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Aaron Judge’s Yankees RETURN, PCA makes Cubs HISTORY, Ohtani DONE pitching | Ross & Rizzo · Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered

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  Speaker 1: Rossi, how are we feeling? Feeling amazing. feeling amazing my
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  Speaker 2: Right so and i beat your ass all.
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  Speaker 1: Three days too Okay, we can get into that. Why
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  Speaker 1: don't we debate that real quick, okay? What's your golf index?
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  Speaker 1: I'm like an 8, 8.4 something. And I'm a 9.8.
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  Speaker 2: So Rossi, the first day. Rossi's a sandbagging 8.4.
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  Speaker 1: He's better than that. Listen to the excuses, people. They're coming.
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  Speaker 1: He wanted four strokes, four. The first day he gave me,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't played. I have a one-year-old, okay?
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  Speaker 2: So another day, the first day, then he wanted to
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  Speaker 2: start with two strokes and he came out firing. I
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  Speaker 2: went 49 on the front the first day, Rossi.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. That's how bad I was. And that's my fault. Apparently.
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  Speaker 2: No, but we have to handicap it appropriately.
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  Speaker 1: So what'd you do on the back? What'd you do
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  Speaker 1: on the back, Anthony? A 40. I came around. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: The number was four. So he gave me four strokes
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  Speaker 2: the first day. Second day, he gave me three strokes.
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  Speaker 1: And I beat him by four strokes. People.
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  Speaker 2: Second day, three strokes. I beat him by one stroke.
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  Speaker 1: I beat you by two strokes, which means you won
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  Speaker 1: because you got three strokes. I think it should be
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  Speaker 1: two strokes all along, so go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday, I beat you straight up, and now for the
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  Speaker 2: next two or three rounds we play, we'll be two strokes.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday, we played in Hurricane Katrina. I'm back. We played
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  Speaker 1: You couldn't adapt. You couldn't adapt your swing. Okay. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk some baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Coming live from Hogshead here in Ireland. Beautiful, beautiful country.
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  Speaker 1: Incredible. Can't say enough about it.
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  Speaker 2: Anyways, we had some breaking news over our night, Rossi.
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  Speaker 1: We had.
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Judge announcing in the Yankees, announcing that he's returning
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  Speaker 2: to the Yankees lineup after missing, man, over three months
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  Speaker 2: of baseball.
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  Speaker 1: What a boost.
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  Speaker 2: I know we have a video that they tease of
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  Speaker 2: him coming back. What a boost of energy this is
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  Speaker 2: going to be.
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  Speaker 1: 99, baby. That gives me chills, Rossi. I tell you what,
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  Speaker 1: I've been waiting for... I'm so interested to see how
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  Speaker 1: he plays these last... Well, he's got 17, 18 games left.
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  Speaker 1: I think the thing in my mind when we've talked...
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  Speaker 1: about a bunch of these teams is when judge comes back,
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  Speaker 1: we know how good the Yankees pitching is. We know about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the lineup, the young guys, how they were
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  Speaker 1: holding it down. But if he comes back and is
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  Speaker 1: the version of Aaron judge that we all know so well,
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  Speaker 1: the MVP talent, I think they're the best team in
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  Speaker 1: major league baseball with what they've got now that how
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  Speaker 1: fast can he get to gain speed and locked in?
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  Speaker 1: That's the key. You know, that's going to be the
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  Speaker 1: key for him, but, with the traject machines they have underneath,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure he's been hitting on it and getting
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  Speaker 1: his timing down. Bro, he took, they were out on
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  Speaker 1: the West Coast. They get back.
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  Speaker 2: He took live batting practice yesterday. One time they had
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  Speaker 2: some guys come up from the minors, throw him live
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  Speaker 2: BP at Yankee Stadium, and he goes, I'm good. So
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  Speaker 2: the work he's been doing behind the scenes is no
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  Speaker 2: one will ever understand how much work he's in off
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  Speaker 2: the traject and the timing and all that. But this is,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, bro, this is really important, like you said,
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  Speaker 2: to this line. We're going to get a version of
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Judge, whether it's his MVP version or maybe a
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  Speaker 2: slightly less version. That's still better than 99. See what
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  Speaker 2: I did? 99% of the league. See what I did there?
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  Speaker 1: 99. He gets so clever. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he lengthens out the lineup. He brings energy.
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  Speaker 1: He's the captain. He's the captain.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to make that lineup instantly better just by
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  Speaker 2: standing in the box and The energy, the aura, everything
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  Speaker 2: that he brings to that lineup, it's a huge boost
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  Speaker 2: for the Yankees. Hopefully he can get rolling quickly and
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  Speaker 2: get some confidence quickly, get a base hit out of
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  Speaker 2: the way, walk out of the way, you know, all
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  Speaker 2: the first out of the way, almost like a spring
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  Speaker 2: training ramp up. And we'll see what their schedule looks like.
