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Jason and Mike are talking about the World Series. Longtime NFL Insider Jason La Canfora stops by to put a bow on Week 9. Brian Kelley is out at LSU. And Jason explains the mystique of watching Shohei Ohtani!

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are at a big sports Equinox day, just a thirty
second day ever, all four major sports in action at
the same time. And speaking of action at Chavez Ravine
right now, a play that happened about forty seconds ago.
Show Hey Otani who already had a double and a

(01:15):
home run tonight, Dodgers down four to two to the
Blue Jays. In the bottom of the fifth inning, doubles
to the wall in left center to bring in Keike Hernandez.
That makes it a four to three game. Otani at second,
one out. Max schurzread exited the game, and you know,
Blue Jays go, well, we want to bring in the
left you to pitch to Otani. Yeah, that didn't really matter.

(01:35):
So here's Mooki betch with the chance to tie the game.
Here again.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Otani now two doubles in a home run tonight. It
is his first opposite field hits since September twentieth, so
you know he's been trying to pull the ball a
ton So we have a game right now again one out,
top of the bottom of the fifth inning. Still a
long way to go here for to three. Blue Jays
lead the Dodgers seventy seventh at bat. They said, yeah,

(01:58):
since that last.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
But he got to second base and he was standing
there and he started bellowing like he was the road warrior,
said what rush two? As you said, he had the
double in the home run off Sureser. So he said,
we're not gonna let him get back at him again.
Let's bring in the left he flu hardy ah, oh wait,
didn't work. That hurts the matter. Can he throw it
from forty feet away instead of sixty feet six inches?

(02:21):
Maybe that would work? Like he is, Otani is on
an absolute heater right now. I wonder how much people
are just clipping off all the negative pub that there's
been about him in clutch situations or whatever. He seems
to be wearing that a lot more the last.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Dave Roberts like emails it to him every day, like
the spam account.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
No, just keep printing that. It's like we're well over budget.
You can't keep printing him in color. I don't care.
Keep him going. It seems to fuel him.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
The biggest play from this game, as we break things down,
it was a two to nothing Dodger lead, top of
the fourth inning, runner at first, one out, and a
what could have been a double play grounder to Tommy
Edmond at second base. Now, Bishett runs, Okay, he's not
incredibly fast, but right now he's hobbled, so it's a

(03:07):
step stone. Yeah, but it looked like it could have
been a double play. But the ball goes under Tommy
Edmund's glove instead of at least two outs in a runner.
At first, you're talking about maybe a double play. One
battle later on Hunter Kirk's home run, a three run
jack that gives the Blue Jays a three to two lead.
They put up another run in that inning off of

(03:27):
Tyler Glass, knowing, look, this is what's crazy about Major
League baseball. Just one play can just change so many
different things. And here's a game that was two nothing,
the Dodgers were winning, and all of a sudden it's
three to two because the ball goes under Tommy Edmunds glove.
And I'll tell you what. You can find this on
Twitter at how about a Fresco findal out of the
fourth inning when Tyler Glass now finally gets out of it,

(03:49):
strikes gets a strikeout to end the inning, and it
looks like he is staring Daggers at Tommy Edmond at
second base on his way off the mound like that
this is not a striket. It looks like he definitely stopped,
takes a second to look out at Tommy emm in
a second, going, man, you screwed me on that. Now.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Clearly, hey he gave up the home run, gave up too.
But it's just like that's kind of Tyler Glass.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, but that's the thing, right, that's him, right, the emotion,
and we've I don't know that there's a guy on
the Dodgers that's gotten more poison, pen ink and vitriolic
rants against him. Everybody else gets flowers no matter how
poorly you play, no how it matter how long and
prolonged your funks are at the plate or on the mound. Uh,

(04:33):
that guy has worn it like from everybody in town.
So that going didn't give it up the home run.
It just reminds me of the Cubs meltdown after the
Bartman incident going on. It's like, Okay, the guy didn't
turn the double play. Normally a sure handed shortstop Gonzales
doesn't make that play. You got prior on the mound
kind of jumping up and down. It's like, no, no, no,

(04:55):
shut up and make a pitch. Same thing with Glass
now here, you got the next batter to fly out. Yeah,
like in theory, you got yourself composed, and then you
give up the home run and you're still gonna glare
at him. No, no, no, that plays gone, yeah, that plays
you know fifty you know, three minutes ago, five minutes ago.
Whatever the lapsed time was like, get over yourself and
make a pitch.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Now, let me just say this as well before again
because we had an update from this game. Is that
two things that worried me about the Dodgers coming into
the World Series, Right, we talked about the first thing
a lot, right, the bounce the Dodgers starting pitching staff
is gonna get. They're not gonna pitch like they did
in the NLCS. You're just not going to keep that up.
And the Blue Jays lineup is much better than the
Brewers lineup. But I said, defensively, the Dodgers are not good.

(05:37):
And Edmund, who's one of their more short handed guys,
this is a killer of an air, an absolute killer
of an error for him because again this flips the
game from two nothing to three to two really to.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Four to two. Right, that's that's that's a six run swing.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
That's like, well, there's a twelve point swinger, you know,
the touchdown on the other end, but the pitch six
going the other way, that is a six run swing.
Because Tommy Edmond doesn't get up, that goes under his
glove and it's not even a play that you could say, well,
it was really hard like he's got to make that.
He's gonna turn, gonna get the out at second, and
maybe it's a relay back to first for double play.
That is a six run swing. The two things Dodger

(06:14):
pitching staff, Dodger defense, and here we are. However, it
is now a brand new game in the bottom of
the fifth inning, and the Blue Jays are going to
the bullpen again. I think Mike Timlin is coming in.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Wow. After Mookie Betts flew out to shallow left field,
Freddie Freeman doubles down the line in right field to
bring in show Hao Tani with the game tying run.
And so now time out on the field right now,
as the Blue Jays going to the bullpen again, the
Dodgers blue Jays now tied at four a piece in

(06:45):
the bottom of the fifth inning. Every we've had, we've
had all kinds of base running gaffs. Freeman makes a
base running gaff earlier, Bashitt makes a big base running
gaff in the second inning. This game has been absolutely
bonker so far up and it's not been great baseball,
but it's been fun. It's been exciting. It's I can't
believe this, Oh my goodness, you got Otani with three
hits already, and he's got two doubles in a home run,

(07:07):
and it's five to five in the fourth inning, and
the fifth inning like this, it's four to four and
the fifth inning. Rather, this is it.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
You know, Look, I look at this game and I go, man,
it's like seeing the first great half of a movie,
where you're like, oh, this is I can't wait see
what the second half is.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
Now.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Usually the second half disappoints, but I hope it not
for the last four innings of this game.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yeah, we've watched a lot of movies in the last
couple of years, or that third act falls apart. But
I mean, what's funny is this game started within about
what five minutes of the kickoff of Monday night football
with the Chiefs and the Commanders.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
That football game is going to be long over. Oh ye,
baseball game. They'll be doing press conferences and everything.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
I mean, they're already down inside of five minutes in
the third quarter. That's how fast that first half went.
Bunch of turnovers. That game's been wild just the same way,
a bunch of things. I don't know that I saw it.
They just had a great shot of the watch party
in Japan, people with their noise makers and losing their minds.
As Otani round and third and scored the tying run.

