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Brewers & Phillies clinch, Mets snap L streak, Toronto AL East lock? · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: What up? Everybody?
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Speaker 2: Happy Monday afternoon to you. Welcome to Foul Territory. I
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Speaker 2: am Alana Rizzo, your host for the next couple of hours,
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Speaker 2: alongside these two gentlemen that you know very well, Eric Kratz,
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Speaker 2: Aj Pierzinski. Scott Braun is off this week, so happy
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Speaker 2: to be with you boys. Welcome to the show. Everybody
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0:28
Speaker 2: before we get into the nitty gritty of baseball, AJ,
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Speaker 2: you were there, Let's kinda let's go ahead and clear
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Speaker 2: this thing up with mister Ken Rosenthal, who is apparently
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Speaker 2: public enemy number one right now across the baseball world.
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Speaker 2: You were there, AJ, What really happened?
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Speaker 1: All right? First of all, anybody that knows Ken goes
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Speaker 1: that Ken is a nice guy. Okay, listen, Ken and
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Speaker 1: I joke a lot on the show. We work together,
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Speaker 1: Fox who work together here, We joke a lot. We
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Speaker 1: make a lot of fun of each other. But at
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Speaker 1: the end of the day, I want people to understand
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Speaker 1: the Ken roseal is a really nice guy and he
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Speaker 1: cares about other people. So that people that think that
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Speaker 1: Ken was trying to bully this guy or thinks he's
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Speaker 1: better than anybody else. Don't know Ken very well, all right,
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Speaker 1: that's the first thing. Second of all, when this happened,
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Speaker 1: I saw it live and I made fun of Ken
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Speaker 1: right after the game. I didn't know it was going
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Speaker 1: to turn into this viral sensation. I literally laughed at
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Speaker 1: him and I said, Ken, did you see yourself? You
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Speaker 1: looked down at him like this poor guy just got
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Speaker 1: run over by a little person. Okay, and look that's
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Speaker 1: like and Ken we Ken first of all said, I apologized.
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Speaker 1: I felt terrible about it. But he was also in
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Speaker 1: the middle of a live interview. Okay, not that that's
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Speaker 1: an excuse, but what Ken did afterwards, I know he
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Speaker 1: apologized profusely to the guy and said, I'm sorry. It
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Speaker 1: was a mistake. It happened. And here's my question for you. Alana,
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Speaker 1: you've done a million live interviews, Eric, You've done live
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Speaker 1: stuff happens in the middle of it. We were trying
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Speaker 1: to get the shot. We had Monasterio who had just
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Speaker 1: gotten the game winning hit in a while game, and
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Speaker 1: he was doing an interview in English, which was unbelievable
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Speaker 1: for him to do, and then this guy was in
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Speaker 1: our shot and we asked him repeatedly again not excuse me,
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Speaker 1: asked him to move, and then Ken didn't want to
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Speaker 1: get wet. Fine, he knew it was coming. He made
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Speaker 1: it into the guy. It happens. Ken's apologized. It's time
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Speaker 1: to move on people. It wasn't a big deal. It
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Speaker 1: wasn't a big thing. The guy who got hit took
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Speaker 1: it and understood, we all need to just chill. Okay,
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Speaker 1: just chill. It's fine, not a big deal.
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Speaker 2: I agree. First of all, it was during a live interview.
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Speaker 2: As you mentioned, it's very It's not like Ken can
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Speaker 2: go over to the guy in the middle of a
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Speaker 2: live interview AJ and Eric and apologize to him while
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Speaker 2: he's trying to interview a player on the field on
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Speaker 2: live television. Ken Rosenthal does not have a mean bone
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Speaker 2: in his body. Eric Kratz if the optics looked bad,
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Speaker 2: but that wasn't the whole story. Let's just put this
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Speaker 2: to bed, shall we.
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Speaker 1: Yes, If anybody's going to make fun of Ken, it's
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Speaker 1: going to be us. He's our Ken. We're going to
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Speaker 1: make fun of AJ gets the most. I get a
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Speaker 1: few jabs in here and there. Everybody else stay off it.
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Speaker 1: Just make sure everybody knows. Like this guy was also
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Speaker 1: asked to get out of the shot a couple times,
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Speaker 1: and like, you try it next time you hit your
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Speaker 1: head on something in your house, you bump your head.
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Speaker 1: See if like see if your reaction is like, oh,
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Speaker 1: man heat, Like he's a live shot, he's in the
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Speaker 1: game mode.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's put this a bad all right, Let's charge
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Speaker 2: the mound powered by MLB nine innings. Let's get to it, guys.
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Speaker 2: And the whole reason that Ken was there, of course,
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Speaker 2: is because the Brewers are doing some amazing things this year.
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Speaker 2: Every single milestone first to sixty wins, first to seventy wins,
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Speaker 2: first to eighty, first to ninety, first to clinch a
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Speaker 2: postseason Milwaukee does it in Milwaukee fashion, aj walking it
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Speaker 2: off in the tenth This is a pretty special team.
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Speaker 2: What have you noticed by watching this club throughout the year.
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Speaker 2: What's Pat Murphy doing well?
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Speaker 1: Well? Pat Murphy has a team that he loves. Okay,
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Speaker 1: Pat Murphy coaching college for a long time before he
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Speaker 1: got into the minor leagues and before he became a
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Speaker 1: big league manager. If you ever watch Pat Murphy's teams,
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Speaker 1: Dustin Pedroia, Jason Kidnis tho this they played for him.
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Speaker 1: They were hard news. They played defense, they pitched, they bunted,
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Speaker 1: they hit and ran, they stole bases, they kept pressure
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Speaker 1: on the other team. That's exactly what Pat Murphy has
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Speaker 1: here in the Brewers. He has a college team that
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Speaker 1: nobody else plays like. That's the biggest thing. And I
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Speaker 1: asked Ali Marmel on Saturday, who was the Cardinals? I said,
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Speaker 1: what are the Brewers do? He goes it's just constant pressure. Yes,
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Speaker 1: they have a couple guys that hit home runs, and
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Speaker 1: Yelli and Churio and Cantreres when he's going well. But
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, they are constantly on base,
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Speaker 1: they're constantly taking the extra base. They're constantly singling you
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Speaker 1: to death. They did all of this against the Cardinals
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Speaker 1: and hit zero home runs. It was not stolen base, knock,
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Speaker 1: good at bat, productive out, Let's get the guy over
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Speaker 1: infield hit because we're hustling. It was unbelievable watching this game.
