Who will make the World Series?

This is the atom gold shell baseball expanded postseason tournament started. Today started.

Oh, 22 minutes ago and they are going to the bottom of the second inning in Cleveland with the guardians and raise scoreless we have managed to get through at least the first round of the playoffs without an Angel Hernandez set out on that imager Angel Hernandez is eligible to Elliott Johnson, who is played for three of his four teams are in the postseason. I'm sure he sees tortured by Woodward for he joins us on the atom gold show no Angel Hernandez pumping the play out, but it was Angel Hernandez even in the big leagues this year. Yeah was still snowing right there in the umpire auditor in putting out ranking that Outlook outgrown on Twitter today and make ranking an article on dog getting done about three blocks of the parable of I don't know wrinkle is that I would imagine you call to the bottom. But there are some guy got a good problem is we don't really highlight Geiger Scattergood really got that right. You don't know what a good game. You know the umpire I go when you note, the umpire W. Jennings as the home has the plate for this game between Cleveland and Tampa.

I want to start at the end of the day so you're the Mets you want to hundred and one games tied for third in major league baseball with the Braves. The team you lost the wildcard tooth loss the division out to because you got swept in the three games in Atlanta and you lost the season series.

How hard is it to kind of refocus and get back or just a playoff game. So you're in the playoffs and that so take a different direction than you're probably entered the painting but I need it. If you're that worried and that worked up about the path you're probably not flying in a major uniform. I'm not really matters anymore. At this point it doesn't help you to focus on any I would.

I would completely flush it that the issue is it will come of the media to bring it up. "All that sort up when you play against them. But now it doesn't matter not none of that matters your dancing. You can go you can get a national again.

You can limp in and be in a wildcard team and if you don't. The rest of the year you your world.

It doesn't matter. None of that matters now. All that matters is winning today doesn't matter what happened in the past there would've been better for them to do that, maybe, maybe not. But reality is that you only you. You got again that you have to win on any particular day, and none of that stuff is relevant. If you're worried about that stuff, you know, I really don't like you make laws, but I'm glad we were team assets know you make an argument I have made this argument before, when it went whether it was a wildcard or in other sports where you your your team as the body and the other team at the place to make an argument that it might actually work to not just the Mets but any team that has to play in this round to their advantage that they're playing in a series now as opposed to the other teams that are waiting again for at least another four days or five days before they play right optics right so it only matters if you think it matters what I would do if I was managing whatever the clubhouse. Either way, positive and unifying mental games is really all you're doing so where were your point about the pain that comes to my mind number one abundantly clear curable in the Rockies just ran the table internationally and then it no and they got delayed and the Red Sox were they were battling battling with Yankees and whoever was and they came in superhot while the rocket were hotter than the Red Sox you can imagine that the Red Sox been playing the entire time and so I think when the rock you came out it came out flat again. You know the ball is moving a little quicker than there used to the Red Sox were effectively fill in playoff mode where the rock you that another young buck for the last week we can have whatever was and they got absolutely trucked by the Red Sox and got swept so there is company for court, but in reality you're just playing mind games because if you're sitting out you use another positive because you can look let's take the time to get healthy with your arm in in the correct order of who we want to take and when we want to face him, rather than teams that are playing now you gotta go with what you go with and you hope for the best. The team better waiting. They can line things up and play.

They can play little more patiently than the guy that are currently going out of it thicken one half of the other and you really however you need to to benefit your team in any given day was the last time the Dodgers played a meaningful baseball.

While I retaken your line from one of the lockable drug talk to you that the dog is going to division for 20.3 already.

I like that. What I would love to probably have been like July maybe some like that probably don't like that I think they yell selling California attitude going on there.

Bring in the plane for a little bit of action there down the stretch. I think he had a couple of interesting milestones that he was trying to get but that an individual thing.

I think you know they had an individual story going on that they been trying to meet the goals with… Read Fernando Valenzuela's name a lot recently collapsed and fun, but no overall favorite out of anybody to beat them if the brave do you know I could see that happening, but I think it can be a little different this year than last year. The Mets beat the Padres.

The Mets are going to Los Angeles and as is a Mets fan I'm going to spin it in a positive way. Match matchers are in your garbage tonight. Jarvis has owned the Mets by the way, not only this year but in his career, but I'm not sure that matters when we get to postseason play buddies to know this year one earned run in 14 innings 15 strikeouts one walk jersey didn't pitch great, but in pitch badly just lost when the Mets played when he faced the Padres earlier this season. But if the Mets can get out of this series with winds today and tomorrow.

