BONUS POD: Jerry’s Yankees fall to Matt’s Dodgers in the World Series
The guys share their thoughts on all angles of this year’s World Series – from the raw emotion of the final out to one of the most disastrous innings in baseball history. Plus, we wonder what uniform Juan Soto is most likely to be wearing in 2025; could it possibly be the uniform of the team that just defeated him? And Jerry tells us how he managed to cope with the Yankees loss and when he thinks he’ll be ready to start thinking about baseball again.
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Speaker 1 All right, everybody, welcome to Throwbacks, a little different episode than we normally do. This is a reaction episode to the Yankees Dodgers World Series results.
Speaker 1 We weren't able to get it into our podcast that just dropped earlier today because we taped it yesterday. As always, I'm with my guy, Matt Leiner.
Speaker 1 And if you're with us, please, again, follow us on At Throwback Show and YouTube channel. Please subscribe to it.
Speaker 1 Matt, let's get down to business because I feel like if I'm going to talk trash in victory, I need to accept the hard conversations and defeat.
Speaker 1 I know you had a great night last night, but tell the audience, where did you watch game five?
Speaker 2 Gary,
Speaker 2
I'm a little tired. I'm not going to lie, man.
It's been a crazy 24 hours. I flew to New York to see compliments of our bosses at Sinclair.
Speaker 2 I got a chance to go to game five of the World Series Dodgers Yankees in New York. So I'd never been to Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 2 Been to some Dodger playoff games, World Series games in the past, but this was one I had. I'm currently in State College, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2
We have the big game this weekend, so it's been a little bit of a roller coaster. I'm in my hotel room, but I was able to see game five last night.
I was on the field in the pre, how about this?
Speaker 2 I was on the field pregame saying, saying hi to some Fox people.
Speaker 2
I just, you know, shot the shit with Ken Griffey Jr. for about 10 minutes on the side over there.
We were just hanging out.
Speaker 2 I actually thought of you because I was about to mention the video game that we talked about.
Speaker 1 Absolutely.
Speaker 2 Saw some of my boys over there.
Speaker 2 Saw the Fox pregame crew, Poppy, Jeter, A-Rod, and those guys, Burkhart. And then I sat in my seat and I got to witness a bizarre.
Speaker 2 I think I know we're going to dive dive into bizarre points for the Yankees, but I got to witness my team win a World Series in New York, man, against the Pinstripes. It was, it was epic, dude.
Speaker 2 It was, it was a great game.
Speaker 2 Again, I'm still on Cloud9.
Speaker 2 I was just telling you before this,
Speaker 2 I'm a lifelong Dodger fan, my brother, my dad, because my dad, my dad grew up in the, you know, in Inglewood in the 50s. And it's when they came over from Brooklyn.
Speaker 2
And it's just born into it, just a lot like you. You know, you're born in the, you know, you root for your team.
And I got to FaceTime him.
Speaker 2
I was like, right when it happened, I video and I FaceTime my pop and he's like shedding a tear. I'm shedding a tear.
I'm going, let's go.
Speaker 2 No one at the stadium, as you can imagine, you can hear a pin drop in that place. Yankees fans are cussing at every player on that team.
Speaker 2 I'm like, I'm trying to keep it cool, you know, and not be disrespectful, but I'm like, yeah, pop. You know, we've had three World Series championships since I've been born.
Speaker 2 I thought about this, 88, 20, and
Speaker 2
88, I do remember. It was the Gibby home run.
And it was one of those vivid memories as a five-year-old. I remember nothing about the rest of the series.
Speaker 2 And then in 2020 with COVID, which was just different, obviously, and this one. And this one, for me,
Speaker 2
special because of my family and stuff like that. So my, my pops is getting older.
He's, he's, he feels good, but just we got to, got to get another Dodgers World Series, man.
Speaker 1 So I'm fired up, dude.
Speaker 2
I can only imagine how you're feeling, dude. I know, I know the Yankees, it was, it was pretty a lopsided series.
Obviously, they hurt themselves last night, but
Speaker 2 I'm happy, man.
Speaker 1 Well, that is cool.
Speaker 1
Baseball still has that, right? You know, everyone gives their opinions on baseball. The season's too long.
The games are too long, which they fixed that.
Speaker 1 It's too localized, but it still has the father, kid,
Speaker 1
even mother. I don't want to, you know, it still has that magic.
So I am happy for you for that. And honestly, I'm not angry as a Yankee fan today.
