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SHOCKING Division Series So Far! · 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. Welcome back to the Three O Take
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presented by Sherlock Cedry. This episode 574, I'll be host
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Kyle Korne. I'm here with my Co host Nate
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Reyes and Nate. How do you do?
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How do you do? How do you do, Casey?
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How are we? I love playoff baseball, man.
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This is just nuts insanity. I love it, it's the best.
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It's controlled chaos. It's controlled chaos.
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It it brings out so many different things, like it brings
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out weird superstitions from fans.
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It brings out styles of baseball that you don't typically see it
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not to go off on this like little rant to start it, but I'm
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going to go off on a little bit of a rant.
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Start it. Why is it that?
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And for the record, got called out recently for for for us
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being too negative all the time, which we can we can be.
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We can be. I'll just go ahead and say that
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we can be. You're not wrong, but it's a
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good it's a good critique. This, this is this isn't me
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being negative. This is me trying to prop up
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something that I believe in in a positive way.
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However, going back to my point, styles of baseball in the post
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season that you don't typically see, why is it that it's all
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it's it's launch angle, launch angle, launch angle all year
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until it comes time for postseason baseball.
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And then it's like, Hey, you know what, we got to win this
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game. Let's lay down a bunt.
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Let's lay down to bunts. Let's let's sprinkle in a a a a
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couple of hit and runs. It's like, OK, so we recognize
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that there's value in the small ball approach to the game.
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And for those saying, well, it's, it's, it's the post
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season, you got the like, these are must win games.
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OK, so if they're must win games, why are we utilizing the
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style of baseball that we have deemed necessary to score runs
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to win said games? And why aren't we doing more of
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that during the regular season? That's all I had to say on the
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matter. I'll hang up and listen.
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Yeah, you should. It is a good point because we
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like, I don't know, we see these circumstances where we're like
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that we need a bunt, like we absolutely need a bunt right
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here. And the reality is, is that like
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it's so often that the guy in the box doesn't have that many
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attempts in the year. And it, let's face it, like it's
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probably not even really being worked on in the minor league
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system. Like I'm not trying to come
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after our game and I don't think it's negative to point out
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things that has made this game what it is for so long.
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Analytics have absolutely changed the way things are.
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But it's like it's annoying that like, oh, let's just throw
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analytics out the window when it comes post season time, you
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know, like it, how is it like your Bible during 162?
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And then it's just an afterthought in the postseason.
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So I don't, I don't think what you're saying is wrong.
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I think it's a very good point. And it's a lot of big moments
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that we've already seen. We're half, we're not even
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halfway through. And we've seen a lot of big
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moments in this postseason where it's teams that can execute
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those small fundamental things. And then you see teams that are
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very much fumbling the bag on those opportunities.
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And that's the difference. But that's all it takes in these
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games. That's all it takes
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fundamentals. But it's like, I don't think we
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can just throw the mask of 162 over and be like, it's a long
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season. Like, no, let's get back to
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teaching this stuff. Let's get back to being good at
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that stuff. Yeah.
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You know, like we're, we've manufactured stolen bases to be
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back in our game. Like that's been manufactured.
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Let's be honest. Yeah, yeah.
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Pitch clock, limited moves, bigger bags that's been
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manufactured. How do we manufacture other
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stuff? The bag's huge.
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Why aren't you hitting the front of the bag when you're going
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down the first baseline? Why are you hitting the front
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left corner as you're rounding the bag going home?
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Bring back fundamentals. That's crazy stuff, dude.
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I say it all the time. It's like I see stuff on
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national television that I would get upset at high schoolers for
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doing. All right, we're teetering into
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like negative territory, so. That's what it is, though.
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But it's just like, I think that's what's really refreshing
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about at least two of these teams in the postseason picture
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right now that do those types of things correctly.
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And it's like a well-rounded form of baseball that's being
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played one of. Which is playing at this very
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moment. Which brings me to the point
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that because Major League Baseball decided that we're
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going to put the Milwaukee and Chicago game on it 9 Eastern
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when it's what time zone is Milwaukee in?
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Why are we putting Milwaukee on at 9:00 Eastern?
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They're in Central. Right.
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That was my understanding, yeah. Why couldn't we do like a six,
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eight? Yeah.
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Anyways, because they started it.
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I love it because they decided to start this game at 9:00
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Eastern and I wasn't going to wait till midnight to get this
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pod started, even though we kind of pushed that anyway.
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It is now 1140. Because of that, we're going to
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cover that series at the end just to let this let this
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particular game finish out, become official.
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So that's just a little peek behind the curtain into how we
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do things. So with that said, where do you
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want to start? Just want to get out of the way.
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Let's just get out of the way. It's tough.
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All right, let's let's start with this.
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Why do why do the sound bites every year have to be anti
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Yankee? I hate Canada.
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I couldn't agree more with every last word that he said I had.
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So I had this thought the other day.
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Do you ever or do you ever go to a place or maybe this has never
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happened to you? It happened to me.
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So I can sort of speak from experience here.
