PHNX Arizona Diamondbacks Podcast - POSTGAME: Anthony Volpe’s GRAND SLAM Saves Yankees Season In Game 4 Win Over Dodgers

Episode Date: October 30, 2024

JOIN THE DIEHARDS FOR JUST $4 A MONTH! https://www.gophnx.com/intro-offer-youtube With their backs against the wall, the New York Yankees came roaring back to beat the Dodgers in Game 4 of the World Series 11-4. Dalton Feely from Jomboy stops by to discuss Anthony Volpe becoming a Yankee legend in one game, the odds being stacked against New York still down 3-1 in the series, and what our biggest concerns are for Corbin Carroll, Ketel Marte, and the Diamondbacks in 2025. Join Derek, Dalton, and Kevin for the PHNX Diamondbacks Show LIVE! An ALLCITY Network Production SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube: https://bit.ly/phnx_youtube ALL THINGS PHNX: http://linktr.ee/phnxsports MERCH https://store.allcitynetwork.com/collections/phnx-locker ALLCITY Network, Inc. aka PHNX and PHNX Sports is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by the City of Phoenix PHNX Events: Get your tickets to PHNX events and takeovers here: https://gophnx.com/events/ bet365: https://www.bet365.com/olp/open-account?affiliate=365_03330244 Use the code PHNX365 to sign up, deposit $10 and choose your offer! Disclaimer: Must be 21+ and physically located in AZ. If you or someone you know has a gambling problem and wants help, call 1-800-NEXT-STEP, text NEXTSTEP to 53342 or visit https://problemgambling.az.gov/ Bluechew: Try BlueChew FREE when you use our promo code ALLCITY at checkout--just pay $5 shipping. That’s https://bluechew.com promo code ALLCITY to receive your first month FREE. Visit for more details and important safety information, and we thank BlueChew for sponsoring the podcast.. Zbiotics: Go to https://zbiotics.com/phnxdbacks to get 15% off your first order when you use PHNXDBACKS at checkout. Pre-Alcohol is backed with 100% money back guarantee so if you’re unsatisfied for any reason, they’ll refund your money, no questions asked. Empire Today: Schedule a free in-home estimate today! All listeners can receive a $350 OFF discount when they use the promo code PHNX. Restrictions apply. See https://empiretoday.com/phnx for details. Branded Bills: Use code PHNX at https://www.brandedbills.com/ for 20% off your first order! Earn entries for Ferrari Fortunes every Friday. At 7pm, winners are drawn for cash prizes and free bonus play. The grand finale will take place on November 1st at Wild Horse Pass, where one lucky winner will win a Ferrari 488 GTB! Visit https://playatgila.com/promotion/ferrarifortunes/ Gametime: Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code PHNX for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Circle K: Join Inner Circle for free by downloading the Circle K app today! Head to https://www.circlek.com/store-locator to find Circle Ks near you! Shady Rays: Exclusively for our listeners, Shady Rays is giving out their best deal of the season. Head to https://shadyrays.com and use code: PHNX for 35% off polarized sunglasses. Try for yourself the shades rated 5 stars by over 300,000 people. Check out FOCO merch and collectibles and use promo code “PHNX10” for 10% off your order on all non Pre Order items. Rugged Road: Gear up for your next adventure with Rugged Road Coolers - Your ultimate outdoor companion! Head to http://ruggedroadoutdoors.pxf.io/ALLCITY and use code PHNX for 10% off! Get 10 FREE meals at https://hellofresh.com/freedbacks. Applied across 7 boxes, new subscribers only, varies by plan. 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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Well, with their backs against the wall, the New York Yankees came roaring back in game four to make this an interesting series. Question of Mark. I don't know, but we're going to talk about it right now. Don't go anywhere. I got this guy with me. We're going to talk about World Series game four 30 seconds. Ski and welcome in to another edition of the PHNX Diamondbacks podcast. At least that's what I'm allegedly calling this show these days.

Right here on PHNX. My name is Derek Monti, occasionally known as your mayor of PHNX. next. This man next to me is the one, the only Dalton Feeley, of course, part-time. And all-around great guy. Dalton, thanks for joining me, man. Pleasure to be here, Derek. Listen, our snakes are out. There's a common enemy, I think, for a lot of the United States right now, or I'm just being biased. Let's go yanks. It's awesome. Pleasure to be back, guys. What are the vibes like right now in New York?

I know things have to be exciting, but still a little, I guess, worried about this series. Yeah, so it was a lot better going into Friday. Let me put it that way. Jimmy, Jake, everyone in the office, the majority of the Yankee fans, you know, the outlook today. It was tough. 3-0 in the World Series. No team has ever come back. So it was kind of like a little bit of a pre-funeral, very grim.

But hopefully, and hopefully we're going to talk about it, this could be the step in the right direction, taking a big win today. It's a huge win. Yankees win by a score of 11 to 4 and force a game 5. This is just the fourth time Dalton in MLB history that a team down 3-0 has forced the game 5, which sounds kind of crazy considering history is what it is. but we have this graphic and it just once again shows how difficult this is as far as a feat is concerned, right? Like typically when you are down 3-0 in the World Series, you are not in a great place.

And usually it's because you're kind of overmatched by your opponent. So that's why in these occasions we've seen the four game suite 21 times. But now, again, now we've seen four that have at least. forced the game five, and no team has forced a game beyond that in the World Series, which again is just crazy with the way that baseball goes. I mean, we know we remember that time. I'm sure you remember that time that one of those teams from Boston did that thing against New York. We don't need to bring that up.

But this was a big step, I guess, in the right direction, obviously, considering that they avoided the sweep. And they could be in historic territory come tomorrow with Garrett Cole on the mound. So we'll get to that here shortly. And we will talk some diamond backs. But we need to talk about this game because it started like every game in this series has started with Freddie Freeman hitting a home run. This man cannot be stopped. He is, in fact, the Freddie Kruger of the Yankees.

He homered again in the first. inning. He scores Moogie Betts on a two-run dinger. He's now homered in six straight World Series games. And I mean, it felt like deja vu, right? It felt like, here we go again. The Dodgers get out to score. And pretty much as we've seen, I think they said in the last eight games in the World Series, the first team to score wins the game. As Yogi Barron said, it's deja vu all over again. Freddie Freeman has been torturing the New York Yankees. Listen, six straight games sets of record, World Series record for most consecutive games with a home run.

