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Yankees SLOPPY loss to Rays, White Sox KEEP ROLLING vs. Guardians | Ross & Rizzo MLB Playoffs · Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered

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  Speaker 1: How many times this season do you think the New
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  Speaker 1: York Yankees, how many times have they rolled out an
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  Speaker 1: all left-handed lineup during the regular season? Probably not much. Ten? One.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: One time. So let's do that three times in a
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  Speaker 1: row in the playoffs, right? That's what we talked about.
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  Speaker 1: We're trying to create things when that's not the way
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  Speaker 1: this team got here. The team got here by rolling
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  Speaker 1: out your lineups, right? And now we're trying to trick
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  Speaker 1: fuck the system. Let's go all lefties. The Rays throw...
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  Speaker 1: and a massive amount of change-ups. So I was pretty
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  Speaker 1: surprised seeing the all left-handed lineup again. Welcome back to
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  Speaker 1: another episode of Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered. I'm Anthony Rizzo
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  Speaker 1: with my partner, David Ross. Game two of the American
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  Speaker 1: League Division Series is in the books. The White Sox
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  Speaker 1: beating the Guardians 4-3 and the Yankees losing to the
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  Speaker 1: Rays 5-2. Rossi What the fuck did we just watch
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  Speaker 1: in that Yankee game?
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  Speaker 2: I knew you were going to be on one tonight, man.
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  Speaker 2: They did not start clean. I mean, we've talked about
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  Speaker 2: it on here a ton already. Like, clean baseball is
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  Speaker 2: playoff baseball. But your boy, Cam Schlittler, like, picked them up. Like,
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  Speaker 2: only allowed one with all that chaos in the first inning.
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  Speaker 1: All that speed.
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  Speaker 2: The defense not helping him behind. Jazz, the crazy throw.
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  Speaker 3: You know, just.
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  Speaker 2: He had to pitch out of some traffic early and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of mistakes behind him. But he kind of
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  Speaker 2: takes the ball, puts them on his back, and keeps
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  Speaker 2: it a one-run game. I thought that was huge for
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  Speaker 2: them to stay in the game.
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  Speaker 1: No doubt. And say what you want, Cam, right, maybe
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  Speaker 1: didn't have his best stuff. But for what the circumstances
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  Speaker 1: he dealt with, he was nasty. The fact that he
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  Speaker 1: kept them in the game and the fact that that
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  Speaker 1: was a 1-1 ball game in the fourth inning was–
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  Speaker 1: I mean, credit to him and how, I mean, this
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  Speaker 1: is his second year in the big leagues, and all
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  Speaker 1: the adversity he just had to deal with, none of
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  Speaker 1: that was, you know, by his doing, and he just
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  Speaker 1: kept going, kept pitching. Maybe he wasn't as sharp, but
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  Speaker 1: it was impossible for him to settle in. Every single
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  Speaker 1: inning was high stress for him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and credit to the Rays hitters. They were swinging early.
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  Speaker 2: They jumped on all those mistakes behind him. I think
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  Speaker 2: he only threw like 20 in the first, 20 in
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  Speaker 2: the second, or 21 in the second.
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  Speaker 1: Like, They put the ball in play.
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, you're talking about the American League
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  Speaker 2: Cy Young winner, if we're being honest, right, Cam?
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  Speaker 1: No doubt.
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  Speaker 2: And these guys had quality at bats, hit the ball hard.
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  Speaker 2: A couple homers, a couple balls hit the top of
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  Speaker 2: the wall, almost homers.
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  Speaker 1: Like, they're that good.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, the mistakes behind him didn't help him
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  Speaker 2: in those high-stress pitches. But I thought a lot of
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  Speaker 2: credit had to go to the Rays. Hard-hit balls, and
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  Speaker 2: they were swinging early. They make contact. Um, they're going
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  Speaker 2: to put the ball in play. They make you throw strikes.
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  Speaker 2: And he had, I thought he had good stuff. It just,
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't able to get in into anything, set anybody up.
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  Speaker 2: They were, they were on him early and just, I don't,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a little bit, maybe wasn't quite as
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  Speaker 2: sharp if you want to say that, but I just
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  Speaker 2: thought a lot of credit had to go to the
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  Speaker 2: race hitters and just how good they are, especially in
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  Speaker 2: their home ballpark.
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  Speaker 1: The least amount of strikeouts in a start this year
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  Speaker 1: from Cam, the probably unanimous Cy Young Award winning the
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  Speaker 1: American League. That's how good this Rays lineup is. He
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  Speaker 1: only struck out two hitters, right? And this stuff is nasty. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So they did put a lot of pressure on them.
