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162 Recap + Wild Card PREVIEW · The 3-0 Take

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take where we talk
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all things Major League Baseball.
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Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes.
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It all starts right now. Welcome back to the Three O Take
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presented by Chinook's TV. This is episode 572.
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I'll be your host, Kyle Corwin. I'm here with my Co host Nate
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Reyes. Nate.
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KC how are we, pal? Clap it up, clap it up.
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Another season in the books. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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yeah, yeah. Clap it up.
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Clap it up. Another regular season in the
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books. Yeah, it's good.
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It's good, good clarification because we're about to about to
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run the gauntlet here. Yeah, for the next month, but.
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There really is a gone. There's still a month of
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baseball left. Holy cow.
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It really does kind of feel like the end of the year.
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But then we're like, Nope, that's this happens every year.
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But man, what a finish. Wild.
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And I'm, can I let me just get out in front of this and say I
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have no notes? I have to apologize.
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And if well, I'm not even going to apologize was it was in
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Boston this weekend, you know, heard that there isn't a team
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that was clinching a a post season berth this weekend.
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So I said, hey, let me go out and catch that.
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We did. It was great electric, but.
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It was got back. Literally just got back, got
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home half hour ago. So we're just going to, we're
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just going to wing this thing. I feel this out.
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It's not. Even winging it.
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I, I mean, I'm, I'm kind of, kind of got a feel for what's,
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what's been going on today. They, I was getting all the
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updates via the different broadcasts I was listening to on
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our 10 hour drive home today. So I was doing my best to keep
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up with the tiebreakers and everything as, as things are
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unfolding. But man, what a finish.
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What a finish. I love, I love how people are
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like, that's why we play 162. And I'm like, yes and no.
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Like this could very easily have happened if we played 150 games
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or 100 games or yeah, 84 games, like what 162?
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Like that's just playing 162 games.
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Doesn't mean that we have all this craziness at the end of the
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end of the season like that. Any number of games could lead
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to this. But just the way it is.
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But I think the argument is more so the fact that like when
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people sit back and they're like, my team is going to go far
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this year or my team sucks this year.
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And you just I don't think really truly like fathom how
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close and competitive for the most part, I would say 90% of
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the teams in the league are. And like, even like the Marlins
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sticking around, like who? Who would have thought that the
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Marlins were going to be in a competitive position with a with
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a week left of of the regular season?
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Like no one really would have thought of that.
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Let's go Marlins. Let's go Marlins doing a huge
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solid. Today, by the way, for the
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people. For the people, for baseball,
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for the world, honestly. We needed it and they delivered
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pitch to shut out. Wasn't a shutout I, I actually
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didn't catch that particular broadcast.
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I I did see they did what they needed to do, but I didn't see
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that they they pitched A shutout.
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I. Think it was 3/4 nothing.
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Oh man, I love that it was it 4 nothing?
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I think it was 4 nothing. 4 Nothing.
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I love that. That's such a that's such a
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beautiful way to end the year, honestly.
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Makes five hits, no runs. Almost makes you shut a tear if
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we're being honest. That's huge.
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But yeah, what a finish. It was actually funny.
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I was listening to the the Sox broadcast today, which before I
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before I go any further on that can, can I just go ahead and say
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and I I would venture to say you probably agree with me here as
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well as most other baseball fans the whole starting at the same
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time on for 162. Love that.
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Yeah, need it. Love that.
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Yeah, I love that there's not like a night game right now that
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we're having to like, worry about.
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Yeah, like the the nationals and Royals or something, no
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disrespect, but yeah, we, we, we don't need that.
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So that's that's a big fan of the the same, same start time
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today. That was big.
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But as I was mentioning, I was listening to the Sox broadcast
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today on the way home and they're they're literally giving
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the the radio booth was giving updates to various situations.
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Every other batter. It was like, OK, well, with that
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swing of the bat in Cleveland means that there's a chance that
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the Tigers and so on and so forth.
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And they were going and they were just covering every team
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like they had that they in fact, they had the the Rays game up on
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the I think it was Will Middlebrooks was like, Oh, well,
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I've got the Rays game up here on my laptop here real quick.
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So they were just giving updates and I was like, this is the
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madness that we love in on one CC 2.
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So I was a big fan of that. Yeah, the Yankees broadcast for
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the last few days has had like the like a very like light,
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almost translucent like score bug in the bottom right corner
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the whole game of the Rays Blue Jays.
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So it's kind of cool. Just like, and again, they refer
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to it and they like they were talking about like, yeah,
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players are going to scoreboard watch like coaches scoreboard
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watch like it's there is an aspect to it.
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And, and I think what's cool about is because we spend like
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all year, literally all year hearing the politically correct
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presser answers, the the media answers of like, we're just
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worrying about us. We're worrying about today,
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we're worrying about the game tomorrow.
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Like we just got to get through this series.
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Like that's like all they ever say.
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And then when it comes down to it at the end, yeah, obviously
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you're paying attention. You're wanting to win certain
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games, you need to win certain games, you need other teams to
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lose. Like, it's just funny to me that
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they all pretend like that doesn't matter for 98% of the
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freaking season. And then it comes down the
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stretch. It's like, yeah, we need a
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little help. We need a little help from
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somebody. Need a little help and who
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knows, maybe we're even kind of punting on this game because we
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don't want a particular match up.
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It's like OK, now the truth comes out.
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This is kind of been the case for the last week or two even
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where teams are kind of like, well, do we really want to do we
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really want the BI? Do we really want to go on the
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road to play XYZ team? It's like, just be honest, just
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you're, you're one of us. You're you're like the rest of
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us. Players, managers, front
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offices. You're like us.
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You're like a a plan to with starters, you know?
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Oh yeah. Like, it's, I don't know.
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I love the the scramble at the end of the season, and in a
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weird way it feels like this last week just kind of like
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snuck up and now it's just like, I can't believe we're already in
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the postseason. Well, you know who's not saying
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that is the New York Mets. So let's start there.
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That's the have a good night. We'll see you later.
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Have a good offseason. We'll see you in March.
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If you're listening, you don't want to continue.
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No, they're probably, they're probably on a hate list, and I
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know I would. Want to?
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They're like, miserable, right? Now I hit the Mets Twitter
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account with they posted the UPS the the update after the game
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like final Marlins 4 Mets zero. I just hit it with an LOL
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because I'm like that. There's there's nothing that you
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could say to Mets fans right now that would make them feel any
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better. Give them any hope moving
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forward, validate any success that they may have encountered
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this season because it was all for nothing.
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At one point in the season, they were the best team in baseball.
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And here they are on the outside looking in just the way it was
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meant to be. And honestly, all, all my hatred
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for the Met that I have for the Mets just came flooding back.
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I was like, all those nice things I've said about them for
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the last year or two. Now I just feel like I had to
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check a box, truthfully. But now I'm like, this is this
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is how it was supposed to be. The Mets back to Mets in this is
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This is baseball. All is right.
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It feels like all is right. All is right.
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I mean, is there is there really much to say on the matter?
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I mean, I, I wanted to to acknowledge it because of the,
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you could call it collapse, the downfall, the.
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I think it's weird that they're getting, I mean, it is the Mets
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and obviously the amount of money they spent, but it's weird
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that this is getting more attention than the collapse of
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the Tigers, you know? Fair, but to the credit of
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Tigers fans, they. Still got in, I guess they.
