 It's October 4th and the games one are done in the NLDS series Dodgers take game one Cardinals take game one We got four coming up. Let's talk all about What's going on everybody? Thank you for joining us with another daily episode of talking baseball a show to talk about baseball my name's John Boy got my coach Jake with you He's in Denver. I'm in New Jersey Took in two games yesterday Jake about to take in four today our team is on the line today So it's a little bit more nerve-wracking for us It's calm cool comfortable for the first four games of the postseason now I got knots in my stomach and I'm not feeling well Before I let you talk this episode is brought to you by Sam Thompson Sebastian Green Salvatore Deluca, that's a jakey name Salvatore Deluca and then James Lancaster, which James you messed it up because everyone was s names today. So Sames Seamus the Irish name except James Lancaster very British sounding. Okay, you can talk now Jake Hey, all right, those people are our Patreons. Thanks. Thanks for Seamus reaching out at the end there Jim you mentioned playoff knots and game one knots and nerves Yet you come out here game one of the ALDS day and you time that intro perfectly Yeah, I'm getting good. I mean that's spooky stuff spooky. It is that's Gavin Lux type stuff Gavin Lux What a name Good name Gavin Lux. What is a good name? We got a lot to talk about guys This is a crazy day. This is the first crazy day I'm doing a behind-the-scenes vlog all day to to post it I was talking to Billy who's working a John boy meeting now and with me in the room And I was saying like I want to at least a picture in this room Because when eventually we grow and I'm not working out of my office in my house anymore I just want to remember it finally and he's like you should do a whole behind-the-scenes video And I was like, you know what Friday is gonna be crazy. It's gonna be like four episodes we record or three Yeah, plus the games and I was like, maybe I'll do it Friday. So we're doing it today. You're on it right now Holy smokes. Yeah, that's exciting man. And it's a I Can't even wrap my mind around today yet. Obviously Yankee stuff because we are Yankees fans Don't turn it off if this is your first step because we do a good job of getting rid of our bias with a couple jabs here and there But yeah, and like yesterday's two games, you know There was a while is like wow, I'm six hours into baseball and now I'm standing up because I'm excited to watch Fernando Rodney pitch So I can't even imagine when it's gonna be our 12 today where I'm gonna be at mentally spiritually and emotionally, but It's exciting. It's it's where we want to be we're wearing. We're both wearing a lot of gray today Do you think there's anything behind that? No, I got a Miller light shirt on I Saw that I don't know if I've seen you rock that bad boy I think Katie got it at some of like like she worked at a bar and I think they Handed out shirts at the bar. So she gave it to me because it's a large and it's like a very comfortable shirt So now I'm a repping. I rep Miller light And if you happen to work for Miller light and you want to tell your advertising department to reach out We're fine with that. Yeah, otherwise. I'll write fuck right up the logo. Then I'd be a fuck Miller I Do you mentioned you mentioned Fernando Fernando Rodney? Yes, and I know that we have to get into the actual recaps of the games and stuff But I was rooting and I think I don't care. I don't care who wins these games I'm kind of getting the Joe Buck treatment on Twitter. We're like everyone's telling me I'm biased against their team I don't care. Sure. I just tweeting things that I find interesting Fernando Rodney I was ready to make such a cool video of him walking to the mound in Like the most don't give a fuck about anything away and then striking out Ballinger and then striking out Muncie And then walking into the dugout problem was he didn't strike out Muncie He gave a month gave up a bunch of runs and blew it So I had to do a little different video that I posted but yeah, what a what a treat he is And I just a little baseball emotion out there like Fernando Rodney. He's got the sideways cap He's been pitching since 2002 I think he's 42 and I just think it's funny because you you were talking about how he had that no care look on his face There was the clip of him leaving the bullpen. It looked like he was walking to like go pick up dog poop I've never seen anyone less excited Jim gotta fucking do this Think about how much? Fernando Rodney loves baseball. He's 42 years old still out there grinding hitting 95 on the gun I need like four more years of Fernando Rodney. Maybe he's got the Corota effect. He doesn't love