Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - Braves Shut Out & Kershaw ROCKED | 725

Episode Date: October 8, 2023

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. The divisional series have begun. Bullpens get a lot of use early. Let's talk all about it. Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Thank you very much for joining us today. We continue our coverage of the postseason. If you're enjoying this, please subscribe to the YouTube channel.

That helps a lot or subscribe on whatever podcast app you're using. That also helps. My name's Jimmy. We've got Jake here. Trevor Plouf, BBD producing. It's brought to you by Seat Geek. Code John Boy Postseason, get you 10% off. You want to go to one of these games or a game of any other sport or a game of any or like entertainment of any kind.

Head to the Seat Geek app or the website. Use code Johnboy postseason. Get you 10% off. It doesn't matter if you've used a code of ours or not. This will work for you. Jake, nice speckley. hoodie. I like that. You look great.

Thank you. James, Trevor Davis. Yeah, this is a 50-50 shirt. I'll catch myself sometimes and like it catches the arms right and everything else blends in and I'm like, okay. A little poppy is in playoff mode.

And then a couple wide shots on our live streams, which we're doing for all these playoff games. I turn into a speckley blob a little bit, a little chunky chameleon. but that's Vegas, baby. How about it? Jim, I know you were on it. And I think some people wondering where you're drawn the line between facetious and to see fish.

But like the playoffs started today. Like the crowds were rowdy. I was going to say that in my opening, but I didn't want to annoy people too much. But I mean, after one night, the wild card round means absolutely way less. Like that what those are not the playoffs This was the playoffs from as soon as like You went Baltimore to then Altuve hitting home run in first pitch

It was like fuck this is way different This is a different thing than whatever that was a couple of days ago You're right Trev I don't understand what you guys are talking about There definitely was playoffs already played Like playing games To get to the playoffs literally yes But it's different

Okay, okay Jake, you look like a speckley blob That was a pretty good one I look like Ken Griffey Jr. That's why I'm wearing my hat backwards. Ken, by the way, is just all over the place I'm actually looking at an ad on MLB.com He's right there.

He's doing commercials, I believe, with Jim Joyce. The umpire commercial is that Jim Joyce? The dream team. Griffey and Chase. Pretty sure it was. He threw Ken Griffey's wife out. I like that. So that was fun.

I don't agree the playoff started today, but I'm willing to hear you out a little more as the show goes on. Kind of crazy games today. We're recording this before the Dodgers Diamondbacks game is over. It is in the fifth inning right now. Nine zip. So we decided to go a little bit early. But definitely some things happen today that you're like, yep,

that's about standard like Jose Al-Tuvae homering on the first pitch in Houston. and I just knew that was going to happen. I don't know. I'm excited to talk ball. I watched it all day long, and this is the culmination of it. Yeah, I was bummed that I couldn't, like, hone in on each game solo because they were over,

they were overlapping. The Dodgers game was the first one. I was like, all right, this is three games. I wish I could have watched every pitch of all three and, like, really, like, tuned in, but I was bouncing back and forth. Dodgers games. starts. Here we go. I'm going to watch this one. And I was like, okay, guys, you want to let's,

let's record while it's happening. Is this the last day of the four games? Now, it could happen again. I think Wednesday. It can happen again, I believe. Could happen again Wednesday. But tomorrow's two games, Monday's two games. I agree. It makes it much easier to focus when you're not like overlap. Yeah. It's a little tough to do these reviews. I know Jake's got the burns, which will pop some memories into our skulls, but like that Texas Baltimore game feels like a lot of baseball ago. Was that even the playoffs?

I mean, the playoffs started to that was the playoffs. That was the playoffs. And it was, let's get into it. Jake, want to burn that one?

Yes, sir. Oh, don't. Doggie. Stop the music. BPD. I don't have it up.

I was not ready to burn. Oh, I'm sorry. Especially with, with that game, having the rain delay that made it bleed over even more,

hard with over. I'm filling some air while Jake pulls up the burns. Found it. Found it. A rain delay to start the ALDS game one, but Baltimore would hope to hit the sprinklers as the baby birds would try to take down

the Texas Rangers, but they'd sick the dog on them. Heen dog on the bump versus Kyle, who is being so bradish early on. It's Weezy F baby, Mr. Carter. Hey, hi, how you darn? Evan with the RBI double. His name is Jonah. Haim with the RBI. It's two, nothing Rangers. But that castle would be halfway mounted as Ryan cuts the lead in half. It's two to one. But like an LSU win, plain neck. Old thick neck, Josh Young Homer. But pardon my French, Anthony Santon. There's three, two, after six. Rangers Penn Hold.

How's your double play by Young, caught stealing by Hymne, and how about them Rangers? Heaney, to Dunning to Smith, to Spores, to Chapman, to LeClerc. Texas takes game one, three, two final. This game felt like it was going to explode with runs at any time, and it just never did. And then it felt like Orioles comeback was coming. they had runners on to before they recorded an out in the seventh, eighth, and ninth, I think, and weren't able to push any across. But the biggest talking point, and I don't even know if this is the biggest talking point,

like the online discourse right now, but both these managers went to the pen so early. So early. I think that was Texas. Texas's game plan was heen dog for a few. Yeah, because they had. had Donning and I get that. What were the Orioles doing? I know they love their bullpen,

but it's a five game set and you got two in a row. I felt like the Orioles just looked like a jittery, like from management to, you know, Henderson getting thrown out at the end, just like, all right, scrape those playoff jitters out,

come back tomorrow and let's be a little more like fine-tuned or a little more like, you know, good. Yeah. Because I thought they just kind of were jittery. Okay. I mean, Braddish, Braddish really, like, really good out there.

Really good. Stuff was really, really sharp. I mean, they bring in Cologne, and he gets the job done, 84 pitches by Bradish there. And he can go 100. Yeah, I agree with you, especially when we're getting into now five, seven game series in the next round.

Like, you got to be kind of careful with the bullpen. But I don't know, man. Like, that's how it happens in the postseason. You know that. Like, these managers, they always just say, you know, like, let's just empty the tank. Almost every single night. They're willing to do that. And, you know, any sense that they have that there's some peril coming, it's like, let's, let's go.

Let's get into the pen. If you have guys that you like, which, like you mentioned, the Orioles sure do like their bullpen. But I think Bradish deserves a big shout out for, you know, how well he pitched today. He looked really, really good, like nasty stuff. Yeah, I was mad. at the Hien Dog pull at first, A, because it was Haney and Hicks, so fire me up. Two last jerseys I bought in pinstripes. But Heaney isn't really stretched out.

