Tricia Whitaker: I do think the Guardians can be a dangerous team

0:00niggand jp back on afternoon drive hope you enjoyed that weather alert but we are live here from david busters in west lake and i did notice one other thing here and we're working to get trisha wittaker as well on from apple tv one of the things that keith wants us to talk about later in the roundtable so it's always do it now he used the no no no i think it's a there's a new wants to this yeah in quote to in in parentheses rather he says keep it safe i think i need a little more definition of that because my keep it safe and everyone else is keep it safe i i feel like i'm going to need some real clear lines of definition on this i'm going to give the thumbs up so i get to tell the story with names with names i assume key think it's just name people is that fine yeah so like i think you get to do whatever you really want to do but keep it safe like a listen i think you and lima your professional broadcasters i basking felt people expect you to make in you windows nick yet for you they do yeah okay but i need more definition i don't think you understand once there's

1:03not a microphone in front of me not fcc compliant i think you get to i mean you know how blue i can get you know how when the microphones are off things just come out of my mouth yeah i know no even when there even when the microphones are on yeah let's go out of your mouth so i think we're all kind of worried about it you're definitely the biggest fear i would imagine on the stage like that i like that you know i'm like that kind of gets wow you know it gets the juices flowing you're the wild card of the group oh that's good brand it what's he gonna say i don't know get you got to be here to find out he's gonna say something that maybe he's got to text somebody later on to apologize for yeah that's probably gonna happen as well will he do it i don't know i don't know that he will or won't but isn't that kind of the fun of it all like i'm fine i'm not gonna say anything that's that's awful you know that i i'm gonna sleep like a baby tonight will you i don't know oh no i the best part of being me is i just speak my mind and then that helps me sleep at night okay so we'll see how the roundtable goes in a bit can and i don't know i mean you did text pedone about calling him a pedidler all right you're getting his off now you're in soft what

2:06that was is i sensed that the pedidler didn't like it but couldn't use his words to tell me and i wanted to be literally the bigger person and let him know it sounded like real okay it sounded like real growth thought you know i was taking him on to be like tell me i sucked i want i want him tell me i want to tell me i wasn't great in that moment and i'll correct it because anyone knows if i go too far i am the first person to say all right you might have a point there that's my bad right yeah no yeah so i'm you you're hand up your hand i'm i'm i'm i'm always you know what i'm always on on the old chest there tap and say that's on me dog i get that i get that uh but if you're gonna really shoot from the hip i'm a hip shooter and we don't have to worry about that do we that's true i don't know we'll figure it out anyways i will see if we can get Trisha Whitaker here i did have to text Nick shook today Cleveland's very own we're texting the other day from the doghouse today he is Nick shook yeah oh is it for the thing we're about to talk about yeah

3:06okay well he's not even the guy that i have the biggest problem with but he is part of it he's part of the problem for sure NFL dot com had ten analysts pick the browns and jacks game all selected the jacks now listen the jaguars are it was seven i have point favorite uh favorit's week one i wasn't surprised that there was unanimous decision there i don't have the browns losing in every game they also had uh jacks and they'll covering in every single outcome uh no no no right no Kevin patria had a twenty three seventeen also nine out of ten then yeah yeah yeah wait let me do check yep yep nine out of nine nine out of ten okay the one i'm most offended by Kevin what was Kevin patria okay Kevin patria i apologize he's patronizing but i'm shh but in fairness i don't know who grant Gordon Tom Große Brandon Perna Kevin patria brook sir so but you know some of the names you know lands are one you know bucky brooks i know i know i know i know some of the guys who made some real respectful picks here the disrespect Brandon Perna 48 to 10 yeah what what what kind of

4:13diabetic coma sugar fuse as he running on that isn't the coward uh do his podcast last night and you know coward's been very favorable on the browns and then the browns outcome this upcoming year he thinks seven eight wins is something that could potentially happen and he was and the way he described i thought he was taking us down this road of life wouldn't it wouldn't it be like the a realistic outcome if the browns beat Jacksonville and said he's like doesn't seem realistic that the Jacksonville just beats the browns thirty five to ten all right when did these Jacksonville jaguars become some team other than the Jacksonville jaguars i've known my entire adult life yes when you win when you win thirteen games and you have a top eight scoring defense and top eight scoring offense i think the world uh they they tend to pay attention don't you have to prove it twice right like not against this browns team that's the difference against this browns team you don't have to prove it twice i think you do against the lower tiers of the NFL you don't have to uh hey what's make sure this team is really good is like no even if they have a a drop off from thirteen wins last year and you're a ten eleven win team you still should handedly take care of the browns i just think anyone's sipping for Trevor Lawrence you get what you get what you get

