Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 217 | Padres Force Game 3 & A's Advance to the ALDS

Episode Date: October 2, 2020

The Padres and Cardinals played perhaps the best game er've seen this postseason to force a Game 3 Friday. The A's downed the White Sox in their Game 3, and the Dodgers and Braves completed their sweeps. Jomboy, Jake, and Plouffe recap and breakdown the games 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 some more wild games. Three teams? No, two teams? No, I don't know, but let's figure it out as we go. What's talking baseball? Hello and welcome to talking baseball. My name's Jimmy sitting next to me is Jake.

We got Trevor in California. We got producer BBD behind the dish. We're coming you live from the Roosevelt Studios in the Bronx. That's roosevelt.com slash johnboy. Get you 20% off. Three teams moved on. I was trying to do the math. I think three teams have moved on to the next round.

We will be recapping each game. Thank you very much for joining us. The newest Patriots that are bringing you this show. Let me shout them out. They are. I had it up. I had it up. Luke Bruck, Noah Hoffman, Van.

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The magical season felt like it was winding down, and then they dug deep into the bag of tricks that's worked for them all year. Tatis, Machado, and Myers, don't forget about that bad, man. So that was awesome. My A's, I had some faith in them. It worked out. We're going to talk about that game a lot. And oh, reds. So baseball's still hot in the streets.

Speaking of hot in the streets, Elm Street, Sesame Street, Trevor Plouffe. Ex-prostitute, Trevor Plouffe. Wow, that's quite the. intro. Quite the intro. I agree with you. Baseball's hot. Yesterday was really,

really fun. Yeah. But on a personal note, I want to say that I, on the day that the president said he got COVID, I got a COVID test and I'm negative. Okay.

Turns out my headaches were just, I'm still hung over from going to nap on. Just too much baseball. Just too much baseball. Yeah. Trev, I'm going to ask you an apology to you. You said yesterday on the show that the Yankees should feel lucky that they won a little bit or they got away with something.

And I couldn't process it because my bias was so heavy. And then I read someone a review somewhere about how that chopper that Glaber hit over Brand's hand head should have been an inning-ending double play to end the game. I said this on the live stream the moment Glaber hit that ball and it took the bounce. I knew that, I don't know, I'm not saying like, I just never was worried. So inning ending, season ending double play or game ending was never in my head. I see how it's in heads of definitely Indians fans and third party fans. So my bias clouded that. Yes.

I realized that the other day when I read, I was like, oh my God, that would have ended the game. It's a yes and a no. But I said on the live stream, I never thought that was even going to be one out. I don't know why. It was a chopper that landed on the back. side of the pitchers mound. So, like, yeah, if Brad Hand made an incredible play, I think you get an out. But that's what Indians fans thought.

Right, right, right. And I don't know. I thought you were going to tie the whole luck thing into kind of the Cardinals Padres and the White Sox A's because I don't know. I think both of those teams got punched in the mouth. And where we got lucky was not having to do Yankee stuff last night because I think Trevor would be talking to three-four. We'd be talking about three corpses right now.

Brad Hand should have shut that game down. I didn't get any sleep. I have to kick my children out of my office real quick. That's fine. I saw them pop by. It's really funny. But that was what I was referencing. I mean, you have Brad Hand coming in to shut the game down.

A couple C&I singles, the black void that was the middle of the field, dude. I had a big, the guy from the wire gift where he goes, when I read an Indians fan, say we had the ending ending double play it never crossed my mind I don't know if you're gonna play on that I don't think so but I'm getting I'm seeing

how other it changes a lot I saw that out I saw it as zero outs they saw it as two third party fan saw it as one so anyway it should have been one out it should have been one out yeah all right let's go we got some games to talk about Yankees over them

that was more of an apology to Treve I scoffed at the notion yesterday and I was wrong Braves. Braves and Reds. Game one, how we've been doing these is BBD puts 10 minutes on the clock. We've actually been really good and tidy. We'll give our thoughts if we go under. Minutes roll over to the next game and then they roll over.

So 40 minutes, let's do it. Jake, the Braves and the Reds square off. The Reds are a fucking nightmare in the box. Big time. 22 innings of baseball, zero run, scored. Ian Anderson, looks. really good. Ian Anderson looked good.

Yeah, man. He's looked good all year. And we, I don't know, I think when Ian Anderson made his debut, you Googled up a couple scouting reports and they didn't get you too excited. And we're like, all right, Ann Anderson, rookie, let's see it. Well, I wasn't making opinion. Right, right, right. You were reading them and you were appreciating them for what they were and using them.