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I'm curious if you've had this too.
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Have you ever gone to a place and then like months later, even
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years later, something kind of crazy happens at that particular
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spot and you're like, that's crazy.
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I was literally there and now this thing is happening.
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Whether, you know, it's like a natural disaster, a crime,
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something like that. Yeah.
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I didn't realize when I went, when we shot up to Toronto for a
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game against the Yankees no less, that I was going to be
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like that. That would soon be the site of
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is this a like, is this a crime what we've been witnessing in
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this series in Toronto? Well, let's not, I mean, let's
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not shortchange it here. Let's not let's not minimize L.
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Is an L is an L. Let's not minimize what's been
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happening in Toronto and and people can point to Game 2 and
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be like, well, they closed the gap.
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It was only a six point A6 run loss.
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Come on. Come on.
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We got them right where we want them.
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You. Know all right, let's.
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Talk we got. We hold all the cards.
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If if you're unfamiliar with that clip that I played a a
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minute ago, it was the Grand Slam from Yankee killer man that
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never wants to play for the New York Yankees in his life,
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Vladimir Guerrero Junior. That was actually Game 2.
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So let's start with game one. It's kind of the same thing,
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honestly. It's just one beat down after
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the other. 12:50 in favor of the Blue Jays.
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I mean, the floor is yours, my friend.
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You. I mean, what what happened?
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What went wrong game 2:13 to 7:00.
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But as I mentioned, I mean garbage time runs, if we're
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being honest here. So really just a couple of beat
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downs, but this is your team, so I'll let you let you take the
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ball. Just don't match up well, man,
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to the Blue Jays, just have the Yankees number all year.
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They just play. I told you before it like that.
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It was in the context of being worried about the Red Sox, but
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it was like there's only two or three teams in the league that
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like really know how to play the Yankees and just have their
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number. And unfortunately for the
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Yankees, they have to go through two of those teams to get where
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they need to go, and they got through one.
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But like this one, just like they're just really good.
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Like you give an inch, they take a mile that's just or a
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kilometer. Some may say you like that.
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That's good. This man's quick on his feet
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after a couple be done. So I'm not going to lie the way
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you were, the way you were, you know, texting after game two,
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I'm like, this is a man that understands that that these
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manhandlings are just a part of the game.
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It's unfortunate for the Yankees that it's happened back-to-back
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games in a situ and has put them in a situation to where they're
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a game away from going home. But the way that you know, the
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way that you were sort of carrying yourself after game
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two, I'm thinking to myself, he gets it.
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He's not almost. It almost kind of surprised me
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where I was, like I. Appreciate that.
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Thank you very much. I would have got I would have
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assumed that you would have been way worse off than you were.
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But you, you know, you're you you're hitting me with the we
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got him right where we want him. I'm like, this is a man that's
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joking. After after these two games, he
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he must be in good spirits. Well.
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Here's the reality game one. We were, we were up, we were up
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north. We were up in the in in a cabin.
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And you know, what am I? I'm hanging out with my wife in
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a cabin. Like how?
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How mad can I get? Some dangers bigger than
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baseball has, I said. So you know, LL there and then
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driving back. I, I didn't have service for a
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lot of it didn't really even have the game on until like the
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4th inning because I just the drive down.
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It's probably better. And that's, you know, that's
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where I was like, oh, it's like 4 nothing.
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And then by the time I like get inside and like put it up on the
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TV, it's 7 nothing. And I'm like, all right.
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Well, let's just. Start go ahead and unpack.
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I'm going to go take a shower. Let's clean up.
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Let's just like settle in for the rest of our weekend.
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Then it was 11 nothing. And so I was like, I'm I'm
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turning this off and I didn't watch.
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I didn't watch the rest of it because why would I need to do
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that to myself? You know, why would I need to do
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that? Why did Well tell me this?
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Why did Trey Ya Savage feel the need to do what he did to the
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Yankees? That was.
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That was Trey. I'll tell you what, Trey Ya
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Savage is who Cam Schlittler thinks he is.
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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Don't just say what you need to say.
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Disrespect. No, I'm going to, I'm going to
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say it. Full disrespect.
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Full disrespect. Treya Savage is it?
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Did you see the the curtain call?
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They brought him out to Hazel May on the mic.
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She was about to go ask him a question and she steps back
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because the stadium just comes unglued and he's just taking it
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all in, looking around, clapping it up.
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What a moment in Toronto. What a moment for the kid.
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What a moment for the kid. And didn't feel the need to
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really run his mouth after the fact, which I thought was a
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classy move. But what an outing for the kid.
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First pitcher. I felt like a shot.
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I mean if the shoe fits. Treya Savage according to the
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Blue Jays first pitcher in Major League history with 11 KS
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allowing zero hits through the 1st 5 innings in the postseason.
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Second youngest pitcher to ever record 10 plus strikeouts in a
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postseason start and just add salt to the wound.
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Longest no hit bid by Blue Jay in the postseason, 11 KS over 5
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and a third. I mean what a what a gem.
