Is it last weekend of the regular season.

I love the smile.

Todd Father.

Hey dude, dude, we got a lot to do and we haven't seen you until now, so we're going to get your take on all these wild, wild races in some of your former ball clubs are very much in the thick of it, so we'll get to that.

Sometimes we do this topic in slappans.

I'm just going to do it now for a quick minute because I just caught it and I don't know if we'll have time later to be honest.

Sunday, Charlie Morton calling it a career.

He's going to start the game.

I don't think he's going to pitch much because Chris Sales actually the scheduled starter now the piggyback guy, and I think he's going to want to eat.

But congratulations to him.

Braves pick him up and he gets to finish with the Braves against the Pirates.

He spent seven years with the Pirates, So cool old moment.

You like that.

Krats.

A lot of guys don't get to say goodbye the way they want.

I think this would be one of those situations where he.

Does absolutely to get ten years in the big leagues.

It's rare to make the Hall of Fame.

It's just about as rare to go out on your own terms, and seems like he's going out on his own terms.

Obviously he wish is this year would have gone better, but it's so cool that's lining up.

He's gonna face the Pirates, the team who gave him a shot.

He didn't make his big league debut.

He made that with the Braves, and he's playing for the Braves like somehow we got to smatter in some astros here somehow, like because he's known for both.

But man, what a career.

Charlie Morton.

Man, when you think of him, you think of when he came into the league throwing ninety to ninety three, maybe hitting ninety four with that nasty, nasty breaking pitch, and then all of a sudden, three four years later he caught steam and was throwing ninety seven and ninety nine, Like, how do you do that?

I don't know.

I wish I could, you know, go from hitting two forty which was my average, to three ten, but that's just not going to happen.

So for him, congratulations, God lusher Man Austin, he got a world series ring right, if I'm not mistaken, he did, right, Scott, Yeah, he did, yep, and he exceeded all expectations because that ninety two was very hittable.

He had some stink to a little sink action the.

Curveball, but with that curveball in ninety eight, whole different ballgame.

So he lasted a long time and well deserved going away present here on sunder.

Yeah, World Series All Star.

And he guess what year?

What year?

Real quick?

Were you guys drafted?

What year?

Seven oh two?

That's the same as Charlie.

Charlie was drafted in two thousand and two.

He was a high school kid.

He was a high school kid.

He got traded over in the Jeff no not the Jeff Carsons deal, Ryan Church deal, I'm not sure, to the Pirates, and I got to catch his first triple A start.

He made like one or two more and the to the show.

Yeah, not until two thousand and eight, has to the show.

And then twenty eighteen was really the breakout for him, his age thirty four season, and then he had a nice little whatever seven year run where he's been pretty effective up until this year where he's calling it so anyway, cheers to Charlie.

That's happening on Sunday, But there are very meaningful games going down over the next few days.

Let's get to it.

Charge out.

We're charging baby, Let's set it up.

Diamondbacks have a shot, Reds have a shot.

Mets have a shot.

What's going on with your Reds?

Though?

This week?

Top five?

They have good pitching, but I've spent a lot of time watching them.

Are they going to score some runs this weekend?

They're better?

They better snuck by that last game too.

They had a chance.

They had so many opportunities to kind of get two out of three at least there extra innings.

Man, they were sitting in the driver shoot.

I was out in Cincinnati.

Jeff Ruby Foundation charity, and it was it was electric.

The people in there, Like I was trying to talk football, but they know the Bengals are done, so they were basically talking baseball.

And this would be so good for this, for the for the city.

I said, yeah, without a doubt, like this is awesome.

I was actually excited too, man.

I almost stayed another day just to watch the game.

But it was good to see a packed house.

It was good to see the energy.

They still got a good chance here to matter with the Mets, and now Mets have to lose and they have to win.

Packed house, question Mark, they sold some tickets, question Mark.

I think I thought since he should have should have shown out a little bit better.

I get it during the week schools back in I needed to see more since he fans.

But the Reds Bats really didn't say, hey, come out and watch us.

They were like, don't tell us, don't tell us these games.

Besides Tyler Stevenson, they wouldn't have been in the second game.

And without that catch from noelbe Marte, who knows what happens?

Like they gotta hit, they gotta hit.

I feel like they're gonna break out in this series.

Maybe.

