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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Okay, first thing, first thing, First thing, we have to
change that open because I don't want people thinking I
said that going into this year. Okay, that's not a
this year thing. That was over a year ago. We
got Aaron Rodgers last week. It's when we got Aaron Rodgers.
I'm not saying this now with Justin Fields. No, no,
you said you had hope and that it was a

(00:51):
culture shift. Yeah, and all of that was good. What
I say, I said, Hey, like all of those things.
I said, hang on, you did that little danced, no jerk.
I said, like five hundred ish and have a fun sale.
That's what I said. Hey, this talent, they can be five.
I don't want people think. And I said they're going
to the super Bowl this year, Like that's come on, man.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
You're impuning like you're impugning all.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Of my integrity by that. Jason Smithy picked that. No, no,
it's not that was all that was when they got
Aaron Rodgers. Obviously it didn't happen. And if you want
to change Aaron Rodgers to Dante Moore, okay, I'm all
in on Dante Moore.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
I think that was digitally edited at all.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
I know that was twenty twenty six. Mike p l No,
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like mobile tire installation. Tire act dot com is the
way tire buying should be. I just don't want people
to think I said that like last No, I didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
It was two years ago.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
But oh, let's put it in open now. Make Jason
sound like an idiot. Two weeks I don't.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Even be saying I don't know what the hell I'm
talking about, which is something. I mean, that's that. But no,
that's like an eleven year thing.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Like that's like you go all the way back to
the beginning and then year two, but then there's Sunday.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
To leave my name out of here, as if I've
been excized and banished from the show.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Well, listen the Bears. I told you the Bears are
going to be fine. Look at the Bears are fine.
I told you, man.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Five toll us four and a half, whatever it is.
They coming out of the bye week looking good, running
the ball well. Washington with some issues on defense. The
Dodgers leave runners on base, but we got plenty to
talk about with them. Jon Robinson Vijon cannot be stopped. No,
so well, I mean.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
There's lots We'll do football first here, obviously, because we're
in the middle of two Monday night games. The Falcons
lead the Bills twenty one to fourteen midway through the
third Quarter's been a big night for Bijon Robinson and
Drake London. Drake London who caught a forty yard pass
and nearly got in the end zone on the final
play of the first half. It's been the biggest player

(02:58):
of the game so far. Otherwise it would be a
fourteen point lead for Atlanta, but London was ruled out
of bounds just before the goal, which is the right call.
He was out of bounds just before the goal line,
so uh, no touchdown for Atlanta, but they still had
the lead right now twenty one fourteen, four and a
half to go in the third quarter. Meanwhile, the Bears
early in the third lead the Commanders thirteen to ten,

(03:21):
Caleb Williams a one yard touchdown run. The Bears have
looked pretty good so far. You have to be very happy.
I can't believe you're not happy because the beta.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
I'm true.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Okay, all right, but.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
What am I gonn on the wall? Handstand?

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (03:36):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Bears?

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Bears, Bears, Bears Bears. I'm a broadcast professional, damn it.
There's a lot going on here. It's not all about
my fandom, quiet numb skulls. I'm broadcasting. Uh So, let's
start with Bjeon Robinson here for a couple before we
get to this incredibly crazy play from the Dodger game,
which I'm gonna give you a hot take on it.
You're gonna go no way, and you're gonna say, oh,
that's really really fire them all? Really, I sing Bjeon

(04:01):
Robinson over two hundred yards of total offense night after
catching a third down prayer from Michael Pennix Junior, which
he took for about twenty five yards. Now he just
catches one on an outpath that gets tipped at the
line of scrimmage. He somehow comes down with Bjeon Rotten. Look,
we talk I talk a lot about Jamior Gibbs and

(04:22):
and clearly Dan Campbell's like, no, no, I'm still gonna
give the ball with David Montgomery. Hey, he throws a
pretty pass. What are you talking about? We talked about
this at the beginning of the season, but it's coming true.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
Now.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Bjeon Robinson has become the best running back in the NFL.

Speaker 4 (04:36):
All right.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
I mean Barkley had the great year last year, but obviously,
you know, four hundred carries, that's the way it is.
Finally the Falcons have realized, Okay, yes, it's it's nice
to give him a break once in a while.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
And when Algeier comes in out, what are you doing?
What are you doing? Yeah, But as soon as they
got rid of Arthur Smith, it all opened up.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
But Bjeon Robinson is he has become the best running
back in football, and I don't know that it's particularly close.
Every single time he is on the field, he is
a threat to take get to the house. He is
a guy that can run between the tackles. He's not
somebody that he's to come off the field at all,
like he is. I said beginning of the year, we've
talked about, Hey, this is the year he becomes the
best running back in the NFL, and he is getting
there right now. This is signature game again, over two

(05:13):
hundred yards still with a little bit of time left
in the fourth.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Court at that eighty one yard sprint to daylight to
get things started. As we sit here, eighteen carries one
sixty five and one. The patience that he exhibits and
then that burst once he gets to the second level
something unparalleled. The only other guy put into the situation,
into that conversation is McCaffrey when he's healthy as he

(05:36):
is now, and how he affects the game as a
runner and receiver, more as a receiver these days is
it's the walking wounded. You know, you got Juwan Jennings. Yeah,
I got five broken ribs. Yeah, and I'm still out
of yeah. Seven right, seven? Ribs, seven ribs, seven rips.

Speaker 5 (05:50):
Yeah, how many yards did you say for Bijohn, he's
well over two hundred yards.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
How many yards is he?

Speaker 5 (05:55):
I think two thirty So that's two hundred and forty
more yards than that is right, that's good math.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
Hey, that's just passing. We were minus ten yards passing, okay, running.
We didn't have a lot, but we didn't have minus teks.
We didn't have minus dead. Okay, we did not have
minus dead. Since we have minus dead, that's al after Londoner.
So again a huge night right now again the Falcons
trying to hold on. We're getting close to the two
minute warning, twenty one to fourteen lead for them. Meanwhile,

(06:25):
again Bear's commander is still thirteen to ten. Meanwhile, Dodgers
and the Brewers Game one of the NLCS. The Dodgers
with a one nothing lead, Brewers batting in the bottom
of the seventh inning. This has been an incredible game
for Blake Snell. We'll have more on him coming up
throughout the show because he has been it tonight. But
the play that's gonna get all of the attention. The

(06:46):
Dodgers had the bases loaded in the fourth inning, Runner
and one out, looking like we're gonna do some damage
here and break this game open. And Max Muncy hits
a fly ball the dead center field. Looks like it
could be a Grand Slam, or at the very least,
it's off the wall. Tough to see, but it looks

(07:07):
like something.

