October 1, 2025 • 41 mins
The guys update the day in Wild Card Postseason Baseball. Jason compares Blake Snell to Madison Bumgarner. And the WNBA will have a new commissioner for next season!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Speaker 1 (00:31):
Greetings, Welcome inside, Happy Tuesday, Happy opening day of the
Major League Baseball Playoffs, The Jason Smith Show with my
base friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Two really big reasons you're excitable coming into the studio
other than the fact than you forgot your sleeves. These
are running so fast to get to the studio.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
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wearing my sleeveless. Let them off Hartford Whaler's hoodie tonight
because it's the only sports team I can wear that.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I know.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Nothing bad is gonna happen tonight because they don't exist anymore.
I mean, they're the Carolina Hurricanes, but nothing bad can
happen to the Whalers tonight. I'm wearing it tonight. I
am okay.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Remember, there may be a parallel universe that you haven't
figured out. You know, you haven't gone full peacemaker yet
to find that happy, blissful place where the Whalers are
still in existence. You just don't know that they might
be still losing in that alternate universe.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Not be this way. If Jason's a fan of them,
they're losing. It's tough. It's tough. And oh, by the way,
I do have to say this tonight, look big night.
Major League Baseball playoffs underway. Will have the latest on
the Dodger Reds game coming up in a minute. My goodness,
it's home run night at Chevezraviem. But we really the
Yankees may be done because on social media the Jets
(02:02):
wish them good luck in this round against the Red Sox.
The Yankees are down one zip after tonight, the Jets
wishing you good luck. That's it, man, you have the
Jets stain on you. I did Red Sox can walk
out of here with a with a with a quick
sweep and it's gonna be over. And really, you want
the Jets to come out against you, not for you.
That's kind of me. The if the Jets today go
(02:22):
Boston blank you. Oh hey, we feel pretty good. Nah, hey,
good luck the big good luck. Most they put out
on social media pictures of Judge and a. Yeah. Now,
the Jets just screwed.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
The Yankees saw that and just had to start laughing.
I'm sure Walt did not find it funny. We'll have
to check in on your dad as the night goes on.
But I just want to remind you former White Sox
Ace Garrett Crochet getting it done?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Is Crouch Mike? Okay, I mean he did do the
triple h Here's what I want to know. Here's what
I don't want you to tell me. Seriously, can you
try White Sox fame. Don't mess around with me. Okay,
you're the worst team in baseball the last couple of years, Okay, worse?
How come every guy you trade go someplace and is good.
(03:07):
You would think that he would be good with the
what but yet every guy you get rid of, ah yeah,
well you never he was on it, didn't remember, he'd
every guy you get rid of is good elsewhere. So
you had the guys there. Now they just just couldn't
do it. They're like, what's up?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Well, they didn't have a critical mass. I mean, this
guy wasn't wasn't bad in Chicago. I mean the fact
they couldn't win. He was six and twelve, but he
had a three five eight e RA. That's like one
and a half with another team. That's what I'm talking
about here, Like three five eight it's a great damn era.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah, man, But but if you have enough good players.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
But we had enough good pitchers. There were several Chrissale
and Don and all these guys. They were good.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
They were all in the playoff pitching in the playoffs.
The last couple of years, they show to play in
the playoffs. They don't need the four's team removal. Like
your Jets play. Okay, all right, kind of siphons off
bit by bit, you know, like a half life of
some kind of element. No, here they go straight from
one team to the next. Hey, that guy's out the
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White Sox last year.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
What's it gonna do. He's gonna lead them to greatness.
It's coming and sure enough today eleven strikeouts in those
seven plus innings to roll through. I mean the games
earlier today, just pitching dual one after another. So fun
stuff to start the Major League Baseball playoffs for sure. Yes,
we'll get to Dodgers' Reds coming up in a minute.
(04:30):
But game of the day so far Yankees and the
Red Sox. The Red Sox win it three to one
to take a one game to none lead, they go
for the sweep. Are all just chatting with a very
Edwin Diaz esque ninth inning, loading the bases with nobody out,
Oh wait a minute, wait a minute, then getting the
next two outs. Everything was up to Trent Grisham, the Yankees,
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all their hopes, all their dreams resting on his shoulders.
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Speaker 1 (05:22):
Play of the day.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Two balls, two strikes, two down with the bases loaded.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Chapman, he is ready, he throws slight.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
This he got him.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Chapman leaves the bases loaded, and the Red Sox whim
game one, three to one. In the Bronx Red Sox
Radio Network on the call, eraldes Chatman made it interesting,
made for a fun ass ninth inning, I'll tell you that.
But gets the strikeout of Stanton, a flyout from Chisholm,
and then the strikeout of Grisham. The Red Sox take
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Game one. And let me just say this before we
get into something something pretty big about that last night,
I just want to say this. I'm really, really, really
looking forward to all the Yankee fans who had so
much to say yesterday about the Mets and making the
playoffs and Wan Sodo. I'm really looking forward to seeing
all the Yankee fans rationalizing and putting out think pieces
(06:19):
on social media site about how you know it's still
good that we went out and didn't get one Soto,
and we got all these other guys. Yeah, all these
other guys that couldn't get a run across in the
ninth in and yeah, so glad you didn't get Soto.
I feel like Vincent Price and Thriller at the end
when he goes na, what the hell was that Vincent
(06:43):
Price thriller? He's that man who's starting to lose his mind.
It's the exact same laugh. That's the exact I had
to wait twenty four hours. No, the seventy two hours
is broken. I had to wait twenty four hours for
my revenge on Yankee fans. Oh you suck, you suck
No One Soto. Yeah you didn't have Sodo in the
ninth thing. Do you want to come up and yet?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
No, no, no. He was sending me stuff. Time was three hours.
He was sending stuff. Opie home wrung. After the Mets
loss yesterday, I was getting stuff like he was spamming me.
It was just like like, well, you sign up for
all of a sudden, you keep getting, you keep getting
I'm like, oh my god, stop stop stop stop stop.
So I think I blocked him. It's kind of fun.
It's kind of fun tonight. Do you sign them Cowboys
(07:27):
gifts plus now this? Uh no, no, no, I'll save
the Cowboys. After the Jets beat the Cowboys Sunday, you.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Should send them to Jerry Jones Audio. How's it taste?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Well, we got the Jets on Sunday. We don't beat
the Jets. Man as well, just give up. It's made
be it for the season for us. But let's not.
Let's focus on how the Yankees. Boy, they were ass
and that was really that was a really tough night.
I mean really, bases loaded, nobody out in the Bronx
and Eraldus Chapman comes back to Yankees. They had seen this,
and you know the funny thing is watching people live
(08:02):
tweet this as it's going on. We've seen this playoff
Chapman before in the Bronx. Yeah, we've seen it. Yeah,
we've seen it. Yeah, loads of bases and then bang
bang bang, the inning is over, game over, Yankees tearing
it going home. All of that. What you just said
there is completely irrelevant. Why is that over? The second
the Jets sent that tweet? That is true, but it
(08:23):
is fun seeing it play out then play out. Everything
else is fine. We knew they were gonna get out
of it. Now. Look, the one thing I'm gonna say
is this is that with one out in the ninth inning,
right to get to get to talk strategy here for
a second. I really am surprised there was no tag
up on the flyout to write, because you know, you
(08:45):
would probably get the run in. I can't believe the
Red Sox through home, but you look, get this, it's
it's somewhat deep enough. And in theory, the right baseball
play by the Red Sox would be to throw it
to third base, sure right to keep that tying run
from getting to third. But instead you saw him throw home.
But the Yankees didn't send a runner. I thought for
(09:06):
sure they'll at least try to juice a run along
in that in that type of it. Not that it
mattered in the end, because you know, they didn't get
a hit at all, but I really thought, like, wow,
that was like, what's you know, it brings you more
to the whole Aaron Boone thing, you know, lifting a
freed who was pitching phenomenal, got to one hundred pitches,
Take him out, Take him out. Luke Weaver comes in,
gives it up right away. You know, I mean Suzuki
(09:26):
pinch hits and drives in a run. It's gone from
August get rid of Aaron Boone to the talk is quieted.
Now it's get rid of him, get rid of him,
and I mean it. I mean you see tonight and
it's a big difference. You see what all the the
managers asked of their aces for today in the playoffs,
and they came through right. Schoobl was done right like school,
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the Tigers win today. Scoobl walked in, he said, I
emptied the tech. He had one hundred miles an hour
and that final inning when he was he thought, I'm
gonna be done, and they said, yeah, we need you
want more inning. Okay, I'll go back out there. He
was up over one hundred pitches, right, Crochet was up
over one hundred and fifteen pitches, like free, who's pitching
a shutout? And we're gonna take out of the game
to go to the bullpen And all of a sudden,
look what happens man? I mean that that's just more
of the Aaron Boone, Like what is what is happening here?
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Like well, like well, all of a sudden they got
to the playoffs and and like the free Wheeling Yankees
and the never and the Devil May Care Yankee. They're
gone now, they're going there one game from going home.
I just love that laugh.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yeah, you're you're a little too excited. I mean, they'll
at least still be able to say they made the playoffs.
