Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 415 | Dodgers Force Game 6 & Chris Taylor Hits Three Homers

Episode Date: October 22, 2021

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. The Dodgers live to see another day as Chris Taylor hits one, two, three home runs. Let's talk about it. Hello and welcome to talking baseball brought to you by Draft King Sportsbook. We thank you very much for joining us today. My name is Jimmy. We got Trevor Plouf in the middle and Jake Storiel. On the right side of the screen, producer BPD was in the dish in the bottom corner.

And now he has vanished Piss Festival 2021. And he's back. And he's back and the headphones are on. And let's talk some baseball. We got one game to chat about maybe one game to preview. Good times, bad times. We were live with Zach Short. Jake, first, I want to say, how are you doing?

Second, I want to say congratulations on winning pump-up speech of the year. Jim, I want to congratulate you on, the first penis looking like a bug contest you won last night. Congratulations. You say punt? Something like that. Trevor, bug penis, bug, dude. Everyone in the chat.

Hope you're having a happy Friday. Ooh. End of the week. Coach Treve leaking out this weekend? Probably. Had a lot of fun with Zach Short last night. of the compound. Cool dude. Northeast guy.

Baseball rat. You're speaking malingity. And we got to watch a special performance from CT3, future Yankee. And nervous times. A long flight from L.A. to Atlanta. 3-1 is in the air. Trev,

what's going on, Poppy? I mean, I came to work today. Sat down at the slab. I called a desk here. and I told you guys, I'm 100% sure I love you. I came with that energy today. And then what I got was Jake saying he wants to choke me out, that I would tap out.

So I got a little fired up there. And now, and now, I'm in the chat, because I'm always in the chat. And people are saying, I got to get half his wine. So that makes me think the you boys had a little talk about me, not settling my bet yet. well they'll happer well i mean zach short was on the program and hap called in and you know words got exchanged and i was like what was your ops it's fine what did you finish he's 102 or 101 or 102 so you owe him a nice bottle of wine well let me just say this one you want us to say we're not

the ones that owe the wine choke you out right now let's just say that he wants a nice bottle of red He said he wants a French red And that's my country Those are my people And if I wanted to go to Target And get him a red I would have went to Target And got him a red

Sometimes Especially with wine Things take time Wow especially with wine That's all I'm gonna say I googled a hundred one dollar bottle of wine Looks like the silver oak cellars You know

It's not a French red We need a French red. I need a Bordeaux. Mm-hmm. Wow. Yeah. Sauvignon blot. Exactly.

Wine guys. Yeah. Just talking shop. Wining. I came happy. Now I'm freaking fired up. Maybe that's what you're trying to do. You've been getting guys fired up all week.

I'm a wine guy, Travis. I used to go to the wine festival three days a three days a year and live from more California. That's right. You're in the Mecca. Last 24 hours has been my application to become a manager. I sparked the Dodgers last night. And yeah, Treve, I saw you. You know, you came in.

You've been playing good ball. But, you know, it looked like you were kind of leaning on that. And, you know, I need you, I need you fierce. I need you feisty. I need you calling out beat riders. We don't like even saying their names. I need you calling out front offices for being dweeds. I need that.

Ploof. We said this was going to be an anti-nerd pod today. We'll see if you hold true to that. Okay. There are some nerds I like, though. Leave him out of this. Eno Seris, one of them. Hot.

Love him. Jake, you're saying Trev's resting on his laurels a little bit? Yeah. Hmm. Wow. That's why you want to choke him out? I mean, I didn't say I wanted choke him out. I thought he'd tap out.

Oh, okay. You got the Todd father now I'm minced to meet. that used to be Jake's favorite brand He only wore tap out gear Yeah Ed Hardy jeans Tap out across the chest Big old boots

I got some bad pictures I got some bad pictures of myself In that stuff Wow Not by a choice I never bought anything like that You just woke up and we're in it Let's just say my friend

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Get buzzed off all the charity you do. Mm. Let's burn this game. Dodgers playing the Braves. R.IP Steve Summers. Damn. Stop. He didn't die, but they're taking him off air.

