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Yankees SWEPT by Rays, Brewers & Dodgers ADVANCE to NLCS, Guardians SURVIVE White Sox | MLB Reaction · Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered

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  Speaker 1: Like we just keep doing the same thing every year
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  Speaker 1: and we don't win. Right. That's insanity. That's the definition
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  Speaker 1: of insanity. If you think it's going to change.
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  Speaker 2: It's World Series or bust. You know, it's championship or bust.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not. That's the thing. That's the thing there
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  Speaker 1: is like they don't earn that right anymore. And I
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  Speaker 1: love everyone there. But like you can't just walk into
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  Speaker 1: every spring and say it's World Series or bust. Can you?
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of the Ross and Rizzo
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  Speaker 1: show unfiltered. I'm Anthony Rizzo with my partner, David Ross. Rossi,
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  Speaker 1: another amazing slate of games. All four division series games underway.
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  Speaker 1: Guardians win nine to three to extend the series. The
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers take care of business and beat the Braves four
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  Speaker 1: to one. The Rays sweep the Yankees and the Brewers
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  Speaker 1: win three to one to advance the to the championship series,
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  Speaker 1: the National League championship series set, the American League championship series.
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  Speaker 1: One of those teams has their ticket punched. Rossi, the
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Rays sweeping the New York Yankees. Is that
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  Speaker 1: a statement? Is that a shock? Tell me what you think.
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  Speaker 2: Man, I just think, you know, I said it earlier.
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  Speaker 3: I think everybody who doesn't follow baseball is like, what
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  Speaker 3: do you mean the Rays beat the Yankees? it's kind
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  Speaker 3: of what happened all year. The Rays are a really
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  Speaker 3: good team, a solid team. And it looked like New York,
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  Speaker 3: you know, going in there, you knew it was going
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  Speaker 3: to be loud. You know how hectic it is. You
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  Speaker 3: played there like as a visiting player, especially in the
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  Speaker 3: post season, that place is a tough place to play,
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  Speaker 3: but the Rays are used to it. They're not going
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  Speaker 3: to be intimidated by that environment. They've done it all year.
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  Speaker 3: And I, I said it before. I think they're just
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  Speaker 3: a better team this year. You know, We can go back,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm sure all the headlines in New York in
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  Speaker 3: the morning will be like, fire this guy, rebuild, all
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  Speaker 3: this crap. Man, they've got Spencer Jones, Lombard Jr. They've
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  Speaker 3: got a great staff. Wells, Judge wasn't there, your horse,
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  Speaker 3: one of the best players in the game. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: blaming it on that, but it would have been a
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  Speaker 3: more competitive series if him and Giancarlo were healthy. leading
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  Speaker 3: up to the postseason and being able to be in
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  Speaker 3: the lineup every day in the postseason. Like, there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot to be positive about in New York, in my opinion.
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  Speaker 2: Like, it's real.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's fixing to get really good. They've got
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  Speaker 3: some holes to fill, some guys that are free agents.
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  Speaker 2: But what a statement by the Rays. We know how
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  Speaker 2: good they are.
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  Speaker 3: Pitching, the defense, the base running, the pressure. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it was a complete game by them and just continued
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  Speaker 3: to come. There were some moments there that it felt
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  Speaker 3: like the Yankees just couldn't break through. And then Victor
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  Speaker 3: Mesa Jr. left on left off Max Freed to run
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  Speaker 3: Homer to seal the deal. Yeah, congratulations, Tampa Bay Rays.
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  Speaker 2: Like, it was great.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Kevin Cash, that whole organization, they've been the Yankees kryptonite,
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  Speaker 1: it seems like, for years. Definitely when I was there,
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  Speaker 1: they were the team we wanted to beat. For sure. And, dude,
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  Speaker 1: the one thing that I don't like about when these
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: teams win now, and maybe this is because I felt
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: like when we lost to the Dodgers in 2024, they
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  Speaker 1: just absolutely shit on us as a team, right? Instead
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: of celebrating, you see guys like you saw Caminero Jr.
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  Speaker 1: sweeping on the field and kind of mocking the.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Yankees lose.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. You know, like, I loved it.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: When in our game did it turn to winning, right?
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  Speaker 1: We're all trying to compete and win. And then once
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  Speaker 1: you win, you just start talking shit to the opposing
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  Speaker 1: people's fans and players.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you on that. Like, probably not. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: did you see the clip?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Like, Kevin Cash, Victor Mesa Jr. hit that home run
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  Speaker 3: and just, like, stood there and stood in the dugout.
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  Speaker 3: And Cash, he was like, Cash, he was like, fuck yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then he was like, run. I pointed at him
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  Speaker 2: like old school, run motherfucker. Like we don't show people up,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that old school manager he is.
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  Speaker 1: But I love- It looked like Mason Jr. was looking
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  Speaker 1: in the, it looked like Mason Jr. was looking in
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees dugout as he was rounding first base too.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't show the replays on, on the broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: I bet they got a chance, you know, like that
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  Speaker 3: whole smaller market and, you know, there's gotta be a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of a chip there. And, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: as well as I do, when you go into post season,
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  Speaker 3: you got to prove it to beat the big dogs. Right.
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  Speaker 3: And I know the Rays outplayed them during the regular season,
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  Speaker 3: but that ain't the post season. And so just like
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  Speaker 3: you're seeing with some of these other organizations or these other, um, series, you,
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  Speaker 3: you got to go in and.
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  Speaker 2: Beat the, the, the big dogs, you know, somebody's got
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  Speaker 2: to beat the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody's got to knock them off their, their perch, you know,
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  Speaker 3: two time defending world champs, but it, uh, You know,
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  Speaker 3: I just think it's such a statement win.
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  Speaker 2: Your boy Volpe, how about the home run?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: How about the home run?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the cream of the crop always rises, Rossi, right?
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  Speaker 1: And the Rays certainly proved that. Volpe, on the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: what you just said, man, the regular shots look like
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  Speaker 1: a home run, and then you get all the different
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  Speaker 1: camera angles, and the fan clearly reached over. I definitely
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  Speaker 1: think that the umpires got it right.
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  Speaker 3: And....
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  Speaker 1: I mean, but what a change in momentum there. I
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: know they still scored one run, but to tie the
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  Speaker 1: game there, the place was going crazy. All the fans
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  Speaker 1: were going crazy. It was a big moment for Volpe
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  Speaker 1: with everything he's been through this year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously they fall short. And, Rossi, you're saying you
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: look at this team with a lot of optimism. Well,
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: me playing on that team and seeing it's the same
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: thing every single year, right? Every year. Now we can
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  Speaker 1: go back and say, well, we have this, this, and this.
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  Speaker 1: And Judge was hurt, and Giancarlo was hurt. But they
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  Speaker 1: had the best pitching they've ever had this year. And
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  Speaker 1: the bats just fell short.
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  Speaker 2: Ben Rice had the best season. Ben Rice had his
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  Speaker 2: career year.
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  Speaker 1: So, I don't know. If you talk to people there,
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: Yankees fans, people on the inside, they almost think it's insanity.
