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Jason Smith and Mike Harmon talk about Caitlin Clark and why she makes a valid case for ROTY.
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the way tire buying should be. Well. Yes, sometimes best
friends have to battle. Bottom of the sixth inning. In
Show Cargo, Mets lead the White Sox four to one.
Tyler McGill, who has gotten a grand total of four
batters out this season for the Mets, somehow was into
(01:12):
the sixth inning ninety seven pitches and right now in
line for victory. Is he any relation to slipping Jimmy,
slipping j I don't think no more slipping Jimmy, Chuck. Okay,
I'm telling you, no more slipping Jimmy. It's done. It's over.
And all we did was get slipping Jimmy for the
next five seasons.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, I mean, all I've done is I've already moved
forward that game. You know, I was watching the WNBA game.
I'm sitting there watching this terrible Michigan State game.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Oh yeah, just terrible. Where the quarterback he's getting hitting
ahead every single play.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
It is a man sixteen to ten hit way through
the fourth quarter, just to slog fast. So I said,
all right, let's look at the time, said an alarm.
It's like, all right, go take a shower. It's college
colors day.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Right.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
We talked to our guy rahiem Mostered a couple of
weeks ago. I've advanced a narrative. Northwestern Miami, Ohio tomorrow,
Wildcats minus three in the makeshift stadium by the lake.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Let's go and just remember this Michigan State Florida Atlantic game.
Right now. The over is forty four and a half points.
And if you remember, it was a pretty big story.
A week ago, when Michigan State quarterback Aiden Child said
in his interview leading up to game, what take the over? Yeah?
(02:34):
Take the over right? What times? Yeah? Take the over?
Take right now. It's sixteen to ten with seven minutes
ago in the fourth quarter. I'm feeling pretty good about
taking the under. If I took that, I feel pretty
good about that.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
This game has been just a log and look, it's
been shippy on both sides. We'll get to the sky
and the fever in a minute, but you've had a
couple of let's look at each other official wise to
decide whether.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
We need to look at for targeting.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
We've had a couple of monster hits where you're just
hoping the guy gets back up. I mean, it's been
a strange game for a week one in that respect,
but also just not much in the way of offense,
uh whatsoever. So yeah, it's uh we're off to a
weird start on a week one.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah. So again, Now, people not to listen to when
they tell you take the over. Michigan State quarterback Aiden Chiles,
I do not listen. He is a he is he
is what it's called a bad handicapper. Okay, because I
don't see this getting to forty four because of the
way the score is. So, I mean, it's he's a
bad handicapper. Don't listen to him, you do you think
(03:44):
he had it the other way? So the odds got
depressed there, maybe a little longer on the under, yeah,
maybe a little bit. Or maybe he kept saying to you,
re over, so everybody would bet the over. And then
he knew people that were gonna bet the other. The
odds one way, Sure coming back here? Wow, we allegedly
allegedly allegedly sure Sure Entertainment. He's the guy that opened
(04:06):
the door. He's the guy that said take the over man.
No one, no one made him say that he did.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
He held the door open and said come on ine.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
But we'll have more on college football coming up later
on this hour. Mike and I give you our very
first bit of upset special picks for Week one in
college football. But on a college football night where you
have some fun stuff going on. No bigger story than
the thirty seventh meeting this season between the Indiana Fever
and the Chicago Sky It's on the fourth. No, I
(04:40):
think it's way more than that. I gotta lookin every
other game is the Fever in the Sky. No, that's right.
This game look not a game. It was so much
fun to watch and there's so many great takeaways from this.
There's a reason why this game is the top five
topics right now on social media. Caitlin Clark and the
Fever Thump the Sky one hundred and eighty one. They
(05:01):
were up big at halftime, they got up big into
the fourth quarter. They never let the Sky back in it.
Caitlin Clark thirty one points, twelve assists, four rebounds. She
was five out of nine from three point range. Angel
Rees did have a double double ten points, eleven rebounds,
shot four and a nine, but her last few points
and couple of rebounds came with the Sky down twenty.
(05:23):
Should she have even been in the game, of course,
you know she was in particularly today, right. We did
get at the double with Shador Sanders.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
And remember what I theorized that he was looking to
get his man his one hundred yards right, looking for
that big play. And what did deonce after the game,
Oh yeah, he was trying to get his guta. Yeah,
and he was trying to get to five hundred yards.
But same thing here. I mean, this is clearly just
a stat hunting expedition.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yes, you know, an another double double for her, But look,
you know she's in the game. You're down twenty six, right,
your best players out there. And of course, how many
shots did she get at the end to get there?
They feeder a couple of shots. She took a couple
of shots to get there. Look, right now, let's be honest.
The Rookie of the Year race is over. I think
that'll do it. Like when Viper tells Maverick when when
(06:10):
the guy's yelling because Maverick did the fly by, and
he's yelling, going, I want some butts. I spilled coffee.
I want some butts, and he's screaming, and and Viper
walks out and says, I think that'll just about cover
the flybys. Like I think I feel like that way
saying you watched this game, I think that covers the
Rookie of yaegar.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Would you like me to tell you what the I
think that your odds are. Yeah, and I'm really glad
that they got some engagement. I know you want to
be spicy on your TV show screaming, but minus three thousand,
wow reez fifteen to one, it's it's the fact that
(06:47):
it's back on the boards is laughable. We talked to
Todd Furmany about it last night. You asked him because
I had brought it up because I looked for him
the other day before the Fever's last game, and there
were a couple that just didn't even have him on
the board anymore. And that's what you're seeing. I appreciate debate, right,
embrace debate. Let's scream at each other about stuff and
(07:10):
try to find some happy middle unless we don't or
jump to each end of the spectrum. And this there
is no argument. There's no reasonable rational human being, no
matter what kind of fictitious statistic ESPN creates for this,
that you can make the argument for Angel Reese.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yeah, I know, right. Like when I read that, because
I was making the rounds today, was hey, ESPN actually
has Angel Reese ahead of Kate len Clark, I'm like, okay,
how I mean, obviously it's just for a hot take purposes,
because look, Angel Reese is a great rebounder. It's what
she does, right. She came tonight wearing a Rodman jersey. Congratulations,
we told you about that. Yeah, Hey, I wish we
could monetize that because we're the ones that said that
(07:52):
first a couple of weeks ago, and now people are
jumping on it. Okay, great, she's Dennis Rodman. Yeah, she's
Dennis Robin because she can't make any shots. She's not
she's not good on the floor. She is a phenomenal rebounder.
But again, that's what she does, right, Like Katelyn Clark
even said it at the WNBA All Star Game, which
which was a compliment. But I think Caitlyn Clark is
really self aware. She understands what she says when she does.
(08:14):
When she said, oh, Angelice is gonna lead the All
Star Game in rebounding, it's what she does. And that's
a great compliment, Like, hey, I think this is coming
coming in gonna lead. But when you say she's lead
rebound that's what she does. Like, that's her game. Her
game is rebounding, and that really is She does it,
really and she does a great job at it. But
when I sit here and watch a game and see
the announcers talking and going wow, it's so hard to
compare two players playing different positions, I'm like, are you
(08:37):
kidding me? The impact? Forget about the fact forget about
the popularity of Caitlin Clark coming in. You really think
the impact of what Caitlyn Clark is having on the
Indiana Fever and angel Rees are the same, They're not.
They're not even close. Right. In fact, this is where
you're at right now. You want something that sounds like
a hot take, I'll tell you what. There's eight games,
eight or so games left the WNBA season, the Fever
(08:59):
start one and eight haw many of the playoffs in
eight years here now they are at five hundred and
they're they're pretty much going and nobody wants to play them.
And now, not only is Caitlyn Clark terrific, but she's
got everybody else working on that team, and Mitchell is
great and Boston. Right now, it's a two person race
for WNBA MVP, and it's Asia Wilson and it's Caitlyn Clark.
And it's closer than you think. I'm not saying she's
(09:22):
past Asian Wilson. Asia Wilson's a phenomenal player. She is
the best player in the she's the best player in
the league. But you're talking about MVP, which is which
is an award for what did you do to help
your team. It's not Player of the Year, right MV.
Everybody confuses that Player of the year an MVP is
not the same thing. Right, You are the best player
in the game. You're not always the MVP because a
(09:42):
team can stink without you, right, that could happen. It's
what do you do? Most valuable players? Who is raising
their team up the higher level? And there's a huge
argument you can make that what Angel Reese is doing,
her value this year to the fever is a bigger value.
Doesn't mean she's a better player right now than Asia Wilson.
But MVP, Yeah, this is a closer race than you think.
(10:03):
And it's really between these two four it when you
look at what they've both accomplished.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yeah, and I think when we get down to it,
you know, going back to the original point for a second,
is it takes nothing away from what Angel Reese is
as a player. It's talking about total impact and I
know we can go into some of the plus minus
and what they do when she's on the bench, et cetera.
