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398. World Series Ready · 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 CQ Business episode 398.
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I'll be your host Kyle Corey. And I'm here with my Co host,
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Nate Reyes Knight. What just happened?
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What is what's going on, man? I got it.
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Somebody wake me up. I'll let me just get this out of
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the way because I know it's coming.
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I got to eat a lot of crow. You do?
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OK. I got to eat a lot of crow.
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You sure do. Just the ones off the top of my
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head. The the Sharpie bit comes to
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mind. Yeah.
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Putting the Phillies in the World Series, to be fair.
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To be fair, I said that more with the Brave series in mind
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because I knew that's where it was headed.
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Sure, sure. I I would venture to say 9 out
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of 10 Americans, three out of four dentists, would not have
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recommended nor seen the Diamondbacks being the final
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hurdle that the Phillies would have needed to get past to get
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to the World Series. So I'm not.
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I'm not. I'm not giving myself a pass
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there. I'm just adding context to the
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situation. Still have to eat that though.
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You know, While I personally still believe it on paper, the
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whole Citizens Bank home field advantage did not did not play
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out the way I think a lot of people were anticipating it
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would. So I got to take the hit for
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that. If I think of others throughout
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the episode, I'll be sure to acknowledge them.
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But. I mean, you know what, I'm sure
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we'll get into numbers, but you know, you've been a, you've been
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a a big, big Trey Turner guy and well.
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Yeah, just not a great series overall.
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Not a great series. I'm not going to sit.
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Here in season, like I'm yeah, I'm.
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I'm not. I mean I've been.
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I've been wrong more this postseason, I feel like, than
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any postseason ever. Everyone knows that.
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Like I'm the baseball guy at work and they're all coming up
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to me and asking predictions and stuff.
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And I've been wrong. I've been wrong.
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Just wrong. Said it on the pod the other
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day. I thought the Astros were going
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to immediately win it in game six.
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That didn't happen. I never gave the Diamondbacks a
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second thought. I never even imagined this
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outcome. The Wild Card series, we were
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rolling our eyes, going the Diamondbacks like that.
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If they would have matched up against the Phillies in the Wild
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Card series, like we're like, OK, that'd have been great.
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And then it ended up be the Marlins.
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But we're like, OK, well, let's just set the D backs to the side
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because there's other more important teams we have to worry
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about right now. And to your point, I don't think
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either of us really. I mean, we weren't.
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I don't think we were ragging on them, but we weren't giving them
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the credit they seemingly were due.
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I I let's let's just relax a little bit.
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I don't think everyone was. I think we were in the majority
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of people that overlooked what they were capable of.
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This is wild. Like, I, I, I, I don't know
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what's this postseason is about. I don't understand.
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What's the lesson here? What are we?
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What are we needing to learn? This is why you have to.
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I mean it's as cliche as the sounds is why you have to play
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the games like you have to play. Yeah.
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But it and I know I can't and it's purely because the game
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ended mere minutes ago that I feel like I'm I'm focusing or
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I'm kind of honing in on this Phillies D back series we'll get
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to we'll get to both obviously. But it.
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I don't know man. It's a weird it's a weird place
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to be as a baseball fan because part of you if if you're if
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you're a neutral party like you, you're just kind of watching the
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postseason because you love playoff baseball.
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It's weird. Well, it it's it's cool to see a
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team like the D backs do what they do and a team last year
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like the Phillies do what they do.
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You you just like these, whether or not you want to label them as
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Cinderella stories. Whichever route you want to
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take, so be it. But you like these less than
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notable teams getting in, making it to the dance and potentially
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making some noise. But on the flip side, you'll
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look at it and it's like 84 wins, man.
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I mean, it's Yep, I'm not going to say it's this Manford.
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Ball right here, But yeah, and that's and that's what it keeps
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coming back to. For me it's like.
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That guy is static right now. Is there truth to the sentiment
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that the regular season doesn't really matter anymore with the
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expanded postseason? And I'm not coming at that from
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a from a particular angle, I'm I'm purely presenting that as
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conversation because I think you could come at it from either
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way. I I would love to say I I the
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first round by is. I would love to say it's it's a
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huge advantage in like football because you're not talking about
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necessarily like a rhythm that you need to hold on to and if it
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if it wasn't. For the fact that so many first
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round by teams have struggled in in the last few post seasons, I
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don't think I would. I would accept what you're
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saying, but now we're seeing the Wild Card team from last year,
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the Phillies making it to the World Series.
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Now we're seeing two Wild Card teams in the World Series. 75%
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of the LCS field was. It was Wild Card teams.
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Yeah, yeah. It's just, Oh my goodness, it's
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a weird postseason. And I I hate to get.
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I like we're so the reason I'm I'm fearful is because we're
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such an analytical sport and I and I fear that there's going to
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be, I don't know if there's going to be some type of letting
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off the gas. If you have a A2 game lead in
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the division with a week left in the season, I don't, I don't
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know like how big of an advantage is it to take five
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days off? I mean, do do you think teams
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remember this feeling that has or this taste that has been left
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in? I don't know.
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Or will teams forget and be like no we need?
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That, I mean, it's a player thing, it's a player thing, it's
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a player thing. And I think it's circumstantial
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for whatever the team situation is.
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If you have a key star that's nursing some type of injury, I
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don't know if there if there's a situation like that, but at the
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same time like. US, us fans that don't have
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teams in the dogfight. Like, I'm a little bummed, and
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it's nothing against the Diamondbacks.
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It's just like I I know, yes, they won, But this team isn't
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better than the Braves. This team isn't better than the
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Phillies. It's just I understand the
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postseason is about getting hot at the right time.
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I just. I don't want to sit there and
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blame the structure of the postseason, right.
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And this is where I'm going to play devil's advocate to my
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devil's advocate where you can sit there and say, yeah, 8484
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wins. But I've said it before, just
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like we talked about years ago with the Edgar Martinez Hall of
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Fame conversation, You can't fault the guy.
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You can't. Blame him for You can't blame
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him for succeeding at an institution of the game, an
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element, a facet of the game that was created by the game.
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I know. And we're in the same thing.
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We're going to the. Smaller camp.
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We're in that smaller camp. The people that support the
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Dodgers, you know, 2020 World Series.
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And it's legitimate. You can't blame the Dodgers for
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winning that because it was up for grabs for anybody.
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So I get it. I definitely understand.
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We can't blame the system. I just.
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It's so tough to make this argument without sounding like
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I'm discrediting the Diamondbacks.
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And overall, like, when I watch this Diamondbacks team, this
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series kind of opened my eyes as the fact that, like, I think
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they're the most complete team when you talk about all facets
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of the game defensively. Base running, hitting for
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average pitching, both starting and bullpen.
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They do a lot of stuff. Well, they do a lot of stuff.
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Well, the back end of that bullpen is legit, and that's AI
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mean. That's a that's a trade
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acquisition. Paul Seewald punching your
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ticket for the World Series. For ya, you needed a clear
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example of pitching wins championships.
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I mean the D backs minimizing the bashing Phillies offense the
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way they did down the stretch. So I think it.
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I don't. I don't.
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I don't remember what I heard on the broadcast.
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It was kind of like an off thing.
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I don't know if it was Darling or Frank Corb 3.
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Three home runs from the Phillies at home.
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Is that what it was? I think he said something like
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that. I didn't confirm.
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I didn't look it up. I think it was also, I mean,
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well, three runs in the last two games at home.
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That's tough. That's not what you want.
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That's brutal. Sorry.
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I was looking up a tweet I saw earlier tonight.
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I don't know if this was or. Yeah, OK, yeah 'cause they
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didn't get up in the night. So it looks it looks as though
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Harper, Turner Schwarber. Cassiano's finished one for 14
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with 5K's. Yeah, I've never.
