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Playoff Picture Chaos · The 3-0 Take

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the three O take, where we talk
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all things Major League Baseball.
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Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes it.
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All. Starts right now.
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Welcome back to the theater take presented by Chinook Cedari.
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This is episode 570. I'll be your host Kyle Corn.
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I'm here with my Co host Nate Reyes.
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Nate. Casey, how are we?
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I'm loving this man. What a what a time to be a
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baseball fan. What a finish.
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What a finish we have on our hands.
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And look, I put out a tweet. Was it yesterday?
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I said shout out to the baseball fans still locked in on baseball
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season. Only the real sickos are dialed
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in this time of year. I got a, you know, shout out to
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the people that we're in agreement with you like, yeah,
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checking in. Sicko right here, but I got a
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lot of blowback with people being like, what are you talking
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about? This is the best time of year.
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I know it's the best time of year.
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This was addressed to the casuals that checked out the
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second football started and don't know what time of year it
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is for baseball and how significant it is.
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So I you're, you're preaching to the choir.
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I already know you already know. If you're listening and or
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watching, you already know about how you are in.
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Fact. A sicko.
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You are in fact a sicko and you know how great of of you know
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the how great the end of September rolling into October
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is. We know this.
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But I was just addressing the people you know that that aren't
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aware. So wanted to clear the record
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there. But like you said, what a finish
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we got. The games tonight, Monday pretty
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much have little to no significance.
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And the only team I saw that matters is the Giants kind of
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matters. They've won nothing lead right
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now. Yeah, which really means that
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it's the. It's Tuesday on is when we
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really get this thing cooking for this final stretch.
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Six games left each team starting Tuesday, and boy, I
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got, man, I got to be honest with you.
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I I I was completely unaware how much of A free fall the Tigers
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have been in. I it crept up on me like I
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didn't. I was not aware that it's this
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ugly. I mean, I get it.
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You're up 15 1/2 games. If it drops to like 13, then to
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9, it's like, OK, the Tigers still got control the division.
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But when it gets down this close with a week left of baseball and
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it's not just the like, it's not just the Tigers, man.
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We, I mean, there's so much that we have to talk about.
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We got to get into a lot. The Mets, we I threw out the the
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idea not too long ago. I said there's a very realistic
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possibility that we're watching the postseason in 2025, in the
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month of October of the year 2025 without the New York Mets.
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And as it stands right now, that's a there's a very good
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chance that that happens. Boy.
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And then you got the Cincinnati Reds, who are like, hey.
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They listen to the pod. I think we called him out a week
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ago. You I credit to you.
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I think you you're like, hey, yo, where's where's the urgency?
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And then they're like, here it is.
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Yeah. The Reds are like, hey, yeah.
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How about a little winning streak to to really make things
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interesting. Oh, yeah.
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And by the way, we own all the tie Breakers that we could
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possibly ever need. That's good point.
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So. This, this week, is about to be
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a doozy. Let's get the boring stuff out
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of the way. No disrespects, no disrespect.
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Let's let's, let's acknowledge the fact that the Blue Jays and
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the Dodgers have both clinched, the Blue Jays being the first
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team to do so with their win on Sunday against the Royals.
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Shout out to the Blue Jays. I, I have to say we talk all
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well, I, I say we talk all the time.
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Really just over the last couple weeks I've, I've really driven
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home the point of how I it's hard for me to believe in a team
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that clinches with a loss. The Blue Jays had snapped A4
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game losing streak in order to get into the dance.
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So put a little green check mark next to the Blue Jays for me.
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Not that I'm not that I'm putting them in the World
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Series, but that, you know, I'm not going to.
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I'm not just going to automatically write them off.
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Not a red flag, you know, Correct.
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Yeah, yeah. Good stuff.
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I, I mean, breathing down their neck, man.
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I'm I'm a I'm a Red Sox fan for the next three games, which is
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weird. I'm going to clip the first part
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of that. Just that, yeah.
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Right after fan. Gotcha.
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You shouldn't have said. You shouldn't have said that
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honestly. I mean, I know, I mean, I know
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you can do pretty much anything with AI and I probably could
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have like manufactured that, but the fact that you just came out
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and said it, I mean that's. Yeah, well, the way it goes,
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man, it's bold trying to trying to win the division.
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They're Blue Jays are seeking Did you?
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Did you realize that the Jays haven't won the division since
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2015? I didn't know that.
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I didn't know that. I don't want it to be this year,
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you know? I think it's going to be this
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year. I mean, it's going to take a
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little bit of a miracle, but we've seen we, I think we're
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witnessing crazier things as we speak.
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Yeah, yes, yes. And I'm assuming you're talking
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about the collapses, the the aforementioned collapses of the
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Detroit Tigers and or the New York Mets.
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I, I don't, I can we really say though that the Blue Jays are
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on, on any sort of slide that would make you believe that they
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would call for the division in the last week of the season.
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I don't know. And or, and or are the Yankees
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playing well enough to catch them?
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That's that's the other part of this.
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The Yankees are playing well enough to catch them.
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They're facing the White Sox for the next three games, and then
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they have the Orioles for the last three games.
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The scrappy Sox from the South Side.
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Yeah, something like that. Whereas, you know, Blue Jays,
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like I said, have the Red Sox and then they have the Rays.
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I mean, I will say that they're at home the whole time, so
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that'll be interesting. I don't know, it's just it'd be
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it'd be crazy. It'd be crazy.
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It I think it'd be a huge jump because like, I, I don't know,
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whatever, it doesn't matter. Moving on.
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Realistically, real quick, what is the likelihood or, or six
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games left? What?
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What are we thinking that the the best record that's going to
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come out of the American League is going to be?
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The Jays have 90 wins. I'll say.
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I mean, barring any sort of, you know, last final week collapse,
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we'll just go ahead and say it's the Jays.
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Let's say they go four and two. You're telling me the best team
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in the American League is going to finish with a record short of
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95 wins? I mean, this is we're not going
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to have 100 game winner, which is crazy.
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Oh yeah, no, definitely not. I told you we could save those
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receipts too. Told you to hammer the under on
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the Dodgers, which it was at like what, 102?
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Something like that. Let me pull up the notes.
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I told you. Honestly, let me make a note
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real quick to pull that receipt because that that was a that was
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a good pull. Thank you.
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I appreciate that. I don't have a piece of paper,
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so should I write this on my hand?
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Is that bad? I did that as a kid.
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Can I do that? Oh my gosh.
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Their wind total at the beginning of the year was 105
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1/2. And they have 88 at this very
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moment. Told you to hammer the under.
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Or no, they don't play tonight. So yeah, 88 going into Tuesday,
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six games to play. Yeah, blah blah blah blah blah.
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Anyways. I'm just going to write so I
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don't have to put all of this ink on my hand.
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I'm just going to put ND for Nate Dodgers so that I'll
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remember. That doesn't make any sense to
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you. Sure it will.
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I'm going to think back. Why do I have?
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Why do I have ND on my hand? Oh.
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Yeah, Nate stand. What does ND stand for, Nate?
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I just told you, Nate Dodgers. When are?
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When are you going to pull this? When are you going to write it
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down? Oh, I'll have to do it tonight
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after we finish recording. I'm going to have to pull that
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receipt or tomorrow. It's it's just, it's just so
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it's it, it lasts long enough to where I can get to a piece of
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paper. It doesn't even have to like
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carry over into the morning. I just got to like, you know,
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before bed. Oh, let me jot or let me put in
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a reminder in my phone. It's a pull.
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Every hand washer are we? I am, that's my point is that I
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it doesn't have to carry over to the morning because presuming I
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would have already washed my hands multiple times by then.
