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Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
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Speaker 4 (00:29):
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Happy Wednesday, The Jason Smith Show with my.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
Base friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Woo.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
We jump right into a huge night in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Two games down.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Two to go, although one sort of very slowly dripping
to the end. Kyle Schwarber has just homer. Kyle Schwarber
got a hit. Great, Kyle Schwarmer got a hit.
Speaker 6 (01:04):
You know what.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
That was the easiest looking swing up for a home
run that we've seen in these playoffs. Everybody else looks
like they're you know that that face, that constipated face,
grunting and swinging from the heels. This was just a
nice easy flow to right field. Yeah, just uh, just
finally a hit for Kyle Schwarber.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
This tie way.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Tommy Edmund at homeward for the Dodgers in the first inning,
so a second inning rather so. Now Phillies and the
Dodgers tied at one apiece. Philly's batting one on, nobody
out in the top of the fourth.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Inning, wet looking union.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Yeah, that's the I want to say this right away
because people understand that I always tell the truth on things.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
You know, me, Mets fan, What do I say?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Right?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
The Phillies and the Yankees losing are just as good
as the Mets.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
You may pop some champagne before it's if that happens
tonight with both of those going away, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
It's just as good as the Mets winning, right, one
hundred percent. Boy, it's really hard. Maybe it's really hard
to root against the Phillies when they're wearing these uniforms,
the the the sky blue and dark red. I mean,
it's just such a great.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Seventies look like you start thinking about Gary Madden. I
can see Mike Schmidt walking out and hitting the ball
here Rose.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
He said, shit, right, I did say Schmidt.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
We will get into I didn't s Schmittler and Schmidt
David Ortiz in big trouble on that one. Yeah, a
little bit, a little bit, yeah, a little bit. Uh,
speaking of trouble, as we say, now lead it two
to one.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
As Bryce Harper scores from third, he tries to go
from first to third on a single, Andy Poes. His
throw into third is low and in the dirt, and
it skips by and goes out of play. So Harper
is awarded at home. And now make it a three
to one lead with a sacrifice fly. All of a sudden,
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that big error, the bad throw by paz Uh Marsh
is able to score in the sack fly. So now
make it a three to one phil lead in the
top of the fourth inning. Just like that, things have
gotten good for Philadelphia. That escalated quickly. The throw that
skips by. You know, we talk about the fundamentals, and
then you know, just the execution, especially when you know
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you're trying to steal as many innings out of Yamamoto
as you can so you don't have to get into
the pen. All hands on deck, a lot of anticipation,
whether we see Clayton Kershaw later on, et cetera. But
the pitch count starting to rise a little bit as
another ball say, I think we might see Clayton Kershel
or someone else. Pretty quickly a double down the line
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and right is laced. So now still one out runner
at second Young Moto's now giving up three runs here
in the top of the fourth inning.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Jason, just remember though, the Dodgers are up two games. Yeah,
but this is what's going on right now yet No, no
it's not. But I'm saying like this is a the
show is now. Yeah, this is what's happening, and and
the people in that stadium are panicking. You're getting shaky
back thereky shaky real.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Muto doubles a one hopper into the stands.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Uh. Everybody is out to talk to uh, to talk
to Yamamoto with this surprise.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
The outfielders didn't come into it.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
I mean everybody, everybody's on the mound now trying to
figure this out because it has gotten bad in a
hurry for the Dodgers. I mean, look, this was this
was hey one nothing and y'am motives look really good
so far the first couple of innings, and all of
a sudden, bang bang bang, and here's hits and wine
drives up the middle, and Schwarber has a home run,
and all of a sudden, Dodgers ace starting to get hit.
