October 11, 2024 • 41 mins
Jason Smith & Mike Harmon react to the Dodgers beating the Padres in Game 5 of the NLDS. Plus, Jason and Mike chat with JP Morosi and Pete Fiutak on all things Baseball and College Football.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Hello, Welcome in Side hour two The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon, where we now have
three of the four teams in the league Championship Series.
The Dodgers shut out the Padres two nothing. The National
League is all set, just as we all thought beginning
of the year. Mets and the Dodgers. Yeah, Game one
Sunday night in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, we'll be waiting with
(00:51):
bated Bretzi if Tarik School's got enough tomorrow to put
the Detroit Tigers in the ALCS against the Yankees. But
joining us now in the hot line, take a look
back at what we saw, what we are going to see.
MLB Network Insider Extraordinary. You can follow him on Twitter
at John Morosi. It is John Paul Morosi. John Paul, Well, Hey,
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just like I told you the beginning of the year, Hey, Mets, Dodgers, NLCS,
John Paul, you had have faith in me. I told
you that.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Shades of nineteen eighty eight. My friend, it is a
bit of a surprise. But we've got the two largest
cities in the United States, have themes now battling for
the National League pennant. This is going to be fun,
and certainly the Dodgers enter as the favorites. We would say,
but as you well know, when you consider the Mets rotation,
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a lot of left handed pitching there that will potentially
be able to neutralize the Dodgers' left handed bats. So
I do think, Jason, the Mets are the team that
has consistently defied all the prognostications.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
And so why stop now before we get to that,
Let's go back before we go forward, because he got it.
We gotta be fair here. Uh, this was a different
Padre team from Game three. This I mean, John Paul.
The Dodgers used thirteen pitchers in the last two games,
and the Padres could not one guy was having a
bad night. This was not the swagger, emotion filled team
(02:21):
that put the Dodgers to the brink. It's like they
were replaced by imposters the last two games.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah, I think it's It's a great point, and I
think there was a little bit of both in terms
of the Dodgers pitching being really good. Just watching the
stuff tonight, I don't know that anybody who was going
to hit Phillips's sweeper and that was just such an
an elite pitch, and Copex stuff was electric, and Trina
was electric, Vesia was before he left the game. Yamamoto
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I thought had really good command.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
I did.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Did Dodgers pitch really well? Did the Padres lose their edge?
Did they get a little bit too swept up in
some of the drama of the series. Maybe maybe, you know,
maybe in Game four, after the emotion of Game three,
they weren't quite as dialed in, and that was an
opener situation obviously for the Dodgers. But I think Game five,
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the story was the Dodger pitching and then the offense
was two solo homers. It was a pretty straightforward story.
Fernandez Homer, Bernandez Homer dominant Dodger pitching. I think once
once Yamamoto was dialed in, today, it seemed like the
Padres didn't have an answer. And I think Tom Bradnucci's
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point in the broadcast was excellent that the top players
in the Podres were facing different looks almost every time
in the batter's box, and they just never seem to
get comfortable.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Yeah, you heard Jackson Merrill and others address it, you know,
talking about how it was driving them nuts. So Dave
Roberts pulling the strings like a master puppeteer, JP going
going forward. Men, you're now onto this next round. How
much can you coax out of Flaritay and the other starters?
I mean, because can you do this for another series? No,
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you can't know the Mets in four? No, it can't
do it.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Well, there you go, and that and that's the interesting
thing here you and and it's it's so interesting, guys
that it's putting our collective baseball wisdom to the test
about yea, about the notion of having starting pitching and
how important it is.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Listen, I do think this that that at some point,
if they're going to win the World Series, you need
guys that you can count on at least every third
game at the very minimum, to give you something resembling
a quality five or six innings. I know that sounds
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like it's a it's a bare minimum request, but like
the median start in this postseason, if you line up
all the starts when I checked this last night before
a broadcasting Kansas City was four and two thirds innings.
Four and two thirds is the median start right now,
which tells you that that's basically half of the game.
Is the bullpen game on average, And I think that
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you know, you could probably get by a shorter series
and win a five game series that way. The jury
is definitely out. And if you can win a seven
game series, you go back ten years ago, the Giants
won the World Series because of Bumgarner and he was starting. Yeah,
he started twice, then he came out of the pen.
But the important thing there was those two starts were
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unbelievable and he was throwing a ton of innings and
that allowed the rest of the staff to kind of
fill in, And that, I believe is what's going to
have to happen eventually through the Los Angeles Dodgers them,
and they're going to be in a tough fight. I
think anybody in LA who was expecting the Mets are
just going to roll over and be an easy out.
(05:57):
I just I don't see it because I think that
the Mets have more length right now and they're starting rotation.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
All right, Hey, let me tweet this out. John Paul
Morosi agrees with me. Mets in four Oh, whoa, whoa,
there we go. I those are my life's act words,
and that's why I took away from that.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I've been. I've been this quarter worse than that before
the letter and spirit of the law JP.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
As we go, John Paul Morosi, our guest, joins us
talking all things major League Baseball as we get ready
for the league Championship Series. We still need one more
participant JP. Those upstart Tigers, they've got their guys. Schoobll
he's ready to go. Can he get the job done
in Game five?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I think he will? And first of all, it is amazing.
And as we pause for a moment here, two of
the last five remaining teams in baseball as of right
now are the Mets and the Tigers. And we would
not have expected that. Even the most optimistic Mets fan
would probably not have expected that in August, maybe September,
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maybe not even October, third. But here we are, and
I think that with Scooble, here's the thing. He's between
the two starters in this game tomorrow, he's got the
best chance to go deep. Now, who knows how it
all unfolds, but he when you look at the way
that Game two unfolded, he took the team deep. He's
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gonna have to be great. I really think that that's
the case, because when you look at the Tigers now,
there's no The decisive runs in Game two came by
the way with Carry Carpenter and he might not be
able to play because of a hamstring injury. So it's
it's a difficult task running for the Tigers offense. The
Cleveland has the deeper lineup in my opinion, and right
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now they seem to be hot based on how they
played in Game four. But Scooble is the best. And
this is one of those legacy starts the Tigers. They
a decade ago they made a habit of getting pushed
to the brink in a Game five and Justin Verlander
would step in and win. And it's really kind of
now the same stage for a new generation and Derek Scuble,
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who's going to be probably the unanimous Al Final Award winner.
To see what he's doing right now, and certainly what
he did in Game two and against Houston as well,
really impressive. Meanwhile, this is all to the Yankees advantage
because no matter what, whoever they faced would have had
to really expend a lot of resources to get to
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the ALCS, and especially if it's the Tigers, that means
Scoble probably couldn't start until Game three. So certainly huge,
huge positive vibes there for the New York Yankees.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
All right, John Paul. Lastly, look let me throw you this.
I'm watching Dave Roberts a full of all kinds of
smiles and excitement, jumping on the Fox set to talk
about the NLDS. Maybe the best game he has managed
a game ago, going eight for eight, bringing guys in
from the bullpen. Did he save his job with this victory?
Moving on to the getting the Dodgers back to the
NLCS first time in three years.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Well, it shouldn't have gotten to this point in terms
of it. There should not be a question in my
mind that he's the best person for this job. But
I believe the answer to your question is yes, if
they had after all the ups and downs of the
first three games of the series. If they had gone
out there in Game four and lost six nothing, and
if San Diego had clinched in Game four and celebrated
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in San Diego and the Dodgers would have gone out
in four games, you might have seen a change. I
don't think it would have been justified in my opinion,
but you might have seen a change. And I was
saying earlier today that this game, it's not fair to
look at things this way, but this is pro sports,
and in some ways this game was going to be
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a referendum about the entire Dodger plan, the Dodger way
of how they've developed their pitching, and who they've gone after,
and how they've spent their money. They spent a billion
dollars or more than free agency this past winner. And
obviously Otani can't pitch yet, and glass now's hurt. Yamamoto
wasn't someone who who was going deep in games, but
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then today he answered the bell. So I think just
the way the script went, it was a very affirming
night for Dave Roberts as the manager of the Dodgers.
Don't I don't see any credible way that they could
replace him at this point in time and say that
in any way it's his fault or the old quote unquote,
we need a new voice. That's nonsense. I mean that
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they need a new plan of how to keep their
pitchers healthy. That's still the case now, It was the
case twelve hours ago, and it's still the case right now.
Is they've got to come up with a better plan.
But they at least have an NLCS in which to
think about plans, which is better than the alternative and
better than what San Diego's got, because they were right there,
they had it, and you're and you're right. It seems
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like they were for whatever reason, whether it was their
own fault or this the Dodgers very very exacting pitching.
They just lost their momentum a little bit, and they've
got a long winter to think about it, and we'll
see if we'll see if they're going to be quite
as aggressive as ending this winter time. Of course, since
the pasic of Peter's side, there is just a it's
a very difficult end to a difficult year for the
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San Diego pod race.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Well, I'm I'm gonna do this for you, John Paul's
we let you gonna do this because you so great
every year to continue to have these conversations with you.