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Speaker 1: You're like, oh, the Cardinals kept winning, they kept going up. Oh, no, boom,
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Speaker 1: hit boom, hit boom, hit boom, single single, And here's
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Speaker 1: an hit by Monasterio, but it was just amazing to watch.
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Speaker 1: This is I hate to say old school baseball, but
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Speaker 1: this is kind of old school baseball where they just
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Speaker 1: single you to death. They steal bases they bought, they
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Speaker 1: know their job. Oh there's a runnerund third. I think
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Speaker 1: Caturre's had three sack flies in this game to center field.
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Speaker 1: Like that's all the way baseball is meant to be played.
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Speaker 1: There's many ways to play baseball, and the Brewers are
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Speaker 1: the only ones that do it this way now and
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Speaker 1: that's why they're so tough.
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Speaker 2: And it works for them. And you know what, Eric,
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Speaker 2: they haven't won a postseason series since reaching Game seven
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Speaker 2: of the NL Championship Series in twenty eighteen, but they're
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Speaker 2: in the postseason crats every single year. Why can this
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Speaker 2: team be different? Why can they go further?
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Speaker 1: Because they do have what Aj said they don't need
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Speaker 1: is the power. They do have guys that are driving
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Speaker 1: the ball at the ballpark leading up to the playoffs here,
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Speaker 1: leading up to from the second half on, Bryce terrang
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Speaker 1: Yelly is the clear leader of this team and he
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Speaker 1: wants to play every single day, and I think that
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Speaker 1: permeates the rest of the guys and the rest of
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Speaker 1: the young guys in the locker room don't ever take
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Speaker 1: days off at bats off because that's the leadership that
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Speaker 1: he shows. But Bryce Terrang is a guy that has really,
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Speaker 1: I mean the amount of home runs he's hit since
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Speaker 1: I think it's even since the start of August, not
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Speaker 1: just July. He has been on a tear where you're
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Speaker 1: not sure if it's okay to try to get ahead
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Speaker 1: of this guy. And when you add that to the lineup,
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Speaker 1: you add in a guy like Rehys Hoskins who clearly
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Speaker 1: shows this lineup has depth. If he's not playing that much,
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Speaker 1: if he's coming back from the IL and he's kind
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Speaker 1: of more of a bench role, it's a deeper lineup.
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Speaker 1: I was on that eighteen team and we played the
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Speaker 1: exact same way. We fell short. We fell short in
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Speaker 1: Game seven. I feel like this team has because they
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Speaker 1: always do. They have enough pitching if somebody can step
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Speaker 1: in in McGill's absence to consistently close games out and
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Speaker 1: then have your rebay spot in the eighth inning filled
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Speaker 1: in like guys have to fill in. But I think
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Speaker 1: this team has a different look, a different feel in
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Speaker 1: their lineup than they did the other years when they
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Speaker 1: fell short.
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Speaker 2: Let me ask you guys this question. I want to
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Speaker 2: answer from both of you. All thirty teams. There's not
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Speaker 2: a standout team this year, right, There's not a team
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Speaker 2: that is by and large a runaway team to get it,
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Speaker 2: get to the World Series and win it. Every team
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Speaker 2: has its holes. So AJ will start with you. What
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Speaker 2: are the holes of the Brewers?
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Speaker 1: Well, McGill's out. They don't know who their closer is.
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Speaker 1: Rebay pitched Saturday. He hadn't pitch for a week. It's
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Speaker 1: got something going on. I don't know what it is,
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Speaker 1: but he missed a week before Saturday, came in and
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Speaker 1: pitched on Saturday. So their bullpen to me, has been good,
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Speaker 1: but without that lockdown closing. If it's a Rebay, that
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Speaker 1: winkens or other spots a little bit. So we'll see.
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Speaker 1: And then what they do with miss is a big thing.
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Speaker 1: What are they gonna do with miss Rowski? Is he
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Speaker 1: going to be a starter? Is he going to be
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Speaker 1: in the bullpen? But is even gonna be on the roster?
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Speaker 1: And then I also think, I know, I just pumped
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Speaker 1: them up for being this type of team, but not
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Speaker 1: hitting home runs and this do they have guys that
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Speaker 1: get home runs, yes, but do they hit home runs
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Speaker 1: to the to the way the Dodgers, the Yankees, even
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Speaker 1: the Blue Jays and some of these other teams can. Well,
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Speaker 1: we'll go in the National League the way the Phillies can,
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Speaker 1: the way the Dodgers can. That's their thing. Can they
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Speaker 1: score enough runs? Can they figure out a way? Because
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Speaker 1: I'll say this, teams in the postseason prepare for you
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Speaker 1: differently than they do a three game series in the
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Speaker 1: middle of July. It's just a thing. They will practice
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Speaker 1: butt defense, they'll practice first and third, they'll practice defending
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Speaker 1: the steal. Guys will slide step, guys will do different things.
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Speaker 1: So can they score enough runs? To me, it's can
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Speaker 1: they score enough runs? And what do they do with
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Speaker 1: the bullpen? AMZ you can? I mean I think we
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Speaker 1: look back in twenty twenty three, people ask is this
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Speaker 1: going to is this type of offense going to play
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Speaker 1: in the postseason twenty twenty three, the Diamondbacks were that team,
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Speaker 1: that type of team going into it. What did they do?
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Speaker 1: How they beat the Dodgers at beat the Dodgers and
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Speaker 1: beat the Brewers? They hit dingers. That's how like I know,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to say, well, you gotta hit dingers
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Speaker 1: to win the world to win the World Series, or
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Speaker 1: to make it to the World Series. I think that's
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Speaker 1: the reality of it. You have to figure out how
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Speaker 1: to hit dingers. And I think that's the difference is
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Speaker 1: they have guys who will be able to drive the
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Speaker 1: ball the ballpark. Ultimately, it's who gets hot. Ultimately, all
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Speaker 1: that is fine and dandy, but they figure out how
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Speaker 1: to win games. And I think that is the difference
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Speaker 1: in teams who lose in Game five of the Division
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Speaker 1: Series or lose in Game seven, is to win those games,
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Speaker 1: you have to figure out how to get something around
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Speaker 1: the edges you might not get to. Let's see, who
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Speaker 1: are they gonna draw in the first round. They're gonna
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Speaker 1: either get the Cubs as of now, the Cubs, or
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Speaker 1: it wouldn't be the Mets or Dodgers, it would be
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Speaker 1: the Padres. How do you scratch runs out against their bullpen? Well,
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Speaker 1: you know what, you might not so you might have
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Speaker 1: to scratch runs out against you Darvis Dylan Cees, Nick
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Speaker 1: Pavetta like, that's what they're learning throughout this season is
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Speaker 1: how to win ballgames, not how to hit home runs.
