Ross & Rizzo Unfiltered - World Series Game 3 REACTION: Brewers BLOW OUT Rays, 1 WIN AWAY from SWEEPING Tampa

0:00 The Milwaukee Brewers are one win away from winning the World Series. Childhood dreams coming true. Fan dreams coming true. Ownership, the entire organization, are one win away. Welcome back to another episode of Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered. I'm Anthony Rizzo with my partner, David Ross. Rossi, first game, first World Series game at the Trops since 2009. And it was a flop, unfortunately, for the Rays, losing 10-1 to the Milwaukee Brewers. Rossi, is this year's Brewers runs one of the greatest playoff runs of all time? It has to be.

0:39 They're 10-1 in the playoffs so far. If they win tomorrow and they go 11-1 in the playoffs to win the World Series, there's only two other teams to do that, the 05 White Sox and the 99 Yankees. Rossi, one more nugget. They've lost one game in the last 34 days.

0:58 Wow, I wish I would have had that on TV today. My colleague, Tim Kirchhen, not my partner, but my colleague, Tim Kirchhen, did a breakdown of some of the greatest teams ever, and it had a lot to do with their regular season win total, right? Brewers won 103 games, and their postseason run, and if it ended up in a sweep, and he had the Brewers at number five as maybe one of the most dominant seasons in if they win tomorrow of all time. I think he had the Yankees, the A's were in there. Too many stats to remember, but they are on a run. They are as dominant of a team that I've seen in a long time. Just, again, led the season in wins and now just rolling through the postseason, losing one game. And, bro,

1:50 let me start you off with a little stats that I've figured out today. My other colleague, not my partner, Buster Olney, gave me opposing starting pitching against the Brewers. 11 starts, only 46 and a third innings, a 5-6-3 ERA, and only one of those starters of the 11 has gotten an out in the sixth inning. Let me list off this little list for you. Robbie Ray, Michael King, Pavetta, Walker Bueller, a guy by the name of Tarek Skubal, heard of him? Snell, Yamamoto, Glasnow, Nick Martinez, Rasmussen, and now Peralta. Is that good? Is that a good? Like, we're talking about starting pitchers and, like, well, they didn't do this. No, the Brewers are just dominating everybody. It doesn't matter who you throw out there. There's 11 guys

2:46 that anybody would take on their staff, and they have put a beat down on them. Only one of those guys got out in the six. Like, they've been dominant, bro. Yeah.

2:55 Dominant. I mean, that's why.

2:57 And I know we talk about the bullpen so much for the Brewers, but this lineup's not getting enough credit.

3:03 No doubt. This lineup's not getting enough. They grind at bats, man. That's their success all year. Contact first, power second, good at bats, keep the line moving. That's what they do. So what's crazy about that too, Rossi, is you said only one of those starters got out in the sixth.

3:24 I believe.

3:25 Only one of the Brewer starters has gotten it out in the sixth as well. And that's not the winning formula for success. You know what I mean? No doubt.

3:34 No doubt.

3:35 They're just a complete team. Their starting pitching is not bad. Their starting pitching is elite. Anchored by Miz. I mean, dude, Gasser tonight.

3:44 Gasser.

3:45 Just dominant. Bobby Diesel.

3:48 Oh, we like to call him Bobby Deese. Yep. So.

3:53 Listen, that's the other one.

3:54 I was like, you know, I'm in there thinking, you know, you don't want to get to the Brewers' bullpen, right, is like a narrative you would create. So you want to jump on them early, jump on the starter, blah, blah, blah. But, like, the Rays had so many first pitch outs. They had 10 outs with four pitches or less tonight in his six innings.

4:12 Which is, the Rays are a good, they grind out at bats, too.

4:14 They ground out at bats, yeah, when they've got so much contact. And there were some hard-to-hit balls early, for sure, like right at, You know, Terang made some nice plays.

4:22 How about those plays by Terang, dude? Wow. He made those plays look easy, bro. I'm like, God damn.