I know, it doesn't really count for much if you
go home and you know, get swept out.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
If they win as many games as the Mets, it
doesn't matter it really, but it doesn't matter. They still
get to hang a banner. They do, Benn for a
squeaking in. It's a squeaking in banner. I say, it's
very very small banner. They put up all the way
to the side even better.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
But all of that to say, yeah, I mean he
was able to skate. And because they they made it
to the playoffs, it gets you that stay of execution.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
He and Cashman.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
It pushes things away, especially when you when you start going, well,
we didn't re sign that guy, we didn't do that.
We don't have these issues. And look they especially when
it's the Mets right with when they can hold up
the giant sign like everybody else has the digital accounting
of how much money the Mets spent and well they
didn't even make it. So, I mean, we're we're on grave.
(11:25):
You know, it's gravy over here, which is you can
only live on that for so long.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Great. Yeah, some heavy gravy. There's no question. Wait wait
heavy gravy. I mean, I mean I made it. You
look at this and just say, oh boy, soda would
have been great in that last thing. I mean really,
that's the best part is that soda would have been
(11:52):
forgetting Again, all it's irrelevant if he was on the
team and he was up uh yeah, but still it's
fun to thinke Hi Stiff had some second the Jets
sent that tweet, it was over guilt by association? Does
your dad know this?
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I haven't talked to my dad. He's someone I know
I can't talk to until tomorrow. Like I can't because
I know exactly what he's gonna say. It's the bullpen's fault.
I always go, dad, when you lose two to one,
it's not the bullpen's fault. But tonight I'm like, no, yeah, no,
it kind of was. Yeah, no, no, was.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Freed was gonna be done shortly anyway, right, you could say,
all right, it was one hundred and they pull him, Well,
how much further is he going? He's only going six
at a third. Like, you still got a lot of
ballgame to finish off. So a good job by the
Red Sox hitters to extended bats and force into the bullpen.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yeah, I mean, look, this is a game where look
it's one game and you see this here and all
the and this is what I mean by by Yankee Nation. Now, like,
now get rid of Boontonet because you knew this was
gonna come up. Because whatever decision that has made that
doesn't go the right way, it's always going to be
Boone's fault. Regardless of whether or not the decision was
right when you made it, you got it wrong. It's
like when you and I give out fantasy advice. It
(12:59):
was like, hey, here's the advice. Play Garrett Wilson because
the matchup is good and their number one cornerback is
out and they're sliding over a guy pro football thow,
he's the sixty fifth. All of that could come from.
And then Garrett Wilson has a bad day and then like, oh,
why didn't you tell me, Why didn't you tell me
to play Jaylen Waddle instead? That's your fault. Like, Okay, no,
I got I got it wrong. But it doesn't mean
(13:19):
that the information at the time was erroneous. Right, it's
still good information now we gave you. It's like it
doesn't matter. All it matters is that what the Yankees did,
whatever Aaron Boone does is wrong.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
See, for the last twenty five years working in the
Fantasy Realm, my job is to get you to do
what I say. Whether it actually happens or not doesn't matter.
I did my job. If I made a compelling enough
case for you to toggle your lineup to that player,
that's it. After that, it's on him.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
To perform whatever Aaron Boone decides is wrong and not
having watch, Well, he didn't get kicked out, So I mean,
at least you got that going mm has killed the Yankees.
That's killed them. It's Carl and now Aaron Boon exit
out about a Fresco exit swollen down the Jason Smith
(14:12):
Show with my best friend Mike Carman. Meanwhile, a home
run party going on at Chavez Ravine right now, Hunter
Green Red's Ace. Well, if you missed the beginning of
the game because you were in traffic, you missed Hunter Green.
He is out of the game. The Dodgers have tagged
him for five runs already. As they are batting in
the bottom of the fourth inning, they lead the Reds
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five nothing. Show Hey, o Tawny one hundred mile an
hour fastball exit vlo about one hundred and fifteen miles
an hour leading off the game with a home run,
Nanas it's a home run, Edmund. It has been some
kind of start to the playoffs for the Dodgers. Yeah, no, yeah,
he was was one hundred Jason, he died.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Yeah, well, it was good until he threw that wild
pitch and then put the next pitch on a tee.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
So Dodgers lead the Reds now five nothing in the
fourth inning, final baseball game the night. We'll keep you
updated on this throughout the night, of course, but coming
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this game is just motoring along. Already in the top
of the fifth inning, Blake Snelling the Dodgers shutting out
the Reds five nothing. It has been a night where
the Dodgers came out right away, started hitting the ball
and haven't really stopped. Shoe Tani leading off with a
home run off one hundred mile an hour fastball from
Hunter Green, and that's really where everything has gone for
(17:43):
the Dodgers since, right, you have to Oscar with a
home run, Edding with a home run. They go back
to back. Uh, Dodgers starting reminding everybody this is why
we're a big favorite, and the Reds reminding everybody, Oh,
this is why we squeaked in even though we lost
in the final day of the season.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Yeah, I made a couple of the bad, bad mistakes
from a one hundred gree It was funny. It was
right before we came on air, where I'm in the
back getting a cup of coffee talking to our guys,
Shay who's working hard editing with us tonight, and the
wild pitch goes to the back stops like all right,
they move up. It's like, all right, this next pitch
is going to be a problem, and sure enough, ta
(18:16):
Oscar turns on it, three run homer and and blows
the game wide open, So three huge mistakes, five to nothing,
your lead, snow cruising along five innings, pitch seven strikeouts,
just sixty pitches thus far, so we can avoid the
bullpen for at least an Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I
mean it's so far. I mean, look, it's been a
day of incredible starting pitching performances in Major League Baseball.
(18:40):
It's been some kind it's been some kind of day, which.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
We'll get to.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
That Cleveland game was no man Clubs Cubs and Padres
three to one final.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
This game is right now. I'm not even sweating snow.
You know, you shouldn't be sweating snow sweat. You shouldn't
be sweating snow like his twelve start. You shouldn't get
one of his start ages you like three years.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Ah, you know what, just because he looks tired doesn't
mean it doesn't to you.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
He's been up late playing video games. Okay, it's been
a big thing. Blake wings on him heavily. He has
never pitched for you. You don't understand it, No, no, I
I I'm well versed in the Blake Snell experience. How
because I've watched his career for the past few years.
He's never pitched for you. It doesn't mean rappy team. Dude,
you won the World Series because Kevin Cash decided I'm
taking him out of a game. That awesome. I'll tell
(19:27):
you this about Blake Snell Harmon. So I was thinking
about this, right, just seeing the type of pitcher he
is and what he's been able to do accomplished so
far in his career. He kind of I feel like
he's on the path of becoming the new Madison Bumgarner, right,
because bum Gardner wasn't so he was never really unbeatable
during the regular season. He was always very good, right,
(19:49):
he had that big five years that she.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Had a couple of years where he was Yeah, he
was went a couple yeah, week or two ago as
we were going through, like with the Kershaw finishing of
his career where we're talking about these kind of stretches
and in the regular season there was a three to
four year period where he was just insane. But then
it got reinvented as a postseason specialist, right.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
And well, when you do what he did, what seven
innings in the final game of the World Series in
twenty fourteen to win it, I mean, it's incredible, but
you know, same type of situation where look, you got
two left handed pitchers, both have a lot of attitude.
Bumgarner which is always mad at everybody. Snell more of
a confidence in himself and seeing how yes, they perform
really well during the season, but whenever the stakes are
(20:34):
uped a bit, they have that little bit extra in
the tank. And Bumgardner clearly at you watch him throughout
his career, I don't know that I've seen a more
dominant postseason pitcher in my life than Bumgarner for that
six years. Like, yeah, I'm going all the way back
to the seventies when I'm watching bets go Okay, maybe
Jim Palmer has a great game here, but I don't
know I've seen anybody more dominant in the postseason. And
I feel like Blake Snell is sort of on that
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path where, yeah, really good during the regular season, not
as un eatable as you would think, but then he
gets the postseason and you see the games he puts
out there, and you go, man, this is amazing. Why
couldn'tkersch r this, Like, man, this is amazing watching Blake
Snell do this well.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Four and three for his career and ten starts, twelve
appearances three three three era kind of goes back to
that crochet season of last year of the six and twelve,
but you go back to his twenty nineteen run three
games appearing, he was zero win one but still had
an ERA of one six nine. It's got to like
it was Paul Skeins. But all of that to say,
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working deeper into games and always the famous all right,
I'm cruising along, but I'm gonna be taken out. The
one time I think I really wanted the extended remix
to see a pitcher really want to fight his manager, right,
not just the the the thing he did with Dave
robertson I'm not coming out. That was fun, ye, So
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but it owes to that that run Dodgers and Rays
when he's getting pulled out and has that wide eyed
look of am I in the right universe right now?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I mean read that. That's kind of where I'm looking
at him, see, because now he's on the best team.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Snell goes to the Giants. They have a great team
for a good six year, right, every other year they
won the World Series. Right. Blake Snell has been on
good teams, but he's never been on an overwhelming favorite. Okay,
now here he is and so now for whatever his
career is for the Dodgers, still in his early thirties,
like this is where his next five or six years
you could say, man, Blake Snell is, I mean you
want him? I told you during regular season the end
(22:30):
of the regular season, he's got to have the ball
in Game one. He's got to have the ball as
many times as possible over every other Dodger pitcher. Yea'mamoto's terrific, right.
