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World Series Preview · The 3-0 Take

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  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take, where we talk
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  all. Things Major League Baseball.
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  Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes it.
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  All starts. Right now.
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  Welcome back to the Three O take presented by Sea Kick.
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  This is episode 479. I'll be your host Kyle Corden.
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  I'm here with my Co host Nate Reyes.
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  Nate. The World Series preview this
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  season has gone by so fast. It's I'm like, it's so
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  bittersweet. I think part of me is very
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  distracted that like it's, it's not quite hitting me that the
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  season has come to an end because my team's still in it.
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  And I, I, I'm going to be sad in a few weeks.
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  I'm going to be very sad. Yeah, you're in a very unique
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  situation. Like you said, your, your team's
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  obviously in this thing. But for us, us fans who don't
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  have a dog in the fight necessarily, like today, for
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  example, I'm getting I'm getting notifications on like possible
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  trade offseason trade moves that could go down like I don't want.
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  I don't, I don't have a dog in the fight, but I don't want to
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  hear this right now. Yeah, we're not ready for that.
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  Yeah, See, they're still baseball on.
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  In fact, we're we're gearing up for quite possibly one of the
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  better World Series we've seen in recent memory.
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  Let's can we just please just just like one more week hold off
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  before we dive head first into the the offseason stuff.
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  That's all I ask. Unreal.
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  How you feeling man? Just just lay it out there.
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  This week's going by very slow. It's going by very slow.
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  Has it sunk in yet? Has it sunk in?
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  I no, to be honest, no it hasn't.
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  It hasn't. I'm one of those guys
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  specifically with like merch. I'm not really interested in
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  getting any World Series gear until after just because like I,
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  I, I don't know, it could be a bad memory one like I do have a
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  the one thing I ever did it and I don't know why I did it, but I
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  got a hoodie outside of Yankee Stadium in 2017 and it was like
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  unite in the Bronx or whatever and it says 2017 on it.
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  And I'm like that. Like I I hate wearing that.
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  I don't know why I have, you know what I mean?
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  So like if this ends in a in in a poor way for me, like I'm not
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  going to want any of that merch. So it's not like I've been
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  shopping for merch. Everyone's asking me like, you
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  know what my plans are. I'm going back and forth.
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  One of my buddies, shout out Colin, Colin, if you're
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  listening, sorry, buddy, but he texts me.
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  He's like, we should watch the game somewhere Friday.
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  And I'm like, I don't know if I can be in public at all for
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  these games. Like I think I think I might
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  need to stay at home. Is that OK?
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  Is that a normal thing? Am I crazy for feeling or
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  thinking? That's how I am.
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  No, and I'd be curious if if our listeners kind of agree here.
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  I'm the type of person the bigger the game, the more more
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  private it needs to be, the more private the viewing needs to be.
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  2018 I watched that World Series in my apartment with nothing but
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  a Red Robin burger there. Just me and me, myself and I.
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  The take out play is big too. The.
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  Take out just sitting there watching the the World Series.
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  Nobody around. Yeah, yeah.
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  So I can't. I can't have.
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  To tell Colin no, I'm going to have to tell him no, I don't
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  want him to come here. No, I don't want him.
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  Yeah. I think he already knows.
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  I want to settle in. What do I eat?
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  I'm I all of this is like it's just being mapped out.
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  It's being planned. What jersey am I going to wear?
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  You know, like there's so far I've been wearing the judge
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  jersey. Do I start mixing in, you know,
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  other jerseys? Do I get a little Jeter Magic in
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  there? Do I get some Mickey in there?
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  I don't know, There's a lot going on in my head.
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  I'm so it's the nerves are starting to set in.
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  I'm going to be unwell on Friday.
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  I'm going to be miserable at work.
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  It's. Sweaty, you're going to be
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  sweating profusely. You're going to need you're,
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  you're probably going to be Downing a, a, a container of
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  Pepto Bismol. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  We should look into maybe getting like a Tums sponsorship
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  slash partnership thing going on.
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  Tums is it's like a key ingredient in my household.
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  It's like, I don't know what container is larger, the Tums
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  container or the garlic salt container.
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  You know what I mean? Like they're both very big,
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  taking up very important places and cabinets.
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  Well, anyway, I'm good, I'm good.
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  I'm just nervous. So I guess there's no real real
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  chance that, you know, if this thing maybe goes like a game
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  seven that we do like a Game 7 live stream You you don't think
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  there's. Yeah, it'll have to be like the
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  the not suitable for like the NSFW.
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  I mean, that could play, that could play, you know, I'll, I'll
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  allow it if I mean, if you're willing to.
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  I just didn't even bother asking because I didn't know if that
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  was a possibility. But if you're willing, we could
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  commit right now. If I say go 7, we go.
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  We do live stream. It would have to be not a two
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  way. I wouldn't want to communicate
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  with anybody. You can just set up a camera and
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  I'm not looking or talking to anyone that would.
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  Be great, actually. You could narrate me, yeah.
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  Just mute the thing and I'll just sit.
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  Yeah. Heck, we, I could even let some
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  people on the stream if they wanted to.
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  Wow, we could have fun with it. Yeah, but Nate, let's, let's let
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  let's not beat around the Bush any longer here.
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  Let's get into it. OK.
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  Dodgers, Yankees coming to you this Friday, the first time in
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  43 years since 1980. 1. Do you know what?
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  This is the 12th time these two teams have met in the World
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  Series. You know what the you know who
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  holds the the the series lead in that situation.
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  I don't actually. I'd probably 81.
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  No, just Dodgers. No, I'm saying like they've met
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  12 times, they've met 12 times. So who?
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  Because I'm thinking of like when the Dodgers went out to LA
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  and when are we counting Brooklyn?
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  Or is it just the LA Dodgers? That's another fair question.
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  These are parts of the. I didn't confirm.
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  Yeah, it's just part of the equation.
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  I'm going to. Give the edge to the Dodgers.
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  In the 11 World Series that these two teams have met, the
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  Yankees are actually 8:00 and 3:00.
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  Really. So it bodes well for you and
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  your and and your Yankees. I don't know if any of that
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  matters, but I'll take it. I will take it.
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  Well, talk to me. I'm obviously those previous 11
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  World Series have no impact on on this matchup whatsoever.
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  But given what we know going into this series and we just
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  kind of alluded to it, do you feel like we're going going the
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  distance with this given, given what's, I don't want to say
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  what's at stake, but the the, the star power that's that's at
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  the table here for this series. Yeah, I think so.
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  I think so. Like I no offense against the
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  Mets, but like I, I do think the Yankees are a better team than
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  the Mets. I think they have better
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  pitching and you know, for the Mets to get 6 out of it, I feel
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  like we're going at least 6. So I, I think it's going to be a
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  long one. I think it's going to be good.
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  I think it's going to be entertaining.
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  I think it's, it's going to be fun.
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  I mean, I'm in a world where I'm much like, I can't really
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  imagine it being so, you know, disappointing or, or let down in
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  any way. Like this is such a cool thing
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  for baseball, for sports, for phantom across the world.
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  Like I think I did see I saw a notification today that the CSS
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  were the most watched since 2017.
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  I do I do think I think this is going to break records and I
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  think it's going to have like the the casual fan hooked as
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  well. I think it's not just, you know,
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  these two small, you know, teams and no offence to get against
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  like recent memory, we have to go back to like Rangers D backs
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  and you're just like, those are just, you know, specific, you
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  know, people that don't follow baseball know who Shohei Otani
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  is. People who don't follow baseball
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  know who Aaron Judge is. You know, like these are names
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  that just kind of exceed our realm a little bit.
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  And I think that itself is going to bring in some eyes.
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  So I'm stoked, man. I'm I, I like fandom aside,
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  Yankee fandom aside, I think I feel like baseball's just so
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  back. It's so, so back.
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  I'm here for it. And this is like the, I'm not
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  going to say like the first step in the right direction because I
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  think there's been a lot of things, you know, as much as we
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  complained, I think the pitch clock probably did more good
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  than bad. I think it did a lot for
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  speeding up the game because it did attract some people that
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  maybe weren't watching because of that.
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  And we're watching anyway. So I think a lot of those steps
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  have led to the right direction. We've got an offense without
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  changing the game too much. I think we're it's a slippery
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  slope. And that's our argument over the
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  last few years with these rule changes is like when, when does
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  it end? Where does it end?
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  But so far, like, those have been positive steps for new
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  viewers, for people watching. And like, if people are watching
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  baseball for the first time and sitting down, they're getting to
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  see Yankees, Dodgers, getting to see see Shohei and Judge and two
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  MVPS clash. Like I feel like that could
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  ignite something to continue to watch our game.
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  I'm glad you brought that up. I do have a note here.
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  This will be the first time in World Series history that both
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  teams will feature a player who is at 50 or more home runs that
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  season. That's pretty wild.
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  In total, yeah, part of me is like that's that's kind of hard
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  to believe. But I mean, I guess not even in
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  the not even in the steroid era where we where we getting this
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  done. There will be five former
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  position player MVPS in this series, Shohei Otani, Mookie
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  Betts, Freddie Freeman, Jean Carlo Stanton, Aaron Judge.
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  And then also you have game one starter Garrett Cole as the
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  reigning Cy Young winner. Yeah, I mean, we jokes aside and
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  dare I say bit aside and we talked about it last episode,
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  the magnitude and and I don't want to beat a dead horse here,
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  but the magnitude of this World Series I I think has potential
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  to really really, for lack of a better way of saying it, take
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  the take the sport to a new level, to a new height that I
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  just don't think you're getting with other matchups.
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  Sure, you may get a fraction of it or or or a percentage point
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  higher in terms of where the game is at the state of the
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  game, but it to to have these two teams meeting.
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  It's just, and what I was saying earlier, like jokes aside, like
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  with with Major League Baseball, just foaming at the mouth for
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  this. I for obvious reasons, though,
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  you can't fault them. You can't fault them.
