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Derek Van Riper here with Britcheroli and Ino Seris. The band is back together. It is Friday, August 27th. We got just over a month to go in this season.

And I think we're going to talk about implosions because they happen.

And they happen every year.

Even though we think, oh, this is going to be the year where all 12 teams that look like they

could make the playoffs are going to go on this nice, even keeled battle for those spots.

It doesn't work that way.

Teams implode happens all the time.

We'll talk about why. We'll talk about some potential surprise teams that could find their way back into the

playoff race, even though it looks right now like things are really starting to clarify. And we'll

talk about our priority viewing list for the final month of the season if all of these playoff

spots are in fact spoken for.

There's also a piece that Tom Verducci wrote about the Ray's approach to relievers that's

somewhat related to things we've talked about this week.

So we'll probably dig into that a bit later in the show.

Implosions, that happen.

And I'm going to just kick this right to you, Britt.

Which implosion do you want to talk about first?

Because we have several to choose from from this season based on what we've seen just over these last really three weeks.

Yeah, you know, let's talk about the Padres because as I was telling you two off air, my family lives in San Diego.

My mother is very upset about this. She has gone to tons of games this year. She really, you know, every, she's a nurse every Friday this year. They get to wear Padres gear. It's a new thing. That whole city has become so swept up in the Padres being good. It's given them some hope finally.

And to watch this debacle since basically the last month or so, basically since the trade deadline, that's been really tough to watch.

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