Mike Krukow's Emotional Farewell & Our 2026 MLB Wild Card Predictions | Thompson 2 Clark

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[SPEAKER_01]: It is Thompson to Clark.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We are here on a Monday early evening for us and we I think we recorded last Thursday

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was just Thursday and then we had the finale series of the weekend of the series of the season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So quick turn around here, but the reason why we're doing it this early in the week is because one, we have the wild card coming and so we want to get our wild card thoughts out there lots but also.

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[SPEAKER_01]: the valkyries are in the playoffs so i had to kind of time when bradden i could go because there's valkyries stuff like all week long and uh... i did so we we did we did Thompson Clark on Thursday then i did uh... pod holla uh...

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[SPEAKER_01]: was it Friday, I may have done it Friday, I can't remember, but we we came back last night as well and I did we want winners for an honors podcast last night as well, so there's tons of content on this YouTube channel if you are interested and following all the sports is kind of insane like it would be crazy like I'm very much open to this, but if the giants actually made the playoffs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the Valkyries are in the playoffs and the 49ers are playing and then basketball NBA season starts like in like three weeks or something I get it just be ridiculous, but Giants aren't aren't in the playoffs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we don't we only have to go once a week So we're I was gonna see we're getting kind of close to the point where every sport is playing when does NBA open I want to say it's like maybe the third week in October

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, yeah, so there will still be their there will be baseball because I think world series is the final week I think games seven would be on Halloween if it goes that far this year But hockey starts tomorrow night on Tuesday regular season so pretty soon.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to have all the sports all the major sports.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's me and saying

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[SPEAKER_00]: How are my sharkies supposed to do with my guy big Mac daddy celebrating yeah, they just missed the playoffs last year So they are expected to kind of make a push this year and possibly get back into the playoffs for the first time in a long time my golden yeah

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[SPEAKER_01]: I would love to find time to pay attention to them a little bit more.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like I should.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just need to find some pockets of time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is the year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you know what the games are kind of short.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the nice thing is, too, is you've got like a good 15, 20 minutes in between periods.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So you've always got time to do like other stuff, which is what I love.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I love having the game on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then when the, you know, I set a timer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: between periods and I just go do other stuff and then I come back and and it's so fast moving to which is awesome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the games are kind of short.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're about, you know, about two and a half, two hours and 45 minutes or so.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then my golden nights were in the Stanley Cup finals last year, had a nice lead, blew it, lost it, and to Carolina.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so they're, you know, they're favored to get back in there or close to this year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're got a good team again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's really exciting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the thing for me to do would just be to throw the season pass on them so that it just records and then I could throw it on and I have a chance.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't even, I'm assuming they're on NBC Sports Bay Area, Sports California.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and B.C.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sports California the second channel.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So the A's channel basically and and are there games nationally on what ESPN all over the place you've got TN or just sorry TNT you've got ESPN you've got

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[SPEAKER_00]: HBO Max.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, so if you have it, you know, basically, if you have all of those channels, you could just throw on HBO Max and get and you get on HBO Max.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you've got a nice 4K TV, which almost everybody does now, you get, you get an HDR 4K and it is amazing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So anytime the guys are on that, I'm like, okay, that's what I'm watching tonight.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Alright, let's dig into what we're going to talk about today, which is I think everybody, whatever one talking about, if you're a giant fan is Mike Cruko's last game, it had to be against the Dodgers, the the weekend series.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It had to be after a game in which the giants gave up the next readings, and I still haven't watched all of the stuff yet, like I've watched most of the post game rap, but I didn't watch everything else after that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I sent our friend Darren Chan a note last night because

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[SPEAKER_01]: He had the nicest, uh, just speech about Crucco.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He said, well, I, I actually realized how, how old Aaron is because he said he was 15 when Crucco 120, I think he said.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I was.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But 86, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: No 86.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No 86.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I was, that was, that was somewhere under 13.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I was 10.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I was like, oh, okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now I'm in a whole dareness.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But, um, yeah, it was, it was great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then he talked about crude coming back in game four of the NLCS against the Cardinals.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I think that was the game that he, they had mentioned.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um,

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then like it was just like, yeah, you know, because Darren is like us, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like he followed the team, like we followed the team as we were growing up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I, I sort of felt like Darren was an extension.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then he gets to root and he roots for his, his team as a child.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then he gets to work with these guys for many, many years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I thought that was just awesome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he, he said, when I texted him, I don't think he would mind me sharing it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He said, he,

