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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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we are drop smack dab into a huge night in sports.
Two Monday Night Games, Game seven of the ALCS, the
biggest sports night in Seattle sports history. You have the

(01:08):
Mariners on the cussle, potentially going to the World Series.
You have the Seahawks at home with a quarterback who's decent,
ready to play Monday night football. This is a big,
big night for Seattle.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
My friend, I like that you just categorized him as
he's decent in today's NFL Sam Darnold Stanzo among the gods.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Clearly the city of Seattle chose to keep the right
geno jat Gino Suarez. They let got rid of Gino Smith.
It's a one geno town in Seattle. They kept the
right one.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Still didn't think going off to the desert that he
would find the fate of so many who have and
it's long and uh problematic history. But he found that
cliff over over there, didn't Gino Smith. But yees Sarez,
here's the cliff. I'm going over it. I'm going over
it right now, doning over the falls and a barrel. Hey, yeah, no,

(01:59):
it's not not gone well there. But yeah for Seattle.
Three to one here bottom six, Vladdie Guerrero Junior Up.
We've got doubleheader Monday night football. I mean, there's a
huge weekend. College football was getting crazy. The NFL might
have been even crazier. So yeah, fantastic to be in.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
So let's start with Game seven of the ALCS before
we get to the NFL. Right now, Seattle leads Toronto
three to one. And one thing you have to understand.
People can't titterer and tell me other way. Home runs
in the playoffs are not overrated. If you're gonna win
World Series, you have to hit home runs. That's how
it goes. In the playoffs. Runs harder to come by.

(02:36):
Teams can hit home runs wind up winning. What do
you see tonight? So far the team hitting home runs
is winning this game. Big home run from Jay Rod,
big dumper. But it's the stars that are coming through,
right these are the guys that have to hit. But
I mean, really, you know, and when you look at
the matchup that could be coming up with the Dodgers,
I mean, look the Blue Jays, just Rake Vlad Guerrero
is having a playoff that is just unreal so far.

(02:58):
But you have home run hitters on the Mariners up
and down the lineup, like this is gonna be some
kind of seven game series no matter who winds up
coming out of this, because both sides can hit, both
sides can hit home runs. But you see tonight the
Mariners have two home runs and they are now counting
outs in the bottom of the sixth inning to get
to the Worldla.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
You go all the way back to the first inning.
You have the opportunity to uh to make some hey right.
The Maritors get on the board first, Jay Rod with
the double the lead things off. He comes around to score,
and then you start getting base runners. You have some
nervous moments. You can't do anything but scratch out one
and then it's been a clean sheet ever since. Kirby's
calmed down and was strong. Now you get Wu out

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of the bullpen where he had a fantastic regular season,
So now you're you're in trouble. Cal Rawley with that
that home run, we just looked at each other like
that was a no doubter. Yeah, all right, that was
the give me the next ball respond from the pitcher.
Not a hey, I hit it into the nachos and
out of a stadium like sho Hey did the other night,

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but a no doubt or. And suddenly things getting a
little tight. They're in terms of the puckering for the
Blue Jays fans. But the bloop and a blast that
that's all it is, right, keep it within a slam
and you've still got enough big thumpers to come through
this lineup to try to make some.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Ay and it's it's a bigger lift mentally for a team.
It's it's it's a bigger lift when it's the Stars
hitting home runs right when it's when it's Jay Rod
coming through, when it's big Dumper with a home run, like,
it's a bigger it's a it's a bigger lift, it's
a bigger thing when those are the guys hitting them,
rather than hey, hey, well but we get a home
run from the number eight hitter. Well that's great, but boy,

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that's unexpected. It doesn't feel like it's real. Oh what's that?
So when you and your stars are coming through, that
is a much bigger deal. And again, here we are
in the sixth inning. Now, still a lot of game
left to go, but it is a three to one
game for the Blue Jays trailing that it's Mariners right
now just watching base at the center field US put
a runner on base here in the bottom of the six,

(04:56):
one out, one on. We'll have more on baseball as
we continue to cut this throughout the night.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, I thought it was more demoralizing and had a
longer reaching effect when it was the number nine hitter. Yeah,
all right, we're just psychologically of like God damn it. Wait,
we haven't even gotten hit by these guys. Yeah, right,
because that was the theory, and it's all all great
in theory with the Dodgers. Hey, these guys aren't hitting, well,
it doesn't matter because you're getting beat up by the
rest of these guys. They're picking up the slack. Oh yeah,

(05:23):
and you're not hitting worth a lick against their starting pitching,
including the guy that hit three home runs in Game four.
But but all of that's to say, you know where
we see the stars come out, and that's better for baseball,
there's no question about that. Right, More guys to put
up on the marquee.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
So again, we'll have more on this again. One out,
one on bottom of the sixth inning, Seattle leads Toronto
three to one, Game seven of the ALCS. Meanwhile, Game
one of Monday Night Football and not going at all
how we thought it was gonna go. Unless you're expecting
big things from Jamior Gibbs, well that's a given. About
four minutes to go in the fourth quarter, a little

(06:01):
over four minutes and Detroit leads Tampa Bay twenty four
to nine. Jamiir Gibbs having an unbelievable night, right now
for the Detroit Lions. He's got a forty point Fantasy night.
He's run for one hundred and thirty six and two touchdowns,
including a seventy eight yard also caught three passes for
eighty two yards. Look, we are in a new era

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of the new dominant running backs in the NFL being
Bijon Robinson and Jamier Gibbs. Right we have the peaking
Jonathan Taylor right now. But when you're talking about guy's
coming to the cap, but McCaffrey's nearing the end, he's
nearing thirty, and you know, Taylor's been around for a
few years, but you're talking about, Okay, who are the
next great running backs? And the game is in the
great hands of these two guys. We had Bjon Robinson
last week, We've got Jamir Gibbs tonight. But you know,

(06:44):
more so than that is Jamiir Gibbs. And it's kind
of fitting that he plays for the Lions. He's probably
the closest thing to Barry Sanders that we have seen
in in maybe twenty years, because there's not been a
guy this electric and this good where you get him
the ball and he is a threat to go to
the House every single time you hold your breath, and

