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Decisive Game 4's in MLB Postseason today · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: As we head downhill on the downhill run toward going
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  to Dallas for the Texas OU weekend. Craig Way is
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  my name, Cameron Parker, alongside the producer. Of course, both
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  of us will be headed up north to Dallas at
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  the completion of this program. And let me just say this,
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  this doesn't really affect either you or me because neither
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  of us are Native Texans. Now, we've both lived in
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  the state a while. In fact, I've lived most of
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  my life in the state of Texas, but I wasn't
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  born here and didn't grow up here. I moved out
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  when I was eighteen and have lived out here ever since. However,
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  one thing that I never picked up on that native
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  Texans say, including my wife, including my kids, who by
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  birth are Native Texans and they were born in this day,
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  is the term coming from Austin or Georgetown or whatever
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  in the area. Yeah, we're going to go down to Dallas. No,
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  you're not going down, going up, You're going up. I
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  thirty five, You're going north. Going north is going up
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  if you're from Oklahoma. Yeah, you're coming down to the
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  Dallas for the game. But but I hear that a lot. Yeah,
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  we're gonna go down to Dallas for the game. And
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  going down you can say down to Houston, because it's
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  kind of east southeast. You can definitely say down to
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  San Antonio, but not down to Dallas. You go up
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  to Dallas, and you've driven up to Dallas many times.
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of people say that.
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  Speaker 1: I do notice that, but mainly Native Texans I've noticed
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  really interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, we're going down to Chicago this weekend. Oh okay,
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  interesting Chicago, nexas Chicago. Where's another Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: You go up to Chicago, you go north to Chicago.
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  You go up to New York. You don't go down
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  to New York. It don't go down to Los Angeles.
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  You go out to La You out to the coast.
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  You know, people say, we go out there out west. Uh,
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  you go up north to the Pacific northwest. Yeah, you
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  don't go You don't go nor. You don't go down
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  to Dallas, go north, you go up anyway, We're gonna
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  go up there. We get done with the program this afternoon.
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  We've talked some baseball. They're just now getting about they
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  haven't started yet, about to get Game four of the
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  al Ds series between Cleveland and Detroit. At k America
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  Park and Detroit Underway, and so far, so far, the
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  lower seeds have really made a statement. In the American League.
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  You have the number six seed Detroit up to games
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  to one on Cleveland. If they win this game in Detroit,
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  the number six seed in both the American League Division
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  Series or the American League Playoffs and the Nationalague Playoffs,
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  both will have advanced to their respective league championship series.
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  Mets did that the six seed. The Mets have already
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  knocked off the three seed Milwaukee and the two seed Philadelphia,
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  and so now they're waiting to see who wins the
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  game between the one seed Los Angeles and the four
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  seed San Diego. Know this, if the Dodgers don't win
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  tomorrow night, and quite frankly, I didn't expect them to
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  win last night. But it was a brilliant pitching performance
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  by the bullpen for the Dodgers, and as we mentioned earlier,
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  the calculated risks taken by both teams. It worked for LA,
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  it did not work for San Diego. Bringing back Dylan
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  Cease on short rest and all of that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 2: We sound down on the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: Craig, I'm wearing my hat today. I'm not down, no, no, no no.
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  I am being a realist about it, unlike you. I
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  watched my.
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  Speaker 2: Team on television, but like me, you are a realist.
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  Speaker 1: I am, I am. I'm not a pessimist. I am
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  a realist. And after all, we are talking about a
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  team that has been knocked out in the division at
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  this level, the Division round the last two years, last
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  year by ours On, a year before by San Diego.
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  In twenty one. They got to the NLCS where they
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  lost to eventual world champion Atlanta. When they lost to
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  the Braves in twenty twenty one, but you know, they're
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  just flat out of starting pitching. So they had to
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  cobble it together last night, and they did, and they
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  got their offense going. They've got Mookie Bets going again.