5:18like honestly you get what you deserve he was a good quarterback last year yes good that guy wasn't uh you know johnny united's winning NFL titles year after year he was top seven in large majority of these physical categories we carry i think we both know Trevor Lawrence is still just okay they also have a bunch of different wide receivers uh jacobie mires parker washington what did they say when you have a bunch of different wide receivers you really don't even have one okay now i would worry about their running game you're not uh you're not a bashal tootonga you lose Travis i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna call me achan and so there's people in the car being like that's not his name is name he told us his name is Travis hn it's not etn anymore so i have to do that thing where it's like what do i call you yeah i call you what's right or do i call you the thing that is gonna make people not think i'm an idiot i'm not i'm still i still don't know but yeah i think you just got a stick with one i think losing him it's gonna come him now i think losing him matters and there's a quays him but ultimately yeah like that's not the jack this jackson ville team's got a lot going for so i can't wait to their nine and eight i did i can't wait to their the five hundredest of five hundred teams and they're like the the seventh or eighth team in the

6:22aFC and everyone goes what happened at jacksonville they're the jaguars like listen i get it people thinks disson stinks i can't really refute it i don't think that much of him either all right i but there is 53 other guys on the roster 52 other guys on the roster like i mean i think this is just a lot of Trevor Lawrence hey which i understand up until last year last year he was really good though and it doesn't mean he's gonna be good 30 to eight it doesn't mean he's gonna be good this next year 48 to 10 but it you're it's not as if you're asking to be 649ers yeah they're not they're not asking to beat the 85 bears are asking to beat the 2026 if you say 23 to 13 lands here line that's a saw i get it all right that's that's maybe maybe that's a late touchdown to go ahead and cover if you're the jacksonville jaguars bucky brooks 23 to 14 understand it 30 to nine nicks shook so what he's allowed to leave and Cleveland anymore did you text cookies and say what's going on here oh i i sure did and what did he say i i just wanted to make sure yeah i hope he left you on

7:23red is no no he didn't i said is this from this year and he said this year i just want to make sure i didn't want to make sure it wasn't from like 10 years ago it's a funny one and uh he said up and i was like all right cuz he knew he wanted to end the convo right there he's like i i'm not doing this convo with you i said i put what i put out there we'll have to wait until week one before you yell at me or not yeah also by the way he he's off scott free because Brandon perna whoever the hell that guy is said 48 to nine whatever furious all right you should be out of the brown steel a week a week one win we'll get to that in a minute but we're gonna head out to the wisehark right we make it right call Kyle right hotline and welcome on of apple tv trisha wittaker joining us right now she's gonna be part of the coverage of the guardians tigers on apple tv tomorrow night trisha welcome to the show hi so happy to be here are you guys doing uh one we're doing great it's great to have you house life it's wonderful i love coming to Cleveland especially when they're in the wild card hunt

8:26and people might not know the the kind of bet on yourself move you made a couple years ago when you left kind of the daily grind of a specific team broadcast but you were killing it uh your podcast is killing it obviously you're killing it on apple tv so i i feel like it's a little bit of a letdown because we got to talk about a guardians team that the last two days have not been great uh what do you expect in tomorrow when you watch the guardians and tigers on apple tv yeah i mean you know i will say i think it's fortunate right now that they're going to play the tigers because here's the thing like no the guardians did not play great the last few days but the blue jade's are really really hot right now a lot of your career junior is heating up and so that i know that it wasn't great but i don't know that that's like um necessarily um foreshadowing of how they're going to play for the rest of the uh september um but again the blue jade's are really good right now the tigers not so much so i think they have an opportunity to go out tomorrow play against the team that's struggling a little bit um and gain some

