Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Waken. Jake, myself, David Mendelssohn. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm Jake Stoielli. That's David Mendelssohn talking some baseball today
Speaker 1: and football. That's where we're at, people. I wanted to
Speaker 1: go through the baseball playoff teams in kind of how
Speaker 1: good is your good version slash kind of an NFL street,
Speaker 1: kind of a three by three. I looked at each
Speaker 1: playoff team with their top three starters, their top three
Speaker 1: relievers slash other pitchers, and their top three position players.
Speaker 1: I want to see if that exercise got us anywhere.
Speaker 1: It's an interesting thought process because shirt baseball is a
Speaker 1: massive team sport and the postseason is also filled with
Speaker 1: moments from players you don't expect, and that's something baseball
Speaker 1: has that maybe like NBA doesn't have, Like you're gonna
Speaker 1: have a guy or two hit a big shot, but
Speaker 1: you know you're not gonna see a lot of thirty
Speaker 1: point games from like no. So I want to see
Speaker 1: if that exercise gets us anywhere. Definitely, it shows the
Speaker 1: differences between a couple teams for me that maybe we
Speaker 1: already knew, maybe we didn't. And then we'll go through
Speaker 1: the weekend that is upcoming in football. So for my
Speaker 1: baseball exercise, I'm starting in the NL, which, if you
Speaker 1: know me, I normally start in the ALE and I
Speaker 1: want to start with the team that I feel like
Speaker 1: has been the number one. And it's a part of
Speaker 1: this exercise too, the number one. Imagine this team in
Speaker 1: the postseason. There's a couple, but the San Diego Padres,
Speaker 1: it feels like a couple of years now. We've talked
Speaker 1: about their high end stars, whether starting pitching, whether in
Speaker 1: the lineup, and they're a good example to start with.
Speaker 1: And they jumped to my forefront because of their new
Speaker 1: relief unit. Because this is pretty clean for me. Suarez,
Speaker 1: Tanner Scott and Jason Adam. They traded for those two
Speaker 1: guys at the deadline. Scott and Adam. They've been great.
Speaker 1: Robert Suarez has been really good all year. You know,
Speaker 1: Jeremiah Strada had an argument, but this isn't about depth
Speaker 1: right now, although I'll link it into some teams. For
Speaker 1: the rotation cease is non negotiable. I think Joe Muskrove
Speaker 1: is also non negotiable. That third spot is Michael King
Speaker 1: or you Darvish who just came back, and it's been
Speaker 1: Michael King and he deserves it. So they are three starters.
Speaker 1: I have ce S Musgrove King, so the pitching there
Speaker 1: like they have kind of locked up. And it's why
Speaker 1: everyone liked their deadline a lot, because those are three
Speaker 1: high end relievers that they do that. Those are three
Speaker 1: pretty high end starters. If you're not as familiar with
Speaker 1: Mike King as Yankee fans or Padre fans lock in,
Speaker 1: he's nasty. And then for San Diego, the part that
Speaker 1: became funny to me, Manny Machado, I think is their
Speaker 1: first player that I felt confident with two ways. The
Speaker 1: new mister Padre home run hitter Tatis I still think
Speaker 1: has to make the list because he's Fernando Tatis junior.
Speaker 1: And then the third spot comes down to profar who's
Speaker 1: been one of the best players this year, but we
Speaker 1: know a whole other career from him, Luis Arise, who
Speaker 1: hasn't struck out since yeah insert blank here and then
Speaker 1: but he doesn't play defense or it's my guy, Jackson
Speaker 1: Merrill and I went Jackson Merrill, you know, we talked
Speaker 1: some Rookie of the Year stuff on talking baseball. The
Speaker 1: Padre fans got loud, so did the Brewers fan, so
Speaker 1: does everyone that likes their guy. But Jackson Merrill playing
Speaker 1: both ways, I think offensively he's fairly close to Profar
Speaker 1: or close enough that what he's done defensively in center field,
Speaker 1: I had him as their third best play So Padres,
Speaker 1: the big three player wise didn't jump off as much
Speaker 1: as you thought. But think about who I haven't mentioned.
Speaker 1: I haven't mentioned Xander Bogarts. Like the Padres are stacked,
Speaker 1: but for this three by three exercise, they still end
Speaker 1: up pretty strong. Which brings us to the other team
Speaker 1: in their division. Who the three in this lineup we've
Speaker 1: known all year to be like the biggest three we've
Speaker 1: ever seen. The Dodgers have Otani, Betts, and Freeman. If
Speaker 1: this was MLB Street. For those they get that reference,
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Speaker 1: For those that don't, NFL Street and NBA Street had
Speaker 1: different versions of the game where you had less players
Speaker 1: on the team and you can add players to the
Speaker 1: team as you go. I'll stop describing the gameplay of
Speaker 1: a PS two game that I didn't even known. I
Speaker 1: would only play it at sleepovers Anyways, Otani, Bets, Freeman,
Speaker 1: Hall of Famers, electric speed, power, contact, all of it.
