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Division Series Update · 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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presenter by Sea Kick. This episode 474.
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I'll be your host, Kyle Corn. I'm here with my Co host Nate
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Reyes. Nate.
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Hello to all on this fine evening.
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Not as cocky as we were after Saturday night.
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Are we Cocky? No.
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You were feeling yourself. You were feeling yourself up.
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You were feeling yourself Saturday.
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But you know, now that this series is even back up, you know
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it's cordial. Greetings.
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Hello. Nice to see everyone.
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But if the Yankees would have pulled out Game 2, I would have.
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That would have been insufferable.
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I would have not even bothered coming on this on this year.
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Insufferable. For not even having a team in
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the postseason. OK, All right.
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Well, we've already acknowledged that we don't need.
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I mean, if that's the only thing we got, it's fine.
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Speaking of unsufferable, insufferable Bob Costas sucks
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that his job. Yeah, let's just get it out of
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the way. Bob Costas sucks.
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The app sucks. The the platform sucks.
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Bob Costas was on the verge of tears when Giancarlo Satan
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grounded into a double play and apologize for him.
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Up about it. Why is it every at bat?
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For two straight games, let's not here, let's OK, we we
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acknowledge, we acknowledge the Bob Costas thing.
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But look, there's we need to we if there was ever an episode
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where we're going to focus on the positive right out of the
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gate, it has to be this one. We no, yes, we are on track for
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one of the best post seasons I think ever.
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And I don't think that's I don't think that's an exaggeration.
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I don't think we're we're dealing with hyperbole there.
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I think the with the way we're tracking right now.
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I mean, you look at the Royals Yankees series right now in
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terms of runs like, like run separating the two teams, that's
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the closest series. Three runs over the course of
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these last two games separate those two teams.
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And you can make the argument that it's the most boring of the
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four that we're watching right now because of Bob.
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Well, that's, that's that's, yeah, I, I, I can't disagree
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with you there, but. I've never wanted Ron Darling to
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speak so much just to keep Bob from talking.
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Yeah, I've never been like a huge, I mean, I don't have
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anything against Ron Darling, but I all of a sudden I'm, I'm
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like very fascinated with what Ron Darling has to say on these
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things. Every like before I speak, Kyle,
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as mentioned before, we hopped on, I'd like to continue like
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shut up, dude. Everything he says has a comma.
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Every sentence has a comma. Break statement.
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All right, so back to the positive here.
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Break finish statement. So back to the positives here.
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All four series I saw this note just 4 minutes were helped on
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all four series are tied at one apiece.
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That is kind of cool. For the first time in the
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Division Series era. It's kind of neat.
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That's that's quite, that's quite fantastic.
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I'd say. We didn't have any sweeps,
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right? And prediction wise, I didn't
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have any. I had I had the Padres sweeping
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the Dodgers, which I mean, let's be honest and and we'll
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obviously we'll touch on all these series, but it I mean, if
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the Padres head heading back to San Diego, if they can take care
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of business at home. I mean I've I've only would have
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been one game off. Still wrong.
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Well, not necessarily. I mean, I started off O and four
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you, I think. I guess you would have been 2:00
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and 2:00 to start after after we finished with game ones.
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I was Owen 4, so I was feeling awfully great about myself.
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But you know what they say, it's not about how you start.
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It's about how you go your next four games, and I'm four I've.
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Heard that statement. That some have said it not a
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good phrase. Yeah.
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So I'm four and on my last four. So do with that information once
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you will. But Speaking of these series,
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let's let's let's talk about it, shall we?
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You want to go? What are you thinking?
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You want to go? No, you know what?
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I'm going to do it. We're going to start with it.
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We're starting with the Mets and Phillies.
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We're going to start with the Mets and Phillies.
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Game One. Whatever.
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Tough, tough, tough way to start when you're like in the bank,
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yeah, you know, and like you get Schwarber gives you all all you
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need to get it going. I mean everything you need to
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jump start. Zach Wheeler, even though the
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the the window has closed to make his case for the Cy Young
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was just giving you a little bit of a reminder of how good he
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was. He I mean, he extremely
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efficient, extremely dominant and like you said, the Schwarber
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lead off home run, but just sort of a a flat arrival to the bank
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for the Phillies wasn't exactly I think what they're building it
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up to be what they're hoping it to be.
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But Game 2, pretty safe to say the game of the post season thus
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far. I mean, I know it's small sample
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size, but I mean that was. That was electric, that was.
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Insane baseball game. It was.
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And I know it was, I can only imagine how heartbreaking it was
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for Mets fans. But that's one of those games,
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whether you're on the winning side or the losing side, as a
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fan or really as a player, that's one of those games where
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you you're probably feeling pretty fortunate that you were a
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part of or that you got to be there for or that you were
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invested in as a fan of one of those teams.
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Because those don't come around very often, especially on on the
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the postseason level. I mean that the back and forth,
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the lead changes the for me, one of the the highlights of that
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game was the fact that it was the the dudes that you expected
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or that you would have hoped made a difference, made a
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difference. And that was that was fun to
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watch. 100% yeah. Castellanos, man.
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Have a day. Needed to show up.
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Needed to show up. Then that was big.
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Really, really big the back-to-back homers.
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That was so sick. So we were we were over at my in
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laws, my father-in-law had football going on on the TV.
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So I had the game on the iPad, you know, have it like propped
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up like on the coffee table. You're a little side note here.
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You're really selling me on these iPads.
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Like I for the longest time I've been like, I don't like what
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what's the difference between a phone or like having a laptop,
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but that sounds like it's actually not 1/2 bad viewing
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experience for a baseball game. Delightful, delightful.
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I notice it all. That's all I use it for is if
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I'm watching a game and it's not on TV, Like it.
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Like, you know what I mean? Like the wife wants something
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else on. Sure, sure.
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She's tired. Happens all the time.
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Being, you know, being played all day so like are we really
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going to watch another three hour game?
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No, no, no, it's cool. Let me throw on the iPad so.
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Like, it's nice. I am.
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I'm going to watch. Yeah, but anyway, so we're at
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the in laws and like I'm trying to my my father-in-law likes
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baseball for sure. He's definitely a football guy,
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but he likes baseball. mother-in-law wife.
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They could kind of care less. Like they know they love it for
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me, but like they don't need to have it on kind of thing, right?
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And I'm trying to tell them how different post season baseball
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is. And I'm explaining them of like
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regular season games. Anybody and everybody goes.
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It's like a social event. Half the time at a regular
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season game on a Sunday in June, half the people there are just
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there to soak up the sun, have a couple of hot dogs, right?
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Not right now when October hits, everyone in that stadium is die
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hard fully invested. And so I would like after those
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hits, after that home run and then the Castellanos follow up,
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I was like, I like threw the volume up all the way.
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I was like, you guys have got to hear this like and the bank was
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just locked in just going ham. And they were like, what?
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And I'm like, this is post season baseball.
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This is what it's about. It's sick, man.
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It's sick. I love when the dudes show up.
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I love when it happens at home and just a great game back and
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forth the Mets are. So freaking pesky.
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I hate it. They're so pesky, dude, but I
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can't. I can't even hate like I you
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can't at this point like this. This is clearly we can talk
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about how the series could potentially end up for the Mets.
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Like if they end up getting bounced, OK, that's a
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conversation for down the road. But like at this point in time,
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and we kind of touched on it last episode, but this seems to
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be a different Mets team. And like we can call that raise
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in the hand. We can call that accountability,
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like revisionist or whatever, whatever you want to call it,
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hand up like the the Mets are proving themselves to be a
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different team. And it's hate to say it, it's
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sort of being LED. This movement is sort of being
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led by Peter Alonso. I know.
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And not just him. Mark Vientos is making a name
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for himself this post season. No, I know.
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I mean, he had he had the the game of his short career in Game
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2 and it didn't even matter. Like that's the kind of game
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that we witnessed in in Game 2. But yeah, you talk about those
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back-to-back home runs being LED off by Bryce Harper.
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I had tweeted minutes before that I said the Phillies are
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showing little to no urgency. And I was starting to get
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concerned, you know, as a non Phillies fan, of course, that
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Phillies were going to go quietly into the night down two
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games to none, heading back to or, or heading to Queens.
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And you, you kind of just assumed that if there was going
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to be anybody to to flip the script to get things going a
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little bit, it was going to be Bryce.