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Ever thought of this before? I've never, like, gave it a
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legitimate thought before, but I heard this idea.
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I don't know if we've even talked about it on the podcast
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before. You and I are old school
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baseball guys. Like, we're not really.
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We're always late to the party when it comes to rule changes,
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things like that. Give your Give ourselves some
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credit. We've been better lately.
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We've been better lately. Someone, someone said this idea
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and when I first heard, I was like, that's just, it's not
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baseball, it's ridiculous. But I actually thought about it
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again this game. The idea was based on what
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you're seeing in other sports, when it's, you know, 30 seconds
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left in the fourth quarter, you have your star quarterback
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trying to find the star receiver. 15 seconds left in the
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fourth quarter. You have your star guy on the
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court trying to get the ball, people setting screens to get
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him the ball. The idea that this someone gave
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me was at one point. You get one time at any point in
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the game to hit reset on your line up and run it back to the
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top. At any point in the game and
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it's wild because it's like you hate to see a team like the
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Phillies and and he's our guy. He's been on the pod before, but
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you hate to see their season end with Jake Cave and it felt like
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the IT felt like the game ended in the seventh tonight.
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On Harper's fly out, it felt like it was over for me.
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Yeah, let's just, I mean we we pretty much are already talking
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about this series. Let's just get into like game
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specific stuff here and then we we'll switch gears and talk.
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Rangers, Astros. You mentioned the 7th for me in
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watching each one of these games and getting to know, I mean I'll
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be honest, the D backs and the way they play and the and who's
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been Wheeling and dealing as of late, getting to be able to
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watch them for this series. I had a pretty good
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understanding of the situation in the 7th, and for me that was
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the opportunity that you had to capitalize.
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And it it, it may sound obvious to some but if you go back and
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look you would just you would just top of the seventh.
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Wheeler comes in. Wheeler gets that lunging K to
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end the end. The top of the inning.
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Yeah. And he's all business coming off
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the mountain. The crowd's getting back into it
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a little bit. You're going OK, we got we got
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our guy in his first ever. His first career relief
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appearance seem seems to be settling in just fine now.
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Now we go don't be, Was someone on?
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Base when he came in, honestly can't remember.
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I think he. Came in the middle of the
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inning. Yeah, I think he came in the
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middle of the inning, but I don't remember if it was
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inherited or not. But I believe he did strand
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somebody. I want to say it first I.
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Thought he inherited a runner, and to me like that's even more
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impressive. A starter coming out of a relief
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appearance with somebody on you're immediately in the
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stretch. Sorry, keep going, but just
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wanted to pat him on the back. No, no.
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So you get him. I don't even remember who he
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struck out, but it was it was it made him look silly, Whoever it
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was. Why the fuck It was fam.
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It may have not been fam. Anyway, not important.
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You get him walking off the man. You're going.
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OK? Feeling good?
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Bottom of the seventh. You've got Saul.
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Frank, who I saw tonight, walks more than half of the batters he
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faced this postseason series or the NLCS or no, was it?
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It may have been the whole. I think it was the whole May.
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Have been the whole the whole postseason.
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Either way walks more than half the batters he faced.
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You have it. To their credit they got on and
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they capitalized But you needed to do it before they gave the
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ball to Ginkel who's been very good and you saw why I think he
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ended up striking out the side in the 8th.
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So he was he was clearly dialed in tonight like that was that
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was the opportunity and you got you got I think Brandon Marsh
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LED off the bottom of the seventh who has had his.
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I mean he's he's not putting dents in the wall by any stretch
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but he's he's been a little bit of a spark with with a BS from
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time to time in this series. It to me everything just kind of
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aligned. I'm like, OK if they can get a a
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pesky Brynn and Marsh to to poke one into the cache.
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Walk was huge for me. I know they were talking about
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like pitch selection of probably not needing to throw that
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curveball from Saul Frank, but that pasche walk to me was like,
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it's starting to come together, starting to make moves, and they
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had nothing to show for it. A couple check swings could have
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gone the other way, but forces a walk.
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Yeah. Ginkgo though.
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Dang, I didn't know. Personally, I didn't know Ginkgo
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and Seawald. I've been like, possibly the
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best pen duo of the postseason haven't let up a.
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Run all postseason, I think, Darling said.
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I had. I just.
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I didn't know. I wasn't aware.
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It's like the shack meme. Like, I wasn't familiar with
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your game. Like, yeah.
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Dude, who would have thought coming in the post?
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She's Ginkle in Seawall. I mean, yeah, Seawall.
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I can understand the names. Are the most ridiculous.
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Saul Frank fought Ginkle and these boys are coming in.
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Dude, these guys are coming here.
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Saul Frank needs it figured out. But still a weird name.
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Can we take this minute to pause?
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And you know, I I ate crow right off the top of this episode, but
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can we go back to March when you said, oh, you know, this random
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Diamondbacks love coming up out of nowhere.
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Maybe I saw something. Maybe I maybe I was.
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I was sniffing around a little something back in March.
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You got some you got some chase. You got some chase rubbing up on
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you some D back dog. You didn't have AD back dog,
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but. I have had AD back dog before.
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I know I didn't get one on that trip, but I have had one before.
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I know you said it's just a normal hot dog, the saltiest.
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Hot dog I've ever had stock Standard.
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They dumped it in the hot dog water and then immediately put
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it on the bun. You mentioned you mentioned
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fought. What a.
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Stud dude. What a dude.
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What a stud the kid is. No joke.
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What was that game? Did he throw Game 3, 3:00 and
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7:00? No, two.
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I think it was three. When did he?
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Throw. I was watching it at Chili's on
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my lunch break. So I remember that part.
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All right. Well, if gallon was five then
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maybe would that have been four day is it?
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The D backs would have won game four.
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Now, now, now what are we doing? It's all just blending.
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I'll pull it up. No, Game four was the bullpen.
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Game. Game.
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So was game three. Yeah, they D backs 121.
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And fought through that one. Yeah, 5 2/3, two hits, zero
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earned runs Stuck. Tempo on the mound.
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Just you just, it doesn't seem like he's a young buck dude like
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you. Oh yeah.
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Just really, really special. I I just.
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I just didn't know. I didn't know.
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Been calling them pee fat my whole life.
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I can't. We can still continue to call
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them pee fat. That's kind of.
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Pee fat. That's kind of dope.
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I mean, I can't tell you the number of times I chose them as
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like the weekend series, to watch that throughout the
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regular season and I remember writing on my white board.
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Be fat multiple times. I'm proud of him like a mother
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hen. I'm proud of him.
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Guy is a freaking stud, man. Oh yeah, good.
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Good. Also Katel Marte.
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I know how taught it, how we were super early on.
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Katel Marte, do you remember when we did position rankings?
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Yes, before the before the year, yes, and we came.
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Out with position rankings. Everyone hated on them, so we
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stopped doing them. Yeah, When I Yeah, that was,
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that was probably before our like latest layer of thick skin.
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I think at this point we're pretty callous.
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I'm pretty, yeah, just about anything that I'm not losing
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sleep. Over any of your opinions, so I
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I remember us. Ranking and it was.
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I think it was right after he had won.
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Well, he got like an All Star appearance or something like
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that. And I was like, hey, he's the
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top three second baseman in the league.
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And I remember not believing you.
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And then we did a deep dive into the numbers and I'm like, I
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think. He, I think he kind of pooped to
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bed a little bit last year, yeah, but like this year, man,
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just the postseason. I think he has a knock in every
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game, doesn't he? I don't know.
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Is that streak still going? Maybe it.
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Stopped game. No, he got a hit tonight, didn't
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he? He poked up on the right.
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Or was that a SAC fly? That was a double.
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He had a double, yeah. So his postseason streak hitting
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streak is at 16, yeah? Whoa.
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Goodness goodness gracious. Just dudes.
