00:00who would have had the tigers two and a half games out of first place uh cleveland to me is
00:07a huge
00:07disappointment recently four games under 500 now they just can't uh you know win any games it seems
00:13like lately so uh you know i i still handicap it with those four teams and you know cleveland
00:19tonight if they can get on the right track they'll play san diego but boy the padres are playing great
00:23baseball too uh kind of like a low scoring game i think tonight seven runs as i see there is
00:28the
00:29total pitchers are really good tonight so probably going to go under here okay it's it's just a
00:35scrape in the bottom here of mediocrity uh when once you get paid i mean yankees boston listen
00:42great turnaround uh they finally won one against toronto yesterday but you had a feeling when
00:48they were rolling scherzer out for a getaway game that yeah it was uh likely going to be
00:54good news for uh boston but uh you're right about detroit almost just one game under 500 now
01:01uh texas i don't know what happened they can't win a game anymore we watched minnesota uh do their thing
01:08which is kind of the biggest and they got buxton back which was a crazy to me craig yesterday that
01:13they got him back uh and they'll have his services for as long as he can play but again that
01:20that
01:20offense i don't care what you brought in in the bullpen that offense is very hit or miss for me
01:27from minnesota and i can't if you can help me understand cleveland made all of these great moves
01:33at the deadline to kind of patch some holes here where we thought they needed it and they just can't
01:38put anything together it's and i are you really going to out slug the padres right now i i don't
01:44see
01:44bad happening and cleveland's not scoring runs at all so yeah and and again and and san diego's
01:51offense is not bad at least one through five and that total is seven it sort of tells you
01:55you know four to two three to two type game so yeah i i until cleveland starts hitting i don't
02:01know
02:01what else to say now steven quad has done a really good job for them and seems like them putting
02:05him
02:05in the nine hole earlier in the season got him going and now they have him leading off again but
02:09jose ramirez clearly that hammock bone injury is usually they say that you don't get healthy from
02:14that for months so that's going to mean next season for him unfortunately joe so yeah we'll see if
02:19cleveland could get it going but for now they're on the outside looking in and i i just i i
02:24really
02:24thought it was their division to win and now i sort of feel like this matchup between the white socks
02:29and tigers there's a chance here detroit if they win two out of three you know becomes that team to
02:34look out for in the american league central now i don't i don't really think either of those teams
02:38will be wild cards but if you see look at that i mean toronto to me has been one of
02:42the worst teams
02:43in baseball in the american league especially and they're just two games out of the playoffs and
02:49i think you asked me last week will the team under 500 i don't know if it was you i
02:53think it was will
02:54will a team under 500 make the playoffs i still say no i still say no but i'm starting to
03:00think
03:0282 and 80 may get you in 82 and 80 may get you in the playoffs this year
03:08it's hard to believe that the and a lot of this has to do i think the central whoever wins
03:13the central
03:14will likely be it's the west that i'm concerned with it the american league west is just a hot mess
03:20uh if it's not the astros i i i don't know what to tell them like they and but even
03:27they have now
03:28started to go the other way also a little bit here but if you're listen if you're texas you can't
03:34at a 10 you can't lose seven of 10 games against the angels like you just cannot do that uh
03:40and
03:40degrom again loses last night he is yet to win we found out yesterday he is yet to win a
03:47game at
03:47angel stadium in his career and i think he's owen that's his fifth start last night still
03:53has not been able to pull off owen to this year against them i mean just from bad to worse
04:00there for
04:00the texas rangers and again that seems to be a theme this time of year and i'm wondering craig is
04:06it maybe guys running out of steam a little bit here that we're getting so many goose eggs at the
04:11middle of august you know they they always say joe that like they call it the dog days of august
04:17in
04:18major league baseball and it's generally right after the trade deadline all the way to september it
04:22feels like we're in it right now i i just think that everyone is hurt and going through something
04:28right now physically mentally uh usually the month of september teams kick it back into gear but we
04:35may get sloggy baseball for another couple weeks i i just sort of get the feeling uh that we will
04:41and
04:42you know a lot of unpredictable results i think that's fair as well but you know we'll uh you know
04:47hopefully you know the only the only thing that's been a positive with all of these teams especially
04:52in the american league not playing particularly well as it's made all the games on the board basically
04:55meaningful pretty much every night like uh you can look at the schedule and say i don't want to watch
05:01a certain game but it does mean something and it may mean a team that wins moves up in the
05:06wild card
05:06standings in fact i think of the 15 games that they will play today i think there are 12 that
05:12have like
05:13some deep significant playoff relevance so that's a lot in august i'd see a lot and again the american
05:19league taking up a lot of that mediocrity because it's still anybody's division both in the central
05:26and the west so it is far from over yet
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