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we are right now. We talked about this last night.
This was the game that the Brewers absolutely had to have.
Dodgers lead it right now two to one because Max
Munsey hit the ball about five feet further than he
did last night when it turned into a double play.

(01:13):
Making sure that hey, okay, good luck going to catch
this one. So now the Dodgers take their two to
one lead. They were three to one now and they
are now counting and hunting outs to go back home
up to zip in the NLCS, and you've got another
starter working deep. You didn't think so when you saw
that first pitch go flying the other way. No, not great,

(01:34):
exent cheerio, not great. And that was it. Six innings pitch,
just three hits thus far, five strikeouts. More importantly, only
seventy six pitches, a very efficient six innings for Yamamoto,
which means we don't have to see the bullpen necessarily
for a little while.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yet.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Nah, you never know, though, you never so you never know. Hey, hey, look,
sometimes Dave Roberts can't resist who he is. But you know,
you know, Dave Roberts is like, okay, Dave Roberts is
like uh looping from Harry Potter, in which like, okay,
I know, I know I shouldn't turn into a were wolf, right,
I know it because my stuff gets out of control

(02:15):
and I don't know what happens after and and bad
things happen, but I just can't help myself. I got
I turned into a were wolf, and I get it.
You gotta watch out like that's Dave. I know I
shouldn't go to the bullpen as often as I do.
I can't help it. Yeah, but you can't. I mean
the film moon still goes up, but he's done. I mean,
what are you gonna do? I have to go to
the bullpen when the moon is out. I gotta go

(02:36):
to the bullpen like that's who they is. I know,
I know it, But it happens. The moon comes out
and I gotta go to the pen. I gotta bring
guys in. It's how it goes the kid. Uh. You
know if you if you touch that, it's gonna burn.
But you still want to find out. I mean might
not this time, right, Uh maybe not? Maybe maybe not,
but you never know. Hey, you keep playing with fire.

(02:58):
You know what they say, DJ, You're gonna get Corbyn burns.
So where we sit right now, top of the seventh inning,
Dodgers have runner at third with one out. Sho Hao
Tani is up, who is won for his last twenty three. Now,
this is the big thing we talked about this coming
into this series, the biggest thing for the Dodger. Yes,

(03:19):
we talk about the bullpen. We talk about a lot
of different things, but sho Hao Tani just doesn't look
comfortable right. He just doesn't look good at the plate.
He is opening up, he is waving at breaking. If
I'm a left handed pitcher, I throw him a sweeper
or something off the plate and he's gonna wait to
get it. And you can see that he's not mentally.
You can see that he is a little lost. He's
taking pitches he normally would take a swing out. He's

(03:40):
swinging at pitches he would normally take, and it's just
it's just not right. And he just took a swing
on a pitch that he looked like maybe he tweaked something,
because he didn't look one hundred percent healthy coming off
of that swing. He stepped out of the batter's box,
he kind of stood winced a little bit. So honestly,
I'm wondering health because we talked about it. Look, we said, hey,

(04:02):
look they need you need Otani in this round your
leadoff hit, or can't go, you know, oh for the
entire series, and you expect to win. But at this point,
seeing him and and and seeing that that swing he
just had there, I really wonder if there's certain it's
certain types of torque, certain types of swings that he
has that are causing him pain. And I'm not just
I'm playing doctor here, theorized trying. I'm trying to come

(04:25):
up with something that would explain show hal Tani being
one for his last twenty three physical versus mental and
pride right that we're trying to figure out what that
equation is and how big the coefficient is on either
parts of that.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
But yeah, he's he's waving and balls up and out
of the zone. We watched it, and now he just
gets a base hit. Uh, that scores another run. So
the Dodgers for one between the first and second basement. Uh.
And you can see the exhale as he got the
first put it on here. Look, they gave him a

(04:58):
pitch he could handle in your on the inside part
of the plate, and Otani grounds it through the right side,
like this is a pitch that normally you give him
that type of fat pitch and he handles it and
it's in the corner or it's in the seats, but
it was enough for a base and bring the run in.
And nothing has been more entertaining the last couple of
days than the shots of Brewers fans following a bad

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play that happens. I think that's become a really big
thing now in this playoff especially, I feel like there's
many more crowd shots of upset crying fans, especially other rounds. Yeah,
and then these sets got to be Midwestern. I'm just saying,
you got to be sad that that's the picture of
a sad Midwest. We're not back in grapes of wrath,

(05:41):
like you know, hey, the dust ball and all the crops, aren't.
You know, this is the early nineteen hundreds and we're
trying to find a way. And I don't know what's
going on, But the problem is that every person they've
decided to isolate would be the stereotypical farmer, the farmer
Sisconsin ide, which is to say that it's a middle
aged white male with a large beer and a large gut.

