September 19, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon update Dolphins-Bills and explain why the NY Jets are way worse than anyone thinks. The GOAT Clayton Kershaw announces he is retiring, and his last Dodger Stadium regular season start is on Apple TV. Plus, the end of the Tush Push!
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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Speaker 3 (00:36):
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tell you what, Mike I'm I am. I'm really embarrassed
right now. I'm really embarrassed. Tell you how embarrassed I
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am right now this moment in time.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
In this moment in time, the Mets won six to one,
so they didn't do it too now the Mets. Aronzo
is thirty seventh home or thirty seven.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
King Tong, King Tong, ain't God blake on.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Me, King Tom.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Eventually someone puts on the turn a kit and stops
the bleeding. All right, So we got that going on.
We got some Thursday night football. And that's why I'm embarrassed.
That's why you're embarrassed. Why I'm embarrassed. Why is that?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Well, because right now I love jumping in Mondays and
Thursdays are so great. We jump right in with a
oh an NFL game back in half, just getting underway. Yeah,
about eight and a half to go, and the Bills
are holding on to a twenty one to fourteen lead
over the Dolphins. Somehow, a game the Bills should be
winning by fifty. The Dolphins are a touchdown down despite
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the fact that Tua has thrown for sixty yards tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
An operational efficiency. Man, it doesn't need to be gaudy, and.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
They're not running the football like crazy. They have sixty
seven yards rushing. Now Ali Gordon started to get a
chance here running the foot.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Well, you know, there he is. There's a tweet that
will read someone related to the Ali Gordon touchdown. A
little later, the.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Bills offense has been the Bills offense right like Josh
Allen's got two touchdowns, James cook Is it's seventy six
and a touchdown, Dalton and Kaid having the big night,
maybe the year three breakout for a tight end. But
this is why I'm embarrassed. This is why I'm embarrassed,
because the Dolphins are terrible.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
We talked about this last night. If the Dolphins somehow
win this game, it would be the biggest upset of
the twenty twenties. As bad as things have been for
the Dolphins the first two weeks, we've had other games
with a little bit bigger points. President I think they
went off at like thirteen point dogs today, close to
thirteen someway.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Wow, we got back out there because I saw it
at eleven earlier today, So maybe a late swell.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
But yeah, they thought Bob Greasy was playing quarterback. Well maybe,
and so this would be as bad as it's been
the first week of a no show. The second week
they lose at home at one o'clock on Sunday, where
they won like eighty percent of their games the last
forty years. It's as embarrassing as it could be. And
here are the Dolphins hanging close right, It's a one
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score game midway through the third quarter. Somehow this game
pad defying logic that the Bills have like three hundred
yards of nearly three hund yards of total offense and
yet it's a one score game.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
This is why I'm embarrassed. Well, a little bit of
juice coming right off the jump with the opening kickoff
return fifty four yards, putting them in plus field position.
Hence you didn't need all the yardage nah, and the
gaudy stats for the first possession, which ended with that
touchdown run that you mentioned before from Ali Gordon, much
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to the chagrin of a lot of fantasy owners who
are looking for stuff. But we've seen some opportunities for
Tyreek Hill to make plays. He actually made a nice
catch over the middle late in that first half that
helped set up their second score. But yeah, for the Bills,
they moved the ball pretty well. Both offensive lines have
just looked terrible for a good chunk of this game.
Some good blocking out out front by the Bills wide
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receiver setting up that Dalton Kincaid big catch down to
the three a little earlier before the James Cook touchdown run.
But all of that to say you had a great
possession that ended in a really horribly shanked field goal
attempt by Matt Prater. So there's some points on the board,
and like the Dolphins are prideful, they weren't gonna go
down without a fight. Now, will they have enough to
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stand up when it's all said and done and will
we get past the eleven, the twelve to thirteen wherever
you got in on that time continue? I don't know,
but yeah, for Tua and company, they've they've at least
showed a little bit of fight after no showing for
two weeks. Now, here's why I'm embarrassed.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Now, this is why you're Here's why I'm embarrassed. Right, Yeah,
all great coaching points about the Dolphins. The Dolphins still stink, right,
They still there. Still they stink, they but they're trying.
This game is a one score game. Yeah, midway through
the third quarter, the Jets had one hundred yards of
offense on the Bills going to the final drive of
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the game. Last week, Justin Fields completed two passes. The
Jets may be even worse than I think they are.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
That's how bad it. That's that's where this got That's
where this got your brain going put out.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
A body game on Sunday, a sea game. In fact,
I didn't even think they took postgame showers. Hey, we
just get right in the plane and go back. You
don't need a shower.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
We all feel good. Listen, I think we have a
little bit of a drought going on. We're okay right here.
We're just gonna let let the let the Jets do
their thing. We don't need everyone.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Just go to the just get on the bus, and
you know, I just got on the bus. Go back
to the airport. We'll fly back. It was a sea
game for the Bills on Sunday, a sea game, and
they dusted the Jets, and the Jets looked like they
were absolutely starting over at which they kind of are,
like they're starting over again for the thirteenth time in
the last fourteen years. Uh, that the Jets might be
worse than even Like I knew after Week one, Hey,
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everything isn't gonna be sunshine, lollipops and rainbows going into
week two, because they're gonna they're gonna really Sometimes week
one ends your season. And that was an awful loss
to Rogers and the Steelers, and it wasn't full of optimism.
It was everything went right for the Jets and they
still lost. So of course they come up flat next
week against Buffalo, which I've seen a million times, and
now that they might be one of the worst teams
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in the NFL. Like what, like, I don't know, I
don't This is where I've gone with the first two
and a half quarters of this game. Is I went
from Hey, in the last couple of weeks, Hey, maybe
the Jets can do a TV A team that hangs
around five hundred most of the season, gets into December
where the season isn't lost, And this time next year
we're thinking about the Jets a little bit differently, and
Aaron Glenn is done. But really, the Jets might be
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as bad as the Saints, as bad as the Browns,
as bad as a lot of these teams. Because this
doesn't make any sense at all. How the Dolphins who
quit before the season began.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
It's a one.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Score game, It's a close game on the road on
Thursday night. They're keeping this a close game, and the
Jets just got boat Right's Like, I really they may
be I mean, Jets, Saints, Browns, like these may be
the three war teams in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Well, maybe the Jets really actually tend to rize them
and it was a tougher battle than you thought. Or
maybe the Bills are sleepwalking thinking they had a walkover
opponent coming in, even if it is a divisional game.
But to that point, I mean, we watched some big
holes open up. We saw a chan with a couple
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of runs. You saw the touchdown from Gordon who has
had some time to throw this Bill's defense, and again
this doesn't make you feel any better, but they can
be gotten. For the Jets coming into the year, what
were they add five and a half or six wins?
I know you were optimistic that culture and everything that
is built would happen in year one. I think they're
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showing you the other. By the way, the Dolphins are
only at six and a half wins, so they're not
exactly running away and hiding here, but certainly a much
better effort. And yet another one of these early season
divisional games.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
This is just just it makes me just okay, all right,
then I need the Mets to fly me over to
the Knicks. Fly me over the Jets and into the Knicks.
That's what I need. That's how bad it is, like
I really I think this is so. I'm so at
the point where, hey, after you know, there's oh and
two teams in the NFL so far that that are bad.
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There's oh and two teams in the NFL that are
good with rough starts, that still have a chance to
pull themselves out of it.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Teams like the Chiefs and the Texans.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Sure, and there's also teams, well, you're oh and two
because you're oh and two when you stink. And clearly
the Dolphins are are better than the Jets. Seeing this
right now, so I'd say the Jets and Cleveland, even
Tennessee as bad as they're starting over with cam Ward
who then let him throw the ball eight times and
a half.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Even the Giants almost beat the Cowboys are better. Even
the Bears, who at least are scoring some points a
little bit in their offenses, is a little bit better
than you think it is. Even Carolina is closer. I mean,
if these oh and two, I realized it's the Jets
and the Saints and the Browns that these are going
to be. But the Panthers, it's not that difficult a division.
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The Panthers gonna beat the Saints a couple of times
like these.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I don't know. Spencer Rattles, it looks like he's got
a little bit of juice to so is Bryce young Man.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Suddenly, Bryce young and Spencer Rattler looks like a great
matchup on the weekend.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Hey man, I'll sell the hell out of it. Let's go.
I really more.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I think it's those three teams are gonna be fighting
for Garrett Nussmeyer. I can't even say for arch Man anyway.
They'll be fighting for Garrett Nusmeyer. Now, yeah, but he
didn't score. Remember Brian Kelly had to fight with that reporter.
