Well, well, well.
It's the Division Series, it's Rangers Orioles, Phillies Braves, and two other series we're
going to talk about but aren't as important for obvious reasons.
We're jumping right into it.
Joe, Brady, squad's right here.
Welcome back to the show.
It's been a couple of weeks since we've had Joe and Brady join us.
Angie will probably be out the rest of the season.
He's giving up.
Yeah, he's giving up.
Butt hurt, disease, whatever you want to call it.
He's just, he's done talking baseball.
Sorry.
If you want to see him, he's on the football show every week.
But yeah, he's done talking baseball.
You'll see him again when Otani picks a team.
That being said, we have two other amazing guests, not really guests, co-hosts.
Joe and Brady, they're joining us here.
It's Playoff Baseball Time Division Series this week.
First of all, Brady, how's it going, brother?
Oh, it's going.
Just still thinking back to the Bryson Stott home run.
That's all I have.
Yeah, that was a pretty big moment.
I mean, we're going to talk about all the big moments.
Brady's repping all his Philly stuff today.
I got all my old stuff on.
Joe's waiting for his Dane Dunning jersey in the mail.
Or at least he'll probably have to buy one if he hasn't already.
Actually, we had two softball games last night.
And while we're kind of sitting down after the games, kind of talking to each other,
I went on the Texas Rangers tour and I was about to check out, I'm not even kidding,
the alternate baby blue Dane Dunning jersey.
I'm not even kidding.
I was like, okay.
And I was trying to do the math and I was seeing if they had like next day shipping
or like express shipping, you know, if they could get that jersey swiftly here in time
for the ALDS, but unfortunately, we're unable to.
So I held it off for a bit.
So for now, I'll still get it.
I don't know if it's going to be Dane Dunning.
Maybe Evan Carter, we'll talk about him later.
Oh my goodness.
We could talk about other players.
We got a lot to talk about, man.
We got a lot to talk about.
We got a lot of catch up to do.
It's been a while.
It has.
Yeah.
No.
So I guess before we get into it too far, Joe, it's been a while.
How are you doing first and foremost?
It's like, I'm like on a Six Flags roller coaster.
I know these past few weeks because of the Rangers, you know, like that's all I have
to say.
I think the team speaks for itself when you see what's been going on with them for the
past month.
Every series is just up and down, up and down.
And I'm feeling like a little nauseous on the Six Flags roller coaster, but we're at
like, hopefully we're on an up swing.
Yeah.
Hopefully we're on the upper part of a wave.
So yeah, good.
I'm glad to hear.
We'll be, this is the last day of our friendship until the championship series.
Unfortunately, I won't see, I perhaps may not see you ever again.
I know.
We may not be friends after this.
This may be either my or Joe's last appearance on the show.
So give it up.
I'm just kidding.
It's going to be a stressful weekend, a stressful like next five games for the Rangers and O's.
I think it goes five games.
We'll talk about it a little bit more.
But before we delve too far into Rangers O's, because that's the biggest series you want
to talk about, we're going to give Brady his tea time to talk about the Phillies.
All right.
I'll go ahead and I'll go ahead and mute my mic, Gabe.
You should too.
Let's just let him talk.
Give him the floor for a few minutes and you can do what he needs to do.
Get it all out.
I'm putting my mic on the ground.
Brady, this is your time.
Talk Phillies, the Marlins series.
What your expectations are for the Braves?
Yeah, Joe, there is there it is.
Turn it off the mic.
I'm going to turn off mine.
Brady, let's do it.
I mean, all right.
Well, so first of all, the Marlins series, I mean, if you want to call it a series, it
was just an absolute showing from us.
And they barely got a run in like one of the last innings of the second game because it
was a pity run.
I'll be honest.
I mean, Tampa barely even scored runs to.
It was just so bad.
But yeah, I mean, I knew the Marlins weren't going to give us a series.
It's the Marlins.
I mean, it should have been the Reds or the Cubs or anybody else.
Like they had way better of a chance, not that it still would have mattered.
And now we go into the series that's going to decide our fate.
That's that's all we got.
It's I mean, we beat them last year.
I mean, they still had Ronald last year.
Still had everybody last year.
But obviously, it looks like it's going to be different.
But who really knows?
Who really knows?
And it all comes down.
I was telling this to, I guess, a buddy yesterday.
And it was just the fact of how consistent can our pitching be if our pitching can consistently
be solid?
We're we're going to win.
Nobody's going to beat us.
Nobody can beat us if our pitching solid.
Wheeler is I still my still opinion, top five, top ten pitcher in the league.
Nola can very well be just as good when he has when he's on.
And then the back end just needs to find a way to clutch up.
I mean, Taiwan Walker won 15 games this year, which is crazy.
But hopefully that will do us some justice.
And hopefully we can pull out some games and move on to the championship series, which
I very well think we can.
I I have the hope that we can because we did it last year.
Same team, same place, same time, all the same.
Why not do it again and make another run?
And that's all I have to say.
We'll bring the boys back.
OK, off your soapbox.
Off Brady's soapbox.
There we go.
I'm done.
Now I get to sit here and mute my mic.
So I want to I want to touch on this briefly because I think I think it's going to be an
amazing series.
I think whoever comes out of this series wins the National League personally.
I agree.
I think the Braves are the most scared of Philly.
It's a five game series.
So I mean, best of five.
So all you're going to do is win three games.
You have a bunch of off days in between.
I know like you guys have even more off days in the American League does.
A.L. has to play Saturday and Sunday.
You guys play Saturday and then you're done.
So I think Atlanta is going to be out for blood.
You mentioned they didn't they did have a CUNY last year.
They did not.
So they have a CUNY this year, which is a massive difference maker if you're Atlanta.
But at the same time, Philly came out and stole game one last year.
I mean, you came out and you stole one of those two games on the road.
That's what you got to do.
You're going to be in Atlanta.
These first two got to go get one.
Got to get one.
I'll be honest.
Strider does not look as good as of late.
Let's be let's be real.
I know people aren't as afraid of Strider as they used to be.
They see his ERA and how how high it is.
Granted, he has an insane number of strikeouts and is a great pitcher.
However, he's so up and down and he has a lot of strikeouts, but he also gives up a
lot of runs.
And if he's on a team like the Braves, he's able to kind of, you know, mask those those
weaker those weaker parts of him.
And the team can compensate for that.
Yeah, but I mean, I don't they haven't released who the game one starter is.
I think it very well.
It still could be Zach.
It's still very well.
Zach, whoa, three days, three days.
No terrible.
Not this early in the playoffs.
Really?
When you play the Braves, they have some crazy.
You got to think in the long run.
It could.
Well, I think it's a Ranger.
It very well could is it going to be Ranger today?
Now it's now they have it.
I'm looking it up right now.
You guys can see it.
It could also be time though.
I mean, just get him out of the way early against Strider.
Yeah.
Happy birthday, Bryson Stott, by the way.
Yes, sir.
The man's his jersey's on the way.
I finally caved.
