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It's getting dicey in the NL West, Alex. Your beloved Diamondbacks tore up the Giants, although I will say it seemed like some winnable games if things go a little different.

Giants have the third worst record in the NL, but they're barely out of that last spot.

Yeah.

I've just been trying to warn everybody about the Diamondbacks. I feel like for...

You have. You've been sounding the alarm and no one believed you. Everyone was all eyes in L.A.

Yeah, I was off this weekend and I was watching the... I think it was the pregame show on Saturday.

And they did something. They're like, these guys are actually good. And I'm like, like yes I've been trying to tell you guys they're a problem so and I

just know from the Giants perspective that like these guys keep them up at night a little bit and we

didn't even see them like kind of doing their whole run around the basis thing so yeah um

they're good they're a legit team they're a playoff contender the Giants right not that no not really for how bad this season's been so

far dodged a huge bullet with the schedule realignment not seeing this formidable and a west as they had

as often as they had in the past well also the whole national league is like 500 so they're basically

with this expanded postseason i I think they're what,

eight and a half games behind the Dodgers already?

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