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Dodgers Win the World Series · 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 Sea Cake. This is episode 484.
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I'll be your host Kyle Corden. I'm here with my Co host Nate
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Reyes. Nate, the floor is yours, my
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friend, and that'll do it. Thank you guys for a World
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Series following along with us. We'll we'll catch you guys in
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the offseason. What happened, dude?
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What happened? There's so many things we could
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pick apart about this game, but the reality of it is, is this.
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We should be gearing up as baseball fans for Game 6 in LA.
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Like, that's just the reality of it.
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And I know people are going to say, well, the Dodgers just had
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an incredible comeback. They absolutely did.
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But if it weren't for the most possibly the most random
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baseball game of all time, this thing is going 6 if not 7.
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What a wild baseball game to end the season.
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Unreal. Yeah, yeah, one of probably the
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worst choke jobs I've seen ever. I mean, I guess we can blame
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that on recency bias or whatever it is, but no, Aunt Kathy, I did
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not have Mac and cheese and Dino Nuggets.
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So who's really to blame on me? Is it on is it on Rizzo or is it
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on Nate? I think we have our answer.
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I think we already know, yeah. Man, just I mean, tell me what
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was going through your mind this game.
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I'm like we talked about just before you hopped on a roller
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coaster. I mean, that's that's really the
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only way you can put it. I mean, this, this had and I
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talked. I I just said most random game
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ever. It had everything.
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What I mean, how as as a Yankees fan, how in the world were you
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like coping with the ups and downs of this game?
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Not well, Not well. They had a picture perfect
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start. It was exactly what they needed
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to do was to run flirty early, which you didn't predict.
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And Cole to be Cole, what she was.
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Yeah. It's just they said it on the
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broadcast. And they're not wrong.
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Like this team had holes. This team had flaws and they
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were very much just exposed in this series and in this game.
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I this is yeah, man. Like, I think in my mind, I
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really had this chalked up as a win.
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Like, even before the game. I really did.
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I think a lot of Yankees fans did, you know, like Cole on full
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rest. I think they showed the stats
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before the game when he faces the team a second time in the
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series. It's he's better than the first
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time then. So I think I had it like chalked
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up in my head of like, cool, like, you know, not recording
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tomorrow night, going to record again Friday night.
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Like how does that going to work?
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You know it. Yeah, it it is what it is, man.
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I the Dodgers, like as much as I feel like we lost this game, I
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think the Dodgers like we can't just we can't just dismiss that.
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Like we can't dismiss how good they are and how dominant they
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are. And you know, like Dave Roberts
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did I think an impeccable job managing and yeah, like, I'm
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sorry, I'm struggling to find words that I, I, I had a few
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innings to wrap my mind around it.
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I had the basically the full 9th inning because once it didn't
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happen in the in the eighth, I think I mentally kind of started
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to process that it was all done. Yeah, I mean, Yanks bring in 789
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up in the ninth. Yeah, not ideal.
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Yeah. Do we want to talk?
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Can I mean to? I trying to tread lightly here,
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but do you want to just dive right in to where it all went
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wrong? To where the game just
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completely flipped on its head. Yeah, I mean, I guess like I, I
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think, like I said, like it started great.
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You know, the Yankees did everything that they were
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supposed to do. I've I've yet to see the game,
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the win probability chart. I need to.
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I need to find. I'm sure can somebody?
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Point me to the win probability chart for tonight's game.
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I need to see this. Yeah. 5 nothing through, you
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know, through what was it? It was in the 5th when
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everything kind of collapsed, but it just everything felt like
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it was, it felt like it was going back to LA like
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everything. I think everybody in the world
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felt that way. I think there's probably some
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Dodgers in that dugout that felt that way.
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But the 5th inning, I mean, started with the with the key K
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single. I'm going to.
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I think I'm going to relive this inning for a while.
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Oh man. Started the key K single kind of
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like this soft liner fly ball kind of a humpback liner that
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who was that was that Will Smith they hit that to judge yes Will
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Smith hit that to judge you I mean you can see it clear as day
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His eyes are kind of just peeking at the runner which Kiki
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was working his way back to first.
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It wasn't like a wasn't like a crazy secondary took off towards
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second like it it was He was very much going back to first.
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There was no play at first. There was no play on the runner
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whatsoever. Clanks off of judges, judges
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heel of his glove as he looks away, ground ball to Volpe.
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Volpe makes the right play, you know, as a shortstop if you're
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taking into that 55 hole first and second kind of an easy play
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to 3rd. Jazz was there on time.
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It's just you know, he spiked it to him would have been a crazy,
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crazy dig from jazz. Doesn't happen.
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And then you watch Garrett Cole do Garrett Cole things and
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punches out Lux, punches out Otani, 2 outs, bases loaded and
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you're like, this is still salvageable.
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Like this is still if this happens.
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Like it feels like it's smooth sailing.
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It feels like we can overcome these horrendous easy baseball
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mistakes that that have happened throughout the year that they've
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slugged their way out of that they've that they've managed to
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score enough runs to kind of hide this stuff.
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And it wasn't meant to be. Mookie hits a very routine
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squibber to first base. And I think it had some English
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on it. I think it's some weird spin
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that kind of caught Rizzo. But like, the truth is, as good
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as Rizzo is, like there's big bad moments defensively in this
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postseason that we witnessed him have now.
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I mean, should Gerrit Cole have been there?
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1000 percent, 1000% should have been there.
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But why are we sitting back so much on that?
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Like it is Mookie like I'd rather come up and get that and
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and take take the bag myself. I'm not going to sit back.
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So yeah, cold doesn't cover run scores 51 Freddie jam shot
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single up the middle 5/3. Yeah.
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I mean, that's like, come and get that dude.
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That's what we're looking at right there.
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Come and get that. It was about a split second
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later where you see Cole point to Freddie or, excuse me, point
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to Rizzo to get to the bag. I'm like, my guy, you, you, we
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got to be at least in the vicinity.
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Like if, if, if you want to sit back and let Rizzo take that, so
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be it. But it like it's never the
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pitcher's call. First of all, like it's it's
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never the pitcher's call. He just has to be there.
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And he's got the first baseman to decide to wave him off and
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didn't even give Rizzo the opportunity to.
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Exactly. Bit of a brain fart.
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I think it was like, you know, when you punch out bases loaded,
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no outs, you punch Outback to back guys, you make the pitch to
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get a ridiculous hitter in Mookie who has good numbers off
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of you in his career. It's I think there's just this
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sigh of relief that happened too soon.
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And anyway, yeah, was. Was that it?
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Was it at that point or was it elsewhere in the game or maybe
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even that inning or no? It would have either been at
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that point or somewhere else in the game.
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But I remember Smoltz saying you you, it was something to be
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effective. You can't think about having one
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out left, you just have. To make your next pitch, that
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was that moment. And like I, I did, he made the
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pitch, Yeah. And like, we get on, we, we get
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on Smoltz a lot for some of the things like the more obvious
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things he says. But in that situation, I totally
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understand what he's saying there.
