Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 403 | Astros & Red Sox Win Game 2, Brewers & Giants Win Game 1

Episode Date: October 9, 2021

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Every divisional series is underway. We have a 2-0 lead, a 1-1-1-tie, 1-0. Let's talk about all of them. Hello and welcome to talk and baseball, brought to you by Draft Kings. Thank you very much for joining us today. My name is Jimmy.

You've got Jake in the Bronx and Chris Rose joining us from L.A. today. Sub it in for the ploofster. As always, producer, BBD, behind the dish. Trev out of commission. Just, you know, I don't know, sleeping. What was his excuse? No, no. So he lives in a really ritsy, gated community neighborhood.

Very, very posh and upper crust. And they do these events. And apparently this is the biggest one they've got of the year, even though it's like two weeks until Halloween or three weeks of whatever it is. They've got like a carnival through their streets where they're bringing in all these high flut and celebratory things for the kids. It's all weekend long, all weekend long. So that's what he's doing.

He took us to one of those last Christmas. It was the coldest night of the year for us, a November night in Calabasas or maybe it was December, I forget. I can't figure out where I am in this thing, BBD. Are you okay? Oh, my God. I was trying to center myself, but I couldn't figure it out. Jake, how are you doing?

Jimmy, if you pick a spot, I can center you. He's got you. Rosie, John, BBD, step. been up. Everyone live in the chat, thanks for joining us on your Saturday, baseball Saturday. We got the NL boys going game two tonight. Yesterday was a fun one. I know me and Jim had a lot going on outside of the baseball world, but also in the

baseball world. It was an awesome day, man. A lot of you love seeing the young guys that are next, or maybe we didn't talk about enough. during the year. And like when we talk about Logan Webb in a little bit, I'm really excited for that. But big day of baseball. And yeah, similar to Trev and, you know, his gaudy neighborhood party, I was watching some rats share of pizza slice today. So we're basically having the same Saturday. Pizza rat?

So I listened to Zardulu and the pizza rat podcast. I don't think these were the pizza rat. I think these were just a couple rats sharing a slice of pizza. I didn't exchange formalities with them, so I could be wrong, but next time, do? I think Plouf didn't like me talking trash about his neighborhood, and he cut the cord

on me. Ah, that adds up. Typical. Typical. I think he doesn't like when we say he lives in Calabasas. No. It's like another cool. I'm not going to say what it is. I don't want to give it away, because I don't want people stalking. outside of his house. Not that you would ever be able to get past the security guard.

Yeah. If you never try and get inside of his area, you will be shot. There's a lot better people to stalk in his neighborhood than him, too. That is accurate. Oh, man. All right. Well, we got four games. The NL, the pitcher showed up. The A.L. The hitters showed up yesterday. We're a cron pod here, Rosie. So we will go in chronological order. We have to keep it very simple. We have rules. For ourselves. Rules are rules.

So, Jake has Burns. Jake, did people remind you? Were you able to remember yourself or do you need to shout anyone out that helped you with remembering? So I was able to remind. I know who should get a shout out because I said tweet at me at 10 a.m. this morning. And I think a few people did. I was moving around. And I didn't charge my phone last night.

So I was like 5%. And it, like, just a total idiot on the way. And someone tweeted at me last night, like, 8 p.m. don't forget. And I was like, wow, that was a real flex, man. Like, that was a, I told you remind me at 10 a.m. in the morning. You hit me with the 8 p.m. at night. All right. Like, that was my kind of reminder.

I owe this to the people. All right. It's like when people, like, text you happy birthday at midnight, then you're like, whoa. Yeah. You were really thinking about me, huh? But it's great when you live on the West Coast because it's only 9 a. at 9 p.m.

Jake's birthday's coming up two days so everyone can text him. Wait, Jake? Did you just say Jake's birthday? Yes. Jake's birthday. What are you going to be 32? 3-2.

Only an age, though. Still in my prime. Yeah. Yeah. Guess what? That shit wears off in a hurry, boys. That's where Bond started to peak. Yeah.

And oddly enough, his head started to grow, and he looked like one of those floats in the Thanksgiving Macy's Day parade. I need that too. Here comes Barry Bond. He made an appearance last night. Sure did. They were cheering for him, I heard. Certainly were. First game of the day was the Houston Astros taken on Rose rotation co-host, Lucas Gialito, and the White Sox.

Jake, are you going to burn this for us? Who's it brought to us by Blitzball? Yeah, this will be brought to us by Blitzball. They've been supporting us. I mean, hey, they've been supporting our back alley at bats pretty much. We've been having a blast with that. And all of our live streams, if you've liked watching two out of shape, almost 32-year-olds play, you would like some of the people that they have playing on their

YouTube channel. The Blitzball's are nasty. We recorded something with Trev. We won't give it away, but he started throwing a slider that is something me and Jimmy can't do with our arm ability. So, yeah, they've got some of that on their YouTube channel. And if you're someone who listens and you play whiffle ball, you're going to want to try out Blitzball. It's pretty good. You can let it rip.

Chris Rose almost took John Boy yard. People forget that. Would have been a walk off, would have been a walk off and would have been the crowning athletic achievement of my life. Seriously. That's true. Well, you know who we play against next week? Wednesday's episodes that get released is Todd Brazier. Oh. Yeah.

Oh, that's going to be so good. There was a, the level of trash talk got brought up a notch. Yeah. The problem is you can't understand him. When he starts talking too fast, you're like, you get about every four-year. Oh, Jim, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're We're going to have to clip that. That's my mom, so.

I forget when it was, but there was one moment where they were, like, synchronized. That's, that's this week's episode. I just asked Tom if it's part in there. They basically both bull rushed me about a ruling on a, a ball hit in the ground. They went like Italian Jersey mobsters at the same time. Hey, you better be careful because Fraser knows people. It's connected. Connected.

Just saying. Yeah. He just bought a house from like the Russian mob or something. Oh boy. Let's do it. Yep. Hit the music, babes. Jake.

What happened? Game two, ALDS. On your mark. Get set. Burn. Game two and there's a Framber alert out for the White Sox offense as Valdez and the Stroes try to go up to. Oh, but that'd be a tough ask against Chris Rose. his podcast son, Lucas G. Alito. He's lovely. So much back and forth early. They're calling this

the pendulum game. Luis Robair, boy, is his name hot on the internet streets right now? RBI ground out. Kyle Chris Tucker rush hours into an RBI single, and Chaz McCormick sees himself a sack fly. It's two, one strode, in the fifth. He's here, he's there, he's every fucking way. Robert, Robair, Luis does it again with the RBI single. Jose Abrevi who says, I'll have what he's having. He has one of his own. And then Cosmo Kramer, the Yasman. As he has Grandals sacked fly.

