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Tim Kurkjian & Kevin Pillar join Kratz & Toddfather for a Big World Series Game 6 Preview · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 2: it's Friday, Happy Halloween. It's Game six of the World Series.
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  Speaker 5: the postgame and you gotta join us because it's game six.
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  Speaker 5: Seven games. I had to get six to seven in
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  Speaker 5: Game six is going to be ridiculous. Ya, I'm amoto
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  Speaker 5: coming off of two straight complete games. He might throw
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  Speaker 5: one hundred and thirty eight pitches like he did in
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  Speaker 5: Game six of the Japan series.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he definitely will.
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  Speaker 3: Man, if this guy goes another nine innings, it's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be absolutely incredible.
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  Speaker 3: So tonight it's gonna be a great night. It's Halloween
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  Speaker 3: and everybody is fired up for this Game six coming
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  Speaker 3: up right now?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go. All right, I'm back. I gotta fix
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  Speaker 2: so let's charge the mound presented bending. Let's charge it
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  Speaker 2: all right, KP, let's dive into the World Series. And
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  Speaker 2: before we do that, just in case there is a
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  Speaker 2: Game seven. If there is a Game seven, Kevin Polar
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  Speaker 2: will be at a lid store near the ball. We
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  Speaker 2: will give you more information at the end of this segment.
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  Speaker 2: But here's a little sneak peak. One o'clock Eastern time,
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  Speaker 2: three ninety nine Queen Street West. It's a brand new
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  Speaker 2: lid store one o'clock Eastern time. You can chat and
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  Speaker 2: hang out with KP. Be there for about an hour.
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  Speaker 2: So if there's a Game seven, if you're in Toronto,
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  Speaker 2: KP will be there and we'll remind you at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the segment as well. But KP, how do
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  Speaker 2: the Blue Jays prevent that from happening?
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  Speaker 7: Well, they got to go through the best picture in
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  Speaker 7: the postseason. But that's kind of been theirm pretty much
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  Speaker 7: all season. If you go back and look at the
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  Speaker 7: starting pitchers they've beaten, but just think about the pictures
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  Speaker 7: they've beaten in the postseason. You know, you know, obviously
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  Speaker 7: you're gonna face great pitching in the playoffs, but the
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  Speaker 7: teams that they face the Yankees, the Mariners. They didn't
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  Speaker 7: have scrubs, you know, running out there Games one and two.
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  Speaker 7: They've beaten Blake Snell twice already, they got to they
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  Speaker 7: got to Tyler Glass. Now you know, ultimately he wasn't
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  Speaker 7: charged with the l in that game because it went forever.
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  Speaker 7: It actually was two games worth. But you know, if
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  Speaker 7: they want to be the best, they got an opportunity
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  Speaker 7: to beat the best picture in the world tonight, and
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  Speaker 7: that's what they're gonna have to do if people don't
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  Speaker 7: want to see me at the lid store tomorrow. So
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  Speaker 7: I'm hoping to wrap it up here in game six
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  Speaker 7: and get home and see my family. But if the
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  Speaker 7: Jay's aren't able to do it today, I'll gladly be
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  Speaker 7: at the store tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that lid store is not going to have any
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  Speaker 5: more hats left. But yes, I understand they beat Blake Snell.
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  Speaker 5: They didn't really beat him that great. Like I'm not
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  Speaker 5: going with the they were unluck they were lucky. I'm
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  Speaker 5: saying it wasn't like they dominated Blake Snell. I just
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  Speaker 5: don't see the path to get to Yamamoto. Do you
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  Speaker 5: feel like there is a there is a change that
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  Speaker 5: can be made by the lineup to be able to
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  Speaker 5: do it, to be able to beat Yamamoto. Who I
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  Speaker 5: counted it. I got this from a friend. Fifteen three
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  Speaker 5: ball pitches that he's thrown in the entire postseason. Fifteen
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  Speaker 5: So he's okay with you being aggressive because he's not
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  Speaker 5: really giving you anything. So how do the Jays or
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  Speaker 5: is it just something where hey, you know what, somebody
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  Speaker 5: pops one, Gosman goes nine.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I don't even think Gosman needs to
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  Speaker 7: go nine. I mean, I think the back end of
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  Speaker 7: their bullpen's been really good, especially late in the postseason.
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  Speaker 7: But you know, if you go back to Game two,
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  Speaker 7: when he threw the complete game, it was one to
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  Speaker 7: one going to the seventh inning, and Gosman made two mistakes.
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  Speaker 7: He wasn't really even a bad pitch to Will Smith.
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  Speaker 7: He threw a fast wallpin in. He turned them one.
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  Speaker 7: Maxi got one out over the plate, hit one into
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  Speaker 7: the bullpen. But he went toe to toe with him.
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  Speaker 7: He wasn't quite as dominant as Yamamoto was. But that's
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  Speaker 7: been the big thing with the starting pitching for the
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  Speaker 7: Blue Jays. Can you just keep him in the game.
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  Speaker 7: If Gosman could keep him in the game within striking distance,
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  Speaker 7: you know they got a chance. But an article came
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  Speaker 7: out today about Yamamoto and what makes him even more
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  Speaker 7: difficult than the arsenal pitches he has. He never faces
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  Speaker 7: you the same way the same time. His sequence of
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  Speaker 7: pitching is always different. And I you know, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 7: have an opportunity to go on our pregame show today
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  Speaker 7: and talk about what kind of my approach is going
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  Speaker 7: to be, and I'm I'm kind of sitting here thinking
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  Speaker 7: about what the hell would I do with the guy
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  Speaker 7: who's got six seven pitches. He constantly changes the way
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  Speaker 7: he pitches you up, and I think you just got it.
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  Speaker 7: Like you said, I think you got to sit there
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  Speaker 7: and go. You know, more than likely he's gonna get
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  Speaker 7: me out once or twice and maybe three times. But
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  Speaker 7: can I get him one time? And that's kind of
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  Speaker 7: how this series has felt. Like if one guy or
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  Speaker 7: two guys can put a good swing on a pitch,
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  Speaker 7: you know, that could be the difference. The Dodgers are
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  Speaker 7: not swinging the bat really well right now. I don't
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  Speaker 7: think we're accustomed to seeing a Dodger lineup really struggle
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  Speaker 7: the way that it's been struggling. You know, if you're
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  Speaker 7: the Blue Jays, I think that's what you got to
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  Speaker 7: do is I don't think you got to really try
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  Speaker 7: to overcomplicate it, try to figure out how he's going
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  Speaker 7: to pitch you, because he's so good at changing that up.
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  Speaker 7: I think you stay with what you want to do
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  Speaker 7: as a hitter. You might not get in the first
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  Speaker 7: at bat, you might not get in the second, you
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  Speaker 7: might not even get in the third.
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  Speaker 8: But if you if you're ready.
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  Speaker 7: For your pitch, it feels like it's going to be
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  Speaker 7: a one swing of the bat type of game. Uh
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  Speaker 7: for the Blue Jays in order to get to Yamamoto.
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  Speaker 3: Now now reverse side of this. How do you get?
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  Speaker 3: How do if you're Doc Roberts? I mean, how do
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  Speaker 3: you find a way to win a ballgame? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I feel like it's one of those games today where
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  Speaker 3: it's not going to be pretty, but you got to
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  Speaker 3: find a way to dig deep and win. Is there
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  Speaker 3: something you can do against Gosman that you see that
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  Speaker 3: they can exploit?
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  Speaker 4: I don't see much. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I mean if you watch a game pretty intently, you know,
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  Speaker 7: in Game two it did seem like the Dodgers' hitters
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  Speaker 7: were a little bit in between. It kind of felt
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  Speaker 7: like they went into a kind of with a game
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  Speaker 7: plan of maybe trying not to chase the splitter, and
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  Speaker 7: it seemed like they were late on a lot of fastballs.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe that's the adjustment they make, is like, Okay, we're
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  Speaker 7: striking out a ton.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe they tried it with Tray Savage, like hey, don't
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  Speaker 7: get caught in, you know, but the stuff was just
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  Speaker 7: so good. Maybe they just changed their approach up and
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  Speaker 7: they try to be super aggressive, be willing to swing
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  Speaker 7: through a little bit more pitches, not being caught in between.
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  Speaker 7: Because Gosman was throwing a ton of strikes. He was
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  Speaker 7: throwing a ton of fastballs in the zone. You know,
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  Speaker 7: they weren't all middle fastballs, but he was in the
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  Speaker 7: zone a ton, and he was getting a ton of
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  Speaker 7: foul balls, and then he was able to kind of
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  Speaker 7: set up his two secondary pitches, you know, mostly the splitter,
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  Speaker 7: to get a lot of swing and miss. But if
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  Speaker 7: you're the Dodgers, you know, maybe you have to go
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  Speaker 7: against what has gotten you here all year, and maybe
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  Speaker 7: when you get to that middle bottom part of that
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  Speaker 7: order that's usually so dynamic maybe you got to figure
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  Speaker 7: out a way to play a little.
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  Speaker 5: Bit more small ball.