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And at that point in time, it was that at bat that he needed
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to do it because up to that point, they were, they had been
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lifeless. And when he hit that home run,
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it put him up within a run. It was three to two at that
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point. And I'm going, you know, that's,
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that's great. You get the fans back in it.
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But I, I at the very least you need it tied.
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Like if you could tack on a couple more, great.
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But like, at the very least, I feel like you need it tied
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because of how pesky this Mets team is, like you said, And it
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proved that it they still needed more beyond that.
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But when Castianos hit that home run and the crowd double down,
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I'm like, OK, the the bank is officially here.
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Like I, I think the Phillies will be fine from here on out.
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And that I mean they were, they were sweating a little bit
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towards the end there and obviously pulled it out, but.
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There are a few things more electric than back-to-back home
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runs in a post season game. There are a few things that was
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sick. Can I not to harp on this cost
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this thing anymore? But can I just say that of the
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two series that have been given the Fox broadcast, I'm so
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thankful that it was Mets, Phillies and Padres, Dodgers.
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It's not even just Costas, it's whatever's going on with their
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microphones. I don't understand.
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Like you can hear the change if something happens in the
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stadium, erupts it like the volume drops down and then Bob
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Costas's microphone just explodes and then he stops
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talking and then the crowd is still dumbed down.
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What is going on? It's horrendous.
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Like there's there's a bunch of videos on like social media.
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There are like people like in Yankee saying like just in case
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you couldn't, you couldn't tell what it sounded like.
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Like here's the, you know, the in person view or the in person
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sound. It's just strange.
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Like it's just weird. Box is superior and it's just
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just how it is. Yeah, the the audio for the
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Yankees games probably drowned out a lot of the the boos for
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Judge, no. No boos.
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No, I'm sure there were some. No boos.
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I mean, we're talking about one of the greatest offensive
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seasons of all time, but par for the course come time for the
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postseason that that's that's I've just heard that that's not
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me talking. These are just things that I
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hear. These are things that I pick up
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on over the course of a postseason series.
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We're just postseason as a whole.
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Anyway, back to the Mets Phillies.
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Yeah, it, I mean, if it goes without saying, but if, if the
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Phillies go quietly into the night down O2.
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That was a must win. That, I mean, yeah, you, you
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hate throwing that around, but it was, it absolutely was.
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And even with that win, I'm still a little nervous with the
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fact that this is now going back to Queen or, or going to Queens
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I should say. How did you how did you feel
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about the Sosa start over BOM? That was interesting.
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It was interesting, but I don't know, that's one of those things
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where like you, you could look back on and go, wow, that really
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worked. Or you look back on it and go,
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well, that was really stupid. Not knowing, not really knowing
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what Thompson's thought process was there.
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I can only imagine that it was, or they could, they alluded to
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it a little bit on the broadcast talking about how so?
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So it was an energy thing they said.
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It was an energy thing they said.
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So we they needed like a little bit of a jolt and I'm like, I
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get it. Boehm's a fan favorite.
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Yeah, but that's that, that's one of those things.
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And I personally have been there, not at the the big league
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level, of course, but I've been there in my playing days.
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There's one instance in particular that I can think back
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on where I got SAT and it it pissed me off so much that my
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next at bat, it took the little jump on the mound deep, like
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whatever. And that felt good because I was
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like, OK, you know, kind of woke me up a little bit.
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Maybe that's what he was trying to do with Bohm because need a
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little bit more from Bohm. He eventually gets in, I think.
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Was it defensively or did he did he get brought in for an at bat?
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And then I don't remember how he got brought.
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Into the game. I think it wasn't at bat, but I
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mean he obviously didn't do anything major.
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He's not hitting like wall scrapers or three run home runs.
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But you know, that's I think that's one of those decisions.
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It helps the fact that they won the game.
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It's that's one of those decisions where kind of.
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Gets hidden. Yeah, maybe we got away with one
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there. It didn't affect us in the next
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just. Interesting.
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Just thought it was interesting because I mean that and like,
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you got to know your guys. I'm I'm not going to sit here
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and say I know the Phillies roster better than Rob Thompson.
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You know what I mean? He's if that's what that was, if
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that's what the intent was, he's got to know how Alec bomb Alec
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bomb ticks so I can see it. I can see it.
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Hopefully it ignites something in him game three if he does get
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the start. But just strange thought.
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Kodai Singa in game one looks pretty good.
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Like pitching wise, just like I'm kind of running through
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things in my head like of notable performances you.
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Know what I mean? I think of all of the moments
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that happened in that second game, I think you and I were on
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the same page in terms of just like what just happened that the
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Bryson Stott to run triple to put them up.
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I think that was the moment for you and I because we were we
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were texting back and forth and I was like, in my head, I'm just
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going this has to be the thing that that wins in the game.
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And then of course, the aforementioned Mark Vientos in
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the 9th or top of the ninth, put some, put some even at six.
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And I'm going not again, not we. And it's not just like a
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Phillies Mets thing. It's just like, is this really
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going to be the narrative that that pushes this Mets team like
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to the World Series? Like the team is just not going
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to go away. And when when that happened, I'm
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going, I don't know if this Phillies team stand a chance
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like it because they did all they could to get back.
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I mean, with Harper with the bomb, Cassie with the bomb,
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Bryson Stotts moment, I'm going, what more can they do outside of
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putting up like a dozen? What more can they do?
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And fortunately, they held on to to fortunately for the Phillies,
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they they held on to win the game.
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But. I mean, what, what would I, what
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did I tell you after, after the last series, after the wild card
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round and then my predictions for this?
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It was it was around the back end of the Mets bullpen.
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And Edwin Diaz is not the Edwin Diaz of two years ago.
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He's just not it doesn't it doesn't feel like he was before
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that before the injury, you know, yeah.
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And when he when he's being used in non closer scenarios and it
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just doesn't feel quite right. We've seen a lot of that, more
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so than I can remember in seasons past.
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We're seeing a lot more of like. I agree, I think.
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There's the last guys using higher leverage situations now.
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I think there's there's less names that are like a for sure
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closer. Give me the 9th.
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I mean, we'll get to it, but like Class A coming in to finish
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out the 8th today, like. How do you feel about that?
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Like 'cause I was kind of thinking about it myself, 'cause
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I'm like, I, I'm very much of I'm, I'm, I'm definitely a fan
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of like the traditional like give me a starter that'll go 6
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plus. Give me a guy that you can that
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you know is going to give me a guy even in the 8th that you
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know is going to be your 8th inning guy and then have.
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Your lock down the problem, I feel like this setup role has
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been lost. Yeah.
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And and I think this three batter minimum and finishing the
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inning kind of situation is definitely become a part of the
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puzzle when you're seeing guys that not necessarily saying like
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a closer coming in to finish the 8th isn't going to go back in
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the 9th, but you're seeing that manipulated in certain ways,
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sure, but there's just so many names out there that aren't like
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a Class A. They're not like a dominant
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league leading. I'm coming in in the ninth no
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matter what. The end of the game is mine no
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matter what. There really isn't that that
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common anymore, which is just strange.
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I think it just shows how hard that position is.
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But I just thought it was, it's interesting, you know what I
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mean? And Edwin Diaz is like, they're
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using him a lot. They use him a lot in the wild
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card round. You're seeing him a lot already,
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like, and it's multiple innings, it's early.
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It just doesn't feel the exact same.
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Tyler Mcgrill is, is solid, don't get me wrong.
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Yeah, I think he had a good chunk of saves this year, but
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it's a part of the, it's a part of the the equation for winning
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ball clubs, that's all. I think another factor that you
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have to take into account with that equation is that you're
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seeing teams. I saw a good bit of it today.
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I mean, I think the Yankees emptied the entire pen and as
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well as I, I think some of the other teams that played today
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also very heavily pushed the pen in terms of usage.
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Given that the off day is coming up.
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Like you're seeing teams utilize that off day a little bit more.
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Like you're seeing more of a shift like we talked about with
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guys maybe in being asked to perform in their non traditional
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role or inning and then you're also seeing them use a little
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bit more on on the with. These off days.
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The front sides of these off days, yeah.
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So it's it's been an interesting.
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Darling did come up with a really good point where he
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talked about you almost got to be careful of when those guys
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are going so often, when those relievers are throwing so often
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in a series, you got to think of what part of the lineup they're
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seeing, all right? And if he sees 456 and maybe he
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mows them down, maybe it's a 10/12 pitch inning.
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If you running back out there the next game and it's 456
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again. That's, you know, like when
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hitters start getting multiple looks at relievers throughout a
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series, it's going to change things.