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  You can't blame them for wanting this and and not just wanting
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  this at the start of the postseason.
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  They've been wanting this for years, just Dodgers, Yankees in
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  general. But now you've got Shohei coming
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  across town to play for the Dodgers.
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  You've got Aaron and and having one of the most insane seasons
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  we've ever seen. And then you've got Aaron Judge
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  on the other side also having one of the most insane seasons
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  we've ever seen. And need we remind you that was
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  with the slow start that he had. So there's just so much at play
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  here that I think really just adds juice to to the narrative,
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  to the. There's a lot of storylines.
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  There's a lot of storylines like the Verdugo Mookie connection,
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  you know, Judge being from California, Stanton being from
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  California, like you're getting a lot of play here in in a lot
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  of different ways. That's oh, dude, there any way
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  you put it, Every every thing I've listened to, everything
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  I've read, everything I've watched, it's just been like
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  this. It can't disappoint, man.
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  It can't. Well, let's talk about.
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  I love you, but I hate you for like 2 weeks, potentially
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  longer. Sorry, I'm not that sorry, but
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  you got to understand. It's understandable, resident
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  Dodgers fans. Murray in the chat, let's talk
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  about let let's let's do a little bit of a breakdown here
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  of of each team, maybe look at some reasons why a a given team
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  may win, why they may not win. And we'll start with your
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  Yankees, we'll start with your Yankees.
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  And we'll specifically start with a guy that I've been, I've
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  been ribbing you about for the last couple weeks.
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  And for good reason. Like again, bit aside, I there,
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  there's been some validity to what I've been saying with the
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  whole, you know, Captain Phillips meme.
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  Stanton kicking in the door. OK, I'm the captain now.
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  Stanton has proven why he has, at least for the meantime, at
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  least in the meantime, taken that throne.
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  But let's talk Aaron Judge specifically, though, because
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  I've seen a lot of commentary on this.
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  I think there's a lot of people, maybe maybe not a lot of people,
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  but I, I've seen a fair number of, of people saying that Judge,
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  which it I have a hard time making sense of this because of
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  who he is and the stature that he has.
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  But they're saying that he could be The X Factor for the Yankees
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  when when in all reality, he's like one of the top three
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  players in baseball. Yeah, it's kind of a cop out X
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  Factor choice. Sure.
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  But I, I, it speaks to it speaks to his, his performance this
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  year. I mean, he's 5 for 31 and he has
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  13 strikeouts to his name. So I mean, what do we think
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  here? Like do we think that this is
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  this is an opportunity for him to or, or I should say that the
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  time that the team has had off, do you think this has served as
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  a time for him to hit the reset button or and be honest, like
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  try to set your bias aside. Do you think the post season
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  struggle bust narrative continues for Judge?
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  It felt like it felt like the at bats were looking better at
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  certain times. And I think that there's I would
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  count maybe 3 or 4 balls that could have changed the
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  narrative, you know, hard hit balls.
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  I think he had like, you know, you go back to like the royal
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  series where I think that was the biggest struggle.
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  I think he had like four or five balls that were hard hit, which
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  we're over 95 miles an hour, you know what I mean?
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  And and there's certain, you know, just baseball things that
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  could change that. And and if it, you know, goes
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  his way, we're not really talking this way as much.
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  The strikeouts have been like almost like the the holes that
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  judge used to have that you hadn't really seen all year.
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  You'd have to go back to that first month of of the season
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  where you were like, OK, so we're flying open on change UPS
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  down in and we can't reach sliders down out fastball up in
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  is struggling to get on top of like those are the three spots
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  where seemed like he could still figure it out throughout the
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  year. But this post season, it just it
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  tells me that he's trying to lift and he's and he's trying to
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  pull and I'm hoping that this time is allowed him to kind of
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  reset a little bit, talk to his goofy hitting coach and get back
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  in line. It's just it's so hard to tell,
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  man, that I do love aspects of the break, but I again, like
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  these guys don't get this much time off in between games.
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  So I'm curious to see if Stanton stays hot.
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  I'm curious to see if a judge gets worse because of this
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  break, like do you know what I mean?
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  Or if the entire Dodgers offense cools down because of this
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  break. So I don't know.
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  I did have a a note on him that, you know, I looked at like what
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  on base percentage looked like when they were behind Still a
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  500 on base percentage so far through this postseason when the
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  Yankees are behind, it does dip down to 381 when the team is
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  ahead. So it's interesting that like, I
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  don't know, maybe he's a little surprised on how teams are
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  attacking him and continuing to attack him and like not really
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  fearing him the same way he's used to over the season.
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  It's it's kind of odd. It's kind of odd.
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  I I think all baseball fans hope for him to just go off and him
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  and Otani to just have. Incredible series because that's
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  really what this is about. This is the main storyline.
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  You know, I want our best hitter to do his best.
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  I want their best hitter to do their best and, you know, kind
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  of come down from that. So I'm hoping, I'm really
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  hoping, man. Well, looking at the rest of
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  that line up, and I mean, it's something that you hear all
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  postseason, seemingly every postseason is the importance of
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  out homering your opponent. This post season, teams are 21
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  and seven when they're able to do that last year, which is a
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  winning percentage of a 750 for those keeping track at home.
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  Last year was 862. Teams were 25 and four when they
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  out homered their opponents. So with that said, look at and,
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  and touching on the rest of the lineup, as you were talking
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  about do are are, how are you confident in the rest of that
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  lineup being able to carry the weight in that way?
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  Because Stanton, who had four, Soto had three, Judge, the
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  aforementioned Judge had two. They hit nine of the team's home
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  runs, nine of the 10 home runs in the ALCS.
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  Judge aside, are you confident in those other in those other
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  guys to to be able to continue to carry that weight?
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  That's I think that's obviously where the Dodgers have the edge.
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  Like, you know, they're one through 9.
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  You're watching guys that don't hit home runs hitting them.
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  You're watching a Will Smith hit eighth.
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  You know what I mean? Like that there's definitely pop
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  throughout. The Yankees are playing very
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  differently. They're walking a ton, and I
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  love that some of those guys are walking, but like, certain guys
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  have to show up. Like Jazz needs to do something
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  in this in this World Series. No pop from him. 147 with 11 KS.
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  I I don't expect much from from Glaber in the role as a lead off
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  guy. It seems like it's really
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  changed his approach and I prefer this approach over him
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  trying to lift anything from, you know, a Volpe or Ferdugo is
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  is basically a bonus. The big story I think is just
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  how rough Austin Wells has been. You know, he's struggled hitting
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  forth. He struggled following up judge.
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  That's a lot of why standing on top of being super hot has moved
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  into the four hole. Like there's there's a few more
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  names that need to pop off. I did pull up a couple matchups.
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  I one that surprised me was Rizzo against Flaherty.
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  Anthony Rizzo's nine for 21 with three home runs for a 571 on
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  base percentage against Flaherty.
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  So. That's your game one starter
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  right there. There's, you know, some names
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  that I think could potentially show up and provide some stuff.
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  But yeah, it can't just be those three.
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  As incredible as they are, it's obvious that all three haven't
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  been clicking together yet. Maybe they will, but the rest of
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  the line up, you know, certain pieces need to show up.
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  If you can get five of the 9 doing their thing, you'd be
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  pretty happy because you got to expect at least four or five of
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  the Dodgers being on top of their stuff throughout the game
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  to. Do the same, Yeah.
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  I mean, you mentioned Volpe, he's, he's got a, a 459 OBP this
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  post season. So do we already talked about
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  his OPS is over 1100. I mean, it's yeah, I, I, I, I'm,
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  I'm confident that the guys who have been hot will can will
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  continue to stay that way. But to your point, it's, it's
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  some of these other guys and it's, it's sort of goes without
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  saying, but you, you are going to need guys elsewhere in the
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  lineup to, to, to help set the tone or to, to get on base later
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  in the game. Set up some some crucial ABS for
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  some of these these big bigger boppers and, and just hope that
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  you're pitching can, can handle the task.
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  Because like you, you can't tout yourself as as the Bronx Bombers
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  and, and bring this offense in from the ALCS and then just fall
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  flat on your face. And then and just hope to lay it
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  all at the feet of your your staff.
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  That's just you're just not going to be able to get it done.
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  Yeah. And again, like I do think this
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  is a really, really proven staff to this point.
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  I think they've done really well.
• 25:13
  They're taxed. They're definitely taxed.
• 25:16
  You're penned. You're you're high average guys.
• 25:19
  Taxed, it's five days off. Like I'm expecting a fully
• 25:23
  healthy pen from both sides. I think it does come down to
• 25:31
  the, you know, let's move past the one starter and like, let's
• 25:36
  start looking at, OK, well, are you going to get length out of
• 25:40
  Yamamoto? How much of A leash do you give
• 25:45
  Bueller? One good start, nothing else
• 25:50
  really looked to be, you know, super dominant is Rodon, You
• 25:58
  know, more than more than just the hype man through 3/4 innings
• 26:05
  and then just kind of imploding and and you know, he's he has
• 26:09
  given up a few home runs that he has struggled.
• 26:14
  Rodon and Cole are going to be two guys that at Cole, Cole more
• 26:19
  so, but Rodan, those two are going to have to really ensure
• 26:24
  that they give you as much length as they can.
• 26:27
  And again, that sort of goes without saying, but with this
• 26:30
  tax and and I know that both teams have have rest coming into
• 26:34
  this, but it's it's relative. Yeah.
• 26:36
  I mean, you just look at the usage of these later inning guys
• 26:40
  from on the side of the Yankees. Clay got a note here.
• 26:44
  Clay Holmes and Luke Weaver have appeared in eight of the 9
• 26:47
  postseason games. Yeah.
• 26:49
  So given that Weaver specifically has thrown assault
• 26:54
  10 and a third, which is the most of any reliever this
• 26:57
  postseason. See that's that's the biggest.
