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MLB Postseason Predictions, College Football Contenders & NFL Reactions · The So-Called Sports Analysts

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  Speaker 1: Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome back to another episode, episode number
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  Speaker 1: 168 of the so-called Sports Analysts, which this is a
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  Speaker 1: different direction right here. We haven't done this yet. I've
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  Speaker 1: been trying to find a partner to talk about these
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  Speaker 1: certain topics, and obviously you see a new face right here, Brayden. So, Brayden,
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  Speaker 1: the floor is yours. Introduce yourself a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: What's up, guys? I'm Brayden. I'm running a little Twitter
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  Speaker 2: meme page called the Texan Sports Nut. Go check it out.
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  Speaker 2: Post some funny stuff. But we're here to just talk
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  Speaker 2: about some MLB, college football stuff, and then just to
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  Speaker 2: update on some NFL stuff. So we'll see how it goes. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: It's definitely an exciting time.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what?
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  Speaker 1: We'll just go ahead and get into it after I
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  Speaker 1: say all this. Before we start, find us on Twitch, TikTok, Instagram,
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  Speaker 1: and YouTube under TSESA with a so-called sports analyst. But
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  Speaker 1: like Brayden was saying, the MLB postseason is here, and
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  Speaker 1: it starts... I think with two hours. So we're kind
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  Speaker 1: of on the deadline right here. You guys, y'all hear
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  Speaker 1: this by the end of the day. So instead of
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  Speaker 1: giving like break thorough breakdown, like, Oh, this player, this player,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to give just briefly why every team has
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  Speaker 1: a chance in these playoffs to win the world series.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to start off in the American league.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to start with the Tampa Bay rays,
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  Speaker 1: best record in the league, They have potential MVP in
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  Speaker 1: Junior Camerino. So what do you think is their path
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  Speaker 1: in order to win a World Series?
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  Speaker 2: You said the Rays? Yeah. I think this is just me.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think the Rays get past the Yankees. I
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  Speaker 2: think the Yankees beat the Red Sox. I think they go.
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  Speaker 2: They beat the Rays. I think it's a close series,
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  Speaker 2: but I think they beat the Rays. I don't see
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  Speaker 2: the Rays getting much farther. They've been known to choke
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  Speaker 2: in the playoffs. They're not a very high playoffs team.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't see them getting past the Yankees. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm a Yankees fan, so take it.
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  Speaker 1: As you want. He is a Dodgers fan, so this
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  Speaker 1: isn't coming from no biased perspective right here. Not until
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  Speaker 1: we get to the National League, we're going to hear
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  Speaker 1: a biased perspective.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: I personally, with the Rays, I also don't... do kind
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  Speaker 1: of believe the same sentiments but I'm going to kind
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  Speaker 1: of go a different way just like give them some
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  Speaker 1: of a case and I'm going to say their biggest
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  Speaker 1: chance is going to be their pitching they have Drew Rosenman,
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  Speaker 1: Freddy Peralta, Nick Martinez they even have Brian Baker who
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  Speaker 1: they have been solid the entire year the one thing
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  Speaker 1: that they do is that they don't let the ground
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  Speaker 1: or the ball get in play and they just have
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  Speaker 1: great pitching and then one thing I think the same
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  Speaker 1: thing with both both the Rays and the Brewers, is
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  Speaker 1: that they, yes, they can hit the homers, but that's
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  Speaker 1: not what they're meant for. They play the small ball,
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  Speaker 1: the speed game. They steal bases. And just in general,
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  Speaker 1: I want to, I just want to ask like this,
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  Speaker 1: just like general question to you. How important do you
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  Speaker 1: think the home run ball is in baseball, especially in
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  Speaker 1: the postseason?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's important because you have the fact that
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  Speaker 2: you need to turn the tide of these games. You've
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  Speaker 2: seen it over and over. Teams that can't hit home runs,
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  Speaker 2: Can't get on base. They don't win these games. No
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  Speaker 2: matter how good your pitching is, no matter how good
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  Speaker 2: your defense is, it's got to come down to the
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  Speaker 2: guys on the plate. They have to be able to
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  Speaker 2: produce runs. They have to be able to produce homers.
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  Speaker 2: You have to switch the tide of that game. You
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying? If you allow these people to
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  Speaker 2: get more and more momentum, boom, you get swept. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's just the nitty gritty.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just, even though the Rays have been so
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  Speaker 1: good this year, like, I'll say this. I wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: surprised if they make the World Series, but again, you're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to. With being this good of a team throughout
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  Speaker 1: the entire regular season, it should be expected. And let's
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  Speaker 1: be real, this has been kind of one of the
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  Speaker 1: weaker American League years so if if this is a
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  Speaker 1: year where they get through this is when they should
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  Speaker 1: get through because i mean we'll go ahead and talk
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  Speaker 1: about it right here the two seed right here we
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  Speaker 1: have the guardians who was it who are in a
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  Speaker 1: dog fight with the white socks the entire year last
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  Speaker 1: last or late august and september they stole the division
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  Speaker 1: away from the white socks white socks still happen to
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  Speaker 1: make the playoffs but cleveland's kind of on a hot
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  Speaker 1: trick they're a veteran team so what do you what
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  Speaker 1: do you think about them.
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  Speaker 2: I think they have the potential to get to the
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  Speaker 2: World Series, but it's going to come down to them
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  Speaker 2: beating themselves. If they can't get on base, if their
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  Speaker 2: pitching isn't good, and if they have those reoccurring things
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  Speaker 2: that they had earlier in the season where they just
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  Speaker 2: didn't look hot, I think they could beat easily. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think the Astros. I hate the Astros, so I
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  Speaker 2: hope they stay in the wild card. Enough said.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder why you hate the Astros.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Because they stole a World Series away from us in 2017,
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  Speaker 2: and I will never forget it.
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  Speaker 1: No, I think Cleveland is one of those teams. I
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  Speaker 1: know baseball is one of those leagues. It's not comparable
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  Speaker 1: to basketball and football where it's like, oh, this team
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  Speaker 1: has been great throughout the entire regular season. Then they're
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  Speaker 1: going to most likely make a run. In baseball, it's
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  Speaker 1: a lot different. It's a matter of First off, are
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  Speaker 1: your bats hot and your pitching? Is it starting to
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  Speaker 1: get going? And are you a veteran team? That's last.
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  Speaker 1: The veteran team is kind of like the last thing
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  Speaker 1: you need. And they kind of check all three boxes.
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  Speaker 1: And I know the record really doesn't show. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: but this is a veteran team. I mean, Parker McKissick,
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  Speaker 1: Gavin Williams, and then even Cade Smith, they're pitchers, bro. Like,
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  Speaker 1: they have started to dial it up. And, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: obviously you have one of the best players Jose Ramirez,
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  Speaker 1: one of the best players we've seen in a while.
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  Speaker 1: And he's been cooking as of late. So this is
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  Speaker 1: a team where, like, I'm going to go ahead and say,
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  Speaker 1: I know we're going to do predictions. I think they
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  Speaker 1: make the ALCS for sure. I think they're in the
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  Speaker 1: right side of the bracket where they kind of, they
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  Speaker 1: do avoid, they do avoid, who is it? I can't think.
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  Speaker 1: The White Sox and Astros. Yeah, White Sox. Yeah. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they're in like the favorable side of the bracket because
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  Speaker 1: the other side, it's a bloodbath going to be the Rays,
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sox, and the Yankees. So you're going to
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  Speaker 1: let them fight it out. And who knows if these
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  Speaker 1: are going to be long series. So you're going to,
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  Speaker 1: if they take care of business, they're going to have
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  Speaker 1: plenty of rest for these pitchers right here. But all right,
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  Speaker 1: let's get to this other team right here. The team
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  Speaker 1: that barely made it in the playoffs. I think it's official.
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  Speaker 1: They were the worst team. um the worst team in
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  Speaker 1: the al west to win the division and i think
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  Speaker 1: in a long time the houston astros i would love
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  Speaker 1: to hear you give a case on why the astros
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  Speaker 1: could win i.
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  Speaker 2: Will give no case to the astros i think they
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  Speaker 2: get absolutely walk swamped in the wild card by the
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  Speaker 2: white socks the al west you know you have astros
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  Speaker 2: barely sitting at 500 you have the rangers sitting at
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  Speaker 2: And it just gets worse from there. You know what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying? This team is inconsistent. This team is terrible.
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  Speaker 2: And I hate them. So I hope they get swept.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't see them getting past the White Sox.
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  Speaker 2: I think the White Sox make a good case to
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  Speaker 2: give up a fight to the Guardians, win or lose.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's going to be a great series between
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  Speaker 2: those two teams. But I don't see the Astros getting
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  Speaker 2: very far. If they do, whatever. But I don't see
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  Speaker 2: them getting the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: You want to hear my case for the Astros? I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was so funny when I was getting it ready.
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Alvarez, I think this isn't a question. He's going
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  Speaker 1: to be the MVP of the American League just with
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  Speaker 1: how dominant he was. But here's my case right here.
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Alvarez, every time that Jordan Alvarez hits a home
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  Speaker 1: run in the postseason, they are 8-2. Jordan Alvarez hit
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  Speaker 1: a home run every single game. You have an 80%
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  Speaker 1: chance of winning. That's the only case I could give
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  Speaker 1: you guys. Pitching, I'm very skeptical. I mean, the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the team, I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't even know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's a whole question mark.
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, with White Sox, you have Munataka Murakami.
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  Speaker 2: You have Miguel Vargas. You have Montgomery. You have Antonacci.
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  Speaker 2: You have a lot of these players that can produce more.
