Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - Ohtani-Led Dodgers BACK in World Series! | 1051

Episode Date: October 18, 2025

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Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. We may have seen one of the greatest moments in Seattle sports, but we also saw the best game ever played. The Dodgers are going back to the World Series. Show Hey Otani. Show Hey! Oh, my God. Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball.

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Head over to T-Mobile.com slash network. I am Jake Story L.A. At Talking Jake. That is Trevor Plouf. On Twitter slash X real close to 100K follows. Are we going to get you there tonight, Big Daddy? That used to be a thing. People would be like,

follow me or follow my guy on Twitter, baby. Yeah, I think we should get me there tonight. Okay, I was tweeting my butt off. You know what? I'm wearing sweatpants right now. I can't stand up,

Jake. You know what that means. I know. What a freaking game, man. I mean, from the get-go, you felt like something special was going to happen. Otani wasn't having fun out there.

That was, like, the difference that I saw in that guy tonight, was he was mad or determined or con, I don't know. Like he was doing something different tonight. And my goodness, dude. I don't know what there is to say, Jake.

Everything the man has ever wanted to do, he's done. He wanted to win the WBC. And he like told his coach that years ago before it was even a thing. And he did that. He wanted to win a World Series. He did that last year. He's pitching and hitting. And he, Brian Anderson's call at the end of the game,

he might have just had the best game ever played by a big. baseball player. That's unreal, man. I believe it. And, you know, I think a lot of people have been saying that for a long time. I have been saying it for a long time. C.C. Sabathia has been saying it for a long time. Shout up my guy, Cici. You don't have to be friends with me, but you like, you're nice to me. That's nice. Like that. But we, what we're seeing, Jake, is just something that it's not opening the floodgates for anything. Like, this isn't going to have, like, we're not going to have another show hey anytime soon. And I want to keep hammering that down because people like, oh, now there can be two way players. Like, no, there can't. There's already been many people

who have tried this. You know what? I'll say this. I pray that we get another show hey. Every night I'll pray for that. It ain't going to happen, dude. It's not. This guy is a one of one. He hits the ball harder than everybody. He throws the ball harder than everybody and he runs faster than everybody. it's I don't know what I just I'm at a loss for words I was sitting there on my couch today

just being like what the what the fuck is going on okay earmuffs I uh yeah I guess you know what I was gonna call you out and say maybe use your power of prayer for something else I'll join you

let's let's get another screw it because it's uh it's never been seen we never thought it would be seen um and I what would you like me to use my prayer for I almost I don't know

we'll talk about that at the end of the show But yeah, man, and hey, a quick mini apology to the people of Seattle who have a switch hitting catcher with one of the biggest butts to ever play baseball that helps save their season with a game tying homer and then a Venezuelan man with hair like Lord Farquod and a bunch of piercings who might have just renamed sandwiches the Gino in Seattle for the better half of the next 50 years. and they're going to be second on this program

because of what just happened in L.A. Insane spot where our beautiful game is at. Thank you for everyone that's supporting us. Numbers are going crazy. Baseball's back. And all it needed was a giant in New York City, a catcher with a big butt in Seattle. And, oh yeah, Babe Ruth, reborn as a handsome Japanese man.

We got three of the four corners of the United States covered. is like the bottom. Southeast where are you at? Is that Ronald Acuna? We need Charlie Morton to come back. I don't know. I don't know. Castellanos is a Marlin.

Let's go. Trade rumors. Coming up at the end of the program. Treve, let's get into the games because it's insane. Los Angeles loves a show and with Otani on the bump, the Dodgers brought their broomsticks to the ballpark, trying to sweep the brewers, while Milwaukee would try to do any sort of.

of button-mashing to see if Kintana wins game four for them. How about the Otani? That's when you strike out the side in the top and you go ding-dong in the first. It is high T in L.A. as Teo and Tommy drive-in runs. It's three nothing Dodgers after one. Bottom four. Oops, he did it again. Otani spears another home run.

It's four-nothing Dodgers. Oh, oh, oh, oh, Tani. Best game played. Thank you, sir. May I have another. Three homers. Oh, yeah, six innings pitch. Zero earn runs.

Ten strikeouts. The Dodgers and Shohei Otani sweep the Milwaukee Brewers are heading to the World Series 5 to one final. Milwaukee fans, earmuffs, the standings for this series, the Dodgers 4 and 0.

the Milwaukee Brewers. Oh, and for Coach, it was a sweep. I'm not bringing a broom out. I have one somewhere. I just swept my garage out today with it. Not bringing it out here because that's disrespectful, but the Dodgers disrespected the Brewers in this series. That was a freaking, that was a butt-wopin, coach.

It really was. I mean, there's people saying it was the most outmatched, overmatched championship series ever. I'd have to dig through the books to go through that and I'll I'll just let the nerdy olds do that and maybe one day I turn into them

but it didn't seem like a fair fight and hey man, there will be we talked about it a little bit beforehand there's going to be ramifications from this series that we talk about in next year's Labor Pod. That's a little bit of BS. I don't, don't buy into that narrative.

I know. You don't think it's going to be massive headline. You're completely wrong if you think that. I think you're right to say it's not right, but people are going to hold this over Yeah, that's, yeah, people, there is going to be propaganda out there.

Yes, 1,000 percent. How is the parody in the other sports to have a salary cap? Let's not get into this. Let's not get into it. We're going to have plenty of time for this. Let's talk about, uh, I say we start with show hey. Good first inning. Pretty good first inning. Pretty good first inning.

