The Josh Innes Show - Pete Rose Is Dead and Postseason Baseball

Episode Date: October 1, 2024

Jilly and I start the pod by watching the last few minutes of the Lions and Seahawks. Jilly needs one big thing to happen to hit a parlay. Pete Rose has died. It's wild to me how so many people are obsessed with acting like this guy was done dirty by baseball. I believe it's because most people don't understand how big of an issue it is to bet on games you're part of. The MLB postseason starts. I've got a few bets I'm going to make on Astros/Tigers Game 1. Should Verlander get a shot against the Tigers? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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it's easy to say that fast when you're freezing cold all right so um welcome in we're watching the end the dramatic conclusion of this Lions game it's only dramatic because oh my god Jilly just needs a touchdown pass from Geno Smith, and she needs it to be to Tyler Lockett. And he was just wide open, and it was deflected. Oh, boy. So if you hit this, you win a parlay, right? Yeah, but, I mean, they're not going to go back to him now. It's all about who.

Let's keep an eye on him down here. This is to win. You need a touchdown pass to Lockett. Come on. Come on, Geno. Almost threw the pick. For what what it's worth I played each quarterback tonight to throw an interception and only one of them has so amazingly it wasn't Tyler Huntley I know who's fucking terrible but uh I got the one interception tonight and I got it from uh

from uh Levis who you know before he got hurt. Hurt, quote unquote. Oh, yeah, he ain't hurt. Like, he's been Wally Pipped. Not that, you know, homeboy's better than him, but what's that asshole's name? Mason Rudolph. Yeah, Mason Rudolph ain't all that much better, but I think your boy's been Wally Pipped. All right, third down.

Looking for a touchdown pass to lock it for a parlay. Here we go. I don't think he's in. He's in. He's out. Come on, make the play gino oh no incomplete to metcalf fourth down so here we go jelly this is everything he was in on that play oh they're not gonna not have they had five receivers in there he was uh he's in there i swear he's over there in the corner all right then we'll get into some other stuff my man's almost thrown a pick three times on this drive

for what it's worth see he's down there in the corner hanging out he had his chance yeah well that like a linebacker a defensive lineman knocked it down that would have been the tud earlier oh here we go then we'll get into some other shit. And who knows? They may still get the ball back one more time, even if they don't score. But here we go. Jilly trying to win probably like $11. They weren't ready for that one. Here we go. Go to him.

There it is. Oh, no. That was twice on those four. Oh, no. That was twice on those four. Oh, no. No. God damn it. Oh, damn near had it. Tried twice on that four.

Oh. Oh. Gambling, man. Oh, let's watch the play. Oh, there go. Oh, get there, Lockett. Oh, get. Oh, God.

Oh, he's there oh earlier tonight so the titans what the hell happened on that play no it looked broken initially so earlier tonight the titans run in a touchdown on the last play of the game essentially on a fourth down and that got the over in that game not that either one of us played that. I did hit a parlay with the Huntley touchdown, the run. See, you're victorious. I told you, you're the prop goddess. It was a, well, that was my favorite, David Montgomery.

And then I played, what's his name, Kenneth Walker. Yep. And Huntley, all for tuds. Well, that's good. So you got a hit. So you feel good. You know what I didn't do? What?

Play the first David Montgomery first touchdown, which I said all week. Yep. Had it on my card. Said it last night. Yep. Didn't play it. Yeah, that happens sometimes.

