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You can find me on Twitter a lot radio. Oh my gosh, I just spent seven minutes talking about the Cowboys and this is what I get on twitter cowboys get no love Amy. I tried not to do social media. Maybe it's better if my screen just stayed black. My gosh, those are my most amusing tweets though is right after I talk about something.

I generally will get people accusing me of not talking about what I just covered so yeah on that note were down to the four divisional theories, which all began on Tuesday. How did you like that wildcard weekend that new format. The baseball kind of threw together for a couple reasons. Number one they had to condense the wildcard round. Considering that the regular season started a week late and everything got pushed back so were to start Tuesday, October 11 with all four divisional theories until they break off to National League and American Lake and Connie go every other day, but for now, unless they want to play the World Series in the snow somewhere they're gonna have to scoot the body like the wildcard theories were live from the rocket mortgage Studios when you need cash out of your home in a simple way to get it rocket can what we pose that question to our Odyssey baseball insider is also a long-time columnist for the USA today sport section and Bob Nightingale pleased to connect with you for the first time this season's a long time no talk. What's your impression of wildcard weekend away. Baseball set up for the first time this year. No problem. I'm the only team that one would hope you will measure greater guardian and filter so you one that really mean that you mean, but you really mean anything baseball memory to go back to 2019 nationals, Astros – one for role games you want three programs do you think wise to become so noneffective are not important in the baseball playoffs talking to some abilities yesterday about Toronto but weeks in you know I have a better view of the road just your other distractions of family will bring some laundry together, go together for breakfast you'll grab dinner doctoral thing you feel like you never sports were already down to the division series because wildcard weekend was set up with three days in a row. Although we only need the third day for the Padres and the mat. So let's start with that one. The Mets would hundred and one games the regular season actually had the same record as the Atlanta Braves who ended up edging them out for the NL East title and their deadline. How did stadia go do it all just better than anybody in baseball Joe Musgrove as you talk to the personal get her pottery is really like smell up until yesterday scribbled on this rich you got Josh Bolton a dangerous raw yellow with a control Joe Lewis to steal what you love you Ray Logan Gilbert bookings a better job to the Padres in line with that rotation for all the moves they made the trade deadline and the fact that it took a while for them to settle into the new lineup. Once they click they really took off. Jada really love the way you know this. But there is no close to 500 strip or rabies just just just on fire and you want your alarm so you disappear and go, and he started to show you'll more you'll what he was in Washington during this series, where you know about couple months ago. Josh will just your work is Bob Nightingale is with us from the road will be on the road for about five weeks around the end of the regular season and on through this blitz of October were always excited to talk to about baseball. It's after hours here on CBS sports radio you were in St. Louis for the Cardinals series and man talk about a stoner the way that they gave up those six runs in the ninth inning on Friday night and then really couldn't hit on Saturday.

What was it like it Busch Stadium.

Yeah, you got there. You could have been cheering that quiet excited on the in game to pull up and get them up number Was a series you have called Goldschmidt in the learned auto go one perfect English six like you is obviously the end of two Hall of Fame careers without approvals who had an incredible second half and your Melina in the ninth inning when they were attempting to rally what they say things treat them at the end that you will remember in the basement but would not allow you know a lot of yada yada yada pretty cool even though polls obviously much better player pool left jollies.

You spent all 1919. Students are so you have special about you. The real you are expressing cheers were but not how would you describe these last two months with Albert approvals and his chase for 700 level you will love. It's right here with that little reminder of Britain was Carmel always so it was great to go the ghost years not have to struggle in Anaheim. So yeah, it was very cool that innovation everything okay and that is my new upholstery multiple goal for the great fan base there in St. Louis, obviously disappointed, but the Phillies have been in playoff mode for couple of months, right fighting, scratching, clawing they been living on the edge. They were the last team to get into the postseason field course they fired their manager Joe Girardi going back earlier in the seat and how did they turn it around. Bob yeah your voice more often. All you all for most of the go home was while Lola there for a while longer. Setting plane so bad and just got to get right on Bob Nightingale of USA Today is with us here after hours on CBS portrayal spent the weekend in St. Louis and what theories are added to for the divisional round. Not bothering life on Bible. The freeway. As you travel trouble yeah 2000 World Series will happen along 20 games the public by the Dodgers in your pocket 23 like the big boys on the block was published. It will get up Dodgers finished with 111 wins obviously for them. A franchise record. Also the first National League team to hit that mark in a century but be said for not playing meaningful baseball over the last my gosh, five weeks, maybe games all Astros doctors that sort of thing will see why?