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Just a bunch of dudes, just a bunch of guys being dudes, I
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will say. That there's a lot of Christian
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Walker hate here. Lot of Christian Walker hate
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from D backs fans around the I mean he didn't really really
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didn't really do much so I mean it's there's a whole lot of
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like. Can't wait till we get Goldie
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back. Chatter.
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What's going on? Well, I mean, I if it was up to
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Christian Walker, Paul Goldschmidt, I'd probably take
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Paul Goldschmidt, but that's just for sure.
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But. I mean, Christian Walker's these
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guys did. OK, you gotta put a gold.
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Glove this year. You gotta understand these D
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backs fans, some, some fresh, some still with the tags on
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their their shirts from the store, some not so much, but
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collectively they're in the heat of this.
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Well, what was 7 game series no longer.
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They're in the heat of it, man. If somebody's not performing, I
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mean, you've been there, I've been there.
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You're not happy about it and you're ready to jump ship
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irrationally, but you're ready to jump ship.
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And I think that's what they're ready to do with with Walker, he
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also. Forgot to count.
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Oh, Speaking of the devil, Kato Marte wins Mineral CSMVP.
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How about that 16 game hitting streak?
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Just like we said, talk about another guy that maybe wasn't
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performing as well as he maybe could have Tommy Pham benched in
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game five and then comes out Game six.
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It's a bomb. Does this guy just need to be
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like to? Does he just need haters?
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I think he just needs haters. He's like, he needs that.
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If no one's hating on him, if people, if you start to like
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him, he's not as effective. He needs haters.
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Someone possibly. It's just I haven't confirmed,
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but I'm I'm going to go ahead and assume someone in the dugout
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did something they shouldn't have done in fantasy football.
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Probably turned him up a little bit.
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Hits a nuke Game 6. I mean, I think the the simple
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fact of him being benched probably didn't.
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I'm going with the fantasy football thing.
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I mean, true. What are we in weeks?
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Are we in Week 7 now? I'm not hopping.
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Camps, by the way. I can't stand Tommy Pham.
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I'm staying. I'm staying in on that, on that
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side of things. Can't stand them.
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Speaking of game six, any thoughts on the Harper showing
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up in all black? We don't have to spend much time
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on that. I just didn't know if you had
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any particular follow on it. I want to.
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I'm going to give you credit. I'm going to give other social
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media accounts credit as well, because this is the kind of
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stuff we've talked about. We're, like, helping grow the
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game. And I know it's like we're
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talking about a dude's outfit, but this is the crap that we
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talked about with every other sport and no one seems to
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mention it with baseball. So I'm glad that it got some
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light. I'm glad that we're talking
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about this stuff, because. It's like, it's cool, it's fun.
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It's different than it's a little bit outside the lines.
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So like anyone throwing a fit, be like, oh, why are we talking
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about what he's showing up in? No, all black strippy.
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It's never not drippy. No, no.
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But I'm saying, do you, Johnny? Cash.
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I'm talking exactly what he said, verbatim.
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Do you think I was? I'm not asking just randomly
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like, oh, did you like his fit? I'm asking like more so for the
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any potential message being sent by it, No.
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Did you read into that at all? I did not.
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I will not by the way, I I appreciate you giving me credit
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on that. The comments, however, both
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surprisingly on Instagram and Facebook, did not have that same
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sentiment a lot of talking about.
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This a lot of glazing comments, a lot of side note.
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I guess the I guess the thing to do now is just post a jiff of
27:26
the Krispy Kreme doughnuts being glazed.
27:29
And no other comment, just the just the jiff of the doughnut
27:33
being glazed as a way of saying glazing.
27:35
Which, I mean, if that's that's what we're doing these days, I'm
27:41
here for it I guess. Whatever, dude.
27:44
But it's not glazing, man. It's that it's a star in the
27:48
game. Yep.
27:51
And he's been, let's just say he's been rather intentional
27:55
leading up to that point with some of his outfit selections, a
27:59
la Coach Prime Merch, so on and so forth.
28:06
That's all I'm going to say anyway.
28:07
We don't need to talk about that.
28:08
Let's talk, let's talk more about the rest of the series.
28:10
Game tonight, game seven. A lot of the narrative a lot of
28:18
the discussion coming into game seven, which I still I cannot
28:22
believe this series made it to game seven.
28:25
Honestly I'm a little I'm a little disappointed in the
28:28
Phillies for allowing it to get to game seven.
28:30
Like if you're I get it. This is this is October baseball
28:35
anything happens. I I say that seemingly every
28:37
episode now but like come on man.
28:43
You're the Phillies. This is the D backs.
28:45
You need to put that. You needed to put this to bed a
28:47
long time ago. It didn't happen.
28:49
They coughed up a game in in Phoenix, right?
28:54
I coughed up. Two.
28:57
No. Yeah, two.
28:59
In Phoenix. Both the comeback wins.
29:04
When was the comeback win? When was the they dropped two or
29:08
three in? I know that.
29:09
But what was the were both of those comeback wins No.
29:17
Game 5 was the game that you had your your prediction of Little
29:23
Bop, Little Bop Wheeler coming out strong.
29:27
That was 6/1. Game 6D backs in in at the bank
29:33
taking the Phillies down five. One.
29:35
No, but what I was saying is the negative coming into game seven.
29:39
Was that Rob Thompson? Despite the D backs sending the
29:47
clear message that they're not going to be beat by guys like
29:51
Schwarber, Harper that he was unwilling to change his lineup
29:58
coming into game seven, you still had Boehm hitting fourth.
30:02
Which to his credit comes out hits a bomb.
30:07
Kind of quite sat native down, at least from from his point of
30:11
view, but they scored two runs. Yeah, so how much of this is on
30:21
on on Topper I? But no, I can't do that.
30:27
I am personally a Rob Thompson fan.
30:32
Excellent job since taking over. They just need to be better with
30:39
runners in scoring position. Just haven't been good.
30:44
I think what did that stat that they flashed that was like I saw
30:48
it that outside of game. Two like outside of game two,
30:51
which was the Smackin right, that they put on it, everything
30:55
else was like really bad with runners in scoring position,
30:58
like Bad track had done. So I can't put that on on old
31:03
Robbie Philly Robb, He's old school.
31:07
I like the way he manages. I think the team buys in with
31:10
the way he manages. I I don't see the reason to
31:14
change things. You just you need your guys to
31:17
show up. Nikki Castellanos.
31:19
Mr. Blastianos just didn't have a good series.
31:25
We already dropped the number with with Schwarber, Turner and
31:30
and Bryce just a little disappointing.
31:34
That's how baseball goes sometimes.
31:36
But I don't think we can sit here and play Monday morning
31:39
quarterback and say, oh. A lineup change would.
31:42
It would have gotten you a dub. I don't.
31:45
I don't agree. Yeah.
31:55
Here's an here's an interesting I was looking for the the
31:58
Runston score position number, but I found I see a tweet here
32:01
from yeah, Nugget. Jeff Jeff Skovsky Phillies
32:06
hitters in game six and seven at home in the NLCS, needing only
32:09
one win to make the World Series 21.
32:12
KS 2 for 17 with runners and scoring position 14 left on
32:17
base. Bryce Harper Trey Turner Nick
32:19
Cassiano's combined O for 23. Yeah, and that's just game six
32:27
and seven, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
32:32
Obviously we are hopping on. I mean, everyone's listening to
32:35
this presumably tomorrow morning, but we are hopping on
32:38
right after the game, so not really getting any like post
32:41
game interviews to talk about. But I'm assuming Bryce Harper
32:46
and guys like that are going to be owning that dude.
32:49
Like that's that for the same reason, the same quote that he
32:55
dropped before saying that's why you pay Trey Turner.
