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The Sports Junkies

Washington Post's Barry Svrluga on World Series Game 4

The Sports Junkies

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Sports

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Svrluga shares what the atmosphere is like in Arizona as the D-Backs look to even the series at home and the Rangers try to take a commanding 3-1 lead.

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0:00.0

This music is a playout. This is Stranger Things. I didn't know that, but I like it.

0:22.0

No, we're going to head to the BetQL guest hotline, say hello to Berries Verluga, Washington Post sports columnist.

0:31.0

He is in Phoenix for Game 3 of the World Series. He should say thank you for waking up pretty early.

0:38.0

What does it say? Is it 730 out there?

0:41.0

No, so you have to do like a ton of research to find out what time it is out here because they either do or don't do daylight saving.

0:47.0

Oh, it is 6.30.

0:50.0

Hey, we get an extra hour of sleep this weekend. It's fall back.

0:53.0

Fall back this week.

0:54.0

Hey, Barry, what's what's Chase field? Chase field, right? What's that chase field like?

1:00.0

It's it's built. I was just thinking about it last night. It's the first time I've been here in a long time.

1:06.0

It was built kind of right before they ratcheted back and said, you know what?

1:12.0

The baseball stadium should be like 41 42,000, like like Matt's Park is. So it's like 50,000 and it feels enormous, especially.

1:22.0

You know, back in the day when I was a beat writer and you'd come in like August and there'd be like 18,000 people.

1:27.0

It felt huge. It has the retractable roof, which those buildings feel bigger anyway because they.

1:34.0

They're just so massive, but it got pretty loud last night. I would say is it sold out? Was it sold out? You think?

1:40.0

It was 51 and changed. So Barry, the TV suits can't be happy with this headline.

1:47.0

Game one, least watched World Series game in recorded history. Oh my God.

1:53.0

That's not great. I understand it's too, you know, smaller market teams to West, you know, West-ish type teams.

2:01.0

A lot of the rest of the country isn't going to have much interest, but to have these numbers come in less than 10 million people watching the World Series is kind of shocking.

2:09.0

Yeah, I mean, you knew and I'll just say from my perspective, like when the matchup was set, like normally I would go to all seven World Series games and it wouldn't be a question.

2:20.0

I mean, we kind of looked at it and we're like, eh, like games one and two in Texas and do I have seven bullets to fire on these storylines?

2:26.0

Like I skipped games one and two because the juice wasn't there. It's a Philly's had beaten Arizona, like all chips in.

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