Latest / Foul Territory / White Sox-Guardians G5 preview, Anthony Rizzo SLAMS Jazz & Yankees, MLB wants 154-game regular season…

Transcript

White Sox-Guardians G5 preview, Anthony Rizzo SLAMS Jazz & Yankees, MLB wants 154-game regular season… · Foul Territory

• 0:13
  Speaker 1: Welcome, welcome. It's a sad day here on foul territory,
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: at least for one of us.
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know about for Kratz, but it's a sad
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: day for me because not only did the White Sox
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: just not show up the last two games, including their pitching,
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: which walked a ton of guys, and they also apparently
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: put holes in their bats because they just started striking.
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: Out a bunch. But Mike Ditka passed away, so a
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: sad day.
• 0:38
  Speaker 2: Ditka, if you haven't seen it, kids, Google Ditka Saturday
• 0:42
  Speaker 2: Night Live.
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: The Bears. Who would win? An army of giants or Ditka?
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: And it would always be Ditka. The coach.
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: Led the Bears to the 85 Super Bowl. One of
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: the great teams of all time. Went for that damn
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: Dan Marino. They would have gone undefeated and broke the
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: 72 Dolphins whole thing. But, yeah, if you're from Chicago,
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: if you've been around Chicago, you know how sad it
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: is that Mike Ditka has passed away. So prayers for
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: his family and also prayers for the White Sox season.
• 1:12
  Speaker 3: Chicago legends. It's sad for our generation of Chicago fans.
• 1:19
  Speaker 3: Ryan Sandberg, Ditka. Like, it's sad. But, man, oh, man. Like, iconic.
• 1:26
  Speaker 3: I wasn't even a Chicago fan. Iconic, iconic person. Ditka.
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: Copy.
• 1:33
  Speaker 3: I met him at a restaurant one time. We were
• 1:35
  Speaker 3: randomly there. And somebody I was playing with was like, hey,
• 1:38
  Speaker 3: you want to meet Ditka? I'm like, Mike Ditka?
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: Yes. Yes.
• 1:42
  Speaker 3: And he was right at the table right across from us.
• 1:44
  Speaker 3: I don't even remember where we were eating at, but
• 1:46
  Speaker 3: I guess he frequented that place often.
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: It was probably called Ditka's.
• 1:51
  Speaker 3: Ditka's, thank you.
• 1:53
  Speaker 2: It was probably called Ditka's. By the way, press subscribe
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: for us, please, on whatever platform you're on. Check out
• 1:59
  Speaker 2: all of our fresh merch designs, including player licensed gear
• 2:03
  Speaker 2: at FoulTerritoryShop.com.
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: Ah, sadly, sadly, sadly, please subscribe.
• 2:09
  Speaker 2: Sadly, let's get into the game last night that was on,
• 2:11
  Speaker 2: the only game that was on last night. Yeah, I
• 2:15
  Speaker 2: don't really want to talk about it, but I guess
• 2:16
  Speaker 2: we have to. All smiles, I can't believe they got
• 2:25
  Speaker 2: me smiling, presented by Lorainco. Yeah, I don't even know
• 2:30
  Speaker 2: where to start. All right, I'm going to start with this.
• 2:32
  Speaker 2: The White Sox played two awful games at home, okay?
• 2:35
  Speaker 2: Both games they played terrible. They struck out 19 times,
• 2:38
  Speaker 2: I think, in game three. And I think they struck
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: out 12 times last night. They didn't play defense very well.
• 2:45
  Speaker 2: They didn't pitch very well. They walked a ton of
• 2:46
  Speaker 2: guys in both games.
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: It was just terrible. Will Venable came out and said
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: the pressure got to him. I don't know. Pressure playing
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: at home. which I guess is good. I don't know.
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, listen, what do you think? I don't know.
• 3:04
  Speaker 2: I don't agree with the, oh, there was pressure because
• 3:07
  Speaker 2: they were playing at home at all. It was just
• 3:09
  Speaker 2: two bad games they had after two really good games
• 3:12
  Speaker 2: on the road.
• 3:13
  Speaker 3: There's definitely pressure. To me, when you go home, the
• 3:18
  Speaker 3: pressure isn't there. Maybe the adrenaline got to– whatever. There's
• 3:21
  Speaker 3: adrenaline pressure in every game, and they were– going into
• 3:26
  Speaker 3: playing their games at home. Like, they'd been through it.
• 3:29
  Speaker 3: They felt the exact same thing. They were there. Unless
• 3:33
  Speaker 3: they're sitting there going, oh, yeah, come on, fans. Like,
• 3:36
  Speaker 3: maybe they didn't feel as much pressure. I'm not even
• 3:38
  Speaker 3: going to get into that because I don't think that
• 3:40
  Speaker 3: is at all what's going on. You have the same
• 3:42
  Speaker 3: feeling every game. To me, it looked like a team
• 3:46
  Speaker 3: that started to get a little bit exposed, but also
• 3:51
  Speaker 3: possibly the Guardians started to change their they started to
• 3:56
  Speaker 3: change their approach. The Guardians realized like we're full swinging
• 4:00
  Speaker 3: against Grant Taylor and the ball is not even going
• 4:03
  Speaker 3: to the warning track. We are going to start taking pitches,
• 4:07
  Speaker 3: elevating them to the opposite field. And we had, they
• 4:10
  Speaker 3: had a very, very distinct approach of going the opposite
• 4:14
  Speaker 3: way for the most part. They were reacting in, Hosey
• 4:18
  Speaker 3: pulled some balls. I get that. But the team was
• 4:21
  Speaker 3: hitting the ball hard, barreling it up. Their approach was
• 4:24
  Speaker 3: that up the middle opposite way, and the White Sox
• 4:27
  Speaker 3: never made the adjustment. The White Sox were just like, well,
• 4:30
  Speaker 3: I guess they're going to start chasing. It was exactly
• 4:33
  Speaker 3: what you tell your high school team to not do.
