Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 216 | NLWC Game 1 & ALWC Game 2 Recaps

Episode Date: October 1, 2020

Jomboy, Jake, & Trevor Plouffe recap one of the craziest days in MLB history as 8 playoff games were played on Wednesday! 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.

Hello and welcome to talking baseball. We had eight playoff games yesterday. A couple of them were doosies. Let's talk about them. Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Thank you very much for joining us as we recap the games from September 30th, 2020. My name's Jimmy. Sitting next to me is Jake.

Trevor coming to you from California. He's got a bag on his head. Bagged head and producer Bugbug in the corner. We're coming live from the Roosevelt Studios in the Bronx. My voice is a bit hoarse. Jake and I were live for 10 hours yesterday. I calculated all the time together, 10 hours straight. Trev, his heart is a bit hoarse.

I hope everyone of you is doing well. Hopefully we don't have too many Jay's twins. Who else got a limited Indian fans. If you are out there and you're listening, you're sick fuck. But thank you for joining us and your sadness. They are. Jake, how are you doing? You're not sick.

You're not sick. You're beautiful people. And you're tuning in. You've got to figure out what happened, what just happened to you. We'll do it a little bit. We've got to be pretty high and tight because guess what? Not another full slate, because three AL sweeps technically. Only left five on the board today.

But yeah, man, a lot of good baseball yesterday. A lot of small little things that decide baseball games and a torturesome Red Braves games. game. So we'll circle on all of it. And Trevor Plouffe, I, uh, I'm sorry, man. You know, a lot of people have been quick with the stat, that 0 for 18. And it's, uh, you can say a stat, but sometimes you don't really appreciate what that means. I appreciated it much more when I found out it was the longest in all four major sports, not just baseball. But someone's coming for you, Treve. What basketball team? If the pistons get swept in their,

their next opening playoff round, they will have tied the twins for longest strike. You got that. Great Lakes, baby. Yeah. Yeah. Trev, how are you? It wasn't good. If you're a twins fan, it was a slow, slow, torturous type of affair with the Houston Astros. I don't think there was a worst thing, even if the Yankees came into town did the exact same thing. I don't think it would have been as bad as watching Carlos Correa dance around on your grave. And then after the game saying, where's our haters now? Carlos Correa, I mean, I guess we can touch on this quick.

I'm sorry, yeah, I have to because he said, where's all my haters? What are you going to say now? We're going to say the exact same things. You're a cheater. You cheated the game. You didn't deserve what you did from 2017 to 2019. I came up with an analogy that I think. I think I like. If a guy robbed a bank, got away with it, never went to jail, but everyone knew it and everyone hated him. And then he, and then, like, six months later, he walked into a gas station, paid for milk, paid for his gas, paid for his cigarettes, fully paid. And then walked out of the gas station. She's like, what are you got to say now? Just paid for that shit. Still mad at me? It's like, yes, dude. It's stupid. You still robbed a bank and got away with it. I don't care about beating the dreams and two days.

I feel sorry for El Tuve and I do feel sorry for Breggman a little bit like they look so sad all the time but Carlos Correa he like wants to be the heel you're not the heel dude like you're just we've heard that there may be people very close to that situation who also can't stand Carlos Correa so it's not like he's liked a lot of places want to know why because he's the most transparent weirdo I've ever seen in sports no because he says stupid shit all the time, like on air, like, wanting people to talk about it. So here we are talking about it. You know, like, I guess he's getting what he wants, but I don't think he's getting the response. He wants, like, the respect again. You're never going to get the respect to ever.

You might want to get it. It's going to drive him insane. Especially the way he's going about it. He's treating it like it's a, yeah, I had a bad playoff game, but I'm going to make up for it. No, dude. This is, this is a forever one, Doc. Yeah, it's kind of like, He's treating it like, you know, 09 A-Rod being like, well, what do you like me now? And it's like, yeah, we like you now, A-Rod, you won us a World Series. That's great. That does make up for the mistakes. Yeah.

This doesn't, it's so weird. So weird. Anyway. Sorry to get started on that. It's right. We are a Kron pod, though. Yeah. And sorry for your twins, Trev.

I know you ride or die for your city. You've got so much damn juice there. Oh, dude. So much juice. And they're a good squad. I mean, that, that series was, I mean, the definition of, like, the playoffs. and one or two things go differently. We're talking about twins win two nothing

and can they win the World Series. I actually don't want any sympathy from you. Okay. I'm remembering how much I'm... Perfect. I can't believe I got to hop out of podcast with two Yankee fans tomorrow. Can you imagine?

You guys can't put yourself in my shoes a little bit. Every day you put yourself in my shoes with that bag on your face and now I'm putting myself in your shoes. Howly. Well, we'll get to the twins when we get to the twins. But we got, we're a cron pot always in forever. Yesterday we put 10 minutes on the clock for each game. We don't have time to do that for eight games.

So we're going to put six minutes on the clock. We have a sound effect to let us know when we're up. We'll each get to talk a little bit. The first game here is the Cincinnati Reds versus the Atlanta Braves. You had Bauer versus Freed. Bauer goes 7.2, zero earned runs, only two hits. Freed goes seven innings pitch, zero earned runs, six hits. Then it goes.

into a slog of extra innings. We watched this live. I tweeted out, Trevor, like, I know you were recording sequence, so I don't know how much of the extra innings you got to watch. BBD and I were doing PO box stuff, so I didn't get to watch a lot of the Bauer Freed. I watched, like, the first couple. I didn't see the 6, 7, 8, I don't think.

That extra innings game was brutal. And I have so many people coming at me saying, you don't like a pitcher stool? I love a pitcher stool. I was all in, zero, zero going into the ninth inning, thinking this was going to be outside. standing sharp baseball. The approaches at the plate by both teams were so bad that my Skip Bayless irrational

first take, hot take, is that neither of these teams are going to do shit in the next round. Because they're... I know that's not real. Like, they could come back tomorrow and have really good at bats. But it was just not fun to watch. They were just taking pitches down the middle and then swinging at pitches so far away. No one was grinding at bat.

No one was like, Jake and I had... jokingly, and seriously, on live stream before every pitch said, win the pitch, win the pitch. That was not the mentality in this game at all. It was like, I'm going to try and hit a home run, and I don't care if I strike out in three pitches doing so. And it was bad baseball.

The extra ratings. Jake, I'll go to you first. Yeah, I mean, the extra ratings did hit a point where it's like, my God, like, come on, guys. Like, put, you know, scare them, putting it bad together, make something happen. and just every time it didn't. And I do think, you know, you guys have to go back to the start.

Bauer and Freed were great. Shout out to your guy, Max Fried, Trev. It was so obvious he was going seven innings because that's what Jack and Gialito did in their first playoff start. So that was the easiest read ever. Bauer, kudos to him. I thought we were going to end up here doing some excuses that, you know, his rhythm was off and his timing.

He was amazing. He got, you know, call her to her. early, but, hey, 7.2, 12Ks, two hits, no walks, insane. And I do think, you know, Jim, you're right, the game got ugly, but also the pitchers do deserve a little credit. I mean, you start with Freedom Bauer, and then, I mean, Iglesias is really good. He was throwing some nasty. I missed him.