Speaker 1: I call three that they're not going to get beat
Speaker 1: out there. Pitching wise, Yama Moto's back and he's kind
Speaker 1: of moved into the pole position as he's rehabbing on
Speaker 1: the fly, but he's looked good. Jack flaherity who they
Speaker 1: traded for, and at the time it was almost like, yeah,
Speaker 1: do the Dodgers need Jack Flaherty. There were some Yankees
Speaker 1: rumors Jack Flaherty in there, and then right now it's
Speaker 1: Walker Buehler, who his last start was good, everything else
Speaker 1: was bad. Uh. But it also shows the Dodgers riches
Speaker 1: a little bit because what if it does click for
Speaker 1: Walker Buehler, Like remember how good he had been in
Speaker 1: previous postseasons. So as a third right now, if you're
Speaker 1: following ball, you know that's not great. When the graphic
Speaker 1: comes out, you're probably like, that's okay, and Dodgers' bullpen
Speaker 1: pretty good. Copek who they traded for, that man at
Speaker 1: Kopek trade that one. A lot of teams could use him.
Speaker 1: Kopek Trining and Phillips. They had a couple other options
Speaker 1: you could put in their bullpen. I think Daniel Hudson's
Speaker 1: been really good for them, but Phillips has been their closer.
Speaker 1: Trynan has the grossest stuff in baseball arguably, and Kopek
Speaker 1: is kind of now the new closer there. So they
Speaker 1: as you'd expect the Dodgers high end talent, they have
Speaker 1: a pretty good three by three. Let's keep it in
Speaker 1: the West. My Snakes defending NL champion Snakes. Remember that
Speaker 1: could tell Marte, Corby and Carroll and Christian Walker. Did
Speaker 1: I want to sneak Jock Peterson on this list? Absolutely
Speaker 1: because he has been hitting, but he's DH and against
Speaker 1: lefty they platune him with Kritchik, So again that turns
Speaker 1: into a Diamondbacks depth option could have fought for like
Speaker 1: a Gabby Moreno or even my guy ao Hennio Suarez.
Speaker 1: But Christian Walker has kind of been the best two
Speaker 1: way first baseman when he's been Healthykateel Marte has been
Speaker 1: the best second baseman in all of baseball, and Corbyn
Speaker 1: Carroll with how good he's been since the All Star break,
Speaker 1: sure I could have made more of a sting for
Speaker 1: him and Gino, but he's also supposed to be the
Speaker 1: guy for that team as much as I love Aohene Suarez,
Speaker 1: he hasn't really come up the lineup. That's kind of
Speaker 1: a Tory Lavello. If you're doing good in your spot
Speaker 1: in the lineup, we don't like to shake the tree
Speaker 1: that much. That Corbyn Carroll at the top of that
Speaker 1: lineup and how he's been playing, he gets the nod.
Speaker 1: It's it's not as impressive as Otani, Bets and Freeman,
Speaker 1: even like Machado Tatist to get punched in the face
Speaker 1: by those two guys at the same time. These guys
Speaker 1: are on that level, they just kind of don't have
Speaker 1: I guess the pedigree, the high end pedigree. The rotation
Speaker 1: was tough because it's Zach Gallon the milkman. Absolutely. Then
Speaker 1: from there you could go Brandon Fott, who is the
Speaker 1: breakout player of last postseason. He just got rocked. And
Speaker 1: it's funny when you look at Arizona's rotation on paper
Speaker 1: and dude, they're gonna be a fun October conversation coming up.
Speaker 1: Merrill Kelly, who's been okay, Jordan Montgomery, who last postseason
Speaker 1: was amazing. He was the Jordan answer. So I know
Speaker 1: Monty hasn't been great for them. He's starting today against Colorado.
Speaker 1: You want to talk about like three or four big
Speaker 1: starts being important for Monty. And we've always as Yankee fans,
Speaker 1: the thought of Monty coming out of the pen was
Speaker 1: always scary, not good, scary. Feels like he's a routine guy.
Speaker 1: The first inning can be tough a lot because he
Speaker 1: needs to find like his pitches that day. Although did
Speaker 1: he come out of the pen for Texas, I don't know.
Speaker 1: They also have e Rot who they paid money to.
Speaker 1: So I put their three as Gallon, Kelly, and then
Speaker 1: Monty just because Monty's coming off of an incredible postseason run. Uh,
Speaker 1: Snakes fans might not be happy with that Fat has
Speaker 1: had such a good season. Again, it shows in this
Speaker 1: exercise the Snakes they're they're three, they're two. Isn't as
Speaker 1: certain as any of the teams we just mentioned. And
Speaker 1: in their bullpen I put Martinez, Puck and Ginkel. Uh.
Speaker 1: They can be really good and that was a staple
Speaker 1: for the d Backs run last year. How good their
Speaker 1: their postseason was. I think in this three by three exercise, uh,
Speaker 1: and currently where the seed they're seeded in the West,
Speaker 1: I think they would be the low man. But that's
Speaker 1: not Snakes Baseball Milwaukee west to East. I put Contreras,
Speaker 1: Adamis and Chario. It's pretty strong. There's your catcher, there's
Speaker 1: your shortstop, there's your rookie outfielder that's been balling out.
