Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 414 | Astros and Braves are Each One Win Away

Episode Date: October 21, 2021

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. The Braves and the Astros are both one win away from meeting each other in the World Series. Let's talk about it. Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Brought to you by drafting sportsbook. My name is Jimmy. I'm coming to you from New Jersey. Jake is in the Bronx.

Trevor in the middle of your screen coming up in California. And BBD. Behind the dish. In the corner. Producing. His butt away. We got elimination games coming up the rest of the way in these Cs. Every remaining game in the championship series,

there is a chance for celebration and sadness. Trev, how does that make you feel? You know, I tend to be happy during these times, this beautiful postseason that they've given us, 3-1 lead for the Braves over the Dodgers. Does that sound familiar? It does. It's familiar, but it's so different, Jake.

Don't get so upset just yet. Let me finish, man. I'm excited. Look, I like seeing people's backs against the wall. I don't think the Dodgers are dead just yet. Not just because of last year. We'll get into all that stuff. I definitely don't think the Red Sox are dead.

So yes, we have the elimination games. Jim, I'm not so sure people are getting eliminated. Jake, how are you doing, big boy? Company freaking man today. Look at you. That's all I know. It's all I know, Trev. I was the same way at Rex L.

Trev, John, BBD, everyone live in the chat. Yeah, I mean, I'm buckling up for the Trevor Plouffe World Series, Brave Stros. Interested to see what wrenches we get thrown. I mean, Dodgers Braves. Braves are peacock and big right now, and they should. And that series can still get flipped on its head with one game today. We'll be live streaming tonight with a friend.

Zach Short from the compound Tigers, middle infielder, He is going to be in the gauntlet First time meeting me and John And he's going to be in that middle chair, Trev. You know how that feels When you just got too much leg And you're surrounded by hobbits So that's going to be fun

But yeah, it was a big night for baseball I mean Neither of these games ended up being Too juicy By the end of it And I think there was a stat that came out About the Red Sox Astros was that it was the first CS series that had three straight games decided by seven plus runs.

So that's not as fun. The Astros Red Sox series? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I know Astros fans, Red Sox fans are going to get upset about this. But that series blows if you're not an Astros or a Red Sox fan. I guess as a third party, it's been. You missed the good game. Yeah.

I mean, that was, you know. The box scores deceive him. Two to two in the eighth. That's where, I mean, things get a little deceptive. I did miss that game. I wanted to watch it. That was the money game of this series. But we'll see if we get some.

I mean, they're going back to Houston. We'll talk all about it. Yeah, I mean, the other side, you got two walk-offs and a three-run home on the eight to tie it. So. In comparison, absolutely. Yeah. James, how are you doing? Good.

Working from home today until six, then heading to the office. So I got like a desk arriving. I think I got a couch rising arriving my one year old nephews here. I just had some cereal with him. That was fun. Edited two breakdown videos. Got to lay the voice over him. So, you know, work from home day.

Getting in AC fights with my father-in-law. So just battles, just up and down, up and down. Who's going up? Who's going down? Yeah. I grew up in a house at 68 degrees. I can't really sleep. if it's hotter than that.

They keep their house at like 73. It's hot. When you have kids, man, you got to turn it up. You're going to be miserable. I'm sorry. I don't mean to keep freaking you out about sleep and all this stuff. Dude, Scandinavian kids sleep outside. That's true.

Perfect. They bundle them up because you get a good night's sleep when you're colder. I totally agree. Look, I'm a 69 guy. I grew up 68. So just needed the AC on at least. Yeah, my house now is 71, if I'm lucky, but mostly 72. I think my mom took the Scandinavian approach of trying to make the inside of our house feel the most like the outside, whether hot or cold.

And that's how I became so tough. Is that fact? Which part? Tough? Not tough. Your mom, I think. Okay. It is a fact. Okay. Easy with that with all your 69 talk.

Should we talk some baseball? I'm interested in it. I think you have to burn. We can't be shining lights in your face right now unless BPD wants to. So that, you know, kills a little bit of. of the pizzazz, but I'm sure you like it because you're not blind. Shine a light in your own face. Hold the light two inches away from your eyeballs.

I want BBD to be lit. I think that would help me. Can you just hold the alarm light? Treb's going to get lit. BPD's going to light up. And before we get into Zip-B-D-D-s, especially we're Kronpods. We're going to do the ALCS. Houston Sox game.

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Wait, Jim's got a story. Treve, not interested. Yeah, Trev, I have a better story. It's about you. On the opening of our, you know, on the John Boy and Jake TV YouTube channel, we play Geogessor, Sporkel. And Trev sat in on a session of us doing American Geography quiz. And Doug Out Mugs was the opening sponsor. And we opened up the video.

And I was showing everyone how sturdy they were. were and uh, Trev goes and you can hit Jake with him and flung it at Jake and he didn't know there was beer in it. So the opening of the video is just Trevor throwing beer on Jake. And then Jake had to sit there with beer all over him to do the whole video. It's the best opening. I mean, so that you want to have a good time watching people have fun with dugout mugs. Go watch the opening of the video that came out today on John Boy and Jake TV. It's so funny. I apologize for that. That was very, I was inadvertent. Okay. It felt genuine at the time.

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pack a couple south paws on the bump but that's where their similarities stop He's wary. The Condor, Chris Sale, trying to turn the Sox ship starboard versus Mathik King Framber Valdez, as he would try to throw his sinker to take down the Red Sox vessel. In the second, Michael Yordaun Alvarez proves he might be the goat. It's one nothing after he homers off left center off a sail. Ooh, that dress, it would stay that way for a while,

a little bit of pitching in this series. Framber shoving, sail shoving, until the sixth inning. And Mama, there goes that man again. Yordaun. He has three hits off Chris Sale. Not many lefties have ever said that. It is three nothing, Houston. Make it four.

