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#12 | The Yankees Clinch the Bye and the Giants are Eliminated
27 Plays1 year ago
In the West the sun has set on the 2024 San Francisco Giants after a disastrous road trip but they did play spoiler in revenge against the Orioles. In the East a new dawn rises for the Yankees as they have clinched the Bye yet the Division lies just beyond their grasp. This episode ends with Andrew and Liam discussing hypothetical match ups.
0:00 Intro
1:18 The Giants have been eliminated
3:29 Heliot Ramos makes history and Mcovey Cove Dave drama for the ball
15:52 The Giants have played HORRENDOUS baseball before elimination
17:28 Even Andrew's Out of the Park Giants team isn't doing great
18:20 Yankees clinch the Bye (but not the division quite yet)
20:04 Dominguez has been brought up
20:58 Volpe has made a great turn around
21:19 Nestor is back in the rotation, Stroman to the bullpen
22:06 Yankees have had a good end of season stretch
22:31 The end of the regular season is a preview into the potential Division Series
23:35 Judge is on a home run tear
23:54 Andrew's thinly veiled segue to an Ohtani rant
24:21 Andrew's Ohtani rant
25:03 John Fisher continues to suck donkey dong
27:01 The Yankees have a new closer
40:25 A vibe based hypothetical Post Season match ups (as of 25 Sep)
40:37 AL Wild Card Tigers vs Astros
41:50 ALDS Astros vs Guardians
44:16 AL Wild Card Royals vs Orioles
45:45 ALDS Orioles vs Yankees
46:51 ALCS #1 Guardians vs Yankees
47:06 ALCS #2 Guardians vs Orioles
47:55 NL Wild Card D-backs vs Brewers
49:10 NL Wild Card Mets vs Padres
49:49 NLDS Phillies vs Brewers
55:16 NLDS Padres vs Bums (or: another Andrew rant)
1:00:48 NLCS #1 Phillies vs Padres (or: another Andrew rant II: Wholesome Edition)
1:05:58 NLCS #2 Phillies vs Bums
1:07:12 WS #1 Orioles vs Bums
1:08:42 WS #2 Orioles vs Phillies
1:09:16 WS #3 Yankees vs Padres
1:10:25 WS #4 Yankees vs Phillies
1:11:39 Outro
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Transcript
Podcast Introduction
00:00:09
Speaker
Hello and welcome to Two Front War. A biweekly podcast us will be covering the Yankees post-season jaunt and I will just be twiddling my thumbs. With me as always is Liam and I'm Andrew by the way.
Hurricane and Host Updates
00:00:25
Speaker
I'm Liam. is currently dealing with ah some fun hurricane problems. The storm is about to hit.
00:00:37
Speaker
It's a brace for impact. Everybody, let's just hope Liam listens to the evacuation notices. I mean, if it's given by DeSantis, I don't know. Maybe I'll maybe i'll hitch my bets. Stay with me. OK, I don't know about that, but all right. oh My house is woke, so like I don't know if he trusts it. OK.
00:01:02
Speaker
ah ah Me I don't have any natural disasters or natural disasters to to deal with Over in my area of the country.
Giants' Postseason Elimination
00:01:12
Speaker
No hurricane hit here. I'd be very concerned um William major the Giants have been eliminated. They have after a quite quite soon Like soon after we recorded right? No, there's last week. It was like a few days. Well, I
00:01:33
Speaker
Recording two days late. I think three days later. What's the day Wednesday? Oh shit. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So, uh, they're recording ah significantly later in the week than we typically do, but, um, uh, they, they, they were flirting with a, uh, a, uh, one game elimination by the time they they got swept by the Padres. So let's talk about that, I guess. Yeah. If if you, if you want, let me look at their schedule real quick. Um,
00:02:03
Speaker
Oh, if you go into October on the Giants schedule, it says there are no games scheduled for this date. ah So they start off like it's the Brewers and they have a bad time. They dropped to um the second game. They won a crazy shutout, not shutout, but it's like a blowout is they won 13 to. Then they got swept by the Padres at home. That was fun. Go on a road trip.
00:02:35
Speaker
and decided that they're finally going to play the spoiler and they decide that they're going to kill the Orioles chances of the bye week or the bye the slot in the season by taking it.
Elliott Ramos' Historical Moment
00:02:46
Speaker
Thank you. By taking two out of the three games, the first game they won ten zero, the second game they won five three in the last game, they lost three five, which is the one that eliminated them from the postseason. Then they went on to go sweep the Royals. Cool. And now they've taken two out of ah three from the DBACs. They play tonight in about an hour.
00:03:05
Speaker
and they have the cardinals after that we're not going to cover the cardinals game cuz why where it was to be focusing on uh... on uh... the in keys uh... but some stuff some interesting some fun stuff has happened uh... that you haven't had a baby came back for the defects game and just started just smacking those balls around so that's cool uh... eliot ramos made made made giants history leon He's the first giant. He's not just the first he's not just the first giant, but the first MLB player to get a splash hit as a right hander. That's true. or that's That's big, and including, including batting practice. So that's awesome. um You want to talk about the McCovey Cove Dave drama about that? Yeah. Yeah.
Controversy Over Historic Baseball
00:03:57
Speaker
Do you know about what what what what's going on with that? The drama's trying to get no. OK.
00:04:03
Speaker
So, uh, McCovey Cove, Dave is ah a dude, he's a Giants fan. He, um, since the park open, so 24 years, uh, you know, in his cat kayak, you know, you always see the people in the kayaks and, uh, you know, they go after the balls, right? Um, for, for all the, all the splash hits and he gets the ball. He, uh, he had a previous, I forget which, what, what the deal was.
00:04:33
Speaker
But someone got a splash hit. And they went to go negotiate. I think it was the other team got the splash hit. So they went to go negotiate with them. And and McCovey Cove Dave wanted to be able to park in the staff parking. Which the Giants were like, no, we're not going to we're not going to do that. We'll give you like a batter tickets or whatever. I don't know. But they were going to let him park in the the staff parking. That's important. OK, because fast forward to Elliott Ramos is history making splash hit. You know, McCovey Cove Dave gets the ball. The team goes to negotiate like, OK, like, well, what would you like to for for the ball, right? Decide that he's not going to negotiate for it, but he is willing to share it with Cooperstown. I don't know if Cooperstown really has any. Any interest in the ball. Really?