Otani is Otani. Blake Snell needs the ball more than
anybody in any pitcher on the Dodgers roster throughout the playoff. Yeah,
he's also one of the guys.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
I mean before the offseason commenced, till we started talking
about free agency and where guys would sign. It's not
a guy would have given a long term deal just
based on his history, right between injuries, disappearing in the
non Cy Young Award seasons, He's been a jag right that,
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that's been his career. He's had a couple of massive seasons.
But then you have this deal where he comes forward
and these twelve games that he's pitched thus far, he's
been amazing. So finding the right stretch, because that's the
thing that for this Dodgers team. We talked about the
bullpen a lot is that you don't have a lot
of work from guys this year. So in theory, there's
still some gas.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
In the tank. Right, it's not.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
You only had a handful of guys actually get over
two hundred innings, which used to be the standard. But
but you got a Dodgers rotation where you don't have
anybody going over one hundred.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Now, dude, you can get to one twenty. Yeah, Momoto,
and that's it. What a great season? Yet to one twenty? Now?
Am I missing somebody Frostburg on this list?
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Yes, you're missing you said the most dominant pitchers in
the postseason?
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Right right?
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Okay, so you went with Bumgardner, right, yep? Who am
missing any powers?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Oh? Yes? And once he got his pitch back, Kenny Power,
he had to get his pitch back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
even the dude from the office hit him.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
No, but for real, you left off and Andy Pennett's
probably one of the most dominant I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
And Andy Pettitt is terrific. Penet's up and Andy Pettitt
is up there. But but bum Garner just raising his
his level of play so much as it's it's eye
popping what he was at really coming out of you know,
pitching on short rest all the time and coming in
in the bullpen like like that's that's the legend of Bumgarner.
And again it looks like Snow could be on that
same path.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Yeah, of course, the he who must not be named,
he's like Voltimore there would like a word.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
The bloody suck. I got your favorite John Smoltz. Oh sure,
Smoltz was great too. Smoltz was terrific too. But it's
but again, Braves didn't always wind. They got one, uh
they did, They got one. They got one, Yes, they
got one Dave Justice home run and that that decide
in Game seven. So we have more baseball coming up.
(24:59):
But to the day is, you know, today was a
great and a terrible day in that it was a
great day that for one league, four minutes is going
to change the course and trajectory of this league. The
bad part of it is that you needed to have
these four minutes earlier. Today. Nafisa Collier, who you know,
we thought was gonna win WNBA MVP this year, she
(25:20):
was a front runner for a long time, and then
Asia Wilson the Aces you know, didn't lose all the
way through, and they're playing the fever right now in
a in a win or go home game in the playoffs.
Nafisa Collier decided to take all the frustrations that w
NBA players have had over the past couple of seasons
with Commissioner Kathy Engelbert and the league over officiating, which
(25:42):
they tell you all the time is terrible. There's consistent
complaining and the league not doing anything about it. Nafisa
Collier in a four minute I don't want to say
rant today because she came with a prepared statement in
four minutes is going to affect more change in this
league than anything we've seen in the last year and
a half. Here's a little bit of her talking about
(26:05):
how bad she feels, and other players weighing in saying yes, yes,
I'm with you. How bad the leadership of the WNBA
has been the last couple of years.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
The real threat to our league isn't money. It isn't
ratings or even miss calls or even physical play. It's
the lack of accountability from the league office. Since I've
been in the league. You've heard the constant concerns about officiating,
and it has now reached levels of inconsistency that plague
our sport and undermined the integrity in which it operates.
Whether the league cares about the health of the players
(26:34):
is one thing, but to also not care about the
product we put on the floor is truly self sabotage.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Year of to year.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
The only thing that remains consistent is the lack of
accountability from our leaders.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
So there you go, starting off with a bang. Okay,
whoa lack of account o key. But we've seen this.
We've seen people talk about the front office and den
leadership and okay, so good start for this good cocist statement. Yeah,
and then she decides, now I'm bringing out the blowtorch here.
She is one of her any specific examples in this
four minutes four minutes of Kathy Engelbert and her lack
(27:06):
of WNBA leadership.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
I'm concerned about the future of our sport. Everyone deserves
to hear the truth. We have the best players in
the world, we have the best fans in the world,
but right now we have the worst leadership in the world.
At unarrival, this past February, I sat a across from
Kathy and asked how she planned to address the officiating
issues in our league. Her response was, will only the
losers complain about the refs? I also asked how she
(27:32):
planned to fix the fact that players like Caitlin Angel
and Page, who are clearly driving massive revenue for the league,
are making so little for their first four years. Her
response was, Caitlyn should be grateful she makes sixty million
off the court, because without the platform that the WNBA
gives her, she wouldn't make anything. And in that same conversation,
she told me players should be on their knees thanking
(27:53):
they're lucky stars for the media right steal that I
got them. That's mentality driving our league from the top.
We go to battle every day to PreTect a shield
that doesn't value us. The league believes it succeeds despite
its players, not because of them.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
That big blood, that's a big space balls, the flamethrower
blowtorch that Nefisa Collier pulled out on Kathy Engelbert. Okay,
now a couple of things. First of all, incredibly gutsy
to do this. I'm gonna come out and say this.
I know everybody is on the same page, but we're
sick of of of our leadership not taking us in
the right direction. And then the stories that she told
(28:31):
about Kathy Engelbert with this is what she said about
Caitlin Clark, that she should be thanking everybody. Caitlyn Clark,
by the way, I think she had a thirty million
dollar deal with Nike before she played one minute of
the WNBA. One minute, one minute, you know, so you know,
it's not like she'd a WNBA to get thirty million dollars.
So uh. And that is still in anticipation, of course, yes,
(28:51):
But the big point here is that and and and again,
this is what the FISA cot to be fair. This
is what Nefisa Collier is saying. Kathy Engelbert told her
right now. We're waiting for whatever comeback there's going to be.
But it's irrelevant because this is the players saying we
have no confidence in our leadership. And the WNBA is
(29:16):
just the right size for the players to pull a
big power play here and get what they want, which
is more better leadership. And I've told her from the beginning,
what's been the problem the WNBA is going to face
being able to handle success, and they get handed Caitlin Clark,
they get handed Angel Reese, they get handed Page Beckers.
And still while they have incredible success, there's the bad storylines.
(29:40):
The officiating is bad. The players are unhappy. The players
are unhappy in a league that has had unquestioned and
an unmatched growth in the last eighteen months. She's gone.
Kathy Engelbert is gone. Whether it's whether it's a votive,
whether it's a vote to get her out, or she
says I'm sorry the players feel this way, there's gonna
be usure on her because this is how the players
(30:02):
feel and the players are the league. Now would this
work in the NBA and the NFL. Probably not. Those
leagues are too big to say, hey, we're upset with
our leader, but everybody's making money. We're not going to
vote out Roger Goodell. We're not going to vote out
Rob Manfred. Look, the players, they all hate Rob Manford
to a person, but he's still the commissioner. He's got
too much sway. There's no way Kathy Engelbert has the
(30:22):
sway of the teams and the front offices and the owners.
When the players here, who are incredibly powerful, show you
that we have no confidence in our leadership. A change
has to be made because we just watched the last
eighteen months. They're the gang that couldn't shoot straight. It's like,
why are we doing Why aren't we just celebrating the
WNBA and talking about stuff on the court with Caitlyn
(30:44):
and Angels. No, they can't find a way around it.
And Kathy Engelbert, right or wrong is the commissioner. She
will be gone before the WNBA plays their next game
and there will be a new, bigger, higher profile basketball
person in place to help take the w u NBA
to their next level. Because the players nobody wants this.
They all want out, and they decided we are going
(31:05):
to take our empowerment and we're going to do this,
and she's gonna be gone.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
My favorite of all the responses, and plenty of current
and former w NBA superstars have taken their turn on
social media to respond to this. Elena Deladon, two time MVP,
posted on our Instagram story quote, it's the care for
the human part of me. I'm not sure. I'm still
not sure if Kathy knows I retired. I heard everyone
(31:32):
but her.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Wow. Ten no notes Angel Reese that was my favorite.