Oh, my God. Jim. It's an old man. Ha. You thought he died? You said RIP Steve Somers, so I assumed he died. Radio and peace. Baby Day.

My Mark, it's at parr. Braves with a 3-1 lead on the Dodgers. It's deja vu all over again as Max tried to free the Braves into the world series against the Dodgers, and it's a bullpen day, and there's Joe Kelly and oh, Freddie Freeman. Freddie 425, Moonblast, Cryptopod. It's 2-0-0. Bravo's, but in the second, A.J. Jackson Pollock expresses himself to cut the lead in half to 1.

But the Taylor hemmed up the Braves pitching the rest of the way. Home run, two-run Jack. Albert scores hates being carried. It's 3-2. Chris Taylor, RBI, single. Good fortitude by the Dodgers to make it fortitude. Chris Taylor, yes, sir, may I have another six two Dodgers? Make it seven.

He's done it again. Three homer game for Chris Taylor. Trey was not camouflaged today as Trey Turner with the RBI signal eight two. And then Trev's guy again. A.J. Pollock, sneaky mad at Chris. Taylor for the three homers because everyone's not talking about his two homer day. The Dodgers bullpen day does more than enough. Kelly gets touched up at the start, but then they go scoreless the rest of the way. Evan Phillips screwdrives him. Vessia Gratterall,

Trinon, Evil Kniebel, and Ken Lee Jansen. Dodgers take game 511 to final. Great job, Jake. You know what's very interesting about your pump-up speech, Jake? Yeah. Is that you're so genius. Yes. As a coach. That you left some guys out of your speech on purpose knowing that was the ultimate way to motivate them.

Yeah. Like Chris Taylor, Pollock, you're not even part of my fucking speech. Yeah. And that's how you got to them the most. And a lot of people wouldn't give you credit for that. And they'd be like, well, the guys that did it. It's like, no, that was designed. Belly.

Belly? Belly. Yeah, I was kind of trying to send a message to them that, you know, you guys, right now, it's not on, you know, let me know if you're here. But this team rides with pool holes and Trey Turner and mooky bets who came up just a hit short yesterday in some gambling circles. but Dodgers offense showed out, and they kept showing the stat during the game. What was it? Five through eight.

I wish I've been there. A.J. Pollock, three for five, two homers. Yep. I am no machine. I just Albert, two for four. Yep. Chris Taylor, I mean, legendary night. And then Cody was three for four.

So this Dodgers offense, we've been waiting for it to come together. they stood the task. This is going to sound like, this might sound nerdy. I don't know. Maybe it sounds the opposite of nerdy. You tell me, because I can't tell. Perfect.

I told C. Rose this morning, I think it's more important that the bottom of the line of the Dodgers got going than it is the top of the lineup. Is that analytical or dumb baseball jock thinking? Dude, I actually think that's not, and this isn't a knock on you. I think that's like old school non-analytic's brain

because basically the concept is, well, the top of the order is going to come around. They can have an off night. But if the bottom of the order starts getting hot, well, suddenly we'll be hitting on all cylinders. And I think that the analytics might not back that up. But that's, I think that's an old school baseball thought process because I sure have that a lot.

Yeah, my thinking is, maybe it's different because it's the Dodgers. These guys are probably not bottom of the lineup hitters on other lineups. My thought process behind it would be, you know, if you are in the bottom part of the lineup, you're more prone to being a streaky guy, you know, and the top part of the lineup, usually guys that are consistent. So you can count on the consistency from the top part of the lineup. They'll show back up. But when you get guys going hot at the bottom, that's when you have something like an offensive explosion

like we've seen with the Red Sox and sort of like we saw with the Dodgers, even though the top of the lineup didn't do much yesterday. Could be scary for the Braves if that bottom part's like firing. Yeah, and I will say, you know, for the Braves, they smartly through Lee and Webb. You know, they're obviously the Dodgers set up well for game six and seven as well. They have their guys going and their offense is good. but unlike the in the AL where we've seen teams the rays the Astros the Red

