WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Sham and I with the Mets and welcome 2 00:00:02.960 --> 00:00:04.360 to Baplip's end Nerds. 3 00:00:25.320 --> 00:00:28.879 Hello An, welcome to Batlips and to the Baseball Podcast 4 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:31.239 with a British twist. I am your host this evening, 5 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:35.799 Russell Lisam, and just like MLB, I have two heavyweight 6 00:00:35.880 --> 00:00:40.159 titans with me today to discuss the World Series. I 7 00:00:40.240 --> 00:00:44.560 have my New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers Big Swinger, 8 00:00:44.600 --> 00:00:46.520 so I have Rob Navera's how are you doing? 9 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:49.960 Rob? I think heavyweights about right, I'm not sure about 10 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:54.039 the rest of it. And I have Ben Carda. How 11 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:54.359 you doing? 12 00:00:54.399 --> 00:00:56.479 Ben? Very well? Thanks you. I don't know whether to 13 00:00:56.520 --> 00:00:57.960 take that as a compliment or not. Two of the 14 00:00:57.960 --> 00:01:00.799 most hated podcasters out there. No one way to see 15 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:03.079 these sea together, so. 16 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:05.959 I think, well we'll start there. I think as an 17 00:01:06.079 --> 00:01:09.480 interesting point to discuss. I think we are all heavily 18 00:01:09.519 --> 00:01:11.719 online people, and I think anybody who probably is listening 19 00:01:11.959 --> 00:01:15.799 to this podcast as well is into baseball far more than. 20 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:16.640 The average person. 21 00:01:16.840 --> 00:01:19.359 There's been an attempt by some to say that this 22 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:22.200 is a World Series that people didn't want because it 23 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:25.359 has two teams that are disliked, But we also have 24 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:28.560 the best players playing on the ground is stage, which 25 00:01:28.599 --> 00:01:31.319 will mean that more and I don't want to use 26 00:01:31.319 --> 00:01:34.280 this word normies might get involved with what's actually going on. 27 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:37.640 Isn't this a good thing for baseball? Rob, Yeah, of 28 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:39.239 course it is. This is fantastic. 29 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:42.879 There's that tweet doing the rounds about this is this 30 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:45.920 is the fact the perfect World Series for people who 31 00:01:45.959 --> 00:01:47.400 bought a hat with a logo or becas it kind 32 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:50.560 of looked cool, you know, like you could you could 33 00:01:50.599 --> 00:01:52.879 genuinely see someone start at a bus stop tomorrow with 34 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:55.359 a Dodger's hat, sat next to someone with a Yankees hat. 35 00:01:55.480 --> 00:01:57.280 You could walk up to them and go, how about that, 36 00:01:57.319 --> 00:01:59.200 Aaron Judge and they will both look at you blank. 37 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:02.480 So yeah, you know what, maybe one or two people 38 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:05.560 who bought one of those hats will have well notice 39 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:07.359 that it's on, or they'll see that it's going on, 40 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:10.319 and yeah, yeah, most people like this is good. Like 41 00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:12.879 the World Series is supposed to be the about the 42 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:15.000 best bit of the sport. It's the pinnacle. Like we know, 43 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:18.800 it doesn't mean much because the one sixty two is 44 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:21.599 what really kind of you know, sorts men from the boys. 45 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:25.280 But if we're talking about a showcase for the very 46 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:27.520 very best of the very very best. Of course, you 47 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:30.240 want the Dodgers and the Yankees. That's when it comes 48 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:30.560 down to. 49 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:33.439 Yeah, it does feel weird that I don't feel that 50 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:36.439 from a footballing side, Ben people do. The fact that 51 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:39.479 when we get like Man City versus Real Madrid, or 52 00:02:39.479 --> 00:02:43.199 Bayern Munich versus Barcelona, like at the World's at the 53 00:02:43.240 --> 00:02:46.479 final in the Champions League, this is just an inherently 54 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:47.639 online baseball take. 55 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:49.759 I think so, and I think we're so used to 56 00:02:49.919 --> 00:02:53.199 the playoffs throwing up surprise packages that when the two 57 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:57.360 one seeds fairly comfortably get to the World Series, it 58 00:02:57.400 --> 00:03:00.199 feels like we've been robbed in some way. And actually 59 