did.
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He wasn't lights out, but the fact that he was able to, like I
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said, keep it, keep it within within the ballpark and and give
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them a shot to do what they did tonight was huge.
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Yeah, yeah, looked, I mean again, looked pretty good.
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Defense looked pretty good. For the most part, the bullpen
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has been really solid. I think the bullpen has been
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like it. It's obvious that the starting
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pitching has been what's letting the Yankees down on top of
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absolutely zero, you know, momentum offensively.
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But the bullpen has been very, very good and giving them a
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shot. That the fact that they've had a
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shot in the first three games just tells you a lot of what the
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bullpens done. And and they continued it on
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tonight as well. Yeah, I'm, I'm going to be
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honest, man, I was, I was down. I was still, I was still at the
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bottom of the dumpster when Freddie hit that.
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I did call it last night. I did say that he.
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Would get the get the record. Excellent job.
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So yeah, we'll just check that box.
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No big deal. Hey, hey, hey, you and I, you
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and I both. You and I both correct
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predictions. Boon like clockwork, chalking up
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Judge in the three hole despite being absolute poop the entire
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postseason. Nailed it.
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Nailed it. Look at us.
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Quite honestly, your your prediction was far more
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impressive. Because we know ball or we know
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ball. I mean mind, I mean if they if
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this series went 19 games, you can assume that Boone's chalking
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in pencil and then judge in the three hole.
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I don't think Freddy's ankle hurts at all.
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I think it's completely fine. The man is a robot.
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He busted it down the line on that double play that would have
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gotten out of the inning without a run scoring and beats it down
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like he just I don't know. I don't know how how her that
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ankle be, you know? Like, I mean, you would, you
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would think that these trainers are, are making love to this
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ankle the way they talk about it on the broadcast they're.
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Like Joe Davis is really getting into this.
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Yeah, man, they're like these trainers are on top, on top of
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Freddy grinding it. It literally he was like
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grinding it out. I'm like, Joe, this is a family
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program now. Come on, let's dial it in, man.
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Yeah, I don't. I don't freak.
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Yeah, Joe, I think Joe David. Yeah, I know you're talking
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Freddy being a freak, but Joe Davis might be a little freak
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too. Also.
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As well. Also a freak in a different way.
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The the the Freddie thing though, you, you want to talk
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about obvious predictions in terms of Boone penciling and
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judge it in game like 37 of the series.
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I think if this game went 30, if this series went 37 games, he's
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also probably going to be pitching to to Freddie as well.
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Just keep filling it, filling up the zone.
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Seems to be status quo. Just, you know.
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It's quite wild. Clockwork.
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It's quite wild. The guy's really just really,
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really good. What's the thing there?
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Like why? Why?
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I understand it's the first inning, but why haven't?
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Why haven't toy with it, you know?
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Yeah, dude, that's what I'm saying is that like you could
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tell that the rest of the game everyone pitched to him pretty
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well like it was. And you could tell that the home
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played umpiring has been a little a little sketchy during
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the World Series, but you could tell that there were a couple
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that were 2-3 inches outside that were getting calls.
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Like why not just stay out there?
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Just live there for Freddie free live there.
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If you get the call, great. If you don't, that's fine.
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Take your chances with Tay Oscar.
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You know that's who is hitting 4th, right?
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My crazy. Yeah, yeah.
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I mean, at that point, you've got show Haze out of the way,
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you've got Mookie out of the way.
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And if you have, I'm not, I'm not saying specific to tonight,
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but I'm just saying generally speaking, with the way that
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Freddy's been hitting, if you have an opportunity to pitch
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around him, put him on, whatever.
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If, if this ankle really is bad, then you you don't need to worry
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as much about him being any sort of making any sort of impact on
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the back. So I, I don't, I don't
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understand why the game plan continues to be the pitch to
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Freddie doesn't make any sense. Smoltz has has said a few things
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that were kind of spot on. And he I think he mentioned
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like, I think it was like Game 2, like it's like an ego thing.
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Like there's an ego with pitchers, especially starting
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pitchers that were like, he ain't going to touch my
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fastball, you know what I mean? Like he's done it everybody
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else, but he ain't doing it to me.
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And there's almost like this. I got to I got to get him with
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this and it's just not worked. So let's just let's just go
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ahead and let the man. Be What did I say?
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What did I say? Would lose the Yankees this
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World Series? Ego.
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Egos. Lego, my ego.
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Lego, my ego. Oh, we can't talk about waffles
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right now, by the way. Crazy stuff going on.
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Hear about that? I have no clue what you're
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talking about. Don't eat waffles right now bro,
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there's a whole lot of listeria going on in waffles.
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Don't want that. Yeah, that in quarter Pounders,
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by the way. Oh yeah, E Coli's just making
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its rounds. I think there's just a lot.
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Going on, you know any who's. Something in the water.
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Yeah, something in the water. Speaking of something being in
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the water, can we talk about this little interaction in the
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in the What was that in the first inning, bottom of the
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first? Which one?
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What do you mean? Which one?
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Look, I think I mean this man paid.
