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Matt Snyder talks MLB, NFL Talk including Carson Wentz & the Vikings & Trent's Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Hour number two, Miller and Condon, it's the Iowa Sports
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  Trent and I will take you toward the top of the hour.
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  Let's talk some baseball. Our guys Matt Snyder,
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  CBSSports.com CBSSports.com for Matt Snyder and he joins us
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  every Tuesday at this time. Hello Matt, Trenton can
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  appreciate this as always. I guess where I want to start
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  with you is I did not realize as I had thrown dirt on the Arizona
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  Diamondbacks that they were hopelessly out of it.
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  I, I look this morning, they're the closest pursuer to the last
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  wild card in the National League, which I don't think is
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  going to happen because they went one step further to look at
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  what they have left. So they finish with the Giants,
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  then they host three against the Phillies, three against the
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  Dodgers before going to San Diego.
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  I defy anybody to find a different close, more difficult
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  closing stretch than that one. But it's I guess they hold their
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  fate in their hands in some respects.
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  Yeah, yeah, I guess they do. I don't think they're going to
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  make it. But look, the Mets are still
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  going to make it, right? Like the Mets have left the door
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  open for the Reds, and the Reds just absolutely refused to walk
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  through it. The Giants were playing
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  completely over their heads there for a couple weeks.
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  That has now ended. So I don't see the Giants as a
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  thread either. It's it really.
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  It should have been the Red, but they just haven't played well
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  enough. They even took two or three from
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  the Mets at home there on that Friday through Sunday series
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  about a week and a half ago. But they did not follow that up
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  strong enough. And you know, it's it's kind of
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  it's too bad because I think it would have been really cool and
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  Terry Francona's first year back for the Reds.
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  They haven't been to a real season playoff because we can
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  throw 2020 out in a long, long time, well over a decade.
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  So that would have been cool. But I think the Mets are going
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  to get things right enough just to squeak into the one item of
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  note here is, as I pointed out in my power ranking, is like,
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  let me pull up exactly what what it is the Cardinals.
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  The Cardinals went 14 and 14 in June, 8 and 16 in July, 13 and
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  15 in August, and now they're five and eight in September.
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  They're only four and a half games out of a playoff spot.
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  I mean, if that's not the biggest illustration ever that
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  we have too many playoff teams in this sport.
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  I, I don't know what it is. It's one of the best features of
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  baseball has always been our marathon of a regular season.
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  And we're we're staring down the barrel of the Reds right now
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  being 75 and 75 and only being two games out.
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  The Giants exact same 7575 two games out.
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  You should not only be two games out of a playoff spot with your
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  500 after this long, you just shouldn't.
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  And that's how you get stuff like those Diamondbacks in the
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  World Series a couple of years ago.
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  You get the 84 one Marlins in the playoffs a couple of years
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  ago. I know it's cool for those teams
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  to make the playoffs, but they should not get a chance in the
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  postseason. You had 162 games during the
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  regular season to be better than 84 and 78 whoever.
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  Gets in in that, that final wild card spot, Mets, Diamondbacks,
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  Reds, even the Giants. If somebody can track down the
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  Mets, is there anybody that's dangerous out of that group?
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  Anybody that could make a run, not to win the whole thing, but
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  win a couple of series, maybe find themselves in the NLCS?
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  Anybody that you'd spotlight out of that group?
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  I still think the Mets have the highest upside if they can get
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  their rotation sorted out, which I don't think they will, but if
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  they could, I just not that much to like about the Diamondbacks.
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  The Reds, you could say, OK, Hunter Green, Andrew Abbott,
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  Nicolo. They get things firing there,
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  sure, but man, they just don't hit.
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  They just don't hit enough. They don't have any power and
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  they play in Great American ballpark.
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  They have so many more home runs.
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  Not that much for me on the Giants, I suppose with the
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  Giants, if you looked at Logan Webb and Robbie Ray and if
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  Justin Verlander gets right for a quick second and the way that
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  Matt Chapman, Raphael Devers and Willie Adamas swung the bats so
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  well for that three-week stretch, that's enough heavy
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  hitters there. But I'm still just not seeing
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  it. And here's the big thing,
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  Because the Phillies are so far ahead of the Dodgers for the two
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  seed, whoever gets that last wild card spot is going to have
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  to deal with Dodgers and the wild card round in Dodger
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  Stadium. You have fun with I want to I
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  want to ask you about this kind of a selfish 1 and I'm not.
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  It was never a John Snyder fan. The manager of the Blue Jays.
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  We heard. But boy, I am now.
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  So how is this guy not a slam dunk manager of the year in the
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  American League? I mean, who's done a better job
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  than him? They got the best record in the
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  league. I think he's got to be, he's got
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  to be. I think he's going to win Dan
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  Wilson with the Mariners if the Mariners hold on to the AL West
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  here with the furious late rally.
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  But the Jays win total before the season like 70.
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  Six, yeah, I think. And a lot of people.
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  I bet you we could find a decent number of people who picked them
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  to finish last. Oh yeah.
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  Yeah, probably, definitely the Yankees and probably the Orioles
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  were picked to finish for the top, and then you could see
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  people with the Red Sox and Rays over the Jays for sure.
