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Ross & Rizzo REACT to Rays Game 4 WIN vs. Guardians, CRAZY rain delay stories | MLB Playoffs · Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Anthony Rizzo with my partner, David Ross. We are
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  Speaker 1: coming to you talking about game four of the ALCS.
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  Speaker 1: The Rays win 7-3 and tie it up, Rossi. We
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  Speaker 1: have a series at 2-2. I think that's a bold
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  Speaker 1: move by the Rays. I think the smart play from
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  Speaker 1: previous experience is the Rays go down 3-1 to the
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  Speaker 1: Guardians and come.
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  Speaker 2: Back, right? Yeah, that's the formula. That's the formula we know.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the formula.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if the Rays want to use that formula,
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  Speaker 3: but you're right, man. We got a really good game tonight.
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  Speaker 3: The big three for Tampa Bay showed up. Yandy, Aranda,
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  Speaker 3: Caminero with the big double down the line.
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  Speaker 2: Right over Jose Ramirez's glove. What a big hit for them.
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  Speaker 3: They need those three guys at the top to– to
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  Speaker 3: produce offensively, you know, that that's been their, their kind
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  Speaker 3: of story all year long with good pitching, good defense
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  Speaker 3: and timely hitting. So, um, big games from those guys,
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  Speaker 3: Yandi two for five, two RBIs, two runs scored. I
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  Speaker 3: thought Aranda was my player of the game three for
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  Speaker 3: four had with a walk, got, got on base, the
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  Speaker 3: big knock early on off the end scoring Yandi with
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  Speaker 3: two outs.
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  Speaker 2: Um, that was huge to get back tied.
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  Speaker 3: One-to-one when you're down, um, You know how it is
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  Speaker 3: and that feeling when you're down in the series and
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  Speaker 3: the other team takes the lead. You feel like it's
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  Speaker 3: such a big uphill battle. And then Junior with that
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  Speaker 3: big double, man. That was huge for them. And so
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  Speaker 3: we had good pitching from both sides.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, great pitching.
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  Speaker 1: Nick Martinez, five and a third, two hits, one earned.
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  Speaker 1: And then Kevin Cash bringing in Peralta. That tells you, right,
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  Speaker 1: this is a must win for the race. And I
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  Speaker 1: know this was Freddie's bullpen day and he just gave
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  Speaker 1: him what, two-thirds of an inning, which I love.
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  Speaker 2: And then they get the insurance run.
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  Speaker 1: So it would have been interesting to see if they
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  Speaker 1: left Peralta out there to keep going.
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  Speaker 2: But I love that move, right?
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  Speaker 1: I love bringing in Peralta there, bridging the gap until
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  Speaker 1: you're back in.
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  Speaker 3: This time of year, leaning on your best pitchers, right?
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  Speaker 3: We've seen it from both sides. And I think Stephen
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  Speaker 3: Vogt's doing a heck of a job as well, just
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  Speaker 3: mixing and matching those looks out of the bullpen. But
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  Speaker 3: the Rays just came up with a timely hitting. Kevin Cash,
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  Speaker 3: you know, pulling all the right strings. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: this Guardians team, we talk about, and I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to talk about the Brewers too much, but, like, just
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  Speaker 3: the dominating, the good at bats, the quality at bats.
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  Speaker 3: And I know when they– I thought when Yandy– I mean,
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  Speaker 3: when Cameron Arrow hit that big double and then they
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  Speaker 3: kind of broke it open with that error after Aranda's
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  Speaker 3: base hit. But the Guardians fought back, scored two the
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  Speaker 3: next inning. You know, like, they didn't– they don't quit.
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  Speaker 2: They don't give up.
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  Speaker 3: Making a 5-3 game there late, and then Yandy with
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  Speaker 3: the big two-run homer late just put it out of reach.
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  Speaker 2: They're relentless, man. That offense fights you.
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  Speaker 1: How about they said during the game, Yandy was traded
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  Speaker 1: for Jake Bowers years ago.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 1: Potentially a World Series matchup here if the Rays can go.
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  Speaker 2: On to win.
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  Speaker 1: You know what's crazy to say? There's only three teams remaining,
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  Speaker 1: but even the Dodgers-Brewers series.
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  Speaker 2: How clean....
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  Speaker 1: The baseball looks offensively. Defensively, it's been a little suspect.
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  Speaker 1: There's been errors, crucial errors, pretty much, in every game.
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  Speaker 1: Even that error there in, what, the seventh or eighth
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  Speaker 1: was big because you hold the runner at third there.
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  Speaker 2: They don't score two.
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  Speaker 1: But offensively, it's just an old-school product we're seeing. We're
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  Speaker 1: seeing guys bump. We're seeing guys move the runners over.