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I, I, I thought I was being, I thought I was being general or,
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you know, I thought I was maybe overshooting it a little bit,
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But I tweeted out. I was like, imagine paying $5000
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to see your team in the World Series and you get ejected in
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the bottom of the first because you're ripping the ball out of
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Mookie Betts his glove. I've never seen.
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He was trying to take the glove like I've never seen.
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I've never seen this. I think there's three people
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that really took one on the chin for the Yankees tonight.
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Those two guys sitting in the front row where his buddies like
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pounding the fence and being like he's in our area.
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I mean, what is he doing? He's like he's getting up in
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there. The fact that his homie was
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like, get your other hand out of here Mookie.
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Like. Well, that no, that was kind of
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the weird thing is he takes Mookie.
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I I I have like a a very mild conspiracy here.
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I think that his buddy in the in the home pinstripe jersey
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realized like in real time what was happening.
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Because if you watch, he takes Mookie's hand and like puts it
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on the glove as if to say like, no man, this is all you.
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This is your ball. Like, don't get us tossed here.
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But at that point, it's too late.
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You're caught in 4K at that point.
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I. Really appreciate the effort.
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You're not. You're not undoing that.
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They for sure just walked across the street into Billy's and and
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caught the rest of the game there.
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That's an expensive night. I mean the bottom of the first.
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You don't get a full inning in man.
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His buddy that was like, it's like it the glove was over here
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like it was in our side. He caught it, bro.
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He caught it. He caught it cleanly.
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I got that was nuts. That was crazy.
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Well, I got. Worried because I saw Mookie
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sort of like. I saw him chirp back.
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Yeah, I. Was like, well, he he chirp back
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a little bit, but he almost had it as it's happening.
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He almost had this look on his face like something was getting
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twisted up. I'm like, it's the last thing we
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need is some some drunk idiot messing with with Mookie Betts
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of all people. Unbelievable.
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It's real. I think he just really got
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everyone going. I think he got everybody fired
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up. Here's the.
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Question nobody's asking. Yeah.
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Is this maybe the reverse Steve Bartman?
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I love that. I love that play.
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Why not? Why not?
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Why not the Yanks? Huh.
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Why not the Yanks? Why not us?
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OK. So I'm curious, was there
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something else that I missed in the bottom of the first?
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Because when I said, how did, how do we feel about this
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interaction, you said, which one?
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Was there something that I was missing out elsewhere?
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No, you didn't say bottom first. You just said can we talk about
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this interaction? And I was like, which one?
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Yeah, that was that was nuts, dude.
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I don't think I've ever seen anything like that before.
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I have never seen it I've. I've never seen, like, we're
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talking the gloves. True.
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Like tug of war. Yeah, yeah, that was weird.
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That's weirdo stuff. That's weirdo stuff.
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We don't claim. We don't claim all Yankee fans,
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You know what I mean? Stop.
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There's some goons out there. No.
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Stop. He's there.
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He's in New Jersey. He's at the game.
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He's if. That's what it took.
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Let that man start a GoFundMe. If we've if we do end up pulling
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this thing off, start a GoFundMe.
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Big, big thanks to whatever whatever that guy's name.
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Oh, if this guy's name. Is Sal for sure.
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His name is like Sal. You know if.
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If this thing goes 7, he's you guarantee the Yankees are
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getting them in the dugout for game seven.
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They that would happen that something like that would.
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Happen Sal from Jersey, that's for sure.
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What an expense. That's a New Jersey type.
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It's holy tipping, right? There.
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And then I like, I like his buddy afterwards.
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He's like, he's talking to I, I guess he was talking to the OP.
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He's like making this gesture. Yeah, that's what he's saying.
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He's like, it's on our side, like it's the fence.
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It was over here. I tweeted, I tweeted the video
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of it and I was like, I'm walking here.
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That's I mean. So good.
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Yeah, I think you're on something.
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I think that was AI think that was just Sal and what do we
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think his buddy's name was? Tony for sure, Sal and Tony, Sal
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and just out here. He's looking down at Mookie.
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We're. Walking here, this is this is
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huge. This is what?
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This is what the crowd needed. No, for real, though, I, I
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think, I think even if something as silly as that, you know,
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invigorated the, the crowd a little bit because like you
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said, the the Freeman home run, I personally, I saw that and I
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go no, that this is it. I know.
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Pack it up, turn off the lights, the party's over.
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But credit to the credit to the Yanks for making it competitive.
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Like I said, that's all we wanted was a competitive game.
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And there for a while, 112 run game.
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And then obviously as the game progresses, it gets out of hand
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and the the Yankees are able to deal with a little more
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flexibility with the pen and all that.
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But they're for a good bit. It was a it was a close
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competitive game. Yeah, Yeah.
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Look, I mean, let's let's just talk Volpe for a SEC, man.
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Let's just let's just dive on in.
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Let's just dive on in to the man.
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Yeah, that was a that was a really bad base running mistake.
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And he I just haven't really seen that out of him yet.
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Like since he's been up. I, I just, he doesn't make, he
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doesn't make those kind of mistakes.
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And I think people mistake that like on the bases they think
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he's really fast. He's not actually that fast.
