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in again, Game five of the World Old Series, top

(01:01):
of the seventh inning and it's the Blue Jays with
a three to one lead over the Dodgers. Back to
back home runs by Schneider and vled Junior to lead
the game off sacrifice fly after a Tioskar Hernandez misplay
had been the three runs for Toronto, Keike Hernandez home
run the only run of the game for the Dodgers.

(01:22):
Treya Savage has struck out seventy four men tonight. Seems
like it first rookie since nineteen forty nine to strike
out more than ten batters in the World Series. Go
back to Don Neukom the last time this happened in
the World Series. Look, this is it is. It's stunning. Yeah,

(01:45):
But as you watch these games and you see the
Dodgers suddenly off everything, the Dodger all the money, everything else.
The first thing, because there's a lot of takes on
this right now, the first one is that overall, if
you're watching both of these teams, the Dodgers look like
a team that's running out of gas very quickly. Like
the the the Pinnacle with the Freddie Freeman walk off.

(02:08):
They have just kind of slept walked their way through
the last couple of games so far into the bottom
of the seventh inning. It's not like this Blue Jays
pitching staff as lights out right. They didn't have to
bring in their closer last night. We may have to,
they have not. The Dodgers just have not been hitting.
They change the lineup tonight. Dave Roberts is trying to
do something, dropping Mookie Betts down, moving up Will Smith,

(02:29):
benching Andy pa Has and it's just not where they
just they look like a team that's running out of
gas all at once. They don't really have a lot
of jump. They don't have a lot of Hey, we're
gonna stick with it. I don't you don't see the
big fun and togetherness and the celebration like they just
look like it's it's shocking them. Maybe they're shocked. The
Blue Jays didn't roll over after the big Game three.

(02:51):
They thought, hey, we're gonna show up in Game four
and we're gonna waltz our way to a win. But
they really if you hear the phrase in sports, out
of gas a lot, that's what it looks like the
Dodgers right now.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, absolutely no juice and lifeless at the plate. We've
talked about it and their continued struggles, hitting just a
shade above two hundred for the series. Coming into tonight's game,
all the shuffling up did nothing right. First innings, I like, okay,
very quickly, you're down to doffing as you got the
the stat from from Ilo seven hundred and five games,

(03:24):
and that's the first time that's ever happened. So you know,
as I always say, if you're gonna go down, well
fail spectacularly.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
So that that was it.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Two huge mistakes from from Snell to start a ball.
The first the home run sales before anybody's even sat down,
and then Guerrero follows it up. You know that guy
again launches one. But the first inning just hitting Mookie
Betts comes up. It's like, all right, he's third, maybe
this will make him feel better whatever that he'll go no.

(03:55):
Three pitches, he's down on strikes. That begins a run
for you, Savage. Now through six innings, he's just been masterful,
right with the one mistake to Keiky Hernandez, and there's
no answer. There's short at bats. Guys are reaching and
swinging at pretty much everything. No plate discipline, and you're
not going to change now you are.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
And look, and that's the thing is that you want
to know why the Blue Jays are winning and the
Dodgers are losing, right, it's because they are more easy
they do that is good magic. Johnson would know that now.
He absolutely he might have tweeted that out today tonight,
the Magic Johnson Twitter game goes global. And if you
after what happened today and now the Magic Johnson Twitter game,
we're absolutely playing that like five times tonight. But you
see the difference in the Dodgers and the Blue Jays

(04:39):
when it comes to their offensive philosophies. The Dodgers are
a team that sits around and waits for something to happen,
and the Blue Jays have gone out and made stuff happen. Right,
just go just just use this game as as a
as a as a jumping off point. Right. There's no
grinding out of at bats by the Dodgers. There's no hey,
if if we get a lead off walk, let's try

(05:00):
to get one, let's choice the offense. There's none of that.
It's just let's just hope we get hits in bunches. Right.
That's kind of way the Dodgers are. They're not built
to be a team where, hey, they're scrappy one through
nine and they're gonna find a way to put runs
on the board because they're gonna run the pitch total up.
They're gonna do X, Y and Z like you. Savage
is still in the seventh inning and he's dominant, right
Like the these have been bad at bats by the Dodgers,

(05:22):
they sit around and wait for something to happen. Meanwhile,
look at the Blue Jays. You know, they come into
this saying, you know what, Blake Snell's gonna try to
get that fastball over early in the count. Let's go
hunt that fastball. Might have his fastball, Let's go hunt
velocity location.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
In game one. So came right back here and Schneider
jumped on the first bit.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Let's go hunt that fastball. First pitch fastball, home run,
third pitch fastball home run. Okay, Blake, you're not just
gonna throw it fast ball over the plate and they're
gonna they're gonna sit back. And you knew coming in
this was that let's go get it because we know
in that first inning he's gonna try to just Hey,
I'm gonna throw that middle of the plate fastball to
try to get the first pitch over the plate. Let's
go hunt it. And they hunted that fastball. That another

(06:03):
big hit in the inning as well. Blake Snell is
able to get out of the inning after I think
seven different reviews of plays of a stolen basee and
a bit, but but that you could tell here's Toronto
with an absolute aggressive attitude of let's go after it,
and the Dodgers more passive attitude. Since Freddie Freeman's home run,

(06:24):
it's been that this should have been the series, should
have been over. You would think after that the Dodge
would a game like that, eighteen innings, we're up, We
got Otani going to the next game, like this should
be over. And it's stunning that we're at the point
where the Dodger are nine outs away from going back
to Toronto. Where is it gonna be one game, two
games for the Blue Jays win the World Series? Like
this is where we're at right now. But you can
see that one team clearly it's not about wanting it more.

(06:47):
It's just this is a strategy that's working. And for
the Dodgers, like you need somebody to just grab them around,
just grab them by the shoulder and say, hey, got
this is unacceptable man, this is this will not stay.
You need the dude to walk in and go this
will not stay, and this lack of aggression will not stand.
Instead of aggressives you, this lack of aggression will not say.
But the Dodgers don't have a guy like that, right,
the Blue Jays do. And Vlad Guerrero Junior, Right, he's

(07:09):
that guy that grabs him and says, no, it's not over,
let's go do this. Like, I'm embarrassed for the Dodgers
right now that here they are three innings away from
going back down three to two after winning Game three
with the Freddie Freeman walk off in the eighteen thing
that should have been lights out. It should have been
We're coming to park the next day. We are throwing
the hammer down and we're gonna win this thing tonight.

(07:31):
We're gonna win this in three games. We're gonna try
to win three games. Just make Game five a party
and instead look at where they are.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah, salty was how you describe Freddie Freeman as he
was talking about where they're at, uh calling out on
himself and the rest of the team going, hey, it
can't be all sho heo tani. Right, it's not a
one man band out here, and he can't hit a
nine run home run, Like, that's just not the way
baseball works. It could be if we could adopt those

(07:58):
rock and jock rules that you drew up all the
years ago. But you know, look at Schneider on the
other side. He changes up the lineup. Lucas led off
in Game four. This time it goes to Davis Schneider,
who looks like he's straight out of Central Casting.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
He looks like he's from the seventies. That he looks
like he looked so many MLB players from the seventies,
is what he looks. Go get him.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
Go find yourself a set of nineteen seventy nine or
nineteen eighty Tops baseball cards and just slowly go through them.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
You will find guys who look exactly like Tim Foley's
a good pull. Tim Foley's a very good pole.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
With the add the pillbox hat and the way you
got What about Matty Matt motivational speaker. Yes, did not
have a mustache. Uh, he had a little coat.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
You go, a little bit of I was just thinking
of somebody else that jumped through my head and passed
out of it. Johnny Walking fusts a little bit man, John, Yeah, go.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
Back to the backstop for those Tigers teams late seventies,
early eighties, great stratomatic player.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
That was the hell of a team to run with,
you know, and look, and this is what when we've
talked about this, and it's it's important to bring this
up because these are big through storylines. Look, the Dodger
starting pitching hasn't been terrible. No, right, it's not. And
that's the thing. From the from the NLCS to now,
the starting pitching was just so good. It covered up
all the ills. The Dodgers didn't really hit, right, it

