8-18S1 Cardinals lose game but praise Waino - MLB Postseason race - Winn called up

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The members reached the verdict. Wehave, sir, it's time for the
verdict. Now we'll talk all dayif you want it. Objection all right,
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thirty to talk city sc They areback in back in action with Austin coming
to City Park. So after severalweeks off because of League's Cup, MLS
back in action starting this weekend.So they have joined us on Fridays for

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the last several weeks. In thattradition we'll continue. So they'll be in
studio with us at about two thirty. We will get to some sound as
well in that segment, the GreatDave Solid and supplying us with some audio.
Bradley Carnell spoke to the media recentlythis week as well, so we
will get some preview there as towhat to expect coming up this weekend.

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With Austin FC Cardinals last night losingto Jose King, Tana, Adam Wainwright
on the mound, and as Kevinand I discussed thoroughly over the two hours
on King's Court, mostly the firsthour Adam Wainwright yesterday. While it was
better than what he had done inhis previous several starts, it was nowhere

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near what Adam Wainwright has done overthe course of his career. And you
would have thought this guy through acomplete game shutout last night, and by
all of the folks who were cheerleadingWainwright pitching decent in the game, you
would have also thought that the Cardinalswon the game. And that is such

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an afterthought. I suppose for ateam that is fifty four and sixty eight,
we are so enticed by individual performances, supposedly and in particular Adam Wainwright,
that no one actually really cares ifthey want or lost the game,
which they lost the game. Theylost the game four to two, and

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Adam Wainwright was the losing pitcher becausehe served up a four hundred and thirty
seven foot bomb to Pete Alonzo,who was later hit in the game by
Drew Verhagen. And all I couldthink back to was last year when the
big bruhaha happened between Alonso and StubbyClapp and Nolan Arnado and then after the
game, Pete Alonzo reassuring everybody thathe was a big, strong guy.

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And you know, I didn't know. I thought when he got hit last
night, I actually thought the tellthe TV broadcast, which was on Big
Fox, Jason Benetti and John Smoltzdo a great job. I thought,
love hearing Smoltz, and I thinkBenetti is one of the better national play
by play guys in the business.He was the White Sox games for his

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day to day job. But theydidn't even bring up the I don't think,
at least correct me if I'm wrong. I don't think they brought up
the altercation which was stirred up lastyear between Ronado and remember how many times
the Mets got hit by pitches aseason ago, and then they came to

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Saint Louis. And I don't necessarilythink that Cardinals pitchers were trying to hit
them on purpose. I really don't. I just think that's how bad the
Cardinals pitching was and it still is. And they drilled the Mets several times,
and the metroc had come into thatseries, and no other team had
been hit like them all season long. They led the majors this season ago

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and getting hit by pitches, andVerheggen drilled Alonzo last night and immediately Fox
queued up a highlight which I wassure it was going to date back to
the last time the Mets were inSaint Louis, but no, it was
of when Pete Alonso got hit earlierthis season, which forced him to miss
some time. Now he healed remarkably. I believe he had a fractured bone

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in his hand and he came backwithout even I don't even think he went
on a rehab stint. So thebig strong guy was able to come back
after ten days I think on theinjured list and immediately played. I believe
it was a series that the Metswere in Atlanta, and that was at
a time where the Mets were stillthinking they were a playoff contender and never

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got that on track, and ultimatelywe're sellers at the trade deadline. But
believe Pete Alonzo showed certainly no worsefor the wear last night, taking a
sinker pitch from Adam Wainwright and absolutelydepositing it four hundred and thirty seven feet
away, which turned out to bethe difference in the ballgame last night.

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Now, a couple of other thingsfrom that ball game. I don't know
about you, guys, but whenJose Kantana was pitching, I just kept
sitting there going Wow. The Cardinalsdefinitely missed out on an opportunity to bring
back Jose Kingtana. Granted he hasbeen hurt this season for the Mets and
didn't pitch until close to the AllStar break, but still you watch his

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performance last night and he's pitching intothe seventh inning, and I texted a
buddy and said, I wonder ifAlly Marmel is getting squirmy over in the
dugout, would be getting anxious totake Kintana out of the game, because
if you recall, Ali was superanxious to get Jose Kintana out of the
game against the Phillies and the wildGuard game, and of course that's what