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He's pretty league average as far as speed goes.
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He doesn't seem blazing, but. He has like a very quick first
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step, Very good solid baserunner.
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That was just a weird brain fart.
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If you're not understanding what we're talking about.
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He is on 2nd with one out, one out, and Austin Wells ropes a
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ball off of the center field wall pretty much right over the
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head of Kiki and it was a weird go halfway.
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Oh, I think Kiki has it. Hold on.
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Let's pause. Pause.
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Let's go into the mind of Anthony Volpe on this play.
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What happened? I don't know if I can if I know.
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I think there was an assumption that Kiki had a beat on it and
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he started working his way back towards second too soon.
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No outs by like that with one out.
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I don't think it's that much of an advantage to tag up and get
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to 3rd, so it's not worth hanging around second base so.
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Ideally, like you'd like to see him almost get to 3rd like 2/3
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of the way there because you still have plenty of time to get
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it, you know, get back to 2nd. And it would have taken a
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miraculous play out of Kiki to make that catch.
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So you saw him kind of get halfway and then start working
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his way back. And I don't know if he lost it
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at a certain point because he still didn't get a very good
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jump. He pretty much went all the way
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back to second base and busted it to third real fast.
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And thank the Lord that freaking Rojas finally was just like,
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let's hold some let's just stop somebody right here for a SEC.
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But yeah, it's just that it's a it's a weird brain fart moment
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that you don't see from a very good baserunner.
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And that's been the story so far of this series.
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Like it it's been you can think of like the other the other play
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that Freddie beating out the double play to let a run score
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to make it a one run game, that Glaber flip that was just a
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little high, little wide and it had Volpe reaching not able to
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get everything into that throw. Those have been like the moment
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so far in the series that have been just blown up and become so
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big and game changing type moments because of the offense
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not being able to make up for it.
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So the fact that Volpe gets to come up the next inning and get
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redemption and get that that I think it was the first pitch
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Grand Slam huge, huge because it it gives the opportunity to wash
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some of that stuff away. And right now we're not talking
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about those moments being crazy. We're not talking about those
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moments are the, you know, the reason why they lost.
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Did they play perfectly clean? No, but like when the offense
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shows up and does what they did tonight, those aren't really
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memorable, memorable moments for the Yankees.
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Thankfully, good news is Wells tagged 2 balls tonight that.
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I was literally just about to say talking about two guys that
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haven't had like premier series to this point certainly had an
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impact on tonight's game, which I think is huge for them moving
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forward if they if they hope to stretch this out another game or
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two or even 3. But we talked about it.
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You, you it has to this. Yeah.
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And it goes without saying, of course, But if the Yankees have
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any hope of doing anything, you have to have something more in
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that line up in terms of production outside of Stanton
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and Soto and even Judge, who will will touch on just in a
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little bit. Even he was able to, you know,
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make an impact, however small of an impact it was tonight.
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He was able to to be on base and to be in the mix of of this
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offensive outpouring that the that they had.
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But I mean, in in terms of using this as a a jumping off point
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for games 5 and potentially beyond.
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This is exactly what what they needed.
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You you get sort of everybody involved, you get you get some
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arms out there, like we talked about out of the pen to come out
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and and do what they needed to do.
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And then really up and down the lineup you had guys, like I
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said, impacting it and in one way or another, whether it be
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working a pitch count, getting on base, swiping a bag, whatever
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it was, it was that's that's like that's what I was saying
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earlier. Pretty, pretty well-rounded game
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for the Yankees tonight. So.
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Yeah, very complete. I think I you know, you kind of
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just sit and wonder if there was maybe just a youthful like shell
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shock stuck in, in concrete type vibe going on in in Volpe's
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head. You know, you you talk about
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last night, like, you know, the first game in Yankee Stadium for
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the World Series and, you know, Derek Jeter's throwing out the
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first pitch and like I'm playing shorts.
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I like, I wonder how much of that is like surreal.
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You know, they talked on the on on the broadcast tonight about
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like how obviously he grew up a Yankee fan, but like, you know,
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his parents being die hard Yankees, his family and like
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they'd be happy anyway if Volpe wasn't playing in his game.
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And so it's insane that he is. So it makes you just wonder if,
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like tonight, kind of unleash like a you know what, like I do
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a belong here, like I I can hang with the rest of these guys.
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I may be young, I may be, you know, somewhat green, but like I
25:25
I can hang. And you saw like the confidence
25:30
just kind of take over him on on the bases after that.
25:34
You saw it defensively. I mean that, you know, going off
25:38
of contact in the Verdugo at bat, great at bat, by the way,
25:41
one of one of the best at bats I've ever seen Verdugo take that
25:48
go on contact to the, you know, one hopper deluxe at 2nd and
25:52
just a little bit throw to to the wrong side and Volpe slides
25:57
in. It's like that.
25:59
I think you saw like a little bit of like a short hop, you
26:01
know, kind of go down to the knee at short the next inning.
26:04
Like you watch some of these, like those are confidence plays.
26:08
Those are like I'm settled in and I feel good.
