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Rays TAKE CONTROL of ALCS after Game 5 WIN over Guardians | Ross & Rizzo MLB Playoff Reactions · Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back, everyone, to another episode of Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Anthony Ross with my partner.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Anthony Ross. You said I'm Anthony Ross.
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  Speaker 3: I am Anthony Rizzo. Son, son, I love you, son.
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  Speaker 1: With my partner, David Ross.
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  Speaker 3: Happy Monday.
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  Speaker 1: We are four days away from World Series baseball, Rossi.
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  Speaker 1: And the Tampa Bay Rays are one win away from punching...
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  Speaker 1: their American league pennant ticket to the world series.
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  Speaker 2: This is the kind of game we were expecting to
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  Speaker 2: see like great pitching, uh, from the Rays. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: what Drew Brasmussen did was absolutely epic. Seven innings, stud,
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  Speaker 2: four hits, one iron run, six punches, just in control,
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  Speaker 2: getting a ground ball, double play as soon as he
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  Speaker 2: needed it. Uh, great defense behind him. I thought both
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  Speaker 2: D both teams played great D, uh, Parker Messick didn't
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  Speaker 2: have his best stuff. Uh, A lot of pitches. The
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  Speaker 2: command wasn't there. The Rays jumped on him. You know,
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  Speaker 2: scoring early, falling behind when you're, you know, tied like
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  Speaker 2: that and you've got a guy like Drew Rasmussen on
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  Speaker 2: the mound. It's tough to come back from. You just
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  Speaker 2: continue to make pitches. The top of the lineup, again, producing.
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  Speaker 2: Chandler Simpson had a great game. I mean, Hozier-Mir has
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  Speaker 2: made a great play on that bun or else he
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  Speaker 2: would have had three knocks. Putting pressure on the D. Aranda,
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  Speaker 2: Yandy Diaz, you know, The three.
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  Speaker 3: They needed to wake up woke up. Yeah. Right? In
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  Speaker 3: their lineup.
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  Speaker 1: Their three horses woke up. And they've turned the series around.
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  Speaker 1: They're one win away from going to the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: And they just put pressure on them. You said Parker
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  Speaker 1: Messick didn't have his best stuff. I'm seeing the Rays
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  Speaker 1: just showing why they were the best team in the
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  Speaker 1: American League. They're seeing the guy. They're seeing him for
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  Speaker 1: the second time around. They're making the adjustments. And you saw...
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  Speaker 1: how good that team was as far as making adjustments
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  Speaker 1: and getting him into, what, 60 pitches in two innings
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  Speaker 1: and getting him out of the game?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: This has completely shifted into the Tampa Bay Rays series.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and when you have to go, you have two
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  Speaker 2: back-to-back outings where the starters don't go deep in the game.
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  Speaker 2: It just puts a tax on your bullpen. So with
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  Speaker 2: that rain out and now all the games back-to-back, I
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  Speaker 2: agree with you. The Rays are sitting in a really
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  Speaker 2: good spot. Bro, Drew Rasmussen... hasn't lost a game since
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  Speaker 2: July 9th. Like, think about that. That's an absolutely deal.
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  Speaker 2: That's a long time ago. I don't mean we, that
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  Speaker 2: was before we went to Ireland, bro. That was like
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  Speaker 2: a long, that was a long time ago. This guy
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  Speaker 2: has been dealing. And you know, when you hear, when
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  Speaker 2: you hear Kevin cash talk about him in the post
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  Speaker 2: game pressers and everybody wants him to make all these,
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  Speaker 2: you know, big statements, he just like, this is who
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  Speaker 2: he is, you know? And, He's got to be one
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  Speaker 2: of the starters in Major League Baseball that flies under
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  Speaker 2: the radar. He's a true ace, obviously, the way he's
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  Speaker 2: been pitching in these moments. And for him to be
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  Speaker 2: under the radar like he is, you know, just speaks
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  Speaker 2: volumes to just him going out and continue to dominate.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I love that he went back out for
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  Speaker 1: the seventh, honestly. And Kevin Cash allowing him to finish
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  Speaker 1: that inning because– You know, obviously years before, whatever you
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  Speaker 1: want to say about 2020 and that World Series taken out.