You lay you lie. Oh, no. Watch my single go. Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Frankie Valley, four. Siri, two more runs, please. Six nothing, seven nothing.

Devers hits one to make it seven one. That's not the story, boys. Framber alert, Framber Valdez, eight innings pitch, one Ernie, 93 pitches. What an outing by him. Sale gave his best for a little bit, and then he gets tapped out. Houston, win. Game 5, 3 to 2 final.

They got one more to win and two more to go in H-town, Funky Town, Clutch City, Per City, Houston. Great job, Jake. Good job, Jake. Great job, Jake. He's the best. We like them a lot. He's Jake. Boops.

Well, well, well, well. Okay. Okay. Nine to one? Houston Astros beating the Red Sox. Not a lot of people saw that come in yesterday. Besides me. Except, I was going to say, James, except our man James O'Brien.

Who said Framber would go eight innings pitched? Did you say one hit, but he did have one hit going into the eighth inning. So it was close. You were spot on, my man. And I don't think it's a prediction. I think I manifested. that. Yeah. Yes, because I don't think you phrased it as a prediction necessarily, but you did throw that out there into the universe. Or is this a metaverse that we're all living in already?

I said that the Brazier goes six shuddy if you know a started. And I didn't even get the chance to have that one come true. Probably would have. But, you know, aiding switch. He, dude, he didn't change that much. I was looking at like the pitch mix, the repertoire. You know, two seamer curveball. He went much more two seamer heavy this game. It was a 40-20 split in game one when he didn't do great. And this was a 60. This was a, oh, it was a six.

No, it's the same thing. He didn't, he didn't change. 75% sinkers, the last thing I checked. He, uh, A Rod. Trev's guy Rod was getting himself in some trouble because, uh, John's guy Rod too now was saying, he's like, you know, there's still a place in baseball for pitchers that put the ball on the ground with weak contact. And every analytics person was like, that is very much the goal of analytics these days.

So he was getting shoot up for that a little bit. There is a really good, I want to say it was our guy pitch ninja. It was a perfect reputation. It was one of those ones where he has the laser trail on it, the little fox tail laser. Okay, I just found it. I'll retweet it right now. Love Rob. Send it to BBD.

He'll put it on the screen. He left the room. He abandoned ship. But it's a perfect image of what Framber does. He throws that sinker, 95 miles per hour, and it just dives off and falls to the left. And then he throws his curveball. I mean, it's perfect X-access pitching. Retweeted.

Take that, Rob. And man, you've got to make up your decision, and it's just really tough to barrel up that also led to quick innings, which allowed him to go into the eighth inning, which, yeah, I mean, when we're looking back at this postseason, now we're going to be saying, like, right now it's Framber and Webb with kind of the starts of the postseason. And I think talking baseball retweeted, but I think this was the first playoff game that both starters went five innings or something. So we are in a h-town, Funky town time period for baseball. But, I mean, just huge by Framber. And, hey, we get Cora gets under the spotlight again for pushing the condor a little far.

Yeah. I mean, that's something I was. I'm so sick of this, stop. Go on. They're just decisions. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. We praise people too much when the decision works. and we yell at them and drag them too much when the decision doesn't work.

Yeah, but I mean, I think, like, I was talking about it. Like, if Chris Sale gave him three solid innings and then they had a backup plan, they would have done that. He hasn't really given them any. So I was shocked to see him send him back out for the six when you get five really good innings at a sale. And then, like, you know, like we referred to it as sneaking innings with sale. Like, if he went three, the no talking head or us would have been like,

man, bad start by sale. He only went three innings because the expectations are way down. So the fact that they got five solid out of him and then you have the bullpen in a close game, I was surprised. Obviously, it may have worked. It may not. It's not, but I was surprised that it felt like you get five strong games at sale. Like, you go like this and you go absolutely fantastic job, Chris, let's build on that next start and we're going to have the bullpen take it over. Well, he didn't do that bad. And it was a walk and error that heard him, but still, I was surprised they even, like, went to a six. I didn't think it was like in any plan.

And if we get five, great, ended there. I had been, I was under the impression that he was going like 50 pitches, like 45 to 50 pitches, that obviously wasn't the case. But, you know, it's like, okay, you said, we'll be happy if he gets three innings or four innings. So we could have said the same thing if you went out there in the fifth inning and got taken out. Like, why did they put him in the fifth?

Well, then he went out in the fifth and got through it. So it's just like, I don't know. I think, I think Cora was looking at him and saying he looks good. This is Chris Sale. Like, I know that he hasn't been great in the postseason, but like he was pretty good at the end of the season. And this guy's got a track record. Like, this guy is a freaking stud. Yeah, it's just third time versus it was the heart of the order.

It was Altuvei was Brantley, it was Bregman. It was Yerdon. So that's where I was. Yordon was two for two against him. I mean, you know, I'm wrong, man. I mean, if you told me give me one lefty on the Red Sox to try to get out Yordon Alvarez, I'm going to say Chris Sale, it just does get tricky. I mean, his last two outings, 61 pitches and 30 pitches. So, I mean, you know, he finishes this one at 87. And he found it.

