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Bryce Harper’s Phillies REDEMPTION, Padres SWEEP Cubs, Yankees EMBARRASS Red Sox, White Sox MOVE ON · Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered

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  Speaker 2: Day two of the wild card round, and it did
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  Speaker 2: not disappoint Rossi. The Phillies survived a thriller 4-3. The
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  Speaker 2: White Sox put up 7 and win 7-3. The Yankees
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  Speaker 2: bats continued their dominance in their pitching, winning 9-2. And
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  Speaker 2: for your questions. We love answering them. Rossi, I just
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  Speaker 2: got done watching you on Sunday night. Baseball tonight. Baseball tonight.
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  Speaker 2: You look good, man, on TV.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, buddy. Thanks. I clean up. They can polish a turd.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the saying, right? Yeah, man, it's fun.
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  Speaker 1: We're watching a lot of baseball. And, I mean, let's
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  Speaker 1: get right into it. I'm glad the Phillies Braves series
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  Speaker 1: is going to Game 3 because that's been the best series.
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  Speaker 1: It's back and forth. Dominant starters two nights in a
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  Speaker 1: row with bullpen drama. Back and forth. Big homers, Schwarber, Harper. Like,
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  Speaker 1: let's freaking go. Good at bats, man. What a great
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  Speaker 1: series this has been.
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  Speaker 2: You're right. And these two teams, the Braves have dominated
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  Speaker 2: them Over the course of the season. But the Phillies
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  Speaker 2: have beat them the last two times. In the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: And now they're going to an elimination game. Where it
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  Speaker 2: looked like the Braves were set up to win today.
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  Speaker 2: And then boom. Right?
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  Speaker 1: Like.
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  Speaker 2: Bryce Harper man. I want to get right into that.
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  Speaker 2: He drops a fly ball. The Braves take the lead.
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  Speaker 2: And Bryce is the heart and beat of Philly.
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 2: He signs the big deal. He just talks about ingraining
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  Speaker 2: the Philly culture. The blue collar. How much he loves it.
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  Speaker 1: And.
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  Speaker 2: He hasn't really had too many down moments there as
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  Speaker 2: far as making plays like that. And he comes back
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  Speaker 2: instantly and hits a home run. Him and Schwarber go
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  Speaker 2: back to back. But I love most about that is
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  Speaker 2: his post-game interview, right? He's talking about his son. He's saying,
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  Speaker 2: the reporter asked, hey, how did you get over that
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  Speaker 2: so quickly? He's like, man, I just thought about my son. Like,
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  Speaker 2: what would I say to him if he made a mistake?
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, holy shit, Bryce.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see that. I had no idea. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, to the credit, a true leader doing
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  Speaker 1: what's best for the team, superstar, highest-paid player, and he
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  Speaker 1: goes from first base, where he's been great, moving in
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  Speaker 1: from right field, going back so they can fit Louisa
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  Speaker 1: Rice in there and Alec Baum now moving over there,
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  Speaker 1: not trying to move too many guys around. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: misreads that ball. Like, it was a tough read. The
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  Speaker 1: ball's traveling like crazy in the day game in right field.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen it multiple times with homers. going out over there,
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  Speaker 1: just wall scrapers, the one from Alec Bohm here, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to put them ahead late. The one yesterday from Riley
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  Speaker 1: just carries to right center, just goes out. Like, I'm
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  Speaker 1: with you, man. He just had an up and down.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit of the base running stuff early on,
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  Speaker 1: getting the rundown, going on contact. A lot of people
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  Speaker 1: bash him on that. Like, I got no problem with that.
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  Speaker 1: But just the back and forth, getting the first RBI
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  Speaker 1: for them today, great, great game for him. And you love–
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  Speaker 1: when guys make mistakes, them staying positive. And I love
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  Speaker 1: his post-game interview. He was like, I can't tell you
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't trying to hit a home run in that moment.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to go back, bro. I needed redemption.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, bro, it's– and two, coming off Dylan Lee.
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  Speaker 2: Dylan Lee, for the Braves, has not given up a
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  Speaker 2: home run to any left-handed hitters all season long. And
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  Speaker 2: Schwarber and Harper go back-to-back. Back to back. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: if you're a Phillies fan, you need to just embrace
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  Speaker 2: this almost torture that you're going through. Our producer Chris
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  Speaker 2: Tran is like, it just seems like Phillies are making
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  Speaker 2: up ways to try to lose, but they're in it,
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  Speaker 2: and they have a chance to advance to the NLDS.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm excited for this game three tomorrow. It's on primetime.
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  Speaker 2: It's the only game that there is tomorrow, and they're
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  Speaker 2: going to be front and center of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, the thing I love, and I told
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  Speaker 1: you my pick was Brazen 2, and if it goes
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  Speaker 1: to 3, I think the Phillies got the edge, baby.
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  Speaker 1: And they got Aaron Nola on the mound tomorrow. He's
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  Speaker 1: been great.
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  Speaker 2: Since late July. I don't think it's been announced, has it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it will be by tomorrow because I know already.
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  Speaker 1: I'm playing manager.
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  Speaker 2: You're playing the prediction market.
