 Welcome back to watching Baseball. My name is Jimmy. I've got Jake with me as always. We are watching tiebreaker games Are you in the playoffs or are you going golfing? This is 2008 I think we have three years in a row where MLB got a tiebreaker. Oh seven we watched Last episode oh eight and I believe there's one in oh nine as well, which is kind of crazy for baseball I'm excited for this one. It's a good game and there's some fun around it Jake. How are you doing? Doing well James. I'm doing well man, and yeah, I think I think the central follows again next year And I was gonna come out full mean which normally isn't in the Jake playbook This twins team isn't very impressive. I mean the further I dive into their pitching They had a lot of guys have really just solid years in the rotation and Lyriano came up So they actually had a pretty solid pitching staff Including Joe Nathan on the back end and Booth Bonser in the bullpen just one of the best names in baseball history But this lineup is tough. It's kind of more. No Maurer Denart span kind of and then nothing Talks team is a lot of fun. No, you got young Delman young Delman's in there. I mean, you know, there's a you know, 750 OPS, you know, Delman young 741 Kadiere was under 700 that year like I don't know the the twins team isn't kind of and maybe this is just Shots fired at Trevor Plouffe, but you know the the meat of that Rockies team We just saw they kind of went two through seven in a stacked lineup and this White Sox team I mean it it's kind of the other side other side there like you see, you know I've got Ken Griffey, Jr. In this game a 38 year old Ken Griffey, Jr. Which is fun Jermaine die Carlos Quinton had a huge year and Jim Tomay old man Tomays on this team Which I think we'll be seeing him. So a little ale central blackout, baby Yeah, this season the twins. I don't think is as bad as like both teams had five guys with over 100 OPS Pluses, I think they actually they match up better for this season than maybe in your your overall like look at those guys but The numbers kind of stack up, but there's a lot of fun names on the White Sox like a lot of fun names You got Nick Swisher, Knurko, Tomay die Uribe's on there Berley's Berley the little Oscar Escobar Scott Mark Berley a lot of fun names Nick Swisher hated the White Sox Didn't lot like his time there. I don't think I think he's publicly said that maybe not maybe I made that up I think he said that I don't know Anyway, this is a fun game this This game is known as the blackout game Because the White Sox told all of their fans to dress in all black and They did and I didn't really put that together because last episode I said the Rockies Needed a little more cohesiveness in their fans with their colors, and this is the most you'll ever get The second All right, we're diving right into the fifth inning most to go after tight at zeros the strikes out But the twins get the first runner go after that one because first batter on this ball one There's a better shin John Danks versus Nick Blackburn John Danks had a huge year It's hot picks have understood Virginia Thanks outside to a nothing The adrenaline rush is now over for the starters. I believe that you go into the third or fourth inning Steve That adrenaline now we're gonna make some pitches. He's gonna make one here on to an Odeca dire That's in there for a strike. The adrenaline rush is over. So This broadcast like the White Sox just did a rewatch on their official YouTube channel six days ago So they don't have the rights to like all of TBS's scorebucks. I guess here's the 2-1 to Michael Kadyr So we're just gonna have to treat this like it's 1972 and remember the count Thanks to shoot to free passes Also, I can look at the Swing a line drive the left that could be extra bases over to get it wise Can't get it on the roll. Kadyr is going for a second. I'll make it with a leadoff double First to the ball game for Minnesota. You don't tell behind and then Kadyr looking for something middle-in Good day down the line. You got a high fast. It might have been a 1-1 pick out over the plate I wanted to see how many how many players on this White Sox team were traded for Because they traded for Griffey this season, I believe How do I find that out? They hadn't made the playoffs since they won the World Series in 0-5 Likes that first pitch Australian League star They traded for Ken Griffey Jr. and Horacio Ramirez The straw comes in Kadyr will make third base sliding one out. So put that in your mental head your mental head Be back runner on third less than one hour less into it tagged up on Griffey catching it coming forward How old you say Griffey is 38? I think he's 37 38 here. Yeah, I don't I don't think you do that on young That runner is gonna tag up especially a twins runner And now the infield has to come in at all four positions Throwing seeds had them I don't think so. Good times do or die game got to keep it loose. That's an Aussie team right there real estate They say location location no more important right here for Danks to Harris who chokes the bat with a runner at third the pitch Strike call the name Danks is just fantastic We're either ball club. They say first runner award for either ball clubs in the second Danks with the pitch is swinging a miss on to That's nice bitch You got for insky behind the plate. Yep Are you really delayed right now? We're gonna try and pause it. Well, this is kind of how it's been Caps on play twice with the bat Danks will read signs from his catcher presents key No score fifth inning one out to dire a third and the O2 to Harris inside block nicely by presents Fucking perzinsky man having played with a oh my god gamer spun around like you didn't know where the ball was that is With the M&M hair going Get much better than that that works one time. It's worth it. Yeah, right now. He wants that pitch If you can if you constantly do it and it never works your AJ presents to everyone Yeah, that's the game I'm not gonna critique him because hey if there's a time when that Base runner on third base is antsy 163 0 0 game. Oh, I like it You can tag on grippy ones, but you ain't gonna do it twice. Yeah, that's pretty shallow for griffy It's a really nice play by presents key I mean He had to keep just put his body on the line and hold on to that Pretty much full tackle. Yeah Had just enough left detail on it to come back enough to not ruin the play I'm gonna show a replay a replay. I'm gonna go back. I want to watch it again. Oh, I'm gonna do that the Let's go super slow bow. I mean that arm is just out to dry Out there. Yeah, that's great play. I mean, it's