September 1, 2025 • 46 mins
The Royals are treading water but still breathing. A pulse check with David Lesky from "Inside The Crown". Kansas and Mizzou prep for their showdown Saturday in Columbia with blowouts over hopelessly overmatched opponents. K-State couldn't follow that script but barely escaped against North Dakota, plus other college football, winning local soccer, and more. Jump in!
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one day this weekend and he picked the win. I
was a reporter and I didn't pick the win. But
I always enjoy Sundays at the ballpark and I get
to see Trek school will pitch and we'll talk about
that in a little bit. I mean, it's not a
disaster of a weekend. The Tigers are better than the Royals.
I think they prove that, and they're not a good
matchup for the Royals. And the Roys lost two out
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of three. It's not what you want at this time
of year. And the Texas Rangers of all of a
sudden getting hot, so they've passed the Royals. So that's
another fly in the ointment in the playoff chase.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Yeah, that's not ideal. And the Royals win three or
four against the Rangers, and then and they get the
news that oh my god, I'm blanking on his name.
They're ace.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Oh my god, Evaldi, Oh how could I I literally
all I could think of.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Was to gram and I'm going to get hurt for
one surprisingly. Yeah, you think he's out, and they're okay,
they're done, they're toast, and they just they've caught fire.
Now they're even in the lost column. And the Royals
obviously have the tiebreaker because they're six and one against
them this year.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
So.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
They've technically passed them. But it's a schedule base because
they've got one more game than the Royals, I think,
So it's I'm not terribly concerned. They're so hot and cold,
but so are the Royals. It's not you can't you
can't say, oh, the Rangers have a tough schedule and
they're hot and cold. Well, the Royals have a tough
schedule and they're hot and cold.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
So, right, the Royals had to stay hot. They haven't,
but they're still in it. They're five and six and
there last eleven. That's not what you would have wanted,
but it's still right there in eight.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Yeah, I mean it's you knew they were going to
cool off a little bit. It's a matter of did
they cool off to the point that it looks like
they did in June, or do they cool off to
the point that teams just have five and six stretches
that sort of thing. So, and I you're okay. I mean,
I think they're okay. They're in good shape. I wrote
about this today. I put out the path to eighty
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six wins a couple of weeks ago, and it included
them being thirteen and nine through the first twenty two
games of that stretch. They're thirteen and nine. So, I mean,
it's not it would have been nice to pick up
an extra win, so they didn't have, you know, because
right now they're they're right where I thought they should
be to get there. But that includes the series sweep,
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That includes a lot of series wins. Would have been
nice to get Friday would have been nice to get,
you know, the Sunday in Minnesota or the finale against
the Nationals. There there will always be games that you
can look at and go, well, if they had won that,
they would be No, that's every team has that. But
they're right where I thought they should be on the
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on that path. So there are worse things, and you're
right the Tigers, I I wrot those too. I don't
other than Tarek Schoogle, I don't think the Tigers are
an exceptionally great team. I think they're They're very They're
they're solid all around. They don't have a lot of holes.
I don't see them as worlds better than the Royals.
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I think they're better, but.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I think they do right.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
They do things right. I think that's part of it too.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I think they have the best manager in baseball. A. J.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Hinch is excellent. I think he tends to overmanage sometimes,
but I think all he's also very smart and and
and I think mcuatreo overmanageres sometimes too, but he's also
very smart. I think I think mctara is one of
the best too.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I don't think I think, I don't think it's I
don't think it's any kind of a of a mismatch one.
But but this year, I think one of the differences
between the two teams, and of course it's a wide
gap now, is the fact that the Royals haven't been
great at the little things this year.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
They haven't. They haven't, they They've They've made some sake
and their base running. I don't know if you've noticed this.
Their base running has gotten a lot better since the break,
which is interesting because they've hit and I think that
you look at I had a theory a while back
that the base running was so bad because they're just pressing.
They're doing everything they're trying to do to We talked
about it a couple of weeks ago. Since the break, though,
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they've hit and they haven't had to press, and their
base running has been better. Look at that, that's crazy,
But anyway, don't I don't look at the Tigers and
see a team like a billion times better than the Royals.
They just are enough better that they are. They've they've
dominated the season series.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, their bullpen's only okay, you know, but they have
the best pitcher or one of the best pitchers in baseball.
They're saying, there's a handful of really really good ones.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
But who do you put it? It's Google schemes, what
Garrett Crochet? Yeah, this year, I mean, I don't I
don't know who else you put in that category.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I don't think there is anyone else you put in
that category this year. Obviously it's gonna flexibly change. School
is just such a new unique picture. I was talking
again with Drake from A ten and on the UH
I think we talked about that off the air, but yeah,
before you know, he threw about ten school, but threw
about ten pitches, And I said, you know what, he
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pitches like like Mark Burley with great stuff.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Yes, such a great comparison. Yes he is, he's he's incredible.
And then I've talked a couple of people who are
connected with the Tigers, not with the Tigers, and they
they're they're a little bit worried about do you give
him a long term deal. He's got the injury history.
When's the arm gonna blow out. It's kind of the question.
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But man, I don't know how you let him go
when he hits free agency. I don't know how you say,
all right, thanks for everything, we'll see you later, even
if it's a terrible contract, even if it is.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
A every pitching contract is a terrible contract, you know.
But you know it's just the price of doing business.
How many how many terrible contracts? Really? You are there
for quarterbacks in the National Football League a lot because
you have to pay him a ridiculous sum, and only
a handful of them are really good. So but they
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do they do, you know, treat him with pretty good
kid gloves. He's so efficient that he manages to to
pitch a lot of innings anyway. But when he was
when he was at eighty five pitches yesterday, I was
looking at it, and then I looked at his game log.
He's only thrown a hundred pitches twice now it was.
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Now it's consistently like ninety five, ninety six. But basically
what they say is he gets into the nineties, if
he's gonna go into the hundreds in the next inning,
we're taking them out.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
And he usually gives up nothing. So also they're kind
of comfortably ahead a lot of times when he leaves
the ball, they're.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Gonna solid offense. So it's you know, four to one.
You know, okay, we can we can go to a
mediocre bullpen and have no problem because there's only two innings.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
You know, you don't feel as bad about it. But
because they uh, you know, they didn't score. So but
yesterday was not a good day for the defense.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
No, And and you know it's funny because it's not funny,
but it was the opposite. On Saturday, defense played great,
right yet a couple of great plays from mass He
made a great play, but he's been good since he's
come back, made a great play. They tracked balls well
in the outfield. I mean Nick Lotson almost made a
great play on that double by Riley Green in the
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ninth inning. And then they come back and it was
it was rough. And I mean, I think you're seeing
the issues with having Tyler Tolbert be a true backup
and not a twenty sixth man. And he had a
great played appearance on Saturday. So you know it's it
giveth and take it away, of course.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
But.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
I think I don't. I think even the Royals would
tell you might have to get J. J. Piccolo a
little bit saw stuff to tell you this, But I
don't think he would say that the plan was for
Tyler Tolbert to play against all lefties in centerfield. I
think that that probably is not where they thought this
was season was going. And you see why he's not
a good defender out there. He's very fast, so he
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makes up for mistakes sometimes, but he he misplayed a
couple of balls and one really hurt them and one didn't.
But you know, it's they need to be better in
that regard. When you when you're facing Trek Scuoble, you
can't make mistakes, right, even when he's not on the mound,
and they made mistakes, and it, like you said, I
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don't think it would have mattered.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Zero zero doesn't win very often, right.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Yeah, that I have. I actually this is a fun stat.
No team has ever won scoring zero, So the Royals
would have been the first. But they didn't get done.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
They did not get it done. Let's let's talk about
the good pitching news first and then get to the
troubling story. And they bring up Stephen Kolek I'm so
glad that you know. And he is a stand up guy.
