The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Bazungas and Pitch Clock (feat. Adnan Virk)

Episode Date: October 2, 2025

"Everyone is standing, some of them are breathing." Billy tries to offer Jeremy an apology, and it ends with reckless speculation about Jeremy's use of Botox and his relationship with a former guest of the show. On the Pitch Clock, Jeremy and Chris play a Yankees-Red Sox-themed game, and Adnan joins the show to set the stage for Thursday's tripleheader. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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game time guy. You know what? I'm going to do this because of how shitty that contribution was. Like, you just didn't offer anything in the way of, uh... It was a cherry on top of a mic chase. No, I was a penalty two minutes for a shit contribution. No. I was a cherry. I was a cherry. He was a cherry. He was a cherry. He was a Dude. Try to be a cherry. Seems like a game time guy. It just wasn't a contribution.

It was just speaking to be heard. It was useless. So we've got three baseball games today that are fun. And I will tell you that yesterday I'm driving home and I'm listening to Guardians tigers and the tigers keep getting base. runners against Cleveland, and they keep stranding base runners. And I'm listening, and I really enjoy still old-timey radio on a baseball broadcast. And the Cleveland announcers are so excited, because their team's just okay. They're minus six run differential this season. They have three

guys batting under 200 in the lineup, but the Tigers collapsed late in the season, and Cleveland and won like 17 of 19 games. And the announcer, as you hear the crowd, the ambient noise, and they're talking about how much they love October, the announcer nails it with the following sentence, everyone is standing, some of them breathing. Because the tigers had runners on base all the time. and something that's happening in that sport. And, Mike, I know you're sort of new to it here.

You gathered for playoff baseball, and Zaz, I know you love playoff baseball. I do. I do. The basis-loaded situation does not matter anymore for offensive because of the way that pitchers are now striking out one-fourth of the hitters and in the case of Mason Miller, striking out all seven guys he's faced because everything he's throwing up there is triple digits. So right. It's so used to be, all bases loaded, guaranteed runs are going to score now. Yeah. What's a misrate? I know the strikeouts are probably a solid indicator on that,

but when you have bases loaded, you're like, all right, at least we can get bat to ball in this situation. And Raltish Chapman figures it out, and people don't even have an opportunity to make a play on it. But league average, okay, is 22% of the hitters strike out. But here's the thing. They strike out against all the bad teams, too. The teams with pitching now who have aces going on the front, you've seen most of these games, except the Dodger games, are low scoring. Everyone who's going out there throwing is throwing so hard that it is very difficult to score. Which I don't mind.

I think there's high drama in these situations where you essentially have the tying run at the dish every inning. That's fine. I love that they really fix this game. Again, just bombing in for the playoffs here. These games are going so quick. Because even before playoff games, even if they were low-scoring pitchers. Well, that's mostly an effect of the pitchers being so great, is that these playoff games are lower scoring, right?

I mean, but there have been pitchers' duels back in the 90s that would take forever. Well, because you could switch the relief pitchers like every batter. You're right. That rule right there, I would imagine it's really helped. I saw this change, I'm going to say, three or four years ago, where it didn't matter, getting a runner to third or getting runners on first and third, just stop mattering because it's so hard to make contact and even. hit a ball to the outfield that the number you can't play the way the royals won the championship

anymore bunting and stealing bases and doing that stuff they were ahead of it though when it came to the bullpen now everybody is basically that royals bullpen billy have you been excited by the baseball that you've been watching have they lured you in here recently with these games because Yankees red socks is a fun one Aaron judge is in a really difficult spot am I the only one ruined for the Yankees by the way like I like when the Yankees keep advancing in playoffs. Why? Because they're interesting. Like, I know the Yankees. They're interesting. There's always

drama surround them. I want to keep the conversation going about Aaron Judge. I like when the Yankees are involved. But you want them to ultimately lose. Like, you want them to keep winning to then lose? Yeah, I don't need them to win, but like, I enjoyed last year when they got to the World Series. So, yeah, I think you're right. I think so.