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So you almost kind of have to manage of like what part of the
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lineup they're seeing, not to mention, you know, just like a
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dangerous part of the game or, you know, a spot that they got
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to get out of something like that.
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Like there's different pieces of that too.
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This is this is what post season baseball is at this point.
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I mean, it's it's about pushing the right buttons at the right
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time. And I I'm pretty impressed so
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far. I mean, like you, you can't hold
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anything against Carlos Mendoza. You can't say he didn't press
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the right buttons at the end of the bullpen.
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I just think if if the Phillies offense can get that type of
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confidence off of your stoppers, off of your guys that should be
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shut in the door, if they're going to get that type of
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confidence early in a series, it's I think it could play a
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role later. And that was a heck of a dub.
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The Castillanos PP and son moment after the walk off.
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Dude, that's that's one of my, that's one of my favorite.
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Like it's not, it's not a bit, but like just one of my favorite
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like micro events that that pops up so often.
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I feel like is is or storyline, I guess you could say is, is
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Cassie with his yeah, with his son Liam.
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I mean that it's, it's not just like a once every now and then
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thing. Like if there's a big moment and
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Nick Cassiano says a part of it, you can guarantee you're going
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to see Liam on the screen, which I, which I just loved.
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It's Philly has adopted them, has adopted Liam as their son.
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It's it's the sickest thing. It's going to be sick when we
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see Liam in in 15 years in Philly.
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But it's not done. I just, it's so cool, like we
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hear about like kids growing up in clubhouses and kids like that
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eventually become ball players that like they were around it
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their whole lives. Like this is different, dude.
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You're sitting in front row, like right behind the backstop.
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On national TV after a walk off just.
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Then Dad's coming up celebrating with you like that's sick, sick
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moment. Speaking of Dad, let's talk
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about the Padres these I'll tell you what, man, these game twos
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got the juices going. I mean, and the, the, the, the
25:05
frustrating part going into this game, having just watched the
25:10
Phillies, the Mets Phillies game, you're going, I kind of
25:14
hate that this was the first game to happen because like,
25:16
you're not going to get an encore for, to like at any level
25:22
that would compare to this game. And I mean, the scoreboard to me
25:27
did not reflect the, the emotion, the impact that this
25:34
Game 2 between the Padres and Dodgers had on their series as a
25:37
whole. I mean, this was we're, I think
25:41
we're knocking on the door and, and some might disagree, we
25:45
might be knocking on the door of, of things boiling over
25:49
between these two teams. I.
25:51
Mean because like I said, it was 10/2 to the on the scoreboard to
25:55
close things out, but it felt pretty much the entire game like
25:59
it was a one run game. There's just so many moments,
26:04
there's so many things, so many narratives that are happening
26:09
inside of this, and I feel like Manny Machado is just in the
26:14
middle, stirring this pot more than anybody.
26:17
It goes back to what we're saying with the Mets.
26:19
Phillies, like the guy who you would hope is in the middle of
26:23
all of this, are the guys that are in the middle of all this,
26:26
Manny Machado, Fernando Tatis. I mean, like Fernando Tatis
26:32
clearly does not care about anything that the Padres fans
26:36
are saying to him, anything that they're wishing upon him or
26:40
Dodgers fans do not care. And I just, I'm kind of here for
26:45
it. Bring it on in right field,
26:49
Dodger Stadium. And what's crazy about that is
26:53
that, you know, Manny Machado is just as fired up, if not more
26:59
than Fernando Tati says. Because in any other situation,
27:03
I'm convinced that Machado would would put his arm around
27:07
Fernando, be like, hey dude, let's dial it back a little bit.
27:10
But homies like on the top step blowing kisses to people in the
27:13
stands. Wild.
27:15
And nobody's saying anything to him.
27:17
So I'm like, clearly this Padres to you like as a whole, as a
27:20
collective unit is they're they're just OK letting it eat
27:23
right now. They're they're, they're OK
27:25
twisting the knife a little bit. He's chewing his gum and then
27:29
like the just the most obnoxious way possible.
27:32
All of it. I'm just, I love.
27:34
Them I mean the fake tears. Yeah, dude.
27:40
I'm at the point now and I, we've, we've probably commented
27:43
on this in years past, but I'm at the point now where his whole
27:47
like what? It's not the euro step that he
27:51
does, it's just it's like the. Stutter.
27:55
The yeah, the stutter coming around 3rd.
27:57
I'm at the point now where I'm like, you know what?
27:59
This is very clearly the thing that you love to do in moments
28:02
like this. You're going, you're going deep
28:05
twice in a game against your most hated rival.
28:09
Go for it. Go.
28:10
For it. Oh man.
28:14
Let's start in the first, though.
28:15
Let's start in the first. You have Fernando leading things
28:19
off in the first with a home run and then in the bottom half
28:23
you've got the jerks and Profar robbery air quotes.
28:29
I was sitting there. I was like what I.
28:31
Was just what's going on? I was with Joe.
28:33
Davis I was like, it's gone. It's one go up on the
28:39
scoreboard. You're like what?
28:41
I did notice that, yeah, the scoreboard folks were a little,
28:44
little trigger happy there. Quick, real quick.
28:48
Quick to fire from the hip. It's what's wild is that you saw
28:51
the interaction of Profar in those Dodger fans and there's
28:55
like this head shaking, like buck up flexing and then the
29:00
Dodger fans like, all right, respect, all good-natured.
29:03
And then like 6-7 innings later it just turns into just flipping
29:07
birds. It's like a.
29:09
War zone out there, Yeah. What happened?
29:12
I thought you had. A a respect for my guy Profar.
29:15
And I thought we were friends. Just going off on him.
29:21
Yeah. Well, did you see, did you see
29:24
the clip where he had what did he bring them a ball?
29:28
Is that what I saw? He brought them a ball.
29:31
Did he? I didn't see that.
29:32
Yeah. And then I think, I don't know
29:34
if that was, I don't know if that's the one that they threw,
29:37
But then there was a ball that gets thrown at him.
29:39
And then things are, I saw, I don't know if you saw this, but
29:43
there was something being thrown at the guys in the pen too, in
29:46
the Padres. Pen.
29:47
I saw the TikTok of like someone in the crowd.
29:50
Yeah, it was like a pen. It was like a souvenir cup, I
29:53
think, or something got thrown in there.
29:55
And like that, I, I don't know, forgive me, I don't know, like
29:58
what role she has, but there was some woman there, maybe a
30:01
trainer or something. She was looking up in the
30:03
stands, but the guys were looking out on the field and you
30:06
see her pointing like, oh, like, what is this?
30:10
And the guys turn around and they're like ducking.
30:12
And then it's, you see these like souvenir cups or I don't
30:15
know what it was like falling to the ground.
30:16
And I'm like, well, what are we doing here?
30:19
And, and like the, the Fox broadcast and, and other people
30:23
were talking about how like, well, we don't want to, we don't
30:25
want to generalize here. Like we don't want to generalize
30:29
a whole fan base by the actions of a few.
30:31
But I'm also like, this isn't the first running we've had with
30:34
Dodgers fans acting out like, let's, let's not, let's not fool
30:39
ourselves here. It's true there's quite a
30:42
there's there's a few fan bases that can they can do this kind
30:45
of stuff. It's never cool, It's never it's
30:47
never OK. It's just wild that like you can
30:55
watch a player instigate so much and then like cower and like
31:06
point out fans specifically to security guards out of it's just
31:10
it's just different. Like I.
31:12
Well, I don't know. Are you saying are you saying
31:14
Profar was cowering because I don't I mean.
31:18
No, I'm not saying him. I think just there, there's
31:21
examples of athletes all the time where they're like they're
31:24
ready to throw hands with a fan and then the second there's like
31:29
something that actually starts outside of hand gestures and
31:33
yelling, they're ready to go tell mom and dad, you know what
31:37
I'm saying? Like there's a little bit of
31:39
that vibe going. On well, there's a little bit of
31:41
that like with with players and fans, but I mean, we talk about
31:44
all the time. There's you have that same vibe
31:47
with players and other players like when, when it's time to
31:50
take the gloves off, guys are like already back at the top
31:53
step and we're like, OK, well what was that all about?
31:55
Doesn't happen. I don't know.
31:57
I'm ready for like Ron Artest to run into the.
32:00
Give me a little mouse at the palace and.
32:02
Throw and just smoke somebody. I mean, give me Gary Sheffield
32:07
going into the right field stands like give me that.
