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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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com is the way tire buying should be. Well, here
we are right now. We talked about this last night.
This was the game that the Brewers absolutely had to have.
Dodgers lead it right now two to one because Max
Munsey hit the ball about five feet further than he
did last night when it turned into a double play.

(01:14):
Making sure that hey rka, good luck going to catch
this one. So now the Dodgers take their two to
one lead. They are three to one now and they
are now counting and hunting outs to go back home
up to zip in the NLCS, and you've got another
starter working deep. You didn't think so when you saw
that first pitch go flying the other way? Yeah, no,

(01:34):
not great, exent cheerio and not great. And that was it.
Six innings pitch, just three hits thus far, five strikeouts.
More importantly, only seventy six pitches, a very efficient six
innings for Yamamoto, which means we don't have to see
the bullpen necessarily for a little while. Yet. Nah, you

(01:56):
never know, though, you never so you never know. Hey, hey, look,
sometimes times Dave Roberts can't resist who he is. But
you know, you know, Dave Roberts is like, okay, Dave
Roberts is like uh looping from Harry Potter, in which like, Okay,
I know, I know I shouldn't turn into a were wolf, right,
I know it because stuff gets out of control and
I don't know what happens after and thing and bad

(02:18):
things happen, but I just can't help myself. I got
I turned into a were wolf. And I get it.
You gotta watch out like that's Dave. I know I
shouldn't go to the bullpen as often as I do.
I can't help it. Yeah, but you can't mean the
phil moon still goes up, but he's done. I mean,
what are you gonna do? I have to go to
the bullpen when the moon is out. I gotta go
to the bullpen like that's who they is. I know,

(02:39):
I know it, But it happens. The moon comes out
and I gotta go to the pen. I gotta bring
guys in. It's how it goes the kid.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
You know if you if you touch that, it's gonna burn.
But you still want to find out. I mean might
not this time, right, Uh maybe not? Maybe maybe not,
but you never know. How you keep playing with fire.
You know what they say, DJ, You're gonna get Corbyn burns.
So where we sit right now, top of the seventh inning,

(03:07):
Dodgers have the runner at third with one out. Sho
Hao Tani is up, who is won for his last
twenty three. Now, this is the big thing we talked
about this coming into this series, the biggest thing for
the Dodgers. Yes, we talk about the bullpen. We talk
about a lot of different things, but sho Hao Tani
just doesn't look comfortable right. He just doesn't look good
at the plate. He is opening up, he is waving

(03:29):
at breaking. If I'm a left handed pitcher, I throw
him a sweeper or something off the plate and he's
gonna wait, good, get it. And you can see that
he's not mentally. You can see that he is a
little lost. He's taking pitches he normally would take a
swing out. He's swinging at pitches he would normally take,
and it's just it's just not right. And he just
took a swing on a pitch that he looked like

(03:49):
maybe he tweaked something, because he didn't look one hundred
percent healthy coming off of that swing. He stepped out
of the batter's box, he kind of stood winced a
little bit. So honestly, I'm wondering how wise because we
talked about it. Look, we said, hey, look they need it.
You need Otani in this round. Your leadoff hit er
can't go, you know, oh for the entire series, and
you expect to win. But ye, at this point, seeing

(04:10):
him and and and seeing that that swing he just
had there, I really wonder if there's certain it's certain
types of torque, certain types of swings that he has
that are causing him pain. I'm not just I'm playing
doctor here theorized trying. I'm trying to come up with
something that would explain show hal Tani being one for
his last twenty three physical versus mental and pride right

(04:32):
that we're trying to figure out what that equation is
and how big the coefficient is on either parts of that.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
But yeah, he's he's waving it and balls up and
out of the zone. We watched it, and now he
just gets a base hit. Uh. That scores another runs
of the Dodgers for one between the first and second basement.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
And you can see the exhale as he got the
first face put it on here. Look, they gave him
a pitch he could handle on the inside part of
the plate and Otani grounds it through the right side,
like this is a pitch that normally you give him
that type of fat pitch and he handles it and
it's in the corner or it's in the seats, but

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it was enough for a base and bring the run in.
And nothing has been more entertaining the last couple of
days than the shots of brewers fans following a bad
play that happens. I think that's become a really big
thing now in this playoff especially, I feel like there's
many more crowd shots of upset crying fans, especially other rounds. Yeah,

(05:31):
and then these sets got to be Midwestern. I'm just
saying it got to be sad. That's that's the picture
picture of a sad Midwest. We're not back in grapes
of wrath, like you know, hey the dust bowl and
all the crops, aren't you know, this is the early
nineteen hundreds and we're trying to find a way. And
I don't know what's going on now, but the problem
is that every person they've decided to isolate would be

(05:53):
the stereotypical farmer, the farmer Wisconsin I lade, which is
to say that it's a middle aged white male with
a large beer and a large gut. That's generally what
they've been showing farmers in the perch with a shotgun
when the crows come. I got a shot. I gotta
I mean like that, you gotta protect this house man.

(06:15):
Just weird. But look, this is that wrong. No, I
look on what I'm saying I have a picture for
early back in grapes of wrath Man Henry Fonda. Sure
would think the missing were the stirrups the other and
the the overalls. Update. You're stout there. He's now two
for whatever now is two twenty four twenty four. That's

(06:36):
like justin Field's numbers for twenty four. No, no, no gift.
The field minus ten was justin fields. Twenty four is
way more than But to punctuate that, you give him
credit because he didn't try to overswing, because that's been
the hallmark of even go back to the last month
of the regular season. Strikeout rate was up, and he
was trying to kill every pitch. Yeah, and even earlier

(06:56):
you had in a bat that he waved at strike
three that was up out of the zone, even still
trying to murder the ball. And at the one that
he wins stat and stepped out of the box like
he was trying to swing for a nine hundred foot
home run, and that one he shortened his swing, just
hit the ball through the through the right side for
the base hit to score the run. Look, and that's

(07:18):
the whole thing, is that when you're injured, if you
are injured, being able to know what you can do
is the bed look. And if that's the case with Otani,
Hey I don't have enough that I can. I can
put this in the seats, but I get a sharp
ground ball, or I could you know, I'm I'm gonna
It's the old, the old adage of hey, choking up
one two strikes, right, it makes you understand, Hey, you
choke up with two strikes and you taught that little league,