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led to the bullpen implosion. Hewas so fast he couldn't wait to get
the parade of pitchers into the ballgame, of which Ryan Helsley eventually blew
up and couldn't control the lead,and the Cardinals lost the first game of
the wild Guard and then the Batswent dormant in Game two and they were
quickly bounced from the playoffs after aninety win season a year ago. So

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I was very curious as to whetheror not, you know, Ali was
over there going, what how Buck'snot taking him out after five stellar innings
and getting to that great bullpen thathe's got. And it immediately brought me
back to a topic that I sortof discussed at the end of the show
yesterday, where Phil Nevin, whois the manager of the Los Angeles Angels,

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did something that all of the mediacouldn't believe when he left his twenty
four year old read Debtmer's in theball game when he had a no hitter
going into the seventh inning against theTexas Rangers and read Debtmers, who had
not pitched well in his last severalstarts, was coming off a very short
outing. So Nevin was like,well, he didn't really pitch a whole

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lot over the last handful of starts. I knew he was coming in on
short rest, but he didn't evenmake it I don't think two innings in
this last start. So yeah,I had no issue leaving him back out
there and sending him out there,and they're like, well, whoa,
how long would you have gone withhim? Would you have gone one hundred
and twenty one hundred and twenty fivehundred and thirty pitches? Would you have

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dared left? Read Debtmer's at twentyfourty years old into the game for one
hundred and thirty pitches with a nohitter, and he's like, yeah,
you know, I'm pretty sure.And Phil Nevian's old school baseball, played
in an era where guys didn't usedto salivate over pitch counts, and he

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goes, I'm pretty sure. Guyswho throw back to back no hitters in
consecutive seasons usually have a plaque nextto their name. Now, I can't
speak to whether or not Read Debtmer'sis headed for Cooperstown. He's a very
young he's a very good, young, talented pitcher that was able to overcome
a couple of rough starts and throwa dandy against the Texas Rangers, one

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of the best teams in baseball,the other night. But I found the
response from the media, the reporterssurrounding Nevin after the game, who were
just they were beside them so thatthey couldn't believe the fact that Phil Nevin
would have the audacity to leave apitcher in the game despite being over one
hundred pitches. And as what wefrequently mock, I mean, so many

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starters this day and age, theyget to one hundred pitches and they're literally
looking in the dugout, waiting fortheir binkie call, you know, waiting
for the coach or somebody to comeout and retrieve them because their work is
done. If they get to onehundred pitches in the fourth inning, they're
ready to go. They get toone hundred pitches in the fifth inning,
that's a quality start, I mean. And to go back to Adam Waynewright

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for a second, you know,I'm sure the Candy Landers are out there
doing backflips today because Waynewright pitched decentin the game, but still six innings,
three earned runs. That's a fourand a half ra if you did
that all year long. And asera dropped from eight point seven eight to
eight point four two, so muchas we were discussing on King's Court,

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I will pause all of the cheerleadersfor a second and remind you that if
you complete one decent start, thatdoesn't necessary early a race. Your three
and eight record in which you cameinto that game coming off the start against
Kansas City where you went one inningand allowed nine hits and eight earned runs.
It doesn't really work like that.But for the fan base that I

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chastise yesterday for forty minutes, thatapparently is good enough. And when you
listen to Adam Wayne Right and AliMarmel in the postgame stuff, that is
all right, that's the way.No, that's the guy that we've been
looking to tap into. Is theguy who can go six innings and walk
three and give up a four hundredand thirty seven foot moonshot to Pete Alonzo,

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all in a losing cause to aNew York Mets team. That is
all but you know, completely thrownthe white flag up. I mean,
this is a team that is completelydecided. Not our year. They're fifty
six and sixty six after last night'swin. They haven't been world beaters all
season long. But that those werethe key takeaways from me, you know,

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and it was it anymore. Youknow. Also one other thing from
the game before we hear a littlebit of Adam Wainwright last night, but
did anybody take notice of the lastat bat of the game. Did anybody
take notice there? Because I suredid, And it was Paul Goldschmidt standing

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there going down looking on a prettynasty pitch from Trevor Gott. I mean,
the thing cut back over the farcorner of the plate, but it
was Paul Goldschmidt watching a cold thirdstrike. And the same guy that I
texted in regard to Kingtana and theAli situation when Ali, you know,