Joint personal history three closeout games. The bullpen, I still think National League it's all baseball World Series go through that good right the brakes surging and catching the mats where they did not hold the lead in the National League East for only a handful of days during the regular season and they also get a familiar foe in the family so that's interesting right as we have two theories in which they are divisional matchups in the American league the Mariners. They are biting the flair for the dramatic with the back-to-back walk off to make their first postseason in 21 years than the way they rally against Toronto which is just phenomenal. What makes this team tech like they do so young team so you really do five games, but you can gain one looking unbelievable.

Your first full season back will still the best trick of the trade online teams messed up. The members got Cy Young award winner so you they can cause a lot of problems. I don't have during the season but yet you feel about one team last year got so close to the play. Also, maybe not unexpected, they would finally punch their ticket in 22 though they know where youngest team in major league baseball they got the management of Terry Francona mean he's been around baseball forever.

He's a lifer dude still gets nervous and anxious around games like this. They have to walk off in the 15th inning to be able to move on to the next row what you like about that ballclub in the way that they've carried themselves this year will put the ball in play plate review: Hall of Fame one day you talked about is right downtown ballpark scooter from stopping you.

Do you don't just a great character for the game and with the best manager boosting by the last 50 years, the course got in Cleveland to World Series appearance in 2016. After winning the AL pennant. The Yankees didn't end up allowing the rest of the East to get super close. We had some angst over the course of six weeks or so after the All-Star break one of their elements that might make you nervous about them actually capitalizing on what was a real strong season for you to work rotation was lot of questions: in courtrooms illness record to you what happened there working very good team but flawed. I think you get to the World Series a big upset you should nationals be very favored Bob Nightingale with us here after our CBS sports radio ego. We did this fun show last week in which we asked the fans the best and brightest of baseball in 2022 weather moments whether memories whether milestones Bob you watch the whole thing that we put off hundred and 62 games in the rearview mirror plus wildcard weekend. So what would you say are the best and brightest of 2022-year-old schoolgirl country watching Judge the teenager reacted jumping over the railing.

Very cool.

And then on the north side of fulfilling your own summer, we thought that was going to happen.

You only had six home runs to burst out to look to let the money to retire that would treat your monster second half. So races will really baseball no fun again guys young guys with Bobby with those guys joking about electrified fans, but the end is the old school months out so much news was so popular I really loved seeing how the Yankees and the Cardinals respectively were so energized by the chase of those iconic number 62 and 700. It certainly seems like those individual pursuits really electrified their clubhouses and certainly propelled them to a bunch of wins will will world stretch judge struggling he was only think you need to run away winner MVP award, 30, $30.25 or 2630 boat. Taking away to make the playoffs. When the division walk all excited now for what's to come. The division series starting all their glory for them on Tuesday and Bob Nightingale are all to see baseball insider as well as USA Today columnist will be in Los Angeles for the Dodgers and the Padres great to catch up with you. Thank you so much you can find Bob on Twitter@B Nightingale. It's interesting that three of these four series are divisional matchups or rematches both in the National League is a kind of pointed out, and then the fact that in the American league.

You've got one from the AL West crazy but three of the lower seeds quote unquote ended up advancing out of wildcard weekend. So whether or not home field advantage matters. Do you think it was notable that the Mets did not sell out to the field on Sunday night and as Bob points out, the guardians didn't sell out their stadium either, even though they actually ended up advancing. So here more and will look at those series a little more as we head through the shell were to get back to football, though somewhat still to pick apart.

There was a relatively controversial call from the Tampa Bay Atlantic game in the NFC South. Now I don't want to hear one word about how the officials stole the game from the Falcons you know automatically assume touchdowns right they were still down by six point you can't just assume that if they get the ball back there going to score but the rule we talked about this for the last few years quarterbacks get protected like nobody's business and the reason why people complain about the NFL going soft is because of some of these rubbing the pastor penalties and the one that was assessed against the Falcons late in this game. It was soft and suspect, to say the least. You can find me on twitter a lot already, I will get that pull up which teams and fan bases are the most mortified on Monday because football doesn't take a holiday so again on Twitter or on our Facebook page. After out and that requires an eye for detail because when safety and well-being on the line.

