Dodgers Territory - Dodgers/Reds Wild Card Set! Playoff Outlook with Scott Geirman

Episode Date: September 29, 2025

The Dodgers are set to face the Reds in the NL Wild Card series starting on Tuesday. DT hosts Alanna Rizzo and Clint Pasillas talk about the upcoming series with Cincy, LA's strengths, sweeping a good Mariners team and more (1:30)! Dodgerblue.com's Scott Geirman joins to share his perspective on how the Dodgers stack up against the Reds (10:50). Download the DraftKings Pick6 app now and use code FOUL – play just $5, get $50 in Pick6 bonus picks. Go to https://OmahaSteaks.com to get 50% off sitewide, plus an extra 20% off select favorites and more limited-time deals during their Early Black Friday Sale. Use Promo Code FOUL at checkout for an extra $35 off. Check out DT merch at dodgersterritoryshop.com! Support Guidry's Guardian at guidrysguardian.org Find Clint on YouTube at youtube.com/@alldodgers! Subscribe to Dodgers Territory on YouTube! Rate and review our podcast on Apple and Spotify!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Like us. Go to Dodgers Territory Shop.com to get all of the gear. You can support the show and style. It's awesome that you guys are here and we appreciate it so much. We are talking Reds and Dodgers with our friends, Scott Gearman coming up momentarily. But first, Clint Paseas, let us talk about the sweep that was against a very, very good American League team in the Seattle Mariners in what we call the big ticket. I mean, Clint, this was a good team, right?

This is a team that obviously I believe they have the number one seat in the American League. This is a team that is finally in my estimation, their offense has matched up with their pitching staff. They've always had, not always, but in the last five, six years, they've had an unbelievable rotation. I feel like the offense and the bullpen has finally caught up. Obviously, we know what Calvralli is doing. But the Dodgers went to what I believe is Team Mobile Park. I'm going to go ahead and say it's Team Mobile Park and say it's safe field.

I apologize if I don't get that right. But they swept them, and that's awesome. What do you take away from that particular three game series? Yeah, I mean, beating a team that, has been as good as the Seattle Mariners. It feels really good. And the bullpen having, I wouldn't say having their way with Mariners, the Mariners hitters, I'm not going to go that far.

They did very good, did the Dodgers bullpen against the, sorry, I'm half distracted here. I don't want to, I don't know. I don't like to take hard stances on things because then people give you shit online. You don't know you're talking about. Right now I definitely don't sound. Like I know what I'm talking about. But the Dodgers did pretty damn good against the Mariners. Mariners still, by some estimators, favorites to win the World Series.

I think Fangraphs has them as favored to win the World Series, like 20% or whatever. But the Dodgers gave us a lot to like in that series in Seattle, bullpen getting better, starting, pitching, still being electric. You know, you mentioned quality work from Blake Trine and Alex Vescia, Edgaro Henrique is in there. Even Tanner Scott didn't allow a run in his outing. It felt like the bullpen kind of flipped the switch at the right time. Yeah, again, I don't know that they can flip the switch.

We've had this discussion a number of times, and I saw it in your esteemed rundown. And let's be honest here, you guys, I'm being completely truthful about this. Clint does all of the work. I just show up and log on it like 20. Clint does all the work. He puts in the rundown. He does the work. He does all of it.

So he put in here a couple of times. that flipping the switch. I still don't think that this is a sport in which you can flip the switch, especially at the postseason when the runway is so dang short. But I do love the fact that they were able to get this. I didn't even need them to sweep, right? Like after they clinched, I was like, okay, fine. Like you win the division, like all the things.

Like, I don't need you to clinch. But they did a really good job. The one thing I take out of the weekend against the Seattle Mariners is, Obviously, Clayton Kirchel's last start in the regular season, probably forever. We'll talk about the fact that he's not on the world, or excuse me, the wild card roster. Flipping a switch, I'm not so sure. But the fact is, like, they didn't implode, which is great, right? Like, and in a three-game series, like, you don't.

