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in New York, they've had 110 combined consecutive seasons, Rangers, Islanders, Knicks, Nets, Yankees, Mets, Jets, Giants without a championship since Eli Manning in the Super Bowl in 2012.

And I forgot the Liberty.

And I forgot the Liberty, even though Roz, yeah, has her championship ring now.

There it is.

She's wearing it.

And I've got to be honest, it's the only thing about her right now that looks New York because she's gone fully LA.

I can see behind her and in everything that's happening right now, she has traded New York for Los Angeles.

Am I wrong?

Do I have it wrong?

Because you look like an entirely different human being in your surroundings right now than you've looked every time I've seen you over the last year and a half or so.

Do I have it wrong?

I'm giving L.A.

right now.

Is that what I'm giving?

Are you not?

Where are you?

I'm in L.A.

I'm in my home in L.A.

I have officially made the move back to my home after spending the summer in New York and Brooklyn with the Liberty, as we've talked about a bunch of times.

And I'm just going to gesture a lot because, you know, we've talked like four different, you know, appearances with y'all about this dang ring.

It's pretty good.

And I finally have it.

And I said, I'm going to rock it for Dan and for everybody watching Levatard.

It is very big.

It is very showy.

You're going to wear that in public a lot, Mike.

Why are you looking at me this way?

Has handled that very well.

Back here, we thought about saving you from that awkward experience.

I really wanted.

I was like, it was kind of, I was like rubbernecking.

I'm like, where is this going?

And it was like, oh, no, it got worse.

No, she's giving off a lot of Los Angeles right now.

She's just wearing a hat, bruv.

It's a hat,

and I have some art.

I'm definitely giving off, like, I mean, it's giving off woman, it's giving off black girl for sure.

If you see Stanford women's basketball, little jersey in the background, and then that rings too much.

I fear it's too much.

And honestly, if you see me with a hat on air, do you want to know what the truth is?

My hair is not done.

My hair is not done.

I got a hat on.

You're like, oh, no.

Her hair was not ready for a camera.

Will you show me where that ring?

Because David Sampson's ring is about that size.

You don't have any other rings that size, correct?

Oh, I have the Warriors Championship rings.

The championship rings are gaudier than the other jewelry.

It's getting worse, Billy.

It's getting worse.

No, but I get what you're saying.

And no, what I plan to do with this ring, which I literally took out of a box and put on so that I could have it on because you've referenced the ring a few times and I was not ready with it.

I'm going to put it in my safe.

And

yeah,

you know, because

these rings, these championship rings from these teams are worth more than a lot of the things in my house.

So I'm just going to put them away.

And if there's a reason to come on the Dan Lebatard show and talk about rings, then I'll pull it out.

Oh, that's nice.

The Panthers ring is pretty nice.

You like that one?

It's got a rat on it.

It's, we apologize to no one.

You're killing it.

I love like actually learning the stories behind different rings.

It's really fascinating what teams and ownership think is important in the season and like stockpile into the rings.

You know the player rings for the New York Liberty guys.

I'm sure you heard about this, but it was really cool.

So on the player rings, I mean, these are like huge, like takes up like about a good chunk of their their hands.

And also this green part on mine is all like diamonds, you know, for the players and it's huge.

I heard they're around $70,000 rings, but the top opens up like a locket.

And inside of the player rings are two earrings, crowns.

So they can pop out earrings, like, you know, just like crown earrings and rock them too.

I mean, I just thought that was pretty cool.

It's pretty great that the rings are worth more than like the salaries were a few years.

Wow, that's crazy.

Actually, there are players with 70K salaries right now, like rookie men's and stuff.

So to put it that way is absolutely insane.

Are you scene setting a contentious CBA discussion right now, Dan?

I am not.

I want to actually talk about the game last night.

The championship appears to have been won last night.

And just Asia Wilson cementing herself, like making history in spots where you're watching greatness, you know, win championships and MVPs.

And this isn't actually the woman we've been talking about about the last couple of years because we've been caught up in the other conversations around Caitlin Clark and Asia Wilson in a way that you've been, you've actually been critical recently of the way that the men have been talking about this sport when we wander over and stick our nose in things and don't know as much as the people who've been covering it much better than we have over the last few years.

Honestly, it's really more just funny.

