Welcome to Rates and barrels presented by Tops Checkout Tops Project 70, celebrating 70 years of Tops baseball cards, Derek Van Riper, Bridgeroli, Enoceris, all here on this Tuesday.

Game 1 of the World Series is upon us. It feels like this playoffs is flying by at this point. Lots to talk about, including some keys to this series. We will preview game one specifically.

We'll make some predictions for a series winner and for MVP,

and I'm sure we'll have some other nonsense, some other fun along the way over the course of the next 30 minutes or so.

What's going on?

How's Tuesday treating you so far, Britt?

Tuesday's going very well.

As you know, we were just laughing off camera about the Mets president GM search.

So other than that, you know, I'm excited.

I'm excited to watch the World Series.

I'm excited to be in Atlanta this weekend and see some of it live.

I think this is going to be a good matchup, and you can't always say that, right?

Some years we kind of get duds, but these are two exciting teams to watch.

So personally, I'm excited for it.

Yeah, I think the line in some places, the MGM line says it's 5743.

That's what the implied win probability is, 5743 Astros, which sounds like it could be a snoozer if it falls that way, because that would be a pretty big mismatch, I think. But Fangraphs is more 5248. And that's how I see it. I see it as slightly in the Astros favor. I think that means six or seven. I think that

there are enough problems on both of these sides in terms of staffs. There's going to be like maybe a

bullpen game or like, you know, there's going to be, there's going to be games where you're like,

wow, they, they kicked the can down the road and gave this game up. So I think that both teams will have something like that,

and that will make you go six or seven.

Yeah, so I was reading the five numbers piece that you had up on the athletic earlier today.

I think the one that really sticks with me as kind of critically important,

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