Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 41 | Cole Blanks the Yanks & Nats Sweep

Episode Date: October 16, 2019

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The Nationals are going to the World Series and Garrett Cole and the Astros blank the yanks in game three. Let's do it. What's going on, everybody? Welcome to talking baseball. My name is John Boy. I'm coming to you from New Jersey. I am wearing a hooded sweatshirt and I have my co-host and best friend on the other side of the computer. On the other microphone, his name's Jake.

and he is wearing no clothes above the waist. Jake, how are you doing? You're not sure about below the waste either. I'm not sure. I think I saw a blanket there, your polio blanket you carry with you. My Teddy Roosevelt blanket. Jim, I'm doing all right, man.

As listeners of the show know we are Yankee fans, and we've, God, I didn't set this joke up, but we've had our shirts take. off our back the past two days by Verlander and Cole. I'm doing all right, though. Happy for the Nats. They were clearly the better team. I think hindsight being 2020.

It was them or the Dodgers. Both those teams seem pretty superior to Atlanta and St. Louis in hindsight. And, yeah, I don't know. I think the only other thing I have to say is I do have a massive pimple. on my forehead that you noted. I attacked the hell out of it during the six and seventh innings of the Yankee game yesterday, half out of frustration, half out of that's something I enjoy. And if you are new to the show, the shirt off thing isn't a stick.

It's not the Brett Kreischer stand-up thing. This is how I normally live my life. Podcasts are well liked because it's people actually being themselves. So this is me today. I'm here, man. How are you doing? I'm still sick, still feel like shit, but whatever. Oh man, getting a phone call.

Is it Wednesday? Wednesday at 11. That's my weekly business call. Damn. Classic. Yeah. Still feeling pretty sick. I'm excited that the Yankees probably get a rain out tonight and I can like recover,

but I feel like I've spent three days just kind of like whenever I'm not working, just recovering. And it's a weird sick. It's like a nagging sick. It's like my body feels damp and cold. do you think there's even a 1% chance that due to like what this has become as a company and it all started as tying to the Yankees that part of your sickness is tied to two Yankees losses? No, because I started getting sick before that. Okay.

Remember I got sick. I think I got sick before that. Tied to an airport trip and lack of sleep because we're doing talking yanks every night and talking baseball every morning. Okay. I've got it at 1%. At 1%. Okay. That's fine.

I have to send a text now and say, hey, sorry. Hey, sorry. We're recording later than usual. Call you after for my weekly Wednesday business meet call. Fun times. Fun times. You know what's not fun, Jake? Advancing to the NLDS, NLCS,

because you score a ton of runs in the first inning. And then getting eliminated from the, NLCS because you allow a ton of runs in the first inning. Yeah. What a bunch of gibronies. That's Atlanta was probably dancing on graves a little bit. Because yeah, probably the second worst feeling to a 10 run first inning elimination game is a team going for a sweep and put up a seven burger in the first. There's some poetic like justice to it to where they're like, damn, this is how it feels.

Yeah. Oh. Oh. Not as fun when the rabbits got the gun. Oh my God. You ever seen a rabbit with a gun? No, man. I saw one. He freaked out.

Sad rabbit. I said, do it. You're just a rabbit. No one cares. Oh. Tough break for all our rabbit fans. Then my neighbor was like, I love this rabbit. It's my personal rabbit. I was like, what have you done to it to make it so suicidal? title. So it was a weird day in eighth grade. Do you want to go, are we not a chronopod anymore?

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On your mark Get set Burn Have you ever seen a Sevee with the butterfly dozee? Sevy with the butterfly dozee pitching is a habit. As Luis in the pinstripes try to defend home field against Cold World, Garrett in the Astros, top one, hang him and bang them. Play the music, Jose Altuve, solo shot for the little fella.

