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October 10, 2024 • 54 mins

Jason and Mike celebrate the heck outta the Mets punching their ticket to the Championship Series. And Longtime NFL Insider Jason Cole joins the show for all the latest headlines from around the league. Plus, Jason tells you the moment Woody Johnson decided to finally fire Robert Saleh!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
I'm six years old and going to my first Mets game.
Oh boy, yeah, buddy, Hello, and welcome inside the greatest
night in the history of sports. Didn't know what tonight,
but it is. I didn't realize it was tonight. It's
not at that memo, it's tonight. I mean I got
a sandwich, so that worked out well for me. H Hey,
I had McDonald's for everybody coming in. Donalds were grimaced

(00:53):
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pre two, Dodgers, five nothing the Mats. I know, hey,

(01:14):
Will Smith hit the ball. Yeah, top of the ninth inning,
Yankees holding on to a three to two lead over
the Royals. They just got out of a two on,
two out jam. In the bottom of the eighth. Yankee's
looking to go up two games to one there. Meanwhile,
the Dodgers were with their backs to the wall. Maybe
this is what they need. Up five nothing now over
the Padres. As they bat in the fourth inning, a

(01:34):
two run homer by Will Smith extends that lead. Mookie
Betts with a home run in the first Suddenly, now
Mookie Bets is getting hit like every three at bats.
Three every three at bats, he's hitting a home run.
If the fans had done their job, he'd have a
home er in three straight.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Well, you know we meal party of the red scene
to make sure better than anything ceysl Me de Mill
could have ever.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Come up with. Gotta make sure I get that ball
and he doesn't.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Come out with it right. Gotta make sure I'm getting
his glove. But either way, Bets hits a home run.
Now you got Smith and the opener theory for Dave
Roberts thus far working. Yeah, the Dodgers spent a billion
dollars last year in contracts, and it's a back to
the wall. Robert's job probably on the line tonight, and

(02:17):
it's a bullpen game. Like that's baseball. That's baseball in
one sentence right there, They spent a billion dollars. The
manager is going to get fired if they lose most likely,
and they have a bullpen game. They're at a bullpen
game and they're back to the wall, must win game.
Just started thinking about it, you know, as we've talked
about it the last few weeks, the number of starting pitchers,
what was at seventeen, The fact that you had Urius

(02:42):
and Trevor Bauer were supposed to be part of this squad, right,
that's part of the lost money and obviously horrible circumstances
and allegations around both of them, but those were supposed
to be two of your big stars, right, two frontline
guys that are gone. In addition to go go down
all the way through the the litany of pitchers that

(03:05):
have gone to the injured list never to be seen again,
and then the unfortunate news that even Clayton Kershaw couldn't
rally himself to get back into the mix for this postseason.
So here we are in a win or go home
road game with the opener a billion dollars in money,
billion dollars spent, and yeah we have we have a

(03:27):
bunch of guys going. I keep braising my hand. I
want to keep talking to the trainers.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
A bunch of guys. Do we see anything? It's just
a bunch of guys.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
I know Mike's watched a couple of games, but Jason,
if you watched any Dodger games this whole year, what
has been their strongest point all year? Having bat well, yeah,
of course, outside of Otani, it's the bullpen right well,
Dave Roberts is very well season long. But this is
actually a great strategy. I'm all for it now, and
maybe Otani will come in to close it out. If

(03:54):
you need to be coming the pitch of ninth, you
shut your mouth. What would be his entrance song? Do
you Think I Am the Goat? Which by Little John.
I was wondering what death metal band you were bringing.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Up, Romstunt.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
For me, it would be something from well because he
was fifty to fifty probably something from fifty one to
fifty van Halen nice, you know, just guy trying to
think of fifty to fifty in a song something by
fifty seventies. And gentlemen, you know you're welcome our new closer.
It's Sammy Haygar. Uh So again we'll have more on
these games coming up again. Ninth in in Yankees trying
to hold on Dodgers up five nothing going to the

(04:32):
bottom of the third now the Mets. I gave it
five minutes, all right, go ahead, Just so you know,
in a forty two minute car ride, you can listen
to Back in the New York Groove thirteen times in
a forty.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
Minutes, right, including the trail off for you know.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
When it gets to the end and it goes back
like if you're listening to it off, it doesn't have
a full trail. Yeah, I know, trick it's three h
nine Okay, three on nine and then you go back.
You you can listen to it thirteen times in a
forty two minute ride, how about that?

Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah? You know what I started doing like a few
years ago when.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
When my daughter was younger, we would go to Disneyland
a lot, and I would go and say, you know,
you can listen to the Nigel song from Rio thirteen
times in thirty nine minutes. I didn't know that, you know,
you could listen to it that many times the back
of the New York Group thirteen times in a forty
two minute drive. Not a Disney property. Men, that's okay.
You could mix things while you're in the car. And
I'm just yelling and screaming the entire time. I don't

(05:28):
know what to say. I mean, just think about this
for a second. The three biggest home runs in the
history of the franchise. We're all hit in the last
nine games, like Agbayanni had a big home run in
the thirteenth inning in two thousands, and this is kind
of what this run reminds me of. This Mets now
in twenty twenty reminds me of what it wasn't in
two thousand and Ventura with the Grand Slam that turned

(05:49):
out not to be a Grand Slam.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
It was a single.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
But I mean, you're talking about three biggest home runs.
Lindor's home run to beat the Braves, Alonzo's three run
homer off the Brewers. That is gonna look, they're gonna
look back at that in the history of baseball and
talk about one of the biggest home runs ever hit.
And now tonight Lindor's grand slam in the sixth inning
to give the Mets the four to one lead, and
that's it. Lights out games over see you in the NLCS.
I was chuckling at the Lindor home run today, just

(06:13):
how bad a pitch that was because they'd been so erratic. Yeah, right,
that inning was an absolute disaster from billar to post
the entire series for the Phillies bullpen, the best bullpen
in Major League Baseball.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
Oops, it was a disaster.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
But here's pitching the dirt, pitching the dirt all the
way to the backstop and going up like you were
playing ski ball. I mean, all of this stuff. And
then here's a two to one count and just straight
straight ball. Fat ball. Yeah I even said it as
it was crossing. Wow, that was a fat ball. And

(06:48):
Eleanor is sitting at working on some homeworkschics. What's a
fat ball? I've heard of a fastball. I'm like, here,
watch this book, this fat flastball that doesn't have it.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
It's got no movement. It is straight over the play.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
You know, and there's a difference of what why do
you see pitches like that? Certain things like there's so
much to get to this home run by Lindors, just
by the way they were only with runners and scoring physicians,
because that's the other thing. Credit that was just in
the first two innings. But you got to give credit
to the Mets staff. Kinana, former White. What don't waste
your time thinking anybody but Grimace, you know, man, Grimace outside, No,

(07:24):
you're outside of those guys. Grimace had a benefing to
do it. Grimacide. We're at this one listen in Major
League Baseball. I think now we're seeing best years Grimace
than Otani then Lindor. Whoa, that's just straight this respect, dude,
it's Grimace you doing is always one?