sucks burned good pitchers and losses sucks the Braves lost freed got hit but in the end your bullpen game that you used the day before you got those guys and you have two starters you like for game six and seven so I am actually very excited that both teams with the off day are set up to go like full barrel for game six and seven. Where in the ale, it's not, and we'll get that at the end, it's not really like that because, you know, Avaldi just threw blah, blah, blah, you guys, you get what I'm saying. Yeah. Like, you know, for the Braves, they, they went to Lee and they went to Webb and said, you know

what, we have the series lead. We'll let Chris Taylor get his third home run of Jacob Webb. Don't give a shit. I like it. I agree with that. You guys have heard me say it a lot, and there's a couple funny moments with Zach Short on the live stream, because we're just talking about how nasty all these guys are. And, you know, we can talk about Cody Bellinger, a former MVP with his three-for-four hit an eight-hole.

Here's some guys who didn't play in this game. Justin Turner, Max Muncie. You know, I know we've done the pitching thing before, but there's no Kershaw. There's no Dustin May on this team. There's no Bauer. Like, this team is a force, like, to a different level. Gavin Lux, didn't start in this game. I know I gave Gavin his pump-up speech.

That dude was, like, was a top prospect, like a top five prospect, like special. He was on the bench for this game. He was in the lineup, and then Roberts heard your speech. And it was like, the speech is like that there was one part that was a little too far. Like your speech kind of works. I'm sorry, Gavin. I like you.

No, I mean, we're talking. So that bottom of the lineup that we started raving about, Cody Bellinger has an MVP in the back. Could retire tomorrow. He has an MVP from playing Major League Baseball. Chris Taylor, a three-homer game, plays every position on the field. He's about to hit free agency.

He's now on every team's free agency list. Three years, four years, 60, whatever it is. Albert Pooleholz is one of the best players to ever play this sport. He drops a casual two for four. Sure, he's got a body like a blown up Jake right now, but it still works, especially against lefties. A.J. Pollock, man, this guy's been an all-star. This guy was like the best player on the snakes.

He puts up a three for five. And that's ignoring the top of the lineup. Mookie, Trey, who could be considered some of the best players in the game. Corey Seeger's about to get a nine-figure contract in free. agency. And Will Smith, Zach Short said he was like the best hitter he saw at the minor league level and he's

now continued that at the major. So these Dodgers are a super team. Braves fans, I love you. Been wearing the pearls. It has to be scary times in Atlanta, man. What just happened? Oh, are still here? Mm-hmm.

Trev? I see you. I'm here. I hear you. We got everyone again. What are you thinking? Hello. Okay.

It's getting weird. Wait, I'm here. You've been here. I don't think it's that scary for Atlanta, man. Okay. I get it. 3-1 last year. Same exact way the game's worked out.

They're working out now. Difference, I think, that was Atlanta, did not have home field advantage last year, right? No, it's, well, neutral site and no. Neutral site, you're right. Oh, my God. I was watching some highlights from last year and they had the cardboard cutouts of people

in the stands. We're going to look back on that and just they're triggering. It's weird. So I think it's a completely different situation from last year. Jimmy hit the nail on the head when he said both teams are going to have their good bullpens going. You have your starter Anderson, Anderson's going.

And then you have Morton too. I think they're very confident. I know the Dodgers team is big, bad, and scared, but we've known that all along. We know that since day one. So if I'm an Atlanta sports fan, I get it, man. You had some bad bad misfortune, rooting for your teams lately, but I feel pretty confident. Going to get one out of the next two games at your home park with your A squad ready to go.

I like it. Yeah, I agree. I agree. Obviously, the Dodgers came and banged. I think, you know, Max Fried giving up fiber and runs is kind of the biggest story for the, the Braves, as well as they didn't get any hits besides off a guy who has a ruptured arm. and Joe Kelly's now out. So we say everyone's going ready for the next two games,

but Kelly's actually not. I wonder who comes up. Is it price? Is it, um, I think they didn't say price. What's that? I think they were saying that they were expecting price to come. Yeah,

there's a couple other options. I forget. I can't remember right now who they were. But, uh, I mean, I mean, I want to talk about the sous, sus a pinch hit.