32:10
That's what I need. I need that.
32:13
But then I mean, you want to talk about storylines this game,
32:16
you have the you have the Jack Flaherty striking out Machado
32:19
thing. And then they start chirping and
32:24
I have to ask between those two, who are you putting your money
32:27
on? Because I know who I'm putting
32:29
my money on, but I don't. I didn't know if it'd be the
32:31
same for you. I don't know, man.
32:36
I think, I think Jack can surprise some people.
32:38
Flaherty's got, I think, the height and the weight on
32:42
Machado. I think Machado is a is a
32:45
chirper. I don't think Machado is.
32:49
You think Machado is a lover, not a fighter?
32:51
Yeah, I don't know if he's got that gene in him.
32:54
There's just something about it. Machado was really in the middle
33:00
of he's in the eye of the storm of all of this.
33:03
Did you see that notification that came through that Dave
33:06
Roberts was upset 'cause he thought Machado threw a ball at
33:08
him? Yeah, and I just saw a friend of
33:10
the pod, Dallas Braden, he had, he had shared the video of it,
33:16
'cause I guess I. Didn't see it, Does it look like
33:18
it? It was like a tough video to
33:19
track down 'cause it was just kind of here and there.
33:22
But yeah, they're talking to he Dallas was talking about the
33:26
speed, like he was analysing the speed.
33:28
Like was this something where he's just casually tossing ball
33:31
to the dugout or is he like letting me a little bit?
33:35
I mean, to me as like a, as a somewhat objective fan here.
33:40
Like I, I have obviously I have my thoughts on Machado, but
33:42
I've, I've, I've grown on Machado a lot.
33:45
So I'm trying to look at this objectively.
33:47
It's like as close to borderline I think as you can get.
33:50
Like it's it's definitely quicker than just your little
33:52
one hop to the ball boy. But it's not, I mean, he's not
33:56
he's not lighting up any radar guns with it.
33:58
We'll just say that. And then, yeah, you and then
34:01
Dave Roberts comes out and says he's he felt targeted with the
34:04
ball. And I'm like, what he Machado
34:07
literally played on your team. Like do you do you think he's
34:09
that swept up in the moment? I don't know.
34:13
A lot of wild moments, a lot of wild moments, but the Ochani bat
34:17
flip, how can we forget game one?
34:20
My goodness, that was like. That was pent up.
34:24
It was kind of epic when I keep seeing the clips of like the the
34:32
presser where they were like, are you nervous at all for your
34:35
first appearance? Nope.
34:36
It's just like the clearest English I've ever heard him say.
34:41
Nope. I.
34:44
Immediately it's a Ding Dong. I would have loved if that was
34:46
his first at bat of the of of the postseason.
34:49
Other than like, I mean how much more perfect does this guy's
34:54
like career arc get? I know, but the bat flip was
34:58
just like, I don't. I haven't really seen that out
35:01
of him before. It wasn't, I mean, I've seen him
35:03
toss it aside before after like a big month.
35:06
But that, yeah, there was some like, intent behind that.
35:09
And it wasn't just that, it was the emotion.
35:11
Like verbal. All the way around the basis.
35:14
He was, he was yelling out something and he, that's what
35:18
I'm saying, that was pent up. And he's like, I finally I'm in
35:21
a game outside of like the WBC, of course, but he's like, I'm
35:24
finally in a game that matters and I can like actually show
35:28
out. And he, I think, I think the
35:32
ball at the bat and he was like, I'm here.
35:35
There, I like that he's this way.
35:37
I like seeing it out of him. I feel like there's like a like
35:41
a good balance in that lineup of, you know, you got like a
35:46
like a Will Smith and a Freddie Freeman very much just like a
35:50
head down jog. You you have some Max Muncie
35:56
that I've he's had some moments in history.
36:01
Kiki's like kind of flamboyant Tay Oscar like these like
36:05
Mookie. I would say he's more on the
36:09
reserve side, but you can see a little bit of a spike or a bat
36:14
flip and then it's normal. So it's cool to have like the
36:18
biggest baseball player on the planet doing that, man.
36:23
It's like it's good. It's good.
36:26
It's a great series so far. This is not disappointing at
36:29
all. And like you said, I think the
36:30
score of game game was a Game 2. Two.
36:35
Yeah, it. Doesn't reflect like how how
36:39
intense that game was. I mean that wheels fell off in
36:42
the late in the game, but. I mean, you get to a point where
36:47
the game so far out of reach for the Dodgers, but the more runs
36:51
that the Padres put up like it it when it became a full on
36:54
blowout, you're going OK, like games out of hand for the
36:57
Dodgers. But this is becoming a storyline
36:59
in and of itself where you have the Dodgers just or you have the
37:02
Padres absolutely manhandling the Dodgers before they go home.
37:07
Like I, I, I love the fact that all these series are, we're,
37:10
we're switching venues now. Like we're at that point where,
37:13
where guys are getting on, on planes and, and heading
37:16
elsewhere. Because you're seeing, you're
37:20
seeing this, we're at this point in the series, where can these
37:23
teams carry that momentum either back home or, or on the road?
37:28
Because like, like with the Phillies, for example, you're,
37:30
you're, can you, can you make that last in Queens?
37:32
And if you're the Padres, can you build on that and and build
37:35
off the energy that you know Petco's going to have when you
37:37
get home? Oh, and that's a great point
37:39
because three out of these four series Rd. team won the second
37:44
game and it's taking that W back home, taking some of that
37:48
momentum back home, right? So, yeah, great, great series.
37:53
Trying to think of, man, there's just so much that went on.
37:58
Jackson Merrill, by the way. Like, my goodness, that guy's a
38:04
dog. You know, I I should have asked
38:08
the same question back when I asked a question about Jackson
38:11
Cheerio. Like is it too soon to expect
38:13
too much from Jackson Cheerio? I should have just asked the
38:16
same question for this. Jackson as well.
38:18
Like, is it too soon to expect too much?
38:20
The answer is clearly no. Like this guy is this guy is
38:23
ready for this moment and he's he's contributing meaningful ABS
38:30
and meaningful play in games that they absolutely like you.
38:34
If you're the Padres, you absolutely had to go in a Dodger
38:36
Stadium and at least split like you just you just had to do
38:38
that. Yeah.
38:40
And he played a big role in that.
38:42
And another guy that played a huge role, Kyle Agashioka, you
38:45
would know better than I would. Where is this coming from?
38:47
He's got he's got three home runs already this post season.
38:50
He's got sneaky pop, he's got sneaky pop.
38:53
He just didn't get like regular ABS as a Yankee.
38:57
He's he's got that in him. Dude, I remember the last,
39:03
obviously not this year, but last spring training, dude had
39:07
like 8-8 or nine home runs in spring training.
39:10
Everyone's like, who is this? Who is this guy?
39:12
Iggy's? Iggy's got it, man.
39:14
And he's that's, that's what I was talking about.
39:16
Like kind of the balance in the in the lineup of your head down
39:20
and jog kind of guys. He's one of those guys.
39:24
For sure. Oh yeah, for sure.
39:26
Like he, if you took him out of the uniform and said he was, you
39:30
know, if he's working at Chase Bank as a financial advisor, I'd
39:33
be like, yeah, I buy that. Oh, babe, we got an appointment
39:38
today at 4:30 with Kyle Fugashioka.
39:41
Can you make sure we got all our statements with us?
39:44
Like that's. Yeah, no, that's, that's, that's
39:48
completely accurate. I've I could totally see that.
39:51
I've heard he's just like a, a terrible interview too.
39:54
You've probably, you've probably heard a handful of those.
39:55
He's super dry. He's so dry, but everyone says
40:01
he's like all the interviews I hear is this.
40:03
He's one of the funniest guys in the clubhouse because of that.
40:09
I love it. Go Higgy.
40:13
Really the only other thing I feel like from that game to talk
40:16
about before we moved on was, I mean, we sort of talked about
40:19
it, but the. Oh, is Xandro OK?
40:21
Yeah, I think it was a hamstring issue I saw.
40:24
Pulled Kurt Gibson. Yeah, it didn't clearly didn't
40:27
affect him too much. Friggin limping around.
40:29
He loves he loves the big games in Dodger Stadium.
40:32
Shout out 2018. But yeah, the the game delay as
40:36
a whole, we sort of alluded to it earlier, but you know, you
40:41
just can't have that happening. And you have you have that.