32:59
This is why you get paid. And you know, you didn't do what
33:02
you what you needed to do. They're definitely going to take
33:06
ownership. Yeah.
33:10
It's just the You got to be better.
33:12
You got to be better. What I will say I want to give.
33:15
I think if the Phillies would have won, I wanted to give a
33:18
lot, a lot of credit to Ranger Suarez.
33:22
Ranger Suarez was Dyson all postseason, did not have a good
33:28
year. I had him in fantasy.
33:29
I hated him for a minute. Was on IL for a bunch.
33:33
Mystery injuries from there. Just didn't look good.
33:36
I think he had like an ERA over 4 throughout the regular season.
33:39
Comes in the postseason and just flips a switch and looked
33:43
really, really good. So if the Phillies would have
33:47
won, I would have given him more love.
33:48
But I did want to say my piece on that.
33:55
Somebody I do want to give On the flip side, to give a little
33:58
credit to we've already mentioned his name, but Corbin
34:00
Carroll? Clearly he was just saving up,
34:06
saving up everything for game seven, it seemed.
34:08
This was the Corbin Carroll game, apparently.
34:11
And honestly, looking at Game 7 as a whole, it it was, it became
34:17
very, very clear early on that the D backs were getting back to
34:20
their brain of baseball. Yeah, putting, putting ball into
34:24
play, being aggressive on the base pass, embracing the chaos
34:28
as they say, small ball, getting bunts down, which that was
34:33
refreshing to see. I think both sides of the ball
34:35
were were trying to lay bunts down at various points
34:38
throughout the game, which was nice to see you.
34:42
You love teams playing for that one run, because I don't.
34:48
A single run can win you the game.
34:50
I know. And I don't know, would they
34:52
have 4 swipes tonight? Five.
34:57
That sounds about right. Yeah, four or five and I.
34:59
Like that they're not. They're not like, I mean they're
35:05
they're just not reckless. They know when to steal.
35:08
They still at the right time talking about JT Rio Muto dude,
35:11
like a premier catcher like that to be able to get that.
35:18
And I I think that's maybe what we saw in the beginning of the
35:20
series. They maybe were a little
35:23
reluctant and they didn't want to give away outs.
35:25
And you could hear it on the broadcast.
35:28
They were like, why is Corbin Carroll still first base?
35:31
Why is he still there? Yeah, And you could just tell
35:33
like the beginning of the series, it wasn't nearly them.
35:35
And then seems like they just, they got back to being them.
35:39
What got them there? And it ain't about just chilling
35:43
and being cautious. This is a team that pushes the
35:45
envelope. And like I said, man, just like
35:47
really disciplined baseball. They're not going to beat
35:51
themselves. The Phillies beat themselves
35:54
this series not to discredit the D backs.
35:59
So no. No.
36:00
Not anyway. They're.
36:01
I haven't even, I haven't verbalized my my congratulations
36:06
for them. But I mean a well deserved World
36:09
Series berth. I mean it.
36:10
I would venture to say not even D backs fans saw it coming.
36:14
Yeah, for sure. But not at all.
36:17
I mean, they did what they had to do.
36:20
And I mean they take down a Dodgers team.
36:22
They take down the, like, a couple teams that probably the
36:27
majority of other baseball fans would have pegged as possible
36:32
National League representatives in the World Series.
36:35
Making, making, I don't want to say, quick work.
36:38
Well, the Dodgers, maybe, But the Phillies, I don't think,
36:42
even with their struggles, I don't think you're going to make
36:44
quick work of them. But they they countered that by
36:51
beating him at the bank, which I think is honestly more
36:55
impressive. My last question.
36:58
I don't know if we're moving on to the other one, but my last
37:02
question is, were you wearing the Bryce jersey and did you
37:08
need to take it off before recording?
37:12
I was not wearing it, no. OK, I was not wearing it.
37:15
And in fact, because this is like a late night recording and
37:19
I usually try it, when we do these, I usually try to minimize
37:23
the work or try to get ahead on any like work I can knock out
37:27
ahead of time. So that way I can just edit it
37:29
and get get to bed. Sure, because.
37:31
It's a lot later out here on the East Coast.
37:35
I've made the mistake before of getting ahead of myself and like
37:39
creating graphics for the episode or what have you or
37:42
episode titles. I and I was like, I don't want
37:46
to have any influence because I I believe in that the vibes.
37:51
I don't want to be sending out the vibes out to the bank.
37:54
One way or another I get. That I didn't get ahead of
37:57
myself, so I was trying to be very vague, trying to do, you
38:01
know, as little as much work as I could but without.
38:04
Yeah, without getting ahead of myself.
38:06
So yeah, I mean, I didn't wasn't wearing the jersey.
38:09
It just, I hate to say it, I didn't feel great as a pseudo
38:17
Phillies fan coming into game seven had just didn't.
38:21
Yeah, you needed to do it in games.
38:24
I mean, you needed to do it before game six, but if you were
38:26
going to have to bring it back to the bank, you had to do it in
38:29
six. I had.
38:30
Yeah, the the pressure. I mean, we've talked about this
38:33
before. Whenever you get a a team that
38:36
pushes it to a Game 7, the pressure then the pressure's on.
38:41
You. Yeah, yeah.
38:42
And that's exactly what happened.
38:43
And I think they they felt that. Saw it in both series.
38:47
Yeah, crazy. I think I heard this was the
38:53
first time ever. That was it.
38:57
On the broadcast, they said the first time ever that the road
39:00
team had won six and seven on both.
39:03
Sides on both sides, Which I can believe that like I don't.
39:07
I don't need to think too hard on that.
39:09
Like that's that's quite the feat.
39:12
Yeah quite the feat. Any we can we can switch gears
39:16
here Any any other thoughts on the the Phillies D Back series?
39:23
Any takeaways? Yeah, I mean, I I think.
39:33
Phillies could just probably use a little bit more of athleticism
39:38
in that lineup. I'd.
39:42
I'd like to see a little bit more.
39:44
So I don't know how you make that happen, but I think you
39:48
need to make it happen. Maybe trade for a Mike Trout.
39:54
Whatever. No big deal.
39:56
Moving on. Maybe sick.
40:03
I don't know. People are going to people are
40:06
going to roll their eyes, but naturally I'm going to my.
40:09
My take away is probably going to revolve around Harper.
40:12
But I was just sitting there watching.
40:14
They they pan to him in the ninth.
40:15
I think there was like one or two outs in the 9th and they pan
40:19
to him and he just got this look on his face.
40:22
And immediately my mind, my mind went to this guy's running out
40:27
of chances. Yep, And I've said it before,
40:30
this is not basketball. It's not solely on him to win a
40:34
ring. He can't win a ring by himself.
40:36
Nobody can win a ring by themselves.
40:38
Look at Mike Trout. Can't win a ring by himself,
40:41
show hate. Can't win a ring by himself.
40:45
But with, I mean we all. I don't need to rehash the
40:48
narrative. We all know the story around
40:49
Bryce Harper and why he gets so much hate and why he still
40:53
somehow can't meet the expectations of some baseball
40:57
fans out there. It's because he's missing the
40:58
ring. You have to think about it.
41:00
He's 31 if I, if I recall anything freshly 31 I think.
41:09
Yeah. And and you can say like, well,
41:11
like like he's still got a number of years left.
41:15
You have to just assume that the that's going to be a his chances
41:21
are going to be a fraction of what he has left.
41:23
Because sure, he may have nine years left in his career if he
41:28
plays to lose 40, but they're not going to the World Series
41:32
for the next nine years, no. And you got to assume that
41:35
there's going to be a closing of a window.
41:37
And you know, this first hand, the Dombrowski era can be great,
41:43
and then it can really suck as it's coming to an end when that
41:47
bank account is finally dry. And it's probably creeping into
41:52
that territory pretty soon. So you're right.
