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Padres dust Cubs to advance, Phillies force G3 in ATL | FT Postgame · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Oh, look at this duo. It is Braun and Spilly.
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Speaker 2: Ryan Spillborg's joining me, and we are about to dive
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Speaker 2: into a couple games, but we'll, of course, start with
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Speaker 2: the Padres. That's a fresh run right now, and they
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Speaker 2: were just able to completely dominate the Cubs over a
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Speaker 2: couple games. Spilly, it almost looks like you're wearing the
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Speaker 2: shirt right now.
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Speaker 1: The Tati shirt right there with the little pot.
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Speaker 3: El Nino. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I look good in brown.
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Speaker 3: I look really good in brown. Brown you can wear
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Speaker 3: with anything, I guess.
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Speaker 2: Is that what they say? Well, that's what they say
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Speaker 2: in San Diego right now. They love the brown. They're celebrating.
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Speaker 2: They're popping bottles. We're doing this live right now. So
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Speaker 2: Padres completely, utterly dominant in this two-game little performance here
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Speaker 2: in the wildcard. We're going to get Spilly's thoughts. So
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Speaker 2: let's start it off, first of all, with our full count.
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Speaker 3: It's a full count. Oh, yeah, it is.
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Speaker 1: Full count is fueled by marathon. Let's do this. What
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Speaker 1: did you see, Spilly, over these couple games?
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Speaker 2: A lot of screaming and cheering and happiness from a
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Speaker 2: team that dominates at home.
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Speaker 3: It goes to show you how important the wild card
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Speaker 3: is to have some home field advantage, unless you're Houston,
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Speaker 3: because they can't win at home. But when it comes
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Speaker 3: to San Diego, this has been a team that I've watched, obviously,
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Speaker 3: in the National League West, covering the Rockies and going
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Speaker 3: to San Diego all the time. This is a ballpark where,
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Speaker 3: you know, if you think about the alternate universe of A.J.
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Speaker 3: Preller not making trades, OK, like I can take you
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Speaker 3: way back to even not trading away James Shields to
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Speaker 3: the Chicago White Sox to get Fernando Tatis. If he
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Speaker 3: didn't do this, this team would look completely different. You'd
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Speaker 3: probably have Mackenzie Gore. You'd have James Wood. You'd have C.J. Abrams.
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Speaker 3: But what has happened in the last three years, and
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Speaker 3: I saw it. I saw it when Juan Soto was
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Speaker 3: traded to the Padres. I was there for that the
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Speaker 3: very first game. What it created was an atmosphere that
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Speaker 3: very few teams have. We have now seen through the
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Speaker 3: last couple years over 3 million fans through the gates
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Speaker 3: of Petco. That place is a party. And San Diego
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Speaker 3: has a couple things going for them in that market.
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Speaker 3: And when I start thinking about Peter Seidler, and if
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Speaker 3: you ever met this guy, Peter Seidler, the late Peter Seidler,
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Speaker 3: was hell-bent on bringing a world championship to San Diego.
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Speaker 3: He used to burn sage at home plate. This guy
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Speaker 3: was awesome, but he was also a great marketer. He
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Speaker 3: understood that in San Diego, without the Chargers and no Clippers,
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Speaker 3: no NBA team, no NFL team, that your market was
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Speaker 3: really Major League Baseball. And because of that, this team
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Speaker 3: has turned into such a home field advantage to play
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Speaker 3: in San Diego that you can see it. And certainly
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Speaker 3: the Chicago Cubs felt it. The Chicago Cubs were as
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Speaker 3: good as any team at Wrigley Field, especially late. They set,
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Speaker 3: I think, a Cubs record this year for most walk-offs.
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Speaker 3: But they didn't get that opportunity being in San Diego.
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Speaker 3: And as you're watching this Padres team, and I saw
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Speaker 3: them down the stretch. I saw them in September when
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Speaker 3: they were starting to rake again. I said it numerous
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Speaker 3: times on Sirius XM. I said it on the Rockies broadcast.
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Speaker 3: I was like, oh, man, these guys are a wagon.
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Speaker 3: Because now, if you look at all their numbers, you
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Speaker 3: already knew that they had one of the best shutdown
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Speaker 3: bullpens in baseball. They were thinking about, at the time,
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Speaker 3: during trade deadline, maybe moving on from Adrian Morione, who's
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Speaker 3: going to be a free agent after this year. They
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Speaker 3: decided not to. Instead, AJ Preller makes a trade for
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Speaker 3: two starters. He gets Robbie Ray. And then he gets
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Speaker 3: Casey Mize, which ended up helping out the bullpen in
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Speaker 3: a way that very few people can describe. And I'll
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Speaker 3: describe it for you. It allowed now for their bullpen
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Speaker 3: to be fresher. And what we've seen, once their team
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Speaker 3: started to hit, and the big key here, there's a couple.
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Speaker 3: Jackson Merrill's starting to hit like Jackson Merrill. But if
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Speaker 3: you think about this year, what would the Padres look
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Speaker 3: like without Ty France? Has anybody thought about that? This
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Speaker 3: was a February minor league deal. Ty France had a
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Speaker 3: career year. He made first base like he's a gold glove,
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Speaker 3: platinum glove defender. And so the Padres defensively are an
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Speaker 3: elite defensive group. The metrics bear it out. They are
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Speaker 3: top three in Major League Baseball. Outs above average, defensive
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Speaker 3: runs saved, defensive efficiency. So when you have great defense
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Speaker 3: with a shutdown bullpen, With starters that can give you
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Speaker 3: just enough, and then now you have a team that's
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Speaker 3: starting to rake with a longer lineup, that's what the
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Speaker 3: Cubs just faced. And the Cubs really, when you think
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Speaker 3: about it, had no chance, especially with the start that
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Speaker 3: you got from Michael King on game one. So this
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Speaker 3: Padres team has everything capable of winning a World Series,
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Speaker 3: getting to the World Series, knocking out the Dodgers. Today's
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Speaker 3: just a wild day when I think about it, Scott,
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Speaker 3: because we lost two teams that easily could be in
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Speaker 3: the World Series, which is the Chicago Cubs and the
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Speaker 3: Boston Red Sox. Today was a wild day.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and for the Cubs, they're going to have to
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Speaker 2: do a lot of thinking here, Spilly. First of all,
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Speaker 2: if you want to be in a better position, you
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Speaker 2: need to win your division and even more so try
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Speaker 2: and get yourself a buy, right? The Brewers just own
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Speaker 2: them in the division lately. Also, you need to not
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Speaker 2: fade down the stretch so these games can be at home.