Speaker 1: The rotation is funny. Brewers fans. Let me know. I
Speaker 1: have Peralta, Savali and Montas, which as of a few
Speaker 1: months ago you would have said, wait what Jose could
Speaker 1: fly the bullpen, Devin Williams, mcguill little Sweat and Joel
Speaker 1: pie Amps. I feel bad they've had Hudson, they had
Speaker 1: that other lefty who is going nuts for them. But
Speaker 1: I think come postseason like it's Devin Williams obviously no conversation.
Speaker 1: I think they really like mcgillan, pie Amps, v low
Speaker 1: Wise and bullpen is one of Milwaukee's strengths in general
Speaker 1: as a franchise. But yeah, it's a on paper, it's
Speaker 1: very Milwaukee. Like Willia Damas from the shortstop position has
Speaker 1: been great this year, Contraire had kind of his one
Speaker 1: bad month, Otherwise he's been great, and Tario has been
Speaker 1: one of the best players of the second half. So
Speaker 1: definitely on a scale, and this is before like we
Speaker 1: get to say the Phillies. Milwaukee's feels a little light.
Speaker 1: Milwaukee feels a little closer to Arizona than it does
Speaker 1: San Diego in LA. But Milwaukee's they've operated differently in general.
Speaker 1: I mean, they didn't go up. They can't go out
Speaker 1: and get Otani, Betts and Freeman. That's not how their
Speaker 1: franchise works. So what their franchise is working with pretty good.
Speaker 1: That was the only team in the endol Central Wa wa.
Speaker 1: Sorry guys, Reds, you let me down. Cubs, you kind
Speaker 1: of stink. Sorry. I like Ian Hap, I kind of
Speaker 1: like the Cubs. Philly this was another one. When I
Speaker 1: got there, I was like ooh, I was excited, and
Speaker 1: I was like, am I who am I gonna leave out?
Speaker 1: Philly had? Actually I came pretty clear pretty quick. It's Harper, Turner, Schwarber.
Speaker 1: Obviously everyone knows the whole Philly team. Castiano's Baum Real Mudo,
Speaker 1: but I think Harper, Turner, Schwarber. There's your three. It's Nola, Wheeler,
Speaker 1: Sanchez in the rotation right now. And this is why,
Speaker 1: if you heard me introducing the exercise, I was like,
Speaker 1: I met I threw Pitcher out there for the final
Speaker 1: three names because you need three starters kind of don't
Speaker 1: go look at the Atlanta Braves run from a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago in that Phillies bullpen. Right now, it's
Speaker 1: Estevez Hoffman. And then I put Ranger Suarez on the
Speaker 1: list because I know he's been struggling lately. He has
Speaker 1: pitched playoff games out of the bullpen. He is nasty.
Speaker 1: He probably he could have been on that starting pitching
Speaker 1: line with Sanchez. I'm not sure how they're gonna handle
Speaker 1: that yet, Ranger Suarez is going to be a part
Speaker 1: of what they do because he was the best pitcher
Speaker 1: in the NL the first half this season. He has
Speaker 1: like thirty one career postseason innings with a one ERA
Speaker 1: like he's going to be in the mix. So I
Speaker 1: couldn't leave him off the sheet which brought us to
Speaker 1: the final team in the National League, or excuse me,
Speaker 1: not the final team the New York Metropolitans currently in
Speaker 1: as we record this, and I want to see how
Speaker 1: they stacked up, and they were another important team for
Speaker 1: this exercise for me because I've been doing like a
Speaker 1: lot of ooh mets in a three gamer ooh like
Speaker 1: that's the other appeal to this, right the wildcard series.
Speaker 1: If you got three games with your season on the line,
Speaker 1: what are you rolling out? It's Lindora Alonzo Nimo. I
Speaker 1: thought there'd be someone on the Mets that would jump
Speaker 1: out just a little more, And I don't want that
Speaker 1: to be rude, Like Brandon Nimo is consistently one of
Speaker 1: the best outfielders in the NL. I've been a Pete
Speaker 1: defender this year, but I don't know. I guess, you know,
Speaker 1: there's a Vientos argument that could he be thrown on
Speaker 1: this list. Sure, maybe Mets fans would want to swap
Speaker 1: that out. But it was also kind of funny, like
Speaker 1: these have been the Mets three Severino Manaia Kintana. They've
Speaker 1: been solid. I think when you do start to look
Speaker 1: at the other rotations on paper, I think of the
Speaker 1: National League teams that might be maybe my bottom. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess they're dealing with Milwaukee, but Milwaukee's been built
Speaker 1: different in kind of a weird way that we don't
Speaker 1: know what to do with it. I guess I thought
Speaker 1: the Mets on paper would look a little gnarlier in
Speaker 1: a tough way, like, oh shoot, the Mets. When I
Speaker 1: put on paper, I was like the nine guys you
Speaker 1: might be focusing on coming into a playoff series. Lindor
Speaker 1: has had an amazing year. He's got the backs stuff
Speaker 1: going on. Now, Pete for Pete hasn't been elite. Put
Speaker 1: that on a shirt. And then Neimo's like had some
Speaker 1: up ups and downs this year, Like he's branded he's
Speaker 1: brandon Nimo, where I think some of the other names
Speaker 1: are a little sex here. I can't believe. I guess
Speaker 1: I can believe. When I did this, I did not
Speaker 1: have the Atlanta Braves listed. But the Braves you could
Speaker 1: probably still do quick enough. It would be Ozona Olsen,
Speaker 1: Michael Harris, so Laire Again, not when the Braves you
Speaker 1: think of like Akunya, Austin Riley, and then like Ozzie
Speaker 1: Albi should have an argument. It's great those three are
Speaker 1: not playing for them. The Braves have been hurt with
Speaker 1: injury this year, which brings us to the rotation where
Speaker 1: you know, is it supposed to be Strider and Rinaldo
Speaker 1: Lopez one we believed coming into the season. One we
Speaker 1: believed as a couple of weeks ago. Right now it
Speaker 1: would be Sale Who's gonna be your cy young winner?
