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400. Rangers 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 C Kick. This is episode 400.
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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.
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  Can you take me higher? Let's go.
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  How about it? Celebrating Episode 4, A hundred
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  with a World Series finale. Congratulations to the Texas
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  Rangers winning their first ever World Series title.
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  Congratulations. I mean, it was it was basically
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  gift wrapped. No.
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  How do we how do we want to go about this?
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  Do we just want to get the negative stuff out of the way?
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  Do we want to like? Because I'll be honest, even in
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  just this last game, I feel like my emotions were kind of up and
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  down. This.
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  Yeah, the first what, four or five innings?
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  Not great baseball, but like, you know, impressive pitching.
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  And then it got to be, like, really good baseball.
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  And then it got to be like, oh, OK, well, we're just kind of
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  running out the clock here. So yeah, I got a taste of all of
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  it. I think there's a reason it was
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  the least watched World Series. Let's say no, no, no.
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  Let's say we'll save the negative stuff.
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  We'll say that because we have we like we we don't have a
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  choice. We have to address those
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  elements of it. But off the top here, you know,
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  like I said, Congrats to the Rangers.
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  This is, this has been a long time coming.
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  Rangers fans. I know there's been a lot of a
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  lot of noise talked about this World Series and we'll certainly
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  get into it. But we know there's Rangers fans
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  out there and they were fully locked into this World Series
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  that it wouldn't have mattered who they went up against and
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  they they've had to deal this it.
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  We're not talking like a Red Sox curse or something.
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  We're talking very recently. They've had to endure like a
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  very immense amount of pain coming so close, so close, and
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  just not quite getting there. But the fact that they were able
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  to essentially steamroll their way to this title.
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  I'm not even going to, I'm not going to beat around the Bush.
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  They steamrolled their way to this title.
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  I I can't say I want to say dominant.
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  I want to, but it's so weird because like they did lose a lot
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  of games at home. I like, I mean crazy amount of
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  wins on the on the road which is more impressive.
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  I want to say dominant offensively.
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  I don't offensively, that might have been.
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  The best offensive postseason we've seen in our lifetime.
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  Is that crazy? That's not crazy.
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  They went off, dude. I the stats they were flashing
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  across all night, it was like this postseason, they're hitting
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  like 429 with two outs. They have like 13.
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  Innings where they scored like 3 or more runs like just insane
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  numbers. Definitely.
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  If this quote there, I don't know if that's accurate, but if
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  they hit a home run in the game, there's like 137% chance they
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  win the game. Just crazy numbers, statistics
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  that don't even make sense. But because it was this offense,
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  it seemingly just made sense. Because it's it's a reminder of,
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  Oh yeah, that's what this team does and that's how this team
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  wins. And they did it and did it
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  often. And to me it was fitting.
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  And I think they even made note of it with Simeon's home run to
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  cap off the night like it. A fitting note that they end on
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  a bomb because that's what this team did all season long.
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  It's not a it's not a one run kind of team dude.
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  It's not a squeak or run across kind of thing.
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  This team just pummeled the baseball.
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  They're they're not a one run team.
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  But the second they got the first first run across the board
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  I said it's over. I started.
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  I started pre populating my notes and like my episode info
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  like Rangers win the title, the episode Rangers win the World
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  Series because I'm like this is over like.
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  If you're going to hold them down for so long, right?
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  Like if you're the D backs and and specifically Zach Gallon and
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  you go out there and hold them to six no hit innings and then
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  the 7th rolls around, they string together a few hits, get
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  one across the board. I said it's over.
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  Like the I, you got exactly what you needed from Gallon, but.
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  It wasn't enough. That's what I was going to say.
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  We got to give a bravo to to Zach Gallon.
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  Super gutsy performance, dude. Super, super impressive.
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  Little little he heard. Maybe maybe too little too late.
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  From Zach Gallon, buddy, where were you?
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  Yeah, now you're the one looking at spring training details
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  because you're going home without a ring.
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  And look, I'm not here. I'm not trying to talk noise on
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  Zach Gallon. I get it.
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  But this is what I said. Him and Paul Seewald were two
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  examples of guys where I'm like, you all need to chill with the
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  hashtag receipt season and and making comments to Phillies fans
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  on Twitter. And it's not like a oh I I was
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  like a pseudo Phillies fan. They hurt my feelings.
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  I I I couldn't have cared less about that.
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  I'm just saying don't treat this like your World Series, because
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  you haven't even started the World Series yet and you're
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  going on Twitter rampages talking about we've got the
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  receipts. Didn't really pan out for you
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  guys. Yeah.
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  I don't. I'm not a I'm not a fan of any
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  social media. When you're in the play offs
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  slash postseason no matter the sport.
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  If you can log off of all social media, I think you should.
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  I think it's important to do that so but either way gutsy
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  performance super impressive. It's just like you can't.
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  You can't leave that many runners on.
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  You just can't. Especially when your dude on the
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  other side is just nutting up for you and doing everything you
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  need them to do. You can't leave them out to dry.
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  This offense definitely did that and it's like the it's not, I
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  don't know like get your lead obviously if you can and and I
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  think it'd be more difficult for this Rangers team to to come
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  back but like. To get no hit through six, and
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  then you still have the confidence that you're going to
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  pull this one out because Nathan Evaldi's a freaking magician.
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  It's just crazy. Yeah, I mean, you can, you can
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  applaud the no hit element of that from gowns performance all
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  you want. And again, taking nothing away
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  from that, but the fact that you had Nathan Nivaldi on the other
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  side and the score was the same. I don't care how many hits
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  Nathan Nivaldi gave up, he got out of the jams, as he's done
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  pretty much the entire postseason.
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  And it's the score showing 00 going into the 7th.
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  I'm like, I, you know, they're going to like you said, they're
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  coming. They were.
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  They were coming. It was just a matter of time and
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  who else but to break it up, Yeah, but Corey Seeger?
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  And I mean the the lineup's so good that like, and I know Zach
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  Allen's dicing and I know that this this lineup, you can't give
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  them that many looks at them. And if the Diamondbacks were
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  able to get any kind of run support up, they would have gone
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  to that bullpen. They would have, said Jabo.
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  Done Zach, we're going to move on.
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  But when you're forcing this and and you're.
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  You don't have a lead. You can't get any runs up.
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  You can't. You know you can't play with
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  with a lead. It's so tough.
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  It's so tough. So I don't have.
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  I don't. I'm not going to put that on
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  Gallon. I think he would have been out
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  of the game if the Diamondbacks scooter got any sort of lead for
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  him. Man, I love, like I said, it was
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  just an up and down game and it was very symbolic of just the
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  way I feel like the series went. And you could argue the Posties
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  as a whole. Yeah, it was just there was
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  like, wow, that moment may have been a flash in the pan, but
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  that was really cool. And then there's other elements
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  of it where you're like, this isn't good baseball and then
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  you're and then you kind of come up on the tail end of it and
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  you're like, all right, well, we've reached the end.
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  That was cool. And that that's kind of how I
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  felt throughout this game. It's kind of how I felt
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  throughout the whole postseason. It was just a very strange
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  collection of moments and. Super agree.
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  Super. Super.
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  Agree. The whole thing.
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  The whole thing. Like the entire thing is just
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  it's odd. So I think I said it last.
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  Pod. Like the The Diamondbacks
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  wouldn't even have been here if the Cubs didn't collapse the
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  last week of the season. And for this to turn into just
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  odd matchups. I mean, like the Twins somehow
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  like. Beating an anemic Blue Jays, The
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  Orioles being a complete flop. The Marlins sneaking in to,
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  like, steal our wild card opportunity and get just
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  dominated by the Phillies. Like the Dodgers to not be
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  themselves. It.
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  It was just a super weird Outside of the Astros performing
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  well and and always being in contention, nothing about this
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  postseason was normal. And I'm not saying it in like a
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  good way. I'm saying it in like, AI get I
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  I if I was to rate this entire postseason, including the World
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  Series, I'm giving it AC minus. And it's not like, I know
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  there's probably some people like, oh, it's because the
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  Yankees weren't in it. No, that's not why.
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  It was the fact that, like, it's like you said, it's just this
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  weird collection of lopsided games.
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  Interesting moments. But nothing like super like Grab
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  the public kind of thing. No one cared about this.
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  Yeah, it it was tough. Well, like I said or I feel,
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  still feel like we're getting ahead of ourselves.
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  We'll look at like the big picture here in a little bit.
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  But specifically this series I believe.
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  If I do recall, I had Rangers in five.
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  Sure did. Sure did because I just felt
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  like an 84 D backs, 84 win D backs team was not going to be
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  the team that pushed this to six or seven.
