00:00may have been the reason that some were reluctant to remove the interim tag,
00:06to hurry to remove the interim tag from Chad Tracy.
00:09Give me a break.
00:10No.
00:11Yeah, no.
00:12They left their bats in Boston.
00:15Peyton Tolley, first of all, Courtney, now you're deserting Peyton Tolley?
00:20No, I'm not.
00:20Oh, all right.
00:21No, I was saying, my lead this morning is actually like,
00:24I don't blame Peyton Tolley for that loss at all.
00:27No, I don't either.
00:28I blame Chad Tracy.
00:30Oh, wow.
00:30And then I blame Eric Miller.
00:33All right.
00:34Wow.
00:34I wish I could blame Chad Tracy.
00:37It is an organizational, that is not his call.
00:4083 pitches.
00:41I'll go with that.
00:42So it's Presbot who says, Peyton Tolley gets to 83 tonight, yank him.
00:46Yep.
00:47Well, it gets to this spot.
00:48Like, I don't think it's on him.
00:51And this is why Moneyball ends in the ALCS.
00:56Good morning.
00:57This is why analytics in Major League Baseball fail in October or late September.
01:04This is why you need feel.
01:08Peyton Tolley should have never been taken out of that game.
01:13And this is why you have to have actual humans, not AI, supercomputers, or robots running baseball teams.
01:22And the worst thing that ever happened to John Henry was Grady Little because he was way, he was AI
01:30in the dumb zone.
01:31Like, he was the opposite of AI.
01:33Way too, like, the smartest AI, Grady Little was the opposite.
01:36And so what he did in the eighth inning in 2003 in Game 7 at Yankee Stadium scarred John Henry
01:42for life.
01:43It led him to try and hire Billy Bean that offseason, and it led him back to Breslow now.
01:48But Peyton Tolley was, he wasn't dealing, dealing, but he was, he was, he was totally dealing.
01:56He was good enough.
01:57And Eric Miller, his last nine games, his, where he's made an appearance, his ERA is pushing eight.
02:06And so I, I, why not crochet?
02:10Yeah, right.
02:11I, and don't even get me started on Roman Anthony.
02:16I'm out.
02:17Bruh.
02:18See you later, Roman.
02:19Like, so, and I guess.
02:21If you get hurt swinging a baseball bat, it's kind of part of the job.
02:24Yeah, and I, I, I'm assuming that because everybody's scouring the film, they're going back to the meaningless end of
02:34the season game.
02:35Number 162 at the trop and a check swing and he re-injured it.
02:41What, like, whatever.
02:43So, listen, three game series.
02:46I'm not, Game Dog is already in the Twitch chat accusing me of overreacting.
02:50And I have faith.
02:51Well, I would say the over, not overreacting, but over blame is just, I don't blame Tully for sure.
02:57And I don't blame Chad Tracy.
02:59I mean.
02:59Wait, what are you overreacting to?
03:01Well, I would, I would say the, like.
03:04You're underreacting.
03:04No, no, no.
03:05He just argues with everything.
03:07No, no.
03:07That's his, that's his approach.
03:08No, you're saying it was on Chad Tracy and then Miller.
03:10Yes, I, I, I said that Chad Tracy, I believe, made a mistake.
03:15Right.
03:15In pulling Peyton Tully too early.
03:17And what I'm saying is, I don't, I don't.
03:18And Eric, and Eric Miller can't get his sinker to sink.
03:22So, yes.
03:23But I'm saying, yes.
03:24I don't think that was the biggest issue.
03:26The biggest issue is you went into New York and you had three hits.
03:29Right.
03:29Like, that was your issue.
03:31Like, Miller giving up the home run.
03:32Was it great?
03:33No.
03:34Was it horrible?
03:35Yes.
03:35But it was two nothing.
03:36But you knew that was going to be your issue.
03:38You haven't been hitting the ball all September.
03:41And as Curtis pointed out, you're a small, you've been a small ball baseball team the
03:46entire season.
03:47But guess what?
03:47You were going to win on pitching.
03:49You can't play small ball if you don't score.
03:51Okay, well, it's a little, it's a little too late for you to make that, for you to make
03:55that declaration.
03:56I mean, that's the way they've been playing the entire baseball season, coach.
04:00Two runs through what?
04:00Seven innings?
04:02And the Yankees scored two runs through seven innings.
04:04Yes.
04:05You have three hits.
04:06You scored one.
04:07No, you scored, you scored zero.
04:08You scored, you scored zero runs.
04:10Right.
04:11The Yankees were up one nothing for a considerable amount of that baseball game.
04:15Yes.
04:16Yes.
04:16No one's, no one's.
04:18Also, you're, you're, you're, also, you're, you're up against the guy who's going to win
04:22the Cy Young.