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Speaker 2: Home field advantage doesn't always matter, but in this series
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Speaker 2: it mattered a ton. I think that was obvious to anyone.
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Speaker 2: And it's not even just the atmosphere. It's the way
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Speaker 2: that the team actually plays on the field differently. The
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Speaker 2: atmosphere in Philly is wild too, but sometimes they don't
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Speaker 2: play as well at home. The Padres completely shined at home.
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Speaker 2: And you could see it from the regular season record
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Speaker 2: for the Cubs. They had the best offense in baseball.
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Speaker 2: this year, if you're going by runs, right? Front to back.
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Speaker 2: And I know the Padres really poured it on in
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Speaker 2: the second half of the season. But for Chicago, front
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Speaker 2: of the season to the back, that was the one
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Speaker 2: thing you pretty much had all year was the Cubs
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Speaker 2: knew how to score runs, right? It was not many
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Speaker 2: games where you would see something happen and be a
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Speaker 2: poor performance on the offensive side for this team. Part
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Speaker 2: of that had to do with Pete Carr Armstrong, Alex
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Speaker 2: Bregman coming on strong in the second half of the season.
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Speaker 1: So let's start there. How did the Padres.
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Speaker 2: silence these two I know it's only two games but
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Speaker 2: 0 for 15 from PCA and Alex Bregman and overall
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Speaker 2: if you look at the Cubs I mean this was
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Speaker 2: a team that had pop during the season they had
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Speaker 2: one extra base hit I have down in this series
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Speaker 2: and that was the ninth inning double for Nico Horner
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Speaker 2: off of Mason Miller in a three-run game that's it
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Speaker 2: so as much as the Padres put together a nice
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Speaker 2: performance you know in a lot of ways on offense
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Speaker 2: and and the defense is clean like you mentioned I
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Speaker 2: mean the pitching staff with the two starters and then
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Speaker 2: going early in the hook with Pavetta getting out of
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Speaker 2: there in the fourth inning, going right to Brad, Brad
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Speaker 2: clay Rodriguez, and then moving through all of your big
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Speaker 2: boys to Miller at the finish line shows you exactly
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Speaker 2: what you're going to get with the Padres. This is
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Speaker 2: a good brand of wild card series baseball.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think it's sustainable in the division series too.
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Speaker 3: So I'm not worried about where the Padres were. I
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Speaker 3: think it started with Michael King. Michael King getting the
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Speaker 3: punch out of Pete Crow Armstrong and then kind of
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Speaker 3: setting the tone. We also saw about a two-mile-an-hour increase
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Speaker 3: for Michael King, which this guy can pitch. I mean,
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Speaker 3: there's a reason why the Padres brought him back. This
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Speaker 3: guy can absolutely pitch. What's strange is last year, I
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Speaker 3: remember when Michael King was on the shelf, he was
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Speaker 3: dealing with a shoulder injury that nobody in baseball had
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Speaker 3: ever suffered before. Nobody knew what to do. It was
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Speaker 3: a one of one. So Michael King was dealing with some,
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Speaker 3: because he's a big time crossfire, really creates a lot
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Speaker 3: of movement. And so he just had a strange injury.
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Speaker 3: And you weren't quite sure what you were going to
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Speaker 3: get when you got him this season. And what we
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Speaker 3: saw in game one was high velocity, high movement, unbelievable sweeper,
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Speaker 3: and the Cubs had no answer for it. And beyond that,
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Speaker 3: when I think postmortem for the Cubs, Craig Council was
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Speaker 3: brought in on the biggest contract we've ever seen a
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Speaker 3: manager get, which is great for managers because he kind
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Speaker 3: of set the market. Dave Roberts is happy with Craig Council,
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Speaker 3: and so is everybody else. But what Craig was dealing
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Speaker 3: with was a bullpen that was bad all year, especially
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Speaker 3: the second half of the season. It was a bad bullpen.
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Speaker 3: They tried to address it. I like the moves that
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Speaker 3: the Cubs made. I think Jed Hoyer, getting a Ryan
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Speaker 3: Zephyrjian and then getting a Clay Holmes and even a
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Speaker 3: David Peterson was important for them. But they lacked swing
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Speaker 3: and miss. So the swing and miss was a problem
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Speaker 3: for them. And even with Matthew Boyd, who down the stretch,
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Speaker 3: I think he went six out of seven games. He
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Speaker 3: was going at least five innings at least. Didn't have
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Speaker 3: a ton of swing and miss. And with a team
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Speaker 3: like the Padres were at this time right now, they're,
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Speaker 3: they're actually hitting homers. Fernando's hitting homers. Machado looks great.
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Speaker 3: We saw a homer from Xander Bogarts in game one.
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Speaker 3: The Cubs were overmatched. I think that's what it boils
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Speaker 3: down to. It felt like for me, as I was
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Speaker 3: watching the Padres getting, you know, ramped up for the
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Speaker 3: end of the season, they were the best team in
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Speaker 3: baseball and they were playing like it. And then they
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Speaker 3: got the home field advantage. And, and to be honest,
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Speaker 3: like if the Cubs were, If the Cubs maybe face
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Speaker 3: the Phillies, the Cubs are moving on. If the Cubs
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Speaker 3: took on the Atlanta Braves right now, maybe the Cubs
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Speaker 3: are moving on from the Braves, but they've matched up
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Speaker 3: against the wrong team. Right now, and you know this,
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Speaker 3: we've seen this for how many years, Scotty, we've been
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Speaker 3: doing this thing for? When a team gets hot going
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Speaker 3: into the postseason and they're playing well, it doesn't matter
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Speaker 3: what your regular season record was or how many runs
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Speaker 3: you scored during the regular season or the names that
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Speaker 3: you have on your roster. You just run into a
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Speaker 3: hot team. And what you have right now is the
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Speaker 3: Padres with a ton of talent, a poop ton of talent,
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Speaker 3: who are playing their very best brand of baseball with
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Speaker 3: their best squad. They got their guys back. They literally
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Speaker 3: got their guys back. We saw Joe Musgrove come out.
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Speaker 3: He hadn't pitched in two years. He's throwing 96. So
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Speaker 3: Padres are an absolute wagon right now.