But it doesn't matter. Oh. Why? We should for sure talk about it. Did Jake tell you what I texted him? No. What? Before the game? I didn't know if you wanted to share that information, Treff. And you can understand why once you tell Jimmy. I mean, this is hyperbole. But I texted Jake saying that might have been the worst about of all time.

Well, dude, I mean, if they asked him to Bunn, then why the fuck sends Suez up there and not like Andy Burns or Scherzer. I don't think they asked him to Bunn. Well then, so then That's what Shorty was saying. I know Susie's a friend of yours. So then if you, if Susa goes back to the dugout, I hope Dave Roberts is like, hey, Susan, if we wanted a bun, we could have sent up Scherzer or Bueller or Euler.

Yeah, but he was bunting for a base hit. That's a difference. I know. That's what you were saying too. But like, yeah. So, I mean, look, I love Sews, and I think he'd be able to laugh at this. You go up there, pinch hitting, you got your matchup. You got the lefty. Like, this is what you're there for. But he sees something. So he's like, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, but.

I think he pulled the first one back, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Then there's a moment there where if you don't do it first pitch, you really got to think, am I going to do this again? Paul Molter always hated bunting with one strike after missing the first one. He said it's dumb. Don't do it.

But he made up his mind. Saw the same thing, the same opening, second pitch, fouls at the bun top, proceeds to drill one off his leg, and then just K on a nasty back foot slider. I mean, see you later. That's worse.

It's worse than going up there and taking three strikes down the middle. It's like I couldn't stop laughing at that at bat. Treve, that was my blitzball at bat of the game last night. I remember. So. it's good I love you suzboe I love you man

Trev do you want to know what my blitzball at bad of the game was Mm-hmm Please tell me I uh Chris Taylor's third third at bat Or what I don't know if it's third or fourth at bat Third home run I was like he's already got two homers I might as well just pick him again

So I officially have the most RBIs Out of all the blitzball at bats of the game Only the second hit that we've got. Yeah. Me and Kelsey. How many moon balloons do we hit last night? Moonblasts. Moon blast.

Just one. Yeah, there are cheap homers. Let me check my crypto right. There's a lot of 415s, 410s. There's a 406 in there. You think FTX is like, can we get the stack cast pulled back a little bit here? A lot of moonblast. I've been wondering if it's the opposite.

We've had two. 425 on the nose now. And I wonder if FTX gave a little, you know, anything in the 420 range, why don't you give that a little bump ski? I like that. I like that narrative right there. Thank you.

If Stadcast cared about charity at all. Yeah. They'd be juicing these numbers. No one questions them. It's all nonsense. It's a gun. It's true. I don't know. I think Chris Taylor

obviously deserves a time. ton of love. He's getting a ton of love. Awesome for him. I think that payday continues to go up and up. It's going to be interesting seeing him again with no beard on the Yankees and all that. The Dodgers bullpen is gross. Bruce Star deserves a tremendous shout-out. Two innings. Nasty. The sinkers moving all over the place at 101. Trenan gives two as well. His stuff equally is gross. I don't know for me, I don't know if it's time to switch to the Braves or if you guys have Dodger thoughts you want to finish. Trey Turner did his thing, pumped him up. And Trev, you sent us over a Max Fried thing and you didn't comment on it. So I don't know if you very

much believe in it or if you thought it was over analysis or what are your thoughts on Big Maxie, your guy? I think that video kind of explains a lot. You know, it's a big game in his hometown. Like, He just got sped up a little bit. And I think it's from Eric O'Flaherty's Twitter. I want to make sure that we give the guy credit here, former big leaguer. He pointed out that the difference between, I think it was from Max's game one start to this start,

was that Max was just rushing a little bit. So the rest of his body was quicker to the plate, leaving his arm hanging behind a little bit. When you do that, you're not going to have your finish, you know, the conviction. That's what pitchers always talk about. You're not going to have that conviction on the pitches. And you're not going to be able to spot up.

And if you saw, I mean, Maxie was kind of over the middle of the plate yesterday. Here it is. With the tweet up. So you see the difference of the one on the left is from last night. The one on the right is from the first start. And we're not saying that this has anything to do with tipping pitches or the Dodgers getting more info. It's just like his mechanics were off. So his results were off.