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if you're a defense you are absolutely frantic because he
doesn't look Nobody has the moves of Barry Sanders.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
No one's been able to have that right and.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
What he's able to do his acceleration. I mean, Barry
Sanders the best running back I've ever seen. But you
talk about a guy where every time you give him
the ball, you hold your breath. There's great running backs, right,
Tae Kwon Barkley amazing year last year, but the electricity
of House every single time he touches the football like
he's the closest thing to Barry. He had a couple
of moves tonight that are just subtle moves where a

(07:34):
defender looks like he's got him and he just gives
him kind of this subtle like slide step or just
a quick jab step and he's gone. And it's not
even where the defender can reach back and not hit
him square or just gets up a hand on him.
This is I'm not even touching him, like Jamiir Gibbs
is just that electric like I don't know. I mean, look,
we've had guys that are fast. We certainly have had

(07:55):
game breakers at running back, like Chris Johnson was so
incredibly fast, and then he got paid and decided I
don't need to be running back.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
I can I can just get the ball and fall down.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
He did that.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
He just got the ball and fell down. That was
Chris Johnson. But the overall talent level with with Gibbs,
both in the in the running game, in the passing game.
I mean, really, he is the closest thing to Barry
Sanders we've seen in a long, long.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Come on, all of these games count You're saying that
guys are mailing it in. What are you talking about?
These are all important?

Speaker 1 (08:22):
I got paid.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Every one of them is like a playoff game. I'm
mailing it in. Guys played to the final out, to
the final at bat, to the final you know, whistle
and kneel down, all those things. So WHI yeah, until
some guys on the sideline yelling whistle. But yeah, Chris
Johnson certainly a tale of two careers there.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yeah, you know, I might. And now I'm just gonna
hold the football with both hands, run into the line
and fall down like That's what Chris Johnson did once
he got paid. This is what I'm gonna do. I'm
not even gonna hide it. Not you gonna hide him.
It's gonna run in the line and fall down. It's
all'm gonna do.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Now. I want to go back in the the annals
of history for what he did all those years ago.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Where's carry after he signed his contract? Two hands going
in the line, fall down? It's still two plus yards.
I mean he was six feet tall. Good, what do
you got, Frostburg?

Speaker 2 (09:08):
You know who's not coming on the show postgame? Who's
not coming on the show. The mere Gibbs there there
you go. Anyway, the guy that I immediately went to,
and it was a short lived things, a flash, and
certainly the touchdown number wasn't there, but was Jamal Charles
maybe a little bit preest homes for a bit before.
I mean, look all those guys then then fell apart

(09:30):
fairly quickly because back then you used him up in
college dues. They all had so they all and that
was the thing with Chris Johnson. You were wondering, like,
all right, where's that cliff based on the amount of
carries and touches he had year to year. But but yeah,
watching Jamiir Gibbs in this offense, it's really something special.
And then when David Montgomery comes in around the goal line,

(09:51):
everybody else pass come to throw a past.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Come on, what are you doing? What are you doing?
What we do here? Now the flip side of this,
here's here's your big take from tonight. Baker Mayfield has
stunk out loud tonight in this game. Now the Lions defense,
and clearly, why not right, why not start with the
bank forget about being a head coach. It is quite

(10:16):
clear that the Lions may have upgraded at defensive coordinator
off last year with Aaron Glenn. I mean, really, you
look at being a head coach like this is a
Lions team that's in the in the top ten overall
and yards and total yards and total defense, and and
they're in the top five as far as turnovers go.

(10:36):
They are getting the football. Look at the Jets. They
can't get any turnovers at all. The lead they have one, yeah,
turnover through seven weeks. Like it is clear, it's impressive
the Lions have upgraded defensively as as Aaron Glenn went
and took the head coaching job of the Jets, Like,
I think that's clear. You see how you see how
well their secondary is playing up on the.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Buck White side. Fantastic tonight.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
Now they are dinged up and and book back after
an injury ranches out right and Evan's got hurt, right,
So there is it is a thing. But they I
can't They are playing extremely well and look clearly that
that's a deal for the for the Lions because they've
upgraded with that without Aaron Glenn. Like Aaron Glenn may
not work again in the NFL after the Jets fire
man after this year. But how much money did he

(11:19):
make on that TikTok ba? I hope he get paid.
But Baker Mayfield really has been terrible tonight. He has
been off. He has been throwing the ball high all night.
Guys that are open. Tess Johnson is having a night
where it's like, my goodness, look at Test Johnson doing
having a night like this, and Baker Mayfield is throwing
everything five feet over.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Everybody's Well, he should have add a touchdown on their
last possession to make it a one score game. Uh,
and well he overshot him.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
He missed by four yards and he and he throws
it ten feet over his scraping across the end zone
wide open.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
Just need to lay it out and miss him entirely.
Oh for seven uh at last count on pass over
twenty yards and that seems to be rising up. And
now they're just teeing off on him. He's been hit repeatedly,
four sacks on the night. Number of knockdowns here coming
up late, just two fourteen on his forty nine attempts,

(12:14):
a touchdown and a pick.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
I mean, I want to give the Lions credit because
they are playing well, but this is just so uncharacteristic
from Baker Mayfield. I mean, everything is sailing like. He
looks like a guy that hasn't had real like, you know,
he looks like he looks like when a team has
to change quarterbacks early in the game because somebody gets
banged up, and here comes somebody without a lot of reps, okay,
and they're throwing the ball wild all over the field

(12:37):
like he's got guys that are open. This should not
be a twenty four to nine game. This should be
a close ish kind of game. But instead they're gonna
wind up. They're gonna wind up losing this game, and
not even in ten points, and it's gonna be what happened.
Baker Mayfield's gonna say I missed a lot of throws
in this game because he's missed guys, He's had chances,
he's held onto the ball too long, He's tripping in

(13:00):
the pocket and getting sacked like this is this is
the absolute worst game I've seen Baker Mayfield play in
quite a long time. Yeah, I mean, I don't know
the last time he's played this bad.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
I don't know if he's gonna go to the podium
and say he was seeing ghosts or hearing footsteps all
but he's been playing with a bit of happy feet
and sailing the ball, and I get it fight or
flight response, and everybody's gonna have an off night. This
is the first time that we've really seen them miss
Bucky Irving for a full game, right. There's been spots,