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Speaker 2: My thing too is the way that Tatis got the
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Speaker 2: crowd involved right from the jump in the first inning
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Speaker 2: of game one and then Machado adding on with the
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Speaker 2: home run. You know what was a unique fire starter, firecracker,
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Speaker 2: sparker in this game too? P. Crow Armstrong burns one
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Speaker 2: of two challenges in his first at-bat Fans are smart.
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Speaker 2: Fans love the new ABS challenge system. We've seen that
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Speaker 2: all year, right? It's fun to get on the umps.
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Speaker 2: It's even fun if the ump is correct in this
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Speaker 2: case because you now get to give crap to the
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Speaker 2: MVP of the National League for burning something very important.
11:03
Speaker 2: And yes, they had one remaining. You have to be
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Speaker 2: so much more careful the rest of the game. Fans
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Speaker 2: know that. So when you blow that so early on, right,
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Speaker 2: you're the first batter of the freaking game.
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Speaker 3: And they had no leverage.
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Speaker 1: So yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yep.
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Speaker 2: And if you're PCA, you don't want to give up
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Speaker 2: your AB, right? So if you really believe that that
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Speaker 2: was out of the zone, what was it? The curve
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Speaker 2: ball that, that Nick, the inside corner, then if you're
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Speaker 2: the Cubs, cool. I want that at bat to extend.
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Speaker 2: That's the best player in the national league this year.
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Speaker 1: But it wasn't the case. He landed it.
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Speaker 2: So the crowd goes nuts. And I just felt like
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Speaker 2: right from there, I'm like, Oh, they're screwed. They're screwed.
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Speaker 2: Like it is such a, it's crazy. It's, I don't
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Speaker 2: want to call it a momentum swing, but it's such
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Speaker 2: a start to the game to fire up the crowd.
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Speaker 2: And I felt like from then on out, the Cubs
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Speaker 2: are going to be just playing defense the rest of
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Speaker 2: this game.
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Speaker 1: And that's what it felt like.
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Speaker 2: You're just waiting for the big Padres moment, which probably
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Speaker 2: you could point to, you know, Gavin sheets providing the
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Speaker 2: insurance there with the two run Homer as the moment
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Speaker 2: where you're like, all right, see a bullpen.
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Speaker 1: You got a little room to breathe now too. Good night.
12:06
Speaker 1: We have a new Gavin Sheets shirt that just came out, too.
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Speaker 2: A little holy sheets on FoulTerritoryShop.com. But thoughts on Sheets?
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Speaker 2: Because you mentioned Ty France in the beginning of the season.
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Speaker 2: The unlikely names for the Padres were the guys that
12:19
Speaker 2: were leading the charge in the beginning of the year
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Speaker 2: when Tatis couldn't find his home run swing. Machado was
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Speaker 2: off to a slow start. Jackson Merrill didn't look like
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Speaker 2: himself in the first half of the season. So it's
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Speaker 2: almost like those guys kept them afloat in the first
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Speaker 2: half of the year so that the superstars could eventually win.
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Speaker 1: Do their thing.
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Speaker 3: Oh, that's nice. Yeah. I want this. I want this shirt.
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Speaker 3: I want a holy sheets. And I also love how
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Speaker 3: this thing came about. This was, this came from the
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Speaker 3: Spanish broadcasters last year and, and Gavin sheets, which is
12:44
Speaker 3: like a great story. It's kind of like Andrew Vaughn.
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Speaker 3: He had two guys that left the Chicago white socks.
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Speaker 3: You get out of that hell hole from the last
12:51
Speaker 3: couple of years and, And they found like an opportunity
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Speaker 3: like San Diego last year with Gavin sheets, they rehabbed
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Speaker 3: his swing and he took off and that he had
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Speaker 3: a home run where it was Spanish broadcasting started screaming,
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Speaker 3: holy sheets. And it was so good in the crowd,
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Speaker 3: of course, because like I mentioned with San Diego fans,
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Speaker 3: like the Padre fans, there's nothing else to root for.
13:14
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously you've got, you do have women's soccer.
13:17
Speaker 3: You do have college sports, but it is San Diego
13:21
Speaker 3: Padres baseball. If you go to San Diego and you're
13:24
Speaker 3: basically from like Coronado all the way up to like
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Speaker 3: Newport Beach and you'd like leak into basically Dodger country,
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Speaker 3: there's Padres fans and they are filling the stands and
13:36
Speaker 3: they are very attentive. They understand it. So I love
13:39
Speaker 3: your point about the ABS because they're, they're a hundred
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Speaker 3: percent right. You can't lose a challenge early on. And
13:44
Speaker 3: the thing is, too, when you have a team on
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Speaker 3: a roll and they're feeling the energy of the crowd.
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Speaker 3: We felt this in 2007 when I was on the Rockies.
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Speaker 3: We had like Rockies fans were going crazy because we won,
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Speaker 3: you know, basically 21 out of 22 games. And there
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Speaker 3: was a stretch where we won 13 out of 14.
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Speaker 3: We felt the fans and we knew if we could
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Speaker 3: feel the fans for us in a positive way. the
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Speaker 3: opposition felt it in a negative way. And Craig Council
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Speaker 3: addressed it. You could kind of see it. There's times
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Speaker 3: where you're playing and you just feel like, God, I
14:17
Speaker 3: feel like I'm playing 10 players right now. It's not fair.
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Speaker 3: And so, yeah, man, I think what I'm looking forward
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Speaker 3: to now is the San Diego Padres Dodgers series because
14:30
Speaker 3: this is the best the Padres have been playing. And
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Speaker 3: if you go back and you think two years ago
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Speaker 3: when the Dodgers ended up winning the World Series in 2024,
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Speaker 3: The Padres had a home field advantage and they were
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Speaker 3: up three games to one and they ended up losing
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Speaker 3: that series or was it two to one? So they
14:46
Speaker 3: had to win one more. So it was a five.
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Speaker 1: Hold up, dude.
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Speaker 2: You're getting you're getting in front of yourself. They got
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Speaker 2: to get through the top record in baseball.
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Speaker 1: First on the.
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Speaker 3: They got to get through the Brewers. That's right.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. So hold your horses.
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Speaker 2: And we're going to get to Philly's Braves in a moment.
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Speaker 2: But here's my thing, because it'll play to your point.