Great fortitude by the White Sox to make it four to two. Unfortunately for the Sox, the Astros would score the next touchdown. Seven runs. Yuli, Yordan, Correa, and a Tucker bomb to ice it. Ramber and Gialito were the headliners, but the Astros Penn, 4.1 shutout to win game two, nine four final. Beautiful. Thank you.

Well done. Really well done. Snaps. Really good. Thank you. Altuve put on an absolute defensive display in this game. I mean, first inning Framber was a basis loaded, single, single hit by pitch, and then Altuve diving stop to stop.

to stop that ball. Another one were to score. You had like a jump throw later in the game. So offensive came out to show Altuve kind of stole early defensively. But feel bad for Giulieto and Framber. I wanted both of those guys to perform. Yeah, you can't walk five hitters against that team.

You know, they have the best discipline, plate discipline of any team around. They don't strike out. They put the ball in play. If you listen to the Rose Rotation, ALDS preview, Austin Hedges, the Cleveland Guardians catcher, just talked about how difficult it is to work around their entire lineup, right? When you, Carlos Coray is going to be hitting third or fourth next year for some team. He's hitting sixth right now in front of Tucker, who had an over 900 OPS.

With all of that being said, the Astros do the little things the best out of all eight teams remaining. They play defense better. The biggest difference in that game was the fact that Tucker caught the ball and Lurie Garland, Lurie Garcia did not. Okay. He butchered the ball much like I just butchered his name. And then they run the base is great. Altuve with the slide in game one. All the little things, man. And people just, they've been dismissive of the Astros this year because they don't want to talk about him because they'll have to deal with their feelings again about 2017. That's what I think. It's for me, I mean, hey, Gio Lido and Framber, that's as fun as a playoff matchup as you're

going to get. Framber, his sinker ball stats were going around the internet or put actual ground ball stats. He had the most ground ball of a starting pitcher this year since they started tracking it in like 2002, like Derek Lowe, a lot of the classic sinker ball pitchers. He was a notch above them. Him and Gialito both get knocked around. You're right. I mean, that Lurie Garcia play looms so large. If he snags that, that changes the whole course of the rest of the game. For me, coming back to the box score on this, how excited was everyone for the White Sox pen? Hendrix, Kimbril, bummer, Tepara, Crochet, you know, that seemed like their formula. If you told, if you told us before this game, it was going to be tied up,

the White Sox were going to roll that out, and Houston was going to roll out. Jimmy Garcia, Stannick, Mayton, Matone? I always forget. Maton. Presley and Graveman, you'd give the advantage to the White Sox. Houston holds. They don't give up any runs.

And yeah, I know Jimmy was digging up. We were laughing when we were previewing this series because TLR, Tony LaR, had a quote about his deal. defense, did we get the exact word, Jimmy? I didn't find it, but I think his quote was just like our defense is hard. It's like atrocious or something like that. And yeah, I mean, Rosie, you mentioned you kind of covered the board there. It's the little things because you kind of look around the board, but it's also the big things.

Like you said, Coray and Tucker could be hitting two, three on this team and nobody would flinch. They're stacked and they do it every year. They end up in the CS every year. So, man, Chicago got punched in the mouth. Yeah, I wonder if this is a little too much of the old school managing in Larusa to go to bummer in that spot. And Kimball got beat too. So it looks like he was doomed either way, maybe. But.

Well, they could. I don't know. The one guy they didn't go to. was Kopeck. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. And they went to Crochet again.

Kimbril just got down in those counts. to those guys and then there's close. I think he was down in every count and then they just and the Tucker when he hung. The Karei ones and out. I mean, I watched it and I saw a bunch of treats celebrating how Kare is a heel and he always comes through and kills teams and it's true and he is really,

really, really good and he does kill teams. But I mean, Larry Garcia, what are you doing, dude? That looked like me and Jake trying to catch fly balls when Trevor was hitting on this line drives. He just got spun. Do you guys think I'm on to something with the fact that I think we spent so little time the last month of the year talking about the Houston Astros, right?

We were focused on the NL West divisional race. We were focused on the AL Wildcard. We were focused on the Padres collapse. What's going on with the Mets? That part of the reason we didn't want to look at the Astros is because we don't know what to do with them emotionally. Is that fair? I think it's a, yes, I think that's a majority of it.

Like they don't market, MLB doesn't market them because it's just like, you know, They're in like kind of shadow realm a little bit. We try to talk about the guys that we like a lot. Like we'll hype up Framber. I like Luis Garcia. Obviously, Trev likes Jake Oterizzy. But it's also at some point, like I think that if the Astros and the Dodgers are in the World Series, there's a lot of almost how the NBA went through LeBron fatigue,

which is like, really? Those two teams again? See, I think Treb was hyping it up. I think it could be the best thing. I think it could be the best thing. I'm curious. I'm curious on that. I don't know.

I think there's a fraction that'll be, say, like no one cares anymore. Like, let's move on from the cheating from five years ago. But then there's also people that still love it. I don't know. White Sox are done, though. That sucks. Clicks.

Yeah, I don't know. Rosie, I kept saying on talking baseball that, like, I thought the stroves were going to kick into gear before the playoffs and that was going to be part of the conversation. Like, they're back, blah, blah, blah. They kind of, they had a couple losses and the raise had a couple wins that it was like, okay, so the rays are going to be the number one seed. Houston kind of didn't have to play for anything more.

And everyone was lost in the wild card. So in this White So, White Sox Houston matchup, and it's kind of a bizarre thing. We, before the season, this was the matchup we all wanted because Tony Larusa and Dusty, like these are two of the most high. end powerful teams in the American League. These two teams have been lined up for so long that I think it was almost like, we casually talked about it, that if this had fallen into our lap on the last day, like say if the rays and Astros flip-flop from the one seed and two-seat in the last day,

and we're like, whoa, we're getting white socks and Astros. I think people would have been a little more excited for it, but I don't know. And then kind of what you're saying, too, about Astros and everyone being all over the board on it, me, Jimmy, and Trev who like to pretend we know what we're talking about, we all kind of sat here pretty confidently and we're like, don't bet against Houston. And now they've got three to lock it up and they'll be in the CS. They'll most likely be in the CS again.

Now, we know it's easy when you're down to nothing and say, okay, well, this is going to finish. We do have to keep in mind that the White Sox had the best home record in the American League. And I think that the Dodgers were the only team that surpassed them in all of baseball for home wins. I believe that was right. I know it was right heading into like the last 10 days of the season. I get to play a lot of home games against those shitty teams.