Like, first of all, I don't want to gatekeep women's basketball and nor do I want to, you know, get in another argument about the right to be an angry fan or

a mean fan.

But I, I, it's funny.

These are huge platforms and often are shaping the conversation around women's hoops and like what people hear.

And if the only time that they like come in to cover women's basketball is when things are on fire, when rightfully so, there's like a lot of like, you know, tough situations happening, then it gives the sense that the league has nothing more than chaos.

And there's so much more.

I mean, yes,

they are, you know, trying to fight for a CBA renegotiation that is more favorable for the players, better revenue share, better lifestyles, better, better salaries.

But also center stage right now is a super exciting WNBA finals.

I mean, the fact that it's 3-0 may not be what's exciting, but the games themselves, like this last game, game three was thrilling and came down to the wire, came down to a dream shake buzzer beater from your post mvp star player over two of the top defenders on the other team like someone put that to father stretch my hands like kanye song and i saw that on on the internet and it gave me like goosebumps because like that's what sports is about you don't even got to follow the WNBA to know that that moment is iconic, is exciting, would make you say, woo.

And Asia Wilson comes through with this, like, honestly, when we go back and look at her career, that is an iconic Asia Wilson moment.

It's likely seals the championship for the Aces.

It likely means that the Aces are now on their way to being a dynasty with her at the center of that, of this era.

Take us through the goosebumps of it, though, as someone who really loves basketball, the strategy, all of it.

Take us through the idea, you know, she's not the one who's allowed to beat you.

You have to stop her.

You have to do everything to stop her.

Oh, you can't stop her.

No, she's been a real, Asia Wilson's been a real conundrum for the Phoenix Mercury in that they really don't have a defender of the right size.

and skill set to be able to defend her one-on-one and to disrupt her.

Alyssa Thomas made the all-defensive team, but she's just proven to be too small for Asia Wilson.

And Asia's just shooting over her.

They tried some different things.

They had Natasha Mack, who's a very active defender, super athletic, different look, long, all the things.

Didn't bother Asia.

Asia, 34 points, 14 rebounds, double, double, five assists, three steals, three blocks, just both ends of the court dominant.

And for her to finish the game like that, the ball was going into her hands.

And basically, Becky Hammond told her, you know, to make a play.

And Asia said post-game, I didn't need to be told much.

I already understood the assignment.

She gets the ball.

I mean, it's iconic.

This is also a 6'4, 6'5, like post-player making this move.

This is like kind of like like shows her range.

This isn't some like post-up, throw it into the post, and like turn around and make a layup.

This is some real like high-level skill, eyes on the moment, bright lights.

She turns, goes left, picks up, spins back, and it's over two of the best players on the Phoenix Mercury.

I mean, it's Alyssa Thomas, it's Dewana Bonner.

They're both there contesting her.

They're long.

They're their seasons on the line.

They've just came back from down 17, nearly, nearly came back from down 17 to win this game and asia they tied it up asia wilson just stops all over that and hits this like jumper over both of them it's it's just what sports are made of and it was fantastic i mean everybody that i'm watching it with we're all screaming in our group chats and on threads and twitter and there's this commercial but for asia wilson where i think it's i don't know who i think it's cheryl lee ralph talking

Who does Asia think she is?

Who does Asia think she is?

She is who she thinks she is.

And when she hit that shot, I was like, Asia is who she thinks she is.

It was incredible.

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What is the worst part of the life?

Stugats.

The worst part of the life of what?

This is the Don Lebatar Show with these two guys.

Roz, what kind of leverage will Unrivaled present for the players as we're just a couple of months away from season two tipping off for Unrivaled and everyone assumes this is going to be a pretty nasty potential work stoppage and collected collective bargaining process for the WMBA?

I know the idea was secondary income and perhaps this point of inflation where you can actually leverage this thing.

How is that a segue from everything we just talked about?

Right?

He went right to the money and helped damn it.

And he's trying to help me with point of inflection, I think.

I meant inflection.

I think inflection is what he meant, but he's not acting.

I was like, I'm over here trying to sell y'all how amazing the product is.

Yeah, right.

I watched the game.

Ross, thank you.

Ross, thank you for doing that.

Ross, thank you for doing that.

I watched a game.

I watched the game.

How would we do what he just did when you're talking about a magical moment?

He's like, ah, 3-0, let's talk about that.

