October 30, 2024 • 36 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon can’t believe that the Dodgers are letting the Yankees hand around. Yankees fans assault Mookie Betts during game 4 of the World Series. And the Colts bench Anthony Richardson for Joe Flacco!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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should be. Going to the top of the sixth inning,
the Yankees, who had a five to two lead after
the Anthony Volpi Grand Slam Dodgers have cut it to
five to four. LA coming to bat now win tonight
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they win the World Series. Yankees can continue to push
it out a little bit. If they can hold on
to this lead, and I'll tell you what this is.
I am at the same time impressed and completely disappointed
by the strategy the Dodgers are using tonight in Game
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four of the World Series. And the thing is is,
we saw this in the NLCS and it happened to
work out for them. But watching tonight, where Okay, we're
going to a bullpen game, and look, and that's kind
of the new normal now is using bullpen games throughout
the playoffs. We see teams do that all the time.
But what the Dodgers tried to do in the NLCS
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that worked out for them, they're doing tonight, and they
do it in Game two against the Mets, where hey,
bullpen game. We won Game one and they got behind early.
We're not gonna use any of our high leverage relievers.
These are all a bunch of guys that come in
when we just need bulk innings filled. Right, Guys like
Casparius who started tonight, Knack who came in tonight and
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the Mets got out to a big lead, they win
Game two, right, Dodgers win Game three, they win Game four,
Game five, another bullpen game. Okay, what happens? Mets get
out to a five to one lead, Dodgers realize we're
not gonna win this game. Roberts is not chasing a win,
and it's still bulk reliever night for the Dodgers. Okay,
then they come back to Dodgers win Game six, two
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games where it's a bullpen game for the Dodgers, and
they decided very early, we're not gonna bring in our
high leverage guys. And I kind of understood it, even
though you potentially let the Mets back into that series
by giving them a chance to win Game two and
we're not gonna try to win. It's a third inning.
I know it's five to one, but it's the third inning,
and and you let them, you know, they win Game two. Okay,
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then you let them they win Game five because of it,
and you send the series back to LA. But it
worked out, and I kind of understood a little bit because, Okay,
the Mets were out to Leeds and they were hitting
the ball really well, here's tonight where you can win
the World Series. And Freddie Freeman Hall of Famer Freddie
Freeman homers again in the first in and eight, and I,
like the fan that had to please stop, Freddy signed
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please stop Freddy, just stop. You're up to nothing. You're
up two to one. It's a it's a one run game,
and still with a chance to win the World Series.
The Dodgers have decided and Dave Roberts has decided we're
not going to use our high leverage guys where it's
five for it's Casparius and Hudson and Knack. And it's wow.
I mean, I get it when you're chasing, when when
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you're you're chasing, you're down a lot, but this was
a game you were up by two runs, and then
you still decided we're gonna leave our bulk guys in. Okay,
Now it's a one run game. No bring landon. Nack's
gonna have a second ending here. And I'm just stunned
that here's a chance to win the World Series where
you are looking at Garrett cole Tomorrow and a Jack
Flaherty for the second time in a series. We saw
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what happened to Jack Flarity second time in the series
in the NLCS, and you're saying, okay, well that could
now we're suddenly we're sending it back to Los Angeles.
I am just it's a strategy that I am completely
impress it they're sticking to and I also completely don't
get it and disagree that you're not trying to win
the World Series tonight, you're okay with giving the Yankees life,
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and the Dodgers decided before the game and they're sticking
to this that it's more important that we set up
the rest of the series for how we want our
pitching to be than it would be to win the
World Series tonight. And if we put that game at
risk and we lose tonight, it's okay. We feel like
we're gonna win one of the next three games, and
it's more important that we get our pitching set up
and on nights where we have Flarity and Yamamoto and
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then potentially Buller in Game seven, we have the relievers
we want to that the Yankees aren't seeing them on
multiple nights back to back, and they're gonna see the
other bulk guys and if they win, they win. And
it's I'm telling you, it's one thing that I was
in the NLCS. I was like, oh, you know, I
don't know about that, but it worked out this. I'm like, wow,
how do you stick to this? How do you stick
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when you're winning? Early. It's a one run game. How
do you not try to say, hey, we've had them
the entire time, it's a one run game. If you're
losing nine to one, I get it, right, I get
but it's a one run game that you've turned this into.
And still it's Casparius for two winnings in Hudson and Nack.
And I got people who are Dodger fans all season
led texting me before the game goes, how the hell
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is Casparius in this game? Why is Land and Neck?
I'm like, I'm not making the lineup. I'm not I'm
not David. You need to hear Dave at Dodgers dot
com and that, I mean, that's not his address, but
I say, it's David Dodgers dot com and he'll answer
all your questions about why this is what they're doing
the bullpen. It's incredibly impressive and I can't believe it
at the same time, I can't believe they're actually doing.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Now here's the response from Dave at Dodgers dot com.
This goes back to last night quote. There's just got
to be urgency. That's that's the first line. Yeah, there's
got to there's just got to be urgency. I don't
want to those guys up for.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Air when I go to the bullpen.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Now it's it's fine, okay, let we we start, and okay,
you get out and turn the ball over to Hudson.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
You're up to one. Okay.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
He's terrible to the point where I had it synced
up driving into the Fox Sports radio studios. You got
you know the video that's over there, but listening to
Dodger Radio, and they couldn't help but call out how
terrible Hudson was at every turn. I don't know that
I've ever heard that much criticism about a guy's lack
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of performance, say nothing of the months he getting doubled off, uh,
doubled up on on the base paths and getting lost
on a line drive. That's that's a whole other thing
that in subject that that sticks. But you're down five
to four, you've got for more innings. Now we'll see
obviously as we come out for the sixth. Didn't allow
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any more damage, got through a couple of scoreless. So
now it just becomes the question of all right, we'll
go to the bottom of the six Are you sticking
with the plan or do you realize, hey, I can
actually not give them any of the air going forward.
You just had the graphic up on the Fox telecast
the Yankees and nine of twelve games this postseason have
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allowed zero or one run out of their bullpen. Does
that mean you're just sending up the flair and saying
we'll see you tomorrow. I mean, Garrett Cole. That was
the first mistake that Aaron Boone made from many accounts
going back to Game one, of taking Garrett Cole out
at all, because he was still pitching very, very well
before he got into the bullpen. Here with Dave Roberts
in a game, you can finish this off. Why would
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you give them any life? Right, You've not had the
big guys hitting. I mean you laugh and marvel at
Stanton trying to hit the ball on the outer part
of the plate. Aaron Judge has gotten on base. How
an error and getting hit by a pitch. That's the
only time he's getting the Bronx cheer at this point.
It's so bad. So other than the pitch to Volpie
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and look to the Yankees credit. You know what they
did to the Dodgers relievers.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
They actually took pitches. What a novel concept.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
It only took you to game four to recognize, you
know what, let's actually make these guys make a bitch.
And then they couldn't and Hudson was awful. I know
their twenty bitches, only eleven of them for strikes.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I know it's I'm watching going okay, here goes Nope, nope, nope,
still three batters. Get his ass out, Frostburg? What he
got on this?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Man?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
How are you do? You guys live under a rock
or something? Wow? What are you talking about? You do
know that Dodgers are up three to zero in the series.
I don't know. But you're trying to win too. Know
it's only the six inning, right, are you trying to
win the World Series tonight? Dodgers could very well win
this game, of course they could, but they could also
very well lose it because we're gonna bring it all
our bad relievers. You're out here acting like they're down
three to zero in the series. The show is tonight.
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It's anybody can date Jener video in the series, and
it's only the six inning. Okay, but why are you
not when the game is close and you're leading, you
can we want to hurt the Yankees war. You know
how much it's gonna hurt more when they.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Lose this game, I will say, I do I do
like that philosophy.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I will say texting with my dad when when Volpi
hit the home run, right, I think always excited now
as a grand sland it's only gonna I texted him.
