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Huh.

That was interesting.

Yeah.

That was an interesting ball game.

Welcome into Felgramast, Thursday, August 19th.

The pre-game show.

We'll get you ready for Patriots Eagles. And our pre-game show that starts at 4.30. So we'll do plenty of that. But we got to start with last night in New York. Big Jim Murray alongside in our town for entire studios, your thoughts. Not an easy scoop, but boy, easy victory for those that were lamenting the loss of Anthony Rizzo at the trade deadline for the Boston Red Sox. It doesn't get any clearer than that, huh? When you had that two-run double, it really opened up the game. The only thing that was missing, I put this in the email chain this morning, was Vin Scully yelling, behind the bag, it gets through Dolbeck, because that, that's got to hurt. It was a single, I think, but either way. Oh, sorry, it drove in two runs, but either way, that's the good, that's what really, oh, that had to sting. And then just how the game ended to like a nice defensive play with Rizzo digging that ball out of the dirt at first base. It really was just like, it doesn't get more in your face than that. It's bad enough you get swept by the New York Yankees. It's that Anthony Rizzo returns from dealing with COVID and is back in that lineup and is impacting plays all over the field to help you lose that final game. So you get swept. And this is the guy that you should have had on this team at the trade deadline. He was the

perfect fit. He was the perfect bat. He was the most complete bat by the way. Heim bloom that was available, not Kyle Schwabber, who wasn't in the lineup last night because, oh, they were pitching a lefty. And even when you had a pinch hit situation late in the game, oh, I don't know. how about put him in the game? Nope, can't do that.

Like, that's as, that's as, that's as salt in the wound type of loss you could have right now as this team continues to just fall completely off a cliff. Rarely is it that clear cut? Right. Rarely is it that well defined? Rarely does it break in such a definitive fashion as it did last night, but

well, it did. And if you can't see it now, then you just can't see it or don't want to see it.

Yeah, you're just ignorant. You're sticking your head in the sand. The trade deadline turned

the race. The trade deadline. And it almost never happens this way. I mean, how could a first

base would make that big of a difference? But he does. But he does. That game last night, Murray, was pretty much

won and loss at first base. I mean, you could not totally, but I'd say for the most part,

for the most part. And you went through some of it. If, you know, Rizzo hit that ball

down the line on an O2 count in the second inning. So their first baseman made contact down

in the count. Your first baseman couldn't come up with the play. End of the game. Rizzo made two

big plays in the field in the ninth inning to seal the victory. Your guy

took an offer. Meanwhile, your big trade deadline acquisition, as you said, never got off the bench.

That was it. The deadline won and lost that game. The deadline has flipped the race.

Oh, it completely did. And I can't believe that a first baseman has made that big of a difference.

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