WEBVTT - RTR's 2026 ALCS Preview 0:00:12.860 --> 0:00:17.420 It's time to raise the roof for our latest postseason episode, 0:00:17.500 --> 0:00:23.890 and this episode is our 2026 ALCS preview, the second 0:00:24.090 --> 0:00:27.090 ever ALCS preview here on Raise the Roof. It's been 0:00:27.190 --> 0:00:32.150 six years. First off, welcome to the pod, everyone. I'm 0:00:32.190 --> 0:00:35.330 your host, Alex Murphy, with me as always, my co-host, Gibby, 0:00:35.630 --> 0:00:38.030 who will be there at game one tonight. I'm sure very, 0:00:38.070 --> 0:00:41.680 very excited about that. But Gibby, I mean, just How 0:00:41.740 --> 0:00:44.460 are you feeling? Like, what are the vibes like right now? 0:00:46.740 --> 0:00:47.420 I am just. 0:00:48.540 --> 0:00:51.150 It's like, it's not really even real yet because I 0:00:51.190 --> 0:00:54.930 feel like it's just been so fast. I mean, you really... 0:00:55.230 --> 0:00:56.910 We haven't been a part of the postseason in the 0:00:56.950 --> 0:01:02.030 last two seasons. So, like, getting used to how they 0:01:02.070 --> 0:01:06.110 just kind of tear through this postseason, like, you know, 0:01:06.690 --> 0:01:09.170 just game by game, series by series, I feel like 0:01:09.230 --> 0:01:12.420 it comes up way faster than then I remember it 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:16.400 just because I'm actually in it now. Uh, and it's like, 0:01:16.540 --> 0:01:19.610 Oh wow. We have to, you know, play in like 0:01:19.750 --> 0:01:21.990 four days. And then like, we still didn't know our 0:01:22.030 --> 0:01:26.569 opponent until Saturday night. Um, so it's really just one 0:01:26.610 --> 0:01:30.810 day of preparation when, you know, whoever's going to win 0:01:30.850 --> 0:01:32.990 that series knows they're going to play the race. So 0:01:33.130 --> 0:01:36.800 they're probably planning ahead, you know, not just concentrating on 0:01:36.810 --> 0:01:40.810 the game at hand, but yeah, it's, uh, it's going 0:01:40.830 --> 0:01:43.850 to be interesting seeing the trop, uh, not a lot 0:01:43.890 --> 0:01:47.870 of tickets left, but, uh, still some left if you're, uh, 0:01:48.850 --> 0:01:53.570 fixing to go. Um, there's still some of those cheaper, 0:01:53.590 --> 0:01:58.809 cheaper tickets. So, uh, yeah, I'm, I'm just, I'm ecstatic. Uh, 0:01:59.030 --> 0:02:04.510 these vibes are going to be immaculate. Um, Alex, are 0:02:04.530 --> 0:02:06.890 you going to be at some away games this series? 0:02:08.270 --> 0:02:10.850 To be determined, my initial plan was to be at 0:02:10.910 --> 0:02:15.260 Game 5 in Cleveland, if necessary, to be able to 0:02:15.300 --> 0:02:19.960 cover it. I'm hoping that I can. Again, the jury 0:02:20.060 --> 0:02:22.260 is out on that, but I know that we will have... 0:02:22.590 --> 0:02:25.669 plenty of, uh, raise the roof personnel that will be 0:02:25.790 --> 0:02:28.990 at games yourself included. Amita is going to be there. Um, 0:02:29.050 --> 0:02:32.390 plenty of people are going to be there for those games. So, um, 0:02:32.470 --> 0:02:34.959 the whole thing is just really, really fun, really, really exciting. 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:38.500 But yeah, the plan is to be at game five 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:42.579 in Cleveland. If everything works out, um, it might not 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:46.440 work out, but the plan right now is to be 0:02:46.580 --> 0:02:50.870 in Cleveland for it again, to be determined, but I'm 0:02:50.910 --> 0:02:54.590 just excited. Like Hey, get out to the Trop. Go 0:02:54.630 --> 0:02:57.389 get tickets. You guys saw how fun the ALDS was. 0:02:57.830 --> 0:03:00.669 I don't care if Yankees fans were there. Go support 0:03:00.710 --> 0:03:04.410 the Rays. Go get yourself some tickets. Go out to 0:03:04.430 --> 0:03:08.020 the Trop. Go support the boys. Especially if you're close 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:12.139 by and if it's not hindering yourself. It's two straight 0:03:12.139 --> 0:03:14.740 8 p.m. starts if memory serves me right today