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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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I have a big, hot basketball take coming your way.
But first I gotta say this, Yes, I was one.
I was nervous how I was gonna feel today? Right
because the intensity and anxiety of the baseball playoffs that
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I normally get the first week and and once it starts,
it's just an uptick of it. Doesn't matter if your
team is in it or not. It's so intense. It's
such a great change. I was saying, Okay, do I
want a day off on Friday? Or am I gonna
miss having a game? And I was thinking, wow, am
I gonna feel? And I said, no, no, you know what,
it's gonna be okay with a day not having a game.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I'm gonna be fine.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
We got college football, right, w NBA finals are going on, right,
We're gonna be fine. No, no, no, I wanted a
game tonight. In fact, I wanted three games tonight. I did.
I didn't want a day off at the end. I
wanted I wanted there to be another fun. I wanted
be there be four games, even though the other games
were already decided, Like you know, give the Reds, let
let them have fun and throw out there even though
they were eliminated. Like I wanted more games tonight. It's
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just that this week, the first week just takes over
and it's I don't know, like the change in the
calendar is so different than any other sport, right, Like
you see the intensity like the NFL. Yes, you get
to the playoffs, it's intense, but you know what the
first seventeen weeks are pretty bleeping intense, right the NBA playoffs,
that's a bit of a change to But you know,
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obviously we get into the playoffs and it's rare to
see those big one eight upsets. We get in with
the with the play in rounds where the we play
attention to the teams are only going to be around
for a couple of games and they're going to get eliminated.
But the Baseball playoffs, it comes in and it's I
have no time. I am I completely locked in. I
have no time for anything else.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I've been going here in LA to Dodger playoff game
since the mid nineties. It is, and I mean since then,
a noticeable difference in how intense it is in the
park at these games. And I was there at the
last game and the same thing. It was just a
superb atmosphere from start to finish. And I know Major
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League Baseball is probably tapping itself on the back, say hey,
we did a good job with all these day off.
Before you know, the next round, the best of five
doesn't start till Saturday. Everybody's going to start on Saturday.
Why can't you have two games to and then a
couple others on the crowded Saturday sports schedule. They're probably saying, no, no,
we did a good thing because for the first time
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in the young life of these best of three Wildcards series,
we had three of the four actually needed a game
three this week. Extra time off the guys. Okay, as
far as the sports schedule goes, they could have used
a couple of games today.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah. Oh well, i'm i'm, I'm one of the things.
Baseball should play in the playoffs only on these days.
They should play Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday. Right, take those
big days off, you know, because look, honestly, I don't
mind taking days off in between games if it's resetting
you and letting you put out your best pitcher. I'd
like to see Tarik's school will pitch three times in
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a series or twice if I find need to. And
plus you have the NFL on the calendar the rest
of the days. Okay, they got Sunday, they got Monday,
they got Thursday.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Saturday is college football.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
You can play baseball at the end of the day
Saturday into Saturday night. That's absolutely fine, Like those are
the days they should play, right, don't compete with the
NFL the other days, but play those days every Tuesday, Wednesday,
and then Friday Saturday. Take two days and you start again,
and you still finish the series in about the same
amount of time. I don't mind the length of the
baseball playoffs because it's awesome. It's just like a thrill
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ride for an entire month. But like that, that would
be the perfect schedule for me baseball wise, to say, okay,
because then every single night of the sports calendar in
October is insane, because then, okay, let's throw win the
beginning of the NHL season coming up in a few days. No,
by the way, let's throw in the beginning of the
basketball season coming up in a couple of weeks. Like
I needed that NXT game yesterday in Abu Dhabi, Like
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I needed that preseason next game to get me away
from the Mets and everything I needed that I need.
But October this time is such a great moment, Like
don't don't miss a chance and try to get out
there every time you can, because boy, I'd love for
there to be two or three games that night here
in baseball.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
And as your reference, the NBA preseason did start with
the Yabu Dhabi game Thursday, those two Nicks had beaten Philadelphia.
Those two will play again on Saturday. But I will say,
as far as the Saturday college football schedule tomorrow, they
didn't give us a whole lot of boy I got
to see this one type of matchups at least daytime Saturday.
And so yeah, again, baseball lucks out because the Cubs
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open are at Milwaukee. And for those who are unaware,
yes they're in separate state. But the Cubs in Milwaukee
ballparks are closer than San Diego in LA. It's less
than one hundred miles. This is going to be a
great best of five rivalry and the Brewers are the
top overall seed this postseason. That's two pm Eastern time
for Game one on Saturday in Milwaukee, and it's a
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day game for Yankees at Toronto on Fox TV. That's
four pm Eastern time. What are you going to be
watching at four pm Eastern Yankees at Toronto or Penn
State at UCLA college football? Because those are your national
TV options?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Steve, Yeah, you stderbuilt.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I don't want to slight Vanderbilt.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I mean, are you sure UCLA is still going to
be on television. Are you sure that's still time?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
That's amazing at the scroll that it's only a twenty
four point favorite from Benstan.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Have you seen Ucla?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I can't believe they still have a football program, Like
I thought they would have gotten rid of it after
you know, it's just football is just not working here anymore.
It hasn't worked since cad mcdown. Gonna we're going to
back away from it. We don't need football. We're a
basketball I.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Can remember just a few short years after cade mcdown
when UCLA football beat Alabama and Michigan in the same month.
I can remember seeing multiple times Ucla beating Texas. Those
years seem like so far ago compared to I mean,
college football has passed UCLA by I mean as a
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as a campus, as an athletic department.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Now, I do want to say this before I get
into the big basketball hot take, speaking of the baseball playoffs,
right like, okay, I'm yeah, look, I'm past the Mets
getting knocked out like they fired all their coaches today.
Oh great, Now we're gonna win one hundred almost literally
all of them. Yeah. The only one, Carlos Mendoza, the
only one left. He's like the.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Final space coach might be still he's like.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
The final girl at the end of a horror movie.
I'm the only one left. I was here with everybody.
I'm the only one left now. But my wife and
I are having lunch today and sitting next to us,
is you know, because every third person in LA is
wearing Dodger gear. Right, That's how it is all year round. Right,
you do this, you think, oh, who's the big team
in LA? You know with the Lakers. No, LA is
a Dodger town. It is a baseball town. Guy next
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to me and the Dodger hat and he's and he's
having lunch with one of his friends and they're just
talking about the game and my wife and I'm just
sitting there having lunch, ont say anything. And one guy says, yeah, no,
I got tickets for uh, I got tickets for game two.
And they're like, oh, oh really, he goes, I got
tickets for the second game in LA And they're like,
oh really, go yeah, it goes yeah. Well that was
the best part, is it? Like all these Mets fans
had tickets and and like they were all coming and
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then they just dumped them, right, because you know, they
didn't make the playoffs, so I got my tickets for
like face value from this Mets fan. It was awesome.
I'm going I want to leave right now. Check check?
Can I leave?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
I just say I looked up these things for the
Dodgers Red Series this past week. Face value in the
top row at the top deck was about ninety dollars,
but after the Dodgers scored I think it was ten
in the first game, it came below face value. For
game number two, the clincher of the best of three,
it's about one hundred and thirty one hundred four, one
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hundred and forty dollars for the similar seats for when
the Phillies are going to be in LA on Wednesday,
and by the way, that's another six pm Pacific, nine
Eastern start. The thing is, if there's still a game
four needed in this best of five Phillies at Dodgers
coming up, they could be moving it to three in
the afternoon in LA on Thursday, and then fans, you
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might get some deals on ticket.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, I think so. I definitely noticed last year during
the NLCS when they played Game one was a Monday
at one o'clock, and then Game six, the two guy
out went to Game one. In Game six, I got
to see the Mets losing the Dodgers celebrate Game one.
Tons of Mets fans right during the day one o'clock
is apparently Mets fans. None of us work, So tons
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of Mets fans a game one, Game six not even
close to its many Mets fans, not even close. I
was like, oh, okay, game six at night on the weekend. Okay, yeah,
that was that was That was much better attended.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
But Major League Baseball Jason has already announced today that
once we get to Game four of Phillies at Dodgers,
the latest it will start in LA is seven eastern
four o'clock in Los Angeles. It's either at three or four.
This is assuming the Phillies don't sweep the thing. You know,
there's not a game on Thursday.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Wow, you, I can't believe you.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Frostburger is going to key your car for saying the
Phillies are going to sweep the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I can't believe I believe the word if was it?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
You're not even supposed to say. If I believe you said.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I'm at a news desk.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
If if the series is still going the latest start
is at three or four. Can I just mention that
when the Dodgers were in the last decade, had a
for a I think it was divisional round, best of five,
also against the Washington Nationals, and they found out literally
the before that it was going to be a noon
start because of television, and then the market was flooded
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with people selling off tickets. I got in to see
Kershaw pitch and pitch well in a day game against
Washington for twenty five bucks. Wow series because people were
dumping them less and right. Because literally it was less
than twenty four hours. Major League Baseball said, hey, you
know that game that people thought.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Was going to be Yeah, no, it's it's noon.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Sorry.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
They haven't done that since, by the way.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Jason Smith, Steve desag're here on Fox Sports Radio. Now
the big game of the night coming down to it
right now, Game one of the WNBA Finals. Las Vegas
leads Phoenix eighty seven eighty six. Alyssa Thomas has just
missed two free throws that would have given them the
lead with twenty seconds left to go. So now Las
Vegas has the ball and the lead with about seventeen
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seconds left. Now will continue to give you updated on
this game. But the big story before this game Kathy Engelbert,
the much maligned w NBA commissioner.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Oh did she speak really?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yeah, she spoke and said she has to do better.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Right, All this week you saw the FISA Colliers remarks,
a four minute speech that changed, Yeah, that changed the
course of the league, saying how bad their leadership is,
how bad Kathy Engelbert is. How she basically told Caitlin
Clark she's lucky to be in the league. How the
rest of the players should be thanking her, thanking Kathy
Engelbert for the media rights deal they got. And so
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many players came out in support of the FISA Collier.
