National League West Showdown: Dodgers Lead while Padres Surge

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00:00I can't deny it.

00:04The Dodgers, before the All-Star break, had lost 6 of 7.

00:08The Padres had lost 6 of 7.

00:09So while the Padres had an opportunity to catch up on the Dodgers, they didn't.

00:14Coming out of the All-Star break, the Dodgers got off to a very hot start.

00:17The Padres got off to a very hot start.

00:19But here's what's happened, in particular, in the last couple of days.

00:22The Padres have consistently won games and won series.

00:26And the Dodgers, in particular, lost this series against Philadelphia.

00:29And granted, Philadelphia is a much better team that just beat LA than Pittsburgh is,

00:34which the Padres have already won this series, and they're up 4-0 right now, and they're

00:37trying to sweep this series.

00:39But the Pirates are a team that is scratching and clawing and trying to get their way into

00:45the wild card.

00:46And oh, by the way, Philadelphia will leave LA, go play in Arizona, where Arizona's been

00:52on fire.

00:53And Pittsburgh will leave home after this game today and go fly to LA and play the Dodgers

00:59for the next few games.

01:00And the easiest of all of them is the Padres, who are going to Miami.

01:04So with a three-game lead right now that the Dodgers have over the Padres, and by the way,

01:10with Arizona having the same record but yet having to play Philadelphia, I'm telling you

01:14guys right now, by Monday, the whole NL West could be different than what it currently

01:19is right now.

01:20Nope.

01:21Now, Browder, why don't you give me that look?

01:24I don't get it.

01:25You got to enjoy this while it's happening.

01:26And by the way, I'm glad you make that look, because I got a lot of fans who are hitting

01:30me up going, you're going to be able to stick it to Browder, because I kept telling you

01:34and telling you, you go for the division.

01:36You don't just give up the division.

01:38Hey, I'm playing for second place.

01:40When you are now only three games back and you're going to Miami, and LA is going to

01:45host a playoff contender, and Philly is going to go to Arizona, dude, this is the time.

01:52You don't agree.

01:54I've said it repeatedly.

01:55You're mischaracterizing what I'm saying, but we'll get to it.

01:58Hmm.

01:59All right.

02:00Well, I don't want to mischaracterize.

02:02You tell us what you're saying.

02:03Stick around.

02:04This is Kaplan and crew.

02:06What a night last night in the National League West.

02:08And we're getting ready for the start of the NFL season.

02:10Stick around.

02:23Hey, try and set the stage for what should be a great year of NFL action.

02:40There's a handful of teams that potentially can compete for a Super Bowl championship.

02:45Confusion and uncertainty this year, more than some in the past.

02:50This team looks like it's ready to make a move, but we just don't know if it's bad or

02:54good this year.

02:55J.J. McCarthy is eventually going to take over, but it's like it's a no-lose situation

02:59for them.

03:00I mean, they suck.

03:01They were seven and ten.

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03:06Hopefully they learned their lesson.

03:07Hey, this ain't the NBA, bro.

03:09You don't have six fouls, and they will check you on this stuff.

03:12And Brooks has a reputation coming into this.

03:14You can tell the refs are watching them, and they were on them all the time.

03:18If this was 10, 12 years ago, Canada playing Greece with that type of lead that they had,

03:23they probably would have mentally crumbled and lost that game to Greece by like three

03:26or four points in the final minute of that ballgame.

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03:35Say the under has the correct juice to the six and a half win total for the New York

03:40Giants.

03:41It's a losing season.

03:42It's a bad season in the greater New York area.

03:46It's Brian Dayball, and it's Joe Shane back next year.

03:50As a Giants fan, what are you looking forward to?

03:53Absolutely nothing.

03:54You're hoping like the Yankees make a long enough run so you can forget about the Giants.

03:58The early line, only on Sports Grid.

04:05The bottom of this field is a bunch of guys, quite frankly, that aren't on the tour, aren't

04:10on the DP tour, aren't on the Corn Ferry tour.

04:13You know, the top 25 or so in this field, I mean, you've got Rory, you've got Lowry,

04:18you've got Scheffler, you know, all four Americans, Minwoo Lee and Jason Day.

04:22And you go to Mito Pereira and Joaquin Neiman out of Chile.

04:26So, you know, it really is pretty deep.

04:29In game live, primetime, only on Sports Grid.

04:34Just playing for second place, and we're not just playing to get into the wild card.

04:37The Padres should be playing to win the division in particular this year because the Dodgers

04:43haven't had Yamamoto and Kershaw's only had three starts and Bueller never really made

04:49it all the way back.

04:50And a lot of their young pitchers did not improve this year.

04:54Mookie Betts has been hurt.