Speaker 6 (07:07):
But but.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
We watched Krannic go up. The ball hits off his glove,
bounces off the fence. He catches it, throws it in
right away, and I'm like, why are they throw it?
What's gonna have? They throw home and they get Taoscar
Hernandez out on a force play because he didn't run
because there was so much chaos. When the ball in

(07:33):
center field where it hits the glove and then bounces
off the wall, he grabs it right away, throws it in.
He doesn't run to third, neither does Will Smith. Will
Smith goes halfway, sees it hit off the glove, then
sees it hit off the wall, and still goes back
to second base. So the throw comes into the plate

(07:54):
and Hernandez is out by a hare, but he is
out at the plate for a force out. Catcher runs
to third base, stands on third because Will Smith doesn't
run to third and the Brewers get out of the
inning with a double play. That's a that's a ball
that and you see the line score. Uh, you know,
double play. Muncie grounds out to center, which is what

(08:16):
it is. It's a ground out to center field. The
throw home gets Tioscar Hernandez, the throw to third gets
Will Smith, who doesn't run to third, and the Dodgers
run themselves out of the inning. Okay, now two big
takes coming off this right, This will be that, this
will be the big thing. Number one is this Taoscar
Hernandez and both Will Smith make an unforgivable mistake, and

(08:38):
it's little league stuff. It's worse for Taoskar Hernandez, but
I know I can say it's worse for Will Smith
because Toaskar Hernandez, I guarantee you here's your hot take.
He didn't know the rule about tagging up in Major
League baseball. He didn't know the rule that we all
knew when we were kids. And as soon as the
ball hits somebody's glove, you go. You don't have to
don't have to catch it, but as soon as that

(08:59):
hits the glove, you go. Because Taioskcar Hernandez sees it
hit his glove and then stands at third, takes a
couple of steps, goes back, and then tries to go home.
And it makes absolutely no sense. As soon as that
ball hits the glove. As soon as that ball hits
the glove, you're tagging up, because that should be the thing. Okay,
if he catches it, I'm tagging up and going home.

(09:21):
That's my job is My job is to get from
third to home. So whether he thought it was caught
or whatever it.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
Is, you go.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
You go at that point, and I guarantee you he
didn't know the rule because you know, as soon as
you are taught, as soon as that ball hits your glove,
you go. There's no way he knew the rule. Now,
whether or not he's got it, you have to know.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
You have to go, go go go, go, go go go.
But the thing is no but that. But that's it.

Speaker 6 (09:45):
The players got to know. But you've got a third
base coach. They do everything they can to shine him.
But how much they do something right? But with the
with the crowd yelling, and you hear the third base coach,
you're gonna say, go go, go, go go. I don't
know if Fernandez is listening to him.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
Again, it's on him, But I don't know if there's
enough go go go where he just listened to the
third base coach and goes right task. Carnanda is roll
really stretching the limits of what what Dodger fans will
put up with. Boy, he can't field, he can't run
the base day at home. We got to keep him
in the lineup somehow. But like he didn't know the rule,
and Will Smith, I guarantee you did, because he goes
back to third, the ball hit back to second, the

(10:22):
ball hits the glove and then hits off the wall. Now,
maybe Will Smith didn't know that the ball hit off
the wall. He thought maybe it bounced out of the
glove and he caught it. Remember we had that play
in the Mets game with the Nationals a few weeks
ago where the center fielder went up and it hit
his glove and it's the top of the wall and
it bounced straight up in the air and he caught
it and it wasn't out. So I wonder if that's
in his head because we saw that almost exact same

(10:42):
play in the Mets game against the Nationals, and the
Nationals winning the game and the Mets anyway, So I
give Will Smith just a tiny bit more because maybe
he thought the ball was caught, but really, you see
the ball, it hit the glove. Toask Hernandez, at the
least has to go home. You gotta know that, and
I guarantee, and I don't know if he'll admit or not,
but you got to know that's the rule.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
You have to know.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
Yeah, the umpire made the call quickly, so it was
that part of the equation is asked and answered. But yeah,
the standing around and standing on second base and Tioscar
Hernandez's confusion getting back to the base and all everybody
running backwards just blies just the basic knowledge that you

(11:28):
and what you were taught as a kid, right, And
we talked about it last week, did general base running
or fielding fundamentals of what you do with the ball?
What am I doing when the balls hit back to me?

Speaker 4 (11:39):
Right? What do I do?

Speaker 3 (11:40):
And here's another prime example of and it clearly goes
off the wall. And but the umpire got it right.
It was perfect on the call, right, because we have
seen it, as you said, where the ball skips out
of a guy's glove and he's able to retrieve it
before it hits the wall or whatever. In this case,

(12:01):
clearly not but absolute mass confusion. And then we will
watch that and that go for not. We saw another
threat with the Dodgers go for not. The only thing
you got on the board is the Freddie Freeman solo shot.
That right now it rules the day. And what is
a fantastic start from Blake Snow.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
Now, I'm gonna say this because this is where we're
gonna go, because this is a very big playing We
still have another inning plus to go in this game.
Major League Baseball, we know you add the umpires in
the postseason to have right and left field line umpires,
because hey, the calls are too tough. You want them
to make the calls down the line balls fair and foul.

Speaker 6 (12:38):
Right.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
I get it during the regular season, but how much
you want to bet we're gonna get a rule in
the offseason that says, you know what playoffs? Now, we
had a center field onpire like a short center fielder
in corporates off. Is he a center field umpire because
you watch the play, the umpire makes the call, but
it's not. But it's not in a way where the

(12:59):
player can see it and and and do their job,
which is figure out what to do on the play.
You see the cup bumpires just kind of stand there
and so the play happens fast. You want to be
able to say, hey, if I'm seeing a play in
front of me, I can see the call and I
know the call, and you couldn't tell you had to go.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Look what was that? Was it out?

Speaker 1 (13:17):
Was it?

Speaker 4 (13:17):
Not?

Speaker 2 (13:18):
What am I going?

Speaker 4 (13:19):
Like?

