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Padres DOMINATE Cubs, Yankees BLOW OUT Red Sox, Austin Riley WINS IT for Braves | Ross & Rizzo · Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered

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  Speaker 3: our first playoff recap rossi october baseball is here We
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  Speaker 3: card games. Braves win 5-3. White Sox win 6-3. The
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  Speaker 3: Yankees win 9-0. Although the game was a lot closer
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  Speaker 3: than that. And the Padres roll 8-0 over the Cubs.
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  Speaker 3: to answer your fan questions. Rossi, how are we doing today?
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  Speaker 3: Long day today at baseball.
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  Speaker 4: Long day at baseball, but a great day at baseball.
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  Speaker 1: coming to you fresh with our takes.
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  Speaker 4: Fresh.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, bro, I did the Today Show this
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  Speaker 3: morning at 8.30, and I got to the field, Yankee Stadium,
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  Speaker 3: around 1245 to do the 2 o'clock pregame show for
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  Speaker 3: the Braves-Phillies. Sat around, watched the game, talked to the managers,
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  Speaker 3: did the Yankees-Red Sox game, was inside the pitch there.
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  Speaker 3: That place was electric. And then caught the back end
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  Speaker 3: of the Cubs-Padres game, saw the highlights of the Astros-White Sox.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, bro, what a great day for baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Bro, that place looked electric. Yankee Stadium sounded so loud
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  Speaker 1: on TV. I've watched all the games and had a
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  Speaker 1: couple reactions already. But what an exciting day. The Phillies-Braves
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  Speaker 1: game kicked it off perfectly with the drama, the back
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  Speaker 1: and forth, tough manager moves. And then you've got, you know,
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  Speaker 1: White Sox-Astros. So impressed with the White Sox at-bats from.
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  Speaker 4: Their young guys.
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  Speaker 1: And then listen to you. Great call tonight. That was
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fun. It was a great listen. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: Cam is the story. Cam Schlittler with a dominant performance, man.
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  Speaker 1: And then the Cubbies kind of fall to the San
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  Speaker 1: Diego Padres. But great kickoff, wildcard baseball, round one. Which
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  Speaker 1: one do you want to talk about first?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think the biggest story was Aaron Judge. Let's
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  Speaker 3: talk about the Yankees. Aaron Judge being left off the
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  Speaker 3: wildcard roster with his calf. He's had a rough year
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  Speaker 3: with injuries. He injured his rib. He comes back. It
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  Speaker 3: looks like he's getting in the flow. He gets a
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  Speaker 3: big home run. in Minnesota, and then he hurts his calf.
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  Speaker 3: And there's a lot of questions. Kind of he said,
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  Speaker 3: she said. Booney said he was out. Judge said, why
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  Speaker 3: are you ruling me out so early type thing? Because
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  Speaker 3: he wants to play. You know, this is Yankees Red Sox.
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  Speaker 3: There's only so many times you get this, right? And
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  Speaker 3: it's back-to-back years.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what makes Aaron Judge.
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  Speaker 1: I try to tell people, like, the reason why he's
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  Speaker 1: the captain and one of the best players on the planet,
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  Speaker 1: but outside of his talent, his competitiveness, that's what makes
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  Speaker 1: him so great.
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  Speaker 4: He is like in for the boys.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to, uh, be there for his teammates and
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  Speaker 1: his city and a big series and, you know, get
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  Speaker 1: them to the next round. So I, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: love that mentality and that's what makes him him, but
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  Speaker 1: you're also, you know, you put the, the manager vision
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  Speaker 1: goggles on and you say, we're trying to, and the
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  Speaker 1: trainers and trying to protect this guy. Cause our, the
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  Speaker 1: big picture in New York is when the world series it's,
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  Speaker 1: it's that or bus. So, Um, I, I definitely, I
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  Speaker 1: get it.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Like he's a competitor. Um, I listened to some of
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  Speaker 1: his comments. Like you could tell he, it was with
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  Speaker 1: a grain of salt. He was saying, uh, it's probably,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's, it's probably going to be best, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm in here for the long haul and get the
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  Speaker 1: boys locked in and.
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  Speaker 4: I'll see him in the next round.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I was talking to Booney before the game about
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  Speaker 3: how hard that was. Right. I, I purposely have not
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  Speaker 3: contacted judge the last couple of days. I was going
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  Speaker 3: to send him a thumbs up or thumbs down last
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  Speaker 3: night to see if he was on the roster. But
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  Speaker 3: I didn't want people asking me today, which they did, hey,
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  Speaker 3: have you talked to Aaron? And I just didn't want
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  Speaker 3: to have to lie to people and whatnot. But the
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  Speaker 3: Yankees go with an interesting approach with the 12 position players,
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  Speaker 3: 10 pitchers. Or I'm sorry, what is it? 16 position players,
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  Speaker 3: 10 pitchers. So I asked Booney.
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  Speaker 4: I go.
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  Speaker 3: The big one was Stanton being on there. And Stanton
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  Speaker 3: hasn't seen a pitch in the big leagues, I think,
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  Speaker 3: since what, late April, early May?
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  Speaker 4: I think April. Yeah, it's April, I think.
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  Speaker 3: So I said, why can't Judge be that pinch hitter, right?
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  Speaker 3: Because if Stanton gets on, you're going to pinch run
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  Speaker 3: for him right away. So why don't you just put
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  Speaker 3: Judge in that role? He's fresher off of games. And
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  Speaker 3: I think it's more of a long-term play here where
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  Speaker 3: they realize that they need Judge for the long haul.
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  Speaker 3: And if they're going to win there, it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be a group effort. That's what the playoffs are. Aaron
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  Speaker 3: judge can't carry a team, you know, single-handedly. So keeping
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  Speaker 3: him off, I think was a collective decision of just
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  Speaker 3: protecting him and not putting him in a situation where
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  Speaker 3: he's going to test that cabin, hurt it for the longterm.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think one of the two things on that,
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  Speaker 1: like it's really tough for their roster. Like today, who
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  Speaker 1: would you sit Ben Rice or Paul Goldschmidt? If he's
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  Speaker 1: in there, like, Those two guys, Paul Goldschmidt's almost in
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  Speaker 1: 400 off lefties, like your best at bat off left-handers.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously Ben Rice has been their aircraft carrier this year.
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  Speaker 1: So I think it has a lot to do with
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  Speaker 1: that too. Like he needs to play right field when
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  Speaker 1: he's healthy. And the other part of that is like
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  Speaker 1: one thing you can't test is the adrenaline that you're
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  Speaker 1: going to get in that moment, the first swing and
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  Speaker 1: then pushing out of the box on that calf, right?