And that's where Jimmy said kind of the House money speech. Like, you were, you were hoping for a good three from sale. And then Cora, you know, he did his Cora thing for two innings probably, right? Like, he empowered his guy. He saw that Sale kind of found it again. I think he clocked his fastest pitch this year, 98, 98 and a half. So it's like, okay, you know, and that's kind of the good cora, right? Like, hey, sales clicking. Screw the plan. Like, let's go. And you love that, especially as a player or a fan. It just is funny. Like, and I don't, you know, I know we over, over-examine managers, high or low-end. But there was articles today. I forget, it was Buster or Rosenthal where it's like,

man, this is, this is the, Cora's postseason allure is, like, rubbing off, which, again, I know that's ridiculous, but Cora had pitched like a postseason perfect game, like up until this point pretty much. Did Cora pitch that? I'm just, I don't think he was ever on the mound.

That's what I'm saying. He never threw the, guys got to get it done. He never threw the pill, but he picked the guys that were going out there. So when it was, and Avaldi in the 18 World Series and he gave them the six innings or whatever it was. When it was Sale and Kimbrel coming out of the pen in moments,

full pension Piv, you know. He hasn't been pitching. He's been pressing the buttons. And the buttons, you know, they were going to stop at a certain point. But he had been, he had a crazy track record up into this point. And now, and a lot of it's due to the Houston bats as well that have woken up. And Brazier. Brazier came in and he was just as bad.

honestly if you watch like the the sail versus yordaun stuff like it's just 100% you tip your cat to yordaunt yeah like he's hitting that fastball and he jumped him early so maybe that's on sale he's got to maybe switch it up i think he could have thrown him a lot of those sliders that start behind him get ahead that way then maybe go to the heater up late but he was trying to go heater away and i think it's cutting across the plate that's not coming like a normal fastball straight over the plate it's like zooming across the front of the plate, but you're done, man. Not only can this guy hit absolute freaking moon balloons. What are we call him now?

Moonblast. Moonblast. I think moon balloons too, but mostly moon blast. I like moon balloons better than Moonblast, but since we're a crypto company, the guy can hit Moon Blast, but he can also just pepper the other way lefty, lefty. This guy is just, he's a real deal hitter. So, yes, he was two for two against him. Should he have faced him again to go three for three?

I don't probably not, maybe not. But dude, like, you said, Jake, like that's, I kind of like before the game, I'd take that match up. Maybe if you saw the first two of bats, you call them aside, say try something different. But I don't know, man. I think too much gets made of the decisions because we all know it's like they look great when they work

and they look horrible when they don't. I don't know. Yeah, there's, I just missed the screenshot. But yeah, I think there's four players. I forget if it's ever or if it was postseason or what it was. But it was, there's been four lefties ever to get three hits off Chris Sale. Wow. It was Yorden Alvarez, big poppy, in a game, excuse me, not ever.

Okay. Yorne Alvarez, big poppy, Hosmer. and then I think it was Aoki, Aoka, what's it, the old slapper outfielder, yeah, so, no, I mean, what happened was rare, but it also, getting away from managers and getting away from that stuff,

Jordan Alvarez is special, special. He's got a 948 career OPS in 233 games. He's 24. I mean, we get caught up. in Correa, Altuve, Bregman, because we know those guys we've seen him. Yordaun's the scariest hitter on that team? He's, I mean, there's a lot.

They're all scary, but yes, he's, we've been talking about Yordaun for a long time. I mean, he's, yeah, he's special. To do that against Chris Lut. He said, there's four freaking lefties that've got three hits off him in a game. That's crazy. You think Yurdan can hold Altuvei up on one shoulder?

Easily. Just on this shoulder. Not like around, like, like, like, not like on one shoulder Like a prince of thieves Maybe yeah maybe That'd be badass They should take a picture like that

Who taught his swing That's what I want to know man Like how did some guys just get such a good Fucking swing I don't know You said Right don't you think that sometimes You said almost the opposite to me

When you first saw my swing Yeah Yeah I don't get it man I'm trying to teach these look You know the answer of where's he from? He's a Cuba man

My guys That's what they do in Cuba Grew up hitting bottle caps Bad coffee Don't like Cuban coffee Love the ballplayers Okay All right

My take on Cuba And their politics Oh boy I can't get into politics anymore People are not happy when I say I don't like China All right so what else do you got on this series At all going forward

I think the Red Sox are still in a decent position They got the travel day today They got Nate Iovaldi on the mound tomorrow Houston's a damn tough place to play There's no doubt about it But you get Nate going out there twirling a gym Which I mean look He got

They touched him last time he was out But Like I'd bet on Nate You know Then you got game seven And then it's all fucking hell breaking loose So there's still very much in it You have to love where you're out

If the Ashos fans Especially after the first three games we were just saying they're done. They're dead. They answered back in game four in the eighth inning. Framberg does this thing in game five. So you're stoked if you're a Nationalist fan. I think as a Boston fan, though, you're your backs against the wall,

but you have a good plan going forward. I think that you can feel pretty confident going forward that you are going to be in a position to at least have a chance to win this series. I like that. I think it's up for grabs. I mean, I wouldn't be shocked if this goes seven. I don't know like the pitching paths anymore. I mean, it's Garcia for the Astros.

Like they need him or is he out because you got hurt? I don't think they know yet. I haven't seen it listed. And would it be Odo? It could be Odo. It could just be. They could do a bullpen game now. FanGrafts does some assumptions.