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  Speaker 1: And I love seeing it. I really do, especially in
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. Over the course of 162, that style maybe
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  Speaker 1: isn't as enticing as a player, but when you're playing
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  Speaker 1: to win one game in the playoffs, I love this
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  Speaker 1: style of baseball.
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  Speaker 3: I remember earlier in my career, my first playoff series
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  Speaker 3: with the Dodgers, and we were playing St. Louis, and
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  Speaker 3: Sean Green was our best hitter. And it was a
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  Speaker 3: leadoff double in front of him, and he rolled one
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  Speaker 3: over to get the guy.
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  Speaker 2: Over to third.
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  Speaker 3: And normally during the season, you want your horse to
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  Speaker 3: drive that guy in, and he came back in, which
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  Speaker 3: is like, you know, nothing matters, but playing the game
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  Speaker 3: and trying to win.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. Everybody's got to give themselves up and
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  Speaker 2: to the playoffs are all about. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And so like, you know, am I, who, when I'm
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  Speaker 3: thinking like a manager now, but like if fucking everybody
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  Speaker 3: could play that way every single day during the season.
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  Speaker 2: It's impossible though.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 1: Is it? Well, yes, it is because look at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, you have to be a winning player, right?
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  Speaker 1: What is a winning player, Rossi? And you're, you, you've,
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  Speaker 1: You were a winning player. You taught me how to
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  Speaker 1: be a winning player. Winning player, in my opinion, is
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  Speaker 1: someone who goes out with the best interest of everyone
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  Speaker 1: else as well.
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  Speaker 2: You can't be... Basically not selfish. That's how... Agreed. Agreed. Right?
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  Speaker 1: That's a winning player. Good attitude, good teammate, picking others up.
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  Speaker 1: But when it comes to playing the game, you are....
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  Speaker 2: Maybe 10% selfish throughout the season. Is that safe to say? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's safe to say. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You all, I mean, you also have a career to have, right?
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: So what I mean by, what I mean by 10%
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  Speaker 1: selfish is, you know, you, you take the big swing
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  Speaker 1: on two Oh, with a runner on second, third, less
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  Speaker 1: than two outs. But, but then if you don't, you
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  Speaker 1: have one swing and then you go back down to
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  Speaker 1: just trying to get one run and things like that
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  Speaker 1: makes you a winning player. And if you have winning
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  Speaker 1: players throughout the season, But in the postseason, that's when
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  Speaker 1: you need to be 99% for the boys and 1% selfish.
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  Speaker 1: And that 1% selfish, I don't even know how to
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  Speaker 1: justify it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's funny.
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  Speaker 3: Like the example I've given, I've played with a guy
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  Speaker 3: that just, you know, I don't know if he didn't
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  Speaker 3: know the game yet, but it was, you know, your
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  Speaker 3: pitcher had a long inning, gave up a couple runs,
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  Speaker 3: and then, you know, the first batter, knowing he's getting
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  Speaker 3: a heater, swings at it second batter pops up one
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  Speaker 3: up you know and then that third battery's like you
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  Speaker 3: got to take a pit like let's try to grind
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  Speaker 3: a bat and he's the one that that swings because
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  Speaker 3: he knows he's getting a heater like i'm like that's
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  Speaker 3: the guy you're like that's a losing player you know
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  Speaker 3: hold on i have.
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  Speaker 1: A good story for you here all right all right
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  Speaker 1: with the yankees i had a mandatory rule because this
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  Speaker 1: this swinging early stuff came in probably.
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  Speaker 2: When i got traded to the yankees more than when
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  Speaker 2: i was with the cubs i remember i remember after
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  Speaker 2: you traded me i mean i.
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  Speaker 3: I remember Tashara telling me we were on, after I
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  Speaker 3: was done, he was talking about percentage-wise, like, the best
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  Speaker 3: pitch to swing at is the first pitch, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's the best one. But, like, you better
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  Speaker 2: fucking do something with it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I had a rule with the Yankees where, because
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  Speaker 1: we were swinging early, right? And, honestly, in the back
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  Speaker 1: end of my career, it was like I'd rather face
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  Speaker 1: the starter three times instead of getting to the bullpen
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  Speaker 1: because the bullpens were just becoming.
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  Speaker 2: Nastier and nastier.
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  Speaker 1: So I had a mandatory rule that if the first
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  Speaker 1: two guys in the inning swung at the first pitch
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  Speaker 1: and I was hitting third, I was swinging no matter–
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  Speaker 1: if that was a strike, no matter what.
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  Speaker 2: And it happened to me. It happened to me.
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  Speaker 1: And I– two pitches go, two outs, and I look
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  Speaker 1: in the dugout and I just give like the little smirk.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I give smirks during the game. And I
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  Speaker 1: hit a fucking missile to right for a double, I believe.
