00:00I know the boy, the American league is such a crap, right?
00:04I got a feeling when everything is said and done,
00:06it'll be Tampa Bay and we'll look back and say, yeah, why not?
00:08They had the best record in the American league.
00:10Why shouldn't have been that? Right.
00:11But we just don't want to give Tampa Bay any credit, but they got a three
00:15game lead over the Yanks for the division, which is also the number one seed.
00:21You know, major league baseball, Joe, I guess they, you know,
00:25got what they wanted, but I still think it's stupid.
00:27You know, we've talked about this Tampa Bay is going to have the best
00:30record. We'll just say, right.
00:32Yankees are going to have the second best record.
00:34Red Sox are going to have the third best record.
00:36Meanwhile,
00:37the Yankees and Red Sox are going to have to play against each other in the
00:40first round,
00:41despite having better records than the white Sox and Houston Astros.
00:46And what are those two stiff teams are going to get a buy.
00:49And then the Red Sox Yankees winner doesn't play the division winner.
00:54You know, that that's number three.
00:56They have to play Tampa Bay because they don't recede so that the number one
01:01and two wildcard team somehow or another has to play the best team in,
01:06in, in the American league.
01:07Whereas the number three wildcard team, theoretically, you know,
01:11we'll just say it's Cleveland wins and they get to play the worst division
01:14winner.
01:15It's really, it's, it's stupid.
01:17It really is.
01:18So, um, but yeah, somebody's got to play it, but I don't,
01:23I don't see anybody from the American league who's going to limp in making noise.
01:28I mean,
01:28is there somebody in American league and get red hot and run?
01:31No.
01:31I mean, what are we talking about?
01:33First round exit for any of these teams here at this point,
01:35the Houston Astros, Joe, the, the, the, the, the, I know Houston Astros are now
01:41just a game back from getting a body in the first round.
01:45That's crazy.
01:46Are you kidding me?
01:47This team has been awful.
01:49The three games over 500, but the white Sox are coming back to the pack.
01:53Hell, even the Texas Rangers, the in that Rangers are only four back.
01:57If they were to catch the Astros, you know, because the white Sox have just,
02:01you know, come back to the pack.
02:02It's just, yeah.
02:04Well, I don't see any, maybe the Yankees, you know, maybe Tampa Bay.
02:08I don't know, but realistically are any American league teams going to even
02:12challenge the Dodgers?
02:14Yeah.
02:15You know, at least the Toronto was good last year.
02:16Like I don't even see that, you know, going six, seven games,
02:20probably four or five game series.
02:23It's I think there's going to be some blowouts.
02:26I don't think there's going to be a whole lot of surprises, but again,
02:30it feels like there's the haves and the have nots here.
02:33And I know I was talking to Craig Mish yesterday.
02:36I mean, they were so looking forward to the Dodgers coming to town in Miami.
02:40And then he gets put on the IL here and all those folks who bought tickets to go
02:45see the Dodgers.
02:46And none of us, Scotty, think that the Dodgers are, you know,
02:52the, their path to a quick three-peat without a healthy Otani at the,
02:57forget about pitching at the plate.
02:59I don't know that they have that team this year.
03:02I really don't.
03:03Yeah.
03:04It's going to be interesting.
03:05They're in a dog fight.
03:07They've kind of separated themselves a little bit from Atlanta.
03:10Now four game lead in the loss column for the number two spot.
03:14And you'll try and catch Milwaukee, but the top two are the most important ones,
03:17right?
03:17Cause you get them the first round by,
03:19you don't have to deal with that best of three nonsense there, but yeah.
03:23I mean, they are susceptible.
03:25We mentioned it last week, they're right around 500 against winning teams.
03:30I mean, they're really, they're not great.
03:33You know, you know, that they just feast on the lousy team,
03:35like 30 games over 500 against the lousy team.
03:38They don't lose to the, you know,
03:40the Marlins and the Reds and the Rockies of the world.
03:43They just don't.
03:44Right.
03:44So they feast on that, but you get them in a short series.
03:47I think they're going to get beat.
03:48I don't know who it's going to be.
03:50I'm thinking maybe Philadelphia with those lefties, maybe Milwaukee,
03:53you know, with Mr. Rasky and company, but I, you know,
03:57if you gave me the field of the Dodgers, I would take the, the field.
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