This is the Michael K Show Podcast.

Listen live, weekday afternoon starting at 3 on 880 E-SPN,

the E-SPN New York app and your smart speakers. the Mets against the

against the Phillies.

Tomorrow you could hear it right here at 330 on 880

ESPN, and then you have the Yankees against the Royals, and that's a night game and you could see it on

TBS and the man behind the microphone calling to play-by-play is our good friend Bob Kostis who joins us right now. Bob

it's Michael Don and Peter how are you today?

Hey guys how you doing? We're doing well obviously this is a this is a series that you would say on paper benefits the Yankees but this is not a pushover Kansas City team am I right?

Absolutely right.

And you know, even that they lost six games at one point in September,

they were sort of in a downturn of Vinny Pasquotino came back sooner than you might have expected and they

really missed him hitting behind Bobby Witt and in front of Sal Perez in their lineup

so they're in better shape now than when the Yankees saw them only a

short time ago earlier in September and you know they blew right past the Orioles

anything can happen and the two out of three but they blew right past them and they have three good starting pictures

Waka Reagan's and Lugo and the way the setup is with three off days potentially if it goes five you've got three

off days in this series so even though Reagan's can't pitch game one he can pitch

game two on Monday on five days rest and if it goes the full five he can

pitch the deciding game at Yankee Stadium on four days rest. Now this format has

not honored the home team in the wild card round and it seems like they have a distinct

advantage against the teams that have the quote unquote buy.

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