So that's a very impressive feat going back to his days with Atlanta in 2021. So shout out Freddie Freeman in that regard. Listen, he had the grand slam in game one. Obviously, the big moment. He's had that bum ankle this entire postseason. So it's pretty impressive how well he's had that stroke going in this World Series. But, you know, I'm going to give a little bit of a slash to the Dodgers here. Last couple of runs, Freddy's hit.

He's barely gotten over that short porch. I mean, and they're talking about it. That Dodger guy was saying, if it was in any other stadium, that ball's not out. So I guess it's been luck on his side, too. No, in all seriousness, if the Dodgers and they're probably going to win the series, when, I guess, when, not if the Dodgers win the series. Freddie Freeman's going to be your MVP, and he's just playing out of his mind. I know all of New York gates of right now.

Yeah, and I agree with that. I can see, you know, of course, where you're coming from. But the Yankees tonight, they were, they were impressive. I thought that their offense really woke up. I thought that they did a great job here of making this series interesting, even if it's just one win, right? Because mostly the offense just looks so great. Anthony Volpe became a Yankees legend.

I feel like in this one game, so much offense from him. First player ever with four plus RBI and two plus stolen bases in a World Series game. It felt like every time the offense was doing anything, it was, it was him generating it. He, you know, he gets the first run on the Alex Verdugo ground out, but he made that happen by getting a walk and then stealing second and then scoring that run. He hits the huge grand slam in the third inning. And that just seemed to wake everybody on the offense up. It did feel like he was doing it by himself there for a minute.

And, and like, he was the sole. one that was not going to let this, let this game slip away. I just want to emphasize the fact. I mean, Anthony Volpe, still a young player, I believe 23, 24, playing in front of his, you know, team that he grew up rooting for,

loving as a fan, playing shortstop from New York Yankees, and he gets a grand slam in the World Series to give his team lead it and save their season. I mean, that is a storybook scene for Anthony Vulte in his young career. And that's an impressive feat. Great point.

about Volpe really getting that offense going for the Yankees. I guess the fun fact, not so for the Yankees. That Volpey Grand Slam in the bottom of third inning was the first inning since the ninth inning of game two where the Yankees scored on a non-Alex Verdugo RBI. And if we're talking about Alex Verdugo being the engine of the Yankees' offense in the old series, that's a little bit of a problem, right? So shout out Anthony Volpe. He really swung the tide with one swing with two outs.

The Yankees in the first three innings. They were leaving runners on base. We're talking about deja vu with Freddie Freeman in the home runs. The Yankees, their offense has been okay, but they've been really struggling with runners in scoring position. They did it in the first, leaving two runners on base. They had the base running gaff by Volpe, where he should have scored on the Austin Wells double.

Luckily, they get one out of it. And then the Grand Slam, they finally executed with runners on base. Yeah. And I mean, again, it's even after that, right? This game got close once again. You know, in the eighth inning, he doubles. He steals third again. Second stolen base.

Scores on a fielder's choice. And the eighth kind of beats that throwout at home. And I mean, he just, again, it's like when you see another player on your team, giving that effort single-handedly and trying, you know, again, trying to win the game on his own, you can't help, but, you know, get energized by that, right? you can't help but like want to go in and do everything you can to help that teammate who's just killing it on this night, you know, win this ballgame, put this one away because it did get close.

Part of it was that crazy fan interference that happened that everybody online is talking about. One of the craziest fan interference calls I've ever seen in my life, mostly based on the fact of this particular Yankees fan, his antics, his effort, if you will, you know, because we really didn't know what happened, right? We see the first clip. Betts goes into the stands. We do notice that it was, it seemed like it took a little bit longer in real time than it typically does for, for a player to attempt to catch a, you know, foul ball. But then Betz starts pointing up and, and kind of yell into the umpire. And the umpire calls, you know, the calls, uh, it was Labor Torres, again, Glaver Torres, another fan interference call. They call him out, right?

But we go back and we see that. We see in slow motion. We see in 4K this man, this Yankee fan get caught, ripping the ball out of Mookie Betts's hand along with the assistance of his friend there. And my favorite guy, the guy in the back who's just staring incredulously, he just can't believe it's going on. He's kind of looking on in approval and also disappointment. Like he's embarrassed to be around these guys and also embarrassed to be.

be a fan of the game of baseball is this as this as this as this character you know uh from from a sketch comedy show pulls this ball out of out of mooky bets his hand and i will just say there i i'm conflicted by this on one hand how are you conflicted by this i'm conflicted because on one hand i feel like this man should be arrested and banned from every stadium in baseball for the rest of his life and never allowed to enjoy the game again on the other hand to be so bold, to be so brash to really, he's the Anthony Volpe in a way of fans. He did everything he could to ensure that his team won. But yeah, all jokes aside, like Jay Cuddy says right here, imagine if they hurt Mookie. We would have nets everywhere next year. Fans would never be allowed

to put a foul ball or a home run ball ever again. If it just bounced off the outfield net, it would be a home run. That's exactly how it would be. Your explanation and just seen the pictures and videos again. Like, I have to pick my jaw off the floor. Like, not only, it, this was the Yankees first batter of the game in a do-or-die World Series game at home, bottom of the first, trailing two-nothing. The first out they made was because a fan basically assaults moogie bets from trying to prevent them and making a catch. Like, you cannot write this freaking story. You know what? I'm going tinfoil hat. You know what? Speaking of story, what if Apple, he's a plant by Apple. They're making a documentary. It's a 30 series and they need something. They needed some

juicy topic. They already had one Glabertora's interference. You know what? I screw it. We're giving them two. I would not be surprised if that man was on Rob Manfred's personal payroll to ensure that we got more games when you were averaging 14 and a half million viewers while going up against, you know, Monday night football, right? No, they want this series to go on. But this man wanted this series to go on. And I don't know. Like it was incredibly stupid. It's incredibly dangerous. You and I were talking about it before we got on air.

Like there's no there's no way that you could justify this guy doing this, nor, nor I want to put this out there. Don't get it in your goddamn heads that he's a good luck charm. He might have spawned something. I'm not going to say that he didn't ignite a fire, but this man was escorted out of the building before he got to see a single run scored. So there is no way he could be able to. luck charm because he was not physically present when all of the scoring took place.