I'll tell you what also. So I hit a couple of points. Well, I took the 500 passing yards between Geno and fucking, what the hell is the other guy? Goff. So I took those two guys. So I got the 500 yards between them and I had the longest reception. She's pointing at

Lockett. He looks very sad. He knows he let me down. He does. So I took the 500 yards between Goff and my brain doesn't work between Goff and Geno so I hit those two and then oh that's a safety you're going to get the ball

that's a safety you should get the ball back wait a minute is that a safety or was the ball out of the end zone they're not going to call that a safety oh you pieces of shit you're cowards oh the balls oh that's oh that sucks ass it should be oh it should be spirit of the rule that should be a safety based on spirit of the rule uh and then i had the longest

reception i had dk matcalf with a 25 year old uh 25 year old my brain is fucked a 25 yard catch happens and we don't drink alcohol i know my brain brain doesn't work and then I had a couple other things I hit but because I tried some parlays that damn near hit well I found a new thing I'm into which is taking like over receiving yards in the first quarter for dudes. I hit two of them right away and then the third leg of my parlay missed so I didn't hit it but that's a new fun thing that we might discuss later in the week. But it's looking like you might get the ball back here. And if you get the ball back, you still got a shot. And more than likely going to have decent field position here. So let's not write off the locket touchdown yet.

It's the two-minute warning as we speak, though. Pete Rose died, so a bunch of old white people are very upset. You would have thought that the Pope died, the way that people talk about Pete Rose, who by every thing you read was really just a shitty dude. But like you would have thought like Mother Teresa just died because this asshole slid head first and had a bowl cut. So everybody loves this guy. And look, I'm not trying to dance on the grave of the dead.

All I'm saying is the shit I've said about the guy forever. People talk about like this guy's had a great injustice done to him. Well, don't bet on the fucking games. Well, Josh, uh, you know, all they did was bet on his own team to win. You don't fucking know that. Like, let me tell you, it's a lot easier to throw a game than guarantee a loss than it is to guarantee a win. Imagine you're backed up with these bookmakers and you owe them a shitload of money you go to them and say hey go bet against us tonight because we're gonna lose we're heavy favorites i'll make sure we lose you bet on it boom you fucking win it's a lot easier to do that but i'm seeing all these people that are talking like some amazing like roberto clemente level

human died like again i'm not celebrating the guy's death and ain't like he's OJ or something like that let's not act like you know someone horrible like he doesn't seem like a deplorable human yeah he fucked a 15 year old but in his defense he thought she was 16 um but uh I'm being facetious of course but like people are talking like this is like one of the great losses of all time of people he really just seems like he was kind of a dick, and he made his own bed, and he lied for 20-something freaking years about betting on baseball.

Like, the way people talk about this, you would have thought that one of these great humans of all time is dead. Oh, he just bet on games, blah, blah, blah. You're the same people that wanted Tom Brady kicked out of football for taking some PSI out of a ball, and you want to act like it's not a... Oh, they called it a safety!

They called it a safety! We're alive! We're alive, goddammit! Also, are we getting an announcement tomorrow that Pete Rose will be in the Hall of Fame? Is that coming? I hope they do. I hope that, like, now that the dude's dead,

it would be the ultimate in comedy that they'd be like, hey, guess what, everybody? We're putting Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame today. Not even waiting for this next summer. He's going in today. Congratulations. I hope they do.

Like, maybe he's a super nice dude to a lot of people. A lot of people have good stories about him. He ain't OJ or like Aaron Hernandez. He didn't kill any motherfuckers as far as we know. So whatever. But that guy spent 20 years, actually it was about 15 years, lying about betting on baseball

and then 15 years after that he's like you know what I lied I bet on baseball so we're supposed to believe anything you say like you're Mr. Honesty about this shit give me a break again I'm not like saying good riddance that he's dead he's not Hitler or something like that but look the dude is for the most part did the did the most unforgivable thing you can do, which is bet on the sport. Now, I do agree that there's a great hypocrisy now in the world that we've got all these leagues in bed with sports betting.