Yeah, he's been a reliever. Yeah, his last six appearances, he's only gone over 55 pitches once. So Heaney got them to a place, and how about him starting Heaney? You know, as we talk some managers, Boch goes with the Heen dog playing the lefty. Is that to mess with the Orioles lineup? You know, that moves Mullins down. We love him. It's also playing to that big left field, right?

You're going to play your righties. Well, we got a football field and left. So Bochi pressing some buttons there. And he goes to his pen and it works out because, again, Heaney not fully stretched out. You got the done in tag team. Braddish, I mean, yeah, he gets through 82 pitches. He looked good except kind of that one inning they got got.

And, yeah, they were excited to go to Colom, who has been awesome to them this year. and they get them for Carter the lefty who has become an absolute problem in this postseason, man. I mean, you don't know what to do with it, and it's one of those, why can't you guys predict baseball or why for years can't you predict baseball? I think that 21-year-old who just got called up

is probably going to be their three-hole hitter tomorrow, and he's barely been around the team. So it just shows the chaos of the postseason. And, yeah, they hide looks like he went with the, like, let's get it. everyone's feet wet approach and let's not burn anyone out so we have everyone tomorrow we don't use our main dog and yenny or cano um but yeah i i don't know i mean this was i i think there was a little bit and it's a topic of conversation that we've run in with the past two wild cards

is there a rest rust conversation that comes with these wild cards because outside of santander um all the oriel's hitters were having kind of a tough time squaring it up um but it's always how can you do that in a one-game sample when the birds are in this game? That ball gets by Josh Young. We might be talking about another bird's comeback victory. So I don't know. I thought this was kind of good playoff baseball.

I thought the crowd in Baltimore was awesome. And the Rangers Penn, it does their job. I thought it was great game. And I think the Orioles are, the Orioles are way in it. Like I like them. I still like this game to go five. I don't know.

I think either team can win it. But I think there's just a, with runners on, they were swinging big uh 2 o counts uh 2 1 counts they kind of expanded a couple times gunner like henderson getting thrown out that was crazy to me and you can see hides reaction in the dugout just going what the fuck uh that was unnecessary so like orioles were in it and there's a good game i think the oriels are a better team than the rangers if they can like play not scared but also they can't use their bullpen every single night where the the the Rangers you need long outings man that bullpen is not going to bend

and not break so many times like Chapman was lucky as shit I know what Chapman can pull it together but that double play and then that was Orioles should score there I mean they've gotten the job done so far yeah the bend don't break mentality for the Rangers pen but that's kind of that happens We talked about before the playoffs even started. Like sometimes guys will just get hot at the right time. The clerk looks good back there. So you kind of have one guy that you know you can definitely count on. Chapman's, gosh, man.

I just don't get it sometimes when I watch them pitches like what's happening. But you're right. He gets the double play. That's great. A couple of things I want on to talk about before. Then we should get to the gun or hand or some things. I think that's somewhat of a conversation. Number one, Evan Carter for,

the Rangers, obviously a stud. Just looked up. He's from Elizabeth in Tennessee. That is where the twins have their rookie team. The first pro team I played on was in Elizabeth. And so I'm like, hey, this guy might have been a fan of mine, you know? Wow. He was two years old when I played there.

Yeah, but his parents brought him to a rookie league game. Yeah, for sure. The first ball he watched, maybe. Holy gosh. Where were the twins at in this draft, by the way? you let this dude go to the second in a second round to the Rangers. He grew up where you got a ball team. That guy's a stud.

The Henderson play. Miscommunication is what they're calling it after the game. We talked about before the show. I don't really know what that means. You just went when you weren't supposed to go. That's the miscommunication. And you got to give big time props to Jonah Heim because I know he didn't get a great jump. But Jonah Heim is not expecting anyone to steal.

on a 3-1 count right there. It's either like, congrats to him or he was so happy when he saw Gunner take off. I think that might have also been it. Like, oh, bad jump. I'm going to freaking hose you. Like, thank you for the free out type thing. But that can't happen.

Yeah, that just, it can't. Yeah, Gunner doesn't. I talked about this on the preview. The Orioles are really good at base running on batted balls. they're not the best stolen base percentage team. Gunner Henderson has 10 bags on the season. Three caught stealing, 77%, not that high amongst like base stealers. But he's fourth and going first to third on a batted ball.

So I don't know. It just seemed like that wasn't, I mean, I was kind of shocked. To give them an out when they're walking you is wild. When you're young and fast, and you can see Hyde's reaction. So miscommunication between Gunner and the third base coach or miscommunication in the way that we didn't want him to go and he went. I don't really know. Yeah. I don't know if he got a sign.

Like when you're on first base, most of the time you're not getting the steel sign from the third base coach. Like it'll either come from the first base coach who comes up to you and says, hey, this guy's a this guy's a one five to the plate. Like, let's go. Or, you know, he'll whisper some sort of action word to you. Like you guys are mentioning with Aaron Boone, you know, they give the Yankees three or four pitches to go. Like, you have the green light for this amount of pitches. Like it's something like that. So like the signs don't really happen too often anymore in baseball.

But that was tough. I agree with you. The Orioles were in this game. And it's, I think this is going to be a great series. It really seems like that. Kind of like knock on wood. But that was tough. I'm always open to something I'm missing.

But I don't know, man. Trev, you just mentioned this dude was two years old watching you play ball in Friendsville, Tennessee, or whatever. He's 22. He's going to win rookie of the year. He got 10 swipes this year. I think he was looking at that stadium saying I'm going to get me that bad because I probably have a third of the confidence of Gunner Henderson, which is way too high for me. And I was thinking that same thing, man.

So I don't know. With that, there obviously comes the risk of getting that egg on your face. and it's going to be interesting to see how him and all the boys from Baltimore respond tomorrow. Like, all right, you got your at-bats tomorrow. You know, there's no rest-first-rust type thing. Like, let's find out. And again, we obviously over-analyze these games because it's what we got and it's playoff baseball.

And when we shit on analytics teams throughout the year because they say the playoffs is a crapshoot, well, it's guys making plays in those games that matter. And Texas made more plays today, man. I mean, Josh Young, that double play. That doesn't happen. Like, we're going to talk about a double play later with our guy, Trey Turner, that, you know, in a five game set, especially, which, why are these five games?