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  Speaker 1: Like that's when we saw Ryan Howard blow out his
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  Speaker 1: Achilles coming back. Um, I, I feel like, like that's the,
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of the next step. Obviously he's run and
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  Speaker 1: he said it, but that's a controlled environment. He's hit,
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  Speaker 1: feels pretty good. But you know, some of those quick moments, uh,
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  Speaker 1: bursting out of the box, it's just a different adrenaline.
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  Speaker 4: It's a different force you're going to put on that calf.
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  Speaker 3: No doubt. Well, I mean, look, it pressed all the
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  Speaker 3: booty pulled all, pressed all the right buttons today. That's
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  Speaker 3: for sure. Starting with Cam Schlittler. He was lights out
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  Speaker 3: six and a 30 pitching to the seventh, two hits,
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  Speaker 3: no runs, 10 punchies. and 117 pitches. It was almost
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  Speaker 3: a throwback game for a pitcher. You don't think you're
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  Speaker 3: ever going to see a pitcher go 117, especially in
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  Speaker 3: round one.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I thought it was cool.
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  Speaker 1: Like, he ended the sixth with the same amount of
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  Speaker 1: pitches he had last postseason, 107. I was like, what
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  Speaker 1: a great storyline. Like, this guy's dominant. And then he
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  Speaker 1: goes back out for the seventh. And Booney even admitted
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  Speaker 1: in his postgame press conference, he said, I may have
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  Speaker 1: gotten a little greedy after Contreras. He was definitely facing Contreras.
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  Speaker 1: I may get a little greedy, and he gave up
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  Speaker 1: one more hit. They hadn't given up one since the
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  Speaker 1: first to Adley Rushman, but no hard contact. I thought
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  Speaker 1: the thing that stood out to me, I was really watching.
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  Speaker 1: He was landing that breaking ball in the first. That
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  Speaker 1: breaking ball was the story for me.
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  Speaker 4: It was unhittable.
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  Speaker 1: He was landing it at the highest percentage, and he
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  Speaker 1: threw it 12 more times he's ever thrown it in
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  Speaker 1: his career. His max is 20 in a game.
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  Speaker 4: He threw it 32 times.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight, and it was absolutely dominant. Swing and miss all
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  Speaker 1: over the place. You know, when you got a game plan,
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  Speaker 1: if you're the Boston Red Sox coming into that game,
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  Speaker 1: you're like, get on the hard stuff. We know it's sinking, cutting,
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  Speaker 1: and riding, but get on the hard stuff. And he
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  Speaker 1: got so much swing and miss with that fast, with
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  Speaker 1: that breaking ball starting, looking like a fastball coming out
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  Speaker 1: right down the middle and then just disappearing underneath the barrels.
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  Speaker 3: His stuff was absolutely electric. And Yankee Stadium seemed to
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  Speaker 3: just get louder and louder the deeper he went. And
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  Speaker 3: then when he came back out for the seventh, everyone
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  Speaker 3: was going crazy. And, I mean, dude, he's a star
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  Speaker 3: in the making, right?
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  Speaker 4: He's a Cy Young, right?
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  Speaker 3: He's a bona fide Cy Young. And what a way
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  Speaker 3: to start the postseason for this Yankee pitching staff. The
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  Speaker 3: Yankee pitching staff is what's going to carry this team
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  Speaker 3: to the promised land. And they showed it today. And
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  Speaker 3: by him going that deep, Paul Blackburn comes in and
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  Speaker 3: gets five big outs. and then they don't have to
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  Speaker 3: go to Bednar in the ninth, so they save him.
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  Speaker 3: So now you have two– you basically have your back
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  Speaker 3: end of your bullpen super fresh for what comes– you
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  Speaker 3: need to win one of the next two, right? So
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  Speaker 3: they put themselves in a very good position, and it
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  Speaker 3: all starts with Cam Sliller.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and Cam, first pitch of the game, 101. I
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  Speaker 1: think some stat I saw was he only had like
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  Speaker 1: three of those all year, and first pitch of the
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  Speaker 1: game right down the middle just shed Cam.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, boy.
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  Speaker 1: Lock in if you're the Red Sox.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, and then on the other end, you have
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  Speaker 3: Peyton Tolley, who comes out firing BBs, too. You know
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  Speaker 3: what I mean? And credit to both offenses, the first inning,
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  Speaker 3: they made the pitchers work, which was surprising. Usually that
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  Speaker 3: adrenaline just takes over and the pitchers dominate. But Adley
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  Speaker 3: Rutschman comes out, throws a 10-pitch at bat on Cam
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  Speaker 3: and gets a base hit where that was like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: Cam's pitch count got up there pretty quick in the
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  Speaker 3: first two and Payton totally came out. And I don't
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  Speaker 3: want to say he labored. He, he pitched, you know
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  Speaker 3: what I mean? He didn't, he maybe didn't have his
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  Speaker 3: best stuff, but for a rookie pitcher in that environment
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  Speaker 3: to go and do what he did and maneuver. And
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  Speaker 3: I know he only went four and two thirds, but
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  Speaker 3: he gave up one run, struck out four. He, he,
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  Speaker 3: He competed today, and that's what you want from your
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  Speaker 3: best pitchers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't love them taking him out either.
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  Speaker 4: Like, I was like four and two-thirds. Like, I know,
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  Speaker 4: you know, a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I think he had like 84 pitches. But, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it felt like he was laboring, I thought, early maybe
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. Like you said, pitching, maybe not laboring,
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  Speaker 1: but I thought he had settled in and felt really
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  Speaker 1: good about himself.
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  Speaker 4: Got out of that.
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  Speaker 1: That double play was huge. The soft liner. to Durbin
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  Speaker 1: at third with the double off of Lombard Jr. Like,
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  Speaker 1: huge play. You saw the emotions and the fist pump
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  Speaker 1: from Tully. Like, what a great environment and what a
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  Speaker 1: great atmosphere in the Bronx, man.
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  Speaker 4: Really cool from two young studs. I know Cam's been
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  Speaker 4: around a little bit, but.
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  Speaker 1: There's so much young talent in our game, man.
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  Speaker 4: It's really impressive.
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  Speaker 1: George Lombard Jr., first Yankee to start since Mickey Mantle
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  Speaker 1: in a postseason game.
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  Speaker 3: How about that?
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  Speaker 1: And he got two knocks.