Hey, you can laugh and joke, but that's the point I was about to make. They were the champion of the worst division in baseball. Far and away. They did not have one other team in there that finished above 500. And while Houston never got pushed by a fading Oakland team and an upstart Seattle team, which was strictly fighting for the wild card, you always felt like they were playing for something. What was the White Sox's last meaningful game before this week?

Field of dreams. Field of dreams. Why? Because it was a made-for-TV event. Yeah. It really didn't matter. I think they ended up losing the series to you guys anyway. So if they gotten swept, it wouldn't have impacted them one bit. So they were just, I think it's hard to go four months without playing a game that doesn't mean it shit. And then all of a sudden they have to ramp it up to 180? That's tough, man.

against a damn good baseball team. Hmm. Yeah. AL Central's now one and nine in their last 10. Stop. Playoff games. Some of those numbers are gross. Isn't there like a three and 18 or a three and 21 or something?

Treb was scoffing at it because he's twins. You're kind of scoff because you're Indians, but it's true. Like, come on. It's, it's, it's, people, people like to, I overplay it probably because, I'm trying to counter the people that downplay it, but strength of schedule is real. And if you just beat up a shitty division nonstop, you haven't been tested as much. Yeah. I mean, I think it's fair to say. I think the toughest thing in sports to do is self-evaluate. And so you have to know what your strengths and weaknesses are. And so you can put up all

the gaudy numbers like the White Sox have where they led the AL and ERA. But who are you doing it against? You know, you're doing it against the team that got no hit three times in a year. a Detroit team that was okay offensively, a Kansas City team that underperformed offensively. You know? I think the last year's, last year, especially because it was the weird year, so the central state and the central,

the east state in the east, the west state in the west, you know, when all those advanced, like, pitching metrics came out that are all pretty well regarded, and it was like, if you pitched in the central last year, there was a chance, you didn't face a lot of the tough teams.

I know I don't have the stats in front of me now, but I know for Bauer and some of the other guys that had massive years last year is like, well, they didn't face a lot of the big sticks. And yeah, I mean, I don't know. I think you are right, Rosie. Like the Chicago atmosphere tomorrow should be electric. Like they, at home, they're not going to go down, like,

tail between their legs. They're too good of a team to do. that. But just the task of winning three straight against this Houston team, I don't know. No. It's tough. Yeah. Framber's the only pitcher to give up multiple runs. Yeah. Yep. In two games. I mean, I think Graven gave up a run. Yeah, he looked a little shaky at times. I will say this, and I know we have to move on. If you don't, if you, if you're not a Houston fan or a Chicago fan, root for Chicago tomorrow. Root for more baseball. That's what you want.

Oh, yeah. Four games on Monday. So root for the white socks. Let them, let their fans have a day. I don't think they're going to end up one in the series. I actually have Houston in the World Series. And there you go. Thank you.

Amen. All right. Well, if Houston, if we think they're advancing, let's see where they're advancing against Jake. How did the game two? Cron pod or versus. Cron pod. Oh. Sorry, dude.

We have rules. We have one rule. we abide by. We have very strict rules. It's the strictest rule we have. Braves Brewers? Does he get penalized for that? Does he get put in a box? Does he get frozen? It's yellow. Spoon-Eye. Spoon-eye. It's a beanio yellow card. Spoon-eye. Hit it Beads.

Jake, on your mark. Get set. Burn. Battle of the Braves, Milwaukee versus the ATL and the Saltman. Charlie Martin slinging sliders. But if that salt gets in the wound, it burns as Corbyn and his cutter. They would both be on their game. More zeros on the scoreboard than a cash wire exchange in a movie.

What? Until it's getting rowdy in Milwaukee, baby. Friend of the pod, Rowdy to Les in that elephant swing. Two-run Homer, would that be enough? Young Jocco's boing. Peterson pinch hit home run solo don cuts the lead in half top nine Hader in two on two outs old friend Orlando orcia grounds out to second the brewers go burns to senor puke to hater brew crew wins two to one in game one houseer will never be able to live that down ever

guy could end up in cooperstown he's still just going to be called senior puke on every recap you ever have. Well, maybe. Tough. Tough times. Well, you know,

not on our little like pat on our back, Jake, the two brewers that we hung out with the most in Milwaukee were Bernsey and rowdy, heroes of game one.

So that's cool. Yeah. Hey, Jimmy. Uh, yeah. Who's more likely to give your hamstring a deep tissue massage between those two. It's Rowdy.

Bernsy. Really? Wow. Neither wants to. They give rock paper, scissors, and Rowdy beats them. Rowdy would have fun with it, I think. That's just an opinion, not a take. Did you see Rowdy's playing the first inning?

Yes. I mean, obviously he gets the big home run, but it was, I mean, Bernsey, he had to settle in. He walked the first two batters. He had a pass ball. It wasn't his fault. It's catcher's fault. I think we had four wild pitches and two pass balls yesterday.

So maybe the whole like catchers on the one knee, uh, pitch framing matters more. It should go away. Um, because it seems like that's a lot. But that double play or not double, yeah, double play in the first inning by Rowdy is like a tone setter. I mean, imagine. Yeah, Berns he settles in and then he blanks them the rest of the way and looks amazing. Imagine the braids were able to push one. across in the first is a different game in a two one ball game obviously so i hope that doesn't go

too overlooked that double play by rowdy in the first inning but let's give a little bit of credit to omar nevayas on that that that is not an easy hop to take with the bat yeah with the bat and with a dude who's 250 barreling down on you that's a hell of a play what percentage of catchers make that play small i'll answer small small small small percentage. Small. Excuse me. Yeah, Jim, I forgot to tell you the other day, Shilt and his post-game press conference

and the Cardinals lost, he talked about it. We say it on live streams and stuff like that, or even when we do Yankees, you know, that pitcher, if they survive the first and they're struggling, sometimes they're playing with such house money that you can almost chalk them down for six or seven clean. And that's where Corbyn ended up. He was so in control the rest of the way. It was absolutely gross.

Rowdy, awesome home run, pimps it and, like, how, you know, put that in the book of how to pimp home runs. Like, he clearly wasn't showing up the pitcher. He was just enjoying that bad boy for his team as well. He should. He just hit a mammoth shot in, you know, what could be an extremely important part of this brewer's run. And I think the other thing that we circle is, you know, we talked about the brewer's

high-end talent a lot this year. We kind of wondered if they were going to make big splashes around the deadline. They brought in Eduardo Escobar, who's such a brewer's guy, can play a bunch of positions and switch all that. We kind of eyed that first base position. Everyone gave them love for the Willie Adama's move, obviously, because he went nut job when he came over. Rowdy Tellez, a guy I like before this season, he ended up in a weird time in Toronto,

gets traded, and he was hitting for them. We wondered if they were going to make a move. at first. He gets the start in the playoff game. He hits. And for the Brewers, the question is, will they hit? And you wonder if they've got a little bit of Brewer's magic, is it going to be one guy each game? Is there going to be a

Colton Wong game? Is there going to be an Adomis game? Routy kind of checked his box. And that's Brewer's baseball. It is. It's a difficult way to live, though, in the playoffs. Sure is. Two-one wins are not easy, man. That grinds on you.