40:47
And then what followed was the Manny Machado team meeting in
40:51
the dugout, which I'm going to continue this narrative.
40:56
What did you think? Did you like that?
40:57
I loved it. I.
40:59
I that's what I'm saying. I'm going to continue this this
41:01
personal narrative. And I think you're sort of in
41:03
the same boat. Collectively, I think we've kind
41:05
of grown. Manny Machado has grown on us
41:08
sort of at the same time. But this is just another example
41:11
of like I have like, what more? Sure, if you're a Dodgers fan,
41:16
you're probably looking at the the Machado, Jack Flaherty
41:18
situation going. This guy's a punk, like
41:20
whatever. But as somebody who doesn't have
41:22
a dog in the fight, I'm looking at this series going, OK, yeah,
41:25
he got swept up in the moment with Jack Flaherty.
41:27
But Manny Machado 7-8 years ago is not doing this.
41:33
He's not doing this. And the fact that you you've got
41:37
him calling a team meeting when they're already up by a handful
41:41
at that point. I saw people going like they're,
41:44
they're like tweeting out like, why, why, like why do this now?
41:48
You're already up, like, what's the point?
41:51
It clearly worked. They tacked on, I guess, like
41:54
almost a half dozen more. I got to guess it's like a, it's
41:57
like a let's just, let's just stay focused in our business,
42:00
get out of here, you know what I mean?
42:02
That's a sign of charity to me. If you get roped into antics, if
42:06
you get roped into, you know, any kind of loser mentality
42:10
around this stuff, if you do so, if you react in a certain way
42:15
and get yourself suspended, like that damages us, you know what I
42:20
mean? So I like it, I like it.
42:24
I don't. It's so rare to see that in
42:27
baseball, an in game like team meeting, huddle up in the dugout
42:33
kind of thing. I'm a fan.
42:36
I'm cool with it. Go pods, man, Go pods.
42:43
Friend of the friend of the pod, Grand Meg Greg Amsinger, who was
42:46
talking about it on on MLB Network today.
42:48
He was like, or I guess it was I watched it this morning, but I
42:51
guess it was the show from from immediately after the game last
42:55
night with the Padres and Dodgers.
42:56
But he said he's like, I got to he's like I got to take I got a
43:00
trend. He's like, you know, I love
43:01
trends. He goes Padres are winning the
43:04
World Series and the guy like Harold, the other guy's like,
43:06
what are you talking about? And he goes think back on the
43:10
teams in the post season that had their quote UN quote leader
43:15
have it hold a team meeting in the middle of the game in the
43:17
dugout. He pointed to two instances, I
43:20
think it was 2 of 100 pence in 2012 and 2014, I believe, in
43:27
which he did that went on to win the World Series.
43:29
He pointed to the instance in which David Ortiz did in 2013 in
43:34
Saint Louis. They went on to win that World
43:36
Series. So he's like, say what you will,
43:39
he's like, that's my take, That's my trend.
43:41
Padres are going to win the World Series.
43:42
So I'm like, I mean, he's he's not wrong.
43:45
If that trend continues like it's I don't think that trend
43:49
has failed yet. So we'll see how how it shakes
43:51
out when they head back to San Diego.
43:53
But I mean, this is, I mean, I, I, I think most people probably
43:58
agree, unless you're a fan of one of the American League
44:01
teams, the National League Series right now I think are.
44:04
Electric. Great.
44:05
Are attracting the most attention right now and
44:07
rightfully so like the I think these we talked.
44:09
About this this is you know, these were the more marketable
44:13
series you know, division rivals throughout the year, you know
44:20
built up aggression fan bases yeah, I would agree.
44:27
I I mean, I I think it was a pretty good game today.
44:30
I don't know how much of that that Guardians Tigers game you
44:33
caught. I mean, that was.
44:35
Yeah, I was talking about it, I told.
44:36
You before the before this series I said if you like
44:40
baseball being played the right way, this is that series.
44:44
We're just seeing really quality pitching, really quality defense
44:49
and I mean I've I'm loving it. I'm loving it.
44:55
I know it's not the most sexy one game one just kind of flush
44:59
that Guardian Tigers Guardians just cancelled out the Tigers
45:06
chaos just said yeah, We'll we'll take your opener and raise
45:11
ya. Well, they they tweeted
45:13
something out from the like the Tigers official account tweeted
45:15
something out and it was like chaos and had a picture of like
45:18
all the guys from their pen. And it was like soon.
45:20
The caption was like, soon, and then they go and put up A5.
45:24
The the Guardians put up A5 spot in the first before a run before
45:27
an out had even been been recorded.
45:29
People seem to forget that five runs before and out have been
45:31
recorded. And then I saw people in their
45:33
prize going, yeah, that was chaos for sure.
45:36
You nailed that one. Yeah, yeah.
45:39
So not much to to write home about that, but game two I mean.
45:44
Well, a redeeming point for the Tigers, though, in game one.
45:47
Reece Olson, like that. I know that Game 1 as a whole
45:51
for the Tigers probably get swept under the rug, but like
45:54
Game 2 might not happen for the Tigers if you don't have Reese
45:57
Olson going out there and giving you 5 innings of that's true of
46:00
run ball. I mean, he gave up the home run
46:02
but settled down after that and that's some time.
46:05
Kind of just take a take a bullet, you know what I mean?
46:08
Sure. Kind of just take E1 for the
46:10
team there. Sorry but you were saying Game
46:12
2. Chewed up, but yeah, game two.
46:14
I mean, Scuba Boyd. Whoa, man.
46:19
I mean just excellent pitching, excellent defence, big Christmas
46:29
Noel and and right field with that play in the corner.
46:32
There's a lot of good outfield play today.
46:34
They talked about it a lot on the broadcast.
46:38
I told you, these teams are just they're, they're very sound,
46:42
very well coached. They do not beat themselves.
46:46
It's just they're going to lose because the other team truly
46:50
beat them. That's the Guardians.
46:51
Both of these teams play. They match up really well.
46:54
They do, they do. And, and people can sit there
46:56
and question like, well, what was Stephen Vogt doing bringing
46:59
Class A in and A and A cause at that point it was what?
47:03
Nothing. Yeah, yeah, nothing.
47:05
Nothing. Right, Yeah, 'cause it was
47:06
finished up 3. Nothing that you could go like.
47:09
Why is he bringing? Him in that's the rule.
47:12
I know he did it in the 8th to go try and get that lasts out of
47:17
the 8th. Right, right.
47:18
But but that's what I'm Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
47:20
Tie game at home. Closer all day.
47:23
Yeah, but I mean, people still asking the question, but it's
47:27
one of those sentences where it's like you didn't the
47:29
Guardians did not beat themselves.
47:31
The tiger, Carrie Carpenter to be exact, showed up.
47:35
She's. Talking about stringing hits
47:36
together, it's two singles before that.
47:39
Yeah, yeah. And that was that was the first
47:44
three run Homer he's given up in his career.
47:48
The first three run Homer, the guy he had given up two earned
47:52
runs since like the middle of June and gave up three and one
47:56
at bat. This just doesn't happen.
47:58
And this I say it, I have I'll give myself credit.
48:02
I held off until like two games into the Vision series says I
48:06
usually say it like after the first game of the wild card.
48:09
This just goes to show you that nobody really knows what they're
48:13
talking about because what would the effect?
48:15
What would the the the so-called experts told you would have
48:18
happened in that scenario? Class A is going to hold him
48:21
scoreless. They're going to walk it off in
48:23
the ninth. Because probably said that
48:26
because he's dominant. And Class A has never given up a
48:29
three run Homer in his career. So why would it happen now?
48:32
That's the beauty of baseball, specifically the beauty of
48:35
postseason baseball. Anything happens.
48:37
So at the end of the day, nobody really knows what they're
48:38
talking about. We're just here to talk about it
48:40
after the fact, I guess. But that was a beautiful thing.
48:43
But you mentioned Scubble and you also, you also mentioned
48:47
Boyd. I, I don't want Matthew Boyd's
48:50
efforts here to get lost or or overshadowed by Taylor Scubble,
48:55
because you have to remember he has not had a he's not had a
48:57
full season. He only had what, a month or two
49:02
worth of starts? Maybe I, but I think maybe like
49:04
a month worth of starts before the post season and the fact
49:08
that he was able to come out there and give you nearly five
49:12
innings of of scoreless ball, that's all you can ask.
49:18
Pitch count wise too, I think he was fine.
