PHNX Arizona Diamondbacks Podcast - Can rookie Brandon Pfaadt lead Diamondbacks to World Series over Phillies in Game 7 of NLCS?

Episode Date: October 25, 2023

 It all comes down to this. The Arizona Diamondbacks and the Philadelphia Phillies will face off in a winner-takes-all Game 7 of the NLCS with an opportunity to face the Texas Rangers in the World Series on the line. The Snakes will send rookie starting pitcher Brandon Pfaadt aka Big Game Brandon to the mound in the most important game of his life. No pressure. We discuss the D-backs bats heating up in Game 6, Pfaadt’s postseason thus far, and who we think will take the cake in Game 7.An ALLCITY Network ProductionSUBSCRIBE to our YouTube: https://bit.ly/phnx_youtubeALL THINGS PHNX: http://linktr.ee/phnxsports PHNX Events: Get your tickets to D-backs Takeovers, Knockout Nights & Suns Watch Parties at BetMGM, and MORE here: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/phnx-56002330273 Get 10% off your first order of Hero Bread at https://www.hero.co/ by using code PHNXSchedule a free in-home estimate with Empire Today! All listeners can receive a $350 OFF discount when they use the promo code PHNX. Restrictions apply. See EmpireToday.com/PHNX for details.Sign up for Gila River Resorts & Casinos $1,000,000 Big Red’s Showdown! Stay in the game and get rewards; it’s that easy! https://www.gilamilliondollarshowdown.com/Go to https://saturdayneon.com and use code PHNX for 10% off your order today. Free shipping for orders over $200!Download the DROPS by SoleSavy app by visiting https://links.solesavy.com/phnxGametime: Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code PHNX for $20 off your first purchase.Pins & Aces: Check out https://pinsandaces.com and use code PHNX to receive 15% off your first order and get free shipping.Circle K: Text PHNX to 31310 to join the Circle K SMS subscriber club and get BOGO 32 oz Polar Pops! Head to https://www.circlek.com/store-locator to find Circle Ks near you!OGeez!: Score 25% off a bag of your favorite OGeez! Fruits of Creams. Go to https://theflowershopusa.com, add a bag of OGeez! to your cart, enter promo code “PHNX” and pickup at a local The Flower Shop dispensary.Four Peaks: Follow them on social @fourpeaksbrew & @fourpeakspub! Must be 21+. Enjoy responsibly. When you shop through links in the description, we may earn affiliate commissions. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

and welcome to game seven. It is the Yops. The Diamondbacks are a wagon. And somehow here we are on the precipice of one game deciding if the Arizona Diamondbacks go to the 2020 World Series to take on the Texas Rangers. Wow. Is this real life? Is this a fantasy, Patrick?

I'm still hoodie Derek right now. By the way, I am hoodie. Derek occasionally known as the mayor of the postseason, mayor of the Yoffs and mayor of P-H-N-X. This man next to me is my hot tag, and I mean that in more ways than one. It's the one and only. Patty Plantains, Patrick, Patrick, huge day. We out here. We outside. Who would have thought about when this postseason started? Not us. Little team in the desert in the valley. We never doubted them for a second. They backed their way in. They didn't moonwalk into the postseason. They just backed into it.

They fell backwards and they said, all right, well, there's a lot. Well, there's a lot. a body here amongst the final six teams in the national league. We might as well take it and carry it to the first round. And then that body resurrected, took down the Brewers, took down the Dodgers, did not give up. And in fact, they've won three of the last four games against the Philadelphia Phillies. Do we forget that? Three of the last four games. They are three in one, three and one against the Philadelphia Phillies.

I think Garrett Stubbs forgot maybe perhaps. But we got a lot. We got to talk about a couple of people who forgot. There are a lot of people who forgot. There's some receipts to be addressed. But of course, we do have to talk about the fact that the Philadelphia Phillies who have been playing baseball for 900 years, close to 900 years, are playing in their first game seven in franchise history. Yeah. That's ridiculous.

That's absurd. I don't know what to say that. 141 years. Before 1980, they almost never got into the postseason. They were kind of like the lovable losers. They weren't very lovable, to be honest. But they maybe were just more losers. that you didn't have a lot of success for a while.

They even rebranded as the Philadelphia Blue Jays for two years because they were really searching for themselves. But after 1980, things got a little bit better. And they're hoping to win today and go to their second consecutive back-to-back World Series. They didn't in 2008, 2009. But the Diamondbacks don't really care about that kind of history. Absolutely not.