Speaker 1: So that's not bad. Max Freed like that a lot,
Speaker 1: and then you could put more in or Schwellenbach foolish.
Speaker 1: Bailey told this on on our program. I'm gonna put Morton.
Speaker 1: I believe in ground Chuck so that rotation still plays,
Speaker 1: which feels like it hasn't been talked about as the
Speaker 1: Brave strength this year. They are third and starting pitcher
Speaker 1: era did you know? Did the Braves are still a
Speaker 1: team you don't want to see in the playoffs. I
Speaker 1: don't know if. I don't know if people realize that yet.
Speaker 1: I guess they have to make the playoffs, and then
Speaker 1: in the bullpen it would be Risle Jill Jimenez put
Speaker 1: up a big year, and then I guess Pierce Johnson
Speaker 1: maybe maybe if I was being illegal, you could put
Speaker 1: Schwellenbach back there. I think Pierce Johnson's been fine for them,
Speaker 1: and they they would believe enough. Aaron Bummer Man, I
Speaker 1: don't know what to do with the Braves. I think
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stop talking about them because I'm gonna talk
Speaker 1: myself in circles. If they could get one or two
Speaker 1: guys back, I don't I don't know, And they still
Speaker 1: have a very good playoff formula. They would just need
Speaker 1: Matt Olson Ozuna soileare Michael Harris like those guys can
Speaker 1: be really good. Sean Murphy's become a little bit of
Speaker 1: an afterthought. It's a lot of good parts, still a
Speaker 1: lot of good parts. That second half of the lineup
Speaker 1: listed third baseman Geo the God or Schella. Sign me
Speaker 1: up for that in a playoff series. Obviously a little
Speaker 1: bias trying to get him before the Braves scoop them up. Uh.
Speaker 1: So that was yours your NLA out. I think the
Speaker 1: takeaways I was expecting to see a little more from
Speaker 1: the Mets. Sorry guys Philly. Oh, I did not say
Speaker 1: the Mets bullpen. It's Diaz and then it's big Sweat
Speaker 1: Tyler McGill and then it's Reed Garrett at this point.
Speaker 1: So that's where I had to really hunt out the
Speaker 1: Mets bullpen. And it didn't feel like the starters or
Speaker 1: the three position players were as strong as some of
Speaker 1: the other teams they would run into in the NL.
Speaker 1: I think the winner of this exercise would probably be Philly,
Speaker 1: Philly or San Diego, depends how much you believe in
Speaker 1: the in the Dodgers lineup, but they're their rotation question
Speaker 1: marks are kind of real. I guess their bullpen should
Speaker 1: be respected as being a little sexier, like we kind
Speaker 1: of have Dodgers fatigue a little bit, like what Kopek's
Speaker 1: been doing is crazy. Trine In is a sicko, and
Speaker 1: Phillip's like was their closer and now you're looking at
Speaker 1: him as maybe six seventh inning if you need to
Speaker 1: get out of a jam. Dodgers obviously have a formula.
Speaker 1: God uh in the al let's hop over. I'll start
Speaker 1: with my Yankees because I was like, hey, I would
Speaker 1: we'll work back east to west. I was like this, uh,
Speaker 1: this will be easy. I know the Yankees well, Judge
Speaker 1: and Soto bing Bong probably the best one two you
Speaker 1: could find right now, bbe d I'll let you think
Speaker 1: on the third for this exercise, because it didn't jump
Speaker 1: out and I had four candidates. There's there's candidates, which
Speaker 1: is kind of crazy. And I guess that's where our
Speaker 1: phrase from talking baseball, you guys know your team better
Speaker 1: than we do. Let us know what I might have
Speaker 1: missed along the way, because I think.
Speaker 2: There's like, yeah, those four guys who it's like kind
Speaker 2: of flavor of the week.
Speaker 1: I wrote, Jazz, Well's, Glabor, and Stan those are the four.
Speaker 1: Labor is very new, but I think I'm gonna eliminate
Speaker 1: him for now. But he's been leading off, playing second base.
Speaker 2: In the like NBA street vibe of this. Just Labor
Speaker 2: loses that, Yes, but.
Speaker 1: That's where Stanton wins. Where I don't know if Stanton
Speaker 1: should win, but maybe Stanton should win because he's also
Speaker 1: been great in the postseason. And then it's Wells or Jazz.
