Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 231 | Dodgers Force Game 7 & Rays Beat the Astros in the ALCS

Episode Date: October 18, 2020

We have one of our World Series teams! Jomboy, Jake, & Plouffe discuss the ALCS Game 7 and NLCS Game 6 matchups from Saturday 4:30 The Revolutionary War 6:00 Braves-Dodgers Game 6 22:45 Postgame Shows 28:15 Astros-Rays Game 7 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. There were four teams and now there are only three. We got a World Series contender and we're still searching for the next. Let's talk about it. Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. We are done with two games in a single day. No more. One game, a day, here on out because we have ourselves a World Series team in the race.

Coming to live from the Roosevelt Studios. and I remember to say that even without my sign. Fell off. And my name's Jimmy, and Jake's over here in his Broncos shirt. They play today. Roosevelt's hat, baby. Roosevelt's hat, Bronco shirt. Trev's over there in his Seahawks hat.

And BBD's got his Lakers shirt on. So everyone's being supported. Big game today. How are you doing, Jake? I'm good. Jimithee, Trevor, Big Baby, David. The live Patreon's, thank you, patrons. Go sign up at Patreon today.

How about that? I'm good, man. I'm good. The Wicked Witch is dead, if we're being honest. Trevor's talked about it a lot. You know, you shouldn't be holding this year's Astro's achievements, you know, mixed up with the scandal. At the same time, I think it is good for the baseball community that they lose. I think it almost landed at a good spot.

Like the Astros showed a little bit of a redemption. Like, hey, we are still pretty good. We just cheat a little bit. And the rest of the world doesn't have to deal with them potentially going to the World Series and making 2020, bro. So that's good. And how about the young aces dueling in Arlington, Trevor? I had a lot of great baseball yesterday. I will say this about the Astros.

I'm conflicted on how to feel as well. I felt like that was a good story that they came back. And then I remember they were without Jordan Alvarez. they were without Justin Verlander I mean imagine if those two guys are on this team like they're probably in the World Series

So you gotta give these guys credit for fighting Like I said yesterday I think I was talking about it during the game What are they supposed to do man They rallied around each other It was fun to see They made a real nice run at it

But the raise The raise raised yesterday And for three games before that They weren't raising So happy for them. See what happens today. Big day. Big day in baseball.

Big day. And Jake mentioned the patrons that we love so much. And we have some new ones that are bringing you this show. They are very special people. Brian Leonard, Blake Paxtoe, Steve McCulloch, Charlie Devlin, Addison Harrelson, Andrew Ozzie, Xavier Toriento, nicknamed dingo

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ricardo peroso anthony prochesca andrew donelson and london vibes you ever put off london vibes not really i'm just very American Northeast vibes almost all the time

Glass now puts out London vibes Trev can get to London vibes if he gets the right glasses on I think you know maybe a nice mock turtleneck I don't know Treves got some good American vibes Yeah he does he does

Straight up American we'd have to spin him a little bit I could see it happening I could do the French route if I needed to I can pull that off But I'm a I'm a patriot It's a French route Okay well

You know it is a cron pod Glass now did How are you doing, Chan? I'm doing well Doing good Messed up my new commute twice On the way to the office Flush it out of the system

On the way home last night Was awesome Undefeated Awesome 15 minutes It was crazy I don't know if you guys remember this But the French came to our aid

As we were fighting off the English How about that? So there you go. I was actually on both sides of us declaring independence. It's only because the South didn't have anything to offer besides cotton. And to try and get the British and the French to help, they burned all their cotton and said, you know, if you guys aren't going to help us, we're not going to give you any cotton. And then they burned all their cotton. And then they were like, okay, that was seeing pretty irrational. Why did you burn all your cotton?

We didn't change our minds. And then the South was out of cotton. And then they didn't have enough material to keep fighting in the war. So. They also needed the Navy. Yeah. That helps too. Yeah.

Bang. France is cool. Okay. Just leave us. Let us be friends. I mean, I think the bigger point would be if you think you could pass as a Frenchman. I think that means you could pass as a British man if you needed to.

No, I mean, put a baguette in his hand and some stripes with that beard. Oh, put a baguette in his hand. Like, give me, give me like a cigarette and like a little coffee. And I can just sit out and eat like a little pastry on the strips. I could do that. You'd actually look good in that, like, generic stereotype French shirt, the black and white, almost mime shirt. That's what I was saying, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Said it was weird scarf. Skinny jeans. All right. Pull that on. Let's get into game one, Jake. You got to burn for us? Always.

Always big daddy. Here we go. On your mock. Get set. Oh, yeah, game one was actually Dodgers. Yeah. And I'm going to need to listen closely to your burn because I didn't get to watch a lot of this game. I was moving.

