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Final Playoff Push · The 3-0 Take

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take, where we talk
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all things Major League Baseball.
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Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes.
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It all starts right now. Welcome back to the three O take
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presented by sea kick this episode 471.
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I'll be your host, Kyle Cord, and I'm here with my Co host and
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winner of this T-shirt bet, Nate Reyes.
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Nate. I'm so excited.
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Yes, there it is. That is unbelievable.
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This was this was stolen from the archives.
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It's the. It's the one where I'm.
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Looking over at Jeter for me. Oh yeah, no, that was my
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favorite when I was making, when I was making this, this was that
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was my favorite face. He's like geeking so hard at
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jeets. But as you can see, you got 3 of
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Nate. And if you're not, if you're not
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watching, you're not watching on.
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You're you're missing out and then you got a rod right there
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and then you got Jeter over here.
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Gosh, that's so good. That is so unbelievable.
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I kind of want it honestly. It's a it's a pretty, I'm not
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going to lie. It's like a pretty solid shirt.
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Like I if it if it didn't have three of you on there, I'd
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probably wear it a lot more or a shirtless a rod and Jeter, I'd
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probably wear it a lot. More.
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That's so good. Get rid of that ticker.
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I just want to take this in. That's so beautiful.
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Unbelievable. This is This is why you make
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bets. This is why you do it.
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You know some of them. I'm not saying I'm not saying
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bet your rent money, but you know, every once in a while you
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put out a wager and it pays off This, this pays off big.
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This is great. This is one of 10 episodes,
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right? Is that what we agreed on 10?
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This is one of 10. This is delightful.
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I just wanted to get out of the way.
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It was a swaggy shirt dude. It's it's, it's pretty clean.
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Just the subject matter isn't ideal.
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But hey, you know what? Better time?
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What time? Hey, we got Murray in the chat.
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He's just having himself a good old time.
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I told you guys. I told you.
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You were in for a treat. I told you.
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I mean, that's a heck of a That is a heck of a shirt.
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Heck of a shirt designed by yours truly if I'm being honest
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it. Really is.
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Dude, but no I figured I'd I'd make the debut with the being on
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the brink of the postseason here.
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Figured it was a a good time. The vibes are high.
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Getting excited for some October baseball.
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We got a lot of it to talk about.
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Some clinches have taken place. I don't even know what you're
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saying right now, I'm just leaving.
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We even have there's people, there's people probably jumping
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on the the stream that are like, what is this guy?
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Wearing. If only I should put in the
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ticker. Yeah, I've only asked the bet.
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I mean, I can, I can, I can do that.
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Let's do that. Please don't ask about the
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shirt. Oh, it's so good, Yes.
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Let's get that ticker up there for the folks so they know all
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right, Hey, even even on top of this, this T-shirt that you're
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you're able to see now we got a we got a little guest go guest
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appearance via video shout out friend of the pod, Ryan Ripken.
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I I I we had a pestered, I pestered him, pestered him a
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little bit. I, I, I've checked to see if he
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could get on to talk some OS recently and he's just been, as
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you would imagine, very busy talking OS.
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He's talking Ravens. They got a whole bunch of
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business going on over there. So I said hey the.
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Prince of Baltimore has a lot. A lot.
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I was like on the on the checklist.
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I was like, shoot me, shoot me your your Cliff notes thoughts
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on on the OS post. Now that they've got the, the
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post season birth secured, I was like, shoot me your thoughts.
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He goes, I'll do one even better for you.
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I'll send you a video that you can drop on the pod.
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I said, wow, Prince of Baltimore at work.
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So we, we even got that. So do you, I mean, do we just
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want to start with that 'cause I on on my on my list of things to
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talk about. It was the O's clenching the
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postseason burst. So we we can, we can start with
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that if we'd like. Let's get a right guy in here.
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I missed that. I missed that beautiful voice.
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All right, let's, let's see how. Let's see how front of the pod
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Ryan Ripken's doing. What is up three O take
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community and Kyle Nate, I guess hello to you guys too.
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I guess I'm giving a little bit of a perspective on the
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Baltimore Orioles. If you guys have ever heard of
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them. They are going back to the
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postseason 27 years. It's been since Baltimore has
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gone back to the postseason for consecutive seasons.
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I'll say that one more time. The Baltimore Orioles are going
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back to the postseason for consecutive years for the first
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time in 27 seasons. Look, it hasn't been a perfect
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year for Baltimore, right, guys? You know, it's been an up and
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down injury plagued and really that's where it started.
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The injuries decimated. You go through the Orioles
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rotation. Kyle Bradish, Tyler Wells, John
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Means now, Grace Rodriguez, done.
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He's not returning. So four of your guys are no
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longer going to be there. And then you've had a lot of key
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injuries offensively, but it looks like they're getting some
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of those guys back. And no, Felix Batista, one of
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the best closers in the game. But I got to tell you what it
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feels like if you guys were wondering, feels like the
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Orioles are starting to gain confidence.
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And This is why I love playoff baseball.
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And honestly, you could say maybe hockey can rival this,
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maybe with it where anything can happen.
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You think you're the best team in baseball.
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Well guess what, it don't matter once you get to October.
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It's can you win each series, can you get hot and can you
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advance? Three teams last year won 100 or
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more games, the Braves, Dodgers and Orioles.
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Those teams combined to win one playoff game.
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Not a series, one playoff game. So yeah, the Birds got a chance.
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Absolutely. You got Corbin Burns, Zac F when
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they can go out and do their thing in Games 1 and 2.
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Dean Kramer would be the third starter.
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But the goal right now, hopefully they're not too
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hungover from celebrating. Tell you what, though, sometimes
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you can play better hungover. Guilty on that one.
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But in general, the Orioles are in a good position now.
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You just hope that some of these guys can gain that momentum,
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keep that energy and fire as they move towards and hopefully
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they wrap up that first wild card spot.
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And then if you can, all bets are off.
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And for Yankee fans out there, the Birds aren't intimidated by
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the Bronx Bombers. They won the season series last
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night. They feel they can go into New
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York and win and that's the team that they very well could see
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down the the the stretch run, but they got to get past the
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wild card round first. But they are going to be there.
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It's all I got. Miss you guys.
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Hope everyone's doing well and yeah, go birds.
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The Prince. That's the homie right there,
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shut out Ryan taking some time out of his busy day.
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I think he I think he got so busy that he forgot to send the
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video between the time that we were on the phone talking about
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it and when we needed to hop on the call.
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That's how busy he is right now. So I had to, I had to nudge him
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a little bit and say, hey, by the way, we go on in like 30
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minutes. So yeah, anything you do.
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And he got hey, like like he always does.
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He came through. So do.
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You think the Prince is driving himself around in the car?
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He's he's in the whip. I don't know if.
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He's driving himself around. He's not.
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Doesn't have the driver. No, he would even tell you that
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he doesn't have a driver. What what do we think though?
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What do we think on on his thoughts about the OS?
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He he brings up the point that I think gets forgotten about at
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this time of year, every year it seems, in that anything can
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happen. And I know it's sort of a
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cliche, but he brought up the point about the 100 win team,
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the 100 plus win teams last year.
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And that's a very valid point where it's like any narratives,
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any, any bits that people run with up until, you know, middle
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of September, those kind of go out the window.
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Not, not 100% of the time, because sometimes you see things
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pan out exactly the way that the public majority assumes it will.
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But there are times where you just have to throw those, those
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narratives, those jokes, those bits out the window.
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Because you have to realize, like, as much as you may hate a
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team's chances as much as you may like a team's chances,
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anything can happen in the post season.
