Best of the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon

Jason explains why he’s NOT a fan of the Dodgers strategy. Texans WR Stefon Diggs season is over after tearing his ACL on Sunday against the Colts. Freddie Freeman becomes the first player in MLB history to homer in six consecutive World Series games. And MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi reacts to the Dodgers giving the Yankees Game 4 of the World Series!

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(00:51):
four of the World Series. Yankees up six to four,
looking for more. They have runners at second and third
after a double steal with one hour out. Will Smith
helping to keep this game going for the Dodgers. He
just just dropped a pop up uh and as a result,
now instead of two outs and hey, they're almost out.
Of the inning. Uh, the Dodgers have to navigate this

(01:13):
if they're gonna have a shot in the top of
the ninth. Again, the Dodgers second tier relievers pitching the
entire game. Rick Honeycut is in for l a right now,
trying to get them to the ninth innis you're calling
him a second level How dare you?

Speaker 3 (01:29):
You actually got to go after a pop up to
almost catch it, though, that.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Is true, you have to you have to make more
of an f he' he hit a home run tonight
after it to drop it. Uh, it's it's it's really weird. Uh. Again,
this is such a strange game. The Dodgers deciding we're
going to try to win the World Series in a
bullpen game is one thing. But we're gonna try to

(01:53):
win a World Series in a bullpen game where he
take the lead early on a Freddie Freeman home run
and we're just not gonna bring in any of our
high leverage guys on a night we can win the
World Series. That's just stunning to me. The more time
goes on, the more it's it's amazing, just thinking, Okay, wow,
this is really how they're gonna try to win the

(02:13):
World Series. It's not like the Yankees got out to
a big five, six run lead. The Dodgers had a
two run lead going to the bottom of the first inning.
They still had three low leverage guys out there when
the Yankees were threatening. We're not gonna try to protect
this lead. It's no matter what, We're not gonna go
with our high leverage guys. And even though it's a
one run game for most of the game, a two
run game, the Dodgers were okay giving this game to

(02:36):
the Yankees and saying, hey, if we win, it's gonna
be our way. And if we if we lose, and
we lose like this because we didn't bring in our
good pitchers, well that's how it's gonna go. And we're
gonna be set up for the rest of the series.
Well that's the thing. That's the curiosity, right is when
it became five to two, you know, like, okay, I
get it. Right after the Vulpie Grand Slam, Jordy like,

(02:56):
all right, let's see if we can chip away, and
then we make a decision and we pivot from that decision,
which they did not. They decided to still stay of
the course. Nack ended up pitching the extra innings and
rolling through. As we see the lead now extending with
Honeywell on the mound here in the eighth, now seven
to four. That was a horrible throw to the plate.

(03:19):
And that was a horrendous throw of the play. It
should have been out of the plate. That was a
horrible throw. Look, they want to blame Will Smith for everything.
This is a ground ball. It's it's right, it's right
at him, and and the throw is to the far
side of the plate. Gavin Lux makes a h I mean,
this is a ground ball. That's Gavin Lux doesn't have
to move forward. Literally, he finds a way to throw
the ball to the far side of home plate, and

(03:42):
Will Smith has no chance to make it part of
the first base side of things, has to try to
do the big sweeping tag, no chance to get the
runner to make it now a three run game. So
it's like the Dodgers aren't gonna rest until they said,
we're just gonna give this game to the Yankees. Just
gonna give this game.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
What's the big deal if they.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Did, because they could have won the World's.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
They're up three to zero.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Okay, all right, all right, well see okay, Okay.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
Wee get game five while we're on the air tomorrow night.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
No, no, no, See, like there's the silver lining right there.
It is selfishly and I said this to folks earlier
today as they asked me about this this game. And
you know, obviously a lot of Dodger fans as you're
you're on the highways and byeways and walking around the
neighborhood with the dog and all everybody, Hey, Dodgers can
finish it off again. It's like, but you actually want

(04:29):
other games? I'm like, yes and no, right, it's good
for business, it's good for the show. It's more to
talk about Dave Roberts and the pitching staff. Gavin Lucks
multiple times tonight. He was the guy picked off second base, Uh,
doubled up earlier and now you have this throwing issue.
All of that to say, he helped this along. And yes,

(04:49):
we we do benefit from having a game.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
This is charity.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Let him have this game. There really is going to
be a game five. Because Glaber Torres has just hit
a three run homer to give the Yankees a ten
to four lead in the bottom of the eighth inning.
Yankee fans are going crazy in the stands. They're throwing
beer on each other, throwing popcorn. So we are going
to see most likely a game five. Look a's what
the Dodgers wanted. The Dodgers wanted game five. In game five,

(05:15):
we're getting game five. You want it, you got it now. Look, obviously,
history shows all of these things. The last nine three
to zero leads ended in sweeps. That's not going to
be the case, barring some ridiculous ninth inning here. I
just don't don't know how it sits when you can
leave the door open right where you have the opportunity.

(05:38):
And that's not to say that they would have come
in and all mid lights out right. We stipulate to that.
It's just more from a strategy and going back to
what Dave Roberts said last night of hey, we want
to extinguish this. We need to have that sense of urgency.
I didn't see that sense of urgency. I didn't see it. Look, congratulations,
we're getting game five, cogret, we're getting game five. We're

(06:00):
congratulating we win.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
You seem very upset about it, though.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Because when a team can win the World Series Freddie
Freeman hits a home run, the Yankees are dead.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
They're dead.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
You could be partying in the middle of the field
tonight another home runs. We're gonna stick with our low
leverage relievers are second tier guys, and if we somehow win, great,
But winning tonight's game was not really one hundred percent
of what are I wanted to see. What kind of
was tribute the Pizza Rats would have brought to the Dodgers.

(06:32):
Think about that. It's a whole horror movie ready to happen. Instead,
we get two clowns thrown out of the game, and
we selfishly we do get a game five locally in
LA and five seventy LA Sports gets a game five. Yeah,
so we got a game five. Okay, great, we're getting
a game five. We're gonna fight. I mean, but our job.

(06:54):
But the job is to analyze and questioning critique the
the strategicy and I think it is fair to ask
why down five to four, the strategy didn't change and
the bullpen deployment didn't you know, get redirected to try
to go and aggressively win this game.

