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Good morning, good afternoon, and evening baseball fans. Welcome back to the Barcelona

baseball show. This is Carl. It is Friday, and I am joined by Chris Keselani for another

wonderful edition of Rostar Wars. Today, we have the Chicago Cubs taking on the Houston Astros.

Chris, welcome to the show. Happy to be here, man. There should be a good one. You know, though,

the Rostar Wars stuff has been doing really well. It's a lot of fun to do the head-to-head stuff,

and I think especially in the second half of the season, now that Rostars are set. We know what kind

of teams they have. It's a fun thing to kind of go off of, and I was thinking about this just

the other day, you know, for the Cubs being as good as they are, and for, you know, us you being

in Chicago and me being close to Chicago. I feel like we haven't talked about this team like that

much on here. They've been in the top nine, I believe, before we've done the power rankings, but,

you know, they're one of those teams that I think you all the sudden you look at the standings

of September. They're not just in the thick of things in the wild card race. I mean, they're

pushing up on the brewers right now. So I think it's a perfect time to take a team like the Cubs,

and see how they match up against what we'll be doing today, the defending world champion,

and as of the time of this recording, pretty darn hot Houston Astros, just be the hell out of the

Rangers. Astros are red hot. Clemmer and I talked about it on the Wednesday MLB playoff show. Again,

Monday power ratings every week, Monday power ratings. We're going to be doing our 24th or 25th

show this upcoming Monday. Wednesday, we try to sply set up, make it different headlines. This is

Friday. This is a Rostar Wars with me and Kasselani. I want to say something quick about the Astros,

for as much love the Mariners got for the month of October, the Astros are right behind them,

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