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I'm doing well. I'm anticipating today's game one game one Chicago Cubs hosting Los Angeles address Yeah, now I think we're Los Angeles. Yes in Los Angeles right now funny. You should mention that yeah the the Cubs our favorite team Yes, are playing those players the franchise in the little town we live in yeah, it's crazy I'm a lot of people are like are you pumped about that and stuff like I really I before the playoffs started I don't care we can't I really think there's there's pros and cons that's Gary Eddish Who gives a shit who gives a shit?
There's pros and cons of playing each team Dodgers probably have a little bit better pitching overall and I don't know I don't know if that's true. They do have a better bullpen than the nats and comparing the nats of course and the nats though Have a better offense, but they also have dusty Baker's looks like I would have loved to have seen Joe mad and managed circles around I know I'll probably get into game five but first time I've heard people upset with dusty Baker for not leaving someone in I know It's really crazy, which I don't know should we not with that we can that's that's a lot Also the a lot of you American League fans last night was game one Indians want to nothing and what was the pitcher's dual Two teams that most people thought would have been an offensive tool. I mean cluber's obviously very good starter Yeah, cluber is started that game is gonna be a little scar. Yes, you're right and the clutch home run was from out Lindor who They said last night they're like Or I'm a little Indian no I'm not saying that my voice crack is on the door though I like little Indian little Indian.
I'm I don't know if that's okay, but what like that well the change of fucking name Cleveland I know I know see what's weird about it was They didn't they announced a few years ago that they were gonna phase out the wahoo and kind of go back to that sea that red sea that Have been seen on all other things the sea is very prevalent like when you see their name listed on TV The national broadcast mention mostly the sea and not the hideous racial stereotype Wahoo Indian or whatever yeah, and like so last night's blue jays Indians and they had like in my skin is red It's nose is big it should not be okay with anyone no I really shouldn't it's such a racist cartoon of Indians I remember when I was a little kid like in the logon I had an Indian's hat with the wahoo logo on it because I was a little kid I was like oh it's cool a cartoon guy. I didn't think like oh this is affiliated with genocide and a lot of horrible acts So yeah, it's one of those things like okay, I think they used to come up every year that the Braves would be in the playoffs to what they'd be doing Like the job Tom Hocha I did I do think that the Seminoles are okay with Florida State some you know what they it's one of those weird things too Because I know they did a poll of Native American tribes like do you care about the sports teams? I think like 90% so now we don't like nine out of ten people said now We don't really care and everyone's like well It's not a ten even that one that won't you be enough to change it so I mean which is a fair point It's one of those things where I've heard though I remember watching this on Let's see Charlie Rose. I could be way off Charlie Rose.
I remember gonna real planes set, you know It was wearing a pinstripe suit. I mean not even that he was very casual casual great for duros Wow and and it was some I was a Native American Representative of something or other and they did talk about it was mostly about the Indians and Redskins Yeah, they didn't have a problem with the Blackhawks per se because he brought up that logo being an Indian head and they go No, it's kind of proud Indian you know the Blackhawks logo It's depicted as a proud does the Indians thing have an okay with it the Indians chief wahoo chief wahoo, okay? Yeah, I'm sure there wasn't a cheap wahoo that makes it seem like that sounds like something a white dude would think of like Just some guy being like what was that famous chief man? I don't know fuck it was some bullshit like I forgot Yeah, it is a fun noise actually.
I don't care how how PC progressive you are Don't tell me doing that and that's saying do it again public. You're just by yourself Right if you're just by yourself done that in years. Hey, no one's around fucking get that a try Don't do that in public don't do it in the sense that you're being you know, you know, but yeah It's a fun thing to do shouldn't be but is well if it shouldn't be it'd be fun if it was affiliated with mocking Native American tribes You know, it was just a thing that like babies would do I think I've seen babies do it They don't know they're just like I'm six months old and I'm my hands I put him in my mouth and now I'm making this You know, I like about the Cubs name is that a lot of people are like what a shitty sports team name really never anyone say that Have you ever dated a woman who wasn't from Chicago who his name that was new to why would I ever date someone who wasn't from? I don't know.
I married one I'm just kidding with you, but she was kind of like why are they like everything's like, you know Like a tough animal except for the Cubs and I was like well at the time the team was young and they were called like the Colts or Or the Cubs like the newspapers would give the teams the names back then. Yeah, you would just be your the Chicago Northside baseball club. Yeah, they were the caps, you know, what should we talk? You know, I think we touched on this once before I think the Cleveland Indians need to rename the team Okay, because we're the spiders that was the spiders are notorious for sucking the town paid that name That's why they renamed them and the myth there's different reports Well, not this is true or not But some say that the time their best player was named American so that they named after him because he was carrying team That is absolutely not why well, I mean, I'm saying that that's right to myth We did there's some people who say that's the case and there are a lot of stories to know that's not true at all because they were Called the naps after a while after Napalagio.
Yes, who's French Canadian? Yes, we talked about this on the show before but I looked into this and the Boston Braves were named the Now the Atlanta Braves were named the Boston Braves because their owner was a member of Tammany Hall and Tammany Hall's logo was Tamenind a native American and it was a literary and Boston Braves. Yeah, it was big and so and so one of the years It is sort of kind of and at one point like in 1918 There's a very famous worst-to-first story about like the Braves They were in last place and they had this miracle comeback and they won the World Series in Cleveland They that mean the story was like swept the nation baseball was the biggest sport This team was like renowned and the Indians team the naps were looking at it themselves like we fucking suck What if we can do with the Braves did so they also went with a Native American name the Indians the Indians Which is a little are the nose have a Native American baseball player? Yes, and that has been forget his name But he was like storied as like you one of their great players So you think they named the Indians in a few years and five people were like wait Why do they make change the reason yeah because they did the next year after the Braves came worse to first the Indians were in last So they changed their names and they're like we're gonna do this too I see if the fact that they did the following year tells you something right?
No for sure. Yeah, the timeline is shaky. So the Boston Football team this is on the teens to write right right. Yeah, that's why there's seven different stories with this stuff Right.
I mean it's one much as I hate the internet era for a lot of reasons because it's they don't have to become a great tool to spread misinformation It also documents stuff so that you can't like lies easy to go back then and ever said that because you know We used to joke about stats where you know the league would be like how many wins it's not young have this week Oh, I don't know 12 like you know, it's like making up numbers Well, that's what they get us book world record to his in bars So people like no this Robert Wadlow was eight feet tall. They were getting fist-ficed eight for a lot Yeah, that's a big dude right there. I was but they've been 18 inches long. That's really made that up really you got to imagine It's pretty big though.
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No You're giving deep cuts. You're giving Chicago Cubs deep cuts I'm surprised he made the playoffs roster for this round of down with you So Darwin Barney play last night in the game and I went in a deep cut That is a deep cut you won't go to that one. Yeah, and his defense compared have your bias is like a preschoolers It's have your bias the best offensive second baseman. I mean, I'm not gonna go that far.
Let me rectify what I just said I'm clarifying. Yeah, I mean obviously that's why I want to stop myself But is this stretch that we've had the 2016 have your bias have you ever seen an infielder or yeah? I'm a same fielder make so many highlight real defensive plays at second base at second base at third base You know a couple of shorts every one player do this many in one season No, the way that at third base the way that Brooks Robinson has sold to you and like memories is pretty insane a Second baseman I want to say like Bobby Thompson, but I'm not someone is in the Giants Yeah, is in the Hall of Fame for their defense like yeah, he couldn't hit much maybe it was Joe Gordon Someone is in the Hall of Fame as a second base primarily defensively and then a few short steps in for D Pausey Smith's a great example. He leaves out to you.