(08:02):
But yeah, just just an insane sequence, no question about it.
I mean, this is nearly a two hour game in
the bottom of the fifth inning. This is like those
old Yankee Red Sox ALCS games. That's fine, Just you
lock yourself in for four and a half hours, because
you know that's how long it's gone. It's not gonna
take Yes, yeah, we'll be four and a half hours
in the Alcs. Don't worry. Cut to a dancing rob Manford.

(08:24):
We got extra adspot. This is great. They're gonna keep
going to the bullpen and we're gonna get to run
more commercials. Yeah to ching ching chi ching.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
So the Blue Jays get out of the bottom of
the fifth inning, however, we go to the top of
the six. It is a brand new game four to four,
Game three of the World Series.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
You know the stats.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
The winner of game three in a series tied one one,
incredible advantage to win the World Series. So four innings.
Everything is brand new. We've had mistakes, we've had big plays,
we've had big hits, yeah, none of that matters anymore,
and it matters what happens from here on out because
all that that that's in the way back machine.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
I was laughing when we h speaking the way back machine.
I think Sherman and Peabody is a popular Halloween costume
this year, which was yeah, kind of interesting. Really, yeah,
kids were talking about Okay, yeah, anyway, Philly Karen is
not the most popular. Uh well, I don't know if
the teenagers want to get on board that. Okay, all right,
Still Philly Karen's kind of funny either way. I mean,

(09:21):
Freeman stole second Yeah again, stop the presses. Yeah that
was one. If you had a prop bet on Freeman
stealing a base, ye, you probably paid off well.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
And then and then they hit check of him trying
to score from second. Barge's got an incredible arm. And
Freddy Freeman tries to score from second base. I'm saying, dude,
is that a heat check for you? That's a heat check.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
I'm going to score from second on this. Like you
and I just looked at each other like he's out
by like eight steps. It's just waiting on him. Just
make sure you get the tag down. Was all that
hadn't happened there, just amazing, like why why was he sent?
And that was the third out of the ending. So again,
we'll have more on baseball coming up in a few minutes,
but right now in Kansas City, Monday Night football, Patrick

(10:01):
Mahomes and Travis Kelcey, this connection has been rediscovered. Now
eighty three career touchdowns for Travis Kelcey as Mahomes finds
him to give the Chiefs a twenty one to seven
lead midway.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
Through the third quarter. Now here's the thing about this game, right,
we talked about this and Frostburg's gonna hate this, but really,
all year long, what have I said? Stock up Patrick Mahomes,
stock down Chiefs. Mahomes is the MVP of the league
so far, right, and I think if you're trying to
to make a list of who the list is, really
who's below it because he is absolutely dragging the Chiefs

(10:35):
to everything. In the first half, they couldn't overcome his
two interceptions. Now, the second one was not his fault,
it was Travis Kelcey hits off of him and it
bounces in, So that was just a bad play by Kelsey.
But the Chiefs can't run the football, and still Mahomes
is their leading rusher, and still he is finding a
way to drag the Chiefs down the field. His reads

(10:56):
are right every single time, he is finding enough time
to to Now you're watching him instead of buying time
and throwing downfield, he is buying time waiting for a
close receiver to break free, either running back coming out
of the backfield. Big game they had in the last drive,
Travis Kelsey was in blocking, but when Mahomes kept the
play alive, Kelsey just kind of slides out to the right.

(11:17):
Not a guy you needed to account for because he
was staying in the block, but because of the way
the play was, Mahomes.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Keeps it alive.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
It's a thirty seven yard game. Like this is the
best Mahomes that we have seen in a long time,
fantasy wise. You know, right, number one quarterback in the NFL.
But yeah, there's guys right under Mahomes. You can say, hey,
you're talking about MVP. No one is dragging his team
to success more than Mahomes is doing that with the
Chiefs so far this year.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yeah, it was one of my favorite plays we've seen.
And this was a wild week, no question about it.
But just the way Kelsey kind of sneaked out and
turned back and up the sideline he went. But yeah,
Mahomes right now is your leader in the clubhouse for
the MVP odds. People starting to make the case for
Jonathan Taylor given his massive store art to the year.

(12:00):
When you talk about a touchdown total, he's already at
where Barkley was a year ago. Here's a hot take.
They got the right team, they got the wrong guy.
That's the right the wrong guy. We must have been
the right place at the wrong time. He's yeah, there,
you got plays wrong time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it
was the wrong time. Got to be the right Josh

(12:21):
Allen's second at plus three fifty, Drake May all the
way up to third, he's now five. That's ridiculous. That's
a the Patriots schedule. It's like they're playing an FC
you could always play. You can only beat who's on
the schedule. You got to fit the suit. You can't
give me Drake May, Drake May. You gotta beat a
team that's good at some point. Man, every team you're

(12:42):
playing is terrible. And you haven't even played the Jets
once yet you have played they Hey, they're on a
one game, heater. Oh, the Jet's never gonna lose again.
But you haven't even played the Jets once yet they
got you back on game you have not. I mean,
come on, man, come on. Then you had Baker Mayfield,
Matthew Stafford, Daniel Jones still at fifteen to one.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yeah, day right, guy number two behind Mahomes not Jonathan.
Get the difference in that Drake mixed, Drake may doing
it against against teams that can't even field defenses. These
are this may be the easiest schedule I have seen
the team have in the NFL in five years.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
Easy. Easy, I'm looking play anybody, It'll play anybody. Hey,
bellichicks out? We can. Can we get the Patriots back?

Speaker 5 (13:28):
Then?