(09:17):
covered up they covered up.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
We would have brought it up, and we did, but
it was an ancillary story to look at Yamamoto, look
at this.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Look at that. It's I mean, it's you didn't it
because hey, you're gonna But what did I say? The
Dodger remind me the twenty fifteen mets where they were.
They're pitching in the NLCS against the Cubs. Oh my goodness,
this lineup, and they just went through Harvey and cinder Garden,
Matts and de Gram and a good luck and then
you get to the World Series you get a bounce, right.
I think I said the word bounce like nine thousand
times the last ten days. But it's true. We're not

(09:47):
even talking about basketball and and so coming in I
you know, I said, look, it's not like the Dodgers
all of a sudden, gonna forget how to pitch, but
you're not gonna have that dominant run and you better hit. Now.
You look at the game so far in this yere
Yamamoto absolutely dominant, right, absolutely dominant. Blake Snell wasn't wasn't
great in Game one, Shoeo Tani not bad right left

(10:09):
with the two. You know, he allowed two runs out
did have two one. They both wound up scoring because
the Dodger's bullpen is terrible. But Otani didn't pitch badly, right,
Tyler Glastow didn't pitch badly. He was done in by
a really bad error by Tommy. He had been led
to a four running but they wound up winning that.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
He made a really bad pitch that sailed up he
did he did. If you make that play, you're out
of the year with no runs. So it's not like
the Dodger pitching and not not like I thought the
Dodger pitcher was suddenly gonna implode. But they weren't going
to pitch as well as they did in the NLCS.
And but the but the flip side was okay, you
know they're gonna hit, right, They're gonna hit at some point,
and they just have not. And it's not like the

(10:45):
Blue Jays have come in here with the staff are going. Man,
it's Steve and Dave Stewart and then in the end
of the game it's Hanky and and and Mike Timlin
and boy, we're we're really throwing the hell out of
the ball.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
Man.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
The Wan Guzman is is pitching really well. Dude, starts
I Gozan Syracuse. I mean, really, this is not this
kind of lineup that's come in here. This is you
Savage who has started five games in the postseason and
three games in the regular season. I don't quite think
he's to read school yet, but he kind of looks
that way. But that's what's been killing the dog. I mean,

(11:17):
they're hitting like across the board. It's just they've just
not been playing at a Dodgers level. And and and
I don't know that they absolutely have the wherewithal of
the or the time where someone's gonna step up and say, okay,
this is done, get on my back. I can do this.
Flat Junior is that guy with the Blue Jays. He
has said, get on my back. Let's go okay, hey,

(11:39):
Flat Junior is doing He's going to continue to hit
home runs. Okay, that's what we're doing, but the Dodgers
don't have that. It's it's all of these things are
happening all at once, and you can debate what the
most serious of them all is. But you know, the
bounce and starting pitching, the approach hitting, the difference between
them and the and the Blue Jays, that all gets
you to where we sit right now, with the Blue
Jays threatening Blake Snell coming out of the game, now

(12:01):
in the seventh inning, Dodger bullpen getting involved, so yay,
Dodger bullpen. That's why it all comes back to why
we are we are right now.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
First and third, two out does the first playoff start
away from Toronto? For you, Savage, the only time he
was truly dominant was going back to start against the Yankees,
and there he only went five and five and a third,
but at eleven strikeouts right overwhelmed them. They eventually win
the game thirteen to seven. But you look at the

(12:29):
way he's gone going at it today and approaches and
everything else. It's the you know, the Blue Jays will
hit the opposite way they like. We keep watching the
Dodgers trying to swing for the fence like you're not
getting it all back, and you know it's okay to
play station to station down again, and Toronto defensively has

(12:49):
been better play for play over the course of this series. Now,
the third run goes back to a fly ball ta
Oscar hernanda Is instead of saying, hey, I'll let it
bounce in front of me, hold him to a single,
kind of got caught in between, did a slide, the
ball rolls to the walls. So you got a guy
on third. Okay, that's it. There's your run. It was

(13:14):
destined to score, but Blake Snell leaves with runners on.
But had pitched pretty well outside of those first two mistakes.
And as we talked about a lot yesterday and have
throughout this series, it becomes the you can't play thinking
your guy's gonna throw shut out ball, right, You've got
to figure out a way to manufacture runs. We've had

(13:34):
a couple of instances of balls coming inside.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
You know what.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
I know, you don't have the Barry Bonds armor on,
but you guys need base runners. You need something to
upset the apple cart. Force this guy to pitch from
the stretch, maybe get a little bit of something going
I know a lot's been made here locally Los Angeles
of getting you know, the fans and they're on there,
they're sitting on their hands. I don't know how much

(13:58):
that juice that gives a player. I mean, that's an
individualized thing. But certainly when you can hear crickets, that's
not good. When the only noise is de to rule
in between innings, that's not a good thing.

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Those are your guys, man. So three to one Toronto

(14:33):
with the lead over the Dodgers, two outs, top of
the seventh runners at first and third. Will keep you
updated on this game, of course throughout the show tonight,
but coming up next, Jason Cole stops by NFL Insider
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(14:55):
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have not gotten any better for the Dodgers in the
last five minutes. Now a five to one lead. The

(16:08):
Blue Jays lead it now after a wild pitch Boba
Schett with a single to right field, basses loaded, two outs.
The Blue Jays up five to one as they continue
to bat in the top of the seventh inning. So
we'll keep you updated on this game here where things
could be getting away from the Dodgers pretty fast as
we get to one of our favorites in the history

(16:29):
of the world.

Speaker 4 (16:29):
Go Aztex dudes.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
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Speaker 4 (16:39):
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Speaker 1 (16:43):
I gonna ask you, Jay Cole, if I asked you
this a week ago, you'd give me a different answer.
But better offense right now the Dodgers tonight or the Jets.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
You know, I was thinking about this today with the Jets,
and so with the Jets, when you win a game
and you have the next week off like a bye week,
is that sort of like the modern version of the
Jets winning the Super Bowl?

Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah, it's like the off season, we get back at it.
We start again next week.

Speaker 4 (17:19):
Because you get to enjoy a victory for two weeks
rather than just one.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
Yeah, it's awesome. We hang it back.

Speaker 4 (17:27):
There's a ceremony that better whatever. You're often some better
right now as a per last week than ours. Okay,
but we're in the World Series and you guys haven't
blame in your lifetime in a Super Bowl. I'm done.
That's it. Bye.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
He had a good run, Jason. The shortest visit ever
from Jason gold Well, you can tell is salty that
the Dodgers are losing five to one.

Speaker 4 (17:50):
Well, the worst part about this is my wife is
a Giants fan, and she's texting me throughout this game
every time the uh, every time the Blue Jays score.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Just letting you know, hey, do you see that wild pitch?

Speaker 2 (18:05):
Hey?

Speaker 4 (18:08):
I was like yeah, she said, like a little baseball emoji.
She said, you know something something ready to kill me.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
No, I gotta be honest with you here because I remember,
like when when my wife and I had this conversation.
She went to Michigan, right, and so me going to Syracuse. Yeah,
like we have rivals like Penn State's are rival Mammy's
and reports like, yeah, but I said, if we had
met in college or right out of college and I
had gone to Ohio State, could we have gotten together?
And she says, oh, no way. Never, Never would have happened.

(18:37):
Never would have happened.

Speaker 4 (18:40):
My favorite is Drew Henson having to play his home
Triple A games in Columbus and getting booed in Columbus.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
I can't believe you and your wife are married being
Dodgers and Giants fans like, how does that? I can't
believe that works.