I like watching him pitch, et cetera. But if Michael
Walker hadn't pitched Sunday and stayed on paternity to leave,
which he could have, I would have been disappointed. I'm
usually all in favor of, you know, family time and
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all that, but in a big series against the Tigers.
But he did, and he talked about it afterwards. He
did what he felt was the right thing. Everything was
safe at home, and you know, his wife and baby
were good, so he pitched. But anyway, Colic comes up
and takes his original spot on Saturday, and he was good.
And so far that trade with San Diego, although I'm
sure they're happy with the two, it's been awful kind
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to the Royals.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Yeah, boy, I mean, you get to a points if
you're an opposing general manager and JJ Piccolo says, hey,
we'd love this pitcher, don't you start to think, wait, wait, wait,
why why do you want him? Can you tell us what?
You just just give us a little hint into what
you see in him and why you want him. And
it's not that Colak was good for the pot. Burgert
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was good for the Padres. So it's not like they
didn't know they had solid pitchers. But at some point
the other gms are gonna go, I don't I don't
want to give you my pitcher. No, thank you. There's
clearly a reason you want him because he just keeps
doing it. And I guess Bailey Falter is the he
He had to throw in the Bailey Falter to make
teams still want to trade with him. I think so. Yeah,
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Colic looked really good, a little bit of good fortune.
He was hit hard, but in the zone. But the
defense makes some plays behind him, and if they didn't
make the plays, it could have looked very different. So
you know, it's very results base. But also twited all
season for the Padres when he had a reasonable four,
he are just above four. That's a really solid number
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five starter. And that's a guy that hey, you can
you can get, you can get somewhere with him, and
that there are two things the team needs to do.
They need to they need to be built for to
go one hundred and sixty two games, and they need
to be built for the playoffs. And I don't know
that Stephen Kolech is a guy who is part of
the playoff picture, right, But he's a guy who gets
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you through one sixty two and you need both of that.
And yeah, he looked really good. I'll be curious. I'm
wondering they sent him right back down, which I wish
they hadn't had to, don't. I don't see another option
honestly for him at this point because it wasn't September.
They could have left him up had it been August
thirty first that he made that start, but they it
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was August thirtieth, and so it had to send him
down or send somebody down, and he was the one
who made the most sense because he wouldn't be available
for a few days. I'm curious, is there an injury
still left that might get him back up before he's
down for the full fifteen days. So we'll see. We'll
see on that. But he looked really good.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Well, I remember, like the start of this bad run,
I watched Lugo pitch and I said he's hurt. Well,
nobody says he's hurt, but he's pitching like it. And
you s meanted and you know, filling up the strike
zone earlier with Kolik, which is a good comment. Well,
Lugo just threw stuff right down the middle, and his start,
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he just there's no other way addressing it up. He's
been bad for a month.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
More than that. I mean, if you go back to
the All Star breaks. At first started against the Marlins,
remember he gave up five and he settled down after
he gave up early runs. But he wasn't good then that.
He went out against the Cubs and was really solid,
then got the contract extension and has been pretty bad since.
He was really good against the Braves to start and
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then fell apart, and it's just been bad. And he
had hit one decent start since then. And I don't
know what they do. And part of it, I think
the Tigers might have his number a little bit, So
let's let's keep that in mind. But I don't know
what you do. You just gave the guy forty six
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million dollars up to sixty what is up to sixty three?
Is that right as high as it can go? I think, whatever,
whatever it is, keep the guy a lot of money.
You gotta make sure he's right. And maybe you remember
better than me. I I think I remember them saying
that the finger issue he had back in May was
something that wouldn't fully heal until the off season. Do
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you remember that?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
I don't remember it, but it makes some sense. I mean, yeah,
you know, I don't know how a finger injury's going
to get up one hundred percent better when you got
to throw all the time, well.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Right, and when you only he only he didn't even
make a rehab story. He actually came back against the
Tigers and got lit up right, and then he was
really good after that for a while. But I don't know,
I could see that being an issue. I could see
general fatigue being an issue. Maybe his back hurts. He's
thirty five years old. I I mean, I'm older than
that now, but my back hurts too. You know, stuff happens,
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and I mean it's it's got to be. You said
that there has to be something, because if it's not,
it's even more worrisome. You rather almost at this point
with this struggle, well, you'd rather him come out and say, yeah,
my shoulders tight, I'm fine, I'm just tired. My back
hur it's my hamsh whatever it is. You want, almost
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want an injury because then you go, oh, okay, this
all makes sense, this all makes sense. Get him healthy,
You're fine. And I do wonder we haven't seen it yet,
and well, let's see what did he pitched Friday? Right,
so they can still I l him tomorrow and backdate
it to Saturday because you can go back three days.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
So I just don't think it's gonna happen. Apparently he's fine,
you know.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
I don't think so either. It's just it's bizarre if
he's not. If he's healthy, there is like no explanation
unless it's And I wrote it up a couple weeks ago,
and you know, I noticed his right foot was dragging
a little bit on delivery. His extension was down a
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little bit on his pitches, which makes a lot of
sense that a lot of the fastballs have been tailing
arm side. So like, all of it adds up, But
the question is why, And if it's purely mechanical, you
can't I l him because they've cracked out on that.
You can't fake injuries. You can't make up an injury.
Now that said, every picture in September is hurting, right,
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there's nobody who you would go to again. Saw them
up a little bit, and then the answer is going
to be, yeah, my backers, Yeah, my arm hurts. Yeah,
whatever hurts my neck hurt at all. There's pain because
they've been pitching since what mid February pictures and catchers reported,
So I think you can probably find something, but to
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them it must just be purely mechanical and they're working
on it. But boy, it's really tough to make the playoffs.
But every fifth day, the guy who you're counting on,
who in your mind the start of the season was
your number two playoffs start, was starting game two of
a playoff series. It's really tough. When that guy's given
up five runs in three innings, six runs in four innings,
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gives up a six to one lead like you did
last Sunday. It's just difficult. It is.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
So now twenty five games left, we're going to have
an interesting day during the day today, Well, many people
aren't paying attention. Jonathan India has gone on the IL,
so we're gonna see Jack Caglion and Carter Jensen for sure,
and one other player and how they configure it doesn't
really matter. Cagleone has been bashing the ball just like
he did before he came up, so and Carter Jensen
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has been red hot. So these are two guys that'd
be intriguing to see how they're used.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Yeah, and you know they when when Jack Hecklean was
called up right before that, they said, look, we don't
want to bring him up to a lineup that he
has to feel like he's a savior. We want to
bring him up to a lineup that's hitting. Okay, they
scored six runs in three games, so they're not currently hitting.
But this lineups been good since the All Star break.
This is the line up they wanted to bring them
up to, and they finally got it. The problem is
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part of the reason it's this way is because there's
got a guy playing right field now, and so I'm
very curious how how they utilize Kaglio. Is they're gonna
be a pinch hitter. Is he going to play? Is
going to move over to left? In Kagulia don't play
right against right? He's maybe I could see it the Shrimps.
He doesn't have a ton of left field experience, but
he's a good defender, so I don't I don't think
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that will be a huge issue for him. Or do
they say, look, you're we're gonna we really want that
power bat off the bench. I I could see that too,
and he starts twice a week he comes off the bench.