I think the biggest thing, we joked about the puk guy. I said it the minute that Devin Williams punched a wall for whatever reason, and I cannot wait for the 30 for 30 on that one. What if I told you that just days before the playoff started that Devin Williams would punch a wall after celebrating a National League central title? What if I told you, we have the real story. Like there's a better story there. We're not going to I don't know what it's going to be, but it's going to be great. So everybody's like, oh, what are they going to do? I said move Hauser to that role. I know he gave up the pinch hit Homer to Jock, but I love it.

I love it. I love it. The two managers I love in the playoffs are Craig Counsel and Alex Cora, because they don't give a fuck about what conventional baseball is. They will do anything to win a game. Let's get outside of our little comfort zone. Let's move guys all around. I thought it was a great, great move, man.

Yeah, I was going to give you credit for that, Rosie, because I was on that same little YouTube session we did. I was wondering how they're going to replace Devin. And I thought that it would be, you know, Ashby or maybe a starter that goes back there. Maybe the game three starter if they need a lot of innings. They don't need a lot. They need two. And then you, you called in, I think we called you next.

And you were like, Howlitzer. And I was like, oh, I like that. Not your traditional like bullpen guy, but that sinker was nasty. Even the joc, because he just doesn't throw like, you know, it doesn't have like crazy wipeout. slider and crazy high fastball. But the jock home run was all credit to jock and no blame on Hauser. It was a nice pitch and a nice swing.

By the way, what do we think of him stopping midway between third and home? Like literally coming to full stop, like slamming on the brakes. Can't believe the car in front of me just went from 55 to zero. I've still got that in these legs. Just slam on them. No, everything would break. Yeah, I like that. Like the other thing, this was my only, like, because, you know, a lot of people listen to this stuff.

So I don't try to always be as ridiculous as possible. I try to find something that stands out. The one thing between these two teams that stood out to me was depth. And, you know, Jack Peterson, he's kind of the Braves' depth piece right now. They've got one extra outfielder you're going to like. He hits the pinch hit home run. In the ninth inning, they pinch hit Arcia, which, hey, he's got some playoff moments. his career hitting numbers are not there.

Where meanwhile, if you look at the guys on that Brewer's bench, Voguey came in, had the pinch walk. Luis Urius had a really nice year. He's on their bench right now. J.B.J. Pinch ran. Tyrone Taylor had a pinch hit and is a fun young ball player, where the Braves, in ninth inning, you got two on versus Hader. Like, you already did the hard part almost.

Now you're just looking for a bloop. They have to go to Orlando Arcea, who, that's just not, the stick you want up in that situation. And I know Bravesland wasn't happy about. When I say Bravesland, I also mean Ashland was not happy about that. Oh, my God. She hit the over on our curse just, I think, in the pinch hitting roll. Yes. But where would you have gone against the left-handed hater? I mean, that's the problem. They don't have a good answer, you know, I think. And they, you know, it's not a shot. fired at the Braves. It's just who they've got at this point. They traded for four new

outfielders and they've got them, but the rest of that bench just is, you would have like somebody else. I'm not saying they have it. I mean, I think the pinch hit was for Eddie Rosario, right? Right. Because of the lefty on lefty thing. I don't know, man. I've heard from guys for years that Eddie Rosario is one of the great bad ball hitters. And sometimes hater with the angle he comes at, it ends up being a bad ball. Yeah. You know, I don't know. Maybe you stick with him. He's already in the, you know, he's already got the lather

worked up in the game and all that. A lot of, a lot of big league hits out of Eddie Rosario. Uh-huh. Yep. So Lair and Jock had the best at bat, so trade pieces again. So Lair had a nice walk. He was spitting on a lot of pitches. and then he sent one deep to the track.

I don't know the, I didn't see the projected or how many ballparks it would have been out of, but it was, I thought, I mean, I thought from the camera angle might have been gone for a second and then got caught. Maybe that moves him on. Yeah. Who's starting today for the two? So, Freed versus Woodruff. And, you know, yesterday on baseball today, I was, I was just screaming out loud. I was like, why isn't Max Fried starting game one?

He's been the best starting pitcher in baseball since the beginning of August. and his last 11 starts. He hasn't lost, and his ERA is under 1-5. And then I watched Charlie Morton just mowing down guys left and right. And he obviously made the boo-boo in the seventh inning there. But he pitched great. I'm going to go out on a limit and I'm going to say Max Fried gets an extra base hit today. By the way.

Like that. Do you think they overextended them? I mean, Morton was pitching so well to take him out there. I think you'd be, I think you have to ride them. It just happens so quick with a hit-by pitch and then home run. run. I don't know if Braves country is yelling about that. What's that? Hit by pitch with two strikes. Yeah. And the pitch before, the pitch before was right there and Garcia kind of moved back. And then he came up and in again and Garcia just let it hit him. It's like, all right.

My, my goate idol, Pedro Martinez was talking about it after. And he said, you know, Morton's pitch count wasn't super high at that point. He did show a couple sequences that, I don't know. You know, I know sometimes we can be tough on the guy analyst in the studio, but he showed, I think, the batter before the hit by pitch, or there was a walk previous to that where Morton was just left four balls, like right outside, almost in the same spot. So I don't know if that's fatigue.

I don't know if that's losing the slot. I don't know if it's a combination of the two. So I don't know. That's basically coming from Pedro's goatee and not me that deserves. His takes deserve a little more respect. Well, speaking of Pedro, he had a lot of love. Any final words? And for words, did you have?

Nope, I spent it. Pedro had a lot of love for Tanner. Hop. Jake, can you tell us what happened in the Red Sox? Ray's game two. It was a wild one. Sure can. Jake.

On your mark? Get set. Burn. The Red Sox are off to see the wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Bazas. Shane, the kid takes the bump against the Condor. Chris Sale on the bump for the Red Sox. Hey, remember these two names, Bogots and Verdugo, Abiyai singles. They make it 2-0.

Top one. But Yondi Diaz, the Yandyman can. He gets one of his own, and then loop low goes high. Grand Salami. It's five, two, raised after one. Condor, Chris Sale is out after one inning pitch. Alex Cora, some balls there as the Red Sox would start hawking Lugies with Tanner as he comes in and he's mowing rays down left and right. Remember those names, I said. Bogarts and Verdugo, they both hit home runs. Kike, do you love me? He hits one of his own. We are tied up. Up at five, and then that ankle.