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  So yeah, I think AJ Hinch would have gotten a strong look when
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  the Tigers had a 1415 game lead, but they've got 6 head to head
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  left against the Guardians and only 6 1/2 game lead.
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  They're not out of the woods here.
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  So yeah, I think it should be Schneider.
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  And I will say this, we've we've gone back and forth so many
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  times on this roller coaster that the American League
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  especially, but the entire league this year has been any.
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  I think even last week at this time I might have said, you
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  know, nobody's a good bet in the American League to come out of
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  the American League. But last week at this time I
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  might have said I think maybe the Yankee might be the best
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  bet. Well, now I would be back on the
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  Jays. I think the Blue Jays are right
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  now your best bet to come out of the American.
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  Did you watch Trey Savages debut last night by chance?
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  I did not get a chance to do that unfortunately.
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  Mean what? A stock 5 innings, 9 strikeouts,
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  gave up one earned run. He's got a, he's got a splitter
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  that it's absolute incredible. This was a guy that started in
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  April and has worked his way to the major leagues and he's going
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  to have a spot in October. That it it's it's a fun rotation
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  because the way Gossman is going right now, it's almost like
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  prime Gossman and Bieber looks overall really, really good to
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  get knocked around a little bit and I believe it's.
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  Cincinnati. Which is funny, I just talked
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  about them not hitting, but they have it's an interesting
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  rotation there if you throw him in the rotation because you have
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  decent choices for the third spot, but nobody that jumps that
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  like you're not going to be excited about barrios staying
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  your third starter. So that'd be cool to have like
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  the the Wiley veterans, Gossman and Bieber in there.
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  And then you throw the kid in there.
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  That'd be, I mean somewhat similar since I always think
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  back to the Cubs with the how Kate Horton is right in the mix
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  there with with Matthew Boyd show to Imanaga.
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  It might come down to Scherzer might lose the.
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  Spot. And if that's the case, I mean,
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  do you put Scherzer in the bullpen, though?
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  No. Do you?
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  I don't know if he, I don't know if he, he's one of those guys at
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  his age who needs those extended warm ups.
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  You know, like starting pitchers are used to their routine.
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  But if he only, if he knows I only have to get 3 out, he could
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  drop some of his secondary pitches and just go fastball
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  with whatever secondary pitch he wants, just these two pitches
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  and throw Pete like he used to throw it.
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  As a starter. You can put your stuff play up.
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  If you don't have to worry about getting through 5 or 6 in it,
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  it's always possible that could transform him.
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  And suddenly he gets back up into that 9596 range that he was
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  a few years back. And I'm sold.
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  And you need to, and you've been saying the Blue Jays need some
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  help in that bullpen, not for a back end guy, but you know, 6
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  inning guy, something like. That if you only want the kid to
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  go 5 innings then you piggyback and those shows are for one or
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  two. You mentioned the Mariners half
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  game lead over the Astros and it happened again last night for
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  yard on Alvarez. Oh my God, did you see that?
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  Stepping on home plate. Of all things.
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  Hideous, hideous looking ankle sprain they had had there.
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  This guy's feels like he's made out of glass.
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  And here's another one. Stepping on home plate, turning
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  his ankle. He been swinging the bat well
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  since he come back to that. Feels like a pretty big blow to
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  the Astros. Do you see it the same way?
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  Yes, I I know they won and they actually came back to win.
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  When the Rangers had that 3-2 lead, just for a brief second I
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  was like, here we go again. I still feel like the Astros are
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  pretty well cooked. Maybe they make the playoffs,
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  but it might be kind of as a sacrificial lamb.
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  The way I view the Mets. Framer Valdez has just been
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  awful. And one of the selling points
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  for the Astros when you looked at them down the stretch was,
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  hey, they could have a pair of aces and Hunter Brown and Framer
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  Valdez. But Valdez isn't bad.
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  I mean, their number 2 is. It's a Seinfeld references.
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  Their number two star at this point is Jason Alexander.
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  So yeah, I, I kind of feel like they're done.
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  I, I would almost rather see the Rangers get in because if the
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  Rangers get healthier, if they get, you know, get back to Corey
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  Seeger, Adolis Garcia, Marcus Simeon to go with Wyatt
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  Langford, who still has a lot more upside than he's flashed so
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  far. Evan Carter, who still has a lot
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  more upside than he's flashed so far.
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  You asked me about the National League.
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  If any of those teams could make noise, the the Rangers could
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  make noise on the American League side.
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  A lot of it will come down to how Jacob degrom holds up, but I
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  feel like the Rangers could make noise.
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  Yeah, I'm with you. It'd be great because I think
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  this is probably, well, I'll ask you, is this it for Bochy?
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  Gosh, I don't, I'm I'm not really familiar with manager
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  contracts. Is it?
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  I don't know if this. Is the last.
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  He's just, he's just, he's old, right?
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  And he's how long has he been doing it?
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  It always seems like, and it's one of those things that I, I
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  know he says he's not in pain, but when he walks out to get
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  this. I feel like it's.
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  Painful. The way his walk is like messed
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  up, all those gears, all those surgeries and everything.
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  I, I'd have to check on his contract, but my hunch is this
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  is probably his last contract as as a manager in that he, he came
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  back, he won a World Series with another team 4 World Series.
