[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the Bingsville Insiders.

[SPEAKER_01]: I am Adam Weiner of Lightfowl Territory.

[SPEAKER_01]: We have double barrel, the multiple guests today.

[SPEAKER_01]: Unlike foul territory, we don't have a single AJ Presinsky Insight.

[SPEAKER_01]: Robert Murray is out.

[SPEAKER_01]: We will get him back next week, and we appreciate everybody joining us, but starting this show about Emily and with me and talking about the postseason to date, and then we'll be welcoming on my mortal enemy and also a good friendy in Nick Millen.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, from SIPE.

[SPEAKER_01]: bedding who is a Toronto Blue J fan and an extremely Canadian man.

[SPEAKER_01]: So in case you were thinking, oh, he's going to duck the egg.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's getting eliminated by the jays.

[SPEAKER_01]: Probably not going to talk about it at all.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's too prideful.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a fraud.

[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, to that I say, uh, no mom.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to duck it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to ignore it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I am going to talk about my team losing.

[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, but first Emma and I are going to talk about.

[SPEAKER_01]: The most disappointing, most exciting teams of playoff X-factors that have yet to materialize, but certainly could.

[SPEAKER_01]: We appreciate everybody joining us at 3 p.m.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma, thank you for joining me, and thank you for helping me.

[SPEAKER_01]: I guess Cop is the word people like to use with, [SPEAKER_01]: Staying up late to watch my team absolutely eat paints and then come on and talk about the postseason picture.

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, thank you for having me.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I may not be AJ Persinski or Robert Murray, but you know, I'm I'm going to try, try my best to be the best Emily and I can be and you know, I all admit I was a little nervous about having to do the show with you today, uh, just you know, like I'm trying to tread lightly here because I know my audience.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think there's no need to tread lightly, and maybe I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: Look what I do, the thing that people can do in this to me, and first of all, I appreciate I like people checking, I like when people say, I'm sorry, I feel bad.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's totally fine.

[SPEAKER_01]: The thing that I got to get over personally is when people just reach out and they're like, whoa, that was bad, or whatever, like, we look terrible.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we do.

[SPEAKER_01]: We do look terrible and I don't have much to add to this conversation and like you're just you're coming to me to be like, I didn't like that.

[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't like it either man.

[SPEAKER_01]: People like, what do we do?

[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's four months from now to we'll see these people again.

[SPEAKER_01]: Can we wait to do the diagnostic work?

[SPEAKER_01]: But obviously Ian will dance over the car because all the body is still cold.

[SPEAKER_01]: So we will or still warm whatever it is.

[SPEAKER_01]: I guess the body gets colder, it's warm when it dies.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I guess still warm.

[SPEAKER_01]: But we'll have you on to do some of that.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we want to love that we, you and I personally did not go back and forth this week, but there was a little Yankees fan, pirates fan, back and forth, curveuffle.

[SPEAKER_01]: He certainly Yankees fans of a certain age saying, [SPEAKER_01]: you know, nobody has it wherever year we'd eliminated by our rivals, you know, again the regular season is rendered meaningless by this postseason performance and you and many other pirates fans were like, oh, the postseason would be there getting to the postseason would be a very memorable year.

[SPEAKER_01]: We would hold for unions for that.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I will definitely give you that.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's a it's a different kind of pain, but I do think the pain of irrelevances is much, much worse.

[SPEAKER_02]: it is it's a different kind of pain.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yankees fans pain is one that I cannot relate to what so ever.

[SPEAKER_02]: Nor is it one that I really have much sympathy for to be quite honest, but I mean, look, it's either we have 27 rings or no one's ever had it worse.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like it cannot be both.

[SPEAKER_02]: pick one.

[SPEAKER_02]: You can't pick whichever one works for you at any given time.

[SPEAKER_02]: So that's kind of where I'm at with it.

[SPEAKER_02]: So while maybe I'm not dancing on the the warm carcass or whatever you said earlier, I don't even know what I said earlier.

[SPEAKER_01]: What is true for sure?

[SPEAKER_02]: Writing the dragon, I don't know.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think that we, you know, there is a little part of me that was maybe a little [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe not pleased, but I wasn't that upset that the Yankees lost.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's mind blowing to me.

[SPEAKER_01]: I thought you were going to be supremely bombed.

[SPEAKER_01]: But hey, you know, the end of another Yankees season.

[SPEAKER_01]: We saw a lot of people not remembering the end of the Yankees season quite so fondly.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think almost everybody has the right to talk smack, except for Red Talks fans, we eliminated you, like last week.

[SPEAKER_01]: So Red Talks fans do in the like, [SPEAKER_01]: Red Sox fans did that had the funniest reaction of the Iggy's losing that I've seen them have this year where they kept running back like you didn't beat anybody your competition wasn't good the competition was you Like you're diminishing your own roster and then they would genuinely you would call them on it.

[SPEAKER_01]: You'd be like you're diminishing your own roster and they would be like [SPEAKER_01]: we are.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we weren't good.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, okay, well, I can't argue with someone who's like, my team was bad.

[SPEAKER_01]: You beat my team.

[SPEAKER_01]: Therefore, you're bad.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, you got to wear one at some point.

[SPEAKER_01]: You can't be.

[SPEAKER_01]: If the Yankees fans were cheering on the Blue Jays for doing their dirty work and knocking the Red Sox out, I don't think Red Sox fans would be quite so gracious.

[SPEAKER_01]: But here we are.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're both on the couch, whether that couch is in Cancun or Swamp Scott, as yet to be determined.

[SPEAKER_01]: But neither of us are playing anymore.

[SPEAKER_01]: Plenty of teams are still in the mix though and plenty of teams are still alive.