They want Engelbert out and eventually it's going to have
to come to the NBA saying, Okay, Kathy Engelbert is
out because the NBA owning a part like that's how
it's going to go. So she speaks today and says
I have to do better, but denied the Caitlin Clark
remarked that, hey, Caitlyn should be lucky that she's in
the league, and all the jiff yes, because the players
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are upset about about the the CBA coming up. They
want a bigger pie out, they want better officiator's.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
No guarantee, there's WNBA opening night, next center.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
No, they want all of these things. They don't trust
Kathy Engelbert. They don't they don't love, they don't like
the officiating. That's number one. That needs to be something else.
And at least Kathy Engelbert said, hey, we need we're
gonna do better with the officiating. But it's clear that
she is circling the drain and the players who have
a lot of power are completely unhappy and they want
her out. And you need someone to come in that's
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going to be able to wear so many hats, right,
because here's the players. Kathy Engelbert's you know, when you
come from a CEO background, you come in the players
there's no belief in her. She's not because you didn't
come up through the league, she didn't play. But the
owners like her because okay, she's she's a CEO, she
knows business.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
But this is a really.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Big time in the league for for having the right
leadership to get you from where the league was to
where the league is now, which is a big piece
of the pie. It's a big that's part of the
national conversation every single day. And I'm gonna tell you this.
You know who the w NBA needs to be their
commissioner because he can he can service every single need
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that the that the WNBA needs, that the NBA needs,
and owning the league and the players and the owners.
Magic Johnson. Magic, who has been a WNBA supporter and
owner for a long time. Now, He's someone that comes
in with the cachet of being a star player that
the players believe in. He will have great relationships with
the players. Being an owner, now, he'd have to give
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up his ownership of the spot. But you know, hey, Magic,
I think Magic will do okay, I think money wise, Magic,
I think will be all right in the deal.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Right, okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
But but the w needs him. He would come in.
He would have a great relationship with the owners because
he already knows them. He'd be able to push the
business because you see how many bats he wears in
business all across the last twenty five thirty years of
his life. Magic Johnson's the guy that can wear all
the hats and he can get the WNBA to that level.
He would have the trust of everybody involved and I
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think that's a home run higher And I think if
they came to one asked them, Magic would say, you
need me, I could do it right. He would still
have time to go on his yacht and go away
and do all the Magic Johnson things right. But this
is what it is now. You know, when a big
star like Magic but the WNBA Magic Johnson for commissioner.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I'd sign up for that one hundred percent, and.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
I'm sure the players would because it's the former player.
As you were talking about one thing, as you mentioned
the CEO background, and we can update the last shot missed.
Phoenix loses by three at Las Vegas eighty nine, eighty.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Six Final Game Exhibition.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Is Angelberg came off sounding like a CEO because let's
speak generally and truthfully about too many ceo and too
many businesses in this country. Is they treat the employees
like they're unbelievably replaceable.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Magic Johnson WNBA commissioner. I'm putting it out there, I'm
making it happen.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Just imagine the tweets.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Oh my god, oh my god, the tweets would be epic.
We could play the Magic Johnson Twitter game every night,
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big games this weekend. One huge quarterback decision, actually two
huge quarterback decisions have been made going into a big
Sunday Week five. That's next right here, Jason Smith, Steve
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football Friday, which we get to coming up in a second.
But Steve, I know, as you mentioned before, doing the
news desk the same time as co host of the show,
so you can say things like if the Dodgers get
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sweat and Justin Frostburg's not going to fight you.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
If you were a Phillies fan and you saw the
Dodger bullpen for the last month, would you have a
little confidence about the next week.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
You are foaming at the mouth to take on this Dodger.
You are just telling, you are just telling everybody. As
many pitches as you can make o Taani and Snell throw,
Let's get five like they keep saying five should be
the mad that she's have five five five the fifth inning.
We want to be into the Dodger bullpen led that
bullpen by the fifth inning, and we are we are loaded.
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We are loaded. Now I do have something, Hey, okay,
the Dodger bullpen is clearly the X factor of this playoff.
Coming up in about a half hour, we're gonna get
deeper into the Baseball playoffs and the big, the big
controversy with the Yankees and the Blue Jays going on today.
I do have something I tell you about the Dodgers
that every team is like, yeah, we don't have that
win the World Series. But clear well the bullpen man,
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They'll telling you Frostburg, the bullpen is going to have
a thing.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
There has something to say about it. Well they're not.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Don't think they're not. Oh no, you will, you will
count us, you will listen to us. But they didn't
find the closer the last game they did. Oh and
think about the desperation just for a second. That rookie
Sasaki has pitched a grand total of three innings since
coming off the injured list right two games at the
end of the regular season where he had holds and
he looked great. Rokie Sosaki, It's it easyess, I'd make
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that decision if I was Dave Roberts. And he's throwing great,
his stuff is moving, He's thrown one hundred miles an hour.
He comes in in the ninth inning, and now it's
a four run lead. You're supposed to close out four
run leads, even if you're the worst pitcher on the staff.
But just the electricity he brought to the team and
brings to the ninth inning, they have absolutely found their closer.
And just think about that. The guy has pitched three
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innings since coming back from injury four months ago, and
he's a starting pitcher, and it's so bad that all
of a sudden, guess what, you're the closer. You congratulated
you're the closer. Rokie, good, look, go get him.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Do you remember the World Series in twenty twenty where
Ken Lee Janssen blew a thriller of a game against
Tampa Bay and who up getting the final out of
the World Series. The closer was Julio Arius. They just
go to whoever getting out last year was Walker Buehler.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, Arius was the guy all the way through the play.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I want to say he closed out the NLCS too,
like all of a sudden, this is the guy on
the mound and he's closing things out for the Dodgers.
But I mean it's like you Taugh, you know, I
always go back to Starship Troopers, that nineties movie Casper
Van Deen was it.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
You always go back to that.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Well, I go back to when I think about this,
when I think of people getting a gig that like wow,
like do they really deserve it? Like Casper van Dien
starts in that like it's a starship TREWI, this is
a great movie. It's this it's this huge science fiction
move where all these aliens have invaded the Earth, and
the Earth we're losing and we try to find a
way to beat them. And like he starts off the
movie as this lowly private like just trying to get
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into the army, and an hour and a half later
he's like the General. So it's like wow, man, an
hour and a half he went from I'm just getting
in the army now in the General Like that's like
Roki Sasaki, Hey, I'm just coming off the injured list.
Who knows what I could do if I could give
you any That's awesome. Oh well, now I'm the closer
three innings later. Hey, I'm the c I'm closing games
for the Dogs.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
You must have been great at Arizona in that practice.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Man, Hey, he's a simulated closer. Make him the real
closer now that he's back.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Well, and I will say, Blake trin and had back
to back nights of getting outs and a little confidence
for all concerns. So that's two out of the How
many relievers do you get out? Fifty two for every
postseason roster? So that's two they can count on.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
So now, now being at the news desk, okay, I
want to ask you this. Now the Lakers preseason opener
is happening right now, DeAndre Ayton getting his first look
as a Laker. No Luca, no Lebron. Though they are
at the game, can you tell me what live streams
Lebron James may or may not have done today, But
even Budd's sitting out, like what took his attention away
from being able to play in this game?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Let's see a child of now.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
His attention is always taken away, just feeling the blank, Like.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I love how awkward this is already with Lebron and
the Lakers, Like, you know, hey, he's got a glute problem.
He's got to sit out the first game. No, I'm
doing I'm dancing, I'm on a live stream. I'm feeling good.