I'm just sad. I'm just sad because.
Speaker 2 By the way, you had been angry last night.
Speaker 1 That definitely.
Speaker 1 They, oh my God. Yeah, what was it like when the fifth inning was going on?
Speaker 1 And have you ever been the Rode fan in a baseball playoff game? It's like, it's, it's torture being the Rode fan.
Speaker 2
I was sitting, so I was sitting around a bunch. It was, it was great.
The people around us were great. We were, you know, they knew I was a Dodger fan.
It was all good, honestly.
Speaker 2 the first game and by the way i had no problem with the dodgers losing last night and and going back to game six in la and winning to be there i was selfishly like i want to see him celebrate but you know what the series goes longer we all want that it'd be great let's go win it in la right so the first inning they're just hitting bombs and i'm like oh
Speaker 2 like at 5-0 the yankees jumped on them they're going they're going nuts and then all of a sudden man basted inning and i i i actually had it because in real time or watching it and you're just like what is happening like what what just happened and then you you start to go play by play right like obviously judge dropping the fly ball right
Speaker 2 freakish that's like a flash knockdown in boxing like how does that even happen it's it's it doesn't it doesn't 99 999 times out of a thousand it's routine he probably never drops that ever again like and that sparked just a wild turn of events and and you could you could feel like i i think i tweeted this out like you could hear a pin drop it was dead and the and by the way the dodger fans were there they had a whole section they were going nuts i was i was clapping you know like this but being respectful you're like me respectful cheers i was respectful i was respectful but um
Speaker 1 it was like and and then dude like garrett cole pitched his ass off like this dude is just pitched his ass off and these airs and it just you could feel it you could almost be like as a and i would ask you you know as a yankee fan you're almost just like this is like of course this is what's going to happen to us you know well yes and no because i'll tell you from the yankee point of view and maybe you could say this up until 2004 but even 2009 that's usually what happens to the other team right usually you're in yankee or at least definitely with the old yankee stadium you know jeter always talks about well the ghosts will come out eventually and help us and it used to happen pretty regularly and it just felt different because this is what usually happens to the the other team.
Speaker 1 I want to ask you this though, as a professional athlete and a lifetime athlete,
Speaker 1 do you like,
Speaker 1 do you start to feel that? Meaning like, what the fuck is happening?
Speaker 1 Like if you throw a wide open pass, it just goes through his hands or you fumble a snap that you've done 4,000 times, you just start feeling like, man, this is just... This is going against us.
Speaker 1 Like the forces are against us.
Speaker 2
Yeah, there's something. That is real.
And that's just something you can't even explain. It's just a feeling, right? like, it's like momentum in sports.
Speaker 2
Some people are like, oh, I don't believe in momentum. I do.
It's like, why do we call, like, like, we took this whole conversation about analytics and when and where you should go for it.
Speaker 2
Well, I'm not like, you have to feel the momentum of a game. You have to feel the energy of the stadium.
Like, that, that exists in sports. It does.
You can't tell me different. It just does.
Speaker 2
And now, do you think that's going to happen? No. But that judge thing.
And then after the judge, it was like, okay.
Speaker 1 Eerie. It was eerie a little bit.
Speaker 2 It was eerie, but like, okay, then I think, I don't know know who.
Speaker 1 Then the Volpe play.
Speaker 2
Well, no, and then you strike out, then you strike out, I think, Lux, and then you strike out Otani. It's two outs.
You're at it.
Speaker 2 And then it was, then it was the
Speaker 2 Volpe play, which that was like, then that's when.
Speaker 1
Which he makes 10 out of 10 times. He's going hard to his right, two-third base.
It wasn't like he's throwing across his body. Now,
Speaker 1 that's an easiest play. But for Volpe, that's an easy play.
Speaker 2 That play was when, because I think the Dodgers got one, or that play was when the people around me were like what's going on
Speaker 2 like this is not good like you could feel it and i'm still thinking like dude it's still a it's still you still got garrett cole it's five one i think it's five nothing five whatever that was still five oh
Speaker 2 okay and then the mookie play and
Speaker 2
i don't i mean look i i I'm trying to look. I know.
I think I heard what Cole said.
Speaker 1 I've looked at it 50 times.
Speaker 2 My take is this. I was a pitcher always, 100 times, you're always running that way, regardless.
Speaker 2
And then it's, and then it's Rizzo's job to kind of hold him off and take it if he can get there. I don't, it was the, it was just bizarre.
