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Will the Blue Jays upset the Dodgers in the World Series? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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wide open. Maybe goodies.
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Orlando Magic could win the East this year as good as they have,
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you know, been over the last few seasons.
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Growing, young, talented. They added some pieces.
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They added Bane in the offseason, maybe.
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Orlando Hey, Errol, You think Goody can name two people on the
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I'm going to call him happy birdie to his beautiful sister.
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Happy Birthday and congratulations to all of
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Goodies accomplishments and he knows what I'm talking about.
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The World Series will begin on Friday after the Blue Jays
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punched their ticket by defeating the Mariners four to
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three in game #7 George Springer's 7th inning 3 run home
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run shot was the difference maker after the Mariners took an
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early lead off a Homer from both Julio Rodriguez and Cal Rally.
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Vladimir Guerrero Junior was named the ALCSMVP with a 385
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batting average, three home runs and a 1.330 OPS.
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The Dodgers, who have been waiting a while since sweeping
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the number one seeded Brewers last week, will get a chance to
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try to go back-to-back for the first time since the New York
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Yankees did it and won three in a row from 9899 and 2000.
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The Dodgers starting rotation had a 0.63 ERA in their dominant
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NLCS, capped off by Shayo Otani's six shutout innings with
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10 strikeouts while hitting three home runs in clinching
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game #4 at home in LA. The Dodgers are betting
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favorites to repeat and win the World Series at a -, 210.
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It wasn't so long ago that baseball insiders and Toronto
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fans were all fooled into thinking that Shay Ohtani was
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going to the Blue Jays before he he signed with the Dodgers.
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Fast forward to today, it's Ohtani standing in Toronto's way
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as they try to win their first World Series since 1993.
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And Joe Carter. If you remember that, I remember
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that very, very well. I, I'm, I'm a huge baseball fan
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and growing up, I'll never forget Joe Carter.
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Never end Roberto Almar I I one of the greatest, one of the
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greatest second baseman's of all time, one of the greatest
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defensive players I've ever seen.
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But that's all. And by the way, another guy that
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a lot of fans like John Olerot was a part of that team as well.
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One of the greatest defensive first baseman.
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I want to give a shout out to Josh Silverberg because he loves
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Johnny O and when he went to the Mets.
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The fact here is you sit here today and you look at the Blue
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Jays and you you ask yourself, how does this team compete with
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the deferred Dodgers? You look at the rotation, you
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have Yamamoto Sasaki, you have you have Snell, you have all
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these guys, you have Glass now you have Ohtani.
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This rotation is as good and as deep as any rotation we've ever
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seen. And you look at this line up, we
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all know what Friedman is. We all know what bets are.
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These are two former MV PS2 guys.
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Remember, Freeman won a World Series with the Braves before he
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came to the Dodgers and won with the Dodgers.
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Mookie Betts. Mookie Betts won a World Series
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with the Boston Red Sox, and then he went to the Dodgers.
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And now you have Shay Ohtani, who's never won a World Series.
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Never. But when you see these three
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guys in a lineup, how could you beat this team?
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How could you defeat a team with a middle of a line up this good?
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And that's not even half of the guys that they have when it
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comes to their one to nine in their lineup.
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The fact here is baseball's weird.
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It always is. And Jabba will tell you, not
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always the best team wins. It doesn't always happen that
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way. Go ask the Yankees.
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Remember Arizona? Remember the Diamondbacks?
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I remember that in 2003 the Yankees were the best team.
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They were the best team all season long.
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The Diamondbacks had Curt Schilling and they had Randy
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Johnson. 2 dominant pitchers, 2 of the best pitchers in all of
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baseball. When you look at their lineup,
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did their lineup really stick out to you like a sore thumb?
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No. But everybody remembers Gonzalez
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when he had that game-winning hit against Mariano Rivera that
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won him the World Series. I remember it.
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I was saddened. Derek Jeter talks about it all
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the time when he thinks about losses, that if you watched his
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documentary, that was the loss he'll always remember.
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I'm telling you, go watch the documentary if you want to watch
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the Captain documentary. That was the loss that he'll
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always remember. When you look at the Blue Jays.
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Nobody, including me, would have thought that they would have
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beaten the Yankees. Nobody, including me, would have
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thought that they would have went through the Mariners going
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down to O and win that series. But they did.
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And why did they win that series?
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And a lot of people were attacking and including yours
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truly when they decided to give Vladimir Guerrero Junior $325
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million guaranteed. Before the season started.
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I questioned the Blue Jays on why would they do that?
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You give a guy that kind of money right up front and give
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them that kind of contract when you could have wait until the
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offseason and see how this all fell together.
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But now, when you look at that, look at it, this was a win for
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them because if they waited until the end of the season,
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Vladimir Guerrero would have got more money.