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  Speaker 1: It was either a double or a long single or
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  Speaker 1: a short single at Yankee Stadium.
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  Speaker 3: Bro, I was in Atlanta, and we were in extras.
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  Speaker 3: Or maybe it was the ninth, and the closer's in.
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  Speaker 3: The first two guys swung the first pitch. And then
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  Speaker 3: our good friend of the program, Eric Henske, is pinch hitting.
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  Speaker 2: Love Ski.
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  Speaker 3: And Ski's like, I'm pitch hitting. I'm fucking swinging. Hit
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  Speaker 3: a freaking bomb to put us ahead in the ninth.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, you know, nobody's supposed to swing at
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  Speaker 3: that pitch. I mean, it does work. If you hit
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  Speaker 3: it in the seats, all bets are off, right?
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  Speaker 2: Like, if you... You get a double, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: do something.
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  Speaker 3: But it's so demoralizing when somebody rolls over, pops one up,
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  Speaker 3: and you're like, what the heck?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but at least the boys knew, right? They knew. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they knew. This was a thing I couldn't wait to do.
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  Speaker 1: But anyways, we got off the topic about winning players, right?
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  Speaker 1: You have to be a winning player throughout the regular
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  Speaker 1: season and the postseason. What you're seeing right now, the
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  Speaker 1: product of offense that you're seeing right now is such
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  Speaker 1: a pure– pure way to play the game, in my opinion.
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  Speaker 1: I just love watching this style of baseball the last
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  Speaker 1: two weeks of the postseason here.
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  Speaker 3: And that's why the great pitching is so important this
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  Speaker 3: time of year because everybody's locked in and having their
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  Speaker 3: best at bat every single time up. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the pitching's been so nasty and you've got to execute.
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  Speaker 3: And one two-seamer that leaks back over the middle, you know,
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  Speaker 3: could be a game changer.
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  Speaker 2: No doubt. Yeah, you're right. I've been impressed.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't know if doing this pod has made
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  Speaker 3: me focus even more on the little details, like when
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  Speaker 3: you're not in the dugout. But as a fan, you
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  Speaker 3: watch casually at home since I've been retired and doing
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  Speaker 3: some TV, you watch a little bit harder. But doing
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  Speaker 3: this and talking about it every night, the guys that
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  Speaker 3: are having the quality of bats stand out and the
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  Speaker 3: guys that give away at bats from time to time
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  Speaker 3: stand out because they're trying to be the hero.
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  Speaker 2: No doubt. Two things, Rossi.
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  Speaker 1: How about Foster Griffin and Nick Martinez both going to
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  Speaker 1: Japan in their careers to reestablish themselves back to the
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  Speaker 1: big leagues and then Foster came in in the bulk
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  Speaker 1: after the opener and Nick Martinez going five.
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  Speaker 2: Just a cool story for those two.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone's journey to the big leagues, up and down from
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  Speaker 1: the big leagues, going to Japan, going overseas to play
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  Speaker 1: and then back, like never giving up is awesome to
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  Speaker 1: see these two dudes in their championship series, both two
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  Speaker 1: wins away from going to the World Series. So just
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  Speaker 1: cool stories on that front.
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  Speaker 2: Love to hear that.
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  Speaker 3: I love Chris Tran kind of letting our fans in
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  Speaker 3: on what, with the rain delay and the game getting
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  Speaker 3: canceled yesterday, like what do we do during a rain delay?
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  Speaker 2: And I text him back, I'm like, You know what
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  Speaker 2: we do? We give speeches and go out and win
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  Speaker 2: the fucking World Series. That's what we do. That's only
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: during the playoffs. Okay, okay, okay, okay.
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  Speaker 1: The picture you sent to the group, which I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: we'll clip in here, is me, Rossi, and Eric Hinsky
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  Speaker 1: laying down on the floor, all big spooning each other.
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  Speaker 3: In Pittsburgh, after crushing as much food as we possibly could.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what you do, usually during the, it depends on
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  Speaker 1: what the rain delay is, if it's going to be
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: a long rain delay, the worst rain delays are the
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: ones that happen like 30 minutes right before the game
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  Speaker 1: because you fully get into.
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  Speaker 2: Your game mode. You launch.
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  Speaker 1: I got all the icy hot on my back. Everything
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  Speaker 1: that you take is a pre-workout.
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  Speaker 2: You've swung in the cage. You've played catch. You've got
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  Speaker 2: a good lather.
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  Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, you're in a delay,
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  Speaker 1: and you're like, no. The games that you know you're
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: going to be in a delay– help. And then in
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  Speaker 1: game delays, those are the worst. Cause you already are
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  Speaker 1: played a few innings and then you come in and
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  Speaker 1: it's like, I'd always go for a Dr. Pepper and pizza.
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  Speaker 1: Usually if we had it, I, I was, I.