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  Speaker 7: You know, maybe look for some guys, you know, like
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  Speaker 7: show Hey or Mookie and even Freddy if they're able
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  Speaker 7: to get on, try to steal some bases. I know,
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  Speaker 7: Kirk's a tough guy to steal against. Gosman's pretty good
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  Speaker 7: at holding runners. But they just haven't shown the ability
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  Speaker 7: that they're gonna just kind of, you know, string together
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  Speaker 7: three or four or five good at bats, a walk,
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  Speaker 7: you know, a couple hits. You know, that's really what
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  Speaker 7: the Dodger or the Blue Jays had been able to do,
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  Speaker 7: aside from having those you know, solo homers or maybe
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  Speaker 7: two run homers. We always talk, you always hear Buck
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  Speaker 7: Martinez talk about it on the broadcast, a Blue Jay
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  Speaker 7: type of inning, and it usually starts with a walk
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  Speaker 7: or you know, a misplay, and then you got first
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  Speaker 7: and third, and then there's a sackfly. Then they're kind
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  Speaker 7: of just able to manufacture runs and put up crooked
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  Speaker 7: numbers on the scoreboard. Right now, for the Dodgers, it
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  Speaker 7: kind of seems all or nothing, like they're relying on
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  Speaker 7: a show a homer, a Freddie homer, a Will Smith
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  Speaker 7: Homer A Max Munsey Homer. I don't know how they're
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  Speaker 7: gonna be able to kind of manufacture runs against Osman,
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  Speaker 7: who's you know, really good at eliminating base runners. But
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  Speaker 7: they're gonna have to figure out a way to try
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  Speaker 7: to kind of string multiple hits together. I don't see
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  Speaker 7: it happening.
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  Speaker 5: Though. We're not as lucky as you Canadians because we
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  Speaker 5: don't get to hear Buck Martinez. We get to hear
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  Speaker 5: all about Shoho Tani, and that's pretty much it that
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  Speaker 5: we get to hear here in the States. But my
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  Speaker 5: question to you is, you've been kind of around the
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  Speaker 5: You've been around the clubhouse, around the dugout there handicapped
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  Speaker 5: me a George Springer getting in this game type of moment.
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  Speaker 5: Is it a start? And I also want your opinion,
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  Speaker 5: based on what they've done the last two games, should
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  Speaker 5: they push a sixty percent George Springer to be in
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  Speaker 5: the lineup.
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  Speaker 7: God, that's a great question because they've kept it really
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  Speaker 7: under wraps around here. I mean, I think we also
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  Speaker 7: we saw on TV, you know, obliques aren't one of
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  Speaker 7: those things, and they haven't even kind of ruled it
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  Speaker 7: as an oblique. They're calling it a side injury. They're
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  Speaker 7: they're taking a book out of uh, you know, hockey,
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  Speaker 7: which is very popular here in Canada, and they're just
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  Speaker 7: labeling it a upper body injury. You know, there's not
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  Speaker 7: a lot of details and there's a lot of hush
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  Speaker 7: hush about it. And to be honest with you, I
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  Speaker 7: was very surprised that they he was even on the
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  Speaker 7: roster the next day. It felt like, especially after eighteen
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  Speaker 7: in game, they had all the reason in the world
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  Speaker 7: to replace him on the roster, maybe add another arm,
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  Speaker 7: because they went through everyone in that eighteen in a game,
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  Speaker 7: and then there was rumors about him being available, whether
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  Speaker 7: it was to pinch run or potentially pinch hit. And
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  Speaker 7: credit to the credit to the Blue Jays. The way
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  Speaker 7: the last two games has gone, they haven't really had
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  Speaker 7: to tip their hand if he is available or not available.
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  Speaker 7: And now kind of the rumor around here is he
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  Speaker 7: could be in the starting lineup today. But I find
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  Speaker 7: it hard to believe. I've never really seen a player
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  Speaker 7: call for the trainer and the manager to come out
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  Speaker 7: of the dugout after taking a swing. Fortunately, in my
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  Speaker 7: career I never had a side or an oblique injury,
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  Speaker 7: so I don't really know what that feels like. But
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  Speaker 7: I've never seen a player leave the game under his
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  Speaker 7: own power, under his own guidance, with a side injury
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  Speaker 7: and be able to bounce back in a day or two.
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  Speaker 7: But maybe it was a cramp, maybe it was something.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe there's a lot of gamesmanship going on here. But
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  Speaker 7: you know, as I'm sitting here right now in Toronto
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  Speaker 7: listening to you know, the local media here checking my
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  Speaker 7: Twitter feed, they're definitely making it seem like there is
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  Speaker 7: a possible that George Springer could be in the lineup
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  Speaker 7: at some point. Is it the best decision? I mean,
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  Speaker 7: only the Blue Jays and George know how he's feeling.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, George Springer at the top of the lineup
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  Speaker 7: at sixty, you know, could be a good option. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: I think, you know, the blessing in the guys we've
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  Speaker 7: all kind of talked about is when George went down,
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  Speaker 7: it's given Bo the ability to stay in the game
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  Speaker 7: the entirety of the game and DH and kind of
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  Speaker 7: stay off that knee. And he's been unbelievable what he's
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  Speaker 7: been able to do at sixty.
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  Speaker 8: Could could the Blue.
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  Speaker 7: Jays potentially have two guys rolling out there in the
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  Speaker 7: biggest game in recent history for this franchise with guys,
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  Speaker 7: you know, probably closer to fifty percent, could be interesting.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. And on the flip side of it, you
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  Speaker 3: think of the Dodgers too. Dave Roberts said he's going
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  Speaker 3: to do anything it takes to win. I mean, that's simple.
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  Speaker 3: Of course he's going to do that, And he did
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  Speaker 3: not rule out Otani coming into pitch. Now if he
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  Speaker 3: dh is deludes that DH spot. What are your thoughts
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  Speaker 3: on that? Is there a possibility we might see him tonight?
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  Speaker 7: First of all, I just love the you know, we
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  Speaker 7: laugh at it, right, you know, the stating the obvious.
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  Speaker 7: We'll do whatever it takes to win. Well, I would
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  Speaker 7: hope so, because if not, you're going home.
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  Speaker 4: No, I don't.
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  Speaker 7: I don't see a scenario that Otani comes in and
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  Speaker 7: pitches in this game unless it's to close it out.
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  Speaker 7: You're not gonna take as bad out of the lineup there.
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  Speaker 7: There's no one that you can replace him with. I
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  Speaker 7: mean it has to you know, the stars would have
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  Speaker 7: to align, you know, his spot in the order would
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  Speaker 7: have to be had just come up. He would have
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  Speaker 7: to have an opportunity to maybe get down to the bullpen.
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  Speaker 7: You know, maybe they figured out a way underneath in
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  Speaker 7: the visiting cages there they could have one of those
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  Speaker 7: rollaway mounds.
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  Speaker 5: I don't, I don't.
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  Speaker 8: I don't see it happening today.
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  Speaker 7: It seems like a more likely scenario maybe if they're
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  Speaker 7: able to get to a game seven where maybe they
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  Speaker 7: have the comfort in him coming in and throwing multiple
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  Speaker 7: innings out of the bullpen and then really kind of
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  Speaker 7: trying to figure out what to do from there. But
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  Speaker 7: I mean, it's an amazing thing that we even can
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  Speaker 7: have this conversation that there's a baseball player in this
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  Speaker 7: world that is such a talented player on both sides
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  Speaker 7: of the ball where it's a realistic possibility that he
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  Speaker 7: could come in and not obviously not start today, but
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  Speaker 7: come in out of the bullpen. But I mean, starting
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  Speaker 7: is already so difficult for him to do. Obviously you
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  Speaker 7: have the entire pregame to prep. But it's one of
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  Speaker 7: those things why we probably haven't seen it yet is
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  Speaker 7: it's just the timing of you know, what if he's
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  Speaker 7: what if he's left at second base and he hasn't
• 15:33
  Speaker 7: a chance to warm up, What if he's the guy
• 15:35
  Speaker 7: on deck. You know, it just kind of a perfect
• 15:37
  Speaker 7: storm of events would have to take place in order
• 15:40
  Speaker 7: for them and probably show Hey to feel comfortable, you know,
• 15:44
  Speaker 7: having enough time to warm up.
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: Do we believe that show Hey can't win a goal
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: glove and right field? Like, let's say it comes in
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: in the ninth inning. Rokie's already pitched his three innings. Yell, mooto,
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: and it's a tie ball game. Show Hay comes in,
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: throws his inning. They don't have to rehim. I don't.
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: I don't.
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: I don't think. I don't.
• 16:04
  Speaker 7: He hasn't shown anyone any reason why he probably couldn't
• 16:08
  Speaker 7: go out there and be great at playing right field.
• 16:11
  Speaker 7: And I'm obviously not around the team. You know, show Hey,
• 16:14
  Speaker 7: from everything I've heard, doesn't seem like a guy who's
• 16:17
  Speaker 7: out taking VP all the time. And if he is
• 16:19
  Speaker 7: taking VP, he's not a guy who's out there you know,
• 16:22
  Speaker 7: shagg and fly balls when he's not hitting. But I
• 16:26
  Speaker 7: would put nothing past this guy for him to be
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: able to go out there and stand in right fielder
• 16:31
  Speaker 7: and not only stand out there, I think he'd be
• 16:32
  Speaker 7: a pretty good outfielder. He's a freak athlete. You saw
• 16:37
  Speaker 7: kind of what he kind of turned into as a
• 16:40
  Speaker 7: baseball player last year when he didn't have the responsibility
• 16:43
  Speaker 7: of having to pitch, he became this the first ever
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: fifty to fifty guy. He just said, you know what,
• 16:48
  Speaker 7: I don't have to pitch. I can, you know, absorb
• 16:50
  Speaker 7: a little more wear and tear on my body. Let
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: me just go out and steal sixty bases because I can.