Sims. Sims Lorenzen did his job, 4Ks and two innings, and he's come back a lot. And then, I mean, the guys on the Braves aren't necessarily your biggest time relievers. But, I mean, a lot of these guys have closed MLB games. Malanson, Will Smith, Shane Green. So most strikeouts in a playoff game ever. It got ugly.

They kept showing that COVID party outside the stadium. Not great, Bob. And, hey, for the Reds, this has been your problem all year. They couldn't hit this year. They had some of the worst hitting statistics in baseball. And now here you are through 13 innings, and you've still got a goose egg on the board. My goodness, and of course the guy who does end up doing it for Atlanta is Freddie Freeman, the guy who might have the NL MVP this year.

So go braids. Trev. You pretty much covered it all there. I mean, yeah, I want to give a shout out to Max. We're going out there. And, you know, the last playoff game he pitched in, it was that ridiculous game against the Cardinals. So him to go back out and do what he did. I think that's great.

Bauer looked amazing. I'll go to the end of the game. Amir Garrett versus Freddie Freeman, the shadows were all over the place. Freddie looked like he had no chance at Amir's slider. But the problem is, if you're a pitcher and you continuously go to that, you better start nipping towards the end of the at-bat.

Because if you continue just to throw... Sorry, guys. I mean, doing our best here. I was talking about Freddie Freeman. A ton of sliders. from Amir Garrett and all the shadows were going on. He looked like he had no chance. And I'm saying with Freeman,

a guy like Freeman who doesn't get fooled a lot. Similar to like a Joe Mauer that I play with, he's very balanced. The plate doesn't take a bunch of bad swings. Garrett kept going to it, going to it, going to it. But if you're going to do that, you've got to start nibbling off the plate.

I think it was the fourth one or fifth one in a row. And Freeman just lined it back out the middle because that's what he does. professional hitter. He's one of the best hitters in the league. It might be the MVP this year. So I thought that was a tough at bat. I thought Garrett should have

done a little bit more there. He was relying, I thought, on the shadows. But Freeman came up and you know, won the game. Brave State game one. Oh, my God. I guess waited all that time for that. It's beauty. Four sliders in a row

from Amir Garrett, only through four pitches, I believe. Good job. All right. Next game, chronological order. I have, it's Twins Astros. This is the brutal one. There's a lot of rain in this. We had an ejection in this, Trev. We had Buxton Pinch Run and then get picked off.

I'm not trying to rub. I don't know. I'm just going to talk. I'm not trying to be mean or anything. Last year, I thought the Yankees beat the twins because they were much better team than them. and the twins were a lesser team. Twins shot themselves in the foot at every inning, basically, it seemed.

Like, they, credit to the Astros, I like a lot of what, I love how the Astros handled this series with their pitching. Dusty had a plan. I love it. But the Twins gave them a lot of gifts. They shot themselves in the foot a lot. Just really ugly, sloppy ball. So.

To your team. Triv. It was tough to watch. I mean, you know, Berrios went out and he did his thing. He did exactly what they wanted him to do. He was seen physically trying to stay in the game and the dugout. Rocco took him out. But, you know, it all comes down to the twins' offense just struggling. You know, you can't, you get three runs in a playoff game. You should win that game. In any baseball game, if your team gives up three runs, you should win that game. But it just didn't happen.

you know obviously no jd in the series Buxton experiencing concussion symptoms when it was raining in shadowy outside he still had his glasses on that's telltale sign that he was experiencing headaches during the game and then Cruz you know I think he worked a walk I think that's how he got on

Buxton comes in pinch runs for him doesn't go at all during the Jake Cave at bat who had to go in for Rosaria who got thrown out that's a whole other story. And then when Suno's up, and you don't need to steal a base when Suno's up, he ends up getting picked off on the last, it was like a, it was like a two-strike pitch as well.

So it was just a weird series of events. You know, you got a guy making his Major League debut, hitting in some big spots. He actually looks great. Kiroloff looked really good, but it just was a sad, like I said, it was a slow, slow, torturous end to the season. And Twins fans were just like, yeah, it's kind of how it is. is. And I hate that mentality, but 18 in a row.

I actually agreed with something Alex Rodriguez. That's what the twins did to me. They made me agree with Alex Rodriguez yesterday. Because they were talking about 18 in a row. And they were like, that's a lot. And Alex said, eight in a row is a lot, let alone 18 in a row. And that's the truth. 18 is just some crazy number.

We've never seen it in the history of the four professionals. major professional sports. We've never seen it. So it's tough, man. You try to have that winner's attitude, and then you get beat like that. It's just... Yeah.

And I, you know, a lot of Littles' decisions end up happening. And also, Trevitz's decisions you don't want to make, you know? Rocco doesn't want to not have Josh Donaldson for this series. Rocco would have loved to have Bucksson starting today. So that stuff's out of his hands. Burrios kind of did his thing out there. Five innings pitch. one-earned run. Like he was, you know, in there. For me, you know, it's the little things and it's

everything he said about the losing streak and they need to, you know, there's only one way to get over that, like win a damn playoff game, like, and do it in impressive fashion because you don't until you do. And for me, you know, maybe I'm double-guessing and I don't watch every Twins game, but I don't love Jeffers getting the start behind the dish. I mean, Garver had such a He's a pretty good this year. I know, but he's a young guy, and, like, you kept the four catchers, so it's clearly on your mind that you're not feeling great about it. I can't deep dive in that.

Twins fans, you have your opinions on that. And, again, if it looked, if Jeffers hit two homers, it looks really smart. He didn't. And I still don't believe in the Twins bullpen. I know we've gone back and forth on this, but, you know, if Rogers gets hit, Stashak gets hit. and, you know, a couple young, you know, Stashak's young, and maybe this is him getting his battle scars,

and we'll talk about that with Cleveland coming up a little bit, but I don't know, in a playoff series, and again, Polanco makes a play. Who knows how yesterday goes, but you got to win games. I'd like to see them beef up that bullpen. Like, I kind of like Bruce Star Gratterol in that pen. Like, I think he could have been the nasty guy for them. My ad ends up having a great year and is a one.

So you can start spinning in circles, like that, they lose. They haven't won a playoff game and coming up on two decades. Yeah. And don't tell me that they will until they do. Two years in a row now. Feeling like a bad guy telling twins fans, I don't believe in them.

And I've won both times. So don't come at me and tell me they're changing. I don't like the way that you're very condescending with it. And I can do the same thing with the Yankees with you. Okay? Because you only care about championships. You only care about championships.

You repeatedly say that as a Yankees fan, 27 world championships. I have the love to. You haven't done it since 2009. That's 11 years. I can't hear you guys. This is the insufferable Yankee fan that I was dreading today. Until the Yankees win a World Series, I don't want to hear shit about it. That's great.

That's fantastic. But people continue to say, you don't want to see twins in the playoffs. No, you fucking do. You really, really want to. You really, very, very confident Yankees. We'll see how you're talking after you have to go face. See, this is why I said for two years. This has been the conversation, Trev, and you've never won it.

You got swept by the asteros who were below 500 and everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong. I have a real question for you. Do you think knowing Correa's got an absolute canon sending her eyes was the wrong move there? It wasn't the wrong move. and he had a, that was a horrible throw home from Karee. It was up the first baseline. A rise took a bad, you took a bad route to home. I agree with you.