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yeah, there is a scheduling algorithm like just said, Hey,
let's look it up. So we get a back a
half fast teams for him and still the NFL buddy,
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Speaker 1 (16:18):
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(16:40):
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Fan in Baltimore, Audissey, Washington Post Jay, Happy Monday, man,
how's it going?

Speaker 4 (16:53):
It's going okay? How are you guys doing?

Speaker 1 (16:55):
Every buddy? Well, uh, well, I'm doing better now. The
Jets won a game, so that's okay now than never
to lose again. So I'm feeling okay.

Speaker 4 (17:02):
What a wild one man? Yeah? Good for Justin Field.
I mean, it's what a what a what a week
that young man had to go through. Uh, you know,
I got a kick out of the NFL, you know,
and it's Twitter feed, you know, promoting everything Justin Fields
had to say, I you know, quote treated them. So yeah,

(17:22):
where what do you think about what you know, his
billionaire overlord had to say about him and call him
out in public, and uh, all that stuff that you
know led to Justin Field's introspection. I don't think I'll hear.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
Back from the probably let us know what you do.

Speaker 4 (17:38):
I'm that a little interesting, right, Like there's a shole
like caught up in their touchy feelies. But when when
Woody Johnson struts around like a jackass punk at ownership
meetings and pops off about people and says ridiculous things
and comports himself like an unprofessional jackass. Good for Justin
Field for being the more mature guy.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
Yeah, it makes me envious at Jerry Jones at times
like hi, which we had that guy.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Man man, Well he said he was a good owner
except for the winning part.

Speaker 5 (18:06):
Yeah yeah, yeah that's okay, right, yeah, good?

Speaker 4 (18:11):
Good for Justine Fields. Man, what a wild game and
at the NFL, right, I mean, who the hell really
knows from week.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
To week now, speaking of week tow week, we'll talk
quarterbacks here now, Patrick Mahomes. Look, we talked about this
a few minutes ago. Yeah, there's lots of guys having
great seasons, but I didn't know that there's anybody dragging
his team like Patrick Mahomes has been dragging the Chiefs
to wins and competition and staying afloat with injuries. He's
still the leading rusher for the Chiefs, making all the

(18:42):
right decisions now instead of keeping plays alive to throw
deep down field, he keeping plays alive and he's hitting
outlet guys, guys that aren't even in the pattern. Like
I'm watching Mahomes saying, this is clearly the best Mahomes
we've seen in a long time. And there's I think
that's why he's at the top of the MVP race
right now.

Speaker 4 (18:59):
Yeah, Look, he's it's it's not as you know, the
downfield thrust still wasn't there, and I thought it would
probably come back tonight with you know, Rice having a
game under his belt, but it hasn't. And I know
Dan Quinn and how he plays, but he plays the
same way Pete Carroll plays. I mean, you know, they
did get a few shots against those guys, so that's

(19:21):
not there yet. But yeah, i mean he's throwing for
three touchdowns a game again with regularity. I mean, we'll
see what the fourth quarter holes here. They're starting to
roll up thirty on people without it looking that hard
in the process, and this would be, you know, if
they were to do it another one of those where
you come out and it's an interception interception, and you know,

(19:42):
we'll see if they still manage to do what they
have been doing. Yeah, I mean, you look around the landscape.
Baker think he's banged up and he's a gamer, but
you know, his numbers have tailed off. We've seen injuries
obviously impact this race. So I think Jared Golf's a
guy nobody talks about. But I mean we've all made

(20:04):
a big deal about him losing his coordinator and everything,
and his numbers like look pretty nuts at the end
of the year, and hey, like dude, everybody's falling all
over themselves about Jonathan Taylor and like he's a nice
player and all that stuff's great, but what the hell
changed there? It seems to me. One thing changed there.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
Oh, I got Daniel Jones right, Jo.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
Took over the quarterback. Yeah, he's calling thirty five points
a game Taylor. Now that Taylor's been there behind basically
that same offensive line for six years, you know what
I mean, Pittman's been there. Like they drafted a tight end,
which is great, But I mean the quarterback is completing
like seventy four percent of his passes for two hundred
and seventy yards a game, and he's leading the league

(20:45):
in yards per at tempt and it's not close. It's
big boys stuff Like I don't know, man, how is
he not? I mean, we're approaching the middle of the season.
How is he not at least been here the top three?

Speaker 1 (20:57):
Now you got Drake may as the third guy right now,
Daniel Jones still sitting down at fifteen to one. We
were just checking the odds a few minutes ago. So
you got that cast. But you got a little bit
of a story there brewing in Baltimore. I jetted in
quickly for that one. My brothers organized something. Jason and
I got on my phone and it said, hey, this
guy's now not playing, So scout team subterfuge with the

(21:21):
big week that the NBA had, I'm sure NFL officers
are like, hey, hey, hey, we don't need this, So
I guess he's going to play. On Thursday, we get
the multi MVP Lamar Jackson back. But how's it playing
in Baltimore?

Speaker 4 (21:33):
Not real well, I mean it's not. It's more importantly,
it's not playing real well with the league office. And
the timing was terrible. Hardball's the coach in the eighteen years.
He knows the roles, they all know the homes, they
know exactly what they were doing. He's practicing with the
scout team because he wasn't going to play. I mean
it was unlikely even me. Come on, like so the

(21:53):
whole thing about it, you know, question them all and
full practice, like stop stopping you were playing games got
caught and they're gonna get fined and maybe they'll lose
a draft pick too, and you know, look, the most
important thing around here is they found a way to
beat the Bears, and I wasn't sure they were gonna
and Stu Puntley played the best football game he's played

(22:14):
in a long time, and they won the turnover battle,
which they had not been doing. And the Bears had
been doing better than anybody else and so they saved
their season. And now, I mean, I mean, I think
they're better than Miami, But you know I would have
told you three days ago I think most of the
leagues better than Miami.

Speaker 5 (22:36):
And well, what if what do you make of that?
I don't they out physical Atlanta. Like Atlanta's offensive line
and their backs have been bullying people, and they out
physical Atlanta for four quarters. Like I don't know, Gents,
like is my I mean, I don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (22:58):
It could be a weird game. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
NFL insider Jason Lock and for our guest Jason Smith
Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Now today,
Camp Scattaboo had injury surgery on his dislocated ankle. Really
ugly play, awful break for a guy who was giving
the Giants identity they'd become fun. He's one of the
more fun rookies.