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Speaker 2: And yes, Dodgers, Padres, NLCS would be insane, as we've
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Speaker 2: seen in the past. But NLDS, if I'm Milwaukee, I'm
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Speaker 2: looking at that series just now going, damn, I wish
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Speaker 2: we would have dropped the Phillies bullpen or the Braves
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Speaker 2: starting pitching. The Padres look like a much more complete
15:22
Speaker 2: team right now. It's about right now, like you mentioned.
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Speaker 2: The team that I don't want to face, if I'm Milwaukee,
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Speaker 2: out of the three teams, the Braves, the Phillies, or
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Speaker 2: the Padres is San Diego. I don't even think it's
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Speaker 2: a question based on what we've seen.
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Speaker 3: It's not a question. No, it's not a question. And
15:37
Speaker 3: you go back to, and even though I say throw
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Speaker 3: out the regular season, it's not about throwing out the
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Speaker 3: regular season. It's about throwing out the confidence. You can't
15:44
Speaker 3: throw out the confidence. This team literally thinks they can
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Speaker 3: beat anybody. And I don't think any team can beat
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Speaker 3: them right now. Like that. I think that's a fact.
15:54
Speaker 3: I don't think I'm speaking out of school here. They
15:56
Speaker 3: are playing better defense than virtually any team. Their bullpen,
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Speaker 3: once you get to the fifth or sixth inning, it's over.
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Speaker 3: You're playing 15 outs. Scott, you're playing a 15-out game.
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Speaker 3: We used to talk about playing a 25-out game or
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Speaker 3: a 22-out game. Now we're talking about if you get
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Speaker 3: into fifth inning, that's 15 outs, and then they're going
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Speaker 3: to their bullpen. It's over. You're done. You're cooked.
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Speaker 2: Hey, the Brewers had a better overall regular season. The
16:23
Speaker 2: Padres had just as good of a second half as Milwaukee.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know the exact records, but close enough.
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Speaker 2: If you eye test it and you watch games every
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Speaker 2: night like we do, Padres look just as good, if
16:32
Speaker 2: not better, than Milwaukee's second half. So point is, that
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Speaker 2: series is going to be ridiculous. And then we're going
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Speaker 2: But first, in the NL wildcard matchup here, the Phillies
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Speaker 2: force a game three with Atlanta. And that was a
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Speaker 2: great game.
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Speaker 1: Great game. Full of flubs.
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Speaker 2: going to get a little special reward but let's start
17:28
Speaker 2: with harper right i mean this is the one of
17:30
Speaker 2: the faces of the sport for a long time and
17:33
Speaker 2: he misses a fly ball that you know what had
17:35
Speaker 2: me thinking about if the phillies end up getting bounced
17:38
Speaker 2: in this series i know it was a bigger stage
17:39
Speaker 2: back then but remember when judge dropped the fly ball
17:42
Speaker 2: a couple years ago in the world series.
17:43
Speaker 3: In centerfield yeah i was there for that.
17:45
Speaker 2: Here Former big league outfielder right here. Like, tell me
17:49
Speaker 2: what happened. And do you feel your heart drop when
17:52
Speaker 2: you watch that?
17:54
Speaker 3: So I'll go back to Aaron judges one for a second.
17:58
Speaker 3: Like that one had a little bit of English on it.
18:00
Speaker 3: It was knuckling on him. He took his eyes off it.
18:02
Speaker 3: So like, I kind of, I felt like that, like
18:04
Speaker 3: I felt for him because that's happened to me before
18:08
Speaker 3: the play in right field for, for Bryce Harper. I'll
18:10
Speaker 3: break this one down for you. Pretty easy. So Bryce,
18:13
Speaker 3: When it comes to an outfielder, and you've got to remember,
18:16
Speaker 3: Bryce Harper was a right fielder. Then he had the
18:19
Speaker 3: internal brace surgery, so then he came to first base.
18:22
Speaker 3: And then once Don Mattingly got the trade for Luis Rize,
18:25
Speaker 3: he moved Rize to second, Stott to third. He moved
18:29
Speaker 3: Boehm over to first, which is a much bigger shaped body,
18:32
Speaker 3: so a much better first baseman than Bryce Harper, even
18:34
Speaker 3: though Bryce Harper made himself a pretty good first baseman.
18:37
Speaker 3: So now you've got Bryce Harper back in the outfield.
18:39
Speaker 3: And so an outfielder relies on three things, three things.
18:43
Speaker 3: So number one is we're looking for ball in zone.
18:46
Speaker 3: And so once we're looking in ball in zone, we're
18:48
Speaker 3: looking for the swing. So you got a left-handed hitter
18:50
Speaker 3: in Drake Baldwin. And it's hard to pick up the
18:54
Speaker 3: ball whenever you have an opposite hand hitter. So if
18:57
Speaker 3: there's a left-handed hitter and I'm in right field, it's
18:59
Speaker 3: hard to see in the zone. So it's a little
19:01
Speaker 3: hard to see the ball off the bat. Number two
19:02
Speaker 3: is you're listening to the sound. So I could tell
19:05
Speaker 3: by the sound of the bat, like if it's good,
19:07
Speaker 3: like pop. I know that that ball is hit well.
19:10
Speaker 3: If I hear like a, I know it's off the
19:12
Speaker 3: end of the bat so I can come in. So
19:14
Speaker 3: we really rely on our audible. And then the other
19:17
Speaker 3: part is our movement. So we, you know, when a
19:19
Speaker 3: right-handed hitter is, or a left-handed hitter is hitting and
19:23
Speaker 3: I'm in left field or right field, I'm going to
19:25
Speaker 3: move towards the line. So wherever, whichever direction the line is,
19:28
Speaker 3: that's where the glove side is going to be. The
19:30
Speaker 3: problem that you have on this play specifically is it hit,
19:33
Speaker 3: it's hit right at them. So number one, I hate
19:36
Speaker 3: to be honest, like, I can't stand these games starting
19:39
Speaker 3: at two o'clock because shadows do become a problem. So
19:44
Speaker 3: shadows are a problem. If you go back and you
19:46
Speaker 3: watch it, like he's somewhat in the shadows. It's a
19:48
Speaker 3: little bit harder to see at that twilight time. You
19:50
Speaker 3: don't hear the ball off the bat because the crowd
19:52
Speaker 3: is loud. So those first two things I mentioned, as
19:56
Speaker 3: far as like being an outfielder and hearing the and
19:58
Speaker 3: seeing what you need to see to make a decision,
20:01
Speaker 3: those are gone. He didn't have those. And then the
20:04
Speaker 3: second he goes back and it was hit a little
20:06
Speaker 3: bit harder than he thought over his head, yeah, he
20:09
Speaker 3: wanted to crawl into a hole. And what was really cool, Scott,
20:14
Speaker 3: hearing him talk about it post-game, about how he was
20:17
Speaker 3: able to just kind of let that thing go because
20:19
Speaker 3: he's played in so many big games since he was
20:21
Speaker 3: 10 years old, and he didn't really feel the pressure.