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  Speaker 1: Like we just keep doing the same thing every year
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  Speaker 1: and we don't win.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: That's insanity. That's the definition of insanity. If you think
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  Speaker 1: it's going to change.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm with you. I, I just, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what needs to change. Like, well, Grisham's gone. Like he
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  Speaker 2: was kind of an aging player.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And had a really good season last year. And then
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  Speaker 3: jazz is gone. Like Volpe is going to fill in there.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So you've got some youth up the middle and in
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  Speaker 3: center field with Jones and You got Ben Rice, who
• 7:08
  Speaker 3: is an absolute horse. And we just got to keep
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  Speaker 3: the dudes healthy. Like, Judge has to stay healthy, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 2: Like, I'm with you.
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  Speaker 1: But that's the thing, Rossi. That's the thing. There's optimism.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot look at this lineup and not be optimistic
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  Speaker 1: about it. But they don't win. They can't beat the
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  Speaker 1: good teams. Right? And that's just how it's been year
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  Speaker 1: after year. We got to the World Series in 2024.
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  Speaker 1: We stabbed ourselves in the in the gut multiple times, right?
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  Speaker 1: We give up a walk-off grand slam in game one.
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  Speaker 1: We have a terrible inning in the game five, right?
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  Speaker 1: And it's like, those are the things that just keep
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  Speaker 1: piling up now for the Yankees. So as a player,
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  Speaker 1: it's frustrated because obviously we all want to win. But
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what it is. I
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  Speaker 1: can't sit here and tell you, oh, this needs to
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  Speaker 1: change or that needs to change. I maybe have some opinions.
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  Speaker 3: But What would be one? Give me, give me, give
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  Speaker 3: me one, just one thought. Like if you, when you
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  Speaker 3: watch that team and I know you're close with a
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  Speaker 3: lot of those guys, is there one guy on the
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  Speaker 3: free agent market or one area you're like, I would
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  Speaker 3: go get another middle of the bat or, you know, what,
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  Speaker 3: what would, what do you think you would, would do
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  Speaker 3: if you were running the Yankees?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I probably go and sign Louisa rise. Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I thought I said at the trade deadline, they should
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: try and go pro. They should try and go trade
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  Speaker 1: for him, right? And because he adds that contact, you
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: see what he did with the Phillies. He was hitting
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  Speaker 1: fourth and fifth because he drives and runs. So if
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  Speaker 1: you're going to have a lot of slugging on base guys,
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  Speaker 1: I think you need to equal it out. You know,
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: the Nico Horners of the world who put the ball
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  Speaker 1: in play and just extend at bats. It looks like
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  Speaker 1: George Lombard Jr. will be that guy. He looks very
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  Speaker 1: poised to take major steps next year. But again, you
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  Speaker 1: don't know.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: And we're talking about one of the highest payrolls in
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  Speaker 1: the game and a fan base that expects to win
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  Speaker 1: every single year that they haven't won since 2009. So
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: I was talking to Chad Bowling, the great mental skills
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  Speaker 1: performance coach for the Yankees. He works for them and
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: he works for the Dallas Cowboys. And we were talking
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: before one of the playoff games, and I'm like, I wonder...
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  Speaker 1: I'm just trying to look back, right? I'm looking at
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  Speaker 1: this from a different lens now, now that I'm not
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  Speaker 1: there in the clubhouse all the time. I'm like, I
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  Speaker 1: wonder if on the inside of the ropes there, in
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: the clubhouse, there's just... It's such a pressure cooker to win, right?
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  Speaker 1: And you see how amazing the Yankees played in the
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  Speaker 1: Red Sox series. And it's like, I wonder... since it's
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  Speaker 1: such a pressure cooker and they do play well in
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  Speaker 1: those two games, it's like everyone exhales so big that
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to get back to that level because of
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: the pressure that's put on there every single day. I
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: don't know. We're baseball players. We're paid to win. But
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  Speaker 1: what I do know, Rossi, is.
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: Jazz Chisholm's comments after the game are just, like, just
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  Speaker 1: looks like a player who's lost because. Oh, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: see it.
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  Speaker 2: What did he say? I didn't see. I went to Ben.
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  Speaker 1: They asked him about being booed, right? He got benched
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  Speaker 1: in game three.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He comes in. He goes 0 for 2. Almost grounds
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  Speaker 1: into the game-ending double play, but he's such a fast player.
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  Speaker 1: Beats it out.
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  Speaker 2: Steals a big bag. They had a chance there at
• 10:46
  Speaker 2: the end. Steals a big bag. Totally.
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  Speaker 3: I mean.
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  Speaker 1: But he says after the game about being booed. He's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand. I was confused as to why I
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  Speaker 1: was being booed. Like, I'm helping, trying to see this
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  Speaker 1: team win. And I'm just sitting there like, dude. And
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: he did clarify, you know, actually it doesn't surprise me
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  Speaker 1: later on, Aaron Judge got booed as well here. But
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  Speaker 1: it surprises you that you got booed? What do you mean?
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  Speaker 1: You've played there for three plus years now. You've seen
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  Speaker 1: Volpe get ran out of town. You've seen Judgey get booed.
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: You've seen Stanton get booed. He's been booed a lot.
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  Speaker 1: It surprises you that you got booed? Like, that's just
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  Speaker 1: not the right way to answer questions. And on the
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  Speaker 1: other end, you hear Acuna Jr. saying that he got
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  Speaker 1: booed as well. And he's like, yeah, I understand. The
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  Speaker 1: fans are frustrated. I didn't play well.
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And you've got to know, like, Well, here, you know
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  Speaker 3: this as good as anybody, Mike. You got to have
• 11:47
  Speaker 3: thick skin to play there. And, you know, one of
• 11:50
  Speaker 3: the things about being a Yankee from the outside, it's
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  Speaker 3: like you better be able to handle some adversity when
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  Speaker 3: it comes to fans because, you know, they've set the expectations.
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  Speaker 2: And I did see Judge after the game talk a
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  Speaker 2: little bit.
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  Speaker 3: And, excuse me, he was saying, yeah, like, unfortunately, there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot to look forward to, same as you, but.
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  Speaker 3: we didn't win and it's world series or bust, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's championship.
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  Speaker 1: That's the thing. That's the thing there is like, they
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  Speaker 1: don't earn that right anymore. And I love everyone there,
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  Speaker 1: but like, you can't just walk into every spring and
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  Speaker 1: say it's a world series or bust. Can you?
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  Speaker 2: I like that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, well, I think, yeah, I think the Dodgers it's
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  Speaker 3: world series. You create that narrative and they hadn't had
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  Speaker 3: that a long time. I think it's probably, he's probably
• 12:41
  Speaker 3: speaking on behalf of, the fans and saying like we
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: understand the high expectations here and we're not living up
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: to them kind of thing but yeah i get what
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: you're saying yeah you're you're i i actually really agree
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  Speaker 3: with that statement it it they haven't earned the right
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  Speaker 3: to be world series of bus the dodgers have you
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  Speaker 3: that's that that's 100 true.
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  Speaker 1: Right like when you when you and i understand the
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  Speaker 1: teams that they field it should be that way but
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  Speaker 1: when you walk into spring training there and that I
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  Speaker 1: don't even know if this sounds soft or not.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: But like you walk in, it's like right away, it's
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  Speaker 1: world series or bus. I'm like, bro, let's, let's fucking
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: get to know each other first. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: It's a little backwards.