Well again, he's knocking the red legs there a little bit, man.

Yeah, and I did too.

Earlier in the week, Todd Father the Skeens Green game had great attendance.

I don't care what the numbers are.

You can look at the ballpark feed and see who's there and whatever.

Yesterday apparently it was twenty four thousand.

It was much bigger for Skans in Green.

So yeah, it hasn't been a massive turnout.

I'm like, guys, this is your postseason right now?

This is it?

Yeah, I mean that's it's kind of par for the course.

But twenty four thousand is a lot more than they've been having the whole season.

So they feel it, they understand it.

But is it a little bit too late?

I don't know the Mets.

Who the Mets playing again, I just draw a blank.

The Marlins.

Mets are playing the Marlins.

The Reds are in Milwaukee, and the Diamondbacks are in San Diego.

Yeah, let me see here, Milwaukee, the Marlins.

The Marlins have their three best pitchers going.

The Brewers, guys are.

On the game.

They need to win one of them.

Yeah, just one.

It's a conjuring Cabrera.

So they're gonna make it.

They're gonna make it tough on them.

I mean, they're not gonna They're not gonna roll over.

The Marlins sures heck aren't gonna roll over.

Not saying the Brewers are.

But I know, like today, Quinn Priesters going.

I saw places he might have a fifty pitch count.

They let Freddy p go to seventy five and he was rolling pulled him out.

So I'm not saying They're not gonna try to win the game.

I'm saying, you're not getting the cavalcade of brewers pitchers.

You're gonna get the guy in the situation that it matters for that situation.

But from there, if the Reds can outlast this pitching staff, they have a chances.

We've taken two out of three.

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By the way, quick side note, because I did the research while we were talking, Great American Ballpark hold forty three and a half thousand their reported number yesterday, And I get it.

I mean it was a day game and then rain delay ish a little bit, but twenty four thousand reported number, so it was less than that, especially when you had the rain situation.

So I mean it's a half empty ballpark.

Sorry, I get it.

Tickets are expensive all that.

We've gone through all of that, and there's things that teams should be doing to help.

Although I think there were single digit dollar tickets that were available anyway for that game.

I believe there were five, six, seven, eight nine dollars tickets when I looked it up that the team was making available, not even for the secondary market.

So you just look at that compared to what Cleveland was like for the last few games against Detroit.

It's a big difference.

It was a different feel besides the Skiings screen game that was lit.

So now they're going to have to go beat the best record in baseball.

Even if they're chilling a little bit, crats, they don't have any bad arms, right.

The Brewers are still just naturally by playing going to be a pest to play against.

You know, you're not getting like a garbage time pitcher to go up against.

They don't have that, no, for sure.

But you're also not getting guys who are like, all right, like if he gets in a jam here, we're gonna definitely go to this guy.

They're not gonna be going They're not gonna be dry humping dudes in the bullpen.

You mean guys that are getting some extra just a little extra leash to get Hey, we want this guy, we want your rebate to get to twenty pitches.

If he's under it, we might give him another hitter.

If he's over it, we're not letting him out there.

That kind of thing that is not giving up by the Brewers.

That is just it's a lane for the Reds, which I don't think are even in the same class as the Brewers to be able to beat to be able to beat these guys.

Tom Father, let me ask you.

Oh, go ahead, and I got one for you.

No, no, no, no, go ahead.

I'll lean on what you're saying too.

I want the hitter's perspective here from the other side.

Okay, you have three teams that have a chance at a playoff spot.

The Mets are in control of their destiny.

If the Mets went out this weekend, it's a done deal.

Since the Mets were able to take care of business against the Cubs.

But theoretically you have three teams involved.

Right, Two of them are playing teams that are already in the postseason and essentially know what's going on.

They're not playing for much.

And then one is going up against the Marlins team that can just have fun and play spoiler.

Take me inside the brain of what a Padres or Brewer's position player is feeling and what a Marlins position player is feeling.

Is this like fun playing with house money?

Let's just go rip the baseball because we're in the playoffs, or for the Marlins case, we're not, and let's just screw up their season.

Well, first and foremost, as a hitter, at least what I thought I wanted to have round numbers.

I learned that from Dusty Baker.

You know, if you have eighty nine RBIs, I want to get to ninety.

Just an example, Like you want you're bat in two sixty nine, you want to get to two seventy whatever it is, Like, that's what happened to me with the Mets.