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That's. Exactly like that moment was
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exactly what you're saying you can't do.
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You like and, and not just not just for coal, but like
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defensively to like you can't, you can't rest on the fact that
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you just escaped with two outs and you're like, OK, I think
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we're in the clear here to, to, to get this final out.
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Like you have to lock it in even more so at that point to ensure
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that everything stays where it's at.
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And we we saw the slightest that you call it the, the biggest,
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call it the smallest brain fart defensively and it quite
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literally cost in the World Series if you get out of the 5th
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inning, we're going back to LA. Oh, 100% like I genuinely feel
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that. I mean, it doesn't matter.
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It is what it is. But yeah, like I said, Freddie
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single after that 5 three, I think a curveball hung up in the
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top of the zone to Tay Oscar for A2 run double to tie it at 55.
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Insane to me that Cole came back out real like.
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That was. That was his.
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Brain fart like it. It feels like it felt it gave me
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like Nathan Ievaldi back in what year was that, 2018?
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18 Yeah, like. It gave me that vibe of like
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they lost that game. Muncie hit a walk off, but like
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to like take one for the team to go back out there to like just
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kind of nut up for a lack of better, better, better words
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here. Like that's what that was.
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And offense just doesn't really. I mean they scratch one across
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but like it just doesn't wasn't. Enough.
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And that's what I don't want to get lost here.
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By no means am I like a cold defender, cold sympathizer here,
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but like that's what I don't want to get lost in this whole
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conversation about the the final game here is is Cole.
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And I'm not saying that you are taking this angle with it, but
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I, I, I don't want it to feel like Cole came back out just to
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chew up more innings outside of the defensive miscues.
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The defensive miscues cost him, not cost him, but ultimately
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cost cost the Yankees the game. But it it was not a result of
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Cole. Sure, you could point to the the
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PFP miscue there, but you talk about, you talk about Judge
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dropping the ball, you talk about Volpe spiking at the third
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Like there's other things at play there that weren't they
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were it. It was a different outcome in
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those moments. Then Cole just giving up a three
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run bomb and then giving up back-to-back solo shots or
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something like it was completely different.
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Which we've seen like we've seen like a mental lapse.
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We've seen like a, you know, where that hard O mentality just
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kind of cracks and and he's not able to, you know, keep it
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rolling. We I've seen those starts
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before. It just it wasn't that I was
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really impressed with what he did.
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I think it was really gutsy and super impressive because like,
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it was obvious that the Yankees bullpen was, you know,
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completely thrashed at that point.
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And it was, you know, a little bit about chewing innings.
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But it was the fact that, like, I think he was at 88 pitches, 89
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pitches at the end of that 5th. So it was like, let's keep it
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rolling, man. Like you got plenty in the tank
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left. It's the end of the season.
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We need to empty it. And again, like you were saying,
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he was untouchable, but that's that.
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This is like the the Dodgers hoisting the trophy right now,
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like as we speak is because of this is what good teams do.
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This is what good teams do. They take advantage of mistakes
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on the other side. They don't shut it down after
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being down that much. They relied on multiple guys to
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get it done. You know, like you didn't see
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some dominant, crazy offensive performance, but it was like a
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gutsy thing. I think Smoltz or Joe Davis said
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that there was a Dave Roberts quote that was like, the Dodgers
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have been talented before, but they've never been tough.
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And this was a tough team like that.
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They were talented and tough and they got it done.
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And like, there's only so much I can say, you know, like it was,
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it was just, they deserve it. Like as much as the implosion
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handed it a game early or two games early, the Dodgers
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deserved it. They played a cleaner series.
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They they did all the things the right way.
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And like I said, I think like game four, that Volpee, that
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Volpee Grand Slam kind of covers up some of the mistakes.
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And that's what the Yankees have been able to do throughout the
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year is that those mistakes, those blunders are covered by
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managing to get WS just somehow doing it typically done by the
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long ball. And you made your bet, you know
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what I mean? Like, it's embarrassing, dude.
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Like it really is like as as cool as last night's win was, as
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great as this first half of the game tonight was like it really
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like genuinely it was. It happened in such such a an
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embarrassing way, like a bad high school baseball type way.
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Right. For for so many things to go
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wrong in the ways that they did for that, for all of that to
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happen in one game and the deciding game ultimately, that's
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tough. And honestly, like for the
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Dodgers, you talk about the Dodgers playing a cleaner
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series. The Dodgers played big.
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We're talking big picture here. The Dodgers played in my
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opinion, the better series really, or I won't say they
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played the better series up until the the, when the Yankees
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went up five nothing tonight, but because obviously they lost
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in Game 4. So I won't say they played
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better in that game, but it it really didn't feel like the
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pressure had been flipped. It did not feel like the tables
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had been flipped until the Yankees went up five.
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Nothing it. Really felt like it, yeah.
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And I felt like things were shifting.
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Yeah. And I, I, I'm sitting there
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thinking like the Dodgers, I think for the first time
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legitimately in the entire series, are shifting their
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weight to their heels a little bit.
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Yeah, if you if you send the series back to LA after a
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slacking, after a dominant, you know, a dominant start from Cole
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Bob's going for the offense and you win 567 nothing or a 567 to
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one type game like then yeah, that Game 6 has momentum on the
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Yankee side. It feels like things are
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starting to move that way. Like I said, there's I mean, you
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can't call it anything else. Just a joke job.
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Just a straight joke job by heroes.
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You know what I mean by heroes? Like it wasn't, it wasn't a
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Glaber Torres where we've seen all year.
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It wasn't like some type of goofy mistake by Verdugo.
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It wasn't a Stanton being slow on the bases.
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Like it wasn't that. It was like your hero who
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started to make everything right in this game and Aaron Judge
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made a crazy play in the gap, catching that ball up against
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the wall. Your hero from last night and
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Anthony Volpe, the New York kid, like all of that Garrett Cole,
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your horse, your saw you like it was your heroes that made these
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mistakes. It it's a World Series champion
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in a clubhouse leader in Anthony Rizzo.
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Like I could go down the list. It wasn't the the no names.
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It wasn't the guys that like, oh, you know, the Yankees are
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just picking up the slack for these guys.
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No, these are the guys and all of them let you down.
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And we're not going to remember Aaron Judge's home run.
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We're not going to remember that crazy play in center field.
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We're not going to remember that.
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I, I this might be too soon and I apologize if it is, but
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specifically that Judge home run, we we very, very well could
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remember this for all the wrong like if you're a Yankees fan,
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you we could you could be remembering this for the wrong
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reasons. Same.
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Way. The way we look at the way we
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look at Trout, the only hit he had in the post season in his
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career, a home run in Kansas City.