Make them seven. You're out of your mind baseball. Yeah. This is the solution. Take away a few Monday games during the regular season, Monday, Tuesday games, and just add those games to the posties. Seems like it makes a lot of sense. Evan Carter played in 23 regular season games,

and here he is, like, star of the Texas postseason so far. I don't get it why all these young guys are just so comfortable and so good nowadays, man. They got a different mentality when they come up, and I think it's cool. I like it. It's like they're there, they're ready, prepared,

and I don't know what has changed in the game. It just didn't really used to, be like that. I mean, wasn't Freezer rookie? I feel like the playoffs always has guys that come up and take over.

Don't you feel like guys that come up now? More often than not, just kind of insert themselves into the big leagues a little bit more easily. And I think that has a lot to do with like the changing of the guard and the clubhouses where it's like, you know, you want these guys. That's what everyone talks about, especially guys like in my position where it's like you were in the old school

mentality baseball, a little bit of the new school. It's like you have to make that switch as a leader in the club I was saying like, I, we're going to make sure these guys are comfortable because why would we want them uncomfortable playing Major League Baseball? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, a little wrong crowd

because the Yankees rookie stink. Bing is pop. Yeah, well, we're talking, we're seeing the two rookies of the years in this playoff. We're going to talk Corbyn Carolyn a little bit and Gunner Henderson. Yeah, it's a whole change mentality because now that front offices run teams, they

know who they're invested in. I mean, Corbyn Carol's got 100 M's coming his way that if he's got some slap dick Trevor Ploof in his third year at third base, he's like, I'm the captain now, dude. Like, you're out. So, yeah, these guys are, A, incredibly talented and B, they're more empowered to go get it. So, and Jim, what Jim said is true, too. I think you see it in college sports when you see a sophomore at the end of the year. Like, you're not closer to a freshman than you're closer to like a junior now.

Corby and Carroll, that guy ain't a rookie anymore. Gunner after today, I know people are asking questions, but these guys are dudes. I think last thing before we move on, you said Evan Carter is going to be hitting third for the Rangers tomorrow. Do you think Robbie Grossman's getting

out of that three holes? He's stocked. Well, Robbie Grossman's last four at bats were strikeouts. He's got one hit the old post. season, I think. I complimented Bochy because I was like, hey, you know, Bochy old school leaving the kids down in the lineup.

He slid Carter up to five. He has another big day. If you're going to slide him up to five at this point, like, don't stop the bus. One of these teams tomorrow needs to jump on the opposing starting pitcher. Make him use the bullpen all out two days in a row.

That'll be fun. Also, the Rangers just seem, and I didn't watch a lot of Rangers games all year. So Rangers fans, you'll probably agree with this. They seem to excel at cluster runs, big innings. Like, just watching them at the end of the regular season and then against the raise, it's like,

and then this inning, like you said, it was the one inning for Braddish. It's like, yeah, but it would just like, boom, boom, boom. It's almost like my high school hockey coach as soon as the other team scored, he would call timeout right away and just like fucking quiet. the momentum and crowd.

It's like almost as soon as you give up like a hit or walk or back, like go have a mound visit and just kind of like try to change the tempo because they're just boom, boom, boom. I did this on baseball today the other day. This is the streakiest team in baseball. So,

you know, you're going to get those big cluster runs. You're going to get the offense hot for time, like, you know, game on game on game. And then sometimes they're just not going to show up too. I mean,

it happened all. throughout the season, eight game win streaks, eight game losing streaks. I think, I don't know what the math was, and I don't want to look it up right now because I'm tired, but there was, I want to say, 13 to 14 different examples of four wins or four losses in a row during the season for the Texas Rangers. So they're prone to streaks, and if they're on a good streak during the playoffs, who's going to stop them? Probably the Astros.

There was eight of the nine Texas Rangers had hits today. three Orioles had hits. So I don't know. I mean, dude, even the guys we don't talk about this team, Leoti Tavaris, Nathaniel Lowe batted seventh today. Like, they're, they're stacked. Next day, all game? Astros versus Trev Trev's twins.

Mixed feelings about this one. Lost my spot again. The twins would hope their playoff series win wasn't just a dream as they'd send the nightmare, Bailey Ober out to face. Well, the nightmare that is the Astros. And no JV pitcher for Houston as JV takes the bump. Don't throw first pat pitch fastball to Jose Altuve,

Jose Altuve solo dong. It's one-nothing H-town. Let me see your Don. 3-0, Houston. Abraeu and McCormick, whoop, 5-0 after 5. But these twins are different. Jorge Polonks a three-run shot.

And then the Rolls-Royce comes out for special occasions. Just like that, it's 5'4, but Yordaun was feeling sexy, so he goes pole-dancing. Verlander 6-Shup, by the way. Tenaris to Abraeu to Presley. Houston wins 6-4 final. Trev. Oh, boy.

Yeah, you know, this one, you know, you got the credit where the credits do. The Astros came out and just did what they do. I mean, they really are the nightmare of Major League Baseball. They will scare you in your sleep. It's ridiculous. First pitch of the freaking game. My theory about short guys that can hit the high fastball is so true except for you, Jake. You just can't hit my rise ball.

Check the stats, kid. first pitch dude and it wasn't like a baby homer this thing was a set the tone no doubter you got to figure though so like you know I'm back and forth about this you got to figure that in that

park Bailey over throws 92 miles an hour he throws a lot of fastballs change up you knew he was getting pumped by one guy at least your Don's probably going to hit Homer which he did it's the

what got me or what got the twins was they couldn't capitalize on the first two innings having Verlander on the ropes getting base runners on two double plays in crucial times and you know right now we got a couple guys that are

banged up Royce isn't really running that well so he hits into a double play that maybe would have beaten now but probably not actually that was it once you let Justin Verlander you know Hall of Famer like legend walking Justin Verland

and settle in. He's going to do what he did, man. Six shuddy, you know, walked a few people early on, gave some hits up early on, but then just caught fire, man. You can't do that. You had to put up a few. You had to come out and get on top right away. Were you going to hold the lead the entire game? Probably not against the Astros, but you need to go set the tone. And look, yeah, if you would have gotten pushed one run across there in the first two innings, it's, you know, five, six is way different than four six at the end of the game. You're looking for one swing in the bat there instead of having to put somebody on as well. A lot of things could have went differently, but in the end, it was the Astros just getting the job done, man.