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That's the facts. Think about it.
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What Vladimir Guerrero has done in this playoff is remarkable.
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It is remarkable. He is not his father, not yet.
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But when you think of Vladimir Guerrero senior, you're talking
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about one of the greatest baseball players of all time,
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one of the best 5 tall players you have ever seen.
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And you look at his son and you father and son combination.
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We talked about this on Monday. That usually never works in
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baseball. It usually never works in
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basketball, hockey, football, you name it, it doesn't work.
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But this man is trying to prove himself, trying to build his own
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legacy away from what his father has done as a professional
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athlete. And it's remarkable because if
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you look at this lineup, they didn't have Pushet Bichette was
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one of their best hitters all season, fighting injury after
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injury. Bichette, who is going to be
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looking for a new contract at the in the offseason, just like
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Guerrero, he is probably going to play in this World Series.
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How does this change their lineup?
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It changes their lineup extremely differently.
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If Bichette is even 90% healthy and you put him in the middle of
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this line up in front of Guerrero or even in behind
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Guerrero, you're adding another potent bat in a lineup that has
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been potent all playoff log. And it's crazy because if you go
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back and we can argue this, Jabba you, you're one of those
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guys that went back and forth. We all wanted to see the
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Mariners play the Dodgers in the World Series cuz that would have
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been the more fun series to watch.
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I'm looking at this series now. Maybe not.
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Because when you go back and you look at those 93 Blue Jays and
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you look at that roster and you compare it to this roster, they
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are extremely, extremely different.
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And what makes it so much more interesting is when you look at
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their best player. And their best player was not
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Joe Carter. Their best player was Roberto Al
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Mar, OK, who was a second baseman.
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And you look at Vladimir Guerrero, who is a first
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baseman, and you compare their skills.
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They're so very different, so very different.
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And you look at and remember, Roberto Al Mar was a young
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player in 93. He was a kid.
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He was a kid. Vladimir Guerrero is a kid.
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I don't know what what was Roberto Almar's age in 93,
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Speedy, Look that up for me because if I'm not mistaken, he
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was around 2526 years old. That's where I think he was.
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And right now, Vladimir Guerrero is 2526 years old.
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Speedy, you have his age. 25. 25 Why does everybody find it
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before you dudes? Just speed.
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I have the slowest computer. Yeah, you have the slowest mind
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I And then you go to Vladimir Guerrero.
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How old is Vladimir Guerrero right now?
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He's 2526 years old right now. They're identical with age.
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And when you look at what these guys have done as players in
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different decades, it is remarkable.
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When you compare now, Roberto Almar comes from a family of
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baseball players. Think about it.
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Yeah, his whole family. Sandy Almar, they come.
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He comes from a baseball family. Vladimir Guerrero comes from a
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baseball family. When you look at the comparison
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of these players and you look at the greatness of both these
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players, right now, the trajectory is Vladimir Guerrero
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is going junior, is going to be a Hall of Fame player, but first
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he needs to win a World Series. He needs to bring home a World
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Series. To be in that trajectory.
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I look at Roberto Almore. If Almore doesn't win that World
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Series, he's still a Hall of Famer, but is he going to be
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remembered as a winner, a champion?
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The answer would be no. And that is where I see the Blue
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Jays in this Series. The Dodgers are champions.
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The Dodgers have won how many World Series in the last 10
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years? They've won free, haven't they?
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Or they've been. They've won two and they've been
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to three. They've been to three World
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Series in five years. You look at you look at you know
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what they are, you know what you're playing against.
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You know what Cheryl Tani is. You know what Freeman is.
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You know what bets are is when it comes to winning
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championships. You don't know what Vladimir
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Guerrero is. You don't know what this
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pitching staff is. And because none of these guys,
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any of these guys have won a World Series.
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Think about it. You look at this Blue Jays
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lineup. Has any one of these guys ever
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been to a World Series? Match.
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Yeah, I don't think, I don't think any hitters though.
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Springer is the only one. Yeah, Springer is the only one.
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And he's going to go down as one of the greatest postseason
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clutch guys that ever played if he keeps going the ways he's
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tied for third and homers all time.
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So they got some. Trash cans.
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So they got one guy. Still hit it.
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They got one guy, ladies and gentlemen, that has been to a
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World Series and had it and won. And and that to me shows you how
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unique this Blue Jay team is. How I think I to me, the the
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team that has the most stress on them is the Dodgers.
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The Dodgers are expected to win with the lineup they have, the
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pitching staff that they have and what they did against the
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National League champion Brewers and they were they they they won
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the National League with wins. They were the best team in all
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of baseball all season long. The Brewers, they ran right
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through that team. They didn't even have a 1 ERA
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against the the Brewers had fourteen hits in that whole
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series in four games. Think about that.