Speaker 4 (07:14):
But it's not the end of the world. It's do
you ever want to leak? He's still got to win
three in a row.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
After to Night.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
You ever want to let somebody up off the mat
in the World series, guess what we're giving it away.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
We're giving them one game. Let's them celebration.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
Dave Roberts called Fox today and Fox said, Hey, if
you can find a way to extend this thing by.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
Bunch of bad days and maybe we work. You leave
the home play Umpire out of it. You're now facing.
You leave Doug Henning out of it. You're now facing
Garrett called him Arrow Night, the Yankees' best starter, and
you are coming back with Jack Flaherty, who this second
time in a series has not been great, and we
have seen him throwing His fastball is three to four
miles an hour less. So let's open the door for that.

(07:56):
Jack Flowerdy wasn't greatest last Let's open the door. No,
but the second time in the series has not been good. Right,
and he's down. He's pitched a lot of innings this year. Okay,
you're opening that, You open the door. He still Garrett Coles,
not Garrett Cole. I'm telling you Garrett Cole. Grek Cole
is pretty good. Grek Hole is pretty good. He was
pretty good in Game one. He's their best pitcher. He's
the guy they're looking at. He's gonna be.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yankees scored thirty six runs tonight.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Okay, okay, they might I mean moon Soto just no,
I mean yeah, maybe, uh you know. So here's where
we sit right now. Again, this game is now ten
to four Yankees batting in the bottom of the eighth inning,
and it's stunning the lack of urgency with the Dodgers
pitching decisions in a game they could have won. That
that that's what that's why it sticks out, is that

(08:39):
this is not a game where they were chasing any
sort of of of a game where the Yankee scored
six in the first two winnings and it was, well,
what are we gonna do. We're down six, We're really
gonna win this game. So here's our low leverage guys.
It was our low leverage guys and relievers that we
are not gonna pitch at all. Casparius and Hudson and
then nat comes in. We are gonna throw these guys,

(09:00):
and honeywell, we're gonna throw a bunch of guys and
and no matter what happens, this is our plan. And
we could give the game to the Yankees and that's
exactly what they've done. But they're okay with that. They
were okay with giving a game to the Yankees because
they felt it's better to set up the rest of
the World Series. We're set up winning game five and
all right, I mean I understood it a little bit

(09:22):
against the Mets because they got behind early and you
didn't see the decision change. All right, Well, we're down
six to nothing in game two, we're down five to
one in game in game five, and Dave Roberts said,
the low leverage guys are gonna pitch and the second
tier guys are gonna go. We're not gonna chase a
win here. We're gonna get back and win the next
couple of nights. Won our pitchings back to normal. It's
one thing to do that. It's quite another to say, hey, yeah,

(09:45):
we could win this game tonight. Yeah not really. We're
just stick with our bad guys. But boy, you could
bring in a high leverage guy here, just at least
a little bit in the in the in the middle
of the third inning. No, no, no gonna do. Let's
stick with our low leverage guys. You have to stop
your analysis. It's so bad Aaron Judge just got a hit.
That's how bad he got a hit in an RBI,
Aaron Judges woken up. Congratulations. I mean really, I mean

(10:08):
that's it's just such a stunning philosophy to say, we're
okay giving up a game, but you could have it
in the middle. Yeah, I know, we still don't want it.
We still would much rather. I don't know if we
want to run the risk of trying to win this
game as much as we'd rather set up the rest
of the series. Now, I appreciate the bravado. I mean,
it takes a lot of stones to go down that

(10:29):
path and say, you know, dance with who brungya and
move from there. I disagree with it, but I respect
it because for Dave Roberts, for the Dodgers, we've watched
the bullpen, right, Rosberger, mean, we've watched this all season long,
Like this bullpen is well traveled. This bullpen has pitched
and finished many a game. So at this point, dance

(10:52):
with who brung ya? And so he's confident and look,
it's a long order, right, And we played the Aaron
Boone q and A yesterday when he wanted to kill
that guy for asking the question about two thousand and four. Hey,
you know it's only happened once before. Wait for it,
Wait for it. I didn't do anything.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
Yeah, but how many times does it happened in the
World Series where teams give games away? How many times
does it happen in the World Series where what's that
when teams give up?

Speaker 3 (11:19):
Where our team has come back three?

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Oh, no, it hasn't. Now that happened, hasn't happened. Relax, buddy, Okay,
all right, all right, let's say if you hear this
relaxed tomorrow night, when Garrett Cole goes seven inning, strikes
out twelve. Oh, we're going back tone for game six.
Everything is fine.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
I still gotta win two more.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Everything is fine, Everything is great. Don't worry. Everything it is.
It never goes well when you let an opponent up
off the mat, and I will do I will say this.
I do like the level of calm because I don't
think he's doing a bit here.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
I'm actually not.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
I think legitimately he's got the The heart rate hasn't
moved like no Frostburg of Churse Frostburg has no choice
but to believe it became. He had no heart No,
he was me. He knows in his head this is
an awful decision and it will it will absolutely overcome me,
and I will succumb to some sort of psychosis. So
what I have to do is just say it doesn't matter,

(12:13):
just doesn't matter, just doesn't matter. It makes no difference,
doesn't matter, it doesn't doesn't matter, makes that doesn't matter.
We're all good does it doesn't matter what happens? Uh? Exit?
How about a fresca exit? Swollen down The Jason Smith
Show and Mike Carmon live from the tiraq dot Com studios.
All right, so we are going to see Game five
that we're barring a seven run ninth at least by
the Dodgers. We are gonna get that. Uh, we are

(12:35):
still watching the Yankees bat in the bottom of the
eighth inning. So we'll lot more on this game. But
coming up next, Yes, we get back into the NFL
and the big trades that went down to we had
a big trade today and a huge injury. It's coming
up next, right here, Jason to Mike. This is Fox
Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1 (13:01):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Yankees putting the finishing touches on a
win in Game four, delaying the Dodgers celebration for at
least a night. Hey, this game ain't over yet, dude.
Aaron Judge got a base in an RBI games over
games over. That is fairly damn. And my dad, who
just sent me a text, not even our bullpen can