4:30 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he's– Gasser only threw 75 pitches through six innings. Like, just as clean as you can get. And I'm watching this, and I'm like– especially when they scored. I mean, we'll get into the fifth inning. But when they scored that many runs, I'm like freaking– Bobby Deese is gonna go he's gonna go seven is in my in my head and I'm like now that bullpen's completely rested for whatever else is next like you're seeing though the horses for the rest of this series like they're gonna be completely rested with the off day in the middle so no matter what happens they're sitting in the driver's seat we know that already but to not get to any of those guys in the back end of the bullpen guys um is is a huge huge deal

5:12 in this whole thing and Milwaukee sitting in the driver's seat. But our guy Brandon Woodruff closes out tonight. There's moments that you're happy for players like Yelly we talked about in this postseason getting to his World Series. And we had Woodruff on the set today and he couldn't have said more nicer things about all his teammates and all that stuff. I'm a big fan of that guy. He's a family man. He talked about Peralta. It was cool to see somebody like that. I got to catch Ryan Dempster closed.

5:43 Out a game in Boston. That's exactly what I thought of.

5:47 Yeah, yeah. It just reminded me of that. And he gave up a run. And, you know, typical Dempsey's like, of course I had to give up a run. How would they know I pitched in the World Series since I had an ERA? You know, that's Demp.

5:58 That's a great line right there.

5:59 Absolute bomb from Matt Holliday, I will add.

6:02 Hey, how were the scenes there at the Trop?

6:05 Man, this place. Let me tell you something. A lot of Burns fans. Brewer fans travel. Brewer fans travel. It was loud. I think it was like 60-40, bro.

6:14 Yeah, this whole small market narrative up there in Wisconsin is, I mean, these fans are hyped. I mean, but you could tell, like, that's how they are with the Packers. They all own the Packers in Wisconsin, right? You have a little piece that, like, so their team being in there, you saw when the Bucs won a few years ago, probably five years ago now, if that. But, man, these fans have showed out. Impressive. Impressive.

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8:25 We're staying over here at St. Pete Beach. And he told me, I think tickets, I'm going to misquote it, but the tickets were going for crazy numbers in Milwaukee. And He was able to buy tickets down here, hotel room, and flight for cheaper than he could have bought them in Milwaukee. So everybody jumped on board with that. There's Brewer stuff all over St. Pete Beach where I'm staying and all over the town. They're in full force.

8:50 Yeah, it's this. I mean, I just saw stuff online about people taking their kids to the game and just the memories, the lifelong memories the World Series brings. And with it being... a first-time winner here if the Rays win or the Brewers win. Like, these memories for these families, moms, dads, kids, aunts, uncles, everyone is just absolutely incredible. So, really cool. Really cool.

9:16 Really exciting for the city of St. Pete, right? Especially last year, a year ago, they don't even have a stadium. So, one year later, to be back in the Trop, playing, hosting a World Series game. Hopefully, the Rays can extend this a little bit, but it's hard not to almost root for this dominant stretch i mean bro you said it rossi the starting pitching they face the padres were the hottest team in baseball hands down.

9:44 Right right yep yep the dodgers i believe they they swept the dodgers two times two times world series champs no one.

9:53 Saw the dodgers getting swept right said that before they lose one to san diego and then they come in to a raised team that was battle-tested. They go down 2-1 to the Guardians.

10:05 Best team in the American League.

10:06 Best team in the American League, and they're just putting on a show versus them.

10:11 Remember the narrative of the layoff? Like, I thought that was going to be a thing.

10:14 There's no narrative.

10:15 Yeah. It's crazy. They're locked in. No doubt, bro. No doubt. No doubt. Well, let's get to that game, man. The eight-run fifth.

10:26 I mean, bro, all those runs. Two outs.

10:31 Two outs.

10:31 Most runs with two outs in World Series history. Is that crazy? No home runs.

10:38 Bro, I think the whole thing. We talked about. We saw last year how the World Series can be won or lost by a game of inches, right? With kind of Falefa, the play at the plate, right? Out by just barely out. Maybe not the best secondary, but, you know, whatever. I won't bury that guy. He doesn't need to be catching strays. But Christian Yelich, his secondary. His secondary. Sorry.

11:08 His secondary first base, you could noticeably see he had a big secondary and Kevin Yair Jr. makes a great play, spins and turns and throws the second. I thought he was going to throw the first with Contreras running. And the hustle play from Yelich, bang, bang at second base. He's safe. And eight runs later, they finally get out of the inning.

11:28 Seven straight hits with two outs, Rossi. That's what makes Christian Yelich a superstar in this game. He always does those little things. That's why he's the captain. That's why he's the captain. You're right.

11:39 That's right.

11:39 That's exactly why he's the captain.