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: Right, right, right. I'm not kidding. The first, the first
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  Speaker 1: time I, when I got traded, I don't know if
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: I've ever told this story out loud or to the public.
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: The first time I got traded or to me, I
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: hadn't heard this from Chicago, right? We go to Miami.
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: The motions are high. Um, I get to the Marlins
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: Park and it's an interleague game. So they're asking me,
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: right when I get there, they start asking me all
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: these questions about bunt defense, this and that, my style.
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: And I go, literally the first thing in my head,
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  Speaker 1: I go is, yo, everyone in this clubhouse needs to
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  Speaker 1: take a fucking Xanax. Like, I fucking just walked in
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  Speaker 1: here five minutes ago. Like, I don't even want to
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  Speaker 1: be here at the moment because I was so devastated
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  Speaker 1: from being traded, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, traded.
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  Speaker 1: The whole world gets rocked. Obviously, I love being a
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: Yankee and love being there. But my first thought was like,
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: what the fuck, man? Can we just go play a
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: baseball game? Like, get to know each other for a second?
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  Speaker 1: But that's... That's a great story, bro. That's the intensity
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  Speaker 1: that comes with playing there. And over the course year
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: in and year out, I just feel like that intensity
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: and that pressure just slow. And as a player, you
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: don't really try to let it affect you, but How
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: can it not affect you, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. No, great points, great story.
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: I want to circle back just as we wrap up
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: the Yankees' raise and give the Rays their flowers. Kevin Cash,
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: the bullpen, the pitching stood out. Like, big home run,
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  Speaker 3: Ryan Valade, get things started. He's a lefty masher. And
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: then Kevin Cash, you know, having those platoon guys and
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: going with Victor Mesa, like, that was absolutely, you know,
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: left on left, hard to do, Max Freed. is a beast,
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  Speaker 3: and the fact he stepped up and they closed it
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  Speaker 3: out was really impressive. So, flowers to the Rays. Congratulations.
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  Speaker 2: Drama in New York. We love it.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, the cream of the crop rises, right? The Rays winning,
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: the Brewers winning. These teams have been the best teams
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  Speaker 1: in the league, and they're moving on to the championship series,
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: and it's going to be fun baseball to watch. One thing, too, Rossi,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: with the Yankees. I saw this online, and I was like, ooh, okay.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: This is what some random person said, right? They get
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: eliminated because of sloppy baseball and a boomer bus lineup.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: People may say, but at least we make the playoffs
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: every year. Sure, except after years of being bumped from
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, you eventually want to stop being an above-average,
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: mediocre team who loses because of lack of basic fundamentals.
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  Speaker 1: Last year, they get bumped to the— Blue Jays. They
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: beat the Red Sox. They lose to the Blue Jays.
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  Speaker 1: This year, beat the Red Sox, lose to the Red Sox.
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  Speaker 1: That's almost worse than losing to a Guardians or White
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: Sox or Twins or another playoff team because they're your
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: division rivals, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: The Yankees have the only general manager across the four
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  Speaker 1: major sports who still sits with the same team since
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: the 90s. Something has to change. Unfortunately, it won't because
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: they'll just say, They lost since Aaron Judge was hurt.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: And it feels like every year there, it's like, yeah, well,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: this happened, this happened, this happened. And I don't know.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: I'm very invested in those players.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: And he's a Hall of Famer. Cashman's a Hall of Famer.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:57
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• 17:00
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• 17:03
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• 17:08
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• 17:12
  Speaker 1: to play in this, I know he was, but, yeah.
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• 17:26
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• 17:29
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• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Brewers, Padres. What a game. What a series.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: What a series.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I just feel like that was two heavyweights, huh?
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, you know, it was again, Jackson Chirio.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: What a stud, bro. This guy, MVP of that series.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: I thought it was the Garrett Mitchell game. The huge play,
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Tatis hits the ball. I mean, Garrett Mitchell, first of all, single,
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: gets an RBI. And later in the game, the big
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: rob of the home run from Machado. Tatis goes deep. Bro,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: the Padres didn't get a hit after Chirio. Tatis hit
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: the homer in the third. They didn't get a hit. Like,
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: the Brewers pitching, you know, we talked so much about
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: this series coming into it in the Padres' bullpen, but
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: the Brewers had the best bullpen in the league coming
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: into the game, and I didn't know that statistically, and
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: they proved it.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: They proved it. The Padres were on a heater. They
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: were rolling. We know about all their, you know, how well.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: They played the second half, how good their bullpen was,
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: and they pieced it together well, and they were intense games.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: The Padre fans showed out, and I just thought it
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: was a great series. It was a must-watch baseball, a
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: lot of drama.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: We had some great.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Quotes there from Pat Murphy on that catch, from Merrill
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: last night. I mean, yeah, and You know, absolutely amazing series.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: And congratulations to the Brewers.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Big hits. They just played Brewer baseball, man.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: And it just felt like the Padres couldn't get anything
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: going other than some traffic from walks. It was so lopsided.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: The Brewers had 10 hits. The Padres had three. So
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: it just never felt like they could get anything going.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: They put pressure on you. They just put pressure on
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: you at all times. Like you said, with the bullpen roster,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: three innings from Aaron Ashby, one inning from Uribe. Uribe? Uribe?
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: That's a tongue twister. Fuck me. And one from Trevor McGill,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: who's been... I don't know if you remember this. Early
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: in this year, Trevor McGill gave up a few saves,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: blew a few saves, and Brewers fans were booing him
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: early April.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: He got moved out of the closer role. I remember
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: meeting with him during a game.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: He got moved out, and he was saying, like Murph
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: wanting to get it back on track. And then I
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: don't think he's blown one. You know, I think he's
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: got 30 something saves. Like he, he was, he was,
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: you know, I had him as a player and, you know,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: he was still developing and going through some things in
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: his personal life and absolutely turned everything around. He had
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Milwaukee picking him up and he was dominant, man.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Absolutely nasty.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: I mean, but like, Pat Murphy came out. Churio had
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: six RBIs. Six RBIs in the series.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Pat Murphy had six.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Or, yeah.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Churio had six.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Jackson.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: He was. He's a beast, man. And his playoff pedigree
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: is starting to take nice, nice shape.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm excited for. That's going to be a fun,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: fun preview show. Fun show. Fun to cover. The Dodgers
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: and the Brewers. Because those are the two. Heavyweights of
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: the National League going at it. Where do we go
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: with the Padres now? I feel like this is just
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: another huge disappointment for them. That team looked like they
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: had their full mojo back, have the bullpen to go
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: the distance and just falling short. You know, those guys,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: I know Machado, how much he loves baseball, wants to win, right?