What's the problem we won the game?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Get out of here, jerk? And then he kind of
had to backtrack it and apologize. Must have been related
to a booster or something. But I mean the Dolphins
coming game for this one Bills, and again they could
still pull away. I mean their explosive offense. We've seen
some big play potential Kincaid streaking out of the backfield
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where the Bills. It's interesting is watching to see beyond Kincaid,
who you trust in your passing game, Right, Khalil Shakir,
Kean Coleman. Right, he had the deflective ball in week one,
But on a weekly basis, are you banking on him
for big plays? No, it's it's Josh Allen's creativity and
that run game with with Cook with maybe a little
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bit of Davis creeping back in as the game goes on.
But for now, we got ourselves a ballgame on a
Thursday night. Let's celebrate that. Twenty one to fourteen Bills
with the lead. Dolphins have the football near midfield about
five and a half to go in the third quarter,
and so far Mike McDaniel is saying to himself, Hey,
we're playing well enough that I'm not going to get
fired after this week. So okay, totally got the vote
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of confidence. Yeah, but you know what happens after you
get a vote conf federally. But yeah, I mean that
was the report pregame. It's like they're gonna be a
little more patience.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Like, wow, that means it really got loud if you
have to put that in your pregame.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yeah yeah, yeah, game part on it on the Amazon
it's like, all right, well, I guess we have to
address the elephant. They're gonna be fired right out the game.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Okay, don't look for Greer to come down and take
the headset and his shoes and his pre pants from him.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
At the end of the gay It's not gonna happen. Okay,
you always kind of bum though, Like we were getting
ready to transition into the studios as the Odd Couple
were finishing their show, and it was right coming out
out of halftime, and that's when McDaniel had his quick
little back and forth with whoever was interviewing on the
sideline and he said something where there was just this
pause with the reporter and I'm like, I'm trying to
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go ten seconds back. I was like I want to,
and it wouldn't go. I'm like, come on.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
He obviously said something that made it really confusing, made
no sense.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
So we'll effort that as we continue. It's like, I
gotta see what kind of gems he's given us as
they battle here or in the third quarter.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Oh you want gems, I'm gonna give you gems right here,
Mike Carmen for a couple.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
You know me, I love diamonds.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
So I am with people right now, people who love
hot ta. I mean, I love a hot take with
people who just they're living on hot take.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
All I do is hot all I do is hot.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
People are fighting to get to their keyboards and put
videos up, and they want their TV shows on the
air right now so they can be the first ones
to say, you see you look at all the evidence.
The Indiana Fever are better without Caitland p than they
are with her. You see what happens. The Fever beat
the Atlanta Dream tonight, a big playoff upset. They win
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that first round series two games to one. Eighty seven
to eighty five. Is the final. Just I can't wait
because you know it's gonna happen, absolutely, And I'll even
tell you this. You're gonna get And this is what's
gonna be embarrassing, is you're gonna get former WNBA players
and analysts who are gonna say, yeah, see, you look
at the way this team plays without Caitland Clark and
it's much much better. You see the way things go
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in the back court. And look, we knew I told
you the beginning of the season. By the end of
the regular season, the Fever gonna be looked at as
the best team in the WNBA. That's the team to beat.
Now Caitlin Clark got hurt, they lost Sophie Cunningham they've
had to move things around. But remember they made some
moves to bring in some players in the offseason because
they were augmenting and getting ready for a championship run.
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Because Caitland Clark's a top five player in the league,
she's the biggest star of the league. Yes, they found
a way to win the first round of the playoffs
without her, and it's an awesome accomplishment. But man, I'll
tell you, I really, I really can't wait. I'm wondering
who the first ones are gonna be to say, you
can't argue you can't look at what they did last
year with her, look at that, and they're gonna cherry
pick an argument to just say, really, buddy, really.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I'm gonna have Shae and tysher clip this off. As
soon as we're done, we're gonna be first. Are you
kidding me? Eighty seven eighty five, A disjointed final possession
ball squirts all the way back out to the three
point range Odyssey Simms, what a name that is? Yeah,
she finds Aleah Boston, who's suddenly wide open under the
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basket as the defense forgets hey, you know what if
you let her go short range?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
She's gonna put the ball in and well, DJ, clearly,
if you're looking for a long playoff run, definitely to
see Simms is the one to guide you through that
long journey. That's a fantastic name though, right you're setting
it up as hey, you know what, you got a
long journey, Good luck to you, kid, go get it.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
But she has the assist to Boston to put them
up one. Eventually you get the fall, she hits the
final free throw. You win by two, five players in
double digits. You had assists on three quarters of their baskets,
four assists per turnover.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Yeah, the ball moved. They're a better team without Katelyn Clark.
There it is, because that's how it works. Wait, let
me pull out that bucket of Circaz. When you take
great players away, that's how it works.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
And the thing is because nobody would say would say
that for any other player, Like Okay, So let's just
say you go into next season and.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
The Lakers go on to run early.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Right, say Lebron is out for some reason, he wants
to make videos, he wants to get traded, whatever it is.
And Lebron is out for some reason, and with Luca
leading the way, all of a sudden, Hey, the Lakers
at the top of the West. No one's gonna say, well,
you know, they're better off without Lebron. I mean, no
one's gonna say that if the Milwaukee Bucks go on
a run in the beginning of next Okay, here's gotta
be something more realistic, if the Knicks go on a
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run in the beginning of the season next year without
Jalen Brunson, because who knows, they're looking into how come
you took all this less money? And Pablo Tory has
him on a on a standsday, Did you order the
Code red?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Did you order a Code Red?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeh?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
But it seems like every time someone's got an argument,
he's got more paperwork that's sitting there. Hey, here's another
thirty million. You want to keep doing this.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
No one is gonna say the Knicks are better off
without Jalen Brunson. No one's gonna say the Bucks are
better off without Gianness, right, no one's gonna say, uh,
we're looking at the Warriors are better off without Steph.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
But no one is saying this stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
But we'll say it for Caitlin Clark just because because
I like hot takes and I still for some reason,
I still don't like her as a player.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Why because she I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
That's still really I guarantee you you're gonna get that
tonight tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I want to plant my fight and there because it
is a Thursday night, she got a full slate of
shows for a Friday morning.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Remember the old show, The Gong Show. Ohta explain the
Gong Show? So the Gong Show was a reality show
basically in the seventies where is X Factor, where people
would show up and they would do all these different
individual talents like they had and and you know, some
might I could I could be a mime, or I
can sing like whatever it is. And then if you
did well and you made it to the end, you won.
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But if you were terrible, they grabbed a big gong
and hit them and hit the hit the gunk and
you were done. And so there were sometimes where the
person performing was so bad that the judges would fight
over the gong, over who got to God there? Right, Yeah,
that's what it's that they're fighting over the gong right
now of who's gonna be it. That's to say they're
better off without Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I would have been that guy. You know what's crazy though,
As you mentioned the gong show and a gong, I
actually did on a gong last week in an auction
and it ended up going for twenty two thousand pounds. Wow.
It was part of a Doubt and Abbey auction and
it was estimated to go for maybe like a thousand,
so I tried to lowball it and then all of
a sudden, like wait, it went for what well you know,
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I mean that would have been fun in the corner
of the studio because we really had our own gong
for some of these efforts we get to watch on
a nightly BASEDDJ.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Then Mike Harmon could definitely bang a gong and get
it on during the show.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Damn right, j You've got t Rex arms. So yeah,
let's go.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
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Bills with the lead late third quarter. We'll have more
in this game, but coming up next. It is the
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a superstar who says this.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
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Speaker 1 (17:49):
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Thursday Night Football. This game is moving.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Get those fours up, uh. Bills still lead it twenty
one to fourteen.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Somehow the Dolphins, who have quit on the season, are
keeping it closer with the Bills than the Jets did
on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Again, the Jets may be one of the three worst
teams in the NFL. They're fighting for Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah, yeah, I think that was the pregame speech. Hey guys,
you know I'm gonna get blown out. Just you know,
if you ever liked me for five minutes, remember when
I took over, we were gonna be a fast team,
and we were really good for a while.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Just give me a little bit here, man.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
We don't have to win tonight, but just don't lose
by a thousand so I could keep my job another week,
all right, as we can do that, thank you.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
What do we always say, doesn't have to be aesthetically pleasing,
just needs to be close late.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
So we'll have more on this game coming up in
a bit. Again, Just getting ready to start the fourth quarter,
Bills lead by a touchdown. But it's time now for
the play of the day and that gets you into
our big topic here where we are waving goodbye to
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and we could have made it a James Cook touchdown.