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: So I'd put nothing past this guy.
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: Your boots on the ground have to ask this. We
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: don't have anybody else in Toronto. Is Toronto a home
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: field advantage for the for the Blue Jays?
• 17:09
  Speaker 8: Absolutely absolutely.
• 17:11
  Speaker 7: I think in terms of crowd noise, I think in
• 17:14
  Speaker 7: terms of buzz, I think in terms of, you know what,
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: as much as a baseball fan can kind of provide
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: for its home team, I think Toronto's right there at
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: the top of the list when the roof is closed.
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: I don't think there's a better place. But we've talked
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: about this on this show. I've talked about on every show.
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: I think baseball is a very reactionary sport. You know,
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: momentum is, momentum is real, and fan participation and energy
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: and loudness is real, and it's gonna be an electric
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: scene from probably the moment the gates open during batting practice,
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: through the Canadian anthem, through the American anthem, up until
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: first pitch, and it will remain that way until they
• 17:56
  Speaker 7: have a reason not to. You know, it's probably I mean,
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: this is like staying the obvious of you know, all
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: hands on deck an elimination game. But it is very
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: important that the others figure out a way to kind
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: of figure out a way to silence that crowd early,
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: whether it's you know, manufacturing a run in the first inning,
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: you know, solo homer, because if not, that momentum is
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: just gonna keep building and building, and the noise and
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: you know, but I also, and I've also talked about
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: this too, I think there's also a ton of pressure
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: when you have such a passionate fan base, an energetic
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: fan base, a starving fan base, one that is waited
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: a long time to be one game away from winning
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: a World seriously series, You got to imagine the pressure
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: that the ballplayers feel shown up to the field today.
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: I mean, I left my hotel room at eight thirty
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: this morning, and I kid you not, there was about
• 18:51
  Speaker 7: a thousand people in line already, whether that was to
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: get merchandise, whether that was you know, people that buy
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: those general admission tickets to standing area to wait in line.
• 18:59
  Speaker 7: But there was over a thousand people there lined up.
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: So I can only imagine what it's gonna be like
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: as a player, whether you know, you uber to the stadium,
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: you walk, you ride a scooter, you park in the
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: and the parking lot there. I mean if I look
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: down my window right now, it's probably multiplied five times
• 19:16
  Speaker 7: right now. Like this city is vibrant, it's electric. You know,
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: it's the talk of the town rightfully. So so you know,
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: with that comes a little added pressure. But I mean,
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: this is a team that has faced so much adversity
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: just I mean, not even during the regular season. Let's
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: just talk about what they faced in the postseason. You know,
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: losing Bobashet, going down the stretch, having to win a
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: one sixty two to to win the division, to give
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: them a bye week, you know, have to go in
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: New York to win some games, to be down two
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: against Seattle, going into a hostile environment, being down three
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: to two to Seattle to to to win this and
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: then ultimately going up against you know, the elite of
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: the elite with the Dodgers, you know, a juggernaut, the
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: defending champions to it was an eighteen inning game and
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: come back and be unfazed. If there was ever a
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: team that is built to kind of handle everything that
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: we're talking about, from a home field advantage, from nerves,
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: from understanding, you know, I was never in this situation.
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: I can't even imagine what it was like going to
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: bed last night knowing, you know, one more sleep and
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: I could be a World Series championship, a champion. It
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: has to enter your mind. But this team is just
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: so steady with their approach the day to day. You
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: watch them come out for BP every day, you watch
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: them stretch. It's just if it looks like they're playing
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: spring training games like there's there's no heartbeat. It's a
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: ton of fun. It's a ton of passion, constantly deflecting
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: the attention from themselves to their teammates. This team is
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: really really kind of built for this moment.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and last question for me, every time I see
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: this picture, I forgot I have a mask on. Last
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: question for me, real simple. Vlad Guerrero Junior bro the
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: guy's absolutely unstoppable. How do you get this guy out?
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: I'm telling you right now, you think about what he's doing,
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: it's Otani esque, if not better, what he's doing in
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: this World Series. He's the MVP, undoubtedly if they win
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: the World Series. How do you find a way to
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: stop this guy from getting home runs, doubles, hitting the
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: ball hard?
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: Basically, yeah, I don't.
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: I don't think there is a way right now. I
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: think you gotta. I think you've got to give him
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: the treatment right now. I mean if i'm if I'm
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: and obviously you gotta trust Yamamoto because he's given you
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: a reason not to. But the first step bat would
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: be very telling to me. I mean, I would go
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: after him because Yamamoto's arguably the best picture in the
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: world right now. He's definitely the best picture in the postseason.
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: But if Lottie's able to either hit a ball hard
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: off him, you know, reach first base, get a hit.
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: If I'm the Dodgers, I'm not losing a World Series.
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: I'm not losing this series because we just continue to
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: face Vladdie. He has shown no ability to have a
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: weakness in his swing. He's shown no ability to really
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: chase outside at the zone. He's taking his walks. He's
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: content with taking hits, you know, when he gets later
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: in the count or you know he's facing tough pitching.
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: You know, he's set a franchise record for home runs.
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: He's a complete package right now. But you have to
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: give a ton of credit to the guys hitting around
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: him too, because you know, it's hard to put a
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: guy on base when the guys behind him are also producing.
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: Obviously not at the same level of Vlad, but it's
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: the main reason that you know, the Blue Jays did
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: what they did in the eighteen in game because they
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: had a struggling guy hitting behind Otani. And obviously the
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: guy hitting behind him is a first ballot Hall of Famer,
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: but recency bias is real. What have you done for
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: me lately? And he hasn't been able to do much.
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: And fortunately for Vladi, the guys hitting behind him have
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: been able to not only carry their weight, but they've
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: been great. So it's a tough thing that the Dodgers
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: are having to navigate because Vlati has been unstoppable. But
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: putting a guy on first, you know, every single time,
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: and not taking your chances knowing that there's a lot
• 23:03
  Speaker 7: of protection behind them is also a risky move.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Ap, you're the man, this is it. This could be
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: your last broadcast of the year. I feel like you've
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: been doing this for years now, but you actually were
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: playing some Major League baseball earlier this year, so you've
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: transitioned back.
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: I'll tell you what, though, give a credit to a
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: lot of these players, right because I don't want to
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: sit here and sound like I'm ungrateful when I'm complaining.
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: But the travel has been a lot, like I'm I'm like,
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: I'm fatigued, like coming here. Yeah, I don't have the adrenaline.
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: I mean, I do still feel it when I'm up there,
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: you know, watching the game, and obviously when I'm here,
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: like the fans are still great to me, Like I
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: still like, you know, my heart beats fast for the game,
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: and that's how I know I still care. But this
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: travel has been a lot, man, like the east to
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: west coast, the west to east, like probably fill sleep
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: last night at seven thirty and I woke up at
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: ten thirty and I was like, oh man, I had
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: a hard time going to bed. I can only imagine
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: what these players are going through right now. But they're
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: they're doing a great job. If they are tired, they
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: are hiding it because I think it's not just me,
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: it's my entire staff that I work with, all the
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: you know, people that are on the field with the credentials.
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: We all talk about it. We're feeling it. So credit
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: to both teams because that eighteen in game was real.
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: That was a long day and then the flights have
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: been long. So kudos to these guys for putting on
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: a show. We're Baseball's in a great place. Let's not
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: shut this thing down now because you know, you know,
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: we're we're getting you know here, we're getting about eight
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: and a half nine million Canadians night watching this game.
• 24:33
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• 24:35
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• 24:37
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  Speaker 5: Well, one question I have for you, Todd. Did you
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: see Tommy Edmonds ad bats against you Savage the other night?
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: I saw one at bat versus Savage. Yes, not all.
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: He chose to hit right handed switch hitter. He did it.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: He did it the other he did it earlier in
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: the season against Estrada, Jeremiah Estrada. First, First of all,
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: I would have loved to have been been a switch
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: hitter because you never see that ball coming at you
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: and you get the old like oh oh. And then
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: to go ahead and do it in the World Series
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: because he did it in Game one and he did
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: it in Game five. The interesting thought process to me,
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: and I want to see what you think about this
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: is Yo, I think it's I think it's just a
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: it's a very it's a bold move to take your
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: right handed at bats against a righty. But since he's
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: coming so high up over, you know, maybe it looked
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: like a left hander because he was so his release
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: point was so high.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: And I I mean, for me, I want to bring
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: in Timmy Kirch and ask him about it. Hey, Kurch,
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: what do you think about my mask? Big dog? Can
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: you see?
• 27:26
  Speaker 8: Is that a mask? I thought that was just you
• 27:29
  Speaker 8: in real life.
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: Oh you know, you know what, big dog, You're in
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: some trouble for that one. I didn't like that. That
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: was not fair, not fair at all.
