October 8, 2025 • 41 mins
FOUR elimination games! We welcome in FT Senior Insider Ken Rosenthal (top of show) for a Blue Jays-Yankees Game 4 preview.
(11:06) It’s Quinn Priester and Jameson Taillon facing off in a MUST-WIN game for the Cubs.
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(16:51) Aaron Judge had his signature playoff moment. We analyze how it happened and Toronto’s uncharacteristic fielding blunders.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Oh, this is going to be a good day or
elimination games today. We could have four teams bounced, or
we could keep moving on with a couple of those series.
Scott Braun, Eric Kratz, Trevor May will talk more about
a postgame show that we're going to do, but right
now we are at pregame show because there's four games
starting at three o'clock East Coast time as the first one,
but we'll focus on a night matchup as we hit
(00:23):
the Inside Scoop. The Inside Scoop is presented by Lidd's
primetime FT senior insider Ken Rosenthal with us right now.
As the Yankees Blue Jays series continues. Ken, I'm sure
they'll ask you about Game two and Judge and all that.
I actually want to game three. I actually want to
(00:44):
start with Game four pushing forward, How do you think
the script is set for the Blue Jays? What has
to happen for them to pull off what many would
look at as a pretty big upset in this game
for the way the pitchings matched.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Up, I'm not exactly sure how the pitching is going
to unfold. They're starting Lewis Varland, which is a bit
of a surprise, I would say, considering he allowed the
game tying home run to Judge three run shot and
the go ahead home run last night by Jash Chisholm Junior.
But I'm sure it's a matter of get right back
on the horse and let's go.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
It's gonna be one inning.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
It's gonna be the first inning most likely, obviously one inning,
most likely, and from there I'm not exactly sure. And
we talked about this a little bit on the broadcast
last night. Treya Savage will be on two days rest,
coming off seventy eight pitches on the road in a
hostile environment. Kevin Gossman, we don't know exactly if he's
in play. He would be on three days rest, and
(01:40):
clearly he is someone who has done this before. He's
more experienced than you. Savage is Which of those two,
if either of them will come into play or both,
we don't know exactly yet. John Schneider said last night,
as you might expect that everyone is in play, and
I would expect that to be the case. I'm sure
they have a plan, and I'm sure it involved their
(02:01):
lefties and probably Eric Lauer for a good chunk of
this game. But we'll see how this plan unfolds, because
of course what happens on the field is going to
dictate in part how Schneider runs his pitching staff.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
You mentioned Louis Arland is starting tonight. Louis Arland's reaction
to the pitch that you threw that when you talked
to him that he threw to Aaron Judge, who ended
up hitting the home run.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Well, actually I wasn't the one to talk to him,
but he did give this quote out to a number
of writers and he said it was a really good
pitch that Judge made look really bad. And that's a
great assessment of it, because the pitch was well inside,
as Sarah Lang's reported last night, it was one point
two feet inside from the center of home plate. That's
(02:49):
a good distance and it was astonishing to me when
I looked at the game day and saw where the
pitch was that far in that Judge was able to
get his hand in and he was able to keep
the ball fair hit it off the foul pole. And
when I went into the Yankees clubhouse afterward, my intent
was to ask as many players as I could just
(03:10):
their impressions of that. And Paul Goldschmidt one of the
more understated guys in the game. He says, it's the
best swing I've ever seen, definitely in person, maybe of
all time. When Paul Goldschmid says that, that to me
means something and the other players were equally astonished. I
asked Stanton, I said, hey, could other players do that?
And he goes, show me video, show me video of
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someone else doing that. That's how impressed his own teammates
were by that particular swing, in that particular moment, and
that whole thing that went down right then.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
You it was one of the more impressive homers I've
ever seen. I mean, the guy swings a two tone
bat and it hit the handle side and he still
hit it out. There's not many guys who could do
that big home run, but I think it was even
bigger because of the very palpable momentum swing that it represented.
With the game being tied at that point, the guy
(04:05):
with all the homers doing it finally in the playoffs,
and from your perspective, that momentum shift obviously went through
for through the rest of the game. What is it
going to take offensively for Toronto to pull that back
like they had in the first two games. What are
you looking for to have that tone set early in
(04:25):
this game?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
For Trevor, it's a good question.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
And Cam Schlitzler is someone who is coming off one
of the best starts we've ever seen in the postseason
or any other time, the eight inning performance against the
Red Sox. But you go back to September fifth, that
was his second start against the Blue Jays of his career.
This tonight will be the third time he is facing
the Blue Jays, and it's the first time he's ever
seen a team three different times.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
That's where we are.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And in that game against the Blue Jays, they fouled
off twenty four pitches. He threw sixty six pitches and
ending in two thirds. So I don't know that he's
going to be the same guy tonight that we saw
in September. He's going to have to make some adjustments
and he won't be the same guy he was in
Boston when he overwhelmed or against Boston when he overwhelmed
(05:11):
them with his fastball. So they obviously had some degree
of success against Schlitler. They knocked him out of the
game after one and two thirds innings, and the cat
and mouse game resumes tonight, right, how is he going
to adjust to them?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
How will they adjust to him?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
They have been an offensive juggernaut in this series until
the latter innings last night, when the Yankees bullpen shut
them down pretty well. So that, to me is the
interesting part, how the Jays kind of rebound. All teams
experienced tough losses during the season, the Jays, the Yankees,
every team. They're accustomed to doing this. It's not like
(05:49):
they're devastated psychologically. But at the same time, they had
a six to one lead and a potential sweep in
their hands and it didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Ken more questions for you about Toronto's pitching Number one.
Do you think there was any consideration for going with
Gossman here on short rest or there's just too much
history with this not working, because you do have your
Savage for Game five on full rest if you wanted
to go that way. And part two. And I was
on Toronto Radio this morning and they asked, and I
was trying to ask them back, like what is the
status of Chris Bassett and Schurzer? I think was healthy.
(06:23):
Do you think that they could have used one of
those guys even if they didn't feel like the stuff
looked as crisp as it normally does for Shurzer at
the end of the year. And I don't know what
Bassett situation was, but now you're looking like a bullpen
game here.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
As for Gossman, yes, they could use him, but they're
not going to use him as a starter.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
And Scott, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
The history of starters on three days rest is abysmal
in the postseason, and I was surprised the Cubs did
it with Boyd. I know they had limited options obviously,
so I don't expect Gossman to pitch in that kind
of role if he pitches at all. And he is
a guy also who has said he prefers extra rest,
and he would be on extra rest in Game five
if necessary, so maybe he's Savage is the choice tonight,
(07:05):
but again Gossman is the more experienced pitcher now. As
for the decision on Scherzer and Bassett, Scherzier hasn't pitched
all that well, so they felt that they preferred four
lefties in the bullpen in this scenario with the Yankees
left handed hitters to give John Schneider more weapons to
play with.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
As these games proceeded.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Chris Bassett was coming off an injury, not fully built
up yet, so he wasn't as much of a consideration.
I would expect both will be considerations if the.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Blue Jays advanced.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
But the key thing was they wanted the four lefties
in the pen, and tonight, as they play this matchup
game with the Yankees, which is what this is going
to be, it could work to their advantage.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Can the bullpen stop this lineup? They have scored nine
I think it's fourteen runs against the bullpen and they
have a bullpen game if they do stop this lineup.
Is this bullpen built to continue to push the Blue
Jays on the rest of the way, because you can't
(08:09):
continue in a seven game series the way they've been going,
because they're just gonna get depleted.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Absolutely right, Eric, And we didn't see Sir Anthony Domingez
last night. We didn't see Jeff Hoffman, we didn't see
some of their other relievers who we will see tonight.