He could have made it a Dalton and k touchdown.
But since Clayton Kershaw has announced he is calling it
quits at the end of this season, his eighteenth in
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Major League Baseball, well there is only one play of
the day.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
One two pitch strike threecords take cut of with a
sire strikeout number three thousand for Clayton Kershaw, his history
at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Dodgers TV on the call that just a few weeks
ago I pitched. It's still the more you look at it, like, wow,
that really wasn't a strike, but hey, okay it was
the White Sox.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
What does it matter? Nny Caepra of the White Know
it was really odd. The timing of this announcement will
get deep into what he had to say and the
ramification in his place baseball history is like yesterday, we
were going through a lot of Dodger stuff. Right, We're
watching that game unfold the Blake Snells situation. Listen to
the podcast. We had the instant react that was just
(21:11):
it was audio gold. But I was actually when I
got home and flipped on a TV show and I
was actually looking at Kershaw memorabilia, looking for the three
thousand strikeout ticket stumps because there's not many of them right.
Mostly it's digital now and different things like that. And
then today we get this, Hey, there's an announcement brewing,
and like the hell Man, that is just like weird
(21:32):
foreshadowing of things to come. Now, two things to get
into here for a second.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
The first one is that I'm just waiting because I
don't know that people realize. Okay, tomorrow is the last
Kershaw start at Dodger Stadium. Now, likely he's gonna have
at least one more one more time through the rotation,
but it won't be at Dodger stadium, Willie pitching the playoffs.
Potentially after game two of the first round of the playoffs,
everything is up in the you don't know what bullpen
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is being used. You don't know where it's going. Kershaw
is having a good enough season, but is he someone's
gonna start game one?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I think after last night we saw Blake Snell as
your game once you.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Got him, and and then who knows, right, because then
you don't know what kind of bullpen you're using. So
potentially he's going to pitch in the playoffs, right, So
you're not it's not the end of Kershaw. But here's
the last start for Kershaw at Dodger Stadium. It's a
really big deal.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Joe Davis talking bobbing, Yeah, yeah, I ask you this,
uh what what day?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I'm gonna ask you three questions, Mike Carmen, just like
last night, se if you get a hundred on.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
The Okay, what day is tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (22:31):
The day that Clayton Kershaw is making his final start
at Dodgers stage.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
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Speaker 7 (22:41):
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Speaker 1 (22:41):
You won?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Okay number two? Yep?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Where are baseball games broadcast on Friday night Apple TV.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Very good, Mike Harmon.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Now.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Third, quite most important question? Can I have my the
Can you have my password? Is that what you're gonna
ask me? Most important question? Is it easy for fans
to see games.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
On Apple TV on Friday night if you cough up
a buck?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Yeah, but it's pretty simple if you're willing to spend
a dollar.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Here's the thing. Is it worth the ten bucks or
whatever it would be? For a month?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Plus all the wonderful content including Severance and Ted Lasso
on so many other great things. The Morning Show which
premiered today. All Right, I'm gonna okay, I did that.
That's a great prehamble. But I answered, is it easy?
Does does everybody have access to seeing Clayton?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Categorically? Three questions? You go to the head of the class.
That's one hundred.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
I would say this tomorrow, across the city of Los Angeles,
there are a lot of people randomly showing up at.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Their local group hub. Tomorrow. You have the game.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Tomorrow's game Tomorrow is gonna be I don't know what
time it's gonna be, but sometime nearly afternoon's gonna be
that big Wait, what moment from Dodger.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
What.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
No, it's like when we have random we're talking about
game overseas right for the NFL, it's like, oh, they're
doing those damn things again, like I missed one, you
know that kind of thing. Wait you mean I can't wait? What?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
So how we do?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
What? Wait?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
What?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
What do you talk? What do you mean? We apple? Wait? What? What?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Like?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
That's what That's what it's gonna be. We've had that
a lot on Fridays over the course of this season,
that reminder of oh wait, because we've had a couple
of instances where it looked like we were gonna have
those milestone moments, whether it was Judge or or a
tiny day, et cetera, where where folks got a little angsty.
But for this one, yeah, it's next level stuff for
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a guy in eighteen years he debuted a month before
my second daughter was born.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I mean, and this is and look, I want to
say that we're gonna see him one more time in
the regular season, but maybe not because I said that,
But yeah, his turn in the rotation should wait much
more time. But maybe they say, Okay, he's gonna be
part of our rotation or the plan is to piggyback
him with someone else's piggyback is gonna be a big
thing this playoffs. I'll tell you that right away. Uh,
starting pitchers piggybacking is gonna be a big thing instead
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of bullpen games. But I'll tell you this, like maybe
it is his last start, so now it's not this
is not just this is baseball fans across the country
Kershaw making the last start. He's the best left handed
pitcher that I have ever seen, the best better than
Randy Johnson. Bet he's the best left handed pitcher that
I have ever seen. And it's he's gonna make his
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final start tomorrow night. People across the country are gonna
go all right, I guess I'll just I'll just follow
on social media. People will post the strikeouts for what's
happening with Clayton and ovations, and because you know, it's
gonna be full of all kinds of fun stuff tomorrow night,
the broadcast the game itself, Dodger fans saying goodbye to
Clayton Kershaw. I mean, it's it's gonna be that kind
of night, man.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Oh no, it's huge. I mean we watched the clips
earlier his presser and the statement that he gave and
then he answered a couple of questions, almost lost it
a couple of time, Like I said, I mean, we're
talking eighteen years, you and I, you know, loving the
game of baseball that we do, me being once upon
a time a crafty junk ball er lefty uh before
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the shoulder threw it and went into the third deck.
But all of watching a guy with one team, a
full career, the highs and lows, the injuries, the battle back,
like all of that and what he means to this city,
all the more Key and his wife have done. I
like that he kept dropping in the four and a
half kids, referenced the pregnancy, but all of it to say,
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like we've watched it's eighteen years man, like that long time,
lifetime of dominance.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
And to your point, the best that I've gotten to
see fully was Johnson more intimidating, sure, because for a
while early in his career you had no idea where
the ball was. Not many lefties thrown ninety eight right,
that's the whole thing. Left like Kershaw never threw ninety
eight one hundred like he was. His fastball was in
the mid nineties. But you know, when you think about this, right,
when you think about Kershaw's legacy, we'll get to the
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playoff part of it, because that's a really big part
of Kershaw is that when I look back and you
say Clayton Kershaw to me, the first vision that I get,
or the image of Kershaw that I get, is is
how amazingly good he was at his curve or his
slider on that first pitch to a batter, throwing it
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over the plate in a spot where the hitter can't
get it right. You see the late break on that
and it would break from the way from the side,
and it would hit the black every single time, and
the and the umpire was easy boom, strike one. And
you're a batter and you are saying, what the hell
am I gonna do when he's throwing that pitch for
a strike right when he can he can have that
such a late break on his on his slider, his curve,
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whatever whatever he wanted to throw that he can do that.
I mean, that's just such an unbelievable advantage that he had.
And then nobody else could do stuff like even if
he wanted to throw it over the heart of the
plate sometimes just make you think that, hey, I can
get it. You're still not hitting that curve, right, You're
still not hitting it. Now you get later in that bat,
maybe it doesn't break the shark. But throwing that first
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pitch for a strike, I mean, I can't tell you
how many times I have seen him do that, and
I just go that that's just such a mental advantage.
First of all, it's an advantage to go on one on
the count, obviously, but it's such a mental advantage for
the pitcher over the batter to know I have control
of all of my pitches and this is what's gonna happen.
And I'm not gonna throw you some lazy fastball on
the corner for strike one, or if I think you're not swaying,
I'm gonna throw a fast player. I'm gonna give you
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a curve and give you a slider. I'm gonna give
you something that is gonna break over the plate, and
all of a sudden, you're at bad is gonna be defensive?
Like That's the vision I have of him when I
think of it, just watching the just watching the hump
of the ball and the batter and the batter just
taking it and just shaking his head and going okay,
now it's on one and Kershaw's got me where he wants,
like that the way he was able to do that.
