WEBVTT - Fair Territory: 1st place Pads, Astros lose Hader, Streaking Brewers 0:00:01.440 --> 0:00:04.360 Welcome everyone to the Thursday edition of Fair Territory. I'm 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:07.440 Ken Rosenthal here with Alana Rizzo, and before we get 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:09.559 into it, I want to thank our co host the 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:12.600 last week while I was off, Robert Murray and Tim Kirchin, 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:15.720 and most of all, I want to thank Olana because 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:19.000 in any business you want to work with true pros. 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:21.639 Alana is a true pro. I am grateful that she 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:25.440 is my partner here. Now we can get into things, 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:27.920 and we can get into Alana's former team, but we're 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:28.760 not going to start with. 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:30.880 Them, all right, Can you start with the Dodgers? 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:33.800 It was great, Yeah, it was. It was great to 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:37.320 be with Robert and Tim. But I'm so happy that 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:39.640 you are back and you're right. Let's get to the 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:41.680 lead and those mighty mighty Brewers. 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:42.360 What's going on. 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:45.760 It's impressive obviously what they're doing. 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:49.320 And let's go through the numbers first and just explain 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:52.960 where they are in terms of the division, the races. 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:56.880 All of that twelve game winning streak twenty seven of 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.800 thirty one, they've won twenty seven of thirty one. They 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:02.640 have the best record in baseball by six and a 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:05.280 half games, By six and a half games, they're on 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:07.920 a one hundred and three win pace, and you wonder 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:10.200 how the offense works. We're gonna show you two different 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:14.320 full screens here to explain just what they do. Runs 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:16.959 per game right now, they are tied for first in 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:18.039 the majors. 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:19.280 With the Dodgers. It's incredible. 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:24.240 Batting average, second on base second, slugging fourteenth. Why is 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:27.680 the slugging fourteenth, Well, let's look at the next graphic here, 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.920 and this explains it. Home runs per game, they're nineteenth. 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:31.160 In the majors. 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:35.360 But what do they do well everything else? Strikeout rate 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:37.440 twenty six, one of the best teams in the majors 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:40.920 in that regard outs on the basis, that's whatob is. 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:43.840 How many outs do they make on the bases twenty 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:48.320 six in the majors. Fifth, best extra base taking percentage, 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:52.040 that's the last category. Extra base taking percentage fourth in 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.960 the majors. So all of these little things that they 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:58.560 do so well, as Brian Reynolds of the Pirates said yesterday, 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:02.160 they just do every thing right. In addition, a lot 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:05.960 of they pitch great. They're third in the majors in era, 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:09.840 eighth in strikeout rate. They've got it all going and 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:13.520 it's really interesting to me that they're doing this in 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:18.320 a sport in which what's valued right now power velocity, 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:20.520 pitch velocity, exit velocity. 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:22.320 They don't necessarily have that. 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.240 They have it to a degree on the pitching staff, 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.240 but that is not the way they go about it, 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:31.160 and they're shaming the entire sport doing it their own way, 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:36.080 a fundamentally sound way, and you'll wonder why more teams 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:38.320 don't follow suit. And there's one more point I want 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:39.120 to make on the Brewers. 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:41.639 We talk about small market. 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:44.960 Teams, how they can't win, they can't sustain success. Brewers 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:47.040 make the playoffs this year, which they are bound to do. 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.120 It will be their seventh playoff appearance in eight years. 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:52.000 And you'll say, oh, Camp, but they haven't won a 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.760 World Series. That is not the measure. The measure is 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.799 getting to the playoffs and then hopefully in any case 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:00.799 but big market, small market, being lucky enough to put 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:04.680 it together, healthy enough to sustain three or four rounds. 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:06.600 That's how this sport works. 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:08.880 And they are doing it at a higher level than 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.120 any other club and. 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.000 Ken because of the way that they're doing it, they 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:15.600 may go in as a division winner and not have 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.360 to go in as a wildcard team, which they have 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:19.760 been exited. 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:20.800 Early the last couple of years. 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.480 How big would that be for them to go in 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:25.880 as a division winner, perhaps a host in the first 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.520 round and not have to go the wildcard route. 