Who's he?
Give me a starter.
I was going to say the only two that released when I looked last night were the by team.
So it was Kersh and.
You know, you're getting Strider.
Yeah, we did Strider.
Yeah, we know those were the two that were released when I looked last night.
How many days rest would it would be three, right?
Three days.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
Yeah, he threw on Tuesday.
Three, four days of rest.
You don't want to start him on three days.
If you're facing a team like the Braves.
I can beat him though.
We can beat him.
That's the thing.
I think you're more scared.
Brady, are you more scared of Max Reed or Spencer Strider?
Well, I mean, Spencer Strider.
Well, Spencer Strider is going to, you know, strike out a lot of our guys, right?
But it doesn't matter if he gives up four runs.
So if you give up.
You also at the same time, you are Brady, I would say that you are playing the Braves.
Their lineup last year, they didn't have.
They didn't have a home run leader named Matt Olson.
They didn't have a Koonia.
Except I'll move to.
They, they had.
You know what I mean?
They had, but they didn't have.
Yeah, but he didn't have his season that he did this year.
They didn't have the last year.
That's all I'm going to say.
It's the same team.
But it's at the same time.
It isn't.
You know what I mean?
Every team is different.
Well, but they, every team is different.
We're in the exact same position we were last year.
That's my thing.
So you just got to go get game one.
You have to win one of them.
Did you know that we got all four game ones last year?
Isn't that crazy?
We took every game one.
You won every single game one, every single game one last year.
Wow.
Yeah, it's crazy.
So honestly, I feel like I am definitely a lot more scared of Max Fried because our lineup,
we can very well hit four or five lefties in a game and be just fine.
But like it gets Miami scared.
It's frustrating because it's like all we saw was left handed pitching.
Yeah.
And so I'm like, I don't really like that.
I want to see righty on the mound.
So I'm fine if that's Spencer Strider.
I think Strider has potential to be more scarier than Fried, but Fried overall, I think he's
more consistent than Strider.
And when we're talking about, you know, the postseason, that's all you need.
You need to consistency in your hitters and your bullpen.
You want your starters to go, you know, six, seven even.
And Spencer Strider, he can, Strider has those games where he's, he's dialed in and he gives
up only a few hits and strikes out double digits, you know?
And so Strider can be scary, but he can also be not scary.
Yeah.
Fried is a little more consistent guys.
So I think it's just going to all come down to how Strider's feeling that day and how
your lineup is going to be feeling and if everyone's on or not, that could very well
decide the series.
Yeah.
Especially if it's game one.
What I love about the best of five is that like, you can't really hide anything.
Like everybody's weakness is going to come out at some point.
Like we'll talk about Rangers O's.
I think the Rangers were able to avoid using their bullpen against the Rays because of
the two starting performances they had.
In a five game series, they're not going to avoid the bullpen.
Like the O's are going to make them get it, get it to Chapman or somebody in like the
fifth or sixth.
And it's can, can they hold it?
Because we know, we know the Rangers can bop.
Anyway, I'm excited to get into that series.
What we can wrap up this Braves, Phillies one.
Brady, as the biased Phillies fan that you are, give me a realistic, like Phillies in
four, Phillies in five, Braves in five.
I when you were talking earlier, I was thinking four.
I was thinking or Phillies or I think we take, I think we steal the game one against Strider.
We lose to Max Fried and then take the two at home and run away.
Okay.
Cause if we're not going to start Wheeler game one, he'll probably start game.
He'll probably start back at home again.
Maybe no.
Cause then you guys, cause no, you have a, you could throw a Wheeler on Monday because
you have an off day Sunday.
So he'll throw on Monday, which is good because, Oh, actually that might change a little bit.
Game two is going to be crazy.
But then we got Nola back at home for game three, which if for nobody here who pays attention,
Nola is significantly, significantly better at home.
It's unbelievable.
I did not know that.
So we'll be seeing you and then you'll end with Ranger, which or Ranger or what?
Rangers game one.
Okay.
So we got Taiwan or even Lorenzen.
No, Lorenzen will come out of the pen.
I think it's a three man rotation for you guys.
Cause I think maybe character from our own, it's usually like a three, maybe most four
man rotation in the playoffs.
Yeah.
I just feel like it's a lot easier to bring Ranger out of the pen than it is Taiwan though.
Yeah.
I would agree.
Rangers are accustomed to it.
Yeah.
Like Taiwan, you throw them for three innings.
You throw Ranger for three or four and then bring in the pen.
All right.
And I think Lorenzen will come out of the pen too.
Joe now let me ask you, you, you heard Brady talk Phillies all year.
You, we've talked about the Braves.
I did.
And I can tell you now that they are.
Indeed.
What, what do you think happens in the series?
Did you watch the, first of all, did you watch the Phillies Marlins in the wild card a little
bit?
I know we watched the first game together, but we did.
So game two, yeah, I was working all day Wednesday, so I didn't get to see the Rangers game or
the Phillies Marlins game.
And so I couldn't see how they perform, but I work in May if they, I stay on my grind,
but I see, I saw like the Phillies Heights and everything and the Phillies, they look
good.
They look great as always had a great record and they would have won their division if
it wasn't for Atlanta.
Yeah.
And it's going to come down to the wire.
There's going to be a few minor little things that go on during game one or two.
That's just going to set the tone for the rest of the series.
And if it goes the Braves way, they have the home field advantage.
You have an opportunity to take in game five.
The Braves fans are something else.
So our Phillies fans, I'll give that to you.
That was Phillies.
Citizens Bank Park is electric.
It sells 50,000 seats.
Yeah.
And so it's literally two high caliber teams squaring off.
They're both very high in quality.
And I think Atlanta has the advantage on your own offense and defense on some days.
However, you can never sleep on the Phillies.
No, you can't.
You can never sleep on the Phillies.
They're pitching severely underrated.
They're bullpen guys.
If they can hold on, they're very, very solid.
And so yeah, like I said, it's going to be absolutely a dogfight.
Whoever comes out on top is going to be making the fewest mistakes.
I don't think the series is going to be a series of who can hit more home runs or who
can score the most runs.
It's going to be who can make the least mistakes.
This is facts.
I agree with that.
I agree with that 100%.
Yeah.
No, I agree.
I think with the five game series and two amazing teams, as I already said, winner of
this series, I think wins the national league because the Dodgers have Clayton Kershaw starting
for them.
It's just like Bobby Miller, Ryan Pepeo, M.H.G.
Han.
Who?
Twinkies.
Yeah.
Seven year eight Lance Lynn.
Yeah.
I think he might be out though.
He might be injured.
I don't know.
I was looking on my fantasy team because I did pick him up because he did have a good
August and September.
Like I said, I think it's going to be so tough for the Dodgers to win against whoever they
go up against because those rookies have to go into Atlanta or into Philly and win games.
Clayton Kershaw is not the best pitcher in the playoffs.
We know this.
Playoff Kershaw.
We know this.
Playoff Kershaw is a thing for a reason.