• 4:35
  Speaker 3: Strike out when you're hitting and walk guys when you're pitching. Like,
• 4:38
  Speaker 3: you can't win games that way.
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree.
• 4:42
  Speaker 2: It's the worst combo. A lot of walks on your
• 4:45
  Speaker 2: defense and a lot of strikeouts on offense. The only
• 4:48
  Speaker 2: thing I will say about it, and by the way,
• 4:49
  Speaker 2: I don't agree with the pressure thing either. Pressure is–
• 4:52
  Speaker 2: from you're in the playoffs, like the pressure is the
• 4:54
  Speaker 2: playoffs home away. Although I will say that sometimes on
• 4:57
  Speaker 2: the road, you kind of get away and you kind
• 4:59
  Speaker 2: of band together and you're like, okay, it's us against
• 5:01
  Speaker 2: the world.
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: So that part I do understand, but like to say
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: the fans to my, I don't know, that just seems
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: like a bad mentality to me, but what do I know?
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: I'm just a TV guy that hates everybody.
• 5:10
  Speaker 2: So the one good thing I will say, if you're
• 5:14
  Speaker 2: a White Sox fan, like I am is, You made
• 5:16
  Speaker 2: the Guardians use all their pitching. And I don't understand.
• 5:20
  Speaker 2: I just don't understand some of the moves. Maybe you
• 5:22
  Speaker 2: understand them a little better than I do. I love
• 5:25
  Speaker 2: Steven Vogt, okay? Steven Vogt, two-time manager of the year.
• 5:29
  Speaker 2: Got a shot at a three-time manager of the year.
• 5:32
  Speaker 2: My question is, as I look at this box score, okay,
• 5:36
  Speaker 2: you have a five-run lead going into the ninth inning.
• 5:39
  Speaker 2: It's nine to four. Why is your closer up in
• 5:43
  Speaker 2: the eighth?
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: Why is your closer in the game in the eighth
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: inning after he pitched two innings the game before? Where
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: is Espino? Where is, I don't know.
• 5:51
  Speaker 2: Anybody else on your roster that can pitch?
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: Anybody, okay?
• 5:56
  Speaker 2: Because my question is, You trust Espino to start game three,
• 6:00
  Speaker 2: a game you have to win, instead of starting Foster Griffin.
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: But you won't pitch him with a five-run lead going
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: into the eighth inning. At least get through the eighth.
• 6:08
  Speaker 2: If someone gets in trouble, maybe get an out or two,
• 6:10
  Speaker 2: and then you can bring Cade Smith in to finish.
• 6:12
  Speaker 2: Instead of having him try to pitch two innings back-to-back.
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: And he looked tired. He looked worn out in the
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: second inning. He was, like, huffing and puffing. And then
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: they had to bring in big rig.
• 6:22
  Speaker 2: Gavin Williams for the ninth and throw 18 pitches when
• 6:25
  Speaker 2: he's supposed to start?
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: Game five, like I don't understand. And I say this
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: all the time.
• 6:31
  Speaker 2: It's almost like managers have toys in their toy chest
• 6:35
  Speaker 2: down there.
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: Like Tanner Bybee's never pitched in the postseason. or out
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: of the bullpen.
• 6:38
  Speaker 2: You throw him in in a close game in the
• 6:40
  Speaker 2: postseason and say, go get him. He comes out and
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: walks two guys, hits a guy, and the White Sox
• 6:44
  Speaker 2: take the lead. So, I mean, I was happy as
• 6:46
  Speaker 2: a White Sox fan. I'm like, yeah, let's leave this
• 6:48
  Speaker 2: dude out there. But it's almost like managers have all
• 6:51
  Speaker 2: these tools in their toolkit out there, and they're like,
• 6:53
  Speaker 2: I have to use him. If I don't use him, Kratz,
• 6:55
  Speaker 2: then everyone's going to ask, why didn't I use everybody?
• 6:57
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Sometimes I'm just like, why? You don't
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: have to use guys.
• 7:03
  Speaker 3: I thought the Tanner Bybee thing was a little bit pushed,
• 7:07
  Speaker 3: like he tried– Can we get three outs? Can we
• 7:10
  Speaker 3: get six outs from him? To me, the whole Cade
• 7:14
  Speaker 3: Smith in the eighth was 100% pushed. Why he didn't
• 7:17
  Speaker 3: like bringing Gavin Williams out in the ninth happened because
• 7:21
  Speaker 3: Cade Smith pitched the eighth because Cade Smith had to
• 7:24
  Speaker 3: throw 34 pitches the night before. Then he gets 31.
• 7:27
  Speaker 3: Now he's 65 pitches in two days. A starter throws
• 7:30
  Speaker 3: 65 pitches, Parker Messick, and he's done for the next
• 7:33
  Speaker 3: five days. Cade Smith has to pitch again today. I
• 7:37
  Speaker 3: get it. You can't win– or, I mean, tomorrow. Like,
• 7:40
  Speaker 3: you can't win without winning today's game, without winning each inning.
• 7:45
  Speaker 3: I get that. But 100% agree with you. Nine to four,
• 7:50
  Speaker 3: I want to see Espino give up two home runs
• 7:54
  Speaker 3: before I have Cade Smith even warming up in the bullpen.
• 7:58
  Speaker 3: I have a mound visit. He throws six pitches. He's
• 8:01
  Speaker 3: got the next hitter. And then the Gavin Williams thing–
• 8:05
  Speaker 3: I watched Voter's interview, and he said, I didn't want
• 8:09
  Speaker 3: to bring him in with the tying run on base.
• 8:13
  Speaker 3: And I was like, wow. When you're thinking ahead of time,
• 8:17
  Speaker 3: that's way ahead. You got a five-run lead, and you're
• 8:20
  Speaker 3: thinking about the tying run on base. I'm like, holy cow,
• 8:23
  Speaker 3: a lot's got to happen. And I get it. Dinger,
• 8:26
  Speaker 3: ball through the hole by Antonacci, runner on. I get that. But, man,
• 8:32
  Speaker 3: they set themselves up. to not be in as good
• 8:36
  Speaker 3: of a spot for game five.