I'm with Zaz. I want them in it, but I want this judge narrative to, like, I want him to come up in a big spot. I want them to do bad, and I want to crush them the next day. Yep. Yep. The Dodgers have now advanced to the division round 13 straight times. So money may not guarantee happiness, but it does guarantee you the divisional round if you're the Dodgers. It doesn't guarantee you winning the lottery, but you get way more lottery tickets to win the lottery. Pitch tipping also.

Big pitch tipping scandal. Do you guys know the last time the Reds won a playoff series? Do you want to guess the last time? Because they got dragged by the Dodgers. The Dodgers made it look very easy. they're the only team that actually hit the ball a ton in this first. 91. Did they, I remember Roy Halliday through a perfect game in the playoffs against Brandon Phillips's Cincinnati Reds.

Maybe that wasn't the wildcard. Maybe it was that year. 1995. Whoa. That is not the big Red Machine. That is not the Big Red Machine. The Big Mac Machine was in the 70s. Boy, do you even follow Baseball Village?

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gaming resources. See dkng.com slash audio. Don Lebertard. That was a long story. Yeah. It's the only kind he tells. This is a short one for me. I tried to speed it up for you guys. You forgot about the League's Cup. Stugats. Yeah. La Caretta is

a place where the best of the celebrations has to be the 97 Marlins celebration because it was Levant. Well, when Fidel died the first time. This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stoogads. Jeremy is going to cover some of this in pitch clock in moments. Billy, did you want to offer Jeremy an apology even though he's not here today? Nah, we're good.

I did at one point in time, but I've moved past that because Jeremy's so Jeremy that it's just like, yeah, we're good. We don't need to apologize. Well, what was the nature of what you were considering apologizing for? I felt like maybe I advanced a narrative that he may have been having an inappropriate relationship with a former guest and possibly friend of the show. But I will say that all of the social media posts after the fact kind of left a lot of questions unanswered, I would say. So I don't think that after, you know, throwing it out there, something that we were all kind of wondering of what was going on there. I thought maybe that wasn't great.

But, I mean, they did nothing to dispel those rumors. That's what I'm saying. Answer some tough questions, Jeremy. I don't think you have anything to apologize for. I'm on your side, Billy. Thank you. Well, it was accusatory in nature. And Jeremy loves sports, loves baseball.

And older women. We don't know if he loves older women. women or not. You keep making this act. One would assume. That's what we're trying to get to the bottom of, Dan. He flew. He just flew to New York to experience all things New York and Boston. And Zaslo is the only one among us today rooting for the Yankees. I'm rooting for Yankee pain. I grew up a Yankee fan. I've told you this story before. Their spring training was in Fort Lauderdale. We did not have pro sports except for the dolphins back then. So when baseball came to town, it felt like a giant thing. But there are so many New Yorkers in Miami who have infected Miami with their New York that I have since now just enjoyed New York suffering in all sports. Right, but isn't it max suffering if they get the tease of last year and then they lose in the World Series? Why is he smiling like that? The photo of Jeremy behind me?

Dan, you may need to put the reckless speculation on just to cover me. Can you hit it for a second? Okay, but I thought this started with Billy wanting to apologize. I may need to apologize after this. I may apologize to Jeremy on Mystery Crate this week. We'll see how I'm feeling. Okay. Time to throw away all journalistic credibility and get reckless.

Here is something we like to call reckless speculation. You're good. You're good. Thank you. If you take a look at the picture that's on your screen right now and behind Billy, is it reckless to say? Looks like Jeremy's had some work done. The eyebrows on the top right here look a little high.

I get what you're saying. Like there's a little bit of some injections. He's lost a lot. of weight recently. I don't think it's the weight though. I don't think it's the way. It's the eyebrows. I think it just looks weird because he's never had a smile that big on his face.