I know you send notes that I send you to
David Stearns, your former roommate, who runs the Mets. I
will send a note to the Dodgers that the new
team physician needs to be your wife. So there you go.
So you're gonna come out to it and be the
Dodgers team doctor. Will work.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I'm gonna tell you what I've learned something that basically
I don't I don't decide what kind of pizza we're
gonna get until I ask her opinion. Well, I'm gonna
have to. I appreciate the recommendation. I'm gonna ask her
opinion before I weigh in on that particular one. But nonetheless,
I appreciate your your faith and her abilities as a clinician.
(11:52):
I appreciate that very much. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John Morosi.
I'll remember his pick Lion twenty one fourteen. This week,
John Paul, we'll talk to you from the LCS. Buddy,
have fun.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
You got it, guys, And I'll say this, I am
able to make my own Lions predictions without first consulting her.
But okay, okay, but you'd probably say, John, you know,
feel free at some point time at a field goal,
get really, get really spicy and maybe have a thirty
points instead of twenty seven.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Get spicy and at a fight. Here it is, let's
spice it up on a Sunday.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Let's go anybuddy, I'll talk different league championship series, John, Paul,
have fun, JP, he goes best.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Look that's true, though, Jason. I mean, like JP echoed
what I've been saying all along. I've been raising my
hand for years, going what the hell's going on in
that trainer's room.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Well, look for a lot of teams, like the Mets
went through that for a while, the Yankees went that.
While it happens, man, it's like, what happened? What go
what's going on? What's that? And eventually you have to
fix it. And it's you know sometimes that you're hiring
a new team to a new way to do things.
You think of all the different variables that go into
a season and winning, and it's okay when you see
all these pitchers getting hurt, it's not quite as simple
(13:06):
as oh, they're throwing too many innings. Well, Okay, let's
take a look into this and see exactly what's happening.
What is the pitching plan for these guys? Does the
plan need to be moved? There need to be some
kind of change in their delivery because it's too much
pressure on something like and suddenly you have to change
away you throw the ball, But I've been throwing the
ball like this for twenty five years. Doesn't matter. Like
there's so many things out there physically that you have
(13:27):
to worry about, not every year. Okay, Hey they're the Mets.
Hey there guys getting hurt. All right, great, that's it's
kind of how it goes.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Yeah, we talked about all the different variables that go
in and each player, each picture different than the others.
And we'll have to make note though, you guys, you,
you and Frostburg now get to jaw on each other
for a full league championship series. My team one hundred
and twenty one losses.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Let's go the greatest and the pathetic now really quick.
I want I want to finish off John Pault with
this because we've talked about this about the Dave Robertson
and the job he has done, and he is on
Fox right now, and he is jumping around like he's
like he was still playing, like he tagged up from Philly,
(14:10):
he stole second, tagged up from third, and scored the
winning run to beat the Yankees back in two thousand
and four. He is absolutely going bananas and having fun
on the set. He knows this is a guy that
saved his job that now, hey, we're back in the
NLCS for the first time in three years. We've overcome
a lot. We're here. I'm gonna manage this team again
(14:32):
because I'm sorry. But if they didn't get out of
the first round after spending a billion dollars, it would
have been a new voice, it would have been there
needs to be somebody new in the clubhouse because we're
not getting back to where we should be. And yes,
every year the Dodgers think World Series, they think top
but getting to the NLCS, okay, you know it's not
a case of the Dodgers can't win around in the playoffs.
They can't get it done, and there needs to be
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a change of some kind because you just watched the
Dodgers with absolutely zero starting pitching, find a way to
beat the Pod and go on to the NLCS. But
using a bullpend game in Game four, and every pitcher
they put out there, Roberts making the right moves all
the way through. He goes thirteen for thirteen with pitching
decisions the last two games. This was some kind of
(15:13):
gutted out mode and you no longer have any question that, Hey,
the Dodgers still a lea. No, they still are. They're
here in the NLCS and win or lose, Dave Roberts
will still be the manager.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
King Kong ain't got what on me, because the other
thing you take away from this game is that you
did it with Yamamoto giving you five strong all the
relievers as we talked about, but your guys at the
top of the order went one for ten, Otani, Betts,
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and Freeman one for ten, and you walk away with
the w to go face the Mets in the League
Championship Series.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Exit at about a Fresca exit swalling down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon live from
the Tireck dot Com Studios. We'll get back into We
got big foot stuff to get to. We got big
college football. We got bold predictions. We can upset specials.
We have that coming up. But also audio from the
Dodgers that you absolutely have to hear right after Game
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five ended. You have to hear what was said right
at the conclusion of this game. That's you you You're cool. Okay,
no one was talking about Manny Machada. I want to
say that what did they do? You gotta hear what
somebody on the Dodgers said following the game. That's next
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Bottom of the eighth inning, the Dodgers will go to
the ninth with at least a two run lead. They
are batting right now, leading the Padres two to nothing.
The Padres will have three outs to tie the game,
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take the lead, or the Dodgers are headed to the NLCS. Well,
they will host the Mets. Actually, whoever gets to host
the Mets stop can't play that. Nope, can't play that.
That is that is patently not true. That is patently
not true. It is true. It's not true, Jason. When's
the last time you won the big trophy? We're in
the NLC at nineteen eighty six, we're in the NLCS. Okay,
(18:32):
nineteen ninety.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
The other thing, Smith, I mean, you know it is
the day of atonement for our Jewish colleagues. Do you
think Frostburg atoned enough and that's why he's getting this
w right?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Well? No, the thing is, I will I loaned him
grimacened him. Yeah, I loaned him Grimace. I don't know
you Yeah, no, no, here, Well, here's the thing. I loaned
Frostburg Grimace for this game against the Padres. In return,
Otani plays for the Mets in the NLC. Yes, so
that's a trade. Yeah, that's a terrible trade. Yeah, that's
(19:06):
what we need, micd up Forget about all these other jokers.
Let's go uh so again going to the ninth inning
to now, Dodgers get Padres, get out of the inning
to nothing, going to the ninth We'll love more in
this game coming up in a few minutes, Steve de Seger.
We'll tell us more than what's trending. But we have
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a huge day in college football to get to nothing,
bigger than number two versus number three. Takes a big
game like that for Fred River to take a back seat.
Joining us now on the hotline to break it all down.
Longtime college football insider, you can follow on Twitter at
Pete Futech. The website is College Footballnews dot com, your
(19:49):
one stop shopping for everything college football, all the previews,
all the prognostications, all the analysis, all the breakdown you need.
College Footballnews dot Com. Pete, what's happening, Bud?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
All right?
Speaker 7 (20:00):
I'm going to ask you a question that's really sort
of a Tuesday afternoon topic for Albany local sports radio.
But I'm curious, considering you where your allegiances live. Do
you are you jaded enough at this point? Like I'm
in the world as the world where to me? Any
team I kind of root for. All I care about
is they get to the championship. After that's kind of gravy.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
What do I care? They're not paying me money, so
I'm just watching a product who cares. But I wanted
to see them moment.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
I want to see them get their shock and if
they win, great, If they don't, would you rather have
the Mets? Are you better at if they're gonna lose.
Would you rather have them lose to the Dodgers or
to the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Oh no, no, no no, I can't lose to the Yankees.
Cannot cannot lose the Yankee. No no, no, no, no, no
no no no. Well you got to realize Pete, his
dad's a Yankee. Yeah no, no, can't do it. Can't
my whole life, can't do it. The Dodgers will be
tough enough, you know, living, you know, but we beat
the Dodgers in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Wait okay, wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Are you out there turn double plays?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Were? Here's that big p the we person.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Pete, the Pete, the mental attention I have put into
the Mets for my life, I am absolutely allowed to
say we. I don't players sure.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
The mental attention I put into my latte every day
from Starbucks is just as much.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
And I don't call it we when it's not.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I think way more about the Mets and you think
about a latte. Come on, man, that's apples and not
this time of year.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
You don't. I'm telling you on that I get it.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
This is this is a fun time, you know, like
this is this is it?
Speaker 4 (21:39):
You know? Obviously you know when you're a sports fan, you.
Speaker 7 (21:42):
Know even this is why it's kind of silly fun.
It's okay, you know, this is why you watch especially baseball. Again,
I've told both of you guys before. I literally watched
like eleven innings of baseball year, every pitch of the
playoffs because it's fun.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Now, this is cool.
Speaker 7 (21:59):
This is a good play off sport, especially with a
pincher box.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
So I get it. I get how much fun?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
All right, So let's kick things off tomorrow with you.