Ian Anderson has come up and dropped dick all year. and we kind of haven't included him in the crop of young pitchers. But, man, I mean, does this not bring him to it? I mean, we've said Max Fried and the Braves all year. Ian Anderson's season sets, he had a 195 ERA in 32.1 innings. Of course that's a small sample size, but that's all we got this year. He comes out, he shuts out the Reds, and, let's be honest, this Reds team ends up, you know, with a quote-unquote historically bad playoff series.

two games, they get no hits. One was almost a game and a half. They get hits. They get no runs. And yeah, when you come out with the nightmare quote, it looks like a disaster. And Braves, I think this is win-win. All of your bullpen arms look great.

Your one and two starters look great. And, hey, their bats got silence too. For about 19 innings. They only scored one run in the first game. They had one run going into the bottom of the eighth. and then they turn it on, and it's the guys that you want to turn it on. Acuna, Duval gets one. Ozuna takes the selfie homer.

Braves, you've got to be feeling like 10 out of 10 right now, and Reds are feeling one out of 10 right now. I think we had this series pegged perfectly. We said, look, the Reds get in, they're a problem because of their starting pitching. They're starting pitching shoved. if they had a little bit of offensive help, like literally any offensive help at all, we're probably

talking a game three today at minimum. We might be talking red sweep. Their offense was dead. Braves had two hits. So bad. So, so bad. And, you know, like you said, the Braves,

everything worked out perfectly from them. And you go from, you know, Max Fried shoving and you have to do that whole long game. But then this one worked out like, Couldn't draw it up any better. Your starter goes six, Will Smith, Melanson,

and who's the other guy that came in? Will Smith, Malanson, Martin? Chris Martin. I mean, they went out and got Will Smith to be in these positions and, you know, Melanson,

and finally coming to fruition in the playoffs. I mean, it's a great, great victory for the Braves. And like you said, it sets them up perfectly for the NLDS. Who are the options for the Braves? So, and that's where things get really exciting.

I mean, they're looking at the Marlins Cubs winner. So we'll see if you and the boys can bounce back. I think it was lining up to be Cubs Braves. Everyone got pretty excited about the Nightmare Reds, who, oh, yeah, nightmare was right. But, yeah, I mean, we'll see. If Darvish can punch back today, I think the Cubs are back in the driver seat,

you'd be at Wrigley. but I mean if the Braves end up getting the fish, you know, this Braves team could end up getting a lot of momentum going. So they need the momentum because they had two hits. They had, I mean, they had two hits and, you know, they had one run the game before. They do put up five, which is nice, but the two hits. Oh, they had nine hits yesterday.

Nine hits. Yeah. The Reds had two hits, nine hits, nine hits. And the Reds had out hit them. But the Braves didn't, I mean, They got all that in like the eighth inning. Right, but it's the last taste in your mouth. I mean, you get it off in Galacius.

It's the last inning. Like you went from going into the next series four days of sports radio and hot guys on a podcast talking about, you know, you got to be worried about that lineup. And it's like, hey, you know what? They just, they just slammed. So, Braves, almost a perfect series for them. I'm being rude. I don't like this section of the NL.

bracket. Right. It doesn't feel right. No. I mean, why not? Well, because I didn't watch a lot of this game. I was apartment hunting. I saw the beginning in the end. The Reds, bats, I know A-Rod sucks. And a lot of what he said sucks, and he called home runs empty calories, and I don't agree with that. But he's getting on a lot of these teams for not having an approach. The Reds had no approach. Like, I watched a lot of the bats in game. one.

Ian Anderson looked great. Like his stuff looked good, but like they didn't try. The Reds had no approach. Like I thought they looked anemic. Like it was like weird. It was they haven't all year. They don't have that line that does the approach thing. And then the Braves didn't like wildly impress me in these two games.

And then you got Cubs Marlins and we'll see what happens there. But I mean in the other division, you have the Dodgers, the Padres, the Cardinals. I like that little area better. whatever. I don't know why. I got to be honest to you. I mean, I don't know if my expectations were just really low because I haven't watched a lot of Braves baseball this year. And when I did, I wasn't that impressed. But I, watching these games and the way they won these games, I came away impressed with the team. I like Dean Anderson. And I like that they, they're like just like with the Padres. Like their swagger came back. The selfies fucking around

in the dugout and all that. And it does carry over. So I like that. And Treve, I think part of what you're saying is it felt like a good brand of baseball like Austin Riley at third base. You know, he's the young guy that's supposed to be known for his bat. He made some nice plays. You know, that was a big thing for me coming into this year, going from Donaldson to Young Thick or whoever was going to win the job, Camargo. He was strong defensively there the other day. Dansby, you know, he was in the leadoff spot for them a lot this year while Albies

and Acuna was out. He slides down in the lineup. He's giving at bats down there. And then you got, I mean, some. Some kind of Trevor Plouf, Daddy's, Marquakis, Duval, you know, doing it in the second half of that lineup. And then the top half is disgusting. So, yeah, Braves. Yeah, they look good.

