The Bernie Fratto Show talks Game 1 of the World Series, Sports Fan Behavior Fair or Foul & MORE!

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Tyrac dot com the way tire buying should be. The
late great Bill Veck once said, the most beautiful thing
in the world is a ballpark filled with people. And
what a scene tonight at Chavez Ravine. And I'll say
it again. I've said it a thousand times. Why not
once more? This is the beauty of what we do

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and in the world of sports, it's the greatest reality
show ever created and courts you can script everything but
the ending. There are so many takeaways from Game one
of the World Series, which absolutely lived up to its
billing of pure, unadulterated excitement. Now I can't say it

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was an artful game, but every play was impactful and
for the third season in a row now, Game one
of the World Series needed extra innings to decide a winner.
This time. It was the Dodgers prevailing six ' to
three over the Yankees, and what will be considered a
classic no matter who wins this series. Bassis juiced tenth

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inning Freddie Freeman first pitch fastball from Nestro Cortez Junior
for a no doubt Grand Salami, the first ever Grand
Slam walk off in the history of the World Series.
Now the comparisons will be inevitable, and they should be.

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Thirty six years it's been since Kirk Gibbs, since iconic
home run off Dennis Secers League, and you know it's
the proverbial. Twenty thousand years from now, people there'll be
five hundred thousand people that will saying they were at
that game. Except for the course, the guy that reached
over the fence and caught the ball he left early.
Maybe he was I have to check and see if
there were lights in the parking lot in right field

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this time. But I digress. And of course the other
you know comparison, Freeman was nursing a bad leg. But this,
this is a Grand Slam that will live forever in
Dodger lore and World Series lore, unless you forget. Because
Freddie looked pretty spry tonight. He had a severely sprained

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ankle just not that long ago against the San Diego Padres,
and an injury like that, frankly, the regular season would
keep the player off the field for three four weeks.
I believe so. But this is the postseason where there
is no tomorrow, and you play through the pain and
you thrive on the pain. Now, Freeman may have only
been three of eighteen in the Naturallygue Championship Series against

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the Mets, but when it mattered most Friday night, and
in the high of as high a leverage situation as
the Dodgers have had in years, Freddie Freeman got it done.
That's not the only takeaway. There'll be other talking points.
Aaron Boone, who's had a you know, very up and

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down relationship with the Yankees fans, Yankees media. Of course,
what manager hasn't In New York, Garrett Cole was pitching
a gym. Let's make no mistake about that. One run
through six innings of work, only six swings and misses. Okay,
he was pitching to contact, which means you only threw
eighty eight pitches, which is not a lot this day

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and age. Oh, actually there's a lot this day in age.
So what is going to be questioned is did Boone panic?
He Garrett Cole allows the leadoff single to start the
sixth inning with a two to one lead. Now he's
got to get the Yankee bullpen through the top of
the Dodgers' lineup after pulling Cole, and that not only

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came back to bite Aaron Bood once but twice because
after Tommy Kinley and Luke Weaver gave up the lead,
Boone made what will inevitably be his second questionable decision
because it didn't work. If Freddy Freeman pops out or
strakes out or anything, no one's talking about it. Maybe,
but it's dismissed. Otherwise you run the risk of being

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gene Mark Google it. So with two out check that. Yeah,
well two on and one out in the bottom of
the tenth inning. Now Aaron Boud decides he would be
this is the best time I'm going to bring Nester
Cortez back, even though he hasn't been in a live
game in thirty eight days. He somehow survived Shohiyo Tani

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thanks to an incredible defensive play by alec Erdugo, and
then they decide to intentionally walk Mookie Bets, who you know,
paved the way. That decision paved the way for the
first pitch Grant's Land by Freeman. What more can you say?
I'll just be repeating ourselves. I can't wait for Saturday

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night at five o'clock Eastern. A couple of other takeaways,
though these are important g and Carlos Stanton. He continues
his redemption tour. But somebody might want to send a
search party for Aaron Judge. This isn't funny anymore. Zero
for five Friday Night, Judge is an incredibly underwhelming six
for thirty five at the plate, with sixteen strikeouts during

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the postseason, including three on Friday Night, and earlier in
the game, a hitter was walked to get to Aaron
Judge and he promptly popped out. So because the comparisons,
the comparisons are inevitable. He's history on the Dodgers side,
the importance of winning Game one in the World Series is,

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depending on your perspective, very important. But when it comes
to the history between the Dodgers and Yankees, and make
no mistake, these are historic franchises. Yes, the Yankees have
won twenty seven World Series the Dodgers have only won seven.
They've been there twenty two times now. In nineteen seventy eight,

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the winner of Game one and seventy eight and eighty won.
The winner of Game one wins this series, all right,
but this is only the fifth time in the Wildcard era,
the teams with the best records in both the National
and America League have met in the Fall Classic. But
the winner of Game one won every single series to
this point. I don't know what Dave Rodgers or Dave

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Rodgers Dave Roberts message will be to the team. We'll
ask Ryan Bursching it here in about ten minutes. But
let's we forget. You know, back in twenty eighteen, the
Dodgers had to walk off win against Boston. If memory serves,
Boston came back to win the next two and they
won the World Series. I would not celebrate too quickly

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just yet. Plus back he had the bulldog rol Herschey's
are going on Sunday Night, and he just he made
the A's look sick. And the Yankees, you know, they're
not strangers to this type of drama. On the postseason,
the Cleveland Guardians had to walk off win and the
Yankees came back to win the next two. But the Dodgers,

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let's let's be fair, much better, much better team than
the Cleveland Guardians. Speaking of star power, So we've talked
about you know, Tani, We've talked about Judge, We've certainly
talked about Freddy Freeman. We've talked about Mookie Betts. What
about Juan Soto? Does does the phrase defense wins championships
willpply to baseball as well? I will tell you defense

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in the major leagues or pretty much on any level
of baseball is very important. Saving a run is as
important as scoring a run. Now, we get it that
Juan Soto is a generational hitting talent, and he's set
for a big time off off season pay day something.
He could actually get a deal that rivals Shohil Tani's,
and he's actually a Gold Glove finalist. But she wouldn't

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have known that. Friday night, the fifth inning, Juan Soto
misjudged the fly ball from Kiki Hernandez turned what was
most likely only a double into a triple that led
to the Dodgers first run of the night on the
Will Smith sacrifice fly. They don't draw pictures in the scorebook.
But I remember these things now. It would have taken
a great throw to get Hernandez on the sack fly.

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Soto's throw of the plate was not exactly a you know,
a Dave Winfield laser. It bounced a couple of times
before Austin Walls got it too late, too little, too late.
Then again, in the eighth inning, Joheyo Tani hits a
one out double off the wall in right field. Soto's
throwed a second short hop labor Torus, and that ricochet
to a vacant middle of the infield that allowed Otani

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to reach third. He later scored on a sacrifice fly
by Mookie Betts. These things matter. Defense has been a
bugaboo for the Yankees all year now. Labor Torus was
charged with an error on the play. Certainly could have
made a better effort to block the ball, but the
throw not making it to its target on the fly
contributed to this critical issue.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
Here.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
You called a miscube, called a mistake, whatever you call it.
The Yankees do not look crisp now. I get that.
You know, Juan Soto many nights throughout the year offers
a master class unhitting, But that kind of subpar defense
are the little make or break things in baseball that

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again don't often show up in the box score because
they don't draw pictures. They're small moments that become high
leverage moments as the series goes on, and in tight
game like Friday, you could argue it's set the table
that it costs the Yankees the game, of course, notwithstanding
Freddie Freeman's heroics. Okay, if the Yankees continue to give

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the Dodgers three four to five OUs in, they're going
to have a problem. On the other hand, I will
tell you this, the Yankees, an organization not historically blessed
with great bas dealers, ran crazy Friday Night. They terrorized
the bases of Jazz Chisholm. I think stole three bases,

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including two in the tenth to get in position to
score in the fielders choice from Anti Volpe. So look,
the truth of the matter is there were a lot
of highlights in this game, Freddie Freeman's being the most dominant,
and I actually think you have to still pay attention
to the Yankee starters. I want to see how that
shows up as this series goes on. Because so much

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talk has been centered around the days of workhorse starting
pitchers going deep in postseason games. I would have liked
to have seen that tonight. It's really easy to manage
the game afterward when it's been played. But after eighty
eight pitches, I you got your ace going, you got
your Belcau going. What might have happened? Heady kept col In?
I don't know. It's a new day. Sometimes these decisions

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are made up up in the press box by nerds
looking at a computer. And I'm not against analytics. I
think analytics are a guideline, though not an inflexible anchor.
So score one for the Dodgers tonight and they get
to do it again Saturday night at five pm. Coming up,
we're bringing our guy, Ryan Berschinger. He's been covering this

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all year for us. We agreed that when the World
Series started, just like we do it up, he would
join us, whether the Dodgers were in it or not.
We'll get his take and where the Dodgers go from here.
I'm Bernie Fradderwick Kemedy Line from Las Vegas, Fox Sports Radio,
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Speaker 4 (11:46):
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Speaker 2 (11:58):
Right back at the Bernie Frattle Show, five Sports Radio,
coming to live from the Tirec dot com studios on
a wacky wild it's still Friday night in Los Angeles.
And believe me, the adrenaline has not subsided a spring
in our guy. He's covered the story the Dodger journey
all year. You hear him all over the network and
including the Sick Podcast with Monsey and Bull Ryan, just

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like we do it, Buddy, we're gonna have you on
the night of the World Series. And we knew this
would happen. Right, Let's welcome and Ryan Bersching or Ryan,
how you doing?

Speaker 5 (12:31):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (12:31):
This is this is perfect, Bernie. As you said exactly,
we drew it up ever since the start of the season,
where you were bringing me on sporadically to to talk
about the Dodgers. I think I think you and I
have just been foreshadowing this the entire season. It's really
well done by the both of us.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
Well, I got to tell you, look, when I got
back from Milwaukee, and tell the Dodgers play. I told you,
I said, I don't understand why everybody thinks they're going
to fade, because they maintained serve and then never getting
Mookie back, and then they were getting Max Munthi back,
and there's a certain DNA and I saw tonight the
Yankees marched out what sick Holmes Canley Weaver cousins. Of course,

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five guys into the bullpen. They had one swinging strike
on forty eight pitches. So this Dodger offense should not
be question. Here's here's the question I have for you,
and this is important, Ryan, what's Dave Rogers' message to
the team, Because in twenty eighteen the Dodgers had to
walk off against Boston, proceeding to lose the next two
games and lose this series. You can't celebrate too soon.

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What's the message to the team.

Speaker 6 (13:31):
I'm sure Dave is gonna is gonna remind them to
keep their head down and let's keep going. This is
it's one to ozer, but it can easily be one
one to one tomorrow night, and then it's a brand
new series. At that point, Davis fully where the Yankees
are an incredibly talented seem coming into this series. People
kept asking me like, what what do you think is

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going to happen? And I kept saying, I honestly don't know.
Because both of these teams are E League, they're both
playing at the top of their games. They both have
really the same strength and the same weaknesses. I mean, yes,
the Yankee starting staff is deeper than the Dodgers starting staff.
That's the obvious weakness and difference than these two teams.
But otherwise, as we thought tonight, if you get a

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strong start from a Dodger starter, that bullpen can come
in and shut things down very easily. So I think
Dave tells the team to just hey, what this is.

Speaker 7 (14:24):
We want to know.

Speaker 6 (14:25):
We got three more to win, and so we keep going.
We keep doing what we're doing, We keep sticking to
the game plan and making pitchers work, and we take
Game two tomorrow and that way we can go back
to go to New York with that two to zero
series lead, taking the two games at home.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
Talking with Ryan Werschinger, you hear them all around our
network and including the Sick podcast with bull and Monci.
I'm glad you brought up starting pitching. Ryan what was
going through your mind when Aaron Boone pulled Garrett Cole
in the sixth after a leadoff single. He's only throwing
eighty eight pitches. He didn't like to move, But what
do I know? What's going through your mind when you

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saw that.

Speaker 6 (15:07):
I was definitely relieved. I got it.

Speaker 5 (15:10):
It was super early.

Speaker 8 (15:12):
We moved.

