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00:02 - But let me ask you this, are we positive?
00:09 Five and a half is a lot, you know,
00:12 full five in the loss column.
00:14 Are we positive Tampa Bay's clear and through?
00:17 I mean, this is just not the same baseball team, Donnie,
00:20 though, that was, you know, kind of viewed
00:23 as one of the very best, right?
00:25 And for a number of reasons now,
00:28 like I've been talking about the fact
00:29 that they haven't been playing as well as, you know,
00:31 the initial beginning of their season,
00:33 maybe the schedule is gonna be easy enough
00:35 for Tampa Bay to navigate here.
00:37 But this is not that,
00:41 anybody that has a raised futures ticket,
00:44 it's not the same team that you bet on
00:46 whenever you, you know, click submit down on their number.
00:49 - But here's the thing about it though,
00:51 they have a five and a half game lead.
00:52 So how does that work out?
00:54 Look, we're talking, it's no longer the beginning of August,
00:56 we're talking middle to late August now.
00:58 So what does that mean for the Tampa Bay Aries
00:59 to make the playoffs, Kevin?
01:00 Five and fives over 10 game stretches, six and fours.
01:04 That's hard to overtake a five and five,
01:06 because even though we're looking at the Mariners
01:07 playing really good baseball right now,
01:09 do we expect the Mariners to win seven out of every 10 games?
01:11 'Cause that's basically what it will take.
01:13 Them going 70% win clip throughout the season
01:16 and the Rays going basically 500.
01:18 So they have a chance to overtake them.
01:20 That's how hard it is.
01:21 If we were talking maybe July 15th
01:23 and you say all the problems that the Rays are having,
01:25 whether it's Wanda Franco,
01:26 if he's coming back to baseball,
01:27 McClannan down for the year with Tommy John surgery,
01:30 if the clock is running out right now.
01:32 So unless the Rays are like,
01:33 hey, you know what, two and eight last 10 games
01:35 and you stay hot for the Mariners.
01:37 I just don't see it because even though
01:38 those players are out for Tampa,
01:39 there's still a quality club here.
01:41 And if they can just play 500 baseball coming in, Kevin,
01:44 they'll be in the playoffs.
01:46 - When you take a look at that AOL wildcard race,
01:50 the Yankees are certainly not viewed as in it
01:53 due to the pricing.
01:54 And also because they are six and a half back of Toronto.
01:58 I still think about Boston and look,
02:01 very untimely performances for this team.
02:03 They dropped two in a row, Donnie,
02:04 to the Washington Nationals,
02:08 but they're three and a half back.
02:09 They're 65 to one to win the American league,
02:12 which is actually worse than the Yankees,
02:14 despite where it stands.
02:15 And we're heading into Yankees Red Sox here,
02:19 which is still, if somebody says,
02:22 hey, what's baseball's best rivalry,
02:24 that's going to be the answer.
02:26 It's just kind of grandfathered in.
02:27 I don't even really know who would,
02:29 what would even be the other argument?
02:31 Would you try Dodgers Padres?
02:33 Like that had a moment in the sun.
02:36 - Yeah, Cardinals Cubs have always hated each other,
02:38 but on like a national spotlight, there's,
02:40 and again, this is the advent of opening it up to,
02:43 American league playing the national league 20 years ago,
02:45 where those rivalries technically are going away.
02:47 And even so with major league baseball, Kevin,
02:49 what did we see this year for the first time?
02:51 More out of division games than in division games.
02:53 So they're almost like saying like, hey,
02:55 we don't really care about the rivalries anymore,
02:56 but yeah, if you're saying top rivalry,
02:58 I think the first one that always comes to mind
03:00 absolutely would be Red Sox and the Yankees.
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