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:32.840 It's big for any team, Alana, and obviously it's something 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:34.520 all these teams strive for. And we're going to talk 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:37.080 about the Dodgers and Padres in a second. Right now, 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.240 the two teams with the buys in the National League 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:43.200 would be the Brewers and the Phillies. And of course 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:46.800 you skip around, you get a buye into the division series. 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:48.560 You're in great shape if you do that. 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:52.600 Otherwise you're subjected to what you just mentioned. What the 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:56.000 Brewers have dealt with the wildcard round, all the problems 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:59.200 that can ensue in a two of three. So they 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.480 have done this again at an extremely high level. And 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.360 I want to also mention the Blue Jays here before 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:06.440 we get into the Dodgers and Padres, because the Blue 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:09.560 Jays do a lot of similar things. They don't strike out, 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:13.000 lowest strikeout rate in the majors, high batting average, high 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:16.200 on base they slug a little bit more than the Brewers, 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:20.280 but they too, are a fairly fundamentally sound team, and 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:23.320 it is showing in the American League East what they've 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:26.440 done there. They've played at an extremely high level all 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:29.760 season long, much like their friends in Milwaukee. 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:31.479 Yeah, it looks like the NL West. 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:33.200 I thought it was going to be a two horse 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.680 race ken between the Brewers and the Cubs. Right now 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:38.279 it looks like the Brewers are pulling away, and it's 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:39.599 a much tighter race. 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:40.880 In the NL West. 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:44.600 The Padres have leapfrogged the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.919 are now in second place. The Padres are playing tremendously well, 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.719 and they will face off six times in the next 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:51.520 ten days. 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:54.960 They will Alana, And let's show you exactly how this 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:56.360 has transpired over the. 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.200 Last six weeks. It's actually been one day less. 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:02.040 Than six weeks in which this whole thing has turned. 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:06.320 July third n West standings, Dodgers fifty six and thirty two, 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:10.719 a nine game lead over the Padres. Today, it is 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.440 a ten game swing in a span of forty one days, 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:17.359 including the All Star break San Diego sixty nine and 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:19.960 fifty two. The Dodgers one game back at sixty eight 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:23.240 and fifty three. That's as rapid a turnaround as you 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:26.520 will see. And Alta, We've been talking about this all year. 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.360 The one thing that has bugged me about the Dodgers, 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:31.760 and I understand it because they're coming off a deep 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:35.280 run into the postseason, a World Series title, but there's 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:39.839 been an overall lack of urgency. They've slow played injuries, 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:45.599 they've kind of just drifted along without putting down the hammer. 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:49.200 Now again, you had injuries coming off of the World 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:52.360 Series title, Blake Tryan and Evan Phillips, others who were 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:57.520 worn down from that, and you have, naturally this kind 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:01.600 of letdown every team experiences. It's, let's face it, old 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:04.440 hat for the Dodgers to make the playoffs, but at 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.320 some point, at some point, they've got to turn it on. Now, 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:09.440 maybe it's as you mentioned, these six games in the 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.679 next ten days against San Diego, first at Dodger Stadium, 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:15.960 then at Petco Park. But you wonder if the Dodgers 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:18.520 will be able to do that. And you've got with 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:22.040 the Padres a team that has shown urgency, a team 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:24.919 that acted with far greater urgency at the deadline. We 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.640 saw what aj Preller did. He basically fixed every weekness 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:30.600 they had. So yes, the Dodgers are going to get 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:34.440 Tanner Scott and Kirby Yates and Michael Kopek back. Okay, 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:37.680 but what level are they going to pitch at and 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:40.440 is everyone else going to stay healthy? We just saw 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:44.240 Brock Stewart go down. He just got there. So this 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:47.799 kind of thing. If I'm the Dodgers, I'm a little 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:51.480 alarmed right now. And if I'm Dave Roberts, I'm saying, guys, 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:54.320 it's time to go. They should know that. I understand that, 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:57.200 but it is time for them to go. And on 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.560 the other hand, the Padres all the credit in the 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:03.120 world what they've done offensively, the moves that they've made 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:07.520 with Loriano and O'Hearn and Freddy for meen transformed the offense, made. 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:10.920 It much deeper. And of course the bullpen is utterly ridiculous. 