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Speaker 1: What up? Everybody?

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Speaker 2: Happy Monday afternoon to you. Welcome to Foul Territory. I

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Speaker 2: am Alana Rizzo, your host for the next couple of hours,

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Speaker 2: alongside these two gentlemen that you know very well, Eric Kratz,

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Speaker 2: Aj Pierzinski. Scott Braun is off this week, so happy

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Speaker 2: to be with you boys. Welcome to the show. Everybody

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Speaker 2: tweet us at FT Live. Don't forget you can buy

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Speaker 2: before we get into the nitty gritty of baseball, AJ,

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Speaker 2: you were there, Let's kinda let's go ahead and clear

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Speaker 2: this thing up with mister Ken Rosenthal, who is apparently

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Speaker 2: public enemy number one right now across the baseball world.

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Speaker 2: You were there, AJ, What really happened?

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Speaker 1: All right? First of all, anybody that knows Ken goes

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Speaker 1: that Ken is a nice guy. Okay, listen, Ken and

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Speaker 1: I joke a lot on the show. We work together,

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Speaker 1: Fox who work together here, We joke a lot. We

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Speaker 1: make a lot of fun of each other. But at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, I want people to understand

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Speaker 1: the Ken roseal is a really nice guy and he

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Speaker 1: cares about other people. So that people that think that

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Speaker 1: Ken was trying to bully this guy or thinks he's

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Speaker 1: better than anybody else. Don't know Ken very well, all right,

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Speaker 1: that's the first thing. Second of all, when this happened,

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Speaker 1: I saw it live and I made fun of Ken

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Speaker 1: right after the game. I didn't know it was going

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Speaker 1: to turn into this viral sensation. I literally laughed at

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Speaker 1: him and I said, Ken, did you see yourself? You

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Speaker 1: looked down at him like this poor guy just got

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Speaker 1: run over by a little person. Okay, and look that's

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Speaker 1: like and Ken we Ken first of all said, I apologized.

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Speaker 1: I felt terrible about it. But he was also in

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Speaker 1: the middle of a live interview. Okay, not that that's

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Speaker 1: an excuse, but what Ken did afterwards, I know he

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Speaker 1: apologized profusely to the guy and said, I'm sorry. It

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Speaker 1: was a mistake. It happened. And here's my question for you. Alana,

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Speaker 1: you've done a million live interviews, Eric, You've done live

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Speaker 1: stuff happens in the middle of it. We were trying

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Speaker 1: to get the shot. We had Monasterio who had just

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Speaker 1: gotten the game winning hit in a while game, and

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Speaker 1: he was doing an interview in English, which was unbelievable

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Speaker 1: for him to do, and then this guy was in

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Speaker 1: our shot and we asked him repeatedly again not excuse me,

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Speaker 1: asked him to move, and then Ken didn't want to

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Speaker 1: get wet. Fine, he knew it was coming. He made

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Speaker 1: it into the guy. It happens. Ken's apologized. It's time

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Speaker 1: to move on people. It wasn't a big deal. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't a big thing. The guy who got hit took

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Speaker 1: it and understood, we all need to just chill. Okay,

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Speaker 1: just chill. It's fine, not a big deal.

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Speaker 2: I agree. First of all, it was during a live interview.

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Speaker 2: As you mentioned, it's very It's not like Ken can

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Speaker 2: go over to the guy in the middle of a

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Speaker 2: live interview AJ and Eric and apologize to him while

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Speaker 2: he's trying to interview a player on the field on

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Speaker 2: live television. Ken Rosenthal does not have a mean bone

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Speaker 2: in his body. Eric Kratz if the optics looked bad,

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Speaker 2: but that wasn't the whole story. Let's just put this

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Speaker 2: to bed, shall we.

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Speaker 1: Yes, If anybody's going to make fun of Ken, it's

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Speaker 1: going to be us. He's our Ken. We're going to

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Speaker 1: make fun of AJ gets the most. I get a

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Speaker 1: few jabs in here and there. Everybody else stay off it.

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Speaker 1: Just make sure everybody knows. Like this guy was also

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Speaker 1: and like, you try it next time you hit your

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Speaker 1: See if like see if your reaction is like, oh,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's put this a bad all right, Let's charge

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Speaker 2: the mound powered by MLB nine innings. Let's get to it, guys.