41:56
I think the move to first base could prolong his productivity.
42:01
But overall, just like with Phillies, yeah, you got to find
42:05
a way to just get a little bit more athletic.
42:10
I don't, I don't know why that comes to mind, that I just, I
42:13
don't know. It seems like you need to.
42:15
You need to have better defense, specifically in the outfield,
42:19
the bullpen. Bullpen needs help too.
42:29
They got some dudes there though.
42:30
They can they can build off of that.
42:34
Maybe just some adjustments here there, but 28 other teams are
42:39
already thinking about the adjustments they're going to be
42:41
making for next year. But yeah, shout out to the D
42:44
backs, man, that's a heck of a series.
42:47
Regardless how you may feel about the outcome, you got to
42:51
love a a series of CO7. And Speaking of a series of Win
42:54
7 Texas Astros, let's talk about it.
43:05
I. I mean, I don't need to say too
43:08
much, but it's Mr. Garcia to you.
43:15
Yeah, yo, yeah, yeah, Mayor of. Texas, I mean goodness.
43:23
That can't be a. Mayor of Texas.
43:26
Governor of Texas, I I posted it.
43:29
Sure. The president of Texas,
43:30
Governor, They're essentially their own country at this point.
43:34
Sure. Adoles Garcia, President of
43:36
Texas, You heard it here first, that that meme I posted of
43:42
Cassiano's, which now it's kind of funny, 'cause obviously
43:46
they're no longer playing. But yeah, the the, the ring
43:49
flicking the ring finger. Yeah, that's tough, man.
43:53
The ring finger flicking him off.
43:55
I was like, I posted and said that's a Dolis Garcia to every
44:00
last person associated with the Houston Astros organization.
44:03
And I posted that in like the third 'cause he had two home
44:06
runs in game seven and I posted that in like the third and then
44:10
he goes on to he hits another home run at towards the end of
44:15
the game. I think he sprinkled in like a.
44:18
Two run single, I think. Single or double or something,
44:21
Yeah or no. Was it was that the single that
44:26
he then stole? Second on, was that the same AB?
44:31
No, that was. The single that he big time
44:33
pimped off the wall right and then stole, he had another like
44:38
squeaker through the 55 hole that scored two.
44:40
So we had four hits. In game seven, he had a million.
44:42
RB is just in just in game seven, just a million.
44:47
In just that game, he homered in four straight games.
44:51
In game seven, as I mentioned, Homer twice drove in five runs.
44:57
Only three players have longer streaks than his home run streak
45:03
of four straight games in the postseason.
45:06
Daniel Murphy in 2015, he had six, Jean Carlos Satan five in
45:10
2020, and Carlos Beltran also had five in 2004.
45:14
As you mentioned, a million RB is the most RB is in a single
45:18
postseason series set a record with 1515.
45:27
Monster dude. I love, love, love, love that.
45:36
He gets the last laugh that fat Maldonado comes on in a
45:42
postseason, he says. Well, the biggest thing you got
45:44
to worry about is that you just woke up the Houston Astros.
45:48
No son. Negative Adullis runs this.
45:54
Hey, every now and then I come across a rather intelligent
45:58
comment on social media on on one of these posts and I went to
46:02
that post after game seven after Adullis as you mentioned, very
46:08
factually of course recorded a million RB is and I went back
46:13
and looked and somebody in response to Maldonado's quote
46:17
said, you know that works both ways and I said it sure does.
46:23
It sure does, and I think Adolis Garcia made that very clear.
46:28
What a. Freaking monster, dude.
46:30
What a beast. What a beast.
46:34
And you can't even hate on the guy for that one that he just
46:38
completely big leagued, No. Not at all.
46:42
I'm OK with every part of it. You could have been mad for
46:45
about 7 seconds, yeah. And then he gets to the base
46:50
that he should have bought. He he had a chance to get to
46:52
anyway, yeah. Yeah, that was dope.
46:56
Where, you know, people are all, like, complaining about it as
46:59
he's swiping. Oh, I mean, I was, I'll admit I
47:02
was like, dude, come on, like you've been, you've been going
47:05
off this series, but like you didn't get all of it.
47:10
Just give me a little bit of more effort out-of-the-box and
47:14
then as I'm thinking this trip. There you go.
47:18
That's so sick. That's like, it's just so sick.
47:27
I I got to say, I think he everyone knows he was good.
47:36
Every baseball fan understands that he was good.
47:40
This to me is like. I'm a household name now, and I
47:47
have to be considered. I have to be considered a top
47:53
five, maybe a top three center fielder.
47:59
Let's let's qualify this point by saying people knew he was
48:06
good as of late, because I don't know how much you've seen being
48:10
resurfaced about his earlier playing days with being DFA D
48:17
and this and that. And I'm going to have to come to
48:22
the defense of the Cardinals here a little bit.
48:24
The Cardinals have been catching a lot of strays.
48:27
The Cardinals what? Go ahead.
48:33
No, go ahead. How many chances are you going
48:35
to give them? How many times are you going to
48:37
screw up? How many names have they screwed
48:40
up? Give me a second please.
48:47
Too many Cardinals are catching a lot of strays for DFA and
48:55
Adolis Garcia. Not a role of Chapman.
48:58
Adolis Garcia. And people seem to forget that.
49:03
The Rangers DFA to Adolis Garcia.
49:06
Nobody wants to talk about that, but I guess it just doesn't fit
49:09
the narrative. It doesn't The Rangers.
49:13
Literally DFA the guy not talked about it.
49:17
Not like, oh, is there a guy we can maybe flip him forward just
49:20
to get like a quick return, quick, easy return?
49:23
No, they literally DFA the guy. And 29 other teams passed and
49:32
they're like, OK, we tried. We tried to get rid of them, and
49:37
nobody wants to talk about that. It's just the Cardinals like,
49:41
let's OK, yeah, no, that's fine. That's fine.
49:43
Like. Like former Pirate great the
49:48
Cardinals and the Pirates are in their own category now.
49:52
I'm not going to no, I'm not going to.
49:55
I'm not going to hit on it anyway.
49:59
Yeah, Adolas Garcia going off. I mean, looking specifically at
50:04
game seven. Well, if you want to look at
50:09
game six and seven, the Astros gave up twenty runs.
50:15
Yeah, 20. Granted, Adolas Garcia had about
50:23
probably 19 of those. Maybe 20, maybe even 25.
50:28
They had a million. Of the time.
50:29
Maybe they didn't count. All of them they didn't.
50:31
But you can't. You can't do that.
50:34
But it for it validates the narrative that they were cheeks
50:39
at home. What is that about this
50:42
postseason? I don't.
50:43
Understand that. It's so weird.
50:51
I'm a big, big fan of watching Mattress Mack lose his money,
50:55
though. That's nice.
50:56
Yeah, dude, Mattress, that's That's enjoyable, let me tell
50:59
you. I've seen I'm starting to learn
51:02
a little bit more with each year because I mean they're one of
51:06
the final four teams every year now it seems as we've talked
51:09
about every every year that passes I'm I'm getting a little
51:14
bit more insight onto this mattress mat guy.
51:18
Doesn't seem like the. Greatest human being like.
51:23
Just looking, just looking at it from an outsider's perspective,
51:27
the limited knowledge I have, he doesn't seem like the the
51:30
kindest, the kindest soul. If I'm being honest, I think
51:34
he's a. 145 years old. I mean, he's got, he's got the
51:39
juice though. Man, I I saw the I'm not buying
51:42
the mattresses. Either I'm not buying that.
51:44
That's a that's a scam, I see. I saw the clip resurfacing from
51:50
last year when he when Oh no, Was that the?
51:56
Oh no, it was the the 2019 World Series I think when they dropped
52:00
it to the Nats and he was going at it with some guy like in on
52:05
the concourse after they dropped dropped that last game.