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:01.919 it seems clear to me that this has all been 60 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:04.039 one big fixed by rob Manfreld of Major League Baseball, 61 00:03:04.039 --> 00:03:06.120 and that they've done this for ratings or whatever it 62 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:08.639 might be. I forget what the exact conspiracy theory is, 63 00:03:09.319 --> 00:03:12.520 but no, look, we always every year have the possibility 64 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:14.520 of this happening, it seems, because these are two very 65 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:17.080 good baseball teams every single year who make it to 66 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:18.560 the players and have a chance to get there, and 67 00:03:18.599 --> 00:03:20.759 one of them or both of them generally find a 68 00:03:20.759 --> 00:03:22.840 way to screw it up once October rolls around, but 69 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:25.879 this time they haven't. And yes, it is very annoying 70 00:03:25.960 --> 00:03:29.400 that the two teams that are most popular and everyone 71 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:31.439 has the hats and blah blah blah paying each other. 72 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:33.639 But it's also great because it is the two best 73 00:03:33.639 --> 00:03:35.840 teams and that is the baseball that I want to watch. 74 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:38.439 So yeah, it will be kind of painful watching one 75 00:03:38.439 --> 00:03:40.400 of these fan bases get to celebrate. But on the 76 00:03:40.439 --> 00:03:43.280 other hand, it's going to be great baseball for seven 77 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:45.039 really good games, I hope. Yes. 78 00:03:45.479 --> 00:03:47.680 And that's something that I want to point out that 79 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:51.759 there's a potential that this World Series will probably actually 80 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:54.759 be more watched in Japan than it is in the US. 81 00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:57.719 I don't know if you just saw those some NLCS 82 00:03:57.879 --> 00:04:01.919 stats have been put out there, but twenty million people 83 00:04:02.039 --> 00:04:05.960 between the US and Japan watched the first game of 84 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:08.400 the NLCS, of which twelve million were in Japan and 85 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:11.039 eight people eight million were in the US. 86 00:04:11.319 --> 00:04:15.400 So this actually is a world series. 87 00:04:16.199 --> 00:04:18.160 People in Japan love Max Mountsy Huh. 88 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:23.920 Yes, well, they took on newt Bar Maybe it or 89 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:25.920 be a Tommy Edmond will be the next guy that 90 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:31.240 they'll they'll all get into. But yeah, so obviously we've 91 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:35.519 got Yankees versus Dodgers. I think we'll talk a little 92 00:04:35.519 --> 00:04:39.120 bit about how the Dodgers got here first, the postseason 93 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:42.759 run for them, like the down fingers from Ben. There, 94 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:45.600 we'll have to get through the Mets in a second. Obviously, 95 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:48.680 I was heavily watching the other games in this in 96 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:51.319 this postseason, and watched a lot of this on highlights. 97 00:04:51.319 --> 00:04:52.720 I don't I think probably most people in the UK 98 00:04:52.759 --> 00:04:54.600 watched this all on highlights because it was all at 99 00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:58.720 times that were basically not really friendly for a British audience. 100 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:01.399 But these all sit these games kind of seemed to 101 00:05:01.399 --> 00:05:04.399 be fairly done early on in the games, Ben, do 102 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:08.079 you disagree that we kind of watched not quite six blowouts, 103 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:11.000 but six kind of not particularly close games. 104 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:14.000 Yeah, it was kind of a shame because it wasn't 105 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:17.120 a great series of individual games. I think there was 106 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:20.399 still intrigue and drama because you know that the Dodgers 107 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:22.519 took the lead initially, the Mets called them back a 108 00:05:22.519 --> 00:05:24.519 little bit. It was split off. Two games went to 109 00:05:24.519 --> 00:05:27.800 City Field, but it felt like the series was always alive. 110 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:31.079 But yeah, each individual game, especially when you contrasted it 111 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:33.319 with all the things that were happening, particularly when the 112 00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:35.439 series on the other side moves to Cleveland. It didn't 113 00:05:35.480 --> 00:05:37.879 feel like we had that moment that was like super dramatic. 