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tearing it up in the Arizona Fall League, a hard hitting first baseman trying
to make his case to make this ball club, either at the start or
at some point in the twenty twenty four season. Also coming up on our
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Series preview as the World Series got off to a rousing start wild ballgame last
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Game of the Week segment as we take a look back at one of the
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won by Texas in e eleven but first I'll look back at one of the
great games of twenty twenty three, and we take you back to June the
ninth. The Houston Astros were in town to play the Guardians, the defending
World Series champions who were certainly a favorite to win it again this season,
and this game on Friday night, June the ninth, featured an Astros ball
club that came in at thirty six and twenty seven, contending for the top
spot in the American League West, while the Guardians were under the five hundred
market twenty nine and thirty three. The starting pitchers were Christian Javier and Logan
Allen, and it was all Astros early, as Jose Abreu hit a three
run home run in the first inning. They added another run in the second
to make it for nothing before the Guardians got on the board in the third.
I'm at Rosario with a walk, Jose Ramirez with a single, and
then Josh Naylor stepped in the pitch, swung on grounded back up the middle
l two A of second has it, He'll throw the first to get nailor.
Rosario scores Ramirez to third, Now two down. If Josh Naylor forty
four RBIs sixth most in the American League. Houston got that run right back
in the top of the fifth inning on Alex Bregman's RBI double that made it
five to one. But in the bottom half of the fifth, the Guardians
bats came alive. Miles Straw got it started with a lead off double and
that brought Stephen Kwan to the plate. Here's the two swung on and that's
driven down the right field line. If it stays up and it is off
the base of the wall, extra basis for Kwan. Scoring is Straw.
As Kwan has a RBI double and the Guardians cut into that lead for Houston.
It's now five to two, Houston in front, but Cleveland's back on
the board. Kwan with a rope to right and it's double number fifteen for
Steven Kwan now with nineteen runs driven in and I'm at Rosario made it three
consecutive doubles. He swings and he lines one to left center field. That's
headed to the gap. It gets down for a base hit. Scoring is
Kwan on his way to second Rosario he's in with a hustle double. Three
straight doubles open the inning. Two runs are in and it's now five to
three Houston as Cleveland creeps closer. Two batters later, Josh Naylor singled,
moving Rosario to third, and then Andre Simenez delivered. Here's the old one
swung on and there's a high fly ball deep right field back on it.
Making the catch is Tucker tagging and scoring his Rosario as the throw comes to
third, and Jimenez drives in another with a sack fly to make it a
one run ball game. Actually more of a line drive to Tucker and at
plates Rosario. R beh I number seventeen for Jimenez. The score remained five
to four Houston until the seventh. That's when Jose Ramirez let off the inning
with a bomb outfield for Hose is a bit toward right fairly deep. Ramirez
tonight a double, a single of flyout coming off last night's three homer game,
Cleveland downer run the payoff, swung on hit, high hit deep to
right faircos He's done it again and we are tied at five. Jose Ramirez
four home runs in the last two nights, six hits in the last two
nights, and it's back to Hose saying, hits your wagon on me.
Guys, here we go. But in the eighth inning, the Astros retook
the lead six to five, and the Guardians needed a ninth inning rally just
to stay alive. The Astros brought their closer on, Ryan Presley. He
picked up two quick outs to start the inning, but then Jose Ramirez walked,
and the most clutch player for the Guardians all season long, Josh Naylor,
he came through again. Ramirez as good a base runner as there is
in the game. At first, very modestly. Now the O two delivery
swung on, hid high in the air, deep plus center. It's got
a chance off the top of the wall. Ramierraz scores in the second is
nailor we are tied and that's how you make somebody pay for now. Wanting
to pistol Jose Ramirez nailer shortened the swing, went down and drove one high
off the nineteen foot wall and left center, and Ramirez couldwalts home from first
six six in the ninth, So to extra innings we went. Emmanuel Classe
was on for the Guardians, got the first two hitters in the tenth and
then a little help from his defense and super utility man David Fry kept Houston
off the board. Now the one zero swung on a tamper out toward the
mound. Instead, it's cut off by the catcher and Fry throws to first
for the out. What a play by Fry, who's cut so very little
in his whole life. He called off clause A bare handed it and on
the run through the first to get Diaz or the go ahead run. Scores,
the Guardians were blanked in the bottom of the tenth. Trevor Stephen pitched
a scoreless top of the eleventh, and then in the bottom of the eleventh,
Josh Naylor stepped in and it looked like more late game dramatics for Naylor.