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  Speaker 1: The Yankees, man, they arguably gave the Rays five or
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  Speaker 1: six extra outs. And as frustrating as that is as
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  Speaker 1: a Yankee fan, if you're a Yankee fan, it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: No one hit, right? Yeah. Ben Rice, two home runs.
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  Speaker 1: Austin Wells. And Bellinger.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Right? Austin Wells still swinging it well. Austin Wells
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  Speaker 2: still swinging it well. Yeah, five hits in two games.
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  Speaker 2: You're not going to win a lot of ballgames like
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  Speaker 2: that unless they're going in the seats.
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to win any ballgames like that.
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: You're right. I guess unless they're going in the seats.
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  Speaker 2: But, I mean, Ben Rice still, like you said, Ben
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  Speaker 2: Rice two home runs, but nobody's on bait. Like, just
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the lineup. Booney's going to have to
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  Speaker 2: mix something up. You know, I don't know what that
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  Speaker 2: looks like, but.
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  Speaker 1: Something's got to change. I played on the Yankees, right?
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  Speaker 1: How many times this season do you think the New
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  Speaker 1: York Yankees, and granted, Aaron Judge was hurt most of
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  Speaker 1: the year, and so was Giancarlo Stanton. So they were
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  Speaker 1: a very left-handed, dominant lineup. How many times have they
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  Speaker 1: rolled out an all left-handed lineup during the regular season?
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  Speaker 1: Probably not much. What would your guess be?
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  Speaker 3: I would guess 10.
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  Speaker 1: One. Wow. One time. So let's do that three times
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  Speaker 1: in a row in the playoffs, right? That's what we
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  Speaker 1: talked about. Exactly. We talked about this. We're trying to
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  Speaker 1: create things when that's not the way this team got here.
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  Speaker 1: The team got here by rolling out your lineups, right?
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  Speaker 1: And now we're trying to trick fuck the system. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go all lefties. The Rays throw a massive amount of changeups.
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  Speaker 1: So I was pretty surprised seeing the all left-handed lineup again.
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  Speaker 1: And then later on in the game, the lefty was
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  Speaker 1: in there. and they weren't pinch hitting anyone. Yeah. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, why have all these guys on the bench?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I was just, I was frustrated watching, uh, it's. Rasmussen
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  Speaker 1: threw career high in changeups in game one, right? Yeah. That,
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  Speaker 1: that tells you all you need to know on how
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  Speaker 1: they're going to attack these left-handed hitters.
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  Speaker 2: That tells you. Well, and we, we talked about it too.
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  Speaker 2: When a, when a pitcher has a feel for certain
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  Speaker 2: locations and pitches, um, and you face the same sided
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  Speaker 2: hitter all the time, it just makes it easier on
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  Speaker 2: them where they don't have to go back and forth.
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  Speaker 2: Even if the righty gets out for a time, he
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  Speaker 2: has to change. Usually you get a walk there because
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't have the release point and the visual. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot to be said about that. They're not
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  Speaker 2: built on platooning. They went out and made some moves
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  Speaker 2: and tried to fill some holes because Giancarlo.
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  Speaker 1: And Judge is out, but.
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  Speaker 2: They're trying to make shift, and I get where he's thinking,
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  Speaker 2: but now it's time to just get the best bats
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  Speaker 2: in there. I'm riding with Goldie. Goldie maybe makes some play. Again,
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  Speaker 2: his defense alone probably would have saved you an error
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  Speaker 2: or two tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I know fans are frustrated with Jazz. That
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  Speaker 1: play with infield in, they were playing three depth. It
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  Speaker 1: seemed like it's not a contact play. Aranda just made
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  Speaker 1: a great read. It was a perfectly chopped ball on
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  Speaker 1: that turf. to where I thought Jazz made the right
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  Speaker 1: play by going to first. Obviously, in the first inning,
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  Speaker 1: he rushed that ball.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and Booney put him at that depth because rarely,
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  Speaker 2: and I think the raise, and this is a conversation
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  Speaker 2: I had when I was managing, talking to some other coaches.
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  Speaker 2: We were talking about the debate between going on contact
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  Speaker 2: with nobody out, second, third, infield in, and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people don't.
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  Speaker 3: They let the ball see it. let the ball go through.