Moving day. On your mark. Get set. And burn. The brave second shot at eliminating the Dodgers. And this time they'd have their ace bang bang Maxwell's silver hammer as free tries to out duel L.A.'s Walker, Texas Ranger Bueller down in Arlington. Bottom one light up a cigar. Corey Seeger with another home run. He's feeling hot, ha, ha, ha.

Turn around every now and then. Justin hits a solo homer that makes a score two nothing. Cody says, get in my belly. As he fat bastards in RBI single, it's 3-0 Dodgers. How long would Max stay in for this one? Braves load them up in the second no outs like my mom around the holidays. Walker finally turns up the heat. Strikeout, strikeout, ground out. Walker looked great. Six innings pitch, zero runs, seven K's, and no walks after his career high.

Take that blister. And hey, how about Mad Max frying the Dodgers the rest of the way? 6.2 innings pitch. Three earn runs only in the first. Make it matter. Here comes the Dodgers bullpen first pitch triple. Oh, boy. Boy, Trinan gives up one to ooh, Ron Acuna.

But that'd be it. Bueller to Trinan, Tobias, to Kenley Jansen. Dodgers win 3-1. We're going to game seven in the NL. Trev, I didn't get to watch this game, as I said. Jake, fantastic part. Is the fix in? Trev?

I don't, you know, the fix is not in. The Dodgers had a good approach against Max, the first inning. He was also right in the middle of the plate. He seemed to obviously settle down after that. I would call it a gutsy performance by him. But Walker was kind of the story yesterday. Loads the bases up. And then out of nowhere, he just rears back and throws fastballs by everybody. And he had a little funk or something on his ball because they weren't even close. My guys were swinging six inches under the ball. You know, they were late on it. He was throwing you know 98 to 100 just buy people

but that's kind of what we were we expected if you were going to go back and really look at the game and analyze it max and walker going head to head and doing what they did was pretty fun to watch but we said it all along the Braves got to they got to go as their offense goes and they got shut down yesterday so they got to step it up today

it's hard to shut them down two days in a row hard to shut those Braves down now a little storyline here I thought they saw passing passing Passing. Passing. Hasin.

Tweeting about it. Trev, you watched a couple Max freed pitches with us on the live stream during this series earlier on and you said, oh, I think he's got to tell. They're hunting out the curveball, which I don't know if that's the normal approach versus Max. I forget passing stats. I can bring him up. Do we think that he was tipping?

Do you think that, Treve? Do you think it's just a good approach? I can ask Max. But I think I told you guys, like he's, he's bringing it up and then bringing it down. And when you have a guy doing that, the first thing you'd look at is like, what's the depth on both of those things? He's going to his belt, above his belt. And they pay people to do this now. Like they are dissecting you as a pitcher.

I think it was Buster not passing that tweeted it out. Okay. I told you like, yeah, like he's someone like if he was on the bump and I'm on the other team and I'm watching video. I'm seeing him doing that. I'm going all in on the tape and finding something. So there's a possibility it happened because they were putting some really good swings on the ball. And if that happens, it's as easy as Max being like, okay, I'm just going to fucking mess with it. You know, he just can consciously just change anything up a little bit, throw him off,

then they'll completely stop. Because you're not going to do it unless you're sure. So if he fucks a few people up, then it's kind of, uh, you're off of it. But that's definitely a possibility that that happened. Yeah, the stats were in the first game, they swung at 12 curves. They missed on five of them. Today, they swung at nine curve balls and they made good contact on eight of the nine. So I don't know. It's a little bit of a bummer that we fall into this. Was he tipping all the time? But then it's also a cool part of baseball. And you talk to any baseball player, talk to Trev, talk to, I mean, totally, Josh Tolly. Like, you know, the more

I've talked to pros, the more it's like, yeah, dude, everyone is searching for a tip at all times. So it is a big part of baseball. But it just feels kind of grimy to any time they get a pitcher, be like, he was dipping. Yeah, and Trevor had a really good point when we reconvened last night because I laughed when the tipping thing came out. Because right when it got tweeted, Justin Turner watched a 3-1 curveball down the middle. and I was like, I don't know, I think if they had him, 3-1 curveball, I think Justin Turner might get one. At the same time, I don't know.

There's a chance that they had something on Freed, and then he adjusted, which Trevor was alluding to. I also think, you know, it could very easily be, you know, they're seeing him for the second time in five days, and it's a pitcher's first inning. That's normally when a starting pitcher is the most vulnerable. Trevor said he was missing some of his spots early. Like that happens in the first innings as starting pitchers lock in.