and 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.520 tomorrow for Game 1 and Game 2. This is the 0:03:17.580 --> 0:03:19.380 time to go. This is the time to go support 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:21.260 the boys at the Trop. This is the time to go. 0:03:22.020 --> 0:03:26.540 uh experience dropped over um gibby i don't know if 0:03:26.580 --> 0:03:28.760 you have the rally towel on you or what you 0:03:28.860 --> 0:03:32.419 just grab it's it's beer soaked i'm not touching it 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.100 oh it's a beer soaked rally towel not a good 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:38.140 i mean i guess yeah i had i had a 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:41.440 there was an unfortunate accident in my row that didn't 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.680 it wasn't even me i didn't spill the beer well 0:03:44.860 --> 0:03:47.460 uh so be it so. 0:03:47.340 --> 0:03:49.279 Yeah so that was game two of alds i got 0:03:50.590 --> 0:03:51.950 I had to use that. 0:03:52.490 --> 0:03:55.690 But apparently there's yellow ones now. There is, yes. I 0:03:55.750 --> 0:03:58.230 like the yellow way better, honestly. Yeah, I know. 0:03:58.250 --> 0:04:00.170 We had the light blue one for... And a lot 0:04:00.210 --> 0:04:02.490 of teams are doing the yellow rally towels because MLB 0:04:02.590 --> 0:04:06.400 banned white rally towels because apparently that somehow prevents a 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:11.600 pitcher from... That whole vibe is just really, really stupid. 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:12.339 In my head. But. 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.990 Um, I am, I, I love the L rally towels. 0:04:16.029 --> 0:04:18.490 I have the one from 2019, the one from 2021, 0:04:18.470 --> 0:04:20.990 the one from 2023, I'm going to be getting the 0:04:21.029 --> 0:04:23.290 one from the ALDS and I'll probably be finding a 0:04:23.290 --> 0:04:26.420 way to get one from the ALCS too. Um, but yeah, the, 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:29.320 the yellow rally towels are back. They have, they are 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:32.700 the most important part of this whole thing. Um, and 0:04:32.740 --> 0:04:34.220 I'm so glad that they're back. I think it's going 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.520 to be so much fun. Um, but we haven't even 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.110 talked about the raise opponent for the ALCS. That is, um, 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:43.820 The Cleveland Guardians, the number one and number two seeds 0:04:43.860 --> 0:04:50.020 in the AL, have made their way to the ALCS. 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:53.260 Not saying that they were the best two records, but 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:59.830 definitely the best two seeds made it. Rays-Guardians should be 0:05:00.210 --> 0:05:03.130 a very interesting series. Guardians won game five because Jose 0:05:03.190 --> 0:05:05.990 Ramirez hit a ball that was about two inches off 0:05:06.029 --> 0:05:09.470 the ground for a home run, golfed it in. Gavin 0:05:09.490 --> 0:05:12.470 Williams was an absolute stud. Cade Smith threw like a 0:05:12.510 --> 0:05:16.870 five-out save. Just insane stuff. So kind of crazy vibes 0:05:17.290 --> 0:05:21.650 going on there. But Rays, Guardians, did you have any 0:05:22.230 --> 0:05:24.430 expectations of what teams were going to make it? And 0:05:24.470 --> 0:05:25.950 then when you found out it was the guards, what 0:05:26.270 --> 0:05:26.750 are your thoughts? 0:05:28.330 --> 0:05:32.980 I mean, when you just look at the playoffs, once 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:35.900 you get that they had the first round by and 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:43.300 they play either Chicago or... Who was the other team 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:43.919 they were playing? 