And again here's where Josh Naylor so hot the last three weeks, hitting
over four hundred with twenty six rbives. The one to zero pitch swung on,
hit high, hit deep to center McCormick back track, Woll made Doug
catch up against the wall in center. Wow, and thirty two thousand with
a collective sigh. At the same time, we gotta the twelfth tie at
six. In the twelfth, Kyle Tucker singled with one out, driving in
the go ahead run and that gave Houston a seven to six lead, but
in the bottom of the inning, the Guardians got a little help from the
Houston defense, with Will Brennan batting the one to one swung on grounded to
short. This should do it. Paya runs to second steps throws it away
off the screen of the dugout, Karen stwart home. Naylor scores the tying
run ow Payna and what could have been an ending ending double play step done
second airmail. The throto first went off the screen of the dugout, Karen
tward to home play and Naylor never stopped running. And how about that way
to tie the game at seven. Incredible. In the thirteenth, Houston again
put the pressure on, scoring a run on a Mauricio Dubon RBI double that
made it eight to seven Houston, but the Guardians bounced back again. Bottom
of the inning, Stephen Kwan came through the pitch, swung out a little
looping liner in the left center it's going to get down for a base hit.
He's being waved around. Here comes the throat of the plate against by
everybody. That allows the backup man Martinez to field it deep behind home play.
Game is tied. As Fry scores and Kwan's able to go to second,
and now we're back to even at eight. That'll be an RBI single
and then an air. That's a throwing air by McCormick, the left fielder,
and here we go again for the fourth time in this game, Cleveland
has tied it. So on to the fourteenth, the game went this never
happens in today's game with that runner starting at second base in the extra innings,
but it did on June the ninth, and in the fourteenth, Houston
again got the runner home from second with a Kyle Tucker RBI single, So
the Guardians trailed nine to eight. Heading to the bottom of the fourteenth,
Josh Naylor was the base runner starting at second and leading things off off Tyler
Freeman. Now the one one Freeman swinging a line shot to left down the
line. It goes basin rolls to the wall in the score the tying runners
Nailer in sliding with the doubless Freeman. That's why Tito didn't bunt Tyler Freeman.
Rockets and RBI double down the left field line, and we're back to
even for the fifth different time. Tonight, Cleveland has tied the game now
at nine, and then two batters later, it was another youngster in Will
Brennan, who finally gave the Guardians a hard fought win, winning run at
second. One down the pitch, a swing and a liner to deep left.
Beck goes McCormick's over his head around third, coming home, Freeman scores
the winner. Brennan delivers the third walk off win. With the outfield playing
shallow, Brennan ripped one over McCormick sad and left for a game winning double.
Oh what a game. Five different times Cleveland came from behind the tiet
and now they win it. Incredible. Tyler, Freeman and RBI doubled it,
tie it, Will Brennan and RBI doubled a win it. Folks.
You may not see a more entertaining game this year. The final in fourteen
innings, Cleveland ten, Houston nine. After the game, both Brennan and
Freeman talked about the big extra innings win for the Guardians. Yeah, I
mean it's a snow quit, so it's a marathon. Who knew that that
game will have gone fourteen innings? Usually those last about to the town through
eleventh, So you know, it's really important that we kept our minds in
it and stuck around and battled and that's what we do. Yeah, I
felt like we've just been given you know, now the challenge was brought up,
we were we were ready, and we capitalized on every moment we could.
And uh, we just tried keeping the line going. That was the
biggest thing. And uh, you know we came out on top at the
end. What's that celebration like, Yeah, I got a dows and water,
you know, typical of that. But that was cool. That was
definitely really cool. I was excited Tyler saying something that about how good this
would has been like watching him the least. That's how he is as a
player. I mean, every single year, no matter if he's if he's
not hot, or you know he is hot, he's the same player each
and every single day. And when he's on it's fun to watch. I'll
tell you that. I mean, before the game even started, he thought
he was gonna hit for the cycle. He hadn't had that back yet.
He goes and he he says he's gonna hit for the cycle tonight, and
he was what he just needed that triple man. Yeah, that was it.
But now he's a very special player. It was giddy yesterday. I
don't know, well, we all felt like kids watching them. It was
pretty cool. You know, he's our leader. He rallied us through this
entire game. He rallied us yesterday. It's again that's super special. I
mean, he's a Hall of Famer. Hi, get everybody with Cleveland manager
Tito Francona this time, Hamilton. Never since at least nineteen hundred has a
team come back five different times to tie or win a ball game from the
seventh thening on. You've been a part of some crazy ones. How does
that one rank? Shoot? Hanmy, we had the lead last night for
all of one second. You know when we scored that last run. I
mean it just I mean, you're talking about pulling teeth. You know.
