MLB Playoffs: Divisional Series Previews & Updated Odds

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00:00But by the way, Joe, we're oddsmen here, as we like to say.

00:02We like to understand why some of these numbers are moving.

00:05For the final month of the season, the Phillies continue to gain momentum

00:08as the favorites to win the World Series.

00:11The Dodgers beat a bad Reds team.

00:13And all of a sudden, people are like, yeah, Dodgers are the best team out there.

00:16Look at the odds to win the NL pennant.

00:17The Dodgers, plus 190.

00:19The Phillies, plus 250.

00:20I just want to start there.

00:22Like, the Phillies are rested, ready, and healthy now,

00:24and at home for a five-game series.

00:27And they're like, yeah, Dodgers always been the best team.

00:29And just flip those odds back around.

00:31What's going on there?

00:32Why?

00:33Why are the Brewers plus 320 is my question.

00:37I have no idea.

00:39They have the best record in all of baseball.

00:41Like, what am I missing here?

00:43But listen, yes, the Dodgers defending champs, you know,

00:47they should be the favorites here.

00:49I think the Phillies, in a longer series now, I hate to think it, Donnie,

00:55but I believe the Wheeler injury is going to rear its head here.

00:59And I think that might be, if the Phillies can't get past the Dodgers,

01:03it might be because, well, they didn't have their ace going into this series.

01:08But it is crazy, though.

01:09Like, the two home teams that were the better records during the season

01:13that don't have major injury concerns that just popped up like a week ago, right?

01:17Like, we knew Zach Wheeler was going to be out for a while.

01:19It's like, yeah, the Cubs won.

01:21They're hot.

01:21They should be able to, you know, beat the Milwaukee Brewers.

01:24Yeah, the Dodgers didn't look all that good to end this.

01:26Don't worry about it.

01:27They beat the Reds.

01:27They're fine.

01:28They're going to beat the Philadelphia Phillies.

01:29If we do the same thing in the American League, Joe,

01:31the Yankees now are the favorites.

01:32Now, we predicted this.

01:34We said if the Yankees were going to beat the Boston Red Sox,

01:36they would reclaim the right, even though they don't have the best record

01:39as the most bet team in the odds-on favorite, which would be a plus 155.

01:43Mariners, plus 210.

01:44Blue Jays, plus 320.

01:45Tigers at a 5-1 price.

01:47Nobody giving Scoble and the boys any looks here, Joe.

01:50Yeah, no, nor should they.

01:52There is, I mean, they might have, they took on a team that can't hit their weight,

01:57and that is not going to be the case here in the next round against Seattle.

02:01So, I think they're in trouble.

02:04But the reality is, listen, again, with the Yankees, like the Dodgers,

02:08yeah, good luck.

02:09You know, they should be the favorites here.

02:11Don't forget they had the same record as the Blue Jays.

02:14The Blue Jays had the tiebreaker because they went 8-5 against the Yankees this year

02:18in the, you know, regular season series.

02:21So, Yankees should be the favorite here, but that's why they play the games, Donnie.

02:26Yep.

02:26The Elite Eight in Major League Baseball.

02:28Detroit going to take on Seattle, the Toronto Blue Jays, and the New York Yankees,

02:32the Dodgers and the Phillies, and then the Brewers and the Cubs.

02:34Fantastic stuff.

02:35And the anticipation of longer series this year in the divisional round

02:38should be a lot of fun to watch it play out.

02:40But these games will take place on Saturday.

02:42And if we start there, the primetime game, 6.38 p.m. from Citizens Bank Park,

02:47Red October.

02:48It's going to be a crazy environment.

02:49Shohei Otani going up against Christopher Sanchez.

02:52Fantastic.

02:52Did you know, Joe, the buy-in, just to get into this game and sit in the worst seat

02:57or maybe stay in the room and not have a seat, Joe?

03:02$311, man.

03:03Boy, oh boy, those tickets are going up, huh?

03:06Wow, that's crazy.

03:08Or you can sit on your couch and get every angle and the best feed in a 4K TV

03:13that you could possibly see.