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And now you're going against a Blue Jay team that was red hot,
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against a Mariner pitching staff that is really good.
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That's a good pitching staff. Go ask Detroit how good that
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pitching staff is. I I just my fact, my thought and
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my facts here is pretty simple. The Blue Jays have nothing to
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hide in this series. Everybody knows they have
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nothing to lose. And when you have nothing to
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lose, you're a very dangerous team.
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You're going into a series that everybody expects you to lose.
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As a matter of fact, betting odds to tell you there are -210
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which is a lot. That's high.
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OK, that's a significant number. Anything over 100 is
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significant. That tells you that nobody, when
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it comes to Vegas and a betting person would take a handicapper,
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would take the Blue Jays to win this series.
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And if if I was a coach and I was a manager and I had a board
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up and I'm going to point out things that would get my team
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wounded up and I would have a list of things that would be #1
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that would be #1 we just went through the Yankees.
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We beat a team that a lot of people thought was the best team
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in baseball, especially the last month and a half of baseball.
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They were the best American League team.
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They went through one of the best players in the world, if
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not the best player in the world.
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And Aaron Judge, yes, he hit against them.
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They still beat them. Max Freed, who's going to be up
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for a Sai Young this year, one of the best pitchers in
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baseball. They beat them up.
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All it takes is confidence in baseball.
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Jabba will tell you if you believe it, you can achieve it.
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And I'm going to tell you guys this and my facts here,
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Everybody sitting here today, including yours truly, I thought
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the Blue Jays were not the right fit to go to the World Series.
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I'm wrong and I'm going to tell you why I'm wrong because this
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lineup has been as potent as any lineup in the playoffs.
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If you look at their numbers right now and compare them to
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all the teams so far in the playoffs, they have the best
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lineup when it comes to average and they have the best line up
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when it comes to power right now.
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And I'm not talking about Shay Ohtani's one game with three
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home runs. He's batting 220 in the
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playoffs. Think about it.
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There are three guys in this line up hitting almost 300 with
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the Blue Jays 33. That tells something.
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That tells you something. I, I just, it's crazy and it's
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so compare. It's not comparable to the 93,
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but there are players when you look at it and you're trying to
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look at a comparison to try to bring it to the forefront.
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This is the best chance a Canadian baseball team has to
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win a championship since the 90s.
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That to me is as successful as we can talk about since the
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Montreal Expos and Pedro Martinez and who, Vladimir
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Guerrero. The Montreal Expos I never even
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made a World Series too, so that's why the.
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Blue, I know. That's why the Blue Jays
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definitely had to make a mark and.
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Obviously they got, but look at that team.
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Oh, I know. Look at Omar Minaya.
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He was the guy. He was the one that ran that
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organization, who, by the way, built the Mets.
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And when they took over and, and they made that run with the
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pitching staff. I mean, we could go on and on
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and on from what the Montreal Expos were and what players came
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from it. Do we remember Bartolo Cologne?
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Oh. Yeah, Randy Johnson was on the
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Expos. I mean, there were so many great
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players that came from that organization before they parted
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ways and go to and went where was speedy.
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They traded a bunch of. Where did they go?
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They went to Tampa. They went to Washington.
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That's right. I, I, I keep thinking Tampa, but
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Tampa was in. Tampa, Tampa, they were
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expensive. What you're thinking of too, is
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also Tampa was in the rumors to go back to Montreal.
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We talked about five years ago. Still might be and still, yeah,
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definitely could be with they don't get their stadium
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situation sorted out. But yeah, the Expos obviously
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never go into the World Series. They got screwed in 94.
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Obviously the lockout season. They were the best team in
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baseball that year. So maybe they would have been.
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That would have been after the Blue Jays won back-to-back in 92
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and 93. It's a definitely an interesting
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vibe. It's an interesting fusion of
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veteran players. You were talking about it with
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the the pitching staff being as it is, not really having that
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dominant force, but having a lot of good veteran guys that
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stepped up this year. Gossman was an under performer
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the last two years after he had a really good first two years in
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Toronto, but he's pitched really well in the playoffs.
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Shane Bieber stepped up, kind of battled it out, but stepped up
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in Game 7 and pitched well earlier in the series.
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And sure, as they're coming back now, Mets legend Chris Bassett
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happening to be happening to pitch well in game game seven of
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that series out of the bullpen. And they have the pitching
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versatility. And probably the closest
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comparison you can make, not to the level of underdogs that they
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were, but the way their team is built is probably the Nationals,
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but the National. The Blue Jays have a better
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offense. This is a more powerful offense
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on this team. And Java, you mentioned Springer
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bringing the veteran leadership from the lead out spot.
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Vlad Junior, the postseason turn around, he had his first two
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years in the playoffs was horrible and he was really bad
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at the beginning of the Seattle series.
