Division Series

Failed in New York.

And Kenny Rogers was pitching for the Detroit Tigers in a Game 3 of the Division Series in 06.

And with sticky stuff on his hat... dominated the Yankees.

Like, if you ask any Yankee fan the Kenny Rogers game, that's probably your only memory of the 2006 ALDS.

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I think it took about five minutes after beating the Red Sox and the celebrations and the excitement and the trash talk at your friends who are Red Sox fans to start to ask yourself a very, very important question, which is, so is Aaron Judge going to play in the division series? Like, that was the question leading into the wildcard series.

We know Judge really wanted to play.

It hasn't really started.

When you get me the division series teams...

I'll give you a rooting guide.

But before that, like, what is this? So

It bothers me when I see it now.

I actually tweeted out a few weeks ago a picture of someone wearing an Austin Wells Yankee shirt at a Met game.

And I said, did you get lost? Like, what caused you to do this? And I think the right approach, if you're not a fan of the team, because I'm going to go to division series games.

Like, I'm an IBO.

Failed in New York.

And Kenny Rogers was pitching for the Detroit Tigers in a Game 3 of the Division Series in 06.

And with sticky stuff on his hat... dominated the Yankees.

If you ask any Yankee fan the Kenny Rogers game, that's probably your only memory of the 2006 ALDS.

There's also playoff baseball action tonight.

After the Yankees, Padres, and White Sox all punched their tickets to the Divisional Series last night, one more team needs to join them.

And we find out who in this crucial Game 3 of the NL Wildcard Series as the Braves face the Phillies in Atlanta.

Two comeback wins in the first two games.

How many more days do you need for that? Maybe two? three at the most, that wouldn't or shouldn't make it necessary to play in November, I should say.

And the rounds that are coming up now, the division series, as they are called, those are best out of five.

Same reason, they don't want to play too late, and there's more playoff series now, and so you've got to make them a little bit more condensed.

And you'll get that.

Again, I find it – Really difficult to be able to pick a winner when there's so many teams.

Again, every team that is left has a chance to win, and you don't always feel that way with every team.

There is not going to be a shock in either league, even if the Brewers and Dodgers, let's say, get knocked out in the division series, the two top seeds that have got to bite.

You're not going to be shocked because the teams are going to be playing like the Padres, who are really hot.

Medeiros may have to play a factor tonight.

I think the big question is, hey, look, if you need one inning, one big inning, beginning is Chris Sale that guy we asked Walt about that before the game of course he said all hands on deck that's what he was going to say you know you're not going to do it unless you absolutely have to but you know what this is this is have to territory tonight so there is no tomorrow you him an inning tonight and hope he's still ready for game two of the division series if you get there.

But you certainly, you are getting there maybe without using him.

So I would say he's in play tonight.

So I think you're looking at J.R. Ritchie playing a big role in game one.

How many potential innings tonight out of Chris Sale, if he was ever used, would potentially rule him out of a game two start? uh you

probably have to get almost probably need to get to three innings you know anything about 25 pitches i think so i think if he went one or two tonight i think he could go sunday you know hey look here's the thing though the more you think about it sunday would be he's going on regular rest he's only he hadn't done that since april look this is something you wouldn't want to do it's just something you might have to do tonight and so maybe that's a bridge across after after he throws and you see how he's feeling the next few days uh It's certainly not optimal, but, you know, the Braves had a chance to go into that division series in good shape or better shape with an injury-depleted rotation.

Right now, it's going to be interesting to see how they piece it all together.

Game over.

The San Diego Padres advance to the National League Division Series as they knock out the Chicago Cubs, the final 4-1.

Look at it as a failure and, yeah, need

to win.

The White Sox beat the Astros 7-3.

They sweep.

They move on to the Division Series against the Cleveland Guardians.

That's going to be awesome.

So 16 position players, 10 pitchers.

They're probably going to increase the number of pitchers, I would say at least to 12, if you're being conservative here, for this division series.

And yet, I looked at it, four Yankee position players got either one or zero at-bats in this wildcard series.

Caballero, Sanchez, who you have to have on the roster as a backup catcher, Stanton, and then Rosario.

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John, as we were talking about the Division Series, but there's still one wild card series.

Oh, yeah.

They sweep.

They move on to the Division Series against the Cleveland Guardians.

That's going to be awesome.

The first game is Saturday at Cleveland at 12 p.m. We will talk White Sox next on Rahimi and Grody on 104.3.