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know.
• 8:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, ask, ask the Braves, even if they win
• 8:41
  Speaker 2: game five, how will it affect their pitching going forward?
• 8:44
  Speaker 2: Ask Chris sale when he had to pitch that inning
• 8:45
  Speaker 2: and the Philly series, then he couldn't pitch till game three.
• 8:49
  Speaker 2: So I don't, I also never want to hear that
• 8:52
  Speaker 2: it's a side day because it's not the same intensity.
• 8:54
  Speaker 2: If you've ever watched a big leaguer throw a side day,
• 8:57
  Speaker 2: it's not even close to that intensity. I mean, they're
• 8:59
  Speaker 2: just kind of touching and feeling and all that stuff.
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: So, uh, I don't know. Whatever.
• 9:06
  Speaker 2: Listen, the Guardians won. I tip my cap to the Guardians.
• 9:10
  Speaker 2: Game five is tomorrow.
• 9:13
  Speaker 3: Night.
• 9:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm still obviously thinking the White Sox pull
• 9:16
  Speaker 2: this out and I want to see them in Tampa
• 9:18
  Speaker 2: on Monday night, but it just got a lot tougher.
• 9:21
  Speaker 2: And also, by the way, I mean, the pitching chaos
• 9:24
  Speaker 2: that A.J. Hinch called it, that the White Sox are
• 9:26
  Speaker 2: now trying to use the opener is cute and all that,
• 9:28
  Speaker 2: but So far in this series, you've had the one
• 9:30
  Speaker 2: guy who's been probably the most dominant pitcher, and that's
• 9:33
  Speaker 2: Sean Burke. Can we just let Sean Burke start the game?
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: Are we going to try the Hagen-Smith trick? Are we
• 9:38
  Speaker 2: going to try the Anthony Kaye trick? Are we going
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: to try Sean Newcomb again? Can we just let Sean
• 9:43
  Speaker 2: Burke go out there and start the game? Because he's
• 9:44
  Speaker 2: going to have to throw four or five innings anyways.
• 9:47
  Speaker 2: And also, bringing in Grant Taylor in the sixth and seventh,
• 9:50
  Speaker 2: That's not working anymore either.
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: He's the closer. Let him come in with the lead
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: in the ninth.
• 9:54
  Speaker 2: I know certain people are like, you can't go down
• 9:56
  Speaker 2: without using your best pitcher. Yeah, but when you use
• 9:58
  Speaker 2: him in the sixth, that means you've got to cover
• 10:00
  Speaker 2: two to three more innings later with not your best pitcher.
• 10:03
  Speaker 3: We were in the wildcard game, I don't know if
• 10:07
  Speaker 3: you remember, back in 2014 with the Royals. And it
• 10:10
  Speaker 3: was a one-run game, and they brought in, and Ned
• 10:13
  Speaker 3: Yost brought in Jordano Ventura out of the bullpen. We
• 10:16
  Speaker 3: had just a cavalcade of bullpen guys. that had pitched
• 10:21
  Speaker 3: in the bullpen that were starters and had pitched out
• 10:23
  Speaker 3: of the bullpen. The only person that had never pitched
• 10:26
  Speaker 3: out of the bullpen was your Donna Ventura. But he
• 10:28
  Speaker 3: was like, he throws really hard and he throws a
• 10:31
  Speaker 3: fastball really hard. And that was the beginning. That postseason
• 10:35
  Speaker 3: was the beginning of when they, you know, we had
• 10:39
  Speaker 3: an incredible bullpen with Holland Herrera and Davis. And it
• 10:43
  Speaker 3: was like, you went to the one guy that probably
• 10:48
  Speaker 3: should have been pitching in the 11th and 12th innings
• 10:52
  Speaker 3: of that 14 inning game. Like to me, I just,
• 10:57
  Speaker 3: I'm not second guessing the decisions. I'm just wondering where
• 11:00
  Speaker 3: the decisions came from to get you to that point
• 11:04
  Speaker 3: of saying five runs, not quite enough. We're going to
• 11:09
  Speaker 3: use Smith. Like, I just, it just felt, it just
• 11:14
  Speaker 3: felt weird. It didn't feel like I knew what was happening.
• 11:17
  Speaker 3: And I want everybody to clip what Steven Vogt said.
• 11:21
  Speaker 3: He said in the third inning, what got ripped up, AJ?
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: Script.
• 11:26
  Speaker 3: Oh, that tells me there was a script. Yeah.
• 11:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to read the script right now. And
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, Parker Messick, he was expected to go
• 11:40
  Speaker 2: three innings, I guess. and then they mentioned Cantillo, and
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: then they mentioned they had Espino.
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: Up at one point.
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know what the script is. Why do we
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: have to have a script, Kratz? Listen, you go down
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: before the game and you say, okay, these are the.
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: Guys that are available.
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: This is the pockets that I'd like to use them,
• 12:00
  Speaker 2: and I'll mix and match however I need to, but
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: the script should change too as the score changes. When
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: you're in a tight game, you're like, okay, I need
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: to use my A guys. But when the game got
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: to like 9-3, 9-4, you should have been like, okay,
• 12:13
  Speaker 2: we can maybe sneak some other guys to try to
• 12:15
  Speaker 2: save some bullets because the White Sox saw Kate Smith again.
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: They saw Sabrowski again. They saw Gattis again. They saw
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: all these guys again, again, again, again, over and over.
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: They saw Gavin Williams again. Now he's probably going to
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: start game five. I mean, are you going into game
• 12:30
  Speaker 2: five if you're Steven Vogt and you're saying, all right,
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: we're going to start Joey Cantillo. We're going to start
• 12:34
  Speaker 2: Espino again because that went so well. It's the same
• 12:37
  Speaker 2: for the White Sox, though. The Guardians have now seen
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: Grant Taylor a bunch. They saw Fetty a bunch. They've
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: seen Jordan Hicks a bunch. They've seen all these guys.