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What a gem. L's an L what you going to do I
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mean. Whatever helps you sleep at
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night back. To the Bronx.
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Back to the Bronx. Too little, too late.
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No, I think I saw they did this in 2017.
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Cleveland, I believe. Came back and won it.
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So Goonies never say die baby. It's a good movie.
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I well, let me ask you this, and I was, I meant to, I meant to
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ask you this right off the top before we started breaking the
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series down. But the Yankees are down two
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games to none. The Phillies are down two games
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to none. They are.
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And the Cubs, should this hold, will be down two games to none.
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Which of those three teams do you believe could stage a
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comeback, if any? I would say it's between the the
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Yankees and the Phillies, kind of out on the Cubs.
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Fair. Weirdly enough, I'm kind of out
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on the Phillies. As much as it means me to say
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I've, I've not liked what I've seen.
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The bank was just decimated, which I guess, I guess that's
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like the aspect to it is that like you can argue, yeah, we're
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out on the Cubs. This was done in Milwaukee and
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what the Blue Jays did, that was done in Toronto, right?
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So, like, going back to LA is like going to be really tough
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for the Phillies, almost impossible.
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Series over what? I mean, what are we talking?
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About going back to the Bronx, I mean, you know, you never know.
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It's, it's a weird, it's a weird situation up there.
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Things could change. Well, let's let's transition
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into that series. Dodgers, Phillies, you mentioned
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the bank. I saw a clip, I don't know if if
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it came across your feed, but the, and I, I, I will admit I
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was out of town. You were out of town as you
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mentioned, I was out of town this weekend.
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I did, I did what I could to say tapped in, but it got to a
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certain point where I wasn't able to catch every pitch.
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So the clip that I am referring to is, was a clip of when Yohan
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Duran came in. And you know, that was one of
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the things we talked about is like, oh, this entrance is going
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to be electric in October. And it just fell so flat.
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Like the the clip that I saw was, you know, crowd sourced or,
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you know, fan sourced, whatever. And they're just like kind of
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panning around and nothing. And granted, I get it that he
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came in when they when they were down.
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Maybe they'd wasted it all in the inner squad, I don't.
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I don't know man, but it was unnecessary, sorry.
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Well, I mean, it's a legitimate it's a legitimate observation.
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But my, my thing with the Phillies having gone down to
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games, son, which part of my point you already brought up is
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the fact that they they fell victim to this at home, which is
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such a dagger to any real chance of them making a series of this
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thing. I mean, if they do find a way to
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take both in LA, which at this point I I not confident in, I'm
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going to give them the benefit of the doubt.
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And when I say them, I'm talking Phillies fans, the bank in
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saying that a game five would go bonkers.
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I just don't think they can get there.
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They at the very least had to, had to have taken one at home
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because taken 2 in LA. I, I said it before, I think it
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was going, it was our last episode going into the
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postseason. I said I'm getting a whiff of,
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of the Dodgers getting their mojo back.
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And I just feel like it that's it's played out one way or
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another, like they're, they're obviously winning the games that
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they need to win. And I just feel I, I, I, I feel
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because they've won what I see they've won nine straight.
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It's like this is just going to continue to snowball with every
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win that they rack up. It's, it's, it's going to be
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that much more difficult for whoever's in their way.
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And at this point, it's starting to look like it's not going to
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really matter until maybe they run into Milwaukee, who I think
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could could definitely give them a run for their money.
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Yeah, yeah, it. I don't know really what to say
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about the Phillies, man. They just it's.
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Sad. Like, this game too did it kind
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of gave it like a little bit of a run.
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Let's be honest, that that was a Yippy throw from Tommy Edmund
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that like took a quirky little little scoop from Freddie to to
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keep that game in play. But like, yeah, just I think
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that's the one like Achilles heel that you see with the
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Dodgers is that like a team can really string together some
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stuff against their bullpen. And I think that's what makes
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me, if I'm a Dodgers fan, a little worried about them going
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all the way. I think that would have done
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wonders if the Phillies could have come back from that and won
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that game too. I think that really, really
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would have done some stuff. Clutch knock from Nikki
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Castellanos just to for that double to score 2 like.
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There, there was something brewing for a SEC.
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It just couldn't get over the hump.
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I don't know, man. It's.
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Hard to say. I got to say Roki Sasaki.
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The good role for him? They may have found something in
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this. This has been impressive.
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And look, I don't I don't want us to talk the entire time about
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the Phillies. Like credit to what the Dodgers
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have been doing, man clutch ABS good on, you know, good on Tay
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Oscar for avenging that that Little Miss.
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Well, I'm not even call it a miss play.
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It was just flat out laziness. You know, sort of balancing that
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out a little bit with the what was that three run Homer to to
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put them up. You know, that's, it's easy to,
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to, to, you know, lay in the guys for, for things like that.
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But when they're able to recognize like, shoot, I yeah,
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I, I really blew it on that one. Let me let me step up, make up
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for it and maybe even go take it a step further, a little above
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and beyond. And he did that and ultimately
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help them pull out the win. So good on him for that.