3Ks and a homer and you know the first one was loud Jake I mean we can go over his pitching like I'm like not even thinking about the guy's pitching right now which is crazy because he struck up 10 people in six innings and you know just looked like his dominant self the first homer was an absolute seed

and I was like this guy's back like he's you knew it was coming he's hit one off Kintana before I believe it was last year when he was on the Mets you're like okay like that's a bomb that's awesome Cool to see. It always sounds different coming off of his bat. His swing is just, I don't know, man.

Like, I'm not a biomechanics major. Oh. But it seems like it's pretty fundamentally sound. Things are working together. It's cohesive. When the ball hits the bat, it's loud. That's just my little brain work. I could have went to Stanford.

The second one. What are we doing here? Coach, I've been L.A. guy my entire life. And to my knowledge, to my knowledge, it was always Mark McGuire, Giancarlo Stanton, I believe it was Michael Stanton at the time. And now Shohay, the three guys to hit went over the pavilion. Someone on X put this out there. Don't know who it was.

Love the idea here. He's like, we need more monumental things in stadiums that you can hit the ball onto. McCuddy Cobb is awesome. San Francisco, the pavilion at Dodger Stadium. I like Utah Street and Camden Yards. Like we need more stuff like that because when someone hits one, you're like, shit, this is what he did. Totally agree with this guy's point. That was, to me, as a kid from L.A., it made me, I don't know, like, I was so happy.

100% agree that we need to be hitting more landmark objects and that subway takes guy. I love him. Addicted to him. He's all over my social media. Great. Yeah, man, I don't know. Like, it doesn't feel real. And the thing I just gave Dalton this,

the Dodgers bullpen having a blast. We're killing it. Who's dancing in the background there? What's this mean? I think that's Vesia. That's Vesio comes in and pitches this game. That's, uh, that's sex. I don't, I don't know, I don't, I'm not gonna,

it's just kind of cut and dry for me. Um, the speech I gave Dalton, and we got Bobbo here, produce and late-night crews on the East Coast. The one that always gets me, because Trev, it's... Okay, he's got legendary power. Like you just mentioned him with two all-time historic power hitters to be able to basically leave the stadium.

That's insane. Okay, so he basically throws as hard as anyone, and he's one of the best pitchers in the sport. Okay, we've taken our time to process this. He's also one of the fastest guys. in the sport. It's literally it's video game stuff and I know that gets thrown out but also it's the video game stuff that someone does

something stupid like they make a I'm playing NBA I made an eight foot center and he's the fastest guy in the league and he shoots the best in the league and he passes the best of the league and you're just like okay dude like have fun with your video game this is real life he's doing it in baseball right now. Ron Darling had a phenomenal sentence during the game and we'll get to the other game

and some unphenomenal sentences being said. But Ron Darling said something to the effect of this is a stat line that's usually reserved for Williamsport. And that's what he's making Major League Baseball. The NLCS look like, like Little League, when there's a dominant

12-year-old out there that's just bigger than everybody that probably has two older brothers that just beat him and now he's like out for blood against the little 12 year olds. That's what Shohay is doing to the big leagues on the biggest stage. And I, I can't, I don't know, man. I don't know. I thought I was a pretty good ball player back in the day. Okay, let's talk about it.

I am. Let's not talk about too much about it. So are you comparing yourself to Otani right now? Exactly. The difference between me and Otani is, is light years. It's like, okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? That's the final statement. Otani's better. You know what I'm saying? Yes, Trev. I do. Like the guys were watching on the screen tonight, some of the best ballplayers on the planet.

On the planet. And show me is like. Freddie Freeman, who's a, you know, a high up Hall of Fame. or when it's all said and done, watching Show Hey, like, that guy's not right. I can't do what that gentleman does. I can't do what that gentleman does on my side of the baseball. Never mind the pitching side of the baseball, where he went six innings. You're right. And I think it's going back to, I'll quote one of my religious figures, Josh Donaldson. He said on Twitter, before it got ugly and bad, Josh Donaldson said,

hey, if hitting's the hardest thing to do in sports, then what's that make pitching? That's a beautiful quote. The most savage hitter quote of all time. But that's because there's only so few creatures on this earth that can throw baseballs 85 miles per hour, 90 miles per hour, 95. Never mind 100, which this dude hits with ease. And never mind, Trev.

Dude, he throws a 12 to 6 curveball that's not a featured pitch for him. That's top of the zone before home played. It hits the dirt. Like, I guess that's, again, it's a video game. I hate to keep going back to that. But literally, each pitch is vile. Like, if you did an actual scouting report and you didn't know the pitcher was a hitter, you didn't know the hitter was a pitcher.

You'd say, okay, well, he's one of the fastest guys in the league. He's got better power than everyone. Ah, you know what, Trev? The plate discipline ain't perfect, but when you can hit a ball, half a foot off the plate for a 469 foot homer, nice.

Then your plate discipline honestly shouldn't be that good. And then on the pitching side, he has all the velo, all the skill, the movement. He's perfect. Do you, okay, here's, just a little bit more on Otani

for the people who are waiting for the Blue Jays Mariners and maybe the rest of the game. I don't know how much we're going to get into what else was there in this Dodgers game. A little bit more on Otani. Do you like it that we basically know nothing about this guy? Like is that cool? Like you know how people say like it was awesome

when rock stars were like mysterious and we didn't know any of them and they made them even cooler? And like I tend to agree with that sometimes. I don't, I'm like really good friends with his agent. Known his agent since I was eight years old. I had known nothing about Otan. All I know is that he plays baseball at the highest level it's ever been

played. I know he's got a dog. I know he's got a wife who they have a baby. And that's all I know. I don't know anything about him off the field. Do you like that? I would like to know more the only wrinkle that I

feel like people are probably yelling at home as he's involved in one of the biggest baseball scandals of the past X amount of years. But that's, I mean. That's, all of that is on his interpreter. But I think his life was very closed off before then, that if anything, his life is going to be more closed off after.