That was my favorite, ten of ten not notes, I
have no notes note I put it up on no notes,
I have notes. I have no notes for that.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
This was a perfect takedown in four minutes, all the
way through Lexi Hall, I think I agree with everything
she said.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
And you just go on the.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
List of people that have chimed in WNBA response corporate
lawyer stuff as you would expect, right like no, no, no,
I didn't do that. I didn't say that, and that's
not how I feel. It's not right whatever that. If
that's the consensus of your players and especially your stars
seven year veteran and Collier who has a bit of
(32:17):
work with management right with what her husband does unrivaled
and all that other stuff, that there's some more conversations
to be had. The vote of no confidence will be
there because you're at a huge part of an intersection
of your sport right now. And certainly I understand folks
dismiss case like you know, they should learn to shoot
(32:37):
a layup whatever, No, no, the on court product, there's
still growth to be had there, right, the excellence of execution,
we've all watched it at times it's difficult, but that
doesn't mean that you're still not in a place for
the league to make moves with regard to officiating, retraining,
re education, protecting your players, all of those things. They're
(33:00):
two things can be true and run in parallel with
one another. And right now you've got a commissioner's office
where you've got a full on revolt happening by all
your stars.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
She's gone right before your finals. She's gone exit out
by the Fresco exit swalling down. We'll have more on
this story throughout the show tonight. This is an incredible
Story's going to change the course of the WNBA. But
right now, time to find out what's trending in the
wide world of sports. Someone who's been called the Kathy
Engelbert Fox Sports Radio. Ay, he's never called me on
the phone either. It's Steve to say he can come
(33:31):
back with a couple of eight Engelbert humperdinc lines.
Speaker 7 (33:33):
Oh, very good, come half a comeback. As for the
WNBA's collective bargaining agreement, Yes, it expires at the end
of this season. Halftime in Game five of the best
of five semi final at Las Vegas tonight, aces up
on Indiana forty seven forty five, fourteen points for Asia
Wilson so far, Baseball Dodger's up six nothing on the
Reds top of the six and Blake Snell is dealing. Yeah,
(33:55):
he's been good and this is good. As for great
postseason performers, I think Trek Skouble might be on that list.
One day, he had fourteen strikeouts for the Tigers in
seven and two thirds. Detroit won its wildcard opener at Cleveland.
To start the day two to one, Detroit scored two
unearned runs. And as you were talking about Madison Bumgardner,
by the way, I looked up his career. His first
(34:17):
seven years sensational with the Giants. His last seven years,
he never had a winning record and earned over one
hundred million dollars In those seven years. Mason Bumgardner was
never even top three in voting for a cy Young
Award in his career. Blake Snell has won a cy
Young in each league at this point, and tonight five
(34:38):
and a third he's allowed just one hit, eight strikeouts,
one walk against the Reds six nothing LA. It's now
two outs in the top of the six. This is
game one of the best of three. Hunter Green, LA
native was the starter for Cincinnati. He lasted three innings
three home runs allowed, including a leadoff shot to bright
Field by sho hey O tani Well. The Cubs beat
(34:59):
Sandy Yego at windy Wrigley Field three to one. The
wind was blowing in and the Cubs still hit back
to back homers in the fifth a s Suzuki and
Carson Kelly. Then Boston won at Yankee Stadium three to
one to open their wild Card series. The Yankees eight
game winning streak ends. The Yankees had bases loaded no
out's bottom of the ninth against Eraaldis Chapman, a former Yankee,
(35:19):
who then got strikeout, flyout and strike had to end it.
This was the first time that Chapman had allowed three
hits in an inning this season, and stunningly, stat Sink
says the Yankees tonight are the first team in the
history of the postseason to have bases loaded, nobody out
bottom of the ninth, not score a run and lose
(35:40):
the game. We have Game two's all coming up tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Well, if one Soto had gotten hit the ninth inning
instead of ah too, soon would have been a different
lineups certainly would have been.
Speaker 7 (35:50):
If there's game threes needed in these best of threes
that would be Thursday, by the way, and then the
best of five division series all start this Saturday, including
the American League on Fox. Angels manager Ron Washington will
not return next season. Another strikeout for Blake Snell to
the bottom of the six six nothing LA, He's pitching
a one hitter.
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Speaker 1 (36:47):
The Home Run Party at VEZ Ravine continues, show, Hey,
Otani a four hundred and fifty four foot blast, and
I think that's a little light. His second home run
of the game, the fourteenth home run of the game
for the Dodgers. They lead this over Cincinnati now eight
to nothing. Stop to fight in the bottom of the sixth, Inny,
this is that Simpson chiff of stop stop, He's already dead.
(37:11):
That's what's happening right now.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Who you know?
Speaker 1 (37:13):
I like small ball sometimes, Yeah, yeah, the top night.
Speaker 7 (37:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
I mean, if they've set off fireworks after every home
run they would have run out. They would have had
to put the sign up on the jumbo tron. We
got nothing left.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Every other game Today was a throwback to you and
I growing up and what playoff baseball was like.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
This game now, the pitchers going deep into the game,
the starters, and then one or two guys out of
the pen to finish it up, and one or two hits.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Get him on, get him a nahh mash. I'll tell
you how got dear guy. A little Tommy had one,
Jill Tommy, little Tommy had one. Any Mets owner Tommy
had Mets it, Yes, Mets owner Tommy Evan Frostburg, whoa move.
Mookie Betts is just decked by Phillips following Otwani's home run.
Tensions are running a little high right now at Dodgers Stadium,
(38:02):
A little high and tight there, Dirry. Yeah. Freddie Freeman
just came to check and make sure he's okay. He
got decked. He didn't get hit, Freddy freemit's right, hey,
you okayme in you'll pay.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
I mean you still have to dive and unless you
land properly, that could still be a problem.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Oh did they say it hit him? I think they're
saying it hit him.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Hang on, hang on?
Speaker 1 (38:20):
I thought, oh yeah, no, yeah, it grazed his uh,
it grazed his arm. It grazed his arm. So he
goes down to first base, and now things might be
he's a lie a little dog. Just wow, was that dirty?
Speaker 3 (38:34):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (38:34):
So we'll see what Blake Snell has to say in
the top of the seventh inning here if he comes
out again, ate nothing lead for the Dodgers over the
red James Terry Francona is out to say, all right, everybody,
let's take the temperature down a little bit. Take the
temperature down. Okay, everything is fine pitching change happening right now.
So ate nothing new picture coming in for the Reds.
I don't think you guys realize how far that home
(38:56):
run was hit. Four hundred and sixty four feet. They
said it well, they said four fifty four. I just
gave you an extra.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
There's something like five guys ever to hit it like.
He missed hitting it out of the stadium by maybe
five feet. It was almost out of Dodger Stadium. It
was almost out of the stated as a Maguire stargel
and Fernando Tatist Junior might be the only guy and
gine Carlo Stanton hed ever hit it out.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
He hit that so far, you know, he may have
hit it to He may have hit it to where
you get the helmet nachos, Like, that's how far that
ball was in because you've got to go far to
get the helmet nachos at Dodger's helmet nacho. Oh man,
you catch him with the helmet nod, that would be allio. Dude.
Do you take it out or do you eat it
with it in? Do you leave it there there? There?
It's an art piece at that point? Is he around
it and you shall lack it and you sell it.
(39:41):
There's cheese on it. I didn't do it. No, you
sill lack it. You just you I need to I
need to preserve this right now, and you sell it
here it doesn't on eBay. Right here there is an
art piece like Banksy Well does it?
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Does it age like a McDonald's cheeseburger as we've seen
in art exhibits that could sit there for decades and
really suffer no ill effects.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Cheezburgers from nineteen seventy four. Wow, okoys, it looks pretty
Hansard molded it. Nothing's happened here, looks it looks looks
pretty good. They spray on that. So, yeah, we wanted
to bring you that this developing story here we have. Look,
we have big hot takes coming your way from day
one of the baseball playoffs. But uh, the Yankee stak
just here you goes that a hot take?
Speaker 4 (40:18):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Is that really hot? And it's not a hot take? Yeah, Yankees,
they wish they had Soto for the ninth inning, didn't they.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
One.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Sodo's laughing, going, Oh they all hated me yesterday because
I wasn't on. We don't need you can't coun you
think he's laughing. We're better getting Bellinger and Free and
all the Yeah, yeah, he really knows what's going on.
Oh sure he does. One Sottle loves baseball. Come on, man,
the guy, the guys that he's at baseball. It looked
like he loved baseball this week. And dude, well okay,
I just love baseball this week. I didn't like baseball
(40:45):
this weekend. I do think anybody liked how things went
this weekend. Thing that went on this weekend. You know,
you know, Frostburg ending to charge again. It's hot. Uh,
it's you know, I I know tonight's a big night
from I'm being I'm want to be nice to you.
You don't need to keep throwing the Mets under the
under the bus. Here. We're moving on to the playoffs. Now,
(41:05):
we're moving on to to a home run party. Yeah
that is true. The Dodgers are. They may win this,
this series may only go one game. Mic like may
say that.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Francona just waves a white white flag. He goes full
duke and he's debating whether he's gonna throw the damn
towel or not. Yeah, then he realizes his team is done. Yeah,
it's it's not so it's not even worth it.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
He just drops it. We shouldn't even be here. We
lost the last game of the season. We're a couple
of games over five hundred only because the Mets are
absolutely terrible as we were in I mean, I don't
know what else to tell you. And find your wins,
no man. So this is what's happening right now. Dodgers
lead the Reds eight. Nothing. We're gonna see more beanballs,
we'll tell you. But coming up next again hot take
major League Baseball playoffs and a big change of quarterback
(41:51):
in the NFL. That's next right here, Jason and Mike
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Let's give this you're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Greetings, Welcome inside, Happy Tuesday, Happy opening day of the
Major League Baseball Playoffs, The Jason Smith Show with my
base friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Two really big reasons you're excitable coming into the studio
other than the fact than you forgot your sleeves. These
are running so fast to get to the studio.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
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generation event, the Harlem Globetrotters one hundred Year Tour. Come
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dot com. Did you bite those sleeves off? I am
wearing my sleeveless. Let them off Hartford Whaler's hoodie tonight
because it's the only sports team I can wear that.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I know.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Nothing bad is gonna happen tonight because they don't exist anymore.