I'm just saying. I just want to put that out there so that we can put to bed any kind of grimace scenario. If people start doing this, like that's the worst outcome in this situation where people think he's a good luck charm and then continuously try. I'm going to do it too when I get a chance. Yeah. No. Are you going to fly to L.A.

if they go back, if they go to game six and then just disrupt any Dodgers voodoo or magic that they have right now? I mean, you got to do everything you can to get the series, right? I do want to say, I mean, we talked about off camera like you're saying, but as a fan, like, you're down to Rio, you're rooting for your team, but like, it kind of put a little bit of a jolt in them. It's like, you know, he's going to be a hero in New York. Is he not going to be a hero in New York? I, Derek, I guarantee you when I go into the office tomorrow, I bet you someone, and I'm going to guess it's Joe's McFly because Joe's McFly is hilarious is going to love this guy and want a shirt of this guy.

I was going to say he's already got his email address or something. The anti- Steve Bartman. Yeah. It's crazy. He did it, but he knew what he was doing. He knew what he was doing. And he helped this team instead of screw around this team. Yeah, that's true.

Well, I mean, it was just insane. And of course, it makes it crazier that it happens in game four of the World Series. My God, right? And he's our king snake of the game. No, we don't do that anymore. We don't do that. Don't listen to him, Kevin. Remember, we got trouble last time.

Oh, I didn't have it. They didn't like it. We gave it to Yamamoto, and I will never hear the end of it. This Yankees offense, though, again, they got cracking after that. Austin Wells adds that solo home run to give the Yankees some breathing room. You have that big eighth inning. Volpe again, big part of getting that going. And then with two on, Glaver Torres finally hit a ball that wasn't interfered with three run, home run. And that kind of put things away. But then you even had Juan Soto and Aaron Judge finally kind of wake up. They get going double for Soto.

and an RBI single there for Judge. But like, I don't know. There's something about what Austin Wells said post-game, right? They asked him, like, what was your attitude coming into this game? And he just said, I just said, screw it. That's what he said. He said, I just said, screw it. We're down 3-0, screw it.

Like, at this point, let's just go out there and try to play baseball, right? And, I mean, this Yankees team, they definitely seem, you know, uncharacteristic of the way they played baseball throughout this season, right? We know this happens. We know it ends up being, you know, sometimes those big stars that get you to the postseason shy away, the way that Aaron Judge has struggled this postseason, the way you haven't really seen Juan Soto be the hero that you would think he, you know, he should be. Stanton, he's done his share throughout the postseason.

But again, you know, those guys haven't really showed up in this world series. and that's something that still could get going at any point. Like that's the dangerous part about the Yankees. Once this engine gets going and those guys get warmed up, I mean, there's still a lot of firepower that right now has been struggling, but could turn things around at any point. So, yeah, the one thing I really want to say about this game with Dave Roberts and the Dodgers here on their side of it,

they really took this game as not a throwaway game. Like, not that they weren't trying to win, but it was a bullpen game. They've been doing, but they didn't go to any of their A-list guys. Like, it was Land-Nack for 4-N-Ack and sure, Land-N-Nack, that's great. But Daniel Hudson-Brent Honeywell, like, they had their struggles. And the big fear for me, not to say that it's going to make a major impact, but for the Yankees' hope, the one thing that I took from the end of that game,

that big A inning was that, yeah, Judge and Soto, they made some contact, some hard contact, got on base, had some positive results, right? And that's where we haven't really seen from Judge, especially this postseason. But even Soto, the last two games in New York, he's had his struggles too offensively. No hits, but he had been walking. Hopefully, game five for the Yankees' offense, you want, Judge, you want Soto to have more confidence at the play and execute like they had been doing in the regular season. They did it late in the game today, and hopefully that carries over for the Yankees.

I'm still just skeptical. I agree with you. I said it, I'm yesterday's show, like, the Dodgers have the ability to turn to. a bullpen game here. If it works out for them and they keep this kind of struggling Yankees' offense off balance by going to a bunch of different arms, then it could work out. If not, then they're still up three to one and they're still in a really good position, right?

But I feel like, I feel like there's got to be a point. And as long as the Yankees can figure out a way to extend the series, maybe one more game, there has to be a point where this Dodgers bullpen is just so taxed that you start to see, you know, the stamina, the exhaustion impact them in some way. I don't know. I mean, we have Archie on the show. He always talks about how like, you know, during the postseason, you're just a different animal as a player as an athlete. But I still feel like after 162 games and then going through a fairly long stretch during the postseason that, you know, this usage of the Dodgers bullpen and the need to have bullpen games and the need to have just kind of guys throwing

every single day has to catch up with them at some point and it feels like pitching is still their biggest weakness despite the fact that it hasn't been for them up to this point. Not to bring our snakes involved, though. We kind of know a thing or two about a bullpen game in the World Series. You sure do, pal. But going back on the Dodgers. We just weren't up 3-0 and we did it. Yeah, it's a little bit of a different circumstance there.

I will say for the Dodgers point, like you mentioned, they're up 3-1. still. They didn't use any of their A bullpen. They have Jack Clarity going who looked pretty darn good last time besides his hamstring tightness and giving up that moonshot to John Carlo in his first matchup with the Yankees. I do want to say, I do want to say you had that graphic up, which was awesome by the production team out. The sweeps, four games, five games. No one's made it to six games being down three oh in the world series. Awesome, putting that up. Thank you. I just want to point out, if the Yankees somehow managed to beat Jack Flaherty in the A bullpen in this great offense tomorrow.

And you fly back to L.A. So momentum starts to shift just a little bit. You know, the Dodgers are still 99% in my book they're going to win. But if game five, if the Yankees find something, flying back, you have the off day, momentum's back on your side. Putting it out there, Derek, it's something that's unprecedented to game six. And the postseason can be a little bit of a different beast. It really can.

And I mean, again, there is something to be said about how, you know, the Dodgers, did have their struggles. They struggled against the Padres team. They, you know, I've said it a bunch of times on the show. The Padres team poked a bear way too early. And we got to see the results of that. And I mean, sometimes that kind of situation, how crazy that game got between those two teams at, you know,

at their home stadium is enough to maybe galvanize a team and bring them together and help them, you know, kind of give them that push that they need, especially considering how incredibly talented and incredibly stacked they already are to make the run that they've made. But again, maybe the gas runs out a little bit here.