0:05:45.460 --> 0:05:49.849 It was just Chicago because they had the number two seed, 0:05:49.870 --> 0:05:51.330 so they had to buy. So it would have been 0:05:51.350 --> 0:05:57.729 between Chicago and... No. Texas? Chicago and Texas? 0:05:58.150 --> 0:05:59.010 I think it was, yeah. 0:05:59.390 --> 0:06:02.240 Yeah, because the Yankees played the Red Sox. Yeah, so 0:06:02.270 --> 0:06:03.460 Chicago and Texas were the. 0:06:04.100 --> 0:06:05.240 Yeah, so I felt like. 0:06:06.580 --> 0:06:08.169 Sorry, Houston. 0:06:08.390 --> 0:06:09.030 I feel like. 0:06:11.850 --> 0:06:13.169 The White Sox were going to be the team to 0:06:13.210 --> 0:06:16.970 come out of there. And, I mean, you just think, 0:06:17.970 --> 0:06:22.500 you know, they've had a pretty okay record against the 0:06:22.540 --> 0:06:26.260 Guardians all year. They definitely had a chance in that series, 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:31.940 being up 2-0. Great on the Guardians coming back. I mean, 0:06:31.980 --> 0:06:36.020 winning two games... at the White Sox and then winning 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:41.480 game five. J-Ram looks amazing. He was struggling at the 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:44.720 beginning of this year, really turned it around in the 0:06:44.779 --> 0:06:47.810 second half, and now he's just on fire for the playoffs. 0:06:47.850 --> 0:06:50.990 So he's going to be, you know, the biggest offensive 0:06:51.029 --> 0:06:54.029 threat there. But, I mean, they got guys. I mean, 0:06:54.050 --> 0:06:59.610 they got Joe Adele at the deadline. They have a 0:06:59.670 --> 0:07:03.210 pretty competent, you know, batting lineup they got guys like 0:07:03.250 --> 0:07:07.060 steven kwan who are basically is basically like chandler simpson 0:07:07.100 --> 0:07:10.980 like but slow um and can hit home runs um 0:07:13.490 --> 0:07:16.830 so i mean this lineup is pretty the lineup's pretty 0:07:16.870 --> 0:07:19.630 stacked and then the pitching is just stellar i mean 0:07:19.650 --> 0:07:23.470 you saw it in game five i mean they just 0:07:23.530 --> 0:07:26.640 kind of carried their team zero runs over nine innings 0:07:27.250 --> 0:07:30.590 Every time we play the Guardians, it's like this. It's 0:07:30.610 --> 0:07:32.350 going to be just a pitching match. It's going to 0:07:32.370 --> 0:07:36.350 be low scoring. Probably very similar to the Yankees series, 0:07:36.490 --> 0:07:39.920 but just not as much power in that lineup. So 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:43.800 it's going to be pretty scrappy baseball on both sides. 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:48.220 Just fouling off whatever pitch we can get. 0:07:51.420 --> 0:07:56.300 Extending the pitch count of the pitcher. Uh, and just 0:07:56.380 --> 0:07:58.160 trying getting ground balls. 0:07:58.220 --> 0:08:01.860 I mean, ground balls are going to be the biggest, uh, every, 0:08:01.940 --> 0:08:03.840 every team that's going to be playing from the trot 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:05.700 and the trot here on out is just going to 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:09.760 be trying to hit as much as possible. Um, and 0:08:09.780 --> 0:08:12.520 that includes ground balls. Cause for some reason, ground balls 0:08:12.740 --> 0:08:14.940 are really easy at the trap. I think it might 0:08:14.980 --> 0:08:19.110 be the, uh, artificial surface that they use. Uh, but 0:08:19.250 --> 0:08:24.960 there's like a, there's like a known percentage, um, higher 0:08:25.340 --> 0:08:29.320 that ground balls get through at the trap. So expect 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:34.380 hits like that, you know, and then guys like J-Ram 0:08:35.020 --> 0:08:37.000 or Junior Caminero. 0:08:36.510 --> 0:08:38.750 Or Jonathan Aranda or Yandy Diaz to. 0:08:40.510 --> 0:08:45.790 Be like the kind of power in both of these lineups. Yeah, 0:08:45.990 --> 0:08:49.800 it'll be fun and it'll be rocking. I'm glad that 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:54.540 we get some nicer fans. I think the Ohio fans 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:56.480 that are down here in Florida, they're all very nice. 