Speaker 6 (15:13):
But of course, the big thing about tonight's game, and
the big thing about the Dodgers winning this game, specifically
setting the tone and jumping out to a one zero
lead in the series. They won the Garrett Cole game
to start. That's huge, And it wasn't just the Garrett
Cole game coming into it. It was after the fact.
Garrett Cole pitches very well. He was elevating his bat

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ball effectively, and when he does that, he's pretty unhittable.
As we thought tonight the Dodgers. Granted, the Dodgers came
out strong and were making hard contact. They made hard
contact throughout the game. They flew out to the warning
track like four or five times. You had Mookie drill
a ball and I think it hit one oh four,
but it was right at jet chism and they weren't

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able to get that run in from third. They had
a couple of moments like that throughout the game, but overall,
Garrett colepitch very effectively and kept the Dodgers offense at
day and the move specifically he's going to play homes
with Max Mounsey up. Not exactly a super advantageous move
in terms of I'd understand if they're going to like
Tim Hill at that moment, but especially with Holmes too,

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who has had a really up and down season, is
a very strong reliever at the start of the year,
and then he kind of lost the closer job and
since then he's been pretty rocky, and instantly he was
rocky too. We saw he threw two pitches out of
the strike zone. Well at least they were in fact
cold balls. They were out of the strike zone as well,
but as we saw it the whole playe umpire tonight,

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it's not entirely certain where the strike zone was, but
it was kind of all over the place, and then
he threw one at Monthy's feet and then put the
runner on. So it was definitely an odd move. I
don't think it's fully doomed to the team, but yeah,
in terms of because we saw that on the flip
side with Jack claerity kind of. I thought it was

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fine when Flarity came stayed in the game to start
that inning, even with Soto, Judge and Stanton coming up.
He wasn't He was about seventy five pitches at that point.
But there were plenty of people arguing that he shouldn't
have even started that inning because you know, you're getting
the heart of the Yankees order facing Clarity a third
time through. It worked fine against Judge, he struck him

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out again, and then John Carlos Stanton, you know, pulled
out the three wood and it hit it to Gonoga Park.
But you know, what are you looking to do there?
But the point is is that we saw the Dodgers
stick with Flarity when he had the stuff working. We
we saw Aaron Boone pulled Garrett Cole the second he

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gave up the second he put a runner on when
it was later into the game, sou And the big
thing is is that because it's Game one, both managers
wanted to get decent lengths from their starters, knowing that
they're going to be relying on their bulltens heavily moving forward.
So I think that's why we saw a bit more

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of a leish there for Flaherty, but also both of
them arguably came out pretty early.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Ryan last one. For me, We've got an interesting matchup
Saturday night. Carlos Rodon for the Yankees, who was pretty
effective against Cleveland, only allowed three earned runs and eleven
innings and two starts. You have Chinobo Yamamoto who has
gotten out of strikeouts, but he's been hit around a bit.
What do you expect Saturday Night?

Speaker 6 (18:30):
I think with all of these games, I think they're
all going to be super evenly matched. Yamamoto, when his
breaking stuff is working, is incredibly effective.

Speaker 9 (18:41):
We saw his best start.

Speaker 6 (18:42):
Of the season came in Yankee Stadium in the middle
of the season. He went seven strong, I think only
gave up one run.

Speaker 10 (18:48):
He was elite.

Speaker 6 (18:49):
It was really his true coming out party. Unfortunately he
got hurt after that and then missed much of the
second half of the season. On the flip side with
Rodin and he's going to see a bit of a
different lineup then for the Dodgers, Dave has already he
said prior to this night's game, Miguel Rojas is going
to start Game two. Probably means no Gavin Lux. Then
so Rojas plays a short, you move Edmund to center field,

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have keyk play second base. I also wouldn't be shocked,
even after all of this, if Freddy Freeman is not
in the lineup in game two, because we saw this
in the Championship series. Once Freddy said it felt like
his ankle was feeling good, he'd wake up the next
morning and suddenly not too hot. We saw Freddy lake
out a triple tonight, which was wild for somebody who's

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basically playing through a high ankle strain. Now, luckily the
power came back, as we saw obviously from Freddie tonight,
but with Celesti on the mound, with all the adrenaline
that got him going in Game one. It wouldn't shock
me if Freddy wakes up tomorrow and that ankle's bargained
him a bit and the Dodgers air on the side
of caution, And if that does happen, you probably see

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Max Monthy move the first and then I you keep
Lux in the lineup at second, or you have Chris
Taylor come in, maybe he ga, Chris Taylor plays second,
what have you. So that's something to look out for.
I hope that Freddy is all good and he's able
to play tomorrow and throughout the series. But it wouldn't
shock me because specifically with rodn on the mound as well,

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it kind of is a moment where they might look
at it and say, all right, if you're not feeling
super one hundred percent, because we saw this in the
Championship Series two with Game two, they've let off the
gas a little bit. In Game two he managed incredibly
conservatively with the rotation and the bullten. I don't think
that that'll happen again because they have a true starter

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going in this game, but it wouldn't shock me if
they let off the gas a little slightly in terms
of management, gets some different guys in there from the bullpen.
I hope they don't because with the day off the
day after, they should be able to go aggressively and
hopefully Freddie's all good to go. But we'll have to
see when the lineup comes up tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
Ryan, good stuff, great insight. A week from tonight, it
would theoretically be Game six back at Dodger Stadium. Stay loose, man.
I might want to get you back on next Friday
night too, because anything could happen between now and next
week and next Friday night, either this thing will have
gone set will be going seven, which will preview and

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or you know, someone will have wrapped it up, in
which case we'll want your final thoughts. Good stuff, ryanrust easy,
but keep up the hard work.

Speaker 9 (21:30):
Oh you got it.

Speaker 6 (21:31):
Thanks so much, Bernie Cat.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
That is Ryan Burschinger. You hear all around our network
Jack of all Trades and of course to the Sick
podcast with Bowl and Monsey. You may have seen tonight
a fan reach over the center field fits and catch
a ball, and it's it's it's contributing to a recurring
theme we are seeing and you've heard me saying on

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the show multiple times, we're coming up now November nineteenth,
down the twentieth anniversary of the mouse at the Palace
with where I wasn't doing a radio remote that night.
And if you looked at what happened Saturday night, I
checked that Friday night with the fan reaching over the fence.
I was incredulous to see it, especially when they tell

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you don't interfere with the ball and play. It somewhat
speaks to and gives us the tease as to what
are what our midnight our topics are going to be
tonight and I really want to hear from everybody at
eight seven, eight seven, seven, nine to nine on Fox.
But first let's go to our guy, Kevin Figures with
the latest Kevin and I doing Buddy.

Speaker 11 (22:36):
I'm doing well. Bernie doing extremely well.

Speaker 12 (22:38):
Not as well as Dodger fans though, as you were
just talking to Burst there a second ago. Yeah, Game
one of the World Series from the Dodgers and the Yankees,
and I like to say that it lived up to
its billing New York at three did who lead in
the bottom of the tenth LA bases loaded and Freddie
Freeman at the plate?

Speaker 13 (22:53):
The scenario you dream about Freddy who is living first
pitch swinging PI.

Speaker 14 (22:57):
Why ball, Freddie Freeman channeling is inner?

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Kurt ditson, Oh, walk up.

Speaker 15 (23:17):
Hold run in Game one of the World Days.

Speaker 12 (23:20):
Stephen Nelson on a five seventy LA Sports with the
call LA taking Game one by a final score of
six to three. With that walk off grand Slam, the
first walk off Grand Slam in World Series history. Game
two will be on Saturday night in LA. As you
guys discussed the Yoshinobu Yamamoto for LA versus Carlos Rodin
for the Yankees. College football one game still in progress

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in Los Angeles, USC a forty two to twenty lead
over Rutgers with about four and a half minutes to
go in the fourth quarter. Seventeenth three Boise State improving
their record to six and one with a twenty nine
to twenty four victory over UNLV Heisman hopeful Ashton gent
T one hundred and twenty eight yards rushing and a score.
Louisville racked up over four dred and sixty yards of
all fens. They pick up a victory over Boston College

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thirty one to twenty seven. The final there in the
NBA Anthony Davis thirty five points for the Lakers and
a victory over Phoenix. Brendan Ingram the game winning jumper
to lead the Pelicans over Portland. You had victories for Chicago,
Golden State, and the Knicks. Back to Bernie Fredo.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Okay, thanks a lot, Kevin, appreciate it, Bud by the way,
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a couple of oddball incidents, of course this week, this
past week. This is becoming now a weekly thing whereby
fans make their way onto you know, Sports Center highlights

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because well perhaps of doing untoward things. So let's start
out with what happened Sunday and then we'll back up
to Saturday, because there were two incidents, and I want
to very much want to hear from the peeps tonight
eight seven seven nine to nine on Fox eight seven
seven nine ninety six six three six nine. Will start
taking your calls at twelve midnight Pacific time. See for

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where I said, that's twenty seven minutes from now. For
where I said, it is going to be twelve midnight
literally on the clock, and perhaps from where you're listening
it may be twelve midnight, but where you're listening, it's
certainly twelve midnight figuratively, because you're gonna get the last word.
So in the Cleveland Browns game, Deshaun Watson went down
with an achilles tear, and it was very metaphorical. You

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wonder if it's You certainly think it's most likely the
end of his tenure in Cleveland, maybe the end of
his tenure in the National Football League. You just don't know.
But when Watson got hurt, fans cheered. Now, I get
it was not the whole stadium. I'm not going to
indict the city of Cleveland, but it happened. It happened,

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and it very much incensed defensive end Miles Garrett, who commented,
we need to do better. We need to do better
on the football field. We need to do better as
fans for having some empathy. Wrong choice of words, Miles,
did you ever tear your achilles? I don't think he did.
And did you ever have thirty two incidents with massage Parlors.

(26:33):
I don't think he did.

Speaker 16 (26:34):
So.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
I know you're trying to sound thoughtful, Miles Garrett, but
you nothing to do with empathy. Sympathy not empathy. Okay, yeah,
I'm gonna split Harrison on that one. He said, but
we need to have some empathy for a man who's
doing the best he can, and that's the problem.

Speaker 17 (26:50):
Man.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
If that's the best he can do, that's not good.
And the brown still owe ninety two million dollars. And
of course even you know and you get this, these
are the teammates Jameis Winston is backup. Was furious. He said, quote,
and we could have pulled that sign. But I thought,
of myself, it's so stupid he put here's the quote.

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He put his body and life on the line for
this city every single day, every day or just Sundays.
And also, I think he's paid pretty well. I think
he's about two or three million dollar game check every Sunday.
So not gonna not going to gender a lot of
sympathy or empathy there. And I think the Watson's chances
of being the starting quarterback for the Browns next season

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are slim and none. And you know, the old proverbial
slim just left town. But here's the deal. Was it
over the top? I mean, would you, I want to
hear from the callers, would you actually cheer if a
player got hurt on the field. I mean, let's get awkward.
Let's let the awkwardness begin. I've heard some prominent national people,
including Michelle beadle rip into him. I mean she said

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you would a cheer, I believe. I don't want to
misquote her, but I somewhere along the lines it was
pretty damning. And I get it, you know, And the
question you have to answer yourself are you hating on
Deshaun Watson the person or his on field performance? I mean,
this is this karma, right, So you know, we got
a situation where a man he's hurt on the field,

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and I could I don't like Deshaun Wattson at all.
And I think the way he's conducted himself and tried
to turn himself into the victim and really didn't. It
seemed to lack total remorse throughout this process. And he's
a shot fighter. He hasn't been good since twenty twenty.
And I'm not buying the layoff. Forget it. There's been
a lot of guy sheesh. Willie Mays with the military,

(28:40):
had mister call, he had a laugh ted Williams had
a layoff. Michael Vick, a guy who I stuck up
for back in two thousand and nine, went to jail
for three years. He came back, he played six more
years in the league. I think he was a pro
bowler four times got to the playoffs, So I'm not
going to give Deshaun Watson a hall pass on the layoff.
But I really want to know from the callers. We
have very thoughtful, interesting, creative callers. How do you feel

(29:04):
about hearing fans sharing an injured man on the field.
Would you have done it? And if you would have
done it to hear I want to hear the truth,
and I'm okay with it. It's your business. I don't
dictate people. I don't dictate what people say during the
minute hour, and you've heard me say it a thousand
times the most boring conversations typically it's certainly on radio

(29:28):
or when everybody agrees. So we have a situation where
last Sunday questionable fan behavior. Not everybody that Shan Watson
goes down Achilles injury. People cheers injury. And this isn't
the first time this has happened. There have been players
that have been injured in the past over the last
twenty thirty years where they've been booed. I'm not going
to name the names, but there's been a handful and

(29:51):
we have a situation where it happened again. So I
want to get your thoughts with what was your reaction
actually when it was happening, right, what was your react?
Will you say, yeah, he deserves it? Okay, that crosses
the line, well karma here comes karma again? Or is
it a situation where all right now, we got to
be better than this. I look forward to a varying

(30:14):
degree of opinions and thoughts on this. Coming up, we
will discuss the second incident last week that took place
in a college football game on Saturday. And this one
actually has more layers to it, and we'll talk about
that coming up. I'm Bernie Friddle. We're coming to your
line from the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio Taract dot
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(30:36):
right back at the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports Radio,
coming to your live from the Taract dot Com studios
here in a Las Vegas. We are fifteen minutes away
from the midnight hour. Your calls eight seven seven nine
nine six six three six ' nine from where I

(30:57):
sit in Las Vegas, it's twelve midnight Pacific time. In
fifteen minutes and quite possibly from where you sit, maybe
many folks listening on five seventy AM and Los Angeles
or ninety eight point nine FM here in Las Vegas,
or wherever you are listening anywhere around the world. Literally

(31:18):
and or figuratively, it's going to be the midnight hour
here in about fifteen minutes. We want to hear from you.
So our first topic, as I mentioned, we'll have to
do with Deshaun Watson going down getting injured. People cheered
the injury. Were they cheering him personally because of his
behavior or were they cheering his his they were glad
because he played so poorly partly both. Is it a

(31:44):
situation where you were glad to see the cheering which
you have cheered, or is it over the top? Do
we need to be a little better than this. You
heard Miles Garrett's comments, you hear Jameis Winston's comments, and
you know where we're going with that. Don't overthink it.
Don't try to give me the answer you think we
want to hear. Give me what you really feel. That's

(32:06):
the beauty of this. I mean, let the awkwardness begin.
If you think you might have what be an unpopular opinion,
just that's what the midnight hour is for all right, Now,
there was a second This actually, this fan behavior incident
took place the day before in Texas. You may have

(32:26):
seen the Texas Georgia game. If not, I'm sure you
saw the highlights. There was a pass interference call that well,
the Texas fans didn't exactly like. And you know, if
you've ever been to a major college game, most of
the people there have been hooked up to a blender

(32:47):
since about seven that morning, and by the time kickoff
rolls around, they're not feeling any pain. You get it.
You've been there, you know you have. And the bottom
line is that may You know, when people get into
a crowd anyway, I know it's against a lot of
practice psychology, with a lot of license, but they feel less,
they feel less responsibility for their behaviors. They're on a crowd.