49:21
He was like in his 70s. Yeah, I think he was.
49:23
He was getting up there a little bit, but it ultimately, and and
49:29
I know you, I just said not to let it happen, but it
49:32
unfortunately just gets overshadowed by what school did.
49:36
I mean 7 innings of scoreless ball, 8 KS.
49:42
I mean this, this guy is as automatic as automatic can get
49:46
in the postseason. It's disgusting.
49:50
It's fun to watch. It's really, really special.
49:53
I think they were saying on the broadcast they're boys.
49:57
Yeah, former Tiger Matthew Boyd. Yeah, so they're boys.
50:01
So I I think there is probably a little extra little ampage
50:05
coming in for, for Matthew Boyd, but just a really, really all
50:12
around fun game. Fun atmosphere too.
50:16
Credits a progressive they they looked like that place was
50:19
popping for. Sure, they were in it.
50:22
They were in it, but this is, I just said it in the Mets Philly
50:26
series, if you can build confidence off of a back end of
50:31
a bullpen, specifically a closer early in a series, it makes you
50:36
feel like that moment's going to come around again later in the
50:39
series. And and we've done it before.
50:42
We can do it again. That's what that does.
50:46
That's a that's a great point. They were talking about.
50:48
I guess it would have been, was it Ron Darling that said this on
50:50
the broadcast he was talking about, he had actually maybe
50:53
heard this from somebody else. I don't remember who said it,
50:55
but talking about the the fact that in a postseason you're more
51:00
than likely going to have to beat their best guy in the back
51:03
end. At least Frank or twice.
51:05
Yeah, yeah, yeah. There was Frank or that said
51:07
that. Yeah, like if if if you want to
51:09
win a World Series. Got it.
51:11
Yeah, at some point and one of these matchups on the way there,
51:15
you were going to have to beat the team, the other team's best
51:19
guy in the back end. And like we talked about, some
51:22
of these roles can be a little fluid.
51:23
But for the Tigers, it's going to be Class A and you you could
51:27
probably going to have to beat him a time or two.
51:28
And they they took care of it once already.
51:31
We'll see if it happens again. Yeah, slider just was not what
51:38
it normally is today for Class A just a lot of lot of cement
51:43
mixers, a lot of spinning. And like his version of a cement
51:46
mixer is better than most sliders.
51:49
Like he you saw hedges a couple times kind of pat the dirt like
51:53
I want this ball down, I want this ball down and it just
51:56
didn't get it just didn't get down there.
51:58
I don't think you really have the command.
52:03
It makes you wonder because they they put him in in that first
52:09
game with a 7 nothing lead to lock it down and just kind of
52:13
finish up the game. And I think there's a couple
52:16
different arguments you can make with that.
52:18
Maybe Steven Vogue is saying like, you know, let's just don't
52:21
let them carry any momentum into Game 2.
52:23
Let's just go ahead and close the door now.
52:25
Don't let him, you know, get any solid ABS.
52:32
But that does say that when you're talking about a closer
52:35
that was a league leader in saves this year, it has been
52:39
dominant for a year plus. What does that do?
52:45
What does that do, You know? And I know they had a day off,
52:47
but like, these are some of the things to an equation that you
52:51
can wonder and ask and yeah. Yeah, like what does it do to a
52:57
guy's psyche who's just used to going in and shutting the door
53:00
in a close, high leverage situation?
53:02
You you throw them out there and for all intents and purposes of
53:06
blow out. And and he looked good, he did
53:09
fine. He looked great, but how does
53:11
that carry over then? Like when when you when when the
53:16
phone rings and it's for him and the pen and you're you're
53:20
telling him to get hot, but he looks out at the scoreboard and
53:23
they're up 7. What does that do for his?
53:27
I just. Yeah.
53:28
And like, imagine the the level of adrenaline that he would feel
53:33
if he didn't throw game one and this was his first appearance in
53:36
in the postseason. Imagine how that could have
53:40
affected things a little bit. Just a thought.
53:43
Nothing. Yeah, we're not trying to play
53:45
the high side. Game yeah, very easy to sit here
53:47
and and play Monday morning quarterback.
53:49
But overall it's a good series. And Carrie Carpenter, my
53:57
goodness, if you're not familiar, you should be.
54:00
Now, man's is different. He knew it too, 'cause I'm
54:05
sitting there. Watching it, not even getting
54:06
the start, not even getting the start today against, against
54:10
Boyd or I mean, yeah, against Boyd.
54:13
So like that's, that's a big deal.
54:18
Well, he's, he's definitely like a a usage guy or like a match up
54:22
guy for sure. And he he doesn't well, like not
54:24
everybody can do that. Even if your splits are are
54:27
strong, you may not be suited for a coming off the bench
54:31
because some guys respond differently to that.
54:33
He's had big moments throughout the year and this is just
54:36
another one that he can he can tally.
54:38
I mean, the biggest of them all thus far, obviously, but I mean,
54:42
he knew it because I'm sitting there watching.
54:44
I'm like, is this going to, is this going to get up enough?
54:47
But the second I saw the bat, the bat drop, I'm like, well, if
54:51
he knows it, then we don't need to sit here and wonder like this
54:54
ball is gone. Maybe he lost his helmet at some
54:56
point too. That was a little weird.
54:57
Rounding first, I think. Yeah, but.
54:59
Freaking out a little bit. I'm like, let's have it, let's
55:02
have it, you know, yeah. Big moment for the Tigers.
55:04
Big moment it's. I love there's something about
55:07
when you can hear the opposing dugout do something big and the
55:12
stadium is so quiet that you can hear the dugout screaming.
55:16
That's cool man, that's super sick.
55:20
That is, that is beautiful postseason baseball going.
55:23
To be interesting, going back to Comerica, it's going to it's
55:26
going to look, I think vibes are going to be high.
55:32
Detroit's been been hungry. When's the last time they were?
55:35
They were just legit, you know what I mean?
55:37
Oh, they haven't had. They haven't hosted a postseason
55:39
game there since 2013 or no, 2020 even. 2014, right, because
55:46
that was when they matched up with the OS, I believe because
55:52
13 was the the post season series against the Sox.
55:55
I do remember that. But 2014 Tigers, that would have
56:00
been, yeah, that was against the OS.
56:04
Yeah, they're hungry. They're hungry.
56:08
Let's do it. I love it man.
56:11
Back to Detroit. I love that that game happened
56:14
today 'cause it just it pushed the narrative one game along
56:19
further that these that these game twos were like just must
56:25
see postseason baseball. And of course, leave it to the
56:29
leave it to the Yankees to ruin it to ruin it.
56:33
You know, like whatever I mean, good for the Royals to to even
56:37
the series, but it's I'm jokes aside, it was probably a little
56:41
unfair of us to ask the Yankees and Royals to like give us a
56:44
clean sweep of must see game twos.
56:47
I mean, it was, it was an game, one game, but.
56:49
They delivered game one, sure. Game one I think they said was a
56:54
was a post season record with lead changes.
56:57
I did see that. Yeah.
56:58
Yeah. Crazy.
56:59
That was a roller coaster. I was up and down from my couch
57:04
a lot. It was a good thing I was home
57:08
alone. Let's just cops didn't show up.
57:11
Neighbors didn't call cops on me so all was fine.
57:15
I've, I've known you for my entire life and I still, I'm
57:20
still trying to navigate how to text you during these games
57:23
because I'm like, I don't, is, is he like on the verge of, of
57:27
smashing his TV or is he just I, I like, I have a pretty good
57:32
idea, but I just, I've never fully know.
57:35
And like tonight, obviously, with the Yankees dropping game
57:37
two, I'm like, should I text them that, like, we need to hop
57:41
on to record? Or should I just assume that
57:43
he's going to be on like, well. I was a little grumpy when we
57:47
got on. You could tell no.
57:49
As expected, as as expected. But he's like this stupid light
57:54
behind my behind my camera. It's broken.
57:58
Got to get a new light. Yeah, the, I don't know.
58:05
Game one was good. Game one was was, yeah, like we
58:10
talked about just a roller coaster.
58:14
Garrett Cole, man, I I had a feeling because I was like, he
58:18
just hasn't been himself this year.
58:21
And I thought I was like, maybe these last two starts of the
58:24
regular season, it was more. Than two wasn't it like.
58:28
It was a specifically the last two starts.
58:31
So I think he went like 8:00 and 9:00.
58:32
Oh, Oh yeah. Yeah.
