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Merry Clinchmas, Phillies PANIC mode, AL West chaos, Murakami parties HARD, Bregman’s back FAST · Foul Territory

• 0:02
  Speaker 1: Bottle poppin' Friday. Bottle poppin' Friday. We're going to run
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  Speaker 1: through four teams in a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, look at the prop. We've been talking about this
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  Speaker 2: for days, Todd.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think?
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  Speaker 4: Todd, do you remember this?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, the Ace of Spades.
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  Speaker 1: Is that Ace of Spades?
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  Speaker 4: Any other team give this out to the players of
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  Speaker 4: the game in the playoffs that you ever played on
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  Speaker 4: besides the Yankees?
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: So they gave these out. And then the player of
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  Speaker 4: the game to like two or three other guys, they'd
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  Speaker 4: give these out. And then they had a huge one,
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  Speaker 4: the Magnum, when we would clinch. And I think DD
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  Speaker 4: got it in 2017 when we beat the Indians. And
• 0:43
  Speaker 4: we fly into Houston after that series. We were in
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  Speaker 4: New York. No, I'm sorry. We were in Cleveland. We
• 0:51
  Speaker 4: fly into Houston. And I was helping one of my teammates.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not going to say who it was. get to
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  Speaker 4: his room because he wasn't going to be able to
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  Speaker 4: get to his room on his own. And he had
• 1:01
  Speaker 4: a trash bag full of beers, champagne bottles that were unopened.
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  Speaker 4: And we get to his room. He's like, are you
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  Speaker 4: sure this is my room? And I'm like, yes, I
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  Speaker 4: know this is your room. This is what your room
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  Speaker 4: key says. He puts the trash bag down and he's like, here,
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  Speaker 4: I got to give you something on the way out.
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  Speaker 4: He's pulling beers out. I was like, I'm totally fine.
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  Speaker 4: He's like, here, There's this. And I was like, what?
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  Speaker 4: He's like, I wasn't player of the game. You can
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  Speaker 4: have it. You're a player of the game. So from
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  Speaker 4: then on, I still have this. I never opened it.
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  Speaker 4: People got to let me know, like, is this, like,
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  Speaker 4: if I open this, is it still good? Is it
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  Speaker 4: still expensive? Should I get that guy to sign it?
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  Speaker 3: Ooh.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh.
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  Speaker 2: These are all good questions that probably an AI platform
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  Speaker 2: can answer for you, especially on if it's still good.
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  Speaker 1: You can take a picture of it and it can
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  Speaker 1: tell you.
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  Speaker 3: I would have to sign it.
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  Speaker 2: You could still drink it and have it signed. And
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  Speaker 2: then it's just you drank it and it's after the fact.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's not like you're putting it on the market.
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  Speaker 1: It's a memento.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's definitely. But it's it's unopened. So I want
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  Speaker 4: it like I'm like, I've always had it. It's a
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  Speaker 4: fun story. It's like I have a bottle of whiskey
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  Speaker 4: that has a snake in it. It's a rattlesnake in it,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm like, it doesn't taste good, but it's a
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  Speaker 4: bottle with a rattlesnake in it that Bobby Dahlbeck bought
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  Speaker 4: for me when we were in Japan.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think you've got to enjoy those.
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  Speaker 2: I'm being told yes and reminded. Champagne doesn't last like that,
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  Speaker 2: so champagne needs to be refrigerated, no?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, wine does.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, wine has its expiration, too, I will tell you.
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  Speaker 1: I've cracked open some.
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  Speaker 1: Long ago wine bottles that you look it up and
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  Speaker 1: they're like, actually it passed. It's too late, right? It's
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  Speaker 1: not good anymore. There is some of that. Not all
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: wine lasts forever. But if you learned something today, then you.
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  Speaker 2: Learned that you should take your drunk friend back to
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  Speaker 2: their room in order to get a souped up gift
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  Speaker 2: because they don't realize what they're giving.
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  Speaker 1: Boom, there it is.
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  Speaker 4: Campaign celebrations can go hard sometimes. And this person... Definitely
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  Speaker 4: went hard. In one of our other celebrations, he was
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  Speaker 4: diving headfirst on the champagne-soaked plastic. It was like a
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  Speaker 4: slip and slide in the locker room. Tremendous. Tremendous.
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: Can't make this stuff up. That's why we do this show.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Kratz talking about what he got from the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: We have a Yankees shirt.
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  Speaker 2: It's our newest on the FoulTerritoryShop.com site.
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  Speaker 1: I'm wearing Friar Territory today, but here. Schlitt talk.
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  Speaker 3: That's good.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the one on the top left.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they're both great dirty water bottom left, but
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  Speaker 2: top left is the freshest one.
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  Speaker 1: New York Schlitty.
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  Speaker 4: Sarah, you did it. New York Schlitty, like piece of Schlitter. Sarah,
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  Speaker 4: you are, I mean, sigh. Eat my, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Kratz is playing off the piece of Schmidt because he
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  Speaker 2: used to be, Teammates with Clark Schmidt, and he had
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  Speaker 2: some fun with that.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, go look at all of that.
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  Speaker 2: I want to give love before we charge to each
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  Speaker 2: of the teams, and we can just run through it,
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  Speaker 2: that clinched. So White Sox first, Gratz, since they clinched
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  Speaker 2: two minutes before the Cubs, right?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, just a little bit before. Sorry, Cubbies, your
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  Speaker 4: second place in Chicago clinching. 100! 100!
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  Speaker 3: Very cool.
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  Speaker 2: For a first time ever, they clinch on the same
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  Speaker 2: day and they've barely ever even made the playoffs at
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  Speaker 2: the same time. Only three times now, including this year,
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  Speaker 2: the other two years, 2008 and 1906.
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  Speaker 1: A long time ago.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Cubs Todd father Cubs clinch. They party, you know, that clubhouse.
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  Speaker 1: Is really nice to the one that they did like seven,
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  Speaker 1: eight years ago.