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So it's so commanding that cut those two pitches so easily,
especially early in counts, Like you want to know why
he dominated, That's one of the big reasons why he dominated.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Yeah, I've been here about twenty years in Los Angeles,
moved here in two thousand and six. Uh, and so
for me, he is Dodger baseball.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Right.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Obviously there's Vin Scully, I mean, nothing touches that, but otherwise,
my entire run here has been watching his evolution, his
growth and everything changing around him. Second, that curveball that
you lay out first pitch, and obviously he struggled in
the first inning this year, but still to a ten
and two record at a three five ERA.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
You'll take that any day. Someone was starting to do
the calculations of how many innings he can just be
absolutely rocked and watches era finally get to that nice
round number. So kind of kind of crazy. And the
third thing is he's throwback slash red ass right yere. Hey,
if there was something on the field where he wasn't
getting his seven to ten start. I'd screw with him tomorrow.
(29:41):
Hey Clayton, we're gonna do something special.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Damn it. No, I'm on the mountain. It's time, that's time.
It's my last start. How dare you? Oh man, I'll
tell you. I mean really, lou Seal comes running out
there to create chaos.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I mean it just seeing that is just it's it's
so demoralizing for a hitter when when that's the first
pitch comes like, okay, man, all right, I guess I
guess gonna be one of those days, one of those
that bats for me. Here now suddenly I'm trying to
just I'm defensive and if I if I could hit
the ball the other way and I can, I could
poke it through the infield.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
It's a huge victory for me. But it's one of
those where where you get sad because again, there aren't
many guys like this, right, and we're seeing shades of
it with Snell yesterday, you know, waving Dave Roberts off
and the Vesia thing and all of that was great, right,
And certainly the folks that have been stands for Blake Snell,
they got their ammunition yesterday, So good for them. But
but all of it to say, like we don't we
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don't have guys that battle like Kershawn anymore when we're
talking innings, when we're talking about these years, and lesser
men would have just said, all right, I've been hurt
a bunch, I'm done. I got my title, I got
my accomplishments, whatever. And to watch his emotions as he
goes out here at peace to a degree, but you
can see that there there's still something burning and hoping
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for that next month of baseball.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Exit about a fresca exit swollen down the Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon time that to
find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
But guy, you can also throw that curve over the
plate for a strike. It's Martin Weiss.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Yet no chance, no chance, all right, I tell you
I I played a celebrity softball game one time, celebrity
in big time quotations.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Got to be the only guy to strike out four times. Okay, okay,
leaning celebrity game. I was four. They started booing me
because I was a swing and I was trying to draw.
I was trying to get on base.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
But you know they weren't having it so twenty one
twenty one right now. The Dolphins had just forced a
Buffalo punt and then in Dolphin fashion, ran into the punter,
giving Buffalo a first down. But this has been a
back and forth game thus far. Josh Allen with two
touchdown passes, James Cook with one touchdown run, Dalton Kcate
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and excuse me, Dalton Kincate and Jackson Hawes the recipients
of those touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
For Buffalo, and two a talking about Low with two touchdown.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Passes himself, won to Tyreek Hill, one to Jalen Waddle,
and Ali Gordon started the scoring in the first quarter again,
just under ten minutes left in the game. As James
Cook stumbles forward on second down, it'll be third down
for Buffalo. The Dodgers in action right now with scoreless
with one on in the top of the second inning.
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Dodgers also announced today that three time Saw Young Award
winner Clayton Kershall will retire at the end of this year,
his final home start coming a Friday against the Giants,
who are in the obviously in that wildcard race. Seattle
Mariners one at Kansas City two to nothing ties Houston
now first place in the alst. The Guardians won their
seventh consecutive game three to one victory at Detroit swept
(32:48):
the Tigers in this series. They're now three and a
half back from Detroit. And Yankees beat the Oriel seventh
to nothing. Pete Alonzo homer for a fourth straight game
as the Newark Metio had a six to one win
over Sandy Diego. Washington Commander's quarterback Jaden Daniels didn't practice
today for the second consecutive day. He had a sprained knee.
Land to list the Kyle Pitts as limited in practice
(33:10):
on Thursday, as with a toe injury. Kansas City wide
receiver Xavior Worthy was limited in practice. He's working back
from that week one dislocated shoulder he suffers from friendly fire.
Travis Kelsey tackled him. Rookie wide receiver Jalen Royal was
full go. He expects to make his NFL debut on Sunday.
The Indiana Fever advanced to the second round of the
WNBA Playoff two games to none over the Atlanta Dream
(33:33):
with an eighty seven to eighty five win. Just a
few moments ago at the half, the Aces lead the
Seattle Storm thirty three to twenty six.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
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off A twenty eight twenty one on Bills with the
lead midway through the fourth quarter, Dolphins are driving. I'm
embarrassed for the Bills. The game is this close as
We'll have more on this coming up in a few minutes.
Division game short weeks. Embarrassed for everybody. If you hate
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the tush push, congratulations haters. The NFL has instructed officials
to officiate the heck out of the tush push from
here on out. Upset that a penalty at least one
penalty was missed last week the off side on the Eagles.
We saw it after the times they ran it against
the Chiefs, and now it's become one of those firestorms again.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Oh, the tush push is ridiculous. We can't have it.
But do you get the help from the upstairs in
the booths all the time.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
The NFL has instructed officials to call the controversial play
tight going forward, So we're going to see a tight
call on this between the Eagles and the Rams. Look,
we talked about this yesterday. In the last couple of
days when it's come up, the world is going towards
the banning of this play, right, That's just the way
the NFL is going enjoy it the rest of this
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season because it's gonna get banned after this. When it
came out that the new angle of this following last
week was it's a really hard play to officiate. This
is what gets the NFL teams who are on the
side of the toushbush to go, oh, well, if they
can really, if they can skirt the rules and they
can't have it officiated as well as it should be, well,
(36:27):
then guess what. No, I don't want it because I
don't want them to be able to take advantage of
the rules. If I can't take advantage of the rules,
they do it better than we do. Yeah, we could
do the play, but we don't do it as well
as them. Hey, okay, it's a competitive advantage, but they
know how to do something well. But the minute it
came out that it's a tough play to officiate. This
is gonna get banned, and the NFL isn't gonna want
another offseason of here's a potentially illegal play, taking all
(36:50):
the headlines that it does. So enjoy It's gonna go
this season, Eagles, use the hell out of it. Man,
use as many plays as you want, use it on
first and ten, Use as many play as you want
to going forward, because after this year, you're not gonna
get the votes to keep it.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
It will come up again. It will be band. He
won't have any more toush push in the NF. But
go on a limb and say McVeigh and company also
sent tape of every instance they could find over the
last couple of years where you could make the uh
judgment of the offensive line being off to the races uh.
And you start getting a preponderance of evidence, not just
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the ISO shots from last week. You know they've already
run that play eight times through the first two weeks
of the season. You realize that Jalen Hurts has only
thrown the ball more than ten air yards three times
through the first two weeks of the season. I don't
know so little random stats you want.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Them, I really want them to throw the ball out
of that formation. When you think they could figure that out,
we're gonna, we're gonna everybody's diving down. When you bring
Tibo back, he just does the jump pass bagain. Look,
certain times it's you just see the way that a
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belief goes on a topic. And in sports, you see
whether it's rules or or or or or games or
teams and how they're they're moving towards phasing players out,
and you say, Okay, this is just the way it's going,
and you can't stop it. You can't stop momentum when
it's going that way. And there's so much momentum against
it now that I can't see it making it one
more even the biggest holdouts, because we told you this
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was the biggest thing. If the Eagles have a competitive
advantage of officiating wise, that's going to be it. That
spells doom for this. And I don't even think it's
going to be particularly close next year. No, but that's
the thing. Right, it flips from four teams voting for it,
and and you know, twenty eight voting against.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Right, it sucks. You're just good at it. And I
know they used some of the species logic of hey,
look how fast Tyreek Hill is or whatever else. You
can't legislate against that. No, in this case, if you
can go for the all right eight thus far, if
you can tell me that I'm virtually all of those plays,
somebody's off to the races and there should have been
a false start called. Plus the the Blandino audio and
(39:07):
the preponderance of evidence and a number of ex officials
that are coming in and going, yeah, it kind of
that's where we're at. Then yeah, it becomes an easy band.
So utilize it as much as you can. Again, eight
times already in two weeks, it's been the most highly
effective play, certainly in ninety seven percent success rate. We
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know this. But now you're you're just in a space
where you're gonna get those last couple of votes. So
they're gonna flip pretty easily. It's just gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
So enjoy it, and haters, congratulations, you hate the play.
This is the last season you have to see it.
Exit out about a Fresco exit swollen dome. Coming up next,
the Dolphins driving for the tying score against the Bills
and to a complete a pass to the guys in
the wrong Jersey, oh Bills take over with three minutes left,
up by a touchdown. More on this and Shawn next,
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right now. I'm really embarrassed. Tell you how embarrassed I
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am right now this moment in time.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
In this moment in time, the Mets won six to one,
so they didn't do it too now the Mets. Aronzo
is thirty seventh home or thirty seven.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
King Tong, King Tong, ain't God blake on.