(07:40):
which is stupid, but it doesn't matter. But the whole
philosophy is choking up with two strikes. Hey, protect me,
you know, protect you gotta know stuff. It's close, and
you got to concentrate on whatever you thought you were
going to do in that at bet. You got to
take down your expectations now because you got to put
the ball in play, right, You got to find a
way to get the ball and play, hit it hard somewhere,
and you take down, you tamp down your expectations. And
that's kind of what you do when you're injured, is that, Hey,

(08:02):
I'm up there. I can't do normal things, but I
can do close to normal things. So if a double
down the line becomes a single through the right side,
that's okay. If a home run in the second deck
becomes a single or a double off the wall, okay,
that's kind of what it is. And I, honestly, I
really wonder if that's it with Otani because that certainly
would explain why he's been struggling so much and why

(08:25):
he looks he just looks out of sorts at the plate. Well,
but just do it to put it in the larger
scope baseball, and hopefully we see a return to what
you and I and we've seen bunting, which if you
can execute great, most of the time you can't, so
don't do it. But all all that's say Scott Harrison
is his exit with the Tigers, just kind of talking

(08:48):
about making contact instead of strikeouts. Yep. Right, And for Otani,
once he been doing he's been swinging through balls strikeouts.
That's not helping anything, right, There's no pressure. It's like
you know, hockey, whatever, shoot the ball towards the net, right,
make the goalie do something. You have no idea how
they're going to handle it, how the defense is going
to react, et cetera. Same thing in Major League baseball.

(09:10):
We watched it with the pressure play last week with
the Phillies. What should have been a hey, what do
you do with the ball when it's hit to you
became a series clinching play. Yeah, always right, but it's
it's but if you don't put the ball in play,
it doesn't matter. And we've watched so many batters that
it's it's like, hey, that's fine, it's three outcome. It's like, no,
you've got to you still have to put the ball

(09:31):
in play. Well, and that's the overall thing to to
make a bigger point about Otani, right, Freddie Freeman strikes out,
Dodgers go to the bottom of the seventh inning with
a four to one lead, Like, here's Otani again making
the right play, you know, having the right at bat.
This is what I can do. If you look again
wincing after that that that swing and foul off. But yes,
when you get a pitch, you can I would not

(09:52):
throw the ball on the inside part of the plate.
I don't know what that was all about. That's a
gift for Otani. But the fact that hey, okay, I
know what I need to do here, and I got
to make sure or I get this run in and
I get the run in. It's not just the Yankees,
not just the lazy Yankees, but overall. And but the
Yankees get all the attention because of, you know, the
narrative of the last year being they're not good fundamentally,

(10:13):
they don't run the bases. Anybody will tell you don't
run the base as well, they don't do. But just
think about all the different bad fundamental baseball that we
have seen throughout the baseball playoffs, not limited to just
the Yankees, right, not limited just ti Oscar Hernandez and
his base running adventures yesterday, but there's all from different series.

(10:34):
It's wow, I can't believe. This is something that you
have to know. You can't do this. You can't what
is happening here? And you see it throughout the different series,
and there's different moments here and there you go, oh wow, okay,
that's that's a moment where you know this bunt rotation
needs to be here, or this is a moment where
if you're stealing second base, you know you're taking the
bat out of the hands of the person you want

(10:56):
to bat. So many different things that just go anti
fundamental baseball that I wonder if it's just the Yankees,
are the the the poster boys for this because as
time goes on, like you see that, Wow, that's really
not good, right, Like we we talked about the Taoska
Hernandez obviously not knowing the tag up rule last night
in the game, but he had the bad base running

(11:18):
play the play before, we should have scored on the
base hit to right field and and he didn't see
the ball get done. Like, dude, you've been in baseball,
you know where that when the ball is off the bat,
where that's gonna go. You know that that's gonna be
something the outfielder gets. You know that's gonna be something
the outfielder doesn't get. Like, you have to know that
he should have scored on that, right This is a
ball that is hit to the right side of second base.
This is the ball. You got to score on that

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and he doesn't. And it's you know, it's a fundamental play.
And not just fundamental like dropping fly balls as well,
or you know, not cutting off the ball. They're all tasks.
There's just so many Taoska Hernandez things we can say,
but how many how many of those equal homer? No,
that's it. That's the thing that we got to help,
Like how many fly balls can he drop? What is

(11:59):
the what can he even it out with with a
home run? Right? I mean with base running mistakes evened
out by a home run. X base running h plus
x fielding equals one home run. Like I gotta say,
Paul can't kuon find out like I gotta say, he
was on and soda there please room three five eight?
He is he, he is there, he is. You gonna

(12:19):
say room seven six five. See that's it was your line.
That was seven six five seven six five. Yeah, that's
how much money he got seven or sixty five min.
I'm just impressed he were able to do that backwards
seven six five seven six six seven six five six
seven six seven six seven. Uh. So I would say
he's operating a deficit last night, but now tonight, now
he's back. He's back at even, like I would say,

(12:40):
he's back at zero s now to ask her Hernandez,
Like he dropped the fly ball, then he hit the
home run. Okay, he's even. But now the big base
running uh fiascos of last night, but now tonight, so
I think he's he's probably zero s. They won the game,
Yeah I know, but I'm saying, but the point is
about about me his story if they lose. No, the
point is about fundamental baseball throughout the playoffs not being

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what it should be. How many times did you watch
that list? I'm just using tasker Hernandez as an example
because it's so easy. How many times did you watch
that highlight? Ah? I didn't. Oh the best part was
going home and showing Zoe the highlight, which she is like,
the ball hit off the wall? I go, yeah, you
would think they would know that. Oh, and she was
why didn't he tag up? I go, I know she was,
he didn't. You just have to weigh I said, Zoe,

(13:22):
you're saying you could host the show now for me,
because you're saying everything that we said when we came on.
Here says oh, that was a big mistake. Oh and
the and who was that that didn't run the third isa?
That was Will Smith? She goes, oh that was that
was just as bad a mistake because he had time
to understand what he needed to do. I go, yeah, yeah, yeah,
all about it was supposed to be the smartest guy alive. Yeah,

(13:43):
because their catcher certainly was well comp is he slapping
Chris Rock? Yeah? Contraps was the only one that knew
everything going on. He knew the force out here and
the play to third base, Like he's the only one
that they knew veritable play. But in terms of you know,
baseball one on one, I mean, farmer the old rule
of thumb, it's the runs you score after the sixth