[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, only the wild card participants and the New York Yankees have been eliminated.

[SPEAKER_01]: All the other DSs are still active.

[SPEAKER_01]: We've got a game five tomorrow.

[SPEAKER_01]: We've got two NL game fours.

[SPEAKER_01]: That gives us plenty of opportunities to be impressed.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I wonder after watching these opening rounds and knowing who is still alive, who is the most impressive team of the postseason so far in your view?

[SPEAKER_02]: I've got to go with the Milwaukee Brewers, and that is because, I mean, I think that you could really kind of go a bunch of different ways with this.

[SPEAKER_02]: All the teams have been impressive in some way or another.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I really like the mariners this year as well, but I think the Brewers have just impressed me so much, because [SPEAKER_02]: Again, I feel like I say this all the time, but you look at this brewer's lineup.

[SPEAKER_02]: No one is scaring me in that lineup.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's not, you don't have sorry and air and judge or of Latte Guerrero.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like it's just, it is a team of, [SPEAKER_02]: not great but really good players.

[SPEAKER_02]: And they have managed to do a, you know, kind of what a lot of small market teams Pittsburgh pirates have not been able to do and they have been able to assemble a roster of decently good players who get better.

[SPEAKER_02]: as they progress with the organization, they get better.

[SPEAKER_02]: And the biggest thing for the brewers was supposed to be well, you know, yeah, they're good.

[SPEAKER_02]: They're fundamentally sound.

[SPEAKER_02]: They do a lot of little things, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: But, you know, they don't have any power.

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, then the last game happened, and oh, there's the power.

[SPEAKER_02]: So it's like, wow, all right.

[SPEAKER_02]: So what can't this brewers team do in the playoffs?

[SPEAKER_02]: I think now if you can see that power from the middle of their lineup a little bit more consistently, then I think this suddenly becomes a much scarier team.

[SPEAKER_02]: But I will say that they're the ones who have impressed me in the sense that they have, they've probably surprised me the most in a positive way.

[SPEAKER_01]: I feel that I'm surprised that they went down the way they did yesterday.

[SPEAKER_01]: Of course it went down to the wire and it was a one run save.

[SPEAKER_01]: The brewers are never going to lose a game where they just surrender, white flag it on the road even at a hostile environment like Rickley.

[SPEAKER_01]: Last night's Dodger game obviously flew under my personal radar because I was watching another team play poorly on these coast.

[SPEAKER_01]: But, [SPEAKER_01]: That team up until game three of the DS was playing championship level baseball.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was playing the baseball that Dodgers fans had been waiting for for a full 162.

[SPEAKER_01]: They were the anti Yankees.

[SPEAKER_01]: They didn't play up to their ability all year.

[SPEAKER_01]: Slotted Rookie Sasaki into the 9th inning.

[SPEAKER_01]: Found a slotted Tyler glass now into the bullpen.

[SPEAKER_01]: Found a way to not just survive, but thrive under pressure.

[SPEAKER_01]: They look like the 2000 Yankees to me.

[SPEAKER_01]: They looked like a team that was running on fumes for a good portion of the season.

[SPEAKER_01]: And the two thousand Yankees did it right before October started, left everybody questioning them under 90 wins, not the two thousand Yankees, not the Dodgers.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then as soon as the bright light shown that that team.

[SPEAKER_01]: wasn't really even that tested throughout the postseason and they dispatched to the meds in five when they got to the fall classic the Dodgers went to what I thought would be the most hostile environment in the entire postseason and laid the Phillies flat twice a race the three nothing deficit in the sixth inning.

[SPEAKER_01]: not easy.

[SPEAKER_01]: You can say it's easy because the Dodgers are inevitable, but that's an unenviable task.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then played a tight-rope ball game until the end of game two and pushed that lead to the point where they were even comfortable bringing Blake trying it in for the night.

[SPEAKER_01]: That was mistake.

[SPEAKER_01]: It should not have done that, but they were able to do it and survive because of the cushion they had created and will Smith, a injured guy coming through in a clutch opportunity for the Dodgers where have we seen that before.

[SPEAKER_01]: So they are my NL champions, my World Series Champions until proven otherwise.

[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't pick them before October started, but after seeing what I saw for the first round and a half, they are playing like a championship team.

[SPEAKER_01]: and they were playing like the regular season and all the narratives baked in just did not matter at all.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now, there was a world where they were the most depressing playoff team based on the regular season bullpen and based on mookie bets losing 25 pounds and the strange vibes of the almost the entirety of their regular season instead they have to find those odds.

[SPEAKER_01]: But they're playing it disappointing teams of many of whom are now gone and are in fact quite depressing who stands out to you there.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I don't know if it's a cop out to pick, you know, one of the first eliminated teams, but I mean, I've got it like a team like Cleveland.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think that it had to be so first of all, it was, I mean, to give them credit so impressive what they did to up to the end of the year, you know, they were 15 and a half games back.

[SPEAKER_02]: They surge back, of course, they were helped quite a bit by the Tigers really falling off a cliff at the end of the season as well.

[SPEAKER_02]: they make it in to the playoffs and then you look at just again, you look at this roster and their, you know, their designated hitter up until he got hit in the face by Terrick Scooble was David Fry, who was hitting like 200.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, I'm sorry, that's your design.

[SPEAKER_02]: How is this a playoff team?

[SPEAKER_02]: And so I think that they were a little bit like a team like that, a team like the reds as well.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm really, I feel like I'm really dumping on the state of Ohio today.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't mean to do that, but I mean like the reds as well.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's kind of like, maybe I look at a team like the reds for a little bit of hope as like the fan of another small market team like, ah, this is how it could be.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then they got to the playoffs immediately.