It's going to be interesting because the bullpen was a
question coming into it, not so much because of the.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Setup types like Varlin and Domingas. They're pretty happy with
those guys.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Hoffman has been a guy who allowed I believe, the
most home runs by an American League reliever fifteen home
runs this season, So he is a concern. But as
for holding the Yankees down tonight, I don't know. It's
not going to be easy.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Obviously.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yankee Stadium is a much different environment clearly than Rogers Center,
and it's going to be a challenge for the Blue Jays.
They're not in an ideal situation here against Cam Schlitzler,
for sure, But at the same time, trying to predict
these games, trying to predict what might happen is a
fool's errand and I'm not even going to attempt it.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
It is full of decision making. Ken, We'll be watching
have a great broadcast tonight, Thanks for swinging by.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Thanks Scott.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
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Speaker 5 (10:47):
Love it? Love it? Anytime I can look at Tom
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Speaker 1 (10:51):
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throughout the regular season. Hey, Trevor, we talked a lot
yesterday about Quinn Priester and jameson ty On and the
next matchup for the Cubs and Brewers Game three. Thoughts
(11:13):
on this series so far? And do the Cubs have
a chance.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Well, I was high on the Cubs. I thought this
would go down to the wire. They're still hopeful that happening.
And I think the Cubs have come out swinging right.
They set the tone early in the game. It's just
you got to get those shutdown innings. The pitcher has
to go out and throw a zero so that you
can hold that momentum. And got to give credit to
the Brewers. They're doing exactly what they've been doing all year.
Like this is they are as advertised. First game they won,
(11:41):
they gave up three home runs and they hit only
two extra base hits and they won nine to three.
So that's like the way they play the game, and
they've they've been playing it this series so far. So
it's gonna be interesting to see how if they were
able to whittle down tie On. He threw their last
elimination game, got the job done against the Padres. So
looking for that magic again. But you know, the Cubs
can they can swing it, and they can put up
(12:02):
crooked numbers, but they need to put up more than
the just the one inning. They're able to do that
a couple of times. They maybe scrape the game across here.
I mean, you gotta go to one before you can
go three two, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yeah, maybe some wind on their side, some dangers, use
them dangers to try and win.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Take when is it coming in? Blowing in, blowing in
sixteen miles per hour.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Thanks mostly hitting postseason stuff, but breaks give us an
opportunity to mix in news, Dana Brown and Joe Spota
GM and manager are returning for twenty twenty six. A
source confirming to Chandler Romy said there had been growing
uncertainty within the organization for the last week about their futures.
We Taggert was first on it. Hmmm, Kratz, that's weird.
(12:50):
Joe Spota and Dana Brown. What the Asters missed the
playoffs one time?
Speaker 4 (12:55):
I mean they just barely missed the playoffs. They were
in it if the Mariner and cal Raley didn't get
absolutely scorching hot and they didn't have Hater, they essentially
didn't have your Don Alvarez, and the ownership made them
get rid of Kyle Tucker Alex Bregman, and then they
lost ISA parades like there was a lot of big
(13:17):
boy injuries and they came really close. I was really
confused that that mctiger said that though it was like,
oh yeah, you know, there was growing concerns something would change.
What like was somebody to come and poach those dudes?
Somebody wants to win.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
It's weird, Trevor, I mean it's weird. But also at
the same time, like like five different teams fire sailed
all all teams that didn't perform as well as they
would have this last year, a lot of managers and
jams were going. So you know, when you see a
bunch of other organizations, like I don't know, like a
sixth of the organizations in the league doing it, a
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lot of which that were supposed to be contenders and
fell out of the contention right at the end, similar
to the Astros. I mean, it's it's understandable that the
people maybe in question, we're starting to question that. I mean,
that makes sense to me, but they're good. Keep what
you got, hey.
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This is the time of year to go out to Arizona.
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(15:00):
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I think they had like a ball game. They had
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of you. I'm trying to mix in some questions. On YouTube,
Jena Boss said which parking lot is best for tailgating?
Out of the four games today.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
None of them. They're all terrible. They're all terrible for tailgating.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Maybe La, That's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
La.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
La is the best one.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
I mean right, But you're can be sitting traffic to
go tailgate, So I guess it has to be La.
Everybody else is like a parking garage.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Detroit parking garage. There's yeah parking in the Bronx. Are
you kidding?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
No tailgate at a bar in the Bronx.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Charge?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Okay, let's charge first off, Trevor, I need your take
on Louis Varland against Aaron Judge. It changes the series.
It's judges big pop moment.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
He had been smacking singles left and right. What happened here?
Speaker 5 (17:09):
He just got them like he just got got I
mean one hundred miles an hour foot in off the plate. Judge.
The slow mo on the umpires cam, right, we have
that in the playoffs a lot, and which is awesome
to see. They have a point of contact. Judge uses
the two tone bat with the dark barrel and the
lighter wood on the handle, and he hit this thing
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on the light side of the bat like he hit
off the handle. There's nobody in the league. I think
that it is. Besides, maybe there's maybe a handful of
guys that are strong enough hit the ball there and
keep it fair and get it over the fence. Like
he just does stuff like that and it's really frustrating
and you don't want to do it in that situation.
And yeah it was of course it was a misspot,
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but that's the spot that you're supposed to be safe
and so you know, and then it to be one hundred.
I mean, we know JD just can hit fastballs, but
he also swings and miss his plenty at him as well.
So it's just one of those things where he did
it right at the right moment and you just got
you just got beat on a pitch that you're not
going to get beat on very often. You may not
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get beat on that pitch again in your career.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I mean, not at one hundred. I Actually, we can
pull his hands in. That's incredible. It's incredible. So many
things are incredible. A lot of guys can get to
this ball and it might go over the over The
visiting team dugout into the upper deck and everyone's like, whoah,
that's amazing for him to be able to keep this
(18:38):
fair and hit the fair pole is amazing. And I'm
looking at his true media plot chart that dots every
one of his home runs, and obviously it's a freaking
cavalcade of home runs. But in that exact same area,
he has seven other home runs this year in that
exact same area. Eighty six mile an hour slider, a
(19:01):
ninety seven min hour fastball from Kevin Graveman. That was
actually no, I'm sorry, that was two thousand and that
was twenty two.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
That he hit that.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
That's Kendall.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
But yes, what I say, Kevin, Kevin Kendall Graveman, Kevin's
in the miles. Oh yeah, bo brisky bo briskey eighty
nine miles per hour, seventy seven from Dean Kramer back
in twenty one. So you get the idea, nobody's throwing
that joint ninety nine, let alone keeping it fair. And
like there's I will go against what Trevor said. There
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is nobody you like, you kind of hesitated, You're like
trying to think throughout the game.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
I mean I show nobody, I mean show hey, yeah,
show but show hey. You're right, he has more of
a he has to pull the barrel through, more like
he more of a you know Judge stays inside the
ball's better, so like he would have probably pulled a
foul I just the way he swings and where that
pitch was and where he hit it on the bat
(19:59):
only Aaron Judge swing and him being six to seven
and the strongest human being in the league, those two
things combined pretty sound. Run and nobody and he chased.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
He chased the pitch all the time. Everyone's like, oh,
it's the postseason, Like he wants to do more for
his team. Duh, he wants to ring. He wants to
do more for his team. He knows, like we get like,
you can't have it both ways. You can't be like
Juan Soto never swings out of the zone. So that's
why he doesn't come up huge for his team. Aaron
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Judge is swinging out of the zone. That's why he
doesn't come up huge for his team. No, he knows
what is at stake. Aaron Judges known what is at
stake all last offseason or all postseason, last year, the
year before. He knows that he's struggled, but he also
knows he's got to get the job done. If they're
throwing to him, he's got to get the job done,
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so hey, he chased, but you know what else. I
think he's in five seventy one this series, so layoff
Aaron Judge and his legacy is still dictated on him
winning a World Series or not winning a World Series.