it's a good throw by Griffey, but The tag and hanging on by presents. He actually I think is the more impressive part of that Just like you said it was shallow It's shallow and again that that little bit of lefty tail because when I first saw the throw coming in I was like boy, that's that's gonna be up the line But it just had enough of that come back to it where presents he can tag and not have his full body You know, you make a good play in the field when you come to bat the next inning Nothing happens though as you can see he goes Ramirez grounds out. Oh Here's another replay That's so shallow But it was really close man, I mean and that's uh, I mean that's Jake's rule of make them make the play And again look look how the rest of this game ends up playing out I mean that was their best chance to score, you know, yeah, that's true It's a good play. All right. We're gonna skip forward To it's gonna be hard to do without the scoreboard on here Thought process I'm thinking I'm gonna get a fastball because he doesn't want we are going to skip This is bottom six we're gonna skip the bottom seven So now it's a zero zero game going into the seventh inning Jermaine and Toma's up now I watched a little I watched a little video where Toma talks about this at bat Jake and he says that Blackburn had been throwing him change-ups. So he I believe he said his approach here was hunt the change-up Is what I heard what I'd listen to cool if I recall it correctly See what he starts tell me with the fastball outside for ball one No radar gun place is amped up. Tell me hasn't had many hittable pitches nine in a row retired by black Have the shift on for tell me the 1-0 blackburn pitch. Oh, that's down in it to an oh that ball is some movement on it Late bite. Yeah, cut fastball Had drop on it to might have been a slide Here's the 2-0 to tell me Fastball high strike. Whoa. That's a high strike two and one two seamer Yeah, two strikes on a man wonder wonder if it was a big-zone game He did just take both fastballs right I think he just followed that one off The first two that got him to the two strikes now he might need to protect Neither has a complete game The two-two to tell me from blackburn a swing and a high Man it was where that same pitch got called a strike. Yeah, maybe maybe I heard wrong what the change it That was a bomb like dead story I mean dead center and high housing And look at the cohesiveness of the crowd just yeah, they Tomei said like when he they got there and they saw the crowd all in black. They got like chills like oh shit It's ours for a funeral Set presence. He's here That's it, I mean that's the game to 1-0 game One See the final out. Yeah, watch the watch the last the ninth inning Big Bobby Janks comes in Jake You're a big Bobby Janks guy When did we see I guess it was the old five It's it's the John Boy rule of being a closer like you got to have something and Bobby Janks Just big and named Bobby Janks. You can't be just a normal dude and be a close. You have to have something going on and yes Big Bobby Janks Earth name Robert Scott Listed at 6-4 275 probably a nice listing 27 years old He slipped the clubby a couple hundo spots on 298 Bobbo Yeah, it's 275 You think he died his beard with the same guy presents he died his hair with You know what I've got in my head presents he was dying his hair Janks walked by and presents. He just gave his his goatee a little like scrub here I got you some Bobby and then he was like oh fuck Damn, I guess I have a blonde goatee now I guess Thanks, thanks AJ Bobby Janks Bobby Janks this season he had a two six three era that is a nasty pitch Depth on that was pretty cool Put out the safe sign. I thought he had gone. Let's look at this bullpen We got a math Thornton's doing it Octavio Dottell your guys a young Boone Logan getting knocked around the one to same pitch fucking so cool Pitch is awesome What's he doing here's span Get him on talking baseball Here Where would you guess he's from I Think we did this last time and I'm honest with the PD now because we assumed it was a big southern state kind of guy But he's a Cali. No, that wasn't Bobby Janks. That was Fuck who was that if Janks is going to get it done is going to someone in the 95 Game hopefully no more you got a mullet mullet and rod back Hey similar cloth Swisher playing first did I make up the thing about Nick Swisher not liking Chicago? I Don't know. I don't know Then sound crazy. I think Like he didn't start this game. I think he had kind of a tough year Maybe there's something there There's a lot of articles that say why Chicago White socks fans can't stand Nick Swisher Does that get tracked down? Oh the last I forgot about that dude I Think this gets forgotten like can I can we pause it at? I mean look at that ball and covering ground balls here It looks like a gapper for sure. Oh, that's that's centerfield porn man coming in and is this a no Nope. Yeah defensive replacement for Griffey Anderson That's awesome The picture Alexi swing and to end the game Rear war of a negative point to Anderson Yep Danks and janks dude this game is fantastic Yeah, I'm this this wait for the white socks offer. I thought for a second. I wasn't gonna love this white socks team But they're named I Mean thanks to Jenks is fantastic. Yeah, we went thanks to Jenks. Thanks to Jenks is about as good as it gets We saw the crowd earlier And I don't think that I expected guys maybe you think the same thing that this would end up being a one-off in ballgame, but It's it's incredible how These people this crowd such a cool play to end the game with defensive replacement make that catch So one run game to a base runner on I mean is the next guy in the box is to go ahead run One one mistake White socks go on to lose to the rays we go to the world series the center field play And starting pitching and tell me Starting pitching center field play This is a delightful interview. Yeah, tell me he's really letting air out man. I Mean he sounds like a coach I don't know how old he is he's clearly like a veteran, but he sounds like a just a proud proud coach of all I just can't believe these guys actually got together and put what a heck of an effort. I love each and every one of them Very genuine and and letting it rip not not really thinking but rarely do those interviews actually amount to good content That was like nice wholesome Good thing was right. I am redeemed. Yeah, boom. That was a fun one I enjoyed that game a lot So we will be back next year the twins are in another tiebreaker the very next year Holy smokes. Thanks for watching with us. We'll see you later. Goodbye