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OneLegUpAlex Sports Welcomes Back Lou Terminello for Terminello's Take on The 2025 Wild Card Series · OneLegUpAlex Sports

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Dearrek.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, I've been mentioning today on the one
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  Speaker 2: that got Alex Network. Gota have friends, I'd have fans,
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  Speaker 2: I'd have commentators. Well, of course we cannot leave this
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  Speaker 2: week without talking to mister Terminello's take and Lou. We
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  Speaker 2: were waiting together to see how this week would shape up.
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  Speaker 2: And Uh, as a Yankee fan, I'm pretty happy. But
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  Speaker 2: as an overall baseball fan, I actually thought this was
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  Speaker 2: the strongest three games of a week. I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the Dodgers got to two and oh, but this is
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  Speaker 2: the strongest wild Card series we've had in a while.
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  Speaker 1: Alex, thank you for having me. As always, You're right,
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  Speaker 1: it was of excellent three days of watching major League baseball.
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  Speaker 1: I watched about every pitch of every game, and uh
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  Speaker 1: uh yeah, it was. It was. It was a good
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  Speaker 1: week for major League baseball. I would say, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: some of the teams that that are in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if they were really playoff teams, but
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  Speaker 1: the games themselves were compelling, and I think that's a
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  Speaker 1: good thing for major League Baseball. Usually you don't get
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  Speaker 1: three out of four series that go to three games
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  Speaker 1: and you know that, you know the deciding game, you know,
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  Speaker 1: anything can happen. And I think that that drew a
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  Speaker 1: lot of interest from not only the fans of the teams,
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  Speaker 1: but just baseball fans in general. I mean, obviously I
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  Speaker 1: had no rooting interests because my metso were eliminated before this,
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  Speaker 1: you know, before the players didn't make it. But I watched.
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  Speaker 1: I watched ninety nine percent of every game, So it
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  Speaker 1: was it was compelling.
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  Speaker 2: It was great, and I mean, yeah, I really I
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  Speaker 2: like the way they stay. They base it out too.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I do feel like they've taken on this
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  Speaker 2: football kind of format where every game is back to back,
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  Speaker 2: and then that makes even more fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's true. And none of these games really
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  Speaker 1: started late. There was no games that started at ten
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  Speaker 1: forty five or eleven o'clock on the West coast, you know,
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  Speaker 1: eleven o'clock Eastern time. So that was good. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was a good week for Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of excitement and ironically, Alex, this is the
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  Speaker 1: fourth year of this expanded playoff with the six teams
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  Speaker 1: in each league and in the sixteen series. The first
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  Speaker 1: fifteen series, the team that won Game one, won the
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  Speaker 1: two out of three series. The first team not to
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  Speaker 1: win the first game and win the series was the
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  Speaker 1: game last night, the Yankee Red Sox Red Sox game.
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  Speaker 1: So that's an interesting stat. Fifteen and one for the
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  Speaker 1: game one winner in the sixteen series and the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: broke that's a streak last night behind a brilliant, brilliant
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  Speaker 1: performance by the rookie Cam Schlittler. Brilliant performance.
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  Speaker 2: Now we all know in the New York area about him.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, look, since he came up, he's been the
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  Speaker 2: call above the year for the Yankees. He's been solid
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  Speaker 2: every start. And by the way, yeah he had twelve
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  Speaker 2: k's last night, but that's ninety two combined regular and
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  Speaker 2: postseason and he've only started in June or July. That's impressive.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the thing is, this is the best I've seen
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  Speaker 1: him pitch. I don't know if this is what we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna see. Obviously, not going to seek performances like this
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  Speaker 1: on a consistent basis, But Alex he's only the second
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  Speaker 1: guy in the history of Major League Baseball to strike
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  Speaker 1: out twelve and walk none. The only other guy was
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  Speaker 1: Tom sever In a nineteen seventy three National Championship Series
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  Speaker 1: against the Big Machine. But he was tremendous last night.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I really didn't know what to expect last night. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees are much better than the Red Sox. This
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  Speaker 1: is not a classic Red Sox team. The Red Sox,
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  Speaker 1: you know, kind of overachieved. Nobody expected them to to
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  Speaker 1: make the playoffs this year. I think there are a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years away. But they obviously have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of good young players, and they missed Roman Anthony. But
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  Speaker 1: they weren't going to beat the Yankees. But again they could.
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  Speaker 1: I mean a couple of things went against against them.