(14:03):
with a lead that gets you to the winners circle.
So you got your base hit RBI for show, how
TONI coming up to make it a four to one lead?
Yamamoto is still dealing bottom seven exit ou about a
Fresco exit swallen' doumble of more. On Game two of
the NLCS, Dodgers win. This looks like it's gonna be
a sweep and the Dodgers can Look, we canna have

(14:25):
double sweeps right now. Dodgers Mariners World Randy tickets looking
them up the entire World Series on the West K thanks,
I'm about that. Yeah, nine hundred bucks, right, so you
say eight twenty five plus fees. Uh, they're getting cheaper.
You look, you do a pretty good job looking up
to the first tickets you showed me were fifteen hundred,
and then you got them to nine hundred. You got
them eight twenty five well, I mean I was looking
to sit in the outfield to see if I can

(14:46):
catch a you know, TI Oscar Hernandez or big dump
for home run. I can catch a fly ball at
tasker Hernandez doesn't get so. I'll have more on this
game coming up. But straight ahead, we have a double
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dot Com. Dodgers lead the Brewers right now for to one,
top of the eighth, looking for more the big fundamental
to Oscar Hernandez is up with two on. Nobody out
can make up for all of his uh, all all
of his all of his put stuff in the bank,
all of his base running and fielding errors, all of

(17:32):
those mistakes or the home run here and yes, it
would put stuff in the bank, like it would be okay.
Now he could have another base running gaff den, it's
credit or drop a fly ball and it's home run.

Speaker 4 (17:43):
Right.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
No, if he hits another home run then he then
he banks it then like the next time he drops
the fly ball. You can't say anything. What did he
do to your fan? What did he do to you?
I'm just saying, dude, the dude can't do anything but
swing the bat like he can't run the bases, he can't,
he can't field. Yeah, it's only a story if they lose.
What I'm saying is he's looking to bank good will.
Now like it because the next five ball he drops,
people could be all over, but it's a home run.

(18:04):
Here was him saying he affed up. Not good enough
for you? Well, because well, okay, good enough. You know what,
when you're a major leaguer, you have to know the
tag up rule because I knew it when I was like,
you know what, he did own it. They won the game,
like he if he if they'd lost, then then then
we have a bigger conversation. In the end, you won
the bullpen got out of it, and you got you

(18:27):
got home. Blake trying and did his job for one day.
Dave Roberts faith and Blake trying paid off. And what
I do love is they're just showing scene after seeing
a Murphy in the dugout and I want to catch
him with the this blanken guy or one of those
kind of things, you know, say my name kind of moments.
Because he tried to disparage the Dodgers, saying they had

(18:50):
no idea who they were. Tried to play the little
guy get the best record, best record in the league. No,
the Dodgers have no idea who you are. They don't
do any advanced scout at all. They just show up.
Yeah we did. We don't need to. We don't need
that advance They just rolled it all out there. Nah,
we don't do it. We don't do any of that stuff. Nah,
not at all, not at all. Uh So Toskar Hernandez

(19:11):
ground to do a forest place, but he got the
runners over. He did. He might any that's zero. Some
that's zero, but he might as well. Bunny, that's it's like,
it's a point. You don't get a right, fine, I'll
give you a little bit of a push on that.
That's fine. Up, give give you plus three tenths all right.
I'll give you a plus three tenths on that. All right.

(19:33):
So we're keeping the Ledger. Pay attention Matt's owner Tommy
Edmonds up. Oh that's great. Hey hey Tommy Edmond, Hey, wy,
don't you get a hit off with somebody else field
that's gonna bring in one run five to one. Now,
Dodgers with the lead, they don't send the runner from third,

(19:55):
five to one, top of your face. Well, I'm okay
with Tommy. That was great timing get a hit off
someone else, and he did. Look at it. It's like I
say it, tomahawk, that thing right through the right. I'm
the Tommy ed Been whisper. I'm a Tommy Edmond whisperer.
I tell you what happens. Eric's base hit. He's having
flashbacks to last year though, Like I'm watching your face,
you know, as he walks up to first base, he

(20:17):
starts flapping and they like a new loan because bleeping descend. No,
that's it. Come on, man, that's easy. Because the sayer
comes up to me and says, you know, we're talking
about the NLCS last year. I'm like, dude, you got
to bring up again that I didn't go to the
World Series because of Tommy Bleep and Edmund, not because
of Otani, not because of friends owner, No, no, no, but
Tommy Edward ten hits, ten RBIs and ten runs in

(20:38):
the NLCS. Like, come on, the guy got his contract
off of that those six games. I mean, come on,
if I lost to Otani and Freddie Freeman and Mookie Beck, okay,
but I lost to Tommy Bleep and Edmund because the
guy couldn't get out. I gotta bring that up. You
get back, hey man? That was his star turn. Yeah yeah,
Like if people need their moment in Sonny, he found
it against the mass. That's all I gotta be doing

(20:59):
is good week and I can get fifty million dollars
baseball is at this point, man, Shine in the big moment.
Shine when the light's brightest, when the world is watching.
Little Tommy Edmond got paid, so we'll have more baseball
on the way again. Five to one Dodger lead. They
continue to bat in the top of the eighth inning.
Uh my favorite today talking about a couple of big

(21:22):
team getting ready for games, Aaron Rodgers, Joe Flacco getting
set to play against each other on Sunday in the
Earth day night or Thursday night rather sorry, Thursday, I
get your lineups in. And Cam Hayward, talking about Aaron
Rodgers today during his press conference, said, hey man, oldest
quarterbacks playing this week, Let's go the Icy Hot Bowl.