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  You know, he, he's over 70 now. It might be time to ride under
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  the sunset pretty soon. We were talking about that Blue
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  Jays rotation, what it could look like.
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  I want to go back to the Dodgers and what the rotation is going
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  to look like. Otani has not been great by any
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  means. He's been OK, but that's not
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  what you think about Otani yet. He's Otani.
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  So you go that direction. How do you cobble this thing
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  together? And who gets the ball in game
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  one at Dodger Stadium in that wild card round?
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  I think you probably got to stay with Yamamoto.
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  He's been the rock throughout this year.
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  He's been the one who's avoided injury.
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  He's been 8 like for most of the year.
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  I think it has to be Yamamoto. And then after that, you're,
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  you're looking at, you know, Glass now.
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  Blake Snell I'm sure that they feel a tug toward Kershaw.
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  I just am not prepared to and. He's not good in the playoffs.
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  No, he's not in the playoffs. No, I, I, I, I don't feel like
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  Ohtani as a reliever works with the logistics of having him be
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  your DH and having him have to run down to the bullpen.
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  So just from a logistics standpoint, it probably makes
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  the most sense for them to have Ohtani be their 4th starter.
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  And if they only wanted to go 3 or 4 innings and then they want
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  Kershaw to piggyback him, it's a righty and then a lefty.
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  So if they face A-Team that's heavy on platoons, you could get
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  Otani through the order one time and then you could go Kershaw
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  through the order one time before you go to your Bowl 10,
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  maybe something like that. And and you can get Shane
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  involved as well. But I think it has to be
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  Yamamoto one and then probably Glass now 2 and Cell 3.
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  When Palenci comes back and we think he's going to, what's
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  council going to do with that closer spot because Kitcher just
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  been lights out. I think he's going to leave
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  Kittridge. They.
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  Don't they almost have to? I I thought they would kick
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  Keller back to the 9th but I think he realized he really
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  likes Keller in the eighth very very much and Kittridge has
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  handled the 9th OK. Field Bar has been so so so good
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  since a few bad starts early in the season as well.
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  My hunch is that Palencia has lost that closer job.
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  So he's the 7th inning guy? I mean what about Seal Bar
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  though? And I know Seal Bar and Pomerans
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  are lefties. So then you have a lefty and
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  righty. I think it's going to be Keller
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  in the 8th and Kittridge in the 9th.
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  And Palencia will be in the mix with Seal Bar and Pomerans
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  depending on matchups in the thickness.
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  That makes sense. Yep, that makes sense.
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  And trying to massage Porter Hodge.
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  And yeah, who's been good since he's that?
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  That group as well, yes. As we say a lot, I'm a big
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  Porter Foot Hodge fan. I still think there's something
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  there out of him. Yeah, he's young.
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  He's still only 24 years old. Ian Happ, he's been outstanding
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  here recently for the team. Still searching for some other
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  answers out there. Is there enough punch in this
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  lineup to to make a run? Is there enough offensively to
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  get him there? You're still holding out hope
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  that you've got a week and a half left.
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  Look, Pete Kerr, Armstrong hit a gargantuan home run last night,
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  hit another ball to the wall. Maybe Pete's going to get
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  lightning in a bottle again the way he did the first half.
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  There's still hope for Tucker coming back, and he was hot
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  right before injury. I just don't know on Saya
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  Suzuki. It almost seems like the rest of
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  the year is lost on Saya, but by by a seros has been hitting the
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  ball pretty well since he came up.
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  You know, and you just can't say enough about Nico harder and the
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  type of a blue guy that he is for for this team overall, both
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  offensively and defensively. And I I think that the shock has
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  been good enough in the second-half.
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  Like the Cubs line up is right now a polar opposite to somebody
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  like the Yankees where they they need to get something out of the
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  top half and they need Judge be on fire.
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  Like, at this point, the Cubs lineup is so well-rounded
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  they're just as likely to have a rally from the seven through 9
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  spots as they are from the top of the order.
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  So with when Suzuki does get back and I think he's day-to-day
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  right now, I'm with you. I don't know how council pencils
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  them into the line. So who DH is by Esteros?
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  It can't be Castro. Well, he might straight platoon
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  them because Pyoceros is left-handed.
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  Suzuki is a righty. He might just straight platoon
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  those two guys in the DH spot and see if you can get something
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  from Suzuki against the lefties. IA big, big thing for me is as
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  much as I said the lineup is well-rounded, I still think you
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  got to get Tucker back and get him looking the way he did that
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  last week and a half before he got hurt, because that's when
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  he's a game changer. Let's talk about the teams that
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  they're looking up at, and that's the Brewers, who I don't
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  well, the right now, they don't have the best record in the
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  National League, I don't think. I think they gave that up.
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  I think it's the Phillies. But nonetheless, they're clearly
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  a playoff team. Murphy's an unbelievable
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  manager. Breweries are obviously a major,
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  major threat, but behind the Phillies, would you say?
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  I would take the Phillies over the Brewers right now.
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  Yeah, and and I could see arguments for the Dodgers too if
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  they get things together, even though it's like a 7 game gap in
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  the standing. Look, the Brewers had a magical
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  middle season run. They're 14 and 14 since that
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  winning tree got snapped that, you know, teams can still flip
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  the switch when they get to the postseason.