Like Yorda, Caleb Thielbar comes in, lefty, lefty. Yorda can hit anybody, doesn't matter. Lefty, lefty, what does that mean to him? But Theobar hadn't allowed a home run to a lefty all year long. And he has an absolutely filthy curveball. And Yordaun doesn't care about any of that. I liked the twins had a little comeback there at the end. Polanco, everyone was taking Great Abats.

I thought it was hilarious that Wainwright was like talking about a Polanco's eyes. He's like, look at his eyes. He looks like he's staring right through you. I was like kind of an insult at him, but okay, I get what you're saying. Polanco, Great Abats, you know, Royce does his thing. But in the end, it's just not enough. Do you Presley look filthy at the end there? twins lose

Roll the first And the Asher's look really good I mean and Theo bar not getting Yurdan Like bringing him in for Yardon him homering I don't know That's a bad sign of You know

Things to come It's Yordon Alvarez I don't worry about that at all dude He's gonna get his He is going to get his Walk him then and don't bring in the lefty To then face the other guys after him Because if he's not coming in to get

your Don out, then don't bring him in to get, then just walk your Don. Oh, there's four, there's three or four lefties in a row right there. That's why they brought him in. It's Yordaun, Tucker, Jose Ebray, you, and then Brandon. Yeah. So, I'm just saying, you got to be able to get through that lineup, man, and they didn't. Like, they didn't. I know they got better pitchers coming, but, and then all their runs came off Narris,

who just looked two-o fastball. So the bummer part is, Travis, the balls that they, grounded in double plays in the first and second inning were 94, 95 mile per hour fastballs right down the middle. Like they were Verlander being like, hey, throw a strike gold, man. Good things might happen. And just giving them pitches they should be doing damage with and double plays. So that really hurts.

Seen this. I've seen this, man. I've seen Justin Verlander labor in the first couple innings. And if you don't get them, you get six shut. I've seen this. I've seen it regular season. I've seen it postseason. Why are we throwing a first pitch fastball over the plate to Jose Altuve in any game?

Never mind a playoff game. I've seen that too many times. Yordon is Yorda. I mean, that dude, I think he's like the best lefty hitter versus lefties ever, which the only caveat there is he's just as good against Ritey's. So, you know, he's the bad man. I'm happy the twins got something going. You know, I know he's only against Nairus, but Nairus has also been a guy for them this year.

So you've at least planted that seed. You get Polanco, who, I mean, you know, just through his whole Minnesota Twins career has been kind of, I don't want to say enigmatic, but they didn't, you know, he's played a lot of positions. Where do you put him in the lineup? So for him to get on the board in that two-hole, Royce Lewis keeps his good momentum going. And, yeah, I mean, for a game that was, what was it, 5-0, Justin Verlander on the bump throwing a tight game. Like, good on the Twins for showing something.

However, you know, that fifth run scores, they cut it off and they get the out at third. It looked like it could have been a play at the plate. We see the catcher's reaction on that. You know, that's, could that have been an important run? Houston gets the insurance run with Yordon. Minnesota has a chance in the eighth inning. Correa's on third, less than one out. Walking around the base passes.

Okay, Carlos. And we don't get that run in. So, like, you know, the Houston Astros, we've seen it for seven years now. If in the playoff baseball games where there's, if you got a chance to get a run across, run around third, you got to do that. And, you know, Presley did look gross because he's, you know, one of the coolest closers I think I've ever seen pitch, like a true starting pitcher pitch mix that he can do whatever the hell he wants out there.

You know, if it was a one-run game, maybe each pitch. feels a little different. You never know. But, hey, the Bailey Ober Justin Verlander game, I don't know. I don't think anyone's too shocked where it ended up and figure it out tomorrow. You can't make mistakes against the Astros. I think they're like the one team where that cliche like really, really holds true, especially in the playoffs. You have to play perfect baseball against them to beat them. You do. And if you, you know, don't get runs across when you have runners on third less than two outs like if you make an air or you walk guys or it's you have to play perfect baseball the twins didn't play perfect baseball today they didn't they had chances uh I'm not like

defeated out of this series yet for my twins I still have a very good feeling if Pablo Lopez goes out there and wins a game in Houston then you know we're talking about a whole new series going back to Minnesota three games set and you got two games at home like that's kind of the position you wanted the beans. You just got to, you got to squeak one out here. Pablo needs to come on, have a really good showing. Twins didn't use really any of their high leverage guys besides feel bar. So like they're, they're all, it's, it's, tomorrow's a huge game. It's a math, I guess, are they playing tomorrow? Yeah, A.L. Play tomorrow. Yeah, who's pitching for the Astros? I believe it's Framber. Framber. So a lot of curb balls. And that means a lot of the

good Minnesota hitters who we count on aren't going to be in the lineup either. So Julian will be out of the lineup. Kirloff will be out of the lineup and Walner will also be out of lineup. So we're going to get, you know, a farmer's going to be in there. Willie Castro will be in there and Donovan Salano will be in there. Did you see Verlander's first at bat to Lewis? Maybe a second at bat. What's where?

What about it? Just like six curveballs. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. it's pretty funny. And I think that it's next that bat, all fastballs. It's, uh, it's awesome to watch him like do his thing, dude. I was watching my father.

Berlander? Yeah. My favorite pitcher to watch. He's like, how he's been pitching forever. I was like, he's still good? I said,

yes, he's still very good. Especially when you let him settle in the game like that. I was surprised they took him out. I didn't, I mean, I, he was around his pitch count,

but obviously Berlander was a little shock too. I don't think it mattered at all. But I was surprised. I was like, every picture was so mad that they got taken out today. It's fucking grooving. I thought I had something else to say about something. Okay. How about that?

I thought I had something else to say about something. I don't remember. Okay. All right. Oh, yeah. Oh, well, number one, Carlos Correa has planter fasciitis, bro. That's why he's, you know, taking it, going gingerly around the basis. Number two, I think we got to mention, and for good and bad reasons, the,

Jeffers throwing out Jose Abraeu play was pretty awesome if you're Jeffers and Correa, but really bad if you're Jose Brayu, right? Like you just stopped. You thought the ball was... Wait, wasn't he baiting them to score? No, that was the throw at third. There's a throw at second. Ball bounces away from Jeffers.

