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Baseball Is Dead Episode 394: Wild Card Recap
In Episode 394 of Baseball Is Dead, the hosts recap the wild card playoff series, discussing the implications of lengthy games and the overall state of baseball. They delve into the performances of te...
Baseball Is Dead Episode 394: Wild Card Recap
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I mean, this is a sport that's on the precipice of a relevance.
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The games are taking over three and a half hours.
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Playoff games are taking over four hours.
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Games too long too slow. Who cares?
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This is a situation where baseball is in trouble to begin with.
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I hate to bring you to baseball's dead.
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Baseball is dead.
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Rust in peace.
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To my spirit.
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I'm a broken man.
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Man.
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I'm a broken man.
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I uh...
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Whoo.
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Um, I'm coming down from it.
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We go.
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Oh yeah, too.
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Yeah, too. Yeah, losers couch.
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Yeah, I mean, I'm right.
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I mean, I'm getting there, like, I don't know.
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I feel like...
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That's a lie.
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No, I am.
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I'm late in the lie.
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No, it's not.
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I...
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We did section 10 first to decompress so that I could face the music with Dallas,
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which I obviously know he's not going to make this an easy podcasting experience for me tonight.
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But I mean, I'm obviously not happy.
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I'm miserable.
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I'm going to be miserable tomorrow.
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I'm going to be miserable for the next month probably.
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It depends on what the Yankees do from here.
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It could get worse potentially.
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It's tough to hear.
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Yeah, I mean, you don't want to think of your, your team is like the...
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The launching pin, right?
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That's what we're trying to avoid right now.
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Just feelings like this was kind of like the greaser for them.
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No.
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Just kind of warm them up.
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No, like that...
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If you're a red fan, you can definitely say that about the Dodgers.
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Like that was just like, you know, a scrimmage for the Dodgers.
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I've heard some red socks fans refer to this as like understanding this was their world series.
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It was like they're just not in a position to go much further than this like expectation.
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No, no, no, no, no.
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Basically what the roster has been able to say.
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That's not what I said.
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That's not what I said.
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That's not what I said.
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You said that.
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Yeah.
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You know, guilty show a hand.
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Yeah.
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No, I said that it was the red socks.
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It was their world series, but I still think that they could have beaten Toronto.
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But other than that, no, that was all just like found money at that point.
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So the J's or Bums is what you're saying?
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No, no, but the red socks played them really well in September.
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I think that they could have they could have given Toronto a series.
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But yeah, they should have beaten New York.
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They didn't they beat themselves.
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And but since an addy like that series was...
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I mean, the Dodgers playing in the wild card round like...
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I mean, going into the season, if I told you that the Dodgers were going to be playing in the wild card round,
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you'd be like, what the fuck happened?
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It's yeah, it's laughable that the Dodgers were even eaten a while.
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But they laughed as they played the reds.
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Like if you go back and watch the highlights of that series,
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well, there's a lot of smiles.
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There's a lot of laughter for the Dodgers.
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They were just it was almost like they played like an inner squad game,
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but they played like their high a affiliate.
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Yeah, there were clips of Tiasco Hernandez looking at highlights of the picture
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that was coming into the game and that he just promptly pissed on a baseball
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and hit it out of the park.
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Otani.
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I mean, the, the, yeah, that just felt like it was not fair to begin with.
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We all knew that if there was any shot in hell,
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Hunter Green was going to have to come out and perform the way Cam Slitler did tonight.
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Did you see that?
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I did see that.
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That was, that was an incredible run, incredible run for Slitler.
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But that was not going to happen for Hunter Green.
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That was the downfall of the reds hopes.
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What so ever was a struggling Hunter Green, three innings, five in runs, I think.
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But I mean, yeah, nobody was giving the reds a realistic chance in that series.
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Is there anything that we take away from that series?
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I mean, I feel like we're just going to be bouncing around from series to series.
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Oh, we want to start.
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Let's go in the order of the, the slate.
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Let's, let's start with Tiger's Guardians because that series to me.
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I don't know if you guys feel the same way.
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That almost felt like the heavyweight bout that deserved not the one o'clock start time.
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Like I feel like the way that it played out in September that, I guess the storyline going into it was the best one.
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You can obviously go back to the well a million times.
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Be like, oh, but it's Red Sox Yankees and obviously geographic location matters when it comes to the wild car round and the time slots that they have.
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But the way that the Cleveland Guardians erased a 15 and a half game deficit.
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The way that they had a 0.4% chance of winning the division entering the month of September.
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The way that they did win the division, the way that they had to play the Detroit Tigers in the month of September in order to leapfrog them and beating scu-bull in the process of doing that to secure home field in which they did that.
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The series went three games and the Detroit Tigers were just like, that's nice.
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But we're actually just going to dismiss that real quick and move on.
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And those are, those are all good reasons, I think, to, to want to give them.
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And I think frankly to say that those two teams sort of earned that stage, meaning not the one o'clock game, but something a little later.
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But I think we also kind of touched on how it's a combination of the Tigers losing all of those games, the Guardians winning all of those games at just the right time.
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So it wasn't like it was a heavyweight battle back and forth down the stretch that got you all excited about what this series was going to look like.
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It was just a, oh my god, I can't believe that happened.
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These two teams were locked in it with each other and are now going to be playing again after these two teams just had to win 15 in a row basically and lose 15 in a row for them to get here.
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So initially, yes, but then we talked about the star power, the lack of per se and is that giving you the prime time slot, probably not.
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So on the surface, yes, exciting storyline to follow.
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I think once you're probably sitting in the middle of game two, looking at things unfold the way they did, you're going, well, I mean, is this really like shit?
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Well, let me, let me ask you guys a question before we kind of break down each series.
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What wild card matchup from each league deserved or would have made the best LCS matchup wise.
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Matchup wise.
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I mean, I think it's probably the man, I mean, I hate to say Yankees red socks, but I feel like the Yankees red socks.