baseball. It's just all he knows and there's only and you know He doesn't want to go home to his family. So he just needs to play baseball every day That's there's definitely a chance of that Jim I know we got it. We got to get into it 30 seconds. How are you doing? Oh, I'm doing good I'm doing good. I'm excited. I woke up had a bunch of coffee. I went to sleep Well, I tried to go to sleep early last night, but I didn't so I tried though. Usually I don't even try So I got a decent amount of sleep. I'm excited for games Yankees has me in a ball of nerves like I said in the intro, but we'll get over it There's a lot of storylines to talk about so let's go into the recap of the two games You ready? How are you doing? You want me to return that for you? No, I'm good, man You're you're all over it. I haven't had my Yankees nerves hit yet That'll probably happen mid-episode and it will either be great or terrible as the roster drops Maybe the roster drops or just like there's gonna be something that triggers it and I'm gonna like have have a quick spasm on the air Okay, great excited So the first game Braves Cardinals Excited for it. It's day game baseball. Are we gonna get a good one and then our dude Michael is nerves I'm telling you. Yeah first playoff game nerves have never been more real in my head Michael is then you got Corbin game to One of the wild card mania he got lit up right away It's a theory that's like starting to really like work for me. Anyway, I mean, it's real It's the it's something one one of the few things you've gathered for me this season that you're like, wow Jake That was actually good Stand over a six-foot putt with nothing on the line You're out there by yourself and try to sink it and then go try to sink a six-foot putt with all your buddies Watching and a hundred bucks on the line. Tell me which one's harder. Yeah, cuz that's that's pressure pressure Did you see did write a burn if you want it. Oh you wrote a burn for this game. Yeah, I'll rip it quick rip it quick here We go gets it St. Louis vs. Atlanta with Dallas on the mind as Kykel bravely takes the pill verse I would walk five hundred miles Nicholas Michael is in game one of the NLDS bottom one when you're playing video games But you hit the long button tough inning for Colton as the Braves take a 1-0 lead Top five playoff small ball alert Harry Bader I had my doctor remove one of those he put St. Louis on the board We're tied at ones into the six Dan's be Ron Swanson with the two-run fielder's choice of sorts 3-1 Atlanta can the bullpen hold Atlanta fans turn your ears up Chris Martin comes out of the pin But he's too cold to play with an oblique injury and this would not be a thriller for his replacement Luke Michael Jackson Paul good is gold Schmidt. It's a moon ball. It's three to two need something fix call the carpenter as Matt Hits an RBI single and what a dart by Adam David Duvall to peg the lead run at home Threes up top nine Marcel the shell Ozuna drives in two down the line Redemption thy name is Colton. He drives in two down the other line seven three cards Carlos Santana Martinez was not too smooth coming in for the save. Oh Ron Acuna He goes Yardski and admires it like he did his single earlier. We'll talk about that Freddie three your mind the rest will follow into the drink been there seven six ball game But Martina shuts the door after opening it up cards take game one seven six final Wow a lot of musical references Yeah, that uh, they were coming off the fingertips pretty good Chris Martin Too cold to play Do you get that one? I got it Like because it was October the weather's getting colder and getting chilly or he had an oblique strain Which is historically linked to the colder weather Yeah, or maybe it was the band Coldplay Tough to say we'll never know. Yeah. All right. There's so many things to talk about in this game Yeah, Acuna gave us a ton of storylines First off actual strategy. I thought the Braves When I say this if you're Braves fan correct me if I'm wrong because I'm not deep into the weeds of your pen and usage And who's lengthened and stuff? Keiko Shane green and free Could have thrown more bullets you got clarity game to and you got a terrible bullpen behind you I know the Chris Martin injury. You cannot see that coming But even then what Chris Martin goes an inning then you have two more to go And The rest is not good now Also, I know Luke Jackson isn't as bad as he was because he didn't get any time to warm up So it's I know I understand all that but in retrospect when you go Shane green just for one and he looked good freed just for one I Know you're trying to save him for game four But hey, it's game one and Jack Flaherty's on the bump game two and you're in