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  Speaker 3: Hated like getting all worked, especially like usually a rain
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  Speaker 3: delay as a catcher. If I was playing, which is
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  Speaker 3: a rarity, um, but you get like kind of wet and,
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  Speaker 3: and soaked and you're catching deers nasty and you, I
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  Speaker 3: hated changing. I hated putting on a new uniform and
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  Speaker 3: getting back in there. So I like to stay kind
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  Speaker 3: of just gross. But you've got a lot of sitting
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  Speaker 3: around to do and you want to... Your body just
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  Speaker 3: starts to like kind of shut down because it's used
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  Speaker 3: to just keep going.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the thing, getting back. I can shut off. Well,
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  Speaker 2: if I was freaking 39 trying to keep this.
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  Speaker 3: Trying to keep.
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  Speaker 2: This machine lubed up.
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  Speaker 1: You know what else happens during rain days? Everyone turns
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  Speaker 1: into a meteorologist. Everyone.
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  Speaker 2: You got... I had like nine different apps on my
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  Speaker 2: phone for weather. There's a window. There's always, there's always
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  Speaker 2: a window. You know what I love doing?
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  Speaker 1: Telling people there was a window at home Depot and
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: telling everyone that the game was canceled all the time.
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  Speaker 2: I'd walk and be like, Oh, they banged it. And
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: I'm like, really?
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  Speaker 1: And it would piss guys off so much.
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  Speaker 2: Cause then everyone kind of exhale a bit. I'm like, nah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just kidding guys. Dexter used to do that too.
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  Speaker 2: He used to walk to the shower, like, man, this
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  Speaker 2: game's over. And he started like pretending to go to shower.
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  Speaker 3: When I manage, I would like, over-communicated because I would
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  Speaker 3: be on the phone with MLB or the guys in
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  Speaker 3: charge or the other manager and trying to figure things out.
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  Speaker 3: I tried to over-communicate because it's just miserable sitting there
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  Speaker 3: not knowing anything. Can I fully shut it down? Can
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  Speaker 3: I get on my phone and just kick back? I
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  Speaker 3: need a 30-minute heads-up. And then the pitcher's got it
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  Speaker 3: the worst. He's trying to stay loose, especially in-game if
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  Speaker 3: it's just started or maybe he's got another inning or
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  Speaker 3: two left. Uh, and he's only like 50 pitches in,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you try to try to keep that guy
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  Speaker 3: throwing some bullpens. And if it takes too long, you
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  Speaker 3: got to shut him down and crank somebody else up
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  Speaker 3: and letting that guy know who he is.
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  Speaker 2: And, um, just kind of planning ahead for that.
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  Speaker 3: But there's a lot of, um, well, I know the
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  Speaker 3: mind doesn't shut off. The mind doesn't shut off here
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  Speaker 3: in the rain delay. That's the hard part. You just,
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  Speaker 3: you can't fully check out.
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  Speaker 1: The league's taken a lot of heat. MLB saw a
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  Speaker 1: lot of heat from all the people talking about this
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  Speaker 1: game on TV. over the last 24 hours about you
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: know as a fan I understand you're pissed off right
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  Speaker 1: like as a player there's definitely times where we feel
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  Speaker 1: like you know being on the Cubs or the Yankees
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: especially if we're in a visiting place right around the
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  Speaker 1: league and I don't want to call out teams but
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  Speaker 1: there are certain teams you felt like you knew this
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: game was going to get cancelled and they just let
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  Speaker 1: the gate open to get the gate to get the
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  Speaker 1: beer sales now that's the regular season, right? If the
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  Speaker 1: Cubs and Yankees are in town, it's a big draw
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  Speaker 1: for that attendance, I understand. During the postseason, I can
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  Speaker 1: almost guarantee the league is not messing around, right? I
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  Speaker 1: even looked at the weather yesterday, Rossi, because we were
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: seeing if we were going to watch this game. I
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: pulled up the weather app and I just saw the
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  Speaker 1: backfill coming off Lake Erie of just storms popping up.
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  Speaker 1: So it looked like it was clearing up. It looked
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  Speaker 1: like there was going to be a game and then
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  Speaker 1: it just kept raining and stuff kept popping up. So
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  Speaker 1: It's really unfortunate, I feel, for the fans, especially those
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  Speaker 1: standing-only seats there in Cleveland where they panned to them
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  Speaker 1: during the rain delay where they're just grinding there in
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  Speaker 1: the rain because they don't want to lose their standing-room-only seat.
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: You go to this game, you make plans, you're pumped.
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  Speaker 1: It's a core memory that you're having with whoever you're
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  Speaker 1: going with. Maybe it's your mom, maybe it's your dad
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  Speaker 1: or friends.