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: They've seen Brian Hudson a bunch, right? They've seen all
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: these guys. They've seen Anthony Kaye a ton. They've seen
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: Hagan Smith a ton now, right? So they've seen all
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: these guys in these four games. It just gets to
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: be a better look and the bats get better and
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: better and better because they know what they're looking for.
• 13:00
  Speaker 3: And obviously I've never been a manager, but I've been
• 13:03
  Speaker 3: in the dugout when they're making big decisions about big games.
• 13:09
  Speaker 3: And I get it. You got to win today, but
• 13:12
  Speaker 3: the fact that some of your decisions tonight are going
• 13:16
  Speaker 3: to affect tomorrow night and are also going to affect
• 13:19
  Speaker 3: the next series, which you're trying to win. That's, I
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: don't know that that is always determined or decided. And another,
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: another yet Ned Yost story game six of the world series.
• 13:32
  Speaker 3: We're beating the giants. We're beating the brakes off the
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: giants 10 to one or something like that. And they
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: put Tim Collins in lefty through a banger and, a
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: speedball and he's in the game and 10 to one
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: game and a runner gets on. And I saw Ned
• 13:48
  Speaker 3: Yost look over at his pseudo bench coach, which wasn't
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: really his bench coach and Pedro go fall and goes, Hey,
• 13:56
  Speaker 3: if something, or Pedro looked at Ned and goes, Hey,
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: if somebody gets on here, what do you think? Should
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: we get somebody up?
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: And he goes, yeah.
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: He goes, get Kelvin Herrera up and, and walk Wakamatsu,
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: Don Wakamatsu goes, What? He goes, it's 10 to 1.
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: Let's save him. Let's throw somebody else. But it was panic,
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: like go right to Herrera. So I think there's some
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: panic and leaning on who you usually go to. Yeah.
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: Well, you're supposed to have a script to this or
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: that or blah, blah, blah. But when it gets blown up,
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: sometimes you have to just think. And Stephen Vogt's a
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: smart guy. Carl Willis has been there for a long time.
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: Do you think the White Sox script got blown up
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: when Hagan Smith couldn't throw a strike in the first inning?
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: It got blown up, but then Fetty came out and
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: did a nice job, right? Also, why did the White
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: Sox not take Fetty out after he kind of adrenaline-dumped,
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: threw the ball into the stands after that big inning
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: with a double play he had to cover first, and
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: he was all fired up? Usually you take a guy
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: out after that. I thought Ron Darling did a nice
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: job talking about that, and then the next inning is
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: when they gave up all the runs.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: So I don't know. I don't know.
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, listen, I'm not in the trenches with these guys.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on, but, man, I really
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: would like to see a starting pitching matchup like we're
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: going to see in the NLCS, like, Scooble versus Miz,
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: you know, Henderson versus Snell or Yamamoto, like instead of
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: opener versus opener and let's hurry up and get to
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: the bullpen as fast as humanly possible because he might
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: be better, but he might suck. And then we're going
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: to bring in somebody else who might suck.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: So I don't know. Anyways, we don't have enough time
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: to get into it. But anyways, baseball fans, it's time
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: to lock in. Oh, here we go.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: Sarah Langs and postseason history teams playing winner take all
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: games in their home ballpark have gone 70 and 68.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: 19 and 22 in the division series. So you know what?
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: It matters. Nothing. Not as nothing. Not a damn thing.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. It's basically 500. So, yeah, it doesn't matter. Thanks, sir.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: Baseball fans, it's time to lock in. Lorraine Co.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: Remineralizing patches are nicotine-free and made with powerful non-tropics to
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: keep you mentally sharp while supporting your teeth. Go to
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: Lorraine.com and use code FT10 at checkout for 10% off.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, it sucks.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: You know, you want to do that for the fans and....
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: We all wanted it so bad for the fans, but
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: the series is so far from over, and we're still
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: in a great spot.
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: I know every guy, like I said, will have their
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: jersey on in the bullpen ready to throw. Whether they
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: feel good, they feel bad. This hitting core has been
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: just pests at the plate. They've made them work hard,
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: and I believe they'll do a good job of scoring
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: some runs when we go back to Cleveland and our
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: pitchers are going to come out and execute and get
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: it done.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: We turned a page, but we lost.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: So we'll turn three pages.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: And hopefully win on Saturday.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Hopefully win. Hopefully win, by the way. Just hopefully win.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: How about we're going to win on Saturday? I mean,
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: hopefully is, I mean, I guess it's probably the proper terminology,
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: but if I'm Sam Antonacci, I'm like, oh, we're going
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: to win.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: We're going in there. We're kicking their ass on Saturday.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: Put Bolton-Bormans here. Put bulletin board material up there.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: Who cares?
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: It's the playoffs, man. It's a division rival, someone you
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: play all the time. I remember we were in the
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Padres clubhouse, and David Ortiz said that the Padres were done,
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: and they kind of had David Ortiz's picture everywhere, right?
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: It didn't work. It didn't matter. Dude, if you need
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: bulletin board material in the playoffs, sorry. That ain't it.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: I mean, we got to ask Max. He's in it
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: right now. Yeah, I don't know. Bulletin board material to
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: get up for the playoffs? I don't know. I don't know.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Maybe it blips other people's radars.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Maybe. I don't know. I don't know. And by the way,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: I love that– who is it? Anthony Kastrovitz. He wrote
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: The Razor. This has been a great game for The Rays,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: which he's not wrong.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: The Rays want– The Rays want the White Sox and
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Guardians on Saturday to play 100 innings and pitch everybody, okay,
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: from position players to guys that haven't even been drafted
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: yet to guys in the minor leagues, guys.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: That have retired.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: They want both teams. They want Charles Nagy to come back.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: They want Mark Burley to come back. They want Roberto
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Hernandez to come back and close it for the Whites.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: They want everybody to pitch multiple innings and just wear
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: them down. They're just sitting back there going, and by
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: the way, Russ versus Raskratz, You know what team has
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: won all three Division Series games?
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: All three Division Series?