I'm sure you're gonna wake up for the big new
kickoff and have a big latte ready to go. We're
gonna have to wait a little bit, but we're gonna
get the big game Ohio State and Oregon. And I'll
tell you what I know. Oregon's at home. I know
Ohios had to fly across the country peat. But Ryan
Day doesn't lose these games. It's the Michigan and the
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playoff games, the middle of the season, regular season games.
Ryan Day and Ohio State do.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
Pretty well at Yeah, and I'm gonna pre transition to
probably the next topic first. It is a little weird
that we're not waking up to Oklahoma, Texas. That's just
the game again on a Saturday October that yet, that's
the one that starts it off, that sets the.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Tone for the day.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
I'm kind of mad that's a mid afternoon game now,
But to your point, yeah, it's the late game. I
can't be preaching the gospel for the last eight months
like I have without and ditch my belief system.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Now.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
I don't buy Oregon. I just it's dude, it's fun.
They've got an awesome mask, got amazing sports information department.
They just troll like no one else. They're outstanding. But
there when it comes down to this tippy cappy thing
that they do their little bank dunk offense and hopefully
gets yards after the catch.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
That's fine.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
It should work for a while, and I do think
they'll get out to a little bit of a lead
on Ohio State. But I am just a pure believer
that this Ohio State team is so much better than
just about everyone else. I'm still buying Georgia. I'm still
buying Alabama. But this Georgia team, you know, it's got
the Fort's got Chip Kelly is there is there an
offensive coordinator each be the head coach of Oregon. Still,
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I mean this his team is just at a whole
other level, Like can't keep being like Ohio States is
be all end all and then pick against them now.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
And even if they.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
Lose, even if if this Oregon rises up and pulls
this off and everyone wants Ryan Day fired, I'm still
thinking Ohio State comes back and runs the table from there,
because they're just that good. But I I will be
shocked if Oregon's offense just cranks it up on this.
Ohio Sat another.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Top twenty five old miss and LSU. LSU we remember,
loses the opener to USC, rattles off four straight wins,
including the great UCLA Bruins.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
How good is this team?
Speaker 7 (24:19):
Do you remember last year's game when it was Jade Daniels,
It was like the nineteen eighty four Denver Nuggets versus
the Spurs, where it was like.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
In the third quarter, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 7 (24:32):
These two had a total tackling optional game last year
that was just awesome. I mean they literally could not
hit anybody and it was a blast. It was as
much fun as it gets if you do not care
about defense. A little bit better this time around, But
I think LSU's been kind of underappreciated, kind of forgotten
about after the USC loss. This is their chance to
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kind of rise up and be like, yeah, we're still
in this. But ole miss the the high hauking offense
worked against kind of you know, the Jedi mind worked
against the weak minded. But now it's gonna do a
little bit. It's gonna be there for your LSU.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
But not enough. I think LSU pulls this off.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Pt Tech College Footballnews dot Com insider our guest The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon, live from the TIREC
dot Com studios. All right, hey, let's get your red River.
At least that's somewhat early in the day. Texas and Oklahoma.
Does Oklahoma have enough? Regardless of whether it's Chris Simms
or Major apple White who plays quarterback for.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
The exactly Rick mckiber out there with exactly Jameel Holloway coming.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Up way, Why here we go?
Speaker 7 (25:42):
I love that man.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
I was I remember once you want a great Jameel
Holloway story my favorite because I was like they made
it up, like when he got introduced, like on senior
day for oaklhom playing his final game was like in
the rain somewhere and it says, and now a man
who was voted the best option quarterback in Oklahoma history.
I'm like that, that's the thing, Like, hey, Jamel Holloway
(26:04):
congratulates everybody.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Well, think about it.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
Back then it was I mean, because that's back in
the day when you did have the wish phone and
they did run for a million yards a game. That's
kind of what they did. But yeah, this is again
I joke because actually I'm mad because I'll put you
this little inside Baseball. As a website publisher, there are
no photos better than the the noon like sunshine splashed,
(26:29):
you know, Cotton Bowl with those two teams and the
optics on every photo. Those are goals when it comes
to publishing you know, articles and stuff, and I'm hoping
we'll get a little bit of that, but still, this
is one of those things. I'm going to go every
cliche possible, throw out the record books at.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
The because we've seen everything. We've seen really really bad.
Speaker 7 (26:48):
Texas teams rise up and beat Oklahoma a few years ago,
that Charlie Strong team. We've seen, you know, Texas have
this thing in the bag that Caleb Williams comes out
and decides no, I'm going to introduce myself in the
world out you have last year where Texas is a
great great great great great, and all of a sudden
they just forget to play defense at the very end
and lose and then go on to win.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
You know, the big twelve yearning to Taba.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
So this thing goes.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
In all sorts of different directions, so it seem most
unpredictable rivalry possible. I do think this is going to
be relatively closed. Oklahoma still hasn't shown enough of an offense,
and I do while I'm not buying Texas, Texas is
my Oregon bucket of teams I don't buy. I do
think Quinney was being back who's being way underappreciated because
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everyone loves Archie many because he blew away touchas San
Antonio and Louisiana Monroe. Vier is gonna come back, have
a sharp game, and they're gonna pull away late, cover
very late, but it will be a pretty good fight
for a while.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
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Speaker 4 (28:00):
Wait of you, way ahead of you.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Well, I'm going to get advanced, you know, I got
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Speaker 5 (28:13):
Pete USC Penn State. Penn State a three and a
half point favorite. Fifty one tickets as well as sixteen dollars.
Are they going to see a USC upset at home?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (28:24):
You know, I go Wall Street on you here, hated
it at five and a half, love it it's three
and a half. I was I think Penn State wins.
I thought, you think USC keeps it close. I kind
of hedging a little in the thought during the week,
and then all of a sudden the line dropped a
little bit. So I do think Penn State is just
good enough. I have friends in the business who swear
(28:47):
this Penn State team is about to be exposed at
some point, really really badly.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
I'm still buying.
Speaker 7 (28:54):
Their defense is just too good and USC, you know,
I know they got hosed in that Minnesota game where
they didn't actually have a shot of the ball crossing
the goal line and manned at PJ Flecket bailed out
on that call. But they're gonna hang around just enough
at home and then start to buckle late. The Penn
(29:14):
State defense too good, but it'll be one of those
wins where Penn State wins. But we're still not all
that in press file.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
He's on Twitter at Pete fu Tech. That is, at
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You're one stop shopping for everything college football, previews, analysis,
everything done by our guy Pete. Enjoy. Enjoy the games
this weekend. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 7 (29:35):
Absolutely, go Padres.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
All right, well, somebody want to tell him TJ. It
might be a little late for the Padres. This is
because it is over at Chavez Ravine. The details we'll
come to you from special delivery Steve to Seger, who's
got that with what's trending right now, Steve, the Mets
finally have an opponent. Before you tell us how this
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game ended, talk about what the Mets are thinking right
now going into the series. We don't have to bust
to San Diego. That's what they're thinking right now.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
They're gonna fly into La tomorrow. The Mets are traveling
to Southern California open an NLCS Sunday night on Fox TV,
with Game two on Monday afternoon. The Dodgers, top seeds
in the National League, will host.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
LA.
Speaker 8 (30:21):
Has just eliminated the Padres two nothing in Game five
of the best of five It's just ended on Fox
TV their NL Division series. This was the definition of
a great pitchers duel. You Darvish was sensational again except
for two long solo homers to left. He came out
with two outs in the seventh inning that stood up
(30:43):
for the nothing LA final. These two teams tonight, at
one point combined to retire twenty six straight batters, which
is the longest set streak in a single game in
the history of the playoffs in Major League Baseball. And
what the Padres have just done, how they were eliminated
this week has never happened in a best of five series.
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No team had ever led two games to one and
then literally failed to score in the last two games.
Not just lose, failed to score. They hadn't scored since
early in Game three this week, when they put up
the sixth spot in the second inning that night, and
it stood for a close victory. The Padres, I believe
it was their last nineteen hitters. Tonight retired and against
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the Dodger staff mostly relievers this week, twenty four consecutive
scoreless innings from La just astounding. Yoshinobu Yamamoto was the
starting pitcher for the Dodgers and the winner. He went
five scoreless innings. Since his shoulder injury in early June,
he has not pitched more than five innings in a game.
(31:49):
And the bullpen Evan Phillips, Alex vesis San Diego native
who had to come out due to injury, Michael Kopek,
and then Blake Trine and by the way, Peter Shrew
kudos to him from NFL Network for finding this. After
Copex strikes out a Padre to end the eighth on
one hundred and one mile an hour fastball, he finds
this headline from East Texas High School Sports a decade ago.
(32:13):
The headline reads, white House is Patrick Mahomes baseball headline
Mahomes Outduel's mount Pleasants Michael Kopek with a sixteen strikeout
no hitter.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Who knew Wow Man. I think he threw a couple
of pitches behind his back too, just because he could.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
That's right, the old shovel passed.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Hopefully Travis Kelcey was the catcher in that game. People
don't know that.