And I don't, I don't know. Like, yes, I think anytime, well, anytime we know an athlete and we really like them and they're cool, that's awesome. That's why you shouted out C.C. Sabathia at the top of the show, even though you guys aren't close friends because he's known as one of the realest dudes like in the world and he's like he's big C

he's the man. We're not close friends, fine, but he's nice to me every time we see each other. And that's good and he's nice to me too and that's nice. But I don't know. It's also if we know athletes and they're not who we want them to be, you know, it's kind of that don't meet your hero. So I don't know if he's the man,

which I would assume he is because he hangs out with Freddie and Mookie and all those. Dave Roberts is one of the coolest guys I've ever met. I bet. I bet show hey's badass. Does he listen to Michael Bubez all the time? I want to know what he listens to driving to the stadium. He's not driving,

but like in his car. If I know show hey. If he listens to the seventh inning stretch song, what are you talking about? If I know show hey, he throws us on to get his inside baseball information to get the scouting reports. And then I think he usually grabs a mountain dew.

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Mountain Dew.com slash find do. Trev, I, you know, I'll give a couple quick stats on Otani and then we kind of have to close the Otani loop. 13th ever three homer postseason game. The last three have all been Dodgers for any of our people listening

that aren't the biggest of Dodger fans. Shohei, Chris Taylor, and Kike, the big three. That's insane. First player with two 116 plus mile per hour homers in a game under the stat cast era. And I don't know, nobody's done this.

Like final stat for me, nobody's done this. So if you have anything else, you want to close up on Shohei and then put a quick bow on the series, sadly. I've said what I needed to say about Showhay. I mean, I don't know. I don't know.

I've been saying this since he was on the A. angels. If you get a chance to go see this guy play, please go see this guy play. I've had the pleasure of being in the booth calling his games, which like I don't really think of in the moment, but now I'm thinking back like, oh, I should like really cherish those moments a little bit more. So look, Dodgers, they come to half the stadiums one year, the other half the next year, you got to go see this guy play. Like, do whatever it takes because if you don't, you're going to regret it. And luckily you'll have time. He's got a lot of time left on his contract, but just do it because he's special no matter what he's doing as we stayed already in this show hitting, running, pitching.

You'll be you'll be happy you did it. Please go see this guy play. I don't think I can say that about anybody else in the big leagues. I know there's some baller-ass players out there, but like the one guy you have to go see in your lifetime is playing right now. He's the best to ever do it. Go see him play. in person. It's fair. You seek geek. Nice, Trevor. Look at you, product placement.

Otani, just, again, touching on the pitching just a little more because, you know, the three homers will distract you. He only gave up two hits, so he hit more home runs in this game than he gave up hits. 100 pitches, 10 strikeouts. And yeah, I guess, I guess let's finish off. the Dodgers a little bit because we're going to do a World Series preview up coming up next week when we know who they're playing. And I guess in this game, hey, the bullpen did their job again.

Trininin slipped up, but I mean, the game was over. I think Brewer's fans will tell you that. Their pitching was so dominant throughout this series that, my God, it felt like a UFC match when one of them's a good grappler. and just every round they come out. They just come out and grapple them, and there's nothing they can do. I guess the other, in pre-UFC,

it would have been like a snake and an animal or something, because I went too far with it. I tried to double down. God damn it, Jake. Yeah, stop. The Brewers never had hope, man. Never. Well, I mean, look at the first two games.

Blake's now eight innings pitch, one hit 10Ks. Then you go to Yao Mood with those a complete game against you. Your best shot was against Tyler Glass now in Dodger Stadium, and he has five and two-thirds. They scored four runs the entire series, right? Yeah. And they had 14 total hits.

One for, they only had 16 runners in scoring position, the entire series, and they got one hit. This was an utter domination by the Dodgers pitching staff against the Brewer's offense who's not this bad, people. I'm sorry, they're just not that bad. go check the stats out during the season. They had a lot of ways to get the job done during the regular season. I think your analogy with the UFC Grappler,

just putting them on the mat and just holding them there, that's it, man. They never got let up for air, essentially. It was, you know, and look, can you say this is going to happen again in the World Series? I don't think you can say that. It might, though. Like, these guys who they're starting,

Yamamoto could easily win a Sa-Young any given year. Blake Snell's got two in the bag already. Shoah, we don't have to talk about him anymore. And your best friend, Jeff Passon, who I've had beef with in the past, but we've rekindled our love for each other. We text sometimes. We'll talk about Tyler Glass now,

winning a Salyang in his first healthy year. It's a hell of a rotation, Jake, and they're all healthy, and they're all doing it right now. And just a reminder, when you said friend, I thought you were going to say Tyler glass now just because, you know, we broke bread over Cole Tucker's wedding and we had a really nice time together. I'm so mad. I didn't come. Me too, girl. Um, yeah, I, Trev, I think we can save it as more of a postseason conversation, but just a reminder, all

the names you just named are guys that get paid a lot of money and our superstars that, in a way, we want our sport to come down to the best players and the stars, right? Like, that's kind of been the argument against baseball for years that, you know, the whole David and Goliath going into this series with the Brewers is that we don't, we don't have that, but we win baseball games that I don't know. I know we already preface people for a conversation that could come up in next year's CBA. I don't know. It's the stars really shined. Like all those starting pitchers get paid a lot of money, a lot of money. I know that, Jake. And I think, that there is talk about

payroll, whatever. I understand that's part of the game. But I don't think that's where the Dodgers have really struck it big because there's a team out there that's spending more than them, that can spend more than them. It's one of the richest owners in all the sports. Do you know where they have succeeded 10-fold, a hundred-fold, a million-fold

over every other team? What's that? They have the Japanese market on lock. And these guys are so, so good. Oh, wait, you mean the team that beat us in the World Baseball Classic? It always wins the World Baseball Classic.