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  And I'll admit like I did pose the question I believe maybe
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  last episode where I'm like is there a scenario where this
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  doesn't go six or seven just because of the way that the
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  first couple games it went. Going back to that point about
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  this being a series of just weird like roller coaster, like
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  wow, the Rangers really shined their wow.
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  The D backs are playing their brand of baseball, so like just
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  back and forth. So I'm like on paper this 84 win
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  D backs team should not be any any degree of a threat to this
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  Rangers team. But I I don't know.
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  But when I had to make a decision, when I had to say.
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  When I had to put pen to paper and say what is this series
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  going, I said 5 and sure enough, I think the Rangers showed why
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  they probably had no concern that this was going to go beyond
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  four or five. Yeah, I don't even want to talk
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  about game four, by the way. Like that was just, I don't
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  think there's anything to really cover there.
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  All right, well, then we'll go to game three.
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  Let's talk Let's let's just. I mean we we our last episode
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  was after game two so we we have yet to cover 3-4 and five.
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  We don't need. I mean there's literally no
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  sense in going in and like breaking down the statistics of
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  each game but just taking away bits and pieces from each to
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  really kind of put a bow on this to show like how we got here so
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  on and so forth. Game three was the Max Scherzer
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  appearance. Looks OK Looks, I mean, looked
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  pretty good. He gave you 3 innings.
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  He gets hit. Do we?
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  I'll be honest with you. I looked around and I couldn't
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  find an answer as to where he got hit from that comebacker.
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  Was it in the back? I mean, I I would assume so
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  because they said back. Like tightness is why?
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  Well, I I didn't know if that was just a separate thing
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  altogether, which I would not have surprised me in the least
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  if Scherzer's back just all of a sudden decided to tighten up and
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  give him an issue. But sorry, they're showing the
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  the champagne all ready to go. Sucker for champagne showers,
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  for sure. I was thinking about that the
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  other day. I'm like just once.
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  Just once. I would love to.
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  Like I don't even. Doesn't even have to be anything
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  related to me. I just want to be in there to to
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  see what that experience is like.
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  One day, one day, soon enough, we'll be in there.
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  But yeah, the Max Scherzer appearance gave you what I think
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  most people are probably expecting.
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  A few innings. He was able to minimize the
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  damage. P Fat on the other hand, not as
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  sharp. He went a little deeper though.
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  5 and a third. But they the the Rangers were
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  able to rebound from that do in great part to John Gray.
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  What he was able to do, he gives you 3 innings and then you flip
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  it over to the the pen. That's been so, or that was so
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  brilliant for you. I mean spores.
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  Chapman, Leclerc. And Speaking of Chapman, tip of
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  the cap never had that moment really.
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  I mean, maybe what's? That was that in the Times?
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  Where he got out, he got that big double play.
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  What was that game? Yes, with secret.
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  He like, worked his way into a jam, right?
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  Chapman worked his way into a jam.
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  I think he walked the first guy and then there was a single He
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  had like first and second with no outs.
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  I think. I think so to double play or no,
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  I think there was. Didn't that end the inning, I
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  thought. I thought he got pulled after
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  that. I thought he got 2 outs and then
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  got pulled. But I could be wrong.
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  I don't know, blending all these games together.
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  But yeah, I mean like you started to feel, dude, if you
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  were to tell me that Chapman would have two rings in the last
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  seven years and the Yankees would have none, I would have.
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  I would have told you you were crazy.
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  I would have told you you were crazy.
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  You know how hard that is to see, Yeah.
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  Still, job well done and well, I mean, it's a, it's an
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  interesting point because like throughout this game, I mean
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  throughout the series, but specifically this game, you
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  know, as the broadcast team starts to sense like, OK, this
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  thing is wrapping up Visit, we're calling this a season.
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  You know they start to pan to different guys and they start
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  you know sharing little little tidbits about this or that kind
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  of building the narrative a little bit.
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  Yeah, they they're paying into guys like Jacob degrom and
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  Aroldis Chapman and guys like that.
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  And I'm just like it. Even Austin Hedges.
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  I saw Austin Hedges faces a number of times on there and I'm
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  like, you know, that's that's the beauty of baseball.
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  And people can. People can talk down about that
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  aspect of the game to where the roster size can only create
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  situations like this where you have a guy like Aroldis Chapman
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  who at times has just been atrocious having two rings to
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  his name and a team like the Yankees since 2009 having none.
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  It's insane. It's just, it's crazy.
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  But you know, for a team like the Rangers, for a team, any
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  team in a situation or scenario where they're about to and
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  eventually win a World Series, you you have to have a
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  collection of guys who at one point or another step up and
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  have their moment. And we're talking about it
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  before we hopped on a guy like Josh Boers, a guy I grew up
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  playing travel ball with, who coincidentally had the what was
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  on the on the bump for the final out, which was just awesome to
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  see. I think he went two and a third
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  tonight, which was, you know, tip of the cap to him.
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  And I'm super pumped for that guy.
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  But he was ask, ask Dodgers fans, man, he was booed out of
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  LA. They go on Twitter.
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  They had nothing nice to say about him.
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  Right. And then you got Rangers fans
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  even at certain. You got like guys like Heaney
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  too. I mean, Heaney has had a really
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  up and down career. That's what I'm saying, man.
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  It's just a it's it's a funny game that way, which zooming out
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  a little bit, talking a little bit.
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  Big picture here. It's why the ring narrative or
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  the ring, the the conversation surrounding rings doesn't really
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  move the needle for me because it's like it so much of it can
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  just be happenstance. I mean, look at Jacob degrom.
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  Do you Do you honestly think if you were to have a conversation
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  with Jacob degrom right now that he would be truly fulfilled with
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  the way he's getting this ring? No, I would, I would say that's
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  like the Acuna. With the Braves.
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  Right. It's it's like, I'm no doubt
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  that the ring is going to be bright as ever, regardless how
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  like how much or how little you you contribute.
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  If you're getting a ring. It's a ring.
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  I'm not. I'm not talking down on that.
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  But I'm sure you'd rather been healthy.
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  Yeah. But you know, it's I, I think it
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  just hits a little bit different.
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  But like I said, I think that's the beauty of of all of this is
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  there's just so many different stories, so many different
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  career trajectories that all lead, that lead all of these
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  guys to this very moment. And once the dust settles, you
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  got a collection of of Texas Rangers who are going to be
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  walking away with the ring and that.
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  I mean, that's a cool thing to see.
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  Yeah. So we're skipping Game four,
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  right? Because that was just that was
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  lame. Game 5 well I the the one thing
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  I did want to bring up about game four and I think it was
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  honestly made a bigger deal than I I thought it would be coming
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  into today's game. Like I I still feel like there
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  was some remnants of of that discussion.
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  But the move by Bruce Bocci to bring in Jose Leclerc to get the
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  final out, did you have any particular any strong thoughts
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  on that by chance? Because when I saw it, I'm like
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  good for Boach man. Like shutting the door, not
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  giving these guy, not giving these D backs any momentum.
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  I mean they were able to tack on two against the clerk but I
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  don't even, I don't even know if those were his.
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  I don't think those were his. I think those are inherited.
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  Here's here's exactly what I said, 'cause we were passing out
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  candy over at Paige's parents house and.
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  Her dad had the game up on on the iPad in the in the driveway.
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  So we're watching that while we're passing out candy.
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  And I told him, I said at a certain point this game will
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  turn into the Diamondbacks. Just trying to get something
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  going for tomorrow, like get get feeling good in the box, get
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  some momentum heading into tomorrow.
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  If you're lucky to climb back into this thing, like, great.
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  But let's just try to have quality a BS that we can carry
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  into tomorrow. That's the mentality there.
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  So to bring it back to your point, the big boss move from
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  Hall of Famer Bruce Bocci saying no, you're not going to do that.
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  I'm not going to let you get good a BS in.
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  I'm going to end your night now and like you said, yeah maybe a
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  couple runs but still like he's been, he's been nails this post
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  season run into a couple hiccups.
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  But overall like we don't want to give these guys comfortable a
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  BS. To just stroll in tomorrow and
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  and stay hot. So that's a baller move.
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  To me, that's a baller move. Bruce Bocce is is the real
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  freaking deal. Yeah, and like I I posted that.
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  I posted that meme today, which I thought was hilarious.
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  I I would give credit. I don't know who made it, but I
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  it was just floating around. But it was in response to that,
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  to that decision and it was a side by side headshot of Kevin
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  Cash and Bruce Bocci on the left.
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  You have Kevin. No, I got it.
