We know the World Series begins on Friday.

Dodgers will host the Yankees for games one and two and the teams that have appeared in the most World Series.

So here we go.

And they also have the most future Hall of Famers in the World Series.

Now check this out.

I want you to focus on the bottom left which would be Yankees Dodgers.

They had ten eventual Hall of Famers Yankees Dodgers the on top right.

Nineteen fifty three they had ten eventual Hall of Famers.

Now in this series by my count and you guys can definitely debate me on this.

I have four or five six seven.

I have seven that I think are guaranteed with a possibility of eight locks.

Yeah.

The seven I think the seven is a lock.

If we go through it we got Mookie Freddie.

Are you even counting Soto yet.

Yeah.

Oh yeah.

Freddie Soto Kershaw is not on the roster but but he's on the team but he's on the team.

I'm counting judge Stanton.

Yeah Stanton.

Well that's that's not quite there yet.

You better get there.

You better get there because it's coming.

I mean he's he's our best power hitter.

He's the best part of his generation.

I think I think Stanton has to be in the conversation.

I understand that maybe postseason numbers may not come into play for a guy's Hall of Fame you know voting standards.

But you have you can't deny that Stanton has been a powerful force as far as the power goes.

You know since he's broken into the league and yes maybe he didn't perform up to the level during his Yankee tenure that you would have liked them to.

But in his postseason he's showing what his value is and he's still extremely feared in the game right now.

The only issue I have is not with talent.

It's not with power.

Four hundred and twenty nine home runs.

He'll get to five hundred.

My only issue is games played.

Grab that it's not it's been extremely difficult for him to be on the field.

And sometimes that happens with guys that are that big.

And of course with such a violent swing and everything he does he does it so powerfully.

But it's the bulk numbers that I'm looking at.

We talk about five hundred home runs.

We really going to have to get down to the nitty gritty and say it's five hundred home runs a joint.

Like if you get five hundred home runs in the major leagues we've got to be talking about you being in the Hall of Fame regardless of the ups and downs that you've had.

I know that we have advanced that see why five hundred is five hundred man.

Absolutely.

No I throw I throw those advanced stats out.

Good.

I'm looking for I'm looking at five hundred.

Now you could look at it the other way.

Let me just do this real quick.

Five hundred.

And I'm talking about games played being low.

It makes the five hundred even more impressive.

You start looking at it and now you get it into rates that's like lows.

I'm sure you get into the at bats per home run.

Yeah.

You start to compare the other rate stats of these other Hall of Famers who are clearly who are no doubters and they're at bats per homer and you start to see this then when he was on the field he was great.

All right now I know you got something coming up right here on previous World Series and star power in those.

When you think of this star power that's happening with the Yankees the fact that you have the Yankees and the Dodgers in the postseason it's because you have so many household names.

But to be on this team what Freeman's looking at when you're signing guys is who is tried and true and proven in the postseason.

I need those guys in my club house because our goal is not just to make it to the post season.

Our goal is to win the World Series.

So I have to bring in guys like Kike Hernandez that's been there that I know who I'm going to get if I'm the Yankees.

The reason that you signed Gary Cole in the first place is because he's proven he's shown that yes he had a bad start against the Nats his first time around.

But the second time around he's able to make the adjustment even though the Nats ended up winning the World Series.

These are stars that aren't just good players.

They're guys who when the lights get the brightest they find a way to step up.

We're seeing Mookie Betts right now come out of a big postseason slump.

But we've seen him shine and we seen these guys win World Series.

If you guys have won a World Series before you understand that it takes a certain type of calmness to be able to slow the game down to be able to come through in big situations and nobody came through bigger than Juan Soto right here.

He's taking Gary Cole and Justin Berlander deep at 20 years old.

You're talking about going against the best in the game on the World Series stage at 20 years old.

He was coming through so there's no doubt in my mind right here at 25 years old he's going to be ready and then going back to the Dodgers.

We're talking about Yankees and Dodgers Yankees and Dodgers Freddie Freeman.

Hopefully he gets the opportunity to play here.

He's been dealing with that ain't that ankle injury that he's had that when he twisted his ankle.

But seeing these guys shine you need to see Freddie hopefully in line up.

Hopefully he gets healthy.

But these are a multitude of players who have been there.

Yes we went through the Royal Series and the Orioles series and you could tell they were a little inexperienced when this when the lights got bright.

You tell you could tell they tried to do a little bit too much in this series.

You're talking about the Yankees and the Dodgers two teams who don't strike out a whole bunch know how to slow the game down.

I see all of these guys stepping up big when the post when the World Series starts and you got the two top seeded teams in each league.

And that doesn't happen very often.

Here's a tweet from Sarah Lang's Shohei judge.

This will be the sixth World Series between each league's home run leader.

You know just digest that for a second.

So the home run leader in each league facing each other.

It joins Mantle and Snyder back in fifty six.

DiMaggio and Mellot who doesn't get enough credit by the way in nineteen thirty seven.

