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the Riper, Bridgeroli, Inoceris, the King of Waffles here with you on this Friday morning.

And it is one of the best baseball days of the year. We have four playoff games. It is increasingly

clear to me that I do in fact live in the best time zone in America to consume sporting events because I will have baseball pretty much from the time I'm done working on this show until the time I'm ready to go to sleep today.

And that is absolutely glorious. Brit, I'm sorry that you still live on the East Coast.

You know, you should have told me years ago if this was the way to go. You guys are the worst. No hanging on until like 1.30 in the morning for an X-Rening game. Never again. Those days are over. I am an old man. I was always kind of fighting it and falling asleep anyway. So this is absolutely perfect for me. Lots to get to, though. Let's start

with the Astros and White Sox series. That game actually gets underway at 11 Pacific, so we got

to get moving here. But the thing that people were making a big deal about from game one of this

series was Lance Lynn's fastball usage. And as Eno has told people

on this show before, Lance Lynn has several fastballs. There's a four seamer. There's a two seamer.

There's a cutter. Those are three different pitches with three very clearly different movement

profiles. He tried to pitch this way against the Astros earlier this season and got hit.

And as Lance Brasdowski pointed out on Twitter, the Astros hit everything.

It doesn't really matter what exactly your game plan is because they're going to generally figure it out.

So I thought that was one of the storylines that came out of this game that was a little bit overblown. They didn't lose this game because Lance Lynn threw too many fastballs.

They lost this game because the Astros are just really damn good.

Yeah, well, I thought he got a long leash, too, though. They could have probably pulled

and should have maybe pulled Lance Lynn a little earlier.

He didn't look good from the jump.

You're right, the Astros are really good.

What's interesting is after the game, obviously here live from the Houston press box today,

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