The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Ross & Rizzo Unfiltered - Rays BEAT Guardians, ADVANCE to WORLD SERIES vs. Brewers

Episode Date: October 21, 2026

David Ross and Anthony Rizzo are BACK with Episode 27 of Ross & Rizzo Unfiltered where the guys react to the Tampa Bay Rays BEATING the Cleveland Guardians, and advancing to the World Series to play the Milwaukee Brewers. The World Series features two teams who have NEVER won a World Series before, and the guys are HYPE that the two BEST teams in baseball are the last two standing. The guys then answer fan mailbag questions about all things baseball. The guys talk about their FAVORITE spots at Wrigley Field, Rajai Davis’ HR in Game 7 of the 2016 World Series, and acknowledging the fans after getting SWEPT by the New York Mets in the 2015 NLCS. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I'm Anthony Rizzo with my Patna, David Ross. Rossi, I have to give you flowers to start this show. Back at the end of September, when we were doing our playoff predictions and our brackets, you had the Tampa Bay Rays playing the Milwaukee Brewers in the World Series. And after tonight, Tampa beating the Guardian 7 to 3 in game 6, the Tampa Bay Rays won the American League pennant and are going to the World Series, Rossi. I mean, just going out on a limb,

picking the two best teams in the game, best team in the American League and the best team in the National League. Picking those two was not a hard decision. But I know sometimes we get caught up in the Dodgers or the market and can they handle it, like the small ball, no home runs, you know, little stuff like that. But it is nice to be right. That is for sure.

I'm pumped for the Tampa Bay Rays here in our home state of Florida. That'll be fun. I get to cover the World Series. And this will be driving distance for me. So that'll be nice easy travel when we get to games three, four, and five. But yeah, man. So, what an atmosphere down in Tampa. The trial was rocking, bro.

Rocking. And Lauren Shahati said it too. full circle moment, not being able to play baseball there last year. They're having to borrow George Steinbrenner Field, the Yankee Spring Training Complex all year. Kind of a grind for them there, right? It's a beautiful spring training complex, but it's not a big league stadium. So for them a year later, to be going to the world, they just won the American League pennant. They're going to the World Series. They're playing the Brewers. The two, like you said, Rossi, the two best teams in baseball. And rarely does that happen anymore where the two best teams are meeting each other

in the World Series? I'm like looking back on it, like just the way these two teams play and their style. It's so awesome. They showed highlights of the last time they were going. I was on that 08 Red Sox team that they beat in game seven to go on and play the Phillies who ended up winning the whole thing. But we had a couple of celebrities. Did you see Tyler Glass now, or Rosa Raina. Dickie V. Dickie V getting his legend.

He's always been there. He's been there since day one. So pretty cool to see that place just lit up with all the fans and celebs around. What a game. I thought it was going to be a ho-home game early on starting off. It looked like the race. The race had so many chances to bust that thing open.

Tons of runners. There's traffic everywhere. You know, we get some in-field ends, not able to get runners in. Guys, you know, I was thinking about talking a little bit about, you know, some of these young guys swinging early with bases loaded. You feel that adrenaline rather than having the bat. They only scratch out one with the bases loaded.

You know, a couple of times I just thought it just, they were teetering with like, okay, don't mess around and fuck this up because you guys got this game by, you know, you had it in hand, but they could never stretch the lead till some big homers late. Yeah, junior caminera. and Yandi Diaz, both hitting two-run homers. I mean, just you see it in their celebrations. You see it in the dugout, how happy those guys are,

how excited they are to send this team to the World Series. I mean, bro, Yandi Dias called game, right? He said it before the game. He said yesterday, it all ends tomorrow, we're going to win tomorrow. And then in the eighth inning, he hits a two-run homer when the guardians started coming back a little bit of momentum in the eighth, or in the seventh, in the eighth, he hits a two run over and says game.

Game over. I called it. I told you guys, we're not playing a game seven. It's over tomorrow. And, you know, the fact that he put his money where his mouth was is, one, impressive. Like, obviously, you want to have confidence. I didn't think that was, like, bulletin board material like everybody tried to make it out to be. But you want to have confidence to your team.