But right now they have Garcia. So we'll find out. But yeah, off day. And then, yeah, two games in Houston decide your season. Again, I think it becomes the lame cop-out line. But, like, Houston and those guys who have done it so many times with two games to win one, they've got to be the heavy favorites. But, yeah, like you're saying, I mean, it basically, for me,

it comes down to what Nativaldi are we getting tomorrow? Are we going to see any of the show? Scherzer Ureus effect of kind of getting pitched on their bullpen day and not having the same juice. Or is he going to be Nate Doggivaldi? Because like we've been talking about with starting pitching, he's one of the few guys left in the playoffs that can give you almost six shutpiece. So I'm interested to see if you're Houston, you're feeling good. I think they were saying like in the locker room, they kept saying like, let's get one in Boston. And they ended up getting too. So those guys are those guys are peacocking. They love to peacock and they feel good doing it.

I like this note we have from Eric who put together statute that there was only three fly balls all game for the Astros. Astros outfielders just incredibly boring. It's a good way to win at Fenway, huh? I mean, if there's a stadium, you want to keep like ball on the ground the most. Probably the stadium with one of the highest park factors. And Framber delivers the longest outing of the postseason, which is great because one of my favorite pitchers in the postseason. So happy for him. You guys care about the light stuff at all? You just want to skip it. I feel like if we don't mention it at all, it feels like we intentionally didn't talk about it, which wasn't the case. I just don't think any of us are interested in it. Yeah, I don't know. I'm not really interested in it. I figured. Until something,

until we see some other stuff. hear some other stuff or whatever like that. Jake? I don't care. Can I ask you guys a question? Always. The gun's juiced, right? Like in the postseason?

Framber was hit 95-97 yesterday. He doesn't throw that, does he? Like baseball savant has him at 92 for both his sinker and his fastball, his four-seamer. I don't know. He was touching 95 all game. I don't know.

They were treating it. I'd have to ask Houston fans. They were treating his 95, like Frambers got that in the tank. I don't think Frambi's a 9-7 guy. But yeah. Let me go. I'll look like the game by game, average pitch velocity on his sinker and just see if he's ever sat that high.

So what was he? The highest he sat all season was 94 on September 20th. But that's like a pretty big outlier. Yeah, he was, I mean, his average is 92 and a half. I saw a bunch of 95s yesterday. I think we saw 97, didn't we from Framber? Maybe that's just, maybe that's when he just wanted to get it going. Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know about all that stuff. But yeah, the light, the light, the outfield, like, dude, the reason why the Astro's banging story was easy was because two players were on record before. I made my video. We talked about it at all. I'm getting a lot of people like, you did a lot of work on the Astros when I didn't. The athletic did.

So I'm just going to say my piece because he stopped tweeting at me. I didn't spend hours going over footage on the banging stuff. Let's briefly talk about it. Because I honestly, I saw the light. What's being said about it?

There's like a bar behind there in the garage door. Yeah. Yeah, like you can kind of like peep through the stadium and see in from a bar. And I think there was a news crew doing an interview, and they had like a news crew light on. So it's a topic that's hot in the streets. People are so scared of all this now. It's good, though. You see something say something.

That's what they say at the airport. Neighborhood watch, Trevor Plouffe. I am. You watch a lot of shit. Remember that video where the bowling guy goes, Who do you think you are? I never heard of that. He was the best.

That's right, I did it. Let's go to game two. The National League. Ooh, the Bundes League. Before we do that, can we talk about Charity Buzz real quick? Yeah, I love them. They keep tweeting at me. Because they know that you're a fan.

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Yeah. And if you don't, try to remember to do it next time. Let's burn the second game of the day. Dodgers. Dodgers bound to tie up the series. Jake's Dodgers. He loves the Dodgers. He's rooting for the Dodgers.

He hates the Braves with all his hard. Trevor hates the Dodgers so much. BBD hates both teams, wishes that. He's rooting for natural disaster. All right, let's burn the game now that we have a release. out of the way. Letting the people know where we stand. Important game four as the Braves try to take a commanding 3-1 lead with Jesse Chavez

Ravine getting the open as Lasker was a Yanoa go for this one. Meanwhile, postseason hero Julio Jones Urias would try to catch a big win for the Dodgers in the second. Cat Scratch Viva. Eddie. Eddie Rosario with a homer. He can't stop, man. Adam Duvall.

Oh, belly to belly. He goes Big Fly. It's 2-0. How's your trade deadline? Freddie Freeman. Love that money. Pay him, Atlanta. It's 3-0.

Another Pearl from Jock. 4. Duvall. 5. Nothing. Braves. A.J. Pollock breaks open. the scoring in Trevor's forearm. It's five to two, but it would stay that way into the ninth, and the Braves get a little insurance. Freddie Freeman again, how about that double

down the line? And Eddie Rosario, two ding-dong day for him, unreal, and the Braves, they pitch enough to get it done. Chavez to smiley with 3.1. Chris Martin, Jim's on a huge cold play kick. AJ Minter for two. Matzick every game this series. Will Smith. The Braves go up three to one with a nine

two victory. Be your best that you don't succeed. I'm on a big Chris Martin interview kick. I haven't been listening to a lot of cold play. I've just been watching a lot of the lead singer of cold play interviews. He's very endearing human being, and I enjoy hearing him talk.

I just found out. I didn't listen to a single interview of him, his three days ago. Last two days, nonstop Chris Martin interviews. Wow. Have you learned anything? That I want to be like him. He's very sweet and endearing. Now it makes me like his music more.

I have a few good songs from Coldplay that I like. One's called Magic. Nice song. Nice soothing. song if you want to listen to something just to chill out. And then he's in this other, I don't know what you would call it, a rock medley. Several artists joined together and they cover a foo fighter song. It was for charity.

