October 4, 2024 • 40 mins
In Hour 1 of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Jason and Mike react immediately following the Mets comeback win over the Brewers! Pete Alonso smacked a go-ahead homer in the top of the ninth — the guys give you their instant thoughts and takeaways. Plus, could Baker Mayfield win MVP?
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He jumps. He's done.
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Hay haydn Peytolonzo with the.
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Most favorable home run of his career.
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Pop's as fast as a round second. It's a three
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Three to two lead.
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I am dead. I am dead after this game. I
didn't think i'd have a voice. After Alonzo's ball went out,
I was oddly calm. In the top of the ninth,
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I tweeted out, I feel good, top of the order.
Pete's gonna come up maybe as last as bad as
I met. I oddly felt calm and bang, my goodness.
I don't think my pulse rate got above one hundred
and fifty hundred and eighty. No, no higher than that.
Mike Harmon maybe two hundred, maybe maybe two twenty five
to that. But I was oddly calm.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I don't think any of us believe you I found.
We didn't get to see it, and we were trying
to get you on the closed circuit TV. You wouldn't
pick up to try to watch that final inning. As
it started to unfold. We were sitting in the you know,
all our different points here in the Fox Sports radio studios,
and the screaming began as the ball lifted up and
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the sadness. A Brewer fan was brought in as Pee
Alonzo circled the bases. His night was all about the
miss pop up down the first base line and being
mocked earlier. That was gonna be the meme that lived forever. Instead,
I'll be looking through the boxes to pull out the
ped Alonzo rookie cards for the forty eight hour sale
before the next round begins.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
You know, let me just say, because pedalons I mean,
this is like I always say, how can you not
be romantic about baseball? Right? Here's a guy who has
been one of the best superstars in the game the
last year, is one of the biggest home run hitters
by all accounts. How he carries himself. His teammates love him.
He's a guy that loves the game, and he is
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carried himself in a really tough place to play when
you don't win, which is Queen's Uh, it's you know,
he's carrying yourself with a lot of class.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
He comes in there. I mean, how much expectations have
there been for the Mets?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
No, no, no, but still but well there's no there's always
every year, there's always expect That's the worst part is
there's never any non expectation. There's always expectation, and then
they break your heart. That that's what it is. I mean,
that's it's never anything else. There's always expect It's not
like the Jets, where sometimes you go, well, okay, we're
gonna stink, by.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
The way, send this guy out and pick him up
at the airport and take him to it a while ago.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Oh no, now you gotta pay him whatever he wants
cost a pony. And look, he has had an incredible
run as a Met. He hired Scott Boris as his agent,
and when that happened, I knew I was waving goodbye
to him. Okay, he's gonna go. Boris Is he always
takes his guys to free agency. They always wind up
with new teams. That's just how it goes. You need
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you need any you need more evidence. Look at what
happened last year when all four of Scott Boris's stars
we're out there at the end of spring training, the
all to take lower deals someplace else. Again. We'll have
a great Boris collusion conversation sometime in the future. But
he comes into this year. I just want to play
and he has a bad year. He's an All Star
because by the All Star break, the Mets had just
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started playing well, and you know, Lindor had not turned
into the second half freak that he was. And he
comes down the stretch and Alonso is awful. He has
lost at the plate. I think he's had five hits
in his last seventeen games. He has not been good.
He has not been able to catch up to fastballs.
He has not been the same guy. I see his
body language up at the plate. It is not good.
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And here he comes up with a chance, possibly the
last at bat he will ever have as a met,
the last at bat for the Mets all season. And
when he swings at that pitch at three and one,
and I knew, I knew his confidence was back. At
three and one, I could tell, I think Pete's got
a little something here. He's feeling pretty good, because I
could tell earlier in the game when he was he
had a three and one count early in the game,
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he does not feel confident that the top hand is
is coming off the bat. He does not feel confident.
But I could tell. Look, I've seen a lot of
Alonzo White bats the last five years. I said, he's
got he feels confident here. And as soon as he
hit that and he yelled, I yelled. I never saw
the ball go over the fence the first time because
I was screaming because I knew he got it. When
he was screaming, I knew he got it. And I said,
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as soon as I stopped, I said, oh wow, my
voice I got, I got, I got four hours of
fun to talk about with you. How am I gonna
do this? And then you know, my voice came back,
and I had some tea already. But I mean, really,
how could you not be romantic about baseball?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I know what happens.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Hey.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I was okay with missing these screaming and pony ride
or whatever the hell you were doing that you would
have been doing around the studio here. So so that's okay.
The fact that you still have a voice a little
bit surprising because I figured through the first seven plus
innings you would have been cursing a lot. Oh well,
the first seven innings you didn't know what say? Did either?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Look? The first seven innings was okay. It was tense
playoff baseball, and it's games that I remember as a kid.
Every game was nothing, nothing in the sixth things when
you were a kid in.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Bad everybody was usually the same two pitchers on the
mound right, yes, wait, who the hell's out there? Now, yeah,
just changed number five.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Here's Larry Gura at one hundred and twenty eight pitches
and Jim Palmer at one hundred and thirty seven pitches. Right,
that's what it was you got in that, Garry gra Yeah,
but but it's okay. It's back and forth, and I'm
and I'm watching the game, and I and what do
I always say? And everybody's listening to us the last
few nights, listen as when we talk about baseball like
a boy, those guys really know what they're talking about.
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What do I always say? When you go to the
playoffs and you decide you're going to continue to change
pictures in your bullpen, you're eventually going to find the
guy who it's not his day. And yes, the Brewers
went to their closer. Well, but that's sposed to be
not right. But it was not his day.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
But this doesn't fit the description of the No.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
But here's the thing. No, But here's the thing is
that you admirers throwing bebies. He comes out after five
innings when he was just throwing filthy stuff. He was
getting that low strong every time up right, I mean
there was nobody even close to touching him. He could
have kept going. He could have pitched a complete game.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Yea though, yeah, but you would have another guy, you.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Know, But then you bring in McGill right, who throws
a hundred and throws seven pitches and gets out of
the sixth inning. Nope, we're going to the next guy,
and the next guy and the next guy. It's just
gonna happen. Not that Williams might not have pitched the
ninth inning, but this is how it goes. They decided
we have the best, but we're gonna continue to go
to guys in the bullpen when we don't have to.
And and you found the guy, and it's unfortunate that
you found your closer. But that's what happened today. But
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I'm the whole game, I'm saying, Okay, as soon as
Myers came out, I felt so much better. I'm like,
they're not touching him at Lindor had that leadoff sing
that leadoff double, he should have got thrown out at
but he'd wound up getting in there and and knocking
the ball out. But after that, like the Mets are
doing nothing. I'm saying myself, after five innings, they could
play twenty innings. The Mets aren't gonna score in this game.
Like they're there. It's not that they haven't bad at batches.
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The Brewers are throwing lights out man, everybody. But I said, eventually,
you're gonna find that guy. Right. They even go back
to Freddy Peralta, who was pretty good. Okay, you're gonna
find that guy. And they found the guy and it
turned out to be the closer. And again not that
you weren't gonna go to him anyway, but still had
a lot. You had a lot of guys. Where why
are we changing pitchers and we don't have to right,
why are we doing we don't know when these guys
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are pitching so incredibly, Well, it's just gonna happen that way.
And they found the guy. Look, the Mets found the guy.
They got it right out of the game. Jose Buddo
not his day and say, okay, come on out. Three batters,
you're out of the game. Two home runs, one guy
hitting a buck ninety nine, one guy with two home
runs the entire year. I'm like, boy, not his day, really,
not his day when those are the two guys that
take him deep. But that's what But that's how it
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goes and that's every playoff. It's the same thing. Just
look at those One of those guys is not gonna be,
not gonna have his day. And here it was your
closer who had given up one home run all year.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Now make it too who is the other home run?
To say it? Uh?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
The other home run was too? And I can say
because I feel fine because we won the trade. Jared
Kelnick hit the home run off Jared Kelnick. The other thing,
I mean, it's been ten minutes about you. I'm gonna
make it about me for a second once again in
the White Sox having fantasmastic impact on these playoffs. As
Kinana gives you six scoreless. He was great today. He
was give you all my I really thought, I said, boy,
if his pitch count was lower, they would just let
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him out there to Dyeah. Sure, because the Brewers were
rolling over every one of his off speed and breaking pitches.
They were just reaching and rolling over and everything was
a weak ground or to the left side. He was
he was. He was incredible today, and he was someone
who I didn't even know if he'd be pitching when
he came down because he had that really bad stretch.
And then finally had a really good stretch to end
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the season, and it was like, Okay, the whole year
is on you, now go do it. And he's fantastic
for six innings. It was just Look, when the ninth
inning came, I was happy with whatever was going to happen, right.
I was calm because I said, you know what, the
top of the order is coming up here. This is
exactly what this is exactly what we want. And when
f Lindor gets on, I'll feel really really good. Because
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Lindor gets on, the Brewers are going to get really genering.
