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Good evening everybody. I'll welcome to
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well overview, Well we're gonna start
with the first topic. Have a few

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of the tonight Pittsburgh Steelers had a
thirty to six loss at Houston, and

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now they get the Baltimore Ravens this
week. So, Ralph, why don't

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you give me your overview of what
you thought? I heard against the upstart

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Houston Texans. As a team coach
by Demico Ryans, c J. Stroud

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has been a great pick for him. But and the Steelers unfortunately ran into

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a very fine football team. Well, I think the Steelers, Scott and

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George, I think they laid an
egg. This was a trap game.

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I told everybody when I had my
Steelers special on my radio show that there

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was going to be one game that
they were going to lose that they should

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have won, and this was one
of them. Indy and I said the

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Arizona Cardinals. Those were the three
games. I said that they probably were

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going to lose one or maybe two
of them because Mike Tomlin has a bad

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habit every year of losing the game
that he should win. This was a

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game they should have won. The
defense actually didn't play too bad. But

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when you spend too much time on
the field and your offense can't move the

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football like it's been going on now
for a while, that that becomes a

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problem. And I don't care how
many veterans you have. I don't care

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how good your football team is.
If your defense is on the field too

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much, it's going to get tired, and especially if they run the football

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and grind it down, that's what's
going to happen. And the Texas just

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ran all over the Steelers. They
had a better game plan. And you

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know, you know, I don't
usually say this too much, but Tamika

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Ryans, I congratulate you for having
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CJ. Stroud you talking about it. Yeah, CJ. Stroud's a

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better quarterback that I thought. You
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We always take them and take them
down in sacks. Didn't do it

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this week. You know, a
couple of our former guys beat us,

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like Kendrick Green until he got hurt. You know, it was a bum

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up here. He didn't do anything
with the Steelers, and you know he's

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done there trying to reinvent himself and
then he ends up getting hurt, and

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I feel bad for the guy.
So but anyway, Matt Canada has to

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go. He's the offensive coordinator.
Some of my sources within the Steelers tell

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me that if we lose this game
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he's he goes bye byes. That's
uncommon for the Steelers, but I

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heard that aren't really the second The
owner is not real happy right now,

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and the ultimatum is that if if
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score a lot of points or whatever, he's he wants them gone by the

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bye week. So we're going to
find out if that happens. Okay,

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George, what's your take on this
football game? Well, I've been through

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that, Ralph so many times with
the Detroit Lions. You talk about trap

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games, you know, and the
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not expected by hardly anyone. And
I know what you're going through, and

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I know what the Pittsburgh fans are
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rally. Tomin's a good coach.
He's a good coach, and I know

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that everybody might be up in arms
right now, but a boy that puts

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a lot of pressure though, doesn't
it on the Baltimore game. Like you

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said, Ralph More comes in three
and one and your Steelers are two and

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two. But every week's a different
situation and the days of just having an

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easy game are over, folks,
It's over. I mean, look at

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Chicago rolling tonight in Washington. I
know they're both bad teams. Look at

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what happened to Detroit losing to Seattle, and like you said, Pittsburgh losing

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to the Texans. They're a team
on the rise of Texans. I mean,

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you know Stroud is playing some good
ball. Trust me, We had

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plenty of him playing against the University
of Michigan Wolverines. Trust me, over

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the years, I know what a
good quarterback that kick is. And you

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know, it's just one of these
things. Though, you know, you

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gotta bounce back. Now you're talking
about coach being fired and all this stuff.

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Well, on the field, they
got to perform. This is it.

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Don't even worry about last week,
right now, get it out of

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your mind. And it's fine.
Pitsburgh's concern. You can't roll over dead

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though. You got to play the
game. It's not gonna be easy,

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but you could beat Baltimore. The
Steelers can beat Baltimore, well, they

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always do. To have a good
record short against Baltimore. That's number one

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and number two, they always seem
to beat Baltimore. And it's always a

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dog fight. Well, I don't
think we've came out we have come out

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with a win, guys Scott and
George, in any kind of a Baltimore

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game where it was two or three
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and we won by maybe a point
or three points. It's always been a

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dog fight. These division games are
dog fights because they're there. It's for

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the dominance of the division. And
right now, Cincinnati don't look too good,

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Cleveland's about average, Baltimore is about
the best right now, and the

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Steelers failed against the Texans. But
you know what, George, they're putting

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in the rear view mirror. Mike
Tomlins said, it's this press conference this

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week. They're going back into the
laboratory, as he always says, and

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we're going to try to fix this. So you know, we'll see what

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he does. The only thing I'll
say about this whole thing, Number one

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is I wonder how the people in
Houston are feeling that Deshaun Wantson is not.