Speaker 1 (13:19):
The plays are too important, and I think you can
add an umpire, especially since you know they're eventually we're
gonna have all robots, but you can add I think
you can add an umpire and center field because this
umpire and center field is going to make that call
right away. Now it's a little bit tougher because you're
much more in the field of play, but you know
what second base on pires in the field of play,
and that seems to work out pretty well. So I
think I think we'd be okay with having a center field.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
I think we just have a guy that's positioned and
we got to figure out what we do with the
first row of seats. Okay, right over the wall, but
you put them on one of those tracks like at
a you're at a library and you go push between
the rows and aisles of books that go to sky
high and then he pushed and that's what he does,
and he moves with the play like a little joystick
kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
Okay, he's actually not in the field to play the wall.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
Or he could be like what was it in the
in the Senate when uh, when when Dooku and Yoda
were fighting?

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Uh and uh or the Emperor He's.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
Like yeah, yeah, like that's what you got even about ball,
Like is it back to the future.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, No, I like this yeah, no,
oh yeah, that was the Emperor they were fighting. Yeah,
you have them on not like okay, just here, just
off the wall, group safe, right. I think you need
I think you need that. The plays are too big,
and it's it's a lot of it's a lot of
real estate to go and you see something like this again,
which you've never seen probably in one hundred and fifty
years of Major League baseball, you may never see it again.

(14:38):
But you want to be able to get the calls
right on the outfield at the time. A ball going
over the home run line, if it's caught brought back
into play whatever it's going to be. Center field up.
But here's what they'll respond with, he got it right, Yeah,
he got it right. That's not the question.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
Is he right?

Speaker 1 (14:55):
He got it right?

Speaker 4 (14:56):
But was it?

Speaker 1 (14:57):
Did it happen to the to the detracting of to
the disadvantage of one of the teams. It's got to
be equal for everybody to centerfield empires. When stuff happens
to the Yankees and the Dodgers, we get changed. We
get changed, Mike Harmon change. I think they got the
call wrong. But that's just me exit out about a
Fresca exit swollen dome. Speaking of Freddie Freeman, the author
of the only run of the game tonight, with a

(15:19):
home run, he has just doubled. Dodgers have a runner
at second, one out, trying to get an insurance run
out here as they bat in the top of the
eighth in and Game one of the NLCS against the Brewers. Well,
we got more baseball on the way, but straight ahead
everything big from the NFL. We got a huge upset
brewing on Monday Night football, a big week six to
look back to. We got coaches getting fired, coaches who

(15:40):
should be fired. Keep it right here, We're just getting
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He's still moving Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show
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Fox Sports Radio studios, where we just watched the Atlanta
Falcons Monday Night football put the finishing touches on a
twenty four to fourteen win over the Bills. The Falcons

(16:45):
now improved to three and two. The Bills fall of
four into I'll.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
Tell you what.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
That AFC party right now is off the hook after
this bill's showing. Uh boy, best team in the AFC
showed they got some problems joining us now in the
hotline speaking of teams of the problem you like a segue?

Speaker 4 (17:02):
I had to.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
I thought you were gonna call Aaron Rodgers and the
Pittsburgh Steeler as the best team in the AFC.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Long time the NFL inside our friend of the show.
He's on Twitter at Jason lock and four. He is
on Odyssey one oh five seven the fan in Baltimore
and Washington Post. Jay, what's happening about?

Speaker 4 (17:17):
How are you the three Locks to night at one
event boys from World Cup qualifiers in the morning till
right on through the night. We are crashing it at
one of back today, Baby, and you.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
Had the Falcon You had the Falcons tonight too, right?

Speaker 4 (17:31):
Yes? And Jon anytime touchdown plus one hundred strimmer Jards
Bjon over one hundred and fifty strimming yards, Jayden Daniels
two touchdowns. All those are big plus money plays. Yeah,
Mariners on the money line plus one twenty Germany to
win the first half, Jeremy minus one that push Slovakia

(17:52):
minus one that hit, had some parlays that pushed in
World Cup qualifying. We got some games. We like Tomorrow
quite a bit. You want to say tomorrows show right
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Speaker 1 (18:03):
You're not going to retire by then? It sounds like
everything you did tonight. You're like in the movies where
we had the last big score and you can retire.
You could be at the the Blagio waving goodbye to everybody,
like in Ocean's eleven.

Speaker 4 (18:15):
When you're not when you're Betty Fair. Three lobster money,
not free, not free, Lamborghini money, not three car garage money.
It's just, you know, a lopster in each hand and
a lopster in your mouth.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
Good Night, baby steps, baby, baby steps.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
All right now, before we before we get to the
bill side, let me ask you this, how much would
you bet on John Harbaughs surviving the season now with
the Ravens.

Speaker 4 (18:42):
Well, he's not getting fired in season No, at the
end of the year.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
The end, is he still the coach next year?

Speaker 4 (18:48):
I think it's very much to be determined. You got
to understand who's making this decision. You know it's Steve Bushatti,
who is on the record saying the team is not
staying in his family. There's no one to hand it
down too. He's incredibly comfortable with the Costa and car
ball and like, I just don't know that. You know,
this guy is a recluse. He lives on his yacht

(19:10):
off the coast of Florida. Nobody ever sees him unless
you know you're eating Prong sandwiches with them at games.
You know, it shows up to some marilond basketball games,
But otherwise it's he's not he's not in that building.
He's not laying down mandates, he's not ruling with an
iron fifth. I don't know, man, Like I really don't

(19:31):
think at this stage of his tenure, he's like he
wants to get on a you know, a private plane
and fly all over the country interviewing people. Like I
just I don't know, man. I Like, yeah, I think
he goes down with these guys and he eventually fells
the team, which is probably sooner rather than later. But
I don't know if it's happening, you know, right away,

(19:53):
and those those processes take time. So I man, I
don't know, I don't know, Like I don't think they're
any good. I don't. I think Harball has worn out
his tenure here. But he's not the only problem. I
don't even know that he's the biggest problem. And he's
making a lot of money. He just got an extension,

(20:14):
and we'll see, we'll see. I mean they'll probably mess
around and just barely miss the playoffs, but be better
after the buye with Lamar and I don't think that's
going to lead this owner to blow up his building.
But look if it's there five and whatever, that's a
different story.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
Well, let's go to the game.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
We reference off the top as you're licking bills well,
and they're going to lick their wounds as they get
beaten by the Atlanta Falcons and Bijon Robinson and company.
I mean, coming off of bye week, Michael Pennix Junior,
what did you see tonight? Anything to make you feel
like they can challenge the Buccaneers.