Speaker 1: I think I want to put Stanton. I think I
Speaker 1: think for this exercise in his playoff history and just
Speaker 1: the power factor, yeah, I think he wins.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think my power ranking there would be Stanton
Speaker 2: than Jazz and the other two.
Speaker 1: Austin Well clean up catching uh Cole rod On heel
Speaker 1: that was cleaner than I kind of thought it would be.
Speaker 1: And then it's Weaver, Kinley Cousins, which I think Yankee
Speaker 1: fans feel pretty okay with that, but like outside looking
Speaker 1: in general baseball fans looking at the bullpen, I think
Speaker 1: you'd be like, what.
Speaker 2: Like Cainlee not a shock, but the other two if
Speaker 2: you just haven't checked into the Yankees this way.
Speaker 1: Kinley is a third name. I think anyone would be
Speaker 1: like sure.
Speaker 2: Coming into the year, you know baseball?
Speaker 1: Do you think him in the games? Yankees bullpen hasn't
Speaker 1: been an issue. Well, there's the clay Home situation. Yankee
Speaker 1: fans feel oddly okay with it, but it's a reminder
Speaker 1: that playoff baseball could make us feel very not okay
Speaker 1: with it very quickly. Baltimore, this became an interesting third
Speaker 1: in a couple categories Gunner and Santander. I think, no
Speaker 1: argument it should be Adley Rushman, right, but is it
Speaker 1: Cedric Mullins. I think I want to put Mullins for now,
Speaker 1: but I will ask Baltimore fans to reach out. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're still gonna lean on ADLEI but Cedric got moved
Speaker 1: up in the lineup. He's playing a great center field
Speaker 1: again that I think he's He would be my third
Speaker 1: as of now in the rotation. God, this was awesome.
Speaker 1: It's burn a couple snaps for them. Zach Efflin I
Speaker 1: wasn't impressed with as their deadline ad him and Jack
Speaker 1: Flaherty currently penciled in as their team's two man. Pretty wild.
Speaker 1: And then for the third, it's our guy Suarez who
Speaker 1: snuck up on us. This year, Albert Suarez or it's
Speaker 1: Dean Kramer. Kramer's been pitching better. I hate that I
Speaker 1: can't put Albert Suarez on there. I'll put Dean Kramer
Speaker 1: for now, and then in the bullpen it's Sir Anthony
Speaker 1: de Mingez Yennier Cano, and I'm putting Craig Kimbrel. I
Speaker 1: know he got demoted, but dirty Craig had a really
Speaker 1: strong year before he did. And he's Craig Kimberrel, Like
Speaker 1: you'd rather kind of lose by that guy than maybe
Speaker 1: Siano Perez. And their different roles, it's lefty righty. Birds
Speaker 1: have more depth then I remembered, and that has a
Speaker 1: little to do with adding Gregory Soto and Sir Anthony Domingez.
Speaker 1: The Phillies just said, nah, that's gonna be wild to watch.
Speaker 1: Those were two impact guys for Philly the past couple
Speaker 1: of postseasons, and they just gave him anyways, So Orioles
Speaker 1: grat out decently in this exercise. Let's see if they
Speaker 1: get Gray Rod back or anything like that. Cleveland was
Speaker 1: funny because they actually do pretty fantastic in this exercise
Speaker 1: because it's Jose Ramirez who can go toe to toe
Speaker 1: with anyone. It's even Kwan, who two way can go
Speaker 1: toe to toe with a lot of the league. And
Speaker 1: then I put Naylor. He's the heart and soul, He's
Speaker 1: the power bat. He's in the middle of the lineup.
Speaker 1: If you wanted to make Jimenez arguments, I don't know.
Speaker 1: You need a lot of You need a lot of
Speaker 1: big plays from second base that day, and maybe he will.
Speaker 1: The rotation was hilarious. It's the first time I'll put
Speaker 1: a question mark. I put baby Boyd in question Mark.
Speaker 1: Cobb got hurt. They've got Gavin Williams and some other
Speaker 1: young guys like Joey Cantillo thrown himself in the mix late.
Speaker 1: I'd rather just put question mark our guy Ben Lively.
Speaker 1: You might see a bullpen day out of them slash,
Speaker 1: you'll see one of those starters with as short of
Speaker 1: a leash. But where they win is bullpen. Uh And
Speaker 1: it's Class A. It's Gaddis and Smith. You know, for
Speaker 1: those not familiar with Kate Smith, he's kind of outpitched
Speaker 1: Mason Miller to be the best reliever in baseball this year.
Speaker 1: Our best rookie reliever. Class A has been the best
Speaker 1: reliever in baseball and Hunter Gaddis is electric. So Cleveland,
Speaker 1: although the biggest literal question mark in the rotation, they
Speaker 1: probably have the best bl and their big three can
Speaker 1: dance with you. Jay Ram's top five MVP every year,
Speaker 1: Kwan is great both ways and Naylor that guy gets
Speaker 1: the sauce in a playoff series and you do not
Speaker 1: want to see him at the plate. So the Guardians
Speaker 1: actually came out from this better than expected where I think.