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Holy cow, you're just mad that you're just mad.
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I called Judge a weenie in the group chat.
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That's all. Yeah, well, you pissed me off.
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Well, he is a weenie. He's not.
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You're just jealous. Of of what?
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That we have someone this legendary on our team and you
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have a bunch of scrubs. What?
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What is that even? OK, we're both fighting for the
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same thing. At this point, I'm not entirely
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sure why having quote UN quote legends on your team makes any
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difference. Any who's, let's just go ahead
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and give the division to the Jays.
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Shout out to the Jays. Props to the Jays.
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Mad, mad props. Into this.
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Mad props to the Jays. Congratulations on your First
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Division title since 2015. I can't wait.
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I I'm now I've this gives me some extra juice.
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This gives me extra motivation for another receipt to be pulled
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well. You're only going to have to
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wait a week. So you want your Red Sox to
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lose? That's what you're saying.
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What Blue Jays play the Red Sox? So what are you hoping for out
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of that series? You can still win, You're up.
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The Jays are up two games on. You can still win the division
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by not in a, in a scenario where we're not just, you know, part
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of a bloodbath like there there's ways for this to play
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out OK to where we can, you know, we can both come out of
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this alive. I see.
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But anyway, congratulations to the 2025 American League East
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Division champions the the Toronto Blue Jays.
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Let's let's get it up. No, no, no.
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Any who's props to the Jays, as I mentioned, the Dodgers, I.
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Don't want to talk about them either.
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Dodgers clinched on Friday, so a few days ago, but they were able
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to do it in Clayton Kershaw's regular season finale.
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So good on the good on the Dodgers for, you know, making
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the most of the making the most of the the events and not
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choking it away on a pretty special night.
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Neat, neat stuff. It's like pulling teeth with you
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sometimes. Well, you know that's what
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happens when you piss me off, OK?
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Yeah. You said they were boring, but
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we've spent 12 minutes on it. What?
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Which focused on the Blue Jays. You said let's get the boring
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stuff out of the way. That's still not out of the way.
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Yeah. I mean, now that they're like
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officially in, I was really, I was kind of holding out hope for
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like, OK, once the Dodgers are officially you, you know, I
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mean, they were going to be in the dance.
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But it's like once they're officially in the postseason,
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let's see how my perception of them changes, if at all.
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It didn't still feel the same way about the Dodgers.
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So it's fine. We don't need to talk about it.
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Perfect. Stop trying to get me to talk
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about the Dodgers. Done.
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I don't want to talk about the stop.
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You got it. Like I'm just trying to move on
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and talk about like the Mariners sweeping the Astros, but you're
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like, no, let's talk about the Dodgers.
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I'm like, that's all we do is talk about the Dodgers, right?
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Any thoughts on the Kershaw finale though before we move on?
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It's cool. It's cool to.
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Watch. I love, I love when they let a
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guy like that take the rubber. Yes, that was cool.
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Like seeing his kids, like, swing that giant pickaxe.
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Like that's such a think about it.
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It's such a niche thing in sports.
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Like, OK, you go home. I'm like, like football, I'm, I
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don't know, maybe there is a, a good example in football, but
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like you're really just going away with things.
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That's that's my point. You're really just walking away.
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Chances are you're just walking away with a game ball or, you
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know, some commemorative thing. But like baseball.
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Have an entire goal post in his man, correct?
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I mean, his his home probably is big enough that would allow
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something like that, I'm guessing.
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But you know, baseball very, very niche ways to commemorate
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things. I like that.
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Big big fan. Yeah, I agree.
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The Mariners, as I mentioned, sweeping the Astros.
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Surprised I did not see a sweep coming, no.
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But you did you not get have them in the series?
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I took AMS, I said they were going to win the division.
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Technically not, because I had you.
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I had you walk it back right. No.
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On. Record.
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You made me commit and I committed.
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No, I'm saying this not, not who wins the division, who was going
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to win that series. I think I you were.
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You were. Like I said it, I said I said
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fine, I'll just take both. I'm going to do the Ms. on both,
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you know, win the series in the division.
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You lying to me right now? I mean, I'm like 60% confident
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in that. That's that's what I would
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expect you to say. Let me let me do some research.
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Either way. Either way, Oh, you're pulling
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up the transcript. Either way, credit to you for
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believing in the Mariners because I'm on record as what
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did I say? I said I'm still, where's that
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quote? Where's that quote graphic?
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I said I'm still going Astros. The Mariners went on a nine
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game-winning streak and still only have a one game lead,
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right? Albeit they did cough up the
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lead. I think the Astros evened it up
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if I'm not mistaken. But then this series this
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weekend just threw that out the window.
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Sure did. Any luck on on that receipt?
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It wasn't. Quite It wasn't just that the
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the Mariners swept the Astros, it was the fashion in which they
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did it. The Astros didn't lead for any
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part of this series. Yeah, it looked dominant pretty
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much the whole time and the offense look good.
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Like the offense look good? Yeah, they had.
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No, that was, I think Pena had a grandson.
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I was going to say they had a couple grand slams, didn't they?
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No, but it was I think JP Crawford and then Pena on the
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other side. But yeah, that's that.
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I don't want to say a choke job, but that's a real let down for
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the Astros. Like you had a chance to to
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invite the Mariners into into Daikin.
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What? Fine, I'll just commit.
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I'll just say the Mariners are going to win the series and the
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division. Whatever.
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Come on, whatever, it's played out loud, can I?
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Play, man, fine. I'll just commit.
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I'll just, I'll just say the Mariners are going to win the
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series and the division. Are.
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You happy? That feels good.
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Whatever. So the Astros had the
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opportunity to invite the AMS into Daikin, all right.
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I hate it. I hate, I hate.
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I didn't even want to hear you say it and it just it nails on
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chalkboard when it came out of your mouth.
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It's not cool. I hate.
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Here's the thing. We're going to we're going to
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run the run the post season out of Daikin like sucks the world.
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Series runs through Daikin. Shut up.
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No, it doesn't. No, the thing, the thing that I,
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you know, hopping off real quick, slow little side note
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tangent. When it comes to ballpark names,
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I I just hate corporate names. Sure.
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But if you've had a corporate name that either you've just had
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for long enough of a period, or you just have a corporate name
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that just works, Minute Maid Park just works.
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I don't know why. It worked.
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It just kind of it does. We got used to it.
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But Daikin, I'm sorry that no. Did we ever find out what that
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is? Yeah, it's a generator.
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Don't quote me on this, but I I believe it's a Japanese.
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Air. Conditioning unit air
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conditioning. I was going to say
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refrigeration. I think it's air conditioning.
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Yeah, Company. Like, OK, what are we doing at
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least at? Least make it like, give me
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some, I don't know, Cheerios or like Frosted Flakes or
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Kellogg's. Kellogg's ain't bad.
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Kellogg Park. I could, yeah, I could get on
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board with that. Kellogg's Park, yeah.
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See that kind of just that just. Works.
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That helps. That just works.
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Doctor Pepper Park, now that that's up.
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Oh yeah, I'm feeling that for sure.
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Well, I already. Know the answer because I know
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how you feel about Doctor Pepper.
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But I would I would be intrigued.
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I'd want to put it up to a vote. Coca-Cola Park or Doctor Pepper
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Park. I think the Doctor Pepper Park,
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like the way it's fun to say, you know?
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Doctor Pepper Park, Yeah, I kind of like that.
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I, I mean, I'm just thinking though, like Coke being the
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classic that it is, I mean, that's another.
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Stadium. No, see, I don't like stadium.
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I I like it being park, field, anything but stadium.