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  Speaker 2: I'd imagine he'd play, play off, play, play.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he could DH. So really excited for that.
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  Speaker 1: going to focus on the AL. Who's going to win
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  Speaker 1: the AL? Right now, the Yankees and Rays sit at 25%,
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sox at 15%, and the White Sox at 10%.
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  Speaker 1: For me, if Judge coming back is where I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to put my money, I think the Yankees are going
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  Speaker 1: to take off with their pitching. Obviously, it's really deep.
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  Speaker 1: and the big judge coming back to Yankee Stadium and
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  Speaker 1: making this playoff push. It's like a shot in the
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  Speaker 1: really good for baseball, too. Getting this close to the postseason,
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  Speaker 1: really good for baseball, the Yankees, the playoffs. You mentioned
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  Speaker 1: West Coast. We've got to talk about PCA, as we
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  Speaker 1: do every week, but Shohei Otani announces he will not
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  Speaker 1: come back and pitch. Do you think that locks down
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  Speaker 1: the MVP for PCA at this point?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think PCA has it locked down for sure.
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  Speaker 2: That's a tough blow for the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: That's their guy that they're relying on. He can give
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  Speaker 2: them innings in the postseason, whether it be in the
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  Speaker 2: bullpen or not. So, I mean, that's a really tough blow.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, think about two ends of the spectrum here.
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  Speaker 2: You have Aaron Judge coming back, all the momentum. And
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  Speaker 2: the Dodgers seem like they're in a tailspin, but they
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  Speaker 2: are the Los Angeles Dodgers. Freddie Freeman said it best.
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  Speaker 2: We're back-to-back champs. All good teams go through ruts. uh
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  Speaker 2: they have a veteran group so um but yeah that's
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  Speaker 2: that stinks for the game you know you want otani
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  Speaker 2: pitching i.
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  Speaker 1: Think the question is does getting that out of the
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  Speaker 1: way i'm done with pitching does that help his offense
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  Speaker 1: you know i'm sure part of grinding through the knee
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  Speaker 1: injury has affected his offense for sure, but maybe a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of the freedom just to focus on hitting
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  Speaker 1: and not kind of work in two sides of a craft.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe a little bit freeing mentally for him because I
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  Speaker 1: think the Dodgers have enough pitching. I think they're pretty
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  Speaker 1: deep if everybody comes back. But I'm anxious to see
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  Speaker 1: if that helps his offensive numbers a little bit and
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  Speaker 1: get back to the guy, the MVP candidate. He's been
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  Speaker 1: in a rut.
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  Speaker 2: Right, so that's a scary part, because he's Shohei Otani,
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  Speaker 2: so he's going to get out of it, and usually
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  Speaker 2: when the superstar players go into a big rut, they
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  Speaker 2: come out guns blazing, right, so he's done this, though,
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  Speaker 2: a few times, he had Tommy John surgery, had another
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  Speaker 2: elbow surgery, and throughout the season, he's always had to
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  Speaker 2: worry about pitching, maybe not the pressure of throwing in games,
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  Speaker 2: but I feel like this is all he knows, right,
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  Speaker 2: is pitching and hitting, so Hopefully his knee isn't as
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  Speaker 2: bad as everyone thinks, but if he's not pitching, you
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  Speaker 2: have to think it's pretty bad.
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  Speaker 1: So who knows?
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  Speaker 2: It'll be a good story to watch over the next
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  Speaker 2: three weeks, this final stretch here.
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  Speaker 1: What's good news? Good news for Pete Crow Armstrong. That
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  Speaker 1: sure is.
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  Speaker 2: That pretty much locks up the MVP for, would be,
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  Speaker 2: if I don't want to get ahead of ourselves, first
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  Speaker 2: MVP since our teammate Chris Bryant, good friend, dear friend,
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  Speaker 2: Friend of the program. Big friend of the program. But, bro,
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  Speaker 2: Statham is crazy. Only the second left-handed hitter ever in
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  Speaker 2: the history of the Chicago Cubs to hit.
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  Speaker 1: 40-plus home runs.
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  Speaker 2: That is insane to me. I don't think anyone understands
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  Speaker 2: at home how hard it is to hit at Wrigley
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  Speaker 2: Field as a left-handed hitter. The proof is in the pudding.
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  Speaker 2: There's only been one other player to do it. He's
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  Speaker 2: in the Hall of Fame, sweet-swinging Billy Williams. It's always
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  Speaker 2: my goal. Couldn't do it. Every left-hander always wanted to
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  Speaker 2: hit 40. Schwarber came close one year. PCA did it.
