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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Monday edition of Bear Territory, our

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Speaker 1: second post deadline edition. We want to welcome our new

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Speaker 1: friends watching on NBC Sports Philadelphia, NBC Sports Bay Area

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Speaker 1: in California. Now the dust has settled, the smoke has cleared.

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Speaker 1: There are no more trades. I've even dried out from

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Speaker 1: a weekend in Bristol, Tennessee. So we're just going to

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Speaker 1: talk about baseball this morning. We're going to talk about

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Speaker 1: the Pennant races, and we're going to get into it

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Speaker 1: the ALE East in particular, and then the entire National League.

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Speaker 1: The ALE East is rather interesting, to say the least.

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Speaker 1: Right now, the Blue Jays have finally slowed down a

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Speaker 1: little bit. They have lost six of eight since winning

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Speaker 1: I don't know nineteen of twenty three. They were on

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Speaker 1: an incredible role. They had a good deadline, added Sir

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Speaker 1: Anthony Dominguez and Louis Arland to the bullpen. Shane Bieber

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Speaker 1: potentially to the rotation. He will be back. He's on

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Speaker 1: a rehabilitation assignment right now, coming off Tommy Johnson. I'm

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Speaker 1: a little tempered in my expectations for him because we've

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Speaker 1: seen with Alcndra the difficulties a pitcher can have coming

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Speaker 1: off Tommy john with inconsistency. But Bieber has been very

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Speaker 1: good on his rehab assignment, so all good there. The

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Speaker 1: Blue Jays still are in command in this division. The

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Speaker 1: Red Sox, though, are coming fast. They just swept Carlos

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Speaker 1: Correa and the Astros at Fenway Park. They're seven to

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Speaker 1: one in their last eight home series. They've been really good,

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Speaker 1: and they've done this with Giolito and Brian Bao kind

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Speaker 1: of coming into their own in the rotation, with Roman

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Speaker 1: Anthony emerging as a star, Trevor Story bouncing back, a

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Speaker 1: lot of good things happening. The team that I'm questioning

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Speaker 1: in this division, frankly is the New York Yankees. And

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Speaker 1: we've seen with the Yankees some really interesting things. To

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Speaker 1: say the least, I think their fans would have a

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Speaker 1: few other choice words for that besides interesting. They were

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Speaker 1: just swept by the Marlins in Miami. Swept by the

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Speaker 1: Marlins coming off their deadline high in which most observers,

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Speaker 1: including myself, thought their deadline was really good. Well, you

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Speaker 1: get swept by the Marlins, things aren't so great. And

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Speaker 1: listen to what Derek Jeter had to say on the

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Speaker 1: Fox broadcast Saturday, and he talked about the Yankees. His

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Speaker 1: former team Alex Rodriguez talked about the Yankees. What they

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Speaker 1: said was largely what I wrote about I don't know

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Speaker 1: two weeks ago, relative to the Yankees and the lack

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Speaker 1: of accountability regarding their sloppy play. Here's Jeter, listen up.

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Speaker 2: They make way too many mistakes, way too many mistakes,

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Speaker 2: and you can't get away making that number of mistakes

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Speaker 2: against great teams. It just doesn't happen. You can't continue

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Speaker 2: to do it. You have to clean it up. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's that simple. There's no excuses. You have to play better.

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Speaker 2: If you don't play better, you're not going to go

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Speaker 2: very far.

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Speaker 1: Now, the Yankees, if you go to Fangrafts this morning,

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Speaker 1: still have an eighty eight percent chance of making the

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Speaker 1: play eight percent. So they're looking pretty good. But they

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Speaker 1: might not have one of the home field advantage playoff spots,

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Speaker 1: the home field advantage playoffs spot the top seed. They're

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Speaker 1: looking at the fifth seed right now, and maybe the

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Speaker 1: sixth the way the Red Sox are coming. So, yes,

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Speaker 1: the Yankees still look good for the playoffs, but I'm

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Speaker 1: not even so sure that is secure. The way they're playing.

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Speaker 1: I want to show you the wildcard standings now in

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Speaker 1: the American League, because they're getting rather I don't know

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Speaker 1: tight to say the least. In the wildcard standings, you've

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Speaker 1: got the Red Sox with a two game lead, the

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Speaker 1: Yankees with just a half game lead over the Mariners

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Speaker 1: the Yankees. Now, I know when Fangress does their playoff

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Speaker 1: odds and calculations, it's based on strength of schedule, strength

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Speaker 1: of roster, how a team is playing. It's all formula.

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Speaker 1: But if you're watching the games, if you're watching the

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Speaker 1: way the Yankees are playing, I don't know that you're

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Speaker 1: thinking two and a half game lead over the Texas Rangers,

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Speaker 1: who are starting to play better, who acquired Merrill Kelly

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Speaker 1: at the deadline, strengthening their great strength, their starting pitching

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Speaker 1: and their rotation and bullpen overall, And then you wonder

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Speaker 1: is what happens. And the Yankees, like most teams, did

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Speaker 1: not add a starter at the deadline. So could they

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Speaker 1: be the odd team out come October? In the American League?