He's the guy, and Lindor big hit to start it off,
and all of a sudden, Jitry Gennery Nimo with the
big hit and they go deep into every recount and
Williams falls behind all the batters. That's when you can
tell Nerves and other outside influencers getting into this situation.
Alonzo with the dinger and they tack on the the
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extra run as well. Oh, by the way, Jesse Winker
have police protection. When you get into the parking lot.
I think the entire city of Milwaukee's gonna be looking
for you.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
They're not gonna be I would say, you probably with
you blank blanking the entire time. Now for you man,
we'd actually just you know, set up a brawl in
the parking lot, uh, sanctioned by somebody. I mean, I'm
plenty of fight promoters would get on board that one.
Uh this subplot. But you know, back to Alonso, back
to the start of all of this. You know, just
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a guy who, as you look at his career and
what he's done, because even this year thirty four home runs,
eighty eight rbi, it's not a whole lot you can
do with, you know, the eighty eight rbi if guys
aren't getting on base, or Lindor's cleaning things up, whatever
the case is. That in the two forty batting average
was actually what twenty points higher than it was a
year ago. Uh, just didn't drive in as many runs
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into your struggled down the stretch to where everybody was
ready to say goodbye. So you get into this situation,
you know, best on best right. So that's where I
would believe you with that piece of calm, if you're
gonna go down, it's the Homer Simpson going and getting
beaten up by the Carnies right when they beat him
and they take over his house. And then Homer tricks them,
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gets back in the house after they were squatting, and
the guy voiced by the late great Jim Varney goes, son,
we were beaten by the best. It's like that guy
wasn't It's like, we were beaten by the best. So
you want best on best, and Pete A. Lonzo comes
through with a monster shot for you to advance. Now
you have the big battle against the affilies. I mean,
how great is this for baseball? Steve Desager and I
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were talking before the show, hanging out watching as that
home run was launched. He's kind of laughed and smiled,
you know, Steve, the big baseball fan that he is.
It's like, all right, everybody's happy. We got a couple
of big markets getting after it, and the animosity continues.
Brus fun story, a couple of fun guys. Jackson Juria
is gonna be a star? Yeah, not the same juice.
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Now we get Mets phills.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Let's go oh man outside, Pete Alonzo right now, running
over to all the fans, all the Mets fans that
made the trip doing interviews on the field. I really
four in the ninth to win. I mean, I am
more dead than I was on Monday after the Lindor
home run and they get in against the Braves. Think
about this, this is just this is four nights, no
exactly for the Mets. This is four nights for the Mets.
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And again, this stuff doesn't happen to me. This does
not happen to me, man I do. I got that
moment on Monday, I said, Okay, that's oh. I really
enjoyed the hell out of that because I got about
five years so I got a moment like that. Nope,
four days later, I get another moment even better because
we're moving on in the playoffs, and it was it's
I can't believe it. I know two things are gonna
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happen now because of this. I know what Syracuse is
gonna lose by fifty tomorrow. Agan's unlv and the Jets
gonna lose by fifty on Sunday against the Vikings, and
Darnold's gonna throw for four touchdowns. I don't care care.
I have this, I have tonight. I have this. I
have pt Alonzo going yickitty in the ninth when it
looked like the season was over.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Well, based on your normal schedule, you won't be awake
to watch the Jets, so you won't have to experience
the pain live. It'll just be the fantasy updates or
my mocking texts that you wake up to.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Uh but oh no, no, I'll get up to watch when
the Jets play the early game on time, I don't think,
of course, then I'll go back to sleep. I mean,
then I'll go back to sleep. Yeah, you know that's
how it's gonna.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Okay, as long as we've got that straight. But I mean,
we just look at the the divisional round as set
up is. It's everything you can want, right because we
joked about it, the kc Yankee matchup. We get all
the George Brett and all the playoff battles of years past.
We get to bring all that footage back in and
go in a time capsule. We get the Dodgers and
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the Padres where the smack talking and ticket sales and
everything else. We've already got that going on. Now we
get this.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Come on, oh man, you have the Yankees, which you need.
You have the Tigers, which is the best story in
the baseball this year, right at big market team. And
you have four teams in the National League that absolutely
hate each other that hate each other.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
So I don't mean to dismiss the Guardians and Tigers,
but no, no, that's about what it is. They still
rank fourth as much as it is a battle of
you know, the White Sox seasons and trials on display.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
And I'll tell you my phone is. I always tell
you whatever something like this happens with the It's like,
it's like my birthday. Now, it's like my birthday and
Christmas and Father's Day. My birthday, Christmas and Father's Day
with I don't get like people are like, oh my god,
wait you.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Guy notices on Father's Day.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
No, no, people wish me happy father? How about that? Yeah
you know I'm for you. Yeah yeah, no. But I
actually I actually got one from a friend of mine
that I talked to all that much, said to me,
oh my god, did you see that? I want to say,
come on, man, I should say, no, what happened? I don't.
I don't know what what happened. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
You know, I love sports.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
I'm an insurance adjuster. I don't pay attention anymore.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
So I'm out of site right now. It's a Friday night,
and there's a there's there's a lot of mud, you know,
coming out of this uh the back of this house. Here,
it all, it all got shot up like it's been
bad monkey with you know what the well Vince, I
mean when you get Monahan sorry this house. Yeah, that's
what I do now. Yes, I've loved sports behind. Yeah,
I don't do that anymore. I'm gonna I'm in a
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new phase of my life. That's that's not who I
am anymore. I've moved on. I've moved on in my life.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Instead, you're more insane than ever. Yes, and now you
get a match up with the Pills again. Hate division
rivalries and history everything we could want going into the
divisional series.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
And house money, man and house money. I read this
is some kind of week.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
No, you'll still ride the lightning with it, and we'll
have to talk you off the ledge if that comes
to that. But for the moment, come on, this is insane.
A ninth inning, three yearround home run by the Polar Bear.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
And and now and now it's like, oh okay, now, hey,
let's talk contract Steve Cohen. Sure, here you go on
a hundred million a year. Well it really comes down
like forty million, now, a hundred million, hundred million a
year now he deserves that.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Maybe maybe he fires Boris like Montgomery did when things
don't go so well. It really just comes down to this. Uh,
does does signing je Soto preclude them from signing po Back?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
An unbelievable night again, How can you not be romantic
about baseball?
Speaker 4 (16:29):
You're still on the hook for dinner tonight even if
he didn't you know, walk in.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I mean not in Milwaukee, but you know, I mean
outside of how could you not be romantic about baseball?
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
We'll continue to have reaction from this game. You'll hear
from Francisco Lindor. Pat Murphy is hitting the podium right
now and looking exactly how you'd expect the Brewers manager
to look after falling in three games here in the
first round of the playoffs. And oh, by the way,
keeping alive the streak. The team that's won the first
game every best of three playoff has won every ale series.
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Still I told you last night, Oh that's gonna come
to Mets are gonna screw that up tomorrow, That's coming
to an end. Nope, that streak is still alive. After
the wind tonight. Uh, the champagne is pouring in the
Mets clubhouse right now. They're they're all wearing I think
they're all wearing custom made goggles by New Era, Like,
I bet you can buy these on the New Era
site now, Like they're all like the big champagne goggles
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and you see the New Era logo on the side,
like where they are on baseball hats. So I think
you probably, I bet you could buy these. Hey Man,
celebrate like a pro with these new arashell, Oh, give
me a pair of those shades. I'm gonna start pouring
someone my face.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I'm looking at I'm looking at Poshmark right now. New
Era goggles. They're out of stock, which means it doesn't
show me the price. Oh it's two hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Oh, which means the Mets bought all of them.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
This was someone someone sold them, was here in Los Angeles.
New Era goggles twenty nineteen MLB Playoffs, Dodgers locker room
game used Oh bucks, I.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Mean, come on, oh, so well, there it is. Mets
beat the Brewers in one of the greatest games of
the season. They've played two of them in the span
of the last four days. We'll have more on this
coming up, and we'll get into Thursday Night football where
if you like points, if you like offense, you really
love what's going on right now. Bucks lead the Falcons
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twenty four to twenty. Midway through the third quarter, Baker
Mayfield has thrown for three touchdowns. Kirk Cousins is already
over three hundred yards, saving his job for another couple
of weeks. We'll have more on this coming up next.
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Speaker 4 (19:24):
You slow bleed. Look at how positive look at just
the excitement, the exuberance of a of a young Jason's
Ben My brother texted me, and I was expecting it
to be he gonna be a long night. I'm like, no,
he's he goes no, It's gonna be a fun night,
like all right, Like he gets it jacked up. Jason
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Smith getting ready for a showdown with the Phillies while
we watch Thursday night football. I mean, come on, it's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Yeah, we'll get to Bucks Falcons coming up in a second.