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The statistics back it up. I mean, we haven't had
the stats forever, but the pitch tracking era two thousand
and eight regular season or postseason home run off ninety
nine plus. That was one point two feet from the
center of the zone. That's the only time it's happened
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one time ever, you know, meaningless regular season game, nothing, nothing,
just judge. That's how incredible it was.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
You know.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
It also stood out. The Blue Jays won the team
Gold Glove the last two years and their defense was
still rated very high.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
This year.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
They debt with some injuries like Barshow missed a good
chunk of time. But he's here now, right, Barshow's here,
Kirk's here. Jimenez might be the best or one of
the best at his position or one of the best
middle infielders, right, Like, there's plenty of good defenders there,
but their defense was atrocious last night, Trevor. I mean
they looked like what some people make fun of the
Yankees about more last year, right, but a little bit
(23:02):
this year. You've had some sloppiness. The Yankees had that
in a series against the Blue Jays. How uncharacteristic was that?
And did one of them stand out to you? You know,
the IKF error right away gets you a run. Of course,
the Barger miss or you could blame the left fielder
at that point, I think it was Schneider out there
and left your thoughts on what you saw defensively.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Yeah, I mean I think the IKF was the most
surprising one. And it's again, you want to set the
tone early. You're going to make the player you're supposed
to make. And you the Yankees are a team. You know,
I played against them a lot and Kratz can back
me up on this, like they are, they have always
been and they will continue to be. Give them an
inch and they'll take a mile. Like, just don't give
(23:44):
them an opening, and that's how you beat them. You
have to you have to make the player you're supposed
to make. If you make errors in the Bronx, like,
it just feels like it's ten times worse than it is.
And so I would say that one kind of was like, uh,
I don't I don't like the tone that that set.
And then obviously we have the judge Homer that then
flips some momentum even more their way even after they've
been swinging it right. The Barger one was interesting, but
(24:06):
I would say that it's probably Schnyder didn't look the
most comfortable I've ever seen anyone in left field. Right,
he caught a couple of balls that were iffy coming
in the wind. Maybe was a little bit weird, but
Barger was calling off a ball that he probably shouldn't
have been catching with how wonky everything was being. And
then you know they had centend aeron right. We saw
(24:27):
the weird dive lay there, belly flop thing that happened
there as well that looked awkward. So like, it's not
like they had their best options in the corners and
they just happened to have the plays that they needed
to make hit in those directions. So they still had
bar shown center and I would say I would still
put my money on them being very defensively sound starting
tonight as well. Just there was just a couple very
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There were momentum shifts as well as miscues, and you
can get away with a couple of miscues sometimes, but
if it's a if it shifts a momentum or doesn't
set the tone in the right way, that's just going
to be played up, you know, times ten in the Bronx.
It's just it's really hard to get it out of
your head if you were the one that does it.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
I thought the play by Vlad was a good play.
You got the out, didn't let the run score. But
if that's an automatic double play and you're up by
I think at that time they were up by two
no three. To me, you get the two outs because
the ball was hit really hard to him and he
decided to cut the run down and try to get
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greedy and not let not let judge score. But you
could have had bases empty, one run in and two outs.
That is a huge to me. That was a momentum
shift too.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I want to hit the bullpen situation, Trevor. The Yankees
bullpen went six and two thirds scoreless three, it's nine
punch outs. You're like, damn, this bullpen looks like it's
back on for this one, and it's actually the Blue
Jays bullpen. They get smashed and then has to roll
out a bullpen game against the Yankees. I think a
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lot of people are looking at this matchup as lopsided. Yes,
Schlitzler got hit pretty good by Toronto about a month ago.
He's learned a little bit since then. But thoughts on
where we stand with pitching.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
It's definitely interesting because I think that the one of
the weaknesses going into the playoffs where the Toronto specifically
was their bullpen. We knew about, you know, the Yankees
and there their struggles. But Devin Williams has been good
so far and Bednar has rose to the occasion, which
was a question mark, you know, career career has been
in Pittsburgh. They haven't even sniffed a playoff series, so
what was going to be like in this situation. And
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he's been great. He's been as advertised, He's done a
great job in that role. So I think they're feeling
more and more confident those guys. Honestly, the X factor
for me, the guy who didn't pitch as much in
the first couple of games in the first series. Kimill
He's he's a he is a tough guy to face
in the playoffs because he's just there's no one like him.
He doesn't throw hard like everyone else is hard. He
throw a submarine like and he's he's funky. And there's lefties,
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some bopper lefties that they need to get out, you know,
get rid of Barger out of there, get Ernie clement
in like he's gonna he's kind of been that a
little bit. He's thrown well, so like they're getting quality
outings devolves a little bit better. Uh, it's just going
to come down to can Louis Varlin set the tone again?
Is this going to be another two run inning to
start the game and then a three nothing? Then you
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got to figure it out because if they're working from behind,
you're putting more pressure on the offense against a guy
who is dialed in, Like that's for me what it's
going to come down to. And then how are they
going to finish the game with Jeff Hopmin going to
be the guy they go to or they just waiting
to give it to him? When do they deploy their
leverage guys in Sir Anthony deming guys like they have
these options. But it's going to be it's gonna be
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really interesting to see if this is a tie game,
if that changes, or if they're just running, you know,
every single inning from the third inning on its leverage.
If they have a lead, my guess is they will
do that. They will, they will fully lean in on that.
But if they're behind, how much does that change things?
And then how does that set them up for Game five?
I you know the Yankees can push the momentum here,
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it's dangerous for the for the Blue Jays.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Thirty seconds krats, last word, Cam Schlitzler, Rerack what you
told us recently? And do you think that it will
play out that way? How much more difficult would the
Blue Jays be than the Red Sox.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
They showed it last time. Twenty foul balls they faced
some last time of twenty foul balls. He kept trying
to run the ball high up in the zone. He's
going to have to get out at the bottom of
the zone. Strikeouts and sing and swings and missus.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Okay, yeah, last time was not good for him. It
was September fifth against Toronto regular season, though for Schlitler overall,
the numbers are good and the wild card was one
of the better performances in the playoffs that we've seen.
Eight innings nowhere and runs and twelve strikeouts for him
in that matchup against Boston. We'll see part two for
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him on our way out here. Promo for Pinstripe Territory
one more time, please yes, Derek Lewandowski after this one
again either talking about what will be a Game five
if the Yankees win, or he will be nailing the
coffin on the Yankees twenty twenty five season. Yankees are
pretty heavily favored in this one. Yeah, the pressure cooker
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is at a red alert right now for the Philadelphia
Phillies as we talk about the Dodgers and Phillies matching up.
That's the late game tonight and it's a chance for
the Dodgers to sweep Philly. So, Trevor, first off, the
stars haven't been stars for Philadelphia. Do you think that
has more to do with the Dodgers pitching or with
Kyle Schwarber, Bryce Harper and Trey Turner not showing up
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in big spots right now? Two for twenty one to
eleven strikeouts in the NLDS.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
You know, I'll say it's fifty to fifty. I mean,
you know to say Kyle for like, what come on, man,
show up. It's only Otawni and Lake. Snell was the
hardest lefties for lefties to hit. The exists right, who
was absolutely sharp as I've seen him in a while.
Think the ball was jumping out of his hands, so
it didn't surprise me. Lazaro is the same way frankly.
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So we're seeing a trend here in the playoffs, right,
We're like the Mariners have won won some games. Juli
Driguez and Ralely need to be leading that charge. They
have been. The Aaron Judge leading the charge he has been.
Vladimir Gara Junior needs to leave the charge. He has
been like, you need your guys that you that you
pay to do that job to lead your lead the charge.
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And they just haven't gotten it yet. But there is
always still time. There's a right in the Mount of Yamamoto,
a better matchup for both Harper and Schwarber with the lefties. Right.