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had to freak out and get JoseKing Tana, he had to get him
out of the game to go tothat really robust Cardinals bullpen in the wild
Card series against the Mets or Phillies. Same guy texted about that as Kingtana
was last night. I said,imagine Paul Goldschmidt in the at bat in
Game six of the World Series againstthe Texas Rangers in twenty eleven, when

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Lance Berkman came to the plate andhad that phenomenal to strike approach and took
a pitch that was just beneath theknees. I mean, just imagine Paul
Goldschmidt in that at bat. Wouldyou have had any faith in Paul Goldschmidt
to get it done in that atbat where it was crucial that Lance Berkman

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come through and deliver a base knockright back up the middle, easy approach.
And I know that some people thinkthat I'm too hard on Paul Goldschmidt.
Really, my main gist on PaulGoldschmidt is he has done absolutely nothing
in a Cardinals uniform to warrant theamount of love that he gets praised for.

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I mean, he has had nopostseason moment, He's had no team
win a World Series, he wona regular season MVP, and he did
literally nothing down the stretch, includingthe two games against the Phillies and the
wild Guard and people, you peoplearound here think that Paul Goldschmidt walks on

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water. And so I found itvery fitting last night that Paul Goldschmidt,
who is in my eyes too,has just become kind of the perfect spotlight
for this losing franchise. Paul Goldschmidtcame from a losing franchise in Arizona,

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and now he is the face ofa losing franchise in Saint Louis. And
for all of the folks out therewho weeped in wind of the prospect of
trading a thirty five year old whowill be going into his free agent season
next year, I once again posethe question, why the hell not why

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not trade Paul goldschmant he has hadI mean in the last I don't know
if it's just every time that Iseem to glance up the television and gold
Schmidt's up, But the last twotimes I've seen him up at the dish
and I've been really keyed into watching. He swung it a pitch two feet
off the plate against Nolan Nolan RyanBlackburn, a guy who shut out the

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Cardinals in the series finale against theOakland Days, and then last night Trevor
got in the game, who wrunghim up on a pitch to end the
game, and he just goes downlooking Paul gold Schmidt man. His value
will continue to sink, and bythe time that this slow moving organization decides

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that it's time to ship Paul Goldschmidtto another team, his value will have
plummeted so much. You will basicallyget no return. You will basically get
depth guys like what the Cardinals gotat the deadline this year. None of
those guys crack the top one hundredlist in the Major League prospects. So

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that's that. But Jose Kantana lookedvery good last night and after the game,
Ali Marmel was asked about Jose KingTana and I'm sure, Olie Marmel,
who has been forced to use pictureslike Ryan Terrapin and Casey Lawrence and
James Nail whatever fifth live he's hadwith the Saint Louis Cardinals organization, And

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I mean, you name it.How many other no name guys have made
starts or pitched in long outings outof the pen for the Cardinals this season.
Don't you think Jose Kingtana would havelooked good in a Cardinals uniform?
Olie Marmel talking about Kintana start lastnight after the ball game, Yeah,
I love that dude, good picture, good competitor. It was good seeing

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him again. I thought our thirdtime through we had some really good at
bats against him. So, yeah, he's a tough pitcher. He's done
a really nice job. But Ithought our approach was good. And then
once the guy saw him second andthird time through, I thought we took
much about our bats against him.Well, oh, and maybe that's how
he's sneaking in his defense of takingout King Tana in the fifth inning against

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the Phillies last year by saying,I thought our guys had much better approach
to the plate and third, second, and third time through, because remember
the Cardinals were clearly so, youknow, scared to let Kingtana face a
Phillies line up three times through becauseNope, he's just not capable of doing
that. Well. He pitched prettydamn good last night, six innings against

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the Cardinals, three hits, twoearned runs. He did walk four guys
but five strikeouts, and he pitchedinto the seventh inning and kept his pitch
count under one hundred. But reallygoes back to the idea of why did
the Cardinals not re sign Jose kingTana. How in the world did they
let that guy walk? Apparently allof the pitching depth they had was too

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much for them to sign King Tana, who signed a relatively modest deal I
think it was two years, twentyeight million dollars with the New York Mets.
And for a team that only isgoing to go after low hanging fruit,
you would think that would have fitthe bill. Nope, King Tana
goes in the Mets, and heshoves it off the Cardinals and collects a
win last night Mets four to twoover Saint Louis. Now team did make