(13:30):
but Rashad White just ten of thirty eight. Now, the
fact that you get punched in the face early by
this Detroit offense certainly doesn't help matters. Jared Goff to
forty one at ice Pedestrian, steady as you go kind
of night.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
I don't know that second pick that kind of kept
the game Clubs. I'm like, Jared Goff, what did you
see on that man? What did you see, like that
was where the game could have been over end of
the first half, you're going up seventeen nothing. Instead the
Bucks get the ball back, kick a field goal, and
then the game is, you know, in doubt. I mean
it's not in doubt anymore. The Bucks go for it
on fourth down, can't get it. Two minute warning. Is
a twenty four to nine lead for Detroit.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
I'm on ross A Brown steady as they go six
eighty six and one. But when you look at Jamier
Gibbs all the way well exceeding the two hundred yard
total yard mark.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
So we'll have more on these games coming up. We
just kicked off in Seattle. Double things going on right
now in the city. I don't know, I don't know.
I got to think more people watching the Mariners.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
Oh yeah, absolutely, Maybe they don't even know the Seahawks. Look,
the over under was like forty and a half. Yeah,
they're watching the big dumper exit out out of Fresca
exit Swallen Dome. We'll have more on these games coming
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Speaker 1 (17:00):
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lead off walk for the Blue Jays, trailing three to
one the Mariners nine outs from the World Series, but
still one more time through the order for Toronto at least. Meanwhile,

(17:20):
Zach Charbonay touchdown run has the Seattle Seahawks up seven
to nothing over the Texans. Texans of the ball near
midfield midway through the first quarter. It is over, mercifully
for Baker Mayfield in Detroit the Lions when at twenty
four to nine we talked about it a few minutes ago,
Baker Mayfield looked absolutely awful. Tonight the lines defense looked tremendous.

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Speaker 3 (18:01):
Man?

Speaker 1 (18:01):
How are you?

Speaker 3 (18:02):
Hey? What's going on? Jess?

Speaker 2 (18:04):
What au so?

Speaker 1 (18:05):
I mean, busy night for you tonight? Would want to
bet like, what, yeah, did you have a bad Can
you actually bet Baker Mayfield sucking? Because you could do
that well. I would have bet that tonight.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
You could bet Baker Mayfield two passing touchdowns, which I
really needed. But the officials were intent on not let
that happen. I mean as sad as he was, like,
how are you not going to call that trip? So
now we're making up the rules as we go along.
What Big Brother is or isn't adjudicating? Like the Aughton
play gets double reversed. I've never seen that before in
my life. And then it's clear as day that that's

(18:36):
a trip. But Big Brother in New York, I mean what,
they're boozing it up. It's past bedtime. They got a
whole nother game. They need a butcher, Like what I mean,
make that makes sense? What now you know? Last Monday,
Jared Goff catches what everybody thinks a tough touchdown pass.
None of the officials, none of those bozos on the field,
of a problem with it. Right then they get told

(18:58):
you screw that up. Last night, McCaffrey gets dragged six
yards in for a touchdown that should have been a
ten yard penalty. They don't need to look at that.
But then you see what does get called that's clearly
not coming from the field. I don't know, man, I
think they've opened up quite a Pandora's box here, and

(19:18):
lord knows, the freckless billionaires won't actually pay competent people
to sit in New York City in the replay death
and the duty cake everything happening in all these games,
because they have to actually spend some resources on that.
But it's pretty dubious what is now being decided from

(19:40):
Big Brother and what's not.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
We know, it's funny you say, you know people you
know who know what they're doing football wise in New
York City, and that clearly is not the case after
what we saw yesterday for both teams. What'd you take
away from the Giants collapse? You know, I mean, there's
there's so many things you can say. I mean, that's
but just the fact that you see the numbers, it's
insane problem. That's a Jets thing to do. And the Giants, I.

Speaker 3 (20:05):
Mean, if not nobody's gone. I mean, what according to
the broadcaster, one six hundred and two instances of a
team being up by eighteen points or more than six
minutes to play the other one thousand, six hundred and
two all won the game, right, I I don't know, man,
Like I get that. You know, Dave All wants to

(20:25):
you know, he's going to go to ownership and say,
I'm developing the quarterback. But like quarterback was pretty well developed.
I mean, the quarterback is going to be a calling
card for any of the best and brightest minds to
want that Giants job. I don't know. I don't know
why they weren't running the ball. I don't know why
they didn't activate the quarterbacks legs when you know, you

(20:46):
got two cracks at five yards to pretty much win
that game, and they've got him throwing the ball in
the middle of the field. What was going on defensively
and how they allowed that collapse to happen and gave
up thirty three points in the quarter, giving up none
in forty five minutes. How they couldn't funnel more things
to the middle of the field. Like it's I mean,

(21:10):
it's honestly, statistically pretty much impossible, and that might be
a tough one for Dable to for them to shake
off as a young team and for Dable to outlive
because the momentum you could have built up there having
a signature win like that coming off from that eagle thing,

(21:31):
I think you could have really done wonders for them.
And now I don't know, man, there might be a
bit of a hangover from that one. But the quarterbacks
looks better than anybody could have flopped and maybe that
rules today, but I don't know, man, There's a lot
of people can coach quarterbacks. The head coach. You got

(21:53):
to be able to protect an eighteen point league with
which should have been a three possession game. Tops.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
The Giants bring in McDaniel and Glenn as their new coordinators.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
Yeah, you know, I don't know why McDaniels still has
a job. The everything I can think of is he
was Darren. You know he was Darren. Here's billionaire overlord
to fire him so he can go, you know, dress
up with his kids for Halloween and enjoy the holidays
and be home. And I think the owner is like,

(22:26):
now I'm not gonna I'm gonna make you, make you
play this out so I'm gonna make you wear this
and at some point they'll have to get around to
an interim. But I'm justin Ross didn't want to do
that for you know, over half the year. But it
is kind of dubious because they played twice in five days,

(22:47):
like they play Sunday and then they turn around and
host the Raiders. So the time to blow him out
would have probably been now. But obviously if it happened,
it's not going to be a till and you wouldn't
do it in a short week, so it won't be
until after that Ravens game and you'll have you know
whatever your nine days after that. So and then, yeah, Glenn,

(23:07):
that was looking like a want and gun man. Uh,
it just is no. I talked to some some gms,
some former gms about it, and the first six to
eight games, like, it's not gonna tell the the tail,
but it can be kind of telling. And this looks
like an overwhelmed situation. It's just it's just not professional grade. Uh,

(23:34):
and you know he's got half a season now to
make it professional grade or I am guessing what you
will move on?