We just kind of snarfed and we're like, well, America's the best at baseball. I don't care that they use. Some of them have different stances and they play the game more fundamentally and they seem to just care about playing baseball generally better. They double barrel BP because they just work harder than everybody. Yeah, that nation right there. They got it on lock, dude. Yamamoto, Otani, Sasaki. These guys are just getting started in Los Angeles. Yeah. It's, and look, so you can, they have a location preference as well, West Coast. I get it, but there's, I don't know. There's other teams on the West Coast, Jake, and they didn't make the moves to the Dodgers have made. Correct. They also, I thought you were going to go a different angle, although I agree with that angle. And, you know, their, their closer that has now stable.

their whole situation who's going to be a cost-controlled starting pitcher probably the next five years, and he could win a Sigh Young. I thought you were just going to say, I think, where the Dodgers are different, because there are teams with money, there are teams that work the minor league systems well, there's teams that trade well, there's teams that do for agency well. They do have, this is going to sound super lame and I may need help, but like they have the X factor of like, Dave Roberts is one of the most beloved humans, like, in the game and and general great guy.

Like, when Kike Hernandez, like, struggled on another team, it was like, well, we'll bring him back. Like, he's a part of what we do. Max Muncie, like the creation of Max Muncie to the empowerment to him to become a better defensive third baseman for him to make a game-saving play. Like, I don't know what that is. I don't know if it's, I would label it vibes.

And if I, if we said we're lapping the rest of the MLB in vibes, I think people would just end up pointing to the salaries again and say, you know what helps the vibes, that. But they do have something understood within that organization. And maybe it's leadership from Mookie and Freddie. Maybe it's from the top down. Like ownership matters. And clearly what they are doing on every front is elite.

That's all we got. They are going on to face an AL team in the World Series. If you're new to baseball, hello. Do we need anything else on the Brewers? Do we need to close out the Brewers? I think look. I think they deserve a little bit. You got a fantastic season, Brewers.

I love that you won the National League Central. I love how you play the game. I think that this series wouldn't always go the way that it went. I think this was a dominant time for the Dodger. I don't think this was a complete utter mismatch. It was. I don't know what I'm trying to say. I think everyone understands what I'm trying to say.

There is a world, an alternate timeline where the brewers are very competitive in this series. It wasn't this one. The pitching was too good. It just wasn't. If Woodruff didn't get hurt, does that change things? I don't, I don't know, but. Can Woodruff hit? don't say stuff like that.

We don't do stuff like that on this show. Trev, this was one of the biggest. I'm trying to give the Brewers some flowers, but I'm digging deep, coach. I know, man, and they had a great regular season. They really did. But, man, postseason baseball is different. And we've talked about that now for years. You only use a limited amount of pitchers.

You need guys to be the best against the best in the world. Trev, I'm one of the biggest sports or sports and anything can happen. people that's ever lived. Like, if they played this series a hundred times, I think the Brewers win five of them. Damn. Like, is there a counter? I don't know.

No, I, I, the rosters don't match up against each other. On paper, mismatch, I believe that. I think the Brewers, they have to play, they would have had to play a perfect series to beat the Dodgers where the Dodgers, I think, can win it, like, 60 to 70% So that

We're not good at numbers here Definitely not percentages But you know the gist of what I'm saying here They didn't play perfect baseball And they needed to get the job done It'll be interesting to see what we get from the crew next year But they're all back Like they're all there

They're pretty much everyone's back And Hey like again me believing in sports is What can they build on from this? I mean, maybe it's gearing up the pitching more to pitch toe-to-to-to with those guys if somehow they can do that. Maybe it's making a trade for some sort of hitting that feels different because as much as we have fun with the Brewers throughout the year and a lot of the guys that had stand-out performances and were like, look at this guy. They got him in the minor league Rule 5 draft and he's killing it.

I don't know. There's proven track records of what the Dodgers have working. There's not really a proven track record of what Milwaukee has working. In the postseason. In the postseason. So, hey, maybe if there's a team that can figure it out, it's them because they were the best team all regular season. So maybe they just need to find a way to tweak that recipe a little more.

When Sal Freelik turned the double play, that's when I thought Brewer's ball could work. And then just from that moment on, it didn't. I mean, if that ball's a grand slam, what are we saying about this series? One of the craziest plays in baseball history. Hey, Brewers, great year. You don't care about that right now. They hit 118 in the NLCS.

That is the worst batting average by any team in a postseason series of at least three games in MLB history. Enjoy the offseason. Had a great season. be sad for a little bit enjoy the offseason someone said Cabo's fine you can go to Cabo I don't know oh really I saw

in like a news article about it they're like I don't just do what you gotta do decompress go to Cabo Treve is like one of my favorite versions of myself go to a game go to a concert do it all with Sea Geek today's episode is sponsored by Seek Seattle we're coming

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Did we, who wants to? the NLCS MVP, I didn't see. I'll give you one guess. Shohay did? Okay, I'm just... And unfortunate sad snaps for resident Padre fan Ryan Cohen called all of this before the game. I think he literally said three homers, he shoves, he's going to win MVP, where Shohay's postseason numbers before this game hadn't been that impressive. And here we are talking about literally the best game ever played.