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Their problem is with Cleveland, and
you get down. If I were

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those people in Houston, I'd be
doing tartet wheels because I'll tell you that,

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Yeah, you're exactly what you're thinking
about. Oh you have all those

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issues with Deshaun Wantson, you moved
them to Cleveland. You know, I'm

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not saying that Deshaun Watson won't have
a halfway. He's a career in Cleveland,

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and again he better. They're paying
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the future is now with CJ.
Stroud. Not like everything that they're doing

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in Houston. I really do.
And in terms of the Baltimore Pittsburgh situation,

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we all know what the division will
aames with divisional games, the rivalries

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Georgia and I will live it in
our division when you had everything is a

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rivalry when it comes to Chicago,
Green Bay, Detroit, Chicago, Detroit

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Bay, Minnesota. Yeah, but
I would say that Detroit, Chicago and

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Green Bay Triangle takes a little bit
more precedent because they've been around the league

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a lot longer as they would And
it would be remissed for me to not

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be on the show and say obviously, we're said, and by the loss

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of Dick Buckets, who passed away
at the age of eighty. Well,

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at last I heard the Chicago Bears
were leading the Commanders twenty to three.

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Not surprised that they came out fired
up anyways, But reci peace, Dick

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buck Is. You know you were
great for the game and everything about it.

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And all I can say is the
NFL will never be the same without

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your presence around. With that said, let's move on to the next topic.

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Tampa Bay Ray started out thirteen to
o and that's a memory after they

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were swept to nothing by the Texas
Rangers. All right, Ralph Williams,

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but I want to find out for
you is this, did you ever believe

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in the Tampa Bay Rays at the
beginning of the year, let alone the

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fact that at the end of the
year they made a very quick exit.

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You start winning thirteen ye row and
then you go out out of two game

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in the postseason. Yeah, the
Rays late in eight I mean they I

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thought they were going to go to
the World Series. They were one of

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my picks, you know, in
the American League. And and what the

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reason I like the Rais is because
they are doing what the Pirates are not

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doing, and that is they're winning
with a small market budget and you know,

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they always have good, good players, and you know, and it

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also takes some good coaching as well. Again, I like the Rays,

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I respect them. It's sad to
see that they went out like this.

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It's like the Dodgers every year,
guys, Dodgers always, you know,

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they have the highest payroll, and
then they they soil the bed too,

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and you know, in the playoffs
instead of going the World Series. So

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I mean, you know, you
know, sort of like the similar thing.

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Well, you know, Philly's hot
and Tampa Bay it just went Bobby's

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and you know, there's some surprising
teams in here. Let's face the reality.

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Kevin Cash is a great manager,
he really is, yes, and

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then Tampa Way raised away their run
as an organization to me or one of

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the model franchises in Major League Baseball. Love Kevin cash is, but I

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never believed in him at the beginning
with that thirteen game winning streak and the

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reason why I was over in Tampa
covering the Red Wings and the Lightning because

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I felt their schedule was a little
bit soft at the beginning. Don't get

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me wrong. That thirteen and oh
record will always be in the record books

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that they're tied, so nobody can
ever take it away from them. But

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isn't you know, even though you
have a great record to start in the

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end, it's what you do in
the postseason. And unfortunately the Tampa Bay

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Rays are going to be watching it
on TV instead of a continuing ball.

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Okay, George, and yeah,
the small market thing is unbelievable how they've

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worked under us there. Yeah,
and also, don't forget our friend Rick

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Curdie Scott on one hundred and eight
stitches. He said the same thing you

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did. He says, wait till
they start playing opponents that are worthy of

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that thirteen game winning streak. And
sure enough, sure as heck, you

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guys both call that one as the
streak ended, and they and they,

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they take nothing away from Tampa.
They still had a great season, but

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we realized that there are certain teams
that do know how to trip them up.