11:41 And, and, and two, like, I mean, he drove in the first run down with that staying inside. Like I said to the guys, I was watching, I was like, you know how many times I've caught behind Christian Yelich and he's fisted a ball to left. Cause he stays inside everything. Let's the ball travel. He had two of those tonight, one for a big RBI early on, you know, they go up to nothing. Contreras again to catchers rake.

12:03 Let's give a shout out. William Contreras has been so impressive to me in this series with his Every pitcher is talking about his leadership behind the plate when they get in front of a microphone and the blocking, the challenges. He's doing a phenomenal job with all the challenges. He's just, you know, if he's not World Series MVP, maybe he goes to Cheerio because he freaking had four hits by the fifth inning today. But, you know, he's just having a– it seems like every time he comes up, he does something special. Yeah. He was a part of that big inning and eight runs. And then they just jumped on him, right?

12:41 Like first pitches. They've got more hits. The Brewers offense have more hits up the middle the other way than they do to the pool side.

12:49 Yeah, I mean, that's just a complete winning formula. You know who I'm a big fan of, and maybe we can get him on the program here, is Daniel Vogelbach. I mean, the way he's been speaking of, mindset over mechanics and just having a plan and an approach and going up there, that's hitting right there.

13:10 I talked to him and Jason Lane before the game at length, and he's just like, Boog had a stat while we were sitting there talking about they've got more end zone swings than during the regular season. They're extremely more aggressive end zone. And he's like, we're trying to limit the balls on the edges, so we're looking middle and trying to get off our end swing. And they're not scared to hit with two strikes. You know, even the young guys, you know, Cooper Pratt, willing to take balls, get Freddie Peralta's pitch count up. I said to somebody, because Schwarber told me, I was like, man, you win the World Series as a rookie, it's all downhill from there, bro.

13:45 Because it's hard as hell to get to where they're at and repeat that, to be in this environment, obviously, on such a great team. But to do that throughout your career is freaking tough to do. And Schwarber spoke about it when we were talking one day. Yeah. Yeah.

14:00 Well, Rossi, what about our Corona Playa of the game? This is our Playa of the game. Corona's player of the game. Jackson Churio, four for five. Rossi, two runs, a stolen base. Youngest player to have four hits. A four-hit game with a stolen base in World Series since Ty Cobb in 1908. Cubs won the World Series that year.

14:23 Just a little nugget in there. I know this is the Brewer Show, not the Cubs. But, man. cheerio bro like just leading off ready to go base hit after.

14:35 Same thing too is like both side like he had one ground ball find the hole to the left but the other three were just driven middle the other way and 22 years old bro like you know they were talking about i remember you know when he first came up and he signed the contract early and all that stuff they knew they had a superstar on their hands and he has done nothing but just live up to every moment um He's been really impressive to me, man.

15:00 And I feel like we can go up and down their lineup and talk about the guys. Sal Freilich is just like we still love him. We love the way he was. That play he made tonight going down. Tanner Simpson, great play. Sal Freilich, great play. We've seen some really good defensive plays tonight. Both two good defensive teams probably hadn't played that way.

15:20 You know who this team reminds me of, this Brewers team? It reminds me of the 2015 Kansas City Royals. Just contact, speed, pressure, constant pressure.

15:34 Good bullpen.

15:36 They lost the year before in the World Series, and they get back and win. Dominant bullpen. And what reminds me of it is their fans. I know we spoke on their fans, but their fans traveled. And I remember years after that, those fans just traveling with that team and rallying behind them. And it feels so similar how all of Kansas City rallied around that 15 team and how all of Wisconsin is rallying around the Brewers. So just good vibes all around, and they have a chance tomorrow to close it out and be World Series champions, Rossi.

16:11 World Series. I got a stat here that Kirkshin told me, and our guy Chris Trans got it in here. Robert Gasser, six innings, one hit, no earned runs through 75 pitches. And first lefty to face the minimum through six in World Series game history since, guess who, Sandy Koufax. We got Sandy Koufax and Robert Gasser. Bro, he's thrown.

16:37 15 innings, 15 innings this postseason. All three starts on the road. He's given up one run. I mean, man, when you think of the Milwaukee Brewers, you think of Jacob Mizorowski, right?

16:50 Right.

16:51 People probably still think of Freddy Peralta, who pitched for the Rays today. But good for him, man. Good for these guys. Ashby, just these dudes making names for themselves in this playoffs. They've been doing this all year, and now on the national stage, they are getting their flowers, which they so rightfully deserve, honestly. Rossi, the one bright spot for the Rays. Not the one bright spot for the Rays today. Is Chandler Simpson. That insane catch, bro.