He's got some talks. I mean, she did tweet out that he's her boy toy. She called my handsome boy a couple times. I'd do anything for a cute boy in one of the videos. Yeah, she's instigating manners. Is she on pitch clock? Do we know the guest that is on pitch clock? Okay, so it's Adnan.

Might have been awkward, I guess, for them. I am going to consume all of this stuff. this afternoon, but Yankees Red Sox being able to give us, you know, to the right to play the Blue Jays, I just did not have that happening this season. That is not. Blue Jays are good, Dan? Yeah, the Blue Jays won the division. What?

The Blue Jays got the buy. They were supposed to be good for like the last five years with all these young guys. And then it wasn't really panning out and now it has. It has. What are you interested in here, Billy? Have they lured you in? Is Jeremy going to lure you in? No, Jeremy's not.

but baseball will. Game three. Did we sufficiently apologize and clean up that situation with Jeremy? Is that fine? The Botox or no? I don't know what you've done here. I thought you were going to apologize to Jeremy and then you said I don't apologize

and now you've pointed out that Jane Levy exacerbated matters and through lighter fluid all over the situation by calling him a boy toy and everything else. And Jeremy's had work done. Well, that was you guys. If anyone has to apologize for that, that was you guys. That was not you guys.

It was just Tony. It was just Tony and Mike. No, Mike. No, I said he's smiling. Look, I'm very uncomfortable with how this show is treating Jeremy this week. If it wasn't for Jane actually furthering this conversation, I'd be made very uncomfortable by it. It's unfair. People normalize platonic relationships between 20-somethings and older women.

And men, there's an older gentleman there too, and they talked about writing and what have you and whatever. Well put, as always, the L. when Billy Gill always provided a commentary that makes him a professional broadcaster. There's a big age gap there. I don't know what commonalities do you have besides baseball. That's why I think it's fine. It's a baseball relationship. Love of sports.

Timeless games. Love of it. Jeremy did something. And Billy, you at one time, I don't know when you became such a hardened cynic, but you at one time flew to Detroit to watch Miguel Cabrera get his 3,000th hit and stayed there for like four days because he was. wouldn't get it immediately and there was a rainout. Well, I mean, I was there.

I had, no, no, no, no. If we're going to go back and we're going to tell the story, I had to stay there because of that damn Aaron Boone, who should be fired, who decided to intentionally walk Miguel Cabrera on his last at bat of that first game. And then the next day there was a rainout. And then there was a double header the following day. And thankfully, mercifully, we got it done in the first game.

So I didn't have a fourth Tigers game because I showed up at that second Tigers game. We got rained out. My gosh. And my family was like, oh, this will be a fun adventure. And I was like, what do I do with a newborn in Detroit for four days? We can only go to Little Caesars so many times. Tony, he just wanted to see Cabrera hit a little duck. Well, because if we're going to go back to that, David, Samson stole Ichero's 3,000 hit from me.

So I was owed a 3,000 hit. There's a lot of people who wronged me in that scenario. In our defense, except Colin from Sheets and Giggles because he paid the towel. If Billy had gone with Jane Levy, we probably would have commented on it. What do you mean? We would have commented it. Dan's asking like, Yeah, I went with my family.

I didn't abandon my family. Jeremy's a married man. And he left his family behind to go philander up there in playoff games. Allegedly. Allegedly is the work done. We don't know. Can you say allegedly if you're the person that's starting the allegation? What do you mean?

Tony just tried to say. Tony's the one, if anyone should apologize for anything, it's Tony who said that Jeremy's had work done. It looks tasteful, though. I mean, if he's done work, he's done a good job of hiding. That's what I'm saying. It's tastefully done. The eyebrows are a little bit higher than they usually are.

Some would say he should get his money back because it's hard to tell if he has or hasn't had work done. That's how you know it's good, though, Billy. But if you want to pay, you want to see, like, results. Like, if I were to get implants, I'm not going to get an eight cup, you know? I texted Jeremy. We're going to get an answer in a second. I mean, Bazongas. Jeremy loves sports still.