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Still got in it. It would have been tragic had
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they let it completely slip away.
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I mean, they they clinched what, 161?
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Yeah, Saturday they finally got in the dance.
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But yeah, yeah, the Mets, man, How you, how you let that slip
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away? I, I I don't.
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Know against the Marlins. And what did we say, though?
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What I I literally said before this series, I said this isn't
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going to be a throwaway series for the for the Mets.
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You can't go into this series against the Marlins, who had
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been playing pretty, you know, pretty good ball.
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No, right. Am I?
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Am I going crazy there? I think they played they they
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played competitively all year. Seven, they finished year 79 and
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83 seven and three in their last ten.
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Like not in fact, I think I heard the other day that was it
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the Marlins, they had like one of the better win win
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percentages of all Major League teams in the second-half or I, I
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don't remember the the exact verbiage, but it was something
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to that effect, I think. But you, you just can't go into
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that series thinking that you're going to punch your ticket in
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your sleep. You just can't.
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And sure enough, they didn't. So credit to the Marlins.
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Let's go Marlins I. Love God, I just.
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I love the Marlins. Big Marlins guy, honestly.
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Big Marlins guy the Did you hear Keith Hernandez in the booth
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just completely complaining about the Marlins taking a
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picture in front of the dugout? Like on the field they took like
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a team picture. Like literally every other team
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that punches their ticket does like the Tigers were take I I
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saw them, they're taking their picture out in front of the
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Green monster. Or maybe it was at at the
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moment. You do it wherever you are.
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But I mean, I, I he's like, they're taking a picture like
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they won the division and then another guy's like, well, this
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is their World Series. And it's like, dude, you guys
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are just salty and bitter. And the truth is, is that like,
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if I was a Marlins fan, if I, I would, I would be pretty
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satisfied with this year. I think there's a lot to be
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excited about. There's a lot of talent over
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there. And I like that they had some
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pride this last series. I mean, we've seen that on
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multiple teams where it's just like play for some pride, man,
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Like go out there and and finish the season strong.
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And some did, some didn't. So sucks to suck on the Mets
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side, though. I mean, that's just I.
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I love it. So good.
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Pete, Pete Alonzo like 90 seconds after.
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The last. Out, I'm out.
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I'm out. Oh, I love it.
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The the franchise is coming. Just crumbling down.
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I love it. Yeah.
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Oh, man, that's good. That's good.
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We can all. We can all should be excited
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about that. Was there any other?
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Heartbreaking news that came out of Mets camp in the aftermath.
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I mean, I saw the Pete thing, I don't think.
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So, but I mean, that's that's enough talk.
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Edwin Diaz being gone, I don't think he's, I don't think, well,
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he's already set to be a free agent, right?
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I don't think there was an option there.
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No, I'm just saying not as much like speculation.
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I'm just saying, did anybody come out and say like this was
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the most embarrassing collapse, I'm quitting the team or
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anything like that? No, not yet.
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Or did Mr. Met announce his retirement or something to that
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effect? Who Who really knows?
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Honestly though, I, you know, with the Mets, I wish the Reds
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could have clinched with a with a finished the finished year off
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with a dub. But that's not what we needed.
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That's not what we needed. And frankly, this is.
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Actually better I feel like. I like this more like the the,
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the script we laid out. We said, you know, do what you
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got to do. If you get, if you're going to
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get swept out of the wild card, so be it.
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The Mets took it a step further. They're like, it's very possible
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we get swept in the wild card, but we're also going to lose the
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final game. Even though we know Kyle is a
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big believer in, you know, punching your ticket with a win.
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We're going to, we're going to do the opposite because we want
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to, you know, twist the knife that much more.
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The Reds just don't care. I just don't care.
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Just can't be the Mets. That's all they said.
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I'm so here for it. That's all, Terry said.
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In the in the in the clubhouse, he was just like, they just
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can't be the Mets boys. They listened.
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Like, you know, in that, you know, in the like the high
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school football movies where the coach comes in and the guys are
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all sitting around and you need to write something up on the
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whiteboard. And he's like, all right, man,
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let's go. And they give a big hurrah and
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go charging out and beat the team or whatever.
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All Terry did is walk in pregame on the whiteboard, right?
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Writes, can't be the Mets and walks out.
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And the boys looked around and said, we, we know what we have
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to do today. We have to lose because we know
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that the Mets are also going to lose and we have the tiebreaker
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so. To text my boy down in Miami,
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say hey, get it done. Because we're we, we're not
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going to get it done. I'm not interested in that.
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We are so far from being interested in earning our way
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into this. We we want to absolutely back
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our way into this. So good.
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I'm here for it. Any who's was there any any
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anything else? I don't think anybody else got
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left out to dry today as as the Mets did the Astros.
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We already knew really it was just about seed shuffling today
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bit beyond the Mets saga. So let's talk about let's talk
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about who's in. Do you just want to how do you
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want to do this? You want to, I mean, we, we can
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lay out, we can lay out the the situation here.
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So for no, for sure, for sure. But as as the as the picture
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stands officially, now that we have wrapped up 162 on the
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American League side, you've got the Jays as the top seed, having
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won their game and owning the tiebreaker today as the Yankees
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also won. So they get the number one seed
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in the American League. The Mariners finish with the
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number two seed, Guardians finish with the three seed,
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Yankees finish with the 4th, Sox with the 5th, and Tigers with
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the 6th. On the National League side,
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Brewers locked up the number one Phillies #2, dodgers #3, Cubs
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#4, Padres #5 and Reds number six.
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So how do you want to do this? You just want to bounce around,
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match up to match up and. Yeah, yeah, let's just talk
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match. Ups, I say we save our You want
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to save our predictions for the end, Yeah.
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That's fine. Or you just want to give our
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prediction as we go along? No, I don't care.
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It might be hard because if we might be leading, the might be
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leading the audience a little bit with.
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Probably a little bit some. Perspective.
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Well, let's see, I mean, we just go in order of the schedule of
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how it's being played. So Tuesday, first games of the
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Wild Card series will begin one O clock.
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Eastern is going to be the Tigers and the Guardians, which
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I love the fact that this is this is how the season ended.
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It's how it's going to line up or it just feels poetic in my
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mind. I like that they're facing each
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other. I mean, you it is Scooble.
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You're going to see Scooble. I'm so it they they've they've
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beaten Scooble the last two times they've faced it correct
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Or they have at least won the games that he started.
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I don't know if he got hit with back-to-back losses.
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I. Don't know if he took the yell
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personally, but yeah. I mean, I, I just, I got to feel
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really good. If I'm a Guardians fan, I got
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to. I got to feel confident for this
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first series anyway. It was it was official with the
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Sox beating the Tigers today in the in in 162 in the finale.
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So they already knew that they had won the Central.
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But to punctuate it with a walk off, Yeah, I mean, I know I
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that's. One way to do it.
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Right, and I know that I I beat the whole like you got to punch
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your ticket with a win. I know I beat that into the
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ground. But like there is something to
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be said for, I don't know, like rewarding your fan base by
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winning the central, punching your ticket.
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You know, technically whatever when it for for the for the
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division with a walk off. Like there's just something to
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be said to round out your season that way, going into a match up
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against a team that we all know vibes could not be lower with.
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So to your point, you got to love being a Guardians fan right
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now. Side note, not to brag or
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anything but brag. Man, let's hear it.
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I said the Guardians were going to win the division this year
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and no one believed me. Was this a recent thing or are
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you talking about pre season predictions takes?