Jeffers makes an athletic play on it. Correa plays dummy at second base. Wait, I didn't see that. I see if we treat it. Oh, yeah. Oh, Bouncing around. He just basically went on the pass ball to second base

and didn't think Jeffers would even try so he kind of pulled up short of second base Jeffers ran, got the ball quick, hammered it the second, Correa just stood there, beaked him and they fucking got him, man. It was bad base running, great play. Same same.

Yeah, I think the only problem is Jose Abrae is 36. He's got an MVP trophy and he went one for three. with a walk in this game and an RBI. So I think if Houston loses this game, we talk about that play a lot. But I think they laugh.

Hey, easy speedster. Get the next one tomorrow. Put a freaking undershirt on, guys. Why does nobody wear an undershirt on anymore? No chance. What about the nips, though? Yeah, well, about them. Oh, here it is.

Watching it. Yeah, I had flipped to the Phillies game at this point. Correa is awesome. You like that? Yeah. A bray really is good, man. And he played a good game today. You know, you got the lucky base hit off the bag.

I don't know. He's a, he's a stud, man. So cool to deke like you're not catching it. Twins one for 12 with runners in scoring position today. In the early action, my God. They weren't good in the wild card series either of runners and squirms. They got to figure that out. That's obviously a massive.

part of the postseason is getting those timely hits and they have not done it. They have not done it. Let's move to the National League. Yordaunt Al-Rez is three-dodding it. He's really good. Braves, Phillies. The Fitch up on paper. The Phillies would stride into Faye Spencer and the division winning Braves,

but it would be Ranger danger for them as Suarez got the pill for Philly. Like college, I'm scoring. through the first four. But when the pitch in the zone, Bryson pops it like he's stop. RBI single, it's one-nothing. Make it too as Bryce harps on one to right. Controversy in the eighth with some catcher-on-catcher crime. Real Mudo catches Murphy with his swing. Catchers interference. 3-0. Hey man, talk about the Braves. All right, you want to hear about the Braves? Swares to Hoffman, to Sir Anthony, to Alvarie. to Orion Kirkering to Strom to Kimbril.

And do not forget Trey Turner's double play. Atlanta gets shut out at home for the first time this season. And Philly, Snake's game won three nothing final. I love this game. For one reason, trying to figure out Toppers fucking puzzle. Okay. Like the gap, the gap to Kimbril was awesome. Like, all right.

So they've used Sir Anthony and they've used Alvarado. We got two innings and then Kimbril, who's it going to be? And then like it was for a while, that was all I was thinking about. Like when Sir Anthony came out after hopping, I was like, whoa, whoa. Who else? I don't know if Phillies fans knew that Orion. and Kirk Green was having this much faith to put in him. He's like their new

high leverage guy. I tried to tell you and you guys laughed at me. New is like new. Did he pitch three games in the regular season? What do you mean? Like you tried to tell us, dude. I said that Phillies fans said they were hiding this guy and you guys scoffed him and here he is.

Jolly all of said. You said Jolly told you that. Jolly said that. Jolly said that. From Philly's fans, man. He pitched me. Okay. Then why was he in the situation? I'll let you guys thump around. Why is he out there? Because he's getting people out, Pop. Nobody's asking why he's out there.

No one's saying the opposite of that. And you don't know anything that we don't know. I'll say that right now. You stole Jolly Yellow's bit, bro. It wasn't a bit. It was a conversation on the stream, which we're doing every night. We'll see you guys at 8 p.m. tomorrow night for Rangers. Kirkring.

Kirkring. He's good. Parkering. crazy that they pulled Suarez there. I don't know if that was necessary, but they said at the top of the broadcast that Topper told the crew, well, we have the day off tomorrow.

And it was almost like, because they had rest, he was like, so we're empty in it 100%. Ranger Suarez might gut punch hopper in the clubhouse, might walk past him and just like sneeze a fist into his belly. He was hissed. I don't blame him.

Because if, If Trey Turner just grabs that ball and goes the first with it. I don't know who is running, but like, I think he's out of the inning. And then this Topper even like, does he still say, okay, you got us through four, we're done? Or does Rangers start the fifth? I don't know. He was mad.

It was funny. Topper believes in it, believes in those guys that he's got. And, you know, if he thinks the matchup's going to benefit him, I don't think he does that with, you know, Wheeler probably or even Nola. But in his mind, I think he had it all along. So yeah, maybe he said Rangers 4 and that's it. Like we got enough guys and enough bullets back there to get the job done. I mean, these guys plan, these guys plan for so many different scenarios, you know, even before the game starts.

I think Topper really like this, man. Philly's, uh, Philly just has that feeling, dude. They do right now. I mean, you got Bryce doing it. You got Trey Turner, who my good friend Mark Simon put a tweet out saying was, you know, one of the, according to the defensive metrics, one of the worst defensive short stops going this year. And the Phillies were not going to turn double plays during the year.

He turns one of the most beautiful double plays you're going to see. And stop with an absolute great turn as well, because you got Albies running down the line. Phenomenal, dude. That made me get out of my, off my seat. I cheered a little bit for them right there. That was pretty cool. It's, uh...

Bryce Harper says that's why you spend them money. Hey, you mentioned all the guys in that double play. Bryce Harper's still playing first base. Like, I know we, I know we've processed it, but like, have we? Because think about how many times, how many teams have tried to make Kyle Schwerver play first base, his teammate, and it ain't exactly clicked. And Harper is making plays over there.

Uh, the Suarez pulls, dude, you got Albies out. Uh, but the bobble and the flip doesn't get there in time. They review it. You're pulled. Osuna does have decent splits that he is better against lefties. And I didn't like it at first because, Jim, I'm with you. Let's get the starting pitching brigade going back into baseball until I saw Jeff Hoffman. I knew he had broken out for the Phillies, but his pitches were disgusting.

So Topper pressed the button. He treated it, and this was what was weird because when we've been ragging on the wild card, None of the games had the back and forth or were like crazy close that we really saw a playoff, playoff decision making. And that's what we saw in this game. Like pulling Ranger there, that takes some balls

because if that decision goes poorly, it looks bad on you. Hoffman looks gross. He ends up playing the bullpen perfectly. And there's Philly. High stepping out of Atlanta again. They're going to have a chance to close it out in Philly again. I mean, I think a lot of the decision making

you're saying, you know, treating it like it's an elimination game or whatever. It's just the fact that who's on the other side. I think they have so much respect for the Braves and understand what kind of team they have, that if they have a chance, you know, to step on, what is it, step on your throat? Is that saying? Clavicle. Whatever. You know what I'm talking about.