You can see. I mean, you can just see like he's in. control on the right side, like really getting downhill there. You know, his extension is probably a couple inches further on pass where it is on the left, and it just changes everything, man. So, you know, just a tough start. But he's, you know, if they make it to the World Series, he gets another chance to pitch again. I'm just as confident in him as I ever have been.

He'll fix that. And like, yeah, you talked about the bullpen. We mentioned it yesterday. We're saying, look, this is a bullpen game. and usually, you know, fans are, you know, excited. Oh, we're going to get him. It's a bullpen day. The Dodgers bullpen's different.

You know, when you got guys coming out like this, you know, Kelly, yeah, he gets hurt, but then the guy's coming in and back him up, Bruce Star, like you said, with two innings. Then once they get there, it's like Trinning, Kniebel and Jansen, that's like, good luck, man. Two innings in an at bat for Bursar. Yeah, he did get into bat, did he? Fowled it off. It didn't look too good.

Spit on a slide piece. Swangin. Treve, do you remember you're at bat against Erika Flaherty? Ooh. I mean, home run. Soft run lefty? Where did he pitch?

Was it Orioles? This game, he was with the Braves. You were so with the twins. I don't remember. 2016, he walked you. Seventh inning. That's called. Of course he did.

Scared. Fulte, he went five innings earlier in the game. Okay. 2016, I was okay. I was hurt a lot that year. Me too. Got an RBI single in the ninth.

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Jake, are you going to give a pump-up speech to either of these teams? I don't want you to. I don't know. I don't know. It's tough for the AL. I mean, I was Alex Bregman's hype man for this season, so that puts me in a little bit of a weird spot. Trevor, it seems like you have a question or a comment.

Coach, usually I'm not one that needs a pat on the beach. back, but I just want to get a pat on the back. I don't know if you saw JD talking about one of our other sponsors last night on Twitter. Trev, company man is a pro move by you. Pro move. Trev, I was literally going in there to tag you and make a joke about it and you were already there.

You're diffy, dude. And then our socials hit you with me and Jake with a standing ovation for your tweet and I was like what a company we have everyone's just firing on all cylinders I hope I don't I forgot yeah sure yeah playoff mode one's just just good shit anyways anyways

big game tonight Nathan of all the first jims Luis Garcia the squirrel my mind isn't a pretzel over this game I don't know I can't I can't tell oh oh Houston Kendall in the chat

said Remember to make bets Oh, that's smart And thank you Kendall very much And I'm gonna go make bets Trev I'm shaking it up Instead of chasing plus six hundreds I'm chasing like

Like under 600s Okay The safe, he's going safe Yeah, I'm going like 400 Oh fucking No higher higher I want a minus 800 minus a thousand.

Yeah. Astros to score five runs. Wait, what? That depends on... Astros getting five runs. Getting five runs. I'm out on that. Astros not lose...

Okay, anyways. I mean, is this simple, Trev? Is this... If Nathan Avaldi looks like Nathan Avaldi, we're probably going to seven, or if Nathan Avaldi, we see some wear and tear, there's some blood in the water.

then it's bandbox game. Again, I'm in a pretzel because we've been seeing these guys that have been doing multiple roles, like not have their sharp stuff. So Nate's been in those roles now. We saw it with Rias and, you know, I just, I'm wondering if that's going to come into play here. That, the fact that the Yankees had something on Nate, have the Astros found it.

Like there's so many things that could happen. Yes, he can go be a dog. and go out there and throw eight shutpiece because that's what he does. But, you know, they could also get to him early. And then, you know, we got Luis Garcia throwing for the Astros. You know, obviously he came out of the game,

hurt the first time round, but his stats at home are excellent. You know, Houston wins at home. You're telling me, if I had to pick, I don't care who they're facing. Houston gets two games at home to win one game. Like, it's hard to bet against them. So part of me is like

Hey Boston forces a game seven Everybody wins We get to talk about that one But does Houston just take care of it Like this the Karea and Bregman And Altovae and Yorda And Tucker Do these guys just go and rake tonight?