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Philly's thinking, we're getting that bullpen pretty soon.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I'm to forty nine pitches already here.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I don't know that pitch counts is the thing at
this point when no, no, no, no, he's getting right,
it's how much how much long is you're gonna be
in this game? But that's the thing, right is is
you're you're playing both as is. You're now escalating and
they're hitting the ball hard, like these are not little
duck snorts, uh that are finding their way in. It's
all starts with the Schwarber home run and now a
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veritable conga line, a lot of laughing, and you can
see the tension just melt away from the Phillies in
this inning right coming in, everybody had that stoic, steely
I gaze of all right, we got a few innings
left potentially in this season. All of a sudden, a
big inning starts to unfold and resting easy, and you're
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gonna watch each each batter, you know, wait for the
next mistake from Yamamoto.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
So again we'll keep you updated on this, of course, again,
three to one, runner at second, one out, top of
the fourth inning. Meanwhile, in the Bronx, the Yankees are
four outs away from elimination. However, they have a little
bit of hope right now. Ben Rice is pinch hitting
for Paul Goldschmidt against something that would have sounded crazy
a couple of years ago. But Ben Rice pinch hitting
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for Paul Goldschmidt. Now Yankees have two on and two
out bottom of the eighth inning. They trail the Blue.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Jays five to one, and tonight, you know, they had
the huge advantage coming in with Schlitzler getting the start,
the Blue Jays are going to a bullpen game. Nothing
less imposing for the Blue Jays than seeing the font
of TBA versus Schlitzler.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Great.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
This is gonna be great. And Schlitzler pitched really well. Right.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Wasn't quite the dominant performance he had against the Red Sox, obviously,
but he pitched pretty well. Two runs in six plus innings.
The bullpen has come in and given it up. A
really bad error by Jazz chishlm on a double Playgrounder
kept the Blue Jays inning alive, which they put a
crooked number up and went from two to one to
four to one. So so far, there's a lot of
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old Yankee, same old Yankees from last year. Oh, they're
bad fundamentally, they make too many errors, they can't run
the bases. That same old Yankees has come out and
come back in a large way, and they have four
outs to try to flip the narrative on them before
they're limiting.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I mean, they've had a couple of opportunities where they
were going to fight back in the game. And then
Blue Jays making big plays defensively something they didn't do yesterday, right,
drifting foul ball, uh Grisham hit with jud John Deck
caught ends an inning with two runners on. And we've
talked before the show, you and I about Anthony Volpi.
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At this point, you've got to do something. Come on,
the guy, guy's not hitting like, he's not putting the
wood on the ball at all. It look and and
I know, to put the wood on the ball. Boone
is gonna be yes, you always have to do. Got
to put the boone is gonna get a lot of
a lot of flak. And look and it's one play,
it's it's a runner at first, one out in the
seventh inning, and you don't pinch it for Volpi, who
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strikes out next batter gets it now first and second,
two out.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Now Yankee fans vot vopivope.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
But just just to be honest, just to be with
with Volpi is Anthony Volpi has been absolutely terrible.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
He's got multiple strikeouts and four straight playoff games before tonight.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
He's one for fourteen in this series with ten strikeouts.
When you have ten strike if you're one for fourteen, okay,
you're in a bad spot. But when you are one
for fourteen with ten strikeouts, there's a there's anything is better,
Anything is better.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
I don't know that need anymore argument.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
That that's but that's the thing is that and this
is this is one of the common threads of the playoffs,
whether it's the Dodgers and and and Dave Roberts and
the bullpen, whether it is the the Mariners and the
Tigers and there and they're pitching escapades that continue to
happen in that series. But you are seeing and and
and obviously it's it's Aaron Boone with Volpi, who had
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a pretty good year, right, wasn't unbelievable, you know, for
shortstop thirty and seventy. Okay, But I mean fielding wise
is where yeah, there's a lot of angsty, but.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
He's at but he's a player, right, He's not going
to be Jeter, but he's a player. But the number
of managers that in situations here in the playoffs where
you aren't in a win or go home game, or
or a rubber hits the road situation in a playoff
game that say, no, I'm gonna stick with my guys
when everything tells you, hey, maybe something a little bit
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different here. I mean that just it baffles me that
that's still how managers react. It baffles me with that, Like, okay, Volpi,
when you are one for four, when you have struck
out ten times in a series, you are not seeing
the ball, well, you're not coming, you're not anything at
the plate. So I know, if you've already struck out
twice in a game, I'm putting somebody else up there
for you. Somebody else has a better chance of getting
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it because I know how that outbot's gonna end.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
No.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
But that's the thing, right is we talk about it
as fans. You watch your favorite team and all of you,
you know, look in the mirror in the moment and
think about this is the all right that guy's do
and that's either positive or negative depending on how things
are going.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Right.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
You're a Jets fan, Knicks fan. We've chronicled this. I'm
a Chicago fan. You're always waiting for the other shoe
to drop. But you know when you've got a guy
who's going badly, who's been good for you all year, like, well,