Buccaneers now have the twenty seven to twenty lead over
at Land with a Bucks seventeen to go in the
third quarter. And and you know this is you know
I talked about this a little bit on Monday when
Lindor hit the home run that send the Mets to
the to the playoffs in the ninth fitting off the Braze,
when it looked like everything was was awful, right darkest
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before the dawn. Like what baseball. It's hard to quantify it,
but maybe it's just because of how how I grew up.
The era I grew up in baseball was was still
on equal footing with the NFL. NFL slowly took over.
But the way the way that football and basketball are
as team as as team sports, the games move fast,
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the games are physical, they're about dominance and and that's
kind of how we root for games and how we
root for teams and its aggressiveness and it's a lot
of a lot of chess bumping and and and and
dominating the other team. And that's kind of how we
watch the games and how we are as fans. And
I celebrate, you know, Jets wins or Knicks wins. Uh,
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you know, kind of like you know, everybody generally celebrates,
you know, football and basketball. Baseball is different because Baseball,
like every time something like this happens again, how can
you not be romantic about baseball when the Mets win
a game like this, or there's some kind of great
baseball moment where it doesn't even have to be even
involve my team. It could be something else, could be
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something else that someone else does, could be Otani's fiftieth
home run, to go fifty to fifty and you know,
and or something of that measure. It it always takes
me back, and I think for a lot of us
as fans, it takes us back to This is how
I felt when I was a kid, when I would
watch someone hit a game winning home run or watch
someone do something in baseball like I become that Mets
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fan I was when I was twelve, when I'm wearing
the foam hat and bringing my glove to a game
because I think I'm gonna catch a foul ball and
you know, falling asleep in the fifth inning because it's
you know, it's ten o'clock at night. My dad could
come on, get up's wake up? Wake up dad. It's
a school night. I'm eleven years old. What do you want?
You know? It takes me back to that time as
a kid, and every time and every moment like this,
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whether it's the Mets, whether it's the Yankees, the Dodgers,
the Padres, whoever it is, I go back to that
and that that's how I feel. I have that purity
of celebration, and no other sport really brings me that,
like if the Jets won the Super Bowl, and would
I would. I don't know that I'd be conscious because
it would be something that was just so I would
never believe it could happen because I've never seen it, right,
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I've seen the Mets win the World Series, But it would,
it would, It would be a different experience. And this,
like this entire night, you know, I feel like I'm
twelve years old again every time I see Alonso swing
and I see him yell, and I listen to the
Howie Rose call over and over again, and baseball baseball
has that. No other sports have that. It's just a
different kind of fandom. But anytime you can, you can
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be bring yourself back to what you were. And I'm
fifty three now and I'm still talking about it was
like this is forty years ago when I was like
watching Mets games, and this is back when they were
first starting to get good after they stunk for most
of my life. Like that, That's where I'm at now,
and that's where my mind is that and that's what's
so special about nights and about moments like this.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
You try to impart it as best you can. My
kids have never been ones that want to go sit
and watch baseball football game if the schedule allows, cool
hockey games, cool baseball. Other than the fact that they
knew I could really be bribed with snack after snack
to keep them occupied while I watched White Sox Angels. Yes,
(23:20):
White Sox Angels. They couldn't be bothered. But to your point, right,
I've been to a lot of big events, had a
lot of opportunity to go to many a thing through
the years. You know, WrestleMania is a whole different animal.
But for me, I got to go to Game two
of the World Series in two thousand and five. My
daughter had just been born, our first daughter. We've got
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to Chicago and my brothers were able to pull it off.
So you know, I had to cancel all sorts of
appearances because I had no I literally had no voice,
like four days after the Pitt sed Nick and Canerco
heroics of that game against the Astros. But I think
it's it's one of those interesting touch points because right
today and it finally went out of their way to
announce Caitlin Clark. You know what everybody knew, Haha, she's
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the rookie of the year. You know, was in that
press release when you condemned Christine Brennan, you let the
cat out of the bag with all the initials of
the award winners and all. Not that we didn't expect
her to win anyway, but point being, there's a lot
of gatekeeping, you know, sport to sport, Musical artists just
go on down there with With baseball, we do our best,
I think, to try to encourage people to come on board.
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But it's a game that you know, it is our
age and older that still embrace it that way. And
that does doesn't mean there aren't young fans. I mean,
the attendance totals are just absolutely absurd, right drawing over
what last year it was over sixty five million people
passed through the gates of major league stadiums have almost
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thirty thousand per game. So people are going to games,
and that doesn't mean that you don't have a lot
of kids at the ballparking young folks. But to your
point about the emotion of the game, Look, I still
get fired up on football so days, but is it
the same as baseball. No, when your team's going good
in baseball, there's a whole other romanticism to it. For me,
it was we got to go to ball games a
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lot because you know, we got those free tickets for
attendance and for good, good marks. It was a nice
reward for doing work in the classroom. So you developed
a relationship with those teams being able to go to
games all summer long, which doesn't go away as you
get older. Like I just watched one hundred and twenty
one losses, and guess what, I watched virtually every one
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of those one hundred and twenty one losses. Some might
think there might be something a bit wrong with me
because I wasn't being paid necessarily to watch the White
Sox game in game out. But it's still in your blood.
It's still when you get on the phone with your
relatives or coming into the studio, what do we talk about.
We talk about our teams. Yeah, we might slip something
in about our families, our kids or whatever else, but
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most of it is, Boy, could you believe our bullpen
management yesterday? Like, yeah, it was lost one hundred and twelve,
doesn't matter. You still were mad about it. That's it
the romanticism, and I can only imagine your reaction. Again,
we kind of got cheated that we didn't get to
see it live, but part of me is happy I didn't.
When the Alonso home run sailed over the wall, I mean,
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it's just a completely out of body experience, you know,
for fans and the Mets as they get ready for
the next round, because immediately, you know, people are joking
to hang the banners. You lasted longer than the Braves.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
You know, I was happy just last longer from last night. Okay,
they lost, We lasted to the third game. No, no,
now it really lasted longer. Now, now it really lasted louse.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
You know, if you'd gone home, you know, the first
joke I would have run. You lasted all of three games,
longer than the one hundred and twenty one lost White Sox.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Yeah yeah, yeah, but on you go, on you go.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
I was gonna do that in Baltimore. They cut me
off today. Wanted to wanted to go straight into football time,
like we're not gonna we're not gonna talk about what happened.
They said, no, we're on the football season. Okay, Ravens.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Ravens are really good, right, but it was just.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Yesterday listening you bring you bring up that other team
and we're just gonna hang up on you. But I
can't tell you don't say it. Nothing with it, O,
nothing with I can't do it.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
I gave my guy trapped though, because he filibustered by
asking me a Manny Machado question. Oh obviously former Oriole
and I think they kind of saw what we were
talking about, So I got to talk about Machado and Harper.
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hallmarks to what the game is that we love. But yeah,
ask him about Manny machatda. I'm like, yeah, no, no, no,
I want to.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I want to talk about that over there.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
In the good times and bad right, isn't that what
we signed on for?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
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right after we get off the air. What my voice
is like right after Alonzo's home run, all our breakdown,
We're going to have a Thursday night football. It is
all going to be there for you right now. A
guy who I could tell when he told us what
was trending about thirty six minutes ago, he was nearly
as excited as I was. It's Steve de Sager with
what's trending?
Speaker 5 (28:30):
What an absolutely thrilling ballgame? And do you know that
the four Wildcard series winners this week had a combined
record of well under five hundred a year ago. And
yet the Mets are alive, the Padres are alive, Tigers,
the Royals won this week. The other item of breaking
news that the Reds are hiring Terry Francona as manager,
according to MLB dot Com, and there's he had stepped
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down in Cleveland a year ago. But the Mets have advanced,
winning four to two at Milwaukee tonight. This ended the
Wildcard round. Mets win the best of three series two
games to one, and Milwaukee is out. After the Mets
score four times. In the top of the ninth, Pete
Alonzo with the big three run homer. In the ninth,
Francisco Lindor had two hits in a walk. The rest
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of the Mets were all for twenty six at the
plate the first eight innings, and they are still alive.
This is the first Mets series victory since twenty fifteen,
the year they won the National League Pennant. But for
a winner take all game in postseason history, great baseball
researcher Sarah Langs had this for you, Jason Smith.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Yeah, this was.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
There had only been three to be scoreless through six
innings like this game tonight, and the last one was
when the Mets were hosting a wildcard game against Madison
Bumgardner and the Giants in sixteen.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
And that run the ninth.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Yeah. Well, now, in winner take all games, when a
team is down two going into the ninth, their record
was two to eighty two. Make it three in eighty two,
because the Mets are still alive. One of those comebacks.
Remember the Atlanta Brave Sid Bream Game seven against Pittsburgh
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and Barry Bonds in the NLCS of nineteen ninety two.