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: No.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: The team that had the bye. The team that had
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: the bye. Yeah, so that's weird.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: Are they going to bring back Fausto Carmona too?
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Roberto Hernandez, by the way.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: Fausto Carmona. No, that's not his name.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: I have yet to talk to a pitcher. J.J.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Cooper said this. He's definitely a bird word nerd, whatever
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: that thing says in that commercial.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: He is.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Gas guy he's not a gas guy though i have
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: yet to talk to a pitcher who thought a side
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: session and pitching in a loss in a lose and
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: your season is over ninth inning we're similar as far
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: as workload and stress jj thank you for saying that
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: i believe kratz and i totally 1 million percent agree
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: with this there is no comparison i need to take
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: this dodger hat off because brewer fans already hate me
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: for thinking that all i wanted to do was talk
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: about the padres so i'm just going to take my
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: dodger hat off because i'm just so sad that the
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: padres lost even though i picked the brewers to win
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: that series so yes i really was rooting for the padres.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: I got i got texts from people from milwaukee who
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: were like tell your guy aj on the show he's
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: got to hate he's got to stop hating on the
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: brewers like all his people are just all about the
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: padres so i sent him the clip of when we
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: talked about it when you and Wano talked about it
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: in your screenshot of your Twitter, your DMs and Twitter.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: It was great. I was like, bro, watch the game.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: Don't be such a fan. Actually listen to what they're saying.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: What do you want them to do? Talk about it?
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: Manny Machado, when somebody made a great catch on him. No,
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: you're going to talk about the person that made the
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: great catch. And then you're going to talk about the
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: next story. Like, stop.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Stop.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Listen to the game.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Anyways, yeah.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: But just know that Gavin Williams pitched in the ninth
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: inning and threw 18 pitches. And now we don't even
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: know if he's starting game five. It's just a side session.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, totally.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Totally a side session when he was out there just
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: pumping 3-2 curveballs to try to get out of the
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: inning as hard as he could throw.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Same as a side session.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: And by the way, can we just let everyone know
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: who's starting? It's become almost a let's wait until the
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: last second. You know, Guardians, TBD, White Sox, TBD. And then,
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: you know, as a broadcaster, you're sitting there going, man,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: I can't get a lineup until two hours before the
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: game because nobody will tell who the pitcher is.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: So can we just put it out to try to
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: get a little hype for game five? Thank you.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: I think the Guardians situation is different in this case,
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: but I agree. Yeah, that's what he said.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: That's what he said. That's what he said.
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: That's what he said.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: All right, that's what he said.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Anthony Rizzo, he's been on TV a lot this year.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: He's been talking a lot about the Yankees recently, and
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: he had some interesting comments about Yankees and their people.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: In the clubhouse.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: I don't even know where to go with this crap
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: because he was doing a podcast with David Ross and
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: They were talking about the Yankees, and the Yankees obviously
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: got swept by the Rays. Jazz Chisholm had some interesting comments.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Judge had some comments. Everybody has comments because it's the Yankees.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: And then Rizzo throws in, everyone in this clubhouse needs
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: to take an F in Xanax. Your thoughts as our
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Yankee insider who played for the Yankees?
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Well, he said this was his impression when he got
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: to the team in 2021. And I was on the
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: team in 2020. So I feel like I knew a
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: lot of that team, and I couldn't disagree more with
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: what he said. unless I don't know how Xanax works,
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: because I felt like this was one of the best
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: teams as far as understanding and wanting to accomplish the
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: things that we were trying to accomplish in 2020. And
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: I know these guys were trying to accomplish the same
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: thing in 2021. I watched them lose to the Red
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Sox in Fenway Park. Like, I just, I feel like
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Things change. You come from different environments. And your first
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: impression is, you know, how many different organizations had Rizzo
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: played on? How many times, you know, was he in
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: those situations? Who was he talking about? I get kind
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: of what he's saying, but I don't understand where it's
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: coming from in the sense of, like, What made him
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: think that? I would love to hear his elaborate on
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: what he thought. And it's great that we get to
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: hear him talk because when he played, he didn't really
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: do much. He didn't come on many shows. So it's
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: great to hear him talk and hear his stuff that
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: he went through and the podcast with Dave Ross and
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: all that stuff that was going on while he was playing.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: True.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: By the way, we have those comments. So let's hear
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: from Anthony Rizzo himself. We don't have to paraphrase. We
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: can hear from Anthony himself.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: The first time I got traded, or to me, I
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: hadn't heard this, from Chicago, right?
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: We go to Miami.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: The motions are high. I get to the Marlins Park,
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: and it's an interleague game. So they're asking me, right
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: when I get there, they start asking me all these
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: questions about bunt defense, this and that, my style. And
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: I go, literally the first thing in my head I
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: go is, yo, everyone in this clubhouse needs to take
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: a f * * * ing Xanax.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Okay, so maybe he didn't mean the players. Maybe he
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: meant the coaches.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: That was probably coaches and players, but everyone was just trying. Listen,
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: you've switched teams in the middle of the year. The
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: first thing they ask you is, how do you like
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: to hit? How do you like to get prepared for pitchers?
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Do you need anything in the training room? It's a whirlwind,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: especially in the middle of the season. They just throw
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: stuff at you, and you're like, okay, I need to
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: learn everyone's name. Can everyone put a name tag on
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: because I want to learn everybody's name? They don't need
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: a Xanax. They just were trying to make you as
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: comfortable as possible. They're asking you about defense because they
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: know you're one of the best. And you want to
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: they want to know how they're going to run their
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: defense around you. And and, you know, this and that.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: What do you like?
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: That's just the way it is when you get traded.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's a little more hyped in New York just
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: because you're the Yankees.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: But I don't know. I didn't think there was.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, I know the one time I switched teams
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: in the middle of the year, I showed up at
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: the Cardinals and they were asking me a million questions.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: And I'm playing that day and I'm like, dude, I'm
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: just trying to get prepped for the game. What's your
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: who are you again?