We do not care one bit in this house. In this house, what we care about is that the Arizona Diamondbacks are playing in their sense. second game seven here and nLCS in their franchise history did the first one mean anything uh i believe it did i believe it did jacob and i got a side note for you on that in case you are interested in history and things lining up and fate if you will uh if they do do the thing and i'm not going to say the thing that they might do but if they do do the thing okay the world series dates oddly enough line up with the exact same dates of the 2001 world series.

That is crazy. And when we're talking about that, we are saying that the likelihood of that is very, very unlikely because at that time it was delayed due to the tragedy known as 9-11 and the baseball season was temporarily put on hold and there were, you know, making updates. Espo and I were talking about how during the Halloween game, they made the infamous call of something about like welcome to baseball in November when you know the shot of the moon talking about this was the first time that we had postseason MLB postseason play in November. That's that's where Derek Cheater got to November nickname that no one really uses.

It's just like there it exists. You say Mr. October. You got to win this the thing in order to keep that. We know Reggie Jackson's Mr. October. I mean, shoot, Ben Bunny just referenced him on his most recent album as Mr. October, Reggie Jackson. But yeah, Mr. November is Derek Cheater. We'll see what happens here going forward.

If the Diamondbacks can win, maybe someone else, Gabby Moreno is the new Mr. November 2.0. He's already Mr. Diamondback. Sean, Mr. Electric, who hands out the Mr. Nicknames. He also hands out the international sex symbol list, which we will address later because Damon, who is the keeper of the list, is not here right now. We have the one and only father, Overlord Jacob, who we are tremendously thrilled to be joined by because if there's anybody that gets amped up about this team in this office, it's this man, Jacob, and we are appreciative of you being here.

What are your thoughts on this, on this run? I mean, I know we haven't had a chance to talk to you much, but it's not clinch time. It's not clinch time. It's clenched time. Yeah, I've been clenched all day. This path has been on, right? Because we have gone in a direction where, you know, even during this very series, I want to say that we were just like, hey, look at us. Look how proud we should be of what we've done.

And now here we are in a position. to actually advance to the World Series. And it doesn't, it doesn't feel like that, hey, we're happy to be here time anymore. It feels like, let's go win the goddamn thing. Yeah, that's what I'm like at the beginning of, like when they were in Milwaukee, it was like, oh, we're playing with house money, right? Like, you kind of snuck in. And it was like, cool, you made it in.

Yeah. That's more of an expectation than people had for you coming into the year. I mean, the Elbronder was set at, what, 74 and a half? Yeah. Something like that, 73 and a half. 74, yeah, right around there. Pretty brutal. I mean, they won 74 games last year.

And they deserved more respect than that. Because they were a better team this year than they were last year. But there's a lot of talk about their 84 wins. And if they even deserve to be here in the playoffs. Right. They were playing with house money. Right. But I talked to Damon about this because at the beginning of the playoffs, I was like, you know, if they lose, like it's how it's money. Like, it's not going to hurt me all that much.

And then all of a sudden, game six rolls around. And I'm like, I looked at Damon and I said, I lied. Yeah. So this is going to hurt. It's not. Using your analogy, you have a pile of chips in front of you. Yeah. You have a lot investing in this now.

And you're like, Yeah, but it's their money. No, it's your money right now. It's your heart and soul. There is a lot on the line now. All of a sudden. It's more like a tournament, if you will, because you have to make it to the end to get that pile of money. You can't.

You're not just being, you know, like a degenerate gambler by losing all of this pile of money that you now have that is from the casino. Ernesto says it. Ernesto says it the best. You might as well just fucking win it. Might as well fucking win it. Let's go. You and I both owe more money and Ernestle you owe some money to the swear jar now too. Everyone in the chat right now on the P-HNX sports channel on YouTube is a degenerate Diamondbacks fan.

We absolutely all are. Because that's it. All the chips are in the center of the table. Degenerates is what we are. We are degenerate. Degenerate diarts. That's what it's all about right now. Let's go.

Well, there's another prize on the line aside from potentially a trip to the World Series against the Texas Rangers. And what is that prize? Retiring Mad Dog Russo. I don't give a shit if he walked it back. Let's hear that clip. because words mean something in this business. I, for one, know that. To make a long story short, I've been wrong in Arizona from day one.