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:12.640 It's disgusting. 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:15.240 It was the best bullpen in baseball before they even 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:18.000 added Mason Miller. Now, the Padres haven't won the division, 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:20.320 Ken you know this since two thousand and six. Is 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:23.040 this the year that it changes? Do the Padres win 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:25.960 the NL West or do the Dodgers get it together? 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:28.920 If I had to bet right now. I would bet 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:31.960 the Padres. I just like everything that is going on 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.320 with them, the way they are going about it, the 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:37.520 way they're playing, just the overall vibe, for lack of 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:41.040 a better phrase, Dennis Lynn and the Athletic Today explains 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:43.400 by the numbers, just how the Padres have done this 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.840 in less than six weeks. I'm curious to your opinion. 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:50.240 Do you think the Dodgers can win this division as 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:52.720 they've done so many times over the last decade. 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:54.400 Well, I can tell you that I don't think that 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.440 they've gotten any sort of positive traction the entire length 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:59.600 of the season. Can we are very close to what 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.280 thirty games left in the year thirty thirty five something 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.040 like that. There's not been these amazing streaks of time 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:07.720 in which the Dodgers have rattled off, you know, nine 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.440 ten eleven wins straight, like what the Brewers are doing 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.360 right now. And I know that they keep saying that, 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:15.640 you know, everybody's not healthy. As long as the Dodgers 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.280 are healthy to the key components at the right time, 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.320 which is the end of the season going into October, 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:23.920 you know, end of September going into October, I do 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:27.280 believe that they win the division again, but it's not 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:29.800 going to be by a very comfortable margin. We're not 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:31.880 going to see a ten eleven game cushion. And I 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.400 honestly think whatever happens in the next six games with 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:37.400 the Padres determines the division entirely. So if they win 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:40.079 these next two series, then I think they win the division. 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.160 If the Padres win the next two series, I think 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.440 San Diego wins its first inn Al West title since 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:45.360 two thousand and six. 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:49.760 Well, I'll just add one more thing. I'll believe the 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:52.880 Dodgers are going to be healthy and reasonably full strength 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:53.880 when I see it. 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:59.640 Yeah, you and me both, Yeah, you and me both. 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.720 Yeah, they're getting healthy. They're coming back. They're coming back. 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:02.920 Well. 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.640 The Foul Territory Network has both sides of this race covered, 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.959 Friar Territory and Dodgers' Territory. We're turning out multiple no 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:12.880 episodes every single week. Tune in for our crossover today 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:15.800 with Friar hosts Kyle Glazier joining Clympsius and me on 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:18.800 the Dodgers Territory Show at noon Pacific that's three pm 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:23.200 Eastern after Foul Territory subscribe on YouTube and wherever you 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:27.760 get your podcast to the entire Foul Territory network all right, 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.760 from the NL West Ken to the AL West and 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:34.319 the Houston Astros. I don't know how this team continues 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:37.160 to be a top of the division almost every single 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:40.760 year despite losing a lot of key pieces to their 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:44.040 starting rotation Alex Bregman as well as Kyle Tucker. How 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:44.800 are they doing this? 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:47.960 And then you're Don Alvarez in early May. We have 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:51.160 not seen him. It's amazing what they've done. And yes, 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:54.200 Christian Javier and Spencer Araghetti are back in the rotation. 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:55.920 It's a great thing for the Astros. 0:09:56.280 --> 0:10:00.280 But the news on Josh Hater is rather disturbing, to 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:02.840 say the least. Joe's spot is saying yesterday it looks 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:04.560 like it's going to be more than two weeks because 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:07.320 of that shoulder. It just does not sound good here. 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:09.200 And if it's more than two weeks, then we're looking 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:11.920 at the end of August, assuming he is actually all 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:14.520 right to pitch. Even at that point, then he has 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:17.200 to build up again. So will we see Josh Hater 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:21.400 again this season? At this point that is a legitimate question. Now, 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:24.240 the Mariners had their eight game winning streak end yesterday 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:27.040 in Baltimore. But they made the two big moves of 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:30.200 the deadline, Naylor, who has been great, Suarez eh okay, 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.679 and they also have a pitching staff that we've been 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.880 talking about for years that is capable of doing big things. 