Sevi loads him up, but he gets out of it. It's one-oh after one. Top two retweet, hang them and bang them. Josh goes ridiculous with a solo shot of his own 2-0-0. Stroes. Yanks will get a lot of action on the bases, but like your drunk friend at the bar, they could not score off call. Seventh inning daggers has stroes scoring a wild pitch and a sackfly.

Baby Glaby smacks a solo shot, but the yanks were child's play on offense. Houston four, Yankees won. Astros take a 2-1 series league. It's a weird game. It's a good game for the Astros. There's the first game of the series they controlled start to finish. A lot of runners left on base for the Yankees. Whenever they got a runner on base, it seemed like there was two outs already.

It was maybe Cole's worst performance, which is seven innings, pitch, zero, and runs. Yeah. And that's how you sum up Garrett Cole this season. Yeah, Garrett Cole didn't have a stuff. Most amount of base runners he ever had five walks. Oh, damn. So the Yankees got to him? No, seven innings zero runs.

Yeah, you can end up walking all over yourself with some of the Cole stuff. Because, yeah, I got into the numbers. It was the second most amount of base runners. Garrett Cole had let on base in a game this season. Yet the Yankees go scoreless. There were five walks, which his season high was three. And I don't think it was too many controversial calls. I think there's a couple good at bats, and he was pitching around a couple guys, which you and I stumbled into is kind of a big topic in Yankee land is that Judge and Glaber.

There's three Yankees hitters right now that if you're an Astros fan, you have your stomach sink. It's LaMayhew, Judge, and Glaber. And they half did their thing yesterday, but a lot of other guys are in a bad spot right now. Yeah, the Yankees put, they were trying to spread out the lefties. so they had Gardner three-hole behind Judge and then Dedey six-hole behind Glaber and then the Astros were totally Cole was totally fine pitching around Glaber

to get the D-D-D-D-D. He did it twice just nibbled, stayed away and then with Judge Cole kind of did the same thing like Judge said I only got one pitch in the zone if you go look at my bats and I got anxious and I wanted a hit so I was chasing and I mean, it's on judge for chasing, but it's also kind of the lineup construction.

Also some good pitches from Cole too. Yeah, I'm not trying to downplay Cole at all. I'm trying to say from a Yankees fan perspective, the lineup construction. I didn't say it before the game. So it's Monday morning quarterbacking, but it was in the end, it allowed Cole to navigate the Yankees lineup much easier.

Yeah, and that's funny. I can't believe I didn't say this on talking Yanks, but if, I mean, outside of LaMayhew Judge, LaMayhew, Judge and Torres, the three guys I talked about that you'd be worried about if you're Houston, the Yankees only had one hit. It was Edwin's double. So outside of those three guys, there's only one hit. And there's a couple walks. Aaron Hicks actually had some good at bats. He had a nice walk, filed off some pitches.

But, yeah, I mean, Cole shoved. The Astros bullpen came in. Joe Smith, who tortured the Yankees the night before. Glaver gets him, which I think there is some importance to the Yankees getting on the scoreboard because they were at one point, I think 16-inning scoreless, something like that, 14. Harris and Ozuna looked good. And yeah, the other thing you and I stumbled into is, you know,

the Astros won this game. They played better and like the Yankees beat themselves. game two it felt like kind of an even game each team was looking for the the blow uh the Astros dominated this game hitting pitching fielding like any way you chop it up the Astros beat the Yankees yeah and then the Yankees beat themselves a little as well yeah it could have been I mean it could have been a lot worse Tyler Lyons was getting loose in the first inning for the Yankees Severino just straight up hung a breaking ball in the zone to Altuvei as the first pitch which Al-Tube always swings at the first pitch.

Three of the Astros' home runs have come. They have three home runs in this series. Well, they have four or five home runs in this series. Three of them in three games have come on first pitch, get me over off speed. So the Yankees should probably scrap that from the Arsenal. Ain't working. And the Astros are really good at laying off Severino's slider

if it was low and attacking if it was high. So good in the first inning, Brantley's at bat made me think maybe Seve's got to tell and they picked up on it. And then, I mean, I have the ability to like edit and do side by sides and overlays and all that shit. And I don't think there was anything there.