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: And that vibe in San Diego just seems so high.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: And it's got to be just another gut-wrenching. And, you know,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: it's a crash landing. whenever you lose. Yeah.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: And it never feels good.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: And, and Tatis is one of the, another one of
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: those that, you know, being on the West coast, he
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: still gets a lot of love, but he's one of
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: the best players in baseball when he's right. And the
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: start of their season, you know, didn't go to plan,
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: but they were, they were the best team in baseball,
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: I believe in the second half.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: So you got to go on the off season. That's
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: got to sting.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: I felt like, you know, for us in 2015, you know,
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: and getting hot at the back end or the second
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: half of our season, and then going all the way
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: and get swept by the Mets and the championship series
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: created this kind of fire in the off season of like, okay,
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: the belief is we're good enough.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: We know we're good.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: And that was our first time going deep in a
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: really long time for the Cubs. The Padres have been
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: to the post season pretty consistently lately and, and, you know,
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: getting knocked out by the Dodgers or whoever. So, but
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: you got to take a little bit of that disappointment.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: You saw the, the look on Manny Machado's face after
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: that home run, it was just like, you gotta, you
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: gotta be shitting me, you know, I can't believe that happened.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: And I think when we got beat by the Mets,
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: you go into that off season with a belief of like,
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: we are, we were good enough. We, the Mets just shoved,
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: but we're good enough to compete with the best of
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: the best. And the front office goes out and makes
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: the right moves, bringing in Jay Hayes, you start lacking,
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: you start bringing in the pieces that you feel like
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: you can have that you need. And, you know, we
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: win the world series, but that off season, a little
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: bit of that off season disappointment and that fuel of like,
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: we know we're good and I'm going to work because
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: we're playing deep into October again, the following year, I
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: think is, is healthy to be honest.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: No, I agree, but it's, it's been five years of this.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: It's very similar to the Yankees. It's like, oh, we
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: know we're good. We're going to come back and roll
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: out 90-plus wins again next year. But are we good enough?
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: What is missing on these teams? Because, again, this team, too,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: very similar to the Yankees. You look at them on paper.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: You look at them with your eyes. You're like, damn,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: this team's legit. How is anyone going to beat this team?
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Especially the way the Padres were playing going into October.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: They ran into a dominant, dominant Brewers pitching staff. And
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: credit to the Padres, man. They fought. There was no
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: laying down. Jackson Merrill, I know he had that amazing
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: rookie year, kind of a down year last year, and
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: then had a really good second half this year. So
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: hopefully he continues to become a star in our game
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: because he's a lot of fun to watch. So, yeah,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: there is a lot of optimism, but it's like.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Ethan Salas, the young catcher, like, love this kid.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: To be in that environment... at 20, like that, that's just,
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: that's a resume, you know, something to put on your resume.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: That's going to carry him and the expectations around there. That's,
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: that's really going to help them. So they got to
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: go out and get some starters. Right.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Like they, you know, it's crazy.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: It's almost like these teams are the Dodgers before they,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers won.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Every year, you know, you go back 15 years, the
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Dodgers won the division, what, for the last 15 years?
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Except one year. They make the playoffs. They get deep
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. They lose the playoffs. It was the
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: same story. It was the same saga for the Dodgers
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: for years. And then they won that championship in 2020,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: which was still like, ah, because they hadn't won a
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: real championship. That's what everyone was kind of saying, the narrative.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: And then now they're, on the verge of a three
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: P so it's just, it, I guess the moral is
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: it takes a, like, like until you get over that hump,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: you can't get over that hump. And how do you
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: get over that hump is by getting over the hump, right?
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: That probably sounds so dumb.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Gotta go do it. It's gotta go prove it. No,
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: you gotta go. You gotta go prove it.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: The other thing is what, just in the back of
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: my mind here, like all these teams that feel like
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: they've got some momentum going into next year and some,
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: some real pieces, like, We've got a labor issue that
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: could take everybody's momentum away, right?
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: We won't get into that.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Yes and no.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: We can't.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: What momentum is that taking away? As soon as that
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: labor issue is done, the boys are back. You know
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: what I mean? Just because the season may not start.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: I feel like more teams are in play with a
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: shortened season.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: If it's a long lockout, if there's a lockout, which
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: I think a lot of people think there's going to
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: be if it's long.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: That shortened season, everybody's in play.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: It's like Pittsburgh may have a good half, you know,
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: like you start to, you start to feel like there's
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: more teams in play when you.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Don't have to play one 62. In my opinion, that's
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: all I'm saying.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: A hundred percent. A hundred percent.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: I was saying, cause once you get back and you're playing,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: it's like, all right, here we go. Yeah. I remember
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: in 2020, I was literally, it's funny. It's so funny
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: how the big, this works 2020. It was like, Oh,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: I'm going to just try some stuff. I, I, messed
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: with a two strike at bat. Like I literally made
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: a bat like before these torpedoes were made. Marucci was basically,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: we were doing that. We were moving the barrel down
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: and I had literally a two strike at bat. It
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: was like a 33 inch, 33 and a half inch bat,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: but the barrel was closer to my hands because I
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: choke up. So instead of choking up, I would just
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: use that bat. I never used in the game because
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: I was too scared to switch in game. But I
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: was messing with stuff in 2020 because it was such
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: a fugazi season. And then, of course, you don't have
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: a good year and then your front office is like, oh,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: you got a down year. What was wrong with them?
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: I'm like, what the fuck do you mean what was
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: wrong with me? We played with zero people in the stands.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: I had to take a goddamn mouth swab test every
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: time I walked into the.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: I'm wearing a mask around my teammates at the dugout.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: What are we doing?
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: You know, I was the number one player to get fined.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I love you, bro. I was the number one player
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: to get fined for not wearing a mask in COVID.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, I know.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: I was your manager. Oh, I know. I know. That
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: was a weird season.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: But as my best job managing, this is the only
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: time we made the postseason when I.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Managed things to you guys.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: So I'm trying to figure out how to manage in
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: the middle of like talking to Theo.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: He's calling me.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: My phone rings at like 8 a.m. And I'm like, oh,
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: this is not good news. We got a false positive
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: or we've got a what was the.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: No, we didn't have anyone. We didn't have anyone test
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: positive on our team.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: No, no.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: And I was super. That was probably what I was
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: most proud of that season.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: And we had like Kimbrough who had like a little
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: one that had a ton of issues health wise and
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: I just remember that we had a couple of those
• 30:27
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• 30:31
  Speaker 3: go in and test, but I would wake up at
• 30:33
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• 30:37
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• 30:39
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• 30:40
  Speaker 2: So that was a mess. I'd meet with doctors every
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: day rather than players. It was nuts.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: I was meeting with Doc Adams literally like every other day.