9:28momentum in this double header um because i do think that the guardians can be a dangerous team here in september and heading into october yeah what have you seen from the guardians that maybe in the last couple weeks is uh because we definitely see the different team a lot of us have just said it's just because they're playing bad teams and that's what that is but it seems like offensively there's some there's some firepower that didn't exist at least before the deadline in the moves yeah absolutely there there has been some offensive power that did not exist before before the before the deadline um i think they've they've had some late inning magic too um if i'm not mistaken and that's been really good um and i think that i think that i think where mario has come through in some high leverage moments um you know that game time go ahead extra basses hit that uh well game was that recently but he had that in anyway he he's been better recently um and i think what we're seeing too is a little bit of like the young core continuing to spark things

10:30right um and if they can get back to that i know it hasn't been the case the last few days i think they'll have a good showing you know against the tigers but you know i've seen a team that knows what's at stake right now and i've seen a team that really wants it down the stretch all right trisha the guardians uh have a half game lead over toronto for that last wildcard spot i got to give my partner credit he was right about this uh all year long we've talked about this and i'm like ah the a l will run away with it and you know all of a sudden you're going to have you know eight teams the a l and then will be the rest of the a l no i mean they're they're still a sizable amount of the american league that is in this within an earshot of that last wildcard spot the guardians are 70 and 70 right now how many wins do you think actually gets that final wildcard spot is it as simple as first to 81 oh man that's a really really good question and people have been asking me about this for the last like three weeks because we've had teams the last like months that are just like in it um yeah you know i think i think it's probably the first team that

11:34gets to 81 i think you're right but the thing about the wildcard scramble right now is it just doesn't really seem like any of these teams want to gain any sort of consistency which i mean you could argue means that you know there are some weak teams in the a l or you could argue that this is going to be really exciting and i think it can be both things right you're seeing some teams come to life who had a horrible horrible start to the season like the red socks and the blue jays um and so you know i i think you're right i think the first team probably to get to 81 but if you're asking me kind of who who i would be the scaradest of in october i or at the end of september i would definitely say the red socks and i think the guardians are right there with them because they've got some of that that young spark to them and then obviously you got to look at the blue jays but i think if i'm going to say who i think down the stretch could be the scariest for people i do think it's the red socks and the guardians at this point tell us what did happen at the tigers obviously they trade school bull that's one thing but they got a plus 47 run differential

12:36that doesn't add up to their record that's a better run differential than the white socks have yeah you know what that's a really really good question um the wheels completely fell off i think for them due to a really tough offense um and a really uh one of the things we were talking about in our production meeting was just a fatigued bullpen right now right um and they've had some slumps from some of their stars um Riley green myths some crucial weeks with that hamstring injury um so i i think that that's probably what it was and they had what was it in may that brutal brutal stretch i mean it was terrible i can't remember what the record was in may but it was really really bad and it's difficult to come back from that and then you have the trade deadline but they get rid of scuba and then they get rid of kcmy that's going to affect the clubhouse um so i think it's a combination of all of those things i mentioned and it's that's because i really like the tigers and i really like some of their young studs on that team um and you know scuba they're obviously

13:40they were a force to be reckoned with when he was on the mound um but you know it's a combination of an anemic offense the bullpen's really fatigued the the trades of the deadline i know they went on a little bit of a red hot three grade after the deadline but that's simmered off um and when Riley green was gone they had a really rough record i can't remember what it was but his absence definitely impacted them trisha it's great to catch up with you as always uh enjoy cleveland it's probably going to be a little spicy but uh again great staff appreciate it keep killing it yeah you guys are we gonna play tomorrow the storms are rolling in right now and it looks like it's gonna rain tomorrow i don't like this uh you know it's better than a double header triple header Saturday come on now yeah oh my god i think it's gonna be fun i'm not a meteorologist i think we're gonna be fine honestly i think in this day and age i think if you just play a meteorologist i think we're gonna play too that's my official reaction i've wrote for both on let's play baseball yeah oh my god okay well i hope you're right i hope you guys are right thanks for having me

14:42appreciate you trisha wittaker their apple tv on the y-sharp right we make a right call chile right hotline great stuff from her we'll react to her thoughts in the guardos and get back to what the browns can do to steal a dub week one as no one believes in them but nick on 92 through the fan