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That checks out. What if we brought Grounds back
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in the play? What could someone needs to be
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like it? Folgers grounds?
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Are you kidding me? I need a freaking.
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Job that reaction. Holy cow, I thought you'd short
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circuited for a second. Folgers, is that still a thing?
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They would if they went Folgers grounds.
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Keurig grounds like that works. No, you got to lean into just
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the American blue collar Folgers.
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Folgers What was their Jingle again?
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The best part of the bass, the best part of waking up is
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Folgers in your cup. That's right.
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You gotta sing it though. What a Jingle.
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I'm not singing it. Wow, that's I wasn't even
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thinking coffee when you said that.
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I was just like, what's something G?
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That would really immediately came with this.
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Yeah, Well done. Well played, Sir.
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Yeah, checks out. It's kind of like your steel,
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your steel stadium. I mean that.
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That goes against what you just said, though you contradicted
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yourself a little bit. Well, I'm not the one that came
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up with the state like that was pre that pre that was
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pre-existing. Hey, don't you don't have to
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scream at me. Hey, hey, hey, just take it easy
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man. How come?
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McDonald's doesn't have a stadium yet.
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That's pretty weird. They're above that.
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They don't. They don't that yes, they're so
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above that. I think State Farm pulls in more
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money than McDonald's out there scamming people.
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Yeah, insurance is. Scam.
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Scam. Fraudulent.
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Folgers grounds that's I don't even I I need nothing else until
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then. Literally don't even bother me
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with other stadium suggestions that that's it settle.
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For nothing less if one of these expansion teams doesn't doesn't
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commit to that fully out. That's fantastic.
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Any who's so Daikon sucks and apparently I was going to say,
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so do the Astros. You know the day, did you?
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Download new fart sounds you said you were going to.
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That's on me. I need to it's.
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It was a it's been a busy week. Haven't had a chance to I hey,
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you have my word. Tuesday, OK.
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September 23rd. OK, all out.
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A fart pack A fart variety pack is incoming.
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Unlocked a new pack. So one negative thing I saw, I
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mean, Brian Wu got hurt did have you see how in serious that was
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that's. What I was going to say, can we
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say that he was like hurt? I know.
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I saw he it was it was a Peck thing.
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I'm guessing on the on the throw inside, Yeah.
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He's on his way. I don't know what the what's the
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latest on that? He's throwing a gem.
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Does this. Sweep change.
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I mean, at this at this rate, where are we at in the division?
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Three games up, 6 to play. Done.
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OK, done. So not necessarily what I was
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going to ask because I I felt like we were on the same page of
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that. Does this change your thoughts
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on their positioning and or not positioning but their potential
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in the post season with the way that they've they've strung
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together this run this September?
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Run these, these last few weeks, I think should let everyone and
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their mother know that we have no idea what's happening in the
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IO. We have no idea.
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We know there's no one, that we can't predict any of this, any
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of this. Just lump the National League in
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there. No one like this is this whole,
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this whole month. It's just proving that nobody at
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the end of the day, nobody knows what they're talking about.
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And we have to remind people every year of this because
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everybody is so certain that they know ball.
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Nobody knows, Ball. Everyone's so certain that we're
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wrong and they're right, we're all wrong.
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Correct. No one knows RIT more teams too,
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by the way. Yeah, I have no idea what's
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going to happen. I I don't know.
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I think the ale is up for grabs. I think no, but I'm saying this
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is the right time to get hot, by the way, where we talk about
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like, when do you when do you want to get hot?
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When do you want to carry the hot streak into the postseason?
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Now is then, Now is now. Now is then.
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Doesn't work as a saying. Yeah, but but while I agree that
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this is the time to get hot, the Mariners have won, what, 14 of
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15? I just, I, I fear that that that
26:54
can only sustain itself for so long.
26:56
Like the the the law of averages don't really allow for that to
27:01
continue on for much longer. Well, they're going to take two
27:04
out of three against the Rockies minimum, and they host the
27:12
Dodgers. I feel like that's a good way
27:15
for a hot streak, you know, to like.
27:19
Play a gritty 3 game set right before yeah.
27:23
Yeah, to like the the reigning champs.
27:27
Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Good point where it's like,
27:32
yeah, you may have locked. They're probably have the
27:34
division locked up by that point, but let's prove yourself
27:41
a little bit. And even if the Dodgers don't
27:43
view it that way, and I doubt they will, the Dodgers aren't
27:48
looking at the Ms. like they need to prove anything.
27:50
But I think the Mariners are probably going to look at the
27:52
Dodgers and be like, yo, this is a good test.
27:54
This is like a good way to head into the postseason.
27:58
So I think this is the right time to get hot.
27:59
They're hot and I'm feeling pretty good about them.
28:04
I'm feeling pretty good about them.
28:05
Their offense is like proven to me that they're legit.
28:10
Some would say too legit to quit.
28:13
They're saying that. So yeah, I could see them going
28:21
a little deep. This is the team that I told you
28:23
no one wanted to face. Their their, their rotation is
28:27
disgusting and now that the offense has gotten figured out,
28:31
who by the way, Geno Suarez like hasn't even like fully tapped
28:34
into himself. He's been, he's been kind of
28:38
cheeks really, since he got to Seattle.
28:42
Yeah. So I don't know, dude.
28:47
Actually, no, I think he's just been straight up cheeks.
28:51
I don't think there's. Any I don't think there's not
28:52
really. Kind of about it, it's.
28:54
Not really. Kind of.
28:55
Yeah, not kind of cheeks, just cheeks.
28:57
Yeah. Kind of, kind of alluded to it
29:06
earlier, but we we have, we need to talk about the Detroit
29:11
Tigers. Yeah.
29:18
How can I put this politely? Do you have to do you have to do
29:24
you have to let it linger? You know that one.
29:32
No. What, are we kidding me?
29:37
15 1/2 games. Was that what it was?
29:43
Jokes aside. Like yes, jokes aside, when does
29:49
it matter? Not as much as I thought when I
29:56
asked the question. 15 1/2 games at any point of the season
30:01
should be enough to get you home.
30:04
Yeah, yeah. To navigate the waters to the
30:07
postseason. And now we're looking at a
30:09
chance. We're we're, we're looking at a
30:12
possibility of the Tigers not even being in the postseason
30:15
after being up 15 1/2 games. Are you kidding me?
30:21
What a joke. And you know, if if we're going
30:24
to be pulling receipts and patting ourselves on the back
30:27
this episode. I like that.
30:30
Keep going. Continue.
30:31
What did I say? I mean, now that it's
30:34
groundbreaking, but just proving my point.
30:36
What did I say about what the Tigers had to offer from a
30:41
pitching standpoint? Nothing.
30:43
And what did I say about the lineup beyond Riley Green?
30:50
Nothing to write home about. So I to be honest with you, I
30:53
didn't really know how they were stacking so many wins this year.
30:56
That's. Right.
30:56
But they stacked enough to make everybody believe that, oh, this
31:00
is just going to be a runaway team.
31:02
We don't have to worry about this team until late September
31:06
or revisit this team until late September.
31:09
Well, we're revisiting them, but for the wrong reasons.
31:12
You know why? Because they have all but blown
31:16
a 15 1/2 game lead and that's embarrassing.
31:19
They're one and nine in their last ten.
31:21
The Guardians are 9 and one in their last ten.
31:24
And if you were curious, yes, they do line up to play each
31:28
other tomorrow for a three-game set and the Guardians lead that
31:34
season. Series 6 and four.
31:38
At the moment, the Guardians are playing with house money.
31:44
If the Guardians I saw his tweet today.