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Now, the bad thing is is
the statistic. The statistic that stands

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out to me. They've hit one
sixty one in the last four playoff losses

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to last year two this year,
sticks are one sixty one. You're not

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gonna win anything. I don't care
if you got I don't know if you

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got cy Young on the mound.
Seriously, I mean with the one sixty

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one average. I have no idea
Kevin Cash is going to have to go

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back to the drawing board on some
of this, because I'm not quite sure

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where that's coming from. I just
think that it was, you know what,

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what is it the team that gets
hot. I'm not saying the Rangers

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were super hot. They weren't super
hot. They struggled at the end a

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little bit too, but they knew
how to finish the finish the game and

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win the series. But that being
said, I think Tampa still has a

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bright future. You're right. They're
a small market that knows how to win.

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They know how to draft, they
know how to scout, and all

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the more power to them. And
they're not going anywhere, folks. They'll

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be back next year and they'll be
hungry, hungry or two. Oh yeah.

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Absolutely all right. So with that
said, let's just talk about the

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matchups that are left out here.
Ralph, I'll lead off with you.

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We're gonna let you break down.
Just give me preditions for each of these

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series. Okay, we'll talk about
the Texas Rangers, obviously managed by Bruce

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Bochin knows how to win the World
Series against Baltimore prediction and why. Uh,

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I think Texas to have more experience. Baltimore hasn't been in the playoffs

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in a while. Uh, we'll
see what they do, just like Tampa

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bayge Whorich said, the Baltimore Orioles
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They're a small market team that hasn't
won in a long time, but

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they're here in the playoffs. But
Texas has but Bruce Bochia Scott said,

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and they also have probably better talent
to win. And I think they're gonna

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win. That's that's you know Texas. Yeah, we'll let you break down

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every one of them first and then
Georgia and I will go after that.

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Minnesota against Houston and Barren Ryan,
Baltimore right now lost their closer, I

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believe, so yeah, for for
a while. So I just want to

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mention that I'm not going to get
specifics, but they lost their closer.

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That doesn't help at the wrong time
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Ralph I like Houston, Uh,
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they're they're they're a well managed team. Too small market, but they

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always they've been to the World Series. It's been a while from Minnesota,

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so we'll see what happens there.
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Philadelphia, Atlanta. Philly's up and
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has a very good team. They're
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good record, and I think they're
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on them, but it's gonna be
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Atlanta. Okay, last you got
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Dodgers. Like I said before,
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l A Dodger is always lant egg
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Okay, very good? All right, George. You know, you

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know the Masshofs. You got Texas
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I think you're spot on about that
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of the Baltimore Orioles in the postseason, that's gonna be a big challenge and

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I have to go with you on
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that Texas they disposed of of of
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dispose of the Orioles. Even though
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great record. It's gonna be a
hell of a series. But I'm saying

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they're gonna it'll be Texas three games
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against Houston. I don't see any
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pull this off. Guys, you
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in the rotation. Down in Houston, you got a Dusty Baker, I

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mean, you got veteran leadership Altuve. I would be shocked if Minnesota got

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more than one win in this series. So I'm gonna have to go with

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Houston, uh winning three games to
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yeah, three to one. I'm
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okay. So Atlanta, Oh,
this is a tough one. Boy.

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The Philly fans, you see how
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it was so exciting. And you
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from three of my boys there,
Dave Dombrowski in the front office, Nick

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Castianos in the outfield, and Gregory
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that being said, you can't you
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a wonderful year they've had, just
fantastic. So as much as Philly is

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on a roll, I'm still going
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bigger role. That'll be a three
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last but not lazy on Arizona Dos. Yeah, I'm not going to

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bite that trap there, Ralph.
I'm still going with the Dodgers. I'm

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not going to fall into that.
Now. They could get tripped up in

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the nl CES, I'm not saying, but we'll say that for another day.

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But they got to get by a
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But I think the Dodgers, they
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of firepower on that team. Scott, I'm going to go them again with

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three to three games to one.
Right, I'm not going to give any

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particular how many games are gonna win. Well, that's okay, but that's

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okay that you did. I'm sure
a lot of people can match what you

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say versus what the outcome is.
Texas Rangers Baltimore. I would have gone

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with Baltimore. Losing your closer is
not going to do any good and any

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Bruce Bochi there to me is the
signing factor of a loser closer and the

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season you're in trouble. So yeah, I'll go with Texas, Minnesota,

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Houston kind of go with Dusty Baker
justin Verlo Oh. Absolutely, yeah,

