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#49 - Wildcard Wonders: Why the White Sox Could Be This Year’s Cinderella · Life According to Brian and Jason

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All right, friends, welcome to another episode of
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Life According to Brian and Jason. Hey,
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Jason, this is a great time of year. What are you thinking,
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dude? It's postseason baseball wildcard games.
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Do you care? Do you care, Brian? Yes, I care a
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lot. A lot. Because it ends the Rockies' misery.
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But being a baseball fan, it's the best time of year.
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It's when every game counts. It is. And these games right
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now, man, there's like games on all day. All day.
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I know. Christmas. Baseball Christmas.
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4 games every day. I wish I was retired and
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had Peacock. So I
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could watch them all. I am retired
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and I don't have Peacock, but no, I was just kind of keeping up
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as I was doing things today. And man, the Phillies squeak in
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and they tank their first game. So what do you think about that? The Braves
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are well managed and just
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a solid team. I think, of course, Phillies would be
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too. They have some you know, pros on there, man. Some really
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great players that are seasoned,
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and maybe they'll snap back.
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But, um, you know, I don't watch those 2 teams a
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bunch, you know. Uh, I'm more kind
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of watching the White Sox. My dad was always a White Sox fan, and they
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made a little noise a little while ago, then they quieted down, and now
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they're making some noise against the Hated Astros. Well, they, they closed
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that out, so they're up 1, so that's done. Yeah, yeah,
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yeah. I like the White Sox. I think they're the dark pony this
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year. I really do. I think no one really expected
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them to do much, right? Here they are. Well, this whole wild
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card thing, I mean, at first
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people are like, oh, what, more games? But I don't know, I think it's pretty
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exciting, man. You got to win to go. Well,
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mathematically, it just lines up better, puts a little bit more,
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you know, puts more teams into the action. Old school baseball
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was just like, you had to be just that one team from each division.
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That's really all they had, you know. Right now with this,
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you got more teams in it. Expansion is coming where they'll add 2
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more teams to the league itself.
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And so that may redesign yet once again. Wild card.
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I don't know, but I like it. It just means better
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baseball. It allows time for surprise
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teams to work their way in. I like that.
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Surprise teams to make it to the end. Yeah. Just because you're
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good for 5 months doesn't mean you're the best at the end.
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And that's the whole point of a playoff system. So yes,
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Astros can just go down. Yep. Suck it.
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All right. Whoa, that just
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flew out. I did. Sorry, I don't like them. Right.
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Boy, I could just feel that through the headphones here.
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Yikes. Yeah. Well, let's talk about who you're cheering
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for. Let's just go down the list here. Phillies, Braves. You're obviously
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Braves. Braves. Walt Weiss is the manager. That's a Rocky connection.
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And Andy grew up She would get school tickets,
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you know, if you did get good grades, you got to go see the Braves.
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So she did that. And so she's a Braves
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fan. And I think Walt is a solid dude.
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And, you know, for our fans,
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former player and former manager
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of the Colorado Rockies. So he's been all over.
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Yes, yes. And Rockies fired him, right?
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They did. They did, right? Yeah, hey, you're out.
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And that's tough because they're loyal. They're loyal to a fault.
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But now he's bad. Yeah. But he moved
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over to the Braves, was bench coach for a while. Now he's the main
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guy and away they go.
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They're just, yeah, they're there. I wouldn't be surprised
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if the Braves don't go all the way, at least to the
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World Series. They're just that good for
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sure. Solid team. All right.
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White Sox, Astros. What do you, what do you like there? Why the White
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Sox besides your young, hungry team? Stuff to prove.
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You know, that's what I think. Just they're, they're hungry, man. They want to,
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they've been bad forever and they can,
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you know, got those picks, got those picks, got those picks. And now
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they're ready to pay off and the Astros are old. Right.
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You know, they got all those dudes that have been hanging around.
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So too bad, you know, see you later, buddy. Yeah, it's time for
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a reset for at least for us haters on the Astros.
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Once they lose all of those players from the scandal
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days, yeah, none of us are going to be back until that happens.
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And that's how I feel about it. I do too, man. I don't even want
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to, we even go like visiting, Uh,
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stadiums. I don't even want to go see their stadium. Well,
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I, I kind of agree. I think once— it's horrible. Sorry if you're—
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I know, I know. Once the roster's cleared, you know,
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of that whole era of player, then yeah,
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that now it's a different, you know, it's a different franchise.