It was not, it had nothing to do with. Well, Kray's got a great arm. It was, it was offline, but it's just, he throws 100 miles per hour from short. I mean, he threw it into the dirt. It was almost like a two hopper to the catcher. I know what you're saying, but you send him to there. You sent him. I thought it was fine.

All right. I think we're done anyway. Twins move on. We didn't talk about the Astros a lot. I like what they did with their pitching. Can't do that every series. No, you can't. So we'll see how it goes.

When they get into this slog of 12 games in a row, if they go to five and seven. But I mean, I know this is an if. This is a huge if. Twins, if they win that game, they win the third game because the Astros have to throw their bullpen the entire time. And they don't really have anybody in there. I mean, you said they win one of those games, man. They could not do it. They couldn't hit.

How do you not hit? Yeah, I think they haven't scored more than three runs in a playoff game since 2004, something like that. I think Josh Donaldson missing was... He was like at the beginning of the season when we had this conversation, I like JD because he's a difference maker in the playoffs. He kind of brings that little different mentality. I thought that was a big hit. And obviously it's not mentality. Like his skill at third, his bat.

Like, everything is a big hit there. Last point. Last point because we have to move on. Twins fans got mad at me for saying, I love John. Josh Johnson being emotional, that's what we need. Do you see what I'm talking about now? We needed Josh Donaldson to be fired up in this series. That's the difference.

He's a difference maker. Good job, Dusty. Good job, Kirillov, man. Holy shit. I can't imagine. I can't imagine. Man, I think the twins mix things up this offseason. I think Nelly, Nellie's a free age.

You got Kirillov in the wings. I think this... You've got a lot of young guys coming up, too. This twin team, you could see another big trade. You could see a shuffle, and I think he kind of have to a little bit. So Houston moves on. Everybody loves that. Why do they keep so many catchers on the rush?

They had nobody on the bench, dude. That's an off-season combo. Technically, not four catchers. It was three catchers in Tortuga, but... Yeah. I don't know. I didn't... Rocko deserves some of the blame.

If you're going to pat him on the back every time he does something well, you've got to be able to tell him he didn't do something well. And he didn't manage well at all. I don't think he did. His pinch hitting in the first game was horrible. I don't know. They're gone. Twins are gone.

Goodbye. Cron pod. Good job by the Astros. Correa, you're corny. Moving on. Marlins. Upset the Cubbies. This was kind of, we all picked the Cubs on the pregame show.

Jake and I said a lot like this would be the most fun upset, my opinion, or in our opinion. They have a five-run seven-inning, seventh inning against Hendrix and Jeffers. Yeah, there's too many Jeffries and Jeffers and stuff like that. Why am I blanking on the- Jeffress? Jeffers, Jeffress. They get to them for five runs in the seven. They win five to one. and Ian Hapopo home run is the only scoring for the Cubs.

Hendrick was looking, Hendricks was looking pretty good. And then it all came crashing down in the seventh inning. It's a single to Miggi Rojas. It's a single to Chad Wallach. And then Corey Dickerson with the three run, home run. They bring in Jeffress, single to Starling Marte, Aguilar home run. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, bam, bam, bam.

Yeah. And this is a, I won't say in full contrast. to the twins because he'd be rubbing it in too soon, but the Marlins play a brand of baseball with speed and contact hitting that if it works in the postseason, it'll sting you. And I mean, Hendrix, third time through the order. And he wears out, I mean, it's C. Dick, not A. Dick, not the Giants. They could have got in the playoffs.

They decided to lose on that last day. C. Dick hits the three-run shot. And yeah, man, I mean, they just put a lot of. pressure points on you. They put a lot of pressure points on you. Almost everyone on that team can run. Everyone can hit for contact. Everyone's got a little bit of pop, not big boppers, just a little bit of pop, gentleman's pop. And hey, Sandy Alcantara, his last start, he shut down our Yanks. He goes out and it playoff start and shuts down the Cubs at Wrigley, who, hey, again, their hitting hasn't been so hot this year, but it's still a lot of big names that have played in a lot of big games.

and Sandy Alcantara dropped it, 6.2, 1-earned run. Good for the fish. I mean, arguably most exciting game coming up tomorrow. And, hey, if you're a deep Marlins or Cubs fan, I'll be honest with you. We were hopping around a bit, so I don't have a lot of the big specific plays. Watch the big Hendricks at bat, pitch 105, and I guess the only thing I could take away from that is if you had a better bullpen, you probably don't let Hendricks see them the third time through the order.

order at pitch 105. After a walk. So that's a, that's that good, good for the fish, man. Good for the fish. This is like kind of what I'm scared of in this postseason is the ball. Not saying like these, they hit home runs that weren't supposed to go out. I think Dickerson hit his decently well. It was an opposite field home run.

It was a line shot though. Off the bat, it looked like a gap. shot and then it just stayed up. So when we're talking about balls that can leave the yard, even when they shouldn't, like that changes everything. That changes everything in the postseason. It sets up teams

that can do that very well. I mean, you guys know that you guys have one of those teams. The Yankees are one of those teams that can hit home runs. That was a difference yesterday. A couple balls, you know, hit well up in the air and they're gone. And all of a sudden, you know, you can't play defense on those balls and you're down

five to one. five runs in one inning. It's going to change the playoffs. I'm going to tell you that. We're going to see some home runs. You're going to be like, what the hell just happened? And it's going to change everything.

But good for the, good for the, good for Miami. I don't really have a rooting interest in either of these teams. I don't know how I feel about the Cubs, to be honest with you. In the same way with the Marlins. I don't know.

The Marlins. I'm a different on this whole series. You watch the Marlins? Like, I like the Cubs. I've never disliked the Cubs. But when you watch this Marlins team and how they play baseball, I think it's very easy to be like, I like these guys. Oh, they want these guys to win.

It's just cool. I mean, Miggi Rojas had a really cool out bat versus Hendricks, where Hendricks dropped the curveball, big breaking pitch for strike one, and he swung and missed at it, ugly. And then Hendricks goes back to it, and he just very easily squares it. it up and that started the rally there.

And then I think Jeffers coming in as scary for the Cubs. But you have you Darvish in game two. We'll talk about that on the pregame show. It's you versus six. So it's a great matchup. I do think this series will go three. Good for the Marlins. You got to sting him there.

Only final note, and this is a box score note, every starter for the Marlins got on base, except Brian Anderson, who's one of their best players at third base. The Cubbies had four oferes in the lineup. Rizzo, Bryant, Hayward, and Caratini. And I think playoff baseball, that matters. If you have a guy that's not on that day and that at bat becomes just a little less pressure-packed, I think that changes things.

They're a three-game set. Put some A-Bs together, Cubbies. The I UR home run was well-struck. Yes, that one I mean, he's strong. He's a big boy. And Jeffress is a great reliever. He's had a great year this year, just because he had one bad game. He can't, like, ride him off like he's not.

He was not. No, I think in going into eliminate, that wasn't what I was saying. I just, if Chapman was struggled today, I'd be very scared about Chapman tomorrow. Relievers are volatile and we're in a three-game set where two wins and you're out. Trev, kudos to you. I think you said it as like a little going away thing, but you said, hey, what a friend of the podcast Ian Hap, homers. Look at that. Friend of the pod. Yeah. Good for him.

Podcast are extraordinary. I think we're good there anyway. Yeah. White Sox and A's. The A's are the only team in the AL to push this to a three-game set. They come out strong. They score two in the first. They score two in the second.