31:48
Shout out LJ 7 on Twitter. If the Guardians overcome the
31:55
Tigers 15 1/2 game lead to win the AL Central, it'll be the
31:59
biggest comeback in Major League history.
32:02
Largest deficit ever overcome to win a division was 15 games by
32:07
the 1914 Boston Braves and the 1978 Yankees.
32:12
Wow, wow, wow. Are you kidding me?
32:20
Tigers historical historical. Like I know I said what I said
32:27
about your lack of pitching and your lackluster lineup, but 50 I
32:38
like I I need people to really try to wrap their heads around
32:42
this. Like just I would say close your
32:45
eyes and and and picture this. But if you're driving, don't do
32:48
that. But if you're in a safe spot
32:51
where you can close your eyes and think about that number 15
33:03
1/2 game lead. I'll say it again in case you
33:07
haven't heard it yet. In case you you've maybe been
33:10
distracted, you're doing chores, doing the dishes, 15 1/2 games.
33:19
I don't care how well the guardians have been playing.
33:25
You have no excuse for missing the post season this year.
33:33
Detroit Tigers. And I'll be honest with you, if
33:36
we go back to the episode of like, scariest versus least
33:43
scariest contenders, What did I say about the tigers?
33:48
You said they were not scary. I said past Eric Schuble, what
33:53
do they have to offer? What what about the Detroit
33:57
Tigers is giving you any reason to believe that they are going
34:00
to do anything should they make it in?
34:02
And I we did that episode with the assumption that they were
34:05
going to be in, like we said, not even being not even having
34:10
been made fully aware of this cook, this collapse quite yet.
34:14
It wasn't really until this past weekend where I looked at the
34:17
standards and I'm like, wait a minute, am I reading this right?
34:23
And so here we are with six games left.
34:26
I do remember having a conversation that they like.
34:32
That's right, because I was looking at their expanded like
34:37
records like Verse, like Division Day Night, all that
34:40
kind of stuff. And the one run games where I
34:44
think where we were talking about that they were like 20 and
34:47
three or something like that. Yeah, I remember you brought
34:50
that up. I was.
34:51
Like they're like one run away, one or two runs away from having
34:57
like 23 first record. Yeah, like that, Like that's,
35:03
that's interesting. That's worth noting in my mind.
35:06
I mean, the take away ultimately was that like the, the better
35:10
teams win those close games. But to your point, it's just it.
35:13
It speaks to the. Speaks to how the nuanced people
35:18
really genuinely understand how close competition the entire
35:25
league is with each other. You know what I mean?
35:28
Like I think for the outside of the few outlier teams that are
35:31
just horrendously bad, the White Sox and the Rockies, like
35:35
everyone is like, this is still Major League team.
35:40
And I tell my father-in-law that all the time because I mentioned
35:42
it on here, he like bugs me on bets.
35:44
He's like, I, I need something to bet on tonight before the
35:47
football season. He's like, I need something to
35:49
bet on tonight. What do you got?
35:50
And I'm like, dude, it's a freaking coin flip more often
35:53
than not. That's why we play 162 because
35:56
like it has to be a marathon. We it has to be this long.
36:00
You have to let things kind of play out because anything could
36:03
happen on any given night and I think people genuinely forget
36:07
about that. It's like that you, as you're
36:12
explaining this, it reminds me of that, that point they talk
36:15
about like what the Earth's axis where it's like if you moved it
36:20
a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a degree.
36:24
We're getting launched into outer space for, well, I mean,
36:28
we're in outer space, but you know what I mean?
36:29
We're just getting launched on a trajectory that's beyond
36:33
recognition, gone forever. It's the same thing that goes.
36:37
With these two inch closer to the sun, we'd burn up.
36:41
Evaporate into thin air. It's the same thing with this,
36:44
you know, shot him out, shot him out.
36:48
It's like this. It's like with baseball, though.
36:51
To your point, if the Tigers would let's just say that they
36:55
OK, actually, let's do this. I I'm curious.
36:58
You said it, you said it was like 20 and 3.
37:01
Is that is that what you said it was?
37:03
They're now 20 and 10, but I don't know how much of that has
37:06
happened in the last few weeks, but I feel like when we did that
37:10
extra, like when we were on that episode, I think they were like
37:14
20 and three. It was something ridiculous like
37:16
that in one game, one run games. Now they're 20 and 10 and that
37:21
probably is associated with their, you know, this one and
37:25
nine stretch that they're in. If you flip, let's just say ten
37:31
of those wins, they're a third place team in the Central.
37:37
Yeah, and it's weird to like play that if game 'cause it like
37:42
that. And that's the conversation we
37:44
had a few weeks ago. It was like, obviously good
37:46
teams are going to come out and win those.
37:47
And it's like a win is a win. A home run's a home run.
37:50
Whether it's by an inch or, you know, 120 feet, it's a home run.
37:55
I get that sentiment. But at the same time, it's like
37:58
if this is all that's deciding them and you look at their run
38:02
differential, I know that doesn't tell the entire story.
38:05
I know we can't entirely relate on that.
38:08
It's the only team in the. Central with a positive run
38:10
differential, which is crazy, but it is very like the the
38:13
Rangers have a better run differential.
38:18
There's plenty of teams with a lot better. 3rd place Boston Red
38:22
Sox. Yeah, it's, I think they're
38:27
they're lucky to be in that division.
38:29
I think that plays a big role in it.
38:33
What are they in division? I mean this would have 29 and
38:41
20. This would have to be like,
38:46
there's there's no way of getting around it.
38:47
This would have to be the the, the biggest collapse of our
38:51
lifetime, right? I mean, based on what I just
38:54
read, yeah, I mean, but just like optically.
38:59
Should be studied. We were talking about this being
39:02
the best team in baseball at at certain points throughout the
39:05
year, and now they're in danger of missing out all together.
39:11
I genuinely can't fathom what's happening right now in Detroit.
39:14
Let's go, guards. I root for chaos.
39:16
Let's go, guards. Honestly, I I really rooting for
39:20
that. Did you say no?
39:21
You were talking about the do they have, what's the tiebreaker
39:28
situation there with the Guardians?
39:30
They currently are six and four in that match up.
39:34
OK, that's right. That's I thought that's what.
39:36
Guardians are So if the guardians get swept, they're in
39:45
trouble. Obviously, that's not.
39:48
The Guardians happen. The Guardians get swept.
39:50
It's it's, it's over. But.
39:53
It's Jover if. They take two out of three, they
39:58
manage to take two out of three. They'll obviously lead the
40:03
division and lead the match up tiebreaker wise.
40:13
If they lose 2 out of 3, how does that work?
40:21
Who did they if they lose two or three, which means wouldn't they
40:31
be down to games at that point? No, they'd be 7 and six in that
40:35
match up. Oh, you're talking about the tie
40:37
wrecker? Yeah, yeah.
40:38
It'd be 7 and six in that. So they still have that.
40:42
Obviously. I don't think as a Guardians fan
40:44
you'd want that, but. Oh, you're saying, you're
40:49
saying, and then you you're saying they'd have we'd have to
40:52
see how the the last series. Yeah, and then they'd have to,
40:55
like, likely sweep the last series and bank on the Tigers
40:57
losing 2 out of three. I mean, there it would be a lot
41:00
of weird combinations on things, but who do they?
41:02
Finish up with Rangers Guardians.
41:09
Rangers playing for nothing but pride at this point, yeah.
41:13
They're done. Toast riding A7 game losing
41:19
streak. That's sad, hey.
41:22
But to counter that, the Braves. Braves won eight in a row.
41:28
And they and they got Charlie Morton back.
41:31
Yo, World Series back on. How about it?