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  Speaker 3: That's a 21-year-old. Right. It's insane. It's insane. He got
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  Speaker 3: three knocks.
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  Speaker 1: Youngest.
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  Speaker 3: Three knocks. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks.
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  Speaker 3: And him, Volpe looked really good. Spencer Jones looked really good.
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  Speaker 3: Austin Wells had a better second half and came on late,
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  Speaker 3: but he hit under 200. He hit a buck 80
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  Speaker 3: in the regular season. He goes out there and goes
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  Speaker 3: two for three drives in two. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: And it's like everything resets now. And if you're a
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  Speaker 3: Yankee fan, you see this, all these homegrown guys for
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  Speaker 3: the first time, really you're seeing homegrown talent there that
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  Speaker 3: you're like, wow, this is, this is exciting.
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  Speaker 1: Right? Yeah. And, and the storyline is, you know, that
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  Speaker 1: we were talking about is like, I know Yankee hitters
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  Speaker 1: hit left-handers, but they're, they're left-handed dominant. And the Red
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  Speaker 1: Sox had so many great lefties was like, are they
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  Speaker 1: going to be able to kind of stifle this left-handed
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  Speaker 1: Yankee lineup with all their left-handed pitching? And the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: were seven for 13 versus their lefties were seven for
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  Speaker 1: 13 versus left-handed pitchers with, you know, a home run
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  Speaker 1: from Ben Rice.
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  Speaker 4: One of his two was off the lefty.
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  Speaker 1: So, They came through, like you said, Austin Wells, big
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  Speaker 1: at bats, hadn't hit lefties well, just up and down
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  Speaker 1: the line of quality at bats. I thought Spencer Jones
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  Speaker 1: had great A.B. his first when he got out, but
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  Speaker 1: was on a lot of those pitches, swinging it well.
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  Speaker 1: Six RBIs from Ben Rice.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go, Ben.
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  Speaker 3: Let's talk about Ben Rice, bro. Jeez, bro. Four for five,
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  Speaker 3: two homers, a grand slam, a big homer early. It
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  Speaker 3: felt like when he hit the first home run to
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  Speaker 3: put them up 2-0. it felt like it was 6-0
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  Speaker 3: the way the game was going. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you think about all the stats the Yankees have,
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  Speaker 1: and he just put the exclamation point on it.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Every time I watch that guy play, I just love
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  Speaker 1: his game. The bats are just so quality, and he's
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  Speaker 1: in there. He's strong as hell. I mean, that was
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  Speaker 1: a bomb hit to center.
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  Speaker 3: Bomb.
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  Speaker 1: Bomb.
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  Speaker 3: That ball was 108. It barely got over to in
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  Speaker 3: center field. Which, it's deep there at nighttime.
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  Speaker 4: At night, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: When it's a little chilly. Yeah. So, I mean, when
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  Speaker 3: Ben is hot... I said this during the broadcast to
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  Speaker 3: Joe Girardi. You can't call him a streaky hitter because
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  Speaker 3: he hit 40-plus home runs in the regular season. But
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  Speaker 3: when he gets hot, man, it is... He doesn't get out.
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  Speaker 3: And everything he hits is hard. Now, he'll go through
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  Speaker 3: his ruts with the best of them. But, man... He's
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  Speaker 3: been hot late. He got hot at the end of
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  Speaker 3: September and he rode that into the first game of
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  Speaker 3: the postseason. And if he does what he does and
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  Speaker 3: then you add Judge or get the contributions from the
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  Speaker 3: other guys like they did today, this team looks like
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  Speaker 3: a legitimate World Series threat. Like I said, the predictions, Rossi.
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  Speaker 1: You did.
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  Speaker 3: You did. You did.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: Well, talking about how you didn't have to go to
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: your horses. The one kind of saving grace for the
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: Red Sox is their back end is going to be
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: fresh as well. And I said this on air, like,
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: you know, I've got, like, I picked the Red Sox.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Sonny Grace had a phenomenal year. He's had his struggles
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: when he was with the Yankees in Yankee Stadium. But,
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: you know, him on the bump with the fresh back end,
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: you're going to see their best come out tomorrow in
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: that series. But the way the offense looked today, and
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: I know a lot of that had to do with
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Cam Schlittler, you know, it's hard for me to kind
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: of see if the Red Sox, they're not going to
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: go home tomorrow.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, you can't count the Red Sox out, right? No.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: No matter how bad they did look bad tonight, they
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: were struggling bad in September. They've been mediocre since probably August, right?
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: They were playing at such a high level for a
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: really chunk of the dog days of summer. So it
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: had to even out. But They're not going to roll over.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: This team's not going to quit. They're going to come
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: out tomorrow giving everything they have. But it's a big
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: loss with Roman Anthony going down, right? Their leadoff hitter.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: He comes back. He's one of the faces of the franchise.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Re-aggravates his wrist that he hurt. It looked like on
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: a check swing. That's a blow for this team that's
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: already dealing with injuries late in the season.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Well, here's what has kind of put me... I thought
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Wilson getting back would... kind of rejolt this offense but
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: the Red Sox have scored the least amount of runs
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: in September than anyone and I know he's been out
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Roman Anthony's been out like not not all himself Trevor
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Story just came back played pretty good but the offense
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: just hasn't been there and the Yankees rotation I think
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: may have the best staff in the playoffs no doubt
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: maybe maybe by far right and So when you look
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: at those intangibles, that's why I'm saying about, I would
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: never count the Red Sox out, especially this team of
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: what they did in the regular season, but it just
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: hasn't been good in September offensively. And, uh, there, it's
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: not like they get, um, some Joe Schmo, some slap
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: kick tomorrow.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: You know what I mean? It's just going to be Max.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: I mean, and he, exactly. Yeah. Everyone, you could say, Oh,
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Sonny Gray's going to come out, but he got Max freed.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: And then you got Gary Cole and then you got
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Carlos or Don and Carlos or Don's going to be lurking. So,
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: I'm excited for that game. I do think that the
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: Yankees win in two here, but that's what everyone was
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: saying last year with the Red Sox. The Red Sox
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: win in two, and the Yankees turn around and win
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: two games. The only team in this wildcard format to
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: come back after losing game one.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: So who you got game two? You got the Yankees?