Seattle had one of their best nights in their baseball history. Let's do that. Buckle up for game five as Kevin Gossman and the Jays could leave Seattle feeling very blue if they sweep all three in the Great Northwest. Unless the vanilla gorilla, Bryce, Bryce, baby, and the Mariners can collaborate and win some. Bottom two, Gino, Gino, Gino. Youth of the Nation.

Suarez makes it 1-0-0-Narion. Top 5, George Springer Spaniel has that dog in them. RBI double to tie it up and in the 6 for the 6. Ernie Bert's an RBI single. Captain Kirk flying around the bases. It's 2-1J's bottom 8th. Seattle needs a rally. Cal, he makes Brendan feel little with the game-tying Homer.

and later that inning, get out the rye bread and the mustard grandma. It's grand salami time. They'll be calling that sandwich the Gino for years in Seattle. Toronto didn't want the smoke as Munoz shuts it down. Mariners win game five, six two final. Standings in this series, Mariners, three and two, Blue Jays, two and three. They got to win two in a row back in. in Toronto to get the job done. Mariners one win away from their first ever World Series

appearance. That's pretty cool. Yeah, I've decided I'm going to stop apologizing to Seattle. We had to move this to the second half. O'Tonnie, what a great night for baseball. Seeing a player do something that's never been done in the opening 15 minutes we did on this show. Seattle that is involved into this great American city, a great sports town, the 12th man in Seattle. They lost their basketball team right before Seattle kind of blew up even more. And now this baseball team that hasn't been to the World Series, hadn't won an ALCS game in Seattle in 25 years.

After losing two games, they put together a dream eighth inning in hindsight. It was scary at first, but then Cal Raleigh, his first right-handed at bat of the series, goes big fly, big fly, like over the stadium it felt like. And then later that inning, Eohenio Suarez hits opposite field, Grand Slam, his 50th plus Homer of the year, which is insane as well. A night that's going to go down in Seattle folklore. I think there are two main points in this game, too.

and they're both pitching changes. The first on, let's go Cron-Potted up. Bryce Miller coming out pretty early. One base runner on, bottom of the lineup up. What did you think about that? I got thoughts, but I want to get yours. I didn't love it in the moment, but I also didn't hate it.

He scrambled through a couple innings there. You're up. One, nothing. that I don't, in playoff baseball, and this is a pivotal game in this series, like whoever was going to be up three, two, and instead of having to win two, you got to win one. He played to win. I was scared because to overextend your bullpen in that moment when you don't know how

much game is left or you don't know who's going to look good, I didn't think it was the right move. I guess I wasn't fighting it. I wasn't fighting it. I had a very similar reaction where, look, the bottom of the lineup had been doing things, especially the last couple of games. And I didn't mind taking it on.

I don't know about going to brash there. I think I put in our text, something about two pitch guys. He's like primarily slider. You know what you're going to get with him. that kind of scares me a little bit without, with a runner on. Like if you bring him in a clean inning,

I like it. But with a runner on, and I just feel like, for some reason, I didn't think that was the right guide to go to, but I didn't mind the move. Because there was, there were some walks.

And like I said, the eight, nine hitters, you know, I care, I said what you want about him. If you're, you know, I've heard you guys bash him a ton.

Okay. Maybe you've been okay. Maybe you've been okay. A lot of Yankee fans have. Thank you. He's been getting the job done this series. A couple nice knocks at least. And then Jimenez has been like a god the last couple nights.

So I didn't mind it. The other one, he ends up giving up a run. The bullpen does their thing for the Mariners. But the other one, which I think is the big one here is Brennan Little coming in. Every single Blue Jays account that I followed immediately was like, what's this guy doing in the game?

and I'm reading the tweet right now so maybe our super producer can fact check me Brandon Little's last 21 innings 19 hits 13 earn runs 16 walks and John Schneider wanted the quotes for what that he wanted to show that part of the lineup a little something different I got to disagree John

didn't like that one Dan Wilson I think he made a gut check call and was like, look, I see, I see the phrase coming and I want to stop it before it turns into a rip. I think that's what he did. Schneider went for like the kind of call and it just backfired, man. All three batters reach base, cow with the big homer, and they had a big, you know, eighth inning because of it. It's, I think that move alone right there. It obviously caused. in the game. Does it cost in the series? I guess it's yet to be seen. It's really tricky with the way we use bullpens now because Brendan Little had, I think it was

78 regular season appearances when we were live streaming. Like everyone in the room's eyes lit up and they're like, whoa, that's, that's every other day, pal. And yeah, who knows when you bring up some of those stats, you know, what, what effect does that have on him at this point of the season. Part of me gets the thought process. Like, what are the chances? But he wasn't also going to see any left-handers. So you don't love that. And I think I agree with that. Because of what Wilson did with the lineup, he puts Polanco behind rally. They switched Julio to the top. Like, he was going to see right away two right-handed batters. Well, and Trev, I'd like to say, and I'll tell the people earmuffs for a second, not cursing worse, Yankee stuff.

