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Podcast: "What people don't understand is..."

The World Series is set, managers are getting hired and has John Smoltz always sucked?

Andy Dolan

23 Oct 2025 — 2 min read

The World Series looms, so David Brown returns for a second straight week to talk about the great ALCS, Shohei doing crazy things in the NLCS and whether or not John Smoltz has always sucked this much. Andy brags about nailing his managerial opening predictions of Albert Pujols to the Angels and Nick Hundley to the Giants, and then the guys talk about the people who actually did get those jobs, including the fascinating Giants hire of college coach Tony Vitello (which became official right after they stopped recording, of course). They also talk about Dave Roberts' comments about the Dodgers continuing to ruin baseball, and who actually is ruining it. All that, and more.