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  Speaker 1: In the fourth inning their fault, you know, obviously the
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  Speaker 1: ground ball that wasn't played by by a low costing
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  Speaker 1: two runs. But once the Yankees one had four nothing,
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  Speaker 1: and the way Schlitler was pitching, and I would have
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  Speaker 1: sent them out to the for the ninth Alex, I
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  Speaker 1: mean I would have. I mean, he was he threw
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  Speaker 1: a seven pitch eighth inning, and I would have sent
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  Speaker 1: him out for the ninth inning. I really would have.
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  Speaker 1: The kid deserved it, and uh yeah, it was a
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  Speaker 1: brilliant pitching performance. So yeah, I mean I guess the ninth.
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  Speaker 2: But I'll tell you one thing that Boone did learn
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  Speaker 2: is and look, I also think Freed was done at
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  Speaker 2: that point. He was taken out, But I think he
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  Speaker 2: learned to stick with his guys as long as he can.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of what the lesson was for Boone this week.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think after Tuesday night, and let's face it,
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday night the Yankees, the Yankees lost to a great,
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  Speaker 1: great pitcher. The trade of the year was the Red
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  Speaker 1: Sox getting Garrett Crochet, and they gave up floor to
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  Speaker 1: top ten prospects to get him. Obviously, the White Sox
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  Speaker 1: s knew that, you know, they were after losing one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty one games. By the time we turned
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  Speaker 1: a corner, Crochet, Uh, Crochet might he retired. So they
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  Speaker 1: did the right thing in trading their best trade ship
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  Speaker 1: to had four other prospects, and he's a great I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Crochet in his first really full year as a starter
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  Speaker 1: as a dominant starter, was was tremendous and if it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't for Tarik's struble, he would win the Say Young
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  Speaker 1: Award easily. I was surprised Free came out that he
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  Speaker 1: took him out on Tuesday night Boone did that? Did
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  Speaker 1: surprise me?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Not a surprise that when exists. I can't entirely fault.
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  Speaker 1: Him for that. No, I mean, and again, let's face it,
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  Speaker 1: the Yankee fans have a and the media have a
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  Speaker 1: love hate relationship with Boone. But I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: he'd made that lineup or if it came from, as
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  Speaker 1: we talk on a million times, the analytic department. But
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees advanced, they should have advanced. They're heavily favored
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  Speaker 1: for a road team going into Toronto this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Really because my body feels nervous heading into the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean obviously nervous any player seriously go to.
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  Speaker 1: But I think I was talking to somebody on Monday
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  Speaker 1: who's in the business, and he asked me who I
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  Speaker 1: think is going to get to the World Series. And
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  Speaker 1: I said, well, I don't like to pick that. I like,
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  Speaker 1: I like to pick series by series. But I said,
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  Speaker 1: if you're gonna force me who's gonna go uh to
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  Speaker 1: the World Series this year, he's gonna force me to
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  Speaker 1: pick that far ahead. I think we're gonna see a
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  Speaker 1: rematch from from from last year Yankees and Dodgers Toronto.
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  Speaker 1: I mean Dante Boschet. You know, the guy was on
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  Speaker 1: his way to hit getting over two hundred hits, and
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  Speaker 1: he's missed the last six weeks and apparently he's still
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  Speaker 1: limping around. I mean, if he doesn't play, that's a
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  Speaker 1: killer for them. And even if he does play, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how effective he's gonna be. And Chris Bassett
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  Speaker 1: has a back injury. The Yankee should win this series.
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  Speaker 1: The Yankee should win the series now that they got
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  Speaker 1: by the pressure of a two out of three and
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  Speaker 1: Alex made no mistake if the Yankees had lost last night,
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  Speaker 1: and really the Red Sox chance to win was Tuesday night,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought, I know everybody loves Alex Korra. I
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  Speaker 1: thought he overmanaged on Tuesday, and he meant on Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: in Game two, I thought he managed like the Red
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  Speaker 1: Sox were down one game to none and were on
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  Speaker 1: verge of elimination.
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  Speaker 2: Look, you can't burn out a bullpen like that in
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  Speaker 2: only game two of a series.
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  Speaker 1: No he did. I mean I was surprised. And but
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  Speaker 1: even with that, Eaton should have scored on that play
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  Speaker 1: when Rice couldn't handle Jazz Chisholm's throw. I was shocked
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  Speaker 1: when the ball rolled away and they said he held
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  Speaker 1: up at third. That was a big, big, boneheaded era.