We've seen this a lot of time. So there could be a little column A, column B. I don't know. I wasn't picking up anything on Max because I don't hit baseballs ever. But I don't know. Could be both. I just I didn't like that they were so early to it. Because I think the original tweet from Buster Passon was like,

got to, you know, someone from a, MLB organization told me they think Max is tipping and it's like okay well like who is that like you guys could have tweet out the same thing yeah who reached out on that staffer with another team that's staffer with another team I mean what's that mean you know it doesn't mean anything you could say that literally about every single pitcher well I could have tweeted out I could have tweeted out staffer with baseball company believes maxford may be tipping yeah that would have been true yeah don't call me a staff Yeah, I was wondering if that's a rude term.

I don't know. I'm offended a little bit. What does, like, staffer mean? It could be anyone. Anyone that works for... Aren't we all staffers? Yeah. Just comes off from.

I mean, I'm not that offended. I was just kind of messing around. So weird word. So, I don't know. Max settles down after that either way, tipping or not, and gives them... I texted them right now, so we'll see if he gets bad to me. Gives them big innings that... Brave's fans were hoping mattered yesterday.

They didn't. But hopefully they made. matter today because he did save the bullpen for a chunk. Yeah, that's the thing is if you were to go back, six and two-thirds, three runs, does he think Max takes that? Yeah. Pre-game? Yes, second start against the Braves, yeah, elimination game.

Six and two-thirds, save the bullpen, keep your team in the game. Circling back to Walker Bueller. Walker. Because after that, after they get to Max Fried, the Braves come up, they load the bases, three straight singles. Walker has been sitting at 96-97, and I'm now stealing from Jason Stark, but all the short kings had this at the time. Here is following fastballs that inning.

98-98-99-99-98-98-98-99-99-199-198-198. And he was pumping heaters. It was cool to watch. Blister Bueller, no more. No walks this game. He was like hitting his spots and throwing harder. So I think it's kind of for. Fair to deduce, he had a better feel for the ball.

I think he's won with the blister now. I think him and the blister have teamed up. I think he might have frozen. I heard the whole team got around and peed on it all at once. We tried that once in my team hockey. It didn't work. EBD's interview process. You didn't have a blister then, Jim.

It was just like more trying it out. Hobby. Yeah, it was like, hey, piss on my hands. Interest. Curiosity and cats, they say. Okay. All right. It would be fun if Max got back to me

and said something and then he could tweet out. That would be really cool. Staffer for the Braves. Yeah. Staff for the Braves. Says he was. No, we just quit. Stafford from the Braves says he was tipping.

Yeah. Or staff. Admits that he was tipping on the mound. Quote, quote from Staffer from the Braves, and then in quotes, I was tipping. Yeah. And then people are like, who said that? Yeah.

Who's your source? Don't worry about it. It was Chris Martin. And the, uh, I think the other. thing around it that also kind of kept me off the freed tipping train. I mean, the guys that got him, Seeger, as hot as could be, everyone fired off their tweet, just an absolute monster this series. I think it was his fifth home run this series. Turner, we've kind of been waiting for him to get going. His swing is funky, man. When it works, which it does a lot, it just feels like

the ball comes off the bat weird, and then belly gets him. So, I mean, it's not, I don't know. I guess all the names on the Dodgers until you get to the bottom of the lineup are kind of premier names. But yeah, I mean, they put up a big three spot in a game they had to have. Walker survives that second. And from there, I mean, it was, I don't want to say cruise control. Cruise control until the bullpen came out. Oh, my God. It's a tough game for Austin Riley and Markakis.

I think those two guys left a lot of guys on base. Base is loaded And then, you know, in the second base is loaded And then he strikes out Riley, strikes out Marquequequeque as Pachet grounds out. But Pachet, you know, you're not going to hold that firmly against him. Do it out four regular season at bats. Yeah.

I remind you. And I think two or three innings later, there was a runner on. Dansby gets on. And Riley strikes out. Or even before that, I think in their second at bat's. there was something else too. Yeah, it was two on.

So they had bases loaded. Austin Riley had a lot of guys on base. Austin Riley 0 for three with runners in scoring position yesterday. And it was a lot of runners in scoring position. So, you know, he had a big hit earlier. Hopefully Walker had his way with the bottom of the lineup. Yeah. Dansby Swanson, ex-Rummate, went three for three off Walker.

So there's some good bragging rights and some good fun there. Man, Dansby was fun yesterday. he was picking it, he stole a bag. He, uh, I think I'm calling him a soft five. I think he's a soft five to a player. Hard 10, look wise and penis, but I think he's a soft five. And I might, maybe this offseason, I'll make my all soft five tool players. But he's, uh, he's having a nice series.