It lines Jacob to grow up to go game one in LA and if there is a game five likely game five in LA which sugars are probably in game two or three, you know, maybe the first game at home.

The one thing the Mets can do is they can roll out great starting pitching but I'm not sure that's the most important thing in a series anymore. You know it or aligned early to start with. With the starting pitcher for sure.

Great having this writer has been huge right right you need to build a huge board but any time that I got you could put it this way, you know, when I was with the rays were rolled out right. 112 and Amgen children 11 to get back at third you know we always felt like we had a chance to win all the time. Jeff Neiman was outstanding in 21 2012 so we always felt like we had a chance to win every game wouldn't care who we were quiet so but at the same time like you know if you get that kind of feeling. I can remember Al today when they made a call to the bullpen and abroad, and somebody was excited about the kind of that.

If you have that feeling going to yard you know you need or Ron.

I think anytime you have the ground you have served or going you feel pretty good about your don't care who your faith in you collected and went yes, except that the other team just as decent enough starting pitching. It might matter in the Braves were didn't have the better starter in either of the three games in Atlanta, but the Braves won all three of those games actually outpitched the Mets starter and all three of those games. I think it just depends I will.

I love Atlanta's makeup I mean that vent people think I'm crazy, but I kinda think the Braves are the team to beat all that hot right now to heating up on the Mets.

Give them a lot of confidence but open man.

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I think there are still a little bit more that they can get out of directly guide you and your whole lot this year. Quiet but they're making up for it. I think the me that there it was more about the Mets offense, being quiet, yet anything else I want to give the Braves pitching open a lot of credit for that and see. I think bullpens are more important than starters starters can be bad, but I think bullpens in the postseason is arguably the most important element that you have to score runs.but I think the better bullpens will win in the postseason. It depend on the roster construction on the Royal 15 inning game right they gave all alternate with 100 miles an hour between five different God). According run. I think the Achilles' heel for the gate.

You clearly there there bullpen.

I think they're struggling Brittany Don you know Roald Chapman not the same guy that we remember him being so I think they got worried there. But if judge and and fan can continue to do it all around all over the place then you made a lien on the bullpen as much, but I think that's probably their Achilles' heel. Right now the little bit more stress on their starters are not happy because bullpens really are. Is there a team playing today that and will go for either. In either league that you think could be in the league championship series in the World Series so league championship. Is there, let's go American League first mariners raise a kid's right mariners J's guardian guardians raise our either of any of those four teams good enough to be in the ALC SI got yeah mariners are hot right now I don't know if they have enough Julio Rodriguez would be across a whole lot more platforms commercials everything it in plain Seattle La Mesa I wanted and went home under. I think the Blue Jays are good enough.

I do, I think you know on the nationally side of the cardholder good enough, much like a given credit for you, yes, that there there pretty good team.

You know I love I love are not like are not a lot about you guys bringing two men. He deserves a plot to get that special that you know not likely. Lumbar. It was really special over there but the planet so I think that probably be my pick of the Blue Jays are pretty good there offense is pretty stout I like them a lot. I don't know if there can be able to pitch enough to make it happen. But Blue Jays and the Cardinals. I would love the ability to get into made a lot of friends over there but they really limped into the quite often so I don't know if they got enough I don't have enough to be able to make it through getting Bryce Harper healthy church certainly helps, sure, but holy cow, I don't have enough to be able to beat the Cardinals. I don't, they will have the pitching advantage starting pitching advantage in the first two games of the series with Wheeler and then Nola going tomorrow but as I said, I don't think starting pitching is the most important thing I think bullpen is the most important and from a romantic angle.

I want to see Albert pools stay plan I do I like to garden. I hate the Cardinals more than I hate the Yankees and I'd rather I just I just think it's awesome that Albert pools.

Not only is playing, but playing well and I saw the story I have read too far into it.

The rest of the story where he said he was thinking about retirement in June when he was struggling were certainly glad he didn't do that are real quick.

You got the Dodgers and the National League is your American League pick all that after I can't take him all all like I did Blue Jays that would be very nice. I got the Braves and the Astros again and I went to go with Dusty Baker this time to get him his World Series.