Yeah, literally literally But yeah, so because like the best defensive player at that position is in the Hall of Fame across the board except for it First base Keith Hernandez easily the best defensive first baseman is not in the Hall of Fame He won MVP to he just didn't have a long enough of a run what he had a good set a great peak He just played in like a shitty era. He doesn't have sexy like power numbers for first base now. Yeah, that hurts you I'm not to be a power hitter. It's like a hundred and thirty six home runs in the first base But I'm just gonna like beat it.
Yeah, it's one of those things Yeah, it's one of those things where you just have to have power I mean people remember no one respects your defense at first even though it's so huge You've a defensive start of a first base and he can make your infielders look really good by scooping and stretching out and all this Yes, I played first It's a lot more difficult than you think to feel some of those throws it is the scooping is I think it's one of those things We're in the numbers though if you don't scoop it the air is usually on the guy through the ballman and you even though Yeah, yeah, you know Totally this is the mock arena the Purdue cheerleaders right now. What is that yeah? Those are like millennials to those kids. That's like some crazy Like the swim dance from like the city yeah Horrible dance.
Oh, I would go back to hobby by us. Oh, yeah, of course Well, don't we hold bias and I can tell you about Cleveland? I love to hold my because I want to talk more We're gonna preview a lot more the Cubs. Yeah, I'm a giant series.
I was a game three I want to give you all this in my personal experience. I like this Frankie Lindor. I like little Indian so yes I was joking I probably said this before my house cycling my own bit I was saying that you know the whole myth of naming the team up to the best player Oh, they should rename it up to the best player because I mean the Browns got their name from their legendary coach Paul Brown in Cleveland Okay, so why does the Cleveland Indians become the Cleveland Barringers? Barringer yeah, that's a good one for the Cleveland Vons I don't know.
I'm just trying to think of how they can rename the team who is a guy's just become the Warriors and have at it the Indians head Like I'll stretch in the 90s. They can't be the Tomas. No, I didn't almost sound Indian Yeah, no, they could be the Kenny Lofton was good Manny Ramirez forget about Manny the Carlos by your dress by your guy Well, the best well Travis Freiman trap Roberto Alomar was an Alomar say any Alomar they could be the Alomars Dude the Alomars remember the Alomars. I don't want to get back to that So how do you buy as you were gonna make a point about?
The article in Sports Illustrated with 1908 parody undercover yes is completely worth your read because I know that you were talking on Facebook about Madden not shifting anymore. It explains that in the article They don't use spray charts of the hitters to shift they use spray charts of the pitchers and trust the range of the players So they're like this is where left use hit it off of Hendrix. This is Bananas range this is where he's playing so that's why Madden shifts less than anybody now Even though he was like he used to shift more than anybody with Tampa right and so the shift is It's like it's like someone telling you there's this new comedian. You got to check him out.
We'll see get that's the shift Yeah, totally so you know, it's not shifting is like what's the deal? So you're doing like what's the deal? No the rules to break the rules Madden knew the rules I'm saying I'm so I don't stand up what are you not a fan of snipe out stand up I think that when I saw B movie it was at a point in my life that I knew that Observational comedy popularized Mostly by Jerry Seinfeld was like a wack of shit in the world to me Kirby enthusiasm was the best show that I'd ever seen in that genre and it dawned on me that When you thought you liked Seinfeld Mike you really liked Larry David well also an HBO Comedians of cars getting coffee and I every time that Jerry is interviewed about comedy It is the most fascinating thing in the world. I saw him live in it when he was great I don't hate Jerry Seinfeld.
He's given me hours of pleasure in my life. Yeah, of course I could you I don't even know if I would be doing stand up if not for Jerry Seinfeld to be a hundred percent honest with you I could say the same thing. I was a die-hard Seinfeld down the 90s. I remember watching I remember a girl my Mac Mount Rushmore per se but hugely influential because in my head He was a stand-up comedian and in Carlin influence him is Carlin to the observational stuff.
Yeah, he always said yeah Carlin Robert Klein, what a Bruce yeah, totally yeah I remember watching the finale of Seinfeld in 1998 I was in seventh grade and a girl that was that I'd gone on and off within great school had called me and I was like Like I can't talk Seinfeld starting and she kept saying stuff. I'm like I gotta go my house on fire by it. I hung up on it Yeah, and the next day she's like you have to say that and I'm like why were you calling during Seinfeld? I Know Kevin Ulster had shared How the shift started under a lupo draw yes player manager the last I mean one at all in 48 and 48 when they had Larry Adobe for space over them big slugger.
I had a good team obviously they wanted all There's a whole chapter about this in brain candies book another brain. Yeah, because it that people hate the shift Williams because there's people right now saying like they hate the shift it should be like outlawed the Bapip every year even with shifts is still 300 I saw them shift on and with an kronosse on last night and you still got a fucking hit into the shift Yeah, you know it's amazing about the article how Ted Williams said I think that shift cost me about 15 points off My dad and average and then the guy says well actually with 16 points, but that's pretty remarkable content. That's crazy I know oh, there's also a bunch down the third baseline it based on a shift by who was that Santana? I don't know.
Yeah, well, let me let me say the article also it says by the way hobby by is The greatest tagger in the league I think it's the greatest hagger. I have ever seen in my entire life Everyone is saying now. I've never heard anybody say this before I mean about anybody But the Sports Illustrated article mentioned it now on MLB they talk about it. He's the greatest tagger The only tagging I've ever heard of before the talk of how great bias was was how bad Castro was a tagging Castro oftentimes I would see like a good throw he'd catch and go for the guy shoulder and the guy would get his hand in I can't talk about how now that they're I'm tagging he's become such a big deal now because there's replay It's like looking at an X and knowing that you upgraded It's bias is tag it really is and here other players veterans like David Ross and Ariada and Lester talk about it and lacking and they're just like It's unbelievable how he has this ability to watch the ball into his glove and get the part of the person's body That's closest to the base where it's sometimes I'll never forget the one where he caught it And he tagged the guy in his back He never looked and yet still got the glove right on the guy's fingertips before he went into the base because the guy was I think I've been de-gorn and sliding in head first It is remarkable that play he had in game four against the Giants when he tried to steal and he basically caught it and What's his name?
Do not spam went right into it? Yeah, I'm trying to break his wrist out. Yeah, yeah It is it's a whole new world with bias and it's at the point where Next season, I mean I hate to talk about next season is the playoffs are going on right now, but it doesn't matter But it's just something that's interesting my place with the Cubs in 2017 is Ben Zobres is making the bias Sober's gonna get about 450 bats. He's biased will be the everyday second baseman next year He's over sober's will play left a little bit right a little bit He'll play second to the spell bias.
He'll be the super utility of the guy that buys with a guy that buys about 450 bats and That's fine Of course walking around yeah, I was brought the whole podcast down and I think that's what they'll switch roles essentially Yeah, I think that Contreras is a little bit underrated in this in that first I know the series oh he was great And yeah, and he had good bats the whole time he's a gamer There's something about contraris. I liked right when he came up I was at home run his first pitch. Yeah, he was pumped up. He has that energy.
He's he runs everything out hard down the line Yeah, I like him a lot. I mean I love David Ross obviously, but Contreras and then Shwarvers coming back so you talk about left field I went ah Shwar while here's another switch the cubs weird to be almost so weird to be excited for next year with the coach During the fucking playoffs well just because there's so much talent that it's just endless You know I mean so it's fun to talk about this kind of thing like next year So David Ross is retiring love you grand per Rossi one I give him a year or two before he's on our bench as a coach And I'm saying next year now. I'll do the one you're with the family stuff I bet he shows up to spring training and maybe he'll pop into the club hostel So take me after the ball and he'll show up and make his presence now And then the next year by then someone's gonna nab David Martina's manager and the man is gonna be a head manager Like a like a team's manager What Dave Martinez? I think someone will nab the martina's to be a really eventually he's been a bench coach under a really good Manager for a very long time if you see the patterns in baseball eventually these guys get plucked to be a manager of a team sure Yeah, I mean that's how I mean exactly was under my social for a long time Especially if you're an assistant or a bench coach under a really good manager That is so interesting because I'll be managing the freaking braves in two years So funny the company for terrible when I was growing up and how many of those guys went on to be like Lloyd McClendon Jim Riggleman is still an assistant bench coach on some team dusty Baker I mean we're 13 years away from 03 still managing teams You know anyway though But my point was David Ross to be back then so next year Contrary a McGon Tarot will become the David Ross not in the way that we love the Ross But in the sense that he will be Arietta's personal catcher Mm-hmm contraris is gonna catch lustre every day and and contraris will catch Lackey and Hendrix and Hendrix.