So I get where now it's kind of like, what the fuck? Why didn't you put the guy in five years ago, 10 years ago, now that you guys make all this money off of legal sports betting? And I get that. You know, I was listening to the Cardinals horrible press conference today and they're just falling off a cliff this organization's dreadful I'm not going to waste your time talking about it because most of my listeners don't care but the Cardinals organization is a clown show and I hate them

but uh I heard them talking about like ways to try to generate revenue and they're like we got to get sports betting passed here in uh in Missouri so we could do it and I'm like listen I finally agree with you on something you know they will pass it like the day we move and then we're gonna end up moving somewhere that they don't have it and listen if it means I get to move to Texas and I don't have sports betting you know what I can live with that but the second we move from this hellhole they're going to freaking uh uh get sports betting legalized here so um but like being in bed with all the sports betting i totally get where it's bullshit and it seems bullshit to be you know talking negative about people betting whenever you've got like the other day we're watching

lebron doing gambling commercials we're like how can a player an active player endorse a gambling website and be viewed as credible and And you would be 100% correct. Actually like on the draft Kings app, if you notice, they have like LeBron's picks, like he is a parlay. Oh yeah. And I get like,

okay, Kevin Hart, Jamie Foxx, like, you know, uh, Barkley, like you're not an active athlete,

but it just seems weird that LeBron is like an active. I'm sure they're not going to do it during basketball. That would be something. Wouldn't it be great? LeBron's like, all right,'m sure they're not going to do it during basketball. That would be something. Wouldn't it be great? LeBron's like, all right, we're going to take the Pacers minus six, and we're going to take Embiid points, rebounds over 38 and a half. LeBron's picks.

Geno's thrown it 53 times. They literally just don't run the ball, which is fine with me because I took the 500 yards. He might get it on his own. So, Jilly needs 80 yards. She needs the touchdown to lock it. They're going deep. Lock it. No, that's DK, but that's fine. So Jilly needs 80 yards. She needs the touchdown to lock it. They're going deep. Lock it.

No, that's DK, but that's fine. We're moving down the field. My God, I should have taken 700 yards in this game. Like 600 would have been probably like plus 550 or something like that. But anyway, I did take the DK long catch. And as I noted, he had a 29 yarder earlier and lock it had a 29 yarder. As we've talked about, I love doing the – like I'm really into the longest reception plays now, and these first quarter really short passing or receiving props.

I'm now going to be into those two. That's going to be my new addiction. But we're moving the ball here. It's a 13-point game, and Jilly needs a touchdown pass to Tyler Lockett. All right, so Geno's going to run for about 13-12 there. They're in plus territory now. Jilly, I think it's going to happen. I believe this.

Now tell me, if Lockett gets a touchdown, what would you win? I think it's like $62. And what did you win on the one earlier? $29.90. Okay, so you're in the game now. All right. So we're in plus territory. We need Gino to throw a touchdown to Tyler Lockett.

That's where we are right now. Do it for Pete. On the day that Pete Rose dies, we need a gambling hit for Jilly. Pete, if you're looking down or up or wherever the hell you are, I don't know. But if you're looking down or up, wherever you are, I need you to smile upon my wife tonight as she needs to hit this parlay for $62. Come on, Pete. Bring the good

vibes. It's just more frustrating because there were the two opportunities right there. And he threw it to him twice. That's why we're not getting another attempt to lock it here. Look, Pete's looking out for you. He said, listen, he'd really be looking out for you if you were a 14 year old girl but um hey look and his defense she looked 20 and said she was 16 uh all right here we go second and 10 Gino Gino all right so it's third down that wouldn't even

close oh there's a flag we got a first down coming our way there's too many fucking flags in the NFL there's too many penalties and I'm saying this as someone who's dumb football team committed to pass interference as they do at the end of every damn game that costs them there's too many penalties in this damn sport and also explain to me how like earlier today like a homeboy makes the catch like right at the first down marker and instead of someone having to throw a challenge flag they go well the video reviewed it and it's a first down we got like assisted referee like in soccer or something like we're var in here but then like there are other times that you have to challenge it that is stupid they should go to every close play and look at a replay instantly and say this is right on. Instead of wasting all of our time. Thank you. Hey, Terry and Arnold's got three penalties tonight. He's, uh, he's pulling a, uh, a Texans