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Obviously different stage here in the World Series for Judge,
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but his his only real moment, his arrival to the postseason or
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the World Series, I guess if you want to call it the postseason,
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his real true arrival, like capturing in a bottle what he
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did this season and finally bring it to the postseason was
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that home run in my opinion. And it's, it ultimately was for
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nothing. But if, depending upon how the,
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the, the way the rest of his career shakes out, we, that's
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going back to my original point, this could be something we, we
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look back on as baseball fans. When you're talking legacy,
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you're talking like, you know, post season accolades and, and,
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and resume and all that. But I, I don't know, it's too
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soon, obviously to talk about that because that's, that's,
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that's more, no, I'm, I'm saying big picture, like that's more,
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that's more of a down the road conversation.
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But probably, yeah, I, I think you said it best, man.
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The Dodgers just played a, a cleaner series.
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They were more fundamental. Like there were certainly
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moments for both teams throughout this series where
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you're kind of sitting there scratching your head a little
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bit. But there are fewer of those
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moments for the Dodgers. And I think ultimately that's
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that's why they're the ones holding the trophy tonight.
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Yeah, like let's, I mean, let's give them their flowers.
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You know what I mean? It like if if you're if you're a
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parent of a a young kid and and you want them to learn how to
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watch baseball, like this was the team.
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This was the team to watch. You watched hard 90s, you
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watched bullpen guys toughen it out and just really emptying the
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tank. You watched excellent play and
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and you know, defensively, like I I can't a couple muffed plays
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by Tommy Edmond at short, but like that's the only thing
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that's really coming to mind for me and which happens like
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whatever, you know, but like Mookie just busting his butt
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everywhere he goes. Freddie Freeman for for obvious
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reasons, like we can remove the home runs, but like up to me.
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I'm going to remember that like fighting off single up the
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middle to scratch two more across in that inning.
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I'm going to remember him last night busting it down the line
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in a loss, busting it down the line to beat out a double play
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attempt so that running from third scores like the you could
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just you could work your way down the list of Kiki Hernandez,
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who you know is going to play second, going to play center.
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Like you just you have selflessness all around.
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Max Muncieu didn't have a series, you know, really wanted
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or postseason you really wanted. I know Tani who struggled in the
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World Series, like gutted it out and still showed up and like is
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obviously probably going to have some type of surgery this
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offseason. Like if you want to learn how to
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watch baseball, if you're a high school kid, if you're a young
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kid, like this was the right way.
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You can go down the list. You can go across multiple
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games, you can go through the entire postseason like this team
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was well coached, it was well executed and they gave you
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everything. They won in every possible way.
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It wasn't just one dynamic, it was all of it, all aspects.
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I I feel like and and tell me if you feel otherwise.
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I feel like absent a a impressive or an impressive
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performance from show, hey, in this World Series, the Dodgers
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did just about everything that they probably felt coming into
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this season they were capable of doing, if that makes sense.
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They like there was question and I I think it's finally be the
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last time we talked about it, but there was there was
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questions about their their staff coming into this post
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season. They eliminated those question
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marks. Their stars showed up.
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Mookie Betts. See, I mean, he didn't have the
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greatest post season, but he I think he shook off enough of
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those demons a little bit to to feel like he could probably lay
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his head down at night after this World Series saying that he
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he he made impacts Freddie Freeman obviously doing what he
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did. Really.
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I mean, like I said, fundamental baseball pretty much threw out
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minus a couple errors here and there, but really outside of a
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mix sort of missing show, Hey, for the most part, he was pretty
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much Mia. They, they I think you said it,
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they checked the boxes. They checked the boxes.
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And like you sit there, talk about payroll all you want with
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this team, but like, how much more evidence do you need?
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And I and I, I put out the tweet.
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What was it yesterday? I think it was before Game 4,
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which they ultimately ended up losing.
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But it I I said when, if and when the Dodgers win the World
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Series. Don't be upset because they
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spent money. Be upset at your owner for not
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a. 100. Percent and I've I still believe
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that have it like in the moment they hadn't won it yet.
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So maybe you could argue maybe that I felt a little different
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than in the moment before they actually won it.
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But now that I've seen them hoist the trophy, I feel the
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same exact way. I'm not upset.
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I'm not upset for the Dodgers. Like, did I want to see this
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thing go six or seven? Sure.
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But they more than likely were going to win it anyway.
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So to sit here and ridicule the Dodgers and like, if if you're a
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Dodger hater, I understand whatever, I'm not going to
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convince you anyway. But if you're just an objective,
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reasonable baseball fan that doesn't necessarily have any ill
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will towards the Dodgers, don't be upset for the way they went
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about this. They did they The reason you
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might be, and most likely are upset at the Dodgers is because
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they're doing it in a way in which your team is not.
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You wish you had this kind of star power on your team, and if
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you say otherwise, who? You're not fooling anybody.
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Who are we really kidding? Well.
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It's not just that it's it's selfless star power and anybody
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out there, you know, and I mean, I guess the next one we're going
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to see is Soto. But like, I hope this that this
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is a representation of like the best player on the planet was
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selfless, fine financially in order for this to happen, in
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order for these moves to be able to be made, in order for a
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roster to be filled, like to take that all of that money
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deferred. And we can sit here and and, you
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know, discuss the reasons as to why he did it that way.
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But the truth is, I'd like to think he's a winner and he wants
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to be able to get this done. He wanted to be able to for the
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Dodgers to have an opportunity to go get a Yamamoto and to give
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this team an opportunity to make some additions at the deadline.
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And if you're a superstar and you're sitting there saying I'm,
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you know, I want the paycheck I deserve.
27:39
How do you look at the best player on the planet and and see
27:42
that he's not doing it that way while he's hoisting the trophy
27:47
when he in fact didn't really do much in the World Series to do
27:54
the hoisting, You know what I'm saying?
27:55
Like, it's it's kind of crazy. And you talk about, you know
28:00
what Tommy Emin in a in a Kopec likes coming to mind right away
28:04
at that deadline. Those are two moves that played
28:09
immense parts, like the some of the biggest parts for the
28:13
Dodgers in this run. So I think we've had
28:20
conversations about teams getting hot and just Catching
28:25
Fire and riding that through the postseason and just managing to
28:28
play baseball at the right time and, and doing everything well.
28:31
And, you know, somehow sneaking it out and being that underdog
28:36
story. And then you have other winners
28:38
that just one, from day one, they made all, they pressed all
28:46
the right buttons in the front office.
28:48
And you have an entire lineup who's extremely selfless, who is
28:55
just worried about winners, just worried about winning.
29:01
And yeah, it's hard to look at that team and, and, and not be
29:05
jealous of, you know, the top three guys being MVPS.
29:12
But it's out there. It can be done.
29:17
And I hope that, like, part of me wonders how much this sits
29:21
with Soto. He sat on the top step and
29:25
didn't move. He watched his celebration.
29:27
He kept his helmet on. How much of that is sinking in
29:30
of like, yeah, I could get 6 or 700 this year.
29:38
How do I work that to getting what I deserve, but still being
29:42
able to do that and celebrate with my team wherever it may be?
29:50
So I think it does an amazing job of representing what players
29:54
can do to be flexible, to be selfless, and it shows an
29:58
amazing job of what teams should do and for those owners to start
30:04
spending money and putting a product out on the field.