(33:10):
It's more of the crowd mentality. So when this pass
interference call, you know, was flagged by the refs, well,
fans started throwing bottles, debris, all kinds of mayhem on
the field. There was a delay in the game. And
what's interesting is is the refs ended up reversing the call.

(33:33):
They actually reversed the call. Now when you saw that,
what was your reaction? Because you know, I didn't even
know you could bring bottles into a statu or maybe
you can't. I didn't know they sold beverages and bottles anymore.
But somehow they were throwing bottles and debris that landed
on the field. And by the way, there was an

(33:54):
incident in a National Football League many National Football League
game many years ago between Dallas and Minnesota or a
referee but the name of Armon Ersian got hit with
an Aaron bottle flying out of the stands. It was
intended for his head and it landed, It hit its target,
and he was laying on the field bleeding, and it
was it was not a good site. And of course
it was such an impactful moment in the National Football League.

(34:16):
I'm quite sure you could google it Armon TERSI in
Minnesota versus Dallas. I mean, what if somebody got hit
with those bottles? Whatever. Look, we've been talking about this
fans stuff for a while now. We did it last year.
We had the situation with the Potters and Dodgers three
weeks ago. I've told you November nineteenth is coming up,
the twenty year anniversary of the malice at the palace,

(34:37):
and I'm of the belief that can happen again. There
can be spontaneous combustion. And the truth of the matter
is that all the conferences, and I actually talked about
this last August, they don't like none of the conferences,
none of the major conferences like fans rushing the basketball
court or rushing the field. They don't want it. And

(34:59):
so what they've what they've done is they've instituted fines,
and you know, they start out I think at one
hundred grand and then they go up higher and hire
and hire. Whatever they're doing, I don't think it's working.
I don't know what. I don't know what the solution is.
If you want to call in tonight and give it,
give us a solution, because let's say one of those

(35:19):
bottles when flying and hit someone, you know, and they
ended up in a coma, Right. I don't want to
sit here and create problems that don't exist yet try
to solve them. That's not what this is about. But
think about it. You don't. You don't, And I guess
that's part of the Deshaun Watson thing too. Deshaun Watson
will get no sympathy from me, but it's likely he
has a mother or a father, a brother or sister

(35:41):
or something. And now the family members they got it.
They got to be part of this too. So that's
that's part of that conversation as well, wherever you want
to take it. But the situation in Texas is actually
slightly crazier. It's not a lot crazier, because the truth
of the matter is is you have to ask yourself,

(36:02):
was this justified? And the refs they if they made
that PI call and he ended up overturning it or
reversing it as it were, was there do you believe
there was a causal effect between the refs reversing that
call because of all the debris and bottles flying on
the field, or was it just a coincidence that the

(36:24):
fans caused that? And what's your solution? Because the Fians,
et cetera, they're not working and every year, every year
this gets ramped up just a little bit more. And
I will tell you that the Malice at the Palace
situation was complete spontaneous combustion with about a minute and
a half to go in the game. Pistons were done

(36:44):
by about sixteen and Ben Wallace is going in for
a meaningless lap and burn our tests, slams him, falls
as hard as he can. I was just walking right in.
We were going to our last break of the evening,
and I'm staring at this. I'm like whoa. Then Ben
shoves round our test. He flies around the arena like

(37:05):
a whirling dervis, goes and lays on the scores table. Yes,
at precisely that moment, an empty beer cup. I know
this story has been told wrong. It wasn't a full beer.
It's just an empty beer cup came flying out of
the stands and somehow connected with Ron Artest who lost
his mind, went up into the stands and punched the

(37:25):
wrong fan. The fan was a guy by the name
of John Green, who became an infamous local legend for
a while there at Detroit. And after that it was
complete mayhem, complete, absolute unadulterated mayhem. It's a miracle no
one got seriously hurt or maybe even killed. Steven Jackson
wound up to punch a guy and if his leg,
if his right leg hadn't slipped on the floor some

(37:47):
wet spot, he might have killed the guy. And the
bottom line is it was a stain. It's sustained and
will ever go away. I do not think the Indiana
Pacers have ever recovered from that night in two thousand
and five. If they were one thing, and that was
a damn good team, They'd won sixty six games a
year before the Pistons that upset them in the playoffs.
Rick Carlisle, the coach for Indiana, had been unceremoniously fired

(38:10):
two years before the Pistons won the championship. Maybe there
was a little revenge on their mind, but no one
saw this coming. So the Deshaun Watson thing, we want
to hear from you on that. You know, I don't
need to repeat it. Secondly, the day before in Texas,
after a PI call, fans pelted the field with bottles
and debris and the refs changed their mind. Did the

(38:31):
fans cause that? Also? What do you do? How do
you protect the fans safety? You should have a reasonable
belief that when you enter a stadium with your companions,
your family, whatever the case may be, you have some safety.
Those are the two things. Now I'm going to call
an audible tonight as well, and if this works, we're
going to continue on. I'm gonna call. Let's say you

(38:54):
would really like to call on the night and have
your voice heard. But maybe these two topics don't crank
or tractor that much. So I'm going to introduce a
thing called the rant. If you want to just call
in a rant. All right. You'll notice I have mentioned Brownie's
name tonight, and I'm not man. You should have heard
Chris Russo, Mad Dog Russo's rant on the BROWNI charade.

(39:17):
Maybe you want to have a rant about that. Maybe
you want to have a rant if you saw what
happened Thursday night in the NFL game where Sam Darnold
almost got his head yanked off on the safety and
the ref stand right there and they don't call face
masking even though there's replay assist. All right, maybe you
want a rant so you can rant on something that's
top of mind. You can talk about the Deshaun Watson situation.

(39:39):
You can talk about what happened in Texas Saturday with
bottles flying on the field. It's time. It's some men
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(40:17):
lines or jam. Let's get it rolling. It is time
for the midnight hour, so you know the drill. We
had two more fan behavior incidents. Fans in Cleveland chier
Watson's injury. Want to get your reaction. Also, Georgia, Texas
fans throw bottles and debris in the field after a
PI call Mayhem, A delay of the rest reversed the call.
Let's get your thoughts. We go out to Mike in

(40:41):
Kansas City. Might get it started tonight. How are you.

Speaker 10 (40:44):
Hey, Good morning, Burtney, Thanks for taking the call.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
You bet hey.

Speaker 10 (40:48):
I'm not a Deshaun Watson apologist by any stretch, but
I guess when I go to sporting events, I would
not boost somebody that gets hurt. I played college football,
I tore my ACL in a game, and it was
on the road, and I didn't get booed by that
by the home teams. I just I think I understand

(41:11):
Cleveland fans, football fans have. You know, they don't care
for DeShawn He's terrible quarterback. He's been heard minus all
the off the field stuff that we all know about.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
But you have to have clue that, Mike, that's very much
part of the narrative. And not just the off the
field stuff, but the way he conducted himself in press
conferences with such a cavalier attitude.

Speaker 10 (41:35):
Sure, but you know, I guess I was just always
taught to take the high road. And you know, I
think that justice stuff will take care of the off
the field stuff. And if you want to boost somebody
because they threw an interception or you know, they missed
a tackle or you know something that actually happened in
the field, missed the field goal, if you will, that's

(41:58):
one thing. But for thousands of fans to chant you
deserve it. When the guy tore the achilles, I just
think that's a little beneath him. That's just my two cents.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
All right, Mike. I appreciate it a lot Man. We
got a lot to get to tonight. Don't be a stranger.
And just to set the record straight, we're not indicting
the city of Cleveland. I don't know how many people
were at the game, fifty thousand, it was probably less
than ten percent. They did that, but they did it,
and it was it was vocal. You get you get
the you get the point. Jim and Massachusetts welcome back in. Jim.

(42:31):
Hey look what you got to say on this goodhead.

Speaker 9 (42:34):
I think the whole whole issue is around alcohol. You know,
That's what it always is and always will be. Is
like you said, you know, the tailgate beforehand and everything
like that. Some people just get crazy and it's because
of the alcohol. You know, it makes it. It reminds me
of the if you remember the commercial that was on
years ago where the son sitting next to the father

(42:56):
and the stand and then the clother yells out something bad.
I think you had to do a racial lines or something,
and the kid kids said the same thing and he
scolded him, and the into the commercial said, you know,
behavior is taught, you know, not a quiet. So I
think that's all it has to do with is the alcohol.
And you know, just people just shallow when they do

(43:17):
things like that, you know, anxiety real quickly.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
On Texas, Georgia, the fans went nuts through bottles. Do
you think that contributed to the rest changing the call
or is that just a coincidence.

Speaker 5 (43:29):
In Texas that attributed to change in.

Speaker 9 (43:31):
The call the way you know, I think, yeah, you're
absolutely right. It's that part of the country. It's it's
the way it is down there, you know, and you
know that's how that happened there. But uh, you know,
they changed it. They changed it, and they all changed it.
They all got together. It wasn't one guy overruling everybody else.

(43:53):
They said, yeah, we've been of change it and we
want to get out of you. So that's the way
I look at that.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
All right. You appreciate you man, enjoy the US your weekend.
Thank you. Uh David in Los Angeles, you're up next.
Welcome in.

Speaker 7 (44:06):
Hibernie.

Speaker 18 (44:06):
I really like your show. It's really down to earth,
Dishaun Watson. I think you were right to the previous caller.
I think that you have to take into a county
off the field stuff. And because of that, I had
no problem with him cheering, like if he was just
a bad quarterback.

Speaker 7 (44:23):
No, that's not.

Speaker 18 (44:24):
Cool, but that man should be in prison and he
got what he deserved.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
Do you have any thoughts of David on the situation
between Texas and Georgia last week.

Speaker 18 (44:37):
I didn't see it, and I kind of agree with
the previous caller, and I you know, I generally don't agree.
I think trams get into a mob mentality, and I
think it's often really really gross. I remember all those
snowball fights at like a I think it was a
Giant Kibows game or something years ago, and it could
be really right, and I think it generally can be pretty.

(45:00):
But as far as as far as a sawn thing, now,
I'm cool with what they did, all right.

Speaker 2 (45:06):
I appreciate the candor, I really am. That's what we're
looking for. Justin and Denver, you are up next.

Speaker 19 (45:12):
Hey, Bernie, thanks for taking my call.

Speaker 10 (45:14):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 13 (45:14):
First time, long time.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
Well, welcome in. Don't be a stranger.

Speaker 20 (45:18):
Absolutely.

Speaker 19 (45:19):
Hey, So, as a Texas fan, I just want to
come on real quick. First off, as a Texas fan,
I totally don't agree with them throwing things on the field.
I think the rest just got scared for it and
changed the call just for their safety, and again I
don't condone it, but the one that I do want
to call out, and I just wanted to say this.
I think it's a little funny that Kirby Smart's the

(45:40):
one calling this because what was it last year? Alabama
and Georgia they were throwing stuff on the field. Two
years ago was Alabama and LSU. Alabama fans were throwing
stuff on the field. So it's just a little funny
to me that Texas is a new kid in the SEC.
I think they had to prove a point because back then,
nobody finds Georgia, nobody find Alabama. They're like, oh, well
you can't find those two schools. But now Texas is

(46:02):
the new kid on the block. Got to kind of
set a point. The other thing I want to say
real quick about to Sean is good or good human,
bad human, whatever, It's still a game. We still watch
them play a game and you may not like what
you did as a human, but he's still a player.
So kind of one of those things is like where
do you draw a line. It's like, do you look
at the human decide you look at the player side.

Speaker 9 (46:22):
It's a hard call. It's a hard call to.

Speaker 19 (46:23):
Make, so I really can't say I think if I
was in that situation, I don't know what I would do, honestly,
So I can't really say I'm a forward or against it,
but I think you got to figure out a way
to look.

Speaker 8 (46:33):
At both sides, all right.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
I appreciate covering a lot of good ground there justin
thank you very much. And to your point, you got
a tweet from one of my listeners, P one listeners
spoxwed He said, I remember when Kevin Durant got injured
during a playoff game and it's a trail Blazers I
was watching on TV. Heard the trail Blazer's crowd cheer.
I cheered at home too. Then I felt really crappy.

(46:56):
A couple minutes later, then I learned how serious it was.
So maybe so some of those people regroup. But be
that as it may, I think we've got some good
opinions on both sides, and I think people are speaking
their mind, which is what I want to hear. Stephen
Kansas City Eure up next, Welcome back into the Bernie
Frattle Show.

Speaker 21 (47:13):
Hey, Bernie, great show tonight.

Speaker 16 (47:16):
You know Texas is going to do with the big
dogs and.