I mean, I honestly, like, what we've had to work with, like, I mean, let's be honest. Like, like, try and look great. Alex Vessi has been good pretty much all year. Edgaro Henriquez, I know you've been high on him, as deservedly so. He's been good. Tanner Scott looks good in the time that he had. Am I going to say flip the switch? No, but like it was it was respectable.

Okay. So I will take that. Now you move on where once you get into the postseason, regardless of seating, regardless of home field, regardless of buy or not by, now you now you just hit reset, right? It's a clean slate for everybody. And yes, most folks like the Dodgers, if they're going to win the World Series again,

all of the teams in the wildcard round will have whoever wins 13 games next wins or if you get a first round by whoever wins 11 games next wins but i'm proud of what i saw this weekend and it gives me a lot of positivity and good faith going into the postseason yeah i do think there is something to the whole idea of flipping a switch at the right time you know dodgers opened the month of september looking pretty bad they go oh and five they end up going 15 and five over their final 20 in september September, as it says here on this tweet from Sleeper Dodgers, you know, the kind of momentum you have, you want to get at the right time. I do think something changed for them. And, you know, Dave talking about, you know, just, just, uh, keeping the edge. I think they had an edge. I think they have a different kind of, the baseball means something to them again now. Regular season is boring for a team like this, you know, it shouldn't be that way, but that's just a reality. And now they are primed and ready to welcome our buddy, friend of the show, Gavin Lux and the Cincinnati Reds to Dodger Stadium. Well, I wanted up first,

congratulate for taking the Dodger fandom at Tito. This dude comes out of retirement. Tito, Francona, just guiding a very, very young Reds team to the dance here. Not a great team, very young team. I didn't say a very good team. You look at how these teams two teams stack up. Dodgers win 93. The Reds sneak in with 80. and it's every bit of a sneak in because this does not happen without be honest the reason the reds are in because the Mets are bullshit but let me tell you something about this no no no honestly like there's not a person on the planet that would disagree with me on that the reason the reds are in is because the Mets had an unbelievable epic collapse but there is nobody I would rather

have leading the Reds than Tito Terry Francona is a special man he's a good baseball man. He's so unbelievably smart. Baseball runs through his veins. He took the Red Sox many moons ago to a World Series title for the first time in 108 years or whatever the heck it was. He's a good human being. And he came out of retirement. And remember, he was with the Guardians for quite a bit too. Got the Guardians in the postseason. Now he's gotten the Reds in the postseason. He may never, he better never buy another fricking thing in the state of Ohio again. I'm happy for him. I think the reds will get ousted in the first round.

But Tito's a good, good man and good for you. And you know what? I just goes to show you. And Clint, you and I have discussed this. I have raised this point a bazillion times. I have screamed this off of the rooftops, anyone that's willing to listen to me, which is not a lot of people. Money does not buy you wins.

Money does not buy you championships. Money like the Steve Cohen money, the Los Angeles Dodger money, the New York Yankee money. It buys you good players. It does not guarantee wins. It does not guarantee cohesive. Look at you with your little like button pushing and improving my point. It does not guarantee wins, cohesiveness, championships, playoffs, none of it, right? So Steve Cohen has more money than the good lord himself.

and the Fletons who were the best team in baseball for a good portion of the year, certainly in the National League, absolutely imploded. Do the Reds come along in the postseason? Probably not. But as our good friend Ken Rosenthal has said, welcome to, this was yesterday, obviously,

welcome to the National League wild card race brought to you by the New York Mets. The Reds had no business being in the conversation. The Giants had no business being in the conversation. RIP Bob Melvin, they just let him go. You know, there's a lot of teams that had no business being in the conversation, and here we are. So again, yeah, the Dodgers spent money, obby,

but doesn't mean that you're going to get there. It just doesn't. No, it does not. And you mentioned it's hard to see the Reds getting out of this first round. Dodgers 5 and 1 against them this year, scored 30 runs, allowed only 15. They played them very well. Dodgers, a very good team. better than the Cincinnati Reds.