They score one in the fourth. They're up five-nothing. The White Sox don't die easy, though. They score two in the eighth. They have the bases loaded in the ninth. Bob Melvin made some weird decisions. We can talk about that. White Sox out-hit the A's.

The A's get the win five to three. This goes three games. White Sox, the only hope in the AL Central, representing that division. So we'll see how it goes. What do you guys got on this game? Jake, I know you questioned a lot of Bob Melvin, or a couple Bob Melvin things here.

First thing, shout out to Chris Bassett. You know, we kind of, we wondered about the baby Jesus thing. Yeah, he's talented, rookie, lefty, blah, blah, blah. Bassett had the best year. And, hey, we talked about other teams doing funny business. maybe Bassett going game two was the plan because he's been their best pitcher this year and he dropped D good for him.

The only thing that I disagreed with, Liam Hendricks comes out for the 8th. He gets through it at 27 pitches, I believe. His high on the season was 29. And Trev, your guy Beaumel sends him back up there. He gets into some trouble. He lands at 49 pitches. That's a day and a half at the office for your like elite elite reliever.

Deekman comes in and finishes it. I'm partially salty because it put the game from the under to the over when he walks in a run. But I don't know. I just like is Hendricks out for today? I'm guessing they're going to say he's available because it's all hands on deck. But, you know, Hendrix, his high on the season was 29. He almost doubles that. He goes for 49.

So that would freak me out as an A's fan, like, you know, believe in your other bullpen arms a little more. Like if that was Hendricks Lane in the 8th, you wanted to get their boppers, then do it. But if he goes 30 pitches, you got to believe in your other guys to survive it. So I don't know. I would just be nervous about that. And hey, kudos to Oakland, Dallas Kikl, the guy we've been on all year,

the Kikl stat. They give him his worst playoff start. And by the way, tough play. in the first inning by Madrigal for the ball to go off his glove. And when you talk playoff baseball, that's a game-changing thing. It's tough up. Happy for Trevze's fighting back. Yeah, it looked like Beaumel was going to rely on Hendricks and Deekman.

But then Tim Anderson was like, hey, Bowmel, did you do your homework? We crushed lefties. And he was like, oh, yeah, Tim told me they crushed lefties. I got to bring in my right-handed reliever for two endings. So that was definitely I mean I was watching when he came in And they were kind of questioning that move like you're bringing Liam in here and they were up what four at the time It was

Uh They were up by a lot Let's see it was 5 nothing basset starts the 8th Anderson singles And then they bring in Hendricks for Munkata, Grundahl, Grandal hits the homer Yeah so they were 5 nothing they brought him in Yeah And I just you know

Did they have a a lot of long list of relievers that he trust, clearly not. But, you know, the people are going to be looking back that today, if Hendricks is a little tight, his fastball velocity is a little down and they need him in a crucial situation, they're going to be looking back at that move being like, wow, like, at least you should have just kept them out of the ninth, you know, save some of those pitches. But, you know, one of those decisions you have to live with. And it was an excellent, excellent game. I mean, Simeon came up big, hitting that home.

I heard his interview after the game. He's so stoic, dude. I love that about him. He was like, yeah, you know, we did pretty good today. We got another game tomorrow. There was very little emotion. I don't know if that was because there's no fans in the stands or what, but it seemed like he was so stoic, and I do love that. Shout out to

Bassett, who we said, kind of just looks like he's tricking people up there, but he's nasty. They were shown some of his overlays of his pitches. I mean, he is coming from the exact same arm slot and his pitches are just going the exact opposite ways. It's very tough as a hitter to be able to do, to be able to face a guy like that. You basically have to guess.

And he made people look silly. I mean, they look silly when they hit against him. White Sox have their pen. But Renteria, he pinch it for Zach Collins, who hasn't had an at bat since August 19th. And I think Eloy's on the bench. Can Eloy play? can he not play that's a really weird move you get two on one out and it was like a really cold bat i know white socks fans where i was digging around were like what the hell was that and then they asked him that

in the post game he had some weird answer so but yeah game three should be fun we don't have pitchers yet right no pitchers yet i mean the oaklands deciding between fires and maniah who should both be available and chicago's deciding between cease and well they pitchers cease yesterday, which was also a very weird move. Someone else. They threw Cs. They're down like five, and they threw him for one inning in the seventh when everyone was like, I thought he might be your starter tomorrow. So mix it up, baby.

A head scratching moves from both managers in this game. Mix it up. Can't let him know what's coming. Good for Oakland. Yeah, man, I don't know. That game might be an ugly deciding game today. Oakland gets a winning wild card game. Hey, they had a little bad juju there too. So, yeah, I don't know.

Like Hendrix in that lane, it's a brayu, grand doll. That's, you know, the game is in theory getting decided there, but did you just burn him for today? We'll find out. You got the win. We keep seeing closers come in in non-closer situations and not having good, I mean, even Chapman last night. He didn't look great.

He was a non-closing situation. It ended up being a closing situation, right? Did you get the, no, I don't think you can do that. You can't pick yourself into it. Yeah, you can't get the win in the safe. He, uh... He looked good, though. We'll get to Chapman.

We'll get to Chapman. We'll get to Chapman. Not the first inning. We'll get to Chapman. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Before we go to the next game,

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Big Broncos game tonight. Everyone's talking about it. The talk of the office. Broncos Jets. Don't watch it. I mean, it's the best Thursday night matchup you can come up with. I don't know. I mean. Promise me you won't watch it.

Brown's Jets, I think, would be a little bit better. But I'll take the Broncos on their third string quarterback. Let's go ripping. Cron Pod, the next game on the docket. St. Louis Cardinals versus San Diego Padres. Cardinals come out on fire. and take the young Paddock. Sheriff.

They take his badge away. That's what I should have said smoothly. I'm sure a lot of people have made that quip already. I mean, Paddock goes 2.1, 8 hits. Six earned runs. The Padres bullpen from there on out held him to four hits and one earned run that came at the very end there.

Strom, Stammon, Johnson, Paghan, Pomerance, Richards, Rosenthal all saw action. It's a double winner. It's a double winner for the Cardinals. A, you won the game. Two, you burned their whole bullpen, which they can pitch again. But then if the Padres win,

now you go in three days in a row. A little scary there. I mean, Denelson, Lamette and Cleb, both not even on the roster to start, so they cannot pitch in this series, which is a big blow to the Padres. And yeah, I mean, the Padre's offense does some stuff. They get eight hits.

They don't get more than one run in an inning, but they sprinkle four runs over four innings. But they opened up, Trev. Single, home run, double, single, double sackfly. Four runs with two outs. And Paddock is a little shook. You know, I made my postseason picks right away. I probably should have waited to see exactly.

exactly who was going to be on these rosters. I picked the Padres to beat these guys. If I would have known that... Is it Denelson? That's how you think you really say. Denelson Lamet wasn't going to be on there. I had a feeling club wasn't going to be on there. But having him missing as well, I mean, that really hurts.