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I feel like a lot of people had questions about what the red socks were going to be able to do on the mound.
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I think you saw, Connolly early pitch well enough tonight where if you would have had some defensive support behind him, the narrative around what they might be able to do later shifts just a bit.
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I mean, they again, you know, Gio Lido, but then I look at the, the Padres bullpen or excuse me, the Padres series.
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And I mean, just I don't know, not a whole lot of not a whole lot of excitement offensively, you know, so I don't know LCS wise.
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What do you think, Jay?
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I don't think it's that complicated. I think it's the red socks in the Yankees.
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That's I mean, I just think, you know, we can give all the respect we want to guards tigers, but, you know, one of those series is Aaron judge in the New York Yankees against the Boston red socks and the other one isn't.
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And it's not like there's more hidden star power in guardians tigers, then there is red socks Yankees. In fact, there's still way more in red socks Yankees.
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So that would be my answer.
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You know, are we talking, where do we talk of tigers guards now?
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Yeah. Yeah. So I think, I mean, to me, it's just all about game one.
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You know, and obviously it's a three game series. You can be reductive and whatever any game could be the swing game.
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But it is game one for me. I know how dominant scuba was. I know how historically significant his pitching performance was, but it was a one to one game through six.
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Not only were they in a position to potentially take the game from that point forward, they put themselves in position to, you know, recapture control of the game in the ninth inning against not scuba, right?
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Vest. I mean, the point being it wasn't scuba though.
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Yeah. And that's where I so like looking at what the Detroit Tigers did.
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What did I talk about needing to happen if they were going to have any chance at all?
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You got to capitalize on the scuba game, book it.
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And from there, somebody in the bullpen is going to have to step up.
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I hope that Casey Mines was going to be able to put together a good start.
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Not an extensive start by any stretch three innings, one and run.
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What happens? The bullpen comes in and they get the job done for the most part.
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I mean, you go back and look at what was I looking at you, you remove the, the outing from, uh, from Melton and the Tigers bullpen over this series, point eight seven ERA.
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You remove the one, the third of an inning that had a four run blowup.
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You take that out of what the Tigers did in their bullpen, Vest, uh, three innings to score this baseball, uh, Holtens, uh, three in a third.
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So six and a third total innings from those two dudes scoreless out of the bullpen.
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I mean, it just for their starting staff, 15 and a third innings, 1.76 ERA between scuba, flirty and mice, flirty four and two thirds, one earn run.
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So again, getting removed. What happens? The bullpen for the most part for the Tigers outside of the one blow up third of an inning did exactly what we are what I hoped they were going to do.
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And really the only shot they were going to have in the face of what the guardians were going to be able to do or we expected to do with their bullpen.
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Uh, difficult question for J. Hey, yeah, did the right team win?
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I think it a lot of ways. Yes. In most ways. Yes. Um, you know, uh, run differential is an easy just way out of this, but they were a superior team by that by quite a bit.
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Obviously, the guardians with the rare team that had a negative run differential that made the postseason.
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Um, I don't think there was an enormous amount of separation between these two teams, but I do think that, uh, it's perfectly fine that the Tigers won.
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I think it's just uniquely frustrating that the guardians executed the biggest comeback in, you know, divisional sports history.
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And then promptly lost in a series to that same team while actually outscoring that team in that series, uh, not that three game run differentials mean a lot, but it's it.
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It just all feels well, kind of pointless that you had a great tweet. I mean, if you want to just read your own tweeter or summarize it or whatever, but I do think there's a lot that summarizes the frustration in a lot of ways too.
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I said the Cleveland guardians coming all the way back from 15 and a half games down 0.4% chance of winning the division at the start of September just to lose to the team they overtook for the division in the first round of the playoffs is why sports are stupid.
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So people, I mean, I don't know, I guess if you're unfamiliar with my content, you could take that as I'm a guardians fan. So I mean, you can swap out stupid. You could say it's amazing. Like that's why sports are amazing.
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Like I didn't I didn't have a dog in the fight. I didn't care who won the series. I was just looking forward to a quality series. And I think we got that, you know, it coming down to a, a decisive game three, which was great. I think we would have been very disappointed if one team just came in and won both.
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I think it deserved the full the full three games. We got that. So yeah, sure. If you want to sub out stupid and put in amazing. Sure. I just didn't want to, I get I don't know. There's like that last word there.
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It means it means so many different things. Like like stupid like stupid like wild like it's crazy. It's unpredictable. Like that's why sports are just that's why sports are sports are sports.
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Sure. I stupid just yeah, just like wild unpredictable. If I said amazing, then it would have come off as I was rooting for the Tigers and stupid comes off as I'm rooting for the guardians. I was just rooting for good playoff baseball. We got that.
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Yeah. I just yeah. Yeah. And I also think like, you know, I can be personally disappointed that the guardians lost Cleveland fans can be but like let's not mistake this idea that the guardians were some hard luck.
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Like had an enormous amount of world series equity and invested a lot in this season to try and make themselves a winner.
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They were a complete afterthought for 90% of the season 85% of the season and then became the story arguably of the final three weeks month of the season.
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So like I'm not they deserve to be there great that they were there. But this was a team that was undone mostly by flaws that were a foreseeable prior to the start of the season and had played themselves out during the season.
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Yeah. What? Yeah, Cam. Little slit Larry follow me on Twitter. Yeah. Coming for the for the for the guardians. I mean, their offense is asked and it's been asked for a lot of time. They never shows up in the post.
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They hit 178 this year or 178 in the series as a unit. I believe that is the worst performing team in the wild card round. So no offense performed worse than the guardians offense.
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Yeah. I can't confirm that. That's just my rough guess because there was not much offense going anywhere else, but that. Yes. That was not. No. And I believe in the last four trips to the playoffs.
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It's fewer than four runs scored in eight of the 12 games now. So that's just not going to. I do want to take a moment here to shout out.