I want to talk about Junior's home run trot. That guy knows how to put on a show when he hits a big homer. He had, you know, back in the day when he was playing winter ball, there's a viral video of him taking forever going around the bases. Well, he topped that tonight with the 47 celebrations he had going around the bases. Like he's such a kid. It's so infectious. I just started laughing about the third celebration and people he was pointing to.

What a cool feeling, I'm sure for him, his speech afterwards. of like, you know, getting the fans involved. This is for you, Tampa. What a cool moment for him and his young career. That was awesome. You know what I absolutely love, he said, him talking afterwards. People at home and fans don't understand how hard it is to come over from a foreign country and learn the English language to learn the culture here.

And a lot of these guys, the easy thing to do is have an interpreter, right? because it's really hard. When their microphones in front of you, it's really easy to lose things in translation. And I really admire and respect that maybe he doesn't speak the best English, but he's so confident that he just, he doesn't need the translator. He just,

he does the best he can. And that is such a hard thing that he's doing and he's doing on a national level. And I just respect and admire that. Because I know so many guys will just, hey, have the interpreter because that's easy and safe. It's just, it's such a hard thing that he's doing that I think gets overlooked by anyone just watching the game casually. Yeah. Yeah. It was, it was a cool moment for him and, uh, and Yandy. Like, what a, what a big, big homer. It looked like he was sitting all over that change up. Yondi, he, like, I love the celebrations. I think it's, it's really easy for any older player like yourself, Rossi, no offense.

I know you manage. I know you manage. I know you manage. I know you manage. I know you manage, so you're in with the times. But I love the celebrations are easy to tick older players off. But it's the emotion and the excitement of everything that goes into hitting a home run that guys celebrate with their team. And for the most far, all these guys are celebrating directly towards their own team. There's no disrespect to anyone else. They're just enjoying the moment. And I really do love to see it. And that's what you're exactly right when you're celebrating with your team.

I think we've all been in that moment. If you've hit a big home run in your career, you turn into a little league. right like you turn into a 12 year old running around the bases and that feeling is just it all that excitement all that energy that adrenaline just comes out i tell you who i want to touch on to there was drama in the eighth the guardians absolutely battled their ass off to get back in this thing and had a chance to tie it really and kevin kelly came in the eighth through three changeouts and said not on my watch that was that's big balls right there coming in bases loaded world series birth kind of on the line and a game or you know game

six it's not game seven yet but man the the way he handled that moment after other had kind of falling apart or not had their stuff uh was so impressive so shout out give give kevin kelly his flowers flowers not a strikeout guy and end up punching out uh rokio there with three change he came in was just absolutely nasty yeah i mean big big spot there too right i remember texting in our saying no Brian Baker, this would be the time for a four-out save. And your manager hat comes on and says, well, it'd be three days in a row. He's a one-in-in-in-in guy. So I was like, okay, I mean, but that's the trust that you need to have in your bullpen.

And it takes all 26 to get it done. Kevin Kelly's been there doing it all year. Kevin Cash said after the game, he's like, he said, the raised fans have seen this all year. We've done it all year. Now the world's getting to see it, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. how good that team has been.

So again, Kelly, Kevin Kelly, a guy, maybe not everyone knows on the national stage, comes in one of the biggest moments in the game to shut down the Guardians there. So just an overall complete series from the race. Good defense, Taylor Walls, exceptional on shortstop. Oh, man. Blasius.

How about that double play coming across there? Yeah. Coming across for that double play. He's like flying. He seems like he's everywhere. He does feel like he's everywhere. And I go back to like when we won in Boston, it felt like Stephen Drew, our shortstop when we won in 13. He didn't allow their offense, the St. Louis's offense to get going because it felt like he every ball at the middle, every backhand, like he was making plays right and left.

And you know how demoralizing that is from an offensive standpoint because the guardians really, you know, they had some traffic, but it really didn't get anything going until late. Yeah, I know. And you know what, too, Rossi, and this is a perfect segue to our Corona Playa. Pleia. Freddie Peralta winning the ALCS MVP was just dominant. Three games, two as a starter, one in relief two days ago. Tonight, five and a third, one earn run, 12 innings overall with one earn run over three outings, Rossi. I mean, that's the formula, right?

He comes over from the Mets. The Rays identifies something that they see why he was the ace in Milwaukee and the player that they traded for in New York. They unlock something. He says that he feels like he's 10 feet tall there. And even after the game during his speech, he's saying how much he loves these guys. You see how genuinely happy all of those guys behind him were for him.