I said Vulpy right, I said Volpy with with exclamation points.
You know Volpeye comes back from the bed base running.
Uh he made earlier in the game, hits the grand slam,
I said, Volpi, And what is my dad right back?
Bullpenal blow it now? Also give not even excited for
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the one he Volpi. It's a great bullpenal blow.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
It like, did he write you back with Volpi's inability
to turn the double play on the slow running ready
for you?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
No, no he did not. He didn't, y'ad gonna cover
that fans bail that ripped the ball, which was we're
gonna get to that where we're gonna get to that,
We're gonna get to that. But he didn't answer the question. No.
I think I think maybe my dad might be related
to one of those guys. I want to I want
to wait till after they get that would be hey,
you know that was that was big pity from that.
I grew up with little pety, medium sized pet and
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look at Peeni taking the ball out of Betts's glove.
But I mean, we'll get to that in a few
minutes because that that's become the big touchstone of the game.
But just seeing this go on as the Yankees come
to bat in the bottom of the sixth inning, Dodgers
go out one, two, three in the top of the
six I really it is it is a strategy that
I mean it. It's it's so polarizing while I understand it,
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and then I don't understand it. I understand it when
you're down and you're not chasing a win, right, that
was the bit We're not gonna we're not gonna use
our high leverage guys. If we're losing seven to three
and they got they have second and third in the
fifth inning, I'm not gonna bring in Blake trying it, right,
are not going to bring in Michael Kopeck at that point, Right,
I get that, But this is it's two nothing, and
it's two to one, and it's five to four and
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it's at Nope. Still just a bunch of guys out
there right now, continuing for his third inning of relief.
I mean, really, Oral Herscheiser is coming in next in
a suit and time wow, broadcast in the game with
no more Garcia apart. Now he's gonna come in, all right,
I can throw a little bit here, just a little bit.
I got dress, shoes on and a suit, so hopefully
that works out, okay, And it just worked out for
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the Yankees because Wells, who has been crushing the ball tonight,
hits a solo home run to right field to give
the Yankees a six to four lead, his second home
run this postseason. He has really been on it tonight,
missed a home run by just a few feet earlier
the night, and now the Yankees lead is six to four.
In this game where apparently anybody can pitch for the Dodgers,
maybe they should have given away some money saying, hey,
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if you want to pitch in a World Series game,
you know, bid on it, and the high bidder gets
to going inning here in Game four. We're just gonna
give Game four away. We're okay with it. Quote.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
There just needs to be a sense of urgency. We
cannot give them any air I.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Mean, I don't understand how a sense of urgency is
land and knack for three innings. I mean, and and
you have Casparius start the game for two in I
don't understand how you can say, oh, sense of urgency,
but this is what they go unless his plan was
to say, hey, we have to have a sense of urgency.
Just because we have a bullpen game doesn't mean we're
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giving this game aways. It actually does mean you're giving
the game away. But just because we're saying that, I
want to make sure the guys at bat have a
sense of urgency. I know the pitch will be doing
their best, and they are, They're just not good. I mean,
we're bringing not good guys on purpose in a close
game in the World Series. Think about that. We're bringing
in guys who aren't good on purpose in close games
in the World Series.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Now, remember, charity does begin at home, and the Yankees
are at home. So it's a charitable act on some
level for those that spent a minimum of six hundred
dollars to get into the stadium tonight.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
On the resale market, it is I don't. I don't again,
I I that's why it's so you can have both thoughts.
I think at the same time I understand it.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
But at the same time, I'm at five to four
getting into the latter part of the game, and I
can go take it.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
It's just so, it's so, we're gonna do this because
then we're gonna set up our pitching for the rest
of the series and we're gonna win the World Series
with three starters and nine relievers. Of Okay, but but wait,
you can win the game tonight. No, don't look at that.
Look at what we could do the rest of the series. Yeah,
but if you win tonight, you don't need the rest
of the series. You don't need to worry about Garrett
Garrett Cole tomorrow. No need to worry about it. Yeah. No,
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it's okay. We're still gonna stick with it and bring
in our bad guys. Still gonna do it, Still gonna
do it. I really it is. It is amazing, Jayson.
You do know the Dodgers are up three all the time?
I do, I do. But want you to have a
broom in your hand? In your hand? What is what
is uh? What what does Oli Vanders say when when
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when he went Harry first to go get to get
his wand from him, and he gives him the wand
that part of it was belonged to Voldemort. And he says,
he said, the the uh, the wizard who had part
of this did uh great things, terrible but great, Like
this strategy is great. Terrible, but it's great. Like That's
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are gonna get into what has become the biggest play
of the night that is amazing to watch. You should
not be surprised, but it is amazing to see every
time they show the replay of what happened earlier in
this game. We get into what is gonna be the
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Speaker 2 (15:20):
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Speaker 1 (15:38):
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Live from the tire Rack dot Com Studios. Top of
the seventh inning Yankees with a six to four lead
over the Dodgers. However, Dodgers got a little something something
going on right now. Runner at first show, Heyotani up
a one to two count. Otani is not Homer in
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his last twenty four at bat uh and now it's
gonna be a runner at second. And you wonder if
they're gonna take the bat out of Otani's hand now, Uh,
Tommy Edmund just stole second. The count is two and two,
and I would assume, you know, me being Aaron Boone
and all, that they're gonna put Otani on first to
get to count, to make the force out, to try
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to figure it out, like do you really want to
have a good pitch to Otani? He still scares people.
Uh look, I'm just saying it's two and two. It
was zero and two, but a couple pitches outside they
are going to continue to pitch to him. However, that
pitch was not real, That was not even close to
the strike zone. Making a three and two count with
Edmund on second, one out action in the Yankee bullpen
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Ron Gidrey Louisiana lights lightning could be coming into this
game at some points. Do we get to hear white
lightning now later on in the in the show? H.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
So that's.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
So that's where we sit right now. We'll have more
on this game coming up in a couple of minutes.
Let's you know, how Atani does still a full count here,
but the play that everybody's going to be talking about
is something that it's shocking, but honestly, I'm not surprised.
In the first inning of this game, flyball down the
right field line, Mookie Betts goes to the stands to
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try to catch it. He jumps up, puts his hand
in the crowd to try to catch the ball, and
he does wind up getting the out call because he
catches the ball. However, two fans grab yeah, getting the needle.
There's people that are waiting to see if these guys
get booked. Those aren't fans, like there are people waiting
to see if these guys get booked because somebody just
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put out with a check mark said, haven't seen anything
in the penal system for these fans yet being booked.
Two fans decide, okay, well, but they were fans before
they were criminalss okay uh. They try to grab the
ball out of Mookie Betts's glove. One fan puts both
hands on Bets's glove pries it open to pull the
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ball out, while the other fan, seeing the fan do this,
puts his hand and grabs Mookie Betts's wrist just to
hold it there so the fan can pull the ball up.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
The guy with grabbing his glove is he's like he's
pulling his arm. He's Mooky Betts where he's getting Booky
Bets is not a huge guy, right, so even it's
fully instead and it shoulders up and if nothing else where,
we've watched shoulder injuries throughout these playoffs, have been watching
Joey o'tani in the way he's got to run to
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not have a relapse or have the recurrence of the injury,
or the idea that he extends his arm when he's
sliding whatever. Mooky Bets is fully exposed here and this
guy's ripping at his arm. Dude, I mean it's you know,
it's it's like carrying him.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Like I saw this and they tried to make lighting
on the broadcast, which I'm like, okay, this is this
is dangerous. Man like this and this is and I
I wish I could just say, well, it's a New
York thing, right, It's it's something New York fans would do,
because it is a wow with a New York fan
thing to reach it and pull the guys, not to
just put the handout and try to do it, but
to open to grab his glove and open and the
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other guy to grab while he's doing it. Like, I
can't say I'm surprised because this is the way that
it's trending in sporting events, where fans feel like they're
part of the game much more than they ever have
and that they can do things like this, and that's
a scary that's a scary part. Like I'm not one
of those always doing it, you know. Uh oh, I
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think something is there. There's something around every corner, But
this is a guy to It's one thing to try
to rise up and catch the ball before it comes
down before a guy can get his glove on it.
It's quite another thing to to grab his glove and
open it and to grab his wrists. You don't know
if you can hurt him like that. That's something that
it's shocking to see. But at the same time, I'm
not surprised because this is how we're trending in sporting events, right.
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Like I'll even go back to the series with the
Mets and the Brewers. The game the game three Peter
a Lonzo Whit's the home run to win the game
three two. In the bottom of the eighth inning, Alonzo
drops a pop up down the first base line. He's
right at the netting, and he drops the pop up,
likely because a fan decides I'm gonna push the netting,
push through the way out at him, and and and
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and and stop him from being able to catch the ball.
Now it got I don't know how that got lost
in in what went on, probably because the drama of
Alonzo hitting the home run back.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Now when the guy laughing, nice game, pretty boy behind him.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yeah yeah, but the but the the guy, the guy
pushes push his glove all the way out and pushes
the fence, pushes the the netting all the way out
to get him to stop catching it. But this is
where we're at. The line is blurred between what is
acceptable fan behavior. I don't want to sit here and
say it's all social media's fault. But in an era
now of twenty twenty four, where your interaction with an
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athlete is so close, right, people think, Hey, an athlete
says something on social media, I'm gonna respond to them,
I'm gonna quote sweet them, I'm gonna say something back
at them, and that that line of demarcation, that line
of behavior is really blurred, Like what's an acceptable way
to have an interaction with an athlete now and and
and I'm not saying it's it's gonna happen every single game,
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but boy, we are trending towards bad stuff going on. Man,
And this is this is something where these guys, these
guys can't be allowed bat ye, you can't. You can't
grab a guy's glove and you can't grab a guy's wrist.
Should file for assault, you know.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
And I like grabbing the glove hand and like you
see the the arm gets bent awkwardly and BET's pissed by,
absolutely incensed. And then the other guy who's cowering as
he's coming over, is quick to reach over and grab
his other arm, and I like.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
How they're but they both when they go to throw
them out, both fans like we're just going for the ball,
Like we're just going like, dude, we have cameras. It's
the it's the World Series. We're gonna see exactly what.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
We're gonna have it on every camera. The guy next
to you has an even better shot that I'm sure
will be released later. I mean, but everybody looking for
their viral moment in this case, like, look, how great
a fan we are we tried to, you know, get
went back for the team. No, you assaulted the guy.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yeah, I mean really, it's Baseball's got to come down.
And this is why, hey, why they have netting up.
They want to protect the fans also want to protect
the players. But in every sport now, whether it's NBA,
you see it happen all the time now, fans get
into it with the players because they want to do it.
I want to be part of this now, and I
can see it, and I'm more emboldened by it because
this is kind of the age we live in where
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you can have that kind of you can have interactions
with players who will come right back at you. And
that's another Oh hey, he said, you know, Kevin Durant
said this. Kevin Durant responded to my tweet. All he
did was trollam. He responded. Now we're talking like now
we're friends or we're friend of these or whatever. It's
gonna for one of the guys that want to go crazy.
I mean, we we're off to a first week in
the NBA season, haven't had it yet, but the inevitability
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of how many guys are going to get kicked out
of courtside seats for engaging like idiots with players right
and shouting any number of things. Because we saw it
last year a number of times lebron kd Westbroo, number
number of players that over the course of the season
had folks ejected. It's only a matter of time before
that trend begins again, how buz, as I've seen it
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thirty times, and I'm I just say, I can't believe,
you know, the brazenness of the fans to do that.
But at the same time, I can't all color me shocked. No,
I'm not shocked. I'm not shocked at all about something
stuff that happens in games anymore with fans because I'm
I'm much more a part of the action than I
ever have been.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
They should have thrown out the the jackasses that were
high five and these morons as they were being escorted
up the aisle too. Yeah, because you can go, and
you can go, and you can go. Let's go find
the people in the five hundred levels bring down the front.
What's it gonna be for these guys when when they
when they get out, Hey, man, Joe, you and you
did that at the game last night. Oh man, that
was really cool. But yeah, you stop Boogie Bets from
getting that ball. I mean, that's what it's gonna be.
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And it would be this way in any city. It
would I'm not saying New York, but it would be
this if the Dodgers were playing the A's.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
I decided to put the A's in the world to wow,
look at you if you would, you know, if they
actually had fans in the car and there were fans.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Down the line, you just kind of walk up and
grab the ball. It's like a deposit left for you.
Then I mean, I guess I should say this.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
They say it happened in openand and Mookie Betts went
down the line and a possum tried to grab the
ball out of his glove. I mean, what do you do?
Is that a team sponsored the possum? Is he wearing
a little.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Hat spray painted green and golf.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Pots of one possum opens up his glovey how much
for the arm? The other possum just puts his paw
on top of Mookie Bets. Is hard to get him
to not moving. Put my paw on the top here.
But I mean, like it would like something like this anywhere,
like they would be they could be playing Cleveland, they
could be playing Detroit, and they these guys are gonna
walk around here. Oh look what you did last night?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Man.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yeah, I mean this is maybe Philly. Maybe Philly. That's
the only two stadiums that are doing crap like this. Man.
I don't know, Man, I just don't know. This has
never happened, just happened. I just told you how it
happened to has never happened before Milwaukee. I mean they
lifted the player off his feet. No, but where they
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tried to break his wrist and arm. No where they where?
They never where they jumped into the play and and
could have hurt a guy and effect that happened.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
I mean, man, we had guys in Chicago run on
a field at a cost.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Yeah, wild, I mean you do have that. I mean really,
I mean this is I don't know what else to
say other than eventually something like that's gonna happen. Somebody's
gonna get hurt and it's good. Oh why didn't you? Okay,
well you clearly had a chance to do that.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Yeah, out there, truly make an example of these jackasses.
I mean, they're not cold heroes. The morons in New
York that were cheering them and patting them on the
shoulder as they left. Hey, good effort, good try to
get the ball. No, you're a bunch of jumps.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I mean, I don't I don't know if the right
thing is just I mean, I assume the big Well,
we can make the padding come out another foot, and
so Mookie's not getting over there to get the found.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Said glass and you bang, ont it like you're at
a hockey game.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Let's go exit up to Fresco Exit Swallen Dome. The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live from the Tirack
dot Com Studios. The Yankees still have a two run lead.
They had a chance to The Dodgers had a chance
to cut into the Yankee lead. However, show Heyo Tani
struck out, Mookie Betts struck out to end the inning,
so they strand Tommy Edmond at second base. They're coming
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about here in the bottom of the seventh the Dodgers
again trailing by two, the Yankees trying to keep the
World Series alive. We will have more on this game,
but coming up next. Two big stories out of the NFL.
We have a trade and a quarterback change that's straight
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Speaker 3 (26:43):
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Speaker 1 (26:50):
This is what all the good Dodger relievers are saying
right now, not the bad ones who have been in tonight.
Now in the eighth inning, now, and you haven't brought
me in the game. We're good. Lose to the Yankees,
and I can follow.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Some guys starting and then some crazy guy named Nac.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Now we're losing the game, still in the eighth Why
don't Dave Roberts don't you want me? Because are you
ready for an Aeron judge.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
That you know?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
No, No, I'm not ready for an Aaron Judge. You're
getting it? Is it from Sarah Lang? No, you'll be
in trouble too. I'm not gonna steal Steve's girlfriend like
he did. Ready? What? Yeah, go ahead, because it's so important,
Go ahead. His O two start tonight. Yeah. He now
has the worst batting average ever in the history of
(27:44):
the memob blaffs. I don't think that's true. It's absolutely
certain number of d bats. Okay, okay, certain number of bats. Okay,
all right about that. You could have waited till I
finished freestyling and said that could breaking news. He didn't
have to get it's breaking news. So here we are,
top of the eighth inning, one out, Dodgers trailing the Yankees,
(28:06):
six y four, Yankees trying to keep the World Series going.
They are five outs away from forcing Game five. So
we'll have more on this game in a few minutes. Meanwhile,
big stuff in the NFL today. We had some trades
and we had a quarterback change. Quarterback change, first the
Indianapolis Colts, after spending some time to talk about this
(28:28):
Shane Stike and announcing that Joe Flacco, who is inevitable
elite Joe Flacco, will take over at quarterback and Anthony
Richardson is now on the bench. Certainly, the I have
to come out for a play because I'm winded was
a really bad look. I don't believe that that played
well with the team, I think, however, I'm gonna say however, however,
(28:52):
I don't think it's as much the I have to
come out like that might have been kind of the
last straw compared to one other thing, because there's only
oh I think I know what it is. There's only
one I think I.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Know one thing stopping at You tell me what is
that one thing stopping Anthony quarterback?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
All this other stuff about him and I'm not I'm
I'm you know, I breather, I ran the ball.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
And his conditioning, lack of work ethic, lack of understanding
of his job. The largest of it that what he
means to a franchise organization of city. Yeah, all of
that things, it boils down to one other thing. There's
only one thing stopping him from being the one thing.
I mean, all the stuff you want to say, yeah,
but this does he throw the balls here?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Yeah? But yeah, but yeah, but yeah, I guess one
thing stopping him from being a star. Go ahead, Frostburg.
What's that smell? The thing stopping him? He stinks, that's
the thing that nicely.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Once upon a time he was an early college season MVP.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
He flashed some greatness he had he flashed a little
bit at the beginning of last year. But he and
Bryce Young are the same guy. Right now, Just think
about that. I mean, you can't keep going seven for
twenty five throwing the football and and then the worst
part of is that I don't I don't see him
ever becoming good because he's never had the reps. Right,
(30:18):
what did he have a handful of games in college.
He's been hurting the pros. You don't learn how to
play quarterback in the NFL. You don't get the reps
like he's. This is, this is He's the shiny example
of crying out for a minor league in the offseason
where he plays entirely in spring football, where he plays
twelve games in the in the u XFL, whatever it's
(30:39):
gonna be, this springs the changes every year, whatever it's
gonna be him playing in that, it's a big crying
need because he's never going to get better because he's
just not going to play quarterback enough. He's not going
to play in the preseason's not getting it now, and
he's no good like he's he's not gonna get He's
not going to improve this way. He's on a Trey
(30:59):
Lanmance path where Trey Lance didn't play enough in the
NFL and he couldn't stay healthy. And guess what, he's
a backup now at best for the rest of his
NFL career. He is a backup, and he came into
the league as a number three overall pick. Same thing
with Anthony Richardson. He came in as a really high pick. Boy,
he's raw, but he's gonna be our guy, and he
just isn't close to getting it. You watch some of
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the plays he makes you shake your head and go,
what the hell are you thinking on this play? And
it's not that that he doesn't have the talent to succeed,
it's that he needs gameplay. And if you're not gonna
give him gameplay, then how is he ever gonna get better?
I don't. I mean, I'm looking now that this is
a wasted draft pick for the Colts. They went all
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in on a guy who showed all kinds of promise.
Who yes, he tantalized you his physical skills, how fast
he is, how big he is. But the guy simply
can't play quarterbacks. But he boils down to that the
whole rest thing. And yet it's a bad look coming
out of the game. There's a lot of things he
doesn't understand about being a quarterback. Usually that comes with hey,
I understand, but I'll learn about the game. But the
bottom line is he's not good and how many how
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long are you gonna go with him til you realize, Okay,
he's not good anymore. You're sitting him for Joe Bleep
and Flacco all right in the middle of the season.
What does that tell you about where he stands and
how he's going to play the rest of his career.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Yeah, obviously, when you look at the decision to tap
yourself out and sit and everything, it's the proverbial cherry
on the Sunday of what has been gross ineptitude time
and again on a team that can be competitive, and
that was the thing that they built a roster where
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they're competitive. They're hanging around like much of the NFL
right now around five hundred. So you've got an opportunity
with a little bit of competency and the health of
Jonathan Taylor coming back, maybe you can get Michael Pittman
Junior out of off balls alongside Josh Downs and actually
have more consistency downfield. You got a guy completing forty
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four percent of his past attempts, not in a game,
not in a quarter or a half. That is over
one hundred and thirty three attempts. He is completing forty
four percent of his throws and unfortunately, as soon as
you go down the road.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
I tapped out because I was tired.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
It's like, now we start looking at all his injuries
and going, all right, did you tap out? There? Like
he brings everything else into question, and he also becomes
one of the poster children for the okay, we like
the raw skill set. Stop playing these guys as rookies
if they don't know what the hell they're doing.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
But but again, but this is a guy that needed
to play right, like he needed to play like, there's
there's no way you can still teach a guy in
the back.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
I don't know that you can, you said, I don't know.
It's at this point he's broken.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
So you what do you do? You're a half man,
half out. You're doing the hoky pot. But at this point,
he had all the reps with the ones, he had,
all the reps, he had everything going into camp, he
had all off seat he's had, he's had the practice
rep to get and he's had more.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
It's not like going, you know what, he feared Joe
Flacco and he's been looking.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Over his shoulder the whole time.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Look, dude, just like Deshaun didn't clear Joe Flit's gonna
be twenty forty and Joe Flacco is still gonna be
taking teams of the playoffs coming off this couch.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Yeah. Well, I mean he's inevitable one year deals everywhere,
he's had chances. He's had chances, and he's not done it.
So how is he suddenly going to get good when
you've seen him in practice and engaged.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
No, that's what I'm saying. That shit has sailed. Now
that's two years. Like, that's two years. It's gone on,
and do it now. He's finished. He's finished in Indiana. No,
but that's it, Like if you'd done it from day
one and just said, all right, he's a raw talent
and we've got four years before we have to find out, right,
the Jordan Love model because you've got stability in an
organization in Green Bay where you had Aaron Rodgers, and
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as much as you were pissed at him and you
were done with it, you're like, all right, we're gonna
ride this out until we don't have to anymore, and
then it'll be Jordan Love's time to ascend and prove it.
If he can do this for Anthony Richardson and for
a lot of these other quarterbacks you mentioned Bryce Young,
go on down the line, give a damn where they're
drafted if they're not ready to go, And after a
couple of film sessions and a couple of really practices,
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you know it's going to be a disaster. You've now
just burned that pick. Anyway, so he might as well
have been on the bench trying to learn something from
a veteran, especially if you've got a team that can compete,
like Bryce Young.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Goes to Carolina.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
There was no delusion that that team was gonna be
any good, right, So if you're gonna throw them to
the wolves, you're throwing them to the wolves. And even there,
you've been half assed with your attempt to do that.
Along the way with Richardson and the Colts, you said, well,
this guy's gonna be good enough, he'll learn on the fly,
and we've got a team that can compete. And now
all of a sudden you're realizing, hey, we really actually
(35:34):
could kind of compete, and this guy's murdering us. Oh
and now he tapped out final straw, because you're gonna
have a riot inside that locker room if he trotted
back out with the starters for Week nine.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
I mean they can say all they want. Oh it's
not it's a chance to step back yet. Now he's done,
he's just again. He's Bryce young. He will be in
next year. Oh, don't say that. Come on, he's your guy.
Not happening. He's more mobile than Aaron Rodgers exit out
about a Fresca exit, Swull and Dome, the end of
Anthony Richardson. So fast come more big stuff out of
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the NFL, including a big trade
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the Yankees, who had a five to two lead after
the Anthony Volpi Grand Slam Dodgers have cut it to
five to four. LA coming to bat now win tonight
(01:07):
they win the World Series. Yankees can continue to push
it out a little bit. If they can hold on
to this lead, and I'll tell you what this is.
I am at the same time impressed and completely disappointed
by the strategy the Dodgers are using tonight in Game
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four of the World Series. And the thing is is,
we saw this in the NLCS and it happened to
work out for them. But watching tonight, where Okay, we're
going to a bullpen game, and look, and that's kind
of the new normal now is using bullpen games throughout
the playoffs. We see teams do that all the time.
But what the Dodgers tried to do in the NLCS
(01:49):
that worked out for them, they're doing tonight, and they
do it in Game two against the Mets, where hey,
bullpen game. We won Game one and they got behind early.
We're not gonna use any of our high leverage relievers.
These are all a bunch of guys that come in
when we just need bulk innings filled. Right, Guys like
Casparius who started tonight, Knack who came in tonight and
(02:13):
the Mets got out to a big lead, they win
Game two, right, Dodgers win Game three, they win Game four,
Game five, another bullpen game. Okay, what happens? Mets get
out to a five to one lead, Dodgers realize we're
not gonna win this game. Roberts is not chasing a win,
and it's still bulk reliever night for the Dodgers. Okay,
then they come back to Dodgers win Game six, two
(02:33):
games where it's a bullpen game for the Dodgers, and
they decided very early, we're not gonna bring in our
high leverage guys. And I kind of understood it, even
though you potentially let the Mets back into that series
by giving them a chance to win Game two and
we're not gonna try to win. It's a third inning.
I know it's five to one, but it's the third inning,
and and you let them, you know, they win Game two. Okay,
(02:55):
then you let them they win Game five because of it,
and you send the series back to LA. But it
worked out, and I kind of understood a little bit because, Okay,
the Mets were out to Leeds and they were hitting
the ball really well, here's tonight where you can win
the World Series. And Freddie Freeman Hall of Famer Freddie
Freeman homers again in the first in and eight, and I,
like the fan that had to please stop, Freddy signed
(03:17):
please stop Freddy, just stop. You're up to nothing. You're
up two to one. It's a it's a one run game,
and still with a chance to win the World Series.
The Dodgers have decided and Dave Roberts has decided we're
not going to use our high leverage guys where it's
five for it's Casparius and Hudson and Knack. And it's wow.
I mean, I get it when you're chasing, when when
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you're you're chasing, you're down a lot, but this was
a game you were up by two runs, and then
you still decided we're gonna leave our bulk guys in. Okay,
Now it's a one run game. No bring landon. Nack's
gonna have a second ending here. And I'm just stunned
that here's a chance to win the World Series where
you are looking at Garrett cole Tomorrow and a Jack
Flaherty for the second time in a series. We saw
(04:02):
what happened to Jack Flarity second time in the series
in the NLCS, and you're saying, okay, well that could
now we're suddenly we're sending it back to Los Angeles.
I am just it's a strategy that I am completely
impress it they're sticking to and I also completely don't
get it and disagree that you're not trying to win
the World Series tonight, you're okay with giving the Yankees life,
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and the Dodgers decided before the game and they're sticking
to this that it's more important that we set up
the rest of the series for how we want our
pitching to be than it would be to win the
World Series tonight. And if we put that game at
risk and we lose tonight, it's okay. We feel like
we're gonna win one of the next three games, and
it's more important that we get our pitching set up
and on nights where we have Flarity and Yamamoto and
(04:44):
then potentially Buller in Game seven, we have the relievers
we want to that the Yankees aren't seeing them on
multiple nights back to back, and they're gonna see the
other bulk guys and if they win, they win. And
it's I'm telling you, it's one thing that I was
in the NLCS. I was like, oh, you know, I
don't know about that, but it worked out this. I'm like, wow,
how do you stick to this? How do you stick
(05:05):
when you're winning? Early. It's a one run game. How
do you not try to say, hey, we've had them
the entire time, it's a one run game. If you're
losing nine to one, I get it, right, I get
but it's a one run game that you've turned this into.
And still it's Casparius for two winnings in Hudson and Nack.
And I got people who are Dodger fans all season
led texting me before the game goes, how the hell
(05:26):
is Casparius in this game? Why is Land and Neck?
I'm like, I'm not making the lineup. I'm not I'm
not David. You need to hear Dave at Dodgers dot
com and that, I mean, that's not his address, but
I say, it's David Dodgers dot com and he'll answer
all your questions about why this is what they're doing
the bullpen. It's incredibly impressive and I can't believe it
at the same time, I can't believe they're actually doing.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Now here's the response from Dave at Dodgers dot com.
This goes back to last night quote. There's just got
to be urgency. That's that's the first line. Yeah, there's
got to there's just got to be urgency. I don't
want to those guys up for.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Air when I go to the bullpen.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Now it's it's fine, okay, let we we start, and okay,
you get out and turn the ball over to Hudson.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
You're up to one. Okay.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
He's terrible to the point where I had it synced
up driving into the Fox Sports radio studios. You got
you know the video that's over there, but listening to
Dodger Radio, and they couldn't help but call out how
terrible Hudson was at every turn. I don't know that
I've ever heard that much criticism about a guy's lack
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of performance, say nothing of the months he getting doubled off, uh,
doubled up on on the base paths and getting lost
on a line drive. That's that's a whole other thing
that in subject that that sticks. But you're down five
to four, you've got for more innings. Now we'll see
obviously as we come out for the sixth. Didn't allow
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any more damage, got through a couple of scoreless. So
now it just becomes the question of all right, we'll
go to the bottom of the six Are you sticking
with the plan or do you realize, hey, I can
actually not give them any of the air going forward.
You just had the graphic up on the Fox telecast
the Yankees and nine of twelve games this postseason have
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allowed zero or one run out of their bullpen. Does
that mean you're just sending up the flair and saying
we'll see you tomorrow. I mean, Garrett Cole. That was
the first mistake that Aaron Boone made from many accounts
going back to Game one, of taking Garrett Cole out
at all, because he was still pitching very, very well
before he got into the bullpen. Here with Dave Roberts
in a game, you can finish this off. Why would
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you give them any life? Right, You've not had the
big guys hitting. I mean you laugh and marvel at
Stanton trying to hit the ball on the outer part
of the plate. Aaron Judge has gotten on base. How
an error and getting hit by a pitch. That's the
only time he's getting the Bronx cheer at this point.
It's so bad. So other than the pitch to Volpie
(08:04):
and look to the Yankees credit. You know what they
did to the Dodgers relievers.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
They actually took pitches. What a novel concept.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
It only took you to game four to recognize, you
know what, let's actually make these guys make a bitch.
And then they couldn't and Hudson was awful. I know
their twenty bitches, only eleven of them for strikes.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I know it's I'm watching going okay, here goes Nope, nope, nope,
still three batters. Get his ass out, Frostburg? What he
got on this?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Man?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
How are you do? You guys live under a rock
or something? Wow? What are you talking about? You do
know that Dodgers are up three to zero in the series.
I don't know. But you're trying to win too. Know
it's only the six inning, right, are you trying to
win the World Series tonight? Dodgers could very well win
this game, of course they could, but they could also
very well lose it because we're gonna bring it all
our bad relievers. You're out here acting like they're down
three to zero in the series. The show is tonight.
(08:52):
It's anybody can date Jener video in the series, and
it's only the six inning. Okay, but why are you
not when the game is close and you're leading, you
can we want to hurt the Yankees war. You know
how much it's gonna hurt more when they.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Lose this game, I will say, I do I do
like that philosophy.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I will say texting with my dad when when Volpi
hit the home run, right, I think always excited now
as a grand sland it's only gonna I texted him.
I said Vulpy right, I said Volpy with with exclamation points.
You know Volpeye comes back from the bed base running.
Uh he made earlier in the game, hits the grand slam,
I said, Volpi, And what is my dad right back?
Bullpenal blow it now? Also give not even excited for
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the one he Volpi. It's a great bullpenal blow.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
It like, did he write you back with Volpi's inability
to turn the double play on the slow running ready
for you?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
No, no he did not. He didn't, y'ad gonna cover
that fans bail that ripped the ball, which was we're
gonna get to that where we're gonna get to that,
We're gonna get to that. But he didn't answer the question. No.
I think I think maybe my dad might be related
to one of those guys. I want to I want
to wait till after they get that would be hey,
you know that was that was big pity from that.
I grew up with little pety, medium sized pet and
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look at Peeni taking the ball out of Betts's glove.
But I mean, we'll get to that in a few
minutes because that that's become the big touchstone of the game.
But just seeing this go on as the Yankees come
to bat in the bottom of the sixth inning, Dodgers
go out one, two, three in the top of the
six I really it is it is a strategy that
I mean it. It's it's so polarizing while I understand it,
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and then I don't understand it. I understand it when
you're down and you're not chasing a win, right, that
was the bit We're not gonna we're not gonna use
our high leverage guys. If we're losing seven to three
and they got they have second and third in the
fifth inning, I'm not gonna bring in Blake trying it, right,
are not going to bring in Michael Kopeck at that point, Right,
I get that, But this is it's two nothing, and
it's two to one, and it's five to four and
(10:50):
it's at Nope. Still just a bunch of guys out
there right now, continuing for his third inning of relief.
I mean, really, Oral Herscheiser is coming in next in
a suit and time wow, broadcast in the game with
no more Garcia apart. Now he's gonna come in, all right,
I can throw a little bit here, just a little bit.
I got dress, shoes on and a suit, so hopefully
that works out, okay, And it just worked out for
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the Yankees because Wells, who has been crushing the ball tonight,
hits a solo home run to right field to give
the Yankees a six to four lead, his second home
run this postseason. He has really been on it tonight,
missed a home run by just a few feet earlier
the night, and now the Yankees lead is six to four.
In this game where apparently anybody can pitch for the Dodgers,
maybe they should have given away some money saying, hey,
(11:34):
if you want to pitch in a World Series game,
you know, bid on it, and the high bidder gets
to going inning here in Game four. We're just gonna
give Game four away. We're okay with it. Quote.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
There just needs to be a sense of urgency. We
cannot give them any air I.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Mean, I don't understand how a sense of urgency is
land and knack for three innings. I mean, and and
you have Casparius start the game for two in I
don't understand how you can say, oh, sense of urgency,
but this is what they go unless his plan was
to say, hey, we have to have a sense of urgency.
Just because we have a bullpen game doesn't mean we're
(12:11):
giving this game aways. It actually does mean you're giving
the game away. But just because we're saying that, I
want to make sure the guys at bat have a
sense of urgency. I know the pitch will be doing
their best, and they are, They're just not good. I mean,
we're bringing not good guys on purpose in a close
game in the World Series. Think about that. We're bringing
in guys who aren't good on purpose in close games
in the World Series.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Now, remember, charity does begin at home, and the Yankees
are at home. So it's a charitable act on some
level for those that spent a minimum of six hundred
dollars to get into the stadium tonight.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
On the resale market, it is I don't. I don't again,
I I that's why it's so you can have both thoughts.
I think at the same time I understand it.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
But at the same time, I'm at five to four
getting into the latter part of the game, and I
can go take it.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
It's just so, it's so, we're gonna do this because
then we're gonna set up our pitching for the rest
of the series and we're gonna win the World Series
with three starters and nine relievers. Of Okay, but but wait,
you can win the game tonight. No, don't look at that.
Look at what we could do the rest of the series. Yeah,
but if you win tonight, you don't need the rest
of the series. You don't need to worry about Garrett
Garrett Cole tomorrow. No need to worry about it. Yeah. No,
(13:21):
it's okay. We're still gonna stick with it and bring
in our bad guys. Still gonna do it, Still gonna
do it. I really it is. It is amazing, Jayson.
You do know the Dodgers are up three all the time?
I do, I do. But want you to have a
broom in your hand? In your hand? What is what
is uh? What what does Oli Vanders say when when
(13:42):
when he went Harry first to go get to get
his wand from him, and he gives him the wand
that part of it was belonged to Voldemort. And he says,
he said, the the uh, the wizard who had part
of this did uh great things, terrible but great, Like
this strategy is great. Terrible, but it's great. Like That's
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are gonna get into what has become the biggest play
of the night that is amazing to watch. You should
not be surprised, but it is amazing to see every
time they show the replay of what happened earlier in
this game. We get into what is gonna be the
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Speaker 1 (15:38):
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Live from the tire Rack dot Com Studios. Top of
the seventh inning Yankees with a six to four lead
over the Dodgers. However, Dodgers got a little something something
going on right now. Runner at first show, Heyotani up
a one to two count. Otani is not Homer in
(15:58):
his last twenty four at bat uh and now it's
gonna be a runner at second. And you wonder if
they're gonna take the bat out of Otani's hand now, Uh,
Tommy Edmund just stole second. The count is two and two,
and I would assume, you know, me being Aaron Boone
and all, that they're gonna put Otani on first to
get to count, to make the force out, to try
(16:21):
to figure it out, like do you really want to
have a good pitch to Otani? He still scares people.
Uh look, I'm just saying it's two and two. It
was zero and two, but a couple pitches outside they
are going to continue to pitch to him. However, that
pitch was not real, That was not even close to
the strike zone. Making a three and two count with
Edmund on second, one out action in the Yankee bullpen
(16:44):
Ron Gidrey Louisiana lights lightning could be coming into this
game at some points. Do we get to hear white
lightning now later on in the in the show? H.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
So that's.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
So that's where we sit right now. We'll have more
on this game coming up in a couple of minutes.
Let's you know, how Atani does still a full count here,
but the play that everybody's going to be talking about
is something that it's shocking, but honestly, I'm not surprised.
In the first inning of this game, flyball down the
right field line, Mookie Betts goes to the stands to
(17:19):
try to catch it. He jumps up, puts his hand
in the crowd to try to catch the ball, and
he does wind up getting the out call because he
catches the ball. However, two fans grab yeah, getting the needle.
There's people that are waiting to see if these guys
get booked. Those aren't fans, like there are people waiting
to see if these guys get booked because somebody just
(17:41):
put out with a check mark said, haven't seen anything
in the penal system for these fans yet being booked.
Two fans decide, okay, well, but they were fans before
they were criminalss okay uh. They try to grab the
ball out of Mookie Betts's glove. One fan puts both
hands on Bets's glove pries it open to pull the
(18:04):
ball out, while the other fan, seeing the fan do this,
puts his hand and grabs Mookie Betts's wrist just to
hold it there so the fan can pull the ball up.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
The guy with grabbing his glove is he's like he's
pulling his arm. He's Mooky Betts where he's getting Booky
Bets is not a huge guy, right, so even it's
fully instead and it shoulders up and if nothing else where,
we've watched shoulder injuries throughout these playoffs, have been watching
Joey o'tani in the way he's got to run to
(18:35):
not have a relapse or have the recurrence of the injury,
or the idea that he extends his arm when he's
sliding whatever. Mooky Bets is fully exposed here and this
guy's ripping at his arm. Dude, I mean it's you know,
it's it's like carrying him.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Like I saw this and they tried to make lighting
on the broadcast, which I'm like, okay, this is this
is dangerous. Man like this and this is and I
I wish I could just say, well, it's a New
York thing, right, It's it's something New York fans would do,
because it is a wow with a New York fan
thing to reach it and pull the guys, not to
just put the handout and try to do it, but
to open to grab his glove and open and the
(19:13):
other guy to grab while he's doing it. Like, I
can't say I'm surprised because this is the way that
it's trending in sporting events, where fans feel like they're
part of the game much more than they ever have
and that they can do things like this, and that's
a scary that's a scary part. Like I'm not one
of those always doing it, you know. Uh oh, I
(19:33):
think something is there. There's something around every corner, But
this is a guy to It's one thing to try
to rise up and catch the ball before it comes
down before a guy can get his glove on it.