41:48
Which reminds me, there was there was a who was it the no
41:55
Fox Sports MLB put out a tweet. So Charlie Morton is set to
41:58
return to the Braves per Mark Bowman Bauman, whatever I said
42:04
World Series back on these these people vote.
42:09
I would guess assuming this, you know, this person is old enough
42:12
to vote. Responds to me with a screenshot
42:15
of the graphic that has like, what's his face blooper?
42:20
It says eliminated, you know, eliminated from post season.
42:24
And he puts four question marks. And I said that's a lie.
42:28
And then he responds to me with a screenshot of the NL East
42:31
standings, responds with five questions, six question marks.
42:37
And I'm like, the Braves are, I said the Braves are literally
42:39
going to the World Series now that they brought back Charlie
42:41
Wharton, haven't heard back. So he, he must be honestly, this
42:45
person must be trying to figure out how that's mathematically
42:48
possible. So he might be on this for a
42:50
while. But you were the originator of
42:52
rage baiting. I mean, you can't be serious
42:57
though, right? Like if you follow baseball,
42:59
even remote. Like, if you know how the
43:01
standings work, you know that the Braves have been out of this
43:07
for some time, so. I think your sarcasm is is quite
43:14
terrifyingly convincing. Sometimes it is.
43:19
You can't be serious like your levels of.
43:22
Sarcasm are are scary. That might be true, but are we
43:26
whatever I'm I don't want to we don't need to go down this
43:29
anymore. I'm, I'm just saying, I if I
43:32
saw, if I saw me say that, I'd be like.
43:36
Joke. Good one, move on, but bro's
43:41
trying to break down possible white.
43:45
Fan Did you look into that, Phillies?
43:50
Fan there. It is there.
43:52
You go, yeah, no disrespect. Sad, sad man.
43:59
These people vote that should that should alarm people.
44:03
I'm serious. That should really alarm people
44:05
and drive that's these people are in society like they're all
44:10
around you. And it's not just this one
44:11
person. It's it's more people than you
44:14
think. Just spend 10 minutes on social
44:16
media. These are real people, you know,
44:19
outside of the bots. You can sift through the bots,
44:21
but once you once you realize like, oh, this is a real person,
44:24
you'll be surprised at how many of these people are just running
44:28
around just living life. That's right.
44:33
Anyway, Speaking of running around, the Reds might run
44:41
around and just find themselves in October.
44:44
Are you, are you kind of pulling for the Reds right now?
44:47
If it means chaos, they beat the Mets.
44:49
Yes, and chaos. That's a yeah, actually.
44:52
I mean, chaos is great, but I'm with you.
44:56
That's way funnier. The Mets.
44:57
Oh, absolutely. Being eliminated is way funnier.
45:00
In chaos. Yeah.
45:01
What? Let me ask you this now that
45:03
we've, well, we, we kind of talked Mets what, what's worse
45:12
to you? The Tigers collapse with a 15
45:17
1/2 game lead or the Mets 300 and what, $40 million payroll?
45:32
What's more historical? Just what's worse to you?
45:37
What's worse? I think the tigers just buy a
45:42
pubic hair. This is obviously going off of
45:46
the assumption that in this I in this scenario if if neither team
45:51
made it, which one would be worse?
45:53
Yeah, just ever so slightly. The Tigers, But the Mets are
45:59
funnier. It's always funnier, like if
46:02
they both get eliminated to be like, I understand what the
46:06
Tigers did. I understand that that's
46:07
historical, but like this is funnier.
46:09
If the What did I say? What was what were the odds for
46:17
the Mets to make the playoffs? There was I'd.
46:24
It was stupid at one point. I'd like to I think we maybe by
46:29
the way, just a little quick little pod thought.
46:31
I think, I think it's probably about that time that we do a
46:35
little a little like pull or check, like a quick little
46:44
temperature check, not temperature check.
46:49
What is it consensus? That's what we need.
46:52
Yep, on what are like who our listeners what what their
46:59
favorite teams are, I would I would guess the Mets are very
47:05
low as far as the number of listeners and.
47:09
Yeah, I mean, with the amount of slander that we've put forth
47:12
that we, we lost that fan base a long time ago.
47:16
Is it? Are we calling it a loss?
47:21
You mean like are we just, are we just cutting ties basically?
47:23
I would just say we've avoided that fan base for a long time.
47:28
Yeah, I think there's a good way to spin it.
47:32
Braves fans love us. They we, they get under our
47:35
skin, we get under their skin. But I feel like there's just a
47:38
mutual like. Yeah, it's that GIF where you're
47:40
just like, boom, you're just like the the meme where they're
47:43
like shaking hands. Exactly.
47:45
Yeah. Yeah, we both hate the Mets.
47:49
No, but honestly, every nice thing if the Mets, if the Mets
47:53
choke this away, every nice thing I've ever said about the
47:56
Mets since their most recent Mets scene goes out the window.
48:05
Which for I guess is like the last, we'll just say like, we'll
48:08
call it the last two years. Every nice thing I've said about
48:11
the Mets goes out the window. If you choke this away, there's
48:14
no way you should have choked this away.
48:16
Yeah, spent a half a billion dollars this year.
48:22
But no, the Reds. I'm with you.
48:24
If the Reds are the reason it happens, frankly, I don't care
48:29
if they get swept out of the wild card.
48:32
In fact, that would make it. Better, I agree.
48:34
I'm not going to lie, that would make it better.
48:37
I burned it. I I didn't care to.
48:41
It's like, yeah, I didn't care to try, no.
48:46
That's like when when the Joker in the Batman movie just lights
48:48
that entire pile of cash on fire.
48:51
He's like, I don't care. That's the Reds.
48:55
That's what I'm talking. About I stole your spot.
48:58
I don't even want it. I literally do not want to play
49:03
another baseball game beyond this series.
49:05
We are out. Yeah, no.
49:08
It's a beautiful spot though. The Reds, I saw today, the Reds
49:11
odds of making the postseason have increased from 44.3 at the
49:15
beginning of the month to 41.6. Here's what I love though about
49:23
this situation for the Reds. They are, they are in control of
49:27
their destiny. I mentioned it earlier, they own
49:31
literally all the tiebreakers they need.
49:33
They own the tiebreaker over the Mets.
49:37
They own the tiebreaker over the D backs.
49:40
And I, I want to say they own this one.
49:45
I'm not sure about, I want to say they own the tiebreaker
49:49
against the Giants, but I, I don't know that that necessarily
49:52
matters in this scenario because I feel like a lot would have to
49:55
happen for that to, to, to shape out, But doesn't matter.
50:01
They they control their destiny and it's a beautiful thing to
50:05
see to see them handle their business.
50:09
Giant question, by the way. Quick question since we're like
50:12
far out enough to where it's like it could be a pretty pretty
50:15
bold prediction. Will we or won't we have a game
50:24
163? I don't think we can't have that
50:28
anymore. I thought they, they, I thought
50:32
they yeah, I thought they adjusted the system so that that
50:36
doesn't happen anymore at all. Yeah, Yeah.
50:43
I feel like we've talked about this.
50:46
I kind of hate that. Let me confirm.
50:49
You do that. I hate that, though.
50:55
Obviously, I don't know Ball. Yeah, no more 160 threes.
50:59
Yeah, we talked about this. This was this was years ago back
51:03
in they they got rid of them back in 2022.
51:06
It was when they dropped from 19 games.
51:11
Division Division Matchup. Well, it was the IT was when
51:15
they expanded the postseason. That's the correlation.
51:20
Whatever. What a stupid.
51:22
Rule. All right.
51:23
Well, good prediction. They won't happen.
51:27
Moving on. I'll go ahead and predict that
51:29
there will not be any game on 60 threes.
