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00:00Yeah, it's because if you take a look at the American League standings today, if the season
00:05was over, the Yanks would be the top overall seed in the AF, followed by the Guardians
00:09and the Astros close by, or the Orioles.
00:12If we're looking at that wildcard race too, is it over, Craig, in your mind, in the AL?
00:16Does it look like the Twins, Royals, and Orioles, let's just say, will be those teams, or could
00:20you see something out of the Red Sox trying to climb back in there?
00:23Yeah, I mean, it could happen, but I think, Donnie, those top six are super realistic
00:29at this point.
00:30Yeah.
00:31You know, credit to Detroit, by the way, Ben, we're going to have to take a look at that
00:34over for the Tigers, I think, next season.
00:37I think Detroit is on their way.
00:38I can see them being very active in the offseason, getting their way back to where they need
00:42to be.
00:43So, yeah, Donnie, I think you're right.
00:44It is just basically Boston at this point, but I don't know.
00:50One of those teams, Boston, Kansas City, Minnesota, one of them has to get super hot to sort of
00:57impose their will in these last 30 days or so.
01:00If Boston was able to roll off, let's say, 11 out of 12, 12 out of 13, 14 out of 16,
01:05something like that, that would put them in contention for that final wildcard spot, but,
01:08Donnie, I don't see that.
01:09I see Boston kind of playing like how they have been, a little bit over 500.
01:13I just don't know that that's going to be enough to get in.
01:17Despite the six-game skid for the Royals, they still maintain a four-and-a-half game
01:20lead for that third and final American League wildcard spot.
01:25In the National League, the Dodgers in front in the NL West by five games.
01:29The Phillies have a seven-game lead in the National League East.
01:32The Brew crew up by double digits in the National League Central.
01:35And the Padres and the Diamondbacks still in front of Atlanta for those top two wildcard
01:40spots.
01:41So, Craig, the most compelling race is that third and final, now just a half-game lead
01:46for Atlanta in front of New York.
01:49The Mets have won five straight.
01:50The Braves dropped three of four this weekend in Philadelphia.
01:54And all is said and done, who takes that final wildcard spot in the National League?
01:59Yeah, I mean, I'll still lean on the Braves here, although I could see the Mets doing
02:03it.
02:04It was one year ago, by the way, Ben, that the Cubs had this spot and completely fell
02:07apart in the final month of the season and fell out of it.
02:10So hard for me to endorse them.
02:12I'll say Atlanta gets it, but, you know, you can't discount the Mets.
02:17They're going to look back at the end of the season, I'm going to guess, and say if Edwin
02:20Diaz was just a little bit better in that ninth inning, maybe we would have gotten in.
02:24And you can't predict that sort of stuff.
02:26I mean, the ninth inning in baseball is the hardest thing to predict in all of sports.
02:31Predicting a closer going into the season being great is almost impossible if his name
02:36is not class A these days.
02:37So I'll say the Braves.