It was hard and there was a lot of things that went right. There
were some things that went wrong, but through it all we persevered. And
when you're home, there's been so many times were on the road and we'll
say, you know what, we were on the road. You have this
last chance to score or and with the new rules and the effect where you
know the guys at second that when they score one, that game's not over
and Fortunately, you know, we kept scoring one, we couldn't get that
second one, and you know, for a couple of things, nobody scored,
so there was some frustration going on too. Yeah, you had a
couple of extra endings with the winning run a third and less than two out.
Usually, Tito, if you don't capitalize there, you lose that ball
game. Is that a credit to this club's mindset that you didn't. You
make a good point. So often when you leave runners out there, you
kind of leave a win out there. Again, good teams like Houston they'll
come back and put get three or four. But the guys they keep playing
and that's a good quality. How about the kids coming through for you to
win that ballgame? Tyler Freeman and Will Brennan, And you've always said,
this is why you try to use everybody to make them feel a part of
it, And that was I don't know. When I was walking to the
media room yesterday, Freeman and Will world just coming out of it, and
I thought that was pretty cool. The more they can get involved in our
wins, the better, and because they're going to be our future. And
Tito, you've been there as a young player no matter how thrilling it is
to get that call up. At the end of the day. You still
want to play, don't you. You do? And I've actually told Tyler
that. I said, Hey, I feel for you right now. I
know you're not playing a lot, and I said, I'm trying to figure
this out. I said, it's not always easy. And to his credit,
he's an exemplary teammate. And again, you just don't see games going
very long anymore with the new extra inning rules. But that was a Donnybrooks
certainly that progressive feel. Back in June against the Astros, a fourteen inning,
ten to nine Guardians win. Stay with us when we come back.
We'll hear from a young prospect who's making a lot of noise for Cleveland out
in the Arizona Fall League. His name is Kyle man Zardo, and we'll
visit with him next on the Cleveland Clinic. Guardians Radio Network. Welcome back
to Guardians Weekly. Jim rosen House back with you from Progressive Deal. Kyle
Manzardo's a twenty three year old first baseman who the Guardians acquired from the Tampa
Bay Rays in a trade deadline deal, sending Aaron Savali the other way.
Manzardo's in his third pro season, a former second round pick by the Rays
out of Washington State, and he is carving up the Arizona Fall League.
In sixteen games, he has five home runs, fifteen runs driven in,
six doubles in a triple. He's been an extra base machine, and he
says, yes, things are going very well out in Arizona. It's been
great, you know, far so good, you know, catching up on
some of my bats that I missed in the middle middle part of this year.
And I mean, I'm having a great time. And when you look
at things, I know, we had a chance to visit with Chased a
louder a couple of weeks ago, and he said that the competition was was
excellent and the league's reputation obviously speaks for itself. And how have you found
that to be in terms of challenges for you and and real development for you
this fall? Yeah, I mean it's been it's been challenging. It's a
really interesting I would say mix as far as like competition goes from the pitching
side. You're facing sometimes guys with some someday league experience, and then other
times you're facing like younger electric type arms. So it's it's been it's been
pretty challenging. But I don't know, we adjust you mentioned adjustments, and
I know you had a reputation coming out of college is just a real solid,
uh contact hitter with with some power, And it seems like power wise,
there have been some some really strong games for you, both at the
tail end of the regular season and now in the Arizona Fall League. Anything
different going on there swing wise or just adjustment wise for you, Uh No,
I mean so, I mean I lifted a ton last off season and
kind of I've really seen a lot of improvements and differences as far as like
the power power goes this year. But I mean I'm taking taking the same
types of swings, and you know, the approach is obviously the same.
Is that a challenge sometimes to try and keep that same approach even if you
would like to to produce more power and just be patient and let that come
as you get more at bats and more experience. Yeah, I mean,
it's a it's kind of a constant challenge. I guess it's just baseball.