You love charity. Times like these. Yeah. And Chris Martin was at the end of that, he also sings. It's like, Dua Leap is in it. You know we love Dua on the pod. A lot of people. But yeah, okay, Chris Martin, that's interesting, Jen.

You're interesting cats. And, you know, we're giving out Nostradamus points today. I had this score of this game, 9-2, just the wrong teams, which is unfortunate. That is. You saw all the correct numbers. I saw everything except just the right team. Man, the MF and Braves, dude. Make that a shirt.

Nostradamus, I was exactly wrong here. The Braves almost heard what I said and said. we'll put we'll put that to the test jimmy i said that the braves bullpen and treb was kind of thinking along with me which moyland didn't like it was like i mean eventually the dodgers got to get these guys you're throwing martin minter matson smith every game i was like i don't know like you can just continue to do that and not only did the braves like continue to do that it was their plan they said oh you think we're using our bullpen too much we're going to fucking bullpen game this and Martin, Minter, Masick, MattSec, and Smith combine for, what,

4.2 of two hit ball with zero earned runs. Throw them more. You get an off day after today. If you don't win today, like what are they doing today? You know, and slop. You know, it's done. No. It was out.

That was the big news before this guy. Oh, yeah. It's Max Fried, baby. Oh, Max Fried is ready for today? And then Morton, Morton game seven. Well, they got to game six and seven. Yeah, Morton. Oh, ion.

Yeah, this was a scheduled bullpen day for them, but you know what's supposed to be a bolt guy. He got scratched. My guy, Jesse Chavez, comes in there, starts it. And yeah, you're right, James. They just did it. Just did it. And, you know, some of it's to do with the Dodgers' bats

are just, they're cold. But you have to give props to the bullpen for doing it. And I talked about this today on baseball today. coming into the playoffs if you ask any Braves fan what their biggest concern was it was their bullpen yeah and they've really done it

they've really done it on all sides of the ball like they've hit um they've played D they've their starting has been good their bullpen's been good I mean that's how you that's how you get a 3-1 lead in the NLCS right there do we have like accumulated um

Braves numbers with runners in scoring position for the series, I get, I can go game by game, but it feels like they've done well. They've done well. They've been hitting. Man, there is, we get a lot of stats in baseball. It's a beautiful thing and sometimes it can lead to analysis, paralysis. Here's one I heard on the broadcast the other day that feels a lot more impactful now. Since Ronald Acuna Jr. went out, the Braves were the highest scoring team in the National League.

and they are kind of showing that in front of us. And when you start talking about playoff formulas, hey, they are using their high-end relievers every day and they are doing the job. That crew, man, deserves more and more love. Mentor, Chavez, Martin, hell, Luke Jackson deserves some love. Will Smith.

Matzik has pitched in every Braves postseason game. If there has been a... A postseason game. Tyler Matzik has pitched in it. That's nuts, man. It is fucking nuts, man. I need your bad brain right now. Every day Eddie, Eddie Guadardo, pitched every day.

Give me a nickname for Tyler Matzik right now. That coincides with him pitching every day. Money Masson. Matzick, big dick. Yes. Big Dick Matzik. Yes. That's what I was like.

I mean, dude, he has hit the point. You know, there's specific points in athletes' career. I often talk about backup catchers having a big hit. hit and that's their managerial hit. Like your name gets in the ether more, so that's how you get a managerial job. Matzik has now hit the point where he should open a restaurant bar in Atlanta. Like he's earned it. Like people have to go.

Maybe a bank, money, money, Matzik. Well, people in the chat are saying they already have a nickname for him. It's called Tyler Nutsack. Boring. The Braves are nuts. I like nuts. I like nuts. I like nuts too.

We all agree. Like cashes. The Braves are 10 for 25. 10 for 25 with runners and scoring position. That's good. 400. That's a good. 400.

I know, Treb, like you say what works in the postseason and I say good pitching and timely hitting. And then you say, what the hell is timely hitting? That's not a real thing. But being coming up with runners and scoring position in the postseason. I don't say timely hitting is nothing.

Yeah, we had that once. I said, I said good pitching and timely hitting. And you said, you said that. Put the swords down. But I'm just saying, like, you have to come through. Like when you get guys on second base, third base, you have to come through. And 400 batting average is incredible.

I don't even think that counts sack flies. I wonder what, if that, like, is even more impressive. So that's amazing. Yeah. I mean, you have to have timely hitting. Maybe the discussion was you can't base a postseason roster or build a team relying on timely hitting. You just want good hitters. Yes, that's right.

You have to have time of hitting. You can't build for that. You just kind of have to hope it happens. Yeah, kind of. Well. Gosh, man. And the Dodgers on the flip side are horrendous this series. Well, it's kind of, we said it all year.

like the Dodgers a little bit being overshadowed by the Giants and how fun their miraculous season was and expectations are everything in life. But the Dodgers offense never fully clicked this year. You want to know where their starting pitching ranked this season? In ERA, this Dodgers were first. Whip, they were first, walks for nine first, Ks per nine first, hits per nine first.

The Dodgers starting pitching this year had an unreal all-time season. Ureus, Bueller, Scherzer. I mean, they were without Kershaw-Bauer. Like, they've had, they have two rotations on their staff. And they have the names hitting-wise. Right now, that Max Muncie injury is looming so large. I think it has changed his whole team dynamic. He was their most consistent day-in, day-out ball player this year.

He's been out. Now Justin Turner's probably out. So, man, it's tough for the Dodgers. Ureus doesn't look like the same guy. His last couple outings, he's been touched out. So is that wear and tear from the season? Is it wearing tear from the postseason? Little column A, little column B.

