Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What costly mistake did Zaslow make with his son's fantasy league?
He's going to put it in his bank account.
You think he's going to put it in a bank account. Have you not been 17 before? What's he going to do? He's going to have it under the mattress? 17 years old? I would have been doing so much ignorant shit with that.
Want to make it clear? $17,000, a lot for any of us. Would be really nice to have $17,000.
I know, but we're adults. 17 years old, you give me $17,000. That's like a million dollars. Exactly.
Just have a bar mitzvah. Yeah, he must have thought it's like an incredible amount of money that his father just... I'd be like James Franklin planning like a wild trip.
You see him, Tony? See the vacation? The post-firing vacation. Me and Tony... Not as good as what I'd like, though. We love talking about the rich coaches with their like, we just got fired. Oh, it's the dream.
Where are we going to go?
Everyone thinks their life stinks. I have no job now. I have all this money. And we saw he was at Greece. He was on some lake in Greece.
Brian Kelly has $54 million. Think about the trip you're planning. I was like, you know what his Fridays used to be like? Hold on, let me watch some more film. Hello, are you up? Oh, no, we have to do this. Nothing to do. Now, Friday?
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Chapter 3: What are the stakes of the fantasy football survivor pool?
An interview the next week? Yeah. Are you out of your mind? Yeah.
Now I see why he didn't want to come to our show the next week.
Of course. Because he's still trying to be serious. Oh, I have a job to do. I don't have it yet, but I'll do it. What happened in the World Series?
Here we go. Circle them back. The Dodgers threw $300 million out there in the final innings of Game 7 of the World Series, and everyone's supposed to say, hey, this sport's OK. Hold on.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto doing what he did, going from a Game 6 start the night before, where he gives up one run in six innings and they win the game, to come back out the next night and dominate a Blue Jays lineup that had been great. I'll pull up the stats in just a second. The difference between when they were facing every other pitcher on the Dodgers and facing Yoshinobu Yamamoto is extraordinary.
I believe he gave up two runs in 17 and two-thirds innings, and otherwise they scored 31 runs in the series or something like that. I'll gather the numbers now.
I have a theory, by the way. The whole pitchers can't pitch back-to-back days thing, it's all bullshit. They'll get hurt in the long run. These guys have successfully negotiated. They talk about load management in our sport. These guys have a whole position. All you do is load manage. Oh, I pitched two days ago. I couldn't possibly. I'll see you in five days. I'll see you in a week.
It's like, honey, can you open this jar? No, I have to pitch in three days.
I can't use this at all for anything. They could pitch two days later. The starters can't start two days later. You can't expect them to go six innings two days later. You could pitch two days later.
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Chapter 4: How did Zaslow's advice impact his son's chances in the pool?
So now we care when they get hurt, huh? Quiet Leonard is very intrigued now. Now it matters.
He might get hurt. 17 and two-thirds innings for the Blue Jays offense against Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Two runs. Blue Jays offense versus every other Dodgers pitcher. 56 and a third innings. 32 runs. That's the difference. That's why he's the MVP. Because not only did he have that type of dominance, he gets three road wins. Three road wins!
He gets the Game 2 win, he gets the Game 6 win, he gets the Game 7 win. That is one of the best World Series performances we've ever seen. And from a pitcher, maybe Madison Bumgarner is the only other example that we can look at this century. You know, you have Randy Johnson. There's other great ones. Josh Beckett.
Man. You're preaching to someone who saw Randy Johnson pitch 800 times in a five-game season. I thought you were going to say hit a bird. And that, too. You know what the most incredible thing? I bring this up every time when we talk about this bird. It didn't, like, get hit and then fall down. It disintegrated. Yeah, yeah. Like a cartoon. It ceased to exist. It just feathers.
Like Daffy Duck getting shot. I've never seen anything like it since. It's incredible.
I'll tell you, though, that World Series Saturday night, man. So good. If I'm a Blue Jays fan, I really question why I care about sports. I'm being serious about that. Because if I'm a Blue Jays fan, I'm catatonic. It's the worst moment of my life. And I don't even know how I'm going to recover. It's as brutal as it gets if you're a sports fan. And I really do.