30:08
And understanding that whatever this viewership was for the
30:11
World Series, even though it was somewhat of a let down compared
30:15
to the hype before that, this was worth it.
30:20
You got your money back. So bravo, the Dodgers, genuinely
30:31
bravo. They deserved it and they got
30:33
it. I don't know, man, I still feel
30:38
like as base, I'm not going to, I'm not speaking about the, the
30:43
Yankees fans specifically because obviously we know what,
30:47
what they wanted to happen, what you wanted to happen.
30:51
But as as baseball fans, I, he, I, I just have to go back to the
30:55
beginning of this World Series where we're again, we're talking
30:59
about the magnitude of what this could be and what it was shaping
31:02
up to be. I just feel like we were left
31:07
for wanting just a little bit more.
31:10
And I was, I was talking to Meredith about it tonight.
31:12
And because she was out and at the time that she left, it was 5
31:17
nothing. And she came back and it was
31:20
seven to six and, and the 8th. And she was like, oh, my
31:23
goodness, this is close. And I said, yeah, but I just
31:28
don't really, I forget exactly what I said, but it was
31:30
something effective. Like it's just, it's really not
31:33
going to scratch the itch unless it goes 6.
31:37
Even if the even if they go to New York and they or even if
31:41
they go to LA and drop game six, at least at least get it back to
31:45
where it started. Even kind of if it was, if it
31:48
was the fumble and then some like a walk off, if that, like
31:53
if that would have happened and we're going back to LA.
31:56
That would have. That would have just added to
31:58
the randomness. And ended in 6th even if it
32:01
ended in 6th like that. That's what I'm saying.
32:03
That would have scratched that itch for sure.
32:05
It would have just felt a little bit more of a complete World
32:07
Series. But now you know how I feel as a
32:09
Yankee fan. This, this, this, these last few
32:13
years, man, It's just like, it's a team that like we have an
32:16
itch. We know that there's some
32:19
scratches around it every once in a while, but we know that
32:22
it's still itching and it's, it's really hard to watch, man.
32:29
You're really going to make me say it again, what I said to you
32:31
before we hopped on I, I don't know if I know what it feels
32:38
like because in my lifetime, I've yet to witness a loss in a
32:42
World Series. And that's a beautiful, that's a
32:45
beautiful thing. Sorry.
32:47
Just give me, just give me the one jab I'd you got it.
32:50
Give me, give me some credit. I feel like I handled myself
32:53
pretty well this World Series. 34 minutes after a little bit of
32:59
salt, the. Series started last week.
33:03
Give me some credit. I feel like I, I mean, just let
33:05
me get that one little shot in. You realize that I've we started
33:10
this podcast in 2018. We started this, I want to say
33:16
in July or August of 2018 and. Immediately had to one.
33:23
One but a few months later. Yeah, immediately had to watch
33:28
you celebrate and I was like, man, this podcast seem to be
33:31
awesome when when I get one. Honestly this this would make
33:35
for a great bookend if you if you just want to call it quits.
33:38
I might start it with a Sox series and end it with a Yanks
33:42
loss. We can.
33:43
We could do that that. Checks.
33:45
Checks all your boxes. Yeah, yeah, Stink fan.
33:51
I mean, give me give me more of your, your fan perspective here.
34:00
Where like where does it? Where does it?
34:01
No. No, no, as neutral as I'm trying
34:04
to be at the moment. Yeah.
34:05
And I mean, I, I, I commend you for it.
34:08
But give me like, from the perspective of a Yankees fan,
34:12
where, like, where do you go from here as a fan?
34:16
Like, do you hold out hope that maybe you can build off of this?
34:19
Do you feel like this was the end of the rope?
34:21
Like, do you feel like you, you, you kind of hit your, hit your
34:24
limit here and that you, you, you maybe assume that Soto's
34:29
walking out the door and this was your one shot or like, I, I
34:32
mean, I know it's, I know it's raw right now, but like, I, I, I
34:37
know you and I know your ability to, to think pretty rationally
34:41
throughout the series. I mean, for goodness sakes, you,
34:43
you were talking before the series even started.
34:45
You're like, I don't know how this team got here.
34:48
I, I don't see how anything positive could come out of this.
34:51
So you were kind of already sort of there a little bit.
34:54
Yeah, but it's it sucks, man. It sucks that like, I think
35:01
there's a few fan bases out there that can really say I told
35:05
you so and be right about it. Like the holes.
35:14
OK, Robert, the holes? I mean, is he lying though?
35:20
For those of you listening, Robert in the chat said the
35:22
Yankees were worse than the Mets in the playoffs.
35:24
Not even the best team in New York.
35:26
OK, I'm not. I'm not going to sit here and
35:31
just take Mets trash talk shit out of here.
35:36
Oh goodness, hold on. Can I, can we pause it right
35:41
there? Put a pin in that thought.
35:44
Tell me right now, do you think the Mets would have put up a
35:50
better fight in this World Series?
35:52
This isn't like it's not a joke. It's.
35:54
Like an NLNL matchup? What do you mean?
35:58
Are you saying it like Mets, Mets.
36:00
Yankees. Yeah.
36:03
Well, like would the would the series have been different it
36:06
that's I guess that's what I was ultimately asking.
36:07
Not not NLNL. What is Mets, Yankees.
36:10
Yeah, like how how would that series have gone?
36:13
I think it would have gone a lot better for the Yankees.
36:17
Fair enough. It's.
36:21
All in all, you're not taking the Mets.
36:22
The Mets. Slander right now, Never.
36:24
I'll never take. I'll never take Slander from the
36:27
Mets and any Yankee fan that does should should turn him in.
36:35
I don't know where they go from here, man.
36:36
I we hold on. I don't know if I mentioned
36:38
this. If it wasn't and I'm now you got
36:40
to be curious. If it wasn't NLNL matchup, who
36:43
do you think takes the series? Like if if the NLCS like.
36:49
Did was the World Series? Like if if we're talking
36:52
Dodgers, Mets in the World Series, do you think the Mets
36:55
give the Dodgers a better run for their money?
36:57
Than the Yankees did in this series, correct?
36:59
I mean, it's hard to say. I don't know like it.
37:06
Give me a yes or no. Did the Mets take this six or
37:09
seven? No, no, I don't think.
37:14
I don't. I don't think it.
37:16
It's such a weird question to answer.
37:18
But like I we, every, everyone knew what the Mets were.
37:24
Everyone knew what? What are we?
37:28
The chat is unhinged right now. They're we're talking, I mean,
37:33
we're talking about the Mets eliminating the Dodgers and.
37:37
But they didn't. They lost and they didn't get to
37:39
the World Series. So like, I don't know what we're
37:41
even discussing here. They lost.
37:44
They lost to the Dodgers. Ultimately, that's my point.
37:47
I'm ultimately asking if if they ran it back, if Manfred was
37:50
like, you know what, the Yankees.