17:23 You always say I run through a wall for that guy, Rossi. He almost ran through a wall. No doubt. That was catchy. When he caught that, I was like, ooh.

17:34 That was insane.

17:35 That was insane.

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17:51 Isn't it champ in the 90s? Isn't that what you say?

17:54 Champ in the 90s. Look at this play, bro. Running right into the wall. Listen, it's that time of year. It's that time of year where you sacrifice your body and your teammates expect nothing less. But to run that fast, this ball is cutting away from him in this corner, and this wall just jets out.

18:15 I don't know Chandler at all. But I wonder if that was an angry catch because he overslid the bag in the bottom of the first. So I wonder if that was an angry, like, I'm catching this ball by all means. But, yeah, man, that was– you could pinpoint that as like, okay, maybe that's a little bit of a rally for the Rays, right? How insane that was.

18:38 But this bird team is relentless, man. They're on the gas, all gas. All gas, rooster. All gas. All gas. Rossi, who wins this? Who wins? Who wins game four? Is it over?

18:50 I'm so hot on my polymarket picks right now, so hopefully my listeners that are listening go against me. But I can't deny it any longer. I can't deny it. My polymarket pick, we got raised 43% to the yes. That should be like 2%. And $ 100 gets you $ 221. Brewers are 57% to the yes. $ 100 gets you $ 170.

19:14 I got to go to the brew crew, bro. It's just they've been so dominant and on a run. Like we've said it a million times. Their at-bats are so professional. And it's one through nine. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if you bring Gary Sanchez off the bench. He has to face Mason Miller. It's a grinder at-bat. Every freaking guy in that lineup up and down. They got a bullpen game going tomorrow. They'll have an opener. I don't know who it is. And then you're going to see all those dang horses out of the pen. I'm going to go with the Brew Crew with my Polymarket pick.

19:50 Rossi, a few years ago, the Florida Panthers won the Stanley Cup. They beat the Edmonton Oilers, and they were up 3-0 on this dominant run, and then they lose three games in a row. The Oilers force a game seven. Do the Rays have that in them? Can they win just one tomorrow?

20:12 I tell you what, I saw Pat Murphy's postgame press conference and it was spoken like a manager, right? He said exactly that, like anything can happen in baseball. And I really believe that, like it only takes one. I mean, I remember we were down 3-1, right? I mean, we're prime examples of that. Like we did have one W under our belt and we had some horses on the mound.

20:35 The Rays got some horses, some starters. The bullpen has not looked great compared to the Brewers, but there's always a chance in this game we play. It only takes one momentum shift to get the boys rolling, and you know how that is. Baseball is a funny sport like that.

20:51 Yeah, no doubt. I mean, it just takes one. You've got to do one at a time, right? You have to be crazy enough to think you can do it, and that Rays team– hopefully doesn't know any better than they go out and win. But what do you say?

21:02 What do you say in the locker room after this game? If you're Kevin cash to your team, I don't know.

21:10 You're the manager. Like, does the manager say anything really right today?

21:15 Yeah.

21:16 What do they do? Some do, some don't. It's not like the manager. It's not just for reference managers for our listeners. Managers don't address the team after every game. They barely address the team in general. It's usually, um, if you're going bad or maybe before, after the all-star break, before the season, all-star break, and then the playoffs. And if you're going bad, Joe Maddon was famous for this. Never, you never have a team meeting before you're facing an ace.

21:41 If you're going to have a team meeting, you make sure the matchup looks good for your offense. And then you look like a genius.

21:47 Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Yeah.

21:50 I don't know.

21:50 I was thinking about that. Like what, you know, my style would have been probably just right when you come in, just like, Hey boys, listen up. Like, We've got to find a different perspective, and we've got to be thankful we're in the World Series, first of all. It's a blessing to be here. Everybody that's sitting at home watching, every player, every other 28 teams, would get their right arm to be in our position and taking it one pitch at a time, all those cliches. I wouldn't say any of those things, but just about, I think, perspective.

22:21 Let's have some perspective. We're playing the World Series tomorrow. Let's go out and have some fun. Let's go out and play our brand of baseball and have some fun.