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I think he's exactly right when it comes to the Orioles.
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Yeah, 100% right. I mean it's, it's get in, see
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what happens. The tough thing is, is it's it's
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pitching, it's 100% pitching for the Orioles and everyone wants
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to complain about like how lost the offense can look at times.
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But I think it's just like the lack of depth that the pitching
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side that would make me nervous if I'm an Orioles fan.
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Not just the back end question marks, but like the actual depth
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in the rotation. Can you hang around for A5 game
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set or A7 game set? That's the biggest question.
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I think this team is absolutely good enough to go toe for toe in
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a in a three-game set. I think that's very doable.
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I think anything can happen in a three-game set because most
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teams, especially this year with how even the playing field is,
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are equipped to win two out of three.
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But it's the length of going through this run, right?
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You're having to win two out of three and then you're having to
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go play A5 game set and then you know, 27 game sets is is that
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possible? Does this roster have that in
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them? I think that's the biggest
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question mark. And there's obviously talent
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there, right? Like we all know there's talent
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there. We all know that this this is
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the beginning of of a very large window opening up for a while.
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The Orioles are going to be a problem for a while, but this
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year there's a lot of question marks.
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Yeah. I mean, I, I know I just got
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done saying that or, or reiterating I should say that
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anything can happen in October, But I don't know.
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When you look at the, the Orioles pitching issues that
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you're you're talking about, and that was, and then Ryan was
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talking about and then you get the gut punch today of Grayson
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Rodriguez being officially done. He's not throwing another pitch
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this year. It's like.
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Yeah. This kind of was a narrative
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coming into September, and even though we're knocking on the
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door of of the post season, even though the Orioles have their
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ticket punched, it's really hard to find any optimism there.
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And it'd be one thing if, like, you know, Corbin Burns was doing
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Cy Young things, but it's been tough.
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It's been tough. So it's like even even not
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having that top heavy rotation, even if we're light, even if we
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lack depth, we still have this guy.
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There's not so much of that vibe going on right now.
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So I think the best that they can hope for is like, you know
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what, let's just get this offense turned around, which you
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and I were talking about before we hopped on.
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It's kind of looking like that's what they're doing in New York
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because that's what the Yankees love to do is just give teams
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opportunities. And it looks like they're like,
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you know, possibly able to figure it out offensively and
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just they have the line up to bludgeon teams offensively.
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It's just it hasn't really clicked for a while.
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So but he mentioned it like the whole hit a reset button once
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you get into October. That's like the beauty of this,
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this is it. This is the epitome of a team
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that's like, you know what, let's just flush that.
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Let's just flush whatever's happened in the second-half.
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And when you look at this team on paper and you take all stats
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away and you're just like, oh, this team can bang, makes you,
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makes you nervous, makes you nervous for sure.
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I don't know they, I mean, they were my AL representative in the
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World Series at the start of the year as I, I think they were for
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a lot of folks. But it's just a tall ask.
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That is a really, really tall ask, especially when you get to
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a point at in the year where pitching really matters.
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And I know that a lot of times you can just mash your way to a,
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a World Series. But I don't know.
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I don't know if I, I just don't know if I see the Orioles being
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capable at this stage in the game to, to mash their way to a
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World Series. Like you said, they're, they're,
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they're trying to find their way offensively right now.
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Is it too little too late? I don't know.
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I just, I personally, I just don't feel all that optimistic
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about the the outlook heading into next month.
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I get that. Think that's very fair?
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Astros have clinched the American League West.
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I made sure to once again give your your video, your clip from
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earlier this year, a bump on the story today talking about how
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you know, if you're if you're one of these people kicking the
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Astros while they're down, if you're eating into them, like
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if, if, yeah, if you're eating at them with the way they've
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started, just sit tight. It's it's inevitable.
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It's coming. And here we are sitting here
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talking about how the Astros have clinched the American
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League West for the fourth straight time, giving them seven
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and the last eight seasons. And you want to know the one
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that they didn't get is back in I believe the 2020 season.
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I was it. Was it the Oakland A's that
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snuck it out? I think it was.
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Was it? That's so insane.
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Yeah, we need to confirm here. I mean that that's, that's kind
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of the the, the run that we're talking about here.
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So I go wash year was the one year they missed.
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Yeah, it sure did. Oakland A's back in 2020.
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Wow. So you take out that.
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That's crazy to say that the A's won the division.
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The Marlins won the division. What a weird year.
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Nate, I saw something today and this, this absolutely blew my
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mind. I saw some of that and I'm sure
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if I would have thought about it for any length of time, I could
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have come to this. I could have arrived at this
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conclusion myself. Since John Fisher, and we're
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going to talk about John Fisher here in a minute.
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Since John Fisher took over the Oakland A's, they've won the
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Division Four times and the Mariners have won the division
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zero times. That's tough.
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Dude, that's I, I, I get the pain now of Mariners fans.
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I mean that's that's it's. Not good.
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That's tough. It's not good.
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Any Who's the Astros? Yeah, pretty Dang good.
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Pretty Dang good. We told you it was coming.
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This is just, it's, it's the makeup and core of a team that's
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been there, done that, man. It's just business as usual.
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Did you see Alex Bregman getting subbed defensively for the
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ovation? I didn't see that.
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No, I mean, I saw it was yeah, it's possible.
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Blast game. On the brink go about that free
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agency. Just weird, man.
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Like it's there's tributes are just being tossed around a
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little too. Much.
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No, no, no, no, no, no. I come on.
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You and I can both understand why they would do that for Alex
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Bregman and I, I don't think there should be any question as
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to why they would do it for that guy given.
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The oh the post season. Not with the post season.
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They know they're hosting. Yeah, but you're not going to,
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you can't. You're not doing a, you're not
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sending him off in a tribute at the end of a, you know, season
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series. Lost.
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Maybe? What if you're up by like, what
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if you're down by 5 in game three in the ninth?
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You know what? I'm saying we're dealing with
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what ifs, though. What if they may?
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What if they take it to game five in the Division series and
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they lose a heartbreaker in the ninth?
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You're not going to sit. You're not going to pull him out
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for a tribute in Game 5 like that.
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This is, you know, this is the time.
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He'll get his tribute in his last AB no matter what.
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He'll get the standing O in his last AB when he's.
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No, not no, you can't. That that's that's on the back
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burner in the in the postseason. I don't like this.
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I don't, no. I think it's, I think it's
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silly. Why are we having this
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conversation? I think it's silly, I think it's
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weird, I think it's awkward. He didn't know what's happening.
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Like it it, I don't know, it just gave me.
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Weird vibes. That's not, I mean, that's a a
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different conversation, but the fact that it's happening now
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versus a potential like Game 5 lost in the Division Series I.
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Don't think he's leaving. There's a market for him, don't
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get me wrong. Yeah.
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That's the thing. It's not, it's, it's not a
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situation where it's like so obvious that he's staying.
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Yeah, given the market. But I'm curious, I don't think
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he's going to get as much money as he's as he's thinking.
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I think it's going to be lower than what projections or
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predictions are saying. Anywho, yeah, dude, Houston
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Astros, man. Like that's the one team we know
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because they're they can't the Yankees in the in the guardians
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are kind of still fighting for home field for the by.
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So that's one team that we know we're going to be seeing Tuesday
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night hosting. I I don't know if it's night
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game, but we'll see him Tuesday hosting.
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So good stuff, man. Just it's it's the norm.
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It's hard to hard to fight, hard to hate.
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When they just continue to prove it year in and year out and you
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have different, different guys that come in and different
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veterans that step in and have big moments.
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And you and I have talked about how like Jason Hayward is
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already played a role, played a factor.
