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In the American League, we'll start with the uh Guardians and the uh White Sox.
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Uh this one, uh White Sox are up 2-0, heading back to Chicago.
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This is one that I feel of the of the three series that are 2-0, I feel like this one is over.
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This postseason we've already seen collapses, comebacks, and everything in between, and we're here to talk about it.
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Welcome back to another episode of Baseball in the Bible, where we do not claim to be experts for a reason you just saw.
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Yes.
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Um, we said it was gonna be over.
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We thought it was over.
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Famous last words.
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This series is is over, not even worth talking about.
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That is why uh we don't offer gambling advice or anything like that.
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Do do not bet because uh that's usually we get it wrong.
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And so that series looks dead.
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Um and it wasn't.
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So we thought the other series, you know, were still could still go and literally the exact opposite and they were over.
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So that's why we don't give advice on this podcast.
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We give our opinions, which are usually wrong, apparently.
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Yeah, uh, but that happened.
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So, yes, the postseason is is moving on.
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Last episode we talked about uh the division rounds, we gave our predictions sure to go wrong, and they they did for the most part.
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Again, the big one is is Cleveland and Chicago.
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Um, the other ones I think I mean we basically got them right, other than the fact that we thought the Brave we were pulling for the Braves to beat the Dodgers, and they did not.
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Um, so we're gonna get into all of those as we uh go forward.
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You want to give a little tease for what's at the end of this this pod?
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So yes, uh I don't have the pack on me right now, but we will be opening Top's finest 2026 at the end of this uh stick around.
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There you go.
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All right, let's get into that Cleveland uh well again, the Cleveland Chicago series and how that wrapped up and then where we're at uh now.
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Uh the ALCS is set.
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You've got uh Cleveland and uh Tampa.
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Again, if you look at the playoffs, the the final four teams that are left, uh we've got great storylines, uh, you know, really, uh in all four because the Dodgers are your back-to-back champs going for an unprecedented in the National League uh three-peat.
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Um and so that's a great storyline.
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You've got Cleveland who rallied back against the Sox and going for their first title since 1948.
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Um and then you have the Brewers and the Rays both going for their first title uh as a franchise.
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So great storylines.
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Whoever wins it, it's gonna be a pretty pretty cool deal.
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Again, in the American League, you're you're sure now to get a team, either Cleveland or Tampa, vying for a title from since 48 or never won it.
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Tampa hasn't been around that long, they haven't been around since 48, but uh so it's not like that's as as long of a drought as the the poor Cleveland fans.
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But that's true.
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But if you think about it, they haven't had a World Series since True, but they weren't even a team then, so still correct.
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Um but uh you got the the series and then again the the National League Championship Series, which we'll get into.
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But we'll start in the American League again.
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Cleveland was down 2-0 last time we sat in these chairs and and recorded, and we we buried them, said they were done.
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Series is over, not even worth talking about.
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We talked about it for like 30 seconds compared to all the other three series.
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You literally said, Listen, there's nothing you just want to do.
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There's nothing worth talking about.
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It's been a boring series.
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Cleveland is dead and it's over.
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But they weren't dead, they battled back.
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Uh won game three and four in Chicago.
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Uh I think again, game three was really there for the taking for the White Sox, and they they didn't do it, and and then it's just momentum and it began to build.
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And then obviously, Jose Ramirez, uh, the most uh underrated, or you know, I guess I mean he's a the underappreciated.
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Thank you.
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That's a good way to put it.
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Underappreciated superstar in baseball because he plays in Cleveland.
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If the if this guy played in New York or LA, uh I mean he's a Hall of Famer.
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Uh he will be a Hall of Famer.
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And and he's just he's great, and he was great again.
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Uh big home runs, uh, big hits.
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I think the difference this year, we we'll get it.
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We saw it in game one of the ALCS.
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The difference this year is he has some some young pieces around him to kind of provide some protection in that lineup.
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And so uh big hits uh from him.
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Some of the other guys chased it louder, uh, huge in game one of the ALCS, but they mounted the comeback and then really, you know, kind of put it on Chicago in game five, came back, and are now the the sixth team uh to come back uh in that first round or in the division round in the best of five.
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And so uh they they pulled it off and and now they're playing Tampa and the ALCS home field advantage to the the Rays because of uh because of their best record in in the American League.
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And immediately in game one, guardians win Guardians win, guardians still home field advantage.
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Momentum is real.
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It is real.
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Again, it it is.
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You win you know they they win on that Saturday night, have to get in late to Tampa and play Monday night, and and they win without even their best horse on the on the mound.
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They race at Rasmussen.
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Uh but again, big night from Chase DeLauder, the rookie.
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Big night from Jose Ramirez, uh Nathaniel Lowe, ex-ranger, had a big two out or two-run knock that uh gave them the lead.
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And so uh seven to three game one of the ALCS.
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And uh as we're recording tonight, game two is getting ready to be played.
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Uh, and so you got Parker Mesik.
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Uh that's the thing now.
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That I mean the Guardians are kind of set up.
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They've got Mesick going tonight, um and then his name's slipping me, but their other main guy going in game three.
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So uh they're sitting pretty as we head into game two, but obviously a long way to go.
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But feels like a very important win or game for Tampa tonight.
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You know, we'll we'll no matter if a series is up three to nothing, we will never again give the kiss of death to a team and say the series is over.
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So uh long way to go.
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And again, by the time this is airing on Sunday, the series is well down the the road, and we'll see see how it wraps up.
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But you've got you know two teams uh playing good baseball.
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Cleveland's hot.
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Uh but we'll see.
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We'll see if Tampa can pull out your thoughts on the you're going for Tampa.
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I want Tampa.
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Is there a reason behind that?
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No.
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I I mean we talked about uh boozer.
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Yeah, we did it.
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Cam boozer, great story.
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Um so I think that's that's my excuse.
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I just want Tampa to win.
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And my excuse is Cam Boozer.
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Okay.
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Well uh you know, I I uh I've gone I kind of go back and forth.
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Uh honestly, uh I'm I'm pulling, I think I'm pulling for Cleveland only just because that that fan base has had to endure a lot.
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A lot.
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And and and so they've had some close to the city.
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They should still be the Indians, and they'll forever be the Indians in my in my mind, in my heart.
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But um it you know, it's still the same franchise.
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And again, that you know, even in 2016, 10 years ago, to go to game seven, get so close against the Cubs that year.
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Uh at this point, I again either story is good, like we said, either either one is good.
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But um I think I'm pulling for Cleveland.
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And and again, now whether they win or not, I have I have no idea.
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I'm done making predictions.
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Uh I uh I don't know.
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Again, this series to me is just it's just so wide open.
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Um and and there's no way no way to know.
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Um again, Tampa looked so good against the Yankees.
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We didn't talk about that, but when we when we last week when we were done recording, they were up 2-0.
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I said the series is far from over.
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Yeah, it was we thought it was far from over, but they they won.
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I mean, they they swept him, beat him in in Yankee Stadium, um you know, beat Max Fried in game three, uh, swept the Yankees, and we're just playing great ball.
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And they still might, you know, they might win the next four for all we know.
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But um, they're they're a good team.
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Both teams are really good, but Cleveland kind of has that now that they've had to rally back.
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Definitely they have it's 2004 Red Sox vibes, honestly, for me.
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Like just the momentum kind of.
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Yeah.
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Um because once once you go on a roll like that, you you start thinking no one can stop us.
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Yeah, and that's what but we said that's what I thought about the White Sox, too.
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That's why I said it last week.
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I was like, you know, they they seem like a team that no matter what, they're just gonna win because they just felt like that kind of a but false, false, and you know, and credit to Cleveland, credit to the players on that team, and uh Jose Ramirez.
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So Cleveland, Tampa, and the ALCS again 1-0 as of tonight.
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We'll see where they're where they're at by Sunday by the time this comes out.
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Um, you're pulling for Tampa.
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I'm kind of pulling for Cleveland, I guess.
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Yeah, um in the National League.
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We both know who we're pulling for.
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Um, again, those series when we were here last week, the Dodgers and Braves were 1-1.
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Game three was going on as we were recording.
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Dodgers won game three, and then they won game four.
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Uh so that series was over.
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Um and looking good.
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The big question mark for them, and we'll talk about that a little bit here.
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Um, is there a focus player there?
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Otani.
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It's just crazy what a difference, first off, health makes, but what a difference a year makes because he was healthy last year at this time, and he was on the on the you know the most historic run ever, you know, in the in the playoffs in the World Series, that classic 18-inning game there where he reached base all nine times.
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I mean, he he couldn't get out, and now with the injuries, you really can't get on.
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He's falling apart.
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He's not falling apart.
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He's not healthy, he's still great, you know.