Speaker 4 (18:56):
It's because I'm so charming.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
Oh okay, Oh that's what it is. Oh okay, Like
the Dodger superstars are also likable. Jason Cole is likable.
Oh okay, that's that's that.

Speaker 4 (19:07):
Okay, Yeah, that's what I project liability. Okay, all right,
So what do we got here?

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Hey, maybe the LSU governor will make you the next
head coach of the LSU football team. That could happen.
Just call him, he'll let you know.

Speaker 4 (19:22):
Yeah, as long as I'm willing to do it on
the cheap and do it according to metrics or whatever
he's talking about. Why are politicians gains all the things
that they know absolutely zero about I mean like next
to nothing. I mean not even next to nothing, absolutely nothing.
My favorite was, like the taxpayers of the great state
of Louisiana are not going to put up with having

(19:45):
for this. It's like, dude, elf, the flat department is
a corporation. It exists on its own, It receives no
public funding, it doesn't receive taxpayer money. You're just lying
straight up about what it is. I mean, it's just
such an incredible political scam and effort. I mean, and

(20:06):
not that the athletic director has done any great job
right of of you know, hiron coach and Brian Kelly
with a fifty three million dollar payoffs. You know, there's
there should be some significant questions, but this is not
what the what the governor of the State of Louisiana
should be bothering himself with. I'm you know, like go back,

(20:27):
go back, plown out to you know, like you know,
trying to improve education in one of the worst and
most corrupt states in the country.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
Well that in LSU football, those are there's your biggest
things right there.

Speaker 4 (20:39):
I mean, you know, you got RDI Gras and LSU
football all they got, That's all they got. You know,
and the Superdome that we because look at the Saints.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
I mean, Tyler, Tyler Shuck era is happening, and they
said today he's going to start all season. You wait,
Tyler Shuck's like Jackson Dart.

Speaker 4 (20:59):
What's the point, what's the point of this? What's the point?
What's the point here? What are we doing there? What
are we doing with the Saints? Why shouldn't they be
relegated or something like that? They shouldn't they be playing
in the A C C or something like that.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yes, Saints and the Jets and the Raiders. Yes, send
those three down, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
Harry, wouldn't Well, the NFL be so great with relegation.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
You bring up Ohio State Indiana, right, I was thinking
of bringing over tuned teams named the Rough Riders from
the Yeah. Yeah, well you know you got that's tough though, CFL.
That's now I think people you want to.

Speaker 4 (21:41):
See you then you have to cooperate with Canadians more,
and we already have problems with them right in the world.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
SERI, yeah, it is very difficult.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
Yees.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
So now so now you go there, so you bring
up those teas. Hey, it looks like Ohio State Indiana there.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
Taking matter what I was. Could you imagine have the
Cowboys ever facing relegation?

Speaker 1 (22:01):
I built this league.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
There would be no teams in Los Angeles if it
wasn't for me, Jerry Jones, you know that is I mean?

Speaker 1 (22:10):
That would be fun?

Speaker 4 (22:11):
Yeah, yeah, oh, that would be that would be delicious.
That I would pay money just to have a camera
on Jerry the entire game as they face relegation. They
had it, don't even watch And could we do it
side by sides like the split screen you show the

(22:32):
play on one side and you showed Jerry on the
other and the possibility of relegation that, I mean, that's
genius right there. That's what we're here for. All of that.
I think you would say. The think about it is
you could do it with the Jets. But would he
would not understand what relegation is.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
He spent a lot of time in London, he was
owner except for the winning this last.

Speaker 4 (22:56):
Week, Ambassador Johnson was over there and still the figure
it out. That's the biggest problem. Yeah, he went over
there and what's this relegation thing? I don't get it?
All right? What what now?

Speaker 1 (23:09):
Look, I'm actually for the first time one of the
first times. I'm gonna give a little bit of Hey,
you gotta give Jerry Jones credit for something, right, because
as much as he's been, as bad as it's been
for him to try to build the Cowboys into winners,
and they went from a super Bowl team to where
they are now. Like they generally don't have horrible seasons
or horrible trends or horrible you know, multiple seasons in

(23:30):
a row. Like once in a while, like once every
ten years they'll have a four and twelve or six
and ten, but generally every year, like, hey, they're they're
in it right. Sometimes I'm in along. Un time. There
ten to eleven win teams. Sometimes they're eight win teams,
you know.

Speaker 4 (23:45):
Yeah, I mean the Dave Campbo we were on a side, right,
Like they got out of Dave Campo thing and they
get to parselves and then they figured out, just ride
this thing out. It'll be okay year after year, and yeah,
you can, you can stay relevant. You can still sell
ope and tickets because let's face the Cowboys fans have
got to be the dumbest fans in the world, Like

(24:06):
they really do like to have this to be able
to do this year after year after year and keep
buying tickets and swag for a team that you know
is just trying to get by, like really, like you
know that they're not really trying to win. They're just
trying to win enough to keep you salivating.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
Yeah, talking about the Steelers that way. Yeah, but you
know what, look, Cowboy bling does look pretty good, man.
The colors look great. Stuff they put out, Like you,
you get some pretty sharp gear Cowboys gear. Man, it
does look really good.

Speaker 4 (24:40):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
The Cowboys beat well.

Speaker 4 (24:46):
And the best part is that Jerry has a carve
out in the collective bargain agreement that he keeps its
keep all of his merch money. So there, it works
even better.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
It worked for him even better.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
And now he's got the extra one hundred billion dollars
of natural gas or whatever's going on. Jason Cole our
guest thirty three thirty third Team. You find him Amazon,
plenty of books that he has authored. Holidays are coming
so good, gift ideas certainly there and at Jason Cole
sixty two where you find him on Twitter. Hall of

(25:20):
Fame voter joins us each and every week. All right,
trade Deadline's coming up. Kirk cousin says, I'd really like
to go somewhere to start. His audition was terrible. Are
we expecting more fireworks at the trade deadline here?

Speaker 1 (25:34):
It was terrible.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
He was awful. He didn't have Drake London, but that's
no excuse.

Speaker 4 (25:40):
I mean, no, he was he was futured. I mean
they lost at home to a garbage Dolphins team. So yeah,
like just just said there and what the money here?
Just just take just take the cash. Don't suit up
for some mails because you're you're you're going to ruin

(26:00):
it already, mediocre legacy.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
Are don't ruin that media late.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
He's a great business man.

Speaker 4 (26:10):
Yeah, you know, what are the Bengals going to do
with Hendrickson? Where are we with a couple of pass
rushers the Dolphins should have? Shouldn't the Dolphins cast a
couple of these guys out already?

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Seems like Achan and those guys should all be gone, right.

Speaker 4 (26:29):
Maybe not a Chan that's that's the gay. You have
him under control for relatively cheap, but the Jale Adults
kid certainly him Chubb. Yeah, like there's some guys there
who should be I know some of these guys are
banged up a little bit, but they should be cashing.
They should be cashing some of these guys. They definitely
should be cashing some of these casts.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
All right, So now let let's let's let's finish here.
We take a look at tomorrow. Right, we got TNF,
We got Lamar Jackson's return. He we found out he
was the one that said take out the cornhole boards
and the pink ping pong tables everything else. Did the
Ravens still have a path to the playoffs here? Or
is every just whistling through the graveyard.

