00:00And we'll look at the American League Central, Tom, where it is wide open. You can see the graph.
00:06Anybody can win this, really, when you think about it. Even Detroit. Now, certainly, I think
00:10Kansas City is done, and I don't think they're getting out of the cellar. But you can have a lot
00:14of movement between now and the end. I don't believe the movement for me is on Minnesota,
00:19but I would not rule out Detroit. I certainly think Cleveland is right there in the mix and
00:25should win the division. But Cleveland, the Guardians are not running away with anything,
00:30Tom. They just don't have the offense to do it. They don't. And this is a market I think is
00:37pretty simple, where I think the White Sox will win it, because I'm not sold on the Guardians.
00:43And I'm not saying I want to buy the White Sox to win it. I think I may be looking
00:48more to
00:49the Guardians not to win it. And it leaves some potential, obviously, some wiggle room.
00:53I think, as you said, get in and get out. But I think the White Sox end up winning it.
00:57I think
00:57it'll be within a game or two or three. I don't think they're going to be running away with anything,
01:01but it's going to be a mess. It's going to be a fistfight to the end of September. That's what
01:05it comes down to. Yeah, feels like that as well. Do you think that the Twins are in this, Tom?
01:11Do you think they are? They think they are. Do you feel like they are?
01:15I don't. The bottom of the lineup is not good. I don't think the pitching staff is good enough.
01:20I would be more interested in buying the Guardians to win it than the Twins. And I'm not super high
01:26on the Guardians. Yeah, it's White Sox, Guardians. Someone's got to win the division, so to speak.
01:32All right, the American League East, Tampa Bay is kind of running away with this. And if not for this
01:37incredible hot streak for Boston, they probably would have already won it. I guess that's the team
01:41I'm looking for here, Tom. Can they just simply move ahead of the Yankees and stay? I think Toronto
01:46is tapped out. I'm done with them. I think Baltimore is just a blah team that finishes
01:51right where they are, so I wouldn't necessarily go up or go down with them. I guess maybe if I
01:57had
01:57some buyback a little, it would be predicting for me that the Red Sox fall off a little. They can't
02:05be this hot for three months, Tom. It's just unprecedented. It would mean that they're going
02:10to win 105 games. And I just, I don't think they're equipped to do that. The contrarians
02:16say, well, they're getting back, you know, crochet and they'll get back Roman Anthony and they'll be
02:20good again in September too with some reinforcements. But I don't think they're the best team in
02:25baseball, but they've been playing like it. They have. And when we see stats that say, oh,
02:31this is the Red Sox over, you know, 35 game stretch, that this is the best record the Red Sox
02:38as a
02:38franchise has ever done. Like when you're, when a franchise like this, that's this old,
02:42that's breaking records like that. It's like, okay, there's something there. At this point,
02:46you would say, okay, it's not sustainable. It's baseball. We see these teams go on a hot month,
02:49a hot month too, but to continue this for three or four months to be this hot is unheard of
02:54at a
02:55certain point. And if they could continue it, they would be a theoretically a runaway favorite.
02:59I still think the Rays are the best, most well-rounded team in the AL,
03:05A's, excuse me, the A's, the Rays winning the AL East. That would be my pick.
03:10AL West. Yeah. I mean, anybody's guess. I thought Houston was left for dead and then they came on
03:17and went nuts for a couple of weeks and now they've normalized a little bit. Still don't have the
03:22pitching, but they got the hitting without a doubt. And they got the best player in baseball right
03:25now in Jordan Alvarez, best hitter in baseball. That's for sure. Triple crown possibility coming
03:29here too, Tom. But look, Texas still, you know, they, they have the Grom and they have Seager,
03:35you know, it's like they, they Lankford, they, they have really good players and a good manager
03:41as well, but they're a 500 team. So I mean, them and Seattle, like to me are just disasters. I
03:49don't
03:49know who's going to win the division. So if I had to guess, I'm just going to ignore this because
03:55I
03:55think it is a guess on poly market. I don't think that there's any strategic to this. I think whoever
04:00is hot the last week of the season is going to win the West and the American league. That's it.
04:05I think it's as simple as that, but you know, looking at the numbers right now, to me, it's
04:09Seattle. No, not to win the division. And I, I understand the price on it. I just don't think
04:14they're good enough. And I have more hope in the Rangers and their offense. And I'm not going to say
04:19the pitching staff is as good as the Mariners, but to Grom, Eovaldi, I like them. And I'm not
04:25saying that Gilbert or Wu and Kirby, those guys for Seattle aren't good, but I have more faith in
04:30the Rangers and their hitting compared to the Mariners and their hitting. So getting the Mariners
04:35to know to not with the AL West.
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