I'm taking jumpers. Yeah no, but I need to say
I can't come to practice because I'm injured. Like it's
already so awkward with him and the Lakers, and it's
just going to keep getting more and more awkward as
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the season goes on. Like this is awesome, Like I
love the fact that here we are game one of
the preseason already. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Lebron and the Lakers. Yeah,
this is going to be a soap opera all the
way through the year.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
You failed to mention, no Marcus Smart, who of course
has had no soap opera moments and isn't zero fast
zero career.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yeah zero zero, No, not at all. He's been well.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Marcus Smart kind of looks like Tim Duncan compared to Lebron,
So I mean there.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Is there is that well, I mean, Lebron's had the
spotlight since he was sweat sixteen realistically, naturally I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
So there, it's a little bit of a difference.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
So again, opening night Lakers preseason action taking on the
Suns right now, kaa.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
At an arena and near Palm Springs. By the way,
do you recall when the Lakers played against Steve Nash
and the Suns years ago in an exhibition in Palm
Springs at the Tennis stadium where the annual Big Spring
Tennis tournament is held there. They had an outdoor basketball
game in Palm Springs.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Oh right, yeah, it was an Indian wells right yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Then they realized at some point in the game, you know,
we're in the desert.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
It gets windy here, Steve Nash can't make a.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Spree pointer because it keeps blowing wide left, like like
a field goal attempt.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Now, the outdoors today.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Outdoor anything at Palm Springs is not a good idea.
There's there's no outdo Like if they could put Palm
Springs in a dome, it would be awesome, it would
be fed. But like anything you walk outside, go oh
my god, it's one hundred and seven degrees. I really
I can't even walk to the to the corner. I can't.
I can't even get out to God, no, you don't
get the newspaper anymore. I can't even go out to
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Uh uh take my dog for a walk. It's so hot. Oh,
now it gets windy.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
It's dusty. It's like Arizona exactly.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Although have you been to the youth baseball fields that
are literally one is just like in design Wrigley Fields,
another just like Fenway, and another just like Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Not only have I been there, I've played games there
and tournaments there. Yes, I played tournaments there. Uh they're
called Field of Dreams. Yeah, it's all these softball fields
that are made there. There's Yankee Stadium, Wrigley Field, and Fenway.
We didn't play at Wriggly We played at Yankee Stadium,
and we played at Fenway. And uh, here's about the weather.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Here's it is.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
So we played and it was it was Oh boy,
it was all the best teams.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
In the cup.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Like we joined, like we we joined to go in
like we played nover thirty tournament, so because everybody was
over thirty. But like we were there watching some of
the games of like this is like the best teams
in the country would show up and play and just
watching them play, it's like, oh my goodness, like every
single ball is just absolutely.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Cracked a bunch of ringers.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yeah, but uh, here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
The games all started at ten o'clock at night because
it was so hot it wasn't safe to play. So
we played two games with a first night, we played
our first game at two am, and then the second
night we played our first game at one thirty, and
then we had to play another game because we won
at three thirty. Wow, we played at one third more.
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And the thing is, I didn't feel tired. It was great.
I'm like, oh my god, this is awesome. But I'm like,
we couldn't play until one thirty in the morning because
the because it's so odd, it's so unsafe to play.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
This is a little like the discussion to do people
even remember when the Cardinals NFL team first moved to Arizona,
the stadium there currently and had not been built yet.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
You know, the.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Fiesta Bowl was still outside. The Cardinals had to start
outside at the Arizona State Stadium at the Tenpee campus
and they were playing and they were in the division
with the Cowboys, so you would have Emmett Smith and
Dallas playing at Arizona in September at one in the
afternoon and it was one hundred and seven degrees and
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there's no shade at that stadium. It was astounding that
they started that way. Exactly what you're talking about. If
even youth softball or over thirty games can say, you
know what, it's better to play at midnight than at
one in the afternoon, I can't imagine that the NFL
tied to TV as it is.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
It took them a long time to move off that.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Hey, those guys are over thirty. They could die if
they play too much in the hot. Whether that put
their games later, make sure they play as late as.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Guys ever been on the field at one o'clock kickoff
in Miami?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Who oh you've been you've been there?
Speaker 8 (25:30):
Yeah, you think what one o seven's hot? This is
what makes that Dolphins longy. This makes that Dolphins lots
of the Patriots just ridiculous. A couple of weeks ago, right,
what do they want like eighty percent of their games
at one o'clock in September.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
I know that Dolphins their games when they play the Jets.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Well, that's that's any time Tampa Bay was ninety degrees
last weekend for the Bucks.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yeah, that's any time of the year, that's any tide
the Jets list by.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
While it's supposed to be about eighty degrees for the
Jets shockingly this weekend.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yeah, yeah, it's yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I mean, look, yeah, well, I'll tell you this, right,
I'll tell you Jets Jets Dallas right, part of the
Football Friday preview. I love the over in this game,
and I love Dallas. The Jets are undisciplined on defense,
and they're unprepared for games, which I don't forget, I love,
so of course everybody knows they're winless. Steve, I'm trying
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to go every box score here. Uh, they're undisciplined and
they're unprepared. I want to love Aaron Glenn, and I
really do. I want to love Aaron Glenn. And it's
weird that a you know, a one to two in
one team facing an zero to four team is one
of the big marquee games of the week. But when
you get Cowboys Jets, it's a thing. I want to
love Aaron Glenn, right, I want to love them, but
clearly this should be the honeymoon period. And and he's
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trying to clean up stuff and clean up bad penalties,
and the Jets are giving games away like this is
stuff that happens at the end when players have tuned
out a coach and they're ready to move on. And
this is what the Jets are trying to do here.
They're not going to clean it up this week. It's
not going to happen. There'll be a lot of playing.
I said, I love the over, I love fields this week.
I love the Jets being able to move the football.
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But it doesn't matter ceedee lamb, no CD lamb. Dallas
is gonna play pitch and catch on Sunday, and it's
going to get worse for the Jets against what is
the easiest schedule in the NFL, which tells you how
bad they are way before it gets better. But the
biggest thing about Dallas that I don't think people are
taking enough attention to right. The Cowboys won two and one, Yes,
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the Cowboys in their situation, and Jerry Jones with a
roster it's been abysmal. He's running abysmally for a long time.
It's a top heavy team that never is deep enough
to win. The only time was deep enough to win
was when he had Dak and Ezekiel Elliott on their
rookie deals and they could put players around them and
they played pretty well. But since then, Jerry Jones loves
giving bad money to the wrong players. But I'm gonna
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tell you this, four weeks into this season, and I
have seen stuff from Dak Prescott that I haven't seen
over the course of his career. In a situation in
which his team trades away their best defensive player, basically
punts on the season. How do you feel about that?
If you're Dak, you know, the longest tenured leader of
the team, quarterback, big money, and all he has done
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is come out and play extremely well. He is still dynamic,
he is smart, he is poised, and he is mature.
He's someone that can take care of business. And and
you know, at you're thirty two in the league, Now
Dak's been in the league. If heres you want to
think that's there, but the Cowboys, it's a really difficult thing.
But I have just seen an overall difference in the
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way he carries himself on the field. Hey, when the
Cowboys are down, we're gonna get the score we need.
We're gonna get we We're gonna do what we need
to on offense to win this game. Ty this get out. Defensively,
they're absolutely awful, right and there's nothing to do about that.
But Dak Prescott has really shown that, Hey, he is
a winning quarterback. And it's weird that he's doing in
a season where the Cowboys are bad and it's probably
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not gonna get any better. But like, if they ever
figure it out, no doubt Dak can win the super Bowl.
There's no doubt like this, Dak Prescott can win the
Super Bowl with weapons, without weapons, with a running game,
without a running game, he still makes enough plays. He
is still dynamic, and he has hit that next level
in leadership and development. Like, I am all in on
Dak being the guy the Cowboys need him and have
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needed him to be. And I've seen so much over
the course of the first four weeks, like, yeah, if
you can ever figure out the rest of it, man boy,
it's gonna be something.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
And it's not just the Jets winless. The Cowboys, let's
be honest, should be winless. They needed all forty points
from Dak in that overtime game a few weeks ago
against the Giants. They were allowing big points to the Giants,
and the Packers got forty against Dallas and Ceedee Lamb
still out this weekend, and Dallas is gonna be missing
at least three offensive line.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
And they'll still crush the Jets.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
And that doesn't matter. They're still gonna put points up.
They'll still score forty on the Jets. You will crush
the jack They will still well, Dak will be I'll
tell you that Dak will be the number one fantasy
quarterback of the week. He'll be the absolute number one
fantasy quarterback of the week. That's how big a week.
Justin fields have a big week too, Like it's gonna
be a lot of offense here. The Jets good will do
what they want to offensively, but Dak's gonna make enough plays.
Cowboys are gonna win this game and he's gonna be
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absolutely lights out.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
That's Dak Prescott.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
And I will add that it's not just about eighty
degrees for the Jets game we're into October, but supposed
to be eighty five excuse me, seventy five to eighty
degrees for the Jets home game for the Eagles, home
game for the Panthers, for the Ravens home game for
the Bengals as well. Loving this good weather we are season.
Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson is out this weekend with a
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hamstring injury, so Cooper Rush will make his first start
for the Ravens, who are one and three. Lamar Jackson
miss practice all week. The team has lost its last
four games played without him. Former Ravens defensive tackle Arthur
Jones from Syracuse died at the age of thirty nine.
He was the older brother of former UFC fighter John
Jones and of Chandler Jones, former Patriots defensive end. Washington
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quarterback Jaden Daniels return Sunday at the Chargers after a
sprain knee, but wide receiver Terry McLaurin is out with
quad injury, as is wide receiver Noah Brown. To college
football and there are quite a few games going on tonight.
On FS one, San Jose State out to a seven
to nothing lead after the first quarter against New Mexico.