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[SPEAKER_01]: was a little afraid that he was going to get emotional while he was doing that because it wasn't only on TV, I think they had broadcast it out to the people who stayed in the park.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, I could see why he was a little nervous, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I would be too, man, there's because there were still like 25, 30,000 fans hanging out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so that was that was very nice and I just I can't get enough of the crooks stuff, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like They they played the no this this may have been on Twitter that I saw They played like a just a video package of him and the one that always cracks me up the most

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[SPEAKER_01]: is when he's doing the home run call for Kuiper so he does Kuiper's call and then he does John Miller's call and then he does the Dave Fleming like all in a row and I just I crack up every time I see that it was so good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: you know we we kind of prepared ourselves and we did our crook episode you know many many weeks ago and we talked about our favorite crook memories as you know as a ball player but you know from an announcer standpoint I kind of came to this conclusion last night which is

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[SPEAKER_01]: we will probably never be as close to a broadcast team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now we're talking baseball football basketball, hockey, college, then we were to crew can type.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and growing up, you know, for me, because I'm a little bit older and probably for Darren Chan, too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it was a little bit more like, Hank Greenwald, Ron Fairly, and for you too, I mean, yeah, Greenwald was I loved Greenwald growing up, like he was the guy that I was like, oh, that's my guy, because I was just listening with so many games in the radio back then.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, then I mean, it's called on the Mitchell bear-handed catch, I mean, just you know his voice it was it was the voice of the summer for us and and Ron fairly too and and and to a lesser degree Ron fairly and Wayne Hagen that was a good combo, but yeah those guys and and see now I didn't have giant vision.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, growing up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't have cable growing up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what?

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know the giant's vision team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think I'm not 100% sure, but I think the first giant's vision team was Joe Morgan, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And

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[SPEAKER_01]: It may have been Barry Tompkins.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I can't remember that name.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It may have been.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Gosh, who's the guy that used to do the thing with Joe Morgan on K and B are?

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[SPEAKER_01]: It would be like Tuesday night and they would just talk giants and baseball.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean forget that guy's name local.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was local and stuff in Minnesota.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I forget his name.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I like I want to say Joe Morgan was the first first color guy to do Giant's vision.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think so.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then Kiper came along, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: To do play by play on Giant's vision.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So Kiper was gone for two years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He went to Colorado.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that's right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then he came back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he just liked doing stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, and I think he came back and Wayne Hagen went to Colorado.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like they swapped places or something like that from what I remember.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd have to look that up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: actually you know there's a Wikipedia page on giants vision is a really yeah it did you see coal cipher wearing a giants vision hat on the field yesterday and it was so it was definitely an eighties had you remember those big boxy and it looked like it might have been made out of white paper i mean it was just you know but it was a it was a legit giants vision hat

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, here we go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I have the announcement, even at least this is according to Wikipedia.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So my memory is a little off here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I had Joe Morgan correct.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, you had Cuiper correct.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, and Phil Stone was the other guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that so this only went to 1989 and then I think they got picked up by sports channel in 1990 and then sports channel just showed most of the games.

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[SPEAKER_00]: most of the games and then and then what's his name afterwards uh and then what's his name afterwards uh and then what's his name afterwards uh and then what's his name afterwards uh and then what's his name afterwards uh and then what's his name afterwards uh and then what's his name afterwards uh and then what's his name afterwards uh and then what's his name afterwards uh and then what's his name afterwards uh and then what's his name afterwards uh and then what's his name afterwards uh

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, Giants Vision, according to Wikipedia, cost $5.95 per game, and the full $45 game package was $154.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a lot at that time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a lot of money at that time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, especially considering I think now you can get all of the Giants games if you're in the Giants network.

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[SPEAKER_00]: but say you don't have live TV, even if you do have levity, you can get all of the giant games on MLB.tv for around, I think, like 90 bucks 200 bucks, something like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought it was like,

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[SPEAKER_00]: 30 a year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a 30 a month.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought it, you know, I got to look at it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: My parents do that because they have dish network here in Reno, and dish network does not carry the giant schemes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They don't carry NBC sports area.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They had a dispute and just don't carry them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that whole thing is crazy because these cable systems are they're just like, you know what you don't bring the subscribers any more and thus we aren't prioritizing you we're going to make people pay more to see you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: 39 99 for the season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, wow.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's, well, for writing, for the, for the whole.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, yeah, well, that can't be right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's not like a partial season because we're so late in the season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is AI.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's not go with that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Regular full season pricing usually starts at 120.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's kind of like giant vision.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, a little bit less, a little bit less.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But that's it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's amazing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I guess