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: What's your name? Like, I don't know.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: It's a real thing. And you talk about a guy
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: that was in Chicago for a long time getting traded.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: going to a team that has aspirations of winning. Like
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: it's not like he's going to a team that's like, Hey,
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: we picked you up on waivers. We're going to kind
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: of fill in for a little bit. Like you're thrust
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: right into the, right into the game. So coaches are
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: trying to not just catch you up, but catch themselves
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: up because you can go out and play a game.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Like the game's going to, the lights are going to
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: turn on and you're going to be like, okay, I've
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: done this before where the coaches are like, well, we
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: want to get the most out of you. We want
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: to make sure that we're putting you in the best situation.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: I got traded to the, I got traded to so
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: many teams in the middle of the season that I
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: got stories on stories on stories to the point where
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: the Pirates, I got traded to the Pirates, and I
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: was in AAA in Fresno playing the Astros in Fresno
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: and flew across the country, got to the game at
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: 730 that started at 7, and the one coach was like, hey,
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: I want you to sit down and watch all of
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: our relievers so that you can get a night. I'm like,
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: the game is going on. Like I missed the first
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: inning and a half seventh inning. I come in and
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: I got to catch a Camerino. I think his name
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: was Aristides. I don't remember. It was a long name.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: He was like six, seven. And I'm running out. I'm
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: running up the steps to go fill in for Chris Stewart,
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: who had banged up his ankle and couldn't finish the game.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: And I had to figure out, I go, Hey, what
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: does he throw? They go 99 with sink and a splitter.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, Sweet. Good luck. I didn't even know
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: how to say his name. It was one of those
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: things like if everybody around you is freaking out, as
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: a player, you've got to get yourself in the exact
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: same spot that you are every other time you're playing. True, true.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: He also had some other comments on other things.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Let's hear some more about here. Yankees move says Rizzo
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: ripped apart the Yankees organization on his Ross and Rizzo podcast.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: It's the same thing every single year. If you talk
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: to people there, they almost think it's insanity. It's the
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: definition of insanity if you think it's going to change.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: They don't win. They can't beat the good teams. That's
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: how it's been year after year. We got to the
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: World Series in 2024 and stabbed ourselves in the gut
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: multiple times. He also said the Yankees should acquire a
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: contact-oriented bat, says Jazz Chisholm's postgame comments make him look
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: lost as a player, and that the Yankees don't earn
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: the right to say World Series or bust, and agree
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: with David Ross that change can be a good thing.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: That's a lot to digest in there. It's kind of
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: what everyone says in the media all the time about
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: the Yankees is they won't change.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: They're analytic driven. How hard do you hit it? How
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: hard do you throw it?
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: And they don't have a ton of good baseball players,
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: but they make the playoffs every year and they usually
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: make a deep run. This time they got whacked by
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: the Rays. Jazz Chisholm, he just says whatever. Sometimes I
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: don't even know what he's talking about. Can't understand why
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: he gets booed because you didn't play very well, Jazz.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: That's why you get booed. And if you don't play
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: very well in a place like New York, you get booed. Yeah,
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Anthony Rizzo said, Jazz Chisholm Jr. looks like a player
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: who's lost after questioning why Yankee fans are booing him.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: I don't think he looks lost.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: I just think he– it makes you look kind of–
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: I don't even know what the word is, but when
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: you don't know.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Why you're getting booed, you're not getting– you're getting booed
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: because you didn't play very well.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, and then as far as change can be
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: a good thing, absolutely it can, but what change are
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: they going to make? They're not getting rid of Judge.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: They're not getting rid of Stanton. They're not getting rid
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: of a lot of the players that they have there. So,
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: if they can make some tweaks, yes, but big change
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: ain't coming for the Yankees.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: I don't think it needs to. They won 93 games. Yes,
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: you can drop the line that American League is terrible, blah, blah, blah.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Here's what I'm saying. And I said it the other day,
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: and I'll keep saying it. You know who changed and
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: has now won three World Series in the last six seasons?
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: The Dodgers. Max Muncy came on here and said, we
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: had to make a change. They didn't change their entire roster.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: They changed how they approached the playoffs. They changed how
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: they approached those at-bats because it wasn't quite the same.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: What does that mean? I can't tell you. I can't
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: tell you what it means tomorrow night for the White
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: Sox-Guardians elimination game because that answer is not going to
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: be the same as it's going to be for the
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: Mizorowski-Skubel game on Sunday. Each game, you have to be
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: able to make changes. And when I say the Yankees,
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: you know, change is it's not at the manager. It's
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: not a general manager. It's really not even the players.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: I love a lot of the players. It's about the
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: approach in certain situations. What does that look like? Do
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: I give it everything I have to be able to
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: get the job done in that moment? For Aaron Judge
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: to get the job done in that moment, it's hitting
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: a dinger. For Giancarlo off the bench in that moment,
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: it's hitting a dinger. You put Ryan McCann in the
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: game for defense. he gets in that bat. What does
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: he got to do? He's got to figure out how
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: to get that job done. I think they have contact-oriented guys.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: I think since 2021, when Rizzo was talking about it,
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: they've become more athletic. They didn't re-sign Rizzo for whatever
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: money he wanted to re-sign for They said, you know what,
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: we have an athletic backup first baseman, and Cody Bellinger
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: is going to play the outfield, and they're more athletic.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: They're 100%. That was a knock. So if you think
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: the Yankees aren't going to change, I strongly disagree. This
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: organization has changed. They just haven't reached the pinnacle yet,
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: and that's where they need to keep refining it.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Hi, Max the Bald Eagle from Marathon here.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: We asked people if they could do an impression of me.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Have a listen. You can save up to a dollar
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: a gallon with the Marathon Rewards app. That last one
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: was pretty good. Marathon, where fun runs on full.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Available at participating Marathon locations. Terms and conditions apply.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: See MarathonRewards.com for details.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Mark Bowman, 23 different MLB players have logged at least
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: 20 plate appearances this postseason. Five of the seven lowest
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: OPS marks have been produced by Braves. Austin Riley, Mauricio Dubon,
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Matt Olsen, Ronald Acuna Jr., and Drake Baldwin. Okay, to
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: be fair, Mark, they also faced Scooble, Snell, Yamamoto, Glassnow, Sanchez, Nola,
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: and who was the other guy for the Phillies?