Uh, the mooky bets catch, uh, was unbelievable. Unbelievable. Hold on. I don't think I've seen this. the bets catch yeah oh my we talked about it

when do we talk about that Jake I think we talked about it on the stream yeah it was I loved his reaction afterwards like how fired up he got yeah his team and everybody like you know that's that's the guy and it's just

I I probably love good defense better than good offense I don't you know I don't know how many right fielders even attempt to catch that ball I think a lot of them turn, face the wall, and say let's go. I'm assuming the fence out there, Trev, is 10 feet because Mookie caught it at like the top top of the wall.

So maybe it's nine feet. I don't know. Get a basketball hoop out there. But he's a special dude. And I mean, hey, go back a couple games now, man. I mean, he's got the shoestring catch and doubles up, Ozuna. He caught this one at the top of the wall versus Osuna. He is an animal, man.

He's showing, and it's great. It's why he should be on this stage showing the world why he is mokey bets. Well, we all are animals. Okay. I want to break it down. Heavy? Heavy? Yeah, so I always reference my buddies who are Dodger fans because that's who I really interact with.

And they are saying, like, I can't believe we have this guy for 50 more years, whatever the contract is. Like, when you watch a guy like that play every day, it's a lot different. just seeing some highlights. When you just see some highlights, you're like, oh, yeah, he's pretty good. But you watch,

like the intricate things, like, you know, what he does defensively. You know, instead of just seeing home run clips, you're seeing, you know, him holding a runner at first base

instead of the double, like small stuff like that, taking the extra base. Mugi does it all. He's a superstar who, you know, is good for your clubhouse, can play defense,

can play offense, can run the bases. He just takes the game over. He's everything you want. And the Dodgers, the Red Sox. man. Like the more and more I think about it, what are you doing?

What are you doing? Just watched it for the first time. Great camera work by FIS 1. The cut from Mookie catching it to immediately screaming like a crazy person and then immediate cut to Bueller just stoic with his hand up. It's awesome. Walker knew isn't out the whole time. Ozuna's smiling because that's all he does.

Yeah. Hasn't had a bad day in his life. Big old smiley bear. I bet she he has. Treve. Come on, Trevor. Don't bring him down. We're all animals, bro.

We're all animals here. Watch how many holes I can put this baguette in. And I think the other big storyline that comes from this game, Kenley Jansen. He's back. The ninth inning, six pitches, three out, six strikes. His last two appearances now, I think is, two innings, 16 strikes, 18 pitches,

and the cutter is cutting. In the words of Alex Rodriguez, it's a Christmas gift in October. He did say that. Also, also, like, Norm, are you upset with Riley and Marquakis again? Like, Janssen's in, and they both swing first pitch.

Yeah. And give him two pitches, two out. And it's like, Jansons in a safe situation here. Cake's got a lead off first pitch, triple off Trinan, which was the first picture. I get it. But like when Austin Riley goes one pitch, one out, like make this dude work. It's a bad feeling. When Canley's got two pitches, two outs, the longer he's on that mound, the worst things go for him.

I am not sure how I feel about that because I don't like having to go down 0.1. We've talked about the numbers before. You need to be ready to hit first pitch. It doesn't look good when you both get out. But it happened so fast. I was in the kitchen. I had the game on and the ninth inning starts. I don't know.

I did something. Not a lot of time. I come back. It's two outs. I thought like there was a glitch in the matrix. But two first pitch outs. And then, yeah, he's look good. His Velo's up.

And got to love Arod. Just, he's the best. Was he on the call yesterday? No, he was in the studio. Dude, okay, let's talk about the post game shows between TBS and FS1. Sure. I can't watch FS1. I don't know who's on who's on.

TBS has Ernie, Randy, Jimmy Rawlins, and who else? Pedro? And Pedro. Yeah. And Ernie. And then FS1 is A-Rod, Big Poppy, and Frank Thomas. And it's like, I can't.

Well, Jake told me something that Arod said, and then he said Frank Thomas agreed with him. I don't forget what you said, but it was awful. They're talking about Kershaw starting. And they're saying start Kershaw game seven. It's all, because those guys, all they want to do is like, well, this is how I did it. And this is how we. No, not Arod. Arod. Arod wants to say, this isn't how I did it.

And that's how you should do it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, something like that. But, you know, they're all kind of detached from the actual game right now. they don't. I bet you they don't really watch the games and I understand like how it's played right now. Arod, I guess has to watch him every once in a while, but he's just. Why is Arod doing this?

I know Jake asks that all the time. Know how rich he is? To see himself out there. Dude, he wants to shine. That's what. Always tasting. He wants. He's always tasting.

He wants to be in the spotlight. Yeah. I don't watch those shows, but I saw one Jimmy Rollins clip and this is. very unfair because I only saw him say one thing, but he contradicted himself three times in the same sentence. I remember we were all in the office? And I was like, what? Jimmy, I was just walking past the kitchen.