And that was, that was it, dude.
Speaker 2 And that was when that stadium went silent because now you got Freddie Freeman up, who is just on one, two run, uh, double, and then T. Oscar goes, almost goes yard.
Speaker 2 And then all of a sudden, it's like.
Speaker 1
And then you know you're in a lot of trouble. But the Yankees still found a way to get the lead back.
So, okay.
Speaker 1 I
Speaker 1 and forgive me.
Speaker 2 I mean, did you? You watched, I'm assuming.
Speaker 1
Yankee fans are going to think I'm nuts, and I am nuts, and you know, I'm nuts. So, I, and I had this plan for a while.
I had tickets
Speaker 1 to like the owner's suite for Cavs, Lakers, LeBron coming to Cleveland, right? I had that circle on the calendar a month and a half ago.
Speaker 1
I didn't know that the Yankees are going to be in game five, and it was like date night with my wife, and she loves going to games. So, we went.
The game starts at seven. I did the math.
Speaker 1
I'll be home by 940, probably like the third or fourth inning. And I have my phone.
And then in the suite, it's like the mayor of Cleveland's in there.
Speaker 1
I sat next to Miles Garrett in the suite, which was amazing. Got to hang with him.
And I put the game on on my phone as the Cavs are crushing the Lakers. Put the game on my phone.
Speaker 1
I saw the judge home run. I saw, I saw the chip.
I'm like, all right, we got this one. It's over.
And what happened on the ride home, Brie drove home so I could watch on my phone.
Speaker 1 And that's when it all started. And I knew right then and there the Yankees were such a momentum team.
Speaker 1 Like you said, I really think the extended bullpin stuff in game four and basically game being over, but it was over early, the Yankees got like free at bats, basically batting practice in game four from the fifth inning.
Speaker 1
And you saw it. You saw Judge start getting his rhythm, take better pitches.
Volpe got hot. You saw it.
So I went into game five knowing, okay, we got it now. There's a chance to get back to LA.
Speaker 1 And I wasn't excited about seeing Yamamoto in game six, but I liked where we were and they held up. But man, when Judge dropped that ball, it got eerie.
Speaker 1 The Volpe thing was even weirder because he's just a stud defensively. The Cole thing with Rizzo, and I've heard everything said, and I've watched it a thousand times at this point.
Speaker 1
And this is why the Dodgers get a lot of credit. Both Cole and Rizzo could have...
if they just reacted fast, could have beat Mookie to the back. But Mookie
Speaker 1
Mookie was running so hard. So I think Cole thought Rizzo had it.
I think Rizzo thought Cole was coming. They looked up and Betts is flying down the first baseline.
Speaker 1
And I think just everyone just shut down. And that is why the Dodgers won this series.
For
Speaker 1 pressure and constant, even with the Volpe play, the Volpe play was a little harder because
Speaker 1 Kiki was running a thousand miles an hour to third base.
Speaker 1
It made it not routine. And the pressure the Dodgers put on all the weak spots of the Yankees, ultimately, in the end, I think this this was the outcome, even if it got to game six.
Well,
Speaker 2 and that's what I, you know, I'm to be honest, to be fair, pretty much everybody has said the Dodgers, I mean, you can't, the Dodgers are the best, the Dodgers were the better team in the series, plain and simple.
Speaker 2 You don't win four out of five and say they weren't.
Speaker 1 Now, Tany didn't even play well.
Speaker 2 Tanya wasn't even a factor player.
Speaker 1 Two hits, I think, or something.
Speaker 2
Yeah. But when you have opportunity, like you capitalize and you got it, and they just grind, and they're grinders.
Like one through nine is a grinder. Tommy Edmonds, a beast down at the the low.
Speaker 2 Like, and that was a, that was, and also Volpe got hot, but well, Verdu, like, like, there were bottom of the lineup was not
Speaker 2 Rizzo.
Speaker 2 Like, like, you just, you didn't fear a lot of those guys.
Speaker 2 When you go through the Dodgers lineup, Kiki Hernandez is a postseason killer, and he's batting seven for, like, like, you just, there weren't easy matchups.
Speaker 2 And Garrett Cole, we started hitting him a little bit harder there in those last couple innings, but he was grind. And I, I, I think, like, the Dodgers just, this is what they did all year.
Speaker 2 They, they just, they make it so hard one through nine.
Speaker 2
They at bats, they put a lot of pressure on you. And, and look, and the Yankees just folded.