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  Speaker 2: Son or daughter. Son or daughter, you're spending a ton
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  Speaker 2: of money on concessions.
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  Speaker 1: I feel for the fans that were there for two
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  Speaker 1: hours and kind of strung along, but I can guarantee
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  Speaker 1: you that the league was doing everything they could to
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  Speaker 1: get that game in yesterday. They do not want to
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: be playing a games tomorrow versus NFL football Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: Right. Right.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: But I love it. I love the four games in
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: a row. Now I think that instantly this goes to.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: The advantage of the race, right? I agree. I agree.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: Because they're deeper, they're a deeper team. They, they've proven
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: over the season. They're the best team in the American league. So,
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: them winning this game now, it's full-on momentum to the Rays. Like,
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: the Guardians are dark horses now in this series, in
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: my opinion.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I'm with you.
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: When I saw it was going to be four in
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: a row, I thought immediately, you know, especially with the
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: Rays winning tonight, we get a little more advantage there. But,
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: you know, these guys, it feels like, you know, going
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: back to Tampa now, they're definitely going to have a
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: game six in Tampa, which, happy for those Rays fans
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: getting more playoff baseball and championship baseball so um i'm
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: with you man the the rain stuff always sucks i
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: think for everybody it's like you can't really make everybody
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: happy in those situations but um fans are fans are
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: i saw where mlb chris rose i think blasted him
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: a little bit and was trying to trying to uh
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: trying to i love chris rose too by the way
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: yeah yeah that's what i mean yeah it was great
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: like that's why i follow him and listen to his
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: to his stuff so um You know, he had a
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: good point just about, like, just keeping the fans informed
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: as well.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they didn't bring anyone on.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: That's the most frustrating part, too, for us players is, like,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: all right. Usually they tell us, all right, we're going
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: to meet in 45 minutes. We're going to meet in
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: an hour, things like that. Booney was really good at
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: telling us, like, hey, it's probably going to be an
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: hour and a half.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: This could be quick type thing, so. yeah as long
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: as the Yankees probably have some special.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Their own radar no bro the Yankees were the fucking
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: best at this like really I have I gained so
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: much respect not that this matters but every pretty much
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: almost every double header we had to play Yankee Stadium
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: was just a back-to-back double header like they didn't go
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: with a day-night bullshit oh nice to get multiple gates
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: they just they would cancel the game and they'd say,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: all right, back-to-back doubleheader, not day-night. And day-night doubleheaders for.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Players are a grind.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: Day-nights are the worst, bro. Like that, that's one thing.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: And I was surprised. And I get it. Like I
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: get getting the gate.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: And you know, you've, these guys are, or you've got
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: 81 home games that are guaranteed. And so getting one
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: of those ups, a lot of dang money for ownership
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: and all that.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: But, It's the day-night thing. You're at the ballpark all
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: freaking day. All day. And then you got another one
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: the next day. Yeah, yeah. And again.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Rossi, before we go to our Tim Buss ball bags,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Yandy Diaz, second and third, I believe it was what?
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: No outs or one out. Strike three, about a half
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: a ball off the plate. You know he knows it's
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: a ball. He doesn't challenge. Yandy Diaz has not challenged
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: one out.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Un time this year.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: Un. Un.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Bro, I don't think the Rays, I think one of their,
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: I guess, flaws, if you would say.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: Like, there's a bunch that were missed tonight that it,
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying, like, watching the Brewers and how good
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: they were at it and the Dodgers and that series
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: just was a lot of challenges.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Minus William Contreras. He did a lot right, too. He
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: was hot and cold, I felt. But I just mean
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: it stands out because the Rays don't challenge hardly at all.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you're going to challenge there, like, second
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: and third, you've got to get those runs in.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: The game's tight. But on the flip side, the baseball
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: gods are rewarding them. He could have challenged. Who knows
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: what would have happened the next pitch. His next to bat, Palakai.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Home run.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: If I was, like– if I went back to managing–
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: the hitter is so important, but I think the catcher
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: part of it, like keeping those for the catcher is
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: a good strategy because it's just as important.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: They're, they're both important, right.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: And in certain instances, but if you're unsure at all
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: as a hitter, you know, I feel like catchers have
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: just a better look at it. And probably the percentages
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: are much higher unless you just, you know, like a
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: guy like Ian Happ knows the strike zone as good
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: as anybody.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Like in some, some of those, Some of those guys
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: that challenge are kind of, they're on the edges. Usually
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: when you're catching, it's pretty darn close. or the game
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: situation dictates if this thing's close, I'm going to pull
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: the trigger.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it drove me crazy throughout the year seeing left-handed
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: hitters challenge left-handed pitchers, especially if you don't play them
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: against them a lot. They would challenge that pitch on
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: the outside corner. It's like, bro, you can't challenge that pitch.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: That's a strike, right? Yeah. Well, think about how far
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: the game has come, the challenge system has come just
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: this year with, like, pitchers were challenging early in the year.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: I hadn't seen a pitcher challenge in months, you know? Yeah.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: I had a driver in Chicago tell me he drives
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: the umpires all the time, and he was like, the
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: number one thing the umpires, the only thing they care
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: about is a pitcher challenging and being right. which pitchers
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: didn't challenge, but they just didn't want the pitcher to challenge.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: That's what he heard. That was great. That was great.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: There's something about the warm summer air and a cold
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: corona with Lyme that makes the roar of the crowd
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: sound a lot like the roar of the waves.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: That's because this is our playa, and the best seats
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: are always wherever you're sitting.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Whether it's a weeknight game under the lights or a
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Sunday afternoon in the sun, you know baseball isn't about
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: rushing around. It's about settling in, letting the game come
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: to you, and nothing pairs better Than an ice cold Corona.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Nothing. So find your seat. Your Corona. And your line.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Because real fans know. The only thing better than nine innings.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Is extra innings. Especially on La Playa. Corona. La Playa awaits.