Speaker 1 (23:43):
I completely agree. Look for the for the longest time,
look I loved him in the preseason, but I said, okay, well, obviously,
Mike McDaniel, that's a tire fire. That's where it's not okay.
That's just a question of when. But like Aaron Glennam,
I'm saying, okay, so and here's and here's where you
can where you can say all right. It's it's too
much for him, like he's in over his head. He
apologized after last week when the Jets didn't throw a

(24:05):
hail Mary for the final play of the first half
on the fourth down. Look, I should have done that.
I'll do that last night. Same thing yesterday, same thing.
End of the first half. Okay, could call a time
out with one second left, the Jets are at midfield. No,
let's get off the field, and he says, ah, I
wanted to get to the locker room. Didn't want to
have any bad plays.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
Man.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
I'm like, what's going on? Man? What's going on? This
is clearly where the job is too much for here.
And some people are head coaches, some people aren't. But wow,
and if the Jets are gonna finish with a you know,
the worst record, they're gonna pick a quarterback and you're
not gonna trust Aaron Glenn to come in and say,
okay with this offensive system with justin fields and taking

(24:41):
football back seventy years by running the ball like He's
not gonna be the guy in charge of getting the
team back next year when you're taking Fernando Mendoza or
Dante Moore number one overall?

Speaker 3 (24:54):
Yeah, I mean I would. And look when you do
look at the coaches that they are quick to punt
on and who gets multiple years and who gets one
and done or who does a tremendous job as an

(25:15):
interim and then still doesn't get the job. It's overwhelmingly
African American coaches. It's just a fact to put the
numbers on it. They have been historically viewed by this
league has more quickly disposable than their white counterparts. And
I think this can be heading in that direction.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
Jason locking forward, guess here, Fox Sports Radio, Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
All right, as we get did they finish the line here?
In Week seven? Big bye week with six teams next week?
Who's the best team in the NFC?

Speaker 3 (25:49):
Oh boy, I mean, I don't know how good any
of these teams are truly. I mean, you want to
about recency bias. I mean it might be Detroit. I

(26:09):
think it probably, you know, is Detroit, Green Bay. I
can't quite figure them out. I thought they'd be great,
and maybe they still will be, but it's certainly been.
They play with their food, I mean everything, everything is
a struggle with them. I mean out of the West.

(26:31):
I think it's the Rams, and look, it might be
you know, it might be the Rams. And that was
a tough little wicket that they navigated here, having to
stay east for basically two weeks and play in London.
I think it's probably destroyed the ramps.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
There was activity in mid October at Camden Yards though,
so that was good.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
Yes, Yes, we had Matt Stafford on the mound throwing
a football, so that was that was good. That was good,
all right. So you won't be seeing any Orioles pitchers
doing that anytime?

Speaker 1 (27:06):
No, no, no, no, probably not probably not no, probably,
but you could have Stafford start opening day? Why not?

Speaker 3 (27:13):
I'd be into it.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
Hey. So, speaking of you know, Baltimore back from the
bye still o Lamar Jackson to practice? When do you
think we see him next?

Speaker 3 (27:24):
Well, better be Wednesday. I mean, if he doesn't practice Wednesday,
then you got big proud. I mean, today was sort
of a glorified walk through kind of day, not like
a full blown practice. Remember they're coming off of bye,
so the normal, you know, real NFL work week is
Wednesday Thursday. It's certainly not ideal, though, I mean, you'd

(27:44):
think you'd want him out there for anything, you do,
considering the importance from this game at one in five,
and considering you are coming off of bye. And yeah,
I mean they need him to be a miracle worker here,
and he has that ability certainly, but he's working with
a less than full deck with what's around him right

(28:06):
now as an offensive line, what's around him right now
as an entire defensive game in some part special teams,
and Lamar with a soft tissue issue as much as
he had to run. Remember he's act Kentuck before he
even suffered this injury. Uh, you know that that could
be suboptimal.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
All right, as we're finishing the week, let's rewind it
back to Thursday night. Was it wasn't it fun watching
a couple of forty year old's slip all around?

Speaker 3 (28:35):
Pretty wild? Right?

Speaker 6 (28:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (28:40):
I mean the flat thing really is is bonkers. Like
you know, he looked pretty washed in Cleveland and just
ches to show you that you get some you get
some real talent around you and uh, you know you
you you get a chance to sort of air it
out there a little bit. I don't know what's going
on with Pittsburg's defense. That that defensive looks horrible. I

(29:01):
thought it would be this strenk for that team. And yeah,
I mean, look, you got to give Rogers flight Flocko
a little extra come to operate. But when you do,
they can still they will cut you, cut you up.
That was that was pretty wild. And that division. I
mean again, I don't know that any of these teams
are particularly good, but somebody's got to win it. And

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it's going to be interesting with all the subplots there.
I mean, the only team that Slato hasn't played for
in the division is Pittsburgh. And the way Mike Tomlin
was talking about that trade, I think Mike Tomlin, you know,
Mike Comin stays in Pittsburgh next year and Aaron Rodgers
retires till Clocko might be their starting quarterback.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
He's on Twitter at Jason Locking for That's at Jason
Locking for all the latest on Wanna Bett is there
as well. Honesty one O five seven the fan in Baltimore,
Washington Post Jays always buddy, appreciate it. Man. We'll talk
to you next week.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
Thanks, guys, see you Jays would be good.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Great stuff there from Jason and Lock and for and
Meanwhile the Seahawks maybe the yin and yang of what
it means to be a Seattle sports fan. Jackson Smith
the jigma in the end zone eleven yard touchdown catch
from Sam Darnold. The Seahawks lead fourteen to nothing over
the Texans. I say this because of what just happened

(30:24):
in Major League Baseball and special delivery. Steve de Sager
has the latest on that right now. Steve, I know
I warned the entire city what you're gonna say to
start things off?