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  Speaker 2: for the White Sox than you have one or two
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  Speaker 2: guys on the Astros. So I think I have a
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  Speaker 2: great case for the White Sox to sweep the Astros
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  Speaker 2: in the World Cup.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I buy that too. And one thing I
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  Speaker 1: think White Sox are so... Oh, we'll go ahead and
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  Speaker 1: talk about the White Sox. We'll get to Yankees, Red
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  Speaker 1: Sox in a second since they're going to be facing
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  Speaker 1: each other. But the White Sox, through the first inning,
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  Speaker 1: through one through five, they score the most runs out
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  Speaker 1: of any team in the MLB. So they get up
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  Speaker 1: on you very quickly. They get up on you very quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Then they depend on that pitch to kind of just
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  Speaker 1: help them get through the game. The biggest thing is
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  Speaker 1: that they could get up against any team, really. And
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  Speaker 1: I know it is a younger team, but I think
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  Speaker 1: even though they kind of struggled in September, they kind
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  Speaker 1: of turned the tide through mid-September. They kind of like,
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  Speaker 1: put themselves back afloat. And they're like, okay, it's like
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  Speaker 1: still going to make the playoffs. And I mean, this
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  Speaker 1: is a young team that has nothing to lose. If
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  Speaker 1: they win this series, that's great. If they lose this series,
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  Speaker 1: nothing was expected of them. I think that Astro... everything
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  Speaker 1: points to them having the pressure on them, in all honesty.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think there's even a White Sox fan will say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we need to win this series. No, I don't buy
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  Speaker 1: that at all. So you're saying White Sox sweep easily.
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  Speaker 2: I say White Sox sweep. Bastards.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that would be a great story. And I mean,
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  Speaker 1: seeing White Sox Guardians, seeing one of those two teams,
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  Speaker 1: seeing those two teams after the year that they've had
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  Speaker 1: in the ALCS, that would be amazing. But all right,
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  Speaker 1: you know what? Let's get to this last matchup right here,
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  Speaker 1: which we're kind of talking about how they could win
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  Speaker 1: both the Yankees and the Red Sox. So, you said
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees are going to beat the Red Sox, and
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  Speaker 1: just kind of give your stamp into why you think
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees, they could make a run. Also, this without
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge being on the roster, the wildcard roster. So,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that scares you a little bit
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  Speaker 1: at all.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it does, but they have a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more depth in that sense. You have, so I've been
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  Speaker 2: looking at the I.O. I mean, you have, if you
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  Speaker 2: look at The Red Sox I.O. versus the Yankees I.O.
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  Speaker 2: Yankees I.O., you have, of course, Aaron Judge. You have
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  Speaker 2: Trent Grisham, Ryan Weathers, Clark Schmidt. You go over to
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  Speaker 2: the Red Sox I.O. and you have a laundry list.
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  Speaker 2: A laundry list of dudes that are hurt that, at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the day, make an impact for this
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  Speaker 2: Red Sox team. You have Gary Crochet, which is their
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  Speaker 2: ace pitcher. That's their ace in the hole. You cannot
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  Speaker 2: win these big games without your ace in the hole.
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  Speaker 2: That's just bottom line. You do have Wilson Contreras and
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  Speaker 2: a 10-day I.O. list. Mickey Gasper, Anthony Siegler, Curtis Meade.
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  Speaker 2: Those could be some big factors, but I think they
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  Speaker 2: still give up a pretty good fight to the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: And the one thing I can say about the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: is that Obviously, Ben Rice taking over pretty much for
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge after being out the entire year. I think
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  Speaker 1: he had like 40-something home runs, something like that. But
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  Speaker 1: this team across the lineup, one through nine, I think
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  Speaker 1: they all had over 15 home runs. So it shows
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  Speaker 1: not only do they have the star power in Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Judge whenever he would get back, but everybody, there's anybody
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  Speaker 1: on the lineup who could go for any given day,
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  Speaker 1: they could go yard. And that's what makes them so dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: And not to mention, we haven't even... Mention their strength.
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  Speaker 1: They're starting pitching with Cam Schittler, who's going to be
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  Speaker 1: taking the mound, Max Fried, Garrett Cole, and then you
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  Speaker 1: have Carlos Rodon. So their recipe is going to be
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  Speaker 1: we're going to hit home runs. And the biggest thing is,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's been this way for the
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  Speaker 1: past three years, their bullpen. These aces are going to
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  Speaker 1: have to go one through seven, in which if you
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  Speaker 1: have to say out of any team, this is a
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  Speaker 1: team that is capable of having their aces go seven.
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  Speaker 1: Is it going to be strenuous? Yes, but it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: It's the postseason. So that's what you pay all these
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  Speaker 1: guys for. But let me just kind of give my
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  Speaker 1: stamp for the Reds. I'm not picking the Red Sox
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  Speaker 1: in this one. But I'm going to say this. Their
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  Speaker 1: pitching and their defense. Their biggest thing is can they
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  Speaker 1: score runs. And I feel like their pitching, it's not
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  Speaker 1: comparable as far as to the likes of the star
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  Speaker 1: power of the Yankees. But they have enough of a
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  Speaker 1: starting rotation. And their bullpen is nasty. With Garrett Whitlock,
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  Speaker 1: it says Garrett Whitlock is going to be back. So
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  Speaker 1: they're going to test him out. And then I forgot
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  Speaker 1: his name, Bello, Brian Borrello, something like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then obviously you have a role as Chapman, who
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  Speaker 1: still happens to be a great closer. I think the
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  Speaker 1: biggest thing for the Red Sox is going to be,
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  Speaker 1: can we keep the Yankees from hitting yard? And then
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  Speaker 1: after that, when it gets to the 7, 8, 9 innings,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like that favors entirely the Red Sox, right?
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  Speaker 1: There's a big disparity between the two. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that's going to be the recipe the entire season. the
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  Speaker 1: entirety of the postseason. Can we survive the starting pitching
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  Speaker 1: of whoever it is, the Rays, the Yankees? Those are
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  Speaker 1: the only ones definitively I could say that are better.
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  Speaker 1: And then our relieving is the best. It's the best
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  Speaker 1: in the business. So have fun against that. And I
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  Speaker 1: think eventually, especially in the postseason, you're going to see
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  Speaker 1: one player from each team where somebody's going to arise.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to arise to the moment. Wilbur Debreu, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like, That might be, I mean, I know he's
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  Speaker 1: been good this year, but that might be a sleeper
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  Speaker 1: as far as a guy that maybe kicks it into
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  Speaker 1: another gear. I don't know. If he hits a home run,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I'm a prophet today. Who knows? But that's the
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  Speaker 1: only case I give for the Red Sox. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it's a good chance. I think this
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  Speaker 1: is going to be a bloodbath of a series.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how you feel about this. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be a good series because, like you said,
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  Speaker 2: with the Red Sox, you still have Jaron Durant. You
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  Speaker 2: still have, you know, you have your Roman Anthony. You
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  Speaker 2: have William Abreu. You have some heavy hitters in the bullpen.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if Roldis Chapman can come out there and
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  Speaker 2: close down these games, Red Sox have a great chance
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  Speaker 2: to win this football game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But, like being said, if Aaron Judge somehow uses Yankee
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  Speaker 2: magic and gets back into this series, who knows what
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  Speaker 2: could happen? Yeah. Who knows?
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge is the biggest wild card. Like, I... I
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  Speaker 1: think it's smart that they're leaving him off the roster,
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  Speaker 1: but also, for sure, you're going to need him against
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  Speaker 1: the Rays. I could see you beating the Red Sox,
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  Speaker 1: but you definitely won't be beating the Rays. And since
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  Speaker 1: we talked about the American League, let's go ahead and
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  Speaker 1: give our post... I'm going to share my screen. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and give our postseason picks for the American
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  Speaker 1: League side right here. So, we both have Yankees right here,
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  Speaker 1: and I say this is a three-game series right here.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if there's any disagreements.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. The White Sox and Astros. I still believe the
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  Speaker 1: White Sox win, but I think this gets pushed all three.
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  Speaker 1: Just because I think just the young team of the
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  Speaker 1: White Sox, I could see them losing a game one
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  Speaker 1: or game two very easily. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: have any. Sentiments to that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I could see them losing like a game two
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  Speaker 2: to an adversity moment where the Astros somehow beat the
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  Speaker 2: trash can again and get a mystical home run in
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  Speaker 2: the ninth inning. But I'm still taking White Sox to
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  Speaker 2: win that series.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll take White Sox two. And let's just say
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  Speaker 1: three just to keep it even. But this is where
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  Speaker 1: it gets interesting right here. The White Sox versus the Guardians.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, either one of these teams making the ALCS
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  Speaker 1: is a Cinderella.
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  Speaker 2: I mean.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: I don't even know where to lean, so I'll let
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: you go first here.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: I'm taking Guardians here. I think the only way the
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: White Sox can win this is by hopefully taking it
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: to a Game 5 and getting a fairytale moment of
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: a series. But I still take the Guardians. I feel
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: like they have a little bit more experience on the front.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: They have J-Ram. They have all these guys. Their pitching
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: just looks a little bit better for me. So I'm
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: taking the Guardians to win it. In full five. I
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: think it takes a full five. I think these teams
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: will go back and forth, but I'm still taking the
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Guardians in full.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was thinking Guardians in like four or five,
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: but I buy five. I just think this is where,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: how I was saying, the veteran, having a veteran team,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: I feel like it matters in the later rounds compared
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: to these younger teams. That's where you start to see it,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: and the Guardians, they have exactly that. But, okay.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Now to get to, I feel like this should be
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: a good series right here. The Rays versus the Yankees.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: I feel like this would be, Aaron Judge would be
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: back with this. I mean, there's no possible way you
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: could tell me he's not out for the year. They
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: haven't said he's out for the year. He just missed
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: a rush. So I think for sure he would be back.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: So what would you think happens in this series?
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: I think it's a back and forth. If they get
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Aaron Judge back, take it to a game five. I mean,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: I could see it going four or five. I mean,
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: if the Rays shit themselves and end up going four games,
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: I see the Yankees taking it. And then it goes
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: vice versa. If the Yankees can't produce enough offense, their
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: defense looks like a classical Yankees defense like it has
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: the past two, three seasons. I see the Rays taking
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: it four or five. But it just comes down to
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: who they have, what their bullpen does. Because at the
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: end of the day, bullpens are determined games. We've seen
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: it countless times where it doesn't matter how good your
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: starting pitching is, if they don't goal that full seven
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: and then you have your bullpen come in, throw meatballs
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: down the middle, and you get home runs late in
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: the game, your team's going to lose no matter how
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: good they are. I guess it goes for any team
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: across the NL or the AR.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So who's your final bid for this one?