Speaker 8 (32:41):
Yeah, but then he slumped, and of course Fox News
blames somebody for something. Tomorrow's Game five in the Ale
Division Series, Detroit at Cleveland was moved up to one
pm Eastern Time due to impending rain. We've got college
football on FS one right now, and they've started the
fourth quarter with Northwestern still ahead at Maryland seventeen to ten. Halftime.
(33:02):
UNLV trying to go to five and one, leads at
Utah State forty one to seven. And they've just started
with sixteenth ranked Utah at Arizona State. And Utah's star
quarterback Cam Rising is back in the lineup tonight after
a finger injury. Tennessee Titans quarterback Will Levis will start
on Sunday after a shoulder injury. And among the four
(33:22):
NHL games tonight, it was a win for Tampa Bay
for one at Carolina. The Dodgers have eliminated the Padres
two nothing in game five Mets in Southern California Sunday
night for Game one of the NLCS on Fox TV.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve though we'll have more
college football on the way. Thanks beat Futech for joining
us here. But yes, the celebration is on at Dodgers
Stadium were and I'll tell you what the division Now
that we have division champion hats, which is so weird,
but those Division champion twenty twenty four the stretch snap,
they look pretty sweet. The black hats with the team
(34:00):
all go in the middle in the twenty twenty four
those are pretty sweet lids. Man, I gotta say those
are pretty Did you get yours yet?
Speaker 4 (34:06):
No?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Well, no, I have to pre order. Like it's like, oh, yeah,
hey get this hat. Great? Oh but yeah, but it'll
ship next week. I'm like, it'll ship next week. The
NLCS is gonna be Oh why would I want a
division hat when I would want the l nationally? Come on, man,
you can't just give me a pre order on a
division hat. You got a division that's ready to go.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
Well, does what's it got on? I mean obviously that
the front of the hat is clean, does it? Does
it have a patch for the division or is it?
I think it?
Speaker 1 (34:31):
I think it says it on the old bill there, Yeah,
I think it says it on the bill. I mean,
and I don't know. I mean, LeVar Ball could be
shipping these things out. I would never get you'll never
see it. But these hats are pretty sweet. And now
we know METSA who knew that when I went to
the Mets Dodgers game that fateful Sunday when the Dodgers
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shut out the Mets ten nothing and Otani hit a
home run that I think. Okay, next time I'll be
back at ship Has it will be for the nl CS,
the Mets and the Dodgers Sunday night, Monday afternoon. Let's go.
Which one are we going?
Speaker 9 (35:06):
Though?
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Let's go. We'll see, we'll see. I have some irons
in the fire. We'll see where we're going. We'll see what.
We'll see what we got. We could potentially do both.
Potential is there for both games? Well, the potential is
certainly there. Yeah. I we'll load up on the caffeine. Okay, well,
okay while here, okay, okay, okay, No, I'm not bringing
a drunk Mike harmon til you know you're not going No, No,
I said beer. You just said beer. Well we just said,
(35:29):
are you saying disappointed when I said caffeen? Beer?
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Well?
Speaker 1 (35:34):
No, no, no, you want beer. I'm thinking no, stop. Okay, listen, okay, Okay,
you're not you're not twenty two. We go to we
go to the game. We have to go and just
be cool. Okay, you can't go and oh your son's
a blankety blank can't. I got no dog in the fight.
I'll just be sitting there watching the activity and watching
you lose your mind. You can't, we can't do it.
(35:56):
What happened? Harmon passed out the third inning. He had
coffee but not enough because then he had beer and
now he's out. Yeah, he's done. Well. I'll be carrying
to scale back the can I borrow that Dolly? Dodgers
and the padres to Nothing the Dodgers with the final
victory in the series, and they get what they need.
(36:17):
They win the last two games and now show Heytanian
company headed to where we thought they'd be the beginning
of the season. So what to expect, and we'll make
our big pick for Game five in the ALCS. That's
coming up next right here, Jason and Mike, and I'm
still okay with playing the Dodgers. I'll tell you why. Next.
This is Fox Sports.
Speaker 9 (36:35):
Radio, Padres Nothing Game five, of the Division Series comes
down to this, trying against Fernando Tatis Junior.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Here's the pitch.
Speaker 10 (36:49):
Tati swings, chop it a third can't pick by her none.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
There's the do.
Speaker 8 (36:55):
Frowy.
Speaker 10 (36:57):
Fireworks go off and straight up center field as the
Dodgers shut out the Padres bitten.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Back to that game.
Speaker 10 (37:06):
They are going to the National League Championship Series.
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where champagne is flowing in the Dodgers Clubhouse. They advanced
to the NLCS, their first NLCS since twenty twenty one.
National League Championship Series open Sunday at Chevezervine Mets and
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the Dodgers. I was a going ALCS will be settled tomorrow,
a game that was moved up eight hours because of weather.
So now, which is good because now you know, Guardians
and Tigers fans don't have to worry about sweating out
all day waiting for the game to be and hey,
we're gonna start pretty early.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
Yeah, psychologically that just the waiting is the hardest part.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
I mean, tell Petty had it right, man, don't have
to worry about it.
Speaker 6 (38:08):
Di.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
I can wake up and watch the game. It's great.
But the Dodgers will be the favorites. They should be
the favorites, number one seed versus the number six seed.
But I'm gonna tell you this. I'm gonna tell you this.
What am I afraid of? Could? What could possibly happen?
The Mets are gonna see and go through they haven't
(38:31):
already what kind of adversity. I shouldn't say this because
now it's gonna happen. But the Mets have seen everything
in this postseason and there's still two rounds left to go.
They have seen their season look like it was over
in the regular season. They've seen it look like it
was over in the postseason. They faced a team with
the best closer in the National League. They faced a
team with the best bullpen in the National League in
(38:53):
All Stars, and guess what, guess who's standing. I don't
see anything the Mets are gonna face that makes me go,
oh boy, we're coming into this as a deficit. I'm
looking at this same we're coming in, We're going toe
to toe. There is no reason to say, boy, the
Dodgers are loaded. Look at what they're doing, because the
Dodgers have issues. Man, I look they it's been great
the last two games. The bullpen has been unreal for them.
(39:15):
Right Yamamoto was terrific. The bullpen was great. But it's
not like I'm seeing a team that this is not
a Dodgers team where look, there's no holes anywhere. You know,
pitching's gonna be a thing. And the longer you go
in the playoffs and the longer you go in a series,
when you see the relievers, it's a better deal for
the team hitting. And there's nobody that the Mets are
gonna see in this series that's better than what they
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saw in the last two series and in this season
at the end of the end of the year. So yeah,
I feel really good about coming into this series. If
the Mets lose, it's not gonna be because ah, we
were a little timid and clearly the better team on
the other side. No, it's gonna take They're gonna have
to do everything they can to beat the Mets, and
I feel pretty good about our chances going in here.
I'm not going in this thinking, hey, ah, maybe we
(39:59):
went this far it's great. No, no, no, I'm coming
here thinking it could be the World Series the week
after this. Look at you.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
I love your positivity and excitement. Yeah, obviously more variables
you add to the equation. It's been something we've been
preaching on the football side of thing, and certainly major
League Baseball, when we talk about.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
The rise of this.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
New era of quick hooks on starting pitching, that eventually
you're gonna run out of luck, that one guy's gonna
be I mean, Steve's had the stats of what both
teams did here and turt what was it, twenty six
straight batters without a hit, and you know, the tension
building overall, and we talked about the Dodgers and just
(40:42):
how many scoreless innings?
Speaker 1 (40:43):
What is it twenty three? Now, I mean, that's just insane,
twenty three or twenty four.
Speaker 5 (40:48):
After this game, I lost track because you know, I
had to add a Northwestern touchdown that got me excited
when I went to write it on I write it down.
But it's just that idea that eventually you're expecting one
bad outing and it's a game. It's the margin, isn't
there right to where we're not looking at blowouts. That
eight to zero game four is the outlier. Everything else
(41:10):
is contested, you know where.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
Yeah, there's the.
Speaker 5 (41:14):
Ten to two got away, all right, so two games bad.
Otherwise we're looking at pitching and bullpen management as you
go through.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
You know. Also, Otani was playing long toss today. Yeah, no,
it's not just kind of thrown it out there for you. Sure,
that's okay, all right, it's fine. I'm finny because they
could turn the lights off and all of a sudden
he's on the mound like he's the undertaker. Well, if
they turn the lights off when he pitches, that's what
I'll be worried about, because I don't think we'll hit
him if the lights are off. Is it a globe ball?
Then John Paul Morosi stops by to take a look ahead,
(41:44):
and what we just saw it is a big night
that rolls on next on Fox.
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Please give this if you're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Hello, Welcome in Side hour two The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon, where we now have
three of the four teams in the league Championship Series.