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Here's my biggest concern about game two is– the line
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: change that's about to take place on the Yankee position players.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: You're going to have Luis Garcia Jr. who looked good
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: in the bat he got playing first. You're going to
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: have Jazz at second. You're going to have McMahon at third.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: So you're going to have a whole new infield except
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Lombard Jr.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: Wells will be catching. Wells will be catching again.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Wells catching. And then in center, you'll have Spencer, Bellinger,
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: and then in right, Spencer Jones plays right in Grisham.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: So you're going, you have this momentum, right? And these
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: guys just dominated, had a really good game. There wasn't
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: a lot of moves made position player-wise. And now you
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: have a whole new line coming in. So it's like,
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: but again, if these guys buy into this is what
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: it's going to be like in the playoffs and it's communicated,
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: then here we go. Let's roll it out. But that's
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: my one concern for the Yankees tomorrow. Yeah.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Well, I think that's why they put so many guys
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: on the roster and you're right. It is a little
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: bit of like, how are these guys going to get
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: off to their start? But sitting on the bench in
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: a game like that just fuels you for tomorrow, as
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: you know. Well, you've never sat the bench, but as
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: I know, sitting the bench a lot, you can't wait
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: to get your opportunity to get in there.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: It's going to be super focused.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: And the line change, if it works in this wildcard series,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: is really a valuable piece for them going through the
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: playoffs because everybody's going to stay fresh with clean at bat.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: So you can mix and match when you have the matchup,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: the platoon matchup.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: Advantage.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: And if those guys are locked in, it feels like
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: as a manager on the other side, no matter what
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: move I make, Booney's sitting on my neck with a
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: really good hitter.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: No doubt, especially in this wild card format.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Next game, we've got to talk about the one that
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: started all the drama. I mean, we couldn't have gotten
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: a better leadoff game for the postseason this year between
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: the Braves and the Phillies.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: My goodness.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, Jesus Lizardo, you know, we don't know if
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: he's going to go an inning or The last time
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: he pitched, he threw four pitches. The first time he
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: even pitched in September. So much time off. He goes
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: five innings, six Ks, gives up one run. I mean,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: he was as clean as you can expect. And, you know,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Don Mattingly said, like, he gave us way more than
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: we thought. And Chris Sale gives up one in the first.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: And you're like, oh, wait, what?
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: You know, Alec Baum with that double. Two-out double, two-strike,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: just throws his hands at that high heater. I don't
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: know how he hit that ball. But a great at-bat
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: there to give the Phillies a lead. And you're like, oh,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: here we go. Sales may be hittable. And then, sure enough,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: he settles in. And we've got a really good ball
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: game to start this thing. What a great start to
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: the postseason.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: Great start. And Chris Sales' kind of Achilles is he's
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: gotten hit a little bit in the postseason. And he
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: gives up that first run. to the Phillies who have
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: eliminated the Braves their last two times in the playoffs
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: facing each other. So it's like, it starts creeping in. Oh,
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: here we go. Like the Philly, the Phillies, the Phillies
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: look good, right?
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: They look good. Yeah. They look really good.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: And credit to the Braves for, for not giving up.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: And this is why I said, uh, on our last show,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: this Braves team is deep, man. They, they can beat
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: you in a lot of different ways. Um, They tied
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: the game early on with a bunt. Michael Harris bunting
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: to move the runner over, right? Okay, that little thing
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: I don't think fans understand. When you tie the game
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: up early like that, the whole dugout could exhale, right?
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: It's tense. It's the first game of the playoffs. You're
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: at home. I feel like there's a lot more pressure
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: when you start at home in these series. The back
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: and forth. The back-and-forth was awesome.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: Well, the Phillies' offense, too, like just big hits, quality
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: of bats. I was shocked.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I think there were five hit-by-pitches in that game, which
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: is absolutely insane.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: Like talking about all the adrenaline the guys have.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Like guys are chucking it this time of year with adrenaline.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Like they don't know where it's going.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: No doubt.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: I was like, what a weird kind of stat. But
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: we had the back-and-forth.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Walt Weiss started Mike Yastrzemski. Because he just felt right.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: If you look at the numbers, he hit 155 off
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: lefties the last two years. He's 0 for 13 lifetime
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: off lefties in the playoffs. And he gets a start,
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: and he ties the game up on the base hit.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: Two out knock.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Two out knock, which is huge.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So it was a great thing. Jesus Lizardo, we
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: have to give more love to him because he's coming
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: off a shoulder injury. He pitches one inning on Sunday
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: in an elimination game.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: If they lose that, they're going home. And he goes
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: out those five innings, gives them, what, 60-plus pitches, which, again,
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: no one knew what he was going to do. So that's,
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's just, that's who he is. That's who
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: he is, and he left it all on the line
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: for them.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: That Phillies bullpen has been so bad in September, too,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: almost a six ERA. And for him to go out
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: and do that, like set them up to be in
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: that game, to, to, to have a chance to win
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: that game. I thought that was the most impressive thing.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Some of the guys were asking me in the studio,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: it was like, how long do you think he's going
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: to go?
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: Do you think he's tired? I'm like, he doesn't feel
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: anything today.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Like he's probably, he's probably got enough.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Great point. Yeah. He's got a couple of drugs, adrenaline.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Adrenaline, and maybe look at extra ad bill or maybe
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: something a little more, but he, um, He definitely, he'll
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: be sore tomorrow, but that was a gutsy performance from him.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: No doubt.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: You see why he's so dang good, man.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: No doubt. How about JT Rimuto, two RBI triple on
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: the top of the seventh, take a 3-2 lead. Before
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: we hit on that, it was first and third, one out, right?
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: They pinch it, and they bring Crawford.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: In.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: I was watching that game. It's a 2-1 game saying,
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: they should safety squeeze here. to get that run in
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: and tie the game up, right? They didn't. He pops
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: out to shallow right. They don't get the run in,
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: and then JT comes up with a huge triple. He's
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: been struggling. He snapped an 0-for-34 streak on Sunday with
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: an RBI double, and then he hits the triple today.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: So that's a really good sign for them, and that
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: was a huge moment in that game.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: How about Kruke? This is what was great about the broadcast.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: John Kruk. right on cues like I was.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Here yesterday and JT hit extra and every ball he
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: hit was to the right side of the field because
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: that's when he's at his best and the next pitch
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: freaking uh triple down the right field line to score
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: two and give them the lead that was like just
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: talking about like broadcast and doing your homework and being
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: around and like coming from guys that call games me
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: and you like When you get to do something like
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: that and say you, like, feel really good about, you know,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: just speaking your mind in those moments. And, you know,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: like you said, 0 for 34 and coming into going
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: into the last game of the season and gets a
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: one to fall, a double. And so being able to
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: get that big hit for them was huge. And you
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: thought they're on their way.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Here they are.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: They'll close this thing out. And then Don Manley brings
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: in Duran, Duran.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: Duran's the seventh.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: In the seventh.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: They're on in the seventh. Top of the lineup, right?