20:23
Speaker 3: He was like, man, I knew the next thing I
20:26
Speaker 3: had to do is take a quality at bat. which
20:28
Speaker 3: he did in the eighth inning when him and Schwarber
20:30
Speaker 3: went back-to-back. That play happens. There's a reason why it
20:35
Speaker 3: says runs, hits, errors. Errors happen. They happen all the time.
20:39
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's variables of what's going on in the game environment.
20:44
Speaker 3: I don't blame him for missing this one. It was
20:46
Speaker 3: pretty much a catch he should have made 99 out
20:49
Speaker 3: of 100 times, but in those specific instances, I presented
20:53
Speaker 3: to you why it's possible that he missed it. Overall,
20:58
Speaker 3: This was a great series. It was a great series.
21:00
Speaker 3: I just think it's crazy. And maybe you agree or disagree.
21:04
Speaker 3: I can't stand thinking that we have to have our
21:08
Speaker 3: network television. And I get it. They pay the big bucks.
21:11
Speaker 3: But why do you have to have a window when
21:13
Speaker 3: these teams don't play during this time frame? These should
21:15
Speaker 3: be 6 o'clock starts.
21:19
Speaker 1: Well, I could debate that with you all day. I
21:21
Speaker 1: know people are pissed, but you can't have all the
21:23
Speaker 1: games on at the same time. It's just what pays
21:25
Speaker 1: the bills.
21:26
Speaker 2: Now you could say, Hey, they should play a little
21:27
Speaker 2: bit later. Well, that's, that's 60 billion teams. This is
21:33
Speaker 2: a little bit smaller. I get what you're saying. And
21:35
Speaker 2: I can have that debate with you all day. I'm
21:38
Speaker 2: just saying like the variables are having inside. I understand
21:42
Speaker 2: the business side as well as you do.
21:44
Speaker 3: I'm just saying like from a, If an organization is
21:47
Speaker 3: playing games where there's going to be shadows and a
21:50
Speaker 3: chance to impact the game, that knocks out one of
21:54
Speaker 3: these postseason teams very well. Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia Phillies
21:58
Speaker 3: built their teams to win a World Series. that they
22:00
Speaker 3: could be knocked out because of the variables of starting
22:03
Speaker 3: a game because you're worried about network television. That's all
22:05
Speaker 3: I'm saying. Like that's crazy. I understand.
22:07
Speaker 2: But, but they also, they're both dealing with it. And
22:09
Speaker 2: also now they're going to have a game three for
22:11
Speaker 2: all the marbles and that's going to be at night.
22:13
Speaker 3: At what time?
22:13
Speaker 2: All the scenarios thrown out. That one is at, I
22:16
Speaker 2: believe 8 PM Eastern. Someone behind the scenes that's watching
22:19
Speaker 2: right now can check me on that one, but it's
22:20
Speaker 2: the only game three that we've got going on.
22:22
Speaker 1: So now you'll have that lined up. Here's the problem though. Okay.
22:25
Speaker 2: So first off, both teams have interesting bullpen storylines. The
22:31
Speaker 2: brave bullpen this season has been much better than Philly's bullpen.
22:34
Speaker 2: Philly's bullpen was like, who the heck am I trusting
22:36
Speaker 2: down the stretch? But this is where things get interesting
22:39
Speaker 2: in the playoffs. All of a sudden in game two here,
22:42
Speaker 2: first of all, in game one, it was, it was
22:43
Speaker 2: Philly's bullpen. And that's been a problem right in the
22:46
Speaker 2: past few post seasons for them. And then you're looking,
22:48
Speaker 2: you're like, Oh, see brave bullpen world's better than Philly's bullpen.
22:51
Speaker 3: Okay.
22:51
Speaker 2: Now fast forward game two, all of a sudden, Oh,
22:54
Speaker 2: here comes Andrew Painter with the good stuff. He was
22:56
Speaker 2: demoted earlier this year, came back much better, and he's
23:00
Speaker 2: shoving for multiple innings. He claims he can pitch in
23:02
Speaker 2: game three too, right? So you've got that side of
23:05
Speaker 2: the equation. Other side of the equation, Brace fans are pissed.
23:08
Speaker 2: They were talking about this on Hammer Territory.
23:10
Speaker 1: They're using the same three guys back-to-back days. That's fine.
23:13
Speaker 2: That does put you in a little bit of an
23:14
Speaker 2: interesting spot. Do those guys have their best stuff in
23:16
Speaker 2: game three? And Dylan Lee had a poor second half,
23:20
Speaker 2: has reverse splits, and he's the guy that gives up
23:22
Speaker 2: both home runs in this one.
23:23
Speaker 1: So.
23:24
Speaker 2: You start to get the question marks from Braves country,
23:27
Speaker 2: and they're used to a lot of winning. So any
23:29
Speaker 2: criticism there with how things were deployed and how it's
23:32
Speaker 2: going to line up for game three?
23:34
Speaker 1: Was Lee the guy there?
23:35
Speaker 2: And then how do you do this in game three
23:37
Speaker 2: when you've used Fuentes and Lee and Iglesias in both games?
23:41
Speaker 3: Yeah, so... Okay, so go back to Network TV. I'm
23:46
Speaker 3: going to let this one go. I really like this broadcast.
