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The MLB Report: Wild Card Day 2 Reaction with Greg & Paul and guests Michelle Garmon & Will Retherford, 2.45.3) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome baseball fans to the Central Indian sports report for our wild card day two reaction The red legs season sadly is coming to an end in Los Angeles but guys we have three game three tomorrow welcome
• 0:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: Michelle Garmin next to me at stage 22.
• 0:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: We'll rather ferd and Paul tipped in on Riverside and Paul out there in the desert just wetting it up.
• 0:33
  [SPEAKER_03]: It was an excellent day for baseball, close games throughout forcing games, threes, all kinds of second-guessing of managers, decisions, and all kinds of drama.
• 0:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: It was very good.
• 0:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Even the, even the first inning tonight in Los Angeles was, uh, was, uh, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was,
• 1:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: that just baffles me, some of the managerial decisions, some of the decisions not to attempt to bring runners in.
• 1:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what has happened to the game the last 10 years, but the concept of hitting behind a runner and putting a ball on play to score a run just seems so foreign to what we've seen.
• 1:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: These are low scoring games they've been exciting, but boy, does the baseball situation they have to get better in the next round, even for teams that win this series?
• 1:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's really sad, we're the game of baseball,
• 1:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: his is a beautiful game.
• 1:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: Put the ball in play, hit and run, brought the ball, home runs are nice, but I'd rather have a team that had, I don't know, has all nine hitters, but hitting two set anywhere from 275 to 330 with high on base percentages, able.
• 2:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: You need to manufacture runs.
• 2:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: With that being said, though, you got to be able to hit for power to because that that is the great equalizer of being able to stream together.
• 2:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: A rally is to be able to just hit the long ball.
• 2:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: You get to run your zone.
• 2:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: You can hit a three run home run.
• 2:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's it.
• 2:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's a game trading play.
• 2:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that there is a huge issue as far as the hit and run the bunting the safety squeeze sacrifice fees.
• 2:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, we talked about it last night.
• 2:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's just disappointing to see games be lost.
• 2:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: because of the inability to do things that you learn at the little league level.
• 2:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
• 2:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: Your professional baseball players, you really got to be able to get that done.
• 2:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think Will's right.
• 2:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was probably overdone at a time where you gave up out, and it was probably killed some rallies.
• 3:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think it probably was overdone at times, but
• 3:04
  [SPEAKER_03]: so many situations that they could have done with some snap well and I just I was convinced that the tigers starting off in the first game were we're going to do it but um they had a run taken off the board because um not to disturb cold fans but I thought it was the equivalent of not running hard to score run in the ending when hobby bias uh got to hit with the bases
• 3:34
  [SPEAKER_03]: an equivalent to fumbling the ball at the goal line.
• 3:37
  [SPEAKER_03]: The guy was looking back at third to see what the play was instead of running hard and his run did not count.
• 3:44
  [SPEAKER_03]: A run that certainly would have been critical to the game.
• 3:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: And then they had another chance to, to bunter guy in with the perfect guy at the plate seemed like to me, but he struck out instead.
• 4:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think you saw it too in that pod raise game.
• 4:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they get runners on person second.
• 4:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: I believe in the seventh or eighth inning, they pinch hit for a guy who is known as an incredible buncher that is the skill that he uses the pod raise.
• 4:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: I believe had the most sacrifice months on the entire year in the across all MLB teams.
• 4:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: And he can't get a button out.
• 4:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: He strikes out.
• 4:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then all of a sudden, his first and second, but one out, which is always great to have three abats with runners in scoring position.
• 4:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: But it's like get the button down.
• 4:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, the cubs, the cubs fainted the wheel play that they were going to run there to try to force it out somewhere and it just completely scared the pod rays into submission almost to the point it was just it was managerial 101 as far as Craig council doing that.
• 4:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: But it's just get the button down and and just see what happens.
• 4:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's not that hard.
• 4:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: that do situational hitting and do get eyes over, but in that's two games in a row where they've not not done so well, they should have scored more runs today.
• 5:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like what's Terry Frank on his obsession with Austin Hayes and what does it keep sending him to the plate?
• 5:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 5:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: What's his obsession with that maybe coaching the worst pitching management game I have ever seen in a elimination game and then they'll be history it's just an awful you're going to leave and you're going to lead Andrew Abbott.
• 5:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: And he's wasted now you need to not start.