• 21:22
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• 21:27
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• 21:31
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• 21:34
  Speaker 2: What's up, guys?
• 21:35
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• 21:41
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• 22:26
  Speaker 2: All right, let's get some ball bags. Let's do it.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Let's see here.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Again, Ball bag, Tim Buss ball bag. Tim Buss was
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: our strength coach in Chicago. The greatest human being of
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: all time. The greatest strength coach, the greatest person in
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: the game I've ever been around. Tim Buss, we love you.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Ball bag questions, email us, rossandrizzo at gmail.com. Leave comments
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: on YouTube. Interact with us on our socials. Rossi, we
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: got to start, we love reading the comments. I'm going
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: to start chirping back a little bit at some of
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: the comments.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Good and bad. This email is from Justin Lackney. Justin. Yeah,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: we had Justin. Long time listener, repeat sender. Alright, Justin.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Was there one franchise that you never played for that
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: you wish you'd had the opportunity to do so? What
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: made them so appealing?
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Ooh, I think the first one that comes to mind
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: for me is the Yankees.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: Like, I just, you know, or either New York team,
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: I think there was always, you got to play for
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: that franchise and they're first class. It feels like from
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: the outside, every resource is given to you. And I
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: got to play with two organizations that gave you every
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: resource in Boston and Chicago. And I don't know, winning
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: in New York, obviously, you know, you got all the
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: way to the World Series on a really good team.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: And just being on that platform and on that stage,
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: that's the highest of the high it feels like. And now,
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: you know, I've started out in L.A., which was a
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: big market, and now they're kind of the same like
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: the Yankees when I was coming up but yeah I
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: think New York stands out to me I'd love to
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: play New York and the dinners and the just you
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: know I don't know you just if you're important in
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: New York it's got to be really cool.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: For me Rossi Yankees unbelievable for me Red Sox I
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: got drafted by the Red Sox I didn't make it
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: to the big leagues with them so I guess I
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: was in their organization but to play in the biggest.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Fenway was.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: My favorite park visiting, favorite road park, other than Wrigley
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: and Yankee Stadium, but those were my home ballparks.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: And I thought it would have been really.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Cool, full circle at the end, to play for the
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Red Sox at some point, getting drafted by them, them
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: helping me through my cancer journey, and staying.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Close to people in that organization. So that would have
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: been fun. That would have been cool. I think... One
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: more I want to throw in there. I think, like,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: I always... Thought it'd be cool to be in Texas somewhere.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: I love the state.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: She's from Texas, I can tell by the way.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Just sipping around the room. Okay, next email from Jacob Henniger.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: What is a road series like for players and coaches?
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Do you have to pack street clothes and uniforms? Does
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: someone do it for you?
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Do you just show up to the airport or meet
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: somewhere and take a bus to the airport?
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: What about... close games like the Southside or Milwaukee?
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, good question. I guess everybody wouldn't know this. Well, Jacob, yeah,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: I'll take you in. We are spoon-fed as big leaguers.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Spoiled. Spoiled.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Our clubhouse managers, I've had the GOATs, the greatest. We
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: had Tom Otis Hellman, who's not with us anymore, but
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Otis was just a bridge in the game.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: He was in the game for 50 years.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: He was Pete Rose's clubhouse manager. So how it goes
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: is they pack everything for you. At the end of
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: the game, you just throw in all your essentials that
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: you need. They pack your bag. They send it. They
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: take it. And then when you get to the road.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Like your personal items, right?