This is kind of an overall theme here for the playoffs. A lot of weird four-hole hitters in these lineups. We had Vogelbach, then we had Ryan Healy. That wasn't a different game. But this game, even now, Travis Darno, like, look, I need. know he had a good year. I know he's had a good year, but don't tell me that guy's a four-hole hitter, but here we are. Yeah.

He's hit four-hole with the Braves and the postseason. It's interesting to me. Just, you know, typically you're looking for big boys, but the game then changed with these balls. Everybody's a big boy. I mean, who could you switch with him, Duval? Well, I think the lineup composition right now is interesting. Albi's bat at fifth yesterday. You know, I think back in the day it would be, you know, Al-Bell.

be Zakunya, Freeman, Nozuna, but that all-important two-spot in the lineup now is Freeman. It's changed everything. And dude, I love it, man. You open up a game with Acuna and Freddie Freehan. I know. I know. It's just not what were you to. I mean,

like you said, lead off hitter. And then 2-0 hitters got to be able to hit the ball on the ground to the right side. That doesn't happen anymore. That is out of the window. That's not how baseball is played. So the 2-0 hitters totally changed. I used to love hitting in the 2-hole. You should love it

Me too, Treve Not really a knock on Darno though If anyone interpreted that way No, it's not a knock on it He banged all season And he's just different when you see it It's just yeah When you look at

I mean the lineup construction In all of baseball Has completely changed Of the last three four years The Yankees don't care about the three hole You want to get The theory is you want to get your guys up there as much as possible.

Yeah. You know? So the whole brand of... I always wanted to lead off the leadoff hitter, you know, go see some pitches. Let me see if I can pick anything up. And then I'm coming up two whole. That doesn't happen anymore. Now it's like, hey, bro, you're a lead off hitter?

Guess what that guy's throwing first pitch? Like, go whacking. Well, speaking... Good job, Braves. Sorry Reds fans. Speaking of leadoff hitters that hit in game two, Tim Anderson had three hits. but the White Sox lose. This game was ugly, Jake.

It was ugly early. The White Sox, Renteria, whoever's in charge of their decisions, full-blown panic. Yeah. Just because it's a game, it's an elimination game, and you have the kitchen sink. Doesn't mean you throw it at people in the first inning. I can't believe what the White Sox did. I know Frank Thomas, I know Ozzy Gien, I know a lot of people in White Sox, like, world were like, What the fuck?

Injuries plagued them, and they left like nine guys on base. Eloy gets hurt. Crochet. Is I you say? Crochet gets hurt. He was clearly the plan for like two innings. Injuries plagued them. But they used nine pitchers in the first four innings.

I had to write it down. They use nine pitchers in the first four innings, I believe. Do I have it wrong, Jake? Two, three, four. Point two. It's a little. I don't, I kind of liked with Dunning, Dunning Crochet, Bomber.

They use nine pitchers the whole game. Oh, Dunning, okay, maybe it was Dunning Crochet, Bomber, Cody, Rodone, Foster. They used six in the first four innings. They didn't give a pitcher a clean inning. On the other hand, Bob Melvin, out of the nine innings, seven of them were one pitcher. This is your inning. You start it, you end it.

And that's like, you know, if you're going to bullpen, that's a better plan. He got, Renteria got crochet up after the first batter. I mean. Plan for that. They had a plan, dude. And that guy is we don't think we can hit. And I think,

I think it's you don't want to, you don't want to get behind. I know, but one batter. What the, I mean, that's crazy. I think the thing for, me is they used cease yesterday and kind of what turns out to be almost a meaningless inning. And I don't know. If you're going to go with this approach, almost don't start dunning.

Like start a reliever. Start crochet if you're going to get him up after one batter. And again, there's a lot of second guessing here. And the White Sox could have easily won this game. I mean, you know, this game was nuts through five and then both offenses stopped. There was a lot of actions on the bases. A couple line drives hit right at. people. This game was a shit show. No way anyone could have known that unless you watch the

pregame show where little poppy told you that. But yeah, I mean, Frankie Montas comes in. He gives two winnings and he's looking more like Frankie Montas. But yeah, I mean, they go shuddy the rest of the way. And Liam Hendricks, man, I was I was ready to jump all over Bob Melvin. But it's knowing your guys and knowing that crazy Aussie at the back of your bullpom. because he was sitting in the stands, which again, everyone was, but he didn't have the jersey on, I think, in like the seventh inning. And I was like, is Liam out of this game? Because if I was an Oakland fan, I'd be about to throw up on myself.