(06:05):
That's generally what they've been showing farmers in a perch
with a shotgun when the crows come. I got a shoe,
I got I mean like that, you gotta protect this
house man. Just weird, But this is that wrong. No,
I look on what I'm saying. I hated you wanted
a picture for early back in Grapes of wrath Man,
Henry Fonda sure would think the missing were the stirrups,

(06:26):
the other and the the overalls. The update you're stout there.
He's now two for whatever is two four four. That's
like justin Field's numbers for twenty four. No, no, no
gift the field minus ten was justin fields. Twenty four
is way more than But to punctuate that, you give
him credit because he didn't try to overswing, because that's

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been the hallmark of even go back to the last
month of the regular season. Strikeout rate was up, and
he was trying to kill every pitch. And even earlier
you had in a bat that he waved at strike
three that was up and out of his zone. He
was still trying to murder the ball. And at the
one that he wins stat and stepped out of the
box like he was trying to swing for a nine

(07:09):
hundred foot home run, and that one he shortened his swing,
just hit the ball through the through the right side
for the basin to score the run. Look, and that's
the whole thing is that when you're injured, if you
are injured, being able to know what you can do
is the bead look. And if that's the case with Otani, Hey,
I don't have enough that I can. I can put
this in the seats, but I get a sharp ground ball,

(07:32):
or I could I you know, I'm gonna It's the old,
the old adage of hey, choking up one two strikes, right,
it makes you understand, Hey, you choke up with two
strikes and you taught that little league, which is stupid,
but it doesn't matter. But the whole philosophy is choking
up with two strikes. Hey, protect me, you know. Protect
You got to know stuff. It's close, and you got
to concentrate on whatever you thought you're gonna do in
that at bet. You got to take down your expectations
now because you got to put the ball in play, right,

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You got to find a way to get the ball
and play, hit it hard somewhere, and you take down,
you tamp down your expectations. And that's kind of what
you do when you're injured, is that, Hey, I'm up there.
I can't do normal things, but I can do close
to normal things. So if a double down the line
becomes a single through the right side, that's okay. If
a home run in the second deck becomes a single

(08:14):
or a double off the wall. Okay, that's kind of
what it is. And I, honestly, I really wonder if
that's it with Otani because that certainly would explain why
he's been struggling so much and why he looks he
just looks out of sorts at the plate. Well, but
just do it to put it in the larger scope baseball,
and hopefully we see a return to what you and
I and we've seen him bunting, which if you can

(08:38):
execute great, most of the time you can't, so don't
do it. But all all that's say Scott Harrison is
his exit with the Tigers, just kind of talking about
making contact instead of strikeouts. Yep. Right, And for Otani,
once he been doing he's been swinging through balls strikeouts.
That's not helping anything, right, There's no pressure. It's like

(08:59):
you know, soccer, hockey, whatever, Shoot the ball towards the net, right,
make the goalie do something. You have no idea how
they're going to handle it, how the defense is going
to react, et cetera. Same thing in Major League Baseball.
We watched it with the pressure play last week with
the Phillies. What should have been a Hey, what do
you do with the ball when it's hit to you
became a series clinching play. Yeah, right, but it's it's

(09:22):
but if you don't put the ball in play, it
doesn't matter. And we've watched so many batters that it's
it's like, hey, that's fine, it's three outcome. It's like, no,
you've got to you still have to put the ball
in play. Well, and that's the overall thing to to
take a bigger point about Otani, right, Freddie Freeman strikes out,
Dodgers go to the bottom of the seventh inning with
a four to one lead, Like, here's Otani again making

(09:42):
the right play, you know, having the right at bat.
This is what I can do. If you look again
wincing after that that that swing and foul off. But yes,
when you get a pitch, you can. I would not
throw the ball on the inside part of the plate.
I don't know what that was all about. That's a
gift for Otani, but the fact that, hey, okay, I
know what I need to do here, and I got
to make sure I get this run in, and I
get the run in. It's not just the Yankees, not

(10:04):
just the lazy Yankees. But overall, and but the Yankees
get all the attention because of you know, the narrative
of the last year being they're not good fundamentally. They
don't run the bases. Anybody will tell you don't run
the base as well, they don't do. But just think
about all the different bad fundamental baseball that we have
seen throughout the baseball playoffs, not limited to just the Yankees, right,

(10:27):
not limited just ti Oscar Hernandez and his base running
adventures yesterday, but there's all from different series. It's wow,
I can't believe. This is something that you have to know.
You can't do this. You can't what is happening here?
And you see it throughout the different series, and there's
different moments here and there you go, oh wow, okay,
that's that's a moment where you know this bunt rotation

(10:49):
needs to be here, or this is a moment where
if you're stealing second base, you know you're taking the
bat out of the hands of the person you want
to bat. So many different things that just go anti
fundamental baseball that I wonder if it's just the Yankees
are the the poster boys for this, because as time
goes on, like you see it. Wow, that's really not good. Right,

(11:10):
Like we we talked about the Taoska Hernandez obviously not
knowing the tag up rule last night in the game,
but he had the bad base running play the play
before we should have scored in the base hit to
right field and and he didn't see the ball get down. Like, dude,
you've been in baseball, you know where that when the
ball was off the bat, where that's gonna go. You
know that that's gonna be something the outfielder gets. You know,
that's gonna be something the outfielder doesn't get. Like you

(11:31):
have to know that he should have scored on that,
right This is a ball that is hit to the
right side of second base. This is the ball you
got to score on that, and he doesn't. And it's
you know, it's a fundamental play. And not just fundamental
like dropping fly balls as well, or you know, not
cutting off the ball. They're all tasks. There's just so
many Taoska Hernandez things we can say, But how many

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how many of those equal homer? No, that's it. That's
the thing that we got, Like how many fly balls
can he drop? What is that? What can he even it?
Out with with a home run, right with base running
mistakes evened out by a home run. X base running
h plus x fielding equals one home Run's call like
I gotta say, Caul can't kuon find out, Like I

(12:13):
gotta say, he was on and soda there plays room
three five eight? He is he, he is there, he is.
You gonna say room seven six five. See that's who
it was? Your line that was seven six five seven
six five. Yeah, that's how much money he got, seven
or sixty five. I'm just impressed you were able to
do that backwards seven six five seven six six seven
six five six seven six seven six seven. Uh. So
I would say he's operating the deficit last night, but

(12:36):
now tonight, now he's back. He's back at even, Like
I would say he's back at zero s now to
ask her Hernandez, Like he dropped the fly ball, then
he hit the home run. Okay, he's even. But now
the big base running uh fiascos of last night, but
now tonight, so I think he's he's probably zero s.
They won the game, Yeah I know, but I'm saying,
but the point is about about me a story. If

(12:56):
they lose, No, the point is about fundamental baseball throughout
the play not being what it should be. How many
times did you watch that live? I'm just using Tasker
Hernandez as an example because it's so easy. How many
times did you hate watch that highlight? Ah? I didn't hate.
Oh the best part was going home and showing Zoe
the highlight, which she is like the ball hit off
the wall? I go, yeah, you would think they would
know that. Oh, and she was why didn't he tag up?

(13:18):
I go, I know she was, he didn't. You just
have to weigh I said, Zoe, you're saying you could
host the show now for me, because you're saying everything
that we said when we came au the answers, Oh,
that was a big mistake. Oh and the and who
was that that didn't run the third isa? That was
Will Smith? She was, oh that was that was just
a band of mistake because he had time to understand
what he needed to do. I go, yeah, yeah, yeah,

(13:39):
all about it was supposed to be the smartest guy alive. Yeah,
because their catcher certainly was, well, Contramp is he slapping
Chris Rock? Yeah, Contraps was the only one that knew
everything going on. He knew the force out here and
the play to third base, like he's the only one
that knew veritable in these play But in terms of
you know, baseball one on one, I mean and farm

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the old rule of thumb, it's the runs you score
after the sixth with a lead that gets you to
the winners circle. So you got your base hit RBI
for sho Hao Tani coming up to make it a
four to one lead. Yamamoto's still dealing bottom seven exit
out about a Fresco exit swallowing double of more. On
Game two of the NLCS, Dodgers win. This looks like

(14:22):
it's gonna be a sweep, and the Dodgers can. We're
gonna have double sweeps right now. Dodgers Mariners World Randy
tickets looking them up the entire World Series on the West.
What you thinks I'm about that? Yeah? Nine hundred bucks, right,
so you say twenty five plus fees, Huh, they're getting cheaper.
You look, you do a pretty good job looking up
to The first tickets you showed me were fifteen hundred,
and then you got them to nine hundred. Now you
got them eight twenty five. Well, I mean, I was

(14:44):
looking to sit in the outfield to see if I
can catch a you know, Ti Oscar Hernandez or big
dump for home run. I could catch a fly ball
a tasker Hernandez doesn't get so I'll have more on
this game coming up. But straight ahead, we have a
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expresspros dot com. Dodgers lead the Brewers right now for
to one, top of the eighth looking for more The
big fundamental to Oscar Hernandez is up with two on.
Nobody out can make up for all of his uh,
all all of his all of his what what put
stuff in the bank, all of his base running and

(17:30):
what and fielding errors, all of those mistakes or the
home run here and yes it would put stuff in
the bank, like it would be okay. Now he could
have another base running gaff den it's in credit, or
drop a fly ball and it's home run right now.
If he hits another home run, then he then he
banks it then like the next time he drops the
fly ball. You can't say anything, what did he do
to your fan? What did he do to you? I'm

(17:50):
just saying, dude, the dude can't do anything but swing
the bat like he can't run the bases, he can't,
he can't field. Yeah, it's only a story if they lose.
What I'm saying is he's looking to bank goodwill. Now
like it because the next five ball he drops, people
gonna be all over. But it's a home run. Here
was him saying he affed up. Not good enough for you? Well,
because well, okay enough. You know what, when you're a
major leaguer, you have to know the tag up rule

(18:11):
because I knew it when I was like, you know what,
don't he did own it. They won the game, like
he if he if they'd lost, then then then we
have a bigger conversation. In the end, you won the
bullpen got out of it, and you got you got home.
Blake trying and did his job for one day. Dave

(18:32):
Roberts faith and Blake trying paid off. And what I
do love is they're just showing scene after seeing a
Murphy in the dugout and I want to catch him
with the this blanken guy or one of those kind
of things, you know, say my name kind of moments.
Because he tried to disparage the Dodgers, saying they had
no idea who they were, tried to play the little

(18:52):
guy get the best record, best record in the league. No,
the Dodgers have no idea who you are. They don't
do any advanced scouting all. They just show up. Yeah
we did. We don't need to. We don't need that
advance They just rolled it all out there. Nah, we
don't do it. We don't do any of that stuff. Nah,
not at all, not at all. Uh So Toskar Hernandez
ground to do a forest place. But he got the

(19:13):
runners over he did. That's zero. Some that's zero. But
he might as well. Bunny, that's it's like, it's a point.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
You don't get a.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
Right, fine, I'll give you a little bit of a
push on that. That's fine. Up, give give you plus
three tenths, all right. I'll give you a plus three
tenths on that.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
All right.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
So we're keeping the Ledger. Pay attention Matt's owner Tommy
Edmonds up. Oh that's great. Hey, hey Tommy Edmund Hey, wy,
don't you get a hit off with somebody else field
that's gonna bring in one run five to one. Now,
Dodgers with the lead, they don't send the runner from

(19:54):
third five to one. Top of your face hit. Well, no,
I'm okay with Tommy. That was great t get hit
off someone else and he did. Look at it. It's like
I say it, tomahawk that thing right through the right.
I'm the Tommy Eden whisper face. I'm a Tommy Edmond whisperer.
I tell you what happens ried is base hit. He's
having flashbacks to last year though, like I'm watching your face,

(20:14):
you know, as he walks up to first base, he
starts flapping and they watching is like a new loan
because bleeping descending. No, that's it. Come on, man, that's easy.
Because the sayer comes up to me and says, you know,
we're talking about the NLCS last year. I'm like, dude,
you got to bring up again that I didn't go
to the World Series because of Tommy Bleep and Edmund,
not because of Otani, not because of friend's owner. No, no, no, no,

(20:34):
but Tommy Edward ten hits, ten RBIs and ten runs
in the NLCS. Like, come on, the guy got his
contract off of that those six games. I mean, come on,
if I lost to Otani and Freddie Freeman and Mookie Beck, okay,
but I lost to Tommy bleep and Edmund because the
guy couldn't get out. I gotta bring that up you
hey man. That was his star turn. Yeah yeah, Like

(20:55):
if people need their moment in Sonny, he found it
against the mass. That's all I gotta be doing is
good for a week and I can get fifty million
dollars baseball is at this point, man, Shine in the
big moment. Shine when the light's brightest, when the world
is watching. Little Tommy Edmond got paid, so we'll have
more baseball on the way again. Five to one Dodger lead.

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They continue to bat in the top of the eighth inning.
Uh my favorite today talking about a couple of big
team getting ready for games, Aaron Rodgers, Joe Flacco getting
set to play against each other on Sunday in the
earth day night or a Thursday night rather sorry, Thursday,
I get your lineups in. And Cam Hayward, talking about

(21:36):
Aaron Rodgers today during his press conference, said, hey man,
oldest quarterbacks playing this week, Let's go the Icy Hot Bowl.
I love it, and I think that's awesome to call
this game the icy Hot Bowl, Like that's a you
know what, that's where if you're kem Hayward's like, wait
a minute, there's gonna be T shirts for this game.
There's gonna be merch. I gotta make sure that I

(21:56):
have the rights this because oh yeah, would just icy
hot ball? Yeah, sign me up for that. Two quarterbacks
over forty playing in this game Thursday night, when you
know it's gonna be tough sledding in the game. The
under is what's gonna hit? Oh yeah, yeah, you get
you getta you hit an icy hot ball with like
a picture of Rogers, picture of Flacco, picture of icy
hot or some kind of bomb. I'm in for that.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
They're not an official sponsor of the the NFL, but
it is a good line. And I like rodgers response
kind of talking about Hey, the old guys and what
do I always say, The longer these guys play, the younger,
I feel right, so play another five years. I don't
know that you can. Joe Flacco's arms still seems fine.
Sy're winging in around yeah, and Aaron Rodgers, look, they're

(22:38):
in they're in the Catbirds seat. Man, I'm glad you
brought that up, because here's the thing. I can already
tell you know where I'm going with this. I can
already tell all season, I'm gonna keep saying the same thing.
I am not believing in the Steelers because they're not good.
They play in a craptastic division. They're not very good

(22:59):
at anything, right, But Mike Tomlin's at the point where
he's feeling chesty because he's like, hey, I don't know
why you would trade Joe Flacco within the division to
the to the Bengals like that. I don't know, I
don't know why you would do that. But hey, okay,
they like, well, whoa dude, slow your roll. But I
always tell when Tomlin's getting chesty and he's feeling good,
he insults the media. Guys are annoying me today. I
don't know why. I don't know why you would make
that trade. The Steelers are not good. I'm tough. The

(23:22):
Steelers are not good. They don't throw the ball well,
they don't run the ball well. Their defense is league
average at best. This is not all the steel No,
their defense is league average. Look at all the metrics.
They do nothing well except beat bad teams. And they
happen to play this year in a division where all
the teams are bad. But everything fell apart. That's not good.

(23:45):
That's here, the last man standing. No, there's something to
be said for that. It's like, look, if everybody else
is felled around you, they're sick. No, no, it doesn't
make badart. And you can still show up to work.
You're the king. No, no, no, no, So right now
the Steelers are okay, put the ground up. They're not
just because Joe Burrow got hurt. Okay, it's a it's

(24:06):
a cheap crown that's made out of cardboard that falls apart,
that has like pieces glued to it in January. That
may be the case, but right now they are standing dull.
But they're not good, not good. They're no, they're not
even good. They're not winning game. No, doesn't winning game good.
You can be bad and win. They're showing you. They're

(24:26):
showing you can be bad and win.

Speaker 4 (24:28):
No.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
See I I say you're good if you're taking care
of business. You win what's on the schedule, right you
can only be you're playing.

Speaker 4 (24:35):
No, I'm with.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
You, you're good. I'm with you in the AFC this
year right now, that constitutes good. I'm with you on this.
The AFC stikes you get one team after another is
falling apart. We got the Colts, you beat the Jagure terrible.
The best team you played the Patriots, the Seahawks you
lost to. You beat the Patriots, okay, Patriots good? You
beat the vi You wish you were the Patriots and

(24:57):
you're bad. I wish I was any team but mine
right now. Any team. Give me any team, any team
you love, Darren, any team. You've done that dance in
the Hallway game for the last three weeks, and it
actually really rivaled that you should said it instead of
the do you remember the twenty first that they should
they should sink it up with the old Genesis classic

(25:19):
I can dance. Yeah, in two months, I've gone from
he's the guy, he's the guy you wanted. Yes, he's
coming in his culture, and now I can't even see
him finishing the year. Yeah, it's not even finish. It's
so fun. It's because you held him up in both
of your hands over here. You know, he was great.
I loved him. You were like he was Simba, Yeah,

(25:40):
and that was that was raffiki hold them up, I
mean like I held him up like he was the
key here. But now I could tell the job is
too much for him. The job that the decisions that
he makes and things is that you could tell the
job is. He couldn't do basic math. He couldn't throw
a hail Mary from the fifty yard line in the
last play of the first half. We're just not going
to do it. It's kicked to fifty eight arena. That's

(26:01):
not I get. I get Garrett Wilson. Why he's so
mad man. I mean, look, we got some justin field
stuff to get to. But the Steelers they're not good.
What do we have to get to They're not good.
I'm done talking about the Jets right now. That's what
I mean. Is I mean, you know the.

Speaker 6 (26:14):
One who just teas more justin fields. Yeah, ever, maybe
you do need more justin fields. Maybe justin fields. It's
gonna be meeting you on the fields.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
But look, it's your heart rate, just Steelers not being anybody.
You eat the Vikings with a backup quarterback and you
barely won that, and the and the Browns are terrible.
You're not good. You're not a good football team, but
the rest of your division is terrible. So successful, yes,
but good? No, I can point how many bands do
you know they're successful that their music is terrible? But

(26:50):
don't know. But it's a matter that's a matter of opinion.
Steelers are terrible. No, No, but the music I mean matter.
I can tell you when a band's terrible. To me,
you are a band's terrible. I had plenty of bands
I don't like. Time sold you tons of records like, hey,
isn't that great. I'm like, no, I'd have been enough
for me and our guy in the world, because I
would have said, yeah, your album, it's all a bunch
of filler songs. You have better songs. We'll see you

(27:11):
when you come back. Okay, thanks for coming, Thanks for it.
Don't don't don't. Don't pollute the world with bad music.
Okay's enough. There's enough music to trying to listen to
out there. What the bottom line is, can you sell it?
And right now you can sell the Steelers are They
can't sell the Steelers being good. Rogers is not good.
They don't run the ball. They don't. Oh, look at
he's found something with DK Metcalf. He threw him one pass.

(27:32):
He was wide open. Okay, they're not good, They're not
gonna been. You still got to make that anywhere there.
You had a lot of guys open your guys. You
didn't get it there, Okay, just because I watched my
team not able to execute easy plays offensively and justin
field any play, No, well, no, we run the ball. Okay,
sometimes we run the ball step to Breeze Hall every
once in a while and that works. By the way,
you want to talk about the reviews of that guy

(27:54):
anonymous sources in terms of, well he's gone by the time,
how much is that is? We want to have no
market and we really want to deflate it versus what
they really feel about the guy. No, look, Breesce Hall
is gonna be traded by the deadline. Sure, But I mean,
but the Steelers, it's it's none of No things they
do are great or even above league average. But again,
I don't have to believe they're the beneficiaries of bad football.

(28:17):
That Burrow got hurt. The Browns are the Browns, and
the Ravens went from this is the best Ravens roster
we've ever seen to Hey, they're going to be competing
for the number one overall picking the draft like it's
just bad, And I get that they're for that. That's great.
You're four one schedule for the walk around. Here, tell me.
You're good because you're not right. You're not. You're not.
What's just strength the schedule four fifty Yeah, okay, but

(28:38):
you take care of business. Dude. Do I believe in
them in January? No, we're not talking about January. That's
what we are. No, you are. Are you good because
you want the NFL is right? You're the Steelers. No,
you're not good for anything. You're not good for it.
If you were in the top twenty five in college football,
you would move down because, yeah, your wins aren't that impressive.
They were just going down and didn't yet. But the
top twenty five said, those people throw darts out on board, up, down, down,

(29:00):
pick numbers out of a hat. Yeah, this should be
number twelve this week. We've seen this. His Steelers are
not looked icy. Hot ball is great. It's gonna be fun.
I heard it. I can't wait. I hope there's fantasy points.
I don't think there will be, but I hope there's
forty three and a half is the over under. But
the Steelers are gonna win again, and it's gonna be all.
The Steelers are five to one, I'm gonna be They're terrible.

(29:21):
They are terrible. I feel like like in uh, a'mi
Dais when Salieri's like, I'm a day All. That's a
bad example because IAmA DAAs is a genius. But I
feel like, you know, don't don't you all don't like
Kathy Bates. Don't you all have amnesia? He didn't get
out of the cock of dudey car watching the same
thing I'm watching. The Steelers are just not good, man,
They're not no well, I mean chesty is what's kind

(29:44):
of got me off fine, And I'm like, oh now,
he's like, I don't know why the other teams are
making mood. Yeah, you know what, you got war wins
than the Jets. Dude, everybody has you know what. But
in terms of the thing with Andrew Berry, he said
the quiet part out loud. I like that he put
his name on it because it did make no sense. Hey,
it's our opening day, guy, Let's trade him in division now.

(30:06):
If you could tell me legitimately they got no other
team with all of the quarterbacks that have been that
have gotten hurt or have proven that they suck, that
no other team showed the remote interest in Joe Flackham
And why you didn't go get somebody else's really beyond me. Yeah,
but I think it's O. There's other quarterbacks, but it's
but it's tomless Tomlin and he gives us gifts. That's

(30:27):
what he does. Yeah, he's feeling chasty. I'm like, you know,
you don't your team is not good? How chesty was
he last year? Middle of seed Russell Wilson. I knew
what I'm talking about. Oh, very quiet. That's why I
make a lot of money. When Russell Wilson did nothing
and you had to jettison the guy. But he was
your guy, right always. He's my guy. This is why
I do what I do. And yeah, okay, well what
happened my Tom? And all of a sudden the Steelers

(30:49):
are not his They're no good. They're no good. They're
gonna lose Thursday. They're not good. Okay, Hey, i'd be
up for that. I can tell you what there was
wearing no clothes. I would tell you that. Wow. Yeah,
usually he's got new clothes time, not for what's trending
in the wide world of points. He made him nude
from a guy who's been called the Emperor of Fox
Sports Radio. Ow huh. He often walks around with no

(31:10):
clothes on, telling everybody, don't you like what I'm wearing?
It's Steve Disager and.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
A Laurel wreath on my head.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
Actually done this Laurel and Hardy handshake.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
Yeah, Laurel and Hardy kind of describes the show. Yeaes
Dodgers are leading five to one at Milwaukee, going to
the bottom of the eighth inning, trying to go up
two games to none in the National League Championship Series.
The Dodger starting pitching continues to be phenomenal the last
two and a half months, but specifically the past week
these last three starts Yamamota tonight, Snell last night, and

(31:42):
in last week's clincher against the Phillies. Glass now the
la starting pitchers. The batting average against them is ninety
five in these last three starts, and the team era
in this postseason so far for the starting pitchers, I
should say one point six to zero. Yoshinobu Yama Moto
allowed a home run on his first pitch tonight at

(32:03):
Milwaukee to the Brewers' leadoff man Jackson Curio. Since then,
Milwaukee's offense is two for twenty four. Yamamoto with seven
innings five strikeouts, eighty nine pitches thrown the Dodgers. If
they win tonight, that would mean two road victories to
start the LCS, just as in the American League Championship Series,

(32:23):
Seattle began with two road victories in Toronto. This has
only happened one other time. Nineteen seventy was the last
time that the road team in each league won the
first two games in the League Championship Series to start
things out. And back then it was just a best
of five and LCS was a new thing, and up
until the late sixties there were no divisions, There were

(32:44):
no playoffs at all. You just finished first in the
league went straight to the World Series.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
I don't like this new fangled League Championship Series that
they have. Why should I have to play another series
when I have the best record in the National league.

Speaker 3 (32:56):
The sounds actually like Larry King for years. What is
this LCSD at playoffs? It's the playoffs? Why payoffs? Why
do we have to play a team from the junior circuit?
We should just be the champions already. We had quite
a pitching matchup with the starters tonight. Yamamoto had the
best era on the road in the regular season of
any qualified starting pitcher. Milwaukee's as Freddie Peralta had the

(33:20):
best home era among qualified starters, and it was one
point seven to seven at.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
Home for the season.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
He gave up two home runs in his five and
two thirds, a solo shot to ta Oscar Hernandez, who's
up to four homers this postseason. Dodger record is eight
Corey Seeger for a postseason. By the way, Max Mountsey
did set a Dodger record career postseason homers. He hit
one out to center, a solo shot. That's fourteen postseason
home runs for him as a Dodger, passing Seeger and

(33:50):
Justin Turner who had thirteen. And by the way, the
TV ratings have been great for the baseball postseason. The
Dodgers clincher, which was a three PM game in La
last week. Again it's the Phillies five point six million people,
and then the Brewers clincher at home five and a
half million viewers. And then we had the opener of
Seattle's win at Toronto this week over five million viewers

(34:12):
plus another five mill or so in Canada, and what
you called the greatest game of the season, that clincher
against the Tigers for the Seattle Mariners Friday night on
Fox TV. The extra inning game eight point six million viewers.
In other words, about the same TV audience that the
Oklahoma Texas football game had the next day, and that

(34:33):
was by far the highest rated college football game on Saturday.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
And no one watched Young Sheldon on Friday night. No
one watched that for.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
In a while since we brought that up on the show.
Just for the record, the Alcs off tonight. Mariners lead
two games to none against Toronto. Game three is in
Seattle Wednesday night on FS one. Among the eight NHL games,
Montreal and overtime beat Seattle, Washington and overtime beat Tampa Bay.
The Dallas Mavericks gave coach Jason Kidd a multi year extension,
and Yukon is preseason number one on the women's basketball

(35:03):
preseason poll, ahead of number two South Carolina UCLA number three,
and ap back to you, Thank.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
You, Steve O. Coming up next, we got the play
of the Day coming your way. And Okay, if I
don't believe in the Dealers, I'm gonna give you some
positivity Tuesday. A huge football story that everyone should just
sit back and enjoy. It's next right here, Jason to
Mike Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
Update from the NLCS game. Two Dodgers lead at five
to one. They have runners at second and third with
nobody out of bat in the top of the ninth inning.
The big news is, according to reports from the game,
Yoshinoba Yamamoto will start the ninth inning and if he
runs into trouble then it'll be Alex Vessia most likely,
but we could see a complete game in the MLB playoffs,

(36:01):
a complete game, no might cry. Also, Freddy Freeman just
took the second like base it back up the box right.
Betts goes to third and Freeman hustling gets all the
way to second and then does his dance in the
direction of the center fielder, who lazily got to the
ball like. He didn't turn back to the dugout like

(36:22):
they normally do. He did the full wiggle dance Dude
in the direction of the center fielder. When you hit
a walk off Grand Slam in the World Series. You
can do what you want. Yeah, I think I think
they didn't wear it at some point in the future
in bat I think Munsey was actually waving to the
crowd after his home run too. So it seems a
little see little Chippy today, Little Chippy Murphy got any

(36:44):
pancakes He's gonna pull out to try to save the
Save the day five to one Dodgers bases loaded. Now
after an intentional walk to Will Smith top of the
ninth inning, they are three outs away from going up
to Zip in the NLCS. This brings us to the
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first time we're able to do this, I think it
only appropriate. Skinny Luca, you get to be the play
of the day. Some guys who are not playing this
evenings Luca back and forth. Now watch good luck with that,

(37:28):
and he's gonna score one. He had no chance against
the don got here it is Billy Mack Lakers TV
on the call. Skinny Luca is ready to run roughshot
over the NBA. Look out five minutes left in the
second fifty on forty Lakers over the Suns. Luca's got fourteen.
Look he's plus fourteen. It for Lebron. I'm telling you, man,

(37:51):
we'll get into this later on he as the game
goes on. But I feel like this is gonna be
a middle Finger Tour year for Luca. Oh you think
I was? I was pudg and I can't do it.
Just watch now year two, more comfortable in the offense
with the team. Just watch the Luka Doncic middle Finger Tour.
Get ready here comes Yeah. Okay. Here's the thing though,
is realistically if he if he goes back and looks

(38:14):
at old pictures, he's pudgy. Yeah no, I know, but
he had great heights. I mean, look, you find your
motivation where you are. But people weren't wrong. You know,
I'm gonna say people wrong. But so, okay, you thought
I was this and I could? Okay, just watch now,
just watch the Mavericks are what they are. I mean
you saw Nico was signing autographs. People were kissing his
ass at their first prese they got Cooper, I mean
you know, okay, I did, and he showed a lot

(38:37):
of them with the time. He just signs his name
as a big l.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
Now here's the other the part that that hope for
Luca case l Luke Luke. But I mean a lot
of reports out of there looking at Anthony Davis going
to transference, Luca Leaner a d coming to camp like
he was on the banquet circus. Well, maybe maybe it's
gonna helphim stay healthy, you know, Dallas steakhouses or something.

(39:05):
Fourteen six and five for Lucas so far, midway through
the second quarter against it, Well the Suns are terrible,
but still uh. Now, we have had an incredible weekend
in college football, highlighted with James Franklin getting fired by
Penn State. Right, you fired James Northwes or what James.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
Got rid of?

Speaker 1 (39:26):
Love Smith and Illinois? Yeah, DoD Frost and Nebraska. But
now Franklin. Yeah, but Ben State, it's three if I
lose fran Brown, who gave a craptastic answer about the
Penn State job, Well, I'm here. I don't know why
you would ask me that I'm here. I'm this. This
is what I'm gonna focused on this week. If I'm here,
like oh, he sounded like Richard Daily back in the
day when they were all sorts of random deaths. If

(39:48):
I if I lose Fran Brown to Penn State because
of you, We're gonna fight like. We're gonna fight This
is the first good coach you've had in like fifteen years.
We're gonna fight like and you have no say. We're
gonna fight like. We are gonna absolute much coaching as
he done. Since you're doesn't matter. Back went down, doesn't man,
what are you gonna do? We beat Clems and everything
was great. Of course Angelly Tears is a killing. Yeah,
but as soon as Angelly goes down, I mean a

(40:10):
whole lot of innovation. When you lose the leading passer
in the country. I think you're gonna take a step.
You can take a hit a little bit. You're gonna
take a hit. That's not a step to take a
hill fell down a way take it. You're like the
guy that we always talk about in the horror movie
that gives in the wheelchair going down the stairs. Gonna
take a hit. Man, it's gonna happen. When that goes on,
You're gonna take it. Suddenly can't play football there after.

(40:33):
When you lose it. It's not like it's not like
we have seventeen guys. It's not like we're Alabama where
we have five five star guys a quarterback, and it's
just this guy's gonna play. What the rest of it?
When you lose Suddenly they stopped learning, you know, how
to play football. When you lose the star quarterback. I'm
sorry it's gonna affect you, but I want to say
that because this is where you see this stuff now

(40:56):
with the polls out now, and it is absolutely insane.
Nothing makes sense. Good teams that were good got bad,
now they're good again, like Alabama, Notre Dame Texas. I
don't know if the best teams are all that guy
have to If Ohio State and Miami are that good,
you have Indiana, Texas Tech and Ole Miss at the top.
This Penn State story. Two weeks ago they were playing

(41:17):
an overtime against Oregon and now James Franklin's fired. Man,
this is one of those years to just sit back
and enjoy the most bonkers and bananas college football season
since two thousand and seven when it was Missouri and
Kansas and Pittsburgh and West Virginia coming down to the
end of the season, which was the most entertaining college
football season we've seen in the last twenty five years.

(41:39):
This is that kind of just enjoy the bonkers and
zaniness and unpredictable aspect of this season because that's what
college was. That's it, right, Signetti is now on that
short list of great coaches. You look at Landing, You've
got Ohio State still ruling the day, and Beck clearly
he made the right move. So all this is chaos

(41:59):
every week, Love it Man Positivity Tuesday, that's right. Coming
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