It's quite another thing to to grab his glove and
open it and to grab his wrists. You don't know
if you can hurt him like that. That's something that
it's shocking to see. But at the same time, I'm
not surprised because this is how we're trending in sporting events, right.
(19:55):
Like I'll even go back to the series with the
Mets and the Brewers. The game the game three Peter
a Lonzo Whit's the home run to win the game
three two. In the bottom of the eighth inning, Alonzo
drops a pop up down the first base line. He's
right at the netting, and he drops the pop up,
likely because a fan decides I'm gonna push the netting,
push through the way out at him, and and and
(20:17):
and and stop him from being able to catch the ball.
Now it got I don't know how that got lost
in in what went on, probably because the drama of
Alonzo hitting the home run back.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Now when the guy laughing, nice game, pretty boy behind him.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yeah yeah, but the but the the guy, the guy
pushes push his glove all the way out and pushes
the fence, pushes the the netting all the way out
to get him to stop catching it. But this is
where we're at. The line is blurred between what is
acceptable fan behavior. I don't want to sit here and
say it's all social media's fault. But in an era
now of twenty twenty four, where your interaction with an
(20:49):
athlete is so close, right, people think, Hey, an athlete
says something on social media, I'm gonna respond to them,
I'm gonna quote sweet them, I'm gonna say something back
at them, and that that line of demarcation, that line
of behavior is really blurred, Like what's an acceptable way
to have an interaction with an athlete now and and
and I'm not saying it's it's gonna happen every single game,
(21:11):
but boy, we are trending towards bad stuff going on. Man,
And this is this is something where these guys, these
guys can't be allowed bat ye, you can't. You can't
grab a guy's glove and you can't grab a guy's wrist.
Should file for assault, you know.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
And I like grabbing the glove hand and like you
see the the arm gets bent awkwardly and BET's pissed by,
absolutely incensed. And then the other guy who's cowering as
he's coming over, is quick to reach over and grab
his other arm, and I like.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
How they're but they both when they go to throw
them out, both fans like we're just going for the ball,
Like we're just going like, dude, we have cameras. It's
the it's the World Series. We're gonna see exactly what.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
We're gonna have it on every camera. The guy next
to you has an even better shot that I'm sure
will be released later. I mean, but everybody looking for
their viral moment in this case, like, look, how great
a fan we are we tried to, you know, get
went back for the team. No, you assaulted the guy.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yeah, I mean really, it's Baseball's got to come down.
And this is why, hey, why they have netting up.
They want to protect the fans also want to protect
the players. But in every sport now, whether it's NBA,
you see it happen all the time now, fans get
into it with the players because they want to do it.
I want to be part of this now, and I
can see it, and I'm more emboldened by it because
this is kind of the age we live in where
(22:23):
you can have that kind of you can have interactions
with players who will come right back at you. And
that's another Oh hey, he said, you know, Kevin Durant
said this. Kevin Durant responded to my tweet. All he
did was trollam. He responded. Now we're talking like now
we're friends or we're friend of these or whatever. It's
gonna for one of the guys that want to go crazy.
I mean, we we're off to a first week in
the NBA season, haven't had it yet, but the inevitability
(22:46):
of how many guys are going to get kicked out
of courtside seats for engaging like idiots with players right
and shouting any number of things. Because we saw it
last year a number of times lebron kd Westbroo, number
number of players that over the course of the season
had folks ejected. It's only a matter of time before
that trend begins again, how buz, as I've seen it
(23:11):
thirty times, and I'm I just say, I can't believe,
you know, the brazenness of the fans to do that.
But at the same time, I can't all color me shocked. No,
I'm not shocked. I'm not shocked at all about something
stuff that happens in games anymore with fans because I'm
I'm much more a part of the action than I
ever have been.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
They should have thrown out the the jackasses that were
high five and these morons as they were being escorted
up the aisle too. Yeah, because you can go, and
you can go, and you can go. Let's go find
the people in the five hundred levels bring down the front.
What's it gonna be for these guys when when they
when they get out, Hey, man, Joe, you and you
did that at the game last night. Oh man, that
was really cool. But yeah, you stop Boogie Bets from
getting that ball. I mean, that's what it's gonna be.
(23:48):
And it would be this way in any city. It
would I'm not saying New York, but it would be
this if the Dodgers were playing the A's.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
I decided to put the A's in the world to wow,
look at you if you would, you know, if they
actually had fans in the car and there were fans.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Down the line, you just kind of walk up and
grab the ball. It's like a deposit left for you.
Then I mean, I guess I should say this.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
They say it happened in openand and Mookie Betts went
down the line and a possum tried to grab the
ball out of his glove. I mean, what do you do?
Is that a team sponsored the possum? Is he wearing
a little.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Hat spray painted green and golf.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Pots of one possum opens up his glovey how much
for the arm? The other possum just puts his paw
on top of Mookie Bets. Is hard to get him
to not moving. Put my paw on the top here.
But I mean, like it would like something like this anywhere,
like they would be they could be playing Cleveland, they
could be playing Detroit, and they these guys are gonna
walk around here. Oh look what you did last night?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Man.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yeah, I mean this is maybe Philly. Maybe Philly. That's
the only two stadiums that are doing crap like this. Man.
I don't know, Man, I just don't know. This has
never happened, just happened. I just told you how it
happened to has never happened before Milwaukee. I mean they
lifted the player off his feet. No, but where they
(25:02):
tried to break his wrist and arm. No where they where?
They never where they jumped into the play and and
could have hurt a guy and effect that happened.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
I mean, man, we had guys in Chicago run on
a field at a cost.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Yeah, wild, I mean you do have that. I mean really,
I mean this is I don't know what else to
say other than eventually something like that's gonna happen. Somebody's
gonna get hurt and it's good. Oh why didn't you? Okay,
well you clearly had a chance to do that.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Yeah, out there, truly make an example of these jackasses.
I mean, they're not cold heroes. The morons in New
York that were cheering them and patting them on the
shoulder as they left. Hey, good effort, good try to
get the ball. No, you're a bunch of jumps.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I mean, I don't I don't know if the right
thing is just I mean, I assume the big Well,
we can make the padding come out another foot, and
so Mookie's not getting over there to get the found.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Said glass and you bang, ont it like you're at
a hockey game.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Let's go exit up to Fresco Exit Swallen Dome. The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live from the Tirack
dot Com Studios. The Yankees still have a two run lead.
They had a chance to The Dodgers had a chance
to cut into the Yankee lead. However, show Heyo Tani
struck out, Mookie Betts struck out to end the inning,
so they strand Tommy Edmond at second base. They're coming
(26:20):
about here in the bottom of the seventh the Dodgers
again trailing by two, the Yankees trying to keep the
World Series alive. We will have more on this game,
but coming up next. Two big stories out of the NFL.
We have a trade and a quarterback change that's straight
ahead right here, Jason and Mike. You are listening to
(26:40):
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Speaker 3 (26:43):
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 (26:50):
This is what all the good Dodger relievers are saying
right now, not the bad ones who have been in tonight.
Now in the eighth inning, now, and you haven't brought
me in the game. We're good. Lose to the Yankees,
and I can follow.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Some guys starting and then some crazy guy named Nac.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Now we're losing the game, still in the eighth Why
don't Dave Roberts don't you want me? Because are you
ready for an Aeron judge.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
That you know?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
No, No, I'm not ready for an Aaron Judge. You're
getting it? Is it from Sarah Lang? No, you'll be
in trouble too. I'm not gonna steal Steve's girlfriend like
he did. Ready? What? Yeah, go ahead, because it's so important,
Go ahead. His O two start tonight. Yeah. He now
has the worst batting average ever in the history of
(27:44):
the memob blaffs. I don't think that's true. It's absolutely
certain number of d bats. Okay, okay, certain number of bats. Okay,
all right about that. You could have waited till I
finished freestyling and said that could breaking news. He didn't
have to get it's breaking news. So here we are,
top of the eighth inning, one out, Dodgers trailing the Yankees,
(28:06):
six y four, Yankees trying to keep the World Series going.