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His body's falling apart.
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His body's falling apart.
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And that's what you know, and it's part of that is again what he's what he's been doing has never been done, and it's got to be taxing on your body.
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And so uh there's question again as we're recording this game three is Wednesday of this current week.
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Uh uh, and we'll see if he plays.
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We want to jump to the gun there.
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But he was struggling in in that series against the Braves, but they did win and they moved on.
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And then the Brewers again, we were they were up 2-0, uh, heading to San Diego.
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Uh San Diego did win game three, and then Milwaukee uh won game.
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Well, that was a great series.
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To me, that's that's been the best series of any series so far.
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I could have you could have signed me up for another 10 games of that series because it was just every game was so so good.
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Um but Milwaukee, again, we've talked about it.
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Feels different this year.
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They do because some of those games, even against the Padres, were games that in the past they would not have won, and they did.
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And then so they move on, and you've got a rematch of rematch of last year's NLCS, which the Dodgers swept them last year.
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Uh, but it's just different.
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Yeah, it's different the night of this recording.
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Brewers are up two games to nothing.
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As we're recording, they're up two.
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Oh again, they're they'll play tomorrow night, game three back in LA.
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Not gonna say anything about this series.
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No, no, no, no.
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No, because this is the Dodgers, and and I do expect this to be a series.
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Um, and and they're back in in LA.
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You know, uh, and so the I'm not opposed to it not being a series.
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I'm not either, but let's yeah, let's not even talk about let's just not say anything.
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Brewers have Robert Gasser, I think, starting for them, and then uh Blake Snell, who we all know is amazing.
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Um, if he's on.
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Uh so you've got that for your game three matchup.
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I'm sure the Dodgers will have Glass now in game four.
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I don't know what the Brewers are gonna do, if it'll be Dustin May or what, but um you're going to going back to LA.
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Again, the big question mark as of today is Otani apparently is gonna be a game time decision if he plays in game three.
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Um, and so that's big news if he does not play.
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Um, but we'll see what happens in that series.
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But the first two games, again, great games.
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Back and forth game two, back and forth.
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Uh but every time the Dodgers would punch, the the Brewers would punch back, which again is is different than in years past.
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And so uh back and forth game two, a couple big hits, a couple errors that you thought, okay, the Brewers are gonna collapse, Dodgers are gonna win this game, and then they would they would punch back.
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So big hits.
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Um, I mean, in game two, Contreras had a monster night, monster night had a big home run.
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I think he had three hits, three or four RBI, uh, and then they're whooping for the first two games of the series, I mean, throughout the whole year, but uh these first two games.
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Miz wasn't great in game one.
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I think he went four and a third.
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Yeah.
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Um, but he's keeping his team in the game.
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I say he wasn't great, he still only gave up one run to the Dodgers, which is you know, still great.
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But he did he's just he's having to throw too many pitches.
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Um which is how the Padres defeated him.
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Yeah, and you know, not every team can do that.
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You know, and maybe there's maybe he's a little bit off.
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You also have you know some good teams there that are just making him work, fouling off a ton of pinches.
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I think you know he was uh he just throwing, I think in game one he threw like there's like 1.24 two-strike pitches, and he only had two two swinging misses on those, which is just unheard of because his rate is once he gets you to two strikes, you're usually done.
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But they just kept fouling it off and he couldn't put them away.
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And then they would either you know they were walking or putting the ball in play.
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So he battled through it four and a third, and then they got the win, and then again game two.
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But the bullpen has been been very good.
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So we'll see, we'll see what happens again.
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Long way to go.
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All the brewers have done is defend their home field.
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Now they got to go to LA and and hopefully win a game there uh and see.
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So you know, we've got all these storylines, it's gonna be good.
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You know, the World Series is gonna be there's gonna be storylines on that, but you know, hopefully the Brew can finish them off.
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We're both pulling for that.
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And so by the time we come together next week, you know, hopefully that series is over and the brewers have won it.
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But I want it to be over by tomorrow.
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Yeah, but uh we'll see what happens.
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And so uh but we make no predictions.
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Again, if you remember, we're not the only ones that get predictions wrong because we we showed at the start of the postseason the uh MLB the show 26, their bracket.
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Yeah, that makes me feel a lot better.
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If we put that up right now, you can see that uh they got they both got eliminated.
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Well, they had the all four teams in their you know, their ALCS and L NLCS were both wrong, World Series wrong.
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So uh it's just hard to predict, even after you again, none of these teams are surprising that they're there.
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It's just especially once you see the series playing out, you think it might go one way or the other.
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But definitely uh it's fun, fun to watch.
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And so we'll see who steps up, we'll see who has some big moments here in these ALCS and NLCS uh the rest of the way and and see who's who's gonna match up in the World Series.
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So it's been a fun, fun postseason to this point.
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So we'll just keep keep tracking it.
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And uh if if a series is over, we'll put that up now.
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But if they're not, we won't.
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And we'll see.
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We'll see.
00:18:13.599 --> 00:18:15.200
We'll put up what the series is right now.
00:18:15.599 --> 00:18:17.599
You watching this now, you watching it now.
00:18:17.759 --> 00:18:18.880
You know, we don't know what this is.
00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:23.119
You don't need this this yeah, so you know.
00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:24.640
Anyway, all right.
00:18:24.799 --> 00:18:33.599
Um before we open up the the pack of cards, let's do uh oh, you want to do a useless fact of the week of the day.
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Fact of the week.
00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:35.680
Yeah, fact of the week.
00:18:35.839 --> 00:18:43.599
And um Dan can pull up the exact numbers for this, that would help, but there it is, it's on the screen.
00:18:44.079 --> 00:19:03.599
Our useless fact uh of the week is all three teams uh left in the playoffs besides the Dodgers combined, still essentially the combined value of all three teams is less than the total value of the Dodgers.
00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:15.039
Not the value, the the value is probably even worse, but the the the payroll, the payroll for the the Guardians, Brewers, and Rays is much it makes more sense if you look at the picture.
00:19:15.279 --> 00:19:17.359
Just look at the picture as Riker's trying to explain it.
00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:20.640
But that is the useless That's our useless fact of the week of the week.
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You're welcome.
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You have knowledge of it.
00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:23.680
It's not super useless.
00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:28.559
Again, it's it's it's interesting again as we talk about the the the haves and the have nots.
00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:34.319
Both the the other three teams are all on the lower spectrum of payroll in baseball.
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Dodgers are obviously at the top of that list, and so uh it's an interesting thing.
00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:48.319
Again, as we head into the off-season and all the talk about you know, salary cap and will there be a lockout and all that stuff.
00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:56.640
It does show that you know, obviously, if you're the Dodgers and you can spend all that and buy an all-star team, you're gonna be in the hunt.
00:19:56.880 --> 00:19:59.759
But if you're not, it doesn't mean you can't compete.
00:19:59.920 --> 00:20:02.240
You look at Cleveland, Tampa, and Milwaukee.
00:20:02.319 --> 00:20:09.440
And so it's an interesting discussion as we head into the offseason whether you know it should be a salary cap or not.
00:20:09.920 --> 00:20:12.880
This could make or break the salary cap debate.
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I don't think it makes or breaks it, but it uh could play a factor.
00:20:17.119 --> 00:20:19.039
Say Tampa or Milwaukee win it.
00:20:19.119 --> 00:20:21.359
Yeah, I mean, it does play a factor to say well, yeah.
00:20:21.759 --> 00:20:22.480
Well, I mean, they did it.
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They did it.
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So why can't Pittsburgh do it?
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Why can't you know all these other small markets?
00:20:28.400 --> 00:20:29.839
So it's an interesting argument.
00:20:29.920 --> 00:20:31.119
Um, but there you go.
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That's Riker's useless fact of the week.
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I guess you now have knowledge.
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I don't know what you do with that, but enjoy.
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All right, uh, let's do our devotion.
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And uh we we picked this one, or you picked it based on this time, I picked it.
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The irony of this devotion is it was written for this player on a different comeback from injury, and now this certain player is dealing with more injury, and we talked about them already, but Shohei Otani.
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Otani.
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Um our verse of the week is Isaiah 4031.
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But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.
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The stadium lights glowed over the field, but the moment felt heavy.
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Shohei Otani stepped toward the batter's box while the crowd buzzed with anticipation.
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Everyone knew the story.
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Injury, surgery, months away from the game.
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Some people had wondered if he would ever return the same way.
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The pressure followed him everywhere.
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Cameras, questions, doubts.
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The pitcher delivered the first pitch, strike one.
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The crowd murmured.
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Otani stepped out of the box, rolling his shoulders once.
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The moment easily could feel overwhelming.
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Expectations can do that.