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: I see Yankees taking it in five. Ooh. I see
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Yankees taking it in five.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: So, okay, I will put the Yankees, but I feel
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: like I solely convinced myself more after talking it through
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: as far as with the Yankees and Red Sox. I
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: feel like this is where we're going to see a
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: bullpen disparity. But you can easily make a case for
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: the Yankees, like I'm saying, because the starting pitchers have
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: the caliber of going through seven games and then holding
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: on for dear life. So I could easily see that happening.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: So I'll go Yankees. I'll go Yankees right here just
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: for this sake, but I think I would nod a
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: little bit to the Rays. But all right, so who
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: makes a World Series right here? Is it going to
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: be the Yankees or the Guardians? I already know my bid.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: I feel like this is going to be my team
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: that's not my team this year.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: You see, I think this is a replay of the
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: 2024 ALCS. Oh, man. but it goes for the Guardians.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: I think they get their get back in the AOCS
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: and take it to the World Series. And this is
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: where it's going to get ugly. Whatever team makes it
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: from the NL, it's going to be the atomic bomb versus.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: A coffee baby.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: This is going to be a bloodbath, folks.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: I agree with you. And I think, man, just the Guardians. Okay,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: maybe like, maybe this is going to either be the
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: greatest postseason we ever have, because I could see this
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: going 7-2 with the Yankees.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: I see it going a full 7, but like I said,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: if they take this series to a 7, they're going
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: to have their pitching worn down. Their elbows are going
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: to be Tommy Johned. Yeah. So I feel like whatever
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: team makes this, their starting pitching is just not going
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: to be good enough to compete with the likes of
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: the NL. I just see it this way.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: No, I agree with you, and it's a perfect segue
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: because let's go ahead and get into the National League
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: and how good they really are. I'm going to stop
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: sharing my screen because this thing froze on me for
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: a second, but I agree with you as far as
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: the National League, there's a clear superiority as far as
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: just talent and how good the teams have been. And
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: we're going to start off with the one seed right here,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: The Milwaukee Brewers, who had their most regular season wins
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: ever in their history, they should have a Cy Young
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: with Jacob Maronski. So how do you feel about the
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Brewers this year and them having a chance to make
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the World Series?
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: You see, this is where I'm going to get some
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: pushback from some people. I think that the Milwaukee Brewers
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: are seasoned postseason chokers. They cannot play. work in the
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: postseason they are pre-2020 los angeles dodgers that's the best
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: reference i can give it because they look great during
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: the regular season they get to the postseason and they
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: just fall apart defense falls apart pitching falls apart and
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: they cannot get on base to save their lives i
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: think i give them all the praise they they looked
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: great during the regular season they've had some really good
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: wins really you know they have talented pitchers they have
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: a really good but I think they just fall apart
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: in the postseason.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: That's just the scariest thing as far as with the
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Brewers here because, again, that's another team kind of like
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: the Rays where they have ace pitchers, but they just
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: don't hit home runs. That's the biggest thing that scares
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: me with the Brewers. And, I mean, this has been
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: a constant theme with the Brewers. Like you're saying, they've
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: been pre- pre-winning dodgers the entire time where they're in
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: the number one seed look like the best team all
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: year and great pitching same thing what the dodgers did
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: back then and they and they just falter but uh
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: we'll we'll get to in a second whenever we pick
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: the winner of the padres and the cubs so or
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: or you know no we'll we'll talk about the dodge
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: we'll talk talk about the dodgers next so Okay, I
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: know Braden, he didn't say it at all, but Braden,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: he is a Dodgers fan. So be ready to hear
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: this Dodgers bias. So why can the Dodgers win the
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: World Series?
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: I think, you know, they do have their faults. You know,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: if you see that if our starting pitching does great,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: but we cannot get a run produced, it's just something
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: that happens, you know, It's happened many times where Yoshinobu
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Yamamoto goes out seven scoreless innings and we cannot get
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: a run. And then our bullpen comes in and we
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: shit the bucket. And we lose these tight games to
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: maybe one to two runs. And it's infuriating to watch.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: We have our closing pitching, which should be admittedly a
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: whole lot better with how much we've spent on that.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: closing pitching in most regards to Edwin Diaz. But if
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: this team can pick it up and they can go
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: and they can play consistent games through the postseason and
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: come through adversities like they did last year against the
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Red Sox. I mean, they swept the Brewers. I mean,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: who else? The Phillies. Close game. And then absolutely spanked
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: the Reds. I feel like if we can repeat that
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: same thing but just smooth a lot of things out,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: we win this World Series. We have the talent, we
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: have the players, we have the pitching, we have some closing,
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: and we have stars. I feel like this should be
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: a three-peat for the Dodgers.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Well, I'll say this. I want to ask you, how
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: much does it concern you? Yes, I know guys are
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: getting healthy at the right time. As far as with
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: this team, Will Smith is back, Otani, he's been back
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: for about a week or so. There's a couple other
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: guys that I forgot to mention. But I know that
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: they are back, but how much of it is they're
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: about to get thrown into an environment of just postseason
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: baseball where they're going to face, well, you can't even
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: say definitively no, a red-hot Braves or a red-hot Phillies
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: team going into the next round where it's going to
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: be guns blazing?
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: I feel like they're just going to have to come out.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: We may lose this first game just because we've been
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: off of baseball for a little bit. We're coming back in,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: getting the arms warm, getting the plate hot again. But
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: I feel like if we come in, we establish dominance early,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: even if that means losing a game one, but going
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: on to win a game two, three, four, I feel
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: like we'll be just fine. I feel like we have
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: the talent to do so. We have the clutches to
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: do so. And, you know, October Kike Hernandez, if Kike
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Hernandez comes up to that plate and we're down one run,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: I'm giving us the game. I'm giving us a game.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: You know, I feel like even if our stars can't
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: come through and Shohei Otani, Will Smith, Max Muncy, we have,
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: our backfall guys, Andy Pahez, Teoscar Hernandez, Tommy Edmond, that
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: ultimately spring us forward in these games. We saw it
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: last year in the World Series. I myself did not
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: expect that home run from Miguel Rojas, but he comes
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: through in the clutch moments. The veteran Miguel Rojas, Miggy Rowe,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: comes through and hits a bomb to send us and
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: get us a two-peat.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Even at that, that play where... I forgot who it
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: was still in the second or still at home. Miguel
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Rojas made an amazing play. I feel like it doesn't
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: get talked about enough. That saves the World Series because
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: that's Game 7. That's Game 7 right there, and he
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: was still at home. And, I mean, that doesn't get
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: talked about enough. I feel like MVP-wise, as far as
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: for Game 7 of that World Series, Miguel Rojas, he
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: did– It was wonders, and nobody talks about it as much.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, there's like the star power of Yamoto, Otani,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts. You have those guys who get
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: propped up. But I feel like down the line of
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Dodgers history, which, again, I'll talk about it whenever we're
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: going to face them in the second round. I hate
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. So me saying that, that says a lot
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: right there. But let's go– Let's go to the reason
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: why I hate the Dodgers. The Atlanta Braves, which is
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: my team right here, I know really don't get to
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: mention it much. This is mainly a football and a
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: basketball podcast that we do, but now since I got
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: a great co-host who could talk baseball and college football,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: which we will in a second, I am a Braves fan,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: been a diehard Braves fan for the past seven years
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: or so, and The one team that has given us
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: the biggest faults, not as of recently, which I'll get
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: into why the Braves would beat the Dodgers whenever they
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: face them. But before we became the Atlanta Braves, the
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Dodgers killed us in the 3-1 lead. I know I'm
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: kind of going back. When we had that 3-1 lead
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: in the 2021 NLCS, that definitely stings still to this day.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: But let's I'm going to go ahead and get into
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: it the Braves versus the Phillies so I want you
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: to give your take on just outside perspective who do
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: you think is going to win this series Phillies are
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: going banged up into this series they use all their
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: pitchers just to even make the playoffs right here so
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: how you feeling about this.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: One I say Braves take it I feel like Phillies
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: might get one game in but I feel like the
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Braves can take this pretty confidently I feel like the
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: first game will be you know a A pretty decent
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: game for the Phillies, but I feel like after that,
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: your star power can only take you so far. I mean,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: we've seen it in the past. Last year, they just
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: can't win a postseason game. They can't. The only thing
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: that gives them somewhat of an advantage is if they're
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: at home. But if they're not at home, I don't
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: see them winning much games. I don't. I don't see
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: them making it out of the wild card.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Obviously, I'm going to pick the Braves to win, but
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: we have a bunch of things coming to our favor.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: First off, Robert Suarez is back. and we found we
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: have an amazing bullpen. Our bullpen has been lights out
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: as far as since August. We have plenty of guys
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: who could just go there, and we have two reliable
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: starting pitchers that I feel really confident in. We have
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Chris Sell, who's going to be on the bump tonight
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: versus the Phillies, which we'll take advantage of, and Tyler Mell,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: his last eight starts, where he's only averaged a 1.3 ERA. So,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: If we could have two solid pitchers and an amazing bullpen, like,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: during this postseason, we're going to have bullpen games, and
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: I really won't be worried as far as, I mean,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure you've had that feeling before. The Dodgers
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: got these crazy pitchers where it's like, oh, it's a
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: bullpen game. We probably lost this one. Let's just chalk
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: it up. Let's go to our starter the next game. No, like,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: now when we have a bullpen game, I feel really
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: confident in the Braves, too. And also, the other biggest reason,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Ronald Acuna in September is starting to play like Ronald
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Acuna we saw a year or two ago when he
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: was the MVP of the National League. And he has
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: a 310 batting average. He has 12 home runs. No, eight. It's... No, no, no, no, no.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: It's eight home runs over the past 12 games. So
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: he's been on a heater as of late. And that's
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: what you need. That's what you need from your star players.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: You need them to start getting on heaters. And I'll
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: go ahead and pick that. I say Braves in two
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: because Aaron Nola... They used him. They used him. He
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: might be back for game two, that short rest. And
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: even if they get to game three, Zach Willer is
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: going to be on two days rest. So I don't
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: know how confident any Phillies fan would be off of
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: that right there.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: I feel like the only thing these Phillies fans have
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: going for them is the star power in their lineup.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Today we have Treya Turner hitting first, batting first. You
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: have Kyle Schwarber, Bryce Harper. You have De La Cruz.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: You have Bryson Stott. But these players can only take
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: you so far. If these guys can't produce at the
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: plate or they did what they did last year against
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers, I don't see them winning a game against
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: the Braves. The Braves so far in the regular season
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: have looked miles ahead of the Phillies. So I'm taking
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: the Braves here.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: And I just looked at it. Obviously, sales pitching, but
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: they're using Jesus Lizardo, which that's their best. that's their
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: best third guy so they're going all for it today
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: in all honesty that's that's what it looks like so
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: if they don't win today then it's this is not
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: gonna look good for them that means bullpen game is
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: coming to game two so they they have to win
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: this game right here so we'll we'll see but let's
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: get to this game where we talked about a little
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: bit before the pod we disagreed on as far as
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: who we thought was going to go into this next round,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: the Cubs and the Padres. So I'll let you give
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: your case for the Cubs, and I'll give my case
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: for the Padres.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: I feel like my case for the Cubs comes straight
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: from my hatred for the Padres. You know what I'm saying?