Speaker 1: Milwaukee kind of landed where I thought, and we lump
Speaker 1: Midwest teams together because we're coastal elitis Minnesota. You want
Speaker 1: to rack your brain for a while, knock yourself out.
Speaker 1: They actually do well on the big three, but their
Speaker 1: big three never play. It's Royce Lewis, Carlos Correa and
Speaker 1: Byron Buxton. Byron Buckston almost ended up on our all
Speaker 1: underrated team, which the people would not have liked. But
Speaker 1: statistically it's insane. Korea just came back. Remember when he
Speaker 1: went nut job this year. He's been out for a while.
Speaker 1: He's back. He's talking about two way and Royce Lewis,
Speaker 1: he's like the new guy. But all three of these
Speaker 1: guys have just crazy injury history and somehow the Twins
Speaker 1: have still won throughout the year. They're like, I couldn't
Speaker 1: put Carlos Santana on the list this list. Maybe I
Speaker 1: don't put Carlos Santana on any of my lists. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's a me thing, just not a Santana on list.
Speaker 2: Skuy, It's tough.
Speaker 1: So that was a weird three to put down as
Speaker 1: your best three players when it's like I haven't seen
Speaker 1: most of them for half a season, but the Twins
Speaker 1: still might be at the dance. They might blow it.
Speaker 2: It's probably like how many games of all three of
Speaker 2: them played together? Number that's out out there.
Speaker 1: That would be a talking baseball numbee stat. Pablo Lopez
Speaker 1: has bounced back, still a great guy to have in
Speaker 1: your rotation. Bailey over the Nightmare has put together a
Speaker 1: good season. I put SWR. Simeon Woods Richardson. They are
Speaker 1: their third starter, probably not where they like they'd like
Speaker 1: it to be. The top two are fine, Ober, I
Speaker 1: don't know. And then Duran Griffin Jacks has been really
Speaker 1: good this year. And I put Cole Sands Twins fans,
Speaker 1: if you want to roast me for that, Uh loses
Speaker 1: some sex appeal after those first two the Kansas City Royals.
Speaker 1: This one I got excited for because I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: Royals up right, like this should be a great one
Speaker 1: for the Royals. Unfortunately, Vinnie Pasquentino getting hurt really hurts
Speaker 1: because it's with Salvey and then and then the people
Speaker 1: fighting to be the third best player on the Royals.
Speaker 1: Right now, Tommy fam who the Cardinals just let go.
Speaker 1: You're free to leave. That's the door. I know there's
Speaker 1: some time me fam asterisks there.
Speaker 2: But.
Speaker 1: I put Michael Massey, the young second baseman with a
Speaker 1: nice swing. Otherwise we're looking at like Michael Franco, who's
Speaker 1: been or Garcia excuse me, I always do that. He's
Speaker 1: been like a net negative for them at chunks of
Speaker 1: this season. It was pretty nuts for how much this
Speaker 1: year we've talked about like top of the Royals lineup.
Speaker 1: They really got some up there with pasquin Tino out.
Speaker 2: Hmmm, how much you changed this exercise?
Speaker 1: It's it's bizarre. It's the NBA Jam team. You're like, oh, rotation,
Speaker 1: they do great lug O Reagan Singer, Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: you could swap Michael Wackle, Mike Wacky. You could swipe
Speaker 1: Michael Waka in but we need him or one of
Speaker 1: them in the bullpen because it's Lucas erseg I just
Speaker 1: put question marks again, Royals fans. I feel like we
Speaker 1: just did this a recent episode ago. I mean, if
Speaker 1: we just needed I would I would literally put a
Speaker 1: question mark in the graphic again. As a Chris Bubich
Speaker 1: who's been pitching well for them, John Schreiber. Put Schreiber
Speaker 1: in there. I can believe in him for a postseason inning.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that was They were a tough one for me.
Speaker 1: I've kind of been drinking the Royals kool aid and
Speaker 1: seeing that it's tough to get them a third hitter,
Speaker 1: it's tough to get them a second true bullpen guy.
Speaker 1: Compare that to like, go back to the Padres. Jeremiah
Speaker 1: Strada didn't make their top three bullpen guys. He had
Speaker 1: a scoreless streak this year, like fourteen innings. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a tough That was a tough Central head
Speaker 1: turn for me. Detroit. I'd listed it out, but let's
Speaker 1: not put it on there. Although they had the same problems.
Speaker 1: It's Riley Green, Kerry Carpenter, and then I put Parker Meadows,
Speaker 1: who's had a good couple weeks. The rotation is even work.
Speaker 1: It's Scoobale, Kider Montero, who's had two good starts, and
Speaker 1: then I put Brant Herder just because we joked about
Speaker 1: him on the show, but that got thin. They do
Speaker 1: have a bullpen. I put Foley Holton in Vest but
Speaker 1: Detroit a lot of the centrals not great for this
Speaker 1: exercise out west the Houston Astros, and I did have
Speaker 1: a head till I put Altuve, Jordan, and then Tucker,
Speaker 1: which leaves Bregman off the list. Which think about that,
Speaker 1: like the only team that we've really had to fight
Speaker 1: for players left off the list in our true way
Speaker 1: was like San Diego. So just a reminder what Houston
Speaker 1: has going on rotation. I put Framber, Blanco and Kakuchi
Speaker 1: for now. That leaves off Justin Verlander, Hunter, Brown, Spencer
Speaker 1: Arraghetty in their bullpen. This was a great reminder that
Speaker 1: they were built for this hater abray you Presley again,
Speaker 1: this is with Verlander off the list, this is with
Speaker 1: Aragetti off the list, This is with whoever else you want.
