Rooting for Chaos, Changes in San Diego, & Britt's St. Louis Victory Lap
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Britt & DVR make their plea for chaos in a bid to join Team Entropy for the final 10 days of the 2021 season, before discussing the changes brewing in San Diego in addition the still bright outlook for roster coming back in 2022. After a lengthy attempt to avoid the subject, Eno & DVR eat crow in the wake of Britt's Cardinals prediction, and lament the likelihood of future playoff expansion.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels presented by Tops. Check out Tops Project, 70, celebrating 70 years of Topps baseball cards. |
| 0:22.4 | It is Friday, September 24th. Derek Van Riper, you know, Saris, Britt Droly. If you are watching us on YouTube, be sure to hit that like button. That's how we're lined up left to right today. I think it's just the order in which people connected. I don't really put us in an order. and sometimes when I move you around on the screen, |
| 0:19.1 | it gives people a headache, |
| 0:20.1 | so I'm not going to do that. |
| 0:21.5 | I'll let everyone stay exactly connected. I don't really put us in an order. And sometimes when I move you around on the screen, |
| 0:42.4 | it gives people a headache. So I'm not going to do that. Let everyone stay exactly where they are right now. But on this episode, stuck in the middle with you. Yeah, you know, stuck right in the |
| 0:47.5 | middle of the Rates and Beryl sandwich today. Must be Friday if I'm already singing. Oh, yeah, |
| 0:53.3 | early Friday. |
| 1:04.1 | We're going to join Jay Jaffe on Team Entropy and make our pleas for absolute chaos over the final 10 days of this season because chaos is fun. |
| 1:12.6 | We are going to give some lessons in eating crow in the wake of Brits' very on-point call about the St. Louis Cardinals, |
| 1:15.8 | who are almost mathematically confirmed to be a playoff team now. |
| 1:19.7 | And when we snickered at the very idea of that just a couple of weeks ago, |
| 1:23.9 | you know, we thought we had the upper hand in getting that prediction right. |
| 1:26.8 | So we are wrong and we will dig into why. |
| 1:28.2 | We'll also take a look at the Padres, the 2022 version of the Padres, who's coming back, what moves are they going to have to |
| 1:32.9 | make? Obviously, some changes already taking place in that organization. And we'll probably get |
| 1:38.1 | to Cardgate a little bit too, just because that was a big story earlier this week. I'm glad it's |
| 1:42.9 | faded, so it is appropriately |
| 1:44.7 | lower in the rundown for today, just to break the fourth wall there for a moment. But let's |
| 1:51.1 | begin with our bid to join Team Entropy. I know you stayed up all night designing some elaborate |
| 1:58.1 | scenarios for how we could see Game 163s and maybe even a game |
| 2:03.3 | 164, which is just diabolical. |
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