00:00Why I feel so good about today's game, and it has nothing to do with just being a fan and
00:04hoping the Guardians win.
00:05Because today, it's game three, it's a pivotal game three.
00:09It may feel like the series to some people after they lost the other night, but see where it goes.
00:14I'm going to get into that here in just a moment. Let me get to Mike in Aurora.
00:17He's first up on the fan. Hello, Mike.
00:19Hey, what's up, guys?
00:21Nothing much, Mike. Just doing it. Go ahead.
00:23Hey, life's about experiences. Pulling the kids out of school today.
00:26Hey, ALCS, going down there at 11 o'clock to watch batting practice. Let's go.
00:32See, that's when you do it.
00:33See, we had a great big fight on the air years ago over this because it was like,
00:38well, take the kids out of school for opening day.
00:40I'm like, opening day happens every year.
00:42I don't need to take my kids out of school for opening day.
00:44I take my kids out of school for the postseason in Major League Baseball
00:48because the postseason doesn't happen every day.
00:49I mean, I don't think we would be this way, Mike, and thank you very much for the call.
00:54Well, like, you can end up like the Mariners and not go to the postseason for 20-plus years.
00:58You can end up like the Pirates and seemingly not go to the postseason for 30 years
01:02or something like that.
01:03So, the experience, well, if you don't go to the postseason for 30 years,
01:06maybe you should pull the kids out of school then for opening day then.
01:08But if you're going to pick one of them, it's like, hey, today's a great day.
01:12Today's a great day to play hooky if you really wanted to do that.
01:15I can't tell you to do that, but, you know, you're going to get no argument from me.
01:18Florian's putting out one of those forms that you can print out and get signed.
01:24I actually just saw that Slider signed it for you.
01:27You need to get out of work.
01:30Tallahassee is the capital of Florida, and it will be the capital of Florida tomorrow.
01:33Yes, it will.
01:34You know what might not be tomorrow?
01:37ALCS game four.
01:38We could show them quadratic equations.
01:40They're not that hard.
01:41They're not going anywhere.
01:42They're not going anywhere, guys.
01:45What can I – I mean, one day of school, I can't watch Mr. Wizard on the phone
01:50while my dad drives in, think I can.
01:51Not going to wheel out the old television and watch Braveheart again?
01:55Exactly.
01:56Well done it.
01:57Could you imagine if there was insisted on going to school,
01:59and then they wheel out the cart, and they're like, oh, we're going to watch Braveheart.
02:02Like, really, I'm missing the LCS for Braveheart?
02:05And that's a full week.
02:06Yeah, exactly.
02:07That's a full week.
02:07That's not just –
02:08You guys got to watch Braveheart?
02:10Oh, yeah.
02:10Oh, yeah.
02:11Long shanks throws them out the windows, the whole thing.
02:13Outsiders.
02:13Thanks, Coach Rizzotti.
02:14Oh, we watched The Outsiders, too.
02:16The only tape we owned.
02:17Oh, Pony Boy.
02:17Because they filmed it, like, 20 minutes away from our show.
02:20Oh, that's right.
02:21Really?
02:21I didn't know that.
02:22Yeah, we watched it.
02:23He was so-sh.
02:24We watched it in Mrs. Brunker's class in eighth grade?
02:27That's Barry Hill.
02:28We're not talking about it.
02:29Yeah, great movie.
02:30Great movie, The Outsiders.
02:31All right, Curtis Danberg coming up in less than 20 minutes.
02:33All right, let me get to the real reason here.
02:35This is real stuff.
02:37I did not know this.
02:38I got to get my phone out because I took a picture of it.
02:40The stats on Gavin Williams.
02:42Do you know day versus night, Gavin Williams?
02:44Yeah, well, I saw it.
02:45Have you seen this already?
02:46I saw it, yeah.
02:46It's staggering.
02:48At night, Gavin Williams is 15 and 20 with a 4.38 ERA.
02:54Okay?
02:55In the daytime.
02:57So, at 6 o'clock, he'd have been pitching at night.