Speaker 3 (07:41):
Yeah, no, he's great, but he's not Grimmace. He's the one.
He's not great.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
People aren't having pilgrimages to see to take pictures in
front of the purple seat they painted for him at
City Field. Like Grimace hit fifty to fifty, they did say,
like nine of all uh Japanese tourists that came to
the States showed up at Dodgers for four millions because
they all land just get going, and they all say, no,

(08:05):
come here to see Grimace. But I thought that's in
New York. No, no, we have Grimace here. Oh okay,
why do we not have Grimace? Grimace, Grimmas Gris Grimma
city field. You see, you see in this and in
the playoffs. The bullpen always becomes front and center in
the playoffs because bullpen is much more active at this
time than any other time in the season, right because

(08:25):
you start teams say, hey, if I get four innings
out of our starting pitcher, right when you get to
six innings, a guy could be cruising regular seasons. Yeah,
let the guy go. Save our bullpen for a day.
O six inning, you might need to come out, dude,
I'm mowing them down. I'm throwing ninety eight I just
sawed off bats. Now, I thrown a lot of pitches.
Time to come out of the game. You get to
six innings, that's a lot. There is so much emphasis
on the bullpen and watching the guys come in from

(08:49):
the bullpen, and this is where you know the closers
is a different thing. We had the conversation about closers
last night that It wasn't so much about Hey, they're
not ready for the moment as much as as it is.
Do they trust their stuff? Do they try to get
too cute? It's the playoffs. They overthink things, and this
is how you see big closers get beat because they
just think too much. I want to do this this,

(09:10):
And suddenly it's three and one and you're giving up
a home run to a Lonzo, giving up a Horundulin door,
giving up a home run to somebody. You're giving a
big home run in the ninth inning. You think too
much because you see the closers all fall behind and
they have to come back with a fat pitch. Right
for the middle relievers that come in, it's different. It's
when you fall behind in account I can always tell
what reliever is feeling it and what reliever is not,

(09:30):
because when you fall behind two and one, like I
still saw a range of Suarez today, he was awful, right,
he was all over, but still at three and one,
He's throwing that curve that is landing in the dirt
and the Mets can't lay off, and I'm like, how
do you not how.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
Do you not lift?

Speaker 1 (09:44):
That pitch is starting out above your head and it's
landing at your shoe tops and the Mets can't lay
off it. Yeah, that's a gusty, right, But that's a
guy that is confident that I, no matter what was
going on, I'm back. I got two on nobody out.
I'm still throwing this curve and you're not going to
touch it. Right, And guys come in from the bult
and you can see, hey, when they're behind in the count,
are they gonna still trust their stuff and throw their

(10:05):
pitches or are they gonna say, you know what, I
can't walk them. I gotta make it. I'm gonna make
them hit it, and I'm gonna I gotta make sure
I get this over the plate. And it's a ninety
eight mile an hour fastball right down the middle, and
the best pitchure, best hitters in baseball are gonna turn
on it like That's what I see. When and the
Phillies the entire series, I watched them come in. None
of them had confidence, none of them were ready. They
all fell behind the Mets hitters. This is the best bullpen.

(10:27):
Every pitch of the Phillies were throwing out there, you
would say, here's an all star, right, here's Zach wheel
Or Allstar, Suarez All Star. Here's Matt Strom All Star.
None of them were ready. They all fell behind. None
of them trusted their stuff. They threw fat pitches over
the plate. Marte single yesterday to make it a four
to nothing game was a pitch you should never been thrown.
You're way ahead in the count and you throw a
fat one right over the plate. Q Susan Waldman. I

(10:48):
saw that the entire series from the Phillies. And here
you come in. You're two and one behind a Lindor
with the bases loaded. Hey, I can't walk him. Like
he's had a couple of bad swings in the game today,
he had some really bad swings he had a tough
time with and you throw that ninety eight men, he's
just gonna turn and crush it, and he just run
at first base, like eh, I just yet, it's like,
you know whatever, It's like a preseason on run like

(11:09):
Barry Sanders. I'm just I'm just hitting it. But you
have to respect that's it. I mean, that's Lindor. As
soon as he hit it, I just yelled, he got it,
he got it, he got I mean, I don't know,
I have nothing left, man. I need these three days
off before the NLCS, because I mean from Lindora's home
run against the Braves and Alonso and and and the
drama with the Phillies.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
I got. No, I don't know how they're playing.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
I have none, but that's but that's the bigger thing,
is right, is what we've seen is the big inning
from your squad has been the saving grace. They're not
bleeding to run here or there. No, no, no, it's
big innings, big hits and big flies with your guy
Lindor today, because otherwise you had opportunities, not as many
as the Phillies did early, but you had opportunities and

(11:53):
not a whole lot. And then that inning just unraveled.
It was a that's a master's class of how to
really screw up the game really fast, trying to get
too cute, dancing around the edges. Rial Muto should put
in for hazard pay the amount of times he had
to do splay it splaying out, trying to block pitches
in the dirt and rolling through. But yeah, just an

(12:15):
impressive at bat from Lindor waited on it and got
the fattest pitch you're ever gonna see. I really just
hammered it and it was gone. Like as soon as
he as soon as he hit it, you knew, like
that's it, he got it. He got radio fantastic. Yeah,
the outfielders knew. And and again I want and as
soon as Lindor swung, I said he got it, he
got it.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
I knew like Alonzo.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
I could tell because he yelled Lindor was the same
reaction when he hit the home run against the Braves,
got it. The guy just loves playing baseball. He gets
a hit like that, he rounds the bases. He's not
somebody that's for showing it. He's not Jesse Winker, who
would hit the home run and run by the dugout
and go blank you, blank you, blank you. I mean,
I don't know what to say about that. I kind
of go on and see. I like both ends of
the spectrum. I don't like the guy that's kind of