I mean, they're the Carolina Hurricanes, but nothing bad can
happen to the Whalers tonight. I'm wearing it tonight. I
am okay.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Remember, there may be a parallel universe that you haven't
figured out. You know, you haven't gone full peacemaker yet
to find that happy, blissful place where the Whalers are
still in existence. You just don't know that they might
be still losing in that alternate universe.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Not be this way. If Jason's a fan of them,
they're losing. It's tough. It's tough. And oh, by the way,
I do have to say this tonight, look big night.
Major League Baseball playoffs underway. Will have the latest on
the Dodger Reds game coming up in a minute. My goodness,
it's home run night at Chevezraviem. But we really the
Yankees may be done because on social media the Jets
(02:02):
wish them good luck in this round against the Red Sox.
The Yankees are down one zip after tonight, the Jets
wishing you good luck. That's it, man, you have the
Jets stain on you. I did Red Sox can walk
out of here with a with a with a quick
sweep and it's gonna be over. And really, you want
the Jets to come out against you, not for you.
That's kind of me. The if the Jets today go
(02:22):
Boston blank you. Oh hey, we feel pretty good. Nah, hey,
good luck the big good luck. Most they put out
on social media pictures of Judge and a. Yeah. Now,
the Jets just screwed.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
The Yankees saw that and just had to start laughing.
I'm sure Walt did not find it funny. We'll have
to check in on your dad as the night goes on.
But I just want to remind you former White Sox
Ace Garrett Crochet getting it done?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Is Crouch Mike? Okay, I mean he did do the
triple h Here's what I want to know. Here's what
I don't want you to tell me. Seriously, can you
try White Sox fame. Don't mess around with me. Okay,
you're the worst team in baseball the last couple of years, Okay, worse?
How come every guy you trade go someplace and is good.
(03:07):
You would think that he would be good with the
what but yet every guy you get rid of, ah yeah,
well you never he was on it, didn't remember, he'd
every guy you get rid of is good elsewhere. So
you had the guys there. Now they just just couldn't
do it. They're like, what's up?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Well, they didn't have a critical mass. I mean, this
guy wasn't wasn't bad in Chicago. I mean the fact
they couldn't win. He was six and twelve, but he
had a three five eight e RA. That's like one
and a half with another team. That's what I'm talking
about here, Like three five eight it's a great damn era.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah, man, But but if you have enough good players.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
But we had enough good pitchers. There were several Chrissale
and Don and all these guys. They were good.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
They were all in the playoff pitching in the playoffs.
The last couple of years, they show to play in
the playoffs. They don't need the four's team removal. Like
your Jets play. Okay, all right, kind of siphons off
bit by bit, you know, like a half life of
some kind of element. No, here they go straight from
one team to the next. Hey, that guy's out the
(04:08):
White Sox last year.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
What's it gonna do. He's gonna lead them to greatness.
It's coming and sure enough today eleven strikeouts in those
seven plus innings to roll through. I mean the games
earlier today, just pitching dual one after another. So fun
stuff to start the Major League Baseball playoffs for sure. Yes,
we'll get to Dodgers' Reds coming up in a minute.
(04:30):
But game of the day so far Yankees and the
Red Sox. The Red Sox win it three to one
to take a one game to none lead, they go
for the sweep. Are all just chatting with a very
Edwin Diaz esque ninth inning, loading the bases with nobody out,
Oh wait a minute, wait a minute, then getting the
next two outs. Everything was up to Trent Grisham, the Yankees,
(04:53):
all their hopes, all their dreams resting on his shoulders.
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Speaker 1 (05:22):
Play of the day.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Two balls, two strikes, two down with the bases loaded.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Chapman, he is ready, he throws slight.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
This he got him.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Chapman leaves the bases loaded, and the Red Sox whim
game one, three to one. In the Bronx Red Sox
Radio Network on the call, eraldes Chatman made it interesting,
made for a fun ass ninth inning, I'll tell you that.
But gets the strikeout of Stanton, a flyout from Chisholm,
and then the strikeout of Grisham. The Red Sox take
(05:57):
Game one. And let me just say this before we
get into something something pretty big about that last night,
I just want to say this. I'm really, really, really
looking forward to all the Yankee fans who had so
much to say yesterday about the Mets and making the
playoffs and Wan Sodo. I'm really looking forward to seeing
all the Yankee fans rationalizing and putting out think pieces
(06:19):
on social media site about how you know it's still
good that we went out and didn't get one Soto,
and we got all these other guys. Yeah, all these
other guys that couldn't get a run across in the
ninth in and yeah, so glad you didn't get Soto.
I feel like Vincent Price and Thriller at the end
when he goes na, what the hell was that Vincent
(06:43):
Price thriller? He's that man who's starting to lose his mind.
It's the exact same laugh. That's the exact I had
to wait twenty four hours. No, the seventy two hours
is broken. I had to wait twenty four hours for
my revenge on Yankee fans. Oh you suck, you suck
No One Soto. Yeah you didn't have Sodo in the
ninth thing. Do you want to come up and yet?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
No, no, no. He was sending me stuff. Time was three hours.
He was sending stuff. Opie home wrung. After the Mets
loss yesterday, I was getting stuff like he was spamming me.
It was just like like, well, you sign up for
all of a sudden, you keep getting, you keep getting
I'm like, oh my god, stop stop stop stop stop.
So I think I blocked him. It's kind of fun.
It's kind of fun tonight. Do you sign them Cowboys
(07:27):
gifts plus now this? Uh no, no, no, I'll save
the Cowboys. After the Jets beat the Cowboys Sunday, you.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Should send them to Jerry Jones Audio. How's it taste?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Well, we got the Jets on Sunday. We don't beat
the Jets. Man as well, just give up. It's made
be it for the season for us. But let's not.
Let's focus on how the Yankees. Boy, they were ass
and that was really that was a really tough night.
I mean really, bases loaded, nobody out in the Bronx
and Eraldus Chapman comes back to Yankees. They had seen this,
and you know the funny thing is watching people live
(08:02):
tweet this as it's going on. We've seen this playoff
Chapman before in the Bronx. Yeah, we've seen it. Yeah,
we've seen it. Yeah, loads of bases and then bang
bang bang, the inning is over, game over, Yankees tearing
it going home. All of that. What you just said
there is completely irrelevant. Why is that over? The second
the Jets sent that tweet? That is true, but it
(08:23):
is fun seeing it play out then play out. Everything
else is fine. We knew they were gonna get out
of it. Now. Look, the one thing I'm gonna say
is this is that with one out in the ninth inning,
right to get to get to talk strategy here for
a second. I really am surprised there was no tag
up on the flyout to write, because you know, you
(08:45):
would probably get the run in. I can't believe the
Red Sox through home, but you look, get this, it's
it's somewhat deep enough. And in theory, the right baseball
play by the Red Sox would be to throw it
to third base, sure right to keep that tying run
from getting to third. But instead you saw him throw home.
But the Yankees didn't send a runner. I thought for
(09:06):
sure they'll at least try to juice a run along
in that in that type of it. Not that it
mattered in the end, because you know, they didn't get
a hit at all, but I really thought, like, wow,
that was like, what's you know, it brings you more
to the whole Aaron Boone thing, you know, lifting a
freed who was pitching phenomenal, got to one hundred pitches,
Take him out, Take him out. Luke Weaver comes in,
gives it up right away. You know, I mean Suzuki
(09:26):
pinch hits and drives in a run. It's gone from
August get rid of Aaron Boone to the talk is quieted.
Now it's get rid of him, get rid of him,
and I mean it. I mean you see tonight and
it's a big difference. You see what all the the
managers asked of their aces for today in the playoffs,
and they came through right. Schoobl was done right like school,
(09:48):
the Tigers win today. Scoobl walked in, he said, I
emptied the tech. He had one hundred miles an hour
and that final inning when he was he thought, I'm
gonna be done, and they said, yeah, we need you
want more inning. Okay, I'll go back out there. He
was up over one hundred pitches, right, Crochet was up
over one hundred and fifteen pitches, like free, who's pitching
a shutout? And we're gonna take out of the game
to go to the bullpen And all of a sudden,
look what happens man? I mean that that's just more
of the Aaron Boone, Like what is what is happening here?
(10:10):
Like well, like well, all of a sudden they got
to the playoffs and and like the free Wheeling Yankees
and the never and the Devil May Care Yankee. They're
gone now, they're going there one game from going home.
I just love that laugh.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yeah, you're you're a little too excited. I mean, they'll
at least still be able to say they made the playoffs.