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  Speaker 2: Arguably having the best left-handed hitting season of all time, really.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, bro, he's going to be in the 40-40 club.
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  Speaker 2: He had another home run yesterday. His 41 home runs,
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  Speaker 2: 35 stolen bases. So, I mean, the names in this club, Rossi.
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  Speaker 1: Barry Bonds.
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  Speaker 2: Alex Rodriguez, Jose Canseco, Alfonso Soriano, Ronald Acuna Jr., Shohei Otani.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. That's the list. I played with a guy,
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Phillips, shout out DatDudeBP in Cincinnati when he went,
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  Speaker 1: I think he went 30-30 and how impressive that was
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  Speaker 1: watching him do that. And Pete's knocking on the door
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  Speaker 1: of 40-40. It's so, we got... We got to watch
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  Speaker 1: them play last night, and he went deep again for
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  Speaker 1: 41 against the Brewers last night. They came up a
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  Speaker 1: little bit short, but the Cubbies bullpen let them down again.
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  Speaker 1: But Pete is rolling, man. I'm so excited to see
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  Speaker 1: this team in the postseason. And him, you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: had so many moments already during the season and, you know,
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  Speaker 1: probably to me the most exciting player in the game.
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  Speaker 1: but I want to see him in the postseason, and
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  Speaker 1: he shines so bright when the lights turn on.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hopefully, too, for him. I know you've got to
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  Speaker 2: think on these tight runs, right? It's hard to balance.
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  Speaker 2: He's trying to make the playoffs, and he's trying to
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  Speaker 2: win the MVP, right? So you're balancing the personal with
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  Speaker 2: the team, which you're not doing it for yourself, but
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  Speaker 2: when you keep getting asked, you keep hearing the real chants, PCA, MVP, right?
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  Speaker 2: it's not easy to deal with. So hopefully with Shohei
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  Speaker 2: on the shelf pitching, it kind of frees him up.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he can just go out and play and
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  Speaker 2: not have to put more pressure on himself. I would
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  Speaker 2: say it doesn't seem like he's putting pressure on himself,
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  Speaker 2: but we were talking about this last night about the Cubbies, Rossi,
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  Speaker 2: at what point they lost again to the Brewers.
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  Speaker 1: At what point.
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  Speaker 2: We were talking about, at what point in the clubhouse
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  Speaker 2: do you start shifting to the wild card is good enough?
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  Speaker 1: Right? And you yell, what do you mean by that? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I think, I think we were talking about just
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  Speaker 1: the excitement of the post season and how to get in.
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  Speaker 1: And you were saying, you know, in 15, it was
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  Speaker 1: such a boost for us to be the second wildcard team.
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  Speaker 1: We finished third. We finished third.
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  Speaker 2: We thought we were the best team in the world.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? And we had real momentum
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  Speaker 1: in September, August and September is when we started playing well.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm a firm believer, and I know that you are,
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  Speaker 1: just that the teams that get that momentum going into
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  Speaker 1: the postseason is critical to just kind of roll into
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  Speaker 1: that and have the offense hitting on all cylinders, the
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  Speaker 1: pitching lined up and feeling good. Bro, it's a beatdown
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  Speaker 1: right now. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: They lost three of four to the Brewers at home.
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  Speaker 2: They lost another game. They go on the road to Miami.
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  Speaker 2: They win two of three. Then they lose the first
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  Speaker 2: game to the Brewers again.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the The Brewers, I mean, Pat Murphy, what
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  Speaker 1: he's done.
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  Speaker 2: That organization, Pat Murphy is playing chess on all of
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  Speaker 2: you Cubs fans, all of us. So can you just
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  Speaker 2: stop giving the attention, the small town, look at our guys.
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  Speaker 1: No one knows who we are.
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  Speaker 2: They're about to win the division for the fourth straight
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  Speaker 2: year in a row.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're loaded. They're loaded. He's a genius. He's a genius.
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  Speaker 1: He plays the card of the small underdog team. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if... He's not necessarily wrong. I respect
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  Speaker 1: the hell out of Pat Murphy. I think he's a
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  Speaker 1: great manager, a great human being. But I love when
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  Speaker 1: he just gets on his... Yeah, no one knows who
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  Speaker 1: we are. It just... You see it eat alive, fans.
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  Speaker 1: That's funny. Hey, I don't want to skip this because
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  Speaker 1: we were talking about that wildcard push. The Cubbies are
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  Speaker 1: a half a game back of the Phillies. You don't
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  Speaker 1: want to go into Philadelphia if you're a Cubs fan.