I think they might give Shorber one guy every now and then with his ACL that To me the plan going into this year. Yeah, but to me it seems like with an ACL thing the catching thing is over is over There's no catch or torn news and come back This is modern technology medical technologies advanced so much maybe right now you might be very well right I thought I was gonna hit that bomb like that I was like oh he's fucked So I mean he's not he's a DH in a he's a DH in the wrong league But you know it's funny about the play that knocks for a breath of the year It's extra followers fault. He was injured Swarber if you watch that I think they've did a stackass Swarber ran the farther way and was running and was almost there and Fowler took out his knees That was just a freak play that was a freak play that there's nothing you could do about enough blame and Fowler But the point was Schwarber the left fielder as of 16 months had a better route to that ball and had a better angle on that ball coming from farther away That's interesting. I think about that play again.
That wasn't that deep. You know you have you know You have to come saying you have to get that old thinking out of your head that was like two days into the season Fowler had just come made that surprise return in spring training sure and so in my head I'm like we are this is gonna be like doomed Season I think shortly after that Hayward makes that you were there makes that like catch in the corner in San Francisco And I was just like we're all going down like I thought he was dead when he caught that ball He caught it and it looked like his neck like snapped into the wall But it was really just he turned his hip weird goddamn triples alley man. It is so weird that these Yeah, that's not a baseball different ballparks all around it makes it fun. All right, let me bring this up then um Oh, by the way, I think sure we'll be starting off the club's next year.
I think he's starting in life I think either I mean what's so layered it gonna decide to do I here's the thing I was going over the Cubs roster for just for fun because I was you know looking at it's gotta be Schwarber He's their draft pick he's no they love him. They are so high on him I think he's a 40-home run guy and they think he could play an average lot He plays an average left with that kind of power that's such a plus and that's so much value to your team That guy he's gonna that Wrigley field for a full season I just or hey so there next year will only be making like two million dollars And I know people still think like oh he could still be like a you know 25 30 homerun guy he plays every day and all this kind of stuff the thing is he just hasn't really shown it and he has not shown That he can't he hasn't shown they can stand a field He's been injured every year ever in his pro career people who get in the minors Yeah, he's been injured every year in the minors every year at the pro level so my head almost thinking Yeah, maybe we should try to trade him for someone but then again Who's your right-handed powers to go off the bench? He's only making two million Kristin Afria was our right-handed guy off the bench He made 1.5. Why not hang on to whore Hey, so why not keep that depth?
Why not just have sold every third on the depth chart behind Schwab or sorbres over his name and laughing and I think see That's the thing with man. He makes his lives enough. How long is over his contract? It's four years So he'll three more years after this but I think at the price he's getting paid you could justify him being what bias was this year Yeah, yeah, yeah, where Zobres will get you will get Zobres 150 bats You know, I mean and we could get Schwab or almost 500 bats still because he'll do that This is how good hobby by is it's that Zobres was the starting second baseman and had a third year by every measure You could have you know, plus 800 ops.
He was 15th in war his May was he was like the MVP of the National in May Yeah, I bet it like 400 that month Yeah, the through April May it was like Fowler and Zobres were the best players in baseball and I still think Zobres I mean his banning average with a few minutes with like don't too soon He's like that is not based on like 487 he had a decent had a really good year and a decent really good I was gonna say first round. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, the Cubs didn't hit in that in that series per se Bryant did By and by a surprise by each contraris hit and Zobres had a few big hits I'm mostly thinking of the first three it's really is so had a horrible series the last game hit a base in a walk in two walks No, you're really right game for you's big. Let's talk about game for yeah I was that game three three. Sorry.
That's what you meant. I'm gonna crack you like a dick I knew what you meant, but you know the listeners might be like Have you talked about that in another podcast? No, I'm not this is my first time about game three So the Cubs won game one nothing thrilling fashion pictures dual between Kuedo and Lester bias It's a homerun in the eighth inning that will look like he's gonna hit a build in the world I thought it's homerun to ever landed the basket Yeah, because it was projected 385 even though the it's like three could not down the line or something They never just landed the basket Kind of hit like that little scoreboard thing because the Cubs that used to have that you know, I got that scoreboard thing that's and I thought it landed like right above Pagon's head or whoever that's a gun was underneath it and it came in But if you watch the replay again without that scoreboard thing that's down the left field line now That which wasn't there eight years ago that land second third row of the bleachers I don't want to get up topic But you know what highlight have watched more than anything and it was area at his home run Oh, really, but it now is watching Jason worth get thrown out at home in game five. Oh, yeah I actually miss that play I've watched I like 25 times.
It's so goddamn funny to me. Why what about it? Their third base coach is oh, yeah, that's right. It's waving him home.
He was past third base in my head He's like midway from second. It's the it's one of the worst sends I've ever seen who threw a pweg Tolls to see her to see her son. Whoever was catching Yeah, I mean I know I've Pause looks at Jason worth slow 37 year-old s shugging down the line and like you see at least face and see your space like going What the fuck so was he not even a third he was past third win by a little bit of a Get to the ball Yeah, if you are at third or about to like not about to run through you have to be touching third or a little past third For the third base coach to send you he was sent he was waving him before tolls got the ball But told him like a look at they did a you know that sports science breakdown and they're okay Okay, so it's like a 98% point five percent efficiency route to the ball I think the third base coach is famous for waving. He's like a Wendell Kim is a Chris fire No, his does he still has a lot of his old coaches from this was a Matt Williams higher They got fired and rehired by dusty okay, but he is by the way I said you that that one tweet Kershaw's last say professionally was two thousand six the catcher was candid Janson It was against the national's farm system and that third base coach was the manager of that team It's pretty fucking crazy anyway, so he waves him home But he's like a foot past third base when seagr gets the relay.
That's horrible. It was so fucking bad I got to watch it again. I was walking my dog. I was watching the game.
I watch my dog when I came back in I heard the announcer's talking about it. I should have rewound it I saw highlight of the button appreciate that the way you broke it down makes me think okay This is something I'm gonna put on a loop and let my ass off about I wish I had that game on tape because or tape DVR that I still talk the old way you are you're an old man. I'm a sexy dork. All right game four Let me tell you all right so game to the Cubs that decade was the one game in the series There was never a doubt though the entire time I watch game to I never had any feeling that we were gonna lose that game Which we were not for nothing over some Arja.
Yeah, I was for to Hendrix took a line drive to the forearm They took him out of precautionary. I guess in a way I mean I heard him enough where he couldn't keep going But it was just it turned out to be a bone bruiser gave him an x-ray We lit some are yeah You're like for runs and tunings or something and even though even when the Giants shipped away a little bit to make it forward to When Travis would have to make it five to which he didn't like the fifth or fourth or the other home run Yeah, so bottom four hit to him and make it five to right there I was like five to I mean I was watching the game. I just ended it. I felt confident.
I really did So then games three I had tickets on my buddy across how much I never showed you this I do the scores at home I know you do because I watch game one. This is your but this is your ridiculous five-hour game that you went to Okay, so I that's what I want to bring up to I'm gonna give a shot at my buddy though My buddy owns as a corner of cross town tickets calm. It's a great website They sell tickets all nationwide. It's based out of Chicago So if you're Chicago person, this is definitely it's like for you No fees like stub hub or anything like that.