And he said literally, like, opposing sentences back to back. Pedro's really good. Like, when he's talking about pitching. Well, Pedro's the best. Pedro's everything. He really good wishes he could be off the field. I mean, there's three MLB pitchers that have, like, Pedro tattoos on them and then go out and try to pitch like that.

Yeah, he was dissecting And at bat the other day And talking about how what he looks for on the mound And it's scary to think like with his stuff And then like the mental aspect Like him being able to read hitters and swings Like that's like me And he would do the Yandi Diaz

He would just stare at batters Before and after at bats Because he said like I need to intimidate them I'm a small guy up here It's kind of what I mean Frank Frank Thomas and David Ortiz Frank Thomas is one of the largest humans to ever play baseball, and he was a DH, like, played the game differently than a lot of people.

David Ortiz ended up in that camp. Yeah, Frank Thomas' experience wasn't really the baseball experience. A-Rod was 1-1 and has lived one of the weirdest lives ever. Anyways. They're not like real people on FS1. No. They seem like they're just like characters. They grab the names.

Yeah. Like nobody, they don't live a normal life whatsoever, dude. Like, you can't if you're Frank Thomas. You're Frank Thomas. I promise, dude. You're huge. You can't live a normal life. I don't even blame them. We'd love to talk to Kevin Burkhardt about it. Because he seems nice. Last Jakey analytics, every spot in the lineup for the Dodgers had a hit yesterday, except Kike Hernandez because I took him in the homer draft.

It's not true, actually, Jake, but, you know, whatever. No, it is, Trevor, because Jack Peterson pinch hit for AJ Pollock, so that would be the spot in the Listen to the details. You can eat shit sometimes. You could eat shit for breakfast. Jake, he got you. You know in France, we eat shit with our baguettes. Wow.

Shit into the baguette. It's a shit baguette. Hollow it out. Like Kinders. So that's good. Kinders has a sandwich like that. There was one weird thing from the brave side in this. That MLB's rigging it against them.

Chris Martin throws 30 bullets in this game. Kill him. he's supposed to be like their number two reliever and you've got a game seven tomorrow 30 bullets he's dead talk to pete moylin about it he says yeah i knew what likes a bite you guys are fast friends such fast friends he's a weed guy we're we're good moylin likes us it's awesome love moylin he's legit i think you guys would be tight because like we'd all be hanging out and then you guys would tell actual major league stories and me and jimmy would just like do that guy in the club just kind of bouncing yeah one time i peed up i don't want any new friends i

don't yeah we're uh this freshman game at brook field high you should have seen it ball hit the track bounce over we were playing whiskey foosball ah i'm so drunk threw up on ourselves cute girl from the gym said she came to the party i didn't even realize she was there she said she saw me threw up on myself anything else on this old glory day stories we could go on and on uh no that's all that's all just really wonder what's going to happen in game seven, you know? Wow, A-Rod. Been thinking about it. Watch that seating.

What's going to happen? Is everyone full go? Their bullpins are all full-go for today. I think Chris Martin's the question. We'll do it on the pre-game show. We'll do it on the pre-game show, which is right after us. That's right. I forgot what show we're doing. Yeah.

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America's team, the Houston Astros trying to come back from 3-0 would be only the second time in baseball history to achieve such a feat versus Trevor ploofs, Tampa Bay Rays, trying to not be on the wrong end of history. Lance will make him dance McCullors versus the saltman. Charlie Martin, former teammates, we got storylines galore. Bottom one, it tastes just like Randy.

So rake with me a Roserena does it again to run. shot in the second. Zanino, the Pinta, the Santa Maria, makes it three nothing when he's hitting fat dingers. McCuller's final line is 3.2 innings, three earn run. Mikey Z again says, show me your kitty girl, sack fly. But let's do it for the H. Correa RBI single. Oh no, Bregman's chasing heaters like a buzzed frat bro. How about Charlie the Hammer Morton not talking about curveballs to Rico. 5.2 shuddy to Anderson to Fairbanks.

The rays show the fortitude to beat the Astros 4 to 2. Foyle Dusty's plan and the rays are going to the world series. Rays up. Stamco's. Wow.

You could have said chasing heaters like Treve and Sprite. I thought I thought about throwing you into the bus there. And that's just kidding. Hopefully we'll be there in Arlington. Good run by Dusty. Sad that we don't get to watch Framber pitch anymore. That's about it.

And this game had everything I wanted. We had the tying run in the batters box, in the ninth inning. And I think if you're watching a game seven game, that's kind of as, if you're not a fan of either team, that's as much as I could ask. Give me like a huge at bat. where a home run changes everything, keep it close. And, you know, so as a fan, I was entertained.

I enjoyed it. The raise, I think getting those early runs was really, really important, obviously. And then Cash's plan, it's like the least amount of pitchers. I think they've used all playoffs, just three. And they let Anderson ride a couple times when we were like, you got to take him out. I mean, he had a man on first and second with only one out. and they let him go.