Speaker 3 (23:17):
But Jay, again, this is the hip drop tackle that
gets Skataboo injured. And I get it, and I would
love to see them figure something out about this. But
I don't know how you you ban the hip drop tackle,
because guys aren't gonna let go if they're trying to
tackle a guy. I mean that that's a really hard thing.
I mean, I don't want to see guys get hurt
like this anymore, and I'd love to see them not
do it. But I don't know how you ban it.

(23:38):
I don't know how you how you sit there and say, okay,
that's this kind of tackle and we can get rid
of it, because defensive players aren't gonna just let go
of guys that they're trying to tackle.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
No, I go, you can't legislate all this out of
the game. It's it's dude, look at these look at
these guys the plane on the same field New Rocky
playoffs like it's I mean, it's it's an inherently violent,
uber violent sport. I mean it. It's just it's just

(24:10):
and you know, helping safety and all this like and
and I appalled every effort, every real effort that's made
in that in that regard. But you're not going to
be able to take it out. You're not going to
be able tominate all these players that put you know,
incredible force on hip sockets and these sockets and ankles light.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
Oh but even put rules in, Jason, I mean you've
got the the idea like we watched.

Speaker 4 (24:38):
Yeah, I mean, like it's a gladiator sport. It's not
an exaggeration, and it's played at an incredibly high level
and there's a you're you're looking. I mean, these guys
are in like fighter or what is flight fight or
flight mode for you know, eighty stats a game like
that's what it is like you you have to constantly

(25:00):
be on a swivel. You have to be locked in
or you might get hurt. And you're doing what your
survival mode. Man, And so guys, I mean, stuff's gonna happen,
and are you going to have a totally proper form
tackle and you're tasing somebody down from behind? Like do not.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
But even if you get the legislation on something like that, Jason,
we watched the the vikings against the Chargers on Thursday
night where we just watched Carson Wentz become a pinata
and just like that.

Speaker 4 (25:32):
I'm a big Kevin O'Connell guy, and I think he's
a super sharp dude, and I think he's had an
impeccable start his coaching career. But I don't know how
like if you think that little or your number three,
Like I don't. I mean, it was a bad, ugly look.
And it continued, like I mean, at least three series

(25:52):
more than it probably had to. I mean that game
was pretty much over a half time. It was definitely over,
you know, in the third quarter, and they started sort
of coaching it like it was over. So I couldn't.
I just couldn't figure out, like why they didn't start
looking at the developmental quarterback. Yeah, it's it's I mean
that guy was could barely protect himself and they kept

(26:14):
sending him out there, and I mean, I don't know,
like we're never going to reach a point where the
unaffiliated you know, like concussion guy is also going to
be like to need Hey, you need to pull this
guy because he's clearly in distress because of an elbow,
because of a shoulder, and and again that's just gonna

(26:34):
that stuff's going to happen, like you know, even if
you tried to find a team for it, Like it's
it's going to happen.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
Let's get to other quarterbacks here. Let's get back to
the AFC North here for a couple of seconds after
Dylan Gabriel's game yesterday and the safety where he just decided,
I don't want to get rushed. I'm throwing the ball
out of bounds.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
How much closer are you getting to Shador Sanders playing
for the Browns?

Speaker 1 (26:57):
How much close?

Speaker 4 (26:57):
Look, it's clear that you know, the coach was not
on board with his draft pick, so he's doing all
he can to. I'm struck and whatever. And you know,
he'll probably want to run Zapie out there for a
couple of weeks first, but it's going to happen. It
was always going to happen. We were talking about this
since when he got drafted and all through the summer,
and you know, and Dylan Gabriel looked good in the preseason.
And I've said the same thing all the whole time

(27:20):
when you look at the pie chart of most snaps
a quarterback for the Cleveland Browns, when it's all said
and done this season, I would continue to throw my
darts at Sanders being the last guy to get a shot.
But he'll get a shot sooner than any think, and
he'll probably play more snaps than the other two combined.
And I still think, I mean, I think that's how
it's shaping up. Dyllan Gabriel is not an NFL quarterback.

(27:41):
He's not even an NFL backup right now. And you
can tell me, well, he was a part of a win.
He's around, you know, he played a couple of games.
He wasn't turning it over yet. But he also cannot
push the ball downfield. He can barely see over the
line of scrimmage. He can move, but he's not an
uber athlete to totally be able to defend himself. And
he was going to start turning the ball over. To
watch those games, it was inevitable. Yeah, I don't see

(28:04):
the upside there, and they're going to be in the
market to probably draft one again next year, so I
don't know why you wouldn't look at Sanders first. But
again it's pretty clear I Stefansk is not into that idea,
and I think I'll keep using the practice excuse. But
in the next week or two, Zappi will have to
start playing, and he's a backup. He can play without
getting all the reps, and those pendulum of practice reps
will have to start swinging the Sanders and they're gonna

(28:28):
have to go to that route because this is I mean,
it's just not it's not professional grave He's a developmental
kid who has serious physical limitations.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
He's on Twitter at Jason Locke and four at Jason
lock and for a wanna bet one oh five to
seven the fan in Baltimore, Honesty Washington Post. Jay is
always buddy, Thanks so much, enjoying the games. We'll talk
to you next week.

Speaker 4 (28:48):
Thank you guys, do the same, see.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
You Jays would be good. I have the question for
you though, Yeah, does Stefanski do the uh uh? Basically,
Darren Jimmy Hazel the Fireman, you won't play now? Look, hey,
everything is going fine. I even tell you in my
Browns will start five guys, five guys this year. Right,
we're almost getting close to that third guy, and I

(29:10):
think Jason's right, it's gonna be Zappy is gonna be next,
And eventually we're gonna get to Shadors. And now I
think your door standers will wind up being fourth. Okay,
they wind up being fourth when we get to the
like now, now we're gonna point where okay, Dylan Gabriel's
wearing out as well, where you get third, he's gonna
be fourth. And then the fifth game of the season,
the fifth quarterback. Maybe we go all the way back
to Dylan Gabriel or but we're getting we're getting them,

(29:30):
or somebody else is not on the team. You never know,
maybe the Jets trade justin fields while he's hot, Like yeah,
oh sorry, is that after justin.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Story on the tof week.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
Jet's got a lot of feel good stories. Now make trades.
We're one and seven. Make trade. By the way, that
Dylan Gabriel trade might have been one of the worst.
That was awful. I mean that goes on the list
of quarterback I mean because Mariota did it earlier in
the in the game. Now it doesn't cost him because
it was not at the end of the game. But
on a fourth down play, he sails it out of bounds,
like you're going for it, you're loosing the ball on
downs and you gave them. Just throw it to the opposition.