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Yeah. No, you did that entirely too much during the stream. No, but only deserves it now. I think 455 in the series. This is a guy who nobody had penciled in the lineup as consistently as he found himself in the lineup.
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Not only in center field, we're talking outfield all star. Havi bias, folks. Let's let's not forget that. Yeah. And for him to hit 455, the second highest OPS on the team during the series.
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That Havi bias. I said it to J. Hey, don't sleep if Havi bias is right in the middle of what the Tigers do this series. And he was defensively and offensively.
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Cam Schletler follows just 76 people on Twitter and one of them is me now. Come for that. He's yeah. You know what shout out to Cam Schletler. We'll get to that series, but he absolutely dominated tonight. You got to tip your cap to him.
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But on the Havi bias point though, I mean, it's not just about shouting him out for this series. It's about shouting him out for his whole season, which I think Dallas is making that point. Yeah. It has been. I mean, come back player the year. Like who am I missing? That's not him. I've been shouting out all year long for that.
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For the fat for the versatility that he's provided and the fact that this was a guy who when you look at what the Tigers were ever going to do, it had to do with Havi bias playing a role.
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And the fact that they weren't doing what you expected them to do. It was because what? Havi bias was swinging it shit in the third deck on the mezzanine level. Like that. It just.
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So you had nowhere to go, but you had to. You had to roll them out there and then at the very end of the season last year, it's like, no, we're going to find a place for Havi. I think something's hurt. Obviously, I had a bark in hand. You right? Like there's every reason you could to get him off the field. But now.
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Here he is. Yeah. I think it's also just you go back to the money that was left on the contract and the conversations that we're being had of like.
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All right. Like let's pull up the record books. How much money? What's the what are we going to eat? Yeah, we're talking Josh Hamilton. We're talking.
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Pablo Sanovall, like the most money on a DFA in baseball history. We were having that conversation with Havi bias. This dude. I mean, obviously playing the infield. We saw the the El Mago tag in in a on Jose Reyes today.
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But the play just going into a completely different position, you know, not even just like going from short to second, second to short. Dude went to the fucking outfield.
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Yeah, all start team. Yeah. Like that's a huge deal. Yeah. That's a huge deal. So it is age what, 33 season. Yeah, 33 or 34 season. Yeah. Like that's impressive to do. Yeah.
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I don't know. I mean, I hope the Tigers have enough offense in the next round, whether or not that that is real. I think remains to be seen because they they did not swing at all too well in totality. But they were able to capitalize on a terrible performance. I was absolutely dominant.
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And some guys coming out of the bull pinnacle just the right time and doing just enough. That's how that went. Yeah. Like a Jack fly already man. Good for him. They were they were bugging when they were at Fenway. I got to talk to him on that Friday night when the socks clenched and yeah, those those ass cheeks were tight. Oh, yeah, when they were in Boston trying to just get into the postseason and knowing what lied ahead and not letting. I mean, that's got to be a mind fuck when you think you're in cruise control for the entire season.
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And then here come the guardians. They can't fucking lose. And then that's also the team that you draw the second you get to October, you had to fight until 162 just to get in. Then you get there. And it's like, ah, fuck here the guardians and we have to go to Cleveland.
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I go, I go back to the series that they were in in sack because I talked to them both. I talked to scoops for a long time, talked to Jack for a little while. But it was like it was the same conversation basically. And it was just about the need to have to do
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a little things. Man, we just got to play catch. We got to do the little things because right now it just feels like that's where we're getting beat. We're not doing the little things.
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And you know how those those things start to build. They start to mount. You start to stack L's just like you do wins. And you know, that's kind of where they were at.
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But they have that.
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The guardians to a nine and winner take all games worst in baseball history. What was the qualifier?
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Mid-oom 10 games.
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Outch.
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Yeah. So now the the gritty tigs go on to face the number two seed Seattle Mariners in the division series.
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Uh, pick and today was you, Darvish. We needed three and a third innings out of him.
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We needed three and a half punch outs from Connolly early and we needed four and a half punch outs from cam slitler.
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Yeah, it was unfortunate though. You Darvish not quite enough to hit the mark. Yeah.
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What are you going to do?
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Okay.
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Very excited for that series.
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Are you guys are you guys down to when is the division series start Saturday?
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Saturday Saturday.
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Do we want to do like do we want to do like a like a mini breakdown the division series pod or do we want to do that on this one?
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Uh, just for the sake of getting J A home.
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Yeah, let's do let's do let's do one later.
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All right.
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Okay.
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Next up the Padres and the Cubs went head to head and this was this was a very intriguing series for me just because I thought either team could go on a run and appear in the NLCS.
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Unfortunately, they meet up in the wild card. I think both teams were capable of getting there.
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Uh, I guess in my opinion, the right team moved on, but the Padres were the team for me because of their bullpen alone that you just, I don't know, I felt like they could have gotten there easily just based on if we we scrap out a couple of runs here in the first three innings, we can just toss it over to the pen and it's ball game over.
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Uh, when you score one run, it's that it's not going to work that way.
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No, and their bullpen look at the Padres bullpen was elite, lead, Padres bullpen, 15 or third, two earn runs, 20 punchouts in 15 or third, just two not their fault, not their fault, not their problem is when you don't have a lead to hold or lead to protect those outings are in vain because you need the offense to do something collectively they hit 189 as a group this series.
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Two, homers, seven total extra bass hits.
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That's, that's not great. No, it's not great. No against a cup seam who frankly were not offensive like world beaters themselves.
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It wasn't like a, it wasn't a firework show, Jay, hey, by any means.
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No, but they did tap into what we sort of talked about beforehand, which was the long ball.
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It was not a firework show, but they did use the long ball enough to generate runs in a way that the Padres were not able to know we did talk about that beforehand.
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Padres were, I believe, second to last and baseball in homeruns hit this season.
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Um, and you know, it was they were three for 26 flip, with runners and scoring position as well.
