WORLD SERIES

The boys talk about the 2025 World Series!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you ready for another edition of the Rob Dimmel Show,
Worst Show?

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Little the second.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
Rohas comes home, beIN time.

Speaker 4 (00:12):
Here it's mcguel Rojas who ties it on the top
of the ninth, saves it in the bottom of the ninth. Smith,
it's a high fly ball to deep left field. It's
got a chance.

Speaker 5 (00:24):
It is God.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
It's Will Smith.

Speaker 4 (00:27):
In Game seven, here's the O two pitch correct bounces,
lock up the medal.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
That's to the back over the first to beat the champ.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
You gotta knock him out.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
The Dodgers stand tall.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Then went back to back titles, and now here's Rob
dimml And that's the end of the Major League Baseball
season and the Los Angeles Dodgers have won two in
a row.

Speaker 6 (00:56):
It will go for three in a row next season.
They're having their parade today. It's also opening night in
men's basketball for Yukon a lot of other colleges across
the country. It's also Monday Night football. But let's get
to Game six, Game seven over the weekend. Game six

(01:17):
Dodgers win three to one to face a Game seven. Obviously,
I think that was one of the best World Series overall.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
That I've watched. In my lifetime. I think that.

Speaker 6 (01:31):
Playing in it's different than watching it because watching it
you're way more critical than when you're in it and
things go wrong, And obviously, for me didn't go wrong.
We swept the as thirty five years ago. For the
Blue Jays, they'll look back at missed opportunities, and I
think the one thing I'm not going to critique them

(01:52):
at all because they played an amazing World Series. They
took the Dodgers to within two outs of winning the championship,
curveball away from hanging it to the number nine hitter.
I freaked out at my house, but that's just me
because I know that was the wrong pitch at that
moment that you know, I felt that not just the

(02:12):
Blue Jays, but a lot of Major leaguers as opposed
to when I played. We were told never to lose
on your second or third or fourth best pitch, always
get beat with your best at the end of a
baseball game. And to watch Hoffman struggle to get the
eighth and ninth hitters out was tough for me because

(02:34):
I've been in that situation. I wanted him to just
blow these guys away. He was nibbling, he fell behind
and that, and that puts the hitter in the driver's
seat and ultimately led to the the tie ball game
and ultimately led to their demise in Game seven. But
it was beautifully played. Yamamoto is an absolute beast. Oh yeah,

(02:57):
to pitch game six, come back pitching Game seven can't
be understated. I think that we saw that at Showhay
is human and got beat up twice. Blake Snell got
beat up twice, even though he wants to deny that
the Blue Jays pounded on him a couple of times

(03:18):
in the World Series. So as far as the World
Series goes, it is over. It's gonna take us years,
I think, to sort out our thoughts on which way
we thought the outcome would go.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
But to the victor goes to spoils.

Speaker 6 (03:33):
The Dodgers are celebrating and the Blue Jays are very
upset knowing that they had a lot of missed opportunities.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
I thought this series had everything you could ask for
as a baseball fan. I mean seven gamer just right
off the bat. The two cities that were involved in
the players and the superstars that were involved, Like the
cast of characters is a list for sure, but you
give me an eighteen inning game right in the middle
of this series. That really shakes things up up with
what you're going to be doing pitching wise, you give

(04:02):
me some kind of bad blood. We did have a
dust up. I know it was the dance off, but
benches did clear. Bullpens ran in and I was thinking
about that because you were talking about no one brushes
show Hay off the plate, and the Dodgers are the
ones that are doing all those kind of brushoffs. I
think there was three hbps, all of them from Dodger

(04:23):
pitching man.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Something to say about that, them to say about the guy.

Speaker 5 (04:27):
The team that hits the batters the most may win
the series in the end. There's just so many great
plays in the field, so many great base running things.
You could say, what if whatnot? The biggest one today
I think is ikf Isaiya kinder filef on third kind
of hesitating there in order to score that final run.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
A lot of people are saying, what is he waiting for?
Why isn't he just go?

Speaker 5 (04:49):
I mean there was a pickoff situation on second base,
but not on third base.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
I think there's a lot of finger pointing and just
those little details which you know you can agree with
disagree with, But that's baseball, Susan, those little details. When
it comes to the end, when you got two of
the greatest teams with great hitters with great pitching, those
little details are wins and losses in the end.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Well, and the.