I you know, I have my doubts about it if he
can be successful in that role. But I the colman
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of comment whereas I think it was Andy Rodgers wrote
about it that he's too good for the level. He's
too good for Triple A. You can't. It's very difficult
to learn things when you can make mistakes and still
be better than everybody. So it's one of those things
that is it better to have him bashed Triple A
pitching or get the occasional home run and the majors,
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So that'll be interesting. I'm really curious how they use
Jensen more than anything, because Salva Perez has struggled in
the last month when he's had to catch more, and
so they clearly don't want Luke Maylee catching as much
as they want wanted Freddy Ferman catching, which I get
I've watched him. He've watched him, makes sense. He's he's
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a he's more of a true backup catcher. Does Jensen
catch almost every day against Righty's Maybe maybe you see
Jensen in there four days a week, and if Jensen's
in there, he's probably catching most of those days. He's
from what I've heard, he's really improved defensively, has a
great eye. He doesn't chase pitches, he doesn't. He doesn't
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swing and miss that often. He does strike out because
he gets deep into counts. But I I think that
I think you're gonna see a lot of Carter Jensen,
which I was a little bit surprised by, because if
you know, a part of the reason you don't bring
guys up in or you don't trade for guys at
the deadline trade for catchers of the deadline is because
they have to learn a new pitching staff. Jensen outside
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of spring training. I looked it up. He's only caught
I believe I might be missing somebody, but in his
career he's only caught Lunda Avila, who is one of
the September call ups, right, Jonathan Bolan and Noah Cameron,
And he only caught Cameron once or twice last year
because their paths crossed for a week in Double A
before Cameron got promoted. So you're learning a staff in
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September in a playoff race. There's some risk there. But
I think the hope is that his bad is good
enough and that he allows Salvi's back to rebound as well. Well.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Twenty five games left. ESPN lists the Royals playoff percentage
shit between ten and eleven percent. Too high, too low.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
I think that's about right.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I think so three games bad.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
I mean, you think about it. If you simulate the
season one hundred times, they make it ten times. I
would buy that. I don't think that's surprising at all.
The saving grace and this this will go away eventually.
But they are three games behind Seattle and they play
three games against Seattle, right, it's if you keep I
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think they need to gain. It would be ideal if
they're one game out. Well, the ideal if they're ahead
of them, obviously by the time they get there. But
if they get to that series a game behind them,
I would put their playoff chances that I don't know,
forty percent, right. If they get to that series two
games behind them, i'd put it at twenty five percent.
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If they're three games back, I think five to ten percent.
At that point, there's only twelve games left, so I
think I think that's right. It would be pretty tough,
But as long as you're keeping pace with Seattle, they
got to gain a game at least, but as long
as you're keeping pace, you've still got them, So I
think that's huge. But yeah, I think ten percent is
probably about right.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Well, I keep waiting for Seattle to play better. I
think they're underachieving right now. I think they've got a
good team, so I don't know what the hell they're doing,
but thank goodness, they're doing it. Because the Red Sox
and the Yankees, they they've stepped on the gas and said, Okay,
we're going to be the wildcard teams for sure.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
And yeah, I think i'd be surprised if the Yankees,
I think have figured it out. The Red Sox they've
been more like other teams and that they they'll get
really hot and really cold, really hot, really cold, so
there might be a cold tretch. But they played much better.
I don't see it with them either. I think it's
the Mariners.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Yep, I think so too. You've got to take advantage
of the of the Angels, so you have six times
and the Twins who have been in the tank. Because hell,
everybody said, well, you've got a great road trip at
the end. The Athletics, although they get swept this weekend,
they've been great for a long time, So I think
that's I think that's a dangerous I don't want to
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have to go beat the athletics, you know, three times
or something like that.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Have you looked at their schedule so they I don't know,
I might be wrong, slightly off on the number, but
they're what are they eleven games under right now? Ten
games under there? But they went six and twenty six
I think in a stretch in the middle, which means
you can't take that away, but that means that they
were outside of that stretch. They've been ten games over
right ish.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Yeah, before they get swept this weekend, they had won
twenty one of thirty one, So yeah, they're not They're
getting hit.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
They can really hit. They've got some interesting pitching too.
It's not that's a team. If you want, if you
want to look ahead the next year and say, okay,
what team is going to make the playoffs that didn't
this year, I would pick the A's or the Royals
because I think the Royals are going to miss the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Yeah, it looks like they have a superstar too, so
you know that.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Yeah, oh yeah, one hundred percent. But yeah, I mean
the other thing, you never they're a young team, and
young teams generally, a lot of these guys have not
played for full six months, so there is they could
hit a wall. Maybe maybe that's what happened, but they
could hit a wall before then, and they are really
struggling that last week, and you take advantage. But I
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don't think that's a gimme series for sure.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Well, it'll be interesting to watch and we've got interesting
baseball to watch with twenty five games left. And that's
always cool, David, And it's always cool talking to you.
Thanks for taking some time out on the holiday, and
we'll talk to you again real soon.
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Sounds good, thanks Danny.
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Welcome back, and we are going to do the roundup
after the break this time I'm around, so we have
a nice balance of segments. There got all the Royal
stuff in a little bit of the round up from
David Leski from inside the Crown. Always thanks to him.
That's always fun. I always enjoy talking baseball with him.
I enjoy my Sundays at the park when I do that,
which I did yesterday, and I enjoy looking at baseball
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results and baseball standings, and I like bringing it to
you on Mondays. And here we go the Toronto Blue
Jays once seemingly impenetrable. Impregnable, that's the word I was
looking for in the American League east of seeing the
Yankees and the Red Sox get very hot and make
it kind of a race there with about twenty five
(32:38):
games to go. Yankees three games back after winning seven
of their last ten, Red Sox three and a half
games back after winning seven of their last ten. What
those two teams did was separate themselves mightily from the Royals.
So now it's a different kind of mix with the
Mariners and the Rangers and the Royals. As we talked
about Tampa Bay Rays, I guess with if it says
(32:59):
you have a one point seven percent chance of making
the playoffs. I guess you have a chance, as they've
played well of late, also swept over the weekend. They
did the sweeping over the weekend and moved to sixty
seven and sixty nine. And the Oils have played well
for a while, but they had a bad week and
they've had a bad run, lost eight of their ten,
and they will finish as the last place team in
the American League East, which I don't think anybody would
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have predicted before the season began. The Tigers haven't been
great of late, but they still are comfortably ahead of
the Royals at nine and a half. And you saw
how good they could be, and once every three days,
once every five days. Boy would imagine if it was
once every three days, the trek school could pitch. He's
just amazing to watch. He throws strikes by the bushel,
(33:43):
and you heard David talk about him. Just an amazing
pitcher to watch. And it's no fun when you're on
the other side of it. But just tip your cap
and try to move along. Royals in second Guardians picked
a bad time to play poorly. They've lost six of
their last ten, still over five hundred before the final
game of the weekend, took two from the Mariners, which
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they really needed to do, so they're still breathing. Royals
play them in a little bit for four games. That's
going to be sort of a knockout punch probably for
either team. Even if the teams were to split, probably
in that particular case, it wouldn't be good for either
one of them. So twins will provide opposition for the
Royals upcoming, and they've played very poorly since dismantling their team.
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White Sox have been better this year, but still not good,
and they'll be the cellar dwellers in the Central. The
Astros are hanging on to first place in the American
League West by a couple of games over the Mariners.
Both teams playing okay. The Texas Rangers have been the
hot team. They've won five in a row, eight of
their last ten, and they've moved past the Royals as
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we talked about in the wild card standings. The Angels
come to town for three and they've been okay this year.
They're dangerous enough to beat, you got to pay attention,
so we'll see how that goes. And the Athletics were
swept over the weekend which ended a extremely hot run
for them after right before that they had won twenty
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one of thirty one. But they get swept over the
weekend and they might be able to creep themselves out
of last, but it's going to take some doing for them.
In the National League, the Phillies look like they finally
got it in cruise control in the National League East,
but the Mets have sort of settled things down, even
though they lost on Saturday and Sunday. They are solidly
(35:31):
in wild card position right now over the Reds, who
picked a bad time to drop eight out of ten.