114 00:05:37.959 --> 00:05:39.839 Or if those moments happened, they were early in games, 115 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:42.160 right where Peter a Lonzo break the game open in 116 00:05:42.199 --> 00:05:44.000 the whatever it was, second inning, or you know, the 117 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:46.879 Dodgers would pour on early and just the game would 118 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:48.279 be sort of decided by the time it got round 119 00:05:48.319 --> 00:05:50.000 to sixth the seventh inning. So that was a bit 120 00:05:50.040 --> 00:05:52.279 of a shame because I think, you know, the moments 121 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:54.480 we love about the playoffs are those like late inning 122 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:58.279 dramatic moments, and this series had the potential to throw 123 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:01.279 those up. It just did quite delivererate in the end. 124 00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:03.959 And that's like, in some ways the duty of baseball. 125 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:06.360 Like a lot of games aren't close, and that doesn't 126 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:08.639 change because it's the playoffs. We want to see exciting games, 127 00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:10.879 and it makes us probably enjoy the ones that are 128 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:13.839 really tense more. But yeah, that same as you, I 129 00:06:13.879 --> 00:06:15.680 didn't really watch much of this series, if any of 130 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:17.560 it live. Maybe a few of the sort of alienings 131 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:20.319 in some games, but yeah, even the drama watching the 132 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:22.399 highlights package back was kind of gone by the time 133 00:06:22.399 --> 00:06:24.639 we got to the fifth or sixth inning, which was 134 00:06:24.639 --> 00:06:28.040 a shame. But for the Mets, like the fairy tale run, 135 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:29.720 felt like it had to come to an end at 136 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:33.639 some point. It for one moment that they might have 137 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:35.240 one more sort of trick up their sleeve moving the 138 00:06:35.240 --> 00:06:37.839 series back to LA. It felt like that was their chance. 139 00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:39.160 For me and I are on the mound just having 140 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:41.800 to throw a ballpen game. But in the end, LA 141 00:06:41.959 --> 00:06:43.720 was just too strong with the bat and you know, 142 00:06:44.120 --> 00:06:45.879 predit to them, they were the better team. I have 143 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:49.240 my doubts, but but yeah, they thoroughly deserved the winning 144 00:06:49.240 --> 00:06:52.160 the series and probably go into this World Series as 145 00:06:52.279 --> 00:06:52.959 narrow favorites. 146 00:06:53.279 --> 00:06:53.639 Yeah. 147 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:56.439 I think we probably when we predict that they would 148 00:06:56.439 --> 00:07:00.600 make it this far, probably the output didn't come from 149 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:06.120 quite the places that we anticipated. Tommy Edmond having a 150 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:11.720 great series easily taking the the NLCS MVP, and k 151 00:07:11.839 --> 00:07:15.720 K can Ander's keeping his kind of postseason magic. 152 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:19.160 In Form Roberts, It's like, is this what? 153 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:22.040 Basically, because the Dodgers pay a lot of money to 154 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:24.720 a lot of their players and they have a big squad, 155 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:26.399 it doesn't matter if a lot of people get injured, 156 00:07:26.439 --> 00:07:28.600 they're still in a position that they're going to win 157 00:07:28.759 --> 00:07:32.199 games because they have their depth would be starters for 158 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:33.399 quite a lot of other teams. 159 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:34.319 Yeah. 160 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:37.120 Absolutely, And it's not just the money. You look at 161 00:07:37.439 --> 00:07:41.120 that Dodgers team, it's born of the same same people 162 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:44.439 who built the Rays. They've got that same way of 163 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:47.040 thinking about people. And you know that they're still doing 164 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:49.399 the old the old you win it in the aggregate, 165 00:07:49.399 --> 00:07:52.040 you know, they they've got the old moneyball thinking in there. 