22:27 Kind of reshift the mindset, just like you said. Like our back's against the wall. We have nothing to lose now. Let's go out there and play like we have nothing to lose. Let's win one. Let's see what happens. And then you keep that mindset. They can keep that mindset. But let me tell you something, Rossi, from firsthand experience, which you've experienced this year for the first time in your life, finishing second sucks.

22:48 Oh, yeah. It fucking sucks, bro.

22:49 Finishing second sucks.

22:51 Especially at those big stages, bro. Like this is not it. I know Mike Napoli told me, One time when they lost in Texas, remember St. Louis came back and he said he was like depressed for like a month. He's like in a hole for like a month.

23:04 That's awful.

23:05 You get on that stage and it's right there in your grasp. You know, it sucks, man. It definitely sucks. But as far as the World Series goes, I've never felt that. I know the WBC would suck.

23:15 You're a two-time champ.

23:17 Two-time. Two-time. Two-time.

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24:09 We've been in the Vibe Room. We've been in the Vibe Room. That's a spot. That's a spot. And with Church and Sheryl Crow, like, I mean, what a tour it's going to be.

24:18 It's always good.

24:18 He always ends in Boston at Foxboro. He always starts in Tampa. I've been to that one. Maybe we'll have to have a meeting in Chicago, maybe a podcast from Chicago.

24:29 Ooh, with Kenny on it?

24:30 On 626.

24:31 Kenny on it?

24:32 626. That'd be nice.

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25:41 Let's do it. Our Tim Buss daily ball bag questions where my partner and I, Rossi, partner, not colleague, answer questions from all of our listeners. You can email us at rossandrizzo at gmail.com. Leave comments on YouTube or our socials. We love interacting with you guys. It's our favorite part of the show. First email from Adam Mays. Seems that Pat Murphy is well-deserving of manager of the year again in the NL. Why do you think that he has been able to unlock the old school style of baseball and be successful? Do you think that it's some of that college mentality that that he has experience with. His teams have more focus and discipline than others. Well, you could say that about any team that wins the World Series, Adam,

26:23 but Pat Murphy has been.

26:24 A little bit rossy. Adam, I've got an objection.

26:29 Rossi, let me ask you this real quick. What is the qualifications for manager? You were a manager. I never really cared about that accolade because it never affected me, but what qualifies you as a manager of the year?

26:43 Yeah, I don't even think you think about it as a manager. Like, I finished, I was in the race my first year, like COVID year. Like, I finished third or whatever. I think Donnie Baseball won it. My bad. Yeah, thanks, bro. And then you shit down your leg and I had to trade you. No, no. I guess I'll address Adam. Like, to me, the manager of the year is getting expectations out of your team that aren't there, right? I think.

27:14 The one thing I would say about the Brewers, the small market, everybody counts them out just because of the market. They've established they're a winning organization. They've won the division four years in a row. They're good. They came into this series good. They haven't broken through to the World Series until this year. I understand that, but they've been good.

27:33 And I'm not saying this is a knock on Pat Murphy. It's just the expectations that everybody else puts on somebody because they're a small market. I think for me, manager of the year in the National League has got to go to somebody like Tori Lavello, who got a lot out of Arizona, or the one that I would vote for would be Walt Weiss in Atlanta. You know, they had an 18-game swing from the year before with pretty much the same guys. They kind of ran it back a little bit, and he got a little bit more out of those guys this year, his first year at the helm. Like, that's a lot. Your first year managing...

28:07 You've been the bench coach for a long time, and you win the National League East in a really tough division with the Phillies, who made the playoffs. The Mets had a huge payroll, had a down year. The Marlins were better than expected.

28:21 Nationals were leading the league in runs for a while.

28:24 Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, I love your mentality, and I think the old-school style of baseball is all that Pat Murphy– knows. And he, he's been a part of a lot of winning and, and in did that in college and also in professional baseball. And he sees that works. And I think the one thing that I think Pat Murphy does, it's a, it's a, it's that grinder mentality that he has himself that, that kind of bleeds into his players.

28:52 No doubt. I think too, Rossi with, with Murph is he was, he was the two man there for, for years under council. He was the bench coach. So, Again, to our viewers, when you're the bench coach, you have so many different relationships with your players than you are with a manager. You can go out and put out little fires where the manager has to do media or other obligations where when you're the bench coach, everyone can come and vent to you and be like, why isn't the manager playing me? Why is the manager doing this?