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Speaker 2: And the whole reason that Ken was there, of course,

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Speaker 2: is because the Brewers are doing some amazing things this year.

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Speaker 2: Every single milestone first to sixty wins, first to seventy wins,

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Speaker 2: first to eighty, first to ninety, first to clinch a

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Speaker 2: postseason Milwaukee does it in Milwaukee fashion, aj walking it

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Speaker 2: off in the tenth This is a pretty special team.

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Speaker 2: What have you noticed by watching this club throughout the year.

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Speaker 2: What's Pat Murphy doing well?

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Speaker 1: Well? Pat Murphy has a team that he loves. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Pat Murphy coaching college for a long time before he

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Speaker 1: They were hard news. They played defense, they pitched, they bunted,

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Speaker 1: nobody else plays like. That's the biggest thing. And I

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Speaker 1: asked Ali Marmel on Saturday, who was the Cardinals? I said,

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Speaker 1: what are the Brewers do? He goes it's just constant pressure. Yes,

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Speaker 1: they have a couple guys that hit home runs, and

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Speaker 1: they're constantly taking the extra base. They're constantly singling you

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Speaker 1: You're like, oh, the Cardinals kept winning, they kept going up. Oh, no, boom,

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Speaker 1: an hit by Monasterio, but it was just amazing to watch.

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Speaker 1: This is I hate to say old school baseball, but

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Speaker 1: this is kind of old school baseball where they just

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Speaker 1: Caturre's had three sack flies in this game to center field.

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Speaker 1: Like that's all the way baseball is meant to be played.

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Speaker 1: There's many ways to play baseball, and the Brewers are

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Speaker 1: that's why they're so tough.

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Speaker 2: And it works for them. And you know what, Eric,

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Speaker 2: they haven't won a postseason series since reaching Game seven

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Speaker 2: of the NL Championship Series in twenty eighteen, but they're

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Speaker 2: in the postseason crats every single year. Why can this

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Speaker 1: Because they do have what Aj said they don't need

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Speaker 1: is the power. They do have guys that are driving

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Speaker 1: leading up to from the second half on, Bryce terrang

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Speaker 1: Yelly is the clear leader of this team and he

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Speaker 1: he shows. But Bryce Terrang is a guy that has really,

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Speaker 1: shows this lineup has depth. If he's not playing that much,

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Speaker 1: I was on that eighteen team and we played the

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Speaker 1: exact same way. We fell short. We fell short in

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Speaker 1: Game seven. I feel like this team has because they

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Speaker 1: always do. They have enough pitching if somebody can step

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Speaker 1: in in McGill's absence to consistently close games out and

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Speaker 1: in like guys have to fill in. But I think

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Speaker 1: this team has a different look, a different feel in

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Speaker 1: their lineup than they did the other years when they

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you guys this question. I want to

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Speaker 2: a standout team this year, right, There's not a team

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Speaker 2: that is by and large a runaway team to get it,

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Speaker 2: get to the World Series and win it. Every team

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Speaker 2: has its holes. So AJ will start with you. What

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Speaker 2: are the holes of the Brewers?

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Speaker 1: Well, McGill's out. They don't know who their closer is.

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Speaker 1: Rebay pitched Saturday. He hadn't pitch for a week. It's

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Speaker 1: And then what they do with miss is a big thing.

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Speaker 1: What are they gonna do with miss Rowski? Is he

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Speaker 1: And then I also think, I know, I just pumped

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Speaker 1: get home runs, yes, but do they hit home runs

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Speaker 1: we'll go in the National League the way the Phillies can,

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Speaker 1: the way the Dodgers can. That's their thing. Can they

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Speaker 1: I'll say this, teams in the postseason prepare for you

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Speaker 1: the steal. Guys will slide step, guys will do different things.

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Speaker 1: So can they score enough runs? To me, it's can

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Speaker 1: look back in twenty twenty three, people ask is this

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Speaker 1: in the postseason twenty twenty three, the Diamondbacks were that team,

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Speaker 1: that type of team going into it. What did they do?