a close game and then Keiko was kind of starting to fall falter a little bit They they national league them with that one run no hard-hit balls, but he wasn't getting his calls anymore You left some good bullets on the table in exchange for some bad ones is how I would say Yeah, and the Chris Martin thing is brutal because he was actually supposed to come in Top was it top eight? So if Chris Martin and he thought I was a picture I've got it in front of me right now. It's top eight So they were gonna go Martin to So they were gonna go Martin Melancin with Luke Jackson as their safety net instead Luke Jackson the safety net comes in so so that so you're right It still is tough because I mean Jim and maybe it's just we've seen more of them But I think you mentioned those names and the Chris Martin story is awesome He was putting stuff on shelves and now he's pitching and he's been really good. So I get that Um, I would have maybe had Shane Green as the safety net guy because Shane Green saved MLB games And and I don't know maybe maybe we're missing out on it And we're just using our eye test too much But I would trust Shane Green over Luke Jackson heading into this game Luke Jackson was their closer and he closed a good amount of games And then they got Shane green to be the closer and he kind of faltered and didn't get the job So right and then Melancin kind of fell into it. But I'm a lancin. I don't know why I don't like him But Melancin sucks. I know exactly why I don't like him I'm just kind of anyone can be like those are bad reasons and I'd be like well shut up about it Yeah, okay, and that's fine. Anyone doesn't know what he came up as a Yankee and when he was a rookie He complained about how the Yankees used him out of the pen. It's like dude. You just got called up Shut up about it Then they trade him. He's good Somewhere and then he goes to Boston another pressure packed like city and division and fan base And he just was terrible and needed to get out of there Then he's good in like Pittsburgh Then anytime he's in pressure situations bad and he looks just like Ray the racist from remember the Titans He can't yeah Can't yeah, that's it. I mean that's a bad combo So yeah, you do get to little do a little bit of 2020 hindsight the Martin injury I mean, it's brutal and you've heard me give this speech many times Jim But I I'm such a big believer in the like Every bullpen has their pecking order and if you trade for a guy and you make your eighth inning guy Struggling and then he becomes your seventh inning guy that guy becomes like a stud now Yeah, and vice versa. So Chris Martin coming out was brutal And especially first pitch Goldschmidt hitting a ball ten miles Second pitch. He tried to throw off speed first and then it was the first fastball. He just fucking cranked But but you're absolutely right. I mean when you have Kykel who you basically brought in for this game If you're gonna use max freed out of the bullpen who essentially when you put him in the bullpen He becomes your best arm. He only 14 pitches. I think Yeah, I think is 14 and Shane Green only through an inning two and it it you know hindsight's 2020 We if Chris Martin came in and shoved we could be sitting here saying like wow that breaks down to that that Martin injury Was fucking brutal. Yeah, we could be sitting here saying wow that brave bullpen really shoved and look good Now we're saying they're one of the bigger question marks of the playoffs The other storyline is a coon. Yeah, who actually had a great game He had three hits a home run to RBI's a walk But the storyline is that he turns a double into a single He did this in the regular season. He got benched for it. We talked about it. I'm talking baseball I said hey good to have this happen now so it doesn't happen in the postseason. Hopefully everyone like learned from it Jake I didn't think this was that big of a deal. I thought when they interviewed the coach and everything you'd get your typical kind of We'll handle that behind closed doors Hey, he had a great game for us. It's his first, you know, you know, those cookie cutter like kind of protecting your guy answers Yeah, did you hear the interviews? Yeah, I did they're bad like Freddie Freeman was like that's not a conversation You should have to have twice kind of beating a dead horse there and it's the postseason. This is important and then his buddy Albie's it's like he can't can't do that Can't do that and then the manager snittaker Snittaker snittaker said some of the lines we don't have enough guys to handle that meaning like it because he had more players He might have benched him. I was like, oh shit. They really don't like this like this is a problem So if the club house had his