Speaker 6 (05:14):
Three homers that the Dodgers hit in the eighth, ninth,
and eleventh were not hit by Mookie Betts or Freddie Freeman.
Great point, hit by Moncie who struggled Rojas, who was
a sixth game He was put in game six as
a replacement because they needed offense and defense. And he
had fifteen home runs, not fifteen, he had like nine

(05:35):
home runs all year. But first hitting a month, Yeah,
first hitting a month, hadn't played a whole lot. And
then Will Smith who missed a month with a busted
up hand. Yeah, And honestly, he faced Bieber. I think
they go back to like the eighteen to U World
Series or something where he faced Bieber the last time

(05:56):
and beat him. So, you know, the guys that did
the job are the guys that you need to win championships.
And I think that you know, Kinder Fileffa and some
of the other guys that are taking the blame. It's
so unfortunate. I know he's being threatened, his family's being
threatn it's just stupid. Just stop. It's it's it's ridiculous.

(06:16):
That wasn't what cost you the game. You gotta give
the Dodgers credit. They were resilient, they never quit and
and it just Dave Roberts looks like a genius at
the end of the day, with the way he set
his lineup, the way he inserted guys, the way he
used his bullpen. You know, putting Sasaki as your closer

(06:38):
for the postseason was was absolute brilliance. Losing Vesia because
of personal issues. There's just so many different things you
can look at. Like you said, so well, the the
eighteen inning game in a World Series, it reminds me
of going all the way back to the Red Sox
when they won it with with Evaldi pitching nine innings
and saving the bull It's things like that that win

(07:01):
you championships. And so there's no one thing that costs
the Blue Jays or one thing that helped the Dodgers.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
It was just.

Speaker 6 (07:09):
Continuing to grind and grind and grind at bats and
grind out at bats as a pitcher, and I just
felt that both teams something had to give at the end,
and it just happened to be Will Smith in the
eleventh inning of Game seven, and and you know, but
there was so many bases loaded situations, so many men

(07:30):
on second, no outs, and the Blue Jays couldn't cash
in an extra run. I mean, there's just so many things.
And I'm trying not to critique it. I'm trying to
look at it as a whole, because you could go
mental by by thinking about they're they're you know, putting
you Savage in there. I'm not a fan of that stuff,
you know, putting all these starters in there.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
I'm not a big fan. But Yamamoto, you know, ended.

Speaker 6 (07:52):
Up being had five wins in the postseason and and
it is and so you know, you look at value,
and you could talk about show Hey and these other guys. Yamamoto,
to me, is the most valuable because this guy can
pitch every day. Yes, you overpaid for this guy. You
brought him in as a mercenary, but it's a it's

(08:14):
a team built with mercenaries and then a couple of
fillers here and there, But that's that's their right. They
did it within the rules. Unless you change the rules.
You can't say the Dodgers are ruining baseball because they
said that for one hundred years with the Yankees. The
Yankees spend and the Yankees or this, and the Yankees
raised the buck Listen, you you have a set of

(08:34):
rules for everybody. They play within the rules, and I
think that the Blue Jays took them to the limit,
which was refreshing. You couldn't do the job. But at
the end of the day, don't blame a Kiner, Filepha
or Jimenez or somebody else for you know, a misplayed
here or not getting lead. Going back to just that
particular play. Okay, when when I teach it, I teach

(08:57):
it differently because when I was taught in the minor
league with the Reds, were always walking forward. We're always
walking towards home. We're never stationary. When you get stationary
and sedimentary, you're not moving in the direction you need
to go. And so then all of a sudden, oh god,
it's a ground ball, I need to go. That split
second was a difference between winning a championship and not.

(09:20):
So you'll you'll spend the rest of your life thinking
about it, and trust me, that guy is going to
eat himself to to you know, in his own brain,
because he didn't get to jump. He knows he could
have had had he played it a little bit differently.
But you could you could say something about the third
base coach. You could say something about not reminding him

(09:41):
to try to try to, you know, have all of
your weight going forward and stuff. And then again, if
he had been thrown out, let's just say that that
that that wasn't a ground ball and that it was
a pitch to the outer half that all of a
sudden the catcher gets and he fires it down.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
He picked you off third. People would have gone bananas.
They would have righte So.

Speaker 6 (10:00):
There's so many different ways you can lose a baseball game.
But that's the beauty of baseball. The beauty of baseball
is you.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
When you lack some kind of execution, it can cost.