The other setch comeback in an elimination a winner take
all game was Saint Louis over Washington just over a
decade ago in a division series game number five. And
my goodness, do we have great matchups for the National
League playoffs these two division series. First off, the Phillies
(30:30):
are hosting their Game one against the Mets this Saturday
on Fox TV four pm Eastern time. The top seeded
Dodgers also after a first round by open a division
series on Saturday night on FS one against San Diego,
and the Dodgers say the Game one pitcher will be
Yoshinobu Yamamoto, enabling him to perhaps come back and start
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a Game five in the series. LA native Jack Flaherty,
the former Tiger, will pitch Game two this weekend in
LA for the Dodgers. The TV ratings for the Wildcard
round going into tonight had been up sixteen percent from
a year ago, averaging two point six million viewers, and
that Brewers come back last night against the Mets got
three point seven million viewers on cable. The Mets are alive.
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The Brewers with runners in scoring position, went oh for nine.
Caitlin Clark is the WNBA rookie of the year, and
in tonight's NFL game. It's early fourth quarter. The Tampa
Bay Bucks lead twenty seven twenty six now at Atlanta,
as Kirk Cousins has just thrown his third touchdown pass
of the night. Extra point ties it up at twenty seven.
(31:36):
Baker Mayfield had three touchdown passes in the first half
for Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Carmon live from the Tyraq dot Com Studios.
We'll have more on the Mets and this incredible night
of Major League baseball. But straight ahead, as you just heard,
twenty seven to twenty seven right now, great game happening
Thursday Night Football. Are be watching this year's NFL MVP
(32:03):
play in this game that's next right here, Jason and
Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
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Speaker 1 (32:18):
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We'll have more on the night that was the thrilling
night of Major League Baseball coming up in a few minutes.
I still can't believe it. There's other things going on,
but that's why I said we'll have more coming up. Jerk, Sorry, okay, jerk.
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Right now, early in the fourth quarter, this has been
a great game as well. Tampa and Atlanta tied at
twenty seven apiece. The Bucks have the ball driving on
a third nine, but it looks like Baker mayfield scramble
is going to be short. They'll be punting the ball
back to the falcon. It has been a huge night
so far for both quarterbacks. Baker Mayfield has thrown for
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three touchdowns, also run for thirty five yards now over
forty yards. Kirk Cousins meanwhile three point fifty and three touchdowns.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Crazy has this is?
Speaker 1 (33:12):
This is a big divisional game, a lot of points
on a Thursday night. But I said it before. Is
the NFL MVP this year playing in this game. Baker
Mayfield three more touchdowns still eleven minutes to go in
the fourth quarter. This is someone who right now for
the season for Tampa Bay eleven touchdowns through four and
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three quarters games. He is having as good a year,
if not better than anybody in the NFL at quarterback.
And I told you before the season. He was my
pick for MVP because I believe in the in the Bucks.
They're a really good team. They're flying under the radar.
They showed you last year. Hey, this works, right, Baker
Mayfield's playing the best football of his life. It works.
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Their defense is good enough, that's the one thing. The
defense is not quite as good as I thought it
was going to be coming into the season. But this
is a division they can definitely make hay and you
can see them move the football there dynamic. It doesn't
matter that Rashad White is averaging half a yard to carry.
You know, between him and Bucky Irving and Rashad Whites
picks up a little bit tonight, but you know, between
him and Bucky Irving they score a lot of points.
(34:25):
And Baker Mayfield is doing absolutely everything he needs to
do three more touchdowns tonight. He can seize that narrative
of we and we love narratives, right because it's not
just Hey, Baker Mayfield is having a good year. Look,
other quarterbacks backs are having big years too, right. I'm
not saying he's the only one. Other guys have already
started out to have big years. But you want to say,
(34:45):
what's the narrative. What's the great story I can throw
out there? And what's a better story than the story
of redemption, the story of hey a guy that everybody
passed on. Look, everybody loves talking about Sam Darnold right
now as well as he's playing with Minnesota. He's got
a little bit better defense than Baker may He's at
the best defense in the NFL, so things are a
little bit better for him. But what do we like?
(35:06):
We like the narratives. We like these stories, and Mayfield
certainly has that. The former number one overall pick that
flamed out of Cleveland, flamed out of Carolina, you know,
sort of got his career going back a little bit
when he played a tiny bit of time for the Rams,
and now here he is in Tampa. Really good year.
Last year. They kind of took a bit of a
step with a big playoff win last year, and now
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here they are picking up where they left off. And
Mayfield's playing even better than he did last year. He
could come out of tonight the number two rated quarterback
in the NFL after this game. That's the kind of
year he's happen.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Yeah, I think when you look at it, you know,
as you talk about the great narratives. Well, last year
you did have a four thousand yard season twenty eight
and ten for Baker Mayfield, including the playoff win, so
he got a lot of flowers thrown his way a
year ago. Now it was a how do you follow up?
And he's been spectacular tonight he's been including the big scramble,
moving the football. Find it funny you brought up for
(36:03):
Shad White and it's like better night. Well, he had
that fifty six yard run. They all count the same, right,
seven carries sixty four yards, Yeah, but which means he
ain't get back to the But he has one run
that's fifty that's right yards right, every other one was
half a week. We got to see that at least exists.
But that's why I moved to the Sam Donald, and
I know the Brian Flores defense is the win and
(36:25):
it's not a Jets thing, even though it became a
Jets thing and a presser today because they're playing the
Jets this week. But for Sam Donald, he wasn't supposed
to be the guy, right, He was just a veteran
that was gonna be there. JJ McCarthy was supposed to
be the guy and well, he gets hurt, and if anything,
Sam was gonna be at best a placeholder, and maybe
for he'd hold off, needing to pull the plug and
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put in j McCarthy. If things went well, well, it's
gone better than well. So you know, normally you'd be
lamenting the fact that you lost your top pick, as
they did. Right now, it's hey, JJ, get well, go
enjoy your baseball, card shop visits, Go be great in
your rehab. We're just fine here, and Sam Donald gets
to push some more of the narrative, which I think
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needs to really be hammered Jason of. We don't have
to play these guys right away if they're not ready.
Don't let media speculation and finger pointing rule and dictate
how you put a guy in. If the quarterback isn't ready,
that was your first round pick, guess what it'll be. Okay,
(37:30):
let them just date. Let him learn sometimes sitting on
the sideline better than getting his ass kicked in a
regular game.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Yeah, but what, but what do I tell you about Sam?
What did I say about Sam Donald? See me in weekend? No,
that's fine, the show is tonight. Let me show us tonight.
We're talking about the MVP right now. Baker Mayfield could
suck four weeks from now. Yeah, but I have a
little bit more cachet and belief in his performance.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
Of course, it's a bigger sample side last year. Much
point is, we're talking about this year and this moment
right now, So see me in week eight doesn't work tonight.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
We're right now. We're talking see me in.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
Week five as the week five is developing and what
we've seen thus far. Right now, that's the discussion we're having.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Who's having a better week five, Baker Mayfield or Sam Donald.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Sam Donald because he's sitting on his couch and he's
not getting hit. He might be at the Tower of London.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
Early, wake up, some tea and crumpets.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Such No, Man, Tower of London.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Spider Man's name is Peter Parker.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
Now you just made Sam Donald, Jake Jillenhall. What are
we doing?
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Yeah? That was my favorite's mysterio visiting Man Tower of
London Bridge. That was my favorite part of I'm like,
oh my god, it's.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
At the end of far from Home.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
We're here on the bridge. Now we're gonna go to
the Tower of London. This is great. That was why
I was so excited to visit Tower of London when
we went to Great Britain a couple months.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
You know, we went, we stayed at the hotel over there.
Let me tell you when they finished refurbishment, it'll be
a nice hotel.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Yeah, well but you gotta wait. You gotta wait for that.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Just wait, it will be a nice hotel. It was, okay,
just gotta Waitsta outside, he's pretty good hotel itself.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
It's a little bit of worked so field goal by
the Bucks. They now lead Atlanta thirty to twenty seven,
Falcons getting the football back. Still under ten minutes left
to go in this one, just under ten minutes left
to go, So a lot of time left. But you
can seize the narrative and look and and and hey,
Sam Donald's got the same kind of narrative, right that
story of redemption. Never been able to get it done.
(39:31):
Here he is in his spot. That's why I like
Mayfield going into because he had the narrative. He's not
just hey, here's a guy having a great year. No, no, no,
we have the narrative surrounding it. Yeah, but we.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
Already got his redemption last year. Now it's Sam's redemption.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
But he's having a bet a better start than he is.
Better start And you said the show tonight, Sam Donalds
sitting on his couch, can't talk about it today, he's
on his couch. He's on his couch, can't talk about it,
or just come back to.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
London thinking about the Mets.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Hex it out about a fre Esca exit Swollen down
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I am dead. I am dead after this game. I
didn't think i'd have a voice. After Alonzo's ball went out,
I was oddly calm. In the top of the ninth,
(01:37):
I tweeted out, I feel good, top of the order.