• 27:00
  Thing for me that's worrisome. That's the biggest thing for me
• 27:03
  is the number 9. A few episodes ago I got pissed
• 27:07
  because it's how often Boone is using Weaver for multiple inning
• 27:13
  saves. And it's like I that's not going
• 27:17
  to last throughout A7 game set. It's it's good for OK, maybe
• 27:20
  once or twice, but you can't continue to do that.
• 27:24
  So it is going to be interesting to see, you know, does Luis
• 27:28
  he'll get a start? Do you use him as middle relief?
• 27:33
  They talked about Nestor coming back.
• 27:35
  Who knows what you get out of him.
• 27:38
  You got to hope for some left on left, you know Good match up
• 27:40
  stuff there, but you're not getting a ton of length.
• 27:44
  How do you feel about that quote, by the way?
• 27:45
  I don't know if you saw it, but here asking about coming back
• 27:48
  and it was something to the effect of, you know, if, and I'm
• 27:54
  paraphrasing, but it was like, if I go into the offseason with
• 27:57
  a ring, but I have to miss a year, baseball like, so be it.
• 28:01
  I like it man. No, I mean, I love that
• 28:03
  mentality, but I'm like, I don't know, meant like when I hear
• 28:08
  that I'm going, OK, if you're already banking on this being
• 28:11
  that severe of a of a situation. Like how much quality are?
• 28:14
  You. What are you really bringing to
• 28:15
  the table? Here, Yeah, I get that.
• 28:18
  I definitely get that. There's just more Bulldog, you
• 28:23
  know what I mean? Like there's there's certain
• 28:25
  guys that just I think hype this clubhouse up, then hype up in a
• 28:32
  positive way just for showing up and showing out.
• 28:35
  And he seems like one of those guys.
• 28:36
  And it's like it's like a real gutsy kind of thing.
• 28:42
  But I don't know, I it's not something I'm like fully banking
• 28:45
  on. I think it's obviously that like
• 28:49
  it's obvious that Cole Rodon need to be on their game.
• 28:52
  Can you get a decent start out of Clark Schmidt?
• 28:57
  Can Louise heal, eat innings in the middle of games to like get
• 29:03
  get those tough situations out of Kane Lee and Clay and Weaver?
• 29:09
  Because like you can see what this Dodgers lineup can do if
• 29:13
  they're getting multiple views on those guys.
• 29:16
  And there's been some chinks in the armor with Weaver.
• 29:21
  There's been chinks in the armor obviously with Clay, Tommy Kane,
• 29:25
  Lee is a weird anomaly. I don't he does walk guys, but
• 29:30
  like, I don't understand how we all know that that change UPS
• 29:35
  coming and it's still, you know, guys aren't laying off of it.
• 29:40
  So lefties are going to be huge in this, you know, Tim Hilton,
• 29:45
  Mesa, Nestor again, like those are big at bats.
• 29:50
  Those are going to be big moments and curious to see just
• 29:54
  how things line up. So it's a tax bullpen for sure.
• 30:02
  But the time off I think is going to help.
• 30:04
  And I think it does come down. I think this series will come
• 30:07
  down to who's going to get that like bonus start, Who's going to
• 30:12
  get that one middle of the series start that like almost
• 30:17
  rejuvenates the bullpen, gives them rest.
• 30:21
  I think that's the deciding factor here.
• 30:27
  I would agree that's a that's a valid point and a valid focus
• 30:32
  that I think these two teams need to have coming into this.
• 30:34
  Like who can like who are you going to be able to trot out
• 30:37
  there that's going to be able to give you that that?
• 30:40
  Yeah. Surprise bonus performance that
• 30:43
  you weren't expecting Saul. Bueller and the NLCS, right?
• 30:46
  Like, you know, you, you could see that type of performance,
• 30:50
  you know, from a Clark Schmidt, from a Walker Bueller.
• 30:54
  You know, those guys like when it comes down to it, just kind
• 30:59
  of a flip of the coin. They're going to do it in
• 31:02
  different ways. The Dodgers are going to do it
• 31:04
  in different ways. And as as much as I thought like
• 31:10
  Boone was quick to get to the pen, Dave Roberts blows him out
• 31:13
  of the water in that area. That man will go to the pen
• 31:16
  whenever he needs to, but for good reason.
• 31:20
  Well, let's talk about the Dodgers here.
• 31:22
  Let's switch gears, let's flip that coin and let's talk about
• 31:28
  maybe some of the strengths and weaknesses or maybe who knows
• 31:32
  lack thereof that the Dodgers are bringing into this World
• 31:35
  Series. Because goes without saying that
• 31:38
  I mean, the offense we knew we knew about, but the question
• 31:44
  mark that we all had coming into this postseason was the staff
• 31:49
  for the Dodgers. But since have erased any and
• 31:54
  all questions about, or at least major concerns about any
• 32:01
  problems they may bring on that side of the ball.
• 32:04
  So let me ask you this. What do you think?
• 32:13
  Given that it seems as though both of those are are serving as
• 32:18
  strengths for the Dodgers. Which one?
• 32:20
  Which side of the ball is going to have to be better going up
• 32:25
  against the Yankees given the strengths and weaknesses that
• 32:29
  they have right now? Starting staff, I think this, I
• 32:32
  think the Dodgers starting staff needs to get some length because
• 32:39
  like we've talked about, like the Yankees have done a really
• 32:41
  good job with getting walks, getting on base, getting to the
• 32:45
  pen. As good as the Dodgers bullpen
• 32:51
  has been, you, you need some rest there.
• 32:56
  You need, you need some bonus time from that starting staff.
• 33:03
  I I would say that that the offensive side it just we're,
• 33:08
  I'm not, it's not like we're any of us are surprised of what this
• 33:11
  offense is doing. You know, like, I feel like that
• 33:17
  run support is going to be there.
• 33:19
  And I think that's why it's taking some pressure off of the
• 33:22
  starting staff. But at the same time, again,
• 33:28
  this Dodgers offense is going to be seeing better pitching than
• 33:31
  they saw in the NLCS in my mind. So is there some neutralizing
• 33:36
  that's going to happen there? If so, you need better starting
• 33:39
  pitching. That's, that's a tough, that's
• 33:43
  a, that's a tall ask for this for these starters coming out of
• 33:48
  LA Flaherty, Yamamoto, Bueller have combined to make eight
• 33:54
  playoff starts and four of those have lasted fewer than 5
• 33:59
  innings. So I think that speaks to both
• 34:03
  the fact that they just haven't been as effective and what
• 34:08
  you're saying earlier about Dave Roberts being quick to to pull
• 34:12
  the trigger. It just hasn't made for a great
• 34:15
  recipe in terms of pen usage and pen rest.
• 34:20
  And I, I don't know, like, I think if you can get to to what
• 34:26
  the Dodgers are trotting their trotting out there as their
• 34:29
  their top options for or really their only options for starting
• 34:33
  pitching, then OK, let's try for for the Yankees.
• 34:37
  Let's try to pick apart these relievers who to they're in, to
• 34:40
  their own credit, have been, have been pretty effective.
• 34:43
  I mean, they're the relief, the relief corps for the Dodgers 5
• 34:51
  and O3 saves and A316 ERA this month.
• 34:55
  So yeah, that's it. It's going to there's going to
• 35:02
  be a lot of weight that falls on the shoulders of these these
• 35:05
  starts for LA for sure. But if this offense continues to
• 35:09
  do what they do, I don't know how much it matters, man.
• 35:12
  I was pulling some numbers together of like what each team
• 35:16
  does in scoring when runners are in scoring position.
• 35:20
  And that's one of the biggest Achilles heels with the Yankees
• 35:24
  is not getting that big hit, not getting that clutch hit.
• 35:27
  Yes, we've seen home runs that are late in games to kind of
• 35:30
  swing the momentum back their way.
• 35:34
  But the Dodgers are nuts so far in this postseason.
• 35:38
  They're hitting 311 with runners in scoring position, 33 for 106.
• 35:49
  Yangster 180, 13 for 72. Well, maybe not necessarily with
• 35:59
  runners in scoring position, but with runners on.
• 36:02
  I think, I mean, we'd we'd be or miss if we didn't mention what
• 36:05
  show has been doing. 7 for 11, Yeah, with five walks, I
• 36:11
  believe. Yeah.
• 36:14
  This post season. Yeah, yeah.
• 36:18
  I mean. What's cool, I think what's cool
• 36:20
  about this and you know, like to be fair, like the more in early
• 36:30
  games we've seen during the regular season helps these
• 36:32
  numbers. But like what's so great about
• 36:34
  the World Series is that like it's so unpredictable because
• 36:37
  they haven't seen each other a lot.
• 36:39
  Like there's almost nothing to pull up matchup wise for for
• 36:42
  judge. There's almost nothing against
• 36:45
  Dodger pitchers, but some notable ones like I I wrote down
• 36:52
  like surprise things that you would see Soto struggles
• 36:56
  against. Flaherty one for 9, three punch
• 36:59
  outs. Those are those are two big egos
• 37:03
  going up against one another. So I could, I could see how
• 37:06
  maybe there'd be a little bit of a little bit of struggle there.
• 37:09
  Freddie Freeman seven punch outs and 20 ABS against against
• 37:13
  Garrett Cole, Mookie. Against Rodon, one for 19.
• 37:20
  Yeah. So just like some surprising
• 37:25
  weird ones. Something weird, Mookie.
• 37:27
  The goal is 7 for 17, but six of those are singles.
• 37:31
  And it's almost like if you're holding.
• 37:33
  Mookie to a single you're you're kind of happy I.
• 37:39
  Looked up certain splits. That I I wanted to make note of
• 37:44
  Garrett Cole. Righties are hitting 370 this
• 37:49
  post season off of him. 0 strikeouts.
• 37:56
  That's concerning. That's.
• 37:57
  Concerning you got some good righties in there Mookie TE
• 38:02
  Oscar are a problem. Yep, I would versus lefties.
• 38:07
  Freddie Otani, you know Muncie put those guys in that
• 38:10
  conversation. Lefties are.