And I think whoever wins this series comes out of the national league because they'll
have all the momentum.
Atlanta wants all the smoke with Philly.
Philly kind of stomped on their parade last year.
Atlanta wants all the smoke.
They're ready for revenge.
Yeah.
Philly, like Atlanta has been waiting for this moment since last year.
Philly has been waiting for this moment since last year.
Philly, all they want to do is get back to the dance.
So I think this is the series to watch for me.
As a biased Orioles fan, I'll be watching Rangers O's more closely than any of them.
But best teams that'll be playing, most interesting series, Philly's Braves in my opinion.
So excited.
I'm already itching.
That's all.
I know.
We got to get together.
So I'm going to watch the game tomorrow night.
I'm not watching the Rangers game with you.
I'm sorry.
No, respectfully, I might be blocking your number.
I'll watch the Rangers game.
What can you on all socials?
Just no contact with you.
You guys might have an Instagram story from the Four Guys No Clue account saying that
Joe Weiss has officially resigned, depending on how bad the Rangers lose or O's lose.
I was listening to a guy talk this morning.
It was a video I was posted on some O's accounts that frankly, after how they lost 110 games
two years ago, given the season that has been, I just don't want to see them get embarrassed.
If they lose this series in four or five games, Texas is clearly better or more suited for
a deep run.
I'm OK with that.
Just don't get blown out in three games and disappoint all the fans.
That's where I stand.
If they did that, I frankly, I would be like, you know, that stinks, but we'll be back.
You know, I'm not as worried about that.
But I was reading an article yesterday.
This might be the best chance that they have.
I mean, we saw it happen with Kansas City.
They have all these young guys and the thinking with the O's as we kind of transition into
O's Rangers is that like, oh, they got all these young guys.
This is not their first time.
They'll be back.
But what happened with Toronto?
Toronto had that those couple years.
Bo was big time.
Vlad Guerrero was big time.
And then now they just they've gotten swept two years in a row in the playoffs and everybody's
like, well, what's going to happen with the Blue Jays?
So this is as good as opportunity as any.
I want to see him perform well.
But if the Rangers, the better team is going to win the series.
I'm excited to watch.
Very, very excited.
So yeah, as we talk Rangers O's here, do you know how they're going to line up the rotation,
Joe?
Do you know what they're thinking?
I have an idea what the O's are going to do.
I've thought about what the Rangers could do because you guys are well rested, but you
know better than I do.
Go ahead.
Yeah.
So obviously we use arguably our best starters.
I don't know if he of all the has been our best starter per se, since he did deal with
a lot of injury and some of his outings have been as good, haven't been as good in the
past.
But we did use Jordan Montgomery and talk about an outing.
My goodness.
He honestly he embarrassed the race.
The race didn't even show up.
It was unbelievable.
Yeah.
Well, 19,000.
Fans didn't show up.
Yeah.
And it shows because you hear when I was watching the first game, you could hear the silence.
The silence was so loud because whenever, you know, they made an error, Jose Siri threw
20 feet above, Berades throwing to third and asked Gord to run and the silence and
the booze it showed.
Anyways, I'm talking about the race, the race.
It's probably going to be serious.
But yeah.
So, I mean, just to give a small recap, it wasn't even close.
I'm sorry, race fans.
I love you.
I do like watching the race, but unfortunately hitting wasn't there.
Filling wasn't there.
Their pitchers, they just had bad days.
And you know, that happens sometimes.
But Rangers pulled out on top of somehow the offense did show up as well as their pitching.
And Gabe, you touched on this a little before, but I'm scared for the bullpen.
That's my main concern.
I'm also concerned a little bit about starting pitching and how the O's have the potential
to knock some of our starters out in early innings, which, you know, we expose a weak
spot that is our bullpen.
And there's a lot of worries about this series, at least for me on the pitching standpoint.
Since we either were either like 200% or 15%.
You know, we have those games or series just sometimes where we're hitting 100 with runners
in scoring position.
And then there's series where we hit like point one five.
Yeah.
No.
And like I said at the beginning of the podcast Rangers, the team itself is such a roller
coaster team.
We were fourth in the fourth year, fourth in the, in the division last year.
I think we won 60 games, which isn't too bad.
But I think the year before that we also lost 100 games to, to have a good manager like
Bochy bring this young, young, the mix of young and a veteran team into this playoff
caliber team is amazing in and of itself.
However, I do feel like we are really young, not young.
Let's say inexperienced.
Sure we have Seager.
He's, he's a dog in the postseason.
But other than that, most guys on the team never have played in a postseason.
They've never experienced like, you know, that, that postseason pressure, which is very,
very apparent.
You know, some of the big dogs like Kershaw, maybe they, it's hard for him to handle that
pressure of the postseason pitching in front of 50,000 guys.
And so I think the, the weak points of the Rangers, I'm just bashing on my own team here
is okay.
Number one, this is obvious.
The bullpen, right?
Right.
Who do you have?
Brady, who do I have?
Who the Rangers have in the bullpen that you could rely on?
I mean, Chapman looked good against the Rays.
I would, the only name I could think of is on occasion, Araldis Chapman.
That's about it.
But I have something to mention later about the, about the Rangers.
No, about the, about the postseason inexperience, because who has arguably less postseason experience
on a roster?
The Orioles.
The Baltimore Orioles.
Yeah.
So this brings me into my next point, because if we want to bash on our own teams here for
a second, we can talk about our weaknesses and then our strengths.
Yeah.
They always have very little playoff experience.
They have, they are not used to it.
I will tell you right now, the cheapest selling ticket for the American league division series
at Camden yards tomorrow is $250.
That yard will be 50,000 packed and they'll be screaming at the top of their lungs at
one o'clock in the afternoon.
They'll all be drunk.
It's going to be insane.
Those players are not used to that.
Adley Roachman played in the college world series, but this is not, that's not close
to Camden yards being all orange down and that place being a Tinder box.
Gunnar Henderson is electric, but he's not used to that either.
Granted, I don't know if some of the Rangers pitchers are either.
I don't know who your three is.
I don't like, maybe you start Dane Dunning tomorrow.
Yes, sir.
But I think the O's are, the O's are more experienced, more inexperienced than the Rangers
are because you have Simeon who's been in playoffs, you have Seager who's been, who
won a freaking MVP.
You have Grossman who's played in his fair share of big games.
Like you, you have some Grossman, which is funny because he hit him hitting in a three
spot in the wild card after hitting like no higher than seventh all year.
It was crazy.
He was a DFA watch for you at one point during the season.
He was, but he also has had some like three for four games with an OPS of like three in
them.
So, you know, it's, it's, it's very, it's, it's very wavy with him.
Yeah.
To be fair, a lot of our guys and yeah, I think this is, it's, here's my thing.
I think it's going to, this series is going to either be a series where all the inexperience
is going to show for the Rangers and O's or everyone's going to step it up.
They're going to rise to the occasion and it's going to be one of the best series ever
because I think, I don't think there's any way that the O's or Rangers will be out in
the world.