The Dodgers shut out the Padres two nothing. The National
League is all set, just as we all thought beginning
of the year. Mets and the Dodgers. Yeah, Game one
Sunday night in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, we'll be waiting with
(00:51):
bated Bretzi if Tarik School's got enough tomorrow to put
the Detroit Tigers in the ALCS against the Yankees. But
joining us now in the hot line, take a look
back at what we saw, what we are going to see.
MLB Network Insider Extraordinary. You can follow him on Twitter
at John Morosi. It is John Paul Morosi. John Paul, Well, Hey,
(01:13):
just like I told you the beginning of the year, Hey, Mets, Dodgers, NLCS,
John Paul, you had have faith in me. I told
you that.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Shades of nineteen eighty eight. My friend, it is a
bit of a surprise. But we've got the two largest
cities in the United States, have themes now battling for
the National League pennant. This is going to be fun,
and certainly the Dodgers enter as the favorites. We would say,
but as you well know, when you consider the Mets rotation,
(01:43):
a lot of left handed pitching there that will potentially
be able to neutralize the Dodgers' left handed bats. So
I do think, Jason, the Mets are the team that
has consistently defied all the prognostications.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
And so why stop now before we get to that,
Let's go back before we go forward, because he got it.
We gotta be fair here. Uh, this was a different
Padre team from Game three. This I mean, John Paul.
The Dodgers used thirteen pitchers in the last two games,
and the Padres could not one guy was having a
bad night. This was not the swagger, emotion filled team
(02:21):
that put the Dodgers to the brink. It's like they
were replaced by imposters the last two games.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah, I think it's It's a great point, and I
think there was a little bit of both in terms
of the Dodgers pitching being really good. Just watching the
stuff tonight, I don't know that anybody who was going
to hit Phillips's sweeper and that was just such an
an elite pitch, and Copex stuff was electric, and Trina
was electric, Vesia was before he left the game. Yamamoto
(02:49):
I thought had really good command.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
I did.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Did Dodgers pitch really well? Did the Padres lose their edge?
Did they get a little bit too swept up in
some of the drama of the series. Maybe maybe, you know,
maybe in Game four, after the emotion of Game three,
they weren't quite as dialed in, and that was an
opener situation obviously for the Dodgers. But I think Game five,
(03:15):
the story was the Dodger pitching and then the offense
was two solo homers. It was a pretty straightforward story.
Fernandez Homer, Bernandez Homer dominant Dodger pitching. I think once
once Yamamoto was dialed in, today, it seemed like the
Padres didn't have an answer. And I think Tom Bradnucci's
(03:35):
point in the broadcast was excellent that the top players
in the Podres were facing different looks almost every time
in the batter's box, and they just never seem to
get comfortable.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Yeah, you heard Jackson Merrill and others address it, you know,
talking about how it was driving them nuts. So Dave
Roberts pulling the strings like a master puppeteer, JP going
going forward. Men, you're now onto this next round. How
much can you coax out of Flaritay and the other starters?
I mean, because can you do this for another series? No,
(04:10):
you can't know the Mets in four? No, it can't
do it.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Well, there you go, and that and that's the interesting
thing here you and and it's it's so interesting, guys
that it's putting our collective baseball wisdom to the test
about yea, about the notion of having starting pitching and
how important it is.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Listen, I do think this that that at some point,
if they're going to win the World Series, you need
guys that you can count on at least every third
game at the very minimum, to give you something resembling
a quality five or six innings. I know that sounds
(04:49):
like it's a it's a bare minimum request, but like
the median start in this postseason, if you line up
all the starts when I checked this last night before
a broadcasting Kansas City was four and two thirds innings.
Four and two thirds is the median start right now,
which tells you that that's basically half of the game.
Is the bullpen game on average, And I think that
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you know, you could probably get by a shorter series
and win a five game series that way. The jury
is definitely out. And if you can win a seven
game series, you go back ten years ago, the Giants
won the World Series because of Bumgarner and he was starting. Yeah,
he started twice, then he came out of the pen.
But the important thing there was those two starts were
(05:37):
unbelievable and he was throwing a ton of innings and
that allowed the rest of the staff to kind of
fill in, And that, I believe is what's going to
have to happen eventually through the Los Angeles Dodgers them,
and they're going to be in a tough fight. I
think anybody in LA who was expecting the Mets are
just going to roll over and be an easy out.
(05:57):
I just I don't see it because I think that
the Mets have more length right now and they're starting rotation.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
All right, Hey, let me tweet this out. John Paul
Morosi agrees with me. Mets in four Oh, whoa, whoa,
there we go. I those are my life's act words,
and that's why I took away from that.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I've been. I've been this quarter worse than that before
the letter and spirit of the law JP.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
As we go, John Paul Morosi, our guest, joins us
talking all things major League Baseball as we get ready
for the league Championship Series. We still need one more
participant JP. Those upstart Tigers, they've got their guys. Schoobll
he's ready to go. Can he get the job done
in Game five?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I think he will? And first of all, it is amazing.
And as we pause for a moment here, two of
the last five remaining teams in baseball as of right
now are the Mets and the Tigers. And we would
not have expected that. Even the most optimistic Mets fan
would probably not have expected that in August, maybe September,
(06:59):
maybe not even October, third. But here we are, and
I think that with Scooble, here's the thing. He's between
the two starters in this game tomorrow, he's got the
best chance to go deep. Now, who knows how it
all unfolds, but he when you look at the way
that Game two unfolded, he took the team deep. He's
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gonna have to be great. I really think that that's
the case, because when you look at the Tigers now,
there's no The decisive runs in Game two came by
the way with Carry Carpenter and he might not be
able to play because of a hamstring injury. So it's
it's a difficult task running for the Tigers offense. The
Cleveland has the deeper lineup in my opinion, and right
(07:41):
now they seem to be hot based on how they
played in Game four. But Scooble is the best. And
this is one of those legacy starts the Tigers. They
a decade ago they made a habit of getting pushed
to the brink in a Game five and Justin Verlander
would step in and win. And it's really kind of
now the same stage for a new generation and Derek Scuble,
(08:05):
who's going to be probably the unanimous Al Final Award winner.
To see what he's doing right now, and certainly what
he did in Game two and against Houston as well,
really impressive. Meanwhile, this is all to the Yankees advantage
because no matter what, whoever they faced would have had
to really expend a lot of resources to get to
(08:25):
the ALCS, and especially if it's the Tigers, that means
Scoble probably couldn't start until Game three. So certainly huge,
huge positive vibes there for the New York Yankees.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
All right, John Paul. Lastly, look let me throw you this.
I'm watching Dave Roberts a full of all kinds of
smiles and excitement, jumping on the Fox set to talk
about the NLDS. Maybe the best game he has managed
a game ago, going eight for eight, bringing guys in
from the bullpen. Did he save his job with this victory?
Moving on to the getting the Dodgers back to the
NLCS first time in three years.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Well, it shouldn't have gotten to this point in terms
of it. There should not be a question in my
mind that he's the best person for this job. But
I believe the answer to your question is yes, if
they had after all the ups and downs of the
first three games of the series. If they had gone
out there in Game four and lost six nothing, and
if San Diego had clinched in Game four and celebrated
(09:20):
in San Diego and the Dodgers would have gone out
in four games, you might have seen a change. I
don't think it would have been justified in my opinion,
but you might have seen a change. And I was
saying earlier today that this game, it's not fair to
look at things this way, but this is pro sports,
and in some ways this game was going to be
(09:41):
a referendum about the entire Dodger plan, the Dodger way
of how they've developed their pitching, and who they've gone after,
and how they've spent their money. They spent a billion
dollars or more than free agency this past winner. And
obviously Otani can't pitch yet, and glass now's hurt. Yamamoto
wasn't someone who who was going deep in games, but
(10:01):
then today he answered the bell. So I think just
the way the script went, it was a very affirming
night for Dave Roberts as the manager of the Dodgers.
Don't I don't see any credible way that they could
replace him at this point in time and say that
in any way it's his fault or the old quote unquote,
we need a new voice. That's nonsense. I mean that
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they need a new plan of how to keep their
pitchers healthy. That's still the case now, It was the
case twelve hours ago, and it's still the case right now.
Is they've got to come up with a better plan.
But they at least have an NLCS in which to
think about plans, which is better than the alternative and
better than what San Diego's got, because they were right there,
they had it, and you're and you're right. It seems
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like they were for whatever reason, whether it was their
own fault or this the Dodgers very very exacting pitching.
They just lost their momentum a little bit, and they've
got a long winter to think about it, and we'll
see if we'll see if they're going to be quite
as aggressive as ending this winter time. Of course, since
the pasic of Peter's side, there is just a it's
a very difficult end to a difficult year for the
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San Diego pod race.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Well, I'm I'm gonna do this for you, John Paul's
we let you gonna do this because you so great
every year to continue to have these conversations with you.
