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MLB Playoff Predictions: Padres vs. Brewers, Dodgers vs. Braves, Yankees-Rays, White Sox-Guardians · Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered

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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered. The wildcard round
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  Speaker 3: was electric.
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  Speaker 3: Tickets are punched to the Division Series. And I'm Anthony
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  Speaker 3: at the end of every segment or every show. It's
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  Speaker 3: our favorite part of our show. Rossi, The wildcard round,
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  Speaker 3: I know it's stressful for teams and fan bases, but
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  Speaker 3: as a fan of baseball, it is electric, man. You're
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  Speaker 1: Bro, that was such a great wildcard, and I think
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  Speaker 1: the best teams moved on and played really well, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm so excited about these Division Series matchups. We've got
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  Speaker 1: some heavy hitters in here, some of the best teams
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  Speaker 1: in baseball. going the best teams in baseball going. And
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait. I, we gotta, we gotta kick it
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  Speaker 1: off with the Yanks race, bro. I, I, I think
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  Speaker 1: my personal opinion, the winning the world series is coming
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  Speaker 1: out of this, this, this, uh, matchup, this series.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt. I mean, a hundred percent representing the
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  Speaker 3: American league is coming out of this series. Right. So
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  Speaker 3: I think so. I mean, the Yankees looked absolutely dominant.
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  Speaker 3: It's the day off of, sweeping the Red Sox, just
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  Speaker 3: everything went their way. Aaron Boone pulled all the right moves.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't really, there wasn't anything controversial, but who he
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  Speaker 3: started when they played in both games, there was two
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  Speaker 3: different lineups. They dominated. And if you're the Rays, you're
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  Speaker 3: sitting there like, all right, like shaking your head, like
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  Speaker 3: we're the best team in American League. But Rossi, that
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  Speaker 3: five-day layoff is no joke. I've done it before. It sucks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the Yankees are riding it high, right? That
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  Speaker 1: offense looked electric, and guys didn't get at bats for
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  Speaker 1: a couple days. Like you said, the platoon matchups, lefty, righties,
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  Speaker 1: and they all looked good. They two-strike hit, hit the
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  Speaker 1: ball in the seats. Like, everybody looks locked in, and
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  Speaker 1: they're without Aaron Judge. So the Rays have played better
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  Speaker 1: at home, one of the best teams in baseball at home.
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  Speaker 3: That's something to look at. Yeah, because that place sucks
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  Speaker 3: to go to. Just so everyone knows, And the guys
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  Speaker 3: from Tampa will say this. There's no shade on the
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  Speaker 3: players or Kevin Cash because I have utmost respect. That
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  Speaker 3: place sucks to play. It's now the worst. I haven't
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  Speaker 3: played in Sacramento, but it used to be Oakland and Tampa, right? So, yes,
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  Speaker 3: they are a very good team, but it sucks going there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and they haven't pitched well there. I think they're
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  Speaker 1: like against the Rays. It's like a little over a two,
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  Speaker 1: the pitching staff at home. For the Yankees, on the road,
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  Speaker 1: it's over a four. The offense, they're two and five
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  Speaker 1: when they play at the Trop, and I think it's
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  Speaker 1: four and two in Yankee Stadium. So the Rays are
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  Speaker 1: going to have to get off to a good start.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a tough place to play. I think
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge has to be completely healthy to play that outfield.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if he's still on the roster, which
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  Speaker 1: is going to be a whole other decision that they're
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  Speaker 1: going to have to make.
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  Speaker 3: That's a huge storyline.
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  Speaker 1: A huge storyline. People are already talking about it. That's
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  Speaker 1: all they want to talk about. I was like, how
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  Speaker 1: the heck is anybody supposed to know? I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about TV. It's like, we just, we didn't even
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  Speaker 1: talk to anybody from New York today. Yeah, exactly. So
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  Speaker 1: huge storyline. We've got some good pitching matchups. Garrett Cole,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they got Rodan back. You're going to be
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  Speaker 1: with the off days and be able to go Cole
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  Speaker 1: Schlittler freed if they want. Yeah, I think is how
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  Speaker 1: my lineup. Yeah. So pretty, pretty impressive matchups we're going
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  Speaker 1: to have here. And the Rays play straight chaos baseball.
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  Speaker 1: They run, they bunt. They've got power in there. They've
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  Speaker 1: got speed. They do a little bit of everything.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think... I mean, the Rays went 7-6 versus
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  Speaker 3: the Yankees, like you said. They have Drew Rasmussen on
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  Speaker 3: the bump for Game 1. Rasmussen is an ace. He
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  Speaker 3: dominates the Yankees. He was 16-5 this year. But that
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  Speaker 3: goes out the window. You know what I mean? It's
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  Speaker 3: going to be... These Tampa-New York games are always tight.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter who's pitching, honestly.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 3: It just feels like they're always these nail biters on
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  Speaker 3: who executes and who gets the big hit. For me,
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  Speaker 3: for Tampa, with how good they have been, their stars
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  Speaker 3: need to start early. If Yandy Diaz or Caminero hits
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  Speaker 3: a big home run early, that whole dugout exhales and
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  Speaker 3: be like, all right, we got this, right? Sure. Because
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  Speaker 3: as good as they were this year, they don't have
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  Speaker 3: a lot of superstars in that lineup, right? Junior Caminero
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  Speaker 3: is the guy. It's over 40-plus home runs. I think
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  Speaker 3: he's the MVP of the American League. I know that's controversial,
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  Speaker 3: but what he did this year carrying that team, him
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  Speaker 3: and Yandy, if those guys get going really early in
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  Speaker 3: that series, I would see the 96-raised team, 96 wins, right,
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  Speaker 3: or 98 wins team. That's the team I think we're
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  Speaker 3: going to see. But if they start off cold, man,
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  Speaker 3: it feeds down.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and two, you know you've got to go to
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  Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium. You've been in that rivalry and in that environment.
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  Speaker 1: I think the one thing that stands out to me
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  Speaker 1: is there's teams that get intimidated by New York and
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  Speaker 1: the atmosphere, the limelight, the whole pinstripe kind of just
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  Speaker 1: carries a little bit more. The Rays aren't going to
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  Speaker 1: have that. They know that they've beat them. They've been
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  Speaker 1: in great competition with them all year, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: seven and six. They know it's going to be a nail-biter.