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But yeah, and the Pope loves the Chicago White Sox. Let's go!
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Hey! Throw the Pope in there. Chicago. So there
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you go. Okay. Well, I,
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I, it's good to see the White Sox there because everyone gives the
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love to the Chicago Cubs, right? And the
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White Sox just never get the, they don't get the love. They don't get the
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credit. They don't get the fan base. They just don't get a lot there
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in the Windy City. The Rockies could learn some
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from them. You know, just 2 years after Losing 121 games.
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Do they? Right, right. Flipped it. So you're
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telling me there's a chance? There is a chance if you're the White Sox,
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right? Yeah. Now, a little
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side note. How do you think they flipped the script from 120
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losses to where they're at now, 2 years later? Well, they did some
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smart trades here, as the Google Reader's telling me. Japanese slugger.
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I'm not even going to be able to say his name. Murakami.
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And, you know, Garrett Crochet just
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changing, changing the culture, dude, changing the culture.
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And they're like, you know what, we are going to be better.
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That's why, you know, with the Rockies,
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we have a good message coming from our
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managers and coaches, but it just did not translate this
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year. This was not one of the building years for the Rockies. But man,
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the White Sox, really, you know,
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did it right. They, you know,
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them and the Rays, man. Did they change managers?
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Did they change coaching staff? What do we know? What's the
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intel? I don't know. Will Venable is the
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manager and he was hired in '24.
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Oh, so kind of, kind of. Yeah. Yeah.
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All right. Yeah. Kind of. And, you know,
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he obviously brought in his people and said, let's go. Once again, I don't
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know tons other than, right, favorite. Well, we went
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to that stadium, right? You know, that makes us experts.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I went in,
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what, 2008? So that makes me an expert, right?
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At least you get Manager of the Year or something. I mean, I don't know.
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I'm intrigued now. I have to admit, I was
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not paying attention to A, American League
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very much, and B, the White Sox. So I
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like the question of what did they do to
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improve so quickly? Because you're right, the Rockies have to
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learn something. They have to do something. You know, what'd they do? Fire the
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data analysts and hire new ones? What'd they do? I want to know. So for
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a future podcast, I need to research the White Sox.
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Well, you know, sorry, it starts and ends with him. Will Venable,
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man. He's obviously letting things,
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you know, choking down the ego and letting other things happen.
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Right, right. You know, if things go bad, the manager
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goes. Right. It's good.
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Oh, the manager's doing great. You know, he's managing the
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bullpen. You know,
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they're talking about his, his, his personality is calm and
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measured. You know, don't you think teams take
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the persona of the manager, Brian?
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Do you? Yeah,
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I think it's a lot of things. But yeah, the manager sets,
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sets the expectations, sets the tone. But all
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the other pieces that come to the table, your coaching staff, your front office,
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the, you know, the people that handle all the other little
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affairs around, if they're not in on it too,
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that's where most things go awry. Is I can tell you from
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being a principal who had to turn around the building, I spent more time
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with the teaching assistants than I did with
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the teachers to turn a building around. How so? The reason
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why is When negativity gets bad in an
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organization, it's not your
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star players that are the negative ones. It's everyone else in the
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culture. You have to turn the front office around.
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You got to turn your teaching assistants around. You got to
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turn your custodial staff around. You got to turn everybody,
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the bus drivers, everybody, because once negativity
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embeds in an organization, it's everywhere. You just can't
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pull one person out and say, hey, yay, we're going to win or we're going
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to be better. So that's why the teachers knew
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what they needed to do. I let them go. They're the paid professionals.
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They've been to college. They've had hundreds of thousands of dollars
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of training when I showed up on how to improve. The state
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of Colorado is already in their business. Here's what you got to do.
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I gave the love to all the people that weren't getting the love.
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And it was an amazing positivity change when
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you can get your, you can slow down your biggest
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gossips and slow down your biggest negative groups and
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put them in on it takes everyone.
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That's how you win the day. That's to me is the
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problem the Rockies have. There's probably negativity somewhere else in that
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organization. They're not That's not making headlines. It's not going
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anywhere. There's more to that White Sox story. That's why I'm intrigued.