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[SPEAKER_01]: They had 22,000 subscribers according to Wikipedia.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Geez, and was Kruko ever on there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what that's like.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't look like he was.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, and if you think about it, so historically, the reason why they never showed home games is because they didn't want to take away from the live crowd.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So if you're on giant's vision,

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[SPEAKER_01]: I guess they said, hey, if we get 20,000 subscribers and there are still 20,000 people going that makes up the difference.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe we'll make a little bit more at the box if you look at that way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Six bucks a ticket.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, some of the seats around, I remember in the early 90s, 1991, 92 tickets for the bleachers were $2.50.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I was, you know, I'm also buying a Polish dog and a Coke and stuff like that, but, but I get it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you're making sense for parking.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, exactly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you could have eight people watching the game in your house, and you only paid six bucks for it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, it's still, it's, it's a little bit of money.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's kind of like the movies today.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So not only are the movies so expensive, but they now have these like subscription plans, like if you wanna go to the theater, so I pay, I probably pay, let's say 25 to 30 bucks a month for what is called AMC, I forget I forget the name of the of the land, but basically I know a few of them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I can I can go to the movies and get a new a new ticket like multiple times a week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If I if I wanted not that I could, you know, not and I think they they basically all like, yes, he's not not that anybody can go this much, but the whole trick is they get my recurring 30 bucks a month.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then when I go,

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[SPEAKER_01]: it's like 10 bucks for a drink and 12 bucks for a popcorn.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they're making 20 bucks off of me plus the recurring subscription price like every time I go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you know it's I'm glad that we still have movie theater so I don't mind me but it's you know it's just like the ball games like it's not just about the ticket because you and I could go online you know let's say the morning of and

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, 150 dollar ticket.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, oh, it's like 80 bucks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll buy it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But then it's like 40 bucks to park and then you're paying 30 bucks for a drink and hot dog and then easily want to beer.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's another 20 bucks or if you want like a mixed drink.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's another 25 bucks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you're just, you know, you're just going in there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just going like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Whatever the cost is, you know, the ticket is maybe even the cheapest thing, and then if you're you and me, we're like, we kind of want a new hat.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I, I kind of like, and, and I forget who said it, but they were like, you know, at some point, maybe was DC.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think DC is the one who said he said, you and Dwayne are going to go into the Hall of Fame.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, a lot of people actually, and then Bremly followed with that, and I mean, pretty much everybody had that same sentiment.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we talked about this when costus was on and costus was trying to get the Hall of Fame to like make this exception or change rule, and

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[SPEAKER_01]: or the people who run the baseball Hall of Fame they're like no we're good like we don't like this stuff like this we don't like to make people happy we just want to be crudgently and we like our archaic voting process like we're just not doing it but it's like I don't know what else the giants could do they named the booth broadcast booth after crew can type

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they're going to be on some sort of wall of fame or whatever is there going to be on like that they'll be back and they'll do that stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but you know as far as overall baseball is concerned.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they do I think it would be nice to see something about Kruko because of how you know he just he is like, you know not to say that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Cruka was like the John Madden of baseball or anything because you know baseball is a little bit more local He was never a national announcer.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was the local guy until the end, but

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, if you wanted to have a local color guy, I'm sure if you were hiring, you're like, you see this guy over here in San Francisco, like this guy, if you could do a game anyway, anyway, like this guy, like that's what we're kind of looking for.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know, you know, I don't listen to a lot of other broadcasts, but I can't imagine there are many better for their local area than Kruko was for San Francisco.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I listen to a lot of broadcasts because I have MLB dot TV on during the day, throwing a game, there is nothing like crook and kip.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I can tell you that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: John Crook in the Philly's broadcast is so hard to listen to.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's so grumpy all the time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's funny, there's some funny stuff in there, but he's just, I'm just using the fillies as an example, because I've been watching a lot of fillies games this week because, you know, fillies and and Diamondbacks were going back and forth to try to get into the playoffs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I've been watching a lot of fills games, but it's they're they're hard to listen to and a lot of times I'll just leave the game on and then I'm like, you know, I'm put on music.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I just turned the sound down, put on something I can listen to and go that way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, there aren't many broadcasts that the broadcasters, local broadcasters out there that that can give you what crew can type, have given us for years and years and years and going back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's a, they keep saying 1990 was his first year and I'm like, my,