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  I I, I, I have to do this justice.
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  I can't, I'm not going to miss misquote it here, but I'm like
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  this is just the perfect encapsulation of what I'm
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  talking about with just at certain times knowing when to go
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  with your gut. So it was a picture of Kevin
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  Cash like crying and he said we need to make sure we're throwing
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  rested relievers because our closers X woe Bacon is 1.3%
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  higher when pitching back-to-back days and has
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  allowed a .4 degree higher launch angle to the third
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  batter. And then a picture on the left
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  is just a picture of Bruce Bocci smile and he says it's time for
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  Jose Leclerc to pitch lol. And I'm like, I'm like that's
• 23:51
  what I'm saying. Sometimes just need to go with
• 23:53
  your gut And I think the the decision to bring him in and
• 23:57
  like you said, not give them good looks, good ABS and just
• 24:04
  solidifying the win. Because we all know at this at
• 24:08
  this time like the post season is when a win means that much
• 24:13
  more like you're not trying to be strategic, you need to lock
• 24:17
  down a win, even if that means playing out of your playing out
• 24:23
  of your plan. And I'm sure Bruce Bochy's plan
• 24:25
  was not to go to Leclerc up six but he said you know what, the D
• 24:30
  backs are starting to string a little something together.
• 24:32
  Let's put an end to this right now.
• 24:34
  And the biggest thing for me is, OK, you bring him in, he, you
• 24:39
  know he's going to close it down.
• 24:41
  Regard even if he gave up a couple more, they're going to
• 24:43
  get the win. And at that point you're going
• 24:45
  to be up 3 to 1. So what if he can't go to in
• 24:49
  game five? He didn't go in game five and
• 24:51
  look what happened and say you drop Game 5.
• 24:55
  You play for, you play for that night, you don't play for
• 24:57
  tomorrow. That's what I'm saying.
• 24:59
  So that was my biggest take away from game.
• 25:01
  Four, I guess. I mean, yeah, I think my take
• 25:03
  away with the with the Diamondbacks and I think it's
• 25:05
  just the opposite. We talked about it last episode.
• 25:08
  I think it. Is going to start a trend of
• 25:12
  getting former players into the front office and Chris Young
• 25:15
  being the GM and making this hire for Bruce Bocci to be able
• 25:19
  to Hey, here's a script, here's what we found.
• 25:22
  But you're a Hall of Famer, so if you need to adjust, you make
• 25:25
  adjustments on the fly. And only players understand that
• 25:29
  when front office nerds get involved, you see what you saw
• 25:32
  with the Diamondbacks yesterday. You saw Man Supply.
• 25:35
  Coming out hot, looking good. But stick to this grip.
• 25:38
  Let's move on to the next guy and then eventually that
• 25:40
  implodes. It's just the difference between
• 25:43
  the two and and I think that we have now for multitude of
• 25:50
  reasons and we'll probably get into this deeper into the
• 25:53
  offseason. But I think you're starting to
• 25:56
  get the feel back to baseball. You're starting to get guts back
• 26:01
  to baseball. There's a reason why these old
• 26:03
  managers. Are coming back and getting
• 26:05
  jobs. Still, there's a reason for
• 26:08
  that. The league isn't full of just
• 26:11
  Aaron Boones yes men. It's got older guys coming back
• 26:15
  and having a combination of both.
• 26:18
  So I'd love to see a trend. I know we laughed about Gabe
• 26:22
  Kapler having AGM opening possible with the with the Red
• 26:27
  Sox was it? I know we laughed about that.
• 26:30
  But think about what that does is getting.
• 26:33
  Players into that seat and understanding all aspects to it.
• 26:37
  So I think the freaking Rangers just nailed it.
• 26:42
  And I don't know, man, it's that's a big gut punch, no
• 26:46
  matter how how you made the game somewhat manageable.
• 26:49
  Was it 11-5? How it ended?
• 26:52
  Whatever, 11/7 they they attacked on those two against
• 26:55
  the clerk finish game 11/7. I don't think.
• 26:59
  I don't think. Yeah, that doesn't do it for me.
• 27:01
  That was not, by the way. That's a way worse.
• 27:03
  Game than that score. Oh yeah, I was just about to say
• 27:06
  I don't care what the score is at the end.
• 27:07
  That was not an 11 to 7 game. No, by no means.
• 27:13
  Tonight I think my takeaways for tonight for game five.
• 27:20
  Excellent pitching by two vets. Nathan Yavaldi.
• 27:28
  Big game Name that man. Is a straight baller.
• 27:34
  That man is a straight baller. I have mad respect for that
• 27:38
  dude. He's done it in different unis.
• 27:41
  He's done it in different scenarios.
• 27:44
  He's taking hard LS like he just is a true pros pro.
• 27:50
  That was gutsy tonight. Gutsy.
• 27:56
  Getting out of jams like that was absurd.
• 28:01
  I don't know how many left on. Let me see how many left on he
• 28:04
  bent. But he didn't break, and that's
• 28:06
  what he did this whole postseason.
• 28:08
  And I I genuinely believe that everybody in that clubhouse, and
• 28:15
  probably most Rangers fans watching, had little to no
• 28:22
  concern about their chances in Game five with him on the mound.
• 28:27
  Yeah. Don't know if I can find how
• 28:31
  many were left on. Quite a few, though, I think.
• 28:37
  Oh, that's the Rangers. Arizona Diamondbacks left 11,
• 28:48
  left 11 on base tonight. That's bad.
• 28:57
  The I think the one run deficit was I wasn't quite nailing in
• 29:05
  the I wasn't nailing it in yet the way you were.
• 29:08
  I thought there was still like some good energy from the crowd.
• 29:12
  I thought that there could maybe be a little something showing
• 29:15
  they they brought it. I'll give them credit even like
• 29:18
  I I think even D backs fans, even though they were at home, I
• 29:23
  think they were feeling the heat.
• 29:24
  Like, yeah. Oh, everybody was done here.
• 29:31
  Everybody was done here. For sure.
• 29:32
  But I'll give them, I'll give them credit, man.
• 29:34
  They they were there. Yeah.
• 29:35
  And the one? Nothing, I think, you know, I
• 29:37
  mean, that's that's one swing, right?
• 29:39
  Like one swing from anybody in that lineup.
• 29:41
  We've seen it plenty of times. It can happen.
• 29:45
  Look, Alec Thomas letting that ball squirt through.
• 29:51
  I understand it didn't end up mattering that much.
• 29:56
  But the gut punch? Of letting two more in as a as a
• 30:05
  player. You have no throw.
• 30:10
  Why are you coming up do or die like that?
• 30:14
  Why are you coming in that hot? You don't have a play anywhere.
• 30:19
  Do you got nowhere to go there? I don't know who was on 1st, but
• 30:26
  they're going first to third, no problem.
• 30:33
  I just don't understand why he's busting it in that hard on a
• 30:36
  baseball that that to me that was absolutely the nail for
• 30:40
  sure. I think the obvious nail, but
• 30:43
  it's just it's a gut punch of being down one.
• 30:48
  Maybe my guy can work out of this and maybe we carry that
• 30:52
  momentum over offensively. To down three and it's it's at
• 31:04
  that point, irreversible. It's not a good play.
• 31:08
  It took me back to Trent Grisham to the seats I was in, watching
• 31:14
  that game live in person. I see the ball squirt through.
• 31:17
  I said this game's over because it's not like the.
• 31:24
  I mean, it's a mental mistake that, well, it's a blessing and
• 31:28
  a curse, depending upon obviously, which side of the
• 31:32
  ball you're you're on. But a play like that, in the
• 31:37
  postseason in particular, it doesn't matter how consequential
• 31:44
  the play may be in the box score or even for the mojo in the
• 31:50
  clubhouse or in in the dugout. Something like that can either
• 31:56
  put the fans right back into the game or take them completely
• 32:01
  out, depending, again depending upon which side of the ball
• 32:03
  you're on, where you're playing. But that play right there, even
• 32:08
  if the the D backs would have been capable to to answer the
• 32:12
  following half inning with you know a a three spot or four spot
• 32:16
  it, once you lose the the energy in that ballpark it's done.
• 32:20
  And I think that's why you can easily say that that was the
• 32:22
  obvious nail. And that's, I mean, he couldn't
• 32:25
  get, you couldn't get any, you couldn't string anything
• 32:30
  together. So down one already feels like a
• 32:33
  hurdle. Anything more than that, just
• 32:39
  nothing else going on. My other takeaways I I just
• 32:45
  think there's an obvious obvious.
• 32:50
  Lopsided difference in roster depth.