Speaker 21 (47:18):
College football going to do what they always do. The
Deshaun thing is very interesting. I believe it. I don't
condone the behavior, but I can completely understand it. I
think it's it's just how it was a terrible contract.
He has a trade no trade clause at the template

(47:39):
for what should not be done. That was huge, guaranteed
money that's going to drag their franchise under. He's owed
ninety two million next year. There's no way they can
get out. Nobody wants this guy. He's handled the situation
terribly in terms of being contrite, you know, not being contrived.
And I don't think there's and the Cleveland fans are

(48:02):
knows they're going under and they have to have an
outlet to boose the guy. I don't think they wanted
him to be hurt. It's just that that they have
to have some outlet for their emotion. And I can
I can completely understand it, especially when the guy is
not saying he will get religious counseling or whatever. I mean,

(48:24):
the guy kind of had it. He had it coming.
I hate to say it, but you know, I'm not
going to say he.

Speaker 22 (48:29):
Deserved it, but he kind of had the whole thing,
the whole thing coming in my audible rant, I like
the new audible ran My rant tonight was I was
watching this beautiful World Series game and thinking, wouldn't it
be great if we had a heart salary cap and
we wouldn't have to wait twenty or thirty years for
an incredible memory like Kurt Gibson and Freddie Freeman in

(48:53):
the in the World Series or Joe Carter. I mean,
it's just a magnificent game, you know, one of the
most one of the all time. I'm glad the kids
today have something that they can remember like like we had.

Speaker 9 (49:05):
You know.

Speaker 16 (49:06):
It's just it's just.

Speaker 21 (49:07):
Kind of sad that baseball can't produce this on are
on a more consistent level.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
All right, thanks so much, Steve. We had so much
star power tonight. And it is such a highly charged
situation New York in LA. Look there, these are iconic
franchises and and to your point, just ever so quickly,
and I want to get off in this rabbit hole.
I'll promise you the players you need to Major League
Baseball will never agree to a cap. They'll strike for
three years. That's what That's what shut down the game

(49:33):
in ninety four and back in twenty twenty one. I
covered a lot of the talks that was going on
on the network here and I will the owners want it,
but they'll never get it. The luxury taxes is as
close as it will get. One quick thing before we
get to the next caller, I got a tweet from
Steve think about this, Bernie. Of course, the Browns fans
were booing Watson for his play on and off the field.

(49:55):
He took the money and ran in turned destroying the
Cleveland Browns for years to come. You know, not wrong.
There were great expectations for this bronze franchise who had
a tremendous roster on both sides of the ball, and
Shaun Watson was supposed to be the missing piece. After
he rehabbed and after he got of course, you know
done with this suspension. Everybody forgets that ten game suspension

(50:16):
he had. All Right, I'm looking forward to this call
because I'm wondering if there's any chance in hell this
gentleman was at the game. Let's go up to northeast
Ohio and welcome in Clint. Clint, being in Ohio, I'm
sure you've got something to say on this man.

Speaker 17 (50:32):
Fortunately I wasn't there for it.

Speaker 10 (50:34):
But don't forget.

Speaker 17 (50:35):
We've got Bottlegate to our name too, back in oh One.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
Well, I don't want to bring that up, but that's
regarding what happened in Cleveland. And again I've already said
it three times. I'm not going to indict the whole city.
It was just a small percentage of fans. But look,
if I'm being honest, when I saw them cheering, I'm like,
I wouldn't pissed. I probably wouldn't have done that, But
I'm not just out Deshaun Watson is not a stellar individual.

(51:02):
Go ahead, Clint, you got the floor.

Speaker 7 (51:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (51:04):
See, I wouldn't have done that either. To me, it's
just a little bit classless seeing something get hurt and
then cheering for it. But hey, they have the right
to do that if they want to cheer for it
to have at it. I just me, personally, I wouldn't
do it, and I do think it makes the entire
city look pretty bad.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
And you know, Clint, do you remember you sounded like
a story And do you remember years ago in Cincinnati
when people were throwing stuff on the field. Is Sam
Whites was still the coach of the Bengals, and he
took the absolutely stop this. We're in Cincinnati, not Cleveland.
And so you write something like that, you know, one
little ounce of poison can poison the whole drink.

Speaker 17 (51:45):
Yeah, and we did this before when Couch got hurt
years ago. And then I even think when Tyrod Taylor
got hurt it would have been Mayfield's rookie year when
he went out in the Jets game. You could hear
cheering when Taylor got hurt too.

Speaker 2 (52:03):
It's happened before. Yeah, it's happened before. The Watson thing.
Thanks a lot, Clint. Hear from you again down the road. Look,
the Watson thing has the added dynamic of what happened
off the field, which has been well documented, and nobody
that I've ever talked to observed believes he was even
the least bit contrite and even try to turn it

(52:24):
around and play the victim a bit. That didn't help. Okay,
that didn't help. He never even really wanted to go
to Cleveland, but all of a sudden, they dangled two
hundred and forty million. Look, desperate people do desperate things.
Cleveland's desperate for a winner, and they had a roster
and if Deshaun Watson had played like he played in
twenty twenty, he might be having a different conversation. Just
getting started a Rockus Midnight Hour. Jim, Nick's your own

(52:47):
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All right back on the Bernie Frattle Show Fox Sports Radio,
we continue with the midnight Hour. Jim, thanks for your patience.
Jim from Brooklyn. You are up next. Welcome in.

Speaker 6 (53:24):
Hello, Jim, Yeah, you're on the air.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
Jim, go ahead.

Speaker 23 (53:29):
Hey, this is Holler and James and I didn't know
how to come in to your show, but ever listen
to you for a little while, and I'm gonna tell
you this.

Speaker 20 (53:41):
You know, condoning these guys that bad to become an
eight year old fan. That's rope Bottles I remember Neil Tursey.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
Man Harmentarysy, you remember Holler and James remember bleed from
the head.

Speaker 20 (53:56):
Go ahead, man, it was a junking alcohol through that
bottle because he was mad in a call. You don't
have collisionent or ignorant. I've been to some James where
I seen Kobe Bryan, where the fans hated him in Minnesota,
but he was well loved by me. Kobe Bryant, the

(54:17):
Great Lake Kobe Bryan, and I met him at sat On,
his family church in the restroom. I followed him in
there and he was washing his hands, and I said, listen, Kobe.

Speaker 24 (54:27):
Bryant, I'm a fan of yours.

Speaker 16 (54:29):
You.

Speaker 24 (54:29):
I please ask you for your autograph, and.

Speaker 20 (54:32):
Please excuse me for the inconvenience of the situation where
you're using the facilities.

Speaker 3 (54:38):
He gave me his autograph.

Speaker 5 (54:40):
He was happy to do it.

Speaker 20 (54:41):
I met Kirby Puckett the Lake Great Turvey.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
Pucket say, I appreciate you, appreciate you. James. You're always
welcome to call in. I want to get to all
the callers, and I think your point is well taken.
You can't condone people throwing bottles until we see a
legitimate solution. You know, we're going to be having these conversations.
It's it keeps happening. Okay, Uh, Nick and Washington, you're

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up next.

Speaker 16 (55:08):
Hey, what's up? How are we doing?

Speaker 2 (55:10):
Good? Sirre you?

Speaker 3 (55:12):
I'm doing so great? Uh yeah, No, I think that
as far as booing Deshaun Watson because he's not been
good all year, he definitely you know, like what else
are they gonna do? And as far as him getting hurt,
maybe the Browns will actually be a decent team this year.

(55:32):
So like I can see it from their perspective where
it's like a boo, but they're excited maybe for a
new start.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
I don't think that was it. I don't you know what, Nick,
and all the respect, I don't think that was it.
I think it was like, Okay, I don't want to
read people's minds. Have not real good at that, but
I know you it felt like, okay, good for you.
You get what you know what. Karma is a bitch,
isn't it your way? You've conducted yourself from the mini
you got here, on and off the field and press
conferences right out right on down the line. It's been

(56:03):
a big miss that that's That's just my take. Do
you have any thoughts on them that Texas go ahead
and they go ahead?

Speaker 3 (56:08):
Yeah, I'm surprised that. I'm surprised that he's in the
league still. I mean, he did this to Cleveland and
he did it to Houston, and it's just.

Speaker 2 (56:17):
Well, you know why, Jimmy Hanslom who is paying the guy,
you know, two hundred and forty million dollars and he's
doing the damnast he can to get squeeze whatever life
he can out of and it just isn't working. This
isn't working. No, Jimmy, Jimmy hanslm is a general manager
of the Cleveland Browns, and and of course Kevin Stefanski,

(56:37):
who's been a great soldier, the head coach. They're going
along with it, man, they're going along with it. Anything
quickly on on fans throwing bottles on the field in
Texas and the rest of.

Speaker 10 (56:47):
Revers in the car, that's never appropriate.

Speaker 3 (56:48):
That's dangerous and totally not no, no, no, no matter what,
you can't you can't put people in harms way.

Speaker 16 (56:55):
That's totally that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
Crazy. Yeah, all right, thanks a lot, appreciate it, Nick,
And just so everybody knows. Uh, you're you're allowed to
comment on both subjects tonight. You know, we want to
try to be succinct and try to get to your
point and but make your point. I'll give you be
giving Apple time to make your point. But there's a
reason we have these two topics because on Saturday in
the college game, we had a fan incident, and on

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Sunday in the college game, we had a fan incident,
as it were, or Sunday in the pro game. And
this is happening every week. Okay, Uh, Jerome and Charleston,
welcome in. How are you.

Speaker 21 (57:31):
Bertie?

Speaker 16 (57:31):
I just wanted to say that nepotism didn't begin with
Lebron Jams and it won't end with him and.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
Epitude bad too bad, Brownie can't he's not an NBA player,
So let's leave it right there. I don't give a
damn about nepotism.

Speaker 16 (57:43):
I told you, I told you when the sub subject
trust came up. And he's probably going to end up
in the G League, okay, because he's not very good
and there's no mound of nevertis is going to change that.
So eventually that's where.

Speaker 21 (57:56):
You're en up.

Speaker 16 (57:56):
Maybe even an overseas somewhere, you know, to continue his career.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
He's actually got a four year contract with the Lakers,
like he's gonna be up and down all year.

Speaker 16 (58:03):
And he's not gonna stick with them for the hopeful forever.
You know, they're gonna see, well, this ain't gonna work
out and he'll have to go somewhere else. You know.

Speaker 2 (58:13):
Well, let me just say this stand alone, Jerome, Let
me just say this about that. I have no beef
Lebron want to play with his son. Fair enough, they
artificially manufactured fifty. But I don't care. He got Lebron.
That's what powerful people do. They call him favors, and
that's exactly what he did. But when people try to
sell many this dude's an NBA player and Lebron's not

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trying to turn it into a circus or make it
about us. When you got Ken Griffrey Junior and senior there, Okay, man,
that's been my teethhitch, Jerome, continue on, man, what do
you got for us?

Speaker 16 (58:42):
Even in the broadcasting business, you know, from people in
the broadcast and doesn't get gotta leg up because I got.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
No problem with it. If they can do the job fine.
I got no problem with people helping people out. So
I'm can open the door for you, but you got
to be able to walk through it. Do you have
anything tonight, Jerome? On either of the fan incidents we're talking.

Speaker 16 (59:01):
About, well, hey, those Cleveland fans, those are the same
people that burn Lebron James Jersey right just because he
left and went to Miami, you know, when he became
a freege and all that. So hey, that's just the
way they are.

Speaker 3 (59:15):
Man.

Speaker 16 (59:15):
But they want to camp back, and he led him
to the tattle something to probably we'll never see again
in Cleveland.

Speaker 2 (59:21):
You know, he'd be right, be right.

Speaker 16 (59:22):
So that's how two.

Speaker 8 (59:24):
Fans people are.

Speaker 25 (59:24):
Man.

Speaker 16 (59:25):
People are hypocrites, That's all they are.

Speaker 26 (59:27):
Man.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
Okay, I always appreciate you checking in, Dre and enjoy
your weekend, man, Poppy, what's happening Poppy?

Speaker 24 (59:37):
Hey Bernie eleven midnight hour? And look that guy hollering James.

Speaker 5 (59:42):
I loved this call.

Speaker 24 (59:43):
He takes like over two hundred pails, you know, so
you know sometimes they let Hi jump about on the center.

Speaker 20 (59:48):
But he's doing good.

Speaker 24 (59:48):
But I'll shout out to you Halloween, James.

Speaker 2 (59:51):
And but I want to I might have to give
him credit. Poppy, Is he the one who last July
said Pittsburgh would be the Pirates would be knocked out
of the race by September fifteenth? Was that it might
have been him? I got it. Whoever said it might
have been him? Or Angry Bill or I don't know
who some of these nicknames. Go ahead, Poppy, what do
we care?

Speaker 16 (01:00:07):
Gogs Ma.

Speaker 24 (01:00:08):
I know I was gonna talk about a Bronniy Dames
and the bron names. It was all script and how
it went out and stuff like that. Though you think,
you know, yeah, yeah, Berdie, No, no, you know, like, hey,
kay lebron Jon, I'm Bronnie. Hey, I don't you know
what Bronnie. I know I'm your dad, and uh, I
don't want you to call me dad, So hi Daddy.