I think they were just very, very disciplined that if it was at the knees, take it. If it was high or swing. Yeah, it's funny. I think the devil's advocate came in me a lot. a little bit just because I don't know when when all the voices go one way usually the answer somewhere in the middle is not as far and everyone was like okay Houston Houston's got it still SEV's pitching his tip pitches and it was kind of like well they're also really good hitters

and SEVie doesn't look like he has his good stuff at all yeah but did that Brantley at bat was weird I mean the 3-2 slider Brantley didn't even think about moving his feet to protect like that was the one where I was like wait that was weird Yeah, I don't know. It was right at the knees. I think Michael Brantley's a really good hitter. A, he's a guy that can wait till the end of a pitch if he wants to. But B, I don't know.

I think they're almost like, okay, postseason, there's going to be more off speed. If a pitch starts at your knees, it's most likely going to finish below it. And I think a lot of them were right in that approach. Like you were saying, kind of the, they almost had the knuckleball approach. If it was low, let it go. If it's high, let it fly. Yeah. I'm not taking, when I say that maybe Sevi was tipping,

I'm not taking anything away from the Astros hitters. And I don't think he was in the end. But that one Brantley at bat with the three, two, I thought Sevy threw like a really nice slider that during the regular season and during average hitters, they protect or chase or at least check swing, you know, something. And he just was bad on the shoulder from the get-go. So that was where interesting, but I don't think it was anything.

like that. Yankees offense is the problem. And I mean, the Yankees offense faced the two best pitchers in the American League all season. And the Astros have the two best pitchers in the American League and the Yankees don't. So that's kind of where it adds up.

Yeah, this almost might sound like sour grapes, but this game could have been a lot uglier. And there's part of me that almost wishes it was because in Yankee land, a lot of the attention is on Severino in the bullpen. And it's like, you know, the lineups got diced up.

Yeah. And I think true Yankee fans and people are starting to notice that, but also it was Verlander and Cole. And that's your solace as Yankees fans. You know, you were so close to going up 2-0 in this series. Now you're down 1-2, but they got you with Cole and Verlander. And my going away line has been, you know, the Yankees, you have to get Grinky in the bullpen day if that ends up happening.

and then if you can't beat Cole and Verlander one out of four times, if you end up bringing this to seven or however this series plays out, then you don't deserve it. So that'll be interesting and good on Houston. I think we're going to see, and maybe I should be saving this, but I still think this is a seven gamer. I don't know who wins it. I think we're going to see every game is a storyline,

but I think the storylines are going to change so much. Who knows if Giancarlo Stanton comes, back? Is he going to get isiled and replaced with someone? Is it someone like Mike Talkman who got thrown out the other day? I think this series is going to have a lot of tossing and turning still. And I, I wouldn't be shocked if after game one, the pressure was on the Astros. After game three, the pressure is on the Yankees. I want to be shocked if after game five, the pressure is back on the Astros. But we'll, we'll see. Yeah, game three is a must win for the Yankees, or game four is a must win for the Yankees.

Yeah, the Yankees, if they lose a Grinky or a bullpen start, that's it for them. And that's why I was surprisingly upbeat after the loss, because that was kind of, as a Yankee fan, that was my honest solace. Like, yeah, they got us with Verlander and Cole. The game two loss ends up sucking. This loss, I don't know, 4 p.m., Garrett Cole, like, we kind of put together. an okay effort, but at the same time we didn't. It's almost like, wash the hands.

Let's get the bats hot versus Granky and a bullpen day. And hopefully you got to take down Colin Verlander at some point. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Or not. Or Houston wins it. Yeah.