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Me, King Tom.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Eventually someone puts on the turn a kit and stops
the bleeding. All right, So we got that going on.
We got some Thursday night football. And that's why I'm embarrassed.
That's why you're embarrassed. Why I'm embarrassed. Why is that?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Well, because right now I love jumping in Mondays and
Thursdays are so great. We jump right in with a
oh an NFL game back in half, just getting underway. Yeah,
about eight and a half to go, and the Bills
are holding on to a twenty one to fourteen lead
over the Dolphins. Somehow, a game the Bills should be
winning by fifty. The Dolphins are a touchdown down despite
(01:50):
the fact that Tua has thrown for sixty yards tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
An operational efficiency. Man, it doesn't need to be gaudy, and.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
They're not running the football like crazy. They have sixty
seven yards rushing. Now Ali Gordon started to get a
chance here running the foot.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Well, you know, there he is. There's a tweet that
will read someone related to the Ali Gordon touchdown. A
little later, the.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Bills offense has been the Bills offense right like Josh
Allen's got two touchdowns, James cook Is it's seventy six
and a touchdown, Dalton and Kaid having the big night,
maybe the year three breakout for a tight end. But
this is why I'm embarrassed. This is why I'm embarrassed,
because the Dolphins are terrible.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
We talked about this last night. If the Dolphins somehow
win this game, it would be the biggest upset of
the twenty twenties. As bad as things have been for
the Dolphins the first two weeks, we've had other games
with a little bit bigger points. President I think they
went off at like thirteen point dogs today, close to
thirteen someway.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Wow, we got back out there because I saw it
at eleven earlier today, So maybe a late swell.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
But yeah, they thought Bob Greasy was playing quarterback. Well maybe,
and so this would be as bad as it's been
the first week of a no show. The second week
they lose at home at one o'clock on Sunday, where
they won like eighty percent of their games the last
forty years. It's as embarrassing as it could be. And
here are the Dolphins hanging close right, It's a one
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score game midway through the third quarter. Somehow this game
pad defying logic that the Bills have like three hundred
yards of nearly three hund yards of total offense and
yet it's a one score game.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
This is why I'm embarrassed. Well, a little bit of
juice coming right off the jump with the opening kickoff
return fifty four yards, putting them in plus field position.
Hence you didn't need all the yardage nah, and the
gaudy stats for the first possession, which ended with that
touchdown run that you mentioned before from Ali Gordon, much
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to the chagrin of a lot of fantasy owners who
are looking for stuff. But we've seen some opportunities for
Tyreek Hill to make plays. He actually made a nice
catch over the middle late in that first half that
helped set up their second score. But yeah, for the Bills,
they moved the ball pretty well. Both offensive lines have
just looked terrible for a good chunk of this game.
Some good blocking out out front by the Bills wide
(04:02):
receiver setting up that Dalton Kincaid big catch down to
the three a little earlier before the James Cook touchdown run.
But all of that to say you had a great
possession that ended in a really horribly shanked field goal
attempt by Matt Prater. So there's some points on the board,
and like the Dolphins are prideful, they weren't gonna go
down without a fight. Now, will they have enough to
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stand up when it's all said and done and will
we get past the eleven, the twelve to thirteen wherever
you got in on that time continue? I don't know,
but yeah, for Tua and company, they've they've at least
showed a little bit of fight after no showing for
two weeks. Now, here's why I'm embarrassed.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Now, this is why you're Here's why I'm embarrassed. Right, Yeah,
all great coaching points about the Dolphins. The Dolphins still stink, right,
They still there. Still they stink, they but they're trying.
This game is a one score game. Yeah, midway through
the third quarter, the Jets had one hundred yards of
offense on the Bills going to the final drive of
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the game. Last week, Justin Fields completed two passes. The
Jets may be even worse than I think they are.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
That's how bad it. That's that's where this got That's
where this got your brain going put out.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
A body game on Sunday, a sea game. In fact,
I didn't even think they took postgame showers. Hey, we
just get right in the plane and go back. You
don't need a shower.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
We all feel good. Listen, I think we have a
little bit of a drought going on. We're okay right here.
We're just gonna let let the let the Jets do
their thing. We don't need everyone.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Just go to the just get on the bus, and
you know, I just got on the bus. Go back
to the airport. We'll fly back. It was a sea
game for the Bills on Sunday, a sea game, and
they dusted the Jets, and the Jets looked like they
were absolutely starting over at which they kind of are,
like they're starting over again for the thirteenth time in
the last fourteen years. Uh, that the Jets might be
worse than even Like I knew after Week one, Hey,
(05:54):
everything isn't gonna be sunshine, lollipops and rainbows going into
week two, because they're gonna they're gonna really Sometimes week
one ends your season. And that was an awful loss
to Rogers and the Steelers, and it wasn't full of optimism.
It was everything went right for the Jets and they
still lost. So of course they come up flat next
week against Buffalo, which I've seen a million times, and
now that they might be one of the worst teams
(06:14):
in the NFL. Like what, like, I don't know, I
don't This is where I've gone with the first two
and a half quarters of this game. Is I went
from Hey, in the last couple of weeks, Hey, maybe
the Jets can do a TV A team that hangs
around five hundred most of the season, gets into December
where the season isn't lost, And this time next year
we're thinking about the Jets a little bit differently, and
Aaron Glenn is done. But really, the Jets might be
(06:36):
as bad as the Saints, as bad as the Browns,
as bad as a lot of these teams. Because this
doesn't make any sense at all. How the Dolphins who
quit before the season began.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
It's a one.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Score game, It's a close game on the road on
Thursday night. They're keeping this a close game, and the
Jets just got boat Right's Like, I really they may
be I mean, Jets, Saints, Browns, like these may be
the three war teams in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Well, maybe the Jets really actually tend to rize them
and it was a tougher battle than you thought. Or
maybe the Bills are sleepwalking thinking they had a walkover
opponent coming in, even if it is a divisional game.
But to that point, I mean, we watched some big
holes open up. We saw a chan with a couple
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of runs. You saw the touchdown from Gordon who has
had some time to throw this Bill's defense, and again
this doesn't make you feel any better, but they can
be gotten. For the Jets coming into the year, what
were they add five and a half or six wins?
I know you were optimistic that culture and everything that
is built would happen in year one. I think they're
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showing you the other. By the way, the Dolphins are
only at six and a half wins, so they're not
exactly running away and hiding here, but certainly a much
better effort. And yet another one of these early season
divisional games.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
This is just just it makes me just okay, all right,
then I need the Mets to fly me over to
the Knicks. Fly me over the Jets and into the Knicks.
That's what I need. That's how bad it is, like
I really I think this is so. I'm so at
the point where, hey, after you know, there's oh and
two teams in the NFL so far that that are bad.
(08:16):
There's oh and two teams in the NFL that are
good with rough starts, that still have a chance to
pull themselves out of it.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Teams like the Chiefs and the Texans.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Sure, and there's also teams, well, you're oh and two
because you're oh and two when you stink. And clearly
the Dolphins are are better than the Jets. Seeing this
right now, so I'd say the Jets and Cleveland, even
Tennessee as bad as they're starting over with cam Ward
who then let him throw the ball eight times and
a half.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Even the Giants almost beat the Cowboys are better. Even
the Bears, who at least are scoring some points a
little bit in their offenses, is a little bit better
than you think it is. Even Carolina is closer. I mean,
if these oh and two, I realized it's the Jets
and the Saints and the Browns that these are going
to be. But the Panthers, it's not that difficult a division.
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The Panthers gonna beat the Saints a couple of times
like these.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I don't know. Spencer Rattles, it looks like he's got
a little bit of juice to so is Bryce young Man.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Suddenly, Bryce young and Spencer Rattler looks like a great
matchup on the weekend.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Hey man, I'll sell the hell out of it. Let's go.
I really more.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I think it's those three teams are gonna be fighting
for Garrett Nussmeyer. I can't even say for arch Man anyway.
They'll be fighting for Garrett Nusmeyer. Now, yeah, but he
didn't score. Remember Brian Kelly had to fight with that reporter.