So you know we were a four hit, four or
five hits from them. Those two away from taking a
game at their place against a tough a tough starting pitcher.
If you can shift that momentum, you can get you
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can get a get going. But like it's it's we're
now back against wall. This is the final chance. The
first two times didn't work. You had a lead, it
didn't happen. We got Ti Oscar and Ez is just
he's turning the miss October as well at this point.
So like they're there are need and the Dodgers are
also getting the production that they expect from the top
of their own lineup right. It's not like everyone needs that.
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They only need the top three guys to do all
the work. Hek is doing what he always does, which
I can't wait till the studies for that come out
when he's retired and we get to see that thirty
to thirty. But like, you know, it's got you need it.
You Ney, Bryce Harper is the MVP, and you need
Kyle Sharber to to, you know, be the guy who's
probably going to be second place in the MVP body,
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and they just they can't win without it.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
It doesn't take much, just takes one swing. Takes one swing,
but you got to hit a dinger off of a
dude in. Yamamoto really has so many different weapons. To me,
if I look at the matchup, I say Phillies can't
hit spin. They really struggle with spin. It's not fair
to say Blake Snell's spin because he was throwing it
in ninety one mile hour slider that was breaking more
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than a pitch that's looking like that should break. And
he's nasty all the time because that curveball is always
in there and he'll go left or left change ups.
But Yamamoto, if he just sticks fastball split, I think
the Phillies have a better chance because they stay out
through the ball a little bit. If he's spinning it,
if he's running that cutter up and in to those guys,
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they can't get up there. And I have a tough
time seeing Yamamoto and Rovett if he's back there, or
Will Smith if he's back there, saying oh yeah, we're
not going to really spin him to death. We're just
gonna throw a lot of splitters and see if we
can get the heater by them. Phillies got to come
out early and get the lead like they have, but
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then they have to put them away. They've not done
a good job of stringing at bats together. It's going
to be so tough tonight.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Pitching wise, do you guys feel like this is the
right move with Nola and then Ranger Suarez And how
quickly that could shift from Nola to Ranger Suarez. I
mean some people are thinking Nola might be an opener
like three to six or nine outs, you know, first
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one to three innings maybe right, Does that sound on track,
because I mean Suarez can get on a roll.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
They both can. I mean, Nola was good at the
end of the year. He had had a great start
against the Mets. His last three starts were strong. It
was not a great year for him. But one thing
you're gonna not see is him. He's not gonna melt down.
He's not gonna show any emotion. He's gonna have zero
motion on his face. Maybe a little disappointment from timetime,
but he's not going to be overwhelmed by the by
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the atmosphere or the situation. And neither is Ranger Suarez.
So those two guys are going to, at least from
the mental side of the game, be as dialtant as
they can be at this point, and they're just such
different looks that that those are two webs you can
have now you're you would love to not have to
go to Rangersuarros and have him for game potential game
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four that I think that's ideal. But Nola has, you know,
every every opportunity in the world to get going, get
cruise and get guys to hit it at people, get
the get your just he he can absolutely paint that
zone and that I feel like that is that is
better than stuff at this point in the year because
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everyone's throwing a hundred, they're seeing everyone seeing every other
pitches one hundred miles an hour. Maybe a little bit
of the other other way might be more effective in
this situation, you might be economical and really take some
wind out of the sales. So that's what they need
to do. They need that out of Nola. If he
only goes nine hitters, things probably aren't going good for
the Phillies.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
I would disagree. I think as soon as anything happens,
Nola's out. And I think that's why Nola's starting, because
if Nola's starting, or if Rangers starting, then Nola would
come in afterwards and you just never Nole has had
so many one inning blow ups that here in the postseason.
As soon as he gets anything, as soon as he
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gets anything out there, bang, you're going right to Ranger.
And to me, if you get six innings out of
the two of them, that is a win and the
Phillies move on to Game four.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
The Philly Show has been talking about this team, and
they're also therapeutic for those Philly fans that need it
with the way that the home environment has been not
just in the postseason, but really all regular season long,
and fans are feeling pissed off. I mean, it doesn't
take much to piss off a Philly fan and make
them boo. And you're certainly getting it right now. So
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make sure you check out The Philly Show part of
the FT Network YouTube wherever you get your pods. Okay,
a little news off the field. Paul Toboni takes over
for the Washington Nationals. He's leading the front office and
apparently there are a lot of changes going on. This
is the perfect time to do it. I mean, I
know it's not fun, but when there's postseason baseball going on,
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most other baseball news gets pushed under the rug. Andrew
Golden said the Nats are making sweeping changes to their
front office today, Among them, assistant GM Mark ski Laba
and farm director Eddie Alangos have been formed they aren't
returning next season, and Parry ver Luga a lot of
tough names here, guys. I mean, come on, Barry's been
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around covering the team for a while. He said, one
scout told him it's a bloodbath. I mean, he's going
to get his own people in there. Trevor. Plus, we're
going through changes, as it is with the sport, so
it's not good. And the Nats are making this change
because they weren't happy with how many players were being
produced through the system. Whether it's fair or not for
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the team to be quietly up for sale and them
just trying to do things to tread water until the
next CBA when they can actually sell the team.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
All right, there's a lot of moving pieces going. You
have to do something. We're seeing this a lot like
remember with the Twins. Before the season, they're like, are
we selling or we're not selling? Can we sign any players?
Can we do anything? And then we have the season
go of the way and they're like, ah, we're gonna
get rid of everybody and we're going to kind of
sell the team like that kind of uncertainty makes running
a major league organization and trying to win almost impossible,
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especially if you are the one making personnel decisions. So
the least you can do is bring in a group
of people that are all on the same page and
that are comfortable communicating their process moving forward, and that
everyone is going to be able to put that process
in play so they can develop players. You're going to
need that no matter who owns the team and no
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matter who's making the decisions, you need that. So a
lot of these decisions come down to that. Really the
big interesting ones are there's a lot of teams that
also got rid of their or front offices all the
way down to the manager. Also when they had that
kind of change of the command kind of lined up
and and it was a lot of execution. And sometimes
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it's optics. Sometimes it's actual like process that they don't like,
or the communications batter if there's someone in there that's
not being stubborn or whatever. Like it's hard to tell,
but you know, it's it's a wait and see situation
and and you just kind of try to guess what
your ownership is trying to do or what kind of
they're kind of play they're trying to make as best
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you can. But you know, at least this is something happened, right,
something something new is there. So it's wait and see
what kind of process they have.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Okay, let's slap shall we. First off, we'll get to
a little bit of news here. So the Rays have
a new ownership group. Patrick Zelevsky spoke and he said
item number one new ballpark. Shocker. We can show the
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tweet from Mark Topkin, but I mean that is what
the city is waiting for. You had a lot to
say in the intro press conference, but most interesting, aggressive
and perhaps audacious.
Speaker 5 (39:17):
That's his quote.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Plans to build a fixed roof stadium in a one
hundred plus acre world class live work play experience that
will open for the twenty twenty nine season. So you
would think that the Rays have that on their mind.
What what are you confused about? Well, you're muted, come back,
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come back.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
What he was going to say was what he was
going to say was no way ownership should worry about
winning first. Like the first and foremost thing was don't
you bought a sports team. You didn't buy a freaking
real estate investment, save it meet, Like, tell me what
you're gonna do and put money into the team, and
then I'll look at your fixed roof stadium. That's that's
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irritating to me.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Sorry, I'm gonna go against you guys a little bit,
just because I would imagine and hope that he brought
that up as well during the press conference. We have
not seen the whole press conference. We were just told
about some standouts from Mark Hopkins, so maybe that was included.