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  Speaker 1: And of course Jared Duran, a very good outfielder. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: just just drift and had that ball pop out of
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  Speaker 1: his glove. And whoever was the official scorer that night,
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  Speaker 1: gave Judge a hit that was unbelievable. But those things.
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  Speaker 1: Course the Red Sox, you know, and uh they during
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  Speaker 1: the season, their fielding wasn't great. But again they're just
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  Speaker 1: they're just they're just starting.
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  Speaker 2: Uh too, people that Roman Anthley was injured. That was
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  Speaker 2: a big part of this too.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that was a big part. I mean, the guy,
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  Speaker 1: the guy is a legitimate you know, a legitimate player already.
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  Speaker 1: But the Yankees move on. I think the next I
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  Speaker 1: think the series will be will be good. As you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't trust Toronto and I think they can get
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  Speaker 1: rattled easy. I That's why I think Game one is
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  Speaker 1: so important. If the Yankees could get in their heads.
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  Speaker 1: And that's been Toronto's issue many times. Uh, when they
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  Speaker 1: get into the playoffs, and they've been to the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: squat for in the last five years, you get into
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  Speaker 1: their head and they're done so and and what the
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  Speaker 1: back end of their bullpen. Hoffman is not to be trusted.
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  Speaker 1: I like the Yankees. I think the Yankees might win
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  Speaker 1: four in this one. Now again, they should be receding
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  Speaker 1: and the Yankees Toronto really shouldn't be playing the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: Toronto should be playing Detroit, and the Yankees should be
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  Speaker 1: playing Seattle. I don't know why they bracketed. It should
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  Speaker 1: be receding. When you play all year. The two best
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  Speaker 1: teams record wise Umerica League are playing this weekend in
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees in Toronto. I just think that's that's that's
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  Speaker 1: shaky Detroit and Seattle. I like Seattle. Detroit has showed
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  Speaker 1: me nothing. They are baseball's luckiest team. They're so lucky
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  Speaker 1: that you know they won yesterday that a little race,
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  Speaker 1: blowing a fifteen and a half game lead to Cleveland,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, let's say Cleveland and Ice run an
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  Speaker 1: amazing run. But Alex team batting average of two, twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven. I mean, how how they get this for you?
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  Speaker 2: How they You're not going to get there with just
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  Speaker 2: quant with just uh Stephen, Kuan and and uh and Jim,
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  Speaker 2: that's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's it's it's it's unbelievable so I want to.
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  Speaker 2: I want to ask you this, well, I want to say,
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  Speaker 2: also the unsung hero of the game. Really, I know
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  Speaker 2: Schlittler was unbelievable, but you know who has he gotten
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  Speaker 2: his flowers? As on Madrasio. He kicked off the scoring
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  Speaker 2: with that nice hit to left, and I call it
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  Speaker 2: the unlikely hit of the night because who'd have thought
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  Speaker 2: he'd come through in that situation.
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  Speaker 1: It just it wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't in the formula.
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  Speaker 1: It felt like, well and again uh he uh he
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  Speaker 1: hits left these and that's why he was in the
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  Speaker 1: line up and he rocketed that boy. I think it
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  Speaker 1: was almost one hundred and nine miles per hour. Uh
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  Speaker 1: and and to give to get that all important first
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  Speaker 1: run in the game. Now we all these series, Alex,
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  Speaker 1: it's been a rebirth of pitching. I mean, with the
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  Speaker 1: exception of the Dodgers, who played a Reds team that
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  Speaker 1: was not really a playoff team. I'm sorry, the Mets
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  Speaker 1: two and a half three and a half month slumber
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  Speaker 1: basically got them in. If you include the two playoff losses.
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  Speaker 1: The last twenty three games the Reds were thirteen and ten.
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  Speaker 1: They certainly were in sizzling and I think the Reds
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  Speaker 1: have a good roster, good young roster, and I think
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  Speaker 1: they have good young pitching. So they might be a threat,
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  Speaker 1: depending on what they do in the offseason, to be
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  Speaker 1: a contender to finish first in the always shaky Central Division.
