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00:00The division series around Major League Baseball. What a
00:07duo we have a pairing of them in the National League division
00:12series. Divisional rivals in both of our sets. Of course,
00:16the New York Mets rallying in historic fashion last night in
00:20Milwaukee. They advance for a match up against the
00:23Philadelphia Phillies in the division round that starts
00:26tomorrow around MLB. So let's start with the divisional odds
00:31for the NLDS between Philadelphia and New York. The
00:35Phil is a pretty hefty favorite at minus 188. Philadelphia has
00:39been great in the expanded postseason, which of course
00:42started during the 2022 campaign. They have played in
00:46the NLCS each of these past 2 years. Of course, they played
00:50in a World Series 2 years ago, but they were the wild card
00:54team where Red October got an early start in Philly. Now
00:58they've earned the rest and Joe as we reach the division round
01:02in the MLB postseason with the expanded playoff format. This
01:07is the time where you just ask before the break 162 games in
01:10the regular season. The long marathon that it is in MLB.
01:14What does it matter? Here's where the conversation
01:18intensifies because if you are a wild card team and we have
01:22seen at least in the three six matchups divisional champs
01:26wild card team needing it for the final 2 weeks month of the
01:29regular season to get in those wild card teams, the Tigers
01:33over the Astros in two games in Houston. The Mets get the last
01:37laugh over Milwaukee. The wild card teams have been great so
01:41far in MLB postseason action. It feels like it's rinse and
01:47repeat here. We talk about this every postseason and then we
01:51forget what short memories we have the same thing last year
01:55when Arizona we got to this point and we were laughing like
01:59well, there's no way Arizona is going to run a table here like
02:01I mean come on. You gotta be I mean congratulations. You got
02:04lucky out of a three game set, but there's no way there's no
02:08way you're going to end up running the table and win the
02:10national. Well, I can make the same argument here for the New
02:13York Mets now against this Philadelphia team. Can I who by
02:16the way been Philadelphia in years past and their successful
02:20postseasons usually did it the reverse way. They start slow
02:25and they finish playing their best baseball. I can make the
02:28argument Philadelphia playing its best baseball early and now
02:34I don't know what the hell you're going to get from them,
02:36which is worrisome. In the meantime, we have the Mets who
02:40are doing exactly what the Phillies did on their way to a
02:42World Series title over the last couple of years, Ben, which
02:45is play their best damn baseball. Get all the breaks
02:49everything rolling your way right now. Nothing on paper
02:53tells us the Mets should win this series when you look at the
02:55starting pitching rotations here, but guess what you
02:58counting out the Mets now because I certainly can't.