Those are the options, I think. But it's a must win. We'll get to that later. Let's talk about the clincher. Game four. The only other thing that I think from a Houston, inside it kind of missed out on starting reddick was an interesting decision we didn't think they'd start reddick and he comes out his first that bat and hits a home run and that's almost not only is that a

boost home run wise but it's almost like a j hinge press the right button yeah he had a fucking hanging slider bomb so good for redick yeah all right let's bring you the burn of national NOLS. On your mark, get set. Burn, Jakey burn. Game four as the Nats and Patrick Mahomes, Corbyn, try to chief their way to a sweep versus Daniel Hudson River as the card season is looking like a floating dead body.

Rendon sack fly, Soto RBI double, Robles RBI single, Jan Gohm's 2 RBI single, Trey Turner to RBI single. This was all in the last. Foist inning. Hudson only records one out. Nats put up a seven burger in the first. Hey, Atlanta, how are you? Yottie's got fight solo shot. Edmund RBI, grounded, I do not care. Jose Martinez. One of the more fun at bats you'll watch when he's at the dish. Limbs everywhere. He's swinging the bat. Two RBI double cards scared him for a bit, but actually not all. Hogwarts shit as the Nats take out the brooms and sweep

the NLCS after a seven-four final. Cardinals wasted everyone's time. Ooh. I mean, come on. Nats are good. I'm not trying to take anything away from the Nats. Yeah. There's never a moment of fight in these games.

Yeah. They got, yeah, they got, like, embarrassed. Yeah. I think Cardinals fans would say that, too. Listen to how this game started. Yeah. Top of the first, Corbyn, strikeout, strikeout, strikeout.

Bottom of the first, single, double, sack, fly, double, intentional walk. Fielder's choice, single, single. And I mean, one of those singles is just a lazy pop-up that didn't get caught. They moved Jose Martinez. They started him, Jake. They moved him to the two-hole. and when we were saying like start him someone somewhere i don't know a comment section on youtube or in the live chat was like you start you start osia martinez you don't have a right

fielder and i was like how bad is he and then i was like oh okay yeah kind of got hung up in no man's land there and that cost them a lot of runs in a seven inning first they didn't score another run the rest of the game the nationals they were like we got seven we're fucking we're good we're celebrating And I heard they were going into the clubhouse taking shots in between every at bat after they got seven. Every at bat, the whole team. Yeah. The pitchers are like, it's on you. We're fucking hammered.

Yeah, that's a, that is, that is really tough, especially the Cardinals. They showed a little bit of fight. They got runners on base. They scored four runs. Hudson seven runs only four are earned. It's tough looking at the box score in hindsight because Wainwright, Helsley, Gallegos, Miller. they go shutout technically. Even though Wainwright did give up two of those hits at the end of Hudson's day.

But yeah, it's tough and especially, you know, obviously you couldn't live like this if you're the Cardinals. But when I saw Wainwright come out, just knowing he was available compared to Daniel Hudson, I was like, yo. Yeah. But I mean, you have to win another one after this one. Like you have to win four in a row. was so exactly i mean but that was i think that was just as much as a mind fuck just seeing the better pitcher the old reliable starter come in after daniel hudson didn't have it like that almost felt like a knife twist in and of itself um cardinals outclassed outmatched whatever you want to call

it um the the gnats have a little bit of magic and juju going um baby shark city howie kendrick wins the NLCS MVP. It's the talk of the office. And it's just like, I don't know. They got a little magic and they were the better team. Who do you think had the most at-bats without recording a hit in this series? This feels a little unfair because I have the box score in front of me, but is it Tommy Edmund? Yeah.

He went 0 for 14. Yeah. And again, I know you and I are losing Cardinals fans by the minute, but I don't know. When we had initially talked about this series, you know, you and I harped on Goldschmidt and Ozuna, and even Yadi, like those Ritees, I think, are the threats. And someone, a Cardinals fan DM me and was like, hey, man, you got to give Tommy Edmund some love. Like, he's had a really nice year. He switched.

