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00:00 I look, you know, coming into the year and really the last few years, the centrals in
00:08 both leagues, American and the national league, they're kind of a little bit of an afterthought,
00:13 right?
00:14 You know, the big clubs aren't in those.
00:15 A lot of the smaller market clubs are in both the central divisions aside from maybe obviously
00:19 the cubbies and, and the Cardinals, but they're not put up at the top, like the Dodgers, the
00:24 Yankees, the Braves, the Phillies.
00:27 They have got some of the best starts in both central divisions, the American and the national,
00:32 some great stories.
00:33 I mean, Cleveland's out to a great start.
00:35 Kansas city's out to a great start.
00:36 Detroit's over 500.
00:38 The cubbies have played great.
00:40 Milwaukee, everybody thought was finished.
00:41 The pirates are 11 and eight.
00:43 Scott, the centrals are back.
00:45 I mean, this is great.
00:48 You know what?
00:49 I live in Southern Cal now.
00:51 I grew up in Michigan.
00:52 I'm a Midwestern guy at heart.
00:53 I hope what you say is true.
00:55 I love the central divisions, the Midwestern teams go get them.
01:00 You're right.
01:01 I hope it holds.
01:02 I don't know that it will.
01:03 I mean, you know, still when you go head to head, I know Minnesota, for example, is you
01:09 know, they lost Kenta Maeda and Sonny Gray from their rotation.
01:13 They lost Carlos Correa to the oblique injury recently.
01:17 And, and they they're off to, they're one of the central teams off to a rougher start.
01:23 And then they went into Baltimore this year and we saw that American League Central defending
01:27 champion twins matched against the American League East Orioles.
01:32 And it was a bludgeoning.
01:34 Hopefully that's not a sign of things to come for the central division when they kind of
01:40 get outside that Midwest bubble and start playing the West and the East teams.
01:45 You know, the Royals partly have been off to the races because they just, they've been
01:49 beating the Chicago White Sox like a drum.
01:51 It seems like about every other night this season.
01:55 But that said, yeah, Kansas City's pitching, guys like Singer, you know, finally that that's
02:02 been their issue lately.
02:03 I mean, lately as in the last couple of years, and it's what caused kind of the change when,
02:08 when they let Dayton Moore go and, and, you know, hire JJ Piccolo as, as, as the head
02:13 of baseball operations.
02:14 You know, the old regime, they, they drafted and developed.
02:19 But then they drafted some young pitching that just didn't come through.
02:25 But you know, Cleveland off to a good start.
02:27 I mean, you know, so again, with all these pitching injuries, right, losing Shane Bieber
02:32 a week or two ago for the season, that's going to hurt.
02:35 But you know, nobody expected the Guardians to be in first place right now.
02:39 And I mean, you look at that Guardians, Royals, Tigers, Tigers, by the way, jumping all over
02:44 Jack Leiter today and his much anticipated debut for the Texas Rangers.
02:48 They, they batted him around in one of those welcome to the major leagues kid moments or
02:54 afternoons.
02:55 You know, Brewers have, as you said, good start, Cubs, a lot of interesting stuff with
03:00 Craig Council, managing the Cubs, jumping from the Brewers.
03:04 You know, one thing with Pittsburgh, they started out really good last year and got
03:07 us all excited.
03:08 And then they, you know, kind of reality came.
03:11 So, you know, it'd be fun if some of these other thing with these central division teams,
03:15 because so many of them are such old school organizations, right?
03:18 They've been around for a hundred years.
03:20 They're great baseball cities.
03:22 So we'll see what happens.
03:23 But both, I think the races are shaping up to be a lot of fun in both the National and
03:29 American League Central so far.
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