West Virginia a BYU just underway. Colorado State at San
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Diego State just getting underway already. Western Kentucky five and
one has won its game at Delaware twenty seven to
twenty four and under seven minutes to go at South Florida,
usf ready to go to four and one, leading forty
seven eighteen against Charlotte WNBA Finals Game one at Las
Vegas to the home team eighty nine eighty six over Phoenix.
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Game two is Sunday afternoon. It's the best of seven
in the finals.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Now.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Asia Wilson twenty one points, ten rebounds. She had five
assists no turnovers as well. In the NBA preseason, New
Orleans won at Melbourne, and there is an NBA preseason
game tonight's at Palm Desert, California. For what it's worth,
Phoenix leading the Lakers twenty eight to fourteen late first quarter.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Let Lakers have not scored in the last eight minutes
of game time.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
Hey, Lebron's checking in with s Luca.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
No, Lebron, No, he's doing a live stream. That's not
check You get smart.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Oh he's out to There is no Luca doncitch in
this game.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Now.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
A couple buckets for Austin Reeves, but the rest of
the Lakers are two for thirteen so far in this
first quarter. Texas Rangers hired Skip Schumacher as manager. He
was an advisor for the team this past season. He
gets a four year contract with Texas. Schumacher was NL
Manager of the Year with the Marlins just two years ago.
Seven other ball clubs have managerial openings this offseason. San
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Francisco and the Angels looking for skippers. Colorado as well,
Atlanta and Washington have openings, so do Minnesota and Baltimore.
Baseball's Divisional series all start on Saturday, including the Yankees
at Toronto on Fox TV four pm Eastern Time. Game
two will be on FS one Sunday afternoon. Blue Jay's
pitcher Kevin Gusman will start Game one against the Yanks
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and pitcher Louise Hill, who was last year's AL Rookie
of the Year. The Yankees. Will Warren will be in
the bullpen. Max Freed will start Game two for New
York on Sunday. The Yankees were number one in the
majors this year in home runs, in RBI, in walks,
and in runs scored, but the matchups against the Blue
Jays the team. The Yankees tied for first in the
AL East and Toronto held the tiebreakers, so Toronto are
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in the top seed in the AL. Toronto did not
have to play in a wild card series this week,
and Toronto has home field advantage throughout the AL playoff.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
Steve, how about the Mets? What time do they play?
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Check's notes not playing back to you the Mets?
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Wait? Five today?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Five?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Five? Five?
Speaker 1 (33:27):
I mean they fired five peoples coaches, they.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Fired five people today. Yes, everybody's out there.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
I think they fired mister Met today and that they're
making all those changes.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
That's what's happening.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
They're downsizing and they're starting with his head.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Exit out.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
But yeah, well sudden, mister metshead next year? Wow? Why
is that like light? Why is that regular? Like a person?
Speaker 8 (33:46):
You know?
Speaker 5 (33:47):
Just ask Little Clinton's secret service about that.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Yeah, we did, we did.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
We didn't have all that's a story. Yeah, yeah, we
didn't have the money this year. We really want to
make sure. So mister Met's gonna be his head's gonna
be a little bit tinier, just a little bit. Uh So,
coming up next, we have the play of the day
coming your way.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
End we get into a big weekend of college football.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
The game of the week in college football isn't the
one you think it is. That's next right here, Jason
Smith Steve Disager in for Mike Harmon. This is Fox
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Speaker 6 (34:15):
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Speaker 1 (34:24):
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Steve de Saga in for Harmon.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Tonight.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Coming up in a minute, we get to a couple
of the games of the week in college football. The
game of the week.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Not the game you think it is.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
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don't get to see the Dodgers play tonight because they
wait for the playoffs to start tomorrow and the Chargers
don't play till Sunday, you're looking for something else to
be the play of the day, and this is it,
And I never said that. Here is Austin Reeves.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
School.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Seventh minute Lake crown until right there and again it's
Reeds going harder that So there it is an Austin
Reeves bucket. Billy Mack already in a playoff mode. That's
why I love that call, like it could be it's
preseason Game one, opening night, Game thirty seven, Game eighty one,
and Billy Mack is just a he's got he's the
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same level. It doesn't it doesn't matter, like every game
is the NBA Finals with Bill McDonald.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Noil McDonald, who has been in the LA area for
his entire life in southern California and became do you
remember when he filled in as Laker play by play
guy and it happened to be in the night of
Kobe's eighty one play game because Schoel Myers was the
Laker announcer back then but was doing foot ball work also,
and this was a Sunday night game and he was away.
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Bill McDonald steps in and does, of course a legendary
night in NBA history, forget Laker history, and of course,
Joe Myers has been.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
In New Orleans for years. Now, let's leave it at that.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Yeah, no, this this was it was the day of
the AFC and NFC championship games like this. Let Laker
Toronto game was like, hey, it's late at night on
this it's the last event of the night.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
On the Lauders were down twenty or something like that,
as I recall, at one point in that game.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Sam Mitchell still was gonna single guard
Kobe Bryant, still gonna throw one guy out. Seventy points doesn't.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Matter one Laker. One Laker had eighty one points in
one game. I'm not sure these Lakers will get eighty
one tonight against No.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
No, no, they're not. They are in the second quarter already.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Yeah, and they have twenty two points. It really so
we brought you like one eleventh of all of their
points tonight so far.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
That's it with the play that.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
So again, more basketball on the way again. You know,
big tonight coming off the WNBA game one of the
finals in Engle Burton. I'm telling you Magic Johnson for
WNBA commissioner. But another big week of college football and
you know, lots of games going on tonight, you know,
I you know, Friday Night has been a big thing
now BYU top twenty five team leads West Virginia right now,
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early in the first quarter. This game just starting, This
game's gonna end it like two in the morning, but
the biggest game of the week. Know, we got Texas Florida, right,
we got Miami Florida State. Yeah, I reckony Clemson and
North Carolina. There's a reason why this is on national
TV tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Think about what is.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
At stake right now for both of these head coaches.
The college football season so far has been about two
head coaches right, not player wise, but head coaching wise
has been about two people. Dabo Sweeney and what could
be the end of an era in Clemson and how
upset he is I'm tired of winning or I'm just
putting that, you know, he's all the things. Era is
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a Clemson era over and Bill Belichick at two and
two now maybe in a one and done type season
at North Carolina. North Carolina didn't go through all of
this crap that they did over the past few months
with Jordan Hudson in the football program to be like this,
to knock teams away from being able to see teams
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to see North Carolina play New England can't get to
see the team play. They did not sign up for
this and a five hundred if not under five hundred.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Well, well, they've only played two real teams and they
got blown out by each of them, so we can
call them two and two, and I guess statistically that's correct.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
But let's be honest.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
They still got to play whatever is left at Syracuse
at the end of this month. So don't be looking
ahead Tar Heels.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
But one of these teams, either Clemson's gonna fall to
one and four or no, And it would be so
incredibly embarrassing for Dabbo to go to one and four
to lose to to Belichick, or Belichick's gonna go to
two and three. And it's does this guy really know
what he's doing, right, Because if they get out of
this one year and it's bad, they're gonna say, Okay,
this didn't really work. The buyout is very low, right,
(39:08):
It's not like it's not like Lincoln Riley or or
anybody else not worried about even Dabo's buyout.
Speaker 8 (39:15):
What.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
No, No, it's a very low buyout like this could be.
I mean from the beginning, I thought this could be
a one and done thing from Belichick if he can't
come in and reinvent college football, which they thought they
were gonna do. This game is gonna go a long
long way for one of these coaches, because look, Dabo's
buyout is big. They got money at Clemson and maybe
that maybe Dabbo's one of those guys. Yeah'm making all
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this money, but I'm not happy. You can see it
starting to get combative at Clemson, like one of these
guys is going to be well on the road to
and more so Belichick, like this being their last year there,
Belichick more than Dabbo. But boy, I don't know, man,
Dabbo goes like like four and seven or four and eight.
Look out, I think they might be able to rub
a couple of nickels together for that buyout for Dabo.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
But you're right about the attention this game. You know,
I'm gonna put my eyeballs on this game. It's a
morning game West Coast time, and there are two other
games in that time slot in the ACC. But if
you look at the list, you can get into Boston
College at pitt for under twenty bucks a ticket. You
can get into Wake Forest at Virginia Tech for twenty
five The cheapest seats at North Carolina for this game
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are seventy North Carolina has to actually show that it
belongs in the conference at this point.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Yeah, this is so interesting a game because of what like,
this is a game for true college football fan to say,
WHOA the Dabo stuff, the Belichick stuff. This has been
driving the bus for most of September into October. How
does this soap opera go? If I can only watch
one game tomorrow outside of Syracuse, this is the game
I'm watching Clemson North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Can't wait, can't wait?
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Exit out about a Fresco Jason Smith Steve de Seger
in for Mike Harmon. Coming up next, we have controversy
on the even the next round of the Major League
Baseball Playoffs, and of course it involves the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
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I have a big, hot basketball take coming your way.
But first I gotta say this, Yes, I was one.