Speaker 4 (27:10):
I just, I was on Baltimore Station earlier this week,
and I just, I mean, I said it with you
guys after a week two, I don't believe in this defense.
So maybe they can outscore everybody, and that's fine. And
you know the you know, the the the cornhole stuff
in the video games. You know that's great, but you know,
they were playing that stuff when they were winning before, right, Like,

(27:33):
it didn't seem to have a negative effect of you know,
when they were really really good. You know what's having
a negative effect on them is that Zach Orr doesn't
seem to know how to coach a defense. Is the
problem when you're a defensive coordinator. I just I don't
I don't see it from this team this year, and

(27:55):
I'm I'm baffled by them. I really am that John
Harbaugh would let things get to this level. And again,
you know, I know, Wink Martindale unlike his his uh
his namesake on the game shows, it's a little difficult
to get along with. But wouldn't you have figured out

(28:16):
a way to make it work with with Martindale to
have brought him back somewhere along the line so that
you would have had a better defense, or go and
get somebody else who can do this, because this is
this is untenable. This is the worst. This is the
worst Ravens defense since what nineteen ninety eight. I mean,

(28:41):
think about that.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
Ray Lewis how far back.

Speaker 4 (28:44):
We're talking about We're talking about year three of ray Lewis, right,
he was drafted in ninety He's drafted in ninety six,
and you know, they were starting to build something, but
you know, they were still kind of meandering around trying
to figure out where they were. And then they got
Adams and Sarahgusa so that you know, basically Adams and
Seragusa could just pave the way for Ray to just dominate.

(29:09):
And then yeah, they had some of the other guys
like bowl Wear and Robertnette come along too, and they
got they got the corner starts. So yeah, they ended
up pretty fabulous collection of talent eventually. But this is
the least aggressive team I've seen on defense for the

(29:29):
Ravens since then. And even then they might not be
as aggressive as that team. And that was some those
some pretty media for stuff back then. So I don't
really see the path, and I don't think the path
includes you know, you know, the searing of video games

(29:50):
or corn hole, or even if you brought Cornholio to
play on defense.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
For them, Hey, that's the Great court. I am the
Great Cornolio. I am the Great Cornolio.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
If you had the Great Polio play defense, what position
would he play?

Speaker 6 (30:07):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (30:08):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Middle linebacker. I mean you'd have to, I mean you
have to you have.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
To say, is he more of a defensive tackle? Oh?

Speaker 1 (30:17):
I don't know, because you want to be able to
stand up after the play and put his jersey over
his head and say that's him after a right.

Speaker 4 (30:24):
So if you had like the Great Kazoo, to me,
is a free safety.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
No question. He has dumb dumb after the court.

Speaker 4 (30:31):
Yeah, that that to me is and what are you know,
frend Swinstone, You know, really a space either Barney is
kind of I mean Barney Rebel is definitely Zach Thomas. Okay,
so we know we know that, right.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
I don't know about that front, but he's not going
to like that front. I don't know, Bob Let's a
quarterback front. I can't get there front.

Speaker 4 (30:53):
Speed racer, the speed racer would be your run end
playing on the open side because he really not great
in traffic. Just put it that way. But race for
X racer X is you're the big spy that you
put anywhere because nobody's quite sure what he's doing. He's
always kind of working there, but you're not sure exactly

(31:14):
what he's about to do.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
And and Moutley would be on the sideline laughing when
something goes wrong, and he would let he would laugh
at point here. Yeah it's a bad play. Yeah, that's
a bad place. You know what I want? Eight hundred
words on this on on the thirty thirteen, Holy wait,
have you just been sitting around watching Boomerang? Is there

(31:36):
are these all the cartoons you're watching?

Speaker 4 (31:40):
Well? How about all the study the characters.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
Oh nice, what what do you do?

Speaker 4 (31:45):
What do you do with Alma?

Speaker 1 (31:47):
Well, Vilma's a coordinate. It's a dangerous question. Film is
the smartest one. She's a coordinator, Mike McDaniel, mother or daughter?

Speaker 4 (31:57):
Yeah, Almaavelma definitely. You know I'm looking at another free safety.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
Eight hundred words on this coming on thirty thirteen by
Jason Cole next week next.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
To Great Gazoo. Yeah, the Great Gazoo. And in the
second Dar.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
Now he's got an obsession with Velma Bye, he goes,
there's a lot of Elma's on Friday night.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
That's who you think? Up first with Scooby Doo is Velma?

Speaker 4 (32:19):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (32:20):
Turns out a bar in Baltimore. They were all dressed
as Velma. Wow, the sweater and the glasses. Uh was
any of them win? To Cardelini?

Speaker 3 (32:27):
No, okay, one might have passed if I was drunk
enough time out to find out what's trending from a
guy who's been called the Fred Hey Fred of Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
He likes to wear he likes to wear the blue
Ascot and he drives a van.

Speaker 7 (32:41):
So what's the Scooby Doo? Fred? Not Fred Mertz from
I Love Lucy. No, I'll tell you it. You want
to talk about William Frawley. Bill Frawley, by the way,
Bill Frawley huge baseball fan. He had it written into
his contract that if the Yankees made the World Series
every year, he had to be to go. So that
caused great consternation because the filming of I Love Lucy

(33:06):
back in the day had to be delayed because the
Yankees would make the World Series every year in the fifties.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
We have been even, didn't He and Vivian fans hate
each other, absolutely hate each other, absolutely hated each other.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
It is television history seventy five years strong.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
Let's go and and wait a minute, as Berman would say,
and speaking of one uncle Charlie to another. The night
for Blake Snell not quite what any three sons would
have had in story for the Dodgers.

Speaker 7 (33:34):
Yeah, I don't think Chris Berman could have even come
up with that, baby.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
But even even William Demerist coming in from the bullpen
not enough for the Dodgers.

Speaker 7 (33:43):
Oh so true, So true, Boomer and Jason Smith. Because
top of the eighth inn in Game five of the
World Series, it is now five to one Toronto over
the Dodgers. David Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Junior let off
the game with back to back home runs off of Snell.
It's the first time in the seven hundred in five
game history of the World Series that a team is

(34:04):
at back to back home runs to lead off a game.
Key k Hernandez homer to left with one out on
the third inning for the Dodgers, but the Blue Jays
got another run on the top of the fourth and
then the top of the seventh inning was a total
fiasco for the Dodgers. Reliever at Guardo Henriquez came in
with two runners on base. Addison Barger scored on a
wild pitch. Bobashet then singled in Andres Jimenez. So the

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Dodgers in the top of the seventh inning allowed two
runs on two whits, with two walks and three wild pitches.
It was the first time in World Series history that
a team has thrown three wild pitches in the same inning. Meanwhile,
Toronto rookie hurler Trey Yesavage twelve strikeouts in his seven
inning stint. That was the most strikeouts ever by a

(34:48):
rookie in a World Series.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Game.

Speaker 7 (34:50):
He allowed one run on two hits, no walks. Again.
The Blue Jays have just scored again against the Dodger bullpen.
They now lead. It's six to one over the Dodgers
at the top of the eighth inning in Game five
of the World Series. Elsewhere, multiple outlets report the Minnesota
Twins hiring Derek Shelton as their new manager. Guys, back to.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
You, thanks Illo. Derek Shelton, who was fired in May
by the Pirates because they were so terrible. He actually
gets a better job. Minnesota's like, hey, let's just not
talk about this. Okay, let's not talk about it. Went
up in class. There you go. Coming up next, we
got to play the Day coming your way and an
absolutely insane story out of college football. You gotta hear.

(35:31):
That's next. Jason to Mike Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. Well, it is a big Blue Jay
lead six to one eighth inning. They are six outs
away from taking a three to two lead in the
World Series. Well off, more in this game coming up
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(36:46):
the t Wolves sixty two fifty eight. Really the only
good news going on in Los Angeles right now sports wise,
because wow, this world series, to quote Marv Albert, not
exactly what the Dodgers had in mind. Gucas calling a
time out. You got Maddie Gook. He wants to talk
it over nicely done.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
Yeah, you would eventually become part of that three man boots. Wait, Bob,
big big af for Reeves eighteen and nine with seven
for seven from the fall on, that's fantastic. It takes
out your guy, Julius Randall. He's got twenty two to
lead the Wolves showing without Edwards who's got a hamstring injury.