J.D. Martinez is back. The bad man hits a three-run homer to make it eight to five. The very next inning, G-man, he goes Apocaco. It's eight-six. This is looking like it's going to be a fun one until the Red Sox offense says it is not. Vasquez with the big two-out RBI single. Raphael Devers to center. Jim, I know you like that one.

It's 11, 6, make it 12, make it 14. The Boston Red Sox put up 14 runs on 20 hits in a playoff game against the Tampa Bay Rays. Hawk, Brazier, Robles, and Barnes. Fantastic job from the Red Sox bullpen. Meanwhile, Waka, Whistler, and McHugh, tough days from the raise pin 146 final socks tie it up

in the truck very well done a lot of action for a burn it's too much man those damn red socks dude the middle of that lineup when they are right is as fun as it gets in baseball I don't care who you are you're not getting through and it's amazing the difference between game one where they scored nothing

in game two when they score everything and guess it was back in the lineup. J.D. J.D. Yeah, it's true. Mike Zanino said it after the game. He's like, just his presence changes the entire way I have to navigate through a lineup. And Austin Hedges on our ALDS preview show said the same exact thing. Said the same thing about J.D. Martinez and what he means to a ball club. And when you hear that his injury, which is one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen,

with a guy running out to the field and he trips over second base would have landed him on the injured list had it been the regular season. So not only is he a presence in the lineup, he gets four hits, including the go-ahead Homer. That's sick. That's sick. That's enough to make you opt out of a contract, by the way. Yeah.

Like you said, I really want to ask Trev about this, but by the time he's back, so much more stuff has happened because Trev, I'm not. trying to knock him down plays managers and in the regular season maybe he's right but in the post season core going to hawk instead of saying like we'll let's like get more pitches out of sale he's chris sale we'll give him another inning even like batter by batter just no i was kind of shocked like usually you'd think it'd be batter by bad or just try to give us a little bit more nope tanner's in and then he absolutely changed that game i know the red sox put up 14 runs it doesn't happen if Tanner Hawk doesn't go five innings pitch, zero earned, and completely settle the raise and blank them.

Because once they got the bats going, then it was confidence driven the whole way. And Alex Redugo had quotes saying, Corr was walking up and down the dugout saying, a lot of game left, don't even worry about it. It's only a third inning. A lot of game left. Don't even worry about it. And they gave a lot of credit to Corp for doing that. He has managed three game fives or elimination games, in my opinion.

the way he's managed. He's managed three elimination games in the last five days. Sunday at Washington, Tuesday against you guys in the wild card. And yesterday, even though it was only game two of the series, he knew he could not go down O2 back to Fenway. And so he was like, screw it. Chris Sale, you're our guy. You've had whatever it is, six top five Tsayung finishes, but today you're not our guy. we got to go somewhere else. And I love it. I know this is hard for Yankee fans to hear it,

particularly because you guys always are throwing darts at your manager. But damn, that guy is a difference maker. He is a huge difference maker. We don't. Jake and I have gotten to a weird point where we have been saying all season, there's a whole video of me saying I'm jealous of the Red Sox. It still stands. I appreciate the way they go about baseball a lot.

obviously fuck the Red Sox and all that. I'm a Yankee fan. But like their middle of the order and the way Cora has them so giddy with confidence and cocky. And is, I'm jealous of it. I have been from, I think I first said this in May. A lot of Yankee fans hate when I say it. But it's true. Their personalities too, Jim.

I mean, you know, again, we're not bringing up the Yankees. But, you know, they live a PR life of not. showing their personalities and kind of being the Yankees in business like Kike, people were tagging me in his old engagement photo shoot the other day. Like, pump that into my veins. Devers is as fun as you'll see on a field. Verdugo, pretty good Chris Rose rotation episode as well in his catch and the way he plays and they're rocking the baby.

Yeah, man, it's when they have fun, they have fun. And to the Cora point, and you mentioned Craig Counsel too, there's too much in baseball in a regular season. And you do understand why, because it's six months, it's a grind. But there's so many managers that are more worried about the next day than today. And we see some of that even in the postseason. We're going to see that in upcoming series. And some of it will end up working out. We'll be talking about in the CS how, you know, somebody, either someone eight pitches.

You know, we could be talking about Pivotta's outing yesterday. We already did. Povetta threw 70-something pitches, and that saves Halk, and that saves the other parts of the Red Sox bullpen. There's a ripple effect in baseball. I get it. Chris Sale throwing 30 pitches, part of that ripple effect is, when he's ready to pitch next,

Cora's going to use him, whether that's starting, whether that's out of the bullpen. And there's not a lot of managers that almost have that power over the players. And maybe powers the wrong term, but even the confidence to do something like that, to A, be able to pull sale in that moment and to B, go back to him in, I don't know, he threw 30 pitches. If they need a couple outs against maybe a lefty and the next game, I wouldn't rule sail out. Like, that's how the Red Sox operate. That's how Cora went through all of 2018.

Let's get through it now. Let's get the win. We'll figure it out the next day. And I think a couple more managers could use that. If we're having a managerial fantasy draft right now, where does he go? Cora? Mm-hmm. Close to one.

I could see if we're going full fantasy football on this, you'd say like, you know, Francona, he's still got a lot of points that, like, guys just love him and stuff. Active, man, yeah. It's active. Then top top top three. Yeah. He might be a yes man. He might be a yes man for the analytics.

I don't know, but he doesn't present himself that way. Like, and I don't think the players, I think, I think the biggest thing is like, like, the players have to be like, no, Corp probably told those guys to fuck off and he's doing it his way, but it's actually their way. I think that's like a big aspect of being a manager right now. We're like with Boone and some other guys, maybe we're like, no, he's just doing what the analytics guys told him to do. And like, you know, even if it's the same thing, I think core is very good at presenting it,

like, fuck. that let's go. I've given you an off-season idea for this show for talking baseball. I do like that. You take, have a fantasy draft. And by the way, the first question Trev's going to ask is, well, is it based on looks?

No, he's got Capler hot. He won in there. Gabe Capler is a first rounder. Mike Mathini's off the board guy. Mathini. By the way, Like, have you ever shaken hands with Mike Mathini?

Have not. Have not yet. Okay. It's an experience. It's very much like when you shake hands with Adrian Peterson. That story's been told forever. Like the first time I met him when he came on Best Damn, he did. We were all like, this guy shakes.