Let's talk about money.

Yeah, let's talk about the money and greed.

Was it that question outside of the inflection thing?

Long question.

It was.

He was trying to find it.

He was trying to find it.

No, absolutely.

And it is an absolutely valid and important question.

So I just, are we going to bounce it?

Are we done with the game or you want to go into?

It's such fair commentary by you.

No, you just had a moment from the MVP of the league, okay, where she is being defended by two people because if they could have guarded her with 40, they would have tried, but they weren't going to be able to guard her because you saw greatness in real time and it ought to be celebrated before we move on to, hey, the ladies are arguing about money again.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I think like if I will get, I'll absolutely answer that very valid question.

But if there was one more thing that I thought was important too, about about the Aces

and that victory, it's, you know, there's a lot of people that deserve to take a bow here for the aces.

It's absolutely anchored by Asia Wilson, but I actually think this is Becky Hammond's probably most challenging coaching job in all her years here.

And she's had some great seasons.

You know, the Aces are on their way to winning, winning three championships now in four years.

And but she had to be really flexible, changed her starting lineup, had a different coaching staff, lost over the years, very important critical players to the success of the Aces,

tried different strategies.

Like, I just feel like she has had to keep recreating her strategy, herself, this team, until they finally got here.

Never forget that this Aces team was 500 on the season.

People were saying they were out of it, guys.

They were saying the Aces, okay, nice run, but they're done.

It's the Lynx, it's the Liberty, it's all these other teams.

They had lost by 53 points to the Lynx on August 2nd.

And that must have been like their breaking point, their low point, because from there, they rattled off 17 straight and then this crazy run to the WNBA finals and now looking like a championship.

So, you know, at first it looked like Asia Wilson was dragging this team, but I think it's important to note that the Aces as a team improved gradually over the season to pull this out.

And whether that was Jewel Lloyd,

Chelsea Gray stepping up big here, Melissa Smith being big, Dana Evans being empowered on the bench.

And I keep pointing, and Jackie Young being great all season, but Becky Hammond as the leader of this, really putting it together.

She deserves some flowers.

You know what?

I don't even want the answer anymore.

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I wanted to talk about LeBron with her.

I wanted to talk about LeBron with Billy as well, because I don't think we got his full thoughts on what it is that he just did yanking everybody around with Hennessy.

What were your thoughts there, Roz?

I was just like, not LeBron selling us liquor on a Tuesday afternoon.

Like, there's just,

it's literally the middle of the day, LeBron.

Like, what the heck?

Like, nothing matters.

Or don't you have to send your kids to school?

Like, actually, where I think LeBron is right now, it's kind of like a fun part of his career.

You know how people, when they get older, they get funny.

Like, I feel like LeBron's in on the jokes with us now.

And now I think he knows that, you know, we think that there's a joke that he just makes things up or that he doesn't know the lyrics to songs or that he's attention thirsty.

So like, you know, now it's like he's playing into it.

I feel like it, and I kind of like this version of LeBron where he's just like messing with us.

Oh, but that'd be funny.

That'd be funny, though, if he were just saying, I'm thirsty.

I need Hennessy.

That would be funny.

The way that he did it, not funny.

Oh, you didn't like it?

Well, I just, I thought that trolling us that way, being that commercial, was grotesquely commercial.

Like, LeBron does that.

Like, you're just pretending you're surprised.

I'm actually surprised that, like, he wasted the, I'm making my second decision on this.

Like, he must have got a bag to do this, right?

Because, like, for sure, this has been pitched forever.

And he's like, nah, I'm not going to do that.

And he used it now.

I feel you 100% and was feeling the same way in fact i've been seeing lebron doing commercials for things that i always thought was maybe for like a lesser tier of superstar like you know he's doing sports gambling apps ads and like all this we love those

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whatever happened to roz she never came back on the dlls show roz see you later on that note i'm gonna get no more opinions from you If you want to see her, you can see her and listen to her on Google.

We miss CBA talk, huh?

See you later, Ross.

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Don Lebatard.

Can I tell you something?

I don't know, it was maybe like a month ago, and I decided to watch Pitch Clock, and I told Jeremy, Stugats, this is a good show you're doing.

This is the Don Lebatar show with the Stugats.

I still haven't calculated who the winner of all of these games was.

You've been saying that for a while.