One of the secret part of their dynasty, Jorge and Bernie being switch hitters, it messed up your plans. Because whatever they were, they were then at the advantage. So Cal Raleigh and Polanco are doing a version of that, especially this postseason, that, yeah, he had to shoot someone. And if you don't know that baseball term is also used for putting someone in the game. He had to shoot someone from the bullpen to go out into the game. and yeah man i don't know i guess the counter to that is who in the bullpen's screaming up off the page

i agree with that i will agree with that i don't think they i think that's been tough for them like you know domingas i think he's obviously i would rather have him in the game than probably brandon little at that point and hoffman and varlins had trouble with the long ball and he's looked good and look bad like there hasn't been anyone that's come out and said give me the fucking ball on the man There just hasn't been that for the Blue Jays. Their starting pitching has, but the bullpen has not been that way. So I do agree there.

You're kind of damned if you do, Dan, if you don't. But that decision to me was very interesting. Trev, I have another in this game as we chew through it. The run that gives Toronto the lead. And someone in our live chat was like tonight, it was like, Jakey, You're getting a little smoltsy on me with some of the, you know, too many of these shows, I hop on the mic, and I'm talking about old school baseball, and it used to be like that.

And I get probably too passionate, more passionate than I should. But it's because I'm passionate about it. Dude, what could have been the game-winning run in this game was Alejandro Kirk scoring on a single. He hadn't done that all year. He is one of the slowest men in the league. I think he was 11 singles had been hit, and Alejandro Kirk had not scored from second on one of them.

Ernie Clement, aka Mookie Betts, slaps one into right. Dominic Canzone gets the ball while Kirkies round in third. Trev, if he puts it anywhere near the plate, this is a comically bad send. We're using that stat the other way. Yes, Trev.

I have been so mad. He's not going forward. He's going side to side and slightly moving forward. It's a unique body. Trev, if this throw is anywhere in the circle around home plate, the cutout circle, the man is out by a mile and we're yelling at the third base coach right now. Instead, he scored what could have been a game-winning run in a post-season game.

And it's because the throw was nowhere close. it's throwing a baseball If you sail it And the ball slips I get it If you spike one in the dirt Because you're You choked it

I get it Trev That's 30 feet up the line He needed to take his time And he ain't doing that Not in a playoff game He's going a million miles an hour If he would have just

You got to think about Who's running And you have to really put that in your mind That's why they always say Like you got to know where you're going with the ball before the pitch is thrown. And you do. Baseball players do that.

Every single pitch, you're like, okay, ball at my left, ball to my right, charging a ball, like, where am I going? You just instinctively do that. You played so many freaking endings. It just happens. Right here, he has to tell himself, Alejandro Kirk on second base. If I get this ball, I don't have to, I don't have to go like 100% on it.

Like, I need to get a good, accurate throw. He did not do that. So I saw your live stream take on that and you're like, It really makes me mad major league outfielders. Look where Cal caught that ball. This is the CS. This is to go to the World Series. I don't know, man.

Do you want to stay on the old school baseball takes just real quick? I don't know. The broadcast here was insane. The shit they were talking to. Eugenio Swares. And don't clip this social media team, please. You already retweeted my thing. He didn't want that.

Fine. John Smolz one day is like, hey, you piece of shit, I would have struck you on three pitches. I know, John. Yeah. But you still shouldn't have said those things about Eugenio Suarez. It kept saying he's got one place you can pitch him.

And that's, he takes the same swing no matter what. I'm like, dude, this guy's got 325 pumps in the show. Yeah. And I love, love. that he went up top twice and one was a game deciding Grand Slam. Like that to me was awesome. And they still were talking crap, man. A guy known he can hit the fastball.

It's if he can lay off the slider. That's like, shouldn't you be saying like, dude, this is awesome. A guy coming back to Seattle. Grand Slam one win away from the World Series. What a moment. Instead, you're talking about how he can't lay off a slider when he just took a fastball 350 feet out for a grand slam. in front of his home crowd, this is what we're thinking?

It's nuts. It's nuts. It used to drive me nuts. I kind of let it wash over me, like a warm bath that I just don't let myself get that mad at it anymore. Because, again, Smolte has moments of brilliance in the booth that you're like, wow, dude, yeah, you know, you know, you know, Hall of Fame level, closing, starting, you know, could hit decently for pitcher levels. but yeah man he's just so critical on everything you just said like this guy oh henio suarez is a legend he's just thinking like what he would have done i would never have thrown this guy a fastball

and all this and yes like obviously this guy's a freaking menace john smoltz was a dog i love everything about his career to basically two different career starter reliever all that awesome dude i respect this shit out of john smoltz i do I just think, like, man, like, we need to clean that up a little bit. That's all I'm saying. And I'll give this to Seattle. How about this? Let's just switch gears real quick.

Dude, they know how to chant people's names in Seattle. Real well. Like, they're the best in the biz at that. I'm going to hand that to Seattle right now. Here's your crown. Best in the biz chanting names. Number one. A. Oh, Hennio Suarez, with a 563 slugging against breaking balls this year.

So, yeah, I bet there's a lot of pitchers that when they face Gino, They're like, I don't want to give him a fastball over the plate. Somehow he's found a way to pump 300 plus homers. And by the way, about to get a nice contract somewhere else and pump another handful of homers to get to 400. That will probably be talking about five in about three years. And like, wait, is this that guy the most underrated? We'll get there.

Tune in talking baseball, 2028. Should be a good year. It'll just be AI by then. Trab, I want to go back to, you mentioned Matt Brash coming out. You didn't like, or two pitch, pitcher, like in that situation, it is what it is. Brash's was kind of their two-man all year. I guess you can make an argument that Bizarro maybe has jumped him this postseason with how nasty he's been.

But they go to who had been their setup guy this year, and yes, Springer gets him, two-o count. We were all sitting up in our seats, one of the better post-season players to ever play George Springer, which, again, just put that in the bucket of sometimes it might be better to walk a guy. but they're lucky that ball stayed in the ballpark. It'll get slightly forgotten. Matt Brash strikes out Vladie to end the inning on a nasty, nasty sinker in.