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a move after the game. Theybring Mason went up from Triple A.
And I think this is a movethat should have happened weeks ago. I
have no idea what the incentive isto do it today, because you know,
if you would have waited two days, you could have at least saved

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this year in terms of when hewas eligible for a free agency. But
instead they bring him up, andit's August eighteenth. It was tomorrow was
literally the day they needed to waitfor. Now. I've been saying all
along that it's ludicrous to wait becauseof that business decision, and I stand
by that. I really do,and it's fine if anybody else disagrees with

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you know, this year's a lostcause. But I also heard John Mozelac,
before he dealt everybody off the Montgomery's, Flaherty, Stratton's and the young
and whoever else went Hicks, Iheard him say, well, every roster
decision from here going forward will belooking at it from a twenty twenty four

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perspective. And this goes back towhat I was joking about yesterday, how
you had a roster filled with guysup the middle, moder formIn and Edmund.
How does that? How do thoseroster's decisions, How does that?
How does that play with what's you'relooking forward to in twenty twenty four?

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It doesn't. It doesn't at all. So they're late to the ball game
and bringing Mason went Up. AndI've even also seen some clowns in the
media who as recently as yesterday statedpublicly that now is not the time to
bring Mason went Up? Why not? Why is now not the time to
bring Mason went Up? Mason Wynnhas been tearing the cover off the ball

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at Triple A Memphis. Mason Wynnhad maybe the best spring training outside of
Jordan Walker. But if you remembercorrectly, Jordan Walker also went quiet the
remaining what two two and a halfweeks of spring training, to the point
where when Allie Marmel brought him intohis office, the bizarre little back and

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forth where he said, the reasonwhy you made this team, Jordan,
is not because you literally hit threefifty for the first two and a half
weeks of spring. No, it'show you handled the adversity of the failures
that you've gone through, even thoughhe really didn't handle the failures. That's
what I always found so bizarre aboutthat. Everybody loved it because people love

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those kinds of videos, and I'mall for it. Cool to see a
guy get called up first time evergoing to the big leagues. But everybody
sort of missed the fact that whatAli said was just flat out not true.
Oh, you've gone through all thisadversity and you rebounded, well,
you never rebound. In fact,he finished spring training on a lull,

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and then he started the year onwhat thirteen fourteen game hit streak, so
it looked like they had made theright decision. Danny hit a rough patch
early on. I'm talking about JordanWalker, and they immediately sent him back
down to Triple A. So,you know, the whole we really liked
how you faced adversity. Okay,whatever that meant. Mason Wynn has been

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literally tearing it up at Triple A. Memphis went over the stats earlier.
He was the International League Player ofthe Month and the Cardinals Organizational Player of
the Month for July, in whichhe hit three I think was three fifty
seven. Let me pull this up, just because I don't like when the

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fact checkers come after me and they'relike, oh, it's three's fifty two,
so let me pull it up.I believe it was three fifty seven
that he hit in the month ofJuly and a three fifty nine. Excuse
me, three fifty nine and twentytwo games in July. Now, he
did miss a couple of games,either at the tail end of July or
at the beginning of August, becausehe was dealing with a groin issue.

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But he is clearly healed from that, and in ten games in August he's
hitting three twenty five. He hada four to twenty seven on base percentage
in the month of July, andhe also had eight doubles, two triples,
and eight homers. His power numbershave gone up. This is pretty
remarkable. Now, you'd have tobe a little careful because in these minor
league parks you never know, especiallylike AutoZone Park where they play down in

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Memphis. Balls a tendency to flyout down there. But Mason win this
year, who has not really beenconsidered like a power guy at the shortstop
position, he has pumped eighteen homeruns. That is far more than his
total of twelve, which he didin one hundred and nineteen games a season

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ago. So he's hitting two eightyeight for the season, three fifty nine
on base, eighteen dingers, fifteendoubles, seven triples this year, and
he has already scored ninety nine runs. And now I know Kevin mentioned he
you know, he doesn't really careabout the run stat but I would argue
that if you're on base percentage isthree fifty nine and you're scoring one hundred

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runs in one hundred and five games, I'll sign up for that any day
of the week. I will takethat because I do not overlook runs scored.
When you're on base and somebody elseis driving you in, that to
me signals that you're setting the tableprecisely how you want to see somebody.
And it's funny if you go backinitially to the Mason win discussion out of