I know you send notes that I send you to
David Stearns, your former roommate, who runs the Mets. I
will send a note to the Dodgers that the new
team physician needs to be your wife. So there you go.
So you're gonna come out to it and be the
Dodgers team doctor. Will work.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I'm gonna tell you what I've learned something that basically
I don't I don't decide what kind of pizza we're
gonna get until I ask her opinion. Well, I'm gonna
have to. I appreciate the recommendation. I'm gonna ask her
opinion before I weigh in on that particular one. But nonetheless,
I appreciate your your faith and her abilities as a clinician.
(11:52):
I appreciate that very much. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John Morosi.
I'll remember his pick Lion twenty one fourteen. This week,
John Paul, we'll talk to you from the LCS. Buddy,
have fun.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
You got it, guys, And I'll say this, I am
able to make my own Lions predictions without first consulting her.
But okay, okay, but you'd probably say, John, you know,
feel free at some point time at a field goal,
get really, get really spicy and maybe have a thirty
points instead of twenty seven.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Get spicy and at a fight. Here it is, let's
spice it up on a Sunday.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Let's go anybuddy, I'll talk different league championship series, John, Paul,
have fun, JP, he goes best.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Look that's true, though, Jason. I mean, like JP echoed
what I've been saying all along. I've been raising my
hand for years, going what the hell's going on in
that trainer's room.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Well, look for a lot of teams, like the Mets
went through that for a while, the Yankees went that.
While it happens, man, it's like, what happened? What go
what's going on? What's that? And eventually you have to
fix it. And it's you know sometimes that you're hiring
a new team to a new way to do things.
You think of all the different variables that go into
a season and winning, and it's okay when you see
all these pitchers getting hurt, it's not quite as simple
(13:06):
as oh, they're throwing too many innings. Well, Okay, let's
take a look into this and see exactly what's happening.
What is the pitching plan for these guys? Does the
plan need to be moved? There need to be some
kind of change in their delivery because it's too much
pressure on something like and suddenly you have to change
away you throw the ball, But I've been throwing the
ball like this for twenty five years. Doesn't matter. Like
there's so many things out there physically that you have
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to worry about, not every year. Okay, Hey they're the Mets.
Hey there guys getting hurt. All right, great, that's it's
kind of how it goes.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Yeah, we talked about all the different variables that go
in and each player, each picture different than the others.
And we'll have to make note though, you guys, you,
you and Frostburg now get to jaw on each other
for a full league championship series. My team one hundred
and twenty one losses.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Let's go the greatest and the pathetic now really quick.
I want I want to finish off John Pault with
this because we've talked about this about the Dave Robertson
and the job he has done, and he is on
Fox right now, and he is jumping around like he's
like he was still playing, like he tagged up from Philly,
(14:10):
he stole second, tagged up from third, and scored the
winning run to beat the Yankees back in two thousand
and four. He is absolutely going bananas and having fun
on the set. He knows this is a guy that
saved his job that now, hey, we're back in the
NLCS for the first time in three years. We've overcome
a lot. We're here. I'm gonna manage this team again
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because I'm sorry. But if they didn't get out of
the first round after spending a billion dollars, it would
have been a new voice, it would have been there
needs to be somebody new in the clubhouse because we're
not getting back to where we should be. And yes,
every year the Dodgers think World Series, they think top
but getting to the NLCS, okay, you know it's not
a case of the Dodgers can't win around in the playoffs.
They can't get it done, and there needs to be
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a change of some kind because you just watched the
Dodgers with absolutely zero starting pitching, find a way to
beat the Pod and go on to the NLCS. But
using a bullpend game in Game four, and every pitcher
they put out there, Roberts making the right moves all
the way through. He goes thirteen for thirteen with pitching
decisions the last two games. This was some kind of
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gutted out mode and you no longer have any question that, Hey,
the Dodgers still a lea. No, they still are. They're
here in the NLCS and win or lose, Dave Roberts
will still be the manager.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
King Kong ain't got what on me, because the other
thing you take away from this game is that you
did it with Yamamoto giving you five strong all the
relievers as we talked about, but your guys at the
top of the order went one for ten, Otani, Betts,
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and Freeman one for ten, and you walk away with
the w to go face the Mets in the League
Championship Series.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Exit at about a Fresca exit swalling down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon live from
the Tireck dot Com Studios. We'll get back into We
got big foot stuff to get to. We got big
college football. We got bold predictions. We can upset specials.
We have that coming up. But also audio from the
Dodgers that you absolutely have to hear right after Game
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five ended. You have to hear what was said right
at the conclusion of this game. That's you you You're cool. Okay,
no one was talking about Manny Machada. I want to
say that what did they do? You gotta hear what
somebody on the Dodgers said following the game. That's next
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Mike Harmon live from the ti raq dot com studios.
Bottom of the eighth inning, the Dodgers will go to
the ninth with at least a two run lead. They
are batting right now, leading the Padres two to nothing.
The Padres will have three outs to tie the game,
(18:06):
take the lead, or the Dodgers are headed to the NLCS. Well,
they will host the Mets. Actually, whoever gets to host
the Mets stop can't play that. Nope, can't play that.
That is that is patently not true. That is patently
not true. It is true. It's not true, Jason. When's
the last time you won the big trophy? We're in
the NLC at nineteen eighty six, we're in the NLCS. Okay,
(18:32):
nineteen ninety.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
The other thing, Smith, I mean, you know it is
the day of atonement for our Jewish colleagues. Do you
think Frostburg atoned enough and that's why he's getting this
w right?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Well? No, the thing is, I will I loaned him
grimacened him. Yeah, I loaned him Grimace. I don't know
you Yeah, no, no, here, Well, here's the thing. I loaned
Frostburg Grimace for this game against the Padres. In return,
Otani plays for the Mets in the NLC. Yes, so
that's a trade. Yeah, that's a terrible trade. Yeah, that's
(19:06):
what we need, micd up Forget about all these other jokers.
Let's go uh so again going to the ninth inning
to now, Dodgers get Padres, get out of the inning
to nothing, going to the ninth We'll love more in
this game coming up in a few minutes, Steve de Seger.
We'll tell us more than what's trending. But we have
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a huge day in college football to get to nothing,
bigger than number two versus number three. Takes a big
game like that for Fred River to take a back seat.
Joining us now on the hotline to break it all down.
Longtime college football insider, you can follow on Twitter at
Pete Futech. The website is College Footballnews dot com, your
(19:49):
one stop shopping for everything college football, all the previews,
all the prognostications, all the analysis, all the breakdown you need.
College Footballnews dot Com. Pete, what's happening, Bud?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
All right?
Speaker 7 (20:00):
I'm going to ask you a question that's really sort
of a Tuesday afternoon topic for Albany local sports radio.
But I'm curious, considering you where your allegiances live. Do
you are you jaded enough at this point? Like I'm
in the world as the world where to me? Any
team I kind of root for. All I care about
is they get to the championship. After that's kind of gravy.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
What do I care? They're not paying me money, so
I'm just watching a product who cares. But I wanted
to see them moment.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
I want to see them get their shock and if
they win, great, If they don't, would you rather have
the Mets? Are you better at if they're gonna lose.
Would you rather have them lose to the Dodgers or
to the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Oh no, no, no no, I can't lose to the Yankees.
Cannot cannot lose the Yankee. No no, no, no, no, no
no no no. Well you got to realize Pete, his
dad's a Yankee. Yeah no, no, can't do it. Can't
my whole life, can't do it. The Dodgers will be
tough enough, you know, living, you know, but we beat
the Dodgers in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Wait okay, wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Are you out there turn double plays?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Were? Here's that big p the we person.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Pete, the Pete, the mental attention I have put into
the Mets for my life, I am absolutely allowed to
say we. I don't players sure.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
The mental attention I put into my latte every day
from Starbucks is just as much.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
And I don't call it we when it's not.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I think way more about the Mets and you think
about a latte. Come on, man, that's apples and not
this time of year.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
You don't. I'm telling you on that I get it.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
This is this is a fun time, you know, like
this is this is it?
Speaker 4 (21:39):
You know? Obviously you know when you're a sports fan, you.
Speaker 7 (21:42):
Know even this is why it's kind of silly fun.
It's okay, you know, this is why you watch especially baseball. Again,
I've told both of you guys before. I literally watched
like eleven innings of baseball year, every pitch of the
playoffs because it's fun.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Now, this is cool.
Speaker 7 (21:59):
This is a good play off sport, especially with a
pincher box.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
So I get it. I get how much fun?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
All right, So let's kick things off tomorrow with you.
I'm sure you're gonna wake up for the big new
kickoff and have a big latte ready to go. We're
gonna have to wait a little bit, but we're gonna
get the big game Ohio State and Oregon. And I'll
tell you what I know. Oregon's at home. I know
Ohios had to fly across the country peat. But Ryan
Day doesn't lose these games. It's the Michigan and the
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playoff games, the middle of the season, regular season games.