A, I'm stunned to beat Milwaukee. I thought they'd get swept by the Dodgers. I never thought they'd even go back to three for a game six. I'll try it one more time. I would not be stunned if they won tonight. I would be floored. Floyd. And I'll say this right now.

Just to, I'll say this right now. And Bob Raisman write it down. if they win the next two days, they win the next two games and win this series in seven games, if they win, I will retire on a spot. You might have gone on to say other words after that, but who cares about that?

We're stopping the clip right there. Mad dog. Matt dog. Wow. You might have backed yourself up against the wall into a corner a little bit there. because Tori, of course, heard this comment. He's keeping receipts.

We know that. Tori has a little extra motivation tonight. Let's hear what Tori had to say. I laugh at it. I was telling the group of guys, the things that make me mad you would never even imagine. That type of stuff is kind of entertaining to me because I know that Mad Dog has a show

and he's got to do his thing. But I would love to see him quit if we wanted to. You know what I mean? But there's nothing better than a wise guy, New Yorker saying something than having a chombo. on those words. So that's how I'm processing it, and it'll be great. He's a friend of mine. I love Mad Dog, and I know that he's going to end up hearing this, and I didn't want to really get into this, but I did. And we have a little thing going on about it. And I think you just

internally use it as motivation. You have a sense of pride when you play this game. Like you want to do your job to the best of your ability, and you want to help your team win a game. I want to manage these players the best way to help us have the best outcome. I am extremely motivated at the end of the day on my own. But when you can prove some people wrong, and we all walk around with chips on our shoulder, and I guarantee everybody in this room has been told by somebody that they couldn't do something, and it led you down this road to be great. So I know that there's an underwriting theme here that we, A, don't deserve to be here,

be that we're going to get our butts kicked and and you know see there's bullies all over the map all over the national league that can that can manhandle us it really excites me to know that we're playing in game seven and and we're right on the verge of doing something that's unbelievable and we love proven naysayers wrong tory's just such a great guy he's friends with everybody he's friends with everybody and of course uh he he has fun with it but i think the thing about tory is that he knows how to use you all of this stuff as the proper motivation. He talked about the players having a chip on their shoulder after Garrett Stubbs's comments about having the party in the pool at Chase Field. And I mean, again, it's it is what it is. But at times, baseball, you're up in your head too much, right? So if you can give somebody else, something else to think about some other motivation

that takes their mind off of, holy crap, this is game seven of the NLCS and this is a bat I'm in right now is huge. You know, instead, if there's a little. bit of you know what fuck mad dog in there while you're at the at the dish maybe that's you know something that's going to help you succeed this coaching staff knows how to motivate guys and if there's something that has been said about tory time and time again it's the fact that he is a players coach and he knows how to get the most out of these you know the guys if anyone is going to have that oh my god it's game seven feeling in their head it's going to be brand and fought and if anyone is

going to coach him out of that to snap that and say, this is one game, do what you did last time, maybe only even do it one time through the order. It doesn't matter. It's Tori Lavello and his coaching staff. The pressure is on the Phillies. Like, yes, the Diamondbacks want to win this game, but they also know there's no real expectations. They, to stick with the analogy, they are playing with house money. And it really is like, look, let's just go out there and play a game.

Like, we are lucky. We are blessed to have this opportunity. We are all connected. We've all given this gift to each other playing meaningful baseball in October. Everyone else is at home. They are watching us. And we might as well go out there and just do the damn thing. Well, he brought up that exact topic of being underestimated due to this team being an 84 win team during the regular season.

He brought up that the, you know, St. Louis Cardinals back in 06, I believe, were like an 83, 84 win team season. It didn't really matter. It just, are we We're showing feet, go ahead. No, no, Patrick, I told you. I'm so thankful. I don't have three cameras for this. I told you keep that for the Patty Plantain's only fan.

You're giving it way for free, pal. I mean, I know it's a preview, but I'm just, we're not going to link it. We're not going to link it. But I just wanted to say that, does anyone care? Do you care? Does anyone care that a team had a 82 win season, 81 win season?

I mean, if they are here in the playoffs, and especially if they're beating the higher seeds that they are, you know, to face. Yeah. What is the problem here, right? Like, in basketball and hockey, we have the eighth seed playing the one seed and nobody talks about how many wins that team got there to be the eighths team. They just, you know, if they could pull off the improbable upset of that one seed, then that's proving something.