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Wow, good for you. I had a lot of haters on that.
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Lot of people. If you go back to the comments,
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you'd be like, Cleveland sucks. I'm actually half tempted to go
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back right now and just not that I'm disagreeing with you, but
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I'm saying I kind of want to just like chime in and be like,
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yo what? Yeah, what's up?
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I'm hesitant to do that actually, because then it draws
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attention to it. Draws attention to the fact that
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I was wrong on almost every other.
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Pick. But that's not what we're here
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to do. We're we're here to celebrate
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our wins. I was right on the Guardians, I
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was right on the Phillies. You sure were.
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And that's it. Wrong on a lot of other things.
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Well, for the record, if if we're to pick our pre season
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division winners based on how they played in the second-half,
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I would have been right with my Braves pick because I tell you
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what, was there a hotter team in baseball than the Braves in the
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second-half? Probably, but they played very
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well. Side note, talk about some
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sickos. You know who you are.
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We were in the group chat today. There's a lot going on today.
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We we obviously had football today.
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We had the Ryder Cup going. We had game 160 twos, teams that
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wreck really mattered and I'm getting texts about Braves
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games. Tip of the cap.
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Y'all are sick. Tip of the.
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Cap in the head. You love to torture yourself.
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Yeah, that's, that's a, that's a self-inflicted wound.
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Like, I mean, I applaud you for it, but you're not going to get
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much sympathy for me. If, if, if you're tuning in for
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162. But you know, if, if you just,
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if you just love baseball, I can't even fault you.
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For it. That's so good.
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I am trying to find the the the hold on.
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I'm close World Series 2024 territory.
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Yeah. Oh yeah.
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Now we're now I'm getting getting through all the drafts
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that we did in the offseason. We got.
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Busy. Where is it?
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Come on, guy. Here we go.
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Here we go. Here we go.
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I got it. Wow.
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Nate's picks are bad. Bad.
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Nate's a homie, someone said, oh you someone said oh, you guys
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are restarted. I think that was a typo, but
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ironic. An ironic typo.
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I what what Nate smoking so I can believe that too.
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Someone said is Kyle special needs?
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I said sometimes I wonder. Someone said, hey, shout out.
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Somebody said, for all you who doubted Seattle, hope you
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enjoyed your rude awakening. Oh, that was five days ago.
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That doesn't count. Wow, way to keep her seats
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though. That's big time.
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Wow, somebody. Some bitter, bitter fans.
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Someone said guy on the right is a genius.
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That was you. Yo WTF was Nate on?
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Nate knows bald Nate is my new best friend.
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A lot of love for Nate. Somebody said at least Nate
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believes in US. We don't.
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Know who US is though. In that scenario, I'll do it.
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Let me do a little digging around here.
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Nate knows it's a guy with two women sitting on his lap, so no
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real context there. Let's go ahead and move on.
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Yep, go ahead and move on, somebody said.
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Somebody said at least Nate believes in US NAU Is that
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Northern Arizona? Is that a?
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Is that a college? It is.
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Did you go D backs for something?
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Oh, you did? Yeah.
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Yeah. So that's that's what that is.
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I did, yeah. Someone says Nate's an idiot.
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Yeah, I love Nate. This is the best take I've seen
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so far. D backs win it at all.
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I don't get the Red Sox hype. Well, do you get it now, Gavin?
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Any who's someone says crack kills, I guess that was in
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reference to your picks. Any who's good, good on you.
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Good on you though, because I went Royals as as I've
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mentioned, didn't pan out the way I would have hoped.
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But good on you for seeing seeing the long game here.
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Interesting though, that neither of us picked the Tigers with the
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way that last year went, but maybe we saw the writing on the
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wall. I'm really trying to find this.
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It's in our group chat. I'd like to, I'd like to just
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dig it up, call some people out, you know, There it is, March
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24th, George. I think this might be the year
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Guardians will be like a 70 ish win team like 68 and 72 is what
24:16
he said. I don't think that math checks
24:21
out. Yeah.
24:22
No it doesn't. Tough look.
24:24
I I wasn't going to say anything, but.
24:26
I agree with Kyle and the Guardians.
24:28
I think they're a mid team who will probably win 85 games.
24:31
That's Henry. I mean all I know.
24:37
How far off was I? How was it they won the?
24:39
That's fine. But can we just, can we
24:42
acknowledge, can we acknowledge that?
24:46
I I mean, they won 88 games, so they weren't exactly world
24:51
beaters, but they did enough to beat the Tigers.
24:53
What was crazy is that I still have the over under like win
24:57
loss totals at the beginning of the season.
25:01
The Guardians were at 82 1/2 wins, the Royals were at 82 1/2
25:05
wins, the Tigers and the Twins were both at 83 1/2 wins.
25:08
So no one had faith in competitive baseball in the
25:12
Central at all? Royals finish at 82 and 80, for
25:15
what it's worth, under tough. Anyway.
25:19
But also, while I'm thinking of it, sorry, just comments that I
25:23
read over the weekend as I was had had brief breaks in between
25:28
Fenway and eaten cannolis and everything.
25:33
Somebody was like, it wasn't it? They didn't have the Tigers
25:38
didn't have a 15 1/2 game lead on 2nd place.
25:42
They had a 15 1/2 game on the Guardians.
25:44
I'm like, I don't care. I don't like it was 15 1/2 games
25:48
between them and the team that won the division.
25:51
That's that's a collapse. I don't care that they made it
25:55
in, that's a collapse. But that's all I'm going to say
26:01
on that matter. So thoughts on thoughts on the
26:05
out on on on the outcome? Do you just want to do
26:07
predictions now? Well, that's what I was saying.
26:10
If if you want to go. You want to.
26:13
Schedule. You want to hit the schedule, so
26:17
we're going to have Tigers playing in Cleveland.
26:20
Obviously that's going to be the first game on Tuesday.
26:23
Padres in Chicago facing the Cubbies, Red Sox in the Bronx
26:31
playing the Yanks and then the Reds in LA playing the Dodgers.
26:35
I hate these start times for someone that doesn't have the
26:39
availability personally. Oh, so now, now the West Coast
26:43
isn't isn't the best coast? We get banged.
26:46
We get banged in the postseason. I do.
26:48
I do know that. I do know that.
26:52
Unless you work from home, Good for you if you do.
26:54
But I'm going to have to get strategic with my schedule.
26:58
Cough cough. Yeah, I hear, I hear a cold
27:02
coming on. All right, so that's the
27:07
schedule before we let's let's wrap up our thoughts on this
27:11
guardians tigers thing. Look, I I said it earlier, the
27:18
vibes could not be lower with the tigers guardians.
27:21
You could almost you could almost argue the exact opposite,
27:24
especially with the way that they capped the regular season
27:27
off crazy though, that they have a negative run differential.
27:32
So maybe it's Kyle, maybe it's Kyle.
27:35
Kyle's take from the beginning of the season wasn't so crazy.
27:41
You're wrong, that's all I know. I wasn't far off though.
27:46
Yeah. On the spectrum of right and
27:49
wrong, wrong, but not far off from the middle.
27:54
You know, that's all I can say. Look, I, I, it, it's obvious.
28:05
It's Scubble. And then?
28:06
And then who? It's Scubble and then nobody.
28:11
No disrespect. There's some T-shirts that got
28:16
to be made-up. Scubble, then who?