eventually he's gonna come through.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Right.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
The Dave Roberts argument for why Blake Trining and some
of these guys, well, you know the outs they they
got us in the past, Like yeah, a year ago. Right,
That doesn't mean that he's suddenly going to come out
and pitch a clean inning. What in recent history tells
you this guy's going to be able to do the
job either at the plate or on the mound. You've
got to shuffle up the deal, right. They had the
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big argument in Philadelphia about pinch running. It's like, yeah,
this is where, hey, do we have any other athletes
that are at our disposal to try to move things along? Right,
Sometimes you've got to think a little bit outside the box, and.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
To give you an update from the Bronx right now. Wow,
So Ben Rice pinch hits for gold Schmidt. He walks
to load the bass as Hoffman loads the basis or
as a slider on three and two that is not
even close to the strike zone. Stadium's going crazy. Austin
Wells comes up. Remember you just walked the guy. Yeah,
first pitch hunting, Austin Wells hits a lazy flyout to
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left field.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Ending the inning.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
It is a five to one lead for the Blue
Jays going to the top of the ninth inning.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
This is a bad by Rice draws the walk.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
That's nothing more, nothing more frustrating than if you're gonna
swing at that first pitch.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Like, and that's that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Like it's always easy to to backseat drive and search,
but like there's certain situations in baseball where and and
like I always go, you know, always go back.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Because now because I got I got to say these
things to players as a youth coach, I'm like, hey,
if you're good, if I'm gonna give you the swing
on three and oh, if you're gonna swing on three
and oh, it can't be a ground ball to shortstop
like this, This has got to be a line drive
somewhere or a double or something where you really meet
the ball. You're not You're not just gonna swing on
three and oh and hit the ground ball to the
short stop right, and I see a situation like this. Okay,
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the nerves in the stadium now, everybody is going crazy
and wells, honestly, that pitch looked like it was out
of the strike zone, was right. It looked like it
was out of the strike zone, and he couldn't handle it,
and he flew out to left field like you just
watched a guy walk somebody, you know, his whatever it
is on the mount at this point, here's the first
couple of times you're in this situation in Major League baseball. Hey,
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blue Jay's in this situation for the first time. Here
they are in Yankee Stadium. You know, Hey, the pressure
is on him. I gotta see what he I'm gonna
see what he throws. Make a pitch, and if you're
gonna swing at that first pitch, it's because I know
he likes to go, because I know his tendencies are fastball,
inner part of the plate, and I'm gonna get a
good swing on it, and that's gonna be a line drive,
but instead it's a ball off the plate that he
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winds up hitting a lazy fly ball to. And that's
why I bang my head and go something better than that.
Speaker 8 (12:26):
Man.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
You can't just watch a guy walk and have a
great at bat and you just give it away swinging
outside because you're because you're too over anxious.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Come on again, third inning, Game one seven, nobody cares
bottom of the eighth, two outs and the bass is
juiced when you're down, like every bit checks off to.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
You've got to at least see.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
What he's got, make him make a pitch, don't go
give him an easy lazy fly ball.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
That was just that. That was just all that's in
the capitol.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
And notice has been a lot of shots of Brian cash.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Sure at some point and so you know, as my
dad would say, at some point, where get new players
in time to get new players, time to get new players.
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Top of the ninth, Jay's with a five to one
lead over the Yankees. Phillies lead the Dodgers three to one.
Dodgers batting now in the bottom of the fourth inning,
but coming up next the Bill Belichick potential buyout fired
at North Carolina. Story has just taken off like wildfire.
We break it down. Coming up next is Bell Belichick
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in the endgame at UNC.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
That's next right here.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Hold out of your Hat's Jason run this?
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Well, No, he didn't, really he didn't.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
That's that you say that you default to that he
did not have a guess, has not been a good run.
It's not been a good Anybody will tell you this
has not been a good run. Teams they play against
will say it's been a good It is true, but
they will not say it's.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Respect judge at the foul pole.
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dot Com. Top of the fifth inning, Phillies lead the
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Dodgers three to one. Yoshinoba Yamamoto is still on the
mound for the Yankee for the Dodgers. Meanwhile, the Yankees
coming to back. In the bottom of the ninth inning,
Hoffman in for his second inning of relief. Blue Jay
Hoffman though a different Well, I was gonna say it
was gonna Hoffman all the way through. There was gonna
be Abbie Hoffman, and then it was gonna be a
Trevor Hoffman, and then it was gonna be amount of Hoffman's.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
I'm really amuta Hoffman's.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Wow, that's pretty fast to be a run out of Hoffman.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
What about Dustin?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Oh, yes, yeah, yeah, Dustin Hoffman.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Yeah, I mean that's an obvious one. Philip Seymour.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Fernando Valenzuela pitched Wednesday. That skills pitch again until Sunday.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Yeah, yea, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yankees down five to one, four hits on the night.