This is kind of why. I don't want to be rude. I think Tommy Edmund's a good young player. but the playoffs are a different animal, and you've got to prove it. And, I mean, he got eight up this series. Veterans do better. And I think I'll take that. I think experience matters so much in the postseason.

And I think that's something that's kind of underrated about the nationals. The nationals are the oldest team in baseball, aside from Juan Soto. People don't know he's 20 years old. That's been getting missed out on these playoffs. but when you actually go through the roster and you look at like Scherzer, maybe Fernando Rodney's cooking the books a little bit, but like Adam Eton, Rendon, Howie Kendrick, Ryan Zimmerman, Kurt Suzuki, they've got some dudes that have been around for a while.

And I think that it does go overlooked a little bit because the regular season is kind of a young man's game, 162 games. It's a grind to bring that energy every day. In the NBA, the oldest team, are normally the best teams because it's experience and it's having been there. Baseball, it'll be interesting if that becomes part of the narrative because I'm kind of with you, man.

I mean, you, in the playoffs, you believe in the old dog over the young pup. I mean, nine out of ten times. How many players you think they have younger than 26? Younger than 26. So that got out bats in this series. Oh, okay. Soto and Robles, right? And then Trey Turner would be the coin flip.

I'm going to guess for this example, he's not. So I'll say two. Two, yeah. Look that shit. You guys think I'm fucking dumb. What age did I give you? 26. 26 and 108 days.

Okay, so yeah, it's not younger than 26. Rendon's 29. Everyone else is like 30. Yeah. That kind of makes me root for him. Oh, you're liking the old men. Yeah. If they were a bunch of 20-year-olds, I'd root for that too.

Just kind of fun to latch on to one or the other. Yeah, that is true. Yeah, and I'm trying to think pitching-wise, I'm going to click on Tanner Rainey because he's starting to earn some trust. He has another hitless inning. He's 26, but I mean, if you think it's too little... Whoa. The Cardinals.

How did Tanner? or rain he earned your trust. Pitching slop innings against the Cardinals and an elimination game when they were dead? His last couple appearances have been okay. And I mean, Jim, think about it this way too. I mean, A, you know, I think he had one bad appearance. Let's see. So verse the Dodgers, his first appearance, his first playoff game ever is against the Dodgers. He goes 0.1. He gives up one hit, a walk, two, and runs. Since then, he's been 1, 2, 3, 3, 3.2, winnings and he hasn't given up a hit or a walk. And two of those are against the Dodgers.

Two of those are against St. Louis where, hey, if you're going to point in St. Louis and say they weren't hitting it all, that's fine. But we know this as fans. When Scher, Strasbourg, Corbyn, whoever comes out of the game, as a St. Louis fan, you're going, thank fucking God. And they still didn't get him. So Tanner Rainey's earned a little bit of his keep. Okay.

I'd take it back a little bit. I mean, his second appearance versus Dodgers, it was all deep. hard contact. So I still didn't have it after that. But yeah, you're right. You're right. I mean, he's not coming in in close games, though. Down two, down four, down to ahead seven, ahead three in this elimination game.

So. Yeah. He's only got one hold technically, if you like to measure things that way. But basically what I was trying to say, I mean, you know, Scherzer, Strasberg, Annabal Sanchez, Corbyn. I mean, none of those guys are young pups either. I mean, and do little Hudson, like Tanner Rainey is the only almost semi outlier. So yeah, these are, do we have to do some old Nats thing? Like, what's, you're my history, guys.

Is there anything we could do with the nationals and history and the nation's capital or some shit like that? You can put them in funny outfits and wigs and give them dumb accents. Okay, I'll work on it. Do it. Seems daunting. Let's get historical. Breaking news. Madden is the Angels manager.

ALCS game four has been postponed. Hello operator. Interesting. So, all right, we'll do a... It's cool. We found that out before what we're about to do. Yeah, we were about to have like a conversation of if it gets postponed or if it doesn't. So now that we know, that's pretty cool.