And I think a lot of people instantly, you know, start, you know, that discussion about how many wins they won during the regular season goes away. This Diamondbacks team is here and they're doing it. So I don't see the reason why how many games they're one matters. Yeah. People forget that this team was 41 and 25. 16 games over 500 at one point. Yes.

They were capable of doing that for the entire year. They hit a wall. Yeah. Like them's the rules. They got in. That's the way it works. They got in and now they deserve just as much of a shot than anybody else does. It's one excuse after another.

It's layoffs. It's this. I mean, we even said it at one point that the Diamondbacks didn't look great after they're short, but still significant layoff, more significant that they've had since the All Star break when they were, you know, before they started this NLCS. But they got things back on track and they're heated back up.

You know, those bats are hot. We're talking a lot about, you know, obviously the bullpen and all the contributions. But the biggest contribution is tonight from Big Game branded. Brandon fought on the mountain facing off against Ranger Suarez in the biggest game of his career. It's the biggest game. I think of all of these guys' careers. Almost every, I mean, with the exception of Evan Longoria and Tommy Fam, maybe, I mean, the majority of these guys have all these, this is the biggest game they've ever played in.

And biggest game in franchise history since 2001. I mean, it's huge. Again, we've talked about it many times like, hey, is this the biggest game? What did I say? The comments have gone off the rails. We want to acknowledge. I want to acknowledge. I want to acknowledge.

I'll say it for a seat. I got a ball of champagne that's going in that bat later. Nine innings. Nine innings away from the debacks going to the World Series. 27 outs. And that's what it's going to come down to. It's going down to this. And again, we know the Phillies.

They've got the superstar players. And sure, if the Phillies go to the World Series, you know, Harper has a big game. Nick Castianos has some name brand recognition, Kyle Schwabber. Okay, they might be the sexier pick, and so maybe there's slightly better clicks. But honestly, I don't know that there's going to be that big of a sort of predicted or projected drop-off for the Diamondbacks. It's baseball.

It's still some really great young players that I think people are going to really enjoy watching for the first time. Yeah. Because Diamondbacks games are on so late that the East Coast, they don't really pay attention to them at all. And again, a lot of these guys, they're just at the beginning points of their career. So these are players that, you know, we might be saying, we might be looking forward in a couple years from now, like, hey, remember. when America got used to the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2023, well, now this is their third time in four seasons going to the NLCS or this is their fifth time in six seasons going to the postseason. That's really what you could possibly have here with all of these 23 years,

all of these rookies that are contributing. And Brandon Fought, man, he's top of the heap right now. It's going to be crazy to see how Brandon Fought approaches this lineup tonight after his success the last time he played them. 17 whiffs. Brandon Fought got. in his last outing against the Philadelphia Phillies here in game three of the NLCS. He used that fastball quite a bit, but he did get a lot of whiffs on his sweeper, on his sinker as well, but nine whiffs on the four seem fastball. So he was really doing work with it. I think a big part of it was after the first two games, the Phillies were very aggressive still.

We've seen them kind of changed their approach a bit at the plate. They changed it in game in game six against. Merrill Kelly. So it'll be, because it really did feel like one of the ways that he was able to get that many swings and misses on his stuff in that outing was the aggression of the Phillies hitters. I think they will be approaching him much differently tonight after what he did in game three. And how much better do you feel about that decision to lift Brandon fought when he did? Feeling better about the fact that Schwaber, Turner, Rialmuto, Bryce Harper, all of those guys did not see Brandon fought three times. They only saw him twice.

That is the chess match that Toy Levello has been playing this entire series. And that's just so critical in this game of inches where just seeing a guy having a little bit more familiarity, which we know that Philly's lineup didn't have. And so Brandon Fault's going to go out there and he's going to put up a hard fought battle, as we know. And that's what it's coming down to now. That's what it's coming down to Ranger Suarez and Brandon Fought in Game 7 of the NLCS. Well, let's take a look at that pitching comparison between these two guys. guys because again, Ranger Suarez was also very good against the Diamondbacks in his start in

game three as well. Did not give up a lot. Remember, that was the game that the Diamondbacks won by a score of two to one. Ranger Suarez, he had nine swings and misses himself. So, I mean, this was this was an impressive outing. He was getting that work done with the change up mostly and his sinker. And I mean, again, the Diamondbacks at times have really struggled with the off speed stuff. so it would be great to see them continue the early runs. I mean, they pulled out the boomsticks in the last game. And I mean, we weren't expecting that output of power, those back-to-back jacks from Tommy Fam and Lourdes-Guriel.