He's been there for two months. So that culture, that just tells me watching how good that culture there is in that clubhouse, how excited all those guys were. And he had that change up working early, man. We're talking about Freddie Fastball and how Dominie was his last start with the heater. But, man, the change up just kept those guys off balance. You could tell that thing had some nasty syncility. He was throwing it down away early, getting swing and miss, getting soft contact,

getting the ground balls, relying on his defense. Like, I felt like every time the Guardians had something going, there was a double play right around the corner. And that's a credit to Freddie and that pitching staff. You know who, you know, talking about it. the Guardians pitching staff a little bit like all those guys that started all five starters staying healthy all year it looked like it just finally they ran out of steam here at the end of this thing you know you're going to those bullpen guys didn't have a a lot of starters go deep which the

race did and it caught up to him a little bit you know those guys giving up runs late that hadn't given up any runs um get to that point and then they give up the two big homers where there are two horses. So, yeah, it just, it just, you've got to have a complete team in this time of year in a seven game series. We've talked about it. And it's hard to go to those bullpen guys over and over again because they're going to catch up or they're going to sit on a pitch. They're going to see those, you know, how the ball moves when it comes out. Stuff's going to tick down a little bit, all that adrenaline. And the race took advantage of it, man. That was, that was impressive. But the Guardians pitching, it looks like they just ran out of dudes, you know.

No doubt. I think, well, Kevin Cash said it too. Once this team gets playing daily, right, the back-to-back games and into a groove, you're going to see our hitters start hitting. And sure enough, he was absolutely spot on with that comment. But yeah, the Guardians staff, Hunter Gaddis threw in nine of the 11 playoff games there. You know what I mean? Like, even if they do sneak this series, these guys will be on absolute E going into game one of the World Series. Usually E on game four or five of the World Series, like completely empty or being pushed in, towed in. But that's where the five-game series and the division series is a little tricky, right? Like, you lose in that series, it's kind of, I wish we can see a seven-game series there. I wish the Yankees and the Rays could have played a seven-game series because they both have depth, right? Even the Guardians in the White Sox, right?

The White Sox made this run because they have a group of pitchers that they literally leaned on every day. The seven-game series, you can't do that. And playing four in a row, not saying that exposed the Guardians because they were right in these games and this team grinded. The Guardians are, they're a really good team. Really good team. Like they, Stephen Boat has those boys playing at a very high level. maybe guys that on the national stage people aren't hearing of, but Stephen Kwan, Jose Ramirez, who is the rookie Chase?

Chase DeLotter, yeah, yeah, yeah. The Latter, I mean, stud in the postseason. So just got to give credit to them, but it just seemed like you said Rossi, they just ran out of arms and just didn't have that full depth like the race had. There's something about the warm summer air and a cold corona with lime that makes the roar of the crowd sound a lot like the roar of the waves. That's because this is our playa, and the best seats are always wherever you're sitting.

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And two, you look back on the divisions they came out of, right? And the race came out of one of the toughest divisions. The toughest division in the American League and the best team in the American League. And that's why they're still standing. They backed up what they had proved all year. and so have the Brewers and we've got Brewers Rays World Series baby starting

Friday night let's go Yeah You know what Rossi I have to I saw something I believe maybe foul territory put this out Or one of the programs on X I saw About

This World Series now With these two bottom tier payrolls Where they're saying that Now a floor is more important than ever to force owners to spend money instead of like the salary caps is the salary cap

but all these teams now this copycat league that we're in Rossi all these teams see this blueprint and they're like why can't we do that? Why do we have to be spending why do we have to have a $300 million payroll to do the raise and the brewers are consistently doing year and year out? Let's spend more money on front office and developing and figuring out

how do we get these guys for cheaper so I did see the theory of now a florist was more important than ever. So again, just adds to the drama of what this offseason is going to bring. Yeah, if I'm an owner, I mean, that's what I think I heard Jim Bowden saying it, and I think it was all the same thing where he's just talking about what owners should be saying, well, why can't we do this? Why, you know, it has to do with the people running it. And what I kind of see in this is the player that has real skills in an area, like the contact skill, the contact skill, control the strikes on the real defensive player that shows up every day and plays elite type

defense. Like those guys' values go up because of what you're seeing. The speed, the speed guy. Chandler, Chandler Simpson, like, that's the scariest guy. I feel like in their lineup if you're, like, he can do so many things and put so much pressure. And then two strikes doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. And then run on the basis. You see some of these walks with him at second. It's because they're having a slide. I'm seeing slide steps with a man on second from the pitching staff. It's, you know, he just causes havoc and you always have to pay attention to him. And then, you know, first and second, him coming up, everybody knew left on left. Everybody knew he was bun, and he still was able to lay down a good bun and beat it out for bases loaded there early on.