37:52
The Yankees cake. Walked through the AL Central.
37:55
Let's just let the Mets and Dodgers run it back here.
37:57
Would it have gone to? The the the Mets Good good vibes
38:01
lasted only so long. Yeah, that's a good point.
38:05
I think this I ran out like the Steam ran out probably.
38:08
We watched it at the right time. Yeah.
38:10
Fun story, but like, whatever. Where do the Yankees go from
38:16
here? I don't know, man.
38:18
Home. I don't know.
38:20
I don't know where they go from here.
38:22
Well, they're already home. They.
38:23
Didn't even make it back to LA. No, I'm talking like home.
38:27
Well, I mean, I guess technically they don't have to
38:29
go home like I I guess what's the common thing Cancun?
38:32
Like that's NBA. Where where do where do the big
38:34
leaguers go? Do they they go to just like
38:35
Florida or something? I don't.
38:37
Know they got to go somewhere. I mean, they, they, I mean they,
38:41
they, they got better money than the NBA.
38:43
So maybe it's a little something, a little nicer than
38:45
Cancun. I don't know.
38:46
But they're going home. I know that.
38:51
Any who's yeah, I don't know if like I said, man, we we talked
38:57
about it like it's it's weird to be on the fence about re signing
39:01
Soto. It's weird to say that like if
39:03
they do it, they have no room left financially to plug the
39:08
other holes. And there's holes, there's
39:13
rotation holes, there's bullpen holes, there's first base holes,
39:18
there's your second and you're starting second baseman, you're
39:21
starting left fielder or going to free agency.
39:26
I don't think as as commendable and as impressive as it is at
39:30
times with Judge and center, he's not a center fielder.
39:34
He's not going to age well in center field.
39:36
You got to get him back to right field.
39:39
So it's, it's, it's kind of nuts, man.
39:43
Like it's, it's really hard to say because like the core isn't
39:50
deep enough, it's not young enough.
39:59
I don't know. I'm pretty.
40:01
I'm pretty lost. Let's flip the script here,
40:04
Dodgers. The Dodgers back here next
40:06
October? Yeah.
40:08
Are the Dodgers here in the last?
40:10
Week. Of October.
40:13
Yeah, this is the beginning of the window.
40:15
You're going to you're going to continue to see this because
40:19
they'll still have that core that really knows what's up.
40:25
That is definitely in their prime.
40:29
They're going to continue to press the right buttons and
40:31
filling in the gaps with the right role players.
40:39
And they didn't even have they didn't even have they're
40:43
starting pitching. They're going to run it back
40:45
again like they're. Show.
40:48
He's back on the Bump Next year show.
40:50
He's back on the bump glass now is back.
40:52
Like I like, do you do you just take a maybe a little bit of a
40:56
hometown discount and bring back Walker Buehler based on what you
40:59
saw in the last, you know, six weeks?
41:00
Like there's a lot there that is just like it's hard to see them
41:07
drop off in any way. Tommy Edmund still under
41:11
control, I believe like it. Tay Oscar is the only one that's
41:15
probably walking and probably getting a multi year deal.
41:20
Be really interested to see where.
41:23
I think, I think the, the one of the takeaways from the series
41:28
and, and just the, the showcase that it was the way that it was
41:32
covered on, on just like a well, not even national global scale
41:36
really is that it continues to show players, you know,
41:47
perspective, free agents, things like that, that LA is still a
41:52
destination. Like, I mean, who from a
41:56
baseball point of view, I mean, whether or not you like the city
41:59
is like, I got another conversation to be had.
42:01
But as a baseball player, how do you not look at what's going on
42:04
in LA? And that's been the case for I
42:06
don't know how long. And that's why they continue to,
42:11
to land these names. That's why they continue to to
42:14
win out in these bids. I think Joe Davis was telling
42:17
that story of Brian Cashman having lunch with Yamamoto in
42:23
LA, And they were sitting on like a rooftop patio having
42:27
lunch. And Cashman, like, looks around
42:30
and he admits he's like, this is what I'm competing with.
42:33
It's, you know, whatever month it is, it's December.
42:37
We're sitting here on a rooftop hat, You know what I mean?
42:40
Like there's there's so much not just star power, there's
42:45
immortalization in in baseball fame, not just Hall of Fame, but
42:53
like lore, baseball lore, like it's, it's so in depth.
42:59
It's so there and you're coming or now where like the monkeys
43:04
off the back a little bit. We can finally put the bed the
43:07
2020 World Series and like call this team legitimate and call
43:12
this franchise like and and again, this is just the
43:17
beginning of the window. This is not a one and done.
43:22
Yeah, on that 2020 World Series, for those who aren't on board
43:26
with it, you have, you have really one of two options to
43:33
accept that that was a legitimate World Series and that
43:36
everybody was on an equal playing field at at that point.
43:39
The Dodgers just happened to do what 29 other teams couldn't do.
43:43
Or if you choose not to accept that, then you have to accept
43:46
2024. Because I think ultimately what
43:50
these what these, what these people who just can't accept the
43:53
2020 World Series are looking for is the Dodgers to somehow go
43:58
bankrupt and roll out a roster full of no names and win a World
44:03
Series that way. Well, hate to break it to you
44:06
that that's not happening. That's not how the daughters
44:09
operate. And I think that is the route at
44:11
going back to what we talked about, that is the route of your
44:15
issue with the Dodgers for for those of you that aren't on
44:19
board with with how the Dodgers run their show, it's because you
44:23
wish your team ran their show that way.
44:26
The Dodgers just happened to do it a little bit better than
44:28
everybody else in the league, it seems. 1000% thousand percent.
44:40
You can go back to like those moments too, like in the season
44:43
where, you know, Mookie gets hurt in the conversation of
44:47
like, you know, do we bring him right back to short?
44:49
Do we push him back to right field?
44:52
Like this team had they had question Marks and they just
44:59
it's it's about buying in and it's about, you know, pressing
45:03
the right buttons and and gritting it out.
45:07
And that's what they did, man, that's what they did.
45:10
And when you have, I think when you have the best player in the
45:15
planet, like, you know, some of it feels somewhat expected, but
45:20
you just have super selfless guys.
45:23
And yeah, overall I'm just, I'm, I'm super impressed.
45:29
I really am super super impressed on all aspects of of
45:35
the LA Dodgers. Can you help me make sense of my
45:38
take from from back in March? When we had it since March.
45:45
When we had our hot takes and predictions episode and I said,
45:48
I said that this the Dodgers were not going to cakewalk to
45:52
the World Series. I've really been trying to
45:55
wrestle with that take because there for there for a while, I
45:58
was fully on. I was, I was, I stood fully
46:01
behind that because they it was a little bit of a rocky stretch
46:04
there. And again, like with the
46:06
injuries, with you. Know they played bad baseball
46:10
for about a month. Having an absolute dog fight
46:13
against the Padres and then the Mets giving them a little bit of
46:16
a run for their money there at times.