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Is it, is it as easy? Is it as simple as Pee Crow Armstrong being present, like contributing even mildly?
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Is it as easy as that? I mean, him being a factor is huge. Right.
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He was a non factor in the second half and having him be a contributor at all is quite literally series changing.
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And it was.
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And today's was three singles, I believe, which whatever it's singles, but I just think it's interesting.
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Well, those were all his hits, his, his, but in the game deciding or in the series deciding game, right?
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And, and given his issues with contact down the stretch and then the second half of the season that it wasn't him running into a solo homer, it was him making contact and getting on base three separate times.
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I thought that was interesting. Well, we show him that they showed it.
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We were talking about like just the adjustments, the simplification of the approach of the plate to just get the ball in play because of what a weapon he can be if he gets on base, right?
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That's second and third. If you want it, that's a fun that's scoring on a ball on a gap from first, no problem.
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Took like just get your ass on base. Can we talk about the pods for a second, please?
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So, you know, I know that everybody's on the same page that the moves they made were win now, you know, leverage the future for the present sort of moves.
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They get bounced in the wild card while the tea the area that they strengthened delivered as you outlined in every way that they could have hope for the lead dog individually was as dominant as any relief picture could possibly be.
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When he was given the opportunity and yet for the second straight postseason, they were undone by an area like they chose part because who was available at the deadline, but they chose to lean into what was already a strength for the team, right?
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They loaded up on the bullpen and the offense fucking failed again. Like they got just as a reminder, they got bounced by the Dodgers last year with consecutive shutouts.
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They scored zero runs and zero runs to end that series and then scored five runs in three games in this series.
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Two for 22, Mani Machado Fernando Tati's junior two for 22.
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And that sucks that those guys didn't show up, but, but that's a huge. I mean, Jay, no, no, that's not just that sucks.
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Two for 22 from your I get it and potatoes and we can circle back on that in a second. I'm not putting that aside like it doesn't matter.
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But the rest of the offense is not good and nobody has any reasonable expectation that as a unit outside of those two star players, that it would be good. And they weren't good.
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Again, the fact that we were talking about before the series began, we were breaking down the Padres offense and you said Fernando Tati's was the only individual that you felt.
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And you were talking about the importance of like Ramon Loriano from offense.
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And it's like, well, if that's if that's the guy that we were pointing to, it's like, well, who else is going to step up in the series?
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A Rhino Herne, like you go out and make a trade like that. He was hitting for average, but there was absolutely no power there down the stretch.
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Like that was a team that I don't I think maybe on our expanded conversation or as the offseason rolls on, we can have the conversation of what do the Padres do from here?
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Because you look at last year and I vividly remember those conversations when the Padres were playing the Dodgers in the division series.
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And it was like they were playing like their asses were on fire. The Dodgers were playing flat. And it's like, wow, like this, this could be a situation where the Padres, I mean, they have beaten the Dodgers in the post season before.
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But what was that? 2022? Yeah, 2022.
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But it looked like the Padres were going to take that next step last year. They didn't they losing the division series. Now they can't get out the wildcard round.
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So it is kind of a where do they go from here? How do they improve? How do they get back?
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I think that question has been looming and we've answered it in a few different ways, but it all goes back to finding offensive pieces to be able to plug in around guys. What would you got?
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Now please go around the guys that you think that you can commit to you have a guy in place in Jackson, Merrill, who's penciled in right? We're committed there.
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As far as Fernando Tatis Jr. committed there. It's understanding that there's going to have to be some making peace with some of the other situations you have on your plate right now. Right?
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Yeah, I think I think that's I think that the way that the NL is exists and way baseball exists, they can be in the wildcard mix next season. Right? I don't think that's off the table.
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But I I have a hard time seeing how they aren't moving further away from the goal because the conversation we were having about this team at this at this general time last year was, oh my god, they what a tough beat by the Dodgers.
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Right? And we all felt after that series that if the Padres had won that that series, they could have legitimately won the World Series. Right? Like that that was that had the feel of a World Series to it.
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I don't feel that way about this current Padres team and I don't feel that that that that should be the vibe about them. Like I feel that they are further away from the goal of high level championship competition coming off of this elimination.
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Then they were a year ago and I think if you look at the decision that they have to make contractually this off season, they are more likely to be further away then after the off season than they are even right now.
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A year ago they had Joe Mosgrove this year they did not Joe will be back. That helps. I'm not telling you that JPC is is going to slide in and become this like three. No, before you, but but he can contribute.
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I've watched him take the baseball three years in a row every fucking day every five days. I've watched him take the ball. And if he doesn't have the pressure of being a one or two that's matching up with guys and we know that the rotation shakes up two weeks after the fucking you know first start of the season. I get that I get all that.
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But there's I think there's a pathway for the Padres that doesn't seem so far off where they can be competitive enough where they can be a consistent threat to the Dodgers over the next window. What I'll call the O'Connie window. But I mean they've they've got to make moves.
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I we can we can move on. I don't want to like the labor it. But they got to they're going to have to replace C. Smost likely they may have to replace Michael King. You Darvish is getting older. I to me. My guess is is that when we're having this conversation about the NL West in February or over the course of the off season that the consensus on this panel is going to be that the Padres of the fourth best team in that division and right next year and that they are nowhere near real actual competition.
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I'm curious to see what the Giants got going on. Yeah. I think the Giants are more motivated and have more well they I know they have more money to spend you would think so.
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Jackson Merrill showed up in the series. Yep Jackson Merrill showed up in the series. Well to doubt yeah. Yeah that that is to be highlighted. But I think when to J. Hayes point it is interesting to note that they've taken a step back from last year and by opening day.
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I'm not entirely sure they will be a better team on opening day than they are today. I agree with that point. However I think AJ Preller is one of the last remaining baseball executives.
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Gunslee. Yeah. Just doesn't look at you know what the machine spits out and like this is what we should do. He kind of just he might wake up one day and do some crazy shit. And then we're having a completely different conversation about the 2026 and the Padres.
