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Hi, Hi, welcome to the podcast. I am Joe Posenanski and with me is Michael

Sure. Michael, welcome. Thank you for having me Joe. You are so welcome.

We are recording this smack dab after the best baseball day of the year so far.

We are recording this on Saturday.

Are you arguably the first good day of the playoffs?

I don't even know if it's arguably, right?

It's like definitely the first.

Well, we have the cool, we have the cool brave Phillies game, right?

We had the, but even the rest of that day wasn't that great and like the whole early part of the playoffs was basically and by early I mean the first two series

There were several all the wild card series and all the way of the D.S. is all the way through

Where there was never a day where all of the games or even multiple games were were thrilling and exciting and this day yesterday you had Altuvae hits a three-run

Homer in the ninth to to beat the Rangers and then you have the diamond backs

coming back against Kimbrel and the, two one-run games that were both

eighth or ninth inning.

Grillers and lead changes like stuff we just didn't see like for the entire post season and and it was beginning to feel even though

none of us should fall for the whole small sample size thing it was beginning to feel like a feature rather than a bug of these playoffs.

It was beginning to feel like, oh, this is what playoff baseball is just going to be?

It's like every single day, one team would jump on the starter and then the other team would never

come back and yeah we just saw it was five nothing in the first inning every

game it felt like right every single game and it

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