Speaker 4 (20:56):
I think pretty highly of the Buccaneers, but Atlanta has
has won me over tosively. Dak Robinson is still a fraud, Collin.
I mean, just because he hung out with McVeigh for
a little while doesn't mean you should be running your offense,
and then they still do a lot of baffling stuff
and we'll have to see the scope of the offensive
line injuries. But they can bully people at the line
of scrimmage and on both sides of the ball, and

(21:17):
not everybody in this league can. And so I'm buying
Raheem's defense for sure. The kicker still scares me, and
like I said, the offensive coordinator scares me. They will
probably lose a few more games that they shouldn't lose,
like that Carolina game, from unforced errors and some of

(21:37):
their own coaching stupidity. But like they've got a script there.
I mean, they've got two running backs who can bludge
in you. They can play bully ball. If they would
get under center and run it a little more that
way too, If there was a little more multiplicity to
the running game and a little more ingenuity and some
smarter play calling, I think they could really do damage.

(21:59):
But like, yeah, I think they're I think they have
a really good shot to be a playoff team. And
if they got in because of that balance, I mean,
old school run game defense, they're they're they're a pretty
good cheape. That's for Buffalo. I thought there was a
terrible matchup for them. Buffalo is really lucky, Like the

(22:20):
Buffalo could be two and three, Like they're not far
removed from being two and three. I don't like them
in the trenches, honestly, a whole lot on defense, and
the offense is pop gun man. There's no deep threators.
They don't win on deep quadrants. So that makes them,
you know, pretty easy to defend. And you know, Josh

(22:41):
can play hero ball and do some things. But I
don't look at that and say, boy that that's a
big boy offense. So and now obviously the Patriots and
the Fenos of heels, so it's gonna be a wild
It's gonna be a wild ride here. I think, even
though they almost pe down that lay yesterday, I think
Denver is the best.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
Jayson locking for NFL. Inside our guest Jason Smith Mike
Harmon Love from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Okay, so
you brought up the Denver game. Okay, so you know
here here's the thing, Jay, we saw Brian Callahan get
fired earlier today.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
We'll get to that in a second.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
I can't believe Aaron Glenn is that far behind because
making mistakes like I'm not gonna try to I'm gonna
mav the end of the first half where we're going
to fake a punt on fourth down and I'm not
even gonna throw a hail Mary on the final play
after the game, double down on it, and then have
no criticism for Justin Fields then today say oh, I

(23:39):
should have done something different than No, Justin Fields took
a step back. I feel like he's in over his
head and the job is too much for him. And
I know that he's supposed to be a culture guy,
but clearly he's not getting through. I mean, does he
make that I don't know that he makes the season
because it's just so bad right now.

Speaker 4 (23:55):
Might not? I mean he might not. That's a whole
different bottom and that's what he's always looking to shake
it up. What he loves being on the back page
is like, just don't be boring, you know. So if
if if if they're the last team to win a
game and it is a really hard watch, which it
is on both sides of the ball, then does he
do something just to throw a curve ball? Like I

(24:15):
know they a lot of people hurting that game, but
I also think he doesn't really say what I think
people exactly. Just some other teams think they're a real
wild card if it's deadline too, like they could do
something to to really you know, mix mix things up.
It's clear they've got to be in position to draft
a quarterback. You know. It's like and look, having the

(24:36):
first overall pick is great, but having a whole bunch
of you know, having like three first round picks or
you know, three second round picks would be great too,
because there's a whole infrastructure you've got to build up
around him. So yeah, I mean, are they're starting to
shower on some of the younger guys they've already you know,
they've signed extensions with for the last eighteen months, or

(25:01):
some of those guys surd on them. You know, it's
hard to be around that much losing under multiple regimes
in different ways. Yeah, I mean, I think McDaniel gets
in that division certainly before anything would happen with the Jets.
But it wouldn't shock me if we're in the holiday
season and they've got no wins or one win that

(25:23):
what do you want to pound? A flash.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
Back to the well staying in the FC last night,
the Kansas City Chiefs get a win, No penalties.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
Jason, So, I mean clean football pillars.

Speaker 4 (25:38):
Yeah, no one held hats Hutchinson at all. Yeah, it
was totally everything was as clean as a whistle. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (25:45):
So suddenly with the Bills lost, the Ravens in disarray,
go Denver and what they are I mean, suddenly the Chiefs,
and I mean the Chargers got a big win too
with their walking wound. But the chief suddenly folks getting
all chesty about them again.

Speaker 4 (26:04):
Well, look, there's there's no great team. I mean, there's
no great team in this league, and there's certainly no
great team in the NFC, and nobody in the ANFC
or NFC for that matter, has the pedigree of the Chiefs.
And they're going to get right back, which will unlock
that offense even more. On the offense certainly looks much
better now than just go back to the Giants game
and what it wasn't especially in the first half there, right, So,

(26:29):
and they'll do something at the deadline like they didn't
know the pass rusher like due will they get one?
I mean they'll certainly try. So. No, I wouldn't discount
their chances. I mean the Chargers without all that's a yeah, Yeah,
they beat Miami yesterday. But like, that's that's a tough
operation when you start losing money backs. You're built to
win in the trenches, and you're losing running backs and

(26:50):
you lose an offensive lineman and the quarterbacks didn't hit
too much. So yeah, I mean there's there's certainly a
pet there for the Chiefs. I mean to get the
Raiders next week, right, I mean, so now all of
a sudden, you're building up the head of team, all right, Jay.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
Lastly, Hey, the first head coach we mentioned a couple
of seconds ago did get fired today. Brian Callahan got
let go and and now Mike McCoy is going to
take over again. All the old video of him as
a Chargers head coach. What's your takeaway from this early
in the season, midway through a second year, what's your
take on?

Speaker 4 (27:24):
The owners has no idea what she's doing. She's horrible.
I mean, she had like Rabel, GM was out of
the league, and then another GM over Rabel, Like I
to them go and get Callahan. She's no clue. It's
still you don't know how to build uphastucks doesn't know
how to build a winner. You know, she's an EPO baby.