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:00.190 I can't speak for the people at Cleveland Stadium. 0:09:00.610 --> 0:09:05.750 I've been there a few times at Progressive Field. It's 0:09:05.790 --> 0:09:06.210 not bad. 0:09:06.230 --> 0:09:08.510 The fan environment is very good. 0:09:08.550 --> 0:09:13.410 They're not very rude. So, shouts out to them. 0:09:14.510 --> 0:09:18.840 I'm glad there's less animosity in the stands this game, hopefully. 0:09:18.860 --> 0:09:24.229 But, yeah. It's going to be a good series. I mean, 0:09:24.290 --> 0:09:25.350 this is going to be. 0:09:27.250 --> 0:09:34.569 The kind of... This is like the baseball that everyone 0:09:34.610 --> 0:09:39.130 wants to play. This is like the model everyone's moving towards. 0:09:39.170 --> 0:09:44.270 Just like the intense pinching matchups and then getting some 0:09:44.340 --> 0:09:45.380 wishful hitting. 0:09:45.429 --> 0:09:46.270 Both these lineups. 0:09:46.770 --> 0:09:48.560 Fundamental baseball in every aspect. 0:09:48.580 --> 0:09:50.640 Fundamental baseball in every sense of the word. 0:09:51.210 --> 0:09:53.469 I was going to say, funny enough, I just saw 0:09:53.510 --> 0:09:56.650 our guys over at Just Baseball, which if you guys 0:09:56.670 --> 0:09:58.770 haven't checked out anyone else in the Just Baseball family, 0:09:58.809 --> 0:10:02.640 do it. I mean, we're part of it. We're here 0:10:02.660 --> 0:10:04.700 to further the message. They're doing a lot of great stuff. 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:06.679 I know they're going to be around here, there, and 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:10.900 everywhere for the ALCS and the NLCS. Also, shout out 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.660 to Jack McMullen, one of the co-founders. He's now going 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:16.809 to be the new TV voice of the Marlins in 2027, 0:10:16.809 --> 0:10:18.930 so big ups to Jack for that. It's pretty cool, 0:10:19.309 --> 0:10:21.840 but they were just talking on the pod today and they, 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:24.360 I guess this is a clip from there. Um, the, 0:10:24.540 --> 0:10:28.400 the title, I guess the, um, the caption on Twitter 0:10:28.460 --> 0:10:32.069 is raised versus guardians is the perfect matchup for fans 0:10:32.090 --> 0:10:34.890 who truly enjoy every single aspect of baseball, which is 0:10:34.950 --> 0:10:37.530 exactly what we were talking about here. I mean, you know, 0:10:37.730 --> 0:10:41.620 contact hitting, uh, power hitting when needed hitting to the gaps, uh, 0:10:41.690 --> 0:10:46.640 situational hitting, um, bunting base running, uh, you know, stolen bases, 0:10:46.700 --> 0:10:50.990 great defense, uh, um, great pitching, great relieving, you know, 0:10:51.030 --> 0:10:53.860 starting pitching, relief, pitching, all that stuff. Like both of 0:10:53.890 --> 0:10:57.760 these teams do it so well. And I think that 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.020 on its own, that on the surface is going to 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.420 make for a great matchup. And I mean, it starts 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:04.620 out in game one, we have Foster Griffin going for 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:08.100 the guardians, a guy who was in, uh, I believe 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:12.840 it was Japan, either Japan or Korea. Um, uh, the 0:11:12.900 --> 0:11:15.410 two previous years to this point, and then became an 0:11:15.550 --> 0:11:17.480 all-star in his one season with the Nats, and then 0:11:17.500 --> 0:11:19.840 he got traded to the Guardians at the deadline. I mean, 0:11:19.860 --> 0:11:21.900 this is a guy who was an absolute stud. Yeah, 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.960 he was in Japan 23, 24, 25, and then got 0:11:25.059 --> 0:11:28.440 signed basically on a one-year waiver contract for the Nats 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:32.300 in 26. Hasn't quite had the same success with Cleveland 0:11:32.340 --> 0:11:33.700 as he did with the Nats, because he had like 0:11:33.740 --> 0:11:36.760 a 306 ERA on a team that kind of faltered 0:11:36.980 --> 0:11:39.420 past the deadline. Had a 141 ERA +, 12-3 record. 