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  I've been over, I've studied it so many times.
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  When people say you get too hot in the regular season, that's
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  bad. That's not true.
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  If you're hot for the last month of the season, you run out of
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  gas. That hasn't been proven to be
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  true either there. It's all over the board.
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  There's just no method to it. So the Brewers really well could
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  click things back into gear of the playoffs and and maybe even
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  run the table. But I think there's concern
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  behind Freddy Peralta in the rotation now with Mesorowski and
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  Woodruff. It looked like a month ago they
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  might have 3 aces going into the postseason.
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  But I just think there's so many question marks with those guys
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  and the offense hasn't been nearly as consistent.
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  And now there's those concerns of do they have enough slug?
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  Because in the playoffs you're facing much better pitching,
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  much better defense than in the regular season.
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  And you've got to be able to hit the ball, the ballpark and, and,
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  and I don't know if they have a line that can consistently do
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  that. So I even with the the Wheeler
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  injury for the Phillies, which is a big deal, I think the
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  Phillies are the favorite of the National League side and maybe
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  in the in the in the majors. I saw another Otani story
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  yesterday about some real estate deal in Hawaii they were using
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  as likeness and can he just get better people around him?
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  I mean, we don't know much about him off the field, but boy, it
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  just feels like there's always stories surrounding this guy.
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  Yeah, and I don't know enough about it, which to your point,
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  he doesn't let anybody see anything.
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  So I have no idea, like if he just has the worst luck in the
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  world or if he actually is involved in anything.
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  My hunt is. He's not.
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  Yeah, my hunt is. He's not.
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  He seems, he seems like he just, he came to America, didn't know
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  anybody, just wanted to be a great baseball player and then
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  tried to figure it out from there.
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  And that can be a recipe for disaster when you're so good at
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  baseball but you don't know anybody.
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  You're coming to a foreign country.
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  And it seems like he's had some bad things happen to him along
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  the way. Yeah, I don't buy the gambling
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  stuff. I never will.
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  I think he's guilty as hell, but that's just me.
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  Anyway, I want to finish on this because it's just, it seemed
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  like we were in the there was not too long ago that Mike Trout
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  was on everybody's shortlist. So this guy's the face of
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  baseball, you know, one of the best players, if not the best
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  player in the league. dot dot, dot.
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  This team's got to make the play.
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  He's got to see the post season. He's going to be 35 next season,
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  for crying out loud. He's going to hit 400 home runs.
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  His next. I think he's won.
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  I saw the weekend. He's won home run.
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  Yeah, he's won away. So he'll get over 400.
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  I mean, I'm, I'm not, I'm not denying the fact and you're a
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  Hall of Fame voter, but I'm not so sure he's up first ballot at
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  this point, is he? Yeah, he still is for me, no
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  question. He he's he's becoming more of a
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  peak candidate, which is to say for a 6-7 year stretch, he was
• 19:06
  the best player in baseball and he won three MVPS in there.
• 19:10
  Very few guys in the history of baseball were that good for that
• 19:14
  kind of a stretch and that means yes, good enough for me.
• 19:18
  But that's why it's a peak candidate because in terms of
• 19:22
  the counting stats, as you said, 399 home runs barely over 1000
• 19:27
  RBI right now 1000 twelve 1745 hits, so not even close to 2000
• 19:33
  hits yet 324 double S. So the counting stats for many
• 19:37
  people are not going to get there.
• 19:39
  He man, he, I think he's going to get in on his first ballot,
• 19:43
  but it's not going to be one of those overwhelming like 95%
• 19:48
  plus. Like a decent comparison is
• 19:50
  probably Ken Griffey junior. But in terms of being the peak
• 19:55
  candidate and everything but Junior still compiled 600 home
• 19:58
  runs. That's not going to get anywhere
• 20:00
  even close to that. Trout's probably not even going
• 20:03
  to get to 500, so. Maybe Junior was not a great
• 20:07
  comparison. I just thought like he had the
• 20:09
  great peak when everybody said he's going to be the best player
• 20:11
  ever and then he was so injury plagued.
• 20:13
  Well, he had the best swing ever.
• 20:15
  No beautiful. Yeah, yeah, because he's
• 20:18
  left-handed man, he's true. Have the.
• 20:20
  Best player you can go. Matt Snyder talks baseball with
• 20:23
  Trenton I every single week and does so right through the World
• 20:25
  Series. He's on the road at the at the
• 20:28
  World Series games and he'll join us then.
• 20:30
  Matt, thanks, brother. Appreciate it as always.
• 20:32
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• 20:35
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• 20:38
  Good to talk to you, buddy. Matt Snyder on baseball.
• 20:40
  So this from a friend of mine. Suzuki was on the bench last
• 20:43
  night. Apparently, Taylor McGregor was
• 20:45
  asked at some point during the broadcast about Kyle Tucker and
• 20:48
  her response is, according to the Cubs, Tucker is not
• 20:51
  progressing like they had hoped. Oh, no.
• 20:54
  Oh no. So don't know what that means.
• 20:58
  Maybe they'd hoped he was going to be back tomorrow.