• 5:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: what you Greg considered to be maybe the resace.
• 5:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's he's now he's he's not going to throw at all.
• 5:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: The bullpen I mean this is a strength the reds bullpen and and he brings in just nuts.
• 5:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Nick Martinez, four, four, four, five, he already in the regular season.
• 5:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: And that's the guy we're gonna bring in against this Dodgers lineup.
• 6:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's just, he was slow to take Latella out and honestly, the reds earned a loss tonight with their inability to just make the right decision at the right time.
• 6:13
  [SPEAKER_03]: Even if let's tell was the right choice, he left him out there two batters too long.
• 6:19
  [SPEAKER_03]: Everybody in the country could see the Dodgers were pepper in the ball all over.
• 6:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: The truth is the reds could have brought Mario Soto and Jose Rejo back and they probably were not these Dodgers too.
• 6:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think that it's kind of Brian Kenny says it best I believe the Cubs lost the game
• 6:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: The fourth inning like that the game was in the fourth inning there when they had the opportunity to pull the tail and potentially bring ladolo in like Paul said two battles before he did ladolo's warm even warm in the whole inning and you're just sitting out there and then like ladolo first 14 pitches and gets through.
• 6:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: one and two thirds innings and he doesn't pitch anymore.
• 7:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: You bring Nick Martinez.
• 7:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: It just makes no sense to me.
• 7:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Why that is the route you choose to go, but I guess that's why Tito is making the big bucks.
• 7:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm sitting here Monday morning quarterbacking hands.
• 7:15
  [SPEAKER_03]: I actually think he's not the worst manager today.
• 7:19
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think Alex Corra of all people was outmanaged by Aaron Boone night.
• 7:27
  [SPEAKER_03]: I know Greg hates to hear that, but Korra went to his bullpen way too early and left a guy out there who was struggling.
• 7:38
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and the Indian Key Stadium, the game was not decided by a home run, but rather a mad dash to the plate.
• 7:50
  [SPEAKER_03]: So, have I hijacked the conversation to back the Indian Key Stadium inappropriately there?
• 7:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no, no, no, we're just kind of going around right now.
• 8:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, big win for the Yankees.
• 8:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's, um, I like their chances on Thursday.
• 8:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's, uh, it's kind of flipped now, uh, the red socks are back in the corner, but, you know, never count them out.
• 8:14
  [SPEAKER_03]: But, uh, they're, they're not set up in their pitching department, uh, very well.
• 8:19
  [SPEAKER_03]: Chapman's rested, but that's about all, uh, you can say right now.
• 8:26
  [SPEAKER_03]: Cleveland and Detroit tomorrow, it's a pretty good storyline, whichever way it goes.
• 8:34
  [SPEAKER_03]: Cleveland advances past the team that they made up 15 and the half games on or the Tigers mess it all up and then come back and resurrect their, at least their chances to continue the season.
• 8:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Greg, I actually, I don't think teams that rest.
• 8:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think there's much of an advantage should be honest.
• 8:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that the Mariners now have lost momentum that they had carrying into the end of the year.
• 9:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: You can now sat.
• 9:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: You're going to have sat five days.
• 9:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know that they've been playing.
• 9:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, they've been playing your pictures or is way bigger deal than that.
• 9:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: Go look at the teams that rested the last three years and look at their records against teams that played in the wild card series.
• 9:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's not good.
• 9:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: No, it seemed that the team that plays the wild card series has the advantage in this iteration of the playoffs, I think it's just because they're not resting, they're playing balls.
• 9:30
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think you have a good case until last year, I think last year was an exception to that.
• 9:37
  [SPEAKER_03]: 2024, you had the Dodgers rested and the Yankees rested.
• 9:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: really the two best teams and the leagues too.
• 9:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: I would say that it was probably a collision course there, regardless of what happened, but I guess you see this year, what is the strategy that teams take to prevent that?
• 9:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think this is a game that Cleveland wins though, like this is they just win
• 10:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Good at being able to manufacture these elimination games move on.
• 10:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: This is kind of new territory for the Tigers.
• 10:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's not new territory for Cleveland.
• 10:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well done, avoiding the G word.
• 10:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm proud of you will.
• 10:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm getting better.
• 10:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I say that like the Tigers didn't move on last year still.
• 10:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: I just I like that you've got a lot of players on that Cleveland team that have been in the postseason.
• 10:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: For some of these guys, potentially their entire career, they've not not laid in the postseason.
• 10:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: So you've got two four plus ERA starters going in that game.
• 10:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I guess who's going to chill out rounds quicker would be my guess.
• 10:47
  [SPEAKER_03]: That would be my prediction because the Tigers just aren't hitting anybody, doesn't seem like.
• 10:56
  [SPEAKER_03]: Hobby, Hobby Bias is the hottest batter you got up there.
• 11:01
  [SPEAKER_03]: And you're making a mistake if you ever throw a strike to them, seem to be.
• 11:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, the cops are facing a former cup tomorrow.
• 11:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: You're garbage.
• 11:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 11:13
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think the Cubs have trouble scoring runs.
• 11:16
  [SPEAKER_03]: We're sure to come to a score three runs in two games.
• 11:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: The reds have to second most runs in the postseason.
• 11:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Just want to point that out.
• 11:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: They plan to team with the most runs.
• 11:27
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, apparently when you give up the most by far, that doesn't count for much.
• 11:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: This cubs pod race has been I thought this was the series of all of them that had the chance to be the most high octane as far as offense of fire power, especially playing it really feel this been pretty Advantages conditions to be hitting in Chicago I'm I think I'm gonna go with you, Darvish just being a veteran and and figuring out a way to do this
• 11:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, the cubs, it's just a strange lineup construction ECA has been atrocious.
• 12:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: The bottom of their lineup is not produced anything.
• 12:07
  [SPEAKER_03]: So Kyle Tucker does it look good, but PCA just looks like he didn't belong anymore.
• 12:16
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's weird.
• 12:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's only not struck out into one at that this whole series.
• 12:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: Another thing, too, is I know that the Padre's bullpin went and you had both Morayhan and Mason Miller go.
• 12:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: Morayhan went to in a third, Mason Miller went and ending in two thirds.
• 12:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that may are they available tomorrow that that to me would be the biggest question because if those two are available.
• 12:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: And unless you Jarvis has one of those games where he just gives up three home runs occasionally throws in a clunker by the way, the reds have the tying run on deck with Will Benson at the plate, so not a lot of hope, but just one out in the eighth.
• 13:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's not quite over yet.
• 13:17
  [SPEAKER_03]: The number's only 12 now instead of Well, anyway, we have at least three games tomorrow and they all three could go either way.
• 13:30
  [SPEAKER_03]: I don't think anybody's being we can Conjecture and you can see a lot about comes, but it's really good for baseball to see At some level will's right.
• 13:41
  [SPEAKER_03]: There's a lot of ineptitude
• 13:44
  [SPEAKER_03]: But when they're equally matched like that, it makes for a high drama and interesting.
• 13:50
  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm talking now and all you guys are watching the Reds trying to hold on to that's right.
• 13:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: Hold on to their season.
• 13:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I feel like if you're one of those four teams that have rested though, you're just licking your chops ready.
• 14:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: Because I don't think any of these teams have come out other than the Dodgers and said we're here to play like Octo Rebaseball.
• 14:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Dodger Phillies next, guys.
• 14:16
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, that's going to be an epic of a series.
• 14:18
  [SPEAKER_03]: It will be because I think the Dodgers think they're a lot better than they actually are right now.
• 14:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think that's fair.
• 14:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they definitely had that the easiest matchup I would say.
• 14:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: found that what I just like why is the Philly starters round two.
• 14:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know that it's the seeding, but like that that's a find it out a way to make that need the NLC version, but you could have a Padre's Mariners world series.
• 14:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that'd be awesome.
• 14:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'd love that nothing like staying up till 2 o'clock in the morning every night to watch that.
• 14:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's the entire reason to move to Arizona so we could watch sports earlier in the day.
• 15:02
  [SPEAKER_03]: I got to tell you this is the place to be.
• 15:04
  [SPEAKER_03]: You never have to stay up to 1 a.m.
• 15:06
  [SPEAKER_03]: to get your sports results.
• 15:09
  [SPEAKER_03]: I have to tell you have two great advantages here.
• 15:12
  [SPEAKER_03]: One is one is geography and two is I'm retired.
• 15:16
  [SPEAKER_03]: So even when the games are early, I don't have to go to work and be distracted.
• 15:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Baseball all day.
• 15:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: Bring it on.
• 15:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: And by the way, I don't pay attention to the kids all day at school either.
• 15:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: I want some baseball too.
• 15:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you're right.
• 15:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Mr. Rutherford, no.
• 15:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: Let's go say, there are a lot of teachers who will put those baseball this time of year put the baseball games on the TVs in their classrooms and only the only the cool ones.
• 15:42
  [SPEAKER_03]: My, my grandkids don't have any cool teachers this year.
• 15:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Ah, none.
• 15:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: The kids in my class definitely don't have any cool teachers.
• 15:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's what makes college so nice is that I don't have anyone to answer to if I want to turn on the game guess what I watch cardinal spring training games taking in in classes didn't pay one lick of attention just to watch the game because I want to and there's nobody to tell me I couldn't or we'll turn the hang on to the end of the game the Dodgers have some bullpen issues against the team who can keep it close until the late evening
• 16:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: We'll make our official picks, I'll be on Friday for the next frown, but can it early predictions for Philly's Dodgers?
• 16:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: All.
• 16:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'll take the Philly's.
• 16:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'll take the Philly's.
• 16:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'll take the Philly's.
• 16:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, we're screwed, because I'm also taking the Philly's.
• 16:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I just think they're the better team.
• 16:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: It'd be interesting to see if the Dodgers inside that they're going to roll with starting pitching.
• 17:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that'll make a difference.
• 17:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: If they roll with their four starters and don't get to the bullpen is early, I think that will make a big difference to Philly.
• 17:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: loaded.
• 17:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: But they always seemed to lay a clunker when it matters the most.
• 17:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're never able to get the job done.
• 17:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I don't think this is that year that year that happens.
• 17:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think we're going to roll through this thing I believe.
• 17:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: We'll see.
• 17:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god, thank you so much.
• 17:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, nevermind, basis is loaded.
• 17:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think we should price stay on.
• 17:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm trying to run to the play.
• 17:40
  [SPEAKER_03]: Oh my goodness, do they hate trying to run at the plate?
• 17:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: And they're going to do it for a second night in a row.
• 17:46
  [SPEAKER_03]: How about how about the Dodgers' pictures come in to a game that's lopsided and can't throw strikes and walk a bunch of people.
• 17:56
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's crazy.
• 17:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: and a van to hard been more disciplined that might have walked him to.
• 18:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 18:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
• 18:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: One thing we talked about last night that I think we are going to see a team that lost or that one game won when a series.
• 18:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think with it, tap to the change three times tomorrow, you're going to tell me that the the cubs, tigers and red socks are all going to win.
• 18:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't see that happen.
• 18:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I think we're going to see that record get get broken.
• 18:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 18:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: Cleveland's winning.
• 18:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think so too.
• 18:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, I really think that every team that lost came one might actually have the upper hand now.
• 18:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
• 18:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 18:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: I do feel like the cubs had their chance today and let it get away.
• 18:45
  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm still going with the Tigers, but otherwise I agree with him.
• 18:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: Almost no one I'd rather have up in this situation than pre-do.
• 18:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: No.
• 19:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: He might give you two runs here.
• 19:04
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, who's doing the play by play here?
• 19:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: I am.
• 19:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, go ahead.
• 19:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: Ball two two and two Jason Bateman's ugly mug keeps coming up on the.
• 19:16
  [SPEAKER_03]: Why do they insist on showing the crowd only in LA?
• 19:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: You don't see the crowd in Cleveland.
• 19:25
  [SPEAKER_03]: or even in Chicago, but you see him in New York though.
• 19:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's a lot.
• 19:32
  [SPEAKER_03]: New York and LA, but yeah, that's true.
• 19:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: Can we not use Marty Bird as the guy that we're going to hang that on.
• 19:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Those aren't just an incredible TV show.
• 19:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: Jason Bateman can do it every he wants.
• 19:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm always saying it because he's wearing Dodgers colors.
• 19:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're some Bateman's fun.
• 19:48
  [SPEAKER_03]: Hmm.
• 19:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, he's okay as an actor.
• 19:55
  [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, free to fowls off a tough pitch on the outside corner, but now he's called out on strike three That was a hack of a bit.
• 20:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: That was a great it.
• 20:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: Hey guys tomorrow.
• 20:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: Can we fly that out?
• 20:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: No, my god, it'd be just the highlight of my year Thank you so much for listening.
• 20:21
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• 20:26
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• 20:30
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• 20:55
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