Do we have any goodbyes to the Cardinals before we move on? Was it worth it? Oh, geez. Do you think that's a fair question? I like what you're saying. Because I get where it goes next. It's like, would you guys have rather lost in game five and come into next year? It'll be like, we were right at game five.

If we got into the NLCS, we could have taken them down instead. It's like, oh, we got our shit pushing. I'm cursing a lot today. Shirtless Jake curses. Yeah, man, I don't know. Like, yes, you obviously want to go to the NLCS. but it's uh that's about as bad as it gets yeah it's fair right it's kind of fair i mean what do uh you know where i'm sure we're going to do offseason deep dives further than you're even thinking

right now on on a lot of the teams out there but if you're the cardinals like what do you what's the game plan oh we'll save that for the off season maybe the off season we'll try to run through like a lot of teams and be like what yeah i was just thinking like shot out of can. And like, do you look at their starting pitching? Is it bullpen? Is it like an impact lefty bat? Like, is there anything that just jumps out to you that like the Cardinals need this? Well, pitching, but I don't say that with much authority. I'd have to actually look into it. Like who, like, Waino was good. Flaredes. Good. He's going to get a year older.

Yeah, Flaherty was a beast. Flaherty a year older, but that's a good thing for him. Yeah, it's a good thing. No, this was great season for Jack Flaherty. For me, it feels like a lefty impact bat. Like Matt Carpenter kind of fell off this year. If you could split up Goldschmidt and Ozuna, and I'm sure Tommy Edmund's going to develop a little bit. You like DeYoung.

Give me an impact lefty bat. But, yeah, Cardinals, just a horrible series. I mean, like, dude, like Michaelis had some good outings, but Hudson, Michaelis. Right. You need better. Coming into a playoff game, if you're the opposing team, you see Hudson. Maybe Hudson's young and can get better.

But you see Hudson and Michaelis, you're kind of like, yo, if we're right, we can tee off off these guys. Yeah. There's not a lot of fear factor. Okay. Yeah. I don't know. Like Harrison Bader's fast. Right.

Like he plays incredible defense. Can he learn how to hit a little more? Yeah. I mean, he'd have to really step up his hit. in game because he he uh played 128 games jake 400 ronksville new york had 400 played appearances with like no offense 680 opsps 314 on base percentage great defensively i mean they have some spots where it's like you can just go down your checklist of preparing for the game be like don't worry about that guy don't worry about that guy don't worry about that guy okay focus on

these four right So there you go. Goodbye, St. Louis. I hope you the best. I don't hate you. Boom. Let's take a quick break and then we'll talk about this new game four for the Yankees and the Astros. All right.

So we officially have a rainout, which there's good and bad for both teams that comes from this, I believe. I don't know who it helps out more. I know the Yankees side of things better than the Astros, so I'll start with my thoughts there. For the Yankees, this helps them. It gives them Tanaka in game four, which allows them to have Tanaka in game seven. That was not a possibility for them.

If the game was played tonight, they would have had to gone bullpen game today. Sevy game seven with Tanaka in game five. So that's a perk. The other perk is, use the bullpen a lot the Yankees do and they were going to have to use them three days in a row this gives them a separation here of a day of rest but they may have to have they're going to have four games in a row and that hurts the bullpen usage down the line with no no travel

day uh that's the Yankees side of things I I'm it it doesn't I think it's more good than bad but we'll see and yeah I want to I want to jump back to where you landed a little bit. If you don't know after the rain out, the plan would be if this goes seven, it would be four straight games on four straight days, right? Yeah. So it's, it will be two more in the Bronx, two more in Houston. If this series goes seven, you know, we'll, we'll see if the Yankees are Houston somehow turn it on. Yeah, it's, it's interesting because Jimmy, something that you and I know, the Yankees made a very conscientious effort to not use their bullpen during the season. No Yankees reliever has pitched