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Speaker 1: How they beat the Dodgers at beat the Dodgers and

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Speaker 1: beat the Brewers? They hit dingers. That's how like I know,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to say, well, you gotta hit dingers

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Speaker 1: the reality of it. You have to figure out how

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Speaker 1: to hit dingers. And I think that's the difference is

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Speaker 1: that is fine and dandy, but they figure out how

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Speaker 1: to win games. And I think that is the difference

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Speaker 1: in teams who lose in Game five of the Division

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Speaker 1: the edges you might not get to. Let's see, who

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Speaker 1: are they gonna draw in the first round. They're gonna

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Speaker 1: either get the Cubs as of now, the Cubs, or

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Speaker 1: it wouldn't be the Mets or Dodgers, it would be

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Speaker 1: the Padres. How do you scratch runs out against their bullpen? Well,

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Speaker 1: to scratch runs out against you Darvis Dylan Cees, Nick

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Speaker 1: Pavetta like, that's what they're learning throughout this season is

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Speaker 1: how to win ballgames, not how to hit home runs.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you guys this. The Philadelphia Phillies have

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Speaker 2: also clinched a postseason spot. They're the second team right

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Speaker 2: East yet. Of course, the Central belongs to Milwaukee. How

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Speaker 2: do it? Do you think they do it in La?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's insane that last week it seemed like it

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Speaker 2: Time Now for better than box scores, Let's talk a

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Speaker 2: little bit about the Toronto Blue Jays Boys. Toronto has

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Speaker 2: Are they for real? Are you believing this.

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Speaker 1: Over? Yeah? Al least is over, you think so?

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Speaker 2: Two weeks left, it's over. Why do you say that,

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Speaker 2: Why are you so confident in that?

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Speaker 1: Because I haven't seen the blips from the Blue Jays.

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Speaker 2: Isn't that crazy, Aja what Eric just said that they've

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Speaker 2: This seems like the most complete Toronto Blue Jays team

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Speaker 1: Absolutely? Their pitching is great, Their their offense and defense

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Speaker 2: This is funny too because John Schnyder was saying that

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Speaker 1: Aka, I mean, what comes first? The chicken in the egg?

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Speaker 2: It's a great team. It's been a lot of fun

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Speaker 2: It's almost like the energy when the Red Sox were

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Speaker 2: right back, guys. I want your take on this. Bill Plunkett,

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Speaker 2: Tanner Scott saying this, I don't know if I'm tipping

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Speaker 1: He's getting hit. This is why relievers are so volatile,

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Speaker 2: All right, guys, this just in. The Angels stink. Sam

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Speaker 2: Blum tweeted the Angels today eliminated from aos contention, got

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Speaker 2: swept in four games, clinched tenth straight season without a

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Speaker 2: winning record, struck out eighteen times and sixty two times

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Speaker 2: over the series. Use their sixth position player of the

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Speaker 2: season as a picture. It is a bad product, Aj Pierzinski.

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Speaker 2: You cannot continue to do the same things and expect

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Speaker 2: different results. That is the definition of insanity. That is

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Speaker 2: the Angels.

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Speaker 1: What was What did Dennis Screens say in Arizona?

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Speaker 2: They are we are who we thought we were or whatever.

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Speaker 1: So that's pretty much what they are with the Angels.

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Speaker 1: They don't sign pictures, they don't make smart moves. They

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Speaker 1: kind of go on a whim. There's not a lot

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Speaker 1: of continuity there. And I feel bad for Perimnes and

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Speaker 1: he seems like a really good GM and what he

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Speaker 1: does and he trying, but it sometimes he gets overruled.

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Speaker 1: And I'm mean Ron Washington goes out this year, Mike

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Speaker 1: Trout isn't having the best year. Joe Adell's been a

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Speaker 1: right spot for him. I'll say that Shanwell, Netto and

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Speaker 1: Adele that's a pretty good little threesome to start your

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Speaker 1: team with there. I don't know. It's the Angels. They

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Speaker 1: haven't been good for so long. Now it's like, what

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Speaker 1: do you do?

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Speaker 2: Move the team?