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But but I feel like that is more of like a oh let's get excited about the Padres temporarily sort of situation as opposed to AJ Preller is going to fundamentally fix. Yeah no I agree with this. I agree. Yeah. Yeah I agree with that.
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Okay. We can talk about the reds and Dodgers quickly because that was again an exhibition. I don't know that there's much to say there. They have a moto and smell did what they needed to do.
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The Dodgers bullpen. I'll be honest out of all of that if what you take away. If you take anything away from that series. It's they better tighten that. The fuck up.
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They better tighten that up because the Dodgers bullpen. They only played two games voice. I don't know if you know this. They only played two games. So they didn't need them a ton.
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They didn't need them a ton. Really they only needed them for an a third inning. So the problem is they give up five earned runs in those four and a third inning seven walks seven punchouts.
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bullpen rocking a 10.3 after that wildcard. Yeah. Not ideal. But again if you get what you got from Yamamoto you get what you got from snow. You back that out or you zoom that out you get maybe a little something from Kershaw.
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Are you in the same spot offensively. Be a bit about it. No. Yeah I want to I want to.
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Yeah. Go ahead. Go ahead. No. I mean I think the bullpen I think there's something to that. I think the bullpen is probably going to be.
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They got away with it. The best the best part of the band. Yes. The best part that the Dodgers have the best thing that their open has going for them is the fact that they are as rested as you would like a group to be.
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Because you did not have to go out and perform like any of the others did you got a game off and you're you're able to sort of reset and I will say it again.
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What I saw from Rocky Sasaki. If Rocky Sasaki can become a factor and someone that we see multiple times and possibly in leverage scenarios and he takes out with him what he took out to the mountain last time.
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Hunter Maul in hour with that split that we saw. Good luck. Good luck. That is three to maybe six extremely important outs that look like they're going to be really tough.
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Really tough to get a bat on it if that looks anything like you did.
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I wanted to give a shout out to show Hey Otani. I know it's only two games but last post season his first post season. I know it started off electric. He hit the home run in his first was the first post season at bat first post season pitch study saw maybe remember.
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Yeah, his post season last year for the Dodgers world series run he hit 230 with a 767 OPS started off this post season run with two homers again. I know it's just the reds. It is what it is.
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But this is a post season. Fucking it's just the reds. They're a post season team. This is the post season. We don't we don't we're not just downplaying. No, I will do that. No, come on. What? Why? What what would you want him to do? Not hit the home.
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No, no, no, I'm not going down play. Otani's achievement. Oh, well, I was just going to say that I mean one of my takeaways was that the reds are a 500 baseball. Yeah, it's the reds. They were functionally a 500 baseball team and they look like it and they got their asses kicked by a team that was probably under achieved to win 93.
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This is what we were supposed to say when we knew that the widening of the playoff field was going to occur. This is how we're supposed to look at that. We were all over this. It's not that good. No, it's not worth it.
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But in my opinion, it's not even worth a conversation. It's a what did you expect? Yeah. Everybody every algorithm every anything would spit this out of the computer a thousand times. Yeah, moving on. I don't. I just have one. I actually have one takeaway. Okay. Just just one thing to move forward with the Dodgers.
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Moody bets. I think the fact that he for us. Yeah, four hits in the second six sixty seven in the series. So that's now basically a 900 OPS over his last 50 games.
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We're going back to the regular season. Obviously. So that to me is something to take forward. And if he's six if we're just back kind of like MVP Moody, but like last season's version of Moody, then six for nine, three doubles.
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What it is. How about the Dodger offense in in totality?
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Three seventy three is a group 12 extra bass hits five homers 18 runs in two games. Yeah. But again, what did you expect?
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Like I don't know. And they delivered. But yeah, it's a it's a J Hay's point about Moody. It probably took him all of those seven months to even make up half the weight that he lost just in March. Yeah.
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And all while I don't think people gave him enough credit for how well of a shortstop he played this fucking year. Like that was something that was all like I felt was always just going under appreciated and almost like you just expected it.
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Like well, okay. So he's a shortstop now. So what that's what they're asking him to do like platinum.
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You know, he's like a five-win player this year, yeah, that's not an easy to lead to to junior. He went from right field platinum. Glover to shortstop.
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And was one of the best short stops in baseball from a defensive perspective. And I understand it wasn't the best offensive season of his career as probably is worse.
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but to still end up with five wins above replacement
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and to now be back to being a top of the batting order
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threat from an offensive perspective,
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that's a complete game changer.
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Like if Mookie is rolling into the postseason for the Dodgers
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and he's hitting 240 with like a 7-something OPS,
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it changes the entire dynamic of the Dodgers lineup.
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Like last year it was like, you got fucking Freddie,
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whatever combination you want of Mookie, Freddie, Show Hey,
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and that, I mean, you're just rolling out three MVP's bang, bang, bang.
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But if, and I don't think that Mookie has to play like an MVP,
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he just has to play like Mookie.
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I know that that doesn't make sense, but I understand it.
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If he's just Mookie bets, then he is a guy that changes
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the entire dynamic of that lineup and it goes from a,
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oh, the Dodgers, they, they underperformed this year
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and they had to play in the wildcard round.
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Cool. Like they were there.
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Yeah. Like physically they were there.
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But like, did they have to fight for their lives?
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No. Like it was every bit of just a warm up scrimmage for them.
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Yeah. And, and, and you know,
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who else is like turned, we're not turning it on,
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but is just showing up is playoff Kike.
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Yeah.
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Little poppy.
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Playoff Kike shows up.
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Things get, things get even crazier.
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Hey Oscar, who hasn't, you know, like he didn't have the best year either,
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but, you know, he goes out and smacks a couple of homers
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with the Dodgers in this series just to stay in shape.
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Well, it's just again, the three headed, like, it's stupid.
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It's stupid.
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Freddie, Motani, Mookie, and, and you have so many other guys
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that you have to concern yourself with.