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There's not many question marks. I think the biggest question
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mark is, is probably just Justin Verlander.
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That's the only thing that has me wondering, will he get a
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postseason start? Sorry.
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You were talking about the hosting.
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You're talking about the wild card, correct?
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Yeah. Yeah, Yeah.
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OK. I just want to make sure we're
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on the same page. Yeah.
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You're talking Verlander. I, I don't know, that might be a
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situation where it's like anything you get out of him as a
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bonus at this point, I mean, you, if you're the Astros,
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you've had to adapt like you've had no choice but to adapt over
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the course of this year with your, with your staff.
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So now, I mean, now that you're here, now that you've been able
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to get to this point with what you have, it might just be a
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situation where you just have to, you have to keep riding that
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wave and and expect very minimal out of a guy like Justin
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Verlander. But at the end of the day, it's
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still Justin Verlander and it's still the postseason.
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So I'm not going to sit here and say that what we saw this year
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during the regular season is going to be the same thing or
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it's going to play out the same way next month because that's a
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dip. We're dealing with a different
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beast at that point. But the, the, the main take away
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here, though, is just what it took for the the Astros to get
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to this point that we're talking about.
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I mean, let me remind you middle of June, they're trailing the
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Mariners by 10 games, 10 games. And we're not just talking about
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like just to get into the postseason, like we're not
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talking about they're not, they're not ten games back from
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a wild card, 10 games back from the division and they come back,
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they close the gap, albeit you could chalk that up to the
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Mariners maybe losing it. Either way, a healthy
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combination of both, we'll call it because the Mariners, one of
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the best, correct me if I'm wrong, one of the best teams in
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baseball in the second-half, or at least there for an extended
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stretch, close the gap 10 games going on to win the division by
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multiple games. It's it's just it's inevitable
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to use the word I used earlier. And it's, I mean, it's the same
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song, it's the same dance. And we're looking if, if they
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advance the ALCS this year, that will be eight straight if I'm
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not mistaken. Yeah, it would be in the.
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The other interesting note is, you know, it's not AJ Hinch,
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it's not Dusty Baker, it's Joe Espada.
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And there's going to be moments in postseason ball where strange
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decisions are going to be made and some backfire, some pay off.
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And it's, you know, the regular season is its own beast and job
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well done on Joe Espada did what he needed to do, came in, got
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his job done in his first year. But it's going to be interesting
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to see how a brand new manager navigates some of those
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scenarios. So yeah, Houston, you're
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spoiled. Quick question here on the
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Astros before you wrap up them is would you say that the roster
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makeup of the Houston Astros carries too much weight to
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warrant putting Joe Espada in the Manager of the year
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conversation? Given the other candidates are
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in the that are in the mix, would you at least put them in
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the conversation given some of the setbacks they've had to deal
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with? Or to you, is the roster makeup
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too much? I mean, when you look in the AL,
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it's it's I think you and I agree.
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Stephen Vogt is way up there. Who else is he really truly
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competing with? AJ Hinch Quartro.
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Pretty much the entire American League Central on the White Sox,
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I guess you could say. Yeah, that I mean, I, I would
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put him in the conversation. I, I wouldn't give him the the
24:51
title, given what some of these other teams in the Central have
24:55
done or what some of these teams in Central have done.
24:57
But it's been an impressive year.
25:01
I mean, because it's not like they were, they weren't losing.
25:03
They weren't losing like fringe pieces.
25:05
I mean, you lose Kyle Tucker, you'll lose some some guys in
25:08
that handful of guys in that rotation for for multiple months
25:15
and to not miss a beat with this team, that's a that's a tip of
25:20
the cap spotter, I would say. It's true.
25:23
It's definitely true. Just a thought.
25:27
Phillies, my Philadelphia Phillies, our Philadelphia
25:36
Phillies, America's team. Have.
25:40
Have also clinched the division their First Division since 2011.
25:49
How you feeling about the Phillies right now?
25:51
Where do where do where do the 2024 Phillies vibe stack up to
25:55
the Philly Phillies vibes of 2022-2023?
26:05
First off, I think it's nuts that it's been that long since
26:10
they've won a division and it just shows you the dominance of
26:15
the Braves. I mean, the Braves have owned
26:18
that division for like we're going on like 20 years of just
26:22
dominating, not saying consecutive really, but like
26:26
overall, you can call this in a domination.
26:30
But yeah, I mean, I it's hard for me because when I look at
26:34
that roster, like you can only bank on vibes for so long and
26:40
you can only ride that for so long.
26:42
And when you look at this roster and you're like, you know, a lot
26:46
of these guys are just one year older, you know what I mean?
26:50
And not saying that they're old. I would say that there's a
26:54
number of these guys that were seeing like the end part of
26:58
their prime and it's just it's interesting, but overall, like
27:07
it's hard to find a more complete team overall.
27:12
It's hard to find a more healthy team.
27:14
They're pretty Dang healthy. They got most of their guys.
27:18
They're going in pretty full strength.
27:22
You got a lot of guys that have that have kind of been there,
27:25
done that, so all things are kind of lined up.
27:31
If you're a Phillies fan, you got to feel pretty confident.
27:34
I'm just there's some guys that I don't have a ton of faith in
27:42
where I can just plug in and say no matter what, I know I'm going
27:46
to get prime production out of a Nick Castianos, out of AJT, Rio
27:53
Muto. I think Trey Turner's still a
27:56
problem. I think Bryce Harper's still a
27:58
problem. Kyle Schwarber will see flashes
28:02
of it, but it's just it's. He flips.
28:05
He flips the switch from the lights of he.
28:07
Really, he really kind of does. So it's it's I'm I'm interested
28:11
to see how this plays out. Well, let me ask you.
28:16
This, this is what we just seen by the way, that I, I, I'm not
28:19
worried about a first round buy. I think what team that's been
28:23
there, done that and most recently a roster that's very
28:27
similar to last year's, I don't get too nervous with a first
28:30
round bye. Let me ask you this based on
28:38
what we just talked about or, or reiterating the the OR driving
28:44
home the point that anything can happen in October.
28:48
Given that, or in spite of that, I should say, looking at the
28:55
rest of the National League, could we could we make the
29:00
argument that 2024 is the easiest postseason path that the
29:05
Phillies have seen in the last three years?
29:07
Given the the down nature of the Dodgers with their their
29:12
pitching issues, the fact that the the Braves aren't as much of
29:16
AA problem or an issue this year.
29:18
Not that they were an issue for the Phillies in the previous two
29:20
years. Phillies handled them without a
29:22
problem, but even even less so of a threat this year, just
29:28
given their injury issues as well.
29:32
The Padres, you know, like we'll, we'll touch on them here
29:35
in just a minute. They they can prove to be a
29:38
serious threat, I think with the with the way things are rolling
29:41
there in San Diego. But comparatively, is this not
29:46
the easiest path that the Phillies have seen the last
29:48
three years? I think that's what makes
29:50
everything a little a little nerve wracky, right?
29:52
Like now that now the targets on your back, now the pressure is
29:59
on, right? And you can argue that they had
30:01
this like underdog vibe thing going the last few years that
30:06
really kind of catapulted them up.
30:09
Now it's a little bit different when you're the top dog.
30:11
It's a little bit different when you're at the top of the
30:13
mountain. If you catch a red hot Padres
30:19
team with no break and they're just rolling, I don't know.
30:27
I mean, the Dodgers, yes, I see if it, if it is in the NLCS, I,
30:32
I see some issues there with their pitching timing bags are
30:39
kind of rough lately. I think they're kind of
30:42
scuffling a little bit. The Mets, I, I don't know, I
30:45
just, I can't get, I can't get on board.