(21:44):
I love it, and I think that's awesome to call
this game the Icy Hot Bowl, Like that's a you
know what, that's where if you're kem Hayward's like, wait
a minute, there's gonna be T shirts for this game.
There's gonna be merch. I gotta make sure that I
have the rights this because oh yeah, would just icy
hot ball out and sign me up for that? Two
quarterbacks over forty playing in this game Thursday night, when

(22:04):
you know it's gonna be tough sledding the game, the
under is what's gonna hit? Oh yeah, yeah, you get
you gotta. You had an icy hot ball with like
a picture of Rogers, picture of Flacco, picture of Icy
hot or some kind of bomb. I'm in for that. Yeah.
They're not an official sponsor of the the NFL, but
it is a good line. And I like rodgers response
kind of talking about Hey, the old guys and what
do we say. The longer these guys play, the younger,

(22:27):
I feel right, so play another five years. I don't
know that you can. Joe Flacco's arm still seems fine.
Y're winging in around, yeah, and Aaron Rodgers, Look, they're
in they're in the Catbirds seat. Man. You know, I'm
glad you brought that up, because here's the thing. I
can already tell you know where I'm going with this.

(22:48):
I can already tell all season, I'm gonna keep saying
the same thing. I am not believing in the Steelers
because they're not good. They play in a craptastic division.
They're not very good at anything, right, But Mike Tomlin's
at the point where he's feeling chesty because he's like, hey,
I don't know why you would trade Joe Flacco within
the division to the to the Bengals like that. I
don't know, I don't know why you would do that.

(23:09):
But hey, okay, then like, well, whoa dude, slow your roll.
But I always tell when Tomlin's getting chesty and he's
feeling good, he insults the media. Guys are annoying me today.
I don't know why. I don't know why you would
make that trade. The Steelers are not good. I'm teugh,
the Steelers are not good. They don't throw the ball well,
they don't run the ball well. Their defense is league
average at best. This is not all the steel No,

(23:31):
their defense is league average. Look at all the metrics.
They do nothing well except beat bad teams. And they
happen to play this year in a division where all
the teams are bad. But everything fell apart. That's not
good here, the last man standing. No, there's something to
be said for that. It's like, look, if everybody else
is felled around you, they're sick. No, no, it doesn't

(23:54):
make you bad part and you can still show up
to work. You're the king. No, no, no, no, So
right now the Steelers are okay, put the ground on.
They're not just because Joe Burrow got hurt. Okay, it's
a cheap it's a cheap crown that's made out of
cardboard that falls apart, that has like pieces glued to
it in January. That may be the case. But right
now they are standing dull. But they're not good, not good.

(24:18):
They're no, they're not even good. They're not the twinning game. No,
doesn't winning game good. You can be bad and win.
They're showing you. They're showing you can be bad and win.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
No.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
See, I say you're good if you're taking care of business,
you win. What's on the schedule, right you can only
be you're playing. No, I'm with you, you're good. I'm
with you in the AFC this year right now, that
constitutes good. I'm with you on this. The AFC stikes
you beause one team after another is falling apart. We
got the Colts, you beat the Jetsu were terrible. The
best team you played the Patriots, the Seahawks you lost to.

(24:51):
You beat the Patriots, okay, Patriots good. You beat the
VI You wish you were the Patriots now and you're bad.
I wish I was any team but mine right now.
Any team. Give me any team, any team you love, Darren,
any team. You've done that dance in the Hallway game
for the last three weeks, and it actually really rivaled that.
You should said it instead of the do you remember

(25:14):
the twenty first? They should? They should sink it up
with the old Genesis classic I can dance. Yeah, in
two months, I've gone from he's the guy, he's the
guy you wanted. Yes, he's coming in his culture, and
now I can't even see him finishing the year. Yeah,
it's not even finishing point. It's so don It's because
you held him up in both of your hands over here.

(25:36):
You know, he was great. I loved him. You were
like he was Simba, yeah, and that was I was
Raffiki hold them up. I mean like I held him
up like he was the king he was. But now
I could tell the job is too much for him.
The job that the decisions that he makes and things
is that you could tell the job isn't do basic math.
He couldn't throw a hail Mary from the fifty yard

(25:56):
line in the last play of the first half. We're
just not going to do it. That's kicked to fifty.
That's not I get. I get Garrett Wilson. Why he's
so mad man. I mean, look, we got some justin
field stuff to get to, but the Steelers they're not good.
What do we have to get to they're not good.
I'm done talking about the Jets right now. That's what
I mean. Is I mean the one who just tease
more justin fields? Don't? Yeah, maybe you do need more

(26:21):
justin fields. Maybe justin fields. It's gonna be meeting on
the fields. But look, it's your heart. Steelers not being anybody.
You eat the Vikings with a backup quarterback and you
barely won that, and the and the Browns are terrible.
You're not good. You're not a good football team, but
the rest of your division is terrible. So successful, yes,

(26:43):
but good? No, I can point how many bands do
you know they're successful that their music is terrible, but
it doesn't know, but it's a matter that's a matter
of opinion. Steelers are terrible. No, No, but the music
I mean matter. I can tell you when a band's terrible.
To me, you are a band's terrible. I had plenty
of bands I don't like time, sold tons of records like, hey,

(27:05):
isn't that great. I'm like, no, I'd have been enough
for me and our guy in the world, because I
would have said, Yeah, your album, it's all a bunch
of filler songs. You have better songs. We'll see you
when you come back. Okay, thanks for coming, thanks to it.
Don't don't don't, don't pollute the world with bad music.
Okay's enough. There's enough music to try to listen to
out there. What the bottom line is, can you sell it?
And right now you can sell the Steelers are They

(27:25):
can't sell the Steelers being good. Rogers is not good.
They don't run the ball. They don't. Oh look at
he's found something with DK Metcalf. He threw him one pass.
He was wide open. Okay, they're not good. They're not
gonna find you still got to make that anywhere there.
You had a lot of guys open here, guys you
didn't get it there, Okay, just because I watched my
team not able to execute easy plays offensively and justin field,

(27:45):
any play, No, well, no, we run the ball. Okay,
sometimes we run the ball step to Breeze Hall every
once in a while and that works. By the way,
you want to talk about the reviews of that guy
anonymous sources in terms of well he's gone by the time,
how much that is we we want to have no
market and we really want to deflate it versus what
they really feel about the game. No, look, Breesce Hall

(28:06):
is gonna be traded by the deadline. Sure, But I mean,
but the Steelers, it's it's none of No things they
do are great or even above league average. But again,
I don't have to believe they're the beneficiaries of bad
football that Burrow got hurt. The Browns are the Browns,
and the Ravens went from this is the best Ravens
roster we've ever seen to Hey, they're going to be
competing for the number one overall picking the draft like

