August 18, 2025 • 35 mins
The heat is on in many ways as the Royals have turned it up, the Chiefs didn't in a lackluster effort in Seattle, both local soccer teams were impacted by the weather, Scheffler's heat is relentless, college football debuts, and more! Jump in and join in!
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stay tuned as the heat is on still we are
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going to have to suffer through a couple more steamers
as we get set for better weather, maybe towards the
end of the week. But really had an impact and
has an impact on what my thoughts are in this
podcast as heat was a big feature of everything that
went on. The Royals are pretty hot. I was out
at a hot k yesterday's spent a couple of innings
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in the stands with a friend that wasn't exactly super pleasant.
Press box was nicer, but the Royals rally was even
nicer than that. A game that all day long looked
like a loss, but it's the White Sox. So the
Royals bounce back for a sweep. It was six to
two in the end, with all the runs coming in
the late innings after they were no hit for five
and a third innings. And they are solidly over five hundred. Yes,
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the Yankees are winning right now at a bad time.
So the Roys really haven't picked up any ground. But
there are a couple games over five hundred. They're right
in there. They've gotten themselves in a position where if
they continue to play the way that they have, which
is pretty darn good, seven and three in their last
ten and over an extended period better than that, the
offense has been a little better. Yes, they are still alive.
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It still takes some work. It still takes a lot
of work. But we'll talk about that, and we'll hear
from Matt Quaturo as well as Adam Frazier, who had
a big day yesterday and has done a good job
since he's been reacquired by the Kansas City Royals in
a move that I don't think was particularly overwhelming for
most people at the time. But anyway, the Rows have
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got themselves back into position and they have made themselves
viable here as we head toward the late part of
August and people are paying a little bit more attention
to the Chiefs, which wasn't any fun last Friday night
as they fell to the Seahawks thirty three to sixteen.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
The game didn't.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Feature much good of anything, but it was bad play.
It was injuries, but the stars weren't involved. That's the
good part. As they decided to sit out. They might
play a little bit more Friday against Chicago, so we
shall see if that looks a little bit better. Not
much looked better for the Chiefs on Friday night, as
they were run over literally and figuratively, scoreboard, yardage, all
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kinds of different stuff, but it is the preseason. They
have won a preseason game in the last couple of
years and that hasn't seemed to matter much.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Well.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
The hot weather overall and weather period affected both of
the soccer teams in Kansas City. The Current had to
wait three hours before their matchup against second place Orlando
ended up being a fairly lackluster nil nil draw, but
still not a loss. They're well ensconced in first place. Meanwhile,
Sporting Kansas City season is kind of just slipping into oblivion.
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They lose three to one down in Orlando City after
a three and a half hour weather delay down there,
game didn't even start till almost ten to thirty or
around ten thirty Eastern time. And over the weekend for
me soccer wise, the Premier League started, and that's fun
for me. I watched a lot of soccer, including a
game right before I did this podcast and my sister's
favorite team west Ham my favorite team Arsenal one. West
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Ham did not win as Sunderland returned to the Premier League.
Not maybe that many people who are listening to this
care a lot about that, but Sunderland had forty six
thousand fans strong. The crowd noise was so bad that
you could barely hear the announcers. The mix wasn't very
good on the broadcast. And speaking of hot Scotti, Scheffler
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has basically turned the PGA tour and his little playground.
We thought that maybe we wouldn't se the likes of
Tiger Woods for a long time. Well, he's doing Tiger things,
that's for sure. Five wins this year, two majors, easily
the best player on the planet, and a certain sense
of inevitability when the tournaments come around, and the final
round comes around, and that happened to Bob McIntyre, who
crumbled like so many did to Tiger in the past,
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this time in the face of the relentless and steady
play of one Scottie Scheffler. He does it in a
different way than Tiger did, but over the last four
years or so he's been tiger Ish. All those things
are part of the mix. Today it's Monday Musings Danny
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Welcome back if you were one of the fans who
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were sitting in the shade, because that's where all the
fans were yesterday at crowd announced at fifteen thousand. I
don't think it was that many, but if it was
that many, they were all in the areas where the
sunshine wasn't I'd say about a thousand people were out
and I couldn't understand that, but anyway, they had to
show some patience also because the Rolls did absolutely nothing
in this game, and it looked like a sweep, which
they kind of badly needed, might be slipping away as
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they were being no hit in the game. It's the
second time in about a month that they were getting
no hit for a while and then won the game
rather easily, ended up scoring six runs as Davis Martin
threw six innings of one hit ball and the Rose
hardly even hit anything even remotely hard during that period
of time. But they got to the bullpen, they scored
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two runs to tie. In the seventh, Jonathan India with
a big home run, real big four hundred and fifty
one feet, the longest of his career. In fact, Adam
Fraser would cap it off with a home run. He's
been really good for the Royals, three point thirty ops
well over eight hundred in his time back with the Royals.
Mikel Garcia had a big RBI, the go ahead RBI.
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Salvador Perez, who hasn't had many hits in August, has
made them count however, as he thought he had himself
home run, but it turned into a run scoring single
because he just kind of stood there and watched it
as it banged off the center field wall. But it
all added up to two in the seventh and four
in the eighth and a nice victory for the Royals,
moving them to sixty three and sixty one. They've won
seven of their last ten over a longer period of time.
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They have done even better than that, and one of
the keys has been the reacquisition of the veteran fraser
who was brought in. Basically, they said it out loud.
JJ Piccolo did as much for his effect in the
clubhouse as his play. Well, his play has been very loud.
He's really a fine leader, apparently, but he's a pretty
low key guy. Even after a big game like yesterday,
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but he definitely spoke with a smile on his face.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
He played twenty seven out so it's just kept fighting.
keV Pitchers kept us in the game, and we just
kept fighting at the plate. So you know, once we
got him out of there, we were able to sneak
a couple of cross and put together familiar bats and
came out on top.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Since you got here, the teams played better baseball. But
there have been times when the last game of the
series didn't go. You're trying to get over five hundred,
you couldn't do it this time. It happens in the
last game of the series. Is that bigger than just
a regular win?
Speaker 6 (10:14):
I mean, they're all they all mean the same. So yeah,
we feel like we left. If you out there, you
know that's it's Major League Baseball, so the other team's
good no matter who you're playing. But yeah, we got
some things we can continue to refine and and get
better at, and you know, hopefully the ones you're talking
about and start start turning our way when we as
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we clean those things up.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
How have you felt since coming back over to the world.