(12:57):
half ass, right. I either want to full on Tatis
and dance on you or the Lindor. I'm just gonna
round the bases and do my Barry Sanders give the
ball back to the official.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
I when when he hit that, and I screamed, and
I said, that's it.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
That's it. It's over. And then I'm saying, don't bring
Diaz in. Let Peterson finish. The game, brings in and
he walks the first two and I say, you've got
to be kidding me, man, And all I'm thinking of
is ty Shirt's gonna play that Diaz open all night.
He's gonna give up the lead and we're gonna lose.
And Tyser's gonna play that bleeping edwin Diaz Narco open

(13:33):
every single hour tonight in the show. And then he
calmed down and got the next three outs pretty easy.
But I'm like, come on, man, I'm like, no, let
Peterson finish. He's he's a starter, he can pitch. He's fine. No, no, no, no,
We're gonna bring in Diaz. Could never be easy. It's
a good thing we got that open with Peterson in.
There can never be sweat, dude. That's the thing with closers, man.

(13:56):
Since twenty twenty, I've been sweating das you had one
unbelie year. Everything else is you deserve it. It is
absolutely you need you need it. I just I deserve
I deserve this.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
I deserve this. Nlcyes A, You're kidding. Oh my goodness,
Oh my goodness. Meanwhile, you still have Aaron Rodgers, So
there's a balance the time. I have no time for
those Shenanigans. No time.

Speaker 4 (14:16):
Right now.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
I get so many people on my social media account going, oh,
it's gonna be another night we're talking about the Jets.
I'm like, I got no time for those clowns. I
got the nl you show, the tweets that I tell
you about, they exist, I got no I got no
time for those clowns. I got the NLCS coming up. Man,
come on, I got good stuff happening. Uh the Jason
Smith Show and Mike Carmen Live from the tirac dot

(14:37):
Com stude you might. Uh, here's what's going on right now.
Ninth inning has just completed. The Yankees beat the Royals
three to two. I'm watching John Paul Morosi interviewed gian
Carlos Stanton so in the last couple of minutes. Stanton
who had the big home run in the eighth inning
to give them the three to two lead. The Yankees

(14:58):
are now up three games to two. Meanwhile, the Dodgers
continue to lead the Padres five nothing, two outs bottom
of the third inning for Nando Tatis Junior has just
doubled to the wall in center. But it is still
a five nothing lead for the Dodgers, and it looks
like this is gonna be the third out, flyout to left.
Dodgers go in Michael Kopek in the game in the

(15:19):
third inning. Time about that for the Dodgers. Another white,
no good, so five nothing lead for the Dodgers. Shoho
Tani due to lead the fourth inning, off for the Dodgers.
Let's go where we're going, see if you can get
a good at bat out of him. He's it's been
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Speaker 3 (15:54):
We'll coming up next.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
Yes, we'll have more in the Huge Night in Major
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Speaker 1 (16:59):
Student Dodgers lead the Padres five nothing in the fourth inning,
Yankees finishing touches on a three to two win over
the Royals. Congratulations to the second best team in New
York keeping their season alive one more games. It really
is really great by the Yankees to seat They're very
very happy to see succeed in pro seed. Walt Breed's

(17:20):
a little easier tonight, very happy. I have a hard
fought win. We're still uh, Bobby wits bat is on
the side of a milk carton anything is for my dad,
though he is, he's not the happiest that it was
Stanton hitting the home run, Like Judges got Judge and
I just can't stand. Stanton is like Stan Stance, like
he love Judges, this guy. I'm like, Dad, it doesn't matter. Yeah,

(17:42):
but Stan's been so bad. Yeah, but he hit a
home rock. He's in the lineup. Okay, he's in the lineup.
It's like, but the right guys aren't hitting the rat.
I'm like, you think, I don't care. Tom Brady could
bat for the Mets in the eighth inning and if
he gets a single over drawing.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
An infield to win the game. Yeah, Hey, I don't care.
Go back to those A Rod Yankees.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
How many people hated a Rod until they didn't until
all of a sudden it's like, hey, wait, what of us?
And they saw how his teammates reacted.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
And everything go.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
But it's the same thing with Stanton, like he's always
at arms distance with all of this, and I get it,
he's missed a ton of time. And Judge is the face,
second face of the game, all that stuff.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
But you got a contribution to win a playoff game.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
Be happy.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
No, man, your bullpen held us. Not the right guy now,
You're not the right guy. You need the right guy
joining us now on the hot line. Man who is
probably rooting for Dodgers Mets as much as I am.
It's longtime Dodger fan. And look, as long as he's
been a fan of the Dodgers, they have been a
very good team. Longtime NFL analyst. Check him out on

(18:49):
Twitter at Jason Coles sixty two thirty third team Haul,
A very good voter. Joins us now to talk quarterbacks
and more. Jake Cole, what's happening?

Speaker 4 (18:59):
I mean, Dodgers so bad? I really do, I really do? Well.
Look I am I am standing on the wall until
we get met Dodgers. I'm just telling you that right now.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
And let me just say I I I hope to
be able to extend you that invitation to the National
League Championship Series. I'm already at the party. Listen, I'm
at the party. I left your name at the door. Okay,
so they should let you in. If they don't let
you in, let me know what I can do.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
Just be careful. He's checking id's. That's what he's. He's
the guy.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
He's guy at the door checking id's. Just be careful,
Ja Cole. This guy goes from the Costanza side of
the invitation book.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
But sala checking the door something to do.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
He's pretty intimating I would mess around with due.

Speaker 4 (19:51):
He is he is, you know, Lebanon represented baby, Let's go.
But yeah, I like Saul at the door. I really
that's a nice touch.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
What about what about is the former head coach of
the Jets? Do you like that?

Speaker 4 (20:09):
That? Just so? If what he made this decision without
consulting Aaron Rodgers, that would be like the most wooty
thing to do, right. I think you're making a good
football decision without consulting the quarterback. If he didn't consult
the quarterback and the quarterback signed off on this, well

(20:30):
that on Aaron, you know, for messing up a team
again and deciding that he's the most powerful person on
a team, right, because he's wanted. He's been doing this
now for like four years and getting people fired, you know,
and stomping all over people until Green Bay finally got
tired of it. But I nobody knows that that's true,

(20:52):
and he certainly has denied its right. But what he
is the kind of owner who would think he's doing
something really glorious by taking a team that's played, to
be quite honest, really well statistically, especially with a forty
year old quarterback who, by the way, hasn't played for

(21:14):
a year and never played with any of these guys
and didn't play in the preseason. Right, So you have
a rusty quarterback, a rusty old quarterback getting back into
you know, playing condition, and your two players from being
four and one. And again I get it the old

(21:35):
parcel saying you are what your record says you are.
But on all sorts of metrics, the Jets are playing
really good football. They just are you trying to work
out the final sort of pegs in this whole process,
and Wood he like what he panicked. And here's the

(21:56):
other thing I don't like about this as all. It's
like Sala spends two years stuck with Zach Wilson and
Zach Wilson's mom and gets five games of Aaron Rodgers,
like that's it. Like I built this really great defense.