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Like they got all the clothes. You throw your.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Cleats in there, your shoes, whatever, like shoes and sunglasses. And,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: you know, if you're bringing sweatbands and whatnot, batting gloves.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: And then once it's done, you zip it up. They
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: take it. You don't see it until you get to
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: the clubhouse the next day, and it's all unpacked, hung
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: up in our locker. Everything is perfectly put away like
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Santa just came, honestly.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Right? That's a good description. Yeah, that's a good example.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: That's a good analogy.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: And then we take a bus to the airport. My
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: first years in Chicago, we did not have a police escort,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: so leaving those midweek day games or weekend day games,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Took us about two hours to get to the airport.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Anyone who's getting out of Wrigley going that way towards
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: the airport understands the traffic on Irving. So then the
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: best in the game, our traveling secretary, Vijay Tekandani, got
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: us a police escort. So from there on out, I
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: always have police escorts to the airport. get on the plane.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: You go through security real quick, but it's your own
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: private security. It's TSA where they scan you, but you
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: just get right on a plane. And then as soon
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: as you get on a plane, there's just pretty much
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: endless amount of food offered to right away, whether it's
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: healthy or unhealthy. You got it all from towards the end.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: It was a lot more health conscious stuff, but you
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: fly and you get bused to the hotel there. Your
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: room keys are right there. When you walk in, it's like, it's,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: it's what you dream of as a kid. It's, it's
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: really cool. I miss anything Rossi?
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: We pack our own street clothes. Like you pack up
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: before you leave the house, like whatever, kind of what
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: you're going to sleep in.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Sometimes you have to travel and, and you know, when
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: I was coming up, you had to have a suit. Um,
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: you know, usually a veteran would, would buy a rookie
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: a suit and hook you up or then it got
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: to just a sport coat and then it got to,
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: there's jumpsuits, team travel. I did that just to make
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: it easy on everybody. I wanted everybody to be comfy. So, um, Joe, Joe's,
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Joe's thing, Madden's thing, was if you look hot, wear it.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: So he had no real rules other than just if
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: you looked hot, wear it. But, no, you're not missing anything.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: We are so spoiled.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: So you pack your own suitcase at home, you bring it,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: and as soon as you get to the field, there's
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: someone there that will take your suitcase, make sure it
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: gets put. Make sure once you get to the field,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: they take your suitcase, and you won't see it again
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: until it's in your hotel room. You get there at
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: the hotel, they just send them up to the room
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: for you.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm trying to think back.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: You get a team-issued piece of luggage, too. Like, the
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: show organizations give you a piece of luggage at the
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: beginning of the season when you break camp in spring training.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I still have all those. I do, too. I do, too.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: A big Cubs logo on my suitcase. You can't miss it.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: I still got my bag tag that says, if lost,
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: send to Wrigley Field or whatever it is.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: You can't miss those. And then the Southside and Milwaukee, they...
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: We just drive there. There's a bus that will go.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Milwaukee, when I was younger, I would commute all the time.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: I would just drive back and forth if there was
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: night games. And then if there was a day game,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: the next day I would just stay up there because
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: I didn't like staying in that fister. Those haunted rooms
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: were little. Whenever I went up there, I always gave
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: my room away and I stayed on the newer side
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: because I was like, I don't want to mess with it.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Got a good thing going here.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah those uh that fister is well documented how many
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: guys uh and then now they've switched there's a newer
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: hotel uh they stay at but yeah um yeah i
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: like to drive driving so much better and to the
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: abusing team most times is very you know you've got
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: to a visiting player's parking lot.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: You can walk right in.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: It's kind of nice to just get in your car
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: and go home after a game and go back to
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: your own bed.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: So that's always nice.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: On road series where the stadium was far from the hotel,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: I would rent a car later in my career.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Same. Yeah, later in my career. I didn't like the
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: 45-minute bus rides. Arizona was a big one.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: Arizona was like a longer bus ride, and you liked
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: to get out and go and get lunch in Scottsdale
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: and all that area. So that was a nice place
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: to rent a car.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: When we started the 2016 season, we started in Anaheim.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: You remember the rental car we had, Rossi?
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: I do not, no. It was a white Dodge minivan. Ha, ha, ha.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Whenever we rolled up to the Equinox, we valeted. To
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: work out. I do remember that.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: This insane, whatever that nice Equinox is in Newport or
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: wherever we went in Anaheim.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: We roll up.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: They have valet at the Equinox. That's how nice it is.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: In this minivan, they're looking at us like, what the
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: fuck are these bozos doing?
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, good question. Good question from Jacob. All right.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Email from Justin Julian White. Rizzo, what were the conversations
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: like after you get on first base? Any conversations or
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: short exchanges that are memorable to you? I always thought
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: that the first baseman had the best. You guys can banter.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: The dude's in a good mood because they walked.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Or they got a hit.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: And you got to have a good personality to be
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: over there, the guys that chatted up. I'd love to
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: hear a good– you got a good story about one
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: of your favorites that comes to mind?