03:00At 1 o'clock in the daytime, Gavin Williams is 17 and 8 with a 2.68 ERA.
03:07That is almost two runs less per game, earned runs less a game in day versus night.
03:15So, you got one of your two aces going.
03:18Which somebody also pointed out to me, like, listen, if you're just talking about winning baseball,
03:21if they have to cancel or if they have to postpone tomorrow's game and move it to Sunday,
03:25that probably means Parker Messick goes back up on the mound on Sunday.
03:28Which, that's a good point by somebody that they made to me, okay?
03:31So, you got that going for you.
03:32But, if we're just looking at today's game, it's like, hey, I know that you don't want to give
03:37the team that's favored any sort of momentum.
03:40And, listen, it was Jose who had the boot.
03:43It was Austin Hedges who didn't challenge the call.
03:48Neither of those guys fans want to beat up on.
03:50Especially Jose.
03:51Like, you can't sit there and scream at the icon all day.
03:54Now, if there's something bad happening today, maybe some people will be irritated tomorrow.
03:57But, you're not going to scream and yell at those guys.
03:59You don't want to give them any sort of momentum.
04:01You don't want to open up anything for their lineup.
04:03This is a great time to stop them.
04:04So, while it is, yeah, it's an inconvenience to move the game up five hours compared to where it was.
04:11If you're results-based, if you're going, listen, man, I wasn't going anyway for whatever reason.
04:16I just wanted them to win.
04:17You're going to have yourself a great chance to win today.
04:20Listen, I don't understand those splits.
04:23Like, why, how someone could be so different.
04:25That's, I guess, part of the beauty of baseball.
04:28You don't really see that as much in the NBA.
04:30Like, hey, guys on the weekends.
04:32Guys on weekdays.
04:33Guys after they're in a three-day bender.
04:35You know, you don't really see those stats as much.
04:37But, in baseball, it is very interesting to see that kind of change.
04:41And, you know, I was trying to look at the weather.
04:43It does warm up.
04:44Because I was like, oh, how applicable is any of that going to be if it's cooler?
04:47But, the good news is it is.
04:48It's in the 60s, I think, today, right?
04:49Yeah, yeah.
04:50It looks 65 and sunny by the time they get underway.
04:54It's just going to start raining tonight.
04:56I mean, it's not going to be that horrific out there.
04:59So, it'll be okay.
05:00So, that's a big part of the reasoning is daytime Gavin Williams.
05:04If you can get Gavin Williams, and I understand the sixes where things got weird a week ago.
05:10Yeah, last week against Chicago.
05:12I understand that.
05:13If you can get six from Gavin Williams, you got plenty of guys who are rested up in the bullpen.
05:18Your main guys, they didn't pitch the other day, so you got plenty of time for Cade Smith.
05:23You got plenty of room for them.
05:25With Sean Armstrong, I didn't think he threw too many pitches the other night.
05:28So, you don't got to worry about that.
05:30He's been good in the postseason.
05:31I understand people don't really trust him.
05:33I heard Todd Derry about it, and I can agree with Todd about that.
05:37But, things are playing as much into your favor as they're going to play into your favor.
05:42All right?
05:42You're still playing a really good baseball team.
05:44It's not like you got this one in the bag, but you got things going your way just about
05:51as much as they're going to go your way coming back home for a game three here.
05:55Yeah.
05:55I mean, I do feel good.
05:56It is kind of a weird series reset now that both teams have got one in the bag.
06:03You got to win three out of five.
06:05You get three at home here for the Guardians.
06:07You just don't necessarily know when those three are going to be.
06:10But, I do feel good about that.
06:12The goal here is to make sure that Tampa doesn't get going at the top of that order.
06:16Because, if they do, then they're a totally different team.
06:20The team that I saw in Tampa is very beatable.
06:23They are very mortal.
06:24But, I don't want to put that out there so much that it sounds like I'm not respecting them.
06:30Because, they've been...
06:31People have said they're very comparable, these two teams.