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Speaker 1: I believe they can be, and they need to start

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Speaker 1: playing better and they need to start doing it quickly. Now,

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Speaker 1: the National League is a much different situation than the

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Speaker 1: American Let's get this straight. In the National League, you

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Speaker 1: have races that are essentially decided. In the American League,

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Speaker 1: we still have some question in the AL East, some

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Speaker 1: question in the AL West. Right the Astros lead the

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Speaker 1: Mariners by I think two and a half games. The

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Speaker 1: some things going on there. In the National League, we

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Speaker 1: races decided. And that is what's so interesting in the

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Speaker 1: NL right now. The drama in the NL, as I said,

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Speaker 1: is in the divisions. The Mets just a half game

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Speaker 1: and the Padres now just three games behind the Dodgers,

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Speaker 1: and the Padres, of course, have loaded up in a

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Speaker 1: big way. The Dodgers didn't do much at the deadline,

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Speaker 1: but they've injured players coming back, injured players who are

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Speaker 1: back kind of trying to find their form, Struggling players

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Speaker 1: like Freddie Freeman coming into their own a little bit again.

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Speaker 1: Monkey bets were still waiting for him to ignite. So

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Speaker 1: these races are going to be fascinating down the stretch,

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Speaker 1: and it all revolves around seating and home field advantage

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Speaker 1: sure how it's going to play out, but it's going

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Speaker 1: to be really interesting. The only possible wild card scenario

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Speaker 1: you have is the Reds. The Reds are four games

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Speaker 1: days and offensively they are still just way short. So

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Speaker 1: each race will have a life of its own. In

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Speaker 1: the NL East, the Padres, I'm sorry in the analyst,

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Speaker 1: the Phillies just adding Johan Durant closer. Finally, the Phillies

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Speaker 1: his first couple of games the impact Duran can have.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not just talking about his entrance music at

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Speaker 1: Citizens Bank Park. He is a bona fide, legit lid

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Speaker 1: inning weapon. He changes the Phillies. Phillies still have some

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Speaker 1: offensive questions, but they've added Harrison Bader that's going to

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Speaker 1: help them. The Mets still like the Mets. Some people

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Speaker 1: believe the Mets are a team still capable of going

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Speaker 1: fading a little bit now. Frankie Montas we saw that

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Speaker 1: they can bring up Nolan MacLean, Brandon Sproute, but their rotation,

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Speaker 1: in my view, is a little bit shaky. They fix

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Speaker 1: their bullpen at the deadline with Hellsley and company. They're

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Speaker 1: going to be good in the bullpen, no doubt about that.

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Speaker 1: Their offense has the capability of being really good. But

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Speaker 1: until the end. Same with the NL Central the Brewers.

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Speaker 1: Here's some astonishing things about the Brewers. Now, Okay, over

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Speaker 1: the weekend, they swept the Nationals thirty eight runs in

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Speaker 1: the three games. It's almost thirteen runs per game. Right now.

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Speaker 1: The Brewers, the Milwaukee Brewers, the team that is light

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Speaker 1: their Brewers' way, contact and all the different things that

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Speaker 1: They didn't add a starter at the deadline. We're going

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Speaker 1: to be questioning their rotation until the end. Two and

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Speaker 1: then there is the NL West, in which the Padres

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Speaker 1: have added and added and added. We've seen them address

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Speaker 1: numerous holes their offense. Loriano and O'Hearn coming over from Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: Cortez Junior. They are looking like a team now that

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Speaker 1: has solved almost all of their problems Freddy for meen

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Speaker 1: that is pretty complete right now, a team with a

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Speaker 1: We're gonna see how it plays out, and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: see if the Dodgers can finally turn it on, because

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Speaker 1: It always happens that way. When the pitchers are used

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Speaker 1: the division races in the NL, they're going to be

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Speaker 1: down the stretch. We'll be right back with the Inside Dish.

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Speaker 1: I'll be talking about the trade deadline and covering it

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Speaker 1: Tip it out for the inside dish. The part of

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Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about covering the trade deadline. A

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Speaker 1: lot of people are always curious about this, what it's like,

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Speaker 1: So I'll try to explain as best I can. This

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Speaker 1: trade deadline was somewhat unusual. We saw fifty trades five

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Speaker 1: that's a lot, especially since many executives were predicting about

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Speaker 1: a dud. Fifty trades in thirty one hours. Now. What

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Speaker 1: I'm looking into so much I'm writing. I'm not just

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Speaker 1: All right, let's take one more question before we go.

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Speaker 1: This one comes from d Train riot Maker. I still

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Speaker 1: But he has had a good year as long as

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Speaker 1: that's the concern there. If Shelby Miller comes back, all good,

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Speaker 1: But we'll see if he comes back and what he

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Speaker 1: thank you everyone for watching and listening. A lot of

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