I agree with that.
I agree with that personally.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm tempted if the O's lost the first two at home and then you go to Texas, like
if the O's are down O two going to Texas, I think that's a, that's a situation where
they could get swept.
But the O's, first of all, they had the best road record in all of baseball this year.
They were tied with the Braves for best road record.
And they have one of the best home records in baseball too.
That crowd is going to be raucous.
I do not underestimate what those people are going to do tomorrow.
And so I think they'll probably split one one at in Baltimore.
And then I think they'll likely split one one on the road in Texas.
And then you get to a game five back in Camden yards where I mean, ticket price will be even
higher.
The place is going to, it'll be a, it'll be a night game.
Like, I mean, they're giving them the one o'clock window tomorrow.
One o'clock will be fun, but like a night game, a night game down there is going to
be crazy.
I think it's a matter of time till they get that.
But I'm really excited for the series.
I think it's going to be, I think it's going to be electric.
Key for the O's is knock out the Rangers started.
You got to get them out and like five, get it like five or six innings tops.
Like you want their starter pitch in six innings tops.
You get to the meat of that bullpen because sure you have Chapman who can be flashes of
good at the end.
You have Will Smith who locked it down for the Braves a couple of years ago.
But aside from that, I don't really know any of those names.
And you start having to string together three or four of those relievers in that bullpen.
Then you get to some of those weaknesses.
And I think the same applies to the O's.
They don't have an elite bullpen themselves.
With Valtis, right with Felix out for the year.
Cano's the backend guy.
They have Tyler Wells in the backend.
They've got Cienel Perez in the backend.
I think you better not see the field.
I swear.
I'll turn the TV off if Fuji takes the mound.
But I'm really excited, man.
O's in five is my official prediction.
O's in five.
I don't think it will be Rangers in five because you know why?
It's Camden Yards game five and I don't think the Rangers are able to handle that pressure.
To win the division series, we lost to Seattle one to zero.
And the game before that, two games before that, J.P. Crawford's famous walk off double
they had putting an inexperienced pitcher like Jonathan Hernandez in there.
Granted, he did a lot better than who walked like three guys before him.
Chapman, it was Chapman, right?
He gave him two hits in a walk and he was pulled immediately.
Jonathan Hernandez got two outs.
And granted, he's not a perfect reliever by any means, but he does have some potential.
But he also has potential to be really bad.
And that's the same with every single player on the Rangers.
Corey Seager, actually Corey Seager right now is kind of in a slump.
Is he really out of time?
Just a little bit.
I think he hasn't had too many hits recently.
350.
No.
We see him probably in like 150, 200 right now in this two, three weeks, I'd say.
Granted, his OPS is still really high because obviously he hits like doubles in home runs.
But the consistency is just a little lacking.
And you know, that's just the problem with the Rangers is they could lose a straight,
but they could also win a straight.
I'm terrified of that freaking lineup.
That's the thing that scares me the most is the old pitching all year.
We knew going into this season that the pitching would be the key.
We knew they were going to hit, but could they pitch?
You're going to get radish.
Radish has been nails since.
He has been one of the best pitchers in the entire second half.
You're going to get him at home game one, and then you're going to get Rodriguez in
game two.
It doesn't get much easier.
No, let Brady.
I know you can laugh.
Rodriguez, you can go look at his game log has been just as good as Bradish the last
month of the season.
And Rodriguez gets more into games than Bradish does.
Rodriguez will be out there.
It'll be a Sunday afternoon.
I think it's a three o'clock start on Sunday.
There'll be a Sunday afternoon and there'll be a hundred, there'll be 50,000 fans.
Rodriguez will be pumping 101 in the first inning.
I guarantee it.
He's at 101 in the first inning.
And so like pitchers are going to be fired up.
Can we get through five or six and hand it off to the bullpen with a one or two run lead?
We saw in the playoff series, you score three or four runs and your pitchers can hold it
down.
You're going to win a lot of games.
You're in a lot of games.
So can you score three or four?
Yeah, I'm fast.
I think it's going to be fun to watch.
It's going to be an offensive battle at the same time, a defensive battle, because the
thing is they're both offenses are incredible.
Like I see the O's lineup and I'm like, I'm scared.
I see the Rays lineup, especially now with like, you know, there's injuries and obvious,
obvious things, but who wonder what's never playing in the league again.
Wander's girlfriend is like, was like minus seven years old.
The last time the twins won a playoffs.
I saw that stat.
That was so funny.
Anyways, what was I going to say?
Yeah.
The offensive battle.
And if the, if the pitchers, it's going to come down to the starters, at least for the
Rangers aren't, I don't know too much about the, the O's pen.
Obviously you have Cano, but you do have Felix Bautista who's out for the season.
So that's going to be really tough.
Our bullpen needs to hold up as well as our starters, because if you, if our starters
can't go deep, we're there's a really high chance of losing the game.
I think I saw a stat on the Rangers, another Rangers.
I said that, I think we, I think since the all star break, we blew more saves and converted
them.
Oh, it was something like that.
It was awful.
Cause I had the beginning of the season.
He had Will Smith, Will Smith was lights out.
What's the deal with him?
I don't know.
He's just, he's for now he's a middle reliever.
I think he threw against the Seattle, the last series.
And I think he did okay.
Give it, I don't think he gave up any hits, maybe one hit or so, but zero earned.
It's like, that's okay.
However, you have people like Chapman, Will Smith, right?
You have Chris Tryon, Chris Tryon looked really good when he got traded, when he first got
traded, but now he's, he's kind of like simmered down.
You know, he's, he's, he's, he's cooled off a little bit.
And you haven't seen Chris Tryon as much because I don't think Bochy or Mike Maddox can trust
him as much, you know, are you, is your bull brain more lefty heavy or righty heavy?
I would say it's more, it'll be more righty heavy.
We have, Ooh, we have Heaney, Weaney, Perez.
You got a lot of lefties in there.
You got Spores, Chapman, and Will Smith.
Spores is righty.
Okay.
Sorry.
Okay.
Hold on.
Actually, no, no, no, it's, it's, I think it's more left handed heavy.
Okay.
So we got Will Smith, Martin Perez, Jordan Montgomery.
He's a starter.
Andrew Heaney could be either.
We'll, we'll put him as in the bullpen for now.
We also have Chapman, Brock Burke.
So those would be the five lefty guys.
Yeah.
I think maybe we might have Cody Bradford in there.
I'm not sure the rookie, we might have them.
Yeah.
We got righties.
Sorry.
As for righties, we have my dog, Leclerc.
We got Jose Leclerc.
Hey Brady, his batting average is against his under 200.
So all I'm saying is that dude, I'm surprised that dude still pitches in the league.
He looks good against Tampa.
They look good.
Very good against Tampa.
It's just Brady.
Brady, I think he's our closer for the post season because guess who?
Will Smith and Chapman.
Couldn't rise up to the occasion and Leclerc is the best.
He's I'm going to say this like he's the best middle reliever on the team.