52:10
Which, I mean, I get you're losing a lot of money each time
52:12
you do that, but just, I don't know, man doesn't really seem to
52:16
take his lumps very well. I will say I I think MLB just we
52:21
need bigger betters. We need we, not bigger betters.
52:25
We need more big betters. It's it's it's enjoyable when
52:30
like you have Chad Ocho Cinco dropping $3,000,000 on AUFC
52:37
fight and he's got like a stack of cash.
52:41
I enjoy that part. Like that's fun to see.
52:45
Just degenerates losing their money that way.
52:48
It's nice, but I lost the bet today.
52:51
But I lost 5 bucks. So, like, suck that Matt
52:54
mattress, Not just Maggie sucker.
52:57
Mattress Mac, your old SOB. He's just, there's no way,
53:03
there's no way he's selling that many mattresses and he's worth
53:07
that much money. There's something else going on.
53:10
Not saying we need to open an investigation, but hey, Speaking
53:14
of Speaking of there being no way, there was no way that Dusty
53:21
Baker thought that the series ended after seven games because
53:25
of the way he handled JP France in game seven.
53:29
You would have thought he was playing for a best of nine,
53:32
trying to save what bullets he had left in the pen.
53:35
What was that, Dusty Baker? Come on, I know the whole the
53:40
whole the stack. Going into game seven with Dusty
53:43
having never won a game seven and Bruce Bocci.
53:47
Never lost. Never lost the game seven.
53:49
I I get that. I'm not.
53:51
I'm not buying that though. Like you had a little bit more
53:54
control of your destiny here. I think if you maybe managed the
53:59
pen a little bit, he just let he let France wear it.
54:02
What are you doing That was. I don't know.
54:06
That was ugly. Kind of think Homie was just
54:10
ready to call it, you know. Well, he did shortly thereafter.
54:16
I didn't see. Did he announce it in the
54:18
presser? Like I didn't see anything.
54:19
It's just like I just I got the announce rumors.
54:22
Around around the organization. And then social media just kind
54:27
of ran with it, I thought. I thought it said that.
54:32
He said official. I don't.
54:34
I don't remember hearing or seeing anything of him saying it
54:37
now. I think he's the.
54:39
Report that I saw blown. Up.
54:44
I don't love it. Yeah, Fox Sports tuned out last
54:48
night. Dusty Baker has told People that
54:51
2023 is his last season as manager.
54:56
Sad. I don't like that.
54:59
I like old Dusty. How about how about freaking out
55:03
a couple games ago, yelling and screaming, throwing his hat and
55:07
stuff? I didn't know he still had that
55:09
in the tank. He's got the he's.
55:11
He'll always have that fireman. I wasn't aware he'll always have
55:16
that. But yeah, like I said, Houston
55:21
pitching, just getting obliterated in six and seven.
55:30
Bruce Bochy, on the other hand, becomes the first manager to win
55:37
ALCS with three different teams. I said it last episode.
55:43
He's like, yeah, I think he just needs more respect.
55:49
That guy is a phenomenal manager going back to like Tony Gwyn
55:58
days with the Pods, way back when.
56:06
Yeah, it was the the Giants, obviously.
56:10
The aforementioned Padres and now the Rangers.
56:16
Well, Padres, Giants then Rangers.
56:18
But this guy manages with a composure I think is the right
56:27
word. It's.
56:28
Weird. He just doesn't seem like he's
56:30
worried at all. He I don't know to what extent.
56:36
Rangers fans will probably know better than I would.
56:38
I'm sure they would. I would hope they would know his
56:42
level of engagement with analytics, advanced analytics,
56:48
but he seems to manage with his gut in a non reckless manner.
56:58
Like he knows he he can read a guy and you've got you've got a
57:03
a handful of older vets on that team that I think respond well
57:08
to that. But he he can read his guys
57:13
well, but also recognize that like I can't just go off of this
57:18
because he knows that you're not going to be able to have
57:20
sustained success. If that's the only approach you
57:24
take. You got to have a little bit of
57:27
evidence to support your your approach as a manager, but I
57:32
think he has a healthy balance and I think you're seeing it
57:34
play out extremely well right now.
57:38
Can we talk about? It can't be a coincidence that
57:44
Chris Young, former player, as the GM, a former player, is the
57:54
only one that's going to understand that a manager can do
57:57
that. Certain managers can trust their
57:59
gut. And trust that decision making.
58:02
I love the fact that the Rangers are succeeding because we're
58:08
seeing a former player in that role and you're seeing a guy
58:12
doing it really well and turning A-Team around this fast.
58:19
They just lose 100 games. Couple years ago, two years ago,
58:22
I believe. Yeah, dude.
58:24
Like that that to me it talks, it's it's an organizational.
58:30
Mindset that we can trust certain things, but analytics
58:34
aren't going to have the entire steering wheel.
58:38
It's having a a player in that position, having a true long
58:43
time stud manager calling the shots and you guys are on the
58:47
same page. I love it.
58:50
I refuse to think that's a coincidence and am I crazy for
58:55
seeing that? Was that Michael Young?
58:59
Up in the box with with Chris Young.
59:02
What's the Does Michael Young have AI?
59:04
Wouldn't be surprised. I don't have any position.
59:08
Up there, he was one of my favorites as a kid.
59:11
Dude, I loved him. He was fun to watch.
59:17
He's a freaking ball. Player says he works as a
59:22
special assistant. He was up.
59:24
There saw him up there. That was as of Marsh, so I would
59:27
imagine he's still with that. All I'm saying is that I just,
59:31
I'm a big fan of the situation of what the Rangers have put
59:34
together, savvy veterans, coaching staff.
59:40
That's just some of the best out there overcoming crazy injuries
59:49
and and you know, losing big names.
59:51
It's just. It's really impressive to and I
59:55
love the fact that it like finished with them beating the
59:58
Big Brother. It needed to happen for them to
1:00:02
get here. It needed to go through Houston.
1:00:05
The fact they did it specifically in Houston,
1:00:09
back-to-back games, Well. Convincingly, yeah.
1:00:17
Speaking of those games, going back to it, shout out to 1 big
1:00:23
game. Nate shows up again, 6 and a
1:00:31
third. Five hits, two runs, which is
1:00:36
about as good as you can ask for in a game.
1:00:39
Six. Because you know, even with the
1:00:42
way that the Astros played home, you know you're not getting out
1:00:44
of there unscathed. So to be able to limit them to
1:00:47
two runs, especially with the way some of the guys had started
1:00:50
to to pick it up as of late, we talked about Jose Abreu.
1:00:54
Your Don had had already like, he's going to do what he's going
1:00:57
to do, but you had some guys starting to heat up a little bit
1:01:00
to be able to go in there and shut the door in Game 6, push it
1:01:02
to game seven. Credit to him for Amber Valdez.
1:01:05
I don't know what happened with him this postseason.
1:01:08
Oh, and three with a 9 ERA. And then my other shout out was
1:01:15
to Max Scherzer. I mean, very quick hook and it
1:01:20
wasn't certainly wasn't his greatest performance, but again,
1:01:25
limiting them to two runs before handing the ball off to the next
1:01:28
guy, which by the way was Montgomery.
1:01:31
He only went 2 2/3. But I when I saw that they
1:01:36
announced it the day before after game six, I said sure it's
1:01:41
going seven. I said Congrats.
1:01:43
Astros and a lot of other people said the same thing, and for
1:01:46
good reason. Like there was no reason at all
1:01:48
to think that Max Schurzer gonna show up in game seven.
1:01:50
Yeah, again, like I said, he he didn't give you much much
1:01:54
length, but it's sad he could. Yeah, and and it trust me, it
1:01:59
feels weird. You know what?
1:02:01
What's the what's it called? Where?
1:02:04
Like the transcription from like court.