(13:23):
blow this one seven run lead the ninth inning. I'm
feeling uns on principle, I want Walt to have some
pain now.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
I think, wow, he will tomorrow night.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
Now that's my dad you're talking about. Only I'm the
one that says, hey, I'm okay with you having some pain.
Only I get to say that. You guys don't get that.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
He's a Yankee.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Say hey, hey, he's been a friend of the show
for a decade. Okay, he's not new to this.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
No, that's that's the last time he came on the.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Show a decade. Oh yeah, it's been a minute. He
doesn't pick up anymore for you. It's it's it is
a late night for him. He is uh, he is
struggling to stay up, but he will stay up to
watch the Yankees win a World Series game. What does
he do to celebrate? I think you'll probably have ice
cream and then go to bed. Oh nice, Yeah that's
my dad. No, Frostburg, he's not and that is not
how my dad. Are you sure I'm positive that is

(14:09):
not how he's Are you positive? Yes? Yes, you can
You imagine trying to sneak guests into a fifty five
and overbuilding. Hell yeah, let's go. I'm here to see
Walt Smith? Whoa Why do you have a boombox with you?
Don't worry about it? You know? That is what kind
of light is that? It's after it's after eight o'clock.
You can't play music very loud. It's okay, it's all right,

(14:31):
it's all right. Who's the guy with the inflatables?

Speaker 2 (14:34):
Hey?

Speaker 5 (14:35):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (14:35):
Do you hear Cherry Pie coming from the third floor?
Go check out Walt Smith's apartment?

Speaker 5 (14:43):
Rotten?

Speaker 1 (14:44):
So again, Yankees up eleven four, one out in the ninth.
We will be going to game five of More on
this game coming up in a few minutes, But big
day in the NFL. We had a big injury, and
we had a big tray. Let's see what the injury
first to find you mean your kick? I really injuries.
Stefan Digs out for the season, torn acl This was
an injury that was really kept under wraps for the

(15:07):
part of the week, like nobody knew anything about it.
Stefan Diggs, he's hurt. But now the Texans are going
to be without Stefan Diggs for the year. They are
still without Nico Collins, although where it is he can
return after the bye. And look, Nico Collins is still
their best wide receiver. But this now vaults the Texans
to the top of the list for a wide receiver

(15:28):
over everybody else because right now you don't have anybody
on the team. But that's caught more than twenty seven passes,
right Like it's Tank Dellen, just a bunch of guys,
and you have won pretty well so far this season.
If you're the Texans. Now you've not run past teams
like we thought they were going to. Hey, look there's
a great offense with CJ. Stroud, they are adding Stefan Diggs.

(15:50):
There's gonna be way too many mouths to feed. Look
at all the weapons they have now they got Joe
Mixon running the football.

Speaker 4 (15:56):
They are still winning. They're still six and two. The
jury is still out a little bit because they've been escaping.
They have the big win over the Bills, but they
are winning games like you would in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
They're winning by being able to run the football a ton,
making clutch plays, and they're able to come out on top.
Defensive front is starting to assert themselves like they they
were quiet early, but they're now ranking in terms of
pressures and sacks among the league lead. But they're still
going to have to add because this Ye're not going
to be able to get by with this kind of offensive.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
Answer.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
Flacco becoming the court Joe Flacco is inevitable. But they've
not been as dynamic as we expected them to be.
Expected to take a really big jumping. Instead, they're a
really good team and they're finding enough ways to win.
And certainly CJ. Stroud has not been as dynamic after
Nico Collins injury. Now it's going to be less with

(16:49):
Stefon Diggs. Now suddenly you're you're looking at Thursday night going, man,
who's he gonna throw to the Jets are one thing
you can say there, Look, their linebackers and their defensive
line may be slow, but their corner back at least
in theory, are gonna have a pretty good night here.
But they absolutely need to add somebody. They can't not
do it. And they jump to the top of the
list over a lot of other teams. They jump over
the Steelers other teams because this is a team of

(17:12):
Super Bowl aspirations and you're expecting Eagle Collins to come back,
but it's not a for certain You know you're losing
Stefan dig You needed something. Because you went out and
got Stefan Diggs, you still need another threat there at
wide receiver to keep this team where they are. And
so I really expect them to do something. And whoever is,
whether it's Mike Williams, somebody else that's there at the deadline,

(17:34):
they jumped to the top of that list. Well, and
that's what we're looking at and trying to figure out
the next man up, right, because Christian Kirk lost for
the season, he was a guy rumored to be on
the move, just a question of where. Because the Jaguars
did get active and they traded an offensive lineman. It's
not sexy, but with Minnesota losing Darisov for the year,
they needed to go and find someone to help protect

(17:56):
Sam Darnold and keep that machine moving. So you get that.
But in the receiving game, we've seen teams checking off
the list, right, We've seen a bunch of guys move.
We see another one move, you know from Carolina. We'll
get to him in a second. So you don't have
a lot of names on the board. Mike Williams, Like
Mike Williams rises up as one of the big He's
not a come on that. That is not a difference

(18:18):
because he's out there right. No, but that's the point.
So it's a question of, you know, do the Patriots
get rid of one of their guys again no great shakes,
but serviceable pros. Do you go into the depth charts
of some of the other also ran squads uh, and
and try to pry a player and maybe more advantageous situation.