But the Diamondbacks definitely a big key tonight is to try to give Brandon fought something to work with because it feels like if he does, his confidence can grow and we could potentially see another outing like we saw there in game three. I'm curious, and I think a lot of, of it will have to do with Brandon Fawt's performance tonight. But do you think if the Diamondbacks win and fought is at least serviceable, he could potentially be the NLCS MVP?

I could see that. Absolutely. I could absolutely see that. I think he's in there along with Marte. I think Marte is, you know, obviously his historic streak to start his career essentially in the postseason that's still active is impressive. You know, I mean, but it's hard. Unsung hero would be Alec.

It's, yeah, Alec, too. is he kind of sequel? He tied the game. He tied game four. He's not the starting lineup tonight. But if he comes in in the clutch, he'll be huge. He'll be the first guy in.

Like my guess is as soon as Suarez gets pulled, Alec comes in. And another dark course for NLCS MVP. We'll see what happens with Paul Seawald. Could he throw a fourth? Jump around. Shut out any. He only has one save.

Jump up. Jump up. But still, Paul Seewald, I think, could be a dark horse. There's a couple candidates right now on the dimex side. If they win.

If they win tonight. And that's a big if. because it is so difficult to play in that environment. We are so thrilled with the way that they played last night. But as much as, you know, last night felt like, felt like, you know, celebration, especially with this guy, chugging beers out of the beer bat, there's still more work to be done. And it is tonight and it is going to be just as difficult,

winning two in a row in a place that is almost impossible to win in during the postseason. Again, they have their work cut up for them. After the way Brandon Fodd heads pitched, in his last two outings, though, in the history that he's made, I feel very good about him being out there much better than if you would have told me this at the beginning of the postseason that, oh yeah, by the way, your snakes are going to make it to the NLCS and game seven is going to come down to Brandon Fought starting for you. Yeah, I wouldn't have felt great about that.

Maybe if Brent Strom had called you at home during the All-Star break and said, hey, this is crazy, but trust us. Brandon Faw. That would have been different. Then you would be like, that's cool, but you never got that call. I would have needed to see all of the schematic. because I would have needed Stromi to prove to me that pitching from the other side of the rubber was indeed going to hide his arm angle better, but it makes sense. Shout out to Chili Boots, our Minnesota Twins fan dropped us a super chat.

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All right. Two thumbs. Let me say this. Let me say this about Brandon Fought start. Oh, please do. He doesn't even necessarily need to go out there and shove. You would like it for it to happen. But we saw it in game four.

The bullpen was capable of suppressing some runs. So if Fott doesn't have it early, it is not the end of the world. Don't go standing out on a ledge with a game over your shoulder. Be patient. They can still hold down the fort. We do also have Zach Gowan in the bullpen, according to Zach Gowler. Toro Havolo, which I don't love. Merrill Kelly said he's available even.

I'm available out of the bullpen, you guys. I will drive to Philadelphia right now. If it was up to Merrill, he would have had like 10 or 11 more pitches in last night. He would have had 70 more pitches if it was up to my own. But Zach Allen legitimately can be used. This would be a bullpen day for him to throw. No. Hey, might as well.

Stop it. You wouldn't want to see Zach Allen? Absolutely not. No, because they, because their goddamn rolls are figured out. Patrick, we know who we want to see late in the game. I don't want to see anybody but those four guys. But what if fought is out by the second inning? No.

You don't want to see Gallon in the second maybe? I really don't want to see Ryan Nelson. Yeah, that's probably fair. We'll see what happens. Let's not put that bad magic out there. Let's not put that the road ride by the road ride. Ryan is a stud. Yeah, that's true.

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And a Patrick Beverly jersey, which I don't respect one bit. And Bryce Harper, this son of a bitch, knows exactly what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing by wearing this. But Papav never won a championship with the Sixers, though. I don't care. It's just enough for me. Pepov's been a pest to Phoenix. Yeah, we hate him here.

True. I hate it. And then Michael Jordan, just because he's Michael Jordan. Just because he makes good sneakers. Don't even get me started. Don't even get me started. But you were a Georgia of a minor league baseball player? I don't get that.