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[SPEAKER_00]: God, I was the year I was 17.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was turning 18, you know, the next year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I had just turned 17.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That to me just blows my mind.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That now that I'm 53 that he's been broadcasting games for that long.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It just kind of seems like it flew by and I believe, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it did.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we're going to go through this again, when Dwayne eventually retires and when John, I think might be the oldest of all of them, he is.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, eventually retires that is coming, like hopefully not any time soon, but that is coming.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, Fleming is the youngest one out of them all, but he Fleming even said 20, they've been together 25 years as a for some.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That is incredible.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that would be 2001.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's Barry's home run.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Not his home run chase.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That would have been 2001.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was 2001.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It got interrupted by when 9 11 kind of froze everything for a little bit and they came back and he went on a tear after that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So for this show, now we gotta remember to do this next year, by the way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You had a really good idea and I thought it was, it was awesome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You had the idea to give out adababes and grab some pine meats.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I thought, you know what, we should just do it weekly because there's something good that happens during the week and then there's something that is bad and that bothers us.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I thought, wow, let's do that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we're going to do this for this last series that happened at the time from the last series.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to give an adobe and a grab some pine meat to a player or to a scenario or a situation.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And hopefully, we can incorporate this into the podcast when the game start every year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I really like that idea, credit to Brad

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[SPEAKER_01]: you know, Mike, if you're mad at us for doing this, it's all about it's for us.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like in honor of of Kruko.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I hope.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I don't have a lot of money.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So don't come back, but do you want to kick it off?

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[SPEAKER_00]: What would have been your ad a babe for this past weekend?

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what, I didn't, I actually, I went ahead for the whole season.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I went ahead and added a babe for the season and grabbed some pine meat for the season.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because I thought, you know what, let's just, I'm just gonna wrap up the whole thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And let's just, we missed every week doing this because we just, we just thought it was that big.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, so that's what I want to do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So my add a babe.

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[SPEAKER_00]: for for for the season has been that the go-go giants were starting to steal some bags this year, which is what I've been planning for year after year after year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is going to spoil one of our our our five season over under predictions, but that's okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So in 2021 we stole 66 bags and then 22 we stole 64 then 57 and in 23 and in 24,

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then finally, this year, we sold 88 bags getting close to 100, my milestone is always 100.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Can we steal 100 bags in a season, even though the Washington National School, what, like, 174 something like that?

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I like to see my adababe goes to the giants.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Getting out there in stealing bases, getting things moving on the base paths, pushing you know, fielders to make plays because a lot of times we saw Jonah Cox deal second and then the catcher throws it into the center field because he's so damn quick and then you get over a third base and now all of a sudden you've got a scoring situation.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So adding that to next year's roster when you get your boppers back and you get some stolen bases plus some home runs, plus some doubles.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and guys put in the ball into play because you know we're not going to see Shay Whitcom we're not going to see you know some of those guys who can't put the ball into play we're not going to be seeing those guys next year but but that that's my adabab the go-go giants on the base pass.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right mine and I just I just looked at it from this last series.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay yeah

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[SPEAKER_01]: I had I had to that were kind of competing against each other and one of them was we got to see the tugboat face show hey that was dope.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it struck him out on three pitches.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I believe so.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now this isn't the show that is you know the superhero show hey because this dude looks like he's a pain.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's still show hey that's all that matters.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But that was nice to see and I guess the other one maybe this is an honorable mention one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Camilla D'Ovala's back, and he pitched very well, like it's almost like he's like, oh my gosh, thank God I'm back with it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, even said he wants to stay here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, okay, you better hope that they have the same plans for you as you have for them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we can't, we're not, we can't be too greedy when we get in the bullpen right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the whole problem.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So you got to look at his price at like 7 million next year in arbitration and say, well, that's doable.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think we'll take that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I don't know what it will take, but you need to, you know, he's had a couple of tough years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He still has a very electric arm.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if he's been leaning to heavy on a, you know, specific pitch or not.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We haven't seen him since mid last year, but we know he's got the stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know that he's got the makeup necessarily to be a closer though.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He did it for several years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, but, you know, whether he pitches the seventh inning or the eighth inning, we know that he has done it in the past.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it is, let's put it this way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I trust him more than the person who is my grab some pine meat of the weekend.