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Speaker 1: May Oh, that's not happened. We've seen that owners aren't

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Speaker 1: maybe now they have that young position player corps that

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Speaker 1: Arty Moreno loves and he'll be like, hey, sure you

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Speaker 1: I don't know, like I see him like signing like

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Speaker 1: a Framber Valdez or something, because Arti Moreno was like, well,

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Speaker 1: I saw him pitch good against us.

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Speaker 2: In the Weeds. Two weeks left in the regular season,

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Speaker 2: which MLB contenders. Aj Pierzinski have the toughest road to

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Speaker 2: the playoffs? Breaking down the schedules Part three. This from

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Speaker 2: the Athletics, Even Nesbit and Chad Jennings with a article

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Speaker 2: in The Athletic. What do you think which teams playoffs chances?

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Speaker 2: Are following the Are we following the closest?

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Speaker 1: Too?

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Speaker 2: Has the toughest road? Aja in your opinion?

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Speaker 1: Oh gosh, I mean I'm looking at these and the

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Speaker 1: one that stands out to me is I know, Seattle

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Speaker 1: ends at home, but they got to go east of

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Speaker 1: Spokane the next six games, and they go to Kansas City,

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Speaker 1: who's still live in the playoffs, and they got to

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Speaker 1: go to Houston, which obviously is still alive in the postseason.

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Speaker 1: So then where they stand after this next week, that's

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Speaker 1: the That's the key for me. Uh just who do

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Speaker 1: they how do they survive the Yeah, I mean they

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Speaker 1: get the Rockies, but then the end of the Dodgers,

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Speaker 1: and those Dodgers games could possibly still mean something. So

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Speaker 1: to me, it's Seattle just because they have to go

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Speaker 1: on the road and they don't do very well on

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Speaker 1: the road. Again, like I said, east of Spokane, if

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Speaker 1: they have to get to like Idaho, they're in trouble.

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Speaker 2: What do you think, ek Is it Seattle? Is it Houston?

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Speaker 2: I mean Seattle has the schedule all year just becau

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Speaker 2: is of a distance and all of the length of travel.

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Speaker 2: But what do you think in terms of who they

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Speaker 2: have left?

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Speaker 1: Yes, I think I think they're definitely they definitely have

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Speaker 1: tough teams left. I don't think the Royals are playing

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Speaker 1: very well. So the Mariners, you know, maybe have an easy,

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Speaker 1: easy transition into this road trip for them. But I

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Speaker 1: think I think Houston. Houston is just not playing this

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Speaker 1: unbelievable style of baseball right now that I think we're

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Speaker 1: accustomed to where it's like, Okay, we're going to just

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Speaker 1: put our foot on the gas and make the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: win the division, and do what we always do every

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Speaker 1: year in October. I really think if you're talking from

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Speaker 1: today on, I think the Astros have the tougher road

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Speaker 1: because right now, when it's close, that's when you want

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Speaker 1: to play the easy teams so you can maybe make

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Speaker 1: some separation or make up ground. It is when you

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Speaker 1: make you gain that you gain some ground on the Rangers.

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Speaker 1: Maybe the Mariners lose and you know, then you gain

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Speaker 1: you gain some ground on them. But you're sitting there

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Speaker 1: and you go, pressure's on right now, like we gotta

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Speaker 1: get going. You want to play the easy. You always

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Speaker 1: want to play the easier teams. You always want to

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Speaker 1: play at home. I do believe it is Seattle, But

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Speaker 1: I can see how you would say, hey, Houston, Houston's

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Speaker 1: in a rough spot right now. They haven't been playing well.

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Speaker 1: Seattle has been winning, but it was at home. So

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Speaker 1: do they know the confidence that we don't have in

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Speaker 1: them on the road? Who knows?

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you this. So the Astros playoff chances

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Speaker 2: right now seventy two point six percent. The key series

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Speaker 2: is we've discussed September fifteenth. That's today. You're the twenty

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Speaker 2: first versus Texas and Seattle. Which team below you? Guys?

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Speaker 2: Do we think is too high or too low? If

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Speaker 2: you're looking at the playoff chances for certain teams? The

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Speaker 2: Mets playoff chances eighty point one percent, Astro's playoff chances

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Speaker 2: seventy two point six percent, Red Sox ninety point four,

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Speaker 2: Mariners ninety six point four, Yankees ninety nine point four.