26:12
And so you wonder if, like, that can do something for a young
26:15
guy, especially with all of the pressure of being, you know, the
26:20
next New York kid. Yeah, I mean, do you talk about
26:28
him? They showed on the on the
26:29
broadcast. I've sure pretty much showed on
26:31
broadcast every night. He's at the 2009 World Series
26:34
parade as like a little kid, and now he's in the World Series.
26:37
And I think the thing that was most impressive to me about it
26:40
was you talk about it being a confidence booster.
26:44
The fact that he was able to flush that in the moment, that
26:50
base running blunder was massive.
26:52
Because you talk, we talk right off the top, talking about the
26:56
lack of run production these first three games of the series.
26:59
So you finally have a chance, a very simple, easy, feasible
27:05
opportunity to take advantage of a run that the Dodgers, well, I
27:10
won't say gifted you, but you know you your offense is earning
27:14
it. But it's right that use a a
27:16
boonie ISM is right there in front of you.
27:19
And so when he gets a third and he's, he's like mashing his
27:23
thigh because he's just, he's frustrated with himself and he
27:25
knows that he, he, he knows better and he probably expects
27:29
better for himself. The fact that what was most
27:31
impressive is the fact that he came back and on that Grand
27:34
Slam, you, you could tell he was sitting on that pitch.
27:38
So to be able to, to be able to flush that in between when it
27:42
happened to that, that pitch that he he took yard.
27:46
That's, that's a, that's a big league move right there.
27:49
That that's not him dwelling on it.
27:51
That's not him feeling sorry for himself.
27:53
That's him going, OK, I mean it, it happens in baseball, but it
27:58
doesn't always happen where you have an opportunity to to
28:01
immediately to, to prove yourself, to redeem yourself.
28:07
And like I said, the fact that he was sitting on it tells you
28:09
that he went up to the plate with the game plan, which like I
28:12
said, it's a big league. That's a big league move for,
28:15
for rather young kids. So that was impressive.
28:18
Yeah, yeah, man, trying to think some other some other big
28:28
moments. I think they talked about on the
28:31
broadcast a lot of swing and miss from the Dodgers tonight.
28:34
They're not like super used to seeing that lot of swing and
28:39
miss. I think Clay Holmes kind of
28:42
cleaned up, and he's not a strikeout guy, so that was
28:46
surprising. He went in, in in 1/3 he had
28:50
two. KS Yeah, I think I saw a comment
28:55
here live with us about Otani. Yeah, he I just don't I don't
29:00
know man. Like he he just doesn't look
29:03
fully quite right. There's there's a few swings,
29:08
fastballs up and there was a couple hanging sliders at the
29:11
top of the zone, like 8889 mile an hour spinners at the top of
29:15
the zone that kind of backed up. But like, normally you would see
29:21
him destroy those and he just doesn't quite look right.
29:27
He seems to be flying. I mean, I'm not trying to sit
29:29
here and like dissect Otani swings, but I think because of
29:32
this injury, he like you say, he's not quite feeling right.
29:35
And you see him just and they talked about it tonight too, how
29:38
he's just trying to launch baseballs.
29:41
He's he seems like he's flying open a little bit.
29:43
And I think that's because he's thinking about his shoulders,
29:46
maybe his front side, his backside, and just being able to
29:49
get to a ball as quickly and as as violently as he's used to
29:53
being able to do. And because he probably feels
29:56
limited physically. I think that's that's getting in
29:59
his head a little bit. And he he just doesn't look as
30:04
mechanically sound or he hasn't looked as mechanically sound
30:09
since this this injury. And you know it.
30:12
You bring backside. Being it that's your top hand
30:15
and like that backside really controls the barrel and if your
30:20
top hand has any kind of weakness going on, you're going
30:24
to struggle to stay on top of stuff.
30:26
And that's why you're seeing him really struggle on the top of
30:28
the zone and then probably expanding on that stuff that's
30:32
down and away anyway, no? I was just going to say you, you
30:36
bring up Shohei and I, I feel like I, I, I meant to bring it
30:41
up last night, given that, like we said and and as you very well
30:45
know, Dodgers were a game away from sweeping coming into the
30:49
night. So I'm I'm glad tonight
30:51
happened. So I I still have the
30:52
opportunity to bring it up. The thing was show Hey, because
30:55
I feel like when people hear me specifically harping on judge
31:00
and saying like we need more out of judge, We need more out of
31:03
judge. The Yankees need more out of
31:04
judge. I say we, not me, the Yankees
31:06
need more out of judge. They go, OK, well, what about
31:11
what about don't even give me that look.
31:13
They they say that. They they say, OK, well, what
31:17
about Shohei? What has Shohei done this World
31:19
Series? The answer is nothing.
31:21
The the difference is the Dodgers.
31:25
Coming in is delivering, yeah. Coming into the night, three
31:28
games to none, that's the difference.
31:31
It's as simple as that. It's not.
31:32
It's not about, it's not about picking on judge.
31:35
It's not about saying, OK, well, you're on, you're on a different
31:42
level of expectation that then show it's not that's not it.