(28:27):
it's just bad. And I get that they're for that.
That's great. You're four one schedule for the walk around here,
tell me you're good because you're not right. You're not
You're not. What's just strength the schedule four fifty Yeah, okay,
but you take care of business, dude. Do I believe
in them in January? No, we're not talking about January.
Yes we are. No, you are? Are you good because
you want to right? You're the Steelers. No, you're not

(28:48):
good for anything. You're not good for If you were
in the top twenty five in college football, you would
move down because, yeah, your wins aren't that impressive. They
were just going down and dingn't yet. But the top
twenty five, those people throw darts out on board, DipEd up, down, down,
pick numbers out of a hat. Yeah, this should be
number twelve this week. We've seen this as Steelers are
not looked icy. Hot Bowl is great. It's gonna be fun.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
I heard it.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
I can't wait. I hope there's fantasy points. I don't
think there will be, but I hope there's forty three
and a half is the over under. But the Steelers
are gonna win again, and it's gonna be all. The
Steelers are five one, I'm gonna be They're terrible. They
are terrible. I feel like like in uh A'MI Dais
When Salieri's like, I'm a day All. That's a bad example,
because IAmA DAAs is a genius. But I feel like,
you know, don't don't you all, don't you let Kathy Bates.

(29:32):
Don't you all have amnesia? He didn't get out of
the cocka dudey car watching the same thing I'm watching.
The Steelers are just not good man, They're not no well,
I mean, jesty is what's kind of got me off fine,
And I'm like, oh now, he's like, I don't know
why the other teams are making move Yeah, you know what,
you got more wins than the Jets, Dude, everybody has,

(29:52):
you know what. But in terms of the thing with
Andrew Berry, he said the quiet part out loud. I
like that he put his name on because it did
make no sense. Hey, it's our opening day, guy, Let's
trade him in division now, if you could tell me
legitimately they got no other team with all of the
quarterbacks that have been that have gotten hurt or have

(30:13):
proven that they suck, that no other team showed the
remote interest in Joe Flackham and why you didn't go
get somebody Else's really beyond me. Yeah, but I think
it's those other quarterbacks, but it's but it's Tomless Tomlin
and he gives us gifts. That's what he does. Yeah,
he's feeling chasty. I'm like, you know, you don't your
team is not good? How chesty was he last year

(30:34):
middle of seed Russell Wilson. I knew what I'm talking about. Oh,
very quiet. That's why I make a lot of money.
When Russell Wilson did nothing and you had to jettison
the guy. But he was your guy, right always, He's
my guy. This is why I do what I do.
And yeah, okay, well what happened by Tom and all
of a sudden the Steelers are not these They're no good.
They're no good. They're gonna lose Thursday. They're not good. Okay, hey,
i'd be up for that. I can tell you what

(30:56):
there was wearing no clothes. I would tell you that. Wow.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
Ye.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Usually he's got new clothes time, not for what's trending
in the wide world of points. He made him nude
From a guy who's been called the Emperor of Fox
Sports Radio, ow huh. He often walks around with no
clothes on, telling everybody, don't you like what I'm wearing.
It's Steve Disager and a Laurel wreath on my head.
Actually done this Laurel and Hardy handshake.

Speaker 4 (31:20):
Yeah, Laurel and Hardy kind of describes the show. Yeaes
Dodgers are leading five to one at Milwaukee, going to
the bottom of the eighth inning, trying to go up
two games to none in the National League Championship Series.
The Dodgers starting pitching continues to be phenomenal the last
two and a half months, but specifically the past week
these last three starts Yamamota tonight, Snell last night, and

(31:42):
in last week's clincher against the Phillies. Glass now the
la starting pitchers. The batting average against them is ninety
five in these last three starts, and the team era
in this postseason so far for the starting pitchers, I
should say one point six to zero. Yoshinobu Yamamoto allowed
a home run on his first pitch tonight at Milwaukee

(32:04):
to the Brewers' leadoff man Jackson Curio. Since then, Milwaukee's
offense is two for twenty four Yamamoto with seven innings,
five strikeouts eighty nine pitches thrown. The Dodgers If they
win tonight, that would mean two road victories to start
the LCS, just as in the American League Championship Series,
Seattle began with two road victories in Toronto. This has

(32:27):
only happened one other time. Nineteen seventy was the last
time that the road team in each league won the
first two games in the League Championship Series to start
things out. And back then it was just a best
of five and LCS was a new thing, and up
until the late sixties, there were no divisions. There were
no playoffs at all. You just finished first in the
league went straight to the World Series.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
I don't like this new fangled League Championship Series that
they have. Why should I have to play another series
when I have the best record in the National League.
The sounds actually like Larry King for years?

Speaker 4 (32:59):
What is this?

Speaker 1 (33:00):
This lcsd at playoffs? It's the playoffs, wayoffs. Why do
we have to play a team from the junior circuit?
We should just be the champions already.

Speaker 4 (33:09):
We had quite a pitching matchup with the starters tonight.
Yamamoto had the best ERA on the road in the
regular season of any qualified starting pitcher. Milwaukee's as Freddie
Peralta had the best home era among qualified starters, and
it was one point seven to seven at home for
the season. He gave up two home runs in his

(33:29):
five and two thirds, a solo shot to ta Oscar Hernandez,
who's up to four homers this postseason. Dodger record is
eight Corey Seeger for a postseason. By the way, Max
Mountsey did set a Dodger record career postseason homers. He
hit one out to center, a solo shot. That's fourteen
postseason home runs for him as a Dodger, passing Seeger

(33:50):
and Justin Turner who had thirteen. And by the way,
the TV ratings have been great for the baseball postseason.
The Dodgers clincher, which was a three PM game in
La last week against the Phillies five point six million people,
and then the Brewers clincher at home five and a
half million viewers. And then we had the opener of
Seattle's win at Toronto this week over five million viewers

(34:12):
plus another five mill or so in Canada, and what
you called the greatest game of the season, that clincher
against the Tigers for the Seattle Mariners Friday night on
Fox TV. The extra inning game eight point six million viewers.
In other words, about the same TV audience that the
Oklahoma Texas football game had the next day, and that

(34:33):
was by far the highest rated college football game on Saturday.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
And no one watched Young Sheldon on Friday night. No
one watched That. Been a while since we brought that
up on the show. Just for the record.