Speaker 7 (30:36):
Oh my, George Springer has hit a three run homer
in the bottom of the seventh at Toronto, and the
Blue Jays have the lead in Game seven of the
American League Championship Series, four to three, Toronto, end of
seven on Fox TV the Seattle Mariners as soon as
John Morosi tweeted out the Mariners are nine outs away

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from the World Series. I've had none of all it's
his fault.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
Don't do that.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
Sure enough.

Speaker 7 (31:04):
The club that has never made the World Series may
still never have made the World Series. Six outs to
go till Toronto hosts Game one of the World Series
Friday nights against the Dodgers. Chris bass At, a starter,
is coming on in relief. Kevin Gosman, a starter, pitched

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the last inning, walked three but did not allow a run.
Shane Bieber was the starter for tonight's Game seven for
the home team. He was pulled in the fourth inning
to run seven hits allowed. The Mariners did use their
all star pitcher Brian wo for two and a third
in relief. He just returned to the roster and pitched
in relief. Recently, he'd been out four weeks with pectoral inflammation.

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As soon as he came out with two men aboard,
reliever Edward Bizardo, who in the regular season was good,
allowed the three to one bomb to left center Springer,
the hero. So far four to three Toronto in the
top of the eight. Toronto the best team in the
majors in comeback wins this year. As for the NFL,
yes two games tonight and at Seattle, it is a

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lead for the Seahawks at the end of one fourteen
to nothing over the Houston Texans. Zach Sharman a one
yard touchdown run, Sam Darnold a TD pass of eleven
yards to Jackson Smith and Jigba one first down in
the first quarter for the Houston Texans.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
What good is that?

Speaker 3 (32:26):
Not good?

Speaker 1 (32:27):
That's not good? Five yards five.

Speaker 7 (32:29):
In the first and in other words, they're doing their
Tampa Bay Bucks impersonation. Detroit beat the Bucks twenty four
to nine. Detroit led fourteen three at a half. At
the time, the yardage advantage was two seventy five to
fifty eight, but there had been two turnovers each, so
it was still a game. Jamior Gibbs put it away.
Seventeen carries, one hundred and thirty six yards for the Lions,

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two scores on the ground, plus three receptions for eighty
two yards. Tampa Bay wide receiver Mike Evans just returned
after his hamstring injury. He left in the second quarter
with a concussion and shoulder injury. There are two reports
that it's a possible collarbone injury that could take him
out long term this season. Washington says quarterback Jaden Daniels

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hamstring injury is not significant, but they don't know if
he'll play next Monday at Kansas City. Defensive end Brandon
Graham will sign with Philadelphia tomorrow, coming out of retirement.
Jets defensive back Sauce Gardner is in concussion protocol. Saints
running back Hendry Miller is out for the year with
a torn acl Panthers quarterback Bryce Young is out this

(33:32):
week with a high ankle sprain. Police say former Bucks
running back Doug Martin died in custody last weekend after
a break in at a home in Oakland. They were
attempting to detain him. Martin's agent says tonight the former
running back battled mental health challenges.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
A reminder.

Speaker 7 (33:48):
The World Series starts Friday night on Fox TV. It
could be the Dodgers on the road in Canada. Top
of the Eighth, one out four, Three Blue Jays over Seattle.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
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(34:19):
way again, the Blue Jays five outs away from the
World Series. But straight ahead, we got the Play of
the day. And you know what, Mike Harmon asked such
a big question at Jason Locking for a couple of
minutes ago. We're gonna break that down coming up next.
The answer to this question will surprise you, Jason and
Mike Fox Meers.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Toronto lead Seattle four to three, nobody out,
bottom of the eighth thing, Blue Jay's three outs away
from the first World Series since nineteen ninety three. Meanwhile,

(35:04):
a fourteen nothing lead for the Seattle Seahawks you're giving
you get with Seattle, seems like a much bigger deficit
for the Texan dine it. We got some bigger stuff
coming up majorly in the NFL in a couple of minutes.
But first we have the Play of the day. The
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When when you have a night like Jamiir Gibbs, does
you get to be the play of the night?

Speaker 3 (35:53):
Right?

Speaker 6 (35:53):
Up?

Speaker 2 (35:53):
That got there? Ghost Gibbs foot race? Why real tank
kept there?

Speaker 1 (36:00):
St Lions? There was ESPN on the call the Lions
beat the Tampa Bay Bucks twenty four to nine and
joining us. Now I'm the hot line Lions linebacker Jack Campbell,
Jack congrants on the wind man. How you doing so?

Speaker 6 (36:16):
Thank you sir. I'm doing fantastic. I'm ready to go
home and lay on the couch. Though, after that, what
was it like the nineteen play driver at the end
of the game.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
Yeah, it just kept going. But you guys standing up strong.

Speaker 6 (36:31):
You gotta do what you gotta do.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
At one point during that drive where you're like, Okay,
I just want to get off the field. I just
want to go off the field.

Speaker 6 (36:39):
I mean, and I don't think that when I'm on
the field, but now, like looking back, I'm like, I
cannot wait to go home and just show out what
does that do? When I'm on the field, I go,
however many players I gotta go.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
Yeah, but you know, you come off the field and
you look around, it's like, not off do you get
a drive of that length that comes away with zero points?
That's kinda feel.

Speaker 6 (36:58):
Yeah, that was a yeah, that was huge. I mean
definitely when I came off the side of against the water,
but uh yeah, that was just It's just a testament
to all the guys on the on the defense, just
playing for each other. Everyone's given everything they had and
I just couldn't be more proud and thankful to be
part of the Lion so well, I'll.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
Tell you Jack Baker Mayfield has been phenomenal since he
since he came into Tampa this year. He's one of
the top MVP candidates. He was terrible tonight. What did
you guys do to him tonight? There was able to
have such an effective night.