29:21 And you can really establish these relationships with these guys. So him being the bench coach for so long maybe is just another notch on his belt of experience. So then when he is the manager now and he's taken over, bro, this is a 90-win team four years in a row. But him just leading these guys. it seems like he's just a master communicator, right? Everything I know about.

29:45 Him, everything I heard about him.

29:46 But, bro, 103 wins, highest in their franchise history, right? So, I mean, Walt Weiss is a great story, but Murph continues to do this. You know what I mean? Like it's, it's impressive what he's done this run. I agree.

30:04 I agree. And, and I also, to your point, this is a really good point you made. Like being the bench coach, I think allows you, when you're the manager, just a lot more on your plate and your words carry a little bit more weight. Like the manager can't joke around as much, like giving guys a hard time. Totally.

30:21 Because guys like, does the manager hate me? Does he think I stink? Whatever. When you're the bench coach, you're, Opinion really doesn't matter in the big.

30:28 Scheme of things. You can tell the guy he sucks. That's why he's not playing.

30:31 Yeah, exactly.

30:31 And laugh about it.

30:33 Yeah, and laugh in their face. And I think he created those relationships being the bench coach, so it was just natural for him to take over. And they knew his personality. They knew his expectations. They knew– I feel like he doesn't settle for anything but your best. And that came off probably as a bench coach, and it definitely comes off as their manager for sure.

30:54 No doubt.

30:55 But I like the question, Adam, even though I disagree with you. Email from Eric Lee in Chi-Town, Chicago. What is or was your favorite watering hole and what were your favorite pizza and hot dog places to go to? Wow.

31:09 My favorite watering hole is unfortunately no longer there. It's called Stanley's. Used to go there on Sundays for live karaoke. Been there a few times. And then my recent watering holes, I would say Richard's Bar on Grand Ave. Loved that place.

31:25 Never been there.

31:27 My go-to for pizza, you know, I didn't really have a go-to spot for pizza when I was there. Chicago deep dish wasn't my jam, but over the last, like, four or five years, Rossi, their tavern-style pizza is low-key some of the best tavern-style pizza there is. So I need to get back in the pizza game there. And my hot dog go-to is Portillo's, hands down.

31:52 No doubt. No doubt. All right. My favorite watering hole is the legendary Murphy's. Got to give a shout out. Got to give a shout out to Murphy's. That's the spot that I really loved.

32:05 Freddy and Murphy's. Shout out to Freddy and Murphy's. They take an amazing care of us.

32:11 Pizza. My kids loved it and I love it. I feel like Lou Malnati's, bro. I feel like there's four pounds of butter in that crust and it just savors it. I used to.

32:19 Love Lou's when they had the Caesar sauce. there at Lou's that you could dip some of the pizza in and they got I think they got rid of it I.

32:28 Was like what oh I didn't know that I'm going to try that next well I I would get like a deep dish and we'd all like have one slice and then we would have a they have a thin crust too that that was like kind of tavern style was legit and then I'm not not a big hot dog guy I've never had a hot dog in Chicago I think that's probably sacrilegious right I've never had a hot dog in chicago breaking news breaking news the loser that's the mecca everybody how yeah how do you do that how is that even possible my dad grew hey my i grew up my dad's a butcher and sold hot dogs and hamburgers to all the uh like fsu all the schools did water burgers hamburgers in our little hometown and so i just had so many hot dogs

33:12 as a kid i just uh I don't think I just kind of, kind of wore on me. So like the last thing I'm ordering ever is a hot dog. So I think it's a little bit of a PTSD.

33:21 Let me ask you this question. Let me ask you this question. Have you had a Dodger dog?

33:26 I have had a Dodger dog. I like, I like Dodger. I like Dodger dog. I don't like a beef hot dog. I like a pork hot dog. And I think that's what, like, I know too much about hot dogs because of my dad. So like, I like a border hot dog rather than the beef hot dog. It doesn't taste the.

33:39 Same to me. And Dodger Dog's a poor hot dog. Next time we're in Chicago, you got to go to.

33:46 Portillo's?

33:47 Oh, God. No, why am I blanking on this?

33:49 Wiener Circle.

33:50 The Wiener Circle, yeah. And then you got to ask for the chocolate shake.

33:53 Chocolate shake, yeah. Really good, yeah. I like that.