(22:17):
It's been basically the best defense in the league over
the three years I've been head coach. And I finally
get a quarterback and you don't let me at least
see whether I can win or screw this up on
my own, Like I get five games, like that's it.
And so this is just a it's a panic decision

(22:37):
by Woody. And the other part about it is if
what he did acquiesce to what Aaron Rodgers says, like
what is a big wooss on that account too, So
like none of this really makes a whole lot of
sense to me. And I know there are complaints about
Sala and he sort of is got these Sarah Dave
Wanstet qualities to him and harmon'swag now like getting into

(23:01):
the shakes, okay, as I mentioned one stat but you know,
like it's there. But to at least get a year
with a quarterback and a great defense to figure to
figure out if you're a good coach or not, like
you should that would seem only fair to me.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
All the pieces are in place, obligatory, wanstat great quote
from his time in Chicago.

Speaker 4 (23:25):
That's you could put that right in solid mouth, and
he could probably be doing that at the door. He could.
He could be standing at the door checking id's going.
All the pieces in place.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
We're ready for a big night, all right.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
So we get Jets Bills, Jake Cole, and then we
get the announcement for the Patriots that they're gonna send
Drake May out there?

Speaker 3 (23:45):
Is it time? Is this a right move? Wrong move?
Trial by fire? What do you think of this one?

Speaker 4 (23:53):
He got play? Come on? This doesn't excite me, like
they gotta put him out there. I mean they're brutal.
They're averaging less than what four yards of play and nothing?
You know, I'm not I don't want to blame this
on Jacoby Brissette. He's just a guy, you know. He's
a good, solid backup quarterback. He's had a nice career,

(24:15):
he's going to continue to have a nice career. But
he's just a backup quarterback. You got to see what
you have. So Drake May go out there and play,
and if he screws it up, okay, no problem. Like
you're not very good anyways, and you knew this was
a building here. Let him go see what he can
do out there. And if he's really really awful, I

(24:35):
mean he's just got off. Well. If he plays three,
four or five games, okay, then set him back down
and at least he got a taste of what playing
at this speed is. I mean, because guys, are you know,
generally young quarterbacks are going to suck Jayden Daniels aside
you know, Strout, aside Roethlisberger. There are a few exceptions

(24:57):
out there, but like you know, Manning was bad at first.
Here set out an interception record, like yeah, and that
turned out all right, So let him go play. That's
how I look at it.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
NFL Insider Jason Call our guest to Jason Smithcher with
Mike Carmon live from the tirec dot Com studios. All right, so,
which which quarterback move did you like the most?

Speaker 3 (25:19):
Today?

Speaker 1 (25:19):
The Raiders officially going to aid No O'Connell or Spencer
Ratler now going to start potentially for a little while
for the Saints because of Derek Carr's injury, which is
a bigger move.

Speaker 4 (25:29):
I'm so intrigued by Spencer Rattler because the stories about
this kid are so all over the map about what
what a jerkball he is and how selfish he is,
and you know, he rehabbed it. It took him out
like two years for him to sort of rehab himself

(25:51):
and rid himself of that stink that he had around him.
And maybe it's true, maybe he's learned the hard way
and after being you know, a jerky young quarterback when
he was moving from school to school. So I'm I'm
fascinated to see what this kid's about. So hey, no Cole,
like we've done that. Come on, I mean, there's nothing

(26:13):
there for Aidan O'Connell, like there's there's like, there's no
Drew Brees, Like, oh he's from Purdue. You know, he
could be the next Drew Brees. That's that's not it's
not that you know, like you're Raiders fan, like you
screwed up and you let Panics get away. You didn't
have good intel to know that. You know that Atlanta
was going to come up there and snatch Panics from you.

(26:36):
You didn't work out a deal, and so you get
to be in purgatory for another year. You get, you know,
person Pierce in purgatory and you get to find out that,
you know, Antonio Pierce liking things on TikTok or social
media is not really a good sign of management skills.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Well, I mean, there's clearly an organization on the rise
to what I don't know.

Speaker 4 (27:02):
But to that end as now Davis like rising from
the dead to take the team back away from his son.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
That would be.

Speaker 4 (27:09):
That would be We're holding a seance out in the
in the Vegas desert.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
Listen, We're going back to Oakland. We're going back. I'm sorry,
We're going back. I gotta go back to the coliseum.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
Wait for me, all right.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
So staying with the with the Raiders, where's Adams end
up playing?

Speaker 4 (27:29):
All right? So the teams that, you know, the Steelers
desperately need a wide receiver, especially one who's like a little.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
Bit mature, wants to play.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
Yeah, who wants to play, knows what it's like to
run routes out all the time. I you know, I
give Mike Tomlin a lot of credit for figuring out
Antonio Brown for all those years and and putting up
with all of his bs. But like, you can't go
back to that well a second time. You got to

(27:58):
realize that some guys you just can't reach, and George
Pickens is a bad guy that you just can't reach.
So yeah, you got to push in and you've got
to go get DeVante Adams right now and get a
real receiver to help you out, because you should have
won on Sunday night like that was such a that

(28:19):
was such a winnable game in a division where you know,
you have the first eight or nine games before they
get into Division. I think it's the first nine games.
They can't afford to blow more than two of that
and they've lost their two. They need to be seven
and two at the turn if they're going to hold
off Baltimore, which you know, again statistically is playing the

(28:39):
best football in the entire league if you look at
yards per play, differential things that really measure whether the
team is going to be good long term. And since
and I was just going to get better now Cleveland, Cleveland,
Cleveland right now, and that's a mess. But Pittsburgh needs
an offensive weapon. They need something to help out the quarterback.
It doesn't feel not good enough. And we'll see about

(29:02):
Russell Wilson now that he's practicing again, but go and
get him, you know, obviously the Jets are going to
be interested. If if they're pushing in by getting rid
of Sala to take advantage of this great team, then
by all means they should go out and get DeVante
Adams and they should make a bid for him, because
you've already you know, you're you've already told the world

(29:24):
we're all in this year. So you know, go make
the next move to do that. And who is the
other team that I was thinking, uh could really use him?

