 The Astros eliminated the Yankees on a walk-off win and the World Series begins tonight Let's do it What's going on everybody welcome back to talking baseball It was a brief hiatus with no games But the World Series is starting to night So we thought today was the best day to get the recap of the ALCS in and the preview of the World Series We're back in Adam as you know Jake and I are Yankees fans. So we got our hearts broken. We got a little sadness We got to figure it out, but we're back. Thank you for hanging around with us. We appreciate it My name's John Boy obviously and I got Jake sitting next to me And we got a bunch of patrons that are bringing you this show Jake. How are you doing today? Great Jim couldn't be better here to talk some basketball and some football You know, it's the those seasons are taking off. I'm ready to go. They are under way football seasons like halfway through man. It's crazy Yeah week week seven just happened It's the quickest season ever This isn't a football podcast No, it's not. It's a baseball podcast and it's uh, I'm good I think you know not to spoil too much might might lose some nationals friends But I'm uh, I'm excited. We got good talent good teams baseball. Hashtag Abram. How are you baseball? I'm good. I'm doing well Needed I took like Saturday and just did straight date day with Katie, which was really fun and then yesterday Or no, that was Sunday yesterday got into a little But got back to the work grind these hockey breakdowns are kind of fun Hopefully we get some breakdowns for baseball from the World Series I'm fine, man. Like I'm and we'll get into Our emotions as like Yankees fans a little bit because we have to talk about that game six But first let's do the patrons. We have Six seven new patrons sponsoring this show. They are Tom Shortridge Sounds like an English name to me, but I like it a lot Nicholas R. 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This is awesome Yeah, I had a lot of people Saying you were such a professional like I had people in the you did you see these in the YouTube comments like Jake's a professional. He'll burn it like cuz I didn't want I didn't do a real breakdown That was funny props to you. You're a professional Art My that old to they break down. I did is probably one of the funnier ones. It blew up Like I didn't think it would And then we had some people that were honestly upset Yeah, yeah for anyone doesn't know we were doing talking yanks, and I had four options. It was Do don't do what was option was don't make a breakdown about to vase home run and just Have comments come in non-stop of people telling me like I'm biased which obviously Option two was to do a breakdown with the an ad with no talking and option three was to do a breakdown as a As a brand new Astros fan, which was a little rude Yeah, we landed in the right place, but I there's still like people that don't get it and they're just like think like They're calling me a sore loser Yeah, which like what's that quote show me show me a happy loot a happy loser It's like show me a happy loser, and I'll show you a loser There a quote like that like you know what I mean. Yeah, I don't know. I've never seen that tattoo on my back All right well before we go into Jake's magnificent burn, which should be wild let's throw it to an ad or two All right, fantastic. Here we go Jake on your mark get set and We're going going back back to Houston as it's game six Bullpen day chat swag green versus the Astros and Brad as they try to peacock their way into the world series Bottom one. It's not easy being green. You lay you lie Yeah, turns on a fastball into the Crawford seats It's three nothing Stros top two. Are you the one they call Sanchez RBI single for Gary? It's three to one top four Geo or Shella Ella Ella Hey, he goes solo Dolo three to Houston after four Alex Pregman shows the fortitude to make the score Fortitude after an RBI ground out. It stayed that way into the ninth Osuna in for the save But he is just a man against a machine DJ La may you la machina goes to run Homer. We're tied at force Go crazy a Raldis Chapman in descendant extras, but Houston wanted to play the song one more time Hang them and bang them as Houston walks it off to go to the world series six four five Kind of a crazy game if you're you know, we like to we like to think about how a third-party fan would enjoy that game and I think majority of third-party fans are actually rooting for the Astros because everyone hates the Yankees and I think like the baseball world got a treat of a game 29 fan bases probably enjoyed that thoroughly Drama a comeback a walk off a walk off to go to the world series like there was a lot going on Yeah, I think Houston starting to get some some a little bit of hate just because they've already won one They do come off as a little bit arrogant and nerdy Which is a bad combo for a lot of people but the the the yanks are the yanks and yeah it was a great game and it was I Mean exciting times and I'm I'm gonna step away from the third-party fan for a minute because I think it's it's fun to look at it through the Yankee scope because There there was some crazy stuff going on there. I mean it all series neither of these teams could hit I mean, that's that's kind of the dirty secret that's getting swept on the rug a little bit but DJ LaMahew finally gets that big swing that the Yankees had been looking for all series and There were so many I've