I know, it doesn't really count for much if you
go home and you know, get swept out.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
If they win as many games as the Mets, it
doesn't matter it really, but it doesn't matter. They still
get to hang a banner. They do, Benn for a
squeaking in. It's a squeaking in banner. I say, it's
very very small banner. They put up all the way
to the side even better.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
But all of that to say, yeah, I mean he
was able to skate. And because they they made it
to the playoffs, it gets you that stay of execution.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
He and Cashman.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
It pushes things away, especially when you when you start going, well,
we didn't re sign that guy, we didn't do that.
We don't have these issues. And look they especially when
it's the Mets right with when they can hold up
the giant sign like everybody else has the digital accounting
of how much money the Mets spent and well they
didn't even make it. So, I mean, we're we're on grave.
(11:25):
You know, it's gravy over here, which is you can
only live on that for so long.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Great. Yeah, some heavy gravy. There's no question. Wait wait
heavy gravy. I mean, I mean I made it. You
look at this and just say, oh boy, soda would
have been great in that last thing. I mean really,
that's the best part is that soda would have been
(11:52):
forgetting Again, all it's irrelevant if he was on the
team and he was up uh yeah, but still it's
fun to thinke Hi Stiff had some second the Jets
sent that tweet, it was over guilt by association? Does
your dad know this?
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I haven't talked to my dad. He's someone I know
I can't talk to until tomorrow. Like I can't because
I know exactly what he's gonna say. It's the bullpen's fault.
I always go, dad, when you lose two to one,
it's not the bullpen's fault. But tonight I'm like, no, yeah, no,
it kind of was. Yeah, no, no, was.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Freed was gonna be done shortly anyway, right, you could say,
all right, it was one hundred and they pull him, Well,
how much further is he going? He's only going six
at a third. Like, you still got a lot of
ballgame to finish off. So a good job by the
Red Sox hitters to extended bats and force into the bullpen.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yeah, I mean, look, this is a game where look
it's one game and you see this here and all
the and this is what I mean by by Yankee Nation. Now, like,
now get rid of Boontonet because you knew this was
gonna come up. Because whatever decision that has made that
doesn't go the right way, it's always going to be
Boone's fault. Regardless of whether or not the decision was
right when you made it, you got it wrong. It's
like when you and I give out fantasy advice. It
(12:59):
was like, hey, here's the advice. Play Garrett Wilson because
the matchup is good and their number one cornerback is
out and they're sliding over a guy pro football thow,
he's the sixty fifth. All of that could come from.
And then Garrett Wilson has a bad day and then like, oh,
why didn't you tell me, Why didn't you tell me
to play Jaylen Waddle instead? That's your fault. Like, Okay, no,
I got I got it wrong. But it doesn't mean
(13:19):
that the information at the time was erroneous. Right, it's
still good information now we gave you. It's like it
doesn't matter. All it matters is that what the Yankees did,
whatever Aaron Boone does is wrong.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
See, for the last twenty five years working in the
Fantasy Realm, my job is to get you to do
what I say. Whether it actually happens or not doesn't matter.
I did my job. If I made a compelling enough
case for you to toggle your lineup to that player,
that's it. After that, it's on him.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
To perform whatever Aaron Boone decides is wrong and not
having watch, Well, he didn't get kicked out, So I mean,
at least you got that going mm has killed the Yankees.
That's killed them. It's Carl and now Aaron Boon exit
out about a Fresco exit swollen down the Jason Smith
(14:12):
Show with my best friend Mike Carman. Meanwhile, a home
run party going on at Chavez Ravine right now, Hunter
Green Red's Ace. Well, if you missed the beginning of
the game because you were in traffic, you missed Hunter Green.
He is out of the game. The Dodgers have tagged
him for five runs already. As they are batting in
the bottom of the fourth inning, they lead the Reds
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five nothing. Show Hey, o Tawny one hundred mile an
hour fastball exit vlo about one hundred and fifteen miles
an hour leading off the game with a home run,
Nanas it's a home run, Edmund. It has been some
kind of start to the playoffs for the Dodgers. Yeah, no, yeah,
he was was one hundred Jason, he died.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Yeah, well, it was good until he threw that wild
pitch and then put the next pitch on a tee.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
So Dodgers lead the Reds now five nothing in the
fourth inning, final baseball game the night. We'll keep you
updated on this throughout the night, of course, but coming
up next when four minutes can change the course of
an entire league, and we got those four minutes earlier today,
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this game is just motoring along. Already in the top
of the fifth inning, Blake Snelling the Dodgers shutting out
the Reds five nothing. It has been a night where
the Dodgers came out right away, started hitting the ball
and haven't really stopped. Shoe Tani leading off with a
home run off one hundred mile an hour fastball from
Hunter Green, and that's really where everything has gone for
(17:43):
the Dodgers since, right, you have to Oscar with a
home run, Edding with a home run. They go back
to back. Uh, Dodgers starting reminding everybody this is why
we're a big favorite, and the Reds reminding everybody, Oh,
this is why we squeaked in even though we lost
in the final day of the season.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Yeah, I made a couple of the bad, bad mistakes
from a one hundred gree It was funny. It was
right before we came on air, where I'm in the
back getting a cup of coffee talking to our guys,
Shay who's working hard editing with us tonight, and the
wild pitch goes to the back stops like all right,
they move up. It's like, all right, this next pitch
is going to be a problem, and sure enough, ta
(18:16):
Oscar turns on it, three run homer and and blows
the game wide open, So three huge mistakes, five to nothing,
your lead, snow cruising along five innings, pitch seven strikeouts,
just sixty pitches thus far, so we can avoid the
bullpen for at least an Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I
mean it's so far. I mean, look, it's been a
day of incredible starting pitching performances in Major League Baseball.
(18:40):
It's been some kind it's been some kind of day, which.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
We'll get to.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
That Cleveland game was no man Clubs Cubs and Padres
three to one final.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
This game is right now. I'm not even sweating snow.
You know, you shouldn't be sweating snow sweat. You shouldn't
be sweating snow like his twelve start. You shouldn't get
one of his start ages you like three years.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Ah, you know what, just because he looks tired doesn't
mean it doesn't to you.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
He's been up late playing video games. Okay, it's been
a big thing. Blake wings on him heavily. He has
never pitched for you. You don't understand it, No, no, I
I I'm well versed in the Blake Snell experience. How
because I've watched his career for the past few years.
He's never pitched for you. It doesn't mean rappy team. Dude,
you won the World Series because Kevin Cash decided I'm
taking him out of a game. That awesome. I'll tell
(19:27):
you this about Blake Snell Harmon. So I was thinking
about this, right, just seeing the type of pitcher he
is and what he's been able to do accomplished so
far in his career. He kind of I feel like
he's on the path of becoming the new Madison Bumgarner, right,
because bum Gardner wasn't so he was never really unbeatable
during the regular season. He was always very good, right,
(19:49):
he had that big five years that she.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Had a couple of years where he was Yeah, he
was went a couple yeah, week or two ago as
we were going through, like with the Kershaw finishing of
his career where we're talking about these kind of stretches
and in the regular season there was a three to
four year period where he was just insane. But then
it got reinvented as a postseason specialist, right.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
And well, when you do what he did, what seven
innings in the final game of the World Series in
twenty fourteen to win it, I mean, it's incredible, but
you know, same type of situation where look, you got
two left handed pitchers, both have a lot of attitude.
Bumgarner which is always mad at everybody. Snell more of
a confidence in himself and seeing how yes, they perform
really well during the season, but whenever the stakes are
(20:34):
uped a bit, they have that little bit extra in
the tank. And Bumgardner clearly at you watch him throughout
his career, I don't know that I've seen a more
dominant postseason pitcher in my life than Bumgarner for that
six years. Like, yeah, I'm going all the way back
to the seventies when I'm watching bets go Okay, maybe
Jim Palmer has a great game here, but I don't
know I've seen anybody more dominant in the postseason. And
I feel like Blake Snell is sort of on that
(20:56):
path where, yeah, really good during the regular season, not
as un eatable as you would think, but then he
gets the postseason and you see the games he puts
out there, and you go, man, this is amazing. Why
couldn'tkersch r this, Like, man, this is amazing watching Blake
Snell do this well.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Four and three for his career and ten starts, twelve
appearances three three three era kind of goes back to
that crochet season of last year of the six and twelve,
but you go back to his twenty nineteen run three
games appearing, he was zero win one but still had
an ERA of one six nine. It's got to like
it was Paul Skeins. But all of that to say,
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working deeper into games and always the famous all right,
I'm cruising along, but I'm gonna be taken out. The
one time I think I really wanted the extended remix
to see a pitcher really want to fight his manager, right,
not just the the the thing he did with Dave
robertson I'm not coming out. That was fun, ye, So
(21:53):
but it owes to that that run Dodgers and Rays
when he's getting pulled out and has that wide eyed
look of am I in the right universe right now?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I mean read that. That's kind of where I'm looking
at him, see, because now he's on the best team.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Snell goes to the Giants. They have a great team
for a good six year, right, every other year they
won the World Series. Right. Blake Snell has been on
good teams, but he's never been on an overwhelming favorite. Okay,
now here he is and so now for whatever his
career is for the Dodgers, still in his early thirties,
like this is where his next five or six years
you could say, man, Blake Snell is, I mean you
want him? I told you during regular season the end
(22:30):
of the regular season, he's got to have the ball
in Game one. He's got to have the ball as
many times as possible over every other Dodger pitcher. Yea'mamoto's terrific, right.