Speaker 1: Houston did very well in this exercise. Reminder that there's
Speaker 1: going to be a lot of talk about them come
Speaker 1: this October and then a fun one for me to
Speaker 1: finish it off. The Seattle Mariners. You guys are out right?
Speaker 1: Or are they two games back of Minnesota as I
Speaker 1: record this? And they do okay? Because it's they don't
Speaker 1: do okay, they do okay. It's Julio cal Raleigh, and
Speaker 1: I put Randy Randy Rose Arena especially come postseason in
Speaker 1: our NBA Jam version of this. Sure, I also wanted
Speaker 1: to put my new king, Victor Roebliss in there, but
Speaker 1: we'll keep him out for this exercise and then they're
Speaker 1: gonna do great the rest of the way because it's
Speaker 1: Kirby Gilbert. I put Castillo in there because I think
Speaker 1: he's trying to come back from the hammy. And then
Speaker 1: in the bullpen, I put Munho's Miller and Wu. Let's
Speaker 1: throw them out there. Screw it right. I know they
Speaker 1: like what they do in their bullpen. The other names,
Speaker 1: by the way, didn't jump out. Colin Schneider got a
Speaker 1: shout out last talk in baseball. I think they'd rather
Speaker 1: go to Woo or Miller if it was a playoff series.
Speaker 1: Seattle did better in this exercise than I thought they would,
Speaker 1: and it's a reminder if they sneak in the postseason,
Speaker 1: and it's kind of the whole thing. You don't want
Speaker 1: to see those cats. I know what Randy does come
Speaker 1: up October. Julio's been playing a lot better, Big dumper,
Speaker 1: Captain Clutch. This exercise, maybe it brought you some new opinions, crazy,
Speaker 1: I guess things. I really liked how much Houston jumped
Speaker 1: off the board, and it was like, oh, oh shit,
Speaker 1: the thinness of Kansas City losing Pasquentino, the question mark
Speaker 1: that is Minnesota, Like in a way they deserve snaps
Speaker 1: for having a good year while missing out on their
Speaker 1: three best players a lot, but no one knows what
Speaker 1: to do with that franchise. And then it was just
Speaker 1: cool to see how strong dude the NL West. I
Speaker 1: know it's got talked about a lot early as we're
Speaker 1: figuring out this season, but love the Snakes, love the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: love the Padres. Uh and one of, if not two
Speaker 1: of those teams is gonna be out quick. So with that,
Speaker 1: I'm a speed run through the NFL weekend for you. Uh,
Speaker 1: we got a we got a busy day. You've seen
Speaker 1: the haircut, You've seen the mock turtleneck. What are they
Speaker 1: up to at John Boy Media? Uh, we're up to
Speaker 1: watching football this weekend. Jets Patriots at MetLife. We're all
Speaker 1: gonna watch because it's football, but I don't really want
Speaker 1: to watch. It would be massive for the Jets to
Speaker 1: win this football game, to beat two and one with
Speaker 1: Rogers in like healthy and beat the Patriots, who have
Speaker 1: been like your biggest bugaboo. I'm not saying I believe
Speaker 1: they haven't unjetsied me yet. If they win this, they
Speaker 1: could kind of un Jetsy. Let's see it on Sunday.
Speaker 1: No funny business game, No, no London game yet. Week five.
Speaker 1: You know I'm excited. New York the Giants and the Browns.
Speaker 1: No thank you. The Browns are gonna end up being
Speaker 1: two and one. Insane h Green Bay at Tennessee, no
Speaker 1: thank you, be honest. Let's see if Will Levis can
Speaker 1: cannot have horrible turnovers they here's the Colts kind of
Speaker 1: no thank you. Anthony Richardson needs a bounce back in
Speaker 1: a big way. It's gonna be man the oh and
Speaker 1: two Colts. It doesn't feel like they should be that well.
Speaker 1: The Bears don't feel like they should be one and one.
Speaker 1: I might take some Colts juice in that game. They're
Speaker 1: only minus one and a half run Jonathan Taylor every play.
Speaker 1: Houston at Minnesota a sneaky yes, give me that. Let's
Speaker 1: see what Sam Darnold and the boys up to do.
Speaker 1: They have more to build on there. They host Houston.
Speaker 1: They just beat San Francisco in that building. Houston did
Speaker 1: not look pretty last week. They are two and oh,
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings are two and oh. One of these
Speaker 1: teams is gonna be three and oh, and the Vikes
Speaker 1: have a shot to do it at home. Houston a favorite.
Speaker 1: What does Vegas know? They know that Houston's really good.
