00:00We're going to have a fun race going on between the Phillies and the Braves for the National League East.
00:06I thought that was kind of over.
00:09No, that race is not over.
00:11The Phillies are 100% alive to catch them to join that.
00:15And I can't wait to see how that all shakes out because there's a lot of really cool things happening
00:20right now in Major League Baseball that I think once we get to September, we'll pay attention a bit more.
00:26I can't get over what these last two weeks have been like.
00:31I think I always knew that people went on vacation, but the number of people who were out of the
00:37office last week and this week heading into the Labor Day weekend is remarkable to me.
00:43There are so many people who have taken these two weeks off, and they say when I've talked to people
00:49like, oh, what's going on?
00:51It's because, well, normally Labor Day, these two weeks normally run into Labor Day, but because Labor Day is a
00:58week later than normal this year, folks are saying, you know what?
01:02We always take these two weeks off, so we're taking these two weeks off.
01:06It has created the dog days of summer.
01:09I mean, I'm talking to sports betting friends of mine.
01:11I'm talking to sports friends of mine who are all just like, yeah, this is a really weird time right
01:16now.
01:16No one's around.
01:18The books are all – it's sort of a weird – it's a vacation time for a lot of the
01:21books, so the numbers are all kind of wonky.
01:24Everything is all over the place.
01:26So there's a lot of weirdness going on, and I mean, I couldn't be colder betting.
01:32I mean, I couldn't have been older.
01:34I mean, it couldn't be colder right now betting, baseball betting, anything.
01:38I missed my last 11 bets on the Daily Juice.
01:40That's how bad I've been.
01:41Awful.
01:42And, like, people have been writing me notes saying, like, you're not the only one.
01:46There's a lot of people out there who are having a really tough time seeing the board right now because
01:49it's a very wonky period, very strange time in Major League Baseball.
01:54It's just different.
01:56And so the Phillies have won nine straight.
01:58People aren't really talking about how good they have been.
02:00The Red Sox have played 750 baseball for two months now.
02:05750 baseball for two months.
02:06The Red Sox have been playing, and no one's really talking about them.
02:10The Yankees, I mean, are they going to win 90 games?
02:13I bet them at the All-Star break that they would not win 91 games.
02:17I bet under 90 and a half.
02:20They're on pace to come up with, like, 87, 88 wins, which is unbelievable because that's the pace the Red
02:26Sox are on right now.
02:27For the Red Sox to win 87, 88 games, which is stunning given where they have been.
02:3571 and 59 Boston, 74 and 56 Yankees.
02:39But it looks like Stanton's not coming back for the Yankees.
02:42The Red Sox are probably going to get crochet in the bullpen at some point in September as a bullpen
02:48arm to help them.
02:49But they've got Suarez and Sonny Gray and these kids who have come up and pitched so well.
02:55Are all this Chapman didn't get traded.
02:57He's still in there throwing gas in the ninth inning.
03:00Red Sox still have a legitimate closer.
03:03It's crazy to look at this, but they're running.
03:07I mean, they're running right now.
03:09Red Sox are running.
03:09Phillies are running.
03:10It's all pretty darn impressive.