[SPEAKER_02]: Just got steamrolled, got exposed by the Dodgers.

[SPEAKER_02]: It was very clear one of these things is not like the other.

[SPEAKER_02]: And so, but the reds, I don't consider as depressing because it was like, I don't think this was a playoff team yet.

[SPEAKER_02]: They weren't really expected to be.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I think they're okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: But for me, it's Cleveland because...

[SPEAKER_02]: they were in a position at the trade deadline where they could have and many people up until the deadline expected them to just sell.

[SPEAKER_02]: Me, like, all right, scrap it, you know, how shocked were we all that Stephen Quan was still a Cleveland Guardian at the trade deadline?

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it was crazy.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then it looked like, wow, we're going to go prove everyone wrong and we're going to prove that we were right to keep him and to hang on to all these pieces and it looked like they were going to do it and then they got to the postseason and against a very shaky tigers team and they just crumbled fell apart.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's just it's depressing.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's embarrassing, I think, but that I got to go Cleveland.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, you want to talk about a stunner that depressing Detroit Tigers are still here and Terrix Google has not been winning his starts.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's hard to fathom, but that's where we're at.

[SPEAKER_01]: All right, most disappointing teams in October, Guardians, Reds, Cincinnati, Bangalore.

[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry, not trying to crap on Ohio.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's turning the Cleveland Browns.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's turning out that way.

[SPEAKER_01]: Dylan Gabriel, Joe Flacco.

[SPEAKER_01]: Cleveland's a great pick.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just going to get my little bit of shot and throw it out and say the Boston Red Sox gave a way a chance to go to the ALCS in the world series.

[SPEAKER_01]: I firmly believe that even in their underman state, even without Roman Anthony, who they claimed might be back by the ALCS, all they had in their path was a rival team in the New York Yankees.

[SPEAKER_01]: It has not beaten them in a playout of series since 2003 up until a wild card series.

[SPEAKER_01]: uh they had a Toronto Blue Jays team that they've been waiting for the run differential to matter all year like at some point the Blue Jays are going to stop playing over their skis they're going to stop getting contributions like Ernie Clement looks great until he has to face Garrett Crochet.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's what all Red Sox fans were telling me Crochet was dominant our world is chatting with his dominant Red Sox took game 1 at Yatee Stadium and now it's [SPEAKER_01]: Start doing what we hate when the Yankees do.

[SPEAKER_01]: Getting cute, taking Brian Bay out after 28 pitches.

[SPEAKER_01]: Jaren Doran can't catch a fly ball.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's the only reason the Yankees win game one.

[SPEAKER_01]: The only reason Aaron judges batting averages.

[SPEAKER_01]: Game two, the only reason why Aaron judges batting averages.

[SPEAKER_01]: Where it is.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then game three, of course, the Red Sox defense lets them down.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think the Red Sox would have won the world series this year, especially not without Roman Anthony healthy, but I would have had a hard time picking anyone in the American league field confidently over the Red Sox, as long as they got past the stupid little wild card series hurdle against the Yankees.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I firmly believe Alex Core helped give that series away.

[SPEAKER_01]: And the Red Sox defense did them no favors either.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think they were, I don't think Red Sox days are giving their team enough credit.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've been where they are.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've been disappointed by [SPEAKER_01]: I've gotten upset and I've said, we weren't that good anyway, and I've thrown in the towel.

[SPEAKER_01]: The Red Sox were better than the Red Sox fans are acting like they were right now.

[SPEAKER_01]: And if they had gotten past that series, they might have made some noise against turn more noise in the Yankees made against Toronto for sure.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, now.

[SPEAKER_02]: You had you had Kora also who kept trying to move the the gold post towards the end of the season like well And that we weren't actually trying to make the play off.

[SPEAKER_02]: So if we don't make it, it's not that big of a deal.

[SPEAKER_02]: And but oh, no, no, we made it.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that was our goal this entire time anything short of that would have been a failure.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's like, no, you can't just massage the narrative to make it fit, you know, what makes you look good.

[SPEAKER_02]: Because either way, Alex Kora, I'll agree with you there.

[SPEAKER_02]: It does not look good.

[SPEAKER_01]: No.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Roman Anthony and vision, the first app out of the ALCS, and then they lose a couple of games in the media is like, how are your playoff hopes?

[SPEAKER_01]: He's like, whoa, a playoff hopes.

[SPEAKER_01]: They were not talking about that shit.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, yeah, it's talked about you leaked a private message to Roman Anthony.

[SPEAKER_01]: So we all heard it, but now we can't talk about it.

[SPEAKER_01]: And fortunately, this is now an Alex Corp podcast.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've got seven more questions.

[SPEAKER_01]: The giant stack of papers about Alex Corp.

[SPEAKER_01]: I know, I touched on something that is your biggest remaining X factor that is yet to rear its head in the postseason as we head towards game five of the other American League series.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm going to shine some light there for you.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think Terri Skoubles, a big one.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it might sound obvious for, you know, obviously he's the Tigers best player.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's probably going to win another sigh young.

[SPEAKER_02]: Everything about this season has been fantastic for him.

[SPEAKER_02]: you look at his record, his recent record in particular against the mariners and his career, his resume, it really kind of lacks that defining postseason victory.

[SPEAKER_02]: And obviously he is now, he's made three starts against the mariners this year.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's made one in this series and game one and then he or game two whenever it was and then now he's lost all of them.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's let or even if he wasn't credited with the loss, the tigers lost all of them.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they all kind of tell the same story, too, that he [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, like it's obviously it's not all on him because you need the tigers hitters to actually give you some run support.

[SPEAKER_02]: But at the same time, I think like he could make an early statement.