(30:02):
Then bye, Jack. Time now to find out what's trending
in the wide world of sports. From someone who's been
called the Tyler glassnew of Fox Sports Radio. He also
spent some time glaring at Tommy Edmund after the fourth inning.
It's Steve to say it.

Speaker 8 (30:16):
It's right now four to four Toronto at the Dodgers
in the top of the seventh and another pitching change.
The Dodgers had the starter glass now at La Native.
By the way, only.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
Pitch half the game tonight.

Speaker 8 (30:27):
So what has been the Achilles heel of the Dodgers
the last three months? Their poor bullpen is asked to
get half the outs in this game tonight. Lefty Anthony
Bondu gave up a grand slam over the weekend, got
the one out to end the fifth inning. Justin Robleski,
another lefty, has just pitched an inning and two thirds.
He's just now being replaced. Meanwhile, we see, yet again

(30:48):
out of the Toronto bullpen, Lewis Varlin. He's thrown in
nearly every playoff game they have had this month. This
is his twelfth appearance, hitting at a third scoreless with
a couple of strikeouts. It's four to four game because
of the blue Jays four run fourth inning, the key
air the second baseman Tommy Edmund of La Two of
the runs were unearned, so the Blue Jays had the
lead at the time. Alejandro Kirk with a three run shot.

(31:12):
By the way, the great Sarah Langs with a little foreshadowing,
just in case, only one player in a World Series
game has had four extra base hits. Sotani has three
and is three at bats so far ground rule double,
solo homer.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
And an RBI double.

Speaker 8 (31:27):
And I will note ahead of time, since the World
Series is Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. In La, temperatures in the
low sixties tonight, it's going to be a daytime high
of ninety the next two days, which means about eighty
degrees first pitch the next two nights. Anytime it gets warmer,
the ball flies more. At Dodger Stadium, Corey Seeger notably
had a World Series home run against Justin Verlander for

(31:50):
that exact reason on one hundred degree day in twenty seventeen.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
Now, also to give an update, it said, the god
Don Stanhouse is coming in so nice the Dodgers right now.

Speaker 8 (32:01):
If that's the game. If that's the case, the game
is over. Some of us remember there were some of the.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
Worst relievers that Dodge have had. Don Stanhouse. Everyone got damned.
He was standing the man unusual they gave them.

Speaker 8 (32:12):
That was always an adventure. That was the offseason where
the Dodgers spent their big money on Don Stanhouse and
Dave Goldts. Oh my goodness, it's Flake trining coming in
right now at the top of the seventh in a
four to four game Taskar Hernandez does have a solo homer.
Longtime baseball writer Jason Stark pointed out that Hernandez had
not only been slumping recently in the playoffs, but in

(32:33):
this World Series had been zero for seven with five
strikeouts until that, No doubt her home run the left
He has a second hit tonight as well. He had
been the only hitter in either lineup without a hit
in this World Series. Two huge base running plays, I
believe it or not, though the Blue Jays had a
guy simply walk off first base and get picked off,

(32:53):
thinking that his teammate at home had taken ball four,
and the Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
Is that once in a softball game that one and
I was and they were. It was a big softball game,
and I thought, like the guy had a walk, and
I was just kind of frozen, like I thought it
was ball four, and the ump would wait, and the
catcher just knew he just and in softball you just
had to beat the throat, just had to beat enough
to tag you out. It was like a force of softball.
So I was off too much. I was like, what

(33:19):
what I was like one By the time I dove
back in, I was out. I walked back to Die.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
Said, I'm so sorry, guys, I'm so sorry.

Speaker 8 (33:25):
Never in my life did I think that a first
base coach in softball would be the equal of a
first base coach in the World Series.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
But he was actually no help for Toronto. Hey, uh
oh hello, ah crap.

Speaker 8 (33:39):
They showed the replay with sound and you could hear
the strike call from the umpire and then the runner
started walking to second base.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
It's like, it's anybody doing here.

Speaker 8 (33:49):
Meanwhile, on the Dodger said Freddie Freeman was thrown at
at home by a mile from Addison Bargert Barger in rightfield,
who they put up a graphic was top five in
the American League in outfield to siss his throw home
was clocked at ninety eight miles an hour. By the way,
the Blue Jays have won eight straight games when Alejandro
Kirk homers. He has a three run shot. Tonight it's

(34:11):
four to four top of the seventh. We mentioned a
new reliever in Blake Trina has allowed a single to
Vladimerica RaRo Junior. So the seventh isn't over yet, and
in the Monday night football game, You're right, this is
going to end.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Much sooner than baseball.

Speaker 8 (34:24):
Chiefs now up twenty eight to seven on Washington with
under eight minutes to go. Patrick Mahomes with three touchdown
passes in the second half. And as far as the NBA,
we had a Philadelphia win. Phillies three to zero beat
Orlando one thirty six one twenty four. Tyrese Maxi had
forty three points, eight assists and one turnover.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O, Jason Smith, Mike
Harmon love from the Fox Sports Radio studios. We got
more on Monday Night football Game four of the Game
three of the World Series as well, and straight ahead,
we get into the biggest coaching story out of football
this weekend, something that is still shot sucking us here
on Monday Night. That's next right here, Jason to Mike,
Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. I want to have a gun blow
hot dogs into the stands. Dodgers bullpen comes in and
there goes the lead. A two out double down the
line in right that bounces off of the stands and

(35:35):
into the middle of the field to Oscar. Hernandez can't
get there fast enough. Vlad Junior just beats the tag
at the plate and the Blue Jays now have a
five to four lead over La. Dodgers just get out
of the inning, but is a one run lead for
the Blue Jays. Now Dodgers come to bat in the
bottom of the seventh, Well, we got that ballance, we
got that balance, right, Jason. The home run by ta

(35:57):
Oscar started, so he was in the h he was
in the black, and then he decided, I'm gonna throw
this up. That's a horrible throw in any kind of
good throw to the plate gets Vlad Junior. But this
throw is ten feet wide of home plate. And still
it's always come almost comes back. And he keeps both

(36:19):
teams in the game better than anybody else offensively what
he does for the Dodgers, but base running, because he
got thrown out the last inning trying to go all
the way to third base and Vlad Junior threw him out.
And now the air you know, the bad throat of
the plate, like he keeps both teams in the game. Man,
there is nobody that good might be one of the
most exciting players in baseball. I'll tell you my goodness.
But we'll have more football coming up in a couple

(36:40):
of minutes. But time now for the play of the day.