Pete's gonna come up maybe as last as bad as
I met. I oddly felt calm and bang, my goodness.
I don't think my pulse rate got above one hundred
and fifty hundred and eighty. No, no higher than that.
Mike Harmon maybe two hundred, maybe maybe two twenty five
to that. But I was oddly calm.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I don't think any of us believe you I found.
We didn't get to see it, and we were trying
to get you on the closed circuit TV. You wouldn't
pick up to try to watch that final inning. As
it started to unfold. We were sitting in the you know,
all our different points here in the Fox Sports radio studios,
and the screaming began as the ball lifted up and
(02:18):
the sadness. A Brewer fan was brought in as Pee
Alonzo circled the bases. His night was all about the
miss pop up down the first base line and being
mocked earlier. That was gonna be the meme that lived forever. Instead,
I'll be looking through the boxes to pull out the
ped Alonzo rookie cards for the forty eight hour sale
before the next round begins.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
You know, let me just say, because pedalons I mean,
this is like I always say, how can you not
be romantic about baseball? Right? Here's a guy who has
been one of the best superstars in the game the
last year, is one of the biggest home run hitters
by all accounts. How he carries himself. His teammates love him.
He's a guy that loves the game, and he is
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carried himself in a really tough place to play when
you don't win, which is Queen's Uh, it's you know,
he's carrying yourself with a lot of class.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
He comes in there. I mean, how much expectations have
there been for the Mets?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
No, no, no, but still but well there's no there's always
every year, there's always expect That's the worst part is
there's never any non expectation. There's always expectation, and then
they break your heart. That that's what it is. I mean,
that's it's never anything else. There's always expect It's not
like the Jets, where sometimes you go, well, okay, we're
gonna stink, by.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
The way, send this guy out and pick him up
at the airport and take him to it a while ago.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Oh no, now you gotta pay him whatever he wants
cost a pony. And look, he has had an incredible
run as a Met. He hired Scott Boris as his agent,
and when that happened, I knew I was waving goodbye
to him. Okay, he's gonna go. Boris Is he always
takes his guys to free agency. They always wind up
with new teams. That's just how it goes. You need
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you need any you need more evidence. Look at what
happened last year when all four of Scott Boris's stars
we're out there at the end of spring training, the
all to take lower deals someplace else. Again. We'll have
a great Boris collusion conversation sometime in the future. But
he comes into this year. I just want to play
and he has a bad year. He's an All Star
because by the All Star break, the Mets had just
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started playing well, and you know, Lindor had not turned
into the second half freak that he was. And he
comes down the stretch and Alonso is awful. He has
lost at the plate. I think he's had five hits
in his last seventeen games. He has not been good.
He has not been able to catch up to fastballs.
He has not been the same guy. I see his
body language up at the plate. It is not good.
(04:38):
And here he comes up with a chance, possibly the
last at bat he will ever have as a met,
the last at bat for the Mets all season. And
when he swings at that pitch at three and one,
and I knew, I knew his confidence was back. At
three and one, I could tell, I think Pete's got
a little something here. He's feeling pretty good, because I
could tell earlier in the game when he was he
had a three and one count early in the game,
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he does not feel confident that the top hand is
is coming off the bat. He does not feel confident.
But I could tell. Look, I've seen a lot of
Alonzo White bats the last five years. I said, he's
got he feels confident here. And as soon as he
hit that and he yelled, I yelled. I never saw
the ball go over the fence the first time because
I was screaming because I knew he got it. When
he was screaming, I knew he got it. And I said,
(05:19):
as soon as I stopped, I said, oh wow, my
voice I got, I got, I got four hours of
fun to talk about with you. How am I gonna
do this? And then you know, my voice came back,
and I had some tea already. But I mean, really,
how could you not be romantic about baseball?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I know what happens.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Hey.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I was okay with missing these screaming and pony ride
or whatever the hell you were doing that you would
have been doing around the studio here. So so that's okay.
The fact that you still have a voice a little
bit surprising because I figured through the first seven plus
innings you would have been cursing a lot. Oh well,
the first seven innings you didn't know what say? Did either?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Look? The first seven innings was okay. It was tense
playoff baseball, and it's games that I remember as a kid.
Every game was nothing, nothing in the sixth things when
you were a kid in.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Bad everybody was usually the same two pitchers on the
mound right, yes, wait, who the hell's out there? Now, yeah,
just changed number five.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Here's Larry Gura at one hundred and twenty eight pitches
and Jim Palmer at one hundred and thirty seven pitches. Right,
that's what it was you got in that, Garry gra Yeah,
but but it's okay. It's back and forth, and I'm
and I'm watching the game, and I and what do
I always say? And everybody's listening to us the last
few nights, listen as when we talk about baseball like
a boy, those guys really know what they're talking about.
(06:31):
What do I always say? When you go to the
playoffs and you decide you're going to continue to change
pictures in your bullpen, you're eventually going to find the
guy who it's not his day. And yes, the Brewers
went to their closer. Well, but that's sposed to be
not right. But it was not his day.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
But this doesn't fit the description of the No.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
But here's the thing. No, But here's the thing is
that you admirers throwing bebies. He comes out after five
innings when he was just throwing filthy stuff. He was
getting that low strong every time up right, I mean
there was nobody even close to touching him. He could
have kept going. He could have pitched a complete game.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Yea though, yeah, but you would have another guy, you.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Know, But then you bring in McGill right, who throws
a hundred and throws seven pitches and gets out of
the sixth inning. Nope, we're going to the next guy,
and the next guy and the next guy. It's just
gonna happen. Not that Williams might not have pitched the
ninth inning, but this is how it goes. They decided
we have the best, but we're gonna continue to go
to guys in the bullpen when we don't have to.
And and you found the guy, and it's unfortunate that
you found your closer. But that's what happened today. But
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I'm the whole game, I'm saying, Okay, as soon as
Myers came out, I felt so much better. I'm like,
they're not touching him at Lindor had that leadoff sing
that leadoff double, he should have got thrown out at
but he'd wound up getting in there and and knocking
the ball out. But after that, like the Mets are
doing nothing. I'm saying myself, after five innings, they could
play twenty innings. The Mets aren't gonna score in this game.
Like they're there. It's not that they haven't bad at batches.
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The Brewers are throwing lights out man, everybody. But I said, eventually,
you're gonna find that guy. Right. They even go back
to Freddy Peralta, who was pretty good. Okay, you're gonna
find that guy. And they found the guy and it
turned out to be the closer. And again not that
you weren't gonna go to him anyway, but still had
a lot. You had a lot of guys. Where why
are we changing pitchers and we don't have to right,
why are we doing we don't know when these guys
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are pitching so incredibly, Well, it's just gonna happen that way.
And they found the guy. Look, the Mets found the guy.
They got it right out of the game. Jose Buddo
not his day and say, okay, come on out. Three batters,
you're out of the game. Two home runs, one guy
hitting a buck ninety nine, one guy with two home
runs the entire year. I'm like, boy, not his day, really,
not his day when those are the two guys that
take him deep. But that's what But that's how it
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goes and that's every playoff. It's the same thing. Just
look at those One of those guys is not gonna be,
not gonna have his day. And here it was your
closer who had given up one home run all year.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Now make it too who is the other home run?
To say it? Uh?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
The other home run was too? And I can say
because I feel fine because we won the trade. Jared
Kelnick hit the home run off Jared Kelnick. The other thing,
I mean, it's been ten minutes about you. I'm gonna
make it about me for a second once again in
the White Sox having fantasmastic impact on these playoffs. As
Kinana gives you six scoreless. He was great today. He
was give you all my I really thought, I said, boy,
if his pitch count was lower, they would just let
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him out there to Dyeah. Sure, because the Brewers were
rolling over every one of his off speed and breaking pitches.
They were just reaching and rolling over and everything was
a weak ground or to the left side. He was
he was. He was incredible today, and he was someone
who I didn't even know if he'd be pitching when
he came down because he had that really bad stretch.
And then finally had a really good stretch to end
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the season, and it was like, Okay, the whole year
is on you, now go do it. And he's fantastic
for six innings. It was just Look, when the ninth
inning came, I was happy with whatever was going to happen, right.
I was calm because I said, you know what, the
top of the order is coming up here. This is
exactly what this is exactly what we want. And when
f Lindor gets on, I'll feel really really good. Because
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Lindor gets on, the Brewers are going to get really genering.
He's the guy, and Lindor big hit to start it off,
and all of a sudden, Jitry Gennery Nimo with the
big hit and they go deep into every recount and
Williams falls behind all the batters. That's when you can
tell Nerves and other outside influencers getting into this situation.
Alonzo with the dinger and they tack on the the
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extra run as well. Oh, by the way, Jesse Winker
have police protection. When you get into the parking lot.