58:34
Yeah, in terms of it. He did good in in September
58:37
overall, like he did well, but it was like the last two that I
58:40
was like, let's, let's bring this in.
58:43
And then, you know, I I said that there's certain teams that
58:48
do well with a, you know, a first round bye in that break.
58:54
The Yankees just don't give me that feeling of doing very well
58:58
with it. Then it's the big guys.
59:01
It's the big names. That's what sucks.
59:04
Like Garrett Cole, you can kind of tell he's like a he's very in
59:08
his head more often than not. And he seems like a routine guy
59:11
like most starters are. And him having this many days
59:14
off was strange. The judge thing, it just seems
59:18
like he can't get this monkey off his back.
59:21
You know, it's some of those narratives just aren't looking
59:25
great. And the Yankee offense for
59:29
pulling out game one, it was lucky, I'll call it that.
59:32
I think they're lucky to not be down O2.
59:36
Well, you want to talk narratives.
59:37
I mean, the the judge not performing in the postseason
59:42
narrative obviously has a much larger sample size.
59:45
But on the flip side here, Bobby Witt, he's at least I think, no,
59:50
I think it's over 10. Over 10 now.
59:52
Yeah, it was over 9 I believe. And then I think he had one, one
59:57
last AB there to to close out the the 9th.
1:00:00
But yeah, little pressing that's that's that's got to change.
1:00:06
But you wanted, I mean, we're I'd mentioned it earlier.
1:00:09
You want to talk about somebody that could benefit from going
1:00:12
home, changing venues. I mean he his splits and like we
1:00:16
made jokes about early in the season, but his splits.
1:00:19
Are off literally off the charts when it comes to him playing at
1:00:24
home. So I I think that'll that'll
1:00:26
certainly benefit him, but I can't say the same for judge.
1:00:30
I don't know what's going on there.
1:00:31
Like the guys, I, I don't get it.
1:00:34
It, it makes no sense. And, and I I joked about it
1:00:37
earlier in the episode, talking about one of the best offseason
1:00:41
or offensive seasons of all time and if, and that couldn't even
1:00:46
get his his head right or his mind right, at least what I was
1:00:49
saying. Like there's it's the time off,
1:00:52
man. Like it's I'm not just going to
1:00:55
say that because obviously it's been prior post season since
1:00:57
it's not just this one, but like it just doesn't help.
1:01:03
It just doesn't seem quite right.
1:01:06
And it's not like he's it's not like he's punching out on like
1:01:12
borderline pitches. It's not like he's chasing a
1:01:16
ton, like these balls are in the zone and he's swinging through
1:01:19
them. He's flying on a good bit.
1:01:23
Too. It's it's yeah, he's flying open
1:01:26
and it's just, I don't know, like even that ball that he he
1:01:30
beat out to the left side to get his first hit of the series
1:01:33
tonight in Game 2, Like it's you're still rolling that over.
1:01:38
You know what I mean? Like you you just having to find
1:01:41
a good spot and and Michael was, you know, having to dive and lay
1:01:46
out for it. But like, I don't know, man,
1:01:50
that Austin Wells really needs like it.
1:01:55
A lot of this lineup goes when he then that 4 hole is taken
1:01:58
care of and he just I know he had a hit in game one.
1:02:04
But like, like I said, the game one just felt very lucky.
1:02:08
It felt like a fluky Royals performance from their bullpen,
1:02:12
a million walks and they kind of just like let the Yankees back
1:02:18
into it. And when you talk about like,
1:02:20
you know what, we said it with Cleveland and and Detroit, like
1:02:23
teams that don't beat themselves, the Royals beat
1:02:26
themselves game one like that, You know what I mean?
1:02:29
Like, I don't think the Yankees, they've left so many guys on
1:02:33
base. They've lacked the big hit.
1:02:35
And tonight there was a lot of barreled balls, like to the
1:02:39
track line outs, the outfielders.
1:02:41
You're like, man, that's just little lift in that game.
1:02:45
Looks different, but the Royals handed them game one.
1:02:51
Can I just add on that note, you're talking about balls of
1:02:53
the track. I tell you what, I don't know
1:02:56
how you or any other Yankee fan watches 81 home games in in that
1:03:00
stadium. That is the most exhausting
1:03:03
ballpark to watch a game on TV at.
1:03:06
I'm seeing balls off the off the end of the bat.
1:03:11
Guys are flailing open. It's like a little duck fart to
1:03:13
right field and you got Costas over there go he got all of that
1:03:17
one. And then it's like a fly out to
1:03:19
the track and it's like this is every fly ball like that.
1:03:23
That would not be good for my for my blood pressure.
1:03:25
I know that much. Nothing about this team is good
1:03:28
for my blood pressure. Well, I mean, that's, that's
1:03:31
you. I, I can't speak for that, but
1:03:33
you know, that's how you feel. That's how you feel, but.
1:03:36
I do want to. I do want to make a comment
1:03:38
though. I want to give Oswaldo Cabrera
1:03:41
and John Birdie a lot of love. Dude, I forgot John Birdie was
1:03:46
even on the team when he stepped up the.
1:03:47
Plane a lot of time this year. A lot of holy cow.
1:03:51
But for for Rizzo to go down Ben Rice was, it's months removed
1:03:58
from his hot streak. And even then, he's not like
1:04:02
he's a transferred catcher into first baseman, like he's
1:04:06
transitioned into that position. It's not like he's, you know, a
1:04:08
Gold Glover over there, but to see two guys that are typically
1:04:12
playing that have come up through the system playing the
1:04:14
left side, John Birdie a little bit more second base can play
1:04:18
anywhere. But like both those guys to play
1:04:20
really solid first base, picking balls, making big plays like
1:04:28
that's that's pretty legit. And I'm going to I'm going to
1:04:34
give Boone a little credit on those decisions and starting
1:04:39
Verdugo and left over over Jason Dominguez, as much as like
1:04:45
there's a lot of Yankee fans that are not thrilled about it
1:04:47
and that before the games would probably be pretty pissed if we
1:04:51
found that out. But Verdugo's done well.
1:04:56
He had to go ahead RBI. He's done well.
1:04:59
He's had big moments, he's played good left field like he's
1:05:03
done well. So there's a couple things
1:05:07
around that and I think the Yankees are lucky to be 11.
1:05:12
Considering Judge has done nothing, considering Garrett
1:05:16
Cole provided nothing positive, bullpen has looked really good.
1:05:20
That's been a big question mark. So it's a weird series so far
1:05:25
for them. I'm glad.
1:05:26
Well, you're talking names. I I'm just glad for Carlos Rodon
1:05:30
that he it seems as though he found his tongue by the end of
1:05:35
the game because they're at the beginning in the 1st.
1:05:39
It's weird, right? That thing was flying all over
1:05:41
the place and I'm going I don't know.
1:05:43
I don't know why why this guy's feeling himself so much because
1:05:46
we all know how this is going to end.
1:05:48
Ends up. I think it on the night he he
1:05:51
had given up four and I'm like, I'm just glad he got he found
1:05:54
his tongue because like I said, it was the thing was all over
1:05:57
the place a little. And I don't know if you saw I,
1:06:00
I, I didn't see my many, many tweets about this, but oh, oh,
1:06:05
Salvi Perez gave gave a little bit of tongue around in second
1:06:08
base. As weird as that sounds.
1:06:09
He gave it right. He must have, he must have not
1:06:11
missed that, that Rodon moment, the first, because he he gave it
1:06:16
right back to him round in second.
1:06:17
So he was very he was very much aware.
1:06:20
If you go back and watch Perez round in second after his solo
1:06:23
home run, he gives the old Rodon treatment with that, like
1:06:27
flailing around. I was.
1:06:29
I was all about that. Savi Perez is a Hall of Famer,
1:06:32
one of my favorite catchers I've ever watched career wise across
1:06:36
his career, but. I liked how we caught that from
1:06:38
the UMP Cam by the way. Yeah, I hate that Cam.
1:06:42
You're a you're a fan. No, no.
1:06:44
No, I I just like that they had queued it up for that exact
1:06:47
pitch and then you get to. See it?
1:06:49
I hate when that happens, it drives me insane.
1:06:51
Yeah, I mean, it does suck that like that's the footage now that
1:06:54
we have of that home run because I, I didn't see like the main
1:06:57
broadcast feed, but I'm like, I mean the timing of that worked
1:07:00
out pretty well, I guess. Yeah, yeah, Tommy Pham continues
1:07:07
to be a pain in the ass. Wherever he goes, wherever he
1:07:10
goes, he is so impactful in the postseason.
