October 11, 2025 • 40 mins
🎙️ Hour 1 of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon
Jason and Mike kick off Hour 1 by breaking down Game 5 of the ALDS between the Tigers and Mariners, providing live updates throughout the game. Then, they take a closer look at Week 6 in the NFL and share their picks for the weekend. Finally, the guys discuss Joe Flacco taking over as the starting quarterback for the Bengals after being traded by the Browns earlier this week. All that and more in Hour 1 of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon!
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I'll tell you the difference between the intensity level the
two sports in the playoffs that you can just see
by even if you're never watched a game before turning
on the television, the NHL and Major League Baseball, and
right now every second seems to tick by like an
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eternity Game five between the Tigers and the Seattle Mariners.
The Tigers have taken a two to one lead into
the top of the seventh inning right now, and we'll
get to Tarik schoobl In a second, but the absolute
irony of the fact that here for the for the Mariners,
Kirby is pitching an absolute gem, right, George Kirby's had
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an okay season for them, but Kerry Carpenter absolutely owns
it coming into the game one five for twelve with
five home runs, two singles to start the game. So
you know when he comes up with a runner on
in the sixth, they're not gonna let him face him
a third time, a right, because now he's seven for
seven for fourteen with five home runs, and the new
pitcher of the Mariners, bringing his spire and spire, promptly
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gives up a two run home a to Carpenter, and
I really I thought I was I thought I was
trying to re Kirby's lips in the dugout, saying, man,
I could have done that too. Wow. So it is
a two to one Tigers lead over the Mariners. They
took out Kirby because we don't want this guy kills him.
This guy absolutely kills him, so okay, and then Spire
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comes in and right away greets him with a two
run homer. So we're going to the bottom of the seventh.
The Tiger's up to one. Winner goes onto the Alcs
to face the Toronto Blue Jays.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
It's what you call playing the percentages. It's what smart
managers do to win ball games.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
But coach I got nine home runs today. There you
have it, the Simpsons at Strawberry's line. But coach I
got nine home runs. But that's it. Congratulate yourself on
a day well done and take a seat on the bench.
I'm playing the percentages.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
That's what smart managers do. Yeah, I mean you saw
just the when Carpenter turns on it and Spier's reaction
immediately right going lefty ut lefty, second pick gone, and
the way things are flowing with this game. I mean,
the electricity is surge right there. You might have had,
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you know, some problems with some of your electronics in
the stadium and around it. With the type of response
you got to Ba just absolutely incredible. Three for three
on the night and the long ball.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
You see that home run, and he knew right away
because he flips his bat, Inspire just puts his head down,
like I gotta go back up home plate just because
I gotta look like I'm doing my job. But I
know that's not in the ballpark. I know I'm just
running fruitlessly. So a two to one lead, But but
you want to talk about high drama. And I am
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really stunned with this, even though it's a little bit
of short rest to Rick Scoulball, who has been absolutely
amazing tonight. And I talking to my wife today when
she says I'll school better, pitch better than Laska. I go,
last game was seven innings to give up two runs.
He goes, yeah, you should give up no runs. I'm like, wow, Okay,
so that's what everybody's expect. Is that what you have
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to live up to every day. That's what Snall's gotta
live up to. Tell that that's what happened to your hair.
Wo man, we finally have the explanation after all these years,
he should give up no runs. Okay, nine pitches his
last one, one hundred mile an hour fastball that punches
out cal Riley, and I'm watching him come off and
get his high fives, and I go, boy, this looks
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like he's coming out. Is it? Wow? Is he really
gonna come out? I mean, I know, ninety nine pitches
and he's been thirteen strikeouts. There's a reason why he's
the best pitcher in baseball. And two hits for the Mariners,
and here comes Finnegan to start the seventh inning. Twenty
four saves this season, so look they're they're going to
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a high leverage reliever obviously, but still here comes Kyle Finnegan,
Detroit native, to step in, and right now the manners
are going, oh, we feel like we're winning by five runs.
We got schoobl out of the game at ninety nine pitches.
You know what for me, I'm sorry, I'm aj Hinch.
However many pitches it takes Schooble tonight, it takes even
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if it's one hundred and seventy five. Yes, we need hey,
you need one hundred and seventy five. One hundred and
seventy five for you is what we need right here.
I mean, this is this is a huge victory for
the Mariners. And you know Schooble wanted to stay, but
you could just tell coming in putting the towel on
the high fives. It's like, Okay, it looks like he's
sort of done. It looks like he's coming out of
the game. And now you are gonna see a huge
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uptick in excitement and in possibility for the Mariners. Jay
Rod just hits one to the wall the first batter
of the seventh inning, Finnegan breathing a sigh of relief.
It was tracked down just short of the fence. So
now even though it's two to one, Tigers have the lead,
they're counting outs. It is no more to reach schoobl
than wow, man, aj Hinch is just going, Okay, I
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know what the question is gonna be postgame. I know
what they're gonna be post game. Let's just get eight
more outs. That's all I need, eight more routes. I
don't have to answer any questions. Yes, eight man out.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
No, Look, you haven't seen Schoobl's got a bunch of
seven inning outings over the course of the year, a
little seven and a third, seven to two thirds, one
complete game going back to May against Cleveland with a
five nothing win. But but yeah, the it felt like
that last pitch he threw it to finish the sixth
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against Raleigh, it was like he threw his arm at
him as well, Yeah, here taking that.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
An empty the tech moment, and I was like, but
he was still throwing one hundred the entire game, so
it's not but yeah, but he completed the you know,
delivery of the pitch and he was halfway up the
road to do home plate.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
As he finished, It's like, yeah, I got him. That's
that big moment, big gesture, big crowd response. But now
you do the hand ringing and waiting because you know
the second guesting will be done. It was already being
done on the other side with Kirby because he only
he left with only sixty six pitches thrown. Yeah, except
again going to the matchup of everything that played out
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and you know hindsight twenty twenty with the long ball
and then being hit by Carpenter. But for school bol,
I mean, that was just masterclass right there. Just every
at bat going, is anybody even gonna wave at something
close to making contact? And the answer was no. He
was absolutely masterful.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
But do you want to know what I thought? You
want a great on a positivity Friday. We got a
big positivity Friday story coming to right a minute. But
you want a great positivity Friday story. You know what
I thought of when when they take Kirby out because obviously, look,
five for eleven, five home runs, right, you're not gonna
let Kirby faced carpenter, Right, You're just not gonna do it.
That's It's not like, hey, he's hitting three fifty in
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his career against him, he's you know, he saw yeah, no, no,
this is a five for all five hits or home runs.
Every other time he bats against me, HiT's a home run.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Well, hey, hey, recent recency bias. He only had singles today.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yes, yeah, yeah, and the first two times up we're
too you know, we're two singles. So it's like, okay,
he's really got him. I was thinking of that made
for TV movie in I think it was seventy eight,
seventy nine. The kid from left field, Gary Coleman, was
a kid and he was a coach or a manager
with the Padres. He was this.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Base yeah yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
He was so smart and he was in the and
I forget if he was actually the manager or like
he advised the manager, right, and that was the whole thing.
And he made a move in the game where they
had this guy coming up in the game and uh,
obviously they were they were fake players. They weren't real players. Uh.
And one guy was coming up, he had a lot
of success against him, and Gary Coleman's idea was, we're
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gonna take the picture, move him to first base, bring
in a new pitcher just for this batter. Then after
this batter is over, that picture leaves and the pitcher
goes back to and the picture that was on first
base goes back to pitching, and they put a new
first basement in. And I'm thinking that's what I would
do if I were the Mariners, I would take I
would just put Kirby in a position where we don't
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think he's gonna hit the ball, and then bring him
back in to keep. Like what an incredible move that
would have been. And if I remember right, the batter
hit a pop up and the pitcher caught it at
first base, like the one batter he was aired like.
The pitcher actually caught the pop up. Then he went
back into pitch. I'm like I wanted kid from left
field right there.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Remake of a nineteen fifty three classic, going all the
way back to nineteen seventy nine, Robert Gillome, Gary Collins
and Ed McMahon were the other stars of this film,
You have one, That's what he kept saying, though. Yes,
so again, we'll keep you posted on the Tigers and
the Mariners, two out one on bottom of the seventh inning. Again,
the winner goes on to the Alcs to take on
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the Blue Jays. Meanwhile, this is great for a positivity Friday, right, Yeah,
we always need positivity Fridays.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
A coursis for it. And one of the big NFL
stories of the weekend is Joe Flacco going to start
for the Bengals in his first game. Doesn't matter. Hey
all know, we just wanted Joe Flacco to come in
because we like Joe. He can help us. No, no, no, no,
you're starting right away, Joe, You're starting. We love Jake Brownie. Yeah,
you're starting right away. You are starting right away, Joe.
So Flacco's going to start this weekend for the Bengals.
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Will preview the game coming up in a little bit.
But I want to say this. He was asked, why
is he still playing here? He is? You know, Joe
Flacco's going to be sixty three years old his next birthday,
still in the NFL. And he's asked today why are
you still going here after such a career. And this
is the answer that Joe Flacco gave. You talk about
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a positivity Friday, This is it you.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yeah, you're cool you, I'm out all right?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
So Flacco didn't like already the media in Cincinnati not
happy with there. But then when they said, okay, Joe,
can you calm down and just let us know what
you really think about it? This is what Joe Flacco.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Said, like a lot to offer to a football team.
I feel like I've put in a lot of work
my whole life to get to this point in just
terms of playing in the NFL in general. And I
have a I hopefully will have a long life when
I'm done. But you only get a chance to play
in the NFL once. I feel like I've worked really hard,
like I said, to be a guy that gets to
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play in the NFL, and I don't want to take
that for granted. I still feel like I can play
the game at a high level, and I want to
be able to look at myself in the mirror when
I'm fifty years old and be able to say that,
you know, I gave it everything I had.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Now that that is an amazing. I feel like we've
been inspired the last couple of days with you Know What,
We're what you know what people are talking about sister
Jean and and here's Joe Flacco saying, I want to
be able to look back when I'm fifty, which is
actually his next birthday, so it's not very far away.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I want you far away exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I want to look back when I'm fifty and say
I gave it everything I had. I did this. You
you look, you get one shot right around around around,
however many times you go around around the sun. You
get one shot to do what you want to in life.
And yes, it is a big balancing act because when
you talk about getting married and having a family and
making sacrifices, it becomes bigger than yourself. But when it
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comes to what you choose to do for a living,
nothing he does is going to beat what he's doing.
Right now, you take that and go all the way
until you know I can't do it anymore. Don't retire
or stop playing for spite. Don't retire or stop doing
something because well, it's too difficult to find a job.
There's many guys that have retired in their thirties, as well.
(12:15):
I can't get a gig here, it's so difficult. Instead
of saying, hey, i'll kick around, I'll be a number
three quarterback somewhere. You don't know how things are gonna go,
I might be able to find my way in starting.
Because that's Joe Flacco, right, It's also Sam Darnold, It's
also Gino Smith, it's also Baker Mayfield. Right, it's all
of these guys that, Hey, I could have quit some
time ago. Hey, I made money, I'm twenty seven years old.
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No one's gonna have me start again. I'm just gonna
go and enjoy the rest of my life and do
whatever I want to. But no, this is what I've
given my life to. I want to see this out,
and I'm gonna go until I absolutely can't go anymore.
And that is one hundred percent the right call, because
if you don't, you're always gonna ask yourself, Hey, you know,
what could have happened? Whatnot? And it's not that it
would sit there and really eat it you, but you'd
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always wonder, always wonder how man if I'd stuck it out,
if I had done more. But no, I was really mad.
And you have that conversation with yourself, and you try
to justify your decisions to yourself. The best thing I'll
tell on you when you're done doing something, for when
you're done or in a relationship, whatever it is, be
sure that I am done, because I am done, because
I can't do this anymore, either physically or mentally. And
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I no longer get joy going to the field and
getting in the locker room with the guys. I no
longer get that jump running on the field and being
able to play. I no longer get that buzz when
we're trying to figure out two minute drive at the
end of the game. That's when you stop playing. That's
when I know I'm done. When you know you're done
doing something, that's when you go. And too often it's
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easy to convince yourself for to say, hey, I gave
it a great go. No one would blame Joe Flacco
if he retired from the NFL four years ago, because
what's he gonna do? But then look at what happened.
All of a sudden, he gets thrust in because the
Browns played six quarterbacks in twenty twenty three, and all
of a sudden, Flacco comes off his couch and throws
them to the playoff, so we stays leave another couple
of years. He starts this year a little bit for
the Browns. Okay, didn't work. They got a new guy
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coming in Boom. Now he's going to start for the
rest of the season for the Bengals. A better team,
a better offense, a chance to put more numbers up
and continue to play and start in the NFL like this,
This is why you keep doing it. And when when
when Joe Flagges listen, I can't do it. I don't
want to do training camp, I don't want to do X,
Y and Z, and teams say there's no interest, nobody
wants you anymore. That's when you say, Okay, I've done
all I can and I'm at peace with this decision.
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That's the best thing you can do in paths in
your life, whether it's creative, personal, family. When you are
absolutely sure you are done, that's when you stop doing it,
and not a second too soon. That's a great positivity
Friday message.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Yeah, there's always a line that sticks with me. From
the early days of his podcast, Adam Corolla, Right, everybody
knows what he did with the you Know Demand show
all the way back in a couple of movies, comedy, whatever,
but and wherever it's it's not going into the political
realm here. It's just the idea of whatever you're doing,
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does it make me happy? And does it make me money?
If the answer to it to both of those is know,
then go on and do something else. And then you
start playing the what's the weight between the other two things?
If you if you hit the uh the click on
either right, do you make a lot of money? Yeah,
you might be able to go through a little little
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bit of bumps and aches and pains, and where psychologically
day to day you're you're not really one hundred percent
on where you're going in. This applies to any job,
but certainly for the NFL. I mean it's finite.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Right.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
How many athletes have we talked through through the years
that they wish they could have gotten one more trip
around right, that they got retired because their body was
done and the phone stopped ringing. So as a quarterback,
he's in the beautiful position as long as he can
stay upright and still push the ball downfield. It's not
quite the moon ball of Russell Wilson, but he is
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a guy that'll push it downfield sometimes into Harm's way,
go back to that Cleveland year. Sometimes they want in
spite of him with the defense coming up big. But
thirteen touchdowns against eight picks a lot of that with
air yards, and that's what they're looking to do to
jump start an offense that is sputtered. We see Jamar
Chase had big numbers last week.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Can he bring t Higgins and Chase Brown along with
him for the ride and try to find something a
little more full So for for Joe Flacco, yeah, I
mean he may end up in Pittsburgh next year, so
you can complete that that quad, you know, those four
teams in the AFC North, and then he can go
back and start picking off other teams along the way.
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But it is the lesson right of you know, if
you love what you do, ride it out as long
as you can. There will be hard days, there will
be setbacks, but you know what's the coster line. It's
the hard that makes it great.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Oh and I was gonna say, no, what's your what's
your dusty roads line?
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Hard time? No, that's it?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
You say, hard?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yeah, hard times are for the steel workers. Hard time
is for the miners, for the guys in the Ottawa Assembly,
all of.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
That exit out about a Fresca exit swollen down The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Update
from Seattle. Uh, you know, I don't want to say
I told you so. Uh maybe schooble shit has stayed
in the game right now. Aj Hinch wants to find
a hole and hide. A two out rally by the
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Mariners has tied this game at to apiece. Holton has
come in on his second pitch, Reves hitting for Kansall
and hits a drive down the left field line that
brings in the tying run. And now it is two
to two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning.
We have a brand new game. Mariners fans are crying.
There's one Mariner fan who is absolutely there showing him
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he is crying right now. It's a tie game in
the seven Save your crying for if you win or
walk off like it's a tie game, don't He's got
to save your tears.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
But a hitch now didn't have any of those tricks
from his Astros days. Shune.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Wow, Well, the Tigers get out of the inning ground
out to short ends it. So we go to the eighth.
It is a brand new game two to two Tigers
and the Mariners. Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the
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We'll keep.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Baul Park has become a character here. Man.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
It's it's amazing. I mean really, the intensity of the
MLB playoffs. Every single pitch is dripping with all sorts
of anxiety. And you know, even when you don't even
have a dog in the fight, it's okay, man, what
are we gonna do? But you do you know, well, yeah,
it's the thing. Yes, my, my, you do.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
I mean, look at you.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yeah. Yeah. They all have Tiger's fever right now. The
thing is, I have friends in Seattle, and I'm like, yeah, guys,
I kinda yeah, I know, but I kind of have to,
you know, in the rooting thing, I kind of have
to go the go with the family. I kind of
have to go there a little bit. They gotta go
to the Tigers.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Even though you learned long ago on Beavis and butt
Head that people from Seattle were cool.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yeah, oh yeah, look I knew that.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
I knew.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
It took me a long time to find out people
from Detroit are cool.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
So so there's that, Well look at you trying to
save yourself there.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Well, well I kind of have to. Yeah. The text
with my wife's family now is just every but no
one's even making sense. They're not even using blocks anymore. Yeah. No,
I can't even understand. What's It's almost like when someone
does talk to text and you go, what the hell
is that? Oh? You did talk to text? It that's
what I know. They're typing and they're just typing because
they're insane. It's like they're all zombies who learned how
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to operate phones. That's what's going on right now.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
I can't It is that month, and you know, I can't.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I can't even I'm like, yeah, you guys, yeah I
got the show. Okay, yeah, no, go good luck, good luck.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Hey has that been done in a movie or TV
show yet where the zombies are using telecommunications?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Oh that's the next one, though. You could be the
first I've done that, because why are all the zombies
always dumb and slow? Why can't there be smart and fast?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Like? Well, I mean, we got the fast part with
World War Z, so we've ushered in a new era
zombie really really smart.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Why can't they be this wild start? They're so super smart. Man,
when they turn into zombies, they get really intelligent, Like,
they're all so smart. Why can't we have that? I
don't know, all right, I gotta call Sci Fi Channel.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
You know, an important anniversary today though, While we're on
the subject of zombies and movies twenty eight years ago today,
it was twenty eight days later. Boogie Nights. I thought
you a movie that we have seen ninety five thousand times.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
And cross I always put Fox Sports Trading Crossburg always
puts it on on.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Does it have its own channels?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
At this point, when Boogie Knights and Big Lebowski are on,
Frostburg puts them on. No matter what. He would turn
off the Super Bowl for one of those two movies.
I believe you. I can't watch Super Bowl, guys. I
gotta put Booge Knights on.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
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you talk about the third championship in four years for
the Aces. This was a team that at the beginning
of August looked like, hey, it's just not happening for us. Right,
they had traded Kelsey Plumb in the offseason. They were
fourteen and fourteen. Okay, it happens, right, you win a couple,
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you get old right away. They lost three games in
the last nine weeks. Those were the law, that's what
the Aces did. Three losses since August second. Two of
them were in the last playoff round to the Fever. Right,
who gave him the toughest row? Oh, you could probably get.
Two of the losses were in the last round of
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the Fever when the Aces won in one in five.
But this was They went on a run from fourteen
and fourteen and middle of the pack and who knows
how things are gonna go. And they finish thirty and
fourteen into the playoffs. Those where they you know, they
lose a couple of games. They lose one game to Seattle,
they lose two games to Indiana, They sweep Phoenix. They
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close the regular season from fourteen and fourteen to thirty
and fourteen. I mean, this is a champions run, man,
Like you want to cut it up, just say this
is what champions. So it's all of a sudden. They
just turned it on midway through the season and they
win the title. Another title for Asia Wilson. An absolute
dynasty there for all the Caitlyn Clark and oh hopefully
Angel Reese gets to a new team that's better, and
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you know everybody else, all the fun stuff. Man, they
just keep saying, Okay, that's great, we have the best
player in the game. We're gonna continue to win. She's
gonna keep winning MVPs and we're gonna keep winning titles.
It's okay, we'll celebrate at the end. That's Las Vegas.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Yeah, I mean the accolades keep piling up when we
talk about first teams, this all defense and everything else.
Asia Wilson just having herself a ridiculous run. The trifecta
here and now you need labor piece to see if
you can keep the game moving right. All the other
business deals are fun, and we can't wait to see
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Caitlin Clark back on a court in whatever the next
version of Caitlyn Clark is. Because the thirteen games we
did see this year were uneven and riddled with injury
before she was finally shut down. The Angel reach. She's
got business deals seemingly being announced by the day. That's
all fine and good. The aces from that midpoint of
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the season just absolutely a tale literally of two halves
of a season, like, all right, we done screwing around,
All right, let's go to work. And that's what you did.
Led by Wilson, Young and Gray at the top, with
Jewel Lloyd contributing, you have good depth, good chemistry, and
when it came to win in time, there was no
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shopping them.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Wait, I'm watching Kathy Engelbert is talking right now. She says, no,
Asia Wilson should thank everybody that she's in the league
right now, that she's even here, and the and the
media deals that I got. Sorry, is it too soon
for that joke?
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Well, but at least she didn't send someone else in
her stead, which some would argue would have been a
better move. Yeah, you don't. You don't want any of.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
That exit out about a Fresca exit swollen down the
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon. All right,
So to football Friday, we go and let's kick things
off with a bang. Let's take a look at the
game of the week in the NFL. Nothing bigger, Cleveland's
a bigger We'll get tight shirt. We're gonna get to Cleveland.
(26:45):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (26:46):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Is that his segment no no, no, no, no, big
night for Alex Tie will have more details on that.
It's the biggest night Alex Tyshert's ever had here on
the show. We'll give you wearing a suit. He's in
his birthday suit. That's exactly right, big, nothing, bigger than
the Lions and the Chiefs. Yes, I know Kansas City's
(27:07):
not gonna lose again to go to two of fun.
You know what, Kansas City's gonna lose again to go
to two and four. Detroit right now is the best
team in the NFL. Right we can have discussions about
They fix their Week one issues so incredibly fast. Their
offense is absolutely rolling. Maybe they upgraded an offensive and
defensive coordinator. I really think they upgraded at DC. But
(27:28):
you know that's a story for another day. I can't
see how the Chiefs keep up in this game. There's
still another week away from from Rashid Rice with the suspension.
You know Worthy is back, that's great, but this is
still a team that just isn't great, and they're losing
games at the end. They've three losses all where they've
melted at the end. Either they couldn't get a score
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or the defense couldn't stop them. These are all games
the Chiefs used to be able to win. Hey, don't
leave it to the end to Mahomes. Do give them
a chance, and look at what happens. The losses this year,
three of them all because they couldn't stop the other
team at the end, and they're finding a way to
not come through when because the other teams are younger,
they're more athletic, they have more at the end of
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the game. The Chiefs defense is not great. They just
seem like they're really really missing something right now. And
I'll tell you what, the Lions they're gonna come in
and this this team might be better than it was
last year. Certainly the defense is better than it was.
And I see this one being like a thirty eight
to seventeen game where Hey, Mahomes does his best to
keep them close, but in the end, it's hard to
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stop Gibbs and Montgomery and Saint Brown and Williams and
Laporta and Billy Simms and Barry Sanders and Eric Kane
and Eric Hipple. It's gonna be impossible. Give me Detroit.
But they did it in Kansas City a couple of
years ago Opening Night. They do it again this week.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Last I saw the over under had crept all the
way out to fifty three.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
That'll be done by halftime.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
That'll be okay, nice appetized for you there as you go, Chiefs,
A slight home favorite. The key here for your Detroit Lions. Look,
I know you were trying to, you know, sideswipe your
guy Aaron Glenn. While he's at it, he was dealing
with how many how many starters were actually available for
him towards the end of the year, like three.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Well, right now, that's kind of where we're headed again.
But they got the key. Guy Hutchinson will be there
to try to terrorize Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
You got a lot of injuries in the back seven
that they'll need to address, including a couple of cornerbacks.
But we'll keep an eye on that as we get
towards game time. I'm gonna take the Lions to win
the game. Too much firepower, too much in the run game.
Your best runner is still Patrick Mahomes on the other side.
Until they address that to get true balance in the equation,
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it's a problem. Don't put up some points. I think
it's close, but I think Detroit wins by a field
goal on the road and a lot of handwringing transpires.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Oh boy, So there it is our game of the
week in the NFL. We got Game of the Weeks
in college football coming up, but right now, time to
find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
Man has been called the Dan Campbell of Fox Sports
Radio because I caught him biting Alex Tyscher's knees earlier
in the hallway.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
It's Steve to say, only biting granola bars here at
the studio, Incredy.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
That would be your speech at the end word, you know,
as seem to say your head coach, We're gonna bite
granola bars, We're gonna eat whatever, We're gonna drink water,
We're gonna do whatever we need to do to go win. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
I think after shark consideration, that probably would be in
and it probably wouldn't inspire anybody. We have a great
ball game going out on Fox TV. Game five by
the best of five Ale Division Series. First off, Trek Schouoble,
the first player in baseball history to strike out thirteen
batters in a game twice in the same postseason. His Tigers, though,
(30:53):
are tied at Seattle to two in the bottom of
the eighth because a pinch hitter named who Louis Reevas
Leo Reeva, I've never heard of this guy had the
tying RBI single in the bottom of the seventh for Seattle.
Now starter George Kirby five plus innings, six strikeouts and
(31:15):
no walks, No decision for him, no decision for Scooble.
It's two to bottom of the eighth right now. Now
the closer for Seattle Andres Munoz finally got the last
out of the top of the eighth. The closer Will
Vest is on for the bottom of the eighth for
the Tigers.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
By the way, the Tigers, right now we're saying, see
my best, see my vest, watch and pitch and.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Put it to the test of nicely done.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
Beauty and the beast reference kids. The ALCS starts this
Sunday nights on Fox TV from Toronto, with Game two
on Monday in Toronto. Raiders tight end Brock Bowers is
out again this weekend with a bad knee. They'll go
up against Tennessee Titans. Kicker Joey Slye out with a
calf injury. Quarterback Brock Purty of the forty nine Ers
will miss a second straight game with a toe injury,
(31:59):
and his backup quarterback Mac Jones is listed as questionable
with nee and oblique injuries. He's been limited in practice
this week.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Baltimore Ken Dorsey gets the start if she can't.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Go standing by, This will really test that theory that
anybody can quarterback. The forty nine Ers standing by Baltimore
is one in four hosting the Rams on Sunday. Ravens
quarterback Lamar Jackson will miss the second straight game with
a bad hamstring. Falcons wide receiver Darnell Moody misspractice today
bad amstring. Bill's wide receiver Curtis Samuel missp practice with
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neck in rib injuries. Carolina running back Chewba Hubbard is
out again with a calf injury. The Patriots place running
back Antonio Gibson on injured reserve. Brown's rookie QB Shatur
Sanders will be the backup for rookie Dylan Gabriel Sunday
against Pittsburgh for the Steelers, wide receiver Calvin Austin out
with a bad shoulder. Dallas running back Miles Sanders is
(32:51):
out for the year with knee and ankle injuries, and
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones will not appeal the fine of
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for what he had
called an inadvert gesture to fans to college football three
games tonight, number twenty four. South Florida dominated the third
quarter and now leads at North Texas forty nine to
twenty eight, and they're driving for more early in the
(33:13):
fourth final seconds before halftime on half as one. Rutgers
now up thirteen to seven at Washington and Colorado State
at the half, a team that's one and four leads
thirty five fourteen over Fresno State at the break. Las
Vegas has swept the WNBA Finals, winning at Phoenix tonight
ninety seven eighty six Asia Wilson Finals MVP with thirty
(33:35):
one points. Once again, it's Tigers two, Mariners two, bottom
of the eighth game five of the best of five
division series.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Back to you, You know, moron on Leo Revesivo. Not
only was that his first at bat of the series, Okay,
his first bet today is his birthday. Yes, how about that.
He's never gonna this is the I'm gonna go on
a let and say this is the greatest birthday he's
ever had in his life or will have anybody want
to buy some rookie cards.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
Come on, it's like buying up those Greg Jeffries rookie
cards years past, all the.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Way back to nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Baby, Steve O. You know how many Greg Jeffries' rookie
cards I have? I have probably like one hundred. He
was my favorite player when he came up, like, oh
my god, he's gonna go to the Hall of Fame's
my favorite men.
Speaker 6 (34:20):
The Dodgers appreciated his defense in the eighty eight playoffs
since there.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Yes, I'm sure they did well. He had three point
thirty that year. But you know, okay, that's up all right,
Thank you very much, Steve. So here you are right
now again, Leo Reeves. It's his birthday, his first at
bat of the series. He ties the game. It is
two to bottom of the eighth inning, one out, vest
and a rose A Raina going at it. We'll bring
you more on this, but straight ahead, Yes, we take
(34:44):
a look at some of the biggest college football games
tomorrow Way huge college football Saturday. Keep it right here,
Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
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Speaker 1 (35:00):
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than authentic Irish centter, better than Montgomery Burns sets down,
sets down the meat of the order in the Mariners lineup.
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So we go to the ninth. It is two to two,
Game five of the Alds between the Mariners and the Tigers.
It has been an absolute thriller both teams two runs,
four hits. We'll keep you updated on this again. Tiger's
coming to bat in the top of the ninth inning
of a tie game. But it is football Friday. We
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previewed the biggest NFL game of the week a few
minutes ago. We talked Lions and the Chiefs. Oh, the
Chiefs are Yeah. No, they're gonna lose again. But there
is a slate of big games tomorrow in college football, right,
we have some big Top ten matchups. But nothing is
bringing the intrigue more than Texas and Oklahoma. Right. John
(36:08):
Mattier is back, He's now probable. Maybe he can restart
his Heisman campaign because right now it's like, well, really,
anybody can win. Still, I am so worried for Texas
and arch Manning versus Oklahoma because look, here's the non
BS answer. What's up with Texas and arch Manning? Right?
Why they're three and two and why suddenly, hey, what's
(36:31):
going on here? Right? Arch Manning is fine? All right,
he's fine. He's not great, he's not dominant, but he
is fine. Remember he's in his first year as a starter,
and the hype coming in was incredible. But the guy's
making some plays. He gotta let at some point it's like, okay,
it's not like he's throwing four receptions a game. What's
going on is I don't know that now? When he
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when on a lot of plays, he sees where he
needs to go with the football, he doesn't get to
his third receiver or his second option. A lot you
see a lot of plays where hey, Manning makes this thrown, Boy,
he had a receiver here who was open. I just
don't know that he sees that yet. And I think,
you know, after four or five games, he's still putting
up enough offense, he's still making plays with his legs,
but he just needs to play a little bit. And
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and clearly he's gonna come back to Texas after this
Year's not headed to the NFL after this. That surely
isn't happening. So I'm okay giving him a little bit
to assess and really break him down next year. Because
here's the thing. Texas is good right there. This is
not the same team as twenty twenty four. Injuries are
hurting them a bit, yes, one hundred percent, but they're
(37:37):
just not good enough right And I kind of feel
like like Steve Sarkisian is on a post twenty six notice, where, Okay,
this year, whatever it is that we disappointed and it
wasn't quite the season we saw, Okay, you gotta come
through in twenty six with Arch Manning or we're gonna
wind up getting a new head coach. Like I feel
like he is on he'll be on notice next year.
(37:57):
But Texas just they're just not that good. They didn't
blow out teams they should have been blowing out right.
They lose to to Ohio State, and I'm still not
sold at Ohio. Ohio State's their defense is unreal, right,
this is one of the best defenses in all of
college football that we've seen in years. But overall, is
Ohio State really that good? Is their defense just making
sure the offense in positions succeed. But Texas just has
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not looked good at all. They've they've not looked from
week one to week six. They kind of look exactly
the same. They're just not good. So I'm okay, but
I am. I am so fearful for Texas tomorrow because
I could see Oklahoma running away and hiding with this one.
Matteers got his shoulder pads off by the beginning of
the fourth quarter. It's wow, what's going on Texas? What
(38:40):
what's gonna happen? Are they gonna hit the transfer portal
for a quarterback? They want to fire Steve Sarkisian. I
cringe at what's gonna happen to Texas in this game tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Look at you calling for all sorts of chaos I'm
here for it. Uh, when we look at Oklahoma, right,
Matier comes back, and let's do a quick run of
the Heisman odds as they stand today. Dante More of
Oregon number one, Carson Beck second third, Simpson a plus
seven fiber that name, Jeremiah Smith all the way up
(39:11):
to plus eight fifty, and then Mattier still rounding out
the top five at ten to one. Mendoza of Indiana
just behind him. We'll talk about him as the show
goes on as well. The Oklahoma defense is the big
thing that you put on it here as to whether
arch Manning's going to be able to read it, how
they disguise things, and you know, one of the top
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scoring defenses in the game and they give up fewer
than two hundred yards per game. I'm moderately intrigued by
Arching because he's at about eight and a half yards
per attempt, so solid numbers, but he's going to need
to be better than what we've seen if he's going
to take down the Sooner squad.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Yeah, and that just doesn't happen against Oklahoma, right, that
just doesn't happen. You know, it could happen against a
if you have a lower level game. If you have
a lower level Big ten game coming up where it's
a it's you know, it's a it's a Michigan state
or something like that, Hey, okay it. But when you
have a game coming up here sec like, it's not
it's I just can't see it happening.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Yeah, I mean you're talking about the full on battle
plus material coming back adds that extra juice and it
moved the line.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Man, I'll tell you Oklahoma in a blowout. Uh. The
updates from MLB playoffs and more, NFL preview Big Week
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right now every second seems to tick by like an
(01:11):
eternity Game five between the Tigers and the Seattle Mariners.
The Tigers have taken a two to one lead into
the top of the seventh inning right now, and we'll
get to Tarik schoobl In a second, but the absolute
irony of the fact that here for the for the Mariners,
Kirby is pitching an absolute gem, right, George Kirby's had
(01:32):
an okay season for them, but Kerry Carpenter absolutely owns
it coming into the game one five for twelve with
five home runs, two singles to start the game. So
you know when he comes up with a runner on
in the sixth, they're not gonna let him face him
a third time, a right, because now he's seven for
seven for fourteen with five home runs, and the new
pitcher of the Mariners, bringing his spire and spire, promptly
(01:54):
gives up a two run home a to Carpenter, and
I really I thought I was I thought I was
trying to re Kirby's lips in the dugout, saying, man,
I could have done that too. Wow. So it is
a two to one Tigers lead over the Mariners. They
took out Kirby because we don't want this guy kills him.
This guy absolutely kills him, so okay, and then Spire
(02:16):
comes in and right away greets him with a two
run homer. So we're going to the bottom of the seventh.
The Tiger's up to one. Winner goes onto the Alcs
to face the Toronto Blue Jays.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
It's what you call playing the percentages. It's what smart
managers do to win ball games.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
But coach I got nine home runs today. There you
have it, the Simpsons at Strawberry's line. But coach I
got nine home runs. But that's it. Congratulate yourself on
a day well done and take a seat on the bench.
I'm playing the percentages.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
That's what smart managers do. Yeah, I mean you saw
just the when Carpenter turns on it and Spier's reaction
immediately right going lefty ut lefty, second pick gone, and
the way things are flowing with this game. I mean,
the electricity is surge right there. You might have had,
(03:08):
you know, some problems with some of your electronics in
the stadium and around it. With the type of response
you got to Ba just absolutely incredible. Three for three
on the night and the long ball.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
You see that home run, and he knew right away
because he flips his bat, Inspire just puts his head down,
like I gotta go back up home plate just because
I gotta look like I'm doing my job. But I
know that's not in the ballpark. I know I'm just
running fruitlessly. So a two to one lead, But but
you want to talk about high drama. And I am
(03:41):
really stunned with this, even though it's a little bit
of short rest to Rick Scoulball, who has been absolutely
amazing tonight. And I talking to my wife today when
she says I'll school better, pitch better than Laska. I go,
last game was seven innings to give up two runs.
He goes, yeah, you should give up no runs. I'm like, wow, Okay,
so that's what everybody's expect. Is that what you have
(04:01):
to live up to every day. That's what Snall's gotta
live up to. Tell that that's what happened to your hair.
Wo man, we finally have the explanation after all these years,
he should give up no runs. Okay, nine pitches his
last one, one hundred mile an hour fastball that punches
out cal Riley, and I'm watching him come off and
get his high fives, and I go, boy, this looks
(04:23):
like he's coming out. Is it? Wow? Is he really
gonna come out? I mean, I know, ninety nine pitches
and he's been thirteen strikeouts. There's a reason why he's
the best pitcher in baseball. And two hits for the Mariners,
and here comes Finnegan to start the seventh inning. Twenty
four saves this season, so look they're they're going to
(04:46):
a high leverage reliever obviously, but still here comes Kyle Finnegan,
Detroit native, to step in, and right now the manners
are going, oh, we feel like we're winning by five runs.
We got schoobl out of the game at ninety nine pitches.
You know what for me, I'm sorry, I'm aj Hinch.
However many pitches it takes Schooble tonight, it takes even
(05:06):
if it's one hundred and seventy five. Yes, we need hey,
you need one hundred and seventy five. One hundred and
seventy five for you is what we need right here.
I mean, this is this is a huge victory for
the Mariners. And you know Schooble wanted to stay, but
you could just tell coming in putting the towel on
the high fives. It's like, Okay, it looks like he's
sort of done. It looks like he's coming out of
the game. And now you are gonna see a huge
(05:28):
uptick in excitement and in possibility for the Mariners. Jay
Rod just hits one to the wall the first batter
of the seventh inning, Finnegan breathing a sigh of relief.
It was tracked down just short of the fence. So
now even though it's two to one, Tigers have the lead,
they're counting outs. It is no more to reach schoobl
than wow, man, aj Hinch is just going, Okay, I
(05:49):
know what the question is gonna be postgame. I know
what they're gonna be post game. Let's just get eight
more outs. That's all I need, eight more routes. I
don't have to answer any questions. Yes, eight man out.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
No, Look, you haven't seen Schoobl's got a bunch of
seven inning outings over the course of the year, a
little seven and a third, seven to two thirds, one
complete game going back to May against Cleveland with a
five nothing win. But but yeah, the it felt like
that last pitch he threw it to finish the sixth
(06:19):
against Raleigh, it was like he threw his arm at
him as well, Yeah, here taking that.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
An empty the tech moment, and I was like, but
he was still throwing one hundred the entire game, so
it's not but yeah, but he completed the you know,
delivery of the pitch and he was halfway up the
road to do home plate.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
As he finished, It's like, yeah, I got him. That's
that big moment, big gesture, big crowd response. But now
you do the hand ringing and waiting because you know
the second guesting will be done. It was already being
done on the other side with Kirby because he only
he left with only sixty six pitches thrown. Yeah, except
again going to the matchup of everything that played out
(06:58):
and you know hindsight twenty twenty with the long ball
and then being hit by Carpenter. But for school bol,
I mean, that was just masterclass right there. Just every
at bat going, is anybody even gonna wave at something
close to making contact? And the answer was no. He
was absolutely masterful.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
But do you want to know what I thought? You
want a great on a positivity Friday. We got a
big positivity Friday story coming to right a minute. But
you want a great positivity Friday story. You know what
I thought of when when they take Kirby out because obviously, look,
five for eleven, five home runs, right, you're not gonna
let Kirby faced carpenter, Right, You're just not gonna do it.
That's It's not like, hey, he's hitting three fifty in
(07:35):
his career against him, he's you know, he saw yeah, no, no,
this is a five for all five hits or home runs.
Every other time he bats against me, HiT's a home run.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Well, hey, hey, recent recency bias. He only had singles today.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yes, yeah, yeah, and the first two times up we're
too you know, we're two singles. So it's like, okay,
he's really got him. I was thinking of that made
for TV movie in I think it was seventy eight,
seventy nine. The kid from left field, Gary Coleman, was
a kid and he was a coach or a manager
with the Padres. He was this.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Base yeah yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
He was so smart and he was in the and
I forget if he was actually the manager or like
he advised the manager, right, and that was the whole thing.
And he made a move in the game where they
had this guy coming up in the game and uh,
obviously they were they were fake players. They weren't real players. Uh.
And one guy was coming up, he had a lot
of success against him, and Gary Coleman's idea was, we're
(08:37):
gonna take the picture, move him to first base, bring
in a new pitcher just for this batter. Then after
this batter is over, that picture leaves and the pitcher
goes back to and the picture that was on first
base goes back to pitching, and they put a new
first basement in. And I'm thinking that's what I would
do if I were the Mariners, I would take I
would just put Kirby in a position where we don't
(08:57):
think he's gonna hit the ball, and then bring him
back in to keep. Like what an incredible move that
would have been. And if I remember right, the batter
hit a pop up and the pitcher caught it at
first base, like the one batter he was aired like.
The pitcher actually caught the pop up. Then he went
back into pitch. I'm like I wanted kid from left
field right there.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Remake of a nineteen fifty three classic, going all the
way back to nineteen seventy nine, Robert Gillome, Gary Collins
and Ed McMahon were the other stars of this film,
You have one, That's what he kept saying, though. Yes,
so again, we'll keep you posted on the Tigers and
the Mariners, two out one on bottom of the seventh inning. Again,
the winner goes on to the Alcs to take on
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the Blue Jays. Meanwhile, this is great for a positivity Friday, right, Yeah,
we always need positivity Fridays.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
A coursis for it. And one of the big NFL
stories of the weekend is Joe Flacco going to start
for the Bengals in his first game. Doesn't matter. Hey
all know, we just wanted Joe Flacco to come in
because we like Joe. He can help us. No, no, no, no,
you're starting right away, Joe, You're starting. We love Jake Brownie. Yeah,
you're starting right away. You are starting right away, Joe.
So Flacco's going to start this weekend for the Bengals.
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Will preview the game coming up in a little bit.
But I want to say this. He was asked, why
is he still playing here? He is? You know, Joe
Flacco's going to be sixty three years old his next birthday,
still in the NFL. And he's asked today why are
you still going here after such a career. And this
is the answer that Joe Flacco gave. You talk about
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a positivity Friday, This is it you.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yeah, you're cool you, I'm out all right?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
So Flacco didn't like already the media in Cincinnati not
happy with there. But then when they said, okay, Joe,
can you calm down and just let us know what
you really think about it? This is what Joe Flacco.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Said, like a lot to offer to a football team.
I feel like I've put in a lot of work
my whole life to get to this point in just
terms of playing in the NFL in general. And I
have a I hopefully will have a long life when
I'm done. But you only get a chance to play
in the NFL once. I feel like I've worked really hard,
like I said, to be a guy that gets to
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play in the NFL, and I don't want to take
that for granted. I still feel like I can play
the game at a high level, and I want to
be able to look at myself in the mirror when
I'm fifty years old and be able to say that,
you know, I gave it everything I had.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Now that that is an amazing. I feel like we've
been inspired the last couple of days with you Know What,
We're what you know what people are talking about sister
Jean and and here's Joe Flacco saying, I want to
be able to look back when I'm fifty, which is
actually his next birthday, so it's not very far away.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I want you far away exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I want to look back when I'm fifty and say
I gave it everything I had. I did this. You
you look, you get one shot right around around around,
however many times you go around around the sun. You
get one shot to do what you want to in life.
And yes, it is a big balancing act because when
you talk about getting married and having a family and
making sacrifices, it becomes bigger than yourself. But when it
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comes to what you choose to do for a living,
nothing he does is going to beat what he's doing.
Right now, you take that and go all the way
until you know I can't do it anymore. Don't retire
or stop playing for spite. Don't retire or stop doing
something because well, it's too difficult to find a job.
There's many guys that have retired in their thirties, as well.
(12:15):
I can't get a gig here, it's so difficult. Instead
of saying, hey, i'll kick around, I'll be a number
three quarterback somewhere. You don't know how things are gonna go,
I might be able to find my way in starting.
Because that's Joe Flacco, right, It's also Sam Darnold, It's
also Gino Smith, it's also Baker Mayfield. Right, it's all
of these guys that, Hey, I could have quit some
time ago. Hey, I made money, I'm twenty seven years old.
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No one's gonna have me start again. I'm just gonna
go and enjoy the rest of my life and do
whatever I want to. But no, this is what I've
given my life to. I want to see this out,
and I'm gonna go until I absolutely can't go anymore.
And that is one hundred percent the right call, because
if you don't, you're always gonna ask yourself, Hey, you know,
what could have happened? Whatnot? And it's not that it
would sit there and really eat it you, but you'd
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always wonder, always wonder how man if I'd stuck it out,
if I had done more. But no, I was really mad.
And you have that conversation with yourself, and you try
to justify your decisions to yourself. The best thing I'll
tell on you when you're done doing something, for when
you're done or in a relationship, whatever it is, be
sure that I am done, because I am done, because
I can't do this anymore, either physically or mentally. And
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I no longer get joy going to the field and
getting in the locker room with the guys. I no
longer get that jump running on the field and being
able to play. I no longer get that buzz when
we're trying to figure out two minute drive at the
end of the game. That's when you stop playing. That's
when I know I'm done. When you know you're done
doing something, that's when you go. And too often it's
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easy to convince yourself for to say, hey, I gave
it a great go. No one would blame Joe Flacco
if he retired from the NFL four years ago, because
what's he gonna do? But then look at what happened.
All of a sudden, he gets thrust in because the
Browns played six quarterbacks in twenty twenty three, and all
of a sudden, Flacco comes off his couch and throws
them to the playoff, so we stays leave another couple
of years. He starts this year a little bit for
the Browns. Okay, didn't work. They got a new guy
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coming in Boom. Now he's going to start for the
rest of the season for the Bengals. A better team,
a better offense, a chance to put more numbers up
and continue to play and start in the NFL like this,
This is why you keep doing it. And when when
when Joe Flagges listen, I can't do it. I don't
want to do training camp, I don't want to do X,
Y and Z, and teams say there's no interest, nobody
wants you anymore. That's when you say, Okay, I've done
all I can and I'm at peace with this decision.
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That's the best thing you can do in paths in
your life, whether it's creative, personal, family. When you are
absolutely sure you are done, that's when you stop doing it,
and not a second too soon. That's a great positivity
Friday message.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Yeah, there's always a line that sticks with me. From
the early days of his podcast, Adam Corolla, Right, everybody
knows what he did with the you Know Demand show
all the way back in a couple of movies, comedy, whatever,
but and wherever it's it's not going into the political
realm here. It's just the idea of whatever you're doing,
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does it make me happy? And does it make me money?
If the answer to it to both of those is know,
then go on and do something else. And then you
start playing the what's the weight between the other two things?
If you if you hit the uh the click on
either right, do you make a lot of money? Yeah,
you might be able to go through a little little
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bit of bumps and aches and pains, and where psychologically
day to day you're you're not really one hundred percent
on where you're going in. This applies to any job,
but certainly for the NFL. I mean it's finite.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Right.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
How many athletes have we talked through through the years
that they wish they could have gotten one more trip
around right, that they got retired because their body was
done and the phone stopped ringing. So as a quarterback,
he's in the beautiful position as long as he can
stay upright and still push the ball downfield. It's not
quite the moon ball of Russell Wilson, but he is
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a guy that'll push it downfield sometimes into Harm's way,
go back to that Cleveland year. Sometimes they want in
spite of him with the defense coming up big. But
thirteen touchdowns against eight picks a lot of that with
air yards, and that's what they're looking to do to
jump start an offense that is sputtered. We see Jamar
Chase had big numbers last week.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Can he bring t Higgins and Chase Brown along with
him for the ride and try to find something a
little more full So for for Joe Flacco, yeah, I
mean he may end up in Pittsburgh next year, so
you can complete that that quad, you know, those four
teams in the AFC North, and then he can go
back and start picking off other teams along the way.
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But it is the lesson right of you know, if
you love what you do, ride it out as long
as you can. There will be hard days, there will
be setbacks, but you know what's the coster line. It's
the hard that makes it great.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Oh and I was gonna say, no, what's your what's
your dusty roads line?
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Hard time? No, that's it?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
You say, hard?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yeah, hard times are for the steel workers. Hard time
is for the miners, for the guys in the Ottawa Assembly,
all of.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
That exit out about a Fresca exit swollen down The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Update
from Seattle. Uh, you know, I don't want to say
I told you so. Uh maybe schooble shit has stayed
in the game right now. Aj Hinch wants to find
a hole and hide. A two out rally by the
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Mariners has tied this game at to apiece. Holton has
come in on his second pitch, Reves hitting for Kansall
and hits a drive down the left field line that
brings in the tying run. And now it is two
to two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning.
We have a brand new game. Mariners fans are crying.
There's one Mariner fan who is absolutely there showing him
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he is crying right now. It's a tie game in
the seven Save your crying for if you win or
walk off like it's a tie game, don't He's got
to save your tears.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
But a hitch now didn't have any of those tricks
from his Astros days. Shune.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Wow, Well, the Tigers get out of the inning ground
out to short ends it. So we go to the eighth.
It is a brand new game two to two Tigers
and the Mariners. Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the
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start picking the biggest football games of the weekend. Keep
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Speaker 2 (18:53):
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Mike Harmon, Still to Too, Detroit and Seattle. Top of
the eighth inning, two out pitching change, going on absolute intensity,
We'll keep.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Baul Park has become a character here. Man.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
It's it's amazing. I mean really, the intensity of the
MLB playoffs. Every single pitch is dripping with all sorts
of anxiety. And you know, even when you don't even
have a dog in the fight, it's okay, man, what
are we gonna do? But you do you know, well, yeah,
it's the thing. Yes, my, my, you do.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
I mean, look at you.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yeah. Yeah. They all have Tiger's fever right now. The
thing is, I have friends in Seattle, and I'm like, yeah, guys,
I kinda yeah, I know, but I kind of have to,
you know, in the rooting thing, I kind of have
to go the go with the family. I kind of
have to go there a little bit. They gotta go
to the Tigers.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Even though you learned long ago on Beavis and butt
Head that people from Seattle were cool.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yeah, oh yeah, look I knew that.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
I knew.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
It took me a long time to find out people
from Detroit are cool.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
So so there's that, Well look at you trying to
save yourself there.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Well, well I kind of have to. Yeah. The text
with my wife's family now is just every but no
one's even making sense. They're not even using blocks anymore. Yeah. No,
I can't even understand. What's It's almost like when someone
does talk to text and you go, what the hell
is that? Oh? You did talk to text? It that's
what I know. They're typing and they're just typing because
they're insane. It's like they're all zombies who learned how
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to operate phones. That's what's going on right now.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
I can't It is that month, and you know, I can't.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I can't even I'm like, yeah, you guys, yeah I
got the show. Okay, yeah, no, go good luck, good luck.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Hey has that been done in a movie or TV
show yet where the zombies are using telecommunications?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Oh that's the next one, though. You could be the
first I've done that, because why are all the zombies
always dumb and slow? Why can't there be smart and fast?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Like? Well, I mean, we got the fast part with
World War Z, so we've ushered in a new era
zombie really really smart.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Why can't they be this wild start? They're so super smart. Man,
when they turn into zombies, they get really intelligent, Like,
they're all so smart. Why can't we have that? I
don't know, all right, I gotta call Sci Fi Channel.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
You know, an important anniversary today though, While we're on
the subject of zombies and movies twenty eight years ago today,
it was twenty eight days later. Boogie Nights. I thought
you a movie that we have seen ninety five thousand times.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
And cross I always put Fox Sports Trading Crossburg always
puts it on on.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Does it have its own channels?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
At this point, when Boogie Knights and Big Lebowski are on,
Frostburg puts them on. No matter what. He would turn
off the Super Bowl for one of those two movies.
I believe you. I can't watch Super Bowl, guys. I
gotta put Booge Knights on.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Fort Hey, Look, there's the Jesus.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
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Speaker 4 (22:36):
Well.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
When you sweep the finals four zip, not just the
best player, but the entire team gets to be the
play of the day. Dad will do it. Dad's three
of a Kind to the lost Davis Aces WNBA champions
for the third time in four years.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Dynasty declared.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
So there was on ESPN and the call that I'm
sure was thought of like two days ago, I'll do
the three of a Kind if Vegas at three of
a Kind Vegas bucket.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Does he own Garth Brooks any money? No? Two of
a kind working on a full house.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
No, no, no, I don't think no, he's not Michael Buffer.
Where Hey, every time you say something, I hear you
you some money ten grand.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Maybe the Aces beat the Mercury ninety seven eighty six.
They sweep the WNBA finals. For is it and yes,
you talk about the third championship in four years for
the Aces. This was a team that at the beginning
of August looked like, hey, it's just not happening for us. Right,
they had traded Kelsey Plumb in the offseason. They were
fourteen and fourteen. Okay, it happens, right, you win a couple,
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you get old right away. They lost three games in
the last nine weeks. Those were the law, that's what
the Aces did. Three losses since August second. Two of
them were in the last playoff round to the Fever. Right,
who gave him the toughest row? Oh, you could probably get.
Two of the losses were in the last round of
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the Fever when the Aces won in one in five.
But this was They went on a run from fourteen
and fourteen and middle of the pack and who knows
how things are gonna go. And they finish thirty and
fourteen into the playoffs. Those where they you know, they
lose a couple of games. They lose one game to Seattle,
they lose two games to Indiana, They sweep Phoenix. They
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close the regular season from fourteen and fourteen to thirty
and fourteen. I mean, this is a champions run, man,
Like you want to cut it up, just say this
is what champions. So it's all of a sudden. They
just turned it on midway through the season and they
win the title. Another title for Asia Wilson. An absolute
dynasty there for all the Caitlyn Clark and oh hopefully
Angel Reese gets to a new team that's better, and
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you know everybody else, all the fun stuff. Man, they
just keep saying, Okay, that's great, we have the best
player in the game. We're gonna continue to win. She's
gonna keep winning MVPs and we're gonna keep winning titles.
It's okay, we'll celebrate at the end. That's Las Vegas.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Yeah, I mean the accolades keep piling up when we
talk about first teams, this all defense and everything else.
Asia Wilson just having herself a ridiculous run. The trifecta
here and now you need labor piece to see if
you can keep the game moving right. All the other
business deals are fun, and we can't wait to see
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Caitlin Clark back on a court in whatever the next
version of Caitlyn Clark is. Because the thirteen games we
did see this year were uneven and riddled with injury
before she was finally shut down. The Angel reach. She's
got business deals seemingly being announced by the day. That's
all fine and good. The aces from that midpoint of
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the season just absolutely a tale literally of two halves
of a season, like, all right, we done screwing around,
All right, let's go to work. And that's what you did.
Led by Wilson, Young and Gray at the top, with
Jewel Lloyd contributing, you have good depth, good chemistry, and
when it came to win in time, there was no
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shopping them.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Wait, I'm watching Kathy Engelbert is talking right now. She says, no,
Asia Wilson should thank everybody that she's in the league
right now, that she's even here, and the and the
media deals that I got. Sorry, is it too soon
for that joke?
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Well, but at least she didn't send someone else in
her stead, which some would argue would have been a
better move. Yeah, you don't. You don't want any of.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
That exit out about a Fresca exit swollen down the
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon. All right,
So to football Friday, we go and let's kick things
off with a bang. Let's take a look at the
game of the week in the NFL. Nothing bigger, Cleveland's
a bigger We'll get tight shirt. We're gonna get to Cleveland.
(26:45):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (26:46):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Is that his segment no no, no, no, no, big
night for Alex Tie will have more details on that.
It's the biggest night Alex Tyshert's ever had here on
the show. We'll give you wearing a suit. He's in
his birthday suit. That's exactly right, big, nothing, bigger than
the Lions and the Chiefs. Yes, I know Kansas City's
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not gonna lose again to go to two of fun.
You know what, Kansas City's gonna lose again to go
to two and four. Detroit right now is the best
team in the NFL. Right we can have discussions about
They fix their Week one issues so incredibly fast. Their
offense is absolutely rolling. Maybe they upgraded an offensive and
defensive coordinator. I really think they upgraded at DC. But
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you know that's a story for another day. I can't
see how the Chiefs keep up in this game. There's
still another week away from from Rashid Rice with the suspension.
You know Worthy is back, that's great, but this is
still a team that just isn't great, and they're losing
games at the end. They've three losses all where they've
melted at the end. Either they couldn't get a score
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or the defense couldn't stop them. These are all games
the Chiefs used to be able to win. Hey, don't
leave it to the end to Mahomes. Do give them
a chance, and look at what happens. The losses this year,
three of them all because they couldn't stop the other
team at the end, and they're finding a way to
not come through when because the other teams are younger,
they're more athletic, they have more at the end of
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the game. The Chiefs defense is not great. They just
seem like they're really really missing something right now. And
I'll tell you what, the Lions they're gonna come in
and this this team might be better than it was
last year. Certainly the defense is better than it was.
And I see this one being like a thirty eight
to seventeen game where Hey, Mahomes does his best to
keep them close, but in the end, it's hard to
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stop Gibbs and Montgomery and Saint Brown and Williams and
Laporta and Billy Simms and Barry Sanders and Eric Kane
and Eric Hipple. It's gonna be impossible. Give me Detroit.
But they did it in Kansas City a couple of
years ago Opening Night. They do it again this week.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Last I saw the over under had crept all the
way out to fifty three.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
That'll be done by halftime.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
That'll be okay, nice appetized for you there as you go, Chiefs,
A slight home favorite. The key here for your Detroit Lions. Look,
I know you were trying to, you know, sideswipe your
guy Aaron Glenn. While he's at it, he was dealing
with how many how many starters were actually available for
him towards the end of the year, like three.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Well, right now, that's kind of where we're headed again.
But they got the key. Guy Hutchinson will be there
to try to terrorize Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
You got a lot of injuries in the back seven
that they'll need to address, including a couple of cornerbacks.
But we'll keep an eye on that as we get
towards game time. I'm gonna take the Lions to win
the game. Too much firepower, too much in the run game.
Your best runner is still Patrick Mahomes on the other side.
Until they address that to get true balance in the equation,
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it's a problem. Don't put up some points. I think
it's close, but I think Detroit wins by a field
goal on the road and a lot of handwringing transpires.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Oh boy, So there it is our game of the
week in the NFL. We got Game of the Weeks
in college football coming up, but right now, time to
find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
Man has been called the Dan Campbell of Fox Sports
Radio because I caught him biting Alex Tyscher's knees earlier
in the hallway.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
It's Steve to say, only biting granola bars here at
the studio, Incredy.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
That would be your speech at the end word, you know,
as seem to say your head coach, We're gonna bite
granola bars, We're gonna eat whatever, We're gonna drink water,
We're gonna do whatever we need to do to go win. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
I think after shark consideration, that probably would be in
and it probably wouldn't inspire anybody. We have a great
ball game going out on Fox TV. Game five by
the best of five Ale Division Series. First off, Trek Schouoble,
the first player in baseball history to strike out thirteen
batters in a game twice in the same postseason. His Tigers, though,
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are tied at Seattle to two in the bottom of
the eighth because a pinch hitter named who Louis Reevas
Leo Reeva, I've never heard of this guy had the
tying RBI single in the bottom of the seventh for Seattle.