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Speaker 2: They're basically in right. Giants playoff chances nine point seven,

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Speaker 2: Guardians playoff chances eleven point three. Who's too high? Who's

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Speaker 2: too low? Let me know if I need to repeat

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Speaker 2: those percentage.

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Speaker 1: I think they're about right. I don't think there's one

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Speaker 1: because I don't think the Giants are getting in. I

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Speaker 1: don't think the Guardians are getting in. I think eleven

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Speaker 1: point three for the Guardians is too high. I think

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Speaker 1: even almost ten percent for the Giants is too high,

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Speaker 1: just because the Mets just went through the bottom of

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Speaker 1: the bottom and I feel like they're going to win

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Speaker 1: some games down the stretch here. I mean, I know

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Speaker 1: it's crazy to say that because the way they've been playing,

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Speaker 1: but every team goes to ups and downs, and the

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Speaker 1: Mets just went through it, and that win yesterday was

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Speaker 1: huge for them. So I think the I think the

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Speaker 1: Red Sox are in. I think the Yankees are in.

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Speaker 1: I think the Mariners are in. I think the Astros

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Speaker 1: are in, and so I think the Metsros. I think

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Speaker 1: there are about right. I can't say that any or

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Speaker 1: too high. Have anything some of the out teams outside

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Speaker 1: looking in is too high. Think I think the Astros.

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Speaker 1: I think the Astros that's seventy percent is too low.

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Speaker 1: I think they have a much higher percentage chance. We

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Speaker 1: just talked about who has the toughest road, and I

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Speaker 1: said the Astros, Yes, but they control their own destiny.

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Speaker 1: So to me, I feel like the Astros just figure

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Speaker 1: out how to win. So I feel like that number

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Speaker 1: if if the Mets, who have been just going through

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Speaker 1: it and have no pitching, can be at eighty percent,

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Speaker 1: I feel like the Astros should be more like an

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Speaker 1: eighty or eighty five percent. I just think I think

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Speaker 1: the playoffs are set. I think the teams are set.

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Speaker 1: But it's good fodder to talk about here on the show.

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Speaker 2: What do you think is more unlikely the Mets playoff

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Speaker 2: chances at eighty point one? I think that's too high,

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Speaker 2: but I get your point that they've just gone through

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Speaker 2: a horrible lull they're bound to bounce back at some point.

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Speaker 2: Or the Guardians at eleven point I would the Guardians

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Speaker 2: weren't even in my periphery, like, there's no way the

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Speaker 2: Guardians are making the postseason, But I don't think the

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Speaker 2: Mets are either.

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Speaker 1: You don't think the Mets are gonna make it?

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Speaker 2: I don't.

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Speaker 1: So who do you think is gonna make it over them?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I could see I could see the

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Speaker 2: Giants or the Diamondbacks moving in.

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Speaker 1: Really I think there. I think all three are teams

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Speaker 1: that are just pooh poop kind of what I said

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Speaker 1: about the Blue Jays losing the American League East. I

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Speaker 1: just don't see how the other two teams below on

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Speaker 1: the Red Sox and Yankees, have enough to overtake them.

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Speaker 1: I don't see how the Giants. To me, I thought

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Speaker 1: the team that had the chance was the reds They

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Speaker 1: to knock the Mets out because they had that tie

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Speaker 1: breaker had they finished the season. Because that tie breaker

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Speaker 1: is huge. It's essentially like a three game lead instead

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Speaker 1: of or a two game lead instead of a three

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Speaker 1: game lead. And I thought if they stayed in it,

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Speaker 1: I think they're two and a half now. It's too much.

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Speaker 1: I think it's too much. I just don't So you

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Speaker 1: think the Mets don't make it, Wow, that would be

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Speaker 1: we would we would have something to talk about, you

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Speaker 2: Though, I don't think the Mets make it, and I

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Speaker 2: I'm probably pretty wrong about the Yankees, considering the Yankees

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Speaker 2: playoff chances are now ninety nine point four percent, but

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Speaker 2: I did not think two weeks ago the Yankees were

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Speaker 1: awesome he had of a year. By the way, do

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Speaker 1: you guys know how many errors he made on the

644
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Speaker 1: whole year, the whole year? Without looking? How many errors

645
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 1: did Mason win playing one hundred and thirty games at

646
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 1: shortstop this year? Three? Three? Ye gien, hear that off

647
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 1: the top of your head craft Yeah I didn't, I didn't.