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  Speaker 1: But this was a week of pitching pitching excellence.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'll tell you the pitching resurgence. Look, you
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  Speaker 2: don't think you don't think they MLB wouldn't want a
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  Speaker 2: Yamamoto Imenega NLCS That would be so cool.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Alex, I think that's what they're gonna get because, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I think the Dodgers is gonna go have the toughest
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  Speaker 1: road to get to the World Series. But I think
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna get there. You know, they play in Philly
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  Speaker 1: the first two games, three out of five. Again, it's
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  Speaker 1: a short series, and but I think the Dodgers are
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  Speaker 1: gonna get there. I think they're They're pitching is excellent,
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  Speaker 1: and they're pitching is deeper, much deeper than it was
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  Speaker 1: last year when they have to use it. Even in
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  Speaker 1: the World Series, they have to use one of those openers. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: in the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: I played in relief pitching relief last year.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think they're gonna probably utilize him out of
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  Speaker 1: a bullpen. He wasn't on the roster for the wild
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  Speaker 1: Card series, but I think I heard he's going to
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  Speaker 1: be on the roster for this series coming up. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: I think the Dodgers are gonna win. I mean I do. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's go five. I think the Dodgers are gonna win.
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  Speaker 2: I think if the Mets don't lose to Philly four
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  Speaker 2: games there, the Mets probably the Phillies do not have
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  Speaker 2: a solid year all year.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they they I mean they're they're good. I mean
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  Speaker 1: they won a division by thirteen games. I mean, you know, look, Alex,
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  Speaker 1: the Mets were terrible for the last three and a
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  Speaker 1: half months. Terrible. They finished twelve games behind in Miami
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  Speaker 1: Marlins from January. From June thirteen to the end of
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  Speaker 1: the season, the Mets were bad. For whatever reason, they
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  Speaker 1: were bad. And everybody you can talk about a big
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  Speaker 1: money team three hundred and forty million dollars, Yeah, well
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  Speaker 1: that's true, but the big money guys did their job.
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  Speaker 1: Lindor Soto, Alonso, Nemo and Diaz. Now dis can opt out.
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  Speaker 1: Alonso already said he's gonna opt out. We'll see what
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  Speaker 1: happens as we go into the Ufcason. But that's for
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  Speaker 1: the offseason. But for these for these playoffs, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Cubs and Brewers, fantastic series. I think the Cubs
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  Speaker 1: are gonna beat them. I think the Cubs are gonna
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  Speaker 1: beat the Brewers, and you're gonna have a Cubs and
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers and I think you're gonna have a Yankee and
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  Speaker 1: Seattle championship series. And I think the Yankees and Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: are going to play each other again. But let's see
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  Speaker 1: what happened in this series before he makes so baseball,
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  Speaker 1: it's a good it's it's been a good week for baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, one of the thing is anybody you're
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  Speaker 2: talking about this too, and I feel it too, is
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  Speaker 2: last night was really more of a let's stay hopeful
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  Speaker 2: for twenty twenty six, as if the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: postseason would be a bonus. And do you feel like
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  Speaker 2: that should be the approach or I just think it
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  Speaker 2: unfinished business? Now, Yeah, last night was huge and it
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  Speaker 2: chose is what the future can be. But now you
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  Speaker 2: gotta keep.
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  Speaker 1: Going, Oh you you gotta seize the opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, I mean, we could talk about twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 2: all day long. But there's a real chance here, So.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely no doubt about it. And by the way, Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Volpi had nice three games. You know, the guy that
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  Speaker 1: takes the punches from the media and the fans. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: nice three games.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, he never deserved any of that,
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  Speaker 2: because if people were observant, they would have known he
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  Speaker 2: got injured in May and has needed cortizone shots. And
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  Speaker 2: that's really what's been the problem here.
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  Speaker 1: Well again, people forget that. He's that these guys are
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  Speaker 1: made out of flesh and blood and not are not robots.
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  Speaker 1: So people forget that, the media forgets that, the fans
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  Speaker 1: forget that, and we all really know what these guys
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  Speaker 1: go through as far as as far as physical, physical injuries.
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  Speaker 2: So look at the guy that got hit in the faith.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that was unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, yes, David fry. So we take that. Good baseball
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  Speaker 1: weekend coming up, Good football weekend coming up?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, is not that play reminded me of Polar
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  Speaker 2: when he took that to the face in Philly.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I do remember that.
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  Speaker 2: As you mentioned football, Look, the Jets are kind of
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  Speaker 2: a lost cause of the moment. However, the Giants would Dart.