He's the guy we can trust.
He's the guy I trust the most.
Absolutely.
All I'm saying is he's a flame thrower.
He's like Gregory Soto for us.
He's a flame thrower.
He does not have as much control as you would like.
He just, he just can't walk guys.
That's like, and when the nerves hit, he walks guys.
That can't happen anyways.
Righties, righties.
We have Grant Anderson.
I don't know about that one.
Exactly.
We got Josh Spores, Spores through against the Rays.
I think six or seventh inning of game two.
He looked good.
But there's a lot of inconsistencies with him as well.
You have Leclerc, like I said, we got, I think I'm torn because Dane Dunning, he could also
be, we might have a three man rotation and we could use him in the bullpen.
Who starts tomorrow then?
That's the thing.
We're not going to put Montgomery on three days.
No, you can't.
You can't.
And the problem too is you could put Montgomery on four days rest on Sunday because the AL
has to play on Sunday.
They don't get the off day.
They get off on Monday.
So regardless, you're going to have a Volody or Montgomery start that first game back in
Texas.
Do you rush Montgomery out there on a day shorter of rest on Sunday?
I would not rush Montgomery because the thing is you can't trust the bullpen and he, Montgomery
consistently goes long.
He goes very long, but with that, you're going to need more rest.
He's going to go seven.
He can go, he can comfortably go seven, but with that you need a lot more rest or else,
you know, injury is going to hit or he's going to his, there's going to be a dip in his VLO.
And so I think our third man is either our starter for, for Saturday for tomorrow is
either going to be, I don't want to say this, but Andrew Heaney.
Heaney or Dane Dunning.
It's going to come down to those two.
I thought they moved Heaney to the pen.
I thought he's been like, they did move Heaney to the pen, but he did start against the Seattle.
I think the first series we played them the first game and he was lights out six innings
nowhere and so, so then do you, I bet you he throws, I bet you Heaney throws Sunday.
Oh, it depends on what happens on Sunday.
It all depends on, they might have to run a bullpen game on Sunday, but you've run a bullpen
game with a weak, theoretically if we lose game one, there's no way we can possibly do
a bullpen game on Sunday, it matters way too much.
We have to throw Montgomery on Sunday if we lose game one, there's a very high chance
of that happening because, because you guys got, you guys got Kyle.
Yeah.
That's what's been lacking because you know, John Gray's out.
It's not like I trusted him very much before.
Anyways, John Gray's out and he got Scherzer, the glass man.
We don't talk about him anymore.
He's been out for six months, but I'm, I'm so curious because I think that the tone will
be set tomorrow.
Like we said, with Philly's Braves, it'll be set tomorrow.
And it's who, who sets the tone?
Who's going to be the one that goes out there and puts the hammer down?
Is it going to be Bradish who starts or is it going to be whoever starts on the road
for Texas and they're like, yeah, you know what?
No, this ends here.
Like Dane Denning goes out there and throws six shut piece.
It's like, Oh, wait a minute.
Hello.
Yeah.
Who's Dane Denning?
No, it was about a week off.
They haven't played since last Sunday.
And even then Bradish started last Sunday and he just like took it pretty easy.
Like he threw two innings and then they pulled him just for rest sake.
And so I, I'm, I'm so curious because if you have a lot of lefties, I think Mount Castle
will be a key off the bench.
I don't think they'll start Mount Castle.
I think they'll bring him in as a pinch hitter because they have O'Hern against righties.
They love O'Hern.
O'Hern's hit like 300 this year.
He's a, he's a man off righties.
But Mount Castle always crushes lefties.
So they're going to bring him in, in that situation.
Jorge Mateo will be a big deal too.
They're going to have him on the roster for speed mostly.
I know he was a DFA watcher a lot of the, a lot of the years, but he hit 290 in the
month of September with two bombs and 850 OPS.
So they could easily sneak him in in the nine spot.
And like, if he gets a knock or two, put some pressure on the guys immediately.
Or if a guy gets on in the eighth of the ninth and you got a bullpen guy out there, LeClerc,
Chapman, put Mateo on at home with that crowd.
Like he's going to steal a bag.
So I think Mateo and Mount Castle will be two key pieces for the series for the O's
if there's so many lefties coming from Texas.
100%.
Yeah.
Kind of bouncing off of that Gabe.
Mitch Garver, Mitch Garver needs to step it up for us because we don't have a D our DH
right now.
It's, it's pretty spotty.
It's very, very spotty.
Adoles, Adoles, DH and Grossman was in right.
One of the, I think game two, I didn't watch that game, but correct me if I'm wrong, but
it's, it's to the point where, you know, Mitch Garver, his August beginning of September
was lights out.
He was amazing.
I even picked up on my fantasy team and right now he's, he isn't as hot.
I don't think he, he's probably, he's probably gone.
He, he hasn't hit a home run at least a month, I'd say a month, three, four weeks.
Is he going to start?
I don't.
Cause the O's are going to start John Means probably game three in Texas, if I had to
guess.
And that's a lefty.
So you're going to get righties the whole rest of the time that you get a lefty with
Means.
But at the same time, I think I look at the roster and think to myself, who else are they
going to start in the DH hole besides Garver?
You can have Josh Smith and DH Smith has sub 200 average.
You can't hit hedges either.
Hedge is just a good catcher.
I love hedges.
I love hedges, but he's a good catcher.
Not much else.
And there's, there's no DH we have except Mitch Garver.
So if we don't have Mitch Garver, we're going to have to put a Dolis in, in right field
and have Grossman be DH or have Grossman be DH, a Dolis in right field because his, his
arm is, his arm is very strong.
So we could use that cannon in right field.
Yeah.
So if, if our starting lineup does not perform the way it is supposed to, we are, we're going
to lose games.
We don't have any backups.
I'm terrified because you get two righties to start.
You're going to get Radish and Rodriguez.
Corey Zegar is going to be licking his chops with that short porch and right.
Postseason, postseason Seager, never sleep on postseason Seager.
I'm all on board.
Like when Simeon comes up and Garcia like pound them inside, like they got Mount Baltimore
out there in left field.
Like make it tough for them to yank the ball out there.
But Seager with that short, you're going to have to be so careful.
Yeah.
Like I pitch around him, dude.
I just don't let him beat you because I let like if Robbie Grossman beats us, fine.
Good for him.
Good for Robbie Grossman.
Oh, Leody Tavares is a home run.
Good hit.
Good for them.
But like, I don't want to see Seager like pop off because no, there he hit like 450
or something in the wild card series.
In like two games, they were there and they were like, oh.
Seager's the lifeline.
He's the lifeline of the Rangers offense.
That's like, he was almost hitter of the year in the AL, you know, like Yandy, Yandy DS took
it, right?
Yeah.
But he was close second.
If he wasn't injured for, I think he, I think he missed like 30, 40 games.
I could be wrong, but if it wasn't for that, he would have had an outstanding year, like
the BNDS for the title.
I'm just banking on Seager.
Uh, I'm going to go with Seager.