It makes me, everyone's like, oh, Game 7 is the greatest thing in sports. It makes me question why we care about sports when that ends up being the end result. Because all of those people that are in that stadium, and all over the country for that matter, it was like the worst moment of their life when that game ended. I don't know how you come back. I really felt bad.
I don't know how you come back from that as a fan.
And not a guy watching Maple Leafs. Low blow. You have the play at the plate inches away from winning the World Series. It's the worst shit. Vlad Jr. just misses having a walk-off.
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Chapter 5: What were the highlights of the recent World Series games?
You know, what was it? Early in the game when you get the three run home. Oh my God, they're so happy. They're so excited. This is so cool. And for it to end the way it did it. Former Marlon.
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Chapter 6: What controversial calls affected the World Series outcomes?
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Don Levitard. Oh, it's good to see everybody, despite the fact that everyone appears to hate me.
Stugatz. Yeah. I love you, buddy.
That's on you. I don't know you that well.
Yeah, they said that you both suck ass and were bitten in the ass. So those are both things that you were accused of during this.
You're roughed up in my ass situation. This is the Don Levitard Show with the Stugatz.
Not even the most brutal championship lost over the weekend.
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Chapter 7: How did the Dodgers and Blue Jays perform in the World Series?
What do you guys know about funny? You've been out to that race in Phoenix before, right? I have, yeah. It's fun, man. Going in person is fun.
I mean, there's a time in that track, there's one section where it doglegs, where you can get like seven wide. And you had one of those restarts there, and it allows for something random. But if William Byron never gets that flat tire, Denny Hamlin finally gets to win that championship, and you have one of the cooler celebrations and cooler moments in sports this year.
Instead, your heart breaks for the guy.
This is, as you asked the question, this is why. This is why. That heartbreak sets the tone and gives it a texture and a patina that is only, you only get it in sports. You can't get it from fiction. It's the only way you can do it from live, uninterrupted drama. Think about it like this. Think about how San Antonio felt when Ray Allen hit that shot. Mm-hmm.
That sadness is, I would say, equivalent to what the Blue Jays felt, what Denny Hamlin felt. I know they had another game. Spurs and that stuff.
What you were saying about Blue Jays fans, like Denny Hamlin, it was pulsating off of him. Like, why am I doing this shit?
Well, but at least it's his job, all right? If you're a fan, then it's really, why do I care about this? Why am I letting this ruin my life right now? That's how I felt for the Blue Jays fans. You know how awful those people feel, man, when they're leaving the stadium on Saturday night?
I think Mike knows how awful.
I felt terrible for them.
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of the World Series results on baseball?
He didn't play for the first five games. And then he comes into game six and has that scoop at second on the double play that almost went underappreciated because of how great it was that the play was made in left field with the jump that was made. But for him to have that scoop and then hit the homer and then be the guy at second base with the infield in to make the throw home...
That gets the runner at home plate. After tripping, too. Because he had tripped and fallen back and then gained his composure and threw it back. It was so cool to see a guy who started his career with the Dodgers, has just basically been a role player his whole career, was elevated to a leadership position in Miami.
We all know that that kind of ended in an ugly way if you listen to the show with how it went down with Jazz. But for him to now end up back in L.A., And to contribute in that way after not being a piece of that team throughout most of the postseason, it was so improbable. And it kind of feels like baseball is the only sport where that specific thing happens.
Is there anybody who woke up, forget woke up today, who last night or Saturday night, excuse me, was like, oh my God, I've been saved more than Kike Hernandez. Because that MF-er almost blew the whole thing.
You don't think he catches it? Absolutely not. Really? Sometimes those guys pull that out.
Absolutely not.
Where they look a little. Usually if they can get a glove on it, they catch it. He was so lost in the sauce, man. I love the center field. It's just like, I'm running over you right now.
You can see the look on his eyes like, oh shit, I don't know what I'm doing. And then collision course. Oh my God.
To the point that Mike was making where they threw $300 million in the last couple innings, the guys that really stepped up for the Dodgers were the guys that weren't paid all this money, right? Miguel Rojas has not paid a ton of money, hit the home run. Will Smith, who's probably the MVP if it wasn't Yamamoto, with how good he played, caught basically eight games worth in seven games.
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