All I know, I know I understand what does the bank deserve something like that was throwing shade on your boy for not being able to hit home runs at a given time. I can prepare people on the back of this year so great here they need to get back to doing what they were doing, which is grinding out of Batson making team making pictures work. They have gotten away from that last couple months while out you know that the new kid Aldred you might be that the shot in the arm that they need right now and bring that young energy right now and you could give him the keys but you gotta get them a lot more respect and are currently getting off, and I certainly hope so.

Elliott Johnson. I'll talk to you very soon, my friend appreciate you got Elliott Johnson here on the end of July when we will become back our mailbag segments we going to mention next I lay there still scoreless bottom of the third in Cleveland one out man on first for the guardians. We do this every Friday.

Your opportunity to speak to the show on Twitter at a gold fan. In this case at the fan rookie working going dimensions all right from from fatal oblivion on Twitter that is hear me out that this is great because it it it it covers two different sports. How much would it cost to get coach Rod Brind'Amour to take over as head coach of the Carolina Panthers, however much it needs back up the truck.

Here's my answer to that is pretty simple is that coaching is coaching you can always Brind'Amour could be the head coach of the Panthers higher everybody else to do XML and just be the guy in charge and use this as an example, Gary Williams, your former coach at the University Maryland basketball great cook.

I also early in his career coached men's soccer what okay Jack from soccer for four to but coach coaching is coaching leading is leading and I would argue that that would be a very good thing.

It would be a good thing to do. Not just about say that the Panthers should hire Rod Brind'Amour but what you need to find more than an exit. No guy is a leader right.

That's the guy that should be coaching your team.

So I think it's a great question, even though it was said in jest. We took it seriously. Our identity in some yeah so I did a video earlier this week on my Monday actually of what was Matt role went to the drive-through. Got a happy meal right our good friend Lauren Brown loads quickly and said oh no you go back and look at it email me the video like I saw it I it's on Twitter to send it to me on twitter. I guess I could've looked up your Twitter and that the claim rookie and found this is this is from last night. Both of these are from last night and they are related.

Jason Fitz of ESPN who does a lot of a lot of online stuff and does also host with Sarah Spain in the evenings. I said well everyone keeps the Moji on this game meeting last night scolds went over the Broncos. Let's also acknowledge that in mid July. You would kill to watch it. Even bad football is better than no football at all and will look for people some people it is an hour.

I will illustrate the point. The second, as I responded to him like pizza pizza still pretty good. There's another analogy to that I will not make bad pizza still yeah you can be really bad. I would argue that what we saw last night is like the worst possible pizza you can anyway. So I pointed out last night on Twitter that it's fun it's it's cool to see people, especially people cover the NFL and we are as you you you alluded to. We play the clip Al Michaels and Kirk Herford on Amazon prime last night acknowledge that bad football Tom Brady saying I watch a lot of bad football around league. Now, so I pointed out. Go ducks why and WA which I guess is you never walk alone. The Reds, what are you talking about every single Sunday has been absolutely electric I will just say that beauty is in the right and sometimes close is good enough and what we saw last night is probably the greatest illustration of the way people process. Great games or bad games.

Last night was a horrendous game but fourth-quarter close mistake come back tie over time so there was drama and there was the opportunity to second-guess the coach and criticized the guy about the star quarterback so there was enough there for everybody to be talking about it today so I get it. Some people will construe that as great wasn't great, but that's okay. Dramatic is different for this is part of the poll question. Yes, it would really talk about deeper for college or NFL football.

All that's a good question.

I don't know. I really had to ponder on this one guy sometimes college football may not be always great, but it can be very entertaining. College football is always entertaining. It is all very dramatic. Even though there are so many blowouts right yet there's always enough. There even though the footballing great that football is great in certain places.

Yeah, great NFL football is almost always better but the drama and the atmosphere account football game changes everything. Yeah right. Just take encompassing all that in together that I might lean towards Scott right. I think the NFL is a better product. Sure, but the college game. And for a lot of people they don't want any part of the NFL except fantasy and that's why the watch red zone. Yeah but yeah I prefer the NFL game. Of course this year NFL game is been just trash real quick from Chuck you really think Aaron Jones will leave the Yankees. Adam and my answer is I do.

I do think you will. I think you'll end up with the Giants, but I've been wrong before. I have been wrong before. This is the Adam gold shell