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  Speaker 2: And, PCA got to 40-40. There's Craig Council with the speech.
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  Speaker 2: And I saw these.
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  Speaker 1: I watched these.
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  Speaker 2: So we're just going to say what he said. But
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  Speaker 2: he was giving you something like Todd Father. Hey, this
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  Speaker 2: is going to feel good. But every time we do this,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to feel a little bit better. So let's
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  Speaker 2: keep doing it. Guardians celebrating to Todd Father after their
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  Speaker 2: 1-0 win over the Red Sox. And Kratz is wearing
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  Speaker 2: the shirt for Chase DeLauder. But I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: everyone saw the White Sox and the Guardians coming out
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  Speaker 2: of the Central.
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  Speaker 3: Did you?
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  Speaker 4: I think the Guardians had a much better shot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say so.
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  Speaker 2: The Padres taking down the Dodgers 4-2. They clinch a
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  Speaker 2: wild card. Shirtless Walker Bueller. He is a professional celebrator.
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  Speaker 2: He's done this a few times. He's got a World
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  Speaker 2: Series ring. Beer pong for the team, or beer bong
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  Speaker 2: for the team picture.
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  Speaker 1: And no shirt.
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  Speaker 3: I love everything about this.
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  Speaker 2: Todd, do you think someone's going to look one day
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  Speaker 2: and be like, Did they pluck a guy out of
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  Speaker 2: the seats and he brought.
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  Speaker 3: His beer bottle?
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't even have a shirt on.
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  Speaker 5: Listen, you celebrate how you can, but be under control,
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  Speaker 5: of course. Make sure they all get rides home. But yeah, listen,
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  Speaker 5: you're going to hang out with the boys there. Enjoy
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  Speaker 5: a great time. And it's a long year. And I
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  Speaker 5: hope people understand how long of a year it is.
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  Speaker 5: Baseball is the longest sport. They play eight months out
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  Speaker 5: of the year, not nine. It is so long and
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  Speaker 5: it's grueling.
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  Speaker 3: And you know what?
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  Speaker 5: You make the playoffs, you deserve to have a really
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  Speaker 5: good time. And I hope they all enjoyed it, which
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  Speaker 5: it seems like they did. It was cool that a
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  Speaker 5: bunch of teams clinched together so you can go back
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  Speaker 5: and forth on your TV screens.
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  Speaker 3: It was pretty nice.
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  Speaker 5: So now there's still a couple more things they got
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  Speaker 5: to figure out, but it's pretty cool to see that
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  Speaker 5: there's still a little bit of meaningful games coming up.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, there are.
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  Speaker 1: I want to do that right now. Let's charge.
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  Speaker 2: Standing by, our reporter live from the state of Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 2: Eric Kratz, joining us right now. Is Philadelphia, the Phillies, okay?
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  Speaker 2: Because they're up two games over the Diamondbacks. They do
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  Speaker 2: not hold a tiebreaker, so chances are they're in. But
• 7:25
  Speaker 2: they need to string some wins together here, dude. And
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  Speaker 2: they also might have just lost to Louisa Rice for
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  Speaker 2: some time, which doesn't help.
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  Speaker 4: I don't, I mean, yeah. Are they okay?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 4: Do I think they'll do it? Yeah, I think they're
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  Speaker 4: going to get it done. I think it's... I have
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  Speaker 4: a weird feeling they're not going to get it done,
• 7:45
  Speaker 4: but that doesn't... I think it's going to be so
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  Speaker 4: tough for them to lose three games and the Diamondbacks
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  Speaker 4: to win all of them.
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  Speaker 1: They don't need that.
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  Speaker 4: I know, I know, but it's going to be one
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  Speaker 4: win for the Phillies and one loss for the Diamondbacks.
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  Speaker 4: I think the Diamondbacks go... go two or three with
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  Speaker 4: the Padres, no matter what. I don't care how drunk
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  Speaker 4: the Padres are or how TBD the pitchers are going
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  Speaker 4: to be. The Diamondbacks are going to have to beat
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  Speaker 4: a division opponent that they're still going to be playing.
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  Speaker 4: The Padres are not going to allow the Cubs to
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  Speaker 4: catch them. They want that one seed so they can
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  Speaker 4: play at home against the Cubs. So I just think
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  Speaker 4: it's going to be a one and a one. And
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  Speaker 4: I think the Phillies will get in, but are they
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  Speaker 4: okay as a team? No, they're not okay as a team.
• 8:44
  Speaker 4: I don't, I didn't know they were nine and 12
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  Speaker 4: in September, but based on the way, you know, watching
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  Speaker 4: them hit, it just seems like every guy is in
• 8:53
  Speaker 4: between pitches right now, which is a crazy thing. I
• 8:55
  Speaker 4: think before last night's double Schwarber was like 11 for
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  Speaker 4: 72 or something going into the game. Like, You just
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  Speaker 4: don't have a lot of things clicking like they were
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  Speaker 4: clicking in August.
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  Speaker 5: And listen, I mean, Scotty, you're a big D-backs fan.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, there's a couple scenarios. So Tampa Bay is
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  Speaker 5: a scrappy team. You never know what can happen there.
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  Speaker 5: I understand they're already in, everything's set, but you still
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  Speaker 5: want to do pretty well. You want to add your
• 9:25
  Speaker 5: numbers up. Ah, man, would it be... Wouldn't be something
• 9:30
  Speaker 5: that came down the last game. You know, somebody's got
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  Speaker 5: to win. Somebody's got to lose. I think that'd be
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  Speaker 5: pretty cool. Um, do I think the Phillies will get in?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: But again, it's not like they're playing some slouch of
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  Speaker 5: a team like this. This is a Tampa Bay team
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  Speaker 5: that wants to be rolling, going into playoff time. They
• 9:47
  Speaker 5: got to throw their guys too. So they get them
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  Speaker 5: going until they play again. Whoever that might be Yankees,
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  Speaker 5: Red Sox, or, you know, whomever there's an opportunity there too.