now. Yep. Oh, they're looking for your boy. They're looking for him. I'm telling you, this would be a great miracle if I look, it's Oh, another flag. My God. I mean this fucking sport, like they kill Gino. No, he's a Gino Gino get up Gino oh no they're bringing people out oh no no he's getting up he's getting up oh his head's gonna hit hard on the turf

oh no he's fine you know he's a tough guy get up you son of a bitch cause Jilly loves ya do it for Pete they're gonna make him come out because it's important to note because Jilly loves you. Do it for Pete. He didn't even remotely hit the turf, though. They're going to make him come out. Because it's important to note that Jilly doesn't just need

the touchdown from Lockett. She needs to be thrown by Geno Smith. So that would be the real kicker. Whoever their backup is comes in and then, like, oh, is that going to be a late flag on Seattle? I don't know who the flag is on. But, man, wouldn't that be something if it's some other asshole that ends up throwing it to him?

No, he's in. He lives! Again, Pete Rose is watching. I mean, he's probably concussed, so I don't feel good. Oh, I think he's fine. About the accuracy of this throw. You know who is concussed is that damn Tua, and that Tua is going to cost me my 4,000-yard parlay to win like five grand.

Everybody else is slinging. Even like where I'm getting yards from Derek Carr, I'm getting yards from everybody. And Tua's dumbass is sitting on the bench because he decided to ram his head into a random tiny middle linebacker in a meaningless play in the damn game. You should have taken Geno Smith for the 4,000. Look, I should have taken him for the most passing yards in the history of the NFL when you're going to go out there and throw it 55 damn times. He's going to have over 400.

Tonight, he's already got over 400 tonight. God, I hope I can go back in and redo some of those. Anyway, more importantly, we are watching 395 career high. This beast, 38 of 55. it's like watching the saints back when they had no defense in like 2015 and watching drew throw it 60 times against the

giants going to the end zone look at it oh it was nearly intercepted it was intercepted oh no oh you say well there would have been the pick yeah so i did get two people that threw a pick but not enough oh no gino gino gino i told you he hit his head he was concussed on that oh gino gino wasn't right on that oh gino what are you doing you're throwing it into triple coverage oh you oh let's see did it hit the ground did the ball. Did it hit the ground? Did the ball hit the ground? Hit the ground. It did. No, it didn't.

No. Oh, God dang it. I don't think so. I think it's a pick. You didn't see 16 was in front of all that. Oh, Pete. Oh, I don't know. I feel like the ground caused that ball to move and if the ground caused

the ball to move you might have a break here you might have a break we gotta talk in a second about the Astros that starts tomorrow at 1.30 I don't know that ball moved and if it moved because it hit the ground I don't know can we

overturn this can we nope they didn't overturn it i think at this point they even care they're like whatever gino cares he's like i wanted to get to four bills ah boy oh that's it so well back on the old uh train tomorrow as the astros play at 130 and you get get Scooble taking on Fromber, and we still don't know who's made the roster, right? So we don't know. Is Verlander on the roster? It's a great story if he would, but I've looked everywhere for it,

and I don't think they've announced this yet. By the way, this game had damn near 700 passing yards, but I don't believe they've announced the roster. So Verlander may. The hope is you beat these guys in two. So you don't need that game three and you could just throw out a Fromber game one, Kikuchi game two, and you're good to go. Uh, now who's to say you'll beat Scooble. He's the triple crown winner for pitchers.