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Don Manning after the game was like, yeah, top of
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: the lineup. That's what we said. We're going to go seventh, eighth.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: But I'm not buying that. If he had a clean eighth,
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: he's going back out there for the ninth. And you're
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: blowing your closer for three innings because you need that win, right?
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: It's a do or die. So... You're the manager, Rossi.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: You're the manager.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I kind of liked the move where he's... The thing
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: about the Phillies coming into this, no starters. Their bullpen's
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: been crap, right? And all their starters are going to
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: be good on the back end. They're going to get
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Wheeler back, hopefully, in two days. They've got Christopher Sanchez
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: starting tomorrow, who's absolutely nasty. Nola, like, they've got the
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: pitching if they could have won today. That's why when
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: I predicted, I was like, the Braves in two, but
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: if it goes to game three, I like the Phillies,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: and it all has to do with their starting pitching.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: And he went for the jugular, and I got to
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: give him credit. Top of the line, he had a plan.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Top of the lineup.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: This is the dudes.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go with my horse and see how
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: it looks. And he was clean. It was dominant for
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: five hitters. And he got an infield single from Harris
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: that beat it out. And a hit by pitch with
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: two outs in the eighth. And Austin Riley. Austin Riley,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: let's go. Why do you love the postseason? Just like
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: JT Riomuto. You get a free, a clear slate. Everybody's
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: stats are the same. what you did in the regular
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: season doesn't matter anymore.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: Have confidence.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: And Austin Riley goes in with a plan. I love
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: the last time he faced Duran. He, it was a
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: game with a game leading triple off a split finger.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: They were tied four, four in Philadelphia. He hits a
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: triple to right center off a splitty. So knowing that
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: probably getting in your head and things that you've told me,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: it's like, okay, I know he's not throwing me the
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: splitter because I hit it in the gap for a
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: triple last time. So I'm selling out to heater. He
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: sells out, doesn't try to pull off. It stays big
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: part of the field and a freaking three run.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: Jimmy.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Hey, with that, with that game leading home run in
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Braves history, he passed after the seventh inning or after me,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: the stat, right?
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: Seventh inning or after a game leading home run. He passed.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Chipper Jones and Javi Lopez for the most in Braves history.
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: How cool was that?
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, this guy's had moments in the postseason, and
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: then to have the season he had and have this
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: happen to him, so pumped for Austin.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: That was neat. I thought in the first, when he
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: came up his first at bat, there was a guy,
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: it was first and third, one out, or maybe even
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: one out. And I was like, wow, this is a
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: big moment for the Braves right now because if Austin
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: Riley can get this run in or get a base
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: hit here, His confidence to be through the roof, his
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: first about of the postseason. He ends up getting that
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: weird ball off the knob that. Oh, yeah. Way too
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: similar to last year's fiasco of the. pfp to home
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: where you think lizardo's gonna go to second then the
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: next thing you know he's going to home uh and
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: they didn't get the run so for him to come
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: late austin riley if this brave team wants to win
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: like he's he's gonna be a massive part of this
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: and Again, that's the beauty, like you said, Rossi. It's
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: all clean slate. He's been battle-tested. He's a World Series champion.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Third straight postseason, the Phillies blow a lead in the
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: seventh or later. I've got to call out Dave Dombrowski
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: didn't do jack at the deadline. This has been a problem.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: This has been a problem for the Phillies, and they
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: didn't go get bullpen help. We were in there earlier
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: in the year and talking to people around there they
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: knew they needed bullpen help, you know, and I think
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: every team probably needs that. And, and I'm not a
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: GM and I don't, I don't make trades, but you know,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: that was a big swing and miss. Sometimes the front
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: office can help you out a lot and they go
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: out and get a rise.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: He's out. That definitely hurts.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: But when you, when you lose and blow leads in
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: the post season, late in games, those are tough losses,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: tough losses.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: It's a gun punch. It really is. It's Bryce after
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: the game, it's a dagger, right? And, You want to think, okay,
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: get your spirits up. We have Christopher Sanchez tomorrow. But
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: you look at the matchups, Ozzie Albies is 9 for
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: 18 off him. It's 500, right? Austin Riley, 7 for 15.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: He's coming off a huge high off that home run
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: with a home run. Matt Olsen, 6 for 23. Two
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: home runs. So it's not like these guys, the familiarity
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: with Sanchez is not going to phase this Braves lineup.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: So They're going to have their hands cut out for
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: them tomorrow to grind out a win and force a
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: game three.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: All right, guys, make your picks for who wins Phillies
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Braves tomorrow and why. Phillies are 52% on the yes
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: with Christopher Sanchez throwing on the mound.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: $ 100 trade can win you $ 107.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: If you like the Braves, they're 49% on the yes
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: and Tyler Malley.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: Throwing $ 100 will win you $ 197. My polymarket pick. He's
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: going with the Phillies.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: He said.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: The Phillies. Let's go.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: We need a series.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: I think you're crazy, Rossi. I think the Braves. I
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: think the Braves close it out tomorrow. I think it's
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: just too big of a dagger for the Phillies on
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: this one.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be a good one. Another good
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: one in Atlanta, man.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: We talked Sox. It's just, this is, bro, it's the best.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: I love doing this. I love doing this with you.
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: And talking this stuff is so much fun.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: We go out west where I'll see the Petco Park
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: where the Padres beat our beloved Cubbies 8-0. Bro, that park.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: I said it today when I was waiting to get
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: a ride home from Yankee Stadium. It looks like the
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: Padres have their complete mojo back. They're the hottest team
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: in baseball to close out the season. Their stars are starring.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: It started from Jump Street. Fernando Tatis, leadoff homer. First
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: leadoff homer in Padres playoff. history right and then Manny
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Machado a couple batters later with another first inning homer
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: where it was just like Cubs just roll in there
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: and just get absolutely haymakered in the first and Alexander
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: Bogarts hits a home run in the fourth inning all
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: three home runs came off Matthew Boyd's change-ups I mean
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: Michael King Rossi I think Michael King future Cub he's
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: gonna opt out of his pot I'm willing this to
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: happen you're.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Throwing that in the universe like.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: Crazy He's a perfect fit. He's going to opt out
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: of his Padres deal, although it would be hard to
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: leave San Diego with that atmosphere. Seven innings, gave up
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: one hit, struck out eight.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: No hitter through six. He was dominant, man. Absolutely dominant. Man,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: I hadn't seen Petco rocking like that. Everybody I've talked to,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: I haven't been out there in a while, everybody I've
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: talked to has said it's a real home field advantage now.
