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00:00Eric, we're going to be a hefty favorite either against Cleveland or Detroit and of course
00:07the Yanks will have home field advantage now in the extended best of seven series.
00:13Joe, we'll talk about the Yankees in just a moment in terms of their overall outlook
00:18because of course the pressure and the impetus is on the pinstripes not to just get to the
00:23LCS but to get back to a World Series and claim an American League pennant for the first
00:29time since 2009. We'll talk about how the pressure ramps up on Garrett Cole, on Aaron
00:35Judge, on Juan Soto, on Giancarlo Stanton in just a moment. But this is a Royals team
00:42that overperformed on expectation this year. Thought of to be a pretty solid team in the
00:48American League Central, maybe would flirt with .500 and was maybe a year away from being a true
00:54postseason contender. Well you've got an absolute stud in Bobby Witt Jr. who is not great in this
00:59second round against New York but you've got a really young core with a couple of talented young
01:04arms on the bump who can deliver. Kansas City and Matt Quartaro, they should be very excited
01:11about the future for this Royals club into 2025 and beyond. Yeah, listen and their bullpen was
01:19absolutely lights out at the end of the year into the postseason. Plenty of good arms.
01:26They have a quality pitching coach that they brought in that really kind of resurrected
01:32this organization, this team and those arms and they'll have enough bats. They'll be
01:38certainly from this point forward, nobody's going to be looking forward to playing the Kansas City
01:43Royals anytime soon here Ben. I think we could say the same for Detroit. They got to learn how to
01:49win as a young team like this in the postseason and I think the future is looking
01:54bright for the Royals for sure. Absolutely so and again they are going to take this playoff performance
02:00and the experience learned and it is going to vault them 86-76 for KC. Cash to bet very early
02:08on for me in September over 73 and a half wins. Bada bing, bada boom. You've locked up Bobby
02:16Witt Jr., the 281 million dollar man who was worth every single cent. This was the first time, Joe,
02:22that Kansas City had hosted a playoff game inside Kauffman Stadium since the World Series run in
02:292015. Their first playoff berth since 2015. The first time winning more than 75 games since 2017.
02:37A bright future ahead for KC. Again though, Joe, you mentioned it. The Yankees now greater than a
02:43two dollar favorite. Minus 230 to win the American League pennant. A pennant that has avoided New
02:48York since their last World Series championship in 2009. Since then, this will now be the sixth
02:56appearance in the ALCS for New York. They have not won the pennant in the previous five. They've
03:04lost three of them to the Houston Astros. Most recently swept by Houston in 2022. They were
03:11swept by the Tigers way back in 2012. A potential foe in the LCS and Joe, this is what we have
03:18talked about. With a favorable path, the pressure almost ramps up because if you fall flat, if you
03:24come up short, the calls and the questions will only be magnified. So is this the time? The New
03:33York Yankees match expectation and at bare minimum reach the World Series.