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  Speaker 1: They know they're going to have to play their game.
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  Speaker 1: And New York's going to have to be fundamentally sound.
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  Speaker 1: I think defense is going to come into play really
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  Speaker 1: heavily for New York. We know how great their pitching is.
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  Speaker 1: The lineup looks like as good as I've seen. Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Boone even said, like, we played great baseball. If we
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  Speaker 1: play like that, we're going to be in the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: So they're going to have to continue to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Boston didn't help themselves, but the Rays look like they're
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  Speaker 1: locked and loaded. I'm sorry. I mean, New York looks
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  Speaker 1: like they're locked and loaded, and the Rays are going
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  Speaker 1: to have to get off to a good start with
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a layoff. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the Rays, they're good, man. And they've been
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  Speaker 3: the Yankees kryptonite for years now, right? Small market team.
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  Speaker 3: Always just finding these guys that come out throwing 100
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  Speaker 3: miles an hour, hitting their spots. They're a factory. They
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  Speaker 3: just keep producing homegrown talent and just they're so good, right?
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  Speaker 3: They get Brian Baker. They turn him into one of
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  Speaker 3: the best closers in the game now, right? From Baltimore. So,
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  Speaker 3: Credit to their organization for the player development. It seems
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  Speaker 3: like they do everything right. It seems like if you're
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  Speaker 3: a pitcher, you want to be in the Tampa Rays organization.
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  Speaker 3: Pitching matchups. Yeah, go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like Kevin Cash pulls all the right strings
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  Speaker 1: as well. He's been in the environment, knows his team.
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  Speaker 1: They're not going to let guys go too many times
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  Speaker 1: through the lineup. We know that narrative from the last
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  Speaker 1: time they were in the World Series. I want to
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and throw out my polymarket pick of the series.
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  Speaker 1: Real quick, we've got the Rays are 48% on the yes,
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  Speaker 1: $ 100 trade to get you back 201, and the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: are 55% on the yes, and $ 100 trade gets you
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  Speaker 1: back 176. I'm about making money, and I'm about the
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Rays for this one. I want my 100
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  Speaker 1: to make me two. I want to double my money,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm going with the Tampa Bay Rays in this series.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what do they need to do to win this series, Rossi?
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  Speaker 1: Man, they've got to pitch well. I feel like that
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  Speaker 1: offense just looked relentless. Two-strike hitting versus Boston. Boston's no slouch, man.
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  Speaker 1: They've got great, but Sonny Gray and Toley, they just
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  Speaker 1: dominated that series, especially late. They just got better and better.
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  Speaker 1: The Rays are going to have to get out to
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  Speaker 1: a good start. They're going to have to play some
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  Speaker 1: small ball. Chandler Simpson, these guys that move the baseball
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  Speaker 1: and put pressure on you, and exactly what you said earlier,
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  Speaker 1: The stars are gonna have to start yanni diaz caminero
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  Speaker 1: these guys are gonna have to be great um a
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  Speaker 1: ronda yet first base like they're gonna need the dudes
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  Speaker 1: to have their at bats and not get too excited
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  Speaker 1: and they know how good they are they know they
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  Speaker 1: won the division they bought themselves that buy but now
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  Speaker 1: it's go time it's a clean slate like we talk
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  Speaker 1: about all the time everybody starts at zero again.
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  Speaker 3: That's yeah it's gonna be must watch The Rays are
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  Speaker 3: going with their ace, Rasmussen, and then probably after that,
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  Speaker 3: we'll see Nick Martinez, Freddie Peralta, Griffin Jackson.
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  Speaker 1: I think Nick Martinez, Peralta is what I would, in
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  Speaker 1: my head, is how I would run it. Nick Martinez
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  Speaker 1: has been great for them. Freddie Peralta really, after that
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  Speaker 1: first start getting over to Tampa Bay, has really figured
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  Speaker 1: that out and pitched well.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, and now on the Yankees end, Garrett Cole, Cam Schiller,
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  Speaker 3: Max Freed, Carlos Rodon. Gary Cole and Rodon can go
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  Speaker 3: game one. If Booney decides he wants to fire Rodon
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  Speaker 3: in game one in a big situation, he has that
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  Speaker 3: threat in the bullpen that he can go to. So
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be, I mean, the pitching side has
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  Speaker 3: to go to the Yankees. They're four legitimate number ones.
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 3: You can argue maybe there's a two in there. Who's
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  Speaker 3: a two in that relationship?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no. Not the way Rodon's pitched, no doubt.
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  Speaker 3: And their bullpen, the Yankees' bullpen is the best bullpen.
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  Speaker 3: You can say what you want about the rest of
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  Speaker 3: the teams in the postseason. Every team has a dominant bullpen.
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  Speaker 3: The Yankees' bullpen on paper is the best bullpen in
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  Speaker 3: the league through the regular season. And they had Bednar
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  Speaker 3: in the back end, and not a lot of guys,
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  Speaker 3: guys that have stepped up. You have Paul Blackburn, Hendrick,
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  Speaker 3: for the Yankees that have stepped up and made names
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  Speaker 3: for themselves this year, but that's credit to Aaron Boone, man,
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  Speaker 3: and the Yankees putting those guys in in the right
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  Speaker 3: situations to thrive. I mean, the proof's in the pudding.
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  Speaker 3: By the numbers, they have the best bullpen, and the Rays,
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  Speaker 3: believe it or not, have the worst bullpen left in
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  Speaker 3: the playoffs, which is hard to believe, right? Which means nothing.
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  Speaker 3: This is October. Guys are going to be pitching all
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  Speaker 3: out of their roles. The bullpen ERA is out the door,
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  Speaker 3: but It's fun for us to talk about, right, Rossi?
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  Speaker 1: It is. It is fun. This is going to be
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  Speaker 1: a great series. We've got a lot of great series.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a lot of great series.
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  Speaker 3: My prediction on this one, Rossi, is the Yankees are
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  Speaker 3: winning this one. I just think that the Rays, they
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  Speaker 3: won 98 games. They're a fundamentally sound baseball team. Kevin
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  Speaker 3: Cash has those boys always prepared to play. But I
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  Speaker 3: just think that the Yankees come in there with momentum
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  Speaker 3: from the Red Sox. This is a different Yankee team.
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  Speaker 3: They were hitting tons of singles. They still hit the
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  Speaker 3: long ball. They were getting on base. They were playing
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  Speaker 3: good defense. If that translates early to this season, that momentum,
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  Speaker 3: we've been saying this, their vibes are high. And if
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  Speaker 3: they start off quick, they're going to stay high. And
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  Speaker 3: you know down there in Tampa, Ross, you knew when
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  Speaker 3: you played there in Boston, sometimes it was 50-50 in fans, right?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to have a ton of Yankees fans. There's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of Yankees fans down there in Tampa.
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  Speaker 1: And the Yankees went down early. They went down at
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  Speaker 1: 2 o'clock today, went ahead and got down there early.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of guys have houses and stuff down there.
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  Speaker 1: So they're going to get, you know, they'll be nice
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  Speaker 1: and rested and ready to go in a couple days.
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  Speaker 3: Rossi staying with the American League. The Guardians won the
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  Speaker 3: AL Central again with 85 wins, 77 losses. White Sox,
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  Speaker 3: the third wild card spot. The White Sox led the
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  Speaker 3: division most of the year, Rossi. And the Guardians do
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  Speaker 3: what the Guardians do. In September, they come back. It
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  Speaker 3: seems like they don't lose games in September. They win
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  Speaker 3: the division. They've done it for a few years. They
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  Speaker 3: chase down the Tigers multiple times. But the White Sox advancing,
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  Speaker 3: their vibes are extremely high. It seems like they're just
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  Speaker 3: playing like little kids with nothing to lose. And that's
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  Speaker 3: my question to you, Rossi, is are the White Sox
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  Speaker 3: playing with house money?
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  Speaker 1: Man, the way they played against the Astros, I think
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  Speaker 1: I didn't give them enough credit, if I'm being honest.
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  Speaker 1: The at-bats, the stat I threw out last time, and
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  Speaker 1: just them scoring early in games, putting the pressure on them,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of young guys stepping up, and you
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  Speaker 1: know as well as I do, that young energy, that
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  Speaker 1: fearlessness you have when you're a young player and you've
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  Speaker 1: had success that they've had this year, getting into the postseason,
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  Speaker 1: really dominating the Astros, who didn't look good. They looked
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  Speaker 1: as bad as the White Sox, I mean, as the
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  Speaker 1: Red Sox. And, you know, they've got, it's been a
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  Speaker 1: close series all year. I know Cleveland edged them out seven,
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  Speaker 1: seven games to six, but it's going to be tight.
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  Speaker 1: They know each other really well. They've had some battles.
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  Speaker 1: Will Venables pulled the triggers of these guys. You got,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Hicks out of the bullpen, Grant Taylor, Sean
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  Speaker 1: Newcomb has come found himself. You know, they've got some
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  Speaker 1: good young starters and the lineup, man, they just, they
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  Speaker 1: control the strike zone. I think it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a close series. I'm not going to pick the Guardians
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  Speaker 1: because I just feel like they seem to overcome odds,
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  Speaker 1: and I love their pitching staff as well and their
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  Speaker 1: really good bullpen. Jose Ramirez is an absolute stud. They've
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  Speaker 1: got the young guys that are just as good as
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  Speaker 1: it comes. I love this series.
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  Speaker 3: The best thing for the White Sox is And we
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  Speaker 3: went through this in 2015 in Chicago. They're playing a
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  Speaker 3: team that they're very familiar with, right? They know each other.
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  Speaker 3: They played each other. They don't necessarily like each other.
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  Speaker 3: You don't really like anyone in your division, right? And
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  Speaker 3: the White Sox are flying high, riding in there. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: the Guardians, though, they are the team to beat in
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  Speaker 3: this series. They continue to show Stephen Vogt continues to
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  Speaker 3: get the best out of these guys. Kate Smith at
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  Speaker 3: the back end of that bullpen is locked down.
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  Speaker 1: Nasty. Locked down. So, it's going to be … Parker
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  Speaker 1: Messick may win rookie. I mean, he's one of the
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  Speaker 1: best rookies, you know, totally. And we know with the
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  Speaker 1: White Sox. But he may win rookie of the year.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he was an absolute … The second baseman
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  Speaker 3: from Australia, Banzana, Travis? Pazana. Travis Pazana. Pazana, dude. Stud, right?
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  Speaker 3: First overall pick. Was it your first overall pick a
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  Speaker 3: couple years ago?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You were already in the big leagues.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. First Australian-born overall pick ever.
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  Speaker 3: Stud.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Stephen Kwan, Jose Ramirez. So, I mean, Stephen Bowe.
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  Speaker 1: Williams led the American League in strikeouts with 248. Like,
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: they've got real swing and miss in there. Yeah.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: And he's going game two. And the White Sox strike
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: out a lot. The White Sox do really well, though.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: We saw this in Houston. They hit the long ball.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: And that's what they're going to need to win this series.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: And I do believe, just because they know each other
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: so much, if they steal game one, they're going to
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: go to.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: Guaranteed-rate field, I believe, in Chicago. I saw they were
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: doing a blackout, and then I also saw fans calling
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: for a whiteout for the Pope in Chicago.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, nice.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: So I can't wait to see that fan base going
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: crazy because the south side of Chicago, those fans are passionate,
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: just like all Chicago fans. So I think it's great
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: for the southsiders. I'm excited for them. Will Venable is.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: I'm very close with him and his family. I'm not
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: counting them out. I'm going out of the way here
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: and saying I think the White Sox win in five
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: in this series. I think it's going to go to
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: the distance.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Well, let's go. We're going to Chicago. Well, hey, we
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: may be there. You're running the marathon and I'm planning
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: on coming to support.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Rossi, we cannot go to a White Sox game.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: We can wear like a mask. We can wear like
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Maybe wear a little Pope hat and get on board
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: with the White Sox.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: I already got a couple of my friends saying, hey,
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: come to a game, come to a game. I'm like, ah,
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: maybe we'll go with Chelios, right? Chelios is a White
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: Sox fan. That's a good party. That would be good.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Hey, I think it's so evenly matched, and I'm going
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: to go with the experience again. I am terrible. I'm
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: learning in the first round at predictions. I think I
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: got one right. I had the Braves until the third game,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: and then that didn't work out, but I got the Pods. Right.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: I had the Astros stink. I had the Red Sox stink.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: I stink at predictions. But I'm going with the Guardians.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it carries a whole lot of
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: weight so far. I'm still learning all this prediction stuff. But,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: you know, I hope some of these people that are
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: going to polymarket, maybe they go against what I did.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: But it's an evenly matched series.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: I think with the layoff again, I think the five
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: days is real. And I think that the White Sox,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: like Jon Lester used to always say, are too young
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: and dumb to realize how big these moments are, right?
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Like they're still like just such a band of brothers that,
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: and I mean that in the best way possible, that
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: they're going to go in there and just play free baseball.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Like they're playing with house money, but they're not. This
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: team is very underrated, hasn't been given the proper respect
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: in my opinion, and I'm excited for this series. I'm
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: going to be watching this one.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Maybe from a bar in Chicago. Let's figure out where
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: like there's like maybe a, I'm.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Running a marathon. I can go to a bar.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: You won't be drinking. You're locked in the marathon. I'll
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: have some for you.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: I won't be drinking as many Coronas. I'll have a few.
• 19:23
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• 19:30
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• 20:01
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• 20:06
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• 20:08
  Speaker 3: That's a big one for me, Rossi.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: We've been in the vibe room. We've been in the
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: vibe room. That's a spot. That's a spot. And with
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Church and Sheryl Crow, like, I mean, what a tour
• 20:18
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• 20:20
  Speaker 1: in Boston at Foxboro. He always starts in Tampa. I've
• 20:23
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• 20:26
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• 20:30
  Speaker 3: With Kenny on it?
• 20:31
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• 20:32
  Speaker 3: That'd be nice.
• 20:32
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• 20:35
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• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Let's go to the National League, Rossi. This is the gauntlet.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: The gauntlet has continued in the National League. Every series,
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: I feel like each team could win the World Series
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: starting from the wild card. We're starting with the Atlanta
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Braves traveling across country after the big game three win
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: to the two time defending world series champions, Los Angeles Dodgers, Rossi.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: What do we got on this.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: One, man? I think, you know, Braves Braves are glimping
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: into this thing. As far as the pitching staff goes, we,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: you know, sale, we don't know how he's going to
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: feel after coming out of the bullpen on, you know,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: a day's rest. Um, getting multiple outs, you know, Tyler
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Malley pitched great, but he's not, I don't think he
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: would be ready till game three. They're going to have
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: to do some kind of opener type thing. Maybe a
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Brent suitor to J.R. Ritchie. J.R. Ritchie is a starter
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: this year, has a 5'7. That's never good. But what
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: I will say is the Braves are 5-1, 5-1 versus
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers this year. Held these guys. Chris Thale had
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: a complete game shoddy. And had two starts and absolutely
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: dominated them. Otani with a 500 OPS. Otani, Freeman, Muncy,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: and Tucker all against the Braves combined had a 524 OPS.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: So they were not playing well the last time they
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: faced each other. It's going to be a different story.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: It's going to be different pitchers. But the Braves got
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: their work cut out for them for sure. Because you've
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: got Yamamoto, Scooble, Snell. Glass now. We started listing off
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: some names.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: But how healthy are they? You know what I mean? Yeah.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Besides Yamamoto and Scooble, you have Snell. That's two pretty
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: good ones.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: That's two pretty good ones.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: That's two horses. Are you kidding me? Yamamoto is a gangster.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: What he did last year in the World Series. Are
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: you kidding me? But with Snell and Glass now, you know,
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: it's like Snell came back, only had a couple starts.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: I'm sure they're going to be dominant. These dudes are
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: the best pitchers in the world. I don't want to
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: face those guys at all. But those Braves hitters are
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: very experienced. It's not like it's a group of young
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: hitters that are going to be phased by who they're facing.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: These guys have been in the league for a long time.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: You have MVP in that lineup. Matt Olsen, the Ironman,
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: hitting 40-plus homers for the Braves. Albies getting going, right?
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Michael Harris has been their MVP, I feel like, this year.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: Michael Harris, their catcher. Coming off Rookie of the Year,
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Drake Baldwin.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Baldwin, Drake Baldwin, no doubt.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: It's an experienced Braves lineup going against this good pitching staff.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: And then, for me, it's the position player group for
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: the Dodgers, right? They're coming off back-to-back World Series championships.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: They were flat in August, in July and August, right?
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: They weren't that good. And I kept saying, it's the
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: dog days. They're coming off back-to-back championships. So, For them
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: to get going, the five days for them was everything, right?
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: They know how to handle this. They know how to
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: win in October. It's proven. So them being able to
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: get the five-day reset, I think, is so beneficial for
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Dave Roberts and his team.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that layoff is a factor, whether it's good or bad, right?
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Like it's always like your timing stuff. But, you know,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: my boy Freddie Freeman, like you talked about, all that baseball.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Freddie?
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, when you're running him down. Freddie Freeman, like we'll
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: give some Braves fans some hope here. Freddie Freeman, worst
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: OPS in his career this year. Same with Mookie Betts.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: You got to hope.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: That doesn't matter, Rossi.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: I know, bro. I'm just trying to give my Braves
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: fans some hope. I grew up a Braves fan. I'm
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: trying to give the Braves some love. You know, I
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: want them to have some hope. It's me against the world.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: You saw Walt Weiss's post-game press conference. Nobody believes in us.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: It's just about us. Well, I don't know if I
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: felt that the last series, but I definitely feel that
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: this series. The Dodgers are going to be a gauntlet
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: for them to overcome. But it is baseball, and if
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: they can sneak out, the Braves can sneak out a
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: game in L.A., I feel like they've got a little
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: bit of a shot for me. It's going to open
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: a window.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: There's a window. There's a window. Maybe a Home Depot
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: or Lowe's. Not an ad, which it was.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: In the weather.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: In the weather. There's a window. Rossi, this is player,
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: former player, just thinking he can.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Manage, right?
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Which I don't.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's what we do as players.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: Here we go. Chris Sale is available out of the
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: bullpen in game one and two. If you have a lead,
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: you fire him. And then you have Malley game four
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: on regular rest. Game three.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: He would be game three.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, game three. You can go Sale game four.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: But if you can have Sale come in at some
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: point in game one or two, and give you two innings.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: I mean, he went up today. He said it after
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: the game. He's like, I can pitch tomorrow if I
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: need to, right? That's the type of dog Chris Sale is. Yeah,
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: for sure. Just something to look for where he's going
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: to have to throw a bullpen here if he's getting
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: ready to pitch game three or four. That bullpen could
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: be in the game. If they have an opportunity to
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: win game one and you bring him in, what a
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: boost to bridge that gap to the bullpen. You know
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: what I mean? You could bring him in in the
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: fourth to get him to their bullpen that will be fresh.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: This reminds me of you saying the Cubs need to
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: go on the road and be road dogs. I feel
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: like this is that chaotic where you're at. You're like,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: we're going to pitch steal every game. His arm's going
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: to fall off, but it's.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: Fine because he's our best pitcher. No, it's just game
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: one and two. Have him available where if you can
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: steal one of those games because it's going to be
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: pitching chaos for the Braves. They don't know. They're going
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: to figure it out. Walt Rice said it.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: True.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: If you can... Fire him. He's going to be on
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: short rest regardless unless you wait until game three to
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: throw him. Well, you'll have Mally game three, who's really good.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: He's had it under a two ERA. He was good
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: in game two for game three. And then if you
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: don't use him or if you do use him game
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: one or two, you have him pretty much full go
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: for game four.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Hey, you've got to pull a rabbit
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: out of the hat.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: I love the Braves.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: And I would love my rabbit to be Chris Sale.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: I definitely am on the board with you on that.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah. For me, Rossi, it's so hard to go against
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: the defending champions, but I do think a lot of
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: weight is removed from the Braves after beating the Phillies.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: The Phillies eliminated them the last two times they were
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: in the playoffs in the first round. So they beat them.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Now they're going on to LA with momentum. It's going
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: to be pitching chaos. It doesn't make sense for them
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: to win one of these next two games because of
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: their pitching status. But I believe in this player, the
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: position player group and the Braves. And I do think
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: that the mental fortitude is going to take the Dodgers
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: to go in three-peat. I hope they do it, but
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: I'm picking the Braves. I picked them earlier to go
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: represent the National League in the World Series, so I'm
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: sticking with them.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I like that you're sticking to your guns. I feel
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: like you're trying to talk yourself into sticking to your
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: guns because I've got a runaway series for the Dodgers,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: and I think they're going to hit. They're going to
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: feel so good not facing aces first game. They're going
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: to get their timing down. They're going to have the
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: quality of bats. Then the hitters are going to feel sexy,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: and it's off and running because that pitching staff for
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers is elite. That's cool. I love that we
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: disagree a lot.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: I like that.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: You won the first round. I would definitely say that.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: You've kicked my butt in the first round of predictions.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: You say that, though, as a hitter, Rossi, the Dodgers,
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: those hitters are going to be facing a new pitcher
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: pretty much every at-bat for the first four games. Which
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: is hard. It's going to be hard to settle in, right? But, again,
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: it's superstar after superstar. And they have proven it, so
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: it's going to be great. I mean, look, all of these,
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: as you can tell, I am fired up for every
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: one of these series.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: I was just about to say, like, I'm fired up
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: for all the series, but my favorite series we're about
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: to talk about that I can't wait for, the best
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: team in baseball, the Milwaukee Brewers versus the hottest team
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: in baseball, the San Diego Padres. Family rate field or
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: whatever it's called in Milwaukee. Wrigley North, as we like
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: to call it. That place is going to be rocking.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: That place is going to be absolutely rocking.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: And we saw how electric San Diego is. I'm so
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: pumped to watch that. That's my favorite one that I'm
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: looking forward to. Yeah, I mean, the Padres are riding high, right?
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: Vibes are high. Going across country. Padres, I'm going to
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: hop on this stat. I'm going to stay on it.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: 19-3 since Manny dyed his hair blonde, right? Their stars
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: are starring. Their mojo seems to be fully back. Tatis' mojo,
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: you see him celebrating afterwards. The Brewers... though, as ho-hung
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: as you can be and as positive as you can be,
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: you got a guy by the name of Jacob Mizorowski
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: that is waiting for you with his 105, Rossi. Not 101,
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: 105 is waiting for you.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: It might be 107 in game one, and there's no telling.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: Right. So, come Saturday, like you said, it's a clean slate,
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: but what a series that's going to be, man. They
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: have two great pitching The Padres have the best bullpen
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: with Mason Miller locking it down there in the ninth.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: The Brewers have a really good back end of their bullpen, too.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Great starters.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Trevor McGill. They've got some dudes. Man, listen to this lineup.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: We're talking about things that we both love. You're probably
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: a little more Homer-centric than I am, but the way
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Brewers handled the at-bat, control the strikes on,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: can beat you in multiple ways, base running, pitching. They've
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: got power, but they've got Garrett Mitchell, Jackson Turial, Bryce Tourain,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: who is one of my favorite players. This guy's an
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: absolute stud. William Contreras, Jake Bowers, who had a great year,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: finally bouncing back, playing first for them, and really solidified
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: himself and one of their MVPs. Yellies hitting, Kristen Yellich
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: way down the list. Joey Ortiz, Sal Freilich, little gamer player.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: And then you've got the young guy, Cooper Pratt, down
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: in the 9-hole. Like, this has been the best team
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: in baseball for a little while now. And I know
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: the Padres are hot, and I know the Padres have stars. And,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: you know, it's going to be a great matchup. I love–
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: we've got the Miz. We've got Kyle Harrison, Robert Gasser. Like,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: they've got really real dudes. They may not be the
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: biggest names because they're in Milwaukee, but they've got real dudes.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: And so I think another evenly matched-up teams with stars–
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: with stuff, young stars, guys have been around. Like it is,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: it's going to be electric and I can't wait to
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: watch how loud it is.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: It'd be interesting to see who the Padres go with
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: their game one. Do they go with Robbie Ray or
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: Walker Bueller? Bueller faced him earlier this year, six innings,
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: gave up one run. But then when that flips, you
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: have Michael King, who's a stud. You have Nick Pavetta,
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: who looked dominant. You have the story with Joe Musgrove.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: We'll see how they use him and their bullpen. You
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: know what I mean?
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: So, I miss Logan Henderson. He's going game two for them.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: He's throwing the ball really well.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: Rossi, I think that the Milwaukee Brewers, who Pat Murphy
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: I love. I've always loved interacting with him. Upmost respect
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: for him. What he gets out of his players is everything, right?
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: But this team played their baseball all year long. kind
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: of under the radar, right? The only time their radar
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: was going off was when Mizorowski was pitching, and then
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: the rest, four days later, it was kind of like
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: they're not talked about a lot. So, like the Rays,
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: they're five days off. They have to have a big
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: moment early for that entire team to exhale and be like,
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: alright boys, look, get that belief again that we're the
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: best team in baseball, not the false belief, right? There's
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: real belief and false belief.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: And For me, they've got to get over the hump.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: You know, they knew the Cubs well, but they haven't
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: been able to get to that championship series as often
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: as I think– And win it. And win it and
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: think as often as they'd like, right? So they've got
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: to get that kind of monkey off their back, so
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: to speak, and, you know, play well and get into, like, real–
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: to be the best team in baseball, their expectations is
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: World Series or bust. They got swept in the NLCS
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: last year by the Cubs. Really not a good showing
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: two years ago.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: By the Dodgers. By the Dodgers.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: By the Dodgers. Sorry. And then– they got that big
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: walk-off two years ago from Pete Alonso and the Mets,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: and they thought they had it. Like, this is a
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: good team that's been knocking on the door at the
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: World Series and having the expectations. And this year, best
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: team in baseball. They've got to get over that hump.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: The one thing I do really like about the Brewers
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: is they clinched the division two weeks to go within
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: the season, and they just kept their foot on the pedal, man.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: They just kept hitting. They kept producing. They kept getting
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: the big hits. They kept playing at a high intensity.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: which I love to see there out of them, and
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: they're going to be ready to play. It's a really
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: good team. It's playoff baseball, right? If the best team
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: won every time, then you and I wouldn't have this
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: thing we call a show, I guess.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Exactly. Something to talk about. That's right.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: Rossi, I'm going to stay with you. Look, I thought
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: the Cubs were going to beat the the Padres, but
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: I'm going to stay with my teams, right? I was
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: a San Diego Padre. I was a rookie there. I
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: have all of one home run as a San Diego Padre.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: The first one, most memorable, as you know, Rossi, yours
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: is off Mark Grace. Uh, with the Dodgers, with the Dodgers.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: That's right. So, but I, I think that the San
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: Diego Padres are going to find a way to win
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: this series. It's going to be Padres Braves National League
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: Championship Series.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: I don't hate that pick at all, but, um, you know,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: I went early on with the Milwaukee Brewers. I just,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I believe in Pat Murphy and that group. I think
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: they've got an edge and I think they've got something
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: to prove. And I think Pat Murphy believes that. And
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: I feel like these guys are, are just got that
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: same personality of like, we've got something to prove. So
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: I'm going with the Milwaukee Brewers to play the Los
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: I'm going to be a good one up there. Milwaukee,
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: maybe shit, mate, Rossi, maybe we, I'd pop up to
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Milwaukee for a game. Road trip? I'd rather go to Milwaukee, yeah.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: Stop at the Brat Stop on the way. That big
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: cheese store? Yeah, a brat and a Bloody Mary. Are
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: you kidding me? I'm in.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Just roll up to a tailgate.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: That would be electric.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: That would be sick.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Right? How would they do it? Would we be greeted
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: with open arms in Milwaukee or the south side of Chicago?
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: That feels like a Tim Busk ball bag question that
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: we need from our viewers. Let us know who would
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: give us the most love, if any. Could we join
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: your tailgate at the Southside or up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin?
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Who's feeding us? Who's having a beer with us?
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: Listen, we see it and we appreciate it. We've been
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: getting some love from the Southside for talking about the
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: White Sox and how exciting of a team they are.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: The Brewers, look, I love Pat Murphy. I love this
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: Brewers team. They're really good. They are the gold standard
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: in the NL Central. Shit in the National League the
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: last few years, right? If it wasn't for the Dodgers, like,
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: it's Dodgers Brewers. So, yeah, that'd be a good one.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Maybe we'll pull that on our social media.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Road trip. We need a Ross and Rizzo unfiltered bus,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: like game day. We'll just go game to game. It'd
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: be sick.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: RV it, baby.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: So, our brackets, Rossi. So, You have the Guardians. Is
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: that right?
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: I have the Guardians playing the Rays. The Rays going
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: to the World Series. And I have the Dodgers playing
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: the Brewers. And the Brewers going to the World Series.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: So I've got Brewers-Rays.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: You're saving baseball.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: I am.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: You want the small market to save baseball. David Ross,
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: national hero.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Rob Manfred hates me right now.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: I'm taking the White Sox. I'm taking the Southsiders. I'm
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: taking the Yankees. Then I'm going Braves, Padres, and then
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: Braves beat the Padres to go to the World Series.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: Yankees beat the White Sox. We have a classic Yankees-Braves
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: World Series. All right. We'll see. I like it.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: We will see. I think part of me in Tampa,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: because I'm going to be at the World Series, it
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: would be nice just to drive home from Tallahassee. It
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: would be just nice to drive down.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: To do that, right? I hear you. Selfishly, I wanted
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: the Yankees-Red Sox to go three games so I could
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: just be on the call for a third game and
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: the Yankees winning three, right? Because I had them winning. But,
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: you know, we've got to be selfish. We've got to
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: be selfish. Yeah, let's get to our Tim Buss-Ballback questions
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: of the episode now of the day. Where we answer
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: your questions, all of our fans' questions. You can leave
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: them on YouTube, our socials, or email us at rossandrizzo
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: at gmail.com. We love taking these questions. This first one's
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: an email from Farhan. I'm from the UK. All right.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: All right. Let's go. Worldwide.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: Let's go.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Prestige worldwide. Worldwide. Worldwide. Worldwide.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: Farhan, are you an investor or not? I love this.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: Massive fan of the Chicago Cubs and you guys. I
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: started watching the season, Riz. I started watching the season
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: that me, Riz, had not traded when you traded me, Rossi.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: I've been watching the Loveable Reunion podcast since it started
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: and really enjoyed listening to the insights behind the 2016 team.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: My question is, who would you consider to have had
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: the worst wildcard experience between the Chicago Cubs and Boston
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: Red Sox, factoring the decisions to pull Gray for the
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: Red Sox and no home starting for the Cubs. Great question.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: Far on from the UK. Let's go.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Shout out to baseball. Yeah, that was a good baseball question.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: And we just talked about, we had today on air,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: we had to pick our worst performances and best performances
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: that we liked from the wild card. And I went
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: with the Cubs just because I followed them so hard.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: And You know, the offense that I, you know, I
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: love those guys. They got such a great position player
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: group that it just didn't show up. And I think
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: a lot of that just a credit. You got to
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: credit the Padres pitching. But the Red Sox is all
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: borderline embarrassing, you know, with how it ended, how good
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: the Yankees were and made the they didn't play clean baseball.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of like just miscues. And then there's
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: the little bit of drama afterwards just left a bad
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: taste in my mouth, you know. pulling Sonny Gray, all
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: the decisions are what they are, you know, but there
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: was just, it wasn't clean baseball. You know, some, some,
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: some things that I just feel like in the playoff
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: and championship caliber baseball should be just didn't show up
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: with Boston. And then you had a little bit of this,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: just bad taste in your mouth with all that drama
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: at the end of the season. So for me, Farhan,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: I'm going with the Red Sox.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: This is why, this is why you and I are
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: called the ham and egg Rossi.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: I'm going with the Cubs. Look, the Red Sox had
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: a great season, but everything they dealt with, Chad Tracy
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: figuring out a way to get six new coaches from
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: their minor league system, turning that season around, they ran
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: into Cam Schlittler and Max Fried, two of the best
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: pitchers in the American League. You know what I mean? So,
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: a team that overachieved big time, that believed in themselves,
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: like credit to the Red Sox, they believed in themselves.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: They never gave up on themselves, right? And it is
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: disappointing they lost, but The Cubs going into San Diego,
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: the Cubs controlled their own destiny at the end of
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: the season. They didn't clinch that home field advantage, which
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: ended up paying dividends. I was wrong on that, thinking
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: they should be road dogs. And they go in there
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: and just, they just never were able to get it going.
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: And I understand the bad taste left in your mouth
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: with the way it ends up with the Red Sox, Rossi,
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: but On the Cubs side, you have Alex Bregman standing
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: up saying, look, this is a failure. We need to
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: be better. We need to win. And those guys are
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: pissed off in there. They expect to win. Like you said,
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: that position player, it's the best offense in baseball all year.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: Best defense in baseball. They knew that their pitching was
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: banged up. Not throwing Clay Holmes. You've got to score runs.
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: I don't think it matters.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't score one run and expect to win.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: Maybe you go... and this is easy for me to say,
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: maybe you go Clay game two and Gaussman game three
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: just to give Gaussman an extra day because he's dealing
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: with the shoulder. But if you go Gaussman, you pull
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: him in, what, the second, third inning? It's like, I
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: guess you have to, and it's a elimination game.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: Well, Clay Holmes has the experience out of the bullpen,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: to your point. He's pitched in big games out of
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: the bullpen. Pretty regularly, so I'm with you on that.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: The one thing I say back about the red sides
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: is I don't like the finger pointing when you were
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: outscored 18-2. Don't start pointing fingers. It's emotions that came.
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: Out of the media. That's just bad. On the inside there,
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: that's bad.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Going to the offseason with some positivity that, hey,
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: we followed our way back and there's a lot of
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: resiliency and we're going to be good next year. We
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: didn't get it done. The Yankees were better than us
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: and move on. Give a little bit of credit to
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: the other side. Yeah.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: We've got great questions.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: Next ball bag question is from Sarah Welsh. First, I
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: just want to say that I got to meet both
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: of you at Lester's charity event and it was amazing.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: I had the chance to actually talk with Ross and Rizzo.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: You were behind the bar serving people. The question is this.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: I have been a Cubs fan for 45 years. I
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: remember a lot of players and a lot of seasons
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: and all of that time, the bullpen has been a
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: major issue, not just in the playoffs, but through the
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: season in general. What do you Cubs need to do
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: to start addressing this problem that happens over and over again?
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: You both have said multiple times that we probably don't
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: win the world series without Chapman. So I'd like to
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: hear thoughts from both of you.
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's a great question, Sarah. It's seems to be
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: the theme in a lot of these teams, not really
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: going out and spending big dollars on bullpen.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: Phillies. I mean, the Phillies can say the same thing. Yeah.
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: Uh, Look, I think after 2017, we never addressed our bullpen, right?
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: We went for it again in 2017. We got Wade
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: Davis as our closer, and we went all in again.
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: But after that, I felt like they just relied on
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: the position player corp way too much. And it was
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: evident this year they relied on the position players to
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: carry them. And what carries you is the bullpen, right?
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: The best bullpens, if you look at all these bullpens
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: that are still left in it, Yankees, Brewers, Padres, Braves, Guardians, Dodgers,
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: White Sox, they're all on the top of the league.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: Dominic.
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: Top of the league throughout the regular season. So it's
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: the biggest thing. And I mean, I don't know if
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: that's the priority in Chicago is to go get the
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: back end of the bullpen, but it's almost reverse engineering
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: in my opinion. I've never managed. I just look at baseball.
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: Reverse engineer a roster is, If you have the back
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: end locked in, if you have Mason Miller, which it's
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: a dime a dozen, you have Mason Miller, but all
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: these closers, you have that, you just go off of that.
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: And then you pair that with good starting and then
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: you just figure out ways to bridge the gap. So, yeah. Yeah.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: You definitely, the one thing I've always leaned on and
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: leaned into, like, even if you have a bad team,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: if you have a good bullpen, you're going to lock
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: down wins, right? The worst way to win is for
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: a team to come back on you in the 7th, 8th,
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: and 9th as a player, especially during the regular season.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: So to get guys to fight when you have the
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: lead in the 5th or the 6th and you lock
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: it down, that creates a winning culture. And some of these,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: I think, front offices don't really believe as much in
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: investing in the bullpen because it is so kind of
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: a crapshoot if some guys are going to have good
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: years or bounce back. Look at Palencia's year. He started
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: off good. got injured, never kind of bounced back and
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: was the version of himself. But there is a sense
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: of building something special in the bullpen for long-term success.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: I feel like if you can invest the right dollars
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: in there or even developing players and having them move
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: into the bullpen, drafting guys and developing them and maybe
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: they don't work out as starters and you move them
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: to the bullpen, they could definitely help.
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: It's like an old line, bro. You've got the best
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: quarterback in the world if you can't protect them Patrick
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: Mahomes last year, they couldn't protect him.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: Great point.
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: Blows out his knee, right?
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: Love that analogy.
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: Yes. I mean, it's pitching wins defense. Or, I'm sorry,
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: pitching wins championships. I don't care how you want to
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: dice it, it's going to get you there and it's
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: going to win with some timely hitting.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: No doubt.
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: Great question, Sarah. This email, last email is from Jonathan.
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: Coach Ross. I love the coach. Just a fun fact,
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: when you get to the big leagues and in professional baseball,
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: you don't call the manager, a coach. They hate that.
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: You don't call the umpires blue. They hate that. And
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: you know, I always called my coaches coach. I called
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: Joe Maddon coach all the time. I still do to
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: this day. Brandon Hyde. I call him coach. I just
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: saw him recently. Booney coach. What's up, coach?
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just ran into Andy Green, the manager of
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: the Mets, and he called me Skip. He's like, what's up, Skip?
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: I'm like, you're the Skipper now, bro, not me.
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: What's up, coach?
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: What's up, coach?
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: Read the question.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: Read the question.
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: From Jonathan. Coach Ross, I was watching the Cubs desperate
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: in all capitals. Okay, tell us how you feel, Jonathan.
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: For a running game, too. Shaw walks. Kelly hits a
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: rope into left. Dansby in the nine hole comes up.
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: First and second. My question is, why in the world
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: do the Cubs not bunt there? Do analytics really go
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: against that? Cubs successfully bunt there. They get second and
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: third with the MVP coming up with a chance to
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: get a base hit to tie the game. They decided
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: to intentionally walk PCA. Then you have Bregman coming up,
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: best hitter in the second half. The situation, Rossi, was
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: it was the top of the third. Cubs were down two.
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: Nobody out. Yeah.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: I don't, I, you know, I think everybody's different about them.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: I look at the rays, like they bought more than
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: any team in baseball. And I think it's how your,
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: how your team is developed. And I don't disagree with you, Jonathan.
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: I think like bunting is part of our game. Um,
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: I liked the bond. If you have certain guys in
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: the lineup that can handle the bat, you do that.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Um, you know, I wish I was
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: in Craig council's brain and knew what he was thinking, but, um, Yeah,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know how to explain that. I don't disagree
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: with your point. Some people believe in that. Some managers don't.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: They didn't bunt a whole lot this year, and you
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: got two of the best hitters in the game, two
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: of the best hitters. You got the MVP and one
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: of the best hitters in the second half coming up.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: They didn't do much in that postseason run, but I
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: don't hate your thought there.
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, in 2016, we were game four of the Los
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: Angeles Dodgers. Our offense is pretty flat. We're down 2-1
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  Speaker 3: in the series. World Series MVP later that year, Ben
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  Speaker 3: Zobris drops a bunt down.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And ignites our offense. It was just a bunt for
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  Speaker 3: a hit. To where, with the Cubs, they got blanked
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  Speaker 3: in Game one. They're grinding here in game two. They're
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  Speaker 3: already down two to nothing. Gainesby gets them over. If PCA,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think they would intentionally walk PCA. They'd be
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  Speaker 3: very careful, I'm sure, how to pitch them to set
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  Speaker 3: up a double play for Bregman. But if one of
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  Speaker 3: those guys just drive in, ah, run. Ah, run, right.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, one.
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  Speaker 3: Uno.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: It's two to one. it's two to one sack fly
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  Speaker 3: ground ball. They'll be playing. They'll be playing the infield
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  Speaker 3: back in that situation. Cause it's early in the game
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  Speaker 3: that if they play them in ball gets through, it's
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  Speaker 3: a tie game. So if they just put the ball
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  Speaker 3: in play, PCA puts the ball in play there. It's
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  Speaker 3: a two and PCA can bond too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He can. If he wanted to.
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  Speaker 1: Part of that, if PCA gets on or a ball
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  Speaker 1: does get through, he can steal set.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Like now he can, he can run if you know,
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of the order moves over and then you
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  Speaker 1: get a run in.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't hate the thought here from Jonathan. Like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it only comes up. We talk a lot about outcome bias,
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  Speaker 1: and we always question things when it doesn't work out.
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  Speaker 1: This is, you know, if Dansby throws a ball in
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  Speaker 1: the gap, we don't even think about it. Exactly. I
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  Speaker 1: think the bottom reorder should always handle the bat, especially
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  Speaker 1: in certain situations. And I think the postseason, the bunt
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  Speaker 1: always comes out a little bit more because guys are
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  Speaker 1: just trying to tack on, just move runners over, just, again,
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  Speaker 1: break that seal, get us on the board. And let
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  Speaker 1: us get a little bit of momentum.
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  Speaker 3: Bro, Michael Harris. Michael Harris in the Braves' first game
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  Speaker 3: of the wild card dropped a bunt down with a
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  Speaker 3: guy on second, no outs, in like the second inning
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  Speaker 3: to get the run back, just to tie the game up.
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  Speaker 3: And you tie the game up early, it gives you
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  Speaker 3: an exhale. You score early. The whole team kind of just,
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  Speaker 3: in the playoffs, it's so tense, right? Any little thing
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  Speaker 3: to help the team kind of, release that anxiety that
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  Speaker 3: everyone carries with them in the postseason helps. So that's
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  Speaker 3: a great question, Jonathan. This is why I love doing
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  Speaker 3: this show. We could talk about all of these moments.
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  Speaker 3: We both played. Rossi, you've managed, but we both won
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  Speaker 3: World Series. We both played deep into October. So I
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  Speaker 3: love this stuff. Thank you, everyone, for watching the Division Series.
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  Speaker 3: Major League Division Series is going to be electric. I
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