Is being able to get off to the hot start
as you have since for Attorney?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Feel good? You know, I felt good in Pittsburgh too,
so just tried to keep things rolling. That was that
was really it, and then getting back feeling like I
never left. You know. The comfort with these guys has helped.
And then yeah, I haven't really thought about it much,
to be honest. It's just go figure out a way
to win the game every day.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
He gets.
Speaker 7 (11:00):
Since that, it feels like the twenty twenty four vibes.
So what you guys did last year as you're going
this run and try to chase towards the postseason.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Yeah, I mean it's the same group for the most part,
so everybody knows what is that at stake and what
we need to clean up, and you know what it
takes to win a game every night, So we're getting there,
but like I mentioned those things, we're trying to refine
a few things and and you know, just take it
one day at a time.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
To see Bailey ryan Berger come out tonight, be on
the mountain. What do you think of his performance?
Speaker 6 (11:30):
I pitched good, pitch really good.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
I felt felt bad about letting one get over my
head and you know, letting that extra run across, so
got to catch up all for him, and and uh,
you know he gave us all I had today, pitched
really good. So yeah, he gave us a chance to
win the game.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
Felt good to be vindicated to you know, hit the
home run.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
It always does.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
And all your long teams kind of talked about that
one day at a time mentality.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
How does that mentality help you?
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Guys?
Speaker 8 (11:59):
Kind of in a playoff put like you're.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
An we have to you start looking ahead and you
end up in a rut. It's one hundred and sixty
two games. It's not a sprint. So you look ahead
or you look back, you're gonna end up being in
a spot you don't want to be in. So it's
one day at a times. All you can do is
can control what you can control and that's all you
can do each day, so we'll worry about the rest
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when it gets there.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
It is a big series with Texas coming up, and
it's part of what you have to look at. As
far as the playoff race is concerned, Tigers are nine
games clear, so they're not thinking about that. But even
with six games left between the two teams, Rows could
sweep them and still have three games back, so let's
kind of forget about that. The Detroit Tigers have sort
of resurfaced as a good team playing thirteen and seven
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ball after a long, cool stretch. But in the playoff race,
here's the set up as far as the wild card
is concerned. We'll talk more specifically in our Baseball round
up coming up, but the Rows are four games back
from the third wildcard, but four and a half from
the top. The Rangers come in one and a half
games from the top. The Royals need to kind of
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play the way that they have as the Yankees run
pace for eighty seven, Red Sox and Mariners eighty six.
They play those teams well, they don't play the Red
Sox of the Yankees anymore. They do play the Mariners.
They do play the Guardians or are right in there
as well. But indeed to get to eighty six wins,
they need twenty four and fourteen for the Royals, which
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would be something they haven't done at any point this year.
But we'll see. If they win tonight, they will have
done exactly that. They've got to continue it on and
Matt Quaturo knows it, but he was proud of his
team yesterday and the momentum that they have built overall
and in the short term.
Speaker 8 (13:41):
First of all, you gotta give a lot of credit
to Martin. I mean you could tell it right out
of the gate. He had a really good change up.
It was hard, it had good depth with his arm speed.
That's a really challenging pitch, and he located, you know,
when he needed to expand, he expanded. But he also
threw a ton of strikes. He was efficient, so that
had a lot to do with it. I thought we
had some decent at bats. Took a few of the walks,
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but just didn't square them up. And then you know,
there's two outs. Nobody on Frasier gets two strikes and
battles and battles and puts a ball in play for
a double. And then India I mean that that's a big,
one of the biggest hits we've had in a while
from you know, to be down and especially as impressive
as how far he hit that ball. And then you know,
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you start to feel a little momentum guys or guys
feel it a little bit. Now we're back in it.
It's been pretty quiet. Bobby gets the hit, the stolen
base I think gave some energy to and then Mike Kel,
I mean, that's a really, really good at bat that guy.
I don't know if I've seen that guy pitch live before,
but ninety nine mile hour cutters that's not to be
taken lightly. And put a couple of good swings on
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him there is pretty impressive. That sequence was Bobby's stealing.
And then mikel is that partly why you have those
two and back to back in the order? I mean
just twelve Vinnie's between them, but I mean it's it's
good to have, you know, we try to break it
up by handedness, and also you know, you know, you
don't want too many guys that aren't based Steelers in
a row if you can avoid it, too, so trying
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to balance it out throughout the order.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
I think Ryan Berger handled himself with the amount of
trafficked any hell in the basement.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
Yeah, I mean exceptionally well. He gave up the Homer,
but everything else was singles. You know, I think maybe
one double in there. But his stuff is good, man,
and he really competes like crazy. Nothing seems to phase him.
He kept executing pitches.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
Virtually to have on hills, Butt and Lucas a sag
both come in and kind of hold the white sauce
until the offense could take over. What you make of
both with those guys tonight.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
Yeah, and Sammy too, I mean they all they didn't
give up anything, so I mean they executed pitches. Zerpa
had to, you know, they pinch hit face three ritis
or four whatever it was, three or four rities, Sammy
at the top of the order, and then Lucas had
two outs on four or five pitches and then had
to work out of some trouble but made some big pitches.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
To talkman Una for a moments.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Seems like his offense has really taken off since he
moved down into order.
Speaker 8 (15:59):
What does that say about him to be a guy
that he was brought here to be the leadoff hitter.
Speaker 9 (16:03):
He moves down the order and has just it's helped
change complexion of the offense over the last couple of monks.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
Yeah, it's a good point. I mean, from day one
of meeting Johnny, all he ever talked about was wanting
to win. So I think, you know, we set that
expectation that he was going to lead off, and he
did for the majority of the year, and he may
still do that at some point. But he's selfless. You know,
he wants to you see that. He plays every day,
He plays through stuff, you know, even going back to
when he got hit in the face early in the year,
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played the next day. I mean, the guy loves to play,
he wants to win, and he'll do anything that helps
the team win.
Speaker 9 (16:35):
Mentioned the momentum in the game, but how about the
momentum overall of getting this come from behind win when
sometimes either in the third game of the series or
trying to get about five hundred, it hasn't happened for
you at this time. It does agree an overall sense
of momentum.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
Yeah, you hope. So, I mean you've got a new
team coming in tomorrow, you know, and it'll be a challenge.
