00:00The Guardians and Red Sox have a heck of a pitcher's duel here tonight with Peyton Tully and Parker Mezik
00:07there, Craig.
00:08I mean, I believe you've seen both these guys up close here this year.
00:12Six is the total Red Sox at Fenway, a slight minus 125 favorite.
00:18We know the Guardians are in a battle here, but the motivation for the Red Sox in this one.
00:26Well, I mean, the motivation may be that their manager just got an extension.
00:30Maybe that could be something to fire them up tonight.
00:34But if you remember the comment that I made last week that all it would require would be some team
00:40to win five games in a row and they would make the playoffs, guess what?
00:44It is Cleveland.
00:45Again, second straight year, Cleveland has won five games in a row.
00:49They won ten games in a row to end the season last year.
00:53Oh, tough, tough pitching matchup tonight.
00:55Mezik wasn't as good last time out.
00:58Peyton Tully's good pretty much every time out.
01:01What is Boston playing for at this point?
01:04Positioning, Joe?
01:05I guess no positioning, right?
01:06They got to go to Yankee Stadium.
01:08Is that right?
01:08They got to go to Yankee Stadium no matter what?
01:11Yeah.
01:11Give me Cleveland tonight, Joe.
01:13Cut and dry.
01:15I'm kind of with you there.
01:17I didn't understand that line.
01:18Yeah.
01:19Yeah, Cleveland's basically playing postseason baseball right now because there is no tomorrow.
01:25They understand what's going on here.
01:27So I think that should be a good one.
01:29And listen, I think Wheeler in his battle here tonight is also fascinating going up against Dusty May.
01:37It's in Philly.
01:39It's not a crazy price in that 140 range there for the Phillies tonight.
01:44Zach Wheeler at home.
01:45He's listening.
01:46He had a couple of rough outings in September here at the end of August.
01:50But the Phillies, you know, they don't want to get caught, do they, by the Padres?
01:54Like the Phillies would love nothing more than at home to hold serve here, would they not?
02:00Yeah, but I'm just not going to go against Milwaukee, Joe.
02:03It would just be a pass for me because the Brewers have won three in a row again.
02:08Their pitchers have thrown now 19 scoreless innings.
02:11I mean, they're just so good.
02:13They're just so good.
02:14I think your thought process is correct here, but I am not going to go against the Brewers until we
02:20get to the playoffs.
02:20It doesn't matter if they need the game, if they don't need the game, if they want it.
02:24If they don't, they just keep winning.
02:25I mean, Joe, they're two wins away from 100, and we're not even in the final weekend of the season.
02:29I mean, the Brewers have a chance to win 106 games or something, like 107 games.
02:34It is crazy.
02:35So I understand the sentiment, and I understand where you're coming from, but Milwaukee is just so good.
02:41They're just so good.
02:41So I'm going to just pass on this.
02:44And you're right, Philly has a lot more to play.
02:46I mean, Milwaukee's playing for nothing, but they were playing for nothing yesterday, and they won.
02:50They were playing for nothing the day before, and they won.
02:52I'm just not doing it, not getting in the way.
02:53I didn't know this, but, I mean, Milwaukee is, this would be their first 100-win season in franchise history.
03:01They have never won 100 games, and I didn't know that in history.
03:06So those guys are rallying around.
03:08I do believe, what was it?
03:10They swept Baltimore there, right?
03:13They won on Sunday 3-0, so that was that.
03:16But if they win this tonight, and I think an Atlanta loss, they pretty much lock up, what is it,
03:22home, at least a first-round bye.
03:24But I still think the Dodgers are only, what, a couple of games back of them, three games, I think?
03:29Yeah, for the number one.
03:31So if Milwaukee wins, they clinch the home-field advantage.
03:35Or if the Braves lose, they clinch the home-field advantage.
03:38So it's one of the two.
03:39It's not even both.
03:41It's not even both, yeah.
03:42Yeah, so, look, either today or tomorrow, the Brewers are going to clinch.
03:46You know, they're not really talking.
03:47The media doesn't, I mean, it's not that they're not asking the questions, but I'm just not really sure the
03:52motivation between the, Joe, we talked about this last week, between the ones and the twos.
03:56It's just, I'm not sure if Milwaukee cares.
04:00Like, would they rather get some rest at the end of the season, or would they rather know that if
04:04they play the Dodgers in the NLCS, that they would get game seven?
04:08If there is a game seven.
04:10Like, I don't know what that means to these teams.
04:13And quite frankly, if you think of the last 50 years of baseball, I can't ever tell you when this
04:17conversation came up that you and I would say, oh, that was so big that they got that home field
04:22in game five.
04:23Like, I don't really see it that way.
04:25So, but that being said, the Brewers are bona fide best team in baseball this season, start to finish.
04:31So I don't care who they're playing or what's going on or what the motivation is.
04:35It would just be simply, get me to the playoffs with them, and then I'll make some decisions.
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