Opening Day Thoughts & Predictions Live From Barebottle Brewing
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2025
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Trevor, and DVR are live from Barebottle Brewing in San Francisco on Opening Day of baseball in the US. They break down some of the big games from Opening Day and give their predictions on each division and who is going to win the World Series.
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Rundown
0:57 Wilmer Flores' Go Ahead Homer & Early Opening Takeaways
15:23 NL West Predictions
27:18 NL Central Predictions
38:29 NL East Predictions
48:18 A Toast of Kayaker's Cove w/Barebottle Co-Founder Lester Koga
55:01 AL West Predictions
1:04:51 AL Central Predictions
1:16:48 AL East Predictions
1:26:53 Postseason Predictions
1:29:50 Listener Questions
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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris
With: Trevor May
Producer: Brian Smith
Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Barrels. |
| 0:13.4 | Happy opening day. |
| 0:15.5 | It is Thursday, March 27th, Derek Van Riper, |
| 0:20.2 | Inoceris, Trevor May, all here with you. |
| 0:23.3 | Thank you to all of you for being here live with us today. |
| 0:28.4 | How are our levels? Can you hear us? Do we turn it up? |
| 0:31.3 | Go louder? |
| 0:32.0 | Louder. |
| 0:33.8 | Unanimous louder. |
| 0:34.7 | All right. Still louder or good now? Good? |
| 0:37.8 | Comfortable? |
| 0:38.9 | All right. That's good. More loud? That's probably about right. I don't want to hurt anybody down here, but yeah. You know, I will get excited at some point. You know, we'll get louder. Guaranteed. Absolutely guaranteed. Thanks to the good folks here at Bear Bottle. This has been a fantastic day so far. great opening day for Giants fans. |
| 0:35.7 | I want to talk about opening day highlights. |
| 0:37.9 | Holy cow, Wilmer Flores. Go ahead, home run off of probably one day closer, Ian Jabot for the Reds. I love that we talked about the Reds bullpen. And named four different guys that could get saves. Ian Jabot wasn wasn't one of them, gets the opportunity. |
| 1:11.3 | Eno rushing in a first-come, first-served league, tries to pick him up, actually gets beat on the waiver wire, but it'll all work out for the best, and Giants fans go home happy. I definitely pulled out my phone and was like, Ian J-J-Bow, got to get him, 20-teen league, and it's the league that I'm in with Derek. |
| 1:08.6 | And he was like, my hands are in my pockets. |
| 1:10.8 | I don't care. |
| 1:11.7 | No, thank you. |
| 1:12.3 | I'm like, I got to get him. |
| 1:13.2 | I got to get him. Twenty-team league. And it's the league that I'm in with Derek. And he was like, my hands are in my pockets. I don't care. |
| 1:29.4 | No, thank you. I'm like, I got to get him. I got to get him. And then somebody beat me to him. And then he grew up to save. I was like, okay, good, good. You can have them. Just before we started recording, I saw that the Pirates bullpen blew a win for Paul Skeens. |
| 1:29.2 | It was Colin Holderman and David Bednar |
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