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Speaker 1 (37:05):
Well. When you go twenty four and fifteen and you
help your team to improve to be four and oh
hey Wemby, you get to be the play of the day.
I'm a catching ripping prow sixty up pull ability is

(37:25):
too good. Who watch us here? Look beautiful three sixty
screen spurs TV on the call. Now remember this because
when I was on my heater, I gave you the
Colts in the last offseason. Hey, long shot super Bowl
team this year Daniel Jones is gonna wind up doing
good things. Wow. Before the season started, said watch out
this Spurs team when Wemby shows when he becomes the

(37:48):
best player in the league. And I said it's gonna
happen by by some time this year. It may happen
by the end of October. Another big night for him.
The Spurs are four and oh right now, and they
are deep, they are they're playing incredible and Wemby clearly
is gonna show you. Yeah, okay, like in a couple
of weeks, it's gonna be well, yeah, Wemby's the best. Yeah.
I don't know when that happened, but yeah, he's the

(38:08):
best player in the league. It just just sort of
everybody just sort of nodded their head, like, yeah, it's
already there where the Wemby era is here. You know
what also helps is all the other superstars aren't playing.
That always does help to it does help their team stink. Yeah,
like my Jalen Brown's been fantastic. Yeah, the Celtics have
not been No, look a the Lakers tonight they're playing
with four guys, Like, there's score seventy five. I don't know, man,

(38:31):
he's got to be exhausted after scoring fifty. Yeah, he's
still young. He's gonna have ten to night. As in
his arm for all the shots tonight. All of a sudden,
that elbow goes flying up into the third death. Boy,
I'm I'm tired. Feeling good about, feeling good about the Colts,
feeling good about the Spurs. I'm not a heater man,
I'm not a heater. Yeah, I'm on a long shot heater.
Heater heater. Well, they were fifty to one heater. I mean,
obviously it's a crowded Western Conference and it's only a

(38:54):
couple of weeks in. But you know, you get it
pretty excitable about some of the highlights that you get
from women. You so, Adam Silver is really happy. Yeah,
he is a highlights.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
It doesn't want well, it doesn't want to deal with
gambling stuf with this. Uh so, no show jobs, gambling,
Wemby highlights. Give me the Wemby highlights, and I don't
want to highlights of Wenby planting trees. Let me see
him three sixty, let's see lamps, let me see all that. Hey,
it's Halloween on Friday. You know he loves to dress up.
Can't wait to see what he does this. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I am so. Meanwhile, biggest football story of the weekend

(39:25):
coaching wise, Brian Kelly let go as LSU head coach.
I was surprised when this happened because we talked about
this Friday night. I'm like, they don't have a full
time president, they have an interim president. They're still trying
to find a way to elect who the full time president.
They're not gonna let Brian Kelly go. No, Apparently LSU
doesn't care. We will pay find a way to pay
out this fifty million dollars that we owe him, and

(39:45):
they're moving on and he is no longer the LSU
head coach. Can't soun I'm surprised because you have three
years of three and four losses. LSU thought they were
going to get better. But this is another example of
how out of control college football is. Because I understand
you being upset, but who are you gonna get that's
better than Brian Kelly? Where are you gonna go? I

(40:06):
get you're upset, I get the year. But this is
a guy that's built a winning program. Yeah that he
had was every year great, not trade No, but the
expectations you're really unrealistic that and you're gonna who are
you gonna go out and get?

Speaker 3 (40:17):
Right now, that's better if you want to let him
go at the end of the Okay, great, I understand
when you have somebody in place.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
But what are you gonna who's out there? Who are
you gonna go get? Urban Meyer can only get one job,
whether it's Penn State or Urban Meyer can only get
one job. There's nobody else out there you're gonna go
out and get. But yet, this is the way we're
at right now. That college is because a lot of
them can just print money. It says, yeah, well, we
don't care about this. The guy's not winning. We'll figure
out a way around this with the mother. They haven't
ever figured out the money yet, we're gonna do this.

(40:44):
This is another rate college football is just out of control.
It's funny. I can't lump them all in together, right
these big coaching changes, because there's there's certainly a divide.
I mean, we talk about struggling on the field, but
then there's the guy. And I think that's where Brian
Kelly gets caught in the switches here, is that there's
not a lot of people that vouch for the guy
Brian at least so when it becomes the we're not

(41:04):
winning and he's not the favorite of boosters and everybody
around the program or former players plenty of them lining
up to take their shots as well. Uh De commits
et cetera, that you're You're like, well, I can see
where this goes sideways on you, and you'll you'll take
the buyout and move on. Early returns. You got Lane
Kiff and Jeff Brahm, Dillingham, James Franklin, some rawl Lee's dabbo.

(41:31):
I mean, there's a heavy, heavy hitters, and then eventually
you get down to Urban Meyer and some of the
other names go about America's an interim coach. Can he
come back? Oh yeah, yeah, hundred percent? You think do
you think that did he remember that? They had him
up so familiar? I know that Dave's falling way?

Speaker 2 (41:46):
Wait, why did he leave again?

Speaker 1 (41:48):
Now? I got yeah. More from Game three of the
World Series Monday Night Football, another big story out of
the NFL. Next Fox game since nineteen oh seventeen O
six nineteen oh six ball comes wh Wow about that? Okay,
the early days of Charlie gimm Is small back there,
and they were there were four TEAMSMS and there was

(42:08):
the Yankees, the White Sox, the Cubs, and the Tigers.

Speaker 5 (42:12):
That was it.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
Somebody else called the grand Stand the Red Stockings. No,
I mean, look, yes, it is the Cincinnati Red Stockings.
They beat the Cleveland Spiders, what had just been in
the middle of a season. But I mean he kind
of looks like our guy Patrick who's helping Oh yeah, yea, yeah, yeah,
nineteen oh six Suaco cards. Sure that I'm looking at here,
but uh yeah, that's that's how far we go back

(42:34):
to trying to figure out how do you explain Otani?
This is this is what I'm This is the best
way for me to do this, Okay, and I really
this may help encompass Otani.

Speaker 4 (42:45):
Right.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
We get used to seeing greatness a lot in sports. Right,
We've seen we've seen great quarterbacks, but then again, there's
always great quarterbacks.

