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On today's starting nine, Snake and Carl sit down and preview the World Series featuring

the Philadelphia fighting Phillies and the Houston Astros. It's a matchup for the ages.

A team with all the momentum versus one of the best teams on paper we've ever seen.

Game 1 proves to be ferocious. Aaron Nullover is Justin Verlander. There's tons of storylines,

World Series picks, predictions, analysis and so much more. It's a great day for starting

nine. Let's get into it. Action! Welcome back to starting nine. Carl here in Chicago,

Snake and Austin. And we are getting ready. This is a huge episode as we alluded through in the intro.

It's World Series week itself. Yeah, just two experts here battling it out. You know,

breaking this thing down better than anybody could possibly do that has any ties to the sport.

So, you know, stay locked in with us. Like, you're not going to hear the shit anywhere else.

And there's a lot of people breaking stuff down and just copying a pasting. No, this is a,

this is proprietary information. So, so listen up, okay? You played for the Phillies? I've watched

the Phillies my whole life. I know it. Ton about the Astros. We've been talking and hype been

this matchup up for a lot of reasons over the over the last week or so for good reasons.

Yeah, I mean, if there were, we would find a way to make it exciting and it would be exciting

if it were two other teams. But it just seems like the best storyline. And maybe we're just saying

that because it's the teams we got. But it's the number one seed on the national league side or the

American league side. And then a team that was, you know, lucky to get it. No, I don't want to say

lucky. But because of the recent edition of the third wild card spot, you know, that's sort of

allowed the Phillies to get in. If that wasn't, if that wasn't here, they'd be at home. And we might

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