But you also might have a point that he did
make his money in real estate and MLB's number one
goal is to be a real estate Bahamath behemoth Bahamath
(40:26):
maybe in the Bahamash final thoughts here crats yeah with
a minute ago final thoughts for these four games. I mean,
are you going to be on the postgame show by
the way, or it's a TVD. I know we have
Trevor TVD schedule pending. Okay, everybody will be looking at
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YouTube for the beginning of the postgame show like is
he there?
Speaker 4 (40:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (40:54):
We got like thirty seconds.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
Maren has finished show you okay, m that's what I think.
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Oh, this is going to be a good day or
elimination games today. We could have four teams bounced, or
we could keep moving on with a couple of those series.
Scott Braun, Eric Kratz, Trevor May will talk more about
a postgame show that we're going to do, but right
now we are at pregame show because there's four games
starting at three o'clock East Coast time as the first one,
but we'll focus on a night matchup as we hit
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the Inside Scoop. The Inside Scoop is presented by Lidd's
primetime FT senior insider Ken Rosenthal with us right now.
As the Yankees Blue Jays series continues. Ken, I'm sure
they'll ask you about Game two and Judge and all that.
I actually want to game three. I actually want to
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start with Game four pushing forward, How do you think
the script is set for the Blue Jays? What has
to happen for them to pull off what many would
look at as a pretty big upset in this game
for the way the pitchings matched.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Up, I'm not exactly sure how the pitching is going
to unfold. They're starting Lewis Varland, which is a bit
of a surprise, I would say, considering he allowed the
game tying home run to Judge three run shot and
the go ahead home run last night by Jash Chisholm Junior.
But I'm sure it's a matter of get right back
on the horse and let's go.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
It's gonna be one inning.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
It's gonna be the first inning most likely, obviously one inning,
most likely, and from there I'm not exactly sure. And
we talked about this a little bit on the broadcast
last night. Treya Savage will be on two days rest,
coming off seventy eight pitches on the road in a
hostile environment. Kevin Gossman, we don't know exactly if he's
in play. He would be on three days rest, and
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clearly he is someone who has done this before. He's
more experienced than you. Savage is Which of those two,
if either of them will come into play or both,
we don't know exactly yet. John Schneider said last night,
as you might expect that everyone is in play, and
I would expect that to be the case. I'm sure
they have a plan, and I'm sure it involved their
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lefties and probably Eric Lauer for a good chunk of
this game. But we'll see how this plan unfolds, because
of course what happens on the field is going to
dictate in part how Schneider runs his pitching staff.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
You mentioned Louis Arland is starting tonight. Louis Arland's reaction
to the pitch that you threw that when you talked
to him that he threw to Aaron Judge, who ended
up hitting the home run.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Well, actually I wasn't the one to talk to him,
but he did give this quote out to a number
of writers and he said it was a really good
pitch that Judge made look really bad. And that's a
great assessment of it, because the pitch was well inside,
as Sarah Lang's reported last night, it was one point
two feet inside from the center of home plate. That's
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a good distance and it was astonishing to me when
I looked at the game day and saw where the
pitch was that far in that Judge was able to
get his hand in and he was able to keep
the ball fair hit it off the foul pole. And
when I went into the Yankees clubhouse afterward, my intent
was to ask as many players as I could just
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their impressions of that. And Paul Goldschmidt one of the
more understated guys in the game. He says, it's the
best swing I've ever seen, definitely in person, maybe of
all time. When Paul Goldschmid says that, that to me
means something and the other players were equally astonished. I
asked Stanton, I said, hey, could other players do that?
And he goes, show me video, show me video of
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someone else doing that. That's how impressed his own teammates
were by that particular swing, in that particular moment, and
that whole thing that went down right then.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
You it was one of the more impressive homers I've
ever seen. I mean, the guy swings a two tone
bat and it hit the handle side and he still
hit it out. There's not many guys who could do
that big home run, but I think it was even
bigger because of the very palpable momentum swing that it represented.
With the game being tied at that point, the guy
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with all the homers doing it finally in the playoffs,
and from your perspective, that momentum shift obviously went through
for through the rest of the game. What is it
going to take offensively for Toronto to pull that back
like they had in the first two games. What are
you looking for to have that tone set early in
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this game?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
For Trevor, it's a good question.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
And Cam Schlitzler is someone who is coming off one
of the best starts we've ever seen in the postseason
or any other time, the eight inning performance against the
Red Sox. But you go back to September fifth, that
was his second start against the Blue Jays of his career.
This tonight will be the third time he is facing
the Blue Jays, and it's the first time he's ever
seen a team three different times.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
That's where we are.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And in that game against the Blue Jays, they fouled
off twenty four pitches. He threw sixty six pitches and
ending in two thirds. So I don't know that he's
going to be the same guy tonight that we saw
in September. He's going to have to make some adjustments
and he won't be the same guy he was in
Boston when he overwhelmed or against Boston when he overwhelmed
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them with his fastball. So they obviously had some degree
of success against Schlitler. They knocked him out of the
game after one and two thirds innings, and the cat
and mouse game resumes tonight, right, how is he going
to adjust to them?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
How will they adjust to him?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
They have been an offensive juggernaut in this series until
the latter innings last night, when the Yankees bullpen shut
them down pretty well. So that, to me is the
interesting part, how the Jays kind of rebound. All teams
experienced tough losses during the season, the Jays, the Yankees,
every team. They're accustomed to doing this. It's not like
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they're devastated psychologically. But at the same time, they had
a six to one lead and a potential sweep in
their hands and it didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Ken more questions for you about Toronto's pitching Number one.
Do you think there was any consideration for going with
Gossman here on short rest or there's just too much
history with this not working, because you do have your
Savage for Game five on full rest if you wanted
to go that way. And part two. And I was
on Toronto Radio this morning and they asked, and I
was trying to ask them back, like what is the
status of Chris Bassett and Schurzer? I think was healthy.
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Do you think that they could have used one of
those guys even if they didn't feel like the stuff
looked as crisp as it normally does for Shurzer at
the end of the year. And I don't know what
Bassett situation was, but now you're looking like a bullpen
game here.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
As for Gossman, yes, they could use him, but they're
not going to use him as a starter.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
And Scott, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
The history of starters on three days rest is abysmal
in the postseason, and I was surprised the Cubs did
it with Boyd. I know they had limited options obviously,
so I don't expect Gossman to pitch in that kind
of role if he pitches at all. And he is
a guy also who has said he prefers extra rest,
and he would be on extra rest in Game five
if necessary, so maybe he's Savage is the choice tonight,
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but again Gossman is the more experienced pitcher now. As
for the decision on Scherzer and Bassett, Scherzier hasn't pitched
all that well, so they felt that they preferred four
lefties in the bullpen in this scenario with the Yankees
left handed hitters to give John Schneider more weapons to
play with.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
As these games proceeded.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Chris Bassett was coming off an injury, not fully built
up yet, so he wasn't as much of a consideration.
I would expect both will be considerations if the.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Blue Jays advanced.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
But the key thing was they wanted the four lefties
in the pen, and tonight, as they play this matchup
game with the Yankees, which is what this is going
to be, it could work to their advantage.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Can the bullpen stop this lineup? They have scored nine
I think it's fourteen runs against the bullpen and they
have a bullpen game if they do stop this lineup.
Is this bullpen built to continue to push the Blue
Jays on the rest of the way, because you can't
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continue in a seven game series the way they've been going,
because they're just gonna get depleted.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Absolutely right, Eric, And we didn't see Sir Anthony Domingez
last night. We didn't see Jeff Hoffman, we didn't see
some of their other relievers who we will see tonight.
It's going to be interesting because the bullpen was a
question coming into it, not so much because of the.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Setup types like Varlin and Domingas. They're pretty happy with
those guys.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Hoffman has been a guy who allowed I believe, the
most home runs by an American League reliever fifteen home
runs this season, So he is a concern. But as
for holding the Yankees down tonight, I don't know. It's
not going to be easy.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Obviously.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yankee Stadium is a much different environment clearly than Rogers Center,
and it's going to be a challenge for the Blue Jays.