The Yankees bullpen was lights out tonight. And that's something that, again, is could be a difference, especially, you know, with how close these games have been at times. Today's game wasn't really close, or at least the final score wasn't,

but it was at times. Like there was a point where the Dodgers were just down by one run even after that grand slam. And you just feel like they could, they, they were one hit away from tying it up in many instances up until that eighth inning. So it'll be interesting to see. And of course, we will talk a little bit more about this game on the other side of our break as well as Garrett Cole, starting on the mound for the Yankees and what that means for that team. But I did want to thank you guys for being here in the Ph. X-X Sports YouTube channel watching wherever you're watching. Make sure you subscribe.

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All right, well, let's take a look at the count presented by our friends at Desert Financial Credit Union. Yankees really poured on the offense in this one. They outscored the Dodgers 11 to 4. They out hit the Dodgers 9 to 6. Had a ton of opportunities with runners in scoring position. They went four for four for 15 to the Dodgers one for seven. Yankees had six extra base hits to the Dodgers four. And then their expected batting average there just through the roof at 361 to the Dodgers 208.

This one was a pretty thorough ass kicking tonight. And again, I know in baseball, I've seen it firsthand, you've seen it firsthand. We're Diamondbacks fans. We know that offense doesn't carry over from one game to another. there's no aggregate scoring in this sport. But it really does feel like this Yankees offense has been rather listless. And tonight it like the light turned on. It felt like it took a little while, but it definitely felt like something changed.

Now, part of it could have just been facing, you know, some of these low leverage relievers that Dave Roberts was using, that he probably wouldn't use in other situations throughout this series. but getting right is getting right doesn't matter who it's against right so it's like if you kind of zone in you could find yourself you know maybe teeing off on jack flarity in game five tomorrow yeah i mean it goes back to what i was a little talking about a little earlier where the risk is okay you're throwing your b squad you're resting your a squad but you might heat up some of these bats like soto and judge because these guys have been ice cold and you know maybe that one hit that

one at bat, you kind of figure out what's going on. They're talking about judge mechanically being just a little bit late on things this postseason. His timing has not been down. If he figured it out tonight and that can carry over, that's a huge component. We are talking about the ALMVP. And quite frankly, like we as a media have been discussing about how bad he's been. But it's been like super bad. A guy who at 50 at home runs expected to win the AL MVP this year has been absolutely atrocious.

on an offense that is reliant basically on him and Soto and the occasional John Carlo bash at some point. And when you're when today Anthony Volpe is the guy that comes through, that's great. But you need something from Aaron Judge. You need something from Juan and so. You need your 300 million, 400 million, dare I say, you know, more and obviously more and more for Soto this offseason. You need those guys to come through in these biggest moments. You got your young guys in Austin Wells and Anthony Volpe doing it, right? And I mean, that's.

Reminis of the Diamondbacks last year where you're just kind of like, do they know any better? Are they too, are they just too young to not know any better of what's going on and how big this moment is? It feels like that sometimes. Maybe that's what's causing the big stars to tighten up and, you know, not be loose in that moment. So much is expected of them. So much is expected of them on any given night when they play baseball. The pressure is always there for Aaron Judge. every time someone watches him at the at the dish they expect to see a home run and are disappointed

if they don't for the most part right so you you learn to live with that as a player but this is a different level of expectation especially when you're kind of getting knocked around and beaten in every facet of the game by the dodgers the dodgers the dodgers are just flat out playing better baseball than the yankees and that i mean there were times tonight that you could even say that the Yankees weren't, you know, 100%, right? Like, they're still not playing completely error-free baseball, but the offense was enough tonight to overcome any small mistakes that they made. I will say, I'm kind of shocked this is going to game five because the first three games,

like sure, the first game went to extra innings and Freddie three minutes the walk off brand slam, I'm sure. But game two and game three, like I, there was nothing the Yankees did that gave me hope for them to win game four. The only hope, honestly, was that the Dodgers were kind of giving this game. It's like, all right, here comes our B&C squad. If you can't beat them, you do not deserve to be playing in Game 4 of the World Series right now. Yeah.

And, you know, the Yankees offense finally came through, potentially carries over. You have your ace coming on tomorrow. This is it. This is your ride or die situation the rest of the year. You have to feel pretty good about that, right? You have to feel pretty good about in the final game, you know, in this season for the Yankees at home, that you have Garrett Cole versus Jack Flaherty going. that you had your offense, get that jumpstart tonight,

that you feel pretty good about that. Even when you look at some of the things the Dodgers have done in this series, they're still also missing big contributions from their stars. Otani dislocated his shoulder in game two. So he doesn't really seem like himself. And that's something that could swing things definitely in the Yankees direction now. Because, you know, again, he doesn't, he's not 100%. He doesn't seem to be able to do the things on the base.

pace path he's normally doing, stealing bases, all of that kind of stuff. So, I mean, there's a lot of things that have kind of changed from game one to now, right? And again, the Yankees still, I still feel like the Yankees have a better situation as far as their pitching goes. And could make this, you know, series interesting. I don't expect them to. I don't, I don't really sincerely deep down in my heart. Come on, Derek. I want to see it. I'm. I'm. I'm. I am so sick, Dalton, I'm so sick of watching these two teams play each other already, but I am willing to go to a game seven. I am all in on that.

Like, that's really the only way that I think this series as a whole kind of rebounds from people being disappointed about it. And it's only a disappointment because the Dodgers are so damn good. Nobody really wants to see a sweep when you have this level of talent going head to head. What people want to see is a good game. They want to see a good series. That delivered 100% in game one, right? All the excitement, all of the drama, everything you could ask for.

And even going down two games in L.A., you didn't feel like the Yankees were completely out of it. But game three, the loss in game three was demoralizing to those of us that are baseball fans that aren't even rooting for any of these teams. Game three was like, oh, this sucks. This is going to go this way. I thought I thought this was going to be better than this, right? And so, like, realistically, I think that's what all baseball fans are rooting for that don't actually root for either of these teams. Either that or they're rooting for both teams to lose, which can't happen. And I get it.