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He's turning around. And they have a lot of other
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veteran hitters and younger hitters at the at the end of
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that lineup that have really stepped up well.
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And you're right, Errol, they have nothing to lose.
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So the pressure is going to be on the Dodgers.
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They have the veteran leaderships the Blue Jays do to
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get those guys in that kind of mentality.
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And I was with you, I was thinking they were fraudulent
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all year. I thought they were like, OK,
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this they're not a great run differential.
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They don't really have an obvious for Guerrero.
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They don't really. We have an obvious star
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anywhere. Just think about the comparison
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that I gave you guys, a young Roberto Almar and Vladimir
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Guerrero junior. They're almost identical ages
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when they both go into their first World Series.
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Why not see Vladimir Guerrero shock the world?
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That Blue Jays team was not supposed to win the World
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Series. They were absolutely not
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favorites to winning that World Series.
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I remember it. I remember that home run off
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that bat when Joe Carter hit it. He was running around and he was
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shocked that it went it went out.
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You know, it was unbelievable. I remember it now.
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You can watch the video. If we have the video.
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You could see his face when he was running around from first
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all the way to 2nd and 3rd. It's.
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Do you remember who you remember who threw the pitch?
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Who threw the pitch? Mitch Williams.
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Mitch Williams. There it is.
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He falls off. He falls off the mound.
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Watch how he finishes. I remember this.
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Oh my God, I remember it. Oh gosh.
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I The face, the faces that he makes when he's running around
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and it went out. He was shocked.
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It went out. Look at him.
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He's. He almost forgot to touch first.
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He almost jumped over it. I remember it.
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I I just remember how shocked he was when he hit it.
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He couldn't believe it went out. Jabba with the umpires have
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nitpicked that back then. I mean, would they would they
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have gone to replay like, I mean, oh.
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My God, I remember. Remember that Mets play where
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Robin Ventura hit a home run but only touched first base so he
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only got credit? He only got credit for a single.
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I remember that too. I remember that too.
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Grand Slam. Single.
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It went back. Everybody's like what happened?
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It was like he only touched first.
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They mobbed him before he could get there.
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I think it's been done since then too.
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That's the. Funny, I mean, it's I I can't
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compare this Blue Jays team to that team, but what this team is
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doing in the comparable players when you look at guys that were
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all world players at their positions you're talking about
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Vladimir Guerrero is a top five player right now in the league.
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Roberto Almar wasn't a top five player at that time, but he was
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one of the best young players in baseball where everybody was
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saying that this team was going to win multiple championships
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with with this young superstar that they have at second base.
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That guy Roberto Almar, I don't care what anybody says, he is
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one of the greatest top three second baseman of all time.
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You look at his numbers, how many guys could you compared to
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Roberto Almar, he's a. Switch hitting second basement.
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Team yeah, I know and he wasn't liked a lot of players didn't
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like him a lot of players I've spoken speed we've had a couple
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of players on this show in the past at before Jabba in the
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mouth and we were interviewing them and we asked them who are
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one of the some of the hate most hated players you ever played
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against. And and numerous amount of guys
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told us Roberto Almar was one of the the worst teammates and one
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of the worst players to play against.
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And I said why? Because he was cheap and he he
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talked a lot, a lot. And, and he did things.
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He wasn't a team player. Well, guess what?
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He was a winner. He was great.
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So, and I, I haven't heard that about Vladimir Guerrero junior,
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but Vladimir Guerrero junior is what what he's doing right now
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is, is incredible. And I got news for you guys as
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good as Vladimir Guerrero senior who did win a World Series with
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the Angels. And I do remember that he was
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never this good in a playoff run.
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Ever. He's never hit close to 400 in a
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playoff run. Never.
25:26
Do you guys remember Vladimir Guerrero senior ever hitting
25:31
close to 400 in the playoffs? I don't.
25:33
Remember, I don't there's not a lot of people that.
25:35
Have had a I'm just saying. I'm just saying when we're
25:37
looking, when we're trying to compare him and his father.
25:41
His father never did this job. You know this.
25:43
You played against his dad. Yeah, it was.
25:46
They're they're very similar in in swing path and and what they
25:52
do, but approaches is way different.
25:54
And but you know, Vlad, when you grow up the way he does and
25:58
like, I don't know if you guys saw the story that he did.
26:01
You know, he's like it just everything about him, it makes
26:05
you want to root for him, right? And I don't know him.
26:09
I've never met him. But, yeah, just from afar as a
26:11
baseball fan and and being able to be a fan of his dad's and
26:16
then get a chance to play against him and just see how
26:19
much he was loved by everybody as a whole.
26:21
And just the kind of hitter he was.