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spring training, and it was like, well, maybe Mason Wynn could come
up and he could provide a sparkfor this team at some point and be
a guy who could be a catalystas you make the run into the postseason.
Well he'll be asked to provide aspark all right, But he ain't
gonna provide no spark to a postseasonrun because that thing has been put to

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bed, and was put to beda long time ago. So instead,
when fans and myself alike were crackingjokes over the idea of Taylor Motter playing
games for this team after you designatedhim for assignment, maybe that was the
point in which you should have broughtup Mason Wynn. But no, he
wasn't quite ready then, apparently,So we'll see what happens. I will

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say, I mean, after makingall sorts of remarks yesterday about why the
hell would you go down to BushStadium and watch this team play, I
mean, I literally couldn't tell youa reason as of yesterday as to why
you would, especially with waynewright onthe mound new bar. For mean,
who's the kid they sent up topinch hit in the ball game yesterday?
I guess they got him from theCleveland organization, Pelacios Palasios, Richie Palasios.

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He did kind of hit the ballon the screws, but right at
the right fielder. But I'm justwatching, I like, there's so many
no names in the game that youjust wonder what is what incentivizes you to
go down there, Oh, PaulGoldschmidt. Paul Goldschmid, Yeah, so
you can watch him take a coldthird strike, Okay, but watching Win
get into the game, I wouldactually say that would encourage me to actually

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go down and watch a ball gamethis weekend with the Mets in town.
It would, I would actually,I wouldn't. I would be enticed by
going to a game this weekend becauseMason Win is in town. So that
is the sole reason as to why. So I will be very intrigued to
see how he adapts. All ofthe reports around Mason Win is that this
is a high character guy. OzzieSmith took a big liking to him.

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They showed him and and Ozzie sortof seeking him out in spring training and
Win the Wizard, maybe the bestshortstop in the history of the franchise,
seeks you out and wants to sharea moment with you. That to me
is telling. And they talk aboutthis guy from a character standpoint off the
charts. He's put together a remarkablesecond half in triple A, and I

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will be very intrigued to see howhe translates his success to the big leagues
after the call up, So MasonWynn headed to Saint Louis and he should
definitely be in the lineup. Ihave not checked to see if the Cardinals
lineup is out four tonight, butMason Winn's got to be in there.
I mean, if Mason Wynn isn'tin there, what the heck are we

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doing? What are we doing?He'll be in there. I have full
faith. I have full faith inthat. Okay, real quickly, just
looking at the wild card standings acrossMajor League Baseball. Baltimore in the East
seventy four and forty seven. Despitelosing back to back ball games, they

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did not farewell in their series againstwho were they playing at San Diego?
So San Diego got the best ofthem on the final two games of that
series. But they've still got anice cushion in the American League East,
the Minnesota Twins at sixty three andfifty nine. They have complete control of
the Ale Central and the Texas Rangersat seventy two and forty nine. Despite

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losing in a tough one against theAngels where Redebtmer's were spectacular in that game,
pitching a no hitter into the eighthinning, Texas still on top of
the Al West at seventy two andforty nine wild card in the American League,
Tampa Bay five and a half gamelead there at seventy three and fifty,
Houston with a three game lead inthe first or second wild card spot

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at seventy and fifty two. Torontoright there at sixty seven and fifty five,
playing about five hundred ball though.They will start a series night,
as everybody will. And Toronto's gotCincinnati in Cincinnati, So Cincinnati right there
as well. I'll look at theNational League wild Card in just a second.
But the other teams. You've gotSeattle really a half game back.

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It's pretty much a two headed raceright now between Toronto and Seattle. Boston
continues to fade away. They losttwo straight games. Boston and New York
start a series tonight in New York, so one of those two teams will
be completely out of it. Actually, I'm gonna say right now, the
Yankees are done. They've been donetwo and eight over their last ten.
They've lost five straight games. Theyjust got swept by the Atlanta Braves,

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and they are under five hundred.It's sixty and sixty one, so they
are done. You can cross theYankees off the twenty twenty three postseason potential.
Boston. I will give them afighting chance, But it's really Seattle
on the outside looking in Toronto,Houston, Tampa, Bay, Texas,
Minnesota, Baltimore. That's where itsits. In the American League National League.
Atlanta, boy, this is justa good team. And every time