He has not been beaten down by the daily grind of doing his show. So he flies to New York excitedly and does Yankees' race. Red Sox. Possibly with work done. We don't know. And Yankees Red Sox today, if I can't get you excited about Yankees Red Sox today, you guys are never going to do baseball. I'm excited. What time is it?

It's the night game. It's the prime time. 8 o'clock. I will be following. I'll watch the other ones. TNF, though. A 3-58 situation today. You're going to watch Rams 49ers.

That broken 49ers team. You're going to go get them on Amazon. I'm going to have some sweep birds in an origin. Argentinian steakhouse. It's Seminoles week, Dan. Yes, FSC Week. I head up to tally. Jeremy Tashay, clearly with work done. The boy toy is next. With Amex Platinum, access to exclusive Amex pre-sale tickets can score you a spot trackside.

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Don't do it. I won't. Have we started yet? I was trying to tell off that. Yeah, we're doing a cold open. Okay. That's what this is. Welcome to the pitch clock.

Here's the pitch. A two-part baseball segment. Combining a nostalgic baseball trivia game and an interview with an expert. This is the pitch clock. It's the playoffs and this is the pitch clock. Fire Aaron Boone. Hi, everybody. Yeah.

I mean, it's playoff time. I don't want to do hijinks. You're just switching things up. I don't want to do hijinks anymore. It's time to get serious. Yeah. Okay. All right.

Well, that other voice that you heard, that's Ethan. And Ethan is here to do our trivia game once again. I'm wearing my new world's greatest rivalry shirt for the Yankees and the Red Sox. And if we all know, the reality, the world's greatest rivalry is in trivia between me and Chris. I said last week that I was going to get our results from the regular season and let everybody know what those were. I've not done that so maybe next week Who are you in the rivalry

The Yankees or the Red Sox between you and I I think I'm the Yankees Well until we get the result we won't know Yeah we won't know But we're also But we know But you're red It's true

Ethan what's our game for this week We're gonna draft a roster Of nine players Doesn't matter about position And they're all going to be Yankees and Red Sox Okay What I have in front of me

Is the total of RBI's The top 30 RBI leaders for each franchise in their playoff history. So we're going to go back and forth picking players for their franchises. At the end, we're going to add up the RBI total, and whoever has the highest total of RBIs is the winner. Yankees, Red Sox history, RBI. Yankees and Red Sox.

Playoff RBIs. Oh, yeah. Postseason RBIs. Total, not single season. Correct. Postseason career. Postseason RBS. All right.

I'll go first. All right. All right. I will go with Why are you covering? Why are you covering over there? I will go with David Ortiz. Okay, so David Ortiz is the all-time leader

in Red Sox post-season history with 57 RBIs. Okay. I guess I'm just going to go compiler first, even though he probably didn't drive in a ton of runs. But we found out last week he had a bunch of homers. Derek Jeter. Derek Jeter is second in Yankees history with 61 career post-season RBIs. that. Manny Ramirez. Manny Ramirez is second in Red Sox history with 38 career postseason

RBI. As you pointed out, I am red. I'm going to go ahead and just say, you know what? How about Mr. October, Reggie Jackson? Okay, so Reggie Jackson is 17th in Yankees history. He has 29 career postseason RBI. It's so funny that Manny is second with 38th, but Reggie Jackson is 17th for the Yankees with 29. Gives you a feel for which franchises had more

a few more guys that's why I'm the Yankees in this debate between us all right our 2025

MLB expert who else was it going to be for the playoffs than Adnan Virk Adnan wearing

his pitching ninja hat I'm here wearing my smells like seam spirit baseball shirt from

rotoo wear specifically because I purchased this after a conversation with Jazz Chisham Jr.