Now starter George Kirby five plus innings, six strikeouts and
(31:15):
no walks, No decision for him, no decision for Scooble.
It's two to bottom of the eighth right now. Now
the closer for Seattle Andres Munoz finally got the last
out of the top of the eighth. The closer Will
Vest is on for the bottom of the eighth for
the Tigers.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
By the way, the Tigers, right now we're saying, see
my best, see my vest, watch and pitch and.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Put it to the test of nicely done.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
Beauty and the beast reference kids. The ALCS starts this
Sunday nights on Fox TV from Toronto, with Game two
on Monday in Toronto. Raiders tight end Brock Bowers is
out again this weekend with a bad knee. They'll go
up against Tennessee Titans. Kicker Joey Slye out with a
calf injury. Quarterback Brock Purty of the forty nine Ers
will miss a second straight game with a toe injury,
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and his backup quarterback Mac Jones is listed as questionable
with nee and oblique injuries. He's been limited in practice
this week.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Baltimore Ken Dorsey gets the start if she can't.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Go standing by, This will really test that theory that
anybody can quarterback. The forty nine Ers standing by Baltimore
is one in four hosting the Rams on Sunday. Ravens
quarterback Lamar Jackson will miss the second straight game with
a bad hamstring. Falcons wide receiver Darnell Moody misspractice today
bad amstring. Bill's wide receiver Curtis Samuel missp practice with
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neck in rib injuries. Carolina running back Chewba Hubbard is
out again with a calf injury. The Patriots place running
back Antonio Gibson on injured reserve. Brown's rookie QB Shatur
Sanders will be the backup for rookie Dylan Gabriel Sunday
against Pittsburgh for the Steelers, wide receiver Calvin Austin out
with a bad shoulder. Dallas running back Miles Sanders is
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out for the year with knee and ankle injuries, and
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones will not appeal the fine of
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for what he had
called an inadvert gesture to fans to college football three
games tonight, number twenty four. South Florida dominated the third
quarter and now leads at North Texas forty nine to
twenty eight, and they're driving for more early in the
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fourth final seconds before halftime on half as one. Rutgers
now up thirteen to seven at Washington and Colorado State
at the half, a team that's one and four leads
thirty five fourteen over Fresno State at the break. Las
Vegas has swept the WNBA Finals, winning at Phoenix tonight
ninety seven eighty six Asia Wilson Finals MVP with thirty
(33:35):
one points. Once again, it's Tigers two, Mariners two, bottom
of the eighth game five of the best of five
division series.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Back to you, You know, moron on Leo Revesivo. Not
only was that his first at bat of the series, Okay,
his first bet today is his birthday. Yes, how about that.
He's never gonna this is the I'm gonna go on
a let and say this is the greatest birthday he's
ever had in his life or will have anybody want
to buy some rookie cards.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
Come on, it's like buying up those Greg Jeffries rookie
cards years past, all the.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Way back to nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Baby, Steve O. You know how many Greg Jeffries' rookie
cards I have? I have probably like one hundred. He
was my favorite player when he came up, like, oh
my god, he's gonna go to the Hall of Fame's
my favorite men.
Speaker 6 (34:20):
The Dodgers appreciated his defense in the eighty eight playoffs
since there.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Yes, I'm sure they did well. He had three point
thirty that year. But you know, okay, that's up all right,
Thank you very much, Steve. So here you are right
now again, Leo Reeves. It's his birthday, his first at
bat of the series. He ties the game. It is
two to bottom of the eighth inning, one out, vest
and a rose A Raina going at it. We'll bring
you more on this, but straight ahead, Yes, we take
(34:44):
a look at some of the biggest college football games
tomorrow Way huge college football Saturday. Keep it right here,
Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (35:00):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Carmon. See my vest, see my vest mate
from real Gorilla chest, see my switter. There's none better
than authentic Irish centter, better than Montgomery Burns sets down,
sets down the meat of the order in the Mariners lineup.
(35:24):
So we go to the ninth. It is two to two,
Game five of the Alds between the Mariners and the Tigers.
It has been an absolute thriller both teams two runs,
four hits. We'll keep you updated on this again. Tiger's
coming to bat in the top of the ninth inning
of a tie game. But it is football Friday. We
(35:46):
previewed the biggest NFL game of the week a few
minutes ago. We talked Lions and the Chiefs. Oh, the
Chiefs are Yeah. No, they're gonna lose again. But there
is a slate of big games tomorrow in college football, right,
we have some big Top ten matchups. But nothing is
bringing the intrigue more than Texas and Oklahoma. Right. John
(36:08):
Mattier is back, He's now probable. Maybe he can restart
his Heisman campaign because right now it's like, well, really,
anybody can win. Still, I am so worried for Texas
and arch Manning versus Oklahoma because look, here's the non
BS answer. What's up with Texas and arch Manning? Right?
Why they're three and two and why suddenly, hey, what's
(36:31):
going on here? Right? Arch Manning is fine? All right,
he's fine. He's not great, he's not dominant, but he
is fine. Remember he's in his first year as a starter,
and the hype coming in was incredible. But the guy's
making some plays. He gotta let at some point it's like, okay,
it's not like he's throwing four receptions a game. What's
going on is I don't know that now? When he
(36:53):
when on a lot of plays, he sees where he
needs to go with the football, he doesn't get to
his third receiver or his second option. A lot you
see a lot of plays where hey, Manning makes this thrown, Boy,
he had a receiver here who was open. I just
don't know that he sees that yet. And I think,
you know, after four or five games, he's still putting
up enough offense, he's still making plays with his legs,
but he just needs to play a little bit. And
(37:15):
and clearly he's gonna come back to Texas after this
Year's not headed to the NFL after this. That surely
isn't happening. So I'm okay giving him a little bit
to assess and really break him down next year. Because
here's the thing. Texas is good right there. This is
not the same team as twenty twenty four. Injuries are
hurting them a bit, yes, one hundred percent, but they're
(37:37):
just not good enough right And I kind of feel
like like Steve Sarkisian is on a post twenty six notice, where, Okay,
this year, whatever it is that we disappointed and it
wasn't quite the season we saw, Okay, you gotta come
through in twenty six with Arch Manning or we're gonna
wind up getting a new head coach. Like I feel
like he is on he'll be on notice next year.
(37:57):
But Texas just they're just not that good. They didn't
blow out teams they should have been blowing out right.
They lose to to Ohio State, and I'm still not
sold at Ohio. Ohio State's their defense is unreal, right,
this is one of the best defenses in all of
college football that we've seen in years. But overall, is
Ohio State really that good? Is their defense just making
sure the offense in positions succeed. But Texas just has
(38:19):
not looked good at all. They've they've not looked from
week one to week six. They kind of look exactly
the same. They're just not good. So I'm okay, but
I am. I am so fearful for Texas tomorrow because
I could see Oklahoma running away and hiding with this one.
Matteers got his shoulder pads off by the beginning of
the fourth quarter. It's wow, what's going on Texas? What
(38:40):
what's gonna happen? Are they gonna hit the transfer portal
for a quarterback? They want to fire Steve Sarkisian. I
cringe at what's gonna happen to Texas in this game tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Look at you calling for all sorts of chaos I'm
here for it. Uh, when we look at Oklahoma, right,
Matier comes back, and let's do a quick run of
the Heisman odds as they stand today. Dante More of
Oregon number one, Carson Beck second third, Simpson a plus
seven fiber that name, Jeremiah Smith all the way up
(39:11):
to plus eight fifty, and then Mattier still rounding out
the top five at ten to one. Mendoza of Indiana
just behind him. We'll talk about him as the show
goes on as well. The Oklahoma defense is the big
thing that you put on it here as to whether
arch Manning's going to be able to read it, how
they disguise things, and you know, one of the top
(39:32):
scoring defenses in the game and they give up fewer
than two hundred yards per game. I'm moderately intrigued by
Arching because he's at about eight and a half yards
per attempt, so solid numbers, but he's going to need
to be better than what we've seen if he's going
to take down the Sooner squad.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Yeah, and that just doesn't happen against Oklahoma, right, that
just doesn't happen. You know, it could happen against a
if you have a lower level game. If you have
a lower level Big ten game coming up where it's
a it's you know, it's a it's a Michigan state
or something like that, Hey, okay it. But when you
have a game coming up here sec like, it's not
it's I just can't see it happening.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Yeah, I mean you're talking about the full on battle
plus material coming back adds that extra juice and it
moved the line.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Man, I'll tell you Oklahoma in a blowout. Uh. The
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