It's I don't know man I'm all over the place Usually I have a lean I just I can't find one for this game John you're already at game seven right Uh yeah I mean, I don't know how you could have faith in Louise Garcia. Great numbers at home.

You can't have reason to be as for his last start. That's why. Last two starts. He hasn't had a good start all postseason. They fake the ninja to get him out of the game last game. Put him up there at home. Like, you're telling me the guy just can't have a good start. He could.

I mean, you know, Bramber did, but he's been, I mean, unless I'm misremembering the stats, I feel like Luis Garcia has been bad, bad. I'm going to go get his game logs up. But again, this guy has been good at home all season. It's not out of the realm for him just to go. Give him four, four innings, five innings. I don't think they're going to ask him for more. So one inning pitch, five earn runs against Boston.

2.2 innings pitch, five earn runs against the White Sox. Regular season, five innings pitch, three earned runs, six runs, seven hits, two walks just walking a ton of people and giving up a ton of hits in September he's six and five with a two seven at home and five and three with a four two on the road in the regular season

home cooking man he's not going to give you a framber eight they're not asking him to do that who's um who's on deck for them so let's you know some game scenario stuff Let's say it goes seven. Who do they give the pill to?

I mean, is it, would it be Erkiti? Is it Granky to open? And then you're just trying to get it to Javier? Man, I... Odo my pitch today. That's what I'm saying. I think this is Garcia to Odo again. Because Javier, he threw 57 bullets on Tuesday.

Today's Friday? And, like, you'd rather have him fully rested for tomorrow than take a chance today? I don't know. It gets really tricky when you start trying to get these Astros 27 outs. I guess it's in Garcia and Odo's hands. They have the entirety of the bullpen, too, though. Like, everyone is rested. Javier?

You don't have to have Harvier for today. Garcia's last seven starts. He has a 1.6 whip. Hmm. Like he's been pretty bad lately. So I like him. I was, I, if he's good, he's top of my list. I want to watch him pitch the rock, the rocking chair motion and the squirrel hair.

Like, I'm a fan, but against the Red Sox, um, in an elimination game, I just, I wouldn't bet on it and I'm not. But you will bet on. I got a couple in the chamber, you know, if Yuley doesn't hit a home. run. I win five cents. If Yulee Garreal doesn't hit a home run today, you get five cents. I bet a dollar, yeah, and I win five cents.

If Brantley does not hit a home run, I win nine cents. I like that, that. Yeah. There's currently three Luis Garcia's in the big leagues right now. It's making it very difficult for me to click on the right page. Yeah, it's the middle one. It's the middle one. It's the middle one.

If you type Luis Garcia, it's the middle one. I've played that game too many times. The other thing that's funny is one of them has the exact same years, 2020 to 2021. So, yeah, you're playing a little baseball reference roulette. Dude, should I bet $100? Yes. That the bases will not be loaded in the top of the first inning. Oh, I don't know.

To win, to win $2. Yeah, it sounds like a great bet. That's easy $2, right? So top of the first. Isn't that Luis Garcia? Isn't that your guy? He's going to give up a 1.6 whip, baby. So you know 1.6 people are going to be on base.

Okay. So you guys are saying maybe I take the yes. I put $100 on yes. I win $8,000. Let's go. 850. 850. Math company.

Man. Tell me what you guys think. You think Nate's just going to go. shove and the Astros' bats are going to go quiet. No, I think that I just, both teams are going to use six pitchers, and it's going to be a nine to seven finish, Red Sox. I said earlier today, if the Red Sox scored six runs, they win this game. Yeah, I just, I think if this game gets messy, if Nate Dogg doesn't have it, I think

that's it for the Red Sox. And I think he's gonna, like, I think he's Nathan Evaldi. I think he's going to be pumping heaters. I think season on the line, he's going to look solid. But yeah, man, I mean, they just touched him up. So, like, if there is a little less zip or a little less accuracy or whatever it is, I think Houston's going to smell that blood in the water. Crawford Box.

But then, you know, they got everyone, though, even if Nate Dog slips. Right, but then I don't know. that's just where Houston seems so dangerous in this game. Like if Boston has to use up Avaldi and like where's Halkpin? Is he going to be in this game? He hasn't pitched this game one. He's absolutely like ready to go. So like that's where.