who was wearing it back in Miami a couple years ago and we want to give jazz some love because we're starting here with Yankees Red Sox. Obviously, I was at Game 1. We've discussed that on the show. An absolute blast. But this series has been really everything you would want out of a Yankee Red Sox Wild Card series thus far back and forth. Adnan, what are your thoughts on these first couple of games between these teams? Who do you think pulls it out here in game three in this matchup between

and rookie starters in Connolly Early and Cam Schlittler and why? I'm so glad that you got there, Jeremy, for game one. There's nothing quite like playoff baseball. I know it's been a grind for you. I know you're fasting today, Young Kapoor, but like, dude, just getting it in is absolutely phenomenal. So I'm glad you were there in the stadium. As far as game two is concerned, you know,

here's my thing with the Yankees is just that they're so reliant in the home run. 50% of their runs are scored via the home run. And so far we've seen a couple, Anthony Volpe was the low running game one and Ben Rice in game two, but they've yet to really get going. So it was nice to kind of see them scratch at a run like that. I wouldn't say quite manufacture a run, but using Jazz Chisholm's speed and the fact he was not going to be denied, you're right.

That was an incredible run around the bases. I mean, the guys scoring their first and last runs were on the bench in game one. So figure it out, this is how the Yankees do things. As far as the pitching matchup is concerned, it's a bit of a stutter, right? Like you see yourself, wow, the Red Sox, crochet is incredible, and as advertised, 117 pitches,

shut down the Yankees and then Chapman did the rest. Game two, you go, all right, well, Bayo, sure. And now, Gialito being out is a, real blow, I think, for the red sauce, because even though he's had some control issues, he's been ex at the last couple months of the season. Early is a guy who made his debut September 9th. Cam Schlittler, big veteran, compared to him, made his debut July 9th. So both these guys, I give the edge of Schlittler, who throws like 97, 99. I think he's a terrific pitcher. I do think they'll both be reliant to their bullpins. I don't see Early's going that

long with this game, but just the second pair of rookies to start a winner take-all postseason game. Dustin May and Ian Anderson, 2020 NLCS. So I think ultimately, the Yankees win this game because they've got the better offense. But I give props to Trevor's story and Boston for hanging in. It's been a great story so far. And could I see them winning a game three? Yeah, but generally the script felt to me, Jeremy, Crochet wins in one, Yankees win the other two.

It's been the same story with a left-handed ace in Detroit. Derek Scoobel gets game one for the Detroit Tigers. The Guardians come back and win game two. They're hosting game three. It's the early game today. obviously the Yankees and Red Sox at prime time at 8 o'clock. You got a 3 p.m. start for these tigers and guardians, an all-day series. Jack Flaherty and Slade Cicconi, a name that sounds like he could be in one of your Marty Scorsese movies.

I love that name. What will ultimately be the deciding factor in this one that sends one of these teams to Seattle? I'm going to go see a guy. To talk to Slate Ciccone. No, not Cicone. Oh, my God. You know, Ciccone's a rat. Yeah, exactly.

That's what I'm saying. It's a great handle. There's no question about it. it. The matchup of these, you know, Flaherty's really struggled down the stretch, so did KCMIs, but Flaherty in particular, I don't have much confidence in. And Sikoni, as you know, pitched a near no hitter in one of his final starts in season, in addition to having a great name. At the start of the playoffs, I said, listen, Jeremy, you can't go chalk. I picked tigers in three, and my rationale was scuba wins you one,

which he did, and then they'll find a way to win the other game. On paper, it shouldn't make sense. The Tigers were one for 15 with runners in scoring position in game two and left 15 runners on base, but the Guardians have the lowest on-base percentage of any team in the playoffs. Pitching match are probably slight edge of Sacconi, but who cares? He's not exactly Cy Young out there. I see the Tigers win it. They got a couple more of those hits. They would have won that game, too, before Rocktober and Rochtoe and the rest of the Guardians' offense woke up late in the game. So I'm calling the Tigers to win. I think, by the way, that's the best story, too, as a baseball fan. Fifty and a half game lead, you gagged it. You lost the division,

but then you beat them in the playoffs. I'm pulling for Detroit, especially for J.K. Simmons, who wrote the blur from my book. Let's go. Tigers. It's all just bias from you, but go gritty tikes. Come on. Give it to me. Give it to Jason Benetti, who's been a friend of your show. Nice. Betty, we love. He's the best. I'll go with Bernie Williams. Wow. Cody. All-time Yankees postseason RBI leader, Bernie Williams has 80 career postseason RBI. I'm so upset because I was kind of saving Bernie. I just stuck my tongue out of it. Jeremy, for the listening. I wasn't sure you guys would get to him that early. I was surprised his name was the top.