(18:41):
Uh they can raise their game, sure, but you know,
most of the dominoes have already fallen in terms of
what we've been hearing from the rumor mill. I mean,
I guess Carolina still has Adam Thielen that potentially you decide, Hey,
we we're gonna cut bait, figure out the contract and
let him go become a third down specialists for somebody

(19:01):
else while he's healthy. But look, but you could be
seeing I'm just throwing this out there because as teams
don't play well or they see that maybe we need
to move on to do different things right, You could
see you could see someone like Jerry Judy out there. Hey,
the Brown signed him to a long term contract. But
you know, Cedric Tillman's pretty good. Elijah Moore has now
become a weapon. He had the most targets of anybody

(19:21):
on the team, and obviously the other team in Ohio
because they suck. T Higgins is on the franchise tag,
so potentially make him happy by making him a number
one somewhere else. You could see a guy like Darius
Slayton get traded by the Giants. You know, suddenly these
teams that start losing are going to be, hey, we're
okay giving somebody up and moving guys on. And the

(19:43):
more the more you the closer we get to the deadline.
As you see two and six teams become two and
seven teams, or three and five teams become three and
six teams. There will be more people out there. There'll
be there'll be many more wide receivers out there and available,
and the players you can go get so they will
they they will absolutely be open for business. Yeah, Steel
Steelers are the team that it's still curious to see

(20:06):
if we, uh we get it download a fall. I
did find a couple of comments in the Twitter verse
and a couple of thought pieces really fun that went
away from the wide receiver position altogether. It was if
the if and when the Jets suck on Thursday against
the Texans and then on Sunday. Not that anybody was
wishing for somebody specifically to get hurt, but if a

(20:26):
quarterback got hurt, could Aaron Rodgers get dealt at the deadline?
People would want Aaron Rodgers at this point, you know,
I mean, I don't know. Desperation is a stinking colone.
We will get to Aaron Rodgers next hour, because he
has says he has found the fountain of you. He did.
He says he has old with a new drink.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
He said, Now I'm not saying he's there. We're done
wasting America's time with that.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Guardy said he has found the fountain of youth, and
it's something that anybody can get. Really, anybody can get this.
Anybody can Get's not something where I don't have to
go and find it. I don't even know you need
to spend more than like like four dollars bubble. No,
it is not Iowa at Ayahuasca bubble. He has found
the fountain of a new drink. And I'm telling anybody

(21:10):
could have it. I could probably have it right now.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
If I want it.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
Really, And he says, this is what's about to get
to that?

Speaker 4 (21:15):
And you're gonna trust a guy that sucks at quarterback, Well, well,
here's the thing is that he's got to find the
fountain of youth if he wants to get traded somewhere,
because right now I don't know a lot of teams
that would want him.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
But uh, the other trades. Speaking of trades, Deontay Johnson
gets dealt. And he was one of the names we
thought was gonna get traded initially when his name was
thrown out through He so, no, I like what's going
on here in Carolina? I want to stay. That's a
great thing to say. Doesn't mean he wasn't going to
get traded. He gets Delta day to the Ravens. Well,
he was also a guy that was salty and said, look,
I can't throw the pass. Yeah yeah, like he he

(21:46):
kind of did the uh, who is it? Was it
Edelman's not it was not Edelman's wife, Welker's Yeah, yeah,
he can't throw it. So he gets delt today to
the Ravens. And this is one of those rare, over
the top moves that the Ravens had to have because

(22:07):
as good as Zay Flowers is, and say Flowers is
a nice player, the Ravens wide receivers are kind of pedestrian.
And is Deontay Johnson an unbelievable game breaker? No, but
he's gonna immediately come in and slide in as their
number one receiver. And we see the talent he's had.
He was pretty good in Pittsburgh. We have big games
in Carolina even when nobody's gonna throw him the football.

(22:29):
And this is going to make the Ravens more dangerous.
This isn't over the top move. When there's not a
lot of over the top moves you can make, there's
only Hey, we're desperate, so we have to make a
trade for somebody. This isn't over the top move because
as a season goes on, and I'm gonna hit you
with something pretty big here, as a season goes on,
they're going to have to throw the football because eventually

(22:51):
Derek Henry's going to hit the wall because he's thirty
years old and it's great to see him run now
and he has been fantastic so far. Right, He's I
like insane. You saw last week, what did Lamar Jackson say, Hey,
Derek Henry could break the all time rushing record. And
it's great because he is on pace to potentially do that,
and he's much better, has much more in the tank
than I thought he would have, and he's been terrific.

(23:13):
But you watch what happened last week and you thought,
maybe we need to get a little more dynamic in
the passing game. Maybe we need another guy out there
to throw the football too, because again, Zay Flowers is nice,
but he's kind of an every other, every third game guy.
Deontay Johnson is someone who can go for six and
one twenty five every week. Right, He's a real not
that he's going to, but he has that potential. He

(23:35):
is a fantastic wide receiver and as the season goes
on and there's more wear and tear on Derrick Henry.
Guess what he's going to slow down. He's not gonna
hit the middle of December running for one hundred and
seventy five yards a week. The guy's thirty years old.
It's the same philosophy of, Hey, I feel really good
about our starting pitching in Major League Baseball going into
the playoffs. You do, yeah, I feel great. All our

(23:56):
guys start at thirty games this year, I feel fantastic. Well,
guess what going to need more help because they're all
gonna be out of gas. All all starting pitchers run
out of gas on the postseason because they've had big seasons.
If they're healthy and they've pitched the entire year, guess what,
they're gonna slow down. Doesn't matter who they are, doesn't
matter how good they are, They're gonna slow down because
they don't throw enough innings. They don't build their arms

(24:17):
up by the time you get to the postseason. Everybody's tired, right,
even go Garrett cole Is. The Yankees are so excited
to have him on the mound tomorrow. How many pitches
they're gonna have to take him out at eighty five
pitches because that's what you have to do because starting
pitchers where down when they hit the postseason. You just
can't count on them. And the same thing, it's the
same thing for an older running back Derrick Henry. You

(24:37):
can cut his carries down now. But ken you, I mean,
you've already logged. You've lost three games.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
Now.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
I know you think you're great, but you've already lost
a bunch of games. You're gonna hit the middle of December,
get into the January. Boy, he's hit the wall. He's
not the same guy. He doesn't have the same burst,
and it's not gonna be anything bad other than he's
thirty years old. In a running back thirty one years old,
so you're gonna need to throw the football. Boy, you
needed enough a weapon to come in that you're gonna
be able to replay and there's no running back out

(25:04):
there to replace him with right now, Which, honestly, that's
something I would look at and say, Hey, do a
team like the Patriots you really want Ramondre Stevenson, you're
really gonna use him, or hey we could use him.
You gave him a lot of money in the offseason.
You're clearly not a Remandre Stevenson away from from getting anywhere.
Like I wonder if a running back getting dealt near
the deadline is going to be something or something for Baltimore.
But eventually they're gonna have to do something else because