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Something else has gone on than just changing a manager
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and buying a few players. So anyway,
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okay, well, we have to research that. Yeah, that's what I know from organizational
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change is it's surface level's easy.
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Get to the heart of it is hard. So.
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Right, which is not always— you have to still have people buy in. People want
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to do better. I think, you know, professional athletes want
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to do better, and if they hear a good message and they're going for
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it, good. Right, right. Maybe they're putting in the work more
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in a certain way that they want that they weren't planning on. I don't know.
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Sure, sure. Yeah, to me, when I look
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at these baseball scores and I look at organizations, I categorize
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We're just looking at these teams. I categorize these teams in
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different groups. Like I see the White Sox as emerging
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organization, right? So they're in a different group
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than your Astros who've just kind of struggled since the scandal,
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right? They're kind of good. They're kind of not. They're just kind
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of warmed over. They're just
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kind of a warmed over team, right? Right? Like something big has to
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come and help them. And that might just be Father Time, right?
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Phillies, they're kind of DOA, dude.
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They're just kind of on their last gasp, right? So put them in that category.
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The older guys are desperate. They're a desperate organization.
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White Sox, right? I like him though. I like him as a player. Oh,
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I like him a lot. White Sox and a hopeful
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organization, right? And then you got these middle
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organizations that don't know whether to win or start
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summer vacation or winter vacation, right?
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And so like looking at the other list,
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like what do you think of right
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now, Red Sox and Yankees? I grew up
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a Red Sox fan, unfortunately. Then I moved out here.
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And, you know, they've had
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hot, cold, hot, cold. They finally won, did all that. They were insufferable
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here. I'm a Rockies fan. They were tough, right? Kind of like, I can't do
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it. The Yankees have just spent so much.
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They've had injury bugs, you know, but talk
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about just tons of expectations
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and not meeting up, especially the
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last couple of years. You know what I mean? Like, ooh,
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you know, it's been— that's a tough city.
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I can only imagine with newspapers
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and, and all that. Like Aaron Boone, if he doesn't do anything
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this year, I got to think, man, he is probably toast.
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Yeah. So that's another desperation organization right now. They've thrown
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a lot of money, a lot of expectations. Haven't produced.
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There's a lot of people on the chopping block right now if they don't produce.
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Yeah, that's a lot of cash. Why is the, you know,
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Red Sox went through that a few years ago and I think they kind of
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put some different things in play and they might have more positive energy going into
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next season. That's the way I see them is they kind of,
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they kind of got over that hurdle maybe a few years earlier than they did.
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They had to change their Yep. Manager and get some
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of that stuff. Right. Yep. Yep. So yeah,
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I see Yankees and Phillies just in the same boat.
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Just, just, you know, just float off into
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the distance there, boys. So you never know the
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games that happen, but I think the Yankees would have the sure
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on that. I don't know if Chad Tracy, who just started,
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would. But I don't know. I don't know.
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As the manager, maybe that's influx. Maybe that's the push they need.
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I mean, you'd like to think they don't like,
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right, uh, the Yankees. But yeah, that Alex Cora, man, that's been— before
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he had lost, tough things going on with him too, man. It's just right.
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I know, it's evil. Yeah, a lot, a lot going on
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for a big story. Franchises, man. Yes. Yes.
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High expectations every year, every game. And what
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people will do to meet those expectations. And when it blows up in your face,
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you're like, oh, oh, right. Yeah. I don't,
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I don't know how Rockies players
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have survived over there. Like we've had quite a
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few of our players move on to the Red Sox and the Yankees over the
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decade or so. Tons of great things. And how do you handle, yeah,
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how do you handle that level of scrutiny
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versus, you know, Colorado?
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Yeah, we're a little cantankerous now because we've lost 4 seasons
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in a row. We might be a little grumpier than normal, but still pretty chill
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overall, right? Yeah. Right. I don't
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know how you survive like Brian McMahon. How has he done it as a
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Yankees or whatever. I don't know. How do
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you do that? How do you go from Colorado to New York media?
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Well, you're hungry for it. Obviously, you know
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everything there is about the game and what you need to do. You're not like
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a fresh new pup, so that helps.
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But right, you know, that's what I guess you
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got tons of mentors there. Hey, Aaron Judd, how do I handle
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this media? All right. Yeah. Step into my office. Let's talk.