I was.

Get one number, I was, but I rounded it up to a higher number and then they took me out of the game.

So I can see that happening in Milwaukee for sure.

And it's a happy, go lucky atmosphere.

You know you're gonna have home field advantage.

You know, it's got to be seventy five eighty percent, knowing because if one team loses, they're automatically getting home field advantage, so they don't even have to win a game anymore, honestly to get the home field advantage, you know, throughout.

But at the same time, the Marlins, they're like, yo, let's just go have some fun and ruin and ruin this team here.

Let's try and get this team out of the playoffs.

Something to play for.

You got a little chip on your shoulder, Yeah, I know, it's football season now for that team.

But at the same token, whatever the manager wants me to throw, I'm gonna give you fifty of the best pitches I got.

I'm gonna show the manager for next year what I got that.

I'm not gonna lay down just because we're losing and we don't have a chance to get to the playoffs.

So I would be more scared if I'm playing the Marlins than I am the Brewers.

But just because of the fact the Brewers, it's like spring training right now.

Let me just get my two of bats and you know, put the young gun in so I don't.

You know, get hurt or have any problems moving forward.

I like it.

Hey, let's show the bracket.

Let's take a look at the postseason picture in the National League where it stands at the moment.

If the Mets win out, or say, let's they go two and one and so do the other teams right like they're in control, they would end up with that last spot that nobody wants in the National League and they would take on the Dodgers.

Padres are matching up with the Cubs.

Winner of that one would go on to face the Brewers.

Phillies are matching up with the winner of the Mets and the Dodgers.

Man, I mean, Crats.

It's not necessarily a fun ride for the Phillies.

By the way, if it ends up being Mets Dodgers, they have to play either the Mets or the Dodgers.

I think if I'm the Phillies, I would definitely rather play the Cubs.

Padres, I think you could make a case either way there, and I would rather play the Brewers.

I mean, maybe that's going out on a limb because they were the best regular season team, but I gotta see them be different in the playoffs, which hasn't been the case for the last half decade.

Yeah, and the Brewers handled them during the season.

To me, I think the Phillies aren't afraid if it's the Mets, as long as they're not in City Field.

You have to win.

You gotta win all three games, and it's the it's a five game series, so you have to win.

It puts so much pressure on it.

But what do we always say, the team that gets hot at the beginning of the playoffs makes that run.

You can't just like kind of meander around at the beginning and then hopefully get it going.

You might as well play the best team that you think's out there right out of the gate, because you either got it or you don't.

There's no runway, you don't have, you have any runway runway here.

You got to come out guns and blazing right away.

Yeah, it's a shorter.

Yes it is.

And I think Krata you said it well, which was on the contrary last year.

The team's going to come in hot, and that's why this layoff to me.

I still think it's troublesome for a Brewer team and a Philly team.

Not saying they can't do it, but they're taking Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, four to five days off of not playing meaningful baseball.

So I, in my opinion, I still think that matters.

I wish there was a different format for that.

I wasn't a guy that could take four or five days off and be ready to rock.

It just wasn't in my nature.

So yeah, this is it's gonna be.

It's gonna be one of those things where you think one of those teams is gonna make a nice run, like a team in the past has done well.

I will point out last year, three out of four by teams advanced right yep, you have prior years.

In prior years, it didn't happen.

So either way, whatever happens, there'll be excuses coming from teams.

We will look forward to those excuses.

What need it they need Trey Turner to get back.

I'm not saying mund three Homers isn't isn't the answer.

They're better team with Trey Turner in the lineup, and he needs those extra days, so that could that could save him.

No players still, no players come out that's currently playing and saying, dang it, I wish we didn't have these next four days off to get healthy.

Now, when they say that before the series, then I'll listen to them.

Get after it like the Baltimore Orioles did with their Minions dress up.

I'm not a Minions guy.

I like them.

I've never seen any of the movies.

Like it's you know, I don't have kids, and it's what should I see them?

You have to you need, you need to see some Minions in your life, Scott, have.

You seen it?

Todd Father?

Yeah, I haven't seen the movie.

No, let's go two to one.

We got you that I'm not into.

But I'm like, what that that was cool?

What did you dress up as Todd?

What was your dress up?