23:49
Speaker 3: I like all the broadcaster in this wild card because
23:51
Speaker 3: you have an analyst from both teams. So CJ Nikowski
23:54
Speaker 3: and you have John Kruk along with Matt Vaskirjian. And
23:57
Speaker 3: I love how we've had like Steve Stone and then
24:00
Speaker 3: it was Jeff Blum with the White Sox. So I
24:02
Speaker 3: love that you have both analysts that have been watching
24:05
Speaker 3: these teams year round. And what CJ said during this
24:09
Speaker 3: time frame with Dylan Lee was, hold on a second,
24:12
Speaker 3: Phillies have had Dylan Lee's number. So he openly questioned
24:16
Speaker 3: on air during that move. So it's not just fans
24:20
Speaker 3: going like, hey, what the heck? You're talking about the
24:22
Speaker 3: Atlanta Braves color analysts that watched every single game of
24:26
Speaker 3: the Braves going like, this is a little spot right
24:30
Speaker 3: here where Dylan, as good as he is, I mean,
24:32
Speaker 3: like he's unbelievable. He's got a great curveball. huge vert,
24:36
Speaker 3: got a great slider too. Um, but for whatever reason,
24:40
Speaker 3: like the Phillies have his number, they, they have like it,
24:43
Speaker 3: they have good stats on them over the course of
24:45
Speaker 3: the season. He had an outing where I don't even
24:47
Speaker 3: think he was able to record enough out to get
24:50
Speaker 3: out of the inning. So I think it's fair to
24:52
Speaker 3: second guess Walt right here. Um, I also think when it,
24:55
Speaker 3: when you look at Walt Weiss, cause at the end
24:57
Speaker 3: of this year, he's going to get votes for national
25:00
Speaker 3: league manager of the year. And part of the reason
25:03
Speaker 3: why is he dealt with as many injuries, significant injuries
25:06
Speaker 3: as any team in baseball. And the biggest thing he
25:10
Speaker 3: did in his first year was really manage the bullpen.
25:13
Speaker 3: And he did a fantastic job. Now that one of
25:15
Speaker 3: the huge reasons why he was able to do such
25:17
Speaker 3: a good job, especially early on was he had Robert Suarez.
25:21
Speaker 3: Robert Suarez is like an unbelievable wild card to have.
25:25
Speaker 3: He was his high leverage guy. I don't think Suarez
25:28
Speaker 3: was a hundred percent feeling great. So it's fair to
25:32
Speaker 3: second guess right here why Dylan Lee was there, but
25:34
Speaker 3: that's also one of his best relievers year-round, except that
25:37
Speaker 3: the Phillies have had his number. So I didn't mind this.
25:40
Speaker 3: I didn't mind it, but I also, you know, it's
25:43
Speaker 3: easy after the fact to second guess. It's just how
25:45
Speaker 3: it works. But at the end of the day, like, Phillies,
25:49
Speaker 3: the at-bats they put, you know, with the back-to-back homers
25:54
Speaker 3: and then Alec Boehm later on, I know we're going
25:56
Speaker 3: to get to him, these are just great at-bats. Great
25:59
Speaker 3: at bat. So like you can't just find an excuse
26:01
Speaker 3: every single time your team doesn't win. Sometimes the other
26:05
Speaker 3: team has really good big leaguers and they actually execute it.
26:09
Speaker 3: So like we can we can go this time and
26:12
Speaker 3: time again. If Dylan Lee would have got the outs,
26:13
Speaker 3: he'd be like, what a great move. He doesn't get
26:16
Speaker 3: the outs. Now that's a terrible move. So it's whatever
26:19
Speaker 3: you want. It's depending on what fan base you are
26:22
Speaker 3: cheering for.
26:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we're doing this right now at 1.33 a.m.
26:27
Speaker 2: East Coast time, right? Where the Phillies and Braves are
26:31
Speaker 2: hopefully sleeping and getting ready for their Game 3 matchup
26:34
Speaker 2: on Thursday night. As of now, we had not seen
26:38
Speaker 2: what the starting pitching matchup is going to be, but
26:41
Speaker 2: I can tell you this.
26:42
Speaker 1: If you're a Braves fan.
26:44
Speaker 3: You're nervous.
26:45
Speaker 1: Zach Wheeler on short rest.
26:47
Speaker 2: Nola is going to be available on regular rest to
26:50
Speaker 2: be a part of this, right? And Duran should be
26:54
Speaker 2: involved here as well. Painter really saved the bullpen here.
26:57
Speaker 2: And if the Phillies do advance, they're going to have
26:59
Speaker 2: to get very crafty with how they do things going
27:01
Speaker 2: forward because the circle of trust in their bullpen is
27:04
Speaker 2: not high right now. But Zach Wheeler on short rest,
27:08
Speaker 2: getting late in his career, but still looking like he's
27:10
Speaker 2: in his prime. That's a scary, scary task for, again,
27:14
Speaker 2: I'm going to talk about a Braves fan base that
27:16
Speaker 2: has been kicking and screaming and yelling for more starting pitching.
27:20
Speaker 2: Now I know you can't predict the, strider and swallenbach
27:23
Speaker 2: and and a number of other youngsters going down right
27:26
Speaker 2: all in the same year but in the offseason they
27:28
Speaker 2: kind of promised they were going to get someone they
27:29
Speaker 2: didn't really come through then at the trade deadline tyler
27:32
Speaker 2: malley has been everything and more he's been one of
27:34
Speaker 2: the best pickups at the trade deadline but most braves
27:36
Speaker 2: fans and just even me i would say i was
27:39
Speaker 2: expecting two here spilly and they got one well guess
27:43
Speaker 2: what now we're in a game three and brave fans
27:45
Speaker 2: are like so.
27:47
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah strap it on by the way you're Did you,
27:50
Speaker 3: so did you hear the story today, Scott, when it
27:52
Speaker 3: came to Tyler Mallee, he was in the bullpen and
27:54
Speaker 3: felt like a tweak in his oblique, uh, and still
27:57
Speaker 3: went out and they were actually considering not even letting
27:59
Speaker 3: him pitch today. Uh, and he goes out and he
28:02
Speaker 3: shoves for what? Seven innings. That's a dude that, and
28:06
Speaker 3: by the.
28:07
Speaker 1: Way, by the way, bad news, they would have had
28:09
Speaker 1: another bullpen game.
28:11
Speaker 3: They would have been, it would have been a disaster. Uh,
28:14
Speaker 3: and by the way, Tyler Mallee, when I started thinking about,
28:16
Speaker 3: you know, the acquisitions during, uh, trade deadline, Tyler Malley
28:21
Speaker 3: was probably the best one. His numbers are actually better
28:24
Speaker 3: than Tarek Scooble's. So it's like, you know, you think
28:28
Speaker 3: about what the Braves did and Alex Anthopoulos, and maybe
28:31
Speaker 3: he's shrewd. Maybe he didn't go out and get enough
28:33
Speaker 3: starters like he wanted, but his moves have always been,
28:36
Speaker 3: I mean, come on. The Braves are the Braves, and
28:41
Speaker 3: Alex Anthopoulos makes moves that make sense. Yeah, seven innings,
28:45
Speaker 3: one run, six punch-outs, and he had a little tweak
28:48
Speaker 3: in his in his body before the start. He almost
28:52
Speaker 3: didn't make the start. He gutted it. That's what gutting
28:55
Speaker 3: a start looks like in the postseason. That's awesome. We
28:58
Speaker 3: need to make a Tyler Malley shirt.