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Otani. Otani is Otani.
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I guess I'm, I mean, I'm not. If the if the his name is not on
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the jersey, I don't know how impressed I am, you know what I
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mean on the mound. Yeah, yeah.
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Is it? He had.
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One negative, though, we went. Four.
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Hey, yeah, we're not here to be negative.
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We had, we had four. Was it 4 strikeouts in Game 2I?
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Think so, yeah. Yeah, not a good day at the
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dish, but can't win them all if you're Otani.
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But you can certainly win most of them.
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Just wasn't in the cards form Game 2.
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But it's the whole. Point of their depth.
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That's the whole point of it key K is is being post season key K.
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No surprise there. You bring up the point about the
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bullpen, though, not to be negative, but it is it is, it's
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it's, you know, worth being concerned over, I would say.
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And I I don't think that's that's anything we're like we're
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not saying anything new. No, no, but it's it is
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interesting to see how it how it has been exposed like in real
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time. It's not just, you know, is this
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going to happen? Like, no it it almost did.
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I did you, I don't know, overly familiar with the with the
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Phillies roster. Did you not want to see a pinch
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runner for Castellanos after that double?
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I know he's not like super slow, but like game tying run.
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I think I'm going to go ahead. I don't know what their bench
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was at the moment. I could be overthinking it.
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Yeah, honestly, I'm not, I'm not sure where their bench was at
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that that point in time. Just a thought because like.
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I don't think it was that bad of a bunt, but they ran the wheel
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play and like, obviously the whole point of that is to get
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out at 3rd and you know, it's got to be like the absolute most
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like soft little bunt and Muncie coming in hard gets to flip it
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around and and throw it to Mookie.
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And like it wasn't that close. He was he was pretty out.
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I just I don't know, I would have thought about maybe pinch
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running there, but like, I don't know what's up with Bader.
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Bader's hurt. What's wrong with him?
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They're saying he can hit but he can't run.
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Oh, I don't know. We saw him pinch hit after that,
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but they. Yeah, because he had the, he had
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the the knock there late, right? Yeah.
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Yeah, but they're saying that he's not he's not running so
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great. I don't know if I'm.
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I feel like I because we saw like an insane play wasn't in
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game one that diving play in right center from him.
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Yeah. Yeah, like what?
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I don't know what happened to him.
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Saturday, yeah. Can't run.
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I don't. I don't know.
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But so like that's the thought too.
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Is that like, you know, do you, I don't know whatever is what it
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is tall task. I, I think you asked me this
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question before. I, I guess of the teams, it's
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really interesting because like you see that like a Milwaukee
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team, like playing the clubs, the Cubs all year.
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You're going to be comfortable in Chicago.
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It's not like they're going to be like in foreign land.
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And same thing with the Blue Jays.
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It's not like they're going some hostile environment.
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They're never in, You know, they go to Yankee Stadium and win.
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So I don't know, I don't know which way to lean.
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Yeah, it's all. It's all task for the for the
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Phills. I see the Dodgers put this thing
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away in LA whether it's game three or game four.
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I do not see this going back to Philly.
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It's just, I mean, yeah, Philly put up a, like we said, a good
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little run there at the end here in Game 2.
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But I'm just going to need more from guys like, I mean, yeah,
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I'm looking at you, Bryce. Like you.
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I saw a note earlier, Trey Schwarber and Bryce went one for
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10, combined one for 10 with five KS in Game 2.
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Like you, I know and I know it's just one game in that instance,
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but. But at the bank, one of those
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guys goes yard and it's obviously more so like Schwarber
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and Harper, but like one of those guys hits a bomb and it's
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like the roof pops off, dude. That's just like how?
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It and then it and it becomes a contagious for the rest of those
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guys. It's just like, you hate to put
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that kind of pressure on those two, but like, that's what they
26:19
that's what they are. That's who they are.
26:21
They need to be able to show up and and it has to happen in that
26:24
type of way in a tater. I need I need taters.
26:32
Clip that. Yeah.
26:36
It just goes back to what I said about just not, I don't, I don't
26:41
get the sense that we're getting a, a, a motivated Bryce right
26:47
now at this point. You, you brought up a point, I
26:49
don't know if it was on here in the group chat where it's about
26:53
like the curse of like the BI teams, the teams with first seed
26:57
buys and like first round buys and having time off.
27:02
And, and we had talked about this with the Phillies for the
27:06
last month. They haven't played games that
27:08
really matter, so it's like you're playing games that are
27:13
The Division's so far out of reach.
27:16
Then you have your first round buy.
27:19
And you play yourself. Yeah, dude, it's just like it's,
27:23
it's probably hard to get it going again.
27:28
Yeah. So it's.
27:30
A good point. Credit to you, my friend.
27:33
Well, I still chose them in this bracket that we.
27:35
Did. I did too.