If they have a chance to put you down, they're going to try to put you down because they understand just how easy it is for the. the braves to get back into games. You know, they have so many guys they can get you up and down that lineup. Are we going to talk about the catchers interference? Harper reached all four times.

So just to let you know. Got to see some righties today. What do you want to talk about, Treve? The catcher's interference. I don't know. People were so mad at that. I already closed the case, put my breakdown out. Oh, you did? Oh, you did?

Confirmed. Yeah. His bad hit the lace on the glove. There's a double-neutral. noise and you can see the lace flicker and per the rule the lace is part of the glove for catchers interference so correct call on the field and i mean murphy didn't argue it at all so the way they both reacted it was like oh yeah that's catcher interference murphy you can i read murphy's lips when he was talking to castianos and he says uh i heard it i didn't feel it but i

heard it i never had it once happen to me i never had a catcher's interference happened to me i don't know if that's just something to do with i didn't have a deep swing i guess I need to get my fucking swing deeper. Get deeper, Treve. Braves fans, don't throw shit on the field. And Philly's fans and any fan. That sucks. Don't bring Phillies fans into this.

No, I'm just saying Braves fan did it, but the Yankees fans have done in the past. Every fan base has done it, so they just did it to not. Minnesota. My message goes out to all fans. Don't throw shit on the fields. Jeff Passing called him morons. Yeah.

He heard a little bit. Yeah. Game 2, too. Who's the starters for game 2? Max Freed versus Wheel. I think it's Wheeler, yeah. I think it's Wheeler, yeah. Freed Wheeler, I mean,

that's awesome. Yeah, it was fun. This is the series you guys are most excited about, or are you still on the Rangers orioles type thing? No, I know, this one has the most like national juice. I was, I was, you know, talking to people that are, like, not in the baseball weeds like we are. And I always love finding more casual fans.

and they're like, yeah, Philly's Braves is the only, like, good series. And I was like, wait, I was like, Texas and, and they're just like, eh, and I'm like, I guess you're right, you know, if you didn't follow them in the regular season, that does nothing for you. And then, um, Astros twins, yeah, I don't know, like the people got twin Astros fatigue and twins aren't like getting people's heart throbs yet. So I was like, oh, yeah, shit. I thought all four of these were awesome. but I guess

the casual, this is the one, Philly's Braves. Yeah, I mean, you know some of the people may be in this. If you're a casual, obviously, you know, there's stars here, and that's what people like. Legit, legit stars. It's the most high-end talent. And that's Baltimore and Texas,

I think, has the most opportunity for, like, crazy playoff baseball. Like, I think each of those teams can bang a five spot in any inning. And I think we're going to see that going forward. But this is, I mean, the last two NL teams to represent in the World Series, right? Do I have my years right? 22, 21 and like high-end, high-end star talent?

Yeah. Should be seven. It's blow in my mind recently. Like, this has got to be. I love the five-game sets, yeah. Gotta be seven. It's tough. It's tough.

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He was a two pitch pitcher to righties. Three brings the lefties the change up in for lefties. I believe Harper got first pitch slider or forget what Stott got but you know looked really good like every time Harper got on base he got a hit he just took all his frustrations out on Baum next and I felt so bad for him

it was almost like shit Harper got on now I'm gonna throw the nastiest sliders I have to the rabbit big tall righty but he was putting up a fight in the dugout too about getting taken out which was funny boom had a tough day strider bad matchup And yeah, I think he had a double play ball that I was, it was one of those when you don't see a guy play every day. And you do that guess test of where they're going to be down the line if they're going to beat it or not.

And phone was out by a couple steps. And I was like, oh, okay. I thought that was going to be a step closer. Yeah. Big. Game four, a little behind the scenes. It's not over. So.

Just getting started. 10 nothing right now. 10 nothing top eight. Merrill versus Clayton sounds like two old guys who have been beefing in a podunk town for 33 years over nothing, but it's Kelly and Kirshah who'd face off in the Snake's Dodgers, DS, and never mind the DS for L.A. fans, this game, SD. The head of the snake, Corbyn, Carole RBI, a man of faith Christian Walker RBI double. Gabby Douglas Moreno flips one out of the point.

and Clayton wasn't long ago for this game as Evan gets his RBI double. Point one inning, six earn runs for Hall of Famer. Clayton Kershaw, my goodness. Three more in the second and it's time to stop the fight. 10-0 in the 8th as we land right now. Kelly to Mantiply, snakes, babe. The DS is S&MD. Tough.

Can I read? Kershaw, tough start. Tough start for Kershaw. Okay, if we're going to talk about, like, A-Rod thinks everyone's tipping pitches. The first, let's just read exit velocities of the first several batters. 115.7, 109.6, 99.4, 105.7, 10.8, 96.7. That's the first six batters of the game, dude. Oh, then a walk.

And then Longgo hits one 98.8. And then his day is done. I'm sorry. Kershaw, I get that some of the pitches were in the middle. And he's got a bad track record in the playoffs. But this screams to me like they had something. I mean. So they didn't eliminate any pitch.

Does that change it for you? I'm just saying when do you see that? Either it was the worst. outing maybe in my god i hate saying this because i don't want to jump on like the kersha postseason band like i'm not one of those people but this might have been the worst postseason outing of all time so it's either that or like maybe they had something bro ask long ago well they might have to face him again so i probably won't he won't tell me yeah i don't know all the usual tells what you've taught me uh aren't aren't there besides the exit be

though. Like they all like Kershaw got swings and misses on every pitch and he got swings on every pitch. Right. So unless they just like that outing. I don't know. I'm just saying he threw 14 sliders. He got swings on 10 of them. Three whiffs. He threw 17 fastballs. He got 12 swings. They were just fucking swinging. So unless they're like, crazy, I know what he threw two curveball. He threw. through four curveballs, you got two swings. So, yeah, unless, like, usually when a guy's tipping, you eliminate a pitch, right? But that wasn't the case here. I don't know. I'm not saying, I haven't looked. I mean, I was watching the game, but I haven't, like, gone over the video and tried to pick something up myself.

But, dude, I mean, I've never, honestly, I've never seen a game like this, like, ever. I know there's examples, people in the comments. but dude like it was nuts watching that game it was shocking watching that game like christian walker was up there and he's got great numbers against kersha he looked like he knew he was about to hit one off the wall and he did the foul the foul balls were loud man like straight back or deep into the seats it was i don't know man it felt like a bizarro world and you saw kershaw because any any thought we're having, his brain's having him at a million miles per hour. Him sitting on the bench with his like lion's main look.

