 Series number one is the Houston Astros versus the Oakland A's One of the three that has bad blood from this regular season. These benches emptied Laureano got hit three times the syndrome the batting coach got 22 game suspension for Astros. Is he back? It's gotta be right Laureano or the hitting coach hitting coach. I'd assume. So I'm assuming he's back This is a You know storyline series the A's haven't made the playoffs in the last couple years They've lose to the Astros who turns out they were cheating in 2017 and possibly and probably cheating in 2018 2019 to beat them They're 195 games plus now they get to meet up in the ALDS a five-game series I Don't know who pitching is favored in here. They're both kind of peace in it piecemeal and Both offenses are kind of not clicking at all cylinders but getting hot. So this series, you know on the field I don't know how to wrap my head around it. What do you have Jake? I picked the A's in my bracket. Maybe I'll change teaser We'll see and yet Jim I think there's bad blood and you didn't mention the name that's got the biggest bad blood technically for everyone It's fires fires was the whistleblower And he is on these Oakland A's so it's it's gonna be hot I've been saying it on this podcast for about a calendar year that the A's You know the Dodgers fans were mad Yankees fans were mad at Houston Oakland should be just as mad at those dudes For for cheating them out. So yeah, I think we could start with the pitching a little bit cranky I still think is the the number one overall in this series and then the Astros It's talented question marks Frank Framber Valdez had a huge year. Jose or Keity drops some D on Treves, Minnesota twins McCullers is yet to show you wonder if he maybe Finds himself in a Patrick Corbin roll where maybe he bullpens in the first game, but he still lined up for a start And Christian Javier would be their other guy You'd like to think grinky would be one in five if they need it for them and then Oakland part of the reason I kind of liked Oakland was That they get better as the series gets longer in my opinion like I really like the depth on this team You know, you can mention they're starting pitching. It's you know, I think it's similar to Houston, I mean Manaya Lizardo fires. We'll see if Montes can find his way back in he had a really nice showing the other day But you know this team is the lineup There's guys that can do it in a lot of different ways the pitching There's guys that can do it in a lot of different ways that I think the longer a series goes that their Talent can rise us to the top where they don't have their top-end ones and twos that had us scared in the wild card series and Maddie Chapman's out, but I don't know man I think this is as intense as it gets and I I think you know, I Do have Oakland going in this series But you know, you you could talk me either way like if cranky shoves game one I'm gonna be like well, he's he's a bad man and if Bregman homers, you know, it all starts coming together So I'm excited. It's gonna be intense trev. I Agree I'm this is probably I mean I want to really see the rays Yankees just because I want to watch some misery from you Guys, but just baseball wise. I think this is probably gonna be my favorite series. The story lines are amazing with Like you said fires on the A's and what he did and exposing the whole cheating scandal It's gonna be I Think the A's I mean they have they the A's are the clear favorite here just because of the starting pitching depth the pitching depth in general and The Astros haven't hit either man, you know, like I keep saying like if if these guys wake up and And start getting back to what they were in 2017-18-19 then that's a whole different story, but they haven't done that Carlos Korea has been pretty good. He's talking a lot of shit. I just think like the whole like you Prefist it really well. There's a lot of anger a lot of animosity between these two teams I was talking to one of the guys on the A's and I said, please Please go take out these Astros. He goes there is not another group of guys who want to beat the Astros more than we do He said that's me unprovoked and I usually was thinking that's bullshit. Whatever, but like, you know He's what this guy in particular wouldn't just say that, you know, he's a nice guy, but he hates These two teams hate each other. I don't know why the Astros should hate anybody The Astros should be nice to everybody, but these two teams had each other. Well, they want to hate anyone I understand the whistle-blowing team with fires