46:18
I they didn't run the table. I'm sure technically, yes, they
46:23
did. They're they're the last team
46:25
standing. But I'm still kind of wrestling
46:27
with that take. Like, I don't, does it still
46:31
hold up even though they ended up winning it?
46:33
Like, can we still look at this at this season for the Dodgers
46:36
and say, like, you all had to fight a little bit more than I
46:41
think probably Dodgers fans were hoping for?
46:44
Is that fair? Is that fair to say?
46:46
I do think they did. I do think they did.
46:48
I think their their match up against the Padres I think was
46:53
the best match up of the all of the postseason.
46:56
That was the World Series. Yeah, it definitely felt that
47:00
way. And you talk about another team
47:02
that, you know, felt like they pressed all the right buttons
47:05
and made all the right moves to fill that roster out.
47:08
But yeah, dude, I, I, I really do think they earned it.
47:14
Like as much of we're probably going to remember this World
47:18
Series being a let down, I still think they really did earn it.
47:23
I think they did really, really well through and through.
47:28
And I don't know, I mean, there's not much left to say.
47:34
I got Dodgers fans, you know, for a little while for, you
47:39
know, four or five months. You get to say whatever you want
47:43
and Dodgers, you know, players get to say whatever they want.
47:47
That's how it goes. That's my rule.
47:49
That was my rule when I don't remember what year it was when I
47:54
think somebody, I think the Astros knocked out the the
47:57
Yankees in like I think it was 2017 and someone was talking
48:01
noise and CC Sabathia was just like they won.
48:06
They get to say whatever they want.
48:08
They want you get to say whatever you want.
48:11
That's that's just how it goes in my book.
48:13
So the rest of it is noise. It's officially been shut out.
48:18
And if you're have any, you know, if you have any
48:23
orientation with the Dodgers, you get to do and say whatever
48:26
you want. Speaking of Dodgers fans.
48:33
Shout out to my boy Murray. Friend of the pod Murray.
48:36
Long time, long time listener. Said he he is not able to catch
48:40
the stream but he wanted he wanted to let you know from a
48:43
baseball fan that he feels for you.
48:46
Yeah, I know he does. Murray's the best.
48:50
Happy for him. That guy.
48:52
That guy's the best. Super happy for him.
48:55
You're the only Dodger fan I like Murray.
48:59
I'm just glad we can put the whole, I mean, kind of putting a
49:03
bow on this, this 2020 conversation.
49:05
I'm just glad we can kind of leave or we can finally put that
49:08
to rest because it's like now, now it's it's a thing of like,
49:15
OK, does it count? Now the angle people I think are
49:18
going to take is like, OK, does it count towards their actual
49:21
World Series total? It's not like the most recent
49:23
title They have the the the next, the next argument that
49:27
you're going to make are or, or is like, does this count in the
49:32
grand scheme of things? The fact that they got this
49:34
series in the books, they were able to check that box.
49:38
We can not, we cannot focus so much on 2020 anymore and.
49:43
Really legitimizes it a lot. Yeah, and even just outside of
49:47
the Dodgers, just as base, like as a, as a baseball community,
49:51
we can stop talking about that as much because really that I, I
49:57
hated that season, if I'm, if I'm being honest, that season.
50:00
Like we're not talking about the legitimacy of the title.
50:02
We're not talking about that. I'm just saying the, the year,
50:04
the year as a whole, it sucks. So like the fact that this this
50:09
is 1 less reason we have to reference that year so
50:11
frequently now is just a beautiful thing.
50:14
I like it, it's dead to me. My only question.
50:16
I'm not trying to be a hater because I actually do like him.
50:19
I've supported him in the past. Lay it out there.
50:25
It was Clayton Kershaw in baseball jail.
50:27
Like, was he? Because, like, DJ Lemahieu was
50:33
in baseball jail? Let's just ride this injury out
50:41
and. Well, I mean, they made that
50:42
decision early. I, I mean, you, you have to know
50:46
that like, they don't necessarily know that they're
50:48
going to make it to game five of the World Series.
50:50
But he was ruled out at the start of the start of the post
50:53
season. I know.
50:54
I was just, it was what made me think of is because he was
50:57
having one heck of a celebration, like, like almost
51:02
more celebrating than the other guys on the field.
51:04
Now it's just like, yeah, yeah, you know, celebrate, do your
51:09
thing. But like, would it?
51:11
Would it You know, how much did you bring to the table this
51:14
year? That's actually I it's been a
51:16
minute since I checked out what his numbers or his final numbers
51:19
were on the year. What did he 'cause obviously he
51:22
he. What did he make like 6 starts
51:24
he. Came back like months into the
51:26
season and I'm we're not, I'm not here to tear him down.
51:30
I'm not either since again, like I supported him.
51:33
Clayton Kershaw 7 starts on the year.
51:35
Went two and two with the 4-5. Had 24 strikeouts on the season.
51:44
That. That's got to suck, man.
51:46
Like if you're Kershaw now. Like you finally get a like a a
51:51
legit you know no one can question it trophy.
51:54
And you didn't, you impacted, you impacted more games in the
51:59
in the shortened season. That's why Think about that.
52:05
That is tough. That's tough, man.
52:08
That is really tough. And I'm seeing, I'm seeing a
52:10
report here. By the way, Aaron Boone is
52:12
expected back as Yankees manager in 2025.
52:15
Duh. That's just for Andy Martino.
52:20
You couldn't just let me get through the night without that.
52:24
I couldn't have some hope waking up in the morning.
52:26
This idiot being fired. Finally I just had this.
52:34
The year is 2045. Aaron Boone is still penciling
52:38
in Aaron Judge hold on the free hole, and Brian Cashman is still
52:43
wearing his cardigans in the sweet.
52:48
Christian in the chat, he says Kershaw was injured.
52:51
What are you guys talking about? We know that's what we said.
52:56
It's just funny. It's it's you clearly caught the
52:59
conversation. I don't know what you're.
53:04
That's what I'm asking is that like was he in baseball jail?
53:07
How like how severe was the injury?
53:09
This is this is. Stop being naive and acting like
53:13
this doesn't happen all around baseball.
53:16
Happens all the time. Especially with his track
53:18
record. In the exactly, exactly.
53:21
So that's just all I'm asking is that it's, you know, how much of
53:25
that conversation has changed because like we're I know
53:30
multiple Dodger fans that are like, I don't want to see that
53:33
guy throw another postseason game for us.
53:35
I've heard multiple Dodger fans say that to my face.
53:38
So don't act like we're suddenly coming in support of him and
53:43
don't act like that conversation is is saved now, because I don't
53:46
think it is. He's still got that monkey on
53:48
his back. He's got two rings, same monkey.
53:54
Speaking of monkey on the back, sort of kind of a monkey
54:00
situation, the whole Shohei Otani thing, like it wasn't it
54:04
wasn't really a monkey on his back as a result of anything he
54:08
had done necessarily, but the whole like not being able to do
54:11
anything with the Angels and then immediately jump ship to to
54:15
the dodgers and gets a gets a ring right away.