166 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:56.040 They've got all that going on. So, yeah, absolutely, the 167 00:07:56.079 --> 00:07:57.560 Dodgers are going to be there. They're going to be 168 00:07:57.560 --> 00:08:01.319 ever present because every other team, seemingly almost every other 169 00:08:01.319 --> 00:08:03.639 team seemingly in the sport, seem to think you either 170 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:06.720 go smart or you go with the money, when realistically 171 00:08:06.759 --> 00:08:10.199 the answer is why not both do both. That's what 172 00:08:10.199 --> 00:08:12.120 the Dodgers have done. Some years they've got there through 173 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:15.519 being the very very best because their free agents are massive, 174 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:18.319 and some years they've they've had people they've pulled out 175 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:21.319 of nowhere. They've they've managed to turn around develop, you know, 176 00:08:21.480 --> 00:08:24.680 get that extra bit of value out of If you 177 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:28.360 look at how the two teams are constructed, you'll find 178 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:31.000 that Dodgers. Dodgers do have a lot more money in 179 00:08:31.199 --> 00:08:34.480 the free agents, but at the same time you would 180 00:08:34.519 --> 00:08:36.840 also probably trust the Dodgers more to develop the players. 181 00:08:36.879 --> 00:08:38.519 So that's why it is you can do. You can 182 00:08:38.559 --> 00:08:40.120 do a bit at both. If they had done one 183 00:08:40.200 --> 00:08:41.879 or the other, there would be a year where the 184 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:44.120 Dodgers have bored and really flat in the last few years, 185 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:47.720 like the Yankees did last year, like you know, but 186 00:08:47.799 --> 00:08:50.399 they don't. They've got both options. This year it was 187 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:53.480 about clever stuff, having the backup rather than having the 188 00:08:53.480 --> 00:08:54.919 big guys, and it works. 189 00:08:55.240 --> 00:08:55.480 Yeah. 190 00:08:55.519 --> 00:08:57.519 I think I looked just before we came on to 191 00:08:57.559 --> 00:08:59.799 look at what Baseball Perspectives has a good tool that 192 00:08:59.840 --> 00:09:02.720 you can look to see how much kind of war 193 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:06.399 was missed due to injured players, and they are second 194 00:09:06.600 --> 00:09:10.399 with like nearly eleven war projected to be missed from 195 00:09:10.440 --> 00:09:13.679 like players missing like this season, second only to the Braves, 196 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:18.240 who obviously losing Strider and Acunya for this season. But 197 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:20.480 you can also look at it as like a percentage 198 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:23.720 of like warp missed and when you do that, five 199 00:09:23.799 --> 00:09:26.360 or six other teams go past them because they've got 200 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:29.039 more good players to fill in those spots. So we're 201 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:30.440 talking a little bit more about the Dodgers lost it 202 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:33.080 in a second when we get to our little competition 203 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:36.480 that I have for Ben and Rob. On the other side, 204 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:40.720 we saw probably one of the most entertaining like playoff 205 00:09:40.759 --> 00:09:44.360 series is in a while. I think obviously as a 206 00:09:44.360 --> 00:09:46.039 fan of one of the teams and the team that lost, 207 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:48.559 to some of the excitement maybe was lost on me. 208 00:09:49.080 --> 00:09:53.000 But I think that to the neutral this was electric. 209 00:09:53.120 --> 00:09:55.120 This was what we wanted. 210 00:09:55.320 --> 00:09:58.480 We had some close games that had some key moments 211 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:02.600 for both teams that came from one side, from Cleveland side, 212 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:05.879 from maybe the less likely players, but from the Yankee side, 213 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:10.559 came from those from the Beef Boys, from Judge, from Stanton, 214 00:10:10.679 --> 00:10:13.679 from Sodo. They really kind of hidden out of the 215 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:18.000 park with all power. So go with universe, Ben, what 216 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:19.639 did you think of that of that series? 217 00:10:19.799 --> 00:10:21.960 This series was epic. I mean, the only thing it 218 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:24.200 was missing was a couple more games, right. I don't 219 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:27.039 think I've ever seen a five game series that's meant 220 00:10:27.080 --> 00:10:29.480 to be seven that has given us this much in 221 00:10:29.559 --> 00:10:32.519 terms of drama entertainment, almost every game being on a 222 00:10:32.559 --> 00:10:35.200 knife edge. The combination of games three, four, and five 223 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:39.080 were just incredible, Like the late enning drama Emmanuel Plasse 224 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:42.559 basically the best picture in baseball year, seemingly completely falling 225 00:10:42.639 --> 00:10:45.120 apart at the end of games. Like you mentioned the 226 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:49.159 big stars, Aaron Judge one so too hitting these unbelievably 227 00:10:49.159 --> 00:10:51.000 clutch home runs, you know when people write them off, 228 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:54.639 Giancarlo Stanton being this other worldy October hero. And then yeah, 229 00:10:54.639 --> 00:10:57.360 on the guardian side, I mean that John Kenzie Noel 230 00:10:57.519 --> 00:11:00.840 home run, like I must have watched it two hundred times, 231 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:02.919 Like that is one of the best moments I have 232 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:04.960 ever seen on a baseball field. And I was again, 233 00:11:04.919 --> 00:11:07.039 I didn't watch that life. I was watching the highlights back, 234 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:10.279 but like just the drama of that moment, everything that 235 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:14.120 came before it, the bat flip, the call on commentary, 236 00:11:14.240 --> 00:11:16.159 like it was all just so perfect, and that was 237 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:17.720 only to tie the game. Right then you had David 238 00:11:17.759 --> 00:11:21.480 Fry walking it off in the Havent thinning, whatever tempillning wherever. 239 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:24.480 It ended up being. Yeah, No, it was brilliant that 240 00:11:24.679 --> 00:11:26.840 when we think about playoffs baseball and what makes it special, 241 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:29.360 it's a series like this in games like we had 242 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:32.639 there in terms of just lateening drama, back and forth 243 00:11:32.720 --> 00:11:36.000 leads relievers at one moment, shutting down a lineup at 244 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:38.440 the next moment, unable to find the strike zone, and 245 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:40.840 giving up clutch home runs. Yeah, it was. It was brilliant. 246 00:11:40.840 --> 00:11:42.840 It's a shame we couldn't get an extra game or 247 00:11:42.840 --> 00:11:44.919 two back in New York because, Yeah, the series, it 248 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:46.240 felt like it deserved the extra game. And I think 249 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:48.879 the Guardians, like, look, losing in five doesn't really do 250 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:50.960 credit to how hard they pushed the Yankees. I think 251 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:53.440 ask any Yankees fan what they've thought of that serious 252 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:55.000 and it will have taken years off their life. 253 00:11:55.240 --> 00:11:57.120 Yeah, I think that sad thing. 254 00:11:57.159 --> 00:11:59.679 Once again, it showed and I think when we're talking 255 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:02.559 about the the Dodgers were not. As a Cleveland fan, 256 00:12:02.600 --> 00:12:04.720 I'm not upset that the Yankees or the Dodgers spend 257 00:12:04.759 --> 00:12:07.159 more money on their teams than me. I'm upset that 258 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:10.279 my manager or my owner doesn't spend the money that 259 00:12:10.399 --> 00:12:12.960 he should spend to kind of put this together. Somebody 260 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:16.000 was talking about the fact that like six of that 261 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:17.720 kind of big part of that Yankees. 262 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:19.159 Lineup, they're all done by trades. 263 00:12:19.440 --> 00:12:22.320 Yes, they give up prospects to do that, but anybody 264 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:24.759 really could have got Soto for one year if they 265 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:27.960 wanted to. It was just eat thirty million for one year, 266 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:29.679 and he goes to the free agencies and you know 267 00:12:29.679 --> 00:12:31.840 that he's not taking the qualifying offer or whatever, so 268 00:12:31.879 --> 00:12:32.559 you don't have. 269 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:34.600 To deal with that. 270 00:12:34.840 --> 00:12:39.879 But yes, this this Yankees lineup, I think obviously Torres 271 00:12:40.200 --> 00:12:42.440 kind of like getting back to what some people have 272 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:45.000 thought he would be having good leadoff and volpay at 273 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:48.559 the bottom of the order as well. Really, provided they 274 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:50.759 got on base and the button the Yankees big like 275 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:53.480 three drove them in. They drove in like seventy five 276 00:12:53.519 --> 00:12:56.519 percent of the runs that this team scored, which is 277 00:12:56.759 --> 00:12:59.440 kind of ridiculous when you think about what those three, 278 00:13:00.519 --> 00:13:04.879 these three players did well. From from another neutral perspective 279 00:13:04.960 --> 00:13:07.080 or maybe less neutral, as you obviously watch the Yankees 280 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:10.600 a lot from from a from a raised perspective, does 281 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:13.519 when you see that big three, does it just feel 282 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:17.559 inevitable that one of them is going to probably do 283 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:19.240 good each time they come through the order. 284 00:13:19.440 --> 00:13:21.879 It's the hope that kills you, isn't it. You know, 285 00:13:22.399 --> 00:13:24.720 you see them coming up and you run that gauntlet. 