I think he was, he was about to be drafted. Everybody's like, we hear that he shakes hands really hard. I was like, oh my God, get off of me. Please. Like, actually that bad? Like, he's squeezing. in your he's trying to like hurt you now but you know he was very kind and all that and you know smiley and gentlemanly with that and it was like the Vulcan death

sounds like my uncle dragon hmm really vulcan hey yeah my uncle dragon from Croatia strong hands uh Jake you mentioned Pavetta and how he got to eat innings in the law eat eat innings in the loss and that helped the red sucks out in game one rays aren't built for that and this game although it ended 14 to six it was a two run game going into the seventh i believe eight to six and then they put one across which makes it nine to six which means uh ray still were using you know arms that they use robertson chugua pitched in the ninth um i think they wanted walka to ride out the last innings and he couldn't. So credit,

that's a big thing there to get blown out by six runs, was it, eight runs in the end? You get blown out by eight runs. You would hope that you could save some of your bullpen, but the raise used one, two, three, four, five, six guys and a bunch of the guys that they use in their winning efforts as well. So I don't like their

I don't, yeah, because they need to keep their guys rested to go deep because they rely on so many arms. By the way, do we know if it's Patino in game three? It's got to be, right? Everything said Rasmussen. I don't know if it's Rasmussen kind of opening and followed or I don't know. It's the race.

So I would assume he's opening and then Patino for a full time through the order. For the balance. So we'll see. I was very surprising. Hey, in that manager draft, Kevin Cash would go decently high. I was surprised he didn't go higher. Wait, would you say, Jimmy? He's he's, he's boon, but the players just don't care.

Like that whole team is we buy into the analytics. Like, they don't need a buffer. They could be managerless. They buy into cash. They literally get hand. They get handed a game plan and they all know it. And they get prepped before the game. Like, we stick to our plans here in Tampa.

Like, they don't care. But I think Treve would be yelling at you a lot right now. know, and I think Kevin Cash embodies it with the high T style, and he empowers his guys, and he earns their respect to go out and do all of the Ray's funny business. I agree with that, but I'm saying if you took Core off the Red Sox, I don't think they have a winning season. I don't think they make the playoffs in the end. I don't think they stay focused when it's supposed to be a rebuild year.

If you take cash and go managerless for the raise, I think they still win 100 games. Wow. No, that's bold. That's mean. I don't know if I'm good. They're the most analytically driven team in sports. They need someone to drive that ship. And Kevin Cash is like the perfect guy for it.

I mean, the Ray's roster still talent-wise and everything else they're doing is on a different level. That being said, I was about to critique them. I was surprised they didn't go to Fairbanks or Kitchard or D-Rob. When the meat of their lineup was coming up again, I know McHugh's been. good for them, but he was on his second inning out there, and you're going through those dudes that, I think you got a, the momentum of the game had fully changed. It was five to do.

They knocked out sale. Then the score stayed that way, and the heart of their lineup was coming up again. I was surprised he didn't go to a Fairbanks or Kittridge or D-Rob. But, hey, maybe it wouldn't have mattered because the socks ended up putting up 14. except that McHugh has been so good for them this year. He had been so good. And I understand what he was trying to do, right?

He's trying to navigate through those middle innings so that you get to the back half of the game. And then they're stacked up, right? Because if not, then you're bringing in some guys probably in uncomfortable situations, even though I think we'd all agree that the raise have the most versatile pitching staff of anybody around, right? They probably don't get freaked out about any sort of situation or inning. I mean, he's been doing it all year. He just, he got hammered last night. It happens.

Yeah. Did you use my line in your burn jick? Did I miss it? I did not. I did not. Ooh, can you share? You could share a podcast. We're selling, we're selling Colin McBluitt shirts.

Oh, BBD didn't like that. I got a big grunt out of the home plate. Collins wife. Collins wife mentioned to Jimmy on Twitter that he thinks Jimmy has a micro penis. Well, the only reason she knows is because she's seen one to compare. Oh, me and him whole. I wasn't the anonymous. Very, very uncomfortable.

Very, very uncomfortable. Yeah. I might have to call my therapist after we're done, actually. BBD's here. Trev's still asleep. Both made the same joke, different people, Jay. Let's go to the next game. It was the last one of the day.

It was the most highly anticipated one. I thought we were done after micro penis, but I guess not. Oh, that's where it starts. And that's where it starts for me with dugout mugs. You guys know dugout mugs by this point. They've been part of Rose Rotation. They've been part of talking baseball. They've been a part of everything.

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Wow. Whoa. Why does... That's what they sent. Send a Jimmy Knobshot. Your Knob Shot just has the word Jimmy written on it. You just doodle in my name? I think it was a micro knob shot.

I think it was. And the, I don't know. I don't know. It was very weird that they sent this. There's a buzz in the Bronx. Ready for the final bar? Yeah, two best teams ever? Let's do it.

Jimmy, while that happens, if you want to give a Robo reset. Just preemptive. Jake? Yep. On your mark. Get set. Burn. The NL's best in the NL West, Walker Bueller, who never seems to have a day off in the postseason

as young Logan tries to cast his web across a... the Giants victory. Bottom one ring around the Posey. 3-0. Opposite field into the drink. Buster Posey. Let's go. San Francisco Giants are on the board to nothing. It would stay that way into the 7th. Man, Logan Webb and Walker Bueller were putting on a display until KB. Chris Bryant Epidomizes San Fran with Gabe Kapler. It is 3-0-0 Giants. Make it for. Brandon Crawford.

Oh my God. It's nostalgia city in the bay. They're up for nothing. By the way, Logan Webb, 7.2 shuddy. 10Ks. Gabe takes the ball out of his hand with 92 pitches to Rogers. gets them two pitches ground out to DeVal. Oh my God, gross out of the bullpen.

Giants shut out the mighty Dodgers. Bueller Gratterol, Vescia gets hit. Bickford. Giants take game one for nothing. Ooh, bit of a message sent in this one, boys. Did you hear Roberts quote about the hitting approach after the game? I don't think so. They said something like, we didn't change.

The guys didn't change their approach at all. They just used the same club all game long, the driver. Something like that. And a lot of Dodgers fans in replies were like, well, why didn't you pinch hit some guys that swing for contact or have different approaches? They didn't pinch hit anyone, I don't think. They did.

They pinch hit. Just for the pitcher. Lux, yeah. Pitch. Yeah, just for the pitcher. They were saying, you know, get some of the guys in there. But you should talk about Logan Webb first and foremost.

I mean, if we start anywhere here, he all the way back. I remember when we did a full episode, Jake, on like people that impressed in spring training that might have like changed their journey. They were like in a battle, like spring training battles or whatever. And I, I just remember noting that Logan Webb had like the best spring training of any pitcher. I think he had five games started in a zero five ERA, which just lights out. And the Giants didn't know what their plan was.