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: I feel like the Padres are just not the postseason
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: team they make themselves up to be. I feel like
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: they're just all talk. They're fans, all talk. Their players,
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Manny Machado, Fernando Tatis, I mean, you have an absolute ace.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Or not an ace. You have an absolute dog of
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: a pitcher in the bullpen in Mason Miller. But if
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: you can't come out in these big games and hit
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: runs and your defense looks abysmal and you're playing Yankee-type
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: defense against these Cubs teams, you're not going to win.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? They can make a case
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: for their atmosphere or whatever. Nobody wants to play them
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: in San Diego. But it never gets to that point.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? I think my just bias
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: becomes I hate the Padres. So I'm taking the Cubs
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: to win it in about three.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think for sure it does go three for sure.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: But I'm going to say this. One thing that you
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: need going into baseball, like I mentioned, you need to
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: be clicking at the right time. And the Padres are
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: 17-3 in their last 20 games. And I think 41-59
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: in their last.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Their last damn near 60 games. So I just think
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: their bats are clicking at the right time. Jackson Merrill,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Manny Machado, Fernando Tatis, he's finally found a rejuvenation after two,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: three years. And I just think that the Cubs, their
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: biggest thing is their pitching is not up to the
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: caliber of, honestly, of any of these teams in the
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: National League. I would say the Phillies have a better
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: pitching than the Cubs. They clearly are the sore spot
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: out of all these guys starting pitching. Their relieving pitching
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: isn't bad. But even the Padres, they have some elite arms.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: They have some elite arms. And I think Walker Buehler,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: he's taking the bum today too.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Piss on that guy because he left the Dodgers.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: You can't keep everybody. You can't keep everybody.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: We should have got him back. We should have got
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: him in scoops.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: And, I mean, hey, y'all got Snell. It was pretty
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: much a trade. It was pretty much a trade at
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: that point.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: But I think the biggest thing that comes up to
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: mind against these Padres is that for the Cubs, I mean,
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: you don't have really big guys on the I.O. You
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: still have your PCA. I think Bregman's coming back for
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: this game later tonight at 9 o'clock Central Standard Time.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: You have Shota. You have Gavin Gosman, which he did
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: crack the bucket last year, I think. But I feel
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: like these Cubs teams are a little bit more prepared
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: in the postseason than the Padres are, given the talent
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: that the Padres have.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind going with the Cubs in first place.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: First off, I just want to say PCA, that's... I
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: think he's runaway MVP, especially with Otani getting hurt. I mean,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: 40-40 guy. And I'm going to just tell you some
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: quick things about PCA. So I was looking at different things.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: He was already, like, a great defensive player. But so
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: they were trying to find different ways, like how PCA, like,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: went on this resurgence late last year and then even
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: this year. So his bat speed is... is now almost
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: up to 80 miles an hour. This is like the
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: new era of baseball where now bat speed is now
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: the thing that matters. And I mean, obviously, I mean,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: it sounds a lot easier, easier said than done, swing
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: the bat a lot harder and it's going to go farther. Yeah.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: In theory, it sounds like that, but to actually put
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: that into, put the ball actually into play and PCA
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: being one of the, honestly, one of the new guys,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: the new analytical guys, as far as how baseball is
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: done nowadays because it's slowly starting to become more analytical.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: And PCA, I feel like he's the first guy where
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: you could say, I feel like this is what always
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: happens with the baseball guy. I feel like you could
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: agree with this, Brayden, where it's like this defensive guy
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: is amazing. It's like, okay, if he could just start
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: getting some bloopers over the top, like one every third
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: at bat, then he could play. And PCA has completely
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: revolutionized the defensive specialists. So, I mean, it's disrespectful to
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: say he's a defensive specialist now, but, I mean, from
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: what PCA was two years ago to now, it's a
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: completely different guy. So just shout out to PCA right here.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: And I think I'll say three games for the Cubs.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: I'll say that.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I say the Cubs take
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: it in three games. I think the Padres give them
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: a tough game one, game two. but I feel like
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: they fall off. I feel like Mason Miller, being the
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: dog that he is, I just don't think he's going
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: to produce in the postseason. Manny Machado, Fernando Tatis are
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: not the leadership guys that the Padres need right now.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, when things get tough, Manny Machado, Fernando, Cronenworth, Pavetta, Sheets,
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: I just feel like these guys can't produce on the
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: big stage like the Cubs can. I feel like the
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Cubs have more of a case to win this game
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: and take it to the Brewers, and take the Brewers
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: to a game six, or to game five, sorry.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Well, let's go ahead and talk about it, because I
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: know the other side, there's no way we're going to
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: agree on that side right there. So, Brewers and Cubs
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: right here. So, I mean, we both kind of talked
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: about Brewers kind of being on so-so watch right here,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: but I mean, their ace will take the bum game
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: one versus the Padres or the Cubs. But I'm, I'm
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: with a certain belief that the Padres or Cubs are
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: going to beat the Brewers.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: And see, this is where I got a dispute. This
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: is where I feel like the Brewers, given the postseason
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: chokers that they are, I feel like they choke in
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: the NLCS. I don't think they, I don't think they
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: choke in the DS. I think they choke in the CS.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: I think, the star power in Mizorowski, Yelich, Pratt, Churio, Terang.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: I think that takes them just, I think it just
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: helps them leap over the Cubs. I feel like the
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Cubs have, yes, they do have a good case to
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: beat this Brewers team. Maybe if, you know, Mizorowski can't
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: come through and pitch his full game or, you know,
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: they just can't get on base and they can't produce runs, then, okay,
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: I can see the Cubs taking it to, I know,
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: a later game. But I feel like the Brewers still
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: take this game.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'll still buy Brewers just for the simple
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: fact– where the Brewers, it kind of falls into the,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: the Cubs weaknesses kind of fall into the Brewers weaknesses too.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: So it kind of favors them because since they don't
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: have the aces and the Brewers, they can't hit home runs.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: I feel like we could see some home runs from
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: the Brewers and the NLDS where it's like, holy crap.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: It's like, they, they look like, they look like they're
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: a totally different team. So I'll say Brewers and I mean,
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: I hate to pick, five games every... I'll say four.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know how you feel about that. I'll say four.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: I say four. I don't think the Cubs have enough
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: personnel behind that team to get them to a five.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I could see them winning in Chicago, maybe a
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: game three, maybe a game three, something like that. But
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: all right, let's go ahead and get into the main topic,
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: which we... Before we even started this pod, we already
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: knew we were going to get into this right here.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: So....
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Go ahead and try to explain how you think the
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Dodgers could stand up to the Braves.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: I think this is going to be a hard-fought win.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: For whatever team wins this, it's going to be hard-fought.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: They're going to need to have all their players play
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: to the best of their abilities. The Dodgers, we're going
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: to have to come out and we're going to have
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: to come out swinging. We cannot have these at-bats where
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: dudes are just swinging at nothing. They're just swinging at
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: pitches and our bullpens are going to have to come in.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: They're going to have to stop. this red hot Atlanta
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: Braves offense, because if we don't stop this offense, we're
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: not making it very far. But I feel like we
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: have the potential and starting pitching. We have the potential
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: and star power and our underdog guys. I feel like
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: we can get this done. Even if our star, our,
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: our star players can not get some of them, you know,
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: we're going to need your show here. You're going to
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: have to get on base. You cannot have this where
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: you're just swinging at pitches in the dirt. Freddie, you know,
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: Freddie's club. We're going to have, to need Freddie to
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: come through in those clutch moments. Mookie, we're going to
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: have to, those signature double, triple plays, we're going to
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: need a couple of those. Will Smith, we're going to
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: have to get your big bombs going here. We need
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: these big ones. And in this, in this, in this series,
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: you know, we need the clutch defensive ability of Andy Pahez.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: Dude's an absolute laser from Snuggerfield. And we're going to
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: need seven innings, eight innings out of Yamamoto, Skubal, Snell.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: We're going to need We're going to need big games
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: out of these guys in order to win these games.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: The only thing I heard throughout the entire segment of yours,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: if potential capabilities, you know, one thing that the Braves
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: do have, they have it this year. They have it.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: There's no such thing as a potential of our bullpen.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: There's no such thing. as a potential of our starting pitcher.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: There's no such thing as our star players not living
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: up to it. Matt Olsen, 41 home runs. Ronald Acuna,
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: he's on a heater. Sean Murphy has been good. Michael
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: Dubon has been great from the Ashes, which thank you
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: for trading him for nothing pretty much. Drake Baldwin has
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: been amazing this year. Austin Riley, which I've said this before,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: I'm not a big Austin Riley guy, but he started
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: to heat up as of late too. And one thing
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: I will say throughout this entire year, the Braves, when
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: it comes to the big dogs in the regular season,
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: because that's all we've seen so far, we've dominated the
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: heavy hitter teams. And against the Dodgers this year, without
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: even looking, I remember this off the dome, we're 5-1
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: against the Dodgers this year as far as the record.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: And the last time they played was late August where
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: it was two or honestly all three games were great.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: It was 4-3, 6-5, and 1-0. So I feel like
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: that was a– I'm not saying, hey, we're going to
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: sweep the Dodgers. No, I think this is going five
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: for sure because Dodgers have so much star power. But
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: I feel like just having to have the backbone, your
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: starting pitchers, they cannot mess up in this series right
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: here versus the Braves because if you have one bad
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: outing versus the Braves, then the tide turns to their
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: favor completely because the Dodgers, their recipe is offense, we're
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: going to find a way to get going. started pitching,
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: we need at least seven innings from you. With the Braves,
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: you need six innings. And the last three innings, you
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: have your bullpen, which you have different, you have different
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: guys out there. You have Robert Suarez. You have, you
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: have Robert or Martin. I can't think, I can't think
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: of his first name right now. And you have Rossell Iglesias.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: You have these guys in the bullpen where you have
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: different matchups you could throw at them. So, I mean, yes,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: I am a Braves fan, and I'll never be rooting
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: for the Dodgers ever. Like, this is definitively one team
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: I could say, like, it sounds crazy, Brayden, but, like,
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys versus the Steelers. I don't hate the Steelers.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: I don't even hate the Packers. I don't even hate
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: the Niners. The one team that I hate, and I
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: don't use the word hate often, I hate the Dodgers.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: I hate the Dodgers with the fashion. And we are
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: going to beat... The Dodgers. And I'll say this.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: Here, go ahead.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: I'm going to do something real quick.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: I think that the Dodgers, given what it has looked
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: like in the regular season with the amount of money
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: that we spent, I feel like we do this every year.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: We have these big hitter teams, these teams that seem
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: solid in the regular season. They come into Dodger Stadium.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: They come in. I think they're going to have a
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: great outing against us, and it just somehow, someway falls apart.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: Shohei's dark magic just comes through for the Dodgers. His
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: gambling magic? And we just find ways to win. And
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: we find ways to win. I think that given our
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: star power, given everything that we go through during the season,
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: whether it be injuries, guys having to go to AAA
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: just to get back into the swing of things, I
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: think Kyle Tucker's getting hot at the right moment. I
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: think Freddie Freeman... He just does good in big-time games.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: Mookie Betts, I feel like, is a star at shortstop.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: I think Mookie Betts is one of the big things
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: to get us propelled through this. If we can get
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: Mookie on base, if we can get Freddie on base.
