2nd Half Reflections: Yankees, Cubs and the 2023 Playoff Picture

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🗓️ 4 August 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Carl & Hubbs enjoy a nice relaxed Friday stressing out about their respective teams as we get into the post trade deadline part of the calendar. Are the Yankees really "in it to WIN it?" Are the Cubs seriously Buyers despite having the 20th best World Series Odds at 75-1? We're ready for a monster weekend. Stay Balanced.

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0:00.0	Hey, starting nine listeners. You can find every episode on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube.
0:05.6	Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:23.6	Good morning. Good afternoon and evening baseball fans. Welcome back to the
0:27.2	Barcelona baseball show. This is Carl in today. I am joined by Hubs. It is Friday and we are
0:32.5	just going to do a quick little MLB Roundup overview show. How you doing? But what's happening, man?
0:37.4	What's happening? Post-tried deadline, trying to compose myself, gather myself, breathe.
0:43.4	Here we are. I'm gassed. Body, mind, soul. I was I was sore, tired, two and a half hours, two hours
0:49.6	and 45 minutes live stream on the YouTube. Go check that out. Obviously subscribe if you're
0:54.1	watching on YouTube. Like I said, it was our first panel. I like the way the panels come together
0:59.6	on Sundays. And that was our first live stream. And I'm like, so salty because I thought we would
1:06.5	get Yankees actions. Nope. Nope, zero. I wrote it so so confidently. I was talking about it so
1:15.7	confidently. Like, oh, dude, they're going to be fucking in on Otani. Like they're going to be in a
1:20.0	no-one era, not a gold Schmidt, nothing. I wasn't even like, like, I'm not mad that they work.
1:27.3	I'm mad that they were out of anyone. Like, is it like even role players? Like just someone to play
1:31.8	left field. Like someone to like add to this line of that makes me like, okay, cool. Like,
1:38.6	they added something here. Someone, someone news coming in the clubhouse here to swing the old bat
1:43.2	and try and figure this out and try and help, help weather the store. We got a reliever from the
1:49.2	white sauce. And I'm sure he's a nice guy. I don't know much about him. We have a very good track
1:56.1	record of turning kind of nobody's into somebody's in this bullpen. It's like the one thing the Yankees
2:00.8	are really good at. That doesn't help this team right now. It just doesn't. Yep. We have the
2:06.6	27th worst offense in baseball. That's the problem. So I'm excited to talk quick Yankees with you.
2:12.8	We're going to get into Yankees. I've got some cubs I want to talk about Otani stuff. Not too early to
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