30:47
I understand it's, it's a cool story that you guys are doing
30:50
and you're playing good ball lately.
30:52
I just, I don't know, I can't see too deep of a run there.
30:55
But yeah, I mean, you could, you could see it.
30:58
I just, I think it's a little bit different when you're
31:00
talking about a team that gets in on vibes and good baseball
31:07
and momentum versus like, you know what?
31:12
This was our job. We had to handle business and we
31:15
did it. Here's a few days off.
31:18
I don't know. I don't know.
31:20
This is such a weird year dude. Yeah, but you could.
31:23
So lukewarm on all these teams. There's problems with everybody.
31:29
Sure, but that's also represented by the fact that
31:31
again, to to repeat, there's there, there was not 100 win
31:35
team in baseball this year. And I think that more so speaks
31:37
to a lot of the issues these teams are facing internally or
31:41
or just with their roster construction or, or what have
31:44
you. And I think it speaks a little
31:48
bit to the nature, I would hope, of the postseason that we're on
31:52
the brink of and that it's going to be a little bit more
31:55
well-rounded. And hopefully some of these
31:58
series go a little bit deeper because everybody wants that.
32:02
Nobody, nobody. I mean, unless you're a fan of
32:04
the team that does the sweeping, nobody likes seeing sweeps in
32:07
the postseason. I agree I don't want any.
32:10
I'll be honest with you, even if I, now that I think about it,
32:13
even if I was a fan of the team that does the sweep or is doing
32:17
the sweeping, but if, if, if you could promise me that they're
32:21
going to win the series, I'd rather, who wouldn't want to see
32:24
it go 4-5 like 567 or whatever. I, I, I need that.
32:28
So I'm hoping that the this postseason is a little bit
32:31
different in that regard. And I'm hoping that it's going
32:34
to end up that way with the potential for mix of teams that
32:41
we're looking at in terms you throw the Tigers in there, you
32:45
throw the Mets possibly in there.
32:47
There's just some very unique stories going on right now
32:50
around baseball and that are a part of the mix.
32:52
And I'm I'm hopeful that it makes things a little more
32:55
interesting this year. I, I, I how else, like based on
33:00
everything we've seen this year, based on the finishes that we're
33:03
looking at, based on it's going to come down to an extra day.
33:06
Like these are dude like. I tell you.
33:10
What then? I don't.
33:12
I can't think of another year this way where I'm like, I don't
33:16
know. No, exactly, And I was just
33:18
about to say I this will be the hardest, at least in recent
33:22
memory. Yeah, recent memory.
33:24
This is going to be the toughest postseason bracket prediction I
33:26
think we've seen in some time. I agree.
33:29
I I, I woke up today thinking like, oh, like this will be
33:32
maybe a fun episode to give like a little teaser ass.
33:35
Like what I'm thinking. I don't know.
33:37
I don't know. I I like even with the Phillies,
33:39
people get on me. Oh, the the the like secret
33:42
Phillies fan. Even with the Phillies, I'm not
33:46
like as on fire about as I was last year and the year before.
33:49
It's just like they're going to, they're going to give, I would
33:52
imagine a deep run, but it's, I don't, I just don't know, like
33:57
it's and I'm conflicted because I, I just got done saying like
34:00
this might be the easiest path to ever the World Series.
34:02
But that to your point, that kind of scares me because I'm
34:05
going, well, now we're going to, they're going to get caught with
34:08
their, their pants down and it's going to be somebody else in the
34:13
NLCSI. So I, I legitimately have no
34:16
clue what this, what this post season is going to look like,
34:18
but it's kind of exciting because I don't really have a
34:21
dog in the fight. Well, not, not quite.
34:23
We're not dead yet. We're not dead yet. .3% I think
34:28
I saw. I think I saw .6 today, so give
34:33
us the credit where it's due. Sure, my bad.
34:37
What is the score of the game right now?
34:39
I don't have it up. I choose to not watch the games
34:44
while we record. Unlike some folks on this
34:47
program, I'm. About to turn it off because
34:49
it's pissing me off. Socks are down to to nothing,
34:52
but that's fine because they came back and won last night.
34:55
They got to win out. It's it's possible anything is
34:58
possible. Kevin Garnett who else we got
35:02
here? Padres.
35:03
Let's let's switch gears here to the Padres team.
35:05
We have been alluding to this episode have clinched a spot in
35:09
the postseason and and what a fashion they did it the the game
35:14
ending triple play. Although I got it.
35:16
Can I be honest with you? Can I just be honest with you
35:21
real quick and just with our listeners and the people on our
35:23
on the stream? I feel like a little too much
35:27
was made of the triple play. Like I, I saw far too many
35:32
articles about it. I saw far too many posts about
35:36
it. It's like, no, this is sick.
35:38
It's a triple play to punch your ticket to the postseason.
35:41
But it was like it was a little, it was a little over the.
35:43
Top yeah, let's not make it like a a headline everywhere on every
35:48
app kind of kind of sick. I mean, I think I even saw some,
35:53
some podcasts out and about like headlining their, their episode
35:56
with the fact that the, and I'm like, it's it.
35:59
No, it's a triple play. Very cool moment.
36:02
Very cool, especially to do it in LA especially.
36:05
For sure, for sure. Manny starting it, I think
36:08
there's a lot of cool aspects to it, but yeah, Nah, I'm not going
36:13
to yeah, this is going off by the way I'm.
36:16
There you go. Yep, that's what I like to hear.
36:19
It's got nose. But dude, like look, Padres team
36:23
that has a lot of I, I kind of see like at least on the
36:30
offensive side, I see a lot of selflessness.
36:33
You know what I'm saying? All said, like I see a lot of
36:36
selflessness. I see I see the Tatis moving
36:42
from his primary position. I see a Xander Bogarts moving
36:45
from his primary position. I see a Luis Araya's
36:48
understanding, hey, I may not be able to play here.
36:51
I'll play here. You got Donovan Solano playing
36:54
at first base. Sometimes Cronenworth is having
36:56
to take a bench role. Sometimes like you just, I feel
37:00
like you just have like, more so now than I've seen in the past
37:05
in San Diego, everybody pulling the rope in the same direction.
37:09
And it just it it, it gives me that like less superstar, less
37:17
about me. Even with Manny, even with
37:21
Tatis. Like it's the two guys that have
37:25
been the face of baseball in certain moments of their career
37:29
so far. Like you see them being OK,
37:34
chilling, toning it down a little bit.
37:39
I don't know, man. Like there's like, I feel like
37:42
there's a lot of humble pie that have been eaten.
37:45
A lot of these guys have eaten humble pie.
37:49
Kyle Higashioka, dude, like coming onto the scene for them
37:53
back up in New York, right? Like I just, I like what I'm
37:59
seeing jerks and Profar. No one wanted me.
38:01
You guys wanted me. Now I'm here, right?
38:04
Like it's just, it feels, it feels different than it has in
38:09
the past. I mean, the bullpen as a whole,
38:15
you would have thought that you you took all their dogs and
38:17
started to kick them with the way they've they've responded
38:20
this year. I mean, they're taking things
38:22
personally want to, I mean arguably the best in baseball
38:26
that and that's been a huge source of their and you need
38:29
that. You need that.
38:31
I mean, you look at the you look at the All Star break, I think
38:34
they were like they were like right around 500, I think 50 and
38:38
5050 and 49 or something like that.
38:41
And they've been the best team in baseball since that point.
38:45
From that, from from the break to when they clinched the best
38:50
team in baseball, I think they were 41 and 17.