mentioned on here that I'm a big storyline guy and You know, I think Houston was undefeated this year when they were up two runs or more and they went up three runs in this game You know the the Yankees were down three games to one It felt like that LaMahew swing was gonna be the like oh shoot Houston might have their back against the wall game seven. Yeah, they got cold But they're gonna have all the pressure on the world on them And then just like that about ten minutes later. It was gone So, yeah, I don't know. It was a good game. It was I mean the bullpen day game six And a lot of the arms that went out there and fought the good fight. I mean for the Yankees my word Jay hap out there fighting the good fight after Yankee fans that kicked him to the curb in what August Yeah, it was it was a great game. It was a good series. I think it was the best two teams Q the Nats fans started to get mad Houston Houston rolled they The Astros we're gonna win, you know Because even when DJ hit that home run I was so excited and then I was live on Periscope But I told you this already like once the Yankees didn't score again, and it was a tied game. I I like crushed me before it even happened where I Sorry lost Jake for a second crushed me before it even happened where I was like, oh shit if the Yankees don't take the lead here Houston can walk off to go to the world series and Neither pen has anyone left and it just felt like oh shit. This is scary and Yeah, I mean the Yankees brought in a Raldus Chapman Yes, but but but And then yeah, but I'm just telling you my honest feelings and then and then the Yankees pen is gassed when Chapman was getting into deep counts and when Springer walked and he was at like 20 pitches I was like, well, what the fuck now because even if he gets out to they here like he was our plan for two innings So that was shitty Yeah, and then they would add to push him, but it doesn't become a factor Yes, but then I'm thinking well, then we have a game seven We just taxed Britain entirely Chapman entirely like you know what I mean like things weren't adding up for the Yankees Even after the DJ Homer in my brain Yeah, but I mean it was the empty the tank series. This is I mean, it's one of those feelings Those guys would have been there for tomorrow because you have to be yeah at the end of the season But that wasn't an issue either way Chapman hangs one to Al Tuve Al Tuve just absolutely smokes it And uh, yeah, I mean he's Al Tuve's special special little booger I wish I could like him even more because he's like my exact same dimensions if I drop 15 pounds It's uh, I mean it's great for them that the Houston all the videos from around the stadium how nuts that place was going That's really cool To be at that game and if you're Yankee fans, I think you know the pitch count was up But Marinsic was on deck. He got put in as a defensive replacement for Brantley The catch 22 there is you'd you'd put Springer on second that a single falls Yeah, you know I went I went through some of the analytic stuff and they were saying basically Al Tuve being up with Springer on first is almost it's a coin flip between having a runner on second with Marinsic up Like that Al Tuve was the same amount of dangerous and I don't know it hurts going down to that guy when you've got another guy on deck like yeah, I would have pitched Al Tuve because um, I wouldn't have wanted to lose to like a bloop single by Marinsic Like I'm happier and it's just a bad pitch I mean he couldn't locate his fastball Chapman and then Al Tuve was swinging through his shoes and you put a slider in the zone. I mean I was calling for slider in the dirt Live so they didn't go with my call which is Yeah, that's ignorant by that. Yeah, just listen to me next time, please Don't put a slider in the zone. He's clearly swinging. They didn't listen to me either. I said go get Marinsic, but it's uh I don't know. It's tough. I mean Yankee fans were were obviously shook as every fan base is i'm not gonna I'm not gonna over hype that too much, but this this felt like the Yankees. They had the upstart 2017 They come back last year and the red sox are just magical And it it felt like this was the Yankees year You know they were doing everything despite all the injuries They rolled the twins and they were this was going to be the redemption series against Houston And uh, no, they uh, you know, I think game two and game six are going to haunt the Yankees for uh, for a good amount of time Yeah, I think, you know astros fans are saying that it felt like our year to us Right, um, but I mean they like they've I mean they won Still yeah still can be their year Do you see the stats that the Yankees out hit them and out pitch them in every statistical category? But that's like why stats don't always matter like the Yankees had a higher batting average They had a higher on base percentage. They had a higher slugging percentage. They had a higher ops They had a higher batting average with runners in scoring position. They had a better starters era and a better relievers era Yeah, I mean all that gets you you just have to take game one out of the equations for that because the Yankees won game one seven nothing And then the rest were really tight games Yeah, but it it is still like when I saw that graphic. I was like, wait, what? It's crazy. Yeah, and it's it's just crazy and it's it's something I might dig into this off season But teams that do come