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And let's, let's not forget they're doing this without Will Smith.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Freddie was kind of a non factor in the series too.
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Hmm.
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Freddie, they still kick the shit out.
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Yeah.
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Muncie, I think I've got hit.
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Yeah. Well, the Dodgers, I think, had 11 guys,
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uh, take it back.
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10 of them had hits.
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Yeah.
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Well, now the Reds have plenty of time to go home and put on their chubbies.
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Oh, right.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I did get a lot of chirps from Yankee.
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I mean, some horrible things were said, but some of the more playful ones were,
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you know, enjoy Cancun.
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That sounds awesome right now.
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Like that does not sound like an insult to me.
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Like I would love to be in Cancun right now.
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Yeah.
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The weather's turned up.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Like enjoy Cancun.
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It's like, you know what?
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I think I will.
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Good idea.
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Yeah.
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I think I might hit up Cancun.
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Resort Rex.
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Yeah.
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And on what on my legs.
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I swear to God.
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You're like, you're like, I've never, I've never gotten compliments while wearing shorts.
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Actually, that's not true.
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Yeah.
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There was that one time where they were like, damn, nice legs.
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Nice legs.
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I will always remember that.
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I remember like it was yesterday.
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Yep.
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Yeah.
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It meant a lot.
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It meant a lot in the moment.
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It's only with the court more memory.
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Yeah.
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I do remember that.
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That happened quite a bit.
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I'll have to go pull those up.
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It's been a while.
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I don't know if there's still out there with the, you know, Elon.
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Yeah.
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Elon took those down.
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He might have.
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Yeah.
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That was charged content.
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Yeah.
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So I think we feel like, I mean, for the most part, all the right teams have moved on.
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Is that fair to say?
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No.
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No.
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You don't think that way?
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No.
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I guess we got one series left, right?
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Yeah.
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Well, before we move on to that, I do want to say, I feel like, I feel like this is the
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first time in a long time that in the national league or any league, rather, the two division
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series matchups would make awesome LCS matchups.
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Like, you're getting Cubs brewers, which would make an awesome seven game series and you're
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getting Philly's Dodgers, which would make an awesome seven game series.
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Yep.
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I'm very excited for the national league side of the division series bracket.
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Yeah.
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Philly's Dodgers is, I am stoked that, that honestly, that is probably my, yeah, that's
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probably my favorite series, my series to watch.
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Well, I think when you go back to the post season last year and you had Dave Roberts say
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that was the world series was the division series against San Diego.
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I mean, if you took this combination and you went Dodgers Cubs Philly's brewer, like,
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it doesn't hit the same.
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Like, these matchups in particular, it's not just the teams, it's the matchups.
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Uh, you're looking at potentially two kind of like world series type series.
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Like, I'm very excited for both of those.
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Um, yeah, action starts on Saturday and for anyone that's asking, we will be doing remote
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streams.
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So kind of like just the nuts.
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Um, yeah, we'll be doing kind of like adjust the nuts.
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I doubt Steve and Tyler will want in, but I bet you coley will want some action on, uh,
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the post season streams.
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So are you ready to, uh, to rock some jovies Dallas?
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Oh, I, yeah, I got a full, full taste of jovies.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I'm ready.
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Yeah.
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Uh, okay.
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So we can, I guess that's it, right?
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That's it.
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All right.
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Yeah, that's it.
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Oh, hold on.
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We got one more series.
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Yeah.
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Just wanted to get to one more if we could just one.
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But it does look like the Yankees are going to be moving on late.
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It's a, it's a, no, I know.
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And I do need to get going.
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But I feel like we should have long drives actually a school night.
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I don't know what an inside voice means.
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So yeah, the girls probably trying to sleep just a quick recap.
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Would you want to touch on real quick, Jay?
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Where'd you want to start with that?
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Probably just wrap it.
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It's really going to start.
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Slitter was a great start.
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We'll get to that though.
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That was the final game.
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You can just wrap it.
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Yeah.
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I mean, I, I, that's where my interest lies, though.
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Last game.
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Slitter.
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Yeah.
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I mean, that was, that was one of the great performances that we have ever seen.
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You know, I mean, ever seen in the postseason.
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It's certainly one of the great performances that we've ever seen.
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When you add like his lack of experience, his age, his rookie status, all of that sort
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of stuff, it's one of the greatest postseason starts statistically in Yankees franchise history.
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I know that sounds outlandish.
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But it is, you know, by, I'll do nugs later.
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But by game score, it's the fourth best start by Yankees pitcher since 1960 behind two
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in the postseason behind two by Roger Clemens and one by Whitey Ford.
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It was, and visually, like I looked it up, I'm sure you did two on some level.
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But the number of swing and misses that he got on the poor seemer and sinker combined
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were the most by any pitcher, his age or younger since Hunter Green last season.
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So, 20.
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It was pretty awesome.
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You know, not awesome in the sense that like it was what I was rooting for because of course
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it was not.
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And everybody in the room was rooting for the opposite outcome.
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But just in terms of visual, you know, dominance and it never really felt like the Red Sox
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got much going or had much of a chance against what he was doing tonight.
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It was 16 swing and misses between the four seemer and the two seemer.
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18 total swing and misses between the four seem two seem and the cutter.
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22 for 29 first pitch strikes.
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He threw 50 fastballs, 54 seemers, 35 for strikes.
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He threw 25 two seemers, 22 of them for strikes.
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He threw 11 curveballs, seven of those for strikes.
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And just over half of the cutters he threw were for strikes.
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21 total, 11 for strikes.
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He was absolutely dominant.
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The only pitch he didn't have a punch out on was the curve ball.
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11 punchouts between the four seem and the two seem one on the cutter.
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And a lot of the questions which I appreciate from the chat tonight.
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And all series have been about some of the guys that we've had on slab lab.
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What separates them you go back and you watch those each and every one of those guys also talks
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about trying to expand the variance on their fastballs.