What's the problem we won the game?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Get out of here, jerk? And then he kind of
had to backtrack it and apologize. Must have been related
to a booster or something. But I mean the Dolphins
coming game for this one Bills, and again they could
still pull away. I mean their explosive offense. We've seen
some big play potential Kincaid streaking out of the backfield
(09:50):
where the Bills. It's interesting is watching to see beyond Kincaid,
who you trust in your passing game, Right, Khalil Shakir,
Kean Coleman. Right, he had the deflective ball in week one,
But on a weekly basis, are you banking on him
for big plays? No, it's it's Josh Allen's creativity and
that run game with with Cook with maybe a little
(10:12):
bit of Davis creeping back in as the game goes on.
But for now, we got ourselves a ballgame on a
Thursday night. Let's celebrate that. Twenty one to fourteen Bills
with the lead. Dolphins have the football near midfield about
five and a half to go in the third quarter,
and so far Mike McDaniel is saying to himself, Hey,
we're playing well enough that I'm not going to get
fired after this week. So okay, totally got the vote
(10:34):
of confidence. Yeah, but you know what happens after you
get a vote conf federally. But yeah, I mean that
was the report pregame. It's like they're gonna be a
little more patience.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Like, wow, that means it really got loud if you
have to put that in your pregame.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yeah yeah, yeah, game part on it on the Amazon
it's like, all right, well, I guess we have to
address the elephant. They're gonna be fired right out the game.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Okay, don't look for Greer to come down and take
the headset and his shoes and his pre pants from him.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
At the end of the gay It's not gonna happen. Okay,
you always kind of bum though, Like we were getting
ready to transition into the studios as the Odd Couple
were finishing their show, and it was right coming out
out of halftime, and that's when McDaniel had his quick
little back and forth with whoever was interviewing on the
sideline and he said something where there was just this
pause with the reporter and I'm like, I'm trying to
(11:22):
go ten seconds back. I was like I want to,
and it wouldn't go. I'm like, come on.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
He obviously said something that made it really confusing, made
no sense.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
So we'll effort that as we continue. It's like, I
gotta see what kind of gems he's given us as
they battle here or in the third quarter.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Oh you want gems, I'm gonna give you gems right here,
Mike Carmen for a couple.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
You know me, I love diamonds.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
So I am with people right now, people who love
hot ta. I mean, I love a hot take with
people who just they're living on hot take.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
All I do is hot all I do is hot.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
People are fighting to get to their keyboards and put
videos up, and they want their TV shows on the
air right now so they can be the first ones
to say, you see you look at all the evidence.
The Indiana Fever are better without Caitland p than they
are with her. You see what happens. The Fever beat
the Atlanta Dream tonight, a big playoff upset. They win
(12:14):
that first round series two games to one. Eighty seven
to eighty five. Is the final. Just I can't wait
because you know it's gonna happen, absolutely, And I'll even
tell you this. You're gonna get And this is what's
gonna be embarrassing, is you're gonna get former WNBA players
and analysts who are gonna say, yeah, see, you look
at the way this team plays without Caitland Clark and
it's much much better. You see the way things go
(12:35):
in the back court. And look, we knew I told
you the beginning of the season. By the end of
the regular season, the Fever gonna be looked at as
the best team in the WNBA. That's the team to beat.
Now Caitlin Clark got hurt, they lost Sophie Cunningham they've
had to move things around. But remember they made some
moves to bring in some players in the offseason because
they were augmenting and getting ready for a championship run.
(12:55):
Because Caitland Clark's a top five player in the league,
she's the biggest star of the league. Yes, they found
a way to win the first round of the playoffs
without her, and it's an awesome accomplishment. But man, I'll
tell you, I really, I really can't wait. I'm wondering
who the first ones are gonna be to say, you
can't argue you can't look at what they did last
year with her, look at that, and they're gonna cherry
pick an argument to just say, really, buddy, really.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I'm gonna have Shae and tysher clip this off. As
soon as we're done, we're gonna be first. Are you
kidding me? Eighty seven eighty five, A disjointed final possession
ball squirts all the way back out to the three
point range Odyssey Simms, what a name that is? Yeah,
she finds Aleah Boston, who's suddenly wide open under the
(13:40):
basket as the defense forgets hey, you know what if
you let her go short range?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
She's gonna put the ball in and well, DJ, clearly,
if you're looking for a long playoff run, definitely to
see Simms is the one to guide you through that
long journey. That's a fantastic name though, right you're setting
it up as hey, you know what, you got a
long journey, Good luck to you, kid, go get it.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
But she has the assist to Boston to put them
up one. Eventually you get the fall, she hits the
final free throw. You win by two, five players in
double digits. You had assists on three quarters of their baskets,
four assists per turnover.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Yeah, the ball moved. They're a better team without Katelyn Clark.
There it is, because that's how it works. Wait, let
me pull out that bucket of Circaz. When you take
great players away, that's how it works.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
And the thing is because nobody would say would say
that for any other player, Like Okay, So let's just
say you go into next season and.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
The Lakers go on to run early.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Right, say Lebron is out for some reason, he wants
to make videos, he wants to get traded, whatever it is.
And Lebron is out for some reason, and with Luca
leading the way, all of a sudden, Hey, the Lakers
at the top of the West. No one's gonna say, well,
you know, they're better off without Lebron. I mean, no
one's gonna say that if the Milwaukee Bucks go on
a run in the beginning of next Okay, here's gotta
be something more realistic, if the Knicks go on a
(15:03):
run in the beginning of the season next year without
Jalen Brunson, because who knows, they're looking into how come
you took all this less money? And Pablo Tory has
him on a on a standsday, Did you order the
Code red?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Did you order a Code Red?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeh?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
But it seems like every time someone's got an argument,
he's got more paperwork that's sitting there. Hey, here's another
thirty million. You want to keep doing this.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
No one is gonna say the Knicks are better off
without Jalen Brunson. No one's gonna say the Bucks are
better off without Gianness, right, no one's gonna say, uh,
we're looking at the Warriors are better off without Steph.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
But no one is saying this stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
But we'll say it for Caitlin Clark just because because
I like hot takes and I still for some reason,
I still don't like her as a player.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Why because she I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
That's still really I guarantee you you're gonna get that
tonight tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I want to plant my fight and there because it
is a Thursday night, she got a full slate of
shows for a Friday morning.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Remember the old show, The Gong Show. Ohta explain the
Gong Show? So the Gong Show was a reality show
basically in the seventies where is X Factor, where people
would show up and they would do all these different
individual talents like they had and and you know, some
might I could I could be a mime, or I
can sing like whatever it is. And then if you
did well and you made it to the end, you won.
(16:14):
But if you were terrible, they grabbed a big gong
and hit them and hit the hit the gunk and
you were done. And so there were sometimes where the
person performing was so bad that the judges would fight
over the gong, over who got to God there? Right, Yeah,
that's what it's that they're fighting over the gong right
now of who's gonna be it. That's to say they're
better off without Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I would have been that guy. You know what's crazy though,
As you mentioned the gong show and a gong, I
actually did on a gong last week in an auction
and it ended up going for twenty two thousand pounds. Wow.
It was part of a Doubt and Abbey auction and
it was estimated to go for maybe like a thousand,
so I tried to lowball it and then all of
a sudden, like wait, it went for what well you know,
(16:58):
I mean that would have been fun in the corner
of the studio because we really had our own gong
for some of these efforts we get to watch on
a nightly BASEDDJ.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Then Mike Harmon could definitely bang a gong and get
it on during the show.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Damn right, j You've got t Rex arms. So yeah,
let's go.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
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Bills with the lead late third quarter. We'll have more
in this game, but coming up next. It is the
end of an absolute era in Major League Baseball for
a superstar who says this.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
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Speaker 1 (17:49):
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Thursday Night Football. This game is moving.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Get those fours up, uh. Bills still lead it twenty
one to fourteen.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Somehow the Dolphins, who have quit on the season, are
keeping it closer with the Bills than the Jets did
on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Again, the Jets may be one of the three worst
teams in the NFL. They're fighting for Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah, yeah, I think that was the pregame speech. Hey guys,
you know I'm gonna get blown out. Just you know,
if you ever liked me for five minutes, remember when
I took over, we were gonna be a fast team,
and we were really good for a while.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Just give me a little bit here, man.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
We don't have to win tonight, but just don't lose
by a thousand so I could keep my job another week,
all right, as we can do that, thank you.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
What do we always say, doesn't have to be aesthetically pleasing,
just needs to be close late.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
So we'll have more on this game coming up in
a bit. Again, Just getting ready to start the fourth quarter,
Bills lead by a touchdown. But it's time now for
the play of the day and that gets you into
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and we could have made it a James Cook touchdown.
He could have made it a Dalton and k touchdown.