Speaker 3 (29:36):
Bills?

Speaker 4 (29:39):
Bills could use him too. Does Belichick go and coach
the Bills?

Speaker 3 (29:44):
You see?

Speaker 1 (29:45):
You know I think Belichick call it goes and coaches
the first team that calls it in the offseason. You
don't e need to give me a salary. I'll just
show up. Don't even work money is I'll do it
for free. I just got to catch Shula, all right,
I'll do it for free.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
He wants to get paid.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
He'll coach the Jets if the Jets call him next season.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
Trust he'll coach the Jets.

Speaker 4 (30:06):
That ain't a marriage that you god man like that.
That's like a redo of the War of the Roses movie. Right, Wow,
that's that would be so ugly, you know, because the
power grab that Belichick would have, like he would own

(30:27):
everything that that what he has like a soul, his money,
what the deal with the devil that would he would
have to make a swallow his pride after what Belichick
did to him twenty five years ago. Is just staggering
to me that it's that ware to happen. But the

(30:48):
Bills make a lot of sense. And you know, they're
really good the first three weeks and now they're getting
back to the you know, they lose the out two
games and you can see it getting to Josh Allen
a little bit in that in that loss to Houston
where he's doing some things that are a little panicky

(31:10):
and he's pushing too hard. But the one thing that
really worries me about the Bills is kind of they're
so soft right now and this is just not a
McDermott teams. Like they've got talent on defense, but they
are not a tough team and they got to do
something to turn that around. And to me, you got

(31:33):
to go and get a guy like Bullisheck because you've
got a real real short window and will pay, I
mean for Blula, will pay whatever it takes and you're right.
You're right about this. Belichick would probably take a pay
cut to coach against the Patriots and Craft. In fact,
he probably could. You imagine if Belichick got to break

(31:55):
Shula's record New England front oh Craft like, if Craft
ever like, if Craft was if there was ever a
threat that Craft might die next time. You know that
Dolichuck will resuscitate him. Get to keep them alive long
enough so that he can win that game in front

(32:18):
of Craft in New England.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
He's on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two A drop
the mic moment for Jacole Time now to find out
what's trending in the wide world of sports from Monzie Bolanos.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
Wots what are you going for us?

Speaker 1 (32:30):
Hey, guys.

Speaker 5 (32:31):
So it's a must win game for the Dodgers, as
everyone knows, and right now it's been all Dodgers against
the Padres in San Diego. Five zero is the score.
Top of the fifth inning. There was a interesting play.
I don't know if you guys saw it because you're
doing a show, so I know you're busy, but they
just got on this hit the single down third base.
It hit Manny Machado's glove. Then it hit the umpire

(32:52):
and then he grabbed it and threw Otani out at home.
Dino at third base was trying to stop Otawni. Otani
didn't lookup because he's just got, you know, wheel going.
He gets out and that was the end of the inning.
But he just got I hate him so much and
he's so good, he's so annoying.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
Kill Roberts did not, no, he did not. No, he
did not that Dave Roberts would be dead.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
Are you kidding?

Speaker 5 (33:17):
Okay, Okay, we're gonna we'll talk about that later, guys.
The Tigers are now leading their series two to one.
After shutting out the Guardians for his second game in
a row. They won today three zero. The Yankees held
on to their lead thanks to John Carlos stan solo
shot in the eighth inning net put them on top.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
They beat the.

Speaker 5 (33:34):
Royals three to two, so New York leads that series
two to one, and of course, the Mets Mets Mets
Mets Mets Francisco Lindor with a grand slam. The Mets
eliminated the Phillies, punching their ticket to the NLCS. They
went it four to one. A little quick NFL news
for you guys. Forty nine Ers tight end George Kittle
off the injury report. He will play Thursday night against
the Seahawks and Eagles wide receivers aj Brown DeVante Smith.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
They were full participants at practice today.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
Back to you guys, thank The Jason Smith.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
Show and Mike Harmon live in the tyraq dot Com studios.
Coming up next, we get into a big NFL story.
Ready to make a big Bowl prediction on the game
this week. That's gonna have the most drama bar none.
That's next, Jason, Mike, It's not Cleveland.

Speaker 3 (34:17):
Fox.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (34:26):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. Bottom of the fifth inning, Dodgers continue
to lead the Padres five nothing. Padres do have one on.
Nobody out. We'll have more in this game coming up
in a few minutes. Padre's We're gonna end it, Dodger,
We're gonna send this thing the game five as the
Mets will.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
Just wait for the winner, just wait, We'll just wait.
It's all goodness. We're in the club. We're in the club,
and I'd love doing it.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
I'd love to send out an extended invitation to a
team to join us in this club at the appropriate moment.
It's obviously they're not ready. We were ready, so we
got in. Other teams are not. They're still waiting outside
going come on, man, you got look some other people.
Can't just let all the hot girls in, man, come on, God,
let some other people in. Come on, man, they walk
right in for you. Let Screech in.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
You're letting screech. Remember that from up from Swingers. Screech
gets in. I don't get it.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
Screech gets it. Rest in peace, screech ah. But yeah,
you want to send the invitations, But are the other
teams hosting the marking?

Speaker 3 (35:25):
Y's sir, right there. We'll be there, We'll be there.
It doesn't matter. We're gonna show up anytime, any place, foal.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
But what's fast becoming the game with the most drama
attached to it? This weekend? We got into it a
little bit, tiny bit with Jason Cole a few minutes
ago Raiders Steelers. Because you have a ton of crazy
stuff in this game, right, Davante Adams is not going
to play.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
We found that out today.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
We had reports yesterday the Raiders wanted to make a
decision on him in the next twenty four to forty
eight hours. They bench Gardner Minshew for Aidan O'Connell and
also for the Steelers. Now, well, Justin Fields looks like
and it's it's and it's ridiculous because he didn't play
that badly on Sunday, But everybody's looking for a reason
for the Steelers to lose. Hey, you know what, you

(36:09):
let the Cowboys go all the way down the field.
It's not Justin Field did not have a horrible game.