He hooked me up with a great deal myself and comedian friend of the show brand I'm a guy when we went up there. I I decided to keep score like you well this thing my mom wanted me to get a program So I was walking up We got there early to it was like you know first pitch was it what six 30 almost California time and we got there like 450 So we were in hang on the state for now half So I got a program before we walked in and it was mass and bung on the cover and I was looking at the program I didn't look at the front it just at September 2016 I'm like these assholes didn't make a special playoffs edition of their pro They didn't know they didn't know if the Cardinals were gonna come I get it This was like and this was our official program from an official guy and I think that's it So I was really like annoying because I'm like this program is pointless now But I had the pencil so I'm like all right I'm gonna keep score which I've done in a long time and it's a road game I'm surrounded by jerk off giant fans. It was very fun But by the 11th inning I had it all is all I couldn't there wasn't enough space anymore I couldn't close the book on pictures because they only gave you enough room for everything Yeah, and then I was knocking off I was making my own columns Try to do what you did on your seat I just couldn't keep up with it at that point But all right, let me take you to it Brian McConan drove up in his Prius great gas mileage and So yeah, the game starts at five hour six hour drive. Yeah, and then after the game was over We came right back that is so fucking crazy.
I know people can tell me how crazy it is I don't think it's that crazy when we had to save money We don't have hotel money, you know and he and Brendan has a dog and his Ladies out of town, so he had to come back. He had to come back. So yeah, we drove up and drove back right afterwards It was a very tired job I got in at 6 a.m. Is that the greatest game you've ever seen even though it was a loss the greatest loss I've ever seen It's tied it's tied with another playoff loss I've been to which was game one against the Marlins.
Oh the 11 inning. Yes, so I've been at two playoff games coming down by two in the ninth I just realized wow that's amazing because Chris Brian tied with the two run shot whenever he had hit the home run We were all going crazy and feeling good. I sure did I started to get a little annoyed I still was confident by got annoyed when we missed a lot of opportunities to really knock Madison Bongar another game He's only going five hundred four pitches going into the fifth week We really worked his count while which was smart, but we were just missing a hitter to that would have made it He's only gonna have three earned he should have given up seven You know, I mean, right on third right left on third in the first runner's on first a second When we lit into him the most like it was the second inning yeah, a lot of left on base But you know it's just so funny as before the area at a home run I was I literally said to McGowan I go you know That is a really awesome picture to people just on as a fun grinder. That's so funny It's true home run and the thing was our seats were good.
That's a really good ballpark But we couldn't see the home runs. Oh really you can see like Brian's I'll show you the picture from where we were you showed me one But I couldn't tell really where we were left field upper deck left field line and because of that We were so high up. We couldn't see down in the left field Oh, it's like you had a sign for on that state you had to wait to see them cheers So when every other areas we could tell because that I even though that I thought about my deeper But I don't even like four or five rows up, but it was just a line dress or giant's must confuse the shit A Brian's confused me McGowan wasn't sure about Brian's the reason I jumped up about Brian's is because I saw Fowler's reaction Followers on first and it's by always going halfway down the line I saw him pump his fist up in the air and then I'm like oh my god We're tired and I grab a gun and we're like screaming each other going absolutely insane I we went insane for Ariada just completely nuts that ball off the bat though We could tell by the trajectory that this one's got a shock is when the ball was in the air We both stood up. It's okay.
If you want to say the launch angle the launch angle was there exit velocity Yeah, he really put a good swing on that pitch and when we were pumped Very hitable not taking away from bum Garner. He's like the mr. October pictures. I get it.
He's amazing sample size. Yeah I still like I still I love it. I love it. I know in a world series you take a mad bummer.
It's any co-fax Well co-fax is really old Joe He tied what you hit against today's pitching 340 but I you're lifetime 370 hitter He's a he got her stand up 72 years old. We'll chamberlain did that joke to well Ty cops the originator That's what we think really I heard Pete Rose doing it on what to call Rose He's the worst analysts in sports history. Maybe what does he say? Frank Thomas is great.
I don't realize a lot of rock is awesome to a red amazing He's amazing too, and yet they got to be around that dummy who else is there is it just those three? It's no, there's four of them on the one guys just a regular duties on an athlete. He Isn't there one more player for player there? Frank Thomas maybe there is one more Thomas is a monster human.
He still looks gigantic right, but Frank Thomas is great. He is really good in that role I think the thing is to show their own show. I don't watch the a rod Frank show. Yeah, they're a big heart show around solving crimes Come on now.
What's good on that one? Yeah. Oh my god true detective season three Alex Rodriguez Frank Thomas and he Roses the bad guys like no He's like their boss who like doesn't get it and he's like you guys keep messing up Yeah, you rookies boss. We've been working here for 12 years Yeah, he keeps like putting like a flask of whiskey into his coffee.
Yeah, exactly that's all back in his day Yeah, yeah, I think it's right. It's so it really did we just wrote a hit series I'm resting Ricky Henderson. It's like a Scooby-Doo that he keeps stealing and my shit Guys you would watch that show you would watch that show. Alright, so here's my experience as a fan I'll give you a little fan experience other than that people see left field which that's where all the scoring went That's terrible.
I really I didn't know that going to see my friend. Hope he said I got two tickets in their predict here We got two tickets to bleachers here We're better deal both were like I think the bleacher tickets were like face value These ones he gave me a little under face which was nice because this is the time your ticket brokers were like make their fucking fortune I'm gonna hit him up in May for a game. I'm sure you're doing like yeah fucking you know take him basically, but But still I think I very much cross and take it out I've used them for they're amazing and You know that was the thing I didn't realize I would realize that I'd been like game I would have spent the extra 40 bucks on the bleacher tickets specially left field because that's where the action went The fans are on us now there are two San Francisco fans behind two women and they were awesome There was a family right next to us. They were cool too other than the fact they go up and pee every other thing But they were they were cool and they're polite about that even the whole across the aisle from us that whole section of Giants fans Were some of the worst baseball fans are seeing my life I know there's bad baseball fans ever obviously horrific Cubs fans too many times in my life But I got to say this these they only were they bad they were stupid they weren't watching the game really you could tell they kept yelling on 1908 they actually the one guy was throwing peanuts at the one Cubs fan and another comes in almost knocking the fuck out really Yeah, like right after some company was leaving like in the 10th I don't know if you're leaving But they were him and his girlfriend walking down and she was like a couple rows up and then the one dude did something And the guy just kind of stood there and goes like this didn't look like a guy who starts fights But you kind of like had it with this guy and the guy didn't do anything this guy was such a the main guy was such a Mox assel only was one of scarf fuck you it was 59 degrees at night.
You weren't a scarf was it a giant? Sorry. Yeah, of course. I'm sort of tundra you should see them all bundled up.
Oh, it's 59 we're chilly in October Yeah, I'll help you're fucking chilly on the golf course is your pussy's because you're not fucking playing anymore I'm talking hate those people are Brendan told me that the guy was yelling what inning is it the whole time? As if like Cubs fans don't know what ending it is that is that what he was saying Brendan said that he was going What ending is it what ending is it any kept like saying it over and over again? Maybe but I've never heard that like Brendan story is slightly different than yours because he was saying what ending is it? What else was Brendan story?
I love to hear this. There's a big fat there's a big fat bearded Cubs fan who was pretty obnoxious Do he was a whole section below us? He was talking about the whole section below us. I've thrown peanuts and yelling what inning is it?
That guy was the worst he was scarf on and almost of his friends ditched him because he was such a piece of shit He said the wind around him were terrible. He said that both of you like There was possibly women behind you who were kind of flirty with you and then you yelled at the guy and maybe they left And then on the way out is that a flirty? Brendan flipped shit on someone on the way out and you had to calm him down Okay, I kind of remember him yelling about something because when we were leaving it was this whole concourse area of shit I just don't have to calm him down at one point I was I asked Brendan I was just like a 13-man game There's a lot to remember I mean hey, this is the this is the this is the phone call with Brendan Yeah, this is this is going out in the podcast. No, I do it I kind of vaguely remember him saying what inning, but here's here's me Here's what kind of psycho baseball fan I am I right before the game started I Got back to my seat right after the introductions of the players.
