NL Wild Card series breakdowns and LCS, World Series predictions
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Britt & DVR discuss their picks in the NL Wild Card Series matchups, and share their predictions for LCS and World Series winners as the 2020 Postseason gets underway.
Series Breakdowns
1:51 Dodgers vs. Brewers
10:35 Padres vs. Cardinals
15:03 Braves vs. Reds
20:15 Cubs vs. Marlins
Big Predictions
27:55 LCS & World Series
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels, episode number 144, playoff episode number two. |
| 0:20.5 | It is Tuesday, September 29th, Eric Van Riper, Bridgeroli, Enosaris here. |
| 0:25.7 | As we focus now on the NL wildcard matchups, if you missed our episode on Monday, be sure to check that out for our AL breakdowns and our conversation with Ken Rosenthal about this very unusual post season. |
| 0:39.8 | Britt, how's it going for you here on this Tuesday? |
| 0:42.4 | It's going good. It was a little weird. We were talking off air, Derek, that there was no |
| 0:46.7 | baseball on last night. There was Monday night football, so there was a little something, |
| 0:51.3 | but I don't know about you guys. I'm very excited to watch all these games. |
| 0:55.4 | I hope it is absolute madness, chaos, everything. |
| 0:59.4 | I hope we get a really, really good postseason. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah, I'm rooting pretty hard for chaos to rain throughout the next four weeks. |
| 1:06.6 | How's your Tuesday going so far, you know? |
| 1:09.2 | Oh, it's good, you know, full of dog poop and potty talk, you know, normal morning. Typical day. That's, it'd be weird if it didn't start that way for you. All right, well, we got four games on the slate today, which we talked about yesterday. So we're going to talk about the NL series that are going to pick up tomorrow, Eight games on Wednesday. I am so excited for an eight playoff game day. I've never seen it before. |
| 1:32.1 | Probably will never see it again. I need more screens. I've got one showing up in probably the next couple of hours. |
| 1:38.0 | You bought a screen for this. Yeah, I got one more screen. I didn't go all out with an expensive one. I was thinking about an extra monitor anyway because I need a little more screen space. |
| 1:48.7 | So the timing was actually perfect. |
| 1:51.4 | Now, we'll dive into these matchups. |
| 1:53.3 | Let's start with the Dodgers and Brewers. |
| 1:55.4 | And you hear terms like a puncher's chance. |
| 1:58.9 | You say there's a Lloyd Christmas, Mary Swanson scenario here maybe. So you're saying thereer's chance. You say there's a Lloyd Christmas Mary Swanson scenario here maybe, |
| 2:03.7 | so you're saying there's a chance. I mean, this is a Brewer's team that limped into the playoffs. |
| 2:09.5 | This is a brewer's team that is without Corbyn Burns for this series, and Burns is a guy that's |
| 2:13.8 | probably a down-ballot, NL. Sy Young voter, a vote for some people. |
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