Hello and welcome to the In the Pen podcast, a podcast about relievers, part of the

pitcherless podcast network.

My name is Jake Crumpler.

And as always, I'm joined by pitcherless bullpen expert, Rick Graham.

Rick, we are in the throes of the postseason.

We are a couple weeks removed from our last podcast,

but we needed our break after the season ended and we enter the postseason. So we're back to

talk about relief pitchers. How are you enjoying the playoffs so far? I know the Red Sox didn't

make it too far, but the Yankees didn't either.

Right.

Yeah, I mean, wasn't expecting much from the Red Sox, honestly.

You know, after the, after they stole game one, I kind of like, all right, maybe there's something here, but it looks like, yeah, they were to run into this buzz saw Toronto right now.

The way that they're playing, I don't think it would have mattered um but yeah it's it's fun having especially

if like somehow the Dodgers get knocked off here uh it's fun having the the rest of these teams

like if we get like a Seattle Milwaukee World Series I feel like that would be super fun.

I don't know.

It's not going to be the biggest moneymaker for MLB, but for like a real fan standpoint, it's a really fun matchup in my mind. I think that that'll be cool. Even Toronto. I know Toronto's in the AL East too, but like it's a fun team to root for, especially with Laddie Jr. year. So yeah, there's still some fun, you know, different suspects, you know, different teams.

But it's, it's been enjoyable postseason so far.

Yeah, Blue Jays and Phillies are definitely a pair of fun teams.

But both the Mariners and the Brewers have never won a World Series.

The Mariners haven't even been to one.

So I think I agree that would be pretty exciting.

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