38:55
I like it, is what I is what I saw.
38:57
I like what's happening. I like what they're doing.
39:00
And it seemed like the Padres scares me a little bit when you
39:04
look at a team like the Phillies. 100% they have
39:08
firepower, dude. They have firepower.
39:10
This isn't like we're not struggling to name dudes on this
39:14
roster. Like we know we're aware of what
39:16
they're capable of. I mean, even that, I don't know
39:20
if you heard the call by Don Orsillo on that triple play to
39:24
end the game. I didn't.
39:26
But even to like to end it, he, you know, he's getting hype in
39:30
the way that only Don Arcillo can.
39:32
And he closes it with something to the effect of like, is this
39:35
the year? Is this finally the year for the
39:37
faithful? And I'm like, Oh, I don't feel
39:40
like that question has been asked in previous in recent
39:44
years. And it worries me not worries me
39:46
because like if the Padres go on and win the whole thing, that'll
39:48
be that'll be cool for baseball. It'll be cool for San Diego, But
39:51
it it worries me for the rest of the bracket because I'm going
39:56
they're rolling right now. And now we're starting to, we're
39:58
starting to, to insert that narrative into the conversation
40:02
into the, into the baseball public's eye of like, is this
40:06
finally the year that the, the Padres do this thing?
40:09
Because they they're giving you every reason to believe that it
40:12
is. Yeah, yeah, Interesting vibes in
40:19
San Diego. I, I, I think this is a team
40:24
that like you, you wouldn't want to have a break.
40:29
And the fact that they are coming in hot, the fact that
40:32
they're just going to keep rolling in, I'd be nervous.
40:38
Who, who would they like? So they would.
40:41
Don't even ask me about the bracket dude.
40:42
I I'm trying to make sense of the bracket but there's too many
40:45
loose ends right now. Let me I know there's a lot of
40:51
loose ends, but let's just play around a little bit click on
40:55
that wild card button. All right, so.
41:00
Honestly, if I'm being honest, I'd I kind of want the I, I at
41:06
this at this stage. As of right now, it's the Mets,
41:10
right? Don't, don't ask me.
41:13
Because the division winner will get the the lowest wild card
41:17
winner. So like for example, as of right
41:22
now, the Diamondbacks are in the last wild card spot, which means
41:27
they would get they would get them, they would get the Dodgers
41:36
if the Dodgers. No.
41:43
The would it not be? I think the number one seeds
41:46
still up for grabs. Yeah, between them and the
41:51
Phillies. But would it not be the Brewers?
41:55
The last wild card spot would be the Brewers would.
41:58
Get the Brewers. As a as currently A-90 win team
42:02
to the other two teams having 93 wins at this moment.
42:12
So yeah, it would be the if, if it held right now, it would be
42:15
the Mets, Padres and Mets and the.
42:18
And then Brewers, Diamondbacks, whatever.
42:20
Yeah, I like that. I like.
42:24
I'd hate that. If I were the Mets, I'd be real
42:27
nervous. That's the one team I don't
42:29
think I would want to mess with. If you're the Mets, I would
42:32
want. If I would want something else.
42:38
No, for sure. And look, we've we've ragged on
42:40
the Mets more than our fair share this year.
42:43
But I tell you what I mean, if we're going, if you're going off
42:46
of vibes at at this stage in the game, the.
42:49
Vibes. The vibes are high.
42:50
That would be a heck of a match up, the Padres and the Mets.
42:54
I would imagine it would be a better outcome than what was
42:56
that, 2022 when we saw the Padres roll into town and sweep
43:02
them out of. Queens in Queens.
43:04
Yeah, yeah. So I I think we'd see a better
43:08
potential match up there. But at this stage of the game, I
43:10
know the Dodgers haven't officially clinched the West as
43:12
of this second, but I kind of want to see the Padres just keep
43:20
rolling. I don't I don't know if I want
43:21
to see the Padres get any days off with with that that by if
43:25
they could somehow find a way to make that happen.
43:27
But. I like, I like what's happening
43:33
in San Diego. I do.
43:35
Should we go out there? You don't go out there.
43:38
Are you talking about like this month, like in October?
43:41
I don't know what you talking about.
43:43
I don't know. That'd be neat.
43:46
What's? Going on, that would be neat.
43:49
Certainly be neat. I wouldn't hate it.
43:52
I wouldn't hate it. I was so sick.
43:55
I got to get out there. I really need to get out there.
43:57
So sick. I do hate, however, what's going
44:01
on with this Mets Braves thing. And I think a lot of I think
44:05
both fan bases are, are hating what's going on with this.
44:08
Yeah, who dropped the ball here? Like, is this the league?
44:12
Because I, I was reading a little bit more about it today.
44:15
And it makes sense that the Braves had no incentive to
44:21
rearrange or move up, move back the game because of the, the
44:30
gate that they'd be getting and because of the the situation of
44:37
them just being the truest. And I, I don't know it, it sort
44:41
of made sense. But I'm also like, OK, well, you
44:44
need to be winning baseball games, though.
44:47
And if you don't make something happen, Braves and you you push
44:52
this to to Monday, which is what's happening at this stage
44:55
because they've already canceled tonight, Wednesday's game and
44:59
tomorrow night, Thursday, that game as well.
45:02
And they're they're now. For hurricane right?
45:05
Yeah, for Hurricane, they're pushing it to a doubleheader on
45:07
Monday, so those will be the only games are going on.
45:09
Everything else will be locked up and we're going to have to
45:12
watch the Mets and Braves play a doubleheader on Monday to
45:16
determine the final. Maybe.
45:21
The maybe. Yeah, the final make up of the
45:24
of the bracket. Maybe.
45:26
I hope. I mean, if, if this is what
45:27
we're going to do, we may as well at least make it
45:29
interesting. Yeah, that would be really dumb
45:32
if like the last game meant nothing like the second game of
45:38
the doubleheader. Yeah, man, I don't Stupid
45:45
Hurricanes out here in Arizona. Like we don't even, I don't even
45:49
know when hurricane season is. I don't know when people have to
45:52
deal with hurricanes. I don't hear about hurricanes.
45:57
So I didn't know about this until I saw the games.
46:02
We're getting a whole lot of rain up here, I know that much.
46:05
It's been raining here all week so we're getting the residual
46:08
effects of it and I don't know if it's stopping anytime soon.
46:12
I got you. Well, I mean, look, this is this
46:16
is going to be electric. If if these games mean
46:24
something. I mean, like when you talk about
46:26
the Mets, I think Mets fans wise, it's going to be electric.
46:32
I think their their side of things.
46:35
It's going to be like, this is perfect.
46:37
This is how we wanted it, right? Like it's going to have that
46:40
kind of yeah, energy to it. I just, I just don't want to
46:44
watch. It I think Braves fans checked
46:46
out a long time ago. I mean, how could you?
46:50
How could you? Not, and like, I know we've been
46:52
throwing shade for a while. Yeah, I've had, I've had my run
46:56
in run insurance with Braves fans over the last couple years.
47:00
But I'm like, just just let sleeping dogs lie, you know,
47:05
like just just just understand. And again, going back to how we
47:09
opened up with anything that happened in October, I I just
47:12
don't know if that applies to this Braves team even more so
47:15
than the. Orioles knows it.
47:17
Yeah, I think everyone knows it, too.
47:19
That's what sucks. It's sad.
47:21
I don't. It's very sad.
47:23
I don't want to see, I don't want to see a lifeless Braves
47:26
team get hot for five games, limp into the the OR.
47:32
I guess technically it'd be like over a span of eight games, I
47:36
think they've won like three in a row or something.