Ryan Day and Ohio State do.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
Pretty well at Yeah, and I'm gonna pre transition to
probably the next topic first. It is a little weird
that we're not waking up to Oklahoma, Texas. That's just
the game again on a Saturday October that yet, that's
the one that starts it off, that sets the.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Tone for the day.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
I'm kind of mad that's a mid afternoon game now,
But to your point, yeah, it's the late game. I
can't be preaching the gospel for the last eight months
like I have without and ditch my belief system.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Now.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
I don't buy Oregon. I just it's dude, it's fun.
They've got an awesome mask, got amazing sports information department.
They just troll like no one else. They're outstanding. But
there when it comes down to this tippy cappy thing
that they do their little bank dunk offense and hopefully
gets yards after the catch.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
That's fine.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
It should work for a while, and I do think
they'll get out to a little bit of a lead
on Ohio State. But I am just a pure believer
that this Ohio State team is so much better than
just about everyone else. I'm still buying Georgia. I'm still
buying Alabama. But this Georgia team, you know, it's got
the Fort's got Chip Kelly is there is there an
offensive coordinator each be the head coach of Oregon. Still,
(23:39):
I mean this his team is just at a whole
other level, Like can't keep being like Ohio States is
be all end all and then pick against them now.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
And even if they.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
Lose, even if if this Oregon rises up and pulls
this off and everyone wants Ryan Day fired, I'm still
thinking Ohio State comes back and runs the table from there,
because they're just that good. But I I will be
shocked if Oregon's offense just cranks it up on this.
Ohio Sat another.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Top twenty five old miss and LSU. LSU we remember,
loses the opener to USC, rattles off four straight wins,
including the great UCLA Bruins.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
How good is this team?
Speaker 7 (24:19):
Do you remember last year's game when it was Jade Daniels,
It was like the nineteen eighty four Denver Nuggets versus
the Spurs, where it was like.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
In the third quarter, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 7 (24:32):
These two had a total tackling optional game last year
that was just awesome. I mean they literally could not
hit anybody and it was a blast. It was as
much fun as it gets if you do not care
about defense. A little bit better this time around, But
I think LSU's been kind of underappreciated, kind of forgotten
about after the USC loss. This is their chance to
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kind of rise up and be like, yeah, we're still
in this. But ole miss the the high hauking offense
worked against kind of you know, the Jedi mind worked
against the weak minded. But now it's gonna do a
little bit. It's gonna be there for your LSU.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
But not enough. I think LSU pulls this off.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Pt Tech College Footballnews dot Com insider our guest The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon, live from the TIREC
dot Com studios. All right, hey, let's get your red River.
At least that's somewhat early in the day. Texas and Oklahoma.
Does Oklahoma have enough? Regardless of whether it's Chris Simms
or Major apple White who plays quarterback for.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
The exactly Rick mckiber out there with exactly Jameel Holloway coming.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Up way, Why here we go?
Speaker 7 (25:42):
I love that man.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
I was I remember once you want a great Jameel
Holloway story my favorite because I was like they made
it up, like when he got introduced, like on senior
day for oaklhom playing his final game was like in
the rain somewhere and it says, and now a man
who was voted the best option quarterback in Oklahoma history.
I'm like that, that's the thing, Like, hey, Jamel Holloway
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congratulates everybody.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Well, think about it.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
Back then it was I mean, because that's back in
the day when you did have the wish phone and
they did run for a million yards a game. That's
kind of what they did. But yeah, this is again
I joke because actually I'm mad because I'll put you
this little inside Baseball. As a website publisher, there are
no photos better than the the noon like sunshine splashed,
(26:29):
you know, Cotton Bowl with those two teams and the
optics on every photo. Those are goals when it comes
to publishing you know, articles and stuff, and I'm hoping
we'll get a little bit of that, but still, this
is one of those things. I'm going to go every
cliche possible, throw out the record books at.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
The because we've seen everything. We've seen really really bad.
Speaker 7 (26:48):
Texas teams rise up and beat Oklahoma a few years ago,
that Charlie Strong team. We've seen, you know, Texas have
this thing in the bag that Caleb Williams comes out
and decides no, I'm going to introduce myself in the
world out you have last year where Texas is a
great great great great great, and all of a sudden
they just forget to play defense at the very end
and lose and then go on to win.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
You know, the big twelve yearning to Taba.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
So this thing goes.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
In all sorts of different directions, so it seem most
unpredictable rivalry possible. I do think this is going to
be relatively closed. Oklahoma still hasn't shown enough of an offense,
and I do while I'm not buying Texas, Texas is
my Oregon bucket of teams I don't buy. I do
think Quinney was being back who's being way underappreciated because
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everyone loves Archie many because he blew away touchas San
Antonio and Louisiana Monroe. Vier is gonna come back, have
a sharp game, and they're gonna pull away late, cover
very late, but it will be a pretty good fight
for a while.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Pete, do you check our guests the unmistakable voice of
college football college footballnews dot Com where you find him.
He joins his each and every week. I'm sending him
a bucket of caffeine as we speak to get him
through and.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Wait of you, way ahead of you.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Well, I'm going to get advanced, you know, I got
to get an in advance of next week game at
Pete Futech where you find them on Twitter, it's the
Jason Smith Show with my Garbin here Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Pete USC Penn State. Penn State a three and a
half point favorite. Fifty one tickets as well as sixteen dollars.
Are they going to see a USC upset at home?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (28:24):
You know, I go Wall Street on you here, hated
it at five and a half, love it it's three
and a half. I was I think Penn State wins.
I thought, you think USC keeps it close. I kind
of hedging a little in the thought during the week,
and then all of a sudden the line dropped a
little bit. So I do think Penn State is just
good enough. I have friends in the business who swear
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this Penn State team is about to be exposed at
some point, really really badly.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
I'm still buying.
Speaker 7 (28:54):
Their defense is just too good and USC, you know,
I know they got hosed in that Minnesota game where
they didn't actually have a shot of the ball crossing
the goal line and manned at PJ Flecket bailed out
on that call. But they're gonna hang around just enough
at home and then start to buckle late. The Penn
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State defense too good, but it'll be one of those
wins where Penn State wins. But we're still not all
that in press file.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
He's on Twitter at Pete fu Tech. That is, at
Pete fu Tech everything you need at college Footballnews dot com.
You're one stop shopping for everything college football, previews, analysis,
everything done by our guy Pete. Enjoy. Enjoy the games
this weekend. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 7 (29:35):
Absolutely, go Padres.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
All right, well, somebody want to tell him TJ. It
might be a little late for the Padres. This is
because it is over at Chavez Ravine. The details we'll
come to you from special delivery Steve to Seger, who's
got that with what's trending right now, Steve, the Mets
finally have an opponent. Before you tell us how this
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game ended, talk about what the Mets are thinking right
now going into the series. We don't have to bust
to San Diego. That's what they're thinking right now.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
They're gonna fly into La tomorrow. The Mets are traveling
to Southern California open an NLCS Sunday night on Fox TV,
with Game two on Monday afternoon. The Dodgers, top seeds
in the National League, will host.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
LA.
Speaker 8 (30:21):
Has just eliminated the Padres two nothing in Game five
of the best of five It's just ended on Fox
TV their NL Division series. This was the definition of
a great pitchers duel. You Darvish was sensational again except
for two long solo homers to left. He came out
with two outs in the seventh inning that stood up
(30:43):
for the nothing LA final. These two teams tonight, at
one point combined to retire twenty six straight batters, which
is the longest set streak in a single game in
the history of the playoffs in Major League Baseball. And
what the Padres have just done, how they were eliminated
this week has never happened in a best of five series.
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No team had ever led two games to one and
then literally failed to score in the last two games.
Not just lose, failed to score. They hadn't scored since
early in Game three this week, when they put up
the sixth spot in the second inning that night, and
it stood for a close victory. The Padres, I believe
it was their last nineteen hitters. Tonight retired and against
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the Dodger staff mostly relievers this week, twenty four consecutive
scoreless innings from La just astounding. Yoshinobu Yamamoto was the
starting pitcher for the Dodgers and the winner. He went
five scoreless innings. Since his shoulder injury in early June,
he has not pitched more than five innings in a game.
(31:49):
And the bullpen Evan Phillips, Alex vesis San Diego native
who had to come out due to injury, Michael Kopek,
and then Blake Trine and by the way, Peter Shrew
kudos to him from NFL Network for finding this. After
Copex strikes out a Padre to end the eighth on
one hundred and one mile an hour fastball, he finds
this headline from East Texas High School Sports a decade ago.