51:32
I mean if you throw a tenth out plus 10,000 odds on it, I'll
51:35
throw 5 bucks on that I. Will.
51:37
I will. I will go ahead and say no.
51:40
And your luck, they would, they'd be like actually, guys,
51:43
we're going to walk this back. What is that?
51:46
What is that, Kevin? Quote where he's like, I'll give
51:49
you 10,001 odds, whenever 10,001 odds you have to take that bet.
51:58
That's exactly what I'm doing. Yeah, he's talking about Leo
52:03
DiCaprio winning, winning an Oscar or something.
52:09
Yeah, that'd be, they'd be like, you know what, you spoke up, we
52:13
listened. We're bringing it back.
52:16
They do listen. With a week's with less than a
52:19
week's notice, yeah, it'd be you'd be making some money off
52:23
that. But no, the Reds.
52:29
I'm dude, I'm excited for it. I hope they do it, man, Although
52:35
it really sucks for them the rest of the way out.
52:38
They've got a three-game set starting twos against the
52:40
Pirates in which Hunter Green, who you would love to just chalk
52:45
up or chalk in as an automatic win, chalk up, chalk up as an
52:51
automatic win, going up, going up against Skeens.
52:56
So I mean other. Big fun, fun game to watch.
52:58
Yeah. Oh, for sure, definitely.
53:00
But outside of that, you're just going to have to.
53:03
I mean, I'm not saying that he can't, he's not capable of doing
53:06
it, but it's just, I mean, that's a tall ask.
53:07
So you're going to have to figure out elsewhere in that
53:10
series, scrounge up a win or two.
53:13
But then they've got Milwaukee. But maybe you catch him a
53:20
Milwaukee that's resting, a Milwaukee that's.
53:23
Napping. Easing up?
53:25
Yeah, it's possible. They have not beaten Milwaukee
53:31
in a series since 2022, though, so.
53:34
They're due, one could argue. One could argue, all right, well
53:41
before these final 2 series to close out the regular season
53:46
take place, do you have any, Do you have any takes?
53:48
Do you have any predictions? You have anything that not even
53:51
predictions, you just have anything that you want to be on
53:53
record before Sunday night or Monday morning.
54:03
That's actually weird. Right, a week from today.
54:10
We're post season baseball. Well, not even no, because they
54:14
they give them a day, don't they?
54:15
Or is it? Literally, I'll wait for them
54:17
tomorrow. I'll wait for them tomorrow.
54:19
Does it start on Tuesday? Does Wattgard start Monday?
54:24
Please hold MLB post season schedule schedule a Tuesday,
54:32
September 30th Yeah yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
54:38
I'm going to be useless at work next.
54:42
Week, I was going to say, yeah, a week from a week from today,
54:51
there will be countless teams that will be in vacation mode.
54:57
That's weird. That is weird.
55:01
I know this happens this time of year every year, but it's always
55:03
weird when it when it's upon us. I am going to say sneak attack
55:17
from the Diamondbacks. Yeah, we didn't even really talk
55:21
about the Diamondbacks. Yeah, you think that?
55:25
You think the D backs sneak in? Sneak attack They they they take
55:30
the Reds and the Mets down. Wow, so you're getting me all
55:34
excited about the Reds. And then you're like, I'm sorry.
55:36
I pull the rug out. Here you go, D backs.
55:39
Is that too bold? Because.
55:41
I had them winning the World Series this year and part of me
55:45
is like, you know, maybe. You gave them the division,
55:47
didn't you? I did.
55:49
I did. Hey, anything can happen.
55:52
Anything. I mean, they're only 9 back.
55:57
Anything can happen. Well, they do.
55:59
I mean, Speaking of which, they they finish out the season 3
56:05
with the Padres, who's no three with the Dodgers and three with
56:08
the Padres. Correct.
56:10
So I know those are important games.
56:13
That's what I'm saying. That's going to be a that's a
56:16
tough, that's a tough ask for a team to to pull a sneak attack.
56:22
Look at the look at the look at the Marlins just hanging on, not
56:25
getting eliminated. I love that.
56:29
That's huge. Let's go, Marlins.
56:31
Yeah, nine and one in their last ten.
56:34
Never say die. What is the are they, they have
56:41
to be in a situation where it's like you could win out, but like
56:45
if one team wins on Tuesday, you're done, you're done, right?
56:49
Like that's got like they have to be.
56:51
Yeah. They got to be like right there.
56:54
Yeah, they got to be. Dude, if they win, you know,
57:02
hey, say what you will about the Marlins, but they if they go. 6
57:07
and O. No, if they go 5 and one to
57:11
finish out the year, that's a 500 season, you know, Hey, tip
57:14
of the cap. Steps.
57:16
Big steps being taken. Tip of the cap to the to the
57:20
Marlins. So that's your take.
57:23
No, I think it sounded like you walked that back.
57:25
I kind of walked. I kind of walked that back.
57:29
I mean, I'm, I'm going to keep riding the guards over the
57:31
Astros thing. I'm just going to ride the
57:34
guards out. I think I'm going to ride the
57:36
guards out in the division and then the Tigers are going to
57:41
take that last wild card spot and the Astros are toast.
57:45
How's that? Run that by me one more time.
57:50
Houston out, Guardians win the division, but the Tigers take
57:54
that last wild card spot. Wow, you're giving the division
57:58
to the guards? I am.
58:02
So you're you face each other or you know immediately
58:07
immediately. So your take is a three headed
58:09
monster. You've got the guards winning
58:11
the division and consequently tigers choking up the division,
58:18
but not choking up the post season entirely snagging the
58:22
last wild card spot. Therefore, ergo, Astros miss out
58:32
there you. Go man, how's that I'm?
58:36
Going to have to eat crow with the that's the Stroh's mariner
58:41
situation as I mentioned. But that's a good take.
58:44
I like that. True.
58:45
You got you got anything? I'm going to say, I mean, I've
58:51
kind of I think I kind of talked myself into it and it's at this
58:56
point, it's not all that spicy, but I've got the Reds.
59:00
Honestly, I like the scenario we mapped out.
59:02
That's my that's my. Well, we're getting into post
59:04
season predictions at this point, but I see the Reds being
59:09
the bouncer to the Mets saying no, no, no, you're not welcome
59:13
here and then proceeding to get swept out of the wild card
59:17
series. That's my take.
59:21
Well, I think what's 1 of like the things to think about is
59:25
that I believe, yeah, I mean, the barring something weird, the
59:36
Dodgers are for sure going to be the the third seed in the NL
59:42
they're for sure not getting. Correct.
59:45
A first round buy, so whoever is dealing with that last wild card
59:50
spot is going to be dealing with the Dodgers.
59:52
I mean mathematically. It's not a certainty.
59:59
There's like 99%. I'm just saying like there is.
1:00:01
A4 games back from the Phillies. Right.
1:00:03
So they'd have to be like winning out, losing out kind of
1:00:06
deal. Yeah.
1:00:06
So not likely, but yeah, I'm with you.
1:00:09
They're going to have to be dealing with the Dodgers,
1:00:10
whoever it is. Yeah, and the Reds just go down,
1:00:14
man, Like Titanic just. Poetic.
1:00:18
Yeah, I ain't going far, but I know the Mets aren't going at
1:00:23
all. Let's get some T-shirts made-up.
1:00:29
Oh, I need them rocking that. Like showing up to showing up to
1:00:33
Dodger Stadium. We're not going far, but Mets
1:00:37
aren't going anywhere at all. I love that that's.
1:00:40
Beautiful last. If that happens, that'll have to
1:00:45
be the name of the episode on Sunday.