I think the entire city of Milwaukee's gonna be looking
for you.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
They're not gonna be I would say, you probably with
you blank blanking the entire time. Now for you man,
we'd actually just you know, set up a brawl in
the parking lot, uh, sanctioned by somebody. I mean, I'm
plenty of fight promoters would get on board that one.
Uh this subplot. But you know, back to Alonso, back
to the start of all of this. You know, just
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a guy who, as you look at his career and
what he's done, because even this year thirty four home runs,
eighty eight rbi, it's not a whole lot you can
do with, you know, the eighty eight rbi if guys
aren't getting on base, or Lindor's cleaning things up, whatever
the case is. That in the two forty batting average
was actually what twenty points higher than it was a
year ago. Uh, just didn't drive in as many runs
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into your struggled down the stretch to where everybody was
ready to say goodbye. So you get into this situation,
you know, best on best right. So that's where I
would believe you with that piece of calm, if you're
gonna go down, it's the Homer Simpson going and getting
beaten up by the Carnies right when they beat him
and they take over his house. And then Homer tricks them,
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gets back in the house after they were squatting, and
the guy voiced by the late great Jim Varney goes, son,
we were beaten by the best. It's like that guy
wasn't It's like, we were beaten by the best. So
you want best on best, and Pete A. Lonzo comes
through with a monster shot for you to advance. Now
you have the big battle against the affilies. I mean,
how great is this for baseball? Steve Desager and I
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were talking before the show, hanging out watching as that
home run was launched. He's kind of laughed and smiled,
you know, Steve, the big baseball fan that he is.
It's like, all right, everybody's happy. We got a couple
of big markets getting after it, and the animosity continues.
Brus fun story, a couple of fun guys. Jackson Juria
is gonna be a star? Yeah, not the same juice.
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Now we get Mets phills.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Let's go oh man outside, Pete Alonzo right now, running
over to all the fans, all the Mets fans that
made the trip doing interviews on the field. I really
four in the ninth to win. I mean, I am
more dead than I was on Monday after the Lindor
home run and they get in against the Braves. Think
about this, this is just this is four nights, no
exactly for the Mets. This is four nights for the Mets.
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And again, this stuff doesn't happen to me. This does
not happen to me, man I do. I got that
moment on Monday, I said, Okay, that's oh. I really
enjoyed the hell out of that because I got about
five years so I got a moment like that. Nope,
four days later, I get another moment even better because
we're moving on in the playoffs, and it was it's
I can't believe it. I know two things are gonna
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happen now because of this. I know what Syracuse is
gonna lose by fifty tomorrow. Agan's unlv and the Jets
gonna lose by fifty on Sunday against the Vikings, and
Darnold's gonna throw for four touchdowns. I don't care care.
I have this, I have tonight. I have this. I
have pt Alonzo going yickitty in the ninth when it
looked like the season was over.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Well, based on your normal schedule, you won't be awake
to watch the Jets, so you won't have to experience
the pain live. It'll just be the fantasy updates or
my mocking texts that you wake up to.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Uh but oh no, no, I'll get up to watch when
the Jets play the early game on time, I don't think,
of course, then I'll go back to sleep. I mean,
then I'll go back to sleep. Yeah, you know that's
how it's gonna.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Okay, as long as we've got that straight. But I mean,
we just look at the the divisional round as set
up is. It's everything you can want, right because we
joked about it, the kc Yankee matchup. We get all
the George Brett and all the playoff battles of years past.
We get to bring all that footage back in and
go in a time capsule. We get the Dodgers and
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the Padres where the smack talking and ticket sales and
everything else. We've already got that going on. Now we
get this.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Come on, oh man, you have the Yankees, which you need.
You have the Tigers, which is the best story in
the baseball this year, right at big market team. And
you have four teams in the National League that absolutely
hate each other that hate each other.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
So I don't mean to dismiss the Guardians and Tigers,
but no, no, that's about what it is. They still
rank fourth as much as it is a battle of
you know, the White Sox seasons and trials on display.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
And I'll tell you my phone is. I always tell
you whatever something like this happens with the It's like,
it's like my birthday. Now, it's like my birthday and
Christmas and Father's Day. My birthday, Christmas and Father's Day
with I don't get like people are like, oh my god,
wait you.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Guy notices on Father's Day.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
No, no, people wish me happy father? How about that? Yeah
you know I'm for you. Yeah yeah, no. But I
actually I actually got one from a friend of mine
that I talked to all that much, said to me,
oh my god, did you see that? I want to say,
come on, man, I should say, no, what happened? I don't.
I don't know what what happened. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
You know, I love sports.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
I'm an insurance adjuster. I don't pay attention anymore.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
So I'm out of site right now. It's a Friday night,
and there's a there's there's a lot of mud, you know,
coming out of this uh the back of this house. Here,
it all, it all got shot up like it's been
bad monkey with you know what the well Vince, I
mean when you get Monahan sorry this house. Yeah, that's
what I do now. Yes, I've loved sports behind. Yeah,
I don't do that anymore. I'm gonna I'm in a
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new phase of my life. That's that's not who I
am anymore. I've moved on. I've moved on in my life.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Instead, you're more insane than ever. Yes, and now you
get a match up with the Pills again. Hate division
rivalries and history everything we could want going into the
divisional series.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
And house money, man and house money. I read this
is some kind of week.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
No, you'll still ride the lightning with it, and we'll
have to talk you off the ledge if that comes
to that. But for the moment, come on, this is insane.
A ninth inning, three yearround home run by the Polar Bear.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
And and now and now it's like, oh okay, now, hey,
let's talk contract Steve Cohen. Sure, here you go on
a hundred million a year. Well it really comes down
like forty million, now, a hundred million, hundred million a
year now he deserves that.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Maybe maybe he fires Boris like Montgomery did when things
don't go so well. It really just comes down to this. Uh,
does does signing je Soto preclude them from signing po Back?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
An unbelievable night again, How can you not be romantic
about baseball?
Speaker 4 (16:29):
You're still on the hook for dinner tonight even if
he didn't you know, walk in.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I mean not in Milwaukee, but you know, I mean
outside of how could you not be romantic about baseball?
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
We'll continue to have reaction from this game. You'll hear
from Francisco Lindor. Pat Murphy is hitting the podium right
now and looking exactly how you'd expect the Brewers manager
to look after falling in three games here in the
first round of the playoffs. And oh, by the way,
keeping alive the streak. The team that's won the first
game every best of three playoff has won every ale series.
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Still I told you last night, Oh that's gonna come
to Mets are gonna screw that up tomorrow, That's coming
to an end. Nope, that streak is still alive. After
the wind tonight. Uh, the champagne is pouring in the
Mets clubhouse right now. They're they're all wearing I think
they're all wearing custom made goggles by New Era, Like,
I bet you can buy these on the New Era
site now, Like they're all like the big champagne goggles
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and you see the New Era logo on the side,
like where they are on baseball hats. So I think
you probably, I bet you could buy these. Hey Man,
celebrate like a pro with these new arashell, Oh, give
me a pair of those shades. I'm gonna start pouring
someone my face.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I'm looking at I'm looking at Poshmark right now. New
Era goggles. They're out of stock, which means it doesn't
show me the price. Oh it's two hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Oh, which means the Mets bought all of them.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
This was someone someone sold them, was here in Los Angeles.
New Era goggles twenty nineteen MLB Playoffs, Dodgers locker room
game used Oh bucks, I.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Mean, come on, oh, so well, there it is. Mets
beat the Brewers in one of the greatest games of
the season. They've played two of them in the span
of the last four days. We'll have more on this
coming up, and we'll get into Thursday Night football where
if you like points, if you like offense, you really
love what's going on right now. Bucks lead the Falcons
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twenty four to twenty. Midway through the third quarter, Baker
Mayfield has thrown for three touchdowns. Kirk Cousins is already
over three hundred yards, saving his job for another couple
of weeks. We'll have more on this coming up next.
Right here, we are just getting started on maybe the
greatest Thursday Night in the history of the world. Jason
Smith Mike Harmon. You are listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
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Speaker 1 (18:52):
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Speaker 4 (19:12):
Give me my Alex Cards on file. Sandwiches for everybody,
Come get it, Come get you.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
You're just you're going low with sandwiches.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Man, go well, we were, we were just gonna go simple.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Whatever you need, whatever you need. I got whatever you need,
whatever you whatever.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
You slow bleed. Look at how positive look at just
the excitement, the exuberance of a of a young Jason's
Ben My brother texted me, and I was expecting it
to be he gonna be a long night. I'm like, no,
he's he goes no, It's gonna be a fun night,
like all right, Like he gets it jacked up. Jason
(19:44):
Smith getting ready for a showdown with the Phillies while
we watch Thursday night football. I mean, come on, it's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Yeah, we'll get to Bucks Falcons coming up in a second.