(37:27):
But yeah, Austin Reeves, I do like the cell Sell Sell.
This is what we got. We got Reeves. We don't
have Luca right now, we don't have Lebron Sell, So
I mean he does it as well as anybody in
the league.

Speaker 4 (37:39):
I know.

Speaker 3 (37:39):
I don't think that's We've heard that kind of no
time so far, plaudits and accolades from saying, hey, sell
the hell out of this guy.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
It's a lot more basketball coming up throughout the show tonight.
But this football story today, no matter, It doesn't matter
who your favorite team is, doesn't matter who you're root for,
it doesn't matter it. But just to think that this
is actually happens to a top level team in college football.
Now we know the big openings in college football LSU, Florida,
Penn State, right, but clearly LSU has had all the

(38:09):
drama with Brian Kelly getting fired earlier this week. Today,
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry told reporters that the athletic director
Scott Woodward, right, So the guy does all the hiring firing.
Either runs the athletic program at LSU. Right. The governor
of Louisiana told reporters that the ad won't be involved

(38:31):
in selecting LSU's new football coach, saying he would let
President Trump do it before he would let Scott Woodward
pick the new head coach at LSU. This is the
governor of the state, says, Okay, I understand what everybody's Yeah,
forget about all this other stuff happening. There's a lot
of important LSU football at the top. We can't have

(38:51):
games on situations like this. So I'm gonna tell you
that the school is not going to have any say
in who hires the next head coach. Like you said
he and here's the thing, like I'm sure he thought,
I am striking a blow, and I'm gonna win over voters,
you know in Louisiana who may maybe undecibomic. Hey, I

(39:12):
care a lot about LSU football, but just for a second,
just think this is just what an absolute clown show
this is like. But just think about this for a second.
If you are a big time head football coach, LSU
seems like a pretty good job, right because hey, all right,
they paid Brian Kelly a lot of money. But not
only did did Landry say, listen, the money is a thing?

(39:32):
Why would you want this job? Knowing that, oh, the governor,
if he gets mad, can jump in here and say, yeah,
I'm gonna make decisions on your future. Like what, There's
a lot of coaches out there who would love to
come to LSU. I don't know anyone that would want
to go to LSU after seeing this story today. I
don't know one of them. How big is a check?
I might not be. You know, it's not gonna be
Brian Kelly big. You're not getting that bigger check. You'll

(39:53):
get a bigger check from Penn State. You get a
bigger check from Florida. You got a bigger check from
a lot of places. You're not getting that big check
from LSU. Not after that.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
It's that curiosity, right, I mean, you want one of
the big time jobs, you want to be in a
big conference. You go and you interview, right, this might
be your only chance this cycle to go make the
big splash, because this ain't the end of it. There
A's gonna be other coaches out on their ears. I mean,
we're seeing that new era of college football, the I

(40:20):
want it now microwave society as money flows and we
expand the playoffs and everything else. I mean, do you
get a dialect coach like you got from Brian Kelly.

Speaker 1 (40:31):
Which turned out to be like his highlight and his
worst moment at the same time. I mean, faking the accent, right,
it looked like it was this great night the pictures
and it turned out the end. Yeah, they didn't really
like him from that moment on, Like you torpedoed yourself
the opening night, like when they were introducing you as
a head coach, because I'm gonna give you this, and

(40:52):
we talked about him faking the accent. What a big
deal that was. Now it turns out, oh no, no,
people didn't really like that.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
No one behind the scenes, Like there's a lot of
story he came to light, like we go back all
the way to his time at Notre Dame, but in
terms of this coaching higher Yeah, I mean if you're
a guy looking for that that job, or you know,
we talk about good Old America's interim coach circling that
was potentially looking for a job. He raised his hands

(41:18):
and I'll go back right. So at order On is
more than willing to drive tomorrow. But yeah, if the
price is right, And again, you got so many only
so many of these jobs come open in a given year.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
And you can go someplace else. There's lots of them now.
And you go something about worrying that wealth. The governor
doesn't like me, he's gonna fire me.

Speaker 3 (41:38):
Well, and your first win against the top ten team
would keep you at Penn State forever.

Speaker 1 (41:44):
Exit at about a fresca exit swollen dom Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon coming up next. More from Pivotal Game five
of the World Series and other big stuff out of
college football.

Speaker 3 (41:54):
And starting this field, Ah, that angst and the handwringing,
because certainly we're we're in Dodger country here as we
come to you from the greater Los Angeles area, and
just the there's no life for the squad right We're
watching the stands uh in this last half inning, there's
one guy standing trying to clap lead lead a cheer,

(42:18):
and everybody's just looking at him like he's insane.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
I mean, I don't even see Marlin's man at the
game anymore, Like leave now to I don't I don't
think I see marlins man. Like if Marlin's man isn't
there white, it's not like he's suddenly changed his color.
He's not a chameleon marl or very Hart. Like, you know,
she was at least there, She's still there. She was
there in the That was a cutout. Yeah, I think

(42:40):
Polfax was there. They cut away to Sandy Ko and
he looked really stared right at the camera like get
this camera off me, Like wow, they've cut away to
him multiple times over the course of the They expected
to come into the game and pitch. At this point,
pitching is not their problem. That's the thing though.

Speaker 3 (42:57):
I mean overall, yeah, they they've now given up six runs,
but they've done nothing offensively. It's been lifeless. Yea, the
entire night, right, the quality of it. Bats thinking you're
gonna shake up the lineup. It's not changing their approach
at all.

Speaker 4 (43:10):
Now.

Speaker 3 (43:10):
It's bad and bad. So Savage was fantastic and TJ
clearly you Savage was classy bougie tonight against the Dodgers.
Well play, Is that really his last name though? Like
that's one of those It's almost like he took that
on as a stage name, like his parents put it
on there. Oh no, but they decided, you know what,
we're gonna change this up, but we're gonna make it

(43:31):
his surname. As opposed to the popular, you know culture
way of you know, giving a guy a good first name.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
I'm expecting a story like this, Hey, where did that
name come from? He's going to say, well, you know,
my dad told me the story that you know, thousands
of years ago in our ancestors, Uh, there was a
very famous myth where my.

Speaker 8 (43:51):
Great great great great great great great great great great
great great great great great great great great great grandfather
uh once into a clearing against all his enemies, and
he slaughtered them all, and we were able to have
a community. We were able to take over the river,
and we were able to live. And that's where that's
where everybody started living. And when everybody came through and

(44:14):
they saw that my great great great great great great
great great great great great great great great great great
great great great great.

Speaker 1 (44:19):
Great grandfather had killed all our enemies. One of his
friends went up to him and said, boy, yes savage,
and he said that will be my name and my
family crest we are the yes savages. That's my story
like that. No, it's not bad.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
Early records in the US say it population back to
nineteen twenty in Pennsylvania.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
No, so not that far. Then, why do you sound
like John Lovett's there? Me or him? Oh? Him? Okay,
doing you're great great great great great great great great
great great great great. That's that? See the grass milk maids,
donate it. It wasn't his name, mister Mett. No, John
Lovitch was not. He would have been a good mister.
Oh you're great great great Oh oh no, no, no,
I just just my I'm just imagine pop as mister met.

(45:01):
I can't see. This head is too big. I can't
see anything. I can't see anything, this surname. My grandfather
was only like five feet talls. He would have fit
right into the costume, but he was. I can't see
the head. I can't see. I can't see. I don't
know why. I know how people do this. I can't
do it.

Speaker 4 (45:14):
Well.

Speaker 9 (45:15):
He had the upper hand. He was you were out
there doing all the dirty work he was cleaning up.