close You know, there's a certain amount of luck that comes into the playoffs I'm not saying this was all luck by Houston. They're an incredible team But it's it's funny that you know people are going to question the Yankees starting pitching the hitting the bullpen When you know, they were in game two They were a walk in a bloop away from winning that game. That was the game that went into 11 innings Um, and then I mean in game six, you know, the the the whole series could be changed. So it's um It's it's great for houston. They're going on Yankees fans They're gonna have a lot of questions already the the francisco lindore rumors are flying for yankee fans. Oh shut up Yeah, that's like cluber last year Yeah Don't I hate off season Rumor mail. Oh, you didn't think they trade bower, but that more of the issue is uh paying the king's ransom that would come with lindore the Yankees aren't Going to do that and might not even have that but that's going to be another story for the off season Well, the interesting tidbit before we move on is that zack britain came out and had some very very telling quotes Uh, basically like Starting pitching wins championships. I was gassed. I'm not a starter. I'm a reliever. I can't pitch that much And that's not how like you need starting pitching and this world series Includes the two highest paid top three pitchers in baseball Scherzer Strasburg Corbin Cole cranky verlander The they are the most paid pitchers and you have to pay for starting pitching and the Yankees I think and I was blind to this somewhat for a while like The Yankees have to kind of reevaluate because they like their big bullpens and The big bullpen is great during the course of 162. It's really really good But when you need to rely on them every day in the post season, it's You need to you need to have those big guns and and severino being hurt and not fully like Severino Stretched out hurts and all that but props to the astros for you know making the moves for verlander. Cole and cranky Do you have here's what's up in that? I might astros fans might find interesting jake Do you have a player on the astros you don't like because I I going into this series. I couldn't tell you a player. I liked or didn't like Oh, I I could tell you players. I liked like altube is so fun uh Braggman at third base They got a lot of likable players. I think do you have any coming away that you're like, uh, that doesn't do anything for me Yeah, I mean guerrilla and osuna, but that's kind of for off the field stuff I came away korea korea boo uh korea's got a little bit of uh like that that That geeky analytic thing that I kind of talked about like, you know, the apex predator thing Yeah, oh my god, that's the song you're you're in the high school cafeteria and someone comes back and says hey bro I'm the apex predator. You're like Cool. You know what you know what killer boosts. That's a great. I've and and I'd like and I'm people astros are gonna get upset because I like all your other players But korea is lame like every video I saw and quote. I saw just was high school cafeteria badass shit talks like what dude You're like goes after the game Yeah, it all adds up It really does and that video of him lifting in the gym and doing like blue steel to the camera, but not Unironically, so anyway, there you go. There's my shit talk There you go. Slush it out of the system and yeah, but circling back on the the yankees bullpen. Yeah I mean they uh, they clearly built their team that way Um Building by the bullpen so when someone like britain who they paid to come into town and had an incredible year and incredible post seasons Um, yeah, it makes you wonder and I mean you just can second guess everything that game one where tanaka was cruising And you know, we we kind of gave them claps for going to the bullpen and said that's the plan Um, you know, maybe deal at bull to knock a empty the tank and potentially save that bullpen and rest them for a It changes the whole mindset of the yankees Yeah, that for that game one though boon did come out and say tanaka like Was gassed and asked to come out. It was like I have nothing left Yeah, well, could any of the bullpen guys say that to boon No, they were used to death. Yeah, no, I'm with you and it's eye-opening All right, anything else astros win really cool moment for them Like walk off to go to the world series against chat Astros win the the only thing that I think is really important and People are going to think i'm saying this in a negative light is that the look at the pitch that yuli gurriel hit out of the park Off chat green chat green That's one of the better fastballs in baseball. Uh, just like spin rate wise. I mean miles per hour everything It was about six inches in off the plate Gurriel just turns on it a guy who was in a one for 20 slump and it's like, well, that's baseball for you right there Yeah, that that was crazy that he hit that pitch out I feel bad for chat because it was it was like it's the unhittable pitch really He turned puts it over the into the seats The other news coming out of this jake and I don't know how much we want to touch on this But I feel like we should mention it is that the astros Assistant to the gm Taubman or whatever his name is Yeah, uh supposedly Uh, well the reporters are saying that he looked at the female reporters and screamed I'm so fucking glad we got a suhna. I'm so fucking glad we got a suhna Um, and if you