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:46.860 I mean, he 107 whip Like, just an absolute dog. 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:51.350 And then, for the Rays, who else would it be 0:11:51.970 --> 0:11:55.790 but Drew Rasmussen after what he did in Game 1? 0:11:55.790 --> 0:11:57.410 I mean, the. 0:11:57.330 --> 0:12:00.790 Performance speaks for itself. Gibby, you were able to witness 0:12:01.170 --> 0:12:02.300 the magic of it. 0:12:03.770 --> 0:12:07.260 Yeah, it gave me flashbacks to when we first got him, 0:12:07.340 --> 0:12:11.640 and he had that 2020... 2021. 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:15.230 The perfect game, the almost perfect game bid. 0:12:15.710 --> 0:12:17.850 I mean, that was the vibe I was feeling the 0:12:17.890 --> 0:12:22.309 whole time. And I mean, I, I've just never seen 0:12:22.610 --> 0:12:29.270 so much stunned silence in my life. And it just, 0:12:30.030 --> 0:12:33.050 he really just, he put the team on his shoulders, 0:12:33.070 --> 0:12:35.329 that game. He really just put the team on his shoulders. 0:12:35.429 --> 0:12:38.939 And then, you know, Jonathan Aranda is able to, get 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.630 the home run. And that's, that's all she wrote for 0:12:41.670 --> 0:12:42.130 that game. 0:12:42.270 --> 0:12:42.830 And I mean, I. 0:12:45.010 --> 0:12:48.990 Don't, I don't really expect the same for this game. I, 0:12:49.230 --> 0:12:52.770 I truly believe the guardians are going to manage a 0:12:52.770 --> 0:12:55.790 hit because I don't think they're going to be, I 0:12:55.830 --> 0:12:59.200 think in that game one, they were just trying to 0:13:00.220 --> 0:13:02.480 shake Rasmussen by getting a lot of power hits off 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:04.960 of them, but they couldn't touch him after the fourth. 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:08.439 So they, they were just trying to scrap off any hit, but, 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.400 I think the Guardians, they're going to take much better 0:13:12.460 --> 0:13:12.920 at bats. 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:14.600 It's going to be a much more difficult game. 0:13:14.620 --> 0:13:16.280 I agree. 0:13:17.100 --> 0:13:26.030 This matchup with these guys. It's just... It's like playing 0:13:26.429 --> 0:13:28.010 the Rays. I mean, you're playing. 0:13:28.030 --> 0:13:30.809 Another version of yourself. 0:13:31.010 --> 0:13:36.550 You're playing another version of yourself. Yeah, you're playing... Like, just. 0:13:37.390 --> 0:13:39.429 you know, in the regular season, a little bit worse, 0:13:39.510 --> 0:13:41.960 but you know, all that is thrown out now. So 0:13:42.700 --> 0:13:48.700 it's just, it's, it's almost like, it's crazy how it's 0:13:48.740 --> 0:13:49.540 just the same team. 0:13:50.900 --> 0:13:51.220 It is. 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:54.800 It's like, like people, people are really underrating the fact 0:13:54.900 --> 0:13:57.900 that this is just, these are two of the same teams. 0:13:57.990 --> 0:13:59.610 It's just another version of the Rays. 0:13:59.630 --> 0:14:01.370 It's just another version of the Rays. 0:14:03.470 --> 0:14:06.970 So, yeah, I mean, But it is a really, really 0:14:07.010 --> 0:14:09.370 good matchup, and I think this series is going to 0:14:09.410 --> 0:14:11.230 be a fun series. I think it's going to be 0:14:11.250 --> 0:14:14.890 a competitive series. I'm excited to see what happens where 0:14:14.929 --> 0:14:15.710 and who does what. 0:14:16.309 --> 0:14:19.050 Dude, we get to see Nathaniel Lowe again. I forgot. 