• 20:59
  Maybe that means he'd be back Saturday.
• 21:01
  I don't read it that way. I think that's probably more so
• 21:04
  on the Oh no scale that you were went to immediately.
• 21:06
  That's and he finally felt, now I understand two of those games
• 21:11
  were against Colorado, but he was heating up.
• 21:13
  It felt like, OK, maybe. And then to the IL and then he'd
• 21:18
  hear that. I I didn't see Armstrong's home
• 21:21
  run last night. Apparently, as as Matt said,
• 21:23
  went went a long. Way I just saw the highlight.
• 21:25
  Yeah, I didn't see it. I like Cap.
• 21:27
  I like PCA. Obviously.
• 21:29
  He's next home run. He'll put him at the 3030 club.
• 21:32
  30 stolen bases, 30 home runs. Nico Horner's the MVP.
• 21:36
  Michael Bush is. Not a whole lot of pop there.
• 21:40
  No, but there can be. He's got his moments, but Carlos
• 21:43
  Santana is a wastes of roster spot.
• 21:46
  So is Justin Turner, although he does organize the team meals.
• 21:49
  We found out and that's why he's.
• 21:51
  Anyways, it's 125, Trent and I talking sports with you.
• 21:54
  Appreciate you being with us. We'll come back after these.
• 21:57
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• 22:41
  Baseball tonight. The WNBA playoffs are going on,
• 22:44
  are they not they? Are you're asking their own?
• 22:46
  I think they are pretty sure they are.
• 22:48
  No, there, I did see a game, one that happened on Sunday, Yeah.
• 22:53
  It's just it's not the same. I guess.
• 22:56
  I found out I'm not a fan of the WNBA.
• 22:58
  I'm a fan of Caitlin Clark as I think I speak for a lot of
• 23:01
  people. The FIFA lost their first game
• 23:03
  by 12. Right.
• 23:05
  And then the officiating was the story apparently, as it's been
• 23:08
  every game, regardless of who's playing.
• 23:10
  It's just it's embarrassing for that league.
• 23:12
  All right, enough about that. I want to go back to the NFL
• 23:15
  because that moves the needle. Yes.
• 23:17
  And one of our better direction to go right And one of our NFL
• 23:20
  teams is the Minnesota Vikings, who I think are perhaps in a
• 23:26
  difficult spot. And when I say that I it's all
• 23:28
  pursuant on Carson Wentz looking like the player that in the past
• 23:33
  he has at times. I mean, this will be the sixth
• 23:36
  team in six years he's about to start for.
• 23:39
  Think about that. Took got the Eagles as far as he
• 23:44
  could before he got hurt and obviously was out for the year
• 23:46
  and they won a Super Bowl with Nick Foles, took the God
• 23:49
  forsaken Colts and got them to the play offs, right.
• 23:53
  And that I think was, you know, a feather in his cap.
• 23:56
  So what if he can play? Because look what we've seen
• 23:59
  with Kevin O'Connell. And maybe for the first time
• 24:03
  ever, he hasn't been the quarterback whisper.
• 24:06
  He hasn't been able to just take anybody and make them an NFL
• 24:08
  quarterback because McCarthy does not look good.
• 24:11
  And I look like I'm going to be wrong on this one.
• 24:13
  Seven quarters been awful, one quarters been good.
• 24:16
  But what if Wentz plays well? What do they do?
• 24:19
  That's an interesting one and the way this plays out because
• 24:22
  we've seen it before with Dobbs, with Mullins, with Jaron Hall.
• 24:26
  Jaron. Hall of, of course, Darnald last
• 24:29
  year and what we saw out of him. I think you bring up a good
• 24:32
  point on Wentz. I don't know why it went so
• 24:36
  South in Philadelphia. It was just maybe it's that fan
• 24:40
  base. Whatever it was, it was odd the
• 24:43
  way that that and it turned quickly, didn't it?
• 24:46
  He went from finishing second in the MVP voting to I forgot.
• 24:49
  About that part of it, yeah. Taking a step back, injury
• 24:53
  started to hit him a little bit. He was comeback player of the
• 24:56
  year. Then after he got over those
• 24:57
  injuries, still they were only nine and seven and here he is
• 25:01
  today, still can play you would think at a decent.
• 25:04
  Level. He's 32 years old or 33?
• 25:06
  How old is he? Early 30s.
• 25:09
  Let's play that out. He plays well.
• 25:11
  He plays well, but maybe more importantly, they're also
• 25:14
  winning games, starting this week against Cincinnati and
• 25:18
  it's. With Jake Browning, who's decent
• 25:20
  backup. Or decent backup and he wasn't
• 25:22
  great on Sunday, but he's shown that he can be OK.
• 25:25
  And a former Viking. So there'll be that little thing
• 25:27
  going for Browning. Then they go across the pond for
• 25:30
  two. The first one in Dublin, not
• 25:34
  sure. OK.
• 25:35
  Which one's which? But yes, Pittsburgh is the first
• 25:38
  game and then it's the Browns after that.
• 25:40
  Then they have the bye week. Just in this instance they go
• 25:43
  three and oh, OK, it's pretty simple, isn't it?
• 25:46
  I. Think you say you never lose
• 25:48
  your spot to injure? Well, that's BS, yeah.