06:34Except, the Rays do a little bit more better than the Guardians.
06:38But, that goes out the window right now.
06:40I totally agree.
06:41Based on the teams I've seen, it looks like two even baseball teams to me.
06:45I think you're right about that.
06:47I don't think there's any sort of disrespect at all towards the Tampa Bay Rays.
06:51None of that at all.
06:53Nothing.
06:53I have a lot of respect for them.
06:55I got a lot of respect for their players.
06:57Even Junior Caminero, though, I know got a lot of people upset with the finger wag.
07:01The Dikembe Mutombo finger wag the other night.
07:03I got a lot of respect for their organization.
07:04I got a lot of respect for Kevin Cash.
07:07That all pointed out.
07:08Again, you're going to do what you can to make yourself feel better.
07:12And, usually, in some of these situations, especially in the postseason, because you end up playing the Yankees.
07:15And, then we start talking payroll and all that stuff.
07:18And, you start talking to yourself, well, anything can happen.
07:20This, that, and the other.
07:22It's not just about anything can happen because it's baseball, quote-unquote.
07:25It's not that.
07:26It's, I got my, I got one of my best pitchers up there, arguably my best pitcher up there tonight,
07:31today, that switched to daytime.
07:34He's just better in the daytime.
07:36And, it's going to make me feel better that he's up there at 1 o'clock.
07:40And, okay, if it isn't necessarily a packed house, maybe it feels a little bit more like a regular season
07:46game.
07:47I know that's almost impossible considering it's national television.
07:51It's all over the place.
07:53It's all over the board.
07:54Everybody knows, but, as, as much as you can with a young guy, make it into a regular game of
08:01baseball, that's perfectly fine.
08:04That's, that's going to, it's going to help you out as much as you can.
08:07So, I'll take, you'll take anything you can possibly get to help you out in your, in your series where,
08:12yeah, you are an underdog to it.
08:14But, you won game one.
08:15If you can get game three here, I think you're feeling really, really good, especially when it's a 2-3
08:19-2 series.
08:20So, if you can get two out of three here, I think you're feeling really good if you head back
08:23to Tampa Bay.
08:24Like, I, I do think it could end up being a seven-game series.
08:28And, when people hear it's a seven-game series, Anthony, you go, well, why is game three so pivotal?
08:32Just game threes are always a big deal, especially when it's a 1-1 series because it becomes a best
08:36-of-five.
08:36So, it's almost like you're trying to start it off again in a best-of-five series at 1-0.
08:40Which, as John pointed out, dramatically favors the team that were to win that game.
08:44I always thought this was going to be a really long series.
08:46It was when we won game one where I'm like, is there a chance we can get this thing in,
08:50like, five?
08:51And then, you know, reality kind of sets in.
08:52You're, you're gonna, you're gonna normalize things over the course of, you know, what could be a week and a
08:59half.
08:59Because, I think we all know, like, this, this team has been kind of feast or famine.
09:04And, what we had seen after those first two games in Chicago, then to go on the win streak that
09:09they went on,
09:10I wasn't expecting that the rest of the way.
09:12I did get a little excited when we won the opener.
09:14But, I do think we're gonna settle in.
09:16It's gonna be a pretty, you know, lengthy series.
09:19And, it would be so nice to put more pressure on them by winning tonight.
09:22You're right about that.
09:23All right, coming up at 7 o'clock.
09:26There's only a couple reasons why you'd get an agent near the trade deadline.
09:30Problem is, I can only really think of one.
09:32And, we'll discuss that reason coming up at 7 o'clock.
09:35Up next, Curtis Danberg, Guardians Vice President of Communications and Community Impact.
09:40Gotta ask him some tough questions.
09:42He'll answer some tough questions.
09:44Game that was originally at six, now move to one.
09:46We'll get his answers about it and what's to come today and throughout the weekend
09:50for the Guardians as they host the next three games of the ALCS.
09:55Ken Carman, Anthony Lima, Curtis Danberg, coming up in five on the fan.