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  Speaker 1: and try to win at the bank.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. The bank's electric. It is, but
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  Speaker 2: making the playoffs is electric.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: So it's like there has to be a way if
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  Speaker 2: they don't get that home field to appreciate that they
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  Speaker 2: are in the playoffs. Last year they appreciated they were
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  Speaker 2: in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: They played with that passion. This year will it be
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of.
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  Speaker 2: A disappointment if they don't get home field, right? It
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  Speaker 2: doesn't look like they can catch the Brewers with 17
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  Speaker 2: or 18 games left.
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  Speaker 1: We got to call a spade a spade.
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  Speaker 2: But if, God forbid, they don't get to that first
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  Speaker 2: wildcard seed, I feel like that team will be so
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  Speaker 2: deflated and it's going to be on the players to really,
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  Speaker 2: you know, rally and be excited. Whether you get the
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  Speaker 2: first card, the second card, or shit, if you fall
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  Speaker 2: down to the third seed, who cares?
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: You're in the playoffs. Anything can happen. You have really
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  Speaker 2: good starting pitching. The bullpen will get hot, hopefully. That's
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  Speaker 2: offense in the league. That's defense in the league. There's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of positives if you're.
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  Speaker 1: Boyd pitched good last night. Boyd pitched good. Goss has
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  Speaker 1: been throwing the ball well. Clay Holmes. They've got to
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  Speaker 1: get if Palencia gets back and his feet under him
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  Speaker 1: and get back to really letting it eat. He looks
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  Speaker 1: light to me. He looks a little bit leaner coming
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  Speaker 1: off the IL and I don't know if that's a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of something they were working on or not,
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  Speaker 1: but ball's just not coming out right now like he's
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  Speaker 1: used to. He can use his last. Just like Judge,
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  Speaker 1: get the momentum going. If they get the bullpen locked in,
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  Speaker 1: All right. I like positive. Positive train. former teammate who
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: helped us win the 2016 World Series, Aroldis Chapman, he
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: was the ninth closer to reach 400 saves, Rossi. Can
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: you believe?
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: It seems like Chap, he's been in the league for
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: 25 years.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Well, it feels like he's still in the same shape,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: throwing 100, right? Like you see him, he's still a specimen,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: gigantic human, just a chiseled Cuban, right? that we got
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: to play with. Two-time World Series champion. Two-time. Coming over.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Four of the nine closers that you were talking about, Mariano,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Trevor Hoffman, Lee Smith, Billy Wagner, are all in the
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. And the other three, they're still active.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Kenley Jansen, Kimbrel, and Chappie. I mean, we're talking about,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, these guys are knocking on the door of
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, and there's no doubt. that I
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: think those guys will get in with their resumes. Pretty
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: impressive list there that he's on and a part of.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Not only do you have to be dominant and the
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: strikeouts numbers are crazy, but the longevity in a closer
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: role in a bullpen is really hard to get.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: The longevity for him, I mean, bro, there's videos of
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: him online.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: His arms are yoked. He's yoked. He's staring guys down
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: in the shower. You know what I mean? He's intimidating.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: He's staring guys.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: You know what that's like you know what that's like
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: he in 2017 we played the yankees i was with
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: the cubs and um just the year after we win
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: the world series and we were playing.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Like a 16 or 17 in a game versus the
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: yankees i was over three or four going into my
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: last at bat and i'm facing chappy he drills me
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: in my back forearm with 98 and it's freezing in
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: april uh i stay in the game Between innings, I
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: go and get an x-ray. I'm like, oh, fuck, my
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: arm's broken.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Like, I'm done.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: This year's done. I'm already having all these bad thoughts.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: X-ray comes back negative. I stay in the game, right?
