Hello and welcome to episode 1452 of the Sleeper in the Bust. It is Friday, September 19th. I'm your host Paul Spoor, joined this morning by Justin Mason. Justin, there's a week left, brother. Did you realize that? I did. I was a little mixed up, by the way, because I'm used to going in October. So I'm sitting there thinking we got like two weeks left, and I'm doing the sheet today. I'm like, last week. I'm excited. I'm also sad, like, you know, like this is. It's kind of a bittersweet point of the season where, like, I'm ready for it to be over, but I'm also a little bum that it's over.

It'll take a week of October for me to miss the grind.

I, too, am ready for a down, you know, a downturn in the grind, but it won't take long.

I'll be in October like, man, I miss the day to day grind.

And there's also the added, I don't want to say bonus, the added poop sandwich on top of my tigers absolutely melting.

They are absolutely melting down.

And you'd have to be insane not to be super nervous if you're a Tigers fan right now.

We got nothing after Tariq.

And then the bullpen sucks. Anyway, what were you going to say? Yeah, I was about to say the exact same thing about my giants. Like my giants, like three or four days ago, were leading the wild card and now they're three games back. Yeah. Both of our teams just. And playing the Dodgers this weekend. So that's not great either. web pitch great yesterday but yeah it's against

yamamoto so like what are you going to do yeah so it's uh i don't think that i grew this playoff

beard out and i don't think i'm gonna get any good one though but yeah well we'll see we'll see

there's still time and you guys finish with Cardinals in Colorado.

We've got an easy remaining schedule after this weekend.

Yeah.

We've got to take two from the Dodgers.

Yep.

That's exactly what I'm going to say.

You got rip some this weekend.

But we need a lot of help because there's now like three teams ahead of us for the last wild.

And that's always the worst part is when you need help.

It's controlling your own destiny, obviously a big thing in sports.

And when you can do that, that's huge win in your end type situation.

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