But you look at what Clark does moving the ball,
(10:31):
forget about that. You know, we talk turnovers and assist
we start getting into fights as to how many should
have been handled versus you know, lazy behind the back
passes like she had today. It's like, you're not helping
your stat line, Caitlin, you know. And then the announcers
even go, well, you're up this bit, you can screw around.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
She's feeling it, man, She's throwing those behind the back
passes and she said, well and look, and I think
that's probably why the sky got frustrated. You saw some
really hard foul against her in the final seven admitutes.
Did Deshields get the code red from Witherspoon, I don't know.
Three fouls in a row from Diamond Deshields, two on
Caitlyn Clark on inbounds plays and then the bad one
(11:13):
that she got a flagrant on when she just ran
tried to run her over in the middle of the
floor after a turnover. They turned into a flagrant like
that was a great At that point, it's like, okay,
you know what, it's time for you to leave the game. Yes,
it's yeah, You've got a great game. And now you're
throwing behind the back passes up twenty five, which I'm
sure is not playing well for Chicago. And I get it.
(11:33):
I completely understand your show won't like that up twenty
points in our house. Really you're so I get it.
That's an on the floor thing, and this is Chicago
being pissed off at it. But the right thing was done,
the right fouls were called, and Chrissy Signs did a
great job saying, okay, four minutes were up, twenty five, Caitlyn,
come out of the game. Come out of the Game's
time to come out of the game because now it's
just gonna be chippy, and of course she can't resistant.
(11:55):
So she comes off the floor and she's hyping up
the crowd. And you heard the crowd was half Caitlin Clark.
This wasn't everybody booing her. It's at least half Caitlin
Clark people cheering.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah, but it's not that far a drive from Indiana
to uh it's it's it's a nice hop on the
little little freeway and away we go.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
H on the Skyway. But uh yeah, it's again, take
nothing away from what Angel Reese is.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
It's just seems to me there there's the obvious gap
the betting odds are telling you, so you know, making
any other argument right now, it's just uh fighting windmills
and wasting time, so giving it any oxygen uh is foolhardy.
They did play without Kennedy Carter uh today. She was
in protocols so it was unavailable. So you know you've
(12:43):
got that, you know when you try to inform the
matchup itself, but blowout City uh and in the final minutes,
it was just a academic of how quickly does it end?
Angel Reese gets your double double celebrated added to him
in you can't take it out of the the box score.
But you know, you always hang a star on things
(13:04):
like that when it's you know, stat padding in that
in that kind of fashion. But for Caitlyn Clark and
the Fever, after a rough start to the season, we
talked about the schedule, we talked about trying to gel
and coming in as as she was. They're a dangerous
squad right now and they'll make up some ground. Right
The Aces aren't running away with it. They're not even
(13:25):
in first place as it stands right now. So the
potential to make that argument on Asia Wilson is certainly
there if they can finish the season strongly.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Telling you thatd Caitlin Clark, Asia Wilson it's that's the
new conversation. Rookie of the Year is not. And I
don't know whatever you know because I remember because I
started a couple of seconds ago. But I like looking
at the ESPN, going what kind of metric do they
have Angel Reese over Caitlyn Clark and I started to
read what it was, and it was taking this you know,
(13:56):
X seven to three technique and playing it off with
a p F four and I'm going, oh my god,
this is all just made up stuff. I like, what
is like they're trying to say, we have a scientific
situation that that that actually evaluates every single thing a
player does with the basketball to tell you how valuable
they are. I'm like, I don't even knowbody of this
stuff is real, Like what? And of course it's behind
(14:17):
the pay walls. I'm like, I'm not paying for that.
Go on, what are you kidding me? At least tell me, hey,
these are some people who have been watching and are
telling me. Because there's no metric, you could tell me
that Angel Reese, who shoots three for fifteen every night, yes,
pulls down to again phenomenal rebounder. She is such a talent,
She's incredibly popular. But you can't sit here and say, yeah,
(14:37):
they both have about the same impact. No, it's not
the case, it's not the name. I enjoy the hell
out of her, There's no question about it. She's fun
to watch. And they get the Reese's pieces, you get
the Angel Recis pieces.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Yeternay, I was debating getting the jersey, but I thought
the orange was a bit ostentatious.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Or now purple hang ons. I will say that, you
know where did I go to college? Orange is of
very difficult color to pull off. It is it's really hard.
Orange is up. You start looking like I think it
is a tough color, Like I know all the Syracuse
stuff I get. I gotta go. I gotta get it
with the orange accents. Like it took me a long
time to go look at this great orange sweatshirt. Then
(15:15):
I see a picture of it and I'm like, oh
my god, all I can see is me that's orange
sweat You forget you wear this thing? Oh so now
I gotta get the blue with the orange accents, because
that's really what does it?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
You know, just slippers? Otherwise you look like I know
the orange it is and it's just it's a bad move.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
It is a tough color. It really well, but I
mean it keeps you honest.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
You know, when you go back to the trough, I
think because orange is not the is not the color.
I'm not saying for you, I'm just saying in general,
that's a tough one.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
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(18:09):
we had to get to in college football in a second,
but big goings on right now. Dodgers and the Diamondbacks.
Dodgers leading this game of the Diamondbacks now five to
two in the second inning. That's the good news for
the Dodgers. However, Clayton Kershaw gave up a leadoff homer
in the second inning to Corbyn Carroll, and I've just
(18:31):
watched him promptly walk off the mound with a trainer
and go right to the locker room. I don't know
what it was, but he gives up a home run
and that's it. Like you see him. He gives up
the shot, he bends down, he gets up, and he
walks off, his teammates patting him on the back as
he enters into the locker room. And that is not
(18:53):
a great sign at all for a guy who. Look
the Dodgers were counting on at this point, right, you're
looking at a at the postseason for LA and they
don't have a lot of problems, no, but starting pitching
is one of them. And you're thinking, okay, well, if
we can cobble together Jack Flaherty, who we really like
so far, how tough he is and what he brings
the team. He's kind of like a Walker Bueller type.
(19:16):
And we you know, we get the the right I'd
say the right Tyler glassnew that we've gotten that we've
seen for parts of the season, and then Kershaw would
be the third guy. And now you have no idea.
I'm watching the replays of it right now, and it
was just a curve that got over the fat part
of the plate, Kershaw watches it go and he just
(19:37):
walks off the mound like there was no He gets
the ball back and he looks and he's saying, Okay,
I don't know what's happening right now. You can see
that there's something going on. The umpire goes out to
check him, and he comes out of the game after
staring up at the scoreboard for a couple of minutes,
and that was the game. As soon as he gave
(19:59):
up the home run and got the ball back from
the from the home plate umpire, everybody was on the mound,
form the infielders were there, Dave Roberts was out there.
Kershaw hands the ball off with no problem whatsoever, and
he walks off into the locker room. Again, no idea
what it is. But he wasn't grabbing his back, he
wasn't grabbing his arm, he didn't look like it didn't
(20:20):
look like he was in any kind of visible distress.
But he just comes right out of the game. And
we'll have an update for you as soon as we can.
But that's certainly a huge, huge deal right now for
the Dodgers and any plans they have rest of the
season in playoffs.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Well, because as you mentioned, I mean the expectation of
Glass now that he was going to be back. Now
there's just a giant question mark with him. You've got Yamamoto,
you just got a decent starts and I use those
in quotes right from Buehler and then and then Bobby
Miller came up yesterday and here Kershaw gives up the
(20:57):
home run and immediately out, So I mean immediately you know,
the conspiracy theorists are all out there in the social
media sphere, so no.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Idea what to make of any of that.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
You know, the he's leaving because he's embarrassed is seemingly
trending at the moment. I just hope he's all right, man.
You know, the look up to the sky and Roberts
quickly out and Kelly in. You know, it's we've watched
this guy from day one, going back to two thousand
and eight, two thousand and nine, and now here we
(21:32):
are at this point in his career in a huge
series for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
And you know, it's kind of fun, it's weird, and
again it looks like it's something health wise the way
they take him out right out of the way. But
this is like you know. And I don't know why
I have this. I have this vision back to and
again I have nothing on it. I'm just telling you what,
what visibly this reminded me of watching him go off
the field is I remember Mike Schmidt when he was
(21:58):
playing for the Phillies and it looked like he was
gonna keep playing a few more years when he did
like he's gonna hit a bunch more home runs. Like
hitting the ball, Mike Schmidt hadn't really slowed down like
one of the best third basemen in the history of
the game. And and and for me, He's got one
of the top three swings that I've ever seen in
my entire life, the way he would swing down on
the ball and the power he got off his hips.