Because if Paddock comes out and has a start like this, it's like, you know, I think that Davies going today, it just... The depth isn't there for me. So they got to bang. They got to bang their way. through these playoffs and that's tough to do against the cardinals who always seem to have starting pitching so this is uh this is going to be a test for the padres you know they're having a lot of fun

but it's not fun when you get a face an elimination game and you get your you're punched in the mouth in the first inning at your home ballpark yeah and i mean uh paddock gets knocked around he had the nice rookie year he comes back this year he hasn't had it and yeah you lose clever and Lamett, and now here he is, who I don't think Paddock would have gotten a start in this series with those two. I think Davies had a really good year. So, you know, I feel okay about that, and you feel okay about the lineup did fight in this game. You know, Tommy Fam back in there giving you some A-Bs. I like that a lot. So, you know, he gets knocked around. The Penda's okay, a little Ben Not Break, Pagan, a couple other guys. But, yeah,

Yeah, this Cardinals team, man, they jump them in the first, and this is kind of, again, sometimes you go by organizations. And the Padres were sexy and fun this year, but kind of what have you done for me? And yet these Cardinals, life finds a way. And Paul Goldschmidt finds a goddamn way because he's a stud. And, hey, you know, again, we shouldn't be doing too much into strategy. It should be more of this game. but, you know, Padres, yeah, Paddock, whatever, it's done. Davies had a really nice year.

The Cardinals now have Wayneau and Jack waiting for you, and that's got to be a bad feeling. But, hey, your lineup did fight. You had some good at bats. You got some runs. Go get them today. Yeah. Tate's had a few chances there, too, which was, you know, as a Padre fan,

and you're like, this is kind of the guy, one-up. I know he'd been struggling towards the end of the year, but you know that's you'd be happy with that and he you know didn't come through and when you it's the whole first inning thing is tough on a team you know goldschmidt goes up hits that home run it's like oh crap now we got to play catch up the entire game it deflates you as a team you know but yeah they did they fought back i'm happy about that but you know good luck yeah two games wayno jack it's tall order man tough yeah that uh four five six of carlson malina de d the young with seven hits.

Yeah. I just rewatch. I wanted to watch the Paddock first inning again. He wasn't. It's credit, a lot of credit to the Cardinals. They jumped first pitch fastballs. I think Carlson went with an O2 curve. I'm seeing way too many O2 pitches get hit in these playoffs,

like far too many. It should not be a hitable pitch. We're seeing a lot of O2 pitches in the zone. And then they kind of just went like Yadi took an outside fastball to right. Yaddy took a high fastball to left. I didn't watch every single pitch of this because we were bouncing around. I didn't know if Paddock, like when Severino got lit up in his first playoff start,

like Sevy looked shaking. So I don't know how he looked. But the stuff looked fine there in those replays. And our guy, producer BPD had some fun Paddock Sevy comps. He got Rothschild there, young starter getting knocked around in his first playoff game. So there's some fun stuff there. Shoutout. Producer BPD.

follow his pictures on Twitter. And that's the problem when you're a rookie and you have all this success and you want to put your cowboy hat on and get the nickname and stuff. It's like, hey, you better be wearing your cowboy hat today, buddy. I hope you're running around like a sheriff in there because you've got to be able to handle it.

I had a gentleman from Australia DMA that was like, hey, what's up with baseball and guys showing flair and it being fun and not being fun? And it's like, hey, it's fun, but... If you get your shit pushed in, it's a bad look. I'm all for it. You won't show it off. You better show it off.

Yeah. Don't hide. Don't hide in your little hole now. Like, get your cowboy hat on. You're rooting for your teammates today. Jakey quick hitters, Jim, you mentioned that, uh, heart of the lineup. I think Yadi goes to like fifth playoff hits ever, like fifth most playoff hits ever by a baseball player. He had more playoffs starts in the entire Padres team combined.

Yeah. I mean, he's, he's a sick. puppy. Everyone in the Cardinals lineup had a hit except Harrison Bader. O for 5, five, five punchy. Sorry, Harry. At least you control center field pretty good. Dylan Carlson, batting cleanup and wearing number three. That just puts a little lead in my pencil too. Like believe in yourself, kid, I love that. And this Cardinals bullpen, you know, not a team with necessarily sexy names in the bullpen, but Helsley has some good stuff. Cabrera's a nightmare for lefties. Gallegos

is a stud. Andrew Miller doing it for the better part of a decade. And Reyes comes in and gets the safe. So, you know, not up, again, when you think of this Cardinals team, we always say like, well-rounded, they play defense. They also just pitch the damn ball. That's how you win a lot of baseball games.

They pitch. Hellsley is nasty. Yeah. I mean, when I had Christian Yell, I'd switch on sequence, my bad, he was telling me how nasty this guy was. Thank you for the apology there. Yeah. We appreciate that. All right, you want to move on the next game? Go cards.

Go Jack. Let's go, baby. I like the way the cards are set up here. I mean, you got... They got their one and two kind of going, and the podgers have their one and two, not even on the roster. How does you guys bracket?

My bracket is not. I don't know. Little poppy's doing good. I've been shit on the over-unders. I need Oakland today. Yeah, I need Oakland. Well, how many? Eight times two is 16, plus eight is 24.

You're 12 for 24, Trev, me and Jake are both 16 for 24 with our picks on the pregame show. Ooh. I mean, I just need my two to match up in the finals. That's what I'm hoping for. You got two good ones. The next game is the Rays and the Jays. Riu gets knocked around in the first. Ryu gets knocked around even bigger in the second.

The Rays have that big inning that I thought they were going to have in game one, six run second inning. Glass now. Oh, my God. Go watch the highlights of Glass Now dot in 97, dot in 99. Honestly, please go watch them. They're so crazy. Rays were the clear better team, and they showed it. I wish for you had a good start, dude.

The Ray's social media team was so brutal last night. They're really good at that. They've had a comeback year. Yeah, they were the worst ever last year. I think they brought in the relief pitcher. I think they subbed out. A new person runs the account. MLB put some tweet out with like the baby Biggio, Bichette, and Guerrero looking at the TV with their dad.

It's our year or something like that. And so they like quote tweeted that and like, just say, something really easy, like not this year or like maybe next year or something like that. Just absolutely just murdering these guys. Yeah. So good. Baseball being a sick sport rears its head a little bit. Boba Chet makes an error that would have been the third out before the Grand Slam.

Again, young guys, today this wild card series is a lot of young guys getting their battle scars. Paddock, welcome. Beaver, welcome. Boba Shet, welcome. And then Renfro hits a pimp Grand Salami. He is country strong, boy. The Shet's freaking heart is in the ground when that happens. There's no worse feeling in the world.

And then baseball being a sixth sport, the next at bat, Willie Adama is infield single to short. And that's obvious. So baseball is a sick sport. These rays do it, man. Again, that lineup, you look up and down. if you don't track baseball every day, you're looking at Brazoa or Rosnerana Lo Diaz.

But these guys do their thing. Mike Zanino in the nine hole gets a yacker. And when that happens, I mean, it's just over. So, you know, they tried to save Ryu, and once he gets knocked, the series basically ends. And Glass now is a creative player in a video game when he's right. Yeah, you talked about Bichette's error, but he made an error in the first inning, too, to load the bases. And Riu picked him up and got the strikeout.