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  Speaker 2: And I think they were telling me, I don't quote
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  Speaker 2: me on this, but I think the Rays always go
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  Speaker 2: contact because of some kind of, some kind of stat
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  Speaker 2: that they have where like putting pressure on the defense
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  Speaker 2: in the, the, the numbers behind it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't, I don't, I didn't look like he was going. No,
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  Speaker 1: he did.
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  Speaker 2: He had a nice read, but I know they do
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  Speaker 2: put pressure on the next ball. They definitely were going
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  Speaker 2: on contact with one out. You could see an immediate
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  Speaker 2: break from, I think it was Caminero down there. Had
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  Speaker 2: a great jump on the next ball on the infield.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, man, you know, I think that's one of
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  Speaker 2: the hardest plays in baseball coming from catching infield in
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  Speaker 2: and the execution of fielding it and throwing a clean
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  Speaker 2: handable ball to the catcher and him not blocking the plate,
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  Speaker 2: catching it and tagging the runner going full speed is
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  Speaker 2: a really tough play. So, you know, the Rays put
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  Speaker 2: pressure on you and that's what they do. They're very
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  Speaker 2: similar to the Brewers. And since they just put constant
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  Speaker 2: pressure on you with contact.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, they're the two best teams, right? I mean, two
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  Speaker 1: best teams in the league, in the American League and
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  Speaker 1: the National League. So those are your two picks.
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  Speaker 3: I sneaky love their just style of baseball, man.
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  Speaker 2: It's like just the old school, like put the ball
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  Speaker 2: in play, bunt, hit and run, just stealing bases, putting
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  Speaker 2: pressure on.
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  Speaker 1: I just love that style of baseball because they're old
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  Speaker 1: school nationally. I mean, let's talk about how good the
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  Speaker 1: Rays are, right? Yeah. they showed a stat during the
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  Speaker 1: game that their Rays have forced 144 errors on opposing teams,
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  Speaker 1: fourth in the league. So it'd be interesting to see
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  Speaker 1: the top three, right? I'm sure the Brewers are up there.
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  Speaker 1: White Sox may be up there with how pesky they are.
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  Speaker 1: So they just, it's constant pressure. It's foot on the gas. It's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, at all times. And These guys, man, they're
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  Speaker 1: a great team. Kevin Cash pulls all the right strings.
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  Speaker 1: He pulls Peralta today with, what do you have, like
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  Speaker 1: 60 pitches?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And brings in the lefty, and the lefty goes three plus.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? They're good. They're deep. Brian
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  Speaker 1: Baker is a shutdown closer that's just not getting love,
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  Speaker 1: and the deeper they go in the playoffs, the more
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  Speaker 1: love he's going to get for how good he's been
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  Speaker 1: this year. Yeah. This is a good baseball team.
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  Speaker 2: Seymour, nine consecutive outs, or got nine outs out of
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  Speaker 2: the pen, like huge, until he gave up that homer
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  Speaker 2: to Ben Rice. He was absolutely carving. And Richie Palacios,
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  Speaker 2: got to give him some love. I want to go
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  Speaker 2: through that inning. We got first and third, two outs, right?
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  Speaker 2: And then they steal that backdoor base, kind of a freebie.
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  Speaker 2: Wells gives a full-arm fake. You're like, okay, we're just
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  Speaker 2: going to bank on the lefty-lefty matchup, but that's an
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  Speaker 2: underrated stolen base there that probably won't get talked about
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  Speaker 2: too much.
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  Speaker 3: Now we got second, third.
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  Speaker 2: He works a 3-0 count, nice and comfortable, and then
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  Speaker 2: comes out of his shoes, 3-0, the green light, 3-1,
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  Speaker 2: fouling off pitches, fouling off pitches, works– Gets it back
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  Speaker 2: to 3-2, and you're like, oh, man, he's going to
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  Speaker 2: give up this at bat here.
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  Speaker 3: Excuse me.
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  Speaker 2: And a 3-2 base hit, line drive up the middle.
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  Speaker 2: They score two, and it fell out of reach then
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  Speaker 2: in a 5-1 game at that point. But great at
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  Speaker 2: bat from Palacios and staying up the middle. Huge hit,
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  Speaker 2: and the Rays just keep coming, man. They're just relentless.
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  Speaker 2: It feels like they don't take one pitch off when
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  Speaker 2: they're in the box. It's really impressive, and their pitching
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  Speaker 1: The Yankees, they have to score runs. At the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, we can break down their defense all
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  Speaker 1: they want, but if they don't score runs... It's impossible, right?
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  Speaker 1: So Yankee Stadium, hopefully it'll be a different story for them.