three straight days in a row this season. I believe they're the only team in baseball to do that. So that becomes kind of wild for the Yankees because if the Yankees push this series, not only would some of these guys probably have to pitch three days in a row, they probably have to pitch four, which becomes really interesting. You almost wonder if the Yankees win game four tomorrow and the Astros go bullpen day or something like that. You could see a world where both teams are kind of rooting for a blowout because I don't I don't think either of these teams want either of these teams, both teams are elite. Neither of them want to go down using, you know, the seventh guy in their bullpen or I don't

know, like an exhausted, whether it's Ozuna or Chapman, Harris or Britain. I think that's going to be an interesting storyline. Yeah, I don't know. I'll be interested. I feel like there's things we don't know right now that at the end of it, after the rainout, we're going to look back and be like, yo, that rain out was important because of this,

this and this. But right now I don't know what those are. Yeah, it'll be interesting. For the Astros, does you get Carlos Stanton get healthy? Yeah, it does help them out with that situation. For the Astros, I mean, it helps them as well because they'd rather throw Granky than their fourth starter

earlier. Yeah, and I brought this to Twitter because Grinky will now get the start. I think what's interesting there is the decision in Astros land and maybe it depends how Grinky does. You know, they would still have to do a bullpen day. And it's do you do that? or you can start Justin Verlander on short rest,

but it would be short rest at the stadium, and we just saw how that happened in Tampa. I think what Houston would do is you say, hey, we're going to throw Grinky in a bullpen day the first game, and then we plan on going back to Houston with a fully rested Verlander and Cole. That seems to make the most sense. But, yeah, I don't know. If you're a Yankee fan, you're sitting there,

you're you've you guys have heard me peacocking about Zach Grinky maybe he shuts me the fuck up finally but yeah if you're the Yankees you're licking your chops at Grinky Day and Bullpen Day yeah yeah we'll see uh it's gonna be i mean Tanaka versus the Astros he shut them down multiple times now he shut him down pretty bad last time to me I'm a little nervous at that you know do you believe in do what's going to happen and then like you said as the Yankee fan hopefully the offense can find themselves against cranky in the bullpen day and take that into verlander and cole not as easy as it sounds um i don't know i'm i'm excited for day of rest uh katy comes back tomorrow morning i have to make an

airport run at like five in the morning and now we don't have to record tonight and we're not going to have a talking baseball tomorrow morning first time since october third there won't be a talking baseball. You don't want to, you don't want me to, to record me just reading random baseball reference stats. I mean, that sounds, that's an episode. That's always good. Mark McElmore betted 282 in 1995.

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Today's Wednesday. We're taking Thursday off Friday morning. We'll be back on Friday morning to review the Yankees Astros game and preview the next game. Then there's going to be four in a row as the nationals just sit and wait. there was a lot going to the DMV part three i was uh i had a gummy when i was watching the nationals game jake sure when they won in their final speeches and i was having i was just getting a kick out of a lot of things yeah um you know tell them to you first tbs just with the worst sports coverage they can go shit in the hat and wear it like what do you're not gonna you're not gonna show me

the slow mo celebrations it's a staple. I think they might be the first program in, I don't know, some historical to not show the slow-mo celebrations of every player on the field. I can't think of a more iconic like, that's what you roll.

Roll the reactions. Go fuck yourself, TBS, buttheads. Martinez had like heart problems, you know, like surgery and a heart attack and stuff, and it was pretty sad. And at one point he goes, these guys,

points to all his players. These guys fixed my heart. I was just imagining the doctors watching at their house. Like, what the fuck? There was a 10-hour fucking situation. Like, we're doctors getting overlooked all the time. I don't normally let my fake Cali side out, but those doctors are saying, dude, you'd be hella dead if we didn't help you.

They did nothing. You'd be the most dead. I thought about tweeting it out, but, uh, I was like people get people people can't handle jokes so and then the other thing was and I don't think anyone caught on to it. Howie Kendrick gave like this whole speech about how we all got this envy. I tweeted this one out. We all get this MVP like this goes to all of us and I don't know who the reporter was and he just goes, nice. Nice.