47:38
I don't want to see a lifeless Braves team get hot for the last
47:42
week of the season, creep in, or I should say, back their way
47:46
into the the postseason and then just fall flat on their face
47:50
when we could see. As much as I get irritated by
47:54
the Mets at times. I'd rather see that.
47:56
I'd rather see a more exciting Mets team, A-Team that's going
48:00
to at least give you reason to believe that they could do
48:03
something special in October. I don't know, but I just, I, I
48:08
wish it didn't come down to the, the final few days of the
48:12
season. But if it is going to come down
48:15
to the final days of the season, at least make a Monday worth our
48:18
while. Like don't just flame out over
48:20
the weekend and then roll into town or show up to the the field
48:24
on Monday. It'd be like, all right, well,
48:26
this is a formality and nothing else.
48:30
Too much, too much. John Fisher talking about too
48:38
much. I don't know if you saw, did you
48:40
see the letter that he he sent out to ace fans?
48:43
Sure did. Sure did.
48:46
I saw I saw a meme posted about it this week and it said
48:52
something to the effect of like, Good thing the ASPR team got to
48:55
this before John Fisher sent it out.
48:58
Because what John Fisher was originally going to sent out.
49:01
And then it just had a line where it said, dear A's fans, F
49:04
you. That's that's probably what he
49:07
was going for. That's probably what he was
49:09
going for. But yeah, the letter was
49:15
insincere. The letter was from what I've
49:20
from, from what I understand, from what I've heard, from what
49:22
I've read, from what I've. Seen pretty false.
49:24
Full of Yeah, full of lies. There been.
49:28
I mean, you want to talk about Oakland A's fact checkers?
49:31
They're running this thing up and down like nobody's business.
49:34
Talking about. Well, you, you said this, you
49:36
really did this. You said you were going to do
49:40
this and you ended up not doing that.
49:44
I can read you here for those who haven't gotten caught up to
49:48
speed with with the letter that he sent out the A's fans or he,
49:50
I think he posted it on social. He he opened the first couple
49:56
paragraphs talking about the A's history and blah, blah, blah.
49:59
And like, whatever that I mean, that that's not why you're
50:02
writing this letter, John. We all know that the history of
50:05
the A's is, is super rich and deserves to be acknowledged,
50:09
especially with this chapter closing.
50:11
But like, don't, don't cushion your letter or don't pad your
50:14
letter to open it up with, with history or accomplishments that
50:18
you weren't even necessarily a part of or that you probably
50:21
honestly were even really rooting for, if we're being
50:23
honest. But he starts out with the
50:25
history and then he gets into the, the meat and potatoes of
50:28
what he says. And just bear with me because
50:30
there's a a little decent chunk here.
50:33
He says the A's are part of the fabric of Oakland, the East Bay,
50:37
and the entire Bay Area. When Lou Wolf and I bought the
50:40
team in 2005, our dream was to win World Championships and
50:43
build a new ballpark in Oakland. Over the next 18 years, we did
50:47
our very best to make that happen.
50:49
We proposed and pursued 5 different locations in the Bay
50:53
Area and despite mutual and ongoing efforts to get a deal
50:56
done and for the Howard Terminal project, we came up short.
50:59
Only in 2021, after 16 years of working exclusively on
51:03
developing a home in the Bay Area and faced with a binding
51:06
MLB agreement to find a new home by 2024, did we begin to explore
51:11
taking the team to Las Vegas. There are millions of dedicated
51:14
and passionate A's fans in Oakland and around the world.
51:18
Countless dedicated staff members in Oakland Coliseum
51:21
employees have poured their hearts into this team, and their
51:24
efforts have meant so much to our community.
51:27
I know there's great disappointment, even bitterness,
51:29
though I wish I could speak to each one of you individually.
51:32
I can tell you from I can tell you this from the heart.
51:36
We tried. Staying in Oakland was our goal,
51:38
it was our mission, and we failed to achieve it.
51:41
And for that, I'm genuinely sorry.
51:43
Looking ahead, I hope you will join our beloved as as we move
51:46
forward on this amazing journey. I hope I will see you again
51:50
sporting the green and gold, and I hope we will make you proud.
51:53
John Fisher, that honestly, the, the part that the part that
52:01
pisses me off as a baseball fan was when he just dropped in that
52:05
we tried. It's like you would have been
52:08
better better suited to leave that out, John, because you very
52:11
clearly didn't try. Yeah, I don't care about any of
52:13
that. Don't care and.
52:19
Again, not to beat a dead horse, but I still stand by what I've
52:23
said. And I've we just talked about
52:25
this last episode with the the whole upcoming final series at
52:28
the Coliseum thing, and now we're on the eve of the final
52:32
game at the Coliseum. I still stand by what I said and
52:39
I think both of these elements can be true.
52:42
Do I think John Fisher made it a genuine effort?
52:45
No, I don't. Based on everything I've read,
52:48
based on the feedback you've gotten from people that are like
52:51
involved with the organization, that follow the organization,
52:54
that have been fans of the organization for decades.
52:57
Do I believe he made an effort? No.
53:01
Do I think that AIDS fans could have made a stronger statement
53:07
in the years in which the team saw success over the last
53:11
decade? Also, yes, because the biggest
53:16
hang up with them was we don't have a winning product on the
53:19
field. And when they made the post
53:21
season over the last, well call it 10-15 years, the numbers
53:27
don't really reflect that. They, the, the attendance
53:30
numbers, the, the general sentiment of support did not,
53:36
did not necessarily reflect that.
53:38
And sure, you could make the argument like, well, maybe they,
53:40
they, they just lucked into it and we didn't really have this
53:44
sort of vision or expectation on opening day.
53:48
And I mean, what do you want us to do kind of thing?
53:51
Maybe that's what happened. But I, I'm, I'm trying to see it
53:55
from both sides here, not from the perspective of John Fisher,
53:57
but I'm trying to see it from like the business side of
54:00
things. And then also from the, the
54:03
perspective of A's fans and the pain that they're feeling,
54:05
because like we talked about, like this is it you can, you can
54:10
save the save the narrative, save the, the jokes for another
54:13
day. Like the reality is, is this is
54:15
it for the Oakland A's in Oakland.
54:18
And like, say what you will, but like it's, it's a, it's a
54:23
strange time to be a fan of Oakland A's baseball.
54:28
And I just don't think that's, that this letter helped
54:31
anything. And I think John Fisher knew
54:33
that. And I think this was almost
54:37
spiteful, if I'm being honest with you.
54:41
You're probably right. Did you see that that clip of
54:44
the the Oakland news anchor? Oh, he went in.
54:48
He went in. Homie popped off for sure.
54:51
He's like, I could call 3 billionaires right now and, and
54:54
they'd be, they'd buy this team in a heartbeat.
54:57
And I'm like, all right, man. Relax.
55:00
First off, no need to flex like that.
55:04
Secondly, it's not how it works. You know, something's got to
55:07
something's got to give with the Commissioner's Office and
55:11
something's got to change. But yeah, man, it's curious to
55:17
see how, how it's going to look tomorrow for the last game.
55:24
Curious to see what those those two fans that bought those two
55:31
seats that got ripped out of the the ground did you see?
55:34
That I did see that. That was crazy.
55:37
What are those two, What are those two guys going to do
55:39
tomorrow when they show up and they're like just rebars
55:43
sticking out of concrete? Yeah.
55:46
Anyway, it's it's going to be, it's going to be something that
55:51
like, oh, it's, it's like a weird smudge on baseball.