29:01
Speaker 1: I'm with you.
29:02
Speaker 2: And they nailed it on that one, right? Because when
29:04
Speaker 2: they acquired Malley, you're like, cool, that's the back-end starter.
29:07
Speaker 2: What's the front-end starter? That was the front-end starter. And really,
29:10
Speaker 2: then you just look and you're like, they still needed
29:12
Speaker 2: another playoff arm, even if Malley is pitching like a two,
29:15
Speaker 2: which is what he's doing in the second half. And
29:17
Speaker 2: here in the postseason. So yeah, I'm a fan too.
29:20
Speaker 2: I've been a fan for a long time of Anthopolis.
29:22
Speaker 2: I think sometimes when a team sets such a high standard,
29:25
Speaker 2: you get really critical and that's fair.
29:27
Speaker 1: We're going to get to see this though in game three.
29:29
Speaker 2: And maybe the bullpen for the Braves is strung together
29:33
Speaker 2: here for a bullpen game. The problem is the Phillies
29:35
Speaker 2: don't have to play that game. They don't have to
29:37
Speaker 2: play a bullpen game. That's the one thing that they've
29:39
Speaker 2: been able to create is Christopher Sanchez and Zach Wheeler,
29:43
Speaker 2: in this case here, and Jesus Lizardo, right, who came
29:46
Speaker 2: back and gave them enough. So I want to get.
29:50
Speaker 1: To Boehm in a moment.
29:52
Speaker 2: So first of all, MLB on Fox, streaming on Fox
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30:01
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30:08
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30:14
Speaker 2: are shows that are out already. Hammer Territory and The
30:17
Speaker 2: Philly Show to cover everything you need to know about
30:20
Speaker 2: this game three beyond what we just did for the
30:22
Speaker 2: last 10, 12 minutes. And so there's Philly's. hammer on
30:26
Speaker 2: the other side they've actually been doing two shows a
30:28
Speaker 2: day they do post game and then they also do
30:30
Speaker 2: a preview so the post game came out literally right
30:33
Speaker 2: after um that game too and then they've got the
30:36
Speaker 2: preview as well um okay i want to get to
30:38
Speaker 2: the player of the game here so let's do that
30:42
Speaker 2: shall we all right mlb nine innings 26 helping us
30:47
Speaker 2: with the player of the game and that is alec
30:50
Speaker 2: boom alec boom dude has had a year a year
30:54
Speaker 2: a lot of lows.
30:55
Speaker 1: And off-field turbulence, you can read it. It's public.
31:00
Speaker 2: There's good articles in The Athletic about Boehm going through
31:03
Speaker 2: a lawsuit that eventually got settled outside of court with
31:07
Speaker 2: his family and his parents specifically.
31:09
Speaker 1: So you can read about that. I'm not going to
31:11
Speaker 1: spend much time there right now, but it's real. It's
31:13
Speaker 1: out there.
31:13
Speaker 2: That's a distraction among the most that you can really
31:16
Speaker 2: put against a player to have to deal with that
31:18
Speaker 2: for your family. How about the distraction even within the
31:21
Speaker 2: game here, Spilly? You talked about Harper making a mistake.
31:24
Speaker 2: I mean, he had a tough... uh, ground ball that
31:27
Speaker 2: didn't go his way.
31:28
Speaker 3: Right.
31:28
Speaker 2: In terms of, uh, creating a little extra offense for Atlanta.
31:32
Speaker 2: And eventually you can change all of that when you
31:36
Speaker 2: focus on a quality AB. And that's what he was
31:38
Speaker 2: able to do to put a home run into the
31:41
Speaker 2: seats and help give the Phillies a little life.
31:44
Speaker 3: He's a, he's an interesting story for me because there,
31:48
Speaker 3: there's a couple of things. I've been from the outside
31:50
Speaker 3: looking at Alec Boehm, Um, I mean, he's a world
31:53
Speaker 3: of talent, right? He's, he's a six foot five, you know,
31:56
Speaker 3: defender who's maybe not a great defensive third baseman. And I,
32:01
Speaker 3: and I think like there's been times where people wanted
32:03
Speaker 3: him to be more, uh, maybe like a Troy gloss type,
32:06
Speaker 3: you know, hit 30 homers, but that's not him. Um,
32:09
Speaker 3: and then once he moved to first and I, I
32:11
Speaker 3: understand like, yeah, he had a defensive miscue, but he
32:13
Speaker 3: also had an unbelievable double play. And he has found
32:17
Speaker 3: a home at first base. It's also made the Phillies'
32:19
Speaker 3: defense a lot better. This Phillies' defense was not elite,
32:22
Speaker 3: especially with Trey Turner at short. And so having Stott
32:26
Speaker 3: or this combination of Stott up the middle, because he's
32:28
Speaker 3: an elite defender at second, and then having Sosa or
32:34
Speaker 3: whoever they're going to put at third, usually it's Stott
32:36
Speaker 3: if they had a rise. But having Boehm at first,
32:39
Speaker 3: because he's such a large target, if you look at
32:41
Speaker 3: some of the infield defensive metrics, they immediately improved. They
32:46
Speaker 3: got a lot better and knowing, you know, boom, like again,
32:50
Speaker 3: like watching him from afar, he was kind of one
32:52
Speaker 3: of those snappers. So like Pete Crow Armstrong early in
32:55
Speaker 3: his career as a snapper, he used to throw his
32:56
Speaker 3: helmet a punch. Um, boom has gotten better and better
32:59
Speaker 3: about that. I think he's handling his emotions and then
33:01
Speaker 3: he made a small site, you know, swing adjustment, just
33:04
Speaker 3: adjusted where his bat was. So it was a little
33:06
Speaker 3: bit more flat, uh, got it in the zone a
33:08
Speaker 3: little bit better. And then you started seeing some of
33:10
Speaker 3: the power numbers because the first half was awful. Him
33:13
Speaker 3: and Stott had an awful first half. And I can't
33:15
Speaker 3: imagine playing baseball, dealing with a lawsuit with my parents.