No, he comes in three strikeouts in the ninth. I mean, just absolutely dropped it, hit triple digits after throwing 49 bullets the night before. So kudos to them for knowing your guys. And I mean, this White Sox team looked like kind of a young team. on the road in the playoffs, at least pitching-wise. They use their closer in the fourth inning with one out to get. Two outs, two outs, fourth inning. They brought in their closer.

Very weird. And then he can't even record an out. They have him intentionally walk Pinder to bring in Foster. They're up by one now, right? Foster comes in after the intentional walk, and he throws it like eight non-competitive. I don't think he induced to swing. So, I mean, that's not Renteria's fault, but he didn't put any of his pitchers in a really position to succeed.

They didn't succeed, and that's their fault. But I thought the management was sloppy as you can get where Melbourne did a good job. And he was down. Yeah, and he still had more patience. I know, but he still had more patience than the manager who was up. Bommel is That's what he is Like he's calculated

He knows what he's doing They have a plan Renteria didn't seem like I mean maybe he did have a plan And maybe the injury to crochet Just was like Oh yeah Rent is like that's the wrench in the plan

Getting him up after five pitches Was also the plan Before the injury And that was still like what And hey this plan was still really close to working Like I know it didn't look pretty And it didn't work So we're here

But you know They had a couple they were one swing away a couple times with a couple of their big sticks that you know they could have pressed all the right buttons but you want to know what really lost the game this is this is the truth yes yes

three for 14 three for 14 I mean yeah you can talk about that but you still put up and up front it's the nine walks the white socks pitchers issued you can't do that dude you can't just put people on base

every single inning Foster came in couldn't find the zone at all the only person that he did get to swing at his pitches was Chris Davis, because Chris Davis de-gaff about you walking people. You hit a sack fly, whatever. But you look at the A's. He also popped out Foster with bases loaded. Dude through nine balls in a row and Chris Davis swung at a 1-0 fastball and popped out.

If I was an A's fan and that cost me the game, I'd be pretty like, well, that was a sack fly, though. That was what I was talking about. I thought that ended the inning. No. Oh, wait, it was. It was two outs there. Yeah, you're right.

Yeah, Matt Olson walked right before Chris Davis and then Chris Day. I thought it was like, Foster had thrown like, he threw like 11 pitches, nine of them are balls or 12 and 10. I don't even care to be honest with you do. Like Chris Davis, go and do what you do. If he homers there, it's amazing. Exactly. Result driven. But yeah, nine walks never going to work.

It's not going to work. Got a throw strikes. God, some big at bats for Brayu. You know, he has the. Double play late. Robert hits a bomb. I think it was the second for this home run recorded this season, 487. Mazara does it from the bottom of the lineup.

People have kind of slept on his career a little bit. He was hot in the streets. He hasn't been hot of the streets. I wonder if this can spark his career a little bit. He's still 25 years old. But the middle of that lineup, Grandal, Abraeu, big Eloy dealing with some stuff in Moncada. I mean, they were a couple swings away.

There was guys on base almost every inning. So, I don't know, tough. Everyone was given the White Sox the nice pump-up speech. We'll see these guys again. Get ready. Yeah, you will. And I think it will feel a little different because I don't think you want Dane Dunning going for point two in a deciding game. That's tough.

12 left on base. Tim Anderson, I think it was like the first player in MLB history to have nine hits in his first three playoff games. Yeah, and if you're a White Sox fan, I mean, who covers them for Sports Illustrated? Janice Curio, I like her feed a lot. And she said there's no way this team was going to advance in the LDS. And she loves the White Sox and cheers for them. But they got injuries. They had a lot of relievers go.

I think you chalk this season up as like, we're one of the big boys now. Down the stretch, that sucked that they had such a downfall. And then, you know, they had McCann might be gone, but Gialito's the real deal. you got a lot of good going for him. I don't think it was World Series or bust for the White Sox. Let's just shine a little bit of light on the actual heroes. We haven't even talked about them. Chad Pinder,

Sean Murphy coming through. Chad Pinder, who is one of my favorite teammates ever. A couple of notes about him. He had a baby in August. But he's got a quarantine. Hasn't been with this baby at all. I mean,

this is real life stuff these guys are going through. comes up with a big hit. I actually texted him after the game. We were talking last night. And I mean, you just, he's the guy you want to root for. He's kind of always in the shadow. He's a utility player on that team. He's like, that's Bo Mell's piece, man.