I went I got myself a hot dog They actually really good through there yourself. I was hoping for a suit I get to be your cups every road game. They didn't have a special playoffs in your cup It was just a regular bullshit souvenir cups really really unprepared for a playoff even even even even you know So dumb it is that what they said? I just yeah I just want was waving signs to believe even I heard people screaming out believe even as we're leaving the concourse because people were Giving cups hands a lot of shit as we're leaving and I wanted to be like what kind of message is that like no We don't give a shit about ideas.
This is same to go. Everyone knows we suckin out years We went in 10 12 and 14 like that wasn't some crazy coincidence I'm so glad that shit's over and we I know a lot of good giant fans here in LA John Keene's a good dude a couple of guys I played baseball with a really good guys cliff You're good dude, man. I just think the fans that were around them that day were horrible Yeah, and this whole notion I told people like I'm going up to San Francisco for game three There were several different people made comments on that post and be careful be careful don't let it don't let the you know Google boys and sushi fool you they're pretty tough up there and I just responded with them from Chicago beat the show and take Their Apple watch I don't fucking care and I didn't care like I remember looking around like I don't and they are so why are they so tough? You live in San Francisco.
It's not a tough town. It's not it's a great. It's a great city It's really fun. What'd you say that in Oakland Oakland's a tougher town?
Yeah Oakland's not over it's tough Yeah, it's tough San Francisco's not when studio apartments cost three grand. It's kind of hard for you to be a menace to society You know what I'm saying? What are you doing to like oh? Yeah, God it really annoying.
They don't do the beach ball thing there So respect the more as a fan base there is our way there's a joke t-shirt when apartments cost three thousand a month It's hard to be a menace to society. It is what are they doing? Well, like what I didn't see it's a relatively safe city. The only problems.
They have is a lot of homeless people There's some crime here and there but for the most part It's too expensive a city to have like high game related, you know, it's a beautiful city. It is it's a pretty city It is I like San Francisco as a city their fan base was horrific on that particular I think that you're not taking one thing into consideration. How many of those people had escaped from Alcatraz? Oh damn I did not think about that.
It's funny. Oh, you talk to you escape from Alcatraz. Yeah Just a little backstroke on swim here in your kayak I don't know what that means. What real quick though was Brendan saying that the fans are cool around us?
No, he said they were obnoxious They were just really obnoxious and I could tell they were It'd be one thing if they were baseball fans, but I could tell they weren't because if you're a die-hard baseball fan in an intense playoff game Which your team has to win to survive? You are not gonna be obsessing over shouting at the scattered amount of cub fans that are in your area I'm so curious to see how Three four and possibly five go and what I what attire I will be wearing because I've been to the doyer a bunch of times And I've seen dude. I've gotten like almost in fights Just for having a cubs head-on at a bar. I mean, it's it's just such gang mentality a dodger stadium I don't know if the ticket prices will kind of weed out that element at all No, man, we got great deals on our tickets.
That's So easy for me to get a ticket just tells you something about Dodger Stadium I had a show at little joy on Thursday I know it wasn't a way game for the Dodgers But that's a half mile from Dodger stadium I saw five Dodger fans having watched the game Do you fucking think that if the Cubs were in game five of the NLDs that you could have been a half mile from Rigley Field and not seen more Than five cubs fans? No, no you kind of it's I've got you know, we both have tons of Chicago friends I'm seeing them make posts like I've got two extra tickets for game one and two You know five hundred bucks a seat. I'm seeing tickets for the cup It's impossible to get tickets to go to Rigley Field right now world series tickets apparently that's for tickets for the world series of Orries sold for seventy five dollars or some crazy number like that Yeah, and yeah, I got a text from my buddy Mick Betancourt who's been on the podcast Nicky's a great dude. Yeah, check out the podcast.
He's actually a UFC fan It stands the task. You know, I think sometimes with sports pockets people don't go back to us in old episodes Because they're like oh I don't want to listen to what happened in sports six months ago. You know, cuz sports are like Oh, you know, it's like a new show. Yeah, you know, that's like the daily show You never I don't see some two of the daily show on DVD.
Let's rewatch that It might be fun to watch those bush years. I think that kind of would be another thing But they do like a best I'll probably go back and check that out Anyhow, though, Mick hit me up saying hey, I just bought Dodger playoff if you're a doctor I'm you could get play tickets for game three. Oh, that's how you got it So I'm like really and I got I'm investigating this I went on and yeah They have tickets available for face value still so I end up getting tickets for eighty six dollars a pop Yeah, eighty six a pop for playoff game. Yeah, what is there in the upper?
They're still very good. They're very good seats in the upper deck. You know, I mean Dodger's had him late has a lot of seating a lot more than really that's about 48,000 or something It's a big stadium. It's a big old stadium.
It's not really field. It's not now But you can go for pretty cheap, which is one of the nice things but also you can get stabbed I'm just saying that you can that's true. Sure. That's a risk We all have to take I don't get the anger Dodger fans is it wrong?
I mean to mention this that it seems like there are a lot of them are Hispanic sure and it is a lat Neighborhood but Latin American sports are very passionate so you can kind of carry it over well Shh like a soccer. Yeah, like a soccer mentality because we fall horrific stories. The funny thing is I don't understand I'm trying to word this in a way that is not gonna be perceived as anything bad. I know I know but The Mexican and El Salvadorian community was fucked over by the Dodgers they were and we've saw it in the documentary For an donation that kind of brought them back on board Fernando Valenzuela brought Huge influx of Mexican and fans back to Dodger Stadium, which was their goal and that had to be great You know one of you know like a Mexican young player who was really fucking good It had to be exciting is 1981 they won the World Series He was a rookie that had to be insane and I've talked to Mexican people who lived here at that time They're like you have no fucking idea what that was like, you know what I mean?
Like probably the closest thing that we've seen is like Jeremy Lin Oh, like for like what I mean for like the in the way the Asian community Yeah, well, I don't really see how something Chicago time and there's not like a big Asian population Chicago So I didn't really see a lot of the Jeremy Lin I mean, I just thought it was over rating the guy was like a big sensation of like Jeremy Lin Oh, my buddy Sam homies like dude Like he's he's Korean and he was like dude. There's like so many Asians playing basketball now at the gym I go to okay It's like you know what though I used to play basketball in a suburb of Chicago called Niles at this export gym and there were a lot of I think Josh Janie's from Niles. I think he is too. I think Steve Department is from the house Department is definitely from now.
Yeah, cuz he was wearing a Niles renegade sweatshirt Was and they really was with the green it's not his fault It's Alex Gonzalez's father would have been a double play with Bartman miss that ball There's three nothing cubs for fuck's sake exactly. I think that the Bartman thing is a perpetuated by the Alex Gonzalez run media The lie the conservative Alex run media. Yeah, it's gonna solve me and dusty bakery blame almost as much as much as I Just you ever choked in a do or die game in 2002 And I got I know a lot of people out there who do like don't like to blame the manager They blame the players and stuff like that. Yes, if Alex Gonzalez you the double play things go differently the games three to one go Talk to go right into the bottom of the eighth you're feeling good go out Baker he didn't even send his pitching coach out you see your 22 year old phenom starter clearly rattled prior is known for having pinpoint control I think he struck out like 250 guys and walked like 40 that year.
He's like he was amazing probably should want to saw you Yeah, yeah, they give to Eric Gania fuck you. Yeah, I mean prior to the best fit in the league I'm pretty sure I think he struck up the walk ratio is crazy is whipples really seven eight war to which is better than He missed three weeks of that season Well, I'll forgive Remember you're glad you'll mark his Giles on the bass path and miss like three weeks of that season when he came back He went like ten and one down the stretch and was so big for the cousin Not his era, but I believe his fifth and war better than area does last year. You remember how good area was last year He was amazing last year. So do you like five or less years better than this year's my weird lesser?