(27:47):
It's because what it is, it's a her, a lot
of them. You know, she's all called up and trying
to get a billion dollars in free money to build
a stadium for her so they can get more generational
wealth off of that, and no Super Bowls and the
football products a joke. They got a first overall pick
who doesn't have anything remotely around him from an infrastructure standpoint,
even be able to develop, let alone thrive their joke franchise,

(28:11):
and a long way to go to reverse that. And
if you think that the group of people who are
involved in hiring people there are going to be the
ones who can get him out of this mess, you
haven't been paying attention. I thank finding them a Knight fable,
but yeah, good luck.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
He's on Twitter at Jason lock and for that is
at Jason Locke and for checking out all of the
big advice he had tonight, a big night the retirement
score Jason lock and for has got for you also
Odyssey Washington Post one of five seven the fan in Baltimore.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
Big night, Jay as always, man, Thanks so much.

Speaker 4 (28:49):
Yet let's go.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Uh now, look, here's here's the thing about the firing
of Callahan, right, in Tennessee. This is both good news
and bad news for cam Ward. Right because I'll tell
you this, you want to hot take, he may be
one and done with Tennessee because he is not flashed
at all. He has been the most anonymous of number

(29:13):
one overall picks. He has not shown that hey, I
get this now. They bought him a little bit of time.
When you fire your head coach, Okay, it's your fault.
You're not getting the most out of cam Ward. But
as we have seen Tennessee, they're lunatics. They're reactionary, they're
not patient. Patient is not something you would say for Tennessee.
There's a lot of quarterbacks coming into the draft this year,
and if you're gonna have a new head coach and

(29:34):
a new regime coming in, are you gonna say, Okay,
we're gonna try it year two with cam Ward or
we're picking second. We may be able to get Dante
mood maybe like Fernando Mendoza. We can flip cam Ward
to somebody who needs a quarterback that's not gonna get
them later on. Again, because Tennessee is so unpredictable, I
can see cam Ward being a one and done unless

(29:56):
he actually shows over the course rests to say, hey,
I can get it. I can get it. Man, don't
you got new everything coming to Tennessee? What four new
coaches and gms in the last two and a half years.
I mean they're not patient. They're gonna stick with cam
Ward for another year. Man, it's Tennessee.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
Anything can happen well.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
And the best thing that they had walked out the
door of the offensive line coach, so he leaves with him.
So you lose that, and look, you've gone reclamation project
in late round draft picks are what you've put around
cam Ward at this point, and you think that's gonna
be a recipe for success. The guy hasn't gotten a chance.
Oh and they also are either second or tied for

(30:31):
third in terms of drop passes pending the outcome of
these games tonight.

Speaker 2 (30:35):
So there you go. Just be ready.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
Cam Mort could be one and done in Tennessee time.
How to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports from a man who has never been called
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League Baseball. It's Steve desand.

Speaker 8 (30:50):
I've caught a fly ball in right field before.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
How about that?

Speaker 8 (30:55):
Blake's now incredible on the mound for the Dodgers in
Game one of the NL Championship Series tonight, LA right
now has bases loaded one out in the top of
the ninth and they're trying to extend the one nothing lead.
Ball four to Mookie Bets. It's two nothing. LA bas
is still loaded one out in the top of the ninth.
Sho Heo Tani has walked three times tonight, two intentionally.

(31:18):
Blake Snell on the mound, eight scoreless innings, ten strikeouts
and no walks. He's only allowed one hit and that
batter well he was picked off a caught stealing Caleb Durban.
One hundred and three pitches thrown. We assume the Dodgers
are going to the bullpen in the ninth. The Dodgers
do not have a complete game from a pitcher all year,

(31:39):
but what Blake Snell has done in the playoffs again
is remarkable for starters. We haven't seen a game in
the postseason like this from a starter since the Roy
Halliday no hitter in twenty ten. Because Snell has eight innings,
one hit or none allowed, not since twenty ten, and
we've seen that, and never from a Dodger pitcher. But Snell,

(32:00):
if you go back and include not only the three
starts this postseason for La, but his previous two playoffs
starts for the Padres in recent years, this is now.
He's on target to win his last five postseason games
in a row while having more strikeouts than innings pitched
in each game. We did have that crazy double play

(32:24):
in the fourth inning which kept it a scoreless game.
At the time Dodgers had bases loaded. Max Montsey nearly
hit a grand slam, the ball went off the centerfielder's glove,
off the wall. You mentioned the running problems with La
wound up a double play eight six to two in
your score books. Leave it to the great Sarah Langs
to find out when was the last time in the
major leagues we actually had an eight six to two

(32:45):
double play. It was over twenty years ago when Sammy
Sosa was the batter and the center fielder was Ken
Griffy Junior. Wow, Game two.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
Okay, that's honestly so much not as long ago as
I thought they're going to say, Frey Curtly in eighteen ninety.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Eight when the New York Highway.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
I'm looking the three guys involved in that. We're playing
the Brooklyn Americans.

Speaker 8 (33:06):
They can't find it in the postseason, and then they've
gone back thirty five years already.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
That's twelve hundred career all runs.

Speaker 5 (33:13):
It's definitely not am up then all of them legitimate question.

Speaker 8 (33:16):
Game two of the Alcs to Seattle winning at top
seed Toronto again ten to three, Mariners up two games
to done in that best of seven. Julio Rodriguez with
a three run homer top of the first, Toronto tied
at three to three in the second, Jorge Polanco a
three run homer in the fifth, and Josh Naylor from
Canada a two run homer for the Mariners in the
seventh inning. We do have two Monday night football games tonight.

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The one in Atlanta is done. The Falcons led Buffalo
at the half twenty one seven. It's now twenty four
to fourteen. The final Bijon Robinson on nineteen carries at
one hundred and seventy yards, including an eighty one yard TD,
and we have about eleven and a half minutes to
go in DC, Commanders ahead twenty four to sixteen over
the Chicago Bears. Jade and Daniels with his third touchdown

(34:02):
pass of the night. He's just shy of two hundred
yards through the area as one interception for the Bears.
They did have Jake Moody kicking tonight because Cairo Santos
is out with a thigh injury. Moody with first quarter
field goals of forty seven and forty eight yards. Washington
leading at home twenty four to sixteen in the fourth
and Yes, the Titans fired coach Brian Callahan and in baseball,