So again, this is a very realistic situation that Fromber pitches his dick off and goes seven and you lose two to one. This offense has sputtered a lot. We don't know about, offense is sputtered a lot we don't know about well and even more importantly we don't know about Jordan if Jordan doesn't play you're going to be hard pressed to generate offense against Scooble tomorrow so they said he was like a 50 50 chance which to me means that even if he does play he's not like he's not he's not real Jordan you know what I'm saying like he's not all there it's good to have him there but if he's busted down that sucks but um so that's tomorrow at 1 30 you've got AJ Hinch making his return and I'd love to see them beat this guy because as you know I'm I really

dislike AJ Hinch but like this is the worst team to face because you've got a young team with a manager that's been there before, nothing to lose. You're on the road. You had no business even making the playoffs. So this is not the most ideal of scenarios for the Astros. You'd almost be better off – like the Royals who have been in a free fall for most of the last month that got in. That's the kind of team you'd rather face. 18 for 18.

Oh, so Goff didn't end up throwing an incompletion. Most without an incompletion all time. Jared Goff, 18 of 18 for 292. I believe he has, and he also didn't throw any incompletions in the first half of the last game. So he's had quite the run here. I hate him because he went to the Super Bowl and had no business going to the Super Bowl because my team had it stolen right before my very eyes, our trip to the Super Bowl, and my heart was ripped out of my chest and my phone was broken and I cried.

And another first in history. With 75% completion, 200 plus passing passing yards, and a receiving team. Well, no shit. Like, come on. Like, hey, don't fuck off. Like, those kind of stat combinations I think are stupid. That's dumb. But anyway, so you've got Astros.

Like, they're favored to win the series. I think they're minus 178 to win the series, which is all good. But, man, things can take a real turn for you if you don't win with Fromber. I feel really good about one and two because Kikuchi's pitched his balls off since he's gotten here. And Fromber is Fromber. And you could argue he's a guy that's a Cy Young candidate. He's not going to win it, but he's certainly among the best pitchers in baseball. So you've got a good one-two punch. And you're going to be okay if you go to game three, but you certainly have a question if you go to game three.

Do you go to Justin Verlander, who his performance in no way has warranted playing in a playoff game, but it's Verlander, it's the Tigers. Does he find the fountain of youth for one game? He did have a, for what it's worth, he had a quality start his last time out. So there's a lot of questions in there. It'd be nice if you could just win the two games at home

and go about your business here. You don't want to go to game three. But I don't know. I'm not super confident about this. So we'll see. Are you one of these people that's of the belief that somehow the Mets and Atlanta got together and said, let's just split this thing and keep the Arizona Pricks out of the playoffs.

Kind of. I mean, it was funny because obviously they both clinched today. So after the second game, they all got their champion or their playoff T-shirts. They're all hugging each other, ball celebrating together on the field. Like, ha, fuck you, Arizona. Because Arizona went to the World Series last year, right? They did, yeah. They were probably like, screw these guys.

Yeah. We won the first one, which seemed like a pretty epic game. Yeah. And then the second one, they're like, okay, you guys do it. I was reading my Twitter, and McDougal loves to talk about other people's fans a lot, and how McDougal has the best fans ever.

And that's how they get their rocks off, is we're the best fans. I see everybody ripping Atlanta for the crowd at the game today, and they're like, if this game game were in philly it'd be sold out and it probably would you people give a shit about sports more than people in atlanta do breaking news um but like that's the kind of shit they get their rocks off on is why weren't there more people there um because atlanta didn't give a shit there i solved it well they do once again i mean mean, that place has been packed once they're in the World Series or something. Sure, but it's been a long story with Atlanta where they were so good for so long

and people got kind of bored with it that the crowds weren't nearly what they were in the mid-'90s when they were at Fulton County Stadium and at Smoltz and Glavin and Maddox and Chipper and Andrew Jones and Rocker and these guys and Ron Gant and Brian Jordan. It was a little different. It's just not the same vibe. But when you go to the playoffs 15 years in a row and only win one World Series, people get bored. People got bored here in St. Louis, but this thing's a disaster anyway. It's funny. I'm listening to sports radio here, and my God, one person, they do this segment where they take questions from listeners.