[SPEAKER_02]: He could energize the offense, like really quiet the the opposing crowd.

[SPEAKER_02]: And and I think really set the tempo that way in game five, he'll have that opportunity.

[SPEAKER_02]: now he just needs to take it and run with it because I think that again, maybe it's unfair to put so much of the pressure on him, but at the end of the day, when your team's best player like that by far, I mean, it comes with the territory.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that he, again, the story of his season series against the Mariners has been [SPEAKER_02]: fine.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's been fine.

[SPEAKER_02]: He hasn't been bad.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's been good enough.

[SPEAKER_02]: But good enough is in good enough in the playoffs.

[SPEAKER_02]: And so I think that, you know, if and it's clear by now, he can not rely on the Tigers bats to come in clutch for him, especially during the playoffs.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I think now, [SPEAKER_02]: you just have to you have to hope that he can pull it off in game five.

[SPEAKER_02]: So it may be sounds like we'll do, of course, Terry Scooples their X-Factor.

[SPEAKER_02]: But I mean, you think about it, a this could be a defining moment for him in the postseason.

[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely, any is headed on the road, but not necessarily to a place that I would call hostile a spot that is going to be anxious, grade a nervous for a deciding game five.

[SPEAKER_01]: This was supposed to be a Mariners run.

[SPEAKER_01]: We appreciate everyone who's joined us.

[SPEAKER_01]: We appreciate Emma's fans for joining us.

[SPEAKER_01]: Please come back next.

[SPEAKER_01]: We'll give you more advanced notice.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to have Emma next time as well.

[SPEAKER_01]: We appreciate everyone joining us for this portion of show.

[SPEAKER_01]: One last note before I bring on Ian and I know that, you know, we were going to talk biggest worry that hasn't reared its ugly head yet.

[SPEAKER_01]: This one felt a little obvious we touched on it earlier just to note that before we talk a little bit about the Dodgers bullpen, Tanner Scott has been substituted on this roster.

[SPEAKER_01]: He even on the roster anymore.

[SPEAKER_01]: He had a lower body incision yesterday.

[SPEAKER_01]: Not going to dig into that any further because I don't want to.

[SPEAKER_01]: uh but he's he's no longer a factor until the world series of the earliest Sasaki claimed Hirshan garbage time they managed to make it work but um how long can they manage to make it work [SPEAKER_02]: Well, you know, it's funny because you frame it as biggest worry that hasn't reared.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's ugly head.

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, kind of did reared.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's ugly head last night against the fillies.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, and it was really in the least, you know, expected way.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think, you know, everyone could look at this bullpen and just kind of hold your breath and think, that's the biggest thing standing in the way of the Dodgers winning another world series this year.

[SPEAKER_02]: But I would not have expected Clayton Kershaw to be the one that would just kind of fall apart.

[SPEAKER_02]: Now, granted, he came in.

[SPEAKER_02]: He was playing from behind.

[SPEAKER_02]: They were down three to one.

[SPEAKER_02]: I believe when he came in.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then he just, he fell apart.

[SPEAKER_02]: His command was off.

[SPEAKER_02]: He just, I mean, of course.

[SPEAKER_02]: Schworber is going to Schworber, especially in the playoffs.

[SPEAKER_02]: But I mean, certain things you can't control, but honestly, I think that you talked about, oh, they even went to Blake Trinin.

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, at that point by the time they went to Trinin, the game was already lost.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think that and for [SPEAKER_02]: You know, this bullpen, I mean, again, who would have known who would have thought that the biggest, you know, the most important piece of this Dodgers bullpen was going to be Roki Sasaki, just how we all drew it up, but again, like even if Tanner Scott had been available, I wouldn't have trusted him either.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think that you've now like there's one by one, each of your reliable pieces.

[SPEAKER_02]: as become unreliable.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think now when you look at what Kershaw did, any hate it for him because this can't be how it ends for him.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think that that has to at least in somewhat light of fire under the Dodgers to be like, okay, we're not gonna let this be the last time that he is on the mound in a major league baseball game.

[SPEAKER_02]: But at the same time, it's like, ooh, we saw what can happen now.

[SPEAKER_02]: We saw what can happen.

[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, so I think it has started to rear its ugly head.

[SPEAKER_02]: But, and now that, you know, the, the toothpaste is out of the tube, well, we'll see if they can get it back in.

[SPEAKER_01]: And letting this get to game five on the road would be a disaster.

[SPEAKER_01]: Even if they win it, uh, because you really do not want to have to you show Hey Otani again in this series.

[SPEAKER_01]: You definitely don't want to fly across country.

[SPEAKER_01]: And, uh, yeah, Clayton Kershaw, an act of bravery, you know, being a good teammate soaking up the damage for the rest of his roster.

[SPEAKER_01]: certainly did not make me believe that he would be a weapon moving forward and certainly a downer like if his last act is selfless as a major leader, sure it's fitting but it's not exactly the kind of thing that you want to tip your cap to and put in the highlight montage.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, Emma, thank you for joining me and talking me through this now and fortunately have to go through what I can only describe as the lower body incision of podcasting, bringing my friend Ian Mcmillan on, took a load about the Toronto Blue Jays.

[SPEAKER_01]: He has earned it, but Emma will have you on again soon, and again, we'll give her everybody a, earlier heads up when Emma's coming on so that everyone knows when to watch and said it's joining midway through.

[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you, hanging there, buddy.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's going to work.

[SPEAKER_01]: All right, bring it on Ian McMillan in the show now and wow, that's what is the prize?

[SPEAKER_01]: I thought he was going to be wearing maple leaves scare, perhaps even a tasteful blazer, but no, it's blue jays, top to bottom, that's I think I see a division champs.