Maybe had lesser was amazing last year. He I remember his fifth was like two four But he was three on nine. He was one of the reverse normally your fifths a little bit higher than your actually are I typically yes? You know of course so when you're reversed like that It's like really special and you could tell people they not quite appreciate what you know because people are bitching about him on the Internet because he came out here to shake he start to the season I can't that's what that's well I mean, I got I'm going back and forth with some stuff I just want to wrap this up our figure and then I want to tell you about something dumb fans stuff that you appreciate yes with with Baker that year the managers biggest job is to control or manage the your team Emotions a luen nuts, which is what caused the fans to go nuts if blue is just a guy fall ball no big deal I think the fans are going to just respond with the same thing and take your cues from the players Yeah prior than it's pointing on what the fuck in the priors all rattled that was just a foul ball That was a one two count He ended up walking that guy and ball for he threw over the catcher side of the backstop And why were they made up there?
I'm fired if you're not gonna call like if it's a interference call fan interference if it's not leave them the fuck alone exactly I was just a lot that when I went that and and I I don't blame and I don't blame barman at all not at all and that was just basically the point there Dusty Baker finally came out and that was to pull a prior when it was already too late at that point And it was bad managing with bullpen who comes down It's now I mean people are talking about I think he sure left sure is around a little longer You just he doesn't get any relieves them with just your regular middle relievers. He didn't bring in like the studs of the bullpen Did he brought in five dudes and bring in the lanson? No, he's just such a dumb behind the times guy Why would you bring him out? Why would you bring sure is out for one pitch if one mistake was gonna get him yanked?
Yeah? I agree I agree stupid Tied the game and he's at 99 pitches. Why did you bring him out? It wasn't a bad pitch?
No, no, it wasn't all It's just one to one don't you pay him $15 million a year to be that pitcher 15 and get like a $250 million contract for 10 years. I thought I thought I googled it I thought he's making 15 this year. Okay. Well then that contract is gonna go out.
It's 23 Maybe it's a backload of contract, but sure as much sure as for agents the same year and sure so I got the way I feel Yeah, yeah, all right now. I want to talk about this with baseball fans in general I'm done there so you mentioned Lester last year everyone was hating on him acting like you terrible Yeah, yeah, it was nice his whip was great his tip was great all the advanced stats on him Really nice his wins and loss was 1112 which again such a stupid things a staff that nobody should look at anymore Yeah, here's where I remember now how dumb baseball fans were Lester got off to a bad start He had he's a Tory slow starter Yeah, he had a bad April and that right there was enough to have these cub fans and baseball fans of any team do this I'm not just picking up fans of writing him off and We're gonna work that Look at that sorry that's how I make impressions of people anyhow Dumb baseball fans are it's a six month season six months and I've had this argument with any lurry and Scott Daringer in regards to the Cubs In game for deep cuts well, yeah, cuz I got into with them a little bit on Facebook in game for the Cubs great comeback They've even talked about yet. Yeah, I saw those same fans I stayed off social media, but after they want I'm like I'm gonna go on Facebook and say I'm happy everyone else Facebook Not like you know Twitter just shows you all the tweets in real time Yeah, Facebook just shows you like oh three hours ago this guy said fuck it We're gonna lose in game five now that I got I saw your Facebook post and that was in response to those guys That was in response. I made a Facebook post that basically said if you're one of those Cubs fans who wrote off this team in the fourth inning You are the worst.
How do you look yourself in the mirror and you are the reason your parents got divorced? No matter what they told you you are actually the reason they got divorced now they always sit down the kid going It's not you honey. It's not your fault. We're getting into divorce.
I mean daddy. Just don't let me tell you no They would sit you down and be like no, it's simply you son you are such a piece of shit that I look at my wife And I'm like this is mostly your jeans and she looks at me going on some of your jeans and we're like let's get a divorce Let's make this kid's life stop because we hate you that's you as a cub fan. Did I exaggerate a little bit? Yes, of course I did but my it was nice to see it's a abortion.
It was it was lovely I don't know that's a word. I was lovely to see on Facebook These same people then going nuts celebrating like crazy later and I'm just like no screw you and then they were coming at me like Oh, no, we're realistic fans. We're not drinking the cubby Kool-Aid like you are they were playing like you like I know They're so dumb. I said they won the game.
How is that Kool-Aid? They were basically saying oh you had faith all nine innings and I go they won that's not faith They won so also I would never write off a game in the fourth inning Because when you wrote off the game it was 3-1 and the reason I think you're at faith if you still have nine outs or whatever You so many outs they left. There's the fourth inning. You know, I mean, I saw these posts I did the time and I know it's the fourth thing when they did this because that's when like you got taken out drinking the Kool-Aid Having the faith they did the thing.
Yeah, exactly. They did the thing, you know And it's the thing I wanted them to do they did do so who was right there? Are you gonna go to game five you fucking bolt? Yeah, not because it won't exist the thing I wanted that I believed it happened and I'm just trying to say what my point was So they were trying to say we're realistic fans You're just some fan that thinks about she a real hard thing and you're worried I'm like I like Andy and I like to it are both really hard fans But I just think that they're still victims of the last Cubs regime and I always emphasize this I go listen Both I don't know if to remember 84 else.
Yes, they are. I used to knock on wood constantly I used to be the most superstitious cuz fan it doesn't wear anything It doesn't do anything doesn't do it doesn't matter. I watch game one with you Brendan and Fritz I did not watch any other game with you after that and and used to be in the past Well, I walk the same see I would have been here for all four games I would have told my wife. Hey, they won when I watch game one of bridal's They forgot to watch every game of bridal's.
It's stupid Yeah, it's stupid. Don't be that fan what you do at home if you jerk off in the fifth inning You don't do jerk off in the fifth inning of every game and not and not and not well You know, I mean it feels right. I mean I had a lot of last games You got to calm yourself down over you can't but my point is they go low Joe goes high. Oh, I shoot it high I get high there you go.
Ah, it's just one of those It's just stupid and I used to be like that and then I realized oh wait We have smart people in charge now we didn't lose in the past cuz of some stupid bullshit You know, I mean I tell you something though. It's part of the fun It's part of the fun is that that still exists a little bit that it needs to be when it actually happens You know that is gonna be so fun to erase that fucking dirty ass black. No, I get that I get that I Did it with the ear I know I know that bum gardeners 24 innings streak Bruce Bocey is never lost a series A limit 10 elimination games in a row. Yeah, that fucking shit's gone that night thing It was maybe the greatest night thing I've ever seen in my life You know my story and my heartbeat never got higher or lower because I was high I was the right amount of high where I'm like I'm really chilled out right now.
I was on a wife that cubs my wife Back to the point with those type of fans my greater point that they missed was because they were kind of like oh You didn't think we were gonna lose in the fourth inning and I'm like no I didn't you know why you guys listening turn up the Turn up the podcast a little bit. Turn up. I really really hear this the reason I wasn't worried in the fourth inning was because I Have watched all 162 games of this Cubs regular of this cup season So I know the team I know they don't quit and I know baseball and there's no shot clock There's no time running out It wasn't the fourth quarter and the other team wasn't you know running out the clock with a bullshit? You know they weren't handing off the ball and Joe isn't the fourth inning in the fourth quarter the same thing Yeah, right?