286 00:13:25.879 --> 00:13:28.519 If the Dodgers aren't without their gauntlet, don't get me wrong, 287 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:31.960 but yeah, absolutely, it's I always feel like they haven't 288 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:33.879 done that bad when I've watched them. You know, they 289 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:36.879 they're pretty good guys. They've they've done all right at baseball. 290 00:13:36.879 --> 00:13:39.919 And yeah they are, I mean that there any team 291 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:43.080 would have them and and they are scary. There's not 292 00:13:43.159 --> 00:13:44.399 much more to say about it, really, I mean that 293 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:48.000 they are. They are just hellish, hellish to face the difference. 294 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:51.080 The difference I think between these two teams coming into 295 00:13:51.080 --> 00:13:54.600 the World Series is you can almost steal yourself against 296 00:13:54.639 --> 00:13:58.080 the Yankees' core, whereas there's not as much of a 297 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:01.559 soft belly to the Dodgers. I don't think so. The 298 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:03.120 question is can you can you unlock it? Can you 299 00:14:03.159 --> 00:14:04.840 fix it? Can you work out? Work it out? What 300 00:14:04.919 --> 00:14:06.960 it is that's that's going to going to get these 301 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:10.759 guys If there is a weakness, is there prison? But 302 00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:12.360 if there is that, that that's how you're going to 303 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:15.039 beat the Yankees, and that that's what they've got to do. 304 00:14:15.399 --> 00:14:19.279 So just a quick thought to the Mets or the Guardians, 305 00:14:19.320 --> 00:14:21.679 which one of them team would you think is going 306 00:14:21.759 --> 00:14:24.759 to do better in next season? Goes Rob first. 307 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:28.879 I don't really believe the Mets. I don't believe in 308 00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:34.600 the Mets, so I am going to say that the Guardians. 309 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:38.840 It still feels like the Guardians didn't quite play as 310 00:14:38.879 --> 00:14:40.840 well as they could have done in the regular season. 311 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:44.240 There's like the holes were glaring, There's there's still places 312 00:14:44.279 --> 00:14:47.879 that could just move back to the mean without without 313 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:51.200 squinting too hard, whereas the Mets like like I don't 314 00:14:51.240 --> 00:14:54.360 I don't get what's in the water. Something changed when 315 00:14:54.360 --> 00:14:59.799 they visited London and and I don't think that's sustainable. 316 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:02.759 The Guardians have shown over year and year and year 317 00:15:02.799 --> 00:15:05.080 that they keep doing this. They can do it, they 318 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:06.679 can pull it out, they can do these little bits 319 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:09.320 puidding around the edges. I think the Mets is a 320 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:12.679 lot of chaos. That's kind of like barged into the 321 00:15:12.759 --> 00:15:15.679 right room rather than the room full of tigers and crocodiles. 322 00:15:15.879 --> 00:15:18.559 But it could easily have been the tigers and crocodiles 323 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:20.679 and the Mets would have been torn to shreds. So 324 00:15:21.240 --> 00:15:24.440 based on the fifty four percent, I reckon it's the 325 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:27.360 Guardians who are gonna be okay again next year. More 326 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:31.519 likely like the Guardians, I think they could They're gonna 327 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:35.240 get like ninety wins safely, the Mets have got that 328 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:39.360 wild fifty wins or one hundred wins in them, and 329 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:41.039 I think that's that's where it lands. 330 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:44.960 Yeah, the one hundred and eighty million that's going off 331 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:47.360 the books, which means probably means that another two hundred 332 00:15:47.399 --> 00:15:50.200 million is going on the books from Uncle Steve this 333 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:53.240 time around. We just don't know who that's going to be. Ben, 334 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:57.120 Are you going to change a habit of a lifetime 335 00:15:57.159 --> 00:15:58.519 and go with the Mets. 336 00:15:59.480 --> 00:16:01.679 I've never going to pick against my New York Mets, 337 00:16:01.720 --> 00:16:05.320 not after a season like this. They're almost two similar 338 00:16:05.320 --> 00:16:06.639 teams in a way, and that they both seem to 339 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:09.320 be just cursed in that you know, how long has 340 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:12.200 it been since the Guardians won the World Series A lifetime? 