0:14:19.270 --> 0:14:25.370 There's actually a lot of really cool connections in this 0:14:25.410 --> 0:14:29.600 series because Stephen Vogt, who's the manager of the Guardians, 0:14:29.660 --> 0:14:32.160 he got his start in his career with the Rays. 0:14:33.030 --> 0:14:36.410 which is really cool. Of course, Kevin Cash. I think 0:14:36.470 --> 0:14:41.510 both of them were potential teammates at one point. If 0:14:41.610 --> 0:14:44.230 I'm remembering right, I know Kevin has a... Here, give 0:14:44.250 --> 0:14:47.010 me a second. Pretty sure he never played for Cleveland, 0:14:47.050 --> 0:14:52.070 my fault. But I'm sure he played against Vogt when 0:14:52.110 --> 0:14:57.390 he was with Boston in 08, because I know Vogt 0:14:57.430 --> 0:15:01.210 came up in 08, if memory serves me right, unless 0:15:01.250 --> 0:15:05.160 I'm missing something. No, 2012 he came up. I completely 0:15:05.180 --> 0:15:07.830 missed that. But I know that he, you know, started 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.230 out his career with the Rays. He was, I mean, 0:15:10.270 --> 0:15:12.630 he got drafted by the Rays in 07, so maybe 0:15:12.670 --> 0:15:17.370 they crossed paths when they were in spring training. And then, 0:15:17.690 --> 0:15:19.970 you know, now he's, of course, the manager of the Guardians. 0:15:20.010 --> 0:15:23.770 We already mentioned everything going on with Nate Lowe, you know, 0:15:23.870 --> 0:15:28.510 former Rays player, not for that long, former Rays prospect, 0:15:28.610 --> 0:15:32.360 brother of Josh Lowe. So really cool Rays connection there. 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:38.050 It's just, there's always, and then how could we forget 0:15:38.070 --> 0:15:44.150 the two best players on the raise, position player-wise, both 0:15:44.190 --> 0:15:46.770 came from Cleveland. You have Yandy Diaz, who got traded 0:15:46.830 --> 0:15:49.910 to Cleveland back in, what was it, 2018? And then, 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:55.960 of course, Junior Caminero gets traded for Tobias, yeah, Tobias, 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:57.780 I was thinking Tobias Harris. 0:15:57.940 --> 0:16:00.240 I got a funny story about that, actually, Alex. 0:16:00.740 --> 0:16:00.980 What? 0:16:01.950 --> 0:16:03.910 Oh, I hope it's not about Tobias Harris. 0:16:05.530 --> 0:16:12.090 So my girlfriend, she's from Ohio area. She's from Cleveland area, Canton. 0:16:13.390 --> 0:16:17.010 And her brother is just like, oh, we gotta play 0:16:17.030 --> 0:16:20.410 the Rays now. And they have both of our guys. 0:16:21.670 --> 0:16:25.760 The guys we should have. But yeah, I mean, that's 0:16:25.780 --> 0:16:28.300 just the story of a Cleveland Guardians fan. 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:29.970 I mean, you have all. 0:16:29.850 --> 0:16:33.400 Your pitching just scattered throughout, you know, the league, you know, 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:36.080 just like the Rays, you know, we might be seeing them, 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:41.739 you know, if we go to the next round, you know, 0:16:42.100 --> 0:16:42.600 fingers crossed. 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:46.020 I mean, we just need a couple of them. And 0:16:46.060 --> 0:16:48.780 then you have just hitters and guys everywhere. 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:52.820 I think the Cleveland Guardians to more of an extent, 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.580 because I think they have a really good scouting department. 