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: Jim, does it say?
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: Dad?
• 27:41
  Speaker 8: There is that right?
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: My daughter made it for me? Actually, yes, yeah.
• 27:46
  Speaker 8: When my son Jeff was seven, he went out to
• 27:50
  Speaker 8: Halloween dressed as meat. So he had an ESPN microphone
• 27:55
  Speaker 8: with an ESPN mic flag and he was wearing a
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: little black suit, and like ninety percent of the people said,
• 28:02
  Speaker 8: who the hell are you like that? No idea? He
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: was going poor poppap heer. So yes, so that I
• 28:10
  Speaker 8: think you look great, Todd, And so do you, Cratzy?
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: You look great too. Way to go.
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: I appreciate that. Do you know who I am? Though? Tim?
• 28:18
  Speaker 8: Uh? You you're wearing a scarf of some sort. So
• 28:21
  Speaker 8: are you just being yourself?
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: Is that it grew? I am grew. I am grew
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: from Minions and Despicable Me right right.
• 28:30
  Speaker 8: My grandson Carson's second birthday, I went as Doctor Nefario
• 28:36
  Speaker 8: from Despicable Me. And he's my best friend, my grandson.
• 28:41
  Speaker 8: When I showed up in that outfit and I'm all
• 28:45
  Speaker 8: covered up, goggles, had all that stuff. He didn't know
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: who I was, and he got really afraid that I
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: was the real doctor Nefario it was so I took
• 28:56
  Speaker 8: it all off and said, Carson, it's me Pop Pop,
• 28:58
  Speaker 8: don't worry. So yes, we have Halloween costumes for sure.
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: Tim You sound like an incredible grandfather and you are
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: an incredible baseball fan. First of all, just a big,
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: high level question for you, What the heck's gonna happen
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: in the game tonight, Tim.
• 29:16
  Speaker 8: Eric, I have been wrong so many times during the
• 29:20
  Speaker 8: regular season, the postseason, including the World Series. It's not
• 29:25
  Speaker 8: even funny. Me and a million other people have been
• 29:28
  Speaker 8: totally wrong. I just told everyone the Dodgers have a
• 29:33
  Speaker 8: pitching advantage in Games four and five, and of course
• 29:36
  Speaker 8: they lost both games. Eduardo Perez, World's greatest teammate, we
• 29:40
  Speaker 8: were going over Game five. What was gonna happen? He said,
• 29:42
  Speaker 8: I think they get you savage tonight. That's what I think,
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: and then he, of course, he throws one of the
• 29:47
  Speaker 8: greatest games ever. Anybody who actually thinks we know what's
• 29:51
  Speaker 8: gonna happen tonight hasn't been watching the twenty twenty five season,
• 29:55
  Speaker 8: especially the postseason. Most unpredictable season I've ever seen. It
• 29:59
  Speaker 8: has been glory for that reason. To answer your question,
• 30:02
  Speaker 8: I think Yamamodo's gonna throw another Gem tonight and I
• 30:05
  Speaker 8: think the Dodgers are gonna win. But if you believe that,
• 30:08
  Speaker 8: then I've been wrong. We've all been wrong so many times.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: Good thank you for that. Tim.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: Anyway, talking about Vlatty Guerrero Jr. And Vladdy Guerrero Senor,
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, look at the historical runs that vlat Guerrero Jr.
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: Has been on.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: Talk a little bit about both of these guys and
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: how really, just how fantastic is There's no way of
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: getting this guy out.
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: There's no flaws.
• 30:35
  Speaker 8: Yeah, he's incredible. He's hitting over four hundred in the postseason.
• 30:38
  Speaker 8: He's got twenty nine hits, he's got eight homers, and
• 30:41
  Speaker 8: he's struck out five times. Eight homers, five strikeouts in
• 30:46
  Speaker 8: this strikeout era is absolutely unbelievable. I had a scout
• 30:51
  Speaker 8: tell me before the postseason began. He said, this is
• 30:54
  Speaker 8: gonna be the postseason of Vlattie Junior. You watch went
• 30:58
  Speaker 8: what and that's exact exactly what it has been. Also,
• 31:02
  Speaker 8: Todd Eric, he is an above average defensive first baseman.
• 31:07
  Speaker 8: He runs way better than people think. He's got great
• 31:11
  Speaker 8: instincts for the game, which of course he got from
• 31:13
  Speaker 8: his father. He is a complete all round player, and
• 31:16
  Speaker 8: yet sometimes we just think of him as this lumbering, big,
• 31:20
  Speaker 8: unathletic first baseman. I can promise you he is the
• 31:24
  Speaker 8: furthest thing from that. I knew he was a good
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: all round player. He's even better than I thought, but
• 31:29
  Speaker 8: the way he has swung the bat in this postseason
• 31:32
  Speaker 8: has been absolutely incredible. I asked Ernie Clement, you know,
• 31:36
  Speaker 8: how do how do we explain Flattie? He goes, there's
• 31:39
  Speaker 8: no explaining Flattie. He's too good. There's no explanation for
• 31:43
  Speaker 8: how great he is.
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: All right, and then I have to be negative Nelly here,
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: since I'm I'm guru today, What is wrong with Mookie Betts?
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: Do you ever believe that you would see an athletic
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: player like this that has clearly he's on the way
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: to the Hall of Fame to get into a slump
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: in the biggest time of the season like Mookie Betts has.
• 32:07
  Speaker 8: Well, We've seen all sorts of slumps in the postseason.
• 32:10
  Speaker 8: The beauty of baseball is the best players aren't always
• 32:13
  Speaker 8: the best. Remember, Barry Bonds wasn't great at the beginning.
• 32:15
  Speaker 8: Neither was Clayton Kershaw or Randy Johnson. They all struggled
• 32:19
  Speaker 8: in the postseason. Then of course they all figured it out,
• 32:23
  Speaker 8: and I think Mookie will. But this slump is severe.
• 32:26
  Speaker 8: He's three for his last twenty three. He's hitting the
• 32:30
  Speaker 8: ball up in the air, consistently, weak pop up, shallow
• 32:34
  Speaker 8: fly balls. It's just doesn't look like him. And you
• 32:37
  Speaker 8: guys know him a little bit. He beats himself up
• 32:40
  Speaker 8: after every out that he makes. He is for a
• 32:43
  Speaker 8: great player who's going to the Hall of Fame. He
• 32:46
  Speaker 8: you know, he is really hard on himself and he's
• 32:49
  Speaker 8: a little bit insecure, which I find hard to believe. Now,
• 32:51
  Speaker 8: a couple of hits will get him out of this,
• 32:53
  Speaker 8: but he is really in trouble right now. It can
• 32:56
  Speaker 8: be fixed in one game, but I'm not sure they're
• 32:58
  Speaker 8: gonna do much more if Mookie doesn't start to hit,
• 33:01
  Speaker 8: because fellas this whole offense. The last twenty nine innings,
• 33:05
  Speaker 8: the Dodgers have scored four runs. They're hitting one sixty
• 33:09
  Speaker 8: five with four homers and twenty nine strikeouts in the
• 33:13
  Speaker 8: last In the last twenty nine innings. It's just terrible
• 33:17
  Speaker 8: how they're swinging the bat right now and they're up
• 33:19
  Speaker 8: against another really good pitcher tonight.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, in the most inopportune times, And I find that
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: the toughest part to be a World Series champion. You
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: got you gotta most of them's got a click on
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: all cylinders, but you got your guy going. They got
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: their guy going in Yamamoto. Man, this guy's been absolutely incredible.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: I mean, back to back nine inning performances, complete games.
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: Can you see this guy going in another nine today?
• 33:43
  Speaker 8: I can because we've seen their bullpen, Todd, and they've
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: they've lost faith in the bullpen other than Sasaki. So
• 33:50
  Speaker 8: he threw one hundred and eleven and one hundred and
• 33:53
  Speaker 8: five pitches the last two times out. I think he's
• 33:55
  Speaker 8: gonna throw if he doesn't get hurt early, he's gonna
• 33:58
  Speaker 8: he's gonna throw a third complete game tonight. The last
• 34:01
  Speaker 8: guy to do that in the same postseason was Kurt
• 34:03
  Speaker 8: Chilling in two thousand and one. The last pitcher to
• 34:07
  Speaker 8: win two consecutive postseason World Series games and pitch a
• 34:11
  Speaker 8: complete game was orl Herscheizer in nineteen eighty eight. This
• 34:16
  Speaker 8: guy is different. He throws a javelin before games. He
• 34:20
  Speaker 8: stretches in a way where it hurts to even watch him.
• 34:23
  Speaker 8: He has elite command, he misses bats, and I'm told
• 34:27
  Speaker 8: his only fault is that he's constantly chasing. I'm told
• 34:32
  Speaker 8: the perfect pitch, Like everything has to be perfect for
• 34:36
  Speaker 8: this guy, which is why he gets behind in the
• 34:38
  Speaker 8: count one and oh once in a while because he's
• 34:40
  Speaker 8: trying to make that perfect pitch on oh. Once he
• 34:43
  Speaker 8: gets through that, I'm not sure there's anybody that can
• 34:46
  Speaker 8: handle this guy. At least they have it in this postseason, Tam, you.