341 00:16:13.279 --> 00:16:15.960 There you go the Mets, I mean, they just seem 342 00:16:16.039 --> 00:16:17.600 to find ways to shoot themselves in the foot when 343 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:20.320 it doesn't seem possible, And both of them seem to 344 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:22.279 be maybe clearing a narrative a little bit this year. 345 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:25.320 I think the Guardians certainly in there in the way 346 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:26.679 they started to the scene how they feel a bit 347 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:29.159 down the stretch, but their alds performances, the way that 348 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:30.639 they took the Yankees all the way. This was the 349 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:32.879 team that was legit this year. I think they'll be 350 00:16:32.879 --> 00:16:34.840 back again next year. They'll be very good again next year, 351 00:16:35.679 --> 00:16:38.200 especially with the way they developed starting pitching. But only 352 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:40.320 one of these two teams are going to be in 353 00:16:40.360 --> 00:16:42.720 the one Soto sweepstakes. And it's not the Guardians as it. 354 00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:45.399 You know, the Mets can go out and Uncle Stevie 355 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:47.000 can decide at any moment that he's going to go 356 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:51.320 and get some superstar. I don't think it will be 357 00:16:51.320 --> 00:16:53.879 as simple as add one Soto win the World Series. 358 00:16:53.919 --> 00:16:57.080 But you know they're going to be competitive, and they've 359 00:16:57.080 --> 00:16:59.600 got a great roster, and even when you know awful 360 00:16:59.639 --> 00:17:03.120 things seem to happen to them, they'll find some grimis 361 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:05.880 magic or something that will, you know, correct the course 362 00:17:05.920 --> 00:17:08.440 and get them back on the right track. So I 363 00:17:08.440 --> 00:17:10.759 don't think either team will go in to next season 364 00:17:10.839 --> 00:17:13.119 thinking or they won't be favorites among the bookies to 365 00:17:13.319 --> 00:17:14.960 win the World Series. But I think you'd be a 366 00:17:14.960 --> 00:17:17.960 thought to pick against them being back in October baseball again, Okay, 367 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:20.960 or on fire one or the other. 368 00:17:21.400 --> 00:17:23.839 Yeah, yeah, I think the I think a lot of 369 00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:26.359 people have I've heard say that, like the Mets bit 370 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:30.279 this year was bits, Like they didn't just have one bit, 371 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:32.240 they just had lots of bits and that was their bit. 372 00:17:32.319 --> 00:17:33.960 And I don't think that's it. We'll see how that 373 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:36.519 goes into the next year. So obviously we're now going 374 00:17:36.559 --> 00:17:39.680 to move on to the main event itself, the Taylor 375 00:17:39.799 --> 00:17:43.880 Tranmill Series, the World Series, where one man is already 376 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:45.640 guaranteed himself a ring. 377 00:17:46.640 --> 00:17:47.519 If I've seen this. 378 00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:50.599 He obviously did the rounds a little bit online a 379 00:17:50.599 --> 00:17:53.359 couple of days ago. That given the fact that Taylor 380 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:56.960 Shrenals played for both of these teams this season, going 381 00:17:57.319 --> 00:17:59.920 hitless for the Dodgers and then having a nice one 382 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:05.920 one walk game for the Yankees, he's already guaranteed a ring. Unbelievable. 383 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:11.920 He played appearances he had this year like ten eight 384 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:16.000 eight exactly. There you go, yeah, eight appearance. 385 00:18:17.039 --> 00:18:19.640 But what what that did for me is I looked 386 00:18:19.720 --> 00:18:22.000 up then some people who have played for both of 387 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:26.119 these teams this year that seem completely netly foreign, and 388 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:28.720 I did not realize in some of the regards that 389 00:18:28.759 --> 00:18:31.400 they did play for these teams. But if LA were 390 00:18:31.440 --> 00:18:35.880 to win the World Series, the Nelson Lamette would get 391 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:41.119 a World Series ring. Rocky second, Cavin Bigio would get 392 00:18:42.160 --> 00:18:46.359 a World Series ring, and Nick Ahmed Nick Armed. 393 00:18:48.359 --> 00:18:50.279 I have no recollection of any of those guys playing 394 00:18:50.279 --> 00:18:50.799 for the Dodgers. 395 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:54.559 Yeah, and from the Yankee side, the funny ones I 396 00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:55.559 found were JD. 397 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:56.200 Davis. 398 00:18:57.039 --> 00:19:01.000 Then that's JD. Davis, okay, sure. 399 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:05.519 Nick Birdie of a pirate's long term fame. 400 00:19:05.960 --> 00:19:10.599 And the funnier one, which very much amused mister McGhee 401 00:19:10.599 --> 00:19:13.200