He makes an error in the second inning again to load the bases, and Rueu doesn't have it this time. And that's a tough, tough two innings for Bichette there. I think it was both third outs. Little Jakey Fantasy advice. Draft Bo Bichette next year, because I bet those stick with them pretty good, and I bet Homeboy comes back in a mean way next year. You rakes. Can I give a two shoutouts real quick to a couple guys

Who I think maybe need it Well one's like kind of like a backhanded thing Ross Stripling how you're feeling you're with the Dodgers Now all the sudden you're with It's not a shoutout Yeah we're not calling that a shoutout All right But that's got to be a tough feeling man

Like you're going from like World Series favorite Then you just go get your He can still get that ring Bashian Did you do the same shout out for Verdugo Because he wasn't to the worst team in baseball And okay, this is a real shoutout though.

Yes, real shoutout time. Big Dick Nate Pearson comes in, two innings, pitch 5K is good for you. That's getting your feet wet in the playoffs. Build on that, you know, have fun in this off season. All Jays fans, like you're fine. Yeah. This was a fine season for you guys. It was actually good.

You made the playoffs. You battled. You had some fun. Your front office went all in for you. Yeah. What do they need? What do they need? Any more pitching?

Pitching. More pitch. Bullpen or starters? Yes. They have a couple. Pearson needs to become like a two, three next year. Ryu needs, you need... Riu got banged around, man, so...

It's a tough game for him when he's supposed to be raised. He gave up eight hits and one point two innings. You just... He needed... He needed a little help, and the Rays are sick puppies. Mike Brasso leads off today. Baseball doesn't... know who Mike Brasot is, but guess what?

He's a 1.0.OPS versus lefties. Or Rosner-Rena is a 1-5 OPS first lefties. It's like, it's just a goddamn raise. And I, uh, I'm happy that I haven't wrapped my head around the five gamer that's coming up between them and the Yanks.

Because it's going to be a nightmare. Don't think about it. Is it a, isn't it a five, it's 577? Is that what it is? Yeah, it's normal from here and out. Yeah. All right. Yeah, dude. They look good. Rays look really good

I'm glad that they don't get to host in the trap Yeah That's the only win Where is it? Is it in San Diego? San Diego

Trying to think Who that favorite I mean honestly I probably favor Don't take this the wrong way But it probably favors The Rays a little bit more Because it just plays

Just A little bit bigger Yeah It's a little bit big The Yankee As Yankees fans You take the win Of not having to go to the truck

Yeah. What's up with Louvoit? Hot. Really good. What do you mean? Is he hurt? Why are you taking out? Oh, he's dealing with.

Why don't we talk about it? We'll go to the Yankees game is up next. Look at that. Segy. Yankees and Indians play a wild, wild, like a wild, wild game. There's some really mishandled rain delays at the beginning that hurt both teams. The Indians go up four nothing in the first. The Yankees bring it back to five to four.

They bring it back to six. to four, Indians scored two to make it six to six. Yankees fight right back with two to make it eight to six. Indians bring it back to two. They make it eight to eight, then they make it nine to eight, then the Yankees scored two to win 10 to nine. Insane game, a lot of moves by the managers that made it a very interesting chess match strategically, a lot of fantastic defensive plays, a lot of good pitching, a lot

of bad pitching, a lot of really good at bats. This game was crazy. Jake and I were live for five and a half hours. If you want to go watch our actual reactions and in moment reactions. But yeah, this game was crazy. I mean, the rain delay stuff was nuts and just seemed so stupid. Everyone knew that there was like 10 more minutes of rain. Yeah.

But they decided to, they delayed the game. They delayed it from 7 to 7.50. And it was 40 minutes of sunshine. 815. And then the rain came at 8. And then so they, Carrasco got one inning to knock out one inning. then they both had to go sit for 50 minutes. And they had a pitch in the rain.

Trevor, a lot of our thoughts are out there. What do you got, Big Poppy? How bad are you going to try to light a fire under us right now? I had extreme headaches last night, and I was in bed watching this. And it was a hell of a game. If you're just a casual fan, like the back and forth, like the questionable managerial moves, like everything that actually ended up working out, everything was on the table last night.

I think the Yankees were very, and you guys probably feel the same way, we're very fortunate to win this game. The thing that I don't understand was it was like this black hole in the middle of the field for the Indians. I mean, you saw Delano de Shields on Hicks ball. That ended up being the game, essentially.

Miss plays that, he gets a triple, walk two guys, whatever it was, they end up scoring. but the DJ LeMayhew hit the who is the Gio O'Shella hit

just like slow little baby hits up the middle there's always someone there in every other freaking game in baseball now someone's up the middle now but not there DJ and Gio never get those shifts so it's kind of like the scouting report on them

is they don't get that up the middle person Gio should, I understand DJ not, and sometimes the base running dictates that and so I'm not saying like obviously like there were circumstances why they couldn't be up the middle but like

that is a dead zone. I mean especially when DJs is a 17 hopper up the middle that Bradhand. It's a bad pitch by Bradhand. He should have, he should have feel the devil. He got out of the way of it because he messed up the other one that who hit that one, the chopper. The chopper. Claver.

Glaber hits the chopper. He screws that up. He started to get out of the way of the ball. And normally I'm okay with that. Like pitchers get the hell out of the way. But like you, there was just this black hole for them. Up the middle. Like I don't understand what was going on.

It was very frustrating because I did not want the Yankees to win last night. I don't know if you guys knew that. I wanted him to the game three. Yeah. I will say I don't feel like the Yankees were lucky to win it. I thought that they made every single at bat hell for the pitcher. I don't think there was any. easy out.

Gardy had one. And then do you have a lot of rookie pitchers, man? Karen Check was like, that was bad. What is, I'm telling you, man. You can't have that hair. If you have that hair and you have that whole persona. The walk-up song, the number.

You can't spike the two-two fastball you're trying to throw down his dick and then be scared to go to your off-speed three, two, and give up the grand slam. you have to like you you have to mentally bring that all that persona that you're showing it's not inside your head it's outside your head it's weird i didn't like it um i loved it for the yankees but uh i mean we should talk about that go a little more what is going on like this is the same thing we're talking about with uh who were we just talking about it attic attic like dude just save the antics this is the freaking playoffs dude you don't have

Like, it's not all about you, dude. Like, why do you got to do that? That's his headspace. And baseball wants personalities and swagger. And so do I. I like it. At the end of the day, you got to be, you got to come. He seemed very nervous.

Oh, dude, he's throwing the ball around. That was, does he always do that? Are there any Indians fans in the chat? Indians fans said he's very jittery. And I was like, well, I don't like that ever. I mean, anyway. But you say the, you say the DeShield's play, Trev. But if, if that play doesn't happen,

then you're going to say the Glaber play because he slipped on a ball right at him that gave the Indians to leave. What? What field? I'm just saying both teams had like a play where a defender slipped on a ball right at him. Both teams got that break. Both teams got the rain to leg weirdness. It was this series was the Yankees batters grinding out every pitch, fouling off stuff, seeing pitch, really good takes. and the Indians pitcher's being a little young and an experience.

And Treve, you walk everybody, dude. 12 walks. That's what the Yankees do, though. They really good at bats. They pass the baton really well. It's column A and it's column B. Again, Cleveland, if you're walking away from the series, and I'm sure we'll talk about it coming up.

Trev, we had rooks in this game. I mean, Tristan McKenzie, sequence, go check them out. Karen Jack, rookie. You're wondering why he's tasting himself so much on the mountain? 27 innings pitch, 53 punches this year. A 17.7K per 9. That's above video game stuff. So, yeah, you tell me if you were 25 and doing that on a baseball field,

if you want to be tasting yourself in Cleveland, you're feeling at 99. You get the haircut. But guess what? When playoffs time comes, it's a different animal, and you better not throw 15 pitches and four for strikes. And one of those pitches ends up in the goddamn bleachers for a grand slam from Gio Orshella, who got DFAed by these very Indians.