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  Speaker 1: And for the Rays, hopefully they keep the foot on
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  Speaker 1: the pedal. One player that is going crazy scoring runs.
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  Speaker 1: of the week. Shout out Corona. Ben Rice, man. One
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  Speaker 1: of the lone bright spots right now on that Yankee offense.
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  Speaker 1: Two home runs, another two home runs tonight. Four total
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Four games, four homers. That's pretty good,
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  Speaker 1: I would say. Seven hits, four home runs, eight RBIs,
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  Speaker 1: and three walks. He's locked, bro. Him stepping up in
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  Speaker 1: Judge's absence and Stanton's absence is something that Yankees fans
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  Speaker 1: should be really excited for. Obviously, right now, it's hard
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  Speaker 1: to be excited for anything as a Yankee fan, but
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  Speaker 1: Ben Rice, what you're doing in October versus your division rivals... nonetheless,
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  Speaker 1: is a statement.
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  Speaker 2: Shout out Playa of the Week, Ben Rice. He's carrying
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  Speaker 2: them right now. They're the only offensive presence they really had,
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  Speaker 2: him and Wells.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. I don't think this series is over. They just
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  Speaker 1: got to win one game. Obviously, Rossi, we've come back
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  Speaker 1: from worse. That's right.
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  Speaker 3: One at a time.
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  Speaker 1: One at a time is right. Same thing goes for
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  Speaker 1: the Cleveland Guardians. One at a time. Because the Chicago
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  Speaker 1: White Sox making another statement, bro. Will Venable going with
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  Speaker 1: the opener. Doesn't work out. Brings in his second opener,
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  Speaker 1: Sean Newcomb. Makes a pretty costly error in the first inning, right?
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  Speaker 1: To give the Guardian players momentum. And that fan, that
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: stadium was going crazy to take a 2-0 lead. First
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  Speaker 1: time this playoffs where The White Sox got punched in
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  Speaker 1: the face where their opener didn't work out right away, Rossi.
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  Speaker 2: No, it felt like when you're watching the game, like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: here come the Indians. We're going to have a tie series, right?
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  Speaker 2: Like the momentum early on.
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  Speaker 3: Guardians.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. They were the Indians when we were playing. I
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  Speaker 1: can't help it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I'm sorry, MLB.
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  Speaker 1: Don't at me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Guardians, man. It felt like they were just,
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  Speaker 2: you know, finally the momentum. Okay, here comes their offense.
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  Speaker 2: They got a little bit of things going their way.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Anthony Kaye, the first time the opener really
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  Speaker 2: didn't work for, like you said, for Will Venable. And, man,
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  Speaker 2: they looked like things were going to go well. And
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  Speaker 2: they got their stud horse on the mound, striking out
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  Speaker 2: 11 in his.
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  Speaker 1: Gavin Williams, man. Bro, these guys, it's like everyone talks
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  Speaker 1: about Jacob Mizorowski, Paul Skeens. Bro, all of these pitchers, man,
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  Speaker 1: are just absolutely elite.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean– 101 with that nasty hammer.
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  Speaker 3: That was a hammer.
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  Speaker 2: That freaking spiked curveball, bro. That thing's nasty. Just falling
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  Speaker 2: off the table. The ball looks like it jumps up
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  Speaker 2: in the zone, too. It's just real four-seam carry, man.
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  Speaker 2: It's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: His stuff was nasty.
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  Speaker 1: Nasty. And for the White Sox, their magic. is their magic.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel like the guy who creates most of
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  Speaker 1: that spark is Murray Kama. And he gets it going
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  Speaker 1: with the RBI single on the top of the fourth.
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  Speaker 1: And then they take the lead on the Brandon Montgomery
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  Speaker 1: 2 RBI double. So they're winning 3-2. And then after
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  Speaker 1: the two openers, Will Venable brings in his ace, Sean Burke.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't seen the two opener strategy, Rossi. I've seen
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  Speaker 1: the one opener go into your bulk guy or your pitcher,
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  Speaker 1: but The two-opener strategy, I kind of like it.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: Burke was nasty, man. 13 straight, retired, all the way
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: to the eighth. Like, absolutely electric stuff. What a performance
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: by him when he needed it.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: It was unbelievable.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: And we got to give a shout-out, Braden Montgomery, okay?