I was in a diaper and had a binky in my mouth and a bib and that's yesterday.

That was it.

And we walked six blocks in New York City to get to our They dropped us off six blocks away.

That was who That was something special.

Six blocks of glory, glory of.

Of eight miles in a diaper and sucking on a BANKI and a bib on that was that was pretty.

Nobody even nobody even looked, not even looked twice in New York.

It was the perfect place, so perfect place.

That is true in fairness.

In New York there's so much going on at all times, and people dressed up that I mean, walk through Times Square, you'd be like, oh, oh that.

I'm surprised they didn't try to throw you a few bucks, like we take pictures with you.

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Jose Burrios has been a model of health for real.

This is the first time he's placed on the injured list in eleven years, and they're checking out his elbow and that's concerning especially Kratzer Boy John Schneider said that this isn't new.

It's been an issue going for a bit here, and I think it just reached the boiling point.

You saw a little bit of a decline towards the end of the season too, And to go eleven years and pitch in this day and age and to have the success that he's had and not going to il you hope this is not what we think it is.

But this is a guy clearly was pitching through something and you just got to get it right.

Yeah, and you give them credit because they were fighting to get in the playoffs here, and now that they're in, it's like, all right, maybe I can keep going through That's probably what the mindset was, you know, speculation, of course, but maybe I could fight through this, get through it and hopefully help this team in the playoffs and maybe we could look at it later.

But yeah, unfortunate, very unfortunate.

I'd like the guy.

I think he's been great.

You know, if I'm playing against him, he's a really good ball play and this this is gonna hurt a little bit.

And and if he was going through this, this is a guy that he agreed to pitch out of the pen on a random day.

I think two or three days ago, it was looking like he wasn't going to be in the rotation for the playoffs, and he agreed to pitch out the pen.

So to do that and you're hurting that to me, that's another level.

But you know, we'd had to ask his teammates, you know how they feel about it, because I think that's a that's a boss move by.

Him, no doubt.

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We're gonna start with an Ale East report, Todd Father taking over.

What do you have for us on the American League East clubs, the Blue Jays, the Yankees, and the Red Sox heading into the final three days of the regular season.

Yeah, this is uh the this is awesome.

This is just all I mean.

Listen, if you're if you're a fan of either team, that goes my mic in the back of my head.

If you're a fan of either team, excuse me, this is incredible.

If you're a fan of baseball, this is incredible.

They are both tied.

I know the Blue Jays have the tiebreaker, yep.

But at the end of the day, you just feel this Yankee team is getting hot at the right time.

It's unfortunate to me to think that one of these teams, they're gonna have the second best record in the American League, but they're gonna have to play.

And they're not going to get a bye.

You know.

I just think that's the tough part about it.

But again, the Blue Jays have it all squared away.

They're playing against the Rays.

It's gonna come down and who loses one of these games out of the three.

I don't see either of them losing.

But I do see some close games and some you know, tightness coming of both sides, like oh boy, tie game.

Going in the eighth or ninth.

Like this is where you just sit back, you know, have whatever you want, a root beer or glass avino, whatever it is, and just enjoy this game of baseball, because not only playoffs are great, but this last three games, this last week, I really enjoy this even a lot more because there's a lot more teams that are fighting to get to where they need to be.

Yeah, I would love to see I would love to see these games go down to the last day.

But you talk about teams getting hot at the end of the season, like ooh, that's what really propels them in I know, in twenty eighteen.

Every game down the stretch mattered because we were trying to win the division.

And that's exactly what these guys are doing.

We got a day off, we beat the Cubs, they had to go play the wild card.

Now these teams have to go play the Wildcard series.

Winning the division is so key and playing meaningful games, you're already getting the feeling, like Todd said, that feeling like oh no, we're down by a run.

Oh no, we're up by a run.

Oh oh, we looked at the scoreboard, they're down by run.

Now you get that confidence.

It just it's like a slow it's a slow build into the crescendo that is the playoffs.

And I think I think it'll set the teams in the East apart from other teams in the league.

Also just want to clarify, the Mariners have a chance still to finish with the top or second best record.

So there is that chance.

You're saying, yeah, there might be the two top in the in the East.

Right, they're both ninety one and sixty eight, the Blue Jays and the Yanks.

Heading into the last weekend, Mariners are ninety and sixty nine.

They match up with the Dodgers.