That's tough, man. Whether you're the biggest Dodger hater in the world, or even if you're a Kershaw playoff stand guy, which, okay, that's good life to lead. Although his numbers are tougher in the playoffs. Like, you got a feel for that dude in that moment. Like, what? Like this is, you know, supposed to be one of the last Kershaw Dodger play.

playoff marches and here he is in game one again. Um, and he's just getting lit up and he's got to be going through it. Was I tipping? Do they have something on me? Or am I just getting hit? Like, that's even worse. So, um, I don't know, man. Uh, the, the snakes are, are out and scary and,

and who, I, Bobby Miller tomorrow. Like, he, he might start his next step to becoming a household name or, uh, This Dodgers team that had a lot of questions about their rotation during the year is going to be pointing at that saying like, what happened? I got 20 balls hit over 94 miles an hour by the Dyingbex sign. So maybe they're just on it. And we need to give credit to them because I know that's what Dyingbex fans are thinking right now. Like, hey, maybe we just crushed the ball today. Can you guys give us a little bit, you know, of respect?

And they looked good and comfortable. and the one quote that got me during the game, and this is kind of all over Twitter as well, Tommy Fam had three hits before Miguel Rojas took a plate appearance, I believe. Yeah. Let that marinate a little bit. Tommy Fam had three hits before Miguel Rojas even came to the plate. That's what kind of game was for the Dodger.

Yeah, well, what did McGee do in his plate appearance? well I'm going to look right now I don't know I got a hit I don't know if it was a second 2.5 a single yeah hell yeah yeah I mean Marte three hard hit balls fam four hard hit balls longgo

four hard hit balls carol too pretty crazy hey question for you two yeah if James Outman catches that first ball we could tell Marte hits now it was 150 miles an hour off the bat

whatever it was. And maybe they did have his his pitches. So maybe it wouldn't have mattered. Let's just say he didn't, they didn't have his pitches. James Allenman catches that ball. It's one out, nobody on. Is it different? Is it different? Well, maybe it's less runs and Kershaw gets the ability to settle down. I believe he faced the Yankees and they tagged him like this in the first inning, which makes me kind of want to go look at his splits by inning. And then he like settled down. It was fine. But they had two homers in the first four batters or something when they were there against

Kershaw. But then he was fine. So I don't know. Splits do not share that story. Gabriel Moreno. Just give a little like fucking praise to him. I am not concussed. Here's a homer.

it's pretty seven homers during the regular season he's got two in the playoffs now and by the way he's he's enjoying those homers too because they're not he doesn't have to run out of the box

he's hitting absolute nukes it's um the snakes the snakes came out with some venom shoots himself for that pun um and trab i'll tell you what like as a sports guy I believe in the story of every

game and stuff. Like, Alman catches that ball. I don't know what happens the rest of the game, but it would tell a different story. And, um,

God, I don't know. I think Dodgers fans, you just, oh, holy shit, clean wash this, huh?

Um, and then, almost easier. Yeah, you've got enough dudes in that lineup. Like, you think, you think Mooky,

Freddie, Will Smith, Muncie, J.D. Hey, were any of those guys are going to be out there sad sackin it because they lost one game tomorrow? No.

Although they do have Zach Gallen waiting for them. Yeah, they have to face Zach Gellon. I don't know, man. Yeah, clearly they're just going to try to wipe this. Dave Roberts, when he got interviewed by Lauren Shahadi during the game, was like, yeah, we're just trying to figure this out. Like, Emmett's going to go

five. Like, he's going to do that. We've got a couple lefties coming in for a couple. Like, he was like, it was conceded, obviously. They just were getting crushed. The reason I bring up the Kershaw thing and and you know I think it

I think it is the same way that Dodgers fans probably felt when Outman dropped that ball like you saw Kershaw's face

and he was like oh like trying not to make a face but made a face I think in his head was shit like here we go again maybe

type thing I know Dodgers fans were thinking that because I'm in a group chat with a zillion Dodgers fans and you know it just seems like it's gone that way too often.

And now, like, I'm really rooting for him to get another start in this series, and maybe he makes up for it. But that was, that's a tough one. That's a tough one to, like, kind of like, live down. I mean, he's obviously a first ballot hall of famer. So he's like, hey, talking head shut up. But, I mean, that's a, that was a rough one. And so bad you just wipe it.

Yeah. You got Castro pitching now. Uh-oh. walks mooky Castro pitching on the mound wearing his leader hosen it'd be it'd be if the Dodgers lose

what does that mean they need a they need another ring they want to brag about the one they got oh you're just calling it a fake ring yeah oh my god farther we get away from that why wait you can't you can't say that dude that was the hardest most

playoff games you ever had to win ever during the 2020 season. So if anything, it was the hardest ring to win. What is 60-game regular season have to do with anything? I would die on this hill. We can't start now. Just like they should win like one in a little bit, fellas. Chop it up.

What does that even mean? 60-game, if we don't care about the regular season, you know, whatever. The Giants win 107 games, daughters beat him in the playoffs. Braves went 101 last year, Philly's beating the playoffs. It's about what happens in the playoffs. and they won more postseason games that year than in history. They won the World Series that year. And why?

So why? Tell me, explain to me. Give me one reason why that's not a legitimate postseason. Well, there's like no traveling and no fans and there was fans. The format was different. There was fans. You guys weren't there, weren't you? We were there.

Yeah, we saw the crazy play. I don't know. The farther we get away from that season, and the more like every time we're in the middle of the season, they're like, hey, this is when the playoffs started. I'm like, wow, that's silly. And the Dodgers are really good. So besides that, like early exits,

it's like this would be their third or their second and early exit. Divisional series. I mean, you basically said that about any of these teams that are going right now, and the Braves have one world series. You know, talk crap about them too. The good one. You're never, you're not going to win this one because that's, it's just a ridiculous.

I don't know if it's a matter of winning because it's just my opinion. I think Dodgers fans and their team would love a World Series in 162 game season. They'd love one more so Jimmy can't say that. It has nothing to do with how many games in the

regular season. It has nothing to do with that. Nothing. Neutral side. They won that year, for sure. Home field advantage did what for them tonight? They got boatwaste in the first inning. I know. They should request a neutral site.