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: No doubt.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: That place was packed and loud.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: Loud, bro. That place is, dude, they're sneaky like the
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: top four or five attendants now the last three to
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: five years. This is a different Petco Park that you
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: grew up going to, right? You were probably going to Qualcomm.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: I was going to Qualcomm early on.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: Don't hate. That's their old stadium back in the day
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: where the San Diego Chargers used to play. Not only
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: are the San Diego Chargers not in San Diego anymore,
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: neither is that stadium, so.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: But, Michael, we got to touch on Michael King, man.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: First Padre in history with a no-hit bid of five-plus
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: innings in a postseason game. Like, he was locked in.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: That two-seamer, he's another guy. He went to the sweeper
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: more than he ever has. He was absolutely dominant. Nasty stuff.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Had a great offense. I mean, the Cubs' number one
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: offense in all of baseball. And he made them look
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: like they were a team that shouldn't be in the postseason.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: He was dominant.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: Michael King was dominant. I mean, he's pitched in big
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: games before. And he's a great– I know him personally.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: He works hard. Guys love him. He's confident on the mound.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: He's convicted in every single pitch he throws. And what
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: a great way for that staff and that team and
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: that city to start off the series. And then I
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: think the coolest moment was Joe Musgrove. Surprising being added
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: to the series, to this roster, pitching the ninth. He
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: got a really massive standing ovation from the Padres, the
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: Friar Faithful, as they call themselves. And I thought that
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: was just a cool moment.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: That was cool.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: For him, he hasn't pitched in almost two years to
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: grind his way back and not give up on this
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: season for a moment like that.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Well, and I think that's the most impressive thing. You
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: come off an injury and you're working hard. so much
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: to watch the team perform, get to the post season,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: watch everybody celebrate. And you're just continue to work. You
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: put in the work ethic and two years worth of,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: you know, training room and rehab and minor league starts
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: and just trying to get yourself back. And now you're
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: closing out game one of the, of the wild card
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: series for the, for the Padres in your home park. Like, again,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: I thought I'm with you. What a cool moment. for
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: him and the Padre faithful. Really, really cool on the
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: back end of a tough game for the Cubbies.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: No doubt. It's just exactly like you said, a tough game,
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: disastrous game, honestly. It just started from the get-go. Bregman
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: was 0 for 4 with three punch-outs. He DH'd. PCA
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: struggled 0 for 3 with three strikeouts. You're two dogs, right,
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: with six strikeouts. And In a game like this, it's
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: like a goldfish, Rossi. You've got to have a short-term memory.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: Turn the page, boys.
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: Turn the page.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: You've got Nick Pavetta on the mound tomorrow. You have
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: Kevin Gossman, who is a big game pitcher. He pitched
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: in the World Series last year. He's going to get out.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: The Cubs can come back, and they need to silence
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: that crowd early, which is going to be hard to do.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: You know the other thing that stood out to me,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: and you know this as well as anybody, but You
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: can have a great season and be the dude all
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: season long, but if you don't show up in the playoffs,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: people are going to bury you.
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: You've seen it in New York.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: I know tonight's cold Cubs offense was more about Michael
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: King than them. I don't even think they had many
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: hard-hit balls. I think Nico hit a couple maybe hard
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: ground balls that were nice plays from Cronenworth at second,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: but there wasn't a whole lot of hard contact tonight.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Nick Pavetta, absolutely shoved his last start against the Dodgers.
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: So they got their work cut out for them.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: But I would expect the Cubs offense to show up tomorrow.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: We got our boy Kenny Chesney going on tour next summer, Rossi.
• 37:50
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• 38:29
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• 38:30
  Speaker 1: We've been in the vibe room. We've been in the
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: vibe room. That's a spot. That's a spot. And with
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Church and Sheryl Crow, like, I mean, what a tour
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: it's going to be.
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: It's always good.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: He always ends in Boston at Foxboro. He always starts
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: in Tampa. I've been to that one. Maybe we'll have
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: to have a meeting in Chicago, maybe a podcast from Chicago.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: With Kenny on it?
• 38:51
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• 38:51
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• 38:52
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• 38:52
  Speaker 3: That'd be nice.
• 38:52
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• 39:05
  Speaker 1: All right, to wrap it up, let's talk to a
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: little White Sox Astros. Man, what another just– and you
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: must have seen it because you called them to win, but.
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: I was not expecting such quality.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: No one saw it coming, Rossi.
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: I was not expecting.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: The quality of bats that I saw from such a
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: young lineup.
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: These guys, I was paying attention.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Eight of their 11 hits were up the middle or
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: the other way, including Montgomery's home run to center field
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: was absolute bomb at, at, at what it's not minute
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: made anymore, but you know, at the Astros stadium.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: In Houston, it was, it was, it was, it was crying.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, when you go up that wall and dead
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: center Houston, you're doing something. And, Um, quality at bats
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: over and over again, controlled the strikes on, got on
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: base and, uh, Will Venable with how he handled that
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: pitching staff, just ran through those guys.
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: Hagan Smith starting it off with, you know, three innings.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Keeping those guys, those at bats, um, you know, at bay, uh,
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: six and nine, six of nine innings, the leadoff guy
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: was on for the White Sox. you know, that's a
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: winning formula for when you, when you get that lead
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: off guy on you, you're, you're putting pressure on the
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: opposing pitcher.
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: You're able to do a lot of things as a manager.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Like we used to talk about that, get that lead
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: off guy on at 16. We, we dominated when you
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: get that lead off guy on. So really important stat
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: for me. And the other one, the top four hitters
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: for the Astros were one for 12 until the eighth
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: inning when they started to get a little momentum. But
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: That group, the one through four for the Astros, led
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: all of Major League Baseball in OPS during the season.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: So that's their bread and butter. If you can keep
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: them at bay, you got a really good chance to win.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: And I thought the White Sox looked really good for
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: a young group handling their first postseason.
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: No doubt. And say what you want about both teams
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: and how they got in and the records and first
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: playoff game in history of both teams going an opener
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: in the first game. But Will Venable, man, he... He
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: was the right calls all day. And he was calm.