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  Speaker 1: I'm playing the poly market right now. We're going Phillies,
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  Speaker 1: Nola on the mound. I wouldn't be shocked if Wheeler
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  Speaker 1: piggybacked him as little trust as they have in that bullpen,
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  Speaker 1: maybe on three days rest. I don't love the three
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  Speaker 1: days rest with Wheeler. Um, you know, the numbers haven't
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  Speaker 1: been great really since like Josh Beckett back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: I think went on short rest to help the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: win the world. The Marlins beat the Yankees to win
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  Speaker 1: a world series. But, um, yeah, it's crazy, man. My,
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  Speaker 1: the poly market, let me get this in the poly
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  Speaker 1: market prediction. It's Philly's 50% to the yes. A hundred
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  Speaker 1: dollars wins you 195. So you almost double your money
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  Speaker 1: and the Braves are 51% to the yes. A hundred
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  Speaker 1: gets you 189 and I am going Philly.
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  Speaker 2: Well, bro, how about the pitching matchup, right? Christopher Sanchez,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to be top three in Cy Young this year.
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  Speaker 1: He was nasty.
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  Speaker 2: Six and two-thirds, right? 116 pitches. Don Mattingly's riding him.
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  Speaker 2: And then Tyler Maley, seven innings pitch, one earned. His
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  Speaker 2: first career postseason start with the Braves. When he's coming over,
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  Speaker 2: getting traded to the Braves, Nine starts, he had under
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  Speaker 2: a two ERA. So the Braves unlocked something in him.
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  Speaker 2: He started throwing his split a lot more.
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  Speaker 1: That's where it was, yeah, that split.
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  Speaker 2: To go off that fastball that has ride. I remember
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  Speaker 2: facing him. That was a plus-plus fastball. So that was
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  Speaker 2: a great pitching matchup.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the split, he was nasty, to your point. Like,
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  Speaker 1: he threw that thing, I think, over 50% of the time. Like,
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  Speaker 1: he was filthy with that thing. You saw. I felt
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  Speaker 1: like they knew it was coming. You don't make Kyle
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  Speaker 1: Schwarber look that.
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  Speaker 2: Bad in that many events. That's exactly right. It looked like...
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  Speaker 2: Schwarber was almost swinging at left-handed sliders, right? And I
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  Speaker 2: was like, oh, my God. You don't see Schwarber swing
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  Speaker 2: like that, like, knowing Kyle. So I'm pumped, man. Look,
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  Speaker 2: I think the Braves are a deep team. They have
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  Speaker 2: to get through the Phillies, and I think they can
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  Speaker 2: go deep. But it's hard for me not to root
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  Speaker 2: for our boy, Schwarbs, right? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We root for friends of the program.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. You know, another just awesome thing is Andrew Painter.
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  Speaker 2: You know, huge prospect. He gets Tommy John a few
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  Speaker 2: years ago, derails his big league debut, was not very good,
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  Speaker 2: horrible in parts of this year. He was sent down, right?
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  Speaker 2: Came back up, kind of settled, and he was sent
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  Speaker 2: down with a first-half ERA of over 7. And he
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  Speaker 2: comes back in the second half, the mid-3s, and then
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  Speaker 2: delivers three massive innings. As a rookie, bro, in that environment, like,
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  Speaker 2: that's just another– example of October baseball where you just
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  Speaker 2: get the refresh button.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly what I was going to say. The fact
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  Speaker 1: when you get a refresh, just a clean slate, the
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  Speaker 1: season's over with, all that matters in the postseason is
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  Speaker 1: getting outs, having good at-bats, getting big hits, moving around.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody cares about their stats now. It's just about, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to go out and give our team a chance
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  Speaker 1: to win. And for a young guy to do that,
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  Speaker 1: I said on TV when Real Muto challenged that last
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  Speaker 1: pitch to end the game, I was like, You love
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  Speaker 1: to see a guy with the name Painter paint the
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  Speaker 1: last pitch on the inside corner. What a cheesy line
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  Speaker 1: that was.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great. I love it. It's good to be cheesy. But, bro,
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  Speaker 2: these games, I was talking about this today. I was
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  Speaker 2: on the game, Yankees-Red Sox. I'm with Benetti, Joe Girardi,
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  Speaker 2: and Lou Maloney. And I'm just saying, these games, like,
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  Speaker 2: what a letdown the DS is, right? Because you just
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  Speaker 2: have these, like, must-win games. right out to shoot, and
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  Speaker 2: then you get to the DS thing, oh, there's five-game
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  Speaker 2: series now? Right. Because these games are just action-packed drama.
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  Speaker 2: So it's going to be fun.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get to the one that you call. Like, let's
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  Speaker 1: jump into the Yankees real quick because you guys were
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  Speaker 1: on that, man. Like, my takeaway, we had takeaways from
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  Speaker 1: the postseason today. And, you know, outside of the Cubbies-Bats
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  Speaker 1: being cold, that stood out to me a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: They've been so good all season. And a lot of
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  Speaker 1: credit goes to San Diego. The Yankees look so good.
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  Speaker 1: The Boston Red Sox load up their staff with all
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  Speaker 1: lefties because of the lefty Yankee hitters. And they dominated,
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  Speaker 1: dominated the Red Sox lefties. Left on left, I think
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  Speaker 1: they're like 8 for 11 in the series. Like, they
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  Speaker 1: put together at bats. Red Sox pitching couldn't put away
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  Speaker 1: the Yankee hitters. They hit like 333 yards. with two strikes.
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  Speaker 1: I think they were one of the worst in baseball
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  Speaker 1: during the regular season at that. Man, what a great
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  Speaker 1: series you got to call. The Yankees look great.