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They start with multiple fastballs.
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They all talk about having command of multiple fastballs and what that does.
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And you just watched a rookie for the Yankees go out and deliver one of the best performances
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in postseason history that the franchise or the fucking game has ever seen.
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A lot of the heavy lifting done on three different fastballs.
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Yeah.
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And you know, I'm not trying to make this painful for Jared or where or Jeremy or Jake listening.
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But and obviously this intersection, if you want the red socks kind of post mortem.
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But for the Yankees like this does change how I feel about their future.
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Yeah, future.
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Yes, but like world I'm thinking more world series equity right now.
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Like because if they have a front three that's max freed Rodan and Schlippler.
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And and he's obviously we're probably not going to see a start like this.
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But this is even in the realm of possibility.
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That does make me feel different.
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It doesn't mean I'm changing them to the favor to win the world series.
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That was a difference making development last night.
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And I'm sure there are Yankee fans who are listening.
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Power went out.
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We'll say.
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That's not the power.
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That's just the lights kind of how they went out a while ago on the socks.
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Yep.
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So um,
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wait, little revival.
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Oh, that's good.
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Little revival.
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J. Hey, 20 and a third innings from the Tigers starting staff.
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Wait, what are we doing Tiger stuff now?
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Or Yankee, sorry.
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Sorry.
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Or because I look down.
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I saw it.
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I just see.
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And the lighting.
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The lighting has changed you on me.
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Yeah.
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That's a 1.33 ERA 13 hits 24 punchouts for the Yankees starting staff.
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Just six walks allowed.
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They're bullpen.
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Yeah.
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Six and two thirds three year runs.
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But I, I believe exactly what you believe.
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That's why I said what I said about the starting matchup today between Connolly early.
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And Mr. Slittle was this is where young legends are born.
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This is where you can start to you start to put your name on that national radar early on.
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Like who is this dude about?
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What is this dude about?
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Like a thing about like Waka early on in the postseason when he first showed up, right?
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Yep.
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And you're like, oh, my goodness.
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Okay.
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This is going to be a problem.
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Right.
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And I know time has passed and velocity standards are different.
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But Waka wasn't throwing a fucking 100 miles an hour.
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No, no, no, no.
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This is very like, and it's a hundred.
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Like put it like this over his last pitches, like pitches 106 through 120,
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98 miles an hour.
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That's just two clicks down from the 100.
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He was sustaining for virtually the entire game.
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Yeah.
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I mean, it honestly felt like if it wouldn't have been like a bad PR move to send him out
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for the ninth inning that there was nothing about his performance.
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That was telling you it's time.
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You know, visually to me watching the game that said it was time to go or the data that you're
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sharing.
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Yeah.
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It was it was.
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You see this quote from Schlytler.
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No.
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Cam Schlytler said beating the Red Sox was quote personal from for me after some hometown
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chirping.
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I'm not going to get into it, but there's a line.
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And I think they crossed it a little bit.
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I'm a competitor and I'm going to go out there and make sure I shut them down.
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You know Boston fans.
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That's just how it is.
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We're aggressive back home.
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And we're going to try to get under people's skin.
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They picked the wrong guy to do it to and the wrong team to do it to.
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It's he.
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Oh my.
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It sounds like.
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Oh my.
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I don't want to jump to conclusions, but it does seem like he may have used your tweets
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in the Red Sox season.
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How do you how do you I mean, let's just go hypothetical here.
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Let's say that that was bulletin board material.
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Got a band.
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Let's just say it was bulletin board material.
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It sounds like it's very hot.
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Personally responsible for the end of the Red Sox season.
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No, it started with the lights prematurely.
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No, the premature.
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Yeah, the pre the premature illumination from you.
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Yeah, led to zero offense and it very well could be dragging camp slitlers
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families fan hood through the mud.
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I said it as a general statement that led to this as well.
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hometown chirping hometown chirping.
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You know how we are from Boston a little loud, a little ignorant.
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And what was the rest of it?
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What did say?
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He said, I'm not going to get into it, but there's a line and I think they
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crossed it a little bit.
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I'm a competitor and I'm going to go out there and make sure I shut them down.
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You know, Boston fans, that's just how it is.
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We're aggressive back home and we're going to try to get under people's skin.
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They just picked the wrong guy to do it to and the wrong team to do it to.
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I'm not them bitches in quote.
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So like when you can't say Boston fans, though,
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and say we because he said he converted.
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We said we back home.
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Yeah, like, like, you know, because he is from we's from here.
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He's from Walpole.
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It's like, yeah, five hours away.
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I've heard some crazy stuff.
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Basically, Rhode Island going on at Walpole.
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Yeah, there's a present there.
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Well, Kim, Kim Schlittler just.
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Schlitt all over the socks, man.
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It's if we were to drive to Walpole right now, it would take 48 minutes
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and it's one o'clock in the morning.
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So it's about an hour away.
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It's an hour away.
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Well, he has put Walpole on the map.
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No, the jail did.
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When you say Walpole, people like, oh, the prison,
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like that's what it's known for.
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Are they talking about the mental prison that
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Kim Schlittler has put you guys in?
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Is that what they're talking about?
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I gave him his props.
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But oh, he took your props, wiped his ass with them,
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and then directly, directly returned fire and shoved
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many, many baseballs up your ass.
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He did.
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He did.
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But you know what?
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What?
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Shout out to Kim Schlittler.
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Oh, yeah.
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I always have a love for my fans.
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Yeah.
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I just ran one though, right?
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That's just around one.
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I mean, but I mean, how do you feel about the words?
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Because in my mind, like when I read those words,
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like you picked the wrong guy to do it to.
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He's got a great and the wrong team to do it to.
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I think he's got a mask on his head.
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I think Boone just called you out in this audio.
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I think he said.
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That's from here on out.
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And Jared Carabus.
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Fuck him.
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He would though.
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But I was for Buster just said, Jared, Aaron, what do you think about
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Jared Carabus?