We'll get to them in a moment. Marlins have been
better this year, but they're in third. Braves have pretty
much stunk all year, especially by their standards, and the
Nats aren't very good and they will finish last. Brewers
have it sewed up in the National League Central. They
continue to play excellent ball. They're on cruise control now,
(35:54):
just trying to get things settled in and set for
the playoffs. They're almost to be the best team record
wise in the entire league too, so that's the case
for them. The Cubs have had a good season, but
I have lost some mojoke because Kyle Tucker hasn't played
well for a long time, but they're solidly in wild
(36:15):
card position, and basically it's pretty much set unless the
Mets fall apart again. I guess the Reds could get
hot or the Cardinals could get hot, but they'd have
to get real hot, and the Pirates haven't done much
of getting hot all year long. They've been pretty bad.
And out West, there is a race. The Dodgers and
Padres have been parrying back and forth. The Dodgers have
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the edge right now at a couple games back. I
think most people have predicted that the Dodgers. I think
just about everybody predicted the Dodgers would be the best
team in the National League. They have not, and they're
not likely in any way to catch the Brewers for
the best record. Giants have won seven of their last ten.
Probably too little too late for them, but two percent
(36:59):
playoff chance for them, one percent for the Diamondbacks, and
the Rockies have fallen back to losing most of the time.
They're the only team in baseball with a zero percent
chance of making the playoffs. Actually, they've been eliminated. They've
been eliminated on September first, on Labor Day from any
consideration for the playoffs, although there are a few teams
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that are listed as having less than one percent, like
the Pittsburgh Pirates, who are only mathematically alive. Let's turn
to the college football. It's Maszoo and KU on a
collision course for Saturday in Columbia, and they of course
both had blowout wins or blowoff wins. They certainly blew
off their opponent. The sequencing for Kansas to me, was
(37:43):
better as they get a solid win over an actual
FBS team in Fresno before their walk over this past
weekend over Wagner and even worse opponent for Maszoo in
the only prep they will have, as they played Central
Arkansas and they destroyed them. It was tough to tell
much about that game. They lost Sam Horn, that's one
(38:05):
thing we knew. They lost their kicker as well, Blake Craig,
at least for the short term, and in the end
that may be more damaging, although who knows. We will
have no idea how Sam Horn could have been because
he played one play. But Bo Prabula was quite good
in the game twenty three of twenty eight, a couple touchdowns.
He had some rushing yards. That's his Forte threw the
(38:28):
ball effectively enough, but it was just a pathetic opponent.
So it was really it's hard to even judge what
Missouri is coming in. You have a much better idea
of what Kansas is. But I still Missouri's a solid favorite.
They're about a touchdown favorite. I think I agree with that,
But there's a lot of question marks. The question marks
are going to be answered in some regard, and that's
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about eighty five percent. We were talking about this on
Danny Unleashed on Friday on Sports Radio eight ten. Curtis said,
eighty percent of what we know about these two teams
will come in this game. I might say it's a
little bit more more than that. But Kansas, of course,
they had themselves to win over Wagner. Jalen Daniels has
been extra slick so far, no question about that. Thirty
(39:10):
six for forty five. He has remained upright. He's taken
some shots and bounced back for them. They look like
they have a real weapon in Alabama transfer Emmanuel Henderson.
He went for one hundred and thirty and two touchdowns
in that one. The defense only gave up one hundred
and forty three yards, so pretty much everything looked solid
for the Jayhawks. But does that mean they're better than
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Missouri on their field? I don't think so. But they've
also got to me a lot less pressure. I mean this,
it wouldn't be a good it would be a bad loss.
I don't think there's any other way to dress it up.
It'd be a bad loss from Missouri. They're a solid
favorite in the game, they're playing on their home field.
They were a better team last year, so Kansas can
kind of free wheel it a bit. I don't think
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it loss is going to be damaging to them. They've
already got two wins put under their belt, so I
think I'm just looking forward to the game. It should
be a great fun game, and we'll be talking a
lot about that, of course on College Football Game Day
on Sports Radio A ten on Saturday. That should be
fun as well around the country. It was the first
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ever time that three top ten teams faced each other
on the first weekend, the first full weekend of the year,
and the lower ranked team won in all three as
it was Number three, beating number one Ohio State taking
out Texas. Although the game was considered a toss up
fourteen to seven defensive minded games and all three of
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the games actually arch Manning was okay but not great.
Texas loses in number nine LSU beat number four Clemson
that was a seventeen to ten game, another game where
defense was predominant, and then on Sunday evening it was
the number ten team Miami. I think most people would
probably consider that the biggest surprise of the three, maybe
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over in sixth ranked Notre Dame. That was a more
exciting game of all, had a little more offense in it,
twenty seven to twenty four. But the lower ranked teams
won all three in that opening weekend, making history with
the three top ten matchups. So it was kind of
a fun college football weekend. But locally the fun comes
Saturday Missouri and Kansas. That should be a lot of fun.
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By the way. Kansas state, of course, they barely escape
in their game as they played North Dakota and they
were expected to obviously win quite easily, and they did not,
and they ended up pulling it out with a late
touchdown great drive at the end for Avery Johnson, he
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had four touchdown passes in the game, but he also
had four balls that easily could have been intercepted. He
made a big run on the last drive, so it
was sort of a mixed bag. But also giving up
over thirty points to an FBS opponent is not good either.
There's so lots of question marks for Chris Climban's team. Basically,
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they all had to talk about the fact that we've
got to play better or this isn't going to be
the kind of season we're looking for. So the biggest
questions of the local college football teams by far are
for Kansas State, and they play an Army team and
the Service Academy teams are always difficult to play. They
usually play a slightly different brand of football. They're tough
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and gritty, and so it'd be a good time for
Kansas State to get things straightened out as they match
up against Army after a very disappointing start to the
season a lost to Iowa State already a league loss,
and then a near loss to North Dakota. So time
for Chris Climbing to do what he's actually often done
is circle the wagons and straightened things out. In Manhattan.
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How about the Kansas City current There are eight games remaining,
there are two months remaining, in the NASL season and
they have already clinched their playoff spot. They're fourteen games
clear of second place. In first place, they are unbeaten
at home. They beat the North Carolina Courage by account
of two to nothing, Rodriguez and Labina with the goals
(43:11):
in the first half. Solid another sellout crowd. Why wouldn't
you have sellouts if you're going to watch you take
a Broadway show, you go watch your team win every
time and smiles abound all around. They've had one draw
and all the rest wins in their home games. So
just an unbelievable feel good story for the Teal, that's
for sure. And it has been anything but that for
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Kerrie Sevagnegna and Sporting Kansas City. But they get a
four to two win over Colorado. Certainly, Deon Dravelcik has
not been the man who has been responsible for their troubles.
He's got sixteen goals now, got his hundredth goal as
an MLS player in a feel good win early stop
(43:52):
of a penalty kick by John pulse Camp. Then Colorado
would take the lead to one and then three goals
within about eight minutes. In the second HALFKC made it
a fun night at Children's Mercy Park, and there haven't
been too many of those this year, that is absolutely
for sure. And then we wrap it up with a
little frown for me. For those of you who see
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on this particular podcast usually towards the end, if you
don't like golf or you don't like worldwide soccer, you
can just stop listening because it's usually the last thing
and at the end. And so I'm tossing in a
little Premier League. The biggest early match of the year
was Liverpool, the defending champions and my Arsenal team, who
had won their first two games. Was kind of a
(44:34):
cagy affair, which often happens in the matchups between two
top teams. Arsenal played very well in the first half,
Liverpool played better in the second half. Was basically a
dead even game until an absolutely fantastic free kick as
mentioned before by Silva Sly from looked like thirty five
yards out and nobody in the world could have stopped it.
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It was in the upper corner side, netting one to
nothing to final count. Not a good start to my
labor day, but it's always good start talking sports on
a Monday. I didn't take the holiday off. Maybe you'll
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count of four to two. So seventeen thousand happy people there,
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concluded watching yesterday's biggest match in the Premier League season
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Silver sly for Liverpool with a worldI is what they
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was a reporter and I didn't pick the win. But
I always enjoy Sundays at the ballpark and I get
to see Trek school will pitch and we'll talk about
that in a little bit. I mean, it's not a
disaster of a weekend. The Tigers are better than the Royals.