1:00:51
Fair enough. Deal.
1:00:54
Reds, please come through, come through.
1:00:58
Anything else on the playoff picture before we get out of
1:01:00
here? No, Sir, No Sir.
1:01:04
Last note from me closing the book here, Mike Trout joining
1:01:10
400 club. Pretty cool.
1:01:14
I'm sure you saw it the, the guy that caught it just wanted to, I
1:01:19
think he got what, 3 signed bats, maybe something else
1:01:23
signed, maybe not, but he got the signed bats and then just
1:01:27
wanted to play catch with, with Trout.
1:01:32
I got an issue. I already know what your issue
1:01:35
is. You couldn't throw a glove on.
1:01:38
Yeah, he asked. He asked.
1:01:41
You heard him in the video. Like, yo, is your glove down
1:01:43
there? But I'm like, just make an
1:01:47
effort to go grab a glove. Go get a glove.
1:01:50
This isn't what are we doing? Like this isn't a a six year old
1:01:54
coach. Pitch like yeah.
1:01:56
And it's you don't you're not tossing a nerf football around.
1:01:59
Go put a glove on. Yeah, that's you.
1:02:03
Want to have a catch? Let's have a catch.
1:02:05
Let's have a catch. You're going to have a catch.
1:02:08
Have a catch. I don't.
1:02:09
Let's not catch. I mean look like no disrespect
1:02:13
but like my trout man. Not a disrespect but like be
1:02:16
better Mike. That's that's a big moment for
1:02:19
that. That's if that's what he's
1:02:20
specifically requesting. Do it right, Yeah.
1:02:26
Like, come on. Like I said, though, he did ask.
1:02:30
He's like, he's kind of asking around.
1:02:32
Like, yo, was your glove down there?
1:02:33
But it seemed like that was kind of the only effort that was put
1:02:36
into it. So I was like, whatever.
1:02:37
Yeah, whatever. Usually Clubby could have gotten
1:02:40
that glove in 30 seconds. I'm buying it Yes late.
1:02:45
And how many tosses were there? Yeah, that I mean that's
1:02:51
obviously more for the guy that caught the ball and and less for
1:02:55
trout, but like because of that, it's got to be weird for trout
1:02:59
to be like all right, so like how long we how long we doing
1:03:02
this or can I go now? I'm I'm not like putting words
1:03:06
in his mouth, but I'm you got to think that maybe he's kind of
1:03:10
thinking that like, all right, man, this is like cool, this is
1:03:13
a cool request. Like props to this guy, but
1:03:16
like, how long do I got to be out here from doing this?
1:03:18
Because that wasn't really specified.
1:03:22
I just think he could have done better.
1:03:28
That's the theme of society these days.
1:03:30
We all think everybody around us could do better.
1:03:33
Just do a little better. But you're right, you're right.
1:03:35
I I just put a glove on, man, Just put a glove on.
1:03:42
That's all I got. That's all I got.
1:03:46
I mean I I forfeited, I don't know, 6 figures so I can play
1:03:51
catch with. You I think you can throw a
1:03:53
freaking freaking glove on. I forfeited.
1:04:00
You think? I think.
1:04:01
One of my kids college fund just to have a catch with you.
1:04:05
But you couldn't throw a glove on for me.
1:04:07
Perfect. Sounds good.
1:04:08
I would have whizzed 1 Adam. Dude, I would have let one eat.
1:04:11
You're not putting a glove on. Take this.
1:04:14
Have fun on the IL for the remainder of the season.
1:04:21
Oh man, what would you real quick?
1:04:24
What would you have if that's you specifically catching this
1:04:28
all that? Question going in the group
1:04:30
chat. It's tough, man. 400th Homer for
1:04:33
Mike Trout. This isn't just anybody's 400th
1:04:35
this Mike Trout's 400th who obviously know what that what
1:04:39
that, you know, comes with not that not that Joe any Joe
1:04:43
Schmoeser hitting 400, but you know what I mean?
1:04:45
Like it's, you know, one of the. Games.
1:04:47
Yeah. I mean, it's Mike Trout.
1:04:48
What did we see anything about? Like what the value would be of
1:04:52
that ball? I mean, not to sound super
1:04:58
ignorant, but I, and not that I'm trying to like belittle the
1:05:03
accomplishment, but like, it's not 500, it's not 600, It's not
1:05:08
set like 400's a lot. Don't get me wrong.
1:05:12
I I I don't even know, but that's what I'm saying is like
1:05:15
if if I'm not immediately being like, oh, that's at least like
1:05:19
500 K, that tells me that the number probably isn't all that
1:05:27
much. Hold on.
1:05:31
Let's see let's see what the the Twitter heads are speculating.
1:05:42
Micra, No, I don't know. There's no All right, This is
1:05:56
according to Grok, because apparently somebody asked, oh,
1:06:00
here you go. What is the potential value of
1:06:01
this ball? You know, take it with a grain
1:06:04
of salt. It's Grok.
1:06:06
But Grok says milestone home run balls like Mike Trout's 400
1:06:09
typically fetch 5 to 6 figures at auction.
1:06:15
Potential values anywhere from 10 to 100,000.
1:06:21
I saw I saw somebody say that it was potentially A prey or it was
1:06:28
appraised AT20K which would put it in that range.
1:06:32
I don't I don't know where these people getting these numbers
1:06:34
from, but. All right, let's just say you
1:06:37
have an offer for 40K. Can we say Clean 50?
1:06:42
Clean 50, You got a clean $50,000 offer that's on the
1:06:48
table. You know that It's been
1:06:50
established. Don't ask me how or why it's
1:06:53
been established, but it's been established.
1:06:56
You caught the ball. What are you doing?
1:06:59
What are you? What are you if you're giving it
1:07:02
up? What are you asking for if
1:07:03
you're keeping it? Didn't I?
1:07:05
Wasn't I the one that asked you this question?
1:07:07
Now I'm getting. Announced I spun it around 50K.
1:07:14
Well, right off the top, I want, I'm going to want like a, a a
1:07:19
trout memorabilia pack. Like I'm going to want to sign
1:07:24
jersey. I want to I want the whole deal.
1:07:26
I want a jersey, jersey, bat bat helmet helmets.
1:07:32
A low key cool memorabilia I. And I don't even need the one
1:07:36
because I'm sure the one he hit it in is going to Cooperstown.
1:07:38
So I don't even want that one, but just give me like an
1:07:40
autograph. What do you know one in the?
1:07:44
Bag. Toss in.
1:07:45
Toss in something. What do you mean financially?
1:07:49
No, I'm going to need season tickets. 2 solid seats.
1:07:53
Seats that include free for the Angels, Yes, why not?
1:07:57
What else do they got? They have nothing else to offer.
1:08:00
Yeah, but I don't. Know if let me take that tundra
1:08:02
that's parked in left center? That's a good call.
1:08:08
That's a good call. Yeah.
1:08:10
Give me a bat in that tundra. I ain't playing catch with your
1:08:12
bare hands. Let's go.
1:08:14
Give me that truck. Yeah.
1:08:16
I got to be honest, if I would have known if he would, if they
1:08:18
would have been like, hey, you can you can have a catch with
1:08:22
trout. But all the equipment's on the
1:08:23
bus already. I'm like or just like, like, no,
1:08:28
it was on the roads. Yeah, like all the equipment's
1:08:30
on the on the bus. Sorry, but nothing we can do.
1:08:33
I'm like, all right, let's let's let's let's come back to the
1:08:37
table here because I'm not doing that.
1:08:41
Yeah, I'm going to want a memorabilia pack.
1:08:43
I'm going to want cards signed by Trout.