• 30:47
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• 30:50
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  Speaker 1: Anyways, let's get back on topic, Russ. Dodgers, the Dodgers,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: the mighty fucking Dodgers beat the Braves 3-1 to advance
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: to NLCS. They just keep doing it, man. This is
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: the team to beat. This is the World Series favorite.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: This is the team that the Brewers are going to
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: have a hard time beating them, man. They are. They're just.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Their stars are stars, man. They're hitting their stride right now.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Otani hasn't done a thing yet. You know he's going
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: to get hot. Their pitching is deep. Their bullpen now,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Tanner Scott and Edwin Diaz, if those dudes get hot,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: which they have, it's on the back of their baseball
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: cards that they certainly have been hot throughout their careers.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: And it's just that whole lineup, one through nine. With
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: the GOAT in there.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah. With Babe Ruth playing sporadically.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Part-time player.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Part-time player, Babe Ruth. And Kike Hernandez. No, I like.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: First of all, like takeaways from that series, like Michael
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: Harris is he's he's arrived, right? Like I know, again,
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: another guy that has a great first season and had
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: a couple of down years, but had a phenomenal year
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: and then was the dude in the postseason. Tyler Malley
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: dealt yesterday. That splitty was filthy. Absolutely electric.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: The one that just, the dropped pop-up by Mauricio Dubon.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it hurts. That, that.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: And such a good player, too. Such a good player.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: He was that unsung hero that I talked about. But
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: you go, we talk about clean baseball. And the playoffs,
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: I mean, the theme this year, it hadn't been very
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: clean for a lot of these teams. That even the
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: ones that play great defense, like the moment is sped
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: up on some guys.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: And the atmosphere is.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: Being on the road, some guys that don't make mistakes did,
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: and he was one of them, and you can't give
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: the Dodgers extra opportunities. You know, like when you start
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: talking about the Dodgers and how clean you have to
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: play and the things you've got to do to beat them,
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: and one, their pitching is so good, and that lineup
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: is so deep. You know, the top of that lineup,
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: for me, and even in this game, didn't do much.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: It was the bottom of that lineup, and everybody's like, well,
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: the bottom lineup did well. Well, the bottom of that
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: lineup has Max Muncy in it. You know, Pajas is
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: hitting in the nine hole.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: You know, that bottom line up is a one through four.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: And every non-playoff team, that's a one through four lineup. Exactly.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: Andy Pajas had a, you know, he got kind of
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: benched last postseason for them. Well, he comes up with
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: the bases loaded double.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: That was a big moment for him.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: Like huge moment for him. when you got that kind
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: of a bat that he, you know, he had such
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: a good year this year and you got that kind
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: of a bat in the bot at the bottom of
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: the order.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: It's nuts. Like Kike Tucker, pa Hayes at the is seven, eight, nine.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: Like we got Babe Ruth, you know, Kyle Tucker's making
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: $ 60 million and Max Muncy's in the freaking six.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: So, so like, I mean, this thing's deep.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: Max Muncy is an absolute, like it, every time people
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: doubt him, it just, it's the same at bat.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: It's quality.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: There's thump in there. He takes his walks. He on
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: base is high. Like he, he, he just, I think
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: he just, it's that middle. I always think it's like
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: that six, six, seven. It's like that six, seven guy that,
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: that really leaked LinkedIn's a lineup. And they've got a
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: guy making 60 million hidden in the eight hole.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Like what the heck?
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: And they have, they have experienced Dave Roberts has experienced the,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: the whole, Their whole lineup. I don't know how I'm
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: saying this, but how am I rooting for the Dodgers
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: to three-peat? They ripped my fucking heart out in 2024.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: I could have ended my career as a World Series
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: champion like you instead of a World Series fucking loser.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: But it was like, you know what? This is why.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: My whole life, I'm a Dolphins fan, right? I had
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: to watch Tom Brady come in and just beat our
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: ass every year, year in and year out. Tom Brady this,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady that. And as a Dolphins fan, you hate
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: the Patriots. So I hated Tom Brady when I was younger.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Hated him. Like, if I saw him on the street,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: I'd fucking try to trip him. And then as I
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: got older, I come to respect him and admire him
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: and just love him because he just did it year
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: in and year out. And it's the great, it's the
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: greatness that I appreciate because it's so I may be
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: from firsthand experience. It's so hard to be great. You
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: can have a good first half. You can put together
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: a good season. Can you do it over 10 years?
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Can you do it over 15 years? Can you do
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: it over five, six, seven years? Because guys can do
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: it for, couple months they can show you the the
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: spark so that's that's kind of i feel like what's
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: happening with me with the dodgers is like they're just
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: keep doing it man like these guys you see that
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: you see that dugout it's the guys are playing like
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: they have never won a world series when you look
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: in that dugout which is impressive.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: Well what i think about to your point is.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: I think You know, we talk about the White Sox
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: and no expectations and being in the position they're at.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: Everybody's rooting for them.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: And just like, what a great underdog story and how
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: hard it is for them to get to the postseason. Bro,
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: when you are the Dodgers and you're a two-time defending
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: champion and you walk into spring training, like we talked
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: about earlier, and the expectation is World Series or bust,
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: that's way harder. That's way harder to produce and show up.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: And like 100 wins, regular season is just a warmup
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: for them. It's like, Oh, that's cute. We're about to
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: really get locked in and get everybody healthy and start
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: playing the post season. So I think that's the, one
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: of the hardest things to do in baseball is like
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: produce with expectations. You know, we dealt with that in 16,
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: like going in, we were the favorites and with the
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: run we went on and, and all the young guys
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: that were coming back. And, you know, that's why Joe
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: was talking about embracing the target and expectations are a
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: good thing.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: That means you're, you're good. And, but to go out
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: and do that is extremely hard.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: I just, I, I, they, you know, that's the hardest
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: thing to do in my opinion, uh, in sports is when,
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: when you're expected to win. Yeah.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: And they're doing it. You know what I mean? Like they, they,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: they're Joe used to say all the time, see things
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: for the first time. There's nothing better than when you
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: see something for the first time, you're just in awe, right?
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Oh my God, this is amazing. It looks like the
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Dodgers are doing that right now.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: When they're winning.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: Right. And my, my, Dave Roberts was a teammate and my,
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: my son's named after his son.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman was a teammate. I play for the Dodgers and.
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: I'm still rooting against him because it's like, I want
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: somebody else to see, I want somebody else to take
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: the crown. You know, I want one of these other
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: teams to get some, some of that love. And Mookie
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: Betts was a teammate. Like it's, it's, it's, it's hard.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: It's yeah.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: I know, I know you're respecting him, but, I just think.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: It's so hard to win, bro. It's so hard to
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: win in the fact that we haven't seen a back-to-back
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: champion in over 20 years. What was it, since the
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Yankees did it? it in whenever they did it. Yeah.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: I have a lot of beliefs because I feel like
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: social media, when teams win now, players get so famous
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: and they get pulled in 20 different directions that they
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: can't fully lock back in. And that World Series hangover
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: is real, whether you want to admit it or not.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: The fact that the Dodgers back in the nocs they're
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: gonna have a tough tough spot we'll talk about on
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: our preview show probably here tomorrow in the next couple
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: days but i'm like damn how am i rooting for
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: this team like yeah i actually hate that i'm rooting
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: for them now.
