Braves Struggle with Injuries; Phillies Eye World Series

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00:00Look, the Braves, yes, too many injuries.

00:04Strider, Acuna, Riley now, I mean, Ozzie Albies for a significant period too.

00:10It's just everything that could possibly be, you know, the worst case scenario for them.

00:15And to their credit, they've still been competitive.

00:17Chris Sayles pitched like a Cy Young this year.

00:19You've had other guys step up and to avoid took Austin Riley a long time to get hot and

00:22then he got hurt too.

00:24It's just, it's one of those things where it just felt like a year where the Braves

00:26just could never really get everything going.

00:29However, I'm still good about the Phillies and I'm also somebody has a lot of tickets.

00:32That was my World Series going into the year two is Phillies and Orioles.

00:36And I've got a lot of the Phillies to win the World Series.

00:39I'm not worried about them at all.

00:40It was nice that they actually for once got off to a hot start in the first few months

00:44of the season, as opposed to being miserable and dig themselves out of that giant hole.

00:48What the Phillies have is something almost no other major league baseball team has, which

00:52is a distinct home field advantage.

00:54That place in October is going to be rocking and rolling.

00:56It's going to be loud.

00:57It's going to be boisterous.

00:59It's going to be a lot of four letter words and a lot of things that maybe you should

01:03have some earmuffs for the kids if you're going to take them to the stadium.

01:06It's a tough place to play.

01:07There's not a lot of spots like that anymore.

01:09Major League Baseball.

01:10So the Phillies have that going for them.

01:12And the fact that they don't have a juggernaut Braves team or frankly, a Dodger team that

01:15can even pace together rotation right now.

01:18I'm not too worried about them in the National League, to be honest with you.

01:20I think this is a perfect time to be a little bit, you know, maybe behind a little slow

01:24on things.

01:25Like you said, Coast, they're five and five over the last 10 games and then figure it

01:29out.

01:30Get hot at the right time in September and roll into the playoffs.

01:32This team has a focus and the focus is at the end of the tunnel.

01:36It's not so much in the dog days of August.