[SPEAKER_01]: And my favorite jays throwback hat, I really do like that.

[SPEAKER_01]: The first time I ever went to Roger Center, it was Pat Hentkin pitching and they were wearing those hats.

[SPEAKER_01]: So that makes me feel a little bit better after what I watched last night, but the floor is yours, I was going if you were nice enough to bring me onto your show before the playoffs started.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think I held up, well, I told you the AGs deserve to be the third favorite of the American League, and they, you know, they were the fourth team to survive in the American League, and they've been killed by one of the teams of better betting odds, but you deserve this victory lap.

[SPEAKER_01]: Game 3 was a harrowing experience for you, I know, but game 4 was much, much better.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, listen, I've claimed before that you are the most reasonable Yankees fan.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm not going to come in here and gloat too too much.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think me just wearing this hat and the shirt is gloating enough, and honestly, I think if we would have won in game three, I think it'd be a different story.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think I'd be dancing right now, but that game three caused enough nerves for me that it's more of a sigh of relief right now as a Jay's fan than it is anything else.

[SPEAKER_00]: There was a lot riding on the series.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think more than even just a playoff spot because, you know, I think the jays and Yankees rivalry is becoming a lot bigger than it has been in the past.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it's nice to have this as a jays fan in our back pocket for the next number of years until next time we see you guys in the playoff.

[SPEAKER_01]: which could happen.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's a decidedly weird series because uh, anyway, watch regular season ball this year knows that the Red Sox and Jay's both beat up on the Aggies to the point that the Aggies and Jay is finished with the same regular season record and lost home field advantage because [SPEAKER_01]: the head to head was so upside and the jays earned that the jays did so much damage especially at the Rodgers Center that that you know it was hard to predict that the Aggies would get past both of these ALE rivals to make a playoff run let alone one of them I was not I was hesitant to pick the Aggies move past the Red Sox and then like we detailed earlier sort of an error failed games two and three for the Sox head scratching pitching decisions desperately Alex Core desperately trying to claw to get game two [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, Connelly earlier is that's my lottery to get in Camichletler did something absolutely absurd, but The Jay's had the edge over the Yankees all year [SPEAKER_01]: But before the series, you had a lot of people just sort of blindly puzzling the Yankees into the ALCS after the way they advanced past the best of three.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I thought that was, you know, I was encouraged by what the Yankees had done and how they closed September.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I definitely didn't think like, oh, yeah, okay, they're past all their issues.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now, the bullpen is sorted.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're gonna take it to Toronto.

[SPEAKER_01]: Personally, I thought the Eagles would lose game one behind Louise Heel and Max Freed would come out and be much better.

[SPEAKER_01]: They'd split the two on the road and then have a shot to win it at home more than likely go to five and we would see what they were made of on the road.

[SPEAKER_01]: Instead, they lost game one as expected and then Max Freed had a horrific start in game two and despite their best efforts to give you a scare in game three, this one was, [SPEAKER_01]: pretty much done and does it a split at home was no longer good enough because that game too was such a massacre, um, when did you, I mean, I know game three was a little bit bizarre, uh, for you and maybe through off your overall impression of the series, but going into that, I guess going into this series, what did you expect, um, rationally and irrationally?

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I mean, at the end of the day, I'm a betting guy.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm always going to rely on the odds from a, you know, from an unbiased perspective, and a bias perspective, I thought the Yankees are going to win to be honest, because the, I trust the betting market and the market had them, what, what they're like minus 170 favorites, or minus 160 favorites, Yankees were like pretty significant favorites.

[SPEAKER_00]: And also for the teams I cheer for, we never have anything nice, nothing ever.

[SPEAKER_00]: Good happens to me as a sports fan.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I was like, we're going to lose this in heartbreaking fashion, which is why game three, [SPEAKER_00]: affected me so much to like, oh, that's the heartbreak.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was going to experience.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, being up.

[SPEAKER_00]: Six.

[SPEAKER_00]: One.

[SPEAKER_00]: And a clinching a sweet clinching game and then losing that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, here comes the heartbreak.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Toronto fans have had it tough between the Maple Leafs and Blue Jays for blowing leads.

[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone remembers.

[SPEAKER_00]: the eight-one game against the Mariners and Wildcard round a few years ago.

[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, if you're a hockey fan, you know of all the blown leads, the Leafs have had.

[SPEAKER_00]: But on top of that, even more on top of me being a Toronto sports fan is also an Elena Falcons fan who obviously own the biggest, when you think of an example of a team blown a big lead, you think of 28 to 3 in the Super Bowl.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I've been through my blown leads, I've been through my heartbreak and you know, we still have a long way to go for some [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I thought that was it in game three when it was up six one and then blowing that and then I thought we're going to lose two straight.

[SPEAKER_00]: So that that's why like I'm obviously very happy.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm very excited for this, but like [SPEAKER_00]: I do kind of wish we won in three because now I feel bad because all day yesterday I was saying this is over.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to blow it.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is what my teams do.

[SPEAKER_00]: I bet big on the Yankees to come back and win the series and win last night as an emotional hedge.

[SPEAKER_00]: I should have just trusted the guys.

[SPEAKER_00]: This BlueJay's team does feel like a different team.

[SPEAKER_00]: I know team a destiny might be kind of an overused term, but these guys got hurt.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can see it like the way you know, Vlad Greiro like diving from halfway between third base and home plate flying to get in that run in game three.

[SPEAKER_00]: These guys obviously get get along.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's a ton of team chemistry.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's something I'm not really used to seeing in the teams at a cheer for.

[SPEAKER_00]: So [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I thought this certainly could have been the year, but if you told me, if you would ask me for the series, who wins, I would have said the Yankees to be honest.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I had the Yankees informantly entering the series.