Speaker 6 (10:12):
You not getting I read today former players, the guys
that I played against, all over the internet going well,
you know, why didn't Varshow get a ball up in
the air. Why didn't this guy get a ball up
in the air. Because it's not as easy as you
think in that moment you know, to just raise the
ball up and hit a fly ball and get a sacrifice.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
Guy.

Speaker 6 (10:30):
You know, it's it's easy to sit there and critique
and Monday morning quarterback, but I respect the guys that
were playing. They got their teams there. Varshow was amazing,
Connor Fileffa, all these guys. They all contributed in different ways.
But at the end of the day, as much as
I hate and despise the Dodgers, I tip my hat
to them because you have to. They They were the

(10:52):
ones that ultimately did what they needed to do to
win the game and execute to save runs here. And
that's what I look at that when the Blue Jays
had opportunities and couldn't cash them in, I credit the Dodgers.
A lot of people are blaming the Blue Jays for
lack of execution. I'm the type of person I credit

(11:13):
the Dodgers for thwarting those situations, getting out of an
you know, nobody out man on second and not letting
that run score to make it a five to three game.
Those are things you should give the Dodgers credit for.

Speaker 5 (11:28):
I just feel like, man, that ball found Rojas. Rojas
hasn't spent that many days at second base, especially in
the latest and especially pressure moments, especially bases loaded, run
comes in and scores seasons over for your team.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
The ball, of course is gonna find Rojas. Rojas bobbles
it for a.

Speaker 5 (11:46):
Second, not even a bobble, just stumbles over his own feet,
but has the presence of mind to make a great play.
And I thought, in that moment, it doesn't matter what
position that guy was playing, It doesn't matter what the
situation is.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
He is a professional baseball player. And those kind of.

Speaker 5 (12:02):
Plays, even though it seems like a routine thing, hit
ground ball, hit the second base, throw it to the catcher,
the old four to one put out should be really easy.
But in that moment, with those kind of implications, for
that particular guy to pull that off, huge, humongous, humungo
play in that moment, And just there's so many things

(12:24):
that like you're saying, yes, Mookie's double play was vintage
Mookie yep, Like show Hey, putting the ball in the
air and doing his thing at the play is vintage
show Hey. But man, that Tommy Edmons came up huge
at Key k came up huge, Max Muncy at bats
were huge, like so many of the other guys won

(12:45):
it for the Los Angeles Dodgers. As much as it
is a half a billion dollar roster, a lot of
those guys that ain't making that kind of coin were
the reasons that they're gonna get a ring.

Speaker 6 (12:55):
A forty two year old Max Surezer did a fantastic job.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
Yeah, the start for him. Man. A couple of things.

Speaker 6 (13:02):
I look at, blue Jays left fourteen guys on bas
Dodgers left ten on base. Dodgers one for eleven with
runners in scoring position. Here's a huge number that should
always be remembered for history. Three for seventeen for the
Blue Jays with runners in scoring position, three for seventeen.
And so you know that's what I'm talking about. I

(13:24):
give credit this robole Eski kid. This kid wasn't supposed
to be on the big league roster. But because of
something that you can't control, a personal issue with Vesia
and his wife takes him away from the team, Roboleski
gets added to the team. You know you had Glass
now come out of the rotation and pitch out of

(13:47):
the bullpen. Snell pitched out of the bullpen, Yamamoto pitched
out of the rotation into the bull These guys those
innings one UA Championship, and left runners on base, left
eye opportunities on base. And I'm not a blame guy.
I will never be a blame guy. I can't say
it's your fault, it's your fault, it's your ful I'm

(14:08):
a credit person. I like to give people credit. The Dodgers,
as much as I can't stand like their ownership in
their front office and some of the things that they do,
the players, you can't hate the players. Mookie Bets, unselfishly
for years, could have said I'm just gonna stick my
ass and right field and retire that way. I'm gonna

(14:30):
play out here. I'm gonna put up some numbers, go
to the Hall of Fame. He's got four World championships.
You know why he's unselfish. When they needed that guy
to come in and play short or come in and
play second, it hurt him offensively. In twenty twenty five
he was not the same player. But in the World
Series in postseason, there are too many plays to count

(14:50):
that Mookie Bets.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
Made that.