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  Speaker 2: They look really good. I said this on the broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: They hit 12 singles tonight. 12 singles, two homers. If
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  Speaker 2: the Yankees are going to hit singles in the postseason,
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  Speaker 2: they are going to win the World Series because it's
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  Speaker 2: a different dynamic that Yankees fans are used to. They're
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  Speaker 2: used to just all or nothing in the slug. And
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  Speaker 2: this is without Aaron Judge as well, the best player
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  Speaker 2: on the planet. So it was electric there in the Bronx.
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  Speaker 2: Sonny Gray and Max Freed came out, honestly, masterclass pitching.
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  Speaker 2: They were both just, their pitch sequencing was off the charts.
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  Speaker 2: Sonny Gray was dicing left and right. He was sinking it.
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  Speaker 2: He was cutting it. He was throwing the sweeper. And
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  Speaker 2: then Max Freed as well. And Max Freed, doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: the best postseason numbers. He's a World Series champion. He
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  Speaker 2: clinched that game-winning game for the Braves. He was on
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  Speaker 2: the mound. But that was good for him to get
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  Speaker 2: settled and into the rhythm. And the fact that they
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  Speaker 2: didn't have to pitch Garrett Cole now going into Tampa
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  Speaker 2: is going to be huge for them because they can
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  Speaker 2: go a combination of Garrett Cole, Carlos Rodon game one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and their bullpen is going to be fresh, right?
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  Speaker 1: They went to those guys today because they needed work,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, they're going to be fresh as well
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  Speaker 1: and they can line up. You talked about it yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: but the fact that they have the off days, you
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  Speaker 1: can go Cole, Cam, right?
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  Speaker 2: No doubt.
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  Speaker 1: To whoever you want to go with, you know, Rodon
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  Speaker 1: or go back to Max Freed. Like you got enough
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  Speaker 1: off days there where Cam's going to be, probably going
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  Speaker 1: to be the game two starter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, it's, I just love that Aaron Boone
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  Speaker 2: just today when Freed was in the sixth, He didn't
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  Speaker 2: have anyone up in the bullpen. He's like, look, our
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  Speaker 2: pitching's dominant. And he let his boys know. And everyone
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  Speaker 2: showed up. All nine guys in the lineup today had hits.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Cody Bellinger, what a cool moment. His dad
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  Speaker 2: throws out the first pitch, and then he goes and
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  Speaker 2: hits a three-run home run to put the game out
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  Speaker 2: of reach to make it 8-1. I mean, just so
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  Speaker 2: many good things happening there that if you're a Yankee fan,
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  Speaker 2: you are just– you beat the Red Sox two years
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  Speaker 2: in a row. Now you get to go play the Rays.
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  Speaker 2: who it's a division rival, so the familiarity is there.
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  Speaker 2: And it just feels like right now, I know it's
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  Speaker 2: only two games, but momentum and vibes are high in
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  Speaker 2: that group.
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  Speaker 1: High, vibes are high. That's a great line. Man, well,
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  Speaker 1: when they walked Rice, I mean, Belly already come up
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  Speaker 1: with a big hit RBI earlier in the game. But
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  Speaker 1: when they walked Ben Rice, which I totally agree with,
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  Speaker 1: I just knowing Belly and being around him, like it was–
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, this is not the guy you want to walk.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a contact bat. He loves that moment.
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  Speaker 1: He's putting the ball in play hard somewhere, and then
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  Speaker 1: he gets that big home run, that changeup from Whitlock,
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  Speaker 1: just big homer, and then game's out of reach. It
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  Speaker 1: may have already been. Like, it's weird in that game
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  Speaker 1: how dominant the Yankees were, and it was just 2-0,
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  Speaker 1: you know, 2-0 Yankees, you know, late in the ballgame
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  Speaker 1: both nights, and it felt like the Yankees were up
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  Speaker 1: six runs in the sixth.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's what I love about it. For them... And obviously,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a little more invested, right? I have really good
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  Speaker 2: friends on that team. Went to the World Series with
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  Speaker 2: them in 2024. We didn't finish the job. But what
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  Speaker 2: I love for them is they were in these tight,
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  Speaker 2: intense pitchers' duels early, and then they broke it open late.
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  Speaker 2: So they got a little bit of experience. The only
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  Speaker 2: thing they didn't experience in this series is getting punched
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  Speaker 2: in the face first, which is going to happen to
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  Speaker 2: them throughout the postseason at some point, and it's on
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  Speaker 2: them to respond. So I just loved... Everything about that series,
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  Speaker 2: from pitch one to the last out, and an underrated
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  Speaker 2: thing in that series is when Belly hits that home
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  Speaker 2: run to make it 8-1, Aaron Boone can bring in
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  Speaker 2: Will Warren. Will Warren's their fifth starter all year. They're
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  Speaker 2: planning on him getting big outs in high leverage situations
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  Speaker 2: deep in the playoffs. So he got to come in
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  Speaker 2: out of the bullpen late, right? They're going to get
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  Speaker 2: Weathers back, who's going to be another piece in that
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  Speaker 2: back end of the bullpen. And they get the rest
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  Speaker 2: of their guys, and to back in a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more and not have to use him as much going
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  Speaker 2: into this Rays series.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know, I don't want to hammer it
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  Speaker 1: too hard, but, like, when you go to the postseason,
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  Speaker 1: clean baseball is so important, right? Just fundamentally sound, hitting
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  Speaker 1: the cutoff man, like, you know, not making small mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: And when Garrett Crochet came in, I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: if he is dominant like he can be, the Red
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  Speaker 1: Sox may have a chance here, you know, keeping it
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  Speaker 1: close if he can have a clean inning. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: get an out, and it started with that wild pitch,
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  Speaker 1: went down, rushman blocks, it gets away from him a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, and then the throw to first, you know
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  Speaker 1: as a first baseman, like, he was at the back
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  Speaker 1: of the bag. If you're at the front of the
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  Speaker 1: bag and you're stretched, that's like a five-foot difference. You know, like,
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  Speaker 1: it's an easy out.
