00:00It does feel we are a five, six game winning streak away from somebody sneaking into the
00:06postseason.
00:07And didn't Texas, uh, when they ran it to the world series years ago, uh, Craig, uh,
00:13was it would vote you remember they snuck into the wild card, I believe.
00:17And then they ended up just getting hot at the right time.
00:20So I mean, maybe we're underestimating them, right?
00:24Same thing.
00:25Yeah.
00:25Arizona, same, same thing.
00:26Got into the playoffs.
00:27They played Texas in the world series that year.
00:30Uh, yeah, yeah.
00:30Going back to going back to Scherzer and Scherzer, by the way, at this time last year, uh, it
00:36was not the same, but it was a similar situation.
00:39Scherzer was hurt.
00:41I think at the end last year and then just came back and actually was serviceable for
00:45them last year in the postseason for Toronto.
00:48Now, maybe things change and they're giving him every opportunity to do so, but his ERA
00:53is pushing seven, Joe.
00:54Like he has not been good at all.
00:57Um, I, I can't imagine him coming back and pitching next season.
01:01The second he retires, he's a hall of famer in four years from now.
01:04We know that, but he is Joe.
01:07One of the, I mean, Verlander is similar in a way, but Scherzer just feels like that guy.
01:11You cannot take the Jersey off him.
01:12Like, I, I, I, call me, call me crazy.
01:16I think next season, you know, spring training is going to pop up and, and Max Scherzer is
01:21going to be in spring training with Tampa Bay, you know, like, like thinking he can like
01:25resurrect something, you know?
01:26So Verlander has said he has done Scherzer has not said anything.
01:30Uh, but I, I just, I, even, even with the plus one 90, whatever, I just can't do it.
01:34I cannot back him tonight in Tampa.
01:36I can't do it.
01:37Um, yeah, well, listen, it, you know, some guys are just winners, right?
01:42And no matter where he's gone, he's, he's been, he's one, uh, and even at 42 years old,
01:48cause I think you're right.
01:49Verlander was the only older guy in major league baseball.
01:52They're about a year apart.
01:54Uh, but he has hinted in every direction that this is going to be it, but a guy like him,
02:00you know, still rolling out there every fourth or fifth day and the team being in contention.
02:06Yeah, it's, you know, there are crazier ways to rally around guys, right?
02:10You know what I mean?
02:11And that, uh, that team might get a little healthier if they can get, uh, you know, Vlad
02:16back going in some way, Springer, uh, you know, that's anything is possible with 35 games to
02:22go and maybe make a run.
02:24But one thing is for sure, Tampa at 75 and 50 has been, they've done their part to show
02:31that they're a real contender.
02:33Uh, but my goodness, it's, uh, it's going to start to get, how much does experience play
02:39a role?
02:39These final 35 games, Craig would, you know, Toronto having been there just a year ago
02:45and Tampa was playing and, uh, you know, uh, Steinbrenner field in a minor league ballpark
02:51a year ago.
02:52Yeah, no, I, I, I understand.
02:54I'm, I'm not worried about the raise because I just think that they'll still, you know, win
02:58the majority of their home games, although lately it hasn't gone the way that they would
03:02expect.
03:02I think they will before the end of the season.
03:04I know they had an off night last night.
03:07Nick Martinez had an off night last night, but I, I just think in the end, uh, you know,
03:11the 125 games into the season.
03:15So as you said, 30 some odd games, Tampa Bay is going to win 20 of those, Joe, you know,
03:22they're going to win 20.
03:23They're going to end up at least with 95 wins, I would guess.
03:26And that's going to be good enough to get them a buy in the American league.
03:29It may not be good enough to get them the number one overall, but it's going to, it's,
03:32it's going to be good enough to get them a buy and, and they won't be playing in the first
03:35round.
03:36And then in the American league division series, they're going to play some team that had to
03:40win the wild card and go to, and they're going to have, that team's going to have to
03:43go to St. Petersburg.
03:44I feel good about Tampa Bay's chances, but, but I would tell you that once that division series
03:49is done, I, I, I don't know if they, if I think they'll win the American league championship
03:53series or even the world series, because, you know, generally Tampa Bay, Milwaukee, Cleveland,
03:59those teams are more built for the regular season than they are for the postseason.
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