I think they prove that, and they're not a good
matchup for the Royals. And the Roys lost two out
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of three. It's not what you want at this time
of year. And the Texas Rangers of all of a
sudden getting hot, so they've passed the Royals. So that's
another fly in the ointment in the playoff chase.
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Yeah, that's not ideal. And the Royals win three or
four against the Rangers, and then and they get the
news that oh my god, I'm blanking on his name.
They're ace.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Oh my god, Evaldi, Oh how could I I literally
all I could think of.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Was to gram and I'm going to get hurt for
one surprisingly. Yeah, you think he's out, and they're okay,
they're done, they're toast, and they just they've caught fire.
Now they're even in the lost column. And the Royals
obviously have the tiebreaker because they're six and one against
them this year.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
So.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
They've technically passed them. But it's a schedule base because
they've got one more game than the Royals, I think,
So it's I'm not terribly concerned. They're so hot and cold,
but so are the Royals. It's not you can't you
can't say, oh, the Rangers have a tough schedule and
they're hot and cold. Well, the Royals have a tough
schedule and they're hot and cold.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
So, right, the Royals had to stay hot. They haven't,
but they're still in it. They're five and six and
there last eleven. That's not what you would have wanted,
but it's still right there in eight.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Yeah, I mean it's you knew they were going to
cool off a little bit. It's a matter of did
they cool off to the point that it looks like
they did in June, or do they cool off to
the point that teams just have five and six stretches
that sort of thing. So, and I you're okay. I mean,
I think they're okay. They're in good shape. I wrote
about this today. I put out the path to eighty
(08:23):
six wins a couple of weeks ago, and it included
them being thirteen and nine through the first twenty two
games of that stretch. They're thirteen and nine. So, I mean,
it's not it would have been nice to pick up
an extra win, so they didn't have, you know, because
right now they're they're right where I thought they should
be to get there. But that includes the series sweep,
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That includes a lot of series wins. Would have been
nice to get Friday would have been nice to get,
you know, the Sunday in Minnesota or the finale against
the Nationals. There there will always be games that you
can look at and go, well, if they had won that,
they would be No, that's every team has that. But
they're right where I thought they should be on the
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on that path. So there are worse things, and you're
right the Tigers, I I wrot those too. I don't
other than Tarek Schoogle, I don't think the Tigers are
an exceptionally great team. I think they're They're very They're
they're solid all around. They don't have a lot of holes.
I don't see them as worlds better than the Royals.
(09:26):
I think they're better, but.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I think they do right.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
They do things right. I think that's part of it too.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I think they have the best manager in baseball. A. J.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Hinch is excellent. I think he tends to overmanage sometimes,
but I think all he's also very smart and and
and I think mcuatreo overmanageres sometimes too, but he's also
very smart. I think I think mctara is one of
the best too.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I don't think I think, I don't think it's I
don't think it's any kind of a of a mismatch one.
But but this year, I think one of the differences
between the two teams, and of course it's a wide
gap now, is the fact that the Royals haven't been
great at the little things this year.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
They haven't. They haven't, they They've They've made some sake
and their base running. I don't know if you've noticed this.
Their base running has gotten a lot better since the break,
which is interesting because they've hit and I think that
you look at I had a theory a while back
that the base running was so bad because they're just pressing.
They're doing everything they're trying to do to We talked
about it a couple of weeks ago. Since the break, though,
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they've hit and they haven't had to press, and their
base running has been better. Look at that, that's crazy,
But anyway, don't I don't look at the Tigers and
see a team like a billion times better than the Royals.
They just are enough better that they are. They've they've
dominated the season series.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, their bullpen's only okay, you know, but they have
the best pitcher or one of the best pitchers in baseball.
They're saying, there's a handful of really really good ones.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
But who do you put it? It's Google schemes, what
Garrett Crochet? Yeah, this year, I mean, I don't I
don't know who else you put in that category.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I don't think there is anyone else you put in
that category this year. Obviously it's gonna flexibly change. School
is just such a new unique picture. I was talking
again with Drake from A ten and on the UH
I think we talked about that off the air, but yeah,
before you know, he threw about ten school, but threw
about ten pitches, And I said, you know what, he
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pitches like like Mark Burley with great stuff.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Yes, such a great comparison. Yes he is, he's he's incredible.
And then I've talked a couple of people who are
connected with the Tigers, not with the Tigers, and they
they're they're a little bit worried about do you give
him a long term deal. He's got the injury history.
When's the arm gonna blow out. It's kind of the question.
(11:50):
But man, I don't know how you let him go
when he hits free agency. I don't know how you say,
all right, thanks for everything, we'll see you later, even
if it's a terrible contract, even if it is.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
A every pitching contract is a terrible contract, you know.
But you know it's just the price of doing business.
How many how many terrible contracts? Really? You are there
for quarterbacks in the National Football League a lot because
you have to pay him a ridiculous sum, and only
a handful of them are really good. So but they
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do they do, you know, treat him with pretty good
kid gloves. He's so efficient that he manages to to
pitch a lot of innings anyway. But when he was
when he was at eighty five pitches yesterday, I was
looking at it, and then I looked at his game log.
He's only thrown a hundred pitches twice now it was.
(12:40):
Now it's consistently like ninety five, ninety six. But basically
what they say is he gets into the nineties, if
he's gonna go into the hundreds in the next inning,
we're taking them out.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
And he usually gives up nothing. So also they're kind
of comfortably ahead a lot of times when he leaves
the ball, they're.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Gonna solid offense. So it's you know, four to one.
You know, okay, we can we can go to a
mediocre bullpen and have no problem because there's only two innings.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
You know, you don't feel as bad about it. But
because they uh, you know, they didn't score. So but
yesterday was not a good day for the defense.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
No, And and you know it's funny because it's not funny,
but it was the opposite. On Saturday, defense played great,
right yet a couple of great plays from mass He
made a great play, but he's been good since he's
come back, made a great play. They tracked balls well
in the outfield. I mean Nick Lotson almost made a
great play on that double by Riley Green in the
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ninth inning. And then they come back and it was
it was rough. And I mean, I think you're seeing
the issues with having Tyler Tolbert be a true backup
and not a twenty sixth man. And he had a
great played appearance on Saturday. So you know it's it
giveth and take it away, of course.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
But.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
I think I don't. I think even the Royals would
tell you might have to get J. J. Piccolo a
little bit saw stuff to tell you this, But I
don't think he would say that the plan was for
Tyler Tolbert to play against all lefties in centerfield. I
think that that probably is not where they thought this
was season was going. And you see why he's not
a good defender out there. He's very fast, so he
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makes up for mistakes sometimes, but he he misplayed a
couple of balls and one really hurt them and one didn't.
But you know, it's they need to be better in
that regard. When you when you're facing Trek Scuoble, you
can't make mistakes, right, even when he's not on the mound,
and they made mistakes, and it, like you said, I
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don't think it would have mattered.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Zero zero doesn't win very often, right.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Yeah, that I have. I actually this is a fun stat.
No team has ever won scoring zero, So the Royals
would have been the first. But they didn't get done.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
They did not get it done. Let's let's talk about
the good pitching news first and then get to the
troubling story. And they bring up Stephen Kolek I'm so
glad that you know. And he is a stand up guy.
I like watching him pitch, et cetera. But if Michael
Walker hadn't pitched Sunday and stayed on paternity to leave,
which he could have, I would have been disappointed. I'm
usually all in favor of, you know, family time and
(15:15):
all that, but in a big series against the Tigers.