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But he had spent months rebuilding his strength, quiet training sessions, endless rep.
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Competition, day after day showing up when no one was watching.
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He stepped back into the box.
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The next pitch came in fast.
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Crack.
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The ball launched high into the night sky, soaring deep into the outfield seats.
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The crowd erupted as it disappeared over the fence.
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Otani rounded the bases calmly, almost quietly, because the real victory wasn't just the home run.
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It was the comeback, the patience, the discipline, the courage to start again.
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Setbacks happen.
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But when you keep showing up, strength returns.
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One day, one inning, one pitch at a time.
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Now the only difference between this story and what's currently going on is Otani hasn't hit a home run in over 100 at bats.
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True.
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But anyway, back to the devotion.
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The reflection.
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Every athlete faces setbacks, injuries, slumps, or moments of doubt.
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Isaiah 4031 reminds us that strength is renewed when we place our hope in God.
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Like Shoheotani, rebuilding after injury, growth often happens in the quiet that no one sees.
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When you stay patient and faithful during difficult seasons, God builds resilience in your heart and prepares you for new opportunities.
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The affirmation for this week is my strength is renewed through perseverance and faith.
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In our action that we challenge you to follow along at home with and comment below how you did this action.
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Think about one challenge you're facing right now.
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Write down the small step you can take today to keep improving and moving forward.
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Um, so that's our devotion for the week.
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All right.
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And uh just uh I didn't say it at the beginning.
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This is Short Devotions for Baseball Athletes by Coach Marcus James.
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That's what it looks like.
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There you go.
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All right.
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Um we are gonna transition and take a short break and come back with opening Top's Finest.
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All right.
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We'll be right back.
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Be right back.
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All right, one seating and camera change later, and we're here about to open Top's Finest 2026.
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We got Yoshinobu uh Yamamoto on the cover.
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Uh six cards a pack, eight packs a box.
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Uh, what is that?
00:24:40.960 --> 00:24:42.160
48 cards?
00:24:42.400 --> 00:24:43.680
48 cards, yes.
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Good math.
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Advanced math, by the way.
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And so um, this is uh one of our first ventures into hobby boxes.
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We've opened one before off camera, and one great so one great.
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So is this a Riker's birthday?
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Uh just passed.
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I'll throw that up there.
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Happy birthday, Riker.
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Yep, there's my new hat I got, Hercules from Sandlock.
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So I'm gonna do the honors of now but as you cut it open.
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I I do want to say we watched Pack Bros before we did this.
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Yep, and they pulled uh a Troy Johnston autograph.
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But because they didn't know who he was, which they shouldn't know who he was.
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They should know.
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He's amazing.
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It's our boy, it's our boy, but since they didn't know, they started dogging him.
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Baseball in the Bible's favorite uh MLB player, Troy Johnston.
00:25:44.160 --> 00:25:46.960
Uh, but they got a signed auto from it, so I I wouldn't mind getting it.
00:25:47.119 --> 00:25:49.519
I would like a Troy auto, please.
00:25:49.839 --> 00:25:56.160
They also got uh in another box got a Murakami one, which was Murakami out of 75.
00:25:56.720 --> 00:25:57.359
Yep.
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So here we go.
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Let's rip it open.
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We got a total of one, two, we got six packs.
00:26:03.359 --> 00:26:04.480
So you get three, I get two.
00:26:04.880 --> 00:26:05.359
No, there's eight.
00:26:05.599 --> 00:26:06.240
Oh, there's eight packs.
00:26:06.319 --> 00:26:08.160
Okay, eight packs, six in a pack.
00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:08.960
There you go.
00:26:09.039 --> 00:26:10.720
So you get four, I get four.
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Sit that there.
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We'll open these up.
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There.
00:26:13.519 --> 00:26:14.960
Do them one at a time, though.
00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:15.440
Yeah.
00:26:16.720 --> 00:26:20.000
And uh kind of hold them up there for the camera.
00:26:20.319 --> 00:26:21.519
We'll see what we get.
00:26:21.759 --> 00:26:25.759
Who oh, um, there is rarity on these.
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Uh I don't know if you paid attention.
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So, for example, first card right here, uh, Trey Turner.
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It has green on the back, so it's uncommon.
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Hold it up there a little better here.
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There's the camera focus in there.
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It should say uncommon on the back, so that's how you know.
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Jackson Churio, base.
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Colson Montgomery, bass.
00:26:53.039 --> 00:26:56.960
Luis Morales, uncommon.
00:26:57.680 --> 00:26:58.000
Okay.
00:26:58.319 --> 00:26:59.200
Where does it say that?
00:26:59.279 --> 00:26:59.599
Let me see.
00:26:59.839 --> 00:27:01.440
Uh on the back, above his name.
00:27:01.599 --> 00:27:03.200
Okay, because Trey Turner says common.
00:27:03.359 --> 00:27:03.759
Right.
00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:04.400
Okay.
00:27:04.559 --> 00:27:05.920
So that's common.
00:27:06.240 --> 00:27:10.400
Edwin Diaz, team finest, and shohei Otani.
00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:12.319
What is it?
00:27:13.039 --> 00:27:13.759
Is it just a base?
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It's a team's finest.
00:27:16.720 --> 00:27:19.039
So that's our first pack.
00:27:19.200 --> 00:27:20.720
We got a shohei.
00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:28.799
Hopefully, they're not taking into account he's in a slump right now, and that uh that still goes for something, maybe.
00:27:28.960 --> 00:27:29.440
Hopefully.
00:27:29.839 --> 00:27:36.000
But we had a uh we had an uncommon, so so I'll do I'll do what they do, and they kind of like spread.
00:27:36.640 --> 00:27:37.279
Spread the borders, yeah.
00:27:39.039 --> 00:27:45.759
Okay, so we got some some things happening there.
00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:47.920
Oh, oh, I got something.
00:27:48.079 --> 00:27:50.880
And uh mini diamond, which is exclusive to this pack.
00:27:51.359 --> 00:27:53.119
What happened to us opening one pack at a time here?
00:27:53.200 --> 00:27:54.079
You just kind of jumping in.
00:27:54.319 --> 00:27:54.880
No, yeah, sorry.
00:27:54.960 --> 00:27:56.799
I thought you were saying, yeah, you go.
00:27:57.599 --> 00:27:59.680
All right, I got a Ronald Acunia Jr.
00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:03.599
Sal Stewart rookie card right there.
00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:06.480
It's a common two bucks.
00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:08.400
Sal Stewart, yeah, two bucks, probably.
00:28:09.039 --> 00:28:13.119
Uh CJ Cafus for the Guardians rookie card.
00:28:13.680 --> 00:28:16.319
Uh World's Finest, Byron Buxton.
00:28:18.400 --> 00:28:20.799
And then there.
00:28:23.279 --> 00:28:24.319
Nothing special.
00:28:24.400 --> 00:28:25.599
I don't see on the back of that.
00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:29.359
And then uh Bubba Chandler arrivals rookie card.
00:28:29.920 --> 00:28:30.319
Cool.
00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:32.400
Well, uh, world's finest, what'd you get?
00:28:32.880 --> 00:28:33.680
Byron Buxton.
00:28:33.920 --> 00:28:34.559
Cool, cool.
00:28:34.720 --> 00:28:41.359
That's his team USA uh so I think those world finest cards are there from the World Baseball Classic.
00:28:41.680 --> 00:28:44.799
Yeah, so Team USA Byron Buxton.
00:28:45.119 --> 00:28:46.079
Alright.
00:28:46.640 --> 00:28:57.440
Uh I got Carson Williams, Tampa Bay, uh, base, Dylan Cruz, base, Bryce Eldridge, rookie.
00:28:57.759 --> 00:28:59.200
Oh, that could be a good one.
00:28:59.359 --> 00:29:01.200
Yeah, Bryce Eldridge rookie.
00:29:01.440 --> 00:29:15.119
I have another rookie, so I might put that in uh Dylan Beavers, Owen Casey, rookie, uh to rare, and then an Owen Casey mini diamond.
00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:16.880
Two Owen Casey's?
00:29:17.119 --> 00:29:23.359
Two Owen Casey's in a row, but they were both not bass, so I was like, Alright, open up another.
00:29:23.519 --> 00:29:30.240
Um the Bryce Elders a common or uncommon?
00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:31.519
Uh just bass.
00:29:31.920 --> 00:29:32.720
Just regular bass, okay.
00:29:35.680 --> 00:29:43.359
Andrew Painter for the Phillies, rookie, Mookie Betts, Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
00:29:43.920 --> 00:29:46.240
All of these are uncommons, are commons.
00:29:46.559 --> 00:29:53.519
George Springer, Raphael Devers, World's Finest Kyle Swarber.