I said I was going to do it from the regular season ones, and I still haven't done it.

I don't think you're going to like what you find out.

I think I'm going to go ahead and wait until after the postseason and hope that I can make a little bit of a run.

Let's get going.

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Welcome to the pitch clock.

Here's the pitch, a two-part baseball segment combining a nostalgic baseball trivia game and an interview with an expert.

This is the pitch clock.

Playoff baseball continues.

Playoff mode, I'm not doing Harry Carey anymore.

I am in focus on whooping Jeremy's ass.

All right.

I guess that's where things stand at the moment.

It's me and Chris.

We're back.

Hi, everybody.

Ah, look at him.

It's what we're doing.

We're playing some trivia games, and we'll have Ad Nan Vurke with us momentarily to talk all things playoff baseball.

Been a really awesome week in between the last two episodes.

Ethan Badowski at home with what we have counted are seven different gator insignias behind him in some different capacity.

Even the microphone.

He's wearing his Cubs hat.

Ethan, what is our game going to be today?

All right, so the Mariners won their first playoff game at home since the 2001 ALDS.

It was game five against the Cleveland then Indians.

So in front of you, there are two rosters.

Now, Chris Cody, I'm going to ask you a question.

Trident or Spear?

What's the better weapon?

Trident.

All right, so you are going to be the Mariners, and Jeremy, you are going to be the

baseball franchise.

Correct you.

As you can see, we're flipping open these rosters.

Yes, there are.

It's a field with numbers on them.

It's a simple game.

You've got three strikes.

You've got to name all the players by their numbers on the field for game five of the 2001 ALDS.

Boy, they.

Yeah, and just a clarification:

we don't have the DHs.

It's just the outfield positions.

So the pitcher and then all of the outfield positions.

Oh, God.

I'm done.

You're going to win.

Jeremy, I'm going to let you lead off.

Okay.

So give me your first guess.

Give me a number and a position for everybody.

Yeah.

And then tell me who it is.

All right, so while I'm looking at this field for Cleveland, I see number seven in center field, and I'm hoping this is the guy who I believe it is, which is one of my favorite players to watch at this time.

Is that Kenny Lofton?

That is, in fact, Kenny Lofton.

Jeremy, you are on the board.

Man, this Guardian's

a lot of easy names on here.

I wish I had them.

I don't know if I have easy names here.

I have five out of nine that I feel feel good about.

Okay.

So give me your first one, Cody.

Go.

Go him up.

Okay.

51 each Euro right field.

That is obviously correct.

He was the rookie of the year and, I believe, the MVP that season as well.

Okay, I'm going to go with the second baseman for Cleveland, number 12, Roberto Alomar.

That is correct, Jeremy.

You are two for two.

Pretty obvious.

Okay.

I'm really, it's like there's a few where it's like, okay, that's clearly who it is.

It's going to get to me.

Once I get beyond, I think, four names here.

I'm not sure I have any.

Making our way around the outfield, center field 44.

We'll go Mike Cameron.

That is correct.

Yes, Mike Cameron.

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Four elimination games yesterday.

We had one team advance.

We've got Ad Nan Vurke with us, same as last week, our postseason reporter here with the pitch clock.

And Adnan was also the post-game reporter for MLB Network in one of those games.

That was in New York for the Blue Jays and the Yankees, and that's where we'll start Adnan.

Despite Aaron Judge's best efforts, and I don't care what Billy Gill has to say about this, Aaron Judge's best efforts.

The Yankees go down in four games.

They allowed 50 hits across four games, and the Blue Jays didn't even have their best hitter, arguably, in Beau Bachette.

Vladdie Jr., he did crush those Yankees.

We could easily lament, Adnan, what the Yankees didn't do, but I would rather celebrate those Toronto Blue Jays here.

So what made them so difficult for this Yankees team and allowed them to advance to the ALCS for the first time since 2016?

Jeremy, good to see you as always.

First off, shout out to the fact you're wearing a shirt, Jasper Canada.

Yes, I am.

I pick Alberta right now.

I love it.

It's a great day for Canada.

There's no question about it.

First time ever, the Jays and Yankees faced off in the postseason, and Toronto is clearly the better team.

I mean, both these teams had 94 wins, but the Jays and Yankees had to have, it was a matchup that was favorable for Toronto.

And I'm with you.