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Second year on the show, a young man, just figuring
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: things out from the right side. His two-run double, 3-2 count.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: His OPS against lefties, 4-2. 30.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: That's not good. Not good. You were better than that.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: It was better than that, which is not saying much.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: But the fact like just continue to have the at bats.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: Huge double down the right field line.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Great piece of hitting like that felt like, OK, here
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: comes here comes the the White Sox and their magic man.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: They can hit.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: They control the zone. They take their I think they
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: got hurt a stat. I didn't know that. I think
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: they led MLB in walks this year.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Like, they can, for a young group, like, they hack
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: at homers, but they also control the strike zone and.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: Make you fill it up. So, huge at-bat.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: There by Brady Montgomery. That was really, really cool.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: And Sean Burke, man, like, that backdoor little cutter thing
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: he likes to get ahead of, like, it's almost a
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: free strike. He had that thing locked in today, the
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: break ball, the four-seamers up.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Just unbelievable.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Unbelievable.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: He allowed one hit, Sean Burke, right? Rossi, what do
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: you got on the, like, you bring in your just
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: top bullpen arms in the first and second, then you
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: ride your starter till the eighth. I mean, obviously, that's
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: a perfect formula, but I kind of like the double
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: opener and then go into your bulk, right?
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they must have had somebody that they liked him facing, right? Or, like,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: try to map it out and just kind of work
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: in the strategy backwards. The opener is one thing, but
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: maybe just getting into.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: You know, a couple innings in, or I don't know
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: what his actual thought process is or like how they
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: map that thing out. And maybe, you know, maybe Will
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: is giving it a little bit of credit just watching
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: the game and Burke looks so good. He's like, I'm,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: this guy's nasty. He's retiring everybody. Like we said, 13 straight.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: So nobody's reaching base. I'm not getting anybody. I'm not,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: I'm not getting anybody up. I'm not getting anybody hot.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: So credit them for, you know, not having it so
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: scripted and kind of watching you do with your your
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: experience and and knowing the guys and and how they're
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: handling the moment it's really impressive.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Bro you you just said experience what these white socks
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: players are gaining right now and these games and these
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: moments the experience that they're going to be able to
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: take with them for the rest of their careers however
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: the rest of this playoff shakes out this experience for
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: them is it's it's jump-starting their careers even more. Such
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: young talent, such young players getting to experience this playoff atmosphere.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: You saw the Yankees today. They made the errors in
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: the first inning. They just could not rebound. The White
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Sox get punched in the face in the first inning. Two-run.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: That's a two-run error. That's tough on the road. They
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: just bounce back and they win the ballgame. They find
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: a way to win.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: And you know how when that crowd gets going on
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: the road in a playoff atmosphere, it feels like you've
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: got a real uphill battle.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: You know who I love for the White Sox? Chase Mydroff.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: I can't say enough good things.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: About him, but huge base hit, taking it to 4-2,
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: kind of putting it a little bit breathing room there.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: For the White Sox, but he's got some grit to him, man.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Just like Edge. The whole team. Yeah. The whole team, bro.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: It's fun. And then, Rossi, Grant Taylor comes in after
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: his heroics in game one, right? Will Venable riding him
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: four innings, 40-plus pitches, comes in and locks down the save,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: goes an inning and a third. Yeah, yeah.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Like, this dude's arm's going to fall off. We'll figure
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: that out later. He's young. He can recover. They have
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: an off day. They're going back to– Guaranteed rate field
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: to Chicago.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: He gave up some hard hit. The balls, they were outs,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: but he gave up a little bit of hard hit.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: That would be a red flag. I'm glad he gets
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: an off day tomorrow.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: That's for sure. No doubt. I mean, the whole team
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: gets to reset now tomorrow. And now there's blood in
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: the water for these White Sox. They're going home to
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: guaranteed rate field. I still call it Comiskey, right, in
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: the south side of Chicago where these fans are buzzing.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's going to be loud there. Those fans
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: are rowdy. We know playing in that Cubs-White Sox rivalry
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: that those fans are relentless there on the south side.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: So good for them. How about that?
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: Joe Adele almost tied that thing up.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: That ball he hit off the top of the wall.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: I was like, he hit it. And I'm like, he's
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: got some sick juice.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: But you know what?