26:24
And, and, and just the way he went about his business it the
26:28
apple didn't fall too far. And you see that he just he said
26:32
he goes that the one thing that I want to do is give my dad a
26:35
World Series ring. And, you know, there's there's
26:38
something you saw the emotion after they won, you know, tears
26:40
in his eyes because it's it's something that, you know,
26:44
everybody always sees, you know, us competing and rooting against
26:48
us or for us. But people forget sometimes
26:51
we're human beings. Like this is something that he's
26:53
watched his entire life. And now he gets an opportunity.
26:56
You know, and I, I mentioned something today on Twitter or X,
26:59
whatever you want to call it about, you know, just the the
27:03
opportunity that Donnie Baseball gets as long as he's been in
27:06
baseball and he gets an his first time and he's been in 40
27:11
years in this game, as a player, as a coach, as a coordinator is
27:15
whatever he was. And to get a chance to do it.
27:17
It it's just it's special because this game is so special
27:22
to us that a lot of people don't get that opportunity.
27:24
When you do, it hits you and you know, it's awesome to be able to
27:27
to have that experience. But for the two teams, it's
27:31
really, I think you kind of said it, it's like we kind of wanted
27:35
to see the Mariners because they've never been there, right?
27:37
And the Blue Jays, you know, they're being in the division.
27:41
You kind of just have that and I don't like you kind of attitude
27:44
just because they are in the division and you're like, what
27:46
are they really? Are they that much better?
27:49
Like what? What do they do that's better
27:51
than us? And I think what what I've seen
27:54
throughout this whole playoffs is they've obviously had Vlad,
27:58
but they've had other guys do things that sometimes don't go
28:01
in the score. But you, you got a guy like
28:03
Clement that nobody knows who the hell he is.
28:05
Averaging over like 4.3 pitches in a bat like that doesn't look
28:09
like sexy at all. But that's giving other guys
28:13
opportunity to see more pitches that's getting to their bullpen
28:16
faster because you get to the bullpen faster anyways in the
28:19
playoffs unless you know certain people.
28:21
But you got guys like that stepping up, doing the little
28:24
things that extend a game and and don't go in the scorebook
28:29
that, you know, doesn't doesn't have the three run Homer that
28:32
Springer does. But you got to have guys on base
28:35
and in the at bats that go before that.
28:37
And you know, I think it's it's tough to root for them being an
28:42
indivision as as a Yankee fan. First of all, I want to see a
28:44
great series. Carter picked Dodgers in five.
28:49
And if you go on paper, yeah, you're probably going with the
28:53
Dodgers, right? I mean, because that's that's
28:55
what it is. And you're going to see
28:58
superstar, superstar on one side compared to, you know, you're
29:02
getting Bichette back. But Bichette's not a superstar.
29:05
He's a great player, but he's not a superstar.
29:08
He's not Vlad. And then you've got Max Ben
29:11
there with 16. It feels like he always somehow
29:14
finds a place in and just to be able to be that leader and be in
29:19
that situation. You got guys, you know, like you
29:22
brought up speedy your your your mess legend and and Chris and.
29:27
There's autism on this team. There's Andres Andres Jimenez,
29:29
too. Yeah, who's he's played well,
29:33
you got guys that are literally I'll do whatever it takes.
29:36
Like if you saw the quote by by him, he goes I'll be the towel
29:39
boy if it if it takes us a chance to win.
29:42
And I think that's kind of where it differs in the namesake of
29:47
each team is where, yeah, we don't have a lot of names, but
29:50
we're in the same position you are.
29:52
You're not any better than us because you've got all these
29:55
superstar names. We're here and we're going to
29:57
battle. So I think it's going to be a
29:59
better series. And I think it's it's a little
30:02
bit better matchup than we initially thought.
30:05
Just just seeing it before it happened and now breaking it
30:09
down and seeing the comparisons and the differences between both
30:14
teams and where, you know, summer, I don't know how Varlins
30:17
arm is still hanging. That dude.
30:19
I think he pitched like twice in some games.
30:20
It felt like cuz every time like you turn, he's back in the game.
30:23
I mean, obviously he gave up the Homer to judge and comes back
30:25
and starts the next game and he's you know, he's just a guy
30:28
that wants to be out there. Hoffman, like we talked about on
30:30
the show, throws 2 innings, which was weird to me.
30:32
I don't know why at that point he did, but then comes back and,
30:35
and obviously this point of the season, you're, you're taking
30:38
everything and, and making sure you feel good at this point.
30:41
But it's just I, I'm excited for it.
30:43
It's, it's probably not what everybody wanted to see.
30:47
You know, now you've got the travel that people are going to
30:49
talk. There's so many factors that
30:50
that people don't think about in, in what comes into play.