Speaker 6 (37:31):
I have a lot of respect for that player. He's
just so good and he can hurt in so many
different ways. But I really feel like we just took
the element, tried to make him one dimensional. I'm trying
to make him throw in a tight windows and ultimately
we did that. I feel like we did that at
high level and kind of led to the result. But
I almost respect for him and their organization.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
They do think is the right way, and it shows
that's certainly how the outside world is looking at you
guys right now looking at that unit coming together, a
little bit of a step back against Kansas City, but
right back against the top notch offense. What is it
about this this unit at this point coalescing mid mid
point of the season.

Speaker 6 (38:12):
I feel like that's the thing about nowadays, just with
the media and everything, is we try to blow things
out of proportion them But at the same time that's
about life. Well, you're gonna have setbacks, adversity, things that
obviously don't go your way. Not everything going to be
perfect all the time, but just how you respond. Do
you just continue to do the little things every single day,

(38:34):
chip away, do the things that just take self discipline,
self control, and just it'll show. But you can't just
sit there and cry when things aren't going anywhay. You
just got to work. And I feel like that's what
we what we do here, and we embody it and
I'm just going to continue to do it.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
So now you said in body, continue to do it.
The NFL put out a memo the other day about
punch outs and you know, punching out the ball and missing,
and you said, blankets, screw it. If I miss it,
I missed, they got pads on. Will you say that
all tonight and anything going through after the first game, after.

Speaker 6 (39:07):
That memo came out, you know, I just wasn't thinking
about it at all. I'm definitely like, you got to
be smart through out there. When the guy goes down,
you can't just like launch on him. So that's something
that I feel like I sometimes have to control myself
doing because I kind of I don't know, I tend
to do that a lot, but I'm not going to
change how to play. But I just need to continue

(39:28):
to remember that and the guy's down, I'm gonna continue
to punch the ball and if they the flag, they
say the flag. But I'm gonna be smart about my punctions.

Speaker 3 (39:37):
There's no ill intent.

Speaker 6 (39:38):
I'm just trying hard and I'm just trying to see
my job.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
Jack, how about you have an advantage does it give
you going up on Sundays after trying to tackle Jamiir
Gibbs all week could chase Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (39:49):
I'll just say he's not the easiest one to face
the garden land the man and to tackle on the whole.
So it makes uh, it makes some days just a.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
Little bit easier, Jack, cam Lions lying back, and thanks
so much for stopping by with us. Enjoyed tonight.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
Whether you get Buddy's pizza delivered or not, you know, great,
I don't know, appreciate you stopping by. Jack, Congratulations, I
love how we just started.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
Hey, guys, I'm tired.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
I can't wait to go get a nineteen point drive.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
Man, dude, I'm really tired. Man as well. Let you
know right away, because that's the thing.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
They were on the field a lot. Yeah, you know,
for a twenty four to nine game, and you say, hey,
they shut down, they moved the ball, and then they
they backed up, they boned up when they needed to,
and big plays downfield. Baker Mayfield struggling all night and
hearing footsteps. I think the Bucks had more plays tonight
than Mayfield had passing yards. I think they had over

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one hundred and fifty plays and Mayfield through for about
one hundred year didn't That's about where it was. I mean, look,
incredible night by the Lions and and look, honestly, yeah,
they've clearly traded up off of last year defend. Now, look,
they do have Aiden Hutchinson back who got her in
the middle of last year, and that was a big thing.
For the end of last year, they were really a
mass unit defensively, so but.

Speaker 1 (41:05):
You can just see there's something different about them, the
attitude wise they have this year. And we'll get to
a big, big topic with the Lions coming up in
a few minutes. Wanted to jump in. We had Jack
Campbell on the line and talked to him. But I mean,
you could tell that they just have something a little
bit different, whether it's a prove it quality, which can
be a really good thing, and that hey, our coordinators

(41:26):
left for what they thought were going to be brighter
past years. They took it personal against against Johnson when
they only played against him, and now here they are.
The defenses playing this way almost was like the challenge.
Maybe the Lions needed to keep things fresh a little bit.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
Get this two hundred and fifty one total yards of
offense sixty six plays.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
Wow, that's all sixty six plays. That's all that more
than one hundred and sixty.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
So that's why I went back to check it. I'm like, now,
it seemed like they were on the field a lot more.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
Coming up next, we'll tell you who the two best
teams in the NFL are and then not who you
think Fox Days in the seventh thing gives them a
four to three lead, they hold on to win. So
now Game one of the World Series in Canada in
Toronto on Friday night, Blue Jays and the Dodgers get
going in four days.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
Long time ago was too nothing the other way, heading
back to Seattle, and oh that's predestined. Here we go.
Hold on, hold my beer, as the kids would say,
two home runs each, Springer the big blow and then
Julio Rodriguez with a full count waves at a pitch
way off the plate.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
Yeah, to finish this one off. Look, we'll get to
the Blue Jays in a second. But for the Mariners,
you just feel, because this is a team that goes
into Toronto wins the first two, comes home, the series
should be over right.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
I mean, this is a historically that's the game.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
This is a huge choke by the Mariners, right because
you're going, Okay, you win the first two games and
you go on the road. Okay, the series is still
going or so, but you win the first two on
the Even though Major League Baseball has the the home
field has the smallest impact of all the big games,
right because you see the way officiating and the way

(43:10):
bench plays in in the NBA, and and and clearly
the way officiating and things happen in the NFL. But
it's still you're going home up to Zip, and and
that should be it.