1:02:06
The person's just like sitting there typing everything you
1:02:08
like. Wanna read the transcription of
1:02:10
everything? I think if we were to like print
1:02:12
out what you just said. Saying we got to get a show Max.
1:02:16
Sure, there's some love for going two and 2/3.
1:02:20
I know, dude. It feels, but might.
1:02:22
Have been fallen, dude. I know it.
1:02:25
Like I said, it feels weird. I understand what you're saying.
1:02:27
It feels weird, but given the state of where he's at and with
1:02:32
his recent slate of postseason outings to be able to not come
1:02:41
completely unglued and only limited to two runs was.
1:02:48
I mean that's I think that's all boat you was hoping for.
1:02:51
Because you have to think that just about everybody is fair
1:02:54
game and game seven. So you didn't necessarily need
1:02:58
any length out of him, out of him, but you needed somebody to
1:03:01
take the ball to start the game. I did think it was interesting
1:03:05
though, like if you're going to, which I'm sure matchups and all
1:03:08
that played into it, but Montgomery went two and a third,
1:03:12
only one, one less out than Scherzer did.
1:03:15
So it's like. Just going into game seven with
1:03:19
with Monty taking the ball and still a little bit more
1:03:22
confidence in the club versus Scherzer.
1:03:24
I don't know. I don't know it worked out.
1:03:26
It no need to second guess it. I mean it worked out but a lot
1:03:31
of things that needed to go right for the for the Rangers
1:03:33
went right. So credit to them for for
1:03:35
capitalizing. Yep, Yep, Yep, Yep.
1:03:46
Just a wild. Freaking weird postseason wild.
1:03:52
Postseason Any takeaways from that series?
1:04:05
Trying to imagine just like, what the next chapter looks like
1:04:09
for the Astros, It's hard to picture without Dusty there, I
1:04:16
would assume. I feel like Joe Espada just kind
1:04:20
of slides into that role, you know?
1:04:25
Yeah, we were talking about him before Dusty, right?
1:04:27
Yeah. I think he's throwing his hat
1:04:30
into the ring for multiple. Managerial openings, I I think.
1:04:38
I think he. I think it just slides in pretty
1:04:40
naturally. Keep it in house.
1:04:44
I don't think they're really going to go through like a major
1:04:45
rebuild, so I don't know. But series overall, there was
1:04:56
like a brief stretch where I thought the Rangers were kind of
1:04:59
dead in the water Offensively. They just they looked really.
1:05:02
Lame at home. Really quiet at home.
1:05:05
So I'm curious to see what this little break When does.
1:05:10
When does the World Series start?
1:05:12
Friday. So we got.
1:05:15
Three days Wednesday. No, Wednesday.
1:05:17
Thursday. Well, today's.
1:05:18
Tuesday, huh? Yeah, just.
1:05:21
I mean, even then, two days, it's a lot.
1:05:23
As for a hitter? So just curious to see how that
1:05:26
plays out. Do you have a prediction?
1:05:42
I mean throw throw all the logic out the window.
1:05:44
Clearly that's not working, so all right.
1:05:47
Can I be honest? Please.
1:05:49
I saw somebody you know, as I do on on the daily just scrolling
1:05:57
through comments and I saw, I think I saw a tweet or an XA
1:06:03
post, whatever it is. This was ahead of the Phillies.
1:06:08
D back series hadn't finished yet.
1:06:09
This was after game seven of the ALCS and I saw a post saying
1:06:16
something a lot, something to the effect of if you don't think
1:06:21
this Rangers team is going to win the whole thing, you're
1:06:24
crazy. And I said I I can't, I can't
1:06:28
say that because assuming the Phillies take Game 7.
1:06:35
I don't. I I just don't know who's taking
1:06:39
the Rangers over the Phillies at that point.
1:06:42
Vegas was taking Philly over over Texas, and I think a
1:06:47
majority of baseball fans probably would have done the
1:06:49
same thing. But the Phillies flop.
1:06:54
Now you're sending the D backs to Arlington.
1:06:57
Now, I can safely revert to that take.
1:07:03
If you don't think the Rangers are going to win this whole
1:07:05
thing, you're crazy. However, I've been wrong on more
1:07:11
than one occasion this postseason.
1:07:12
Me too. So I'm not going to sit here and
1:07:15
give you the whole sharpish spiel again.
1:07:19
But if I had to make a as educated of a guess as I could
1:07:23
for this upcoming World Series, I would say Rangers.
1:07:27
And how many games, you ask? I mean, if they keep hitting the
1:07:35
way they do, I see this going no more than five.
1:07:42
But I said the same thing or I said something similar about the
1:07:46
Phillies series. I said if the Phillies continue
1:07:48
to mash, that this isn't going very long when 7D backs take the
1:07:53
series, right? So clearly, to your point,
1:07:58
they're taking their complete product on the field.
1:08:01
They're taking all facets of the game that they are above average
1:08:04
at and figuring out a way to package it together to get
1:08:09
quality wins against quality teams.
1:08:12
So maybe this thing does go more than five.
1:08:16
Maybe the D backs do pull this thing out.
1:08:18
I can't say for certain, but for the sake of a prediction, I'm
1:08:22
gonna say Rangers in five. So I got a tough decision here.
1:08:37
My boss came out a couple days ago, actually.
1:08:41
It was when when the Phillies looked like they were going to
1:08:49
manhandle the Diamondbacks, My boss came out and said.
1:08:54
That he would dye his hair to match Yuli Guriel, if the
1:08:59
Diamondbacks win at all. And I need to see that, you
1:09:08
know? But at the same time, I just
1:09:13
don't. I don't see that happening.
1:09:15
I mean, you can root for it, but still make a a.
1:09:20
Like, I'm OK either way. I think I've got educated
1:09:23
prediction here, I've I. Got a foot in both camps for
1:09:26
that reason. Here's the thing.
1:09:30
Diamondbacks beating, the Brewers beating a Which reminds
1:09:37
me, you keep going. Sorry, Brewers beating.
1:09:42
And then Diamondbacks beating just a sleepwalking Dodgers pull
1:09:49
it off. Against a look, this was a
1:09:52
fumble. This was a big bag fumble.
1:09:55
This was a flop by the Phillies. Again, a good ball club, the
1:10:01
Diamondbacks. The Rangers have gone through a
1:10:08
path to beat the Rays, to beat the Orioles, to beat the Astros.
1:10:17
They have gone through some stuff.
1:10:21
They have proven series in series in series over again that
1:10:30
this is their time. So boats you with the trophy.
1:10:41
Give me. Give me Corey Seager with the
1:10:47
MVP in six games, please. Give me a freaking clincher win
1:10:58
at home. I'm tired of seeing these clinch
1:11:01
wins on the road. It's not fun to watch.
1:11:05
I need to see a crowd just go crazy with the fans.
1:11:09
I mean with the with the players.
1:11:10
One time, please. You're going 6 at home in
1:11:14
Arlington At home. In Arlington.
1:11:18
All right, so I'm going Rangers in five.
1:11:20
I got to get my MVP pick. I'm not going Garcia.
1:11:27
That's too easy. And the odds of that happening
1:11:32
aren't aren't. I mean, I don't.
1:11:34
How many times has somebody won back-to-back?
1:11:36
MVPSI don't know. I do not know.
1:11:43
Probably never. I'm going to say I for these for
1:11:50
these MVP like series specific MVPS, not like season full 162
1:11:55
MVPS for like the series MVPSI like going a little bit off the
1:11:59
wall every now and now. I wanted to go off when I said
1:12:02
Jonah Heim, but because like you look at the NLCS it's like OK,
1:12:07
Corbin Carroll Zach Gallon the those are probably the the
1:12:12
leaders in the clubhouse for that could could tell Martagos
1:12:15
that wins it. So it's not extremely far
1:12:18
fetched to say that somebody like honestly you know who's
1:12:24
kind of been surprising me this series or this postseason.