(01:00:28):
But anyways, I wanted to kime to someone and I'll
talk about the NBA. I wanted to give you guys
a free Halloween pick. I want to give you guys
a free pick a sports bet and look I'm looking
at the NB.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
I really love Yeah, Poppy, make the pick man because
I got a lot of callers here, guys, got.

Speaker 24 (01:00:43):
You got to It's gonna be a game the Minnesota
Timberwolves and the Scott Foster. I think Scott Boxer is
gonna be there. We're gonna go with the Minnesota Timberwolves
minus twelve and a half.

Speaker 2 (01:00:50):
Poppy, are you got nothing? You got nothing on the
fan behavior?

Speaker 24 (01:00:56):
Oh yes, I think yeah. Look, paying your ticket, you
have the right to do it what they did with
the John Watter. I agree because look they're getting so
frustrated and everything that he's doing, he's not predising. Yeah,
I'm a fan. I'm gonna let him hear it, and
I'm gonna say it. And if people don't care, who
cares you people whining about it? You guys are sock
and that's my tick. I don't care. I'm gonna boo him.
And that's why the Crown pounds are booing.

Speaker 5 (01:01:19):
I'm get out of here watching.

Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
Oh yeah, sound effects and everything to night from Poppy.
All right, Poppy, thanks for checking in, Bud. I'm pretty
sure I love Poppy. I'm pretty sure he's keeping joke
coal in business. I'm just just my thoughts. Hey, Lynn
down in San Diego, welcome back in.

Speaker 5 (01:01:34):
How you being buddy, Hey, Bernie Man. Always great to
hear you when when when Friday comes around midnight. Boy,
I'm excited. Hey listen, Oh go ahead, Sorry I meant, oh.

Speaker 2 (01:01:48):
You got the floor, man, go ahead?

Speaker 5 (01:01:51):
Hey look, uh, I consider myself a nice guy, but
have you ever been like mad about something else but
you go off and go off on the person that's
in front of you, and then you feel bad later.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
There's all of us if you engaged in misdirected anger
at one point or another.

Speaker 10 (01:02:08):
Yes, there you go.

Speaker 5 (01:02:09):
That's what I'm looking for in this situation with Deshaun Watson.
So here, here's here, here's how I go. They don't
necessarily cheering because of the injury.

Speaker 26 (01:02:20):
But they're cheering because a scum bag got some form
of punishment.

Speaker 5 (01:02:23):
Okay, you feel me on that one.

Speaker 2 (01:02:26):
Well, dude, let me you just made a statement that
might need to be framed and hung on the wall
at the loop next to the Mona Lisa. Because that's
what you call economy of words. And that's why I
have the midnight hour to open the door. See people,
thoughtful people can speak their mind. Repeat that, because that's
pretty damn good.

Speaker 5 (01:02:47):
I said.

Speaker 26 (01:02:49):
They may not be cheering because he got injured, but
they're cheering because a scumbag got some form of punishment,
because I think they really feel for the victims to think,
no question this guy with his status, Yeah, I got
away with a lot of murders.

Speaker 5 (01:03:03):
So they cheering really not because he got injured, but
because a scumbag got some form of punishment.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
I accept that. Do you have any thoughts on the
incident between Texas and Georgia where fans telted the field
with bottles and debris and the refs ended up changing
the call.

Speaker 5 (01:03:22):
I got two thoughts about that. One is, for words,
don't mess with Texas.

Speaker 16 (01:03:29):
But that's still no excuse for it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:33):
There's still no excuse.

Speaker 5 (01:03:34):
For fans to do what they did, but they take
that literally. Don't mess with Texas. You want to find out,
go visit Texas. They're going to remind you in a
hurry whatever they get behind. Just like those lousy cowboy fans,
even when they suck, they got something to say. They
want to run their big mouths, but it's because they
go in hard on whatever they believe in and nobody

(01:03:56):
else matters. Don't mess with Texas all right?

Speaker 2 (01:03:59):
Then you're on fart to that, buddy. I hope you're
back next Friday.

Speaker 16 (01:04:01):
Night.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
You take care of that is the Those are the
comedic stylings of Lynn in San Diego. We are going
to continue with the Midnight Hour eight seven, seven, nine
nine six six three six nine eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. Andrew You'll be next, But I want
to remind everybody we're talking about two things here, the
Deshaun Watson situation where he got hurt and the fans cheered,

(01:04:24):
and then secondly the incident in Texas between Texas and
Georgia where fans pelted the field with bottles and debris
when they didn't like a referees PI call and it
ended up getting overturned. So there's lots of layers to
go with both of those. And I've also introduced the rant.
So far, we've only had one or two rants tonight,
both about Brownie James, one kind of supporting him and
the other kind of dissing them. But the rant. Take

(01:04:47):
advantage of this. I do seven hours every Friday night
and Saturday on Fox with Readio. I will take calls
one hour and that's it, so take full advantage of it.
Andrew and Mike, you will be up next. But first
we got to go back to our guy who molly
lops the competition. Kevin figures with the latest.

Speaker 12 (01:05:03):
All right, Bernie, thanks so much, and the Dodgers took
Game one of the World Series in dramatic fashion. Freddy Freeman
molly wopped a pitch from Nestor Cortez hit a grand
slam walk off fashion grand slam in the bottom of
the tith inning. Sixty three was the final score. The
hobbold Freeman even hit a triple early on in the game.
It's the first grand Slam walk off grand Slam in

(01:05:24):
the history of the World Series. John Carlo Stanton, by
the way, also went deep for New York in the loss.
Game two will be in Los Angeles on Saturday night
at eight Eastern.

Speaker 11 (01:05:33):
You can watch on Fox. College football seventeenth three.

Speaker 12 (01:05:36):
Boise State got one hundred and twenty eight yards rushing
and a score from Ashton genty in a twenty nine
to twenty four victory over unlv USC, getting three total
touchdowns for Miller Moss. They defeat Rutgers at the Colisee
in forty two to twenty and the ACCU was Louisville
a thirty one to twenty seven victory over Boston College.
Tyler Shugg two touchdown passes there for the Cardinals and

(01:05:57):
the NBA. The Lakers overcame a twenty two point deaf
to defeat Phoenix one twenty three to one sixteen Pelicans
a one oh five to one oh three win over
Portland twenty seven points for Buddy Healed off of the
bench for the Warriors. They beat up Utah one twenty
seven to eighty six victories for the Raptors, Hawks and
the Knicks.

Speaker 2 (01:06:14):
Back to Brainy Frida real quickly. Kevin uh I just
dropped a joke Cola reference on on top of Poppy's calls.
You know, Poppy is kind of a high energy guy,
just a little bit, just a little bit, And I
got a tweet for one of our big listeners, Joe Cola,
Haja good. I was wondering if that reference. You know

(01:06:35):
what percentage of our audience got that It didn't slip
by you, did it, Kevin uh.

Speaker 11 (01:06:39):
I'll put it this way.

Speaker 12 (01:06:40):
I know of Jolt Cola, though it was slightly before
my time.

Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
Let me just put it this way. You think regular
Coca Cola has a lot of sugar, this is Jolk
Cola on steroids in ecstasy at the same time. I
mean it was you had like fifty I forget it.
There's a funny analogy. I'm just gonna leave it right
there before I trip over my there.

Speaker 12 (01:06:57):
There was a drink in my middle school good days
called so Urge, which I think kind of had the
exact same effect. I mean, you drink a surge in
your head was going to explode. So I thought you're
going to say four local, but oh that's a different story. No, no, no,
we don't want to talk about that on this show.

Speaker 11 (01:07:10):
No no, no, no.

Speaker 2 (01:07:10):
No, no, all right, good stuff, Bud. Thanks back to
the phones, Andrew and Bakersfield. Thanks for your patience here up.

Speaker 27 (01:07:17):
How are you doing, Bernie?

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
Well, thank you?

Speaker 27 (01:07:19):
All right. I just want to say, okay, and I
wouldn't just say this, Okay, you're the best sports talk
radio person I've ever heard, and so just keep it up,
all right?

Speaker 2 (01:07:34):
You want to be my agent? No, continue on, Andrew.
I want to get to you and all the calls
and give you ample titles. But thank you very much
for the kind words.

Speaker 27 (01:07:43):
That that's all I got, buddy.

Speaker 2 (01:07:45):
All right, wow, Okay, Well, Andrews called to show many
times before. I really do want this is turning out
to be really a peppy topic. I might have underestimated,
but I will never underestimate a callers. I mean, we
have some really good calls all aroun on the map.
Let's continue on, Mike and Modesto. You've joined us before.
It's been a minute. Welcome back in.

Speaker 8 (01:08:06):
Well, Bernie. I'm gonna go half rant, half topic.

Speaker 3 (01:08:10):
Go ahead, clean clear.

Speaker 8 (01:08:11):
I don't think it has anything to do with Watson's past.
Cleveland fans were not boycotting the day they signed him.
They were cheering despite his past. It was all about
the desperation to win. They're just pissed now because this
is not the guy in Houston. That's the whole problem. Remember,

(01:08:32):
this is the organization that cut Ernest Biner after the
thumble before the ball. Yes, okay, and it was just
justice that Biner won the Super Bowl? What the next
year with the Redskins. How do you like that, Cleveland?
And by the way, the classy Cleveland organization when arn't

(01:08:53):
Modell passed or like the only team in the whole
league that didn't do a moment of silence because their
piss team moved the team. One of the pioneers of
the league when he moved his team and went two
Super Bowls. Stick that where the sun don't shine, left

(01:09:13):
the team name to them. He didn't have to do that.
He did that for the city of Cleveland. Okay, And
since they were so disrespectful, I pronounced on them the
Art Modell curse. You will never win crap Cleveland, eat that.
The curse of Art Modella is on you. Enjoyed the

(01:09:36):
suffering Forever Browns.

Speaker 2 (01:09:39):
That's it, Okay, Mike nothing on Texas. Geez after who
can follow that? Just so folks know, and I know
you probably do. Art Modell tried to get a stadium
in Cleveland, couldn't do it, so he packed up mill
of Nite and headed to Baltimore, and the Baltimore Ravens
were born. And yeah, I mean, I've been to Cleveland
many times. It's a great city, man Italian restaurants, great

(01:10:01):
sports teams, great fan great hardworking people. It's a heart
and soul of America. And they reacted. But you know
what I love about that called because Andrew Manning. Okay,
this is what we're talking about here on the midnight hour.
We're not looking to have some big kumbai a well
we're looking what we're trying to accomplish. Here is a
round table discussion, an amalgam of opinions from all around

(01:10:22):
the country and sometimes even or all around the world,
and we don't always have to agree. So he basically
Andrew basically turned the tables on Cleveland fans, saying, you
know what, sometimes you reap what you saw, you think
about how you treated Art Modell. But then believe me
man Art Modell. But I got to tell you that's
a really sensitive subject. If you've ever lived in a
city where the owner left town, you know, enter your

(01:10:43):
own Baltimore Colts leaving for Indianapolis. Let's not go down
that rabbit hole. A van in Minnesota.

Speaker 5 (01:10:50):
Welcome in, Pernie, thank you.

Speaker 7 (01:10:54):
The violence and the stands, it only surprises me because
it doesn't happen more often in America.

Speaker 2 (01:11:00):
Because you're not you're not wrong, you're not wrong, go ahead.

Speaker 7 (01:11:04):
America is a very violent person. We've been fascinated for presidents.

Speaker 9 (01:11:08):
There was a couple of attempts this year.

Speaker 7 (01:11:10):
We've we've seen all the other stuff, the ugliness of
ballpark's Cominsky Park, where a drug addle man and son
tackled an umpire and beat the crap.

Speaker 13 (01:11:23):
Out of them.

Speaker 2 (01:11:24):
First base coach.

Speaker 10 (01:11:27):
Yes, that's right.

Speaker 7 (01:11:28):
We saw the last the last president try to the
cite violence in the capitol. It's the way.

Speaker 2 (01:11:37):
Well, what was the solution? So hold that thought. I
want to stand a line here. You go to a
football game, which is an entertainment media, you mean, a
cheer for your team. Obviously, again these folks have been
hooked up to their favorite beverage. I get it. Uh,
there's still no reason to break the law. And what's
the solution? I'm telling you, man, you I don't know

(01:11:58):
if you've how long you've been listening to me. I
was at the mouse at the palace. I'm telling you
it could happen again. People don't think it can't. What's
the solution? You know, it's the old road that they
don't widen until somebody dies in the head on collision, whatever.
You get my point. What's the damn solution. That's the
one thing we haven't heard tonight.

Speaker 7 (01:12:17):
Well, there is no solution. I mean, they try to
keep guns out of these places. I mean people bringing.

Speaker 2 (01:12:23):
Talking about the stadiums because you brought up a salient point.
Have you ever been in the stadium and looked around
and all of us, you know, there's sixty thousand people
there and say, thank god. Ninety eight percent of these
people are saying because if everybody rushed the field, what
the hell would they do? I mean, you got these
rent of cops and security guards. You know that look, look,
look something out of you know, one flew with a

(01:12:44):
cuckoo's nest, and really that's your security. Go ahead.

Speaker 7 (01:12:48):
Well, it's it's a little bit like soccer games internationally.
You know when people stuck, you know, when people run
out in the sands and people were killed stampedes, they're
like humans, damn pedes. Uh, we have to settle these
suckers down?

