Skubal Starts & The Intensity Of Playoff Baseball
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00:00Two of the ALDS?
00:04Could be.
00:06Game, yeah, could be game two.
00:07Saturday's game one.
00:10I mean, you still, you could throw,
00:12you could throw him Saturday.
00:12You could throw him Saturday.
00:13Yeah, you could throw him Saturday.
00:15But here's the deal, he'd be lined up
00:16for game five regardless, whether he starts game one
00:18or game two. Or game two, yeah.
00:19Yes.
00:21Tom's holding up two.
00:23Yeah, yeah, I would be shocked
00:25if they'd pitch him on three days rest.
00:27Yeah, you'd probably save him for game two.
00:30I mean, you might do that in game seven
00:32of the World Series.
00:33Sure.
00:34I don't think they're gonna do that.
00:34Yeah, probably not.
00:35Game two.
00:36Especially since he's normal rest on two and five.
00:39Yeah, yes.
00:39Or he starts one of the ALCS.
00:43Let's go down that road.
00:43And then he could start one, five,
00:48and then be available on a seven.
00:49Like, that's what you do with your ace, right?
00:51In the World Series.
00:52Or one, four, and seven, depending on the off days.
00:54Tricky, too, because the weather gets so bad
00:56by that time of the year, usually,
00:58that there'd probably be some,
00:59could be a delay that helps them.
01:00Right.
01:01TicketTexture points out something interesting.
01:03Have we considered that three of the four AL playoff teams
01:07could be from the same division after this round?
01:10Royals won yesterday, Guardians are waiting, Tigers up.
01:13Well, we could have three from the AL Central,
01:15and then the Yankees.
01:16I saw an interesting tattoo.
01:17I think they're the only division
01:18that has three in the postseason.
01:21But you also have, when you add up
01:24everybody in the division's record,
01:26the division record is still like 35 games below 500
01:29because the White Sox were so bad.
01:33TicketTexture's talking about their experience yesterday.
01:36Says, I was at the gym, the entire gym was stopped
01:38and glued to the TV in the ninth inning.
01:40Sure.
01:41Says, when Torque snagged that line drive,
01:42there was a lot of fist-pumping smiles.
01:44That's Alex and Klaussen.
01:45That's when you want to be working out, man.
01:47Get some of that anxiety out.
01:50Exactly.
01:52Heather, what was Colin like during all this?
01:54He was loud.
01:57I missed quite a bit of the game
01:58because I was picking Emily up from school.
02:00We had to make some stops afterward.
02:01So when I got home, Colin was in his office.
02:05You were listening to it in the car, right?
02:06I actually was a little bit, yes,
02:08until Twinkle Twinkle Little Star was requested
02:11and that got changed and whatever.
02:13Anyway.
02:14Come on, Emily.
02:15He was yelling.
02:17He was loud.
02:18He was excited.
02:19He was nervous.
02:20Somebody called in and said they were basically coaching.
02:23That's kind of what it sounded like he was doing.
02:24Like, do this, do that, don't do that.
02:27He was yelling at the screen.
02:28Throw a strike.
02:29He was taking on the personality of A.J. Hinch.
02:31Yep.
02:32Yeah.
02:33We're all kind of A.J. in those moments.
02:35Like, you got to go get Foley.
02:36Get him out of the game.
02:37Get him out of the game.
02:38Bows in, falls back, 1-0, 2-1.
02:40Throw strikes, throw strikes.
02:42Not over the plate though.
02:42Not over the plate.
02:44And then you're rationalizing.
02:45Okay, he walks to load the bases.
02:47You're like, oh, and now we got to force out at any bag.
02:50Right.
02:51Instead of, a single ends the game and we lose.
02:55I even go, I guess you could walk one guy here.
02:58You just can't.
02:59Yeah, but then he's behind the counter.
03:01You're like, oh, don't walk in a run, 3-2.
03:03Don't want to see him get hit.
03:04But if he does, you still haven't given up the lead.
03:05Like, you're trying.
03:06You still haven't forced out at any bag.
03:07Any base.
03:08And no one's warming up.
03:10It's Bowe's chance.
03:11Either he's going to do it or they're not.
03:13And it's a line drive too.
03:14It's not like a big emphatic punch out.
03:16Oh, man.
03:17You don't know.
03:18Right, yeah, because you can't see it.
03:19Right.
03:19All you see is the good contact and you're like, oh no.
03:22Yes!
03:23I got a tweet from somebody.
03:25This is a call we got last week.
03:27Torkelson, Gold Glove.
03:28Oh.
03:30It's right at him.
03:31All right, I mean, nice play.
03:33I appreciate you catching one that was right at you.
03:38Texter says Dickerson saying no in the ninth
03:41on the swinging strikeout that they called a foul ball.
03:44Was my blood pressure going through the roof,
03:46Steve, in New Baltimore?
03:48Yeah, the Diaz at Bath that ball hit the dirt,
03:51but for a second you thought they got robbed.
03:53Man.
03:55It was total agony.
03:58Total agony for, I mean, and what did it last for?
04:01It felt like it lasted for 45 minutes,
04:04but it was literally like, what?
04:05Eight minutes at the most.
04:07Yeah, but even like Tickertexter pointed out,
04:09like second, third inning, you're starting
04:11to kind of creep up a little bit in your seat.
04:13Like, that'll do it to you.
04:14Playoff, baseball, it's back and it's not going anywhere.
04:16Every pitch matters.
04:17That's right.
04:18All right, Sherone Moore coming up.