So that guy, that guy is an absolute, you know, menace. He's just straight chaos when he gets in the box and on the bases and a really, really strong player. So those type, those types of players, I feel like watching these two teams in the World Series, you're going to get. a better version of baseball moving forward because of the copycat type league that these guys, that these front offices kind of watch and look and say, hey, how can we do things a little bit differently? How can we, you know, save some money in some areas and get a real baseball player that, you know, maybe high baseball IQ type player that can help us win? I think that's going to help the market for guys that usually get underappreciated.

Yeah, no doubt. Like myself. Yeah, no, I hear you. Nice shirt, too, by the way. say. Rizzo made me do it. I kind of get my marathon shirt in. It finally got.

Shout out obvious shirts. Appreciate it. Rossi, I feel like with big markets, right, you've played in, I feel like every big market except the Yankees. I played in Chicago and in New York. That style doesn't play there because you can't, the guys don't have the runway for failure as much in the bigger markets than they do in smaller markets. And smaller markets, their expectations of the fan base are,

oh, we're not good this year. It is what it is. Red Sox, Yankees, Dodgers, who am I missing here, Cubs, Mets. Mets, that doesn't fly there. So that, I know it's a Cobycat League and owners, why wouldn't you want to spend as the least amount of money for the best product you can get, right? That's just business 101. Well, I feel like some of the big markets, you know, the one thing that they could do is kind of cover up some mistakes or a player that may not pan out.

You know, the smaller markets kind of ride those guys and let them develop at the big league level and take their lumps, which is a luxury. Like you said, I don't know that every market has for sure. Yeah. It's going to be, I mean, we're celebrating the World Series now. And you know what the beautiful thing about this World Series is, Rossi, there's going to be a first time, franchise winning the World Series. Tampa's been there twice. Milwaukee's been there once, I believe, back in like 44 or something. Am I right? I don't know. 44 years, something like that. But a first time franchise winning, and this is just completely non-biased, not that I'm from

South Florida, not that Florida is an absolute baseball factory sending players to the big leagues at a very high clip. I think we're the best in the world down in Florida. I know Texas and California have different views about that. Completely non-biased. I hope that the championship comes down to Florida and the Tampa Bay Rays win it. Just non-biased being from Florida. Well, I hope so too,

because I'll be right my prediction. I don't know that that'll ever happen, but we got to get, we'll get to our predictions another show. We'll have to get to those, but I am happy for our state. I'm happy for the city of Tampa and St. Pete. Kevin Cash and I

go way back, played against each other, in college and were teammates in Boston, super pumped for him and that organization. That's his hometown. He grew up in Tampa. So, you know, he pulled all the right strings this postseason, used that bullpen mixing and match. And, I mean, he used a ton of relievers.

A lot of guys, the three battered minimum and out. And just did a phenomenal job. So, yeah, the rays are in the World Series. Congratulations, Kevin Cash, the entire Tampa Bay organization, and the fans enjoy it. I know the first two trips weren't that great. Little side story,

Eric Hinsky was one of my best coaches I've ever been around. One of my great friends in baseball says every time he used to go to Philadelphia after 2009, the fans would always give him the biggest cheer in Philadelphia because he made the last out for the raise in the World Series. And literally in our chat right now, our producer Chris Chan just typed,

made the final out in 08. He's a big Phillies fan. Oh, man. Shout out. Shout out. Where are we partying tonight in Tampa? Where's the spot? We got to get some people to throw that in the chat.

I don't know. There's a couple hangouts in Tampa that I think. I'll shout out my boy, Dante de Don, and his spot, John Boy in, Good Night John Boy in St. Pete. It's a good spot. And he has a country bar there as well. I've been to the one in Chicago. That's the only one.