Speaker 3 (01:13:05):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:13:06):
Do you do it? How do you do it? You know,
in Philadelphia had nineteen ninety five they put a jail
in the old Veterans Stadium, so when people got liquored
up and got into a fight, they would they would
book you right there in the jail. Didn't change anything,
didn't change anything. Still happens real quickly. We just got
a few seconds, Van, Do you have anything else on
the Deshaun Watson?

Speaker 7 (01:13:27):
You know, nobody likes them that much, but it's just
it's so stupid. To do something like this. It's so
ignorant of a shame on New Cleveland.

Speaker 2 (01:13:37):
All right, appreciate it, Van uh eight seven seven nine
nine six six three six nine, don't miss your last
chance to get in if you want to talk about
the Deshaun Watson situation, you want to talk about the
fans throwing bottles in Texas in the Texas Georgia game,
the refs turned the call around, or you got a
chance for a rant. Okay, maybe neither one of those

(01:13:57):
topics topics fire you up, but you got something you
want to get off your chest. When we come back,
John from Northern California will be up next. I'm Bernie
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Speaker 13 (01:14:55):
How are you doing tonight? Bernie the first time caller.

Speaker 2 (01:14:58):
Well, well, welcome in. Don't be a strain.

Speaker 13 (01:15:01):
Oh no, I listened to you. It's this first time
I've gotten through. I had some I want to bring
up about Brownie, but you know the more you can't.

Speaker 2 (01:15:09):
Go ahead, go ahead.

Speaker 13 (01:15:13):
I want to bring about Deshaun. You know, this is
what the heck is a problem with guaranteed contracts. You know,
Cleveland's got it. They got they got it by you
know what I mean. There's not a damn thing they
can do about it. They're trapped in this contract. And
for crying out loud, I mean, what incentive does this
man have to play anyway? You're not even worried about
getting injured for crying out loud. I mean, you don't

(01:15:35):
have to do nothing. He's going to get so much money.
It's ridiculous. He doesn't have to be tormented by by
any of the fans. He just sits there and rigs
in the money while they're they're stuck for years. It's ridiculous.
I mean, they should be incentive latent contracts. Sure, if
you want to give better incentives more to bring him in,
that's fine. But if you don't pay those top dollars
right now, somebody else is going to. Somebody else would

(01:15:58):
have done it, maybe not to the extreme that Cleveland did.
Somebody else would have, you know, so you know, and
if you're worried about getting injured, we'll take out an
insurance policy on.

Speaker 2 (01:16:05):
Yet which the dollars which they have. They have an
insurance policy. But to your point, they didn't have to
guarantee the whole two hundred and forty million. And you
now see a that's crazy. It's beyond crazy. You'll never
see a contract like that again, not like that in
a situation like this. Go ahead and say what you.

Speaker 9 (01:16:21):
Want to go to r.

Speaker 13 (01:16:25):
Yeah, Well, I'll tell you I've listened. I listened to
a lot of sports radio, and all I keep you
hearing people saying, well, Brownie don't deserve it. He doesn't
deserve it. He's not going to either, you know what.
You're right, he doesn't deserve that. And is he taking
somebody else's spot? Yeah, somebody wouldn't play very much. But
he's taking somebody else's spot. But does Lebron deserve it?

(01:16:45):
You know what that man has put? I mean, I'm
not a huge I could take him or leave. I mean,
I appreciate his games. But does a man deserve it?

Speaker 9 (01:16:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:16:53):
I think he kind of does, you know. And I'm
pretty sure that that was it was etched in with
the Lakers that I'll sign here, but you're going to
drop my boy if I do. Now, if somebody will
drops him before that with nobody was going to all right,
I'll accept that, but you'll drop my boy. All I
want to do is play with him. He's not saying
he wants him the starting lineup and he's going to
go through the season. I just want to play with
my boy, and I do believe he deserves that.

Speaker 2 (01:17:16):
All right, John, I accept that, and I think that's
a very measured, balanced response. Lebron has made the Lakers
organization a lot of money. He did get you know,
he was a key cog in a championship, even though
it was the bubble. But that's not the point. This
is the way it works in life. You know, he had,

(01:17:37):
he had an opportunity to call in a chip and
he did it, and I have no problem with that.
I just don't think Bronnie's an NBA player, and I
please don't try to sell me in that. Mike in Ohio,
you got the last word on this deal.

Speaker 28 (01:17:49):
Yeah, I'm calling to comment on the gentleman who cursed
the Cleveland Browns fan. Go ahead, sir, yeah he he.
First off, I don't know. I'm a Cleveland brown ticket holder.
I've been a fan for you know, as a kid.
I don't know many people who were really excited or

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cheered when we signed him. I don't know anybody really,
anybody who was really all.

Speaker 10 (01:18:18):
That excited about it.

Speaker 28 (01:18:20):
A lot of people wanted a Baker stay, and.

Speaker 3 (01:18:22):
I think he got a raw deal.

Speaker 28 (01:18:25):
Nobody was really excited about the Sean, especially the contract.
So I don't know really very few people, if any,
cheered that they signed him. Not many people are all
that proud of it. I don't think that many people
think that now this is either here nor there are
worse through concerned about him raping anybody or anything like that.

(01:18:45):
I think, you know, we all think that these girls
knew what they were doing. Even though there's a lot
of allegations against him, they knew what they were doing, all.

Speaker 2 (01:18:53):
Right, got listen. I appreciate you taking the time to call.
Unfortunately got a radio clock here to manning. But listen.
We do this every Friday night at midnight Pacific time,
which if you reside in Ohio is probably three am
your time. You're always welcome to call back. I try
to get as many calls as I can, and I
think you made your point there. Cleveland fans are savvy, fans,

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are good fans, and you can't pay them all with
the same brush, I think is what you're really trying
to say. And I think I think we recognize that.
So a great job tonight to all the callers. That's
what makes the min at hour runs simple as that.
Let's talk some movies. You listening to the Bernie Frattle
Show on the Fox Sports.

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be and our quest to be the most eclectic show.
And you have heard me talk about movies on the
air for twenty five years, and that is why it
is now time for our movie Roundtable.

Speaker 29 (01:20:13):
Not one, not two, but three.

Speaker 4 (01:20:18):
Sports it's entertainment, it's good, it's breeze three.

Speaker 30 (01:20:24):
All right, take it away, alrighty.

Speaker 31 (01:20:26):
So, with the Dodgers and Yankees obviously two historic MLB
franchises in the world series, I thought of movies that
had two historic stars, whether or not they were staring
opposite of each other or just in the same movie.
That was kind of what I was going off of.
So for my first one, I'm gonna go with Face
Off in nineteen ninety seven, Nicholas Cage versus John Travolta,

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Castor Troy versus Sean Archer. I feel like it's kind
of a cult classic. Most people have seen it. There's
a real creepy kind of face transplant in the middle,
an FBI agent trying to you know, avenge for like
his son that he lost. It's an amazing movie. Nicholas
Cage obviously coming off of Moonstruck and Raising Arizona, John

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Travolta coming off of Look Who's Talking Now, and pulp fiction.
Something kind of interesting about the movie. It was not
like totally based on a true story, but the two
writers had a friend who was injured in a hang
gliding accident, and the injury required the face to be
completely removed away from the skull and reconstructed before being

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re added onto the person's body. So that's yeah, So
that was kind of like the premise of the movie.

Speaker 2 (01:21:45):
What I remember about Face Off is it's one of
the very first movies that relied very also, very heavily
on special effects, technical visual it actually go ahead.

Speaker 30 (01:21:58):
Oh yeah, I wanted an Academy Award for that.

Speaker 2 (01:22:01):
Because I remember watching the movie and I just didn't
hit with me. But I but the Travolta and Cage
and the special effects go ahead.

Speaker 30 (01:22:08):
Yeah, and so actually was nominated. I'm so sorry. I
was so wrong. It was nominated.

Speaker 31 (01:22:12):
For sound effects editing and also nominated for digital effects
I think in the nineteen ninety seven. So that was
my first one. I mean, like I said, Nicholage Cage
and John Chivolta. My second one, I went Death Becomes
Her nineteen ninety two, Meryl Street versus Goldie Hawn.

Speaker 30 (01:22:33):
Bruce Willis is also in the movie.

Speaker 31 (01:22:35):
Like, like I understand that, but I'm just kind of
focusing on too, And that's like, you know, two strong actresses,
you know, two women that are kind of obsessed with
like vanity and staying young forever. They're you know, kind
of fighting over not really fighting over the same man.
But Meryl Streep originally tried to get Bruce Willis and

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still still stole him from Goldiehan. So a great movie
the nineties, really really dark comedy.

Speaker 2 (01:23:04):
Well all those actors you mentioned have four or five decades,
so that makes yeah, Stork is long, Jevy, you go ahead.

Speaker 31 (01:23:10):
Yeah, it was a super dark comedy. I mean, like,
like I actually in the nineteen ninety two I'm gonna say,
like I watched it when I was like eight or
nine years old, and like on VHS.

Speaker 30 (01:23:19):
I don't know why I watched it.

Speaker 31 (01:23:21):
That's like something I talked about talk about with my mom,
like why I thought it was such a great movie
but super funny, and I can quote it all the
time like it's hilarious. Obviously, Meryl's Streep was coming out
of Sophie's Choice and out of Africa before she shot
that movie.

Speaker 30 (01:23:35):
And Goldiehan obviously Overboard, and then.

Speaker 31 (01:23:38):
My last one, who cares about how you feel about
Keanu Reeves whether or not he's like a great actor.
I'm at point break, So Patrick Swayze versus Keanu Reeves
obviously body versus Johnny Utah. Everybody knows the premise of
that movie Bank Robbers, you know, the ex President's Halloween's
coming up. I've always wanted to be like have one

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of those like plastic masks of like being like Ronald
Reagan or something like that, but it's kind of creepy,
you know, surfing all that. I have a poster in my.

Speaker 30 (01:24:09):
Apartment because I live by the beach.

Speaker 31 (01:24:11):
Obviously, Keanu was coming out of Young Blood and Bill
and Ted, and then obviously Patrick Swayze, The Outsiders, Dirty
Dancing and Ghost before that movie.

Speaker 30 (01:24:22):
So those were my three.

Speaker 31 (01:24:23):
I went face off death becomes her and point break.
So I'm gonna I'll go to Mark and then we'll
go to Kevin and then Bernie.

Speaker 15 (01:24:32):
So my breeze threes, I'm gonna start with Something's got
to Give Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson. That's my my
first one. That's like one of the first three, that
first couple that came to mind. My next one is
Awakening with Robert de Niro and Robin Williams. So maybe
they might be a debate whether Robin was a big star,

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but I thought he was still the big star with
those two guys being in the movie together, and just
to see what would happen by Robert and Robin being in.

Speaker 11 (01:25:01):
A movie together.

Speaker 15 (01:25:02):
And then my third one is Against All Odds with
James Woods and Jeff Bridges.

Speaker 2 (01:25:09):
So classic movie had a great soundtrack too, Phil.

Speaker 15 (01:25:12):
Collins, right right right, So that was and that's a
whole you know, with an ex football player who got
cut and having to deal with a gangster with James Woods.
So those are my breeze threes. Something's got to Give
and then Awakenings and then Against All Odds. So I
guess I turned it over to keV.

Speaker 11 (01:25:35):
All right for me.

Speaker 12 (01:25:36):
So the first one I thought of, and I don't
know if it's necessarily a great movie, but I enjoy
it in its heat with a pacino, and de Niro's
one of my favorites for sure. Forty eight hours and
maybe there's a theme here with me with buddy cop
situations or something. I don't know, but nck nolty Eddie
Murphy hysterical movie. And another one involving Eddie Murphy as

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trading places with Dan Aker and Eddie Murphy. And a
little known fact for a lot of people, those two
were not the original actors tabbed for that film. It
was actually supposed to be Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor.
Richard Pryor was on one of his benders as he
was known to do, and got so blasted that the
producers had to find different actors, and so they settled

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on Dan Acker and Eddie Murphy.

Speaker 11 (01:26:21):
So that's how that came out.

Speaker 2 (01:26:22):
Well, I can't imagine someone else saying exactly.

Speaker 11 (01:26:27):
So those are my three.

Speaker 2 (01:26:28):
So when we talk about historic and you know the
Yankees and Dodgers, Yankees twenty seven World Series Championships, the
Dodgers seven World Series Championships, but they've been in twenty
two world series. So we're talking about historic franchises and
not kind of franchises. Frank Sinatra once said, there's something
to be said for longevity. So when I selected my

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three movies, it was more about the actors than the movie,
because for me to be historic, you have to have been,
you know, in the public eye for decades. All right,
So I'm gonna start out with The Sting. Paul Newman
and Robert Redford still holds up to this day. That
movie came out, you know, fifty years ago, won a
bunch of Academy Awards. It's the ultimate con Man movie.