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: I thought their weakness was the bullpen the bullpens look
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: clean tanner scott edwin diaz in the back end it
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: both look really good so If they start to dial
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: it in and the top of that lineup gets going,
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: I don't know if anybody can stop them, but we
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: will have a great series with them and the Brewers.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: It'll be rocking, and the Brewers are going to need
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: that home field advantage they'll get in the series.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Tarek Skugel versus Jacob Mizorowski, game one. How's that for
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: some firepower? Let's get to the Guardians beating the White
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Sox 9-3. Rossi, yesterday, I'm here in Chicago. I'm doing
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: a camp on behalf of Bank of America. We got
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: together a bunch of kids playing sports. I was a
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: golf instructor, which I had no business being a golf
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: instructor because my golf game stinks. But every question I
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: got asked when I was doing the media is the
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: White Sox, the White Sox, the White Sox. You're going
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: to the game. Are you going to the game? Yes,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: I was at the game. The game was absolutely electric
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: early on. That place, you know, at right field, I
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: think it's called now. That place is built vertical. So
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: the stadium, everyone's on top of you. And to see
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: it packed out like that, I've only seen it packed
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: out like that versus when we were there at the
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Cubs or when we were there at the Yankees. I've
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: never seen that many White Sox fans in that stadium
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: ever in my life. And they showed out and it
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: was loud there. Those fans are excited for October baseball
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: there to see potentially their team clinch. The Guardians had
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: different plans, Rossi, but The question I was getting asked
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: most about was this team is so similar to that
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: 15 and 16 team, that 16 team. And I'm like,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: all right, pump the brakes here.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: Pump the brakes.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: First off.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Pump the brakes.
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: Hey, we're trying to be positive, White Sox, and we're
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: on the bandwagon. But pump the brakes.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: Pump the brakes. Where's your Jake Arrieta? Where's your John Lester?
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, John Lackey. Like, stop. Where's your MVPs, right?
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: Like. Yeah.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: So, but I said, look, this team has come together
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: and that our team in 16 came together as well.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: We were just the most talent. We were the most
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: talented team and the best team. And that rarely happens.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: And I think that's why we were so easy to
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: root for and healthy. We stayed healthy too.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: That, that helped us.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: So, but man, the, the, the team, Mike Vassell, bro,
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: like what an unsung hero, bro. He's just on Tommy John.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: I know we've talked about him before, but, Like, him,
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: before the game, he was pumping up the fans. Like,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: he was raising the roof. The place was so loud.
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: How loud was it when Kyle Teal got that first RBI?
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: They took the lead.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: I have some videos I'll send, and we'll throw out there. But,
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, Emily, my wife, who's been to a ton
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: of playoff games, she was like, holy shit, I don't
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: think I've ever seen a stadium this loud.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: And when you play, you think, like, you know what
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: loud is, but you're in it. So I always ask her,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: I'm like, how does this compare to others? She's like,
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: this is fucking crazy. That's how loud the White Sox
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: fans were. So shout out to them.
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: Well, that big, you know, let's walk through the game
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: real quick. And like, you know, Sean Newcomb started off
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: two clean innings. And then, you know, the next, the
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: bullpen stuff, somebody's going to have bad days. And it just,
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: every once in a while when you go with a
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: bullpen game, you know, these guys have been so good.
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: dominant and pitched so well and Will Venables mixed and
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: matched really well just wasn't there tonight from a pitching
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: standpoint five of the six guys after Newcomb gave up
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: runs so you know that didn't work and credit the
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: Guardian hitters Joe Adele huge bases loaded triple was absolutely
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: electric it looked like that place they need I thought
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: the Guardians needed a big knock to kind of break
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: that seal and give them some of that momentum not
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: just like one here and one there like that big
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: triple from Adele down the right field line was, was huge.
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: And then Jose Ramirez showed up like the great defensive play.
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: They traded for Joe Adele. He was a big, big piece.
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: And then Jose Ramirez game for me, two great plays
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: and the triple there to kind of seal it down
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: the line. Gritchick dies for the ball just out of
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: his reach. Three runs scored, I think two runs score.
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: He gets a triple like, Then you felt like he
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: was a little bit out of hand, and he kind
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: of punted to the next game. But I thought the
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: White Sox continued to fight. They got that lead from
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: the Adele triple, and then they had second, third, one out.
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: Teal hits an absolute missile to second. I think it
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: was who was on second.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: Double play, Vargas.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: Third baseman was on second. Vargas. Vargas, thank you. Got
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: doubled off. Yeah, and then.
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: Jose Ramirez bases loaded two outs and an absolute rocket
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: hit to Ramirez's left, and he dives, almost catches it,
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: drops it, and then throws out Vargas, who had a
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: missile bases loaded. So the White Sox fought. They didn't
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: not fight, and it felt like it just wasn't going
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: their way yesterday.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they had every opportunity. They had three major opportunities.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: There was one spot in the game, I believe, when
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: the Guardians were up 5-3. Leadoff, double. And I said
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: they should bunt. And I want to know your opinion
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: on this. Just get a little bit closer.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: I remember that.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: To score a run. Move the guy over and then
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: hopefully you get him in. Right? Just to put pressure
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: on him. And they didn't end up scoring that run,
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: that leadoff double. Which is just another lost opportunity, right?
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: I feel like when you can get one point in
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, even if you're down two, you get one,
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: momentum's back on your side. The other team's feeling the heat.
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: So, But you also like the, again, we know how
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: the socks are made up. They walk, but they also
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: strike out a lot.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: And when you get 19 strikeouts, like.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: 19 punches, that's what I was getting to like team identity.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: But I know part of that is like button a
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: guy over, you know, to maybe just put one in
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: play to get that run in because you know, all
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: the strikeouts, I mean, I guess you can look at
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: that other way to bomb over and you strike out
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: so much, maybe you don't get them in, but, Um,
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: I'm with you on that. They had 19 punches. You gotta,
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: you gotta give a lot of love to the, the Cleveland, uh,
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: pitching staff.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: They did. They did great.
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: And, uh, kept them at bay and we get more, uh,
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: post-season baseball. We get more to talk about. We got, uh,
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: just one primetime game tonight.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I, you know what I love to, um, first
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: off both managers love Will Venable. I know I keep
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: glazing over him, but got to see his wife, Catherine
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: at the game, Emily and Catherine are friends. She came
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: up to the suite and talked to us for a
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: few innings and just so happy for their family. And
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Stephen Vogt, you know what I mean? Did you see
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: his quote after the game? No, what did he say?
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: What's better, making 50,000 people stand up and cheer for
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: you or shutting 50,000 people up when you're on the road? Like,
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: what's a better feeling? That's nice. Good line. Because I
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: don't know if that feeling, like, I don't think people
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: sat down there for the first three to five innings
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: at the White Sox part. I was like, whoa. Maybe
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: I'm just having been removed from the game for too
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: long now. It's been only two years, but it was electric.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: If they can force a game five, Rossi, that's not good.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: White Sox have to take care of business. They have
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: to clinch at home. The general consensus from White Sox
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: fans is I need to be here to see this
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: team clinch. They haven't clinched a home playoff series since 1906. Okay?
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: You know, maybe the Guardians exhale that, but it's not
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: like the Guardians were this dominant team this year. You
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: know what I mean? They barely beat the White Sox
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: in the division. So this is a very evenly matched.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: They know each other very well. This game four should
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: be absolutely electric. Will's going to have his whole arsenal
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: of pitchers online. I don't know how these guys are
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: going to keep throwing back-to-back, right? The off days saved them,
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: but it's going to be interesting to see how this
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: game shapes up today. I'm primetime, too. Under the lights now.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: The White Sox are under the microscope. Under the lights.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: Your time is to shine right now. Time is to shine.