Speaker 4 (42:52):
Right.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
We've seen great baseball players, always great baseball player. We
see great point guards. Is great point guards. But we
talked about show hey Otani being the greatest base ball
player that any of us have seen in our lifetime. Okay,
we got that right, But you think, okay, yeah, I
see and there's nobody better than Altani. And here we
are recency seeing Otani. But this is now how I
think about Otani, right, because I think about it from
a different perspective, right because I used to look at

(43:14):
it like all the baseball I have seen, Who is
someone that I can compare?

Speaker 1 (43:20):
To show?

Speaker 3 (43:20):
Hey, Otani? Right, who is someone who is comparable? Can
you compare Hank Aaron who was the very end of
his career when I started watching baseball in the mid seventies,
And then you look at somebody like, well, is maybe
at his peak, Miguel Cabrera was so good, and you
think about other players in the eighties and Mike Schmidt
and Derek Jeter and all around. And I think the
best way to explain it is this, when I was

(43:42):
young growing up, and it was, you know, the seventies
and eighties, and you know, I obviously you know, I
grew up on baseball and everything else.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
And I don't know how I became a Mets fan.
I should have been a Yankees.

Speaker 3 (43:51):
Fan, but growing up, and you know, when you were younger,
and I you know, a lot a lot of kids
still do it now, but I don't know they do
it as much. But when you grow up in baseball
was the big sport, baseball and football, and you like
basketball and hockey, do baseball and football always the most popular?
Is you spent time reading about the history of the
game and and reading about the players who came before

(44:12):
and what it was like, and you hear stuff.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
Like Babe Ruth and you're like, oh, I bet Babe
Ruth is. So it's so abstract because there's hardly any video.
You just get that real fast moving video of Babe
Ruth once I have all those moving baby, come on.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
But this is how I feel about show Heyo Tani,
is that I think about it like this, if I
was growing up in the eighties, right in the early
eight late seventies, early eighties, and I got to watch
Ted Williams play, Like that's kind of how I feel
about seeing show Heyo Tani now and explaining just how
good a player he is. Getting to see this, I

(44:50):
kind of feel like it's like if I was that young,
and because all I did was hear about Ted Williams
is always everybody's always telling me the greatest player that
you've ever seen, greatest hitter, the way what he could
do they shifted on him. It didn't matter.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
Yeah, but he didn't pitch anything. No, he didn't pitch. No,
he didn't pitch. But it's it's the it's the impact
of what we're seeing with shoe heo tani, And it
would be it would be me hearing the stories about
Ted Williams and I heard you. I heard all the
Willie May stories too. But Ted Williams always was the
way the guy hit. It was not unlike anything you
could ever see. And big home runs, the ephis pitch

(45:23):
home running, the All Star Game, how he was able
to hit, the last guy to hit four hundred major
League Baseball. All of these things are like, that's how
big of a of a of a person Ted Williams was.
When I would grow, would think about baseball and think
about the guys that I'd get to see, and these
were all like in the eighties and late seventies, and
I would read about guys like, Okay, yeah, I was
thirty forty years ago, where Joe DiMaggio was this good,

(45:44):
and here was Ted Williams, here was Stan Musual, right,
and here's all as like okay, and Bob Feller and
all these great players like okay, because now I'm going
back that same amount of time from now to that
point in my life. So I think about that, like
like that point, you know, like say nineties nineteen eighty
is that that number? Is that to think back thirty
five forty years. That's kind of what I feel like

(46:05):
I'm watching is seeing show Heo Tani is like if
I was this young and this generation gets to see
Ted Williams or DiMaggio or Musual, but really Williams is
the guy because he just has that mythic quality about him,
not all this crazy stuff that happened to him later on,
but just think about that. That's how I feel like,
that's how we should be looking at Show Haotani and
what he's been able to do so far, because continually

(46:27):
he does things that we have never seen before Ted Williams.
You also had the extra mystique of a lot of
photos where him and his pilot's outfit. Yeah yeah, yeah,
and the year's lost there and try to do the
comparatives and certainly you know, growing up in Chicago and
what we do these stat polls and we talk about
him with Steve de Seger and we try to contextualize

(46:50):
it all, you know, Frostburg, and we try to find
these numbers. Like for Frank Thomas, it was always the
here's how he compares to Ted Williams, here's how he compared.
And we did that same thing with Mike trout Right.
It was there were always those those hallmarks, those benchmark
guys Mays and Mantle and Ted Williams. All right, how

(47:11):
do their numbers compare? When you start talking about guys
hitting for power and for average, so like I pull
it back to that. And then certainly you know guys
like Tony Gwynn and the professional hitters, that's a whole
other category. But yeah, guys that became the all right,
let's do the comparisons generation to generation. There were those
handful of guys that stood out. What we're watching with

(47:33):
Otani night after night and then tomorrow we're gonna get
to watch him pitch, Like that's the thing I'm watching
this now. I'm like, I'm already anticipating, all right, I
want the next act. Yeah, this what's not done yet.
I mean, he's still gonna get another red bet before
this is done, but it's just that anticipatory like, what's next?
How do you compare it to a guy to something

(47:53):
you've never seen, and you mentioned Babe Ruth off the jump. Yeah,
we got a little bit of video and we've got
some box scores, and then there's always at how great
are these records we talk era to era when you
know you had, you know, races of people that were
not allowed to play and all of this that you know,
you try to grab it in the big bear hug
and just the hyperbolegue goes and words fail right when

(48:18):
we're watching, like all of us stood up and stared
at the screen as that ball sailed into the night
for his second home read the night, going what the
hell's going on here?

Speaker 4 (48:26):
Like?

Speaker 3 (48:26):
What am I watching? I mean, were just certain things
that Otani can do. That's just it's it's eye opening, right,
and and the main thing you're seeing now, look you
talk about a guy on a heater, right like now
you know home home and now we want seven for
seven in the playoffs in the World Series. Now I
don't understand, right, and this this is what I don't get.

(48:49):
It's one out in the bottom of the seventh inning.
He's already got two doubles and a homer against you tonight.
How do you not walk him. If you're the Blue Jams,
just plunk him.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
How do you not walk him? I don't want to
walk you. I want to hit you because I want
you to feel it going down to first base.