28:22
You're just good they're talking.
28:24
Cleveland. Are we doing predictions now?
28:28
Yeah, I don't care enough about this, Matt.
28:31
I'm I'm all done with it anyway. What Guardians.
28:34
Tigers. Yeah, I.
28:37
Yeah, neither of them are very impressive.
28:39
Do we have just real quick, do either of us think they're going
28:43
to be in the World Series, either of these teams?
28:46
I can't say that not allowed to say that legally.
28:50
By law, I'm not allowed to acknowledge.
28:55
Give me the give me the guards. Yeah, give me the guards,
28:59
though, They're talking about it.
29:00
They're they're talking about on the on the broadcast today.
29:03
You've got a a team that can spin it well on the bump, a team
29:08
that has swing and miss stuff going up against an offense in
29:11
the Tigers that swings and misses a lot.
29:16
So you combine that with the fact that they have no pitching
29:19
depth to really work with even in a short series, which that
29:22
that has to alarm you. If you're a Tigers fan, you
29:25
don't have enough pitching to make it through a three-game
29:28
series for, you know, much less of five, seven game series.
29:33
That that to me says all that you need to know.
29:37
So yeah, give me guards. How I'm, I lied, it's not going
29:42
to go all three. I'm going to take guards in two.
29:44
Oh, I didn't catch that. Did you say it was going to go
29:46
3? Yeah, I'm going to change my
29:49
mind now. Yeah.
29:52
Yep, Yep. It's a dumpster fire in Detroit.
29:55
No disrespect. Yep, guards into.
29:59
I'm not when I make my graphic though, I'm not.
30:01
I'm not putting into so this is. Just yeah, yeah, yeah, that's
30:04
fine. This.
30:04
Is just for us. This isn't for this isn't for
30:07
public consumption on social. Little bonus.
30:11
Yeah. So we'll go guards into.
30:16
You said you want to go by the schedule, so who's that?
30:18
Padre is next. Cubs.
30:20
Oh, this is an interesting one. It is, and one that I think I'm
30:24
actually, yeah, of the National League match ups, this is the
30:31
one that I'm going to be more locked in on, admittedly, based
30:35
on what we said about the Reds. I mean, they're they, they have
30:39
no interest in playing more than the minimum.
30:43
So yeah, this of the of the National League match ups, I'm
30:46
going to be locked in on Cubs pods.
30:52
I'll just go ahead and get my prediction out of the way.
30:53
Now I'm taking the Padres. You know, you can take the whole
31:00
home field advantage and Wrigley and throw it out the window
31:04
because the Padres bullpen is going to be what wins them this
31:08
series. And frankly, I don't.
31:12
I don't have much to say about the Wrigley home field advantage
31:18
in comparison to the bullpen. Day games, by the way.
31:21
Yeah, even more so. I mean no disrespect.
31:24
I I hear great thing. I have yet to visit Wrigley.
31:28
I just feel like home field advantage isn't isn't
31:30
necessarily in play during the day exactly.
31:33
That's what I'm saying. And well, to be fair, the Cubs
31:37
play a lot of day games, so they're kind of, this is kind of
31:40
their world so that they're kind of used to it.
31:43
But we're talking post season baseball here.
31:47
Like there, there is a there's a different level of rowdiness
31:50
that you get to unlock if you're playing under the lights.
31:54
And unfortunately the Cubs don't get the benefit from that.
31:58
Sorry. So you, you maybe you maybe
32:02
kicked down the home field advantage a notch or two.
32:06
And I just, I think that this you've got up and down that line
32:13
up, you've got guys with postseason experience and then
32:16
the bullpen is just you get it to you get it to the 5th, 6th,
32:24
you're squared away in a short series.
32:27
I'm taking that every time. So give me the pods.
32:29
Good good manager match up too between Shilton and Council I.
32:36
This is a very intriguing match up I heard.
32:40
Brian Kenny today say that they haven't Schultz hasn't gone to
32:45
Mason Miller before the 6th I believe at any point since he's
32:52
been with the Padres. Understandably so.
32:54
But he was making the argument that if you if there was a time
32:59
to go to him, it was it would be in a series like this where
33:06
don't be afraid to use a guy like Mason Miller in the 5th
33:10
inning rather than have remorse after the fact being like, man,
33:15
wish we would have went to Mason Miller in that inning before it
33:17
blew up. Yeah, and I think that's my
33:19
that's what I love about the post season.
33:21
It's just like it is like the it's must win every day.
33:25
It's this inning that matters most to me, right.
33:30
And so it's like I have a tool in my toolbox.
33:34
No point in saving it, which I do like in like, let's get
33:37
through this situation before I start looking too far in advance
33:40
to the next situation. So I do agree.
33:43
I, I do like their bullpen. I like their veteran lineup.
33:49
I, I think I'm probably going Padres as well, but I'll, I'll
33:52
say all three. I'll say the Cubs get one.
33:55
Likewise, yeah, I don't want to. That's my quote.
33:57
That's the Rizzo first pitch. I don't know if he's going to
34:00
get a first pitch, but that's the only Cubs playoff win that I
34:05
said was going to happen was a was an Anthony Rizzo first
34:09
pitch. That's fair, yeah.
34:10
That I got to stick to that. That holds up, yeah.
34:13
I'm a man. I'm a man of my word.
34:15
So yeah. I respect that.
34:19
Do you which? Which game would you give that
34:21
to or give them the win in? I like game two.
34:27
I like Game 2. You say that, you say that is as
34:30
if you've given it some thought. Why Game 2?
34:33
I feel like it's like an emergency button, you know, It's
34:35
like, when in doubt, how do we? Bring in a legend.
34:38
How do we get vibes? Yeah, press that.
34:41
Press that legend button. That's fair.
34:43
You know, the public relations department is like, we got to
34:46
figure something out. We just lost one.
34:48
Rizzo, get him on the horn. Yeah, Speaking of which, super
34:54
quick tangent, and I'm only bringing this up because you're
34:57
reminding me of it. I was watching the game today
35:00
and the guy, the kid I think that went for the Sox today, I
35:06
think his name was Jose de Leon, was in Puerto Rico yesterday.
35:15
They called him last night and we're like, hey, we needed to
35:19
save our bullpen. How many can you give us?
35:22
Guy's been in AAA all year. He's like, how many can you give
35:24
us? He said.
35:25
They said he thought about it and they he he told Corey, he
35:29
said I can give you 120. Ended up giving him like a one O
35:32
5 or something today. Pretty cool.
35:35
Hadn't won a game in AAA all year.
35:38
I think he said he was O and 9:00 and then got the dub today
35:42
and won AC2 and a big game for the Sox.
35:45
Anyway, Yeah, they just said they were like, hey, we got to
35:48
got to get this kid on the horn. You mentioned you mentioned
35:51
getting a legend on the horn. This was not a legend, but still
35:54
getting him on the horn. OK, so you're going pods in
35:57
three. I too will go pods in three and
36:02
I don't like that we're we're 2 for two on on matchups.
36:05
Here, well, we're about to go our separate ways.
36:08
Donnie, yeah, you don't know for sure for sure.
36:11
The other thing real quick, though, last thing I'll say on
36:13
the Cubs, Imanaga has been Cheeks lately, has he not?
36:20
I feel like his. Cubs have really like overall,
36:22
I'm not going to just going to say this last like week or so.
36:25
I'm going to say like this last month have just kind of like
36:31
they're weighed in, they're way into the postseason.