I'm talking about hitters.
We need some Adolas pop.
That's what we need.
We do need some Adolas pop, but he's, he's kind of unreliable.
I love Adolas, but kind of unreliable.
Low and away slider.
We need, we need, yeah, literally we need, I think the three main hitters are Seager,
Garver and Josh Young because they're, they're kind of, they're, they're not together in
the lineup, they're a little separated.
And so if you have those, those people perform, you're able to have hitters, um, if they perform
around them, they're able to score more runs.
If you stack, they have, you got Semyon, you got Heim, Heim's average with runners in scoring
position.
It's around 400.
And so it's really good.
Granted, Heim isn't the best hitter, but he also has a lot of RBIs.
I'm so scared of that lineup, dude.
It's there, there's so much potential, but there's also a lot of potential for them to
just go, I don't know, two and 27.
Brother's got to set the tone.
30.
Yeah.
It's all about game one.
It like, like I said, it boils down, like Brady said, like we said for the, for the
NLDS Braves Phillies, it comes down to game one and who can make the least mistakes because
you're so exposed in the postseason, right?
It's not 162 long season.
No, it's, it's three games and you're gone.
Yeah.
You, you, you cannot afford to make those mistakes, like those errors that the Rays made
in game one.
That's the tone for the wild card.
And it was, it all seemed too easy in game two.
And we can't have, you know, guys swinging at lone away sliders that aren't even close.
We can't have, we can't have our starter, Dane Dunning or Heaney, whoever it is to give
up four and three innings.
And then we have to go to our bullpen.
If I'm the O's, I would be more than happy to see Dane Dunning or Andrew Heaney trot
out tomorrow for game one.
I will 100%.
But at the same time, who else are we going to put in for game one?
You know what I mean?
We can't throw Montgomery or you have all the, we got to save them for at least game
three or game four.
Yeah.
I think you got to give it.
I mean, Dunning was good for a large part of the year.
I think Andrew Heaney is the kind of guy that if you put him in and then he sucks, you're
like, that doesn't surprise me.
But if Dane Dunning gets put in and he does well, you're like, good for Dane.
Like, yeah, he did that at times this year.
And so, so that's, that's, that's where I feel if I'm an O's, if I'm like Gunnar Henderson
or Adley Rutschman, I'd rather see a righty over a lefty.
Yeah.
So I think I'd rather see Dane and have him come out of the bullpen.
But I don't, like I said, I don't know how the O's hit fastballs.
I think Heaney has like a crazy whiff rate on his fastball.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
It's either that or no, I have no idea.
I think it's his fastball.
However, Heaney, Heaney's a little tricky.
He could, he could surprise you sometimes.
He could, he could.
How has he been in big games?
So here's the thing.
He threw scoreless six innings against the Astros.
He also got the W against the Jays, the Blue Jays in Toronto.
I think a few days after All-Star break, played him.
He pitched a great game, but he also has sucked against big teams, you know, and Heaney on,
he was on the Yankees.
Did he, I'm curious, did he ever pitch in the postseason when the Yankees?
I'm not sure.
I know he did the field of dreams game and he sucked in the field of dreams game.
Yeah.
Well, a lot of pressure.
So I guess that could translate to the ALDS.
That's what I'm saying.
Like if you're in Texas, it's different because if you have that home crowd, you can start
Heaney game three.
But if you want to draw Heaney out there for game one and Camden Yards, who hasn't had
a playoff, a home playoff game in nine years.
Like, yeah, it's.
I think Gabe, I think it just boils down to it's there.
There's a lot of mysteries surrounding the series because we're all inexperienced and
Camden Yards is going to be, it's going to be crazy.
Drunk people everywhere.
They're going to be yelling.
It's going to be scary.
Amazing.
I'm going to watch every single game and it's there's there's honestly not very much we
can predict.
We can't predict like for like the Phillies or Phillies or Dodgers or Braves.
You read they've been in the postseason for years and years and years.
So you kind of have this pattern that they develop and you're able to see it.
But for the Rangers and oh, we haven't been we haven't been there and we haven't been
there in seven years.
You guys haven't been there in nine years.
We were in the postseason in 16 when I'm Carnazio and hit that walk off Homer.
It's red.
But it's a wild card game.
Yeah, that was like the last year of any chance.
Yeah.
And then as as you may know, with the Rangers playing Toronto and the famous Bautista.
Yeah.
Been a minute.
We don't talk.
It's been a while.
We have.
We still haven't recovered from that.
But we do have this is so random, but we do have Rugey.
We do have Rugey beating up Bautista.
That's our that's our that's the only thing I have going against Bautista.
Anyway, sorry, I'm I'm just no, you're good.
Labyrinth.
I love it.
You're fine.
I didn't want to go down.
Not a not a rabbit hole, but just a quick little subject.
The FanDuel Sportsbook has the lines out for tomorrow's game.
Brady Brady, you're more you're my impartial judge.
I want to hear, first of all, your series prediction and then given the line.
So the the O's are favored by one and a half tomorrow.
Every team that's at home is favored by one and a half.
I don't know if that was just like what they were doing.
Every home team is favored by one and a half.
And then the over under is eight.
So I am curious where that sits with you, Brady.
I think the under makes sense to me.
I think it I think it ends like four to two or like four or three.
But it could be like seven.
I don't know.
See.
Yeah.
Sorry.
Before you say anything, what is the overall what do the overruns mean?
How many total runs in the game?
Yeah.
So like if you if you add up both team score, so like seven and the range of five.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, we never got a serious prediction from Joe.
But I mean, I.
I.
We're going to get what we're going to have.
Go ahead.
But I.
What I think is, I think this is going to be just a pitching fumble from both sides.
I think it's instead of.
We were talking during the wild card series when we were watching it together that if
you score three or four runs in a postseason game, you're probably going to win.
Right.
Yeah.
And if you score three, it's like it's going to be like five or six, maybe even seven.
You got to put up to win.
I think it's just going to be a just hitters duel for the entire series.
So I honestly do not hate picking the over on the runs.
OK.
And I.
I think tomorrow's game is it does not matter.
I don't think who the Rangers put up.
I think Bradish is about the only reliable arm in the area in the Orioles starting rotation.
I do not buy into anyone else.
Sorry, Gabe.
But wait to see Rodriguez Rodriguez will put people on the map.
I don't.
I don't buy in seven era Grayson Rodriguez.
I don't buy in.
OK.
But he's had a two five since he came back from the minor leagues and and the O's when
they played Tampa Bay at Kevin, he was at four games set in Tampa or at Kevin, he was
against Tampa in mid September.
The winner of that series was going to take the lead in the division.
The O's lost the first two really close games.
Rodriguez pitches game three at home and he's topping one on one in the first inning.
He goes eight shot out with seven bunches.
That game is crazy.
So I'm like, I don't know if that's like a foreshadowing of what's to come or if it
was a flute game, but Rodriguez has shown like he wants the ball in a big spot.
And I like the rookie.
I like the rookie getting the ball.