[SPEAKER_01]: Sacrificing that first one, thinking free would come out looking not only, yeah, competent.

[SPEAKER_01]: Let's say competent, like better than he did, workable.

[SPEAKER_01]: I thought they would win that baseball game.

[SPEAKER_01]: They did not, and the things I came away most impressed by, I mean, obviously, [SPEAKER_01]: There's one big over arching one that I'll turn to this night, but the way that they made the defensive lapses in game three into momentary lapses like Addison barger drops the pop up weird diving plan right field by Santander that scoots all the way past him and the Yankees or any other doomed team would let that linger would let that carry into game four and maybe beyond [SPEAKER_01]: We were told this was an anomaly in an aberration.

[SPEAKER_01]: The BlueJays wouldn't do this again.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then the BlueJays just made sure they wouldn't do it again.

[SPEAKER_01]: They did shake it off immediately.

[SPEAKER_01]: The two strike hitting was so impressive all series.

[SPEAKER_01]: And not just from guys like Ernie Clement and Miles straw and the guys who use, of course, because they shorten up their swings.

[SPEAKER_01]: So duh, they're able to just poke single through the hole or what, no, Anthony Sonton there with the 11-pitch app at in the second [SPEAKER_01]: You know, what did it do any damage in the moment?

[SPEAKER_01]: No, but it was a reminder that, hey, 99 is not a nut.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like the sinker not enough to get past us.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're not the Red Sox.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're not fooled by this.

[SPEAKER_01]: We can keep that past going and then on top of everything.

[SPEAKER_01]: Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

[SPEAKER_01]: who you mentioned is a superstar.

[SPEAKER_01]: And when you get to the playoffs, you need your super stars to play like super stars.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he was a guy who, in a smaller sample size, had looked a little bit like playoff Aaron judge in these little two game wild card series.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, he would go one for seven minutes.

[SPEAKER_01]: The tiniest samples ever, you can't make a snap judgment on that, but also baseball is about these kinds of judgments.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I didn't listen a lot of Toronto sports radio and hearing this series, but I'm sure it was, hey, you know, Vlad.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got to be Vlad.

[SPEAKER_01]: He does he have that in him.

[SPEAKER_01]: What is he?

[SPEAKER_01]: And then he stomps on the eighties and games one, two, and three, you can't get him out.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got like a 1,600 OPS.

[SPEAKER_01]: What was it like watching him sort of?

[SPEAKER_01]: obviously culminating yelling the Yankees lose with David Ortiz, but what was it like watching him imprints so heavily on this series?

[SPEAKER_00]: Crazy, brings it here to my eye, especially I mean I don't want to keep relating things to the Maple Leafs, but I think there are a lot of comparisons you can make between the two Toronto teams, because that's what the Maple Leafs have missed in the postseason.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's why they consistently lose in the playoffs, because Austin Matthew has averaged a best in the playoffs, Mitch Marner always stunk in the playoffs, that's why they let him go to Vegas this offseason, to see a Toronto athlete, and not only just a Toronto athlete, [SPEAKER_00]: Toronto is always kind of the ugly duckling, especially in baseball, because like you guys don't really want to play in canola, it's cold up here, all that stuff.

[SPEAKER_00]: So to have a superstar on our team that's signed for the next 14 years, clearly loves to play for the team, loves the city, and then delivers on the postseason, like you can't ask for anything more than that.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's amazing.

[SPEAKER_00]: and having that super star is so nice because it's just like even like even the past couple years when like the jays weren't good, it's just nice to have a guy that like when fans from like odies or fans wrote west because the blue jays are kind of canna this team when they come to Toronto and they can go to the jays game yet even if they stink at least they get to see Vlad and maybe they get a chance to see Vlad Guerrero hit a home run.

[SPEAKER_00]: having a guy like that is so big for the blue jays and to see him now deliver in the playoff it's unbelievable.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's, it's storeable.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's really funny because that's the, I went to visit the Montreal Expo once as a kid and that's why I felt about his dad of like, I don't know what this team is, but I'm going to see Vlad Guerrero and maybe I'll see him home right.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he did and it was awesome and extremely memorable 25 years later.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and for the next the for the rest of the time that Vlad's here, let's hope it is for the next, you know, full 14 years.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Blue James are going to be, you know, a world series contender every single year.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's going to be teams that are going to be bad.

[SPEAKER_00]: But at the end of the day, hopefully Vlad will be here and hopefully he'll be hitting home runs and people from Nova Scotia people from British Columbia when they come to Toronto in the summer can go to a game and see Vlad Grayrow potentially hit home.

[SPEAKER_01]: So this is an incredible team and incredible series.

[SPEAKER_01]: And just continue to do what they did all season upon reaching the playoffs.

[SPEAKER_01]: That includes on-home road splits.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like they are a solid team on the road.

[SPEAKER_01]: They prove yesterday do not count them out on the road.

[SPEAKER_01]: Don't just say, OK, oh, to hold whenever they have to travel and bank the wins at the Rogers Center.

[SPEAKER_01]: But it is a slightly different team.

[SPEAKER_01]: But with the flip side of that is at home, they're outright dominant.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it's not like good at home bad on the road.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's passable on the road, incredible at home.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now that we're gonna reach a longer series, and it's gonna be a best of seven, and they are the number one seats that they're gonna have home field.

[SPEAKER_01]: That means first two at home, and then six and seven at home as well.

[SPEAKER_01]: Do you trust them?

[SPEAKER_01]: moving on and moving forward, even in the American League and the CS and then on to the world series, is there an opponent you'd prefer, like Tigers Mariners, do you necessarily care, do you just believe in, whatever this is going to transfer to the longer series regardless.