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  They're trying to get Shoeo Chiny going again. We'll see
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  if Freddie Freeman can play tomorrow night. He'll note if
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  he'll be able to go, or Miguel Rojas. But anyway,
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  they put the pieces together to get that win in
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  San Diego and deny the Padres a chance to beat
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  the hated what do they call it, the whatever, the
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  evil Empire whatever to knock them out on the in
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  San Diego on their home field. It didn't happen, so
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  they're gonna have to do it on the road. But
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  they're an extremely confident team and this is gonna be
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  an interesting game tomorrow night. But my point was going
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  to be, if the Dodgers don't win tomorrow night, your
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  National League Championship Series will be the fourth seed against
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  the sixth seed. The four seed San Diego would have
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  home field advantage. Winner of the game tomorrow night is
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  going to have home field advantage for the NLC. Yes,
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  Now ask the Mets if they care. I mean, the
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  Mets have been away, were away from them. They had
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  to get at least one win in Atlanta, and they
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  did to get in. Then they went to Milwaukee and
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  knocked out the Brewers and you know, in a decisive
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  third game did that, went to Philadelphia, got the first game,
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  lost the second game, and then went home and did
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  not look back and did not allow the series to
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  get back to Philadelphia. Detroit is trying to do the
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  same thing in the American League. Detroit, of course, swept
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  two games from the three seed Houston then went home,
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  dropped or then went to Cleveland dropped Game one to
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  the Guardians, the number two seed, who looked every bit
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  the part of the first game. They blew them out.
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  They scored five runs in the first inning, the one,
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  seven to nothing since that time, since that time, Cleveland
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  has scored a grand total of two runs. It was,
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  and those were in game one. They're not scored in
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  Game two or Game three as they get ready to
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  start this one. So the Guardians are in trouble. They're
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  the number two seed. And if Detroit wins this game
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  this afternoon or tomorrow, a decisive final game, which would
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  be back in Cleveland, then you'd have both six seeds
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  into the postseason, into the final four, if you will,
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  of Major League Baseball. Now, the Yankees and Dodgers can
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  keep things, you know, relatively on level. If the Yankees
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  finish off the Royals tonight after winning last night, it
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  was a tight game, they won that three to two.
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  The gian Carlo Stanton home run the difference in the ballgame,
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  So they could finish off off the Royals tonight, and
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  if the Dodgers find a way to win that fifth
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  game against the pod Race, then you'll still have both
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  number one seeds in. There would be really interesting. If
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  you add the one seed against the sixth seed in both,
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  it might kind of quiet the argument somewhat that folks
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  are making about this five day layoff that division championship,
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  that it's bad for you and all that kind of stuff.
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  I know this, the Dodgers really needed it at the
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  end of their deal. They were so beaten up and
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  beating down and all that other kind of stuff. But
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  when folks look at Philadelphia, you know, and say, hey,
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  look and if Cleveland gets knocked out, I'm gonna say
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  both two seeds got knocked out, both three seeds got
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  knocked out. Now, they didn't have the layoff they were
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  playing in the deal, So I don't know. John Smoltz
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  was talking about it on the telecast, and I think
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  he makes a good point. They can revisit all of this,
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  that the sample size is still relatively small since they
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  expanded it to this point. But there seems to be
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  movement a foot, perhaps to make the Wildcard series just
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  one game and then make the division series best of
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  seven so that you still have time to recover yourself.
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  If you're a higher seed and you drop the first
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  two games at home or whatever and fall behind on
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  that deal.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see the Detroit Tigers. Craig remind me the Rangers
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  last season. Yeah, a team, Watson said that when he
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  was on with us, A team that you started off
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  good and then had some moments in the season where
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  you thought out, I don't know they're gonna make the playoffs.
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  They don't end up winning their division. Now, of course,
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  Rangers lost in the last week of the season, whereas
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  Cleveland led from game one. The game won sixty two.
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  But they are a team eighty six wins this year.
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  Rangers won I think ninety this last season. Rangers, of
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  course a five seed. But this Detroit team, I mean,
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  they're scrappy, They're a lot of fun to watch, and
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  there's just been a great story so far this season.
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  And just like the Rangers beat the Astros last season
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  in the ALCS, it looks like the Detroit gonna knock
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  off Cleveland in the ALDS this season.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, it'll be amazing if it happens. So anyway, they're
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  just now getting underway with Game four of that series
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  at Comerica Park. All right up next, we brought this
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  to you in the two o'clock hour. It's the final
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  media availability of the week for logrn's head coach Steve
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  we're going to bring that to you here coming up,
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