• 25:49
  Wally Pip two and one if you go 2 and one.
• 25:55
  Is JJ McCarthy better to play or better to watch?
• 25:58
  They watched all last year. Yeah.
• 26:03
  I mean, you get another red shirt year that become.
• 26:07
  I think it just comes down to how Wentz plays.
• 26:10
  If he goes in there and shows that he can play at a high
• 26:13
  level, you have to go with him. Or do you give him a chance?
• 26:16
  Because we'll take it a step further.
• 26:19
  Darrisaw's back, Kelly is back the offensive line, and it was
• 26:23
  awful on Sunday night. It was terrible.
• 26:25
  But all of a sudden they've got a competent offensive line.
• 26:29
  Do you give McCarthy one more chance behind that line because
• 26:32
  he was running for his life? Oh boy, that's tough.
• 26:35
  I think it comes down to once. I think that's what I don't
• 26:38
  think this is AJJ McCarthy decision.
• 26:40
  I believe that this is a Carson Wentz decision.
• 26:43
  And if he goes in there and looks good, plays OK, you just
• 26:45
  roll with him and he keep going with the veteran because KOC has
• 26:48
  shown he's good with veteran quarterbacks.
• 26:50
  So guys that have a little experience hasn't worked to this
• 26:53
  point with the young guy, right? That's how I would go.
• 26:56
  Because when when you watch the Vikings, do you see a playoff
• 27:00
  team still? I mean, have you the first
• 27:04
  because you saw him against the Bears and we saw every play in
• 27:06
  that game. You, I'm guessing you watch most
• 27:08
  of Sunday Night Football. We've seen eight quarters of the
• 27:11
  of the Vikings uninterrupted because they were both prime
• 27:15
  time games. Do you feel like you're looking
• 27:17
  at a like a playoff team two weeks in?
• 27:20
  No, because I think there's also depth in the NFC.
• 27:24
  More so. The Rams, I was ready all right.
• 27:28
  The back injury to staff for this is going to be another two
• 27:29
  of them and the Cardinals. It's been 3 teams in that
• 27:32
  division, two and. All the 49ers are doing it.
• 27:35
  And Matt Jones, he could be a revelation, maybe at that spot.
• 27:38
  Although Ferdie's not losing his gig.
• 27:39
  And Speaking of quarterback whispers, Shanahan's done a
• 27:42
  pretty good job you. Know I don't.
• 27:44
  Where do the Vikings get darted last year from?
• 27:46
  You know, after some tutelage with Shanahan, Tampa's not going
• 27:50
  anywhere. Nope.
• 27:51
  Atlanta looks improved at minimum on the defensive line
• 27:54
  and Tenex I think is OK. Yep, the Lions.
• 27:57
  Their demise was greatly exaggerated.
• 27:58
  Yes, it was. That team's still pretty good.
• 28:01
  Packers are elite I think. Eagles commanders both in good
• 28:05
  shape. Even if Daniels doesn't go this
• 28:08
  week, Mariota has been excellent.
• 28:10
  He's been OK. Yeah, Yeah.
• 28:12
  Completed 75% of his. Passes.
• 28:13
  I know, I know. He was.
• 28:15
  That system fits him. Cowboys are going to score with
• 28:17
  everybody. They're going to win 789 games
• 28:20
  because they're going to score 30 plus seemingly every time
• 28:24
  out. So there is some depth there
• 28:26
  though, like there's tiers like you just start.
• 28:28
  They're not all in the same bucket.
• 28:29
  There's the Eagles and the Packers on tier one and then I
• 28:33
  would put the Buccaneers you. Put the Rams there.
• 28:39
  Not I like the Rams this week. If it's the Eagles, do you?
• 28:43
  I do. How many points are you getting?
• 28:45
  Where's the game in Philly? It's in Philly in the early when
• 28:50
  you're getting north of a field goal, 3 1/2 like that, hook in
• 28:54
  there like that, like. That better?
• 28:56
  Like that hook and after what happened a year ago and having
• 28:58
  them in the ropes in the NFC Championship.
• 29:00
  They absolutely had them. The other backup quarterbacks
• 29:04
  Browning we talked about he's for a backup bet in the system a
• 29:08
  long time. You're feeling OK with all those
• 29:10
  weapons that he's going to be all right met you Mariota.
• 29:14
  I I think it makes sense to give Daniels if it if it's just going
• 29:17
  to be a week and it's going to help him have that week off.
• 29:20
  You're feeling good about that one, Matt.
• 29:24
  Matt Jones was OK. He was all right.
• 29:27
  Now I didn't see it you did you watch some of the Saints game?
• 29:30
  Yeah, Red zone. Red zone, OK.
• 29:33
  Yeah. And yeah, he looked OK as he go
• 29:36
  through it, he kind of looked at these injuries.
• 29:39
  Tyrod Taylor that. How old is he now?
• 29:42
  Great question. Tyrod Taylor, how many times?
• 29:46
  Has he played for? 36 Oh I.
• 29:49
  Bet he's older than that. Let's see what old tie rod's up
• 29:53
  to these days. He's 36.
• 29:54
  Well done. Oh, look at that.
• 29:55
  Nailed that one. How many teams?