Maybe Kerchow's not. He lost me. He lost me. No, I'm calling out. Oh, shut out gone. They checked that. 11 to 1. 11 to 2.

Sorry, 11 to 2. Play the games in Pasadena or something. Is that between L.A. and the snakes? I don't, I'm not good with Cali geography. Pesson is very close to World of Dodgers. Okay. Bakersfield. Rose Bowles in Pasadenae.

It's not a lot of people are going to. traveled it's in Bakersfield. It's old money in past school. Yeah, you'd fit in great data. You and posh spice. Anyone need their cans recycled? Now you guys made me mad at the end of the episode. Hey, whoa!

I was just the Dodger fan. I moderated. What's that? I'm not even a Dodger fan. You got to be upset? All the Dodgers fans I know say what I said to me. They won another World Series. Every fan says that.

They want a real one where they can- You want one too? I want one terribly. Yankees stink. All right. Well, no one. And we don't even have to play the game.

I guess my main point, Trev, and this has been my point against that Dodgers and the Astros for people that haven't listened to all this. The Astros are built for the postseason. The Dodgers are built for the regular season. And if they lose in the divisional series here, like I feel like it's push come to shove a little bit where they have.

Explain that to me. You can't just say that. Give me a reason why the Dodgers are built for the regular season, but not the postseason. I think I like the way the Astros are built on contact hitters, mainly, not on base percentage hitters, but like they put the ball in play hitters is the main thing the Astros like. I think the Dodgers like on base percentage more and slug.

And I think that the Astros always putting the ball in play. And then they do have sluggers, but even their sluggers are like that's what their Astros war is. it also feels like that Dodgers subscribe to the same shit that the Astros and the Yankees subscribe to, which is some philosophy somewhere that leads to just a fuck ton of injuries to your pitching staff and you're always going into the postseason a little short-handed.

Those three teams all suck each other off whenever they talk about analytics, and they all do that. Dodgers are above league average or like better than most teams. and strikeouts, they were the, they struck out the, like, eighth least of any team. And they had a higher slugging percentage than the Astros did this year. So. Well, I know they like slugging percentage. But the strikeout thing, this is a new Dodgers lineup.

So I'm not that familiar. But in general, I think there always been like their rotation is always great. And then come postseason, it's like, wait, who's their third? You're just blaming Kershaw, basically. I don't know. Maybe then don't have Kirshall be your one. I love Kirchall though. Olivia asked me that today.

She goes, why don't they just not pitch him? I said, well, it's kind of more complicated than that. You can't just like not pitch this hall of. Go tell him, Liv. Yeah. I did not know this. And I don't know if you get, and no one. I just think the Phillies and Astros are under this year.

What's that? Yeah, Jady went off. Like sneaky 300 season. Yeah. I would mention the Dodgers platoony type stuff for part of their lineups where the Astros roll the same guys out. there but if you have awesome guys I mean you just roll out

the same guy so that's yeah that's a little philosophical their front offices are mirrored had your dog has your don't no group that'd be crazy just a thought anyway all right you know I like I like getting fired up

late and I don't stuff like this stuff that I really don't care about but the Phillies go on a deep run I might start looking into what they're doing different than all of the Ray's spin-off teams. All hot guys.

Marbles. Treb, there was one big learning in the live stream tonight. All the fellas said that Alex Kirillov hot. Yeah.

Whoa. Yeah. Like a good looking guy, I wouldn't give him, I wouldn't throw hot on him. Okay. But like great, I mean, that, I'm not trying to bring him down. Sure. You know, you put him next to J.T. Riumuto. I don't know if I don't know about that.

There's a lot of hot guys in this world. Yeah, although he does have a little Jack Flaherty in him. I've told him that before. He does have a little Jack Flaherty in him. He does. Eddie Julian's good, good, like, bad haircut. Real bad haircut. It's a horrendous haircut, yeah.

Not a great name, too. Like, I see him leading off, and I'm like, this isn't a flashy lead-off name. You like, I feel like you like him as a hitter. Have you watched a lot of them? No. Pay attention. them next uh like whenever they play tomorrow just try to like watch his at bats i think you'd

really like him i think he's a james o'brien type guy okay i'll do that go twinkies january 15th episode Trevor ploves all james o'brien team i mean i'm in on i can do that jimmy would like cedric mullins is in sedger mullin right that down first pet's the lead off in her is that your first uh first love cedric mullins right now I like watching Sedgman's play a lot I feel like he's like your favorite player right now but I don't there's two different things

there's like like watching him play or like like his look because Corbyn Carroll's putting that divide to the test in an unimaginable ways pound for pound strongest guy's Ron Darling said What's that? Ron Darling called him the pound for pound strongest person

in the big league I don't know how you figure that one but okay you weigh everyone I love reading Trump and lose stuff he's got a lot of good takes that's that's a good that's a good point james that's a new that's shush that's a new one for our our statistics page we can do everyone we weigh them and then somehow divide it by their slugging percentage and bam pound for pound yeah i mean how much just gregn carrolls got a lot of good

takes thank you corbin carroll weighs 165 pounds that's one that's 155 no no more i've i've stood next this guy the All-Star game? I stood next to him. You think he weighs one a party. All right, more.

This guy's bigger than you think. It's 510, jac. He's 510, 155. Have we ever talked about lying about heights on this show?

Dude, I think he's taller than 5'10. I stood next to this dude and I was like, oh, you're bigger than I thought. I didn't sell.

Dude, 150 pounds would be very small. We're talking about the pounds for pound champ, dude. Yeah. What's spooky bets? I'd probably give it to him

right now. Mookies in, Mookies in the game. maybe a young mookie who's like a tall homers this year mookie bets listed 59-180

all hammer Ozao to be listed 56166 believe we're gonna we're gonna have somebody if you wanted to do it in the chat you can have the comment section you can but I think we gotta do that

slugging divided by weight yeah figure it out big boy sorry you're not gonna you're out on this one this is for this is for the little or you do like the fattest dude with the release slug. Yandi Diaz used to be that guy.

Big guy, no slug. Now he's everything. And he was a launch angle. He was banging him into the ground. Him and Eric Cosman. I have a candidate for the other one. I won't say it. Stay tuned.

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I get Jake McCarthy, Alec Thomas, and Corbyn Carroll confused. All of it. Corbin Carroll's the one. They have all those young lefties. That looks like a dickhead dad from the late 80s. He doesn't. Oh.

That goate, that screams like, Dad, Dad.