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Okay. The streak is over. I am recording this as the white socks have walked it off against

the rays, ending their losing streak at 10 games. They're still like so much to cover and so much

to discuss. Watching them this past weekend, like the streak is over, but the problem still

persists for this team. And it played out inside of this game. While I'm on it, like how the game

ended, and this isn't really like, I don't really do game breakdowns anymore other than bear's

game, because they're once a week. And the audience turns over product quite a bit. And there are

all sorts of white socks pods out there that do sort of recappy type stuff. I just want to talk

about how inside of this game, it almost felt like, it felt like Kevin Cash was just like,

oh, well, if he wins it, he wins it. Let's go home. Instead of playing out the ninth inning,

like it was a game that you had to have, not that the rays have to have it. They're baseball's best

team. So they didn't have to have the game at all. But why on earth would you let Vaughn bat in

that situation? When the winning run is already a third, so you're not pushing it to third. He's

already on third. And that run ideally doesn't count. And you have a lefty on the mound. So if you have

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