I mean, we we know how good they are, especially
how good their pitching has been. So you know, we're
gonna have to play our best bait ball going forward.
But we did what we could do today. We could
go one and o today.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Jesse seem like today was a very resilient win from
the group.
Speaker 9 (17:08):
To maybe speak to their resiliency and just kind of
their their mental fortitude.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
Well, I mean, I think it's really good. I mean
it's exceptionally strong. They don't get down. Then, they don't
feel sorry for themselves. They try to do the best
they can every day. The work has been great, you know,
the preparation has been great, and you know, the energy
not only what you see on the field, but what
you see in the cage and then during their their
prep work and all that stuff. That's been really good.
It's a good group of guys.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Four game series with the Texas Rangers, they can kind
of bury the Rangers and put them away. And the
Rangers are obviously champions from a couple of years ago,
a proud team. But they had a good streak in July,
but in August they haven't played particularly well. Their offense
has been falling off. We'll see what happens in the
four games here. Good pitching for the Rangers all year long.
They will miss the best of Nathan Evaldi, but they're
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still going to face four good starters in this series anyway,
so we shall see. The Royals are viable. They are
in it, and that is good stuff around baseball. The
Toronto Blue Jays are leaders in the American League East
and seemingly have that one in pretty good command, five
game lead over the Red Sox and Yankees, who hold
two of the three wild card positions and are five
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and five and a half games back. The Red Sox
have fallen off a bit, but the Yankees the team
that the Roads were chasing most closely until recently, and
now they've kind of pulled in lockstep with the Red Sox.
But the Yankees and the Royals basically have matched each
other for eleven days in a row. They have either
won or lost on the same day, and the Royals
are still four plus back. As we head down the stretch,
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Tampa Bay is clinging to some shred of contention. They've
split their last ten games. There are three games under
five hundred, and with a hot streak, could get themselves
back in it. The Oriols are just a problem team.
Right now because they're playing much better baseball for a
long period of time. But they bury themselves such a
big hole it doesn't really matter. But when you play them,
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they look like the Orioles that they were expected to be.
The Astros got punked by them yesterday, for instance. Tigers
has mentioned have rebounded after a long cold stretch. They've
won seven of their last ten. They have a ninety
nine percent chance of making the playoffs. They have an
eight and a half game lead over the Guardians nine
over the Royals. Twins have been disappointing and continue to
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be so. They sold off and they've played worse since
they did so, eight games under five hundred and the
White Sox, as we saw on the weekend, are a
little bit better, but not good enough. That game Sunday
was just typical of a bad team. The rules are
the better team. The White Sox should have gotten more
out of their offense when they led to nothing, probably
should have been more like five nothing. And that's how
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bad teams lose games, and that's how the White Sox
are forty four and eighty. The Astros played well when
they had all kinds of injuries, and it seemed very unlikely.
Now they're getting healthier again and they're not playing as well,
and they and the Mariners are in a real dog
fight or the American League West, and the other team
is the team that holds the wild card whenever it's
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out of first place in that right now is the Mariners.
Mariners game and a half back of the Astros. Third
wildcard team has mentioned Texas Rangers come to town one
game over five hundred and in need of a series
win against the Royals, Angels on the periphery, just kind
of like the Rays or teams like that, and they
have played a little bit better than I think expected.
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And the Athletics are on a pretty good run again.
They've had a pretty nice season with a young core
of players. Fourteen games under five hundred, but are respectable
for forty five winning percentage for them Phillies and first
in the National League East. That's as much a reflection
of the long cold stretch by the Mets, but the
Mets have rebounded with a couple of victories over the
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weekend and they are five games back of the Phillies
and in possession of the wild card right now. The
Marlins are six games under five hundred. They had a
good stretch a month ago, but have settled back into mediocrity,
as have the Braves disappointing, as have the Nationals, who
I think probably had much better designs on being a
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better team than this. And then the most remarkable story
in baseball is the Milwaukee Brewers. All season long, we
always talk about how the Brewers are, you know, kind
of anonymous and still pretty good, and they didn't get
off to a particularly good start, and they have been
red red hot for a long time. Their fourteen game
winning streak was put to an end yesterday by the Reds, who,
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by the way, have not been swept all season long
in any series they avoided that yesterday. Cubs are eight
games back, but they are a wild card team. And
then the Reds are five games over five hundred, and
they are game and a half back in the wild card.
The Mets, despite their long, long cold stretch, are still
in wild card position. We can see, we can hang
on to that, they can hang onto that. There's no
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WI in the Mets. Not a Mets fan, never have been,
so I don't know where the wee came from, but anyway,
the rest of it is pretty much long shots. Both
the Cardinals and Dynamo Decks and Giants would have to
get incredibly hot to become factors in the National League,
and some of the other teams very disappointing. And then
of course there is the historically awful Colorado Rockies, who
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somehow have now won three games in a row. Good
for them, but good news has been hard to find
for the Colorado Rockies this particular year. So on a
hot weekend all around the country, the baseball was warm
for the most part, and the Royals are warm ish
better than that even and right in contention for the
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wild card position. The heat was in evidence for the
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Welcome back. Well, the Chiefs are always big news, and
even if they're playing at nine o'clock on a Friday night,
a lot of people are going to pay attention, even
if Patrick Mahomes isn't going to play, even if Chris
Jones isn't gonna play, even if Travis Kelcey isn't going
to play, and all that made it, I guess a
little more acceptable that they fell to the Seahawks thirty
three to sixteen on a rainy night in Seattle. The
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offense first offense was decent, led by Gardner Minshew. They
moved the ball and produced a touchdown in one of
two possessions, but the defense was just absolutely horrendous. Nick
Bolton didn't play as well. Trent mccuffee didn't play, so
some of it was understandable, but the rest of the
defense looked bad. I mean bad as Sam Darnold and
local product to former Missouri star Drew Locke, led Seattle
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to over three hundred total yards in the first half,
one hundred and seventy four in the ground. The run defense,
which really hasn't been a strength of the Chiefs except
for last year, certainly is something that looks maybe a
bit problematical. But you're talking about two of your best
run stoppers, and Jones and Nick Bolton were out, so
maybe we can look past that. I don't know, But anyway,
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the first five drives for Seattle, when at least sixty
nine yards, really just not much good came about this.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
It was also a night.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Where injuries reared their head. Nazi Johnson left the game
with the shoulder injury didn't return. Jack Cochran left the
game with a knee injury. Cornerback Noel Williams entered concussion protocol.