I was nervous how I was gonna feel today? Right
because the intensity and anxiety of the baseball playoffs that
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I normally get the first week and and once it starts,
it's just an uptick of it. Doesn't matter if your
team is in it or not. It's so intense. It's
such a great change. I was saying, Okay, do I
want a day off on Friday? Or am I gonna
miss having a game? And I was thinking, wow, am
I gonna feel? And I said, no, no, you know what,
it's gonna be okay with a day not having a game.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I'm gonna be fine.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
We got college football, right, w NBA finals are going on, right,
We're gonna be fine. No, no, no, I wanted a
game tonight. In fact, I wanted three games tonight. I did.
I didn't want a day off at the end. I
wanted I wanted there to be another fun. I wanted
be there be four games, even though the other games
were already decided, Like you know, give the Reds, let
let them have fun and throw out there even though
they were eliminated. Like I wanted more games tonight. It's
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just that this week, the first week just takes over
and it's I don't know, like the change in the
calendar is so different than any other sport, right, Like
you see the intensity like the NFL. Yes, you get
to the playoffs, it's intense, but you know what the
first seventeen weeks are pretty bleeping intense, right the NBA playoffs,
that's a bit of a change to But you know,
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obviously we get into the playoffs and it's rare to
see those big one eight upsets. We get in with
the with the play in rounds where the we play
attention to the teams are only going to be around
for a couple of games and they're going to get eliminated.
But the Baseball playoffs, it comes in and it's I
have no time. I am I completely locked in. I
have no time for anything else.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I've been going here in LA to Dodger playoff game
since the mid nineties. It is, and I mean since then,
a noticeable difference in how intense it is in the
park at these games. And I was there at the
last game and the same thing. It was just a
superb atmosphere from start to finish. And I know Major
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League Baseball is probably tapping itself on the back, say hey,
we did a good job with all these day off.
Before you know, the next round, the best of five
doesn't start till Saturday. Everybody's going to start on Saturday.
Why can't you have two games to and then a
couple others on the crowded Saturday sports schedule. They're probably saying, no, no,
we did a good thing because for the first time
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in the young life of these best of three Wildcards series,
we had three of the four actually needed a game
three this week. Extra time off the guys. Okay, as
far as the sports schedule goes, they could have used
a couple of games today.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah. Oh well, i'm i'm, I'm one of the things.
Baseball should play in the playoffs only on these days.
They should play Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday. Right, take those
big days off, you know, because look, honestly, I don't
mind taking days off in between games if it's resetting
you and letting you put out your best pitcher. I'd
like to see Tarik's school will pitch three times in
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a series or twice if I find need to. And
plus you have the NFL on the calendar the rest
of the days. Okay, they got Sunday, they got Monday,
they got Thursday.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Saturday is college football.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
You can play baseball at the end of the day
Saturday into Saturday night. That's absolutely fine, Like those are
the days they should play, right, don't compete with the
NFL the other days, but play those days every Tuesday, Wednesday,
and then Friday Saturday. Take two days and you start again,
and you still finish the series in about the same
amount of time. I don't mind the length of the
baseball playoffs because it's awesome. It's just like a thrill
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ride for an entire month. But like that, that would
be the perfect schedule for me baseball wise, to say, okay,
because then every single night of the sports calendar in
October is insane, because then, okay, let's throw win the
beginning of the NHL season coming up in a few days. No,
by the way, let's throw in the beginning of the
basketball season coming up in a couple of weeks. Like
I needed that NXT game yesterday in Abu Dhabi, Like
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I needed that preseason next game to get me away
from the Mets and everything I needed that I need.
But October this time is such a great moment, Like
don't don't miss a chance and try to get out
there every time you can, because boy, I'd love for
there to be two or three games that night here
in baseball.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
And as your reference, the NBA preseason did start with
the Yabu Dhabi game Thursday, those two Nicks had beaten Philadelphia.
Those two will play again on Saturday. But I will say,
as far as the Saturday college football schedule tomorrow, they
didn't give us a whole lot of boy I got
to see this one type of matchups at least daytime Saturday.
And so yeah, again, baseball lucks out because the Cubs
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open are at Milwaukee. And for those who are unaware,
yes they're in separate state. But the Cubs in Milwaukee
ballparks are closer than San Diego in LA. It's less
than one hundred miles. This is going to be a
great best of five rivalry and the Brewers are the
top overall seed this postseason. That's two pm Eastern time
for Game one on Saturday in Milwaukee, and it's a
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day game for Yankees at Toronto on Fox TV. That's
four pm Eastern time. What are you going to be
watching at four pm Eastern Yankees at Toronto or Penn
State at UCLA college football? Because those are your national
TV options?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Steve, Yeah, you stderbuilt.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I don't want to slight Vanderbilt.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I mean, are you sure UCLA is still going to
be on television. Are you sure that's still time?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
That's amazing at the scroll that it's only a twenty
four point favorite from Benstan.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Have you seen Ucla?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I can't believe they still have a football program, Like
I thought they would have gotten rid of it after
you know, it's just football is just not working here anymore.
It hasn't worked since cad mcdown. Gonna we're going to
back away from it. We don't need football. We're a
basketball I.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Can remember just a few short years after cade mcdown
when UCLA football beat Alabama and Michigan in the same month.
I can remember seeing multiple times Ucla beating Texas. Those
years seem like so far ago compared to I mean,
college football has passed UCLA by I mean as a
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as a campus, as an athletic department.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Now, I do want to say this before I get
into the big basketball hot take, speaking of the baseball playoffs,
right like, okay, I'm yeah, look, I'm past the Mets
getting knocked out like they fired all their coaches today.
Oh great, Now we're gonna win one hundred almost literally
all of them. Yeah. The only one, Carlos Mendoza, the
only one left. He's like the.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Final space coach might be still he's like.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
The final girl at the end of a horror movie.
I'm the only one left. I was here with everybody.
I'm the only one left now. But my wife and
I are having lunch today and sitting next to us,
is you know, because every third person in LA is
wearing Dodger gear. Right, That's how it is all year round. Right,
you do this, you think, oh, who's the big team
in LA? You know with the Lakers. No, LA is
a Dodger town. It is a baseball town. Guy next
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to me and the Dodger hat and he's and he's
having lunch with one of his friends and they're just
talking about the game and my wife and I'm just
sitting there having lunch, ont say anything. And one guy says, yeah, no,
I got tickets for uh, I got tickets for game two.
And they're like, oh, oh really, he goes, I got
tickets for the second game in LA And they're like,
oh really, go yeah, it goes yeah. Well that was
the best part, is it? Like all these Mets fans
had tickets and and like they were all coming and
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then they just dumped them, right, because you know, they
didn't make the playoffs, so I got my tickets for
like face value from this Mets fan. It was awesome.
I'm going I want to leave right now. Check check?
Can I leave?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
I just say I looked up these things for the
Dodgers Red Series this past week. Face value in the
top row at the top deck was about ninety dollars,
but after the Dodgers scored I think it was ten
in the first game, it came below face value. For
game number two, the clincher of the best of three,
it's about one hundred and thirty one hundred four, one
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hundred and forty dollars for the similar seats for when
the Phillies are going to be in LA on Wednesday,
and by the way, that's another six pm Pacific, nine
Eastern start. The thing is, if there's still a game
four needed in this best of five Phillies at Dodgers
coming up, they could be moving it to three in
the afternoon in LA on Thursday, and then fans, you
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might get some deals on ticket.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, I think so. I definitely noticed last year during
the NLCS when they played Game one was a Monday
at one o'clock, and then Game six, the two guy
out went to Game one. In Game six, I got
to see the Mets losing the Dodgers celebrate Game one.
Tons of Mets fans right during the day one o'clock
is apparently Mets fans. None of us work, So tons
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of Mets fans a game one, Game six not even
close to its many Mets fans, not even close. I
was like, oh, okay, game six at night on the weekend. Okay, yeah,
that was that was That was much better attended.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
But Major League Baseball Jason has already announced today that
once we get to Game four of Phillies at Dodgers,
the latest it will start in LA is seven eastern
four o'clock in Los Angeles. It's either at three or four.
This is assuming the Phillies don't sweep the thing. You know,
there's not a game on Thursday.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Wow, you, I can't believe you.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Frostburger is going to key your car for saying the
Phillies are going to sweep the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I can't believe I believe the word if was it?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
You're not even supposed to say. If I believe you said.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I'm at a news desk.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
If if the series is still going the latest start
is at three or four. Can I just mention that
when the Dodgers were in the last decade, had a
for a I think it was divisional round, best of five,
also against the Washington Nationals, and they found out literally
the before that it was going to be a noon
start because of television, and then the market was flooded
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with people selling off tickets. I got in to see
Kershaw pitch and pitch well in a day game against
Washington for twenty five bucks. Wow series because people were
dumping them less and right. Because literally it was less
than twenty four hours. Major League Baseball said, hey, you
know that game that people thought.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Was going to be Yeah, no, it's it's noon.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Sorry.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
They haven't done that since, by the way.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Jason Smith, Steve desag're here on Fox Sports Radio. Now
the big game of the night coming down to it
right now, Game one of the WNBA Finals. Las Vegas
leads Phoenix eighty seven eighty six. Alyssa Thomas has just
missed two free throws that would have given them the
lead with twenty seconds left to go. So now Las
Vegas has the ball and the lead with about seventeen
(10:54):
seconds left. Now will continue to give you updated on
this game. But the big story before this game Kathy Engelbert,
the much maligned w NBA commissioner.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Oh did she speak really?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yeah, she spoke and said she has to do better.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Right, All this week you saw the FISA Colliers remarks,
a four minute speech that changed, Yeah, that changed the
course of the league, saying how bad their leadership is,
how bad Kathy Engelbert is. How she basically told Caitlin
Clark she's lucky to be in the league. How the
rest of the players should be thanking her, thanking Kathy
Engelbert for the media rights deal they got. And so
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many players came out in support of the FISA Collier.