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: He doesn't have the juice like daddy.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Some of us go deep there, Joe.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Some of us go deep there.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I had to get that in. I had to get that.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: No, that was like, I was like, He hit that,
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: and I saw the outfielder turn and look up. I'm like, oh,
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: we got a tie ball game. Hits off the top,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: makes it 4-3, and then they shut it down. So
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: that was a great game.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Rossi, I'm going to be in Chicago on Wednesday, and
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I'm heavily debating going to the game. Listen, I said
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: this all the time, and I stand by it. When
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: we won the World Series in 2016, if you're a
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: White Sox fan and you couldn't have a little bit
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: of like love for that Cubs team, I always said
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: you're just a miserable fucking person, right? I like that.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: I like that. Because of the drought and it's the
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: city of Chicago and you want the city of Chicago
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: to do well. So now being on the other end
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: of it, if you're a Cubs fan and you can't
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: be rooting, this White Sox team is a very likable team. Yeah.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: They've come out of nowhere. They've gone through hell the
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: last few years, losing a record amount of games, back-to-back
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: 100-loss seasons. They're just a fun team to root for.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Murray Kama is so much fun. This whole team, Will
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Venable is doing an amazing job as a manager. So
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: I am debating on going to the game. One of
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: my best friends is a diehard White Sox fan, and
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: he has a White Sox jersey. Morgan? Yeah, my boy.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Shout out, Morgan. He has a White Sox jersey. I
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: call him the mayor with Rizzo 44 on the back, right?
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: So he would come to Cubs games wearing his White
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Sox jersey with my name on the back. That's sick.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: That's awesome. I didn't know that. That's nice. He's got
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: to be on cloud nine right now. Shout out Morgan.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: He's awesome.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I just think it would be really cool to experience
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: that atmosphere there in Chicago. Rossi, what do you got?
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Tell me who wins game three. Give me your predictions.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: What do we got?
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: My polymarket pick of the game. I'm going to tell
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: you who I think is going to win game three
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: in Chicago. We've got the White Sox are 54% to
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: the yes. to complete the sweep. $ 100 gets you $ 179,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: and the Guardians are 46% to the yes. $ 100 gets
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: you $ 207, and I'm about making money.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: That's what you said.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: I told you. I like making money. The Guardians cannot
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: go out like this. I think it's going to be electric.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: It's going to be an amazing atmosphere in Chicago on
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: the south side, but I feel like the Guardians got
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: to get one under the books. I'm Secretly kind of
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: rooting for the city of Chicago and the White Sox.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: But when it talks about money, I got no friends.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Scared money don't make money. Polymarket, I'm going with the Guardians. Hey,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: let me ask you this. This is a wild take.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Would it be better? Say right now it's 2-0 and
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: history says that these teams have a probably 95% chance
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: of moving on, right? The odds are heavily stacked against
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: the Guardians of the Yankees. Would it be better for
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: these teams to lose a game to get punched in
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: the face before they lose their first game in the playoffs?
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Because you've seen teams get super hot through the playoffs,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: and then that first time they get punches in the
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: CS or the World Series. I remember in 07, the Rockies,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: they swept their way through and then just got swept
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: in the World Series. Good point. Good point. Obviously, you
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: don't want to lose a game.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't want to lose a game.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: On the media end now, it's easy to talk about.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Forget how hard it was to play, right?
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: You can see where, like, the young guys overcome a
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: little bit of adversity. I don't think that would affect them.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: But it's going to be a good environment, man. I
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: can't wait to see what it looks like on the
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: south side.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be fun. Fun to watch right
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: in Yankee Stadium to see, you know, Yankees don't get
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: off to a good start. Those fans are passionate in
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: the Bronx.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's going to be loud. If they do
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: get off to a good start, they.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Will be loud. That it will be. Cannot wait. Let's
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: get to our Tim Boss ball bag questions of the day.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Our daily mail bag for me and Rossi answering our
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: fan questions. You can leave comments on our socials, on
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: our YouTube channel, or email us at rossandrizzo at gmail.com.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: This is our favorite part of the show where we
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: get to answer your questions and bring you inside our brains.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: First one is an email from John. Dejected Yankee fan here. Oh,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: what a start. Yeah.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: John, thanks for the email.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: I think what I would say is the hope for
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: the Yankees is they played.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Bad at the Trop all year long.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Like their stats, the pitching has got, I think it's
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: a two-run difference at the Trop than at home. It's
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: just not their place to play. And the Rays are
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: great at home. The Rays are one of the best
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: teams in baseball, best records at home, tied with the Brewers.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: So the hope is it is that type of baseball there. Turf,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: slap it. good at bats, trying to create pressure on
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: that fast infield. As you saw tonight, some hops that
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: just ate up Mayhew, who's an elite defender, at third
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: to start the whole game off. The hope is that