Otani is Otani. Blake Snell needs the ball more than
anybody in any pitcher on the Dodgers roster throughout the playoff. Yeah,
he's also one of the guys.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
I mean before the offseason commenced, till we started talking
about free agency and where guys would sign. It's not
a guy would have given a long term deal just
based on his history, right between injuries, disappearing in the
non Cy Young Award seasons, He's been a jag right that,
(23:07):
that's been his career. He's had a couple of massive seasons.
But then you have this deal where he comes forward
and these twelve games that he's pitched thus far, he's
been amazing. So finding the right stretch, because that's the
thing that for this Dodgers team. We talked about the
bullpen a lot is that you don't have a lot
of work from guys this year. So in theory, there's
still some gas.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
In the tank. Right, it's not.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
You only had a handful of guys actually get over
two hundred innings, which used to be the standard. But
but you got a Dodgers rotation where you don't have
anybody going over one hundred.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Now, dude, you can get to one twenty. Yeah, Momoto,
and that's it. What a great season? Yet to one twenty? Now?
Am I missing somebody Frostburg on this list?
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Yes, you're missing you said the most dominant pitchers in
the postseason?
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Right right?
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Okay, so you went with Bumgardner, right, yep? Who am
missing any powers?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Oh? Yes? And once he got his pitch back, Kenny Power,
he had to get his pitch back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
even the dude from the office hit him.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
No, but for real, you left off and Andy Pennett's
probably one of the most dominant I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
And Andy Pettitt is terrific. Penet's up and Andy Pettitt
is up there. But but bum Garner just raising his
his level of play so much as it's it's eye
popping what he was at really coming out of you know,
pitching on short rest all the time and coming in
in the bullpen like like that's that's the legend of Bumgarner.
And again it looks like Snow could be on that
same path.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Yeah, of course, the he who must not be named,
he's like Voltimore there would like a word.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
The bloody suck. I got your favorite John Smoltz. Oh sure,
Smoltz was great too. Smoltz was terrific too. But it's
but again, Braves didn't always wind. They got one, uh
they did, They got one. They got one, Yes, they
got one Dave Justice home run and that that decide
in Game seven. So we have more baseball coming up.
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But to the day is, you know, today was a
great and a terrible day in that it was a
great day that for one league, four minutes is going
to change the course and trajectory of this league. The
bad part of it is that you needed to have
these four minutes earlier. Today. Nafisa Collier, who you know,
we thought was gonna win WNBA MVP this year, she
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was a front runner for a long time, and then
Asia Wilson the Aces you know, didn't lose all the
way through, and they're playing the fever right now in
a in a win or go home game in the playoffs.
Nafisa Collier decided to take all the frustrations that w
NBA players have had over the past couple of seasons
with Commissioner Kathy Engelbert and the league over officiating, which
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they tell you all the time is terrible. There's consistent
complaining and the league not doing anything about it. Nafisa
Collier in a four minute I don't want to say
rant today because she came with a prepared statement in
four minutes is going to affect more change in this
league than anything we've seen in the last year and
a half. Here's a little bit of her talking about
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how bad she feels, and other players weighing in saying yes, yes,
I'm with you. How bad the leadership of the WNBA
has been the last couple of years.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
The real threat to our league isn't money. It isn't
ratings or even miss calls or even physical play. It's
the lack of accountability from the league office. Since I've
been in the league. You've heard the constant concerns about officiating,
and it has now reached levels of inconsistency that plague
our sport and undermined the integrity in which it operates.
Whether the league cares about the health of the players
(26:34):
is one thing, but to also not care about the
product we put on the floor is truly self sabotage.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Year of to year.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
The only thing that remains consistent is the lack of
accountability from our leaders.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
So there you go, starting off with a bang. Okay,
whoa lack of account o key. But we've seen this.
We've seen people talk about the front office and den
leadership and okay, so good start for this good cocist statement. Yeah,
and then she decides, now I'm bringing out the blowtorch here.
She is one of her any specific examples in this
four minutes four minutes of Kathy Engelbert and her lack
(27:06):
of WNBA leadership.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
I'm concerned about the future of our sport. Everyone deserves
to hear the truth. We have the best players in
the world, we have the best fans in the world,
but right now we have the worst leadership in the world.
At unarrival, this past February, I sat a across from
Kathy and asked how she planned to address the officiating
issues in our league. Her response was, will only the
losers complain about the refs? I also asked how she
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planned to fix the fact that players like Caitlin Angel
and Page, who are clearly driving massive revenue for the league,
are making so little for their first four years. Her
response was, Caitlyn should be grateful she makes sixty million
off the court, because without the platform that the WNBA
gives her, she wouldn't make anything. And in that same conversation,
she told me players should be on their knees thanking
(27:53):
they're lucky stars for the media right steal that I
got them. That's mentality driving our league from the top.
We go to battle every day to PreTect a shield
that doesn't value us. The league believes it succeeds despite
its players, not because of them.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
That big blood, that's a big space balls, the flamethrower
blowtorch that Nefisa Collier pulled out on Kathy Engelbert. Okay,
now a couple of things. First of all, incredibly gutsy
to do this. I'm gonna come out and say this.
I know everybody is on the same page, but we're
sick of of of our leadership not taking us in
the right direction. And then the stories that she told
(28:31):
about Kathy Engelbert with this is what she said about
Caitlin Clark, that she should be thanking everybody. Caitlyn Clark,
by the way, I think she had a thirty million
dollar deal with Nike before she played one minute of
the WNBA. One minute, one minute, you know, so you know,
it's not like she'd a WNBA to get thirty million dollars.
So uh. And that is still in anticipation, of course, yes,
(28:51):
But the big point here is that and and and again,
this is what the FISA cot to be fair. This
is what Nefisa Collier is saying. Kathy Engelbert told her
right now. We're waiting for whatever comeback there's going to be.
But it's irrelevant because this is the players saying we
have no confidence in our leadership. And the WNBA is
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just the right size for the players to pull a
big power play here and get what they want, which
is more better leadership. And I've told her from the beginning,
what's been the problem the WNBA is going to face
being able to handle success, and they get handed Caitlin Clark,
they get handed Angel Reese, they get handed Page Beckers.
And still while they have incredible success, there's the bad storylines.
(29:40):
The officiating is bad. The players are unhappy. The players
are unhappy in a league that has had unquestioned and
an unmatched growth in the last eighteen months. She's gone.
Kathy Engelbert is gone. Whether it's whether it's a votive,
whether it's a vote to get her out, or she
says I'm sorry the players feel this way, there's gonna
be usure on her because this is how the players
(30:02):
feel and the players are the league. Now would this
work in the NBA and the NFL. Probably not. Those
leagues are too big to say, hey, we're upset with
our leader, but everybody's making money. We're not going to
vote out Roger Goodell. We're not going to vote out
Rob Manfred. Look, the players, they all hate Rob Manford
to a person, but he's still the commissioner. He's got
too much sway. There's no way Kathy Engelbert has the
(30:22):
sway of the teams and the front offices and the owners.
When the players here, who are incredibly powerful, show you
that we have no confidence in our leadership. A change
has to be made because we just watched the last
eighteen months. They're the gang that couldn't shoot straight. It's like,
why are we doing Why aren't we just celebrating the
WNBA and talking about stuff on the court with Caitlyn
(30:44):
and Angels. No, they can't find a way around it.
And Kathy Engelbert, right or wrong is the commissioner. She
will be gone before the WNBA plays their next game
and there will be a new, bigger, higher profile basketball
person in place to help take the w u NBA
to their next level. Because the players nobody wants this.
They all want out, and they decided we are going
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to take our empowerment and we're going to do this,
and she's gonna be gone.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
My favorite of all the responses, and plenty of current
and former w NBA superstars have taken their turn on
social media to respond to this. Elena Deladon, two time MVP,
posted on our Instagram story quote, it's the care for
the human part of me. I'm not sure. I'm still
not sure if Kathy knows I retired. I heard everyone
(31:32):
but her.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Wow. Ten no notes Angel Reese that was my favorite.
