Jeff Passan Talks MLB Playoffs

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🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Postseason baseball is theater in the greatest sense. Taking the scale of sport’s longest season and distilling it down to a short series just ratchets up the intensity like nowhere else. And this year, the bad blood between the teams in all four of the divisional series creates a soap opera like none other. So today, MLB Insider, Jeff Passan, looks ahead at tonight's ALDS action and checks in on the vibes in the NLDS. And explains how hatred is okay, as long as you mind the line between tension and toxicity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jeff Passin, the Major League Baseball post-season is in high gear,
0:03.7	but before we get to what's going on in the Bronx,
0:06.2	the ridiculous behavior by my neighbors in Los Angeles,
0:09.2	and of course, the heated rivalries coming out of the NEL East.
0:12.4	I want to go back to March. the heated rivalries coming out of the NEL East.
0:12.6	I want to go back to March when you said this
0:16.4	on this very program looking in to thine crystal ball.
0:20.1	Do you have any surprises make the post season in 2024 Jeff?
0:25.0	I have the Detroit Tigers winning the American League Central Clinton.
0:30.0	How do you feel about that one?
0:32.0	Mr. Peston, well done.
0:34.0	Dude, they didn't win the Central, but how about that?
0:38.0	I'm so happy you extracted that from the archives because I wasn't sure that there was anywhere
0:45.5	that I had publicly said specifically I think the Tigers are going to be good so
0:51.2	yes we're starting this podcast off with a bang.
0:54.2	To quote the great Lee Corso, not so fast my friend.
0:57.2	Oh no. You did say this in the next breath.
1:00.2	No.
1:01.2	This is as much a pit Clinton that suggests the American League Central is cheeks than anything else.
1:10.0	Alas! The world! else. get you in the Cooperstown Jeff. How do you feel about your picks early season?
1:24.0	Well, I suppose that this is what happens when you act like you haven't been there
1:29.7	before because I had no idea that this was coming. I got so excited about the Tigers and
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