(25:25):
Derek Henry's gonna hit the wall, and getting Deontay Johnson
is a phenomenal move for that. There was a couple
of things that go with it, you know, you talk
about their offense as a whole. Obviously, the dual tight
end Andrews the last four weeks suddenly awake fantasy owners
celebrating the fact that I think he's a tight end
five or six over the last month, which is great.
Isaiah likely still has the occasional breakout performances. Rashad Bateman's

(25:49):
on the radar and he's he's had a couple of
big games. So long as that offensive line's healthy, he
got a shot. Go back to Carolina, do a full down,
full on sell right, Chewba Hubbard, because you drafted Jonathan
Brooks and he's in his twenty one day workout window
to get back with the squad, your season's done. So

(26:10):
if Chewba Hubbard's a guy that you know you can
get the Ravens to throw something your way. That's great.
The other thing you get in Deontay Johnson is you
get a guy who's heading into his free agency year.
His contract is done at the end of twenty twenty four,
so you get a motivated guy for the second half
of the season who's going to bust his hats to
make Lamar Jackson look good and to make himself a

(26:33):
boatload of cash. So probably the best of the trades
in that regard from a guy that could be just
that big a game breaker to come in with that
extra motivation on what is already a pretty good team.
Right for Baltimore, one of the unheralded things and all
of it is they finally have a healthy Ronnie Stanley.
They finally have a healthy offensive line, which is something

(26:56):
they have not been running behind the last couple of years.
We talked about and joked about it at times uh
the training room there in Baltimore. Unfortunately, Dobbins Edwards couldn't
stay healthy, but neither could the offensive line, which meant
a lot more of the Hey, Lamar one one thousand
and two one thousand, either, just fire the ball up
into Harm's way or get the hell out of dodge

(27:17):
and run here you have more balance. So from the
Ravens side, hopefully that continues for them as they roll
what they do need to do and be more active
in running back would be great. They need at least
one guy who knows what the hell he's doing in
the secondary as No. Hey, fine, I gotta solve the
bigger problem. I don't know that you can solve that problem.

(27:39):
Secondary is terrible. Yeah, but Derek Henry hasn't fallen apart yet. Yeah,
but you're your defensive backfield already has their secondary is
There's no fixing that. Man, I'm trying. You gotta get
more dynamic. I was trying, man, I was wishing and
hoping that man come on exit out out a Fresco exit.

(28:00):
Swollen down. The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Carmon. Love the Deontay Johnson move and as fans
of baseball, we love the fact we're gonna get a
Game five in the World Series. Kevin Wyer has all
the details on how we got there from here.

Speaker 6 (28:14):
K Dow Yeah, the Yankees offense coming, where's this been?
Basically the whole series, the first time they have led
since the tenth inning of Game one, in a game
on a huge blast from Anthony Volpai.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
As Hudson deals swung line on they are the love
field and deep, that ball.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
Is high, that us far Well is gone.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
It's a grand slam.

Speaker 6 (28:37):
That was John at Sterling on w Fan and the
Yankees Radio Network, part of an offensive onslaught from the Yankees,
although they didn't really break it open until the eighth inning.
Labor tore Is a three run blast followed a home
run by Austin Willson inning earlier to give the Yankees
a huge eleven to four victory as they force a

(28:58):
fifth game. They still trailer this series three games to one,
but they are still alive and Freddie Freeman, for his part,
very well could have secured the World Series. MVP had
a two run home run in the top of the
first inning. He's hit a home run in all four
games of this series and as homeward in six straight
World Series games going back to the one. The games
he played in in twenty twenty one for the Atlanta

(29:22):
Braves will be Game five tomorrow evening at Yankee Stadium,
with a first pitch set for a little bit after
eight o'clock Eastern time. In the NBA, we do have
one game going on right now. The Warriors have taken
the lead against the Pelicans. They're in the middle of
the third quarter.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
Right now.

Speaker 6 (29:39):
It's seventy four sixty seven in favor of a Golden State.
Earlier today, it was the Mavericks and Timberwolves in a
Western Conference Finals rematch, and Dallas wins at won twenty
one to fourteen, despite temporarily losing Luka. Doncci looked like
he had turned his ankle, but did come back into
the game finished with twenty four points a though struggled,
shooting just ten at twenty seven to one of eight

(30:00):
from beyond the three point line. Kyrie Irving leading the
way with thirty five points. Anthony Edwards, for his part,
had thirty seven to lead all scores. And in the NFL,
a couple of trades going down on a Tuesday, the
Minnesota Vikings getting Cam Robinson from the Jaguars. Meanwhile the
Baltimore Ravens acquiring Deonta Johnson from the Carolina Panthers.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
Bank to you guys, thank you very much, Kate dob
appreciate it. My friend the Jason smithser with Mike Carmen
live from the Tirec dot Com Studios. One other quick
NFL note before we get it into the World Series.
Is it about Zerlin?

Speaker 3 (30:35):
No?

Speaker 1 (30:35):
No, no, no, no no, it is in New York. Daniel
Jones is going to stay the starting quarterback for the Giants. Yes, yeah,
for this week. Are you really surprised coming off the
last night?

Speaker 5 (30:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (30:45):
I am really. They don't want to pay the guy
twenty five.

Speaker 4 (30:48):
Million dollars come on Parkley and their owner said he
couldn't sleep at night. Mind, you're really surprised about this.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
Look, Daniel Jones is bad, all right, that's the first
part of this. Daniel Jones is bad. He was really
bad last night. He crushed them with two horrible turnovers
in the final five minutes of the game, and I
was his turnstile and tackles fall more. Yeah, but still.