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: The lights are going to be bright. The lights are
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: going to be bright.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: Are they in real trouble here, Rossi, or what do
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: you got? Who wins this game for us?
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: Man, I think, like, We'll get my polymarket pick for
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: this one. Parker Messick on the bump for the Guardians.
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: The Guardians are 52% to the yes, probably because of
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: Parker Messick on the mound. $ 100 gets you back $ 186.
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: And the White Sox are 48% to the yes. $ 100
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: gets you $ 199. And I just don't see this thing
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: going back to Cleveland. I'm going to go with the
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: White Sox to win at home. Odds against them. And
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: we're all about making that money.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I, look, as much as I'm on this White
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: Sox bandwagon right now, I wouldn't even say the bandwagon.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: I just like the way they're playing. I think this
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: game early will be the– if they can come out
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: and score early, they win. If this game goes to
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: the fourth inning and there's no runs– the guardians went.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: I just think the guardians have been there. They've done this.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: They're tested. Um, and the pressure is immediately going to
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: go to the white socks to win and finish this
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: thing at home. It's not easy to win at home.
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: So, uh, I would like to see you get game
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: five for baseball. So I'm going to go with the
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: guardians in this one.
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: Well, if they, if they lose, I got to go
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: to Cleveland and face the AL strikeout leader at Gavin Williams. So, um,
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: they need to grab this thing in Chicago, uh, They
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: need to grab this primetime game.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: Rossi, let's get to our Tim Buss ball bag questions
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: of the day. It's where me and my partner answer
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: fan questions. Remember, please send the questions to rossandriza at
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: gmail.com or comment on our YouTube or social media channels.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: We love answering these questions. I feel like these questions
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: every day keep getting better and better. Chris Tran, shout
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: out to you for finding the good ones and making
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: these interesting. First email is from Michelle.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: Hi, Michelle.
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: My question is about the announcers for the wildcard games.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: You were great, Rizzo. Thank you. Thank you, Michelle. I
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: loved having the color guys from both teams in the booth.
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: I thought it added a lot. What do you guys
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: think of this format?
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: Man, I finished the wildcard series and listened to them all.
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: I was at ESPN watching every game. And we had
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: baseball tonight afterwards going through it. And we talked about
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: it in the room. It was such a great listen
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: to have one former players from teams, yourself, You know,
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: the color guy, JD, in the booth for the Cubs.
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: You know, Lou Maloney, who's with the Red Sox all
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: the time.
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: All the guys that somehow either cover their team or
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: played for the team were in the dugout. And I
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: just thought it was a great listen. You heard stories
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: about the winning times at that organization. They knew the
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: organization and the players a little bit better probably than
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: a guy like me who comes in, does a game,
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: and then I'm out the next day, right?
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: And you do your background. I watch baseball, obviously, and
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: we're on the.
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: Pod, but the people with the teams consistently or, you know,
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: if I was doing a Cubs game, I follow those
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: a lot harder than I do, let's say, a Seattle game.
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: And so I just know a little bit more. Those
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: guys that are with.
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: The team all the time or falling a little bit
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: harder as a former player, I thought it was a
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: great listen, and I love the format from NBC.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: I thought it was awesome. ABC, I feel like, has
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: just absolutely mailed this. Getting to work with them all
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: year with Jason Benetti and then whoever the color guys
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: were for each team was awesome, especially for me being
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: a rookie broadcaster. I got to go in every Sunday
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: and talk to the guys from their team and start
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: asking them questions. Hey, what about this guy?
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: What about this?
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: And they have all of the information. They have all
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: the inside scoop. So it was really cool. hearing John
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: Kruk say, Oh yeah, JT real Muto hit early a
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: few days ago. And he's really been working on that.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: And he hits a triple in the wildcard game.
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: Right. So just right after he says it, right after
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: he says it down the right field line, right? Like
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: it was just like only, only somebody who's been around
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: the team would see that and know that. And right
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: on cue, JT goes, gets tripled down the right field
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: line after him saying he was really working on hitting
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: the other way.
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: I thought that was gold.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: And, And too, I feel like as a team, like
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: as a fan, when you watch the playoffs, the general
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: consensus is I watch, you know, you fall in love
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: like with the broadcast, whether you like them or not.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: It's like you build this relationship with the broadcasters. Like
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: you feel like you know them because they're on every
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: single day for the most part. So when you get
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: to the playoffs, you're hearing completely new people. So with
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: this NBC format, I loved it because at least fans
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: got a glimpse, you know, of their, their home guy still.
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: So I thought, yeah. Great question, Michelle. Thank you.
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: Great question, Michelle. I'm, I'd probably debate you on if
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: Rizzo was great. I mean, I thought he was good,
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: but great. I mean, great.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: Hey, it's a work in progress. We're still working.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: Post these that call. Oh, thanks for the question, Michelle. Uh,
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: next email is from Jupiter. All Jupiter. I guess how
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: you say that.
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: Um, Hey guys, How cool would it be to have
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: a Brewers and Rays in the fall classic? It would
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: be a throwback and a clinic on how old school
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: baseball is played, good hitting without having to hit home runs,
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: base running and bunting, sack flies, stolen bases, putting the
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: ball in play and putting pressure on the defense from
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: the two teams that did it best.
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: How great would that be?
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: It'd be fucking terrible. It would be amazing and it
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: would be terrible. This is why it would be amazing.
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: It would be amazing because, yes, I love the old school,
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: bunt a guy over, get a guy over, the fundamentals, right?
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: I love that stuff. I really do. I think it's
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: a lost art in our game. Just trying to... Everyone
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: hitting for slug now, slug, slug, slug. That's what they
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: pay for, so you cannot blame guys for that. But
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: if the Rays and the Brewers are in the World Series...
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: Every single owner is going to say, why can't we
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: be them? And they're not going to want to spend
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: any more money because every owner already is saying, well,
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: why can't we just be like the Rays? They make
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: the playoffs every year. They go deep every year. Why
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: can't we be like the Brewers? They have a $ 100
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: million payroll. We have a $ 300 million payroll. We have
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: a $ 250 million payroll. So that's why I would hate it.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: But the product of baseball and seeing... two teams that
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: have never won a world series when it would put
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: a world, their first championship would be awesome.
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, the reason why it would be great
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: for me is that's my two picks and I would
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: love to be right.
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: First of all, I would love that.
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: Um, this whole, uh, this whole prediction thing is, is
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: new to us players. Cause we know you gotta, you
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: gotta play it out on the field. So it's hard.
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: Um, I think part of that is you're right.
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: I think you talk about saving baseball. It may not
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: say baseball, but it may save the players' union for
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: when it comes to... We have a real argument here
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: of it's not about a salary cap. It's about these
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: guys building the right team and playing the right brand
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: of baseball.
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: But I also....
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: I love the Homer, you know, I'm not, I love
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: watching somebody hit a three run Homer. Like if that
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: Volpe ball goes out yesterday and it's tied to two,
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: like that's an electric moment. I love electric moments. I
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: love a home run that changes the score more than
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: a base.
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: Hit up the middle.
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: Like that's just better watch. And it feels like the
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: guy steps up a little bit, but I'm with you.