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: And then I hit a double.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, fuck yeah. That's why you always
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: stay in the game.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: But that hit by pitch by Chappie. He's just so intimidating.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: He throws 100 miles an hour for the last 10-plus years,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: and he's still doing it, and he's still adapting. That's
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: the most impressive spot. impressive the most impressive.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Part thing to me yeah is that he's still adapting
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: to the league and he's he's timeless slider it used
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: to be all heaters the slider is real the splitty
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: is real like he's he's become a pitcher later in
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: his career not just a thrower and a good bullpen.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Man my first time you know how nice is that
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: i don't.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Know shout out garrett whitlock wbc he was freaking nasty
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: i feel like they've got two closers at the back
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: end for the socks like yeah well i mean here's
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: my here's my chappy story we got over to us
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: i've gotten the game late and i was like all
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: right like like joe double switched uh pinch hit for
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: miggy or something and i went in the game i
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: was like all right first time doing this i'm such
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: a bad judge of miles per hour uh catching like
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: they all seem the same and he throws me the
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: first one like Middle end, boom, got it. Throw it back.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, that was pretty firm. Boom. Another one,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this is no big deal. He
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: threw the next one. A lefty on this side ran
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: up and away from it. You know how most lefties
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: got that tail or sink or run? Yeah. His, like, climbed.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: It was like the ball was coming, and the ball,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I went by as if I– My glove went out.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: It was just by me. Like, nothing.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: It's like Henry Rowan Gardner throwing you a fastball.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: It was cheese, bro. It was cheese. It was absolute cheese.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: I didn't have time to get my glove up, and
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: it hit the backstop at 100. And I'm like, oh,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I better dial my senses up a little bit. It
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: was cheese.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Congrats to Chappie on 400 career saves. Hopefully, he got
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: another 100 in the bag. It seems like he's not
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: stopping any time soon.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Now let's get to our sponsored segment, Corona, Playa of
• 24:54
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• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Boy, Jesus Lizardo, Stoneman Douglas, alumni, nine innings, CG shutout, Rossi,
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: two hits, 12Ks, first career shutout.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: For him.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, bro, the Phillies, man, three-headed monster, bro. They're
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: going to be tough. I'm scared. I am nervous. The
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Cubs are really good, but if they don't get that
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: one seed, the Phillies, man, I mean, bro, not CG
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: shutout versus the Braves too. And kind of that controversial
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: series where Acuna hits the home runs and he's running
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: around the bases and they're kind of chirping back and
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: forth a little bit to the media.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, what does that mean? He did it against
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves who are obviously like having a great
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: season and a really good offense. But these guys, that
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: was dominant.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Bro, he, in August, 34 innings pitched, won three ERA,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: 46 punch outs. I remember going there before they let
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: go of Rob Thompson. And Jesus got off to a
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: slow start. And I just seen him. I was just
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: talking to him a little bit.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, bro, you're good. Like, he's nasty. He's
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: a good kid. He works hard.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: He does all the right things, it seems like. I
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: didn't ever play with him, but just everything I've heard.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Since June 10th, he's had the lowest ERA and the
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: most strikeouts in baseball. Playing at Citizens Bank Park.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Like, that's not an easy park to pitch at. The
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: ball flies there, especially in the summertime. So, I mean,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: he's been underrated all year. I think when you get
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: off to a slow start, you just go underrated all year.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter how good you are, which is sometimes
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: a good thing. But that three-headed monster, man, Sanchez, Zach Wheeler,
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: and Jesus– They're.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Going to be tough, bro. They're loaded. Shout out to
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: our producer, Chris Tran.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: He's a big Phillies guy, so I know he's feeling
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: good about this conversation right now.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Congrats, Jesus Lizardo, for being the player of the week.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Got to mention, though, my boy Kobe Mayo hit two
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: home runs yesterday.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Roman Anthony's back.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Got to hit an RBI yesterday as well. Stoneman Douglas alumni, man,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: down in Parkland, Florida, there'll be six-time state champions in
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: a row. I mean, Coach Fitzgerald down there has turned
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: that into a machine. So really, really proud for me
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: as being a former alum. So shout out to Stoneman
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Douglas as always.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Let's talk some playoff baseball. Speaking of playa and playas,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: playoff baseball, bro. The Blue Jays are getting hot. The
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: wildcard race, San Diego, Arizona, like, This thing's getting tight
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: right down the stretch here with, you know, basically a
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: little over two weeks to go in the season. We're
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: out here enjoying golf, but these guys are grinding right now.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Blue Jays are, bro, they could be a little dicey
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: getting in, scary-wise, for other teams.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? 21-13 since August 1st. They're rolling.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: They're rolling. They hold that final wild card spot right now. And,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: you know, when you get to the postseason and you
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: get that push, the experience the year before, going all
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: the way to the World Series, and you catch your
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: hot streak, the confidence goes through the roof. And you
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: know what it's like to play pressure baseball.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: And they just played the last game of the season
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: last year.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? There was one game. There
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: was the final game of the season they played in
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: the last year. They didn't win.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: They almost did by centimeters. But that World Series hangover
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: run is real, and now they're kicking into gear, going
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: into the playoffs. I would just imagine in that clubhouse,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: it's like, hey, we got this. We've been here before.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: You know, it's different vibes, but when they start believing,
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: it seems like they're starting to believe they're in Toronto again.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: You've got that three-headed monster. You're talking about the Phillies,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: and we talk about Scherzer's back, throwing the ball well,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: and Cease is a Cy Young candidate, like, pitching, having
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: a phenomenal year.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: They get Soriano from the angels.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So it was like a, yeah, I mean, consistent
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: pitching is going to keep you in that, in that race.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: And they've got that right now. You know, and they've
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: got an easy schedule down the stretch. They've got, I.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Think they only play the red socks, right?