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  Speaker 3: What was it? Blake Snell. Blake Snell, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: This is like, this reminds me of, honestly, and I
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  Speaker 1: hate talking about this World Series in 2024, when Dave
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  Speaker 1: Roberts was riding his guys. You know, usually their style
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  Speaker 1: is take them out early, get to the bullpen. They're
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  Speaker 1: riding their horses now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And that, for me, being in a clubhouse for as
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  Speaker 1: long as we were, Rossi.
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  Speaker 3: You know when you ride your guys on the.
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  Speaker 1: Inside, you're like, fuck yeah, let's go, right? Because you
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  Speaker 1: root for good guys to do good things. You root
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  Speaker 1: for the winning player. So you feel it. If he
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  Speaker 1: takes him out in the fifth and then goes right
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  Speaker 1: to the bullpen, you feel that win or lose. Guys
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  Speaker 1: are talking a little bit behind the scenes. Oh, man,
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  Speaker 1: why would we take him out? And that little conversation
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  Speaker 1: carries over whether you think it does or not.
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  Speaker 2: Look what happened to the Red Sox and the Wild
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  Speaker 2: Card Series and the Sonny Gray game, you know, like.
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  Speaker 2: not riding with your guy who's been your dude all
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  Speaker 2: year and I think it just comes down to the
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  Speaker 2: manager having the right trust in guys like you know
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  Speaker 2: you build a sense of trust throughout the season and
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  Speaker 2: he trusts Drew Rasmussen more than he did anybody down
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  Speaker 2: there in the bullpen at the moment and there's nobody
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  Speaker 2: that knows that team better than the guys in that
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  Speaker 2: locker room and that coaching staff and Kevin Cash and
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  Speaker 2: so sticking with him you know it sets you up
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  Speaker 2: as a manager for criticism right like why wouldn't you
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  Speaker 2: do this why would you do that and all that
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  Speaker 2: bull crap but I tell you the one that stood
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  Speaker 2: out to me brings in Tyler Wells against Jose Ramirez,
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  Speaker 2: and he gets a huge out. His numbers versus Jose Ramirez,
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  Speaker 2: Jose Ramirez three for six with a home run and
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  Speaker 2: two extra base hits. And he brings a man in
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  Speaker 2: a 3-1 game with a man on first or second,
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember. But in that moment, you're like, oh, boy,
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  Speaker 2: is this the right move? And Tyler Wells makes your
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  Speaker 2: manager look good. Again, good players makes great managers.
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  Speaker 1: Again, this is going to be a huge shout-out to
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  Speaker 1: the Braves organization. Tyler Wells and Brian Baker were mid-level,
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  Speaker 1: middle reliever bullpen guys in Baltimore. They get them over.
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  Speaker 1: Brian Baker's the best closer in the game this year,
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  Speaker 1: one of the best closers. And Tyler Wells now is
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  Speaker 1: his setup man. I always thought Tyler Wells was nasty.
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  Speaker 1: He had a little bit of success, but he kind
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  Speaker 1: of faded there in Baltimore. But, again, the Rays just
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  Speaker 1: identifying guys with good stuff that they know that they
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  Speaker 1: can turn into seems like super. So, obviously, the mental
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  Speaker 1: capacity has to be there on these guys. But two
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  Speaker 1: guys they acquired via trade, and that's what these smaller
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  Speaker 1: teams have to do. But, yeah, they've been lights out.
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  Speaker 1: My question, Rossi, for you is you said building trust.
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  Speaker 1: In today's game, and you managed, how– How can guys,
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  Speaker 1: especially starters, build trust if they get to 85 to
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  Speaker 1: 95 pitches in the sixth or seventh and they want
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  Speaker 1: to go back out, but you're pulling them?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you look back on the history that
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  Speaker 2: you've dealt with them all season when you get to
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  Speaker 2: this time of year, and you're watching the radar gun
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. You're watching the number, but it's the
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  Speaker 2: strike throwing. It's the swings that the opponents are taking
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  Speaker 2: off of him. I thought he had some hard-hit balls there.