back and was like no, you know, he had a great game We wish he got to second there. We'll talk to him about it. Hopefully it doesn't happen again But you know, he's a star. That's what I expected them to say They were all like no like their tone was very much nuts bullshit and it shouldn't happen So if you're a cunea, you kind of look around the room Like fuck what the public says and what you and I say when your own guys in your own room are saying dude Stop that's that you're now letting down teammates because if the teammates had his back, it's different and a cunea a cunea didn't necessarily give the The apology speech he gave the like oh this kind of stuff happens and it's like oh Not for the other guys Ronnie. I do at that interview with a cunea In New York in the Bronx. He get fucking torn apart. I do always think the language barrier Like I don't really know what he was saying or how he said it. There's differences there comes off bad But I won't really like crush him for that. But the way his teammate spoke was pretty telling Yeah, and you you can't do that and Jim playoff baseball comes down to so many small things I mean the the bit the first braves kind of rally Was Donaldson follows one off and it just goes on the other side of the netting Yadier Molina is trying to catch it through the netting and then next pitch He gets hit by the pitch and then marqueques hits a chopper and that's playoff baseball So, you know a cunea made two outs on the bases. He got caught stealing in the first which I don't mind He's testing it out, but you're also testing out Yadier Molina who this dude's been through a lot of rodeos man So yeah, it's a tough look and I'll say this for for my guy Ronnie who I've been with him all year because he's so talented If you have that press conference like you just had you better go out and play great brother And I mean there's a chance he does But I think it's it's tough. It's tough that the two stories here are Kind of the braves because also shout out to the Cardinals. We haven't given them enough love all year They come out take game one with having Jack Flaherty in the hole for game two and then going back for two home Games after that huge by Michael us to like get it together after the first inning Right only a lot three. They had dudes getting loose in the first in the pin. Yeah Good for him. And then the whole pen did pretty good besides Martinez at the end Which is kind of the other storyline here. You know what baiter? I was kind of rough on baiter because he's been so awful offensively and then he Manufactures a run with his legs now in the stat sheet. None of that's gonna look good on his Averages and say like that but good for him. So but Carlos Martinez comes in He gives up the to run home run to Acuna and now I will I will say this Acuna celebrates that home run and I Love bat flipping and celebrations and stuff and everyone has their own code, which is kind of Weird right when you hit a meaningless home run down four and you cut the lead in half to two in the ninth After making a mistake earlier in the game I think that's a time where you probably shouldn't pimp that home run. He very much plays the game like it's an individual feat Yeah, a little bit a little bit and he's uh, he's gonna have to win some people over the rest of the series And like he's still very much can but you're right I mean it just looks so much better if you hit that home run head down around the bases and tell your teammates You're up next which Freddy Freeman was and then when you hit the home run that takes the lead go fucking nuts Do Jose but he's the bat flipping like but you can't just I mean come on dude It's bad luck anyway Bad luck Carlos Martinez to who like wanted to talk shit and Yachty grabs him puts him under his wing like dude We're not doing that. You kind of sucked. I'm I think they're already out there But I don't know them well, but Any Carlos Martinez Yachty story That you know, please feel free to tweet at me and the ones I don't know I'm excited to find out in ten years because I I one of them has had each other in a chokehold and it's Yachty with Carlos and a chokehold I mean, I think they're like brothers and friends, but it's happened It's like Jorge Pissada and El Duque. They used to get in fistfights, but they were battery mates They like they didn't want anyone else to catch them, but they used to get in fistfights in the clubhouse. Oh, yeah and I I think The only other thing moving forward I have on this game is it was kind of it was my final tweet about this game last night If you're the Braves You have Flaherty on the mound and if you break him That's a huge momentum swing because he's the Cardinals biggest weapon if you're