Speaker 1: Although I didn't love what I saw against the Bears,
Speaker 1: I might fade the fade on that one. Orleans hosting Philly, Hello,
Speaker 1: I will watch that. Let's see everyone's drinking the Saints
Speaker 1: kool aid. Philly has to feel miserable after that loss.
Speaker 1: Saquon Slash you can't call that play. Sorry, Sirianni. I
Speaker 1: like what Philly sports fans are about. I'm not a
Speaker 1: Sirianni guy, which is weird because I'm Italian. I guess
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not into the Sirianni big dom
Speaker 1: thing at all, and I like Philly kind of don't
Speaker 1: have the heart to tell Shelfy this. No need, don't listen,
Speaker 1: Shelfy subscribe. But yeah, New Orleans getting all the flowers
Speaker 1: in the world Philadelphia with in a fight or flight game.
Speaker 1: I think Philly figures it out. They should have won
Speaker 1: last night's game easily, but maybe Sirianni's actually a problem.
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh hosts the Chargers. Oh what a coach off Tomlin
Speaker 1: versus Harbaugh. Watch for the handshake, Watch for the defensive
Speaker 1: that wins the game. Pittsburgh minus two for their shot
Speaker 1: to go too and oh three and oh one of
Speaker 1: those teams is gonna be three and oh NFL man
Speaker 1: Vegas at Carolina, No thank you, but I'm in on
Speaker 1: what Vegas is doing. Carolina benches Bryce Young, brutal, Max
Speaker 1: Crosby is going to eat eat Andy dlon Go Raiders.
Speaker 1: Seattle hosts Miami. That's fun because Seattle's the perfect Miami team, right.
Speaker 1: Seattle's like a five hundred team. So does Miami roll
Speaker 1: them and they're good this year? Or does Miami lose
Speaker 1: because Seattle's decent? Kind of not gonna care but this
Speaker 1: is in the four pm slate. Wow, So the one
Speaker 1: pm slate give me the Tomlin Harbaugh coach off. Absolutely
Speaker 1: and New Orleans at Philly, that's fun. Four pm, Miami Seattle, Sure,
Speaker 1: Baltimore at Dallas. Dallas just got pooped on, so did Baltimore.
Speaker 1: The Ravens are zero to two. Who Lamar's Ravens and
Speaker 1: another Harball to go zero in three at the hand
Speaker 1: of the Cowboys. You're gonna see boys fighting in that
Speaker 1: one Ravens O line I think is bad. That's why
Speaker 1: Panic picked the Raiders to upset them. Dallas can get
Speaker 1: after it in the right conditions. Holy smokes, there's gonna
Speaker 1: be an angry fan base. Same with San Francisco in
Speaker 1: the Rams. The Rams trying to bounce back after getting
Speaker 1: just destroyed by Arizona. Nobody really talked about that. And
Speaker 1: this is Shanahan. We looked up these numbers. Shanahan's now
Speaker 1: nine to four against McVeigh that. Yeah, a lot of
Speaker 1: everything would tell you the Niners would bounce back. But
Speaker 1: it's no McCaffrey, no debouh man. This is a fun
Speaker 1: Week three. I'm glad I did this. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: jazzy on them as Detroit heads to Arizona, the two
Speaker 1: teams that have beaten the Rams. Arizona's played two good games.
Speaker 1: Arizona was a unscore game against Buffalo, and remember they
Speaker 1: kind of had that game and they blew it and
Speaker 1: then they blew out the Rams. They host Detroit, Detroit's
Speaker 1: gonna be hungry. Oh buckle up, I'm in. And it
Speaker 1: all ends with Kirky Jerky Sunday Night football. Kirk and
Speaker 1: the Falcons, coming off their big win host Kansas City.
Speaker 1: That place will be rocking man. Kirk just won over
Speaker 1: a full city with that final drive. I don't know
Speaker 1: it's mahomes until it's not. Oh. Actually, for anyone with Falcons, hope, wow.
Speaker 1: Two Monday night games Bill's Jags since he Washington burps
Speaker 1: into the mic, we'll get to that next Monday. I
Speaker 1: believe in storylines, a storyline that I did not know
Speaker 1: that's happening. As the Kansas City Chiefs go for a
Speaker 1: three peat Kansas City eight game win streak, I think
Speaker 1: that's gonna become more of a thing. I think that
Speaker 1: win streak's gonna get to double digits. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: part of the storyline this year, the Chiefs going for
Speaker 1: a three peat, which no NFL team has done. The Chiefs,
Speaker 1: Kelsey and Taylor mahomes the best ever. Jason Kelsey can't
Speaker 1: get off the broadcast broadcast. I think Chiefs win streak
Speaker 1: becomes a big story. I think that's gonna be a
Speaker 1: part of this season. So I don't know when it
Speaker 1: gets real. Maybe it's all wrong. They've got at Falcons
Speaker 1: Chargers Saints Niners game. I think we're gonna see put
Speaker 1: it down in the memory book that we might have
Speaker 1: to clip the end of this episode. At one point,
Speaker 1: I think the Chiefs win streak starts heading too the
Speaker 1: twelve fourteen range and starts becoming a real storyline of
Speaker 1: this season. With that, make sure you're subscribed and make
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