All in all, it wasn't a very good night in
Seattle to say the least. I mean, it was just
no fun period, and if you were weary after a
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work week or the heat got to you, you could
go to bed early and worry about the fact that
the Chiefs were getting thumped by account of thirty three
to sixteen. Should be a little more interesting. On Friday
Night against the Bears in the final preseason game, starters
are expected to play a little bit more and that
is the one home game of the preseason, so we'll
see how that one goes. That should be a little
bit more interesting as we wind down to the start
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of the NFL season not too far away, as we
got college football coming up, and we've got games this week,
so all kinds of things to check it in as well.
The Kansas State Wildcats are in Ireland. Kansas Jayhawks started up,
so does Missouri High hopes for all three, but interesting
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situations for all three. They probably have designs on being
a little bit better maybe than people think. They're either
barely ranked or not ranked. Should be an interesting start
of the season. Well, I'll be back on the radio
with college Football Game Day starting on Saturday, so it's
game week for college football, and we'll talk a lot
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of football obviously through the fall with Stan Weber on
the Monday Football Podcast, which we'll kick in probably as
soon as we see what's going on with the Royals.
We'll still do the musings and cover all sports. You
just have to check in all the time for all
the variety we've got on this particular podcast Soccer. Over
the weekend, the Kansas City Current continued just to be
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a very good story. Now it was annoying for their fans, certainly,
blistering heat, three hour heat delay finally started the game.
Then it wasn't much of a game, a nil nil draw.
It was supposed to be on national TV, but it
was not so ended up being on streaming because they
had to delay the game so long. But still the
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Teal are well insconsin first place, thirteen games clear of
the second place Orlando team that they drew with on Saturday.
So that was good news. Not good news for Sporting
Kansas City all season long, coaching change, a lot of turmoil,
a lot of turnover. It will be a lot of
turnover after this year. One bright spot and one consistent
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spot for them has been Dejon Joe Velcik. He got
another goal and there are three to one loss in
Orlando City. That's fourteen goals on the season. So that
bright spot is about It carries a agnas at times
it seemed inserted a little life. I don't know if
he's doing enough to get the permanent job. That seems
like a long shot to me right now, but we
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shall see. The Premier League gets started and for some
like me, that's a cool thing. It's back soccer players
play way too much, so it's a lot of international
soccer in the summertime, and these guys didn't get much rest.
But the world's most popular league and certainly popular in
this country too, started up again, a lot of impact matches.
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My favorite team is Arsenal. They won at Man United,
a team that his his but had the most dreadful
season last year, lost at home to Arsenal. Maybe you
have your own favorite. I know some of the guys
that I used to work with at the radio station
each have their own squad. A couple are Chelsea fans. Anyway,
it provides great entertainment for me. It's a nice game
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to work. Soccer is a nice game to work out too.
I do that often. I get to share a lot
of texts and conversations with my sister, who lives obviously
half the country away in Massachusetts, and we talk about
soccer a lot, so that is fun for me. One
thing we don't talk about my sister and I are golf.
She has no interest in golf whatsoever, and it's another
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niche sport for many, but it is an enthusiastic sport
for me. But I'll tell you what, it's getting ruined
by Scotti Scheffler. He's just too good and he won again.
Looked like a nice story. Robert McIntyre had a four
shot lead heading into the final round over Scheffler. McIntyre
actually could have won the tournament if he shot even
par in the final round. But one thing we saw
back in the Tiger Woods days we talked about it
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in the Open, is the fact that people would stare
down Tiger, and not stare him down. They would look
over there and say, oh no, I've got to play
extra special golf. And the guys who would play well
would be the ones who were so hopelessly far behind
that they couldn't catch him. Scheffler was relentless. If he'd
made a few putts on Sunday, he would have won
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more handily, but he still ended up winning by two.
He chipped in dramatically to take all of the sizzle
out of the tournament. On the seventeenth Toll chipped in
from about ninety feet for the birdie that put it
away and Scheffler easily the number one heading into the
Tour Championship, which I'll talk about in a minute. But
McIntyre's day did not result in a third victory. It
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was also the day that the thirty places were set
for the Tour Championship, and so there was a lot
of two and fro resulting in that Ricky Fowler made
a run to be in the top thirty. He didn't
get there. So a popular player is on the outside
looking in. The thirty players will head to Atlanta, and
there is no advantage for anybody if you made it
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to Atlanta. It's all even heading into the final tournament.
I don't know how you declare somebody or have a
tournament or a season long points race that results in
what's supposed to be a season long championship when basically
the person who's in thirtieth heading in has everybody as
good a chance to win the Tour Championship and all
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the money and the title of Tour Player of the
Year as Scotti Scheffler. I don't like the format. A
lot of people didn't like it when they had staggered points.
They thought it was confusing. If people thought that was confusing.
Then they're just not very bright. But I don't like
the format. They should come up with something else that
They've tried a variety of things. Apparently this isn't going
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to stay in place either. I think that basically, I
think what would be interesting is to maybe start with
thirty two at the Tour Championship and maybe play a
couple rounds of stroke play and cut it to eight
and then play match play. I'd kind of like that,
and that would combine and match play and stroke play.
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But anyway, I don't like this, but still it'll be
exciting and anybody who's there, be it Harry Hall or
Michael Kim or he didn't quite make it in. Actually
he was the first guy in the outside looking in.
Ludwig Oberg, Victor Hovlin. All these people could potentially get
in and win the tournament. Even the captain, Keegan Bradley.
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There'll be some intrigue as far as that is concerned.
He hasn't played particularly well recently, sixteenth in the FedEx Cup,
and obviously he's the captain, and a couple of weeks ago,
maybe a month ago, it looked like he almost had
to pick himself. Now I'm not so sure he does
have to so very interesting. It'll be the final week
of the PGA Tour. Per se, they have the Fall
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Series for the players who finish outside of the top
or outside of the playoff race, although you can play
in them if you want. Scotti Scheffler can go play one.