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[SPEAKER_01]: in a very predictable fashion, you, uh, Dunkin' David.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There, god, ruin the whole day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, man, like, you know, what was it?

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a one-one ball game, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a one-one ball game.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And, uh, poor costs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: hits a ball that we all think it's gone and even my app tracked it and said it was a home run and then I was like wait what happened to the run and they take it back and in the in the top of the

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then it's almost out of it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The ghost runners at second, and then it was double, intentionally walk jack.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, my gosh, oh, like so bad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, not only is it kind of like a great way to sum up the season, not a great way, like a bad way, but it kind of fits.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But to do it in that fashion where,

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[SPEAKER_01]: You actually kind of think like maybe the giants will do it for crook, you know, maybe they'll get him one on his way out and Duncan david is like, sorry guys like I

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[SPEAKER_01]: nobody knows why I'm like I'm just going to lay one flat for for a home run I can just like come on do whoever you are you're the grab some pine mean I never see that again and so I thought when you give up the one run I was like okay all right we we we can get this and then it goes to give up four more and I'm like

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, three more right because it was five one so you give up four runs and yeah, when you give up the first And then when you give up the three run try to say well, there's no possible way we're winning this game But then you see that and you go

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[SPEAKER_00]: when we can't really, like I said, you can't be greedy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So if Devol wants to stay and he's cheap enough, and again, you can sign him, you know, you could do the whole arb thing and get, you know, get what you think you can get for him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then if he's pitching well, but the team's not playing well, guess what?

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[SPEAKER_00]: He traded him again at the deadline.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think in his interview after the game yesterday, he said, you know, I went to New York and I went to Pittsburgh and I had plans for me of how to pitch, but they let me in the last two days just kind of pitch.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I guess they were having them stay away from a slider.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know why, but again, you still got spring training.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You still get to kind of see how things go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think no matter what, you've got to offer arbitration, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you have to offer an arbitration.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we'll see how that goes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But my grab some pine meat.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if you heard Will Clark trying to say it yesterday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... such a bump in he said uh... when he say take some pine me how many times have we heard grab some pine meat and then even blow that one of anyways my grab some pine meat for the season

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[SPEAKER_00]: was Tony Vatello's post game pressers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think I want to hear these again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to hear any more big equates.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to hear any more.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I love a good big equate.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I don't want to hear that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to hear any more about Tennessee college.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to hear any of that stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to hear any garbled nonsense about we had a plan.

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[SPEAKER_00]: you know this and that i mean he got run seven times this year uh... that was the lead for for getting run the most by any manager uh... maybe cut those down a little bit but i still i still like him i think he's got i think he's got what it takes to be a major league manager um... all for him coming back next season all for him possibly coming back this season after but if they lose

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[SPEAKER_00]: 97 games again, I don't think it's going to be looking too good for him, but but this is just about the post game pressures.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Give me some clarity.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Tell me how the team did tell me what the team can do better and why things went wrong or why things went right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't need to, you know, I don't need to go through 18 roundabouts to get there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So anyways, that's my that's definitely

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[SPEAKER_01]: he has earned some respect for taking this year out from these empires because they run they bring him up so fast.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, he's he's been run from the dugout.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how many they didn't have to come out anymore because even yesterday he got run in the second or third inning.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't even come out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He just started yelling or he was slapping the top of the dugout rail.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And when there was that checkswing call that didn't go our way and he was slapping and it was it was it was it was a swing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it was definitely a swing and he had an argument, but you can't really argue those and and you also can't slap the top row of the lug.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You got to come out and say something.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, why don't you dig through our early season overunders and after that we'll get to the wild card.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, so our over-unders didn't go well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of red and not a lot of green.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So the first one we had our over on there, we always do this every year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We get in the year, we pick five over-unders.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We say what we think they're going to be.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Go back at the end of the year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We check them out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: this year, I did not do well at all.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You did.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You did.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You're generally more optimistic than I am.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So the season like this, it's going to be tough.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm I'm very optimistic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So though, I put the wins at 87.5 right over under on that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, we were both under, like, grossly under.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You said, I said 85, you said 83, it was 65.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we were way off, but at least we were under.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Here's another one, here's a good one, number two, Ryan Walker saves 20.5 on the season.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We both went over.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We went over 20.5.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We were both very optimistic on that one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We were grossly under, and he had three saves on him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Ooh, Ryan Walker, I was gonna say it's zero, but good for you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I thought he'd got another one late in this season here, but I guess I was wrong.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't even actually, you know what I think he might have I think he ended with two, then he got bounced around and the miners, and I think he got one like two weeks ago or so.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Pred more blown saves than saves.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, I didn't even want to look at that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to make him feel bad Team stolen bases.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I told you my magic number is 100.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I put it at 100.5.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I went over you 100