36:33
It's just everything's been eh, like can't tell you why, haven't
36:38
looked at it, any numbers or stats or anything.
36:40
It just feels that way. Right now it's Nick Pavetta
36:44
versus TBD, which tells me that, I mean, it's, it's got to be
36:51
Imanaga, right? But I don't know how that lines
36:53
up. But what is?
36:55
Let me confirm because I'm pretty sure it's been his last
36:58
like month plus of starts. Month and a half I.
37:06
Got you right here. Not.
37:09
So he lasted on the 25th and gave up eight to the Mets.
37:17
Has not given up fewer than three runs since August 21st.
37:22
Three runs. Three runs.
37:23
Three runs. Three runs.
37:25
Three runs. Eight runs.
37:27
Tough. So bad, yeah.
37:31
I think it's an ERA of like 6 over his last six starts or
37:36
something crazy. The fall off, man, the fall off.
37:40
So, but I mean, based on his like the fact that he hasn't
37:44
pitched since the 25th, I'm going to go ahead and say he's
37:47
getting ball game one, right. Matthew Boyd has been a little
37:52
bit better. Yeah.
37:54
The Cubs pitching just hasn't. It's not going to impress me at
37:58
all. Sorry, yeah, no disrespect.
38:02
Give me pods. Especially with the way
38:04
Pavetta's thrown this year and his post season experience.
38:08
He. He has, He has.
38:10
And their bullpen. But Pavetta has a way of
38:12
flipping a switch in October. Guy loves the lights, man.
38:17
Guy loves any opportunity he has to be able to yell coming off
38:21
the mound. Loves.
38:22
Him. And this is this is his.
38:25
This is his time to shine. It's time to shine.
38:29
Yeah. So give me, give me pause.
38:30
And three. All right, What's up next?
38:33
Well the the Game 3 slate and these are all consistent each
38:38
day. By the way, they do not change
38:39
slots. So correct, the 6th Eastern will
38:42
be the Red Sox playing at New York Yankees.
38:48
No way. Yeah, isn't that crazy?
38:51
How about that? And for those wondering, no, I'm
38:55
not wearing a Yankee shirt. It's it's a little little
39:02
bootleg, little little something, something I found on
39:04
the street in at Fenway this weekend.
39:07
So sure, shout him out, shout him out.
39:11
Guy said we're here every game, he said.
39:15
And then now when he said once the season finishes up, then we
39:18
go over to the Garden for Celtics games, I'm like, I
39:21
wonder what those shirts look like.
39:25
Any who's OK? Red Sox, Yankees in the fake
39:31
Yankee Stadium, best of three. Should we go ahead and get the
39:39
predictions out of the way? No, I'm just kidding.
39:41
Let's let's talk about this series.
39:46
Can I, can I be honest with you? I was thinking about this a lot
39:51
on the way home today and I got to say, I mean, I really think
40:02
this is going to the Sox is really what I came away with
40:07
shocker. And I put I put look, I I put a
40:11
lot of thought into it. I said, you know what, let me
40:13
weigh the pros and cons. Let me let me think about, you
40:17
know, the directions both teams have been heading in for the
40:20
last couple weeks. You know, let me take into
40:24
account their respective cities, cuisines.
40:28
You know who's Italian stacks up.
40:30
You know, I was in the north. We were in the North End last
40:33
night. We made a little, we made a
40:34
little snatch and grab mission. We're at the hotel and we're
40:40
about 30 minutes outside the outside of the city.
40:43
I said, let's, let's, let's drive into the North End real
40:45
quick on a Saturday when there's going to be crap tons of people.
40:52
Let's grab some cannolis, let's grab a pie and get out before
40:57
people even know we're here. And we did.
41:01
And so I'm taking that into account.
41:02
I'm like, OK, like whose pizzas stack up or, you know, like, how
41:07
how do those compare? And I'll tell you.
41:10
What world renowned. Boston Pizza.
41:12
I'll tell you what, man, They, they, they, they, they put out a
41:17
good pie. They put out a good pie
41:20
cannolis. I was trying the cannolis.
41:22
I'm like, does New York have cannolis this good?
41:25
Hard to say. Mike's Pastry is top tier.
41:29
I'd assume yes. And I'm, you know what?
41:33
What else was I thinking about? I was thinking about songs which
41:36
by the way, Meredith caught this and I didn't catch this.
41:38
Apparently our organist played my way during like the 7th
41:42
inning stretch on Saturday and I'm like that's that's.
41:46
We got an insider, we got a secret agent on the inside guy.
41:49
Stinks who's playing my way at Fenway in the 7th inning.
41:54
What a joke. We got a secret agent, a double
41:57
agent on the inside. Unbelievable.
42:00
Yeah. So I'm thinking about, like, how
42:01
do our songs compare? And that's an easy answer, but
42:05
you know, yeah. Sure.
42:08
Are you kidding me? Yeah.
42:11
So yeah, I'm just, you know, like I said, pros and cons, I'm
42:15
making a list in my head. And really I I came out on the
42:18
other side being like this. This is a a textbook Sox win,
42:25
Sox series win. Do you have any logic behind it
42:31
outside? I think I just kind of shared
42:32
that nonsense you just viewed. No, I think I just gave you my
42:35
logic. You know, I I don't really
42:37
appreciate the disrespects, you know, thrown it.
42:40
The the line of thinking that I came to the table with, you
42:45
know, especially considering I was on the go for most of the
42:47
week. And I I mean, I I didn't have
42:49
the luxury of being able to sit around, you know, crunching
42:51
numbers and everything. I was just really going with the
42:53
important things, right? So yeah, that's kind of, that
42:57
was my take away, you know, Cannolis.
42:59
And to me, that equals a a huge, huge series win for the Sox.
43:05
Sounds good. You want to give a game
43:08
prediction or? You know, I, I think I think
43:15
Freed will will have a, an OK outing, but I think Crochet will
43:22
have an even better outing. I'm not, despite what you may
43:28
believe, I'm not going to throw around the season series in your
43:32
face because frankly, doesn't matter to me as much as maybe it
43:38
does somebody else. I think that like with any team,
43:42
you, you sort of well, minus the Tigers, you can pretty much wipe
43:46
the slate clean, right? Again, cannot stress enough.
43:51
Does not apply to the Tigers vibes could not be lowered.
43:55
But I'm, I'm not, I'm not taking into account the season series
43:58
because, you know, coming into the Bronx post season short
44:02
series, to me that kind of goes out the window.
44:11
I feel like it's going to go 3 because as much as I hate to
44:15
admit it, the whole the whole thing earlier when I was like, I
44:20
was thinking about it, you know, long and hard, what I was
44:23
actually thinking about, yes, what I was thinking about
44:27
actually was things that I really needed to be honest with
44:31
myself about. And one of those things was the
44:33
fact that I feel like Rodon, and I hope, I hope I look like an
44:39
idiot for saying this, but I feel like Rodon actually is
44:42
poised to have a, a good assuming he's going Game 2,
44:45
correct, a good. I feel like he's poised to have
44:48
a good Game 2 at home. Had a good year.
44:51
He has which is what you know, like I'm not going to be an
44:54
idiot. I'm going to I'm going to give
44:57
him some credit. So for that reason and the fact
45:01
that our Game 2 chorus said that it's they they still got to talk
45:05
about it, but it sounds like it's it's more than likely going
45:07
to be Brian Baio. It's had a not so great
45:11
September. Not loud about that.