I think he is as a matter of fact. But anyway, technically,
the tour season will come to an end with the
Tour Championship in Atlanta, Winner take all. Anybody can win
bad format, but I'll still be watching because I like
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golf and I like talking sports on Mondays too. And
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as we get set for better weather, maybe towards the
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podcast as heat was a big feature of everything that
went on. The Royals are pretty hot. I was out
at a hot k yesterday's spent a couple of innings
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in the stands with a friend that wasn't exactly super pleasant.
Press box was nicer, but the Royals rally was even
nicer than that. A game that all day long looked
like a loss, but it's the White Sox. So the
Royals bounce back for a sweep. It was six to
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the Yankees are winning right now at a bad time.
So the Roys really haven't picked up any ground. But
there are a couple games over five hundred. They're right
in there. They've gotten themselves in a position where if
they continue to play the way that they have, which
is pretty darn good, seven and three in their last
ten and over an extended period better than that, the
offense has been a little better. Yes, they are still alive.
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It still takes some work. It still takes a lot
of work. But we'll talk about that, and we'll hear
from Matt Quaturo as well as Adam Frazier, who had
a big day yesterday and has done a good job
since he's been reacquired by the Kansas City Royals in
a move that I don't think was particularly overwhelming for
most people at the time. But anyway, the Rows have
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got themselves back into position and they have made themselves
viable here as we head toward the late part of
August and people are paying a little bit more attention
to the Chiefs, which wasn't any fun last Friday night
as they fell to the Seahawks thirty three to sixteen.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
The game didn't.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Feature much good of anything, but it was bad play.
It was injuries, but the stars weren't involved. That's the
good part. As they decided to sit out. They might
play a little bit more Friday against Chicago, so we
shall see if that looks a little bit better. Not
much looked better for the Chiefs on Friday night, as
they were run over literally and figuratively, scoreboard, yardage, all
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kinds of different stuff, but it is the preseason. They
have won a preseason game in the last couple of
years and that hasn't seemed to matter much.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
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The hot weather overall and weather period affected both of
the soccer teams in Kansas City. The Current had to
wait three hours before their matchup against second place Orlando
ended up being a fairly lackluster nil nil draw, but
still not a loss. They're well ensconced in first place. Meanwhile,
Sporting Kansas City season is kind of just slipping into oblivion.
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They lose three to one down in Orlando City after
a three and a half hour weather delay down there,
game didn't even start till almost ten to thirty or
around ten thirty Eastern time. And over the weekend for
me soccer wise, the Premier League started, and that's fun
for me. I watched a lot of soccer, including a
game right before I did this podcast and my sister's
favorite team west Ham my favorite team Arsenal one. West
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Ham did not win as Sunderland returned to the Premier League.
Not maybe that many people who are listening to this
care a lot about that, but Sunderland had forty six
thousand fans strong. The crowd noise was so bad that
you could barely hear the announcers. The mix wasn't very
good on the broadcast. And speaking of hot Scotti, Scheffler
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has basically turned the PGA tour and his little playground.
We thought that maybe we wouldn't se the likes of
Tiger Woods for a long time. Well, he's doing Tiger things,
that's for sure. Five wins this year, two majors, easily
the best player on the planet, and a certain sense
of inevitability when the tournaments come around, and the final
round comes around, and that happened to Bob McIntyre, who
crumbled like so many did to Tiger in the past,
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this time in the face of the relentless and steady
play of one Scottie Scheffler. He does it in a
different way than Tiger did, but over the last four
years or so he's been tiger Ish. All those things
are part of the mix. Today it's Monday Musings Danny
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were sitting in the shade, because that's where all the
fans were yesterday at crowd announced at fifteen thousand. I
don't think it was that many, but if it was
that many, they were all in the areas where the
sunshine wasn't I'd say about a thousand people were out
and I couldn't understand that, but anyway, they had to
show some patience also because the Rolls did absolutely nothing
in this game, and it looked like a sweep, which
they kind of badly needed, might be slipping away as
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they were being no hit in the game. It's the
second time in about a month that they were getting
no hit for a while and then won the game
rather easily, ended up scoring six runs as Davis Martin
threw six innings of one hit ball and the Rose
hardly even hit anything even remotely hard during that period
of time. But they got to the bullpen, they scored
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two runs to tie. In the seventh, Jonathan India with
a big home run, real big four hundred and fifty
one feet, the longest of his career. In fact, Adam
Fraser would cap it off with a home run. He's
been really good for the Royals, three point thirty ops
well over eight hundred in his time back with the Royals.
Mikel Garcia had a big RBI, the go ahead RBI.
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Salvador Perez, who hasn't had many hits in August, has
made them count however, as he thought he had himself
home run, but it turned into a run scoring single
because he just kind of stood there and watched it
as it banged off the center field wall. But it
all added up to two in the seventh and four
in the eighth and a nice victory for the Royals,
moving them to sixty three and sixty one. They've won
seven of their last ten over a longer period of time.
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They have done even better than that, and one of
the keys has been the reacquisition of the veteran fraser
who was brought in. Basically, they said it out loud.
JJ Piccolo did as much for his effect in the
clubhouse as his play. Well, his play has been very loud.
He's really a fine leader, apparently, but he's a pretty
low key guy. Even after a big game like yesterday,
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but he definitely spoke with a smile on his face.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
He played twenty seven out so it's just kept fighting.
keV Pitchers kept us in the game, and we just
kept fighting at the plate. So you know, once we
got him out of there, we were able to sneak
a couple of cross and put together familiar bats and
came out on top.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Since you got here, the teams played better baseball. But
there have been times when the last game of the
series didn't go. You're trying to get over five hundred,
you couldn't do it this time. It happens in the
last game of the series. Is that bigger than just
a regular win?
Speaker 6 (10:14):
I mean, they're all they all mean the same. So yeah,
we feel like we left. If you out there, you
know that's it's Major League Baseball, so the other team's
good no matter who you're playing. But yeah, we got
some things we can continue to refine and and get
better at, and you know, hopefully the ones you're talking
about and start start turning our way when we as
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we clean those things up.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
How have you felt since coming back over to the world.
Is being able to get off to the hot start
as you have since for Attorney?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Feel good? You know, I felt good in Pittsburgh too,
so just tried to keep things rolling. That was that
was really it, and then getting back feeling like I
never left. You know. The comfort with these guys has helped.
And then yeah, I haven't really thought about it much,
to be honest. It's just go figure out a way
to win the game every day.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
He gets.
Speaker 7 (11:00):
Since that, it feels like the twenty twenty four vibes.