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: I'm an old school guy. I came up in the
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: national league and most of my career was in the
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: national league. I love the button hit and run base running,
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: putting pressure. contact i fell in love with as a
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: as a manager when you have guys that put the
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: ball in play with an error where there's so many
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: strikeouts and i love that brand of baseball that both
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: those teams play so um i agree with you a
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: little bit but also um you know there's there's an
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: argument there.
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: Of why it could be a little bit boring.
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: In the small markets right like everybody loves the the
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: build up from the tv perspective and and the fan
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: perspective of these big markets and when you have your
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: your fan bases are just kind of worldwide rather than,
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: you know, I think the Rays are probably a little
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: less worldwide than the Yankees.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: You said that and it just got me thinking because
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: I said the owners would be pit, like the owners
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: want to copycat. What made me think of that is
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: if I'm an owner, right? Now I'm speaking on behalf
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: of the owners. Look at me. I'm just grilling my organization.
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, look, what are we doing wrong? Like, because,
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: you know, everyone quantifies their success in numbers, right? Everything's
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: numbers now. They present in numbers and, oh, this should happen. ABC, right? But, like,
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: facts are facts. The Rays are a pitching factory. They
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: just keep producing good pitching and they have a good
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: product of baseball on the field. The Brewers, same thing.
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: Good style of baseball. It seemed like for years, if
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: you were a struggling hitter and you went to the Dodgers,
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: they revamped you somehow, right? Like, you would You were struggling.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: You go to the Dodgers. Now you become an all-star.
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: So if I'm looking deep under the hood, if I'm
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: an owner, I'm like, I'm going right to my player
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: development system. I'm seeing why are we not developing these
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: guys the way other teams are. And I'm trying to
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: figure that piece of the puzzle out first. Great question
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: from Jupitero. This last one, Rossi's for you. Email from
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: Brad Barber. What did Rossi tell pitchers when he went
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: out for a mound visit as a catcher? As a catcher.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: I want to hear what you have to say, and
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: then I want to hear the John Lester story of
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: when you would go out with him sometimes.
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: A lot of the times, I think one of the
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: roles as a catcher is knowing your pitchers and what
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: they need, right? Some guys may need a mechanical cue.
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: that you may pick up in a bullpen in spring
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: training and something that you found. Or some guys might
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: need you to calm things down. Hey, let's look at
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: what we're trying to do. Let's get a double play,
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: sinker down and away.
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: Let's get two.
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: And some guys, you may have to jump their shit
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: every once in a while. You were like, you know, hey, look, motherfucker,
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: you know, get your shit together. Um, and each guy
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: was different. Like you, like John Lack, you would have
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: to go out and like, this guy's a raging bull
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: and it's like, okay, let me just get him refocused.
• 59:36
  Speaker 3: One time he couldn't throw you through like four boy
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: came out and like the fifth or sixth inning through,
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: he was dealing and through four straight balls. Next batter
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: comes up, ball one, ball two, and they're not even close.
• 59:50
  Speaker 3: And I'm like six straight balls. I'm like time. I
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: walk out there. I'm like, Hey man, just, uh, just
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: give me a little breather. He goes, I need these
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: motherfuckers to swing. I can't feel where it's going. One
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: of these motherfuckers would swing.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: I'll be fine.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: I was like, okay, I'm, I'm going to go back now.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: I was like, um, and, uh, I think everybody needs
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: a little bit different. There's one cool story that I,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: I haven't told. I don't think publicly we're in Boston
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: and we're about midway through the season.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: And, um, Will Middlebrooks is playing. Shout out, Will. Works
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: for the Red Sox now in the broadcast booth. Great guy.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: And there's a rocket hit down to his left, right?
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: And he kind of olays it a little bit. But,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, you'd have time to get in front of it.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: Goes down the line. There was one out at the time.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: And next guy gets on with a walk.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: So it's first and second, one out.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: Next guy, base hit up the middle, can't, doesn't score,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: so his base is loaded, and here comes Miguel Cabrera,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: best hitter in.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: The league at the time for Detroit. We're playing Detroit.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: And I walk out, and I'm like, hey, just giving
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: you a breather here.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: Who's pitching?
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: Let's refocus. We're ground ball away. What'd you say?
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: Who's pitching?
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: Lester. Lester's pitching. Sorry.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: Sorry. Miguel Cabrera owns.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: owns john leicester owns john leicester yeah so i walk
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 3: out to leicester and i'm like hey bro like just
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: give me a breather he goes fucking middle brooks he
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: can't gotta get in front of that ball i was
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: like middle brooks i was like that was a fucking
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: rocket bro you better refocus we got the best here
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: on the planet coming up and we're up to i
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: think we were up two runs at the time and
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: it was late in the start and he just was
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: focused on the wrong thing but i i he he
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: hates when i tell his story He throws a cutter
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: to Miguel Cabrera and gets him to hit into a 6-4-3,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: and we get out of the inning. But it was just–
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: they get– their minds go in different places on the mound,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: and sometimes you got to just walk out and, like,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 3: try to talk some sense into them or refocus them.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: Or some guys you got to, like, you know, calm
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: down a little bit. It's a wild card out there.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's needed, though. Right?
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: It's definitely needed to go calm the pitchers down and.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: Slow down a little bit. Well, you've been there. You've
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: been there.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 3: And you, like, your veteran leadership, I know with New York,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: you were saying sometimes you'd go and just talk to
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: the young guys out there. The mound meetings, especially when
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: it's players only, are usually really valuable in getting everybody
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 3: on the same page. I remember things were going crazy
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: early on. We had a night game in Pittsburgh, and
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 3: we're late in the game. I think we're up three runs.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: Pittsburgh's coming back. They were good.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: It was 0-5. I mean, 15. my first year there.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: And it was like Addy and, and Javi and all
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: you guys came in, they were coming back on us
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: and you just scored a run. And that place got
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: super loud. And I think we're up to, and I
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: remember walking out there and just going, Hey, all we got,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: let's just get outs, just get out. You know, I
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: felt the first time as a veteran, like all these guys,
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: things are moving fast. I'm like, we're fine. Like they're
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 3: not winning this game. Let's just one out at a time.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: Don't try to, Don't try to be a hero. Don't
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: try to be jazz trying to spin and throw that,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 3: try to turn that double play when you don't have it.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Like, you know, you don't
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: have that.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: What a shot right there.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: A little stray.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: Sorry.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 3: Sorry, guys.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: A little stray. A little stray out the door. But
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: I just, that was the first moment that came to
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: my mind. That's great.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 3: When guys speed up and they try to, they try to,
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 3: we try to create out or do more.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: It usually is, is not a good result.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. Well, great questions. Those, those, those daily
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: mailbags are the best. Rossi, another episode in the books.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: Thank you, everyone, for watching and listening. Please, please, please
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: send your questions in, your YouTube comments, rossinrizzo at gmail.com.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: Tonight will be game four of the American League Division Series,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: Guardians at the White Sox. We'll be live with you
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: tomorrow on our reaction, and then we will be previewing
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: the championship series. From eight teams to four teams. Thanks, everyone,
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: for listening. Enjoy playoff baseball. This is when our sport
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: is at our brightest.