45:16
But game three anything can happen, so give me socks and
45:21
three let. Me go Yanks and three.
45:25
Wow. You know, even when we're
45:27
different, we're the same. Yeah, Oh, I mean, to give you
45:31
credit, obviously, like crochet is crochet.
45:33
Like I'm not going to sit here and be an idiot.
45:35
Like he's he's been insane. I don't really love Boone's
45:42
righty lineup answers. There's so many guys that are
45:46
lefty heavy that are like, really, really good.
45:49
So like neutralizing that lineup is by putting a lefty starter on
45:54
the mound, then yeah, it's just going to be it's going to be
45:59
interesting. But from there, I mean, I'm
46:02
assuming Game 3 is probably piggybacking Cam Schlittler and
46:08
and Louise heal in some fashion if needed, but Cam Schlittler's
46:15
been absurd. He's been really good.
46:18
So yeah, Yanks and three and wrap it up.
46:25
I don't, I mean, do we even really need to dive into it that
46:27
much? We got the the.
46:30
This is unbelievable. This is so Cincinnati Reds.
46:35
This is so stupid. I get that like this, it sounds
46:38
like the American League time slots were predetermined.
46:40
It was. It was either going to be 1 or
46:42
6. I hate that this is the prime
46:44
time. This is what I heard.
46:46
But I'm like, come on, I get, I get it's the Dodgers.
46:49
But like actually, I bet you I know, I bet you, I know what it
46:55
was it was. Thinking it was the Mets.
46:58
Yeah. Could that have been a factor or
47:00
was this was this determined? No, actually I don't think that
47:05
would have mattered because at the time of the conclusion of
47:09
the Sox game, they were talking about it.
47:10
They still didn't have a a start time.
47:12
So this would have been determined after the fact.
47:14
So maybe that didn't matter. Yeah, maybe they just love the
47:17
Dodgers that much. I mean, I, I understand, I guess
47:20
the West Coast, it's East Coast time at 9:00.
47:23
So like, yeah, West Coast at six.
47:24
Like I guess that's. I get it, but like, come on.
47:28
It pisses me off that it's the Reds our our games at 3:00 my
47:32
time like you let admit it, 6:00 on the East Coast isn't like the
47:36
easiest game time. You know what I mean?
47:38
You work, you work like a 9:00 to 5:00 you got.
47:40
Traffic on the way home. Like that you're rushing to get
47:44
in the door, you're ignoring your wife on dinner plans
47:46
because you got to catch first pitch like.
47:48
I'm like, I, I grabbed dinner on the way home.
47:51
You're going to have to fend for yourself.
47:52
I I I had to get here to the couch for first pitch.
47:56
I ate a massive lunch, so good luck.
48:00
I'm actually not having dinner. I I'm just going to ride lunch
48:03
out. Yeah.
48:04
Yeah, it's it's 6 socks we were actually talking about yesterday
48:08
because we were at the we went to the Friday and Saturday game
48:11
160 and one 61 and Saturday's game was at 4:00 and I'm like,
48:15
this is just another stupid start time 4 sucks because it's
48:21
like, I don't know it's it's not late enough to where you can
48:26
maximize the day, but it's. It's early enough to dominate
48:31
your day. Like if that's what your day is,
48:34
you can't get anything in before and it's too late to get in
48:38
anything after. Yeah, because it's like, well,
48:41
it's like pushing 738 o'clock. Like I'm, I'm going to be 32.
48:47
I'm not. I'm not.
48:48
Making shut down time? I'm not.
48:50
I'm not going out for multiple hours on end at 8:30, starting
48:55
at 8:30, so I have no interest in that.
48:57
Any who's Yeah Reds? Reds.
49:03
We we know how this is going to end, but we appreciate you
49:06
falling on your sword for the cause.
49:08
Thank you for your service. It's unbelievable work.
49:11
You are getting hunter green by the way, like you are getting
49:14
hunter green game one. That's something to be like kind
49:18
of, hey, I'll, I'll catch the first few innings of this, but
49:22
no doubt Dodgers and two. Well, no, you're going to catch
49:25
all the Indians because it's post season baseball and we're
49:29
going to do our best to watch all of these games.
49:33
Maybe not you. I'm just hands on baseball fans.
49:36
Depends on my mood for the game before that could affect me.
49:41
Oh, what's? Wrong.
49:42
I had a little prep. I had a little prep pep talk
49:44
with with Paige today too. I was like, hey, just so you
49:47
know, Tuesday it begins and like, it's we're just, we're
49:53
going to be randomly recording. It's just stuff's going to be
49:56
happening left and right. I need to have that.
49:58
I should have had that on our 10 hour drive today.
50:00
That's. Hey, just buckle up.
50:01
It's going to be, it's going to be spontaneous.
50:05
It's going to be nuts. Well to be fair, I mean this
50:07
isn't her first rodeo with all this like.
50:09
No, it's not. But she was familiar.
50:11
This is, I got to, this is how she is, this is how she's built.
50:14
I got to plant that seed 1st. And then I was like, hey, just a
50:17
heads up, about halfway through the game today I was like, it's
50:22
it's shaken out to be Yankees, Red Sox.
50:25
So I'm going to be pretty insufferable this week.
50:27
So she was like, fair enough, fair enough.
50:33
For better or worse, you know, if they chose us the same way we
50:37
chose them, true, you know true. It's on them just as much.
50:49
That's the other tough part about that game slot.
50:51
For my time anyway, because it's 3:00 my time.
50:56
By the time she's getting home, it's like close to the end of
50:59
the game, like she's getting home like 5/5/15.
51:05
I'm going to try to get out earlier, but that like it could
51:09
vary if it could, who knows what that does to our night.
51:12
You know what I'm? Yeah, don't forget the pitch
51:13
clock could still be part of the equation here like that.
51:16
For anybody wondering, because there was a moment where I was
51:18
like, wait a minute, I it's I can't remember.
51:20
Are we? Do we stick with the pitch clock
51:22
in the postseason? Confirmed still.
51:24
Yeah, the only thing that's being ditched is the ghost
51:26
runner. Ghost runner.
51:27
Yeah, just with the remind myself.
51:29
Thank the Lord they ever did that in the postseason.
51:34
I'd riot out. Yeah, so Reds, Dodgers, you
51:39
mentioned the hunter green thing, like valid point.
51:42
And that was my Cy Young pick before the year started.
51:45
So I I got a he. Looked good for a while.
51:47
He did. He looked great.
51:48
He looked, he was in, I mean, albeit the very early Cy Young
51:53
conversation before he hit the shelf.
51:56
So I, I don't have any concerns there in in fact, I'm like you
51:59
said, I'm very much looking forward to catching that start.
52:02
But the reality of it is the Dodgers pitching has looked
52:05
better. They're getting healthy again.
52:08
Yeah, I'm assuming Yamamoto game one.
52:12
Yeah, and while I'm thinking of it, did you see that Kershaw got
52:17
left off the the roster? Yeah, got left.
52:21
Well, he made the start today. He made he made a regular start
52:23
today, I think went scoreless. So, yeah, you know, he had a
52:26
good, good outing to finish off the regular season.
52:30
But low key, I don't think he's getting talked about enough.
52:34
Could be looking at Kershaw's last appearance ever on the bump
52:38
today if if things go South for the Dodgers.