30:55
And so it's I'm excited. I'm excited to see, you know,
30:58
who steps up. I think, I think pitching is
31:01
going to be, I guess I'm biased when I say this, but be the the
31:06
end all that kind of meets all because there's going to have to
31:08
be guys that step up because we're going to see runs score
31:11
there. These lineups are too good not
31:14
to have runs scored. I I, I have a feeling there's
31:17
not going to be very many 2 to 1, three to two games in this
31:20
series. But you know what, people love
31:22
that And let's see some scoring and some homers and and two
31:25
really, really great parks to play in.
31:27
The Rodgers centered gets absolutely crazy those Canadian
31:30
fans because that beers a little stronger there and they start
31:34
early when you when you get into that place.
31:35
So and then obviously LA, you'll have the stars out like they're
31:39
at a Knicks game. So I'm excited for it.
31:43
It can't get here soon. I, I will say this and, and I
31:46
know you're a Donnie Baseball fan.
31:47
I'm a Donnie Baseball fan. He's my favorite player growing
31:50
up. And when everybody looks at my
31:52
favorite athletes growing up that I rooted for Van Beesbrook
31:56
from the Rangers and then when he went to the Florida Panthers,
31:59
he was my favorite when it came to hockey, football was Donovan
32:03
McNabb and for baseball it was Donnie Baseball.
32:06
And he was my favorite player growing up.
32:08
He was the first guy that I worshipped when I met him two or
32:12
three times in the past. One of the nicest people you'll
32:15
ever meet and very well deserved.
32:17
A guy that never got a chance to play in a World Series, not with
32:20
the Yankees, not with the Dodgers as a manager and
32:23
assistant manager with Joe Torre.
32:24
He never got a chance to try to win a World Series.
32:27
And now when it goes back in time, when you think about it,
32:31
in the times that when the Blue Jays were good, when the Blue
32:35
Jays went to the the World Series, he was a Yankee at the
32:37
tail end of his career and they win a World Series in 93 and he
32:42
never got a chance to play in one.
32:44
So the tables will turn. And if Donnie Baseball wins the
32:48
World Series, and that's why I'm rooting for the Blue Jays.
32:51
It would be so fitting and so filling because I love the guy
32:55
so much. I only want to see the guy win.
32:58
He deserves it. He is a great person, good
33:01
hearted player and one of the greatest baseball players not in
33:05
the Hall of that should be in the Hall of Fame because in a
33:08
5-6 year stint how many guys could you name that did what
33:13
Donnie Baseball did in that time?
33:16
I Nobody and any. He's always, he's one of those
33:19
guys too. It's like we, I think we've
33:21
touched on a little bit. It's like, what if, like what if
33:23
his back didn't go? What if we didn't lose some of
33:25
these guys like Thurman before, you know, his, his accident,
33:29
Like there's so many of those guys that we lost too early from
33:34
injury or, or death or whatever that we're unbelievable players.
33:38
And you just, I mean, it's, it stinks because he should.
33:41
And I, I, I don't know how you, you don't put him in, but it's,
33:47
it's just tough when you have somebody of that caliber for,
33:49
for that amount of time. We're not talking about, you
33:51
know, 2-3 years. Like there, there was an
33:53
extended period where he was unbelievable.
33:55
Nope. Not only offensively, but
33:57
defensively. Fish before you go, I just want
33:58
to mention about one thing, OK, You were talking about Errol was
34:00
talking about the show me the Blue Jays like almost rumor that
34:03
happened. It was funny Jabba.
34:05
This was like a week after the first time ever we ever had you
34:07
on the show as a guest and I, Errol comes to pick me up and
34:10
Jeff, Jeff talking to him and Jeff like, oh, Todd, he's going
34:13
to the Blue Jays. He was one of the ones that fell
34:15
for. And you know what?
34:15
I laugh again, for you know what I said.
34:17
Is that when they have the tail number or supposedly right?
34:20
I I called him out. To this day, I call him out on
34:23
that tape. I call him out all the time.
34:26
And oh, you're always right, huh?
34:28
Oh, Tony going to the Blue Jays, It's almost in the books.
34:31
Oh, I know he was over there. I know he's siding.
34:34
Yeah, he's signing my ass. That's he's signing nothing.
34:37
He's going to the Dodgers, and that's what they want everybody
34:40
to believe. So, Jeff, I don't hear you
34:43
calling the show anymore, because if you did, I'd stick it
34:46
to you on that one. And by the way, he sends me
34:49
these stupid memes. Whatever of Otani with the three
34:53
home runs, 10 strikeouts in the 6th and he pitched.
34:56
But guess what Jeff? When I said 220, I meant he was
35:00
batting 220 in the series and throughout the playoffs to Aaron
35:04
Judge 500. So you can tell me whatever you
35:07
want. I still believe Aaron Judge is a
35:10
better player than Jay Otani. Sorry, I had to add that.
35:15
Let me obviously rooting for Donnie Baseball.