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: And people forget he was under Bruce Bochy for a
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: few years in Texas and won a World Series with him.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: So he saw how one of the best to ever
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: do it managed. And Will is so smart. He went
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: to school at Princeton. He had a great major league career.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: He's a great person. So it couldn't be happier for him.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: And also Colson Montgomery. He's moved down to the nine hole.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: He's struggling bad. He sets the single season strikeout record.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: He has 31 home runs on the year, and he
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: hits a bomb out of the nine hole, right? And
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: these are the things for this White Sox. That's why
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: I said it. I think this team is so close
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: that when you're that close, it can get you farther
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: than talent, right? They may not be more talented than
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: the Houston Astros, but it just looks like this team
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: loves each other.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, young guys with nothing to lose,
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: and it felt like that today. These guys just went
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: out and played baseball. The one thing that I think,
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: we talked a little bit about Mattingly going to Duran
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: for multiple innings. Will Venable went to Grant Taylor for
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: two innings, and he had to work really hard. I mean,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: 54 pitches, a career high. He's spent for tomorrow, so
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: That's their horse at the back end.
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: And he had to earn it.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Against the Houston Astros today. But I'm career high of
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: 40 before that.
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: So he was stretched.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: Pretty long today to lock down that win. And Will
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: Venable said after the game, we don't know about tomorrow's star.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: We're just going to go out and get this W.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: So I think they're starting Sean Burke, they said, came.
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: Out a little bit later.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: But a really cool win for the White Sox. It's
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: been a while since they've won a postseason game. Coming
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: off multiple wins. 100 lost seasons and to win your
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: first postseason series for a.
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: Lot of young guys.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: On the road. On the road, yeah. In Houston.
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: With the veteran presence that those guys have, yeah.
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: No doubt. And tomorrow is going to be a tough test.
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, the Astros have Hunter Brown on the mound.
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: White Sox are kind of with Sean Burke. So, but again,
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: it's an elimination game, right? If someone bridges, if Morikami
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: bridges Hunter Brown early, it's a lot of pressure on
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: the Houston Astros. So, it, uh, I got the White
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: Sox winning tomorrow. I actually, Rossi, this is a crazy prediction.
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: I think every series is closed out tomorrow.
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah. Well, that's crazy.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got Houston winning tomorrow. Some little bit of
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: off-the-field drama. Some guys were upset with the boos they got, too.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, they were not happy with the Astros fans.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Are the Astros fans a little spoiled?
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: They've been to the postseason a lot.
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: They've got high expectations. Hold on.
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: I'm just asking.
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: Are the Astros players spoiled? Rossi, I played in New York.
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: You played in Boston. We played in Chicago where they
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: don't boo you as much. But, dude, these fans want
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: to see. They pay a lot of money to come
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: to see clean baseball. It's a bunch of pass balls,
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: a little bit of a sloppy game in Houston. I
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: understand where the players are coming. What they're saying is
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: not wrong.
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: No, they're right.
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: But you don't, you just, as a professional, it's probably
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: one of those things in the media relations class that
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: you take that you just don't say because you're just
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: adding fuel to a fire, right?
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: Well, what worries me, them going forward, if that's actually
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: in their head. You know, I thought Schwarber's quote at
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: the end of their game was like, we can play
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: what-ifs already, but we can what-if out the door, but
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: when we come in here tomorrow, it's all hands on deck,
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: time to go back to work.
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean. That's all it's about.
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: It's about tomorrow now.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: Once you lose, especially in postseason, flush it as fast
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: as you can, take your 15, 20 minutes, be pissed off,
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: and then let's go tomorrow. Like, tomorrow's the day we
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: get hot and raw. I mean, we were down 3-1.
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: We know a little bit about that.
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: No doubt. No doubt. Yeah, it's never over until it's over.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: Speaking of that, Rossi, listen to this. Today, on the
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: Today Show, Sylvester Stallone was there.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: Sick.
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: Rocky.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: Did you?
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: Bro, I froze. He was on before me, and he
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: was done with his hit, and I was outside in
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: the plaza, and he walked right by me. And I
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: was like, and I just froze, and he walked by me.
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: I was like, no, come back. I need to tell
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: you my dancing stories.
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: I've got a story to tell you.
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: That's so great. You saved the 108-year curse.
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: That's so great. I love that.
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: All right, let's get into some ball bags. Let's get
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: into our question. This is our Tim Buss question. daily
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: ball bag now where we take questions from our fans,
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: our favorite part. We'll be doing this all playoffs, every show.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: Submit your questions to our socials, to YouTube, or you
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: can email rossandrizzo at gmail.com. First emails from Matt, which
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: is right on cue where we were just talking about
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: with fans. With Tony, that's me, playing in New York
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: and Rossi in Boston, those fan bases seem like a
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: polar opposites to the Cubs. I know all I know
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: that all are passionate, but Cubs fans are clearly more
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: positive and less likely to boo a struggling player. My
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: question is, does the positivity motivate you more than the
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: fear of being booed? Or are you able to tune
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: out the boos?
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear, I think you hear the boos, like
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: it sucks to get boos because you already know when
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: you're getting booed, you're playing like shit. So you're like,
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: no duh. Like, yeah, I know I suck or we
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: suck at the time. So it does, it definitely doesn't help.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: And it sucks getting booed.
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: I got, I got booed.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: I got pinch hit for, or sorry, they traded Paula
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: Duca when I was in L.A., And I was struggling.
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: I stunk.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: But they traded Paul LaDuca. We were going to the
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: postseason to pick up Steve Finley in center field. And
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: it's like every time I thought my name had changed
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: to David Boo.
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: Because every time I said.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: Now batting David, it's like Boo!
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: He sucked!
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: I was like, Jesus, I didn't trade the guy. You know,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: I'm trying my best. So, you know, that does suck.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: But it also, like you said, fans have a right
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: to do their thing. And I thought like when I
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: was in Boston to this, to Matt's point, I didn't
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: want to be the reason to fail. That fan base
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: was so, they had a lot of baseball knowledge and
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: they had high expectations. And so like my fear of,
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: it's not going to be me that lets the team
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: down today, you know? So that's how I carried it
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: a little bit. So it took my game up a
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: little bit later.
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: In my career.
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, playing in Chicago, the fans there are
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: always behind you. Very rarely do they boo. Maybe if
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: it's a few, bad bonehead plays that happen maybe you'll
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: hear that or if you don't hustle but they just
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: like good clean base good baseball in new york now
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: is on the other hand it's funny because i was
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: in new york i'd have multiple players pissed off at
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: me saying i i always said i'm unbovable because i
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: never got booed in new york which was awesome Like,
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: I rarely, if anything, got booed in New York, right?
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: They said you were a made man in New York.