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That's a big one for me, Rossi. We've been in the vibe room. We've been in the vibe room. That's a spot. That's a spot. And with Church and Cheryl Crowe, like, I mean, what a tour. It's going to be. It's always good.

He always ends in Boston at Foxborough. always starts in Tampa. I've been to that one. Maybe we'll have to have a meeting in Chicago, maybe a podcast from Chicago with Kenny on it, 626. 10. That'd be nice. Shout out, Seek. Shout out, Seek. Ross and Rizzo 10 for 10% off. Your nest set of tickets at Seek. Ross and Rizzo 10, Seek. Our Tim Bus ballback questions of the day, where Rossi and I take all of our fans' questions, Comments from YouTube, you could email us at rossanriza.g.com or comment on one of our posts on socials. First email from Gavin Dow. One of my best memories as a Cubs fan was game four of the 2015 NLCS.

Not the game itself, but what happened after? Thousands of fans stayed in their seats and started cheering for the best season that we've seen in so long. and we stayed there until the team came out and acknowledged us. I know what it felt like as a fan, but I've always wondered what it was like from the perspective of players. Yeah, I remember that moment. We got it handed to us by the Mets in 15, and they were the better team at that time. And thank Daniel Murphy.

I think we bring him up every time we talk about that team. But they had a great sense of debt. Yeah, he does. He's all in our dome, for sure. I remember that moment. you know, you're, you're kind of pissed because your season's over, so you're not like, you know, it's hard to be in a good mood. But I definitely feel like thinking the fans, and it's a tradition in Chicago at the end of the season for sure, but thinking the fans there felt different from other places I had played. And not all of them, but they've got your back there.

It's a positive fan base for the most part. and you always felt like, like that was one of the, like he said, one of the better seasons that they had seen at a long time. And we felt that. We just, it sucks when you lose and it's hard to be like in a good mood appreciation, you know, so you just kind of go out there and thank them. And then you kind of kind of headed in as how I remember it. Yeah, I always think it's so cool.

Obviously, you want to win the last game. And that year we were heartbroken losing to the Mets of the way we did, especially just everything we'd be. built in 2015. So the fact that pretty much the whole stadium was still there and we came out and got to salute the fans was really cool because they appreciated it.

They were there the years prior when we were losing 100 games Rossi. I know you weren't. You're, you know, Ricky Bobby, want to win, put Ricky Bobby in. Or Boobie Miles in.

But yeah, it was a really cool moment. Definitely for me. Just so... I think I remember them coming and getting us out of the, we were our way down the cave. And they just said, hey, all the fans are still there. Hey, all the fans are still here. No longer you guys go out. So that was a really cool moment.

Yeah. Email. Are you sure that, Gavin? Email from Alex Warda. As someone who works at Wrigley Field, what's your favorite spot at Rigley that most fans would never get to see? Ooh. Ooh.

Let me go first on this. I think the first one pops up in my head. Man, there's so many spots that I feel. like I love and I'll say I'll miss I miss this when I miss the old dugouts because I had a little perch up just next to the middle steps that I sat at to watch when I didn't play which was 90% of the time and it was I had to a view I had ski right next to me I had hider when when we were on defense standing next to me working the outfield and like Caesar or Lester or Lackey or somebody would come sitting next to me.

Like that was a really cool spot up on top of those. What if that little ledge was there in the old dugouts? And I know everybody blasts the old dugouts and how shitty they were. But like when I was there, like that was like our lone little party scene down there. Like everybody was dancing and bumping into each other. And, you know, the stars were kind of crammed up against the bench. And all the coaches were up against the wall. I just, I missed that dugout and especially that perch up there to watch those games.

They got a lot of good memories from up there. Yeah, I love the, in the old clubhouse, too, I loved. The old clubhouse, we had this tiny room. It was the Players Lounge where that's the only place you can go to get out of the locker room. And you literally were on top of each other at all times. I love it. Travis Wood would bring in, like, after batting practice, Travis Wood would bring in those big 10 packs of Taco Bell boxes. or Lester would get

or Lester would get Popeyes and we'd get in there just absolutely Oh easy on Lester and the pop-upy. Okay, yeah, we'd better We're sensitive. McDonald's. Okay, Mickey D. My favorite spot

now that I'm not playing has to be Mr. Ricketts is sweet. I mean, he has a beautiful it's like all bricks in there. They've done it up with old memorabilia. It's wide, it's big, it fits your heart,