They folded in those moments, and that's what happened. And
Speaker 1 you saw it with the at-bats. You saw now once the momentum goes and it's 5-5, the Yankees got a little tighter, even though they managed to put up runs.
Speaker 1
But of course, and this is what separates to me as a baseball fan, not someone who played baseball at a high level. Dodgers get the bases loaded.
They need two flyballs. Give me some fly balls.
Speaker 1
Everyone's. And they were able to just get the sacrifice flies, those little things.
And the Yankees were
Speaker 1 able to just move the runners along and get the fly ball deep into the outfield to score the run. And the Dodgers did it almost every time.
Speaker 2
Dude, the eighth inning, I think it was the eighth inning, it was Sodo. It was two, three, four.
And I think Judge, I don't remember what it is, but Stanton is up.
Speaker 2
And you guys were, and Stanton hits a, I think it's on Blake Trying. By the way, shout out to Blake Trine and gave us two and two-thirds.
Like
Speaker 2 beastly innings.
Speaker 2 And then Bueller coming off of two days' rest to close yeah his stuff was electric dude it was electric yeah it was electric but this is the thing john carlos stanton first pitch swing i think it was first and second no outs or whatever i don't know what it was but you guys were going in eighth inning and first pitch just a fly ball and that's like it just ruined the whole momentum of that it's like yeah those things like again first pitch this guy's a professional hitter but like you got him on the ropes like work the count a little bit work this like you know what i mean first pitch and it was just but to to your point like they just couldn't do the small things to put those runners in those position and then credit dodgers man the pitchers battled at the end you know dude it was dicey there dude for a little bit yeah the the dodgers are the better team they deserve to win there's no sour grapes here i do say
Speaker 1 there is a world where i do think probably eight out of 10 times i think this was like the two out of 10 time version like dodgers and five with some weird stuff you never see in game five i think like eight out of ten times this is a seven game series.
Speaker 1 Meaning, I think normally
Speaker 1 eight out of ten times the Yankees win game one. I think Dodgers win two, three, maybe even four.
Speaker 2 I think it's a six, seven game series every time. But it just, look, that was,
Speaker 2 hey, man.
Speaker 1 Well, and now, of course,
Speaker 1 let's go. Listen, I think the Dodgers are in great shape, obviously.
Speaker 2 Oh, we're going to get one Sono, too.
Speaker 1 Come on, dude. What do you mean? There's no, look,
Speaker 1 there's no way he's going to the Dodgers. There's no way to go.
Speaker 2 By the way, Showing Otani's deal is cheap though.
Speaker 1
I get it. I get it.
He's making like $3 million.
Speaker 2 I get it.
Speaker 2 You don't think that Juan Soto wants to go to the market?
Speaker 1 He's looking for 10 years, 600, 700.
Speaker 2
10 years, 700. No, it's the Dodgers.
It doesn't matter. He's not going back to the Yankees.
Speaker 1
He's either going to the Yankees or, sadly enough, and look, no one knows where he's going. So let's, everyone, I see like polls on Twitter this morning.
Where do you think he's going? No one knows.
Speaker 1 I don't even think he's going to go.
Speaker 2 He's going to LA, New York, or New York.
Speaker 1
I think it's New York or New York. I don't think there's any way you go join.
If you're Juan Soto, how do you go join the team that beat you? We've seen this in sports.
Speaker 1
I don't think he makes that mistake. And by the way, there's more money in New York for him.
You want to know how? There's more money in New York for him. You want to know how?
Speaker 2 700M's, how. That's why.
Speaker 1 And you think, do you think the Mets, the richest owner in baseball, is going to back? They might offer him a billion if he could. I think they'd offer him a billion if he could.
Speaker 2 He wants to win in a World Series, not winning a World Series with the Mets. And we just saw what happened to your Yankees.
Speaker 1 The Mets took the Dodgers to six. Now put Juan Soto on that team.
Speaker 1 Would you feel you feel what? You say Dodgers in seven? You don't think Soto swings a game in that series at all?
Speaker 2 No.
Speaker 1 All right. Well, either way, the thing that worries me most going forward with the Yankees,
Speaker 1 even if they do, let's say they re-sign Soto,
Speaker 1
I think. Torres is probably gone.
They might move Chisholm to second. Who knows, right? Team's going to change a little bit.
Speaker 2 Chisholm had a great year.
Speaker 1
He showed up. He came back strong, even though they were terrible through three games.