00:05:27
Speaker
Do you think so? It's like first hand first. I don't know. Like it seems like the story. Yeah. I don't know. It just seems like it's more of a team thing than it is like a comparatively. Yes. But I can see why Cooperstown would have an interest. Yeah. OK. So anyway, he decided McCovey Cove. Dave decided that he was not going to give the ball back to the Giants by extension. Elliott Ramos, right? Which is like, OK, kind of kind of a douchebag move, I would say, because
00:05:58
Speaker
You know, it's kind of history making ball. oh
00:06:04
Speaker
You know, he kind of cited the last negotiation for over that ball so for it. So people were kind of like, obviously mad, right? And then he decided to double down. And and and make it even worse, because I mean, you just have to take my word on this, but Like I like before before he doubled down. I'm like, OK, like, yeah, he's I think like if it were me, I would give the ball back, right? Yeah. But if. um But, you know, you know the laws on the Covey Cove Dave side, like anything that goes outside the the the play area into the stands or outside the park. And will be no longer owns a ball. If he wants to give it back, he can give it back. If he doesn't, he doesn't. There's nothing anyone can do, right?
00:06:53
Speaker
yeah But where he lost me is and you just have to like, just take my word that that was my stance at the time. But then where he lost me is that when he doubled down and said that why he wouldn't give it back to Elliott Ramos was because that he believed Elliott Ramos did not earn it. He doesn't really mean the ball being returned. He said that Elliott Ramos has not been with the team long enough to warrant getting the ball back. He said that Elliott Ramos If Elliott had Elliott Ramos been on the team for 10 years that he would have gotten the ball back. But he hasn't. He's his rookie, but he hasn't been on the team for 10 years. So Dave decided that not deserving of the ball. Now, he definitely wants to be on the team for 10 years now. like What the fuck? I know. Right. And then now then when he he like tripled down on it,
00:07:47
Speaker
He said that he would give the ball to former giant, now ra road game commentator, Hunter Pence, who was a great guy, Hunter Pence, great guy. And it's kind of sad seeing that his name being dragged into all this, right? Yeah. Because he's just funny. Great Instagram follow, great on on the mic. But he said that if it was Hunter Pence, that he would give the ball to Hunter Pence. But Hunter Pence was not a giant for 10 years. Yeah.
00:08:16
Speaker
So it's like, why? So is is it is it about time? Is it about what they do? Elliott Ramos is like 20s, like early 20s. Like, you know, ah he' is he's he's 25. So like and he he just he's like, he just really is is on on the team now. He actually kind of poses a little bit of a problem with the outfield i because he went off. But ah You know, he's like on he's on League minimum, which, yeah, sure. By like me and you standards is if we got paid League minimum, we'd be very happy, right? Yeah, I'd be happy. But, you know, he's it's he's.
00:09:05
Speaker
There's really not much that he can do like charity wise, right? What do you mean? Because like if if the thing is like because like part of the thing is like he doesn't really like right now, he's like not doing like.
00:09:16
Speaker
big charity stuff, right? Like, Hunter Pence has like foundations right now, right? But L.A. Ramos, L.A. Ramos is an active player making, I assume, league minimum.
00:09:29
Speaker
he's He's really just like in in, you know, focusing on himself. So like, like, You know, like what do you want me if you won the the was it the Roberto Clemente award that you give the ball back that that's him giving back to San Francisco. Like, no, like right now where he is as a rookie, as a rookie, he gives back to the city by ah doing that. He is his. Put all eyes on San Francisco and on the Giants. He did what was deemed impossible. That was almost done by Buster Posey, if not for for the splash cannon.
00:10:05
Speaker
So I don't know it's a very yeah, he seems very territorial about it for whatever reason yeah, and that kind of brought up the the issue of like well, what do you meant about the Giants were because you know the Giants have finally like Decided that hey those kayakers, maybe they should be allowed to watch the game So they installed giant screens on the outside of the park in the Cove and So like whenever you're you're waiting for a ball to get hit, you can at least watch the game and not, you know, see what's going on.
00:10:40
Speaker
I know. What are your thoughts on that and that whole debacle? I don't understand why he's being very territorial about it. Yeah. And why he's like looking for like a broader like team culturally appreciation for something.
00:10:59
Speaker
Yeah, it's very weird. It's very weird. It is weird. It's so weird because like I've never seen a dude just spiral that fast, especially someone that just has like very a very niche and like a very niche like fame, I guess. I mean, he has a he wears a shirt with his name on it.
00:11:24
Speaker
And then now it's just like, oh, dude, like, and then now, you know, people are showing like a bunch of other times that he's because, like, you know, the Internet just makes compilations of everything. Yeah. And then now, like, there's compilations of like, ah here's him being a little aggressive with other kayakers out at at the the and the the bay, the cove. And then ah it's the seasickness. He's gone mad. Oh, you know, like the the craziest quote that came out of that was saying that that ah him getting the ball was like,
00:11:54
Speaker
was his ultimate like getting the right hand first ah right hand splash hit ball was not just his it just wasn't his ultimate goal which I could believe that but then he talked about like how hard he worked for it and I like I feel like Ramos did like 90% of you getting that ball like 99% of you getting that ball was was all Ramos
00:12:19
Speaker
like ah i don't know it's just like all you i mean all oh uh... i'm possibly retired from a job and now i can go to all eighty one home games for almost a quarter century you know you have come scone of all that story has kinda dropped out but uh... i guess i should do the due diligence in after saying all that See if he did give the ball back do you think i should do that Yes before we um He has a Twitter But it looks like there's no update no update ah His last Twitter was from 2022
00:13:14
Speaker
ah You probably have more giant stuff, but a semi-related note ah guess who caught judges a 56 long run You know will be wild, you know, you know who'd be a wild person catch that ball Hey, and I know it's not because of obvious reasons, but also because we'd never stop hearing about it. But if it was Otani,
00:13:37
Speaker
Can that be weird? Could you imagine like how it's saying that would be? And how we would and how we would never hear like we would never stop hearing about it. But the story would only be about how Tony got the ball, not judge hitting the home run. Kind of. Yeah, that'd be funny. Who who caught his mom? Zach Campbell. Oh. Oh, no. Yeah, that sucks.
00:14:05
Speaker
how many How many children do you step on to get the the ball? um I didn't see the actual video. I just saw him holding it up. So still waiting on the evidence. Oh, no. Do you think it's an omen for the postseason? I hope it isn't. I'm all right. i think I think he caught one of ah one of his ball host homeroom balls during the 62 homeroom season. But as its I have to check that.
00:14:33
Speaker
No way. he Do you think he would give the ball back to judge or or like that? Well, like that one. Was it was it a dude or was it a lady that that cop? What was at the time, judges? Like the the big, you know, the big homerun ball and then she's like, like, yeah, they gave it immediately to the mom. I think it was 61 that they gave immediately. No, there was there was 61. I believe. Yeah. yeah So 61 was like the person caught it and was just like immediately gives us to Aaron Judge's mom. How very nice.
00:15:03
Speaker
A very nice, very, very selfless because like teams do. I mean, your your options are like selling the ball, auctioning the ball or or getting like. ah Assigned bat, which would be pretty cool.