I know he played in all of those games. You know what I think that is? I kind of gave away my hint of like there were more playoff games in this era. Yeah, I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure he has the most postseason grand slams ever. Which would help. That helps. I'm really upset. Okay, let's go with.

Let's just do A-Rod. Okay. A-Rod is a nice pick. He is 11th in Yankees history. his 33 career postseason RBI. I'm going to go with Jorge Posada. Jorge Posada is third. Fuck me, man.

How are you not just going with Bernie Williams team? I don't know. 42 postseason RVI. I'm so mad. This is such a stupid game. I'm so mad at myself. Don't insult the game. No, it's my fault.

All right, Ethan. I know it's my fault. God damn it. We should have a snake draft. Yeah, we should have. Dicino Martinez. Tino Martinez is another solid pick. 32 career postseason RBI.

He is 13th behind Arod. Scott Brocious. Solid pick, 14th, 30 RBI. It's right there. Just because I know he had a big homer. Go on. Carlton Fiske. Six career postseason RBI for Carlton Fisks.

That sucks. I'm going to go with a Red Sock here. I'm going to go with Jason Veritech. Wow. Cody. He was just on it today, man. No, it's a great one. Third all time in Red Sox history, he has 33 career postseason RBI.

This is just face like... Yeah, it's just that one run. Cody has the number one Yankee and the top three Red Sox. So I'm going to just say a name that Chris has said for like seven different games. Trot Nixon. The best name, dude. 22. He is seventh all time in Red Sox history.

I'll take it. Just because you've said it so many times that I had some. name. It makes me so happy. Jason Giambi. Not on the top 30. Whoa. So the door is open. Fourteen career postseason RBI for the Yankees. Yeah, you're at 294. I'm at 183 going into this. So, um, Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth is on the Yankees postseason. Let's see a 16th with 30 career postseason RBI. All right, let's move on to the National League. It's time to get there. And we do have one more game today before we move ahead. to what the Dodgers did last night and what they'll do moving forward.

It's the Padres and the Cubs, which feels like maybe the most unpredictable and strange series thus far, just simply because if you looked at both of these teams at any point during the year, there was a point where each of them, you could have said, hey, this team's going to win the World Series, and you wouldn't have sounded crazy. And yet both teams right now headed in had a strange lack of momentum because there wasn't a ton to play for down the stretch. You got James and Tyon on in the Hill for Chicago, who's been pretty brilliant. since returning from injury.

You got former Cub, Udarvish, on the hill for the San Diego Padres. And yet, Mason Miller is probably the most important pitcher in this series. What do you expect here in game three, Adnan? Ultimately, which team should Milwaukee be rooting for to win this game? Because obviously, they've had their struggles continuing to play well in the postseason. Well, the good news from Milwaukee is that when you have these teams playing three straight games, it really wears out their bullpans. And certainly we know San Diego has the best bullpen in baseball.

And Chicago's has been pretty solid as well. But so far, Jeremy, going into game three, the Padreys' bullpen has accounted for eight and the third innings and the Cubs, nine and two-thirds. And you've got to imagine today, again, that bullpen will be utilized. You, Darvish, I can't see going more than five innings as far as Thailand's concerned, the same thing. So I'm with you. I love Mason Miller.