So that's kind of the Dodgers story. And what you guys are saying about the timely hitting? Right now, man, go through the names in their lineup. Rosario, Freeman, Albies, Riley, Jock, Duval, Darno, Swanson. Who's giving you a bat at bat? None of them, man. None of them. And that, however you measure that,

and maybe we'll find a way to measure like good at bats or not blowing it at bat, the Braves have that top of the charts right now. They have the same amount of runners that I'm in scoring position, basically. The Braves, I just said, a 25 men in scoring position. The Dodgers have a 27. Can I guess the amount of hits? Dodgers, you want to guess it?

I think four. Six. Six for 27, which is a 222. I thought it was going to be worse than that, to be honest. Oh, man. Peter keeps eluding. I'm talking about Peter Moylan, the Yassi that we employ. I also aspire to fire him one day.

Wow. Yeah. Australians all let us rejoice. Which is a pretty good crew at this point. We are young and free. It's you and Peter. Yeah. Aspire to fire.

Fire side. Anytime Jake gets lumped in with Moylan, that's cool. Yeah, so he keeps talking about the clubhouse and like, you know, they've gone through some things together this year and he talks about how tight they are. And man, sometimes I'm like, come on, like every team is pretty tight. And you know it makes them more tight winning. Like that's kind of like the common denominator in all the teams that are tight. They win.

But, you know, like I think that's part of it, Jake, when you're talking about every single guy, giving you a good at bet. I think when Acunia went down, obviously they still have excellent ball players there. Freddie Freeman's the reigning MVP, little monster's a guy, Young Thick has been doing it all year. But when Acuna goes down,

I think a lot of times the rest of the lineup has to look themselves in the mirror and say, hey, we got to do something to make up for this. We're missing one of the best players in baseball. That's all step up, and they've done that. They fucking done it, man. Young Thick getting Troy Gloss comparisons on the broadcast. How about that?

Where's your blood rush to then? Left arm. Penis for me. I will. I mean, that's what I call my penis. We, I think more so me, challenged Young Thick at the beginning of the season. You guys were more on the Danesby train? I challenged that guy.

I also probably was on that train. But he has just been a guy. I mean, I'd said go trade for Jose Ramirez. They've got Jose Ramirez type production out of Young Thick. Yeah. Yeah, he's been special. Hmm. He's earned himself a bad year.

Hmm. Dude, he's gotten, like, we call him Young Thick. He's gotten less thick. Yeah, you set the F word last time you talked about this. So be careful. Oh, yeah. Dude, I thought the broadcast, they started talking about how, like, meaty he was. I thought they were going to go there.

I thought it was going to be Ron Darling's confirmation that he is a talking baseball listener. He just came a couple words away from it. A Young Thick is the only starter without a hit yesterday. That's insane. As one of the more feared bats in their lineup. Dude, more Eddie Rosario. Eddie Rosario has another fourth hit day. Like, and he did it from the leadoff.

spot one day. He does it from the fifth spot the next day. We love Eddie Rosario. Trev, you, it's kind of funny. Again, sometimes we do this. Like, you should use your teammate. Like, this is a guy you know. I just say, like, I really like the way Eddie Rosario plays baseball. Like, this is your guy. So I'm, I mean, I'm stoked for him. I can't imagine, like, how you're feeling. I love seeing him do well. You know, and Eddie is kind of his. reputation around the league is, you know, he's not an LBP guy. He can, he's a streaky. And there's no doubt about it. And, you know, he can get cold, but he ain't cold right now. And he's feeling himself. And the thing that I've said from the get going, pretty much anybody

that's ever played with him, it's kind of what everyone's talking about right now, is this, the moment is never too big for him. And he's, he homered in his first, the first ever pitch he saw in the big leagues against Scott Casimir hit Homer to the opposite field. Like the moment's not too big for him. So he loves, he loves doing it in these moments. And you can tell, man, like some guys

really, they like the crowd. They like the pressure. It makes them focus in, like really get locked in. He's one of those guys. Why did they walk Duval? They're just behind and they walked

seems weird to me. Let's see. A. Adam DeVall, he deserves love too. He hit a homer and he robbed close to a homer. I mean, we'll give him the nod, big fill out and center. When did they walk Duval, Jimbo? After the Rosario triple with two outs and the third to bring jock up. Yeah, lefty, lefty. I guess, right? That's the only thing I can think of.

Urius versus Jock. I don't know what the numbers are. It just seems silly to me. Probably not a lot of the bats because they were teammates, but Jack's been like coming through. There's two outs. And he did. He came through.

I mean, Jock's always, we talked about a lot how platoon he is, so you kind of see it. DeFall's been good too. I love the Jock's been doing it against the Dodgers, man. It's pretty cool. Because they could have had him back. Someone said sets up the double play,

but I believe there's two outs, which is it was two outs. Which is why I was like, it's kind of just a weird mindset. I know you want the platoons, but that's kind of like, I don't know, you intentionally walk to get the jock against his ex-team when he's been coming through in a runner and scoring position. I probably would have tried the nibble there with Duval,

make him chase at least. Try to get a fly ball out, then an inning, ground ball out, then the inning. Like the odds are in your favor that Duval's going to get out. It's baseball. Maybe he's saying I don't want to waste the pitches. If we're going to do that, might as well just go to the next batter. I don't know.