He's going to be that guy for us the next few years.
Braddister Rodriguez are going to be the one to give him the ball.
Let's see it.
I'm I'm definitely curious.
But I mean, I just I don't know how to feel about him and where respectfully look what
just happened in October with the Rangers in the race.
Sure.
That's very true.
I would say glass now in Eflin would have taken on game.
I would have said that.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
So basically, I don't I respectfully don't buy in.
And other than Montgomery, I mean, you have all the has his ups and downs.
That is for sure.
I think I hope I hope that's the beginning of a good streak for you, Aldi.
Yeah, I really hope that I think if they bring out my my series prediction.
So I think Bradish is just too heavy with his sub three era to not take game one.
Yeah, especially it's game one, right?
It's first playoff game of the year for Orioles.
They're going to it's going to be crazier than any other game that they're going to
see.
Yeah, I think.
And so I think they'll take that one.
So then you got Grayrod and I think I think they'll bring out Montgomery or Heaney.
I don't know.
I think Joe makes a sound point if the O's take game one, I think they try Montgomery
out there game two.
I think it all depends on who on what happens.
And I think the Orioles are going to take it, which means Montgomery is going to be out
here for game two.
And Montgomery is going to be the one to take the away game.
I think he will be the one to do it.
And then go.
He's he's the one.
He's the only one that could probably take the away game from you guys.
Absolutely.
All he could do, but I've already won't pitch in the away game.
No, he won't.
That's all game at home.
Yeah.
I've already get his game Tuesday and he'll probably be mails Tuesday.
Like I think the Rangers regardless take Tuesday.
So it's like because after after Montgomery and I've already I don't know who like you
can give the ball to Dunning or Heaney or whoever.
Like there's not really a three for you.
But I like those first two make me nervous, especially after what they just did.
Absolutely.
But didn't even show up.
I think I think Dunning falls on the sword tomorrow and just has to take it like a champ.
I get out of there for.
Yeah, I know.
I'd say like four point two, but.
Or four and two thirds.
But then the Rangers bullpen has to get what is that?
Thirteen outs.
Yeah, I don't think that very well happens.
I think Montgomery.
So then I think Montgomery comes out and takes the away game.
Then you go to Tuesday in Texas where I mean, that field is really cool.
I don't know how the fans are going to show out in Texas, but fans are going to show up.
So we'll sell out like against the Astros when we when we won that, like it was like
13 to three.
Yeah, like I was watching you on the computer.
I probably had the volume at like halfway and like, you know, what happens like the
speakers like vibrate because it sounds so loud.
That was happening with my computer.
It's crazy.
Yeah, it's it's going to be crazy.
Yeah.
So I think I think it goes I think they split their going back into Texas.
And I think that Montgomery game will be the lowest scoring game in the series.
And then you come in to Texas and have to face Evaldy.
And I think we see an Evaldy master class and so the Rangers take game three.
And to be completely honest, I don't think they make it back to Baltimore.
I don't.
I think the Rangers take it or I think Rangers take it in for.
Oh, my goodness.
I think you get you get the Heaney game, which I mean, it's the Heaney game.
Brady lunches on me.
I know it is what it is.
And I don't know who's going to throw that game.
I don't know what's going to happen.
They might have enough time to run back to Dane Dunning.
They might not.
I don't think they will.
But it's going to be Heaney then.
And I mean, he can throw six shut out and be fine.
And where it's at home, I think it's a lot safer of a bet.
Oh, three from Texas to start the year.
But we also took two out of three back.
They did.
So it's like, you don't know.
You just don't know.
Rodriguez Rodriguez pitched against the Grom and won a game against her.
No, they won the game against the Grom.
Now the Grom's on the Grom's on the Grom's on the.
He doesn't matter anymore.
Jacob, who's the Grom?
Because you got so you got means throwing game three, which means game four is who?
Kyle Gibson?
I would not like to see.
I'd like to see Gibson out of the pen, even though Gibson threw it to 270, our in the
month of September.
Like there's I was looking yesterday, John means he'll probably be our three just because
I like having mixed in a lefty in between like three or four righties to four to three
righties.
But means this like a three one in the month of September.
Gibson's a two seven.
Rodriguez is two five.
Bradish is a two one.
And then after that, if you need a guy at the bullpen, Kramer was like a three three.
Oh, yeah, that's true.
I forgot about it.
So you get like four or five guys that all pitched great in the month of September that
can give you like a time or two through the order out of the bullpen.
Like I would love to see like means give us four or five and then Gibson gives us one
or two.
And then you keep it like a one to run game heading into the seventh day of the ninth
and hopefully get to the Texas start.
I just.
Yeah, I see.
That's that's my thing, though.
Is or zero.
I think I think Yvoldy is realistically the only starter who has some postseason experience.
He's been great in the postseason, by the way.
So that's what I'm saying.
I don't know.
Nobody else is really going to do.
I think that great other than Montgomery and Bradish, which is that it's probably fair
to call it an even split in Baltimore.
And then after that, nobody knows what's going to happen.
So listen, Brady, if if the O's take the first two, you think Texas rattles off three in
a row?
That is the hard question at all.
I don't think I don't think I mean, well, yeah, because they wouldn't get Montgomery
or Yvoldy for that last game.
So it really no, I don't think that's done.
It would be back to their game one guy and against like Bradish or Rodriguez.
And yeah, in that's hard.
I think if the Orioles take both in the they go to, you know, I think it's very hard to
come back.
It's very it's hard for anybody to come back at that point.
OK, so all right.
One went away.
Yeah, we're pretty split here.
I mean, this is Rangers in Ford.
Joe, what did you say?
Did you say Rangers in four or five?
Yeah, I said Rangers in four.
We're not if we're going to fifth game.
No, is that we just can't.
I'm going to give it Ozen five.
But the thing is, too, is I can talk myself into the Rangers winning in four.
I can do I just think I can also talk myself into O's winning in like or five.
Yeah, or three or four.
But I think if the O's listen, this is if if they take the first two, they could sweep
again in Texas.
They get so 100 percent.
Texas, a 100 percent.
Yeah.
Even if it's against a Volody or whoever, they could sweep it in Texas.
The key is, can the starters give enough length to get it to Texas bullpen?
That's that's what I'm saying.
Like we're talking we're banking on the starters here.
But the last three innings of the baseball game is arguably what matters most because
you don't have your starters in.
Yeah.
And you've got 50,000 drunk people at Camden Yards throwing beer everywhere, screaming
at Gunnar Henderson or Ashley to do something at the plate, and it comes down, like I said,
as as as important as the starters are, if they set the tone right, then it's like, OK,
if they don't set the tone right, it's going to be really hard to win a game.
Yeah, it's going to be really, really difficult.
It all depends who steps up the most.
Nobody.
Yeah.
Nobody's expected to step up yet.
For maybe Corsica.
Whoever makes mistakes, right?
At least not a mistake because, you know, OK.
Bradish not very many mistakes, right?
He's been good the rest of the year.