whole family plus like i think it fits up to 50 60 people the best view of the park um so really special to be in there a few times this past year but in on the inside in the clubhouse i think the training room if if you got to experience the training room and see everything that's available to the players and all the cutting edge technology and what goes into pregame and post game i think you'd be really just intrigued by all of it and be almost blown away because there are so many gadgets in that training room that we have access to when it whether it comes to recovery prehab rehab rehab anything you name it we have cold tubs hot tub sonas float tanks that regularly they have the cryo tank they have this red light bed now nap broom like you name it the training room has they've got

yeah that's that's salt pot well i would one of my first things that came to my mind when i managed I would cold plunge every day and I would get in that cold tub there and it was like, it was absolutely freezing but I used to get in there. One of the first ones, that was like my starting routine

when I would get to the field is go in there and just get a nice cold, cold plunge in the cold tub for about three or five minutes. And that was one of the first things popped to my mind, but I didn't think fans won't be hear about that. But you're right, that is a sick training. The train room and weight room at Wrigley,

I think is just top notch. It's pretty impressive. No doubt. All right. Last one. Email from Amy Green from Knoxville, Tennessee. Revisiting a miserable moment. Sometimes I think home runs are rally killers.

Do you think it would have been harder if Rajay had hit a double off the wall instead of a home run in game seven? Now the tying runs on base and the rally continues. After the home run, yes, you're stunned, but everything stops. You regroup and you go on to the next guy. I always wanted to ask Joe, but would like to ask you guys get you guys's take. Well, Amy, that a home run by Rajay, I saw Rajay pop up my feed about he was talking about stealing bases, literally today. And I got like, ah, so if he would have hit a double, it would have been so much easier.

As long as the outcome was still the same. it's crazy that we won the World Series and 10 years later that home run still haunts us as Cubs players, Cubs fans, and we won the game. That's how big of a World Series that was. That's how big of a home run that was for Rage.

The whole, like, bro, do you remember how loud that stadium was Rossi when he hit that home run? It was shaking. It was shaking. I'll never forget LeBron on the screen, flexing on everybody. Like, I'm with you, Amy, like the home run can be a rally killer. I get it like it kind of, you know, but not that one.

That one, that one, you don't want that. I wish it would have been a double off the wall because I think we would have got out of that thing. But yeah, I'm not that one, not that one, Amy. Good question. Good question. Great question. Thank you, Amy. Hey, being from Tennessee, this is a completely side note. So stick with me here. Now that I'm a runner, Rossi, I ran a I don't know if anyone knew that talking here, but eight days ago, I ran the Chicago Marathon. It's not about me. Bro, there's this event going on right now. I get targeted now, all this running stuff.

It's called the backyard Ultra. And what it is, Rossi, it's the whole world's competing, like all nations, 15 runners from each nation that's competing. They do a 4.1 mile loop and they repeat it. There's no finish. So they do the 4.1 mile loop, and they do it on the hour every hour. So if you run in 40 minutes, you have 20 minutes of rest for 24 hours straight until the last man is standing. Oh my gosh.

They're on day, they're going on day three. This is night three right now. Until somebody just, until somebody, until you're the last guy. Until the teams, till the team's like fade. Yeah. It's crazy. I'm falling along on it. I'm like, dude, these guys are insane of losing their minds. They're literally running on

they sleep for like four minutes at a time and then the hour. I can't even understand that. I can't even fathom. Impressive, bro. Yeah. Backyard. I don't have the middle. I don't, I know I'm not mentally tough enough to do anything like that, not even close. Yeah. Like, yeah, I couldn't sign up for that. Yeah. I would get PTSD from signing up.

They're, the team USA is doing it somewhere in Tennessee, But anyways, Rossi, again, this has been so much fun. Thank you, everyone for watching, listening. Please send in your comments, send in your emails, reply to us on our socials. Rossonrizo.g.com. We are trying to answer all your questions. It's our favorite part of the show.

And we also love talking the game of baseball. So congratulations to the Tampa Bay Rays, the Milwaukee Brewers. Game one of the World Series is on Friday, Rossi. Cannot wait. We'll be coming. to you for a few episodes during the week. Maybe we'll talk about some stuff that's going on around the league. But man, we cannot wait till Friday.

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