00:15:21
Speaker
I think personally, if I could, if if if if I lived in the the city where my favorite team played, I definitely asked for like lifetime tickets. I don't know if that's a thing you can get, but I think it'd be pretty cool.
00:15:33
Speaker
I did that that's a cool thing to demand for I'd like to ask yes, okay like i just want I just want to be able to come in whenever like I'm like two tickets to lifetime tickets me and a guest For lifetime tickets, but only two of them can go to kids the children or I'm willing to get niche with it ah just kind of one thing to kind of Last thing to really talk about the Giants is that just how this Liam do you know how many runs they scored?
00:16:04
Speaker
across three games against the Padres. Five. They scored a total of three runs. Okay. They got shut out the first two games. It was so bad that, uh, Beaumont said that, uh, it looked like it was, um, was an instruction, instructional ball out there. So on there, I think it was on The day of the Orioles game, the for the first one, they they were just doing what you do at spring training and they were just passing ah practicing their relays. so um I'll be honest with you, man, like after the ah actually they got eliminated, like i'm umm i mean I'm checked out for the rest of the season, the rest of the season being, as of this point, four more games.
00:16:52
Speaker
um But that that that's about it for for the giant stuff unless you have any questions.
00:17:00
Speaker
ah Expectations as of right now for next season or immediate future. Oh, I think that's a conversation that might be better for like a. yeah Like our first episode, just do it right before opening opening day. OK. Then get my thoughts in order and. Let me. ah not be so reactive to the season we had. I have started, I did start my 2024 season of and of Out of the Park. okay Not great. Not great.
00:17:39
Speaker
ah my My simulation Jorge Soler has gone the path of real-life Jorge Soler So he's only dHing when or actually he's only playing when either Wilmer Flores who I've made my DH or Conforto are tired He's also a DH when Matt Chapman is tired so then I or Matt Chapman or Lamont Wade jr. Are tired because Wilmer Flores can fit both of those spots and
00:18:11
Speaker
I'm like 17 and 20 something right now. I'm having a bad time against everyone. All right. But Liam, the Yankees have not just, well, they have not clinched the division yet, but yeah they have clinched the bye. They are the number one seed of the American League. um If the postseason was started today on the American League side,
00:18:35
Speaker
It would be between. It'd be Yankees with the by. The Guardians with the by. Wild cards, seeds four and five would be Orioles versus Kansas City, and then three and six would be. Astros and the Dark Horse, Detroit, Detroit, Detroit, Detroit line dot online line line, Tigers. Oh, my God, Tigers, Tigers, Tigers. It's not fair that they're that they have two cats.
00:19:05
Speaker
If the two get themed teams, it seems messes me up. The Tigers with their funny 1920s logo, which they have to bring out at some point during the postseason if they make it. Mm hmm. So what do you think? That's also about tell us about the Yankees, what they've been up to. And I was very doomer last episode, quite notably. But we both were damn damn if things didn't turn around. Oh, I'll say that much. Right when they needed to. Right.
Yankees' Season Turnaround
00:19:38
Speaker
Right when they needed to. Literally right when they needed to. I was i was down in the dumps after.
00:19:46
Speaker
Like. Oh, nearly every series we covered, I was trying to manage my anger throughout, but they they've been on a tear as of recent and. Yeah, I got to I got to give credit where it's due. People are starting to. You know, get things done.
00:20:05
Speaker
they they yeah They made changes. They brought up Dominguez, finally. And he's he's not been the immediate plug-in, which everyone was expecting him to, for whatever reason. Dominguez was not an immediate plug-in to to like like an immediate improvement over and Verdugo, which everyone wanted to was expecting him to be, but he's been playing more than him. ah He's made some very notable errors, very Instagram, Twitter where the errors always been there, but not nothing like horrendous or whatever. Nothing like career killing. He's still like him in a lot of extents, but judge has reached his second gear. Soto has reached his second gear. Chisholm was looking great defensively. Volpi
00:20:59
Speaker
Just as everyone would start to catch on like, hey, Volpi at the beginning of the season and Volpi now kind of like two different ah offensive players at the very least. He's finally like broken whatever slumps people have assigned him and he's been doing quite good. That's good. That's good.
00:21:17
Speaker
ah Nestor was originally moved to the bullpen yeah after a couple of good starts. He is now back and they've switched ah What's his face? Strowman. Strowman. They switched Strowman in for now. ah If there are going to be a couple more changes before the postseason comes, I'd say I'd see who else they could move in, maybe see what Schmidt can do coming out of the bullpen. But they're just getting their bearings, see who's good in which kind of spot. Again, the the little micromanaging of it all. Not always bad, but yeah.
00:21:58
Speaker
Good stuff going on as of late. That's kind of like the big broader picture kind of thing. Won the series against the Royals. Won a four game series against the Red Sox. Won three game series against the Mariners. Swept the A's.
00:22:16
Speaker
and currently facing off the Orioles game. The Orioles name just started, but yesterday they lost the first game against the Orioles. I'm looking at the score right now. It's bottom of the first. It's bottom of the first three three no three nothing Baltimore. Yeah. um it's this What's kind of interesting is like you, you're like you and the Yankees and the Orioles and Hutters and Dodgers are, we're we're kind of just seeing a taste of what the division series is going to be like. Yeah.
00:22:47
Speaker
Cuz like both those teams just they were all for those teams just played against or actually they're currently playing against each other. Yeah How are the Padres doing? I can't believe them I'm going for the Padres right now The only the only good thing that came out of us getting swept by the Padres is is that there's potential that That they could ah boot the Dodgers from Clinching the division, which would be so funny Mm-hmm. That would be hilarious. Oh, like, come on. Don't waste. ah Has it started? yet Oh, no, I haven't started yet. It's not going to start for another hour and a half or two and a half hours. But no, I love that. game The Giants did win the the first game or the Giants. The Padres won the first game. but You idiot. You're not. Stop coping. Stop coming. That that's.
00:23:35
Speaker
Currently, where we're at, a judge, again, on his home run tear is at 56 last time I checked. Let me check again. After a pretty significant slump. Kind of, yeah. That was a little while back, though. Yeah. Got a judge home run to 2024. Still at 56. How did you feel about Otani's 53rd home run getting way more exciting? Getting a fancy graphic on MLB. Compared to the judge's 56th.
00:24:06
Speaker
a Shows where their priorities lie, but yeah oh yeah you know you get you get a graphic designer for one job And you get the intern for the other I'm gonna get It's gonna be a whole decade of that, huh? Maybe maybe not we'll see oh time is gonna be like 38 And then we're gonna be like then we'll be like can you believe this old man? Domination is gonna be like against like some rookie pitcher Like like if Otani had to like go down to like AAA for any reason. Like after a surgery and like just started dominating against like these those dudes, we would not be the MLB would be like their free game of the day would be like any game that Otani would be playing in AAA. Yeah. They'd nationally broadcast it.
00:24:57
Speaker
this is
00:25:02
Speaker
oh of Swept the A's that was the the big thing another thing about the A's I think they're currently in the middle of their final Home series in the Coliseum. Yep Well series in Oakland and having the one of the worst giveaways. Oh What's the giveaway the the giveaway is only the giveaway is kind of cool. It's ah it's a little replica of the the Coliseum.
00:25:28
Speaker
Oh, but they don't have enough for everyone. So everyone's just getting in a voucher and they're hoping that people will leave before the end of the game so that they can give out all the the toys. Typical, typical John Fisher. I hope that I hope that he embarrasses the MLB to at least to the point of forcing the cell of the team to keep them in Oakland. But I think it's probably going to end up taking Probably gonna end up taking a ah deal not being made in Vegas before they even begin to consider that.
00:26:08
Speaker
Since nothing's finalized there. yeah and ah There's one of the concept of a deal? Yeah, there's concepts of a deal. But even the Vegas mayor or yeah the government and city government's like,
00:26:22
Speaker
I don't have a thing. ah A single piece of paper will work. So that's fun. but ah What a horrible owner. He still sucks. OK. Do you have anything else you want to talk about? a Specifically about the Yankees, if you want to ask some questions, ah the Mariners series, we won two games to one. The Red Sox series, we won ah three games to one.
00:26:52
Speaker
Yeah, and then the real series we won two games to one. and totally Yeah. Um, so it seemed to be that, well, you think he's had quite a few problems throughout the season. Um, and they both seem to be happening at the same time when it came to your offense capabilities and your, your bullpen.
00:27:16
Speaker
Sure. Do you think those problems have been solved at this point? Or do you think we got some big question marks? I'm not all that worried about the rotation. And oh, fuck. Well, what about that? I got to tell you about our new closer. OK. So finally, it took five ever to address. Yeah, five ever.
00:27:46
Speaker
to finally address the Yankees closing situation by finally ditching Clay Holmes. He's shown his face on a couple of occasions, but a Boone started doing his whole closer by committee thing. But the hole was plugged pretty quickly.
00:28:17
Speaker
And ah how well versed are you in the the closing names that i have and I may have said throughout the year? Not very. Not very, OK. Luke Weaver, arguably one of the best relievers in baseball. 18.2 innings. Pitched. Pitched since ah August 11.
00:28:47
Speaker
Okay. On August 10th, he gave up, uh, he'll have five earned runs against the Rangers and recorded only in one out. But since then he's, he's pitched 18.2 innings. Can you take take a stab at this? Okay. So he's the best one in baseball. One of the best. I'm going to say he's an ERA of 1.18.
00:29:17
Speaker
0.96. OK. OK. 31 strikeouts, seven walks. OK. We like that. we We do like that. Troubled kind of history. ah Team to team to team. Send up and down, up and down with the Yankees. ah They de-fade him, I think, at one point of the year just so they can kind of like minimize his role in the team.
00:29:45
Speaker
But you plug him in this situation and his whole demeanor is changed. This guy is pumped. OK, because he he's going out there and he's consistently getting the job done. And I don't know. And also because like his own his like own job with the Yankees depends on it. Kind of, yeah, entirely and at the point of him getting getting fed that spot. I don't know.
00:30:12
Speaker
How? I don't know if it was like some intangible difference that put him at a qualifier. I don't know how you test, how you don't test this guy more in this situation, but I know he was kind of like a ah secondary closer for when Holmes wasn't looking all that hot or whatever where they wanted to like give him some time off. yeah But he was ah Holmes famously an all-star, I believe.
00:30:41
Speaker
ah earlier in the year, which to then lead the league in Blonde Slaves shows just how wacky one season can be. yeah But Luke Weaver has essentially picked up Holmes' is early season form. So I want to get your opinions on maybe how something like this happens, because I'm too busy being happy. On how somebody has a turnaround like that? How someone has a turnaround like that in ah A long standing problem like the Yankees went unsolved until now and now it's magically like the best situation ever. Um, I think sometimes you get, you get a little bit desperate. Um, after that, that last, was it, was it clay Holmes is a 11th or 12th blown save 11th, 11th one save when Boone was like, we don't make decisions like rash decisions. Um,
00:31:43
Speaker
I mean, the postseason is going to be. Especially like when the Yankees are at the where they were at that time, right? It's like.
00:31:56
Speaker
You're you're facing the the arranger scenario, right? Of we're going to we're making it to the postseason. It's just a matter of are we getting the buy or are we going to get? You know, be fighting for the wild card.
00:32:16
Speaker
And with with with Clay Holmes, it was like ah you guys might be reduced to the wild card team, right? Mm hmm. Which is not good. um But then you also have to look at the the postseason as a whole, regardless of if you get the wild card or not, or if you're go if you're going to be the buyer, if you're going to be the the wild card.
00:32:39
Speaker
It's gonna be hard and you you see what claim the clay Holmes has done For that that entire season you see all those those blown saves 11 blown saves um I Mean just I mean just think about this right like what was the Yankees current record 92 and 65 92 65 okay, so if Can you imagine if
00:33:07
Speaker
I don't know how many of those 11 blown saves got turned into a loss. What do you mean? You happen to know? like how many How many of those blown saves led to a loss? I count them all. You count them all? I count them all. OK, so just imagine this, right? If if clayhomes eleven if all of those blown saves resulted in a loss, then even if
00:33:38
Speaker
And I don't know, like half of them, which would be like, we'll say five. But you guys would be flirting with 100 wins if if all if if he didn't blow any saves, that then you guys and none of those saves already led to a loss. Then you guys would be the only 100 winning 100 game winning team. Yeah, I said something similar. ah And last week I was saying I think we'd still be under 100, but I mean, being the only the only team flirting with it. Yeah. Especially that makes you scarier. Yes, especially as of your opponent at the very least, especially at this point in in the season, like even if you count like, OK, give the Yankees those 11 extra wins. That I mean, that puts you over 100. But even if you give them half, you'd be at 97, 97 wins and then.
00:34:36
Speaker
You would need to win. You can only lose two games after that to end the season with 100 wins.
00:34:43
Speaker
And that's including your the first loss of the Orioles for this this series. um So, yeah, like, I mean, I think you do get a little bit desperate and maybe there is a little bit of. Well, we we know we're going to get out of clay homes. What are we going to get out of our other other potential dudes, right? And then you get and then almost like the inverse of clay homes, you have what's this guy's name, Dominguez?
00:35:07
Speaker
Uh, who the center fielder, your new guy, your new guy, the new closer yeah new closer, Luke Weaver, Luke Weaver, right? You get Luke Weaver and it's like, and he was the one that was, was grounding from team to team got DFA. Yeah. Yeah. So it's like, well, you kind of know with him, what to expect with him. And maybe he can, he can, he can fit in that, that role.