What a novel concept. But they take questions from listeners, and one of them is, do you believe that the St. Louis City SC, which is the MLS team that's in its second year, do you believe that St. Louis SC or the Battle Hawks, which is the USFL, U ufl whatever the hell it is teen do you think that they will take over in popularity for the cardinals no you fucking idiots like in what universe is an mls team going to be more popular than the major league baseball team let me tell you something if you're in a city where people like if you're if you're in a city where people even entertain the idea of talking

about soccer on a daily basis on the radio then your city is an illegitimate sports city and it should be banished from sports fandom you shouldn't be allowed to have teams if you're in a city where someone's like all right coming up we're gonna break down the uh st louis sc sporting kc match if you're doing that you don't deserve to have any teams. And if you get into a situation where you're breaking down the USFL, you don't deserve to have teams. But these St. Louis people here get their rocks off on this battle Hawks because they put in like 30, 40,000 people for the games and nobody else does. Yeah. Cause no one else gives a shit. Cause most of these places have real goddamn teams.

So I don't know what to tell you. But anyway, so Astros, we hit some plays tonight. Might go bet on, you know, maybe the unders the play tomorrow. Maybe the Astros. Can you check on the Astros money line tomorrow? I would imagine it'll be close to even money because of Scooble. The series is minus 178 Astros, but I would imagine you can be close to even money because of Scooble. The series is minus 178 Astros, but I would imagine you can get close to even money. I might go over there and put a hundo spot on just the Astros to win the game to give me some juice tomorrow to watch.

Well, there's already like hockey things popping up like take a futures bet, Bedard, 40 plus goals. I feel like hockey offseason is 10 minutes. It's like the WNBA, Like the second college basketball is over, it's like, oh, WNBA draft happened. Then like three days later, they're playing WNBA basketball. Again, if you talk about the WNBA in your city, you're also illegitimate. The Astros' money line is minus 155. Really? Well, there's not a lot of value on that.

The over-under is six and a half runs. That's a low over-under, man. So that means the – you know what I would consider taking in that then? And again, it depends on if Framber's there or Yordan's there. Can you find me the Astros? I'm going to guess the Astros team total then would be over three and a half. And I would imagine that it would be over two and a half for Detroit. And I would imagine it might even be plus money for the Astros over three and a half for their team total runs well let's see Astros team total runs plus positive money for over three and a

half okay so I called that one it would probably be positive money for Detroit's over Detroit is minus 30 130 for two and a half okay I see so you would need four runs from the ash i don't trust the idea again four runs off a scooble maybe you take fromber strikeouts or frombers uh innings pitched or whatever oh see that's not bad outs recorded is there an outs recorded on there i know that fan duel usually has an outs recorded i think i'd consider that like i'm not a big taking strikeouts person mostly because i think strikeouts suck and i don't like to root for them but I think that um take fromber for 17 and a half outs recorded so will fromber make it through six innings and what's the value on that minus 110 okay so that's where it should be I would consider that school ball is also 17 and a half minus 155 well the

thing about fromber is he's right around six innings a lot of the time, although he's gone deeper into some games lately. This is playoff Fromber. Yeah, so you got to go deep. Strikeouts are six and a half for plus 110. Yeah, I'm not screwing around with strikeouts. I'm not a big strikeout taker. But I'm not opposed to Fromber because your're gonna like you've got to your season's

over if you lose two games so there's no need to screw around like you've got one of the best pitchers in baseball they do you're hoping that this is a pitcher's duel or if it's not that your team gets out to four or five runs you know we've seen games like this that we thought would be pitchers duels I want to go back I want to know what the original over under was for game five of the 2017 World Series because again that's a that's a Cy Young award winner that started for the Astros the thumb and then that's one of the greatest pitchers of all time in Clayton Kershaw and that game was four nothing after half an inning so and I forgot I don't even remember the final like 13 to 12 or