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Right? Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's how you do it.
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Cubs-Padres. What are you thinking? Oh, man. Craig Counsell.
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Yes. A lot of history with him. I've liked him as a player
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and manager. And, you know, he went to just
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recently the— I also follow the Brewers
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and he was there for a while. Then now he's over here, the Cubs.
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And just a good story of that. I like hope
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that he would do good. That's a pressure cooker too.
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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I would say they've kind of underperformed.
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He's kind of got— he was everyone's darling at— for
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the Brewers, right? And then, and then he does
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the traitor move because that's a, that's a
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huge rival to the Brewers. It is. And, you know,
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because they're both very close
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teams to each other there off of Lake Michigan. And man,
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talk about a trader move. And then, yeah, his first year there did not
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go well. And but he's a quality manager.
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It just took him time to kind of get
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everything on track. And that front office
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is a solid front office. With the Cubs.
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And here they are. Yeah, I don't see
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the Padres being able to take them. So, because Padres
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are good, but I put them in a not as
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dire situation as the Phillies, but getting pretty close.
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So, because you got Manny Machado aging out, you got
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a bunch of other players on there, been around, they've tasted playoff
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glory, but haven't closed in many, many years. So,
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yep. So they have a heavy,
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heavy load to carry. And plus,
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you know, the Phillies knocked out my Diamondbacks. So, hey, there we
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go. No. But I also,
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though, thinking back to it, everyone would take a job.
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Obviously, being the Brewers manager is awesome, but the
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Cubs are a very storied franchise. Right. You know, if you get
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offered something like that, you're like, well, you know, right,
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for some cash and being able to do it, I mean, you got to test
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your mettle. He's done a lot of things. Um, yeah,
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I remember you would regret it if you didn't.
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Uh, but, and he's been back and forth with
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a lot of organizations. That's the thing, man. Baseball kind of
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takes them in, takes them out, picks them back, spits them out, takes them
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back, But I mean, he's been with the Brewers for many different ways,
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for different situations. So I don't know.
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It's a— I— that,
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that ballclub left, left an impression on us when we went and saw
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the Cubs. Those 2 games. Yeah. The impression to
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me was it's just they love baseball.
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It's just, it's just everything about
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the organization, the town. The community around it,
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just, they love the game. It's not so much about winning. They just
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love the game, right? That's a different mindset than being
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happy when you win and chronically angry when you lose
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because we saw the Cubs win one, lose one, and it
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was the same party. Right. Well, someone would say that's a problem,
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but yeah. Right. But anyway,
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here's a little side tangent. The radio
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guys that you and I listen to on Rockies,
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the new guy, you know, that took over
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for the— this is on radio, so it's the radio broadcaster,
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the Goodman kid, right? Yep. He— I just
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read a story about him and he said his favorite
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ballpark after traveling his
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first year as a Rockies announcer He'd love
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Chicago Cubs. Why? And he said exactly what you and I said.
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They just love baseball there. He goes, it was just
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the best culture out of every ballpark he went to as a sports
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journalist. So what does that tell you? Wow.
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Yeah. Powerful statement. So it is. Yeah.
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So when things get heavy as a Chicago Cub
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organization, they make changes to find people to bring
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back the love of the game. Great counsel. He's a pacer.
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He always looks so worried on his face, but I think
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he eats and breathes baseball 24 hours a day. Yeah.
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So anyway, I agree. I think he'll work a little magic though.
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He'll move on from there. Oh, you think? Oh,
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not going to be so. You don't think so? I don't know. I think
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he's got a What's he been there? This is second season or third season?
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Second season. Third, I think. I think he's got another 7 years
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there easy. I think he'll do a 10-year run there. So. Right. But I
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mean, how about him winning the pot versus the Padres this time?
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What do you think tonight? Tonight they play. I think.
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Do you like them? Do you not? Are you a Padres guy? Because you are
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a Padres guy. I like the Padres. I think the Cubs are going
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to beat the Padres. I don't think the Cubs against
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the Brewers, I think it'd be a good duel, but I think
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they're stronger ponies than the Cubs in the National
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League. So I could be wrong.
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You know, I could be wrong. That's the whole point of sports, right? You could
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be wrong. That's the magic we all watch for.
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But would I like to see the Padres? Go further?