And something interesting, tying two series together. Our guy Kike has slowed down a little bit. You know, we talked about the Eroserena comparison and how he was actually toe-to-to-mo, maybe a step better than a Roserina, but we forget that a-Rosurana, like, kept going, if not got better. Kike slowed down a little bit. Eddie Rosario, line is kind of where Kike's is. They both have one dot two OPSs. Eddie's hitting 467 these

playoffs. Kike's down to 422. Down to 422. So yeah, I mean, think about, you know, two days ago how special we were talking about Kiki. Eddie Rosario's been doing that and now a little better for Atlanta. I just rewatch that chalk hit that I'm talking about. I sent it to BPD. I don't if we can put it in the, but if you don't have a second baseman playing outfield for the first time, I think you have a center fielder that, that knows that you charge and catch that. Gavin Lux, it's not his fault. It sucks that the conversation comes back to this, but probably have a center, a premier defender playing a premier defending position. I mean, if that's someone who plays center field and understands that there's two outs and that dude scores if it drops or scores if you make a

dive and catch and miss it. Like, yeah. We got to play guys at their positions. It's, yeah, it's, this is where like, man,

you know, we talk about analytics and how there are things that are just numbers and that's all they are and we can go and you follow those. But then there's also some philosophical differences between people who really have been in the game for a long time and some of the

new age thought processes. One of them being, you can just throw guys out there. They're athletes. You're only going to get X amount of balls per game. Most of them are going to be pretty easy. But, you know, we talk about in the playoffs all the time. Every single play is magnified. So maybe you can get away with that during the season.

They're 162. You can throw Gavin Lux out there. And maybe, you know, give them some leeway. He might make a few errors, but, you know, over the long run, you'll be okay. In a series, whether it be five, seven or a wild card, whatever. Yeah, I mean, it's center field. You can get exposed.

You talk about the classic money ball clip, you know, how hard just first base and it's really hard. And Trev, you say that too. They threw you at first base. You're like, damn, that's fucking hard. And then, you know, you've seen guys go to second base. They signed moose to play second base. And you're like, all right, okay.

I guess positioning will help and stuff. And corner outfielders, obviously, you just throw guys out there that can hit and hope they can run a little bit. But I mean, center field, that ends. That's center field. That's not a position you can be messing around. So I feel bad for Lux. Our guy, J.D., was back at it, Josh Donaldson.

And it was kind of funny later in this game. Ball went to Mookie and center and goes off his glove. So everyone was done out. Well, how about that? But yeah, man, it's analytics are not perfect and how they view the game and how it all comes together. People need to come to grips with that. Analytics are fantastic.

On the other side of things, like Adam Duvall is playing. center field. Like, how many old scouts are fucking losing their mind over that? I mean, Thick boy Duval. You can kind of go get it, though. Yeah, he's, he's looked solid out there. And I think part of that is, because he's an outfielder. So maybe his range is limited, but he knows how to play outfield where Gavin Lux, man, again, think of, just think of Gavin Lux. Like, I've all robbed Gavin Lux, which is kind of like, you know, the whole fun. Gavin Lux, you're a top Like baseball prospect, like a top 10, top five prospect. You know, you're the future of the sport.

You're the next star shortstop. You're the B's knees. Here you are in a playoff game playing center field? You say B's knees or niece? Yes. John Neese. Treve would rake John Neese right now. Oh, John.

Yeah, yeah. Didn't Johann Santana get him a nose job? Because he was having some problem sleeping. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. He was upset about how ugly he was. Sleep. Oh, okay.

Duval five stolen bases. Look out. That was mean what I said. I take it back. A little bit. You guys want to talk about tonight's game a little bit? A little bit. Well, Jim, I've got such good news for you.

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I'm going to give my bets. Mookie Betts is going to get two hits. Huge. Loaky bats. So over one and a half, what's the line? Give me the line. Plus 180. Already paid.

I like it. Free money. See? Um, and, uh, after milky gets a hit, he's obviously going to steal a base. That's plus 300. Okay. I don't know. Max Free lefty on.

Yeah, but neutralizing the running game. They've been running all over darn out. And it's desperation time. Okay. Uh, total bases. Duval over 1.5. Mm. Absolutely.

He'll get a double. Okay. Done. Or two singles or a walk in a single. Easy peasy. Austin Riley, he went hitless yesterday. Yeah. He's grabbing two bases.

That's plus 130. I'm up to a 10,000 grand on the line. I don't know what else. All right. Let's see. Let's see. Where's the pitching props? If you guys would like that.

Pitcher props. Max Freed over under. Oh, that's just, what is that? Strikeouts? Oh, over four and a half. Done, punch it. Freed. Plus 110.

Free money. Done, bet. 10 grand on the line. Hits allowed under, it's four and a half is a line. For Max? For Max. No, I mean, it seems like, yeah. I would go over on that one.

Will there. be a grand slam plus 1400 so you obviously throw a dollar on that. Jim, that's happening tonight. It's either the Dodgers announcing they're back in the series, 3-1, all the fear factor or the Braves win

with a grand slam. We're not doing that song. You can lock in a grand slam in this game. Yeah, I mean, obviously. Don't lock that in. Lock that in. That's locked in. Sprinkle. You can sprinkle. I sprinkled only one grand on that. Lock is definitely Atlanta Braves to score first and win.

How about this? LA Dodgers to score first and lose plus 650. 5,000 on that. All right, Trev. What about some crypto? Trev, Max Fried on the bump tonight, your guy. Is it bullpen for the Dodgers? It's bullpen for the Dodgers, but good bullpen.

We talked about this earlier today on baseball today. I mean, they got guys. This is not enough to fill up a game, unfortunately, I don't think. But it's going to be Kniebel. Maybe he goes two. Interested? Maybe. Interested.