don't know a suhna got suspended and in trouble for domestic abuse To his then mother of his child and girlfriend And like this was a big deal obviously because if if if he did that and I don't know why a group of reporters would lie about this Like there's a lot of people saying no this happened. So I don't know why they would lie Um, then fuck that guy Basically, yeah, yeah, do you see pictures of him? He's like a young like nerdy like mit grad it's like, uh Well, this is just passing judgment for no reason. So I'm just gonna stop but it sucks and then the astros response to it Kind of was really shitty Yeah, they uh, they kind of blindly defended him and then all the media was like no this happened and it was really bad Um, and yeah, it's just um Unless there's a missing part of the story that nobody knows about yet It's uh, it seems awful because he's yelling. Thank god. We got a suhna Faces of women and it's after the game osuna blew the game He was the worst player in the series for them. It it doesn't add up at all. So yeah, I mean, um, I don't know if you're houston Uh, I don't I don't know what you do I mean, I you kind of if this is all really you have to take care of that guy and I I mean, I do it before the world series because I want to want that to be a story during the world series This is supposed to be your team's Shining moment and now you're gonna have the story be that Yeah, shitty Houston Houston came out and just flat denied it right away when like hey We're looking into this and and gonna can like, you know Would handle it internally. I mean people still would have been like, okay But it's better than straight up just denying it when more people have come out and said no, it happened Yeah, yeah, and it's uh Yeah, I don't know you'd like to think houston's gonna take care of it. I don't know Um, and yeah, I mean just this is an fyi to houston fans. I'm not saying this as a dig But as someone who received tweets about the 98 yankees teams taking steroids the other day Um people are going to run with this against your houston team. They'll be like, yeah You guys have analytics and great players But you know yuli guerrilla has the As has his thing osuna has his thing and now you have a guy in the front office So they're gonna say yeah, I I'm just I'm just warning you that if you don't nip this dude in the butt People are going to be all over you guys for years saying like oh, well, yeah, you let anyone come play there I mean they already had like been fined for cheating for hacking other databases Yeah, but I'm talking like person. It's like yuli guerrilla. I'm just saying there's a stack of things coming up Like the warriors turned heel in the mba If they if the astros win this world series you become the heel not the darling I think officially especially with all these I think they're already there Yeah, yeah Well, good. I mean as yankee fans. Who cares be the heel. That's that's the fun part of winning sometimes Uh, the other thing that someone just brought up in the in the chat. Scott timis, uh People talking about chap and smiling after giving up the home run get out of my face with that It's clearly a shield because he's just so surprised and like taken back And as doesn't know how to react if anyone thinks he's actually happy you're just you're just So dumb Honestly, like I don't want to sugarcoat it if you look at that and you're like look at Chapman He was happy. They lost you honestly are a dumb person That just doesn't know how human interaction and human beings work So get out of my face with that if you've never had that I can't believe it smile on your face before You're the you're the weird person Yeah, yeah And then there was something else the other point I wanted to make is for yankee fans who are saying like Analytics don't work and we can't rely on the home run. Well, we just got beat by the most analytical team in the mlb Unapologetically the most analytical team in mlb and they beat us by using the home run So maybe one maybe one of the few like maybe the only more analytical team Yeah, and they and they beat us because they didn't hit better than us, but they hit home runs better than us so So that's kind of all the annoying storylines going on. Let's move on to the fun stuff And if you're a nationals fan, you've kind of been waiting for this and astros fans probably let's move on to The world series preview quick break and then we'll get there All right world series the main stage jake nationals versus astros if you thought about this match up when 2000 and like 10 would have been a big joke Five years ago. I've been like what? But that is kind of cool to powerhouse starting pitch starting pitching Lineups that got to set them exactly how they want for game one sherser versus coal Get some people on the main stage obviously the astros have been on the main stage before the world kind of knows Who hose al-tube is the world knows who just in verlander is I think the world's going to get introduced to garret coal on a different level and on the On the national side the world is going to get introduced to wan soda. Like you have The pitchers and you have some other players Wan soto is going to dominate The talk that's my not on field prediction just kind of like media coverage Like the first time he does that soto shuffle and he's staring pitchers down All the casual fans who are coming just to watch the world series for the first time We're gonna