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.030 That's the thing about them is that they have a 0:16:58.070 --> 0:17:01.430 really good scouting department, but I think they trade more 0:17:01.490 --> 0:17:02.930 guys away than the Rays do. 0:17:04.090 --> 0:17:05.889 I think, I mean, considering that they traded away. 0:17:05.910 --> 0:17:08.310 I think with the exception of J-Ram, because J-Ram just 0:17:08.730 --> 0:17:10.110 loves Cleveland so much. 0:17:10.270 --> 0:17:12.250 But I mean, they traded away a guy who was 0:17:12.290 --> 0:17:15.890 a top 10 MVP finisher, Silver Slugger, led the league in, 0:17:16.070 --> 0:17:18.390 you know, led the league in hitting, multiple time All-Star, 0:17:18.430 --> 0:17:20.780 and then a guy who's a potential MVP candidate in 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:22.820 the future, who's probably going to finish top two or 0:17:22.859 --> 0:17:27.600 top three in MVP this year. Yeah. Yeah, so Tobias 0:17:27.660 --> 0:17:30.740 Myers was the, like, I knew the pitcher, but I 0:17:30.780 --> 0:17:34.139 had Tobias Harris in my brain because he's terrorized me 0:17:34.180 --> 0:17:36.700 too much as a Sixers fan to where I'm like, 0:17:36.780 --> 0:17:40.119 I can't operate properly while thinking about this man. So, 0:17:41.740 --> 0:17:44.330 I mean, yeah, two trades that have kind of changed 0:17:44.390 --> 0:17:48.670 the trajectory of the Rays in a big way. And 0:17:48.990 --> 0:17:52.250 it's just those storylines are so cool. Like, you know, 0:17:52.350 --> 0:17:54.449 you kind of get those with the Yankees because it's like, 0:17:55.260 --> 0:17:57.119 division rival, things like that. But you don't get the 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.540 kind of personnel storylines because the Yankees have had the 0:17:59.580 --> 0:18:03.640 same seven people running their front office horribly since God 0:18:03.660 --> 0:18:09.370 knows how long at this point. It's fun that there's 0:18:09.410 --> 0:18:11.750 these cool connections that they raise because the Yankees is 0:18:11.770 --> 0:18:15.410 just the same five white dudes just running the damn operation. 0:18:15.430 --> 0:18:17.680 What do you mean Obama's not president anymore? 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:21.699 Whoa, whoa, whoa. 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:22.720 They're that old, dude. 0:18:23.340 --> 0:18:24.959 I mean, they are. I mean, I'm pretty sure that 0:18:24.980 --> 0:18:26.070 the Obama era. 0:18:26.350 --> 0:18:26.429 Yeah. 0:18:26.450 --> 0:18:29.150 I mean, literally the most, no, bro, before Obama era, like, 0:18:29.210 --> 0:18:29.950 like Bush era. 0:18:29.990 --> 0:18:31.550 They're put their end of Bush era. 0:18:31.650 --> 0:18:31.850 Yeah. 0:18:31.890 --> 0:18:32.190 Literally. 0:18:32.230 --> 0:18:35.409 That was the last time that the, the last time 0:18:35.430 --> 0:18:37.060 that they hired like a new person. Cause I think 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:38.260 that they showed like a graphic of it was 2007. 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:44.820 Holy shit. It's really bad. It's bad. That's like 19 years. 0:18:45.020 --> 0:18:47.280 I mean, Brian Cashman's been with the Yankees since 1980 something. 0:18:49.250 --> 0:18:50.350 Well, I mean, I knew that one. 0:18:50.609 --> 0:18:51.909 Yeah, but, like, the rest of them. 0:18:51.930 --> 0:18:53.470 So, like, get one fresh face in there. 0:18:53.990 --> 0:18:55.670 No, they haven't had it. I mean, all of those 0:18:55.730 --> 0:18:58.920 guys have been there for, like, at least 19 years, 0:18:58.980 --> 0:18:59.359 if not more. 0:18:59.380 --> 0:19:01.920 You know, I kind of appreciate that about the Raiders, 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:04.720 that we always get poached for, like, those kind of guys, and, like, 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:05.580 they go to other places. 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:09.520 But the longest two tenured people are Eric Neander and 0:19:09.570 --> 0:19:10.400 Kevin Cash. 0:19:10.660 --> 0:19:11.550 Yeah, exactly. 0:19:11.690 --> 0:19:15.450 And it just gives you that slight edge, you know, 0:19:15.670 --> 0:19:19.950 where it's, like, maybe, like, It gets replaced every once 0:19:20.010 --> 0:19:22.320 in a while, so you don't have a Jerry Jones 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:23.460 situation going on. 0:19:23.500 --> 0:19:26.179 I feel like that's what's going on. Jerry Jones, what 0:19:26.220 --> 0:19:30.160 a guy. It's not a Jerry Jones situation. No one 0:19:30.180 --> 0:19:32.020 wants a Jerry Jones situation. 