And Whitlock. Whitlock didn't pitch in game five either. That's where it's almost win-win for Houston. Like Boston's either going to burn out Avaldi, Hawk, Whitlock, and lock up this win or like if they get to I mean if they get if they get to Valdi

I think it's over if Valdi can't give them five I think we're all in agreeance that this is just a tough fucking game to call right now yeah baseball we've been pretty heavy leans on some of these games

whether we're right or wrong but this one seems to me like I just can't put my finger on it I nailed it means it's going to be good base. Jim's got it nailed. Base is loaded in first. 9-7. 6. Yeah, 9-7. All right. I play some bets. I'm chasing favorites. Enrique, Kike's strikeouts under 1.5. I love that.

I bet $5 to win $7. Really? Well, to win $2.00. You get $7. Gotcha. So stupid how they do that. Alex Breggman, stolen bases. So I actually bet both sides of this. Okay. If he doesn't steal, I bet a dollar, I win a penny. If he does, I bet a dollar, I win $10.

It's the best way to bet. Do you think there's any chance that Houston has found what the Yankees had on Iobaldi? No, because, unless I didn't have confirmation, I mean, I've already shut them down. So I think you would say, well, it didn't work. I'm not interested. And umpire calls a strike three on a backdoor slider, and we're saying Nate Dogg's still like perfect. I'm not saying they had it.

I'm saying have they found it now that they've seen him a few times? Because remember, we couldn't find it on regular video. You kind of had to be in front of them, right? Yeah. So curious about all this stuff, man. curious. Curious. We'll watch.

We're going to be watching live. What's your prediction then? James gave his. 9-7. Red Sox. 9-7 Red Sox. I'll go 10-5, Houston. You think they're going to get to Nate.

Okay. I mean, they just did. It's their third time seeing them. Seeing them in the past week or whatever. Like, they're peacocking. They brought it back to Houston. they're the bad man How about this boss

And I'll root for Sev Let's do it I say 76 But I don't know who's gonna win I think it's gonna be a close game There are gonna be some runs scored 7-6 I'm not calling a winner I don't know

I placed a real one I got Evaldi giving up two homers Wow 20 bucks to win 100 Do I like that Go Astros baby Bias John Boy Media again.

Unreal. In this comment section, there will be someone that says Jimmy wants the Astros to lose so bad and he can't hide it. Ha ha. And then they'll say,

Jimmy wants third socks to lose so bad, he can't hide it. Yeah. I did see someone I follow on Houston. Astros' Twitter was singing your praises yesterday. Or today.

Look at that. Because you said you're not going to look into the whistling. You're retired from Whistling Gate. I'm retired. It's retired from whistling. I retired. It's a fool's errand.

Everybody whistles. Maybe that's what they're doing out. There's a guy that sits in Houston. There's a guy that sits behind home plate like three to the right, nonstop like this all game. Is he suspect? I don't know. You suspect.

John, I think you got to hop on another call. I think we kind of covered anything. Anything you need to get off your chest, Treve? All that, all that hair. I haven't shaved his chest in a long time. I can't wait for like in 20 years. We're still doing this show. We're in the Metaverse.

And we're going to just say, you guys remember the cheating scandal? Let's let everything out of the bag. I'm so glad they switched to make starting pitchers important again. Do you remember when we started this show and the games were boring? Yeah, but you know what? We'll have a cool voice because we'll be in the Metaverse. You can sound about.

whatever you want. That'll be an old version of us. I'm going to sound like a dolphin calling out for something. Bebeadie, you'll be like, I miss Jake. That you definitely won't be here. I've fired you by then. Fired and killed. Separately.

Separately. Two events. If you don't tap out. Yeah, firing you first. That's within three years. See you, Metaverse. Goodbye, everyone. Thanks for joining us.

Live stream tonight. Talking baseball, tomato. Love you. Don't look at your crypto accounts today. Oh, really? Never down. Should they go on a run right now? I think I have to.

Gains some weight. I'm up over two bills. Ow!