(32:13):
The headline reads, white House is Patrick Mahomes baseball headline
Mahomes Outduel's mount Pleasants Michael Kopek with a sixteen strikeout
no hitter.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Who knew Wow Man. I think he threw a couple
of pitches behind his back too, just because he could.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
That's right, the old shovel passed.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Hopefully Travis Kelcey was the catcher in that game. People
don't know that.
Speaker 8 (32:41):
Yeah, but then he slumped, and of course Fox News
blames somebody for something. Tomorrow's Game five in the Ale
Division Series, Detroit at Cleveland was moved up to one
pm Eastern Time due to impending rain. We've got college
football on FS one right now, and they've started the
fourth quarter with Northwestern still ahead at Maryland seventeen to ten. Halftime.
(33:02):
UNLV trying to go to five and one, leads at
Utah State forty one to seven. And they've just started
with sixteenth ranked Utah at Arizona State. And Utah's star
quarterback Cam Rising is back in the lineup tonight after
a finger injury. Tennessee Titans quarterback Will Levis will start
on Sunday after a shoulder injury. And among the four
(33:22):
NHL games tonight, it was a win for Tampa Bay
for one at Carolina. The Dodgers have eliminated the Padres
two nothing in game five Mets in Southern California Sunday
night for Game one of the NLCS on Fox TV.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve though we'll have more
college football on the way. Thanks beat Futech for joining
us here. But yes, the celebration is on at Dodgers
Stadium were and I'll tell you what the division Now
that we have division champion hats, which is so weird,
but those Division champion twenty twenty four the stretch snap,
they look pretty sweet. The black hats with the team
(34:00):
all go in the middle in the twenty twenty four
those are pretty sweet lids. Man, I gotta say those
are pretty Did you get yours yet?
Speaker 4 (34:06):
No?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Well, no, I have to pre order. Like it's like, oh, yeah,
hey get this hat. Great? Oh but yeah, but it'll
ship next week. I'm like, it'll ship next week. The
NLCS is gonna be Oh why would I want a
division hat when I would want the l nationally? Come on, man,
you can't just give me a pre order on a
division hat. You got a division that's ready to go.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
Well, does what's it got on? I mean obviously that
the front of the hat is clean, does it? Does
it have a patch for the division or is it?
I think it?
Speaker 1 (34:31):
I think it says it on the old bill there, Yeah,
I think it says it on the bill. I mean,
and I don't know. I mean, LeVar Ball could be
shipping these things out. I would never get you'll never
see it. But these hats are pretty sweet. And now
we know METSA who knew that when I went to
the Mets Dodgers game that fateful Sunday when the Dodgers
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shut out the Mets ten nothing and Otani hit a
home run that I think. Okay, next time I'll be
back at ship Has it will be for the nl CS,
the Mets and the Dodgers Sunday night, Monday afternoon. Let's go.
Which one are we going?
Speaker 9 (35:06):
Though?
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Let's go. We'll see, we'll see. I have some irons
in the fire. We'll see where we're going. We'll see what.
We'll see what we got. We could potentially do both.
Potential is there for both games? Well, the potential is
certainly there. Yeah. I we'll load up on the caffeine. Okay, well,
okay while here, okay, okay, okay, No, I'm not bringing
a drunk Mike harmon til you know you're not going No, No,
I said beer. You just said beer. Well we just said,
(35:29):
are you saying disappointed when I said caffeen? Beer?
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Well?
Speaker 1 (35:34):
No, no, no, you want beer. I'm thinking no, stop. Okay, listen, okay, Okay,
you're not you're not twenty two. We go to we
go to the game. We have to go and just
be cool. Okay, you can't go and oh your son's
a blankety blank can't. I got no dog in the fight.
I'll just be sitting there watching the activity and watching
you lose your mind. You can't, we can't do it.
(35:56):
What happened? Harmon passed out the third inning. He had
coffee but not enough because then he had beer and
now he's out. Yeah, he's done. Well. I'll be carrying
to scale back the can I borrow that Dolly? Dodgers
and the padres to Nothing the Dodgers with the final
victory in the series, and they get what they need.
(36:17):
They win the last two games and now show Heytanian
company headed to where we thought they'd be the beginning
of the season. So what to expect, and we'll make
our big pick for Game five in the ALCS. That's
coming up next right here, Jason and Mike, and I'm
still okay with playing the Dodgers. I'll tell you why. Next.
This is Fox Sports.
Speaker 9 (36:35):
Radio, Padres Nothing Game five, of the Division Series comes
down to this, trying against Fernando Tatis Junior.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Here's the pitch.
Speaker 10 (36:49):
Tati swings, chop it a third can't pick by her none.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
There's the do.
Speaker 8 (36:55):
Frowy.
Speaker 10 (36:57):
Fireworks go off and straight up center field as the
Dodgers shut out the Padres bitten.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Back to that game.
Speaker 10 (37:06):
They are going to the National League Championship Series.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
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where champagne is flowing in the Dodgers Clubhouse. They advanced
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National League Championship Series open Sunday at Chevezervine Mets and
(37:45):
the Dodgers. I was a going ALCS will be settled tomorrow,
a game that was moved up eight hours because of weather.
So now, which is good because now you know, Guardians
and Tigers fans don't have to worry about sweating out
all day waiting for the game to be and hey,
we're gonna start pretty early.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
Yeah, psychologically that just the waiting is the hardest part.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
I mean, tell Petty had it right, man, don't have
to worry about it.
Speaker 6 (38:08):
Di.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
I can wake up and watch the game. It's great.
But the Dodgers will be the favorites. They should be
the favorites, number one seed versus the number six seed.
But I'm gonna tell you this. I'm gonna tell you this.
What am I afraid of? Could? What could possibly happen?
The Mets are gonna see and go through they haven't
(38:31):
already what kind of adversity. I shouldn't say this because
now it's gonna happen. But the Mets have seen everything
in this postseason and there's still two rounds left to go.
They have seen their season look like it was over
in the regular season. They've seen it look like it
was over in the postseason. They faced a team with
the best closer in the National League. They faced a
team with the best bullpen in the National League in
(38:53):
All Stars, and guess what, guess who's standing. I don't
see anything the Mets are gonna face that makes me go,
oh boy, we're coming into this as a deficit. I'm
looking at this same we're coming in, We're going toe
to toe. There is no reason to say, boy, the
Dodgers are loaded. Look at what they're doing, because the
Dodgers have issues. Man, I look they it's been great
the last two games. The bullpen has been unreal for them.
(39:15):
Right Yamamoto was terrific. The bullpen was great. But it's
not like I'm seeing a team that this is not
a Dodgers team where look, there's no holes anywhere. You know,
pitching's gonna be a thing. And the longer you go
in the playoffs and the longer you go in a series,
when you see the relievers, it's a better deal for
the team hitting. And there's nobody that the Mets are
gonna see in this series that's better than what they
(39:36):
saw in the last two series and in this season
at the end of the end of the year. So yeah,
I feel really good about coming into this series. If
the Mets lose, it's not gonna be because ah, we
were a little timid and clearly the better team on
the other side. No, it's gonna take They're gonna have
to do everything they can to beat the Mets, and
I feel pretty good about our chances going in here.
I'm not going in this thinking, hey, ah, maybe we
(39:59):
went this far it's great. No, no, no, I'm coming
here thinking it could be the World Series the week
after this. Look at you.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
I love your positivity and excitement. Yeah, obviously more variables
you add to the equation. It's been something we've been
preaching on the football side of thing, and certainly major
League Baseball, when we talk about.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
The rise of this.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
New era of quick hooks on starting pitching, that eventually
you're gonna run out of luck, that one guy's gonna
be I mean, Steve's had the stats of what both
teams did here and turt what was it, twenty six
straight batters without a hit, and you know, the tension
building overall, and we talked about the Dodgers and just
(40:42):
how many scoreless innings?
Speaker 1 (40:43):
What is it twenty three? Now, I mean, that's just insane,
twenty three or twenty four.
Speaker 5 (40:48):
After this game, I lost track because you know, I
had to add a Northwestern touchdown that got me excited
when I went to write it on I write it down.
But it's just that idea that eventually you're expecting one
bad outing and it's a game. It's the margin, isn't
there right to where we're not looking at blowouts. That
eight to zero game four is the outlier. Everything else
(41:10):
is contested, you know where.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
Yeah, there's the.
Speaker 5 (41:14):
Ten to two got away, all right, so two games bad.
Otherwise we're looking at pitching and bullpen management as you
go through.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
You know. Also, Otani was playing long toss today. Yeah, no,
it's not just kind of thrown it out there for you. Sure,
that's okay, all right, it's fine. I'm finny because they
could turn the lights off and all of a sudden
he's on the mound like he's the undertaker. Well, if
they turn the lights off when he pitches, that's what
I'll be worried about, because I don't think we'll hit
him if the lights are off. Is it a globe ball?
Then John Paul Morosi stops by to take a look ahead,
(41:44):
and what we just saw it is a big night
that rolls on next on Fox.
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