Speaker 3 (36:13):
But as you can.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
See with Russell Wilson now suddenly practicing, what did I
tell you, Justin Field is gonna get a couple of
weeks if he doesn't, If he has a couple of
down weeks, Russell Wilson's gonna pull up. And I thought
on Sunday, Hey, Justin Field's is gonna have a big game.
He's gonna he's gonna clinch the role the bad weather.
He didn't play great. He didn't cost him the game,
but he didn't play unbelievably great.

Speaker 4 (36:34):
Well.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
Their number one receiver actually ran routes and looked like
he wanted to be there and he wasn't on what
was it? What did they call it? Wasn't play? Play management?
Yeay play Come.

Speaker 3 (36:46):
On, look Justin Field. This game has so much drama
around it.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
But the biggest thing is that it's it's like the
Steelers just can't help themselves that they want to put
Russell Wilson in this and and and Mike Tomlin wants
to do it, and the team wants to do it.
And I'm saying, what is he gonna give you? Different
from Justin Fields? What is he gonna give you? He's
not gonna give you anything. The offense isn't suddenly gonna explode.
It's gonna look worse than it is now because Russell

(37:11):
Wilson is older, and he's washed, and he hasn't played
football in a long time. What do you think is
gonna happen? But they can't, they can't help themselves and say, oh,
let's continue to move on with Justin Fields. No, no, no,
So if he has a bad game Sunday, it's the
Raiders and it should be a game where they play
well and they should win. If he has a bad
game Sunday, then Russell Wilson's gonna take over for the
next game, because now, what did I say, magically, Russell

(37:33):
Wilson's gonna be healed. If Justin Fields caused a couple
of bad games, we got nothing from Russell Wilson up
until but last week. But now they lose to the Cowboys.
Right now, they've lost two in a row. Oh, Russell
Wilson's back practicing. Now he's practicing and everything. You're surprised
that they lose two games practice, I wouldn't be surprised
to be started on Sunday when it's all said and done.
If all of a sudden it's surprised, here we are

(37:54):
and it's look, it's built in the same mode that
Mike Tomlin's built this team forever. Try to run the football,
play good defense, and if you can eke out twenty points,
you're gonna get a win. That's where you're at right
And we talked about it even yesterday obliquely, the Justin
Fields record two and twenty eight when his team, when

(38:15):
the opponent scores twenty or more points, so they'll make
the change. The offense will be just the same, unless
all of a sudden it lights a fire under the
ass of George Pickens now and he wants to play.
The offense is terrible, right, they don't have anybody trustworthy
to throw to. They're dealing with issues with George Pickens.
Naji Harris is just a guy, right he is when
it was Harris and Warren and Warren. But their offense

(38:38):
is terrible and this is not a justin fields thing.
What do they really think is gonna happen? They just
they deserve if they want to see russ willsonap bet
you deserve what's gonna happen When suddenly it's oh man,
we struggled to score nine points in this game, but
we talked about forever. It's it's winning, ugly. Take the
w's right. Everybody wants to be in the playoffs, but
recognize that once.

Speaker 3 (38:57):
You get there, you're gonna get housed. You're not gonna
score enough points.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
Telling me man if he has a down game Sunday,
and again it wasn't his fault, but it doesn't matter.
They just they can't not scratch that itch with Russell Wilson.
Are you yeah, you'll get a really bad offense? Good luck, Congratulations, congratulations,
good guys doing a lot of great stuff in the community,
doesn't mean he should be your quarterback on Sunday. Exit
out bout a Fresca, Exit swollen Dome. Coming up next.
Big moments from just a couple of minutes ago in

(39:23):
Major League Baseball, and the big story of the day
in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
This is Fox Sports Radio. I'm just I'm just saying
I just saw so many things.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
It's like when doctor strangers looking at all the different
ways they could beat thantos Kam with one in fourteen million,
Like in my head, I'm going, how many ways can
I see this going badly? Okay, here's a three run
homer by Clemens, kid or Resona wind up getting a
couple outs, but then Harper's gonna hit a Grand Slam
all the and I'm just sitting there going do my head,
going all these all these bad things I can see coming,
all these.

Speaker 3 (39:54):
Joe just sit there and look at you, going look
at him twitch. Now, this is no bet. Benny was
the one mar dog. Benny had to again.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
No, Benny just gets a little like when when I
start yelling when something happens with the Mets, he starts
barking like someone's invading No, I have that same door
at that home, and I come on, let's go.

Speaker 3 (40:16):
Benny gets up and runs outside.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
Think the squirrels are around, like oh, because you know
the squirrels are like Inspectorcluzo and data.

Speaker 4 (40:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
Yeah, and he's he's running like what's happening? Dad is yelling,
what's go? I gotta save everybody now. Betty Lindor just
hit home run. Man, it's unbelievably good.

Speaker 4 (40:33):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (40:33):
But I will say.

Speaker 1 (40:34):
This before you get to a big football story. You know,
I said last night, Look, I could never be a
good GM in baseball because I want to trade everybody
after a bad three days, right, I could never do that. No,
so you're in one inning, couple of bats, Yeah, you're done.
And I knew, and I said, you know, I'd be
a much better manager because I know how I manage,
you know in softball that I managed the last few years.
I know, I know I'd be pretty good manager. And

(40:55):
then I watched today. In the third inning, they did
an interview with Carlos Mendoza. After the Mets left the
bases loaded in the first and the bases loaded in
the second, and at that point I think they had
sent eight batters to the plate with a runner and
scoring position, and the Mets didn't score a run, right Like,

(41:16):
Jason Starrk tweeted out, I don't know how that's possible.
I'm like, oh my god, we had eight at batches,
runners in scoring position, didn't score a run.

Speaker 3 (41:21):
That's like that. That doesn't seem like that is mathematically possible.
And I was so mad. I was so mad after that.

Speaker 1 (41:27):
Stop going, We're gonna lose this game like one, nothing
like Harper's gonna hit home running the seventh. We're gonna
leave twenty five runners on base. This is how it's
gonna go for the Mets. I don't have to grip
my ass off waiting for Game five in Philadelphia with
Wheeler all of a sudden, and I'm so mad, and
I'm like I want I'm like, how does nobody hit?
How do we have that many bad at bats? How
do we have the bases loaded? And Iglesias is waving

(41:49):
at three pitches out of the strike zone?

Speaker 3 (41:51):
What the hell are we doing?