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: you get to Yankee Stadium, get to your home field,
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: the home run comes in play a little bit more.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: You can play your brand of baseball home behind your fans.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: I think The real thing that I put my manager
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: hat on that stands out to me is a lot
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: of these teams that can't afford the big boppers like
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: the Yankees have, they went with contact and quality of
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: the bat and controlling the strike zone. You talk about
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: the White Sox who control the strike zone, the Milwaukee
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Brewers who put pressure on and put.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Balls in play.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: That's a winning formula right now with the velocity and
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: how good all these pitchers are. So some teams are
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: a little bit behind, and I would say the Yankees
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: may be Their formula for success has always been, and
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: I think they stick to, we're going to live and
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: die by the homer and the great pitching they have.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's definitely frustrating as a Yankee fan.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: I get it. It seems like the theme this year
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: was the run-it-back Yankees, and I think this team, this
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: pitching is elite. This hasn't been the defense that they've
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: been playing all year. They've been consistently better defensively. Today
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: was one of those games, and it's just magnified because
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: it's the playoffs. But at the end of the day,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: like I said, Rossi, they have to hit. They have
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: to hit as a team. They can't rely on the
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: long ball, which I know they do. But why everyone
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: was so excited for this Yankee team coming into the
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: series was how they beat the Red Sox. They beat
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: them on singles, singles, singles, singles, good hitting, and a
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: few homers, right? I would say this.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: I would say this to John is that the Rays
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: were better than them during the regular season. Maybe the
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Rays are just a better team. I'm going to throw
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: that out there.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, of course.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: There is that factor, and you've got to be playing well.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: By the way, talking about great defense, this is a
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: side note. George Lombard Jr., that play where Jazz took
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: him off the bag early in that first, what a
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: great wherewithal, not to try to throw it to first
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: with a fast runner in Simpson, but he goes back
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: and tags the bag.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: George Lombard Jr. is a young upcoming.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Stud who has made his presence felt, and he's going
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: to be elite at second base for a long time.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Next email. No doubt.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: From Paul Tilden. My question is about two current players
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: who I really love. Dansby and Michael Bush. Love Michael
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Bush and Dansby. I agree with you there, Paul. What
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: can they do to hit better to match their fantastic defense?
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: You want to take this?
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: I think Dansby has, you're getting what you get. Like
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: that's who he's kind of always been. There's some swing
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: and miss in there. He's a phenomenal defender. As you said,
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: he hits home runs. He's got big-time pop. I think
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: at this point in his career, I don't know how
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: much would change from that, but maybe he makes some adjustments.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Each year is unique, and maybe he works on some
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: of that in the offseason. I think Michael Bush just
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: had a down year for him. He was spectacular offseason.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: last year offensively. And one of the guys that I
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: thought carried him, carried them to the postseason, helped carry
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: them to the postseason. I think he just had a
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: tough year, to be honest. He is a great defender,
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: but I think he took a step back this year
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: from what the expectations he had set from last year.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think that Dan's getting 19 home runs.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: It's not easy to find shortstops with that type of pop, right?
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: If he could get his average up a tick. Yeah,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: for sure. Everything boosts up. Then you're looking at, you know,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: his career OPS is 729. He gets his average up
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: a little bit, which he was earlier in his career.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Earlier in his career, he was, you know, he had 300,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: he had 270, 250, 270. So, he was around that
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: 800 OPS. So, he gets a couple more base hits
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: for Dansby. That leads to more confidence, which leads to
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: more slug, which leads to just overall better being of
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: product of baseball.
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: And then I had him his first year. Well, I
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: had him his first year and he hit.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: The ball the other way early on. And when he's
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: like that, he's the most locked in. It looks like,
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: you know, this year a little more pool happy and
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: like guys have good and bad years. I don't, I
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: don't think this was a standout year for him offensively,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: but sorry.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: To cut you off. Go ahead. No, no, no. Well
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: for Bushy, this is his first year legitimately playing every day, right?
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: He played in 160 games. He was in there. He said,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: here you go. You've earned this. He had a monster
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: year last year, and he came on at the end
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: of last year hitting lefties really well. So this is
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: his first year really hitting lefties every day and not
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: getting the mental days off. That's what a lot of
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: people don't understand is when you play every day, there's
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: no break, right? You're facing lefties. You're facing righties. There's
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: no break. When you're not a true everyday player, You play,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: and then, oh, let's give him a day. And that
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: one day is such a reset. And if you get
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: three of those a month, you still look like an
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: everyday player, but you're not a full-time everyday player. You
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: know what I mean, Rossi?
