00:00Okay, let's talk baseball.
00:02Major League Baseball playoffs.
00:04It begins tomorrow.
00:06Phillies against the Braves.
00:08White Sox against the Astros.
00:10Red Sox against the Yankees.
00:11And the Cubs against the Padres in the wildcard round.
00:16Those odds are from Bet Chris Arizona.
00:18I am shocked that the Braves are only a minus 133 favorite against the Phillies.
00:24Give me that all day long for Atlanta at home to knock out the Phillies,
00:30who were lucky to make the postseason, who bungled their way into the playoffs.
00:36My, I mean, I saw that and I was like, wait a minute.
00:39I know the offense is great for Philadelphia.
00:41Okay, I know you have Schwarber.
00:43I know you have Harper and company and whatnot.
00:45And I know there's a couple of good pitchers, obviously.
00:47But the Braves at home?
00:50Give me the Braves at home.
00:51Like that is 100% give me that.
00:54Chris Sale starts game one.
00:56Chris Sale this year at home for the Atlanta Braves has a 1.66 ERA,
01:04an 8-3 mark, an opposing batting average of 2.02,
01:07in 87 innings worth of work.
01:09He gave up 16 earned runs.
01:11I mean, we got Chris Sale in game one against the Phillies.
01:17Yeah, look it.
01:18Winning game one in a best of three is so vitally important.
01:21But I think that price is awesome.
01:24For it to take the Braves, I like Atlanta to win that.
01:27On the other side in the National League, the Padres have been so red hot.
01:31The Padres ended the year up 20 games over 500.
01:34That's like, where did that come from?
01:37And look, the Cubs, not that they bungled their way in,
01:41but the Cubs didn't dominate.
01:42You got Michael King starting game one.
01:44We don't know who's starting game one yet for Chicago.
01:46So a 6-4 record with a 2.74 ERA at home for Michael King.
01:51The team, end of the year, winning four of the last five games started by Michael King.
01:56But you've got to get to the bullpen.
01:58If you're the Padres, you just get into the bullpen, right?
02:00You're the best closer in baseball.
02:02You have one of the best home field advantages in baseball.
02:05This is tough.
02:07To me, this is really, really tough from a Cub perspective to have to go on the road.
02:11I think for all the teams, frankly, I'm not sure which road team actually wins in advances, to be honest.
02:19Maybe the White Sox have the best chance to advance, and they're the second biggest dog.
02:24I don't give the Red Sox much of a chance against Yankee pitching.
02:27I just don't think the Red Sox offense is good enough.
02:30I think their pitching is great.
02:32I think they're unders on every game, but I just don't think the Yankees are going to lose to the
02:36Red Sox at home.
02:38I don't think the Braves are losing to the Phillies at home.
02:40I don't think the Padres are losing to the Cubs at home.
02:43And then I think you're going to have the Astros most likely, but maybe not.
02:47I mean, I don't know.
02:48I've got that 25-1 ticket on the White Sox.
02:50I was banking on them to win the division, and they didn't win the division.
02:54They fell apart down the stretch, unfortunately, right out of gas, and they allowed the Guardians to get the bye.
03:00And that stinks in my mind on this.
03:04So I will agree the best of three is dumb.
03:08It's not how baseball goes.
03:10But yeah, the Cubs did not finish strong by any means.
03:14The Padres are red hot.
03:15The Cubs are not.
03:16And it's just the bullpen for the Padres.
03:19I mean, it's just you get four innings, you get five innings out of your starter, hand the ball off
03:23to the bullpen and let them do work and score four to five runs, be leading after five or six,
03:29and it's pretty much lights out.
03:30So you get Miller on the mound for whatever you need him for.
03:33Eight, you know, go get six outs, go get three outs, whatever it is, in the eighth or the ninth.
03:37And Mason Miller is just ridiculous.
03:39So the Padres have a huge weapon at the back end of that game that they can deploy how they
03:45need.
03:45And so I think that's a huge advantage for San Diego.
03:49So I like the Padres to win.
03:50I think you can bet it.
03:52I like the price.
03:53I think the Braves to win.
03:54Again, I think you can bet it.
03:55I don't love the price on the Yankees.
03:57It's a little expensive.
03:59And rightfully so.
04:00I mean, but, you know, 155, that's a right price.
04:04I mean, they should be that, that big of a favorite against the Red Sox just because their offense is
04:09so bad.
04:09You're going to throw, you know, in game one, you got an MVP candidate and the AL Cy Young Award
04:15winner pitching for the Yankees.
04:17So, you know, the Red Sox are going to have to match that.
04:20And I don't think that's possible.
04:22And then you get into the fact that, you know, the Red Sox need to get it to a game
04:26three.
04:26Can they win game one or game two?
04:28Because getting into a game three, Sox have a shot, but in game, but it feels like a two game
04:34sweep.
04:34For the Yankees against the Red Sox, the Cubs probably win a game to force a game three, but I
04:40like the Padres.
04:41And I don't know if the Phillies hang around all that long.
04:42I have no real feel.
04:44I'm going to be betting.
04:45I don't know if I'm betting the Yankees.
04:47I haven't decided that yet, but I've already bet the Padres and I've bet the Braves to win their division,
04:51to win their series.
04:52The American League, I'm a little bit less sure of.
04:55I'm a little more shaky on it, but I think we're going to see.
05:00Yeah.
05:01And Taladi, you're right.
05:01The Red Sox have the left-handed pitching to shut down the Yankees.
05:05That's why it's a straight under series.
05:07The most confident bet that I've got in that entire series is bet the under on all three games.
05:13K props in general in the postseason is good.
05:15I will agree in these series, in particular in the Cubs series, Cubs Padres with the power arms coming out
05:20of both teams, bullpens.
05:21Yeah, I would agree with that on the K props.
05:23But I think you're going to see low scoring games with the Red Sox and the Yankees.
05:29Because I do think the Red Sox have the pitching to keep them in the games.
05:33I just don't think they have the offense to win.
05:35Like two to one, three to two.
05:37Okay.
05:38I mean, but the Yankees are going to win those games.
05:39Two to one, three to two.
05:41So low scoring games.
05:42Sonny Gray for the Red Sox has been tremendous.
05:45Ranger Suarez is a lefty.
05:46Obviously, you've got guys like that.
05:48Whether or not they throw Crochet, it's still kind of up in the air.
05:52Whether Garrett Crochet is going to be available, probably not for the Red Sox in the divisional round.