(34:24):
Padres manager Mike Shilt retired, saying the grind of the
season took a toll on him. Update two outs, bases
loaded for the Dodgers, top of the ninth, LA leading
two nothing at Milwaukee and Roki Sasaki warming up in
the pan.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
Back to you, Holy Shilt, Thanks Steve, appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
My friends.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
Coming up next, we got more baseball because we have
to get into this performance by Blake Snell. It's absolutely incredible.
The Dodgers. We're gonna go to the ninth inning with
a two to nothing lead. Freddie Freeman flies out to
the wall. Roki Sasaki will be in to close it out.
But coming up next, boyd, we got some big takes
coming off Monday Night football. It's not often an entire
conference celebrates the teams losing, but yeah, it's happening. It's

(35:04):
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Speaker 2 (35:07):
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Speaker 1 (35:15):
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That's expresspros dot Com. Bottom of the ninth inning. Rookie

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Sasaki in to close things out for the Dodgers in
Game one of the NLCS. One out runner at first
after a walk. So things getting a little tense right
now in Milwaukee again.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
And now he's gone down three to zero in the game.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
Yeah, this is this is not optimal for the Dodgers.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
Surio on deck.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
Not what they want, is not at all what they want.
But we'll keep you posting on this again first runner
at first three to one count Sasaki chure Yill on deck.
A lot of drama going on. We have lots of
baseball to get to, but Monday night football in the books,
Game one, Bills and the Falcons. And I gotta be
honest with you, if I'm any team in the AFS,

(36:16):
if I'm the Chiefs, if i am the Steelers, if
I'm the Colts, if I'm the Chargers, I sit down.
I'm doing backflips after tonight because wow, you have seen
and here's your Bills thing. And I know people don't
want to admit this because, oh, Josh Allen so great.
Josh Allen's great. Josh Allen, with the way this team
is constructed, is not the most important guy in the team.

(36:37):
It's very simple. When James Cook is, they're able to
get him involved in the game, and he's the guy
that's controlling the game. The Bills win when James Cook
is not part of it. Look at how bad things
were in the first half. He hardly got the football.
He had thirty yards rushing. What happened first drive of
the second half, He had thirty yards rushing on that drive.

(36:57):
Bill's getting the end zone and now they're down a score.
Josh Allen obviously is fantastic, but this team, they don't
they don't have any deep threats downfield. Daltonkin Kaid was
out tonight. It was very, very difficult to watch this
Bill's offense just continue to try to try to motor
when they couldn't. But it's pretty simple. As good as Josh,
he's not the most important guy in that offense. James

(37:18):
Cook has proven to be a top five running back
in the NFL. When he gets going and they play
complimentary football, that's it. He's the most important guy in
that offense. Now, Josh Allen is not. James Cook is
the guy. Josh Allen is.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
Loait talking about all the time.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
You don't have that boundary X receiver the go to guy,
and your defense isn't very good, banged up and well
not goodwin fully constructed.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
So yeah, it's a long slung.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
So when you come to the Bills, the rest of
the AFC is very happy, right, we're sitting here having fun.
Oh look, the Bills are great.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
Oh no, they're not.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
All We're getting back in it now. Flip side of
it is the Falcons and what they were able to
do tonight, coming away with a win and no bigger
guy to talk about than Bjeon Robinson, who, of course
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when you bust out an eighty one yard run for
a touchdown and get up over two hundred yards a
total offense on the night, well, Bjon Robinson, you get
to be the play of the day.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
Buffalo ads another man to the front.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
They're going to handle Robinson right side through the first wall,
around the corner.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
Here goes pushon, Robinson keeps.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
His feet thirty twenty five, twenty ten five touchdown Atlanta.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
Falcons Radio Network on the call a night for Bejon Robinson.
We talked about him preseason. We said he's going to
become the best running back in the NFL this year.
You're welcome, Fantasy players, You're welcome. He has become the
best running back. He is that big of a weapon.
But I want to say this coming off of even
though it's a big night for Atlanta, here's what I
want to say. This is where Atlanta needs an intervention. Wait,

(39:05):
the Falcons do after win? Yes, because it's clear they
have all the talent they need. Hey, stack wins. Keep
it up this losing thirty to nothing to the Panthers
and then beating the Bills on Monday Night football. How
does that make sense?

Speaker 7 (39:18):
Man?

Speaker 1 (39:19):
You gotta be able. Hey, we're good, We're here. We
gotta own this like you. You need to stack wins
and show everybody that it's a tough division of the oponent.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
How dare you?

Speaker 4 (39:27):
Oh? Come on?

Speaker 3 (39:28):
I mean you, I mean come on, man, I mean
I get the Panthers are shown more red zone passes
than Bryce Young this year. Panthers are a little bit
better than we expect, which is awesome for the league. Right,
Bryce Young is a little bit better. We go down,
We go down on a two week tear to man, Kai, he's.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
Turned into Barry sand Come on, but let's be out
like Falcons, Like, dude, come on, guys, get it, this
is get it together. You have all the tell you
got everything you need, put it together. There's no excuses anymore.
It's like get off your asses and make sure that
every week this is a this is an offense that
everybody is afraid of, that no one can stop. You
have a great wide receiver, I'm done with Kyle Pitts.
If you have a great wide receiver years ago, thanks

(40:03):
for jumping on here. Your quarterback is good enough. It
were like, come on, guys, this is it now. Man,
stop messing around, because that's kind of what I feel
like the Falcons have been doing. How do you lose
thirty nothings to the Panthers?

Speaker 2 (40:13):
Win this game?

Speaker 4 (40:13):
But how do do is?

Speaker 3 (40:14):
But there is the danger spot is that you've got
Drake London, you've got Vijon Robinson, and you don't have
a whole hell of a lot else in terms of
receiving corps and trusted options. They should be in the
marketplace and go find themselves another pass catcher before the
November fourth deadline.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
There will be some guys out there. Apparently the Steelers
want to get a while pass catcher too, So there's a.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
Lot of wide receivers. We're gonna see more deals It's
gonna be fun.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
Exit out bout a Fresca exit Swallen Dome, Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon. Coming up next, we break down Game one
of the NLCS. Is that the Dodgers with a victory
or the Brewers is an incredible comeback. Fox Sports Radio
bases loaded one and two count now to Bryce Terrang
again is Blake trying in and I think Dodger fans

(40:59):
are going, oh.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Oh my goodness, Blake trying to come on.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
But this is where Dave Roberts goes Lefty Terrang up,
does not go to Alex Vessia, stays with Blake trying
and here again two to one, Dodger lead Game one
of the NLCS. Bases loaded in the ninth and Wow
trying it almost hits Terrang with a curveball, and I'm sorry.
That's where you have to turn and get hit by that.