But since Clayton Kershaw has announced he is calling it
quits at the end of this season, his eighteenth in
(20:22):
Major League Baseball, well there is only one play of
the day.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
One two pitch strike threecords take cut of with a
sire strikeout number three thousand for Clayton Kershaw, his history
at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Dodgers TV on the call that just a few weeks
ago I pitched. It's still the more you look at it, like, wow,
that really wasn't a strike, but hey, okay it was
the White Sox.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
What does it matter? Nny Caepra of the White Know
it was really odd. The timing of this announcement will
get deep into what he had to say and the
ramification in his place baseball history is like yesterday, we
were going through a lot of Dodger stuff. Right, We're
watching that game unfold the Blake Snells situation. Listen to
the podcast. We had the instant react that was just
(21:11):
it was audio gold. But I was actually when I
got home and flipped on a TV show and I
was actually looking at Kershaw memorabilia, looking for the three
thousand strikeout ticket stumps because there's not many of them right.
Mostly it's digital now and different things like that. And
then today we get this, Hey, there's an announcement brewing,
and like the hell Man, that is just like weird
(21:32):
foreshadowing of things to come. Now, two things to get
into here for a second.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
The first one is that I'm just waiting because I
don't know that people realize. Okay, tomorrow is the last
Kershaw start at Dodger Stadium. Now, likely he's gonna have
at least one more one more time through the rotation,
but it won't be at Dodger stadium, Willie pitching the playoffs.
Potentially after game two of the first round of the playoffs,
everything is up in the you don't know what bullpen
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is being used. You don't know where it's going. Kershaw
is having a good enough season, but is he someone's
gonna start game one?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I think after last night we saw Blake Snell as
your game once you.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Got him, and and then who knows, right, because then
you don't know what kind of bullpen you're using. So
potentially he's going to pitch in the playoffs, right, So
you're not it's not the end of Kershaw. But here's
the last start for Kershaw at Dodger Stadium. It's a
really big deal.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Joe Davis talking bobbing, Yeah, yeah, I ask you this,
uh what what day?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I'm gonna ask you three questions, Mike Carmen, just like
last night, se if you get a hundred on.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
The Okay, what day is tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (22:31):
The day that Clayton Kershaw is making his final start
at Dodgers stage.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Tomorrow is Friday, very good also known as Hawaiian should
so where Hawaiian shirt? Of course?
Speaker 7 (22:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:41):
You won?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Okay number two? Yep?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Where are baseball games broadcast on Friday night Apple TV.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Very good, Mike Harmon.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Now.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Third, quite most important question? Can I have my the
Can you have my password? Is that what you're gonna
ask me? Most important question? Is it easy for fans
to see games.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
On Apple TV on Friday night if you cough up
a buck?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Yeah, but it's pretty simple if you're willing to spend
a dollar.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Here's the thing. Is it worth the ten bucks or
whatever it would be? For a month?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Plus all the wonderful content including Severance and Ted Lasso
on so many other great things. The Morning Show which
premiered today. All Right, I'm gonna okay, I did that.
That's a great prehamble. But I answered, is it easy?
Does does everybody have access to seeing Clayton?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Categorically? Three questions? You go to the head of the class.
That's one hundred.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
I would say this tomorrow, across the city of Los Angeles,
there are a lot of people randomly showing up at.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Their local group hub. Tomorrow. You have the game.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Tomorrow's game Tomorrow is gonna be I don't know what
time it's gonna be, but sometime nearly afternoon's gonna be
that big Wait, what moment from Dodger.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
What.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
No, it's like when we have random we're talking about
game overseas right for the NFL, it's like, oh, they're
doing those damn things again, like I missed one, you
know that kind of thing. Wait you mean I can't wait? What?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
So how we do?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
What? Wait?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
What?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
What do you talk? What do you mean? We apple? Wait? What? What?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Like?
Speaker 3 (24:15):
That's what That's what it's gonna be. We've had that
a lot on Fridays over the course of this season,
that reminder of oh wait, because we've had a couple
of instances where it looked like we were gonna have
those milestone moments, whether it was Judge or or a
tiny day, et cetera, where where folks got a little angsty.
But for this one, yeah, it's next level stuff for
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a guy in eighteen years he debuted a month before
my second daughter was born.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I mean, and this is and look, I want to
say that we're gonna see him one more time in
the regular season, but maybe not because I said that,
But yeah, his turn in the rotation should wait much
more time. But maybe they say, Okay, he's gonna be
part of our rotation or the plan is to piggyback
him with someone else's piggyback is gonna be a big
thing this playoffs. I'll tell you that right away. Uh,
starting pitchers piggybacking is gonna be a big thing instead
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of bullpen games. But I'll tell you this, like maybe
it is his last start, so now it's not this
is not just this is baseball fans across the country
Kershaw making the last start. He's the best left handed
pitcher that I have ever seen, the best better than
Randy Johnson. Bet he's the best left handed pitcher that
I have ever seen. And it's he's gonna make his
(25:21):
final start tomorrow night. People across the country are gonna
go all right, I guess I'll just I'll just follow
on social media. People will post the strikeouts for what's
happening with Clayton and ovations, and because you know, it's
gonna be full of all kinds of fun stuff tomorrow night,
the broadcast the game itself, Dodger fans saying goodbye to
Clayton Kershaw. I mean, it's it's gonna be that kind
of night, man.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Oh no, it's huge. I mean we watched the clips
earlier his presser and the statement that he gave and
then he answered a couple of questions, almost lost it
a couple of time, Like I said, I mean, we're
talking eighteen years, you and I, you know, loving the
game of baseball that we do, me being once upon
a time a crafty junk ball er lefty uh before
(26:00):
the shoulder threw it and went into the third deck.
But all of watching a guy with one team, a
full career, the highs and lows, the injuries, the battle back,
like all of that and what he means to this city,
all the more Key and his wife have done. I
like that he kept dropping in the four and a
half kids, referenced the pregnancy, but all of it to say,
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like we've watched it's eighteen years man, like that long time,
lifetime of dominance.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
And to your point, the best that I've gotten to
see fully was Johnson more intimidating, sure, because for a
while early in his career you had no idea where
the ball was. Not many lefties thrown ninety eight right,
that's the whole thing. Left like Kershaw never threw ninety
eight one hundred like he was. His fastball was in
the mid nineties. But you know, when you think about this, right,
when you think about Kershaw's legacy, we'll get to the
(26:50):
playoff part of it, because that's a really big part
of Kershaw is that when I look back and you
say Clayton Kershaw to me, the first vision that I get,
or the image of Kershaw that I get, is is
how amazingly good he was at his curve or his
slider on that first pitch to a batter, throwing it
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over the plate in a spot where the hitter can't
get it right. You see the late break on that
and it would break from the way from the side,
and it would hit the black every single time, and
the and the umpire was easy boom, strike one. And
you're a batter and you are saying, what the hell
am I gonna do when he's throwing that pitch for
a strike right when he can he can have that
such a late break on his on his slider, his curve,
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whatever whatever he wanted to throw that he can do that.
I mean, that's just such an unbelievable advantage that he had.
And then nobody else could do stuff like even if
he wanted to throw it over the heart of the
plate sometimes just make you think that, hey, I can
get it. You're still not hitting that curve, right, You're
still not hitting it. Now you get later in that bat,
maybe it doesn't break the shark. But throwing that first
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pitch for a strike, I mean, I can't tell you
how many times I have seen him do that, and
I just go that that's just such a mental advantage.
First of all, it's an advantage to go on one on
the count, obviously, but it's such a mental advantage for
the pitcher over the batter to know I have control
of all of my pitches and this is what's gonna happen.
And I'm not gonna throw you some lazy fastball on
the corner for strike one, or if I think you're not swaying,
I'm gonna throw a fast player. I'm gonna give you
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a curve and give you a slider. I'm gonna give
you something that is gonna break over the plate, and
all of a sudden, you're at bad is gonna be defensive?
Like That's the vision I have of him when I
think of it, just watching the just watching the hump
of the ball and the batter and the batter just
taking it and just shaking his head and going okay,
now it's on one and Kershaw's got me where he wants,
like that the way he was able to do that.