(22:19):
Like Mike Schmidt was legit right like he was you know,
he in he was thirty nine and he was still
having a good year, uh you know, for the Phillies,
and he had a he had a weekend series where
he made like three errors in a over the course
of this series, like three or four errors, and he
retired the next week. He said that's it, I'm done,
(22:39):
and I'm done. It was like, whoa, He's just retiring.
Just he's retired. He's got five hundred and forty eight
home runs. He's just retiring. He's two years removed from
thirty five and one thirteen. He's just retiring. And that
was it. Like he knew, he said, he knew, I'm done.
And like I'm watching Kershaw walk off the mountain. I'm
like it looks like he's saying like like like, I like,
is he done? Like like to walk off like that
(23:01):
is like is he is? He? Is? He? Like That's
kind of what it brought. And again, I don't know
anything about it. I'm just telling you what it looked
like to me on on on the television, like him
walking off, like is this is? How much frustration is this?
You know? Again, it didn't look like he was in pain.
His curveball had a lot of movement on it. Corbyn
Carroll is able to go down and just get it.
Like look that's where Corbyn Carrol hits. He likes the
(23:22):
ball low and inside. You see him get a lot
of he Look, he just hit a home run off Diaz'
slider that he got low on inside the other night
to win the game for the Diamondbacks. Got in a
sweet spot. But there was a lot of movement on it.
But walking off, it's like he doesn't like he's in pain.
He's not helped off with trainers. He's not like what
is that. I mean, it's the middle of the game.
(23:42):
I know it's three runs and two winnings, but the
Dodger's still winning, you know, he's still up, Like what
is going on? Like this is just a bizarre moment
that we've seen right now with him. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Jack Harris the La Times reported that the curveball was
sixty seven miles an hour.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Who wow? Really that really? Yeah? They saw goodness?
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Only three slower curveballs ever recorded, uh in his career.
But wow, to your point, right as as he goes
through his emotion and turns to watch the ball, like
there's no holding of his arm, there's no obvious I
mean obvious discomfort. So if if you know, whatever, he
(24:28):
I guess hit it well before the training you know,
trainer and Dave Roberts and everybody came out.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
But it's certainly uh.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
For Dodger fans, you know, for baseball we you know,
we talk about you know, would be, should be, will
be Hall of Famers and when guys get hurt, we
we lose a little bit of our game, right, That's
why we lament every time Mike Trout goes down or
Stanton or one of those guys has to leave the lineup.
And for Kershaw, everybody had hoped that, all right, we
can get one last run with him and whether he
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goes off into retur Ironman or whatever, that it would
finish with. However, October panned out. But now we're finishing
August and we're having those same questions again.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
You know, what, what did I What did I say
before he came back this year? The over under for
the number of starts Clayton Kershaw has in the rest
of his career, and I said fifteen, And it was
is are you gonna take over that? I'm like, I
gotta take under. Who knows what he's gonna come back
for this year after this, But I don't know. I
don't know that we're gonna see him. If I put
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the number at thirty, I would say I'll forget it.
There's no way, like fifteen is where I'm like, all right,
maybe maybe you got a handful of starts this year,
but like, I don't know, it's just gonna be the
last one, Like, I have no like he just looked,
he looked. The countenance he had walking off was one
of those I'm pissed. I'm thinking about a lot of
things and I can't I don't know what just happened
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like that, like that, you know, snapping off a curve
at sixty seven miles an hour. I mean, I don't know.
I don't know what you're thinking at that point. And
especially if there's no pain, right like if my curve
is going at sixty seven miles an hour and that's
as good as I can throw it, I mean, how
much more? What else are we gonna do? I really,
I don't know. I'm waiting to see what to say.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Dug out, you know who that walk from the mound
to there seemed like it lasted, you know, five minutes.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Yeah, very slow head down and.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Uh to your point, the countenance, like he doesn't say
anything to anybody getting into the dugout, just walk straight
down to the tunnel.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Wow. Uh So again, we'll have more on this story
coming up in a bit, and right now, let's find
out what's trending in the wide world of sports with
special delivery. Steve to sagare s D what do you
got for us?
Speaker 5 (26:44):
So it is a Dodger lead in the bottom of
the second inning at Arizona five to three, and keep
in mind the context of it. This starts a four
game series and the Dodgers lead over Arizona in the
NL West is four games. The Padres were five games
out to start the night. San Diego has won one
thirteen to five. At Tampa Bay. The Padres led seven
to nothing in the second inning of that one, Manny
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Machado a three run homer. You mentioned the miles per
hour for Kershaw, who did not look good in the
first inning and got bailed out by a double play.
To get out of the first he threw two pitches,
the second of which was the Corbyn Carrol homer to
lead off the second inning. In his heyday, which was
many years for Kershaw, the fastball would be ninety three
miles an hour and the curve ball at seventy three.
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Here second inning, he threw one fastball eighty seven miles
an hour and then a curve sixty seven miles an
hour for the home run. Remember he missed the first
half of this season after the major shoulder surgery finally
in Houston with a run in the ninth. Hosel twove
the game winning double three tooth strows over Kansas City
from Ravaldez, the starting pitcher, seven hitless innings and three
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walks allowed, but he got pulled as he had thrown
ninety eight pitches. Valdez does not get a decision in
this game. Goosh Hater had given up two runs top
of the ninth and gets credit for the win as
Houston scores in the bottom of the ninth. The bad
news for Kansas City before this game, Royal's first baseman,
Vinnie Pasquentina, who has ninety seven RBIs is out for
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the year, broken thumb the problem. Yankees beat Saint Louis
six to three. Aaron Judge went over four with three strikeouts.
Atlanta got to win at Philadelphia seven to two for
the Phillies. Third baseman Alec Baum was out tonight with
a hand injury. Bryce Harper is playing through elbow and
wrist injuries and did have three hits in the loss.
Milwaukee swept a double header at Cincinnati. In fact, Game
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two final was fourteen nothing Brewers who scored ten runs
in the ninth. The A's are winning seven to two
in the ninth at Texas. The Mets have a ninth
inning lead at the White Sox four to one. Yeah,
if the White Sox lose this one, the record will
be thirty one and one oh five and we still
have another game in August tomorrow before we turn the
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page on the calendar. Twins are shutting out the Blue
Jays in the ninth two to nothing, and the Orioles
VY two lead at the Rockies top of the eighth inning.
The Oriols, the second place team in the Alias, trying
to stay at game and a half back of the Yankees.
Mariners lead seven too at the Angels in the fourth.
Giants Marlins scoreless in the second well. Last night we
(29:14):
had Carlos Alcarez upset in a second round match at
the US Open. Tonight, we have two seed Novak Djokovic
trailing two sets to none in his third rounder at
the US Open against Alexei Poperin of Australia, who won
the first couple sets six to four six ' four.
Djokovic is leading four to two in the third set,
trying to stay alive. To college football, Michigan State does
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win at home sixteen to ten over Florida Atlantic Army
and Duke with home wins and sixteenth ranked Oklahoma as well.
Sooners beat Temple fifty one to three halftime in the
game on FS one, It's Wisconsin at home leading ten
to seven over Western Michigan. About to start TCU at Stanford.
Stanford with the ACC logo on its field because of
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course there a team on the West Coast. Scottie Scheffler
leads the PGA's Tour Championship by four strokes and Ravens
tight and Mark Andrews return to practice he had missed
over two weeks after a car accident.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Back to you, Thank you, Stevo The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Carmen live from the tyrac
dot com staters. I mean, I can't, I can't shake.
I just can't shake the thought in my head that
did we just watch Clayton Kershaw walk off the mound
for the last time. I don't know, I just can't
shake that, because you know how much it was f
him come back, continue to come back, injured, come back,
and if he's just out of gas and he can't,
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I mean, I hope it's not that obviously, because look,
the guy's the best left handed pitcher that I've seen.
Him and Randy Johnson have been the two best, and honestly,
Clayton Kershaw is more dominant. But it's weird that I
just can't shake that the way he walked off. Certain
certain visuals sometimes hit me in sports, and I think,
WHOA this is. This is a bigger deal than what
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it seems to be. And I just can't shake that
right now and again, not heard anything do anything about this.
This is Clayton Kershaw. This is just me see it
on television and seeing the way he walked off, I
just keep saying, is that the last time we see
him walk off the mountain? Like? Is that gonna be?
Is that gonna Is that gonna be? Video we see
all weekend and for the rest of his career, whenever
there's a retrospective that here he is walking off. I
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can't believe he wants to make this last pitch be
a home run to Corbyn Carroll. But like, I don't know, man,
I'm watching that going I'm stunned, you know I And
again I think back to Mike Schmidt, and I also
think back to Ron Darling. Right two of the big
things that when I see guys at the end of
their career. And I remember Ron Darling when I interviewed
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him once, and he's a great interview. I mean, look,
the guy's you know, he's my guy, right Mett's booth. Right,
Darling is great. My favorite when he says, you know anything,
major League Baseball is run by those jabbronis that run
the NFL. I think that was my favorite Rod Darling life.