They're not in an ideal situation here against Cam Schlitzler,
for sure, But at the same time, trying to predict
these games, trying to predict what might happen is a
fool's errand and I'm not even going to attempt it.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
It is full of decision making. Ken, We'll be watching
have a great broadcast tonight, Thanks for swinging by.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Thanks Scott.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
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Speaker 5 (10:47):
Love it? Love it? Anytime I can look at Tom
I'm I'm happy.
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throughout the regular season. Hey, Trevor, we talked a lot
yesterday about Quinn Priester and jameson ty On and the
next matchup for the Cubs and Brewers Game three. Thoughts
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on this series so far? And do the Cubs have
a chance.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Well, I was high on the Cubs. I thought this
would go down to the wire. They're still hopeful that happening.
And I think the Cubs have come out swinging right.
They set the tone early in the game. It's just
you got to get those shutdown innings. The pitcher has
to go out and throw a zero so that you
can hold that momentum. And got to give credit to
the Brewers. They're doing exactly what they've been doing all year.
Like this is they are as advertised. First game they won,
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they gave up three home runs and they hit only
two extra base hits and they won nine to three.
So that's like the way they play the game, and
they've they've been playing it this series so far. So
it's gonna be interesting to see how if they were
able to whittle down tie On. He threw their last
elimination game, got the job done against the Padres. So
looking for that magic again. But you know, the Cubs
can they can swing it, and they can put up
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crooked numbers, but they need to put up more than
the just the one inning. They're able to do that
a couple of times. They maybe scrape the game across here.
I mean, you gotta go to one before you can
go three two, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yeah, maybe some wind on their side, some dangers, use
them dangers to try and win.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Take when is it coming in? Blowing in, blowing in
sixteen miles per hour.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Thanks mostly hitting postseason stuff, but breaks give us an
opportunity to mix in news, Dana Brown and Joe Spota
GM and manager are returning for twenty twenty six. A
source confirming to Chandler Romy said there had been growing
uncertainty within the organization for the last week about their futures.
We Taggert was first on it. Hmmm, Kratz, that's weird.
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Joe Spota and Dana Brown. What the Asters missed the
playoffs one time?
Speaker 4 (12:55):
I mean they just barely missed the playoffs. They were
in it if the Mariner and cal Raley didn't get
absolutely scorching hot and they didn't have Hater, they essentially
didn't have your Don Alvarez, and the ownership made them
get rid of Kyle Tucker Alex Bregman, and then they
lost ISA parades like there was a lot of big
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boy injuries and they came really close. I was really
confused that that mctiger said that though it was like,
oh yeah, you know, there was growing concerns something would change.
What like was somebody to come and poach those dudes?
Somebody wants to win.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
It's weird, Trevor, I mean it's weird. But also at
the same time, like like five different teams fire sailed
all all teams that didn't perform as well as they
would have this last year, a lot of managers and
jams were going. So you know, when you see a
bunch of other organizations, like I don't know, like a
sixth of the organizations in the league doing it, a
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lot of which that were supposed to be contenders and
fell out of the contention right at the end, similar
to the Astros. I mean, it's it's understandable that the
people maybe in question, we're starting to question that. I mean,
that makes sense to me, but they're good. Keep what
you got, hey.
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It is one You're like you're rubbing elbows with current
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one minute. I just need one word answers from both
of you. I'm trying to mix in some questions. On YouTube,
Jena Boss said which parking lot is best for tailgating?
Out of the four games today.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
None of them. They're all terrible. They're all terrible for tailgating.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Maybe La, That's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
La.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
La is the best one.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
I mean right, But you're can be sitting traffic to
go tailgate, So I guess it has to be La.
Everybody else is like a parking garage.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Detroit parking garage. There's yeah parking in the Bronx. Are
you kidding?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
No tailgate at a bar in the Bronx.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Charge?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Okay, let's charge first off, Trevor, I need your take
on Louis Varland against Aaron Judge. It changes the series.
It's judges big pop moment.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
He had been smacking singles left and right. What happened here?
Speaker 5 (17:09):
He just got them like he just got got I
mean one hundred miles an hour foot in off the plate. Judge.
The slow mo on the umpires cam, right, we have
that in the playoffs a lot, and which is awesome
to see. They have a point of contact. Judge uses
the two tone bat with the dark barrel and the
lighter wood on the handle, and he hit this thing
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on the light side of the bat like he hit
off the handle. There's nobody in the league. I think
that it is. Besides, maybe there's maybe a handful of
guys that are strong enough hit the ball there and
keep it fair and get it over the fence. Like
he just does stuff like that and it's really frustrating
and you don't want to do it in that situation.
And yeah it was of course it was a misspot,
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but that's the spot that you're supposed to be safe
and so you know, and then it to be one hundred.
I mean, we know JD just can hit fastballs, but
he also swings and miss his plenty at him as well.
So it's just one of those things where he did
it right at the right moment and you just got
you just got beat on a pitch that you're not
going to get beat on very often. You may not
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get beat on that pitch again in your career.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I mean, not at one hundred. I Actually, we can
pull his hands in. That's incredible. It's incredible. So many
things are incredible. A lot of guys can get to
this ball and it might go over the over The
visiting team dugout into the upper deck and everyone's like, whoah,
that's amazing for him to be able to keep this
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fair and hit the fair pole is amazing. And I'm
looking at his true media plot chart that dots every
one of his home runs, and obviously it's a freaking
cavalcade of home runs. But in that exact same area,
he has seven other home runs this year in that
exact same area. Eighty six mile an hour slider, a
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ninety seven min hour fastball from Kevin Graveman. That was
actually no, I'm sorry, that was two thousand and that
was twenty two.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
That he hit that.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
That's Kendall.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
But yes, what I say, Kevin, Kevin Kendall Graveman, Kevin's
in the miles. Oh yeah, bo brisky bo briskey eighty
nine miles per hour, seventy seven from Dean Kramer back
in twenty one. So you get the idea, nobody's throwing
that joint ninety nine, let alone keeping it fair. And
like there's I will go against what Trevor said. There
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is nobody you like, you kind of hesitated, You're like
trying to think throughout the game.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
I mean I show nobody, I mean show hey, yeah,
show but show hey. You're right, he has more of
a he has to pull the barrel through, more like
he more of a you know Judge stays inside the
ball's better, so like he would have probably pulled a
foul I just the way he swings and where that
pitch was and where he hit it on the bat
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only Aaron Judge swing and him being six to seven
and the strongest human being in the league, those two
things combined pretty sound. Run and nobody and he chased.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
He chased the pitch all the time. Everyone's like, oh,
it's the postseason, Like he wants to do more for
his team. Duh, he wants to ring. He wants to
do more for his team. He knows, like we get like,
you can't have it both ways. You can't be like
Juan Soto never swings out of the zone. So that's
why he doesn't come up huge for his team. Aaron
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Judge is swinging out of the zone. That's why he
doesn't come up huge for his team. No, he knows
what is at stake. Aaron Judges known what is at
stake all last offseason or all postseason, last year, the
year before. He knows that he's struggled, but he also
knows he's got to get the job done. If they're
throwing to him, he's got to get the job done,
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so hey, he chased, but you know what else. I
think he's in five seventy one this series, so layoff
Aaron Judge and his legacy is still dictated on him
winning a World Series or not winning a World Series.