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.280 To me, you've got to slay the Giant, and what 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.000 I mean by that is you've got to prove you 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.640 can beat the Astros and overtake them in a division 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:48.600 race before we really believe that the Mariners are that team. 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.880 But they are positioned to do that. It's just the 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.320 Astros have this way about them and even if Hater 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:57.560 is down, obviously it's compromising their bullpen. 0:10:57.600 --> 0:10:58.319 If that's the case. 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:01.439 In a long term sense, Brian A. Brady proves he 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:02.800 can close, I'm sure. 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:03.120 He'll do that. 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:06.160 He did it last night. But everybody gets moved up 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:09.320 a notch. It becomes more difficult, as Eric Kratz pointed 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.559 out on Foul Territory yesterday, to go back to back 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:16.200 days and close out games because your A guys are used, 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:18.280 your A relievers are used in the first game, and 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:20.240 you might not have them for the second or the third, 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:21.280 whatever the case might be. 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:23.120 It's a difficult spot. 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:25.440 They're in without Hater, assuming it's going to be that 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:29.040 way for some time, but I would still pick them 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:30.720 until proven otherwise. 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:34.080 Yeah, I think that the Hater loss, obviously is a 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.400 huge loss. I'd be surprised if we saw Josh Hayter 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:40.240 back with the Astros, certainly in this regular season. 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Are the Brewers peaking 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:13.320 too early? 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:16.360 It's a fair question, right, because the Brewers are so 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:19.960 incredibly hot, you wonder if they can sustain it, and 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.840 the answer is they probably cannot. Just that the Detroit 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:26.040 Tigers earlier this season could not sustain what they were doing. 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:30.880 The better question is which teams will be hot in 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:34.400 October going into October? And that is when this matters. Actually, 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.040 some teams have had recent success, the Texas Rangers in 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:41.560 twenty twenty three without even being hot going into October, 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:43.800 and then they got hot once the playoffs started. So 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:47.360 I don't know that the teams that were talking about 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:50.600 the Tigers the Brewers can peak too early. They're good 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:54.120 and they're going to be good, but how can they 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:58.200 sustain it and how can they regenerate themselves coming into October? 0:13:58.320 --> 0:13:59.640 That's going to be the question. 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.320 What I like about the Brewers in this regard is 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:06.280 they are such a strong pitching staff and with Miserowski back, 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:09.480 presumably at some point they're going to be a dangerous 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:13.760 team in October. With Peralta Missowski, Brandon Woodriff doing what 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:17.240 he's doing, Quinn Priester, they've got a really good group 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:20.200 going right now. So I like that about them a lot. 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:23.480 They've got depth to in the pitching, so that's going 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:26.760 to be there. The offense can do what it's doing 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:30.960 right now, I don't know, but certainly they will drive 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:34.400 teams crazy, And I was thinking about this today. Let's 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.400 say the Brewers played the Yankees in the World Series. 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:39.760 Let's say it was this year's Brewers against last year's Yankees. 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.560 Those Brewers, these Brewers would have driven the Yankees' batty 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:45.560 much like the Dodgers did. And they're going to do 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:48.360 that to other teams as well. So I am anxious 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:50.680 to see how they look come the postseason. 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:54.040 Ken, Is this the best use of a twenty six 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:57.080 man roster? What Pat Murphy and mark on Tanasio in 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:00.240 the front office and the coaching staff is doing right now? 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.240 They're getting a lot out of a lot of guys. 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:06.720 You're absolutely right, Alana, And it really extends beyond twenty six. 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:09.720 They've got guys in the miners who have contributed, Chad Patrick, 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.560 Logan Henderson, and they're not even on the major league 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:17.080 team right now. So what they have done, with a 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:21.760 piecemeal budget and just a lot of different elements is 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:26.800 build what is almost an ideal team. When I say team, 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:29.240 I don't mean a collection of individuals, a group that 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:33.840 works together, cohesively and is all committed to the same thing. 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:36.880 And that's what the key thing to me is with them. 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:41.320 They have an ethic about them, a way about them 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:44.800 in which there's not much ego. They are all pulling 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:48.680 in the same direction, and it's a team concept. The 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:51.680 way they offensively go about it is a team concept. 