You know, it's really easy to get you know, too big, or
you know, go get too passive in the box. It's just kind of
going up there with the same plan every day, something that kind of kind
of keeps you grounded. We're joined by Kyle Manzardo, acquired by the Guardians
right at the trade deadline trade with Tampa Bay and Cale. It doesn't happen
very often for a player in the minor leagues to get moved, especially in
a high profile deal at the deadline. What was your reaction that when everything
went down and the trade was announced. Yeah, I mean it was it
was a whirlwind for a little bit there, but kind of settled in quick
after. I mean after I found out I got traded, I pretty much
came straight to Arizona to rehab and then just started started meeting people, started
you know, working on getting healthy again. And I mean I've settled in
quite nicely so. And I know it's been a short period of time that
you've been with with the Cleveland organization. What have you found that's been helpful
maybe since the time of the trade that's allowed you to have some good success
here as you get deeper into it. Yeah, I mean, the the
rehab that I kind of had going over here was really good for me,
and it's just been you know, overall a great experience, and then yeah,
I mean everybody's been awesome. I've been really liking it. When you
look back at your amateur career, you had a chance to play it at
Washington State, and when you look at what used to be the PAC ten
Pac twelve, various iterations of the conference, how is the competition there and
how do you think that prepared you to be a high draft pick and then
have some good success at least at this stage of your pro career. Yeah,
I mean it was. It was huge for me. I mean it's
like a pretty real, pretty real conference. I mean, maybe not as
much anymore, but I mean while I was there, it was still you
know, the PACT twelve. I was facing you know, in CLA,
Stanford and all these you know, great baseball programs, you know, seeing
a lot of really good arms. So it definitely definitely prepared me for this.
So you fast forward to this season pro ball. You get traded to
the Guardians organization, and you finish the season at Triple A and now in
the Arizona Fall League. Just a couple of weeks left in the Fall League,
and for you, what's next? What do you try and do to
make sure that you're ready to go in twenty twenty four and put your best
foot forward right at the start of the season in spring training. Yeah,
I mean, after this, I'll I'll take it home for you know,
for the holidays and stuff and for the break and just focus on getting stronger,
you know, continuing to you know, keep up on all my rehab
and stuff, make sure my body's you know, really ready to go.
And then I'll probably head back down to Arizona at some point before spring training
just so I can get some reps outside and stuff, just because it's really
cool where I'm from, a lot of snow and stuff, so you can't
go wrong down in the Good Year area for sure. Along those lines,
Hey, when you look at I know, players always say, hey,
you got to control what you can control. But you're at a stage now
in your career where you're getting closer to the major leagues, and how much
do you look ahead at the possibilities of what could be either next season or
maybe even a little bit further off than that. I mean, honestly,
I try not to, you know, worry too much about that, you
know, I try and just focus on being wherever my feet are, and
I mean performing and playing as best as I can every day no matter where
I'm at. That's kind of a plan for me. Well, I know
why. We see the reports every now and again, and it seems like
things going really well for you out in Arizona. And Kyle, thanks so
much for coming by. Appreciate the time. Yeah, I appreciate you.
Thank you. Fun to catch up with Kyle Manzardo, who's certainly making his
case to be under consideration to make this ball club, either at the start
or at some point next season. Stay with us while we come back.
We'll have a World Series preview with Anthony Castorvinz from MLB dot Com. That's
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from Progressive Field in downtown Cleveland. Anthony Castrovinz with boots on the ground in
Arlington, Texas at the World Series. This is a regular feature that we
do with him. He's the Major League Baseball dot Com columnist and longtime beat
writer for the Guardians way back when when they were the Indians. But Anthony,
you're back on site of the World Series, and I'm sure you had
this matchup back in spring training when everyone was putting together their predictions. I
sure did. I sure did. Rosie go back and look, I'm sure
it's there somewhere. But now I'm glad we're honoring our It's one of they
considering the best tradition in baseball is Rosie and Castro's World Series previous. So
we're able to do that. You know, the matchup. I can't imagine
anybody had this, but just based on recent history for both ball clubs,
I'm sure a lot of folks thought Texas might be able to make some noise.
But is that where our game is now? Though? In terms of
some unpredictability when it comes to the postseason, well, I mean definitely.
First of all, I will say that, you know, for me,
I did see the Diamondbacks as a you know, maybe a sneaky good team
this year. I did not expect World Series. I thought they would have
kind of a Guardian's a twenty twenty two guardians vibe to them, you know,
where they are able to rise up the NL West and you know,
maybe even challenge for the NL West and you know, maybe learn from that
experience and be better for it next year. But you know, they they
exceeded my expectations. You know, during the regular season, they got to
such a great start and they had this mid season low and you know,
caught fire at the right time. And same thing with the Rangers. They
had some horrible stretches of baseball this season, including at the very end of
the year where they left the division slip away in the last few days to
the Astros and ended up, you know, a fifth seed on the road
against the Rays. But you know, this is the nature of the postseason
now, especially you know with the uh you know, the added rounds,
and I think they value that unpredictability. I think it's a feature not above.