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you got the under at 88, but you know, there were pretty close if they would have been running like this earlier in the season.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Jonah Cox would have been an early in the season.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then we would have seen more of this action, but we did not.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Bright's Eldridge Games.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This one was kind of a bummer because it was at 110.5.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If he's not a tall gangly dude who hits his head, he's washing, he was just walking down the hall.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a whole tail, apparently.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just thought about this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the most brand-in belt thing that he's ever done.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A please don't turn into brand-in belt.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You could turn into the player, like the type of player that consistently, but can't be like this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So goofy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, take in, you know, rent what a brand-in belt, take a baseball to the head, turn warm-ups, and take out a concoe.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, but anyways, Bryce Aldridge games played 110.5, you took the under, I took the over.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You got the under and I lost the over and only because he hit his head.

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[SPEAKER_00]: How many did he get to?

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[SPEAKER_00]: 107.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, dang.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He would have cleared it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you could hear it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, four games away from Boston that line.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, uh, but anyways, and then, and then Luis arise.

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[SPEAKER_00]: FRV at second base.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I put the over under at minus 5.5.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The last time he had played second base before this year, he was a minus eight.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You and I both took the under, which is strange to me because I'm always very optimistic and going into the season.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was very optimistic that he was gonna play a really good second base.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I didn't think he was gonna play a plus 10, yeah, FRV.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And put that floor dude, he got hurt.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Is he gonna be back for the playoffs?

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, he is out the first round and that's two of three.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So he's out, he's out the first round.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He won't be playing against Atlanta.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think the three games are in Atlanta.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they got the four.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, they got the three and Philly got the six.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we got the, we got the 1993 NLCS rematch.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Remember that?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we tried not to watch that one too much because I think we were hurt in 93.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't watch much of the NLCS because I was a screw these guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't need that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I want some of it just from the idea of like, we're better.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We could have beaten both of these guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we could have, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, could have beaten both of these guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we would have beaten Toronto.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, so that's it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You were two and three I was own five yikes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I guess.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's optimistic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the optimism part of you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's rough.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go through these wild card rounds and what I didn't realize is the wild card rounds are all on NBC peacock.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that means we're going to get some 4k games, I think.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, um, I'm going to, I don't have what I don't have is the, uh, the times in the day, but we'll go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I got this for you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you got those.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So the six three game in the national league, fillies and Atlanta, fillies, uh, pitching is, uh, you know, they're that they were on fumes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Atlanta has sale, uh, Philly has, uh, sand of all.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I'm going to take it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, Philly kind of snuck in when when they were doing their best to to not make it in, but they had to win on on the last day and they won.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Atlanta, I need Atlanta because I think they got the best shot of anybody.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe the Brewers, but if I was to like bet money on teams that could beat the Dodgers in all of the tournament, I think I'd have Atlanta one Milwaukee two and then whomever the best representative of the American League as three.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so you don't think San Diego at all.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well,

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[SPEAKER_01]: The only thing that I like about San Diego is just the familiarity, they've played the Dodgers so much and they got hot at the right time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I would like to see how they play the cubs first.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Because look, if San Diego comes out and beats the cubs,

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[SPEAKER_01]: which I am go out say I will I am going to predict it I'm not super new purpose but then they would have to beat the brewers to then get to the Dodgers yeah that seems like heavy lifting and let's say that they do beat the brewers

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[SPEAKER_01]: then you're talking about a team that'll probably be on film at that point.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I would definitely put the Padres somewhere after, you know, maybe the rays or the Yankees, like they would probably be the next team after that, because man, this American League bracket is awful.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But, um,

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm, I'm a Braves fan, because I think that they have the best opportunity to be the Dodgers, but like who knows, like the way that the baseball playoffs at the three game series is, is a little tough, and they will have the home games, so hopefully they can just get the job done and just go to an O and be ready for the Dodgers, but yeah, we'll see.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You think your thing in Braves too?