0:19:32.180 --> 0:19:36.330 But I feel like Brian Cashman is doing Jerry Jones moves. 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:39.170 There's some Yankees fans right now that are really pissed 0:19:39.270 --> 0:19:41.010 off at Jerry Jones, if you know what I mean. 0:19:42.109 --> 0:19:42.490 Yeah, dude. 0:19:42.570 --> 0:19:45.570 It's like, how are they gonna lose to tampa tampa 0:19:45.730 --> 0:19:47.050 two days. 0:19:46.570 --> 0:19:48.949 I can't believe that they got they got bodied but 0:19:48.990 --> 0:19:50.109 i mean they didn't get bodied. 0:19:49.850 --> 0:19:51.690 Hey at least they could still watch the lakers this 0:19:51.730 --> 0:19:54.490 season and or yeah but the lakers don't have lebron 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:56.770 so i mean what are you gonna do oh true. 0:19:56.430 --> 0:19:58.440 You know yeah i mean they still got luca though. 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:03.700 The sixers might be the new uh bandwagon team Good. 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:03.980 Good. 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:06.699 I'll take any. I mean, honestly, not good because then 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:08.440 I won't be able to afford. It's not like I'm 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:09.639 going to go to. 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:12.460 I mean, the Rays are becoming kind of the bandwagon team. 0:20:12.700 --> 0:20:15.189 The Rays are America's team. 0:20:15.230 --> 0:20:18.210 We're America's team right now. They're going to save America. 0:20:18.310 --> 0:20:22.850 We're going to save America and baseball. Unless the Brewers 0:20:22.869 --> 0:20:23.470 do it first. 0:20:24.570 --> 0:20:25.170 Either or. 0:20:25.570 --> 0:20:26.190 Either or. 0:20:26.210 --> 0:20:29.270 I mean, not the Guardians, but either or. 0:20:29.530 --> 0:20:30.050 Either or. 0:20:31.330 --> 0:20:33.780 Yeah, but it's just a fun matchup. Everything about this 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:37.719 series is so fun. Guardians fans are, you know, have 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:42.100 been good fans. Just don't give them 10 cent beer. 0:20:42.859 --> 0:20:46.300 What? Just don't give them $ 2 beer. That's it. No. 0:20:46.580 --> 0:20:47.100 Don't do it. 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:47.880 That's a bad idea. 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:50.850 I've been to one of those nights. It's not good. 0:20:51.369 --> 0:20:53.649 That's a bad idea. But like, I mean, their fans 0:20:53.690 --> 0:20:55.669 are fun. The fan base is fun. Cleveland fans are 0:20:55.690 --> 0:20:58.899 just like, whack jobs because I think that they've been 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:02.550 so tortured perpetually by the Browns that, like, they just, like, 0:21:02.609 --> 0:21:06.090 resort to different ventures in order to, like, stay sane. 0:21:06.550 --> 0:21:07.929 And it is kind of funny, though, because, like, the 0:21:07.970 --> 0:21:10.850 Browns are legitimately, I guess, a little bit better this year. 0:21:10.869 --> 0:21:12.730 They're not bad this year. 0:21:12.750 --> 0:21:15.379 But they also have a horrible year being a quarterback. 0:21:15.660 --> 0:21:17.580 Yeah, I know. I had to watch that, by the way. 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:18.840 I watched that live. 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:20.760 Wait, you went to a Browns game? 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:22.920 I went to the Bucs-Browns game. 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:26.020 Oh yeah i do remember that yeah no the game 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:28.699 that's terrible now and i got like or i got 0:21:28.740 --> 0:21:32.859 delayed for like five hours and then i got restarted 0:21:32.960 --> 0:21:36.220 i love that love that but yeah i mean you 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:37.859