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He's back on the YouTube side of things as well. Dodgerheads unplugged. about every day during the week. Scott, first, how you doing, buddy? Good to have you back here with us. And what do you like about these Dodgers versus the Reds coming up? Alana, Clint, it's great to see you. Yeah, thanks for having me on. This is a fun time. I was telling my chat this morning on the show that this is the time you wait for. The postseason is where it happens. And I love the fact that you really got into, you know, pride of me hopping on that, you know, a lot of you said, you know, money doesn't buy things. Money doesn't buy the wins. It's the cohesiveness that you can't buy.

It's the leadership at the top. And you saw the struggles of the Mets. No comeback wins. You know, that is an astounding feat for a, you know, a Steve Cohen team that spent so much money. And the fact that you do not have, just like you said, the grittiness or the, you know, the ability to crawl their way back into games, one-run games, you know, leading, like trailing going into the ninth inning, right? And you don't have some extra gear to tap into to find a way to win those games at the end. they ultimately mattered. And they missed out by one game.

The Cincinnati Reds backed their way into the postseason, but that's the beauty of a 162 game slate. All those games matter. We can talk about the Dodgers. They'll find a way towards the postseason. But it's that random game in May, random game in June, where they brought a guy from AAA and let him die in the hill.

And, you know, they lost the game just to preserve the pen. And that's a loss there. But they all add up. They all matter. I'm excited for the postseason, for one, because I want to see how this Dodgers team, with all their veteran presence that they have, how they come together at this right time.

I know we're getting into a bunch of stuff, but just because there is such a wealth of starting pitching depth they have now, I'm eager to see how Dave Roberts, because last year was he could lean on the bullpen. Now I'm excited to see how he takes that starting pitching and makes that their overall strength and how the starting pitching unit kind of takes on that responsibility. Bigger worry for you, Scott German,

Blake Trinen or Tanner Scott. The Dodgers don't win the 2024 World Series without BT. Bigger concern for you going into this postseason. That's a good point. I would say right now the biggest concern is probably Blake Trinon because I think the Dodgers know who they have with Tanner Scott and what he can do so they'll kind of temper the usage there. But Dave Roberts has clearly shown that he's going to rely on Blake Trinon.

And they lack relievers from the right-hand side. They trust. and Blake Trinan for all the usage on that arm, for all the pedigree, that's where Dave Roberts can lean on that experience. So I would say it's more of the, you said the concern. I would say the concern falls in if Blake Trinan can find that repeatability in his mechanics, the location on his pitches, because when it comes time for October in those beginnings, Dave Roberts will not shy away from using Blake Trinon. You know, talking more bullpen. And obviously, we know that's the biggest concern for this team.

Yeah, maybe the offense could be slightly better, but this team is going to live and die with that bullpen. Have we seen enough? Did you see enough out of this bullpen over the weekend to kind of give you some hope? Or are we just kind of setting ourselves up for disappointment? So over the weekend, I mean, the Dodgers went out and swept the Seattle Mariners. And on Friday, it was a complete bullpen game. You got to see a litany of arms, like basically the entire staff going out there.

Emmett Sheehan goes one inning. and then you just see some bulk. And then all those list of names that you tossed in there. I had pulled up a minute ago. But just over the weekend, you got to see Dave Roberts utilizing everybody. And the Seattle Mariners are one of the best teams in the American League. You've got Cal Raleigh, the MVP candidate there. The narrative is starting to shift out there.

But they were playing great baseball. And I had someone in my chat this morning talking about all the Seattle Mariners' offense is carried by the pitching. They don't win ball games, just flat out on pitching. They've got sluggers. They've got their playing good ball in Seattle. I saw enough that it gives me positive feelings about how these guys are starting to come into their roles. Because we know the Dodgers operate on a plan without a set closer. And sometimes that provides problems because we saw for years with Kenley Jansen,

there was a roadmap to how do you get to, how do you get to Kenley at the back end? And that made it things easy. But now Dave Roberts, last year he thrived on, you know, interchangeability at the back end. Now there hasn't been one guy, Tanner Scott, completely underwhelming. Can't really use him at all. Don't trust him. I know I'll save the harsh ones for everybody else, but we know he's not at the back end. You can't lean on him. So now somebody's got to step up. And Alex Vessi has got Moxie. Blake Trinanin, I know he's got the balls to step on those big spots. Roki Sasaki is someone that, albeit just two innings, he's got the stuff to do it. But I'm saying that they've just