the Cardinals You're sitting high off last night and you're saying man if Flaherty shoves and we've got two at home Like this is our series. Well, unfortunately I think for the Braves fans and and Acunha is that if Flaherty shoves and they lose and they're down 2-0 and then They go on the road and they lose and they get swept the main storyline is Acunha I don't think you can break that so they need to win a game And it's it's insane how quickly a storyline can turn on you the the young center fielder that was on path on pace for 40-40 Young stud is now potentially if they don't turn it around gonna be looked at as like a Lacksadaisical selfish player and that's baseball. Yeah, and I want to counter anyone who's thinking this because I saw like on my tweets and stuff like They didn't lose the game because he didn't go to second Yeah, that's two separate issues. It's still a problem Yeah, just cuz murder exists doesn't mean that kidnapping is okay Yeah, well That's that's true. I read that if you're like gonna if you're saving the kid from a bad situation I don't know. Oh a good kidnapping a good a friendly kidnapping child protective services I guess there's good murders, too. If you murder back, let's not go down there today. Holy smokes Jake Speaking about a good good murder Oh Dodgers hello up on the national yoyoy I don't even count it as it was a close game Because what happened was if you're beating the nationals and they have to bring in the back end of their pen ish You're gonna have a great time. You're gonna pinch hit a rookie and he's gonna hit a home run Then jock's gonna come up and rock one They scored two runs in the seventh and two runs in the eighth and I kind of don't count them, but good for them. I Count them. You get a burn. All right. Here we go on your mark Gets that Across the country Patrick Kurt Cobain in the Nats Natitude teen spirit face off with Walker Ferris Bueller who did not take the day off top one more like Walker Corbin as Patrick Gives out four free passes Dodgers put a one on the board in the first without a hit Bull starters would lock in as the only other run scored until the seventh was on a Howie Kendrick Lamar error That really killed the Nats vibe to nothing la bottom seven like Jerry Gurgage driving at top speed to his timeshare max Muncie to RBI single to open it up in the eighth Gavin deluxe as he homers in his first postseason at bat Wow and the Dodgers Prove they're not jockeying on you as Peterson goes off the pole Nats get dominated Bueller's a stud Dodgers win six-nothing The off the pole shot was so cool Very cool It was kind of a meaningless home run But just because it hit the foul pole it's always cool because you see how much force they're actually hit with when they come to a halting stop It's it's I'd say a good equivalent would be a missed field goal at the end of the game If the miss field goal just goes wide right you're like oh missed it if that miss field goal goes off the post Bring down the stadium Real quick Yankees roster got announced. Do you want to hear the surprise? Get your reaction on it Tyler Lyons He did it he made it dude I went I went through his game log the other day and he's been like okay after his first appearance. I Don't care. I mean if he pitches were in trouble, so I don't care Yeah, we're either done really well or really badly So Corbin had a ball of nerves in the first thing I didn't see it because the game's overlapped which sucks But four walks in the first is not good and I believe he was still wild but someone saved him after After like a walk someone was went up there swinging I Believe yeah Pollock walk Pollock walk and baseball is a six sport So we've got a no contact first inning here Jim Pollock walk freeze struck out Turner struck out So we've got two outs to strikeouts Bellinger walk take Chris Taylor walks and then Muncie walks to walk in the run Seager grounds out to first Yeah, so I saw some tweets like what are you doing Seager? Why are you swinging at the second pitch? But he could be saying well, he's probably gonna throw me a cookie because he just walked in a run So yeah, you just can't play that game It's you want to play that game so bad But try hitting a baseball and if Seager hit that second pitch down the line for a double I bet you would have been fine with that. Yeah, then then Corbin settled down and then the fifth inning He's got two outs. He walks Bellinger on a close 3-2 pitch Chris Taylor singles on a hard ground ball Rendon made that amazing stop And then Muncie reaches on a fielding error by Harry Kendrick, which was right through the wickets So the first two runs the net I Sound like a Dodgers hater or whatever the first two runs like good on you