00:29:53.839 --> 00:29:55.519
So there's like that.
00:29:55.839 --> 00:29:58.880
And that concludes my second pack.
00:29:58.960 --> 00:30:00.319
If we will get in the focus there.
00:30:01.200 --> 00:30:02.559
So that concludes my second pack.
00:30:04.240 --> 00:30:05.359
No, third pack, sorry.
00:30:05.519 --> 00:30:05.680
Okay.
00:30:05.920 --> 00:30:06.720
Third pack.
00:30:06.960 --> 00:30:07.839
Alright.
00:30:08.880 --> 00:30:09.440
Here we go.
00:30:09.920 --> 00:30:14.720
I think my team's finest Shohei is probably leading the pack when it comes to money.
00:30:15.039 --> 00:30:18.079
Alright, let me spread them out here, see if anything jumps out at you.
00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:21.119
Oh, um I'm showing the mini button.
00:30:21.440 --> 00:30:23.359
All right, so that should be good.
00:30:23.920 --> 00:30:28.720
Samuel Basalow rookie card for the Orioles, Salvi Perez.
00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:30.559
Oh, here we go.
00:30:31.440 --> 00:30:32.880
It's a base, I think.
00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:34.319
Uh, we got two of them here.
00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:36.799
Kevin, it's a common Kevin McConagal.
00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:37.599
Yeah, that could be.
00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:38.960
I think that's five bucks.
00:30:39.279 --> 00:30:44.799
Rookie card for the Tigers, and then a J Miz rookie card.
00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:46.319
Wait, that.
00:30:46.559 --> 00:30:51.119
Oh, he had a beard when the uh during the photo shoot shoot photo shoot of that.
00:30:51.519 --> 00:30:53.440
J Miz rookie card.
00:30:53.839 --> 00:31:01.359
Uh Jonathan Tong, and then we got the top's finest hunter green.
00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:02.960
Uncommon.
00:31:04.319 --> 00:31:05.519
You want to open another pack?
00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:07.920
One is already boogered up on the side.
00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:08.720
That stinks.
00:31:08.960 --> 00:31:12.240
So that's not gonna be uh graded well.
00:31:12.960 --> 00:31:13.920
That's fine.
00:31:14.160 --> 00:31:15.039
That's awesome.
00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:16.640
Uh Harry, you can open that one.
00:31:16.880 --> 00:31:18.079
Alright, cool.
00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:20.160
Alright.
00:31:20.480 --> 00:31:22.559
So far, Schlitler.
00:31:23.519 --> 00:31:25.200
So far, we're not nothing.
00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:26.640
No, nothing bigger.
00:31:27.920 --> 00:31:31.599
Schlitler, Schwerbern and Borders.
00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:32.559
Okay.
00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:44.559
Schwerber, Harry Ford, Roman Anthony, rookie card, Juan Soto, team finest, Garrett Crochet.
00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:45.920
That's it?
00:31:46.079 --> 00:31:46.960
That's it.
00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:50.319
Tops finest, you're doing it again.
00:31:51.039 --> 00:31:54.559
Ah well, these packs are not cheap.
00:31:54.880 --> 00:31:55.920
No, they aren't.
00:31:56.079 --> 00:31:57.599
And we're gonna cook them.
00:31:57.839 --> 00:32:00.319
And we're not killing anything right now.
00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:02.799
Uh I'm just gonna open mine so it's it's ready to go.
00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:03.599
So we are, you know, right?
00:32:04.079 --> 00:32:10.319
Got Justin Crawford rookie card, uh, Wyatt Lankford, uh for all our Ranger fans.
00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:11.519
Not as rookie, though.
00:32:11.680 --> 00:32:14.079
Not as rookie, just a regular base card.
00:32:14.559 --> 00:32:21.599
Catel Marte, uh, another Basal rookie card, and another Sal Stewart rookie card.
00:32:21.920 --> 00:32:22.240
Okay.
00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:24.400
Same, same thing.
00:32:24.720 --> 00:32:26.400
So no bangers there.
00:32:26.640 --> 00:32:26.960
Okay.
00:32:27.519 --> 00:32:28.960
Oh, got some action.
00:32:29.279 --> 00:32:30.319
Got some action on mine.
00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:31.200
Oh yeah.
00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:34.160
Uh got a little pink mini diamond going on.
00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:35.759
Aaron Judge.
00:32:36.240 --> 00:32:37.200
Yamoto.
00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:39.279
Oh, and Casey.
00:32:39.519 --> 00:32:43.279
Again, good players, obviously, but just Christian Moore.
00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:50.480
We'll put my little because the thing with these tops finest is it's supposed to be it's like a certain set list of players, right?
00:32:50.640 --> 00:32:54.319
It's not it's uh it's a smaller list of players.
00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:54.640
Right.
00:32:54.720 --> 00:33:00.240
It's not like some of the like even the ones we've opened before that have a bunch of no-name rookies on it.
00:33:00.400 --> 00:33:02.559
Uh it's pink, so I think it's gonna be out of a number.
00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:04.799
It's pink, so it's gonna be out of a number, I think.
00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:05.920
So I'm gonna do it.
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Pac Bros does sweat it.
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Um so excellent.
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Nobody can see what you're seeing right there.
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It's a pirate.
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You know, back it up, back it up, back it up, back it up.
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It's a pirate.
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According to the hat.
00:33:20.160 --> 00:33:21.519
Seems to be a pitcher.
00:33:24.160 --> 00:33:25.200
Sorry, I'm not a pitcher.
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Out of 250.
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Alright, out of 250.
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Out of America's birthday.
00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:32.799
Um who is it?
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Hunter Barko.
00:33:38.559 --> 00:33:43.680
Please put up Hunter Barco's uh ERA right now.
00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:46.000
Yeah, he's a rookie.
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He's a rookie.
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Maybe.
00:33:48.480 --> 00:33:49.440
Maybe.
00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:51.599
So it's out of 250.
00:33:51.680 --> 00:33:53.039
What is it out of 250?
00:33:53.359 --> 00:33:54.079
159.
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159 out of 250.
00:33:56.079 --> 00:33:59.119
So, and then Christian Moore mini diamond.
00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:02.319
Well, so there we had a numbered card.
00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:04.319
We had a numbered card, and that is the thing.
00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:08.639
That's always when you're opening these packs, you're guaranteed these.
00:34:08.880 --> 00:34:11.760
Some of them when you buy them, you're guaranteed nothing.
00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:13.039
Nothing or something.
00:34:13.119 --> 00:34:18.079
This one is only, again, some of these mini diamond parallels, but it's not guaranteed either.
00:34:18.159 --> 00:34:20.320
On that, I mean, yeah, they're gonna come though.
00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:22.719
But I mean, it's it's uncommon.
00:34:23.599 --> 00:34:28.960
But that's the that's kind of the fun and the not fun part of opening these.
00:34:29.199 --> 00:34:32.559
Um Hunter Bar hunt hunter barco.
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Please ball out.
00:34:34.719 --> 00:34:35.119
Yep.
00:34:35.280 --> 00:34:37.599
So all right, we're gonna do another one next week.
00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:40.320
Riker got some some cards for his birthday again.
00:34:40.400 --> 00:34:41.519
We've opened some already.
00:34:41.599 --> 00:34:44.159
Uh, still hunting for that JJ Weatherholt.
00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:51.679
Uh, he brought his binder up here hoping to have something special to put in it, but um nothing this week, but we'll also leave it.
00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:56.800
We'll open uh I think we got uh some 2026 Bowlman that we'll open up next week.
00:34:56.880 --> 00:34:59.920
And uh let's keep keep doing it.
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:01.519
It's fun, fun little hobby.
00:35:01.599 --> 00:35:06.239
But uh haven't haven't hit anything big at this point.
00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:08.079
So again, still looking for the weather Holt.
00:35:08.400 --> 00:35:09.519
Open the 2026.
00:35:09.599 --> 00:35:11.920
I'll take a Joshua Baez rookie card too now.
00:35:12.239 --> 00:35:14.079
Please do they even have those audio?
00:35:14.320 --> 00:35:16.159
No, they should in the 2026.
00:35:17.119 --> 00:35:18.719
All right, that's it.
00:35:18.880 --> 00:35:23.599
Uh I don't know if you guys enjoy that, but Riker enjoys it.
00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:26.480
I don't enjoy getting blown out of the water, per se.
00:35:26.719 --> 00:35:33.280
But well, despite getting blown out of the water, go ahead and pray for us and uh then we'll close it out before you start separating all these cards.
00:35:33.440 --> 00:35:34.480
All right, we got it.
00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:37.119
Lord, thank you for this day.
00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:38.880
Thank you uh just for the podcast.