• 38:12
  Hitting 243. Against Kerr Cole, 12 punch
• 38:15
  outs. So it's like this weird.
• 38:20
  Normally you see, you know, dominance right on right and
• 38:24
  right left is is typically the match up.
• 38:26
  You don't want to see if you're Garrett Cole, but it's been
• 38:28
  better that way. Rodan.
• 38:33
  Really. Struggling with runners in
• 38:35
  scoring position. Hitters are hitting. 300.
• 38:38
  Against him with runners in scoring position, same thing.
• 38:43
  Of like a weird. Split righties are hitting 320
• 38:46
  off of Yamamoto in the postseason.
• 38:50
  Two home runs, Flaherty kind of going with it, struggles against
• 38:57
  lefties, has given up seven hits, four walks.
• 39:04
  But I think, you know, going back to what we talked about,
• 39:06
  like the dominance of the back end of the bullpens for both
• 39:09
  sides. I know we've been talking, Luke.
• 39:12
  Weaver I know the narrative around Clay Holmes kind of been
• 39:16
  up and down all year. But I look to the Dodger side.
• 39:20
  When they're up, When they're leading.
• 39:25
  Batting average against for. Kopec, O 91.
• 39:29
  Batting average against. Vessia 1. 100 batting.
• 39:34
  Average against Phillips 1:30 and none of them have given up a
• 39:38
  home run while they do. We know if he's going to be.
• 39:40
  Back, I don't know, I was that's.
• 39:42
  What I was curious when I wrote it down.
• 39:44
  What's the latest on that? Let's see here.
• 39:52
  Rosters are out, right? I'm assuming they're out at this
• 39:55
  point. I didn't see anything about
• 40:01
  rosters. I thought they had to be real.
• 40:05
  Oh. What's today?
• 40:06
  Today's Wednesday, it'll be it's.
• 40:08
  Thursday, yeah, it'll be, it'll be tomorrow.
• 40:11
  Yeah. I don't know.
• 40:12
  But yeah, I mean. If they get if they can get him.
• 40:18
  And they can get. I mean, he, he, he put forth the
• 40:22
  176 this year. So if they can get even a
• 40:25
  fraction of that, just as another option, yeah.
• 40:29
  Later in games. Combine that with Kopec.
• 40:35
  I mean, you got and again, to reiterate, you need as much
• 40:40
  depth, as much length as you can get in A7 game series,
• 40:43
  especially a series that assuming things go to plan is
• 40:49
  going six or seven. Like I I just don't see any
• 40:53
  other way that this that this. That's the thing man, like we go
• 40:56
  old. School with this mentality like
• 40:57
  starting pitching has to play a factor at some point.
• 41:00
  It definitely does in A7 game set and I think that's where it
• 41:05
  this is what it comes down to is like these star power hitters,
• 41:10
  this star line UPS who gets more looks on the other team's
• 41:15
  bullpen. Who's able to do something?
• 41:18
  Late against that other bullpen, and the less starting pitching
• 41:23
  you get early in the series, the more bullpen you're going to
• 41:26
  see. Just how it goes.
• 41:31
  And these guys are so good. These hitters are.
• 41:34
  I mean, we're watching. I mean, we're in down the list
• 41:39
  you got. Judge, you got Soto, you got
• 41:41
  Mookie, you got Otani, you got Freddie Freeman.
• 41:43
  I would say 5 top ten players in baseball.
• 41:46
  Is that fair? I don't think that's crazy.
• 41:50
  No 5 top ten players in baseball on the field at one time.
• 41:59
  Gerrit Cole may be in. That conversation, but like,
• 42:03
  those guys are bona fide top ten players.
• 42:08
  And they're all. Really, truly Hall of Farmers,
• 42:13
  they know how to hit man. So like if you can see.
• 42:17
  You can see these guys. Multiple times in a series, it's
• 42:20
  going to make an impact. It's going to matter.
• 42:28
  I'm so nervous, dude. Well, I mean talking about it
• 42:31
  sucks by the way you mentioned I.
• 42:34
  Mean you, we, we mentioned the obvious names.
• 42:36
  We, we meant at least from, I mean, we're still talking
• 42:39
  doctors here. You mentioned Otani, you
• 42:41
  mentioned Freeman, you you mentioned Mookie.
• 42:44
  I don't know. How like if people how like how
• 42:48
  closely they were watching the NLCS in particular.
• 42:55
  Obviously you had Edmund with the MVP, he hit four O 7, had 11
• 42:59
  rubies, a 10/22 OPS but Max. Muncie had an OPS.
• 43:04
  Of 1363. And Shohei and and.
• 43:09
  Bets had had similar numbers there, but like Edmund and
• 43:11
  Muncie. We talked about the rest and the
• 43:15
  impact. That it it may or may not have
• 43:16
  on guys if if, if they can just keep rolling right on through
• 43:19
  that makes this line up that much deeper a line up that we
• 43:23
  already know is deep. But it's just a matter of when
• 43:26
  you catch that line up. Are they are they hitting a
• 43:29
  little bit of a lull? Are they are they, are they in
• 43:31
  the middle of a a bad street? Or are they?
• 43:35
  Are they? Are they?
• 43:38
  Building off of that confidence. That they built the series
• 43:41
  before? We'll obviously find out, but if
• 43:45
  that answer is yes. I'm sorry.
• 43:49
  Yankees pitching staff, but you've got your work cut out for
• 43:53
  you, yeah? I have, I mean, if, if we're
• 43:58
  being totally honest, I have fears of of when I've seen this
• 44:06
  Yankees team implode, I've seen this Yankees team completely
• 44:12
  fall on their face. I've seen certain.
• 44:16
  Names disappear and. Just go dark.
• 44:20
  I've watched it. Multiple times this this season
• 44:24
  and I, I don't know, I've no idea if it's going to show up.
• 44:29
  It sucks like it it could and I, I think maybe Dodgers fans could
• 44:34
  could speak something similar at.
• 44:37
  Certain points in this. Season, like you've watched it
• 44:40
  kind of all go away, but like how much of that is blamed on
• 44:43
  injury? How much of that is blamed on
• 44:45
  not having any pitching during the regular season?
• 44:49
  It's just like. I have no idea man.
• 44:53
  You have, you truly have no idea these guys having, you know, a
• 44:57
  week off before playing, that's abnormal.
• 45:01
  There's certain, there's so many.
• 45:02
  Factors, you know, giving Rizzo and Freeman more time to heal
• 45:07
  and and kind of get strength back in that ankle and and hand,
• 45:11
  respectively. So like which I don't even think
• 45:13
  we technically. Mentioned, but Freeman is
• 45:15
  officially a go for game one. So yeah, good news for Dodgers
• 45:19
  fans. That guy's a gamer.
• 45:20
  It's literally I think he's only missed games for like the birth
• 45:26
  of his children. Like that guy doesn't miss games
• 45:31
  like I pose for sure it. Just shows you how.
• 45:33
  Confident the Dodgers are for him to sit out a few games
• 45:36
  during the mid series. But yeah, man, I I can't speak
• 45:47
  for the Dodgers too. I'm not trying to be negative
• 45:49
  here, but like there's certain things, you know, I, I mentioned
• 45:52
  earlier, the Yankees really struggle with running runners in
• 45:54
  scoring position. They they struggle with runners
• 45:56
  on in general. They leave a lot of guys on
• 45:58
  base. Didn't feel defenses.
• 46:02
  Questionable at times. You have, you know, a slower,
• 46:07
  somewhat injured Rizzo at first. Glaber led the league in errors.
• 46:11
  Second, Jazz playing a new position at third.
• 46:16
  You know, not a ton of arm strength from from Volpi at
• 46:18
  short. I think Austin Wells, I
• 46:22
  genuinely think he's one of the best defensive catchers in
• 46:25
  baseball that doesn't get a whole lot of love for it.
• 46:29
  But overall, like defense is a question mark, base running is a
• 46:32
  question mark and the obvious, you know?
• 46:37
  Strikeout situation. With them as well.
• 46:40
  So like there's questions there. We've seen the back end of that
• 46:44
  bullpen blow up. We've seen weird stuff from
• 46:46
  Garrett Cole this year. We've seen Rodon.
• 46:49
  You know, I, I don't have a ton of confidence there, if I'm
• 46:51
  being totally honest. There's a lot of of things there
• 46:56
  that could happen with the Yankees.
• 47:00
  Again, I haven't watched the Dodgers daily all year.
• 47:04
  They, you know, Dodger fans could have certain things that
• 47:09
  they know of that, you know, could be, you know, it's rearing
• 47:15
  its head again and you're like, no, please, I don't want to see
• 47:17
  that again. But you never know this time of
• 47:20
  year, man, I just I hope for a good, long, strong series, a
• 47:25
  good performance. I love when certain names you
• 47:29
  don't expect show up and be that X Factor.
• 47:32
  But I also love the fact that we have so many stars in this
• 47:35
  series, and it's almost like one of them is going to have to show
• 47:40
  up and show out and be the storyline.
• 47:45
  That's a good jumping. Off point because we got some
• 47:46
  questions that I want to I want to get into some of some of
• 47:50
  which are for me. We're going to we're going to
• 47:51
  start off with I I got some questions for you and we can, we
• 47:54
  can spit ball back and forth, but a couple of these are are
• 47:58
  specific to you and, and your, your fandom.
• 48:05
  And then we got some DMS to follow.
• 48:06
  So and then after that we got to get into some predictions.
• 48:10
  So buckle up, all right? All right, my first.
• 48:14
  Question for you off the top here, Angel show, hey versus
• 48:21
  Dodger show hey, is this World Series run for, are we seeing a
• 48:30
  different side of Otani than we've ever seen before?
• 48:36
  Yeah, in a way, because. Like with him not pitching, it's
• 48:40
  almost like he gets to entirely focus on hitting and.
• 48:46
  It's like he's got like a. Another gear that no one knew
• 48:49
  about. He even.