(28:37):
So it's so commanding that cut those two pitches so easily,
especially early in counts, Like you want to know why
he dominated, That's one of the big reasons why he dominated.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Yeah, I've been here about twenty years in Los Angeles,
moved here in two thousand and six. Uh, and so
for me, he is Dodger baseball.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Right.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Obviously there's Vin Scully, I mean, nothing touches that, but otherwise,
my entire run here has been watching his evolution, his
growth and everything changing around him. Second, that curveball that
you lay out first pitch, and obviously he struggled in
the first inning this year, but still to a ten
and two record at a three five ERA.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
You'll take that any day. Someone was starting to do
the calculations of how many innings he can just be
absolutely rocked and watches era finally get to that nice
round number. So kind of kind of crazy. And the
third thing is he's throwback slash red ass right yere. Hey,
if there was something on the field where he wasn't
getting his seven to ten start. I'd screw with him tomorrow.
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Hey Clayton, we're gonna do something special.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Damn it. No, I'm on the mountain. It's time, that's time.
It's my last start. How dare you? Oh man, I'll
tell you. I mean really, lou Seal comes running out
there to create chaos.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I mean it just seeing that is just it's it's
so demoralizing for a hitter when when that's the first
pitch comes like, okay, man, all right, I guess I
guess gonna be one of those days, one of those
that bats for me. Here now suddenly I'm trying to
just I'm defensive and if I if I could hit
the ball the other way and I can, I could
poke it through the infield.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
It's a huge victory for me. But it's one of
those where where you get sad because again, there aren't
many guys like this, right, and we're seeing shades of
it with Snell yesterday, you know, waving Dave Roberts off
and the Vesia thing and all of that was great, right,
And certainly the folks that have been stands for Blake Snell,
they got their ammunition yesterday, So good for them. But
but all of it to say, like we don't we
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don't have guys that battle like Kershawn anymore when we're
talking innings, when we're talking about these years, and lesser
men would have just said, all right, I've been hurt
a bunch, I'm done. I got my title, I got
my accomplishments, whatever. And to watch his emotions as he
goes out here at peace to a degree, but you
can see that there there's still something burning and hoping
(30:53):
for that next month of baseball.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Exit about a fresca exit swollen down the Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon time that to
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But guy, you can also throw that curve over the
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Speaker 4 (31:09):
Yet no chance, no chance, all right, I tell you
I I played a celebrity softball game one time, celebrity
in big time quotations.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Got to be the only guy to strike out four times. Okay, okay,
leaning celebrity game. I was four. They started booing me
because I was a swing and I was trying to draw.
I was trying to get on base.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
But you know they weren't having it so twenty one
twenty one right now. The Dolphins had just forced a
Buffalo punt and then in Dolphin fashion, ran into the punter,
giving Buffalo a first down. But this has been a
back and forth game thus far. Josh Allen with two
touchdown passes, James Cook with one touchdown run, Dalton Kcate
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and excuse me, Dalton Kincate and Jackson Hawes the recipients
of those touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
For Buffalo, and two a talking about Low with two touchdown.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Passes himself, won to Tyreek Hill, one to Jalen Waddle,
and Ali Gordon started the scoring in the first quarter again,
just under ten minutes left in the game. As James
Cook stumbles forward on second down, it'll be third down
for Buffalo. The Dodgers in action right now with scoreless
with one on in the top of the second inning.
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Dodgers also announced today that three time Saw Young Award
winner Clayton Kershall will retire at the end of this year,
his final home start coming a Friday against the Giants,
who are in the obviously in that wildcard race. Seattle
Mariners one at Kansas City two to nothing ties Houston
now first place in the alst. The Guardians won their
seventh consecutive game three to one victory at Detroit swept
(32:48):
the Tigers in this series. They're now three and a
half back from Detroit. And Yankees beat the Oriel seventh
to nothing. Pete Alonzo homer for a fourth straight game
as the Newark Metio had a six to one win
over Sandy Diego. Washington Commander's quarterback Jaden Daniels didn't practice
today for the second consecutive day. He had a sprained knee.
Land to list the Kyle Pitts as limited in practice
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on Thursday, as with a toe injury. Kansas City wide
receiver Xavior Worthy was limited in practice. He's working back
from that week one dislocated shoulder he suffers from friendly fire.
Travis Kelsey tackled him. Rookie wide receiver Jalen Royal was
full go. He expects to make his NFL debut on Sunday.
The Indiana Fever advanced to the second round of the
WNBA Playoff two games to none over the Atlanta Dream
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with an eighty seven to eighty five win. Just a
few moments ago at the half, the Aces lead the
Seattle Storm thirty three to twenty six.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
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this may be the best news you've heard in.
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off A twenty eight twenty one on Bills with the
lead midway through the fourth quarter, Dolphins are driving. I'm
embarrassed for the Bills. The game is this close as
We'll have more on this coming up in a few minutes.
Division game short weeks. Embarrassed for everybody. If you hate
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the tush push, congratulations haters. The NFL has instructed officials
to officiate the heck out of the tush push from
here on out. Upset that a penalty at least one
penalty was missed last week the off side on the Eagles.
We saw it after the times they ran it against
the Chiefs, and now it's become one of those firestorms again.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Oh, the tush push is ridiculous. We can't have it.
But do you get the help from the upstairs in
the booths all the time.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
The NFL has instructed officials to call the controversial play
tight going forward, So we're going to see a tight
call on this between the Eagles and the Rams. Look,
we talked about this yesterday. In the last couple of
days when it's come up, the world is going towards
the banning of this play, right, That's just the way
the NFL is going enjoy it the rest of this
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season because it's gonna get banned after this. When it
came out that the new angle of this following last
week was it's a really hard play to officiate. This
is what gets the NFL teams who are on the
side of the toushbush to go, oh, well, if they
can really, if they can skirt the rules and they
can't have it officiated as well as it should be, well,
(36:27):
then guess what. No, I don't want it because I
don't want them to be able to take advantage of
the rules. If I can't take advantage of the rules,
they do it better than we do. Yeah, we could
do the play, but we don't do it as well
as them. Hey, okay, it's a competitive advantage, but they
know how to do something well. But the minute it
came out that it's a tough play to officiate. This
is gonna get banned, and the NFL isn't gonna want
another offseason of here's a potentially illegal play, taking all
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the headlines that it does. So enjoy It's gonna go
this season, Eagles, use the hell out of it. Man,
use as many plays as you want, use it on
first and ten, Use as many play as you want
to going forward, because after this year, you're not gonna
get the votes to keep it.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
It will come up again. It will be band. He
won't have any more toush push in the NF. But
go on a limb and say McVeigh and company also
sent tape of every instance they could find over the
last couple of years where you could make the uh
judgment of the offensive line being off to the races uh.
And you start getting a preponderance of evidence, not just
(37:25):
the ISO shots from last week. You know they've already
run that play eight times through the first two weeks
of the season. You realize that Jalen Hurts has only
thrown the ball more than ten air yards three times
through the first two weeks of the season. I don't
know so little random stats you want.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Them, I really want them to throw the ball out
of that formation. When you think they could figure that out,
we're gonna, we're gonna everybody's diving down. When you bring
Tibo back, he just does the jump pass bagain. Look,
certain times it's you just see the way that a
(38:05):
belief goes on a topic. And in sports, you see
whether it's rules or or or or or games or
teams and how they're they're moving towards phasing players out,
and you say, Okay, this is just the way it's going,
and you can't stop it. You can't stop momentum when
it's going that way. And there's so much momentum against
it now that I can't see it making it one
more even the biggest holdouts, because we told you this
(38:28):
was the biggest thing. If the Eagles have a competitive
advantage of officiating wise, that's going to be it. That
spells doom for this. And I don't even think it's
going to be particularly close next year. No, but that's
the thing. Right, it flips from four teams voting for it,
and and you know, twenty eight voting against.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Right, it sucks. You're just good at it. And I
know they used some of the species logic of hey,
look how fast Tyreek Hill is or whatever else. You
can't legislate against that. No, in this case, if you
can go for the all right eight thus far, if
you can tell me that I'm virtually all of those plays,
somebody's off to the races and there should have been
a false start called. Plus the the Blandino audio and
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the preponderance of evidence and a number of ex officials
that are coming in and going, yeah, it kind of
that's where we're at. Then yeah, it becomes an easy band.
So utilize it as much as you can. Again, eight
times already in two weeks, it's been the most highly
effective play, certainly in ninety seven percent success rate. We
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know this. But now you're you're just in a space
where you're gonna get those last couple of votes. So
they're gonna flip pretty easily. It's just gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
So enjoy it, and haters, congratulations, you hate the play.
This is the last season you have to see it.
Exit out about a Fresco exit swollen dome. Coming up next,
the Dolphins driving for the tying score against the Bills
and to a complete a pass to the guys in
the wrong Jersey, oh Bills take over with three minutes left,
up by a touchdown. More on this and Shawn next,
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