by the Dodgers But you were kind of gifted them in a way like a no contact run It's good that you took your walks and then at the end they have the home runs But a little bit But I mean if in the Yankees game tonight the stadiums going nuts and a twins pitcher walks in a run You're gonna be like oh that Yankees environment. So a little love to the Dodgers there good environment too. No, you're right You're right, but and then at the end man. Who are those pitchers that came in? Yeah, well, we had Fernando Rodney who stole the show but before him Before him it was they went Corbin to rainy rainy And then Rodney and then Strickland at the end. They've really got do little Hudson and that's it and like do little Hudson are kind of a wash. Oh, I don't know man Strasburg's gonna have to go off tonight Yeah, I mean and the the Nationals formula is Strasburg for seven and then match up do little in Hudson Yeah, that's it. Mm-hmm. Otherwise, they're fucked Then maybe Fernando, right? Yeah, you have anything else on the Dodgers game Gavin Lux with a pinch hit home run in the world series or in the world in those in the first first playoff game ever That's awesome for him The only other the the only other drum that I've been really being well a Juan Soto Enjoy Adam Kola wreck because you're gonna see him every game. Yeah, that sucks. Yeah And then I'll say the other thing and I I've been hammering the drum on this. It's my key for the Nat Well, it used to be a dual key It used to be Trey Turner and Adam Eaton because Jim I was doing this whole thing like maybe move Soto up to the To hole so you get a more at bats, but it really makes the depth of that Nationals lineup too shallow So I think Adam Eaton is really the key. I'm bought in on Trey Turner. I see why he's so special He's got a lot of skills. He's been giving great at bats if Adam Eaton could put it together He had a nice walk yesterday. They could use a little more from him But they just they need to set up Rendon and Soto because that's how they're gonna score runs You think Kendrick should stay in I mean two hours. Oh, I'm benching him. I I know his bat has been good But you've got Ryan Zimmerman a guy who's like a face of the franchise and that defense at first last night It was just unacceptable and I mean the the even if it's just a one game And Zimmerman goes 0 for 4, but he plays a solid first base. Then you tell how he Kendrick like We need that man because that's unacceptable. Yeah All righty, let's uh, we'll take a quick break before we come back for the preview of the four games today All right, what's up? We're back four games today Jake Yeah, or count them one two three four I don't want to drag this episode out forever. So we're gonna just kind of go quickly the first game Let's bank. Let's bang out. Oh, you want to go an actual time schedule? Yeah, it's going order Okay, I like that the first game is raised versus the Astros glass now is verlander I Mean we both are hammering the Astros. I think they're just better glass now I saw him get nervous in a game against the Yankees. He was just like not nervous. He was nerves is not the right word I apologize. He's juiced juiced. He was too high like as juiced as you can be He was like shaking and like crazy twitching veins in his neck. Yeah So we'll see how glass now comes out because I mean if if they rock him in the first or if there's like an error Made behind him or a call doesn't go his way. I'd be interested to see how that plays out Verlander's a rock. I expect seven strong out of verlander Yeah, and I think Jim something you mentioned there that I think is a big what to watch for here is that The pitching matchups are a ton of fun if these young guys can bring it this if you like good pitching This series is gonna be a blast. But like you said Like an error or a ball that kicks off a glove or an infield single or something like that If that happens for the if that happens against the Astros like verlander whoever it is says alright Well, now I'm gonna have to strike you out the rays your mindset just being new is like oh crap like infield single and now Jordan Alvarez is up and I think that's gonna be big if the rays can dodge those moments They're gonna give him a game because the rays have this What do I want to call it like a steel house of cards with their pitching in their bullpen like It's piece by piece and it's a lot of impressive pieces But if one thing goes wrong The house of cards is broken. Yeah Matt Duffy has good numbers versus verlander in a very small sample size for free Duff man. That's I'll take that off verlander. No extra base hits And I think what's funny note, it was pretty the yandee Diaz thing how impressive he was in that wild card