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  Speaker 2: I think people are expecting them on a second second
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  Speaker 2: week in a row here.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they have obviously have a good chance. It's they're
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  Speaker 1: playing a team that uh ish and five and four
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  Speaker 1: and I want to go to and five. They're at
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  Speaker 1: home in New Orleans, so they're gonna They're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: they should be ready to play. I thought last week
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart was the reason the Giants won. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying that he didn't put not he didn't put up
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  Speaker 1: big numbers, but his presence. I think, just as we
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  Speaker 1: said last week going into the game on when we
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  Speaker 1: were on the podcast last week, that he would juice
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  Speaker 1: up the players, he would juice up the crowd. And and
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  Speaker 1: he did and and he did like I said, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't have a great passing game they but he won
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  Speaker 1: the game and he gave the Giants a little toughness
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  Speaker 1: that they didn't have previously. The Giants have a great
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  Speaker 1: chance to win this week, and then they have a
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  Speaker 1: short work week because they played Philadelphia next Thursday night,
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  Speaker 1: which will be difficult. I mean, hey, the Jets, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know when they're gonna win their first game. They're
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  Speaker 1: playing Dallas this week. Dallas can't stop anybody, but Dallas
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  Speaker 1: can score.
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  Speaker 2: And I do love know when Glenn running up and
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  Speaker 2: down sideline after that attempt at the black block field
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  Speaker 2: goal into a touch of that was great.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So so we'll again. I don't like the defensive coordinator,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I said that when they hired him back
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  Speaker 1: back in the spring. Looks like they you know, you
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  Speaker 1: have you have good talent on defense. Not I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying that eighty five Chicago Bears, but it looks like
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  Speaker 1: there's no coordination or communication uh on defense. So so
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  Speaker 1: so we'll see. We'll see what happens. Jets are at home.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: I don't you know, I I but look, even Dallas
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: is struggle. Mean, people are wondering how they ended in
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: tie last week. That's not good.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Well, the thing is, everybody was talking about how great
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: green Bay is and Dallas is not a Super Bowl team,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: and how good green Bay is. How could green Bay
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: give up forty points if they want to win the
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I'm sure and I'm not saying they can't
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl. But they gave up. They gave up.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: They couldn't stop Dak Prescott and see lamb wasn't wasn't
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: even there. I mean, he's out for the next three
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: four weeks.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: But every time the Cowboys give up more than twenty
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: or so, I'm always gonna laugh because I believe it
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: was Jerry Jones that said, oh he couldn't stop the rush.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Now that those words are hunting him forever now.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Well, Jerry Jones didn't show up as the general manager.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: He didn't get the personnel to show up his defense
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: and their defense is not good. So so we'll see what
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: happens Sunday at MetLife. I think Dallas will win all right.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Being a GM, I mean I saw the Rockies fired
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: their gim, but I was more than a Brett snick
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: nickerr because obviously that impacts the nl EAST. Him moving
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: to an advisory role and retiring from the manager spot.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Does that make Atlanta better if they bring in somebody else.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, it had been rumored that this might
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: have been his last year. You know, he's sixteen nine
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: years old. He's been a great manager for the four
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: team that's always been good. This year, everything went wrong
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: for the for the Atlanta Braves, you name it, it
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: went wrong for them. They should be back next year.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: In a contending position. They had pitching injuries, and we'll
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: see who's gonna be the next manager. I know that
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: the former Cub manager who was there for only one year,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: David Ross's arrested in the job.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: And you know, we did a good he did a
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: nice job for for the Cubs, and uh so, we'll
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: see who gets that that that job. And Louie's pool
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: host says that he's interested in Los Angeles Angels job.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: That's I mean, there's a there's a lot of openings
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: in his first week and so a lot to watch
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: to see who gets who gets those.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Positions. Uh So, but hey, Spindaker had a terrific career there.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: He won the World's championship, and yeah, it's time to
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: move on. I mean, that's not a big surprise because
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: it was always always possibility that he may uh pack
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: it in at the end of this year, and he did.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: All right, Louis, we are here next Wednesday, next Tuesday's
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: opening night, So why don't we wrap up the NHL
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: fans here with some thoughts as we hit the regular season.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Now, well, as you know, I'm looking forward to it,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: and you know, let's see what happens. If the Rangers
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: can bounce back with their new coach, the man who
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: is the coach of the United States national team, the
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Olympic team, Mike Sullivan, a coach who's highly respected. I
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: think the Rangers probably will be more disciplined. I this
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: is a big year for a lot of guys on
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: the Rangers. Adam Fox, you know, can he regain this form?