Yeah, I know and and because of that I was able to be like oh we still have this It's outs I've seen the Cubs make comebacks like this all year and if you were a real Cubs fan you would have paid attention to know that Oh, yeah, we're still in this game, but they kept saying oh, but the offensive look terrible up into that point Yeah, the offense always looks terrible up until the inning in which they score seven How many times this year bridal where the Cubs be no hit into the sixth inning game? Sure They had at least four or five games which the Cubs would be no hit into the sixth or seventh inning game And then guess what? There was four five or six in the seventh or eight thing When you're not used to watching a baseball game And you really are hanging on every pitch and want like every single run It's it's got a look different than when you watch it on ESPN Yes, because the Cubs won four to two you get to you get to turn on the TV There is a three-run homer by Bryant. There is a single from Rizzo and then that's what you see Those guys look like they had an amazing game and it's over and they move on to show the next highlight in the actual game A 300 batting average for these guys over 162 games is good A 400 on base percentage is like really good.
Yeah, so you're going to you can get four hits again Like I took my wife to an angels game. I said Mike Trout there he is in center field He's the best player in baseball went over three with a walk. She said she didn't think he was that good Yeah, I know I guess that's it. That's the thing That's what gets me about baseball fans in general I saw in 2015 remember in 2015 at the end of July or maybe it was being advised end of July The Cubs got swept by the Phillies with a worse team in baseball We got no hit in one of those games You should have seen all these Cubs fans all the social media being like this team sucks We're going nowhere another season where prom has gone to shit and I'm like it's three games Here's why I've not seen baseball before the worst team in the regular season beats the best team all the time when the Cubs Were god awful they beat the share of the Cardinals in the regular season games I just don't get that I don't like people wearing new This is maybe laughing my head because it's like if you've never seen baseball before you'd be like why is everybody talking about bait You'd only seen this game.
Yeah, why is everybody talking about Babe Ruth Connor Golasby? Is the greatest player amazing he turned and then the people were saying this to their like come on man Were you still confident with that one run Lee with Chapman going in after he looked human the day before he's got a mental He's got a mental problem. Oh, Chapman. He can't come in unless it's like his specific thing They say but I also though even I was still still Do you know why I was super confident that Chapman was gonna roam down because if you're a Chairman's tip a guy if you get him once You only get him once he has to regress to the you know Dominant closer.
I don't think oh my god. They scored two runs off and then I before that means he's gonna get lit up this time No, I think he's a dominant closer. Yes, two ones. They got yes, you're with the two runs they're gonna get he's gonna strike out the side Which what he did it is not last time.
Yeah, this is a guy who in his career has like a 1.0 something your a it's not Kyle Farnsworth No, this is our oldest champ Farnsworth Bentley who's been the best probably the best closer in baseball over the last five years Yeah, five years maybe I don't think about better clothes over the last five years You know cumulatively put together I mean there's been guys who better season here there but overall Maryana Riviera Chapman um, but I still agree with I did that I think I'll tell you one really got too cute with the bullpen in game three You either you don't bring in wood for to start that and you bring around on to start give someone a start The meaning use that words even I don't like the idea like I'll bring wood in here And then I can bring around down here and then force this hand to bring a jam and I agree with bringing a jam You bring in your best pitcher. I Just want to tell you that there's one reason that you should have been optimistic and that is the fact that the Giants have won more saves than anybody. Yeah, that was another thing I knew that too. I knew that going into the season I knew that because I have friends were giant fans to have a terrible double pennies They yeah, they're just I don't I'm not saying I want Cubs fans to be this like we could do it and be like, you know Weirdo fans where if we're down 12 nothing we still think we're gonna win But if it's the fourth inning of a game and you're only down by a couple runs the game isn't over and I don't understand the joy You know what they're doing they're protecting themselves in the sense.
Yeah, they want to be the first ones to post Yeah, here we go again. We're gonna lose again that way. They're covered. They're hedging their bets That was saying emotionally they're not going to that I post that I go I said I said I'm a real Cubs man I was at the game the day before and guess off and I posted in the game zero I did because I was watching the game and these are going to post during commercial breaks And I got I love both the guys who I can reference they're both really die-hard co-fans got the enjoyment of all four games of that series You know any of the various obsessive.
Yeah, I mean they're both obsessive fans I just don't see the joy in being the type of fan that ignores facts and the facts is that the Cubs you could come back They had a sense about them all year long that they were never out and the fact that Brian hit that bomb in the ninth inning The three other day before should have told you we have the top of our lineup We're done by three runs sure but we the top of the lineup coming up So Brian leads off with one of the best hitters in baseball coming up. Yeah, Brian singles Rizzo walks for a second double that's scored a bright or he's second third with nobody out still pinch it And that's when the genie that's when man and played a little manager little search strategy Never want to talk on a bad situation. He knew they're gonna bring the left He comes to our but also you gotta give the manager credit to a lot of people like to you know downplay what managers do The fact that he was like Edison Russell's not hitting right now I don't care if he had 95 RBS in order season. He's not hitting right now Right, I'm not badting him because he could easily you know most people have been like wow Edison Russell second third Nobody out why wouldn't you bat when your best RBI guys in that situation because he's smart He goes that I look at the match up the chair I'm not that sure I'm about that bring him in you and contrarist one up there I was just looking to drive the ball to the right side of the middle because he knew at the very least I would get The running that's a smart hitter right there you got the base up the middle.
He also run so I think we could have Did he break up that don't play No, that ball just got thrown away That was just a shitty throw by one of the best because Hayward was busting his ass down the line They said stack as if that was the fastest Hayward ever got done first base Wow like 3.7 Wow three points is really fast On record in the stack as there was like 4.1. Wow was flying down the line So you gotta give guys like Hayward credit He has not had a good offensive year defensively's been great and brings me great I like guys who don't like one area of their game affect the other areas of the game and I'm Brandon Crawford Who everyone probably has by the way speaking of a Russell. He's in second base, you know Crawford is like a fantastic shirt So oh he is unbelievable. I got a few more minutes on the podcast I want to end it you want to tell me about seeing Elmore's catch live Oh, that was amazing That was such a fantastic catch that was just the way he ran that down and then he got it and we looked up I got some easy to play that was that was something I mean I really Um, it's a great series.
You know you're the one game we lost my god bummer But before the series started everyone predicted Cubs in four and guess what that's what happened I predicted Cubs in four can I tell you what happened to me? Yes, you can do I hear you're better with the lineups out? Oh fuck you don't say it. No, but yeah, here's game one and I'll see us line up for the shadow Cubs That's your father leading off playing center field number betting second playing third base Chris Bryant in the three spot Anthony Rizzo at first over is cleaning up and left field over is a Russell betting five at shortstop Hey, we're sixth in right field by his seventh Ross catching and Lester on the bump no changes I don't like buying a seven that you get even more bets right now But then maybe it's a new series maybe add some calm That is a little bit that is a little happy Addison gets into those modes where he tries to pull the shed everything You can't get in that way he's going back.
You cannot hit an outside slider No, well because he's trying to pull the fucking ball if you have someone Get through to him a little bit like hey man You gotta let's just relax a little bit out there look to go the opposite way a little bit You can't go up there trying to yank everything in the left field seats That's not your game your guy who's gonna hit 20 to 25 home runs But you're gonna do it by spreading the ball around you know I mean I was on set for game four Oh, you poor bastard. Yeah, I want to hear the story. I know we got a I did not have my phone on me and it was like I Have no access to any information about the game It went way longer than I thought it was gonna be the six-page scene I was just know that I had three lines and that was it for you say no It's for an Amazon pilot called the legend of master legend which stars John Hawks who is In Deadwood and in eastbound and down. He's a fucking awesome actor great dude And then Shea Wigam who was like the bad guy sheriff on boardwalk empire Oh cool.
Yeah, and I have a very small role. My name is customer nice, but all right So you have your phone on you so I said I didn't know anybody and I have a small role So I turned like one of the like the extras and then because I figure you know, they don't know if I'm like a big shot There's something sure but they know your principal. Yeah, so I go Yeah, the guy this guy goes I do I go I just look up a sports score. He was what you want to go?