1:12:28
Mitch Garver. Mitch Garver.
1:12:30
Yeah, dude. Me too.
1:12:32
Like, is that is that kind of is that like a weird?
1:12:36
I mean it's it's probably not a probably not a favorite, but I
1:12:41
don't understand. How he suddenly become like a
1:12:45
like a feared power hitter. But I don't know, man, and I'm
1:12:49
here. For it, maybe I go Mitch Carver.
1:12:53
I mean, Corey Seeger's is a solid pick, but like I said,
1:12:57
it's a cop out. Pic.
1:12:58
I won't. I like no, no, no.
1:12:59
I mean it's but like I always say it's a like it's a smart
1:13:03
like you're nobody's going to judge you for picking Corey
1:13:05
Seeger. I'm going to get judged for for
1:13:08
going Mitch Garver. But you know like I said I like
1:13:10
to go off the wall a little bit. Let's go Mitch Garver.
1:13:12
Well, can I? Change mine.
1:13:14
I want to change mine. All right.
1:13:17
Nathan Eiraldi. Oh, OK, man, that's good, right?
1:13:23
I rarely do I think about the arms for the MVP, but yeah, I
1:13:26
know I. Mean that's a that you because.
1:13:29
If he throws game one, is he going to throw game one?
1:13:33
He's got to throw game one maybe, I don't know.
1:13:35
Montgomery has been doing his same.
1:13:38
So if he goes, game two would be better because then he would
1:13:41
line up for Game 6. I don't think he.
1:13:45
I don't think. I really doubt money would get
1:13:48
game one going two and a third on in game seven.
1:13:52
Although that was Monday. Yeah.
1:13:55
Yeah. I I think they'd want to have
1:13:58
him go game probably. Yeah.
1:14:01
Gotta be Nate, I don't know. But.
1:14:05
Then you get like you're talking about Alec Thomas and Corbin
1:14:08
Carroll going lefty lefty there, getting Katel Marte off the
1:14:13
lefty side, pushing him over to the right side.
1:14:24
Yeah, short rest, though, it doesn't really make sense.
1:14:29
Nivaldi, you going Nivaldi? No, I can't.
1:14:34
You can have them if you want. I'm going back to Seeger.
1:14:37
Can I make? Yeah.
1:14:37
Can I make a switch? Do you have a switch?
1:14:40
Yes, but do I want to switch though?
1:14:42
Because I I was thinking about that earlier today.
1:14:46
I'm like, you know, every now and then something like that
1:14:49
just pops in my brain without even me really having to think
1:14:52
too hard about it. And usually I try to go with
1:14:56
that. And Garba was the guy that came
1:14:58
to mind. Stick with it.
1:14:59
It's big game made though, I know.
1:15:04
I mean, let's see game one. And then he'll probably get Game
1:15:15
5, right? Yeah.
1:15:18
I mean you have a travel day mix in there, so.
1:15:21
If you're talking them finishing out in five, I'm assuming you're
1:15:28
going to see two. I mean, if he goes, I honestly,
1:15:33
I don't even know how they've been using that staff this
1:15:36
postseason in terms of rest. But I mean, if he went the 5th
1:15:41
day, that'd be game four. He goes Friday, we got game two
1:15:49
Saturday, travel day Sunday 3-4 would be the 5th day right?
1:15:59
Here I don't know none of neither Mitch Garver of course.
1:16:03
Here. Yeah, I'll stick with Garver.
1:16:05
OK, good stuff. Episode 3398.
1:16:14
Come in at some point in the middle of this.
1:16:19
But 400 is going to be a recap episode.
1:16:24
So yeah, I'm going to need this to go.
1:16:27
I don't know. It's going to be weird, dude,
1:16:30
because the travel day is on Sunday, right?
1:16:36
Friday. Saturday.
1:16:37
OK, yeah. So maybe we could.
1:16:39
Yeah, maybe we do like a like a Sunday night.
1:16:46
Get it out there and yeah, drop it for Monday.
1:16:49
Maybe we'd do something like that.
1:16:51
Yeah, 'cause I was like, I'm not trying to record on a Saturday
1:16:54
night after game two me. Neither.
1:16:58
All right, 390 9 coming to you sometime early next week,
1:17:01
hopefully. Any other takeaways?
1:17:06
Any other thoughts? Any other predictions before we
1:17:08
get out of here? Shout out D backs, shout out
1:17:12
Rangers. It's a heck of a weird match up,
1:17:16
but you know, this is what's beautiful about baseball.
1:17:20
It's been a wild one. I don't know.
1:17:25
I better not see any roll call happening in Arlington.
1:17:30
That's my Oh my gosh, What's that thing they say about lions
1:17:34
and the opinions of sheep and all that?
1:17:36
You've been set on this roll call thing for months now.
1:17:40
I got nothing. Else just let it go.
1:17:43
Not much of A lion anymore. Just let it go.
1:17:47
That's true. Yeah.
1:17:48
So really, we're just talking about sheep, worrying about the
1:17:51
other, the opinions of other sheep.
1:17:53
Yeah. OK.
1:17:54
That's fair. Which is fair?
1:17:55
Which other? I think sheep do that.
1:17:57
That's fair game. You're right.
1:17:58
Allow it. They're talking.
1:17:59
Noise to each other all the time.
1:18:02
Yeah. All right.
1:18:03
If, if, if you want to be bothered by this roll call in
1:18:06
into December, that's fine. That's OK.
1:18:12
Yeah. Credit D backs Credit Rangers 2
1:18:17
completely different styles of baseball.
1:18:19
But like I said, that's that's what's beautiful about this
1:18:22
game. We will see how it plays out.
1:18:25
Both teams bringing in different strengths, both teams bringing
1:18:29
in different weaknesses. We shall see how it plays out.
1:18:33
I think there's going to be some good pitching matchups in there.
1:18:36
You know you're going to get your your doses of offense from
1:18:40
time to time. Should the trends continue from
1:18:46
the LCS games, but at in terms of like excitement on scale of 1
1:18:57
to 10, it's so it's so hard for me.
1:18:59
Not because I'm a guy without a dog in the fight here.
1:19:05
I just don't even know what number to assign it because I
1:19:09
just. I feel like I blinked and we're
1:19:13
dealt the D backs and Rangers just.
1:19:18
Could have done so much better. I've got like a 6.5 to be honest
1:19:22
that that number comes to mind. I'm going to hold out hope that
1:19:26
they find a way to give us some exciting.
1:19:28
I just want good. Baseball.
1:19:29
So I hope we get that fair. Who do you think brings the
1:19:37
better of the two teams now? Now that the bank is out of it?
1:19:41
Who do you think brings the best home field advantage to this
1:19:43
series? I.
1:19:48
Don't know, maybe You got to pick.
1:19:52
One chase looked like it was kind of jumping I yeah, you
1:19:56
know, I I kind of I kind of ragged on them a little bit, but
1:19:59
I think they showed out people around here.
1:20:01
Have already looked at tickets. Upper deck was going for 300
1:20:05
before this dub, so going to go ahead and assume that's north of
1:20:11
north of four now. No thanks.
1:20:17
I just want. Some good baseball.
1:20:18
I think you're right. But yeah, we will D back dog at
1:20:21
home. We we will.
1:20:24
We'll check in with you guys a couple to a few games into this
1:20:28
series sometime early next week, but other than that, that's all
1:20:33
I got. This is sad.
1:20:40
It's almost over. Season is almost over.
1:20:44
Oh well, don't go chasing curveballs, guys.
1:20:47
We love you all. And as always, looking forward
1:20:49
to talking more baseball with you guys soon.
1:20:50
Until next time, stay filthy.