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  Speaker 2: No doubt.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: And, you know, Wilson not being able to get there,
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: he made a play earlier on, not to hammer on Wilson, but, like,
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: earlier on.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: He didn't get to the bag.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Story makes that amazing play. You gotta get to
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: the bag, and Former catcher, again, getting used to first
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: base in that last couple years. He's been good over there.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: But it's those little details and fundamental sound baseball that
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: pushes you over the edge and keeps you in ballgames.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: You can't have those mental mistakes happen in that type
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: of environment.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: No, I mean, every single play matters. And I was
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: thinking about it, too. How many times since switching over
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: to first or a new position do you think that's
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: happened to Wilson where it was a bang-bang play With
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: a drop third strike. You know what I mean?
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Maybe three or four times where it's bang, bang. So
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: him being a little late there, you saw it. It
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: changed the whole inning. And he just hit a home
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: run the inning before to give the Red Sox momentum.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: So they could have really– I mean, the whole game
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: is different because of that drop third strike. That was
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: a turning point. And Adley had never caught Crochet before,
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: so maybe he didn't know how nasty he was. I
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: know he faced him before. but there's different catching. Yeah.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: And then, and then after the game, you have kind
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: of Wilson and Sonny talking to the media and Sonny
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: gray thinking he should have stayed in the game and
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: questioning Chad Tracy, whether to take them out. And that's
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: a competitor of him, competitor in him. But that's, that's tough, man, to, uh,
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: to kind of show up your brand new manager who, who,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: help turn the entire year around.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: And yeah, it should win.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And they're getting crushed for, you know,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: kind of the analytical red socks and some of the,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: some of the stuff they did, but you know, it
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: comes down to, first of all, like after a loss,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: a season like that, and the season you guys had
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: fighting back, like it's, it's, it's a resilient group. Like,
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: you know, I got to give kudos to the red
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: socks and how they came back. But, you know, I
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: think the off season stuff is left for the off season.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Like nobody's in a good mood after you lose in
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: the post season. Like, It's hard to send negative vibes
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: out after all that and create a little bit of drama.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: It's not leadership. It's not winning vibes like you're talking about,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: and it's definitely a bad look.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: No doubt. New York now goes to Tampa, the best
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: team in the American League. I personally think that the
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Rays having this time off is going to hurt them,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: especially play-off play, the format of the American League D.S.,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: But that's going to be a must-watch. But like you said, Rossi,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: now what for the Red Sox? That's my question heading
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: into this offseason. They turned the season around. Before this,
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: there was a clear path for the Boston Red Sox.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: It was basically rebuild. The Red Sox have had one
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: foot in, kind of pretending like they're a big market
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: for the last number of years. They trade away offensively.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: a lot of their stars. They traded away Devers. I
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: know there's drama there. They traded away Mookie. Red Sox
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: fans are getting fed up with it. And at one
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: point this year, it was clear that they were going
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: to sell and they can go into a rebuild maybe
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: this year and next year. Now, it's like they almost
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: have that one foot in again, but not two feet
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: all the way in. Where Lou Merloni said it, this
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: team made the playoffs the last two years, but they
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: didn't play a home playoff game. So it doesn't even
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: feel real to these fans.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes a lot of sense. And, you know,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: I look at it and I said this earlier in
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: the season, but when you look at when they were struggling,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: you look at the Red Sox, you always think about
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: a big time slugger, right? Like, who is that guy?
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Wilson had a great year, but is he that guy
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: to be the aircraft carrier for them? Like, it feels
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: like they need like another big time bat, maybe a
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: right-handed bat, go out and get somebody, you know, even
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: a great player like Cattell Marte or like trade for
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: somebody like that. Just, just a real, you know, they
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: missed out on Pete Alonzo. They could have went and
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: got Pete Alonzo thinking about that. You know, they go
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: get Wilson who had a phenomenal year, but you, I
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: feel like the Red Sox, when you look at their history,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: like where's your David Ortiz? Where's your Manny Ramirez? Where's
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: that lad? big-time slugger in the middle of the order.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Even Rafi Devers, who was dominant for them, playing well.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: It feels like they're missing that one big bat. Because
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I think they've done a nice job there pitching. I
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: think that's Brez's kind of bread and butter. They've done
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: a nice job, crocheted back for an entire season. We
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: know he's going to be good. Sonny Gray, whether he
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: comes back or not, he's a free agent. They've got
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: some good young starters with Toley and Bennett. But, yeah,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: I'm with you. They've got to go out and make
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: a big move this offseason.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think a lot of their leadership stuff got
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: masked because they went on this massive run. I was
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: invested in the Red Sox this year because I got
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: to interview Chad Tracy a few times being there on
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Sunday Night Baseball. Everything he was saying, I was like, man,
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: I like this guy a lot. Baseball family, he grinded
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: in the minor leagues. He's now the manager of the
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Boston Red Sox gets thrown into an absolute shit situation
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: where they have to scramble for coaches. He said it.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: He's like, I had to go get six new staff members.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: You can't just monitor the coaching market. It's mid-season. Everyone's
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: locked up. So they brought guys in from Fort Myers, right?