Speaker 4 (45:18):
I know.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
That's that's my bet. Pop, that's Pop. We'll have her
reckoning at some point, Papina. Uh. Now, look, this is
a big day and a big day for us here
on the show because tonight's the night the Magic Johnson
Twitter game is gonna go global. He got a lot
of attention earlier today for a tweet in which he said,
I mean eight point eight million views for this tweet

(45:40):
saying with the World Series being too too, game five
is very important. Whichever team wins takes control of the series.
And this blew up today. Yeah, Viral Magic's been tweeting
like this for years. We play the Magic Johnson Twitter
game right because no more obvious vanilla tweeter than Magic Johnson.
And we were gonna play the game a couple of minutes,

(46:00):
a special couple of versions we're gonna have tonight, and
I want to say that, you know, but now tonight,
like I think the entire globe sees Magic Johnson tweets
and what they're all about, and oh now we get
to get Now the game gets even bigger. Now again,
this is like when when when someone has a great
idea and it's selling well, and that goes on Oprah
and it's on My Favorite Things only. Oh my goodness,

(46:21):
the demand. I'm now a millionaire, Oprah, thank you so much.
That's what tonight is for the Magic john You always
wanted to say, well, what was her cut? Yeah, well, hey,
if that's gonna make me a millionaire, I can give
oprah cut.

Speaker 4 (46:32):
You know.

Speaker 3 (46:32):
It's just going back to them not letting the private
roads be used in Hawaii during some.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
Anyway, back to the positive stuff and then the favorite that.

Speaker 3 (46:44):
Yeah, yeah, the book that was no good but got
on that list.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
Game and look, Magic Johnson turned out to be correct, right,
the winner of Game five? Very important all the cheries. Yeah,
this may be the first playoff game the Dodgers lose.
That Magic was at how about that?

Speaker 3 (47:00):
So he threw out the first pitch to Mookie Betts. Yeah,
that was the biggest moment Mookie Betts had all night.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
So now knowing all of this, yeah, it is time
to play WHOA.

Speaker 2 (47:14):
And now it's the Magic Johnson Twitter game.

Speaker 1 (47:20):
Magic Johnson, who has been tweeting up a storm during
the World Series. We played the Magic Johnson Twitter game.
The greatest radio game ever. I've got the shout outs,
we've gotten social media today Ford kind of cool. No,
it's good. I get tweets game, and your job is
to figure out if this tweet is made up entirely
by me or is actually a Magic Johnson tweets? So

(47:45):
playing tonight myself, Mike Harmon, Isaac Lohenkroft, Justin Frostburg, Alex
Tischer are you ready? Why do you hesitate for my
name to making sure you were looking?

Speaker 3 (47:54):
I thought he was going to give you like a
nickname or something.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
Mad Well, Okay. The reason I had because you know,
if you want to be a comedy team, you gotta
be you gotta be sharp. I'm waiting for you to
do your who is Magic Johnson? Which you've done for
the past like three times. Yeah, I know it's coming.
I was giving you a pause to say it yet.
Are running Austin Powers line?

Speaker 8 (48:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (48:15):
Baby? Checked a running baby? Yeah? Alex ties you to
watch Austin Powers for the very first time last year. Jason,
do you want to know her name? Baby?

Speaker 4 (48:25):
No?

Speaker 1 (48:25):
No, it's a lot of lost Yeah. Yeah, okay, okay, okay,
let's let's let's play the huh play the game? Who
is it? Even though my Dodgers lost to the Blue
Jays last night, this series is so great and must
see TV? Is that a magic Johnson tweets? Even though

(48:46):
my Dodgers lost to the Blue Jays last night, This
series is so great and must see TV?

Speaker 3 (48:52):
Yeah, it's nice and generic and cheesy.

Speaker 1 (48:54):
Okay, you're went out, all right? I love yes. Wow,
you sound upset that you're making that.

Speaker 3 (48:59):
He's always disappointed in magic?

Speaker 1 (49:01):
All right, Frostberg, what do you got? Is that a
magic Johnson tweet?

Speaker 9 (49:05):
Well, the only guy that's saying they're his Dodgers is magic,
so yes, okay, all right, Jason, Yeah that is a
magic Johnson tweet.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
I know you're gonna say, who is magic Johnson? No
that Why do you say that? Why do you say
it like that? Because no, no, no, no, that is a
magic Johnson's tweet. Very good, very good, very good. Shall
we check now in later?

Speaker 3 (49:34):
Baby, he's really proud of himself.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
Okay, I'll take it. I think he was working on
that all his drive home. And thanks for bringing that up.
My sorry, what a game by Yamamoto in game two?
He's great? Is that a magic Johnson tweet that seems
to breed. What a game by Yamamoto in game two?
He's great?

Speaker 7 (49:59):
Not cheesy enough?

Speaker 3 (50:00):
Not Yeah, I think he would have been a more
flowery with his words.

Speaker 7 (50:05):
He would have found some stats that we all knew
in there too.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
Okay, you know what complete game is?

Speaker 1 (50:10):
Nine innies? Say it again?

Speaker 7 (50:14):
Okay, exclamation point?

Speaker 1 (50:17):
What a game by Yamamoto in game two?

Speaker 9 (50:19):
He's great that it's all accurate, Yep, yep, but Magic
didn't tweet it.

Speaker 10 (50:26):
Okay, tight shirt? What is a magic Johnson? No, Jason,
you want to know why. I know that's not him.
Why because he was sensational, not just great. Oh okay,
all right, that was incredible.

Speaker 1 (50:38):
Okay, he pitched the whole game. Okay, that is not
a magic Johnson tweets. Freddie Freeman played Hero again. The
Dodgers lead the World Series two games to one. Is

(50:59):
that a magic Johnson? Tweet? Freddie Freeman played Hero again.
The Dodgers lead the World Series two games to one. Yeah,
where's he tonight? Exclamation point or no exclamation points? Two
exclamation points? Yeah, let's go.

Speaker 7 (51:17):
All right, Ilo, I'm gonna say no, not corny enough.

Speaker 1 (51:23):
Wow, you're holding magic Johnson, do a really high This
is a guy you tweeted out. Whoever wins Game five
takes control of the series.

Speaker 7 (51:30):
Well, that's what I mean. Freddie Freeman hit the ball
over the fence, and since the Dodgers are the home team,
they can walk off the field and they don't have
to do anything else.

Speaker 1 (51:40):
Okay, you obviously don't read magic job, And maybe that's
good because you play the game better because the more
you get involved, the more you think about it, the
moment dificult this game gets okay. Oh yeah, he brings
you down. Yeah, Frostburg, what do you got? What's the question?
Is that a magic Johnson tweet? Say it again? Freddie
Freeman played hero again. The Dodgers lead the World Series
these two games to one. I mean, why not?

Speaker 9 (52:02):
Yeah, it all happened, okay, Alex eishirt Hi Jason, Yeah,
tough one for you, your sweating, sweating Jensen right now,
I'll just wait.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
You're specting like Kenley Jansen's on the mound. Ah, it's
a lot of words for magic. Okay, I'll say no,
that is not a magic Johnson tweet. Oh another sports

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day with the Dodgers playing the Blue Jays, and LAFC
taking on Austin to begin their playoff run. No way,
is that you're already saying?

Speaker 4 (52:48):
No?

Speaker 1 (52:48):
Okay, okay, soccer another sports day for the Dodgers playing
the Blue Jays and my MLS LAFC taking on Austin
to begin their playoff run. Is that a magic Johnson
in tweet? Oh he's part older of that, isn't he?
So yeah maybe he yeah, maybe, yeah, yeah, yeah. I
love you. Just suckered me in.

Speaker 4 (53:09):
I'm in.

Speaker 7 (53:10):
I'm actually going to say, yes, okay.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
All right? Is it the playoff? Is it playoffs?

Speaker 4 (53:17):
Yet?

Speaker 1 (53:18):
It's it is playoffs? Said to start I said, to
start their playoff run? Oh yeah, like Mike said, he
is part owner. So yeah, okay, hold on, I want
to change my answer, but no, you already already you
already buzzed in. We'll just say no sorry. Ken Jennings
would tell you can't do that. Put in your answers.