But I remember interviewing him and we were talking about
somebody who was retiring, and I forget who it was,
and I said, hey, you know retired. You know this
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guy retiring. I go, you know, how did you know
when it was time to retire? And he said to me,
you know what, I didn't think about this until you
know what happened. But no one I didn't know when
it was time to retire. The hitters told me it
was time to retire. Sure like when I knew when
I you know, and I can't get anybody else I
could have. The hitters are telling me, that's new talk.
That's when you knew it was time to retire. The
hitters are telling me it is time to retire. And
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it's been a very rough comeback for Clayton Kershaw over
the last few weeks. Uh, you know, trying to return
from injury, hoping to be a big boost to the Dodgers.
They're playing their playoff hopes and and it has been
an effort just to get him out of the first
couple of innings. I mean, this, this has not been
at all what you expected. This is Kershaw who's been
coming back from his injury and had a long time off, right, Like,
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it's not you know, Kurt Sally. He's been in and
out of the lineup, Like he didn't start pitching until
the end of July. And you know, he had a
couple of he had a couple of outings where he
went five and six innings five innings is last time,
but he gave up five runs. It's not been great, uh,
you know for him, and he holds himself to such
a high standard. Uh, this I don't man, I don't know. Again,
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I'm hoping, I'm hoping it's something different. I'm hoping it's not.
I just these are just things that hit my head
as I'm watching what's going on.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Yeah, you're always you know, hopefully you know, the precautionary,
did feel right, didn't have this you know, obviously had
the movement on the curve ball, because the ball that
Carol hit certainly moved, but you know, down six miles
per hour on average. You know, as Steve laid out
in his update, you know, he'd had those three good
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starts in a row. Not great against Philly four and
two thirds, five hits allout but only a single run.
Then Milwaukee they get a win. He goes five and
two thirds, just three hits, a couple of walks, only
one are in run, had a great start against Saint Louis,
and that's where you know, on the eighteenth Sunday afternoon tilt,
everybody's looking around, going all right, Clayton's rounding into form.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
This is good.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
And then he gets beat up a bit in that
five inning stint against Tampa here on even in the
first and gives up the homer to Carroll and walks
out like you know, it's the You'd love to have
been the fly on the wall to a degree, uh,
to know exactly what was said in that half a frame.
You know, was he meeting with Dave Roberts or the trainers?
(34:13):
H did he know something was up and to make
them aware, Hey, I mean because I obviously we're doing
the show. So it's not like I saw, hey, you
know there's someone up and moving in the pen or
any of that stuff to alert that that there was
something wrong.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
So it's well, here's the thing is Number one, you
see that Roberts and the infield are on their way
out to him before Carol even crosses the plate. Sure
like they're already out there. The lights are still going on,
they celebrating Corbyn Carroll's home run, and they're already out
on the field. And I'm seeing some reports, but potentially
the bullpen was already up, like Joe Kelly might have
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already been up and warming up because of what was
going on with Kershaw. So this could be something that
a maybe they knew about it. You're going back out
there for any I don't know, but clearly this is
something that the Dodgers saw, and then going into the
second inning, something they were aware of. I mean, he's rounding,
he's rounding second base, and and Dave Roberts is already
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onto the infield grass going up to Kershaw to get
the ball from him.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Yeah, just new new information coming as we're sitting here
uh and and trying to make sense of this one
again that long walk for for Clayton Kershaw to the dugout.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
And hoping for the best.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Right we we want to see Pennant chases at their
best with with teams as armed as they can be
and the Dodgers already uh payper thin at the starting
pitching position. Really a rough run here for the final month?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Coming up exit? How about a fresco exit? Swollen down
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon again.
We'll have more on this story as it develops. Third inning,
Dodgers leading the Diamondbacks by the score of five to three,
but coming up next, Ah, we hit it big our
first upset Special picks of the Week for college football
as Week one hits us an earnest in a few hours.
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Speaker 2 (36:09):
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Speaker 1 (36:20):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon Live from the Tirack dot Com Studios. Now,
Mike and I have our upset special picks in college
football coming your way in a minute. However, we have
an injury update on Clayton Kershaw, who left Tonight's game
after giving up a leadoff homer to Corbyn Carroll in
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the second inning. Just walked off the field. Looked like
it was potentially planned. Dave Roberts was out to the
mound before Carol even finished rounding the bases. Special delivery
Steve to Seger has the update right now from the
Update desk with breaking news Steve O.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
In Arizona. The Dodgers say Kershaw tonight left this game
with left big toe pain. Now is a lefty pitcher
that would be pushing off the rubber and the inability
to quite drive toward home, which might therefore explain the
lack of velocity they experienced early in this game. If
true that it's toe pain and nothing else, that's great
news for the Dodgers, and that means no shoulder or
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elbow pain such as he's experienced the past year, or
none of that back pain that he's had in multiple years.
Out of a five man rotation, the Dodgers have now
seven injured starting pitchers. That includes Yoshinobu Yamamoto, by the way,
who's on the sixty day il. The current plan for
him after a couple of innings at Triple A this
past week coming back from the triceps injury, throw a
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bullpen session on Sunday. Yamamoto's next rehab start Tuesday at
Triple A.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. Yeah. Look, first
pitch of the inning, fastball at eighty seven. Second pitcher
inning a curve ball at sixty seven, So yeah, that
would explain the being able to push off the man. Now,
it's just how serious is this? What is this toe injury?
And when will we see Clayton Kershaw again? So big
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thoughts and prayers up for him again. Watching him walk
off was just a really surreal moment. We'll have more
on this as the night unfolds. Probably after the game
we will have some talk on it. Dave Roberts will
speak about it. Maybe we're from Kershaw himself. But right
now it's time to give you our Upset Special picks
for Week one of the college football season. Mike and
(38:30):
I do it every week. We get in the top
twenty five and give you some upset specials and my
first one. I'm gonna kick this off. I'm gonna say
this with kind of a low voice because my wife
is downstairs, but I'm sure she's doing something well, she
can hear me. I'm just gonna say that. She's gonna
know anyway when I talk about it tomorrow. Give me
Fresno State getting twenty two over Michigan. All right, here's why.
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Fresno State's not a bad team. But this is the
quintessential Michigan grinding out a safe but not dominant win
because they're gonna run the football a ton. They got
Texas coming up next week. They're gonna want to be
as vanilla as possible. First game in the Charon More
era and the new quarterback, new players in different positions.
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This will be one of those games Michigan wins by
a couple of touchdowns, maybe seventeen, but it seems closer
than it is because they don't want to see it.
Put a lot of stuff out there when they play
Texas coming up next weekend. So Michigan wins, but give
me Fresno State getting twenty two. Look at you getting
the big number out of the way.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
I was gonna take not top twenty five, but wanted to,
you know, pick Stanford to win today that Ashton Daniels
and company get it done. Plus seven and a half
for that game that just kicked off. But you know what,
in a rare form, I'm actually gonna take Notre Dame
plus two and a half.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Woo can you do that? I mean, being a Northwestern guy,
you allowed to do that.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Well, I don't know how much of a rivalry it
is because they're not actually.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
They never know, but in the conference yeah, no psychology
right there, I mean they're right there.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
But you know, psychologically it hurts me because I have
a problem with people adopting colleges. It still bothers me
after all these years. If you didn't pay into it
with your blood, sweat, tears and ample thousands of dollars,
I don't know how that works. But you know, here
I'm looking at a number seven ranks squad and yet
they are the underdog by two and a half at
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Texas A and M big big ABC, ESPN kind of
showdown to get things started.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
So yeah, psychologically it pains me to do it, but
I will. I'm going to give you USC getting five
against LSU. This is a make or break already for Lincoln.
The honeymoon has been over for Lincoln Riley at USC
for a while. And this is the fact the guy
at the Heisman Trophy winning number one overall pick in
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the draft. Things are not good, but Lincoln Riley's teams
usually start out big. USC usually starts out big. We
watch Miller Moss have a big Bowl game last next year,
this is gonna be a lot of points. I like
the over and not in the Michigan State Florida Atlantic
kind of way. No, I like the over, but yeah,
give me USC. They went on the field, but I'll
still take the points.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
How about I go back into the Big ten tickets
as low as one hundred and sixty four dollars at
West Virginia plus eight and a half with Penn State
coming to town, West Virginia returning a lot of offensive
firepower and Penn State while they do the same quarterback
still under center, everything else they do miss a couple
of big defenders who are gone through the NFL Draft.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
Give me West Virginia plus eight a half. So there
it is. There's our upset. Special picks of the weekend
for college football Twitter at how about a fresco Mike
gets swollen down the Jason Smith Show with my best
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friends have to battle. Bottom of the sixth inning. In
Show Cargo, Mets lead the White Sox four to one.