He's got great stuff. He does have great stuff. So in the Matt Brash pushing the button decision, there's something to be said that, yes, he gave up that hit to Springer. He also struck out the bad man in this series after that. Agreed. I didn't mean to come in on Brash. And in the moment, that's what I thought.

I know most of the time you're going to be sitting slider. I think Vladdy probably was on that fastball right there. I think he throws it, if my memory recalls, I think 70% of the time. So it's just, I don't know, in certain situations, I feel like that's not a great thing. I'm not trying to dog this guy. I think he is, he's a very good reliever for them. And I think a lot of people were talking about, okay, why didn't Brian Wu come into that situation? I think he needed a clean inning.

Yeah. And he got it. We saw Brian Wu in this game, which that, had to be exciting for Mariners fans. Spire with a clean, quick inning after he threw a lot of bullets the day before, and he's been used a lot. Man, that George Springer,

I'm just trying to think of moments now. George Springer getting hit in the knee was one of my least favorite things I've seen in a long time. The sound on that was like show hayes, like, what was that? Ball off the bat. I mean, he was just knee. I don't know.

I'll call out FS1 on that. When they were doing the replay montage, A, without sound, I was like, I don't, should we be showing this one? There's a chance this is like gnarly, gnarly. Do we have results on that? I haven't looked at the sheet. Don't just put up a finger point. He's got a right knee contusion.

He had x-rays, which were negative, which is a good thing. He'll probably do some more testing tonight when we get home. George is about as tough as they come. I think they'll have to be really, really hurting to not be in the lineup on Sunday. That's from John Schneider. And we saw him try to walk to first, and then, he went for the little jog and that didn't didn't go. But he's tough.

Hard hit in New Britain, Connecticut, baby. Yeah, man. You know, all three of us, you, me and George Springer, have lived in New Britain, Connecticut. I had a lot of fun. Like, a lot of fun at New Britain. Me too, guy. I shout out Elmer's Bar and Grilly.

Elmers, hell, yeah. Sir, you're going to have to leave just a couple times. We're still on good terms. man that that was tough as he tried to stay in on that and yeah i couldn't believe they just played the audio only cut like get that out of my face they basically said earmos they pulled it us on they did um you know what i respected what do you got on mariners shuffling the lineup is this is this dan wilson being like all right like trying something and it working right like you got to keep it this it was funny one of dalton's first notes julio leads off for the first time since the summer

You know, Gino homered twice and Cal homered once. Those are the two guys that didn't move their lineup spots. I don't know. Do with that what you may. I don't know. I'm a fan of pushing buttons in the postseason as long as you're not pushing it just to be ran. Like you talked about with Brendan Little,

that was a little bit pushing the button to just hope something happens. Like moving Julio up to Liddle, I don't have an argument against that. Like Polanco in the middle of the lineup, yeah, sounds good to me. They've used a hundred different lineups this year. Yeah, man, it's kind of... So it's not as like stroke of genius as I thought.

Between Mariners fans, you guys let us know below. I just know a lot of different teams have a lot of different philosophies. But, I mean, man, between injuries or lefty-righty and I know some teams do try to out-think themselves, I don't know if the Mariners are one of those. But yeah, man, teams love cracking a different lineup. Oh, Rocco Valdele with the twins. That was like, I don't want to say what I'm thinking right now.

He got off to that. So I guess I did say it. So I guess he did say that instead. Imagine what he didn't say. Crazy. I guess what else from the game action, Trev? Gossmann looked good. Thanks.

I'm just, I'm reliving this. I mean, it was a while ago. I watched Show Hey do his thing. I think we covered a lot of, a lot of plays. I mean, there was the double play lining into a double play. What else is there?

I don't know. That was big. That was Blue Jay's. Oh, there was the Ernie Clement, two inch double play. So it was bases loaded, nobody out. You get the K.

And then Ernie, who has obviously been like, the guy. you know puts one there and you see it used to piss me off when grounds crews did this and I'm not saying they did this on purpose or anything like that but a lot of the times that that portion in front of the plate

they'll sop that thing full of water especially if there's a guy that throws like like the tigers used to do this all the time if there was a guy that threw sinkers yeah they just wet that spot so the ball go into the ground just stop basically you can see that, you know, right there, that big splat. I guess it's not too wet.

It's a different color than the batters box, and it's something. But that was an insane sequence right there. It's something that if you're new to baseball, you should know that is like a real thing that different infields are cut differently. Team spray the areas differently. Like, if you have that sinker baller, you don't.

And yeah, that's literally the dream escape. Oh, strike out and then literally, on top of the plate I love the overhead shot because it shows like the exact moment where Cal found the ball. Yeah. I thought that was so cool.

Moves pretty well for a big fella, huh? Of course. Platinum glove winner. He's like, where is it? Where is it? Then, oh shit, there it is. Hats off. God, there's nothing cooler

than freaking taking your mask off with the skull cap still on. Oh, interesting. Oh. Yeah. The catcher look is pretty. The catcher look is badass, dude. That's the closest that we have to a warrior on a field.

Because the ball goes at them every play. That's why kids really like playing catcher until they get back there. They're like, fuck this. I'll play catcher. I don't want to do that again, Coach. No, dad, no, dad. Man, Mariners were two for 24 with runners in scoring position in Seattle until Gino's Grand Slam. That's insane.

ALCS game in Seattle won since October 15th 2000 I had just turned 10? Okay. I forget what I was doing that weekend.

