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On today's starting nine, Snake and Carl sit down with legendary manager Joe Madden to catch up

on life and baseball. They're time together in Chicago winning championships and what lies ahead.

Before our sit down, we recap the first ever wildcard weekend.

Handicat the winner's chances in the division series and bring on the short porch boys hugs and

smoke to take the full set of Yankees fans everywhere going into this week's matchup with the

Guardians. It's a heavy show, so let's get into it. Action and welcome back to start at nine.

Carl here in Chicago, Snake, you are in Texas. Rural part of Texas, it appears.

Amazing weekend of wildcard action. We're going to get into some DS. We're going to sit down with

your former manager. We set up the top Joe Madden, but I got to know how his Columbus day,

how the kids house a family. Kids are off school. We're out out here in Fredericksburg,

getting some things done on property. But man, I watched watching the majority of the Mads Padres,

Game 3, unbelievably exciting. Was there slippery stuff on Musgroves' ear? We don't know.

But man, those wildcard series were unbelievable from the Toronto. Obviously, Seattle won both games.

The Guardians won both games. In the momentum that that gives them moving on into the DS is pretty

incredible. So a lot of exciting stuff to talk about, buddy. Yeah. Amen. I'll say so. We had a great

stream too, Phillies Cardinals. That was like three and a half hours long. Thanks, Anthony.

You're good to know that. We had more of those coming. We're going to have some guests join us

again in the future with that. So I'm very excited to do more of those streams. I'm always excited

to measure myself with baseball, watching people with baseball. I will say I had high expectations

for you going into that. You are much sharper than I thought too. And I'm not sitting here trying

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