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Speaker 2: Let me ask you guys this. The Philadelphia Phillies have
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Speaker 2: also clinched a postseason spot. They're the second team right
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Speaker 2: behind the Brewers. However, they have not clinched the NL
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Speaker 2: East yet. Of course, the Central belongs to Milwaukee. How
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Speaker 2: important is it, you guys in terms of seeding and
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Speaker 2: how important is it aj for Philadelphia to clinch the East?
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Speaker 1: Uh? Well, I think right now the Brewers are we sorry,
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Speaker 1: the Phillies are thinking about more than just the East.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they've won the East. East is over. Okay,
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Speaker 1: let's get that. They want the one seed. I don't
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Speaker 1: think there's more one team that has a bigger home
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Speaker 1: field advantage than the Phillies. I think the Brewers are
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Speaker 1: a close second. Meaning the Brewers want home field throughout
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Speaker 1: the whole way, and I think it would mean more
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Speaker 1: to them. But to me, the Phillies want the one seed.
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Speaker 1: I think they're one game behind the Brewers right now
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Speaker 1: for the first seed. That's what they want. Like the East,
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Speaker 1: the East has done, East was done. East has been done. Okay,
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Speaker 1: when they swept the Mets again, the East is done
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Speaker 1: and the Mets are out of the East. They're hoping
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Speaker 1: to hang on to a wild card. But to me,
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Speaker 1: the two teams that need home field more than any
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Speaker 1: are the Phillies. But to me, the Brewers are the
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Speaker 1: two that need the home field, and that's what they're
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Speaker 1: fighting for. They're both gonna get the buye. They're both
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Speaker 1: gonna get the buye, but home field is important to
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Speaker 1: those two.
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Speaker 2: Eric Phillies playing Los Angeles next in terms of the series,
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Speaker 2: they have a chance to clinch it there. Do they
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Speaker 2: do it? Do you think they do it in La?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? I think I think it's Yeah, I think I
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Speaker 1: think it's one game. I think they have to win
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Speaker 1: because they could have clinched it at home and they
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Speaker 1: were leading the game and then gave up six in
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Speaker 1: the fifth or sixth inning yesterday. But yes, I completely agree.
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Speaker 1: The Phillies have fifty one wins at home, the Brewers
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Speaker 1: a forty eight wins at home. Dodgers are forty eight
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Speaker 1: wins at home also, but that is a huge, huge
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Speaker 1: home road split, and playing at Citizens Park for the
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Speaker 1: Phillies has been a house of hors for teams. In
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Speaker 1: the last two seasons. They have over one hundred. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think they have one hundred and two wins. Now,
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Speaker 1: I think they won two this weekend. One hundred and
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Speaker 1: two or one hundred and three wins in the last
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Speaker 1: two seasons at home is crazy. So yes, you want
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Speaker 1: to play because you won't play the Brewers until a
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Speaker 1: seven game series. You would much rather play four games
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Speaker 1: at home than three games at home. People say it's
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Speaker 1: just one game. It's a big difference. When you get
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Speaker 1: two at home right away and then you got to
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Speaker 1: go to someone else's place and play three, it's a big, big,
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Speaker 1: big advantage.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's insane that last week it seemed like it
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Speaker 2: was only a two horse race in the National League
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Speaker 2: wild Card. Now it seems like a four team frenzy.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 2: Time Now for better than box scores, Let's talk a
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Speaker 2: little bit about the Toronto Blue Jays Boys. Toronto has
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Speaker 2: a four game lead over in the New York Yankees,
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Speaker 2: a five and a half game lead over a Boston
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Speaker 2: Are they for real? Are you believing this.
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Speaker 1: Over? Yeah? Al least is over, you think so?
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Speaker 2: Two weeks left, it's over. Why do you say that,
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Speaker 2: Why are you so confident in that?
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Speaker 1: Because I haven't seen the blips from the Blue Jays.
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Speaker 1: They've kind of like ironed out a little bit of
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Speaker 1: that that bullpen issue that they had them. I say
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Speaker 1: it's part perfect. I'm not saying they're a perfect team,
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Speaker 1: because as we've said throughout the entire show, it's not.
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Speaker 1: It's not a perfect team. But the two teams chasing
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Speaker 1: them I don't think have enough in them, especially Boston
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Speaker 1: without Anthony with that and the Yankees without their bullpen
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Speaker 1: being locked down like you would think they would when
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Speaker 1: you see the names. I just don't think there's enough
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Speaker 1: to catch this team because they have something that none
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Speaker 1: of the teams we've talked about have starting pitching night
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Speaker 1: in and night out, that you're like, this guy could
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Speaker 1: go seven, he could go six, he could give them
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Speaker 1: another quality start. They have it. They have it in droves.
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Speaker 1: They put Eric lower, who was giving them quality starts
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Speaker 1: night in and night out, into the bullpen.
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Speaker 2: Isn't that crazy, Aja what Eric just said that they've
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Speaker 2: ironed out the blips. I feel like every year at
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Speaker 2: this point of the season, Toronto implodes in some way.
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Speaker 2: This seems like the most complete Toronto Blue Jays team
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Speaker 2: we've seen in some time. Is that fair?
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Speaker 1: Absolutely? Their pitching is great, Their their offense and defense
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Speaker 1: have been really good. They're bullpenning there so some blips
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Speaker 1: in the bullpen, but we'll see what happens with them.
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Speaker 1: But I know this, the American League is gonna have
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Speaker 1: to go through Toronto. You're gonna have to go to
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Speaker 1: Toronto and win games, and that is not the easiest
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Speaker 1: place on earth to go to to win. It gets loud,
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Speaker 1: it gets crazy. We saw Whacken when they were good,
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Speaker 1: you know, twenty fifteen with the batflip and all that stuff.