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: They're minor league complex. And his message to his guys
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: is like, just give us a chance to these players, right?
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Because as a big leaguer, you bring a minor league,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: like rookie ball coaching, you're like, what the fuck is this, right?
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: You got to earn your stripes up here, right? Like
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: we all had to.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: But he did such a good job of turning around.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: But I just feel like there's so much kind of
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: bullshit that happened in Boston this year with guys showing
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: each other up. You had the Durant incident where he's
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: yelling at fans. Wilson's yelling at fans. Durant's showing up
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Wilson for not tagging. And they kind of just masked
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: everything because they were winning. And now that you don't win,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: this is when it all comes out under the hood.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and another point that we missed out on, like
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Roman Anthony and who we believe he's going to be,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: like that's my boy. I was around him at WBC.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Like he's an awesome dude. He competes his tail off,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: wants to be in the moment. And for him to
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: be hurt with that wrist injury and then not be
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: able to play today, like that's a big loss. That's
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: going to be a big loss. And he was that
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: left-handed bat in the middle of that order. So I
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: still believe they need to go out and get a bat.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: But I think, you know, looking at, we talked this through,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: they've got a chance, but to your point, like the
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: culture stuff has to, has to improve. And then maybe
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: that's an outfielders, an outsider's perspective.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Cause you know, we don't know what's going on.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah. They did come together and, and, and have that
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: turn around to your point. But you're right. It does
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: all that. Those comments at the end of the game,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: kind of tell a different story.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: No doubt. No doubt.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Let's get to the positive team in Chicago.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: The positive team in Chicago right now. The Chicago White
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Sox getting a letter from the Pope. Jerry Reinsdorf saying
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: he's going to convert to be a Catholic now. He's like,
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: how can you not? I'm a Jew. I'm a Jew.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: I'm a Jewish boy from Brooklyn. And the Pope's writing
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: me a letter for our team. I don't know if
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: you saw that, Rossi, but.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: That was awesome.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: I saw that. That was cool. I saw that. Bro,
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: they first playoff series win since 2005. It's a World
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Series rematch, first off. The 05 rematch, right?
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Right. Back when Houston was in the National League.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Both teams today, after opening with a bullpen game, never
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: seen it. First game of a playoff series bullpen game.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Come back with their aces, Hunter Brown and... Who was it?
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Sean Burke for the White Sox. Did you see Sean
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Burke's quote saying, like, this is all I got. I
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: don't have a family. I don't have a girl. All
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: I do is play baseball. Like, love that.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: I didn't see that. That's so good.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: That's so good.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: And Hunter Brown doesn't make it out of the first inning. Bro,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I had this stat. Like, the White Sox led all
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: of baseball with runs scored in the first three innings. Like,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: and it played out in the postseason. Like, they jumped
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: on the starters two nights in a row, and it
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: fell out of hand immediately. both nights Hunter Brown, who
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: I thought was, I thought he was going to deal today. Honestly,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: like I love that stuff. Yeah. And, and he, he
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: didn't get out of the first inning. Like that was just,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: you know, that was detrimental. And the Astros to their credit,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: they fought good at bats. I was really impressed. They
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: didn't give up really good at bats. A lot of
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: champions on that team. And, uh, they just weren't able
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: to pull it out.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Three solo home runs. Jose Altuve hitting another playoff home run. His, his,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Just storybook postseason, yeah.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: 28th home run. Buster Olney told me this. I got
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: to give him credit. He told me Jose Altuve was
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: one home run away from setting the all-time home run leader,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: being the home run leader in the postseason and passing
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Manny Ramirez. I was like, what?
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Who would have thought that?
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: He's played in a lot of postseason games. I mean, bro,
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: you know he's going to pass both of them with
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: The way he keeps doing it is Kyle Schwarber. I
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: think he hit his 23rd or 24th today. Let's go, Schwartz. Bro,
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: the experienced Astros, a lot of guys on that team
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: have a lot of playoff experience, just looked overmatched by
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: the White Sox. The White Sox deserve to move on, man.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: They are just, they're vibes, bro. Will Venable, congratulations. Chris Zanorfia,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: friends of the program.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Did you see Chase Mydraw's scream when he hit that
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: home run.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Bro, that's the definition of this team. The dugout erupting,
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: guys just pouring into each other. It's the best feeling
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: in the world as a baseball player when you have
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: this type of camaraderie with your guys. I mean, we
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: have a video of them celebrating after the game. You
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: gotta tell me, what are you feeling right now? It's cinema.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: 100! 100, not 1,000 this time? Yeah, 100! I'm Japanese!
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: It's early in Japan.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: They're celebrating with you.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Anything you want to say to them?
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Same, hi.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Same, same.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Same. Yeah, he's drunk.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: He's drunk! He's drunk.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: But he's drunk!
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah. You told me you.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Didn't need him.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: I'm drunk! I'm drunk! Yeah, yesterday, maybe hungover, you know? Yeah.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow hungover. Yes! No, no, yesterday, tomorrow.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry. I don't speak English.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Is there anything like today? No, there's nothing like today,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: and there's nothing like tomorrow. Live in the present.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Mike, your thoughts about going to Cleveland? My thoughts about
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: going to Cleveland?