One pitch double play. Ray's double play. Uly, tough one. Charlie Morton, man. 5.2 innings, two hits, 66 pitches. You know, I'm sure Ray's fans had to be kind of like we're going to Anderson over Morton right now. And Anderson technically gives up two earned runs in this one.

So shout out to Charlie Morton. He's now, what, 4 and 0? in do-or-die games. He had the record at 3-0. He stretches that out a little bit. He's a sick puppy, and hey, John Boyd's been on this for a few weeks now, but, you know, Snell gets the love. He's got the sigh in the bag. Glass now, he's got some of the nastiest stuff in baseball. Chuck Morton is the one you don't want to see on the bump, man. He's been disgusting this playoffs. He's been literally an MLB best ever in elimination games. And, you know, that ends up being the difference, if we're being honest.

Lance gets knocked around for three-earned runs. Charlie goes 5.20. Charlie's been the best pitcher by far. I mean, even last year, I mean, I thought he had a Cy Young in the bag or close to one. It was last year he was third in the Cy Young. Seemingly getting better with age. I don't know how you do that. In the first inning yesterday, he throws a fastball 98 miles an hour.

Yeah. And you're like, okay. Charlie's ready. Charlie wants the best big game pitch I've ever seen with these two eyes. He's just so stoic out there. You feel, and I don't know, maybe he is, you know, does have nerves or whatever. It just seems like he doesn't care. Like it doesn't matter the situation.

And man, in the game seven, it's kind of the attitude you want on the hill. You set the tone for the rest of the team. They got him some runs early. I don't know who predicted that. Some awesome baseball pundit. but yes, what a performance, man. And now we're setting things up for the World Series now, which is kind of cool.

I can't wait to see what they're going to do with him. Does Charlie get bumped up a day? I don't know. Well, I think you probably leave him for three and seven. Three seven. I don't know. Yeah. Can you do three and seven?

I think so, right? Because they get the extra off day. Don't you want to make sure he pitches for, or make sure he pitches two games? Or I don't know. like it's the whole new strategy thing i don't know i mean he well three well today is his first day of rest sunday yeah so it seems like monday second day of rest and then tuesday wednesday and then there's an off day thursday so three seemed he'd be on a lot of rest but there's if there

was a game on on um thursday you could pitch him then on normal rest but there's not so then he kind of is pitch push back to three i don't like he's an old man he likes a little extra rest yeah i mean but then you got snell going game two and glasenow game one yeah still pretty nice so pretty nice uh Trevor yes what else we got uh cash hits some buttons he leads off with margot who finished the game with the two homers which i love uh how about the rays analytically driven you know going hitting hitting hitting that button because Margot was suing in a good stick. I hope other teams kind of lean into that thought process a little more.

A Rosarena. I mean, as much love as I'm giving Charlie Morton, how about in the first inning? The bad man, the dude that the Astros probably circled before the game and said, oh, here's the guy that we can't let beat us, and he does it again. It's unreal. They tried to trick him that first inning because he did,

I don't know if he took the fastball or he swung through it but it was kind of like a surprise heater and then they tried to go back to it and man he's just on it he's just on it right now and yeah you can't you can't let Randy beat you

I mean it was the first inning but definitely nice to get ahead in the game early you always want to be able to do that we got to see Lance kind of throw his arms up he's not a he's not good with the home probably needs to fix that a little bit if I had to...

You mean his reaction to the homers or the fact that he was? The reaction. Probably got to fix that a little bit. But look, this was more of the raise that we saw the first three games. I know we've referenced that a few times now, but like they win with timely hitting and defense and pitching. They did all of those things in game seven after failing to do them the previous three games. I really do think, I know we were messing around on the chat yesterday.

I'm trying to get me on TBI. and that was a lot of fun. But I really do think, like, Bregman not getting to second base on that ball, whether it was because of the shift or he just made a bad read. I don't know. It's kind of a little bit of both, I'd assume. That saved a run. Instead of four to two in the ninth, you're sitting four or three,

and you got the go-ahead run instead of the tying run to play. I mean, there's a lot of things changed because of that. So that was, again, the raise being the raise and kind of finding that lane that, that lane, they live in. And when you're in that lane or they're in that lane, it's going to be, it's tough for teams. They got to stay there.

I'm re-watching the Randy home run and how McCullors approached him because we were trying to set up the tech and missed it. Oh, yeah. So he took a fastball right down the middle earlier in the abat. Yeah, probably juiced him up, swing big. Yeah, I mean, the Astros had a good run. Like Jake said, probably good that they, got to redeem themselves a little bit in some people's eyes and even get like, at times, people

rooting for them because the drama and the story was so crazy. And Dusty got his hugs put on full display and the type of leader he is again, which is awesome. And like, you know, in the, this new manager is just a puppet who answers to the analytics. It's kind of cool to see a guy like literally managing emotion. of players. Yeah, I mean, this is one team you really had to do that. We talked about it. He's perfect for this job.