33:21
Speaker 3: There's things that players deal with. This is on a
33:24
Speaker 3: whole new level that I can't imagine coming into the
33:26
Speaker 3: field and feeling like I could compete with my perfect focus.
33:30
Speaker 3: That's impossible. I don't think anybody could do that in
33:33
Speaker 3: any line of work. let alone baseball, and you're trying
33:36
Speaker 3: to hit a ball that's coming at you in less
33:38
Speaker 3: than three-tenths of a second. So I give a lot
33:40
Speaker 3: of props. I feel like I've seen Alec Boehm grow
33:44
Speaker 3: up a lot this year. He's actually turned into a
33:47
Speaker 3: player where, you know, if he comes up at the
33:49
Speaker 3: plate at any time, I'm like, oh, he's going to
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Speaker 3: do something. And to see him get this home run, like,
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Speaker 3: it may not mean a lot in the grand scheme
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Speaker 3: of things, but to your point of, like, just thinking
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Speaker 3: about the entire season in totality, and what this guy's
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Speaker 3: gone through. Like, I felt like that was a nice
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Speaker 3: human moment. Like I celebrated that with him. I was like,
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Speaker 3: hell yeah, dude. Like I was cheering for him when
34:12
Speaker 3: he was rounding the bases. I was like, that's gotta
34:14
Speaker 3: feel so good to round the bases, you know, on
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Speaker 3: an elimination game and put the Phillies to one more,
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Speaker 3: especially given the fact that, you know, Phillies fans have been,
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Speaker 3: you know, on this rollercoaster with them. They love them.
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Speaker 3: They hate them. They hate them again. Then they love
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Speaker 3: them again. Um, it just, it's nice for even, you know,
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Speaker 3: I'm not a big Phillies fan. I'm not a big
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Speaker 3: outside of, you know, my normal sphere of influence or
34:39
Speaker 3: my bubble of teams that I root for, but I
34:42
Speaker 3: root for Alec Boehm. I found myself openly rooting for him.
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Speaker 3: I was like, hell yeah, dude, do it. Like, that's awesome.
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Speaker 3: Like that, that's you, you can, you can appreciate that.
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Speaker 3: Can't you? Like as any fan, even if you're not
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Speaker 3: a Phillies fan, like you can appreciate the human aspect
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Speaker 3: of it where you're like, good for him, right? Like,
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Speaker 3: even if you didn't like the guy, you're like, good
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Speaker 3: for that guy. He deserved that.
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Speaker 2: And what he did, so post-game, he said he was
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Speaker 2: trying to pull that ball, right? So there's two hits
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Speaker 2: for Boehm in this series with elevated fastballs. Chris Sale
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Speaker 2: does not give up hits on fastballs above the zone.
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Speaker 2: There was one other knock the entire year, a single
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Speaker 2: from Bobby Witt on opening day. And Boehm had that
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Speaker 2: in the first inning to get the Phillies on the board.
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Speaker 2: In a game they eventually lost, but they actually had
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Speaker 2: a chance, right? They were in control of that one
35:28
Speaker 2: until the Riley Homer off duran you tip your cap
35:31
Speaker 2: okay now game two didier fuentes throws freaking hard right
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Speaker 2: that one was i don't know what the velo number
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Speaker 2: was but elevated fastball again here's boom who said he
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Speaker 2: was trying to pull it he had one home run
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Speaker 2: to um right field out of his 15 in the
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Speaker 2: regular season like that's not where his baseballs go and
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Speaker 2: yet that's where the baseball lands like the beauty of
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Speaker 2: the sport when he does that.
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Speaker 3: I've had, I've had that happen to me a bunch
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Speaker 3: of times where I'm trying to pull a fastball and
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Speaker 3: then I, I hit like an off-speed pitch opposite field
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Speaker 3: and I thought I got the fastball. It's just, that's
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Speaker 3: my swing path. Like I, I never got the bat,
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Speaker 3: bat head out. Like I was more deflecting it. So, um,
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Speaker 3: I went, when he said that, I was like, oh,
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Speaker 3: I know exactly what that feels like. It's not that
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Speaker 3: we have a slow pull. We don't have a slow pull.
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Speaker 3: Like our, my bat speed isn't slow. It's just I
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Speaker 3: let the ball travel. So when I'm trying to pull it,
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Speaker 3: I might have moved it up like a half an inch,
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Speaker 3: which is the difference between catching 98-99 and hitting it
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Speaker 3: fair for a homer or fouling it off to a
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Speaker 3: Braves fan. So yeah, mentally he was trying to pull
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Speaker 3: the baseball, but the swing path was still the same. Incredible.
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Speaker 2: And it creates a game three. So props to Boehm.
36:47
Speaker 2: Philly stay alive. Going to be an awesome game three.
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Speaker 2: It's the only game three that we get here, but
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Speaker 2: we'll appreciate it. They will get their prime time affair
36:54
Speaker 2: now in Atlanta. You earn that division crown. You get
36:57
Speaker 2: the home games. This is the game now. Well, we'll
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Speaker 2: see what happens. Looks like a 50-50 game if Wheeler's
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Speaker 2: pitching in that one to me. At the least, right?
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Speaker 2: If the Braves have some edges in some of the categories,
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Speaker 2: the Phillies should definitely have the edge.
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Speaker 1: In the starting pitching category. We'll be all over it.
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Speaker 2: We got two hours of FT live one to three Eastern.
37:17
Speaker 2: So look forward to that. Also just to put a
37:19
Speaker 2: cap on this player, the game segment, shout out to
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Speaker 2: MLB nine innings, 2026 game changing swings, momentum, shifting pitches.
37:27
Speaker 2: You've got trout at the plate. Kershaw's in the game
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Speaker 2: on the mound, right? I also has been doing a
37:31
Speaker 2: nice job on the TV broadcast tonight. New general ballers.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: He's been great experience. Perfect contact and clutch moments.
37:39
Speaker 2: Like never before in MLB nine innings, 26, uh, phone
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Speaker 2: app store, wherever you've got it, download MLB nine innings, 26,
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Speaker 2: the game's free and that's going to do it for us.
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Speaker 1: So Spilly was awesome.
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Speaker 2: And then we'll see everyone on FT live on Thursday
37:54
Speaker 2: afternoon with Kratz and Perzinski.