They want Engelbert out and eventually it's going to have
to come to the NBA saying, Okay, Kathy Engelbert is
out because the NBA owning a part like that's how
it's going to go. So she speaks today and says
I have to do better, but denied the Caitlin Clark
remarked that, hey, Caitlyn should be lucky that she's in
the league, and all the jiff yes, because the players
(11:55):
are upset about about the the CBA coming up. They
want a bigger pie out, they want better officiator's.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
No guarantee, there's WNBA opening night, next center.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
No, they want all of these things. They don't trust
Kathy Engelbert. They don't they don't love, they don't like
the officiating. That's number one. That needs to be something else.
And at least Kathy Engelbert said, hey, we need we're
gonna do better with the officiating. But it's clear that
she is circling the drain and the players who have
a lot of power are completely unhappy and they want
her out. And you need someone to come in that's
(12:26):
going to be able to wear so many hats, right,
because here's the players. Kathy Engelbert's you know, when you
come from a CEO background, you come in the players
there's no belief in her. She's not because you didn't
come up through the league, she didn't play. But the
owners like her because okay, she's she's a CEO, she
knows business.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
But this is a really.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Big time in the league for for having the right
leadership to get you from where the league was to
where the league is now, which is a big piece
of the pie. It's a big that's part of the
national conversation every single day. And I'm gonna tell you this.
You know who the w NBA needs to be their
commissioner because he can he can service every single need
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that the that the WNBA needs, that the NBA needs,
and owning the league and the players and the owners.
Magic Johnson. Magic, who has been a WNBA supporter and
owner for a long time. Now, He's someone that comes
in with the cachet of being a star player that
the players believe in. He will have great relationships with
the players. Being an owner, now, he'd have to give
(13:28):
up his ownership of the spot. But you know, hey, Magic,
I think Magic will do okay, I think money wise, Magic,
I think will be all right in the deal.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Right, okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
But but the w needs him. He would come in.
He would have a great relationship with the owners because
he already knows them. He'd be able to push the
business because you see how many bats he wears in
business all across the last twenty five thirty years of
his life. Magic Johnson's the guy that can wear all
the hats and he can get the WNBA to that level.
He would have the trust of everybody involved and I
(14:00):
think that's a home run higher And I think if
they came to one asked them, Magic would say, you
need me, I could do it right. He would still
have time to go on his yacht and go away
and do all the Magic Johnson things right. But this
is what it is now. You know, when a big
star like Magic but the WNBA Magic Johnson for commissioner.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I'd sign up for that one hundred percent, and.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
I'm sure the players would because it's the former player.
As you were talking about one thing, as you mentioned
the CEO background, and we can update the last shot missed.
Phoenix loses by three at Las Vegas eighty nine, eighty.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Six Final Game Exhibition.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Is Angelberg came off sounding like a CEO because let's
speak generally and truthfully about too many ceo and too
many businesses in this country. Is they treat the employees
like they're unbelievably replaceable.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Magic Johnson WNBA commissioner. I'm putting it out there, I'm
making it happen.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Just imagine the tweets.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Oh my god, oh my god, the tweets would be epic.
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football Friday. On the show, we start previewing all the
big games this weekend. One huge quarterback decision, actually two
huge quarterback decisions have been made going into a big
Sunday Week five. That's next right here, Jason Smith, Steve
Desager in from Mike Carman. This is Fox Sports Radio.
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football Friday, which we get to coming up in a second.
But Steve, I know, as you mentioned before, doing the
news desk the same time as co host of the show,
so you can say things like if the Dodgers get
(16:59):
sweat and Justin Frostburg's not going to fight you.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
If you were a Phillies fan and you saw the
Dodger bullpen for the last month, would you have a
little confidence about the next week.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
You are foaming at the mouth to take on this Dodger.
You are just telling, you are just telling everybody. As
many pitches as you can make o Taani and Snell throw,
Let's get five like they keep saying five should be
the mad that she's have five five five the fifth inning.
We want to be into the Dodger bullpen led that
bullpen by the fifth inning, and we are we are loaded.
(17:28):
We are loaded. Now I do have something, Hey, okay,
the Dodger bullpen is clearly the X factor of this playoff.
Coming up in about a half hour, we're gonna get
deeper into the Baseball playoffs and the big, the big
controversy with the Yankees and the Blue Jays going on today.
I do have something I tell you about the Dodgers
that every team is like, yeah, we don't have that
win the World Series. But clear well the bullpen man,
(17:50):
They'll telling you Frostburg, the bullpen is going to have
a thing.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
There has something to say about it. Well they're not.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Don't think they're not. Oh no, you will, you will
count us, you will listen to us. But they didn't
find the closer the last game they did. Oh and
think about the desperation just for a second. That rookie
Sasaki has pitched a grand total of three innings since
coming off the injured list right two games at the
end of the regular season where he had holds and
he looked great. Rokie Sosaki, It's it easyess, I'd make
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that decision if I was Dave Roberts. And he's throwing great,
his stuff is moving, He's thrown one hundred miles an hour.
He comes in in the ninth inning, and now it's
a four run lead. You're supposed to close out four
run leads, even if you're the worst pitcher on the staff.
But just the electricity he brought to the team and
brings to the ninth inning, they have absolutely found their closer.
And just think about that. The guy has pitched three
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innings since coming back from injury four months ago, and
he's a starting pitcher, and it's so bad that all
of a sudden, guess what, you're the closer. You congratulated
you're the closer. Rokie, good, look, go get him.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Do you remember the World Series in twenty twenty where
Ken Lee Janssen blew a thriller of a game against
Tampa Bay and who up getting the final out of
the World Series. The closer was Julio Arius. They just
go to whoever getting out last year was Walker Buehler.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, Arius was the guy all the way through the play.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I want to say he closed out the NLCS too,
like all of a sudden, this is the guy on
the mound and he's closing things out for the Dodgers.
But I mean it's like you Taugh, you know, I
always go back to Starship Troopers, that nineties movie Casper
Van Deen was it.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
You always go back to that.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Well, I go back to when I think about this,
when I think of people getting a gig that like wow,
like do they really deserve it? Like Casper van Dien
starts in that like it's a starship TREWI, this is
a great movie. It's this it's this huge science fiction
move where all these aliens have invaded the Earth, and
the Earth we're losing and we try to find a
way to beat them. And like he starts off the
movie as this lowly private like just trying to get
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into the army, and an hour and a half later
he's like the General. So it's like wow, man, an
hour and a half he went from I'm just getting
in the army now in the General Like that's like
Roki Sasaki, Hey, I'm just coming off the injured list.
Who knows what I could do if I could give
you any That's awesome. Oh well, now I'm the closer
three innings later. Hey, I'm the c I'm closing games
for the Dogs.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
You must have been great at Arizona in that practice.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Man, Hey, he's a simulated closer. Make him the real
closer now that he's back.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Well, and I will say, Blake trin and had back
to back nights of getting outs and a little confidence
for all concerns. So that's two out of the How
many relievers do you get out? Fifty two for every
postseason roster? So that's two they can count on.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
So now, now being at the news desk, okay, I
want to ask you this. Now the Lakers preseason opener
is happening right now, DeAndre Ayton getting his first look
as a Laker. No Luca, no Lebron. Though they are
at the game, can you tell me what live streams
Lebron James may or may not have done today, But
even Budd's sitting out, like what took his attention away
from being able to play in this game?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Let's see a child of now.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
His attention is always taken away, just feeling the blank, Like.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I love how awkward this is already with Lebron and
the Lakers, Like, you know, hey, he's got a glute problem.
He's got to sit out the first game. No, I'm
doing I'm dancing, I'm on a live stream. I'm feeling good.