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Speaker 1: When the place gets rocking, it is not an easy
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Speaker 1: place for them to go. So I think this team
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Speaker 1: has a great opportunity to not only obviously win the East.
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Speaker 1: East is over. They're four games up with what eleven
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Speaker 1: to play. They should have that locked down, and then
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Speaker 1: also represent the American League in the World Series. Just
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Speaker 1: because everyone has to come to Toronto and everyone says, oh,
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Speaker 1: you know, da da da da this, and that everyone
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Speaker 1: still doesn't understand how good Toronto can be. When that
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Speaker 1: country in that stadium gets behind them, they are incredible.
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Speaker 1: It is loud if the roof is closed, Holy cow,
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Speaker 1: it is so loud in that place. And they play
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Speaker 1: great at home. So I think they're in a great spot.
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Speaker 1: I think not only to win the East, but to
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Speaker 1: win the American League.
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Speaker 2: This is funny too because John Schnyder was saying that
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Speaker 2: Donnie Baseball Don Mattingly remarked that how much of the
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Speaker 2: Blue Jays appear to be enjoying the run? What I
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Speaker 2: mean by that is like, it's like the sandlot, Manningly
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Speaker 2: told Schneider. These guys are just out playing baseball and
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Speaker 2: having fun. You guys have been in this game for
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Speaker 2: a very long time. It's one thing when you're winning.
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Speaker 2: It's another thing entirely when you're winning and you're having
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Speaker 2: a really good time doing it. How much does that
17:26
Speaker 2: play into the success that they're having?
17:27
Speaker 1: Aka, I mean, what comes first? The chicken in the egg?
17:34
Speaker 1: Were they stressed when they traded for Louis Varlin and
17:39
Speaker 1: he was not pitching like the guy that they thought,
17:41
Speaker 1: Oh no, this is bad. Jeamy Garcia was supposed to
17:44
Speaker 1: be coming back during that time. He's down. He's not
17:47
Speaker 1: coming back. Jeff Hoffman like, are they happy and having fun?
17:51
Speaker 1: When things are going bad, that would be my question,
17:55
Speaker 1: and to say, oh, they're happy and having fun. Now
17:58
Speaker 1: you have to embody that at all times. And that's
18:03
Speaker 1: why some teams get complacent when they have a four
18:05
Speaker 1: and a half game lead, because they're like, you know what, hey,
18:09
Speaker 1: we lose this game. So what you have to take
18:12
Speaker 1: that enjoyment and embodiment of sandlot baseball all the way
18:17
Speaker 1: into the postseason. When you are going to the ballpark
18:21
Speaker 1: at twelve o'clock and people are already outside of the
18:25
Speaker 1: stadium in Toronto, it feels like the people are on
18:28
Speaker 1: top of you and it's just a different environment. Can
18:32
Speaker 1: they keep that same sandlot environment? Yes, I think so
18:35
Speaker 1: because of the guys that they have at the top.
18:39
Speaker 1: They have a veteran in George Springer, and they have
18:42
Speaker 1: two still young guys who know what it's like to
18:45
Speaker 1: not win in Toronto in Bobashet and Vladimir Guerrera Junior.
18:51
Speaker 1: Everybody else that's there, because Santandre's really not a big
18:55
Speaker 1: piece right now. He might be down the stretch here,
18:57
Speaker 1: but everybody else is kind of filling in earning their spot.
19:02
Speaker 1: They're enjoying it. They don't know the you know the
19:05
Speaker 1: angst of twenty twenty three when they took when they
19:08
Speaker 1: brought in Kokuchi out of the bullpen, or was it
19:10
Speaker 1: Kokuchie or was it Reu Anyway, whoever it was, they
19:13
Speaker 1: pulled them too early. They don't know the angst of that.
19:15
Speaker 1: So yeah, they're having fun. They have to keep this
19:17
Speaker 1: fun once they make the playoffs.
19:22
Speaker 2: It's a great team. It's been a lot of fun
19:24
Speaker 2: to watch. We had Dan Shulman on the show the
19:26
Speaker 2: last time I was hosting, and the energy is there.
19:29
Speaker 2: It's almost like the energy when the Red Sox were
19:32
Speaker 2: playing really well in Fenway. That's what Toronto and Rogers
19:35
Speaker 2: Center has been like all season long. We will be
19:37
Speaker 2: right back, guys. I want your take on this. Bill Plunkett,
19:41
Speaker 2: who writes for the Orange County Register, covers the Dodgers
19:44
Speaker 2: Tanner Scott saying this, I don't know if I'm tipping
19:46
Speaker 2: or what, but they're on everything. It sucks. It was
19:48
Speaker 2: a fastball above the zone. Maybe I'm tipping. I have
19:51
Speaker 2: no friggin clue right now. It's terrible. I'm having the
19:54
Speaker 2: worst year of my life. I got to be better. Obviously,
19:57
Speaker 2: given up a lot of runs this year. The closer
20:01
Speaker 2: of the Los Angeles Dodgers. I mean it stinks. You
20:03
Speaker 2: feel badly for the guy. Obviously he signed a big contract.
20:06
Speaker 2: Not getting the job done a j What is he doing?
20:09
Speaker 2: Is he tipping? What's going on with him?
20:12
Speaker 1: He's getting hit. This is why relievers are so volatile,
20:14
Speaker 1: because when you're there, the best believer you've ever seen.
20:16
Speaker 1: In the next year, they're making mistakes and guys aren't
20:19
Speaker 1: missing him in the zone, And when you're the closer,
20:21
Speaker 1: everything gets magnified. In the ninth inning, the three hardest
20:24
Speaker 1: douts in baseball. I don't care what anyone says. Going
20:26
Speaker 1: from the eighth of the ninth is the biggest jump
20:28
Speaker 1: in baseball relieving because the bouts. People pay more attention
20:32
Speaker 1: to those last three outs than the eighth, and they
20:34
Speaker 1: all add up to the same. But for some reason,
20:35
Speaker 1: those three outs of the night they're harder. So is
20:38
Speaker 1: he doing anything different? When I watch him, he looks
20:39
Speaker 1: like he's just missing location. He's throwing a lot more
20:41
Speaker 1: strikes in the middle of the plate and teams are
20:43
Speaker 1: ready for. When you're really a two pitch guy, you
20:45
Speaker 1: got to be perfect, and he hasn't been perfect. I
20:48
Speaker 1: would say something almost what AJ said. He's not walking enough. Guys.