Dodgers not really playing for anything, so they're going to get their ducks in a row.

Mariners are right, I mean, Mariners are playing for some pretty serious home field situations.

This is a team that wants to make the World Series.

You want to you want to shove these last three games, right, And we know cal Riley's trying to hit ninety home in the last few days of the year.

Sons might Yeah, well we know that.

But I'm saying the Mariners still have a chance to have the top record in the American League.

And so then everything goes through Seattle.

Obviously they want that.

Yeah, and all the and all the and and with the buy all their starting pitchers are going to pitch essentially all the way to the end.

The Brewers are doing it a little bit differently.

Some teams are not started, not using all their starting pitchers.

So to me, I think it's a it's a it is something that it's it's up for grabs, but not a shocker that it's up for grabs in the American League East, the East is a beast.

It is, And I mean you also have Boston Todd Father They're taking on the Tigers, Tigers need to still win some games.

It's looking likely that Houston will be the team on the outside looking in, but not a lock yet.

So we'll keep an eye on the Red Sox and the Tigers too.

And did you guys see this story about Trevor story there you go six errors in his last seven games, five of them on throws to first base.

And I mean, there were a few quotes postgame.

The one that stood out to me was him essentially talking about how it's not an excuse to say that you're getting kind of tired at the end of the year, but that can lead to lack of diligence on completing the throw to first base.

He said, you know, you could say body tired, that's non excuse.

Got to be very diligent about finishing the throw.

Is he kind of telling us that he's feeling it a little bit right now?

Yeah?

I guest, I guess I guess he is.

I mean, I you know, there's one thing that I guess it's it's tough to say because if you're talking about there's no excuse of being tired, does that that means you're tired?

Right?

I mean, yes, first and foremost so yeah.

I mean, the season's long, but that's what you prepare for, that's what you keep working out for and everything else.

I give him credit for even saying it, because I was too.

I was exhausted.

I think a lot of guys are at the end of the day, and you know, fortunate for them, he's he's still able to play.

So find a little mustard mustard in there and keep working and you know, fake it.

Go ahead, man, get out there and fake it.

Get some energy, and you take another coffee.

Whatever it is you have to do to get energized.

You know, got a couple of weeks of trying to win a World Series.

Wake it up, get it, get an IV in you something, get going.

And if they clinched tonight, maybe give him a couple of days off because you need him to be upright and not making throwing mistakes once per game in the final days off.

They days off, No, No, those are bad.

Those make teams lose days off.

Never right, Todd, Oh, here we go.

This This is a cratsy problem because he whatever he says, is right that that's the issue we're having here.

I want to play more baseball games.

I don't want to sit around for five days.

I want to divy and I'm the top guy and I'm not playing.

I'm frustrated.

I want to play man.

And then this team's coming in hot as can be.

I don't want to play those teams.

Yeah, it's case by case.

So my point with Trevor story is if he's clearly indicating he's filing a little bit, then it's load management.

But yeah, the guy needs a break, you give him a break.

By the way, the Tigers did win a game, so that helped for them to get on the board early with a couple solo homers.

Riley Green also homerd later, which helped give him a little extra insurance as they pulled off the four to two win.

Eventually, will Vest looked like he was celebrating winning the World Series, and I'm not criticizing.

I'm saying you should because they hadn't won in like two weeks, So celebrate that thing.

You need to make the playoffs, right, It's one thing that you're giving up the division, but you need to make the playoffs, and that win was critical for them to do so, otherwise they'd be tied.

Well, they're they're tied right with the Astros right now, but then the tiebreaker or is it one back there?

One on.

Up?

But then they also have the tiebreaker, so technically it's two.

So it's lucky.

How lucky are the Astros?

Man?

It doesn't.

It's ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.

They're gonna get in by default pretty much.

No get in other way, Astros are a game back of the Tigers.

And and the Red Sox too, aren't they right there like one one behind them?

Yeah?

But for Boston, I mean, so Boston, here, here we go, because I know there's a lot going on this week right now.

The Yankees don't have the tiebreaker with the Blue Jay.

Soon they're the first wildcard.

Then you have Boston as the second wildcard, one game clear of the next team, which is Detroit.

So Boston then they play each other.

It gets interesting if there's a suite on one side or the other.

That's to me where it gets interesting.