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That's what you just asked him.
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He's just saying.
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Aaron was like, good guy.
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Good dude.
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He's had a lot of win opportunities.
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It's by time to actually do something in the postseason.
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He's had the parade.
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Now it's time to get mine.
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That's what he said.
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I think that is what he said.
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Yeah.
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AJ, he's got a lot of fun.
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Did you guys, did you guys blame?
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Did you guys put all of the blame on Roman Anthony on the section 10 podcast?
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No, no, no, no, no, just a small amount of the blame on room.
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We're blaming a guy for getting hurt.
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I think that what a serious aspirations were gone once that happened.
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But I mean, you're not blaming him for it.
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Yeah.
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They could have absolutely won this series without without Roman.
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But but you said to yourself, nowhere near equipped to go anymore than three.
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Like three game series, probably the extent of what you're keeping.
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Yeah, the thing that I've learned the most about social media in my career is that
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it's the tweets that you think are absolute throwaway tweets that are the ones that go
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nuclear viral and upset the internet.
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Like the, uh, what was the Pirates tweet that pissed off everyone this year that I literally
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were talking about, talking about bonuses Pirates No N De Bosses.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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That one, like it set the fucking city of Pittsburgh on fire.
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And I was like, I gave that maybe three seconds of thought tweeted and
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never thought about it again.
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Like this, this was kind of just like the red socks lost.
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And I was like, I got a tweet about something after the game.
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And I saw that clip and I was just like,
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have a take here.
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What's the take?
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Oh, uh, no family that's no, no, uh, 50 plus year old people that have lived in
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Boston their whole lives and love the socks are like, go Yankees.
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Like it's just, that's not a thing.
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You know what's still possible?
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Yeah, what that tweet initiates the
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greatest stretch of post using piss, pitching and baseball history.
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Because right now we only have one started.
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Well, he ain't done.
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So I think,
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why the foundation again, you go back to it and it's like,
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he only follows 76 people.
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So I'm assuming he did see the tweet.
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I tweeted it last night.
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But there's no question that that, that,
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that quote is referencing at least in part your tweet.
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I guess.
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I mean, it follows you now.
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No, no, no, no, he didn't follow me tonight.
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Like I just, yeah, yeah, yeah, he did.
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So there you go.
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Yeah.
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But you can go back, you could actually, you'd be able to go back and look at the followers
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and see when he followed you.
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It's got through mine.
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There's no fucking way.
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Like I, yeah, it's, it was definitely not tonight.
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Yeah, you can just search it through verified.
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Is he verified?
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I would assume.
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I don't think so.
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You got to pay for it.
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He's not.
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Yeah, there's no way he's.
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Follow me tonight and there's no way I'd be able to find that out.
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Yeah.
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Well, either way,
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tough way to end it for the Red Sucks,
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but you have next year to look forward to
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just like some of these other teams do.
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But we really look forward, really look forward to the division.
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Sure.
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Yeah, I'm looking forward to breaking down that series.
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I'm looking forward to watching them.
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I'm looking forward to calling them with you guys.
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I think the whole, the, the streams and person are great,
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but I think being able to just like hop in the closet,
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everyone's remote, everyone's comfy in their own setting
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and we're all just watching the same game together.
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It'll be a different vibe obviously because there's no one
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on our panel that has a team left in the dance anymore.
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No, no, no.
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So we can kind of just sit back, relax,
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and enjoy some really good postseason baseball.
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I'm looking forward to it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I guess so.
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Unless you have any other
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chirps that you want to get at me while it's still raw.
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Cause tomorrow I'm going to wake up and I'm,
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I'm going to be ready to move on to 2027 or whatever the fuck is next year.
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Oh, I just want to shout out, uh, shout out me
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for being, for being the bigger man here.
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I know Jared lost the Jersey bet and has not put himself in a position to pay up
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all the Jersey bet.
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That's fine.
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He wants to be a slow pay.
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We're not going to judge him.
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I don't want you guys to hold that against him.
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Final thoughts.
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Jay, hey, got his Jersey.
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Jared got his Jersey.
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So credit to me for being, I don't want to call me the bigger man.
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I'll call me the best man.
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Final thoughts.
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Dallas.
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Someone's got to set the tone.
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Final thoughts.
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And you're well paid up on his Jersey bet from last year.
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At the conclusion of last season, I want a Jersey bet.
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Took that one home.
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He finally paid up, brought me my don troll.
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Willis Jersey tonight.
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He tweeted me said, I have to sign that.
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Can't wait for him to sign it.
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Dallas beat me in a Jersey bet in mid September.
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It had no confidence.
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After speaking to Don Trell that Dallas was going to come correct with my Jersey
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for this trip.
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So I will immediately be paying up my Jersey bet.
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But I did have to hold that ransom until he paid up.
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Because again, it had been over 365 days since I won that bet.
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Yeah, there should almost be like interest.
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Details.
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Yeah, Jersey interest.
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Jersey juice.
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Yeah, I think it should be like a Jersey in a half.
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You want to box a ball?
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It's going to be box of balls too.
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Yeah, that'd be great.
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That'd be great.
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Okay, we'll, I don't know when we'll be back to break down the division series.
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Probably.
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It's going to have to be soon.
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Saturday morning.
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Saturday morning maybe.
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Well, Saturday starts the division series.
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Right?
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So what time would you want to be?
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I believe the first game is at two o'clock.
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We should probably think about putting something out tomorrow.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Well, what time do you get in?
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I land it like 10, 30, 11, something like that.
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All right, we'll figure it out.
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We'll, we'll try and put something together for Fridays
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that everyone has some division series breakdowns.
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Yeah, yeah, we need breakdowns predictions.
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Yeah, all that, all that jazz.
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All right, thank you guys for watching
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and listening.
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We'll see you on the next podcast
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of Preview the Division series
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and then live streaming all the games
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for the rest of the post season.
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Fuck.
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Preview.