Wednesday: Who Do You Want in the World Series?

Small market teams are on display in the MLB Playoffs.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
I heard I forgot.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
I want to say it was last night while I
was dragging home listening to the Odd Couple and their
executive producer.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Oh my god, what is his name? Uh?

Speaker 3 (00:16):
I can't remember rob g And he's like, starts rattling
off some of these other baseball things and then he's like,
and then this made up mumbo jumbles, you know, baseball
statistic it's like exit V low with w a C slash.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
That's just all these ridiculous stats. Well, yes, to make up.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
I think the players have made this episode that they
can say, look at what I did with this and
that way you have to pay me more.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
And you know what, it wouldn't surprise me, Andy, It
wouldn't surprise me.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
I mean again, we see stats where it's.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Like, you know, oh well, and as much as I
love Brandon Aubrey, but it's like, oh well, Brandon Aubrey
became the first kicker in NFL history to kick a
time field goal at the end of regulation and then
kicked a.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Game winning field goal at the actual end of overtime,
and it's like, what are we doing? What are we doing?

Speaker 1 (01:12):
We're coming up with stats for everybody.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
Well, you gotta have people like stats. That's why we
have a stat of the day, that of the day,
everything else that that we that we come up with.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Well, there are some stats that don't need to be stats.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Andy, I'm just saying.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
I don't I don't care what Aaron Judge swing speed is.
When it's seventy two degrees on a cool, brisk New
York Tuesday night at at nine oh two Eastern Standard time,
with a wind chill factor of you know, sixty seven
degrees and the win and a brisk wind coming out

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of the north northeast at two miles, I don't care.
While while John Sterling is drinking a cup of coffee
at home listening to Michael kay At, you know, not
eleven volume but ten volume.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
Yeah, all those things are factored into the situation every
every step of the way. All right, here's here's what
But I see, this is what's so cool about postseason baseball.
If this were a game in May, nobody would care. Yeah,
you took the guy out, you lost, But now everything
is down the crunch time. Everything, every run matters, every

(02:24):
strike matters, every wild pitch matters. You lose this game
and the season's over. You win this game, the season
gets extended. Swing a miss and you.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
You just you know, I guess Chism just strikes out. Yes,
here he goes. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
My my monitors a little behind yours by about eight
seconds or so. So there's two out in the Yankee six,
tied three to three, and see and so like, both
teams are trying to to play away from the other
team strengths. If Boston has the lead in the ninth,
it's not likely the way Chapman's pitched all year that
they're gonna lose. And and the and the Red Sox

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are trying everything the world to get to their bullpen
because the Yankee bullpen has been suspect for a good
chunk of the season. And so the strategy's out there,
and that's what I think is so cool, but it
gets What gets in the way of the strategy is
the guy from Yale with the algorithm that says do
this instead of that.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
And and I still go back to what I said
in the first hour.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
You've got you've got all these teams out there, and
their batting order changes from game to game, and from
day to day.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
It's never the same batting order.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
And I don't know how a player that's used to
being a leadoff hitter now all of a sudden bats
seventh or ninth or fourth or wherever he's at. And
and you know, if you're a guy like Stanton, you're
probably gonna bat fourth or fifth.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
No matter what.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
But everybody else could be batting first or ninth or
anywhere in between. And how does how does that factor
into everything? I just think that's a it's hard for
players to kind of get to feeling uh, feeling good
when when they when they're moving around in the batting order.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
You're not accustom to that.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
And I've asked people that have played baseball, that played
baseball years past how that would affect how they play now, And.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
It'll be very nerve wracking.

Speaker 4 (04:05):
You know, you're glad to be in the lineup and
you look down the card, but if you're the leadoff
guy like Trent Grisham normally leads off, but there's a
lot of times he bats sixth, sometimes he bats seventh,
sometimes he bats night.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Sometimes he's not even a lineup.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
Well, how do you prepare yourself for a game if
you never know where you're batting or even if you're playing.
And now, teams with the thirteen pitcher limit are putting
four and five guys on the bench. You got to
play them occasionally, so somebody's got to take a night
off from time to time. The way that you get
into a groove with your hitting offensively and probably even defensively,

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is making sure that you get as many repetitions as
you can. Any success that you have in a sport
like this involves the repetitive nature of it, and that's
why you practice it.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
That's why you do basketball practice.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
The way you do and run drills in football, and
run drills in baseball and take batting practice is because
you got to get in some kind of a a groove.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Well that means said, who cares about playoff baseball right now?

Speaker 4 (05:04):
I really know obviously you do because you're hoping that
Boston wins with every swing no, so that the Evil
Empire loses.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Well, I'm just happy that one of those two teams
is not going to be, you know, progressing, and then
hopefully uh whoever is in the next bracket beats beats his.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Team as well. I don't want either of these teams
to win.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
I just tell you, so, you're you want a Seattle
Milwaukee World Series.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Hey, why not?

Speaker 3 (05:29):
It's been twenty four years since the Seattle Mariners and
the fighting each of Rosuzukis. You know, we're I'm not
gonna say relevant, but but one the Al East. I
would be happy for them, and I would also be
happy for our boy up in Milwaukee, Brian Anderson, who
is as you mentioned yesterday.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
But now Brian will work for TBS in the playoffs.
But Brewers TV doesn't get to do any more games
once the playoff starts, only Brewers Radio, and I think
Corey provis is doing that now after Bob Buker passed,
so anyway, but BA will be there for the TBS games,
I'm sure in all the playoff games.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah, there we go when we get into the next round.

Speaker 4 (06:10):
And I think I told you this earlier, but not
only does UTSA play at Lincoln Financial on Saturday, the
Phillies are going to be playing baseball that same night
at Citizens Bank Park across the street. They have that
in the Philadelphia of the Wells Fargo Center at all
the same same place.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
All right, open the ticket. Hi everyone, it's Andy Everett.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
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