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But the chemistry, again, the chemistry between Paul Newman and
Robert Redford is impeccable. How can you leave out The
Godfather with Al Pacino and Robert Duval, and I selected
Robert Duval was still alive at ninety three years old.
Robert Duval's body of work has been incredible, His ranger
work's been incredible, as has al Pacino. But the two together,

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Robert Robert Duval was the consigliari, the the attorney for
the for the mob family, for the Cole Young family,
and some of the conversations they had, some of the
scenes they had incredible Robert de Niro, I would check
that Robert Duval just has an incredible history. Right then
finally I had to go with this Goodwill Hunting. It

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came out in nineteen ninety seven. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck,
but those two have work steady now for twenty seven years.
I think they can now fall into the category of
historic actors. And they've been branded in other, you know,
types of movies and genres. But when you look at
those six Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Al Pacino, Robert Duval,
Matt Damon, and Ben Affleck, they all have become I

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think historic actors. And maybe we can go around the room,
around the table and comment on other movies that you
know that the other people had.

Speaker 12 (01:28:26):
Yeah, good Will Hunting was my honorable mention. Robin Williams
also excellent in that film too. I don't know if
you want to call him a quote unquote iconic actor
or not, but as far as the comedian personalities, certainly
up there.

Speaker 11 (01:28:36):
So good Will Hunting was definitely on my list, and.

Speaker 2 (01:28:39):
By the way, he almost made mine too with Yeah, anybody.

Speaker 31 (01:28:44):
Else I had planes Trains and Automobiles, John Candell, Yeah,
Steve Martin Yeah, and John Candy.

Speaker 30 (01:28:52):
That was on my Honorable Mentions persons.

Speaker 2 (01:28:56):
John Candy was a shower curtain ring salesman in the movie.
That was his job.

Speaker 15 (01:29:01):
So my honorable mentions what was the Sting? And then
Once Upon a Time in America? And then Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

Speaker 2 (01:29:09):
Oh, Michael Caine yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:29:11):
And Steve Martin Yeah. And Steve Martin I also had
death piccoms are on my list too.

Speaker 2 (01:29:15):
Well, tell tell what was the one you said before
Dirty Rotten.

Speaker 15 (01:29:19):
Scoundrels Was Upon a Time in America?

Speaker 2 (01:29:21):
Okay, I don't want to steal your thunder. Tell the
people who the key to to keep for tragonists were
on that movie?

Speaker 15 (01:29:26):
Well, I thought it was James Wood and Robert de Niro.

Speaker 2 (01:29:28):
Well, of course it was, but not everybody knows that.
I was going to give you your chance. It's about
historic actors, figures. So I want to make sure we,
you know, in selecting these, we make sure that we,
you know, highlight the two major stars that dominated these
two movies, because I think some of this nature is
more about the stars themselves and the fact that they've
been historic in over decades as much as it's about

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the movie itself or any foul thoughts.

Speaker 31 (01:29:53):
I also had a runaway bride because I felt like
Richard Keeer and Julia Roberts that was just kind of like, yeah, well, mention.

Speaker 2 (01:30:00):
Too, all right. Appreciate everybody's movie knowledge. Obviously, we got
some real movie buffs on the show, all three of you,
and that's why we do these want to be eclectic
and look, Bob Costs this one said, if you know baseball,
you know rock and roll. But I think if you're
a sports fan, you can't not tie in sports with
pop culture. You know, the the the movie check that

(01:30:25):
the Dodger game tonight was something right out of the
natural right, which also had you know, Robert Redford and
Glenn Close write it right down online. Okay. Appreciate everybody's
efforts on the movie segment. Appreciate the thought, the knowledge,
and of course the insights. And I want to remind
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(01:31:11):
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All right back in the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports Radio,
coming to you live from the Tyrek dot com studios
here in Las Vegas. At about seven hours and forty minutes,
College football Week nine will resume. Well, we've, of course,
we had a couple of games on Friday night. Boise

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State took care of business here in Las Vegas, beating
a very tough game UNLV run and Rebel team, and
Boise State has got a real legitimate shot to be
one of the at large entries in the playoffs. They
got work ahead of them, but they could happen. And
of course USC had a get right game against Rutgers.

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I believe they even covered the number. I believe the
number was nineteen. But it's week in, week out chaos
across college football because we have this expanded college football
playoff and I think every week you were able to
find not every week can be Alabama Georgia, not every
week can be Georgia, Texas. Not every week he's going
to be Michigan, Ohio State, or a house state, Oregon, whatever.

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But because of the of the open spots and where
one loss will no longer Kyle Boscher season, like the
old stupid BCS or the made for TV Invitational where
there are only four teams even though they are five
power conferences, you have intriguing matchups, you have consequential matchups.
And when you see that the amount of upsets that

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they've already been this year, you take nothing for granted.
One of the games I've got on Saturday is Notre
Dame against Navy. Now Notre Name's laying thirteen and a half.
Notre Dame's ranked twelfth, Navy's ranked twenty fourth, and this
is an annual matchup, but this has a little bit
higher stakes than usual. And Navy does not look like

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the Navy teams of old. They have a reimagined offense.
They're off to a six and zero start. They've already
eclipsed their highest win total in six years. And yes
they have you know, there's still a heavy run first team,
but they have a much more creative attack and they
have the nation's fourth best rushing attack. They run for
almost two hundred and eighty yards a game and it's

(01:33:39):
score almost forty five points a game. Yes, we're talking
about Navy. Now. I get it that Notre Dame has
defeated Navy each of the last sixteen years, or check
that last six years. They've covered the number the last four.
But Navy is no slouch. Okay, I was tempted to
grab the points with Navy. I didn't. They're twelve and

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thirteen and five against the number in their last eighteen
games as an underdog. They're not an underdog as much
as it used to be. And I would tell you
there's sharp money on the midship and then there's public money.
But here's the deal. All eyes are on Notre Dame.
They're going to have to run the table to be
considered for the college football Playoff because remember, they're not

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a conference, so they don't have the benefit of maybe
making up for something and winning a conference championship. I
guarantee you if you win your conference championship game in
any of the four well it's four power conferences, now
you're in. You're going to be in, and you likely
get it a bye. So this is where this game

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is intriguing. Notre Dame, of course, will be favored their
favorite Saturday, they'll be favored and the rest of their games,
and they'll be favored all the way down, probably all
the rest of the season, even against Army and USC.
But Maybe poses a unique threat. And I understand that
the Fighting Irish have a very good, solid run defense.
But we're gonna see if they can solve Navy's creativity.

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They can keep maybe can keep the game close. If
they just pound the ball, control of the clock and
move the chains like Army did against Michigan a few
years back. Anything can happen. Do I think Notre Dame's
gonna lose, No, But you got to watch this game.
It's not all the run of possibility. Ore agaon continues
to roll. They're number one, they're laying twenty one against
the game Illinois team, and Illinois with Brett Beilima is solid.

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All right. They've beaten Michigan, they've beaten Nebraska. Their only
loss was to Penn State, who's ranked third. And Illinois
hasn't really played superb competition, but they definitely held Penn
State's offense. And check. Now, Oregon's offense is a much
larger threat. I get that, but here's the situation. Now,

(01:35:51):
you have to take a look at whether or not
you want to grab these three touchdowns because Illinois is
six and one against the spread, they're four to zero
against the numbers and an underdog, and you're paying an
Oregon tax. Now, Oregon is own three against the spread
as a whole favorite, and they're three and four against
the spread throughout the year. Right now, I think, right now,

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Oregon is a virtual lock to make the playoff. I
don't see how they screw this up, and I don't
think they're going to lose the Illinois Saturday. But Illinois,
if you're Illinois, don't tell them. They don't have a
chance to win this game, and they're nine to one.
Illinois is nine to one to get into the playoffs,
and what's a very wide open Big Ten. You know
you got through Indiana in there, and Michigan not so much.

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By the way, Illinois likely will not beat Oregon, but
they do have the recipe to cover a three touchdown spread.
They got a defense that only allows eighteen points a game.
They got a quarterback that doesn't turn the ball over.
And it's funny. I'm still not used to saying this. Yes,
this is a Big ten showdown. Yes, it's a Big
ten showdown. Oregon's is the Big Ten now and it

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might be a little bit more competitive than people anticipate.
All eyes will be on Texas they visit Vanderbilt. They're
laying a big number to Vanderbilt, laid eighteen and a half.
Vanderbilt is a story in and of itself. For five
and two, they haven't won six games in a season
at seven years. Their signature win, of course, Vanderbilts was

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a big victory over Alabama. Texas is still considered a
title contender, even though they lost to Georgia, who's a
tougher opponent in Alabama. Texas and datt Lee dropped the
ball in their biggest test last week and they lost
thirty to fifteen to Georgia Am Home. We talked about
that with fans throwing bottles on the field. The Texas
has a top three scoring offense. He evers thirty nine

(01:37:36):
points a game, and they have the best defense in
the country nine they're only allowing about nine points a game.
Here's where it's going to be a prop for Vanderbilt.
And I like Vanderbilt. Everything they've done this year, what
a story I like to coach. I like the quarterback
Navia And the bottom line is this this Texas group,

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I think coming off this loss with a tremendous point
to prove. It's all about motivation, motivation and Texas, let's
face it, they have a Even though Diego Pavey has
been outstanding as a weapon at quarterback for Vanderbilt, Texas
has a big point to prove. Big one and Texas
bench Quinn Viewers last week for arch Manning in the

(01:38:18):
first half. They returned to ers in the second half,
and Wers is going to get the start. But look,
this is also something to watch Steve Sarksian. You know
he might there could be a short leash and there's
another story developing there, all right. I don't know if
you want to grab stay away game for me. Vanderbilt
is five and two against the spread. They're two to
zero against the number, is a home underdog, and you

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know they're catching eighteen and a half points. But again,
I repeat, unfortunately for Vanderbilt, Texas is really angry from
losing last week and the way they lost and the
way they lost at home, and I think they're going
to take it out on Vanderbilt. The talent gap is
too wide. Vanderbilt's kind of a bottom tier defense. The
reason Vanderbilt beat Alabama, the reason Vanderbilt's winning games is

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because they move the change with their quarterback. They e clock,
and they play a ball control, field position game. And
if you keep the ball out of your opponent's hands
like they did against Alabama, well Vanderbilt has found that
to be a winning recipe for them so far. That's
why they're five and two. Can they do that against Texas?
I don't know. When Texas gets the ball, their offense
is just too potent, far more potent than Alabama's is

(01:39:25):
and I don't think you know, I don't know what
they ended up doing with those goal posts through when
the river atvander but they got new goalposts. I'm going
to go out on limb and say that Vanderbilt's goal
posts are safe this time they're safe, all right. A
surprising team very much under the raidar. I remember they
lost to USC week one in Las Vegas, but LSU

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is crept up to number eight. They visit number fourteen
Texas A and M. LSU is actually a short favorite
on the road. Lay in two and a half through
the only two remaining SEC teams without a conference loss,
despite the fact they both lost in week one to
non conference opponents. Remember Texas A and M lost a
Notre Dame and LSU lost to USC. So the loser

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this is a game to watch. The loser will likely
be knocked out of the playoff race, all right. And
the truth of the matter is Texas really hasn't played
an upper echelon or checked that Texas A and M
hasn't really played an upper echelon SEC team. But when
you put them on the field against very good teams
like Missouri and Arkansas, Texas A and M took care

(01:40:34):
of business. LSU has actually escaped a couple of games,
but the belief is that their luck is probably gonna
run out when Texas A and M controls the line
of scrimmage on Saturday. So it'll be interesting to see
what Brian Kelly can do on the road. So all
four of those games in their own right have playoff implications,

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and that's why again, not every week can be George Alabama,
or Georgia Texas or Ryle State, Oregon. But you have
intriguing matchups, you have matchups to watch, and don't be
surprised if somebody's parade gets rained on by the way
coming up the Major League Baseball player. So not the
only playoffs in volgue right now. We'll talk about that

(01:41:17):
in a second. First, let's go back drag GUYE Kevin
figures with the lace all right.

Speaker 12 (01:41:21):
Bernie was a nip and tuck Game one of the
World Series, and it did end in dramatic fashion with
the Dodgers trailing the Yankees by one with the bases
loaded in the bottom of the tenth inning. Freddie Freeman
was at the dish and he hit a walk off
grand slam, handing the Dodgers a six to three victory
in Game one. It was the first walk off Grand
Slam in the history of the Fall Classic. The teams

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will regroup for Game two tonight in Los Angeles at
eight eastern on Fox Yoshinobu Yamamoto going for the Dodgers,
Carlos Rodin for the Yankees. In the NBA on Friday night,
the Lakers improve their record to two and zero with
a one twenty three to one sixteen victory over Phoenix
thirty five points for Anthony Davis runs with twenty six
points for the Knicks. They defeated Indiana one twenty three

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to ninety eight, Golden State all over Utah one twenty
seven to eighty six, Chicago Way one thirty three to
one twenty two victory in Milwaukee despite thirty eight points
from Giannis to Takunpo College Football seventeen three Boise State.
They stand alone a top the Mountain West standings after
a twenty nine to twenty four victory at UNLV one
hundred and twenty eight yards rushing for Ashton Gentzy in

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that one USCA forty two to twenty win over Rutgers
Louisville defeated Boston College thirty one to twenty seven.

Speaker 11 (01:42:31):
Back to Bernie Fraddle.

Speaker 2 (01:42:32):
All right, thanks Kevin. How's Oliver?

Speaker 11 (01:42:34):
Oliver's amazing, getting bigger and bigger every day.

Speaker 2 (01:42:37):
Good good, looking forward to hearing about that nil off
for coming up?

Speaker 11 (01:42:40):
Oh, trust me your lips to God's ears?