game It's all righty's for Houston So I don't even know if yandee's getting the start today. You're probably gonna see G-man or maybe one of the loud guys loud low Yeah What was the other one? Austin Meadows has a home run off verlander. So that's fun. A lot of people do this year though. Oh Oh My final raise note. I mean Houston has them outmatched In the field, I mean the players it's Austin Meadows and that's kind of it But I'd love to see Austin Meadows introduce himself to the national stage because he's really good really good Here Myers got 12 played appearances against verlander. How many hits do you think he has? Zero one Yeah, I could see one infield single Alright next up Cardinals versus Braves. We got Jack Flaherty versus Fultonevich Fulty versus Flaherty. I mean Flaherty might have nerves the Braves have to win this game The first inning is everything because like you said all the bad shine on Acunia With the top of their lineup They showed it in that last inning like you're not gonna get through the top of that lineup four times You're just not yeah, and I I think They need to come out and your best chance on Flaherty is that first inning his first in a rock Yeah, yeah first inning of playoff baseball Acunia the lights are on you dude. You'll be the first batter of the game. You need to do something special. Oh, probably I Mean there's a good chance like that's how talented the dude is But get get on base give Albee's give Freddy give Donaldson a chance and If you can beat Flaherty you you can kind of you've neutralized this series just a little bit Flaherty's been amazing. We've been talking about him non-stop on the show because he's deserved it He's not like I said this yesterday. He's not like Verlander in my mind Like he's not a lock for seven strong innings right now. I would not be surprised either way He's not a lock right now We could be saying a very different thing tomorrow morning Oh, that's if he comes out today with nerves of steel and does what he does Then I'm like oh shit. He's gonna be a problem the rest of the way, but I got to get this first start To see what he's working with him in a him and Walker Bueller are fighting for the torch from Verlander Dude Walker Bueller is so fun to watch yeah, and It's a little throws himself at you The little things that Bueller does to our special like when he covered first Like it was one of the speedsters and he just I think it was Turner It was one of the fastest guys in the lead and there was a dribbler to first Justin Turner is one of the fastest guys in the league Trey Turner Jim And he he toasted him to first, but yeah Walker Bueller was so impressive last night But yeah braves you just have basically get to Flaherty in the first and I mean Do they need something special from faulty because it's not like they can piece it together Yeah, they need some meetings out of him damn and He's like the fourth guy in that rotation pretty much. Hey faulty be a be a hero do it Do it we're rooting for faulty today the seven o'clock start Yankees versus twins Jake my stomachs and knots I'm nervous. I don't get to be an Innocent bystander who can poke fun and enjoy both sides of the baseball. I will be nervous as hell It's Paxton versus Berrios Berrios has a terrible history versus the Yankees and at the stadium. He was young He didn't see the Yankees this year Paxton has been really good ten and oh down the stretch It's his first playoff start and that has me a little word like I'm the same way with Paxton I'm Jack Flaherty. I need to see the first inning get successfully completed so that like you're kind of in there And I mean James at the better comparison over Flaherty is probably Patrick Corbin The who those were two guys that were on the Yankees radar. They traded for Paxton instead of shoveling money For Patrick Corbin. No offense Patrick got a gotta save that money Yeah, I mean, it's this will sound like a cop out especially after what I just said about the last game But first inning Paxton was an issue for three-quarters of the season The dude was like the worst first inning pitcher around baseball Never mind playoff nerves. Never mind how good the twins are versus lefties. There's some stuff there If Paxton shoves in the first inning and we're blind Yankee fans Anyways, what do we want to be if Paxton shoves in the first inning the game is over and I'm not saying that But I am I think the twins are gonna come out swinging for home runs. Obviously, they're the hit the most in the league, but This Yankees team hit the second most home runs, but they don't It's not home runner or bust with them. They they kind of played to the short porch They make that swing when you do that you find yourself getting