00:35:34
Speaker
oh So I think a little bit of his desperation, but, but you, you can, I can kind of see like where the mindset comes from. It was like, because like you could only, he, I mean, Clay Holmes is still the closer he's still on the team. And if no one, if no one can, can do it by the time you get to the actual, like, by the time you the regular season's over, then you're going to be stuck with him. So like now was like the perfect time to, to start experimenting. And I think they may have made, they may have got the guy.
00:36:05
Speaker
I get what you're saying. um do you Do you think I'm in my off base there? No, I think you got it. It's just i i don't know it's just such a Yankees thing to literally put it off addressing a problem like this until it gets like the worst possible and the last possible second. Yeah, I mean, there's there's optics too. i mean when we're dealing with with veteran players I mean that's why with the Giants Michael Conforto is still being played even though he's only being played because he's in his contract here and so it would make Scott Boris real mad if he got the if he got the Tyro treatment and got sent down to AAA to finish out the season and so like there's there's definitely like an optics thing and then
00:36:58
Speaker
You know, players also take a look at that, you know, and they and I think that cuts both ways. We're like some players could look at that move and just be like, oh, you guys are. You know, weak, right? Like you're you're too concerned about optics to to do what you need, what needs to be done to win. And the other side could just be like, oh, like, OK, I have a. I go into a slump and then. You know, I'm cut. like I don't know about that. I mean, that who was it was a J.D. Martinez.
00:37:28
Speaker
with with the he After he left the Dodgers, his choices came down to San Francisco and and the Mets. And the reason he chose the Mets was because he had a bad year with the Dodgers. And between the two parks, the ah Chase the Chase Stadium is not Chase City Field is is more hitter friendly than Oracle Park. And that that that definitely uh you know had an effect on him so i could see why you're a team would be wary with you know doing what to fans looks like the obvious move and just like having to to find a way around it and then also like a lot of player share share agents too
00:38:20
Speaker
Yeah, that's true. And, ah you know, I don't know who Clay Holmes agent is or who that agent also represents, but, you know, you burned the wrong agent. Now you got a lot of guys that will never be considering your team. If the agent't know about that part if the agent has like any, any say, like any holdover the players and ah I think the agent would want money by the best financial or the team will be forced to go like some very big big things in the contract rules on like how they can and can't be treated or. you This is a contract year for him. I i will say that. Well, sucks for him. um And so if the oh, it's up.
00:39:11
Speaker
but ah Boone did say just the other day on John boy that he plans on giving Homes key positions and in the postseason maybe we get some big outs Okay. that's Yeah, he's not gonna be the closer. He's just gonna be a setup guy probably maybe a Little bit the I guess on paper not in reality, but I guess on paper a slightly less stressful position.
Playoff Speculations and Matchups
00:39:38
Speaker
Yes. um But like also, like being a closer has just got to be. I wonder like how teams look at closer performance. Because like it so it's very unique. It's a very unique position. It is that the nerves are are are different from what psychoanalytics have told teams. Oh, yeah, definitely. Because it's like you know you need to have like another like mental gear to really thrive in that position. So I wonder i wonder what the lifespan of a closer is.
00:40:06
Speaker
because if you like you're not cuz i couldn't cuz cuz by despite being the closer it means that your teams are in a good spot right like when when you get brought in it's like okay like i have to hold the lead we have like a one-run lead you gotta be on all the time yeah you gotta be the best bullpen guy uh... so if uh... the postseason started today we talked about that uh...
00:40:34
Speaker
Let's start with the ah the the American League wildcard, if you want. Detroit versus Houston. Who do you think would win that one? I don't know. ah Pitching matchups. I don't know how a well either team does.
00:40:53
Speaker
they got basic baing Facing righty versus the lefty. But going going off my gut from what I have heard, the Astros have the asters have a better rotation. So for at least five innings of baseball, you got to be on point. And as much as the Tigers have been on point recently, how much is ah the opening series? How many games? Wildcard is three games. Three games? Yes. Wildcard is three. Division series is five. And then champion series is seven. I i would posit it tighter.
00:41:34
Speaker
But the Astros are going to be throwing out their three best or two best starters yeah for those games. So i think i'm going I think I'm going to give it to the Astros. I think I would i would also go Astros. We'll stick with that. the We'll go move on to the l LDS or ALDS. If it's going to be between Astros and Guardians, who does your gut tell you? Astros and Guardians. That's a much tighter. That's a much tighter.
00:42:05
Speaker
matchup right there. How many games is that? That was five. It was five. It's going to be very back and forth. But you know, I'll give it, I'll give it to, I'll give it to the Guardians. I think I would also give it to the Guardians. Also, also because like I want them to see. I get that. that That's, that's my thing. I want them to. It's like part of it too is like seeing kind of like on the American league side, seeing Detroit and Kansas city. It's like,
00:42:33
Speaker
Oh my god, we got some new people. like Finally, geez. Took forever. I don't know, I think what Stephen Vogt's been able to do with the team, especially like with the ah the Giants, and you know no no no real shade throwing towards Bowmell. But like you know the the the choice between, or for the manager after Gabe Kapler, was between Bowmell and Stephen Vogt.
00:42:59
Speaker
and It's kind of rough knowing that and then seeing what Stephen Vote did with his team. Right. um Okay. So he, he, not really to his credit, but he did inherit a really good culture. Yes. And him being a former player, almost like relatively immediately, not literally immediately, but relatively immediately jumping into being a major league manager at such a high level. Yeah.
00:43:29
Speaker
being a former player, like right before that, I think did a lot to like keep all of that intact and players understanding like, yeah, he's like one of the boys. yeah He's a really quality guy. Oh, that is quality character. Let's, let's rally around him show that we want to win for him.
00:43:46
Speaker
Yeah, definitely closer to their time as a player than than Bow-Mell was. Yeah. um Although I do wonder, like, you know, with Bow-Mell, like, I wonder how in instrumental Bow-Mell was just like, you didn't have to be involved in talks, but just by being there to get Blake Snell. So, you know, like I said, no, no, there's no shade thrown towards Bow-Mell. I don't think I really don't think that the way that the season panned out is like on him, especially for your first season as as manager.
00:44:15
Speaker
Yeah. All right. Uh, so moving now to the next wild card, Kansas city versus Baltimore, Baltimore. Yeah. Baltimore, Kansas city. Uh, they, they, maybe they can pull something out of their ass, but they'd have to, that would be, that would be the story of like the, the post-season really. There's always that one, like we expect this team to go deep, but they get like the first round knockout. Yeah. Maybe if, if Kansas city is firing on all cylinders and You know, they all their guys are like, I don't know, have a generational little, little spit, but no, I, I give it to, I give it to the O's. Well, definitely appears to be that the issue with the, the Royals, even if you take a look at these six games that our team has played.
