00:00the west and that's the al west the houston astros back in front one and a half game lead
00:04over the seattle marines who lost yesterday astros pick up a win that's how it's done the
00:09rangers who well i had some high hopes for tom i thought they got it back together but apparently
00:14they didn't winners of two of the last 10 games lose a four straight eight and a half games back
00:19at the astros time to say goodbye to those rangers here probably by the angels and the athletics but
00:24it's a two-man combination pop pop astros and mariners tom it really is stick a fork in the
00:30texas rangers at this point when it comes to the astros and the mariners again the volume of
00:37injuries the astros are dealing with combined with you know adding on top this hater news that we
00:42already spoke about how can we trust them to stay healthy and or when push comes to shove what team
00:49has a better rotation than the mariners because the astros don't because valdez doesn't look good
00:54hunter brown sure he's a solid pitcher but if you give me logan gilbert brian woo george kirby and
01:02louise castillo those four pitchers for the mariners i think they can take on anyone in the league when
01:07it comes to the pitching so i think the mariners get it done and win the division when it's all said
01:11and done i like them they're just fun to me right i like the pitching i like the bullpen like the hitters
01:15here you know you have power in that lineup but something we always worried about oh no well
01:19maybe the young pitchers won't be able to live up you know they're only going to score three runs a
01:22game that's not the case anymore for the mariners big game today and we'll see on sunday night
01:26baseball which tom correct me if i'm wrong as you stated we're going little league style in that game
01:30huh right that game is at williamsport which obviously it is normal dimensions but it is important
01:37to know when they're playing at a non-normal mlb stadium yeah it's not the air handicapping this game
01:43wait a second is that a raceway yeah you should have known that if you're gonna put money on it
01:46so there you go today don't be fooled when you turn that game out it's like why is there a lot of
01:49little league players at this game because it is in williamsport here a lot of teams have done it's
01:53pretty cool that baseball does do this but it's always interesting the backdrop is basically hey
01:58there's a couple houses back there and people watching in their backyards interesting times where
02:01maybe that ball does travel a little bit further we'll find out we're certainly going to handicap that
02:05game flip it over to the national league tom philadelphia phillies and the new york mets it's still a
02:09five game lead for the phillies they lost yesterday the mets won so they picked up a game
02:13down from six to five the marlins playing at the string along with the braves and the nationals
02:17doesn't mean you can't make money on some of those teams but just look like the phillies are five and
02:20five the mets two and eight the marlins two and eight and then the braves here playing good baseball
02:25at eight and two when they're 15 games back way to show up on the season braves it looks like it's
02:29gonna be the phillies and the mets and a heavy discount here now on the new york mets if you try to
02:33take them to win the division it really is you know the phillies with their struggles on anything you
02:39would agree like they're playing okay right now if there was any time for the mets to strike it would
02:44have been happening over the past two weeks but i mean a good thing for the phillies that they're
02:49playing okay to kind of bad in certain games but the mets are also playing terribly so like the
02:54phillies don't have too much to worry about in my mind when it's all said and done the mets just
02:58haven't put together a consecutive string of games that has any sort of hope for them so even if the
03:04mets do turn things around and go eight and two like the phillies as long as they play just
03:08slightly over 500 maintain lead and they'll be fine probably should be and again you want wheeler to
03:14come back nola's coming back in that lineup it's an embarrassment riches for the starters deron which
03:18would have been a terrible loss for them looks like he's going to be fine so things still looking
03:21up five games up from the new york mets we'll see how those games play out today the milwaukee
03:25brewers 78 and 44 if you'd have told the chicago cubs fans front office ownership group whatever tom
03:30on 8 17 which is august 17th they'd be 69 and 53 they go oh we got to be up by a couple games or
03:37well if we're not somebody's playing great baseball we're maybe down a game they're down nine games now
03:41to the brewers the brewers just won't lose it's amazing how the season flipped on its head for the
03:46cubs the best team in that division to just about double digits back it's unbelievable and starting on
03:52monday these teams play each other at wrigley field it's not a three game series it's not a four game
03:58series it is a five game series doubleheader thursday five straight games against each other
04:04i'm not going to say this is going to determine the division but if you tell me the brewers open up
04:08an 11 game lead we could be locking things up in the middle of august for that division
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