• 30:01
  Baltimore, Buffalo, Cleveland Chargers, Houston Giants, Jets.
• 30:06
  Seems like they're missing a couple.
• 30:08
  Yeah, what if there was some practice squads in there and
• 30:10
  things like that adding up to that tally?
• 30:13
  But he's perfectly fine. I mean him in comparison to
• 30:16
  Justin Fields, is there a big gap there?
• 30:18
  It's kind of a weird injury week because, yes, losing Joe, bro,
• 30:22
  it's nothing that you want, but because you have somebody that's
• 30:24
  shown that can be OK in that backup role.
• 30:27
  These injuries are all important.
• 30:28
  Yet it's not as crazy as it is. Are backup quarterbacks getting
• 30:33
  better? Maybe, Yeah, teams just
• 30:36
  understanding. I like your backup quarterback.
• 30:39
  I like Pageant. I think he's OK.
• 30:43
  I'm not saying he's going to Canton or he's going to lead the
• 30:45
  team to a Super Bowl, but I think he's OK.
• 30:48
  You're ready to pull the plug on Caleb.
• 30:50
  Well, I should be asking you this question.
• 30:52
  I'm I'm not, but I was never I was never a believer in the get
• 30:56
  go well. Let's let's go back and look at
• 30:58
  the five that were taken in that draft.
• 31:00
  Yes, six that were taken in that draft in the 1st 12 picks,
• 31:02
  right? Six.
• 31:03
  It went Williams, Daniels, May, Pennix, McCarthy and Bo Nicks.
• 31:14
  Where's Williams on that? Of the six at this point is
• 31:17
  Daniel's #1 Daniel's clearly number one.
• 31:20
  Who's number two? Number two, it's Bo Nicks at
• 31:23
  this point. He's proven the most.
• 31:26
  I think I'd still take Pennex. I'd probably still take Caleb.
• 31:31
  You would. Just because of the upside
• 31:33
  that's still there. After that, then he'd get into
• 31:36
  Nick's. Drake may knock right on Sunday,
• 31:39
  no. Had a good rookie year.
• 31:41
  Good rookie year? Yeah, absolutely.
• 31:44
  And JJ is at the bottom of the list.
• 31:46
  I think so at this point, yeah. I mean the every, every great
• 31:49
  quarterback class has a Ken O'Brien.
• 31:52
  Who was it? He just didn't measure up to the
• 31:55
  rest of that class right? Kelly, Marino and El we were
• 31:58
  pretty good. That's difficult to swallow when
• 32:01
  you're in that group. And Todd Blackledge was in that.
• 32:04
  Group. He's at Penn State, right?
• 32:06
  Yeah. He's a he's a hell of an
• 32:07
  analyst. Spencer Bradler went in that
• 32:09
  draft. Would you put him over JJ
• 32:11
  McCarthy? What was what was he?
• 32:14
  It wasn't the first round. 5th rounder.
• 32:17
  No, yeah, no, I mean, we've seen seven quarters, Trent.
• 32:24
  They've been not good, really bad, not good, mediocre at best,
• 32:30
  being kind, One good quarter. He looked, he looked.
• 32:34
  Lost. Yes, he did on Sunday night.
• 32:36
  Now, like we both said, we both like Atlanta.
• 32:38
  I think they're a decent team. All right, Trents got some plays
• 32:41
  of the day. Back to baseball we go.
• 32:43
  I might jump into the WM. Ohk didn't even know what's
• 32:47
  going on a second ago. Well, you got time during.
• 32:50
  The break, there's still, there's something winking at me
• 32:52
  when I when you mentioned that, there was a line that jumped out
• 32:55
  to me so well, I got a little time for some reason.
• 32:57
  Pitching matchups that should jump.
• 32:59
  On oh how good is. Kate Horton versus Paul skins.
• 33:02
  What time is that? 5. 40 Oh yeah, the Pittsburgh
• 33:06
  the early 540 first pitch. You know, I've, I've never been
• 33:10
  to Pittsburgh and really had no desire.
• 33:12
  Oh, you're missing out. Cool city.
• 33:14
  I am too, right? And I think that ballpark, the
• 33:16
  ballpark is great. I got it.
• 33:18
  I mean, look the the the backdrop.
• 33:21
  The downtown area looks spectacular.
• 33:24
  We went there, flew in the 2009 Iowa Penn State game, flew into
• 33:28
  Pittsburgh, rented a car. Is Franco Harrison the statue in
• 33:32
  the airport? It is.
• 33:32
  Right when you walk in, yeah, it's one of the first things
• 33:34
  that you see. Yeah, Immaculate reception.
• 33:36
  Yeah. And the ballpark is incredible.
• 33:39
  You mentioned the backdrop, which is stunning.
• 33:41
  As beautiful as you're going to find in all of baseball.
• 33:45
  Plus the city. It's your kind of city, really.
• 33:47
  You would enjoy it. Yeah.
• 33:48
  A little more rugged. Yeah.
• 33:50
  Well, yeah, a lot more blue collar.
• 33:53
  Yeah. I like it.
• 33:54
  We hopped up and down the bars after the ball game, hung out in
• 33:58
  the head of the downtown area. Yingling.
• 34:00
  Right? No.