00:45:00
Speaker
ah the run production is terrible the royals across three games against the Giants managed to score only one run and Against the Yankees they managed to score they did they fared a little bit better, but that was before they played against the Giants and they scored What is that? 12 runs total so they're definitely having an issue with with run production the Orioles on the other hand Seemed to be having some pitching problems
00:45:28
Speaker
against the Giants the Orioles lost 10-0 5-3 and then they won the last game 5-3 so hopefully they can they can figure that out although they do have I think much younger players so what we'll see all right um and we'll continue on so we'll say Orioles vs. Yankees is with you ykiky yeah yankes buy no yankee um I mean, we're we're kind of getting a taste of it right now. um Let's take a look. Let me refresh the schedule and see what this course changed. It's bottom of the third. Baltimore still leads 31.
00:46:14
Speaker
Oh, look at that. They're doing a giveaway. Derek Jeter final hit at Yankee Stadium 10th anniversary bobblehead. Yep. that That was all over social media. His ah Final hit, final moment in this final game was a walk-off single. you know For me, I think I would think we go with the Orioles. I'm sorry. OK. I mean, we if we if we can differentiate on any on any point, it would be here. So we have a better understanding of next round of like what a postseason looks like with the Yankees doing a deep round compared to not.
00:46:51
Speaker
So we'll do a championship series. So we'll do our hypothetical Cleveland versus Yankees. Cleveland versus Yankee. Yankee. Cleveland Yankees. I think I would go with the Yankees as well. Cleveland versus Orioles. I mean, if the oriole if the Orioles knocked out the Yankees, I think they have some different level that they have gotten to.
00:47:20
Speaker
and they they have understood how to work around certain issues. And I think working around the Yankees issues is doesn't, it's not a one to run translation, but it does a lot in also working around the, uh, guardians issues, maybe cutting down on some small ball and really being aggressive early on in the early innings. Okay.
00:47:49
Speaker
uh... you want to go on to nationally so that uh... into what already uh... nationally wildcard will be will go against number six arizona verse number three uh... milwaukee for me and i'm not yeah i'm i'm i think i'm team walkie on that one team review the uh... the the the maximum having some some some really bad issues also not a fan of job No, I I like I like the the Brewers a lot. I think it would be Really good for them to finally like have their year and not just be like the first team you peg for like an early exit And I feel like I don't know for when I hear about them when I see them play whenever I see a highlight I think this year is different They're also a of veterans they're definitely like on a revenge season with a Greg council
00:48:51
Speaker
who Yeah, we left the team to go with the the Cubs who have been eliminated so like there's there's definitely like ah ah I mean, maybe not really but it feels like there's a a little bit of a revenge Kind of like like some hatred is especially when you go to your your rival fifty um All right, well next wild card will be between the New York Mets and San Diego Padres and
00:49:18
Speaker
I, it would be really funny for me to go out with the Mets and whatever. And it would be, you know, they're writing their steam, but the Padres just seem like the bigger, better team. Yeah, um I think it'd be crazy if we got a subway series world series. Yeah, that'd be awesome. But like, the mess are definitely in the the tougher portion of the ah of this hypothetical the posting started today of this of this little tree. um I would also go Padres. So move on to NLDS, Phillies versus Brewers.
00:49:55
Speaker
these well This is another tough one this one is gonna be So so here's here's what I think is gonna be interesting between the Phillies and Brewers, right? Mm-hmm is so compared to the our hypothetical NLDS or it actually doesn't matter what the The DS is if it's gonna be Mets and and Padres and that wild card You know like LA is obviously gonna be like the the one to beat there, right But I feel like with That that on this on this upper portion of the the tournament tree between Phillies and Brewers that There's a I think a really good possibility that that one goes all five games and It could potentially become a Pyrrhic victory Like yeah, you won the NLDS, but now your bullpen is incredibly tired. Mm-hmm
00:50:51
Speaker
go into the championship series and if you take that they're gonna be even more tired going into the the World Series um but Brewers Phillies the Phillies also have like a strong like aura around them I think they are the most the team that not the team most people are gonna be watching in the postseason more than because every ah Are you talking about? if we if if if we If we delete the state, just talking domestically, yeah. And maybe if we delete the state of California. okay Which at this point I'm okay with.
00:51:32
Speaker
But I think people understand like players, at least on the failures, are talking about this post-season differently. like They might want it more than anyone.
00:51:45
Speaker
where has wanted it before minus the 2016 Cubs. I mean, the the Phillies right now, like they feel like they're set up to be, you know, to to their chagrin. The 90s Braves. Post-season after post-season, right? Playoff after playoff, never went in at all. And then you've got, you get some great dudes on that. Yeah, Cassianos.
00:52:12
Speaker
You've got who's probably going to get a home run. If he goes to the World Series, probably going to get a home run. You know, the moment it gets announced that we declared war on Lebanon. ah They got they got Schwarzer, they got Trey Turner, they got. Oh, I'm looking at his name. Bryce Harper, Bryce Harper.
00:52:34
Speaker
ah but but that That's that's that's why most people are saying it they think Bryce Harper like wants it wants it this year oh yeah he does kind ofly like Didn't he get traded from a team and then they went on to go that team? No, no He he did not get traded. He left. Oh, he left. He you he was a free agent. He signed the And then that team ended up what team was that because they ended up winning the World Series, right? It was a Nationals was Nationals. Okay Man you left a Nationals team led by With with with the Max Scherzer Max Scherzer and Juan Soto. No one. So that's crazy. um But yeah, like they theyve they've got some. Yeah, you're right. they They have they have an aura around them right now. They kind of transcends the hatred that the city of Philadelphia typically brings up into people. But there's not about this really seem just kind of. like Yeah, sure. So it's Philly, but like the Phillies. Come on. We got Blooper. They got Blooper. They got Blooper.
00:53:31
Speaker
um but yeah, so between burrs and fillies, who do you think would I think I think I was just going on. I was just going on about like how I think like it was it's Milwaukee's year. But I'm not going to doubt some Philly magic. You know, I'm going to I'm going to say Phillies. Oh, boy, this is a Phillies, but it goes down to the wire. This is like the one where I feel like I want to say Phillies.
00:54:03
Speaker
But the the second half of the Phillies have had has been a disaster. At least early in the second half, early in the second half, but I'm not sure what I think. I think they're coming around. Yeah, I mean, it just comes down to like I think it comes down to to Milwaukee's pitching because the Phillies have a.