• 9:57
  Speaker 3: But, um, it's going to be.
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  Speaker 5: Very interesting, and I'm very intrigued to see, especially this
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  Speaker 5: game today. Like, this is a big one here for
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  Speaker 5: both of them. You know, if somebody loses, somebody wins,
• 10:09
  Speaker 5: and now it turns into one game, oh, my. So
• 10:12
  Speaker 5: then it's a nail-biting time. So pressure's on the Phillies
• 10:15
  Speaker 5: right now, in my opinion.
• 10:17
  Speaker 4: Todd said it plenty of times. I don't want that
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  Speaker 4: break because I want to keep hitting. I want to
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  Speaker 4: keep my rhythm as a hitter. So all the hitters
• 10:24
  Speaker 4: for the Rays are going to play all the way
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  Speaker 4: up until the last day. They're not going to be like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: six innings and dive. Maybe Freddie P won't go to
• 10:32
  Speaker 4: 110 pitches, but also he may. They may be like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: we want to keep this rolling exactly the way you're going.
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  Speaker 4: But to me, the Diamondbacks, this was brought up in
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  Speaker 4: our production meeting, and it is such a Such a
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  Speaker 4: sad thing that we have to bring up. If Cattell Marte,
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  Speaker 4: who nobody's going to deny, doesn't, like, he changes games.
• 10:56
  Speaker 4: When he's in the lineup, even though he's having a
• 10:57
  Speaker 4: down year, he changes games. And he can carry a
• 11:00
  Speaker 4: team through a long stretch or a short stretch because
• 11:04
  Speaker 4: of his talent. If Cattell Marte had figured out whatever
• 11:08
  Speaker 4: the heck was going on with Cattell Marte during that
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  Speaker 4: little stretch where he was out, he was going to play,
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  Speaker 4: was hurt, wasn't hurt, blah, blah, blah. They're two games out.
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  Speaker 4: They're two games out. He could have swung this season
• 11:23
  Speaker 4: for the Diamondbacks. And you don't think his teammates know that?
• 11:27
  Speaker 4: They 100% know that.
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: Remember that first game where he ditched really last minute
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  Speaker 2: and they got pummeled?
• 11:36
  Speaker 4: Nolan wasn't supposed to play. Nolan was supposed to have
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  Speaker 4: a day off. What did that affect? Now, Nolan's been
• 11:42
  Speaker 4: absolutely in fuego and carried the team. Him and Gabriel Moreno,
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  Speaker 4: who may win the batting title if he Has a
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  Speaker 4: hot last three games. But, yeah, it affects more than
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  Speaker 4: just him not in the lineup. It affects other dudes, too.
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  Speaker 2: Arenado's on fire right now, too. This is his best
• 11:59
  Speaker 2: stretch of the year right now, Kratz. Him and Perdomo's
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: hitting well. The bullpen has been the unsung hero. I mean,
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: I know in Arizona they're well aware of how good
• 12:11
  Speaker 2: it's been. this year but nationally nobody goes oh best
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  Speaker 2: bullpens this year you have padres diamondbacks but it is
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: it's one of the best bullpens in baseball they're the
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: numbers for nolan arenado in september which hey makes this
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: look like a really nice acquisition for the diamondbacks a
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: lot of people are like oh he's toast 351 818
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  Speaker 2: ops over 1120 games for the snakes in september and
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  Speaker 2: overall i don't have the numbers in front of me
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  Speaker 2: but they're Pretty good Kratz this year. Is he the
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  Speaker 2: Nolan Arenado that was the Platinum Glove winner every year? No,
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  Speaker 2: but he's still an above-average defender, and then he's an
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  Speaker 2: above-average offensive player at third base.
• 12:47
  Speaker 4: He's going to hit another homer this series, and he's
• 12:49
  Speaker 4: going to get to 30 homers. And people are going
• 12:51
  Speaker 4: to be like, oh, yeah, all his numbers were Colorado.
• 12:57
  Speaker 4: I mean, you're talking about a guy that was in St.
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  Speaker 4: Louis when he first got there and was an MVP candidate.
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  Speaker 4: He got beat by his teammate, Paul Goldschmidt. This guy
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  Speaker 4: proved he still has it. He still has it. And
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  Speaker 4: the Diamondbacks got an absolute steal from somebody that, you
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  Speaker 4: know what? I think a lot of other teams would
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  Speaker 4: have loved to have him. How about those numbers in
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  Speaker 4: the Phillies lineup? If they had moved Boehm to first
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  Speaker 4: and Harper back out to right. How about those numbers
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  Speaker 4: in Seattle? How about those numbers? Like, there's a lot
• 13:32
  Speaker 4: of teams that could have used this. Also, in a suppressed,
• 13:37
  Speaker 4: offensively suppressed situation, Chase Field. It's not the same Chase
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  Speaker 4: Field as it was before. The humidor is working in Arizona.
• 13:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, listen, a third baseman, man of the
• 13:49
  Speaker 5: trade over there. I love every second of what he's doing.
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  Speaker 5: People were talking about him being like, ah, man, it's
• 13:57
  Speaker 5: kind of over with a little bit. But he came
• 13:59
  Speaker 5: out guns a blazing here and he's trying to finish strong. And,
• 14:02
  Speaker 5: you know, that's ultimately what you want to do at
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  Speaker 5: the end of the year is finish strong.
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  Speaker 3: Easier said than done, knowing that, you know.
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  Speaker 5: 90% right now, you're probably not making a playoff push,
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  Speaker 5: but it's very hard to do. And for a guy
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  Speaker 5: at his age and what he's done and accomplished, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I clap for you, man.
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  Speaker 3: It's so cool, man. Good for you. And you got
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: more years ahead of you. Why not? Keep this going.