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The statistics back it up. I mean, we haven't had
the stats forever, but the pitch tracking era two thousand
and eight regular season or postseason home run off ninety
nine plus. That was one point two feet from the
center of the zone. That's the only time it's happened
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one time ever, you know, meaningless regular season game, nothing, nothing,
just judge. That's how incredible it was.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
You know.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
It also stood out. The Blue Jays won the team
Gold Glove the last two years and their defense was
still rated very high.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
This year.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
They debt with some injuries like Barshow missed a good
chunk of time. But he's here now, right, Barshow's here,
Kirk's here. Jimenez might be the best or one of
the best at his position or one of the best
middle infielders, right, Like, there's plenty of good defenders there,
but their defense was atrocious last night, Trevor. I mean
they looked like what some people make fun of the
Yankees about more last year, right, but a little bit
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this year. You've had some sloppiness. The Yankees had that
in a series against the Blue Jays. How uncharacteristic was that?
And did one of them stand out to you? You know,
the IKF error right away gets you a run. Of course,
the Barger miss or you could blame the left fielder
at that point, I think it was Schneider out there
and left your thoughts on what you saw defensively.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Yeah, I mean I think the IKF was the most
surprising one. And it's again, you want to set the
tone early. You're going to make the player you're supposed
to make. And you the Yankees are a team. You know,
I played against them a lot and Kratz can back
me up on this, like they are, they have always
been and they will continue to be. Give them an
inch and they'll take a mile. Like, just don't give
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them an opening, and that's how you beat them. You
have to you have to make the player you're supposed
to make. If you make errors in the Bronx, like,
it just feels like it's ten times worse than it is.
And so I would say that one kind of was like, uh,
I don't I don't like the tone that that set.
And then obviously we have the judge Homer that then
flips some momentum even more their way even after they've
been swinging it right. The Barger one was interesting, but
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I would say that it's probably Schnyder didn't look the
most comfortable I've ever seen anyone in left field. Right,
he caught a couple of balls that were iffy coming
in the wind. Maybe was a little bit weird, but
Barger was calling off a ball that he probably shouldn't
have been catching with how wonky everything was being. And
then you know they had centend aeron right. We saw
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the weird dive lay there, belly flop thing that happened
there as well that looked awkward. So like, it's not
like they had their best options in the corners and
they just happened to have the plays that they needed
to make hit in those directions. So they still had
bar shown center and I would say I would still
put my money on them being very defensively sound starting
tonight as well. Just there was just a couple very
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There were momentum shifts as well as miscues, and you
can get away with a couple of miscues sometimes, but
if it's a if it shifts a momentum or doesn't
set the tone in the right way, that's just going
to be played up, you know, times ten in the Bronx.
It's just it's really hard to get it out of
your head if you were the one that does it.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
I thought the play by Vlad was a good play.
You got the out, didn't let the run score. But
if that's an automatic double play and you're up by
I think at that time they were up by two
no three. To me, you get the two outs because
the ball was hit really hard to him and he
decided to cut the run down and try to get
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greedy and not let not let judge score. But you
could have had bases empty, one run in and two outs.
That is a huge to me. That was a momentum
shift too.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I want to hit the bullpen situation, Trevor. The Yankees
bullpen went six and two thirds scoreless three, it's nine
punch outs. You're like, damn, this bullpen looks like it's
back on for this one, and it's actually the Blue
Jays bullpen. They get smashed and then has to roll
out a bullpen game against the Yankees. I think a
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lot of people are looking at this matchup as lopsided. Yes,
Schlitzler got hit pretty good by Toronto about a month ago.
He's learned a little bit since then. But thoughts on
where we stand with pitching.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
It's definitely interesting because I think that the one of
the weaknesses going into the playoffs where the Toronto specifically
was their bullpen. We knew about, you know, the Yankees
and there their struggles. But Devin Williams has been good
so far and Bednar has rose to the occasion, which
was a question mark, you know, career career has been
in Pittsburgh. They haven't even sniffed a playoff series, so
what was going to be like in this situation. And
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he's been great. He's been as advertised, He's done a
great job in that role. So I think they're feeling
more and more confident those guys. Honestly, the X factor
for me, the guy who didn't pitch as much in
the first couple of games in the first series. Kimill
He's he's a he is a tough guy to face
in the playoffs because he's just there's no one like him.
He doesn't throw hard like everyone else is hard. He
throw a submarine like and he's he's funky. And there's lefties,
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some bopper lefties that they need to get out, you know,
get rid of Barger out of there, get Ernie clement
in like he's gonna he's kind of been that a
little bit. He's thrown well, so like they're getting quality
outings devolves a little bit better. Uh, it's just going
to come down to can Louis Varlin set the tone again?
Is this going to be another two run inning to
start the game and then a three nothing? Then you
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got to figure it out because if they're working from behind,
you're putting more pressure on the offense against a guy
who is dialed in, Like that's for me what it's
going to come down to. And then how are they
going to finish the game with Jeff Hopmin going to
be the guy they go to or they just waiting
to give it to him? When do they deploy their
leverage guys in Sir Anthony deming guys like they have
these options. But it's going to be it's gonna be
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really interesting to see if this is a tie game,
if that changes, or if they're just running, you know,
every single inning from the third inning on its leverage.
If they have a lead, my guess is they will
do that. They will, they will fully lean in on that.
But if they're behind, how much does that change things?
And then how does that set them up for Game five?
I you know the Yankees can push the momentum here,
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it's dangerous for the for the Blue Jays.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Thirty seconds krats, last word, Cam Schlitzler, Rerack what you
told us recently? And do you think that it will
play out that way? How much more difficult would the
Blue Jays be than the Red Sox.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
They showed it last time. Twenty foul balls they faced
some last time of twenty foul balls. He kept trying
to run the ball high up in the zone. He's
going to have to get out at the bottom of
the zone. Strikeouts and sing and swings and missus.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Okay, yeah, last time was not good for him. It
was September fifth against Toronto regular season, though for Schlitler overall,
the numbers are good and the wild card was one
of the better performances in the playoffs that we've seen.
Eight innings nowhere and runs and twelve strikeouts for him
in that matchup against Boston. We'll see part two for
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him on our way out here. Promo for Pinstripe Territory
one more time, please yes, Derek Lewandowski after this one
again either talking about what will be a Game five
if the Yankees win, or he will be nailing the
coffin on the Yankees twenty twenty five season. Yankees are
pretty heavily favored in this one. Yeah, the pressure cooker
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is at a red alert right now for the Philadelphia
Phillies as we talk about the Dodgers and Phillies matching up.
That's the late game tonight and it's a chance for
the Dodgers to sweep Philly. So, Trevor, first off, the
stars haven't been stars for Philadelphia. Do you think that
has more to do with the Dodgers pitching or with
Kyle Schwarber, Bryce Harper and Trey Turner not showing up
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in big spots right now? Two for twenty one to
eleven strikeouts in the NLDS.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
You know, I'll say it's fifty to fifty. I mean,
you know to say Kyle for like, what come on, man,
show up. It's only Otawni and Lake. Snell was the
hardest lefties for lefties to hit. The exists right, who
was absolutely sharp as I've seen him in a while.
Think the ball was jumping out of his hands, so
it didn't surprise me. Lazaro is the same way frankly.
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So we're seeing a trend here in the playoffs, right,
We're like the Mariners have won won some games. Juli
Driguez and Ralely need to be leading that charge. They
have been. The Aaron Judge leading the charge he has been.
Vladimir Gara Junior needs to leave the charge. He has
been like, you need your guys that you that you
pay to do that job to lead your lead the charge.
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And they just haven't gotten it yet. But there is
always still time. There's a right in the Mount of Yamamoto,
a better matchup for both Harper and Schwarber with the lefties. Right.
So you know we were a four hit, four or
five hits from them. Those two away from taking a
game at their place against a tough a tough starting pitcher.
If you can shift that momentum, you can get you
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can get a get going. But like it's it's we're
now back against wall. This is the final chance. The
first two times didn't work. You had a lead, it
didn't happen. We got Ti Oscar and Ez is just
he's turning the miss October as well at this point.