So that can't happen. So basically, if that can't happen, can we at least see a good series. Can I be a little petty for 30 seconds? You can be petty for a whole minute if you want. You got the floor. Yeah. Please. This, if the Yankees lost game four, right, this would have been.

one of the worst series, world series of the 21st century. Like it was, we're talking about Yankees Dodgers. We're talking about two of the biggest markets. MLB is salivating at the opportunity to have the Yankees and Dodgers. They're doing a freaking documentary about it. And it almost became the opportunity where the Dodgers just swept him in four games and that was that. And I'll be honest, you know, a lot of my coworkers who are Yankee fans, I heard it last year where Rangers, Rangers, Diamondbacks, this is the worst.

Two small markets. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, yeah. And now, like, there was an opportunity where they got their ass beat and their series would have been way worse than the Dynbacks Rangers series. And it was playing out very similarly. Outside of the game two to the dimex had, I guess that was the Yankees version of it tonight where they put up a big win. Because game one, exact same thing. And well, and it's funny because it's like fantasy football, right?

When you're watching fantasy football and you get a touchdown early, like your world is ever. everything, but if you go a whole quarter with your running back scoring you less than two points, you're like, you're broken and you're miserable and I hate you. It doesn't matter if those points come in the third quarter or the fourth quarter. You've already kind of given up on them as a person, right? So again, there's such a difference between the Diamondbacks tying that series at one. Yes. Especially in Texas. And then coming back to Chase Field, having it be a one one series versus this series being three zero by the time we get to tonight's game. right then it's funny because yeah the end result could still be the same it could still be you know

the similar outcome but this was so much more depressing and devastating to yankees fans it was so much of a letdown to baseball fans that there just wasn't more of a fight and that's simply because the dodgers go up three to nothing right so i i hope for i hope for game five to be a yankees win i want to see more baseball i don't want this to end But more importantly, I think once we get to a three two series, I know we're going back to L.A. I know at that point, the Dodgers still have the advantage. But it very much feels like a series at that point of being three, two. And I think that that is what we all want.

We want a series. We want to feel like there's a chance. And if somehow they make history and extend this to seven games, I don't know if I like the Dodgers chances at that point, I'll just be honest. 20 years. it happened 20 years ago. Is this a simulation? People are talking. That's what I've heard.

I've heard I'm just lying in a tube inside of a Matrix somewhere. But anyway, we've talked enough about the Yankees. We got some snake talk coming up here on the other side of this break. And we are going to definitely do that. So make sure you don't go anywhere. And of course, get ready to talk about the Diamondbacks

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for the Diamondbacks heading into 2025. I know the biggest concern is some of the free agent losses that we are looking at. It seems unlikely that the Diamondbacks are going to be able to bring back several of their, I guess, power bats from this past off season. Jock Peterson, Randall Gritchick, Christian Walker, all three of those guys,

is going to be very expensive to bring back most likely. And with the money kind of committed, which is another big concern, you know, of what they already are committed to. It doesn't look like they will be able to really afford to bring all of those guys back. What are your thoughts on that? And what are your other concerns that you might have for the snakes for 2025? So let's start with the impending free agents because, you know, free agency is going to come up. It could be sooner rather than later pending on the Yankees Dodgers series.

It starts with Christian Walker, right? Like, Christian Walker is the guy. He's been around for quite a while and has been a gold glove, platinum glove, caliber defender, power bat, and he had big shoes to fill. Like, listen, he came in for Paul Goldschmidt, and he's played absolutely fantastic his time in Arizona. It stinks that he's probably not going to be resigning. I think of the names that you mentioned, I think it's most unlikely that Walker comes back. I'm anticipating he gets a three-year deal that's right you know out of the dimebacks pay

range if I had a guess I think there's going to be a team that's going to be very interested in him it starts with me several teams right like there's a lot of interest in Christian Walker there should be I think you know I think there should be heavy interest I think first base is a weird position where you know teams are either set or they like oh I think this guy can be really good but you know Alonzo is also a big domino in this effect like in aspect of it too. Let's miss out on Soto and Alonzo. I think that's a spot where Walker could slide in and be like an easy, oh, Steve Cohen needs to overpay for someone. But I was off of Christian Walker. The name I'm really curious about this offseason is

Jack Peterson. Jack Peterson has been a gun for hire. And this year, we were lucky enough to happen in Arizona. And he had one of his best years of his career since being an L.A. Dodger. and I think he made a lot of money this offseason. I'm curious if he gets a multi-year deal for the first time in a while, but Jack would be a tough one to lose. You lose Christian Walker, you lose Jack Peterson, two guys who both hit 23 plus home runs this year,

even with Walker going on the IL. Jack would be a tough loss alongside Christian Walker, and those are my two biggest worries in terms of free agent departures. Yeah, no, and I mean, of course, Jock, Randall Gritchick, they had career years, basically. I mean, a lot of it was the platooning. It was the DH, the two double-headed DH, but Gritchick had his value, I think, in the field at times for this team. I think the versatility that it gave Tori was incredible.

And it really showed in a lot of, in a lot of those games that those guys came through late or Tori could switch it up and, you know, kind of turn to one or the other late in the games. but it does feel like, you know, that maybe all three of those guys are gone. So where do they get that power from? Where do they generate those particular RBI and home runs from? And, I mean, I know that there is rumors, maybe started by this show. I don't know about maybe Paul Goldschmidt coming back. We have talked a little bit about Goldie being, you know, kind of a decent value fit. We also talked about Carlos Santana being incredibly, incredibly old.

No, incredibly comparable to Christian Walker, believe it or not, even defensively, which is crazy at the age that he is playing that level of baseball, right? So, I mean, again, there are some options out there, and I'm sure the Diamondbacks, Mike Hazen, is going to have to be a little creative here with how he feels some of these roles without having the payroll flexibility that they had last season. Listen, I mean, I'm a big Goldschmidt guy. I think most dimeback people, let me look at us. I got two freaking Goldschmidt. So I would be all in for Goldschmidt. I think if Goldie, I think he's reasonable. Like, I think that's a reasonable option.

The one thing, it's my disclaimer. Like, you know, just be ready. If it happens, do not expect to be 2013 Paul Goldschmidt. Do not expect them to be 2015, Paul Goldwyn. He's much older. He had his struggles this year. He did bounce back towards the end of the season. Like he did, it's not like he finished off poorly, like completely, completely bad and like out of the league. But he's older. The defense is starting to become a little bit of a question. He was striking out a lot more than he had in the past. Though he's been a strike out guy's whole career.