Vladdy since What was that? I was going to say our guy Bobby Gals had a Ernie Clement 2 plus hits got taken away from him. So that's fun. It's just unfair. It's an unfair sport sometimes.

Bob? I got it back with the Raleigh Homer. Hey now. Oops. Hell yeah. Vladdy, since the series moved to Seattle, 7 for 11. Jesus.

That one strikeout is the strikeout I mentioned before. Yeah, I guess here's what I'll say before. I guess we tee up the next game a little more for how. Oh, no. What? Uh-oh. Chris Rose, he said, we got to do a show tonight.

We weren't going to do a show. We're doing a show, right? Woo! So one thing Chris likes to do, he does not like when, like, regional sports guys or any sports like commentator goes out of player,

especially about getting injured. Oh. He just sent a tweet from this guy who is K-C-PQ, Seattle, Washington sports rep, Fox 13. sent out a tweet, well, if you're going to hit anybody, I don't even, basically he was talking like shit to George Springer. I can't wait for Chris Rose to just lay this guy out. I can't wait. Late night Chris Rose wasn't going to do it, but now the people need me to. He says, he sent it. Dan goes, LMAO, you want me to get a screenshot of the guy?

I think Chris said, not sure about that, still thinking whether to use it. So he's very thoughtful. But if he does decide to go at this guy, look out, buddy. The Chris Rose Dan Roar connection will be studied. It's unbelievable. For millions of years. Trev, Rob, I think we got one more people we got to thank. Our friends at Draft Kings, you mentioned that it was winning bets by Bobbo.

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We'll be there. Everything I said about the brewers that hurt my soul, these two teams, if they played 100, I could see it literally going 50-50. Like the mix of talent that you have between the rotations, the bullpens, the different approaches in the lineup, Like, these are, this is an awesome matchup. Agreed.

Everything from the uniforms, I love together. You know, superstars going up against each other in Vlad and Cal. I think the pitching staffs have done, have been great. There's plus defenders all over the field. Yes, I believe these rosters match up very, very well against each other. And I think the managers, too. I think these are like baseball guys through and through, and I like that. Oh, my, Rob, I don't know if this is one you'd be able to find,

but the manager celebrating the Cal Raleigh Homer, that was an amazing shot. Because, you know, Cal Raleigh hits the game, or no, Gino hits the Grand Slam. Oh, I saw that. Gino hits the Grand Slam, and everyone's losing it, obviously. And it's, I guess it's a losing it we've never seen in Seattle, like crowd going nuts. You got shoes on head. I don't know if we want to talk about that.

They did that again tonight. I didn't see that. Oh, yeah. Last night I saw it. Yes, hats were on heads while their shoes were on heads while Gino Suarez is a grand slam to help them win this game five. They're doing the player reactions and Gino. He's giving the heart as he touches home play. They cut to the managers, man, which I don't know as not to be Chris Rose,

but as you get older, life changes and you know, you can't play the game and give your buddy a forearm shiver to the chest after the home run just because life, life changes. The managers and the emotion they had going on. Oh, those are grown, grown men yelling and screaming and holding on to each other for dear life. That's the best.

One day me and you pop, one day me and you, Pap. I, um, let's remind me, if I forget this in a second that I need to let Treve in on my new analytics department, analytics analytics department for our team. We're going to get a game six. We've already got quotes from Schneider that said, Gossman will have the cleats on for game seven, so they're, they're getting ready. It's going to be you savage, the kid who threw no-hit innings against the New York Yankees. Yankees mentioned.

And then it's expected to be Logan Gilbert for Seattle. They haven't mentioned it yet. It'll be interesting to see what kind of funny business goes on in the next 24 to 48 hours as they have the off day and then they'll play Sunday night. I guess baseball-wise, is there anything that you need to mention? Coach, we just covered the whole game. Yeah. So, okay, here's my bonus for our team we take over.

So we're going to have like a normal analytics department and the exit Velo and oh, this guy does this. Oh, great, great. Like stat nerdy information. We're going to have like the secret analytics department that's not really numbers, but like Jimmyisms. Like when a pitcher touches his hat, what does he throw? Like that kind of stuff. That I guarantee you there's an analytics number out there when a pitcher throws away a ball that their pitch percentages change. Like when

pitcher X throws away a ball, that means he wants to rip a fastball. So he asks for a new ball. So put that in our secret analytics department's binder of things to look up. I like that. I like it. See? That's just, that's called seeing the game differently. Coach. I mean, you got another show to record. So I can't wait. I guess I'll let you go. Go check out baseball today with Trevor. and Chris Rose.

We are off tomorrow. Look at us. No baseball game, no show to do. Daddy might have a drink. It's been a lot. I've been real good about it. I invite everyone to join me on this like taming it down a little bit

journey that I'm on. And then you've got a six. I look great. Look at me. You look great. You've got a 6.30 a. football game on Sunday. Your guy Matthew playing in London.

So look at that. We bought ourselves some time. You borrow his golf cart for the weekend. That's real nice of him. Wow. My mind's not working. I try to get in there and fix it. I'm just...

It didn't work. A lot of people are trying to unpack that right now. Let's end the show. Thank you to Rob Seraco, Dalton Feeley. Thank you to everyone tuning in. Share, subscribe, all the good stuff. It helps. And we're excited.

One game away from the World Series. Jake sucks. Maybe two. Hey, go follow me on X, dude. I'm so close. How many are you at? I'll follow. Fuck you.

98.3,000. Oh, we're there by the morning. Let's go, people. Get that news, call out that news reporter. That'll get you some news. Chris is ready. It's hot.