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: That's right, sir.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: Well, what we're going to do, we're going to get
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: on a plane, and we're going to head to Cleveland, Ohio.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Somebody's pouring alcohol down my pants.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: And what we're going to do is we're going to
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: show up, play White Sox baseball, and we're going to
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: kick some ass.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: All right, Mike, go get them.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Come on. Yeah.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: The only thing better there is if you would have
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: been Steve Austin and slammed the beers together, right? That
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: was great. But, dude, that's just– I think the best
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: compliment you can ever get when you're in the big
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: leagues is when someone tells you, you guys are playing
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: like kids. And that's what that looks like there. There are–
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Looks like they're just genuinely having fun. Morikama comes over
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: from Japan. Doesn't get maybe the offers he thinks that
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: he was going to get. The White Sox take, I guess,
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: a chance on him. What a great signing by Chris Goetz.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: And goes off. And then Mike Vassell is like, dude,
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: this guy's an unsung hero of this team. He had
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Tommy John surgery to start the year. And he's... When
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: you have Tommy John surgery and you're out for the season,
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: you don't travel with the team. He was such a
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: vibe for this team. They started bringing him on the
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: road throughout the year to keep the vibes up for
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: that team. It's just so much fun to watch this team.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: I know some Northside Chicago Cubs fans don't like that,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: especially with the Cubs losing, but this team's easy to
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: root for.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they definitely are. Congrats to Will. The vibes are high, man.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: It's fun to bunch of fine teams that you can
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: relate to and they are they are just kids i
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: think six of their starters are like with two years
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: or less experience so the the quality of bats controlling
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: the strike zone man they just they they did it
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: they're doing it they've done it all year uh under
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: the radar underdogs and it's going to be a really
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: good series in cleveland.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: And now they get to get on a plane and
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: go kick some ass in cleveland but the beauty is
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: rossi just like in 2015 we beat the pirates in
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: the wildcard, and then we get to go play the Cardinals,
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: who we're also super familiar with. So these guys are
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: going into another postseason round with momentum, popping champagne again,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: and they get to play a team that they're so
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: familiar with so they can really just settle in and
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: play baseball and not let, hopefully, the moment of what
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: they're doing right now get to them.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt. No doubt. Now let's get to the
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: bad news. The other team in Chicago are Cubbies. They
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: went cold, man. I didn't see that one coming.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Number one offense in the league. Bro, this is what happens.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Two games, man. It's a two-game series. and it happens.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Teams go get hot and get cold, and it's unfortunate.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: The Padres sweeping them behind elite pitching. Michael King and
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Nick Pavetta. That home field advantage there looked insane.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Insane, bro.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: From Jump Street. From the very first pitch the Cubs threw.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: or very first at bat, Fernando Tatis hitting the home run,
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: it was just, oh, fuck. That's what I felt. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Well, it sounded like they had the towels out. They
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: kept doing shots on TV of, like, the aerial view,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: and it looked like packed to the rafters, man. Like,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: it was impressive. The white, excuse me, the Padres are
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: a vibe as well. I mean, they've got a good
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: thing going over there. Everybody, I mean, Tatis, it was,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: the lineup, when you look at it in the production,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: you were looking at like Jackson Merrill, uh, Ty France.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: It's not just a piece of Machado. Like Gavin sheets. Like, yeah,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: like it was, it was all every guy and the
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: pitching staff. And then they go, you see how dominant
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: that bullpen is. And those guys can go multiples down there.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: You knew that was a strength, but to watch it
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: play out against a really good offense in Chicago that I,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: you know, we want to talk about them not hitting
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: and them not having much to cheer about, but, I
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: think a lot of that credit has to go to
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: the Padres pitching staff, and the starters outperformed my expectations.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, the Cubs going so cold, it's just unfortunate.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: PCA 0-7, Bregman 0-8, Dansby 0-6, Happer 0-6. So it's tough, man.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: There was high expectations coming into the year for this
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: Cubs team, and I know they dealt with a lot
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: of adversity on the pitching end. They played amazing defense,
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: best defense. best offense in the league. They lost a
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: home field advantage, and it ended up costing them. I
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: know I said I wanted them to be road dogs
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: because I didn't think just home field for the wild
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: card round would get them to the World Series, but
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: they just ran into a Padres team that is the
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: best team in baseball right now. I saw a stat.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: I believe the Padres are 19-3 since Manny Machado dyed
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: his hair blonde. How about that for a stat?