Speaker 5 (31:09):
T J.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
Watt actually walked up to him and asked him for
the football, and Daniel Jones just handed it to him.
He didn't even hit him. He said, hey, can I
have the football? Oh? Sure, And Daniel Jones just handed
it to him. Well, I mean, he he walked up
and he said, you know, like when you were near
a stove. Here, I need the ball, and your your mom, grandma,
whoever would slap down the handguing that's I don't know.
It was more like a give me five, Hey, they

(31:30):
give me yeah, wow, there goes a football. Now the
other play, I mean horrible, I mean he's terrible. It's
twenty three million. I like that. You had to look
down and you went, no, he's terrible. He's really bad.
And the Giants are going to move on from him.
And again, twenty three million dollars is guaranteed of his
salary next year because of injury. How long are you

(31:52):
really going to let him go when you know the
season is over? So this whole Daniel Jones is our guy.
Daniel Jones is my guy. Yeah, this might be a
little bit of Brian Dable trying to win enough games
to save his job, because clearly the Giants front office
and and John Marra is on the cusp of okay,
we're gonna be starting over next year with a whole
bunch of people that don't include you, and and Brian

(32:13):
Dabele's going, hey, I want to still try to win
some games. And I don't know about going to Drew
Locke just now. But this whole thing, Daniel Jones is
our guy. Let's see how long this lasts for. Let's
see how long, because within the next few days, maybe
it's this week, we're gonna get a bit. Oh, Daniel
Jones is gonna get sat down, because that's coming from
the top. It's gonna be John Marra's gonna have to decide, Hey, Okay, Shane.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
You're out.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
You're gonna be gone. You're gonna be gone, You're gone, Nameth,
you stay, Milhouse, your cut, your cut, your cut. And
eventually it's gonna come from the top, and he's gonna
it's gonna be Daniel Jones is gonna have to sit
and so he doesn't get hurt and they don't have
to guarantee nearly a quarter of a million dollars, a
quarter of one hundred million dollars spikes his jock strap
on the way out, like Milhouse. I wonder how much

(32:56):
Daniel Jones continuing to play isn't already coming from above
and that it's money spent. And we talked about it yesterday.
The difference between the dead cap versus injury ain't a lot. Yeah,
but they've all hated They hated him in hard knocks.
I can't believe they're still doing this. They all hated him.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
In hard knock.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
No, no, no, no, that's the coaching stat That's what I mean,
is that it's coming down from him. No one saying
get rid of that guy, get rid of him, get
rid of him. Because you have other reports talking about
the friction between Jones and Dable. Get rid of the decision.
So we'll see. I don't know how much he really
wants him under. I think he'd rather go to the
folk hero that is cut. Let's let's see how long

(33:35):
that old Daniel Jones is our guy lasts uh. Coming
up next, we get back into what we just saw
in Game four of the World Series and in defeat. Way,
do we tell you what one player has been able
to accomplish? That's coming up next, right here, Jason and
Mike Who, No, it's something good ty shirt? Wow, good
way do we tell you what one player specifically has

(33:57):
been able to accomplish even though they lost tonight?

Speaker 4 (34:00):
That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox. You know
most people would disagree with that take.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
Jason, be sure to catch live editions of the Jason
Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern,
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dot Com. Now it's time to name the Express Pros
Pro of the Week. We don't often get a repeat
Pro of the Week, but we did this week because
when you've homered in six consecutive World Series games, you
get to be the Pro of the week. Greddie Freeman,
who is driven in seven of the Dodgers' fourteen runs
in the series, swam in a belt at ball the

(34:57):
right field, looking toward the corner.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
Freddie Freeman simply unstoppable.

Speaker 4 (35:04):
He points to the bullpen as he rounds the bases
for an MLB record six consecutive World Series game after
a home run.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
AM five seventy on the call. Certainly you thought the
Dodgers another home run by Freddie Freeman would get out
and win tonight. They did not. They used their second
tier relievers and the Yankees were able to win. But
for Freddie Freeman, what he has done is he has
gone from a last week last week at this time

(35:35):
when we had all the conversation about, boy, how many
Hall of Famers are in this World Series? Right, how
many Hall of Famers are there? Well, clearly, you know,
Clayton Kershaw's going to Hall of Fame. He's not playing
in the World Series. Otani is gonna go to the
Hall of Fame, Mookie Betts is gonna go to the
Hall of Fame. Aaron Judge is gonna go to the
Hall of Fame. Right, you had some guy and then
Freddy Freeman a was kind of a borderline Hall of Famer.

(35:57):
He's an eight time All Star, and after what he
has done in the World Series six games a row
of a home run, a home run in every game
so far in the World Series, including the walk off
Grand Slam in Game one, Freddy Freeman has become a
guy that boys a borderline to Oh, Freddie Freeman future
Hall of Famer, Like, I don't even think it's a

(36:18):
question anymore. The guy's a lifetime three hundred hitter. He
has an outside chance, I want to say outside chance,
depending on how the rest of his career goes, how
healthy he is. Maybe he is someone who winds up
dhing as time goes on. But looks like Otani's gonna
be that for a little bit. But he's got twenty
two hundred hits. He's you know, as long as he
has another three four years. He'd been knocking on the

(36:38):
door of three thousand hits. But it doesn't matter because
what he did to what he's done in last week,
this World Series, this sort of attention, this performance with
a home run in every game. Freddy Freeman's going to
the Hall of Fame. It's now Freddy Freeman future Hall
of Famer. Now, I think there's still a wait is
to go. I think this is great, you know, being
the first walk off Grand Slam. Justin brought up the

(36:58):
fact that he was twenty five to one to win
the World Series MVP and barring some I don't even
know if they even take your bets anymore. Dang, I
guess you'd be off the board. But hey, there's always
the opportunity, right doors open for something chaotic. Uh to
happen and for someone else to rise up. Oh see
what I did there? Yeah, no exactly. I just thought

(37:21):
it was kind of funny. I really was open to
hear this sterling call of the the Freddie Freeman home
on this guy again, this bleeping guy. No, he didn't
really susan cover for me. I gotta, I gotta, I'm
gonna leave for a minute. I'm having problems with this one.
He fooled me, but I don't. There certain times you
do things on a big stage that is that are
never gonna be forgotten. And fred four home runs in

(37:41):
the first four games and the walk off grand set
to get add to this career he is having. But
but it's it's a it's good degreat, right, And it's
all a question of metrics. And by time he retires
and you have your plus five and we're talking another decade,
let's just say, right, he's thirty five. Now, let's say
he plays another four or five years, maybe he gets

(38:01):
to those magic numbers that you speak of, right, because
he's at what three hundred and forty three career home runs,
twenty two hundred and sixty seven hits. It's a long
way from three thousand. But is that the but is
that the line of demarcation anymore? We've talked about it
on the pitching side, I don't know that we've had
the same discussions from a hitting side of you know,