33:56 Our next email is from Julie O'Leary. You both seem to be very close friends, and I was curious if that brought any challenges for either of you when Rosh became the Cubs manager in 2020. Also, I love the show. Thank you, Julie. I hope you guys can continue the podcast even during the offseason. We are in talks right now amongst each other on how we want to do our show in the offseason. Hearing all the stories from throughout your career is great. Thank you, Julie.

34:23 Wow, great, Julie. I've got a great story about my good friend Anthony Rizzo. We had, they only had like one real rant as a manager and there was just, we were playing terribly and you know, things weren't going good. So I called a little closed-door meeting after one of the, I think we won the game. I don't know if we lost or won the game, but we were not locked in. And I remember talking about saying, you know, we got to compete. Like, forget about all the outside stuff.

34:56 I may have been the year that we didn't do really well, and everybody had contract stuff on their mind or whatever it was. We just weren't playing well.

35:02 Yeah, but then you traded.

35:04 Me, 2021. Yeah, I traded you. And I just remember I'm yelling like compete. We got to fucking compete like four times the top of my lungs. I look up and Riz has got like this smirk on his face in his locker. And he comes to my office afterwards after I have a rant and I'm out of breath about a pass out. He walks in there, shuts the door.

35:23 He goes, bro, it was all I could do to not pull out my camera from video tape. You do that. I was like, dude, I would have lost my shit if you would have done that. I would have loved it. But that's. That's what makes Anthony, talking to Julie and our fans, what makes Anthony so amazing is that he's always got this fun side to him that never really goes away and his lighthearted way of keeping things pretty neutral.

35:51 And so that's his personality coming out in that moment. But it was, in my eyes, it was not my favorite moment. But going back to being able to manage some of my friends, like Anthony is these guys already knew that I was honest and I cared about them. So the easiest thing I had to do was be honest with those guys. Cause I was that way as a player. So every, everybody made a story about like, how are you going to discipline or be hard or have tough conversation with these guys? It was like, I did that as a player. I was, I, you know, you, you speak honesty and love. And I, I feel like I always did that with those guys when I was playing.

36:27 So it was easy to I could ask Anthony, like, hey, did I fuck that up? I could ask Jason Hayward, like, what do you got in this situation? I could ask all the guys kind of their takes, and they would give me real honest feedback because I wanted the best for them, and I think they wanted the best for me, and we all were trying to win.

36:42 Yeah, no doubt. It was definitely a different transition as a player, you as a manager, because you're the manager. you're the manager. And there was times where like, all right, am I talking to the manager or am I talking to my friend right now?

36:55 Right.

36:56 And there, you had to, you had to really separate that and, and keep it professional. So it was definitely a fun, weird, great, not so great.

37:07 Right.

37:08 The conversations we had were great, but then literally a year and a half of your managing career, you've literally traded me. So it's like, what the fuck? But, um, but look, look at us now. We have our own show.

37:21 Look at us now.

37:22 We do love hanging out.

37:23 Look at us now.

37:24 I mean, we went on a golf trip, and we played 100 plus holes of golf. Like, we can't get enough of each other. It was a lot of fun. We really do enjoy this offseason after the World Series. We will be with you guys weekly.

37:41 We should take our fans golfing with us one time. Maybe we should, too. Like, hey. Put some in the comments. If you guys want to, want to go, go with a round of golf with us, let's see how many people down with that.

37:51 We could do, we do all sorts of things. Honestly, it'd be great to hear emails at Ross and Rizzo Gmail. What do you guys want to hear this off season? We were thinking about interviewing some people, um, kind of expanding a little bit, baseball people, current baseball, former players, um, maybe some of our outreach that we have, Rossi, you know, everyone, you are musicians.

38:12 Yeah. Anybody like anybody that, that would, would come on with us and talk a little ball or just life or what's going on. Like we, we've got both met so many cool people that I think would come on here and kind of just tell some stories. We've got, we've got some, we've got some pretty good ones with a lot of our friends that are A-list celebrities. That might be pretty cool.

38:32 Well, another good episode, Rossi. The Milwaukee Brewers are one win away from winning the World Series. Childhood dreams coming true. Fan dreams coming true. Ownership, the entire organization, are one win away. But they're not there yet. And the Rays, this is sports. This is sports. And the Tampa Bay Rays can come back still. There's still hope, one game at a time. Game four tomorrow, Rossi, at the Trap.

39:02 You will be boots on the ground again. Thank you, everyone, for listening. Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered. I'm Anthony Rizzo, my partner. We are out. Peace.