27:36
Throw my money out the window. Speaking of throwing money,
27:46
gotta say it'd be tough to know where to throw your money in
27:49
this Tigers Mariner series because this has been, this has
27:53
been quite the, this has been quite, quite the back and forth.
27:57
I mean, can we say the most entertaining?
28:01
I would say that. Well, I mean, if we're just
28:04
talking straight up fireworks, straight up home field
28:07
advantage, roof coming off the place, I mean the Toronto
28:10
Yankees and you know, joking aside, people love watching the
28:14
Yankees get blown out. So like even myself, I'm like,
28:18
dude, I wish, I wish this game would go on for like another 15
28:21
Indians. I love, I love what I'm seeing
28:23
right now. I get it.
28:23
So there's an entertainment value there.
28:25
But if we're just talking like good hard nosed baseball.
28:29
Quality Bell. This Tigers Mariners series has
28:33
been worth the price of admission.
28:35
Game one decided by one advantage Tigers in 11 Game 2
28:41
also decided by one advantage. Mariners in regulation.
28:46
But what a finish to both. I mean, there's there's no way
28:52
to to get around it. Any game that's decided by one
28:55
run, that's not like a well, the the box score shows differently
28:59
now like that. These were both very, very close
29:03
games, very, very fun. Going back to our point earlier,
29:08
very fundamental games like that.
29:10
Oh my goodness, the way that the Mariners won Game 2.
29:14
That's, that's, that's every manager's dream, man.
29:18
Little little 2 bagger and then another base hit.
29:21
Bring them in. Like that's just the way it's,
29:24
it's, it's like you, you draw up scenarios.
29:28
That's that's how you want it to play out every time.
29:32
Yeah. None of this like, well, let's
29:34
hope for a SAC fly and let's maybe hope they put our guy on.
29:38
No. String some stuff together.
29:41
String a couple hits together, take the lead, win the game, go
29:44
home, get ready for the next game.
29:46
Yeah. I'll tell you who.
29:48
Seems like he really fixed something.
29:51
Was Julio. Yeah, he's feeling himself.
29:54
Julio's got it locked in and I've always had this issue with
29:59
him like getting like in here when he like he like used to tip
30:03
in his hand would get so tucked in like behind and everything
30:07
would have to come out and he was kind of like the ball like
30:12
fastballs up in a way where a struggle for him because he
30:14
couldn't get on top. And now he seems like it's like
30:17
when he loads the hand just kind of has more clearance from his
30:21
chest and he's controlling his barrel a little bit better and
30:24
he's able to pull the ball with authority.
30:26
Like he looks good and he's freaking vibe show.
30:31
So that's exciting. I'd like to see Gino get going a
30:35
little bit. I'd like to see him do
30:37
something, yes. Yikes.
30:41
Honestly, if you would have told me a Mariner had a two Homer
30:45
game and and you know, kind of throw throw out the last month
30:50
or so of the regular, she's not the window.
30:52
If you're saying hey, we've got a a post season series in
30:56
Seattle, guy had a two Homer game not named Cal Raleigh, I'd
31:01
probably go with I. I'm probably thinking Gino, but
31:04
no. No, no.
31:09
No, no, no, Jorge Polanco said. Derek Schuble, nice to meet you.
31:15
What a day. Good swings dude, what a good
31:19
swings. To be fair, I can one of them, I
31:25
don't know about the other, but one of them Scooble just laid in
31:29
a a do nothing slider like just yeah, could not have been more
31:35
flat and he disposed of it into the left center bleachers.
31:39
But All in all he was able to get to Scooble, which not many
31:45
people have done. I think I, I think I heard on
31:47
the broadcast that only four people all time have have had
31:51
two Homer games against Scooble or multi Homer games against
31:54
Scooble. Really.
31:56
And Jorge Polanco is not one of them.
31:59
But like I said, quite the quite the series so far, it's been
32:09
very entertaining. Did I say that when when we made
32:12
our division picks that I thought I thought I remember
32:16
saying I was trying to remember that today, that I thought I
32:18
remember saying that I was looking forward to this series
32:23
maybe the maybe the most, or did I say the exact opposite?
32:27
I think it was the least. I think it was the least.
32:32
Did I really say that? Maybe I maybe it was because I
32:34
just felt like the the Mariners were going to handle business.
32:38
Yeah, that's probably what it was the least.
32:40
Yeah. Back to Detroit, Tide 11.
32:51
I don't know, I mean it's kind of a flip of the coin like the
32:58
the Tigers just kind of like find a way to win.
33:00
Sometimes you just like randomly like it.
33:02
It seems like the other team just like runs out of outs
33:05
quick. I don't know how to explain it,
33:08
but just like, oh, the Tigers are 6 outs away from winning
33:11
somehow, you know, and it's not always like the cleanest like
33:16
obvious win. It's sometimes just like a we
33:20
snuck this out kind of thing. I feel like they sneak wins out.
33:24
The gritty kitties. I I got to say I loved the quote
33:29
from AJ Hinch after game one, who I think a reporter was like,
33:32
so how does it feel to sneak out of win on the road in Seattle?