Trev, the Yankees hitting did their thing. The concerns come from the bullpen, which is a weird thing with the Yankees because they do have the wallets to pay for bullpins, and you recognize a couple of those guys, but the depth isn't there like it was in past years. These Yankees hitters are winning a lot of at-bats. They're battling. It's not easy. I think there was only one easy.

inning last night. I think it was Carasco's third inning, something like that. Second inning. Third inning, third inning, because it went DJ and Gary Yix. And yeah, I just, if you're Cleveland, uh, you battled there was some fun managerial stuff. The Yankees took out Britain because they pinch it. Luplo for

Nailer who had been incredible. Basically, they forced the Yanks to go to Loisaga who they like but doesn't have the experience. And Loisiga gets hit and it's like, oh boy, here we are. Another two strike pitch. Yeah, another two strike pitch.

Breaking ball in too much, too much zone for a one two pitch. After he dirted one and then he leaves one up. But yeah, man, I mean, you know, look at this box score and Trev. This is where I have to disagree with something you said before. Chapman, Chapman comes in into that mess. His first pitch, bloop single. I mean, that's in theory the game winning run. So you're right there.

And then Gio Orchella with, I mean, a play of all plays that is an unbelievable play. If the Yankees do start a magical run, I mean, you know, start the. the DVD there. I mean, that's an unbelievable play. The ball was behind him. He made it look routine. Both guys at both bases were out by like five steps. Look at the box score and look at the pitching lines and Eraldus Chapman,

two innings, shuddy, 4Ks, 24 pitches, 20 strikes. So compared to what everyone else did, Eraldus was fantastic. He likes, first, the geo play. To get to the ball was an excellent play, but to be able

to make that throw that he made on his butt, on a line, perfect, right to DJ. I mean, that was, I mean, I believe it saved the run, too. Was it first and second? I wouldn't hate seeing a sequence of that. Yeah, it'd be another, it'd be a... Possibly and the play to whatever. Yeah, I'd do a breakdown.

It would have been, it would have been... Like, I think that sneaks past his glove. You're saying, well, whatever. I mean, that was a good effort by Gio. That's a hot shot. Yeah, yeah. And they have a run scored, two on, and one out. It means the biggest game-changing play.

So far. I just saw some swings on Chapman. That's kind of what I was talking about. I saw some healthy hacks at him. Him and Ramirez, again, if we're talking, if you're looking for sequence tips from Little Poppy, do the geo play and do the Chapman, Jose Ramirez, a bat. Because my words were like, it's the corny line you hear a lot of broadcasters say there's no level above MLB. If there was, Chapman and Jose Ramirez would be in it. And that at bat was, oh my God. Yeah, scary stuff. Yanks survived in advance. thanks, because I could not stomach hap for game three.

And Brad, that's what I'm saying. Like that, well, I tweeted that out last night. This is a thousand percent a must-win game for the Yankees. I just felt like you're going to go up against,

you know, uh, Pizak and Sevelli and you guys are going to be throwing. Happened, Davey. Happened and, a young guy on the mound. Brad Hand comes in.

He's been lights out all year and just can't find the zone. Like, it just was all over the place, getting behind in counts. and it was a horrible O2 pitch to DJ Trevor A couple easy hits

You know A couple Well placed balls Trevor I'm going to read you A tweet I saw last night From Michael K Oh don't read this to Trev

Don't fire me up baby Come on Do this in the pregame show When we get to A's White Sox Okay Okay Okay People are talking

badly about the central divisions right now. That's all I'm saying. I mean, so stupid. We'll talk about that on the pregame show. Hey, let's never talk about small sample size. But when the playoffs come around and there's a three game series, let's bank the entire season on that. That makes a lot of sense.

Well, the season stats support it as well. It's a good discussion. The seasons that support it as well, that the offenses were worse in the central. If you're Cleveland, if you're Cleveland. Cleveland just throughout double the amount of runs. Was the offense that bad?

They scored nine runs. What are you talking about? They did good. They battled. They did good. But then you have the twins. You have the Cubs, the Brewers. It's, it's the Reds. These are obviously very,

it's a game and anything can happen in any single game. Like that's so stupid to make that comparison. If you're Cleveland, Michael Kay, he has been. By that logic, Josh Naler, fucking Hall of Famer, bro. Yeah. He's the best hitter in the Big Wigs.

He's awesome. I liked him a lot. He was so menacing. He's fired up. I like his outfit, too. He has a good uniform, baggy. I like that. Your guys got your stripes this year, Cleveland.

Karen Chack, had it happen. Bieber had it happen. Karen Chack. Tristan. Don't do the hair thing. Be yourself. I just found out our chat just said he did the hair. Yeah, right?

Make your own character. Don't like copy a movie character. Not Halloween. Especially because that guy stinks and the sequel. And someone in the chat said that the hair thing was brand new for the playoffs. Oh no. Oh no. I didn't know that.

If that's true, oh no. And you name yourself wild thing and then you go out and can't throw a strike. But that's a movie character. That's you're playing Halloween. Like I love personas, but like it's not you. Just go like be a freaking stud reliever. You want to do. You, bro.

Don't do Charlie Sheen in a movie. The Trevor Plouf, nightcap, your brewers versus your Dodgers. Sutter just shits the bed to start, walks into four walks in the first inning. The game's basically over at that point. Arcia, I wish you listened to at a podcast where someone would have told you that he was going to bang because it's just what he does against the Dodgers. I think the Dodgers might have went tight B-hole for a little bit because your pen is in and this game is closer than it should be.

But Dodgers win 4 to 2. Honestly, we didn't watch a lot of this game because we were lost in Yankeesland. Trevor, are you flipping it all? Have you sent any text to any players you're very close friends with that you reference on the Brewers every episode? What do you have? Yeah, I mean, that was a tough one. I mean, Suter kind of came out and set the tone, which is, again, tough.

The first, the first innings, you know, a lot of times will dictate how everything goes. Why'd they keep him in, Treb? I don't really know. Like, you're not, you're not, he's not your starter. Like, by choosing him in this game, you've kind of announced, we're going to be quick to the pen, we're going to have a quick hook, we're going to bullpen this as the Brewers. And then they let him go and walk five batters. And then like, you know, okay, you got out of the first inning.

And Sutter, I mean, was awful. He walked four batters in the first inning. He walked in two runs. He gave up a double. You got out of there. There was only two runs. It could have been way worse, too. Bellinger swung at a 2-0 pitch that, you know, just he should have continued to take.

The guy had thrown eight consecutive balls at that point or something like that. It was an interesting move for counsel to keep him in. I don't know. He looked nervous. opens up the second inning with double double and there's your second there's your third run now and that's a little bit like just moment i don't know i don't know why they kept him in it wasn't like you needed him he was never the plan to ride sutter suitor how do you say it yeah and then i mean look they they kind of did their thing against bueller as good as they probably could have hope for they

got him out in four innings they scored a couple runs on that rca homer but then the dodgers just have so much depth dude you know urea's comes in three innings Training comes in, Jansen. Like that's, if they could draw it up, that's exactly what they're going to want to do every single game. Maybe not three innings with Eureas, but like,

slip it to the bullpen. Shout out to those three innings by him. Yeah. One thing that's what does, it sucks for the Brewers. I talked to Ryan last night. I thought first to bat, he took like a check swing on Bueller,

and I could just tell, like he, his oblique or something was messed up. And I text him, the game, he obviously didn't respond to me after the game. He said on Sunday that he felt something really jarring in that area, did as much treatment as he could do, and he was happy they let him give it a go, but he was not feeling good.