Speaker 10 (53:36):
I'll let you change your answer. What is blue Jays
win in Game five? That's my answer?

Speaker 4 (53:42):
That is.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
A magic Johnson tweet? Very notice that good, good job
changing your answer, very good. And Alex tie shirt letting
the cat out of the bag. Game five is in
the books. The Blue Jays win it six to one,
they will go back to Toronto with two chances to
hoist that big hunka medal that Rob Manfred could give

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MLB Network Insider, is the World Series over? Can the
Dodgers get back? How would they do it? What have
the Blue Jays been doing? Keep it right here we
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to back games. They lead the World Series three games
to two. They beat the Dodgers six to one. Joining
us now in the hot line to break it down
with us a man who said last night, I Am
not going to be surprised in the Blue Jays win tomorrow.
He turns out to be one hundred percent right. He's
on Twitter at John Morosi. He is the Pope, John
Paul Morosi, what's happening?

Speaker 4 (57:04):
Man?

Speaker 1 (57:04):
Congrats on being right, though I don't think justin Frostburg
is happy with you.

Speaker 6 (57:08):
Every now and then. I am right, every now and then.
It's rare, but it happens sometimes. And what I'll say
is this, this is what a baseball series will do
to people in terms of rationality and reason.

Speaker 4 (57:22):
And here's what I'm talking about.

Speaker 6 (57:24):
After Game three, Dodgers win eighteen innings, classic game, one
of the best ever played in the World Series. And
we had heard this series is over. There is no
doubt about it.

Speaker 4 (57:36):
Dodgers are going to win.

Speaker 6 (57:38):
And then the Jays win twice in a row, which
means the Dodgers lost twice in a row, something they've
done many times during the course of a seven month season.
And on the opposite side, oh my gosh, this series
is over. Just out of curiosity, Does anyone remember who
was lining up to start Game six for the Dodgers
on the mound? Anybody remember his name? Shobu Yamamoto. Okay,

(58:02):
so yes, I understand the Dodger bats are are quiet
right now. But last I checked, when when that guy pitches,
they usually need about two runs and maybe one and
they can win. There's a lot of baseball left. Yeah,
it's a long flight, but the good news is for
the Dodgers, They've got some guys on that plane that

(58:23):
know how to hit, and there's a lot of conversation,
I'm sure about just getting some good at bats and
they just got to play one good game and they
get a chance to play a Game seven for everything,
and who knows what happens then. So I am I
am not in any way closing the book on this one.

Speaker 1 (58:41):
So what we've seen, John Paul since that, since Game
three and Freddie Freeman's heroics, the Blue Jays have stepped up.
They've grabbed the game. You saw their aggressiveness jumping over
Blake SNeW tonight. If I had to say to you, hey,
what's happened to the Dodgers the last two games? What
would you say to me?

Speaker 6 (58:58):
Well? I think that, first of all, the Jays have
pitched really well. And I also think that those people
that watch the Dodgers carefully all season a long, I
know that both of you do.

Speaker 4 (59:09):
I know Justin does.

Speaker 6 (59:10):
Obviously, it's not totally shocking that they have had. Really,
let's be honest about this, it's as if there's been
three quiet games in a row. Okay, the second half
of Game three, Game four, in Game five. They've been
really quiet for three games in a row. Doesn't happen often,

(59:30):
but it happens. And the Jays pitching staff, I think
has executed really well, and some of the Dodgers' key
guys Mooki obviously is in an offensive funk. We can
all see that they had to make the decision at
the bottom of the lineup to put an Alex call
and sit Pates. So it's been a case where Otani's

(59:52):
historic Game three carried them for most of that game,
and then of course Freddy wanted in the end, and
then there's really been just a lot of quiet at
bats the last couple of games. And I think you've
got to credit you Savage to an extent really that
I thought Blake Snell after the first couple of batters
of the game, fished really well. But the unfortunate thing
is that those that bats count too. And and I

(01:00:15):
think you look at the at the Jays offensively, a
little more aggressive, a little more opportunistic, and and to
use the to use an expression that we hear often
in soccer, the Jays were just on the front foot.
They were on their their good foot. They were I
thought more more aggressive. They they they had better takes tonight,

(01:00:36):
and you just see that they're seeing the ball very
well in a way the Dodgers are not. And this
is not just a one player problem. This is not
a Mookie Betts problem. This is just a collective Dodger
lineup looking a little lethargic at a time. That's pretty surprising.
And I'll say this, if you go back in the archives,
the annals of most teams that have lost playoff series,

(01:01:00):
almost always you will hear someone say during the course
of that series, oh my gosh, they just stopped hitting
at the weirdest time. That's baseball, and baseball right now
is happening to the team that thought they had rewritten
the rules about the game. But in fact, baseball and
all of its beautiful randomness remains alive.

Speaker 3 (01:01:19):
And well, that's it. We see something we've never seen before.
Seven hundred and five World Series games. In the history books.
We get the back to back homers to get things
started JP, but you know, as concerning as the offense was,
you started just seeing the sloppiness and the lack of juice.
Once again, ta Oscar Hernandez gives us an adventure in
the outfield instead of just fielding it for a single

(01:01:42):
gets caught between that leads to that third run. But
then all the wild pitches, et cetera. It just does
not seem like a team playing with any level of
confidence right now.

Speaker 6 (01:01:53):
You're right, and they're not executing. They're just not And
yet this is where you look at at the game
of baseball and say, you derive your energy, and especially
in games like this, from from the mound. It's and
this goes back to something I remember Jim Leelan all
those years I covered the Tigers. He would always say this,

(01:02:15):
it's hard to look good when you don't hit, period.
I don't care, uh, when you look around the diamond
and and again you get some energy from the mound.
In this case, they were down to nothing before people
had had their first Dodger dog. Mean, that's that's and
and I think that's the credit to the Jays for knowing,
perhaps anticipating how Snell was going to approach them, and

(01:02:38):
did the Dodgers miss a little bit and they're in
their game planning and and maybe having a bit of
the element of the unknown with with David Schneider being
the guy to lead off, maybe maybe a little bit
maybe maybe the Jays had a little uh, just had
a little bit extra in terms of their their ability
to capitalize early and and the Dodgers just I think
were a little bit flat. And and that's me says

(01:03:00):
a lot about where where the Dodgers are now, where
the J's are now, and I think do in some
of these big moments for the Jays, this is all
new and fresh, and it's all very emotional now they
know they get a three to two league going back
home the Dodgers. A lot of these players they were
here last year. They've all played a lot of baseball.
And then again, there's no excuses here, but but you

(01:03:22):
observe and you see it is this Dodger team played
all the way into Halloween last year, they had an
early spring, they went, they went to Japan. If if
they were tired, if they were tired, you would you
would understand why. You would understand that it's been a
They've played a lot of baseball in the last decade really,

(01:03:42):
but especially.

Speaker 4 (01:03:43):
The last couple of years.

Speaker 6 (01:03:44):
And I do believe that that can sometimes show up
where there's a little bit extra weariness. You look at
someone like Trina's had a great career. There's not as
much sizzle in that arm now as there used to be.
That's not his fault, it's just that's just the attrition
of a long career Kershaw. I think it was pointed out.
I just saw the point made on threads a little

(01:04:04):
while ago. That you think about it, and Kershaw I
did not do in the game tonight. His last act
as a Dodger active pitcher on a mound at Dodger
Stadium was the escape against Natan Lucas in Game three.

Speaker 4 (01:04:17):
That's it.