55:56
You know what I mean? Like I, I think for those who
56:03
those, I don't know if you want to call them purists or those on
56:05
the side of like being against Barry Bonds, still, still like
56:11
locking in and watching the home run race to chase down Hank
56:15
Aaron. Like you like you're still like,
56:18
you're almost like having to watch it even though it sucks.
56:21
I think that's how a lot of baseball fans, that's their
56:24
sentiment tomorrow of like I, I got to watch this, even though I
56:29
don't feel great about it and even though I, I feel a certain
56:33
way about it, it's it's not a great look on baseball.
56:36
It's not a great look on, on a, a professional organization in
56:41
sports. I think it's a bad look, but is
56:46
what it is man is what it is. How about another walk off win
56:50
though? That would be That'd be kind of
56:53
a sick sight. I'm in.
56:58
I mean, I, I think as much as a day baseball game in Oakland on
57:05
a Thursday afternoon could I, I think it would break the
57:10
Internet, yeah, as as much as that, as much as that
57:14
realistically could as yeah, as far reaching as that impact
57:17
could be. I think that like that would.
57:19
As big of a wave that I could make, yeah.
57:22
Exactly, I mean, that's that would be cool to see and and I'm
57:25
hoping I'm, I'm hoping for that for them that I think that'd be
57:29
that'd be cool. It'd be neat.
57:32
Quite neat. Speaking of neat, Charlie
57:35
Blackman says he might he might finally consider shaving the
57:41
beard. This was a sad one.
57:45
I'll be honest, I'm I'm a little sad.
57:47
I think it's it was time. It's definitely time for sure
57:53
living in Denver for as long as I did.
57:54
Like I I do know that like Rockies fans love Chuck Nasty
58:00
man, they love them some Charlie Black men a part of some huge
58:05
moments. I think everyone can appreciate
58:08
like his, his rawness and his what's the word I'm looking for
58:17
like? Just like authenticity.
58:22
Authenticity I guess is a good word.
58:24
I was thinking more of like a like it's the opposite of being,
58:29
you know, a superstar. Like not that saying that he was
58:32
on that caliber, his unassuming. Nature just like showing up to
58:36
the the the ballpark everyday. And I don't, I don't know if
58:39
he's still doing it, but I know like during his prime, like he
58:41
was still driving like a 1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee.
58:45
Like, and that to me is very, it's very Denver, it's very
58:50
Colorado. It's very like, you know what,
58:53
I'm just going to drive this 4 wheel drive because it gets me
58:55
to where I need to go and it works through the snow and it
58:58
gets me to the mountains. And I think he, he was just very
59:02
perfect for the Colorado Rockies.
59:07
Very, very cool dude. Actually got a chance to meet
59:10
him. I don't know if I've ever seen
59:12
someone as barrel chested that will seeing Charlie Blackman in
59:17
person. You're like, that's a big man.
59:20
Like you don't you don't think you realize how big that dude
59:23
is? Just a very cool dude.
59:27
And when I was when I was coaching my high school kids,
59:30
all of them of course were asking like, you know, if he'd
59:32
if he'd ever shave the beard. And even then he was like, no, I
59:37
think it's going to stick around like it's just a just a cool
59:40
dude, a very regular guy in a very, I think a very good
59:46
career. I think a very good career.
59:48
I don't think we're ever, ever going to consider Hall of Fame
59:52
or a statue outside of Coors Field.
59:53
But I think just a very good career in a in a fan favorite
59:58
and a guy that seemed to play ball the right way.
1:00:04
You know, and honestly, I think he's OK with that.
1:00:05
You're talking about not having a statue outside of Coors Field,
1:00:08
not being a Hall of Fame at at this with the way the world is
1:00:12
now. I think if, if you're a if
1:00:14
you're a professional athlete and you can, you can stick with
1:00:19
a team for the duration of your career and you can come out on
1:00:24
the other side of it without any controversy or without any
1:00:27
scandal. And you're just a guy that shows
1:00:29
up to work every day, does your job and does it above average
1:00:34
for the most part. That's I think you can hang your
1:00:37
hat on that if you're Charlie Blackman, and I'm sure he is.
1:00:40
I, I feel like that's a guy that is going to tell you and, and
1:00:43
reassure you that he left everything out on the field.
1:00:46
And you know, honestly, that's what more could you want?
1:00:50
He's also a guy that's going to disappear.
1:00:52
You won't ever see or hear from Charlie Blackman again.
1:00:55
Like it the way Brett Gardner has disappeared since he
1:00:58
retired. Same thing for Charlie Black.
1:01:01
He's going to go find a cabin in the mountains.
1:01:04
He's going to be fishing in rivers and hanging out with his
1:01:07
dog. That's just it.
1:01:09
Well, I'm glad he didn't disappear before Nolan Arenado
1:01:12
got a chance to so sick say his his goodbyes.
1:01:17
That mean that that was very, very cool.
1:01:20
If you didn't see it, there's a there's a picture floating
1:01:22
around on social of Nolan Arenado just posted up against
1:01:26
the the press conference room wall and he's just taking it in.
1:01:34
He's taking his his former teammates announcement.
1:01:39
I guess you could say he's just taking that in and that was just
1:01:42
really cool to see. I mean, people can say what the
1:01:46
one about Nolan Coronado. I know he's he's ruffled
1:01:48
feathers at times, but that's just a teammate showing support
1:01:52
for a teammate. And I mean, that was that was
1:01:55
just really cool baseball moment that probably doesn't get
1:01:59
appreciated enough. Yeah, but but very cool to see.
1:02:03
And if, if you're not like super familiar with Charlie Blackman
1:02:06
and, and like, I'm not saying now is the time to like queue in
1:02:09
and, and watch a game, but like friend of the pod and, and
1:02:13
someone that I've been connected with for a long time.
1:02:15
Drew Goodman is the the color commentator for them.
1:02:19
If you want to hear someone give a heck of a tribute on on
1:02:25
Charlie Blackman's last game or last at bat or whatever kind of
1:02:29
exit he's going to have in Coors Field list, listen to that.
1:02:33
I promise you, Drew Goodman will not disappoint.
1:02:36
That's going to be a heck of a call.
1:02:42
Speaking of saying farewells, David Bell out as manager of the
1:02:49
Cincinnati Reds. We don't have to go too much
1:02:51
into it because I know it's we're a few days out from the,
1:02:55
the announcement now, but just kind of a strange, maybe it's
1:03:01
not as strange as I'm making it out to be.
1:03:02
Maybe this was kind of expected. I just, I find it odd the timing
1:03:06
of it given his extension last summer.
1:03:12
I don't know, It just seems like you're you're changing
1:03:16
direction. Yeah, I felt like they were like
1:03:18
starting to starting to make a shift in a certain direction.
1:03:26
Just a bummer year though, like just a disappointing year when
1:03:31
you're talking about playing in that ballpark.
1:03:32
And their bottom 3rd and pretty much every offensive category
1:03:39
outside of Ellie De La Cruz. Just a very average.
1:03:44
I think he was the only one with over an 800 OPS on the team.
1:03:49
Like just nobody really producing.
1:03:54
Strange deadline. We can go back to that moment,
1:03:59
you know, as a specific one, but like, I don't know, I'm I'm just
1:04:03
a little confused. Like I feel like there's a few
1:04:07
there's there and and we'll get into the pirates here in a
1:04:10
minute. But like I just see a lot of
1:04:13
parallels there with their super stardom that you have on your
1:04:18
roster. That is really strong stardom,
1:04:22
stardom, potential superstardom, potential superstardom.
1:04:28
They're on that path at least. And I think it's you'd like to
1:04:33
see the organization build around that a little bit more.