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Only playoff team they play down the stretch. So that
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: doesn't really matter. Except when it comes to September, in
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: my opinion, when teams are playing spoiler, but yeah, I mean,
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: the Astros are getting hot and the.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Astros don't get enough love the Astros don't get enough love.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Your Don Alvarez is, you know, the triple crown right now.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: And I think they're, they're, they're so underrated. Like they've
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: got winners all around that team. Some young guys mixed
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: in and their starters are starting to throw the ball better. Um,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: That's been their kind of Achilles heel all year long.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: They've got Hayter on the back. They're going to lock
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: down any W with him. He's having a great year
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: and doesn't get talked about. But the Astros are flying
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: under the radar with Jordan as well and going to
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: be the American League. I think he's got the American
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: League MVP locked up. Oh, 100%, right?
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, they fired their GM like a month ago.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: They didn't go out at the deadline and make moves.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: The AOS is weak. But again, it's another one of
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: these teams where they get in, in a three-game series,
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: they can beat anyone.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: And they have experience. They have guys that have been there.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: One World Series.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: They've done it. So the Astros, I wouldn't say they
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: haven't been talked about enough.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Because their record's sitting around 500. So it's hard to
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: talk about them when you have Guys like PCA or.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. But they're leading their division in a
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: crappy one with Texas and... How about the Orioles? You
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: know what I mean?
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: This division in the ALS is going to decide itself.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: The AL Central is close. The White Sox and the Guardians.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: It's like.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: It feels like the White Sox all year have just
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: been in first place, been in first place. Then you
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: look up and the Guardians are a game or two
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: behind them. And then the last two, three, four years,
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: the Guardians just come out of nowhere in September and
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: make a run, right? So it's going to be this
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: next three weeks of baseball.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Buckle up. I mean, college football is back. We are back.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Let's go. We have terrible.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Calls going on with the Michigan game, right?
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: The FSU game last night, the lights didn't work. FSU
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: can't get their lights to work. Wayne Kiffin is walking down.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Harpette's heads are falling off.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: I think there was, like, 900 credentials for celebrities at
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: the LSU game. Did you see any of this? I mean,
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: the scenes from Baton Rouge, Louisiana for LSU.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: It looked electric.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I've been to a few LSU games.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: If you're a college football fan, you need to go
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: to Baton Rouge and experience a game in Death Valley,
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: a night game. It is the most electric atmosphere of
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: all time. And then I hear people saying that that
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: game itself, the intensity was insane. As loud as it's
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: ever been. I mean, it's my.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Favorite time of year. Favorite time of year. Playoffs and
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: college football starting. This is a good time of year
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: to be a sports fan. We're golfing. Old Head, Hogshead, Waterville.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Where else are we playing, Rossi? Sorry about it. Sorry
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: about it. Old Head, yeah.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Taking helicopters to golf. Let's get to our weekly Tim Bus...
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Ball bag slash mail bag questions of the week.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: We got some good ones this week, huh, Rossi? Yeah,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: let's get the first one from James Malloy. Okay, what
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: are your thoughts about the current September call-up system where
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: only one position player and one pitcher is added to
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: the big league roster versus the previous system when we
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: were playing where the major league team was allowed unlimited
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: except for the 40-man roster? Does this prevent minor leaguers
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: from getting a chance to play in the bigs? So
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: I butchered that read.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Well, there's, there's a few different segments in that question.
• 33:32
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• 33:34
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• 33:37
  Speaker 2: ralstonrizzo.gmail.com or leave a comment on our YouTube channel. I
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: like the way it is now, man. I mean, The
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: original way is you can call up up to 40 guys.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: You can call up everyone on your roster, right? And
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: games would take forever, and there'd be a million pitching changes.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: And when you're in a playoff race and you're facing
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: guys that you've never seen before, that is a big
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: advantage for the other team. So I like the strategy
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: of the game. Does it prevent minor leaguers from getting
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: a chance to play in the bigs?