We could point at the fact that the Yankees' offense was popcorn when they needed it most.

But really, I think I credit Toronto and just say they were a better team, especially offensively.

I mean, they just murdered Yankee pitching, whether it was

Freed or Rodonda, no matter who it was.

34 runs over the first four games of the postseason, fourth most ever for a team, particularly at home with 23 runs.

But on the road yesterday, it felt like this was a game the Yankees would win.

Schlittler pitching, it was so dominant against the Red Sox.

And it's a bullpen game for Toronto.

How much criticism have you heard about Toronto's bullpen?

And yet they stepped up big time.

I mean, that was an incredible effort in a bullpen game.

As you know, it's fun to watch because you're like,

if one single link in the chain falls apart, the whole thing falls apart.

But instead, they stepped up.

And like you said, offensively, Vladi was unbelievable.

I mean, he at 529, three homers in the series.

He drives in the first run of game four.

And Ernie Clement, veteran killed him.

Every time, Jeremy, there's a guy that steps up to you go, what?

Ernie Clement hit 643 and he slugged 929 in the series.

It was unbelievable.

You know, almost 48,000 fans.

And as you said, I was there on the field.

I got to talk to to Vlad after the game.

I got to talk to Ernie Clement, Alejandro Kirk.

And there's a ton of Jays fans still in the crowd.

I mean, I was there an hour later.

They're singing O'Canna.

They're fired up.

And it's great for Toronto.

First time in the ALCS since 2016.

What a ride.

It's a really cool moment for them.

And look, they were the team that won the AL East.

They're the deserving team from the AL East to ultimately advance to the ALCS.

But let's stick in that American League Adnan.

I want to talk to you about a game five that's happening because head to Seattle, right?

Where you'll have the Tigers who went down 3-0 in game four, then rally for nine straight runs.

They tied it in the fifth.

They break it open in the sixth.

And now we're back to the game one starters.

You got the probable Cy Young winner in Tarek Skubel.

You got George Kirby for the Mariners.

Skubel, who looked like this at Seattle University, starting in Seattle, of course, hoping to look more like this.

Today for the Detroit Tigers.

What do you expect here, Adnan, is the result in this game five?

And And what do you believe will ultimately be the deciding factor in this winner-go-home game?

I saw the Hall of Famer John Smoltz in the press box yesterday.

Smoltzy and I, former colleagues at MLB Network, and we were laughing about this situation because, again, John with ties to the Detroit area in Michigan growing up.

He said, you know, this is such a great scenario for the Tigers in that you win a game with Tarek Schubal in the mail.

Like, there's no better scenario for them.

And he pointed out, he goes, Seattle has touched him up a little bit, especially in the regular season.

But in that playoff start, he goes, yeah, the only two home runs you have at Polanco.

He goes, both those were change-ups.

So stay away from that pitch to that guy, and you got to feel great about your chances after the Tigers.

You win at Camerica first time in more than a month.

I mean, they went 0-8 after Skubel's win over the White Sucks.

They've been on the road so long.

And as you see, the offense stepped up.

Riley Green and Javier Baez home running in a 4-run-sixth.

I love the quote from A.J.

Hinch who said, one of the easiest and most exciting things I get to do is hand the ball the best pitcher in baseball.

I mean, we're getting on a plane across the country a lot of optimism because of Tarek Skubel.

Nine runs, the most they'd scored since game six of the 68 world series when they scored 13 and i think for seattle you have to be lamenting what happened you're like you wanted to win this series in four night to face scoobel you did it once jeremy i cannot see i cannot see the tigers losing two terrick skubble starts there's no way tigers jays a lcs wow tigers jays a lcs that'll be some butt baseball

so in a few years from now the first baseman for cleveland would be travis haffner wearing this number but at the time

one of the great home run hitters of all time.

We've got Jim Tomey over in first base.

That is correct.

Yes, Jeremy.

Man, these are fun.

These are fun memories over here.

That's what I wanted, man.

All right, moving around the outfield in left field.

Number 28, Raul Ivani.

I love that you're just so locked in that you're just.

Oh, that's a finger.

That is incorrect.

Oh,

Mike.

I now maybe have a chance.

The starting left fielder in this game for the Seattle Mariners was a guy by the name of Stan Javier.

Didn't Yvanyez wear number 28?