• 48:53
  Even off the field, he I think we've seen seems fun like.
• 48:58
  Backflips and like, flexing and yelling like things we've seen,
• 49:03
  I mean. We've seen a side of him that
• 49:05
  we, I, I don't think we've seen before because did you see that
• 49:08
  clip of him when they were, when they were popping champagne
• 49:11
  after the LCS and he was like, they had, he was laughing.
• 49:15
  He was just, he was soaked in champagne.
• 49:18
  And I think he, I don't know who he was pointing to or, or, or
• 49:23
  talking to, but he was like, he's like, ha, ha, hey, you're
• 49:27
  sober And he's just like laughing and just, I mean,
• 49:30
  champagne everywhere. And I'm like, I just don't know.
• 49:33
  Well, I, I do know there hasn't been an opportunity for us to
• 49:37
  really see that from Shohei and I.
• 49:39
  And I feel like the only real glimpse of, of a Shohei that has
• 49:44
  those layers peeled back was the World Baseball Classic.
• 49:49
  And in very, very short since. Yeah.
• 49:53
  Yeah, it's true. It's really good, man.
• 49:57
  I like it and and let's face it, like the language barrier aside,
• 50:02
  like we we just need more of show.
• 50:05
  Hey, like we end up see, feel and experience more of show.
• 50:08
  Hey, he needs his own show. Don't be fooled.
• 50:10
  He that. Man knows more English and he
• 50:12
  lets on to oh he. Knows Pedro was asking me.
• 50:16
  That she was. Like so like this kind of like
• 50:18
  talk during interviews. And I was like, no, And they've
• 50:23
  said this multiple times. Like there's players that just,
• 50:25
  they don't want to slip up. They don't want to say something
• 50:28
  and embarrass themselves and like they don't feel confident
• 50:30
  enough to talk in front of millions of people, which I
• 50:33
  totally understand. But she was like, well.
• 50:38
  When, like, the reporters asked him questions, like, he's
• 50:40
  nodding, like he's understanding.
• 50:41
  And I'm like, oh, yeah, he knows.
• 50:43
  He knows. Yeah.
• 50:45
  Like. The little.
• 50:46
  Spanish that I know like I could, I could read street
• 50:49
  signs, but I'm, I'm not going to I'm not going to sign a contract
• 50:53
  that's written in Spanish when, when like my life's at stake or
• 50:56
  something like that. I I understand it from that
• 50:59
  point of view, but we see him, we see him out out there
• 51:02
  chatting it up with with guys on base and.
• 51:07
  That there's more conversations. That are had that I think we we
• 51:10
  realized. Flipping the coin here.
• 51:16
  Aaron Judge. Win or lose.
• 51:21
  How do you think this this World Series just getting to this
• 51:25
  stage effects will affect his legacy?
• 51:30
  Win or lose. Win or lose.
• 51:33
  Just being able to say that he at least got here because I, and
• 51:38
  I know that I've, I've ribbed you about this for years now,
• 51:42
  but every time we get to the preseason, it's and we're making
• 51:47
  our picks and our predictions. I, I'm never really up until
• 51:52
  this year, I, it's just constantly been like AI don't
• 51:56
  care really what they did this offseason.
• 51:58
  I don't care what mentality they're coming in the season
• 52:00
  with. I just I, I'm paying zero mind
• 52:03
  to this Yankees team because they've given that their track
• 52:07
  record has proven us like go back to 2000, we're going back
• 52:11
  to 2009 the last time this happened.
• 52:14
  So it it was very much in the realm of possibility that maybe
• 52:18
  we we did see an Aaron Judge career without an appearance in
• 52:21
  the World Series. So the fact that he at least got
• 52:23
  here, albeit was dragged here by by the rest of that upper half
• 52:29
  of the line up. Drag's a strong word, but sure,
• 52:34
  carried, carried very heavily. Yeah, there was a lot of dead
• 52:38
  weight there. Maybe not drag, but he was he
• 52:41
  was on life support That I mean, it was not not up for debate,
• 52:47
  but win or lose, just being able to get here, being able to
• 52:51
  similar to show, hey, like finally being able to to to have
• 52:55
  a chance to perform on this grand stage.
• 52:57
  I can't answer that question. Because it's not the same answer
• 52:59
  for win or lose. Because Yankee legacy.
• 53:03
  Doesn't matter if you lose. Valid point.
• 53:07
  Like we love. Don Mattingly But it's almost
• 53:10
  like a You can't, you can't hate on him too much because he never
• 53:14
  got there. Now that Judge has gotten here.
• 53:18
  And if they do lose and he continues to struggle?
• 53:25
  And then that's how the. That's how the, you know, career
• 53:28
  ends for him. That's not a good legacy.
• 53:33
  That's not going to work. I like that answer.
• 53:36
  If he wins. If if he.
• 53:41
  Struggles and wins. We forgive the struggle if he
• 53:49
  wins and dominates. Monument Park number retired
• 53:59
  like. All that stuff happens.
• 54:01
  Oh. They're all different answers.
• 54:08
  So that's my point. That's fair.
• 54:10
  That's fair. I kind of figured as such, but I
• 54:12
  just wanted to throw your little curveball there, see how you
• 54:14
  responded. And I'll I, I will say similar
• 54:17
  to Judge, similar to Judge, you handled it with grace, handled
• 54:20
  it like a pro. Thanks.
• 54:22
  Nate, let's hop in the time. Machine and the and then we'll
• 54:24
  get into some DMS Hop into The Time Machine with me.
• 54:29
  Fast forward to next week, the. World Series is over headlines.
• 54:35
  It was an instant classic. What happened?
• 54:41
  Who showed out? Who surprised you?
• 54:46
  What records were broken? How much?
• 54:48
  Just all of it. Give me the copy to this to this
• 54:54
  front page story. Oh man, dude, I'm.
• 55:04
  Just I'm struggling. Oh, I mean, don't.
• 55:09
  Don't tease your predictions necessarily.
• 55:12
  What does the headline say? Like, you know, like, what do
• 55:16
  you mean exactly? It was an instant classic.
• 55:23
  I think. Instinct Classic means.
• 55:30
  This World Series puts baseball at the top then and.
• 55:40
  Puts it as the biggest sport. In, in, in the world.
• 55:43
  And it's, and I'm not saying forever.
• 55:46
  I'm not saying for, you know, the rest of the year.
• 55:48
  I'm not. I think there's going to be, I
• 55:51
  think this series will have everyone, everyone tapped in.
• 55:59
  I think it breaks records with. Almost like a unity.
• 56:05
  And and not. Just brings.
• 56:09
  Back this sport of baseball, but like effects generations.
• 56:13
  So it's a super long headline, but I think it is.
• 56:17
  That's the kind of expectations I have on it.
• 56:20
  That's fair. I put you on the.
• 56:21
  Spot there, I understand. I just want to see see how you
• 56:24
  is there enough room for that headline?
• 56:25
  Super small file. Yeah, there's there's like.
• 56:28
  A subtitles there for sure we're going to have to break it up a
• 56:30
  little bit into pieces, but let's get into some DMS shout
• 56:35
  out to those of you who sent in questions.
• 56:37
  We got some good ones on here. We're I think we can hustle
• 56:41
  through these. We got a got a handful of them,
• 56:43
  but we still got predictions left too.
• 56:44
  So I want to be quick, Joe asks. And I just want.
• 56:51
  To preface this by. Saying some of these questions
• 56:54
  do touch on predictions at the end and I didn't necessarily
• 57:00
  leave any questions out or I did, I tried not to leave any
• 57:02
  questions out. So if there's a little bit of
• 57:05
  redundancy, we're we'll, we'll, we'll address.
• 57:08
  It in the prediction. Section at the Joe asks.
• 57:13
  We all know about the stars and what they provide, but there's
• 57:17
  always a lesser known guy that performs in big moments.
• 57:20
  Who do you think that will will be That guy this series?
• 57:23
  Try to give a guy for each team. Just give a guy a.
• 57:33
  Guy. We got, we got some X.
• 57:35
  Factor talk in the prediction segment.
• 57:41
  I think Louise Heel. Is is is a weapon that not a lot
• 57:47
  of people know about and I. I truly hope.
• 57:50
  That Boone and the Yankees utilize him the way he needs to
• 57:54
  be utilized because that guy is different and when you watch him
• 57:59
  pitch, that guy is special. So yeah, I, I think that's like
• 58:05
  a, I think you're going to see some clutch stuff out of him.
• 58:08
  I don't know in what way, in what capacity, but give me that
• 58:12
  as like a, wow, I didn't know who that was and now I do.
• 58:17
  And stop calling him Gil. This very.
• 58:23
  Very much a cop out of answer, although maybe not as much
• 58:27
  because. I don't think anybody saw.
• 58:31
  That this NLCS performance coming, but for me, you know,
• 58:35
  I've been Tommy Edmond, guys. For a while exactly.
• 58:39
  And I, I, you can vouch for me on that, like I 100% and, and.
• 58:44
  The only reason I'm saying. Me is because this is the answer
• 58:46
  I'm going with, but I, I mean, I've, I've been, I've been a
• 58:49
  Tommy Edmond guy for some time 100% and I don't.
• 58:53
  Think like I. Said, I don't think we saw this,
• 58:55
  this MVP worthy effort coming out of this this past series.
• 59:01
  And comparatively, yeah, probably a little lesser known
• 59:04
  than the rest of since then, the rest of that lineup I would
• 59:09
  imagine. But yeah, I I could see I could
• 59:15
  see his success last week translating very well in the
• 59:19
  World Series. Yeah, I like that.
• 59:24
  Dude, such a good athlete. Such a good athlete.
• 59:30
  Little off topic question here, but I wanted to include it
• 59:32
  because I thought it was interesting.
• 59:33
  Dusty asks. This is kind of irrelevant, but
• 59:35
  being as it didn't happen but say it had been Yankees, Mets,
• 59:40
  would there still have been a travel day when the series moves
• 59:44
  stadium? Good point.