33:36
And he's like, well, first of all, we didn't sneak anything
33:39
out. We earned it.
33:40
I'm like, relax right on. No, no, no.
33:45
In the vein of being positive here, that's.
33:47
Yeah, but like, that's just the phrasing of the question and no
33:51
need to be a hard O. No, I dig it.
33:54
I'm all about it. We let them know, put them,
33:57
correct them, come correct with these questions.
34:02
Understand that you're not just going to sneak out a post season
34:05
game like a one run. No, you earned it on the road.
34:11
That's earning it ball game. Brewers up to nothing?
34:17
Brewers up to nothing. Perfect Segway.
34:20
How about that? I mean, we could not have time
34:22
that anymore. Perfect.
34:24
Brewers up two games to none. This is not been a pretty series
34:28
for the Cubs, but credit to the Brewers for the way that they've
34:34
been able to string runs together.
34:39
They just, to me, it just feels like a team that like you can
34:46
punch them in the face as much as you want and they just keep
34:50
smiling back at you. You know what I mean?
34:52
Like there's like a confidence level of like, do whatever you
34:55
want. We're still going to win.
34:56
Like, I don't care how you do it.
34:58
We're still going to win. Even this game too.
35:00
Like say Suzuki coming out, pump pumping him in the face.
35:03
Dude, here's three nut paws punching them in the face,
35:09
coming out three. Nothing Like let's go.
35:11
And like, it seems like, all right, like the Cubs got a
35:13
little fight in them and it just doesn't matter who they're
35:16
flying the L Do you see that? I love it, I love it.
35:21
Love good, good hard fashion. Pause.
35:26
What is sportsmanship? Oh, the L, the L flag.
35:31
Gamesmanship. Is that the word I was looking
35:33
for? What?
35:34
What do you even pause for? I said love.
35:37
Oh, you said good, hard. And then, yeah, I was getting
35:41
somewhere. Michael Scott is just, I was
35:43
getting to the gamesmanship, the fan fansmanship.
35:49
That's a word I'm going to that's I'm inventing that word.
35:54
Yeah, I like it. Yeah, dude.
35:57
Fansmanship. It's just a a a brew crew that
36:01
like it's it's weird to see like a team that is the number one
36:08
seed, but like still an underdog, but just like no one's
36:15
familiar with us. Like it's it's very odd.
36:18
Like I don't know how to how to look at them.
36:21
I. Get what you're saying when you
36:23
say like they're still kind of an underdog, but like
36:25
objectively though, are we past the point of being able to call
36:29
them an underdog? Like they're, they're, they're
36:31
so good. I think they're like, I'm not
36:34
going to say underdog, maybe just like misjudged.
36:38
No, just I'm not personally, like I said, I'm not disagreeing
36:42
with your take of like, well, like there's still this like
36:44
underdog. I like I, I, I hear you and I
36:47
get what you're saying, but I'm saying to like a, a national
36:51
audience or like people that are tuning in to watch this team,
36:54
they go, oh, like, what? What's the deal with the
36:55
Brewers? I just don't think we I don't
36:58
think that label can be used anymore because and I'm not, I'm
37:01
really not trying to be, you know, fall victim to the moment.
37:04
They're they're up two games, nothing.
37:05
But just objectively this is this has been known for some
37:09
time. Like they're just a very good
37:11
team and they're showing it here.
37:13
I get it. I I think the true test is the,
37:16
is the NLCS, Like I got no offense against the Cubs, just
37:20
just like, I don't think that's that impressive.
37:22
They beat them all year. They know them, you know, I, I
37:28
would say like whoever they face, whether it's the Phillies
37:30
sneaking it out or or the Dodgers holding on like that to
37:34
me is the real like prove yourself.
37:37
If you're legit, you got to get through one of those big boys.
37:42
Well, let's say the Dodgers finished, finished things off
37:46
against the Phillies. It's a Phillies.
37:50
Let's sit. Or, excuse me, let's say it's
37:51
Dodgers, Brewers, NLCS. Are we giving the the Brewers
37:58
the underdog label there? I don't think you can.
38:03
I don't know, I mean like if you know ball, no, but like if
38:06
you're just a casual and you're like, all right, I guess I'll
38:09
watch post season baseball. It's like good luck naming more
38:12
more than 3 or 4 Brewers. You know what I mean?
38:15
You can sit there and be a who's who of LA Dodger clubhouse, but
38:18
like I think that's what makes it that way.
38:22
And I think that's why it like it is so unique and I that's why
38:26
I'm enjoying them being so good and like proving everyone wrong.
38:31
And I hope they continue to prove them wrong.
38:33
Like I'm low key would love to see them in the World Series and
38:38
I at. This point, yeah, absolutely.
38:41
I think it would be excellent. I think it would be excellent
38:44
because of the style of play, because of the way they play,
38:47
because it's like, doesn't even matter about the big names,
38:51
dude. Don't even matter.
38:53
I'm down at this point. I'm down to get weird.