1:04:38
So I'm hoping that whatever happens next, call me crazy, can
1:04:46
we get like Sean Casey in that chair?
1:04:49
Is that a big leap? Dude, you would know better than
1:04:52
I would. Does he have an interest in
1:04:53
that? I don't.
1:04:54
I feel like that anyone that's accepts a second-half of the
1:04:58
year hitting coach position probably just needs something on
1:05:01
the resume to say I've been in the dugout, but like, I don't
1:05:07
know, a guy that holds and carries a lot of weight in
1:05:11
Cincinnati knows how to talk. That's a good point.
1:05:16
Media for a while. It's a good point.
1:05:18
Nate could be interesting. What's interesting is the
1:05:24
Pirates releasing Rowdy Talez 4 plate appearances shy of A200K
1:05:30
bonus. That's interesting.
1:05:33
Did. You read the comments the GM.
1:05:38
From Cherington how he said it was like a zero factor or
1:05:41
something. Zero factor see what 0 factor in
1:05:45
like financial like. Motivation, yeah.
1:05:49
What are we? Talking about Ben, I, I'm a, I'm
1:05:51
a, I'm a pretty decent Ben Charrington guy.
1:05:54
Like I'm not, I'm not, I'm not going to die on any sort of hill
1:05:58
for him. But I mean, I I got nothing
1:05:59
against the man, but like that, that's not what you want to say.
1:06:05
Read the room like you. What do you think the feedback's
1:06:08
going to be when you when you say something like that, when
1:06:10
you look at the fact that he was quite literally.
1:06:12
You count on one hand how many played appearances he was away
1:06:15
from a bonus. They just didn't want to pay it.
1:06:18
Yeah. What?
1:06:18
What difference would it make in a season, in a lost season
1:06:21
already that he gets rowdy Tills gets four more played
1:06:26
appearances and. What are what are you?
1:06:27
What are you trying to see with these call UPS?
1:06:32
What are you trying to like? What, what's the motivation
1:06:34
there? It's hard for me to believe.
1:06:38
I mean, don't get me wrong, it's not like Rowdy Till has had a
1:06:42
fantastic season. It's not like he, you know, was
1:06:46
posting numbers where you're like, you know what?
1:06:47
Let's reward this guy for what he what he was able to provide
1:06:51
for us this year. But I mean, you saw, you saw
1:06:57
some leadership moments out of him in a pirate uniform, you
1:07:01
know? Yeah, that's the other thing
1:07:02
too. It's like this is how you're
1:07:03
going to reward him for, you know, being a a pretty stand up
1:07:08
guy for your organization and and being a guy that would come
1:07:12
to the defense of some of your the talent that's in that
1:07:16
clubhouse. And you're going to say, well,
1:07:18
we just we just don't really feel like paying this, to be
1:07:20
honest with you. That just seems kind of like a
1:07:22
slap in the face. But I mean, the Pirates have
1:07:25
known to be, have been known to be cheap, so I, I can't act too
1:07:30
surprised, but I'm just like, you couldn't have come up with a
1:07:33
better excuse than that. Come on.
1:07:36
The way it's the way organizations handle this time
1:07:41
of year that really shows some true colors, really shows it.
1:07:46
And then in addition, they release Michael A Taylor as
1:07:48
well. So couple roster moves there for
1:07:51
the Pirates, but yeah. Let's no, let's see what these
1:07:53
young guys got. I want to see what these guys
1:07:55
got. Yep, five games to go, I want.
1:07:59
To see it like huge sample size, huge moments, huge opportunity.
1:08:04
Really excited to see what these young guys got.
1:08:08
Games that carry a lot of weight in the hunt for the central
1:08:12
crown that I guess they think they're still in.
1:08:16
That's right. You know it's just a business
1:08:19
decision. Trash.
1:08:24
I was I was really doing my best to give some give the pirates
1:08:27
some love this year, but that just if this is how they're
1:08:30
going out, then, well, no, this is not like going out this.
1:08:33
Just leaves a real sour want it, you know?
1:08:36
Yeah, wasn't a lack of trying, but this just leaves a real sour
1:08:39
taste in your mouth. I was ready for it.
1:08:41
I was excited about it, you and I.
1:08:43
I mean, we wanted to raise it. It's.
1:08:47
Going to be a wanted to No, not today.
1:08:55
Not today. Maybe maybe next year, but not
1:08:57
today, I tell you that much. Yeah, that that pirate music
1:09:02
button is going to get a little dusty over the next handful of
1:09:04
months. Sure will, sure will.
1:09:05
Might have to replace it. That's all I really had.
1:09:09
You got anything else for the folks?
1:09:11
I had something I'm forgetting now.
1:09:14
You're so lost in this shirt. Yeah, for those the for those
1:09:18
who have joined the join the stream since after I showed it
1:09:22
earlier or to open the the pod, I'll give you one last look here
1:09:26
before it it goes away for a few days.
1:09:30
Just so delightful. It says baseball's chosen ones,
1:09:36
all they do is win. And then it says right here,
1:09:40
right here, how to lose a bet, page 42.
1:09:44
And as you can see, just three pictures and they place in the
1:09:48
faces of I think this is Alex Gonzalez, Edgar Renteria.
1:09:55
I'm lost on the last one. I don't know.
1:09:57
I don't remember who this one was.
1:09:59
I don't remember either. I don't remember who this one
1:10:03
was, but then obviously you got a Rod and and Jeter here.
1:10:05
But yeah, this I'm trying to do this backwards in the in the
1:10:08
screen. This this this one cracks me
1:10:12
top. That's the top right.
1:10:14
There this this version of Nate right here given given the eyes
1:10:17
to to Jeter over here. I mean that's that's classic.
1:10:21
So yeah, one one episode down. I got to wear this for 9 more
1:10:24
episodes. Not looking forward to it, but
1:10:27
you know a. Bet swaggy shirt.
1:10:29
Swaggy shirt. I need that puppy framed when
1:10:31
we're done. When the bet is over, I need it
1:10:33
framed. And then still, still TBDI got
1:10:38
to, I got to place that donation to the Yankees Foundation to
1:10:41
wrap this, to wrap this bed up officially so.
1:10:44
Settle up, it's time. You know what?
1:10:48
I may wait. I may wait until the Yankees
1:10:52
season's over, and that'll be the way that I put a bow on the
1:10:55
season. Win or lose, I'll I'll make the
1:10:57
donation the day that that their 2024 season is no more.
1:11:03
That seems fitting. I.
1:11:04
Like that. Let's let's hope it's a good
1:11:07
day. Let's hope it's.
1:11:09
That would not really suck, yeah.
1:11:11
That would really suck for me if it's.
1:11:13
Game. 6 World Series. They're hoisting the crown.
1:11:17
I'm over here hitting submit on a donation to the Yankee
1:11:20
Foundation. Excellent.
1:11:22
That'd be excellent. Don't count on it.
1:11:24
That's all I got, unless you got anything else.
1:11:26
We'll see you guys. What is today, Wednesday?
1:11:29
Oh, we'll see you guys Sunday for the post season preview
1:11:32
episode. Probably going to be Monday, no?
1:11:37
I guess. Depends.
1:11:38
Let's we'll say this they mean something it.
1:11:41
It yeah, we'll, we'll go ahead and put that, that caveat on it.
1:11:44
If the games matter Monday, we'll I guess you'll hear from
1:11:48
us Monday, but if not you'll hear from us Sunday.
1:11:52
Well, that's crazy. That's craziness.
1:11:55
Second and last episode of the regular season.
1:12:01
Insane. Knots.
1:12:03
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1:12:06
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1:12:24
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