31:46
You're both MVP players. However, one of you meaning
31:52
Shohei is surrounded by, like you said, surrounded by other
31:56
guys in that lineup that are producing and it sort of
31:59
alleviates any any sort of missing production that you're
32:04
that that exists there with show.
32:05
Hey, that's the difference Judge.
32:07
It it wasn't wasn't as glaring tonight.
32:11
Yeah, he he had he had a a couple he got on base a couple
32:15
times there, but still wasn't, you know, the Judge that we saw
32:20
that throughout the regular season.
32:22
But my point is is that it wasn't as glaring because you
32:25
had guys around him producing. You put up the Yankees put up
32:28
eleven runs. So if you continue to do that
32:31
and Judge continues to struggle, maybe you can get by, maybe you
32:35
can stretch it out a a couple more games.
32:37
But if if those guys aren't doing that, the burden's going
32:42
to fall on Judge as the captain and the leader of that team and
32:45
the best offensive player on that team.
32:48
It's, well, I mean, so Juan Soto, whatever, toss up, but it
32:53
it's. Probably when it's all said and
32:55
done, Yeah. But no, I mean, ABS did look
33:00
better tonight. I think there were multiple two
33:03
strike counts that he worked a walk in.
33:07
Got me super nervous. That fastball up and in that
33:11
caught the hand, some finger of the left hand and I think the
33:14
palm of the of the right hand, which got me a little a little
33:18
worried. But you saw him being able to
33:23
lay off of that, that slider in that cutter that's down and out,
33:26
that's just off. And that's the one that he's
33:29
been pulling off of and not reaching.
33:32
And you can see that like once he starts spotting that a little
33:35
bit and he gets a better idea of what's a ball and what's a
33:37
strike. Because I think that's where
33:39
he's really, really struggling. Is that that borderline pitch
33:44
that's a way or down and out that he feels like isn't a
33:48
strike and it ends up clipping the zone?
33:50
Like I think those are the ones where he's really struggling
33:55
with. That's what he struggled with
33:56
early in his career. And then he gets, you know, beat
34:00
with stuff in or up. And as these ABS have progressed
34:06
tonight, he did hit that, you know, that RBI single when the
34:10
game was kind of out of hand at that point, but he had that RBI
34:12
single to left. I think it, I think it did look
34:18
better. And they said on the broadcast,
34:21
man, if he would have, if he would have popped off in that
34:23
AB, it would have felt like we're really bad.
34:29
You know what I mean, but they said this was the last box to
34:32
check for, for what would be essentially like a, a
34:36
rejuvenation for for this team and didn't quite accomplish
34:41
that. I don't I, I wouldn't say, but
34:43
you know, I mean, I guess a step in the right direction, but I,
34:47
if I, if I hear the, the commentary about judge being
34:53
like this, this sleeping beast one more time, it's like the
35:00
World Series is going to be over.
35:01
I'm convinced the World Series is going to be over the sleeping
35:05
giant and we're going to talk about Aaron Judge being the
35:08
sleeping giant just knocking on the door of breaking out.
35:11
It's like the season's over, dude.
35:16
Like give it up. We're we've we've essentially
35:19
reached the end of the year. And like, I, I mean, well, more
35:24
specifically, pretty much the end of the postseason, which
35:27
he's sucked in as as has been well documented.
35:31
And I think it's time to give that narrative up.
35:34
I think it's time to give that narrative up because even if it
35:36
goes out, even if it goes out in game five and and hits three
35:40
home runs, it's like, OK, I don't know.
35:43
If you say they push it to game six, say they make it to game
35:46
six and the Dodgers win game six, that's essentially 2 games
35:50
for him to break out, break out the the sleeping giant 22 games
35:55
the the entire course of the postseason.
35:57
We're going to call that breaking out.
35:59
OK, OK. We shall see.
36:06
You getting getting a little little too.
36:08
Cocky, we shall see. Another guy I mentioned it last
36:15
night that Walker Buehler I think is earned himself a little
36:17
contract. I think Labour Torres has earned
36:19
himself a a pretty good paycheck for the last 60 days worth of
36:26
baseball. And what's crazy is that Dero
36:34
has been saying this on MOV Central for like 2 years.
36:38
Like get Glaber Torres in the lead off spot.
36:42
Just get him in the lead off spot.
36:44
He doesn't think anymore. He doesn't put the pressure on
36:46
it of like, it's almost like he goes back to that.
36:49
I think he had 38 or something like that home runs back in
36:53
2021. And it's like you want him to
36:57
like relive that life and you're like, bro, like you're not that
37:01
guy. Like, you don't have to be that
37:03
guy. Not that guy, pal.
37:04
I. Just I just made that number up.
37:08
I don't know if it's 38. 30/8/2019.
37:11
Is it 2019? Whoa, five stars.
37:13
A while ago. We're all I know.
37:16
But that's just like, you know. For those keeping track, for
37:18
those keeping track at home, he finished 17th in MVP voting that
37:21
year. That's crazy, but.
37:24
Clay Torres getting MVP votes? How about that?
37:26
But yeah, man, it's just, you know, the way he's played.