(38:22):
longevity history. Certainly, the the All Star appearances are there,
what he does defensively, I mean, there's a lot of
boxes to be checked. I don't know that this ends it,
but it certainly furthers a long one. I think if
he retired now, he was in I think if he
retired now, he's in twenty two hundred hits eight time

(38:43):
All Star this World Series. I think certain things happen
in the postseason that you get guys that are big performers,
and then you get guys that just have stuff that's
so legendary. I don't know how you keep mouthing, well,
how's Kurt Schilling not in? Then? Well Kurt Chilling, no, no, no, no, no,
he's a jerk. Stillings had his own issues, right, and

(39:03):
his video game company whatever else. That's that's you're not
supposed to be voting on that. But really you think
that that that MLV voters just vote on I'm voting
my project. Well, no, I mean, there's there's a lot
of guys that had been left out because they weren't
warm and fuzzy look of all. In the end, you know,
we talk about the Hall of Fame, it's everybody's got

(39:24):
their agenda of all the of all this, the steroid
guys that could get into the Hall of Fame at
some point, Barry Pond's is not getting in because of
how he treated everybody, how he treated reporters. Everybody remembers that.
I mean, I'm not saying it's right. And it goes
back to, you know, the the pettiness and silliness of
the way the voters are. Yeah, and and when Freddy Freeman,

(39:46):
who was generally liked by a lot of people, that
has had an incredible career and you have a performance
like this in the World Series, it's gonna happen. I really,
he stopped playing it if the Dodgers win this World Series,
and they probably are, and Freddy Freeman says, I'm done retired. Wow,
I mean, how do you not put him in? I
don't know how you don't. I really don't look at that.

(40:07):
You got into the sentiment of it all, And certainly
the last couple couple weeks, a couple of months, there's
been a lot with Freddy exit out about a Fresco exit,
swollen dome, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, coming up next, John
Paul Morosi MLB Network Insider. What now with the World Series?
So all the way through, but man, you had Freddie
Freeman Homer in the first who had a close game,

(40:27):
and the Dodgers still prioritized lining up their pitching for
the rest of the series over potentially bringing in their
better relievers tonight to try to win the World Series tonight.
And I am stunned at that decision. I'm not a fan.
You've let the Yankees up off the deck. You let
him back into the series, not in the eighth or
ninth inning, but second, third, fourth inning, instead of you know, guys,

(40:50):
guys like nat coming in and you needed to go
to some guys. You could have kept this series, you
could have potentially won this game. But instead, like they
were bent on, hey, we're gonna give this game to
the Yankees, and they wound up doing it. And you
even let Aaron Judge get a hit. Now, that's how
bad it was, right, got on on an air, got
hit by a pitch actually got a base hit. Joining

(41:10):
us now on the hot line to see what he
thinks about the Dodgers' pitching decision. MLB Network insider extraordinair
covering the World Series, you can fall him on Twitter
at John Morosi. It is John Paul Morosi. What's happening, Buddy.

Speaker 5 (41:24):
I am doing well, my friends, and I think we
have a very interesting way of facing off you and
me about the way that Dodgers manage their pets, because
I don't have nearly as much of an issue as
you do.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
See, because here's the thing, John Paul is I get it.
In the NLCS when it was gonna be a bullpen
game in Game two. In Game six, the Mets got
out to big leads early and Roberts didn't chase a win. Hey,
I'm gonna go with my lower leverage guy stuff red. Okay, Well,
you let the Mets into the series. In the NLCS,
you kept it alive going back to LA, but you
got behind early. I understand that Freddie Freeman Homer's again

(41:59):
in the first inning. Yankee fans Yankees are saying, this
is gonna happen again to us. You have the lead,
it's two to one. It's a close game, and still
we're gonna go with the second tier relievers all the
way through it. It's almost like the Dodgs were bent.
We're gonna have a game five. We're gonna the only
way we win this game is if our sub tier
relievers pitched well, and of course they got lit up.

(42:19):
This is a game the Dodgers could have won, John Paul. Instead,
they chose, instead of trying to win tonight, let's just
prioritize setting our pitching up for what could be the
rest of the series.

Speaker 5 (42:28):
Well, and that's that's a very fair way of looking
at it. I would go back though, and and line
up the decisions they made. You could have argued, maybe
you go a little bit longer with Casparius in that situation.
But Hudson is one of your He's certainly not your
one or two leverage guy. But if you had made

(42:48):
the decision that Casparius was gonna take you maybe one
time through the lineup and you needed a reliever to
come in there the third inning, I'm not sure that
you had a better option than Hudson at that point
in time. He clearly he missed on his location to
Volpie and he could tell his reaction right away. He
knew it. So really we're talking about one bad pitch

(43:12):
by a good reliever who has thrown the last pitch
of a World Series before five years ago. He's I
had no issue with Hudson once. If they decided they
had to take Casparius out of the game, Hudson was
a fine choice. I think Nac actually pitched pretty well.
The one thing is you would say late Honeywell comes
in the game and then gives it up, and at

(43:33):
that point in time, I think that was really the
first time that I felt like the Dodgers that could
see that anything was when they didn't have anybody warming
up after Honeywell. And that's when I got out of
control at five, At five four, six four, it's still
a game. At that point, I think it just got
out of hand with Honeywell. And I'm of the mind
that if you're trailing in the eighth you do have

(43:57):
to probably get a little bit deeper into your pitching staff.
I agree that the one thing that they did is
by the way they manage it, and again the missed location.
Why Hudson was part of this is they've gotten the
Yankees back in the series now, at least from a
confidence perspective, I'll say that we've got a series in
a big way. If the Yankees win Game five, then

(44:18):
we've got a real series. But if it's if at
this point in time that they at least have their
confidence going, and that means something for a team that's
still really challenged the way the Yankees.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
Are, if nothing else, jp for one game, the Yankees
took a page out of the Dodgers book of Hey,
we're actually going to make you throw a pitch to
us right instead of first ball swinging every time, as
we'd seen very frequently in the first three games.

