JotCast | NLCS Game 6 Chat

NLCS Game 6 Chat

Ben Clemens

4:30

Hey everybody, welcome to the NLCS Game 6 chat.

4:31

I'm Joe Buck, and this is my partner John Smoltz.

Wait, no

I'm Ben Clemens, and Dan Szymborski will be joining me.

4:32

Come see round 6 of hitters vs. Globe Life, it'll be a blast... that won't quite clear the wall

Lzfreak

4:32

How did poker go Ben?

Ben Clemens

4:32

Didn't play for too long, b/c I had to do some dog training stuff, but it was fun.

It's a bunch of my old friends from the East Coast, we all meet up on Zoom every few weeks, so it's mainly just fun to goof around

Derek

4:32

Wow, shots fired at Dan, calling him John Smoltz

Ben Clemens

4:33

Hey when Dan gets here he can defend himself!

I thought about calling myself Cardinals legend John Smoltz

Guest

4:34

Why'd you guys omit this game from the break-even scoreboard?

Ben Clemens

4:34

Hm, no idea. I'll ask around

Braves fan

4:34

How seriously should Braves fans entertain the idea that Acuña is still hurt? It seems like his power production has been off throughout the playoffs.

Dan Szymborski

4:35

W'ello!

Ben Clemens

4:35

I hadn't noticed it offhand, doing some idle searching now

Dan Szymborski

4:36

How is everyone this afternoon?

Ben Clemens

4:36

The extremely lazy answer is that I'm not worried b/c he's still hitting the ball pretty hard; 4 of his 22 balls in play have been barreled, and 50% hard hit

I do wonder whether he's pressing a little bit though, because the Dodgers have been giving him nothing at all to hit

Guest

4:37

Dan, we appreciate your appearances at Talking Chop. Keeps everyone on their toes

Dan Szymborski

4:37

Plus, Braves fans haven't been mad at me for awhile!

Ben Clemens

4:37

Do you do it under the alias "Brian Snickers"?

Dan Szymborski

4:39

There's only ONE BRIAN SNICKERS

Ben Clemens

4:39

I'd like to point out that John Smoltz just said that the key to the game was that whichever team did a better job scoring runs against the opposing pitcher would win

Dan Szymborski

4:40

EVERYBODY HITS BETTER IN THE WINS THAN THE LOSSES

Ben Clemens

4:40

Bold take

Kiermaier's Piercing Green Eyes

4:40

I totally forgot that there's a game today that I can enjoy as an impartial fan!

Derek

4:40

He's not wrong at least

Ben Clemens

4:40

Today is going to be fun

For me!

Dan Szymborski

4:41

Getting hits off a pitcher is key to scoring runs apparently!

Ben Clemens

4:41

For Rays/Astros/Dodgers/Braves fans, kinda depends

The team that scores more points usually wins the game, to paraphrase John Madden

Dan Szymborski

4:41

I'm being meaner than I need to of course. There's a lot of space to fill and if I was a broadcaster, rather than fill it up with objectively wrong things, I'd fill it up with subjectively crazy things

Ben Clemens

4:41

I kinda disagree. It's the top of the first

4:42

I'm sympathetic when announcers just run out of stuff in the middle innings

This was still the scripted plays, as it were

Dan Szymborski

4:42

It kinda sucks when you think you've won the game but in that game, it turned out that the team that scored fewer runs wins.

4:43

OK, the last bit made no sense.

Derek