54:18
I mean, that's an interesting. That's an.
54:21
Interesting. I don't I mean, and and I don't
54:24
think we're going to talk too much about him, you know, not
54:27
having a good World Series just because like I think it's going
54:30
to be put to bed pretty soon. I think this is again the
54:34
beginning of the window. He's going to come back on the
54:38
mound and probably when I saw Young next year, it's just like
54:41
it's. And it goes.
54:42
This guy's a ridiculous alien. It goes back to what we talked
54:46
about yesterday. The reason the there wasn't as
54:49
much focus on Shohei's lackluster performance in this
54:52
World Series is because they were still winning games.
54:55
His teammates were around him, picking him up, picking up his
54:58
slack. And let's not forget he had a
55:01
5050 season to help get them here to this hundred.
55:05
Percent and we'll look back at number.
55:06
That's what I'm saying, is that like, it's just, it's baseball's
55:08
funny. Like the Aaron Judge probably
55:10
had a better World Series stat wise than Shohei Otani.
55:14
Yeah, we're not going to. We're not going to talk about
55:16
that. No one's going to talk about
55:17
that. So that's just how baseball is.
55:23
It's about dubs. I think, I think our technology
55:32
is hearing me because I'm all of a sudden just seeing Kershaw all
55:35
over the feed. Yeah.
55:39
Did they, did we miss something? Did they name him MVP?
55:43
I mean, he's all over the place. Yeah.
55:47
Man's out there without a jersey on, without a shirt on, just
55:50
living his best life. I can't even, I can't even blame
55:53
him. Yeah.
55:55
Can't even blame him. And now I'm seeing shots of
55:59
downtown LA. They're riding.
56:02
My goodness. I mean, I would.
56:05
Be careful in the streets of LA. I would, I would say there's
56:08
traffic, but that's that's an assumption.
56:15
I'm seeing an A Rod quote here. This is one of the greatest
56:17
meltdowns that I've seen in 40 years.
56:21
Yeah. I think it's hard to call it
56:23
like a meltdown. I mean, I think it was just like
56:26
it was definitely a choke. But like I think of a meltdown
56:30
as like as like a three O lead, like a reverse role here.
56:34
Like, you know, the Yankees were three up like in O 4.
56:38
Like it's not like that. I think O 4 is still going to
56:40
haunt Yankee fans more than than this World Series.
56:45
Of. Course, maybe not Aaron Judge,
56:50
but yeah, I really did have that narrative in the back of my
56:54
head, by the way, because I told you I was like, in my head, I
56:58
was like this chalked up W after the first few innings.
57:01
I was like, let's move on to Game 6.
57:03
Like, what if this happened? What if the Yankees did the
57:06
reverse sweep and finally put to bed 20 years later?
57:12
That joke job? That would have been wild.
57:13
That would have been what a cool.
57:15
That would have been a cool thing.
57:16
That would have been a cool documentary.
57:18
Would have sounds like a great concept.
57:21
Maybe, maybe at the 30 year anniversary.
57:23
Sounds like a great idea, Nate. Yeah, that would have.
57:26
That would have been cool. I had the script out in my head,
57:29
couldn't write it. Could have been cool, should
57:32
have been cool, but. Had Denzel narrating.
57:36
I had it all going. Fat Joe Fat Joe definitely did
57:40
the intro song in that document. I heard, I heard.
57:44
I mean obviously not in the ballpark, but I was seeing on
57:47
the feed that apparently they showed the second they showed
57:50
Fat Joe because I guess he was in attendance tonight.
57:54
Well, no, but apparently the second I showed him on the
57:56
Jumbotron is when everything went to pot.
57:59
Oh. Really like in the fifth yeah,
58:01
I, I, I haven't confirmed that, but I was just seeing a lot of
58:04
that so that. Was the jinx Good to know.
58:10
Unreal. But yeah, I mean, I think I was,
58:15
I was also hoping that Frank Sinatra was not going to be
58:17
played for the one time in my entire life.
58:20
I really thought it wasn't going to be played.
58:23
I'm so glad you brought that up because I I wanted to make sure
58:26
we covered that. Can we please?
58:29
I just don't get it after losses.
58:32
Losses is even just like regular losses.
58:36
Heck, even losing Game 3 is one thing, but to play it after
58:45
getting eliminated from the World Series while the Dodgers
58:50
are dog piling in the middle of your field?
58:54
Stop with the Sinatra. Yeah, bad luck, Bad luck.
59:01
And like I can respect loop. Too, by the way.
59:03
Do they really that? Just keeps going.
59:07
It doesn't stop. You'll hear if you hang around
59:10
in there, you'll hear it 5 or 6 times, 'cause I remember that's
59:15
in in 20 in 2018. I remember that last play, by
59:21
the way, who hit that ground ball?
59:27
I remember Steve Pierce, like catching it at 1st 28 diving.
59:31
Yeah, 2018. So I said. 02019.
59:33
Like when Steve Pierce like, caught, like he was like going
59:36
up the line and he like fell and like kept his foot on the back.
59:39
Yeah, they went through overview that, yeah.
59:41
Yeah, I was sitting there. I was like, it's it's out, like,
59:44
and then cue the music and I'm sitting there super depressed
59:48
and I stay in the stadium for forever.
59:50
It's half empty already and there's it's still looping.
59:53
You're hearing it all the way out.
59:56
That's crazy. Read the news.
59:57
It's nuts. Like, there's got to be like a
59:59
lost song, you know? I mean, play, I'll play Randy
1:00:05
Newman's, I love Lai. Mean mix it up a little bit,
1:00:08
play anything. Maybe you should show some
1:00:10
respect to the team that just handled their handled their
1:00:12
business on your diamond. How about that?
1:00:16
Yeah, shout out to the Dodgers, man.
1:00:18
So it's crazy. Before I, when I came downstairs
1:00:21
to record this podcast, I, I looked at Meredith and I was
1:00:24
like, Can you believe it? We made it to another offseason.
1:00:27
I know. It's kind of kind of hits you,
1:00:29
man. Like, yeah, the world.
1:00:30
Series this this one hits me more abruptly than ever.
1:00:34
Yeah, I'm sad. I like on a on a non Yankee fan
1:00:40
note, I'm sad that tonight was our last game.
1:00:43
You know, like baseball's done. Well, I told you before, my
1:00:47
fantasy football teams are trash.
1:00:49
So like poor? Guys got to do nothing to look
1:00:52
forward to right now in the sports world.
1:00:55
I really got nothing. Guess I'll just be a better
1:01:01
husband or something, I don't know.
1:01:02
For your show, you can sit back and and watch the Dodgers and
1:01:08
Mets bid for Juan Soto in the coming months.
1:01:10
Yeah, I think Paige is like, like internally never going to
1:01:16
show it, but somewhat happy that we have our nights back.
1:01:22
It's understandable. Yeah, 3 consecutive nights, me
1:01:26
yelling at the TV, eating whatever we can find in the
1:01:32
fridge because I'm not preparing dinner.