So like they're there are need and the Dodgers are
also getting the production that they expect from the top
of their own lineup right. It's not like everyone needs that.
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They only need the top three guys to do all
the work. Hek is doing what he always does, which
I can't wait till the studies for that come out
when he's retired and we get to see that thirty
to thirty. But like, you know, it's got you need it.
You Ney, Bryce Harper is the MVP, and you need
Kyle Sharber to to, you know, be the guy who's
probably going to be second place in the MVP body,
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and they just they can't win without it.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
It doesn't take much, just takes one swing. Takes one swing,
but you got to hit a dinger off of a
dude in. Yamamoto really has so many different weapons. To me,
if I look at the matchup, I say Phillies can't
hit spin. They really struggle with spin. It's not fair
to say Blake Snell's spin because he was throwing it
in ninety one mile hour slider that was breaking more
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than a pitch that's looking like that should break. And
he's nasty all the time because that curveball is always
in there and he'll go left or left change ups.
But Yamamoto, if he just sticks fastball split, I think
the Phillies have a better chance because they stay out
through the ball a little bit. If he's spinning it,
if he's running that cutter up and in to those guys,
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they can't get up there. And I have a tough
time seeing Yamamoto and Rovett if he's back there, or
Will Smith if he's back there, saying oh yeah, we're
not going to really spin him to death. We're just
gonna throw a lot of splitters and see if we
can get the heater by them. Phillies got to come
out early and get the lead like they have, but
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then they have to put them away. They've not done
a good job of stringing at bats together. It's going
to be so tough tonight.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Pitching wise, do you guys feel like this is the
right move with Nola and then Ranger Suarez And how
quickly that could shift from Nola to Ranger Suarez. I
mean some people are thinking Nola might be an opener
like three to six or nine outs, you know, first
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one to three innings maybe right, Does that sound on track,
because I mean Suarez can get on a roll.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
They both can. I mean, Nola was good at the
end of the year. He had had a great start
against the Mets. His last three starts were strong. It
was not a great year for him. But one thing
you're gonna not see is him. He's not gonna melt down.
He's not gonna show any emotion. He's gonna have zero
motion on his face. Maybe a little disappointment from timetime,
but he's not going to be overwhelmed by the by
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the atmosphere or the situation. And neither is Ranger Suarez.
So those two guys are going to, at least from
the mental side of the game, be as dialtant as
they can be at this point, and they're just such
different looks that that those are two webs you can
have now you're you would love to not have to
go to Rangersuarros and have him for game potential game
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four that I think that's ideal. But Nola has, you know,
every every opportunity in the world to get going, get
cruise and get guys to hit it at people, get
the get your just he he can absolutely paint that
zone and that I feel like that is that is
better than stuff at this point in the year because
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everyone's throwing a hundred, they're seeing everyone seeing every other
pitches one hundred miles an hour. Maybe a little bit
of the other other way might be more effective in
this situation, you might be economical and really take some
wind out of the sales. So that's what they need
to do. They need that out of Nola. If he
only goes nine hitters, things probably aren't going good for
the Phillies.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
I would disagree. I think as soon as anything happens,
Nola's out. And I think that's why Nola's starting, because
if Nola's starting, or if Rangers starting, then Nola would
come in afterwards and you just never Nole has had
so many one inning blow ups that here in the postseason.
As soon as he gets anything, as soon as he
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gets anything out there, bang, you're going right to Ranger.
And to me, if you get six innings out of
the two of them, that is a win and the
Phillies move on to Game four.
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make sure you check out The Philly Show part of
the FT Network YouTube wherever you get your pods. Okay,
a little news off the field. Paul Toboni takes over
for the Washington Nationals. He's leading the front office and
apparently there are a lot of changes going on. This
is the perfect time to do it. I mean, I
know it's not fun, but when there's postseason baseball going on,
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most other baseball news gets pushed under the rug. Andrew
Golden said the Nats are making sweeping changes to their
front office today, Among them, assistant GM Mark ski Laba
and farm director Eddie Alangos have been formed they aren't
returning next season, and Parry ver Luga a lot of
tough names here, guys. I mean, come on, Barry's been
(36:27):
around covering the team for a while. He said, one
scout told him it's a bloodbath. I mean, he's going
to get his own people in there. Trevor. Plus, we're
going through changes, as it is with the sport, so
it's not good. And the Nats are making this change
because they weren't happy with how many players were being
produced through the system. Whether it's fair or not for
(36:49):
the team to be quietly up for sale and them
just trying to do things to tread water until the
next CBA when they can actually sell the team.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
All right, there's a lot of moving pieces going. You
have to do something. We're seeing this a lot like
remember with the Twins. Before the season, they're like, are
we selling or we're not selling? Can we sign any players?
Can we do anything? And then we have the season
go of the way and they're like, ah, we're gonna
get rid of everybody and we're going to kind of
sell the team like that kind of uncertainty makes running
a major league organization and trying to win almost impossible,
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especially if you are the one making personnel decisions. So
the least you can do is bring in a group
of people that are all on the same page and
that are comfortable communicating their process moving forward, and that
everyone is going to be able to put that process
in play so they can develop players. You're going to
need that no matter who owns the team and no
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matter who's making the decisions, you need that. So a
lot of these decisions come down to that. Really the
big interesting ones are there's a lot of teams that
also got rid of their or front offices all the
way down to the manager. Also when they had that
kind of change of the command kind of lined up
and and it was a lot of execution. And sometimes
(38:02):
it's optics. Sometimes it's actual like process that they don't like,
or the communications batter if there's someone in there that's
not being stubborn or whatever. Like it's hard to tell,
but you know, it's it's a wait and see situation
and and you just kind of try to guess what
your ownership is trying to do or what kind of
they're kind of play they're trying to make as best
(38:24):
you can. But you know, at least this is something happened, right,
something something new is there. So it's wait and see
what kind of process they have.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Okay, let's slap shall we. First off, we'll get to
a little bit of news here. So the Rays have
a new ownership group. Patrick Zelevsky spoke and he said
item number one new ballpark. Shocker. We can show the
(39:07):
tweet from Mark Topkin, but I mean that is what
the city is waiting for. You had a lot to
say in the intro press conference, but most interesting, aggressive
and perhaps audacious.
Speaker 5 (39:17):
That's his quote.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Plans to build a fixed roof stadium in a one
hundred plus acre world class live work play experience that
will open for the twenty twenty nine season. So you
would think that the Rays have that on their mind.
What what are you confused about? Well, you're muted, come back,
(39:38):
come back.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
What he was going to say was what he was
going to say was no way ownership should worry about
winning first. Like the first and foremost thing was don't
you bought a sports team. You didn't buy a freaking
real estate investment, save it meet, Like, tell me what
you're gonna do and put money into the team, and
then I'll look at your fixed roof stadium. That's that's
(40:01):
irritating to me.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Sorry, I'm gonna go against you guys a little bit,
just because I would imagine and hope that he brought
that up as well during the press conference. We have
not seen the whole press conference. We were just told
about some standouts from Mark Hopkins, so maybe that was included.
But you also might have a point that he did
make his money in real estate and MLB's number one
goal is to be a real estate Bahamath behemoth Bahamath
(40:26):
maybe in the Bahamash final thoughts here crats yeah with
a minute ago final thoughts for these four games. I mean,
are you going to be on the postgame show by
the way, or it's a TVD. I know we have
Trevor TVD schedule pending. Okay, everybody will be looking at
(40:46):
YouTube for the beginning of the postgame show like is
he there?
Speaker 4 (40:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (40:54):
We got like thirty seconds.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
Maren has finished show you okay, m that's what I think.
Amazon Mariners and if they show this team finishes it
tonight wow ooh baby, I think the blue for everybody
who's listening.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Blue Jays Schlittler, Hey there he is, just in time.
But guess what, We'll see you in a few hours.
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