got enough. They've got enough for me to see a roadmap where Dave Roberts can lean on a few of them. And over the weekend, they showed, they answered the bell. They answered the call for it. I don't know how much. I don't know how much, but they showed enough. They showed good steps. All right. So nothing is official until it's official. But it looks like it's going to be Blake in game one. Looks like it's going to be Yoshinobu Yamamoto in game two. And perhaps, if necessary, it will be Shohei Otani in game three. How much, Scott, are they paying attention to home road splits while they set up this rotation against, obviously, the Reds? Is it more home road splits?

I mean, I know we're home. I get that. Is it home road splits? Is it matchups? That's a great point. I think that it's just Blake Snail has, he for me is a terrific pitcher to analyze and break down because he doesn't. I'm very happy you brought up the home road splits because it's something people aren't looking at. Blake Snell at Dodger Stadium this year, in 38 and a third, has a 117 ERA.

So it's a phenomenal piece to bring up. He has been unhittable in Dodger Stadium, 188 batting average allowed. So it's something that I looked on. I'm about an hour ago, Alana, so great work on that. Blake Snell, for me, has shown both him and Dave Roberts are working in lockstep with their communication and where Blake Snell is at on the mound. If Blake Snow says, I got it, he's very confident. I'm very happy that he's in Dodge of Blue because of that because he's electric.

But Blake Snell will take the ball. He'll stay on the mound and there's a big spot that it's, you know, we can either go to the bullpen and roll the dice or you can stay out there, big man and try to get yourself out of this out of this inning. And Blake, or Dave Roberts has shown that Blake Snell can do it. And I think Blake Snell lined up game one for the Dodgers in the wildcard round against Cincinnati Reds is a perfect place to be. You know, you mentioned, we've mentioned Dave. a lot in this one.

What are your kind of, you know, the taste of Dave, which is a weird way of saying it? Like, what's your pulse of Dave Roberts this year on how he has kind of handled the adversity that you wouldn't expect for a team that, you know, I'll throw this graphic back up here.

You see, the Dodgers are at the top of that list. They spent a lot of coin to put this team together, and they ended up with just a 93-win season. And how do you feel about how Dave has handled it? And heading into October, is he ready to kind of pull out all the stops to get us another ring? I think so. I would say Dave Roberts is well equipped to handle it. We, for speaking to what Dave Roberts has endured this year, frustration, a lack of execution on the side of the players who they know how to do these things.

The bullpen, for sure, has, as, as, has, has, a lot of said, it shit the bed. a lot of the time. They, they, yeah. It's frustrating from that sense because we know Dave Roberts understands how to push all of the right buttons when they're there. It's just a matter of executing. All these bullpen options, they have the game plan. It's just a matter of process and execution.

The results can be one thing. A hitter can hit a great pitch, a pitcher's pitch, and, you know, end a ballgame on that front. People look at the pitcher like, why didn't things happen? If he hit the spot and executed correctly to the game, planned things happen. But a lot of times it's been a lack of location, a lack of process and execution. So that's where you've seen Dave Roberts with this frustration. But if he feels confident in how to deploy these arms and these players and these pinch hitters and these starters,

Dave Roberts has a pulse on the team. He always does. That's something I don't know why fans continue to question because he's got such a track record, you know, and I think it becomes just such a meme and it's very low IQ to continue to doubt Dave Roberts with how much he's succeeded. But Dave Roberts, if he feels comfortable and his options and where to deploy them, there's nobody better in the game. I think 2024 kind of sealed that, and that's the organization believes that. So Dave Roberts, I feel if he understands who he's got and where to deploy him, he's going to be good to go. Well said. Scott, what was your reaction to Clayton Kershaw not on the World Series or excuse me, the wild card roster?