• 32:55
  I think the depth of the Rangers roster versus the Diamondbacks
• 33:01
  and you bring a name up like, like Tommy Pham, I'll put my
• 33:08
  hand up mad respect in a in a heck of a postseason
• 33:12
  performance. Not tonight, but overall, like a
• 33:16
  really, really good postseason. But that's that's your guy.
• 33:29
  And Tommy Pham has been a role player his entire career, and
• 33:34
  you're telling me that all of a sudden he's got to be part of
• 33:38
  the order, show up every time. Like that's who you're banking
• 33:42
  on. And no disrespect to Tommy Pham,
• 33:45
  because again, like it. I didn't like the guy before.
• 33:47
  I don't know if I'd like him at all, but I will say he
• 33:50
  performed. But either way that's not the.
• 33:55
  I think when you go into the season you're breaking camp.
• 33:59
  If you were to tell me that, hey, we're going to we're going
• 34:01
  to lose the last game of the year with Tommy Pham as our DH,
• 34:06
  like that's not what you're really hoping for.
• 34:08
  I don't care who you are. Don't tell me that that's the
• 34:11
  that's plan A. You know, there's just there
• 34:14
  wasn't a ton of depth. Evan Longoria being pinch hit
• 34:18
  for for for Paven Smith. Paven Smith.
• 34:24
  I mean Evan Longoria. I don't like that pinch hit at
• 34:28
  all, by the way. I hate that pinch hit.
• 34:31
  I hate that pinch hit. I don't care about.
• 34:34
  Righty, righty. I don't care.
• 34:36
  I understand. But that's what I'm telling.
• 34:38
  I'm. I'm just saying there's there's
• 34:39
  a lack of depth they had. They had a good performance all
• 34:43
  around. Certain guys showed up at
• 34:45
  certain times. They're ahead of schedule.
• 34:48
  Whatever. Like things you want to say
• 34:50
  about the Diamondbacks. You can throw those positives at
• 34:52
  them, and I'm cool with that. But they're just they're not.
• 34:56
  They weren't deep. They weren't deep.
• 34:58
  And and when your season is hanging in the balance by
• 35:02
  certain names like that and Christian Walker doesn't, you
• 35:06
  know, do what Christian Walker does during the regular season.
• 35:08
  You have other guys that you know it's nice and and you
• 35:11
  expect them to step up. But like a.
• 35:13
  A Guriel and a Tommy Pham, they're role players.
• 35:17
  They're 4th outfielders. No matter how well they perform
• 35:20
  this, this postseason that they can't be your your engine, you
• 35:27
  know what I'm saying? Like they just they they needed
• 35:30
  a couple more sticks. They needed a little bit more
• 35:32
  Bop in that lineup. Look man they were a scrappy
• 35:37
  team and they're romantic team like it.
• 35:40
  It's easy to fall in love with a A-Team like that.
• 35:43
  I mean regardless how you may feel about the postseason format
• 35:47
  you got an 84 win Diamondbacks team who's you know they're
• 35:52
  embracing the chaos as they say the snake's alive.
• 35:55
  You got. I mean I did.
• 35:58
  I I didn't mean to to throw a stray there at Longoria but you
• 36:02
  got guys like Longoria, Tommy Fam on the Corbin Carroll.
• 36:08
  Guys like that where you know like it.
• 36:12
  I I don't want to say misfits, but like it's not exactly like a
• 36:16
  it's they're far from a juggernaut.
• 36:18
  So it's easy to fall in fall in love with a team like that.
• 36:21
  But when you go up against a seasoned team like the Rangers
• 36:26
  with just dudes with dogs. Especially when it comes time
• 36:30
  for the postseason, when the lights of October turn on, when
• 36:34
  you got, when you got Nathan Iavaldi going in a clinching
• 36:40
  game. I'm sorry, the the romanticism
• 36:45
  of it runs out. It really does.
• 36:48
  And you know, like I I think for baseball, I think this is good.
• 36:58
  Personally speaking, I'm sure there'd be plenty of people that
• 37:01
  disagree. But I'm glad to see a team like
• 37:05
  the Rangers who have gone out, they've developed, they've spent
• 37:11
  the money, they've put themselves in a position to do
• 37:15
  what they just did tonight and they go out and do it.
• 37:19
  I'm glad A-Team like that can still reign mighty once the
• 37:26
  calendar flips in to November versus A-Team like the D backs
• 37:31
  where it's like you got the rest of we talked about this all the
• 37:34
  time dude. You got the you got the rest of
• 37:36
  the league look looking around going you know I mean at at the
• 37:40
  D backs can do it like we can. Let's let's try and model this
• 37:44
  thing after what they're doing. We don't need to spend the
• 37:46
  money. And I'm telling you if you're
• 37:48
  listening to this, believe us it's you don't want baseball
• 37:54
  going down that road. You the the rest of the
• 37:56
  organizations outside of the team like the D backs the Rays
• 38:00
  teams like that. You don't want them following
• 38:02
  that model. We're already said they talked
• 38:05
  about it plenty with the starting pitching and just the
• 38:08
  way especially in in in October the the outings get shorter you
• 38:13
  you long for the days when you had a guy multiple guys in a
• 38:18
  rotation that could go they could give you 7 no problem.
• 38:21
  Yeah, but we're already starting to see the trajectory of that
• 38:25
  where it's like, OK, guys are having to to build their stardom
• 38:29
  as a starter in the postseason, in four innings or less.
• 38:34
  It's like if they can give you a five, it's like, my God, how did
• 38:38
  this happen? What a hero.
• 38:39
  It's like it didn't used to be that way.
• 38:41
  And I'm not. I'm not here to say like, well,
• 38:43
  back in my day, but like, let's just take a look around and and
• 38:47
  acknowledge that a guy like Ivaldi, who can give you 6/7,
• 38:52
  maybe even 8, if you let him go long enough in the postseason,
• 38:55
  he can do that. And I'm just glad that a team,
• 38:58
  like I said, a team like the Rangers, did what they did.
• 39:00
  And you can go further into, like you talked about
• 39:03
  development and scouting and when you're talking about like
• 39:06
  big pieces of a homegrown Jonah Heim and a homegrown Josh Young
• 39:12
  and then just like a combination of that with smart free agent
• 39:17
  moves with smart trades. You know, Evan Carter.
• 39:23
  I like, just like the the understanding that and Evan
• 39:28
  Carter being being fresh out of. And I mean sports, same thing
• 39:33
  fresh out of the minor leagues. And to be able to step in into a
• 39:36
  big role in the postseason because he need it.
• 39:39
  They just had like the perfect construction of all these
• 39:44
  things. It's a really, really job well
• 39:46
  done. And you're right, this is the
• 39:49
  model. This is what you have to follow.
• 39:53
  You can't just buy, You can't just grow.
• 39:57
  You can't just analyze your way through this.
• 40:00
  You need a combination of all things and that's what you saw
• 40:04
  out of this team and it was a really good team that maybe hit
• 40:09
  a pretty big skid mark in the second-half of the year but
• 40:14
  decided to turn it on and got hot.
• 40:16
  So we're it's not just a a lucky team that got hot at the right
• 40:20
  time. This is a good team that had
• 40:22
  adversity that then got hot at the right time and had the depth
• 40:27
  to carry it. Texas Rangers, I applaud you
• 40:32
  head to toe the entire organization.
• 40:35
  It's a job well done. I mean, people forget this was a
• 40:40
  team that I don't have an exact date, but what was it like
• 40:45
  halfway through the year? We're talking about a runaway
• 40:49
  Pennant winner, yeah. And then like you said, they hit
• 40:52
  a law because you remember, you go back to the first month of
• 40:55
  season we're talking, we're talking this way about the Rays.
• 41:00
  And then as as the law of averages would have it, they
• 41:02
  fizzle out. They kind of come back down to
• 41:04
  earth. But the Rangers just stayed
• 41:06
  steady and just kept getting better.
• 41:09
  Kept playing good ball, added pieces when they needed to.
• 41:13
  Brought guys in for the right opportunities to get them ready
• 41:16
  for this, this time of year. It's just it's it's a beautiful
• 41:24
  thing. It to see, to see over the
• 41:28
  course of a 162. We all know that this is a long,
• 41:33
  long year. You even texted me tonight
• 41:36
  before the game even ended. You're like, dude, I'm I'm, I'm
• 41:41
  done. And I and I said the same thing.
• 41:43
  I'm like, I get it, dude. Like I for our sakes, I hope the
• 41:48
  Rangers. I'm I'm I'm thinking to myself I
• 41:51
  hope for our sakes of Rangers and this tonight because I just
• 41:54
  it would be just a nice way to put a bow on it.