But he did, and he talked about it afterwards. He
did what he felt was the right thing. Everything was
safe at home, and you know, his wife and baby
were good, so he pitched. But anyway, Colic comes up
and takes his original spot on Saturday, and he was good.
And so far that trade with San Diego, although I'm
sure they're happy with the two, it's been awful kind
(15:37):
to the Royals.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Yeah, boy, I mean, you get to a points if
you're an opposing general manager and JJ Piccolo says, hey,
we'd love this pitcher, don't you start to think, wait, wait, wait,
why why do you want him? Can you tell us what?
You just just give us a little hint into what
you see in him and why you want him. And
it's not that Colak was good for the pot. Burgert
(16:01):
was good for the Padres. So it's not like they
didn't know they had solid pitchers. But at some point
the other gms are gonna go, I don't I don't
want to give you my pitcher. No, thank you. There's
clearly a reason you want him because he just keeps
doing it. And I guess Bailey Falter is the he
He had to throw in the Bailey Falter to make
teams still want to trade with him. I think so. Yeah,
(16:23):
Colic looked really good, a little bit of good fortune.
He was hit hard, but in the zone. But the
defense makes some plays behind him, and if they didn't
make the plays, it could have looked very different. So
you know, it's very results base. But also twited all
season for the Padres when he had a reasonable four,
he are just above four. That's a really solid number
(16:46):
five starter. And that's a guy that hey, you can
you can get, you can get somewhere with him, and
that there are two things the team needs to do.
They need to they need to be built for to
go one hundred and sixty two games, and they need
to be built for the playoffs. And I don't know
that Stephen Kolech is a guy who is part of
the playoff picture, right, But he's a guy who gets
(17:08):
you through one sixty two and you need both of that.
And yeah, he looked really good. I'll be curious. I'm
wondering they sent him right back down, which I wish
they hadn't had to, don't. I don't see another option
honestly for him at this point because it wasn't September.
They could have left him up had it been August
thirty first that he made that start, but they it
(17:29):
was August thirtieth, and so it had to send him
down or send somebody down, and he was the one
who made the most sense because he wouldn't be available
for a few days. I'm curious, is there an injury
still left that might get him back up before he's
down for the full fifteen days. So we'll see. We'll
see on that. But he looked really good.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Well, I remember, like the start of this bad run,
I watched Lugo pitch and I said he's hurt. Well,
nobody says he's hurt, but he's pitching like it. And
you s meanted and you know, filling up the strike
zone earlier with Kolik, which is a good comment. Well,
Lugo just threw stuff right down the middle, and his start,
(18:10):
he just there's no other way addressing it up. He's
been bad for a month.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
More than that. I mean, if you go back to
the All Star breaks. At first started against the Marlins,
remember he gave up five and he settled down after
he gave up early runs. But he wasn't good then that.
He went out against the Cubs and was really solid,
then got the contract extension and has been pretty bad since.
He was really good against the Braves to start and
(18:35):
then fell apart, and it's just been bad. And he
had hit one decent start since then. And I don't
know what they do. And part of it, I think
the Tigers might have his number a little bit, So
let's let's keep that in mind. But I don't know
what you do. You just gave the guy forty six
(18:55):
million dollars up to sixty what is up to sixty three?
Is that right as high as it can go? I think, whatever,
whatever it is, keep the guy a lot of money.
You gotta make sure he's right. And maybe you remember
better than me. I I think I remember them saying
that the finger issue he had back in May was
something that wouldn't fully heal until the off season. Do
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you remember that?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
I don't remember it, but it makes some sense. I mean, yeah,
you know, I don't know how a finger injury's going
to get up one hundred percent better when you got
to throw all the time, well.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Right, and when you only he only he didn't even
make a rehab story. He actually came back against the
Tigers and got lit up right, and then he was
really good after that for a while. But I don't know,
I could see that being an issue. I could see
general fatigue being an issue. Maybe his back hurts. He's
thirty five years old. I I mean, I'm older than
that now, but my back hurts too. You know, stuff happens,
(19:49):
and I mean it's it's got to be. You said
that there has to be something, because if it's not,
it's even more worrisome. You rather almost at this point
with this struggle, well, you'd rather him come out and say, yeah,
my shoulders tight, I'm fine, I'm just tired. My back
hur it's my hamsh whatever it is. You want, almost
(20:10):
want an injury because then you go, oh, okay, this
all makes sense, this all makes sense. Get him healthy,
You're fine. And I do wonder we haven't seen it yet,
and well, let's see what did he pitched Friday? Right,
so they can still I l him tomorrow and backdate
it to Saturday because you can go back three days.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
So I just don't think it's gonna happen. Apparently he's fine,
you know.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
I don't think so either. It's just it's bizarre if
he's not. If he's healthy, there is like no explanation
unless it's And I wrote it up a couple weeks ago,
and you know, I noticed his right foot was dragging
a little bit on delivery. His extension was down a
(20:59):
little bit on his pitches, which makes a lot of
sense that a lot of the fastballs have been tailing
arm side. So like, all of it adds up, But
the question is why, And if it's purely mechanical, you
can't I l him because they've cracked out on that.
You can't fake injuries. You can't make up an injury.
Now that said, every picture in September is hurting, right,
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there's nobody who you would go to again. Saw them
up a little bit, and then the answer is going
to be, yeah, my backers, Yeah, my arm hurts. Yeah,
whatever hurts my neck hurt at all. There's pain because
they've been pitching since what mid February pictures and catchers reported,
So I think you can probably find something, but to
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them it must just be purely mechanical and they're working
on it. But boy, it's really tough to make the playoffs.
But every fifth day, the guy who you're counting on,
who in your mind the start of the season was
your number two playoffs start, was starting game two of
a playoff series. It's really tough. When that guy's given
up five runs in three innings, six runs in four innings,
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gives up a six to one lead like you did
last Sunday. It's just difficult. It is.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
So now twenty five games left, we're going to have
an interesting day during the day today, Well, many people
aren't paying attention. Jonathan India has gone on the IL,
so we're gonna see Jack Caglion and Carter Jensen for sure,
and one other player and how they configure it doesn't
really matter. Cagleone has been bashing the ball just like
he did before he came up, so and Carter Jensen
(22:34):
has been red hot. So these are two guys that'd
be intriguing to see how they're used.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Yeah, and you know they when when Jack Hecklean was
called up right before that, they said, look, we don't
want to bring him up to a lineup that he
has to feel like he's a savior. We want to
bring him up to a lineup that's hitting. Okay, they
scored six runs in three games, so they're not currently hitting.
But this lineups been good since the All Star break.
This is the line up they wanted to bring them
up to, and they finally got it. The problem is
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part of the reason it's this way is because there's
got a guy playing right field now, and so I'm
very curious how how they utilize Kaglio. Is they're gonna
be a pinch hitter. Is he going to play? Is
going to move over to left? In Kagulia don't play
right against right? He's maybe I could see it the Shrimps.
He doesn't have a ton of left field experience, but
he's a good defender, so I don't I don't think
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that will be a huge issue for him. Or do
they say, look, you're we're gonna we really want that
power bat off the bench. I I could see that too,
and he starts twice a week he comes off the bench.