20:53
Speaker 1: I know that's crazy, but he has his career low
20:58
Speaker 1: walk percentage. Maybe easy go alizone with that slider or
21:02
Speaker 1: higher than high with the heater.
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Speaker 2: All right, guys, this just in. The Angels stink. Sam
22:10
Speaker 2: Blum tweeted the Angels today eliminated from aos contention, got
22:13
Speaker 2: swept in four games, clinched tenth straight season without a
22:16
Speaker 2: winning record, struck out eighteen times and sixty two times
22:19
Speaker 2: over the series. Use their sixth position player of the
22:22
Speaker 2: season as a picture. It is a bad product, Aj Pierzinski.
22:26
Speaker 2: You cannot continue to do the same things and expect
22:29
Speaker 2: different results. That is the definition of insanity. That is
22:32
Speaker 2: the Angels.
22:34
Speaker 1: What was What did Dennis Screens say in Arizona?
22:36
Speaker 2: They are we are who we thought we were or whatever.
22:41
Speaker 1: So that's pretty much what they are with the Angels.
22:44
Speaker 1: They don't sign pictures, they don't make smart moves. They
22:47
Speaker 1: kind of go on a whim. There's not a lot
22:49
Speaker 1: of continuity there. And I feel bad for Perimnes and
22:52
Speaker 1: he seems like a really good GM and what he
22:55
Speaker 1: does and he trying, but it sometimes he gets overruled.
22:58
Speaker 1: And I'm mean Ron Washington goes out this year, Mike
23:01
Speaker 1: Trout isn't having the best year. Joe Adell's been a
23:04
Speaker 1: right spot for him. I'll say that Shanwell, Netto and
23:07
Speaker 1: Adele that's a pretty good little threesome to start your
23:10
Speaker 1: team with there. I don't know. It's the Angels. They
23:13
Speaker 1: haven't been good for so long. Now it's like, what
23:15
Speaker 1: do you do?
23:17
Speaker 2: Move the team?
23:20
Speaker 1: May Oh, that's not happened. We've seen that owners aren't
23:22
Speaker 1: selling because they know they have all the answers. But
23:26
Speaker 1: maybe now they have that young position player corps that
23:30
Speaker 1: Arty Moreno loves and he'll be like, hey, sure you
23:34
Speaker 1: can go and get this picture for the offseason. Maybe
23:39
Speaker 1: I don't know, like I see him like signing like
23:41
Speaker 1: a Framber Valdez or something, because Arti Moreno was like, well,
23:44
Speaker 1: I saw him pitch good against us.
23:49
Speaker 2: In the Weeds. Two weeks left in the regular season,
23:52
Speaker 2: which MLB contenders. Aj Pierzinski have the toughest road to
23:56
Speaker 2: the playoffs? Breaking down the schedules Part three. This from
23:59
Speaker 2: the Athletics, Even Nesbit and Chad Jennings with a article
24:03
Speaker 2: in The Athletic. What do you think which teams playoffs chances?
24:07
Speaker 2: Are following the Are we following the closest?
24:09
Speaker 1: Too?
24:09
Speaker 2: Has the toughest road? Aja in your opinion?
24:14
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, I mean I'm looking at these and the
24:16
Speaker 1: one that stands out to me is I know, Seattle
24:18
Speaker 1: ends at home, but they got to go east of
24:21
Speaker 1: Spokane the next six games, and they go to Kansas City,
24:24
Speaker 1: who's still live in the playoffs, and they got to
24:26
Speaker 1: go to Houston, which obviously is still alive in the postseason.
24:29
Speaker 1: So then where they stand after this next week, that's
24:31
Speaker 1: the That's the key for me. Uh just who do
24:35
Speaker 1: they how do they survive the Yeah, I mean they
24:38
Speaker 1: get the Rockies, but then the end of the Dodgers,
24:39
Speaker 1: and those Dodgers games could possibly still mean something. So
24:43
Speaker 1: to me, it's Seattle just because they have to go
24:44
Speaker 1: on the road and they don't do very well on
24:47
Speaker 1: the road. Again, like I said, east of Spokane, if
24:50
Speaker 1: they have to get to like Idaho, they're in trouble.
24:53
Speaker 2: What do you think, ek Is it Seattle? Is it Houston?
24:57
Speaker 2: I mean Seattle has the schedule all year just becau
25:00
Speaker 2: is of a distance and all of the length of travel.
25:02
Speaker 2: But what do you think in terms of who they
25:04
Speaker 2: have left?
25:06
Speaker 1: Yes, I think I think they're definitely they definitely have
25:08
Speaker 1: tough teams left. I don't think the Royals are playing
25:11
Speaker 1: very well. So the Mariners, you know, maybe have an easy,
25:16
Speaker 1: easy transition into this road trip for them. But I
25:19
Speaker 1: think I think Houston. Houston is just not playing this
25:24
Speaker 1: unbelievable style of baseball right now that I think we're
25:27
Speaker 1: accustomed to where it's like, Okay, we're going to just
25:30
Speaker 1: put our foot on the gas and make the playoffs,
25:33
Speaker 1: win the division, and do what we always do every
25:36
Speaker 1: year in October. I really think if you're talking from
25:40
Speaker 1: today on, I think the Astros have the tougher road
25:45
Speaker 1: because right now, when it's close, that's when you want
25:48
Speaker 1: to play the easy teams so you can maybe make
25:51
Speaker 1: some separation or make up ground. It is when you
25:56
Speaker 1: make you gain that you gain some ground on the Rangers.
25:59
Speaker 1: Maybe the Mariners lose and you know, then you gain
26:03
Speaker 1: you gain some ground on them. But you're sitting there
26:06
Speaker 1: and you go, pressure's on right now, like we gotta
26:09
Speaker 1: get going. You want to play the easy. You always
26:13
Speaker 1: want to play the easier teams. You always want to
26:14
Speaker 1: play at home. I do believe it is Seattle, But
26:17
Speaker 1: I can see how you would say, hey, Houston, Houston's
26:20
Speaker 1: in a rough spot right now. They haven't been playing well.
26:23
Speaker 1: Seattle has been winning, but it was at home. So
26:26
Speaker 1: do they know the confidence that we don't have in
26:28
Speaker 1: them on the road? Who knows?