648
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:20,560
Speaker 1: I just guessed three. He made three three errors for

649
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 1: the whole year playing shortstop every day. Three. So that's

650
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 1: a credit to him and the Cardinals coaching staff. And

651
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: how much he's improved. Three errors at shortstop all year

652
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: with a tornamentiscus pretty impressive. It's impressive because I know

653
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Speaker 1: I got a call from a player the other day

654
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Speaker 1: who was being shut down by his team who is

655
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: going to make the playoffs, and he was like, I

656
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 1: don't want to be shut down. I want to make

657
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 1: it back. I can make it back with one week

658
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 1: to play. And he was like, what do you think

659
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 1: you're He said, what do you think I should do?

660
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 1: I was like, well, you can get a second opinion.

661
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 1: I said, you can tell him you can play. But

662
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 1: there are teams that don't allow this. So for Mason

663
00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 1: Win to understand that and appreciate that and say that

664
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Speaker 1: about his training staff, it's a lot. For a young

665
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 1: guy to say that and understand that that is huge.

666
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: And for a young guy to come out and say

667
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Speaker 1: that he played through injury, pain whatever, it was also huge.

668
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 2: Can a player fight, though, ek to get on that

669
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 2: postseason roster if the team's like you're not playing, I mean,

670
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 2: what what is his what is his right there?

671
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:26,120
Speaker 1: You can fight, You can fight for it. You can

672
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:28,960
Speaker 1: say I want to and you can start your throwing progression,

673
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 1: you can start your hitting progression whatever it is. But ultimately,

674
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 1: I think I don't know what the rule is, but

675
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 1: they ultimately say, well, no, you're not active yet. So

676
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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know.

677
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Speaker 2: Hm, Guys, how much of a difference does it make

678
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 2: that the Mets actually snapped that losing streak. Does that

679
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 2: catapult them into some positivity?

680
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: Aj I said it. I said that was a huge

681
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 1: win for him. They won, they're stolen, they're still in

682
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 1: place of being at the postseason. I think that was

683
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 1: a huge win for him. I think they're going to

684
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: be better now. Listen again, it goes like this, it

685
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 1: goes like this, it goes like this. They've been down.

686
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:10,919
Speaker 1: I think they're going to find figure out a way

687
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 1: to turn it around here, and I think they're going

688
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 1: to get in. I still think they're going to get in,

689
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 1: even though a lot of your bet against them, I'm not.

690
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:19,319
Speaker 1: I am not.

691
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:21,400
Speaker 2: I am betting against them, but I'm never right. So,

692
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Speaker 2: I mean, the Mets hold the tiebreaker over San fran Eric,

693
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:27,799
Speaker 2: but not over the Reds, who look lurk. Easy for

694
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 2: me to say two and a half games back. The

695
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 2: d Backs jump the Reds with their win over the

696
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 2: Twins on Sunday, they remain two games back of the Mets.

697
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I guess I'd just rather see the

698
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:43,280
Speaker 2: Diamondbacks in than the Mets whatever. But they're getting in

699
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 2: in order in what you're saying, correct, Uka, I mean,

700
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:48,239
Speaker 2: here's the national and wild card standings. I'd like to

701
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 2: see Arizona in. I don't know it is what it is.

702
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm an NL West girl.

703
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:54,359
Speaker 1: I do believe. I do believe they will get in.