So what you guys did last year as you're going
this run and try to chase towards the postseason.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Yeah, I mean it's the same group for the most part,
so everybody knows what is that at stake and what
we need to clean up, and you know what it
takes to win a game every night, So we're getting there,
but like I mentioned those things, we're trying to refine
a few things and and you know, just take it
one day at a time.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
To see Bailey ryan Berger come out tonight, be on
the mountain. What do you think of his performance?
Speaker 6 (11:30):
I pitched good, pitch really good.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
I felt felt bad about letting one get over my
head and you know, letting that extra run across, so
got to catch up all for him, and and uh,
you know he gave us all I had today, pitched
really good. So yeah, he gave us a chance to
win the game.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
Felt good to be vindicated to you know, hit the
home run.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
It always does.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
And all your long teams kind of talked about that
one day at a time mentality.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
How does that mentality help you?
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Guys?
Speaker 8 (11:59):
Kind of in a playoff put like you're.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
An we have to you start looking ahead and you
end up in a rut. It's one hundred and sixty
two games. It's not a sprint. So you look ahead
or you look back, you're gonna end up being in
a spot you don't want to be in. So it's
one day at a times. All you can do is
can control what you can control and that's all you
can do each day, so we'll worry about the rest
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when it gets there.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
It is a big series with Texas coming up, and
it's part of what you have to look at. As
far as the playoff race is concerned, Tigers are nine
games clear, so they're not thinking about that. But even
with six games left between the two teams, Rows could
sweep them and still have three games back, so let's
kind of forget about that. The Detroit Tigers have sort
of resurfaced as a good team playing thirteen and seven
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ball after a long, cool stretch. But in the playoff race,
here's the set up as far as the wild card
is concerned. We'll talk more specifically in our Baseball round
up coming up, but the Rows are four games back
from the third wildcard, but four and a half from
the top. The Rangers come in one and a half
games from the top. The Royals need to kind of
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play the way that they have as the Yankees run
pace for eighty seven, Red Sox and Mariners eighty six.
They play those teams well, they don't play the Red
Sox of the Yankees anymore. They do play the Mariners.
They do play the Guardians or are right in there
as well. But indeed to get to eighty six wins,
they need twenty four and fourteen for the Royals, which
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would be something they haven't done at any point this year.
But we'll see. If they win tonight, they will have
done exactly that. They've got to continue it on and
Matt Quaturo knows it, but he was proud of his
team yesterday and the momentum that they have built overall
and in the short term.
Speaker 8 (13:41):
First of all, you gotta give a lot of credit
to Martin. I mean you could tell it right out
of the gate. He had a really good change up.
It was hard, it had good depth with his arm speed.
That's a really challenging pitch, and he located, you know,
when he needed to expand, he expanded. But he also
threw a ton of strikes. He was efficient, so that
had a lot to do with it. I thought we
had some decent at bats. Took a few of the walks,
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but just didn't square them up. And then you know,
there's two outs. Nobody on Frasier gets two strikes and
battles and battles and puts a ball in play for
a double. And then India I mean that that's a big,
one of the biggest hits we've had in a while
from you know, to be down and especially as impressive
as how far he hit that ball. And then you know,
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you start to feel a little momentum guys or guys
feel it a little bit. Now we're back in it.
It's been pretty quiet. Bobby gets the hit, the stolen
base I think gave some energy to and then Mike Kel,
I mean, that's a really, really good at bat that guy.
I don't know if I've seen that guy pitch live before,
but ninety nine mile hour cutters that's not to be
taken lightly. And put a couple of good swings on
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him there is pretty impressive. That sequence was Bobby's stealing.
And then mikel is that partly why you have those
two and back to back in the order? I mean
just twelve Vinnie's between them, but I mean it's it's
good to have, you know, we try to break it
up by handedness, and also you know, you know, you
don't want too many guys that aren't based Steelers in
a row if you can avoid it, too, so trying
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to balance it out throughout the order.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
I think Ryan Berger handled himself with the amount of
trafficked any hell in the basement.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
Yeah, I mean exceptionally well. He gave up the Homer,
but everything else was singles. You know, I think maybe
one double in there. But his stuff is good, man,
and he really competes like crazy. Nothing seems to phase him.
He kept executing pitches.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
Virtually to have on hills, Butt and Lucas a sag
both come in and kind of hold the white sauce
until the offense could take over. What you make of
both with those guys tonight.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
Yeah, and Sammy too, I mean they all they didn't
give up anything, so I mean they executed pitches. Zerpa
had to, you know, they pinch hit face three ritis
or four whatever it was, three or four rities, Sammy
at the top of the order, and then Lucas had
two outs on four or five pitches and then had
to work out of some trouble but made some big pitches.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
To talkman Una for a moments.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Seems like his offense has really taken off since he
moved down into order.
Speaker 8 (15:59):
What does that say about him to be a guy
that he was brought here to be the leadoff hitter.
Speaker 9 (16:03):
He moves down the order and has just it's helped
change complexion of the offense over the last couple of monks.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
Yeah, it's a good point. I mean, from day one
of meeting Johnny, all he ever talked about was wanting
to win. So I think, you know, we set that
expectation that he was going to lead off, and he
did for the majority of the year, and he may
still do that at some point. But he's selfless. You know,
he wants to you see that. He plays every day,
He plays through stuff, you know, even going back to
when he got hit in the face early in the year,
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played the next day. I mean, the guy loves to play,
he wants to win, and he'll do anything that helps
the team win.
Speaker 9 (16:35):
Mentioned the momentum in the game, but how about the
momentum overall of getting this come from behind win when
sometimes either in the third game of the series or
trying to get about five hundred, it hasn't happened for
you at this time. It does agree an overall sense
of momentum.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
Yeah, you hope. So, I mean you've got a new
team coming in tomorrow, you know, and it'll be a challenge.
I mean, we we know how good they are, especially
how good their pitching has been. So you know, we're
gonna have to play our best bait ball going forward.
But we did what we could do today. We could
go one and o today.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Jesse seem like today was a very resilient win from
the group.
Speaker 9 (17:08):
To maybe speak to their resiliency and just kind of
their their mental fortitude.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
Well, I mean, I think it's really good. I mean
it's exceptionally strong. They don't get down. Then, they don't
feel sorry for themselves. They try to do the best
they can every day. The work has been great, you know,
the preparation has been great, and you know, the energy
not only what you see on the field, but what
you see in the cage and then during their their
prep work and all that stuff. That's been really good.