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: Love the game baseball, You love good stories. Clayton Kershaw,
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: do you want to see him get in another game,
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: risking the fact that you know his last outing was
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: awesome getting out of bases loaded, Jam, Do you, as
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: a baseball fan, want to risk it for the biscuit
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: that Clayton Kershall getting in a game could give a
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: little bad taste in your mouth? Or do you see
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: the Dodgers needing Clayton Kershaw to be able to win
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: this World Series.
• 35:21
  Speaker 8: I think they're gonna need him. I hope he pitches.
• 35:24
  Speaker 8: I will I'll deal with the risk of him going out,
• 35:28
  Speaker 8: not on top, because he's already on top. He's the
• 35:30
  Speaker 8: first ballot Hall of Famer. He's the best pitcher of
• 35:33
  Speaker 8: this generation. He had a tremendous season. He got an
• 35:36
  Speaker 8: enormous out in Game three of this series. So and
• 35:39
  Speaker 8: I think there isn't one second that he would ever think, Boy,
• 35:43
  Speaker 8: what happens if I pitch one more time and it
• 35:45
  Speaker 8: doesn't work out? I don't think that would ever cross
• 35:48
  Speaker 8: his mind. So therefore it's not going to cross my mind.
• 35:51
  Speaker 8: We need to see him pitch one more time in
• 35:54
  Speaker 8: a high leverage situation in this World Series. To me,
• 35:57
  Speaker 8: one way or another, that would close out his career
• 36:00
  Speaker 8: in a really good way. To see him one more time.
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: Not only do you love baseball, but you love umpires too.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: You know were you and I when we work together,
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: we like to see the game within the game. We
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: talk about umpires, strike calls. You know, we don't like
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: this way. We like this way. First question, serious question,
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: how do you think the umpire has been doing this
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: World three?
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: Second one?
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: Did you see John Chumpayne on a foul tip strike three?
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: He went up and he gave a little death. What
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: do you think about that?
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: One?
• 36:29
  Speaker 8: I watched the umpires really closely because of some friends.
• 36:33
  Speaker 8: I umpired as a kid, and I've also been hanging
• 36:36
  Speaker 8: around you Todd way too much to watch how you
• 36:39
  Speaker 8: referee and you umpire. Yes, I saw the Tumpayn thing.
• 36:42
  Speaker 8: I think the umpires have done a pretty good job.
• 36:45
  Speaker 8: I'm on the other side of this, fella.
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: Sorry.
• 36:47
  Speaker 8: I think they normally do a pretty darn good job.
• 36:50
  Speaker 8: And I maintain the average fan wouldn't last three pitches
• 36:54
  Speaker 8: behind home blade a major league gay before he says,
• 36:57
  Speaker 8: get me out of here. This is too scary, This
• 37:00
  Speaker 8: is too dangerous. It takes some courage to go back there, Kratzy,
• 37:03
  Speaker 8: you know this and call a major league game. I
• 37:06
  Speaker 8: think they've done a pretty darn good job so far,
• 37:08
  Speaker 8: especially behind the plate.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: Let me ask you this, Timmy, we talk about umpires
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: and everything else.
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: Can I can you give me like your your strike.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: Three call real quick if we're if we're looking right now,
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: if you can just get in the screen there.
• 37:24
  Speaker 8: Yeah, Well, strike one is like this, strike one, strike two,
• 37:29
  Speaker 8: and then strike three is I pull the what's it called?
• 37:31
  Speaker 8: I pulled the chain. I go like this, Ah, that's
• 37:34
  Speaker 8: strike three right there. That's what I used to do.
• 37:37
  Speaker 8: It didn't go over too well. When I'm striking out
• 37:40
  Speaker 8: a nine year old like that in Little league, you know,
• 37:43
  Speaker 8: fifty years ago. But that's what I used to do.
• 37:45
  Speaker 8: Kind of a silent strike one, silent strike two, but
• 37:49
  Speaker 8: then an emphatic ah strike three with the love that.
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: So you start the chainsaw and then the kid and
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: then the kid goes like this, that wasn't a strike.
• 38:01
  Speaker 8: Right, Well, he didn't call me mister Kirkchen and he
• 38:04
  Speaker 8: started to cry when I struck him out, So I
• 38:06
  Speaker 8: have to be careful the next time I call a
• 38:08
  Speaker 8: game like that. And Kratzy you've seen You've seen Todd
• 38:11
  Speaker 8: do all of his NBA referee stuff, right, you've seen
• 38:14
  Speaker 8: all of that. Seriously, is that the funniest thing you've
• 38:16
  Speaker 8: ever seen in your life?
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: It's the second best, It's the second best in baseball.
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: Stephen vote have the best, right, but he's just more
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: He's just energetic about it. But Todd is like he
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: is spot on, you're here here.
• 38:34
  Speaker 8: It's here. The difference between a block and a charge
• 38:37
  Speaker 8: for him, and then he has to like run the
• 38:41
  Speaker 8: court to show that that's it's here. It's so bad. Wait,
• 38:48
  Speaker 8: let me just throw in the blanks. So Tommy Edmund
• 38:51
  Speaker 8: told me he batted right handed against Corbyn Burns, Jeremiah Strada,
• 38:55
  Speaker 8: who you brought up, Tommy Kinley in the World Series
• 38:58
  Speaker 8: last year and now tray you Savage. So he told
• 39:01
  Speaker 8: me He's had at least thirty right on right at
• 39:04
  Speaker 8: bats and it works for him, even though it hasn't
• 39:07
  Speaker 8: worked for him against you Savage in this postseason. But
• 39:10
  Speaker 8: I found it really interesting with Birds's cutter and the
• 39:13
  Speaker 8: way Estrada throws and Cainley's change up. He's thinking this
• 39:17
  Speaker 8: way through this but right on right, I'm with you guys.
• 39:19
  Speaker 8: It looks like a disadvantage to me, but it feels
• 39:22
  Speaker 8: right to.
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: Him, especially he faces right handed BP pitchers all the
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: time right, so people are like, ah, whatever, whatever. My
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: last question for you, Tim is this game globally? Could
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: it have grown any more in this series? The fact
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: that Japan ten percent of the Japanese market is watching
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: these games so far based on the ratings, more than
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: I think it's like seventeen percent of the Canadian fans
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: or the Canadian TV market, and then obviously Fox's telecast
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: is higher than it ever has been. So could the
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: game have grown more globally based on the fact that
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: they're pl playing Shoheo Tani's Dodgers and Canada's Blue Jays
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: in this epic. I mean it's been six games so far.
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: We could go to game seven. Yeah.
• 40:10
  Speaker 8: I think this has been great for baseball. This has
• 40:13
  Speaker 8: been a global phenomenon. It's been great. And when Vlatty
• 40:17
  Speaker 8: from the Dominican hit a home run off of Otani,
• 40:20
  Speaker 8: I mean, that's exactly what we're looking for. Are the
• 40:23
  Speaker 8: stars being their best against other stars. I'm always amused
• 40:28
  Speaker 8: that football is trying to go international. No disrespect to anyone,
• 40:32
  Speaker 8: but football to me, you know, it is like as
• 40:34
  Speaker 8: international is the international house of pancakes, you know, but
• 40:37
  Speaker 8: baseball is really international, and it's gotten even more international
• 40:43
  Speaker 8: in this World Series with what we're seeing. It's really
• 40:46
  Speaker 8: growing the game every single day, and I think that's great.
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: Well, Tim, thank you very much.
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: I want to give a quick shout out to your
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: podcast with your son.
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: Jeffrey, who's a real cuts friend of mine too as well.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: Great game or What podcast with son Jeffrey, who speaks
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: verbatim just like his father.
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: I get very confused when those twok fox and it's
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: a little pitchy. It's a little squeaky, but at the
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: same time he laughed so hard and his hands are
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• 41:15
  Speaker 8: He's the biggest guy I've ever seen in my life.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: And seriously, you got a great podcast. We love you,
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: I love you. I can't wait to see you again.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: Enjoy game six, hopefully game seven, because that's only better
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: for the Florida Baseball Thank you.
• 41:31
  Speaker 8: Absolutely, this series is too good to stop at six.
• 41:34
  Speaker 8: We gotta go seven. Thanks so much for having me, boys,
• 41:37
  Speaker 8: I'll see you soon.
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: See you.
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  Speaker 1: But Kratz, you go next.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: As we talk about game six, what do you think
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers need to do to keep this thing alive?
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Like, I want to get your deep dive thoughts.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: If you're the Dodgers, how do you suddenly snap out
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  Speaker 2: of a hitting funk, and how do you beat Kevin
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  Speaker 2: Gossman to get yourself to a game seven. You can
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: also include what you would do from a bullpen perspective
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: if there's an emergency and Yamamoto doesn't go CG because
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: the way I know the game, it's tough to rack
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: up three straight nine inning performance. So if that's not
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: the case, this is your whole season. This is the
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: biggest moment for your dynasty. Can you be the team
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: that can rack back to backs? But you got to
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: get through game six? So lay that all out for me.
• 44:11
  Speaker 5: First, easy, I'll hit the pitching first. Yamamoto's gonna have
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: a terrible game and he's gonna go six innings and
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: Roki Sosaki's gonna throw two show Hey, he's gonna close
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: it out Like that's that's what happens. If Yamamoto just
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: isn't regular Yamamoto, like regular Yamamoto might go another complete game.