He's my favorite reliever to watch. He's an awesome dude. The guy throws 104. Him and Mori-Hohn have now pitched back-to-back games. So you'd think likely unavailable a third straight day, but no, it's the playoffs. If you need them, they'll pitch. but if they pitch three straight days, you've got to think eventually

relying on that bullpen so much will wear you down. So I think the better matchup for Milwaukee, like I think the less dangerous team, in my opinion, at least is Chicago because there's pitching, it's not as strong, but I think if you're Milwaukee, you still want to see if the Padres of the team,

as long as they use that bullpen, they're like, great, just wear those guys out and they'll be fresh and ready for Pat Murphy's team. But I do think Manny Machado, massive home run. I love Manny, happy to see him step up in that position. It's interesting. I'm going to go Padres

just because that bullpen is so good, but again, I don't think it augurs well moving forward because I do think the brewer is being rested eventually when you're using a bullpen that much when you're that reliant on them, it can be a challenge. But I'm glad this series is going three. The fans have been awesome at Wrigley. Padres' Cubs is a fun series to watch,

so I look forward to it. Yeah, I hope for those fans' sake that maybe it goes the Cubs way, but I actually have to agree with you here. That Padre's lineup feels like one in a low-scoring series that has an opportunity to have more moments where a guy like Tatis or Machado

can come through with a big home run. But let's move on to the Dodgers because I think the big sentiment across Major League Baseball was, hey, Reds, don't let the Dodgers get hot. And yet that's exactly what they did. They let the Dodgers get hot. And that's really a nightmare for the rest of Major League Baseball. You had Otani with his couple of home runs. Now he's going to start game one of the NLDS against the Phillies, which is genuinely just

like hilarious to think about who this person is. But what's the level of concern if you're the Philadelphia Phillies? here with the Dodgers advancing. What's sort of your prediction for this series, which to me looks like it might be an NLDS that's really an NLCS? Do you think the winner of this one ultimately advances to the World Series as well?

I do, absolutely. I think it's going to be must-see TV. I think the winner of Phillies Dodgers makes the World Series. I interviewed Pat Murphy last week, and I basically said that to him as well. You realize Milwaukee has the most wins in the regular season.

You're the number one's picking you guys. No, I'm well aware of that. He's like, yep, we're going to use the us versus the mentality. every once a big Dodgers, Phillies fine. But I do think, you know, as great a season as Milwaukee's had, the Dodgers starting pitching, hasn't been healthy until now. The Phillies haven't been clicking until now.

The only conservative of the Phillies is no Zach Wheeler. But you and I know, if you've seen Christopher Sanchez's pitch, he's a young candidate. Ranger Suarez has been great. You know, maybe Nola can step up. I think Hazers Lizardo, you know him from his time of the Marlins. He's pretty good. So actually, I'm like, Wheeler's awesome, but I'm like,

and that Phillies offense could bang. I mean, Schwarber with his 50, six home runs, 132 ribbies. He's going to be a ton of fun to watch. Trade Turner's a batting champion. think Philly's Dodgers will be for all the marbles. As you said for the Reds, don't let the Dodgers get hot. Particularly Mookie Betts.

He's now had a sizzling September after having a terrible regular season. He went four for five yesterday, three ribbies. You know, Atonis, you mentioned the game one. Ben Rorffin's been a revelation for them. It's catcher with Will Smith out. He went two for three, a couple of runs scored. I was really so curious with their good with Olatani, and I think it was brilliant by Dave Roberts, Jeremy.

I'm like, don't use them because you don't need to. So if they needed him in a game three, yeah, but they didn't. Now he starts game one. We know his offense generally suffers if he's pitching, but do, just go up there and pitch and throw five, six, seven things whatever you need to do, and the rest of the offense will pick it up. So, yeah, I mean, the Reds just feeble performance by them. They just, I mean, the pitching really couldn't stand up at all.

Especially when you see Hunter Green get knocked around. You kind of knew that would happen in game two as well. But, yeah, Dodgers, Phillies, I'm already looking forward to. I think it's going to be hit an awesome series. I can only think about two things as we go through the National League there and actually three things as we go through the National League because of my Marlins' bias. We're talking about Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Jesus Lazzardo as potential X factors here in the postseason. We're talking about Mason Miller, who, of course, my guy, Kyle Stowers, hit that walkoff grand slam against earlier in the year when he was still with the athletics.