be like what is that guy doing? I think he's gonna become a star Yeah, I mean the the soto 20 stuff obviously the the internet's already run away with that but It's you know, it's going to be in the big one and more people are going to see it and You know people are going to hear for the first time that he's 20 and see the shuffle and the stare down And daddy likes that And then yeah, I mean it's you know, I think the other another theme that's going to be here is the third baseman It's rentone and bregman That that's going to be a theme and then it's it's the starting pitching. It's the It's the most talented starting pitching that's ever been in a world series. It's the highest paid starting pitching in the league I mean, that's that's what it's all gonna loop around yeah it's uh It's starting pitching versus starting pitching. I mean the the nationals I'm interested to see how the nationals are going to handle their pen and how much Strasburg Cole and Corbin are going to throw out of the pen on their throw days Like these guys are starters and relievers. They don't I don't think they're going to have side bullpen sessions I think they're going to have their bullpen sessions in the world series Yeah, I I don't know. I I think shers are shers are and um Strasburg, I don't think they're gonna do that. I I think Corbin they are I think they've already said that for the first two games Corbin will be available I I think mid series like you just believe in those guys so much that you would you would do that for game seven Um, well if they're backs against the wall Early yeah In in like a game six or something. Yeah, but I I don't know man. I think those guys are They they believe in those guys and like I don't know think we're not going to say Houston wouldn't use verlander or coal Well, they didn't already. I mean they used shers are and Corbin out of the pen in the ds and the and the cs like that's Right and Corbin will be used and then in that in that game five um That they went to him, but yeah, I I I don't think mid series um Yeah, I I don't think they can I I don't think I I think they'd rather use bullpen and not run the risk of I mean burning those guys out earlier Yeah, I don't know. I mean I thought Didn't shers are already do it not in game five. He did it in Oh, it was game five of the nlds Yeah, they're they're not going to do that to the end with those guys Yeah, I don't know their bullpen sucks Yeah, and I think that's Well, we'll we'll talk about it a little bit. But yeah, I mean they're they're going to ask a ton out of shers or Strasburg and Corbin and Annabelle Sanchez Um, and right now they have three they believe in they they have do little they have Hudson And they they're going to try out rainy. Um, he's kind of the x factor to see if they can get an extra inning out of their Rainy he's been good since that first outing, but I have that first outing stuck in my head What about uh Rodney? Oh Rodney's gonna get some Rodney's gonna get some probably big at bats and that's I think I think Rodney's also gonna Stand out and casual viewers mind like who's that guy? Does he not care? This is the world one of these things one of these things is not like the other Um, he's 42 Um, no, I mean you're gonna see some of these guys and big at bats Uh, think about all the pictures we saw in the Yankees and Houston series I mean we saw a bullpen day from houston um We we are going to see the depths of these bullpen and I don't think Washington's going to be able to hide it just by even if they do try to work in throw days and stuff which If I'm shers or an on Strasburg, I believe I I can win my man up starts that I don't have to do that You have the astros winning this handily right Yeah, I mean houston is the biggest favorite in vegas since the red sox in 07 versus the rockies Um, I I think a lot of the hype that we're seeing right now Is kind of being fabricated by baseball people Um, because I don't know I think I I did this with the gnats and the cardinals and again gnats fans You enjoyed me for the past week. I think you're gonna not enjoy me for the next week If you just go around these teams houston's better um And it's it's the people in vegas aren't doing it with opinions They they do it with money on the line and stats facts data and information And I don't know like if you just go, okay, what in field do you like better? What outfield do you like better? What bullpen do you like better the starting pitching? There's a conversation to be had there But I mean, I think I'd still lean the houston. It's just because really What about oh just because they've been there because I think you'd take corbin over cranky Uh, I personally would yeah, but I think I think I and this is now we're starting to split hairs with the pitching staff So I don't want these to be taken as like I'm I'm taking coal over scherzer all day Uh, because it's baseball and that's why it's a beautiful sport But I think for one game this year. Would you rather have garret coal or max shares? Right now garret coal Right and that's not a shot at max scherzer is one of the best pitches of this generation But coal has had one of the most incredible years We've ever seen ever in his worst start. He went six innings pitch zero and runs Yeah, I I mean he he's got a 15 strikeout performances playoff Um, you know scherzer got hit a little bit in a couple of his starts. He's bounced back to be better Um, and then