Speaker 3 (49:04):
Like, I don't understand how you don't walk him at
that point if you're Toronto, Like really, why are you
doing this again? Two doubles and a homer and he's
hitting the ball to the opposite field now, something he
hasn't done in a while, Like, I don't understand how
you don't just walk him at that point. It's see
nobody out, nobody on.

Speaker 1 (49:22):
Yeah, all I see it, But you have one out
and you know Mookie BET's coming up next to Mooki
Bets is not getting the bat on the ball at all. Okay,
So yeah, could technically Otani get to second, maybe he
steals second. Yeah, but you're putting him on again. Two
doubles in a homer, Put him at first base, put
him at first bet, send him down to first base.
Let somebody else beat you. Instead of saying, okay, we
feel good. You did everything you could tonight, moving pictures

(49:43):
around to come in and pitch to show hey Otani,
I don't care if it's Sureser, I don't care. If
it's a lefty, I don't care. If you bring in
Dave Steve. I don't care if you bring in Dave Stewart.
I don't care if Tom Hank comes in. I don't
care if Mike Timlin comes in. Right, you bring in
all the great closers of the Blue Dead, I don't
care who comes in. You have a bad obsession with Timlin.
I am I am going. I am gonna make what's
going on there. I don't get what Mike you and

(50:05):
Timlin do. No, No, the two best closers blue Jay's
history are Tom Hanky and Mike Timlin. That's when they
will never knock on your door and say he's just
here for the no no mister heck, but really, I
don't know how you don't walk him. I really, I know.
I know that's come back to bite teams a couple
of times, right with with bets, drawing bases, loaded walks
and other things. But in this situation, yeah, I mean,

(50:28):
look what you did before you tried to go to
the left, you thinking you were that's smart managing he
magnificent Smith is I'm bringing someone else who's able to
get a hit better. But that I mean, this is so.
Now that he's up to two eighty three batting average
for the postseason, do people feel better?

Speaker 2 (50:46):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (50:46):
Yeah, I don't think you're gonna get a lot of
Oh Tawi is overrated. O Tanny can't hit. You can't
hit in the clutch, can't hit in the playoffs, can't
do it? What have we seen him now? The last thay?

Speaker 3 (50:54):
Okay, so so a game unlike we've seen in the
history of Major League Baseball to close out the NLCS.
Now here is can annually on a heater in the
World Series again tonight, two home runs, two doubles, He's
got twelve total bases on the game right now. He's
going to bat again at least one more time, and
he's going to pitch tomorrow night. So yeah, I think

(51:15):
I feel good about Otani feeling that. Yeah, Okay, I
think he's over the slump. You want me to take
the lump?

Speaker 1 (51:21):
I think he is. He's hitting five hundred playoffs on
balls batted in play. How about that? You take away
those nineteen strikeouts, he's fifteen third. Well, you can't take
away the strike You get the shuts the bat on
the ball. For you, man, what do you go from.
Reason you're struggling with this answer so much is because
it's not possible to compare him to anybody it is.

(51:43):
But but I'm saying, but what I mean, Ted Williams
isn't even close too. But the mystique of seeing him,
it's like what I was told my whole life what
Ted Williams was right? No, but that but that's kind
of the thing. That's kind of what it is. It's
kind of new stand how do you you know? How
do you mystique of who the best player was that

(52:04):
you then hear about for you even better than that? Though, Yeah,
you can't compare him, Hey guess Oh no, no, hey,
I'm not. I'm not.

Speaker 4 (52:09):
Well.

Speaker 1 (52:10):
Look Ted Williams things Babe Bruce never did, and Babo
is considered the greatest player ever. No, yeah, but but hey,
he can go nine for nine and nine. I don't
think Otani's eating that one level. Ted Williams did some
incredible thing. He also went to go fight in World
War Two for a couple of years. He's never done that.
Three years off his Uh No, he's never pitched. He's
never pitched.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
He's never done that and I and I get that,
but the mystique wise of it is what it's like
just to seeing him. Who's Who's a player you can
think of as a kid, that boy I wish I
would have been able to get a chance to see
and oh look, and I saw great players growing up.
I saw great player. I love seeing Pete Rose play, right,
I love seeing these guys. These are all these are
all legends of the game. But nobody's as good as Shoeyo, Tani.

(52:48):
So you go back and you think it was anybody
ever as good as Ted Williams.

Speaker 1 (52:51):
So that's why it's like, if I got to see
Ted Williams play, is what the generation right now is
getting to see with Shoeo Tony.

Speaker 7 (52:58):
No.

Speaker 1 (52:58):
But that's the thing, right with Thoughtani, you can pull
a bunch of those Ruth numbers for you and I.
Growing up, everything was compared to like the first five
years or six years of Ted Williams career. Right, So
when you'd have Mike Trout, when you'd have Frank Thomas,
when you'd have somebody go off to a tremendous run.
I mean, look at Don Mattingley his first couple of years, right,

(53:18):
I mean ridiculous. Start with the Yankees, it became a
all right, how does he compare to the Yankee greats
in the past, et cetera. That's all. It's just the
next generation, the next comparison, and in this case, it's
writing a whole other chapter that will compare kids twenty
five years from now, when I'm old and gray and
sitting in a rocking chair. It's an incredible night so far,

(53:39):
and it's still going. Two big updates. The Dodgers have
brought in Roki Sasaki. Dave Roberts not messing around anymore.
With one out in the eighth inning, Sasaki comes in
to try to quell the Blue Jays rally. Blue Jays
had first and second with one out and Sasaki gets
a ground out to third for the second out. So

(53:59):
trying to put out fire here at the top of
the eighth inning for the Dodgers. Meanwhile, coming off a
fifty point game, the Lakers have absolutely nobody playing for
them to night. I think they actually only have five
guys because they have seven players who are outside, including
Luka Doncic. Austin Reeves already has fifteen. Let's go through
the first quarter. He is on pace for sixty tonight

(54:20):
for the again, the ten to night is in that shoulder.
You gotta watch out usage dra I mean, these guys
are gonna both be on the shelf by by Chris
Austin Reeves already has fifteen through the first quarter for
the Lakers. They trail the Blazers right now, though thirty
one to twenty six coming up next. We have more
in the Big Night in the NBA. We have more
in the Big Night at the World Series. Roki Sasaki

(54:42):
has just made an incredible defensive play that should have
been a base it up the middle. He gets the
out at first base and the Dodgers get out of
the inning five to five going to the bottom of
the eighth. We have more on these games. And also
it is now over on Monday night in Kansas City.
The Chiefs win at twenty eight to seven.

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