00:35:39.039 --> 00:35:44.559
Lord, I pray that uh watching this, we would just uh grow in your faith uh every day, Lord.
00:35:44.639 --> 00:35:50.880
I just pray that uh we would always remember what you did on the cross, and that would we never take that for granted.
00:35:50.960 --> 00:35:52.559
I pray in Jesus' name, amen.
00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:53.280
Amen.
00:35:53.760 --> 00:35:54.480
Thank you guys.
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Have a great, great week, and we'll see ya next episode.
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See who's in perhaps in the World Series.
00:36:00.719 --> 00:36:00.960
All right.
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See ya.
00:36:01.519 --> 00:36:02.079
Have a great week.
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In the American League, we'll start with the uh Guardians and the uh White Sox.
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Uh this one, uh White Sox are up 2-0, heading back to Chicago.
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This is one that I feel of the of the three series that are 2-0, I feel like this one is over.
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This postseason we've already seen collapses, comebacks, and everything in between, and we're here to talk about it.
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Welcome back to another episode of Baseball in the Bible, where we do not claim to be experts for a reason you just saw.
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Yes.
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Um, we said it was gonna be over.
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We thought it was over.
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Famous last words.
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This series is is over, not even worth talking about.
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That is why uh we don't offer gambling advice or anything like that.
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Do do not bet because uh that's usually we get it wrong.
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And so that series looks dead.
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Um and it wasn't.
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So we thought the other series, you know, were still could still go and literally the exact opposite and they were over.
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So that's why we don't give advice on this podcast.
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We give our opinions, which are usually wrong, apparently.
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Yeah, uh, but that happened.
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So, yes, the postseason is is moving on.
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Last episode we talked about uh the division rounds, we gave our predictions sure to go wrong, and they they did for the most part.
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Again, the big one is is Cleveland and Chicago.
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Um, the other ones I think I mean we basically got them right, other than the fact that we thought the Brave we were pulling for the Braves to beat the Dodgers, and they did not.
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Um, so we're gonna get into all of those as we uh go forward.
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You want to give a little tease for what's at the end of this this pod?
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So yes, uh I don't have the pack on me right now, but we will be opening Top's finest 2026 at the end of this uh stick around.
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And uh before we continue, uh if you like what you're watching, like, subscribe, tell a friend, and hit the notification bell so you're always alerted when we drop a new uh episode.
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There you go.
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All right, let's get into that Cleveland uh well again, the Cleveland Chicago series and how that wrapped up and then where we're at uh now.
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Uh the ALCS is set.
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You've got uh Cleveland and uh Tampa.
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Again, if you look at the playoffs, the the final four teams that are left, uh we've got great storylines, uh, you know, really, uh in all four because the Dodgers are your back-to-back champs going for an unprecedented in the National League uh three-peat.
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Um and so that's a great storyline.
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You've got Cleveland who rallied back against the Sox and going for their first title since 1948.
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Um and then you have the Brewers and the Rays both going for their first title uh as a franchise.
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So great storylines.
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Whoever wins it, it's gonna be a pretty pretty cool deal.
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Again, in the American League, you're you're sure now to get a team, either Cleveland or Tampa, vying for a title from since 48 or never won it.
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Tampa hasn't been around that long, they haven't been around since 48, but uh so it's not like that's as as long of a drought as the the poor Cleveland fans.
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But that's true.
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But if you think about it, they haven't had a World Series since True, but they weren't even a team then, so still correct.
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Um but uh you got the the series and then again the the National League Championship Series, which we'll get into.
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But we'll start in the American League again.
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Cleveland was down 2-0 last time we sat in these chairs and and recorded, and we we buried them, said they were done.
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Series is over, not even worth talking about.
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We talked about it for like 30 seconds compared to all the other three series.
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You literally said, Listen, there's nothing you just want to do.
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There's nothing worth talking about.
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It's been a boring series.
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Cleveland is dead and it's over.
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But they weren't dead, they battled back.
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Uh won game three and four in Chicago.
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Uh I think again, game three was really there for the taking for the White Sox, and they they didn't do it, and and then it's just momentum and it began to build.
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And then obviously, Jose Ramirez, uh, the most uh underrated, or you know, I guess I mean he's a the underappreciated.
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Thank you.
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That's a good way to put it.
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Underappreciated superstar in baseball because he plays in Cleveland.
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If the if this guy played in New York or LA, uh I mean he's a Hall of Famer.
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Uh he will be a Hall of Famer.
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And and he's just he's great, and he was great again.
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Uh big home runs, uh, big hits.
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I think the difference this year, we we'll get it.
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We saw it in game one of the ALCS.
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The difference this year is he has some some young pieces around him to kind of provide some protection in that lineup.
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And so uh big hits uh from him.
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Some of the other guys chased it louder, uh, huge in game one of the ALCS, but they mounted the comeback and then really, you know, kind of put it on Chicago in game five, came back, and are now the the sixth team uh to come back uh in that first round or in the division round in the best of five.
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And so uh they they pulled it off and and now they're playing Tampa and the ALCS home field advantage to the the Rays because of uh because of their best record in in the American League.
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And immediately in game one, guardians win Guardians win, guardians still home field advantage.
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Momentum is real.
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It is real.
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Again, it it is.
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You win you know they they win on that Saturday night, have to get in late to Tampa and play Monday night, and and they win without even their best horse on the on the mound.
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They race at Rasmussen.
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Uh but again, big night from Chase DeLauder, the rookie.
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Big night from Jose Ramirez, uh Nathaniel Lowe, ex-ranger, had a big two out or two-run knock that uh gave them the lead.
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And so uh seven to three game one of the ALCS.
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And uh as we're recording tonight, game two is getting ready to be played.
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Uh, and so you got Parker Mesik.
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Uh that's the thing now.
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That I mean the Guardians are kind of set up.
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They've got Mesick going tonight, um and then his name's slipping me, but their other main guy going in game three.
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So uh they're sitting pretty as we head into game two, but obviously a long way to go.
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But feels like a very important win or game for Tampa tonight.
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You know, we'll we'll no matter if a series is up three to nothing, we will never again give the kiss of death to a team and say the series is over.
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So uh long way to go.
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And again, by the time this is airing on Sunday, the series is well down the the road, and we'll see see how it wraps up.
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But you've got you know two teams uh playing good baseball.
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Cleveland's hot.
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Uh but we'll see.
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We'll see if Tampa can pull out your thoughts on the you're going for Tampa.
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I want Tampa.
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Is there a reason behind that?
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No.
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I I mean we talked about uh boozer.
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Yeah, we did it.
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Cam boozer, great story.
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Um so I think that's that's my excuse.
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I just want Tampa to win.
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And my excuse is Cam Boozer.
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Okay.
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Well uh you know, I I uh I've gone I kind of go back and forth.
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Uh honestly, uh I'm I'm pulling, I think I'm pulling for Cleveland only just because that that fan base has had to endure a lot.
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A lot.
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And and and so they've had some close to the city.
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They should still be the Indians, and they'll forever be the Indians in my in my mind, in my heart.
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But um it you know, it's still the same franchise.
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And again, that you know, even in 2016, 10 years ago, to go to game seven, get so close against the Cubs that year.
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Uh at this point, I again either story is good, like we said, either either one is good.
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But um I think I'm pulling for Cleveland.
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And and again, now whether they win or not, I have I have no idea.
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I'm done making predictions.
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Uh I uh I don't know.
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Again, this series to me is just it's just so wide open.
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Um and and there's no way no way to know.
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Um again, Tampa looked so good against the Yankees.
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We didn't talk about that, but when we when we last week when we were done recording, they were up 2-0.
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I said the series is far from over.
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Yeah, it was we thought it was far from over, but they they won.
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I mean, they they swept him, beat him in in Yankee Stadium, um you know, beat Max Fried in game three, uh, swept the Yankees, and we're just playing great ball.
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And they still might, you know, they might win the next four for all we know.
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But um, they're they're a good team.
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Both teams are really good, but Cleveland kind of has that now that they've had to rally back.
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Definitely they have it's 2004 Red Sox vibes, honestly, for me.
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Like just the momentum kind of.
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Yeah.
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Um because once once you go on a roll like that, you you start thinking no one can stop us.
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Yeah, and that's what but we said that's what I thought about the White Sox, too.
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That's why I said it last week.
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I was like, you know, they they seem like a team that no matter what, they're just gonna win because they just felt like that kind of a but false, false, and you know, and credit to Cleveland, credit to the players on that team, and uh Jose Ramirez.
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So Cleveland, Tampa, and the ALCS again 1-0 as of tonight.
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We'll see where they're where they're at by Sunday by the time this comes out.
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Um, you're pulling for Tampa.
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I'm kind of pulling for Cleveland, I guess.