Speaker 4 (34:43):
The Alcs off tonight. Mariners lead two games to none
against Toronto. Game three is in Seattle Wednesday night on
FS one. Among the eight NHL games, Montreal and overtime
beat Seattle, Washington and overtime beat Tampa Bay. The Dallas
Mavericks gave coach Jason Kidd a multi year extension, and
Yukon is preseason number one on the women's basketball preseason

(35:04):
pol ahead of number two South Carolina, UCLA number three,
and AP back to you.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
Thank you, Steve O. Coming up next, we got the
play of the day coming your way. And Okay, if
I don't believe in the dealers, I'm going to give
you some positivity Tuesday, a huge football story that everyone
should just sit back and enjoy. It's next right here,
Jason to Mike Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best Friend
Mike Harmon. Yeah. Update from the NLCS game. Two Dodgers
lead at five to one. They have runners at second
and third with nobody out of bat in the top
of the ninth inning. The big news is, according to
reports from the game, Yoshinoba Yamamoto will start the ninth
inning and if he runs into trouble then it'll be

(35:55):
Alex Vessia most likely. But we could see a complete
game in them playoffs, a complete game. No might cry. Also,
Freddy Freeman just took the second like base it back
up the box right. Betts goes to third and Freeman
hustling gets all the way to second and then does

(36:15):
his dance in the direction of the center fielder, who
lazily got to the ball like. He didn't turn back
to the dugout like they normally do. He did the
full wiggle dance, dude, in the direction of the center fielder.
When you hit a walk off Grand Slam in the
World Series, you can do what you want. Yeah, I
think I think they didn't wear it at some point
in the future. In bat I think Monsey was actually

(36:36):
waving to the crowd after his home run too, So
it seems a little see little Chippy today, Little Chippy
Murphy got any pancakes He's gonna pull out to try
to save the save the day five to one, Dodgers
bases loaded. Now after an intentional walk to will Smith
top of the ninth inning, they are three outs away
from going up to Zip in the NLCS. This brings

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(37:20):
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(37:42):
left in the second fifty on forty Lakers over the Suns.
Luca's got fourteen. Look he's plus fourteen. It for Lebron.
I'm telling you, man, we'll get into this later on
he as the game goes on. But I feel like
this is gonna be a middle Finger Tour year for Luca.
Oh you think I was? I was pudgy and I
can't do it. Just watch now year two, more comfortable
in the offense with the team. Just watch the Luka

(38:05):
Doncic middle Finger Tour. Get ready, here it comes. Yeah.
Here's the thing though, is realistically, if he if he
goes back and looks at old pictures, he's pudgy. Yeah, no,
I know, but he had great heights. I mean, look,
you find your motivation where you are. But people weren't wrong.
You know, I'm gonna say people wrong. But so, okay,
you thought I was this and I could, Okay, just
watch now, just watch the Mavericks are what they are.

(38:27):
I mean, you saw Nico was signing autographs. People were
kissing his ass at their first prese they got Cooper.
I mean you know, okay, I did. He showed a
lot of them with the time. He just signs his
name as a big l. Yeah. Now here's the other
the part that that op for Luca case l Luke Luke.

(38:49):
But I mean a lot of reports out of there
looking at Anthony Davis going to transference, Luca Leaner a
d coming to camp like he was on the banquet circuit. Well,
maybe maybe it's gonna helphim stay healthy, you know, Dallas
steakhouses or something. Fourteen six and five for Lucas so far,
midway through the second quarter against it. Well, the Suns

(39:11):
are terrible, but still uh. Now, we have had an
incredible weekend in college football, highlighted with James Franklin getting
fired by Penn State. Right, you fired James Northwes or
what James got rid of? Love Smith and Illinois? Yeah,
DoD Frost and Nebraska. But now Franklin. Yeah, but Benn State.
It's three if I lose fran Brown, who gave a

(39:34):
craptastic answer about the Penn State job, Well, I'm here.
I don't know why you would ask me that I'm here.
I'm this is what I'm gonna focused on this week.
If I'm here like, oh, he sounded like Richard Daily
back in the day when they were all sorts of
random deaths. If I if I lose Fran Brown to
Penn State because of you, We're gonna fight like. We're
gonna fight. This is the first good coach you've had

(39:55):
in like fifteen years. We're gonna fight like and you
have no say We're gonna fight like. We are gonna
absolutely fight coaching. Is he done? Since you're doesn't quarterback
went down, doesn't? Man? What are you gonna do? We
beat Clems and everything was great. Of course, Angelly tears
is a killing. Yeah, But as soon as Angelly goes down,
I mean a whole lot of innovation. When you lose
the leading passer in the country, I think you're gonna

(40:16):
take a step. You can take a hit a little bit.
You're gonna take a hit. That's not a step to
take a hill fell down a way take it. You're
like the guy that we always talk about in the
horror movie that gives in the wheelchair going down the stairs.
Gonna take a hit, man, It's gonna happen when that
goes on you're gonna take it suddenly can't play football
there after when you lose it. It's not like it's

(40:36):
not like we have seventeen guys. It's not like we're
Alabama where we have five five star guys a quarterback
and it's just this guy's gonna play what the rest
of it? When you lose suddenly they stopped learning, you know,
how to play football. When you lose the star quarterback.
I'm sorry it's gonna affect you, but I want to
say that because this is where you see this stuff
now with the polls out now, and it is absolutely insane.

(41:00):
Nothing makes sense. Good teams that were good got bad,
now they're good again, like Alabama, Notre Dame Texas. I
don't know if the best teams are all that guy have.
If Ohio State and Miami are that good, you have Indiana,
Texas Tech and Ole miss at the top. This Penn
State story. Two weeks ago they were playing an overtime
against Oregon and now James Franklin's fired. Man, this is

(41:21):
one of those years to just sit back and enjoy
the most bonkers and bananas college football season since two
thousand and seven when it was Missouri and Kansas and
Pittsburgh and West Virginia coming down to the end of
the season, which was the most entertaining college football season
we've seen in the last twenty five years. This is
that kind of Just enjoy the bonkers and zaniness and

(41:43):
unpredictable aspect of this season because that's what college was.
But that's it, right, Signetti is now on that short
list of great coaches. You look at Landing, You've got
Ohio State still ruling the day, and Beck clearly he
made the right move. So all this is chaos. I
love every week, Love it man Positivity Tuesday, that's right.
Coming up next, Big Cowboys. Story on the Dodger complete

(42:05):
game in a playoff since Jose Lima in two thousand
and four. And I feel bad because Frostburg a couple
of minutes ago. I said, Oh, I got a great
trivia question for you guys. You're never gonna get it.
I said, what is it? And he said the last
time the Dodgers pitcher had a complete game in the playoffs.
And I go, h Hersheiser, No, you're never gonna get it.
I know he's in a two thousand Oh I go

(42:25):
Kershaw twenty fifteen against the Mets. No, no, you're never
gonna get We're gonna do it. You're never gonna get it.
And then de Seger says it in the update and
then they just flash it on TNT media. First complete
game since Jose Lima in two thousand and four for
the Dodger two thousand and four Lima. That was his
one year with the Dodgers. He went thirteen and five
in the regular season with a four point oh seven ERA.