• 41:56
  We don't have to sit through another another travel day we
• 41:59
  can just wrap this thing up because we know this is where
• 42:01
  this is headed. Like this was going to be a
• 42:04
  Rangers win. We as talking about the the
• 42:08
  series as a whole. We didn't need to push this to
• 42:11
  6/7, it was just. It was just nice to see a team,
• 42:17
  like we said, develop, make additions and take their lumps
• 42:26
  over the course of a 162 and like it.
• 42:29
  Like I was talking about Ivaldi. The team as a whole, they bent
• 42:34
  but they didn't break and here we are.
• 42:42
  Super impressive, dude. Super, super impressive.
• 42:46
  Speaking about a lull, let's we don't have to end on a negative
• 42:55
  note, but let's just address the elephant in the room here.
• 42:58
  We you kind of alluded to it a little bit.
• 43:01
  The ratings surrounding this World Series, they came out
• 43:07
  after game one and said that it was the the lowest.
• 43:13
  Or the the least watched game one I think ever.
• 43:18
  Is that what they said? Ever?
• 43:19
  I saw two and three as well, so. Right.
• 43:22
  And then as the as the series went on we go, we we come to
• 43:26
  find out that oh this is just the least watched World Series
• 43:29
  of all time. And it's hard to imagine because
• 43:32
  like, I think the worst World Series was that 05 World Series
• 43:39
  White Sox. White Sox?
• 43:40
  Yeah, Astros are still in the NL.
• 43:43
  It was horrendous. It was a horrible.
• 43:46
  Yeah, but yeah, you also have to think about and and people.
• 43:49
  People forget about this when when talking about it in today's
• 43:52
  game. You didn't have the same number
• 43:56
  of entertainment outlets back in 2005 as you do now.
• 44:00
  Like people, You really got a. You really got to fight for the
• 44:04
  viewers attention, yeah? Or the consumer as a whole,
• 44:12
  because they may not even be watching something necessarily.
• 44:14
  They they, they may be out doing something that's not.
• 44:17
  It's not just the assumption that everybody's watching their
• 44:20
  TV on our Friday night now like people are.
• 44:22
  They're out doing stuff. Here's my beautiful argument.
• 44:25
  I'm going to. Here's my silver lining.
• 44:27
  I'm going to. Save this episode.
• 44:28
  Are you ready? I'm going to save us from this
• 44:30
  negativity. Let's hear it.
• 44:34
  Baseball can't push teams into the playoffs the way the NFL
• 44:39
  does. You have to play.
• 44:43
  You have to throw. You got to hit.
• 44:46
  Don't have any penalties to keep Taylor Swift showing up to
• 44:51
  games. That's right.
• 44:55
  I said it. You can't script baseball, baby.
• 45:00
  That's why we're untouchable. That's why we're untouchable.
• 45:05
  Everyone says the NFL is the best sport in the world, and
• 45:09
  everyone says that football saves all.
• 45:13
  Well, guess what? Not anymore.
• 45:17
  Not anymore. You've been you've been hacked.
• 45:20
  You've been hacked. Let's be real.
• 45:22
  You've been hacked. Hacked by the Worst Generation
• 45:26
  and I don't care. I don't care about your viewers.
• 45:29
  I don't care about how many viewers you do.
• 45:31
  You have and we don't. I don't care.
• 45:34
  At least our games are legit and this proves that.
• 45:38
  Two unlikely teams with pretty small fan bases compared to
• 45:44
  other places. We're not fixed.
• 45:49
  There ain't no script here, baby.
• 45:52
  How's that for a silver lining? Suck at NBA?
• 45:57
  Suck at NFL credit to you. Credit to you.
• 46:00
  But the fact remains that. Like how?
• 46:05
  Like how is the OR the question I should I should say The
• 46:08
  question remains how is this the like?
• 46:13
  I get it, but I don't. I don't get it.
• 46:16
  Because I get it. There's got to be a way that
• 46:18
  they can't count viewers. There has to be a way of that.
• 46:21
  I'm logged into like 14 different TV's with my YouTube
• 46:25
  TV account, so I probably just count as one.
• 46:28
  And I'm going to say that I'm not the only one that's playing
• 46:31
  that game, so. Well, you got the other people.
• 46:36
  What is it? What's that thing?
• 46:40
  I don't, I don't necessarily use them, but I hear about them all
• 46:42
  the time. Is it the VPNs or something?
• 46:44
  Yeah, yeah, they got like the yeah, the jail, the jailbreak.
• 46:48
  Yeah, like weird stuff like that.
• 46:49
  I don't. I don't know what all goes into
• 46:51
  that. But yeah, shut up like I was.
• 46:53
  Shut up. Mom and Rob, they're, they're
• 46:55
  Rob. They're down the jailbreak.
• 46:57
  Yeah. Holding it down, it got the
• 46:59
  little buffer, little spinning wheel every, every fourth pitch.
• 47:04
  No. But like I said, I I get it
• 47:08
  based on the two teams that went up against one another in this
• 47:12
  thing. Sure.
• 47:14
  I get it. Based on the point I just made
• 47:17
  about there being entertainment outlets outside of sports, even
• 47:23
  that other You're losing that attention.
• 47:27
  You're losing that, that that piece of the pie, Yeah.
• 47:31
  Compared to a World Series like 2005.
• 47:34
  But on the flip side, I even with that, I just don't get it
• 47:39
  dude. I think we also got to argue
• 47:40
  like, I it's it's time to open up the rights.
• 47:45
  How many people don't have, how many people just have like
• 47:48
  Netflix and Amazon. How many people don't have
• 47:51
  cable? How many people don't have
• 47:53
  access to Fox. So I I think that has to change
• 47:58
  too. I'm not.
• 47:58
  I'm not going to sit here and blame baseball for the lack of
• 48:01
  viewers. I'm not going to sit here and
• 48:02
  blame the match up either. I'm going to blame just the way
• 48:06
  society is now and it's fine by me.
• 48:10
  You can throw all these stats at me of how games were quicker and
• 48:13
  attendance was up and overall, we're having new fans watch the
• 48:18
  game. I don't care.
• 48:20
  I don't care. It doesn't matter.
• 48:22
  I'm not going anywhere. You're not going anywhere.
• 48:24
  No one listening to this is going anywhere.
• 48:26
  True baseball fans will watch. True baseball fans will show up.
• 48:30
  Your baseball fans will find a way to see it.
• 48:33
  So I don't. I don't look too much into the
• 48:37
  viewership. I'm not too worried about it.
• 48:40
  Yeah, I mean the reality of it is, is like you, and this may
• 48:45
  not make sense to to most people, but in my head it makes
• 48:49
  sense. And hopefully you agree you're
• 48:51
  you're not going to grow the game in October.
• 48:55
  No, you grow the game in the 162, yeah.
• 48:59
  Leading up to the postseason, because you have all 30 teams
• 49:03
  playing, you have every one of your superstars that are
• 49:07
  healthy, obviously contributing to the movement, to the growth,
• 49:11
  to the viewership, because they're out there doing their
• 49:15
  thing six days out of the week. October is.
• 49:23
  Honestly, just at the end of the day, A roll of the dice.
• 49:26
  If you're in Major League Baseball's front office, it's
• 49:29
  really just A roll of the dice and saying we did what we
• 49:33
  thought was best for this game and the growth of it March
• 49:39
  through September. Now you just kind of at this
• 49:42
  point you have to roll the dice and hope that you get a show.
• 49:45
  Hey in there somehow that you get.
• 49:48
  You get the Yankees. You get an exciting team like
• 49:51
  the Phillies in there to to draw these bigger markets in to
• 49:56
  create moments like a a Bryce Harper bat flip stare down
• 50:01
  something like that to then you can build to to then, which you
• 50:04
  can build off of in October. But if you if, if you roll the
• 50:09
  dice and you come up with Texas and Arizona.
• 50:14
  You're at the mercy of the way that the games go, because you
• 50:17
  can't bank on there being any star power.
• 50:20
  You can't bank on there being any electrifying moments.
• 50:24
  There could be and there were at times.
• 50:26
  But you can't bank on that. And I I know viewership's down,
• 50:28
  but I'm going to, I'm going to be honest with you and say just
• 50:31
  like being at the office and and Co workers that just don't know
• 50:34
  baseball are talking about it or or watching, you know, And yeah,
• 50:40
  Phoenix size wise, I think it's a pretty good sized city.
• 50:44
  But there's no real Diamondbacks fans outside of Arizona.
• 50:48
  So you know, you're not getting a huge fan base, but you are
• 50:52
  getting new fans. I think there were, there were
• 50:55
  new fans, people that were asking about it and intrigued by
• 50:59
  and probably learning new names and seeing guys for the first
• 51:03
  time. Is this the first time you know
• 51:05
  them watching their team? So I'm not at all shook by the
• 51:10
  viewership. I'm just, I think like you, like
• 51:13
  our negativity was in the beginning.
• 51:14
  It was just it was the match up and you know, it was a nice
• 51:19
  story of what the Diamondbacks were doing.
• 51:23
  It's just there were better teams in the postseason that
• 51:29
  that kind of didn't get here. I would have been absolutely
• 51:37
  fine with Phillies. Rangers, That would have been
• 51:40
  ecstatic, would have been a heck of a World Series and probably a
• 51:45
  like a somewhat predictable World Series at certain points,
• 51:52
  like choosing that match up anyway.
• 51:53
  But I don't know. Right.
• 51:56
  I mean, look the I put out that graphic today.
• 52:01
  The Rangers path to a World Series title.
• 52:04
  You open up the wild card series against the 99 win Rays.
• 52:09
  You advance to the ALDS, which we were at.
• 52:11
  We witnessed. It wasn't pretty for the O's 101
• 52:16
  win. O's team, the ALDSAL CSA90 win,
• 52:22
  but seasoned and at many times successful in the postseason.
• 52:28
  Astros historic in the postseason.
• 52:32
  And then you match up against the 84 Win D backs and not to
• 52:38
  beat a dead horse, but like I I get it.
• 52:40
  That's the, that's the beauty of baseball is you can have a team.
• 52:45
  At least with the way that the current postseason is
• 52:48
  structured, you can have a team like the 84 Win D backs Make it
• 52:53
  in. You said it yourself.
• 52:55
  You have to play the games, you have to throw, you have to hit
• 52:58
  and they did that. They did it enough to get to
• 53:01
  this point in the season. But we we going back to not
• 53:07
  being surprised. Like you can't be surprised when
• 53:12
  the when the numbers come in, when the reports come in and say
• 53:16
  literally nobody's watching this World Series.
• 53:18
  We we just can't be surprised and we can't be naive to to.
• 53:25
  Like, try to fight it either. Like I saw so many people trying
• 53:30
  to defend the World Series. I'm like, let's just, let's
• 53:33
  let's call a spade a spade. This is not from an
• 53:37
  entertainment perspective. It's just not an entertaining
• 53:41
  World Series. It's not an entertaining match
• 53:43
  up like there's 00 bad blood between these two teams.
• 53:48
  I don't care what what narrative Fox Sports tries to build for
• 53:51
  me, right? You have a couple, a couple
• 53:54
  stars on a few stars on each team.
• 53:57
  Some more than others obviously. But All in all like this wasn't
• 54:00
  these weren't just like star-studded like woah man like
• 54:05
  you just you weren't getting that.
• 54:08
  You had some guy show out of course Corey Seeger Dulles
• 54:11
  Garcia guys like that. But like it's the Rangers and D
• 54:17
  backs like and and I go back to my my initial comment to open
• 54:21
  open things up like this was. All but gift wrapped for the
• 54:25
  Rangers I think if we're being honest looking back pretty much
• 54:29
  it just it seemed like it was a sure thing and I'm and I'm not
• 54:35
  going to sit here and say like that this somehow means less to
• 54:40
  the to the Rangers now like no, they're they they earned this
• 54:45
  thing. They they they rolled this year.
• 54:48
  I mean, they sure. I don't think it mattered.
• 54:50
  I don't think it mattered who they were going to face.
• 54:53
  I really didn't like offensively.
• 54:54
  It's just it's insane what they did.
• 54:59
  Absolutely insane. I'll just say this to to kind of
• 55:02
  put a bow on this element of the conversation while it while it
• 55:08
  had its moments this last week, this World Series just did not
• 55:14
  quite scratch the itch. Yeah, I I don't feel satisfied
• 55:19
  finishing the season this way. I'll say that.
• 55:24
  I'll say that. I would go ahead.
• 55:30
  I was just going to say I would honestly love to get a a Rangers
• 55:34
  fans take on this World Series. Like sure they're they're on
• 55:36
  Cloud 9 right now. Like just won the World Series.
• 55:39
  Put that aside and I just, I would love to know like their
• 55:44
  thought, like what their thoughts were.
• 55:47
  Like their perspective on this World Series, Like were they?
• 55:50
  Were they on the edge of their seat?
• 55:52
  Were they somewhat disappointed at the prospect of the
• 55:57
  entertainment value that would come from a matchup against the
• 56:00
  D backs, like where they may be hoping for somebody else?
• 56:03
  I I would just love to hear like, what's going through their
• 56:06
  minds, 'cause I I don't. It's just, it's so it's all just
• 56:10
  so random. I don't know.
• 56:11
  It's very random. Sorry.
• 56:13
  What were you going to say? Go ahead.
• 56:14
  I was going to say what what's more impressive, you predicting
• 56:18
  the outcome in games or me predicting the MVP?
• 56:29
  That's a close one. That's close.
• 56:33
  I mean, can I? I I know I'm going to sound
• 56:35
  extremely biased here, but I think, I genuinely think that
• 56:40
  games is the harder part of it. Especially I don't know, I, I I
• 56:46
  know people probably listen to this and go and.
• 56:49
  Like, which is it Kyle? Was it a shoo in for the Rangers
• 56:52
  or was this going 7? Because you can't really seem to
• 56:54
  make up your mind. But like I said, I had to choose
• 56:59
  five games before the series started.
• 57:00
  But after two games it's knotted up at 1 apiece and you're going
• 57:05
  crap, man. Both teams seem like they're
• 57:07
  playing their brand of baseball and they're doing it well.
• 57:09
  Like this very well could go six or seven.
• 57:14
  And then the Rangers, like, no, no, no, no.
• 57:15
  Like, we're going to put an end to that narrative real quick.
• 57:17
  We're going to play our brand of baseball and we're going to
• 57:19
  disrupt their brand of baseball, and we're going to walk to this
• 57:22
  in five. I feel like the games might be a
• 57:27
  little tougher, but like I said, it's it's either going to be
• 57:31
  the. It's either going to be an easy
• 57:33
  pick or just the most random Joe Blow like it's going to be a
• 57:37
  Steve Pierce 20, 18 scenario. I I agree you're probably.
• 57:42
  Right. So it's it's honestly kind of
• 57:44
  like a flip of the coin, but I think if credit stayed healthy,
• 57:47
  he probably would have taken it. I mean, that's baseball, though,
• 57:51
  man. Credit to you for for correctly
• 57:54
  picking it. It just seemed too easy.
• 57:56
  I'm like there's no sometimes it is the obvious one.
• 58:00
  That's what I'm saying. It's like, I can't go seeker,
• 58:02
  dude. There's no way he continues to
• 58:04
  just dominate. And what does he go out and do?
• 58:06
  What a stud, man. What a freaking stud.
• 58:08
  I'm so, so jealous. What?
• 58:12
  What was the stat we found before we hopped on the first, I
• 58:18
  think the first player to win M World Series MVP in both the
• 58:21
  leagues. Like ever.
• 58:23
  Yes, Second one to win multiple Reggie Jackson.
• 58:31
  And Reggie Jackson did it with the A's and the Yankees, both
• 58:35
  AL. So you're obviously doing it in
• 58:39
  both in two different teams. Those are only two guys.
• 58:41
  So super impressive. Super, super impressive.
• 58:45
  What a stud, man. Not to not to rehash this, I
• 58:51
  know we just put a bow on this, but you mentioned.
• 58:54
  Seeger's prior World Series and it made me think when I was
• 58:58
  looking at the results or like the data of the viewership, the
• 59:04
  viewership was higher during COVID.
• 59:07
  In a COVID 2020 season where people were literally like
• 59:12
  nothing in life matters anymore. But I guess I'll flip on a
• 59:16
  baseball game. And that had higher viewership.
• 59:22
  Then a completely normal season are completely revamped with the
• 59:28
  rules type season. Exciting narratives.
• 59:32
  Here's a here's maybe one of the factors here.
• 59:35
  Here's a factor 2 warm states. I watch the weather.
• 59:41
  Really bothers you, doesn't it? No, no, no.
• 59:43
  I'm not saying a bad thing. I'm saying a good way.
• 59:45
  Well, a reason for the viewers or lack of viewers, I think it's
• 59:50
  because two warm states, I watch one of the game on an outdoor
• 59:54
  bar with 300 people watching one screen that only counts as one.
• 1:00:00
  So I there's a lot of that and you're having that both in Texas
• 1:00:04
  and Arizona, people going out watching it together at bars and
• 1:00:10
  stuff like that and so. Yeah, but like, I couldn't make
• 1:00:14
  the argument that the bars inside and colder cities would
• 1:00:18
  have the same effect. No, because you only have so
• 1:00:21
  much space. Outdoor bar.
• 1:00:23
  This place was huge. It was an entire turf area, all
• 1:00:26
  with just hundreds of people. Yeah, but like, we just got
• 1:00:29
  done. I feel like we're running
• 1:00:30
  ourselves in circles here because we just got done talking
• 1:00:33
  about how there's no D backs fans.
• 1:00:34
  So, like, yeah, maybe. You know, the people were
• 1:00:36
  watching though. People were, it was for sure,
• 1:00:40
  happening around here, just like baseball fans in general.
• 1:00:43
  Maybe not. Like, yes, kind of.
• 1:00:46
  It's not like they were specifically Diamondbacks fans
• 1:00:48
  or they were that hard that like that die hard of fans.
• 1:00:53
  But they were watching and there were people here talking about
• 1:00:55
  it and there were people here going there, bunch of people
• 1:00:57
  asking me if I was going to go. So it was there was a buzz
• 1:01:02
  around here for sure. There was definitely a buzz.
• 1:01:04
  It's just like I said, it's just more people being out doing
• 1:01:10
  their own thing. I think cold weather states.
• 1:01:13
  You stay at home because it's all snowy and cold and you're
• 1:01:17
  not going to go sit in some sticky, stinky, tight little bar
• 1:01:23
  out here. It's spacious.
• 1:01:24
  Man, we got a lot of outdoor bars.
• 1:01:29
  That's my argument. I'm dying on that hill.
• 1:01:31
  That's fair. But to that point there, there's
• 1:01:36
  a lot of cold weather City fans that I don't care how cold it is
• 1:01:41
  outside, they're, they're passionate fan Northeast fans.
• 1:01:46
  Yeah, yeah. But like, look at all those fans
• 1:01:48
  that were sitting outside of the the the Plaza in Arlington.
• 1:01:53
  You know, all those people watching one screen.
• 1:01:58
  I don't know how we count those viewers.
• 1:02:01
  No, I'm with you. I'm with you on that.
• 1:02:02
  Sorry. I I guess, if I haven't made it
• 1:02:04
  clear already, I feel like my my my disapproval falls solely on
• 1:02:12
  the D backs fans, or lack thereof, like.
• 1:02:15
  Pretty much there's nobody, There's no die hards here.
• 1:02:18
  Yeah, even even today, people are walking around like, it
• 1:02:20
  would have been nice to win this thing.
• 1:02:22
  And I'm like, all right, hang on.
• 1:02:23
  Like it's not, not done. Done yet.
• 1:02:26
  Hold on, pump the brakes. Yeah, no, I get it.
• 1:02:31
  I get it. People moving.
• 1:02:32
  On to the Suns over here, because the Cardinals aren't
• 1:02:36
  worth a damn. So Speaking of which, I didn't
• 1:02:40
  realize Grayson Allen was on the Suns now.
• 1:02:42
  Yeah. Yeah, shout out Duke.
• 1:02:46
  Yeah, I'm not a fan personally, but hey, hey, he's he's come
• 1:02:51
  around, he's come. People just have blind, blind
• 1:02:55
  hatred towards that guy. He's a little dirty.
• 1:02:58
  A little dirty, he. He's grown.
• 1:02:59
  We've all grown. I I think most of us said.
• 1:03:02
  Most of us. Yeah, I don't know.
• 1:03:05
  He's the sun, though. He did the sun.
• 1:03:08
  Game one, it's not a Grace Allen podcast by any means, but I
• 1:03:15
  mean, it's fitting. We talk about the Suns because
• 1:03:18
  yeah, you can only talk about the D back so much because it's
• 1:03:22
  the D backs. No, but like, I don't want, I
• 1:03:25
  don't want to harp on them too much like credit to them.
• 1:03:27
  Like I said, they did what they had to do to get here.
• 1:03:30
  It was a it was a great story bright future.
• 1:03:34
  I I would be a hypocrite to sit here and like just talk all this
• 1:03:40
  noise on them. When I was the one of the two of
• 1:03:43
  us, I was probably more excited about the D backs coming into
• 1:03:46
  the season. Probably like a little bit in
• 1:03:49
  error, like I don't know if I should have been as excited
• 1:03:52
  about the D backs. I think it was, Yeah, it was the
• 1:03:54
  start to year a little. Blind, but yeah, a little bit of
• 1:03:58
  a little bit of chase. What is it by Oh, that's just
• 1:04:01
  mean to say a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a
• 1:04:04
  while. I don't think we can call it the
• 1:04:06
  Diamondbacks. Yeah, Squirrel, but there that
• 1:04:08
  was a. Maybe you it was a good team
• 1:04:10
  call. You a blind squirrel?
• 1:04:11
  That's true, yeah. I mean, although credits to me
• 1:04:16
  and I've got the receipts two years in a row now, I've
• 1:04:20
  correctly picked why are there balloons going off?
• 1:04:25
  What was that? Did you press that?
• 1:04:28
  Your hands are They weren't even near the computer.
• 1:04:31
  What was that? Where did those balloons come
• 1:04:35
  from? Does it know?
• 1:04:36
  It must know? We're recording Episode 400.
• 1:04:39
  It must know it. For those who aren't already get
• 1:04:43
  on YouTube. It's way better.
• 1:04:45
  That was so weird. What?
• 1:04:47
  Was that? I don't know.
• 1:04:48
  It's cool. Well, OK, let me let me retrace
• 1:04:52
  my steps. What did I say?
• 1:04:53
  I said Credit to me. Two years in a row doing
• 1:04:56
  something. Credit to me.
• 1:05:00
  I kind of want to get the balloons up again.
• 1:05:02
  That was cool. I don't know what I said to
• 1:05:03
  trigger that. I don't know.
• 1:05:04
  You said 2. Congratulations.
• 1:05:06
  Balloons. Two years in a row?
• 1:05:08
  Birthday balloons. I don't know.
• 1:05:12
  I don't. Know I don't credit.
• 1:05:15
  No. But two years in a row now I've
• 1:05:20
  correctly. There it is again.
• 1:05:23
  Whoa, what am I saying? Say two years in a row. 2 years
• 1:05:30
  in a row. There it is.
• 1:05:36
  What a random trigger, dude. Imagine you're sitting on like a
• 1:05:40
  job interview. Right now, say 50 years in a
• 1:05:43
  row, 50 years in a row. 1,000,000 years in a row?
• 1:05:52
  No balloons. It's only for two Imagine you're
• 1:05:55
  doing, like, a job interview on this thing.
• 1:05:57
  Like, yeah, you know, I I was at my last job for two years in a
• 1:06:00
  row. Balloons.
• 1:06:02
  What? Let me finish my point.
• 1:06:06
  Balloons. Last year, I said I was feeling
• 1:06:13
  the Phillies in spring training. That's true.
• 1:06:16
  They go on to the World Series this year.
• 1:06:18
  Take a little trip out to Chase Field get a little bit of the
• 1:06:22
  Phoenix vibes. I'm like you know what I kind of
• 1:06:24
  I'm kind of digging the D backs. You even said we I've mentioned
• 1:06:27
  before just this random D back club out of nowhere.
• 1:06:31
  Well, I must have been on to something so don't come to me if
• 1:06:35
  if you're looking for a National League pick to win the World
• 1:06:38
  Series, I'll give you I'll give you the National League pick to
• 1:06:41
  to get there. Just we'll we'll talk next
• 1:06:44
  March. Two years in a row.
• 1:06:46
  Two years in a row. I I don't get it.
• 1:06:51
  I don't get it. I don't know where these random
• 1:06:52
  balloons are coming from. I want them back.
• 1:06:54
  I want them back. Back-to-back years.
• 1:06:59
  Nothing. Correctly picked two years in a
• 1:07:02
  row. Still nothing.
• 1:07:06
  Nothing. That's weird.
• 1:07:07
  Something's going on anyway. Any other thoughts on this whole
• 1:07:15
  thing? I mean, we're you and I were
• 1:07:18
  talking. I don't really know like what
• 1:07:20
  the next few weeks are going to look like for us.
• 1:07:23
  We this is now our 191920212223. This is our 6th postseason doing
• 1:07:30
  this and I still can't remember how we go about the week.
• 1:07:36
  The two weeks immediately following the World Series, I
• 1:07:39
  don't know if we record, if we don't record.
• 1:07:42
  I don't remember what I had for lunch yesterday, so I we'll
• 1:07:45
  probably take a little bit of a breather.
• 1:07:50
  But where I was going with that is we'll do like a a more kind
• 1:07:54
  of like wrapping this whole season up thing.
• 1:07:58
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
• 1:07:59
  We'll have a big, we'll have a big recap.
• 1:08:01
  Yeah, we still have award season and all that coming up, which
• 1:08:05
  obviously will be based on the happenings of this year.
• 1:08:10
  So we're not, we're not completely done with 2023 yet,
• 1:08:12
  but I think for at least a little while we're maybe taking
• 1:08:16
  a little bit of a breather, we got you to the finish line.
• 1:08:21
  But All in all, any other? Any other takeaways from from
• 1:08:25
  this series? No.
• 1:08:30
  I think we dude, the game ended an hour and a half ago and we're
• 1:08:37
  just now getting to Tory Lavallo.
• 1:08:41
  I thought I saw that before. Am I behind?
• 1:08:46
  I thought I saw it before, but I could be wrong.
• 1:08:48
  I don't know. Is it a different press
• 1:08:49
  conference? Maybe it's just like a replay of
• 1:08:51
  the press conference, Tom Ferducci in the tunnel.
• 1:08:56
  No, he was sitting down for a presser, I think.
• 1:09:00
  I think he was little. He's.
• 1:09:01
  A little teary eyed. This is Varducci in the.
• 1:09:05
  I hate Varducci. Dude.
• 1:09:06
  Down underneath genuinely can't stand that guy.
• 1:09:10
  This is Weenie. Quite.
• 1:09:12
  This is quite the extensive post game coverage, man.
• 1:09:15
  The game ended an hour and a half ago and the man's still in
• 1:09:18
  his uniform. He's.
• 1:09:21
  Gonna sleep in it. I mean, I would.
• 1:09:24
  Well, maybe not if you. Lose.
• 1:09:26
  I don't know if I'm sleeping, dude.
• 1:09:27
  I don't know if I'm sleeping after this.
• 1:09:30
  It's a tough L It's a tough couple.
• 1:09:32
  LS. I mean, at least you're home.
• 1:09:36
  At least you don't get. To fly back, true.
• 1:09:39
  Also on that note, can we please just have a team win it at home
• 1:09:47
  one of these times? Come on SO.
• 1:09:51
  Much better. It's so much more fun, such a
• 1:09:55
  vibe when that happens. When was the last one was it?
• 1:10:00
  I mean, the last one I remember is the 13 Red Sox, but surely
• 1:10:04
  it's happened at least once in the last decade.
• 1:10:06
  Has to have happened. All right, let's go year by year
• 1:10:12
  here. 1414, what's the Giants that was in?
• 1:10:20
  No, that was in Kansas City, I thought.
• 1:10:27
  You're right, I remembering a double down the line.
• 1:10:31
  I don't know why from or from who.
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  Let's say like a Brandon Crawford double down the line.
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  The left field line at Kaufman, 15, was the Royals and Mets.
• 1:10:48
  Yeah, 16 was Cubs in Cleveland. Cleveland. 17 was Houston in LA.
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  18 was Boston in LA, 19 Nationals in Houston, 20 COVID.
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  Year in Globe, Globe, Life for the Dodgers, 21 Braves in
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  Houston. Jorge Solaire, 2022 Houston and
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  Philly My God, it was the Red Sox in 13.
• 1:11:27
  No way, dude. We just went year by year.
• 1:11:32
  I don't know if you're completely accurate on all of
• 1:11:34
  it, although super impressive to be able to match those teams up.
• 1:11:44
  Yeah, Giants in Kansas City in 14.
• 1:11:46
  Royals on the road in New York in 15, right?
• 1:11:59
  The 15 was the only. One that was kind of
• 1:12:01
  questionable that was that was in New York, I think.
• 1:12:04
  Yeah or no. Why?
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  Is it the Royals? No.
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  Yeah, it was in New York. Yeah.
• 1:12:10
  Yeah. OK.
• 1:12:11
  Anyway, yeah, let's just get it back at home, please.
• 1:12:14
  Like, it's just not that you're going to grow the game based on
• 1:12:19
  where the celebration happens, but like, it's just a nice
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  little cherry on top for us diehards that sit here and
• 1:12:25
  watch, watch teams that we don't otherwise really care all that
• 1:12:29
  much about. Like to see a a lit up fan base
• 1:12:31
  with it? Yeah, Dick, come on.
• 1:12:33
  Showing the showing them, watching the big screen back
• 1:12:36
  home doesn't hit the same way, although I'm sure it should be
• 1:12:42
  sweet to be there. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:12:48
  Good stuff. Good stuff, my friend.
• 1:12:52
  This is unless you got anything else.
• 1:12:54
  This brings us to the completion of Episode #400.
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  Tip of the cap to you, pal. I think you you got a We need a
• 1:13:06
  big round of applause to my guy. You put a lot of hard work into
• 1:13:09
  this, man. You put a lot of time and effort
• 1:13:11
  into this. And 400 of these bad boys, man
• 1:13:16
  400. Well, believe me, pal, I don't
• 1:13:22
  know how you do it. This thing would have died a
• 1:13:24
  long time ago. It was.
• 1:13:26
  It was just, well, I was just about to say, believe me, I've
• 1:13:28
  said it before. I'll say it again.
• 1:13:29
  You go back, listen to episode one.
• 1:13:31
  I don't think many people would have enjoyed 400 episodes of
• 1:13:35
  that of me talking to myself. So just as much, if not more
• 1:13:40
  credit to you for giving me somebody to talk to 'cause
• 1:13:45
  otherwise this thing truly would have died a long time ago.
• 1:13:50
  Nobody would have want to listen to that.
• 1:13:52
  But I love that we were able to wrap up the year with 400.
• 1:13:56
  The timing was. Just it's good, sane.
• 1:14:00
  It's it's fitting. Nice way to to go into the
• 1:14:03
  offseason. Shout out to all you guys
• 1:14:09
  listening. Stuck with us all year.
• 1:14:11
  Those of you who joined throughout the year welcome.
• 1:14:15
  Those for Maybe this is your first episode.
• 1:14:18
  Welcome. It is your first episode.
• 1:14:20
  Welcome. Welcome to the show.
• 1:14:22
  We will be like I said, we'll be.
• 1:14:26
  We'll be back sometime soon. Don't know when yet, but the off
• 1:14:30
  seasons with with your friends Nate and Kyle can be fun.
• 1:14:34
  So. Oh dude, I think.
• 1:14:37
  I think it's even more fun. I honestly, I prefer the
• 1:14:40
  offseason to the season. Yeah, the offseason we get, we
• 1:14:45
  get a little crazy. Yeah, we get weird.
• 1:14:48
  It gets weird. I'm looking forward to it.
• 1:14:51
  We got some stuff cooking up. You know I've I've been thinking
• 1:14:54
  a lot about it. I feel like we had kind of
• 1:14:58
  shield away, not for any particular reason from from the
• 1:15:02
  interview game, but I feel like we got a couple guys that.
• 1:15:07
  I think we can line up real real easily.
• 1:15:11
  I don't know. Longo likes quite a bit of our
• 1:15:12
  posts. I've seen his name quite a few
• 1:15:15
  times. Maybe we give him a little time
• 1:15:17
  to recover, but been in been in touch over the year last year or
• 1:15:22
  two with Bryson Stott, Philly second baseman, and my guy Josh
• 1:15:27
  Spores closing, closing down the series here.
• 1:15:30
  Maybe we get him on. That'd be a heck of an
• 1:15:32
  experience to relive. Yeah.
• 1:15:37
  We we I mean even that's just the first few guys that come to
• 1:15:40
  mind but we'll we'll get some more we we might tap into the
• 1:15:44
  interview game a little bit get some names on here.
• 1:15:46
  But again shout out to you guys it's been been a fun year
• 1:15:50
  another one in the books and buckle up for a take a little
• 1:15:58
  break take a little breather we made it but buckle up for a a
• 1:16:01
  fun offseason to come. We'll we'll we've got some stuff
• 1:16:04
  lined up and it'll be a good time.
• 1:16:06
  Appreciate you guys. Thank you so much.
• 1:16:09
  And here's the 400 more Don't go chasing curveballs.
• 1:16:14
  We love you all. And as always, looking forward
• 1:16:15
  to talking more baseball with you guys soon.
• 1:16:17
  Until next time, stay filthy.