26:31
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this. So the Astros playoff chances
26:34
Speaker 2: right now seventy two point six percent. The key series
26:36
Speaker 2: is we've discussed September fifteenth. That's today. You're the twenty
26:39
Speaker 2: first versus Texas and Seattle. Which team below you? Guys?
26:43
Speaker 2: Do we think is too high or too low? If
26:46
Speaker 2: you're looking at the playoff chances for certain teams? The
26:50
Speaker 2: Mets playoff chances eighty point one percent, Astro's playoff chances
26:53
Speaker 2: seventy two point six percent, Red Sox ninety point four,
26:57
Speaker 2: Mariners ninety six point four, Yankees ninety nine point four.
27:02
Speaker 2: They're basically in right. Giants playoff chances nine point seven,
27:06
Speaker 2: Guardians playoff chances eleven point three. Who's too high? Who's
27:11
Speaker 2: too low? Let me know if I need to repeat
27:13
Speaker 2: those percentage.
27:15
Speaker 1: I think they're about right. I don't think there's one
27:17
Speaker 1: because I don't think the Giants are getting in. I
27:18
Speaker 1: don't think the Guardians are getting in. I think eleven
27:20
Speaker 1: point three for the Guardians is too high. I think
27:22
Speaker 1: even almost ten percent for the Giants is too high,
27:24
Speaker 1: just because the Mets just went through the bottom of
27:27
Speaker 1: the bottom and I feel like they're going to win
27:29
Speaker 1: some games down the stretch here. I mean, I know
27:31
Speaker 1: it's crazy to say that because the way they've been playing,
27:33
Speaker 1: but every team goes to ups and downs, and the
27:35
Speaker 1: Mets just went through it, and that win yesterday was
27:37
Speaker 1: huge for them. So I think the I think the
27:40
Speaker 1: Red Sox are in. I think the Yankees are in.
27:42
Speaker 1: I think the Mariners are in. I think the Astros
27:44
Speaker 1: are in, and so I think the Metsros. I think
27:46
Speaker 1: there are about right. I can't say that any or
27:47
Speaker 1: too high. Have anything some of the out teams outside
27:50
Speaker 1: looking in is too high. Think I think the Astros.
27:54
Speaker 1: I think the Astros that's seventy percent is too low.
27:58
Speaker 1: I think they have a much higher percentage chance. We
28:01
Speaker 1: just talked about who has the toughest road, and I
28:03
Speaker 1: said the Astros, Yes, but they control their own destiny.
28:08
Speaker 1: So to me, I feel like the Astros just figure
28:13
Speaker 1: out how to win. So I feel like that number
28:15
Speaker 1: if if the Mets, who have been just going through
28:19
Speaker 1: it and have no pitching, can be at eighty percent,
28:22
Speaker 1: I feel like the Astros should be more like an
28:25
Speaker 1: eighty or eighty five percent. I just think I think
28:27
Speaker 1: the playoffs are set. I think the teams are set.
28:31
Speaker 1: But it's good fodder to talk about here on the show.
28:35
Speaker 2: What do you think is more unlikely the Mets playoff
28:38
Speaker 2: chances at eighty point one? I think that's too high,
28:41
Speaker 2: but I get your point that they've just gone through
28:43
Speaker 2: a horrible lull they're bound to bounce back at some point.
28:47
Speaker 2: Or the Guardians at eleven point I would the Guardians
28:49
Speaker 2: weren't even in my periphery, like, there's no way the
28:52
Speaker 2: Guardians are making the postseason, But I don't think the
28:55
Speaker 2: Mets are either.
28:57
Speaker 1: You don't think the Mets are gonna make it?
28:59
Speaker 2: I don't.
29:01
Speaker 1: So who do you think is gonna make it over them?
29:04
Speaker 2: I don't know. I could see I could see the
29:06
Speaker 2: Giants or the Diamondbacks moving in.
29:10
Speaker 1: Really I think there. I think all three are teams
29:13
Speaker 1: that are just pooh poop kind of what I said
29:16
Speaker 1: about the Blue Jays losing the American League East. I
29:21
Speaker 1: just don't see how the other two teams below on
29:23
Speaker 1: the Red Sox and Yankees, have enough to overtake them.
29:27
Speaker 1: I don't see how the Giants. To me, I thought
29:30
Speaker 1: the team that had the chance was the reds They
29:33
Speaker 1: to knock the Mets out because they had that tie
29:37
Speaker 1: breaker had they finished the season. Because that tie breaker
29:40
Speaker 1: is huge. It's essentially like a three game lead instead
29:43
Speaker 1: of or a two game lead instead of a three
29:46
Speaker 1: game lead. And I thought if they stayed in it,
29:50
Speaker 1: I think they're two and a half now. It's too much.
29:54
Speaker 1: I think it's too much. I just don't So you
29:56
Speaker 1: think the Mets don't make it, Wow, that would be
29:59
Speaker 1: we would we would have something to talk about, you
30:02
Speaker 1: know What's insane?
30:02
Speaker 2: Though, I don't think the Mets make it, and I
30:05
Speaker 2: didn't think the Yankees were going to make it. Obviously,
30:09
Speaker 2: I'm probably pretty wrong about the Yankees, considering the Yankees
30:12
Speaker 2: playoff chances are now ninety nine point four percent, but
30:15
Speaker 2: I did not think two weeks ago the Yankees were
30:17
Speaker 2: going to make it. Just goes to show.
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Speaker 2: Katie Wu does a great job covering the Cardinals. You
31:23
Speaker 2: can catch them also on Foul Territory with Cardinals Territory.
31:27
Speaker 2: Mason Winn thanked the training staff for allowing him to
31:29
Speaker 2: play through a meniscus tear e he likely suffered months ago.
31:33
Speaker 2: They could have shut me down three or four months ago,
31:35
Speaker 2: but they let me go out there and play. That's
31:36
Speaker 2: all I asked for. His season is over, guys, which
31:39
Speaker 2: is a bummer all inmormal announcing that, but just the
31:44
Speaker 2: thought of that playing through a meniscus tear seems ouch. Thoughts.
