Welcome to Rates and barrels presented by Tops Checkout Tops Project, 70, celebrating 70 years of Topps baseball cards.

It is our first live playoff show of the 2021 postseason.

Derek Minreiber, Bridgeroli, Inoceros here with you for the next 30 minutes or so.

Maybe it turns into an hour.

Who knows, if we're having fun, we'll hang around.

We're here to answer questions and break everything down happening in

today's AL Wildcard game. And we're going to try and make predictions for the entire playoffs,

which is risky. And as we've learned on the show of the course of the season, not something

that we do particularly well. But we have fun doing it. And that's the important thing. So

let's get going. Let's just start diving right in. The playoffs are here. I couldn't be more excited. We know a little bit about what's going to happen this week. Of course, two wild card games on tap. Yankees Red Sox goes down tonight. Dodgers Cardinals on Wednesday night. We got the White Sox Astro Series beginning on Thursday, Braves Brewers on Friday. and then, of course, the winner of the wild card games also starting Thursday, Friday in those leagues. Hold on, DVR. We've already got the most important question of the morning. James Rogers asks. This is a great question. Did DVR get his coffee yet, or are we going to get the ass? Yes, it's almost gone. You can tell it's hit, right? It's the delicious, delicious coffee, too. Oh, and that weird mug, dude. What was that? What's that mug? This is, yes, it's from Cometeer. They send, like, frozen coffee pods out and awesome glasses, too. Yeah, Maggie's been using those.

My wife has been using those.

They're kind of cool looking.

You feel like you're in a coffee shop even when you're not, which is a great feeling.

It's great coffee too.

So playoffs are here.

And Britt, you had a key questions piece dissecting every team in the field.

There's a couple teams that I think are just different

because they had the best record in each league and yet people still doubt them. So I thought

we should start today by talking about the Tampa Bay raise and a couple key questions facing them.

The biggest observation for me is this is a very different group of starters than we saw from the Corps that pushed them to the World Series a year ago.

28 different pitchers for the raise this year have logged at least 10 innings.

Of course, some of those guys are hurt.

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