Then you have Vesia, you have Trinnan, you have Jansen, you have Joe Kelly. Can they trust Joe Kelly to go more than one? Don't know. They have the good bullpen people ready. Ooh. But with Phil, gone. counseling going yesterday. They don't really have a guy that can eat a Bennings.

So it's going to be interesting. I mean, they're going to, they're going to, they're going to be pushing these guys. Do we see? I guess, no, we won't see him. I'm trying to think, is there any starter that can come in for the Dodgers and do something? Because it's, is it Scherzer then Bueller? It's potentially Bueller's throw day. Because he would be lined up for him.

He just pitched not to you. He just pitched Tuesday? Tuesday, so no. That's tough. Man, I, I've got eight, if the game goes to script for the Dodgers, which is- Gratterol's there too, which is really tough. Yeah, I've got eight good innings between Kenley, Trinnan, Bruce Star, Kniebel, Joe Kelly, Vessia, like, you can get there.

Dude, Dodgers offense. I mean, going back to Houston and Boston, look at the winning runs on the board for those games. Like you can start doing this for this series too With the Braves offense and like kind of eyes open Like our brains do a mental like Oh no Ronald Acuna so the offense Their offense has been there Is doing it again

Dodgers got to do it That's why that Mookie Betts That is just a lock Like Trey Turner Corey Seeger Will Smith Let's go boys Let's go boys Let's go boys

Bum bahn da-dum Bum You want to give one of your classic Palm-up speeches? You think they need that? Friday night lights? Hold on. Yeah.

There's no way Bueller's pitching tonight. No, he's not. He's not. Gradle all for two. I said Phil Gonsolin. Didn't I say Phil Gonsolin? Yeah, that's not a person. That's a combination.

Phil Gosselin and Tony Gonsolin. Well, boys, you got one night to get yourself two more nights. Mookie Betz, I'm looking at you, and I'm seeing someone consider one of the best three players in baseball. You need to have a big night. Corey Seeger, you won the goddamn World Series MVP. I need you to have a good night. Trey Turner, you've been wearing camouflage this whole series.

I need to see you tonight. Will Smith. They're talking about the other Will Smith. Their team has a Will Smith. I want to hear about our Will Smith tonight. tonight. Gavin Lux, you can't play center field. That might be true, but I'm going to put you out there. I need you to hit. You're in center field to hit Gavin. Hit someone, Gavin. I'm looking at Justin Turner. He can't play this game. You know why? He's running hard. He ran hard for this

team. He's ran hard for this city for the past half decade. I need you boys to run hard for this series. Albert Pujols, you're starting to night. They carry Poo-Holes out. They struggle. He's kind of uncomfortable up there. He's very heavy. Put me down. Put me down. That's it.

Good stuff. Poo-Holes is not going on the shoulders of anybody right now. That's a big boy right there. He's pushing 300 right now, right? Yes. No? Watch. Yes. Watch pool holes. He's huge.

When Pujolos, when he takes his batting stance, he extends so he stretches out the belly a little bit. When you see Pujolos leaning over a little bit, I'm telling you, it's my physique just like on two and a half times the size. They got him at 6.3, 2.35, lies. You got him at three, Trev? Come on. I don't know if I got him at three. I think I got him pushing 260, bro. I think I got him pushing two.

280. I'll put that out. Dude. I had a former teammate of mine. I'm not going to say who it is because this is kind of mean of them. But he texted me, wow. Poole's really got a boiler now, huh? And I was like, no comment. But in my mind, you know what I did?

What did you do? Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Jake, the last time you did the pump up speech is like one of the only tweets I have bookmarked in my. Twitter. I don't use that feature. But it was the last time you did a pump-up speech.

It worked? So funny. Let me ask you, boys, one question. Ball player, you a baseball player. That's what I thought. Let's go get it. Damn. That spoke to the locker room. That's what I thought. As soon, I was going to say, like,

you got to have a Turner hurt himself for the team, and you went right to it. And I strategically left out Belly and Chris Taylor, because they sometimes feel left out. So them feeling more left out is like, wait, coach didn't shout us out? We got to fucking show out tonight. So that's called being a...

That's coaching behind the scenes. I'd play for you. I'd get fired so quick. You'd be drunk after every game. You'd be fired so quick. You would have to do with yourself after the game ended. You got to come down somehow, baby.

Because you're going to be fired up during the game. Then you're going to try to sleep. The first week you're going to be like drinking water and you're going to be struggling to sleep and I don't get it. And then you're going to realize, man, I get really worked up during these games.

And then one beer turns into six. Six beers turns into vodka. Before you know, you're out of the league. So that's... I think I would just be pretty cushy. And I think where I'd get in trouble would be, you know, you start popping the gummy in the seventh inning. And then we'd end up in a 12-inning game, and I'd be a little confused.

So I'd be trying to pinch it, someone who's already pinch hit. And that's what people don't like that. That's when you got Kai Correa to step in. Kai, I'm not feeling good, babe. Do you think Gabe's ever been there? Kai, you got this one. Like, I'm tired. I got to be honest with you.

I'm on the moon right now. I haven't eaten a vegetable in three years. I'm tired. That's baseball. Okay, goodbye. Thanks, everyone. See you tonight. Live stream tonight.

Let's go Max. Go Doyers. Oh, Dodgers. We're Dodgers. Give me game seven, except I put all my bets on the Dodgers to lose. Great sucks. Zach Short, listed at 5'10 on baseball reference. we all know

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