00:00i mean the white socks are they just cash their ticket are they moving on uh to take on whoever
00:06wins with the well we know it's going to be tamp is it tampa white socks for the american league
00:11pennant i mean it looks like it it looks like the white socks are that team of destiny i thought
00:15cleveland had it yesterday and i thought i absolutely thought cleveland would win the series
00:19uh white socks by the way you know really when you think about their september not particularly
00:23hot they let cleveland come back and overtake them and win the division so it's not like i could have
00:29projected chicago to be that hot team in the postseason but uh look that that environment
00:34for that game is going to be something that we haven't seen in a long time a home playoff game
00:39there so uh look i i would say the one thing that i would say about that series is you
00:46won't be certain
00:47that the white socks are going to win it in the seventh inning tomorrow like it's like that game
00:52is still going to be close it's still going to be in the balance it's cleveland it's close
00:56you know even if they win or if they lose it's going to be close and it usually is a
01:01player two
01:02away from being decided so uh i i look i i understand the notion that are you with the
01:08white socks though because again craig i'm watching them yesterday even you ever seen a team play with
01:14house money because that looks like exactly yeah they are playing it's amazing for guys that have no
01:22experience and they're just like yeah we're gonna go out here and play i mean nothing seems to get to
01:27them where you think teams like the moment would be too big for them and the white socks would be
01:32one
01:32of those team it just is not i didn't see it coming against the astros or them yeah i just
01:38didn't see it
01:38coming at all i didn't see it coming at all you know i i thought there was maybe even a
01:42chance they
01:42would get left out of the postseason but foolish me at this point look look there's no way that
01:47you could predict let's assume it's the rays there's no way you could predict them beating
01:53tampa bay but at this point stranger things have happened i we go back a couple of years ago no
02:00one
02:00had texas playing against arizona in the world series in 2023 i think it was if i'm not mistaken so
02:09anything is possible if you get a couple of hot guys going at the right time but usually it's the
02:14starting pitching that carries the guys through the postseason and that really hasn't been the
02:17white socks either they just had no this really this great run of two out hitting and timely hitting
02:23and runners on base hitting like that that's really more variance and luck than anything else but credit
02:29to them they're coming through look i'm not going to be the one that says cleveland wins both games
02:33in chicago and then comes back and wins game five all i'm saying is nothing would surprise me it
02:38wouldn't surprise me that game is in the seventh and it's one one and then like a one pitch
02:41decides and the same thing in game four well you know that's just the way that cleveland plays they
02:47played that game yesterday they just couldn't come back once they relinquished the lead so let me give
02:53everyone uh some context here because i have the numbers in major league baseball history
02:59in a five game series only 10 out of 91 teams in major league baseball history now greg there's a
03:09few
03:09years of major league baseball history here only 10 of 91 teams in a five game series have ever come
03:17back after going oh and two wow to start the series 11 i'm shocked it's that much greg if we're
03:26being
03:26honest i'm shocked it's actually that much in a short series but only it's only happened 10 out of 91
03:33times it's only happened 11 which tells you exactly what everybody except the game that's on right
03:41now the dodgers and atlanta that's what the padres that's what the guardians that's what the yankees
03:45face uh yeah 11 is not a great number in this spot is it no and again going back to
03:53chicago too like
03:54that's the other difference maker so to speak for them so and home field advantage will mean something
04:01but but i i don't expect the white socks to score seven runs tomorrow or five you know like i
04:06expect
04:06another three to two game four to three game uh you know for cleveland it's really when you think
04:13about it there's a lot of people who probably if they lose to the white socks will say oh it's
04:17cleveland every year they have a good regular season they get to the postseason they don't win
04:21but how many franchises joe in baseball would take exactly what cleveland is doing every single year
04:25you win your 90 games oh i agree go to the postseason and and and there's really nothing
04:30to in my opinion there's really nothing to complain about like i'm not going to throw the pirates under
04:35the bus here but think about pittsburgh fans would they take what cleveland does every single year
04:39100 how about white socks fans they would take what cleveland's been doing every single year how
04:43about the twins so uh look they've the cleveland's already uh you know has has done more with less
04:50and who knows maybe a new collective bargaining agreement will help them out a little bit they i would
04:54figure that that's got to be one of the teams that's rooting for uh some realignment some change
04:58some caps on floor etc