Anything else? I mean, the Rays are, they get the two off days now going to the World Series. They don't know who they're going to play. Their bullpen is taking a beating. But so is the Braves and Dodgers. Yeah, at this point, yeah. Sloppiness. Like Anderson got beat again.

I know. You've got to be thinking, like, how much trust is in Anderson right now. Like, obviously he still has some, but not as much as he did coming into this series. They definitely need to find a good lane for him in one of those first two games. And just, like, give him an inning. Like, let's get through here clean so we can have you the rest of the way. They don't even go to Castillo, which is kind of the race taunting on the Yankees a little bit. Because, oh, my God, if they had Castillo, he'd be up every inning. But I don't think he was available because they used him the day before.

I mean, game seven, he would have been available. They got glass now up in the ninth if they needed them. So that was kind of the raised flex there as well. G. Man Choi goes two for three with a walk. He, you know, he went from Cole Beater to like a problem in this series. Good for him. 385 batting average of 529 on base. On the other side, Altuvae's hitting stats from this series are insane.

5-863 on base and 885 slugging that's higher than a Rosarena. So, you know, the throw came out again from Altova. Nice pick by Guerillao to make that not a story. Holy smokes. And, yeah, I guess the only thing that really jumps out from the box score, George Springer, 0 for 4. I give him a lot of love for being a Yukon guy, New Britain, Connecticut, you know, postseason records with the home runs.

O for four in the game seven while, you know, Altuve had a couple, Brantley had a hit in a walk, Correa had the hit in two RBIs, Breggie had a hit. That stands out a little bit. I want to touch just briefly on like the end of the Astros era, right? I mean, we're kind of got to see it that way. I know Correa is locked in, Altuva is locked in.

And they have Yorden, Yordon. Yeah, I mean, they have a lot of young pitchers. But you're losing Springer. Verlander's gone for next year, right, doing Tommy John. Who else is a free agent there? I'm trying to look it up right now. I don't know how to do that. Yeah, I got you.

I look it up. But yeah, it is like a changing of the guard in a couple places or a new regime, but they still have the mainstays. I mean, Burlander's out due to injury. Brantley's a free agent. Brantley. Reddick's a free. agent, Springer's a free agent.

I think that's all. Yeah, and Quentin Huber, our resident Astros fan, is fighting back a little bit, Triff, because, hey, I mean, we'll see. We're assuming Springer's gone. I mean, if he comes back, I mean, this, this lineup's going to look pretty similar next year. I mean, Altuve, Correa, Bregman, Tucker, Geriel. You know, that's on Yule back. Look, when I think of the Astros, I think of George Springer.

Like he was the one on the cover of the Sports Illustrated article. He hits, I mean, he just, to me, that's kind of who I think. But yeah, they've locked up some of the core. Honestly, if I was them, I would have locked up Springer. But they have Bregman locked up. They have those guys locked up. So, yeah, I mean, maybe not an end of an era, but it's definitely going to look different. They're going to be.

They do have a new regime there. Really interesting free agency, man. I wonder what they got to spend because, you know, you're probably looking for a, starting pitcher to replace what Furlander could have been, or are they doing something in the lineup? I don't know. They're going to be a fun team to watch this offseason. And what I said before, I mean, yeah,

I really do think this is best case. I think the Astro shut up the annoying over-the-top haters. Like, hey, we are still really good. And I think if you're, you know, one of the people out there that are just like, man, it really sucks. The Astros fucking cheated. like, hey, they're not going to the World Series, and I'm sure there's some spiteful Yankee fans

that can be like, oh, yeah, that's what losing in a game seven of the ALCS feels like. Yeah. That's something I wanted to say to, but I forgot, so that's good. Taste yourself. Go raise. Go raise. They're in the World Series.

Oh, here's what I wanted to say. And this is for Quentin was not in here. No? What? The fix was not in over here. No. Quentin and. Harry, I'm going to ask you this question.

And I'm not sure the answer. I'm generally asking a question here. Are free agents going to flock to the Astros? Like, I feel like, why would yeah, they'd have to pay up because why would you want to go through that scrutiny? Go on a team where you know everyone's just going to hate

on you. Like, until that is changed, it's hard for me to have people going there unless they pay up. So it's going to be interesting to see who they can lure there and who they can't. Yeah, I mean, we'll get into that during free agency, I guess. Bye Astros.

Goodbye Astros. We love you. We love you. Who makes the better series? Raise Dodgers, raise Braves. What makes the better series? Really good series. Dodgers.