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: Tommy Edmund looks great right now. Last year, he was
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: not doing hot at all. I think we have our
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: October Kikis coming up. Miguel Rojas, Alex Call, Josue DePaulo.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: Of course, our Shohei Otani. If we can get that right,
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: I think we take this, Braves, four games, five games,
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: and I think we beat the Braves.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, definitively, okay, not to even give a spoiler,
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure we both agree on this. Whoever
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: wins this series, I think they're winning the World Series.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: They'll be definitive favorites by far. This is the World Series. Yeah,
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: it really is the World Series.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: This MLDS is the World Series.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: That's why I have the spin the wheel because I
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: know we aren't going to agree at all. So we're
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: going to leave this up to fate, and the fate
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: is to spin the wheel. So it's going to be
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: five games for whoever gets it. It's the Dodgers, of course.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: It's the Dodgers, of course.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: Game one, Dodgers. Game one, Dodgers.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: No, I'm going to just say, or you want to
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: do it one by one? The what?
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: What?
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: Did you want to do it one by one?
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: No, whatever. We can do a game one, game two,
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: game three, game four. Okay, let's see. See if we
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: go Gentleman's Suite.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: No, that's Braves. Okay, Braves. Braves 1-1.
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: Game three Braves.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: Okay. Okay, it's tied 1-1 right now.
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: Let's see.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: Game three, pivotal game. Pivotal game. Give it to Braves. Cool.
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: 2-1 series.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: We just need one more. Okay, let's see. Let's see.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: Let's see it.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: No way. No way.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: Dodgers, baby. Dodgers, baby. Game five.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: Going to game five. Let's see what happens right here.
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: Let's see what happens. All right. Come on. That's Dodgers.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: Give that to my Dodgers, baby. The Dodgers are winning
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: the World Series going for a three-peat. You heard it
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: here first, folks.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: So, yeah. This is not my doing. Braves fans listen
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: to this. This is not my doing. This is to
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: spin the wheel. So the Dodgers are winning this series, winning.
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: I feel like that's very plausible on how this series
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: plays out. Game one, going to the Dodgers.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: Game two and three.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: I feel like these next two games is where the
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: Braves kind of get in their thing, kind of like
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: how you saw last year in the World Series. you know,
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: the Blue Jays come in, win those games, and then
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: we have to fight to stay in this game. I
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: feel like that's exactly how this series is going to go.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: I feel like you're going to have the Dodgers win
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: game one, coming fresh at least, you know, having a
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: little bit more time to get adequate to the postseason.
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: You know, these guys are going to come off hot.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: I feel like game one is going to be really close. Two, three,
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: you have the Braves taking that because they're a hot team.
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to say they're not. I'm not going
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: to make the case just for the Dodgers just because
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: I like them. And then you have the Dodgers needing
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: to win those last two games. I feel like that's
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: a perfect representation of how this series could go for
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: I hope not. I can't wait to record whenever it's Braves-Dodgers.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: I can't wait. We'll have to find a way to
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: maybe get our live reactions in between those. But Braves,
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: or not Braves, Brewers-Dodgers in this series right here. I
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: feel like Dodgers or Braves, they would take quick work
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: of the Brewers in all honesty. I feel like this
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: would be a five or six game series.
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: I say, this may be just the the bias if
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers play this Brewers team again I have the
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: Dodgers winning it in a sweep four games that's it
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: if the Braves go through I can see them winning
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: it in four or a gentlemen sweep I don't see
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: the Brewers giving up much of a fight.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say gentlemen sweep I'll give a little bit
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: more more credit to them I don't know why it's
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: doing this here let me save this really quick scroll
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: for more Okay, I don't know why this is being
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: weird like this. It's showing on one side. But all right,
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: so our predictions are Dodgers slash Braves or Guardians right here.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: So I already know who you're going with right here.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: And just give your last reasons why you think the
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: Guardians would win.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: I feel like the Guardians would need a miracle against
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: this Dodgers team to win. I feel like it's going
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: to have to come down to Yamamoto, Skubal. Snell, guys
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: now just pitching absolute meatballs and needing our closing pictures
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: to come in, you know, in the fifth inning, sixth inning.
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: But I feel like the overwhelming power of this Dodgers
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: team propels them into a three-peat, and we make history,
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: and we get another ring this year. So I'm picking
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers to go three-peat.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: I think this would go seven. I think this, honestly.
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: See, I think the most it would go, I think,
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: I think is... The most I can see it going
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: is 5-6. I think we do do the Guardians, but
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: we did the Yankees in 24, I think.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: Honestly, if it's Dodgers and Guardians, you're going to see
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: me in a Guardians jersey. You're going to see me
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: in the J-Ram jersey, in all honesty. I will be
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: hate watching the Dodgers here.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: I will.
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: That's one team I... I would not want to see win. And,
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: all right, I think, I mean, we covered a good
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: portion of baseball right here. I really like, this is
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: our first time doing baseball on the pod, and I
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: feel like it went pretty good. But now to give
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: a segue, it is time. What you see, Brayden, he
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: is in a Texas beanie and a Texas sweater. He
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: is amazing. One of the most, I think the most
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: diehard Texas fan I know over these past five to
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: ten years in all honesty. So the biggest thing that
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: we're going to go over today is the AP Top 25.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: Some pretenders, some contenders, or the cream of the crop,
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: the elite. So I'll let you take the floor right here.
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you want me to share my
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: screen to show the Top 25 or you just got
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: it from here.
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: So I think AP Top 25, I think it's going
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: to be, you have a lot of pretenders in here.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: I feel like you have a lot of people that
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: just play very soft schedules. I feel like a lot
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: of teams that are in here, for example, I'm not
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: going to, you know, a lot of people are going
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: to hate me to say this, but I think Texas
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: Tech is a pretender. I don't think they're going to
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: go very far when they have to come play SEC teams,
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: Big Ten teams. I think they just falter in those
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: big moments. You know, I think I'm trying to think. Indiana,
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: you know, they just don't look like the caliber that
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: they did last year. I feel like they have so
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: much more to prove than the rest of these teams
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: that are in the top five outside of Miami and
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: Notre Dame. I feel like one, two, you know, you've
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: proven yourself. Ohio State, you know, you lost a close
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: game in Texas, but you're still a great football team.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: Alabama looks great this year. Florida looks lights out. Absolute
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: sleeper in Gainesville. Ole Miss, I feel like with Trinidad-Chambers,
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: you have some dogs that are in the LSU. And
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: I feel like the SEC scheduling just has it more
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: than Big Ten, ACC, Big 12. I just think they
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: have more.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: And looking at it just in general, I'm just going
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: off the top. One, two, you have three, four, five, six.
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: You have six teams. Six SEC teams in the top 12. So,
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, really unprecedented. I know we've seen it before,
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: but I think pretty much it's going to stay the same.
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: And I just wonder how whenever we get close to
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: the college football playoffs with the committee, which has been
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: a problem for years at this point because there's no
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: consistent criteria as far as wins and losses. It's more
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: just whatever they feel like in all honesty. Like, what's
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: going to happen whenever... I don't know if Texas plays Florida.
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: I know Florida, they have a couple tough games. I
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: know they have an Ole Miss game coming up. I
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: know they have an LSU game coming up. So this
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: is going to be hard to gauge because, like, how
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: can you discredit a Florida team? Say if they lose
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: to Texas, are they suddenly going to be out of
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: the top 12? An Ole Miss, they lost to a
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: Florida team that's damn good. But if they lose to Texas...
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: You'll lose to two potentially top five teams. How is
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: that going to work for the SEC? And I feel
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: like it's kind of a disservice because you have teams,
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: which we talked about. You have a Notre Dame who
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: doesn't schedule nobody. You have a Miami who doesn't schedule nobody.
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: I know they go up against each other, but you're
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: not going to see either of those teams jump out
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: of the top 12, in all honesty. You're going to
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: see them. If anything, you might see Notre Dame or
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: Miami jump up to number two. Because it's going to
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: be the three and four. So it's just so unfair
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: to the rest of the SEC in all honesty. Like
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: look at Tennessee. Like Tennessee, they have a gruesome schedule
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: coming up. And they went all the way down to
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: 17 after losing to the number one ranked team in
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: the country.
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: I just have a little nitpick to say on that
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: because they had my blood pressure through the roof. last Saturday.
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: I feel like Tennessee should have never been headed in
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: that direction, you know, with the amount of missed holding calls.
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you even watch the game for five minutes,
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: you'll see through their offensive sequences, there are just no
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: holding on Texas defense. They're just holding. Colin Simmons held.