00:54:23
Speaker
ah I mean their their strategy is swing at everything hit the ball. Just put it in play like stop looking for your pitch It's just and and that would be that would be heartbreaking for the Phillies because that's an area that typically blows up around this time Yeah, yeah, yeah like the yeah Everyone's got like switch up their strategy by the postseason, but it seems like the Phillies are like no it works like I imagine being a so a cynical Brewers fan like You know, maybe maybe if I were our cousins a little left to at least I don't have to put up with my fucking pictures blowing their arms up. Yeah. Come on. Yeah, sure. Oh, boy, it's tough. I think I'm going to go Phillies. Yeah, I think I'm going to go Phillies. The heart, my heart says Phillies, but I think my brain says brewers. I'm going to go Phillies. So next hypothetical. The Padres versus Dodgers.
00:55:23
Speaker
I'm gonna give it to the powders. Yeah, like... Oh yeah, they haven't played yet. I'm sorry. You want to see this game right now? I do. You really want to see this game right now? I do. I just... i i want I want... I don't want to see the Dodgers win it in the next 10 years. I don't want them to see... I don't want... It's gonna be so funny. Like, I just don't want them to... to I just want them to be the laughingstock of MLB with their $1 billion dollars spent on two dudes and then historic levels of, of deferred payments to it. Cause it's like the same thing with the Mets, right? Where it's like, no, like I don't think you should be able to like that. There's just something about spending all that money and winning it that, that just doesn't, that just feels wrong. And I, and it's only like, it feels like, it feels like it's just those two teams. Yeah.
00:56:20
Speaker
Mm-hmm, and maybe it only feels like it's those two teams because they're the ones that are just They're so above the the was a CBT that Like they're really like in their own bracket almost I Just I don't know how just just kind of feels wrong Having that much money pumping into a team and deferring all the, especially the deferred payments is what is what really gets me. At least Daddy Cohen had the decency to pay the tax.
00:56:54
Speaker
That just doesn't sit sit right with me. But like the thing is like with l LA is like their pitching is is is, that's what's going to hurt them. And I wonder what the, then we talked a little bit about like the the Mookie Betts having like a, kind of sounded real angry when, a He got asked about getting bumped down from the lead off spot with Shohei. And I wonder how much. Because, OK, because like whatever, like. Shohei appears to be like a good dude, just gently genuinely, right? But I wonder how much of that can just get overshadowed by the media coverage. And like you're on this, you're you're on what is on paper should be a historic team well before he got there.
00:57:42
Speaker
um And now just everything's about him. Like you're, you're, you know, like if you're someone like Mookie or Freddie or Muncie or Will Smith, and you anything about like how long have they been with the teams, right? And it's like, whose face whenever they go, when they show up to the park, who, who are they seeing? Shohei. When people talk about the Dodgers, who are they talking about? Shohei. And I wonder if that like is, is, is dragging on them a little bit.
00:58:14
Speaker
or if that's potential to. Because like if they lose, what's what's what's this what's the story going to be? Oh, man, the like if you're a pitcher, it's going to be like, or like if you're like one of the starters that that had a bad start, is the story just going to be? Well, this guy is is off the second show he can pitch again. Mm hmm. You know, he's be ah the only last week this guy was only pitching because Shohei couldn't pitch.
00:58:41
Speaker
Yeah. And then if if it's the if den it isn and not a a pitching thing, it's a it's an offense thing. And like, you know, case in point, this game last night against the Padres and Dodgers ended in a triple play with Shohei on deck. Yeah, that's true. I saw that. and And so it's going to be like is so if if if the issue is going to be on offense, is the whole story around the Dodgers like the media story are going to be like, wow, these guys just they just don't want us like they don't want to give the they don't want to help Shohei out.
00:59:10
Speaker
because they keep striking out or they made a running error and now Shohei's up to be bat and now it's not even like about like Shohei himself it's like oh cool like everyone's expecting him to do something great and it's like oh wow Shohei got a hit you know if it's a homer like wow that could have been a two-run homer three run homer if the dudes before him just got on base Or is it going to be like, uh, if the show, he gets stranded on bases, is it like, man, they just can't bring show, hey home, bring him home. He can't steal all the bases all the time, guys. Yeah. So like, I wonder, like, cause like, I just wonder how that has an effect on, on team morale when the media seems to just going to be about the one dude, the, it kind of feels like the whole, like, it's going to be spun as if like they're not supporting him. I hope, I hope that he is.
01:00:03
Speaker
the the Dodgers, Barry Bonds. And I hope that he has a postseason career like that of Barry Bonds, the Shohei Otani. I don't think I've ever asked you about your relationship with Barry Bonds. Did you have one growing up as a fan? Not particularly, because we didn't have TV. We didn't have TV for a long time. And also, I think I'd be in the Dodgers network for games if they were going to be on TV. Now, I got into baseball a little bit after Barry Bonds.
01:00:40
Speaker
i don't have that I would have been 10 is his last season. All right. Well, that's my that's my Dodgers, right? Let's go to the NLCS, Phillies versus Padres. Oh, boy. I feel like no matter what who wins between Dodgers, Padres, by the time you get to Phillies, Dodgers or Phillies, Padres, that it's going to be another game that goes that one's going to go seven, I think. Yeah. And honestly, this this sounds like the most hype
01:01:10
Speaker
Series of the playoffs. Oh for sure. I mean, I mean more so than the world series I mean you look at you look at the the postseason picture as a whole right and And you've got so many great storylines and in the mix the Diamondbacks try to make a return after ah losing to the Rangers The Brewers have a revenge series going on the Mets is the Mets the Padres lost their owner and the the The owner died ah before the start of the season. A dude that genuinely, unlike John Fisher, genuinely loves San Diego, loves the Padres, did everything in his ability to get them set up for a a postseason run.
Padres' Postseason Motivation
01:01:56
Speaker
And you know we're really seeing the the fruits of his labor here.
01:02:00
Speaker
And it's very sad that he's not here to see it that the there's something is very sad that the Padres especially if the Padres do win it That like he's not here to see that it's gonna be a very mo if they do win it it's gonna be a very well I think no matter what when they when when they get eliminated or when they win it all it's gonna be very emotional in the clubhouse Then you've got the Phillies who have you know, some of the best players on their team in the league on their team.