03:15That would be my option, Donnie.

03:16Listen, this is going to be a hell of a series.

03:20I don't think it's going to be one that's going to be over quick.

03:22I think this has got seven games written all over it.

03:25But it would be interesting to see this extended rest, Donnie.

03:29Does it help?

03:30Does it hurt?

03:31Are the Dodgers just happy to have been playing a couple of games to fine-tune it up

03:36and keep rolling into Philly?

03:38I'm going to be interested to see this in these early games here,

03:41in these series with these teams that haven't played in a hot minute.

03:45And by the way, rooting interest.

03:46Like, I am a Phillies fan.

03:47I am rooting for the Philadelphia Phillies.

03:48But I got to tell you, like, I would love to see the Phillies play the Cubs.

03:51I'd say baseball would probably like the Phillies.

03:52Obviously, an advanced, bigger market.

03:54Same thing with the Cubs.

03:55And anybody play the Dodgers, which is a bonanza.

03:57But if we flip it over to the American League, look, I like Toronto.

04:01It's a good story.

04:01But it doesn't feel like we need the Yankees and the Mariners in the ALCS to sort of decide

04:06who the MVP is and has superstar after superstar, East Coast versus West Coast.

04:10It doesn't feel like that's what we actually need.

04:13Yes.

04:14And I think that's what Major League Baseball would want as well, Donnie.

04:18It feels like that would be the absolute perfect situation right there.

04:22So, yeah.

04:23Big markets at Dodgers-Yankees round two.

04:27Could it be?

04:28Or could the Phillies and Yankees be going at it?

04:30You know what's going to happen, too?

04:32Mariners and the Yankees were like Cal Raleigh has an awesome series and they win.

04:35And then Aaron Judge gets the MVP of what he did in the regular season.

04:38Make it happen, people.

04:40Hour number two.

04:40We're making it happen next.

04:42You earned it, people.

04:43Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, out the window.

04:45Football Friday, right here on the Sports Grid Network.

04:47We covered every single angle you are going to need for this weekend.

04:51But this time, Joe, this is where we like to reach out to the people and say,

04:55we need your help on a certain question.

04:57This is our favorite public poll.

04:58If you haven't done so yet, go over to X, hit the follow button.

05:09Like, you can follow there, at Joe Ranieri, at Donnie Wrightside.

05:12That's all fine and good.

05:13We know you've already done that.

05:14But if you're not following at Sports Grid, how can you answer these questions?

05:17A simple question was asked today.

05:19Will the Yankees or Dodgers go back to the World Series?

05:22I got to fess up.

05:23I read this through and said, okay, that's it.

05:25Wait, they made it?

05:26Like, I guess I'm 48 years old and I forget.

05:28I'm telling you.

05:29Like, I had no idea the Yankees were in the World Series last year

05:32because we usually forget the loser and always remember the victors.

05:34But the question was asked, will they get back to back here on this?

05:38Yes, 36% live.

05:40No, 63%.

05:43How about that?

05:44It's not going to be a Yankees-Dodgers series, the people are telling you.

05:48You know, I think they got it right, Donnie,

05:51because at this point, given the road to the postseason,

05:56is, you know, I think you have right around those kinds of odds here

06:01that you're going to get one, if not both of them, back there.

06:05Both are the favorites in their divisions, right?

06:08American League, National League, we put those numbers up earlier.

06:12So I think there's a 50-50 chance one of them at least runs the table

06:17and gets back to the World Series.

06:18Which, again, the question doesn't ask, like, both of them.

06:21But if you expect, like, to get back a rematch of the World Series, it's or.

06:25So you get both the Yankees and the Dodgers, who, correct me if I'm wrong, Joe,

06:29the odds on, you know, chances for them to get there, they're the favorites.

06:33We'll see if they get there or not.

06:35No for the public.

06:36Yeah, I think everybody's just hating on them, which I respect it, too.

06:38As a Philadelphia fan, let's hate on the Yankees.

06:40Let's hate on the Dodgers.

06:41More good comes out of that than not at this point.

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