You know, it's the regular season has certainly lost some of its value,
There's no question about it. And I'd like to see, you know,
what happens, you know, maybe with expansion and maybe kind of drawing
things up a little differently, and maybe you could even reduce the regular season
and make the playoffs longer. I'm not sure, but this is definitely the
inventory that people love these games, and you know, these these two teams
are proof of what can happen when you when you catch for at the right
time. I also think that I also think by the way where the Diamondbacks
were definitely aided by the new rules this season, you know, and in
both clubs to certain to a certain degree, but the Diamondbacks, especially with
their speed, I think they really take advantage of the new rules. You
mentioned the struggles that both had at different points in times during the regular season.
How much do you think the manager's in place and maybe more so with
Texas and Bruce Bochi had an impact on that being able to weather those storms.
I mean, these are two guys I respect a lot throughs poaching Tory
Levello. You know, Boach is Boach. He's he's a Hall of Famer.
He's won three World Series. He is so good tactically on the prostudon
stage. He's shown that before. It's been a little different this year than
those Giants teams, where you know, he really had three go to arms
in the bulltime that were so rock solid throughout throughout that Giant's dynasty. Here
with the Rangers, you know, sometimes they had to get a little more
creative because the Bos had some struggles over the course of the year. But
but you know, he's mixing the match at the right time. And then
Tory Leavello is a guy who you know, you go back with them a
long ways. Rosie I do too, from you know, his his Cleveland
days in the minor league system, managing for Cleveland and really you know,
coming up and learning a lot in that organization and always been just a great
baseball guy and a guy who's also willing to evolve and a guy who always
builds great relationships with his players. And you know, he's been in Arizona
since twenty seventeen, which is hard to believe. This is the second Qua
Off team it's the first one that really came up under his guidance, you
know, over years of building those relationships with their players, even a guy
that Corvin Carroll is a rookie this year. You know, he was talking
this today about what, you know, how Lavello went out of his way
to really build a relationship with him as a minor leaguer, and uh,
you know, it just makes the bond all that much stronger when these guys
get to the big league, So real players, manager, and you know,
great to see having success on this stage. So ultimately, what do
you think the series comes down to at this point? Yeah, So for
me, Rosie, it's it's really this simple. Here's the here's the math
equation. For me, the Diamondbacks have really rebuilt their bullpen in the last
couple of months. It's it's kind of become a different unit than it was
the first four months of the season. And that happens all the time in
baseball. We see that of all and the Rangers had a lot of ups
and dials with their bullpen. It looks like their bullpen was going to cost
him a playoff spot at one time. But where we are right now going
into the World Series is the Diamondbacks have four arms that they seem to trust
in their bullpen. The Rangers have three arms that they seem to trust in
their bullpense. So I'm doing I'm crunching the numbers and running science experiments and
determining that that means four to three. That means Diamondbacks in seven games.
I like it. I like that the methodology of how you're getting there.
Home field. It seemed like home field would be a big deal in the
National League Championship Series, with the way the Phillies played at home and the
way their fans got behind them. Do you see that being as much of
a factor, which it turned out not to be in that series, But
do you see it being as much of a factor in the World Series based
on the two ballparks and fan basis. I can only look at the trend
this year and say, Nope, I guess it doesn't matter at all.
These teams have proven it, and this postseason has proven it where road teams
rose the ex I can't remember the exact number, but it's over a six
hundred winning percentage in this postseason for the road team, So go figure.