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Yeah, um in the National League.
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We both know who we're pulling for.
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Um, again, those series when we were here last week, the Dodgers and Braves were 1-1.
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Game three was going on as we were recording.
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Dodgers won game three, and then they won game four.
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Uh so that series was over.
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Um and looking good.
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The big question mark for them, and we'll talk about that a little bit here.
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Um, is there a focus player there?
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Otani.
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It's just crazy what a difference, first off, health makes, but what a difference a year makes because he was healthy last year at this time, and he was on the on the you know the most historic run ever, you know, in the in the playoffs in the World Series, that classic 18-inning game there where he reached base all nine times.
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I mean, he he couldn't get out, and now with the injuries, you really can't get on.
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He's falling apart.
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He's not falling apart.
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He's not healthy, he's still great, you know.
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His body's falling apart.
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His body's falling apart.
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And that's what you know, and it's part of that is again what he's what he's been doing has never been done, and it's got to be taxing on your body.
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And so uh there's question again as we're recording this game three is Wednesday of this current week.
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Uh uh, and we'll see if he plays.
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We want to jump to the gun there.
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But he was struggling in in that series against the Braves, but they did win and they moved on.
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And then the Brewers again, we were they were up 2-0, uh, heading to San Diego.
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Uh San Diego did win game three, and then Milwaukee uh won game.
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Well, that was a great series.
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To me, that's that's been the best series of any series so far.
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I could have you could have signed me up for another 10 games of that series because it was just every game was so so good.
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Um but Milwaukee, again, we've talked about it.
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Feels different this year.
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They do because some of those games, even against the Padres, were games that in the past they would not have won, and they did.
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And then so they move on, and you've got a rematch of rematch of last year's NLCS, which the Dodgers swept them last year.
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Uh, but it's just different.
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Yeah, it's different the night of this recording.
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Brewers are up two games to nothing.
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As we're recording, they're up two.
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Oh again, they're they'll play tomorrow night, game three back in LA.
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Not gonna say anything about this series.
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No, no, no, no.
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No, because this is the Dodgers, and and I do expect this to be a series.
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Um, and and they're back in in LA.
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You know, uh, and so the I'm not opposed to it not being a series.
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I'm not either, but let's yeah, let's not even talk about let's just not say anything.
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Brewers have Robert Gasser, I think, starting for them, and then uh Blake Snell, who we all know is amazing.
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Um, if he's on.
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Uh so you've got that for your game three matchup.
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I'm sure the Dodgers will have Glass now in game four.
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I don't know what the Brewers are gonna do, if it'll be Dustin May or what, but um you're going to going back to LA.
00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:41.039
Again, the big question mark as of today is Otani apparently is gonna be a game time decision if he plays in game three.
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Um, and so that's big news if he does not play.
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Um, but we'll see what happens in that series.
00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:51.279
But the first two games, again, great games.
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Back and forth game two, back and forth.
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Uh but every time the Dodgers would punch, the the Brewers would punch back, which again is is different than in years past.
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And so uh back and forth game two, a couple big hits, a couple errors that you thought, okay, the Brewers are gonna collapse, Dodgers are gonna win this game, and then they would they would punch back.
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So big hits.
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Um, I mean, in game two, Contreras had a monster night, monster night had a big home run.
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I think he had three hits, three or four RBI, uh, and then they're whooping for the first two games of the series, I mean, throughout the whole year, but uh these first two games.
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Miz wasn't great in game one.
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I think he went four and a third.
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Yeah.
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Um, but he's keeping his team in the game.
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I say he wasn't great, he still only gave up one run to the Dodgers, which is you know, still great.
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But he did he's just he's having to throw too many pitches.
00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:51.759
Um which is how the Padres defeated him.
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Yeah, and you know, not every team can do that.
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You know, and maybe there's maybe he's a little bit off.
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You also have you know some good teams there that are just making him work, fouling off a ton of pinches.
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I think you know he was uh he just throwing, I think in game one he threw like there's like 1.24 two-strike pitches, and he only had two two swinging misses on those, which is just unheard of because his rate is once he gets you to two strikes, you're usually done.
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But they just kept fouling it off and he couldn't put them away.
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And then they would either you know they were walking or putting the ball in play.
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So he battled through it four and a third, and then they got the win, and then again game two.
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But the bullpen has been been very good.
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So we'll see, we'll see what happens again.
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Long way to go.
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All the brewers have done is defend their home field.
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Now they got to go to LA and and hopefully win a game there uh and see.
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So you know, we've got all these storylines, it's gonna be good.
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You know, the World Series is gonna be there's gonna be storylines on that, but you know, hopefully the Brew can finish them off.
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We're both pulling for that.
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And so by the time we come together next week, you know, hopefully that series is over and the brewers have won it.
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But I want it to be over by tomorrow.
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Yeah, but uh we'll see what happens.
00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:09.519
And so uh but we make no predictions.
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Again, if you remember, we're not the only ones that get predictions wrong because we we showed at the start of the postseason the uh MLB the show 26, their bracket.
00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:21.599
Yeah, that makes me feel a lot better.
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If we put that up right now, you can see that uh they got they both got eliminated.
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Well, they had the all four teams in their you know, their ALCS and L NLCS were both wrong, World Series wrong.
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So uh it's just hard to predict, even after you again, none of these teams are surprising that they're there.
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It's just especially once you see the series playing out, you think it might go one way or the other.
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But definitely uh it's fun, fun to watch.
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And so we'll see who steps up, we'll see who has some big moments here in these ALCS and NLCS uh the rest of the way and and see who's who's gonna match up in the World Series.
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So it's been a fun, fun postseason to this point.
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So we'll just keep keep tracking it.
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And uh if if a series is over, we'll put that up now.
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But if they're not, we won't.
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And we'll see.
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We'll see.
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We'll put up what the series is right now.
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You watching this now, you watching it now.
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You know, we don't know what this is.
00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:23.119
You don't need this this yeah, so you know.
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Anyway, all right.
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Um before we open up the the pack of cards, let's do uh oh, you want to do a useless fact of the week of the day.
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Fact of the week.
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Yeah, fact of the week.
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And um Dan can pull up the exact numbers for this, that would help, but there it is, it's on the screen.
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Our useless fact uh of the week is all three teams uh left in the playoffs besides the Dodgers combined, still essentially the combined value of all three teams is less than the total value of the Dodgers.
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Not the value, the the value is probably even worse, but the the the payroll, the payroll for the the Guardians, Brewers, and Rays is much it makes more sense if you look at the picture.
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Just look at the picture as Riker's trying to explain it.
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But that is the useless That's our useless fact of the week of the week.
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You're welcome.
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You have knowledge of it.
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It's not super useless.
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Again, it's it's it's interesting again as we talk about the the the haves and the have nots.
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Both the the other three teams are all on the lower spectrum of payroll in baseball.
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Dodgers are obviously at the top of that list, and so uh it's an interesting thing.
00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:48.319
Again, as we head into the off-season and all the talk about you know, salary cap and will there be a lockout and all that stuff.
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It does show that you know, obviously, if you're the Dodgers and you can spend all that and buy an all-star team, you're gonna be in the hunt.
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But if you're not, it doesn't mean you can't compete.
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You look at Cleveland, Tampa, and Milwaukee.
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And so it's an interesting discussion as we head into the offseason whether you know it should be a salary cap or not.
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This could make or break the salary cap debate.
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I don't think it makes or breaks it, but it uh could play a factor.
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Say Tampa or Milwaukee win it.
00:20:19.119 --> 00:20:21.359
Yeah, I mean, it does play a factor to say well, yeah.
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Well, I mean, they did it.
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They did it.
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So why can't Pittsburgh do it?
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Why can't you know all these other small markets?
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So it's an interesting argument.
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Um, but there you go.
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That's Riker's useless fact of the week.
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I guess you now have knowledge.
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I don't know what you do with that, but enjoy.
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All right, uh, let's do our devotion.
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And uh we we picked this one, or you picked it based on this time, I picked it.
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The irony of this devotion is it was written for this player on a different comeback from injury, and now this certain player is dealing with more injury, and we talked about them already, but Shohei Otani.
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Otani.
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Um our verse of the week is Isaiah 4031.
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But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.
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The stadium lights glowed over the field, but the moment felt heavy.
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Shohei Otani stepped toward the batter's box while the crowd buzzed with anticipation.
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Everyone knew the story.
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Injury, surgery, months away from the game.
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Some people had wondered if he would ever return the same way.
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The pressure followed him everywhere.
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Cameras, questions, doubts.
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The pitcher delivered the first pitch, strike one.
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The crowd murmured.
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Otani stepped out of the box, rolling his shoulders once.
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The moment easily could feel overwhelming.