Speaker 7 (43:21):
Man.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
You just gotta win. You gotta win two out of
the out of the next five, and you play three
of those games at home. You play the next three
even if you drop one, Okay, well we dropped one, No,
they dropped the first two. Like this, I mean, this
is where for Seattle, Like Seattle fans are gonna say, okay,
now every day they get to wake up and think,
we really should have given the ball to marsha and

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on the goal line. And now they got to think
we came home up to Zip in the ALCS and
we couldn't find a way to close it down. To
go to the World Series. We couldn't find a way
to do that. Every day Seattle fans wake up just
like grounded wake up. Hit the alarm clock thing they hear,
I got you, babe with Sonny and share ding ding,
I got you, hold me time, No, che Ola Marshawan
can't believe we blew a two zip lead going home. Yep,

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now we got a new one to make it on
the metal stand.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
Fourth time in twenty eight series in Major League Baseball
history that a team's come back from two to hero
after dropping those first two games at home. So somewhat historic,
which is the way it has to be, considering the
way the Dodgers finished off the Brewers on Friday night
in the Shoho Tani Game of Games, that it comes

(44:29):
to this, And and for Dodger fans, I know they're
already starting to tweet a lot about who hit that
home run to send them the World Series. An old
friend in George Springer, Yeah, we're not gonna hear it
for a while because they got to edit it and
take the garbage can banging out of the beginning.

Speaker 1 (44:44):
Yeah, that's gonna be a real thing.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
That's gonna make people think the Homann wasn't also think yeah,
yeh yeah, think you hit it without that.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
I know, I thought somebody just yelled you. I thought
somebody just yelled out the pitch to him.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
Have I, well, who's it?

Speaker 1 (44:58):
It's a fastball, you know?

Speaker 2 (45:00):
With that well, I mean you could do the way
Aaron Judge was doing on the base paths and and
give all sorts of jet hand gestures and stuff about
the pitch that to come.

Speaker 1 (45:08):
I mean, this is really tough. I mean, you think
about a whole city sports fans that think about those
two things. Gotta be honest. You can't come home and
lose a serio like I almost felt like did Seattle
lose focus? Like they came home almost like it was
gonna be a party atmosphere, like Hey, we're coming home
and we're just gonna go out there and the Blue
Jays are gonna roll over. And they didn't. Right, I

(45:28):
mean that like that, That's that's something where you have
to look back and go if you're not gonna win,
if you're not gonna go to the World Series, when
you come home after winning the first two games, when
are you gonna go? When are you gonna go win?

Speaker 3 (45:40):
Right?

Speaker 1 (45:40):
When do you when's that? No, we didn't do it there,
but there's been when are you gonna go to.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
The world still waiting for that first appearance? And now
they went back in game one, three to one, victory,
Game two ten three, okay, demoralizing, right, did but then
you give up a total of what do we got?
Twenty one runs in the next two games, and those
beats came alive. He saw it in game six and

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now here here we are. It's just absolutely insane.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
Again. Just moments ago, the Toronto Blue Jays going to
the World Series. They beat Seattle four to three. And
I gotta tell you this story, right, okay, because this
is this is crazy.

Speaker 3 (46:19):
Now.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
I remember I told you about the night of the
National Championship game in college football that one of my
best friends, his brother in law, that the family lost
everything in the in the Palisades fires, and he had
that bet. He made this four legged parlay bet in
the in the beginning of last so the beginning of
last year, not like the beginning so like in spring

(46:39):
of last year. He bet like a like an English
Premier League game and something else, something else, and he
bet Notre Dame winning the National championship, Like he bet
that in like April, right, and that was the last leg.
I came all the way down to the end and
Notre Dame loses, you know, but he he could have
won like like fifty thousand dollars, right, it was a
whole big thing. He's got another bet. He made another

(46:59):
bet this year, and the last thing is the Blue
Jay is winning the world. I'm not lying to it.
I'm not lying to it. I mean, I go, I
go over. He's just I gotta know what his I
gotta know what his bet is now, Like before you
got to tell me this. You can't just tell me
it's like in the middle of the summer. Well, but
if he told you in.

Speaker 2 (47:18):
The middle of summer, you still have plenty of time
to get on board because the East was a mess, but.

Speaker 1 (47:22):
It was still pretty good. But at that point, though,
I'm not I'm like, Okay.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
You're got getting monsterized, but you're still getting you're still profiting. No,
you hit it. Best bet right now is the cash
out absolutely hundred percent? Yeah yah, But but it's the
old one thumb. Is is a dime worth worth Mortian.
If you know it's a sure thing, bet you know,
two dollars to two ten is it worth the press?

Speaker 1 (47:45):
And it was a crazy bet. It was what it
was like those it was like I bet something. I
think he bet something like with Wrexham, and I think
he bet something in like in like the nws L
because he's a big he's a big soccer guy. Then
he did something in football, and then the Blue Jays
like going to the World heies like in the spring,
he bet the Blue Jays is the last leg and
I'm like, okay. Now, I'm like, okay, I want to

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know what he's betting the beginning of the year. What's
that last leg? Because if the last leg was last spring,
no tre Dame winning the National Championship, getting that close,
and now the Blue Jays getting to the World Series.
Now it's like, dude, you got come on you. Whatever
he decides next spring, you tell me and I take
all is always college money and put it on that
last leg.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
Bet bet bet bet bet bet bet bet. All Right,
we'll keep an eye on what the Well Series odds
will be for the World Series here as we move forward.

Speaker 1 (48:34):
Now, before we get to that, I mean, I want
to say this because I was really upset tonight because
I thought I had a great stat for Steve Desager.
I had a Sarah Lang stat the great researcher Sarah
langs and you're Steve said, that is uh, that is
her working title. Yeah, the Mets just celebrated her at
the end of the year. That had a big day
for her at one of the games.

Speaker 2 (48:52):
Is awesome, beloved baseball figure. For those unawares.

Speaker 1 (48:55):
I I heard an incredible Sarah langstat on the way
into work, and I go, I'm gonna come out. I
walk in. I walk in to Steve de Saga's Upstate
Update studio, like the you know the Vince McMahon gifts
when he's walking in like it or LeVar ball walk Oh, like, hey,
I got the best Sarah Lang stat for you major
League Baseball wise. You want it now, I'm going to
tell you when we go on the air. He goes, oh, no, no,
save it for the air, save it for the ire. Okay,

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he goes. He says, are you sure I don't know it?
I go, well, I just heard it. He goes, Okay.
I said, have you gotten any good Sarah langstats in
the last twenty four hours? He goes, oh, well, just
the one and he puts his hands out and I go,
it's the same stat you know it, And clearly he did.
Because think about this.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
Can you start waving at the air like he was
doctor Strange something.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
One of fourteen million we win?