He's been chasing more. So there are concerns. Not hitting the ball is hard. Love to see Goldie back in the uniform, but only at the right price. And if he'll be on. Yeah. No, I hear you on that. And I mean, again, there's, there is a little bit of a, like, if there's somebody that you're

going to spend your money on, spending on Christian. Walker. That's the best replacement for Christian Walker is Christian Walker. But I mean, there's, I don't know. There's just, the math doesn't really add up for us when we're taking a look at the numbers and what they're going to have on the payroll next year. You have Mike Hayes I'm making some comments to the media essentially that believe it or not, Ken Kendrick is going to push money into this team if he believes that they can win. And he believes that they can win in 2025. I don't think that that's that out of the question, to be honest. I think that there's a lot of pieces that are currently part of this team, mostly pitching, that could be much different next year,

even though they were a huge disappointment this year. But, I mean, there's still just a lot of other things, I think, to be concerned about. The Dodgers, that's just something to continue to be concerned about in 2025. When you see them go on this role, You see them kind of decimate some of the best teams in baseball. You see them trample over the Mets and all of their good luck charms. They walked right over the OMG sign. They stepped right on their wrist his head. They kick the pumpkin out of Pete's hands.

They took, what was the kid's name? The Rizzler. They shoved him in his locker and bullied him. No. They were right on to the World Series, pal. They just walked right over the Mets. I mean, this Dodgers team is incredible. And again, it's just something that,

isn't it's a team that isn't going anywhere right like there's these terrible terrible rumors about them adding Juan Soto which just seems like putting a hat on a hat and uh I mean just the just the fact that this team is going to continue to try to be the best team in baseball until the end of time is something we just are going to always have to deal with I think that's the biggest point right like if the reason to not spend money is because the Dodgers are good the Dodgers are a threat the Diamondbacks are never going to spend money again because the Dodgers are always going to be a threat. They're going to spend their money.

They're always going to be really good. They're just inevitable. And by the regular season, like, listen, it sucks to say. They always win the NOS. 12 of the last 13 years, they won it. I hate saying that's that. It's a fact. It's got to be said.

So let's just put the Dodgers. You can't even put that into the equation. There's two things I'm hoping for. Number one, Jordan Montgomery is going to have a full spring training. So he was awful, awful. Awful. Did I say how bad he was? He's awful.

Hopefully in 2025, that's not as bad. Like, Granky had his issues the first year, too, in his contract and was pretty darn good the rest of his career with Arizona. Now, granted, Monty was way, way worse than Granky's first year. But we've also seen flashes of Monty in 20203. Still gives me nightmares in the World Series. Hopefully, he kind of gets that form back for 2025. And, Errod, you know, Errod signs that four-year deal.

He was hurt for the first half of the season. he had some flashes, the numbers and overall consistency wasn't there since coming back from injury. But I do have some hope for Erod, having a full year, being healthy. Please, just have a left-handed pitcher stay healthy in the rotation. That would be awesome. Yeah. And honestly, I mean, I don't know, man. Those guys, you have to play for each other in baseball.

But there's three guys that have everything in the world to play for themselves. individually. Montgomery, Gallen, and Merrill Kelly, they're all playing for their contracts beyond 2025. And I mean, as much as we wanted to see Christian Walker play out of his mind this season, that didn't exactly happen. So that might, he did have a good season. I'm not going to ever take away from a season, you know, like the numbers that he put up. But we both know that it could have been better. And we both know that he wanted it to be better, considering that this was the end of his, you know, end of his contract, right? So again, it doesn't always work out that way, but as far as motivations are concerned,

Montgomery, Gallen, and Kelly have all the motivation in the world to come out and be the best versions of themselves that they've ever been next season. Absolutely. I mean, you nailed it right on the head of the pitching. That was the downfall and pitfall of the Arizona Dinbacks in 2024. They would have had the highest here right since the twins and I believe in 2009 to make the postseason. And that was the number of the number. one offense this year in baseball. So obviously the pitching has to bounce back from next year.

We were just mediocre. If we were just mediocre, we'd be in the postseason. My God, it's amazing. There is some fatigue. You know, I mean, I think Brent Strong was a fall guy for the whole pitching situation, fatigue from the World Series, maybe not managing properly. That's a whole another story. I'm curious to see what they would do in terms of adding this offseason. I think that would be my biggest question mark on the dimebacks because I think we know the loss is already. Like Walker's going to be gone. Peterson's probably gone. Gritchick's definitely gone. Like those three guys, I'm assuming the big three are gone. What did the dimebacks do to make this team competitive in 2025? We talked about the Dodgers. They're always going to be there.

The Padres now low key. A lot of roster moves are going to be happening in San Diego. They have a lot of guys in free agency this year. They're not going to retain them all. It's not the same ownership. So I'm very curious to see how they interact during this offseason and what they're going to do and try to compete in the NL West. I'm very curious to see how the dimebacks add. I just hope they don't subtract and shed payroll. That would be the worst feeling. during 89 in season. Yeah, yeah. I think the biggest concern for me is how does the change at coaching impact this team?

You brought up Brent Strom being a fall guy. They fired Dan Carlson. They fired Mike Fedders, right? These are the, they fired the entire pitching coaching staff. They also lose Tony Peres Chica at third base, who was a big mentor, big coach for the guys, far as defense was concerned and other things. And I am concerned there might be more losses. I think that there's a good chance. And again, this is just pure speculation based on one thing Tori said during his final, I think, media appearance of the year, but that Jeff Bannister could

be offered a managing job outside of Arizona and possibly consider it or take it. Or even maybe, you know, Bannister in general is just kind of strikes me as the guy that like, is ready to not be a part of this world every day in and day out like still be a part of baseball kind of like what he did when the diamondbacks hired him i think he was at a at a college in in in colorado if i'm not mistaken i might be mixing that up but there was i mean again it just kind of like be a little bit more low-key still involved with baseball but not you know as as a bench coach for a major league team i don't know how any changes like this around tory could impact Tori as a manager or impact the team. Now, there's a lot of people that have said