That was my favorite, ten of ten not notes, I
have no notes note I put it up on no notes,
I have notes. I have no notes for that.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
This was a perfect takedown in four minutes, all the
way through Lexi Hall, I think I agree with everything
she said.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
And you just go on the.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
List of people that have chimed in WNBA response corporate
lawyer stuff as you would expect, right like no, no, no,
I didn't do that. I didn't say that, and that's
not how I feel. It's not right whatever that. If
that's the consensus of your players and especially your stars
seven year veteran and Collier who has a bit of
(32:17):
work with management right with what her husband does unrivaled
and all that other stuff, that there's some more conversations
to be had. The vote of no confidence will be
there because you're at a huge part of an intersection
of your sport right now. And certainly I understand folks
dismiss case like you know, they should learn to shoot
(32:37):
a layup whatever, No, no, the on court product, there's
still growth to be had there, right, the excellence of execution,
we've all watched it at times it's difficult, but that
doesn't mean that you're still not in a place for
the league to make moves with regard to officiating, retraining,
re education, protecting your players, all of those things. They're
(33:00):
two things can be true and run in parallel with
one another. And right now you've got a commissioner's office
where you've got a full on revolt happening by all
your stars.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
She's gone right before your finals. She's gone exit out
by the Fresco exit swalling down. We'll have more on
this story throughout the show tonight. This is an incredible
Story's going to change the course of the WNBA. But
right now, time to find out what's trending in the
wide world of sports. Someone who's been called the Kathy
Engelbert Fox Sports Radio. Ay, he's never called me on
the phone either. It's Steve to say he can come
(33:31):
back with a couple of eight Engelbert humperdinc lines.
Speaker 7 (33:33):
Oh, very good, come half a comeback. As for the
WNBA's collective bargaining agreement, Yes, it expires at the end
of this season. Halftime in Game five of the best
of five semi final at Las Vegas tonight, aces up
on Indiana forty seven forty five, fourteen points for Asia
Wilson so far, Baseball Dodger's up six nothing on the
Reds top of the six and Blake Snell is dealing. Yeah,
(33:55):
he's been good and this is good. As for great
postseason performers, I think Trek Skouble might be on that list.
One day, he had fourteen strikeouts for the Tigers in
seven and two thirds. Detroit won its wildcard opener at Cleveland.
To start the day two to one, Detroit scored two
unearned runs. And as you were talking about Madison Bumgardner,
by the way, I looked up his career. His first
(34:17):
seven years sensational with the Giants. His last seven years,
he never had a winning record and earned over one
hundred million dollars In those seven years. Mason Bumgardner was
never even top three in voting for a cy Young
Award in his career. Blake Snell has won a cy
Young in each league at this point, and tonight five
(34:38):
and a third he's allowed just one hit, eight strikeouts,
one walk against the Reds six nothing LA. It's now
two outs in the top of the six. This is
game one of the best of three. Hunter Green, LA
native was the starter for Cincinnati. He lasted three innings
three home runs allowed, including a leadoff shot to bright
Field by sho hey O tani Well. The Cubs beat
(34:59):
Sandy Yego at windy Wrigley Field three to one. The
wind was blowing in and the Cubs still hit back
to back homers in the fifth a s Suzuki and
Carson Kelly. Then Boston won at Yankee Stadium three to
one to open their wild Card series. The Yankees eight
game winning streak ends. The Yankees had bases loaded no
out's bottom of the ninth against Eraaldis Chapman, a former Yankee,
(35:19):
who then got strikeout, flyout and strike had to end it.
This was the first time that Chapman had allowed three
hits in an inning this season, and stunningly, stat Sink
says the Yankees tonight are the first team in the
history of the postseason to have bases loaded, nobody out
bottom of the ninth, not score a run and lose
(35:40):
the game. We have Game two's all coming up tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Well, if one Soto had gotten hit the ninth inning
instead of ah too, soon would have been a different
lineups certainly would have been.
Speaker 7 (35:50):
If there's game threes needed in these best of threes
that would be Thursday, by the way, and then the
best of five division series all start this Saturday, including
the American League on Fox. Angels manager Ron Washington will
not return next season. Another strikeout for Blake Snell to
the bottom of the six six nothing LA, He's pitching
a one hitter.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
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(36:32):
Two big hot takes coming off a day one of
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Speaker 2 (36:40):
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Speaker 1 (36:47):
The Home Run Party at VEZ Ravine continues, show, Hey,
Otani a four hundred and fifty four foot blast, and
I think that's a little light. His second home run
of the game, the fourteenth home run of the game
for the Dodgers. They lead this over Cincinnati now eight
to nothing. Stop to fight in the bottom of the sixth, Inny,
this is that Simpson chiff of stop stop, He's already dead.
(37:11):
That's what's happening right now.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Who you know?
Speaker 1 (37:13):
I like small ball sometimes, Yeah, yeah, the top night.
Speaker 7 (37:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
I mean, if they've set off fireworks after every home
run they would have run out. They would have had
to put the sign up on the jumbo tron. We
got nothing left.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Every other game Today was a throwback to you and
I growing up and what playoff baseball was like.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
This game now, the pitchers going deep into the game,
the starters, and then one or two guys out of
the pen to finish it up, and one or two hits.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Get him on, get him a nahh mash. I'll tell
you how got dear guy. A little Tommy had one,
Jill Tommy, little Tommy had one. Any Mets owner Tommy
had Mets it, Yes, Mets owner Tommy Evan Frostburg, whoa move.
Mookie Betts is just decked by Phillips following Otwani's home run.
Tensions are running a little high right now at Dodgers Stadium,
(38:02):
A little high and tight there, Dirry. Yeah. Freddie Freeman
just came to check and make sure he's okay. He
got decked. He didn't get hit, Freddy freemit's right, hey,
you okayme in you'll pay.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
I mean you still have to dive and unless you
land properly, that could still be a problem.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Oh did they say it hit him? I think they're
saying it hit him.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Hang on, hang on?
Speaker 1 (38:20):
I thought, oh yeah, no, yeah, it grazed his uh,
it grazed his arm. It grazed his arm. So he
goes down to first base, and now things might be
he's a lie a little dog. Just wow, was that dirty?
Speaker 3 (38:34):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (38:34):
So we'll see what Blake Snell has to say in
the top of the seventh inning here if he comes
out again, ate nothing lead for the Dodgers over the
red James Terry Francona is out to say, all right, everybody,
let's take the temperature down a little bit. Take the
temperature down. Okay, everything is fine pitching change happening right now.
So ate nothing new picture coming in for the Reds.
I don't think you guys realize how far that home
(38:56):
run was hit. Four hundred and sixty four feet. They
said it well, they said four fifty four. I just
gave you an extra.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
There's something like five guys ever to hit it like.
He missed hitting it out of the stadium by maybe
five feet. It was almost out of Dodger Stadium. It
was almost out of the stated as a Maguire stargel
and Fernando Tatist Junior might be the only guy and
gine Carlo Stanton hed ever hit it out.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
He hit that so far, you know, he may have
hit it to He may have hit it to where
you get the helmet nachos, Like, that's how far that
ball was in because you've got to go far to
get the helmet nachos at Dodger's helmet nacho. Oh man,
you catch him with the helmet nod, that would be allio. Dude.
Do you take it out or do you eat it
with it in? Do you leave it there there? There?
It's an art piece at that point? Is he around
it and you shall lack it and you sell it.
(39:41):
There's cheese on it. I didn't do it. No, you
sill lack it. You just you I need to I
need to preserve this right now, and you sell it
here it doesn't on eBay. Right here there is an
art piece like Banksy Well does it?
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Does it age like a McDonald's cheeseburger as we've seen
in art exhibits that could sit there for decades and
really suffer no ill effects.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Cheezburgers from nineteen seventy four. Wow, okoys, it looks pretty
Hansard molded it. Nothing's happened here, looks it looks looks
pretty good. They spray on that. So, yeah, we wanted
to bring you that this developing story here we have. Look,
we have big hot takes coming your way from day
one of the baseball playoffs. But uh, the Yankee stak
just here you goes that a hot take?
Speaker 4 (40:18):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Is that really hot? And it's not a hot take? Yeah, Yankees,
they wish they had Soto for the ninth inning, didn't they.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
One.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Sodo's laughing, going, Oh they all hated me yesterday because
I wasn't on. We don't need you can't coun you
think he's laughing. We're better getting Bellinger and Free and
all the Yeah, yeah, he really knows what's going on.
Oh sure he does. One Sottle loves baseball. Come on, man,
the guy, the guys that he's at baseball. It looked
like he loved baseball this week. And dude, well okay,
I just love baseball this week. I didn't like baseball
(40:45):
this weekend. I do think anybody liked how things went
this weekend. Thing that went on this weekend. You know,
you know, Frostburg ending to charge again. It's hot. Uh,
it's you know, I I know tonight's a big night
from I'm being I'm want to be nice to you.
You don't need to keep throwing the Mets under the
under the bus. Here. We're moving on to the playoffs. Now,
(41:05):
we're moving on to to a home run party. Yeah
that is true. The Dodgers are. They may win this,
this series may only go one game. Mic like may
say that.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Francona just waves a white white flag. He goes full
duke and he's debating whether he's gonna throw the damn
towel or not. Yeah, then he realizes his team is done. Yeah,
it's it's not so it's not even worth it.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
He just drops it. We shouldn't even be here. We
lost the last game of the season. We're a couple
of games over five hundred only because the Mets are
absolutely terrible as we were in I mean, I don't
know what else to tell you. And find your wins,
no man. So this is what's happening right now. Dodgers
lead the Reds eight. Nothing. We're gonna see more beanballs,
we'll tell you. But coming up next again hot take
major League Baseball playoffs and a big change of quarterback
(41:51):
in the NFL. That's next right here, Jason and Mike
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