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I as you know, I think he's a little overrated,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: but they need him to be the Adam Fox that
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: that won the Norris Trophy a couple of years ago,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: and they need to bandage that to be consistent from
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: the beginning. Obviously, they have no goaltending issues and panarins
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: last year, and then he's a free agent. We'll see
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: what happens there. And you know, he is no matter
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: what you want to say, he is their best points
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: producer and he is the guy that the opposition has
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: to stop that he's in their game plan. So and
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: we'll talk more about the Rangers once the season begins,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: you know, on Tuesday. As the season goes on, But
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: the Rangers cannot be out of the playoffs basically basically
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: the last three quarters of this season, and they can't
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: just on their goaltending to get them through. For the Islanders, interesting,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, a new management is on the honeymoon. Matthew Dodge,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I think he did some nice things. He got the
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Islanders younger immediately. He did a great job with that
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: cal Rich You're gonna make the team. It looks like
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Matthew Schaeffer is going to make the team even though
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: he just turned eighteen. Is Anton Declaire gonna have a
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: bounce back year after that bad injury, that terrible injury
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: he had and then being ineffective the Islanders have, you know,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: their goaltending is not really an issue. Is this the
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: last year for anders Lee in all likelihood yes? Will
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: he betrayed at the trade deadline? Maybe? So those are
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: some of the things to look at. Is this a player?
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Could this team uh contend for the playoffs? I'm not
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: really sure. I don't think so, because I think Montreal
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: is going to take a big jump this year. Ottawa
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: might take a bigger jump this year so and Detroit
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: has to, you know, finally break through. So I think
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: the Islanders are in a little bit of a tough
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: line there, but we'll see. And for the New Jersey Devils,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: this is the year they're no, No, they're no for
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: a nice young bunch of guys. Uh, this is the
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: they gotta they gotta make Uh they got they gotta
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: make a jump a next level jump. Jack has three
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: or four years left on his deal. H Quinn's a
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: free age at the end of this year, Alex, I
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if there's a trade either soon before
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: the trade deadline. What Well, I know we don't watch Vancouver.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Well I do, but I know a lot of New
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: York area fans don't focus on Vancouver, but I think,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: uh they should because the Vancouver gets off to a
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: slow start. I think you can see uh the Luke
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: the Quin news coming to New Jersey happening sometime in
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: the middle of the year. And uh uh Dougie Hamilton,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: who has two years left on his deal at nine
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: million a year, could be part of that trade going
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: to Van Vancouver. Just my thoughts, Neil. We'll see Dawson
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Mersher has to have a better year than he had
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: last year for the Devils and it should be in
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: interesting hockey season at least at least at the start.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: And remember the first twenty games are very important. If
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: you want to be a playoff contender after after a
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Day. Those first twenty games are really important. Remember
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: we also have an Olympic break in February for two weeks.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: I got to say before we wrap, going for imagine
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: next year and the mental actually in the postseason, the
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Yanks in the postseason, and the NHL is starting along
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: with football. I love the September starting idea.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah no, well yeah, because next year they go to
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: NHL goes to eighty four games, and it'll be it'll be,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: it'll be interesting. So we'll see what happens. And some
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: breaking news, Alex, the Texas Rangers have hired former Marlins
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: manager Skip Schumacher as their manager. I know he was
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: on their target list and they.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Just I remember when he played with the Cardinals.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Well he's still young, and that's probably that's a good
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: pick for the Texas Rangers, who I thought we were gonna
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: win the Western Division of the American League this year,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: and for the second straight year, their offense just just
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: was terrible.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: So I know, and Boat she had won in a
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: couple of years ago. But you know, it's time to changing.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Bob Melvin out in San Francisco as well, yeah.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: That surprised me. I was surprised that Bob Melvin got
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: the acts. I really did. He'll probably get another job
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: and so you know, we'll see what happens. It's a
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: good good, like I said, a good weekend starting with
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: tomorrow with baseball, the football both college and UH and
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: pros and hockey season begins next week. So we love
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: sports and we got a lot to chew on with
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: what's going on. So thank you, Alex, Hey.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. We love when it's a multi
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: sport town all at the same time, so it's exciting.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: At least. There's some baseball coming into New York next
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: week in addition to opening night for the Rangers, so
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: it'll be all fun and whatnot. All right, Well, Luta
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