Oct 20, 2026 · 53 min · 18 segments
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David SamsonHost
I spent yesterday, Coca, last night sitting in the studio at CBS in Stanford, Connecticut, watching the Rays and the Guardians play game six.
And I was talking to producers and directors and technical people and anyone who would listen to me saying, there's a problem in game six.
What do you mean by that? Because we thought you said you have to win today, just like Jack McKeon taught me.
Well, one of the problems when worrying about today is that if you don't win today, you are screwed tomorrow.
So when Steven Vogt had the pitching that he had to pitch in game five of a 2-2 series, which in theory is an important game to win, but I'm not sure I would call it a must win.
Let's say that it's important to win game five because winning game five in a series that's tied at 2-2 will help you win the series about 69 or 70% of the time.
But the thing about managing your pitching staff is that you've got low leverage pitchers and you have high leverage pitchers.
No matter what fans want, no matter what an owner wants, you cannot go with your best relievers every single game of the year.
When you are losing, once in a while, you have to stick with the ones who are not as good.
but they're clearly not the best of your bullpen or the best of your starting pitchers who go into the bullpen in the post season.
Can you manage a game where you are down three to one the same as when you're up three to one? And the answer for an owner is yes.
Because while you can hope that your offense will score off the other team's high leverage bullpen, you can believe in your guys.
The fact of the matter is you need your low leverage bullpen guys to stop the other team from scoring to keep the deficit at a reasonable amount waiting for your offense to go.
What Steven Vogt did, and we talked about it, is he used his best relievers to keep the game close in game five.
And all of a sudden, they lost the game, which they were losing, which leads you to game six, where we said to you, there's a small problem.
I spent yesterday, Coca, last night sitting in the studio at CBS in Stanford, Connecticut, watching the Rays and the Guardians play game six.
And I was talking to producers and directors and technical people and anyone who would listen to me saying, there's a problem in game six.
What do you mean by that? Because we thought you said you have to win today, just like Jack McKeon taught me.
Well, one of the problems when worrying about today is that if you don't win today, you are screwed tomorrow.
So when Steven Vogt had the pitching that he had to pitch in game five of a 2-2 series, which in theory is an important game to win, but I'm not sure I would call it a must win.
Let's say that it's important to win game five because winning game five in a series that's tied at 2-2 will help you win the series about 69 or 70% of the time.
But the thing about managing your pitching staff is that you've got low leverage pitchers and you have high leverage pitchers.
No matter what fans want, no matter what an owner wants, you cannot go with your best relievers every single game of the year.
When you are losing, once in a while, you have to stick with the ones who are not as good.
but they're clearly not the best of your bullpen or the best of your starting pitchers who go into the bullpen in the post season.
Can you manage a game where you are down three to one the same as when you're up three to one? And the answer for an owner is yes.
Because while you can hope that your offense will score off the other team's high leverage bullpen, you can believe in your guys.
The fact of the matter is you need your low leverage bullpen guys to stop the other team from scoring to keep the deficit at a reasonable amount waiting for your offense to go.
What Steven Vogt did, and we talked about it, is he used his best relievers to keep the game close in game five.
And all of a sudden, they lost the game, which they were losing, which leads you to game six, where we said to you, there's a small problem.
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