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: But to me, I don't see that door opening to
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: the bullpen until Max eighth inning, Max Yoshinobo Yamamoto has
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: had fifteen I said it earlier in the show fifteen
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: to three ball pitches all postseason pitches, not counts pitches.
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: Four of them were to Dalton Varshow when he got
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: three to zero and then he battled back, I'm sorry,
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: three of them. Three of them, so fifteen total, Like
• 45:03
  Speaker 5: that is showing you that he is attacking the zone.
• 45:06
  Speaker 5: And when you're attacking the zone and you've thrown one
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: hundred and thirty eight pitches in a game six in
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: the in the Japanese series, in the KBO I mean
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: not KBO series, in the Japanese series a few years ago,
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: like you're ready for these big moments. He's going to throw.
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: We might see one hundred and twenty five pitches. Does
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: that take him all day to the ninth? I don't know,
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: But then it's gonna be rokie. Then it's gonna be show.
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: Hey whatever Yamamoto isna get. So the pitching was easy hitting.
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: I'll tell you what you do. You get a day off.
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: After Game five, the boys come to the yard, you
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: swing a little bit, You feel like, okay, yeah, you
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: know what, this place is gonna be rocking. We hear
• 45:46
  Speaker 5: it quiet right now. We are a good team. They
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: don't need a meeting about why they're not doing well,
• 45:52
  Speaker 5: what their launch angles are all that stuff. They're not
• 45:54
  Speaker 5: going to have a meeting. They're all gonna go get
• 45:56
  Speaker 5: haircuts because when you have a haircut, you feel so
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: much better. And if you look good, you feel good,
• 46:03
  Speaker 5: you play good. It's just a matter of time for
• 46:05
  Speaker 5: this lineup to turn around. They don't need to shuffle everything.
• 46:08
  Speaker 5: Mookie doesn't need to hit fifth. You know, I would
• 46:11
  Speaker 5: love to see show Hey maybe hit second, but I
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: get it. It might be a one swing game. So
• 46:15
  Speaker 5: you want show Hay to get up as many times
• 46:17
  Speaker 5: as possible, and you go out there and you lay
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: it all on the line.
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: I like you thinking that. I didn't think of it
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: like that, but now thinking of him, maybe you know
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: you're spot on. Don't change too much. But maybe putting
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: Mooki in the leadoff hole, get ready for a first
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: pitch fastball and just try and swing as hard as
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: you can and see how far you can hit. It
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: wouldn't be the worst possibility. He's hit there before. He
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: knows how to play that position. He knows and he'll
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: be ready for you know, if it's not a fastball,
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: then he can make the adjustment.
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, I don't think
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: that would be that big of a move.
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: Because next thing, you know, if he did get hot,
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden, you got a guy on with
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: show hay out. But you think about long running those situations.
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: He gets on hits a double, then they're gonna walk
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: show Hey no matter what. But it gets you back
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: to the top of the lineup. If I'm this Blue
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: Jay team, honestly, you haven't hit Yamamoto at all, So
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: what's the approach? Cratzy. It's hard to do. In your mind,
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: you're telling yourself you can do it. The only thing
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: I could think of is sitting on a pitch that
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: you know you can hit. He's got five pitches, maybe
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: even more. You know you're not gonna sit on that
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: splitter because it's really nasty and he throws a lot
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: of them.
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: For balls.
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: You got to sit on that breaking pitch or the
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: fastball the hole it bat until you get the two
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: strikes and you can't miss it, and you gotta look
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: in your certain area. And for me, if I was
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: hit and I'm looking for a fastball out over the plate,
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: if I didn't get it, I have to trust myself
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: and tell myself, you know what I gave up two strikes.
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: But I didn't give up my approach. And that's the
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: way you got to live because ultimately, guess what, you
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: can't hit him anyway. So you want to look silly
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: swinging a couple of pitches foul, couple off like, oh, man,
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: I should have hit that. No, you want to get
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: the one pitch you're looking for, Stay on it and
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: hopefully you can drive that ball out of the park
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: or get on base somewhere or another. It's Dodger team's
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: got to figure out a way to hit. They got
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: to figure out a way to hit, win runners in
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: scoring position. Kirchin said it best if four runs in
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: twenty nine innings, that's not gonna cut it. Is it
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: too little too late?
• 48:15
  Speaker 5: Man?
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: A lot of people in America think it is. So
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: we'll see what happens.
• 48:19
  Speaker 5: All right. Here's what I'm gonna comment on what you
• 48:22
  Speaker 5: said about facing Yamamoto as a Blue Jays lineup. What
• 48:25
  Speaker 5: do the blue Jays do well? They ambush you, and
• 48:28
  Speaker 5: I'm not saying ambush in a negative way. They come
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: out and they get after it. If you remember back
• 48:33
  Speaker 5: to the ball that Vladdie hit, I think it was
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: a third inning. The Oday I'm not sure he was
• 48:38
  Speaker 5: on first base, but he had an absolute missile off
• 48:42
  Speaker 5: the left field wall for a single, and then Yamamoto
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: cruised after that. But you get to the fastball, and
• 48:49
  Speaker 5: I'm looking at it against right handers overall, he throws
• 48:52
  Speaker 5: fifty percent fastballs. Now, is one going to be a
• 48:55
  Speaker 5: four seemer? Is one maybe gonna cut a little bit
• 48:58
  Speaker 5: naturally and show up as someone gonna sink? Absolutely, you
• 49:02
  Speaker 5: can't try to divide those into three pitches. You know.
• 49:05
  Speaker 5: To me, if you see the split, you don't swing
• 49:08
  Speaker 5: at it. That's that's your what Todd said, you just
• 49:12
  Speaker 5: sit on that heater, and you sit on that heater.
• 49:14
  Speaker 5: I get it. Last time he only threw I forget
• 49:16
  Speaker 5: what the percentage was of fastballs. You unashamedly sit on
• 49:21
  Speaker 5: the sit on the heater. You're gonna get three at
• 49:23
  Speaker 5: bats against him. This is a luxury that very few
• 49:26
  Speaker 5: big league hitters get, is to get three at bats.
• 49:29
  Speaker 5: Maybe even the top three guys in the lineup, we'll
• 49:31
  Speaker 5: get four at bats against them. Stick to your plan
• 49:35
  Speaker 5: whatever if you're not, if you're saying, you know what, No,
• 49:37
  Speaker 5: he embarrassed me with that slow curveball he struck Laddie
• 49:40
  Speaker 5: out with that slow curveball. He was first and third.
• 49:43
  Speaker 5: I'm sitting on that because he's gonna go to it.
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: I don't know, a.
• 49:47
  Speaker 5: Little scary for me. Get on the fastball, and if
• 49:50
  Speaker 5: you do look dumb, like Todd said, you look dumb,
• 49:54
  Speaker 5: it's okay. He's gonna be there the next time you're up,
• 49:57
  Speaker 5: So stick to your plan.
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: Let me ask you guys a question. I want to
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: go back to the Otani lineup part. Are they gonna
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: move him at the leadoff spot? Not likely, but and
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: I will say this, there have been some who have
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: been like, oh, move them to like the cleanup spot.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: That's ridiculous. But it is there a good.
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: Case that he should have been hitting second in a
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: series like this based off how bad their nine spot is.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: Their nine spot is an auto out the entire postseason
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: with Pajes and you know they tried call the other day.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: But that's a problem, right, So you never have the
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: nine hole hitter getting on. You might have the seven
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: or the eight, but you never have the nine hole
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: hitter getting on. You want Otani to get as many
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: A b's as possible in the game, but between one
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: and two, how often does that happen where you're h
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: We finished the game with the ones with the leadoff spot,
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: and we didn't get to the two hitters. So my question,
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: Kratz is, wouldn't you rather have somebody in front of
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: him who can get on and cause a little bit
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: more pressure to me? That's where the two spot changes. Remember,
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: the best hitters in the sport. We're not hitting one
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: or two in our sport until eight to ten years
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: ago is probably when it started. You saw Springer and
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: a few others pop up at the leadoff spot, right,
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: But up until that point, if you did that, it
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: was taboo. The best hitters were three and four. So
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: that's my question, Kratz. Should Otani have been in the
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: two spot? We're looking back now, but we can do that.
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: We're a talk show. It's it's been such a dead
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: spot as you guys can see it. It's not just
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: bad results like it's bad AB's. You know, Aj talked
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: about how he thinks you would do something drastic, just
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: change your swing, do something because it's been auto outs
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: and the best player on the planet is always stepping
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: up after an out.