04:22So.
04:23But that, so does that mean you don't, that means what?
04:26You don't, you can't hit the baseball?
04:27You know what a sneaky, sneaky big spot was, and it was in the first inning, but Rutschman
04:32had that awesome at bat.
04:34Yes.
04:34Awesome at bat.
04:36Gets the base hit.
04:3617 pitches or whatever it was.
04:37And then you get Contreras up there and you're like, all right.
04:41Three pitches and like, wasn't even competitive on any of them.
04:44Like, it was like, you swing just a swing.
04:46It was awful.
04:47No, I mean, you got to give it to Cam Schlittler.
04:50He, he first, the first pitch he throws 101 miles an hour.
04:56The guy's throwing gas immediately.
04:59And then he, he's, uh, mixing the curve ball in there, Curtis, which none of those guys
05:05can figure out and, uh, and, and the breaking ball.
05:08So I, I'm, uh, I listen, uh, I, I've, I've been there since the beginning with this team
05:15all season long.
05:17I mean, I remember a day we were in Hull and none of you believed that this team could
05:22do it and turn it around.
05:23You said World Series.
05:24I think I was the only one.
05:26So, um, Sonny Gray will, will, uh, I mean, I feel like I'm more likely to go on a run
05:32than this team is.
05:34Um, Sonny Gray will have a chance to even it up tonight.
05:39And I'm assuming that's an eight 15 first pitch again, this evening.
05:448.00 PM.
05:45But the first pitch was like at eight 17 last night.
05:48And I would also just say, if ever you could sync up your Odyssey app with the broadcast,
05:55this is nothing to do with Lou Merloni.
05:56We all love Lou.
05:57Oh, he did a great, he did a great job last night.
06:00Fantastic job last night.
06:01So the skinniest guy at fat camp is Lou Merloni.
06:04The rest of that broadcast was an F minus, like the worst broadcast I have ever heard
06:11in my entire life.
06:12Wow.
06:13Can I ask what was going on at the start?
06:15Like the, the Anthony Rizzo, like he didn't, he didn't know what day it was.
06:19Like he kept repeating himself.
06:21It was the weirdest.
06:23Oh, it was like, they didn't know the camera, like the broadcast had started.
06:26I'm like, guys, this is a big moment for you.
06:28Let's go.
06:29Awful.
06:30Just all kinds.
06:31And Benetti was awful.
06:32Girardi was going on and on about nonsense.
06:34And then you had Rizzo who was just like stoned in the corner.
06:38It was awful.
06:39Okay.
06:41I am so tired of people using calculators to dictate baseball moves in the playoffs.
06:51I, nobody watching that game last night said, you know what?
06:55Time to pull Tully.
06:57Did anybody say that?
06:59No.
06:59Was there the proper outrage in the broadcast that they were pulling him after 83 pitches?
07:03We've all been lulled to this, like lulled to sleep by the analytics nerds that have overwhelmed
07:08our lives.
07:10Peyton Tully was awesome.
07:1283 pitches.
07:14First at bat against Ben Rice, Eric Miller, dong center field.
07:19I'm sorry.
07:20I'm sick of people from here beating us.
07:23Okay.
07:23Like enough of that.
07:24Also, and I addressed this during thoughts on the doc, but we know Ben Rice is from here.
07:30You don't have to tell us a hundred times on the broadcast.
07:32Same with Schlittler.
07:34We are aware that Ben Rice is from Cohasset.
07:37Right.
07:37I mean, I hate people from wealthy Boston suburbs.
07:41So for me, get us to the playoffs, Breslow, and then go to San Trope.
07:48Just go away.
07:49Allow the baseball people to manage in the playoffs.
07:53Terry Francona is the gold standard of a guy that knew how you have a feel because numbers
08:00don't matter when pressure is involved.
08:02Do you all agree with that?
08:04Yeah.
08:04When there is stress, when there is pressure, whatever the number is for a random May game
08:10against the Royals is not relevant to an October or late September playoff game at Yankee Stadium
08:15against the Yankees.
08:17Eric Miller has been awful down the stretch.
08:20Yes, he's got, we were talking about at the start of the show, his ERA is almost eight
08:23last nine appearances.
08:26Like if you're going to pull totally in that spot, then bring in crochet, bring in a guy
08:32that's ready, amped up, you know, hasn't pitched since April, see what you can get.
08:36At least he hasn't been awful.
08:38But to be clear, you are faulting Craig Breslow because you don't believe that Chad Tracy
08:43has any say in this.
08:44Zero say.
08:44Whatsoever.
08:45No.
08:45This is entirely on Craig Breslow.
08:47We do somehow hope he feels good, but you do not believe it.