37:28
I know it does a lot having a Juan Soto hitting behind you,
37:31
but the way he's played, I think he's earned himself a lot more
37:35
attention. And I think that like if the
37:38
Yankees thought that they could maybe bring him back on a on a
37:41
team friendly, you know, hometown discount kind of deal.
37:45
I I'd say based on his performance, that number is
37:49
going to go up a little bit. So good for him defensively
37:54
though, brother, figure it out and like clean it up.
37:57
Like you've had some rough moments.
38:00
And again, I mentioned that double play flip that like
38:04
that's just a standard, just a standard.
38:09
One of these guys, just a little thumb down shovel pass.
38:12
That cannot happen. Cannot mess up the rhythm,
38:16
rhythm of the shortstop coming across that way.
38:18
So anyways, what else we got? What else we got Max Muncie,
38:24
brother, what's going on there, man?
38:28
Guy was lights out for most of the postseason.
38:33
Really, really struggled. I don't think he has.
38:35
Were they saying he hasn't had a knock yet in the World Series?
38:41
He's hitting 178 this postseason.
38:47
Honestly, I hadn't been. I mean, I've been admittedly a.
38:50
Little like fixated streak, right?
38:52
Right. For a while, but.
38:54
I've admittedly been a little little fixated on on judges lack
38:58
of production 'cause that's just it.
39:00
It's just mind blowing to me, but I haven't been keeping as
39:05
much up to date with with Muncie.
39:07
What's is that what they said The Yeah, really the whole
39:10
series? Yeah, yeah.
39:12
Talk about a guy though, that could like, you're used to
39:15
seeing that number. You're used to seeing Max Muncie
39:19
hit, you know, under 250. But talk about a guy that could
39:25
very much get it going at any point.
39:27
He's like a he's like a Kyle Schwarber in a way.
39:30
Like when when it comes, it comes in bunches and like, oh,
39:34
look out when it does. So the fact that they've kept
39:37
him at Bay. Trying to think Tay Oscar looked
39:47
a little frustrated tonight. I mean, there's a few Dodgers
39:51
that look frustrated, but like, overall it's been it's.
40:00
I think you can use tonight as like something to work off of
40:04
and and something to like build off of on the the approach
40:08
towards the Dodgers lineup and the way you can attack them.
40:13
Yeah, I mean, I, I to you to your point, I think they
40:16
frustrated the Dodgers lineup a little bit tonight, but I don't
40:20
think I don't think it's anything that's going to
40:22
necessarily keep this. I don't like, I don't think the
40:24
Dodgers are going going into the clubhouse tonight, going back to
40:28
their hotel being like guys, but how do we come back from this?
40:32
Like they they just, you know, I mean, you, you put up four runs.
40:35
It's not it's not going to necessarily win you a ball game
40:38
and it it certainly didn't tonight.
40:39
But with the way that they really you zoom Outlook beyond
40:46
just as crazy you have. This conversation right now, by
40:48
the way, the fact that they've averaged six runs a game, right?
40:51
And they put up four and we're like, they really kind of held
40:55
them. That's.
40:56
What? That's exactly what I'm saying.
40:57
You zoom out, you look at the you look at the length of the
41:00
postseason and just with the way they've been churning out runs
41:03
in their sleep. I'm, I'm not worried about this
41:06
whatsoever. I, I, I hope for the sake of the
41:10
series and for entertainment value that both team like the
41:14
Yankees can, you know, maybe build off this, the Dodgers can
41:17
come out, you know, maybe bounce back, punch back a little bit
41:21
in, in Game 5. But I, in terms of the Dodgers
41:24
lineup specifically, I, I have 0 concerns, 0 concerns.
41:30
It would be nice if if, you know, Shohei would would tap in
41:33
a little bit. But if if we're at a point now
41:36
where you just kind of have to maybe chalk that up.
41:40
Yeah, I mean it. Makes me sad and.
41:43
Yeah, I mean, it's, it's certainly not you, you don't
41:45
like to you you don't love to see it necessarily.
41:47
But you know, the, the, the reality of it is, is that it,
41:54
it, if you're going to chalk it up as an L, I'm, I'm, I'm not
41:58
saying you're expecting nothing out of him.
42:00
But if, if you want to play it safe and say that you're, you're
42:04
counting on nothing, then you can maybe adjust accordingly
42:07
and, and lean into some of these other guys.
42:09
Bounce back. Hey, Oscar being a name, for
42:11
example, of like, OK, you've shown you've had some moments
42:14
this this series. Let's.
42:17
Let's let's build on that. Let's let's take it up a notch
42:20
and then you can kind of account for that lack of production out
42:22
of show, hey? There's there is one guy that I
42:25
don't think is going to recover and that's that Brent Honeywell
42:27
guy. That poor guy really took one on
42:31
the chin for the Dodgers tonight, man.
42:34
They just let him. They just let him drown out
42:37
there. Well, you.
42:39
You. Heard screaming into his glove.
42:41
I'm like, fam, it's done. This game is all done when?
42:46
They losing it when they interviewed Dave Roberts.
42:49
He I don't even it was early. It was probably, well, I guess
42:56
it would have been after the Volpe Grand Slam.