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I watched Charlie Morton pitch, Iwonder I bring his name up all the
time. Every team in the leaguehas had cracks at him over the years,
and well, is he really gonnado? Is he really gonna Charlie?
All Charlie Morton does is when hegets the ball, he deals.
Charlie Morton is a winning pitcher seventyeight and forty two, really good in
his last start as well against theYankees and Atlanta eight and two over their

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last ten. And that team islooking real good. Where does Atlanta go?
Let me look at that real quick. Atlanta has San Francisco. That's
a big series for San Francisco.Get to that in a second. But
Atlanta at home against San Francisco Milwaukeesixty five and fifty seven. They lost

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a tough one last night one tonothing. Saw that game. It was
being televised on MLB Network and LanceLynn was dealing in that game. So
Milwaukee at sixty five and fifty sevena bit of a skid here after they
had played good baseball. They're playingsome better teams and the Dodgers have had
their numbers so rough there, andthe Dodgers just playing absolutely ridiculous right now.

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They sweet Milwaukee. They've won elevenin a row, seventy four and
forty six, and they are farand away the best team in the National
League West, So they've got thatlocked up there. Philadelphia has a three
and a half game lead in thetop wild card spot. San Francisco not
playing great three and seven over theirlast ten, still a game and a

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half up on that third wild cardteam, So Philadelphia, San Francisco.
And then it gets interesting because you'vegot three teams that go into the weekend
square tied up on winning percentage.So the Chicago Cubs are sixty two and
fifty eight and that links them withCincinnati sixty three and fifty nine in Miami

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sixty three and fifty nine. Ifyou put a gun to my head right
now and made me pick a teamout of those three. Boy, I
know I've said the Cubs, butI have been really impressed with Miami.
I think those deadline deals that Miamigot putting Jake Burger Josh Bell in that
lineup. Who saw Jake Burger goinganywhere and Miami went outside the box and
got Jake Burger. I thought thatwas a great pickup. I had a

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little pop into that lineup, eventhough they've lost two games and they have
Miami just so I can see here. Oh, Miami goes to Los Angeles.
Boy, you've got some good gamescoming up, telling games coming up
Miami in Los Angeles to take ona surging Dodgers team that's one eleven straight

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games. That will be some seriesto watch. Cincinnati and the Blue Jays
and the Cubs, who kind ofwere my pick to come back and win
the National League Central and they stillmight do that. I don't have complete
faith in Milwaukee. The Cubs playingright now. They've got a three two
lead, little afternoon baseball as italways is on a Friday at Wrigley Field,
and they lead Kansas City three totwo. So Milwaukee goes to Texas.

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That's gonna be a tough series.For Milwaukee, and Chicago's got Kansas
City, and I believe Chicago hasa very lucrative schedule here coming up over
the next handful of days. Infact, let me just pull that up.
They've got Kansas City, Detroit,Pittsburgh, and Milwaukee. Wow,
so they can really make up someground here. Kansas City, Detroit,

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Pittsburgh for their next three six tengames before they play a game against Milwaukee.
And that series against Milwaukee will bethe last. Oh no, they
finished the year at Milwaukee. Sothey'll face Milwaukee August twenty eight, twenty
nine thirty, and then right atthe end of the season up in Wisconsin,
they'll play twenty nine thirty in October. First. That will be something

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to key in on because Cubs fanstravel extremely well to Milwaukee. It's only
an hour away, and they're packedinto Wisconsin anyhow, they got Cubs fans
literally all over the place. SoGreat American Ballpark, Great American Family or
whatever they called American Family Ballpark upin Milwaukee, that could be there could
be a lot of Cup Blue Finalweekend there as the Cubs in Milwaukee could

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square off and what could be thedeciding facts of the division the games at
the end of August, for whatit's worth, are in Chicago. So
but when you talk about a favorablescheduled Cubs, they're coming off a split
against the White Sox, Kansas City, Detroit, and Pittsburgh. I think
my I think smart money's on Chicago. That's my opinion. Tough news though,

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Marcus Stroman, I guess he's gotfractured I've never heard this fractured cartilage.
I've never heard fractured cartilage in hisrib cage. Seems painful as hell.
But he's been shut down for awhile. They got to get him
back, I think, in orderto really make a run at this thing.
But for what it's worth, they'restill playing pretty good baseball, all
right. We will take a breakwhen we come back. Jake Kanegg justin

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