704
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 1: I think it's awesome that we have this discussion. Three

705
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 1: teams within striking distance. I think the other teams are

706
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 1: just too flawed to get there. I think had the

707
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:10,760
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks not gotten rid of a Henneo Suarez and Josh Naylor,

708
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 1: maybe they would catch them. I think if there's a

709
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:15,480
Speaker 1: team that I think could catch them, there would be

710
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:18,240
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks. But yes, this is huge. They had lost

711
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 1: eight in a row. Edwin Diaz was in and he

712
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:24,359
Speaker 1: gave up runs, and you're like, oh my gosh, we're

713
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,720
Speaker 1: gonna lose. We got an off day tomorrow, We're gonna

714
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:30,800
Speaker 1: lose another game. We're gonna lose nine in a row,

715
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:32,759
Speaker 1: and then we have to sit at home thinking about

716
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: it the whole time. Yes, it was huge, it was huge,

717
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 1: But the problem still looms Besides Nolan McLain, who else

718
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 1: is gonna pitch well for him? Besides Edwin Diaz, who

719
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: else is gonna pitch well? For him? You almost can't

720
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:49,879
Speaker 1: use Ryan Helsley. And every game from here on out

721
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 1: is a do or die game. So yes, I'm still

722
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 1: worried about the Mets, but I agree with AJ. I

723
00:35:57,640 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 1: think they're gonna get in. I just think it is

724
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:03,239
Speaker 1: too much, too much to get past them right now

725
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 1: for the Giants. For the Reds, we're two and a

726
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 1: half back. I know the tie breakers there, but it's tough.

727
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:12,719
Speaker 1: The Mets would have to come out and really keep

728
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 1: crapping the bed.

729
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 2: So if the Mets get in, do they completely reset

730
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden they become dangerous? Or are

731
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,839
Speaker 2: they equally as weak as they limp into the postseason?

732
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 2: Will they be equally as weak in the playoffs?

733
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 1: Not if they're pitching doesn't get better, right, Not if

734
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 1: they're pitching doesn't get better than what it's been. They

735
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: can limp in all they want, but you're not. You're

736
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 1: only as dangerous as you're pitching and your hitting is.

737
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:37,439
Speaker 1: And right now, their hitting has been okay, it hasn't

738
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,280
Speaker 1: been great, it's been far from great. But their pitching

739
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:42,720
Speaker 1: has been the real story, especially the starters and their bullpen,

740
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 1: I mean, Diaz Hellsley, all those guys, Rogers at the

741
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:48,399
Speaker 1: back end have not been what they thought. So it's

742
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 1: been it's been kind of a mess in Mets Land.

743
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 1: If I'm looking at it like just in a very

744
00:36:56,360 --> 00:37:00,120
Speaker 1: thirty thousand foot view kind of thing. They play about

745
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: a six to seven inning game with their pitching. Their

746
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 1: starters go four to five innings. Then you have Rogers

747
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 1: who has done well, and I think you can trust

748
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:16,839
Speaker 1: DZ from there, like you're in the sixth or seventh inning.

749
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 1: I know it's not they're not going to go right

750
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: into those guys. But when you look at the playoffs,

751
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: you're going your best, dude. So you're going Nolan McClain,

752
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 1: David Peterson right now, and then you have Game three,

753
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,879
Speaker 1: and then you have like this is this is where

754
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:33,840
Speaker 1: the Mets have to They have to find some magic.

755
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 1: That's what happens in the playoffs. But they have to

756
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 1: find magic. They have to find somebody who's going to

757
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: give them those last two innings, whether it's the fifth

758
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 1: inning and sixth inning, to bridge to seven, eight nine,

759
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 1: you might be able to get Rogers, and Rogers and

760
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 1: DZ might be able to give you six outs. But

761
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 1: right now, unless this offense, which they can they have

762
00:37:56,640 --> 00:38:00,719
Speaker 1: the capability of doing it, just absolutely start mashing in

763
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:04,920
Speaker 1: is hot hot, red hot going into the playoffs. I

764
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: have a tough time backing the Mets right now.

765
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 2: Let's assume the Mets get in postseason starts tomorrow, three

766
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 2: game series. Who has the most lethal starting rotation in

767
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:16,879
Speaker 2: the National League? Of the teams that are in.

768
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 1: Are the Dodgers, Yamato, Glassdown, Snow? Yeah, I mean, who

769
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 1: else would it be? Philly's gonna have to play a

770
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 1: three game series.

771
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:31,360
Speaker 2: I'm just saying if it was no, no, No, I'm not.