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: Hiro Kanu held. It's just abysmal. That Onside kick should
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: have never counted towards Tennessee. SEC came out with an
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: official statement saying that that shouldn't have counted. Boom, that
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: ends the game right there. That also goes on Sark, though.
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: Why would you call a timeout? It's just a lot
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: of mistakes are coming through for Texas, and if they
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: don't get these mistakes fixed now, they lose these games
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: down the road because you have Ole Miss, you have Florida,
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: you have LSU, you have Mississippi State, and you have Kentucky. Luckily,
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: you have Ole Miss and Florida at home. But you
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: also have your track games. I hate to say it,
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: but OU with how they've looked this season and John
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: Meatball Mateer, he just looks awful. Marcel Meatball Reed looks
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: even worse. I mean, they're competing for Meatball Maniac in
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: my book in terms of college football. And then you
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: have your Mizzou, you have your Arkansas. These games, no
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: matter how bad these teams look, they're going to come
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: out and play their absolute best because you're number one, Texas.
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: You have to be able to establish your front. You
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: have to be able to establish the run and the
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: pass game. Arch needs to get it down. He looks
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: like Cooper Manning. He does not look like Peyton Manning
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: right now. He's going to have to get these kicks,
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: or this is going to be our fault here and
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: why we're not going to make the college football playoffs.
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: Arch needs to step up here.
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: So you think it's really on the table that they
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: could go from being number one to potentially losing two
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: games and missing the college football playoff? Wow. So what
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: did Ohio State do? prove to you at all like
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: that's not a sentiment to like the resilience of texas
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: or what do you think what do you think yes i.
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: Think they have resilience but then you see you see
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: the mistakes week after week utsa should have never been
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: close with from those first to three quarters it should
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: have never been tennessee yes it's a hard game you're
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: going into a hard environment but you're up 20 or
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: you're up 20 to 7 whatever the game was and
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: you allow them to creep back into these games if
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: you allow florida to creep back into these games they're
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: going to take If you allow Ole Miss to get
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: back into this game, they're going to take it at home.
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: But if you allow LSU in the environment of Death
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: Valley to come back into these games, I don't see–
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, you have five hard-fought games here. Ole Miss, Florida, LSU,
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: Mississippi State, and Kentucky. Kentucky just went in and smacked
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: A & E. in the mouth at Kyle Field. You
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: cannot allow these teams to get this traction against you.
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: You're number one. You have Colin Simmons. You have Hiro Kanu,
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: Cam Coleman. You have Hollywood Smothers. You have Arch Manning.
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: Sarkeesian needs to run a more efficient offense because they
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: see once they get pressure on Arch Manning, that's where
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: this offense starts to falter. Yeah. He gets away from
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: these quick plays that are just out to the outfield.
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: You need to go back to that. You need to
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: establish the run. And then you can start going for
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: some of these punch plays like play actions down the
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: field to Ryan Wingo or Cam Coleman. You have to
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: get these established first or you're never going to win
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: these games. And I hate to say that. I'm a
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: Texas fan and I'm loyal to Texas. I've been through
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: the Charlie Strong and Tom Herman days where you wanted
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: to strangle yourself and take off your jersey, but You know,
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: we've been through, I don't know how many, you know,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: amazing teams, and we just haven't been able to get
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: it done. Yeah. You know, so I feel like a
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: lot of this falters back to Sarkeesian. He has to
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: be able to call these offensive games and be the
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: offensive mastermind we know he is.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: So just a question here, just like a hypothetical. So
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: say they happen to split these games, like say they
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: happen to go 11-1, right? SEC Championship, whether they win
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: or lose, they're going to make the college football playoff
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: just based on that. Say if they don't get far
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs... do you think there might be a
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: time to change for Sark for somebody else? Or, I mean,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: cause this is, this is a long stint now. This
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: is like six years about, I mean, if he can't
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: get it done with, honestly, these last three to four
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: years have been talented rosters that Sark has had. And
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: I think this is the most talent he's had. Cause
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: Colin Simmons, I mean, I think he's going to be
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: a top 10 pick. Arch Manning is going to be
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: a top 10 pick. Like there's, There's stars after stars
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: after stars. And yes, it is a tough SEC, but
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: you went into the SEC for a reason. You have
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: the talent that matches the Georgia, the Bama, the LSU,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: the Ole Miss. I mean, you have the talent that
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: matches up with it. So now it goes down to coaching.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: So what do you think? You think Sark would be
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: on the hot seat?
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: I don't think he's on the hot seat, but I
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: think they take away his offensive coaching. I think they
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: give his OC to somebody else. Hopefully they bring in
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: someone that can call and dissect these defense that we're
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: having to go against because it's not like we're facing
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: terrible defense. Tennessee has a pretty good defense. Ohio State
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: had a great, amazing defense. But if you can't call
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: good games against UTSA and against OU, A & M, Mizzou, Arkansas,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: you have to give up this OC. You have to
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: put your pride aside and give away that offensive coordinator
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: position because our defense with Will Muschamp has looked lights out.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: lights out. Will Muschamp has turned this defense around from
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: where we had with PK last year. I think Will
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: Muschamp has done a great job.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I know this is random, but Colin Simmons, that
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: celebration and then being surprised that he got flagged for unsportsmanlike,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: that's still one of the funniest things I've seen in
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: a while in college football. So, I just kind of
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: want to go like just on a different tangent right
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: here as far as just some guys that have just
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: stood out throughout college football. And I just want to
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: kind of like hear your takes. Obviously, there's like the
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: Malachi Tony, the Jeremiah Smith, of course. But Kamario Taylor,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: Drew Messamaker, and Jaden Bond. So Jaden Bond, the Florida
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: running back who looks like an early Heisman candidate. Kamario Taylor,
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: Mississippi State. quarterback who, where they're undefeated and they look
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: like they could be a threat to anybody. And Drew Messamaker,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma State quarterback, whose looks lights out after transferring. So
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: is there any, like, if you want to talk about
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: these guys or any other guys that have like surprised
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: you this so far through the first month of college football?
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: I think the big one here is Kamario Taylor. Dude
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: looks lights out at the quarterback position. This dude is
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: dissecting defenses. This dude is legit. Him, Trinidad Chambliss, I mean,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: they look solid. In the SEC, I think they're top one,
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: two quarterbacks. I think you have another good quarterback in Alabama,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: but I think Kamario Taylor, Trinidad Chambliss, I think as
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: we've seen so far, I think those are one and two.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: You can either put either one of them forward, but
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: I think they're great quarterbacks. I feel like Arch has
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: so much more to prove in terms of his playmaking
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: ability than these guys. I feel like these guys have
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: just shown that they're these dudes, whether they go to
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: the draft this year or not. I feel like they
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: have a really good chance of winning this Heisman. Of course,
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: you have your Jeremiah Smith, you have your Mensah, but
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: I think Darian Mensah hasn't played in anybody, so we'll
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: see how he does against a real team later in
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: the year.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Darian Mensah, his only big game is
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: going to be Notre Dame. And I mean, even at that,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: I feel like Malachi Toney might be stealing away some
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: of his Heisman nods with how crazy he's been. And
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, okay, let me ask you this. So obviously
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: you said Arch isn't one of the top two. Is
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: he better than Sam Leavitt? It's not even a disrespectful question,
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: but like right now, up to this point, LSU quarterback.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: I think him and Sam Leavitt are just, I think
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: he's better than Sam Leavitt. I feel like he has
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: more talent, but he just has to show it on
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: the football field. I feel like Sam Leavitt, in terms
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: of pure raw talent just does not get up to the,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: up to the mark of, um, Arch, Arch Manning. I
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: just think that's, that's not even me being biased, but
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: I just don't like Sam Leavitt. I don't think he's
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: that guy. I think he's just a flashy dude that's
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: out there in LSU and Lane Kiffin. I think Lane
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: Kiffin is a, is a, I just think he's a
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: douchebag for leaving Ole Miss the way he did. I
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: feel like he runs a whack job up there in LSU. Um,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: But we'll see how it goes. Hopefully we can beat
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: those goofballs up there in LSU and hopefully we get
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: the job done.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: Is there any other topics you want to talk about
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: in this college football like anything you've seen so far?
