Tampa Bay Rays Leads American League With Best Record

The American League is such a crap show, right? I got a feeling when everything is said and done, it'll be Tampa Bay, and we'll look back and say, yeah, why not? They had the best record in the American League. Why shouldn't have been that, right? But we just don't want to give Tampa Bay any credit, but they got a three game lead over the Yanks for the division, which is also the number one seed. You know, Major League Baseball, Joe, I guess they got what they wanted, but I still think it's stupid. You know, we've talked about this. Tampa Bay's going to have the best record, we'll just say, right? Yankees are going to have the second best record. Red Sox are going to have the third best record. Meanwhile, the Yankees and Red Sox are going to have to play against each other in the first round, despite having better records than the White Sox and Houston Astros. And those two stiff teams are going to get a bye. And then the Red Sox-Yankees winner doesn't play the division winner, you know, that's number three. They have to play Tampa Bay because they don't re-seed. So the number one and two wildcard team somehow or another has to play the best team in the American League, whereas the number three wildcard team, theoretically, you know, we'll just say it's Cleveland, wins and they get to play the worst division winner. It's really, it's stupid. It really is, so. But yeah, I trust the Yankees. Somebody's got to play it, but I don't see anybody from the American League who's going to limp in making noise. I mean, is there somebody in American League can get red hot and run? No. I mean, what are we talking about? First round exit for any of these teams here at this point? The Houston Astros, Joe. The- Oh, I know. The pathetic Houston Astros are now just a game back from getting a bye in the first round. That's crazy. Are you kidding me? This team has been awful. The three games over 500, but the White Sox are coming back to the pack. Hell, even the Texas Rangers, the NF Rangers are only four back if they were to catch the Astros, because the White Sox have just come back to the pack. It's just, yeah. Well, I don't see any, maybe the Yankees, maybe Tampa Bay, I don't know. But realistically, are any American League teams going to even challenge the Dodgers? No. At least the Toronto was good last year. Like, I don't even see that going six, seven games, probably four or five game series. It's, I think there's going to be some blowouts. I don't think there's going to be a whole lot of surprises, but again, it feels like there's the haves and the have-nots here. And I know I was talking to Craig Mish yesterday. I mean, they were so looking forward to the Dodgers coming to town in Miami. And then he gets put on the IL here and all those folks who bought tickets to go see the Dodgers. And none of us, Scotty, we think that the Dodgers are, you know, their path to a quick three-peat without a healthy Otani at the, forget about pitching, at the plate. I don't know that they have that team this year. I really don't. Yeah. It's going to be interesting. They're in a dog fight. They've kind of separated themselves a little bit from Atlanta. Now four game lead in the loss column for the number two spot. And then, you know, try and catch Milwaukee, but the top two are the most important ones, right? Because you get the first round by, you don't have to deal with that best of three nonsense there. But yeah, I mean, they are separate. We've mentioned it last week. They're right around 500 against winning teams. I mean, they're really, they're not great. You know, they just feast on the lousy team. 30 games over 500 against the lousy team. They don't lose to the Marlins and the Reds and the Rockies of the world. They just don't, right? So they feast on that. But you get them in a short series. I think they're going to get beat. I don't know who it's going to be. I think it may be Philadelphia with those lefties. Maybe Milwaukee, you know, with Mizorowski and company. But I, you know, if you gave me the field of the Dodgers, I would take the field.