Him and Mark Kanna, Bowmell loves these guys. And for him to come up big, Sean Murphy with the big home run to get them back in the game. I mean, these guys, I mean, they're showing up when it counts. and that's kind of like I've said this before I think I said this yesterday it's my favorite part of the postseason

is these guys doing something and really helping their team I mean if they don't I mean they won the game for the A's last night when Matt Olson has been struggling Pinder came in and got went two for two with the big RBI because he came in or he pinched it earlier in the game

got a hit then and then came through we got requests from the chat Pinder on sequence do it Trap he would love up to you. I'm going to give him, let him run his playoff. Okay. All right. And then maybe see his baby.

Okay. It's fair. It's fair. We get to move on from this one? I think so. I said it before. The longer a playoff series gets, the more I like Oakland. They survive this. They get the monkey off their back a little bit. They've had a playoff history that they hadn't won a series in a long time. Braves and Oakland. They get it going and they get Houston.

12 o'clock starts. Stop complaining, A's. Stop. Can you do that thing with your shoulders in your hand again? There's a guy that does, like, Bay Area Sports Radio, and he made a video, and he was like, guys, you haven't left California since September 17. Yeah.

You're the two-seed. You know who's been playing before you? The Braves. You know what they were? Two-seed. They haven't said shit. Yeah. It's a little later.

And it's not like you're going, like, you're on the West Coast, so you're ready. for the 6 a.m. tests. You know, the White Sox are coming, and that's 4 a.m. for them. So whatever. Whatever. Nine straight losses in do-or-die games for Oakland.

The next game on the docket is a doozy. Yeah. And if anyone's wondering about our picks, we all got the over-correct in Chicago versus Oakland. Good job by us. Jake was the only one that held Oakland winning. Good job by you. Jake was the only one that.

that had Cincinnati winning. Treve and I had Atlanta. Jake and I had the under. Trev had the over. Bang. Bang. Where was I? Fated myself in the Reds game.

Done fading. You were mad at yourself for fading. I faded myself yesterday. Freaking Reds can't put up any runs. So dumb. Nightmare. All right. Padres and Cardinals,

this game was probably one of, I mean, it's this game and then the Yankees Indians. But this game, the elimination team won. So I think it's a little more. fun that way. But what a game. I mean, Padres find their swagger. Like, uh-oh, happy, learned how to putt. Padres learned how to be fun again. Cardinals had them four nothing after two. Padres chip away. It's four to two. Cardinals say, nah, they bring it. It's six to two. They've got a four-run lead again.

Padres score four in the six to tie it. And from there on out, it was a shit show. just runs every inning basically, every half inning. And these were pimp job homers. I'll tell you something. I was in bed. Katie was sleeping in the bed next to me. The lights were off. I was watching on my phone because I didn't think it was going to get exciting.

I also went full gummy because we recorded 10 hours straight. So I was, then all the fun started happening. So I'm undercover's in bed with my dog and my fiance sleeping next to me in dark room. High as fuck trying to like tweet out. Like if I start tweeting at night and there's no captions and it's just the gif, it's because I'm brain dead and can't talk. And then it got so interesting. I got up.

I went to the couch. I had to plug in my computer because it was dying. So that's what this game made me do. It was wild. Tatis two home runs. Myers two home runs. Tatis with the big back. flip. And then I forgot how much Cardinals fans are,

because Titus does that bad flip and my mention just got lit up with like, fuck him. I hope he knows he's getting a ball at his head. He can't do that. Not to this team. I was like, oh, I forgot this is that fan base. Treve, tough act to follow. Yeah, Jim. I mean, I wasn't exactly full gummy last night. I was like, you know, I was like a quarter gum. I was full. But this game, I didn't take any gummies. I don't, but this game. Same thing.

I thought it was boring. I was like, man, the Cardinals are, that's kind of what they do in the playoffs. Like, they just kind of low you the stage and they just move on, move on, move on. Padre's going to get their reds on. And then Tatis, man, comes up. He says he was looking for a fastball and just reacts to the hanging slider, which is, I mean, he reacted to it.

That's one way to put it. Put in the seats, walk down the first base. and this is like this is the Padres at their best like maybe don't give up nine runs but like hit them homers like that put up 11 runs you can go far but yeah like you said Myers coming through Tatis coming through twice Machado I mean this is this is the team that we fell in love with and it was on display last night in the playoffs now they got Jack Flaherty I'm so torn I We'll do it on the pregame shell going game three.

Jake, what do you got on this one? This just felt impactful. Like the other stuff that's going on, you know, I don't know, White Sox A's, yeah, A's, you advance, you get the monkey off the back. Like, I don't know, I'm not getting World Series vibes there. It's like, is San Diego fully woken up? Tatis hits the homer. They're down six to two.

And you're like, okay, okay, Nando. And then Chado does it. And you're like, all right. So it's on. And hey, Will Myers doesn't get the love. Maybe not as sexy as Nando. Maybe not as sexy as Machado. At one time, Will Myers was as sexy as those guys.