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: I think we've seen some pretenders in the top 25.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: I feel like Texas Tech is a big one to
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: be up there with the pretenders. I feel like they
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: just don't run a good club. I think Joey Maguire
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: is a clown of a dude. I think, let me
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: see who else I have written down. I think Tennessee,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: I don't see Josh Heupel winning that many more games.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: I think they have a very tough schedule coming up
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: ahead of them. USC, of course, losing to Oregon. in
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: Los Angeles was an absolute sad thing to see because
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: I thought USC was going to put Bilt, but that's
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: just not the case apparently. Let me see who else
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: we got in here.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, Dante Moore getting hurt, Dylan Raiola stepping in.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, that was– I know Dylan Raiola, he's good,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: and before he got hurt with Nebraska last year, he
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: showed some flashes, but I did not expect– Second half,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: Daniel Raiola throw for damn near 300 yards and two
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: touchdowns against a good USC team. So that was definitely surprising.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: Quote, unquote, good USC team. So I think just USC
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: is a pretender. I think Lincoln Riley, he's just proven
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: year in and year out that he can't just put
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: a good defense together. I think LSU is a pretender.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: I don't think they're very good. BYU, I feel like
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: it's a pretty decent Big 12 team. But when it
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: comes down to getting to these SEC and Big Ten teams,
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: I don't think they win any games. Iowa looks great
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: in that last-minute win against Michigan. Yeah. SMU, I don't
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: know why they're in the top 25. Mizzou does not
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: need to be in the top 25. I mean, keep
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: them in the top 25 because when Texas beats them,
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: it'll look great.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll look good.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: More ranked teams that we can.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: Other than that, I mean. College football is at this
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: weird state where we're getting into some conference play and
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: then we have some out-of-conference play. So once we were
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: able to dive a little bit deeper into conference play,
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: we'll be able to see who is really here to stay.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: Because I think Texas, if they played how they're supposed
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: to play, I feel like we can go undefeated this year.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: Georgia is going to be Georgia. They're going to win games.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: They're going to win big games. They're going to win
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: close games. Notre Dame, get them out. Get them in
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: a conference, whether it be the ACC– or the Big Ten,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: get them in a conference. Miami, who knows? They could
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: have a good stretch down the field, but I don't
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: see it. Ohio State, it's going to be Ohio State.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: They're going to play some big games. We'll see how
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: they do against Michigan, Indiana. I don't see them making
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: it particularly to the playoffs. I can see them making
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: the playoffs, not very far in the playoffs. Alabama, good team. Florida,
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: Ole Miss, great teams. BYU, decent Big 12 team, decent
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: Big 12 team. I feel like they have made their
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: case to win the Big 12. LSU, I don't think
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: they're a very good team. Tech, Utah, pretenders. Iowa, Oregon,
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, hopefully Oregon bounces back with the amount of
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: money they've spent on their roster. Hopefully they bounce back
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: and prove everybody wrong. Mississippi State, I don't need to
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: say much. Dang good looking football team. Hopefully we can
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: beat them this year. Could be a potential close game
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: though for Texas. Tennessee, I don't want to hear it
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: no more. Texas beat Tennessee. Shouldn't have been that close
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: in the first place.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: It was the battles of the real UT.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: I think UT Austin has always been the real UT.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: Tennessee has been some.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: It's just funny to hear it. We're the real UT.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: And then you have your USC. I think they won't
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: be in the top 25 much longer if they keep
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: playing like this. Oklahoma State with that. I don't even
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: know what that was over there in Stillwater when they
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: beat Oregon. Oh, I know. Houston. Houston, I just don't.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: I don't know. They'll be like a bottom 20 to 25.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: They'll just sit around that area. I don't see them
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: coming up much higher than 20. SMU, they have the ACC,
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: which is a pretty soft schedule all in all. Boise State.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: I think I could see Boise State making the G5
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: playoff spot, which I don't know why they still haven't
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: done something about that. If the G5 spot is terrible,
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: just put in another team from a big conference.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: UCLA.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: UCLA. I don't know. I think they just need to
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: show more. I think they play USC coming up, so
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure what week that's in, but we'll see
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: how UCLA looks against USC. Kentucky looked good against A
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: & M. I think they have some stars up in there.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: I think former Texas Longhorn C.J. Baxter put up some
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: good numbers against USC, so we'll see if we can
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: keep that going. And Missouri, that 25 spot's up for grabs.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: Missouri's been known for not playing good, so we'll see
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: who takes that 25 spot. All in all, I think
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: the AP Top 25 needs to wrangle up these teams
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: a little bit better. Get some of these pretenders. Get
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: Notre Dame out of three. That's the first thing. Get
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: Notre Dame out of three and put Ohio State up
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: to three. Or Bama or put Florida. Put one of
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: these other heavy hitter guys up there at three. Or
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: just move the list. I don't know. AP Top 25
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: has just not been doing a good job.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: They just love Notre Dame. That's... I mean... I would
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: love to see Notre Dame in the ACC just for
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: the fact of Miami will actually have somebody else because
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: the likes of a Clemson is not the same right
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: now Florida State's not the same right now uh I
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: mean North Carolina Duke has never really been those upper
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: echelon football teams so I feel like that would be
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: that would be good but again it's different so I
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know I mean Both Miami and Notre Dame
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: should be 6-0 or I think 7-0 by the time
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: they face each other. So it's going to look like
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: a marquee game. But we'll see. We'll see. And I
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: was looking at different games that are going to be
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: marquee games of the week. And I only really saw,
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, I saw technically, too, there's Missouri versus Florida.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: But the big one I want to talk about is
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: Mississippi State versus Bama. that's going to be a heavy
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: hitter game right there. So any thoughts or any quick
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: takeaways you think you're going to take from that one
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: right there or who you think wins?
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: I think Mississippi State has every right to go into
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: this game thinking they're going to win. They have put
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: up some really good numbers.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: They are at home.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. It's very hard. With the Cowbells,
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: I feel like number seven– Alabama is going to have
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: to go into this game and they're going to have
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: to establish a front. They're going to have to be
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: able to stop this quarterback. And if they can do that,
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: they can maybe scrape by with the 10 plus point win.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: But if they allow this quarterback to get outside the pocket,
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: create opportunities and create plays, it's going to be a
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: long night for the Crimson. Yeah. It's going to, no
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: matter how good Ryan, Ryan, um, uh, Ryan Williams is. Yeah.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: And I, I just think that, I mean, Mississippi State,
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: they're averaging almost 500 yards a game right now. So
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: this is a high-flying offense. They're going to be at home.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: Even if they start off slow, you're going to have
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: the crowd backing you. So, I mean, this is definitely
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: not an easy game for Bama right here. And if
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: Mississippi wins, they're in the top 10. They're in the
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: top 10. And once again, I'm not just trying to
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: point back to Texas just because You're a Texas fan,
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: and that's a big draw. Something that'll go back for
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: the pod. But it would be the number one team
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: Texas would have to go up against. Florida, who's ranked eighth. Mississippi,
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: who's ranked ninth. And then a Mississippi State who would
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: be ranked at least 10. And then LSU, who's ranked
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: 11th right now. That would be one of the craziest
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: sequences I've seen as far as a number one team
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: have to prove their stamp as far as against these
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: top teams.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: So.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: It's just impressive to me if they happen to... I
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: think they'll lose one game. And even if so, I
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: think they should still be number one just with how
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: much of the cachet of all these other teams they've
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: been facing. But it's really going to be a testing
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: ground for Texas in all honesty.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: Well, if Texas can come out and play lights out
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: in these games, I mean, Ole Miss, Florida, they're going
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: to be bloodbaths. There's going to be hard-fought wins. LSU
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: is going to be a hard-fought win going into Death Valley.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: Mississippi State, another hard-fought win. And then you have your
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: trap games. You have your OU, A & M, Missouri, Arkansas.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: These are going to be trap games where you have
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: to play to the best of your abilities. You cannot
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: go out and expect them just to lay down because
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: they're still going to fight back. Two of those are
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: your rivals, and then one of them hates you, and
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: then another one, Missouri, has the potential to beat. So
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: you have to be able to come in and win
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: these games, and then you have to be able to
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: move forward with the right mindset to beat these hard-fought teams.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's for sure. And just quickly before we
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: kind of go, like, just briefly talk about NFL, who's
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: just give your top two ballot right now as far
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: as Heisman? Who would you say are your top two?
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: Let me see. I have my list. Hold on.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you have three, if you have three,
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's Jeremiah Smith. I mean, after 200 yard,
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: four touchdown performance, Jaden Bond, I mean, he's averaging 150
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: rushing yards a game, which is insane. Malachi Toney's insane.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: Kamario Taylor's insane. I mean, you really can't go wrong
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: with any of these guys.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: I think I give the Heisman to Jeremiah Smith. I
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: think with the way Trinidad is playing, he can come
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: in at a three. And then my number two, I'm
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: giving it to Jaden Bond from Florida. I feel like
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: it'll be a tough fought win between Jeremiah Smith and
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: Jaden Ball. But I give the ultimate, you know, ups
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: to Jeremiah Smith to win that Heisman.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's, I feel like, I know it's still early,
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: but I feel like this could be one of, it
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: has potential for one of the all-time Heisman finalists potential.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: In all honesty, like seeing five guys, like we, I
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: just listed off, I just listed off six guys who
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: have a legitimate shot for the Heisman. And so I
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: think this could be one of the potentials for one
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: of the greatest Heisman seasons we've ever seen in a while.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: But I don't know if there's any other college football
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: talk you want to get to before we kind of
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: briefly go into NFL.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: I think we just need more time. I feel like
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: week four, we're just going to have to allow this
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: to unravel a little bit, see what teams are looking like.
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: let them go up against some real competition, and then
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: we'll be able to come back and dissect their wins,
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: their losses, and see who's really going to be here
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: to stay for the postseason in college football.
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, for sure. All right, well, so we're kind
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: of going briefly through everything right now. We just went
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: through the MLB postseason, college football. Now we're going to
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: talk just a little bit about the NFL right here. So, obviously, we...
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: We did a football pod yesterday, which you guys should
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: go check it out. But I want to hear Braden's
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: opinions and thoughts because he is a Broncos fan right here.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: All of his teams are getting talked about today. So
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: after a crazy game where, I think in all honesty,
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: down 16-0 against the Rams, who are Super Bowl favorites
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: to come out of the NFC and pretty much big-time
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: Vegas odds favorites. Broncos comeback win in Mahi. There were
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: some questionable pass interference calls. That kind of happened. But
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: are you back on the train for the Broncos? Because
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: I follow you on Twitter. I've seen some of those
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: tweets at halftime.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: So how are you feeling? You're on mute. You're on mute.
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 2: I think Bo Nix is going to have to come
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 2: in and play a whole lot better in this first
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: half than he has been. Defense is lights out. half
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 2: the stuff that I tweet though is just to be
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: you know just a little bit of banter a little
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: bit of trying to jinx ourselves but I feel like
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: ultimately if the Broncos are looking like how they did
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: last year fourth quarter comeback specialist but if we can
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: put a complete game together we can make a great
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: case for the postseason we can make a great case
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: for winning the Super Bowl we have what we need
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: defense looks lights out but like with the Texans The
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: only thing that holds us back is his offensive capability
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: and the offensive coordinator that's calling these plays.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: How do you feel about Davis Webb taking over play?
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: I know that Sean Payton didn't want him to leave,
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: but if he continues to have these slow starts, Sean Payton...
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: is going to take over the play calling for sure.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: And I feel like if he has to go ahead
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: and do it, I feel like if it means us
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: winning these games and us going to the postseason, I
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: feel like Sean Payton needs to take this play calling back.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: Because yeah, we were slow at the beginning, but we
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 2: still kept up a competitive fight between quarters one and four.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: It's barely looking competitive in quarters one through three. But
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: if Webb can come through and call a complete game,
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: I feel like we have a pretty good case for
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: winning this stuff. Winning these games.