31:52
Speaker 1: What a great I mean, what a great year he
31:57
Speaker 1: had actually, and they were super proud of of how
32:01
Speaker 1: awesome he had of a year. By the way, do
32:02
Speaker 1: you guys know how many errors he made on the
32:04
Speaker 1: whole year, the whole year? Without looking? How many errors
32:07
Speaker 1: did Mason win playing one hundred and thirty games at
32:09
Speaker 1: shortstop this year? Three? Three? Ye gien, hear that off
32:14
Speaker 1: the top of your head craft Yeah I didn't, I didn't.
32:16
Speaker 1: I just guessed three. He made three three errors for
32:20
Speaker 1: the whole year playing shortstop every day. Three. So that's
32:23
Speaker 1: a credit to him and the Cardinals coaching staff. And
32:26
Speaker 1: how much he's improved. Three errors at shortstop all year
32:29
Speaker 1: with a tornamentiscus pretty impressive. It's impressive because I know
32:33
Speaker 1: I got a call from a player the other day
32:35
Speaker 1: who was being shut down by his team who is
32:39
Speaker 1: going to make the playoffs, and he was like, I
32:41
Speaker 1: don't want to be shut down. I want to make
32:44
Speaker 1: it back. I can make it back with one week
32:46
Speaker 1: to play. And he was like, what do you think
32:48
Speaker 1: you're He said, what do you think I should do?
32:50
Speaker 1: I was like, well, you can get a second opinion.
32:52
Speaker 1: I said, you can tell him you can play. But
32:54
Speaker 1: there are teams that don't allow this. So for Mason
32:57
Speaker 1: Win to understand that and appreciate that and say that
33:01
Speaker 1: about his training staff, it's a lot. For a young
33:05
Speaker 1: guy to say that and understand that that is huge.
33:07
Speaker 1: And for a young guy to come out and say
33:09
Speaker 1: that he played through injury, pain whatever, it was also huge.
33:14
Speaker 2: Can a player fight, though, ek to get on that
33:17
Speaker 2: postseason roster if the team's like you're not playing, I mean,
33:21
Speaker 2: what what is his what is his right there?
33:24
Speaker 1: You can fight, You can fight for it. You can
33:26
Speaker 1: say I want to and you can start your throwing progression,
33:29
Speaker 1: you can start your hitting progression whatever it is. But ultimately,
33:33
Speaker 1: I think I don't know what the rule is, but
33:36
Speaker 1: they ultimately say, well, no, you're not active yet. So
33:39
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know.
33:41
Speaker 2: Hm, Guys, how much of a difference does it make
33:50
Speaker 2: that the Mets actually snapped that losing streak. Does that
33:53
Speaker 2: catapult them into some positivity?
33:55
Speaker 1: Aj I said it. I said that was a huge
33:58
Speaker 1: win for him. They won, they're stolen, they're still in
34:00
Speaker 1: place of being at the postseason. I think that was
34:02
Speaker 1: a huge win for him. I think they're going to
34:04
Speaker 1: be better now. Listen again, it goes like this, it
34:06
Speaker 1: goes like this, it goes like this. They've been down.
34:09
Speaker 1: I think they're going to find figure out a way
34:11
Speaker 1: to turn it around here, and I think they're going
34:13
Speaker 1: to get in. I still think they're going to get in,
34:15
Speaker 1: even though a lot of your bet against them, I'm not.
34:18
Speaker 1: I am not.
34:19
Speaker 2: I am betting against them, but I'm never right. So,
34:21
Speaker 2: I mean, the Mets hold the tiebreaker over San fran Eric,
34:24
Speaker 2: but not over the Reds, who look lurk. Easy for
34:27
Speaker 2: me to say two and a half games back. The
34:29
Speaker 2: d Backs jump the Reds with their win over the
34:31
Speaker 2: Twins on Sunday, they remain two games back of the Mets.
34:34
Speaker 2: I don't know. I guess I'd just rather see the
34:37
Speaker 2: Diamondbacks in than the Mets whatever. But they're getting in
34:42
Speaker 2: in order in what you're saying, correct, Uka, I mean,
34:45
Speaker 2: here's the national and wild card standings. I'd like to
34:48
Speaker 2: see Arizona in. I don't know it is what it is.
34:50
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm an NL West girl.
34:52
Speaker 1: I do believe. I do believe they will get in.
34:54
Speaker 1: I think it's awesome that we have this discussion. Three
34:59
Speaker 1: teams within striking distance. I think the other teams are
35:02
Speaker 1: just too flawed to get there. I think had the
35:06
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks not gotten rid of a Henneo Suarez and Josh Naylor,
35:11
Speaker 1: maybe they would catch them. I think if there's a
35:13
Speaker 1: team that I think could catch them, there would be
35:15
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks. But yes, this is huge. They had lost
35:18
Speaker 1: eight in a row. Edwin Diaz was in and he
35:21
Speaker 1: gave up runs, and you're like, oh my gosh, we're
35:24
Speaker 1: gonna lose. We got an off day tomorrow, We're gonna
35:27
Speaker 1: lose another game. We're gonna lose nine in a row,
35:31
Speaker 1: and then we have to sit at home thinking about
35:32
Speaker 1: it the whole time. Yes, it was huge, it was huge,
35:36
Speaker 1: But the problem still looms Besides Nolan McLain, who else
35:40
Speaker 1: is gonna pitch well for him? Besides Edwin Diaz, who
35:44
Speaker 1: else is gonna pitch well? For him? You almost can't
35:47
Speaker 1: use Ryan Helsley. And every game from here on out
35:50
Speaker 1: is a do or die game. So yes, I'm still
35:54
Speaker 1: worried about the Mets, but I agree with AJ. I
35:57
Speaker 1: think they're gonna get in. I just think it is
35:59
Speaker 1: too much, too much to get past them right now
36:03
Speaker 1: for the Giants. For the Reds, we're two and a
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Speaker 1: half back. I know the tie breakers there, but it's tough.
36:10
Speaker 1: The Mets would have to come out and really keep
36:12
Speaker 1: crapping the bed.
36:14
Speaker 2: So if the Mets get in, do they completely reset
36:17
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden they become dangerous? Or are
36:20
Speaker 2: they equally as weak as they limp into the postseason?
36:23
Speaker 2: Will they be equally as weak in the playoffs?
36:26
Speaker 1: Not if they're pitching doesn't get better, right, Not if
36:29
Speaker 1: they're pitching doesn't get better than what it's been. They
36:31
Speaker 1: can limp in all they want, but you're not. You're
36:33
Speaker 1: only as dangerous as you're pitching and your hitting is.