And he's figured it out. He hits two as well. And, yeah, if you're St. Louis, you got Jack in the hole. It's so hard to not think about that game coming up. That Cardinals bullpen that I gave a lot of love to, the five, the six final relievers gave up a run, the five. Genesis Cabrera, I love him, man. He is disgusting. He can be the next hater. And that was probably the controversial decision. He lost it and then he found it. He had a nasty

strikeout. They pull him before Tatez. Gallegos gives it up who's also been disgusting for St. Louis. Wayno was battling. He didn't have his A stuff. But yeah, I mean, you know, the Cardinals are up six, too. In the sixth inning? And you're just like, okay, St. Louis, they uglied it up. Are they going to have Flaherty for game one of whoever they play? Nope. The Padres fight back. And yeah, I mean, this Padres team versus your guy, Trev.

Again, we can't talk about it. Let's not talk about it. But if we were going to mention something about it really quickly. No, I want to talk about this game. What about, I mean, Tatis throwing that ball away and giving the two runs. I mean, if that's a, because it was, they survived it. It's not a big topic, but he went sad boy on us after the swagger. It reminded me of Glaver a little bit.

I mean, the Cardinals get, they score those two runs, but they use two outs to do it. But they got handed a gift there. I believe it was, was it second and third one out or second and third no outs? Tommy Fam dropped a fly ball. Tommy Fan dropped a fly ball. They go double sack fly, which, hey, if you swap one of those out for a double, who knows how the story of that game. Grisham drops a fly ball. So the Padres had some things that if they lost to,

I think they'd be like, our defense really fucked us. Sorry, it just gave extra pitches, more wasted bullets. So I didn't take a note of that going forward to the next game, I guess. Like, that needs to be tightened up. They won, so no one's going to talk about it. But there's like three really dumb errors. You know how I feel about starting pitching in the postseason. And like when I'm looking at the box score here and just seeing how many people pitch,

that's not the recipe for success in the postseason. season. Jack needs to go deep. Jack has to do it. And so little tidbit before we move on about Jack. Teaser tidbit. Somebody was talking, they interviewed Wainwright, I think. They were talking about how

he gets all his guys together and they said this is the first time The Slight, slight. Me and Bubak are not on good terms, bro. Not. Anyways. Apparently this was the first time, like, all season,

or at least since they had the Cardinals outbreak of 2020, that they've all been at the game together, like pitchers and stuff. Usually, like, they sit together and they talk about stuff, they talk about stuff, but, like, when you're starting pitching, they said they were at home for most of the season. Like, they weren't at the yard. So Jack was there last night watching the Slam Diego Padres do their thing. what kind of what does that do mentally to him i know him and i think he doesn't give a shit

he's just going to go do his thing but you're watching them do it i just feel like that's got to do something to you yeah i think so get you a little i don't know should get you fired up i mean it's exciting i mean i didn't think that tatis was really that like disrespectful it was he looked at his teammates and oh i'm not talking about like him being mad they're pimping it oh but jack just saying okay Cardinals don't like that. These guys hit homers after homer. There's some Cardinals fans that don't like that stuff.

And I think every fan base would have some fans that don't like it. But I think the Cardinals have a few more. Don't you remember when Yadier Marlina threw the bat into right field last year in the playoffs? Yeah. And he did stumped into Ronald Acuna Jr. Like, come on, Cardinals fans. Don't have that kind of memory. That's selective memory.

Just final going away. I mean, he ended up giving a home run to Goldschmidt. which you boys will hear about later. Can we talk about Trevor Rosenthal throwing 102? What the fuck is that? Yeah. Just in the bag now? I don't know.

I always just think glitch when I see that. Like DeGrom hit 102, but it didn't look 102 to me, and I was like, glitch. Glitch. Everybody's hitting 100 nowadays, bro. I think there's a little bit of... Pretty easy when they just change the radar.

Turn the dial up on the radar gun. Everybody knows that, by the way. Well, the in-house, the in-house radar gun, people have, I don't know if there's, people have done studies that, like, the in-house radar gun is always a little more juiced for that starting pitchers. Just like the height and the weight. Just always a little bit bigger at home. I'm speaking my language.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, wild game three. I hope we get fireworks. I hope it's exciting. And I hope Jack just shoves it. Mm. That's what I'm like a close game, though. Jack shoves.

a close game. Are we happy the pitchers aren't hitting? Have we talked about that? Oh my God, yes. I didn't think of that. Isn't it amazing? I didn't think about having to. Welcome, and all the pitching changes that we're seeing in these games and how many players you'd have to burn and then how many bad hitters you have at the end of the game because you had to burn so many And so, like, imagine if this Padres cards game, like there was like three bench batters in because they had to pinch hit for the pitcher. Such a bad brand of baseball that everyone loved for so long. Can you, man, like this is what I'm, I've hated. And now I don't have to hate anymore, at least this year is I hate when they bring the jacket out to the pitcher on the bases.