12 to 11 or whatever the final score was of that game I was passed out in the suite by the time the game was over so it's hard for me to remember all these things but I'm gonna say that the I gotta find it somewhere game 5 2017 World Series with those two guys going and there were already games in that series early that were low scoring, if I recall. Like the Astros had to win games. Check me if I'm right, and I know we've talked about this. I want to say, hey, we talked about this whenever Marwin retired. Marwin had to hit that home run in game two in Los Angeles, and then that led to our discussion about dudes who've hit home runs

in the Japanese World Series, so we've had this discussion. But I'd love to know what that over-under was. Probably something like eight and a half. It probably went seven and a half. But that's, again, Cy Young award winner and Clayton freaking Kershaw. And it was four runs in the first inning. So these games that a lot of times you think could end up being low-scoring pitchers' duels could end up 10-9.

Well, game one, which was also Kershaw and Keiko, was 3-1 Dodgers. So if you're looking at 3-1 in game 1, and then I think game 2 was like 3-2 or 4-3. 7-6. Okay, but that was the game that, that was the home run from Marwin, right? Yep. So that was the one that did it. That was extra innings? Yep.

Yeah, okay. So I got my games mixed up. So 3-1 was game one. So if game one of that series was 3-1, that means when they came back around in game five, then that was probably an eight and a half over under something like that. And the actual final in that game was? 13-12. 13-12. And it was 3-0 after half an inning. So, like, that game was bonkers. One of the greatest baseball games ever. And I remember about half of it. Because I drank a lot of beer before and a lot

of beer during. And I remember vividly the only thing that I do remember is every time I'd go take a leak, somebody would hit a home run. That's all I recall about that. I didn't get to see many of the great moments. And the greatest moment of the game, the walk-off hit from Bregman. I was passed out in a radio station suite and was jolted awake like an alarm went off whenever he got the hit um but yeah so it was probably eight and a half

was probably the over under in game five it couldn't have been in the nines I don't believe game I gave Jim my ticket too yep you did I believe we watched Seattle uh Seattle playing football that they played the Texans Seattle played the Texans there we go our Seahawks again Seahawks and and Ash and Texans and I think the Texans may have won that game because that was back well that was if that was 2017

that would have been Brock no that would have been Deshaun I think that would have been Deshaun's first year that was you know a couple weeks after Tom Savage was murdered on the field uh it was left for dead um but uh yeah so um again I think I think I might take Fromber over really quick find me Fromber's numbers find me his game log I need to know how many times this year Fromber has gone six like it seems no wait that would be uh it was 17 and a

half right so that would be six innings i feel like fromber in a playoff game like this and that's not a great offense you're dealing with in detroit either like you would expect this to be a pitcher's duel um i think i'm gonna jump in on that i'm gonna go i'm gonna go over to illinois tomorrow and i'm gonna go over 16 and a half outs recorded by Fromber. So that's my plan. I think his last game he pitched his balls off and got into the eighth. Did he get into the eighth the last time he pitched? No, last time he pitched, he only pitched five and two-thirds.

Recently, though, he's gotten at least through seven. Seven. Seven innings pitch, then six and a third, then seven, then seven, then five and two-thirds, then seven, and five and two-thirds, and eight and two-thirds. Okay. So I'm going to go, look, Scooble I know pitches his ass off too. I'm going Fromber. Here's one we can do really quick, and then we can go watch our wrestling stories.

Can you get me the series odds for all these series? And we can maybe, you know what we could do? We could build a series parlay where we take the winners of each of these wild card series in a parlay that's important no last postseason he did not come close to that but he's trying to redeem himself well obviously that's been kind of one of the knocks on fromber so we shall see he pitched six six and a third and seven oh no he was a baller in 2022 so but look, I will trust that Fromber, when he takes the ball, can give me 18 outs.

I trust that. Now, so before we get out of here, let's do this then. Let's go look at the series totals, and let's see if we can build a series winner parlay here. And also, I guess since they know all the teams now, we can find out the odds for the World Series winner and see what the Astros are. I might just go over there tomorrow

and put in 50 bucks on the Astros to win the whole damn thing. Series props. Most home runs. Geez. No, I don't. That's going too deep for me. Layoff specials.