Speaker 5 (44:43):
Well, that's a good point, and it was deeper counted.
I'll tell you what. You know, we can talk about
a lot of big at bats and a lot of
big moments that happened in the game tonight. To me,
to that point, I think the most important at bat
of the game was for Dugo drive in the run
of the ground up because they really should have had

(45:04):
more run than ding because of you know, Bob probably
should have just not not gone back to tag up there.
The ball was so deep you could have gone halfway,
and so they at that point they really should have
had a run on the board already and at least
for Dugo to bank that run and to at least
get something for the fans to get back on board,

(45:25):
because if you had had what should have been a
run scoring triple by, Wells not driven in the run
because of what Bulby done on the basis, and then
let's say that it's pop out, pop out and the
inning ends, that would be devastating, I think under the circumstances.
So as as funny as it sounds, yes, we're gonna
remember the Grand Slam, and that was a huge molement.

(45:47):
I actually think from a momentum standpoint, the most important
that bat of the game was Verdugo with two strikes,
fining with to bring that runo, because that at least
got the Yankees and the crowd back at the game, all.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
Right, John Paul away from the game. And look, you
talk about big moments, people are going to talk about.
First inning, Mookie Betts goes for the fly ball down
the line in right field, catches it. Two Yankee fans
pry his glove over, Criminals grab his hand and grab
his wrist. Luckily, we you know he was Okay, he
wasn't injured. The umpires made the right call. It was
an out call. I can't say I'm surprised because this

(46:21):
is kind of the way we're trending in sports. Fans
think they're part of the game more and more as
time goes on. But the brazeness, John Paul, I've never
seen you have a fan prying bets his glove open
to get the ball out.

Speaker 3 (46:33):
What did you?

Speaker 1 (46:34):
I know you've seen that a bunch of times by now.

Speaker 5 (46:36):
What do you think of it? It's disgusting. And Harold
Reynolds said on our network tonight and will Be Networks
that he believes that that the fans should never be
allowed to come to a game again. And it's hard
to disagree with that statement because the one thing you
have to really understand is that the players and their

(46:57):
safety has to be paramount and anything that a spectator
does to infringe upon that and grab a ball on
of someone's glove on the field of play, it's obviously
completely unacceptable. And what this need to do is that
it needs to become a moment that everybody involved in

(47:19):
the sport, fans, players, executives, and media. Frankly, us that
that we have to explain just exactly how far out
of bounds that was and be clear about what the
consequences are if that, if that happens again, because it's
just it's clearly that the fans in that moment, you

(47:40):
could not be thinking rationally that you could actually remove
the ball from a glove of a player who's three
feet away from you, and that somehow the ninety five
million cameras that are there are going to miss it,
and then you're going to be able to walk out
of the ballpark with the ball as if it's just
nothing happened. I mean, it just it's it's completely out

(48:01):
of bounds. And I think the reaction has been universally
along along those lines, and I think it should be
because it has to be a moment that that parents,
that friends, that everybody, anybody that goes to any game
us to say, listen, this is what you don't do,
and this is what happens to you if you do
something like that. It's it's got to be treated with

(48:22):
the with the seriousness that I think what we all
recognize is at play here.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
Jail, banishment, all of those things, no question about it,
public shaming, no question, at least from where I said
JP something Jason and I were talking about a little
bit before. You're a student of this game and and
talk to hall of famers often on your podcast at
John Morosi where you find him in the Twitter verse
to something. Thanks to all of that, Freddie Freeman, this

(48:47):
performance tip him tip the scales in his direction into
the Hall of Fame. Say he where did a Queen's
wave and walked off after the Dodgers finished this thing off.

Speaker 5 (48:58):
He's he's already there in my estimation and has been
there for a while. But this this now for a
player that has had and I'm glad you asked about
this because he's someone who, of course he's a huge
reason why the Braves won the World Series, but he's

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been valued more for his consistency and his year after
year of two hundred hits and and production and professionalism.
And he's he's there and his part of his hallmark
is his consistency. I think it's great for him that

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he's now having these massive moments that you simply cannot forget,
because I think sometimes with players whose hallmark is consistency,
Adrian Belfray comes to mind, we sometimes we recognize of course, yeah,
Hall of Famer without a doubt, But I don't know
that we really do a good job of celebrating that
can disistency in the way that we should. I think

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as sports media members, we tend to react to the
massive moments or often the controversies, and we kind of
do a poor job of celebrating people who are consistent
and great year after year the way that Freddie is.
And now to see him have the big moments in
addition to what he's done so well for so long, like,
I'm happy for him because he's now going to have

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these moments where hopefully years from now we're still doing
the Road to Cooper's Down podcast and I can sit
down with Freddie and we can have a conversation about
what October of twenty twenty four was like for him.
Because he's a great man, one of the classiest people
in the game. His family story is incredible. Obviously, his
son was very seriously ill this year. For him to

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come back and have moments like this, I think a
lot of people in baseball are very very happy for
a classy man and Freddie Freeman.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
All right, John Paul, So in close it we're going
to talk to you tomorrow night after Game five. Well,
what's going to be our topic of conversation the Yankees
sending it to uh, sending it to another game, or
we'll be talking about the Dodgers World Series champions.

Speaker 5 (51:09):
I think we're going to see a Game six at
Dodgers Stadium because Garrett Cole, much of the same way
that Anthony Volby grew up as a Yankee fan, want
to have a moment like yet today he had it,
and now it's Cole's turn. And I think too, I'm
impressed that the Yankees after this game have been talking
in very focused and somewhat sober tones here. They're like, hey,

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we were we were supposed to win a game today.
We did, but our job. We didn't come here to
win a game in the World Series. We came here
to witness thing. And I think that there's a real
focus behind that to say, if you if you can
find a way to win game five, just win game five,
and then everybody gets on a plane and flies back
across the country, and who knows, right what would happen

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in game six. So I think that's where that's certainly
where my head is, and I'm expecting that we're going
to have a conversation tomorrow night that's gonna set up
what's going to be a memorable Game six at Dodger Stadium.

Speaker 1 (52:05):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, That is at John
MOROSSI check him out on MLB Network. John Paul is
always buddy, appreciate it. We'll talk to you tomorrow night
after the.

Speaker 5 (52:13):
Game, as they say, as the Great Jack Buck said,
we'll see you tomorrow night. And I'm excited about that
here as the World Series continues.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
Now I see you, buddy, have fun,