Please let me never see that again. You want an athlete. If you got to wear a jacket on the. the base pass. That is the most unathletic fucking look. You should have started that for position players.

Trev, I've never thought about how pathetic that actually is. It's so pathetic, dude. I think pitchers did it as like a badge of like pride. But it's...

Yeah, it's kind of rubbing it in the other pitcher's face. Like, hey, because you somehow let me on base, I'm going to wear a winter coat. I'm not supposed to even be here. It's the worst look you can have on a base.

baseball field. And as a pitcher, I don't know how I'd ever let that happen. If I was a pitcher, I'm not going to put the fucking jacket on. Unless we're talking, if it's like... Cold, cold.

If it's cold, it's a little bit of a flux. Yeah, like Minnesota and the snow. Yeah. All right. Game... Even then, though, come on. Just just running in place.

Game four, Dodgers, Brewers, Treves said it. Brewers had Ryan Healy as their DH because he had a good, game against Kershaw like five years ago or something. I love Ryan Healy, by the way. I mean, he started two games all season, Trev.

He got seven at bats all season. And he not only got the start in this game, but he was their four-hole hitter as D.H. Yeah, Bruce fans don't want the D.H. I'm the only team. Ryan Healy, Cresby High, thank you. Thank you very much. Alumni, go Celts.

Fun fact about Ryan Healy, Chad Pinder and I, we once had a very late night, early morning in New York together. We're just walking around the streets, 5 a.m. getting pizza. Excellent time on that. Suck and face. But yes, Ryan Healy in the four spot in the playoffs for the Brewers is not what they imagined. An elimination game. At the beginning of the year, yeah.

Against the best pitcher of our generation so far. And how about that? Go Kirsh. Go Kirsch. Eight-inning, Shuddy, 13 strikeouts. And his stuff looked disgusting. And again, I think part of that credit does go to this Milwaukee lineup that isn't what it's supposed to be. And then the really fun moment is in the seventh inning.

Kershaw walks a guy, his only walk of the game. And it's technically a three-run game. They're looping a blast away from making it a situation. and the pitching coach starts shuffling around. They get the bullpen up. Kershaw gives a smile. He looks at the pitching coach, and he's like, no, you don't have to do this. He picks off the base runner at first, and then he strikes out the hitter, and he's out of the inning.

It was an awesome performance by him. I think for Dodgers fans, I was kind of saying this yesterday. I don't think this means anything to them from the couple we know. They were like, yeah, this game against the Brewers means nothing. And it's like, okay, they're going to have. this edge until the World Series happens. Final big note for me, Clay and Kerchaw's hot, and that needs to be discussed more.

Oh, huge disagree. Like hot? Like hot. Like attractive? Like the beard, the hair. He's tall. Hard, hard disagree with him. He's hot.

No, it's just gotten overlooked and just gotten missed that you guys would have that reaction. It's kind of disgusting how overlooked that he's a good-looking guy. The patchy beard is just not doing it for me. The sketcher shoes don't do it for me. The wallet. That wallet does it for you. The skill set.

If you were to just like take pictures of him. That curveball, that slider. It's a lot of auxiliary hotness. The actual. That hair. That hair. The way it flops. Your hair.

He's hot. I'll give him good hair. He's not hot. He can pitch. Yeah. I was about to say something mean that I check the images that it's not there. Maybe it's just like the facial expressions.

I'll say it. I always thought of him and Andrew Luck in the same elk of like, goofy white dudes who kind of have their. And that's what that's the problem. Their mouth like that. I know that's too mean. I checked the images. They're not there.

Andrew Luck is a very good looking person. Yeah. You know, this is the Dodgers just absolutely dominated the series. This is nothing for the Dodgers. I understand what you're saying, Jake, and we know some Dodgers fans that are saying the same thing. And it's a little bit

how I feel with the Yankees. That was really exciting game two. And I'm glad they flipped the Switch. But I'm not going to go bragging about this to anyone. And that's why it was so weird that Congress Correa bragged about it. It's way different. You're not going to bragging about it,

but they beat a good team. I mean, the brewers were coming in, limping. They were hurt. This was just like a bully. It's good. They saw some things, though, like Jansen was good. Gratterol was good. Kershaw was good.

They saw some things they needed to see. But yeah, this is, you know, if it was a regular season, they wouldn't have had to even do this. They'd just go straight to the NLDS. So it's kind of like, okay, that was a waste. Let's get here. So reset. Now it matters a little more.