Buccaneers now have the twenty seven to twenty lead over
at Land with a Bucks seventeen to go in the
third quarter. And and you know this is you know
I talked about this a little bit on Monday when
Lindor hit the home run that send the Mets to
the to the playoffs in the ninth fitting off the Braze,
when it looked like everything was was awful, right darkest
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before the dawn. Like what baseball. It's hard to quantify it,
but maybe it's just because of how how I grew up.
The era I grew up in baseball was was still
on equal footing with the NFL. NFL slowly took over.
But the way the way that football and basketball are
as team as as team sports, the games move fast,
(20:35):
the games are physical, they're about dominance and and that's
kind of how we root for games and how we
root for teams and its aggressiveness and it's a lot
of a lot of chess bumping and and and and
dominating the other team. And that's kind of how we
watch the games and how we are as fans. And
I celebrate, you know, Jets wins or Knicks wins. Uh,
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you know, kind of like you know, everybody generally celebrates,
you know, football and basketball. Baseball is different because Baseball,
like every time something like this happens again, how can
you not be romantic about baseball when the Mets win
a game like this, or there's some kind of great
baseball moment where it doesn't even have to be even
involve my team. It could be something else, could be
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something else that someone else does, could be Otani's fiftieth
home run, to go fifty to fifty and you know,
and or something of that measure. It it always takes
me back, and I think for a lot of us
as fans, it takes us back to This is how
I felt when I was a kid, when I would
watch someone hit a game winning home run or watch
someone do something in baseball like I become that Mets
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fan I was when I was twelve, when I'm wearing
the foam hat and bringing my glove to a game
because I think I'm gonna catch a foul ball and
you know, falling asleep in the fifth inning because it's
you know, it's ten o'clock at night. My dad could
come on, get up's wake up? Wake up dad. It's
a school night. I'm eleven years old. What do you want?
You know? It takes me back to that time as
a kid, and every time and every moment like this,
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whether it's the Mets, whether it's the Yankees, the Dodgers,
the Padres, whoever it is, I go back to that
and that that's how I feel. I have that purity
of celebration, and no other sport really brings me that,
like if the Jets won the Super Bowl, and would
I would. I don't know that I'd be conscious because
it would be something that was just so I would
never believe it could happen because I've never seen it, right,
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I've seen the Mets win the World Series, But it would,
it would, It would be a different experience. And this,
like this entire night, you know, I feel like I'm
twelve years old again every time I see Alonso swing
and I see him yell, and I listen to the
Howie Rose call over and over again, and baseball baseball
has that. No other sports have that. It's just a
different kind of fandom. But anytime you can, you can
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be bring yourself back to what you were. And I'm
fifty three now and I'm still talking about it was
like this is forty years ago when I was like
watching Mets games, and this is back when they were
first starting to get good after they stunk for most
of my life. Like that, That's where I'm at now,
and that's where my mind is that and that's what's
so special about nights and about moments like this.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
You try to impart it as best you can. My
kids have never been ones that want to go sit
and watch baseball football game if the schedule allows, cool
hockey games, cool baseball. Other than the fact that they
knew I could really be bribed with snack after snack
to keep them occupied while I watched White Sox Angels. Yes,
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White Sox Angels. They couldn't be bothered. But to your point, right,
I've been to a lot of big events, had a
lot of opportunity to go to many a thing through
the years. You know, WrestleMania is a whole different animal.
But for me, I got to go to Game two
of the World Series in two thousand and five. My
daughter had just been born, our first daughter. We've got
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to Chicago and my brothers were able to pull it off.
So you know, I had to cancel all sorts of
appearances because I had no I literally had no voice,
like four days after the Pitt sed Nick and Canerco
heroics of that game against the Astros. But I think
it's it's one of those interesting touch points because right
today and it finally went out of their way to
announce Caitlin Clark. You know what everybody knew, Haha, she's
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the rookie of the year. You know, was in that
press release when you condemned Christine Brennan, you let the
cat out of the bag with all the initials of
the award winners and all. Not that we didn't expect
her to win anyway, but point being, there's a lot
of gatekeeping, you know, sport to sport, Musical artists just
go on down there with With baseball, we do our best,
I think, to try to encourage people to come on board.
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But it's a game that you know, it is our
age and older that still embrace it that way. And
that does doesn't mean there aren't young fans. I mean,
the attendance totals are just absolutely absurd, right drawing over
what last year it was over sixty five million people
passed through the gates of major league stadiums have almost
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thirty thousand per game. So people are going to games,
and that doesn't mean that you don't have a lot
of kids at the ballparking young folks. But to your
point about the emotion of the game, Look, I still
get fired up on football so days, but is it
the same as baseball. No, when your team's going good
in baseball, there's a whole other romanticism to it. For me,
it was we got to go to ball games a
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lot because you know, we got those free tickets for
attendance and for good, good marks. It was a nice
reward for doing work in the classroom. So you developed
a relationship with those teams being able to go to
games all summer long, which doesn't go away as you
get older. Like I just watched one hundred and twenty
one losses, and guess what, I watched virtually every one
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of those one hundred and twenty one losses. Some might
think there might be something a bit wrong with me
because I wasn't being paid necessarily to watch the White
Sox game in game out. But it's still in your blood.
It's still when you get on the phone with your
relatives or coming into the studio, what do we talk about.
We talk about our teams. Yeah, we might slip something
in about our families, our kids or whatever else, but
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most of it is, Boy, could you believe our bullpen
management yesterday? Like, yeah, it was lost one hundred and twelve,
doesn't matter. You still were mad about it. That's it
the romanticism, and I can only imagine your reaction. Again,
we kind of got cheated that we didn't get to
see it live, but part of me is happy I didn't.
When the Alonso home run sailed over the wall, I mean,
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it's just a completely out of body experience, you know,
for fans and the Mets as they get ready for
the next round, because immediately, you know, people are joking
to hang the banners. You lasted longer than the Braves.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
You know, I was happy just last longer from last night. Okay,
they lost, We lasted to the third game. No, no,
now it really lasted longer. Now, now it really lasted louse.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
You know, if you'd gone home, you know, the first
joke I would have run. You lasted all of three games,
longer than the one hundred and twenty one lost White Sox.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Yeah yeah, yeah, but on you go, on you go.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
I was gonna do that in Baltimore. They cut me
off today. Wanted to wanted to go straight into football time,
like we're not gonna we're not gonna talk about what happened.
They said, no, we're on the football season. Okay, Ravens.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Ravens are really good, right, but it was just.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Yesterday listening you bring you bring up that other team
and we're just gonna hang up on you. But I
can't tell you don't say it. Nothing with it, O,
nothing with I can't do it.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
I gave my guy trapped though, because he filibustered by
asking me a Manny Machado question. Oh obviously former Oriole
and I think they kind of saw what we were
talking about, So I got to talk about Machado and Harper.
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hallmarks to what the game is that we love. But yeah,
ask him about Manny machatda. I'm like, yeah, no, no, no,
I want to.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I want to talk about that over there.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
In the good times and bad right, isn't that what
we signed on for?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
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right after we get off the air. What my voice
is like right after Alonzo's home run, all our breakdown,
We're going to have a Thursday night football. It is
all going to be there for you right now. A
guy who I could tell when he told us what
was trending about thirty six minutes ago, he was nearly
as excited as I was. It's Steve de Sager with
what's trending?
Speaker 5 (28:30):
What an absolutely thrilling ballgame? And do you know that
the four Wildcard series winners this week had a combined
record of well under five hundred a year ago. And
yet the Mets are alive, the Padres are alive, Tigers,
the Royals won this week. The other item of breaking
news that the Reds are hiring Terry Francona as manager,
according to MLB dot Com, and there's he had stepped
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down in Cleveland a year ago. But the Mets have advanced,
winning four to two at Milwaukee tonight. This ended the
Wildcard round. Mets win the best of three series two
games to one, and Milwaukee is out. After the Mets
score four times. In the top of the ninth, Pete
Alonzo with the big three run homer. In the ninth,
Francisco Lindor had two hits in a walk. The rest
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of the Mets were all for twenty six at the
plate the first eight innings, and they are still alive.
This is the first Mets series victory since twenty fifteen,
the year they won the National League Pennant. But for
a winner take all game in postseason history, great baseball
researcher Sarah Langs had this for you, Jason Smith.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Yeah, this was.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
There had only been three to be scoreless through six
innings like this game tonight, and the last one was
when the Mets were hosting a wildcard game against Madison
Bumgardner and the Giants in sixteen.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
And that run the ninth.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Yeah. Well, now, in winner take all games, when a
team is down two going into the ninth, their record
was two to eighty two. Make it three in eighty two,
because the Mets are still alive. One of those comebacks.
Remember the Atlanta Brave Sid Bream Game seven against Pittsburgh
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and Barry Bonds in the NLCS of nineteen ninety two.