If yes, yes, if there's a sweep, it's in Houston wins two out of three.

Listen, they're they're gonna win.

They're gonna win all their games.

In my opinion, I don't see Houston losing.

So I think Boston or Detroit is going to be the odd man out.

Would I would say, I would say it's the other way, but really but yeah, I mean, I feel like I feel like Boston and Detroit are going to kind of beat each other up and Houston has to They got to do more.

They have to sweep, and I don't know if they're playing good enough right now to sweep.

We'll see, yeah, but big win.

And also I mentioned Riley Green.

He's got thirty six homers on the season.

He really slumped during this time period for the Tigers, but overall in the year, he's had a banger year.

So he was really catching a lot of flakl Like this was supposed to be our superstar carry us back out of this, but he's had a really nice year.

American League postseason picture looks like this.

Tigers and Guardians.

Why not matching up?

If things hold off this way, and then they'd play Seattle, then Red Sox Yankees first round?

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I'm just gonna leave it out there for you guys.

They're playing a travel ball game.

I love that nobody knows the score and you can give out a hit if you really want, even if it was an error, Like, yeah, that's my that's my boy, that's my son.

I'm giving it a hit.

No, Worri, It's all good.

Yeah, I mean, so the A's are so the A's and John Fisher are looking at game changer now, is that what you're saying they're following.

They're following it on game changer, like single to left fielder with like the fake the fake noise.

Yeah no, that is no chance.

What that is.

The thing that still gets me crazy is like you'll be watching the game and they're like, oh, they're bringing in a lefty.

Oh, here comes the bench bats from left field.

They were just swinging.

Now they got to get back to the bench in case they're needed.

I'm like, jeez, this is it's beyond embarrassing.

It probably stands out less just because the A's were knocked out of it so early on this year with the losing whatever twenty out of twenty one or something crazy back in the May area.

But I'm just embarrassed for the sport.

Everybody else in the industry that doesn't have control of this feels the same way.

But it'll keep going for a couple of years, so get used to it.

Hey, Yankees Giants Opening Day next season on March twenty fifth, on Netflix, standalone game.

I like having one game to start off the season.

I like that portion of the equation.

I don't like when there's a bunch.

I like it's like everyone's dying for baseball.

You get one game, right, and everyone dials in just because they want to see ball, and then the rest of the team's followed.

You guys agree, I agree?

I think.

Yeah, well should be well, should be the Reds.

For years, the Reds would play the first game of the year.

Why why No, I don't believe in that.

You don't believe in that oldest.

Know the Reds always gets okay with that.

I'm okay with that.

I don't think that the Reds are the ones that get to be the showcase every single year.

No, sorry, I agree.

I agree, but but home, Yes, they had the parade, the whole deal.

We were there last this past season.

It was It's freaking awesome.

But I'm saying for the game to showcase itself nationally, I think to only pick one team just because they were whatever the history is, I think it has more to do with just them having the home game to start the year.

If that's the case, Rutgers in Princeton should be playing college football games the first game every year.

And no, no, nobody besides us Scott want to see that.

So because they're a little strapped crats.

If you didn't know, Rutgers in Princeton were the first ever college football game ever to play ever, So.

There you and those schools are located in New Jersey's craft.

That I knew.

A few minutes here.

I want to go over matchups for the weekend.

What are you looking at?

Obviously about half of the matchups over the weekend are relevant, But what are you watching?

I'm with you, going off what you were just saying.

During the break for the TV crowd, todd Father was talking about how the Marlins saved up Sandy al Contra to finish his Marlin's career at home.

I think he's going to get traded this offseason.

Guys, So I think Sandy pitches in Miami one last time, and this is his opportunity to play spoiler against Brandon Sprute, who did not think he was going to be essentially pitching a playoff game for the Mets in Miami on September twenty sixth, But thus that is happening.

So I will be dialed on that one.

What else do we like?

I like Gallon against Darvish.

I mean it's a fun pitching matchup.

I want to see what Darvish looks like heading into the postseason.

And they saved up Gallon, so a lot of heat on Gallon.

The Diamondbacks probably have to win out the next three games to have a chance.

What else?

Boston Boston Boston Tigers.

That's a layup, that's chalk.

You have to go see it.

And the big thing I'm watching is Casey Mice.

