00:00And it's about that time, I guess, now as we're, you know, getting ready to approach, you know, two weeks
00:05into August, you know, start comparing, Craig, I've been looking into teams with the schedule that is remaining that goes,
00:14uh-oh, or whether or not it could be very favorable for them.
00:19And it's about, what, six weeks out, so now is the time to try to look out and go, I
00:24mean, each team's got about, what, six series left? Is that about five or six there, Craig, at this point?
00:31It feels like that, yeah. It feels like that's where we are. I don't know. I don't have the numbers.
00:36Do you have that? Do you, I'd have to look it up.
00:39For instance, I'll give you the Yankees. Of course I will. Mariners, Blue Jays, Orioles, Blue Jays, Astros, Red Sox.
00:49So six, it looks like. So yeah, so basically August 11th through the end of August. So about six series
00:56here remaining. And that last series, of course, is at home against the Red Sox there before we turn the
01:03calendar into September and that it won't be much longer after that.
01:09Yeah, no, it makes sense. You know, I think if you look at the schedule, too, for baseball, the way
01:14that the last weekend pans out is they did put a lot of division rivalries up against each other that
01:20last weekend.
01:21Yes.
01:22So it could be a huge factor for the final week of the season, maybe for some and maybe for
01:27not all. But it's, look, it's just been very up and down. You know, a week ago, I was looking
01:33at the Cincinnati Reds and thinking, are they getting back in this thing? They're winning a lot. They get swept
01:37over the weekend.
01:38I was thinking, oh, Seattle, now they're doing okay. They get swept over the weekend. So they're out of it.
01:42St. Louis, I think you and I talked about this. They're dead. Wait, no, they're not. All of a sudden,
01:47they win a bunch. And now they're in good shape.
01:49The other team, Pittsburgh Pirates. Let's take a look at them for a minute. Pittsburgh, oh, they're on top of
01:54the world. They got the pitching. They got the hitting. I don't think there's been a worse team in that
01:58wildcard chase.
01:59In fact, the Pirates right now have the same odds as the Nationals to go to the playoffs. How about
02:04that? What happened to Pittsburgh there? So as you can see, stock up, stock down, and we're far from done
02:11with this.
02:11But I will say, Joe, that I'll see the Pirates here Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday in Miami as they play the
02:19Marlins, Joe.
02:20But if the Marlins are going to—I don't know that they're going to sweep the series. Pirates are a decent
02:25team.
02:25But I would say this is the series of the year, maybe not for Miami, but for Pittsburgh. I think
02:31if Pittsburgh loses another series here, Joe, they got to start looking toward next year.
02:37And I got to tell you, that's another team that's going to have a lot of interesting discussions in the
02:42offseason. I mean, when was the last time this team had any playoff baseball, you know?
02:46That's correct. And I'm, you know, looking at some of the—it's been a hot minute there, that is for sure.
02:53And I'm looking at some of these teams down the stretch. You know, the American League West and the American
02:59League Central, outside of Seattle, because Seattle's down-the-stretch schedule is brutal.
03:06But the Texas Rangers, the Houston Astros, I mean, the remaining games are all against teams well under .500, the
03:14strength of schedule that they're going to have.
03:17It's—I feel terrible. I'm looking at Seattle. Seattle's got, you know, everyone with a win—Yankees, Astros, Brewers, Cubs, Phillies.
03:25Like, Seattle has got a gauntlet coming up, and then you go to look at what the, you know, teams
03:32like the Guardians or the Rangers, in fact,
03:37who have the Angels, the Athletics, the Nash—the Angels twice, and their hardest series is going to be against the
03:44Brewers at the end of the month.
03:45So, there is no reason to me why a team like the Texas Rangers or Houston, who also has a
03:53ridiculously easy schedule moving it down here,
03:58somebody's got to make a move over the next two weeks in the American League West. Do they not?
04:03Somebody's got to win it this month.
04:05I think so, but what I'm seeing for the first time all season is no protection from the oddsmakers on
04:12Seattle.
04:12I think—I think the oddsmakers are giving up on Seattle. I think they're letting them go.
04:17Because this is the first time all year they're now, like, severe underdogs to win the division,
04:23and in their games coming up, too, their dogs.
04:25I think you just have to look at Seattle and just say, they're not good. Like, that's it.
04:30Like, if they couldn't get it going in their own park with Ken Griffey Jr. and Randy Johnson coming out
04:37and each year old,
04:37and all these—and they get swept at home? Oof.
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