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Welcome to the show everyone.

Gonna get right down to it because because got a late start trying to record this in the evening.

So Yankees and Rays just kicked off.

Obviously, winner-take-all in game five in this divisional series

matchup is the only matchup that has gone to five so I'm going to go right

off the bat and you know I'm going to go right off the bat and you know I'm gonna I'm not taking an L I'm merely saying that the Padres did not measure up

to what I thought their capabilities were.

There were pitches to hit against Kershaw.

They did not take advantage of them when they could.

So Clayton gets escaped by as the Dodgers closed out the series last night against the Padres.

I really thought the Padres were going to take the Dodgers in that one but you know

the ballpark in Texas did not play out all that great from an offensive standpoint it showed with the Padres kind of

struggling the Dodger bats however did not miss much against the Padres

pitching so that is something to kind of bear in mind.

If the Dodgers bats are active,

that leads more towards the Dodgers advancing over the Braves. I know people are talking up the Braves because the

Braves had four shutouts in five post-season games thus far but let's be blunt the reds were

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