Wild card props. Go to. Here we go series winner all right so can you build a parlay with these i would assume you could all right so what is the astros series minus 175 for the astros all right so let's take the astros to win that series okay what's next orioles and royals. The Orioles are minus one 70 to win that series. We're going to take the Orioles and then the Brewers and Mets. The Brewers are minus one 35 to win that series. I'm taking the crew and then the Padres and the Braves. We're going with the fathers. They're minus one 75. All right.

So does that parlay? What does that end up being? It ends up being plus 582. That's not bad. You go over there and they put in 100 bucks. You could win 600 bucks on that. Inevitably, one of these teams will be upset. Oh, I agree.

Well, sure. But to me, maybe the Mets would be the team that would do the upsetting, potentially, over the Brewers, who have been kind of just sitting around forever, it seems seems like Mets are riding the high of just getting in so there's something to be said about that and then what are the Astros World Series odds just to win the whole thing if I had to guess the Yankees probably have better odds the I'm say that, don't tell me, the Phillies obviously have better odds. The Dodgers have better odds. That's it.

So the Astros have the fourth odds, okay. So, and what is theirs? Plus 800. So a hundred, like, go put 50 bucks on the Astros out of the gambling account. Have something to root for. If they win the whole thing, you win $400. And if they don't, you're only out $50. And if you win with Fromber and game one's out, it's evened out anyway.

So that's probably what I would do with that. You can also take the Astros to beat the Yankees for the AL championship for plus $700. Well, we know if those two teams match up we know how that's going to end inevitably um obviously they if the astros beat detroit they'll go to cleveland next and then if they beat cleveland they'd face either the yankees or well probably the yankees you know what else sounds like a fun play is the outcome of jose altuve's first at bat. Because can't you – like, I always get the vibe that in the playoffs, at home, first pitch, I feel like Altuve could, like, bop one in the short porch.

Everyone's all hyped on scooball. Like, I could see that. Like, so I love those bets where you can look at the result of the first pitch. Usually an extra base hit being on the first pitch of the game of each inning like that is, like, plus 1,000 or so, if not more, plus 5. It's just plus 650 to home run. He could hit one anytime. Sure.

Yeah, Feltuve. I would consider getting in on that, too, because he's the most clutch dude there is. So I'm going to say then for that, for him to hit a home run on the first pitch has to be like plus 6,000 or something like that. So it would be kind of a fun uh shot I hit one of those with him against the Rangers uh last year I forgot how what I did on that but I hit one with Altuve hitting a home run uh in that series somehow but I'd say that Altuve first inning first pitch to Altuve being an extra base hit even probably got great value a home run would be astronomical value and that just seemed that's when he thrives that's what

Altuve does he's clutch in the postseason like that he's the man so anyway so uh I guess now we'll go watch our wrestling story we got a couple episodes left I I would implore you, I would urge you to watch Heels. It's now on Netflix. It was on Starz. I'm going to start thinking you're getting paid to talk about this show. Why? You give the same speech every night. I know, but you should watch it.

It's a good show. Very rarely do I tell you good things to do. Usually I'm bitching about things, so you should be thrilled that I'm saying nice things about something. I found something I enjoy. It's a good show. So I would urge you guys to check it out if you haven't. If you have, shoot me a message on social media somewhere, and we can chat about it.

But anyway, all right, we're getting out of here. Astros, 1.30 on Tuesday. We're going to take Fromber over 15. Was it over 16 and a half outs? Right? No. I'm doing the math wrong. Over 15 and a half. Wait. Wait a second. What was the damn number? He has to get through six innings. 17 and a half.

17 and a half. Alright, so we're going to do that. Maybe Altuve to hit a home run at some point in the game because that's what he does because he's clutch as shit. Anyway, love you guys. We'll talk.