(42:46):
It was Lima time, was Lima time, man, That's what
he would like sing the national anthem? Right? Did he
do the national anthem in games?

Speaker 4 (42:52):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (42:52):
It was the best Jose Lima. I think he did.
I think I want to remember that he did that.
He appeared in one game that postseason one game. Yeah. Yeah,
nine five hits, one walk, four strikeout, only four strikeouts
in that complete game. That's a lot of activity for
your defense to pick you up. Was that against the

(43:14):
cheating cards? That was that was so just to talk
about this for a second, right, you want to talk
about baseball history and absolute dominance. Yamamoto gave up a
home run first play of the game. That's it. Pitch, Yeah,
first pitch, you know you got the home run for
Cherio leading off. That was it. That's all he allowed.

(43:35):
One hundred and five pitches. I want to say for
Yamamoto in this game, number one, this is one way
to make sure your bullpen doesn't screw things up for you.
Don't go to it right, as long as you get
games like this. But the big point is tell me
the last time in the baseball playoffs a team has
had back to back games pitched like this. This dominant

(43:57):
in a playoff. I don't know that I could tell
you go back to Arizona, right, hil and Johnson do this,
but this big a deal. One hit for Blake Snell
in eight innings last night, right, and then Rama mad
guy picked him off a complete game tonight. You had
starting pitchers seventeen innings, one run, one run, seventeen innings,
one run, four hits, four hits total between Snell and

(44:19):
Yamamoto in the first two games in seventeen innings. What's amazing. Also,
like we talked about the Brewers as a squad, right,
you only had two guys in the regular season with
more than twenty home runs, and one of them barely
got there. And you talk about what they do on
the base paths, how aggressive they are, gnats as they
were called whatever, and Murphy joked about at a bunch

(44:40):
on the pancakes, stuff out of the back pocket, all
of that fun stuff. But if you're not on base,
you can't cause problems for the pitcher. So bat at bats,
we saw them chase out of the zone and Yamamoto
in the ninth was still free and easy, well past
one hundred pitches, right, So maybe more example for day
of Roberts. You could trust your guy to finish the job,

(45:02):
have someone up and doing the light toss and being
ready to get get after that they need to. But
the other thing for Yamamoto, and a lot was made
of it coming into this game, is he appeared against
Milwaukee in the regular season. You go back to a
game on July seventh, didn't get out of the first inning,
didn't get out of the first inning, five runs, allowed

(45:22):
three earns, four hits, two walks, and was chased that
fast right when we talk about bad outings. And then
you see the absolute gem tonight after that first pitch,
because you can feel it right. Dodgers has listened to
the radio broadcast and and syncing it up and everything,
and they were like, oh, because of what happened last

(45:45):
time out that they just saw him, they scattered whatever.
And then you never look back like we watched it
just marveling at the location of pitches and and the
way he moved moved the ball around the zone and
had off had them off balance all night. There weren't
hard hit balls like that's the other part, right, A
lot of a lot of cannic horn kind of things.

(46:05):
And you saw Andrew Vaughnett and the final at bat
waving at it, and you know, Yamamoto just smiling from
here to ear. Just great, magnificent performance. Look, it's another
absolute gem from Yamamoto. And the thing is is that
the Brewers are pretty good, right, best rest record in

(46:27):
the National League. This is not a This is not
a team that hey won their way in. Was an
eighty three win team that won their way in the wildcard? No,
But I'm saying it's like there's a difference between a
team that wins their way in as a wildcard, gets
hot for for seven or eight games and then hey,
guess what, we're coming back to earth because we're playing
a team that's incredibly more talented than we are. Right,
It's like if the you know, like obviously the Reds

(46:49):
lost the Dodge, but like if the red snuck in
and they get to this point and it's the Reds
Dodgers in the NLCS, and the Dodgers come out with
a couple of games like this, you would say, Okay,
I can expect that, because the Dodgers are a huge
step in class up from the Reds. But this is
a really good lineup. This is a really good team.
They had their ace on the mound today, like this
is a game they absolutely had to have it. Now

(47:10):
the NLCS is likely over. I mean, that's how impressive
the Dodgers have been the first two games. These are
two these are two gyms pitched against the team with
the best record in the National League, and they look
like they are just flailing at the ball. They don't
have anything going on. Like the crowd gets excited when
there was a two ball count. Oh, Henry come, it's

(47:30):
a rally. It's like, wow, that's really desperate. When it's
two and one, Okay, Oh there's a pop up to short.
Oh there's a there's a ground out to first place.
Like that, I mean really, I don't know the last
time you have seen back to back games pitch this
dominant in the playoffs. Like I'm trying to think the
last team that happens. I don't know if it's Copax
and Drysdale. I don't know if it's the Mets in
twenty fifteen. I don't know if it's the the Shilling

(47:51):
in Johnson in two thousand, in two thousand and one.
I mean, but you gotta go back. That's going back
to the nineties, like that you going back on that's
just weird. We're going back a long ways. But I
think we can forget about the postseason. It might be
the most dominant one two in the history of Major
League Baseball of these two games for the thirty games
of a series. Yeah, first against Nlces, Like this is

(48:11):
out like whoa, whoa, whoa. But let's say it was, right.
This is a Brewers team that swept the Dodgers in
the regular season, right, six wins and what was it
a ten or eleven day period? But we're also talking
about a Dodger squad that you didn't have a healthy
pitching staff for much of it. And I mean, Yamamota
was there and that was his worst outing of the
year by far. And then you see what they do here,

(48:33):
if my math is right, up to nothing in best
of seven's playoff history when you win both games on
the road twenty four and three. So opportunity doth knock
for these Dodgers. And I see it already, and we
saw it going back to the fourth fifth inning. It's like, wow,
it was always David gone.