I you know, I have my doubts about it if he
can be successful in that role. But I the colman
(23:42):
of comment whereas I think it was Andy Rodgers wrote
about it that he's too good for the level. He's
too good for Triple A. You can't. It's very difficult
to learn things when you can make mistakes and still
be better than everybody. So it's one of those things
that is it better to have him bashed Triple A
pitching or get the occasional home run and the majors,
(24:05):
So that'll be interesting. I'm really curious how they use
Jensen more than anything, because Salva Perez has struggled in
the last month when he's had to catch more, and
so they clearly don't want Luke Maylee catching as much
as they want wanted Freddy Ferman catching, which I get
I've watched him. He've watched him, makes sense. He's he's
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a he's more of a true backup catcher. Does Jensen
catch almost every day against Righty's Maybe maybe you see
Jensen in there four days a week, and if Jensen's
in there, he's probably catching most of those days. He's
from what I've heard, he's really improved defensively, has a
great eye. He doesn't chase pitches, he doesn't. He doesn't
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swing and miss that often. He does strike out because
he gets deep into counts. But I I think that
I think you're gonna see a lot of Carter Jensen,
which I was a little bit surprised by, because if
you know, a part of the reason you don't bring
guys up in or you don't trade for guys at
the deadline trade for catchers of the deadline is because
they have to learn a new pitching staff. Jensen outside
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of spring training. I looked it up. He's only caught
I believe I might be missing somebody, but in his
career he's only caught Lunda Avila, who is one of
the September call ups, right, Jonathan Bolan and Noah Cameron,
And he only caught Cameron once or twice last year
because their paths crossed for a week in Double A
before Cameron got promoted. So you're learning a staff in
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September in a playoff race. There's some risk there. But
I think the hope is that his bad is good
enough and that he allows Salvi's back to rebound as well. Well.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Twenty five games left. ESPN lists the Royals playoff percentage
shit between ten and eleven percent. Too high, too low.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
I think that's about right.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I think so three games bad.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
I mean, you think about it. If you simulate the
season one hundred times, they make it ten times. I
would buy that. I don't think that's surprising at all.
The saving grace and this this will go away eventually.
But they are three games behind Seattle and they play
three games against Seattle, right, it's if you keep I
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think they need to gain. It would be ideal if
they're one game out. Well, the ideal if they're ahead
of them, obviously by the time they get there. But
if they get to that series a game behind them,
I would put their playoff chances that I don't know,
forty percent, right. If they get to that series two
games behind them, i'd put it at twenty five percent.
(26:37):
If they're three games back, I think five to ten percent.
At that point, there's only twelve games left, so I
think I think that's right. It would be pretty tough,
But as long as you're keeping pace with Seattle, they
got to gain a game at least, but as long
as you're keeping pace, you've still got them, So I
think that's huge. But yeah, I think ten percent is
probably about right.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Well, I keep waiting for Seattle to play better. I
think they're underachieving right now. I think they've got a
good team, so I don't know what the hell they're doing,
but thank goodness, they're doing it. Because the Red Sox
and the Yankees, they they've stepped on the gas and said, Okay,
we're going to be the wildcard teams for sure.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
And yeah, I think i'd be surprised if the Yankees,
I think have figured it out. The Red Sox they've
been more like other teams and that they they'll get
really hot and really cold, really hot, really cold, so
there might be a cold tretch. But they played much better.
I don't see it with them either. I think it's
the Mariners.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Yep, I think so too. You've got to take advantage
of the of the Angels, so you have six times
and the Twins who have been in the tank. Because hell,
everybody said, well, you've got a great road trip at
the end. The Athletics, although they get swept this weekend,
they've been great for a long time, So I think
that's I think that's a dangerous I don't want to
(27:52):
have to go beat the athletics, you know, three times
or something like that.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Have you looked at their schedule so they I don't know,
I might be wrong, slightly off on the number, but
they're what are they eleven games under right now? Ten
games under there? But they went six and twenty six
I think in a stretch in the middle, which means
you can't take that away, but that means that they
were outside of that stretch. They've been ten games over
right ish.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Yeah, before they get swept this weekend, they had won
twenty one of thirty one, So yeah, they're not They're
getting hit.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
They can really hit. They've got some interesting pitching too.
It's not that's a team. If you want, if you
want to look ahead the next year and say, okay,
what team is going to make the playoffs that didn't
this year, I would pick the A's or the Royals
because I think the Royals are going to miss the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Yeah, it looks like they have a superstar too, so
you know that.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Yeah, oh yeah, one hundred percent. But yeah, I mean
the other thing, you never they're a young team, and
young teams generally, a lot of these guys have not
played for full six months, so there is they could
hit a wall. Maybe maybe that's what happened, but they
could hit a wall before then, and they are really
struggling that last week, and you take advantage. But I
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don't think that's a gimme series for sure.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Well, it'll be interesting to watch and we've got interesting
baseball to watch with twenty five games left. And that's
always cool, David, And it's always cool talking to you.
Thanks for taking some time out on the holiday, and
we'll talk to you again real soon.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
Sounds good, thanks Danny.
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Welcome back, and we are going to do the roundup
after the break this time I'm around, so we have
a nice balance of segments. There got all the Royal
stuff in a little bit of the round up from
David Leski from inside the Crown. Always thanks to him.
That's always fun. I always enjoy talking baseball with him.
I enjoy my Sundays at the park when I do that,
which I did yesterday, and I enjoy looking at baseball
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results and baseball standings, and I like bringing it to
you on Mondays. And here we go the Toronto Blue
Jays once seemingly impenetrable. Impregnable, that's the word I was
looking for in the American League east of seeing the
Yankees and the Red Sox get very hot and make
it kind of a race there with about twenty five
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games to go. Yankees three games back after winning seven
of their last ten, Red Sox three and a half
games back after winning seven of their last ten. What
those two teams did was separate themselves mightily from the Royals.
So now it's a different kind of mix with the
Mariners and the Rangers and the Royals. As we talked
about Tampa Bay Rays, I guess with if it says
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you have a one point seven percent chance of making
the playoffs. I guess you have a chance, as they've
played well of late, also swept over the weekend. They
did the sweeping over the weekend and moved to sixty
seven and sixty nine. And the Oils have played well
for a while, but they had a bad week and
they've had a bad run, lost eight of their ten,
and they will finish as the last place team in
the American League East, which I don't think anybody would
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have predicted before the season began. The Tigers haven't been
great of late, but they still are comfortably ahead of
the Royals at nine and a half. And you saw
how good they could be, and once every three days,
once every five days. Boy would imagine if it was
once every three days, the trek school could pitch. He's
just amazing to watch. He throws strikes by the bushel,
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and you heard David talk about him. Just an amazing
pitcher to watch. And it's no fun when you're on
the other side of it. But just tip your cap
and try to move along. Royals in second Guardians picked
a bad time to play poorly. They've lost six of
their last ten, still over five hundred before the final
game of the weekend, took two from the Mariners, which
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they really needed to do, so they're still breathing. Royals
play them in a little bit for four games. That's
going to be sort of a knockout punch probably for
either team. Even if the teams were to split, probably
in that particular case, it wouldn't be good for either
one of them. So twins will provide opposition for the
Royals upcoming, and they've played very poorly since dismantling their team.
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White Sox have been better this year, but still not good,
and they'll be the cellar dwellers in the Central. The
Astros are hanging on to first place in the American
League West by a couple of games over the Mariners.
Both teams playing okay. The Texas Rangers have been the
hot team. They've won five in a row, eight of
their last ten, and they've moved past the Royals as
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we talked about in the wild card standings. The Angels
come to town for three and they've been okay this year.
They're dangerous enough to beat, you got to pay attention,
so we'll see how that goes. And the Athletics were
swept over the weekend which ended a extremely hot run
for them after right before that they had won twenty
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one of thirty one. But they get swept over the
weekend and they might be able to creep themselves out
of last, but it's going to take some doing for them.
In the National League, the Phillies look like they finally
got it in cruise control in the National League East,
but the Mets have sort of settled things down, even
though they lost on Saturday and Sunday. They are solidly
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in wild card position right now over the Reds, who
picked a bad time to drop eight out of ten.