like, okay, so what if I said one game you want verlander strassberg in the world series That's a toss up because strassberg verlander has had like a couple games now where He's vulnerable at times and if you attack him at that time you can beat him Yeah Yeah, I mean the the one run the yanks got off of him and in his first start was just the one mistake It was the judge Well, there's two to run homer But I mean he let someone on base before that and then there were some other mistakes in that game that the Yankees didn't I mean there there's a conversation there and I've been a strassberg defender from the start of this playoff So when we were calling him the asterisk mr. Four starts, um, his playoff numbers are incredible and he's he's another guy who I think he can become a story of this postseason in this world series because Strassberg was the big name He was on sports illustrated and stuff like that before he made it to the major leagues He kind of got forgotten in the like brice harper world and then overshadowed by scherzer He could have a serious bounce back and maybe that'll be part of washington's theme if they do it But I don't know gun to your head Would you rather go down with verlander or strassberg? Verlander because he's been there before but that's that's like like you said that's picking hairs Right again, it's it's pulling straws and then you know, hey, I'll I'll give you a Corbin over grinky Um, even though that's a discussion in and of itself They're really good the the line-ups favor of the astros but the astros haven't been hitting at all Yeah, I mean you wonder guerrilla. He wasn't hitting he gets that one swing And now he's you know, is he back on track? Does that get him going? Um, you know jordan alvarez was a guy that was a black hole for him They've kind of got their decision to be easier because in the nationally games. They'll just bench him because he's normally their dh So yeah, I don't know I I think I think it's gonna be closer I think I think it'd be a good series or I think the individual games will be good That's what i'm hoping like even if even if the astros went in four went in five I hope the individual games are close and there's not like, you know blowouts like And and that I did kind of think about the pattern of the cardinals scoring big in the First inning versus the braves of game five and then getting beat in the same manner In their elimination game and then the national sweeping and then getting swept And just the pattern there and that would suck. I hope this isn't a sweep I don't think it will be I think I think the gnats are gonna win one or two games I think it goes. Yeah, I think we're going five or six, but I I think I think it's used I mean the bullpens and that's that's what might be funny about this I mean, I think with all this talk about starting pitching I think the bullpen is Are going to decide this series because I think the starting pitchers are going to do their job Because that's all they know And I I just think Washington nationals in the regular season literally had the worst bullpen And these guys are gonna have to come in for bigot bats against big dudes against houston. I mean the nationals They have two impact bats and they're special sodo and rendon I mean Howie Kendrick's having an incredible postseason But he's still howie kendrick to a degree, you know, I I don't want that to be a slap in the face But I don't think how we can like anytime sodo or rendon comes up against Cole verlander grinky like those are must watch Like that's gonna be awesome and those hitters can win those at bats if they make a mistake And unless howie kendrick proved me wrong in the first two games I mean Cole and verlander those guys have the advantage on him I'm rooting for howie I'm rooting for baby shark. You get some baby shark for the nationals You get some baby shark going and wearing You know, it's gonna suck both these teams fan bases use rally towels rally towels sock I hate those things No one claps because they got a towel in their hand. So it's quieter And you just waving a towel and that's kind of lame Clap make noise. I hate optics It's good optics for a camera, but it's not like good. I hate rally towels Yeah, clap because you want to clap like just It's like high school It really weirds me out that they use a meta professional game. Anyway, that's just me being cranky I am excited for the the nationals fan that old man nationals fan who has a sign room rooting for him Rooting for that guy really hard. Where's the glasses always has a sign looks like the old balls, dude from billy madison or big daddy Five-year plan guy. What is it not die? Um, all right, so game one is uh, Cole versus Scherzer Cole actually has a history versus the nationals because he was in that he was in the nl for a while whereas the Yeah, the the nationals don't really or the uh, astros don't really have a history versus scherzer. There's not a lot there but Rendon has 15 at bats um And that's really all but he's got really good numbers versus call 467 on base percentage 385 batting average. Obviously, this is pre Astros analytics pine tar call. So a little different but How do you see this game going out and playing out game one? I mean, it should be an absolute duel. It should be a feast for baseball fans um If you are like a casual casual fan, it might be a bad time because I mean you could see You could see what the combined 30 strikeouts in