[SPEAKER_00]: before I answer that question.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let me push back on this home road splits thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think that's true.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's a fan graphs wrong because I'm looking at fan graphs right now and in the second half of the season at home that a 778 OPS and on the road then 819 OPS.

[SPEAKER_00]: So is it true that there's that much better than all the records?

[SPEAKER_01]: It's the record, it's the record, it's the record, it's not the splits, it's just the, it's their 54 and 27 at home, I think.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like that, but that's less, like it went almost every good team and the majors is learning.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is crazy.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then the Jay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, [SPEAKER_01]: more than 60% chance to take it to O-series lead.

[SPEAKER_01]: I would consider them heavily favored in their home games moving forward.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm curious if that view is affected by their opponent for you, or do you just consider big advantage at Roger Center no matter who we're facing?

[SPEAKER_00]: I think big advantage of Roger Center and in terms of the crowd, this is the dream scenario for the Blue Jays.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because I don't know if you know this, but the Detroit Tigers games and Seattle Mariners games especially Seattle, it's a ton of Blue Jays fans that are there because Seattle's right below Vancouver and then of course Detroit's right below Toronto.

[SPEAKER_00]: I even think correct me from wrong, but I think the Mariners even in their MLB shop.

[SPEAKER_00]: like at the stadium has a blue jay section because they get that many Canadians going to her games so like this is this is the dream scenario it's almost obviously the stadium is going to make a difference in the travel and all that stuff but it's in terms of fan-wise like it might feel like a home game no matter where it's played in no matter who they play.

[SPEAKER_01]: Do you have any sort of fear moving forward like [SPEAKER_01]: There's got to be pressure amounting to a certain extent given the fact that you've made it past the stupid ALE's rivals, you are now at, you know, first time since 2016 in the championship series, semi-ararrified air, there's a temptation to just be like, hey, little bit of house money now, like we took out the Yankees, the Red Sox are gone, but at the same time, there's a legitimate championship opportunity on the table here, I feel like so.

[SPEAKER_01]: How are you balancing the, like, wow, that felt really damn good to get the eggs out of here.

[SPEAKER_01]: But also pressure continues to mount, like, their legit implications.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this, it's very rare for a team like Toronto to legitimately have a world series chance.

[SPEAKER_00]: And this might be, this might be the best chance of my lifetime to be completely honest.

[SPEAKER_00]: Not only that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've recently moved to Toronto.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to be living in the city much longer like by this time next year.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'll be somewhere outside Toronto.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a 20 minute walk to the stadium.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've been to 12 games this year.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think already so personally this this means a lot to but yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think the vibe from a lot of Jay's fans to be completely honest and this is this is going to jinx us, but we're almost kind of already looking to the world series.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like people are already talking like the daughters are going to be tough or the Brewers they're going to be tough.

[SPEAKER_00]: are kind of looking past the ALCS if I'm being honest, which is probably going to come back to bite us.

[SPEAKER_00]: But to answer your question earlier, there is a team on rather face between those two teams.

[SPEAKER_00]: It'd be the Tigers because I'd be scared of the Mariners because the Mariners also kind of have that team a destiny field where everything is going right.

[SPEAKER_00]: Cal Rawley has had that dream season, also their rotation scares me a little bit more obviously.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Tigers of school ball, but like they're not going to be able to use him in game one now because they're using him tomorrow night, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: So, um, [SPEAKER_00]: And the Tigers often, second half of the season was a trotace.

[SPEAKER_00]: So to answer your early question, the Mariners do kind of scare me, but we are kind of looking past the ALCS J fans as a whole kind of not totally.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're not guaranteeing that we're gonna win this series, but there are just already talk like, yeah, that win was great, ALCS will be a nice matchup, but it's gonna be tough to beat whoever we face in the world series.

[SPEAKER_01]: Are you planning to go to either the CS or the world series?

[SPEAKER_01]: Like is it Celle Kidney prices or just like Celle Toe?

[SPEAKER_01]: Like what are we talking about here?

[SPEAKER_00]: Um, well, tickets went on sale today at 10 a.m.

[SPEAKER_00]: I tried to get in the online queue and I had 90,000 people ahead of me in queue.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how many of those were bots and how many were real people.

[SPEAKER_00]: I do plan on going to game one.

[SPEAKER_00]: Um, they'll just be the one game that'll go to.

[SPEAKER_00]: I am going to go to game one.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've looked at tickets.

[SPEAKER_00]: They are expensive.

[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I think they're going to be in like the, [SPEAKER_00]: Well, obviously, depends on where he's sit.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think like get in the building price is going to be like 250, um, which is not terrible.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thankfully, I have been a little hot with most of my betting picks lately.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to make a little withdrawal, uh, thanks to Team USA and the or team Europe and the Ryder Cup.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'll make a little withdrawal from one of my betting accounts and and go to the game for that.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I mean, [SPEAKER_00]: How many times am I going to be able to walk 20 minutes to an ALCS game?

[SPEAKER_00]: Probably never get in my life.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I got to pay up a little bit here.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just going to go to one game.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think I'll go to game one.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's why every time I look at the next playoff runs, I say the same thing and then I go, oh my god, that is so cost prohibitive.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I hate this city, but if I lived in a city like Toronto, I would vastly, which I would vastly prefer, price wise, I would unequivably be there too.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and yeah, yeah, and now I think a next playoff game would probably cost more than [SPEAKER_00]: A Yankees play off going.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, then based on this people makes people hate you like Nick's Nick's are like a thousand bucks depending on which which round you're you're looking at.

[SPEAKER_00]: I imagine getting into a next playoff game would be similar again into into a Maple Leafs playoff game here.