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: No. No. That's, this isn't a, this isn't a charity league.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. You got to earn your way
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: to the, yeah.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: And, and sometimes the opportunity isn't there and you maybe
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: are knocking on the doorstep. You don't get the opportunity,
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: but we're not just, you're not as a big league.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: You're not just handing out, you know, you, once you're
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: a big league, you're a big leaguer for life, whether
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: it's one day in the big leagues or, or, or
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: 20 years, you know.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: The goal is not to see how many people we
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: can get in the big leagues. That's not the goal.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: You know, and it's such a disadvantage for the integrity
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: of the game. I always thought when you get to
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: call up all, you know, a team that's in the
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: playoff hunt is, you know, they're not using these call-ups.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: They're kind of emergency or backups or giving somebody a
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: rest that maybe they clinch early. But the teams that
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: aren't in, they're using that as a development and to
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: see if guys are really good and playing a bunch
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: of young guys you don't know. And so it's just like,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: you don't, you know, the league hadn't figured them out yet.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: They're not have a lot of the bats and, you know,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: you can lose some games that way with some, some
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: teams out of it playing young guys that are talented,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: which is great, but if they're talented enough, they'll be
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: there when they've earned it and kind of making the
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: 26 man roster or 28 man roster. And they can
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: see those guys. So now they're bringing up an extra
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: pitcher to cover some innings and also maybe a speed guy.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Like a lot of people bring up, just somebody to
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: pinch run, to steal a big base late in the season. Yeah. Yeah,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, I like the rule.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Maybe they can add maybe one more pitcher just to
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: have length in the bullpen. But, yeah, that just goes
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: back to starting pitching. It needs to go deeper, right?
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think you go to the– I mean,
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: there's an elite starting pitcher on the mound. You want
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: to see him go seven innings, not five.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: This is– that leads us into our next question, which
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: is a really good segue from Anna Hyde, Rizzo. I
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: was at the game y'all played at the Braves in 2021,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: where I managed, where you struck out Freddie Freeman. What
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: did that moment mean to you? And where does it
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: rank in the top moments of your career? Let's play
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: the test here. We got some video of it. This
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: never gets old. Sorry, Freddie. Seventh inning. Yep. Yep.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Dude, no one realizes there that at the end, when
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: I grab the ball with one hand and stand there,
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: that's the Chapman.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: That's what Chappie does after all of his saves. Somebody's
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: got to get it. That's right. You got to throw
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: it out. Look at this. What a pitch. What a
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: break in ball. Yeah. Look at his face. I mean,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: he was four for four in the game. This is
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: what it's supposed to be when a position player pitches.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Have fun. You know what? A lot of people... Let me...
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: I got two things to say. A lot of people
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: were given... the Brewers crap the other day for bringing
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: in a position player in the seventh inning. We did
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: it there. Obviously, you're short, and we had a nice
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: debate at dinner last night about this, and we can
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: talk about that. But I also want to ask our fans,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: there's only been three position players to hit over 300
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: home runs and strike out a Hall of Famer. Or MVP. MVP, sorry. MVP.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: And who are those, Anthony? Babe Ruth, ever heard of him?
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Shohei Otani? Ever heard of him? Anthony Rizzo. Okay. Thank you.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Let's give it up. Shout out. Shout out,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Big 44. Nice.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: But is that a top moment of my career? Maybe fun-wise, accolade,
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: or accomplishments-wise? No, but This game's all about having fun
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: and it's a memory. I've always wanted to pitch.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: I really did.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: And it was great to be on the mound and
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: to have fun and make light of a crappy situation
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: when you're losing like that. That's where I feel like
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: now and in the game today, it's like these guys
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: come in and they just throw like they're lobbing it.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: It's like, and I understand you're scared of getting hurt,
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: but we throw, we throw every single day, just, Get
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: up there, play catch with a catcher. You don't need
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: to be lobbing balls in and making a mockery of pitching.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: Go have fun, right? That's my opinion. I had fun
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: when I did it. And when you have fun when
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: you do it, it gives a boost to your team.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: You're losing by however many. You're punting on the game already, right?
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: I remember, Rossi, you pitched and you hit a home run. Like,
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: that gave us so much energy going into the next
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: day after a loss, where.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: Now guys just come in, they lob it. It's almost embarrassing.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: Right, the lob pitches, and they give up all these
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: runs and it deflates the team even more. When a
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: position player came in, it was always fun.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: It was like, all right, we lost.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: Let's have a good time. Let's have fun with it, right?