this game easily. Yeah So that's up to the announcers to let let the viewers know like how cool that is right, um, but if you're in a bar or something I don't know. I I think um, if you are the gnats This is I'm not saying must win But you you'd like to get this one if you could get coal and scherzer and that's if nationals do do this It's I mean, there's some good story lines there. You know, I'm a storyline guy Uh, the district of champions the nationals don't have a world series I don't think that franchise does technically since like 1924 when they were the generals or something like that Um, max Scherzer. He's 35 years old. He's had an incredible career three psi young seven times all star This is probably his best chance to win a world series. Um, so yeah I mean if if those guys can two turn in special performances I mean, that's what makes baseball great sport. Like they they could do this easily Um, you know, it maybe they're starting pitching is does take it a step up from houston's and and they take over um I don't know game one. Yeah, I mean, there's there's no reason to not expect these two dudes to be just special They do not have a world series in their history No The royals the Montreal royals were revived in 1928 and purchased by the brooklyn dodgers in 1939 to serve as their triple a affiliate Holy shit imagine being a professional club and you get purchased by another professional club to become a minor league club Ha ha ha Wait, wait, but we're professionals No, your minor league player is actually sorry about that You're now in our farm system That's a really tough break Good pay raise They won seven international league championships and three junior world series when they went to the minor leagues because they were a Professional team that got moved to the minor league. So they just dominated dude. That's really shitty Jackie robinson played for the Montreal royals and led the team to a junior world series title damn And then uh, yeah, but no no thing I didn't think about you think there's baseball fans in Montreal that are Like, you know, they stayed true to the nationals And are Like is there like if they did one of those espn graphic maps and it was like, yes Who who thinks the national who who do you think will win every state in america has the astros? but then washington dc the dmv area has the Everyone has the astros the washington dmv area has the nationals and then there's a little blip in montreal that also has the nationals That'd be cool. Yeah, I think because you have to think about it like this If you were a nationals fan and you're a big baseball fan and your team just moved to a different town You're still gonna root for them because it's 90 percent the same guys and that was your team Um, there's definitely a group up there that absolutely hates them Because they left their town So, yeah, it's a little bit of a catch 22 there Yeah, I I don't know if if they get the this the district of champions behind them and they're They're motivated to get their first one and a couple standout performances. Why not washington, but I think uh Just looking at it on paper. I mean if you if you A lot of ways you break it down. I mean houston's the better team I will say there's another fun thing to kind of equate during this series We talked about jordan alvarez who's supposed to be I think he technically had like the third highest ops if you if you make his games eligible is like trout someone else in him um Jordan alvarez struggled immensely so far this playoffs on the other side of the spectrum the guy who you might see dh Um, or maybe you'll see him at first base, but ryan zimmerman the old man for the gnats I mean he's he's i'm looking at their team page right now and he's technically like fifth all time in war for the national He's the best nationals player of all time And they have old old man zimmerman versus young jordan alvarez on the other side of the ball That that might be fun to see how those how those two dudes react to the world series That'd be cool. The old guys the oldest team. I wish the astros were the youngest team. That would be a fun storyline Yeah, dude, uh, I got lost on on wikipedia The nationals when they were in montreal played at jerry park stadium And the bullpen was on top of the dugout So like it was one pitcher standing on top of the dugout right in front of the crowd's faces They're basically pitching on a catwalk How bizarre is that there's a cool picture of it if you just search jerry park Whatever it was called It's called jerry park stadium Was park his last name because that's a confusing to have it be named after Jerry park, but then you have stadium so it's like park stadium park park Yeah, you know what I mean Interesting. All right. I think that ends this episode We will be back tomorrow. We're actually if you're a patron and you want to watch live We're going to be recording tonight right after the game because i'm going to New york city tomorrow morning to apartment hunt So We will be live tonight everyone else. It'll be on the the apps and all that shit tomorrow morning. Thank you guys for listening Thanks for sticking with us through our brief hiatus But uh, enjoy the world series if you like baseball tell someone to watch it with you grow grow the game. They say grow the game Grow the game I'm rooting for the nationals game one I'm rooting for the at I don't care who wins. There's one close games, but that's game one