• 59:47
  I say yes. I say yes.
• 59:49
  I think that's the the TV standards.
• 59:51
  Yeah, that's that. Yeah, TV, the league itself, you
• 59:55
  want. I mean, this is yeah, I mean,
• 59:59
  that sounds silly, but like this is your Super Bowl, like the
• 1:00:03
  World Series is like the pinnacle for for Major League
• 1:00:08
  Baseball and its offices and and personnel and all that.
• 1:00:11
  So even if they would have been next door, you want to be able
• 1:00:15
  to milk, milk it out a little bit longer and have those added
• 1:00:18
  days where you can you can hit the reset button.
• 1:00:21
  You can get a little bit more media coverage, maybe some more
• 1:00:23
  sound bites, build up some more stars or storylines.
• 1:00:27
  Yeah, that. They would be milking that for
• 1:00:29
  all it's worth for sure, and they would have had fun with.
• 1:00:32
  That too. The whole Subway Series thing,
• 1:00:34
  like, oh man, like we talked about it.
• 1:00:38
  I would have been, I would have been happy at this point with
• 1:00:40
  either team coming out of the NLCS, going up against the
• 1:00:44
  Yankees. I think this is better for
• 1:00:45
  baseball. As a whole.
• 1:00:46
  But man, that that still would have been fun.
• 1:00:48
  Sure, that still would have been sweet, RJ.
• 1:00:52
  Asked when we. And, and he provided a very long
• 1:00:55
  and thoughtful and thorough commentary beyond the question.
• 1:00:59
  But the gist was when we reflect back on the most recent Dodgers
• 1:01:03
  World Series appearances, why do people try to delegitimize a
• 1:01:06
  2020 World Series victory? Which is a good question.
• 1:01:09
  And I know, I know it gets brought up a lot, but you know,
• 1:01:12
  the Dodgers are are, are back in the World Series.
• 1:01:16
  And I think it, it's important to to talk about going into the
• 1:01:21
  Series because if, if they're unable to, to pull it out
• 1:01:25
  against the Yankees, it that still becomes relevant.
• 1:01:29
  If they obviously if they win it, you, you kind of, I don't
• 1:01:33
  want to say for you, don't forget about the 2020 title.
• 1:01:36
  But at least they can check the box and say, OK, for those who
• 1:01:40
  said that was illegitimate, what are you going to say about this
• 1:01:43
  one? So it it's still, it's still an
• 1:01:46
  important storyline even four years later.
• 1:01:51
  It's tough, man, because like I. See both sides of the argument
• 1:01:53
  like they they got to give out a trophy.
• 1:01:55
  They it's still everyone still played, everyone still had an
• 1:01:58
  opportunity. If the Marlins would have won,
• 1:02:01
  we you know, the Marlins would have would have been so happy
• 1:02:05
  about that trophy. So but it is difficult because
• 1:02:09
  like that's so very much not our game.
• 1:02:12
  It you know, 60 game season is very much not like.
• 1:02:18
  A little over a 1/3. Of our, of our season.
• 1:02:21
  And it's just like there's so much that happened, there's so
• 1:02:24
  much that can happen in 162. There's so much that can change.
• 1:02:28
  And it's a tough one, man. It's a tough one.
• 1:02:33
  I I feel bad for the Dodgers because it's like, what?
• 1:02:38
  Can you do you? Know you're always going to be
• 1:02:41
  hated on, but at the. Same time, yeah.
• 1:02:44
  I can see why people feel that way.
• 1:02:46
  I personally think it counts. I'd be happy with it.
• 1:02:53
  But yeah, understood, Understood.
• 1:03:01
  John asked why are the why are there headlines and banners
• 1:03:04
  touting Judge versus Otani as if this is a tennis match?
• 1:03:10
  Well, John, and I mean, this is genuinely as I can, we're
• 1:03:17
  talking about pretty much the undisputed best two players in
• 1:03:23
  baseball. Yeah, at this.
• 1:03:25
  Current. Moment in time.
• 1:03:27
  So naturally, you know, you're going to want to promote those
• 1:03:34
  guys. You're going to want to, you're
• 1:03:35
  going to want to, and, and I'm not trying to be, I'm not trying
• 1:03:37
  to be a little smart Alec here, but you know, like it.
• 1:03:43
  I, I just, I'm going to need people to understand from like a
• 1:03:46
  media perspective, from a, a business, a money perspective.
• 1:03:51
  This, this is just what you have to do.
• 1:03:54
  Even if, even if you're tired of it as say, like a media outlet,
• 1:03:58
  you're like, all right, how many more articles are we going to
• 1:04:00
  write with, with judge being the, the, the face of the
• 1:04:03
  article? It's like, it's just kind of
• 1:04:06
  what you got to do at this point.
• 1:04:07
  Because with the like we talked about with a series of this
• 1:04:11
  magnitude, nobody's interested necessarily.
• 1:04:14
  Maybe maybe some folks are, but the, the vast majority of people
• 1:04:18
  are not interested in reading about your 8 and 9 hitters
• 1:04:23
  coming into this, this series. It it's just, it's kind of, you
• 1:04:28
  know, a basic understanding of how these things work.
• 1:04:33
  Like like we said last. Episode this just it never
• 1:04:36
  happens. It never lays out this way, like
• 1:04:40
  we never get it. You've mentioned before, never
• 1:04:41
  had two guys from, you know, opposing leagues facing each
• 1:04:46
  other that are hit over 50 home runs in a season like 2 MVPS.
• 1:04:50
  Like it's we just don't get these.
• 1:04:53
  We just don't get these. There's a reason why
• 1:04:56
  heavyweight, you know, boxing matches, there's only, you know,
• 1:05:01
  a handful that really resonate with you.
• 1:05:04
  There's a reason why UFC cards, you know, you can let some
• 1:05:07
  Saturdays slide and sometimes you just got to watch.
• 1:05:09
  Like, not all of them are created equal.
• 1:05:12
  Not our World Series matchups are created equal.
• 1:05:15
  This is this is big time. This is again, top two players
• 1:05:20
  on the planet. But I I the tennis match thing
• 1:05:26
  is, yeah, that's probably pretty accurate description of of the
• 1:05:31
  poster. It's fair, Fair.
• 1:05:34
  Question, Luther asked lifetime Los Angeles Dodgers fans.
• 1:05:38
  But I have mixed feelings about Dave Roberts.
• 1:05:40
  He makes a lot of questionable calls.
• 1:05:42
  What is your guys take on Roberts?
• 1:05:45
  Yeah, man, we've mentioned it. Before, I think he's actually
• 1:05:48
  done really well this postseason compared to last postseason's
• 1:05:52
  obvious reasons, you know, getting here, but.
• 1:05:57
  I I see. Both him and Boone is just very
• 1:06:00
  similar. Similar guys, you know, two
• 1:06:04
  managers that make questionable calls and a lot of ridicule.
• 1:06:16
  I don't think he's the greatest. Manager.
• 1:06:20
  Ever. I think this is more of a
• 1:06:25
  product of the roster then of Dave Roberts doing.
• 1:06:33
  Managerial decisions to. Get them here.
• 1:06:36
  I mean, we can see the amount of runs they put up against the
• 1:06:42
  Mets that it's, you know, there's only so much keeping
• 1:06:45
  this line up down that you can do.
• 1:06:48
  And there's not much else other than just writing it in ink and
• 1:06:53
  taping that to the wall that, you know, Dave Roberts does.
• 1:06:56
  But there are some big decisions of, you know, certain matchups
• 1:06:59
  and going to the pen at certain moments.
• 1:07:03
  I think that's a big factor of this World Series.
• 1:07:05
  I think you're going to see one or two of these, potentially
• 1:07:09
  both managers making some questionable calls that are
• 1:07:13
  going to be maybe backlash or maybe brought up afterwards
• 1:07:18
  because that's what they're both known for.
• 1:07:22
  I don't know. You can speak to him a little.
• 1:07:24
  Bit better. I feel like you have that Red
• 1:07:26
  Sox connection. I know it's way back when but
• 1:07:29
  like sure you have AI. Think you have a soft?
• 1:07:31
  Spot for him, but like no, I mean it's what I've.
• 1:07:34
  Always said about Dave Roberts and it you talk about him being
• 1:07:38
  on the hot seat for what seems like years at this point.
• 1:07:40
  And my my take has always been the same.
• 1:07:42
  Like, sure, maybe he listens to upstairs maybe a little too much
• 1:07:47
  at times, but at the end of the day, I, I would just, I would
• 1:07:53
  caution Dodgers fans to be careful what you wish for,
• 1:07:55
  because I, I would venture to say that there's a lot of
• 1:07:58
  franchises out there that would love to have Dave Roberts
• 1:08:01
  sitting in the manager's seat. So, I mean, you, you can pick
• 1:08:06
  apart specific decisions all you want, but it's just hard for me
• 1:08:11
  to really. And, and yeah, I, I do
• 1:08:14
  understand that a lot of it is, is based on the talent there in
• 1:08:17
  the, in the the roster construction for sure.
• 1:08:20
  But like I, I I. Don't I just have a really hard
• 1:08:24
  time? Sitting there and and and and
• 1:08:28
  saying that Dave Roberts is actively holding this team back.
• 1:08:33
  Yeah. Yeah, I would agree.
• 1:08:35
  It's just tough. It's tough, maybe.
• 1:08:37
  Maybe Dodgers fans feel differently, but like I said, I
• 1:08:40
  just think a lot of teams would be over the moon to have a guy
• 1:08:44
  like Dave Roberts, that's all. We sort of touched on this a
• 1:08:49
  little bit earlier. Joe asked why is Boone staying
• 1:08:52
  with Wells in the cleanup spot? Enough is enough already, yeah.
• 1:08:56
  A valid. Point, I mean, you know, we saw
• 1:08:58
  it towards the end of the series that Stanton was in the four
• 1:09:00
  spot for a little while. They brought Wells down in
• 1:09:04
  lineup. I think he hit like I want to
• 1:09:07
  say like 7th or 8th and he actually hit a home run.