And then he had an absolutely amazing season. I think there's one bad like outing, a three ERA or something like that. And then in his first playoff start, the line matches like 7.2 or whatever it was, zero earned runs. There's only two other Giants pitchers to do it in their first playoff start. And it's Linsicum and Bumgarner, some stat like that. Just like an amazing playoff debut. Yeah, that's what it was. It was the seven and two-thirds, scoreless 10Ks, and this time he did it with zero walks. The thing that was most impressive is that this guy is a sinker slider guy, and he dominated it with his third best pitch.

Change up, he threw it 38 times. I think he got 13 or 14 swings and misses and just had, like, I know that Bellinger's had a terrible year. He was a little bit better over the last week, but he should have walked up there with a four iron because he would have had as much change. of making contact against him. He was just baffled. I thought that was fantastic for the Giants and their fans who probably watched Wednesday's wildcard game and went, oh, shit, okay. Yeah, it's great we get to play the Dodgers, but man, we got to play the Dodgers. And for them to blank them in game one and turn back the clock, I mean, like Crawford

hadn't hit a playoff homer in seven years, Ozzie hadn't hit one in nine. you know, like it's, I can only imagine what a ride this is for the Giants fans. There's, there's stuff that will never be able to be quantified fully. And Buster Posey hitting a 3-0 Walker Bueller pitch into the drink in the first inning after this whole miracle regular season and the Big Bad Wolf is still in your place, that means more than the two runs it put on the board. Logan Webb, incredible. He throws from that gross arm slot. I mean, I had one of those weird, like, man, I wish I could watch more West Coast baseball

because watching him for a night was awesome. And, like, if Logan Webb was on the Braves or Red Sox, Yankees, Phillies, I feel like I'd have seen more of them. And, hey, I guess he doesn't look like this every night. But he was awesome. and Jimmy tying it into the Dave Roberts quote, he threw so much off speed stuff. And the Dodgers, that's where it comes from.

They were just waiting for that fastball, and it never came. So many change-ups, so many sliders. And Rosie, I'll give you a little pat on the back. Actually, it's not you. Stephen Bralt, when you guys were breaking down the NL. I loved what he said about Chris Bryant. and this ties into not being able to watch guys day in, day out if they're not on your team. He said Chris Bryant with a runner on third and less than two outs is like the last guy he'd want to see at the plate.

And man, that means something. And when you tie that in with who this Giants team is, man, Tommy Lestella, batten leadoff. He has two hits in a walk. the Giants energy has now fully transferred to the postseason and as much as that Posey 3-0 Homer spoke I genuinely think Gabe going out there to booze initially taking out Logan Webb to go to Rogers who hey he's awesome

he's disgusting I told Jess I was like Jess I know you're not watching the game just watch how this guy throws and she laughed out loud and then she goes that's not how you do it. And I say, yeah, that's kind of the point. To go to him in that spot, that's impactful. Because, you know, if he gives up a bloop and a blast there, that changes the whole tone of this series. And what Deval does, oh my God, he just slings it. Man, like, I was getting, this whole year we've wondered what the Giants were, and then we're buying in, we're not buying in, here's the Dodgers.

almost like, was it the O2 Angels that had Krod? Was he a rookie that year? I got a little bit of that with Deval, man. Like, he feels special. I'm drinking the Kool-Aid. And the Dodgers, by the way, a little bit of a Yankees effect. The Dodgers haven't really hit this year. They have the names.

The hitting hasn't been what those names would tell you it is. Yeah. the Logan Webb or trivia question not even Logan Wedd all the San Francisco Giants pitchers so the Dodgers had 32 plate appearances also 32 at bats because they didn't have a single walk

how many of those 32 do you think went had three balls in them ever got to a three ball count I'm gonna say one three yes Jake three one one and Logan Webb had zero of them how crazy is that Yep. Just throwing Zokes and Dodgers attacking him.

He only threw five fastballs or forcing fastballs, but that's normal. Like that's what he throws. It's just sinker change up. I mean, his change up was his most used pitch in a landslide. So kind of like we got to rename the change up if that keeps happening. Mm-hmm. Because that's just like, I don't know. It's going to make today's game a ton of fun.

I can tell you that, man. With Gossman and Urias, it looks like Gossman got, you know, he had a few rocky outings right after they were making the all-star team in his hometown of Denver, seems to have gotten it straightened out. But in addition, I don't know if you listened to the entire Stephen Brault episode, Jake, but he said, I wouldn't be shocked if Julio Urius throws a complete game in game two. I was like, so wait a second, are you calling it? He goes, I'm not calling it, but he said, don't be surprised. So he kind of got out on the limb, then he went back in because it was too cold on the limb. But he believes in that much,

in that guy's ability that much. And who knows, he might. I'd have to throw a complete game in order to, because the Dodgers just aren't stringing together a ton of hits. They just, they aren't. And A.J. Pollock had an amazing year, right? Amazing year. Is he ever going to do anything in the playoffs? Ooh.

Ever? Ooh. I don't know. Rosie. Maybe. Well, I mean, you can't count on Bellinger right now. Do you think he dies his beard? Do you think he dies his beard?

Oh, God. After shaving his head? Pollock? Oh, Pollock. I thought you were talking about Belich. Okay. Oh. I don't know. I'm trying to figure it out. It looks to me like he's got some brown just for man in his beard.

Pollock, but I don't know. So I needed your help on that. Well, a lot of Dodgers fans were crying that Webb got like a ton of calls off the plate. Stop. But I'm trying to find it right now. And according to, like, baseball savant, he didn't. I mean, I don't know what the-

How would you know? He didn't even get, all right, whatever. I hate it when, when people complain strictly about the umpiring. Well, to me, I think they just didn't play Little League. Like the first thing. Know who, know who would have gotten a- You can't blame a whole game on the, um, strike zone at some point you've got to figure it out. No, who would have...

Max Muncie. Yeah, I was just about to say who would have gotten a three-ball count last night. Max Muncie. So underrated. So underrated. And he's out, man. Yep. It stinks.

It stinks that he and Belt are out. It really does. But I think this is going to be a great game. Have you guys even been to that park before? Have you gone to a game there? Jim, I think you have, right? No. Oh, in San Francisco?

Yeah, I have. I have. I've been there in San Francisco. Yeah. It's great. And in playoff times, it is so rowdy. It really is the biggest credit I can give to San Francisco fans is I felt like I was in New York, Boston, or Philly during those playoff games in 2010 and 12.

When I was doing the Fox broadcast and playoffs, our set was set up in left center field right next to the big glove and the Coke bottle. Holy smokes, did I get a contact high? It was unreal. I was like, holy shit, how am I going to go on air like this? The teleprompter was jumping around on me. It was fuzzy. Chris, if you put it to your lips, that's not a contact high.