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Oh, how about that stat? what Buster had said since
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: there was, I don't remember the date, but he said
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: they're on a pace of like a hundred and, you know, 20,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: some kind of crazy number 21 pace since they got hot.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: So they are definitely dominant and it does look like
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: there may be the, you know, we'll see what Milwaukee
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: has to offer, but, Um, they, uh, they, they, they've got, uh,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: a vibe there and it looks like the, the road
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: to the world series could go through San Diego. It was,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: it was electric, man.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: I tell you what, I know the Milwaukee Brewers definitely
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: wanted to play the Cubs and not the Padres.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Well, I want to go back to the point you
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: made and, and we, we made this, I made this
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: not to toot my own horn, but I really felt
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: like home field advantage. What you just said was so
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: important for Chicago. And they didn't play well down the
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: stretch to kind of take that over, and the Padres did.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Phillies didn't either. And so somebody could have taken that
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: and just didn't play their best baseball down the stretch,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: and it cost them, in my opinion.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: No doubt. I mean, Craig Council pulling Gosman in the fourth, right,
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: after it's one out, Bogart hits a double, and you
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: pull him to bring in Palencia, who still, you know,
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: he's been better of late but didn't come back the
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: same guy. And then Gavin Sheets hitting that home run
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: in the fourth. It's just... It felt over. It felt
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: over right there. And it's unfortunate because the expectations and... Look,
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: the expectation in Chicago is to win a World Series.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: And it's... This offseason, the guys are going to go
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: in and hopefully this fuels them to be better. And
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: they have to catch the Brewers. The Brewers have set
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: the gold standard in the NL Central. They've won the
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: NL Central... The last four years, this isn't a cute
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: little team anymore that Pat Murphy likes to say, oh,
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: nobody knows who we are. You've won the NL Central
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: the last four years. You're the gold standard right now
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: in the National League Central.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: No doubt. Well, last point for me on the Cubs. Like,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of positive that happened in Chicago this
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: year with Pete Bregman. Like, you know, hopefully next year
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: they get Steely back and Kate Horton. Like, There's a
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: lot of positive, but they're going to have to do
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: something about, you know, Happer's a free agent, Say is
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: a free agent. They've got some guys that they're going
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: to have to retool, but there's a lot to look
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: forward to if you're a Cubs fan for next year.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: I know right now it doesn't feel like it, but
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: they've got a good core.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: No doubt. And with those pitchers coming back, maybe go
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: out and sign a few bullpen arms, which isn't easy, right?
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: You can identify some guys. Easy for me to say.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: It's not my money.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's not really Jed's forte. He's
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: going to, you know, he doesn't usually put a lot
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: of money down the bullpen.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so, I mean, it's just a tough ending for
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: Cubs fans, for the team, but an exciting time to
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: be a Padres fan, right?
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: No doubt.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Their new owners are dancing and all happy, and vibes
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: are high in San Diego, right?
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Vibes are high.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: I love it. I love it. Let's get to our,
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: like I said, I love the wild card round. It's amazing.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: It's amazing.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Well, because it feels do or die, right? Like the
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: short series is like, it doesn't matter. You don't have
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: time to get comfortable in the box. You don't have
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: time to like get the feel. Like we're going to
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: the bullpen. If you start giving up runs, Hunter Brown
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: out in the first inning, like there's no waiting around
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: in this wild card series. And that's what I think
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: makes it so exciting and the best way to kick
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: off the postseason. Yeah.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, the Phillies blow a lead. in the first
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: game with their closer. The Braves blow a lead late
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: in the game today, right? The Padres first at bat
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: of the series home run. Yankees, Red Sox are in tight, like,
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: tense games in the Bronx until the Yankees blow it open.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: So it's just must-watch. One swing can change the entire series,
• 35:51
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• 37:02
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• 37:07
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• 37:11
  Speaker 2: We'll be with you all October. We were just getting started.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: This is just day two, Rossi.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: I know. It's crazy. I always feel like I'm on
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: the grind.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: First question is an email from Luke.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Come on, Luke.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Your top three favorite away clubhouses and top three worst
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: away clubhouses.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Ooh.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: The worst is Universal, right?
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Right. Yeah.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: Wait, say it on three. Say it on three. The worst.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: No, hold on. Hold on. Worst. Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: I'm ready.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: One, two, three.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Oakland. St. Louis. Who do you got?
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: Oakland.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Oakland. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oakland for sure.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: For sure. For sure. For sure. No doubt.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: I always... St.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Louis, to me, had to... It's all based on the food, right? Like,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: the food is everything.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Food in St. Louis was tough.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: St. Louis is tough. It's a grind. But they bring in...
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: When they bring in the barbecue at the last day,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: it always makes it better. They bring in that St.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Louis barbecue. That's all. With the Cubs, the barbecue always
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: happened to be dried out, you know?
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go positive. Again, we went negative, first
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: of all. I'm going positive. Hands down, Yankee Stadium. Hands down.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: down that's the food there yeah the food there's and
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: crazy uh Lou it runs a tight ship the guys
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: around there anything you want like they'll go get you
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: autographs from like when you're playing against Jeter and these
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: guys like little things like that for charity it's just
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: run the security around there's tight like.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: This postgame spreads oh my.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Gosh it's like made to order pasta bar they're filling
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: you up making you nice and fat before you.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: Go out there and play oh yeah So Yankees by
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: far visiting number one. I would say the, I like
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: the Mets too, bro.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Mets is good.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: New York, the food. And then another, I.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Love when they do a little, uh, shake shack, like
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: right before or during games, my runs down, like give
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: you a little nice shake shack pizza.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: They got it. They got every.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Latin, the Latin food that they bring in too is unbelievable.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: I love me some, some fresh cold meat.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: Uh, um, I love Philly because of the cheesesteaks.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Cheesesteaks.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: That's cheesesteaks in Philadelphia from the visiting clubhouse. But the Braves,
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: Truist Park is amazing. And then the new one in Texas.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: Globe Life. I don't know if you've been in there, Ross.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: I never played Texas. It's fucking huge, bro.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: It's huge.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: They have buttons you can hit to call the clubbies. Really? Yeah,
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: it's awesome. That's number one for me. Really?