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Expectations can do that.
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But he had spent months rebuilding his strength, quiet training sessions, endless rep.
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Competition, day after day showing up when no one was watching.
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He stepped back into the box.
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The next pitch came in fast.
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Crack.
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The ball launched high into the night sky, soaring deep into the outfield seats.
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The crowd erupted as it disappeared over the fence.
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Otani rounded the bases calmly, almost quietly, because the real victory wasn't just the home run.
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It was the comeback, the patience, the discipline, the courage to start again.
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Setbacks happen.
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But when you keep showing up, strength returns.
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One day, one inning, one pitch at a time.
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Now the only difference between this story and what's currently going on is Otani hasn't hit a home run in over 100 at bats.
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True.
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But anyway, back to the devotion.
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The reflection.
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Every athlete faces setbacks, injuries, slumps, or moments of doubt.
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Isaiah 4031 reminds us that strength is renewed when we place our hope in God.
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Like Shoheotani, rebuilding after injury, growth often happens in the quiet that no one sees.
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When you stay patient and faithful during difficult seasons, God builds resilience in your heart and prepares you for new opportunities.
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The affirmation for this week is my strength is renewed through perseverance and faith.
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In our action that we challenge you to follow along at home with and comment below how you did this action.
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Think about one challenge you're facing right now.
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Write down the small step you can take today to keep improving and moving forward.
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Um, so that's our devotion for the week.
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All right.
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And uh just uh I didn't say it at the beginning.
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This is Short Devotions for Baseball Athletes by Coach Marcus James.
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That's what it looks like.
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There you go.
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All right.
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Um we are gonna transition and take a short break and come back with opening Top's Finest.
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All right.
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We'll be right back.
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Be right back.
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All right, one seating and camera change later, and we're here about to open Top's Finest 2026.
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We got Yoshinobu uh Yamamoto on the cover.
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Uh six cards a pack, eight packs a box.
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Uh, what is that?
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48 cards?
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48 cards, yes.
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Good math.
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Advanced math, by the way.
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And so um, this is uh one of our first ventures into hobby boxes.
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We've opened one before off camera, and one great so one great.
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So is this a Riker's birthday?
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Uh just passed.
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I'll throw that up there.
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Happy birthday, Riker.
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Yep, there's my new hat I got, Hercules from Sandlock.
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So I'm gonna do the honors of now but as you cut it open.
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I I do want to say we watched Pack Bros before we did this.
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Yep, and they pulled uh a Troy Johnston autograph.
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But because they didn't know who he was, which they shouldn't know who he was.
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They should know.
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He's amazing.
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It's our boy, it's our boy, but since they didn't know, they started dogging him.
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Baseball in the Bible's favorite uh MLB player, Troy Johnston.
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Uh, but they got a signed auto from it, so I I wouldn't mind getting it.
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I would like a Troy auto, please.
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They also got uh in another box got a Murakami one, which was Murakami out of 75.
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Yep.
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So here we go.
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Let's rip it open.
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We got a total of one, two, we got six packs.
00:26:03.359 --> 00:26:04.480
So you get three, I get two.
00:26:04.880 --> 00:26:05.359
No, there's eight.
00:26:05.599 --> 00:26:06.240
Oh, there's eight packs.
00:26:06.319 --> 00:26:08.160
Okay, eight packs, six in a pack.
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There you go.
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So you get four, I get four.
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Sit that there.
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We'll open these up.
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There.
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Do them one at a time, though.
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Yeah.
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And uh kind of hold them up there for the camera.
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We'll see what we get.
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Who oh, um, there is rarity on these.
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Uh I don't know if you paid attention.
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So, for example, first card right here, uh, Trey Turner.
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It has green on the back, so it's uncommon.
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Hold it up there a little better here.
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There's the camera focus in there.
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It should say uncommon on the back, so that's how you know.
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Jackson Churio, base.
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Colson Montgomery, bass.
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Luis Morales, uncommon.
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Okay.
00:26:58.319 --> 00:26:59.200
Where does it say that?
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Let me see.
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Uh on the back, above his name.
00:27:01.599 --> 00:27:03.200
Okay, because Trey Turner says common.
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Right.
00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:04.400
Okay.
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So that's common.
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Edwin Diaz, team finest, and shohei Otani.
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What is it?
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Is it just a base?
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It's a team's finest.
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So that's our first pack.
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We got a shohei.
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Hopefully, they're not taking into account he's in a slump right now, and that uh that still goes for something, maybe.
00:27:28.960 --> 00:27:29.440
Hopefully.
00:27:29.839 --> 00:27:36.000
But we had a uh we had an uncommon, so so I'll do I'll do what they do, and they kind of like spread.
00:27:36.640 --> 00:27:37.279
Spread the borders, yeah.
00:27:39.039 --> 00:27:45.759
Okay, so we got some some things happening there.
00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:47.920
Oh, oh, I got something.
00:27:48.079 --> 00:27:50.880
And uh mini diamond, which is exclusive to this pack.
00:27:51.359 --> 00:27:53.119
What happened to us opening one pack at a time here?
00:27:53.200 --> 00:27:54.079
You just kind of jumping in.
00:27:54.319 --> 00:27:54.880
No, yeah, sorry.
00:27:54.960 --> 00:27:56.799
I thought you were saying, yeah, you go.
00:27:57.599 --> 00:27:59.680
All right, I got a Ronald Acunia Jr.
00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:03.599
Sal Stewart rookie card right there.
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It's a common two bucks.
00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:08.400
Sal Stewart, yeah, two bucks, probably.
00:28:09.039 --> 00:28:13.119
Uh CJ Cafus for the Guardians rookie card.
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Uh World's Finest, Byron Buxton.
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And then there.
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Nothing special.
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I don't see on the back of that.
00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:29.359
And then uh Bubba Chandler arrivals rookie card.
00:28:29.920 --> 00:28:30.319
Cool.
00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:32.400
Well, uh, world's finest, what'd you get?
00:28:32.880 --> 00:28:33.680
Byron Buxton.
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Cool, cool.
00:28:34.720 --> 00:28:41.359
That's his team USA uh so I think those world finest cards are there from the World Baseball Classic.
00:28:41.680 --> 00:28:44.799
Yeah, so Team USA Byron Buxton.
00:28:45.119 --> 00:28:46.079
Alright.
00:28:46.640 --> 00:28:57.440
Uh I got Carson Williams, Tampa Bay, uh, base, Dylan Cruz, base, Bryce Eldridge, rookie.
00:28:57.759 --> 00:28:59.200
Oh, that could be a good one.
00:28:59.359 --> 00:29:01.200
Yeah, Bryce Eldridge rookie.
00:29:01.440 --> 00:29:15.119
I have another rookie, so I might put that in uh Dylan Beavers, Owen Casey, rookie, uh to rare, and then an Owen Casey mini diamond.
00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:16.880
Two Owen Casey's?
00:29:17.119 --> 00:29:23.359
Two Owen Casey's in a row, but they were both not bass, so I was like, Alright, open up another.
00:29:23.519 --> 00:29:30.240
Um the Bryce Elders a common or uncommon?
00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:31.519
Uh just bass.
00:29:31.920 --> 00:29:32.720
Just regular bass, okay.
00:29:35.680 --> 00:29:43.359
Andrew Painter for the Phillies, rookie, Mookie Betts, Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
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All of these are uncommons, are commons.
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George Springer, Raphael Devers, World's Finest Kyle Swarber.
00:29:53.839 --> 00:29:55.519
So there's like that.
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And that concludes my second pack.
00:29:58.960 --> 00:30:00.319
If we will get in the focus there.
00:30:01.200 --> 00:30:02.559
So that concludes my second pack.
00:30:04.240 --> 00:30:05.359
No, third pack, sorry.
00:30:05.519 --> 00:30:05.680
Okay.
00:30:05.920 --> 00:30:06.720
Third pack.
00:30:06.960 --> 00:30:07.839
Alright.
00:30:08.880 --> 00:30:09.440
Here we go.
00:30:09.920 --> 00:30:14.720
I think my team's finest Shohei is probably leading the pack when it comes to money.
00:30:15.039 --> 00:30:18.079
Alright, let me spread them out here, see if anything jumps out at you.
00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:21.119
Oh, um I'm showing the mini button.
00:30:21.440 --> 00:30:23.359
All right, so that should be good.
00:30:23.920 --> 00:30:28.720
Samuel Basalow rookie card for the Orioles, Salvi Perez.
00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:30.559
Oh, here we go.
00:30:31.440 --> 00:30:32.880
It's a base, I think.
00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:34.319
Uh, we got two of them here.
00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:36.799
Kevin, it's a common Kevin McConagal.
00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:37.599
Yeah, that could be.