• 1:09:11
  I mean, it's there's a stubbornness about Boone.
• 1:09:14
  There's a stubbornness about sticking with his guys.
• 1:09:18
  There's a there's a lack or maybe a reluctance of change at
• 1:09:23
  times. You did see Trevi Trevino get
• 1:09:28
  into one of those games as well, or almost, you know, give him a
• 1:09:33
  little bit of a break. But it's, I think it's, it's
• 1:09:36
  that alongside the fact that like no one's out, like outside
• 1:09:40
  of Stanton, no one's really stepped up to be that guy
• 1:09:44
  specifically amongst the lefties, you know, Rizzo,
• 1:09:47
  Verdugo, Jazz, like none of those guys have been like all
• 1:09:50
  take this and I'll give you the no brainer.
• 1:09:53
  Right, left, right, left. And, you know, continuing to
• 1:09:57
  give Wells a shot 'cause he did do well, you know, the last
• 1:10:01
  month or so in that spot. But yeah, that's just
• 1:10:05
  stubbornness. That's one of the things, man.
• 1:10:07
  It's just like that. That's my question mark
• 1:10:10
  specifically with Boone. Is that like, are you, are you
• 1:10:14
  going to give opportunity to Wells?
• 1:10:16
  And like, when do you draw the line?
• 1:10:17
  Same with Verdugo, you know, is there a point where you can say,
• 1:10:23
  let's give Jason Dominguez a shot because Verdugo struggled?
• 1:10:26
  Luckily, Verdugo's looked pretty good and he's played really good
• 1:10:29
  defense. So like, that question mark
• 1:10:31
  hasn't really come up, but it could.
• 1:10:33
  So it's just stubbornness. That's all it is.
• 1:10:38
  It's Boone Bing Boon similar to our our last DM.
• 1:10:43
  You know, mixed emotions. Die hard fan, but mixed emotions
• 1:10:46
  for your manager. I miss the days of of Mr. T.
• 1:10:53
  Dennis facetiously. Asked Will you slob show Haze
• 1:10:56
  Knob the entire preview episode? Wow, wow.
• 1:11:01
  I, I don't think we talked about him that much.
• 1:11:03
  I feel like we've we've handled. It pretty well think we've
• 1:11:05
  bounced around quite a bit. I'd I'd give ourselves.
• 1:11:11
  In terms of the amount of slob I'd I'd give ourselves, I'd give
• 1:11:20
  ourselves AB plus, yeah. I don't think.
• 1:11:24
  We're over the top. With with the I mean we still
• 1:11:27
  got predictions, but if he comes out for.
• 1:11:29
  Like till I close the game, I. That's going to be nuts though.
• 1:11:33
  He's going to break the Internet.
• 1:11:34
  I. Know.
• 1:11:36
  I really hope that doesn't happen.
• 1:11:39
  I kind of do, but I kind of. Could you imagine?
• 1:11:43
  Could you imagine? Game 70 and he's closing down
• 1:11:47
  the. Game Shohei Otani comes through.
• 1:11:49
  The the the outfield doors. I don't want that.
• 1:11:57
  I don't want that. I can't.
• 1:11:59
  Could you? Imagine.
• 1:12:02
  And it would be in LA, too. It's almost like Major League
• 1:12:06
  Baseball's been thinking about this for some time.
• 1:12:09
  Maybe it's in the script. We'll see.
• 1:12:11
  Maybe. George.
• 1:12:13
  Asks who needs to have the bigger, the biggest impact in
• 1:12:17
  order for their team to win outside of each team's big
• 1:12:19
  three? I think we'll sort of touch on
• 1:12:21
  that a little bit with the the predictions.
• 1:12:23
  So we'll, we'll hold that aside. Tom asks, can they both lose?
• 1:12:31
  Fair question. Tom, I, I think a lot of people
• 1:12:33
  are asking that same question, but you know, Tom I all I would
• 1:12:37
  ask is, you know, if that's how you really feel, which is you're
• 1:12:41
  more than more than welcome to feel that way.
• 1:12:43
  Just still try to watch. Just watch.
• 1:12:45
  Don't be, don't be one of the people that's like, I want both
• 1:12:47
  teams to lose and by the way, I'm not watching a single minute
• 1:12:50
  of it. We did a whole spiel on that
• 1:12:52
  last episode. I agree and and did.
• 1:12:54
  What we could to. Convince folks to to spend spend
• 1:12:58
  time. It'll be worth their while,
• 1:13:02
  worth their while to to watch this series.
• 1:13:03
  And I think so. I firmly believe that, Murray
• 1:13:07
  asked you. Do you guys have superstitions
• 1:13:09
  while watching your team play during the playoffs?
• 1:13:12
  I wouldn't know. It's been missed it 5 out of the
• 1:13:18
  last six years. So I don't know.
• 1:13:20
  It's it's, it's a little rusty there, so maybe I'm not the best
• 1:13:24
  person to ask. I don't wear red when the
• 1:13:28
  Yankees play. Nothing red.
• 1:13:31
  No articles of clothing that are red.
• 1:13:34
  Not like I have a ton of red stuff.
• 1:13:37
  I do have like a rotation of like 7 or 8 pairs of underwear
• 1:13:42
  that I prefer over my other pairs of underwear, one of which
• 1:13:45
  is red. I'm not wearing it right now.
• 1:13:50
  I. Think I wore it yesterday.
• 1:13:51
  I think I wore that yesterday so that I it would be nice and not
• 1:13:57
  in the drawer. You know what I mean, Smart.
• 1:13:59
  That's. I think that's my.
• 1:14:01
  Only. My only thing like obviously
• 1:14:05
  I'm. Wearing something, you know,
• 1:14:07
  like a jersey or a hat, I'll. Probably wear.
• 1:14:13
  Something different after a loss.
• 1:14:18
  But yeah. Overall that's that's nothing
• 1:14:21
  like weird superstitious wise. That's fair.
• 1:14:30
  Like I. Said I'm the wrong person to ask
• 1:14:31
  that that's. Post season superstitions
• 1:14:34
  aren't. Even on my mind at this point,
• 1:14:36
  I've kind of forgotten anything that I do.
• 1:14:39
  I mean, you go back to like I mentioned, you go back to 2018,
• 1:14:41
  I guess you could say like. I really love.
• 1:14:46
  You know, using that as like an excuse to, to treat yourself
• 1:14:49
  during the week 'cause I'm like, life is good.
• 1:14:52
  We're in the World Series. So I'm going to, I'm going to
• 1:14:54
  get some take out. I'm going to bring it back.
• 1:14:57
  I'm stoked. I'm really stoked for.
• 1:14:59
  Friday, I'm really stoked. Like I don't even know like the
• 1:15:03
  food is going to be I'm just going to be chilling.
• 1:15:05
  It's going to be silent. It's going to be, you know, like
• 1:15:09
  I might have to do a couple Wi-Fi checks before just make
• 1:15:12
  sure I got the I had. I do have the iPad like close by
• 1:15:16
  in case the TV, you know, gives any issues.
• 1:15:19
  Like there's things, there's things that I'm going to fall
• 1:15:21
  back on. Are you giving?
• 1:15:23
  Are? Are you like?
• 1:15:24
  Is Paige having like a girls night or something?
• 1:15:26
  Like are TV watch no. Our T VS been weird man like it
• 1:15:30
  keeps messing with the volume. No, no, no, I'm saying.
• 1:15:33
  Is Paige having a girls night? Like, is she going to be are are
• 1:15:36
  you like basically kicking her to the curb for this?
• 1:15:38
  No, no, no, she can she. Yeah, she.
• 1:15:40
  Can be here. She'll be here.
• 1:15:41
  She's part of the part of the deal, OK?
• 1:15:43
  All out. Yeah, I just didn't know like
• 1:15:45
  how how I'm just like secluded you.
• 1:15:48
  I really am a misery. After they lose though, like I,
• 1:15:51
  I do feel for her if that's the case.
• 1:15:54
  I mean I I. Feel it just in like texting you
• 1:15:57
  after big losses. I can't imagine, like actually
• 1:15:59
  being there. That's Oh yeah, that's.
• 1:16:01
  Tough our pillows. You know our.
• 1:16:03
  Pillows on the couch really do take a beating.
• 1:16:07
  During during tough. Pillows in the game, is this the
• 1:16:11
  pillows just keep? It at the Pillows, Nate, that's
• 1:16:13
  all I ask. Spencer asks.
• 1:16:16
  It's a great question. And then we'll get into
• 1:16:17
  predictions. Which franchise needs this World
• 1:16:22
  Series more? And it's it.
• 1:16:28
  This is such. A good question because you
• 1:16:31
  could make an extremely strong case for either team.
• 1:16:35
  You really could the. Dodgers need this.
• 1:16:38
  World Series to justify their winning ways and to maybe
• 1:16:42
  validate their 2020 title a little bit more.
• 1:16:47
  And the Yankees need this, because how long has it been, 15
• 1:16:52
  years? I mean, I feel like.
• 1:16:58
  You should probably answer this question.
• 1:17:00
  I'm I'm going to say Yanks, the Yanks.
• 1:17:04
  We need this man. Like I, I need this personally.
• 1:17:06
  We need this. We really, really like.
• 1:17:11
  I won't be. Well, at least if you're in LA,
• 1:17:14
  you're like, we lost. Oh no, I have beautiful weather
• 1:17:18
  and the beach. I'm going to go, you know, be
• 1:17:22
  sad on the beach. Like, what do we got?
• 1:17:25
  You know, jokes aside, jokes aside.
• 1:17:29
  At least. All in the field like sure.
• 1:17:30
  They get the weather and all that, but for that franchise,
• 1:17:35
  you. You would like to imagine.
• 1:17:36
  That this window is just nowhere.
• 1:17:40
  Close to being. Like over closed.
• 1:17:45
  So you'll still have a chance to.