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[SPEAKER_00]: yeah i'm thinking braves um and that series philly is just like like is that they're without a rise too they haven't i mean they barely hit any home runs over the past couple of weeks um they're on the road in Atlanta at Lanta's bullpen is pretty nasty um you've got Chris sale i i i can't see philly getting past Atlanta in that one now

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[SPEAKER_01]: and that's that's tomorrow at tomorrow really yeah 11 11 a.m. for us.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they're the 11 a.m. game all three days are they're pretty much leaving everybody in the same time slot every day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So the the first the the two out of three series is going to be that way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It looks like yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So if you are a Braves fan or Braves season ticket holder, you're basically leaving work at early every day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because that's 2pm, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because I think there's three hours ahead.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, that's a 2pm game.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, that's 2pm Eastern.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, are they Eastern?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, they are Easter.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they should be Easter.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, so yeah, two p.m. That's, that's, that's, yeah, that's kind of a raw deal.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But by the way, I, I'm, I said, sandable.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I meant Christopher Sanchez.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Zach Wheeler had to throw yesterday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that puts him, he, he threw six innings yesterday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, um,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Or was it yesterday?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was yesterday, I think.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So he's going to be tough for him to get back into that series because even if they make it to a game three, that's what was a Sunday Monday to stay Wednesday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's three days rest.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's brave.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Braves handled them regular series pretty well too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that leaves in their favor.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so I'm going to take Atlanta and then so are you also taking San Diego?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I, you know what?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm actually leaning Chicago in this company.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The Cubs won the season series fairly easily.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm kind of leaning the Cubs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I know San Diego's bullpen is pretty tough, but I think the Cubs have the offense that could jump on you early in every single game.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm kind of leaning Chicago on that one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That is probably going to be the most

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe the most entertaining from like a star power perspective just because I think people are wanting to see PCA and what he's going to do in these playoffs 40 40 guys going to win the MVP and if they get hot

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[SPEAKER_01]: I, it's probably going to be because of him, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he's going to be, you know, I think baseball fans know him, but they don't know him, like they know show hey, but this would be a good coming out party for him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think if he does lead them into the playoff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then you've got, you've got, say ah, you've got.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Breggman Breggman's gonna play his fault full ready to go, so he's like, kind of like Rocky Balbo He doesn't like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's like rough That hit by pitch man, but no, he's he's game.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's ready to go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, all right now we have one series in the a-al It's gonna get all the attention especially in the east coast and then we have one series in the a-al That I don't think anybody but the fans of these teams are gonna watch the 2005 world series

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we have We have the Astros and the White Sox now the Astros did not even finish with a winning record In this season even though they won their division

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[SPEAKER_01]: But hey, that's the style of the playoff works can't blame them for it to play at home, too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and so They're gonna face the white socks and the white socks are a great story not a great team themselves But a great story because they've been a dormat for many many years

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[SPEAKER_01]: I am going with the Astros.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think, you know, this kind of the star power of the Astros with Alvarez and Brown, who, how can you expect the White Sox who haven't done anything in years and years and years and years and they have a youngish team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like how do you expect them to play in, you know, now the lights are on for them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm going with the White Sox.

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[SPEAKER_00]: after you said all that yeah yeah yeah that's that's my one kind of like sneaky upset even though they're I think they're a better team than the Astros they should be playing the series in Chicago.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just think you're on disappears I'll two-way disappears no more banging trash can so he disappears during the during the playoffs lately and I guess the white socks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, they were in the playoffs, uh, I guess, 2021, and they faced the extras.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they did.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then, and that's long ago, two totally different teams back then.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But, uh, in the bullpen for the white socks, you've got the great Jordan Hicks, too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't forget about that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, but I mean, look at it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Does he throw an inning in the series?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's going to need to because because when you look at their starting rotation,

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[SPEAKER_00]: You've got a bunch of guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You've got Sean Burke, Anthony K. Those guys can go five, six.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But then you've got like Davis Martin, Eric Fettie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you even get to those guys, but Fettie and Martin are like three inning guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So

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[SPEAKER_00]: If there is a game three, you got to empty the bullpen, all those guys got to come out and pitch.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I still like the White Sox offense.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I like them to score some runs in Houston and kind of punch him in the mouth a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Young guys that don't know they're not supposed to be there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They forgot they lost 100 games last year and they just think they're good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's how they're going to pull it off.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then we have the Yankees that are Red Sox, his judge is going to play.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the question.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is like a 50 50 series to me if not for the home field advantage in these series is because they were so close and the Red Sox had the the crazy winning streak you have the judge thing I think I'm going to lean Yankees, but if judge cannot play or let's say he does play and he is not himself.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh man, you know, if he doesn't get it already for his, for his late season, you know, postseason, non-heroics, he's just going to get it again, and I kind of feel bad for him, but I want, I probably would amrooting for the Red Sox, but just that homefields, you know, thing, and that three game series is kind of interesting, and in a series like that where the crowds,