The other setch comeback in an elimination a winner take
all game was Saint Louis over Washington just over a
decade ago in a division series game number five. And
my goodness, do we have great matchups for the National
League playoffs these two division series. First off, the Phillies
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are hosting their Game one against the Mets this Saturday
on Fox TV four pm Eastern time. The top seeded
Dodgers also after a first round by open a division
series on Saturday night on FS one against San Diego,
and the Dodgers say the Game one pitcher will be
Yoshinobu Yamamoto, enabling him to perhaps come back and start
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a Game five in the series. LA native Jack Flaherty,
the former Tiger, will pitch Game two this weekend in
LA for the Dodgers. The TV ratings for the Wildcard
round going into tonight had been up sixteen percent from
a year ago, averaging two point six million viewers, and
that Brewers come back last night against the Mets got
three point seven million viewers on cable. The Mets are alive.
(31:15):
The Brewers with runners in scoring position, went oh for nine.
Caitlin Clark is the WNBA rookie of the year, and
in tonight's NFL game. It's early fourth quarter. The Tampa
Bay Bucks lead twenty seven twenty six now at Atlanta,
as Kirk Cousins has just thrown his third touchdown pass
of the night. Extra point ties it up at twenty seven.
(31:36):
Baker Mayfield had three touchdown passes in the first half
for Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Carmon live from the Tyraq dot Com Studios.
We'll have more on the Mets and this incredible night
of Major League baseball. But straight ahead, as you just heard,
twenty seven to twenty seven right now, great game happening
Thursday Night Football. Are be watching this year's NFL MVP
(32:03):
play in this game that's next right here, Jason and
Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon live from the tire Rack dot Com Studios.
We'll have more on the night that was the thrilling
night of Major League Baseball coming up in a few minutes.
I still can't believe it. There's other things going on,
but that's why I said we'll have more coming up. Jerk, Sorry, okay, jerk.
(32:43):
Right now, early in the fourth quarter, this has been
a great game as well. Tampa and Atlanta tied at
twenty seven apiece. The Bucks have the ball driving on
a third nine, but it looks like Baker mayfield scramble
is going to be short. They'll be punting the ball
back to the falcon. It has been a huge night
so far for both quarterbacks. Baker Mayfield has thrown for
(33:05):
three touchdowns, also run for thirty five yards now over
forty yards. Kirk Cousins meanwhile three point fifty and three touchdowns.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Crazy has this is?
Speaker 1 (33:12):
This is a big divisional game, a lot of points
on a Thursday night. But I said it before. Is
the NFL MVP this year playing in this game. Baker
Mayfield three more touchdowns still eleven minutes to go in
the fourth quarter. This is someone who right now for
the season for Tampa Bay eleven touchdowns through four and
(33:40):
three quarters games. He is having as good a year,
if not better than anybody in the NFL at quarterback.
And I told you before the season. He was my
pick for MVP because I believe in the in the Bucks.
They're a really good team. They're flying under the radar.
They showed you last year. Hey, this works, right, Baker
Mayfield's playing the best football of his life. It works.
(34:03):
Their defense is good enough, that's the one thing. The
defense is not quite as good as I thought it
was going to be coming into the season. But this
is a division they can definitely make hay and you
can see them move the football there dynamic. It doesn't
matter that Rashad White is averaging half a yard to carry.
You know, between him and Bucky Irving and Rashad Whites
picks up a little bit tonight, but you know, between
him and Bucky Irving they score a lot of points.
(34:25):
And Baker Mayfield is doing absolutely everything he needs to
do three more touchdowns tonight. He can seize that narrative
of we and we love narratives, right because it's not
just Hey, Baker Mayfield is having a good year. Look,
other quarterbacks backs are having big years too, right. I'm
not saying he's the only one. Other guys have already
started out to have big years. But you want to say,
(34:45):
what's the narrative. What's the great story I can throw
out there? And what's a better story than the story
of redemption, the story of hey a guy that everybody
passed on. Look, everybody loves talking about Sam Darnold right
now as well as he's playing with Minnesota. He's got
a little bit better defense than Baker may He's at
the best defense in the NFL, so things are a
little bit better for him. But what do we like?
(35:06):
We like the narratives. We like these stories, and Mayfield
certainly has that. The former number one overall pick that
flamed out of Cleveland, flamed out of Carolina, you know,
sort of got his career going back a little bit
when he played a tiny bit of time for the Rams,
and now here he is in Tampa. Really good year.
Last year. They kind of took a bit of a
step with a big playoff win last year, and now
(35:27):
here they are picking up where they left off. And
Mayfield's playing even better than he did last year. He
could come out of tonight the number two rated quarterback
in the NFL after this game. That's the kind of
year he's happen.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Yeah, I think when you look at it, you know,
as you talk about the great narratives. Well, last year
you did have a four thousand yard season twenty eight
and ten for Baker Mayfield, including the playoff win, so
he got a lot of flowers thrown his way a
year ago. Now it was a how do you follow up?
And he's been spectacular tonight he's been including the big scramble,
moving the football. Find it funny you brought up for
(36:03):
Shad White and it's like better night. Well, he had
that fifty six yard run. They all count the same, right,
seven carries sixty four yards, Yeah, but which means he
ain't get back to the But he has one run
that's fifty that's right yards right, every other one was
half a week. We got to see that at least exists.
But that's why I moved to the Sam Donald, and
I know the Brian Flores defense is the win and
(36:25):
it's not a Jets thing, even though it became a
Jets thing and a presser today because they're playing the
Jets this week. But for Sam Donald, he wasn't supposed
to be the guy, right, He was just a veteran
that was gonna be there. JJ McCarthy was supposed to
be the guy and well, he gets hurt, and if anything,
Sam was gonna be at best a placeholder, and maybe
for he'd hold off, needing to pull the plug and
(36:47):
put in j McCarthy. If things went well, well, it's
gone better than well. So you know, normally you'd be
lamenting the fact that you lost your top pick, as
they did. Right now, it's hey, JJ, get well, go
enjoy your baseball, card shop visits, Go be great in
your rehab. We're just fine here, and Sam Donald gets
to push some more of the narrative, which I think
(37:10):
needs to really be hammered Jason of. We don't have
to play these guys right away if they're not ready.
Don't let media speculation and finger pointing rule and dictate
how you put a guy in. If the quarterback isn't ready,
that was your first round pick, guess what it'll be. Okay,
(37:30):
let them just date. Let him learn sometimes sitting on
the sideline better than getting his ass kicked in a
regular game.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Yeah, but what, but what do I tell you about Sam?
What did I say about Sam Donald? See me in weekend? No,
that's fine, the show is tonight. Let me show us tonight.
We're talking about the MVP right now. Baker Mayfield could
suck four weeks from now. Yeah, but I have a
little bit more cachet and belief in his performance.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
Of course, it's a bigger sample side last year. Much
point is, we're talking about this year and this moment
right now, So see me in week eight doesn't work tonight.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
We're right now. We're talking see me in.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
Week five as the week five is developing and what
we've seen thus far. Right now, that's the discussion we're having.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Who's having a better week five, Baker Mayfield or Sam Donald.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Sam Donald because he's sitting on his couch and he's
not getting hit. He might be at the Tower of London.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
Early, wake up, some tea and crumpets.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Such No, Man, Tower of London.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Spider Man's name is Peter Parker.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
Now you just made Sam Donald, Jake Jillenhall. What are
we doing?
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Yeah? That was my favorite's mysterio visiting Man Tower of
London Bridge. That was my favorite part of I'm like,
oh my god, it's.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
At the end of far from Home.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
We're here on the bridge. Now we're gonna go to
the Tower of London. This is great. That was why
I was so excited to visit Tower of London when
we went to Great Britain a couple months.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
You know, we went, we stayed at the hotel over there.
Let me tell you when they finished refurbishment, it'll be
a nice hotel.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Yeah, well but you gotta wait. You gotta wait for that.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Just wait, it will be a nice hotel. It was, okay,
just gotta Waitsta outside, he's pretty good hotel itself.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
It's a little bit of worked so field goal by
the Bucks. They now lead Atlanta thirty to twenty seven,
Falcons getting the football back. Still under ten minutes left
to go in this one, just under ten minutes left
to go, So a lot of time left. But you
can seize the narrative and look and and and hey,
Sam Donald's got the same kind of narrative, right that
story of redemption. Never been able to get it done.
(39:31):
Here he is in his spot. That's why I like
Mayfield going into because he had the narrative. He's not
just hey, here's a guy having a great year. No, no, no,
we have the narrative surrounding it. Yeah, but we.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
Already got his redemption last year. Now it's Sam's redemption.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
But he's having a bet a better start than he is.
Better start And you said the show tonight, Sam Donalds
sitting on his couch, can't talk about it today, he's
on his couch. He's on his couch, can't talk about it,
or just come back to.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
London thinking about the Mets.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Hex it out about a fre Esca exit Swollen down
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live from the
Tireck dot Com Studios. We'll have more on the Bucks
and the Falcons coming down to it. The Mets, big
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