Brent Strom was the fall guy. You're not the only person to feel that way. Meanwhile, I have heard things at times about people having disagreements and not really vibing with the way that Brent Strom does things. Now, I think it's all based on personality and what type you are and how you like to be coached how you like to be managed, what you like being told to you as a pitcher when you are struggling on the mound and you have your pitching coach come out there and speak to you, right? Like there's there there's been, you know, Jesse and I've talked about it a bunch. Jesse still doesn't believe it to this day, but that Brent Strom will go out there and try to break the tension with a joke or something humorous or, you know, something funny, you know,

just trying to ease the tension a bit, you know, and that's kind of the way that he coaches. And maybe in the moment you don't want to be joked with by your coach to try to break the tension or maybe, you know, whatever. I don't know. That's just a small example, but I think that there are times where, you know, Brent Strom, despite being a legend in the game, despite being one of the best pitching coaches in Major League Baseball history, maybe just maybe some of his takes and some of his methods are bit outdated. and players might want something a bit more modern or a bit more what they're used to, possibly playing on another team or for another organization. I don't really know. I'm not, I'm not, there's not a lot of information I have to base that on,

but I've heard enough things to make me think maybe not everybody is in love with Brent Strom in the organization. Maybe not everybody on the pitching staff is in love with, with Brent Strom, and maybe they just wanted to try to do something different, considering that this was one of the worst pitching staffs, if not the worst pitching staff in all of baseball this year. You said it earlier. It would have been the history for them to make the playoffs with the ERA that they had.

Now, a lot of it is reasons, factors, fine, right? Injuries, a lot going on. Teams, you know, fatigue from the World Series last year, Jordan Montgomery's weird offseason. A lot of excuses and, and factors and variables that you could bring up. It's also something that every team deals with and not every team has go this, you know, sideways on them,

not, you know, go this badly for them. So I think there's a point where when you take a look at the pitching staff as a whole, you hear things like at one point we heard that there was something that was a problem with the entire pitching staff that Brent Strom needed to address. And that wasn't early on in the season, my friend. Dalton, that was like in the final two, three weeks of the season, that there was something he needed to address with the entire pitching staff that they were doing wrong.

So I don't know. A little bit of a concern. There's one point I do want to touch upon for Brent Strong, and I discuss coaching in general. You can be a great coach, and not everyone's going to agree with you with your philosophies, but the one thing that I think great coaches do, whether you're pitching coach, any coach, whatever,

you know how to coach a certain point. player. You mentioned it. There are certain guys who are on the mound, who are bulldogs, right, that have an aggressive mindset. And you can't, you're not going to be able to joke with those types of guys. Like you've got to kind of fire them up, get them angry, you know. And there are other guys who are the complete opposite. We're guys that are maybe happy go lucky, need jokes, kind of need to break the ice. Each, each coach has to know how to coach said player, their attitudes, their egos, what they do best. Sure. And apparently it seems that not to say, he was stuck in ways, but maybe he didn't do his to, to the best.

That's a good point. That's a good point. Like a good coach should adapt and know how to manage guys individually and know what's, what to use to motivate them, right? And like, maybe, maybe part of the problem is, is it was more about adapting to his style of coaching rather than his style of coaching adapting to you as an individual. I don't know. I still think that when you, when you label it as being Brent Strz,

didn't deserve to be fired, there's part of me that agrees with you because I think Brent Strom was a brilliant baseball mind when he was the coach of this team and listening to him and all the different, you know, in all the different conversations we had, he always just, I mean, he would explain things to us. He didn't need to take the time to explain. But then when he did, you just even as a non-athlete, as a non-pitcher, the light bulb would go off in your head. They're like, oh, I suddenly understand the game of baseball so much more than I did five minutes ago, right? And that's the kind of mentor, coach that Brentstrom is. I think that he's a tremendous person, and I always enjoyed speaking with him. And I, again, there were people, I think someone asked in the chat if I heard or saw or heard something. I mean, just, I've heard things from other media members. I've heard things a little bit off the record, but nothing particular, nothing that would have ever thought in my mind that it would have caught like Brent Strom being terminated or

let go did not was not something I truly expected. However, I probably should have when you look at the coaching, or at the pitching staff's numbers across the board. It's not just one particular guy. It's not just, you know, it's not just this reason or that reason. It was just a poor performance from lots of different guys. And in many instances, it left the coaching staff kind of scratching their heads and kind of wondering what was going on with, you know, why all of a sudden, you know, we lost our closer. Why all of a sudden could our close or not close games?

Why all of a sudden did the guy that we spent $25 million on become one of the worst pitchers in baseball? Why is everybody injured? Why is everybody keep getting injured? Why they came back and then get injured again? you know, like, why are people starting slow beginning of the year having three bad months or two bad months? Right. You know, I mean, it's it, they're just, there comes enough questions about the pitching staff to pile up that eventually, even if you're not blaming Brentstrom, you just feel like a change needs to be made to try to turn this thing around before you no longer have Montgomery Gallen and Kelly as part of your coach, as part of your pitching staff. To go off your point about the rotation real quick, too, like you have three guys that are pitching for. a new contract this upcoming season.

Like, this is the window for the dimebacks to go after it in 2024, excuse me, in 2025, because you're probably not going to retain a couple of these pitchers, if not all three, which is a scary thing to hear. But this is it. Like, pitching is hard to find. The dimebacks were aggressive in doing so this past off season. It didn't work out for 2024, but you got your second chance, and it might be your last chance in terms of this, quote, unquote, super competitive window with this roster currently

at the dimebacks. So hopefully you have bounce back performances. New pitching philosophies. Everything clicks, hopefully. Apparently, according to piece of Yoshi, I said, I think he just doesn't want to be a part of this world anymore. I don't disagree that. I can see that.

He, what was he, 77? Good for him. Like, I think he's meaning that I'm making it sound like he doesn't want to be part of this world anymore. I think that's what he's saying. And he's saying that that statement was out of pocket. It might have been. But see, Dalton understood what I was saying. part of the MLB world, right?

Like I think there's a lot of guys that are completely addicted to baseball and never want to stop working in it in some capacity. It's one of those games that you can really, you really can be like 100 years old and still contributing to the game in a meaningful way, right, in some way. But it does get pretty, it just gets pretty hard to be on the road to be a part of the 162 game regular season as a coach. You know, it's a difficult grind.

So my point about that is I could understand him doing something different that wasn't necessarily taking a managing job, not to mention he would be an absolutely outstanding manager for any team. I'm just concerned overall about the coaching staff, the changes and, you know, again, how it's going to impact this team next year. I really do feel like, you know, Tori does have a great. he does have a great coaching staff around him. And if he doesn't have that around him anymore,

like it's going to be on him at this point. He's going to be somewhat exposed. And I think that if the Diamondbacks continue to have similar shortcomings next season that they had this year, you'll know who to blame it on it. I don't think there'll be a doubt, you know, at that point. Absolutely. I, Derek, I do want to ask the chat.