Speaker 1 (41:52):
And I'm saying this, And they interviewed Carlos Mendoza and Carlos,
you know, guys had a bunch of runners left the
base loaded a couple of times. How do you feel?
He goes, well, if we keep getting good at bats
like that, we'll be fine. And I'm like, no, if
you interviewed me, I would go, how dare you ask
me that question? Why are you and my dog out?
Questions that over there? Our performance? You want to know

(42:15):
about my team's performance. It's a kind of questions, Get
the hell out of here. I don't care what you
work for, Get the hell out of here Fox Sports one,
and I don't care.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
Get that grass. That's what I would be.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
But he just goes yeah, and he's got his armshold
to go yeah, yeah, look, if we keep getting at
bats like that, we're gonna be fine.

Speaker 3 (42:30):
I'm like, dog, what would have been funny?

Speaker 1 (42:33):
He did get excitable and then he gripped his ass
and went full Jim Carrey. He's ventura in terms of
responding to the question. He just kind of happens and
he just says, yeah, you know, if we get better
at bats, as we keep getting these at bats, we're
gonna be fine.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
I'm not worried.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
I watched some of his facial expressions, right, they would
get the shot of the dugout where he just gotta
be nodding his head and doing the dizzy Gillespie. There's
a reference for you, blow up my cheek kind of thing.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
Go on whatever, But the.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
Calm to me some kind of manager. Man, I'm not
just weeks ago now he only made okay, I want
you just one night, one very It was just a
bad few minutes I had, right, just a bad few
minutes after he brought Das and when I knew bringing
Dias was a bad idea, it was just a bad

(43:22):
couple of seconds. That's all everything else. Look, I still
love you to be able to exude that kind of
call and look, and this gets into a bigger conversation
about Dave Roberts and all the stuff. Is that to
be able to exude that kind of calm when the
Mets are are are testing your blood pressure every five
seconds is really something. And that's the biggest thing you

(43:43):
can do as a manager or a head coach, is, Hey,
no matter what, hey excited when we win. You know, hey,
you're you're bummed when we lose. But be this, be
that you're be that person. Don't don't change so much.
And that's what that's what helped did Robert solomin Is
that when they won, everything was great, and when he lost,
it was awful, and he looked Sullen and Sulky on
the sideline like for it. But it but it's not

(44:04):
the manager to make that happen, right, So to wide
this out for the Mets, Yes, here's the Mets, and
they have all kinds of fun.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
Look, nobody likes to have.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
I get why some teams hate the Mets because nobody
likes to have more fun than the Mets. Every home
run they take a picture with the OMG they love
to celebrate, right, the same thing, same thing. But but
I understand. But but to me, because this this is
my thing for Dave Roberts, is that is to to
think that, Okay, I get why people don't like that.

(44:33):
I get why the Brewers are doing the Mets hitting
uh celebration when they when they they scored those couple
of runs in in Game two. I get why they
do that. But that's not Carlos Mendoza, right, that's not
it's not the manager, right, Because this is what gets
to Dave Roberts is that he's the guy trying to
keep everybody on an even keel. And that's what you
need to do, and he has done just an amazing
job since he came in earlier this year. Now you

(44:57):
go to the Dodgers and suddenly and suddenly what what
what's the big big criticism of Dave Roberts. Dave Roberts
has to find a way to get this to Dave
Roberts has to find a way. Wait, wait he does.
I don't think Dave Roberts does. Dave Roberts has to
make the right moves in the bullpen. He's got to
you know, there's certain things he has to do. This
is not on Dave Roberts to make sure the Dodgers
have more fight or have more whatever sort of intangible

(45:21):
they need. Just like it's not a you think Mike
Shilt is doing this with the padres that Fernando to
TEIs Junior and Manny Machatta are coming in between anything's going. Hey, guys, listen,
let's talk about the book where we were both reading
the Grapes of Rats and Mike Shilt's going.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
No, you guys, get out there to tease.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
You wiggle those hips to those fans, and machaddall you
throw that ball at Dave Roberts like you're asking too
much of the of the manager and asking to do
stuff that they don't do. So there's a lot of
criticisms and a lot there's criticisms and both praise for
managers in the playoffs that they don't get or don't
deserve and that, and that's the main one is that yes,
the Mets, this this is their vibe they have with

(45:57):
this team, and Mendoza keep mo and even Key Well.
Same thing with Dave Roberts, same thing with Mike Schilt.
The players are the players. They do their thing. But
you can't ask the manager to do something that he shouldn't.
And when he starts doing stuff like that and he
starts getting all emosha, you're not gonna be around very long.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
You can't do it.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
What did I say about Rex Ryan right when he
was coaching the Jets? He was fun, but every week
was a super Bowl and the minute you lose, you
go into three game losing streak and it's the worst.
You can't coach like that. In sports. You have to
be the same guy, and being the same guy you
succeed a lot. Right, Mendoza has had a lot of
success this year. Roberts has had tremendous success for the
last decade plus with the Dodgers. Mike schilt is having

(46:35):
tremendous success with this team. That's a whole bunch of
crazy hotheads running around and dancing and doing and making trouble. Right,
So it's the manager as long as they're doing that,
they're being that person. These teams can take on the
personalities they want to and it helps them. Right, the
Mets are the way they are because of the vibe
of this team. Same thing with the Padres, same thing

(46:55):
with the Dodgers. Right, the players and the manager do
not have to be in alignment. Where the Dodgers of
the Tommy Lesorda era the same as him. No, you
had a couple of guys that would match his energy,
but for the most part, a bunch of guys who
just went out and played baseball. Any team that was
managed by Lou Panella or the great Earl Weaver going down, guess,

(47:16):
just play baseball, and obviously we're spanning the globe and
grabbing you know, years and years of history. More recently,
go to Joe Torri keep on going down the line.
The team they take on their their own identity, right
for the Yankees, they were all it was just business,
or so it seemed right.

Speaker 3 (47:35):
That was it.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
With the Jeter Rivera and you know, the core four Yankees,
it was, hey, just go you're expected to win, Just
do it, stay out of trouble. And for the most
part they did. And for these Dodgers, like we've been
calling for it, for the clubhouse to find some animation
behind them beyond shoheo tanis, you know, bat flips and

(47:59):
steam of bases or whatever. And every once in a
while Mookie Betts steps back out. A little bit hard
to do when you're not hitting the ball very well,
so you can't really do much of that. But yeah,
the managers, their old thing is to ride and keep
whatever that wave is, to ride it out back back
to the to the coast, right, ride it back on

(48:22):
to the sand and dismount properly here getting fired up
and feeding into that to recipe for disaster, right, because
especially if that's not who you are, right you on
the sideline I'm watching, you're a lunatic. Okay, I'm just kidding,
but no, but it's that same energy, right if suddenly

(48:42):
you're trying to be someone you're not because you're like,
all right, we really need it now. But for the
first one hundred and fifty games of a season, you're
level headed. Here's how we approach things formulaic. Right In
the Dodgers case, a lot of it comes down above
Dave Roberts. Here's what we're doing, and now you have
to execute you know what, what came out of the

(49:02):
algorithm and and the brain trust and go from there.
It's not even a hey, go do this on instinct
to where maybe those emotions come over the time. For Dave,
the most emotion we've seen is when he was almost
killed by that ball the other day.