Speaker 3 (41:22):
Yeah, you gotta take one for the team right there.
That's just that baseball fun amount. That's one on one man.
You have to turn and get hit by that pitch.
That's abs what you have to do. You cannot you
cannot just back away. You got to turn and get
hit by that pitch. Got him absolutely. Uh so the
Dodgers one and two count. Here's the pitch, it's a strikeout.

Speaker 1 (41:48):
Blake trying and gets the final out of the game,
and the Dodgers survive two to one. Blake Snell will
no longer have to fight anybody after the game. He
might have been the most time the happy guy sitting
in there. We've never seen it, but Blake trying and
gets it done. Really and look, quite honestly, if you

(42:09):
are Bryce Terrang, you have to you have to turn.
I know that the reaction is, hey, I don't want
to get hit, but that's a pitch that's really inside
that you have to swing at and you have to
get hit by. And then he chases a pitch that
is three feet outside of the strike zone four strike three.
The Dodgers win Game one, and the Brewers are left saying,

(42:31):
what just happened? We had everything going our way? What
just happened?

Speaker 3 (42:34):
Trying in the second strike of that a bat was
a bit above the zone, so maybe he felt he
had to go up. But I mean, this pitch is
really really high, I like the high ones chases it
for that third strike, trying and much maligned over the
course of the year. I mean we talked about ball,
you know, strikeouts to walk, it was basically less than

(42:55):
two to one. He was five to four e er
in the regular season two and seven record propensity to
throw wild pitches, all of these things at play and
get them to chase the high third stride. But to
your point, yeah, that ball came inside. I'm sorry, it's
gonna hurt, It's gonna leave a bruise.

Speaker 4 (43:11):
Right.

Speaker 3 (43:11):
My daughter is just healing from one she stood in
and took as a defender last week in a soccer
game that left to bruise. The shape of the ball.
It's really it was really quite disturbing to see, but
it's starting to heal. And guess what they won that game.
I here, you take take one for the team.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
Man. You have to up, you have to you know.
And that's the thing is that And this was always
a tough lesson to teach the girls in softball, right
because when you come up, your instances to get out
of the way a pitch, get out of way a
pitch like, okay, I get it. And when they're young,
because there's lots of like like when you get when
the kids are like eight, ten, eleven, the pitchers are wild,
and so you want to get out of the way

(43:48):
because you want to hit. But I always tell hey,
when it's a game that counts, you're not backing out
of the way.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
You are turned.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
Because all you gonna do is turn. You have to
make it look like you're getting out of the way.
You can't just sit there and get hit. But if
it's easy, you turned.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
Out of the way.

Speaker 1 (44:01):
Instead of getting out of the way, you take that
hit by pitch, you get on first basee if it's
a term, it's a big game, you gotta do that right.
And that's I'm watching Bryce Terra. I'm going, wow, you
got you know, you gotta find a way to just
I gotta get hit by any means necessary. I get
to get on first base. But then he makes up
for it by swinging it a pitch three feet out
of strikers. Well, you know, I mean, that's that's a

(44:21):
huge The Dodgers escape, and that's absolute karma for the Dodgers,
and the Brewers have to be saying, what just happened?

Speaker 2 (44:29):
What just happened.

Speaker 3 (44:30):
I think they're all gonna respond to the Brewers manager
who said, hey, that none of them can name eight
guys out a roster.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
I can name that guy Terray, because he sucked in
a big moment.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
Here's how it sounded just moments ago of the Dodgers
taking a one game to non lead in the NLCS.
TBS on the call. I don't know that they found
one as much as they got bailed out, because trying
to what he walks Contraras clearly, and I said at
the time it wasn't a walk, right, trying and comes
in first and third, and then Yelli steal second. So

(45:04):
now second and third, so now they say out of
the forest play and also a base it probably wins
the game. Trying it comes in and you can tell
right away Contreras is on him right fouls off two
fast balls right back, doesn't chase a couple of pitches
outside the strike zone. That's that's where trying to ask
to say, you know what, no, no, no, we uh
all right, it's okay, putting him on first base. We'll
get the next guy. So he walks Contraras and then

(45:28):
nearly hits Terrang, and then Terrang somehow at a pitch.
I mean that pitch just climbed. It almost looked like
a back door slider kind of pitch that just rows
more because the movement on it was really really difficult.
It was really weird, and it just gets up. But
the pitch is up in his eyes like it is

(45:49):
three feet high out of the strike zone. And instead
of taking that, taking that to two to two a
full count, you wind up striking out and you hand
the game to the Dodgers, I mean the dodge. Look,
they didn't find a thing with Blake trying and the
Dodgers escape. There's a good pitching to talk about, but
trying to just happen to get the out. But they escape,
and they take a huge advantage and a big emotional

(46:09):
advantage in the NLCY. Yeah, you talk about escape, succeed
in proceed. Look, he made the pitch and got him
to chase. Now the second strike of that at bad
again was you know with our little handy dandy box
that they put up, was came in high.

Speaker 3 (46:26):
But you get the call. Fine, uh, and then he
doesn't doesn't take the doesn't take the what would be
a hit by pitch to force home the tying run,
and then chases out of the zone thinking he liked
he liked the high ones. Again, going back to a
league of their own. But for Blake trying to look
he got that he made the pitch and got him

(46:48):
to chase Blake. We saw Blake Snell with the reaction
that the big exhale that he had. Sasaki did not
have it tonight. But as they went to the bullpen,
we're looking at each other going, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
Sasaki looked stunned that he was getting taken out of
the game. Not that he wanted to fight, but the
look on his eye, you see, his eyes were just
like I'm getting taken out of this game. But he
didn't have control. He walked a couple of guys, they
got to run off him. And clearly he has not
earned the Dave Roberts eye. He has not earned the
right to I'm closing no matter what, Like he's not
Edwin Diaz, where we win or lose with you, this

(47:23):
is no I come out. But the way he walked
off the mountain was like what just happened? Like he doesn't,
I don't get what just happened.

Speaker 3 (47:29):
But that becomes the question, right we talk about the
mentality of closers and certainly still pretty new to the
situation and to the role that we know it is
a place where mentally you gotta be locked in and
you can lose a guy really fast. And so now
you question that going forward, right with an outing that

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was less than stellar. You had the big double by Bowers,
the ground rule double, so second and third Churio hits
the sacrifice fly. We watched the is locked full by
all of that to say, what is Sasaki like the
next time you go to the pen. You have no idea,
You have no idea how he's.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
Going to respond?