Gary Gannott thirty six Babe Ruth and Jim Bottomley in twenty eight.

That's a that's a great trivia question.

And nineteen twenty one.

Did you have.

Did you have Bottomley twenty one.

Ruth and George Kelly.

So that's how rare this is.

Ohtani and Judge Carlos I know you've got a lot to say.

So say it.

Yeah.

Welcome to the main event.

Man this is the thriller in Manila Rumble in the jungle whatever you want to call it.

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There's a teletype as you can see these two are big guys six four versus six seven to ten the most extremely lean right there for Shohei Ohtani.

Of course two eighty two for Judge an absolute giant.

The age is comparable.

And look these guys are both champions.

They are where they need to be in the big stage.

But let's look at the intangibles.

They do it all right on the field.

They got speed so you can check that box.

It's incredible how this big big guys are able to move so swiftly and gracefully for Judge in the outfield.

We've seen Ohtani go out there and steal 50 bases as well.

But then they'll make no mistake about it.

The block of those that has us glued to our seats.

All right.

This is the impressive part.

These guys are elite hitters.

We're looking at two of the best hitters who's ever stepped on a big league diamond.

And we get to watch him in the World Series.

This fight is of epic proportions.

And I'll add this.

Neither has won a World Series.

And I don't know if you said that and I wasn't paying attention.

But neither has won a World Series.

Although you could make the case that Ohtani in the WBC and playing in his home country has won some big time team awards.

Now the manager of the Yankees talking about Aaron Boone right now.

And I got to say I'm happy for this man because he's been he has been he has been under pressure for years and years.

He spoke today about appearing in the World Series.

Iconic teams and East meets West and this is Dodgers Yankees Lakers Celtics you know whatever you want to say it has that kind of feel to it.

And I certainly remember you know those times and those teams very well.

Seven years now that I've been here you know there's always been that occasional talk about Yankees Dodgers.

I think it's going to be I'm looking forward to all of it.

The stars will be out.

The eyeballs will be watching and hopefully we can deliver on a great series.

I can tell you Garrett will pitch game one.

We're just starting to kind of you know formulate our plans and things like that.

So we'll see.

Aaron Boone played in one World Series by the way in 0 3 they lost the Marlins.

So Garrett Cole starting game number one.

See why thoughts I mean not a surprise.

But what do you think.

I love it.

I love it.

I mean this is this is who's made for this moment.

And and if you're going to win your ace has to be able to go the same way I feel about Yamamoto.

I feel about Garrett Cole.

He he had a rough stretch for a little bit but then he's been able to turn things around in this postseason and then keep his composure and prove that he is extremely mentally strong and he's ready for this challenge.

He's been waiting for a long time for this challenge on the World Series stage.

And I feel like he's going to step it up.

You know the Dodgers are a tough lineup to go up against.

You're talking about a team that really doesn't chase doesn't swing and miss.

So Garrett Cole is going to have to pitch in his own.

He's going to have to challenge some guys you can't pitch around guys you can't put the four fingers out for one of them.

You're going to have to attack every single one of these guys in this lineup.

And it starts off with Ohtani and Mookie leading it off.

So we're going to see what Garrett Cole is made of very early in the game.

We know he's got the weapons necessary to succeed.

Right.

And this is the thing you can't even we're talking about defaulting maybe a pitcher when you go up to the plate with your approach because you have such a long season.

But in the postseason you have no time for that.

You got to go with what you got that day and you have to figure out a way to beat the guys that you're facing that evening.

And Garrett Cole certainly has the pedigree you see the experience and how proven he is.

So there's no doubt that you know there was no doubt for me that he was going to be the one taking the ball game on the World Series.

You know there's more pressure obviously on a starting pitcher who may only get one start in a World Series than on a position player who is going to get up four or five times in a game.

And then if it didn't work out the next day he gets.

So this is like the this is like you walk out there he's going to walk out there in L.A. and he knows and obviously he knows that he's got to be big and he's got to go long and he's got to be a man.

We've seen that all throughout the postseason.

Now we saw with Scouble on who Scouble was for the Tigers and what it ended up turning into what Mania was for the Mets.

You can tell that they're filling that weight on their shoulders when they're stepping on the mound.

But when it's a game one you understand that you're setting the tone for how the rest of the series is going to play out especially once you get to the point where you have three games in a row.

Granted they'll have two games off day three games but Gary Cole understands that he's the ace over there.

He has to set the tone.

It's a huge amount of pressure but that's what you sign up for isn't it.

That's what you sign the big deal for.

That's why you go play for the New York Yankees is because you want to be the player that gets that moment gets that opportunity.

So if you have the power to to be bad and choke and ruin everybody's day you also have to have the power to make everybody's day and create these legendary stories.

And I think you look at it from the optimistic side and said I'm going to go out there and try to become a legend.

Matty that is the best thing about the postseason.

And now this is magnified exponentially in the World Series.

Right.

It's now or never.

There's no more time.

There's no tomorrow.

You have to win today.