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Derek Van Riper here with Enosiris and Britt Joroli.

It's Tuesday, October 19th.

I felt like I needed to slam the brakes on the intro on the video, just so everyone could see the faces you guys were making, kind of getting ready for the start of the stream.

That was impressive.

I got to enjoy that from the behind the scenes. You guys were kind of doing the how now brown cow, round birdhipping. But just with your faces, you weren't really saying anything. Just try to wake up. Yeah, it's a little early out here. Britt's been awake for like five hours. Yeah, Britt went to the gym, but Britt didn't go to bed really late. I don't know why I'm talking the third person. The game took a while last night. I'm in Boston. Of course, they always do. But yeah, I kind of feel like I should maybe be on West Coast time. But if I don't get up and go to the gym, I feel worse, you know, guys? I need the mood lift. And that game was over in the third inning, maybe even earlier. It seemed like last night. At least you guys are riding in before it was over. Yeah, yeah the veteran move as you know is to not

write not have to sit there with a blank document after a post game because

now you're talking about like one in the morning yeah so yeah so close games

are fun and exciting but if you're a writer sometimes like I'll take the blowout

it's all written just had to get some quotes. God, that game was a blowout. I saw Derek tweet, the gibronies. Derek, are you taking a slow victory lap here? Are you going to sprint it? Are we supposed to slow clap? No, I'm doing. I bailed on them in the Rays series anyway, so I don't deserve full credit, but I was enjoying this nonetheless.

I mean, look, I think the Astros are a bit of a common enemy in baseball, second to the Dodgers.

The Dodgers are the Death Star, as I've said many times before.

That's why I thought it was definitely going to be Astros Dodgers.

Yeah, that's kind of how I just felt like that was what the baseball universe was going to spit at us. And maybe, just maybe, we're going to get something completely different. I still think Dodgers coming back. I said that yesterday. I'll stick with that. But the Red Sox's up to one over the Astros. Offense keeps on firing. Once Kyle Schwabber hit that grand slam, it was only 6-0. And I said this yesterday.

Houston's the kind of team that can come back from an early team. Astros, offense keeps on firing. Once Kyle Schwabber hit that grand slam, it was only 6-0. And I said

this yesterday. Houston's the kind of team that can come back from an early deficit like that.

They can chip away at it. We saw signs of a rally when Kyle Tucker to get that three-run homer,

but yeah, it was not meant to be in game three. Now, I think the couple things that stood out to

me from the rest of

the series perspective, the Astros at least didn't throw Christian Javier early in the game. Like,

there was definitely some temptation, I'm sure, to try and throw Javier in there when Orkidie was

struggling. If they had done that, they would have burned Javier in a game that they lost big,

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