I'm taking jumpers. Yeah no, but I need to say
I can't come to practice because I'm injured. Like it's
already so awkward with him and the Lakers, and it's
just going to keep getting more and more awkward as
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the season goes on. Like this is awesome, Like I
love the fact that here we are game one of
the preseason already. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Lebron and the Lakers. Yeah,
this is going to be a soap opera all the
way through the year.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
You failed to mention, no Marcus Smart, who of course
has had no soap opera moments and isn't zero fast
zero career.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yeah zero zero, No, not at all. He's been well.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Marcus Smart kind of looks like Tim Duncan compared to Lebron,
So I mean there.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Is there is that well, I mean, Lebron's had the
spotlight since he was sweat sixteen realistically, naturally I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
So there, it's a little bit of a difference.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
So again, opening night Lakers preseason action taking on the
Suns right now, kaa.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
At an arena and near Palm Springs. By the way,
do you recall when the Lakers played against Steve Nash
and the Suns years ago in an exhibition in Palm
Springs at the Tennis stadium where the annual Big Spring
Tennis tournament is held there. They had an outdoor basketball
game in Palm Springs.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Oh right, yeah, it was an Indian wells right yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Then they realized at some point in the game, you know,
we're in the desert.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
It gets windy here, Steve Nash can't make a.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Spree pointer because it keeps blowing wide left, like like
a field goal attempt.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Now, the outdoors today.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Outdoor anything at Palm Springs is not a good idea.
There's there's no outdo Like if they could put Palm
Springs in a dome, it would be awesome, it would
be fed. But like anything you walk outside, go oh
my god, it's one hundred and seven degrees. I really
I can't even walk to the to the corner. I can't.
I can't even get out to God, no, you don't
get the newspaper anymore. I can't even go out to
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Uh uh take my dog for a walk. It's so hot. Oh,
now it gets windy.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
It's dusty. It's like Arizona exactly.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Although have you been to the youth baseball fields that
are literally one is just like in design Wrigley Fields,
another just like Fenway, and another just like Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Not only have I been there, I've played games there
and tournaments there. Yes, I played tournaments there. Uh they're
called Field of Dreams. Yeah, it's all these softball fields
that are made there. There's Yankee Stadium, Wrigley Field, and Fenway.
We didn't play at Wriggly We played at Yankee Stadium,
and we played at Fenway. And uh, here's about the weather.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Here's it is.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
So we played and it was it was Oh boy,
it was all the best teams.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
In the cup.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Like we joined, like we we joined to go in
like we played nover thirty tournament, so because everybody was
over thirty. But like we were there watching some of
the games of like this is like the best teams
in the country would show up and play and just
watching them play, it's like, oh my goodness, like every
single ball is just absolutely.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Cracked a bunch of ringers.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yeah, but uh, here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
The games all started at ten o'clock at night because
it was so hot it wasn't safe to play. So
we played two games with a first night, we played
our first game at two am, and then the second
night we played our first game at one thirty, and
then we had to play another game because we won
at three thirty. Wow, we played at one third more.
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And the thing is, I didn't feel tired. It was great.
I'm like, oh my god, this is awesome. But I'm like,
we couldn't play until one thirty in the morning because
the because it's so odd, it's so unsafe to play.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
This is a little like the discussion to do people
even remember when the Cardinals NFL team first moved to Arizona,
the stadium there currently and had not been built yet.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
You know, the.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Fiesta Bowl was still outside. The Cardinals had to start
outside at the Arizona State Stadium at the Tenpee campus
and they were playing and they were in the division
with the Cowboys, so you would have Emmett Smith and
Dallas playing at Arizona in September at one in the
afternoon and it was one hundred and seven degrees and
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there's no shade at that stadium. It was astounding that
they started that way. Exactly what you're talking about. If
even youth softball or over thirty games can say, you
know what, it's better to play at midnight than at
one in the afternoon, I can't imagine that the NFL
tied to TV as it is.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
It took them a long time to move off that.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Hey, those guys are over thirty. They could die if
they play too much in the hot. Whether that put
their games later, make sure they play as late as.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Guys ever been on the field at one o'clock kickoff
in Miami?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Who oh you've been you've been there?
Speaker 8 (25:30):
Yeah, you think what one o seven's hot? This is
what makes that Dolphins longy. This makes that Dolphins lots
of the Patriots just ridiculous. A couple of weeks ago, right,
what do they want like eighty percent of their games
at one o'clock in September.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
I know that Dolphins their games when they play the Jets.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Well, that's that's any time Tampa Bay was ninety degrees
last weekend for the Bucks.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yeah, that's any time of the year, that's any tide
the Jets list by.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
While it's supposed to be about eighty degrees for the
Jets shockingly this weekend.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yeah, yeah, it's yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I mean, look, yeah, well, I'll tell you this, right,
I'll tell you Jets Jets Dallas right, part of the
Football Friday preview. I love the over in this game,
and I love Dallas. The Jets are undisciplined on defense,
and they're unprepared for games, which I don't forget, I love,
so of course everybody knows they're winless. Steve, I'm trying
(26:20):
to go every box score here. Uh, they're undisciplined and
they're unprepared. I want to love Aaron Glenn, and I
really do. I want to love Aaron Glenn. And it's
weird that a you know, a one to two in
one team facing an zero to four team is one
of the big marquee games of the week. But when
you get Cowboys Jets, it's a thing. I want to
love Aaron Glenn, right, I want to love them, but
clearly this should be the honeymoon period. And and he's
(26:42):
trying to clean up stuff and clean up bad penalties,
and the Jets are giving games away like this is
stuff that happens at the end when players have tuned
out a coach and they're ready to move on. And
this is what the Jets are trying to do here.
They're not going to clean it up this week. It's
not going to happen. There'll be a lot of playing.
I said, I love the over, I love fields this week.
I love the Jets being able to move the football.
(27:03):
But it doesn't matter ceedee lamb, no CD lamb. Dallas
is gonna play pitch and catch on Sunday, and it's
going to get worse for the Jets against what is
the easiest schedule in the NFL, which tells you how
bad they are way before it gets better. But the
biggest thing about Dallas that I don't think people are
taking enough attention to right. The Cowboys won two and one, Yes,
(27:25):
the Cowboys in their situation, and Jerry Jones with a
roster it's been abysmal. He's running abysmally for a long time.
It's a top heavy team that never is deep enough
to win. The only time was deep enough to win
was when he had Dak and Ezekiel Elliott on their
rookie deals and they could put players around them and
they played pretty well. But since then, Jerry Jones loves
giving bad money to the wrong players. But I'm gonna
(27:45):
tell you this, four weeks into this season, and I
have seen stuff from Dak Prescott that I haven't seen
over the course of his career. In a situation in
which his team trades away their best defensive player, basically
punts on the season. How do you feel about that?
If you're Dak, you know, the longest tenured leader of
the team, quarterback, big money, and all he has done
(28:07):
is come out and play extremely well. He is still dynamic,
he is smart, he is poised, and he is mature.
He's someone that can take care of business. And and
you know, at you're thirty two in the league, Now
Dak's been in the league. If heres you want to
think that's there, but the Cowboys, it's a really difficult thing.
But I have just seen an overall difference in the
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way he carries himself on the field. Hey, when the
Cowboys are down, we're gonna get the score we need.
We're gonna get we We're gonna do what we need
to on offense to win this game. Ty this get out. Defensively,
they're absolutely awful, right and there's nothing to do about that.
But Dak Prescott has really shown that, Hey, he is
a winning quarterback. And it's weird that he's doing in
a season where the Cowboys are bad and it's probably
(28:48):
not gonna get any better. But like, if they ever
figure it out, no doubt Dak can win the super Bowl.
There's no doubt like this, Dak Prescott can win the
Super Bowl with weapons, without weapons, with a running game,
without a running game, he still makes enough plays. He
is still dynamic, and he has hit that next level
in leadership and development. Like, I am all in on
Dak being the guy the Cowboys need him and have
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needed him to be. And I've seen so much over
the course of the first four weeks, like, yeah, if
you can ever figure out the rest of it, man boy,
it's gonna be something.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
And it's not just the Jets winless. The Cowboys, let's
be honest, should be winless. They needed all forty points
from Dak in that overtime game a few weeks ago
against the Giants. They were allowing big points to the Giants,
and the Packers got forty against Dallas and Ceedee Lamb
still out this weekend, and Dallas is gonna be missing
at least three offensive line.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
And they'll still crush the Jets.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
And that doesn't matter. They're still gonna put points up.
They'll still score forty on the Jets. You will crush
the jack They will still well, Dak will be I'll
tell you that Dak will be the number one fantasy
quarterback of the week. He'll be the absolute number one
fantasy quarterback of the week. That's how big a week.
Justin fields have a big week too, Like it's gonna
be a lot of offense here. The Jets good will do
what they want to offensively, but Dak's gonna make enough plays.
Cowboys are gonna win this game and he's gonna be
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absolutely lights out.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
That's Dak Prescott.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
And I will add that it's not just about eighty
degrees for the Jets game we're into October, but supposed
to be eighty five excuse me, seventy five to eighty
degrees for the Jets home game for the Eagles, home
game for the Panthers, for the Ravens home game for
the Bengals as well. Loving this good weather we are season.
Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson is out this weekend with a
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hamstring injury, so Cooper Rush will make his first start
for the Ravens, who are one and three. Lamar Jackson
miss practice all week. The team has lost its last
four games played without him. Former Ravens defensive tackle Arthur
Jones from Syracuse died at the age of thirty nine.
He was the older brother of former UFC fighter John
Jones and of Chandler Jones, former Patriots defensive end. Washington
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quarterback Jaden Daniels return Sunday at the Chargers after a
sprain knee, but wide receiver Terry McLaurin is out with
quad injury, as is wide receiver Noah Brown. To college
football and there are quite a few games going on tonight.