I go it's five to two in the top of the eighth and I go fuck And he goes yeah, and so I just have picture picturing like you're gonna be working in five on a picture in Quato at Wrigley Field I'm going to the thing I don't want to face quato. I'm like the Giants don't want to face Lester, right? We are the ones that knock go ahead and then there was like a five-minute break I was like catering same extra came up to me and he goes hey, they won and I go what and he goes Yeah, I guess they scored a bunch in the ninth and one and I go ah And I just hugged him and he's just like yeah, there's like another guy in there In like holding you know where the extra stay and he goes like he was like a cuz fan I go bring him And he goes this is him and I go ah That's awesome, and he was like excited to it's like the weirdest Four second total emotional roller coaster That I was busy all day and I was like fuck I have no idea what the score is I have no access to a phone no one's talking about the Cubs game on set And so I just like it was just like what is this score? Oh fuck it's not the score that I wanted to be It's not the end of my one in a row that a lot of fans went to bed early a lot imagine if you went to bed if you You know if you're an East Coast fan the time's own switch imagine if you went to bed in the eighth my dad made it to my dad Made it in Iowa and you wake up and you turn on the TV in the news It's like the Chicago Cubs of the second the second post season comeback in baseball history Biggest ninth inning comeback in a decider.
I know it's a lot of like caveats. Yeah, it's first round and all that stuff But I'm excited for the series game one is tonight everybody. I hope you're listening to it beforehand It's 12 30 la time. I'll make it as possible We didn't talk much about Cleveland Toronto.
That's okay. Though we all will be back with you midweek I think we'll do another podcast midweek is got update. Are you gonna? We own it all or any Indians fans are real She's born about her fan about the Indians because they're still called the Indians.
That's really what it is Yeah, no, she told me that I respect that though. She's consistent. You know me She's an ace fan now, and what about all the athletic people out there who don't want to be team named after him? What about the fat people huh?
Okay, they get the Oakland fats. Yeah, you know Those of you don't know real butcher is a hilarious hilarious really funny awesome comedian awesome person too has been on the podcast several times She's from Cleveland when the cabs want was from Akron. That's very important to her to get from a club on correct to me Yeah, she's from Akron. She likes, you know, she's very big under I understand I'm like that too Is she was nuts for the casters to huge LeBron supporter and you know so nice to see everything I think she's a die-hard baseball fan grew up watching Braves and Indians games with a grandma and everything like that But she's consistent though because she's also a big believer in equal rights, and I you know respect that tremendously on her And so in her you know she was saying to me when she's like how could I be this advocate for you know equal rights and I'm you know Treatment for you know LGBT team and I was fuck up the letters you guys know Cue and another one.
No, it's just okay. It's okay man. You gotta put the air on later So no real as a comedian is used her voice to really you know shed light on you know equality American things like that so you know I understand where she's coming from saying like as much as I'm I grew up Loving this team, you know 90s Indians fan and all that stuff. How could I continue to be a hypocrite in this realm?
Yeah, I get that yeah I get that I feel that way whenever I talk about animal rights and I dig into a steak I understand there's a lot of things on this world that are tricky and it's not so you know I get it where she's coming I know what my carbon footprint is yeah Gross living in a head and feet right now living in a head alright, um, Jay's Indians We will discuss a little bit more that Indians are up one oh right now. I still predict blue Jason seven I'm hoping for seven the national Dodgers I want to go five I want to go extra innings Kershaw talk about Kershaw briefly and wrap it up He's gonna go game two now. Are you? You know what do you think of this all these these pitching all these games in short rest?
You know I find it interesting that and I wrote about this but I haven't posted yet But uh before 2001 and LDS Randy Johnson was considered a choke artist in the post-season He went he lost seven games in a row because the 95 mariners I remember 95 then he goes to Houston Then for the Diamondbacks he lost seven games in a row starting at 95 and going up to 2001 and LDS His then he was not the game one NL CS starter not that that's make or break Kershaw isn't but you know it was chilling in 2001 It is his performance in 2001's NL CS and World Series that turned Randy Johnson into being considered like post-season dominant That's the thing about clutch that we talked about before and you know your clutch until you're not clutch until your clutch Barry bonds was a choke artist in for the pirates big time Yeah, and then here they grade 2002 right so it's just the narrative on also a different person in 2002 very bonds So I feel like that's a different comparison, you know you read yourself as a steroided freak But the even if he wasn't the principal is still the same It's a small sample size whatever you do Kershaw is Kershaw he can have bad outing it doesn't there is no Kershaw is bad in October for a I have to say yes on David Price though because the sample size is getting big enough where it's like Dude, it's almost a season now. It's nine games in a row for him It was seven for Randy Johnson. It was seven games in a row for a reason I will throw in how pitchers could choke in the playoffs is because they're tired well. They're tired Yeah, I get that Kershaw shouldn't be getting a little vacation in the middle of the season three months off the vacation I know I'm getting his injuries rehabbing.
Oh my god. Wow. That was amazing How you thought about me that was like seven people I don't know it's a game all of a sudden What's the fourth quarter seven seconds on a game 49 34 I was still up that guy Sad Iowa fans, dude, you're up by two scores a mass. That's that's someone who just lost money on a spread maybe or no Yeah, all right, but like Kershaw's a guy who's known it for pinpoint control So if he has a playoff outing where his controls all over the place, I have to be like oh, I think he's feeling the pressure a little bit Yeah, you know when you weigh that into it a little bit if a guy who never walks anybody starts walking some people he never Walks he never does so if he does that makes me think oh, he's feeling the pressure a little bit or he is tired I just want to know like one start all those series right like It was a very small sample size Take Kershaw of course although after this if you pitch his game to and then it's come back for game four or five This all this short rest.
I I'm not drafting first on my fantasy team next year I'll tell you what I can't like him last on the whole one's there to be a Kershaw October bomb more than me Yes, I mean, but he's the greatest pitcher on the planet you can't do it Fangraphs has the Dodgers up in the series fangraphs things the Dodgers are in the series, but yeah in the world series really yeah I go with five thirty eight. Yeah, they're impressive. Yeah, they're better predictors than fangraphs is I like fingers but there are how many times where I can tell you how many times I brought a fangraphs article in two weeks later I'm like I can't wait to go in fangraphs so that nerd who wrote the article could say what what it meant to say was And they did yeah, they're great. You know what I like what here's where fangraphs I love the most they're good at explaining okay This is why this guy's killing it right now or or they give you like some fun stuff about like the shift or or some stuff That no other websites are talking about that's where I love things I love fingers because their stats their snacks are the best yeah, are by far the best That's the only I don't think they're the best predictors of things Yeah, they have the I think the raise winning the Eastern they grinded 27 home runs at the start of the year you 39 Yeah, you know, I mean there's some stuff like that to do them just like okay They're great, but if they tell me the Dodgers are gonna win the world series I'm not going out and putting money on the Dodgers because that's what they think right you know I mean yeah 530.
I think that he got did he have the red Sox though in the world series with the Cubs Yeah, he probably did but that was like but they give you percentages and explain you why they think what they think you know I watch the two minute video on I'm the end meeting the red Sox in that series so fingers might be the only side I know that has the Dodgers Yeah, it's slight. I look at it yesterday I was like what the fuck I thought that the Cubs were favorites and then I started thinking about it I was like okay, so you got less like a Dodger like it lesser my a that I'm not picking and then like okay So Kershaw versus Hendricks in game to yes on paper Kershaw is the best but Hendricks are really like they're not gonna score Also the Cubs are smart. They're gonna work the count on Kershaw He's pitching on to like the sixth inning or something I know the Dodgers have the good bullpen, but do they have a short leash on him anyway? If he's just like I don't know and it comes to a great road team to the Dodgers still want at home I still like our chances overall Yeah, man like it's really hard to be the Cubs for this other game I think area has a good track record at Dodger Stadium.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I recall or call be in there for something special I just I'm looking forward to it. I'm going to three and four. I'm saying I am going to watch The Cubs erase 1945 in person game five Cubs in five my prediction to five. Yeah And all right.
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