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, the Italian last name. I don't know,
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: you know? Me and the Yankees fans have a special connection.
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: I love them. But they're passionate, man. And I feel
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: like that passion sometimes turns into anger where they start
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: booing for the wrong reasons. Like, if the team's not hitting...
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: And they're out there and they're playing clean baseball and
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: you're getting booed right away. That wears on you, right?
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: It does. It 100% wears on you as a player.
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: But again, this is what we signed up for, right? So,
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: there's not a lot of sympathy for guys in Houston
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: that are saying, oh, we need our home fans. Like,
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: go play in New York, dude. You know what I mean?
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: Go play in Boston. Go play in these big markets
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: where they will beat you up. Philly. Are you kidding me?
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: You say that in Philly? You probably don't even make
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: it to the stadium the next day.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: Well, the one thing I would tell fans or encourage
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: fans is like, remember when Trey Turner, they just started
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: cheering him and it turned his season around. If you
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: want to help, you can be mad and you can
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: boo if that's your choice, but if you want to help,
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: if you want to help me, try to find the
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: positive and be loud and cheer somehow. Find something positive
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: because that's the.
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: Only thing that helps.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: Fans have more, they can help so much with their
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: energy and their positivity and their cheering, the momentum that
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: you feel from that when they're all behind you. And yeah,
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: that's usually when things are going good, but if you
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: can find some way to cheer when things aren't going
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: your way, you know, like.
• 50:14
  Speaker 4: Guys are busting it.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: It can help.
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: It can help.
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: That's all I would say.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, there, it is like, it is true. Sometimes
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: you just need to get away from your home crowd
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: for a little bit. Even in Chicago, we would say
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: we just need to get on the road and just
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: get out of Wrigley. We got a Yankee stadium, but
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: the fans drive the game and I love interacting with them.
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: And it's part of the game to get booed. It's, it's,
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: That's the beauty of this game. You go to these
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: certain parks and you know what I mean? It's you,
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: you better be ready. You better bring it. You know
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: what I mean? All right.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: Another email here from Matt McAuley. What will it take
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: for the Sox to advance with such a limited pitching staff?
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: Also Rizzo, how tough was it facing Josh Hader as
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: much as you did?
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's, I think that the Sox can advance, uh,
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: To the ALCS. I really realistically think that because their
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: familiarity with who's waiting for them is the Cleveland Guardians.
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: And that's a crapshoot because they play each other so
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: many times. So there's so much familiarity there. Their staff
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: isn't built for a seven-game series. They can win a
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: five-game series, especially in the American League because they play, off, play, off, play, play.
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: So game one and two, there's off days in between
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: them and three. Yeah, look, their run isn't going to
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: end with them winning the World Series. I just don't
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: think that. But enjoy the ride if you're a White
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: Sox fan. Enjoy postseason baseball back in Chicago on the
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: south side.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: And we haven't seen, we also have not seen, talking about, Uh,
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: the socks.
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: Oh, I thought they were talking about the red socks. Sorry.
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: The limited staff, the white socks. Okay.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: I was going to say, we hadn't seen crochet yet.
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: I was like, Oh yeah. Well, they're stacked. And then
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: facing hater, you know, for, I had good at baths
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: off hater. It was always a fun matchup and he
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: had the best of me. I was three for 14
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: off home. I had a home run off home, which
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: is one of my better home runs in my career
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: off Josh hater. Cause he's just nasty.
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: I think I remember that in Milwaukee, right?
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: In Milwaukee. We ended up losing the game.
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: You walked four times.
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah. It was always good at bats. And I remember
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: seeing something, him saying something about that in an interview
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: one time. And I loved it because I feel like
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: every time we face each other, it was just, it
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: was so dialed up. And it was like a mutual respect.
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: So he's one of the best to do it and
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: he'll be fresh to go tomorrow. So that's going to be,
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: that might be the one series that goes to game three.
• 52:57
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: All right. All right.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: Email from Nolan Kramus, Krams, Krams, Krams.
• 53:04
  Speaker 4: What, what question?
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: Uh, my question is what's the feeling of getting to
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: see your parents for the first time after becoming a
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: world series champ?
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: I mean, every series it builds and you get excited
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: and your parents are with you and your spouse, your
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: wife and your girlfriends and your, fiance's or whoever it is,
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: every series, you just get closer and closer and you
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: win the world series. For me, my mom and dad was,
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: it was just emotional, right? You go back to all
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: the little league days and the travel days and playing
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: catch in the backyard with your mom and dad and
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: just everything that got you to that point. And they
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: were my rocks for me. So, well, it was, it
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: was awesome.
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: And when you like, I put myself like now that
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: we're dads, like you imagine your son winning the world
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: series and be able to watch them on that journey
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: and what you watch their whole life turn into.
• 54:06
  Speaker 4: Like they're there.
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: You don't get, I think you get proud of yourself
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: at small moments throughout your career.
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: Like that was fun or that was cool. I did that.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: But when my kids do something cool, I don't care
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: if it's like an 11 year old middle school volleyball game.
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, you know, I'm like raging. So you're
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: so proud. And then, My favorite line to my wife
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: after we won for the first time when I was married,
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: I was like, what's it like to make out with
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: a world champ?
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: Is that what you said, make out?
• 54:37
  Speaker 4: Well, I didn't say make out.
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: I was like, I don't know. Yeah. All right. Too much. TMI.
• 54:42
  Speaker 4: TMI.
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: I have a funny story. My dad used to always
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: hand out my baseball cards. From when I got drafted
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: to the Red Sox, he'd come and just hand out
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: my cards, and I'm to everyone. And then I'd be signing.
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: I'm like, dad, can you please stop everywhere? We go,
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: we go to Italy. He's got pictures of me and
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: handing them out. So it would always just kind of
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: drive me crazy. And he, I know it was because
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: he was proud and Anthony jr. Turned one in June.
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: And we had, uh, Emily had rookie of the year,
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: baseball cards made up. And I couldn't wait to give
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: my first baseball card to my dad. Right.
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: Your sons.
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: That's yeah. And even give them out to people. I've
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: showed you it. So it's just now being a dad
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: and seeing just how proud parents they probably were and
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: always have supported me. It's the best feeling in the world.
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: Great question.
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: Great questions. Keep them coming. Thank you, everyone, for watching
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: and listening. We'll be back tomorrow breaking down all the
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: Game 2 games, reactions, drama. Big moments. Highlights. Lowlights. All
• 55:55
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• 55:58
  Speaker 3: We'll see you tomorrow. Peace!