I think he was 29.

29.

Oh, come on.

Man, that just.

29?

It just seemed right.

In left field for Cleveland,

a young

Manny Ramirez.

Wearing 46.

That is

incorrect.

No.

Wearing 66.

Really?

Number 46.

See,

I thought early in his career that was possible.

Who's the left fielder?

The left fielder is Marty Cordova.

Didn't he play.

Okay, I don't want to say anything.

So let's all say,

let's make something clear here.

We are halfway through this round as I've just gotten to one strike because I went first.

So

now Chris is up with an opportunity to really even things out.

I'll go starting pitcher number 50, Jamie Moyer.

Nice.

One of our favorite names ever.

That is the man.

I'm gonna have trouble here.

What I'm trying to figure out is,

is the double play combination that I'm thinking of with this team, this franchise?

And I think I'm going to have to guess it just simply because I'm not sure I know a single other name on this team.

Is Omar Verskell the shortstop?

That's obvious.

That is correct, yes.

You could keep saying it's obvious.

I was six years old.

All right, but he played in 97.

He was there like his whole career.

I wasn't sure.

You're only number 13.

Just leave me alone.

I'm a little older.

Okay.

I'm a little older than you.

Yeah.

Okay.

I know.

Go ahead.

That's fine.

No, no, no.

That's fine.

All right.

Go ahead.

Second base, number 29.

The brother of Yankees manager.

We're going to go with Brett Boone.

Remember when I got

on the nose?

Yeah, was that Brett Boone that I got wrong a couple weeks ago?

Or no,

that was Giles.

I'm cooking here.

I actually got two more.

In trouble.

So I can't guess.

You ask me if we were doing this game on the current day, Mariners, I would know Cal raleigh

let's go ahead and move to the national league games adnan and those are both happening today um just a few hours from now if you're watching this on the pitch clock so the early game six o'clock eastern it's the phillies and the dodgers philadelphia hoping to stick around with their best pitcher and christopher sanchez on the mound they'll take on tyler glass now and this series has actually been very close dodgers won the first two games by the skin of their teeth really rookie Sasaki, of all people, closing out those games for the Dodgers.

And then the Phillies Bats wake up a couple homers for Schwarber last night.

So,

how does Philadelphia get a win today against Glass now and force a game five and maybe even win this series?

Is that possible?

Well, it's crazy to think about, man.

Look, we keep seeing how great the bank is as far as homefield.

I don't want to hear anymore.

The Phillies have now lost five of the last six postseason games at home, but on the road, stepped up big time.

How about Schwarber?

He needed it big time and the nl's leading home run hitter 56 homers he snaps an 0 for eight skid in the nlds that home run went 455 feet over the pavilion just the second ever do that willie starger that back in 1969 1973 so clearly the offense stepped up yeah motor did not have his good fastball they went at eight to two in terms of this burns listen sanchez has been awesome as you know he's gonna be top three in the cyon voting so for the phillies i feel great about the fact that Christopher Sanchez is there.

I wasn't sure about Rob Thompson's strategy of going Nolan Suarez, but it certainly worked out to their advantage.

As you said, win a game four in L.A., then a game five, you're back at home, which necessarily hasn't been an advantage.

But I do like the Phillies to win today.

Glasnow is great, but Sanchez has been one of the best pitchers in baseball.

If they can scratch it a couple runs, the one weakness you and I both know, the Dodgers, is their bullpen.

And very smartly, Dave Robertson has been saying, well, I'll just use my starters to get out.

Well, it didn't work out yesterday for Clayton Kershaw.

Sasaki's been a great story, but he almost got burned using Blake Trinidad in game one with a 4-1 lead.

So I think it's going to be a challenge for Doc at times to get out from his bullpen.

If Glasnow goes late, it's a moot point, point.

But I think it's going to be tough to scratch out runs against Sanchez.

I like the Phillies to win.

Game five in Philadelphia would be electric.

That's what I'm rooting for to go five just simply because baseball, Kyle Schwarber last night, by the way, with his two homers, passed Bernie Williams for the third most postseason home runs of all time.

He trails just Jose Altuve and number one, Manny Ramirez.

Later game admin, is it Wrigley Field with the Cubbies winning by a run last night, forcing game four?

That was in part thanks thanks to Brad Keller.