On FS one, San Jose State out to a seven
to nothing lead after the first quarter against New Mexico.
West Virginia a BYU just underway. Colorado State at San
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Diego State just getting underway already. Western Kentucky five and
one has won its game at Delaware twenty seven to
twenty four and under seven minutes to go at South Florida,
usf ready to go to four and one, leading forty
seven eighteen against Charlotte WNBA Finals Game one at Las
Vegas to the home team eighty nine eighty six over Phoenix.
(31:29):
Game two is Sunday afternoon. It's the best of seven
in the finals.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Now.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Asia Wilson twenty one points, ten rebounds. She had five
assists no turnovers as well. In the NBA preseason, New
Orleans won at Melbourne, and there is an NBA preseason
game tonight's at Palm Desert, California. For what it's worth,
Phoenix leading the Lakers twenty eight to fourteen late first quarter.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Let Lakers have not scored in the last eight minutes
of game time.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
Hey, Lebron's checking in with s Luca.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
No, Lebron, No, he's doing a live stream. That's not
check You get smart.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Oh he's out to There is no Luca doncitch in
this game.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Now.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
A couple buckets for Austin Reeves, but the rest of
the Lakers are two for thirteen so far in this
first quarter. Texas Rangers hired Skip Schumacher as manager. He
was an advisor for the team this past season. He
gets a four year contract with Texas. Schumacher was NL
Manager of the Year with the Marlins just two years ago.
Seven other ball clubs have managerial openings this offseason. San
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Francisco and the Angels looking for skippers. Colorado as well,
Atlanta and Washington have openings, so do Minnesota and Baltimore.
Baseball's Divisional series all start on Saturday, including the Yankees
at Toronto on Fox TV four pm Eastern Time. Game
two will be on FS one Sunday afternoon. Blue Jay's
pitcher Kevin Gusman will start Game one against the Yanks
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and pitcher Louise Hill, who was last year's AL Rookie
of the Year. The Yankees. Will Warren will be in
the bullpen. Max Freed will start Game two for New
York on Sunday. The Yankees were number one in the
majors this year in home runs, in RBI, in walks,
and in runs scored, but the matchups against the Blue
Jays the team. The Yankees tied for first in the
AL East and Toronto held the tiebreakers, so Toronto are
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in the top seed in the AL. Toronto did not
have to play in a wild card series this week,
and Toronto has home field advantage throughout the AL playoff.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
Steve, how about the Mets? What time do they play?
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Check's notes not playing back to you the Mets?
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Wait? Five today?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Five?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Five? Five?
Speaker 1 (33:27):
I mean they fired five peoples coaches, they.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Fired five people today. Yes, everybody's out there.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
I think they fired mister Met today and that they're
making all those changes.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
That's what's happening.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
They're downsizing and they're starting with his head.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Exit out.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
But yeah, well sudden, mister metshead next year? Wow? Why
is that like light? Why is that regular? Like a person?
Speaker 8 (33:46):
You know?
Speaker 5 (33:47):
Just ask Little Clinton's secret service about that.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Yeah, we did, we did.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
We didn't have all that's a story. Yeah, yeah, we
didn't have the money this year. We really want to
make sure. So mister Met's gonna be his head's gonna
be a little bit tinier, just a little bit. Uh So,
coming up next, we have the play of the day
coming your way.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
End we get into a big weekend of college football.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
The game of the week in college football isn't the
one you think it is. That's next right here, Jason
Smith Steve Disager in for Mike Harmon. This is Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 6 (34:15):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon.
Steve de Saga in for Harmon.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Tonight.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Coming up in a minute, we get to a couple
of the games of the week in college football. The
game of the week.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Not the game you think it is.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
But first it's time for the play of the day,
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don't get to see the Dodgers play tonight because they
wait for the playoffs to start tomorrow and the Chargers
don't play till Sunday, you're looking for something else to
be the play of the day, and this is it,
And I never said that. Here is Austin Reeves.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
School.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Seventh minute Lake crown until right there and again it's
Reeds going harder that So there it is an Austin
Reeves bucket. Billy Mack already in a playoff mode. That's
why I love that call, like it could be it's
preseason Game one, opening night, Game thirty seven, Game eighty one,
and Billy Mack is just a he's got he's the
(35:37):
same level. It doesn't it doesn't matter, like every game
is the NBA Finals with Bill McDonald.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Noil McDonald, who has been in the LA area for
his entire life in southern California and became do you
remember when he filled in as Laker play by play
guy and it happened to be in the night of
Kobe's eighty one play game because Schoel Myers was the
Laker announcer back then but was doing foot ball work also,
and this was a Sunday night game and he was away.
(36:04):
Bill McDonald steps in and does, of course a legendary
night in NBA history, forget Laker history, and of course,
Joe Myers has been.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
In New Orleans for years. Now, let's leave it at that.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Yeah, no, this this was it was the day of
the AFC and NFC championship games like this. Let Laker
Toronto game was like, hey, it's late at night on
this it's the last event of the night.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
On the Lauders were down twenty or something like that,
as I recall, at one point in that game.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Sam Mitchell still was gonna single guard
Kobe Bryant, still gonna throw one guy out. Seventy points doesn't.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Matter one Laker. One Laker had eighty one points in
one game. I'm not sure these Lakers will get eighty
one tonight against No.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
No, no, they're not. They are in the second quarter already.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Yeah, and they have twenty two points. It really so
we brought you like one eleventh of all of their
points tonight so far.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
That's it with the play that.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
So again, more basketball on the way again. You know,
big tonight coming off the WNBA game one of the
finals in Engle Burton. I'm telling you Magic Johnson for
WNBA commissioner. But another big week of college football and
you know, lots of games going on tonight, you know,
I you know, Friday Night has been a big thing
now BYU top twenty five team leads West Virginia right now,
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early in the first quarter. This game just starting, This
game's gonna end it like two in the morning, but
the biggest game of the week. Know, we got Texas Florida, right,
we got Miami Florida State. Yeah, I reckony Clemson and
North Carolina. There's a reason why this is on national
TV tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Think about what is.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
At stake right now for both of these head coaches.
The college football season so far has been about two
head coaches right, not player wise, but head coaching wise
has been about two people. Dabo Sweeney and what could
be the end of an era in Clemson and how
upset he is I'm tired of winning or I'm just
putting that, you know, he's all the things. Era is
(38:01):
a Clemson era over and Bill Belichick at two and
two now maybe in a one and done type season
at North Carolina. North Carolina didn't go through all of
this crap that they did over the past few months
with Jordan Hudson in the football program to be like this,
to knock teams away from being able to see teams
(38:22):
to see North Carolina play New England can't get to
see the team play. They did not sign up for
this and a five hundred if not under five hundred.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Well, well, they've only played two real teams and they
got blown out by each of them, so we can
call them two and two, and I guess statistically that's correct.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
But let's be honest.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
They still got to play whatever is left at Syracuse
at the end of this month. So don't be looking
ahead Tar Heels.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
But one of these teams, either Clemson's gonna fall to
one and four or no, And it would be so
incredibly embarrassing for Dabbo to go to one and four
to lose to to Belichick, or Belichick's gonna go to
two and three. And it's does this guy really know
what he's doing, right, Because if they get out of
this one year and it's bad, they're gonna say, Okay,
this didn't really work. The buyout is very low, right,
(39:08):
It's not like it's not like Lincoln Riley or or
anybody else not worried about even Dabo's buyout.
Speaker 8 (39:15):
What.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
No, No, it's a very low buyout like this could be.
I mean from the beginning, I thought this could be
a one and done thing from Belichick if he can't
come in and reinvent college football, which they thought they
were gonna do. This game is gonna go a long
long way for one of these coaches, because look, Dabo's
buyout is big. They got money at Clemson and maybe
that maybe Dabbo's one of those guys. Yeah'm making all
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this money, but I'm not happy. You can see it
starting to get combative at Clemson, like one of these
guys is going to be well on the road to
and more so Belichick, like this being their last year there,
Belichick more than Dabbo. But boy, I don't know, man,
Dabbo goes like like four and seven or four and eight.
Look out, I think they might be able to rub
a couple of nickels together for that buyout for Dabo.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
But you're right about the attention this game. You know,
I'm gonna put my eyeballs on this game. It's a
morning game West Coast time, and there are two other
games in that time slot in the ACC. But if
you look at the list, you can get into Boston
College at pitt for under twenty bucks a ticket. You
can get into Wake Forest at Virginia Tech for twenty
five The cheapest seats at North Carolina for this game
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are seventy North Carolina has to actually show that it
belongs in the conference at this point.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Yeah, this is so interesting a game because of what like,
this is a game for true college football fan to say,
WHOA the Dabo stuff, the Belichick stuff. This has been
driving the bus for most of September into October. How
does this soap opera go? If I can only watch
one game tomorrow outside of Syracuse, this is the game
I'm watching Clemson North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Can't wait, can't wait?
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Exit out about a Fresco Jason Smith Steve de Seger
in for Mike Harmon. Coming up next, we have controversy
on the even the next round of the Major League
Baseball Playoffs, and of course it involves the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
That's next five
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