Speaker 6 (14:55):
Are mind blowing. Mind blowing that Ozzie Smith would have
trouble making some of these plays, but Mooki does it.
And he's such a humble human that you wouldn't know
that he's doing stuff that's superhuman because he doesn't draw
attention to himself. So Freddie Freeman's the same. You know
how many balls Freddie Freeman picked right and and saved

(15:17):
errors from his teammates and stuff like that, and so
did Vladdie gre I mean.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
These guys people don't see the whole game. You have
to watch. It's like a football game. Watch football, watch, blocking.

Speaker 6 (15:30):
Watch, you know, picking up you know, blitzes and all
kinds of different things, and you have to watch the
whole not just little pieces and highlights. And that's what
happens to the fan bases. They get caught up in
the in the highlights or Sports Center or Fox or whatnot,
and they're like, well it was that, it was that. No,
it's it's too numerous to count consistent plays. It's short

(15:56):
in the outfield. You brought up Pa haz And and
his catching in center field, you know things like that.
I look at my World Championship and right off the bat,
there's like three defensive plays that come to mind. One
is Paul O'Neill thrown out Andy van slike trying to
tag going a second to third. On the same play,

(16:20):
Chris Sabo deepd him. Chris Sabo is standing there with
his arms crossed, and then he catches the ball and
tags him out. Now, if he hadn't made Van Slke delay,
sliding and hustling a little bit of extra van Slke safe.
If Paul O'Neill doesn't make a one hot, perfect throw,
he's safe again. In the Pittsburgh Pirates NLCS, Eric Davis

(16:44):
had hurt his knee, so we put him in the
left field. Billy Hatcher's in center. They're both center fielders.
Billy Hatcher dives for a ball, Eric Davis backs him up.
Eric Davis grabs the ball. Bobby Benie is trying to
stretch a double a new triple. Eric throws him out
if he doesn't back up that play Bobby Benilla and
the go ahead run is that third base. So it's

(17:05):
you know, every World Series, every you know, it's funny
because John Smolts is doing the color. John Smoltz was
involved in the Jack Morris Twins ten inning game where
he ultimately and his team lost that game. And the
one part of that game that I remember is Lonnie
Smith rounding third, losing a shoe, it's stopping, it'll, it'll,

(17:27):
It's etched in my brain and will be till I
die that that guy had he just run home, the
Braves win, and the Braves win the World Series in
Game seven, but because he stopped and was confused, he
went back to third base. The Twins got out of
that situation, and the Twins end up winning that next inning.

(17:47):
So you know, there's just so many different things you
can you can point to in every Super Bowl, in
every NHL Championship, NBA championship, but it's too numerous to count.
So I try not to try to at the end
put it all in like a pot and be like, listen,
you stirred all together. Dodgers win that game and and

(18:07):
it's one of the best World Championships ever.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
Everyone was pitching in Yeah, I'm a motor today.

Speaker 7 (18:16):
The day after he pitches in Game six, what'd you
see in him? He was he's the MVP of this series.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
That was that was special?

Speaker 3 (18:24):
What he did?

Speaker 7 (18:24):
You know, the two starts complete game pitching yesterday and six,
and he has come out today. You know, I told
him yesterday he needed one for us to win today.
He gave us three. That's just pure fight out of him.
It's your grit, that's who he is. It's just a fighter.
Could you know he's one of the best pitches on
the planet and he showed it.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
That was Will Smith.

Speaker 6 (18:46):
And uh, what's it buster only with ESPN.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
Right, Yeah, what did I say? Posy, I get my.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
Rhyme. It's what I wanted to bring up was.

Speaker 6 (19:03):
Madison Bumgarner and his statistics and they they talk about
Yamamoto and Madison Bumgarner his statistics are actually better.

Speaker 3 (19:14):
And he hit yeah, and he hit back in the day.

Speaker 6 (19:17):
So you know, everybody's like Yamamoto and uh, you know,
have we ever seen anybody listen, it's all relative and
you know before we even get into that. But but
here's a guy, this isn't his culture. Madison Bumgarner is
one of the toughest ombres. This guy's a rodeo type guy.
He's he's he's a cowhan. He is a tough, big kid.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
Uh. Yamamoto is not.

Speaker 6 (19:43):
Yamamoto is like a slight Asian dude, you know, doesn't
speak the language, he doesn't know a lot of our customs.
Yet he comes up. I give these guys nothing but
mad respect, you know. I mean, they don't grow up
in our culture of you know, tough guy.