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: And usually you see these young coordinators. Usually they're good
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: first quarter and third quarter. Because that's usually when it's
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: on script. Like that's when players are scripted. But for
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: some reason, I mean... The second quarter and the fourth quarter,
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: when you're kind of like in the flow of the game,
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: that's when he starts to do a little bit better.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: So that's what confuses me as far as for a
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: younger coordinator. Usually that's when they struggle, when it's not scripted,
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: whenever it's kind of ad-libbing or like just seeing who's hurt,
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: how's the flow of the game going? Are we able
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: to run the ball? Is the pass game going? How's
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: our quarterback doing? Are they getting pressure? He does better
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: in those moments in the unscripted plays, which makes no
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: sense to me. You're doing the hard stuff right. But
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: you can't get the easy stuff right. And with your division,
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, other than the Chargers, which are terrible. And,
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, we talked about it as far as them
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: being going to be one of the most disappointing teams.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: The Raiders are 3-0. The Chiefs are 3-0. The Broncos,
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: they can't. They have no margin for error in this division,
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: let alone the AFC. All of the AFC North is 2-1.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: So it's going to be hard to make the playoffs
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: in the AFC side. So we'll see from there. But
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: as far as just your overall, I know you haven't
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: been on the other pod. So as far as through
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: these three weeks, is there any other team or anything
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: like you've seen like a theme throughout the year that like?
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 2: I feel like we've seen this theme with the Ravens
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: before where they come through in these close wins early
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: in the season and they just start to pull away
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: late season. Hopefully, this Ravens team can pick it up. Bills...
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, Bills are going to be the Bills. I
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 2: don't think Josh Allen can continue his regular season stuff
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 2: into the postseason. The Shocker here, the Patriots, and Drake May. Wow.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 2: This has been an absolute show of what Drake May
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: looks like a shell from last year. This dude looks terrible.
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: Hopefully he can pick it up, but my goodness. And
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 2: then just going over to the other side, I mean,
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 2: cowboys what are you.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 3: Doing hey hey what are you doing defense has shown
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 3: improvements from one to three and i i got into
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 3: a brian schottenheimer the situational awareness has been terrible it's
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 3: been it was so terrible down the stretch and i
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 3: just i just don't get why you call a timeout
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 3: and then that third and goal i don't know if
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 3: you heard it brayden where um So where Dak threw
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 3: it out of bounds and GP was wide open.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: So Brian Schottenheimer told Dak to throw the ball out
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: of bounds to not even attempt to go for a touchdown.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: And Dak was clearly, clearly upset. So if you have
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: which Dak Prescott, I don't think there's any discussion as
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: far within within last year going into this year, he's
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: a top five quarterback statistically in just watching him play.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: You never tell a top quarterback, hey, throw the ball
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: out of bounds, don't win us a game. So, Braun Schottenheimer,
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: you're undermining how great your quarterback is. And ultimately, it
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: costs you to lose the game. I think the Cowboys
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: will be fine long term. I still, maybe this is
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: me drinking the Cowboys juice, I still see us winning
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: double-digit games in all honesty. Philly doesn't look great The Giants,
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart is going to be out for a while.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: And I don't even think he should return. Same with
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels. So the division's up for the taking, in
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: all honesty. And we have the Texans who are 0-3.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: I still think it's going to be a tough game
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: because it's the Texans. Then you have the Buccaneers. Then
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: you have the Packers. We could easily win these next
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: three games right here, be back to 4-2, be like, oh,
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys are good. So I'm not necessarily worried.
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 2: Just.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: The way we lost this game is excruciating. I'm not
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: going to lie. I was saying yesterday on the pod,
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: this game felt like I've never done drugs before. This
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: is what crack feels like. This has got to be
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: what crack feels like, watching the Cowboys play. Very, very disappointing.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: I think the NFC, for the most part, looks pretty
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 2: solid across all fronts. I mean, you have the NFC
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: North that looks packed with talent. I mean, they have
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 2: your Vikings, you have your Lions, your Bears. They have
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 2: some pretty solid teams. You have your NFC West. You
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: have your 49ers, Seahawks. The Rams, although losing these past
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 2: two games, have looked decent. They have not looked like
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 2: terrible teams. I mean, other than the Cardinals, Buccaneers. I mean,
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 2: you have the Falcons that could somehow pick it up
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 2: late season with that absolute dog at running back, B.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 2: John Robinson, Texas alumni. Yeah. But I think the NFC,
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: there's a good amount of talent. I feel like they'll
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 2: be fine on their side. AFC, it's just hard to
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: gauge right now because you have some terrible, terrible teams.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 2: I feel like some that are just sticking out. You
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 2: have your Bills, of course. Steelers, Ravens look decent. Bengals
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 2: are okay. Browns, we know they're not going to produce
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 2: late in the season. Jaguars, who knows where that team's
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: going to go. Yeah. Titans and Texans, really shocker. I
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 2: feel like the Texans going 0-3 is really shocker. They
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 2: looked great at the end of the year. Defense looked immaculate,
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 2: but I think what holds that Texans team back is
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 2: ultimately C.J. Stroud. They're going to have to draft a
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 2: quarterback or get another one. I don't think C.J. Stroud's
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 2: going to be their answer for very much longer.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: And what's so funny to me is that C.J. Stroud,
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: he has been doing his job this year. And The
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: whole team has been built around the run game and defense.
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: And those things have been non-existent this year. Their defense
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: went from having historically one of the best defenses ever
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: to now, when CJ Stroud, I think he's not a
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: great quarterback. I don't think he's bad. I think he's
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: just good right in the middle. Someone where he's not
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: going to get you over the top, but he's not
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: going to lose you games. That's how I view CJ Stroud.
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: But CJ Stroud... puts you in two separate positions, first
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: against the Bills to win, which you went back and
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: forth with Josh Allen out of anybody, then against the
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: Colts this last game where he drove them down the
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: field for a game-winning touchdown. And then the Texans, they
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: give up a game-winning field goal. The Texans' defense is
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  Speaker 1: not playing up to their standard. They definitely have not
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  Speaker 1: been playing up to their standard. So that's crazy to me. Buccaneers,
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  Speaker 1: now with Baker being out three weeks, I could easily
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: see them fall into 0-6. I mean, Packers, them losing,
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  Speaker 1: they're starting to go down a little bit. I mean,
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: Michael Penix tore them apart. So, still early in the season,
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  Speaker 1: and I want to go ahead and ask this now
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  Speaker 1: because we gave our Super Bowl predictions at the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of the year, so I know it's a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a favor to you. You've seen three weeks of
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: the season, so you kind of see how this... how
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of shaping up to be and what teams are,
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  Speaker 1: what they aren't. Who are your Super Bowl predictions?
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be crazy, but I'm going to give
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  Speaker 2: it to my team to take it all the way
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  Speaker 2: to the Super Bowl, baby. I got the Broncos. And
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  Speaker 2: then NFC, I'm kind of just in the throat. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to toss it up right now because any of
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  Speaker 2: these teams could come back late in the year, make
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  Speaker 2: a playoff run, and be in that Super Bowl. But
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  Speaker 2: I feel like right now Seahawks look pretty good, maybe
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  Speaker 2: not up to their par like they were last year
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  Speaker 2: late in the season. Seahawks still look good. Your 49ers
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  Speaker 2: surprisingly look good. We'll see how long that lasts. I mean, Bears.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if Caleb Williams comes back and he's playing
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  Speaker 2: lights out, that's a good Bears team. Lions, I don't
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  Speaker 2: think the Lions have the stuff to get them to
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  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. So I'm going to give it Broncos
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  Speaker 2: versus Seahawks. Broncos are going to get our get back
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to beat the Seahawks, baby. Let's go.
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  Speaker 1: A whole 11 years later.
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  Speaker 2: After 11 years, I think we take it.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 2: That's just bias.
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  Speaker 1: I would be.
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  Speaker 3: I.
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  Speaker 1: Don't know. I really don't know what to expect. Buffalo,
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: they always look good in September. Chiefs, they look back
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: to normal. I really don't know what to see from
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: this football season. There's some patterns that are starting to happen,
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: but all of these things can swing... like three, four
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: weeks down the road. And all these injuries that have
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: happened across the year too, by the way, like there's
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: been so many injuries from all different players in the NFL.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: So it, again, I don't know what to expect from this.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, you can see a lot of injuries.
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 2: I could see Patrick Mahomes. I texted you this the
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 2: other day. Patrick Mahomes, who knows how far this knee
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 2: takes him in the season. I don't want, I don't
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 2: wish him to get hurt. I don't want him to
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 2: get hurt. But who knows how long this knee is
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 2: going to keep him in the season. They have K-9.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 2: which is an absolute dog in the backfield. But who
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 2: knows how far Patrick is going to take him. Don't
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 2: want him to get hurt, but I don't see him...
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 2: I don't see his knee taking him through the whole season.
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 2: Even if it's just a tweak, he might not be
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 2: back to full 100%.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because that surgery that he got, it was... it
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: was something where he could start playing from week one.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: So it's kind of like a tweak up instead of
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: like a complete construction of the knee, which would be
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: better long-term. But I mean, I mean, he looks, he
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: looks great as of now. And I mean, that's, that's
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: another reason I think why you signed Kenneth Walker. So
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: you don't have to be overly passionate Mahomes reliant on this,
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: on the season. So I think that's a good thing though, too,
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: but I mean, Man, we covered a lot of topics.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: A lot of topics today. I feel like great. This
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: is a great first pod for you. This is a
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: great first pod for you. I know you didn't want
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: to get on the pod for a minute, but finally,
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: finally we had time and it was good to have
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: you on.
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 2: It was good to be here. I enjoyed the sports talk.
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 2: If you haven't been, check out my Twitter. It's Detection
• 1:29:48
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• 1:29:52
  Speaker 2: just bantering around, talking a lot of mess on Twitter,
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 2: but Ultimately, it's just there for football talk and just
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 2: sports talk. So check it out if you have the chance.
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, go check them out. It's definitely some fun
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: stuff to always look at on Twitter. I have my
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: notifications on every time the Texas or Broncos are playing.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: So it's definitely fun. But all right, well, we'll see
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: you guys soon. So we did our football pod, which
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: is coming out today. This one's going to come out
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: later on today. And then we have our basketball pod
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: coming out or Wednesday night, so it's going to be Thursday.
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: So definitely going to be a busy week, a lot
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: of content coming for you guys. But we appreciate it.
• 1:30:32
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• 1:30:39
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• 1:30:42
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• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: see Brayden and I talking about Dodgers Braves, the Texas,
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: see how well they're doing. So more college football updates.
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: We'll see you guys soon. You guys take care. Peace.