1:07:14
That that was big time like. So impactful and played really
1:07:18
good defense. Like he's went back on a couple
1:07:21
of walls and I'm like, Dang it, dude.
1:07:23
Like you're a switch. Player.
1:07:25
Like, yeah, both end left and right and he just, he comes up
1:07:29
in big moments, he does big things.
1:07:32
It's really annoying. Well, Speaking of big things, to
1:07:35
wrap us up here, I wanted to ask you, you've got four series.
1:07:42
They're all tied at one apiece. Which of the, because we talked
1:07:50
about it earlier, you know, can can these teams that won Game 2
1:07:54
take the momentum to wherever they're going, whether it's home
1:07:57
Rd. whatever? Can they take that with them and
1:08:00
build off of that? I want to ask you, do you see
1:08:04
any of these series finishing at this current this this next
1:08:12
upcoming venue, this next stop? Do you see any of these series
1:08:16
finishing where they're at? As a reminder, you've got the
1:08:23
Guardians going to Detroit fresh off a loss, you've got the Mets
1:08:30
coming back home fresh off a loss, you've got the Yankees
1:08:36
heading to Kansas City fresh off a loss, and you've got the
1:08:41
Padres coming home after an absolute beat down of the
1:08:46
Dodgers. I think the Padres finish it.
1:08:50
I do too. I think they finish it and I'm
1:08:54
not just trying to buy in the hype and like be a Dodger hater
1:08:58
because I'm really not like the Dodgers don't bug me as much as
1:09:00
they bug what seems to be every baseball fan.
1:09:04
But I think we're getting that point in the in the pitching
1:09:09
rotation for the Dodgers that there's a lot of question marks.
1:09:13
We've seen a lot of bullpen arms already, and I think going home
1:09:21
after a win means a lot, especially when you put up that
1:09:24
much. With the way, yeah, it wasn't
1:09:26
just any old win. The way they did that, that's
1:09:30
that's huge. I think it ends in San Diego,
1:09:33
which is what I said. I said I believe.
1:09:36
I said Padres in four. I think he did because I had
1:09:39
him, I had him sweeping. But I think he I think he gave
1:09:42
him, I think he gave the daughters a little bit of
1:09:43
credit. Yeah.
1:09:46
I mean, honestly, I think that's the only one I can see
1:09:49
potentially finishing at this next stop.
1:09:53
Phillies with even with the the momentum filled win that they
1:10:01
just came off of in Game 2, the fact that they're having to go
1:10:04
to Queens and with the way this post season's gone for the Mets,
1:10:07
I could very easily see that going 5.
1:10:10
The Guardians and Tigers, I mean they, they swapped shutouts in
1:10:16
game one and Game 2. So I can't, you can't even
1:10:18
really say. That I don't even know.
1:10:21
I mean, the I guess the fact that the Tigers did what they
1:10:23
did to Class A today and and that you combine that with the
1:10:26
fact that they're heading home, like that's certainly momentum.
1:10:28
But I, I think the guardians are going to be the guardians will
1:10:33
do a a fine enough job of being able to flush that.
1:10:36
So I could see that easily going five.
1:10:38
And then I'm in the Royals and Yankees, sort of the same thing.
1:10:44
Like you, you split neither win for for either team was all that
1:10:49
convincing. I mean gritty wins for sure, but
1:10:55
I could easily see that going 5 as well.
1:10:58
Yeah, what do we got? So tomorrow it's the NL side of
1:11:04
things. Yeah, our next episode I think
1:11:07
is lined up for Thursday, just here in a couple couple days.
1:11:10
But it's going to be weird because we're only getting Game
1:11:14
3IN of because they're doing this weird thing where they they
1:11:21
don't like having the. No, we'll be good.
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We'll be good. We'll have game Fours, yeah.
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So we have everybody playing Wednesday, NL tomorrow,
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everybody Wednesday, AL Thursday.
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That's what I'm saying, we'll only have 4 or we're we're only
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going to have game threes for the NL by the next time we talk.
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No NL plays tomorrow and Wednesday.
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Wednesday, everybody. Oh wait, tomorrow's today's
1:11:55
Monday, isn't it? Yeah, there you go.
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I'm getting. My dates mixed up tomorrow.
1:12:00
Game three, we got Nola going against Manaya and then we got
1:12:06
Bueller going against Michael King.
1:12:10
Yeah, this thing's in finished in San Diego.
1:12:12
What are we doing? What are we talking about here?
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Yeah, 5:00 and 8:00 or, excuse me, 9:00 Eastern.
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Oh, you're going to be OK. No.
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That's deep. So we're getting we're getting
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just NL Tuesday. OK, So just NL Tuesday or yeah,
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NL Tuesday, everybody Wednesday and then just AL.
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OK, I see what you're saying. Yeah.
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So everybody. Yeah.
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OK, I got you. I was.
1:12:48
Worried the end of a series. At least one series I think.
1:12:52
I think one series will be able to close the book on.
1:12:56
Thursday I was worried there's going to be some weird split
1:12:59
with the day off or not day off whatever I don't know.
1:13:02
I was confused. I don't hate this.
1:13:04
I don't love, I don't love the off day.
1:13:08
No dude, that what was it Friday this past Friday where there was
1:13:12
no games on? I'm like what do we do?
1:13:14
It's Friday night in October. Why?
1:13:16
Why is there not baseball? Come on, that sucked.
1:13:19
What a joke. That did suck, but this is
1:13:23
lining up decently. What a yoke.
1:13:26
Yoke. Oh, I just saw you got Jazz
1:13:32
Chisholm talking about how the Royals got lucky.
1:13:34
All right, Guy. Jazz.
1:13:37
Don't. Just don't.
1:13:39
Love some good bulletin board material.
1:13:41
Heading back to Kansas City for the Royals, anyway.
1:13:46
Just done anything in the whole series except a random home run.
1:13:50
Garbage time home run in the ninth.
1:13:52
Love that. I don't like it.
1:13:55
Anything else? Just just a great October so
1:14:01
far. I.
1:14:02
Love it dude. I'm so high strung right now.
1:14:05
It's I'm just free as a bird right now.
1:14:08
I'm loving every. I don't.
1:14:10
I don't. I don't care who wins.
1:14:12
I mean, outside of the Yankees, Royals, obviously I don't I'm
1:14:15
just kind of like, whatever, man, these these storylines are
1:14:18
just fantastic. I'm I'm here for all of it.
1:14:22
This has been such an awesome post season so far.
1:14:25
I just hope that, I hope the LCS in the World Series doesn't let
1:14:28
us down because we are tracking we're really well we're.
1:14:31
Training. We're training in the right
1:14:32
direction. I all.
1:14:33
Lines. All lines on the graph are going
1:14:35
up. I'm with you.
1:14:37
Cool good stuff Bob Costas sucks.
1:14:42
Don't go chasing curveballs. Bob Costas is a legend and we're
1:14:49
not going to we're not going to tarnish his his legacy, but it's
1:14:53
time to hang it up. Thank you.
1:14:55
Well, let me as always take the documentaries and.
1:14:58
And articles, Bob. He's a great storyteller.
1:15:02
He's a great storyteller. But when you've got you've got
1:15:06
Ron darling. I mean, he's he is building up
1:15:09
the most mundane update as if it's the the story of the
1:15:15
century. And then you've got Ron Darling
1:15:17
being like he has a strand calf. That's what we're dealing with
1:15:23
with Bob Costas. He's a legend.
1:15:25
I'm just trying to imagine like Bob Costas reading like a
1:15:29
bedtime story to his grandkids and they're asleep in the first
1:15:33
sentence. Brutal, Brutal.
1:15:39
He's a legend, and we're not going to say that he's not on
1:15:41
this on this podcast. So we don't need people coming
1:15:43
after us, Bob. Bob Costas has a heck of a
1:15:46
resume, heck of a career. But this, we can't have
1:15:51
lullabies being plugged in for some of the most electric
1:15:55
moments of a baseball season. We just can't have it.
1:15:59
Yeah, he's I I think it's time, Bob.
1:16:02
Shame on TBS. Time to hang it out.
1:16:04
Well, TBS is garbage, but this postseason is not, so enjoy the
1:16:09
rest of the division Series. We'll talk with you guys soon.
1:16:11
We love you all, and as always, looking forward to talking more
1:16:13
baseball with you guys soon. Until next time, stay filthy.