Speaker 5 (20:00):
Don't you think Yamamoto from last year to this year
has gotten more of a jaw, more of a toughness.

Speaker 6 (20:07):
Absolutely absolutely, But the guy who cried was Sasaki. Yeah,
I mean the and and I don't mean from the
sense of you know, you're you're not manly and you're
not macho. It's it's more in their culture. And I
and I remember going over there and and they said
to us, you guys are really nice to the fans.
And the players over there are aloof they're like rock stars.

(20:31):
They're they're totally different. Players over here are used to autographs,
used to kind of you know, spring training, and things
are loose, and it's it's a different kind of vibe.
And so for this guy to be like, Okay, I
have to be more of something that I wasn't in
in my country. I give that guy mad respect, you know.

(20:53):
So you know, comparing Bumguard, I could bring in Andy Pettitt,
the one thing that you know, we're we're you know,
the Clayton Kershaw love. I don't get I understand he's
one of the greatest regular season pitchers, but by the numbers,
he is not a good postseason performer. He's not a
clutch pitcher. Yamamoto is more of a clutch pitcher already

(21:17):
than Kershaw has ever been in his career. At thirty
two stars for Kershaw thirteen and thirteen with a four
to six ERA, He's been bombed in nlcs's other playoff
division series. He is giving it up big time. And
you look at Andy Pettitt. Andy pettitt phenomenal postseason numbers,

(21:40):
phenomenal career, should be a Hall of Famer because he's
got the steroid hiccup, he's not in the Hall of Fame,
which I absolutely think is a horrible mistake and an injustice.
And I'm not a big Andy Pettitt fan, so please
don't think I'm you sucking up for Andy Pettitt and
saying he should be in the Hall of Fame. But

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when you look at a Kurt Shilling and Andy Pettitt,
John Smoltz, those are some of the greatest postseason performers.
Then you throw in Madison Bumgarner in recent memory. Now
you put in Yama Moto, I don't even think about Kershaw.
You know, I know, I know he's retiring and all
that kind I don't get it, and I don't want
to go down that avenue or that that way right now.

(22:24):
But my thing is, appreciate this dude. He's slight build,
not of our culture, and he went out there and
he dealt when you needed that guy most to go
out there and and basically carry a team from the
pitching perspective. And yeah, he deserves to be not show Hey,

(22:46):
not not Mookie, not Freeman, nobody, but Yamamoto really deserves that,
other than maybe Will Smith with the cletchness of his
home runs and calling the games. But I'll tell you what,
Yamamoto was phenomenal in the World Series.

Speaker 5 (23:01):
Talk about the final pitch of this season. He sawed
his bat in half. That's Kirk who's really hot. He
has to get the ball above the infield and it
has to swing at this pitch like Yamamoto was not nibbling.
Yamamoto is going right after him. And for him to
break Kirk's bat in the end and to get that

(23:21):
ground ball, I'm sure closers all around the country had
smiles on their faces.

Speaker 6 (23:26):
Well, yah, Shinobo, like I said at five ten and
I don't know one hundred and seventy five dripping wet.
It says one hundred and seventy six pounds. He throws,
he throws hard, he throws what they call a heavy ball,
and he throws a forkball. Now, when I was playing that,
that was all the rage. And I just saw by
the numbers in the postseason and I think it was

(23:47):
just the World Series, one hundred and fifty six fork
balls were pitched and that's more than like, I think
it's the last decade of postseason play, and I think
it's a hundred fifty three. So the forkball died a
long time ago. We went to like the circle change. Uh,
we've we've gone to the sweepers. We we we've changed

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because of arms injuries and also it just was not fashionable.
And the guys that have brought it back, imanaga U, Yamamoto, Sasaki,
a bunch of these other guys have brought back to
forkball show hey, and now it's more fashionable to throw it.
So what happens is when a guy's throwing a fastball

(24:30):
and a split finger is basically separating your finger, the
ball comes backward, spins backward, and down with gravity pulling
it down. When you go to throw a fastball now
and you start to swing and you get sawed off,
you're gonna get ground balls, You're gonna get bats that explode.
This this guy is your your prototypical changing speeds phenomenally. Honestly,

(24:58):
I'll compare him to Greg Maddox of manipulating a baseball.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
Now.