42:57
So we're we're talking like probably 4th inning, I guess
43:00
interviewed him and. It was probably like A52 at that
43:03
point. Yeah, and they're asking him
43:05
about his approach for the rest of the game.
43:07
He's like, yeah, we're just going to, you know, we're we're
43:09
just going to try to chew up some minions.
43:11
I'm like, this dude's already punting.
43:12
It's exactly what I said last night.
43:13
They did that against the Mets. They punted.
43:16
Like set your like. Mets put up 10 I think.
43:18
Yeah, take the Li mean it's I'm not I'm not like faulting the
43:22
guy like the the strategy has worked clearly for them.
43:26
You just take the L you, you reset, you recollect, like you
43:29
collect yourself, your staff, your rotation, your pen, you get
43:33
everybody right for game 5I I understand that.
43:37
But the fact that he went on TV and was like, yeah, you know,
43:40
we're just trying to chew up some minions.
43:41
Like homie, homie came into the game.
43:43
Forget the Volpe Grand Slam. Dave Roberts came into this game
43:46
prepared to fully punt. He he he was just hoping that he
43:51
could maybe catch catch lightning in a bottle again with
43:53
another bullpen game. Didn't happen.
43:56
But. I mean, just wild to, you know.
43:59
Just and Landon Knack really gave him that chance to like he
44:03
he did. He did pretty well.
44:04
And I think, you know, all things considered, Landon Knack
44:07
chewed up exactly what he was supposed to do.
44:09
But the Game 5 to me is for obvious reasons, like it's the
44:23
most important game for the Yankees.
44:25
But I think it's one that like if the Yankees have any shot
44:29
whatsoever, this is the way it has to happen.
44:33
You get another attempt at Game 1, you get an attempt at that of
44:38
Flaherty and a full throttle bullpen with an off day coming
44:44
on Thursday, Yes. On Friday.
44:49
What day is it? Thursday, Tuesday, yeah, off day
44:53
Thursday, something that I think was very you talk about that the
44:57
pen being in in OK shape. Something I think that was
45:02
actually pretty significant that happened that probably isn't
45:04
going to get talked about in in in the the main storylines is
45:09
the fact that the Yankees were able to put up enough runs late
45:12
to where Luke Weaver did not have to come back out for the
45:15
night like that was. That was massive.
45:18
Huge. Huge.
45:19
That was massive because it it's not just, it's not just the fact
45:26
that he would have to come out for another inning and add to
45:29
his his body, his body of work, the fact.
45:31
He's out tomorrow, yeah. Well, yeah, that, but you're
45:35
you're now asking a guy to come out he he's going to be on the
45:38
mound for what, the third consecutive inning?
45:41
Because he went an inning, I think he logged an inning and a
45:43
third on the night. Is that it would have been two
45:45
and a third if he came back out. Right.
45:48
So he would have been on the mound for three consecutive over
45:51
the course of over the span of three innings.
45:53
And they talked about tonight, they said, I think they said
45:55
that would have been the longest save in in World Series history.
45:58
Yeah, in Yankee world. Series or Yankee World Series?
46:02
Oh yeah, that's what I want as a Yankee.
46:04
But I think, and they did mention it tonight, like what
46:08
people need to remember is that like he's not this this
46:12
journeyman closer, like he he hasn't been in this role his
46:15
entire career. And I think that that plays a
46:19
big role in this. Like it plays a big part in the
46:21
fact that he was a starter. He understands the up and down.
46:26
Even then he was kind of a a long man middle relief.
46:30
And he's just found his way into this role.
46:34
And I think that's what makes it like I've I've been upset with
46:38
how often Boone has gone to him for five, four or five out
46:43
saves. But we just got to remember that
46:46
like he's not the ordinary closer.
46:48
He's not the typical guy that may be scared of doing that or
46:54
doesn't have experience doing that.
46:55
He's done that throughout his career.
46:58
So he's awesome, man. He is, He's, he's like, he's
47:05
lanky and like skinny and just, you know, just come right at you
47:09
like, it's, it's pretty sweet. Yeah.
47:12
It's quirky, dude. Yeah.
47:15
All right. Looking ahead to Game 5, how do
47:20
you, I mean you, you sort of touched on already, how do we,
47:23
how do we feel about a Jack Flaherty, Gerrit Cole match up?
47:29
You're not getting too pitcher pitchers duels between the same
47:32
match up in the same series. Like I'm sorry, it's not going
47:35
to happen. It's not going.
47:38
To happen. It's October.
47:39
Anything can happen, Anything can happen.
47:45
Cole needs to be the best he's been all year.
47:51
This is a must win thing. And I was saying last night I
47:54
was like, you know, I kind of wish that he'll would have
47:58
piggybacked off of Schmidt in game three.
48:01
And then you run Cole back out for game four on three days
48:03
rest. But the truth is, like, if the
48:06
Yankees are going to pull this off, someone else in the
48:09
rotation needed to do well enough for them to get the dub
48:12
tonight. He'll did well enough.
48:16
There's more so an offensive explosion.
48:18
But like he did well enough. If you can follow that up with a
48:24
dominant Cole outing, then you're going back to LA.