And ultimately, when we're talking about these teams and the Reds really putting up that feeble performance, how about the Marlins making a difference in what the postseason was ultimately going to be? Because they knocked the Mets out of that spot. And who knows how the Mets potentially could have done against the Dodgers, although the Dodgers do you feel like a wagon. And Dan, thank you for joining us for this first playoff episode of the pitch clock. We'll have you back, hopefully, nearly every single week. I've got a book that I was put in a position to have to plug here. Nice. Make me Commissioner, Jane Levy, this book, go buy it, go get it wherever you can.

Hey, another one, sin a file. Yeah, my man. Thank you, Jeremy. I also recently purchased this one. These are both my own personal copies from two of my favorite. favorite baseball people to the two most recent episodes of the pitch clock. So go by both of these books. Adnan, thank you so much for your time as always. You're too kind, Jeremy. Thank you so much, buddy. Can't wait to sign it whenever I see you next. And shout up to Jane, by the way, love for

Kofax book was absolutely fantastic. I haven't read the Mickey Mantle book, but I've heard enough about it. The fact, Mickey hit on her, which was terrible. But I look forward to reading this new book as well. I love the, geez, the relationships you've made in baseball. I'm nothing with Jane. I mean, that's big time. Good for you, buddy. It's pretty special to have a new, Jewish Bubby in my life Jane Levy, she's the best you're the best Adnan and we will

chat with you probably next week. Looking forward to it. Let's get back to our game between Chris and myself. Ted Williams. Yeah, the issue with the guys of that era is there weren't a ton of rounds. They just make the World Series, right? Yeah. It's like you win your league. It's just tough.

It's like I just don't know. So here's a stunner. Ted Williams, not on there? on the top 30. I'm opening the door for you right now. One career postseason RBI. 295. For 10 Williams. Joe DiMaggio.

Okay, DiMaggio's 15th. He had 30 career postseason in RBI. God, what a pity. Like, his voice right there. Okay. Hey, Jeremy, that was a good one. Don't feel bad, though. That was a good guess, Jeremy.

Say whatever the f*** your last name is. What I'm saying is you might think that some of these guys didn't put up great postseason number, counting stats because they didn't play a lot, but they did. DiMaggio had 30, so I'm down by 52. Man, I'm about to beat him with a, This is your last pick.

With a wild name. No, I don't think I'm going to beat you. Do it. Bill Miller. Yeah, great name. M-U.E. Bill Miller had four career postseason RBI. Ethan, I need to know this answer. How many players are left on this list that have 55 RBIs or more?

That's what you're down? 55 or more, you're done for it. I'm done? Yeah. It's over? I can tell you that the two highest totals left are both 40. They're both Yankees. Well, yeah, of course they are.

If he names both of them in 30 seconds. he wins. Okay. Okay. I like this. Double or nothing. This is no like double or nothing. No, I got to get both. This is 30 starting right now. Yeah, 30 seconds in 3, 2 1. Now you can think. So I'm looking two Yankees. I'm going around 40 RBI's I'm going around. You've had enough help here. Ethan, thank you. I'm going around each position. Uh, Paul O'Neal. That's a great one. He is not one of the Yanke. Though he did have 34 career postseason RBI and he was 10th all time. The other two were John Carlos Stanton, 40 career postseason RBIs.

Think about he's been great in the postseason. I know, but hit a lot of big homers. Not Judge, right? And Mickey Mantle, 40 postseason RBS. Aaron Judge, for all that people say about Aaron Judge in the postseason, 34 career postseason RBI. So let me say something that is very upsetting because we could have at least had the drama. If I had gotten Paul O'Neill right, Mickey Mantle was my next name.

I lose. Chris gets the first postseason win. Let me total it up for fun. for the fans at home 299 to 277 is the official total here Bernie Williams is where this thing Yeah that was that was the big one And that's on me

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