And why do you think that decision was made? So my reaction to that was, you know, it sucks to see. But it was for a bit now, that's kind of been my feeling that I said down the stretch with Clayton Kershaw, I felt that he earned a right to start a game. But, you know, once he said he'd be willing to do whatever. And you saw him pitch out of the bullpen. It was like maybe there's a chance he could be on a wildcard roster. But the initial thought for me for the last few weeks, Alana, has been Clayton Kershaw,

maybe not making it on the wild card roster and until they get to a five or a seven game set kind of feels more of the reality. I maybe started to think an opposite way when it was there was so much disarray with the bullpen and you're like, if 22 can go out to the pen and throw us a clean inning, then anything's on the table. But I think a little bit of a positive run from the bullpen. The lefties aren't a problem out there. And that's a crazy strength to have. It's usually always the lefties who are the ones who are, you know, having their fits. but I think Vesia, Dreyer, Bonda, there's enough out there, Robleski as well, that Clayton Kershaw can hold off, which is why his final two starts really meant a lot to watch.

And that's why looking toward the DS and potentially a CS series, five and a seven, that's when Clayton Kershaw will get his opportunity to start. That's for me. You know, I had this conversation in my head first to start. and then over the weekend with my buddy Doug McCain. I want to ask you about it because you're talking about Kershaw here. We know Tyler Glassnow is going to be at least available in relief for the Wild Card series. But I'm looking on paper.

We had the idea of, you know, punchout plays a lot more in October. Tyler Glasnow has more punchout stuff at this point in his career than 18 years into his career, Clayton Kershaw. How about a game four starter or your number four starter being Clayton Kershaw where he's still important? He's not the most important guy in that rotation, but you do free up Tyler Glasnow. Of course, you need his buy-in on this. But you free up Glasnow to be somebody who is either another long guy, somebody who can get you some late outs. Do you think, one, it's a terrible idea, good idea, and do you think Glasnow would actually buy into the idea of essentially flipping, you know, at least what we think the roles are going to be in October with Kirsch? I think that in the wild card round, Tyler Glass now has to be ready to do whatever is necessary.

I think for the wildcard round, Tyler Glassnow could be a great piece from the right-hand side out of the bullpen. I think that is a way that, you know, this is a conversation I've had with, you know, my chat and people on DB and unplugged as well, that for all the things and the odd instances with Tyler Glass now this year with some injuries there, I think looking around a room, and that's why I brought up the, the, starting pitcher is carrying a bulk of this responsibility this year or going into this postseason is a big thing. And I think Tyler Glassnow understands the assignment there. I think they all kind of feed off each other. I'm a big believer in momentum in baseball. I'm a big believer that positive success. And each starting pitcher trying to one up the next is a very contagious thing. And I think Tyler Glassnow is going to carry that. I think he's going to do whatever is necessary. And what you said, strikeout plays in October. And I believe that Tyler

the Glassnow out of the bullpen, say in a couple of ending stretch, if they want to limit him to want to keep him available, like if they just line it up with a bullpen day like the Nationals did in 2019, that is something that Tyler Glassnow could absolutely do. And his strikeout stuff when he's been on this year, he's been as good as it gets. So I'm on board with that. I think that's not a better way than Clayton Kirschaw because run prevention absolutely damn matters in October. And there's nobody better than Clayton Kirschop. But Tyler Glass now from the right hand side is certainly a. an option. Nobody better in October than Kike Hernandez. And Hike Hernandez, Kektober is upon us.

Where do you think Kike gets the majority of a starts defensively? Left field or second base. I would say left field or second base. I would believe that if Tommy Edmund's ankle becomes more a larger issue, which the Dodgers, I think, feel comfortable with Tommy Edmund and center field, but left field or second base, there's, I really don't. I really don't don't believe how there's any doubt of what Kike can do in October. I'm very big on players who talk about their mentality and how they visualize success. And Kiki Hernandez doing that early on last year. I think whether it was right at the beginning of the postseason or during the postseason. And Lon, I would love your insight on this because you were with the team for so long,

that Kike Hernandez is a very insightful player for how goofy he is and all, you know, his stuff. He's an intense and an insightful player, and he's got a great baseball mind. And him speaking directly to understanding the moment, feeling the pulse of where the team is at, regardless of what he's done prior in the postseason or the weeks prior, he understands his role where it's going to be. And he takes that responsibility. And I just, that really drew me onto that. And that's why I'm such a believer in Keek-Tober.