35:17
If Harold Baines is in the Hall of Fame, Donnie Baseball should
35:20
be in the Hall of Fame. That that's completely
35:22
ridiculous. They got to do what the NFL did.
35:24
Guys with that, with the short but elite peaks are more
35:27
valuable in my memory than a guy like Harold Baines who was very
35:31
good for a little while and good for a while and then kind of
35:34
hung around the league. You know what I mean?
35:36
It was a compiler to me. They got it like do the Terrell
35:39
Davis thing in that they didn't football for Donnie, baseball
35:43
for Keith Hernandez. Maybe, you know, like those
35:45
types of guys, but they're not and it doesn't really matter.
35:48
And all those things you said, Vladimir Guerrero junior boba
35:51
shed coming back. I'm still taking Dodgers in
35:54
five. It doesn't matter.
35:55
This team is too stacked. I think they're going to win.
35:57
They're going to split the first two games in Toronto and then
36:00
you get 3 in Lai think they're going to just destroy him.
36:04
That team is so good. If Otani is Otani hadn't hit the
36:08
whole postseason till that game. Now what?
36:10
It is hot. Blue Jays in seven, I think
36:14
there's. Blue Jays, good luck, pray for
36:16
you on that, but. I think the Blue Jays are going
36:19
to surprise and shock the world, OK?
36:22
I just have this feeling that this run has There's a reason
36:25
behind it, and Donnie Baseball is going to get his first ring.
36:29
That's what I'm rooting for DB. That's what I'm rooting for,
36:33
Donnie Baseball. I don't give a crap about the
36:36
Dodgers. I want to see the Dodgers go
36:37
down in flames. Blake Snell can eat an ass.
36:41
I want to see DB win his first World Series.
36:46
He deserves it, and the gods will tell you that when that
36:50
happens, well, the Knicks are winner championship.
36:57
They look good right now tonight.
36:58
Don't, Jake. So why would you do that?
37:02
You just, you know, the first we got NBA basketball is worthless
37:05
to watch. Why would no one's hit any
37:06
shots? The hell is singing, right?
37:08
Now, no. You know who's hitting shots
37:09
right now for the Knicks? Landry Shamit.
37:11
I guarantee you he's not going to be playing too many
37:13
meaningful minutes. Well, I, I don't know if you
37:16
know Mike Brown. Mike Brown likes to mix it up
37:18
and Mike Brown will be playing a rotation of 13 to 14 guys.
37:22
If they're on the bench, he will.
37:23
Play I don't know about 1314, but we're going to see those
37:26
guys you as opposed to tips he will.
37:28
Play those guys. If they're playing and they're
37:30
playing well, he's going to play them.
37:32
You're going to see. I think it's going to be like
37:33
1011, but he'll rotate those guys in, you know what I mean,
37:37
to try to develop guys, which tips just never did.
37:40
He's like, give me your veterans and only give me your veterans.
37:43
Or maybe there's one rookie I like, like a McBride, and then
37:47
I'll ride those guys the entire way that that was the problem
37:50
with them. But you know.
37:51
What a. Lot of.
37:52
Problems. I'm sure we'll have plenty of
37:54
time to talk about this next team.
37:56
I knew I could get him the left. I was on the phone with
37:59
different today and he's like the first thing he says is Joba
38:03
Joba Joba likes my shrimp cocktail.
38:10
How could you not like this in bed?
38:12
He is one of the funniest people I've ever met.
38:15
My Thai life. Anyways, thank you to all the
38:17
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That's what we want to do. So thank you to all the fans.
39:15
We'll be back on Monday. Speedy, who do we have?
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We don't have anything yet. Monday, Wednesday.
39:19
We do have our friend Ovie Muhali returning former.
39:21
Falcons OV. All Pro full back.
39:24
You know, why do you always say that?
39:26
You know why? Why?
39:27
Why, Why do you always say that? Because you have to make sure
39:30
that the first. Time.
39:31
I'm sure that's what he wants you to say.
39:34
Entrepreneur. He doesn't want to hear All Pro
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fall back. He's retired.
39:38
Entrepreneur. Say it right, Say it,
39:41
entrepreneur. There you go.
39:42
That's what he is. He's an entrepreneur.
39:44
He's doing big things with life insurance.
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If you want your life insurance, you need any insurance, go to
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Ovie Mihali. He's got a nice smile, wears
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nice suits, and as he his wife says, he looks sexy everywhere
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he goes. So Ovie Mihali, we're going to
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enjoy him on Wednesday. I'm sure I'm going to get him.
40:01
To buy into Stranger Things, which is coming out in a few
40:05
weeks. Did November, right?
40:07
Yeah, that's right. Yeah.
40:08
Ready for that? So if you're a Stranger Things
40:11
fan, which I am, Final episodes. I've been waiting five years for
40:17
this guy. So since COVID.