But you get back in the playoffs, all you are going to hear.
Speaker 1 I don't know if it's the World Series and the playoffs, all they are going to roll the highlights of the fifth inning for the entire playoffs.
Speaker 1 Now, I don't know if a player you could just block that out or if that's somewhere in the back of your mind, but there's now ghosts, I think, that are going to be talked about going the other way against the Yankees.
Speaker 2 Jerry, is that
Speaker 2 the greatest meltdown in the history of sport that you've ever seen.
Speaker 2 And by the way,
Speaker 2 not just regular season in a World Series.
Speaker 1 Game five.
Speaker 1 It's really tough to not acknowledge the Mets Red Sox only because the Red Sox were up three games to two, Matt.
Speaker 1
They're closing out the World Series. They're about to win.
They're about to win the World Series. The Yankees were hoping to push it to game six going back to L.A.
Speaker 1 It is a melt for a singular moment for an inning. It's the biggest meltdown inning because it was five unearned runs.
Speaker 1 But as far as the biggest meltdown, that you can't say the Yankees win the World Series if they hang on to win game five.
Speaker 1 But if Buckner gets that play, you might be able to say the Red Sox win the World Series in 86.
Speaker 2 I would say, given this series and the stage and both teams,
Speaker 1 it was a huge meltdown.
Speaker 2 Just everything that surrounded Dodgers Yankees, which we all wanted, and Judge going to be the MVP who had the costly air, which just sucks. I don't know, man.
Speaker 1 Like, that was...
Speaker 1 What about
Speaker 1 let me throw you Falcons Patriots? If you're up 28 to 1 in the Super Bowl, how do you feel about your chances? Was it 28-3 or was it 28-2? 23 at halftime. 28-3 at halftime.
Speaker 1 You got to love your chances there.
Speaker 2 That's a good one.
Speaker 1
So that's a pretty good one. Dang.
But I think in terms of like like football, it's different because you could maybe say a drive was a meltdown. Like, hey, you get down to the one and you fumble.
Speaker 1 And with baseball, for the one inning, it's for sure
Speaker 1 the biggest meltdown for one inning. But I still think there's a world where the Yankees hang on to win that game and Yamamoto wipes them in game six.
Speaker 1 They haven't touched him all year.
Speaker 2 Oh, that's why I felt good about game six.
Speaker 1 They haven't touched him all year.
Speaker 2 The Yankees after Cole have nobody.
Speaker 1 So I
Speaker 2
fundamental plays, dude. That's what I'm saying.
Like,
Speaker 2
football's tough. Like, you need a lot to go.
And, like, you just, whatever. But, like, a routine flyball that our boys could have caught.
Like, if you think about it, like, give our boys a,
Speaker 2 I don't know, dude.
Speaker 1
I just that's freaky, man. It's freaky because he took his eyes.
I think he
Speaker 1 checked the runner quick.
Speaker 2
The Indian before saves damn near a home run jumping into the, into the wall. He made one of the greatest play.
Like, hey, he's a great player.
Speaker 2 I'm sick for him, man, because I just know in a moment as an athlete when you are who you are and you have that moment where now that's like people are probably
Speaker 2 people are going to forget about the MVP year and that he's always going to be like, oh, he was great. But man, remember when he dropped that fly ball in the World Series?
Speaker 1 But again, that inning is what everyone will talk about.
Speaker 1 But we can't forget Dodgers tie at 5'5, but then the Yankees go back up.
Speaker 1
And then I'm sorry. I really don't, I like this guy all playoffs.
Kanely comes in and just didn't have it.
Speaker 2 Like, I mean, can we
Speaker 2 throw in 100 change-ups? I mean, let's just, let's mix it up, dude, because we're going to sit on that shit.
Speaker 1
Both bullpens were for sure taxed. So who knows? And like, Clay Holmes for a moment there didn't have it.
And then he had one of the biggest strikeout comebacks.
Speaker 1 I think coming back from like 3-0, striking someone out. But then Kanely comes in and essentially just put Weaver.
Speaker 1 in an unmanageable situation coming out the guy just pitched the night before and now base is loaded no outs and you're you're facing the die no he got two pop flies he did he got two pop flies the only other better version of that is striking out three in a row which i don't think any yankee other than mariano rivera in his prime would have had enough to maybe pull that off so listen it was uh
Speaker 2 it was awesome to be there i'm glad you were there it's good like
Speaker 2 managing bucket list you got to see it i was a big fan of yankee stadium that place was i know the old one everyone loved but this one was cool i never saw the old one um
Speaker 2
Baseball, it's over. It was great.