Because they're all intertwined. I mean, the front offices are basically the same. Like Jake always says, or do you say this, Jim, the Dodgers are the raised with money. I think you said that and I loved it so much so I've repeated it. I said it. I guess Jimmy took it. Oh, okay. I think I might have said it first.

Now that Jimmy gave me credit, that's all that matters because he's the boss. At least I didn't give myself credit. I knew I stole it from someone. Yeah. But it's very true. It's very true. Yeah, I would love love for that to be a thing. I would also love the Braves to be in there.

I think that's a fun story too. And we would have some fun with it, you know, with our, with the mansplaining girls. and I think the better baseball series is raised Dodgers. Hey, Jeff, you know, I'm a ratings freak these days, just a ratings talk. Good news, baseball fans. Braves Dodgers, game four, is the most watched NLCS game four in three years. It's only like 9% down from last year, which is great. On the other side, the raise.

don't bring in anyone. So we'll see how this World Series goes. Quentin and Harry are still in the chat saying that people are going to... I just, I'm being honest with you guys, I just don't... That's the second, third option for people

because they don't want to have to deal with the scrutiny that it comes with playing with the Astros right now. It's just bottom line, dude. Yeah. Money tells. Especially if it's someone that like bashed him in the off season or anything like that.

I was going to say something, but I forget. Forgets, he forgets. Damn it. Everything you own in a box, who forgets? Everything you own in a box to the left. EBD, like that one. Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know I was going to say. Something about the ratings, because I'm a ratings. Ratings, Hawk. Rav. Games one and games two of the ALCS between the Rays and Astros, the two lowest CS games in the history of baseball. Down 17. And everyone's like, well, there was Sunday night football and there was the debate on Sunday.

Well, Monday was worse on Sunday. Very weird. Oh, this was going to ask. Who can the race make a star in the World Series? Like, it's Randy in Glass now? Like become a household. Get like a Pepsi commercial. Become a star. Yeah, Choi is definitely.

Choice marketable. And then I think it's Randy and Joey Wendell. Joey Wendell maybe for like a promise ring. company. Dark Horse to do that, Brasso. He already has the one moment in the playoffs that everyone remembers. If he does that again. Okay. I think of a lefty.

I mean, I guess if he pumps Kirschaw a few times. Do Glass Now and Snell count? Well, we already talked about this. No one's putting Snell on billboards or commercials. But Glass Now maybe. But Snow's kind of got a thing going on. Snow's got a thing going on. Snell is like the Twitch thing. He's got stuff gone.

He's on Twitch. He's playing video games. He's, you know, he's Young people love... He's northwest. He's not northeast. I said what I said. He's a sneaker guy. He like takes cool pictures.

I'll say this. Glass now is a pretty boy. And I think brands would love to have his face be representative of their brand. Depends what brand. You're thinking like old school McDonald's, Pepsi, all that stuff. Yeah, I'm thinking how Judge has Pepsi and Jersey mics and what World Series, this World Series, who can become that level star, like subway. commercial star.

World Series makes stars out of people. Pete Fairbanks. I don't know, man. I think those companies still want the judges and the trouts and stuff like that. But you're talking about other big companies. You can talk about...

I've got one. You know, Microsoft or Sony and these, you know, Snell fits that perfectly. Kevin Kiermeyer. Oh yeah, you can make a star to him. He can go on dancing with the stars after this. Kevin Kiermirems.

Oh my gosh. Dancing with the Stars. He is a catch. Okay, that's kind of a better one. I love that. David Ross with the Cubs. Keirmeier. The World Series made him a star. He goes on Dancing with the Stars.

So who can be a temporary... Who's hot? Kearmeier and Glass now. And G-Man. G-man. Like a really sexy Charlie Morton. Charlie Morton would be great for some... I love Charlie Morton.

Salt. Salt. A salt company. Yeah. Yeah. Buy my uncle's salt. Yeah. Charlie Morgan.

Liberty tax or Liberty Mutual. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, yeah, you need to win a big game? Yeah. I've got you covered. And so does Liberty Insurance. Who is that? Who was that?

Kiermeyer's a bloop and a catchaway from career in baseball afterwards. If somebody hits like a big homer late in the game for insurance runs, they flip that right into like state farm commercial. We got the insurance runs. I don't know. Sanino. All right. That ends today's episode.

Aaron Loop. Thank you guys very much for joining. We will be back tomorrow to recap whatever happens in the Dodgers and Braves game seven. I'm so interested to find out. John Curtis, you know, feed your farm animals. Cash app, Kevin Cash. That's an easy one. I like that.

Yeah. Quattraro, the bench coach? Checksucks. Get him an Audi commercial. Audi Guatro.