40:19
Yeah. All right, So me too.
40:21
I I'm. I've been waiting for it
40:23
finally. Is that how long it's been?
40:25
It's been the last season. It's been.
40:26
No, the last 2002. The last season, 20/2/2022.
40:31
Yeah. But even then, before then, they
40:32
were, they had the season already.
40:34
Yeah, but. Yeah.
40:35
Yeah, but I I started watching it in 2000, so 20/20/22 I'm.
40:41
Sorry, the girl started as a kid and now she's like married to
40:45
Bon Jovi's kid in real life. Yeah, she is like 27.
40:49
She is, yeah. It's going to be fun to watch.
40:52
And it's funny because they were talking about how the first time
40:54
when she first was on the show, she was a little kid.
40:55
So she ended up actually shaving her head.
40:58
And I don't want to spoil anything, so I'm not going to,
41:00
but I'm just saying she, what's it called?
41:03
They asked her to shave her head again for the newer season and
41:06
she said no, which, like you said, she's a 27 year old woman.
41:08
I don't know who has like luscious hair like that and then
41:11
just wants to shave it all over again.
41:13
Jabba, you know, maybe Jabba would have done it.
41:15
You know, he doesn't need to shave his head.
41:17
He doesn't need to shave his head.
41:18
I'm ready. I I don't know if Jabba would
41:20
look like her. So I don't know if he would be a
41:22
good, you know, good fill in for that.
41:24
But Jabba, are you a Stranger Things fan?
41:28
You know what? I've never seen an 0.
41:29
You should. You should start watching,
41:31
that's pretty good. That is really good.
41:33
Is it? Yeah, I think how many seasons
41:35
is there or right now there'll be 1/5.
41:38
So. 5th and final Final one. There's a really cool scene in
41:42
the fourth season that involves an A classic Metallica song.
41:46
And I don't watch. Yeah, in my opinion.
41:49
Worth watching? Just master of puppets, baby.
41:51
Master of puppets. It's.
41:53
One of my Would you believe me if I told you I could play that
41:55
song? On guitar, do you know I could
41:56
play the drums, double bass pedal to that song?
41:58
So we got to make that. I think the guitar is more
42:00
impressive than anything Laura's.
42:02
Screw you, what are you talking about?
42:03
Just saying. Kurt Ham, it was great.
42:05
OK. And so is James Hetfield.
42:07
The grace of all. Time.
42:08
And what do you think Lars Ulrich is?
42:11
Lars was cool. Dude, I am a Metallica Fanny.
42:14
They're my favorite band. Do not get me.
42:17
Started. I feel like this is a discussion
42:18
for a DO. Not get me started about
42:20
Metallica. I love how I.
42:23
Love Metallica, but Lars was the weak link of Metallica.
42:27
Oh, stop. First of all, come on.
42:29
The weak, the weak link, and the most.
42:32
Talented, had a double bass pedal so.
42:33
That's what made it so so it's easy to play double bass pedal.
42:38
No, it's not, But it's not like he was freaking like a great
42:41
drummer out there. Yes, he was.
42:43
What are you talking about? Stop.
42:46
Stop who? Who's the one who put Metallica
42:49
in? Most.
42:50
People Who's the one who put Metallica together?
42:52
Who's the one who put? Metallica.
42:53
That and he was kind of a douchebag about Napster back in
42:55
the day. He was and he had every right.
42:57
People were stealing their music.
42:59
He has every right. They were listening to them and
43:02
becoming fans and then going and buying their stuff, dude, they
43:05
were. They were stars before that.
43:09
And and first of all, what's your favorite?
43:10
If you're such a Metallica fan, what's the best?
43:13
What is the best album Metallica ever put out?
43:16
Well, I would probably say ride the Lightning.
43:18
No. No, you're wrong because it is
43:21
right. Right.
43:21
No, it's not. The one before master of.
43:23
Puppets. No, The Black Album was the best
43:25
album. Most people will.
43:27
Most sold album is the Black album.
43:30
That's that's not the best album.
43:32
It, it absolutely is the best. No, it's the best.
43:36
It's. Definitely the most commercial.
43:37
It is the best album. But I would say there are three
43:40
albums better than that by Metallica.
43:42
Oh come on dude, The Black Album is the best album.
43:45
The album that has one on, It's the best album.
43:48
I'm stop. All right, I'm done.
43:49
That's I'm done. I'm done.
43:51
Book plug. He's got one, that's for damn
43:53
sure. Anyways, that's it for a show,
43:55
ladies and gentlemen. Now you heard my Metallica and
43:58
if you want to hear anymore, well, I might be doing
44:01
something. So I'll I'll lead you to that
44:03
way a little bit, you know, in the next couple of weeks.
44:06
Anyways, that's it for a show. Goodnight.
44:07
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44:11
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