772
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 2: I'm not We're not doing the bracket. I'm just saying,

773
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 2: of the three teams everyone's in, of the teams that

774
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:37,360
Speaker 2: are in, who has the most lethal?

775
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 1: For me, it's still Yama Moto, Glassnow, and Snow if

776
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 1: they're on proper rest and they're right. I mean, Glasnow

777
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 1: has has given up like one hit in like twenty innings.

778
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 1: It's been crazy how good he's been and ya had

779
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: a great year. We all know what Blake Snow can

780
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 1: do and he's done it in the playoffs. So for me,

781
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 1: it's not it's those three, Okay, New York. I don't

782
00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,919
Speaker 1: think it's even close. I mean, even if doesn't catch.

783
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 1: I mean, these guys are there. I joke about that,

784
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:08,359
Speaker 1: but he's done an amazing job back there like they

785
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 1: are they are. If there's any type of unit that

786
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 1: you're talking about from a team, whether it's pitching, starting, starting, pitching, bullpen,

787
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 1: or a lineup, I don't think there's a better unit

788
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: that's getting hot going into the playoffs than the starting

789
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:28,080
Speaker 1: rotation that the top end of the starting rotation for

790
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:28,760
Speaker 1: the Dodgers.

791
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I like that before we go to break.

792
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 1: Really, Alana, think about this, think about this for the

793
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 1: two wildcard matchups right now? Two of the four wildcard

794
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 1: matchups Dodgers Mets and Yankees Red Sox Phenomens, right, I mean,

795
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 1: how good is how good going to be?

796
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:52,160
Speaker 2: Speak speaking of Yankees Red Sox, You guys, Red Sox,

797
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 2: that six run first inning yesterday really helped them because

798
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 2: they needed everything because the Yankees were working their way

799
00:39:56,719 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 2: back into the game. Yanks went on Saturday. Obviously, Crochet

800
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:05,840
Speaker 2: amazing if those two meet up in the postseason, Yankees

801
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:08,840
Speaker 2: lost the season series, But it's how good are you

802
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:10,760
Speaker 2: playing right now? Who you taking.

803
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 1: Crochet lined up for game one? Because he's done, he's

804
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,280
Speaker 1: pretty much he's done really well against Yankees.

805
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 2: Hey, you got to figure Crochet, Bao Gilio, right.

806
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:25,720
Speaker 1: That's three against three Rodan and Heel.

807
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 2: My guess is yes, I.

808
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:32,279
Speaker 1: Think Slitler is over Heel right now, just based on

809
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:36,359
Speaker 1: his strikeouts and how they like rank who is who

810
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 1: is going to be the best? He's he's not racking

811
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:42,760
Speaker 1: up the strikeouts. So the Yankees probably would value Slitler

812
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 1: over them.

813
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:46,719
Speaker 2: That's a tough one to say. I don't say that fast.

814
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:48,799
Speaker 2: You could get into some trouble. All right, coming up,

815
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841
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Speaker 2: we go out on this fine Monday afternoon.

842
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:12,239
Speaker 1: Happy birthday Paul Abbott. Today, by the way, my first

843
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 1: career homer. So yeah, happy birthday, Paul. Thank you for that.

844
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: You know, ball down, I could whack out of the

845
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:20,959
Speaker 1: park for my first one. You never forget your first one.

846
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 2: You never forget your first one. Who was yours?

847
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Speaker 1: Eric Tom Gourzolani tried to go tried to go in

848
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Speaker 1: O too. I can't go in there. I don't stay

849
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Speaker 1: in his own very long.

850
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:34,920
Speaker 2: All right, how many how many career home runs did

851
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 2: you have? Kratzy thirty one, thirty one and.

852
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 1: AJ one hundred and I don't even know hundred and

853
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:46,440
Speaker 1: around one hundred. It was just short of two hundred.

854
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 1: So it was like one ninety or one eighty five

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Speaker 1: was around one ninety. It was short of two hundred.

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Speaker 2: I know that you had a great career. By the way,

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Speaker 2: eight eight eight. Good job. Oh I love your hat.

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Speaker 2: Let me see Krats what you got there? Is that

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Speaker 2: a Mariner's.

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Speaker 1: One Mariner's hat. I mean you have to wear the

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