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: I'll tell one. I'll tell one.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: I don't know if I've told this on the podcast.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: I've told it one other time. It may have been on–
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: on a reunion, but I was catching Joe West is
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: the umpire and Vernon Wells was, uh, hitting and he
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: was with the Yankees and I was with Boston and
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: we threw a cutter in, uh, Noah's Lester.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah. In Boston to a cutter in for first pitch.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: And he like did like a little check.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Swing and for a strike. And he goes, my mind
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: was telling me no. I was like, but my body,
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: my body.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: And he goes, yeah, baby, I don't want to. And
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: he started singing back to me. It was like back
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: and forth. It was fucking hilarious. And Joe West called
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: time and started sweeping the plate. He was like, what
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: are you guys doing? What is going on?
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: I'm surprised he didn't join in. He's a country singer.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: It was my favorite. It was my favorite. Little R. Kelly.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: A little R. Kelly for you.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was one of the funnier moments of some
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: banter when I was catching.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Man, I feel like when I was younger, it just
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: depended on the night before. There'd be a few times
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: where you'd be out with some of the other guys
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: from the other team, and they would get on. They'd
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: be like, yep, that's how it goes. Get a base
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: hit after a night out, you know? And then I
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: always loved talking to Votto. I loved always talking to Freddie.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: But it was always just nice swing.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: How you doing? How's your family?
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: If you knew someone better, you'd mess around with them.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Like when Dexter was with the Cardinals, he'd always be
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: untucking my shirt. I'd be taking his batting gloves off.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: I'd like untie his shoes, things like that. And then
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: we'd just catch up real quick. We didn't see each
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: other before the game. And then you just got to
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: lock in for every pitch. So it's not anything crazy,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: but yeah, it's my, my big thing is if guys
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: ever got a base hit and maybe the odd jammed or,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: They didn't like the way the bass hit was and
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: they were kind of complaining about it. I would always
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: look at them like, bro, you just got a hit
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: in the show. Like, you know how hard that is?
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Do you understand how hard that is, right?
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: And they're like, yeah, you're right. I'm like, yeah, so
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: shut the fuck up. That's good. All right. All right.
• 33:46
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• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Send this to your friends, grandmas, grandpas, wives, kids.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Send it.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: We want the feedback. Ross and Rizzo at gmail.com. Game
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: five of the championship series, Guardians Rays, tomorrow in Cleveland,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: in the land, Rossi. Big game before they head back.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Believe land. Believe land.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Before they head back to the trop. So I think
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: whoever wins tomorrow, Rossi, wins this series. I know the
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: momentum could switch when you make these new predictions every day,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: but I think whoever wins tomorrow is going to.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Take this series. I like it. I like it. All right.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: We'll see you guys tomorrow. Oh, by the way, how
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: about the Auburn Tigers, Rossi? Let's go.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: What?
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: Let's go. Are you kidding me? War Eagle.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: It made my day the fact that you were paying
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: attention to that game and you thought of me when
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: Auburn won.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: That was like I was freaking jacked. I was in
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: here going nuts. FSU, on the other hand, had a
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: tough road in Miami. The Canes. I saw it was
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: 21-21 in the third. Overtime. Overtime.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: FSU kicked themselves in the foot down the stretch. Then
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: there was, like, a catch, and they had to throw this, like,
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: Hail Mary. The guy caught it.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: And there's, like, I.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: Guess 50-50 possession goes to the offensive player, and it
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: looked like he did. I don't know if we're getting
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: in the football space, but maybe we'll get a blast
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: for this. But I thought he had it. I think
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: it was 50-50. Send your comments on that shit, too.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: Let's go. Florida State. Florida State. Florida State. Woo! How
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: about Ohio State? Did you see that game? And Florida
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: beat Texas? Another alumni spot. I've been everywhere. Multiple teams,
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: multiple colleges. I didn't move in high school.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: This is the greatest time of the year. College football, NFL,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: October baseball. Did you see Ohio State? Guardians fans, I
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: know you guys have to have some ties to Columbus.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: The last play of the game. The Indiana receiver was
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: pretty much wide open in the end zone and overran
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: and stepped out of bounds.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Before he caught the ball. I saw that. I saw that.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Ohio State won on a miracle. Their quarterbacks hurt. If
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: saying is hurt the long term, that's a tough loss
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: for Ohio State. Five of the top eight lost their
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: first game, and Miami almost.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Bro, but this is the first time ever that, A
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: new number one seed lost after one seed lost. So
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: back-to-back weeks, the number one team in the nation lost.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: That's pretty wild. That is wild. I love college football. Yeah,
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: love it.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Anyways, we are back tomorrow coming to you for Game 5.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: All the reactions cannot wait. Rossi Rizzo out.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: War Eagle, baby!