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well said, bro.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: So those little mental resets, and that's Bushy's first year
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: going through that full-time everyday player, where here you go.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: I love Michael Bush.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: I love him too. I think he's a great player,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: and I think that he'll learn a lot from this
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: year going into next year, and I think you'll see
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: him repeat more of that 2025 version of him, not
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: the 2026 version, which is still a very good player.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Well said. I haven't broke down the numbers as much,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: but I can guarantee you he hit righties really well.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: He probably struggled a little bit off lefties. Yeah, yeah.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: The only way he hit lefties better is by playing
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: against lefties.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: Facing lefties, that is right.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: All right, what's Jennifer got to say? Jennifer, last email
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: from Jennifer. Besides trying to eliminate sign stealing, how do
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: you feel about the impact of pitch calm in the game?
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Besides the pitcher and the catcher, does any other player
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: or manager wear one? Oh, good question. That is a
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: good question.
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  Speaker 3: You're allowed five in the field, okay? So is that right?
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Is it five? I'm blanking now. One, two, three, yes, five. Five, right?
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  Speaker 2: So usually it's pitcher, catcher, and then it's middle infielders
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  Speaker 2: and the center fielder usually.
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  Speaker 1: I'll get one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Um, so I love pitch calm. Uh, wish I would've
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  Speaker 2: had it when I played. It just takes away some
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  Speaker 2: of the, some of the, you know, speeds the game up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Just speeds the game up.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have to go through a whole, I was
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: on McAfee the other day, explaining him different codes that
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: we had at, at a second with John Lester and
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: the different guys, Kevin Brown used to be previous pitch.
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  Speaker 2: It was like so confusing to me at first. And
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  Speaker 2: then it got to be really easy, but, um, I
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: liked the sign ceiling. Just, speeds of the game. I
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: love that pitchers can call their own pitches. Um, if they,
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: if they feel convicted about something, if they disagree, um.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure you would have loved that when you caught.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Hey, I just wanted to out. So I just
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: want to out.
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  Speaker 1: No, you go here.
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  Speaker 2: John just thought he'd get smart every once in a while.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, let me, let me just, let me think.
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  Speaker 1: Through these things. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Great question though. I like pitch calm and I like
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  Speaker 2: that The center fielder can hear. I like that the
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  Speaker 2: middle infielders can hear. You know, it depends on how
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: you want to spread them out throughout the infield. But
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: most teams use up the middle and then dead center
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  Speaker 2: because those guys are really important.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it. It just speeds up the game.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: It takes sign stealing from second base out of it,
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  Speaker 1: even from first base. Like when I used to steal bases, Rossi,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: I would just look in the catcher's glove from first base.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: If I saw him throw down off speed, I would
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: take off, right?
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Because at first base, they don't give multiple signs. Usually
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: it was only at second base.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: So that eliminates a lot of the sign stealing that
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: goes on in the game. Then you evolve, right? And
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: the paranoia of it. And the paranoia.
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  Speaker 3: You're always feeling like somebody's picking something up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And there was one time, this is what you
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: have to do when you're a below average runner and
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Shout out to me. I'm running the Bank of America
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Chicago Marathon this Sunday. So I will show off my
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: below average speed in this marathon. But we're in Toronto.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Slow and steady. Slow and steady. We're in Toronto. It's
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: funny because my son's favorite stuffy is a turtle. So
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: probably that's what I emulate. Anyways, we're in Toronto and
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Vladdy Jr. had his pitch calm and it was turned
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  Speaker 1: up high. So I was hearing the pitches from first
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: base when I was on. I took a bag because
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: of it. Sick. You're always trying to get the edge.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Always.
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  Speaker 1: But I never wore it. I never wore it because
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: I just, I couldn't. There'd be too many times I'm like,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: why are we throwing that pitch? So I just, I
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: always wanted to just not know.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Isn't that the saying? Isn't that the saying? Yeah. So
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: that's our game two of the division series, American League
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: division series recap. Both teams are against the wall. I
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: do not think these series are over. Hopefully that both
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: teams can force a game four. Right? Yep. A game four.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: just because we want more baseball. It's October. These moments
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  Speaker 1: are amazing. Must watch television. Thank you everyone for watching.
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  Speaker 1: Make sure to comment.
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  Speaker 3: We got Atlanta Dodgers coming.
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta Dodgers tomorrow. Brewers. Padres. Padres back against the wall.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be rocking in San Diego. Rocking.
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  Speaker 3: Sale Yamamoto. I can't wait for that matchup.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Let's go. We will see you guys tomorrow. Rizzo, Ross, out.
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  Speaker 3: Peace!