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Nice. Nice. I was going to say the Braves,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: the Braves used to not be any good and they
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: moved to Truist and they, they got the, uh, what
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: cooking on wood or that group that like makes you
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: fresh stuff or cooking with wood. I think it's called, um,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: they got, they got the Braves has stepped it up
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: over there. That was, that was good.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: But you know what I, uh, I love most about
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: the Rangers visiting clubhouse is they have pictures of their
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: home clubhouse in there. So like when it's attracting free agents,
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: Just being like, fuck you, our home clubhouse is way
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: better than all of yours. And it has all their equipment,
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: their weight room, their recovery rooms. It's pretty cool.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: I wish I got to play there. I wish I
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: got to play there. All right, next email. You want
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: to go bad ones? Let's not bury everybody.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: Oakland definitely stinks. I'm not a fan. But they have
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: great guys in the clubhouse there, so I always enjoy
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: going to Boston.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Milwaukee... Milwaukee to me. Milwaukee, what do you mean, bro?
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: They got those broads, bro. Those broads. I'm not a
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: broad guy.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Dude, Phil in Milwaukee is the GOAT. I love Phil.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: He would make me banana bread every time we went. Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: He's the GOAT. I love banana bread.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't want to blaspheme those guys. Those guys
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: take care of you. Next email from Guy Carafa. I
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: hope I'm saying that right. What do you both think
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: of people seemingly using these challenges at poor times. Will
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: it come back to bite someone in the postseason? Man,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: I thought, first of all, there's some really good challenges
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: in the Braves games that, like, they got a lot
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: of them right. A ton of them. JT Arremuto, one
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: of the best in the game. I had a little
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: bit of a problem with the PCA punch out today
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: to start the game.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: That's just pure emotion, bro.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And honestly, it can't happen. They used their two
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: early today, and they... They weren't really at that borderline.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: They're trying to grind offensively when you're struggling that bad.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: You're trying to get anything to.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: Go your way.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: There definitely could have been some emotion involved.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: I think, too, look at what happened at the end
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: of the game in the Phillies game. The Phillies won
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: by JT challenging that pitch. If they're out of challenges
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: and JT can't challenge that.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Who knows what happens.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? You have to be really strategic.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: We talked about this today on our broadcast for the
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: game about maybe major league baseball implementing another challenge in
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: the playoffs. So each team gets three challenges, but you
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: do have to be very strategic and be convicted. It
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: has to be in a high leverage situation for sure.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: No doubt. No doubt.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: A last email from James Riley. Did you guys collect
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: baseball cards when you were young? And what is it
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: like seeing the, their first few cards released, man?
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: I didn't re, I didn't collect baseball cards as a kid.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: I had a buddy that did. It wasn't kind of
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: my thing, but it's gotten so much attention lately. I'm
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: kind of like, man, maybe I should just go buy
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: a box and just, you know, what they call it,
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: like rip them.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Rip.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: Rip wax.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: Rip a pack. Rip a pack. Let's go. Yeah, sorry.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: I'm showing my age here. But when you get your
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: first card, like as a player, that's some cool stuff.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: My mom, one time, cool story. she gave me for
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: Christmas a baseball card book with every card that had
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: ever been made of me. It was a really cool gift.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: I've got that at the house and something I cherish.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: Cause it's like, you know, you get, you sign stuff
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: all the time and want a new one would pop
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: up every once in a while. And you're like, Oh,
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: that's really cool. But when you have all your baseball
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: cards and, and you know, you turn into a kid
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: when you get to sign your first card and you
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: get your rookie card and all that stuff, like what
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: a cool, cool thing to have. It's like seeing somebody
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: in the, in the stands, You way more than me,
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: but when you see somebody in the stands wearing your
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: jersey or something like that, it doesn't get any cooler
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: than that.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: That is the coolest thing ever. When I got traded,
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: pretty much every road city we would go to with
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: the Yankees, I'd see Cubs jerseys there coming to the game,
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: and I thought that was the coolest thing. But the cards, yeah,
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: their first cards, especially I was with the Red Sox,
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: so many different teams, right? Red Sox, Padres, Yankees, Cubs.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: So it's so cool to have all the different varieties.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: I collected, starting in 2021, Jock Peterson got me on
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: basketball cards. Really? And I was looking for the Lomelo
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: ball rookie card, right? And it was this phase. And
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: in spring training, we would just be ripping cards, trying
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: to get the Lomelo one of one or whatever it was.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: And there was just, ended up having stacks in my locker.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: And I was like, what the fuck am I doing? Right?
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: And because it blew up.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: Now you got guys just pulling these insane cards that
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: are worth so much money. One of my friends just
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: texted me a PCA card that he just bought for
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: a few hundred thousand dollars that he's like, this card's
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: going to be worth over a million dollars here pretty soon.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: It's a, it's a legit hobby and I'm not into it.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: We might need to rip a pack or two on,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: on our show one day.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: Do some live rips.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: Just go lose a couple of live rips for the folks.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: But yeah, Send some more emails, see if anybody wants
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: us to rip a couple card packs here, maybe after
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: the postseason to see if we get something good.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: No doubt. Well, we will be coming back to you
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: after this Phillies-Braves elimination game. With all of our feedback,
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: we thank everyone for listening. We're just getting started, day
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: two of the wild card. We can't wait for tomorrow,
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: day three. Thank you for watching. Again, rossandrizzo at gmail.com.
• 45:26
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• 45:29
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• 45:31
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