So that's why he got taken out. It wasn't during that game. He actually did it the last day of the season. Big blow, obviously, to their lineup. You stack it with Yelly and Braun at the top, hoping they get something going for you. and you have to remove Braun after his second at bat.

So it's interesting, man. Like this Brewer's team going up against the Dodgers. I mean, the three-hole hitter is Jed Jorco and the four-old hitter is Dan Volubach who got DFAed twice this year. Like, it's interesting what the things they were doing

and how they're set up. Obviously, if you just look roster to roster, they don't compete with the Dodgers. They needed something special to happen and didn't happen. And kind of that, you know, We mentioned the Padres effect a little bit, obviously different dynamics. The Padres were one of the better teams in baseball this year. But, you know, Devin Williams coming in.

If you have, you know, a Brewer's roadmap to try to sneak out a victory is somehow get a lead and then five innings of nasty bullpen. And Devin Williams, with one of the special or more special years you see from a guy out of a pen before this game they announced he's not on the roster. he's got an arm injury. So, yeah, I was hoping this would be my upset special. Thought I had it when it said no Devin Williams. I would have taken that back immediately.

But, hey, you know, this game's still close. Yellich comes up in the ninth as the tying run. And he had two hits. So he looks. I haven't text him. I'm not texting the NEPP about the mechanical stuff. He just looks rushed, man. Like, even he's getting started.

earlier too, but it's still rushed. Like he's getting started earlier, but he's not relaxed. It's like he's still rushing to it. And I think his swing is so good and flat that they're kind of exposing the upper part of the zone and then like the 12-6 curveball. You know, they're going vertically. Like they don't care about laterally anymore. It's they're just going vertical with him.

And it's an adjustment he's going to have to make. I mean, he can do it obviously. Like it's not like they haven't done that to him before, but where he's at right now he's he's getting exposed there as a dodger fan is this a good game like jake said he wanted the yankees to win a close game and use the pen in close situations and get that under your belt so obviously it's a good game they won but even better that jansen comes in and has to face yelich in a close game in a save opportunity like you kind of got a couple demons out of the way here how bellinger do and one for four he didn't look great i saw him one for four's

like better than his average in a playoff. So I think you take that. They look, they look like here for business. They don't care. I mean, they don't care about this round. Like,

they need to just go take care of business. They don't even care about next round or the next round. They care about the world series. Bellinger put bat. He put bat to ball on every at bat. After the game, you could see the different emotions from managers when they win.

Some are very excited. They got one. Or they won the series. Like obviously the Yankees were stoke last night. Boone and they were like celebrating like crazy. It was a hard-fought game. The Dodgers, I mean, it was like... Yeah.

What's one game one? Game one and they just... Yeah. They expect... But I think if Kershaw comes out tomorrow and he has a really good start and you got the chance and save out of the way and there's some like boxes to be checked,

at least for me, let's see this happen. So... I think the, yeah. Yankees Dodgers comparison that should be made because we taste this guy all day. Leadoff hitter, DJ LaMahue sets the tone. Mookie Betts coming out and pumping one out of the gates. It's like, yep, let's do it. We've got him now.

Let's roll. I mean, double to start it, RBI double in the second. Yeah. That's mooky. It was incredible. And what I don't end this real quick, I hate how they're interviewing players during the games. Justin Turner was like had a mic on. He's like, dude, like, I don't want to be doing this.

Obviously he agreed to it. But he's like in the dugout trying to go away from people. And, you know, it's a weird, weird thing. I do not like it. I don't even like when they talk to coaches during the game, let alone a freaking player. Yeah, we kind of listen on mute over here. But yes, I agree.

ESPN, they muddied. ESPN muddies up the screen with so, obviously they do their bottom bar, which I hate, but ESPN does the bottom bar. I hate it. I want as much screen to be as the game as possible. and they constantly do like a strike zone on the side.

So now we're watching half of the screen. They do a coach interview on the side. They show us A-Rod and Buster on the side. Like full-screen the game. That's why people are tuning in. ESPAN is the worst. I'm not talking about announcers and broadcasters, which I know A-Rod sucks.

But their actual production of on-screen graphics and like camera angles and shots is so bad. They flipped like seven different camera angles in two-second span in the Yankees game yesterday. What he's doing? Jim, you're my production guy that knows words. The way I think about it is you watch any football game,

you watch any basketball game, you get the same production. You've got the sideline cam. It goes there. You get a replay. You're back to it. Baseball needs to get that mindset. They want to copy basketball and football and everything else.

How about if I turn on a baseball game, it looks the same. Do that. yes man's just bad it's all the graphics this is the thing is fans have been yelling at baseball to like get with the times they're trying to like they're trying to skip a bunch of steps

and they're trying you know like I'm becoming an old man like to let the kids play thing I love I do think that's fun but then you see them playing and then just kind of like getting beat and then it's like oh yeah that's why you have to

earn the right to do that. Do miced up. Don't do an interview, but you know, mic them up and play and show us sounds of the game. Before the third inning starts, show me Yadi, you know, slapping someone in the dick and saying good luck. Like, yeah, I want that. I like when they meet on the mound and then they have the, and they can, they hear what you're, what they are saying. Mike, mic them up and then give it to some editors and then do a 20 minute show.

Like, I love that. Everybody loves that. It's been around for 60 years. This isn't this isn't TikTok or IG. You need to treat it like a professional sporting event. Just stop with, I mean, so much, stop muddying up the screen, ESPN. We like to watch the game. To your point, Jim, I usually don't give you a lot of credit. You always say, take care of the fans you have, stop trying to reach for new fans all the time.

that's what they're continuously doing and NLB is reaching for the youth reaching for the youth reaching for the youth I do think you have to appease the people that are there and have been there for a long time as well yeah and I think they're reaching for the youth in the wrong ways like I appreciate they're attempting to get younger audience

I love it let's do it I'll make breakdowns we have a pretty YouTube crowds skews young podcast scoes old that's how it goes attention span how about it but yeah just doing it the wrong way like have they ever miced up like a basketball player during a game like you're skipping steps yeah on the field on the court but they don't like interview them that's what I'm saying

yeah they might a lot more later that's what players have never been miced up on the court maybe like they've been doing that in the bubble they're like they're in the game and they do it like they do a cut screen like when they come back and it's like go go go yeah yeah nice stop nice stop let's go that's not live miced up They're miced up, but it's not alive. They play five minutes later or something, not. They're doing what you're asking for. It's what we want baseball to do.

Yes, that's what I'm saying. They're getting ahead of themselves. They're doing, like, record them, edit it and post it. Don't mic them up and air it live. Don't air it live. They're all stupid. Mic them up. I want to watch the pitcher and the hitter.

Yeah. And I want to be in that at bat. And they just distract you. Well, anyway. We got to go pregame, baby. Yep. See you guys. Thank you very much.

Enjoy the baseball.