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Swinging down Grady on this.

This is not the goal. See's after-hours with Lori, I appreciate the hyperbole from the Falcons radio network. Let's this happens a lot over the years there have been a lot of very soft questionable rubbing the pastor penalties happens all the time.

Like clockwork every couple weeks. There's one that people cannot believe why we protecting the quarterback to get actually hit the quarterback anymore. We need to put the quarterback in bubble wrap because you're not actually allowed to touch him, happens to be the latest one that draws the ire of football fans and I would agree it wasn't rubbing the pastor, but this is what referee Jerome Bulger said Grady Jared unnecessarily through Brady to the ground so that was his explanation for the roughing the passer flag on that key third down late in the game as the Buccaneers are trying to run out the clock in Tampa so the situation is this Falcons have scored a couple times so they were down 21 nothing escorted couple times to pull within six points there about three minutes to go. It looks like they stopped the box dead in their tracks at midfield because Gerrit is able to get to Brady and thrown to the ground wrapped up in the midsection, throws him down. Bulger throws the flag though and with the roughing the passer penalty.

The drive continues Tampa is able to run out the clock so he wrapped Brady up around his midsection and then rolls down to the ground with them and the quarterback obviously gets pulled down as well. So Bulger said that his postgame report. What I had was the defender grabbed the quarterback while he was still in the pocket and unnecessarily throwing him to the ground. This is what I was making my decision based on he was actually asked whether or not he threw the flag because it was a take down relatively similar to the one that injured to entangle below a couple weeks ago was last week last week last Thursday night football on national TV and Bulger said not terribly, but you may have noticed over the course of the last few days that now there's no messing around. There's no wiggle room and the NFL will behave even agreed to change the concussion protocols. They went into effect this weekend Brady's head hit the ground. Nope. Did he get checked out. Nope within concussion protocol.

No, but Bulger was asked the question about whether or not that was a consideration Teddy Bridgewater actually was knocked out on the first drive for the dopants against the Jets on Sunday and even though he went through concussion protocol and had no symptoms at all.

He actually was complaining about his elbow so similar to two going back a couple weeks. Initially was telling doctors he had back pain. That's what made them unsteady on the field.

According to an independent spotter, though Bridgewater looked unstable and will work was wobbly spotter, no doubt, all over the legal spotters have been told to err on the side of caution and I don't know that I saw the wobbly with Bridgewater but either way passing concussion protocols is no longer good enough. Instead, spotter believes there is any reason why guy should be held out of the game. If he looks wobbly from up top, usually in the press box or the coaches area. That spotter believes that an athlete looks wobbly. He can hold about. He can to clear about that.

The new protocol. Any type of unsteadiness or wobbly this even if it's not due to a head injury and the player passes through concussion protocols. That's now an automatic no go meeting the player cannot come back I will have to go through concussion protocols all week and that is in direct response to what happened with Sheila, it's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio so Arthur Smith on that flag thrown against Grady Jared. He freaked out on the sidelines. By the way meeting. Coach Smith, what I can control, so I just see what I can to approach the situation. Once that extends long, long flex he got that from Bill Belichick. He absolutely did table was up 21 nothing in this game. As I mentioned the TD drive to start the third quarter, lettered for net holes in the 1 yard pass from Tom Brady.

They tackled the two-point conversion and their up three touchdowns what Atlanta pulled within six not only because the Falcons were able to capitalize on a few more opportunities but because the Buccaneers were doing nothing in the second half offensively as he nothing the Buccaneers and the Packers both looked hideous in the second half of this was a home game and they know how important it is to win these home games, especially if you're talking about trying to stay first place in the South concerning outfit.

We executed the third quarter, first half, we kept their defense on the field. Second half half ethical don't bring out makeup arguments on field fatigue setting for both sides of thing talk ballgame when the hard to combine the sleeper plan for first place in the wherever we got how funny even as were listening to to Todd Bowles look up and bolted on my TV.

Crazy how many times it happens so Buccaneers are three into the saints and the Falcons are two and three and the Panthers are one and four were to talk about the saints man superstar platform for a long time member of the New Orleans franchise. Just venting the Falcons market Mario. It is at least proud of his team for the fact that they didn't lay down, lie down, would be the grammatically correct term, then lie down after being behind 21 zip