52:44
But my whole thing with that and yeah, I'm going to have this
52:48
bone to pick. People have been like, well, why
52:50
are you questioning Dave Roberts?
52:51
He's manager, You're not. Is there not a way where we
52:55
could have? First of all, why was why was he
52:58
even going today? Why, why, why was today a must
53:03
win? Why?
53:07
Why did you have to throw out what?
53:12
I don't know. I'm not saying.
53:13
There's a round by round thing, by the way.
53:15
It's not like he's left off for the entire.
53:16
No, no, no, I get that. But like I said, should things
53:19
go South, you left off a guy who, as we've said, say what you
53:23
will about his age, say what you will about this or that has been
53:27
one of your better pitchers this year consistently.
53:31
So you're telling me you couldn't have punted on 162 and
53:35
and shuffled things around to where if you were concerned
53:38
about his rest or or lack thereof, allow it or or make it
53:43
so that he could be available for you if you need him to be
53:47
crazy. I'd love for the honestly, I'd
53:52
love for the Reds to shock the world, but.
53:55
It look, it's a win win for the Reds you if you get swept out of
54:00
the dance, as we said, thank you for your service.
54:04
But if you go on to win the series.
54:08
Yeah. We're talking about a potential
54:10
historical run here from the race.
54:12
I'm just. Just not realizing Will Smith
54:14
has been on the shelf since early September.
54:17
Isn't played since September 9th.
54:20
That's interesting. Are we?
54:26
Are we putting the Reds in the World Series?
54:32
I think we might have to I. Mean.
54:34
Honestly. I don't hate it.
54:37
You were asking about Yamamoto, though, The probables that we
54:40
have right now for game one. Terex, Google TBD versus TBD for
54:51
the Guardians, Nick Pavetta versus TBDTBD for the Cubs,
54:55
Garrett Crochet versus Max Freed and well, we can only assume
55:01
hunter Green versus. That's weird.
55:06
There's actually not even an undecided.
55:07
It's just blank. I don't don't know what that's
55:10
about. Yeah, it's got to be hunter
55:14
green. Yamamoto.
55:15
I don't know why that would be blank.
55:16
But anyway, yeah, the whole Kershaw thing kind of rubbed me
55:23
the wrong way, but I was like, whatever, it's the Dodgers make.
55:26
Your own bed, I guess it kind of makes sense with it being the
55:36
Reds and it's like it, you know, it's a three-game set, like
55:40
might as well use that roster spot for a bullpen arm.
55:44
I could see him being on I. I think he'll be on the roster
55:47
for the NLDS. You got to get there though,
55:50
like even though it's I like I know we've been we've been
55:53
running with this bit of, you know, thank you for your
55:56
service. But like at the end of the day,
55:59
you can't forget about some of the series we saw this year.
56:02
Not I'm not talking Reds, but I'm talking like pirates.
56:05
Like were the Pirates they swept the dodgers this year?
56:08
Did they not they, you know, not to fix it on the Pirates, but
56:11
like they. The Reds did too, actually.
56:14
Did they? Yeah, they the Pirates held the
56:17
Cardinals scoreless for an entire series and and things
56:20
like that. And the Reds have had some
56:23
impressive series of their own. But there's just there's
56:25
instances all around the league and this, it's not new to this
56:29
year. It's and it's any year, any team
56:32
can win any three-game series. Yeah.
56:35
I know. And especially considering this
56:36
isn't the Dodgers of old, I think you have to take that into
56:39
account. So if you're the Dodgers, the
56:41
same way I was talking about the Marlins as it pertains to the
56:46
Mets. Are you saying you're going to
56:48
pitch him over? Who?
56:54
I'm not even I'm not even saying to pitch him over XY or Z.
57:01
I'm just saying to have him as an option.
57:04
He's been one of your consistently start to finish was
57:07
one of your better arms this year and to just be like we're
57:13
good. Is that because of his post
57:15
season resume or is that just because you felt as though you
57:18
were going to get more out of and whoever was going to?
57:22
Slide in, I think it's Yamamoto, then Otani, then Glass now, then
57:26
Snow. But I think I think I think
57:32
Kershaw knows his spot in that rotation.
57:35
I just don't see it being necessary.
57:37
Like I it's going to be weird. I think we could do this for
57:39
every team. And it's like kind of a weird
57:41
conversation. We're going to be like, really?
57:43
You left so and so off this first round, but it's like it's
57:46
if it's a fifth starter, like, yeah, I'd rather use that that
57:52
spot on something else rather have an extra bat on the bench
57:55
like whatever it might be. But that's what I'm saying, I
58:00
I'm not saying to put him in, in the rotation.
58:03
I'm just saying to have him as a, have him available as
58:06
somebody who was one of your best options on the bar.
58:13
I mean, I guess. But like I get your argument.
58:15
I'm just saying that like I I think the experiment of Kershaw
58:18
coming out of the bullpen isn't something that I'd be like ever
58:23
want. I don't want, I would never want
58:24
to press that button. Sure from Dave Roberts.
58:27
So I think it's I think it's less of a slight than you think.
58:32
I think it at first it is a little shocking, but I think if
58:36
we uncovered a little more, it's no big deal.
58:38
But do you think having Kershaw on your, even if it's just the
58:44
wild card roster, I mean, you can you can talk about whether
58:48
or not to leave him on or off for later in the in the
58:51
postseason. Should you make it that far.
58:52
Do you think having him off for this initial roster or no, say
58:59
he was on the roster, do you think that would be more of a
59:02
distraction or more of an inspiration to the guys in that
59:05
clubhouse? That clubhouse specifically, I
59:09
don't think it matters. Other clubhouses, maybe other
59:17
clubhouses where it's like this is your one Hall of Famer and we
59:21
don't know what the rest the rest of you guys are going to be
59:23
doing with the rest of your lives.
59:25
But this clubhouse, it's like, I don't think it's I don't think
59:31
it's anything. I I think I think everything
59:37
that they were able to do with Kershaw getting his last start,
59:40
celebrating it, him announcing his retirement, having the
59:43
glide, having the guys like at that press conference, like I
59:46
think there was enough of it to to like almost kind of just wrap
59:51
it up nicely. Nice bow on it.
59:55
And now it's like tunnel vision, let's go to work.
1:00:00
That's kind of how I see it. And I think if there's any
1:00:03
clubhouse that is willing, I'm not saying willing, capable of
1:00:07
doing that. It's those guys.
1:00:11
It's guys are just like all business.
1:00:13
I don't care. I bet Freddie Freeman's like,
1:00:15
Dave, you want me in center today?
1:00:17
I don't care. I'm going to go get a dub like
1:00:20
that's. I think that's just how that
1:00:21
clubhouse operates and that's why it is.
1:00:26
So annoying because it's like they haven't had this like
1:00:29
superstar dominant 100 and 300 and 507 win season.
1:00:35
It's just been like a kind of lackluster.
1:00:38
You've been hurt most of the time, but like, are we blaming
1:00:41
the injuries or you just like your bullpen kind of sketchy?
1:00:45
Like you made these moves and hasn't really panned out in a
1:00:48
way. Like what are you?
1:00:49
Who are you? That's another thing to keep in
1:00:51
mind with this Red series is who's who's going to be closing
1:00:55
games for this team. Couldn't tell you.
1:00:58
Couldn't tell you. I don't know.
1:01:04
Dodgers in two. I'm I'm kind of leaning.