They are five outs away from forcing Game five. So
we'll have more on this game in a few minutes. Meanwhile,
big stuff in the NFL today. We had some trades
and we had a quarterback change. Quarterback change, first the
Indianapolis Colts, after spending some time to talk about this
(28:28):
Shane Stike and announcing that Joe Flacco, who is inevitable
elite Joe Flacco, will take over at quarterback and Anthony
Richardson is now on the bench. Certainly, the I have
to come out for a play because I'm winded was
a really bad look. I don't believe that that played
well with the team, I think, however, I'm gonna say however, however,
(28:52):
I don't think it's as much the I have to
come out like that might have been kind of the
last straw compared to one other thing, because there's only
oh I think I know what it is. There's only
one I think I.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Know one thing stopping at You tell me what is
that one thing stopping Anthony quarterback?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
All this other stuff about him and I'm not I'm
I'm you know, I breather, I ran the ball.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
And his conditioning, lack of work ethic, lack of understanding
of his job. The largest of it that what he
means to a franchise organization of city. Yeah, all of
that things, it boils down to one other thing. There's
only one thing stopping him from being the one thing.
I mean, all the stuff you want to say, yeah,
but this does he throw the balls here?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Yeah? But yeah, but yeah, but yeah, I guess one
thing stopping him from being a star. Go ahead, Frostburg.
What's that smell? The thing stopping him? He stinks, that's
the thing that nicely.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Once upon a time he was an early college season MVP.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
He flashed some greatness he had he flashed a little
bit at the beginning of last year. But he and
Bryce Young are the same guy. Right now, Just think
about that. I mean, you can't keep going seven for
twenty five throwing the football and and then the worst
part of is that I don't I don't see him
ever becoming good because he's never had the reps. Right,
(30:18):
what did he have a handful of games in college.
He's been hurting the pros. You don't learn how to
play quarterback in the NFL. You don't get the reps
like he's. This is, this is He's the shiny example
of crying out for a minor league in the offseason
where he plays entirely in spring football, where he plays
twelve games in the in the u XFL, whatever it's
(30:39):
gonna be, this springs the changes every year, whatever it's
gonna be him playing in that, it's a big crying
need because he's never going to get better because he's
just not going to play quarterback enough. He's not going
to play in the preseason's not getting it now, and
he's no good like he's he's not gonna get He's
not going to improve this way. He's on a Trey
(30:59):
Lanmance path where Trey Lance didn't play enough in the
NFL and he couldn't stay healthy. And guess what, he's
a backup now at best for the rest of his
NFL career. He is a backup, and he came into
the league as a number three overall pick. Same thing
with Anthony Richardson. He came in as a really high pick. Boy,
he's raw, but he's gonna be our guy, and he
just isn't close to getting it. You watch some of
(31:20):
the plays he makes you shake your head and go,
what the hell are you thinking on this play? And
it's not that that he doesn't have the talent to succeed,
it's that he needs gameplay. And if you're not gonna
give him gameplay, then how is he ever gonna get better?
I don't. I mean, I'm looking now that this is
a wasted draft pick for the Colts. They went all
(31:41):
in on a guy who showed all kinds of promise.
Who yes, he tantalized you his physical skills, how fast
he is, how big he is. But the guy simply
can't play quarterbacks. But he boils down to that the
whole rest thing. And yet it's a bad look coming
out of the game. There's a lot of things he
doesn't understand about being a quarterback. Usually that comes with hey,
I understand, but I'll learn about the game. But the
bottom line is he's not good and how many how
(32:05):
long are you gonna go with him til you realize, Okay,
he's not good anymore. You're sitting him for Joe Bleep
and Flacco all right in the middle of the season.
What does that tell you about where he stands and
how he's going to play the rest of his career.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Yeah, obviously, when you look at the decision to tap
yourself out and sit and everything, it's the proverbial cherry
on the Sunday of what has been gross ineptitude time
and again on a team that can be competitive, and
that was the thing that they built a roster where
(32:36):
they're competitive. They're hanging around like much of the NFL
right now around five hundred. So you've got an opportunity
with a little bit of competency and the health of
Jonathan Taylor coming back, maybe you can get Michael Pittman
Junior out of off balls alongside Josh Downs and actually
have more consistency downfield. You got a guy completing forty
(32:56):
four percent of his past attempts, not in a game,
not in a quarter or a half. That is over
one hundred and thirty three attempts. He is completing forty
four percent of his throws and unfortunately, as soon as
you go down the road.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
I tapped out because I was tired.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
It's like, now we start looking at all his injuries
and going, all right, did you tap out? There? Like
he brings everything else into question, and he also becomes
one of the poster children for the okay, we like
the raw skill set. Stop playing these guys as rookies
if they don't know what the hell they're doing.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
But but again, but this is a guy that needed
to play right, like he needed to play like, there's
there's no way you can still teach a guy in
the back.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
I don't know that you can, you said, I don't know.
It's at this point he's broken.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
So you what do you do? You're a half man,
half out. You're doing the hoky pot. But at this point,
he had all the reps with the ones, he had,
all the reps, he had everything going into camp, he
had all off seat he's had, he's had the practice
rep to get and he's had more.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
It's not like going, you know what, he feared Joe
Flacco and he's been looking.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Over his shoulder the whole time.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Look, dude, just like Deshaun didn't clear Joe Flit's gonna
be twenty forty and Joe Flacco is still gonna be
taking teams of the playoffs coming off this couch.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Yeah. Well, I mean he's inevitable one year deals everywhere,
he's had chances. He's had chances, and he's not done it.
So how is he suddenly going to get good when
you've seen him in practice and engaged.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
No, that's what I'm saying. That shit has sailed. Now
that's two years. Like, that's two years. It's gone on,
and do it now. He's finished. He's finished in Indiana. No,
but that's it, Like if you'd done it from day
one and just said, all right, he's a raw talent
and we've got four years before we have to find out, right,
the Jordan Love model because you've got stability in an
organization in Green Bay where you had Aaron Rodgers, and
(34:39):
as much as you were pissed at him and you
were done with it, you're like, all right, we're gonna
ride this out until we don't have to anymore, and
then it'll be Jordan Love's time to ascend and prove it.
If he can do this for Anthony Richardson and for
a lot of these other quarterbacks you mentioned Bryce Young,
go on down the line, give a damn where they're
drafted if they're not ready to go, And after a
couple of film sessions and a couple of really practices,
(35:01):
you know it's going to be a disaster. You've now
just burned that pick. Anyway, so he might as well
have been on the bench trying to learn something from
a veteran, especially if you've got a team that can compete,
like Bryce Young.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Goes to Carolina.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
There was no delusion that that team was gonna be
any good, right, So if you're gonna throw them to
the wolves, you're throwing them to the wolves. And even there,
you've been half assed with your attempt to do that.
Along the way with Richardson and the Colts, you said, well,
this guy's gonna be good enough, he'll learn on the fly,
and we've got a team that can compete. And now
all of a sudden you're realizing, hey, we really actually
(35:34):
could kind of compete, and this guy's murdering us. Oh
and now he tapped out final straw, because you're gonna
have a riot inside that locker room if he trotted
back out with the starters for Week nine.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
I mean they can say all they want. Oh it's
not it's a chance to step back yet. Now he's done,
he's just again. He's Bryce young. He will be in
next year. Oh, don't say that. Come on, he's your guy.
Not happening. He's more mobile than Aaron Rodgers exit out
about a Fresca exit, Swull and Dome, the end of
Anthony Richardson. So fast come more big stuff out of
(36:04):
the NFL, including a big trade
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