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Yes. You know, because Chicago's had their glory.
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What about the Padres? But I just, that team's just
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been kind of on and off, kind of train wrecky all year.
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You know, so I just don't understand them as an organization.
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So something's weird.
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That's my 2 cents anyway. So what do
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you think out of the wildcards right now? Who are you liking the most?
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I think I have the most hope and like for the White Sox.
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Okay. Because they, they are
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young and fresh and they're just taking everyone by storm. Right. I also like
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the Braves, so I would,
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you know. Yeah. I'm kind of split between them.
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Okay. Let me ask you this. Do you think Brewers are stronger
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than the Cubs, even though the Brewers obviously didn't
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have to go to the wild card. They won their division. I think Brewers are
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stronger. You think Brewers are stronger than Cubs? Yeah. Little I know. Little I know.
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Yeah, I agree. I agree. I think
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the Dodgers actually are the weaker of the National League teams. So I
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can see the Cubs. Yeah, I see the Cubs. I think
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any of these teams could beat the Dodgers, you know,
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right now. I just, I think the Dodgers are on the ropes this series.
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It's hard. It's hard to keep coming back, right?
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Yep. So, uh, but part of it is the people. See, a lot of it
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we've talked about is people feel, you know, right? Like some of
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the people on the Phillies, some of the players, I'm like, ugh, you know,
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really? Does that really matter? No, right? So that's
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why you're a fan. We're fans. I know. You know what? What do I know
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from my little office here in Arkansas? Well,
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Braves, I'm sentimental because, you know what, I used to like
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them. I'd like to see them do good. I like the story, you know?
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Right. So also, they've just traditionally been good.
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And all right, man. Well, classy.
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Well, we've solved no problems there. Other than it's just
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fun to watch, dude. Right? Yeah, definitely fun to watch. Pressure cooker
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baseball. You've got it going. Yep.
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You know, so, well, let me ask you this. Do you think a wildcard
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team is going to win the World Series?
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No, no, no. You're not that
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big of a believer. Okay. No, no.
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Anything's possible. But no. Okay. I,
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I, I think we got a Braves and Rays.
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World Series. That's really— you're taking the Braves all the way. Oh yeah.
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Yeah. I, I think, I think there's always
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one team that comes in the hard way and they'll,
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they'll just create the wave, ride the wave. Right.
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And these other teams that are sitting back watching the wild
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card, I, you know, it could
26:10
be good or bad, right? It could be just come out just flat and cold
26:13
and You know, stiff and you took time off
26:18
and now you got no mojo left. Heavy legs. Heavy legs.
26:21
Oh, I got heavy legs. Can't do
26:25
it. The heavy leg syndrome. Yes. In fact,
26:28
that'd be a way to look at this analysis.
26:32
Like, who's got heavy legs going into that postseason here?
26:37
Because, you know, if you just spent all your energy to get there,
26:41
Sometimes you got nothing left, right? Isn't that a true story in
26:45
sports all the time? It is. But also it's all these, whoever has the longest
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rests, who plays and has their mojo
26:54
going, has just the right amount of off days to on
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days. The Rockies went and played. They had so much time
27:01
off in between playing the Red Sox.
27:04
It was like a crime. So, right. Yeah.
27:08
I don't know. I think that plays a factor too, no matter what, because it
27:11
is day to day, man. Someone just gets hot. Mm-hmm. Well, they just
27:15
got done playing, what, 155 games? So true.
27:19
Right. But, you know, as it goes on.
27:22
That's right. All right. What's your prediction for all our podcast
27:27
fans out there? Well, for this wild card here,
27:34
Yeah, I'm liking the White Sox. Okay.
27:38
What about you? Yes, I'd love to see them go.
27:42
I think they'll make it through the wildcard, but I don't
27:46
think they can overtake some of the
27:50
other stacks. The story's over.
27:53
Yeah. Yeah. If I'm going Cinderella, I'm going serious
27:57
Cinderella. Okay. Go serious. What do you got? So then you're going,
28:01
what, White Sox all the way on postseason?
28:06
You know what? I think I am. I think
28:10
I'm going to go White Sox the whole way. My dad's looking down
28:13
on us and he's smiling. And for some reason, I just feel they're going to
28:17
go deep. Okay. So you got White Sox and—
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and I don't know about that. I haven't done enough research.