a lot of singles and doubles anyway Because you're kind of going the other way with pitches. So you got like judge who says swing for home runs But you got LeMayhew or Shella Gardner even Glaber will give you a good at bat. That's not home runner Glaber Glaber gets one home run swinging at bat But I'm but I'm saying it from a standpoint I think the twins and I think they should be their strategy in the first inning should just be Homerun, let's fucking hit a thousand foot million foot home run to rock Paxton's world Where I think the Yankees might be a bit more settled in their approaches and try to quiet down the stadium Yeah, and I think what you're saying at the control the zone has been the Yankees model all year Hey, I mean twins if Barrios can find it It'll be interesting and this used to be a thing last year Jimmy We haven't we haven't seen it too much this year, but it could be interesting in this series a one-run lead Might be the worst thing For either team that's down one because every hitter will go into homer mode to try to tie it up Instead of that like get on base. Let's get a rally going kind of kind of extra inning rules Yeah, the last game is the Dodgers versus the Nationals game to Strasburg versus Kershaw Good matchup now Kershaw This is a good game Pressures on Strasburg because he doesn't have a bullpen behind him and his team has down one nothing and they're on the road Kershaw actually comes in he doesn't have to be the dude like maybe that will help him out Yeah, he does not have to be the dude because Walker Bueller's that dude So Strasburg, I think all the pressures on him to go seven strong Yeah, I think you you you have to it's it's kind of not a discussion Strasburg has to give them seven To give Hudson and do little a chance. However, that matches up It's so different than the Yankees like Paxton if he goes seven strong It's like two winnings of bonus points like they yeah, Boone has said like no, we're using our bullpen No matter what yeah Yeah, and I thought that was interesting Jimmy the other day And I think I phrased it pretty well because I said this could matter or this could mean literally nothing There's only two teams that want to go to their bullpen in the playoffs Let there's eight teams the only two that are excited to bring someone out of the bullpen are the Yankees in the race And I just think it's it's funny in this era of Baseball and relief pitching and everything that we're now we're at this stage of the playoffs all of the NL teams are pretty shook That the only team you can make an argument for is the Astros, but Presley's taking a step back Their guys are kind of unproven in the playoffs and you're taking the ball from Verlander and Cole more importantly So I just think that's it's it's interesting You got anything else you want to talk about? I don't know man. I'm excited. This is a It's gonna be a long day the best kind of long day. No know what I just got excited for there's gonna be a Moment today when we're it's like the probably the eighth inning of the Yankees game And we're gonna think of something from the Astros raise game and be like that was today Oh, I mean after the Yankees play we have to record our talking Yankees recap While the Dodgers and Nationals are playing and then they're gonna be playing Yeah Sorry follow along on Twitter at talking Jake at John boy underscore I I'm like giffin these games and covering them the same way I do every Yankees game today will be a little harder But it was funny because someone like a lot of people Jake that don't they follow me, but they don't watch Yankees games They're like dude. You're getting these gifts up so fast. How are you doing that? And I was like, oh, you don't they probably Let's see all the Yankees gifts that don't realize that They're like thunder down bitch. Yeah Everyone's like, how do you do it? I'm like, oh, I sit at my desk. I don't have a life and I work really hard Yeah, those as well a I want to give a quick Thank you because we the numbers for the podcast and for everything are awesome. So thank everyone and be I went to my My my girlfriend gave a speech thing at her work and I went I was doing good boyfriend stuff for once in my life and a couple of the people know me and they know the baseball stuff and they were like They're like, so you are you gonna be able to go to any of the Yankees games? And I had is like, no it doesn't really work like I got asked I got five DMs yesterday What games are you going to I said no I work Those games. Yeah, you follow me Yeah, gotta know that I can't go or whatever look like look like a coder Thank you guys very much for listening. Thanks for watching. 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