Man,

what a job he did out of the bullpen for them.

But the Brewers beat the heck out of the Cubs in the first couple of games of this series.

So is this more, I mean, is this a matter of semantics?

Like, are the Brewers going to advance tonight?

And if you believe they'll win tonight, are you starting to believe that they can actually win an NLCS against whether it's the, you know, the Dodgers or the Phillies?

Yeah, I do think the Brewers will win their first series since 2018.

So that's a long time coming.

And I just want to mention, as you said, what a great job by Keller.

I mean, Jake Bowers comes up after he had the RBA single in the fourth and leadoff drive in the seventh.

I mean, bases, Lord, he strikes out.

Huge spot there for Keller, no doubt about it.

And obviously, I mean, all the offense we're getting to see in the series in the first inning.

Craig Callison, the great line, because I'm going to start telling my team it's the first inning every inning.

That's what they score, whether it's Michael Bush or Pete Armstrong, the two-out swing, four-run first inning for Chicago.

So expect a lot of runs early, Beth the over.

And then after that, we'll see.

I think Milwaukee wins it.

I think they're the better team.

I think the matchups favor them, particularly pitching-wise.

You really see for Chicago how much they're missing Cade Horton.

If they had one more horse, so to speak, they'd be in better shape.

I'm not quite yet at the point of believing the Brewers are going to go all the way.

I still think the Dodgers or the Phillies are the favorites, Jeremy, but I'm happy for Milwaukee, man.

They've shown a lot of moxie, especially these first two games, scoring a ton of runs.

You know, Chicago wins that game at Wrigley, but game four, I do think the Brewers do prevail.

John Mulaney will not be happy.

He said play ball at Wrigley Field yesterday.

He's actually doing stand-up there, first stand-up comedian.

And I'm just mentioning mentioning that because he's my favorite comedian.

One of my favorite baseball people in the world, Adnan Verk.

Thank you so much.

Hey, man, lots of great baseball ahead.

We'll see you in the weeks to come.

Looking forward to it here on the pitch clock.

Let's get back to our game with me and Chris.

So there's a guy I want to guess here,

but it like.

Oh, they have Rodriguez.

Julio Rodriguez.

It feels wrong.

It feels wrong to guess him simply because it's like it's a duplication.

But

is it possible that their catcher was Sandy Alamar Jr.?

That is incorrect.

I don't think I didn't, two doesn't look right for him, though.

It's only no, that's, I, I just wasn't sure.

I didn't know where to go.

All right, that's two strikes for me.

Strike two.

Damn.

Einar Diaz was the catcher on this day for the Cleveland

baseball franchise.

That was.

I have the two corner infielder spots that I feel decent about.

I only have one strike, so it doesn't really matter which one I go with first.

I'm more confident.

I think I'm going to go with Helmet helmet head at first base yeah nice number five jonathan olerud i know it's john olerude what if it's it is john olerude i was making a joke there that you better get out of here i called him helmet head well i was gonna say manuel rivirez so

all right i'm gonna

there's no way

22 in right field oh no um

there's one guy from that era that i think of as like a right fielder who wore 22 a lot i'm pretty sure he was never a guardian though is this raul Mondese?

It is not Raul Mondese.

Jeremy Bernard is the guy who won't be.

Strike three, you are out.

It is Juan Gonzalez.

All right, so that being said, since I lost.

Well, hold on.

Do you have two strikes?

Let me just do one strike.

I have one strike.

Yeah, I want to see how Cody can keep it.

Third base, Adrian Beltray, 25.

Yeah.

No, a little early.

Third base is David Bell here.

Ooh.

And then

I don't know a number four at short and six catcher.

Mark McElmore was the shortstop, and Dan Wilson, their current manager,

is the catcher behind the plate in this game.

Can I ask you, there's no world in which 31 on the hill was Jason Marquis, right?

I don't know why.

No, I couldn't get that name out of my head.

It was Chuck Finley who started his career with the California Angels in like 1986.

I learned.

I picture Chuck Finley, and I don't know if it's with Cleveland or with the Angels, but I picture him with a vest.

I don't know why, but no matter what, I must have had a baseball card of Chuck Finley in which he had like a pinstripe vest or something of the like.

Chuck Finley.

Imagine that.

Chris wins.

People wear vests in these days.

God, this sucks.

Chris wins again.

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