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: Keep this push going for him. It's exciting to watch. Yeah.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: Brandon Fott, Corbin Burns, Mike Soroka starting this weekend for
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  Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks against the Padres.
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: We'll see how that runs.
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  Speaker 4: That's perfect for them. That's their best.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: We'll see how it runs. And they'll be out by
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: the fourth or fifth inning. And the boys are just
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: going to come running out of the bullpen.
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: They're managing the game, Troy Labello, playoffs, right? So it's
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: a three-game series playoffs that you have to sweep. The
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: Padres are not doing that. They can't do that. They're
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: going to play their guys for the most part. Although
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: I would say at least a sit for some of
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: the stars or at least some of the stars might
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: get a sit.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: No today. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think the way they do it, I think, I
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: think Manny Tatis based on the videos, I'm sure he
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: went pretty hard. If he didn't like, they got some,
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: they got some pretty special videos of him, but, I
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: think those guys, I think Xander sits. Here's where I
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: think it'll get interesting, and we won't have a show,
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: but it'll be really interesting. Because of the fact that
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: there is no way they throw Morihone, Suarez, Miller on Sunday.
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: So if the Phillies go lose-lose and the Diamondbacks go
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: win-win Sunday, the Padres, I'm not saying they're cashing the
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: game in. They're going to definitely try. There is no
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: way the Padres are going to run out dudes that
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: have a chance of not having that two days off.
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: Unless Mason Miller goes, you know what, I don't want
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: two days off. I just want that one day off
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: before I throw two innings on three days in a
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: row in the wild card. I just think if it's
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: not done by Sunday, the Phillies might be cooked. Wow.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: I root for chaos, Todd. So I'm into it. We
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: have a show that covers this. They'll probably be on frequently.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: They were on last night, snakes territory. So if you're
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: up late, you're watching, then you want to hear more afterward.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: They have you covered Jesse and Jack bringing it all year.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Many live postgame shows too, with those two after Diamondbacks games.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: These are the biggest games of the year. Some are
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: surprised they're still in this.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Like Todd mentioned, I like Arizona, I've liked them all year.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: And yeah, maybe the Marte news and a couple other
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: things held them just a game or two back.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: But we'll see what happens. All right.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Let's get SeatGeek rolling here with what kind of game
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: we would like to attend over the next few days.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: So we talked about one just now in the Padres
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: and Diamondbacks. What else do we want to see? We
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: don't have an AL Central winner yet.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: No, we don't.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: I gotta watch the guardians. You can't not watch the
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: guardians right now. Like, I think, I think they're the
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: better team. I think they're the team that will do
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: the most damage in the playoffs, but think about it.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: They get to set the rotation because they get the buy.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: I mean, Cubs Red Sox too. Why not? Listen, I.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: Don't want an umbrella.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: But I think it's going later, later. But for me,
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: I would– both teams are potential playoffs, one of them
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: at least for sure.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: That's what Seeky's great for because they move that game
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: down to Tampa. Who has tickets to– who has tickets
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: to Tampa? Nobody has it except for– Bada bing, Territory 10,
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: get your 10% off. If you're in the St. Pete area,
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: you're going down to watch two teams that you don't
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: get to normally watch. And you know what? The game
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: will matter.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: The White Sox and Guardians have an interesting weekend. How
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: much do you push?
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: Because....
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Sweeping a series could end up being almost like you
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: sweep a playoff series that gives you a series off, if.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: That makes sense, right?
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: You could look at it that way, where you're like, well,
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: if we take the division, then we automatically skip a round.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Hello.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: I have this exact scenario. In 2018, Jolis Chassin threw
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: on three days rest. Jolis Chassin was our best pitcher
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: at the time. Because we had Big Wu in the pen,
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: Corbin Burns in the pen. He was our best pitcher.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: He threw in three days rest to face the Cubs
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: in Chicago for game 163. We lose that game. The
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: Rockies have to come to us to play the one-game
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: wildcard when it wasn't a three-game series. We win that game.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: We get to watch the one-game wildcard and go directly
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: to the NLDS, which was started by... Game two, Jolese Chassin.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: So you set yourself up to win that game 100
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: times out of 100 because that break is... so worth it.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: You have to trust that whoever you used, if you
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: didn't win, can still come back at the end of
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: the wildcard series or the next guy in line can
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: win game one for you.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Right. The games are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: If you're looking to purchase for the wildcard round, although
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: we still got to see Who's doing what?
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Yep. Still up in the air. Yeah.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Well, we know the Braves are hosting. If you're in Atlanta,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: you're good. You can get a ticket.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: You're going to watch playoff baseball on at least Tuesday
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: and Wednesday this week.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: The Yankees are hosting too.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: And this just happened, right? The Brewers, I think it
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: was yesterday because they hit win number 100. They just
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: hit their clinch for the bye.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Not the bye, sorry.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: The number one overall seed. And then the Dodgers hit
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: their clinch for the bye. So that's all done.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: That's done. Todd said the Yankees are hosting the Red Sox.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: That's done. I'm telling you. San Diego, that place might
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: crumble if they're hosting a three-game series. That place is
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: just going to rock. I said it before. I said,
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: you don't want to go out there and play. I mean, listen.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: That's what it's looking like.
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: Padres played in Chicago last year, I think it was.
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: It's a big-time advantage. I'm telling you right now, it's
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: a huge advantage. Both those teams are going to have
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: to go out west, one of them at least.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: But all the scenarios we talked about before, the fact
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: that if the Diamondbacks are winning, they're winning all those games,
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: the Padres could drop lower and the Cubs could host.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: And Wrigley, it's starting to get cold. I'm just saying
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: when it's cold and Wrigley, good things happen.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: True.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: So plenty to get excited about whether it's this weekend
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: or come post season time territory, 10, 10% off tickets.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: It could be MLB tickets. It actually could be football concerts,
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: whatever we know. We know there are people watching that
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: are in cities where playoff baseball ain't happening.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: So it's okay.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Use the little link in the description of this episode.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: You can click into that. You can save that code
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: if you want it for next week when you're looking
• 22:04
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• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Major League Baseball. Anything you can do, I can do
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: the same. Yeah, that's me singing. The Rangers beat the
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Mets 3-1, and then the Astros were like, cool. You
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: know this rookie we have, Lucas Spence? he's never hit
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: a home run yet. Oh, and he's going to hit three.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Now that's happened three times in history. The other, one
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: of the other times was this year, Joshua Baez, Sebi
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Zavala did it in 2021, three times ever that a
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: player has hit his first three home runs in the
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: same game.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Sarah Lang's the great did the research. I mean, crats ridiculous.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: That's why the sport's cool.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: You just don't see that in other sports where all
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: of a sudden the dude completely rescues a team and
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: could be salvaging their season. If the Astros lose, they
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: are not in the driver's seat. It's a game they
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: need to win against the A's yesterday, and they do it.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: The closest is what Jeremy Lin did when he just
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: popped on the scene for the Knicks back in the day.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: Kids need to look it up. But Lucas Spence was
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: at Stay Hot Camp. I think they're in Sugarland, if
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: I'm not mistaken. I think AAA is Sugarland. But if
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: it's not, tell me. to come up and have three homers,
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: and they needed all of them except for the last one,
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: but it was go-ahead homers, game-tying homers. Now, it wasn't
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: his first three at-bats, like Baez did it earlier this year,
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: but oh my gosh. That's the kind of stuff you
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: automatically go into Houston lore if this team is able
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: to push and make a deep run in the playoffs.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: I mean, listen.
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: I was kind of tracking this one a little bit
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: as I was driving home late night last night, up 3-0,
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: and then all of a sudden down 4-3.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, no, here we go. And then they
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: just kept pushing. Tie. Another home run. Another home run.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: It was an incredible– honestly, I didn't get to see
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: the game personally live, but watching the box scores and
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: stuff like that, truly remarkable. I mean, people on the
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: East Coast probably didn't really watch this game, but this
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: was an absolute monster of a game for the Astros.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: With three left, this was a big-time win for them,
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: knowing that the Rangers did win.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: What do we have?
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: What are we thinking this weekend?
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: I already gave them.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: I already gave mine. I think the Astros get in.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: Because of that tiebreaker, that's huge. The Astros have to go.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: I don't like the tiebreaker at all.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Todd.
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: Do you agree with me? I think they should have
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: a one-game playoff. But here's on the other side. I'm
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: not trying to dive deep in this. You're playing 162 games.
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: You shouldn't be crying wolf if there is a tiebreaker.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: And I get that. But wasn't there back in the
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: day where if they were tied, you'd have to play
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: a one-game playoff, right?
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: Wasn't there?
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: Oh, my gosh, yes. I played in a one-game, 163.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: And they're like, we don't want to have an off-day game.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: You don't want to have a game where– remember back
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: in 18? It was the Rockies and Dodgers. Had to
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: play a 163 for the division. And the Brewers and
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Cubs had to play a 163 for a division. All
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: four teams were going to be in the playoffs. Cubs lost.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: Rockies lost. They played in Wrigley. Man, I forget the
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: backup catcher's name that hung around for a little bit
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: that got the hit for the Rockies to send the
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: Cubs home then the next day. Like, it was... Yeah,
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: it was a.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: It was electric for me because I remember both games
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: being on around the same time. Like, for baseball, this
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: would be tremendous. They might not remember it in 10 years,
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: but in the moment, it was a ruckus, ruckus crowd
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: in Wrigley when we had to go down to Wrigley.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: It was cool. Yeah.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: Houston and the Rangers, think about that. All the eyes,
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: the eyes of Texas are upon us. Like, come on. Like,
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: that would be.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Epic.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: But for the Astros to go 1-3 and the Rangers
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: to go 2-3 in the last... That's what has to happen, essentially.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: Neither team's going to sweep. I don't think either team's
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: going to sweep. What did I say? I'm saying one
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: win out of three for the Astros. Two out of
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: three for the Rangers. So they go 2-1. Astros go 1-2.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: That's the only way... That's why I think the Rangers
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: don't get it.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: But Yeah, they're a game back with three to play. Right.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, think about it. They're a game back, three
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: to play. The Astros were able to take it to
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: the A's yesterday in Sacramento. The Sacramento A's have terrible pitching, right?
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: They rank towards the bottom in that category. They've neglected it.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: The Rangers are playing a twins team that, Todd, is
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: not that bad.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Are they great?
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: No.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Have they been bad the last couple months?
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Yes. Yeah.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: They are a better team than the A's. just looking
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: at your opponent and the Rangers are in Minnesota too.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, they're both on the road. I favor the
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Astros here with one game in hand.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Since they have the tiebreaker for sure. All right.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Let's take a break. We'll be right back. Oh, after
• 27:51
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• 27:54
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• 27:57
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• 28:09
  Speaker 2: presented by Lorraine Co. It's the Chicago White Sox.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: You guys believed this was going to happen, and you
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: did it in a special way. You made it happen.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: You did it in a special way. All right?
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: So thank you for everything that you guys have done.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: You players, it's incredible.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: Now listen. We do not stop. We do not stop.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: The division is very much in play here.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: So we do not stop. So tomorrow, we lock it
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: the f * * * back in. But tonight, we're
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: popping fun.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah!
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, it's incredible.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: We're not going to stop. This is only the beginning.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: We plan on going deep.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: All right, listen, I'm going to let.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: You get back.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: I think you're missing the conga line here.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Guys, I'll go find some more people.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: I might join the conga line.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I'll get back to you in a minute.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: Rated on a scale of 1 to 10, how's.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: It going so far?
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: 100. No 10.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: 100. Yeah.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: How many champagne bottles have you opened so far? 100.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Just what does it mean just to be able to
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: celebrate with this team?
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: I love Murakami.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: I love Murakami. He is a gem.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: He's such a happy guy. He's been like this too,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Todd father. He was, you know, like he's cracking jokes
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: from the jump, right?
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: First interview. He was bringing it show to him and Naga.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Cause you know, there's some guys when you're.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Coming from, japan you're kind of feeling things out or
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: or you know otani's a little bit more serious he
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: has fun in the dugout but he's not cracking jokes
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: with the media that much um imanago was doing this
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: for the jump and and i think he wanted everyone
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: to know like come to me if you want to
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: have a good time murakami is the same way here
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: todd like he has been comfortable from the jump If anything,
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: the league made some adjustments and he's definitely had some
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: swing and miss issues and all that. But like he
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: was comfortable almost right away. He was on fire in
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: the bigs at the plate too. Like he's just one
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: of those guys that is really mixed in quickly with
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: the big league club.
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you said it best too. Like, listen,
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: you're coming home from Japan. You don't know what to expect.
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: Some guys are homesick. Some guys are finding their way.
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: It seems like on the surface right here watching him,
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: he's having such a blast.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: He picked the right team.
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: And, you know, what he's doing over there and what
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: this team is doing, you cannot be any more excited
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: for this team to go out and try and dominate
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: a playoff push.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: You never know what can happen, too. I mean, listen,
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: 33 home runs for this guy. I said 40. Remember
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: we had a little argument?
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: If he didn't get hurt, he might have been up there–
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: in that 40 range, but the dude is an absolute stud.
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: He's got a great swing. Yeah, they're swinging this stuff,
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: but don't we all have it now? Or at least
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: a lot of guys do. So he's going to be
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: a really good baseball player in the major leagues for
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: a good amount of time if he can stay healthy.
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: And I think he fits right in with this White
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: Sox team. And if I was a White Sox, I'd
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: be starting to talk about clamming him down for a
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: couple more years after this.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: I know he has one more year, I think, right?
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: He signed a two-year deal.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, probably one of the better value deals
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: that anybody signed. I mean, you're going to look at
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: the 202 average and the 192 strikeouts and go, oh,
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: that's not good. Like, pump the brakes. The dude almost
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: had 100 walks in his first year in the show. Like,
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: 100 walks. Essentially, when you have a 348 on-base percentage
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: and your batting average is 204, that means the league
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: is afraid of you. So, yes, he didn't hit the
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: 40 homers because he was hurt. He can get to
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: 40 homers. Like, you stay healthy, he gets to 40 homers.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: He's going to strike out over 200 times, but when
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: you walk 100 times, you are instilling fear in big
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: league pitchers because they're like, do not miss over the
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: plate here. So they start nibbling, and he did a
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: good job of getting on base for this team. My
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: comment about this whole celebration that we just watched, everything there,
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: Very little playoff experience. Ben Attendee has some playoff experience. Vargas,
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: I think, was up for a little bit. Whether he
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: was around with the Dodgers when they were doing their stuff,
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: I don't know. To me, it was the guy who
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: first talked. All those videos we watched. Will Venable. Will
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: Venable went to the postseason with the Padres. He was
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: on the team with the Rangers. And you can never
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: discount how much Watching somebody deal with the ups and
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: downs of a season, even if they're not playing, matters
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: to young players. If Will Venable was all of a
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: sudden panicking to disco because they're not winning games, like
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: they kind of went through a stretch here where they
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: were winning them all the time early and not as
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: much later... and he's a different guy, then you're like, okay, well,
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: I have to panic now. But if you're always the
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: same guy, and that's what I see in Will, and
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: that's what I think is a valuable, valuable asset to
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: this team of young, young, inexperienced players going into the playoffs.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Back to Murakami for a moment, too. I just thought
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: of this.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: So, Murakami, Okamoto, and Tetsuya Amai were the three big
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: names coming from Japan over to Major League Baseball.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: And we cover this sport every day on Foul Territory.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Remember, Todd, all three of them seemed like they weren't
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: hitting the numbers everyone else thought they were going to
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: hit in terms of contracts. Murakami was a huge one.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: He was projected 100 plus by plenty of people based
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: on his age and his power potential.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: And he didn't sniff that. It was like a fifth
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: of that.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, has he, has he needed to adjust a
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: little bit down the stretch here?
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: No doubt, but he finished his year with an eight
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: to eight 15 OPS where the white socks without Murakami
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Okamoto had a really good year for the blue Jays.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: You could say the same thing where the blue Jays
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: without Okamoto, they'd be much further out since he provided
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: so much power for them. Amai was the one who
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: really didn't work so far.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: And actually it's funny.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: We're talking about mixing in with your team and getting
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: into American culture and what you need to do here,
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: the food, the sleep, whatever it is really quickly. Amai
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: is the one who struggled with that. There were big
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: articles written about it a few months ago where he
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: was expressing that he had a tough time just getting
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: used to life in the United States. Again, just emphasizing
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: how happy Murakami is and how, hey, they gave him
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: the bidet right when he came over here. It's worth it.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: That's a great call.
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: Put that in everybody's contract too.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: Bidets are great.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: I'm with you.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: I'll talk about this for a second, then I want
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: to cue it. When you play a team, they're not
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: usually going to say, oh, this team stinks. But a
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: manager or a player is not necessarily going to say.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: You know what?
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: This team's so good, they're making the playoffs. A team
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: that lost 100 games or more the last three years,
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: including the record 121 a couple years ago, right? The
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Brewers are the only team this year that's going to
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: win 100 games. There's sound here of Pat Murphy, and
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: I'll play it for you.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: It's quick.
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: You mark my word right now. This team, that Chicago
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: White Sox team, will be reckoned with in that division.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: That was a long time ago. Do you know when
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: that was?
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: First series of the year, when they absolutely pummeled them.
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: Second series?
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: No, second game. After the second game, first series of
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: the year. After the second game, March 28th, Pat Murphy's like, oh,
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: this team's good. Managers don't say that every day.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: They don't.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, you were complimenting your– crats, you're never going
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: to have a manager. Very rarely, maybe never, is a
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: manager going to go, you know what, they're not good.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: But he doesn't have to say after game two, oh, yeah,
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: this team's going to be a force in the central.
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: He saw something. He saw something that he liked. And
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: I think there's some similarities in, you know, the– The grit,
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: the vigor that the team plays with, like they get
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: after it. Nobody's going to pop off the page as, whoa,
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: the White Sox, you know, they have this MVP candidate
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: this year in their lineup. So Murph knows ball, and
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: he saw it early on. And this was after they
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: put a good whooping on him. And look what happened. Actually,
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: back-to-back years, the Brewers– got absolutely waylaid by the Yankees
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: to start last season. Look where the Brewers ended up.
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: The White Sox got waylaid by the Brewers. Look where
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: the White Sox ended up.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: Todd, did you ever experience that, where you played a
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: team that was pretty bad the year before, and then
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: you play them the next year, and you're like, oh,
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: something changed?
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: I think it was the Pirates the one year. When they,
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: what was that year?
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Was it like the 12, 13, 14 range when.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: They had it? That was really the only run they had.
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, with McCutche and Jay Hay and all those guys
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: and Martin. I mean, they had some dudes over there
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: and were like, woof, and they wore the black uniforms.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: Like, damn, these boys are coming to play, man.
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: So, I would say the Pirates in the early teens,
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: 2000 teens there, it might have been 14, might have
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: been around there, but They were forced to be reckoned
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: with that year. They turned it around quickly, and the
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: fans loved every second of it.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: What about this? Oh, go ahead.
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: Oh, no, no. I was just going to say the
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: 2014 Royals. I was on the Blue Jays, and they
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: came in, and I was like, whoa, this team I
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: didn't know about. I didn't know about their game. And ironically,
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: I get traded out. later in that year to that team,
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: just like an exciting team. You knew, I knew the
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: guys on the team because I had played with them.
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: I'd played with some of those guys three years prior
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: when they're all minor leaguers, but to see them all together,
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: you were like, Hmm, there's something there. And I got
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: fortunate to play, play with all those dudes for two years.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: And a last all smiles, little Bravo to the Royals
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: for the, commending the White Sox.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: You know, you have a team in your division. You
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: put it up on the screen. You say tip of
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: the cap. Good job, boys. So White Sox are in
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: KC and they gave him some love.
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: Pro organization. Royals are pro.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: They are pro.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: They really are.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: They've been like that for a long time. It is
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: a pro org.
• 39:21
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• 39:24
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• 39:31
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• 39:48
  Speaker 3: What's up?
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: We're here. Can we show off the Murakami shirt real quick?
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: There it is.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: That's good. Direct quote yesterday.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: And if you're a fan watching from Japan and you've
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: been dialed in on the Dodgers for the last few years,
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: there's some White Sox fans emerging in Japan.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: There should be, for sure. Yeah.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: Murakami is beloved out there. He's not Otani. Otani's the
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: greatest player ever. maybe in the sport, let alone Japan.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: But Murakami is very popular in Japan. So there's the shirt,
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: bottom left. Go check it out if you want it. FoulTerritoryShop.com.
• 40:32
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• 40:35
  Speaker 3: Snap!
• 40:36
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• 40:37
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• 40:40
  Speaker 3: Kiki, kiki, kiki, geez, it's cold.
• 40:42
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• 40:43
  Speaker 4: Geez, it's cold.
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: And this is the call of the marathon mascot bald eagle, Max.
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: Hi, it's Max.
• 40:50
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• 40:50
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• 40:52
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• 40:54
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• 40:58
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• 41:01
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• 41:02
  Speaker 2: All right, a few things on our way out here
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: on a Friday.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: First off.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: It was really cool how Ken Rosenthal talked about Alex
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: Bregman being back. We learned that right before the show started.
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: He was in the lineup.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: He's playing.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: He's got some protection on the cheek so he doesn't
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: get hit again, right? You got as much of a
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: flap as you can get to protect Bregman.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: The other thing that was.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: Cool, Todd, Father, that was pointed out by his manager
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: yesterday when they were celebrating. Alex Bregman has played 10
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: seasons in the big leagues.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: He has made the playoffs every year. That is not easy.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: That is a lucky man right there.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's some luck involved.
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: Listen, every year around Christmas time, you get another paycheck.
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: That's absolutely phenomenal for the last 10 years. Depending on
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: how far you go, it gets higher and higher. It
• 42:01
  Speaker 5: could be taking 30, anywhere from 30 to 300,000, 400,000.
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's incredible. I don't know how high it's
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: gotten or how low it's gotten, but good for him.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: I'm wondering. How many guys can say that?
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: I probably think there's not that many, but that is
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: a really cool feat to have. That's called the 10-10-10
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: right there.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah. 10-10, sorry, 10-10.
• 42:27
  Speaker 6: 10-10.
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: Jeter's second year was the first year they made the playoffs, right?
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: His first year they did not. I feel like he
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: would have been pretty close to 10-10-10. That would be
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: a good stat for somebody, but it's impressive. In my opinion,
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: I think winners win. Doesn't mean that winners can't lose.
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: I think the fact that Bregman, he does bring a
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: different aspect to every team that he's on. That's why
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: he's worth the $ 150 to $ 175 million that he's getting paid.
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: But the team that signed him is paying the most.
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: The team that didn't is also in the playoffs. And
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: another team that was talked about signing him in the Tigers...
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: Maybe he could have used that little extra edge, that
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: little extra value. Whatever that is that he brings, it
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: clearly works because he's been in the playoffs 10 straight
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: years to start his career. That's amazing.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: Kratz was too young to remember this, but he flunked
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: his own trivia contest. 1996, Derek Jeter's rookie season, they
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: won the World Series.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: So then did he make it 10 straight in a row?
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: Because 96 to 2006, I feel like they made it
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: every year. I thought Jeter came up in 95, so
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: that's why. I thought he came up for a couple
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: games and that wouldn't disqualify him from the Bregman trivia.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Cup of coffee in 95.
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: So it didn't count.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: We'll let the Yankee trivia nerds duke it out after
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: the show. A couple other things on the way out.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: Baseball World posting the Fangraphs war of every 40-homer, 40-stolen
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: base season. And guess who had the highest war of
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: the bunch? Pete Crow Armstrong, 10.7 and counting. He might
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: get close to 11 by the end of the season here.
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: Canseco's on this list in the sevens, same with A-Rod.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: Alfonso Soriano was in the fives, wasn't much of a defender.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: Barry Bonds in the nines, same with Acuna when he
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: did it. And then Shohei Otani was at an 8.9 F4.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: Was that Otani's position player and pitcher war, though?
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: No no no he only went 40.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: Oh that was his that was when he didn't pitch
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: right he didn't pitch that year so yes.
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: And thank you thank you for fans who roasted me
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: saying that Otani's not going to be able to hit
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: as well when he pitches for a full season thank
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: you for roasting me I am sorry that I was
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: wrong I was incorrect he was gonna hit 50 and
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: steal 50 bases when he was pitching at a Cy
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: Young level yes I am so sorry and.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: So sarcastic for being good at your job. Last one, Todd,
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: you'll like this. Did you ever do this, Todd? I
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: know you weren't in the outfield. Well, a little bit, right?
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: A little bit.
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: A little bit. Did you ever do this? So did
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: you see Ian Hopp? I mean, he's going to hit
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: free agency.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: So this was his last home game with the Cubs
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: and he put 300 bucks wrapped around a baseball and
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: sent it into the bleachers.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: And he was like, go get some brewskis on me.
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I didn't.
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: I would have catch with the fans, but I've never
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: done anything of this nature. It's pretty unique for him
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: and a very thought-out message. I wonder who's going to
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: get the ball and who's going to get the beers.
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: I think that's pretty nice, pretty nice of him in
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: the outfield. That's something those fans will truly never forget, too,
• 45:48
  Speaker 5: to be like, dude, I just got– you know, Ian
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: Happ bought me a beer today.
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: That's really cool.
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: How many beers do you think that actually buys? Yes, Todd.
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: At a game, how many beers do you think.
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: $ 300 buys?
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: No tip included.
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: I would say 15.
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: 13 to 15, depending on how much the beer costs.
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: 13 to 15.
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah. It's a little, it's a little over in Wrigley,
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: but 300 bones. That's so show. I've never heard of
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: anybody doing something like this. No, I've heard of people sending,
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: sending something written on a baseball into the stands in Wrigley.
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: It wasn't a message.
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: That, Now you think about the guy that gets pulled over. Well,
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: he didn't have bought me this beer, you know? Oh Jesus.
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: We're going down, maybe.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: A dark Friday path. This is what we do. It's
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: happened though. It's happened.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: I've seen it happen at least a couple of times
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: where an outfielder has done this. Sometimes it's like last
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: game of the season. Someone chucks a hundred bucks against
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: a baseball or whatever the number is.
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: So.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: Good stuff.
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: One place I was the last game of the season,
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: every time they went out and played catch, they played
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: catch with a signed ball. You know how before the
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: year everybody signs like a stack of baseballs the last day,
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: like fan appreciation day? The players will go out and
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: they'll warm up with a ball that's signed, which you're like, ah,
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: it's used. I think it's a pretty cool thing. And
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: they throw and they end up throwing the balls into
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: the stands. Kind of like they did the home run derby.
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: The home run derby balls were signed. And so people
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: that were hitting them, they were getting signed balls. home
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: run ball or signed baseballs.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: Often the littlest things that a player does. They have
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: no idea.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, they do know, but like even the littlest,
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: littlest thing, right? Acknowledging you looked up at someone and
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: gave them a, Hey, I see you can make all
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: the difference for a fan, especially a young fan.
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: Todd, Todd was, is one of the best, was one
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: of the best at that as a player. And even
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: not as a player, because Todd is like the, he's
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: royalty where he lives and watching him, watching you walk
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: around Tom's river Lakewood, you could be, you could very
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: much be like, yeah. Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey. I mean, you,
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: you are there and very engaged and very like one
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: of the best I've ever seen.
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: Very present. Yes. Appreciate that.
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: Last thing on our way out, Kratz hats with an
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: ode to someone, perhaps.
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: Are you doing that to someone? Oh no.
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: Well, it's a note to the Friars from last night.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: I thought maybe you were going to tip your cap
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: to Justin Verlander making his last start on Saturday.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: And we don't know about Scherzer yet either.
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: Scherzer has to come back unless Verlander lays an egg
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: and doesn't get any strikeouts and Scherzer beats him. I
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: think he needs four strikeouts to beat Verlander. So Verlander
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: goes out and gets like three tomorrow. and then Scherzer
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: wants to pitch Sunday and doesn't get more than Verlander,
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: I think Scherzer comes back. I'm just saying. Also, Scherzer
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: plays one more year. He goes in by himself in
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: the Hall of Fame and not Verlander and Scherzer at
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: the same time. Just putting facts out there. Not my opinion,
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: just facts.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: And it's real.
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: Those two are rivals, former teammates. They compete with each
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: other even when they weren't on the same team.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: And I love that.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: That's like the grabbing by the jugular, I'm better than
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: you kind of stuff that the legends did. hey foul
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: territory shop.com full of new merch there's some below the
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: pete the polar bear whoever invented that nickname for pete
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: alonso is just oh there he is there he is
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: todd father have a good weekend everyone enjoy the last
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: weekend of the regular season All right, ready to supercharge
• 49:40
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• 49:42
  Speaker 3: Enjoy a boost token.
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: You can score a bigger payout if that parlay hits
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• 49:48
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• 49:51
  Speaker 4: Call 1-800-GAMBLING.