Tyler McGill, who has gotten a grand total of four
batters out this season for the Mets, somehow was into
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the sixth inning ninety seven pitches and right now in
line for victory. Is he any relation to slipping Jimmy,
slipping j I don't think no more slipping Jimmy, Chuck. Okay,
I'm telling you, no more slipping Jimmy. It's done. It's over.
And all we did was get slipping Jimmy for the
next five seasons.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, I mean, all I've done is I've already moved
forward that game. You know, I was watching the WNBA game.
I'm sitting there watching this terrible Michigan State game.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Oh yeah, just terrible. Where the quarterback he's getting hitting
ahead every single play.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
It is a man sixteen to ten hit way through
the fourth quarter, just to slog fast. So I said,
all right, let's look at the time, said an alarm.
It's like, all right, go take a shower. It's college
colors day.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Right.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
We talked to our guy rahiem Mostered a couple of
weeks ago. I've advanced a narrative. Northwestern Miami, Ohio tomorrow,
Wildcats minus three in the makeshift stadium by the lake.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Let's go and just remember this Michigan State Florida Atlantic game.
Right now. The over is forty four and a half points.
And if you remember, it was a pretty big story.
A week ago, when Michigan State quarterback Aiden Child said
in his interview leading up to game, what take the over? Yeah?
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Take the over right? What times? Yeah? Take the over?
Take right now. It's sixteen to ten with seven minutes
ago in the fourth quarter. I'm feeling pretty good about
taking the under. If I took that, I feel pretty
good about that.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
This game has been just a log and look, it's
been shippy on both sides. We'll get to the sky
and the fever in a minute, but you've had a
couple of let's look at each other official wise to
decide whether.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
We need to look at for targeting.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
We've had a couple of monster hits where you're just
hoping the guy gets back up. I mean, it's been
a strange game for a week one in that respect,
but also just not much in the way of offense,
uh whatsoever. So yeah, it's uh we're off to a
weird start on a week one.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah. So again, Now, people not to listen to when
they tell you take the over. Michigan State quarterback Aiden Chiles,
I do not listen. He is a he is he
is what it's called a bad handicapper. Okay, because I
don't see this getting to forty four because of the
way the score is. So, I mean, it's he's a
bad handicapper. Don't listen to him, you do you think
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he had it the other way? So the odds got
depressed there, maybe a little longer on the under, yeah,
maybe a little bit. Or maybe he kept saying to you,
re over, so everybody would bet the over. And then
he knew people that were gonna bet the other. The
odds one way, Sure coming back here? Wow, we allegedly
allegedly allegedly sure Sure Entertainment. He's the guy that opened
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the door. He's the guy that said take the over man.
No one, no one made him say that he did.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
He held the door open and said come on ine.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
But we'll have more on college football coming up later
on this hour. Mike and I give you our very
first bit of upset special picks for Week one in
college football. But on a college football night where you
have some fun stuff going on. No bigger story than
the thirty seventh meeting this season between the Indiana Fever
and the Chicago Sky It's on the fourth. No, I
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think it's way more than that. I gotta lookin every
other game is the Fever in the Sky. No, that's right.
This game look not a game. It was so much
fun to watch and there's so many great takeaways from this.
There's a reason why this game is the top five
topics right now on social media. Caitlin Clark and the
Fever Thump the Sky one hundred and eighty one. They
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were up big at halftime, they got up big into
the fourth quarter. They never let the Sky back in it.
Caitlin Clark thirty one points, twelve assists, four rebounds. She
was five out of nine from three point range. Angel
Rees did have a double double ten points, eleven rebounds,
shot four and a nine, but her last few points
and couple of rebounds came with the Sky down twenty.
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Should she have even been in the game, of course,
you know she was in particularly today, right. We did
get at the double with Shador Sanders.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
And remember what I theorized that he was looking to
get his man his one hundred yards right, looking for
that big play. And what did deonce after the game,
Oh yeah, he was trying to get his guta. Yeah,
and he was trying to get to five hundred yards.
But same thing here. I mean, this is clearly just
a stat hunting expedition.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yes, you know, an another double double for her, But look,
you know she's in the game. You're down twenty six, right,
your best players out there. And of course, how many
shots did she get at the end to get there?
They feeder a couple of shots. She took a couple
of shots to get there. Look, right now, let's be honest.
The Rookie of the Year race is over. I think
that'll do it. Like when Viper tells Maverick when when
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the guy's yelling because Maverick did the fly by, and
he's yelling, going, I want some butts. I spilled coffee.
I want some butts, and he's screaming, and and Viper
walks out and says, I think that'll just about cover
the flybys. Like I think I feel like that way
saying you watched this game, I think that covers the
Rookie of yaegar.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Would you like me to tell you what the I
think that your odds are. Yeah, and I'm really glad
that they got some engagement. I know you want to
be spicy on your TV show screaming, but minus three thousand,
wow reez fifteen to one, it's it's the fact that
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it's back on the boards is laughable. We talked to
Todd Furmany about it last night. You asked him because
I had brought it up because I looked for him
the other day before the Fever's last game, and there
were a couple that just didn't even have him on
the board anymore. And that's what you're seeing. I appreciate debate, right,
embrace debate. Let's scream at each other about stuff and
(07:10):
try to find some happy middle unless we don't or
jump to each end of the spectrum. And this there
is no argument. There's no reasonable rational human being, no
matter what kind of fictitious statistic ESPN creates for this,
that you can make the argument for Angel Reese.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yeah, I know, right. Like when I read that, because
I was making the rounds today, was hey, ESPN actually
has Angel Reese ahead of Kate len Clark, I'm like, okay,
how I mean, obviously it's just for a hot take purposes,
because look, Angel Reese is a great rebounder. It's what
she does, right. She came tonight wearing a Rodman jersey. Congratulations,
we told you about that. Yeah, Hey, I wish we
could monetize that because we're the ones that said that
(07:52):
first a couple of weeks ago, and now people are
jumping on it. Okay, great, she's Dennis Rodman. Yeah, she's
Dennis Robin because she can't make any shots. She's not
she's not good on the floor. She is a phenomenal rebounder.
But again, that's what she does, right, Like Katelyn Clark
even said it at the WNBA All Star Game, which
which was a compliment. But I think Caitlyn Clark is
really self aware. She understands what she says when she does.
(08:14):
When she said, oh, Angelice is gonna lead the All
Star Game in rebounding, it's what she does. And that's
a great compliment, Like, hey, I think this is coming
coming in gonna lead. But when you say she's lead
rebound that's what she does. Like, that's her game. Her
game is rebounding, and that really is She does it,
really and she does a great job at it. But
when I sit here and watch a game and see
the announcers talking and going wow, it's so hard to
compare two players playing different positions, I'm like, are you
(08:37):
kidding me? The impact? Forget about the fact forget about
the popularity of Caitlin Clark coming in. You really think
the impact of what Caitlyn Clark is having on the
Indiana Fever and angel Rees are the same, They're not.
They're not even close. Right. In fact, this is where
you're at right now. You want something that sounds like
a hot take, I'll tell you what. There's eight games,
eight or so games left the WNBA season, the Fever
(08:59):
start one and eight haw many of the playoffs in
eight years here now they are at five hundred and
they're they're pretty much going and nobody wants to play them.
And now, not only is Caitlyn Clark terrific, but she's
got everybody else working on that team, and Mitchell is
great and Boston. Right now, it's a two person race
for WNBA MVP, and it's Asia Wilson and it's Caitlyn Clark.
And it's closer than you think. I'm not saying she's
(09:22):
past Asian Wilson. Asia Wilson's a phenomenal player. She is
the best player in the she's the best player in
the league. But you're talking about MVP, which is which
is an award for what did you do to help
your team. It's not Player of the Year, right MV.
Everybody confuses that Player of the year an MVP is
not the same thing. Right, You are the best player
in the game. You're not always the MVP because a
(09:42):
team can stink without you, right, that could happen. It's
what do you do? Most valuable players? Who is raising
their team up the higher level? And there's a huge
argument you can make that what Angel Reese is doing,
her value this year to the fever is a bigger value.
Doesn't mean she's a better player right now than Asia Wilson.
But MVP, Yeah, this is a closer race than you think.
(10:03):
And it's really between these two four it when you
look at what they've both accomplished.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yeah, and I think when we get down to it,
you know, going back to the original point for a second,
is it takes nothing away from what Angel Reese is
as a player. It's talking about total impact and I
know we can go into some of the plus minus
and what they do when she's on the bench, et cetera.