1:08:49
I'm going to want a picture with him.
1:08:52
I'm going to want if, if you're asking me specifically, I'm
1:08:56
going to want a 15 minute interview on the pod.
1:09:03
That's not asking much, right? Come on, what are we talking
1:09:05
about? This time's worth a lot of
1:09:07
money, but not, I mean, what are we doing?
1:09:08
15 minutes? You're about to be free in a
1:09:11
week. You're very available, you're
1:09:13
very free. Fair enough.
1:09:18
I feel like that's a yeah, throwing the throwing the two
1:09:22
season tickets, throwing a truck.
1:09:23
I mean I'm that adds up to a lot I would imagine, but I don't
1:09:25
think the. I think I think the truck is out
1:09:27
unfortunately, but that's fair. I think the truck is probably
1:09:31
60-70 K. So yeah, if they're like, hey,
1:09:37
we'll only give you 50K, they're like fine, how about the truck?
1:09:40
They're like, Oh yeah, sure. No, it's.
1:09:42
Already paid off it's. Already paid off then just go
1:09:44
flip it. There you go, easy easy 20
1:09:47
dollar 20,000 on top. All right.
1:09:51
I'll, I mean, would you give it? Would you give it back?
1:09:56
Yeah. Yeah.
1:09:59
Unless it's yeah, oh, OK, here's the thing.
1:10:01
And I know we said we're going to be real quick about this, but
1:10:03
it brings up a good point. Somebody in the group chat made
1:10:06
the point, and this is very valid.
1:10:08
It depends on, I think they said, I don't remember who said
1:10:11
it in our fantasy league, They said it depends on who hit it,
1:10:16
like what the ball, like the ball, the milestone itself.
1:10:18
And then also who hit it. Like I like I responded with if
1:10:25
Tommy Pham is hunting down bombs.
1:10:34
And within He's we Bonds is within striking distance for
1:10:38
Tommy Pham. So.
1:10:39
Right. So if Tommy Pham is on the
1:10:43
doorstep of career home run total, Yeah, you know,
1:10:47
territory. I'm taking that to auction Tommy
1:10:52
Pham. Good luck trying to get it back
1:10:54
for me. I agree.
1:10:55
Yeah. I don't want to meet you anyway.
1:10:58
But if it's Mike Shrout, yeah, let's talk.
1:11:00
You get your ball back. But I'm going to, I'm going to
1:11:02
want something, you know, something a little nice.
1:11:04
That's all just for a fellow. Peasant.
1:11:07
What's the what's the measly peasant?
1:11:11
What's the threshold for you? Because you said 400.
1:11:16
Nice milestone, Real nice. Oh, so you're saying like how
1:11:19
high would I have to get before I before I draw the line I.
1:11:22
Think I'm going to keep this thing because we saw the rich
1:11:29
dude in Texas hang on to 62 from from Judge's home run.
1:11:35
He hung on to that puppy for a little bit.
1:11:37
Are we talking career or? Anything I guess.
1:11:40
I mean it could be single season, it could be career.
1:11:43
The the dude that caught the Yankees, the Derek Jeter 3
1:11:48
thousandth hit home run off of David Price.
1:11:50
He gave that back to him. I mean, if you're a Yankees fan,
1:11:55
how do you not give it back to Jeter?
1:11:59
Yeah. Honestly, I view and is this
1:12:05
common sense I would I would be more reluctant to give judges
1:12:08
Ball back than Jeter's three thousandth hit just because of
1:12:11
the historical significance there right with Maris and all
1:12:15
that. I mean 3000 hits is crazy
1:12:20
impressive obviously, but like we're we're talking about a
1:12:22
select club here with the same. Change I think, I think I, I
1:12:26
don't know club for club size, but I feel like 3000 hits and
1:12:30
four hundred home runs probably very similar.
1:12:33
No, no, I was talking about judges single season.
1:12:36
Situation. I know, I know.
1:12:38
I'm just saying, yeah, I think there's, I mean, that's way more
1:12:44
rare. I'm trying to think of the cut
1:12:49
off like I'm just looking at the 500 Homer club right now, like
1:12:52
Miguel Cabrera. 5:11 AM I giving Miguel Cabrera's 500th Homer
1:12:57
back? No disrespect, no.
1:13:04
I'm buying a new house. Here's my new house.
1:13:11
Here's the thing. If if, because I know I, I, I
1:13:14
love when baseball fans run through these exercises like, oh
1:13:17
like, what would I want from player X for whatever milestone?
1:13:21
Here's the thing. There's nothing saying that
1:13:25
these players couldn't eventually get the ball.
1:13:29
They would just they, you know, their camp would have to fork
1:13:33
out a a a good amount of money to get it.
1:13:35
Sure, but that like it's not being you're not being like,
1:13:38
well, you're just never getting the spa.
1:13:40
They've got the money. Presumably if they're in these
1:13:43
territories, they're making good money.
1:13:44
That's a very interesting take because like, you never hear
1:13:48
about like the player trying to buy it from them.
1:13:53
You know you got the money if you want it that bad.
1:14:00
I mean, look at Judge for example, if that ball went to
1:14:03
auction, you're telling me judge with that contract couldn't
1:14:06
afford? I mean, I'm not telling people
1:14:07
to spend their money, but like if you really wanted it that
1:14:09
bad. Yeah.
1:14:12
So if I think you. Try the other stuff, right?
1:14:15
Like, I don't know, Yeah. I mean, for me, if it's my
1:14:18
hometown team, if it's my favorite team and I get and I
1:14:22
know that I have like the opportunity and the ability to
1:14:26
have season tickets, I, it I think, yeah, for sure, I'm going
1:14:30
to need that and I'm probably going to need more than just one
1:14:33
year. Yeah.
1:14:37
I mean, you're going to have to. You're going to have to.
1:14:41
Plus the memorabilia stuff, because you know, I'm.
1:14:43
The meet and greet, the memorabilia, yeah, be like.
1:14:46
Yeah, yeah, I'm going to need an AB during spring training, OK,
1:14:50
like. Like now we're getting a little
1:14:52
crazy, getting a little crazy. I'm going to need you New York
1:14:56
Yankees to organize it so where I can put up here for every team
1:15:00
in spring training a la Will Ferrell.
1:15:03
So do with that information what you will otherwise.
1:15:06
This puppy's staying with me. Otherwise, this conversation's
1:15:09
over any who's all right, good stuff.
1:15:12
I know we wanted we meant to keep that brief and it went on
1:15:14
for 20 minutes. That's what we.
1:15:17
Do That's what we do here. That's what we do.
1:15:19
All right, let's let's wrap this thing up.
1:15:22
And folks, buckle up. We're we're, we are primed for
1:15:27
six days of chaos. Yeah, I mean, I really, we'll
1:15:33
have a dialogue, but I'm assuming Sunday night.
1:15:35
I, I, I think we maybe see those last games kind of wrapping up.
1:15:40
We just hop on, catch it fresh. Yeah.
1:15:46
Think that's all we got to do? Sweet, sweet, sweet.
1:15:50
Well. I'm going to Speaking of
1:15:54
scheduling. Screwing the plan?
1:15:56
No, I'll we're. Heading to Boston Friday morning
1:16:00
so. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:16:01
This may have to be a thing where we record Thursday night
1:16:04
at the conclusion of this first of two series that we have left,
1:16:11
sort of. Really.
1:16:11
Friday morning. Friday morning, so maybe do a a
1:16:15
pod Thursday night recap this this first series and then
1:16:21
preview what's what could potentially happen over the
1:16:24
final weekend of the season and then we'll see you guys in
1:16:28
October, I suppose. All right, so that's.
1:16:32
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