Speaker 6 (25:02):
I'm not a big seven pitch guy or whatnot. I
think that's a lot of garbage. But being able to
change speeds from ninety six to ninety eight to seventy
to seventy five, back and forth on your forkball, and
it makes that fastball go from ninety five to one
hundred and five to the hitter as far as speeding

(25:22):
up his bat, and that's when you talk about jamming
a Kirk getting all the swings and misses and things
like that. He makes the best and I think you
and I both agree Blue Jay's best hitting team in.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
Baseball this year by far. Yeah, And to make.

Speaker 6 (25:40):
Some of their hitters look as bad as they did,
that shows you the talent level of Yamamoto and what
he possesses that in that arm.

Speaker 5 (25:49):
That play in center field where pah Pa hes pajes yeh.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
Calls off or doesn't even really call it call him off,
You just ram over.

Speaker 5 (25:58):
But the funny thing is, like the camera angle on
that you're looking at Keik Hernandez about to attempt a
Willie May's style over the shoulder catch and you know
the situation if he doesn't catch this game over Blue
Jay's or World Series Champs, and for Pot has to
run over there and just come into the screen. He

(26:18):
obviously had the angle, obviously had the catch, and for
him to not like get it at the I was
thinking receiver stuff at this point. That was highest point
for receiver stuff when you're fighting a dB and it's a.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
Jump ball in the air.

Speaker 5 (26:32):
Pot has went and got that at the highest point,
secured the ball and then took the hit like he
knew he was going to get hit. That was one
of the most clutch outfield plays in a miscommunication could
have gone completely wrong, could have really been devastating, like
the sickness in those two stomachs today. If that ball

(26:52):
hit the ground would have been monumental. And for him
to pull off that catch and save the season and
put the Dodgers back to the plate. That an understated play,
even though it was so huge on Saturday, so huge.

Speaker 6 (27:05):
Well, and there were so many plays like that. There
were where you have to understand that these guys have
played so much baseball in their lives. It's like it's
like you you're a receiver, you played in college. You
know how many times you've caught a football, And there's
certain times where, hey, I know at the end of this,
I'm going to take a hit and I may lose consciousness.

(27:28):
In baseball, there's there's a time and I played outfield
growing up, and I was an outfielder in high school,
and I've watched Mike Cameron and Carlos Beltron go head
to head and Mike Cameron's face has all metal in
it now because his face was so blown up, and

(27:49):
there's a point of no return where you have to
throw your body at it and say, I have to
catch this ball because I'm the center field now, key k.
He's trying to, you know, do what he did and
make the play, and you know, it's so loud at
Rogers Center.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
And it's just it's insane. The fans are.

Speaker 6 (28:09):
Such such a great addition, great great uh you know
fan base that they couldn't call each other off.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
It's one of.

Speaker 6 (28:19):
Them's got to make that play, and like you said,
if they don't, it's it's championship over season over one
of them maybe stretchered off to the to the hospital.
So you have to have a certain amount of fearlessness.
But you've made that play before that that that that's
getting a jump on the ball. I mean, the the
one thing you know as a player, when I make

(28:41):
a mistake as a pitcher, I rarely think other than
like having greatness behind me, like Eric Davis, Paul O'Neill, uh,
you know, Billy Hatcher, guys like that that played outfield
for me. When they were out there, I knew a
lot of my mistakes would get caught. Not all of them,
but most of them. That's one of them where there's

(29:02):
no way you thought that ball was going to get caught,
and when it was, you're just like so relieved that
now now I think we can win this game. And
I think it's so. It did two things. It kept
the game going, but it also gave you an opportunity
to to win the season. And I think that that's

(29:23):
that's what you're doing. That's why they say defense and
pitching wins your championships. But the pitching, when it makes mistakes,
you need the defense to cover those mistakes. And that's
and and so that guy didn't hit much for the series,
but that's that's one of the greatest World Series catches
of all time.

Speaker 5 (29:42):
Couple more tip of the caps before he put a
bow on this baseball season. Congratulations to our listener Emmett.
He picked the Dodgers on Day one of our MLB
Playoff challenge. He is not a hard pick, not a
hard pick, but he wasn't the first pick, so stuck
with it.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
He stuck with it.

Speaker 5 (29:58):
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So congratulations, get some you're gonna be doing them coasters
man and hitting their brewery. Hit the brewery after you're
done with yeah, quick pro tip, hit the brewery after
the rides. And also a tip of the captain, George Springer.