48:29
Like that's got to feel the best it's felt.
48:33
So that's that's my prediction. That's what I'm going with.
48:36
I think I think Cole goes crazy. I think they get to Flaherty.
48:43
But I think it's one of those games that are going to be it's
48:45
going to tighten up towards the end.
48:47
It's going to be, you know, what bullpen piece doesn't have it
48:52
tonight. That's what it's that's the
48:54
story tomorrow. It's going to come down to the
48:56
pens. I, I hope and pray that they get
49:00
this dub they mean in the Yankees.
49:03
Just again to reiterate for the entertainment, because they, the
49:08
Yankees were this close to making us look like idiots for
49:12
hyping this World Series up this close.
49:15
They have a chance to save it. At least get it back to LA at
49:22
least that's the that's bare minimum.
49:24
Just get it back to LA. It's all you got to do.
49:26
Forget winning the thing, forget even whatever.
49:31
Just get it back to LA. That's it.
49:35
Time just one game at a time. That's it.
49:38
That's all I ask. I don't, I don't necessarily
49:42
have a prediction. I'm, I'm just going to, like I
49:45
said, hope that this I, I, I'm not going to predict the Yankees
49:51
win. As I've said in the past, I'm
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simply going to predict that the series gets extended another
49:58
game. I think that that's put very
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diplomatically if you ask me. Super political answer.
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Yeah, very politician of you. Great cold start.
50:18
Give me another Austin Wells home run.
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Give me a Judge home run. Do we think, do we think Freddie
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pushes it to seven? No, it's done.
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It ends at. You think it's done?
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OK, that's right. We're getting greedy.
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We're getting greedy there. He now holds the record.
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We don't need to extend that record.
50:40
He doesn't need to go break his own record.
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Did you see that sign, by the way, tonight?
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It's like please stop. Freddie, stop, please.
50:49
Just begging for mercy. So accurate.
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Hey, he said he said the thing that nobody wanted to say.
50:55
So kudos to that guy. You know, he was saying what
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everybody was in that city. He was thinking, Oh.
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Man, you ever wonder what Freddie Freeman's arms look
51:07
like? When was the last time we saw
51:09
those? Homie loves the long sleeves
51:12
man. I know, I mean right now it
51:14
makes sense. It just just the thought any
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who's that's my that's my guess. Like I said, my prediction this
51:25
series gets extended a game and go ahead and pencil and judge to
51:30
the three hole. It it it doesn't that doesn't
51:35
you know, it doesn't hit as strong now because he had like a
51:38
couple good ABS. Whatever.
51:41
The fact is a guy still sucks in the postseason.
51:43
I'm not, I'm not, I'm not backing off of that stance.
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But you know, if he gets like a little RBI and garbage time and
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gets on via walk, whatever, it kind of takes away from the bit.
51:54
But reality of it is a guy still sucks in the postseason that
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that's just that's just what it is.
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And we're going to hear, we're going to be we're going to be 50
52:04
years old hearing about how he's on.
52:06
He is. He is knocking on the door of
52:10
breaking out in the postseason. He's going to be an O, He's
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going to be an O33 hitter in the postseason.
52:20
He's going to be in the final year of his career, but he's
52:22
going to be right there. That's my picture, that's my
52:28
prediction. Such a hater.
52:31
Subscribe to us on YouTube. We will be back tomorrow night,
52:35
no matter the result. You have to make a we back.
52:40
You have to make a stop. You have to, I don't who I don't
52:43
know who this we nonsense is. You have to make a promise right
52:47
now, win or lose, you're going to be in a good mood tomorrow
52:50
because you didn't get swept. You, you, you had, you had your,
52:54
you had your Game 4 release. You got the win.
52:57
It's under the belt. You had some positives to look
53:00
back on tonight, but you're going to be in a good mood if
53:03
they lose some if the Yankees lose tomorrow in Game 5.
53:05
You know what? Shouldn't even be here.
53:08
Shouldn't even be here. Don't stop.
53:11
Stop though. Stop.
53:13
The Yank, the big bad Yankee shouldn't be in the world.
53:16
Series get out of. Here What?
53:20
What a crock of crap. Shouldn't even be here.
53:24
You see what rock on in Kansas City, you see what's going on
53:28
in. Cleveland, Yeah, The gauntlet.
53:31
Be here. The gauntlet of the American
53:33
League Central. What a cake walk.
53:36
What a. Shouldn't even be here.
53:38
What a boys cake walk. The boys are here, though.
53:41
I. Don't even think the Royals
53:42
realized that there was games going on and then the Guardians
53:46
just decided that they were going to embrace every quality
53:50
of the American League Central and just decide to, you know,
53:52
not be good, get at whatever. Shouldn't even be here.
53:58
We back though. Oh the yeah, the ultimate
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Cinderella story the 2024 New York Yankees get.
54:06
Save your crap. Nobody wants to hear it.
54:08
Whatever. All right, balls, don't go
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chasing them. We love you all as always.
54:14
Looking forward to talking more baseball with you guys soon.
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Immediate reaction following Game 5 until then.
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Until then, stay filthy.