38:55
Give me like a give me a Brewers Blue Jays World Series.
39:00
Like, careful what you wish for. Remember in like 05 it was like
39:03
the White Sox and the Astros and it was like the least watched
39:06
World Series in the history of baseball.
39:08
I mean I guess but well OK no disrespect this isn't me being
39:15
negative but I think we can all agree and the numbers back to
39:20
some. This isn't me being negative,
39:21
this is just fact. The 2023 World Series between
39:27
the D backs and Rangers could be used as a comp there.
39:32
Like OK, well we got we got weird in 2023.
39:36
What Like why? What was what was so wrong about
39:39
that? There was just I, I more
39:43
stardom. I can't tell you.
39:45
No, no, no, I'm I'm saying the opposite.
39:48
Like I would rather see it's a similar situation, but I would
39:52
rather see a Brewers, Blue Jays World Series with the ways, with
40:01
the way that the teams respective teams are currently
40:03
constructed, with the way that they're both playing and the the
40:09
home field atmospheres that I feel.
40:12
That both could provide for that would make for a good World
40:15
Series, but for some reason the Rangers in D backs just didn't
40:21
really do it for me. Fair.
40:24
So I mean, I told you out here, it was like there were people
40:28
that were just like, oh, D backs in the World Series, like cool.
40:31
I was like what? The city should be burning down
40:34
like this is crazy. Like you guys are never here.
40:36
Like, let's celebrate this. And on the flip side, you got,
40:39
and I'm not, I'm not knocking the D backs, fans that love
40:42
their D backs, but in in this hypothetical Jays, Brewers,
40:47
World Series, you got you're talking about two cities that
40:50
absolutely love baseball. So I think I think that would
40:54
just make for a better recipe. Milwaukee is just, we need we.
40:59
This is what they need. They're just out there working
41:03
in factories and going to baseball games.
41:07
That's it, Brewers fans. That's factories, baseball
41:11
games, just like a lot of lakes a.
41:14
Lot of cheese. A lot of.
41:15
Trees, a lot of cheese and just everyone just hustling, just
41:22
getting their hands dirty. And going to Brewers games,
41:25
doing. Hard work going to Brewers
41:27
games. I can't tell you why.
41:29
That's just the way it is. That's just blue collar Midwest.
41:33
Yeah, they're they're tailgating outside of Green Bay Packers
41:38
games, eating casseroles. That's who they are.
41:42
That's the way they're built. They're having casseroles
41:45
everywhere, flannels galore. I'll talk to myself into it.
41:53
Let's go brew Crew. God bless them, God bless them.
41:57
Let's go brew crew. Let's go brew crew.
42:02
Yeah, real quick though, on the Cubs, like I said, just have not
42:07
been able to get much of anything going here.
42:11
Outscored by what, 6IN game one? What was the night 7/3?
42:17
Three. Yeah, they didn't do anything
42:18
after the stay of Suzuki Home run.
42:20
Right. You know, so we're talking about
42:23
6 run deficit in game 14, run deficit in Game 2.
42:29
Milwaukee has just pretty much outdone everything.
42:34
Every element of the game out, hit, out, pitched.
42:37
Shout out Andrew Vaughn. Hey, credit to you.
42:41
Let's let's get it going. Let's let's get it going.
42:50
That's got to be one of my biggest eat crow moments of 2025
42:54
is Andrew Vaughn. I, I went on this whole rant
42:57
earlier about like you thought this, you think this is going to
43:02
be enough to hold it down at first because I think I who was
43:06
I pushing to go there? Was it Naylor?
43:09
I feel like it was I was trying to get Naylor up there and then
43:13
you're trying to you're, you're a, you were being an Andrew
43:16
Vaughn truther trying to defend his case, defend his honour.
43:20
And I'm like, this isn't the move.
43:21
And here he is, just becoming a household name in the
43:24
postseason. That's my guy, I'll defend.
43:27
OK, let's slow the roll. I will work harder on defending
43:32
Andrew Vaughn than his forehead is working harder on that
43:34
receding hairline. OK, Well that that's definitely
43:38
taking the negative route in an episode where we're trying not
43:41
to be negative here. I.
43:43
Think it's just time. I think it's just time.
43:45
Bro, you, I think you fit the mold of that meme where it's
43:48
like if if Andrew Vaughn has one fan, it's me.
43:54
If Andrew Vaughn has no fans, it's because I'm no longer on
43:57
this planet or something. That's that's you.
43:59
Apparently that checks out. Checks out.
44:03
Big Andrew Vaughn guy. Big Andrew.
44:06
OK, well, this is this is our division series update episode.
44:11
So give me give me some thoughts on on the remainder of these
44:17
series. You we've sort of touched on a
44:19
couple here, but Yankees, Jays, Jays up two to two games and
44:24
none. What happens the rest of the
44:25
series? I just don't think the Yankees
44:29
bullpens good enough. Fairly don't if if I'm like
44:33
putting all jokes aside and fandom aside, bullpens is not
44:38
good enough and starting pitching needs to be great to
44:41
give the bullpen a chance. But like, that just hasn't
44:43
seemed to matter with the Blue Jays they're going right after.