But you look at what Clark does moving the ball,
(10:31):
forget about that. You know, we talk turnovers and assist
we start getting into fights as to how many should
have been handled versus you know, lazy behind the back
passes like she had today. It's like, you're not helping
your stat line, Caitlin, you know. And then the announcers
even go, well, you're up this bit, you can screw around.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
She's feeling it, man, She's throwing those behind the back
passes and she said, well and look, and I think
that's probably why the sky got frustrated. You saw some
really hard foul against her in the final seven admitutes.
Did Deshields get the code red from Witherspoon, I don't know.
Three fouls in a row from Diamond Deshields, two on
Caitlyn Clark on inbounds plays and then the bad one
(11:13):
that she got a flagrant on when she just ran
tried to run her over in the middle of the
floor after a turnover. They turned into a flagrant like
that was a great At that point, it's like, okay,
you know what, it's time for you to leave the game. Yes,
it's yeah, You've got a great game. And now you're
throwing behind the back passes up twenty five, which I'm
sure is not playing well for Chicago. And I get it.
(11:33):
I completely understand your show won't like that up twenty
points in our house. Really you're so I get it.
That's an on the floor thing, and this is Chicago
being pissed off at it. But the right thing was done,
the right fouls were called, and Chrissy Signs did a
great job saying, okay, four minutes were up, twenty five, Caitlyn,
come out of the game. Come out of the Game's
time to come out of the game because now it's
just gonna be chippy, and of course she can't resistant.
(11:55):
So she comes off the floor and she's hyping up
the crowd. And you heard the crowd was half Caitlin Clark.
This wasn't everybody booing her. It's at least half Caitlin
Clark people cheering.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah, but it's not that far a drive from Indiana
to uh it's it's it's a nice hop on the
little little freeway and away we go.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
H on the Skyway. But uh yeah, it's again, take
nothing away from what Angel Reese is.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
It's just seems to me there there's the obvious gap
the betting odds are telling you, so you know, making
any other argument right now, it's just uh fighting windmills
and wasting time, so giving it any oxygen uh is foolhardy.
They did play without Kennedy Carter uh today. She was
in protocols so it was unavailable. So you know you've
(12:43):
got that, you know when you try to inform the
matchup itself, but blowout City uh and in the final minutes,
it was just a academic of how quickly does it end?
Angel Reese gets your double double celebrated added to him
in you can't take it out of the the box score.
But you know, you always hang a star on things
(13:04):
like that when it's you know, stat padding in that
in that kind of fashion. But for Caitlyn Clark and
the Fever, after a rough start to the season, we
talked about the schedule, we talked about trying to gel
and coming in as as she was. They're a dangerous
squad right now and they'll make up some ground. Right
The Aces aren't running away with it. They're not even
(13:25):
in first place as it stands right now. So the
potential to make that argument on Asia Wilson is certainly
there if they can finish the season strongly.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Telling you thatd Caitlin Clark, Asia Wilson it's that's the
new conversation. Rookie of the Year is not. And I
don't know whatever you know because I remember because I
started a couple of seconds ago. But I like looking
at the ESPN, going what kind of metric do they
have Angel Reese over Caitlyn Clark and I started to
read what it was, and it was taking this you know,
(13:56):
X seven to three technique and playing it off with
a p F four and I'm going, oh my god,
this is all just made up stuff. I like, what
is like they're trying to say, we have a scientific
situation that that that actually evaluates every single thing a
player does with the basketball to tell you how valuable
they are. I'm like, I don't even knowbody of this
stuff is real, Like what? And of course it's behind
(14:17):
the pay walls. I'm like, I'm not paying for that.
Go on, what are you kidding me? At least tell me, hey,
these are some people who have been watching and are
telling me. Because there's no metric, you could tell me
that Angel Reese, who shoots three for fifteen every night, yes,
pulls down to again phenomenal rebounder. She is such a talent,
She's incredibly popular. But you can't sit here and say, yeah,
(14:37):
they both have about the same impact. No, it's not
the case, it's not the name. I enjoy the hell
out of her, There's no question about it. She's fun
to watch. And they get the Reese's pieces, you get
the Angel Recis pieces.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Yeternay, I was debating getting the jersey, but I thought
the orange was a bit ostentatious.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Or now purple hang ons. I will say that, you
know where did I go to college? Orange is of
very difficult color to pull off. It is it's really hard.
Orange is up. You start looking like I think it
is a tough color, Like I know all the Syracuse
stuff I get. I gotta go. I gotta get it
with the orange accents. Like it took me a long
time to go look at this great orange sweatshirt. Then
(15:15):
I see a picture of it and I'm like, oh
my god, all I can see is me that's orange
sweat You forget you wear this thing? Oh so now
I gotta get the blue with the orange accents, because
that's really what does it?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
You know, just slippers? Otherwise you look like I know
the orange it is and it's just it's a bad move.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
It is a tough color. It really well, but I
mean it keeps you honest.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
You know, when you go back to the trough, I
think because orange is not the is not the color.
I'm not saying for you, I'm just saying in general,
that's a tough one.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
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we had to get to in college football in a second,
but big goings on right now. Dodgers and the Diamondbacks.
Dodgers leading this game of the Diamondbacks now five to
two in the second inning. That's the good news for
the Dodgers. However, Clayton Kershaw gave up a leadoff homer
in the second inning to Corbyn Carroll, and I've just
(18:31):
watched him promptly walk off the mound with a trainer
and go right to the locker room. I don't know
what it was, but he gives up a home run
and that's it. Like you see him. He gives up
the shot, he bends down, he gets up, and he
walks off, his teammates patting him on the back as
he enters into the locker room. And that is not
(18:53):
a great sign at all for a guy who. Look
the Dodgers were counting on at this point, right, you're
looking at a at the postseason for LA and they
don't have a lot of problems, no, but starting pitching
is one of them. And you're thinking, okay, well, if
we can cobble together Jack Flaherty, who we really like
so far, how tough he is and what he brings
the team. He's kind of like a Walker Bueller type.
(19:16):
And we you know, we get the the right I'd
say the right Tyler glassnew that we've gotten that we've
seen for parts of the season, and then Kershaw would
be the third guy. And now you have no idea.
I'm watching the replays of it right now, and it
was just a curve that got over the fat part
of the plate, Kershaw watches it go and he just
(19:37):
walks off the mound like there was no He gets
the ball back and he looks and he's saying, Okay,
I don't know what's happening right now. You can see
that there's something going on. The umpire goes out to
check him, and he comes out of the game after
staring up at the scoreboard for a couple of minutes,
and that was the game. As soon as he gave
(19:59):
up the home run and got the ball back from
the from the home plate umpire, everybody was on the mound,
form the infielders were there, Dave Roberts was out there.
Kershaw hands the ball off with no problem whatsoever, and
he walks off into the locker room. Again, no idea
what it is. But he wasn't grabbing his back, he
wasn't grabbing his arm, he didn't look like it didn't
(20:20):
look like he was in any kind of visible distress.
But he just comes right out of the game. And
we'll have an update for you as soon as we can.
But that's certainly a huge, huge deal right now for
the Dodgers and any plans they have rest of the
season in playoffs.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Well, because as you mentioned, I mean the expectation of
Glass now that he was going to be back. Now
there's just a giant question mark with him. You've got Yamamoto,
you just got a decent starts and I use those
in quotes right from Buehler and then and then Bobby
Miller came up yesterday and here Kershaw gives up the
(20:57):
home run and immediately out, So I mean immediately you know,
the conspiracy theorists are all out there in the social
media sphere, so no.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Idea what to make of any of that.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
You know, the he's leaving because he's embarrassed is seemingly
trending at the moment. I just hope he's all right, man.
You know, the look up to the sky and Roberts
quickly out and Kelly in. You know, it's we've watched
this guy from day one, going back to two thousand
and eight, two thousand and nine, and now here we
(21:32):
are at this point in his career in a huge
series for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
And you know, it's kind of fun, it's weird, and
again it looks like it's something health wise the way
they take him out right out of the way. But
this is like you know. And I don't know why
I have this. I have this vision back to and
again I have nothing on it. I'm just telling you what,
what visibly this reminded me of watching him go off
the field is I remember Mike Schmidt when he was
(21:58):
playing for the Phillies and it looked like he was
gonna keep playing a few more years when he did
like he's gonna hit a bunch more home runs. Like
hitting the ball, Mike Schmidt hadn't really slowed down like
one of the best third basemen in the history of
the game. And and and for me, He's got one
of the top three swings that I've ever seen in
my entire life, the way he would swing down on
the ball and the power he got off his hips.
(22:19):
Like Mike Schmidt was legit right like he was you know,
he in he was thirty nine and he was still
having a good year, uh you know, for the Phillies,
and he had a he had a weekend series where
he made like three errors in a over the course
of this series, like three or four errors, and he
retired the next week. He said that's it, I'm done,
(22:39):
and I'm done. It was like, whoa, He's just retiring.