36:35
Speaker 1: And right now, their hitting has been okay, it hasn't
36:37
Speaker 1: been great, it's been far from great. But their pitching
36:40
Speaker 1: has been the real story, especially the starters and their bullpen,
36:42
Speaker 1: I mean, Diaz Hellsley, all those guys, Rogers at the
36:45
Speaker 1: back end have not been what they thought. So it's
36:48
Speaker 1: been it's been kind of a mess in Mets Land.
36:54
Speaker 1: If I'm looking at it like just in a very
36:56
Speaker 1: thirty thousand foot view kind of thing. They play about
37:00
Speaker 1: a six to seven inning game with their pitching. Their
37:03
Speaker 1: starters go four to five innings. Then you have Rogers
37:09
Speaker 1: who has done well, and I think you can trust
37:11
Speaker 1: DZ from there, like you're in the sixth or seventh inning.
37:16
Speaker 1: I know it's not they're not going to go right
37:18
Speaker 1: into those guys. But when you look at the playoffs,
37:20
Speaker 1: you're going your best, dude. So you're going Nolan McClain,
37:24
Speaker 1: David Peterson right now, and then you have Game three,
37:28
Speaker 1: and then you have like this is this is where
37:31
Speaker 1: the Mets have to They have to find some magic.
37:34
Speaker 1: That's what happens in the playoffs. But they have to
37:36
Speaker 1: find magic. They have to find somebody who's going to
37:40
Speaker 1: give them those last two innings, whether it's the fifth
37:44
Speaker 1: inning and sixth inning, to bridge to seven, eight nine,
37:48
Speaker 1: you might be able to get Rogers, and Rogers and
37:50
Speaker 1: DZ might be able to give you six outs. But
37:53
Speaker 1: right now, unless this offense, which they can they have
37:56
Speaker 1: the capability of doing it, just absolutely start mashing in
38:00
Speaker 1: is hot hot, red hot going into the playoffs. I
38:04
Speaker 1: have a tough time backing the Mets right now.
38:07
Speaker 2: Let's assume the Mets get in postseason starts tomorrow, three
38:11
Speaker 2: game series. Who has the most lethal starting rotation in
38:15
Speaker 2: the National League? Of the teams that are in.
38:18
Speaker 1: Are the Dodgers, Yamato, Glassdown, Snow? Yeah, I mean, who
38:23
Speaker 1: else would it be? Philly's gonna have to play a
38:28
Speaker 1: three game series.
38:29
Speaker 2: I'm just saying if it was no, no, No, I'm not.
38:31
Speaker 2: I'm not We're not doing the bracket. I'm just saying,
38:33
Speaker 2: of the three teams everyone's in, of the teams that
38:35
Speaker 2: are in, who has the most lethal?
38:38
Speaker 1: For me, it's still Yama Moto, Glassnow, and Snow if
38:40
Speaker 1: they're on proper rest and they're right. I mean, Glasnow
38:43
Speaker 1: has has given up like one hit in like twenty innings.
38:45
Speaker 1: It's been crazy how good he's been and ya had
38:49
Speaker 1: a great year. We all know what Blake Snow can
38:51
Speaker 1: do and he's done it in the playoffs. So for me,
38:52
Speaker 1: it's not it's those three, Okay, New York. I don't
38:56
Speaker 1: think it's even close. I mean, even if doesn't catch.
39:01
Speaker 1: I mean, these guys are there. I joke about that,
39:04
Speaker 1: but he's done an amazing job back there like they
39:08
Speaker 1: are they are. If there's any type of unit that
39:12
Speaker 1: you're talking about from a team, whether it's pitching, starting, starting, pitching, bullpen,
39:17
Speaker 1: or a lineup, I don't think there's a better unit
39:21
Speaker 1: that's getting hot going into the playoffs than the starting
39:25
Speaker 1: rotation that the top end of the starting rotation for
39:28
Speaker 1: the Dodgers.
39:30
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I like that before we go to break.
39:33
Speaker 1: Really, Alana, think about this, think about this for the
39:37
Speaker 1: two wildcard matchups right now? Two of the four wildcard
39:39
Speaker 1: matchups Dodgers Mets and Yankees Red Sox Phenomens, right, I mean,
39:45
Speaker 1: how good is how good going to be?
39:48
Speaker 2: Speak speaking of Yankees Red Sox, You guys, Red Sox,
39:52
Speaker 2: that six run first inning yesterday really helped them because
39:54
Speaker 2: they needed everything because the Yankees were working their way
39:56
Speaker 2: back into the game. Yanks went on Saturday. Obviously, Crochet
40:01
Speaker 2: amazing if those two meet up in the postseason, Yankees
40:06
Speaker 2: lost the season series, But it's how good are you
40:08
Speaker 2: playing right now? Who you taking.
40:13
Speaker 1: Crochet lined up for game one? Because he's done, he's
40:16
Speaker 1: pretty much he's done really well against Yankees.
40:18
Speaker 2: Hey, you got to figure Crochet, Bao Gilio, right.
40:21
Speaker 1: That's three against three Rodan and Heel.
40:26
Speaker 2: My guess is yes, I.
40:29
Speaker 1: Think Slitler is over Heel right now, just based on
40:32
Speaker 1: his strikeouts and how they like rank who is who
40:36
Speaker 1: is going to be the best? He's he's not racking
40:38
Speaker 1: up the strikeouts. So the Yankees probably would value Slitler
40:42
Speaker 1: over them.
40:44
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40:46
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Speaker 1: Happy birthday Paul Abbott. Today, by the way, my first
42:12
Speaker 1: career homer. So yeah, happy birthday, Paul. Thank you for that.
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Speaker 1: You know, ball down, I could whack out of the
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Speaker 1: park for my first one. You never forget your first one.
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Speaker 1: Eric Tom Gourzolani tried to go tried to go in
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Speaker 2: All right, how many how many career home runs did
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Speaker 2: you have? Kratzy thirty one, thirty one and.
42:39
Speaker 1: AJ one hundred and I don't even know hundred and
42:43
Speaker 1: around one hundred. It was just short of two hundred.
42:46
Speaker 1: So it was like one ninety or one eighty five
42:48
Speaker 1: to two hundred, I don't know. I guess it's one
42:50
Speaker 1: eighty six. I don't know, So somebody will somewhere. It
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