Speaker 4 (48:54):
No.

Speaker 1 (48:54):
They won ninety seven games and now had the highest
run differential in Major League Baseball this year. But they're
the little engine that could. Mike, Well, that's that's what's
trying to take you telling me, I mean, this is
this is a good frog, that's the thing. This is
a really good team. Again. Yeah, they had the most
wins in baseball. I know, it's it's a really good
team that suddenly they made look like a little league team.
And now, honestly, but that's the thing. But Pat Pat Murphy,

(49:15):
like the whole thing was that's how we play station
to station little ball. The only thing he got was
the home run from Cherio. Everything. Every every time they
show that, they show the maritors in the game and
they show Murphy or someone we're in the hoodie that says,
you know, built for fall. I'm like, yeah, no, no,
you're not really not in this series, You're not You're
not built for the fall. Wow, man, look build the fall.

Speaker 3 (49:36):
Right.

Speaker 1 (49:36):
We've talked about these dominant pitching per elements, but it
all comes back to a guy not leaning into a
pitch and driving home the tying run. Do you want
to talk about the difference of a Major League Baseball
season in twenty twenty five. We're gonna be talking about
that play forever, but uh, this is this is how
heady of a performance we got from smelling Young Moto

(49:57):
the last two nights, right is that? Now? My only
thought is, Okay, either the Dodgers are gonna get a
bounce in the World Series, because you know, can you
pitch this well for another round of the playoffs? Or
are they just gonna saw off bats and it's gonna
be a sweep here and they're gonna sweep the Mariners.
That's where I'm at right now. Boy, they could get

(50:18):
a bounce, but man, it could be a very boring
rest of the postseason where two more games Dodgers coming
home and they're done. Then it'd be a lot of
excitement Mariners Dodgers, but you look at the pitching matchups
for both teams, like, man, I gotta tell you, you know,
ball don't carry that well in Seattle. I mean, cal
rally finds a way. But oh boy, man, you really
want to face Snell and Yamamoto again and know by

(50:38):
the way Otawani, who's gonna go in the next game?
Like that, that's that's the that's the pitching staff. You
feel good about fit. Hey, maybe the Mariners just feel
good about getting to the World Series. Beat beat the
Blue Jays feel good. This is how dominant the Dodgers are. Now,
this is I mean these last two Mike, I mean
these these two games. It's been the Brewers have absolutely
nothing nothing, No, they're not hitting the ball hard. Only

(51:01):
when Blake Snell came out of the game, he was like, hey,
now we got something going on here. But that's just it.
That that's how quickly things can turn though, And and
the door was open and he gave him the pitch
to just look. Man, he would have had a nice
baseball shaped bruise, but he would have been a hero.
You know. He talked about to say that you would
have definitely won the game, you know, like, but well,
you would have tied it, and you would had bases loaded,

(51:23):
and if nothing else, you're now into the Dodger bullpen
that much further.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
You know.

Speaker 1 (51:27):
I liked that they both talked about it. Uh, you know,
because really we're gonna look back and say that was
the moment of the series with the Dodgers up to
Zip now going on. But like Murphy and Terang both
talked about it, and Murphy said, you know, it's going
against your instinct and and you know, you know, trying
to you know, protect his player a little bit. And
Terran said, look, I gotta know. I mean, it was
just just instinct for me. And I'm like, I understand that.
And I'm like, okay, I get and I get Murphy

(51:49):
protecting his player.

Speaker 4 (51:49):
Right.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
He also had the kid guards on either side. Yeah, no,
there was There was gonna be no pushback on anything
you're saying. You're not gonna tell me what you just said,
whatever you wanted, because he had those kids. Don't do
in front of my kids. You're not gonna say I
suck in front of my kids. Don't do that. How
many kids as Murphy bring to the post conference here
at fourteen. Hey, here's everybody, here's everybody. That's all these kids.
You can't get mad at me, right, these are all

(52:11):
bads kids. But I'm sorry, but yeah, I get that,
and I get what Murphy's trying to do and teruring
try to own a little bit. But I'm like, I'm sorry,
but you have to know going up there, if the
pitch is wide, if the pitch you have to get
to first base. I understand your instinct, right. Your instinct
also can be to swing at a high pitch, but
you gotta lay off it. Right. The instinct can also

(52:32):
be I want to swing it a ball in the dirt,
but you gotta lay off it. It's not like this
is an instinct that you absolutely have to do it. Yes,
you want to get out of the way, but you know,
in this situation, I gotta get hit. I gotta stay
in because this is the world this is the NLCS,
this is our chance at the World Series. And yet
to right, look, it sucked and I did it. And
you know, yes, stepping up for your guys one thing,

(52:54):
but no, it's the same thing. It's the same thing
as Hey, I have to make sure that when I'm
batting if I see a pitch that I can't bunt,
I gotta pull the back back instead of trying to
lay it down. All these things you have to sometimes
resist your your instincts. This is what's part of being
a pro athlete. It's not just baseball, it's football to it.
I think I can get the ball in this tight window.

(53:14):
Resist that instinct if you're really me, because that's gonna
be an interception, right And and you know lots of
quarterbacks can't do that. But that's a case where you know,
going up there, bases loaded, I have to get to
first base. And if I get a pitch and he
just walked a guy right, so you know he's wild
around the plate. If I see it a point here,
I gotta make sure I get down to first base again. Yeah,
we're gonna go back and say that's the biggest play

(53:35):
of this think about it. For as dominant as pitching is,
that's a play that will stand as a part of
the highlight reel forever that he didn't take one for
the team. Told that as a kid, and they get
mad at you nowadays if you say, look you got
you gotta stand in mister, Buttermaker, I really don't guess Stein.

(53:57):
Come on, you want to win, don't you. You have,
a mister Buttermaker, really, it really hurt the last time
I got hit. Ah, you'll be fine. Stein, get up
the pain, pains, memories and forever let's go. I really
the way Stein discuses, no, mister Buttermaker, I really don't
want to. I really don't want to get you. Gotta
wear it, Ah, Stein, you'll be Come on, just get
up there,