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: Johan Duran.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: And Lozardo.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: So they didn't exactly face guys B starters. They faced six,
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: about six out of those seven guys, You could throw
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: into Cy Young, either Cy Young candidacy this year, have
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: won a Cy Young, or are going to finish in
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: the top five in Cy Young. And I think even
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Aaron Nola probably finished in the top ten at some
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: point in his career of a Cy Young voting. So
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: it hasn't exactly been easy for the Braves. They faced
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: a lot of really good pitching. The funny part is
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: the Braves didn't give up a ton of runs either.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: They just didn't score any runs.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they didn't. Carlos Lee one time said, he goes,
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: He looks at Lance Berkman and he goes, where are
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: all the dudes that aren't throwing 100 miles an hour?
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: And Lance Berkman goes, they're on our team when the
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: Astros weren't very good. You know what? The Braves weren't
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: throwing out all those dudes in the starting rotation. So
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: they look across there and they're like, this is who
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: we're got. You're grinding it out. You're grinding it out
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: in the playoffs. Yes, they were historically bad. And these
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: five names, historically bad. I get that. But there's other teams,
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: like a lot of guys are struggling because all you're
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: facing is the best of the best right now. Show
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: me the guy that's not struggling. And this, all these numbers,
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: Brewers fans, you better just, you better recognize this is
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: what you're coming into. Brewers fans are not facing Michael
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: King and the other starters that they're facing. Like this
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: is going to be a challenge challenge because the Dodgers
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: are a really good pitching team.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Kratz hates the Brewers. Kratz hates the Brewers. Let's just
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: throw that out there right now that Kratz hates the Brewers.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: He just said it. He said they have no chance
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: in this series. So, Brewer fans, attack Kratz. Thank you.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Brewers are really good, though. They're contact-oriented. They led
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: the league in on-base percentage this year.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: It's going to be a hell of a series. It's
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: going to be one hell of a series. It's going
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: to be a knock-down, drag-em-out. I think this series goes deep.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: It goes long.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: It's not going to be a sweep like it was
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: last year. That's for darn sure. No.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: No, and that's what I'm talking about. The Brewers are
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: going to need to change. We just talked about the
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: Yankees needing to change. The Brewers are going to need
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: to change, and the Dodgers pitching is going to need
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: to change because they're not going to strike out.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Hot corner. Here we go. Hot corner. Hot corner.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: It's hot in here, and these takes are hot, and
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: some of them are really not very good, but hey, MLB.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Is a proposal to the Players Association.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: To try to get them to think that they don't
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: care about a salary cap and want to take other stuff.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: MLB proposes return to 154-game regular season. Seven-game division series.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: I'm here for that because that's more games I get
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: to do in the playoffs. And opponent selection. Okay, first
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: of all, I'm going to start with the 154-game schedule.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: It started in 1962, I believe. They went to 162 games.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: It was 154. They want to go to the minor
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: league schedule of a game off a week, Kratz. So
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: I guess they get like every Monday off. To me,
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: that's dumb for sports, for the sport. Why do you
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: want to have a day where there's no teams playing
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: on every day.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: For a week?
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: Why? Why do you want to do the national game?
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: Because in 2029, yeah.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: One team gets to play on Monday night?
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: The look at us game. That Because all these contracts
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: are coming up. The national contract's coming up to start
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: the 29th season. And so it's going to coincide with
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: the CBA. So that's what they want. That's what they
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: want to do.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: But when do those two teams have to make that,
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: you know, get the off day back on Tuesday? So
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: they play Monday and take Tuesday off while everyone else plays?
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: And won't that mess with your pitching rotation? This is all.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: No, I agree.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: This is all. This is what I don't understand.
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: Like.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: You want to do this. So in the minor leagues,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: every minor leaguer I think has Monday off, right? Isn't
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: it Monday?
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: Everyone.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: So they all pitch six-man rotations. They all pitch once
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: a week. You're the Tuesday starter. You're the Wednesday starter.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: It's like college, okay? You're the Friday, Saturday, Sunday starter, whatever.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: But if you do this in the major leagues and
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, you know, they're only– listen,
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: I know how these national broadcasts work. They don't really–
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: they don't pick the worst teams. They usually pick the
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: best teams, right? So then that throws off there. You're
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: not the Tuesday. This week you've got to pitch on Monday.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Well, oh, no, I can't pitch on Monday. I've only
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: had six days off. Like, there's no way I can
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: do that, right? So I don't understand this proposal. If
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: you want to go to 154 games and go longer playoffs,
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: I'm okay with that. But to just have an off
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: day off and then just have one– I mean, this is–
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: you know what this all is? Semantics so you can
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: get a salary cap.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: It's just something to throw at the players so they
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: can say, well, we tried this. The players said no.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: You know, you guys said no to this, but we
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: need this.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: And just know that if you play eight less games–
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: You're going to have eight less games than numbers, which
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: brings all the numbers that everyone, well, I'm going into arbitration. Okay,
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: what are these numbers? Well, it's less than this catcher
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: put up three years ago. So now, you know, those
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: numbers are going to continue to go down. And I
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: think in a sport where it's counting stats, 154 games,
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: and I get it if you could show me that
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: the eight less games improves player health. I would agree.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: And I think this is Major League Baseball's way of
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: trying to suffice the players in a way that they can.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: But I think the amount of money that you make
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: in the playoffs would make up for this. But then
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: are the playoff teams sharing that money? Ultimately, it's a ruse.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: And the ruse is... Whatever we're doing, we're showing you
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: all this, but this is what we really want is
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: how Major League Baseball is doing it. And I don't
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: know that 154 games is the answer to go to
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: the negotiating table and the players go, oh, thank you
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: so much for all of this extra health you're getting us.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: Even though we have no actual stats that say, well,
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: if you play eight less games– you're going to be
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: healthier because if AJ would play eight less games in
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: his career each season for 15 straight years that he
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: caught 135 games, he would be much healthier. Well, not
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: only that, but also, you know, I don't even want
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: to get, all right, let's move on from that because
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: I can't go on and.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: On about this. They want to expand the division series
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: to seven games. You know why? More money.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: They have more playoff games. They get more money. It's
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: simple as that. There's no other way to put it.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: That's why they keep adding rounds. That's why they keep
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: adding games because they want, more money um that's that's
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: what this comes down to and then this is where
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: i like though next year the league wants to introduce
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: a form of receding in the playoffs okay fine but
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: you got to give the division winner something okay so
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: you got to give them you know the round off
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: the top two seats because what's the incentive just get
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: in and then you recede who cares right but They
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: want to let them possibly pick your opponent. I am
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: here for this. I want this.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: I need this injected into my blood.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: Because when the first team says, whoever that, let's say
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: the Yankees are like sitting there and they go, we
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: want to play the White Sox. And the White Sox
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: go out there and beat them in the postseason. Can
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: you imagine how much trash talking is going to be
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: going down?