That just means you got high. Did I lose you? Oh, no. Are you not talking anymore? Oh, no. We might have lost Rose. Oh, no. What happened?

I lost you. Weirdo. Jim, the one thing I want to say to you and we'll see. You might have to throw the big thing up. Put the thing up. We'll see if Rosie gets back. I can't hear more. It was kind of not a theme of the day yesterday,

but I felt it the most in this Dodgers Giants game. The defense, man, and I'm going to say the Y word, and people don't like it. You know, we watch 162 Yankees games, and, you know, we questioned some of their defense. It was all over the field in this game. Wilmer Flores playing first big. for Brandon Belt was making nice place.

Justin Turner, he made a throw to second on a, just like one of the weirder baseball swings you'll ever see. And then that double play up the middle that went viral, Lestella and Crawford, like, it was just, it was eye-opening from a Yankee fan perspective, and it was impressive where the rest of the league is at and probably where the yanks need to get. too. Defense matters. Defense matters so much.

How about Kiermire? Yeah. What a son of a bitch that guy is. That's my guy, man. That's my guy. He goes and gets it. It's all he knows. It's all he knows.

When's he a free agent? When the Rockies go get Keermeyer? His offense will get boosted by juiced balls and they need outfield defense. Done. Kevin Kiermire to the Rockies this offseason. I think we did this on the stream the other night. He has all of next year, so it's the year the race trade him.

And there's like a team option for the next year if they want it, but the raise, I don't think, pick up $13 million options. Yeah. I really do that. I have Rosie. Is he back? Ring around the rose. He just can't hear us?

It's the dream. He hates Wirecast. It's fantastic. We'll get off there one day. There are two games tonight. We mentioned them a little bit. Brewers are hosting the Braves. Woodrow Friede, Gossmann, Ureus.

Are you, if you could only watch one, which one would you watch? What time are they at? Time doesn't count. It's more of a baseball, a baseball study. Dodgers Giants. Okay. That probably makes sense, right?

sorry boys you're sorry my wireless earbud took a dump oh man I know and everybody in the chat is going to go boomer is it a 9 o'clock

start for the Dodgers Giants tonight it is yeah 9 of 7 life yeah yeah the first round's tough I get it I get it

no I think I was we were looking at the schedule I think there's a lot of nine o'clock's in the CS and stuff too. So I just got to, well, whatever, baby's coming soon anyway. I won't be, I won't be sleeping anyway. Yeah, sleeps over. Were you able to stay awake last night, Jake? Yeah, yeah. I was pretty much my body turned off during Ray's Boston.

Like, Jess threw me. Her parents are kind of in town. Their parents are in town. And we were supposed to be streaming, so I wasn't. able to go to dinner initially and then we didn't stream. So it was kind of open. And I pretty much gave the legates. Coach, I don't have any more bullets in me.

So I was, my eyes were open, but I was asleep during the Red Sox Tampa game. And then, hey, the detail we missed about Sanfran and the Dodgers, wasn't it like a two-hour, 40-minute game? That's, that helped big time. I fell asleep before first pitch. And then I watched it all this morning. You'll be good tonight. You're going to be really good tonight. You'll be up and awake for football early in the day.

Then we got some baseball. The DS schedule is crazy. We did 7 a.m. to 2 a.m. like six days in a row. Yeah, that's tough. Rose, the only playoff, the only playoff talk you missed while you were gone for a second there was what team is Kevin Kiermeyer on next year? Whichever one has the most mirrors in the clubhouse. Trevor Plouffe effect. I said the Rocky should pick him up.

They won't. Not next year, but. Oh, that'd be a good one. Cover a lot of ground out there. And, and his offense gets boosted a bit at home. That, like, that, he's going to be gassed by May chasing the balls down in the alleys out there. He's going to like, Jesus Christ, give me that freaking roof back. Kevin Kiermeier goes to, goes up to cash or whoever the defensive run prevention specialist is.

and every inning he says, what are you thinking about going five infielders this time? I love when you guys go five infielders. Go six. Yeah. And then the other side, when they play four outfielders, he's like, that's it.

Oh, he hates it. I'm out. Might as well sit down. I don't get the run. Right. I'm going to go on the other side of the fence. We're going to the freaking ray tank. Oh, that's going to be next.

They'll have four outfielders, and he'll actually go to the third base shortstop spot. because that's the most room. We got it now. They're going to do five outfielders, and there's going to be left field, right field, and then everyone's going to be in, and he just gets like warning track.

I like that. Outside. Okay. So he's kind of like the flash. He can only run on a warning track? Yeah. It'll just be posted up on the wall leaning there, and then he'll just run left to right down the track

and make just Rob home runs, and that'll be his defense. Isn't the bigger question whether or not they take the Ray's tank to Montreal with them? Or do they leave them behind after the 41 home games? What do they do about that? Can they get those things across the border? Bronxie the Turtle couldn't make it. I don't feel good about the Ray's making it.

Yeah. Well, but that was more of a, well, we don't want to give you any good mojo sort of thing. This is we're supposed to be like a partner. God, is that the most bizarre thing ever. I don't think they shouldn't be allowed to have the rays tank after they changed their name after the sun. You know, they're not the devil rays anymore. They're the rays.

Their logo is a sun, sunshine. So. Jimmy, that's pretty mean to the rays. They have feelings, too. They kill people, so I'm out. I don't like martyrs nor animals that kill humans. You were a big Steve Irwin guy. Oh, my God.

There's a video of Steve Irwin's kids on like Conan, and it just makes me cry my eyes out. I know. So sweet, living out their dad's dream. It takes me back to, he used to come on Best Damn all the time and just a lovely human being, like really, really sweet. He and his wife were wonderful. So they bring all these different animals on.

And Serena Williams was guest hosting one day. and they bring out a huge snake, an enormous snake. And I am terrified of snakes. I was like, I'm out. So I go to the back of the set near our little bar area. And Serena did not like snakes either. So she is cowering behind Chris Rose. She's like holding onto my shoulders.

I was like, this is one of the three greatest moments of my life. Thank you, Steve Irwin, for making this happen. She's like holding on me. She's like, secret you were like, I'd like to be hiding behind you. Can you protect me? I was like, when are we going to switch here? All right. We'll be back tomorrow to recap the two games that get played tonight.

Thank you, Rosie, for stepping up and joining us today. I appreciate it. Enjoy your Saturdays. Go watch some baseball. Take some naps if you have time. There we go. Remix. There we go.

Thanks, everybody. All right, boys, got to run. Thank you. Hey, Rosie. Sorry about the technical.