01:02:32
Speaker
ah
01:02:34
Speaker
Just like, is this is this the year they finally do it, right? And you got the Dodgers who have Otani that like, obviously, ah the Tigers have like a we were nobody was talking about us because we were terrible. And then just out of nowhere, we we came back. Astros,
01:02:53
Speaker
kind of put them in the same league as LA. It's just kind of like, oh, they're here, as always. Kansas City, I mean, kind of same thing with with Detroit, like they just kind of. They've they've been kind of like an underdog Dark Horse team this season. Orioles went through a massive sell of the team from an owner that was almost and that was on the path to John Fisherhood. And he's like, was it like these two dudes that ah Like on their first home game or like early in the season, they gave the whole stadium free beer. um Really? Yeah. And then they had a game right now and they took they took the blame for that as the owners. They they took the blame for it. They said that it was ah it may be like once it was all said and done, they said like, hey, it was the wrong choice to try and hold out for the rain or not cancel the game and hope for the rain to go out. So he gave everybody a voucher for a
01:03:47
Speaker
free home game basically ah third of their of the fans choice they could just show up with the voucher like it wasn't like oh here's your ticket for the next time it's here it's like no like you don't have to be here for the next thing because you might not be here for the next game when it gets rescheduled if it's not gonna be a double header for tomorrow right like cuz they're not always scheduled like that
01:04:11
Speaker
So like so a really good ownership group. Guardians. I mean, they've got Stephen Vote. I think Stephen Vote was going to be like the the focal point. He's going to be like the story for the Guardians run, I think.
Yankees' World Series Struggles
01:04:23
Speaker
Yeah. Then you've got the Yankees, who I think I put in the same category as the Phillies that that they're a team that consistently makes it to the postseason and then just can't execute.
01:04:38
Speaker
And she't get to the now, mountain you know, now with, uh, uh, Garrett Colby and back, you've got, uh, Aaron judge, Juan Soto. Now you got jazz Chisholm. Like it's, uh, and like actual excitement for the team. they Like, like the, and what they haven't won since 2009.
01:05:04
Speaker
Yeah, this wasn't all the way. Yeah, so it's like, especially with especially with how last season ended. I don't know, like like all but like two of these teams have like a great story for, in my opinion, you know, like for why you could argue like, well, why why they should should get it, right? Or why you think that they'll be able to take it, take it all?
01:05:33
Speaker
the The Yankees? No, no, I'm saying all the teams. oh this is yeah all All but two. All but two like have like these amazing stories. And those two being the Astros and Dodgers.
01:05:47
Speaker
And I think the Dodgers, I think out of all these teams, I think it's the Dodgers have the most to lose. I think this is going to set the tone. I think this post is going to set the tone for their 10 years with Shohei. So Philly's Dodgers. Who do you think would take it?
01:06:03
Speaker
Uh, I mean, if the Dodgers get all the way over there, I mean, if the Dodgers got all the way over there, I'd assume the Dodgers would you take it. You think Dodgers over Phillies? If they, if they got to that point. Yeah. I think I gotta go Phillies.
01:06:29
Speaker
I think, I think the Phillies might have us a hatred for the Dodgers. Mm hmm. At least the postseason. Because there was a there's a Phillies that no one knows the DBAC said that's BLA last year. Mm hmm. That was I was scared to watch that series, dude. All right, so let's go back to the ALCS. Do we do that one already? Yeah. OK. We got all the way up to a. Did we? We got all the way up to the CS, right?
01:07:01
Speaker
ah ynes yeah yankees ah guardian yeah guess okay and then ahels guardian us of the audience world series so potential one will' go with our least favorite combination oralels versus a
01:07:19
Speaker
versus a
01:07:23
Speaker
I think I would I think it'd be LA. Orioles versus Phillies. yeah just So was like this my issue made my thing with the Orioles right now is that uh, not very good run production Against a team that could potentially score many many runs That's true, that's true What I mean when you put it ah but you know October is it is a different kind of day. Yeah, it is but
01:07:58
Speaker
oh I mean, but also like, I don't know, Mookie, but also LA has tend to have really bad run production. Like, was it, was it last postseason? Like Mookie and Freddie combined for like a total of like two for like 50 something. You know what? You convince me, Orioles.
01:08:19
Speaker
I mean, you were, you were, you were slowly convincing me. Oh no, we're right back where we started. Uh, I want to go with the Orioles.
01:08:31
Speaker
You convinced me.
01:08:37
Speaker
That's why we convinced each other to switch sides. All right. Orioles versus Phillies. I think I'll go Phillies. Orioles versus Phillies. I give it to the Orioles. I think where they're currently at, whatever problems they have, if they go this deep, they figure it out.
01:09:01
Speaker
I think I would go Phillies Alright Yankees first do we go split on the Dodgers LA Where we will say Padres I said Padres okay, I also said Padres so Yankees Padres I Think I have for me it's too close to call trying to remain objective. I'll say Padres I But I think I think regardless, I would like to believe it will go down to the wire. I think I think that Padres, Yankees, Padres, I think that that is going to go. I think actually. I think with the Yankees, if they go all the way. And I think regardless of the national team that takes it, I think it's going all seven games.
01:09:54
Speaker
So Yankees, Padres, I think I would go I think I'm going to go Yankees. I think I think the. And I think it's just because they have like they seem to have a better like.
01:10:11
Speaker
Not morale, but like. Their their their their inner team for relationships and I think a little bit better than the Padres. All right, what about Yankees Phillies?
01:10:30
Speaker
yankees yaes it's ah I think I'd go Yankees as well. this is it just like how it went down in two thousand and nine I think one of the potential Achilles heels with the Phillies might actually be Bryce Harper.
01:10:47
Speaker
i think yeah I mean, I don't know like I I think that if he gets into his head that this is the one that he has to win like it's Not if it's not this one, then it it's done. The Phillies are done, right? I Think if he gets into that mindset, that's just gonna lead to him Making a particularly on on the offensive some Bad swings Maybe might be a little swing happy
01:11:19
Speaker
But a Yankees Phillies would be an amazing series, I think.
01:11:26
Speaker
Yeah, just so many power hitters. Yeah. like Run it till the to the wheels fall off. Yeah, it's going to be a slug. fa So I think that would be pretty fun to watch.
Future Episodes and Farewell
01:11:37
Speaker
All right. So we shall see. um I don't think we should do an episode next week for the end of the season. And I guess we'll see everyone.
01:11:49
Speaker
are you are you want to do this do you want to do you want to follow the royals or reels boy or do we just see each other when the Yankees play the next game uh... we can see each other after the wild card games if you want okay so uh... we'll do that each wild card game for i mean our plan right now as long as the weather stays good in the end doesn't have to leave will do i mean i i i'm also a busy guy so you're also good but but if we can try and do after everything It's only one team that we're going to be following, so. Really, yeah. Yeah, so like I think it's something that we could probably pull off. It's going to be some late nights, ah'll be okay but Hopefully i can I can get the games. That's the other thing. Oh, yeah. YouTube TV. Well, actually, I'll be on day shift, so like I'll be home, and i I'm going to be getting YouTube TV again for the postseason. So you can watch with me if you want.
01:12:51
Speaker
if that sounds fun, something that you would like to do. If time winds up, sure, of course. Alright, so that'll do it for this episode. Dean, you got anything you want to add before we go?
01:13:03
Speaker
Yep. Alright. Goodbye, Goodbye, everyone. I hope Liam doesn't have