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Good morning. Good afternoon in the evening baseball fans. Welcome back to the

Varsal baseball show in his carl is Wednesday and as always I am joined by Chris Clemmer.

Are you sick? Do you have COVID? No. I do not. Okay, some sniffles in the green room.

Just a little weird sneeze. I was like, I just got to pick central. I didn't have a ton of time

to get ready for this. And you know, between the shows. And then I was scarfing down to

pole day and I sneezed and a bunch of rice came out of my nose. And it's completely destroyed

by last 10 minutes. White rice or brown rice? White rice. So by the time you come out of my nose

they had like a different color too. Yeah, I prefer the texture of their white rice.

This is the annual central show today mostly. We're going to do some annual central stuff.

It comes up playing the players in a pivotal series. That's a three team race in the

National League. The three team race in the American League is in the West. Yeah, I know you hate

the red. It's the fast race. Oh, oh, it's actually not that. It's the way it's, yeah, I just

I didn't got races over. But we can, uh, we can put it in the ground. Yeah. Yes. But you have

some you want to talk about first. Well, I think we have to address whether or not we gave

Mookie Betts enough credit last week in the award show where we're talking about MVP. That's

something now that is I popped the player comparisons. It's, I don't know if it became more glaring

in the last week. Mookie Betts had 440 in August with like a 1300 OPS. Is he a candidate to win

the year and we completely overlooked that MVP. Yeah, we totally did. Uh, he's actually the odd

Zonk favorites to win as of right now. I think it's going to come head to head down the stretch here.

But no, we didn't give him enough credit. A lot of interest because he's been so hot. So recently,

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