00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:38.960
I think that's five bucks.
00:30:39.279 --> 00:30:44.799
Rookie card for the Tigers, and then a J Miz rookie card.
00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:46.319
Wait, that.
00:30:46.559 --> 00:30:51.119
Oh, he had a beard when the uh during the photo shoot shoot photo shoot of that.
00:30:51.519 --> 00:30:53.440
J Miz rookie card.
00:30:53.839 --> 00:31:01.359
Uh Jonathan Tong, and then we got the top's finest hunter green.
00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:02.960
Uncommon.
00:31:04.319 --> 00:31:05.519
You want to open another pack?
00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:07.920
One is already boogered up on the side.
00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:08.720
That stinks.
00:31:08.960 --> 00:31:12.240
So that's not gonna be uh graded well.
00:31:12.960 --> 00:31:13.920
That's fine.
00:31:14.160 --> 00:31:15.039
That's awesome.
00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:16.640
Uh Harry, you can open that one.
00:31:16.880 --> 00:31:18.079
Alright, cool.
00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:20.160
Alright.
00:31:20.480 --> 00:31:22.559
So far, Schlitler.
00:31:23.519 --> 00:31:25.200
So far, we're not nothing.
00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:26.640
No, nothing bigger.
00:31:27.920 --> 00:31:31.599
Schlitler, Schwerbern and Borders.
00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:32.559
Okay.
00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:44.559
Schwerber, Harry Ford, Roman Anthony, rookie card, Juan Soto, team finest, Garrett Crochet.
00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:45.920
That's it?
00:31:46.079 --> 00:31:46.960
That's it.
00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:50.319
Tops finest, you're doing it again.
00:31:51.039 --> 00:31:54.559
Ah well, these packs are not cheap.
00:31:54.880 --> 00:31:55.920
No, they aren't.
00:31:56.079 --> 00:31:57.599
And we're gonna cook them.
00:31:57.839 --> 00:32:00.319
And we're not killing anything right now.
00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:02.799
Uh I'm just gonna open mine so it's it's ready to go.
00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:03.599
So we are, you know, right?
00:32:04.079 --> 00:32:10.319
Got Justin Crawford rookie card, uh, Wyatt Lankford, uh for all our Ranger fans.
00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:11.519
Not as rookie, though.
00:32:11.680 --> 00:32:14.079
Not as rookie, just a regular base card.
00:32:14.559 --> 00:32:21.599
Catel Marte, uh, another Basal rookie card, and another Sal Stewart rookie card.
00:32:21.920 --> 00:32:22.240
Okay.
00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:24.400
Same, same thing.
00:32:24.720 --> 00:32:26.400
So no bangers there.
00:32:26.640 --> 00:32:26.960
Okay.
00:32:27.519 --> 00:32:28.960
Oh, got some action.
00:32:29.279 --> 00:32:30.319
Got some action on mine.
00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:31.200
Oh yeah.
00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:34.160
Uh got a little pink mini diamond going on.
00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:35.759
Aaron Judge.
00:32:36.240 --> 00:32:37.200
Yamoto.
00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:39.279
Oh, and Casey.
00:32:39.519 --> 00:32:43.279
Again, good players, obviously, but just Christian Moore.
00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:50.480
We'll put my little because the thing with these tops finest is it's supposed to be it's like a certain set list of players, right?
00:32:50.640 --> 00:32:54.319
It's not it's uh it's a smaller list of players.
00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:54.640
Right.
00:32:54.720 --> 00:33:00.240
It's not like some of the like even the ones we've opened before that have a bunch of no-name rookies on it.
00:33:00.400 --> 00:33:02.559
Uh it's pink, so I think it's gonna be out of a number.
00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:04.799
It's pink, so it's gonna be out of a number, I think.
00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:05.920
So I'm gonna do it.
00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:08.079
Pac Bros does sweat it.
00:33:08.799 --> 00:33:12.079
Um so excellent.
00:33:12.240 --> 00:33:13.599
Nobody can see what you're seeing right there.
00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:14.720
It's a pirate.
00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:17.519
You know, back it up, back it up, back it up, back it up.
00:33:17.920 --> 00:33:18.559
It's a pirate.
00:33:18.880 --> 00:33:19.920
According to the hat.
00:33:20.160 --> 00:33:21.519
Seems to be a pitcher.
00:33:24.160 --> 00:33:25.200
Sorry, I'm not a pitcher.
00:33:25.680 --> 00:33:26.720
Out of 250.
00:33:26.960 --> 00:33:28.079
Alright, out of 250.
00:33:28.400 --> 00:33:29.920
Out of America's birthday.
00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:32.799
Um who is it?
00:33:33.119 --> 00:33:34.400
Hunter Barko.
00:33:38.559 --> 00:33:43.680
Please put up Hunter Barco's uh ERA right now.
00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:46.000
Yeah, he's a rookie.
00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:47.200
He's a rookie.
00:33:47.519 --> 00:33:48.160
Maybe.
00:33:48.480 --> 00:33:49.440
Maybe.
00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:51.599
So it's out of 250.
00:33:51.680 --> 00:33:53.039
What is it out of 250?
00:33:53.359 --> 00:33:54.079
159.
00:33:54.480 --> 00:33:55.920
159 out of 250.
00:33:56.079 --> 00:33:59.119
So, and then Christian Moore mini diamond.
00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:02.319
Well, so there we had a numbered card.
00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:04.319
We had a numbered card, and that is the thing.
00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:08.639
That's always when you're opening these packs, you're guaranteed these.
00:34:08.880 --> 00:34:11.760
Some of them when you buy them, you're guaranteed nothing.
00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:13.039
Nothing or something.
00:34:13.119 --> 00:34:18.079
This one is only, again, some of these mini diamond parallels, but it's not guaranteed either.
00:34:18.159 --> 00:34:20.320
On that, I mean, yeah, they're gonna come though.
00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:22.719
But I mean, it's it's uncommon.
00:34:23.599 --> 00:34:28.960
But that's the that's kind of the fun and the not fun part of opening these.
00:34:29.199 --> 00:34:32.559
Um Hunter Bar hunt hunter barco.
00:34:33.039 --> 00:34:34.320
Please ball out.
00:34:34.719 --> 00:34:35.119
Yep.
00:34:35.280 --> 00:34:37.599
So all right, we're gonna do another one next week.
00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:40.320
Riker got some some cards for his birthday again.
00:34:40.400 --> 00:34:41.519
We've opened some already.
00:34:41.599 --> 00:34:44.159
Uh, still hunting for that JJ Weatherholt.
00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:51.679
Uh, he brought his binder up here hoping to have something special to put in it, but um nothing this week, but we'll also leave it.
00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:56.800
We'll open uh I think we got uh some 2026 Bowlman that we'll open up next week.
00:34:56.880 --> 00:34:59.920
And uh let's keep keep doing it.
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:01.519
It's fun, fun little hobby.
00:35:01.599 --> 00:35:06.239
But uh haven't haven't hit anything big at this point.
00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:08.079
So again, still looking for the weather Holt.
00:35:08.400 --> 00:35:09.519
Open the 2026.
00:35:09.599 --> 00:35:11.920
I'll take a Joshua Baez rookie card too now.
00:35:12.239 --> 00:35:14.079
Please do they even have those audio?
00:35:14.320 --> 00:35:16.159
No, they should in the 2026.
00:35:17.119 --> 00:35:18.719
All right, that's it.
00:35:18.880 --> 00:35:23.599
Uh I don't know if you guys enjoy that, but Riker enjoys it.
00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:26.480
I don't enjoy getting blown out of the water, per se.
00:35:26.719 --> 00:35:33.280
But well, despite getting blown out of the water, go ahead and pray for us and uh then we'll close it out before you start separating all these cards.
00:35:33.440 --> 00:35:34.480
All right, we got it.
00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:37.119
Lord, thank you for this day.
00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:38.880
Thank you uh just for the podcast.
00:35:39.039 --> 00:35:44.559
Lord, I pray that uh watching this, we would just uh grow in your faith uh every day, Lord.
00:35:44.639 --> 00:35:50.880
I just pray that uh we would always remember what you did on the cross, and that would we never take that for granted.
00:35:50.960 --> 00:35:52.559
I pray in Jesus' name, amen.
00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:53.280
Amen.
00:35:53.760 --> 00:35:54.480
Thank you guys.
00:35:54.639 --> 00:35:58.719
Have a great, great week, and we'll see ya next episode.
00:35:58.880 --> 00:36:00.639
See who's in perhaps in the World Series.
00:36:00.719 --> 00:36:00.960
All right.
00:36:01.199 --> 00:36:01.440
See ya.
00:36:01.519 --> 00:36:02.079
Have a great week.