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, you wanted us? Oh, you picked us? You wanted
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: some of this smoke? You didn't want this smoke? Can
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: you imagine?
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: How much trash talking? You can't allow a team to
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: pick who they want to play because, oh, I mean,
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: you can, and I'm here for it. But, wow, what
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: an awesome experience that would be. And sitting, then they
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: have to put cameras in there.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Well, how do we decide who we want to play?
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: They have a good lefty. Yeah, but the other team
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: has a good righty. Yeah, but we're scared of the Rays. No, no,
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: we want to play the Astros. What if the Astros
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: beat us at 81-81? Then our fans will have a revolt.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, oh, my gosh, yes.
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: Yes, 100% I am on this. You can't, but you
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: have to have, like, what you just said, you have
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: to have it. Like, here we are in the office
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: of Craig Council's Cubs, division, central division winners. They're choosing
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: who they want to be, who they want to play
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: in the first round after they won the division. Oh,
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: here they are. Are they going to go for the
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: Padres or the Phillies? Really? They limped into the division
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: series here after losing, after beating whatever, whatever. Yes. Yes.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: I want to see it. And, You talk about bulletin
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: board material. If you want bulletin board material and you
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: need that in your life, which I don't think you do,
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: this would definitely be it. Oh, they chose us. They
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: chose to play us.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: It would be like Raiders of the Lost Ark. What
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: was it?
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: The last final crusade when they're picking the chalices at
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: the end and the old guy standing there with the sword,
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: he's like, You chose poorly. And the guy shrivels up
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: and dies. And then Indiana picks the wooden chalice. He's like,
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: you chose wisely. And then he saves his dad or whatever.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: Sorry if you haven't seen the movie, kids.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: We're in euphoria. But whatever.
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: Underratedly good movie. Yeah.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: You chose wisely. You chose poorly. And, you know, that
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: would be awesome. So, I don't know. MLB, try it.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: Just try it for one year. And if you don't
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: like it, you can change the rules anyways. Because the
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: players have no say in what rules you change and
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: what you don't change. So, if you want to try it,
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: do it. and it would get some fans seriously riled up.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll be right back.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: John Hammond on Paul Goldschmidt. Paul Goldschmidt suggested he would
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: like to keep playing. He said, I love competing.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. Good for you, Goldie.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: And if you think you can do it, go do it.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: Someone will sign you. Somebody will bring you back. You know,
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: those crowds, you get to a point, though, where the
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: juice ain't worth the squeeze. And I love competing, too,
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: but You know, you got kids, you got family, you
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: got people, you got health, you can't do.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: It as well anymore.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: It just comes to a point where, you know, even
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: Justin Verlander, even Tom Brady at some point said, Uncle,
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: I got to go home. So, Goldie, if the team
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: will sign you and you want to keep doing it,
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: thumbs up.
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: Hall of Famer?
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Not yet for me. I don't think so. I think
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: he's short. He's a great player, but he'll get in.
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: The little bit that I know of him, I don't know.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't think he's in yet. And
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: a little bit that I know of him, I don't
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: know that he's like pushing for the Hall of Fame.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: He's at 22, almost 2,300 hits. I think it's– if
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: he can still do it, yeah, I get it. He
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: had a better year than he did the year before.
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: He's a platoon guy. Does he mind sitting on the
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: bench for a third of the season? I get that,
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: but there's– You feel like you can still do it,
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: your family wants it, and your health is good, sure,
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: do it. If you're missing stuff at home, I promise.
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: I'll tell anybody, if you're thinking about quitting, quit because
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: it is great.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: Agreed, agreed.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: It's hard to replicate that, and I tell people that
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: all the time. They're like, oh, should I play another year?
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: I'm like, well, do you like being at home? And
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: they're like, well, do you like in the offseason when
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: you're home?
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: They say yes. I'm like, you should probably think about quitting.
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: Then.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: Hey, celibate for Sean shirt will look great on Anthony
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: Kane and his White Sox teammates. Head to FoulTerritoryShop.com for
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: the best postseason merch. Celibate for Sean shirts, the gosh
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: darn it Merle shirts for Murph are on there. There's
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: a lot of great shirts. And he's saying we can
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: come up with them quickly and you can be wearing them.
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: So FoulTerritoryShop.com. I know you have a Dodgers hat on
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: or a Guardians hat. I'm not even going to ask.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: To see it, it's the Guardians. Oh, Tampa Bay. Let's
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: go Rays.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: American League champions. Already crowned them.
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: All right, that's fair. Let's go White Sox, by the way.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: Everyone have a good weekend. Hey, not with your head,
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: not with your heart. Turn the postseason's biggest plays into moments.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: You'll remember.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: Use this MLB odds boost token for the on-field action
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: and score a bigger payout on a winning bet. Gambling
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: problem or concern? Call 1-800-GAMBLER. And you really think the
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: White Sox are going to lose after Ditka died?
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: No chance.