Just he's retired. He's got five hundred and forty eight
home runs. He's just retiring. He's two years removed from
thirty five and one thirteen. He's just retiring. And that
was it. Like he knew, he said, he knew, I'm done.
And like I'm watching Kershaw walk off the mountain. I'm
like it looks like he's saying like like like, I like,
is he done? Like like to walk off like that
(23:01):
is like is he is? He? Is? He? Like That's
kind of what it brought. And again, I don't know
anything about it. I'm just telling you what it looked
like to me on on on the television, like him
walking off, like is this is? How much frustration is this?
You know? Again, it didn't look like he was in pain.
His curveball had a lot of movement on it. Corbyn
Carroll is able to go down and just get it.
Like look that's where Corbyn Carrol hits. He likes the
(23:22):
ball low and inside. You see him get a lot
of he Look, he just hit a home run off Diaz'
slider that he got low on inside the other night
to win the game for the Diamondbacks. Got in a
sweet spot. But there was a lot of movement on it.
But walking off, it's like he doesn't like he's in pain.
He's not helped off with trainers. He's not like what
is that. I mean, it's the middle of the game.
(23:42):
I know it's three runs and two winnings, but the
Dodger's still winning, you know, he's still up, Like what
is going on? Like this is just a bizarre moment
that we've seen right now with him. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Jack Harris the La Times reported that the curveball was
sixty seven miles an hour.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Who wow? Really that really? Yeah? They saw goodness?
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Only three slower curveballs ever recorded, uh in his career.
But wow, to your point, right as as he goes
through his emotion and turns to watch the ball, like
there's no holding of his arm, there's no obvious I
mean obvious discomfort. So if if you know, whatever, he
(24:28):
I guess hit it well before the training you know,
trainer and Dave Roberts and everybody came out.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
But it's certainly uh.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
For Dodger fans, you know, for baseball we you know,
we talk about you know, would be, should be, will
be Hall of Famers and when guys get hurt, we
we lose a little bit of our game, right, That's
why we lament every time Mike Trout goes down or
Stanton or one of those guys has to leave the lineup.
And for Kershaw, everybody had hoped that, all right, we
can get one last run with him and whether he
(24:58):
goes off into retur Ironman or whatever, that it would
finish with. However, October panned out. But now we're finishing
August and we're having those same questions again.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
You know, what, what did I What did I say
before he came back this year? The over under for
the number of starts Clayton Kershaw has in the rest
of his career, and I said fifteen, And it was
is are you gonna take over that? I'm like, I
gotta take under. Who knows what he's gonna come back
for this year after this, But I don't know. I
don't know that we're gonna see him. If I put
(25:31):
the number at thirty, I would say I'll forget it.
There's no way, like fifteen is where I'm like, all right,
maybe maybe you got a handful of starts this year,
but like, I don't know, it's just gonna be the
last one, Like, I have no like he just looked,
he looked. The countenance he had walking off was one
of those I'm pissed. I'm thinking about a lot of
things and I can't I don't know what just happened
(25:55):
like that, like that, you know, snapping off a curve
at sixty seven miles an hour. I mean, I don't know.
I don't know what you're thinking at that point. And
especially if there's no pain, right like if my curve
is going at sixty seven miles an hour and that's
as good as I can throw it, I mean, how
much more? What else are we gonna do? I really,
I don't know. I'm waiting to see what to say.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Dug out, you know who that walk from the mound
to there seemed like it lasted, you know, five minutes.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Yeah, very slow head down and.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Uh to your point, the countenance, like he doesn't say
anything to anybody getting into the dugout, just walk straight
down to the tunnel.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Wow. Uh So again, we'll have more on this story
coming up in a bit, and right now, let's find
out what's trending in the wide world of sports with
special delivery. Steve to sagare s D what do you
got for us?
Speaker 5 (26:44):
So it is a Dodger lead in the bottom of
the second inning at Arizona five to three, and keep
in mind the context of it. This starts a four
game series and the Dodgers lead over Arizona in the
NL West is four games. The Padres were five games
out to start the night. San Diego has won one
thirteen to five. At Tampa Bay. The Padres led seven
to nothing in the second inning of that one, Manny
(27:05):
Machado a three run homer. You mentioned the miles per
hour for Kershaw, who did not look good in the
first inning and got bailed out by a double play.
To get out of the first he threw two pitches,
the second of which was the Corbyn Carrol homer to
lead off the second inning. In his heyday, which was
many years for Kershaw, the fastball would be ninety three
miles an hour and the curve ball at seventy three.
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Here second inning, he threw one fastball eighty seven miles
an hour and then a curve sixty seven miles an
hour for the home run. Remember he missed the first
half of this season after the major shoulder surgery finally
in Houston with a run in the ninth. Hosel twove
the game winning double three tooth strows over Kansas City
from Ravaldez, the starting pitcher, seven hitless innings and three
(27:52):
walks allowed, but he got pulled as he had thrown
ninety eight pitches. Valdez does not get a decision in
this game. Goosh Hater had given up two runs top
of the ninth and gets credit for the win as
Houston scores in the bottom of the ninth. The bad
news for Kansas City before this game, Royal's first baseman,
Vinnie Pasquentina, who has ninety seven RBIs is out for
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the year, broken thumb the problem. Yankees beat Saint Louis
six to three. Aaron Judge went over four with three strikeouts.
Atlanta got to win at Philadelphia seven to two for
the Phillies. Third baseman Alec Baum was out tonight with
a hand injury. Bryce Harper is playing through elbow and
wrist injuries and did have three hits in the loss.
Milwaukee swept a double header at Cincinnati. In fact, Game
(28:34):
two final was fourteen nothing Brewers who scored ten runs
in the ninth. The A's are winning seven to two
in the ninth at Texas. The Mets have a ninth
inning lead at the White Sox four to one. Yeah,
if the White Sox lose this one, the record will
be thirty one and one oh five and we still
have another game in August tomorrow before we turn the
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page on the calendar. Twins are shutting out the Blue
Jays in the ninth two to nothing, and the Orioles
VY two lead at the Rockies top of the eighth inning.
The Oriols, the second place team in the Alias, trying
to stay at game and a half back of the Yankees.
Mariners lead seven too at the Angels in the fourth.
Giants Marlins scoreless in the second well. Last night we
(29:14):
had Carlos Alcarez upset in a second round match at
the US Open. Tonight, we have two seed Novak Djokovic
trailing two sets to none in his third rounder at
the US Open against Alexei Poperin of Australia, who won
the first couple sets six to four six ' four.
Djokovic is leading four to two in the third set,
trying to stay alive. To college football, Michigan State does
(29:37):
win at home sixteen to ten over Florida Atlantic Army
and Duke with home wins and sixteenth ranked Oklahoma as well.
Sooners beat Temple fifty one to three halftime in the
game on FS one, It's Wisconsin at home leading ten
to seven over Western Michigan. About to start TCU at Stanford.
Stanford with the ACC logo on its field because of
(29:59):
course there a team on the West Coast. Scottie Scheffler
leads the PGA's Tour Championship by four strokes and Ravens
tight and Mark Andrews return to practice he had missed
over two weeks after a car accident.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Back to you, Thank you, Stevo The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Carmen live from the tyrac
dot com staters. I mean, I can't, I can't shake.
I just can't shake the thought in my head that
did we just watch Clayton Kershaw walk off the mound
for the last time. I don't know, I just can't
shake that, because you know how much it was f
him come back, continue to come back, injured, come back,
and if he's just out of gas and he can't,
(30:32):
I mean, I hope it's not that obviously, because look,
the guy's the best left handed pitcher that I've seen.
Him and Randy Johnson have been the two best, and honestly,
Clayton Kershaw is more dominant. But it's weird that I
just can't shake that the way he walked off. Certain
certain visuals sometimes hit me in sports, and I think,
WHOA this is. This is a bigger deal than what
(30:53):
it seems to be. And I just can't shake that
right now and again, not heard anything do anything about this.
This is Clayton Kershaw. This is just me see it
on television and seeing the way he walked off, I
just keep saying, is that the last time we see
him walk off the mountain? Like? Is that gonna be?
Is that gonna Is that gonna be? Video we see
all weekend and for the rest of his career, whenever
there's a retrospective that here he is walking off. I
(31:13):
can't believe he wants to make this last pitch be
a home run to Corbyn Carroll. But like, I don't know, man,
I'm watching that going I'm stunned, you know I And
again I think back to Mike Schmidt, and I also
think back to Ron Darling. Right two of the big
things that when I see guys at the end of
their career. And I remember Ron Darling when I interviewed
(31:34):
him once, and he's a great interview. I mean, look,
the guy's you know, he's my guy, right Mett's booth. Right,
Darling is great. My favorite when he says, you know anything,
major League Baseball is run by those jabbronis that run
the NFL. I think that was my favorite Rod Darling life.