It's a good group of guys.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Four game series with the Texas Rangers, they can kind
of bury the Rangers and put them away. And the
Rangers are obviously champions from a couple of years ago,
a proud team. But they had a good streak in July,
but in August they haven't played particularly well. Their offense
has been falling off. We'll see what happens in the
four games here. Good pitching for the Rangers all year long.
They will miss the best of Nathan Evaldi, but they're
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still going to face four good starters in this series anyway,
so we shall see. The Royals are viable. They are
in it, and that is good stuff around baseball. The
Toronto Blue Jays are leaders in the American League East
and seemingly have that one in pretty good command, five
game lead over the Red Sox and Yankees, who hold
two of the three wild card positions and are five
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and five and a half games back. The Red Sox
have fallen off a bit, but the Yankees the team
that the Roads were chasing most closely until recently, and
now they've kind of pulled in lockstep with the Red Sox.
But the Yankees and the Royals basically have matched each
other for eleven days in a row. They have either
won or lost on the same day, and the Royals
are still four plus back. As we head down the stretch,
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Tampa Bay is clinging to some shred of contention. They've
split their last ten games. There are three games under
five hundred, and with a hot streak, could get themselves
back in it. The Oriols are just a problem team.
Right now because they're playing much better baseball for a
long period of time. But they bury themselves such a
big hole it doesn't really matter. But when you play them,
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they look like the Orioles that they were expected to be.
The Astros got punked by them yesterday, for instance. Tigers
has mentioned have rebounded after a long cold stretch. They've
won seven of their last ten. They have a ninety
nine percent chance of making the playoffs. They have an
eight and a half game lead over the Guardians nine
over the Royals. Twins have been disappointing and continue to
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be so. They sold off and they've played worse since
they did so, eight games under five hundred and the
White Sox, as we saw on the weekend, are a
little bit better, but not good enough. That game Sunday
was just typical of a bad team. The rules are
the better team. The White Sox should have gotten more
out of their offense when they led to nothing, probably
should have been more like five nothing. And that's how
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bad teams lose games, and that's how the White Sox
are forty four and eighty. The Astros played well when
they had all kinds of injuries, and it seemed very unlikely.
Now they're getting healthier again and they're not playing as well,
and they and the Mariners are in a real dog
fight or the American League West, and the other team
is the team that holds the wild card whenever it's
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out of first place in that right now is the Mariners.
Mariners game and a half back of the Astros. Third
wildcard team has mentioned Texas Rangers come to town one
game over five hundred and in need of a series
win against the Royals, Angels on the periphery, just kind
of like the Rays or teams like that, and they
have played a little bit better than I think expected.
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And the Athletics are on a pretty good run again.
They've had a pretty nice season with a young core
of players. Fourteen games under five hundred, but are respectable
for forty five winning percentage for them Phillies and first
in the National League East. That's as much a reflection
of the long cold stretch by the Mets, but the
Mets have rebounded with a couple of victories over the
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weekend and they are five games back of the Phillies
and in possession of the wild card right now. The
Marlins are six games under five hundred. They had a
good stretch a month ago, but have settled back into mediocrity,
as have the Braves disappointing, as have the Nationals, who
I think probably had much better designs on being a
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better team than this. And then the most remarkable story
in baseball is the Milwaukee Brewers. All season long, we
always talk about how the Brewers are, you know, kind
of anonymous and still pretty good, and they didn't get
off to a particularly good start, and they have been
red red hot for a long time. Their fourteen game
winning streak was put to an end yesterday by the Reds, who,
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by the way, have not been swept all season long
in any series they avoided that yesterday. Cubs are eight
games back, but they are a wild card team. And
then the Reds are five games over five hundred, and
they are game and a half back in the wild card.
The Mets, despite their long, long cold stretch, are still
in wild card position. We can see, we can hang
on to that, they can hang onto that. There's no
(21:51):
WI in the Mets. Not a Mets fan, never have been,
so I don't know where the wee came from, but anyway,
the rest of it is pretty much long shots. Both
the Cardinals and Dynamo Decks and Giants would have to
get incredibly hot to become factors in the National League,
and some of the other teams very disappointing. And then
of course there is the historically awful Colorado Rockies, who
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somehow have now won three games in a row. Good
for them, but good news has been hard to find
for the Colorado Rockies this particular year. So on a
hot weekend all around the country, the baseball was warm
for the most part, and the Royals are warm ish
better than that even and right in contention for the
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wild card position. The heat was in evidence for the
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Welcome back. Well, the Chiefs are always big news, and
even if they're playing at nine o'clock on a Friday night,
a lot of people are going to pay attention, even
if Patrick Mahomes isn't going to play, even if Chris
Jones isn't gonna play, even if Travis Kelcey isn't going
to play, and all that made it, I guess a
little more acceptable that they fell to the Seahawks thirty
three to sixteen on a rainy night in Seattle. The
(25:50):
offense first offense was decent, led by Gardner Minshew. They
moved the ball and produced a touchdown in one of
two possessions, but the defense was just absolutely horrendous. Nick
Bolton didn't play as well. Trent mccuffee didn't play, so
some of it was understandable, but the rest of the
defense looked bad. I mean bad as Sam Darnold and
local product to former Missouri star Drew Locke, led Seattle
(26:14):
to over three hundred total yards in the first half,
one hundred and seventy four in the ground. The run defense,
which really hasn't been a strength of the Chiefs except
for last year, certainly is something that looks maybe a
bit problematical. But you're talking about two of your best
run stoppers, and Jones and Nick Bolton were out, so
maybe we can look past that. I don't know, But anyway,
(26:37):
the first five drives for Seattle, when at least sixty
nine yards, really just not much good came about this.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
It was also a night.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Where injuries reared their head. Nazi Johnson left the game
with the shoulder injury didn't return. Jack Cochran left the
game with a knee injury. Cornerback Noel Williams entered concussion protocol.