Chat, awesome. Because this is probably my last time until the opening of free agency starts being with you. is for both you in a chat the one move you want the dimebacks to make to bolster their team coaching staff whatever it may be going into 2025 what do the arizona dimebacks have to do one move i honestly as crazy as it is and i hate to keep repeating it over and over but i think it's bring back christian walker i think that if they're that you know this team does have that small market mindset at times. And it does have that mindset that, you know, hey, we'll move on from

this guy once he starts becoming a high price guy. Mike Hazen once said that trading away Paul Goldschmidt was his biggest regret. And I think that, you know, again, Christian Walker going to another team could be the similar regret. I think it could be one of those situations where you look back, you say, man, we could have had him for three years, 65 million or whatever it took. It seems crazy now because if he goes to another team and absolutely, you know, takes his game up to that next level, which I feel like Christian Walker would do that. Like if Christian Walker got a significant contract from any team, he's going to go there and he's going to just play his heart out. And I mean, again, this year, things didn't really go great for him because of that injury, but he was still a damn good baseball player despite the fact that he missed some time. So I really do think Christian Walker coming back means more than just bringing back his production.

I think it sends a message to the rest of the team that if you are here and you are going to play this caliber of defense and this caliber of offense and be this caliber of player that Christian Walker is, we are going to reward you and we are going to keep you here as a part of this core and a part of this franchise for the future. I love it. I completely agree with Walker. It would be my priority too. if you can get them back, great. I don't expect it. Would be awesome. Knock on wood.

I, the hypothetical that I would bring out, I'm like, oh, this would be pretty sick. Polpa needs some help too. They try to get in Dillifloro this deadline, excuse me, and that completely backfired.

Obviously, AJ Puck had been fantastic, one of the best acquisitions ever, who just said that this is exactly where I'm going for, sign or trade and only closer. I'm going with a great potential setup man, or closer Jeff Hoffman of the Phillies, had a remarkable season. I prefer a left-handed reliever,

like a Matt Strom type that Phillies have, but Jeff Hoffman had a fantastic year. Been quietly one of the better relievers in baseball over the last couple of seasons. That would be huge on the back end of a bullpen that, as we know, has had their struggles last year and the year before besides the postseason run.

So a guy like Hoffman would be huge for a team that wants to content. Well, we are going to wrap up here, guys, but if you want to see more of this conversation, and make sure to join us over at go p hmx.com. And thank you again for stopping by for those of you over on Samsung. Of course, Dalton, I know that this postseason has been easy as a Diamondbacks fan to watch, you know, all of this stuff go on.

And I also feel, I also feel like, and again, this is loser talk. So the chat is going to destroy me for this. But I feel like watching the postseason that despite the fact, I'm disappointed in the Diamondbacks, you know, not making it, not advancing. I don't have this strong feeling in my heart that as we watch the World Series, that this would be the Diamondbacks playing the Yankees here instead of the Dodgers. Maybe it's just how good some of these teams are. Maybe it's just how good, you know, the Dodgers single-handedly were.

Maybe it's how the Mets seem to have everything going for them. Maybe it's just how potent San Diego's offense was. And I could only imagine if they were at our field talking trash to our fans and getting batteries thrown at them or whatever. Like there is a lot. There is a lot that I look at this playoffs. And again, I guess maybe it's loser talk. Maybe it's just me coping. But I feel like I don't know how it's significant of a run the Diamondbacks would have had in the playoffs.

I don't know how that changes things. I look at a team like the Phillies. I look at other teams that played two games and then got swept and then were out of it. like I know that like for instance the Phillies considered this to be a huge failure and are talking about massive roster changes and maybe even coaching changes and stuff like they're taking this really seriously and that's a team that made the playoffs and had to buy in the first round so like your level of dissatisfaction is based on your situation but I just can't help again but cope by by thinking I don't think the Diamondbacks would have had the same magical run they had last year

I don't feel like this was their year, even if they had made the playoffs. And now it was pretty stacked. National League was definitely better than the American League this year, and we've seen it in the playoffs. I will say if they were in the American League, could have been a different story. Yeah, anything could have happened to the American League.

American League was a crapshoot. You could argue the four best teams in the playoffs are all in the National League this year. Yeah, yeah, you're not wrong. Well, buddy, I thank you so much for stopping by, for sharing your time with us. Of course, you can follow it. him on Twitter at D. Feeley 14.

Dang. Yeah. Got it, bad time. Got it. Yeah, all right. I'm at K-Ur-K-man with a K. Of course, our guy on the ones and twos tonight is none other than Kev. Kev, Big Sexy.

Kev, by the way, that's his new nickname. It's Big Sexy, Kev. Kev Tom writes on Twitter. Again, you have to figure out how to spell that on your own. That's a fun game that I'm giving you. Our show is at P. H&X underscore D-Backs, but, of course, all roads do lead to at PHNX underscore Dbacks. sports on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

Dalton again, appreciate you, man. I am rooting for your Yankees, despite what this chat will tell you. Don't believe a word they say when it comes to who my rooting interests are for in this series. You think I'd have a mustache like this and root for the Dodgers? Come on, get out of here. Wow. But I'm very, very much looking forward to tomorrow's game.

And again, I will be chatting with you. And we appreciate your stop by, man. Always a pleasure hopping on, talking some snakes, talking some ball. Thank you again for having me. Maybe when I see you next time, Yankees are World Series champions. We change the luck. Bad luck for the time. You and I get together and made some crazier things happen than that.

Look at what that fan interference happened tonight. That's the most insane thing I've ever seen. Again tomorrow, I'll bet on it. Yeah. All right. Well, guys, thank you for stopping by. We appreciate your time. Jesse is back tomorrow.

So we will be back in studio. But we will be doing another post-game show. We got nothing but post-game shows while the World Series is going on. So we will be back for that. In the meantime, we thank you. you again for your time we hope you have a wonderful evening we'll see tomorrow and remember kids baseball is fun but it's so much more fun if you don't get kicked out of the baseball game for trying to rip a ball out of mooky bets his hands