[SPEAKER_00]: Maple Leafs tickets are.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the next do a nice they do watch parties for you, but if you actually want to go, you gotta hope you know an executive at Chase Bank who can go with them.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, to same with the Maple Leafs last year, watch one of their playoff games.

[SPEAKER_00]: Lay it, they have like an outside the stadium, like base screen that you can watch that and you can get enter lottery to get free tickets, so that's that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I watched Maple Leafs game there.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I would be remiss if I didn't ask you just one sort of vetting question before we exit, [SPEAKER_01]: how are you forecasting in the rest of the postseason and it has your favorite world series favorite changed at all as the run has gone on?

[SPEAKER_00]: Great question.

[SPEAKER_00]: I still think, I think the brewers are gonna win the world series.

[SPEAKER_00]: They were kinda my pick heading into the playoffs.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think they're the only team in the nationally that can truly take down the Dodgers.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Dodgers find way to lose in the playoffs [SPEAKER_00]: And if the Brewers play against the blue jays, I think that's a bad match up for Toronto.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, I mean, yeah, Brewers right now is still five to one.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's a great price.

[SPEAKER_00]: Brewers are the team that oddly enough scares me way more than the Dodgers is that crazy I don't think it's great.

[SPEAKER_01]: It would be a much more deeply fun.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think a lot of people speaking on you know the nation of America's behalf would have a lot more fun with Brewers BlueJays and the droughts and all people are sick of the Dodgers.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're rightly sick of the Dodgers and I also just think people who are watching, if the Yankees are eliminated, which [SPEAKER_01]: they usually are.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'd much rather see a drought broken than crowd greatness.

[SPEAKER_01]: So no nice.

[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[SPEAKER_00]: Correct.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have that opinion about, yeah, every sports, you know, as soon as my team is eliminated, I want to see the team that's on the biggest road to end up winning.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because at the end of the day, I'm kind of cheering for fans more than I'm cheering for the player.

[SPEAKER_01]: It does make it weird.

[SPEAKER_01]: If the Yankees had moved on to face the mariners, I would be like, yeah, that's where you see it at.

[SPEAKER_01]: But now that the Yankees are out, it's like, I mean, I Blue Jays, Mariners, Tigers, there's really no loser American league representative here.

[SPEAKER_01]: That would be fun across the board.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're the team I'm tired of.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think I saw it's the first time since 2015 that it's no Yankees Astros or Cleveland in the ALCS.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Hell yeah, love that.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's been, it's been, unless you're me, uh, well, Ian, thank you for stopping by and I'm happy to, I will always platform a Canadian, um, and I just hope that next time maybe things are different.

[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe I'm the one wearing the built for October shirt and, uh, if the egg is at a throwback hat, I would be wearing it too, but you, you've earned the right and I appreciate you coming out today.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_00]: I appreciate you having me on Adam.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, let let let us have this here.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just give me one championship up and waiting 32 years my entire life for one of my teams to win once.

[SPEAKER_00]: I just want one championship and then you Yankees can go back to dominating the artist.

[SPEAKER_00]: Do you want Jake deal?

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm down with that Ian McMillan.

[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you so much for joining us.

[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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i'm sure there were plenty of people on the east going hard story yesterday from Toronto wanted to listen in from Boston you want to listen i will say i i've done it to i've been you i listen this action ten after the [SPEAKER_01]: We got Tyler Milliken's on these streams sometimes.

[SPEAKER_01]: I would not, maybe easier today.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: Shout out to Tyler.

[SPEAKER_01]: It is a great job.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I think the thing that you'd be disturbing me, Yankees fans.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know if it is to all Yankees fans is that.

[SPEAKER_01]: You watched a rival, again, diagnose your faults, make fun of your style of play in Buck Martina saying this isn't a good team.

[SPEAKER_01]: They make errors.

[SPEAKER_01]: They strike out in Yankees, fans and Aaron Boone tried to rally and said, no, no, you got it wrong.

[SPEAKER_01]: We are a good team.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's not fair to say, we're not a good team.

[SPEAKER_01]: Of course, it was a little bit of an exaggeration to say, they're not good.

[SPEAKER_01]: They want around.

[SPEAKER_01]: They had an incredible comeback.

[SPEAKER_01]: Aaron judges the MVP or the runner-up, depending on your viewpoint.

[SPEAKER_01]: But when push came to shove, [SPEAKER_01]: Max Reed and Carlos Rodon could not execute in the postseason.

[SPEAKER_01]: Luke Weaver could not execute in the postseason.

[SPEAKER_01]: Cody Bellinger, John Carlos Stan, Austin Wells, Anthony Volpi, Trent Grisham, people you'd theoretically are counting on.

[SPEAKER_01]: Who are a good part of your 162 game offense could not execute in the postseason?

[SPEAKER_01]: And the New York Yankees, when they lose, they get clowned on.

[SPEAKER_01]: Flab Guerrero, the Yankees lose, Josh Nieder said, starts spreading the news bitches when he eliminated in the yesterday.

[SPEAKER_01]: The Yankees are always going to be the kings.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's how it works.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're the most storied franchise in baseball history.

[SPEAKER_01]: When people knock them out, they're going to have fun.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to make fun of their traditions.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to dance around.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to rub it in their faces.

[SPEAKER_01]: So if that's going to happen anyway, then why don't the Aggies try to be the actual legitimate betting favorites entering and post season or entering a season instead of just being in the mix, one of many very good teams.

[SPEAKER_01]: They've gotten eliminated by the better team.

[SPEAKER_01]: through Aaron Boone's entire tenure as manager.

[SPEAKER_01]: And we'll see you on the baseball insider's next week and throughout the off season to sort that out.

[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks.