June 17, 2025 • 41 mins
Tyrese Haliburton held scoreless in the first half in Game 5 of the NBA Finals? The guys react to Shohei Ohtani stepping back onto the mound for the first time in nearly 2 years. And Jason takes an L on Rafael Devers!
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Here we are, beginning of the second half, Game five
in the NBA Finals, Oklahoma City, with a fifty nine
to forty five lead over the Pacers. We got show
Heyo Tani taking them ound for the first time in
(01:11):
almost two years, coming up in about ten minutes. We
got a lot of stuff we got tonight here on
the show, and I'll give you one prop bet already. Yeah,
I might go show hey o Tani more strike He's
pitching an inning more strikeouts than Tyre's Halliburton has points. Whoooo.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I don't know if that prop bet got put up
on the map. Right now, I'm even, and the game
I haven't started. I'm even right now because Tyre's Halliburton
has not scored in the first half of this game
again a fifty nine to forty five lead Oklahoma City.
And the big story Tyre's Halliburton, who missed a couple
of minutes a little bit of calf tightness, had his
(01:50):
calf retaped or or looked out in the locker room,
came back out, he still was not able to score.
He didn't look good before he got hurt. He didn't
look after he got hurt. I'm telling you he's got
so much Anthony Edwards in him where he just goes
ghost for long periods of time in multiple playoff games
and series, no matter what it is. I feel like,
would it be better if the thunder were all wearing
(02:12):
Knicks jerseys because you were motivated for the majority of
that series.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I feel like, really do you really need, he really
needs motivation right this sometimes he just goes absolutely space
ghost on everybody. Seemed like a best of three scenario.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
You know, all those words like legend, legacy and whatever
else we do and ascribe those as quickly as we do.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Haliburton was getting a lot of love, right We started
to see the.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Poison pens coming out, going, maybe we have a new villain,
a guy that embraces the hate, you know, embrace debate,
embrace the hate, all of those kind of fun things.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And then you have an effort here. And he didn't
look right early in the game.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Wasn't moving very well defensively, a step slow, looked like
he was dragging his leg a little bit, goes out,
gets taped up, has the bandage on. Then he's on
the sideline and you get the camera shot of him
putting the towel over his face as if he's in anguished.
He's anguished, and then he gets back out and once
again he's less than less than ideal in terms of
(03:13):
his attacking on offense and sliding on d But he's
played seventeen minutes, so it becomes the all right excuses
and all of that. You're still on the court. I
can only evaluate what's there.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
No look, And here's the thing is that he didn't
look good before, he didn't look good after, Right, That's
the whole thing. And the fact is, yes, seventeen minutes,
if he couldn't go, if it was impossible him to go,
he would be sitting out. Because this is you don't
want to say it's a free game for the Pacers,
but okay, if he was really a danger of exacerbating
(03:48):
his injury, getting hurt and then missing the rest of
the finals, the Pacers would sit him down and say,
you know what, we got three days between games. We're
not playing again until July seventeenth. We're gonna sit you
down and then be ready to go and we get
back it. Maybe we can. We can sneak this one
out here, and you never know, we may get a
big night for McConnell off the bench and Matheren could
start hitting shots. And clearly this is a game that
(04:10):
it looks like Oklahoma City should be up more than
they are the way they've been dominant. But still the
Pacers find a way hit a three now and again
and stay involved and stay close. But if it was
really bad, he would not be in the game. But
he's out there and he's given it a go two
to three times. How many times got to come out
of the locker room, come out and play, and sit
down and play and sit down. If it was really,
(04:31):
really bad, they would pull him out of the game
and say, you know what, this is gonna be a
night where we try to do it without you, and
we keep you right and get you ready for game
six back home.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yeah, we know cafstrains can escalate quickly into other things too, right,
So that's the other part you're talking pain threshold, but
also to your point about exacerbating it and creating an
issue not only for the rest of these finals, but
something that potentially becomes a long stand. I mean, how
many guys have we seen that are already off of
our Bingo cards for twenty twenty five twenty six based
(05:02):
on injury sustained in the playoffs. We're already had an
all star lineup full of guys as we go, so
playing through and trying, but the offense has been sputtering.
But he's playing. So Rick Carlisle and company, you're tied
best of three. I know you don't want to go
(05:22):
down but you are going back home for Game six.
You got a couple of days that you get him
into intense treatments, but he's still still working. So our
poison pens to use that term again, are are going
to be out you play. I evaluate you on what
you're able to do. Because you didn't tap out right,
you haven't gone to the locker room for good, and
(05:42):
you're not done. So now you're a detriment to your team.
We have to evaluate you just as a negative instead
of an injured player.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
So we'll keep you posting on this. I mean, obviously
we are keeping an eye on it. It's a eleven
point lead now for Oklahoma City early in the third
or a lot of basketball to go here. Meanwhile, what
we are getting set for in about three minutes is
the first appearance of show Hey Otani on a pitcher's
mound in nearly two years. The story breaks late last
(06:13):
night following the the Dodgers game. Hey guess what, show
He's back tomorrow? Wait, not in a week, No back tomorrow,
but seriously, yes, he's back tomorrow. Probably gonna go an inning.
I don't I don't believe he's gonna go any more
than that. As the Dodgers kind of get him back
in and clearly with all the injuries going on with
their rotation, not a moment too soon for show. Hey,
(06:34):
but you know, seeing all the prop bets that are
out there for show, hit, what's it gonna be? I mean,
I'm gonna take the under on all of them. I
mean I'll take the over on more more strikeouts for
Otani than points for Halliburton. But I will go under.
What's it one and a half because he's not gonna
go more than if I thought he would go more
than an inning, I would say, okay, but I'm pretty sure, hey,
going inning, don't go crazy, and we're gonna have a plan, right,
(06:57):
that's what the Dodgers want to have a plan, and
it's got well, but you go, let's go because then
if he gets in trouble in the middle of the
second inning, or he labors, he throws a lot of pitches,
they'll want to make a move. It's gonna be one inning.
So I'm gonna go it one and a half for strikeouts,
I'm gonna go under. Yeah, it's even going under for walks,
under for everything except for point shimmer, Halbert, how about
to record one or more strikeouts and to hit a
(07:19):
home run plus two. Okay, so more than one strikeout
and a home run, yeah, or one strike out on
a home run one plus one. He just got to
get at least one, okay, So one strike out, one
strike out on a home run, okay, okay, So if
you strike if he strikes out one and he hits
a home run, how about to go three up, three
(07:39):
down in the first. Oh, that that's a good one.
I like that. Of course he's going three up, three
plus one fifty. What kind of question was that, Mike
and a long drive? Da Look at this, I can't
believe it. Three straight home runs to start the game
off OS one? All right?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
To allow an earn run, it's at a half a run,
uh plus one eighty five?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Oh, I'll go oh yeah, yeah yeah, to not to
not allow I'm going I'm no, I'm going to go
back to my last answer. It's apodres right, So you're
going minus two eighty minus too eighty for no runs, yes,
all right, hits giving up one and a half hits,
no under under minus two ninety. It's already been've already
been addressed. Were full Belichick? Yeah, it's already been addressed.
We've already been addressed. Yeah, all sorts of fun props
(08:24):
that come up. You know, it's also a nice convenient thing.
Roki Sasaki probably isn't gonna pitch again the rest of
the year. Gotto, Johnny, let's go. I just got a
text for a friend of mine who got so excited
that they were going to the game tonight. Right, so excited.
They got tickets to the game tonight. They're so excited.
It's it's a husband and wife, really good friends of ours.
(08:46):
They're so excited to go. And I said, leave extra early. Well,
we always because they go to a lot of Dodger games.
I go, no, But I'm serious, because tonight, because of Otani,
you want to get these only gonna pitch in the
first end. Don't worry, we're gonna leave early.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I go.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I'm telling you, it's gonna be like a playoff game.
It's not. It's not your garden variety Dodger pottery game.
I know the traffic is lighter because now school is
out in LA. Traffic is lighter with with school. But
I get and she's a teacher, and they're both teachers,
and I'm like, but leave way early. I'm telling you
because you're gonna miss Otani. No, no, no, we're lived pp.
(09:18):
I just got a text. Wow, parking is worse than
the freeway. And Otani is about to throw his first
pitch of the game. I'm like, what do you want?
Ut I told you to leave early. I told you
to He was a babblehead day. Yes, I had all
the things. They opened the gates an extra hour early.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
We were watching video when when he went out to
do his warm ups and stretch. Uh, the ovation that
he had from the crowd already inside the ball ballpark,
uh and rolling through. I mean, just an incredible announcement
right last night into this morning. And the anticipation tickets
if you waited so like you had. This is one
of those that you're a day trader. I'm like, God,
(09:58):
you must tell your future. You know, you're pumpkin futures.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Before Halloween.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
At about six thirty to get so, about a half hour,
forty minutes before first pitch, get In had gotten down
to sixty four dollars.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Now you look.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
About four hours prior, we're into a couple hundred bucks
for that the top tier, Like you're looking at about
two hundred and two fifty all the way down to
six sixty four bucks. So if you were able to
white knuckle it and wait for something to become more available,
and you battled the parking.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
And that's the thing. See a night like that, I
that's what I don't mind, white knuckling Like I'm not
gonna white knuckle a playoff game. I'm not gonna. But
but this, okay, I'll do that. I'll wait, I'll wait
and see. Oh, I'll wait a time, but I will
also make sure I leave early. I'll also make.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Sure that fair just outside the stadium, right outside of
tikety and I was.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Entryway, and I even I even put down playing Solitaire
to check and make sure they were gonna get to
the game in time. I mean I got, I got
with Otani, I got the NBA Finals, I got my
Solitaire game. I got a lot of time. It's a
lot of Thames, yes, I mean, that's why I was
gonna start running down.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I had forty five other alternate prop bets, so you
could finish that game and see if you can you
can clear your board.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I just found out you had to alternate red black
red black, red, but I just found that out. You
have to alternate red black. You can't just go unless
you play Spider Solitaire. But I'm not ready for that.
I'm not ready for it because I think that's a
whole different thing. I want to make sure Spider Pig,
Spider pick Showotani is one batter down and it's one
batter on base. Otani was hitting ninety eight to the
(11:34):
first batter, Fernando Tatis Junior, who dunks one in front
of Andy Pajes in center fields. Tatise is on board
with a leadoff single. Again. Otani hit ninety eight on
two fastballs a couple of pitches borderline. Looked like he
might have got squeezed a little bit on however, well
(11:54):
it was they looked like it's actually Scott Foster is
on part of it. Didn't give any He's extended lay
himself out. Yeah he is. Uh, he is extending this this.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
And now Tani has thrown a wild pitch trying to
throw it in the It looked like it might have
no not a hit by pitch. For a second, it
did look looked like it might have been hit by pitch,
but it wasn't. Tatis is able to get to second.
So now all of a sudden, Luis Araya is batting
with a runner and scoring position, and uh Otani seven
pitches in, he's already in trouble.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I may Hart is incensed. Yes, a lot of us.
I mean, look, you see it. It looks like it
feels like a playoff game. What's happening right now with
SHOOTI pitching for the first.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Times for the first pitch, And I'm telling man, this
is all part of what's good because I've said this
from the beginning with Otani, right, I've said this from
the beginning. Eventually the dodge are going to make him
a closer. You can't. You can't put him out there
expecting that he's going to pitch and be a starter
every fifth day for a season. His arm has already
(13:02):
been blown out twice, he's over thirty. He's not gonna
do it and hit. You can't do you just can't
do it. Now. Oh so we have him start and
roll the gain? Yeah, okay, that's great. You want to
start the game being opener of it. But is that
what you really want him for? Do you want to
throw an arm in the bullpen and lock down the
ninth inning, and talk about the juice and the excitement
that hits the ballpark and hits the team. If Otani
is trying to close out a game, now, you don't
(13:22):
just put him right out there and close, right, I
get that, right, You don't put him right out there
to close. But here you go, one inning to start
the game, Okay, eventually be one inning to finish the game.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Well, that's where a Tai's start on the return against
the hated Padres and a big home slate home home
occurrence here against the NBA Finals, and get the crowd juiced,
and then.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yeah, you gotta work it back. Look, they're gonna be
active come the deadline. There's no question. You keep telling me.
Arms are coming back. Arms are coming back. And it's
good to see him out on the mound. But there's
a lot of work to do with this roster yet.
And if you took the alas said, I was gonna
take the under for hits a lot in the first inning,
I've already lost. Yeah, plus one ninety's already cashed. Ariahs
(14:05):
just lines one to center field too hard, hitting right
at Andy Pajes, so Tatiase can't score. But now first
and third, nobody out and Otani is already twelve pitches
into the first inning, so I already lost that under.
But I'm winning so far on the on the strikeouts,
so I have that. Yeah, I have that in the walks,
so strikeouts are I'm feeling good on two. I'm two
(14:29):
for three, so I'm feeling all right right now. But again,
nobody out, so it's almost like that it's starting. It's
just beginning right now. Seven minutes to go on the
third quarter, Oklahoma City leads Indianda seventy to fifty nine
and eleven point lead for the thunder As. Somehow the
Pacers are hanging around despite the fact they have been
outplayed from the jump in this game. We'll have more
(14:52):
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In the NBA? The Thunder lead the Pacers seventy five
(17:25):
sixty six late in the third quarter, And I'll tell
you what. This game is going very dangerously for the
Thunder because they're playing this game at a pace and
a and a level of desire that tells me, like
when you get in the game where you go, Okay,
we're controlling this game. We don't really need to go
(17:46):
crazy extend ourselves. Let's not try to get too outside
the box. And we're gonna hold on to win here
because we've been controlling this the entire way. Like that's
kind of how I feel the Thunder or playing. And
when you play that weight, that's a recipe for disaster
because eventually, eventually the pacer are gonna start hitting threes,
they're gonna move, they're gonna pace, and all of a sudden,
that twelve, thirteen to fourteen point lead becomes a nine
(18:07):
point lead like it is now. The nine point lead
becomes a five point lead, five gets to three. TJ
McConnell starts hitting turn around twisty buckets in a lane
that doesn't matter the tyres Haliburton's having a horrible game.
This is what happens. But I have seen no sense
of urgency from the Thunder, from the last couple of
minutes before halftime to where we are right now. They
(18:28):
just seem, hey, we're playing, let's not screw things up, right,
We're playing really well. We just need to execute the
rest of the way. And anytime you get to that point.
That's a dangerous point for.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
A took care of business in the first half, hitting
a wide open threes, moving the ball in transition, protecting
the rim, and obviously Haliburton being limited oh of six
from the field. He finally did hit a couple of
free throws though, so that prop bet blew up. Yeah,
pausing there, but it's you let him hang around, Like
(18:57):
if you've learned anything watching these playoffs, pacers aren't gonna
go away. The fact that he was still dragging his
leg out there, Haliburton wasn't gonna go away, And again
we evaluated for what it is. But that means they're
not ready to put it, you know, put it on
ice and go back for Game six. They're gonna keep competing.
And we watched their bench and their depth in every series.
(19:20):
You know it as a Knicks fan, it'll go away.
Oh yeah, no, No, they're gonna keep counting. You have
to keep playing, keep coming.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Uh So again, where we sit right now, it's an
eight point lead for Oklahoma City, three and a half
to go in the third quarter. Meanwhile, Sho Hao Tani's
first inning is over and now he's coming to the
plate for the first time. The Padres lead the Dodgers
one to nothing. Manny Machado would a sacrifice fly a
close play at the plate, But tatise is safe though,
so why shouldn't it have counted? Did you not see
(19:50):
the appeal to first on the check swing? I mean
the full swing? Oh oh yeah, I did see the
appeal to first. It seemed like full swing. Yeah no,
it looked like I thought you meant the sacrifice fly itself.
Yeah no, yeah, yeah, Well, I mean I think, you know,
I think maybe the home plate umpire didn't want to
get yelled at by Machado like he yelled at the
umpire last week when he got called out on strike.
If you was scared of Machado, your so the whole
(20:11):
ring doorbell thing, I mean that would that would come back?
I don't want that would take him a wall though,
didn't you get to your house? So one inning pitch
for show, heo Tony twenty eight pitches, so a heavy
workload in the first inning. Two hits, one run, The
run is earned, and again the Dodgers trail of the
Padres right now won nothing is they bat in the
bottom of the first inning, hit.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
In the upper nineties with his fastball, so had that
pop out of the gate. So folks excited, A little
bit erradic, right, A lot of juice, a lot of
energy in the crowd. I mean it's also a day
he's excited because Epe is now behind bars.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Yesported to prison. You want to talk about.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Bookending at historic Okay, you go behind bars. You you're
back to the mouth. I'll pitch when I feel safe.
When Epe is behind bars, he pays behind. I'll pitch tonight.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Give me the ball. I'm ready. I'm ready to go.
Give me the ball. Give me the ball. So two hits,
either of them hit very well. No, no, so you
take that.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
I mean it'll look like line drives singles in the
box score tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
The right if he threw the ball, there's nothing I
saw tonight that tells me, oh boy, oh to Otani
threw the ball. You know he had that little bit
of juice. I'm sure first time pitching. So they gave
him a couple extra miles an hour on the fastball.
But ninety eight his breaking pitches were breaking right through
the wild pitch. There's nothing I saw tonight in the
first inning from him that tells me, Okay, he's not
(21:27):
going to be back to being himself. He just needs
the reps he needs to get back in, he needs
to extend himself again. I would have him closed, but
the Dodgers have a lot of problems with the starting pitching,
so probably going to be out there starting for a
little while. But yeah, he looked fun. Yes, not optimal
that he gives up a running the first end of
the padres, but overall you have to be pretty pretty
pleased with what you saw in the first end. Let's
(21:49):
just say it.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Twenty eight pitches, good velocity, some pretty good movement on
the ball, wild pitch aside, of course, But all of
that to say, you get out of that with one inning,
one run allowed. The inning I saw, you know, his
reaction to the play at the plate and fired up
and given the umpire and earful, no question about it.
But you now have proof of concept. He's back, and
(22:12):
he's now a piece on the chessboard from the pitching
side of things. And now we'll see where they take
it from here as to how they work out the rotation.
You're gonna have these you already have. The opener game
was part of your world. So we'll see how long
that projects. We talked about Sasaki briefly, the expectation that
(22:32):
he's not going to return this season, but you are
seeing more throwing sessions from Snell on his bobblehead day.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Some good news there. Eventually the glass now will be back
for a couple innings before he.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Goes back on the show. So you got all of
those things that you work to do. And Clayton Kershaw
inching ever closer to three thousand striking. I mean, look,
I mean I.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Firmly believe that it doesn't matter how many pitchers the
Dodgers could sign in the off season. We signed four
teen starting pitchers, all former Cy Young Award winners, all
guys who have gone through and thrown tons of pitches.
They're healthy all the time. The minute you get them it, yeah,
we're gonna be We're gonna be down to Kershaw being
our second starter by the time we get to the
(23:14):
end of gym.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
No, I mean, where's the sage brush. Kyrie ain't working
right now?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Go get that. It's like no matter. He used to
beel like that way with the Mets, but now the
Dodgers have taken that to an absurd level where they
really they have an all star staff, starting staff, on
the on the injured list. Yeah, like these are all
all multi cy young, all of those things. Think about
the big three, which would be Snell and Glad, snow
and and and Sasaki. Any team going into the season
(23:41):
would say, I'd love to have those be my top three. Guys.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
This is the you just keep on going down a lone.
You gotta station. Yeah, it's I mean, really, this is
no matter what the Dodgers are. In fact, I don't know, man,
And this is bad news for you, Frostburg, because I
think pictures now in the off season are gonna say, hey,
the Dodgers want to give you a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
No, I can't go there, man, I'm just gonna get hurt.
I gotta go somewhere town. You can't give me bad news.
That's not possible. I gotta go someplace. Ouds like, yeah,
just gonna wind up getting hurt. Man, I want to
go there. Happens to everybody. What are we thinking here?
We're gonna bring him back in right? I don't know, man.
I think that's a lot of pitches and I think
he's coming out after the I think The whole plan
was gonna be one inning, no matter what, unless they
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had to get him in the first inning because he
threw too many pitches. He gave up three four. So
did you talk to Dave Roberts? How did you know that? No,
I'm just saying for his first start in two years,
they're not gonna be Hey, let's see how we feel.
It's gonna be very regimented and one inning and that's it.
Because they also want to show pitched to no hitter,
you're coming out. They also they also want to plan
how are we gonna start things? How are we gonna
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how we want to go this game? One inning? And
then this is our relief pitcher plan. You want to
make sure you know, Hey, you know you're coming in
to start the second inning, no matter what. Get ready
to go. You're coming in to start like this. This
is this is how I expect it to go. And
when they just cut to commercial, Otani was looking at
the iPad as a Dodgers like they were taking the field.
He was not grabbing his glove and his hat to
go back out there. So I gotta think this is
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it for Otani now as we get to as he
gets more and more. Hey, okay, the next start, maybe
a little bit more than any Maybe we think two
innings next time. Maybe it's more than that. But I
would see he's gonna be out and and look it
looks like Anthony Band is going to be coming in.
And this was the plan all along, was to go
and let him go one inning, which is smart. It's
absolutely it's out time for the band to try it.
I mean, look, you feel great. If you're the Dodgers,
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you feel great. You're holding your breath the entire first
and Anthy all of baseball is holding their breath the
entire first thing and going, oh, what's he gonna do? Oh, okay,
he's fine because look you want to see this, and
his pitches had life everything. There's nothing that I saw
that tells me, okay, I worry about him. Everything looked fun.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
But there's been a lot of the thought pieces in
the background right as he's been ramping back up to
this moment of do you pitch him again? Yeah, like
obviously he wants to pitch, and it's part of what
the expectation was when he signed the decade long deal
with the Dodgers and came over and part of the
reason to a degree that you pay him the extra money.
(26:04):
Right the unicorn aspect of it, say nothing of merchandising, sales,
et cetera. That I think you've already made that money
back and now it's you're earning interest on it, all
based on what you've been able to sell. But when
you look at he wants to go, and he wants
to give it another shot. And we saw it where
as he was recovering from the injury, sure as hell
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didn't affect him at the plate or you know, running,
And we'll see what happens when he's on the base
pats whether that tamps down a little bit in terms
of trying to take an extra base and the stolen
base totals all of those things. But in the interim,
he gives you an extra arm for whatever innings however
they're gonna use him, and Dave Roberts and the Dodgers,
they'll be judicious about it, and so long as he's
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honest with them about how he's feeling in terms of
any of fatigue, twinges, all of those things, and then
everybody wins, and baseball wins.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Speaking of baseball, winning and winning at baseball, I'm gonna
take Well, okay, what do I do? You know, it's Monday.
I'm feeling okay. You know, even though got swept. I'm sorry.
I was looking to see who had the best record
of the National League, and oh, it's still the Mets.
What was it? It was ten teams got swept this weekday.
One of them was the Mets. Yeah, it's true. Yeah,
(27:19):
and I'm still looking. We still have the best record
in the league. Yeah, we still have the of the Rockies. Right, yeah,
we lost the right we lost nine to nothing, ten
to one, and fourteen to two. Or was it the
Orioles to the Rockies? No, no, the Orioles the Rockies.
Did the Rockies beat the Orioles today? I think that's
did that happen today? I believe that that part of
the men's college world now that kid struck out nineteen.
(27:42):
It was Tampa over Baltimore one, you know, Washington and
the Rocky Rockies cut on the upside six four final.
I will tell you I'll take Yeah, since it's Monday,
I'll take the l on my Rafael Dever's trade prediction
that I made at the end of March that he
was going to be gone. By the end of April,
(28:04):
Devers gets traded over the weekend to the Giants for
a couple of Jag pitchers. And I mean, look, basically,
this was the Red Sox saying we're done. We're done
with you, We're done with the bad headlines, We're done
with with you not wanting to go play first base.
We're done with you bad mouthing the organization and telling
us what we need to be doing, when meanwhile we
screwed things up to Look, I'm not gonna sit here
(28:26):
in place blame because the Red Sox had to know
how Devers was going to react. When they brought in
Alex Pregnant to play third base. You had to know
your player because he's been there a while. This was
a situation. I told her the end of March was untenable,
and I thought by the end of April he would
be dell. He started off what like forty five strikeouts
in his first forty six at bats that he really
got hot, probably because he wanted out, you know, leading
(28:47):
the league, leading the American League in RBIs. But I
knew this was going to happen because it was just untenable. Hey,
I know, we brought in a guy to play third base,
can you do No, I don't want a DH. I'm
a third basement. Okay, he's a better third baseman. You are.
We're trying to get better, okay. And you finally convince
him to be okay being the designted hitter. But then
your first baseman gets hurt and it's like, hey, you
want to go play first He doesn't want to do it.
(29:07):
Like didn't you learn the first time when you said, hey,
he didn't want it. You only wanted to play third base,
and that's it. And you finally got him to DH.
Then when you asked him to play first base. That's
how it was gonna go. The situation was completely untenable.
I knew it was gonna be a point where they
had to trade him, and they did, and the Giants
get a great player. It's a great trade for them.
They basically they traded away a couple of jag pitchers,
(29:29):
one who's young and maybe has a little bit of problems.
But really, this arn't This isn't anything other than we're
moving on from Devers and you're gonna eat all that
money that we gave him, and now we have money
to go move and go do something else, because I'll
tell you this, this is not gonna be a Red
Sox fire sales. Not suddenly here goes Duran and goes
all the other play. No, no, this is gonna be
the Red Sox saying we had to get rid of him.
(29:49):
We now have more money to spend. We can be
aggressive at the deadline. You've already seen some quotes from
the Red Sox saying we feel like we're gonna win
more games this year despite the fact we don't have him.
He was a great player. They just had to get
rid of him. And I knew it was gonna be untenable,
but I said, okay, by the end of April, Okay,
before the end of June, way before the trade deadline.
(30:10):
I'll take d L But I told you, I told
you was gonna get trade.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Yeah, just ahead of five hundred in the standings right now,
it's a bit of a mosh pit there. You look
at the idea of all the young up and coming
players they had. Now they traded a few away to
the White Sox to bring in Crochet. But you look
at it, clears paths that way, you get rid of
some of whatever's going on in the clubhouse. A lot
(30:34):
of reports that he wasn't necessarily not only on the field,
keen with whatever plans and yes and improv kind of things,
but also in terms of what the Red Sox expect
out in the community and such, not exactly being forthcoming
and get along kind of guy in that regard either.
(30:55):
So the old edition, by subtraction you lose, you know,
have younger players. We've talked with John Paul Morosi about
this and the promotion of a lot of young guys
across major league. So you get guys that get it, bats,
get innings pitched at the major league level. You get
to test them see if there's a market for them,
if you decide you are sellers. And for San Francisco
(31:16):
they get a huge addition to their roster because we've
watched free agency be a bit of an issue the
last couple of years in terms of bringing in big
time signings while discounts as a big time signing for
Buster Posey in that front office.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Exit out about a Fresco exit. Swalling down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike carmon Time Now
to find out what's trending in the wide world of
sports from someone who's been called the Rafael Devers a
fox Bow Radio. They wanted to be an update anchor.
He said, okay, They said, how about He said, no,
I'm an update. I heer cellos. That's all I'll do.
It's Steve Disager, So you were talking salary.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
Boston is one five in a row, did trade Devers
to San Francisco last night, but rookie Roman Anthony with
a home run tonight at Seattle and the Red Sox
are now up two nothing over the Mariners top of
the fourth. This is the Logan Gilbert start for Seattle,
just off the injured list at Dodger Stadium. One inning
for the opener show Hey Otani on the mound, allowed
one run on a sackfly. He threw twenty eight pitches.
(32:13):
O'tani had not pitched in a game in nearly two years.
He averaged ninety nine miles an hour on the fastball tonight.
He is still the ladh leading off the regular position
in the order. Padres lead in LA one nothing in
the top of the second, and Houston, which is won
five in a row, got a first inning home run
from Jose al Tuove. It leads one nothing at the
A's in the bottom of the second. The other four
(32:36):
games are finals. Philadelphia won its fifth straight contest five
two at Miami. Colorado homer twice in the top of
the ninth to win six to four. At Washington, the
Nationals have lost nine in a row. The Angels in
eleven innings edge the Yankees one nothing in New York.
Yanks left bases loaded bottom of the eleventh, and Tampa
Bay beat Baltimore seven to one at College Baseball's World
(32:57):
Series and no hitter for Arkansas to eliminate Murray State three.
I think gage Wood struck out in nineteen. LSU and
UCLA still in a long rain delay after three innings.
Tiger's up five to three.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
And did you know the NBA Finals are going on? No?
Apparently there's a game literally right now. I'm sorry, I
was playing solitaire. There's a game going on. I've sided
to know that.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
By the way, the NBA Finals now averaging about nine
million viewers through the four games. It was nine point
four million last game.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Yeah, but how many people are watching and playing Solitaire
at the same time? How many? At least one?
Speaker 5 (33:30):
Okay, alright, very good, Okay, so yeah, these ratings are
horrible by NBA Final standards. A little bit of context,
The first four games of these finals are the four
highest rated TV shows for the month of June or
May for that matter. And there is a game going
on right now. It's very early in the fourth quarter
at Oklahoma City Thunder ninety two to eighty two over Indiana.
(33:51):
As star guard for the Pacers, Tyrese Halliburton has two
points oh of six shooting from the floor. Meanwhile, some
threes for the Thunder tonight there eleven of twenty five
from long distance, Jalen Williams twenty nine points twenty four
for Shay Gilgis Alexander series for the moment tied at two.
Game six will be Thursday at Indiana Stanley Cup. Game
(34:12):
six is Tuesday in the FIFA Club World Cup, Chelsea
beat LAFC two nothing in Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
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Show with my best friend Mike Harmon coming up next,
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I'm pretty sure you could guess what it is. Plus
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is absolutely irrelevant. That's next Jason to Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
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(35:05):
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when you pitch the first no hitter the Men's College
World Series in about sixty five years and you strike
out nineteen, well it's pretty easy. You get to be
the play of the Day. Two Greatstage ESPN on the
(35:53):
Call Gagewood of Arkansas, the third no hitter in men's
College World Series history, again, the first since nineteen sixty
Jim Wixon of Oklahoma State. I had him in fantasy
that you did Fantasy college Baseball in nineteen sixty was
really fun.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
You want to talk about this one game point total,
I mean, just off the charts. The hard part is
that it takes out one of the Cinderella stories of
all of this in Murray State.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Yeah, well, you know it's gonna happen. Murray State's always
a Cinderella. Tell me one sport. Murray State is not
a Cinderella. No, it's a good question. I'm not familiar
with the rest of their sporting Everyone efforts. Yeah, sure,
there's not a shot put her off there?
Speaker 3 (36:30):
No, no, actually no, you get crushed by Lesnar's daughter anyway,
not a one.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Man dynasty and shot. But someone on the fencing team
that has risen through the ranks. I mean, I don't know,
but certainly in the.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Sports that we cover here on a regular basis on
Fox Sports radioh yeah, the underdog tag is always gonna
be there. I mean, watching the highlights of this and
just the form he looked just as strong on the
final pitch as the first pitch out of the gate,
like just I'm sure when would Dave Roberts had pulled him?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Oh, probably with two outs in the ninth.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Oh all the way down.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
No no, no, no, no no, I'm not gonna be
fair to Dave Roberts. Probably after the seventh, after seventh,
yea seventh, then I'm not Roberts, is not that like
when he says, people think I'm the grim Reaper when
I go out to the mount. No, he probably would
have pulled him after the seventh. Hey, really good, great day.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
At some point he's got to come out where he
he's got to sweat it off. But then when he
pull he pulls up his sleeves. He's going to the mound,
and it just looks like he's a skeleton. Like he's
coming out and he's got the bone.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Oh no, I just want him to fly out like
a dementor from well, he's out of the dugout. I
just whipping around going, oh my godness, a day just
shows up. Oh my god, it's Dave Robert and he
just gets it and he gives and he gives the
picture the Mentor's kiss all of a sudden, you could
see the tiredness. Oh, all the energy leaving his body.
He's gonna have to pull him after this. He's got
nothing left all there carrying him off the mound. Here
(37:50):
comes the bullpen. We're far better at programming these things
than the bananas or anybody else ever could be. I'll
tell you that. So congratulation Gage would an incredible once
in a lifetime performance being the play of the day.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
I'll tell you right now we're looking at something where
Dylan ceases on pace to top his strikeout total.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Oh yeah, yeah, we'll see that still won nothing. Padres
over the Dodgers again. Show how Tani one inning, twenty
eight pitches, one run alowed. We'll have more on that
coming up tonight. Thanks to the crappy play by the
first place umpire Okay, okay, that it looked like many okay,
looked like Manny Mchatto could have struck out well because
(38:27):
of your eyes, it didn't happen. I can't lie to
people and say it happened when it didn't. It absolutely happened.
He went around No, but I mean they didn't call
him out on it. That's the problem. They went to
a review and they all concurred. Do you concur? I concur?
Speaker 2 (38:41):
Do you concur?
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Sure? So it looked like Manny Mitchatto could have been
punched out on strikes, but no, I was ruled not
to go around. You saw Otani's reaction. Machado hits a
sacrifice fly and there's your margin of the lead right
now for the Padres. One nothing in the second inning. Meanwhile,
NBA Finals, as we told you, Oklahoma City playing a
dangerous game, didn't really look like they're playing with a
lot of sense of urgency. And the Pacers just keep coming.
(39:03):
It is now a four point Thunder lead nine minutes
to go in the fourth quarter. After a horrendous night
going on from Tyree's Aliburton, TJ McConnell's been rallying. He
got at the Pacers here. It's been amazing. But let
me just say this, Okay, the most irrelevant topic there
could possibly be, and really it only really comes up
when it comes about the NBA. Is that the NBA
(39:25):
Finals in the ratings, and look at where they are
and look how low they are, and I get it,
yes they're low. Some years are going to be lower
than others. Right when you if it was the Nicks
and the Lakers, or ratings would be great, right, same
to for different reasons. Yes, there'll be large ratings. But
there's a couple of things here. Number one is you
don't know how many people are consuming the NBA Finals
a different way. Right, you're watching on their phone, you're
(39:47):
watching it. There's so many different ways. Now, can you
really really say here's an accurate representation? Right?
Speaker 3 (39:52):
All those illegal streams, outdated means by which to grab ratings,
all of those things.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
But the bigger thing is this. Okay, so the ratings
are low. What's gonna happen? Tell me what's gonna happen?
Is the NBA gonna go away? Is the next rights deal?
Are they losing money? Are the TV networks gonna say
you gotta owe us money? Make goods? Like I'm in advertising, Hey, yomia,
make good. Nothing is happening except the NBA is growing.
The next television rating, the next television contract, and every
(40:19):
subsequent television contract is gonna be through the roof. It's
more and more money. Tell me what why? It's a
big Tell me what's gonna happen? If you gave me
a cause and effect for this, I would say, Okay,
you're right, there's no effect for this. The NBA is
gonna be justified. Everything is fine. And again Kevin, like
Kevin Durant, says, you don't like it, don't watch It's okay.
Some of the people seventy six billion dollar deal. And
(40:42):
what I'd love is more the deep dive of what
Silver started to do in terms of how people are
consuming it through the different means social media, Twitch, all.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
Of those other things. I'd like more data on that,
but certainly internationally still growing, trying to bury it. You
don't want to be part of it and actually watch
and break down the games. That's fine, go live. Nothing
rates like it did in nineteen eighty two. Basho exit
out about a Fresca exit Swallen Dome. More on this
suddenly incredibly close NBA Finals game, plus the return this
(41:11):
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Here we are, beginning of the second half, Game five
in the NBA Finals, Oklahoma City, with a fifty nine
to forty five lead over the Pacers. We got show
Heyo Tani taking them ound for the first time in
(01:11):
almost two years, coming up in about ten minutes. We
got a lot of stuff we got tonight here on
the show, and I'll give you one prop bet already. Yeah,
I might go show hey o Tani more strike He's
pitching an inning more strikeouts than Tyre's Halliburton has points. Whoooo.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I don't know if that prop bet got put up
on the map. Right now, I'm even, and the game
I haven't started. I'm even right now because Tyre's Halliburton
has not scored in the first half of this game
again a fifty nine to forty five lead Oklahoma City.
And the big story Tyre's Halliburton, who missed a couple
of minutes a little bit of calf tightness, had his
(01:50):
calf retaped or or looked out in the locker room,
came back out, he still was not able to score.
He didn't look good before he got hurt. He didn't
look after he got hurt. I'm telling you he's got
so much Anthony Edwards in him where he just goes
ghost for long periods of time in multiple playoff games
and series, no matter what it is. I feel like,
would it be better if the thunder were all wearing
(02:12):
Knicks jerseys because you were motivated for the majority of
that series.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I feel like, really do you really need, he really
needs motivation right this sometimes he just goes absolutely space
ghost on everybody. Seemed like a best of three scenario.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
You know, all those words like legend, legacy and whatever
else we do and ascribe those as quickly as we do.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Haliburton was getting a lot of love, right We started
to see the.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Poison pens coming out, going, maybe we have a new villain,
a guy that embraces the hate, you know, embrace debate,
embrace the hate, all of those kind of fun things.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And then you have an effort here. And he didn't
look right early in the game.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Wasn't moving very well defensively, a step slow, looked like
he was dragging his leg a little bit, goes out,
gets taped up, has the bandage on. Then he's on
the sideline and you get the camera shot of him
putting the towel over his face as if he's in anguished.
He's anguished, and then he gets back out and once
again he's less than less than ideal in terms of
(03:13):
his attacking on offense and sliding on d But he's
played seventeen minutes, so it becomes the all right excuses
and all of that. You're still on the court. I
can only evaluate what's there.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
No look, And here's the thing is that he didn't
look good before, he didn't look good after, Right, That's
the whole thing. And the fact is, yes, seventeen minutes,
if he couldn't go, if it was impossible him to go,
he would be sitting out. Because this is you don't
want to say it's a free game for the Pacers,
but okay, if he was really a danger of exacerbating
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his injury, getting hurt and then missing the rest of
the finals, the Pacers would sit him down and say,
you know what, we got three days between games. We're
not playing again until July seventeenth. We're gonna sit you
down and then be ready to go and we get
back it. Maybe we can. We can sneak this one
out here, and you never know, we may get a
big night for McConnell off the bench and Matheren could
start hitting shots. And clearly this is a game that
(04:10):
it looks like Oklahoma City should be up more than
they are the way they've been dominant. But still the
Pacers find a way hit a three now and again
and stay involved and stay close. But if it was
really bad, he would not be in the game. But
he's out there and he's given it a go two
to three times. How many times got to come out
of the locker room, come out and play, and sit
down and play and sit down. If it was really,
(04:31):
really bad, they would pull him out of the game
and say, you know what, this is gonna be a
night where we try to do it without you, and
we keep you right and get you ready for game
six back home.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yeah, we know cafstrains can escalate quickly into other things too, right,
So that's the other part you're talking pain threshold, but
also to your point about exacerbating it and creating an
issue not only for the rest of these finals, but
something that potentially becomes a long stand. I mean, how
many guys have we seen that are already off of
our Bingo cards for twenty twenty five twenty six based
(05:02):
on injury sustained in the playoffs. We're already had an
all star lineup full of guys as we go, so
playing through and trying, but the offense has been sputtering.
But he's playing. So Rick Carlisle and company, you're tied
best of three. I know you don't want to go
(05:22):
down but you are going back home for Game six.
You got a couple of days that you get him
into intense treatments, but he's still still working. So our
poison pens to use that term again, are are going
to be out you play. I evaluate you on what
you're able to do. Because you didn't tap out right,
you haven't gone to the locker room for good, and
(05:42):
you're not done. So now you're a detriment to your team.
We have to evaluate you just as a negative instead
of an injured player.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
So we'll keep you posting on this. I mean, obviously
we are keeping an eye on it. It's a eleven
point lead now for Oklahoma City early in the third
or a lot of basketball to go here. Meanwhile, what
we are getting set for in about three minutes is
the first appearance of show Hey Otani on a pitcher's
mound in nearly two years. The story breaks late last
(06:13):
night following the the Dodgers game. Hey guess what, show
He's back tomorrow? Wait, not in a week, No back tomorrow,
but seriously, yes, he's back tomorrow. Probably gonna go an inning.
I don't I don't believe he's gonna go any more
than that. As the Dodgers kind of get him back
in and clearly with all the injuries going on with
their rotation, not a moment too soon for show. Hey,
(06:34):
but you know, seeing all the prop bets that are
out there for show, hit, what's it gonna be? I mean,
I'm gonna take the under on all of them. I
mean I'll take the over on more more strikeouts for
Otani than points for Halliburton. But I will go under.
What's it one and a half because he's not gonna
go more than if I thought he would go more
than an inning, I would say, okay, but I'm pretty sure, hey,
going inning, don't go crazy, and we're gonna have a plan, right,
(06:57):
that's what the Dodgers want to have a plan, and
it's got well, but you go, let's go because then
if he gets in trouble in the middle of the
second inning, or he labors, he throws a lot of pitches,
they'll want to make a move. It's gonna be one inning.
So I'm gonna go it one and a half for strikeouts,
I'm gonna go under. Yeah, it's even going under for walks,
under for everything except for point shimmer, Halbert, how about
to record one or more strikeouts and to hit a
(07:19):
home run plus two. Okay, so more than one strikeout
and a home run, yeah, or one strike out on
a home run one plus one. He just got to
get at least one, okay, So one strike out, one
strike out on a home run, okay, okay, So if
you strike if he strikes out one and he hits
a home run, how about to go three up, three
(07:39):
down in the first. Oh, that that's a good one.
I like that. Of course he's going three up, three
plus one fifty. What kind of question was that, Mike
and a long drive? Da Look at this, I can't
believe it. Three straight home runs to start the game
off OS one? All right?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
To allow an earn run, it's at a half a run,
uh plus one eighty five?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Oh, I'll go oh yeah, yeah yeah, to not to
not allow I'm going I'm no, I'm going to go
back to my last answer. It's apodres right, So you're
going minus two eighty minus too eighty for no runs, yes,
all right, hits giving up one and a half hits,
no under under minus two ninety. It's already been've already
been addressed. Were full Belichick? Yeah, it's already been addressed.
We've already been addressed. Yeah, all sorts of fun props
(08:24):
that come up. You know, it's also a nice convenient thing.
Roki Sasaki probably isn't gonna pitch again the rest of
the year. Gotto, Johnny, let's go. I just got a
text for a friend of mine who got so excited
that they were going to the game tonight. Right, so excited.
They got tickets to the game tonight. They're so excited.
It's it's a husband and wife, really good friends of ours.
(08:46):
They're so excited to go. And I said, leave extra early. Well,
we always because they go to a lot of Dodger games.
I go, no, But I'm serious, because tonight, because of Otani,
you want to get these only gonna pitch in the
first end. Don't worry, we're gonna leave early.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I go.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I'm telling you, it's gonna be like a playoff game.
It's not. It's not your garden variety Dodger pottery game.
I know the traffic is lighter because now school is
out in LA. Traffic is lighter with with school. But
I get and she's a teacher, and they're both teachers,
and I'm like, but leave way early. I'm telling you
because you're gonna miss Otani. No, no, no, we're lived pp.
(09:18):
I just got a text. Wow, parking is worse than
the freeway. And Otani is about to throw his first
pitch of the game. I'm like, what do you want?
Ut I told you to leave early. I told you
to He was a babblehead day. Yes, I had all
the things. They opened the gates an extra hour early.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
We were watching video when when he went out to
do his warm ups and stretch. Uh, the ovation that
he had from the crowd already inside the ball ballpark,
uh and rolling through. I mean, just an incredible announcement
right last night into this morning. And the anticipation tickets
if you waited so like you had. This is one
of those that you're a day trader. I'm like, God,
(09:58):
you must tell your future. You know, you're pumpkin futures.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Before Halloween.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
At about six thirty to get so, about a half hour,
forty minutes before first pitch, get In had gotten down
to sixty four dollars.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Now you look.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
About four hours prior, we're into a couple hundred bucks
for that the top tier, Like you're looking at about
two hundred and two fifty all the way down to
six sixty four bucks. So if you were able to
white knuckle it and wait for something to become more available,
and you battled the parking.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
And that's the thing. See a night like that, I
that's what I don't mind, white knuckling Like I'm not
gonna white knuckle a playoff game. I'm not gonna. But
but this, okay, I'll do that. I'll wait, I'll wait
and see. Oh, I'll wait a time, but I will
also make sure I leave early. I'll also make.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Sure that fair just outside the stadium, right outside of
tikety and I was.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Entryway, and I even I even put down playing Solitaire
to check and make sure they were gonna get to
the game in time. I mean I got, I got
with Otani, I got the NBA Finals, I got my
Solitaire game. I got a lot of time. It's a
lot of Thames, yes, I mean, that's why I was
gonna start running down.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I had forty five other alternate prop bets, so you
could finish that game and see if you can you
can clear your board.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I just found out you had to alternate red black
red black, red, but I just found that out. You
have to alternate red black. You can't just go unless
you play Spider Solitaire. But I'm not ready for that.
I'm not ready for it because I think that's a
whole different thing. I want to make sure Spider Pig,
Spider pick Showotani is one batter down and it's one
batter on base. Otani was hitting ninety eight to the
(11:34):
first batter, Fernando Tatis Junior, who dunks one in front
of Andy Pajes in center fields. Tatise is on board
with a leadoff single. Again. Otani hit ninety eight on
two fastballs a couple of pitches borderline. Looked like he
might have got squeezed a little bit on however, well
(11:54):
it was they looked like it's actually Scott Foster is
on part of it. Didn't give any He's extended lay
himself out. Yeah he is. Uh, he is extending this this.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
And now Tani has thrown a wild pitch trying to
throw it in the It looked like it might have
no not a hit by pitch. For a second, it
did look looked like it might have been hit by pitch,
but it wasn't. Tatis is able to get to second.
So now all of a sudden, Luis Araya is batting
with a runner and scoring position, and uh Otani seven
pitches in, he's already in trouble.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I may Hart is incensed. Yes, a lot of us.
I mean, look, you see it. It looks like it
feels like a playoff game. What's happening right now with
SHOOTI pitching for the first.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Times for the first pitch, And I'm telling man, this
is all part of what's good because I've said this
from the beginning with Otani, right, I've said this from
the beginning. Eventually the dodge are going to make him
a closer. You can't. You can't put him out there
expecting that he's going to pitch and be a starter
every fifth day for a season. His arm has already
(13:02):
been blown out twice, he's over thirty. He's not gonna
do it and hit. You can't do you just can't
do it. Now. Oh so we have him start and
roll the gain? Yeah, okay, that's great. You want to
start the game being opener of it. But is that
what you really want him for? Do you want to
throw an arm in the bullpen and lock down the
ninth inning, and talk about the juice and the excitement
that hits the ballpark and hits the team. If Otani
is trying to close out a game, now, you don't
(13:22):
just put him right out there and close, right, I
get that, right, You don't put him right out there
to close. But here you go, one inning to start
the game, Okay, eventually be one inning to finish the game.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Well, that's where a Tai's start on the return against
the hated Padres and a big home slate home home
occurrence here against the NBA Finals, and get the crowd juiced,
and then.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yeah, you gotta work it back. Look, they're gonna be
active come the deadline. There's no question. You keep telling me.
Arms are coming back. Arms are coming back. And it's
good to see him out on the mound. But there's
a lot of work to do with this roster yet.
And if you took the alas said, I was gonna
take the under for hits a lot in the first inning,
I've already lost. Yeah, plus one ninety's already cashed. Ariahs
(14:05):
just lines one to center field too hard, hitting right
at Andy Pajes, so Tatiase can't score. But now first
and third, nobody out and Otani is already twelve pitches
into the first inning, so I already lost that under.
But I'm winning so far on the on the strikeouts,
so I have that. Yeah, I have that in the walks,
so strikeouts are I'm feeling good on two. I'm two
(14:29):
for three, so I'm feeling all right right now. But again,
nobody out, so it's almost like that it's starting. It's
just beginning right now. Seven minutes to go on the
third quarter, Oklahoma City leads Indianda seventy to fifty nine
and eleven point lead for the thunder As. Somehow the
Pacers are hanging around despite the fact they have been
outplayed from the jump in this game. We'll have more
(14:52):
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In the NBA? The Thunder lead the Pacers seventy five
(17:25):
sixty six late in the third quarter, And I'll tell
you what. This game is going very dangerously for the
Thunder because they're playing this game at a pace and
a and a level of desire that tells me, like
when you get in the game where you go, Okay,
we're controlling this game. We don't really need to go
(17:46):
crazy extend ourselves. Let's not try to get too outside
the box. And we're gonna hold on to win here
because we've been controlling this the entire way. Like that's
kind of how I feel the Thunder or playing. And
when you play that weight, that's a recipe for disaster
because eventually, eventually the pacer are gonna start hitting threes,
they're gonna move, they're gonna pace, and all of a sudden,
that twelve, thirteen to fourteen point lead becomes a nine
(18:07):
point lead like it is now. The nine point lead
becomes a five point lead, five gets to three. TJ
McConnell starts hitting turn around twisty buckets in a lane
that doesn't matter the tyres Haliburton's having a horrible game.
This is what happens. But I have seen no sense
of urgency from the Thunder, from the last couple of
minutes before halftime to where we are right now. They
(18:28):
just seem, hey, we're playing, let's not screw things up, right,
We're playing really well. We just need to execute the
rest of the way. And anytime you get to that point.
That's a dangerous point for.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
A took care of business in the first half, hitting
a wide open threes, moving the ball in transition, protecting
the rim, and obviously Haliburton being limited oh of six
from the field. He finally did hit a couple of
free throws though, so that prop bet blew up. Yeah,
pausing there, but it's you let him hang around, Like
(18:57):
if you've learned anything watching these playoffs, pacers aren't gonna
go away. The fact that he was still dragging his
leg out there, Haliburton wasn't gonna go away, And again
we evaluated for what it is. But that means they're
not ready to put it, you know, put it on
ice and go back for Game six. They're gonna keep competing.
And we watched their bench and their depth in every series.
(19:20):
You know it as a Knicks fan, it'll go away.
Oh yeah, no, No, they're gonna keep counting. You have
to keep playing, keep coming.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Uh So again, where we sit right now, it's an
eight point lead for Oklahoma City, three and a half
to go in the third quarter. Meanwhile, Sho Hao Tani's
first inning is over and now he's coming to the
plate for the first time. The Padres lead the Dodgers
one to nothing. Manny Machado would a sacrifice fly a
close play at the plate, But tatise is safe though,
so why shouldn't it have counted? Did you not see
(19:50):
the appeal to first on the check swing? I mean
the full swing? Oh oh yeah, I did see the
appeal to first. It seemed like full swing. Yeah no,
it looked like I thought you meant the sacrifice fly itself.
Yeah no, yeah, yeah, Well, I mean I think, you know,
I think maybe the home plate umpire didn't want to
get yelled at by Machado like he yelled at the
umpire last week when he got called out on strike.
If you was scared of Machado, your so the whole
(20:11):
ring doorbell thing, I mean that would that would come back?
I don't want that would take him a wall though,
didn't you get to your house? So one inning pitch
for show, heo Tony twenty eight pitches, so a heavy
workload in the first inning. Two hits, one run, The
run is earned, and again the Dodgers trail of the
Padres right now won nothing is they bat in the
bottom of the first inning, hit.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
In the upper nineties with his fastball, so had that
pop out of the gate. So folks excited, A little
bit erradic, right, A lot of juice, a lot of
energy in the crowd. I mean it's also a day
he's excited because Epe is now behind bars.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Yesported to prison. You want to talk about.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Bookending at historic Okay, you go behind bars. You you're
back to the mouth. I'll pitch when I feel safe.
When Epe is behind bars, he pays behind. I'll pitch tonight.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Give me the ball. I'm ready. I'm ready to go.
Give me the ball. Give me the ball. So two hits,
either of them hit very well. No, no, so you
take that.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
I mean it'll look like line drives singles in the
box score tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
The right if he threw the ball, there's nothing I
saw tonight that tells me, oh boy, oh to Otani
threw the ball. You know he had that little bit
of juice. I'm sure first time pitching. So they gave
him a couple extra miles an hour on the fastball.
But ninety eight his breaking pitches were breaking right through
the wild pitch. There's nothing I saw tonight in the
first inning from him that tells me, Okay, he's not
(21:27):
going to be back to being himself. He just needs
the reps he needs to get back in, he needs
to extend himself again. I would have him closed, but
the Dodgers have a lot of problems with the starting pitching,
so probably going to be out there starting for a
little while. But yeah, he looked fun. Yes, not optimal
that he gives up a running the first end of
the padres, but overall you have to be pretty pretty
pleased with what you saw in the first end. Let's
(21:49):
just say it.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Twenty eight pitches, good velocity, some pretty good movement on
the ball, wild pitch aside, of course, But all of
that to say, you get out of that with one inning,
one run allowed. The inning I saw, you know, his
reaction to the play at the plate and fired up
and given the umpire and earful, no question about it.
But you now have proof of concept. He's back, and
(22:12):
he's now a piece on the chessboard from the pitching
side of things. And now we'll see where they take
it from here as to how they work out the rotation.
You're gonna have these you already have. The opener game
was part of your world. So we'll see how long
that projects. We talked about Sasaki briefly, the expectation that
(22:32):
he's not going to return this season, but you are
seeing more throwing sessions from Snell on his bobblehead day.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Some good news there. Eventually the glass now will be back
for a couple innings before he.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Goes back on the show. So you got all of
those things that you work to do. And Clayton Kershaw
inching ever closer to three thousand striking. I mean, look,
I mean I.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Firmly believe that it doesn't matter how many pitchers the
Dodgers could sign in the off season. We signed four
teen starting pitchers, all former Cy Young Award winners, all
guys who have gone through and thrown tons of pitches.
They're healthy all the time. The minute you get them it, yeah,
we're gonna be We're gonna be down to Kershaw being
our second starter by the time we get to the
(23:14):
end of gym.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
No, I mean, where's the sage brush. Kyrie ain't working
right now?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Go get that. It's like no matter. He used to
beel like that way with the Mets, but now the
Dodgers have taken that to an absurd level where they
really they have an all star staff, starting staff, on
the on the injured list. Yeah, like these are all
all multi cy young, all of those things. Think about
the big three, which would be Snell and Glad, snow
and and and Sasaki. Any team going into the season
(23:41):
would say, I'd love to have those be my top three. Guys.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
This is the you just keep on going down a lone.
You gotta station. Yeah, it's I mean, really, this is
no matter what the Dodgers are. In fact, I don't know, man,
And this is bad news for you, Frostburg, because I
think pictures now in the off season are gonna say, hey,
the Dodgers want to give you a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
No, I can't go there, man, I'm just gonna get hurt.
I gotta go somewhere town. You can't give me bad news.
That's not possible. I gotta go someplace. Ouds like, yeah,
just gonna wind up getting hurt. Man, I want to
go there. Happens to everybody. What are we thinking here?
We're gonna bring him back in right? I don't know, man.
I think that's a lot of pitches and I think
he's coming out after the I think The whole plan
was gonna be one inning, no matter what, unless they
(24:20):
had to get him in the first inning because he
threw too many pitches. He gave up three four. So
did you talk to Dave Roberts? How did you know that? No,
I'm just saying for his first start in two years,
they're not gonna be Hey, let's see how we feel.
It's gonna be very regimented and one inning and that's it.
Because they also want to show pitched to no hitter,
you're coming out. They also they also want to plan
how are we gonna start things? How are we gonna
(24:42):
how we want to go this game? One inning? And
then this is our relief pitcher plan. You want to
make sure you know, Hey, you know you're coming in
to start the second inning, no matter what. Get ready
to go. You're coming in to start like this. This
is this is how I expect it to go. And
when they just cut to commercial, Otani was looking at
the iPad as a Dodgers like they were taking the field.
He was not grabbing his glove and his hat to
go back out there. So I gotta think this is
(25:04):
it for Otani now as we get to as he
gets more and more. Hey, okay, the next start, maybe
a little bit more than any Maybe we think two
innings next time. Maybe it's more than that. But I
would see he's gonna be out and and look it
looks like Anthony Band is going to be coming in.
And this was the plan all along, was to go
and let him go one inning, which is smart. It's
absolutely it's out time for the band to try it.
I mean, look, you feel great. If you're the Dodgers,
(25:25):
you feel great. You're holding your breath the entire first
and Anthy all of baseball is holding their breath the
entire first thing and going, oh, what's he gonna do? Oh, okay,
he's fine because look you want to see this, and
his pitches had life everything. There's nothing that I saw
that tells me, okay, I worry about him. Everything looked fun.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
But there's been a lot of the thought pieces in
the background right as he's been ramping back up to
this moment of do you pitch him again? Yeah, like
obviously he wants to pitch, and it's part of what
the expectation was when he signed the decade long deal
with the Dodgers and came over and part of the
reason to a degree that you pay him the extra money.
(26:04):
Right the unicorn aspect of it, say nothing of merchandising, sales,
et cetera. That I think you've already made that money
back and now it's you're earning interest on it, all
based on what you've been able to sell. But when
you look at he wants to go, and he wants
to give it another shot. And we saw it where
as he was recovering from the injury, sure as hell
(26:25):
didn't affect him at the plate or you know, running,
And we'll see what happens when he's on the base
pats whether that tamps down a little bit in terms
of trying to take an extra base and the stolen
base totals all of those things. But in the interim,
he gives you an extra arm for whatever innings however
they're gonna use him, and Dave Roberts and the Dodgers,
they'll be judicious about it, and so long as he's
(26:48):
honest with them about how he's feeling in terms of
any of fatigue, twinges, all of those things, and then
everybody wins, and baseball wins.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Speaking of baseball, winning and winning at baseball, I'm gonna
take Well, okay, what do I do? You know, it's Monday.
I'm feeling okay. You know, even though got swept. I'm sorry.
I was looking to see who had the best record
of the National League, and oh, it's still the Mets.
What was it? It was ten teams got swept this weekday.
One of them was the Mets. Yeah, it's true. Yeah,
(27:19):
and I'm still looking. We still have the best record
in the league. Yeah, we still have the of the Rockies. Right, yeah,
we lost the right we lost nine to nothing, ten
to one, and fourteen to two. Or was it the
Orioles to the Rockies? No, no, the Orioles the Rockies.
Did the Rockies beat the Orioles today? I think that's
did that happen today? I believe that that part of
the men's college world now that kid struck out nineteen.
(27:42):
It was Tampa over Baltimore one, you know, Washington and
the Rocky Rockies cut on the upside six four final.
I will tell you I'll take Yeah, since it's Monday,
I'll take the l on my Rafael Dever's trade prediction
that I made at the end of March that he
was going to be gone. By the end of April,
(28:04):
Devers gets traded over the weekend to the Giants for
a couple of Jag pitchers. And I mean, look, basically,
this was the Red Sox saying we're done. We're done
with you, We're done with the bad headlines, We're done
with with you not wanting to go play first base.
We're done with you bad mouthing the organization and telling
us what we need to be doing, when meanwhile we
screwed things up to Look, I'm not gonna sit here
(28:26):
in place blame because the Red Sox had to know
how Devers was going to react. When they brought in
Alex Pregnant to play third base. You had to know
your player because he's been there a while. This was
a situation. I told her the end of March was untenable,
and I thought by the end of April he would
be dell. He started off what like forty five strikeouts
in his first forty six at bats that he really
got hot, probably because he wanted out, you know, leading
(28:47):
the league, leading the American League in RBIs. But I
knew this was going to happen because it was just untenable. Hey,
I know, we brought in a guy to play third base,
can you do No, I don't want a DH. I'm
a third basement. Okay, he's a better third baseman. You are.
We're trying to get better, okay. And you finally convince
him to be okay being the designted hitter. But then
your first baseman gets hurt and it's like, hey, you
want to go play first He doesn't want to do it.
(29:07):
Like didn't you learn the first time when you said, hey,
he didn't want it. You only wanted to play third base,
and that's it. And you finally got him to DH.
Then when you asked him to play first base. That's
how it was gonna go. The situation was completely untenable.
I knew it was gonna be a point where they
had to trade him, and they did, and the Giants
get a great player. It's a great trade for them.
They basically they traded away a couple of jag pitchers,
(29:29):
one who's young and maybe has a little bit of problems.
But really, this arn't This isn't anything other than we're
moving on from Devers and you're gonna eat all that
money that we gave him, and now we have money
to go move and go do something else, because I'll
tell you this, this is not gonna be a Red
Sox fire sales. Not suddenly here goes Duran and goes
all the other play. No, no, this is gonna be
the Red Sox saying we had to get rid of him.
(29:49):
We now have more money to spend. We can be
aggressive at the deadline. You've already seen some quotes from
the Red Sox saying we feel like we're gonna win
more games this year despite the fact we don't have him.
He was a great player. They just had to get
rid of him. And I knew it was gonna be untenable,
but I said, okay, by the end of April, Okay,
before the end of June, way before the trade deadline.
(30:10):
I'll take d L But I told you, I told
you was gonna get trade.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Yeah, just ahead of five hundred in the standings right now,
it's a bit of a mosh pit there. You look
at the idea of all the young up and coming
players they had. Now they traded a few away to
the White Sox to bring in Crochet. But you look
at it, clears paths that way, you get rid of
some of whatever's going on in the clubhouse. A lot
(30:34):
of reports that he wasn't necessarily not only on the field,
keen with whatever plans and yes and improv kind of things,
but also in terms of what the Red Sox expect
out in the community and such, not exactly being forthcoming
and get along kind of guy in that regard either.
(30:55):
So the old edition, by subtraction you lose, you know,
have younger players. We've talked with John Paul Morosi about
this and the promotion of a lot of young guys
across major league. So you get guys that get it, bats,
get innings pitched at the major league level. You get
to test them see if there's a market for them,
if you decide you are sellers. And for San Francisco
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they get a huge addition to their roster because we've
watched free agency be a bit of an issue the
last couple of years in terms of bringing in big
time signings while discounts as a big time signing for
Buster Posey in that front office.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Exit out about a Fresco exit. Swalling down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike carmon Time Now
to find out what's trending in the wide world of
sports from someone who's been called the Rafael Devers a
fox Bow Radio. They wanted to be an update anchor.
He said, okay, They said, how about He said, no,
I'm an update. I heer cellos. That's all I'll do.
It's Steve Disager, So you were talking salary.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
Boston is one five in a row, did trade Devers
to San Francisco last night, but rookie Roman Anthony with
a home run tonight at Seattle and the Red Sox
are now up two nothing over the Mariners top of
the fourth. This is the Logan Gilbert start for Seattle,
just off the injured list at Dodger Stadium. One inning
for the opener show Hey Otani on the mound, allowed
one run on a sackfly. He threw twenty eight pitches.
(32:13):
O'tani had not pitched in a game in nearly two years.
He averaged ninety nine miles an hour on the fastball tonight.
He is still the ladh leading off the regular position
in the order. Padres lead in LA one nothing in
the top of the second, and Houston, which is won
five in a row, got a first inning home run
from Jose al Tuove. It leads one nothing at the
A's in the bottom of the second. The other four
(32:36):
games are finals. Philadelphia won its fifth straight contest five
two at Miami. Colorado homer twice in the top of
the ninth to win six to four. At Washington, the
Nationals have lost nine in a row. The Angels in
eleven innings edge the Yankees one nothing in New York.
Yanks left bases loaded bottom of the eleventh, and Tampa
Bay beat Baltimore seven to one at College Baseball's World
(32:57):
Series and no hitter for Arkansas to eliminate Murray State three.
I think gage Wood struck out in nineteen. LSU and
UCLA still in a long rain delay after three innings.
Tiger's up five to three.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
And did you know the NBA Finals are going on? No?
Apparently there's a game literally right now. I'm sorry, I
was playing solitaire. There's a game going on. I've sided
to know that.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
By the way, the NBA Finals now averaging about nine
million viewers through the four games. It was nine point
four million last game.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Yeah, but how many people are watching and playing Solitaire
at the same time? How many? At least one?
Speaker 5 (33:30):
Okay, alright, very good, Okay, so yeah, these ratings are
horrible by NBA Final standards. A little bit of context,
The first four games of these finals are the four
highest rated TV shows for the month of June or
May for that matter. And there is a game going
on right now. It's very early in the fourth quarter
at Oklahoma City Thunder ninety two to eighty two over Indiana.
(33:51):
As star guard for the Pacers, Tyrese Halliburton has two
points oh of six shooting from the floor. Meanwhile, some
threes for the Thunder tonight there eleven of twenty five
from long distance, Jalen Williams twenty nine points twenty four
for Shay Gilgis Alexander series for the moment tied at two.
Game six will be Thursday at Indiana Stanley Cup. Game
(34:12):
six is Tuesday in the FIFA Club World Cup, Chelsea
beat LAFC two nothing in Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon coming up next,
we got the play of the Day coming your way.
I'm pretty sure you could guess what it is. Plus
why one of the biggest stories surrounding the NBA Finals
is absolutely irrelevant. That's next Jason to Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
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(35:05):
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when you pitch the first no hitter the Men's College
World Series in about sixty five years and you strike
out nineteen, well it's pretty easy. You get to be
the play of the Day. Two Greatstage ESPN on the
(35:53):
Call Gagewood of Arkansas, the third no hitter in men's
College World Series history, again, the first since nineteen sixty
Jim Wixon of Oklahoma State. I had him in fantasy
that you did Fantasy college Baseball in nineteen sixty was
really fun.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
You want to talk about this one game point total,
I mean, just off the charts. The hard part is
that it takes out one of the Cinderella stories of
all of this in Murray State.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Yeah, well, you know it's gonna happen. Murray State's always
a Cinderella. Tell me one sport. Murray State is not
a Cinderella. No, it's a good question. I'm not familiar
with the rest of their sporting Everyone efforts. Yeah, sure,
there's not a shot put her off there?
Speaker 3 (36:30):
No, no, actually no, you get crushed by Lesnar's daughter anyway,
not a one.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Man dynasty and shot. But someone on the fencing team
that has risen through the ranks. I mean, I don't know,
but certainly in the.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Sports that we cover here on a regular basis on
Fox Sports radioh yeah, the underdog tag is always gonna
be there. I mean, watching the highlights of this and
just the form he looked just as strong on the
final pitch as the first pitch out of the gate,
like just I'm sure when would Dave Roberts had pulled him?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Oh, probably with two outs in the ninth.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Oh all the way down.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
No no, no, no, no no, I'm not gonna be
fair to Dave Roberts. Probably after the seventh, after seventh,
yea seventh, then I'm not Roberts, is not that like
when he says, people think I'm the grim Reaper when
I go out to the mount. No, he probably would
have pulled him after the seventh. Hey, really good, great day.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
At some point he's got to come out where he
he's got to sweat it off. But then when he
pull he pulls up his sleeves. He's going to the mound,
and it just looks like he's a skeleton. Like he's
coming out and he's got the bone.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Oh no, I just want him to fly out like
a dementor from well, he's out of the dugout. I
just whipping around going, oh my godness, a day just
shows up. Oh my god, it's Dave Robert and he
just gets it and he gives and he gives the
picture the Mentor's kiss all of a sudden, you could
see the tiredness. Oh, all the energy leaving his body.
He's gonna have to pull him after this. He's got
nothing left all there carrying him off the mound. Here
(37:50):
comes the bullpen. We're far better at programming these things
than the bananas or anybody else ever could be. I'll
tell you that. So congratulation Gage would an incredible once
in a lifetime performance being the play of the day.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
I'll tell you right now we're looking at something where
Dylan ceases on pace to top his strikeout total.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Oh yeah, yeah, we'll see that still won nothing. Padres
over the Dodgers again. Show how Tani one inning, twenty
eight pitches, one run alowed. We'll have more on that
coming up tonight. Thanks to the crappy play by the
first place umpire Okay, okay, that it looked like many okay,
looked like Manny Mchatto could have struck out well because
(38:27):
of your eyes, it didn't happen. I can't lie to
people and say it happened when it didn't. It absolutely happened.
He went around No, but I mean they didn't call
him out on it. That's the problem. They went to
a review and they all concurred. Do you concur? I concur?
Speaker 2 (38:41):
Do you concur?
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Sure? So it looked like Manny Mitchatto could have been
punched out on strikes, but no, I was ruled not
to go around. You saw Otani's reaction. Machado hits a
sacrifice fly and there's your margin of the lead right
now for the Padres. One nothing in the second inning. Meanwhile,
NBA Finals, as we told you, Oklahoma City playing a
dangerous game, didn't really look like they're playing with a
lot of sense of urgency. And the Pacers just keep coming.
(39:03):
It is now a four point Thunder lead nine minutes
to go in the fourth quarter. After a horrendous night
going on from Tyree's Aliburton, TJ McConnell's been rallying. He
got at the Pacers here. It's been amazing. But let
me just say this, Okay, the most irrelevant topic there
could possibly be, and really it only really comes up
when it comes about the NBA. Is that the NBA
(39:25):
Finals in the ratings, and look at where they are
and look how low they are, and I get it,
yes they're low. Some years are going to be lower
than others. Right when you if it was the Nicks
and the Lakers, or ratings would be great, right, same
to for different reasons. Yes, there'll be large ratings. But
there's a couple of things here. Number one is you
don't know how many people are consuming the NBA Finals
a different way. Right, you're watching on their phone, you're
(39:47):
watching it. There's so many different ways. Now, can you
really really say here's an accurate representation? Right?
Speaker 3 (39:52):
All those illegal streams, outdated means by which to grab ratings,
all of those things.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
But the bigger thing is this. Okay, so the ratings
are low. What's gonna happen? Tell me what's gonna happen?
Is the NBA gonna go away? Is the next rights deal?
Are they losing money? Are the TV networks gonna say
you gotta owe us money? Make goods? Like I'm in advertising, Hey, yomia,
make good. Nothing is happening except the NBA is growing.
The next television rating, the next television contract, and every
(40:19):
subsequent television contract is gonna be through the roof. It's
more and more money. Tell me what why? It's a
big Tell me what's gonna happen? If you gave me
a cause and effect for this, I would say, Okay,
you're right, there's no effect for this. The NBA is
gonna be justified. Everything is fine. And again Kevin, like
Kevin Durant, says, you don't like it, don't watch It's okay.
Some of the people seventy six billion dollar deal. And
(40:42):
what I'd love is more the deep dive of what
Silver started to do in terms of how people are
consuming it through the different means social media, Twitch, all.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
Of those other things. I'd like more data on that,
but certainly internationally still growing, trying to bury it. You
don't want to be part of it and actually watch
and break down the games. That's fine, go live. Nothing
rates like it did in nineteen eighty two. Basho exit
out about a Fresca exit Swallen Dome. More on this
suddenly incredibly close NBA Finals game, plus the return this
(41:11):
weekend that we were all waiting for,
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