1:01:38
You got any items for you want to close the book here?
1:01:43
Any any closing thoughts? Any takeaways from the series
1:01:47
from a depressed Yankees fan? Nothing really about the series.
1:01:53
If if you are hanging out with us, maybe this is your first
1:01:56
episode. Maybe these postseason games are
1:01:59
your first few episodes. We're we're going to run it
1:02:01
through the entire offseason. Not quite sure on the game plan
1:02:05
of of, you know, what we're going to do, but we do try to
1:02:10
not just keep you up to date with, you know, whatever current
1:02:13
events are happening with free agent moves or, you know, trades
1:02:16
or anything like that, firings, whatever it may be.
1:02:18
But we're still, you know, going to do some some breakdowns on
1:02:22
when these awards come out. We're going to do maybe I think
1:02:25
we talked about doing like a look back on our hot takes
1:02:28
episode and see if any of those maybe panned out or how brutally
1:02:32
wrong some of them were. So if you're looking for
1:02:35
baseball content and, you know, just want to hang out with us
1:02:37
during the offseason, please do. So.
1:02:40
We're going to keep running it outside of, I think, you know,
1:02:44
maybe a week off for Thanksgiving or Christmas.
1:02:47
We're going to be here the whole offseason, so.
1:02:50
And I know we, I know we picked up some new folks and I know, I
1:02:53
know that like I know who you are.
1:02:56
I've, I've been, I've been keeping an eye on who, who we've
1:02:59
picked up during this World Series And and if this, if it
1:03:02
was this series or, or really this postseason that you found
1:03:06
us, appreciate you, but you don't think it's, it's gone
1:03:11
unnoticed. The fact that you've been able
1:03:13
to you've, you've taken time out of your days, your, your
1:03:17
evenings to hang out with us, to listen to us break these games
1:03:21
down. All in all, I mean, it was a, it
1:03:23
was a great postseason. Like, sure, there were some
1:03:26
moments here there where maybe if it would have went a
1:03:28
different way, we it would have been a a different outlook.
1:03:31
But Oh no, I mean, post season baseball is the best.
1:03:35
That's the reality of it. It's so true.
1:03:36
The baseball is so back, like like baseball is so back.
1:03:40
Baseball is so back like and, and, and for anybody that's
1:03:44
like, you know, that took some time off.
1:03:47
I got some Co workers that are like once they met me, they were
1:03:50
like, oh, you have a podcast like and started listening and
1:03:52
they're like, dude, baseball's like a lot bigger than I
1:03:56
remember. I'm like, I know it's back.
1:03:58
The NFL kind of sucks. The NBA, we know that sucks.
1:04:04
NHL. I'm not talking any noise on
1:04:06
hockey players. I can't, I never will.
1:04:08
So I'll leave that there. Baseball's back, baby.
1:04:13
Baseball's. Back and we're just trying to
1:04:14
play a very, very small role in in in that process because I
1:04:20
mean there's nothing better. So All in all, all I have to say
1:04:24
appreciate you, you, you knew folks that we picked up.
1:04:28
We hope you you'll stick around. We hope, we hope we were able to
1:04:32
provide some entertainment for you through this, this really
1:04:34
this this season as a whole, but specifically the postseason as
1:04:37
well. Like Nate said, we're going to
1:04:40
we're going to keep it coming this offseason.
1:04:42
We, I'd kind of tinkered with the idea of maybe keeping it to
1:04:46
twice a week like we did during the during the regular season,
1:04:49
but I don't want to, I don't want to.
1:04:51
We shall see. I don't want to make any any any
1:04:55
promises that we won't be able to keep.
1:04:56
So I'm just going to leave that there.
1:04:59
But tab of the cap to you, my friend, for a great year, great
1:05:04
post season and particularly this World Series for for
1:05:10
keeping keeping a a steady head on your shoulders because I'd I
1:05:15
like to I like to RIP you with with the whole Yankees thing,
1:05:18
obviously, but you know it's tough.
1:05:22
I had. Some gut punches, some gut
1:05:24
punches. That's tough to go through.
1:05:26
And the fact that you were willing to hop on for five games
1:05:30
to talk about the rather lackluster World Series for your
1:05:34
team, I mean, that's, that's, that's commendable.
1:05:37
So I I tip my cap to you my friend.
1:05:39
Thanks, I appreciate it. Should we get out of here?
1:05:43
One final sign off for the 2024 MLB season, cruising into the
1:05:50
offseason. I think so.
1:05:53
I don't even know when we're going to when we're going to
1:05:55
show up in your all's feed next. That's, that's TBD.
1:05:58
But just understand, we, we hope there's a little, little grace
1:06:02
there. See me next, I think I'm just
1:06:04
going to be super fat and just I'm going to depress eat my, my
1:06:09
feelings for the next few weeks. I don't know, actually, I told
1:06:14
myself once the, once the World Series is over, it's like it's
1:06:17
back to gym time Now. I don't have to like rush back
1:06:20
home to like turn the game on after work.
1:06:22
So Yep, yeah. Yeah.
1:06:27
I mean, all what I was saying though, is I don't know when
1:06:31
you're going to hear from us next, but we'll, we'll, we'll be
1:06:35
back soon. But just understand that may
1:06:38
need a couple days to kind of reset and poop a little bit.
1:06:40
We, we had no intentions of doing like honestly, it was a
1:06:43
game time decision. Literally, I think like the day
1:06:47
of. Day of game one.
1:06:48
Yeah, the day of game one, we're like, we should do this.
1:06:52
And yeah, we we did it. We we ran it each game.
1:06:54
We were just going to do the off days, episodes on the off days.
1:06:57
But you know, we. Called all the hope we did this.
1:07:00
I am. I really AM.
1:07:02
I told Meredith she's like, how, how do you like, how do you feel
1:07:04
like that sort of rhythm went? I was like, honestly, it was not
1:07:08
nearly as taxing as I thought it'd be.
1:07:09
And it was, it was kind of enjoyable, you know, speak.
1:07:12
For yourself on the taxing part. But yeah, well, yeah, well, the
1:07:14
podcast is, I'm not talking about the series.
1:07:16
I'm saying just the the rhythm of of being able to to to bring
1:07:20
the podcast to the people. I'm so sad.
1:07:29
Hey, we, we just, we just ran through a whole nice positive
1:07:33
ending. Don't.
1:07:34
Don't be. Sad.
1:07:35
Yeah, let's get out of here before I start crying.
1:07:36
Don't. Don't.
1:07:40
Don't be sad that it's over. Be sad that Juan Soto's leaving,
1:07:45
I think is how the phrase goes. Sure.
1:07:49
Thank you for that. I appreciate that.
1:07:51
You're welcome. With that being said, my friends
1:07:57
don't go chasing curveballs. We love you and as always,
1:08:00
looking forward to talking more baseball with you guys soon.
1:08:02
Until next time, stay filthy.