• 1:17:46
  Validate that that 2020 World Series and to get back to your
• 1:17:50
  your World Series winning ways, the Yankees you don't know.
• 1:17:54
  There's a guy by the name of Juan.
• 1:17:55
  Soto, who may or may not be there next year, so you could
• 1:17:59
  look at this as maybe your only shot until another 15 years down
• 1:18:05
  the road where maybe you get back in.
• 1:18:10
  You're just putting so many. Things in my head, it's sucks.
• 1:18:13
  You're going to be. Let's do the math. 15 years from
• 1:18:15
  now, you'll. Be 46. 46 Yep.
• 1:18:24
  Good luck buddy, you better. Hope they do it this year.
• 1:18:28
  I'm just going to go ahead and put that out there in the
• 1:18:30
  universe. If, if they don't do it this
• 1:18:32
  year, just buckle up for another 15.
• 1:18:34
  Buckle up for. A brutal episode with your boy.
• 1:18:39
  I can't wait. Jeff asked MVP predictions,
• 1:18:43
  which is the perfect segue into our final little segment here.
• 1:18:47
  Let's get into some predictions here.
• 1:18:49
  Nate, We sort of have have touched on this.
• 1:18:55
  But we're going to, we're going to get our official.
• 1:18:56
  Picks in If the Dodgers win the World Series, The X Factor will
• 1:19:00
  have been. I'll say Flaherty, I think he's
• 1:19:21
  he's got a really show up, show out.
• 1:19:27
  The bats are going to do what they do.
• 1:19:30
  I. Think you expect that?
• 1:19:31
  I think. You see that coming?
• 1:19:34
  But I think it again. Like I keep going to that that
• 1:19:38
  mid series start that plays such a huge role.
• 1:19:44
  And I think if if the. Dodgers win, he would be the
• 1:19:47
  reason. Not MVP, we're saying X.
• 1:19:53
  Factor, right, X Factor, yeah. Yeah, I'll say, I'll say.
• 1:19:57
  Flaherty I I sort of already gave my.
• 1:19:59
  Pick earlier, but Tommy Edmond, I think, I think if if that's
• 1:20:03
  yet another guy that you can, you can.
• 1:20:07
  Squeeze. A little bit of juice out of for
• 1:20:09
  this final week of games, yeah. Add that to to the.
• 1:20:15
  Mix of what they've already got going on there in that top half
• 1:20:19
  that's that'll be that'd be huge for them and.
• 1:20:23
  Not not to mention just I. Mean, just looking at the vibes,
• 1:20:26
  like if you, if you got a guy who is fresh off an NLCSMVP and
• 1:20:30
  and he just picks right back up where he left off, that's huge,
• 1:20:33
  especially for establishing momentum early in the series at
• 1:20:36
  home. That's that would be, that'd be
• 1:20:39
  a huge boost, yeah, to that team.
• 1:20:43
  The Yankees win the World Series.
• 1:20:44
  The X Factor will have been. I'm I'm going to say jazz.
• 1:20:55
  Chisholm, I think it's. Because of what?
• 1:20:59
  He can do on the bases speed, you know.
• 1:21:03
  Occasional pop. I'm actually pretty impressed
• 1:21:08
  with how he's done at third base.
• 1:21:11
  Just picking up and. Doing it and playing pretty
• 1:21:14
  well. Yeah.
• 1:21:15
  There's been a couple tough plays, but like, overall the
• 1:21:17
  guys at Cannon. So yeah, give me, give me Jazz
• 1:21:21
  with like, you know, some potential pop, some big play of,
• 1:21:26
  you know, scoring from first in the gap and maybe a couple
• 1:21:29
  swipes. Like, he brings a lot of
• 1:21:32
  athleticism that just we haven't gotten a chance to see because
• 1:21:35
  he's not doing anything offensively.
• 1:21:39
  So yeah, I think he would be an. X Factor I'm going to go.
• 1:21:43
  Carlos Rodon. For for reasons we talked about
• 1:21:46
  earlier, you would you would like to think as a Yankee fan,
• 1:21:50
  you would hope that Garrett Cole is just going to give you what
• 1:21:53
  he is capable of giving you. But as I mentioned, you were
• 1:21:57
  Carlos Rodon is going to be Next up in line in terms of
• 1:21:59
  importance of giving you length to take the burden off of.
• 1:22:04
  Yeah. Off of that, pen it because.
• 1:22:06
  You also have to take into account that like Cole is going
• 1:22:10
  to get more opportunities there given, given the, the structure
• 1:22:15
  of the schedule and, and rest days and all that.
• 1:22:17
  So if you're Carlos Rodon, you got, you're going to have to
• 1:22:20
  maximize your opportunities here the, the, the stints that you do
• 1:22:23
  get, the, the starts that you get and and possibly some weird
• 1:22:27
  relief appearance late in the series if it gets that far.
• 1:22:30
  So that's that's going to be big from him.
• 1:22:33
  He's going to have to keep his tongue in his mouth.
• 1:22:35
  Yeah, he's got to keep. His emotions in check for sure
• 1:22:38
  and just suit up and. Just pitch.
• 1:22:41
  That's what he has to do. All right, you're winning team.
• 1:22:48
  And then how many games? I'm going Yanks in seven.
• 1:23:00
  I think the pitching will be the difference.
• 1:23:06
  I think it it is going to find a way to neutralize this offense
• 1:23:12
  just a little bit. I'm not saying Dodgers going to
• 1:23:14
  be held down by any means, but I I do think the Yankees pitching
• 1:23:19
  is going to find a way to make this.
• 1:23:23
  Obtainable. For the Yanks and.
• 1:23:28
  I think Judge is a. Big reason for it.
• 1:23:31
  I think there's this reset that he's able to hit here.
• 1:23:35
  I think there's this calmness that he's going to be able to
• 1:23:37
  say, hey, we're here and let's send it and.
• 1:23:44
  Give give me Yanks and. Seven with Judge hoisting the
• 1:23:47
  MVP trophy. Oh, you're skipping right ahead
• 1:23:51
  to the. MVP You're you said you're
• 1:23:53
  giving it to Judge. Yep.
• 1:23:56
  All right, all right. Well, that's nice.
• 1:24:00
  I I. Look, I know I just got done.
• 1:24:03
  Talking about, you know, like well, earlier in the episode I
• 1:24:06
  got talking about like, well, is this an opportunity for judge
• 1:24:08
  hit the reset button? Is he going to is he going to
• 1:24:10
  get back to to to judgey in ways?
• 1:24:14
  The answer is no. And I know I just got done
• 1:24:16
  talking about Carlos Rodan needing to just like really show
• 1:24:20
  up. Don't think that's going to
• 1:24:21
  happen. So for a couple of those and and
• 1:24:25
  additional reasons, I'm going to go Dodgers in six.
• 1:24:34
  I think the Dodgers proved. That or I I think by throwing
• 1:24:40
  multiple bullpens and bullpen games and having success with
• 1:24:44
  that it it lessens the concern for me on just how.
• 1:24:53
  Effective the starters. Need to be, although it doesn't
• 1:24:55
  take away to completely I I do I do want to reiterate like the
• 1:24:58
  the starting pitching for the Dodgers has to be as good as
• 1:25:03
  they can be and give you whatever length that they can
• 1:25:05
  give you. I don't I don't know what that's
• 1:25:07
  going to look like. I'm I'm worried they're a little
• 1:25:09
  bit on the innings, but because they were able to to go with
• 1:25:14
  what turned out to be like regularly scheduled bullpen
• 1:25:18
  games against some some tougher opponents will say I'm just I'm
• 1:25:26
  not all that worried on that side of the ball And I'm I don't
• 1:25:30
  need to repeat myself on what that offense is capable of
• 1:25:33
  doing. So I'm going Dodgers and six, my
• 1:25:34
  MVP is going to be. Teoscar Hernandez.
• 1:25:42
  Yeah, I like that. I can see that.
• 1:25:46
  The dude's a stud. I'm so nervous I'm.
• 1:25:52
  So nervous. My last.
• 1:25:55
  My last. Question here for you.
• 1:25:59
  Yeah. Bigger picture.
• 1:26:01
  Bigger picture bigger prediction bigger picture prediction here
• 1:26:05
  this World Series will go down as a top blank World Series in
• 1:26:13
  the last 25 years. Just take it.
• 1:26:17
  Take it back to. 2000 top three. Yeah, fire me up.
• 1:26:25
  I I love it. Top three.
• 1:26:27
  I don't know how. People are are struggling to get
• 1:26:30
  excited about this World Series. I don't have a dog in a fight
• 1:26:33
  and I'm ready for it. It's going to be good, man.
• 1:26:36
  It's going to be really, really good if you if you get full
• 1:26:40
  blown Yanks and you get full blown Dodgers.
• 1:26:43
  They have. They've shown throughout the
• 1:26:45
  year that these are two heavyweights that belong where
• 1:26:49
  they're at. And it's just about.
• 1:26:53
  All of execution and then all the cards being shown on the
• 1:26:57
  table man. I'm so nervous.
• 1:27:01
  I'm so nervous. Love that.
• 1:27:03
  Well on that. Note let's let's wrap it up
• 1:27:07
  there. This is good.
• 1:27:11
  Looking forward. To it lock.
• 1:27:12
  It in, folks, this is the last baseball you're going to get.
• 1:27:16
  Hate them or love them? I would hope that your love for.
• 1:27:20
  Baseball transcends whoever's in the World Series.
• 1:27:22
  So lock it in because you love this game.
• 1:27:26
  Lock it in because we're going to be witnessing some
• 1:27:29
  star-studded baseball and lock it in because we we told you so.
• 1:27:38
  For all those listening. Watching as well.
• 1:27:42
  As Aaron Judge. Don't go chasing curveballs, we
• 1:27:46
  love you all. And as always, looking forward
• 1:27:47
  to talking more baseball with you guys soon.
• 1:27:49
  Until next time, stay filthy.