I want to be mad about the NBA championship. We lost, but I'm more mad about the time that he told on Eddie Johnson to to Cotton Fitzsimmons about them. staying up late and gambling together. That was, that was a low move. That was a low move. But anyway, watch that show with Saul, by the way. This is an incredible show with Saul and Eddie.

And I love it every single time. But let's take a look at the updated playoff bracket because, again, here we are. We got a date. No playoff bracket. Oh, I apologize. Did that update? Rangers. Texas Rangers potentially here online.

No matter what happens, I believe. Yep. And like I said, those dates do line up with that magical world series. for 2001 somehow some way. But the Diamondbacks, they've been hitting some dingers there. And they do have seven players who have two or more home runs this postseason. Obviously, the Phillies get a lot of credit for what they've done and rightfully so. But Alec Thomas, four home runs, Gabriel Marino, three, Tommy Fam, two, Lordus two, Catell two, Pardomo, two, Corbyn Carroll, too.

Damn. So a lot of, again, this is why at times, giving out that king state can be a little difficult because this team is getting kind of a well-rounded performance, if you could say. I guess looking at it positively on a negative side. Aside from Kutel, nobody's super consistent, you know, and you get your kind of knightly hero from this team at times. But it's like Alec Thomas's home run, it's welcomed. And at times these guys step up to the plate and are absolutely huge for this team,

even when they've been struggling. I heard a stat that from the guys on Cespitus family barbecue, that Corbyn Carroll, when he scored a run last night, that was like his first time in like six games in the postseason, and he had never had a drought like that during the regular season. That's wild. Some of that has to do with him maybe not getting on base and definitely not being chaotic on the base paths.

Sure. And the guys behind him, you know, Moreno has done a good job of driving the ball with runners on base. Marte, So-So, and then Christian Walker definitely needs to show up tonight, I think in a big way, the Norristown PA native, you know, doing it to the Phillies fans. I think in a big way. This is going to be a game about clutch.

Who's going to be more clutch in those clutch spots? Yeah. Well, speaking of clutch, I'm doing it again. And I know if Bronson was here, he would be furious with my bet this tonight on this game. But let's take a look at it. We went with a five-legged this time. Phillies win. Batter struck out, Ranger Suarez 1-plus.

Kyle Schwarber home runs, 1-plus. Kutel Marte, 1-plus hits because, of course, I got to get that in there. And Rangers' swear is one-plus walk. Why not? I'm doing it again to them. And I don't care. My $5 is absolutely worth watching the Diamondbacks win this game tonight. But you should maybe use your opportunity to bet.

And maybe a little different. He calls me Sonic the Hedgehog. It's because I hedge my bets emotionally. It is. I say it's because I know exactly what I'm doing. I might be a madman. I might be a genius. I don't know.

But I'll tell you this much. If the Diamondbacks continue to win because I plug bets like that, I will not stop. You cannot stop me. I will not, I will not be stopped. But again, get down on the bed MGM app. If you're a new user, use our code of PHNX and get yourself some free money. But super chat from our guy, Joe, thank you so much, Joe. He says, fam with the throat slash at Harper when he rounds the bases. That would be epic. Ooh. Wow. Like, let's make the- Can you bet on that, actually? I would love to take those kind of bets. I would love to take, you know, whatever kind of,

like. What if like a home run and a blowout, you know, Alex Thomas, he might not be the guy. But we'll say, no, I can tell Marta would be the guy. Bad flip rotations or? No, he crosses home plate and he holds up like seven fingers. Like, you know, Harper on his 31st birthday. Yeah. Blew out the candles.

If he blows out the number seven. Oh, my God. Ooh, that would be cold. Or just spitball ideas here. That would be a cold one. Well, it's time. Baseball is about to be on. We got about seven minutes here to the first pitch.

So we are very excited. We are very nervous. Like Jacob said, we're very clutched here. I'm ready. I'm ready. Like our man, CWP said, this is like a retirement match between Mad Dog Russo and Great Chilty. Whoever wins, whoever loses, the other one gets to go on in the playoffs. But we appreciate you guys, of course, for being here so much.

You guys are the absolute best. We will be back here 10 minutes after the final out. Win or lose, regardless. We will be back here to celebrate this team here after this game seven that they play in Philadelphia. In the meantime, you can follow us on Twitter. I'm at cap underscore Cape Man with a K. This maniac next to me is at Patrick D. lines. Jacob is at Jacob underscore Franklin for because he's the fourth best Jacob Franklin.

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