With Turkey Day around the corner, we jabronis got together to talk about the MLB awards, speculate on what’s going to happen with Juan Soto’s ridiculous contract-to-be, and explore the trade speculation surrounding Nico Hoerner and Cody Bellinger. Also some discussion on what Jed Hoyer needs to do to keep his job past 2025, plus bonus Bears talk.
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RC and AC hang out to talk about team building, Jed Hoyer’s job security, the offseason approach, and fangirl over the Los Angeles Dodgers, who won the World Series. If things actually happen quick we may emergency pod, but things seem slow for now so we wait.
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As Rob Manfred climaxes from another LA vs NY matchup, MLB will get their marquee championship event with the best team from each league, among the fattest payrolls with the brightest stars in the largest media markets in the world. Topics for this episode include:
What we thought about the LCS games
Who’s going to pay Juan Soto all that money
Setting up our little offseason team-building game to get the Cubs back into the postseason
Some items about TV and accessibility to baseball content
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I feel like the term “pennant chase” is used kind of to describe the race to the postseason during the regular season, but you don’t actually get to win a pennant until you are the last team standing in the league championship series. I guess you also don’t get a pennant once you win the World Series because the prize is a hunk of metal with a bunch of pokey things that can take your eye out.
Anyway, before we get to the World Series, the final four teams will vie for their respective league’s pennant. Between the Dodgers and Mets trading beatdowns and the Yankees taking advantage of some dumbness from Cleveland in their initial game of the ALCS, I can see both series going the distance, especially when nobody can run out a full rotation anymore and have to resort to bullpen games by design or by necessity. We could see another Subway Series (great for New York, not so great for the rest of us), a New York vs LA thing, or a true underdog story of sorts. I think MLB would like the first two, but Cleveland fans wouldn’t mind another shot at not blowing a 3-1 lead?
I did notice that the World Series is doing the Friday-Saturday thing, avoiding football on Thursday and Sunday. The full schedule of remaining games is here, and I’d be curious to see who comes out on top, and we can make our best guesses in the comments.