But I remember interviewing him and we were talking about
somebody who was retiring, and I forget who it was,
and I said, hey, you know retired. You know this
(31:56):
guy retiring. I go, you know, how did you know
when it was time to retire? And he said to me,
you know what, I didn't think about this until you
know what happened. But no one I didn't know when
it was time to retire. The hitters told me it
was time to retire. Sure like when I knew when
I you know, and I can't get anybody else I
could have. The hitters are telling me, that's new talk.
That's when you knew it was time to retire. The
hitters are telling me it is time to retire. And
(32:18):
it's been a very rough comeback for Clayton Kershaw over
the last few weeks. Uh, you know, trying to return
from injury, hoping to be a big boost to the Dodgers.
They're playing their playoff hopes and and it has been
an effort just to get him out of the first
couple of innings. I mean, this, this has not been
at all what you expected. This is Kershaw who's been
coming back from his injury and had a long time off, right, Like,
(32:40):
it's not you know, Kurt Sally. He's been in and
out of the lineup, Like he didn't start pitching until
the end of July. And you know, he had a
couple of he had a couple of outings where he
went five and six innings five innings is last time,
but he gave up five runs. It's not been great, uh,
you know for him, and he holds himself to such
a high standard. Uh, this I don't man, I don't know. Again,
(33:01):
I'm hoping, I'm hoping it's something different. I'm hoping it's not.
I just these are just things that hit my head
as I'm watching what's going on.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Yeah, you're always you know, hopefully you know, the precautionary,
did feel right, didn't have this you know, obviously had
the movement on the curve ball, because the ball that
Carol hit certainly moved, but you know, down six miles
per hour on average. You know, as Steve laid out
in his update, you know, he'd had those three good
(33:28):
starts in a row. Not great against Philly four and
two thirds, five hits allout but only a single run.
Then Milwaukee they get a win. He goes five and
two thirds, just three hits, a couple of walks, only
one are in run, had a great start against Saint Louis,
and that's where you know, on the eighteenth Sunday afternoon tilt,
everybody's looking around, going all right, Clayton's rounding into form.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
This is good.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
And then he gets beat up a bit in that
five inning stint against Tampa here on even in the
first and gives up the homer to Carroll and walks
out like you know, it's the You'd love to have
been the fly on the wall to a degree, uh,
to know exactly what was said in that half a frame.
You know, was he meeting with Dave Roberts or the trainers?
(34:13):
H did he know something was up and to make
them aware, Hey, I mean because I obviously we're doing
the show. So it's not like I saw, hey, you
know there's someone up and moving in the pen or
any of that stuff to alert that that there was
something wrong.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
So it's well, here's the thing is Number one, you
see that Roberts and the infield are on their way
out to him before Carol even crosses the plate. Sure
like they're already out there. The lights are still going on,
they celebrating Corbyn Carroll's home run, and they're already out
on the field. And I'm seeing some reports, but potentially
the bullpen was already up, like Joe Kelly might have
(34:50):
already been up and warming up because of what was
going on with Kershaw. So this could be something that
a maybe they knew about it. You're going back out
there for any I don't know, but clearly this is
something that the Dodgers saw, and then going into the
second inning, something they were aware of. I mean, he's rounding,
he's rounding second base, and and Dave Roberts is already
(35:11):
onto the infield grass going up to Kershaw to get
the ball from him.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Yeah, just new new information coming as we're sitting here
uh and and trying to make sense of this one
again that long walk for for Clayton Kershaw to the dugout.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
And hoping for the best.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Right we we want to see Pennant chases at their
best with with teams as armed as they can be
and the Dodgers already uh payper thin at the starting
pitching position. Really a rough run here for the final month?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
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We'll have more on this story as it develops. Third inning,
Dodgers leading the Diamondbacks by the score of five to three,
but coming up next, Ah, we hit it big our
first upset Special picks of the Week for college football
as Week one hits us an earnest in a few hours.
(36:06):
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Speaker 2 (36:09):
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Speaker 1 (36:20):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon Live from the Tirack dot Com Studios. Now,
Mike and I have our upset special picks in college
football coming your way in a minute. However, we have
an injury update on Clayton Kershaw, who left Tonight's game
after giving up a leadoff homer to Corbyn Carroll in
(36:40):
the second inning. Just walked off the field. Looked like
it was potentially planned. Dave Roberts was out to the
mound before Carol even finished rounding the bases. Special delivery
Steve to Seger has the update right now from the
Update desk with breaking news Steve O.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
In Arizona. The Dodgers say Kershaw tonight left this game
with left big toe pain. Now is a lefty pitcher
that would be pushing off the rubber and the inability
to quite drive toward home, which might therefore explain the
lack of velocity they experienced early in this game. If
true that it's toe pain and nothing else, that's great
news for the Dodgers, and that means no shoulder or
(37:22):
elbow pain such as he's experienced the past year, or
none of that back pain that he's had in multiple years.
Out of a five man rotation, the Dodgers have now
seven injured starting pitchers. That includes Yoshinobu Yamamoto, by the way,
who's on the sixty day il. The current plan for
him after a couple of innings at Triple A this
past week coming back from the triceps injury, throw a
(37:44):
bullpen session on Sunday. Yamamoto's next rehab start Tuesday at
Triple A.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. Yeah. Look, first
pitch of the inning, fastball at eighty seven. Second pitcher
inning a curve ball at sixty seven, So yeah, that
would explain the being able to push off the man. Now,
it's just how serious is this? What is this toe injury?
And when will we see Clayton Kershaw again? So big
(38:09):
thoughts and prayers up for him again. Watching him walk
off was just a really surreal moment. We'll have more
on this as the night unfolds. Probably after the game
we will have some talk on it. Dave Roberts will
speak about it. Maybe we're from Kershaw himself. But right
now it's time to give you our Upset Special picks
for Week one of the college football season. Mike and
(38:30):
I do it every week. We get in the top
twenty five and give you some upset specials and my
first one. I'm gonna kick this off. I'm gonna say
this with kind of a low voice because my wife
is downstairs, but I'm sure she's doing something well, she
can hear me. I'm just gonna say that. She's gonna
know anyway when I talk about it tomorrow. Give me
Fresno State getting twenty two over Michigan. All right, here's why.
(38:53):
Fresno State's not a bad team. But this is the
quintessential Michigan grinding out a safe but not dominant win
because they're gonna run the football a ton. They got
Texas coming up next week. They're gonna want to be
as vanilla as possible. First game in the Charon More
era and the new quarterback, new players in different positions.
(39:14):
This will be one of those games Michigan wins by
a couple of touchdowns, maybe seventeen, but it seems closer
than it is because they don't want to see it.
Put a lot of stuff out there when they play
Texas coming up next weekend. So Michigan wins, but give
me Fresno State getting twenty two. Look at you getting
the big number out of the way.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
I was gonna take not top twenty five, but wanted to,
you know, pick Stanford to win today that Ashton Daniels
and company get it done. Plus seven and a half
for that game that just kicked off. But you know what,
in a rare form, I'm actually gonna take Notre Dame
plus two and a half.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Woo can you do that? I mean, being a Northwestern guy,
you allowed to do that.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Well, I don't know how much of a rivalry it
is because they're not actually.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
They never know, but in the conference yeah, no psychology
right there, I mean they're right there.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
But you know, psychologically it hurts me because I have
a problem with people adopting colleges. It still bothers me
after all these years. If you didn't pay into it
with your blood, sweat, tears and ample thousands of dollars,
I don't know how that works. But you know, here
I'm looking at a number seven ranks squad and yet
they are the underdog by two and a half at
(40:23):
Texas A and M big big ABC, ESPN kind of
showdown to get things started.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
So yeah, psychologically it pains me to do it, but
I will. I'm going to give you USC getting five
against LSU. This is a make or break already for Lincoln.
The honeymoon has been over for Lincoln Riley at USC
for a while. And this is the fact the guy
at the Heisman Trophy winning number one overall pick in
(40:51):
the draft. Things are not good, but Lincoln Riley's teams
usually start out big. USC usually starts out big. We
watch Miller Moss have a big Bowl game last next year,
this is gonna be a lot of points. I like
the over and not in the Michigan State Florida Atlantic
kind of way. No, I like the over, but yeah,
give me USC. They went on the field, but I'll
still take the points.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
How about I go back into the Big ten tickets
as low as one hundred and sixty four dollars at
West Virginia plus eight and a half with Penn State
coming to town, West Virginia returning a lot of offensive
firepower and Penn State while they do the same quarterback
still under center, everything else they do miss a couple
of big defenders who are gone through the NFL Draft.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
Give me West Virginia plus eight a half. So there
it is. There's our upset. Special picks of the weekend
for college football Twitter at how about a fresco Mike
gets swollen down the Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Carmon coming up next. We got big stuff
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