And it's a real thing. It's just the results speak for themselves. You'd be hard pressed to find a better post-season player. than Kike Hernandez. If you pull up his stuff in October, like a career 875 OPS in the postseason, his 2021 year with the Boston Red Sox, 1260 OPS. One of the best, like, you, next time you speak to Jared Karabas,

let him know that he's got a Red Sox fan on the West Coast and the O4 Sox carried my fandom. So that year watching Kiki out there, you know, broke my heart and saved it at the same time because Kike is a phenomenal player. And in 2024, Kiki Hernandez, is bringing the Dodgers back seemingly from the dead and again, in the DS against the San Diego Padres with a couple big swings. I believe Kiki can do it again.

At second base, left field, center field, however they want to deploy him, Kiki has looked great recently. And that big swing off Andres Munoz, uh, Kiki feels like he's on a very hot stretch. Like he's seeing the ball well. He's on time. He looks good. He looks strong. I'm ready for him. Let him get hot.

First of all, I am not going to tell Jared Karavis, he has another friend because Jared Travis does not need to have his head extended any larger than large. I love the man. You know what I mean? Kike Hernandez, you're absolutely right. I mean, there's nobody better in the postseason than Kiki. And Clinton and I had a conversation with Andrew Friedman, president of baseball operations for the Los Angeles Dodgers,

about the fact that Kiki was so instrumental in terms of just a leadership role of getting certain guys on the team. And the guys that were already there just like really leading them. And it's impressive. He's like, I never thought the guy, and I'm paraphrasing, this is not exactly what Anders said, but it was more of a paraphrase of like, I never thought the guy in a banana suit. It was going to be so instrumental in terms of leading this team. And that's what Kiki has become.

So this is his moment to shine tomorrow on September 30th when the wildcard game starts. Talk about flipping a switch. The sport, you cannot flip a switch. But with Kiki, he flips the switch. And that is exactly why he's so unbelievably important to this club. And I'm so grateful that they brought him back. Scott, before we let you go, your post-season X Factor. What is it?

Who is it? If it's between starting pitchers, I can say, I would love to say Blake's now. I would say on the starting pitching front, I'm going to say Blake's no. I'm excited to see him pitch with the Dodgers. I'm excited to see him go deep into games because he's shown a willing. this to kind of not shake Dave Roberts off, but have more of a conversation that Dave, I'm not going to be Kevin Cash this time. You're going to go out here. You're going to, you're going to pat me on the fanny. Let me know that you've got this big man and you're going to

let me get through this inning and let me finish six. You're going to let me finish seven if the game script calls for it. So I'm excited to see that. So I'm going to say Blake's no. I think the game won and let him get on a regular schedule and see how far the starting pitching can take him. And Blake'snell with the Dodgers, I hope he answers that call. I believe he will. He's ready for it. But on the offensive front, it's hard for me to shy away from Moogie Betz. It really is. He's had such a terrific rise from where he was early on, gets sick at the beginning of the year.

Everybody counts out Mokey Betts. And in the last few weeks, you know, in September, he's had a 144 WRC Plus. He's battened near 300 in that stretch. And where Mookie Betz is at, Clint Alana, we saw teams pitch around Shohei Otani and willingly put him on base to get to Mookie Betz. And I believe that he will do things again. He has reinvented him himself in the things that have never changed with Mookiee Betts, his strikeout rate and his walk rate.

He stays at a good career clip with both of those. And the big consistency to have a good sustained success, he continues to do him. So I think Mookie Betz is my guy. I'm going to live and die on that hill. But then I'm excited to see Kik Tover as well. So, yeah, you've got my people. Got it. Everybody, everybody.

Gritty stuff out of Gritty, Scotty G there. Great stuff. There's your postseason X Factor. Make sure you guys are tuned into Dodger heads unplugged all through the postseason along with Dodgers territory and everything. But we appreciate you, Bud, coming on. And hopefully the next time we're talking about maybe some World Series outlook for this team or something like that.