They're a juggernaut, dude. There's not a weakness on that team. You would have liked to see the bats go a little bit more, Again, the Brewers, their game plan was to ugly it up as much as they could, and they did. And kudos to Woodruff. He looked really good for a while. And then they get the fielder's choice behind them that I think could have been a double player. I'm forgetting exactly what happened.

And then he actually got tossed from the game. I think him and the Umps exchanged some words on his way off the bump. So, you know, kudos to Milwaukee, muddying it up a little bit. I mean, the Brewers technically were in this game while also never being in this game. Yeah. Are we done with this game? Because I have something that I missed in the Padgers game, I need to say. I'm kind of good. Trev, Mookiee with another RBI double.

His playoff numbers weren't full Mookie, and he can get him there. I'll save what I have for the pre-game. Okay, here's what I missed. Jake, you said that, you know, one more note, Kershaw's cool or hot. Handsome. He's hot. He's hot. He's not handsome.

He's hot. He's not handsome. He's not handsome. He's hot. And he needs a beard to get him there. Yeah, it does nothing for me. That's more of an injury. That's hair, it's beard. Dude, like.

That's like a... I think it's more hot than handsome. He's got like a very like... I got a freakishly handsome from David Robinson. Anyway, I wouldn't say that. This has been said too much and too often, and I need to say it again. Say it. Tatis is the coolest person in professional sports right now.

Griffey. I tweeted out pictures of him making that dumb things. throwing error where he threw the ball away and he just looks so fucking cool. He just looks cool. Like he should be on the face of every video game. He should be on the face of a lot of MLB posters. If you want to get the youth, it's the coolest guy I've ever seen. I was watching that guy.

I was very high last night. I already told you guys that, but I was looking at him in the dugout. Just like, you know, walking in the dugout, someone just quote tweeted me because they're like, Tatis is so cool people are tweeting out videos of him putting his helmet away. I was like, yeah. Yeah. Because he was walking around like a badass. Didn't talk to anyone.

Didn't say hi to anyone. Just put his helmet away. And I was like, fuck, this guy's cool. Exudes cool. He's got it all going. That's the it factor. That's like we always used to have this discussion about Jeter and Arod. And I said, Jeter just is inherently like cool.

Like people just like think of him as cool. And Arod's not. And Arod really wants that. Arod's the least cool person. they're so uncool. This guy is he's it. He's got everything from the look,

the hair. I love the pink, just the pink pop. So it's like other guys used to do the fluorescent yellow. He does the pink. Yeah. He got a little bit of different swag to him.

He knows how to wear a uniform. He's tall. How tall is he? He's like, I think he's listed six four. He's long. That helps in your coolness too. If you're tall,

it's already cooler. Well, don't fucking rub it in, Treve. Don't have to tell me. I'm not all. I'm just a regular person. But when you see a guy, 6-3 with swag, it's different than a guy that's 5-10 in swag. I'm just going to tell you that. Yeah, well, I mean, you're kind of missing out on little guy swag, which you'll never have.

Flying is so much easier for us. Try sleeping on a camera. No guy swag is non-existent. There's short king. Who do you think was more comfortable on the RV at spring training? Why do you think Tim Kirkagen so second? My own bed up there. The only comp for the cool stuff is Griffey.

I mean, the backwards hat when he was doing it. It was cool. I mean, Jeter was pretty cool. I got to give him to him, you know. Jeter wasn't, what you're saying, like, the Jeter A-Rod thing before was like the cool, the cool athlete. The cool athlete in high school would be like,

A-Rod would be the guy that, like, pushes the loser into a locker and was like, you guys think that was cool, right? And Jeter's the guy that helps him pick up his books and was like, no, we don't do that here. You know Jeter's like list, right? For Jeter's generation, he was, he fit what people wanted to see in cool as much as Tatez does this.

It's two different generations. Like, Jeter was wearing suits. He was clean shaven and he was dating everyone and you never knew about it. He was like, for his time, he was the coolest. I mean, he had the Yankees boost. I mean, Yeah, Tatis doesn't even have that. That's where I think the Griffey, the Mariners with the funny, the colors and the backwards hat.

Like, we laugh because, you know, a backwards hat is nothing. But like when Griffey did a backwards hat, they're on a baseball field. I mean, hard attack season. Okay, great. Coolness talk at the end there. Needed it. We good, BBD? Got everything done.

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Go the baseball. Short guy energy. Some people are saying I was really cool when I played too. A lot of you are saying that. You were like a, like there's some videos of you, Trev, where you're running around to a home run. You look like a blues. Not bad or like, you're just like a tough guy.

Look like, I think that guy beats people up. Yeah. Lefties. Second decade. Anything. Whatever.