Casey Mice, if this team, if the Tigers, who I think they're going to make the playoffs, does anything, he has to return to his first half form or maybe like three quarters of the way through the year form, because they are counting on him, and they need him for this run that they're going to make in the playoffs.

And the Tigers do hit lefties decently.

They came out and they banged MESSI around a little bit.

Who been pitching?

Well, Kyle Harrison's on the mound.

It's not a given that the Tigers lose this game.

Hey, yeah, you go ahead.

And then I'm just thinking both the Blue Jays and the Yankee games.

I'm very intrigued, very intrigued to see how this one plays out.

That's all.

Can I ask you guys a question.

So our sport definitely has spread the rock around to a million different networks and streamers and all of that, right, but so does NBA, so does NFL, et cetera.

I've heard a lot again about you know, oh, this game's on Apple, So I think tonight it's it's Boston and they might clinch, and then you know, people are are up in arms.

I mean, you can sign up for the service for a free trial and then watch the game.

Like some people are like, it's not a bit like I won't be able to watch it.

I'm like, and I get the money part, but I'm like, hey, I mean I've done it.

Before you can get a free trial.

I'm freezing again.

Great when I'm trying to make my hear me though, Like what am I now?

If you want to hear your broadcast?

I get that part.

And actually, I'm pretty sure they do this.

They did, we did this for you, Like they'll put the radio feed in there where you can toggle and you can listen to your if you want the Homer call, like you can get that.

So I'm just genuinely asking, like, why are people so angry?

Like You're not going to have a world where your local broadcast is just carrying everything for you.

That's just not how sports work in the current landscape.

So I think them at least giving you the radio feed if you don't like the national call, what else do you want?

Yeah, I just think people are used to having their cable networks making it easier turn the TV on, click to their certain channel, and boom.

That's all.

That's it.

We talk about old school ways.

That's probably it.

Yeah, because people are like, oh, like, because this happened with the Dodgers with Kershaw start last season, they were the dork of the week for a lot, I'd want to ask a lot.

I'm like if you're in LA, you can still get the Apple game.

Just sign up for a free trial and watch the game.

And fans are going to complain about different stuff, just like players are going to complain when you play every day.

You want your routine exactly the same.

But come on, let's be honest.

Like you can sign up.

You're signing up for Amazon to watch the Thursday night football games.

When they first started playing those games, Amazon's getting a million sign ups.

That's why Apple's doing it.

It's because people want to watch these games.

Good for Apple going out on the limb getting these games.

Maybe they could do a better job of calling the games.

Hey they're still young, they're growing.

But to me, just sign up for it.

Just sign up for it.

Yeah, this is not a paid anything.

Trust we do nothing with them.

I'm just throwing that out there.

You can also toggle to the radio broadcast and listen to them.

I know it's not perfect, perfect world.

You just get your Homer broadcast.

That's what many people want.

But it's just I mean, the NFL doesn't do that at all for any games during the regular season.

So just throwing it out there.

I just I just had been seeing it pop up again lately where they're like, oh, they should make a way for it to still be on the local broadcast.

But I'm like, it's not like you can't get the game.

You can get the game, and you can get the game for free with a trial, so you're paying zero dollars.

You can't get it forever, but for a free trial, you can get it for that one game you're trying to watch.

Get on your phone if you want, some people.

If you only have cable and you don't have like the ticket or something, it's gonna be a little bit tougher to get on your phone.

But you can watch it outside sitting on alone chair.

All right?

Two things to do quick here for slap or make it three things to do?

I guess so.

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Andy in the chat said, hey, don't forget to give Bob Carpenter Flowers doing his last games this weekend, and I absolutely will.

We'll get him on in the offseason.

I love Bob.

I'm sure you've seen him in the booth or something.

Todd Father he's nice.

This can be.

He's been in the game for a while.

I love his calls.

I think he's got like a really homey feel the way that he's called Nats games for a long time.

So cheers to him.

His sign off too at the beginning of the season, telling everyone why he's like, I got a new job.

It's to be a dad and a grandpa.

It was just a I think it went by.

It was great, So Bob, we love you.

Congratulations.

They're going to do a ceremony on Saturday, and then we'll try and get them on at some point, maybe in the off season.

To cap it off.

Kratz hat on the way out on a Friday.

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They'll find They'll find a way to mess it up.

Yankees find a way to get through.

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