Speaker 3 (49:37):
Right?

Speaker 1 (49:37):
This tell me this is the one? Uh is that
you think about this? Because frostburing here, obviously your bet
is to cash out at this point, right, because I
think he can win like like forty grand with this
bet if it makes it through, so we can cash
out for whatever.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
It is to get a decent return.

Speaker 6 (49:50):
Right.

Speaker 1 (49:50):
Dodgers be overwhelming favorites, right, they line up their pitching staff,
everybody gets rest, right, and you got snell Yamamoto and
Glassnow and Otani. Four times in me League Baseball history
has one league championship series had a sweep and the
other one go to seven games? Okay, four times since
since the lcs's have gone to seven games. Okay since

(50:12):
so we're talking about modern baseball. It's been a long time,
but that's been going on. So four times one league
had to sweep, one league went to seven games. Right,
So what do we have this year? Dodgers sweep the Brewers,
Blue Jays beat the Mariners in seven. All four times,
all four times the team that went seven games won
the World Series, including the Dodgers in nineteen eighty eight.

(50:37):
Right right, that great? I'm like, thanks for bringing that up. Yeah, great,
because I don't have to remember that the Mets gacking
that away to the Dodge, the greatest Dodger year ever.
But all four times the Blue that the team that
won seven, they won, and seven won the World Series.
So clearly that history in math is on the Blue
Jays side right now? Well, you know us, we love
math here, even if it's a little bit fuzzy.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
How to get on board? Plus one eighty are the
Blue Jays to win the series? At one point, you
could have gotten them to win the AL at thirty
to one.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
Now, I will say this about that stat. Right, the
World Series is not starting until Friday. There's gonna be
a long time out. Dodgers have a week off, but
the Blue Jays are gonna have a decent amount of
time off. This is not gonna be one day and
then we play the next game. The schedule was much
more condensed back then. Now they don't care if we're
finishing in November.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
Hey, they're ruining Friday night football for the high schools.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
How dare they're finishing in November? We don't care. Look,
I tell you the big Beano cook line. He always
to tell me one day they're gonna be playing Game
seven of the World Series on Thanksgiving and it's gonna
be on opposite the Cowboys and nobody's gonna watch. Right,
those is always a big line. Games are right, like
the schedule to finish in November, right this kids, the
world turns are till Friday. That blunts whatever momentum the

(51:53):
Blue Jays are gonna bring into the World Series. Because
the last time thing you want to do after seven
games is we want a day off. No, we want it.
We want we want time off. We want a day
then we want to play Game one. We're feeling great, right,
Vlad Guerrero has twenty hits in the playoffs. He's hitting
five hundred in the playoffs. Right, everybody is hitting well,
they're all they're all crushing the ball. The last thing

(52:14):
they want is three days off and then you're home
for Game one. Okay, I get it. You're home for
Game one and that's great, but that's the last thing
you want. So I the momentum that they have coming
in coming off of this, and the Dodgers rust versus
Uh being able to play that blunts it. So the
only thing I kept thinking about the Dodgers. Boy, they're
going to get a bounce a little bit in the
World Series. They're pitching X, Y, and Z, and I

(52:37):
know it's going to become a fashionable pick to pick
the Blue Jays. But with those three days off and
obviously the Dodgers needing that rest, they're starting pitching now
can go as long as you need him to go. U. Yeah,
it's hard for me to see where I can see
the Blue Jays coming in with all that momentum, especially
the way Blake Snell is pitching. Because of all the
Dodgers pitchers, the guy I think is most U October

(52:58):
proof to hey, have a bad game. I could see
last Don't having a bad game. I could see Yamamoto
having a bad name.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
I can start.

Speaker 1 (53:05):
I can see Otan look as great as Otani's. I
could see Otani have a ban. Is there any way
I can see Blake Snell not coming in Friday night
and just throwing absolute bebies. No, I can't see that. So, yeah,
you want to look at the way for the Blue Jays.
Hard for me to see that.

Speaker 2 (53:20):
Yeah, we'll keep an eye on, uh the the odds
as they roll through, but certainly those those early series
odds are out there. But you know, when we talk
about momentum, the you know, ride the wave, winners of
four or five. But the Dodgers were cruising along even
without their big bats really coming through in big spots
uh Otani obviously with the giant punctuation mark in the

(53:40):
Championship Series. But it's all a reset, right, It's the
next pitcher up and what they have on a given
day is all that matters. What we've seen from Blake
Snell since he was activated mid season. It's one of
the great advantages to where the Dodgers are. Some of
these guys have very fresh arms, and hopefully for Dave Roberts,

(54:02):
you don't have to go to the Bengo card of
the bullpen. Management too often exit out about a Fresco
exit swollen dome. The Blue Jays are into the World Series.
How did the final out sound with Jay Rod waving
at that breaking pitch out of the strike zone. It
sounded like this on the Blue Jays Radio network, fold
count two outs top of the nine, Game seven of

(54:23):
the Alcs Puffin's payoff pitch. The Blueensays win the Pennets.
The Blue Jays win the Pennects. They're going to the
World Series.

Speaker 1 (54:36):
It's so good we must betwe man. What's a lot
of Blue Jays bump down, knock up the Mariners and
they will.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
Take on the La Dodters.

Speaker 3 (54:48):
So there was.

Speaker 1 (54:49):
The Blue Jays are going. The party is happening right
now on the field in Toronto. Now we have three
days to take a look at a very blue world series.
Blue will be everything blue and white and a tiny
bit of red like that's that's okay, That's that's the colors.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
Any chance one of them. Unveils are really ridiculous, And
by ridiculous, I mean really cool alternate uniform.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
Yea like a glow in the dark the Doctor whatever
show How Tani designs for the World Series. The Dodgers
one icually does No. I can that that's all it's
gonna be. It's gonna be it's in there and instead
of the Dodgers logo, it's gonna be decoy on the front.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
I'd buy that jersey. It's gonna be decoy, but in

Speaker 1 (55:27):
The Dodgers font with the you know, the ballgog, just
the D, the big D and the decoy