Speaker 3 (49:17):
Yeah, hey, where's that man? And oh, by the way,
how about after the game. Yeah, I didn't really see it. No,
I didn't see it. Reacted right now. Two paragraphs later
it was I know there was intent behind it, Like.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
You reacted right away, David, pretty sure. It s so
that ball get tossed. Just understand, it's the job of
the manager to steer the vibe and to steer the
the energy and where the team is headed. It's not
the job of the manager to make sure you are
fired up or your team is answering. You can't ask
the Dodgers to be the Padres. It's just not who
they are. The Padres. They love to instigate, they love

(49:51):
to get under your skin. The Mets love to party.
The Dodgers like to be professionals and just crush your
soul with winning game after game because of their talent.
And that's where the managers, Okay, whatever, whoever you are,
your job is to make sure that that vibe of
the Mets keeps going, that vibe of the Padres keeps going,
that vibe of the Dodgers keeps going. And that's really
the most unfair criticism of Dave Roberts. So there's stuff

(50:12):
you can get to. You talk about bullpen usage and
everything else, and that's absolutely fair. But when you say, hey,
the direction of the team and how they are, it's
not on Dave Roberts to make sure things are going different.
This is a This is where the players are the
ones out there. If Dave Roberts is not playing, he's
not playing a single inning on the field anymore, right,
He's not getting out in between pitches and yelling at

(50:33):
people on the field to say.

Speaker 3 (50:35):
Or do this. That's not how it goes.

Speaker 1 (50:37):
So when I see that, what you know, I can
appreciate the jobs that managers do in baseball much more,
you know, seeing especially how things can spiral out of control,
how easy it is to get caught up in a
in a we don't want to just beat you on
the field, we want to fight you as well. Like
you've seen what the Padres and the Dodgers now. So
it's it's just it's just one thing to see to
understand that this is what the what the job of

(50:59):
the manager.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
Is to do.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
Dave Roberts is not lead Tasso. Okay, time for them
to meet Lead Tasso.

Speaker 3 (51:07):
What huh?

Speaker 1 (51:08):
Just wait, just wait, it don't make sense. Time for
me Marlow's candoza Wait?

Speaker 3 (51:12):
Who what?

Speaker 1 (51:13):
Wait?

Speaker 3 (51:13):
Wait? Do you see? What do you see? You know
what I mean? Like that, Dave Dobberts.

Speaker 1 (51:16):
But that's but that's what folks are expecting Dave Roberts suddenly,
all right, I'm gonna flip my hat on backwards or
making a rally cat throw it to the ground, and
I'm gonna go nuts. And that's what I'm gonna doing.
I mean, how many football coaches we've talked to, how
many guys through the years, like what was the coach
like pretty pretty even keeled. Yeah really no, no, no
yelling and screamings like yeah occasionally after a big win,

(51:38):
but generally it was all right, guys, here's the task
ahead of us.

Speaker 3 (51:41):
Let's go. That's Dave Roberts.

Speaker 1 (51:43):
I mean, look that, and I thought it was thinking
about that a lot to say, watching Mendoza do that interview,
going yeah, whatever, we keep getting good at bats, I
feel good. I'm like, how could you feel?

Speaker 3 (51:51):
Eventually we're gonna break through.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
And if he was attached to a line detector test,
is he really believing this crap that he's saying on
TV or visit telling you who's he trying to sell?

Speaker 3 (52:02):
I love him to say.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
What we guys got to do is get is get
Frankie up with with basis loaded. We'll be fine. Just
gotta gotta get frank Yep, we'll be okay. Oh all right,
then that's what we're gonna. We're just gonna get into
the bullpen. But their bullpen was that we just need
to get into the bullpen. Exit out about a Fresca
exit Swallen Dome, the Jason Smithson with Mike Carbon Hey,
real quick for a second, obviously, look we're having a
lot of fun tonight. This is the nights we need

(52:24):
extra dosages of fun.

Speaker 4 (52:26):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
I'm you know, I'm sure everybody's got one eye on
what's going on in Florida right now. The flash flood
emergency that's been issued for the Tampa area with Hurricane
Milton uh making land right now. And one of the
big things we just saw that you just showed me
on the computer, part of the roof has been blown
off of the trap in Tampa, like two yeah giants,

(52:49):
Giant swaths, huge pieces of the roof have been ripped
off of the of the trop in in Tampa, and
it's just one of those moments you see it and
you you understand the power of nature.

Speaker 3 (52:59):
You understand what's going on.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
So we want to make sure to take a minute
here all our best thoughts with everybody in Florida with
whether they are in place, whether you are be able
to evacuate. I know your parents are until they're they're
not in the in the evacuating, not.

Speaker 3 (53:14):
In the evacuated.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
They're just on the other side of the causeway, which
usually gets a little bit dicey, but we'll see how
much it comes out. They're they're in clear water. So
watching Anderson Coop. They brought all the A list guys.
He is out there, Cooper's out there.

Speaker 3 (53:28):
I'm worried for Anison Cooper. For a couple of seconds,
there was a.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
Couple of anxious moments. I mean, we're almost got blown
blown into the water.

Speaker 3 (53:34):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
He was on some tenuous, uh tenuous footing there. Uh So,
once again, all our best thoughts with everybody in Florida
as you cross your fingers and and hope mother nature
can you find find its way back out to see
a little bit again with Hurricane Milton making landfall right now,
a category two h hurricane. And we'll keep you updated
on more of this as we see tonight. But the

(53:56):
video and pictures of the trop in Tampa are just
they're just on.

Speaker 3 (54:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
But our business is sports and we're going to continue
to break it down for you. What we're going to
get into that big topic in the NFL from today,
But wanted to make sure we brought this to you,
Uh what's going on in Tampa. Uh So we got
that coming up next right here, Jason and Mike. You're
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