04:57Freddie Freeman missed eight games.

04:59Max Muncy has missed like 45 games.

05:02So what have I mischaracterized when I said that the Padres should go for the division

05:06and you said the division is unwinnable?

05:08What did I mischaracterize?

05:10That I said, and I will continue to say this, that if your sole focus is on a division,

05:16leave me out of that.

05:18Keep playing consistent baseball and get in the playoffs because divisions are irrelevant.

05:25They're pointless.

05:27In baseball, the division used to mean that was your only way to get into the playoffs.

05:33We don't operate in professional sports like that anymore because of the money that's involved.

05:38The more teams that are active at the end of the year, the higher the attendance, the

05:41higher the attention.

05:43So baseball has gotten wise to what basketball has been doing forever and what football is

05:48now doing.

05:49More playoff teams, better the sport, better the season, better engagement.

05:56Baseball's now doing that.

05:57So whether you win a division or not is not the end all be all.

06:01You don't necessarily get anything extra other than the sale.

06:05You don't get any home field, no home field advantage of any kind.

06:09Again, you get extra tickets, you have the ownership group, you get more money.

06:15That's about it.

06:16That's about it.

06:17The wins and losses.

06:18Fans care about wins or losses.

06:20Whether you win on a home or whether you win on a road, it doesn't matter.

06:24Winning, you're going to have to win some road games anyway, period, if you want to

06:28be the champ.

06:32So there is no advantage to winning the division?

06:37In my opinion.

06:38No, no, I'm asking, like, factually speaking.

06:41Is there not an advantage if you win the division, do you not have more home games, theoretically?

06:46In theory, yeah, well, yeah.

06:48The only time I was having the best record overall, that absolutely is important because

06:54you get that.

06:55Now you don't have to win a road game, you can win a home games only and win the championship.

07:01But they're not going to get that.

07:02Yeah, I think I'd much rather win the division.

07:05I'm just saying, just me personally, I'd much rather win the division and either have a

07:09bye week or host a series instead of having to go to New York again and win a best of

07:14three series because that's just like a shootout.

07:16And you know why you did that?

07:18Because you kept playing when the season ended and you were able to keep your mojo and your

07:22flow going.

07:23I thought it was Musgrove's greasy ear.

07:25I mean, you know, I put a little grease on there.

07:28If you get a week, if this team gets a week off, then that team comes back rusty.

07:33I don't find the same here.

07:35Now you fall victim to the wildcard craziness.

07:38I don't know where you're coming from and I don't want to speak for you, but I'll tell

07:41you where I'm coming from.

07:42I'm mischaracterized.

07:43I'm not.

07:44That's why I said I'm not speaking for one man.

07:48I'm not going to speak for one man.

07:50I'm going to speak for an entire fan base instead.

07:53As a Padre fan.

07:55It would mean so much to this fan base to win the division against that team.

08:02And to me, that is important, not in the big picture, but the same way that Saturday night

08:07when the Padres beat the Dodgers and how important it was for that fan base.

08:11This is just as equally as important to me.

08:14I genuinely think that the fan base to win a division, it would mean a significant amount,

08:19especially after the season that the Padres just had the biggest disappointment in franchise

08:24history to bounce back after all the naysayers and stick it in our face and win a division.

08:33That would be monstrous.

08:34It doesn't mean that it's going to translate into winning a World Series or going to the

08:38NLCS.

08:39I'm just saying as a as a thing for a fan base, as a thing for the city, I think it's

08:44huge and I think they should go for it.

08:45And obviously they're not going to not go for it.

08:48They're going to play the games.

08:49Well, given, given the goal, it should be a goal, right?

08:52That's what I think.

08:53I think it should be a goal.

08:55I want to say the way the Dodgers have dominated this division in the last 10 or 12 years.

09:03What's the one where they've won?

09:05I want to say 10 of 11 divisions.

09:07They got him.

09:08It got him nothing, but that doesn't mean it's not going to get the Padres something.

09:13Or by the way, the Arizona Diamondbacks, something for that matter.

09:15I'm just saying seeing somebody else win the division.

09:18Think about it like this.

09:19How many years did the Patriots win the division in a row?

09:22So for the bills, for the Dolphins, it's about let's start off with let's win our division.

09:28Let's create some home field advantage.

09:31That's all I'm trying to say.

09:32You're blowing it off like as if it's completely meaningful and I'm saying that there's a meaning

09:36to it.

09:37It's in my opinion, I'm just expressing my opinion.

09:41I think the division is at this point in time in sports.

09:45The division is meaningless.

09:47So let's say, let's just say they win the division.

09:51They get bounced in the first round.

09:53We ain't going to talk about they won the division.

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