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StarBanes Avenue. Hey guys, welcome to another episode of you from the cheap seats.

I'm Randy, he's Jason, and we're here to talk about the biggest stories in the world of sports and try and do it in a funny way.

And also break it down with the guests, something that is relevant to the world of sports, either a comedian who is way into the

world of sports, a sports pundit, an athlete or whatnot. And today we have a friend of ours who

knows a ton about golf, who has a new golf podcast coming out, one of our funniest best comedian

buddies. Jay Larson is here. He also directed all the field pieces for the nosebleeds. He's very intertwined. We get into a deep discussion about Aaron Judge, Barry Bonds, Novak Djokovic. I mean, it gets heated and it's good. It's so per live golf, all of it. So that's coming up later. And then later on the show, Ozzy Guillen leaves us a voicemail.

It's the baseball playoffs. He's got an opinion about every team that's in it and why he'd be a better coach. Look, it is the baseball playoffs. That's a great way to start, a great place to start. And I want to say this straight up as we're on the precipice for. I was looking at the bracket for the baseball players.

I'm like, when was the last time I looked at the bracket for the baseball playoffs to check all the matchups, the one in the American League and the National League? I'm stoked. In a way that I haven't been stoked before. I can't make this up. I am actually really excited for these playoffs, not just that the Cardinals are in it, not just that they're a three-seed that they're going to be playing the six-seed Phillies in St. Louis for three games. I like the new setup that, you know, you play three games instead of one. There's a chance. Jane, I went to the walk-off game last year where the Cardinals came in and played the Dodgers and lost. And, you know, there was something sad about it. I wanted to see these two teams square off a little bit more and they didn't. Of course, the Dodgers fans are happy. But whatever, three games. The thing is you play them all and you're a home, the higher seed plays in the home stadium. And so it's going to be really fun. But I think the storylines this year are better. I think, and I'll tell, it has larger implications.

Well, the bigger players who are doing the larger things that are almost transcending the game are in the playoffs.

So, so Mike Trout on the last day of the season, in a season that was so up and down for him where he was injured for a lot of it, hit his 40th home run.

That's, and it was a deep shot to center, like deep, deep, deep shot. It was amazing. You understand what a great player he is, and Shohei Otane, doing great stuff, but those guys aren't going to be in the postseason. Instead, the biggest stories are Aaron Judge hitting his 60-second home run and the controversy surrounding it. Is he the greatest home run hitter, single season of all time? You can count Barry Bonds, you can account Mark McGuire, you can account Sammy Sosa. MLB seems to like forgotten that they hit 67. Well, they certainly weren't interviewed or brought up during this entire home run chase. Yeah. So the whole point about that is, okay, there's controversy and it's exciting and we're seeing something being done that maybe we haven't seen before. Albert Poole's, his run down the stretch in the end of his career. I mean, the fact that Yadi and Wainwright might be done. So it's all, all of that's happening. And those teams, the Yankees are in the playoffs, the Cardinals are in the playoffs. We're getting a chance to see these guys. There could be a Yankees Mets World Series. There could be a Yankees Dodgers World Series. There could be a Cardinals Yankees World Series. If the Dodgers, if the Padres win their series, they could play the Dodgers. And how crazy of a second round series would that be? That's so, again, the stars in baseball right now are in the postseason. The Mets were dominating all season. And then at the end, the Braves. They met's it. They met's it. As we discussed with Saratiana on the show a few weeks ago, the Braves pull it out. The Braves pull it out. And the Braves lost some of their best players, and they still pull it out. And they're amazing. Again, you got Freddie Freeman's on the Dodgers. Right. And so even a Braves Dodgers matchup where Freddie Freeman has to play his old team, to me, is interesting. And you got Strider, new pitcher, maybe rookie of the year. The Braves have two guys that are vying for rookie of the year. Okay? So incredible. Blue Jays are fun. Blue Jays are fun. Seattle is fun. Never discount the Tampa Bay Rays. No one even cares about what they're doing. And then they have a great team every single year. Yankees are in it. Metser could be all these teams. It's, it to me is exciting. And I think the excitement surrounding pool holes and judge to me reminds me of 1998 when Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa and then, of course, Barry Bonds, they were roided up. But there was a home run chase. We were watching, tuning in every day. There were break-ins and showing you live look-ins at the shows during other sports.

During other sporting events just to show you the chase for history that was happening.

And that got everyone, it got the casual fan more excited about the game.

And we had friends who weren't even baseball fans and they were excited about it.

So this pool host thing and the Aaron Judge thing has gotten, I think has galvanized more fans. And I think baseball has a true moment. You love the way they cover the All-Star game. I thought the fact, and I don't think they'll do this in playoff games because it's just too much on the line. And you don't want to have to have an announcer interviewing a guy and then he gets a little distracted and doesn't make a play. However, I felt

like baseball took a moment during the All-Star game by interviewing pitchers as they're pitching,

by interviewing players in the field, by having the booth interact with the game itself and having

as fans us able to be on the inside. To be on the field with them.

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