Jeff Passan’s 2023 World Series Preview

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🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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When the baseball season got underway, the World Series favorites were: big market juggernauts like the Yankees, Dodgers, Padres, and Mets; annual contenders like the Braves, and Astros; and plucky dark horses like the Phillies and Blue Jays. But fast forward to the end of October, and none of those front runners remain standing. The Texas Rangers and the Arizona Diamondbacks — who had a combined 2% chance to lift the trophy — are ready to face off in a battle of underdogs. So Jeff Passan tells David Dennis Jr. how they got here, and how he thinks this series will unfold. Arizona Diamondbacks, Texas Rangers, Corbin Carroll, Jordan Montgomery, Max Scherzer, Zac Gallen, Evan Longoria, Christian Walker, Tommy Pham, Corey Seager, Marcus Semien, Adolis Garcia, Brandon Pfaadt, MLB Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jeff Passon, when you were with us ahead of the wildcard around the playoffs, you mentioned
0:05.8	how excited you were to get your first look at pitch clock postseason baseball.
0:11.5	And now that we're here on the morning of the World Series, where would you write the
0:15.5	pitch clock among the exciting things we've seen this October?
0:19.3	Like 50th?
0:20.6	You just, you don't notice it anymore.
0:30.4	They're like, there have been next to no pitch clock violations in the games have got like
0:35.2	even playoff games are going quicker now, which has been nice.
0:39.0	But this has been an October, especially with the league championship series that has
0:44.2	been full of excitement.
0:45.9	We had kind of an okay wildcard round, things picked up a little on division series, but
0:52.1	they went crazy in the league championship series, and it has given us quite an improbable
0:58.2	world series now.
0:59.8	So after two game sevens, there are two teams left standing, the Texas Rangers and the
1:05.0	Arizona Diamondbacks, just like we, you know, all expected, right?
1:08.7	We all predicted this.
1:10.0	How are you feeling right now?
1:12.2	On one hand, I feel great about the matchup that we've got.
1:15.7	I know that it's not the kind that, you know, people around the country may necessarily
1:20.8	be intrigued by, but as somebody who is passionate baseball fan, I think it's a really good
1:26.4	matchup between two interesting teams that are peaking at absolutely the right time.
1:34.4	On the other hand, my ego is bruised a little bit because I came on this podcast a month
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