My team won. It lived up to the hype.
And game one was a great game. Game five was a great game.
A couple games in there in between weren't so great, but
Speaker 1
yeah, baby. So we'll end with this because I don't know about you.
I, of course,
Speaker 1 I'll lightly follow the Soto free agency stuff. I think he's coming back to the Yankees, but I've known nothing, just giving you my two cents.
Speaker 1 I will not think about baseball till like June, the band until basketball is over i will not you will not hear me talk baseball the rest of the way maybe unless solo does something wild and next time we talk baseball we're gonna get we're gonna get one of our daughters on the pod that's different if we're gonna have a player on for sure i want to talk to i'm in terms of like the fan in me oh yeah no it's a wrap The only consolation was I stayed.
Speaker 1
This is odd. You want to talk about psycho behavior.
I stayed up till 2 a.m. because after the Yankees lost, I immediately switched off and I wasn't able to watch the Knicks win over the Heat.
Speaker 1
So I watched the entire Knicks replay versus the Heat. Carl Anthony Towns, 44 and 12.
We're back, baby. That's what New Yorkers do.
We deflect to the next thing.
Speaker 2 I have a whole thought on people who re-watch live sports
Speaker 2 recorded, but we can get it.
Speaker 1
I just legitimately couldn't watch it. I was at a Cavs game and I was watching the World Series.
I had no chance of watching the Knicks. I didn't watch the whole game.
Speaker 1 I like sped through key plays, fourth quarter mainly so
Speaker 1 key plays congrats to the dodgers uh oh yeah we could talk about the fan interference i mean that dude did the whole press tour of course gronk knows him that that basically is everything you need to know uh i know by the way the yankees let it they were gonna let him in the mlb said no last night
Speaker 2 as they should look as they should like i mean at the end of the day like i think people made a light of it but like
Speaker 1
i love the spirit and i do think it woke it i do think it maybe added some pep. Like, oh, this guy's willing to go to jail and lose his $3,000 seats.
The least we could do is run a little harder, but
Speaker 1 you just can't.
Speaker 1 That could just lead to so many other bad things.
Speaker 1 And I'm a big believer in
Speaker 1
fans are a part of the game, but they should not be a part of the actual game. They should be a part of the atmosphere of the game.
Don't, don't, yeah, I don't know. I enjoyed all the kinds.
Speaker 1 So I don't really have some hot take.
Speaker 1
I just don't think this result would have been been different, man. I really don't feel that bitter about it.
I would have loved the game six, but I don't feel that bitter about it.
Speaker 2
Dude, it's hey, listen, man. Two best teams in baseball all year faced off in the World Series.
We got an East Coast, West Coast. I bought an East Coast, West Coast shirt last night.
Speaker 2 I felt like, you know, I need to memorialize this. I'll be wearing that on the pod next week.
Speaker 1 Good for the pod that we, I mean, good signs we got Yankees Dodgers in our like seventh episode, basically. That's a good sign for us.
Speaker 2 We had our boy Swish on talking.
Speaker 2
It's awesome, man. But I'm with you, dude.
Baseball, it's a wrap.
Speaker 1 It's time.
Speaker 2 It's time. We're going to the second half of football.
Speaker 1 We got NBA picking up.
Speaker 2 We got a lot of good shit.
Speaker 1 I am curious to see the numbers on the World Series because
Speaker 1 I saw some preliminary stuff, but I know the basketball numbers are way down for the debut week. And I think that's attributed to being that there's a great World Series matchup.
Speaker 2 They were doing 15 million in Japan alone on top of the 15 million.
Speaker 1
Good for baseball. Happy this happened.
Yeah.
Speaker 1
On to basketball. Well, Matt, go get some rest.
I know you basically getting ready for big noon, getting fired up. So we'll definitely check you out there.
Speaker 2 Hey, enjoy Halloween, brother.
Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1 I'm about to go take 30 kids trick-or-treating because all of Jacob's cousins are coming here. So I go throw on the dessert.
Speaker 2
Listen, don't be a Grinch. Have a smile.
It's for the children tonight. Okay.
It's for the children.
Speaker 1 All right.
Speaker 1 Wu-Tang is for the kids. Wu-Tang is for the the children.
Speaker 1
All right, all right, Maddie. Have fun over there.
Better, bro.
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