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learning more about Lulu Bean, let's do it. All right, Clint, what's coming up on all Dodgers? tonight all Dodgers I believe we will be live at 830 have not confirmed that yet but me and the boys will be doing a full deep dive series preview into Dodgers reds all the things you should like all the things you could hate about this matchup for your boys in blue versus the red lake so guys tube in subscribe to the channel there of course subscribe here on Dodgers territory well we got you covered we got you covered for the postseason and hopefully we're working our asses law for risk because that would mean the Dodgers are playing deep into October I mean I hope that we I hope we work for the next month, right? That means we're in it to win it. All right. So this is our baseball thought for a road. So MLB just put out a graphic basically like all of the teams that are that are in the postseason, right? Here's all of the teams that are being represented in the postseason. This is the last time all of the respective teams that actually won the World Series. And if you notice at the bottom, the brewers, the Padres and the Mariners have never won it. So I ask you this. Clinton and I ask you this question as this is your baseball thought for the road.

of all the team let's just assume like the world ends and the Dodgers aren't in it the red sox aren't in it the Yankees aren't in it like let's just assume the worst okay of the three teams excuse me of the three teams that have never won a world series the Seattle mariners the San Diego Padres and the Milwaukee Brewers which is the team based on who they are today that will win it okay so think about that as we go between those three teams specifically or all of the teams on this list? No, no, no, those three teams. Those three teams because everybody else has won one, right? The last time they had guardians, they were the Indians at the time. The last time they won one was in 1948.

But the point is there's three teams in the playoff bracket that have never won it before. So let's just assume these other teams were out. Of the Mariners, the Brewers and the Padres, who is the team likely of those three that have never won it to win it? So that's our parting thought for you. Well, for me, if I'm going to answer it, it better not be the fucking Padres. I would, hey, I can't survive in a world where Padres fans are happy. They don't deserve that shit.

But also, the Brewers have been sneaky good for quite some time. And if it's not the boys and boys. The Brewers at least have postseason experience where they've gotten past the first round. Like, they're there every damn year. So I would not be surprised if they could, like, push past it. The Seattle Mariners, I just don't think they, I just, I mean, I get it. They're a good team. This is the most, I think in the field, they're the most complete team in the field. I just don't think that, like, that's just their destiny. Um, so I'm going to say no on them.

I would, I would definitely say the brewers. Of those three teams, I'm picking the brewers, but I'm not even having this conversation because neither one of those teams are going to be in it. So it's fine. Yeah. It's going to be the boys in blue. That's what they're going to do. I will do this. we got superchats by the way 80 sends us $10 Canadian units whatever they have up there in Canada A but treat every upcoming game as important as the other don't take anything for granted 13 more to go let's go Dodgers perfect timing for that super chat appreciate the support there yeah every game has to be as important it's not about urgency in each day it's about urgency every single day you play to win each and every day brandon sent us

saying that Glass Nail a pitch is better on the road. I'm glad Scott, by the way, did bring up some of those numbers that I had thrown in the rundown as well, because Snell has been electric at home. Struggled, small sample sites, struggled on the road. I think if you can find a way to line that up through the Division Series

and, you know, I understand hubris, you don't want to get too far ahead, but in the championship series, if you can line it up, try to keep Snell Zilla at home. Yama's good either way, but he has been lights out on the road as well. So you find a way to make that work if you can do that.

And the final super chat we had from our friend Richard Floresy gave him an inch and he will take 40 miles. He keeps bringing up. I'm in. Bro, I'm in. If we can figure out the, if we can figure out the technology and the, like the cameras, I'm in. Like, I'm, I've done a post come from there. Yeah.

We can make it happen. I'm in. Like, I already said yes. Like, it's not a big deal. I already said yes. All right. So Clint and I, just so you guys know in terms of our schedule. We will be post-game every game the Dodgers play.

So tomorrow and Wednesday, hopefully not Thursday, for post-game. And there you have it. So we will be there and we will be with you guys the entire postseason. So thanks for being here. Go Dodgers. Clint and I will see you tomorrow night post-game immediately after the final out. Bye.