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

It is Wednesday. This is Carl, and I am joined as always by Chris Clemer.

Good to see you. Yes, this is going to be a fun one, I think. This is something we've been kind of

like working toward all year, right? Like we're talking playoffs, we're talking playoff projections,

we're talking seedings, we're not talking playoff predictions, because that's something we'll

talk about a month from now. But this is when things kind of line up, who's going to play who,

where we kind of see things shaken out at the last, we got less than four weeks left, Carl.

Yep, we said this before with Ross R. Wars, this is a great exercise to get our minds

right for the playoffs. We're not doing projections, forecasting is like World Series and NLCS matchups.

We're going to do a confidence interval one through 12. There's 12 playoff teams.

It's not just who we think is going to make the playoffs for the show. It's the confidence in which

we can see these teams, in which I say I think, for example, the Phillies, I'm very confident that

they'll be the first wild card team and the fourth overall seed, the nationally. I'm much more

confident than that than I am in talking about the AL West. Or wise man, one said, get your mind right.

I don't know who that is. No, it's mincey. It's my mincey impression. Some say it was spot on.

I mean, you know, I like to, you know, like to make it is widespread panic.

That I know that that guy will sit, Ben Menzel sitting in a hotel room and stream a widespread

panic concert. He loves them more than you love the meds. That's a fact.

Yeah, probably true. Probably true.

I'm out of the meds right now anyway. I mean, they won, they won, I'm here this day one yesterday,

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