(30:21):
That guy came back hurt and went I think he
was five for eleven. Well, let me add it up
real quick. He played the last two games where I
didn't think he was going to get in five for ten,
five for ten. His last ten at bass he was
three for six on Saturday, scored to run. Also had
an RBI in Game six, one of the few RBIs
that crossed the point. I thought there was a play

(30:43):
in the first inning. And I know this is nitpicking,
and like you said, there's so many different places you
can point at, and I would point at this if
I was a backer of ikf today, trying to ease
his pain. But they had a hit and run on
and Vladdie, of all people, did not swing the bat
at it. He got froze by a Yamamoto pitch and
that caught George in the middle where George thought, all right,

(31:05):
he didn't swing, so that must have been a ball
and just stopped like that happened twice three quarters right, it's.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Top three cores. Boba Schett did that?

Speaker 5 (31:12):
Remember that was game four, I think, or three, one
of the one of the ones they lost. But and
I know it's nitpicky, but still, those little detail moments
can cost you one run ball games that go into
extra inning.

Speaker 6 (31:24):
Absolutely, And again we're we're we're hammering kinnor Fuleffer for
not getting a good jump and George made that that's
that's a mental mistake where you know Boba. Schett turned
us back to the play when bar Show thought it
was ball four and it was a strike. I I
think that a lot of times. The once again they're

(31:49):
they're trying to minimize the moment and that, well, this
isn't a World Series game, this is another baseball game.
It is it is a World Series game, and everything's
magnified because we're going to replay it and that I
was blown away that that happened to George.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
But it's also risky.

Speaker 6 (32:09):
To start him in motion, you know, and for the
strike him out, throw him out. I usually if I'm
gonna start somebody in motion, it's a three to two
pitch with two outs, and if it's a strike three,
you're done. It doesn't matter that you're throwing the guy out.

(32:30):
So I, you know, give Glass now some credit to
man had he had the wherewithal to spin around and
make that play.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
Right.

Speaker 5 (32:39):
We do have some local free agency news already, as
we're less than twenty four am.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
Now.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
I always say, I like the game was so good.
I felt like it was last night.

Speaker 5 (32:48):
I felt like it just ended, but I know it
was Saturday night, but I guess less than forty eight
hours from the end of the Major League Baseball Series,
third baseman Alex Bregman, outfielder Cody Bellinger, closer Edwin Diaz.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
Bring up well, Kyle Schwarber.

Speaker 5 (33:06):
Well, Schwarber's in Philly. I was just bringing up the
Yankee Mett. But that's another close one that and I
think a lot of it.

Speaker 6 (33:12):
I think Schwarber is the biggest one to me because
that he's got the best bat.

Speaker 5 (33:16):
And Red Sox, Yankees, and Mets are probably all in
the Schwarber market.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
So all four of.

Speaker 5 (33:20):
Those guys have elected to opt out of their contracts
and become free agents.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
So that's that's a big deal.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
Absolutely blows me away.

Speaker 6 (33:29):
Though there's so much talent out there now and it's
young enough to where it's really going to make a difference. Yeah,
I think that. You know, and here's the thing. You're
supposed to wait till the World Series over. Some people
like years ago, remember in a rod in the middle
of the playoffs, you know, put it out there, you
know that that you know he's gonna opt out into

(33:50):
free agency.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
Whatever.

Speaker 6 (33:51):
These guys waited till the series was over, and then
that that's when you're supposed to start putting that stuff
out there. Actually waited an extra twenty four hours before
they announced that they were going to get out there,
So well.

Speaker 5 (34:04):
They should if you're like thinking as a company man,
and I think this is an individual thought as well, Like,
if you want the league to succeeed the three sixty
five calendar, you've got to expand your content. And if
you're just you know, trying to put your stuff personally
out to undercut the actual World Series coverage, you're hurting

(34:27):
the league. You're hurting the league, which in turn could
hurt your own personal money in the end. So I've
like scratched my head about that when I was younger,
but now I totally get it, totally get why you
want to stretch out.

Speaker 6 (34:39):
We'll talk a little bit more about this later. H
san Diego Padres closer Robert Suarez was an All Star.
He's a free agent. Now, oh yeah, Michael King, you'll
remember him.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
As a Yankee. I'll take him.

Speaker 6 (34:50):
Became a starter, so now he can start. I don't
think he wants to relieve because he's gonna he's gonna
command an awful lot of money.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
He's great for the Padres.

Speaker 3 (34:58):
Yeah,