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plus and Minnesota has been a good
story this year, but watch out for

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the Tigers next year as they continue
to develop this roster and de try to

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give Minnesota a run for their money. But for all intent purposes, I'm

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going with Houston, Philadelphia, Atlanta. You know what one thing I'm intrigued

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I talked for the first time last
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was playing first base. You know
what I like Bryce Harper playing first base,

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and I'll tell you why. You
know, Let's face it, he

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won't run into many more walls.
And the Philadelphia Philly are trying to say

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Bryce Harper from himself. I can
tell you right now, Bryce Harper would

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be able to fit in any era
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I love his passion, his energy, everything about the guy. I really

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really really do that said you know
what I'm going to do. I am

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going to go over there a little
bit I'm going to give. I'm going

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to look for the upstate with the
Philadelphia Phillies over this one. I am.

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I say that this is all entertainment, education and inform and that's what

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we're all here to do. To
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move by the Phillies. And you
know what he likes the position from I've

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heard there's more action at first base
and in the outfield. And if anybody

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can relate to that scenario, then
he does. It's me because when I

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played other positions other than ketcher,
when I settled into a position, you

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always like to be on the diamond
when you're more active instead of losing mental

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lapses. And so I can totally
appreciate them putting Rice Harper at first because

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again I dealt with it. So
I'm going to go with the Phillies on

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this. So we got me a
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I'll stay with the Dodgers. And
you want to talk about another former Tiger,

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what about j D. Martinez ohe
bring it up. There's so many

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X Tigers that are doing so well, yeah, we'll face the reality,

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you know, at the time.
To George, well, yeah, let's

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not get into that conversation, Ralph, I really don't. I think we

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could say that for another edition of
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is that, Okay, J.
D. Martiz has done well. A

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lot of these guys, you face
it, the last seven years have been

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tough on the Tigers because they're in
a rebuilding mode. We saw that Mcalli

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Coper is retiring, so so I'm
not gonna put a whole lot of stock

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in that. It's good that they're
having success. So Max Scherzer was but

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unfortunately not available for the postseason because
of an arm injury. So you know,

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anytime players leave from a team which
is not playing very well, well,

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there's a reason why they're going to
have success. So we'll go from

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there. All right, Ralph,
you know what, We're gonna give your

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final comments about what you want to
talk about the rest of the night.

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Forgers, Well, I want to
talk about the upcoming hockey season coming up.

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We have the Penguins coming up.
I'm doing a special on my radio

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show in Beaver County Radio one special. We're gonna see Kyle Dubis, brought

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in a bunch of people, got
rid of a bunch of dead wood that

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you know that was brought in here
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and now he cleaned it all out, managed to stay inside the salary cap

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and brought in Carlson and a bunch
of guys. We're gonna find out if

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Mike Sullivan can coach this team.
I'm concerned about the goaltending because we got

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Jorry back. If he can stay
healthy, he'll be fine. And we

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have a backup for some strange reason, can't pronounce his name for the life

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of me, but he's been around. He's a good backup, better than

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Casey the Smith. Let's see what
the Penguins do, just like the Steelers.

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It was it's exciting leading up,
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They go hockey season. Obviously preseason
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of keeps. Yeah, Ron Heckstall, I've always admired him as a executive.

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But we'll just see how everything plays
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Red Wings as of Penguins the last
couple of day and obviously preseason and Detroit

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the Penguins and Red Wings always sure
a nice Rivalryland that said, oh yeah

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from the Stanley Cup time, you
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I know, I was there.
Unfortunately guys hoisted that cup at Joe

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Louis Arena. That was sad time
for me. Hey which which NHL hockey

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team? Uh? Wonders which which
Stanley Cup hockey team won their final game

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to win the Stanley Cup? Away? Who who holds that record? The

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Pittsburgh in Montreal Pittsburgh Penguins. They
they won every Stanley Cup away ask they

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always won the last. So Ralph, why would I expect anything other than

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a Pittsburgh Penguins reference with a question
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for a trick question here and I
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guys. I always liked it when
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pittsfordh market you love to, so
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it doesn't matter. I appreciate being
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uh, we're trying to keep the
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What's that I enjoy? I enjoy you

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Thank you. Yeah, I have a

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and Ralph, thank you, all
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Fire Up so on behalf of Ralph
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on this edition on Fire Off,
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edition. Did evening everybody to have
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