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  Speaker 2: in the six and got out of some, some trouble
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. So I, I didn't think he was
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  Speaker 2: going back out for the seventh or maybe he was
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  Speaker 2: going to be batter to batter. And then the leadoff
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  Speaker 2: guy got on and a really nice at bat from
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  Speaker 2: chase to lauder. And, you know, he stuck with him
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  Speaker 2: and he gets that big double play. He gets a
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  Speaker 2: pop up and then a big double play. And that's
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  Speaker 2: why you got a guy that's your, your horse, your ace. And,
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  Speaker 2: He's built that trust throughout the season, and you're watching
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  Speaker 2: the game. I always like watching the at-bats. Like, are
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  Speaker 2: they seeing him? Just like you said yesterday on the pod,
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  Speaker 2: I love facing a guy the same time through. And
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  Speaker 2: even as a bad hitter that I was, like, I
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  Speaker 2: thought I had the best chance seeing the guy for
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  Speaker 2: the third time, right? Those numbers are real. But there's
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  Speaker 2: certain guys that you trust that can kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: tighten up their jockstrap and get after it in moments
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  Speaker 2: like that and finish. Tighten the jockstrap, huh? Yeah. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't the jockstrap, but finish, but finish in a freaking game.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, the nerves are gonna, there's times when
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  Speaker 2: I walked out and grabbed a ball from a guy
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  Speaker 2: and they're shaking, handing me the ball. And I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: thank God I came out and got this guy out
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  Speaker 2: of the other gang. Cause he, his nerves are wrecked
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  Speaker 2: right now. And you learn that stuff throughout the season.
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  Speaker 2: So a good move by cashy. He knows his team. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm sure there's a lot of people that
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  Speaker 2: were there in the media and us, you know, Well.
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  Speaker 3: It's easy to play Monday morning quarterback now. Right, that's
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  Speaker 3: what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: We're behind a mic. I feel like there's so many
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  Speaker 1: times where a star's about to be born and then
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  Speaker 1: we put a governor on them in these games. And
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  Speaker 1: I understand the numbers say one thing, but then the
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  Speaker 1: eye test says another. Like how much does, say you
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  Speaker 1: have a pitcher out, he's at 105 pitches through seven, right?
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  Speaker 1: dominating you know he's done but the matchups are favorable
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  Speaker 1: out in the eighth are you sending them back out
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  Speaker 1: in the eighth like it's got to be such a
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  Speaker 1: hard decision for these managers I.
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  Speaker 2: Think the the way guys pitch with a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more you know I think Drew Rasmus is a true
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  Speaker 2: pitcher like he's moving the ball in out up down
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  Speaker 2: you know changing speeds cutters.
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  Speaker 3: He's a pitcher he's not more stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah and so like some of these guys are max
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  Speaker 2: effort dudes and so I think they just run out
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  Speaker 2: of gas probably a little bit earlier i mean when
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  Speaker 2: i was coming up like 115 was pretty normal you
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  Speaker 2: know like the 100 pitch mark wasn't a thing you
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  Speaker 2: know it was just like we're gonna watch and see
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  Speaker 2: how the game played.
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  Speaker 1: Out dude i felt like you were like here you
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  Speaker 1: go especially in the american league where you couldn't double
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  Speaker 1: switch i felt like it was you know 115 pitches
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  Speaker 1: like here you go And if you gave up three
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  Speaker 1: or four or five runs early, it was like, you
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  Speaker 1: better go fucking figure out how to get through five
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  Speaker 1: or six innings.
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  Speaker 3: You're wearing this.
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  Speaker 2: Front offices will say, you know, I may have said
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  Speaker 2: this before, but we'd rather you be too early than
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  Speaker 2: too late. And that's how they think. So you feel
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of that sitting in the seat. And also... Man, bullpens,
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  Speaker 2: as we're seeing, especially on good teams, are just have
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  Speaker 2: electric stuff and really hard to, and you said it
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  Speaker 2: last night too, like I was trying to get that
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  Speaker 2: third at bat because the bullpen stuff is so nasty.
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  Speaker 2: Whether it's a known guy or an unknown guy coming
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  Speaker 2: from the minor leagues, they usually got electric stuff. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: they struggle throwing strikes, but there's usually plus secondary along
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  Speaker 2: with legit velocity so um I think that's what makes
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  Speaker 2: it makes it so tough as a manager is um
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  Speaker 2: there are guys you try like bro I I trust
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  Speaker 2: Kyle Hendricks with my life when I was managing like
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  Speaker 2: you know I'm watching that game And I have so
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  Speaker 2: much trust in his demeanor and how he handles the situations.
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  Speaker 2: And he's always one ground ball away from getting out
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  Speaker 2: of something. And, you know, that can get you in
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  Speaker 2: trouble too. Cause you, you build too much trust in
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  Speaker 2: a guy and you don't trust anybody in that bullpen
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  Speaker 2: and the strength of your team, right? Like we all
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  Speaker 2: know by this time of year, what the strengths of
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  Speaker 2: the team are. You're not going to see the Milwaukee
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  Speaker 2: Brewers have a guy probably going to the seventh, unless
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  Speaker 2: they've got a no hit one hit or the gate
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  Speaker 2: or the game's not close, you know?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Cause they've got such a good bullpen. Yeah. What about
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  Speaker 2: Steve and Quan? How about that play off the wall?
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  Speaker 2: You know, wasn't quite a home run in the replay.
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  Speaker 2: Amazing defense from both teams.
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  Speaker 1: It seemed like the Guardians were going to mount a comeback. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I felt like... It did feel that way. There was
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  Speaker 1: a big hit coming, and it just didn't come. And
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  Speaker 1: now it's tough. They're down 3-2. I love that they
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  Speaker 1: pick up right back tomorrow for both ends, right? For
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  Speaker 1: the Rays, there's no time to think about, oh, we're
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  Speaker 1: one game away. No, let's get back home. Let's play
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  Speaker 2: One negative town. I didn't love the Caminero taking him
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  Speaker 2: out for defensive replacement. I don't love that move by Cash.
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  Speaker 2: He's twice now he's done in the postseason in a
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  Speaker 2: close game. If they tie that up with a home run,
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  Speaker 2: you're without one of your bigger hitters. I know he
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  Speaker 2: had been swinging it great, but did get a big
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  Speaker 2: double last night. You know, and then I'm blanking on
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  Speaker 2: who came in to play second, but Taylor made double
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  Speaker 2: play after the leadoff guy got on in the ninth.
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  Speaker 2: he kind of throws one in the crapper, and then
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  Speaker 2: they end up getting out of it. But that was
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  Speaker 2: one of those where I'm like, man, I don't love
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  Speaker 2: that move. It was like when they would pinch run
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  Speaker 2: for David Ortiz. He would get on late in the
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  Speaker 2: game when I was in Boston. It felt like, fuck,
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  Speaker 2: if they tie this up, we're without our dude.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I never– you can't ever take out your best
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  Speaker 1: top two players, right, ever.
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  Speaker 2: gets you 221. The money's on the Guardians, but With
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  Speaker 2: the opener and the bullpen and all these back-to-back days,
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  Speaker 2: the Rays hitters have seen them. They got Peralta on
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  Speaker 2: the mound. You know, I'm going with the Rays, 57%
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  Speaker 2: to the yes. I've got to go with them. At home,
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  Speaker 2: the momentum, they're going to be sniffing the World Series.
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  Speaker 3: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think that Stephen Vo is going to
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  Speaker 1: just This is obviously backs against the wall elimination. Look,
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  Speaker 1: the Guardians, if you're a Guardians fan, your back's been
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  Speaker 1: against the wall all season for the most part, right?
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  Speaker 1: You snuck in. You won the division at late. Your
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  Speaker 1: team is used to this. They come back down 0-2.
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  Speaker 1: So I can see Steven Vo just managing his game
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  Speaker 1: like he did in the division series. Backs against the wall.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to throw all of his best arms. And
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  Speaker 1: if they get an early lead, I see them winning
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  Speaker 1: and forcing a game seven, but they have to get
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  Speaker 1: the lead. That's the.
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  Speaker 3: Thing. And the Rays have woken up.
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  Speaker 2: The Rays are alive.
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  Speaker 1: We are on track for my partners. Look, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of baseball left. Still 27 outs to be made on
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  Speaker 1: each end. A lot of baseball left with Rossi. Your wisdom,
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: your age, your experience is about to show. predicting a
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  Speaker 1: raise brewers world series of Tampa Bay wins one more game.
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  Speaker 1: So that would be, we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: That would be the first time I feel like I've
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  Speaker 2: gotten these right. I don't, I, we gotta have Chris
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  Speaker 2: check my, uh, poly market percentages here and, uh, and
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: how good I'm doing. But, um, yeah, I, I trust me.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: I'm rooting hard for the raise close to home. Be
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: easy to travel for ESPN. I will be on site
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: for the world series pre and post at ESPN. I
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: can't wait for that. And, um, Getting out of here soon. But, yeah,
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: it feels like some things are starting to work out
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: in my prediction category, especially for that.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: But I don't know.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: I got the Rays winning. Watching Milwaukee in that first series,
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, against the Dodgers.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: I was like, ooh.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: They got to get there first. They got to get there.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: They got to get there. They got to get there.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: We'll do a full preview of that. All right, Rossi,
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: let's take some Tim Buss ball back. Questions of the day.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Hottest topics from around Major League Baseball.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: Really, life, sports, all sports. We want to talk other sports.
• 16:51
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• 16:52
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• 16:55
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• 17:01
  Speaker 1: all around. We are just getting going on Ross and
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Rizzo Unfiltered. Our first question, Rossi, a YouTube comment from Jan3443.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: What up, Jan? Love the travel stories in the last episode.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Jan, for watching. Appreciate it. I've always wondered
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: about this myself. I've also wondered if any players... Any players' belongings,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: including uniform, were lost or left behind. How is something
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: like that resolved?
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Ooh. All right.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Well, I've got one good story.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: I have a tremendous story.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: First of all, if something's left behind, the locker, the
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: clubhouse guys usually will call and your guys double-check. They're
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: on top of it. Like we said, those guys are
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: the best. It's like having your own personal assistant, except
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: there's 26 of us plus coaches. Um, we were in
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Oakland when I was managing and at night, uh, someone
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: had broken into the coaches locker room and stole, stole
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: all their, I think watches and cologne and like just
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: some like nice things. And Oakland reimbursed them. Um, they've
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: caught on, they found on camera who it was, uh,
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: caught the person have to be somebody in house, let
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: them go. And, um, Yeah, they got all the stuff.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: The coaches got their stuff back or reimbursed them for
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: that stuff. Yeah, so a really good job. Yeah, a
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: really good job by the Oakland Athletics of being on
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: top of that because obviously you walk in and all
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: your stuff's gone. You're pissed off. But let's hear your story.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: It's probably better than mine.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: We're in Cincinnati, right, with the Cubs. And Cincinnati in
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: the summer, it feels like it rains every day there,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: especially in the afternoons. So rain delay, so we don't
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: take BP. So it's basically a show and go. And
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: first day there, right? We're in the middle of a
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: long stretch. So we're coming, I believe from Wrigley. So
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: show and go, I get to the field late. Tarps
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: on the field. We're starting on time though. Maybe a
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: little bit of a delay. And so I go through
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: my pregame routine is like on a show and go day.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: I don't do anything until about an hour and 10
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: minutes before the game. So I shower, start getting loose
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: to go into the gym and warm up. And I'm
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: looking at for my glove and I don't have my glove.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Like I just happened as I was getting dressed to
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: go to the gym before I went to hit.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: I didn't have my glove. I'm like, oh, fuck.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I don't have my first baseman glove, like my practice
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: one or my game one. So I call Otis over
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: and Danny Mueller. And I'm like, boys, I don't have
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: my glove. Like we must have left in Chicago. Of course,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: I didn't see it because we didn't do anything before
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: the game, so why would I be looking for that?
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: I just expected to be there.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: So we call over to the Reds and I'm like, well,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Votto's a righty, so I can't use his glove. I
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: was thinking maybe we just like leave the glove at
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: first base and they have no left-handed first base gloves
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: over there. So Danny Mueller, our clubhouse tenant runs the
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: like a Dick's Sporting Glove.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Stop. I swear.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Grabs a Rawlings glove, just a stock Rawlings glove. I
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: get it maybe 10 minutes before the game. And I
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: throw it. How I would break my gloves in, I
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: would throw them in the oven to loosen the leather.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: So I literally throw it in the oven for like
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: two minutes, go to a machine, and just start hammering
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: fastballs out of a pitching machine to break it in.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: And I play the game. My dad still has the glove.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: And I made, like, a really nice play and a
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: nice pick with it. Bro, it was like a freaking
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: frying pan I was using. That would be my worst nightmare.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Like, your glove's like your security blanket when you're playing
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: in the big leagues. Like, that's, I don't care. Like,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: I'll grab somebody else's bat, have an AB, fine. Do
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: not mess with my glove. That, I can't believe that.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: I've never heard that. That's unbelievable. I'd be scared. The
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: first baseman has a brand new mitt off of the
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: rack at Dix. From Dix? Oh my God. Shout out
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Dick's not a sponsor to it. Wish it was right.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Golly.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: That's unbelievable. All right.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: What a good story.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Uh, next email from Matt Schmitz as a Padres fan.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: I was always big on you Rizzo when you were,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: when we got you, I was a little frustrated when
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: we moved you, but wondered what was like in a
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: few months you had in San Diego. And if you
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: had hope to establish yourself there, obviously things worked out
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: for you in Chicago.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, thanks, Matt. I appreciate that. Matt, I
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: was a Padre, too.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: You just don't remember? What the hell?
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: He may be a younger fan. Maybe, maybe.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I got traded for Adrian Gonzalez, and
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: I'm part of that trade, and I get called up,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: and it was like this whole Rizzo mania thing, and I.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Was just overmatched. I really was.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: I needed to make adjustments, and I went back down
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: and got sent down that year to... Got called up
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: in September. And then that offseason, I had to make
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: big adjustments, and I did. But getting traded was a
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: weird feeling because they had traded for Yonder Alonzo that offseason.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: And I get a call from the GM because Jed
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Hoyer and Jason McCloud went over to Chicago early in
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: that offseason. Just saying, hey, you're still a big part
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: of our future.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: You're one of our guys. And then literally three days later,
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: I get traded. So I was like, Oh, okay.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Sounds good. But yeah, I mean, obviously wherever you play,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: you want to establish yourself and be there for a
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: long time. And for me, it ended up in Chicago.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: My time in Chicago was incredible, but playing in San Diego,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: it wasn't like though the San Diego we see now,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: like the, the fans there weren't packing it out like
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: they do now. That place now is one of the
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: best places to play in all of sports, how much
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Petco gets rocking. So, um, Yeah, but I enjoyed my
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: time there. Ross, did you enjoy your time in San Diego?
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: San Diego is one of those destinations that's nice every
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: single day. The weather, obviously, that park is top-notch and new,
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: and what they're doing now is great. But I loved
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: my time. I got to play against them at Qualcomm
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: with the Dodgers when I was coming up, and then
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: I got traded there as well from Pittsburgh. Yeah. That's
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: a great place to play. We had great teammates. Petey,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: I had so many great teammates there. It's such a
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: beautiful place. The city, the town, just how they embrace
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: the military, all that stuff there. It's a cool spot
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: for sure.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: I loved it there.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: I was only there for a little bit, but I
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: loved it.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Email from Joe Amoroso from Atlanta, a town. Certain teams
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: seemingly always have a rash of injuries every year while
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: other organizations are usually healthy. Do you think this stems
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: from their strength and conditioning programs or just dumb, bad luck?
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Ooh, good. You know, that's a really good question. I think,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: you know what? I talked to Theo Epstein on this
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: topic about what's going to be the next game changer
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: in our game when I was in the front office. And,
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: you know, there had been so many like the pitching
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: and the labs and the technology and, And what's the
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: next game changer? And he told me health, like keeping
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: guys healthy on the field is like if you can
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: figure out a way to do that, you're going to
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: be head and shoulders above the rest. And now teams
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: are hiring biomechanic guys. And, you know, there's a lot
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: of real research that goes into how to keep these
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: guys healthy. And each team's involved in that. So I
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: do think that's really important. I do think a good
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: strength and conditioning program, you know, is around some of
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: the Dodger guys. when I was with the WBC and
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: they use a lot of water bags and stuff and to,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: to be able to, to contrast the muscle, he was
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: kind of explained to me, it's kind of over my head, but, um,
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: it's just real thought that goes into a lot of stuff.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: And I do think you have an advantage if you're
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: able to do that. Um, I do think there's just
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: some bad luck within there. Guys are going to get hurt,
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: you know, especially on the pitching side. But, um, I
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: know teams look really hard at the injuries when they
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: pop up, they look at the training staff, how cutting
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: edge are they, how are they, how are these guys, uh,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: one preventative maintenance has gotten to be, I mean, I
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: don't think you can have enough trainers. And I was
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: having this conversation with a pitching guy the other day,
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: you know, some of these teams have their own trainer
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: for just the pitching staff now. And if you can
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: keep those guys healthy and monitoring those guys and take
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: that off the plate of the regular pitching coach and
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: the regular trainer, I think you're at an advantage. So
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: those departments, strength and conditioning and the, and the, and
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: the training room, the medical staff is so dang important.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: No doubt.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: The biomechanics of it all. I was actually just talking
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: about this today with one of my friends here. They're like,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: how are these guys throwing so hard? And I'm like,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: because now there we have technology where if you have
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: a tight hip, you can unlock it. And by unlocking it,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: you get around it more and you can get into
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: your legs more. And that means you can strengthen your
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: legs more to push off, to throw harder.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Where, you know, seven years ago, oh, I have a
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: tight hip.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Just do this hip flexor stretch. Hopefully it gets better.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: There was, there wasn't intent behind some of the things
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: you do now in the strength and conditioning world. Um,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: so that is very important.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: A lot of it is like, I'm a big believer
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: in balance, right? You have a lot, you have some.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Guys that are super like by the book, healthy water,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: they're clean, clean, clean, clean, clean. And the, I feel
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: like if you're that extreme, um, As soon as something
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: bad goes in your body, your body doesn't know how
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: to handle it. You know, I don't know for you, Rossi,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: but you ever eat healthy?
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Can't pull fat. That's how I came up. Can't pull fat.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Can't pull fat.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: But you ever go into like a super healthy diet
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: for a week after like not eating healthy and your
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: stomach just flushes everything out?
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Like that's the other end where if you're so healthy
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: and you put something bad in. Like Matt Caesar, right?
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: And he wouldn't mind me telling this story. He hurt
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: his hamstring one day. Because we were flying and he
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: swears it was from this Coke that he drank on
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: the plane. He's like, I haven't drank Coke in two years.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: And the next day he tweaked his hammy. Because he's,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Cesar is yoked. Like 2% body fat. We used to
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: work out all the time. Well, I try to keep
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: up with him, but freak. So a lot of, you
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: just have that balance. Like any little thing, like dehydration is,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: I think, the key to staying healthy.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: Or hydration.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Because we travel so much. All of the games that
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: we play. But everyone's body is different. It's a good question.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Though, Joe. Yeah, well said.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Well said.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Awesome. Another episode in the books. We got game six
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: of the ALCS. We'll be coming back to you with
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: our reactions. We may have the 2026 World Series punched
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: next time we are on air, Rossi. So hopefully buckle up.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: It's going to be.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: I don't even know what type of World Series it's
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: going to be with the teams that are in it.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: But we are going to be covering it 24-7.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: It's going to be exciting because we're going to be
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: talking to our fans and the people that follow us.
• 28:20
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• 28:25
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• 28:32
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• 28:35
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• 28:38
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• 28:41
  Speaker 2: And we love the questions. They're so good.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: And we love you.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: That's all.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Ross Rizzo, out.