LCS Previews, Asteroids & Chickens?
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Britt & DVR discuss the ALCS and NLCS matchups, Mike Brosseau's classic battle with Aroldis Chapman in Game 5 of the ALDS, the importance of having different looks in a bullpen, and more.
Rundown
0:51 Do We Deserve Having the Astros in the ALCS?
4:20 Encino Man Would Love This!
10:18 At Least One of Us Picked Game of the ALDS Correctly
15:43 Brosseau vs. Chapman: An All-Time Great Postseason At-Bat
21:45 Velo, Velo and More Velo
25:29 NLCS Preview
36:22 Bullpen Construction and Varying Looks
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome Rates and Barrels, episode number 153, playoff episode number 11. |
| 0:21.4 | It's Monday, October 12th, Derek Van Riper, |
| 0:24.1 | Bridgerola, Eno Seris, all here with you as we kick off another great week of playoff baseball. |
| 0:30.3 | We're coming off a great weekend of playoff baseball. |
| 0:33.4 | We had game five, of course, between the Yankees and Reyes. |
| 0:36.1 | That was on Friday night, which feels like a lifetime ago. We already had game one of the ALCS, which frankly, I think was a pretty good follow-up. I mean, an elimination game is kind of its own beast. It's hard to match the intensity of a game like the one we saw on Friday night. but for an opening game of an LCS, |
| 0:54.5 | I kind of feel like we got what we deserved in the first game of the Astros |
| 0:59.2 | race series. |
| 1:00.3 | I mean, no one deserved the Houston Astros in the ALCS, but... |
| 1:05.0 | I can take a one person. |
| 1:07.9 | Especially not the Astros. |
| 1:09.8 | I mean, Derek, that no issue here is everyone now changing to a different podcast. |
| 1:14.9 | Like, I can't listen to these Astro sympathizers. |
| 1:19.0 | Or these Astros haters in my joke. |
| 1:22.2 | That's true. |
| 1:23.0 | No, you're right, though. |
| 1:23.7 | If you like baseball and you have gotten used to the fact that the |
| 1:27.9 | houston astros are still playing um it's great from a baseball standpoint uh well pitched |
| 1:33.7 | really clean game really good game two talented teams i know people are going to go on and |
| 1:39.5 | on about how the astros were under 500 can we all kind of agree now that they're a good team, though? |
| 1:44.8 | Like their lineup is really good. They're starting pitching is very good. Yes, their bullpen is just |
| 1:49.9 | so-so. Certainly they have weaknesses. You can make the case that Kevin Cash might be a better |
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