All in all, it wasn't a very good night in
Seattle to say the least. I mean, it was just
no fun period, and if you were weary after a
(27:07):
work week or the heat got to you, you could
go to bed early and worry about the fact that
the Chiefs were getting thumped by account of thirty three
to sixteen. Should be a little more interesting. On Friday
Night against the Bears in the final preseason game, starters
are expected to play a little bit more and that
is the one home game of the preseason, so we'll
see how that one goes. That should be a little
bit more interesting as we wind down to the start
(27:30):
of the NFL season not too far away, as we
got college football coming up, and we've got games this week,
so all kinds of things to check it in as well.
The Kansas State Wildcats are in Ireland. Kansas Jayhawks started up,
so does Missouri High hopes for all three, but interesting
(27:50):
situations for all three. They probably have designs on being
a little bit better maybe than people think. They're either
barely ranked or not ranked. Should be an interesting start
of the season. Well, I'll be back on the radio
with college Football Game Day starting on Saturday, so it's
game week for college football, and we'll talk a lot
(28:10):
of football obviously through the fall with Stan Weber on
the Monday Football Podcast, which we'll kick in probably as
soon as we see what's going on with the Royals.
We'll still do the musings and cover all sports. You
just have to check in all the time for all
the variety we've got on this particular podcast Soccer. Over
the weekend, the Kansas City Current continued just to be
(28:33):
a very good story. Now it was annoying for their fans, certainly,
blistering heat, three hour heat delay finally started the game.
Then it wasn't much of a game, a nil nil draw.
It was supposed to be on national TV, but it
was not so ended up being on streaming because they
had to delay the game so long. But still the
(28:53):
Teal are well insconsin first place, thirteen games clear of
the second place Orlando team that they drew with on Saturday.
So that was good news. Not good news for Sporting
Kansas City all season long, coaching change, a lot of turmoil,
a lot of turnover. It will be a lot of
turnover after this year. One bright spot and one consistent
(29:14):
spot for them has been Dejon Joe Velcik. He got
another goal and there are three to one loss in
Orlando City. That's fourteen goals on the season. So that
bright spot is about It carries a agnas at times
it seemed inserted a little life. I don't know if
he's doing enough to get the permanent job. That seems
like a long shot to me right now, but we
(29:34):
shall see. The Premier League gets started and for some
like me, that's a cool thing. It's back soccer players
play way too much, so it's a lot of international
soccer in the summertime, and these guys didn't get much rest.
But the world's most popular league and certainly popular in
this country too, started up again, a lot of impact matches.
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My favorite team is Arsenal. They won at Man United,
a team that his his but had the most dreadful
season last year, lost at home to Arsenal. Maybe you
have your own favorite. I know some of the guys
that I used to work with at the radio station
each have their own squad. A couple are Chelsea fans. Anyway,
it provides great entertainment for me. It's a nice game
(30:17):
to work. Soccer is a nice game to work out too.
I do that often. I get to share a lot
of texts and conversations with my sister, who lives obviously
half the country away in Massachusetts, and we talk about
soccer a lot, so that is fun for me. One
thing we don't talk about my sister and I are golf.
She has no interest in golf whatsoever, and it's another
(30:39):
niche sport for many, but it is an enthusiastic sport
for me. But I'll tell you what, it's getting ruined
by Scotti Scheffler. He's just too good and he won again.
Looked like a nice story. Robert McIntyre had a four
shot lead heading into the final round over Scheffler. McIntyre
actually could have won the tournament if he shot even
par in the final round. But one thing we saw
back in the Tiger Woods days we talked about it
(31:01):
in the Open, is the fact that people would stare
down Tiger, and not stare him down. They would look
over there and say, oh no, I've got to play
extra special golf. And the guys who would play well
would be the ones who were so hopelessly far behind
that they couldn't catch him. Scheffler was relentless. If he'd
made a few putts on Sunday, he would have won
(31:21):
more handily, but he still ended up winning by two.
He chipped in dramatically to take all of the sizzle
out of the tournament. On the seventeenth Toll chipped in
from about ninety feet for the birdie that put it
away and Scheffler easily the number one heading into the
Tour Championship, which I'll talk about in a minute. But
McIntyre's day did not result in a third victory. It
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was also the day that the thirty places were set
for the Tour Championship, and so there was a lot
of two and fro resulting in that Ricky Fowler made
a run to be in the top thirty. He didn't
get there. So a popular player is on the outside
looking in. The thirty players will head to Atlanta, and
there is no advantage for anybody if you made it
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to Atlanta. It's all even heading into the final tournament.
I don't know how you declare somebody or have a
tournament or a season long points race that results in
what's supposed to be a season long championship when basically
the person who's in thirtieth heading in has everybody as
good a chance to win the Tour Championship and all
(32:26):
the money and the title of Tour Player of the
Year as Scotti Scheffler. I don't like the format. A
lot of people didn't like it when they had staggered points.
They thought it was confusing. If people thought that was confusing.
Then they're just not very bright. But I don't like
the format. They should come up with something else that
They've tried a variety of things. Apparently this isn't going
(32:47):
to stay in place either. I think that basically, I
think what would be interesting is to maybe start with
thirty two at the Tour Championship and maybe play a
couple rounds of stroke play and cut it to eight
and then play match play. I'd kind of like that,
and that would combine and match play and stroke play.
(33:08):
But anyway, I don't like this, but still it'll be
exciting and anybody who's there, be it Harry Hall or
Michael Kim or he didn't quite make it in. Actually
he was the first guy in the outside looking in.
Ludwig Oberg, Victor Hovlin. All these people could potentially get
in and win the tournament. Even the captain, Keegan Bradley.
(33:29):
There'll be some intrigue as far as that is concerned.
He hasn't played particularly well recently, sixteenth in the FedEx Cup,
and obviously he's the captain, and a couple of weeks ago,
maybe a month ago, it looked like he almost had
to pick himself. Now I'm not so sure he does
have to so very interesting. It'll be the final week
of the PGA Tour. Per se, they have the Fall
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Series for the players who finish outside of the top
or outside of the playoff race, although you can play
in them if you want. Scotti Scheffler can go play one.
I think he is as a matter of fact. But anyway, technically,
the tour season will come to an end with the
Tour Championship in Atlanta, Winner take all. Anybody can win
bad format, but I'll still be watching because I like
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golf and I like talking sports on Mondays too. And
this week we've got our music podcast with Tim Finn.
We've got another interesting author on our Kansas City profile
on Friday, and we'll see what else we're cooking up
on the Reasonably Irreverent Podcast. Always here Monday through Friday,
through Saturday through Sunday and Monday musings.
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