Speaker 1 (48:10):
Yeah, what do you got?

Speaker 2 (48:11):
Frostburg? All of that is irrelevant.

Speaker 5 (48:14):
Can we take a moment here or the next three
hours to celebrate what the hell Blake's No, no, no, no, no,
that was great.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
It's just great.

Speaker 2 (48:21):
Don't know sell it.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
That's why I say it. I wanted to say, hey,
you want to get to a pitching performance that was
really good and not lucky Blake. Look, we said this
middle of September, right when you go back to the
game where Blake Snell told Dave Roberts, no, I'm coming
out of this game, right, he stays in the game.
Blake Snell needed to be the Dodgers ace. He needed
to be that guy because it's not just about talent,

(48:44):
it's about having that extra bit of get on my
back and I got you. And so far in the
playoffs he's pitched six, seven and eight innings with the
Dodgers eight innings tonight never went more than six innings,
and any other playoff Adams with the Rays and the Padres.
Right talking Baseball had had this stat a few minutes ago.
Blake Snell has is becoming the modern day Madison Bumgarner,

(49:06):
who was really good in the regular season. But Madison
bumber it wasn't unbeatable in the regular season. He had
a couple of years he was really good, like it
was really good, he was absurd, he was really good.
But you get to the playoffs and suddenly it's whoa, whoa, whoa.
That's what Blake Snell is becoming. The one stat I saw,
like his last one hundred some on innings pitch, he's

(49:27):
allowed thirteen hits, Like every game there has been more
strikeouts than innings pitch.

Speaker 4 (49:32):
Like he is.

Speaker 1 (49:33):
He is at the highest level of playoff performance of
any pitcher in a while. And like I said, he's
he's becoming the modern day because you know, Madison Bumgarner's
time was over in the in the mid teens when
he then after that, he was just yelling at people,
Now you hit a home run off, he just run
around the bases. Well, lots of guys hitting home runs
off you. Now you've got to just be cool with that.
But that's where Blake's and this is why he's we said,

(49:54):
he's got to sort all the game ones, all the
biggest games for the Dodgers. Blake snell on the mound
as much as humanly popped because he is that guy.
He is that playoff guy.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
He is that ace.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
And to throw it out there too, not a guy
that's got a lot of tread on his arm from
this year because it was out.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
I pitched eleven started eleven games in the regular season.

Speaker 1 (50:14):
You get to a point with a lot of playing
we talk about a lot with the NBA where hey,
you hope some injuries are strategic, right, like guys like
Lebron or Anthony Davis that you know we're gonna get hurt. Hey,
we hope they get hurt middle of the season, start
of the season, so when you get to the playoffs
and we need them, they're not running on empty, right,
you want that right to talk about strategic injuries that
do it. The same thing for Blake Snell, like you

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hope if he's going to be out because he misses
his time, it's a strategic injury, and it was. This
is strategic as possibly have because he came back with
enough time at the end of the season to get
going and he's hit the playoffs. He is an absolute
peak right now and you are seeing again he is
performing unlike anybody we've seen some Bumgardner a decade ago.

Speaker 3 (50:54):
Eight innings pitched today, ten strikeouts, The only hit was
Durbin and he was immediately picked off.

Speaker 1 (50:59):
Yeah, I'm so mad at you are a going to
pick you off?

Speaker 2 (51:02):
I mean that was it.

Speaker 3 (51:02):
Otherwise he just mowed him down inning after inning. They
had the the in game interview with Dave Roberts and
it's like, is he in a trance? And Roberts just smiled.
He goes, he's just getting started, right, Just yeah, that's
where he's at, like when he's in that zone.

Speaker 2 (51:18):
Just just let him go.

Speaker 3 (51:20):
And part of me was surprised, even with one hundred
and three pitches, he didn't demand to go back out
there for the night to finish it himself.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
The way he was rolling.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
Yeah, he was up over one hundred pitches, right around
one hundred pitches. And but I'm okay, Hey, I'm eminently
okay with Blake Snell to rookie so socety Kasasaki been on,
but he'd been been un hittable. But what did we say,
like as he was coming in, It's like, this is
the gift And exactly if you were to ask the
baseball gods, right, if if little Dave roberts is playing
to the baseball gods, what does he want? My starter

(51:51):
can get me eight, which again is rarefied air in
this day and age of Major League Baseball. When you
get an effort like that, you celebrate the hell out
of it to go, do you your guy that that
has become your closer the last couple of weeks and
unfortunately Sasaki struggled with his control tonight, twenty two pitches,
only ten strikes. Yeah, I mean, look and I get it,
and look and I get I get the move from

(52:13):
from Dave robertsono because you know, yes, you're too young
to know what you don't know. But the the bad
side of that is when you say, hey, you're too
young young. Yeah, it's great because you're not feeling the pressure.
But you need to be able to say, I've been
I've been here before, right, I've been here before. I
know how to get out of it when things just
completely get get that out right and that And that's

(52:34):
really what happened to Sasaki tonight. You could tell Okay,
once he walked the run to go to Okay, now
now we have to go to we have to go
to somebody else.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
We can't trust you. It's another one.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
It's not your night, and it's a learning experience for you.
And look, Dave Roberts is gonna sit in the postgame
press conference like a king patting himself on a back going.
I told you, Blake Tron is my guy. I told
you he's my guy. Okay, David, but I told you
he's my guy. Frostberg, you had a big Blake.

Speaker 5 (53:00):
Snell's stat for us right now, what you got, well,
it's even a crazier a house. It is Blake Snell's
stat at a postseason stat Okay, of just how good
he was tonight.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
You're ready for this?

Speaker 1 (53:08):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 5 (53:09):
Blake Snell is the first MLB pitcher to face the
minimum through eight innings of a postseason game since Don
Larson No. Six perfect game.

Speaker 4 (53:21):
Wow?

Speaker 5 (53:21):
Really yes, Oh that's how good Blake Spell was tonight.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
Well yeah, because Halliday was a no hitter. So yeah, okay, okay, wow,
I mean only got to reach base, picked him off. Yeah, Yeah,
that's that's Blake Snell. He was pissed, Snell, My effort