00:00so good all right so uh donnie the final weekend of baseball until you get locked into your fillies
00:05for the rest of the way so uh are the tigers gonna be in the playoffs at all i my son asked
00:11me that question last night i'm like you know i don't know uh this is i'm i'm honestly happy
00:16they won last night because this could have been an epic disaster to end their season losing like
00:2011 12 games in a row so i look detroit unfortunately donnie is kind of regressing to
00:27maybe who they should have been at the beginning of the season and by the way they're gonna go i
00:31think they already are they are above their season win total at 86 so they're gonna end up winning 87
00:3688 games they're gonna go above but cleveland just got so damn hot that it feels worse for detroit
00:43are they gonna even get in the postseason you think or do you think that houston is gonna get
00:49tough here at the end it's gonna come right down to sunday and also you don't have like hey we're
00:53gonna go back to our friendly confines of comerica park you're on the road for three games in fenway
00:57and boston would love to knock you out and certainly gain some status there but understand
01:01this about the detroit tigers what makes it worse craig and what you're talking about is
01:04the dodgers didn't pass them up like oh the dodgers supposed to be great and they got healthy
01:08you're getting passed up by a team that at the deadline said we're not making the playoffs let's
01:12trade some pieces and oh yeah some of our closers and pitchers doing the wrong thing maybe betting
01:17against the team you know what instead of investigating that and keeping them on the team just get them
01:20out of here because we're not going to go to the playoffs anyway only to find themselves
01:24probably going to the playoffs 15 and a half game lead july 8th and you're now looking up and saying
01:30we don't think we're going to make the playoffs this is one of the worst collapses we've ever seen
01:33and you're watching it in real time in september yeah tough tough scene right now and by the way
01:39to win the division detroit has fallen to plus 172 what does that tell you there's three games left
01:45the tigers have got to win two out of three to have a shot here i think they're all right i'm a little
01:49concerned also donnie with the blue jays i gotta be honest with you i i i think if they win the
01:54division and they get to take a breath i'll feel a lot better about them but i i think that they may
01:59lose in the first round if this continues right now they're minus 170 to win the division and i know the
02:05yankees are right behind them but i think the blue jays need to win this division donnie and get a few
02:09days off and then regroup and then get things figured out i mean this is not the kind of squad
02:13that's postseason built i mean they haven't made it in so long they did win yesterday so that's the big
02:18win they needed over boston can they continue to run this weekend you know sometimes we say craig that's
02:23baseball right heading into the season not high expectations for the blue jays didn't start out
02:27the season very well caught fires like wow they're gonna probably win this division and the one thing
02:31we do know about baseball man it is a fickle beast at times it's almost like it doesn't matter how you
02:36play in march april may june july august and halfway through september how are you playing in the final two
02:41weeks of september are your bats hot and your pitcher is healthy enough to go into the playoffs like
02:45we're seeing games with like max sure is like yeah great we have a veteran pitcher down the stretch
02:49he's out of gas at this point and it seems like right now you're running that last lap if it was
02:53nascar and you're out of gas hoping to coast to the finish line and hoping that the yankees fall
02:58i don't think the yankees are falling they've won five games in a row eight and two in their last 10
03:02games i would say right now i don't think toronto wins the division i think the yankees are going to
03:06get them if that's the case the blue jays will take on the red socks in the first round of the
03:11postseason and the blue jays it would appear will have the home field advantage there so at least
03:16they have that the red socks would have to go to canada okay so the only award that's left to
03:21really be determined here at this point a rookie of the year perhaps would be the american league mvp
03:25i've done a ton of asking and a ton of research on this and there's a few things that came into play
03:31that i didn't realize that i'll bring to the table but first donnie let's show you the numbers
03:35currently it's 60 home runs for cal raleigh and a 954 ops aaron judge way ahead in average
03:42uh way ahead in ops and uh behind in home runs and behind in runs driven in and also of course
03:48the position factor here which has helped cal raleigh but i i guess i didn't realize donnie in asking
03:53and again not asking like you know asking people in baseball about this is that you can't go wrong
03:59with either player that's the problem with this mvp award is that i believe if i'm not mistaken in the
04:04last 10 years there's only been a handful of players that have had a war above nine and both
04:11players are doing it this year it's just a rare scenario where you have two players that definitely
04:16deserve the mvp raleigh is the favorite judge has fallen back to plus uh 155 if judge goes bananas
04:24this weekend maybe he wins it but i've come to the the decision here that it could be either guy and i
04:30think it's going to be okay i mean i think raleigh is the mvp but according to people who i talk to
04:35either guy it's okay that they win you're absolutely correct both of these guys if you could split
04:41the award they would do that because here's what's happening it's not like the bcs back in
04:45the day in college football running through the computer spit it out because it would say aaron
04:48judge all the analytical numbers for the most part are leaning towards aaron judge but we're human
04:52beings that vote on this award and sometimes we feel the need to say well aaron judge is always
04:56there he's going to win an mvp in the future already has an mvp this is cal raleigh's year why
05:00don't you just give it to him and that's not a fair assessment of cal raleigh season can you imagine
05:04and we talk about this playing the outfield playing shortstop playing first base or being a dh all
05:09different but you know it's completely different playing catcher for the majority of the season
05:12i don't like to squat five minutes here let alone squat for nine innings and do it maybe
05:16150 plus times in a major league baseball season cal raleigh's been phenomenal and i said midsummer
05:22craig how's it going to take here for cal raleigh to win the mvp he's got to hit at least 60 home
05:26runs without judge hitting 60 home runs and he's done that i would be fine either way but just being
05:31a fan of the game boy i would love to see cal raleigh take this down craig i really would
05:35yeah me too all right so uh mets are here in south florida donnie this weekend i'm on the broadcast
05:39saturday uh marlins are out but they want they want to knock them they want to knock the mets out
05:45okay i'm positive uh along those lines now if they're out by sunday maybe the marlins would tinker
05:50a little bit with what they're doing but they're throwing sandy out there tonight uh you know mets
05:54rotation somewhat in shambles what do you think happens here in the end do the mets have to win two
06:00out of three from the marlins to get in in my opinion they got to win two out of three they lose the
06:03series i think the reds are going to get in if that's not the case what do you think i agree with
06:08the air and also it's so like hey good we're playing the marlins here but the marlins have
06:11really rallied in the month of september it's been phenomenal to watch and also you are right craig
06:16we're hearing from the organization the players this is our three game world series right now which
06:20is not what you want to hear if you're taking a look and saying to yourself at who's going to win
06:24this game for me i don't think the mets make it in to be honest because i think the marlins are going
06:28to win this series and if you're relying on rookie pitchers down the stretch in high leverage
06:32situations that usually doesn't work out in your favor unless you got paul skeins over there and
06:37last time i checked these guys ain't paul skeins no definitely not all right donnie we'll see what
06:42happens and by this time next week we'll have some idea as to who the phillies are going to be facing
06:47in the first round too should be an exciting postseason thanks again for coming on sure no problem
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