28:27
That might be a second Okay. Cast on
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that. Why are you thinking? I mean, I don't know. I don't know all the
28:33
people who are good and healthy or not. Right.
28:36
Well, what's your spitball? Well, I already said,
28:40
so I'm going Braves and Rays.
28:46
That's the World Series matchup. Braves and Rays.
28:49
Yeah. Yeah.
28:53
I've watched a little bit more. National— paid more
28:57
attention to National League ball this year. And yeah,
29:01
and I think the Braves are
29:04
just hitting it just right at this time of season, at this time of
29:08
the year. Have you listened to more? I'll be saying this. I've not listened or
29:12
watched as much baseball as I would like. Have you watched and listened to more?
29:16
No, but I have been based
29:21
on my interests, you know, your feeds in your socials kind of roll up.
29:25
And so I'm getting a little bit of Braves stuff in there, a little bit
29:30
of Cubs stuff. And, you know, so I'm not sitting there reading whole articles,
29:34
but you kind of get the sense of a team through its— through
29:38
the headlines, you know. And so that's what I'm purely basing
29:41
it on. You know, it's just
29:45
what the journalists are saying in a quick snapshot. You know, I like
29:50
the Rays too for many reasons. So, right, I don't know, scrappy teams that
29:54
have no business, right? You know, knock off the big guys,
29:58
knock them off. That'd be great.
30:02
Then there'd be a bad World Series and no one watches it and everyone complains,
30:05
right? I know I'm, I'm a sucker for a good Cinderella
30:10
story. So you're going more Cinderella than me this year. So good
30:14
for you, man. Say it goes right. I don't know if yours— I don't know
30:16
if people would— the TV gods would love that
30:21
matchup. Right. Well, yeah, there's truth in
30:24
that. It's like everyone wants to see the
30:29
heavy hitters, you know, the heavyweight fight, you know, go toe
30:33
to toe. So which would be Dodgers, Yankees, something like
30:37
that. Yep. Oh yeah, they'd love that. Oh yeah, everybody would love that. Or love
30:41
it, love it, love it. Or Throw the Cubs in there,
30:44
Cubs and Red Sox. See, that'd be a good one too. Get a lot
30:49
of viewership on either one of those. But then there's you and
30:53
I sitting there going, hey, go White Sox, you know.
30:58
Yeah, just crickets
31:02
chirping during that World Series, you know, no ratings,
31:07
you know. But Americans do love a good
31:11
Cinderella story. So you never know, that could
31:16
bring the love of the game around. Yeah, so no Guardian love for you,
31:19
huh? You know,
31:20
Guardians. Yeah, not this year.
31:25
Not this year. Not feeling
31:28
it. You know, because that's my analytical mind.
31:31
I'm not feeling it. That's pretty bad. But No,
31:36
you know, the Brewers too. I think they,
31:41
they're not a national team people are going to root for, but they might be
31:45
sneaky strong, you know, don't you think?
31:48
Yeah. I think they're like the Braves. They're just
31:52
sneaky strong. They just, they can put 5 runs on you and
31:56
just be like, yeah, that was easy. You hardly break a sweat,
32:00
you know. Yeah. So yeah, Phillies are going
32:04
to be lucky to win one against the Braves.
32:08
So yeah, that's the way.
32:12
Yeah. There's always hope, Jason.
32:15
Sorry, Philly fans. I know some Philly people.
32:19
They're like, what do you know? You know, we're just dudes working,
32:23
thinking, right? Making stuff in their garage.
32:26
Semi-retired, right?
32:29
Doing landscaping on the weekend.
32:32
You're not listening to baseball. But I'm definitely
32:36
gonna watch as much as I can, so I got that on me. Well,
32:38
there you go. Well, you do that. Well, guess what, man?
32:42
What? We, uh, we're out of time and we solved
32:45
no real-world problems on this podcast, but we
32:49
have fun. I couldn't even give you a definitive on who's the end. I'm like,
32:52
nope, can't Can't do it. Can't do it. But I do like the inspiration
32:57
of this, that, hey, take the White Sox. Why? Your dad was a White
33:00
Sox, huge lifelong White Sox fan.
33:04
So ride, ride it. Just ride that wave to the end,
33:07
Jason. Ride the wave. All right. Well, thanks everyone
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