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Now with over 200 episodes and ready to get after it again, here's your host, Duane

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Hello and good morning. I am recording this early Tuesday morning just because I know for a fact that with baseball

starting out so early today with the 2 p.m. start trying to get all these games in and more games

Wednesday where you got the N.L game ones interceding with the AO game one's interceding with the A-O-O-G-2's you know we got a very busy slate of baseball

going on so I'm going to give my thoughts on how each series is going to play out.

You know, we've got an expanded playoffs this year,

which some people were complaining about.

You know, my whole thing is, you know, when you start throwing out these

wacky, uh, post-season aspects, you know, do you lose something in the process and you know I think

Folks have gotten a little bit complacent and not understanding you know who's where

What makes the most sense.

But yeah, let's talk about the match-ups.

So 1 through 8 on the AL and NL side.

So 1 seeds, you got the Dodgers the prohibited favorite to win the world series and you have

the Tampa Bay Rays having the best record in the AL as a one seat is well.

You know, two seeds would be the

Atlanta and Oakland,

three seeds, the twins and the cubs,

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