We'll get to them in a moment. Marlins have been
better this year, but they're in third. Braves have pretty
much stunk all year, especially by their standards, and the
Nats aren't very good and they will finish last. Brewers
have it sewed up in the National League Central. They
continue to play excellent ball. They're on cruise control now,
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just trying to get things settled in and set for
the playoffs. They're almost to be the best team record
wise in the entire league too, so that's the case
for them. The Cubs have had a good season, but
I have lost some mojoke because Kyle Tucker hasn't played
well for a long time, but they're solidly in wild
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card position, and basically it's pretty much set unless the
Mets fall apart again. I guess the Reds could get
hot or the Cardinals could get hot, but they'd have
to get real hot, and the Pirates haven't done much
of getting hot all year long. They've been pretty bad.
And out West, there is a race. The Dodgers and
Padres have been parrying back and forth. The Dodgers have
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the edge right now at a couple games back. I
think most people have predicted that the Dodgers. I think
just about everybody predicted the Dodgers would be the best
team in the National League. They have not, and they're
not likely in any way to catch the Brewers for
the best record. Giants have won seven of their last ten.
Probably too little too late for them, but two percent
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playoff chance for them, one percent for the Diamondbacks, and
the Rockies have fallen back to losing most of the time.
They're the only team in baseball with a zero percent
chance of making the playoffs. Actually, they've been eliminated. They've
been eliminated on September first, on Labor Day from any
consideration for the playoffs, although there are a few teams
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that are listed as having less than one percent, like
the Pittsburgh Pirates, who are only mathematically alive. Let's turn
to the college football. It's Maszoo and KU on a
collision course for Saturday in Columbia, and they of course
both had blowout wins or blowoff wins. They certainly blew
off their opponent. The sequencing for Kansas to me, was
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better as they get a solid win over an actual
FBS team in Fresno before their walk over this past
weekend over Wagner and even worse opponent for Maszoo in
the only prep they will have, as they played Central
Arkansas and they destroyed them. It was tough to tell
much about that game. They lost Sam Horn, that's one
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thing we knew. They lost their kicker as well, Blake Craig,
at least for the short term, and in the end
that may be more damaging, although who knows. We will
have no idea how Sam Horn could have been because
he played one play. But Bo Prabula was quite good
in the game twenty three of twenty eight, a couple touchdowns.
He had some rushing yards. That's his Forte threw the
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ball effectively enough, but it was just a pathetic opponent.
So it was really it's hard to even judge what
Missouri is coming in. You have a much better idea
of what Kansas is. But I still Missouri's a solid favorite.
They're about a touchdown favorite. I think I agree with that,
But there's a lot of question marks. The question marks
are going to be answered in some regard, and that's
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about eighty five percent. We were talking about this on
Danny Unleashed on Friday on Sports Radio eight ten. Curtis said,
eighty percent of what we know about these two teams
will come in this game. I might say it's a
little bit more more than that. But Kansas, of course,
they had themselves to win over Wagner. Jalen Daniels has
been extra slick so far, no question about that. Thirty
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six for forty five. He has remained upright. He's taken
some shots and bounced back for them. They look like
they have a real weapon in Alabama transfer Emmanuel Henderson.
He went for one hundred and thirty and two touchdowns
in that one. The defense only gave up one hundred
and forty three yards, so pretty much everything looked solid
for the Jayhawks. But does that mean they're better than
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Missouri on their field? I don't think so. But they've
also got to me a lot less pressure. I mean this,
it wouldn't be a good it would be a bad loss.
I don't think there's any other way to dress it up.
It'd be a bad loss from Missouri. They're a solid
favorite in the game, they're playing on their home field.
They were a better team last year, so Kansas can
kind of free wheel it a bit. I don't think
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it loss is going to be damaging to them. They've
already got two wins put under their belt, so I
think I'm just looking forward to the game. It should
be a great fun game, and we'll be talking a
lot about that, of course on College Football Game Day
on Sports Radio A ten on Saturday. That should be
fun as well around the country. It was the first
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ever time that three top ten teams faced each other
on the first weekend, the first full weekend of the year,
and the lower ranked team won in all three as
it was Number three, beating number one Ohio State taking
out Texas. Although the game was considered a toss up
fourteen to seven defensive minded games and all three of
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the games actually arch Manning was okay but not great.
Texas loses in number nine LSU beat number four Clemson
that was a seventeen to ten game, another game where
defense was predominant, and then on Sunday evening it was
the number ten team Miami. I think most people would
probably consider that the biggest surprise of the three, maybe
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over in sixth ranked Notre Dame. That was a more
exciting game of all, had a little more offense in it,
twenty seven to twenty four. But the lower ranked teams
won all three in that opening weekend, making history with
the three top ten matchups. So it was kind of
a fun college football weekend. But locally the fun comes
Saturday Missouri and Kansas. That should be a lot of fun.
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By the way. Kansas state, of course, they barely escape
in their game as they played North Dakota and they
were expected to obviously win quite easily, and they did not,
and they ended up pulling it out with a late
touchdown great drive at the end for Avery Johnson, he
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had four touchdown passes in the game, but he also
had four balls that easily could have been intercepted. He
made a big run on the last drive, so it
was sort of a mixed bag. But also giving up
over thirty points to an FBS opponent is not good either.
There's so lots of question marks for Chris Climban's team. Basically,
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they all had to talk about the fact that we've
got to play better or this isn't going to be
the kind of season we're looking for. So the biggest
questions of the local college football teams by far are
for Kansas State, and they play an Army team and
the Service Academy teams are always difficult to play. They
usually play a slightly different brand of football. They're tough
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and gritty, and so it'd be a good time for
Kansas State to get things straightened out as they match
up against Army after a very disappointing start to the
season a lost to Iowa State already a league loss,
and then a near loss to North Dakota. So time
for Chris Climbing to do what he's actually often done
is circle the wagons and straightened things out. In Manhattan.
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How about the Kansas City current There are eight games remaining,
there are two months remaining, in the NASL season and
they have already clinched their playoff spot. They're fourteen games
clear of second place. In first place, they are unbeaten
at home. They beat the North Carolina Courage by account
of two to nothing, Rodriguez and Labina with the goals
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in the first half. Solid another sellout crowd. Why wouldn't
you have sellouts if you're going to watch you take
a Broadway show, you go watch your team win every
time and smiles abound all around. They've had one draw
and all the rest wins in their home games. So
just an unbelievable feel good story for the Teal, that's
for sure. And it has been anything but that for
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Kerrie Sevagnegna and Sporting Kansas City. But they get a
four to two win over Colorado. Certainly, Deon Dravelcik has
not been the man who has been responsible for their troubles.
He's got sixteen goals now, got his hundredth goal as
an MLS player in a feel good win early stop
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of a penalty kick by John pulse Camp. Then Colorado
would take the lead to one and then three goals
within about eight minutes. In the second HALFKC made it
a fun night at Children's Mercy Park, and there haven't
been too many of those this year, that is absolutely
for sure. And then we wrap it up with a
little frown for me. For those of you who see
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on this particular podcast usually towards the end, if you
don't like golf or you don't like worldwide soccer, you
can just stop listening because it's usually the last thing
and at the end. And so I'm tossing in a
little Premier League. The biggest early match of the year
was Liverpool, the defending champions and my Arsenal team, who
had won their first two games. Was kind of a
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cagy affair, which often happens in the matchups between two
top teams. Arsenal played very well in the first half,
Liverpool played better in the second half. Was basically a
dead even game until an absolutely fantastic free kick as
mentioned before by Silva Sly from looked like thirty five
yards out and nobody in the world could have stopped it.
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It was in the upper corner side, netting one to
nothing to final count. Not a good start to my
labor day, but it's always good start talking sports on
a Monday. I didn't take the holiday off. Maybe you'll
listen to this on the holiday. Maybe you'll listen to
it on Tuesday. The Royals don't play today, so it'll
be ever green through the time that the Royals play
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on Tuesday. So tell your friends, subscribe, join in, have
some fun, good numbers lately. We enjoy it and that'll
do it. Thanks to David Leski from Inside the Crown,
he was our friend today on Monday Musings Danny and
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