• 52:03
  Speaker 5: All right, first, I'm gonna say yes, they should have
• 52:05
  Speaker 5: made the change when that should have happened to me
• 52:07
  Speaker 5: Game one of the World Series, because they knew what
• 52:11
  Speaker 5: Pahes was doing and to like that he wasn't going
• 52:14
  Speaker 5: to produce, but they were going to keep him in
• 52:15
  Speaker 5: the lineup, and Mookie Betts wasn't producing up until that
• 52:18
  Speaker 5: point either, And so you sit there and you go,
• 52:22
  Speaker 5: I think, this is okay, the reason Shoho Tani is
• 52:25
  Speaker 5: hitting leadoff, and this is gonna like nobody's even gonna
• 52:28
  Speaker 5: hear half the things I say, because they're like, no way,
• 52:31
  Speaker 5: your best hitters should hit third or fourth. You know,
• 52:33
  Speaker 5: it's like, okay, I'm trying to talk to people about
• 52:36
  Speaker 5: why the Dodgers have him hitting leadoff. The leadoff hitter
• 52:40
  Speaker 5: throughout an entire course of a season, based on six
• 52:44
  Speaker 5: hundred at bats basically is gonna get thirteen point eight
• 52:47
  Speaker 5: three more at bats in an entire season. So they
• 52:52
  Speaker 5: want Shoho Tani to get fourteen more at bats in
• 52:55
  Speaker 5: the history of baseball, this is how it works out
• 52:57
  Speaker 5: for winning teams, for losing teams. Everything. They want him
• 53:00
  Speaker 5: to get fourteen more at bats. So maybe you could
• 53:02
  Speaker 5: hit pop two more home runs, which could push them
• 53:06
  Speaker 5: to you know, make a playoff bit or whatever it is.
• 53:10
  Speaker 5: Between the first hitter and the third hitter, it's twenty
• 53:16
  Speaker 5: eight at bats. So now that means a second hitter
• 53:19
  Speaker 5: and the third hitter, it's fifteen at bats, essentially around
• 53:22
  Speaker 5: the same for each spot in the lineup. But this
• 53:26
  Speaker 5: is why I think the Dodgers weren't winning World Series
• 53:30
  Speaker 5: the other times they were there. They were so reliant
• 53:33
  Speaker 5: on this certain number that, you know what, I think
• 53:36
  Speaker 5: we're gonna pull this guy after six innings. I think
• 53:38
  Speaker 5: we're going to pinch hit for Max Munsey here, even
• 53:44
  Speaker 5: though Max Munsey came on the show and said, hey,
• 53:46
  Speaker 5: you know what we're gonna do. We're gonna you know bat,
• 53:50
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna hit against more lefties. And what that does
• 53:53
  Speaker 5: is it keeps me on the ball longer. It helps
• 53:55
  Speaker 5: me get an opportunity to hit Righty's better know I'm
• 54:00
  Speaker 5: not hitting well against lefties. Get I'm just becoming a
• 54:03
  Speaker 5: better player, a better hitter. So to me, I think
• 54:06
  Speaker 5: the Dodgers should have looked at this because all these
• 54:09
  Speaker 5: numbers are out the window. It might be one at
• 54:11
  Speaker 5: bat that he doesn't get. Now it's too late. Now
• 54:14
  Speaker 5: you can't go and say, okay, we're gonna shift it.
• 54:16
  Speaker 5: But I think that's why they kept it around, and
• 54:18
  Speaker 5: I think it was probably the wrong decision if they
• 54:21
  Speaker 5: don't come back and win this World Series.
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think if they did make the decision
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: of changing Otani to second and Mochi the first base,
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: you can't look back and say, well, Dave Robertson do anything.
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: You can't look back and say, oh, that's why they lost.
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: So that's why I think this decision would be viewed
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: as okay, no matter what. And to Scott's point when
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: he talked about it, I don't know how many times
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: this happened, but when the nine batter led off in
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: the World Series, I don't think he got on base
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: one time for show heo Tani it was automatic one out,
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: or when eight and nine got up, it was two
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: out as he got up. And that's the last thing
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: you want moving forward. Now, Does it happen like that
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: all the time. No, it's been exploited in this World Series,
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: So again, I would not be surprised if he did it.
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: I would.
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: I think honestly it's the best move for the Dodgers.
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: Maybe get Mooki going again a little bit, put a
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: little pressure on him. Hey man, you're leading off. Let's
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: go be you know, be the straw that starts a drink,
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: per se and get us going. So and we'll talk
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: a little bit more about Mooki as we move forward here.
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: That's actually the perfect transition. We're gonna do that next segment,
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: Todd Father, that's part of the problem, all right, Mooki's
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: got a problem. He's gonna visit the office and find
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: out what's going on. Also, I will answer one quick
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: question for those asking if there is a Game seven,
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: we will do a postgame show, not a pregame show.
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: We'll set up Game seven in our Game six postgame show,
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: just letting you know if you're catching this later on,
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: if you're catching this now, I know there have been
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: a few questions in the chat toid Father. We want
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: to visit the Colorful Batman, Thodfather, we got a problem today. Okay,
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: So the Dodgers' offense has fallen apart lately, and specifically
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: one of their superstars can't figure it out. It's such
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: a problem that they had to do some lineup tweaking
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: that didn't work, although that might have been a different problem.
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: By the name of Trey Savage. We're trying to figure
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: out what to do in such a short period of time.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: So if Mookie Bets had time right now, he would
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: have represented himself, But instead Kratz and I are representing
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: Muki as we visit the office and ask you, Todd father,
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: what he should do with one or two games left
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: to go, And at some point we'll mix in some
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: swing results from Mike Petriello and the stack Cast crew.
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: It might be a little too like talking about what
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: we need to do preparation and preparation's been there for
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: Moky Bets. He's worked his butt off, and he said
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: it's not a lack of effort. You know what, effort
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: can only take you so far. I mean, listen, Gratzy
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: understands he worked the hardest guy I've ever seen work
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: in his life. Sometimes it didn't pay off. Guess what.
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: He's in a slump. He can't find his way out
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: of it. His hands are dropping, He's seeing pitches that
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: he should be driving. You see the frustration. I'm frustrated
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: every day when I wake up and the weather's like
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: this windy. I don't like it. I don't like the rain.
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: I don't like any of that stuff. But guess what
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: we move on for Mooki bets, get your hands up.
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: How think about swinging down on the ball. That uppercut
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: swings not working, pop flies aren't working, and there's no
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: power behind it, and I think his hands are getting
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: away from his body. You got two games to prove
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: me wrong. Forget about the numbers. Throw the numbers out
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: the window, Cratsy Scotti, get the hands up. Think about
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: catching that ball out in front and hitting the ball
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: down and cutting the ball in half and watch the
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: backspin homers go out. I expect a big day from
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: you today, Mochi. It's going to go home, Bud.
• 58:11
  Speaker 4: That's all.
• 58:11
  Speaker 5: This is the best. This is the best. The problem
• 58:14
  Speaker 5: that I've ever seen, this was, I mean, your pace, everything,
• 58:18
  Speaker 5: the mask like I'm a little afraid of you. I'm
• 58:22
  Speaker 5: glad I'm not in Jersey today, Todd. But everybody needs
• 58:26
  Speaker 5: to listen to what Todd said. Todd didn't bring up
• 58:28
  Speaker 5: any of the numbers, and we're gonna get the Petriello's
• 58:31
  Speaker 5: you know, if we can even bring up Petrillo's graph
• 58:33
  Speaker 5: of his swing, I'm not even sure what the exact
• 58:37
  Speaker 5: wording is, but his swing angle. So we're talking about
• 58:41
  Speaker 5: degree and the fact that he's his attack angle is
• 58:46
  Speaker 5: thirteen percent. I'll be honest, I do not know the numbers.
