Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
And I start to say something to him. And then that person, that player, who just happens to be a world champ now for the second straight time, says, there's nobody I'd rather be talking to than Rob Bradford right now.
Chapter 2: What insights does Adam Ottavino share about the 2025 World Series?
I said, you know what? I made it. That person was Michael Kopech. But it's seeping into the mind of everybody, including Adam Montefino. So you're waiting because there's nobody I would rather talk to than Adam Montefino. I love it. I love the way you get started. It's great. I did it with – so it's funny because the reaction to it is so different from everybody. I did it to Tony Robbins.
Which, by the way, I feel like this is another example of me aging out a little bit because I said to my kids, look who I talked to, Tony Robbins. They're like, who? Yeah, yeah. I can see that.
But really? Well, I mean, yeah, the younger generation has no idea.
Shallow Hal? I mean, that's a great scene from Shallow Hal. Anyway, it brought a smile to Tony Robbins' face. Maybe the preeminent life coach in the history of the world. So maybe he'll steal it. I don't know. But I feel like I'm on to something. Anyway, Adam Montevino, baseball and coffee. The reason I know this is because he's wearing a hat. It's a nice hat. Everyone go buy the hat.
Tell everyone where you can get the hat. We can't get it right now because we're sold out, but we're restocking. It's okay. When Tom Hanks said that A Damn Near Perfect Game was his favorite book, we ran out too, but we said you can still get them. They're on their way.
Yeah, they're on their way. Baseballandcoffee.com or off my YouTube page. You'll find it. If you want it bad enough, you'll find it.
Stupid Google. All right. Well, thank you for jumping on here. Of course. You had a good time. We were just talking a little bit about going to the World Series. You went to a total of four World Series games, correct? Three. Game one, three, and four. Okay. Had you ever gone as a fan before?
No. When I was a kid, I went to a Yankee World Series in New York. It might have been 99, but not much. Just like one game, and that's about it.
What was your takeaway? I want to get your takeaway of the environments of both places. I was in all four games in Toronto. I've been to World Series games in LA. I didn't go to this one. But what's your takeaway from the two different places?
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Chapter 3: How does Adam Ottavino compare the atmospheres of Toronto and LA during the World Series?
Everybody's talking Jays. You could just feel it from the moment I landed. in Canadian soil that this was the Blue Jays in the World Series, where in L.A., obviously, there's other stuff going on. Not to say that those fans weren't tremendous. They brought it big time. And I actually thought they were impressive even in the 18-inning game. You know, typical L.A.
fans are known to get their late leave early. But in that game, I thought, for the most part, they stuck with it really well the whole way. So I was impressed with that, at least. But, yeah, Toronto, it was different. They're not used to this. They've been waiting a long time, a lot longer than the Dodgers were.
So first of all, like when you said I landed on Canadian soil, it's like you were Tom Cruise and like running a horse across the border. But I and that brings me to one of the so what I want to talk to you about is sort of lessons learned from this postseason. But I do want to say this is that I don't know if I've ever felt worse.
for a fan base and a team than I did Toronto because of everything you said. And I have acquaintances on both teams. I know a lot of people both places. I didn't have a problem with the Dodgers winning, obviously, for the brand, everything else. More people are getting tattoos, which is a fact. But...
But still, you can't get past how long it had been for Toronto, how all the things that you said about how amped up they were, how close they were. And, you know, then you have the images of like Don Mattingly staring at a field. And I know this is for a lot of people who lose. I don't know if you felt the same way. I was sort of gutted by that aspect of it.
That was my first reaction at the end of the game was that I felt horrible for the Blue Jays and their fans. Most of the people in my chat on my show, Baseball & Coffee, are Canadian as this playoffs has progressed. So I have a ton of Blue Jay fans. I just finished doing a live stream where we kind of did a little bit of the post-mortem of the season.
Yeah, I mean, there's a huge group of passionate people that were dying to see the Blue Jays get back into the playoffs at all and have any success. This year, they go on this magical run. Everybody's in love with this team. And to your point as well, how close they were to actually winning it. I mean, there was four or five times in Game 7 that they basically had the game won. In my opinion...
this team did enough to win the World Championship and didn't win it. So that is a different dynamic than, oh, we had our shot, we didn't play well. This was like, we had our shot, we played well, we did a lot of things right, and we weren't able to get that last little bit to get across the line. So the devastation factor to me kicked up a couple extra notches given the way it went down.
Right. And I don't think other than, you know, pitch selection or something like that, it wasn't like there was a lot of regret in terms of doing things. You know, I don't feel that way. And I know that people want to pick it apart. I know that they want to say, oh, kind of falafel. He didn't break in time and whatever. I don't, that's okay.
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Chapter 4: What lessons can be learned from the Blue Jays' postseason performance?
But we always obsessed over what we learned from the postseason. Now, I will say this before you answer. I think the overriding thing is, yay, starting pitching. Sure, we had Otani at the end, but you really didn't have a bullpen game. that you didn't have the Mets and the Brewers bobbing and weaving their way through this thing.
So that would be my biggest takeaway is go out and get seven starters who you feel like may potentially be able to pitch in the postseason. You're going to end up with three of them, and good. Because remember, the Blue Jays got Bieber, and it was their sixth starter. They're like, what are we going to do with this guy? And they needed them. Anyway, that's my take. How about for you?
Yeah, I mean, definitely starting pitching 100%. I was very happy to see it. Came back big time in this postseason. The teams that didn't have enough starters and had to try to bullpen it, they fell by the wayside, like the Tigers, for example. They pretty much only trusted Skubal, and they didn't trust anybody else beyond that. Yeah. But I also think diversity of pitching as well.
It's not all about just the starters, but it's also about having different types of pitchers so you can not get pigeonholed into one approach over the course of a long series. Dodgers did a good job with that, actually. I was a little nervous about that heading in. but I thought they did a good enough job. They probably pitched the Blue Jays as well, if not better than the other staffs.
Whereas I thought Seattle had also very good pitching, but they ended up kind of getting homogenized. Like all of their righties kind of ended up pitching the same style over and over again versus Toronto as it went on. So for me, it's, yes, you want to have as many elite starters as you can, because you're going to need them.
You're going to need at least one or two games in a seven game series where the starter is just going to have to take it over and win it by himself. But you also need to have, A lot of variety as well. You can't be constructed all the same way. You need to have a little bit of variety in your pitching rotation and in your bullpen as well as your lineup. The lineup, it also played out as well.
Blue Jays had the best lineup of the postseason. At least they scored the most runs. They were the most productive. And they did that with a combination of contact hitting as well as power hitting. Righties and lefties, speed and guys who are slow. So to me, it's more about diversity.
and having your depth be really a diverse base of talent rather than just having everybody that's kind of homogenous and the same.
So I want to go to that lineups. And one of the things coming in, we talk about contact, how important contact is in the postseason. And numbers and stats and results will suggest, well, you've got to hit homers. And now you do. I mean, you have to hit home runs. Home runs are good, as Pete Fatsy said. Homers are good. But I think that contact is still huge to keep the line moving.
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