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:54.640 It's not just guys swinging for the fences. It's one 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.520 guy doing this, the next guy doing that, going first 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:01.520 to third, sacrifice, moving runner, all these different things that 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:03.840 they do. And they will hit for power at times 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:08.320 as well. So from that perspective, they're gonna be a 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:10.040 difficult team to beat in the postseason. 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:13.720 Tommy Losorda used to say that everybody should be pulling 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:16.200 on the same side of the rope. That is the 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:19.920 twenty twenty five Milwaukee Brewers. Okay, on your article Ken 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:22.560 recently about Mason Miller, obviously we know that he's part 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:26.560 of that unbelievable uh Padres bullpen. But Armand wants to 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.280 know were when you're talking about the Mets being in 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:31.160 as one of the teams, would the Mets just have 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:33.800 gotten Miller back, or would have JP Sears or any 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.360 other a starter been a part of the package. 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:40.360 Armand That's a good question, and unfortunately it's one I 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.040 did not ask. I was just more concerned about whether 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.440 they were in on Miller and how seriously they were 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:48.280 in on Miller, And they were, and the way I 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:51.520 reported it was that they were perhaps the most serious 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:55.480 team after San Diego. They had extensive discussions about this. 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.360 I would imagine at some point Sears came up because 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:01.400 he came up in the other discussions with the Padres, 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.119 and the Mets certainly needed a starter as well. I 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:06.280 don't know that JP Sears would have been the answer. 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.520 Padres already have demoted him to the minor leagues. But 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:12.359 to answer your question, I don't know because I didn't 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.760 ask and Armand I should have asked. 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.760 Maybe Armand can be an apprentice with you one day 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:21.600 and just kind of like follow you around Ken, maybe 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:22.560 he can ask some questions. 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:27.320 He's had some good questions here on Grill and Ken. Likelihood. 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:29.920 As we talked about earlier of the Padres. 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:32.240 Winning the NL West, what is the likelihood of the 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:34.879 Mariners winning the AL West or do you think it 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:36.760 still needs to be Houston. You got to slay that 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:38.480 beast as you were talking about. 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:41.480 Yeah, as I mentioned before, to me, that's the whole 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:41.960 thing here. 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:45.159 Houston is the team that. 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:48.639 Has been at the top of that division most of 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:51.879 the last decade, and I don't see that changing until 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:52.399 it changes. 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:54.760 Right now. It's kind of a cop out answer, I 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:55.240 get it. 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:58.560 But to me, as I just said, you've got to 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:00.959 slay the dragon, you've got to knock them out, and 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:02.520 you gotta do it, it's kind of like what the 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:06.160 Padres have to do with the Dodgers, and there's something there. 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:09.320 So I would go with Houston until proven otherwise. 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:11.399 Let me ask you this before we go to break. 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:13.879 By the way, Duden, Dork of the Week is next. 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:16.680 I don't believe the Padres are scared of the Dodgers 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:19.520 at all. Are the Mariners intimidated by the Astros? 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:21.479 I don't believe. 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:21.600 So. 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:23.679 I don't know that it's the same thing as the 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:28.080 Padres and Dodgers, because the Padres in their minds, had 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:31.040 the Dodgers beat last year, and they knocked them out 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:33.640 a couple of years before that. Now, granted, the Dodgers 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:35.639 came back and won the Division series down two to 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:38.199 one in San Diego. We all know what happened. But 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:43.400 the Padres burn from what happened. They believe that they 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:45.840 were the better team, and certainly now if you look 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:48.240 at their roster, they have every right to believe they 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:51.200 are on equal, if not greater footing than the Dodgers. 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:55.160 The Mariners Astros thing is a little bit different because 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:57.840 the Mariners have been more of a little brother, I guess, 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:00.760 so to speak. But they have shown this year that 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:02.400 they can win in Houston, and they've. 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:03.720 Shown that they can beat the Astros. 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:07.639 So I don't know that it's that kind of thing 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:10.600 where they're scared of them or intimidated by them. It's 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:12.119