• 34:00
  Absolutely. Sucked down a lot of those.
• 34:02
  Then got on the car. In the car at 4:00 AM.
• 34:04
  Well done. And they made our way to State
• 34:06
  College. And then it was a full day of
• 34:08
  tailgating after that. How old were you?
• 34:10
  Oh, 2029, you were. You were able to do that back in
• 34:15
  the. Day put it in the fun meter.
• 34:16
  Right. Yeah, you did.
• 34:17
  All right. The plays of the day are next,
• 34:19
  but Horton versus Skeens, Sale versus McKenzie, Gore's not bad.
• 34:24
  Gilbert Waka. Zebby Matthews against
• 34:27
  Schlitter. OK.
• 34:31
  By the way, your dude with three names, Sean.
• 34:33
  Oh, Simeon Woods Richardson. Do you know how?
• 34:35
  He got to the Jays. I mean, he got to the Twins from
• 34:38
  the Jays. He's Jose Barrios.
• 34:40
  Yes, I do remember. That I did not.
• 34:41
  Because he had a good season last year for the beginning of
• 34:44
  the year, kind of helped them together and kept them in
• 34:46
  contention for a long while, then kind of hit the skids for a
• 34:49
  bit. But he wasn't the main piece of
• 34:51
  that trade. The shortstop was right.
• 34:53
  The Vanderbilt kid Austin Martin, is that his name?
• 34:56
  Who is terribly average? Is he?
• 34:58
  Yeah, and he was a top ten pick out of Vanderbilt.
• 35:02
  All right, Millory Condon back to wrap up a Tuesday.
• 35:04
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• 35:06
  That should be spirited. Boy, he was pissed at the Bears.
• 35:09
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• 36:01
  tonight full slate. There's actually already a game
• 36:04
  going on a split doubleheader Atlanta, Washington to non
• 36:08
  playoff teams, but there is some games going on right now.
• 36:11
  Other than that, a full slate tonight.
• 36:13
  What are you doing? We got 4 baseball plays and one
• 36:16
  in the WNBAI mentioned it. That one winking at me.
• 36:18
  Seattle got blown out and they kind of were taking on oil at
• 36:21
  the end of the season. I think we're going to see be a
• 36:23
  little bit late out of Lloyd and company.
• 36:25
  I'm going to grab the five points you're getting at home
• 36:27
  tonight against Las Vegas. That is the nightcap this
• 36:31
  evening. 4 plays in baseball. We start in New York with the
• 36:35
  Mets playing host to the Padres. It's King coming back off.
• 36:39
  He's had a couple of starts since he's come back.
• 36:42
  I just wonder if maybe the win from the Mets gets him back in
• 36:46
  the right state, you just said. Clay Holmes has been so bad.
• 36:49
  He has been don't like either side of this one.
• 36:52
  I think just the momentum for the Mets here.
• 36:54
  Just finally, any that leads losing.
• 36:56
  They lose nine in a row I think. Yeah, eight or nine, yeah -118
• 37:01
  on them going against your Jays, you know, I'm not a big burritos
• 37:03
  guy. And it's the other side.
• 37:05
  It's people who I do like. I'll lay the -107 in the minor
• 37:09
  league ballpark. Give me Tampa with pick #2 to #3
• 37:12
  free square. Wasn't last night.
• 37:14
  Thank God I didn't bet on it. Zebby Matthews against Schlitter
• 37:17
  and the Yankees. I'll leave the -155 in that one.
• 37:21
  And then night late tonight, Ohtani, I'm not seeing it.
• 37:24
  How about this match up though? CNA's, Dodgers and a likely
• 37:29
  preview of the NLCS. I don't buy your Dodgers.
• 37:33
  I just don't think they have that switch.
• 37:35
  I like the Phillies. So you're going to take the
• 37:37
  Brewers in them in a series? No, I'll take the Dodgers.
• 37:40
  Yeah, probably. And that will set up likely
• 37:44
  Phillies against the Dodgers. Oh, that'd be a great series.
• 37:48
  It would be, it would be if we get those two in the what's
• 37:50
  going to who's going to be in the ALCS?
• 37:53
  In the blue. Jays versus whom?
• 37:55
  The Blue Jays against the Mariners, that'd be wild.
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  I can't quit the Mariners. Did they come in together?
• 38:01
  No. No who the Blue Jays come in
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  with. Yes, in 1977, the Mariners came
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  in in 69. OK.
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  Now, now you got me wondering, who did the Jays come in with?
• 38:15
  Expansion teams by year. Let's see expansion 61 scrolling
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  through here. 61 was the Angels and the second Washington
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  Senators. 62 The Colt. 40 Fives and the Mets came to being. 69
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  There's the Royals, the Seattle Pilots, the Expos and the
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  Padres. Yeah, 77.
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  The Jays and. The Mariners.
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  I have the Mariners. Well done.
• 38:44
  I had that. Yeah, I'll give you the point.
• 38:45
  Well, but. Hang on a second, The pilots.
• 38:48
  So they were gone. They're gone all.
• 38:51
  Right. We'll be back tomorrow.
• 38:53
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• 38:56
  We'll be here from noon to two, as we are every Monday through
• 38:58
  Friday, talking sports with you, Miller and continent.
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