44:47
Do you think clean sweep? No, I think the Yankees get one.
44:52
So Nate's got Jason 4, Dodgers, Phils.
44:57
What about you? What are we, what are we looking
45:04
at for matchups here tomorrow? Rodon and Rodon for the Yankees.
45:07
Who? Who the Jason out there?
45:12
Shane Bieber. All right.
45:21
No, I'm going to go clean sweep. I was tempted to give the
45:25
Yankees a game, but. Surprised.
45:28
No, Yeah, give me clean sweep for the Jays.
45:30
Never would have guessed it. Taking care.
45:32
No, I, I, if I wouldn't have even considered, I wouldn't have
45:40
even looked up the matchup. So I was like, let me look up
45:42
the matchups. Not that that played into my
45:44
decision, but the fact that I at least gave it the thought.
45:47
I gave it the consideration. I didn't just jump immediately.
45:50
Oh, clean sweep. But that's my ultimate verdict.
45:54
Clean sweep. Phil's Dodgers, Phillies down to
45:58
games down two games. Dodgers up two games to none, is
46:04
what I was trying to say. Sweep.
46:08
Yeah, going back to going back to LA, kind of a like minus the
46:13
little run they went on there in the ninth, kind of a lifeless
46:17
Philly team right now. No real clear leader from what
46:21
I've seen in that in that dugout.
46:24
You you got to have that. They don't have it right now.
46:27
Clean sweep Tigers, Mariners. Mariners.
46:36
In five, it's going back to Seattle.
46:38
I was going to say I'm going to ride.
46:39
I'm riding the wave of this back and forth that I I see Bruin.
46:43
I I yeah, I I like this being the one that goes 5 and for good
46:49
reason. I think this is going to be a
46:51
good finish to the the series. Oh, T-Mobile is going to be
46:56
poppin game five. Yeah, almost called a safe go.
47:02
Cubs, Brewers. I'll go, I'll go, Brewers.
47:11
All. Right.
47:11
Sick dude. Can can I at least get a take
47:14
out there so I'm not just copying everything you're
47:15
saying? Yeah, I was going to say, I was
47:18
going to say Brewers in four. I'll give the I'll give the Cubs
47:21
a a game. And Wrigley.
47:22
Yeah, Brewers in four. OK, good stuff.
47:28
Good, good stuff. I think we've reached that point
47:32
in the night where you just is there like a cat that walked in
47:36
the room or? Dude, my allergies.
47:37
I think Paige opened, She's been open up all the doors and
47:40
windows at night because it's nice and cool outside now and
47:43
I'm just like, yo, I can't breathe.
47:45
We're going to we're going to shut that down.
47:49
Love that Arizona air quality. Yeah, it's not good.
47:52
All right, so tomorrow choose Jay, isn't it?
47:56
It is the AL match. Jay-Z Yanks 5:00 my time.
48:04
So that's what same thing? Well, you're Wow, what are they
48:08
doing? Can we finish one of these
48:10
thoughts? 4 eastern and eight eastern.
48:15
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. 4 hours apart.
48:18
That's silly, that's what I'm saying.
48:19
Like you're telling me a 4-7 isn't or no forget this seven.
48:24
I mean if you really want to stick with the 8 prime time
48:27
slot, why not go 58? Like what are we doing that I
48:30
don't remember the schedule being this wonky last year.
48:34
I. Don't either.
48:35
Wednesday we got everybody back, so potentially seeing the end of
48:43
in AL. Match up.
48:45
Yeah, Milwaukee is literally in central time zone.
48:48
What are we? What are we doing?
48:50
Why did this game have to start at 9?
48:52
I don't understand anyway. Phillies, Dodgers at 9:00
48:58
Eastern Wednesday. There's a chance we might have
49:03
be, or should we be back on Wednesday night.
49:08
Yeah, I was thinking about that. We'll have to.
49:11
We'll have to play it by ear, but.
49:14
Something to consider. Something to consider.
49:18
All right, cool. Good stuff.
49:22
I got to go close all these windows.
49:23
I can't breathe out of my nose. I got to.
49:26
Go to bed because it's 1230 out here.
49:29
Keep it up, keep it up, the good work.
49:30
I got a fragile immune system and I can't be.
49:33
I got to get my sleeper outside. I teeter on the verge of getting
49:36
sick. You're going to.
49:39
And I need. Super useful at work the rest of
49:42
the week. I believe it.
49:45
This is really just throwing you off your game.
49:47
I believe it. Schedule those emails, Casey.
49:52
Get them scheduled. Catch a little sleep in.
49:57
Now I got to go into the office tomorrow so this will be fun.
50:01
That sucks. Yeah.
50:03
All right, I'm out of here. I'll go chasing curveballs,
50:06
love. You all and as always, looking
50:07
forward to talking more baseball with you guys soon.
50:09
Until next time, stay filthy.