Yeah, I don't know why that is, it could just be one of
those weird, floky baseball things. It doesn't repeat itself, but it doesn't
seem to matter to these Diamondbacks going in. And also Rosie I wrote this
feature about Global Life Field the diamond for excuse me, the Rangers home since
twenty twenty. Very strange history to this building. You know, we live
in Cleveland, where Jacobs Field opened up in nineteen ninety four and everything changed
for the Cleveland Indians, you know, on a dime. You know,
they became a relevant team and sold out stadium and all that. Here at
Global Life Field, absolutely opposite Lifespan where it opened in the right during the
pandemic in twenty twenty, no fans in the seats for the short, weird
season. It hosts the NLCS and the World Series that year. So a
team, you know, two teams are playing the World Series and neither one
of them is the team that is the home team in the ballpark. Then
there were two no hitters thrown here in the first season with fans against the
Rangers, and then Aaron Judge hit his record breaking sixty second home run against
the Rangers here in this Billy. So a lot of baseball history in a
short time and absolutely none of it benefiting the Rangers. So I don't know
if that And then then they lost all three games at home in the ALCS,
So I don't know if that trend holds true here or if they're able
to make some magic and kind of reclaim their own building. So going through
my notes based on this conversation, in the future, don't win your division
or one hundred games and don't get home field advantage. So that's another challenge
for front offices to try and it happen. Yeah, you want to be
bad, but not so bad that you don't make the playoffs. You want
to be just, you know, just good enough to make the playoffs,
but just bad enough to not have prominent seating. Yeah, this stuff is
crazy, and you know, every year is kind of its own thing,
and next year it could be all favorites at advance, we don't know,
but I will say that the way it's drawn up, I mean, you
know, fans in places like Cleveland should love this format and they should love
where baseball is headed because it's going to be more athletically oriented and youth oriented
with the style of baseball that's rewarded with the you know, the pitch time
or and whatnot in the playoff format. I mean, there are huge economic
disparities in this game, and these are ways to level the playing field.
You know, the randomness of October again, it's a feature, not a
bug. And Arizona Diamondbacks had the twenty first pay roll out of thirty teams
going into the year and here they are in the World Series with a legit
chance to win it. So that's what you want as a as a fan
in a smaller market or a low revenue market. So that is our World
Series preview with Anthony cast Events from MLB dot com. And before we let
you go, Anthony, two quickies on other subjects. Your ears to the
ground. What are you hearing on the Guardian's managerial search? Yeah, just
just so many names, just so many names. And that's kind of what
I expecting this process because it's been it's been a very long it's been you
know, fourteen years fifth, what is it fifteen years, right since they
went through this process. You know, that led to Manniactas hiring because with
Terry Francona, it was like Terry Francone is in We're good, you know,
so you got to go back a long ways before they you know,
really had the process of whittling down the field. And I think there's so
much I think in hearing other perspectives, you know, and there's a lot
of them in the game right now. There's analytically driven minds, there's experienced
managers and experienced managers, you know, quality control coaches and all that stuff.
So, you know, obviously Steven Vote has been mentioned out there as
a very prominent candidate. I know he's had a couple interviews. I'm just
going to say that, Like, you know, I'm here at the World
Series and I have so much respect for Jeff Banister and I thought he did
a great job with the Texas Rangers. I thought you got to a raw
deal in losing his job with the Rangers, and he's been a difference maker
for Arizona Tory levelos that he's been the greatest gift that's ever happened to him
as a manager was having Jeff Banisters as bench coach. I'd like to see
him getting an opportunity with one of these you know, there's so many openings.
Hopefully he'll get one of them, and one name that has not been
mentioned as a candidate, but we like to update with you. Bruce Springsteen.
Uh, I well documented, you're a tremendous fan. He had to
stop his tour due to health issues. What are you hearing is is he
going to be able to get back out there? Yeah, he's on the
men's he's got pet ulcer disease. Sounds terrible. It's a terrible belly ache
basically, and it makes it all the more impressive of what he was doing
this summer in Europe and a little bit, you know, late summer in
some stadium shows here the US. He just played three shows at Gerrant Stadium
in the Meadowlands, and by all accounts, the last of those shows was
the absolute greatest of this tour, the best set list and just the energy
and the level of performance. And then a couple of days later you learn
what he was for, you know, concitions he was performing under. So,
Bruce, I've always said that I've covered a lot of great athletes in
baseball, but Bruce Springsteen is the greatest athlete I have ever seen in my
life. Seventy three years old, still getting it done. I was ecuseing
seventy four years old. Actually, so he's on the Men. They'll be
back in twenty twenty four, Rosie to rock your face off. Good to
know we covered a lot of ground this year, Anthony, and as always
it's appreciated it always to enjoy the World Series. Thank you so much,
Rosie. Great to hear you. That's Anthony Castor Benz from MLB dot com
to have him on the show previewing the World Series this year, and it
is off again to a rousing start after the Rangers extra inning win last night
in eleven six to five over the Diamondbacks. That's gonna do it for this
week's show. Thanks it's always to Brian Motze for helping to put together our
shows each week. We'll join you again next weekend for another edition of Guardian's
Weekly. This is Jim Rosenhause. Have a great weekend everyone. Guardians Weekly
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