• 58:50
  Speaker 5: What I do know is what Todd said. And people
• 58:54
  Speaker 5: are gonna say, well, how are you gonna hit the
• 58:56
  Speaker 5: ball up? If you don't swing up. You don't hit
• 59:00
  Speaker 5: the ball up because you swing up. You hit the
• 59:03
  Speaker 5: ball up because you make contact where Todd out in front,
• 59:09
  Speaker 5: out in front, you can. Todd's telling him to swing down. Yes,
• 59:14
  Speaker 5: the thought process has to be swinging down. Nobody's going
• 59:17
  Speaker 5: to swing down like this actually to the ball. What
• 59:21
  Speaker 5: happens is when you swing down, when you think about
• 59:25
  Speaker 5: swinging down, now, your first move with your hands is
• 59:28
  Speaker 5: this direction. Right now, the first move of his hands
• 59:32
  Speaker 5: is this direction. His hands are dropping. Maybe they're too
• 59:36
  Speaker 5: far out, maybe they're too close. Whatever it is, it's
• 59:39
  Speaker 5: causing his hands to drop, which is causing that thirteen
• 59:43
  Speaker 5: degree angle and causing the pop ups. The pop ups
• 59:47
  Speaker 5: are not he's not squaring these balls up. And the
• 59:50
  Speaker 5: reason he's not squaring them up is because the pitch
• 59:52
  Speaker 5: comes in on this path right here, and he's trying
• 59:56
  Speaker 5: to swing across that angle. When you swing down, your
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 5: swing path is now going with the same angle as
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 5: the pitch, and when you catch it out front, your
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 5: swing is starting to go up. So yes, you need
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 5: to go up to hit it. But when you're late
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 5: and popping every ball up, Mookie Bets could make a change.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 5: If you're asking one of the other guys deeper in
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 5: this lineup to make a change, probably not Mookie Bets.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 5: If he never knew anything about baseball, he could pick
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 5: up a bat and be like, you want me to
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 5: do what now? Oh, I'll do this. That's what's so
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 5: amazing about the fact that he's in this slump right now,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 5: and it's not pressure. He's not folding under the pressure
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 5: or anything like this. It's just a tiny mechanical switch
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 5: that might feel like in his head he needs to
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 5: make a drastic change to get to where he needs
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 5: to be. But the thirteen percent, the thirteen degrees of
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 5: attack angle swing is telling me in numbers exactly what
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 5: my eyes have seen.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: One fan question here to jump in, Nico said, feel
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: like Bets adjusted his swing to try to hit the splitter,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: and that obviously didn't work.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: Now he's dipping his shoulder.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 5: Okay, I yeah, go ahead, go ahead. Go ahead.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: No, I honestly think when you're in between, I don't
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 3: think he's adjusted his swing to the splitter. I just
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: think he's a little in between.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 4: And when you.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: Struggle a little bit, all of a sudden, every pitch
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: to you looks like either one it's a strike or
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: the next pitch you're gonna get five hits out of
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: one swing. And that's just not gonna happen. That's just
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: being human and understanding that I'm struggling. I want to
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: try so hard to help my team. But if he's
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: looking for a splitter, then then he's not gonna be
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: able to hit too often anymore. That's not a pitch
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: you're not you're necessarily gonna look for because it's so
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 3: hard to throw a strike that that pitch.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 4: That pitch is an outpitch for most pictures, all.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 5: Right, And and everything that everybody said here is all true,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 5: Like that's the beauty of hitting is I'm not sure
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 5: who said this in the chat, but he said, and
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 5: he's dipping his shoulder. He's not trying to dip his
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 5: shoulder to try to hit a splitter. Is he dipping
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 5: his shoulder? Absolutely? But to me, you have to when
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 5: you go to a guy like Mookie Betts, you're not
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 5: going to a nine year old who's like, hey, you
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 5: know what, get your elbow up, you know, and do this.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 5: You're going to Mookie Bets, who's an athlete. So it's
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 5: more in the lines of what Todd said of if
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 5: you're in between, you have no shot of hitting anything.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 5: So you have to be fully committed and you're if
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 5: you are sitting on a splitter, you're cooked. You're not
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 5: catching up to the fastball. So the approach has to
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 5: be if this is the case, because we're only conjecture,
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 5: we're only saying what we see, and it's super easy
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 5: to sit on a couch and evaluate what we're seeing.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 5: But you have to say, I'm fully committed to the
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 5: fastball because because now I'm on time for the fastball
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 5: and know that anything down is going to be a splitter.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 5: So I'm not swinging at Mookie Betts looks like he's like,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 5: I am so freaking good at everything that I do
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 5: that I can cover the fastball the splitter. And here
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 5: I go, oh, nope, that one wasn't it. Nope, Nope,
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 5: that one wasn't it. And Big League Pictures especially World Series.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 5: Big league pitchers are too good to be in between pitches.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: It was good exercise.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 5: I like that.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: I think problem solved now.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 9: I don't know if the problem will actually be solved
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 9: in the game. But what I do mean, Todd father,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 9: is we learned a lot.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and if you're not learning, you're losing. That's my model, Todd.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 5: I will take care of whatever problem you need. I
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 5: mean today, like when you take your mask off, like,
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 5: I don't take you seriously. So for the rest of
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 5: the problems, maybe we'll mix in like less rainbow colors
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 5: on it. I need you to wear a mask because
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 5: your face is not very your face is not very intimidating.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 5: But that was the best the problem that I've seen
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 5: in our three years.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: This thing's getting itchy too. I got maybe ten more
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 3: minutes of this and coming off, so you know, I
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: keep I keep moving it. I'm like, holy cow, here
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 3: we go.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: You're allowed.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: We got forty minutes left in show. So if you
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: want to reveal yourself at the end, as Batman.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: Might, listen, listen, Scott. This might not be Todd Frazier here,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: just letting you know when to take the mask off.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 4: You never know.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 9: I'm scared. Here we go, baby, let's slap.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: There is no cratz hats today?
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: Where is there? Very nice?
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: Okay, so let's get to some questions here. We will
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: start with Neil in the chat, he said, are the
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: Dodgers too reliant.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: On the long ball? God Father? Do you think that
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: their offense is to relyant on the long ball?
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: We have addressed over the past week how this team
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: led in a number of categories in the National League,
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: like home runs and ops. They also went through a
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: pretty significant slump somewhat late in the season. Do you
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: think that overall their offense, from a player to player
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: is too home run reliant.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: I think there's a point to it, but I think
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: they're just struggling hitting. And I think what he's talking
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  Speaker 3: about home run. Maybe they're thinking about getting that big
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 3: home run, but I think it just starts with getting
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 3: strikes to hit and getting pitches that you like to hit.
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  Speaker 4: And for them, yeah, the home runs great, they do
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  Speaker 4: it well.
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  Speaker 3: They have a lot of them, so I would say
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 3: yes and no. I think they do rely on it
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  Speaker 3: a little bit too much. But I also think they're
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 3: just struggling on getting guys on base. And struggling to
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 3: get them in. So I would say, yes, that's part
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: of it. But secondly, they're not swinging that good pitches
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: to get the guys in when they have that opportunity.
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  Speaker 5: No, I would say, no, they're not too reliant. I
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 5: don't think anybody can. I don't think anybody can give
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 5: you who the second most. Who has the second most
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 5: home runs on the Dodgers, because when you think about
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 5: teams that rely on the home run, you think about
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 5: the Yankees. Jazz has plus thirty plus, Ben Rice had
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 5: a breakout year, Judge Bellinger, Andy Payes has the second
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 5: most number of home runs on the team. So I
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 5: while they hit a lot of home runs, I don't
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 5: think they're too reliant on it. They just are in
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 5: what Todd said, all slump.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like you think about Mookie, you think about Freddy.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't call those types of players hitting profile wise
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: with home run reliant. So good call there, good answer.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: I have a question World Series entertainment grade compared to
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: prior World Series matchups that you've watched. Right in these
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: first five games, how entertained are you? And we're going
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: with letter grades if this thing continues, the letter grade's
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: going to bump up automatically with a game seven. But
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: Todd Father, what's your entertainment factor? Right, We've had some
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: close games, we had some not so close games. We
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: had one of the longest games.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 3: What do you think, Yeah, I mean out of the five,
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: I think really good. Yeah, I would say middle of
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: the pack. But we still have one more to go,
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 3: I'd say, and that be min that's C plus B
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: minus range. I think it's fantastic that you got Toronto
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 3: in and La being the favorite, and it looks like
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 3: Toronto's taking care of it and almost finishing them off
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 3: in the World Series. I think that'll help bringer my
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 3: grade up. But again, you know, there's been a couple
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: of games of one run from the Dodgers that you
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: know been subpar, so the Dodgers could pick it up
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 3: a little bit the great and we go a lot
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 3: higher too, so you know, you know the Blue Jays
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: are gonna be right there.
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  Speaker 4: They've been fantastic.
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  Speaker 5: I disagree. I think it's a I think it's an
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 5: A minus series. I do when you have an eighteen
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 5: inning game, you have a historic length of a game.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 5: I think it's when you have when you have the
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 5: narrative already written. Let's say you go to a movie
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 5: and you're like, oh, I know how this is gonna end,
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 5: and then they just they flip it. What, No way,
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 5: the Blue Jays are winning free to two, We're going
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 5: back to Toronto. No way. Yeah, obviously, Shohotani's gonna do
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 5: his thing, Vladimir Guerrero's gonna do his thing. But when
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 5: the script doesn't go the way everybody planned it, I
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 5: can't not give it an A. I'm gonna give it
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 5: an A minus right now because if it if it
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 5: ends in a game seven, then I think I'm I'm
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 5: solid A range, and I think I'm probably in the minority.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 5: I don't think it's been boring because I haven't gotten
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 5: any sleep through these six game five games that they've played,
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 5: and I haven't fallen asleep once, so I disagree. I
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 5: think this has been an awesome series.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: For me. I'm I'll go B plus.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: So if we get to a game seven, you're automatically
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: getting into the A grade. Depending on how Game six goes,
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: that could bump it up to the A grade. I'm
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: pretty close to that as range. The thing that comes
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: to mind for me is yet we're not in multiple
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: walkoffs or one run games, right. The eighteen Ning Marathon
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: obviously was a one run game. Most of the rest
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: of the final scores have been lopsided, but they've still
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: been good games. For example, the last game was not
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: a fun watch for Dodgers fans, but it was a
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: fun watch for most of the rest of baseball fans.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: Of course, it was a fun watch for Blue Jays fans.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: We got to watch Trey A Savage dominate like that,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: and if you go further back, we got to see
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: a CG which we never see in games like this anymore.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: We hadn't seen one in about a decade when Johnny
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: Quato put that together. So those two games alone, despite
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: not being close there right, still super entertaining in my mind.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: B plus but pretty good chance it's gonna at least
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: get itself to an A minus. And if we got
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: a game seven that then you're dipping into a if
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: not a plus territory. Baby, we have a postgame show
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: after tonight's game six. Krats will be there, maybe as grew,
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: Maybe as Krats I would show up just to figure
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: that part out alone, and Buck Showalter will join us
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: for the manager perspective. He'll slice and dice all the
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: moves and tell us who did what right, who did
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: what wrong? Game six live on the ft YouTube channel right.
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