I saw that too. That gave me a good laugh. I think it was Brian Anderson who by the way, he has one of the best Twitter handles. I believe his Twitter handle is at Brian Anderson PXP because he's play by play. Pretty good. Nice. Yeah, it cracked me up. This is all of ours.

The whole team deserves this. We're a team. We're a unit. Nice. The baby shark thing is actually kind of funnier. Because in your head, you almost think the whole Gerardo Parra National's baby shark. thing. You're like, oh, you know, that's, that's a young guy silly thing. No, that's like the ultimate of ultimate dad moves because he did it for his kid. And when you think about all the old

dadnats like, oh yeah, baby sharks going to kill it, man. You got to play that. Well, Juan Soto and the other young guys are like, dude, you guys are loser. Dude, I love, like they showed that video of the whole stadium doing Baby Shark. And so many people were like, this is cringe. this is stupid. I was like, this is hilarious. This is dad humor. You have to look at it as dad humor. All the dads that just know that dumb fucking song.

They're coming together. All the parents, I should say, not just dad's dads. Yes. They're coming together and just being like, okay, I understand how this song can drive someone crazy. Let's do it. It's like a dad outreach group. Yeah, Dave Martinez said that he's sent par up there because he knew stadium would go crazy with Baby Shark.

Dude, it's one of the most underrated weapon left in the playoffs is being able to turn the whole emotion in a stadium by a pinch it at bat. Result not mattering. That's unbelievable. Like I didn't really think of that. You know how they say like, you know, a big dunk in basketball can get the crowd back into it and then like jumping? Every team needs to find a walk-up song.

that transforms the stadium. Yeah. Who was it on the A's that had careless whisper? And they would all play fake saxophones and like... Oh, I forget. I'm Googling it real quick. It was Reddick. It was Josh Reddick.

There you go. Then he would play Careless Whisper and everyone would start doing it. You need something like that that gets like it just unites the stadium immediately. And by the way, if Reddick were to pinch it in any Houston game, you'd hear all the whos. I think we might have an eccentric. We might, I might do a deep dive thesis type thing on eccentric corner outfielders. Because being in Denver, I've been involved with the Rockies, popular Rockies podcast out here. And he's said a couple times that, like, Gerardo Parra not being on the team as that, like,

everyday 162 energy wearing the silly glasses, baby shark. like the Rockies missed that this year. His stats don't look like much. The analytics community doesn't look at Gerardo Par and see much right now. But he's a huge part of that team. Yeah, they say Cameron Mabin was like that before the Yankees. Like when he came to the clubhouse, he was just a glue guy. Yeah.

God. If I actually wrote stuff, I could write a killer corner outfielders article right now. The glue guys of corner outfielders? Maven, Parra, Redick. Who would the Cardinals be? Jose Martinez, I guess he went off. Gardner. Gardy.

I want to share that. We have a lot of people that don't follow the Yankees. Gardner, you wouldn't know you'd think he's a hard ass just by watching him on the field. He's the team prankster. And he, at one point, he, like, discontinued. I'm going to butcher this. He discontinued the beeper for someone's car. So, like, it wouldn't, like, lock and unlock when they went to their car.

It just didn't. That's a real prank. It just didn't work. And when that player took their keypad thing to the dealership, they opened it up and inside was a picture of Brett Gardner or something like that. That's like a deep prank. Yeah, that's like Ocean's 11 shit. Yeah.

All right. It's a good one. Nick Swisher back in the day, says Jared Gott. Yeah. That's a good one too. No, I think I could put together. If you're one of our listeners and you're in college and you get a class where it's like a writing class and it's right on any topic, do it on eccentric corner outfielders or some shit like that. I will help you with data and information.

Cole Calhoun? Cole World. All right. Thanks for listening, guys. We will be back Friday morning. Jake may or may not be wearing a shirt. I may or may not still feel sick, but we will be here. See you then.