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[SPEAKER_01]: historically have been such a big deal for these teams.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I can sum in some, you know, like like the rays, like does the rays home feel the advantage mean much like if they were to play like I'm not quite sure because I don't know their fan base, but these are two insane fan bases where it probably does mean a little bit more than other places.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's probably why I lead Yankees, but I'm probably rooting for the Red Sox.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm I'm actually leaning red socks and I think it's just because of I think they can score more runs right now and without air and judge I'm geek though to see Elliott Ramos play yeah good for us.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm excited for that definitely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I hope he does well too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to see him do poorly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, exactly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope he hits a big home run win a game.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, do something awesome just so we can, you know, have that feeling for him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because he's such a happy nice guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I think I'm gonna lean red talks, but again, I could wake up tomorrow and be like, nah, it's the Yankees.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because it like he said, that's a toss-up series.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I think the crowd's gonna play into it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Are they gonna be the factor?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, maybe.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you could take the New York fans out of a game pretty quickly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But, um, do you know if Peacock has the ability to do that four box thing that ESPN did?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope so.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that'd be cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we're gonna, we are definitely gonna get some overlap, but I don't think we're gonna get, um, more of.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think we're only gonna have two games on at a time at the most, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Cause you know, you got 11, you've got a two,

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you're going to get tiny overlap, I think.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But you're going to get overlap the Yankees and Red Sox and the Padres and Cubs, unless since it's all on the same network, unless they decide we are going to wait until the other games over before we start the next game.

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[SPEAKER_00]: which is possibility because a lot of times when you see games on the same network they do that you know like on college football on Saturdays or you know you'll see the scroller that says Notre Dame and Purdue starts at now at a you know 1245 instead of 1230 because I don't want to run into it on the same network but we'll write you know right

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that is it for us, and hopefully we'll get some good playoff action over these next couple of days, and getting the Dodgers and the Brewers into the playoffs and the race.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I guess the race in the Guardians, too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's really about the Dodgers, I think, and the Brewers, and then who comes out of that and I'll east side of the wild card because I don't sense that like, like, there are, I don't know how to say this because baseball's so different, but like if you were to think of who the best teams are.

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[SPEAKER_01]: like the brewers are the best regular season team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the Dodgers are just the Dodgers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they always have to be, you have always have to be scared of them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But outside of those two teams like who would you have like I think the race had the next best record Outside of common arrow like who are you turning on the TV watch if you're yeah, you know looking for the raise game, you know like that kind of thing So I don't know we'll see how they do I'm sure major league baseball

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[SPEAKER_01]: wants to see Red Soxer Yankees and Dodgers in the world.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm sure they want that because it will get the big ratings.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, for sure.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And they could very well get that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, but because I again, Tampa Bay, it's not their thing to, you know, they're always winning 90 something games and then they just kind of duck out and they disappear, same with Milwaukee.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I think I think it's different this year with Milwaukee.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We could talk about it on the next show because,

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[SPEAKER_00]: got just on Saturday this coming Saturday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There are four games of the NLDS and ALDS all four series are going to be happening on Saturday, which is good because on Friday I'm getting vaccinated.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm getting my flu shot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I'm going to be laying around the house on Saturday and I'll have four games to watch.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's kind of fun.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and the ALDS will be on TBS and HBO Max and the NLDS will be on Fox and FS1 and in the world series will also be on Fox.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think that's a lot of 4K games too because HBO Max also does have 4K and HDR so it'll be pretty good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That is it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So shout out to my crook, oh, yes, and all the memories for us and I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like I feel like when people retired back in the day, like we weren't old and now people are retiring and we're kind of old.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you're like, oh, man, what does that mean for us?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Are we retiring?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, what's going on?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm getting there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm getting there a couple more years, but yeah, it's I think it's going to hit me personally more.

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[SPEAKER_00]: when the season starts.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think so now we're watching home games and he's not doing them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that that that's when it's going to give me the most I think.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That is it from here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: For Brad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm double G. We will see when we see you piece out piece.