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: That's my opinion.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: No, I'm with you. I'm with you. And I think
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: I'm a big proponent of and the debate of, like,
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: I think we need a run rule. Like, we've added
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: some really good things to the game, some rules to
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: the game, adjustments to the game. And I get fans
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: come to C9. innings, but you want to see a
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: position player pitch when it's not just fun, when it's
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: like the seventh, eighth inning, you know, and, and the
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: game just get completely out of hand. I don't think
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: that's fun for fans. And, you know, we need to
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: do some kind of, you know, research who, what's the
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: biggest comeback after the seventh and set that as a,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: as a run rule, you know, for me, the whole
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: run rule, like, let's add a run. Everybody go home.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: If it's like 12 runs after the seventh, I think
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: we're good. I think we're good. The manager, the manager,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: everybody gets pissed off. Like the manager brings them in.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: You're trying to say the, the goal is the managers
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: win as many games possible. And it's embarrassing as hell. Like,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: That's the worst, bro. That's the worst.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: It wasn't embarrassing when I did it, when you put
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: me in, it wasn't embarrassing.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Well, then I had to come take you out of
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: the game because I had to protect my, one of
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: my best players. And I took the ball. I went
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: and got the ball from you after that. I took
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: you out of the game after that. And I had
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: to bring in another position player. I have a zero.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: You're all right. I'm good with it. You and me both.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: You and me both. Yeah.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: I never, when I was, when I was with the Yankees,
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: Booney would not let me pitch. He said that, um,
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know if this is true or not, but
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: he said that they called down from the front office
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: and said, I'm not allowed to pitch when I.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Got over there. And I'm like, what? That's bullshit. I go,
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: look at my tape. Check the tape.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: Any time we had a blowout one way or the other,
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: I'd go get my regular glove and I would just
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: start stretching my arm in front of Booney or.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: Brad Ausmus or bench coach. I'm ready, guys. Whenever you
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: need me. Never got to pitch.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: I thought that would be cool to pitch at Yankee
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: Stadium just as.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: The little kid in me. Good question, Anna. Hyde, great question.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: Our last one is from Nick. Email from Nick. Is
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: there any truth that on getaway day, concentration is more difficult?
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: Are you guys swinging earlier than normal?
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: That's a good question. It depends on how many drinks
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: we had. It depends on how Saturday night went. No,
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: just kidding. I always thought getaway days, you know, you're
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: like screaming in the dugout, happy flight, right? Like that's the,
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: that should be on a t-shirt. Happy flight. Meaning, like
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: we want to get on that plane and be celebrating
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: a W. And that's kind of the last game of
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: a series in general. Even if you've lost the first two,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: you want to get on that plane and feel good
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: about yourself, the team. And so we used to always
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: tell happy flight. And then after that W, you're high-fiving
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: and everybody's yelling happy flight and we're getting ready to
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: enjoy some nice downtime on the plane. But I don't
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: think the– I think concentrating on a day game, especially
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: with teams that– we had the– pleasure, I think, of
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: playing a lot of day games at Wrigley because of
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: the Friday, Saturday, Sunday. But most teams play all night
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: games until Sunday, which is usually getaway day. And it's
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: hard to get up for those games when your body's
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: used to playing at night all the time, especially guys
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: like Anthony who played every single day. And that quick
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: turnaround for their body was always tough. And that's mentally
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: and physically. So You can probably speak to a little
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: bit more being an everyday player, Riz, but I always
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: thought the happy flight thing was one of those like,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: let's lock it in, boys. Win this last one and
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: get out of here with a good feeling.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the only guys are definitely not swinging earlier than normal.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: So I would say no to that question. The only
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: game guys actively are yelling at each other to swing
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: on the first pitch is the last game of the season.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Right or the last game of spring training like nobody
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: cares nobody cares let's get the hell.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: Out of spring training right the getaway days i mean
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: looking back you can see like if we were out
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: west or something and going into an off day day
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: game you're you're coming off the west coast maybe you're
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: one foot back in the city you're going to or
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: something like that but At the end of the day,
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: when the game starts, your concentration level is as high
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: as it can be. Sometimes you're 100 out of 100.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: Sometimes you only have 70% of concentration, but you're giving 100%
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: of that.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: I don't think there's.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: Really much truth to the getaway day stuff, but I'm
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: sure there's something there.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Last day of the season and last day of spring training.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: Last day of the season, last day of spring training.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: You're like, if you take a strike, it's $ 100 fine. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: everybody who takes a first pitch strike, it's a hundy.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then there's some times where you just need
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: to get out of dodge. There's times when we were
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: at Wrigley or even when I was at the Yankees
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: at Yankee Stadium, there's just times where you need to
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: get on the road, where the team wasn't playing well,
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: it just felt too heavy at your home field. You
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: ever feel that before, where you just need to go,
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: Like kind of reset on the road and then get
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: back to playing.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: Maybe a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: But good questions. I mean, dude, these questions are. That's
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: my favorite. I like the Tim Boss ball bag questions
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: of the week. Those are those are fun. I love
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: answering the fans questions. We love hearing from you guys.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: We like doing this again. Shout out to Hogshead. We're
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: here in Ireland. An amazing trip back in the States
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: in a couple of days. Starting twice a week next week, Rossi.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. I'm excited.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: We're going Tuesday and Friday next week to amp up
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: the stretch run here. I can't wait to be talking
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: more with you. We've got our own playoff push, me
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: and you. Yeah, you and me have our own playoff push.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: That's nice. That's nice.
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: Thanks, everybody, for tuning in. Keep the questions coming. Thank you, everyone,
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: for tuning in. We will see you next week.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: Love you.