It's a very good first playoff game.
You never know.
You don't know.
Same as Montgomery, too, right?
Montgomery's a he's on.
He's relatively new.
Yeah.
And so you have those.
You have Eovaldi.
He does have, you know, experience.
And so I mean, he looked good in the race game.
He did go a lot longer than kind of towards the end of the season.
And so there there's a lot of hope for you, Volody.
I feel like for starters, Texas has an advantage.
Over the O's.
I don't know if you agree with that, Gabe.
I feel like we have started.
I have the edge.
Yeah, no.
Whoa.
I mean, maybe my body's down to the Grayson Rodriguez sent down to the minors.
No matter like he did, he did have a good September.
But hear me out.
Listen to this.
Hold on.
It shows if you dig a sense, triple A. Yeah.
No, listen, he was not good before he got sent down because he couldn't control the
ball.
He had no business being called up when he when he did to pitch against the ground that
first game.
No business.
But I mean, why do you do this?
So I wish they had the cumulative stats here.
2.6, 3.1 ERA in July.
Yeah.
And then he only allowed what is this?
Five earned, six earned in the entire month of September.
They don't have a key moment for September.
But Ben nails rest of the way.
And then I was pitching against Tampa, Boston, Cleveland, Toronto, San Diego, Houston, Toronto
again, Tampa Bay Dodgers.
Like he's pitched against good teams.
I like him.
He's a top pissing pissing.
He was the top pitching prospect in baseball for a reason.
He was he was number one.
Like he's born for this.
Give him the rock.
I want him to have the rock.
Then who's your third guy?
Is it Means?
Is it going to be Means?
Yeah, it'll be Means or Kramer or somebody.
Whoever they put out there, I think it's all kind of the same for me.
Like Means will be nice out of the bullpen, like a lefty give you some length.
But at the same time, I could see them doing Kramer out of the bullpen or Gibson out of
the bullpen.
I don't know what they're going to do.
It's literally going to be a hitting battle.
It's which team steps up to hit that day.
That's all it is.
OK, OK.
We have we each have two good starters, two solid starters.
I think I did.
I do.
I do like Grayson Rodriguez.
We have Grayson Rodriguez, Bradish, Bradish.
I don't know how to say it.
And then you have Montgomery and Iovaldi.
I'm with that.
And then the third guy is just like depending on the day.
Yeah, you're done.
I don't know.
Yeah, you have Kramer.
You have Gibson.
You have.
If Bautista is there, I like the Oswald Pen a lot.
But with Bautista out, I'm much more nervous about it.
I've never liked the Rangers pen.
And I think we see the season began.
So Seeger Simeon master class in Texas.
All right.
Well, we can sit here and talk in circles.
Yeah, we could we could just speculate.
We're about one hour back.
We're about a half hour back.
We're just sitting here.
We're just spinning.
Anybody listening?
Please.
Thank you.
Please.
And thank you.
We love you guys.
We'll give a quick now.
Brady gave you a prediction.
We'll just go around the round table one more time.
Brady, what do you say?
Rangers in what?
Rangers in four.
Phillies in four.
Joe?
Rangers in four.
I'm going to Atlanta in four.
Okay.
I'm going, I'm going to O's in five.
I'm going to Atlanta in five.
Atlanta five.
Taking the late games.
Yeah.
I'm going, I'm both in five.
And then quickly we didn't touch anything about these other series.
It would be a disservice to not talk about them.
It would be.
Brady, give me like 20 seconds or less.
Twins Houston.
What's going to happen?
Twins are going to upset.
Twins upset.
Joe.
Okay.
Period.
I'm going to have to go with Astros.
I'm sorry.
I hate the Astros, but they're good.
Not me.
The twins.
I hope on their downfall.
Every day.
Royal, Royal, Royce Lewis has two bad games and then twins are gone.
Twins in four.
It's my big.
It's a four.
Okay.
I do.
It wasn't for Brady.
Dodgers, Dodgers, D backs.
27, upset guy right now.
I could see all.
I really could.
Every single home team gets upset in the playoffs.
Is that what you're saying?
Hey, pitching wins championships and right now Arizona's looks better straight up.
What do you mean?
Did you watch them pitch?
It looks better.
Or the wild card.
They, they Brandon fought through like two thirds.
Yeah.
Gallant.
On paper, the diamond backs pitching looks so much better.
Sure.
Okay.
All right.
So diamond backs in what?
She five.
He backs in five.
They go win a game five in LA.
I'm going, I'm going to be backs in four.
I, I hate the Dodgers.
It's not a, it's not bias guys.
Trust me.
Okay.
I'm going to go, I'm going to go Dodgers in four.
That's just four.
Dodgers in four.
They're going to take over that, that D back stadium for those diamond backs, uh, home
games.
And there'll be a lot of Dodger fans in there.
They take at least one and the Dodgers from two others at home.
Yep.
Very nice.
Well, I get, okay.
Yep.
Okay.
Pretty solid work.
So that's the division series and we'll, uh, it's going to be a fun week.
Well, if I'm not, I'm not going to commit to anything, but I'm going to try to get this
thing, this show.
We're going to, the two of us, the three of us back here, Monday, there's an off day of
the American league division series.
And there will be the game day for Philly's Braves, but they'd also have a game to talk
about.
So we'll talk about it.
We're going to get another episode out before the series are finished, but this is our little
preview.
It's a long preview, but thank you all for listening.
Uh, Brady Joe, anything last things you guys want to say, sign us off.
Uh, go Phillies.
You know the deal.
Bad day to be a baseball.
Bad day.
Ready to be Yankees hater.
I got something else, I guess.
Just to wrap it up really quick.
I think, I think we should have to like do something for each other.
If I should bet on this game, I feel like it's not like a bad, but maybe like maybe
something a little like a hat or like, maybe something a little like $150 Jersey.
I think, I think that puts some fun into this here.
I could do like a t-shirt or like a hat, like a 40, 50 season hoodie.
Yeah, I do that.
Talk about it later.
I'm a reasonable guy.
Okay.
Yeah.
And listen, we can negotiate.
We can negotiate.
I love betting.
I'm a gambling man.
Not a good man to beat, but we should do something we should, but we'll let, let's nail it down
right now.
Okay.
Nobody's probably still listening.
Let's do this.
Nobody is.
All right.
I'm gonna, Ooh, I'm either a hoodie or hat kind of guy.
Either a hoodie or hat kind of guy.
I can do a hoodie, but hoodies are like 40, 50 bucks or like 60, 70 bucks, depending on
what kind of hoodie you want.
I could do a hat though.
I could do a hat.
Let's do a hat.
Post season hat.
Yeah.
We'll shake on it.
We'll shake on it next time we see each other.
Let's go.
And if we ever, if any of us face off in the, in the dance, we'll make that later on.
That's crazy.
That'd be fun.
Oh man.
All right.
Cool.
We'll do a hat.
Thanks for listening.
Everybody is go birds, go Rangers, go Phillies.
Okay.
Thanks for listening.