1:01:09
Reds in three. Kind of lean in Reds in one,
1:01:13
honestly. It's either Dodgers in two or
1:01:15
Reds in three. There's no in between.
1:01:19
It's either the Reds are getting stomped out of there or the Reds
1:01:23
are coming to fight. Or they win so bad in game one
1:01:26
that the Dodgers are like, let's pack it up, boys, we'll see you
1:01:30
in 2026. There's really no in between.
1:01:32
Keep it up, Cincy, can we can. We nasty.
1:01:37
Can we safely say of the wild card rounds, arguably some of
1:01:47
the best uniform matchups? Reds, Dodgers.
1:01:52
Yeah, the uniform color scheme, all of it.
1:01:56
Classic teams. You're saying across the board
1:01:59
or specifically this matchup? Across the board.
1:02:03
I mean, they're up there. I'm not on the Padres uniform
1:02:09
train the way everyone else is, so I'm kind of out on that one.
1:02:13
I'm not either. Like the colors are nice, but
1:02:15
like me? I'm not so anti Padres uniforms
1:02:19
like some people are. I'm like, that's weird.
1:02:21
These are cool uniforms, but I'm not, like, slobbering.
1:02:24
On them now, yeah. Yeah.
1:02:26
Crazy, yeah. And Tiger's guards.
1:02:34
These are some great uni's, not going to lie across a board.
1:02:39
Except. Except Cleveland I guess.
1:02:44
Just. Can't get out of their own way.
1:02:45
Care to make a Care to make any sort of wager?
1:02:50
On ours, for our particular series, we do this every time we
1:02:54
think of something at the buzzer.
1:02:58
I don't know. Man, I just like throwing it out
1:03:00
there to test how you're feeling because if if you're if you're
1:03:04
kind of sinking in your seat, then I'm like, OK, that tells me
1:03:07
how he feels about it. The reason I don't want to play
1:03:10
the Red Sox is because I feel like there's two or three teams
1:03:13
in the league that really know how to play the Yankees.
1:03:15
And the Red Sox are one of them. Because like the Red Sox
1:03:18
understand that you can, you can force issues on their, on the
1:03:23
Yankees. Like they, they understand that
1:03:26
you can take extra bases. You can kind of put some
1:03:28
pressure on the outfield making an errant throw.
1:03:31
You can kind of put some pressure on, you know, a pitcher
1:03:34
not covering first. Like there, there's that kind of
1:03:37
stuff that they know how to do against the Yankees and it
1:03:40
pisses me off. Put all of.
1:03:42
Their it's weird that no other team scouts the same way like
1:03:45
the the Yankees are this, they are that.
1:03:50
And it's weird that like only the Red Sox and a couple other
1:03:52
teams are like, yeah, we know how to beat you and no one else
1:03:55
is like, oh, we're just going to try to out hit you or try to out
1:03:58
Homer you. And it's like, well, you're
1:04:00
going to lose that most of the time.
1:04:02
The way to beat the Yankees is the way the Red Sox play the
1:04:05
Yankees. And that's that's what makes me
1:04:08
nervous about it. I like the way they've been
1:04:11
playing the last few weeks, but like, I don't know, man.
1:04:15
I I really don't know. Air all their dirty laundry, air
1:04:18
out all of the ways, all of all of the holes they.
1:04:23
Have I like that the bullpen has started to figure it out.
1:04:27
I like that the there's pieces on the bench that Boone is like
1:04:32
he has like a full bench to use. There's buttons to be pressed.
1:04:36
But the reality is that with Crochet going game one, you're
1:04:40
going to likely have to to have Ben Rice catch because he's been
1:04:44
hotter than Austin Wells left on left there.
1:04:48
You're probably going to have to then have Goldie at first who's
1:04:51
good against lefties. But like Goldie just doesn't.
1:04:55
He's not Goldie of old. You're kind of neutralizing
1:04:59
Grisham. Like there's pieces that are
1:05:02
just, it's odd. You're probably going to see
1:05:05
Caballero at 3rd instead of Ryan McMahon, you know what I mean?
1:05:09
Like, that's what a lefty, especially a dominant lefty does
1:05:12
to a Yankee lineup. So there's ways to neutralize
1:05:16
it. And the Red Sox know they play
1:05:19
them well. That's that's why the series,
1:05:22
the season series went the way it went.
1:05:25
So I don't know, I don't have a ton of faith in the Yankees
1:05:30
getting through this series like super clean and being like,
1:05:33
yeah, we've turned a corner, we turned the page and we know how
1:05:36
to play defense. All of a sudden I.
1:05:38
Don't know, it kind of sounds like he just gave it to the Sox,
1:05:40
if I'm being quite honest with you.
1:05:42
But we'll, we'll move past that. No, because you don't have much
1:05:46
after crochet. OK, OK.
1:05:56
We at least know who our closer is.
1:05:58
I know that. And thank you for him, by the
1:06:00
way, indirectly. We know who ours is.
1:06:03
Loosely. Yeah.
1:06:05
Well, we have the best closer. In baseball, great booby grabber
1:06:10
too. Yeah, I'm not going to lie.
1:06:13
I saw him. You know, you're a big fan.
1:06:15
Seeing him in there at the Fenway this weekend, seeing him
1:06:18
in person, I'm like, I know where those hands have been,
1:06:22
buddy. Don't, don't try to play this
1:06:24
one off. Really weird.
1:06:26
Not going to lie. Very strange.
1:06:28
Was that mom or grandma? I can't remember which one.
1:06:31
Frankly, erase it from my mind. Couldn't even tell you.
1:06:36
But yeah, OK, I guess. We'll punt on the wager until
1:06:40
Tuesday at at 5:45 Eastern. We'll think of something.
1:06:45
As we typically do. So anyways, that's that.
1:06:49
That should do it for our wild card preview.
1:06:52
Any other thoughts for get out of here?
1:06:55
I'm assuming, I mean we'll be back either Wednesday or
1:06:59
Thursday. I think it just depends on how
1:07:02
these series go. Right Wednesday if if we have
1:07:06
nothing but sweeps. Yeah, likely Thursday.
1:07:11
Likely Thursday and what I'm. So ready for like the craziness.
1:07:17
Remember last year how like like a home team didn't win a game
1:07:20
for like the first week? It was something like stupid
1:07:23
like that. Do you remember that?
1:07:24
Yeah, just things you just just don't expect.
1:07:27
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you. Just never know.
1:07:30
And hopefully we'll be live for some of these things.
1:07:33
I was just about to say we're we're playing on on going live
1:07:36
live streaming some of these these key these key matchups.
1:07:40
It's going to be tough for these stupid afternoon games, but I
1:07:43
get that you got to stagger so. We'll, we'll, we'll.
1:07:49
Put word out there once we figure out what what the
1:07:51
schedules what our schedules are going to look like and how
1:07:54
they're going to compare with this schedule but yeah we'll
1:07:58
we'll let you guys know and we'll go live when we when we
1:08:01
can and just sit back Fortunately we don't have to
1:08:04
keep book for these live streams no disrespect I love doing it
1:08:08
but it'll be nice to just sit back and just watch some ball so
1:08:13
yeah keep an eye out for that but other than that that's all I
1:08:17
really got I'm. Not going to go poop.
1:08:19
Chasing curveballs. We love you on as always.
1:08:21
Looking forward to talking more baseball with you guys soon.
1:08:24
Until next time, stay filthy.