Speaker 9 (01:42:43):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:42:44):
Are you his agent now or.

Speaker 11 (01:42:46):
I'm working on it? Trust me all right? Growing it up.

Speaker 2 (01:42:48):
I do trust you, man, I do trust you, all right,
Thanks Kevin. Look, major League Baseball players are raging, man,
I honestly got I can't wait for Saturday Night five.
But it's not the only sport where there are playoffs
going on. That's why we bring you Chris Bphfetts World
of Soccer.

Speaker 25 (01:43:03):
The greatest goals, the thrilling finishes, the international drum, hi
hi level, It's all here in this report from the
world of.

Speaker 11 (01:43:22):
Soccer, Bernie. October.

Speaker 29 (01:43:25):
Late October is some of the best times in sports,
and let's add some soccer to the mix along with
your football and baseball and basketball. Starting up that is,
the MLS Cup playoffs are on. We actually had our
first game in the Round one best of three series
between Inter Miami and Atlanta United. Now Atlanta came through

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from the wildcard against Montreal on penalty kicks. Vancouver is
your wild card winner from the West, overcoming the Portland Timbers.
They'll take on LAFC. More on them later, but two
to one final score for Miami over Atlanta, which is
a fascinating game, partially because Miami. Yes they do have
the best player on the planet. Yes, they have the

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most talent leded team and throwing a ton of money
at this roster in hopes to win at least one
MLS Cup while they have you know, the powers that
be in Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, Jeordi Alba Suarez and
all but having goals in this game. But at the
same time, their regular season was something of a weird outlier. Yes,

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they do finish with a historic seventy four points, the
most ever in MLS regular season, in their claiming of
the Supporter Shield, But at the same time, they've also
been wildly outperforming their expected goal differential this year, especially
compared to last year's Miami team. They've actually outperformed their

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expected goal differential by more than an entire goal per
game in twenty twenty four, which is fairly unprecedented expected
goal is an easy way for us to know what,
you know, what they look like on the shots they're
taking and kind of looking at quality shots. Now it's
a bit of a different case here because on Friday

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to one over Atlanta they actually racked up about a
three to zero expected goal or I believe three to
two depending on the counting. I haven't gotten the final
tallies yet, but that's a flip of the script really
for what this has been and we'll see if they
can keep it up. Game two coming on November two.
There's a lot of games, usually not more than one

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or two a night in the MLS Cup playoffs, so
this is going to be going on for quite some
time as we march down towards the MLS Cup Final
sometime in December, so Miami's often running. What else is
going around there, well, I think the main competition that
the Miami will have in the East is going to
come in the form of the defending champions, the Columbus Crew,

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set to kick off on Tuesday against Red Bull New York.
Columbus might be one of the most complete rosters in
this entire playoffs right now. They look very capable of
being able to defend their crown here. Kucho Hernandez is
wonderful still, and while there are plenty of other competition

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in the Eastern Conference, the only one who could really
be a dark horse in these playoffs would be Orlando City,
who entered the playoffs red hot.

Speaker 11 (01:46:26):
They won ten of their.

Speaker 29 (01:46:28):
Last fourteen games, and they've very few teams to put
together a better points per game record than they have,
as they have come in and just been crushing. They're
set to kick off on Sunday against Charlotte in their
first game of the best of three series, so that'll
be a very fascinating game to watch as well. And

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then there's Cincinnati squaring off against New York City FC.
And Cincinnati has been a team that has looked very
impressive in past years. This year, though, I think they
face a very uphill battle against some of the more
likely teams here. But at the end of the day,
the reigning MVP Luciano Acosta makes you a very dangerous

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team for Cincinnati, but they are very likely to crash out.
If I'm going to have to pick anyone to really
get upset as these goes here, I think we're looking
at a final in the conference final in the East
between Miami and Columbus. Either way, unless Orlando really rattles
the cage and the next round they would face Miami
in the next round of Orlando in Miami advance, so

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keep an eye on that matchup. As for the West,
LAFC managed to steal the number one seed from La
Galaxy on kind of a final action of decision Day
and just by a whole differential. They were tied on points.
But LAFC really is probably the team to beat when

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they're talking about the West here. They I mentioned expected
goal differential earlier in this segment. LAFC finished with the
best goal differential expected goal differential in the league this year,
and their talent is playing. To see between Jerud Denny's
Wowoga Matteos Bogus.

Speaker 11 (01:48:11):
There is so much to love here.

Speaker 29 (01:48:12):
The only thing I'm going to say is this year
they never were able to put away the Columbus Crew.
So if we have a rematch of last year's MLS
Cup Final, maybe I'm betting against LAFC, but anyone else
that's going to be a real slober knocker. If there's
anyone who's going to prevent us to see an l
Traffico in the Western Conference Final, it will be the

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Seattle Sounders. They have probably the best defense. They don't
have a lot of offense really to speak of, but
they are probably the best defensive team in here. They're
going to be kicking off on Monday against the Houston
Dynamo and Seattle. I really like how they play defense.
I think they're just a hard nosed team that really

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want to take the ball from you and just prevent
you from scoring. It's is a very interesting team and
they would play LAFC in the semi finals. Of both
those teams advance. And then there's the Galaxy, who were
shocking this year to say the least, a team that
had really kind of conceded the power of being LA's

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soccer team to FC and now Galaxy came out roaring
this year with some real talented, talented attackers. They might
not be good against the ball, but when they have possession,
they are incredibly incredibly hard to stop from scoring a goal.
Their defense, of course, and possession might still be the

(01:49:37):
Achilles heel as they lock in here, but I think
we are looking at an LAFC LA Galaxy l Traffico
for the conference finals, which would be a very, very
tasty treat to have a full LA conference final, especially
with all the other amazing sports have been going on
in the City of Angels. Lots of watch here this

(01:49:59):
week in the MALS Cup, Bernie a lot that's going
to be played here again, LAFC against Vancouver on Sunday,
the real one I'm watching also on that Sunday, Orlando
and Charlotte. Gonna be hard to fit it in with
all the NFL action, but rest assured, I always have many,
many monitors, and I keep up on many many sporting events.
We'll see you next time. Enjoy the MLS Cup playoffs.

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This is the world of soccer, all right, NFL.

Speaker 2 (01:50:25):
Action, and of course the World Series, of which Game
two is Saturday night, five pm Pacific, eight pm Eastern.
And listen. If Game two and the rest of the
series is it remotely resembles what took place Friday night,

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We're in for quite a roller coaster riote of the
likes that baseball would really enjoy it.

Speaker 7 (01:50:52):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:50:52):
Hey, by the way, you two can go to the
World Series and join the luminaries like Will Arnett and
Jason Bateman and Jimmy Kimmel and Spike Lee, Rob Low,
Brad Pitt, Pat Sajak, even Taylor Swift apparently. And I'll
tell you all you need to do. Coming up on
Bernie Frattle, We're coming you live from the Las Vegas

(01:51:14):
Fox Sports Radio tyrack dot com studios. Keep it locked.
You're listening to the Bernie Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio.
All right, we are wrapping it up on the Bernie
Frattle Show Fox Sports Radio. Still comingy live from the
tyraq dot com studios here in Las Vegas. Before I
go any further this evening, this morning, depending on your perspective,

(01:51:38):
I want to thank my broadcast team back in Los Angeles,
turning all the dials, keeping us glued together, taking the
phone calls, participating in the movie discussion. Great job, Mark
Brie and of course Kevin Figures on the updates. Another day,
another donut. So appreciate the teamwork and everybody's contributions. I

(01:52:03):
will be back, of course, I'll be back on these
airwaves Saturday night at eleven pm Pacific, no doubt. Another
what promises to be another exciting evening of high drama baseball.
I mean, it's come on, It's Yankees Dodgers, right, But
I'm also going to take a moment I didn't get
a chance to do this tonight. Go our Friday night
shows a little different format. I want to give a

(01:52:24):
Saturday night tribute to Fernando Alezuela. He will always remain
a beloved figure in Dodger history, in Major League Baseball,
a special source of pride for fans everywhere, Latino fans everywhere.
And I thought it was really cool when Oral Hirscheizer
and Steve Jeger. Herschezer was an MVP in the eighty
eight World Series. Steve Jeger, a catcher on the eighty

(01:52:45):
one team, was a co MVP. They didn't throw out
the first pitch. They own are Fernando. There's no words
to describe the impact Fernando had, and it just not
as a player, not only as a player with all
of his great heroics, but as a person too. Speaking
of good people to is going to return this week,
but as we said he would, we're gonna talk about

(01:53:07):
that and take take you inside of his head. See
what I did there and he and and talk about
the decisions, the factors he considered in making that decision.
By the way, Tom Brady now technically might have ownership
and an NFL team, but now it's it's creating what
I would call the uh, what's the law of unintended consequences?

(01:53:29):
So I'm going to dive into a little bit. Well,
you know the situation Saturday night that Brady has brought
upon himself and some of the limitations that he will
now face. He can't criticize teams or referees, he can't
enter team facilities, can't attend practices.

Speaker 17 (01:53:45):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:53:46):
Well, we'll go over all that Saturday Night as well
as are full NFL slate, and of course we will
review in our takeaways from Saturday's college football slate, which
you know, what upsets might there be? Who knows? With
the future holes here in college football on Saturday, and
of course we'll have the Physick five Steve Fessick, UH

(01:54:09):
and UH and Mark Medina at midnight. How about those
Lakers off to a two and oh start? Anthony Davis
looks like a world beater, man, I like I like
the way JJ red. Well, we'll talk about that Saturday night.
So you want to go to the World Series, you
want to you want to hang out with the celebrities
like Jason Bateman and Pat Sajak and Brad Pitt and

(01:54:30):
Rob Low and Spike Lee and Jimmy Kimmel and I
they'd even say Taylor Swift, Will Arnett. Well, you know,
by the way, before I get into this, I mean,
this is a star studed world series. They're projecting as
many as perhaps seven players on both teams that could
end up in the Hall of Fame someday. And you've

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got historical ballparks, well maybe not yan so much Yankee STATEUM,
but certainly Dodger Stadium. And this this is you know,
Yankey's Dodgers is a coveted matchup and they haven't gotten
to do this since nineteen eighty one, right, And so
that immediately is going to drive ticket sales. It drove
the betting handle through the roof. And you haven't really

(01:55:11):
seen this kind of ticket sale activity. And since the
Cubs broke their one hundred and eight year championship drop
back in twenty sixteen. So here's all you gotta do.
Get yourself three eight hundred and eighty seven dollars and
that gets you in the park. That is what the
average list price for this year's game, according to a

(01:55:31):
ticket aggregator, the second highest figure track for the World
Series in the last fifteen seasons. And again it's only
second to what it costs to get into Wrigley Field
when Chicago beat Cleveland eight years ago. Can you believe
it's been eight years? It cost forty six hundred dollars
a ticket. But right now the demand for games one, two, six,
and seven, well, we've already had Game one. It's really robust,

(01:55:53):
right averaging about thirty two hundred. I think twelve hundred
actually gets you in the park, but thirty eight hundred
is the average ticket price, and I understand that when
they jump to Yankee Stadium. So Game two is later
on this evening, five pm Pacific time, eight pm Eastern time,

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and then you the teams will travel and then they'll
play Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and Yankee Stadium. Unless somebody sweeps,
I don't think that'll happen. That would be the Dodger
sweeping the ticket price for According to vivid Seats, the
average ticket price for the tickets sold at Yankee Stadium

(01:56:36):
is closer to forty nine dollars. And that would be
a new that would be a new record. Okay, that
would be a new record four and seventy five dollars,
and that is actually even more expensive than eight of
the last fifteen Super Bowl And that is saying something
because if you've ever been to a Super Bowl, or
I've been to two, covered one, six and Detroit, and

(01:56:57):
money flies there like you've never seen. And if for
a World Series ticket to exceed a super Bowl ticket,
that's saying something, now, believe it or not. Dodgers Stadium
has a seating capacity of fifty six thousand, which is
the largest in Beajor League Baseball. The new Yankee Stadium
not far behind. Well, it is kind of far behind,
about ten thousand less, forty six five forty three, so

(01:57:20):
there's less. There are less seats in Yankee Stadium. And
you know they all employ various ticket management strategies, but
the resale market is what is front and center now right.
This is what you're gonna pay. You're gonna go through
the resale market. Stub Ups said this year is tracking
to be by far it's best selling World Series history.

(01:57:43):
Sales are already ahead of last year's final results. We're
is getting started and it's pacing quadruple the level of
twenty twenty two, and this was even before game one,
so I gotta imagine what happened. And if let's say
the hypothetically they'd say they leave it up, that's only
going to I think, can increase demand. I don't know

(01:58:05):
anybody I've talked to you that doesn't think this is
going at least six or seven. So we do expect
I do expect this to return back to Dodger Stadium
next Friday at you know, we would be for game six.
So there you have it, you know, and eighty seven
dollars will get you in. That's your average price according
to ticket aggregators. You know that doesn't include hot dogs

(01:58:27):
or sodas. And please don't do any bottles on the field,
and not that they have bottles, but you get the point.
All right. That's going to do it for the Bernie
Frattle Show. I'm going to be back on these airwaves
Saturday night, eleven PM with a full slate, and we
will see you in in the meantime. Keep it locked
right here up next to Fellas, Fox Sports Radio,

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