Speaker 6 (01:04:17):
That's the final act on that mound for him, which
I think is a pretty remarkable thing to look back on.
Even as we're experiencing everything still in the present time,
you go back into the history a little bit understand
the context and the importance of what we're all witnessing
right now. But I think the Jays, honestly, guys, they've
just been the better team. They've executed better, they're at
bats that look better, their defense has been tighter. They

(01:04:40):
made some mistakes, but I think by and large they've
answered the bell. And I think it's one of the
more impressive things I've seen in sports recently that you
lose that Game three, You've got every excuse to just
kind of fold it up, and they have not. It
was a testimony to their mental strength, their leadership John Schneider,
and their players, the way they've played, they have earned

(01:05:01):
every win so far, and right now they are one
went away from Canada's first championship in baseballs in nineteen
ninety three.

Speaker 1 (01:05:08):
Now I'm gonna throw this by a John Paul Morose
the MLB Network inside of our guest here, Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon, is that after that Game three, Vlad Junior
waited in the locker room for every one of his
teammates to walk by and said, keep your heads up.
This is not over. You gotta win four, not two.
Get on my back. He's the lead and he comes
out and when he hit a home run every day

(01:05:28):
it makes it worth it. But he has the big
home run in the game yesterday, another big home run today,
Like I can see where the Blue Jays, Hey, we
have that guy who's gonna grab us by the throat
and drag us when we're not going well. I don't
see the dodge. I don't see that guy in the Dodgers'
lineup who's gonna say, hey, this is unacceptable, get on
my bleeping back, just because they you know, look, all

(01:05:51):
the superstars, the Dodgers have all great players, right, but
they're all really nice guys, and they're all great, you know,
they're all well respected. But I don't know that they
have that guy that's gonna stand up up and go,
what the blank are we doing. Let's get our heads
out of are you know what? And I think the
Dodgers need that right now.

Speaker 6 (01:06:06):
They may and and I think this is why. And
I think it's an interesting point that you make, Jason
that when you have and this is one of the
great challenges of sports, whether you're the kids that the
Chiefs of modern times, whether you're the Chicago Bulls of
the of the Jordan era, and you take any team
that wins consistently the Patriots, and and I think it's

(01:06:28):
paramount at different times to put some new some new
energy into the mix and and some new new players
into the mix.

Speaker 4 (01:06:36):
And obviously they.

Speaker 6 (01:06:37):
Did that to some extent with Snell other players that
have been brought on. But it's but the core of
the team, to your point, is the same core that
was your last year. Obviously, and for for multiple years
in the case of in the case of Freeman, and
that's it. By the way, why why switch in a
lot of ways? Well, sometimes the reason why you make

(01:06:58):
some adjustment to the extent that you can and is
you need someone in that in that position who has
some gravitas in that room to say, hey, I know
you all have one I haven't and you're almost you're
almost desperate. It's it's the Ray Bork effect with with
the Avalanche.

Speaker 1 (01:07:15):
After all, get the show very nice.

Speaker 6 (01:07:20):
You need you need sometimes who's gonna be Ray Borg?
Who's gonna be the guy that that is, to use
the hockey analogy, Who's who's the veterans going to get
the cup first after the captain because he's been waiting
for so long. They they need a little bit of
that to your to your point again, I'll use the
hockey words, a little bit of that. Sandpaper is not

(01:07:41):
the worst thing. And and and Vladdie is not. He's
not a guy that's gonna challenge people to fight every
day at the clubouse. That's not Gladdie's temperament at all.
But he's never done this before. And so there's there's
a certain attitude. I'm sure for him that like, hey,
we better get this right right now, because there's there's
no promises life. And I think that's a that's a

(01:08:02):
great perspective to have and and I think that the
Jays come by it rather honestly in a way that's
hard for the Dodgers. The other piece is, listen, the
leadership sometimes in baseball, I think can be a little
bit it's it's sometimes is a little overrated in terms
of what has done, what is said, because it's just
such a it's such a doing sport with so many

(01:08:25):
discrete moments in the game. If you talk about Otani,
obviously you know he lost. Is the start that he had.

Speaker 4 (01:08:33):
In Game four in the mound.

Speaker 6 (01:08:35):
Game three is one of the best games ever. In
Game four, the of the Brewers series, one of the
best games ever. He has had knights of brilliance to
this point, he has not been necessarily a consistently great
player from start to finish. At the playoffs, and the
way that Vladdie has if we're if we're going to
compare the two of them, and so I think now

(01:08:55):
the now the moment, of course, the fans that Trinal
are going to be booing him again, he's got to
show up in a big way, and Yamamoto excellent chance,
he's going to show up in a big way. And
so if Otani gets the home run, then Yamamoto is great.
The proper probably gone in Game seven. And so that's
why I'm not I'm not going to overrate and overreact
too much to what we've seen because I still think

(01:09:18):
there's a very legitimate shot that we're talking about baseball
on Saturday night.

Speaker 1 (01:09:22):
Look at you. You just went and said I want
a Game seven. Damn it. That that's really what it
broke down to you.

Speaker 3 (01:09:27):
Yeah, because so Tani set in the table as much
as we've gone after Mookie Betts and everybody else. Yeah,
he had that game with the ridiculous number of intentional
walks to you, But to your point, Jp, a lot
of strikeouts, a lot of inferior at bats for a
leadoff hitter in this series, right pressing a bit, and
then you Savage was just otherworldly in his first road

(01:09:49):
playoff start.

Speaker 6 (01:09:51):
Well, that's it, And I mean, to be honest with you,
the single best pitch that I've seen in this series
on the Toronto side that needs to have age a
splitter it's just it's unhittable, and it's the same, it's
the same. I'll say the same thing now that I
was saying when people were saying, oh my gosh, you
know Lucas swung a ball four from Kershaw. Yeah, it's

(01:10:12):
really hard to hit in the major leagues. It's really,
really really hard, and it's really really really hard to
hit the Savages splitter when it's on and it's being located,
which is exactly what the case was tonight. He pitched
the game of his life and what's been the month
of his life.

Speaker 4 (01:10:28):
I mean, it's.

Speaker 6 (01:10:28):
Been remarkable to see what you Savage has done. And
you've got to like the way that this this Jay's
team is looking now that you got someone in Gosmin
who's pitched so well at home and it is all
set there to pitch Game six. It's it's a really
good situation with the James there. They certainly go home
with the advantage that they need to win one. But

(01:10:51):
remember they just won an American League championship series where
a team has a three to two lead after a
very emotional Game five win and then lost. So the
Jays are smart to know that this thing is not
over yet, and basically all all though it has to
happen for us to see a game seven is great

(01:11:11):
players have to have a good night. Notice they didn't
say a great night, just a good night. If the
Dodgers great players are good, well we'll have a game seven.
I mean, that's that's what I that's what I see
Their talent, player for player, I think is still the
elite of the elite, and and if their players performed
that way, there's there's a really good chance that the
series will go the distance, which honestly, in some ways

(01:11:35):
is what feels like is appropriate.

Speaker 1 (01:11:37):
MLB Network insider John Paul Morosi on Twitter at John
Morosi Pope. As always, thanks for the time. We'll talk
to your Friday night after Game six.

Speaker 6 (01:11:46):
I can't wait Friday night. I'll have a little pick
there of the Vikings and the Lions, which gives you
a couple of days. By the way, I believe if
you go back in the archives last week, I said
Michigan thirty five, Michigan State twenty four. I think I
had it as a plus eleven for the amazing blue.
Why don't you go back and check with the Mars
Victor last Saturday.

Speaker 4 (01:12:06):
Well, we'll cut of curiosity.

Speaker 6 (01:12:07):
I can't I can't remember what it was.

Speaker 1 (01:12:09):
All right, we'll go back and figure it out for Friday.
Jump Ball.

Speaker 6 (01:12:13):
Hey boys, check the tape.

Speaker 1 (01:12:16):
Hi JP you buddy, there you go.

Speaker 6 (01:12:18):
You gotta go, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:12:20):
That's something you thought about all day. Hey, I gotta
make sure they know I almost got that game right
on the button right there.