For the Yankees Blue Jays five on twelve hits. They
need four to keep their season going, or the Blue
Jays will advance to the ALCS to take on the
winner of Game five between the Tigers and the Marits.
Well in this game coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Think your dad's got a rally hat on or anything.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
No, my dad is so negative right now. He's so
absolutely negative. No, he is, but he's hate watching. This
is terrible. We all stak We gotta get him down.
Chishom was one of his favorite players. Now it's gonna
be gonna get rid of Chisholm. Guy can't field. He's
yawning on the field if it plays are happening.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
I don't like it. I don't like that we're getting
rid of everybody. Just keep judging, start over again.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
That's my no, Jason. You know they're going to run
it back with Cashman and Boone.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Well cool we oh Man, Yeah, I mean they are.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
There's no to take the wind out of the sales
of Yankee fans more than to hear, Oh, don't worry,
Boone and cast will be back again in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
No, that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
We're watching it here in the Fox Sports radio studios, right.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
We got no soundouts.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Keep doing the cutaways to cash but he could only
imagine what the voiceover is. Obviously, they're just saying this guy,
twenty years of this, a lot of work to be
done with this Yankee roster.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
He literally almost twenty years of nothing.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
He gets a watch if he if he pitches, if
he stays for another couple of years. I'm gonna try
to get to that the mandatory retirement age, and then I'll.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Go Jason, the old man killed this guy. Oh he
would he would have been literally years ago.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah, because just George Steinbrenner would not have tolerated this
many without a World Series, would never If you get
the Yankees with more than two years, it would change.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Change. Change.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
It's been almost twenty years, change change, almost twenty years change.
I mean, look what he used to do with Billy Martin.
There's no chance in hell this guy was gonna get this.
He might have gotten fired and brought back change, but
he would have.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Been easy on Billy Martin compared to what he would
have done with Aaron Boone.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Yeah oh yeah, oh yeah, yea Cashman might have made
it a little bit longer, maybe a little, but Aaron Boone, Yeah,
Aaron Boon would have he would have been So can.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Tell me who in America gets to keep their job
after sucking for almost twenty years.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Oh, there's actually a few people, there's yeah, yeah, yeah,
ideah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Oh no, we're not gonna make this political. I was
going away from Cashman. Oh I think I was going
away going Oh no, I can think of a lot
of guys, how did they have a lot of them
were owners in Major League Baseball though, that's that's the
one thing.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Yeah, but you can't get rid of them. You gotta
find a dirt.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Speaking of not having a job, and again we'll keep
you posted on the Yankees and the Blue Jays again,
five to one, top of the ninth inning, one out,
one on for the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Is there a rule where Aaron Judge come about three
times in the same minue.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
If there is it, there will be after this year,
because yeah, this is going to be great for Major
League Baseball to say we're gonna beat Judge three times
in a row.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Now he's gonna go up again. I'm gonna go up again,
gonna come up again.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
The overtime rules in the NFL, No, both teams have
to get the ball. Why why it was working so
well until that one game that everybody got mad about.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
So Bill bella check. Either is going to be fired,
going to be bought out, or going to coach the
rest of the season for North Carolina. One of these
things is happening. But let's give you the backstory to this.
Earlier today, a couple of insiders came out with stories
that Bill Belichick and the North Carolina tar Heels have
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started conversations about a buyout. Things are not going well.
Obviously they're two and three UID fans leaving the stadium
in droves. Last week against Kate klub Nicks killed Bill
Belichick and knocked the guy out.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Well, we played the audio they interviewed a girl who's
going to North Carolina saying, yeah, I was at that game.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
I failed a couple of mid terms and that was worse.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
So it's not been great. It started out the first
half of the first quarter of their opening game was good,
but that's really been it for North Carolina. But now
today again a couple of reports that the plug could
be pulled on the Bill Belichick experiment. Belichick could be
leaving if he finds a saw landing, either with another
team or with a broadcast job. Forget about being another team.
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No one else is hiring for that walking.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Additionally, there are reports that potentially things have been weird
with Belichick and his staff the last few days during
the bye week, there were the coaches couldn't get a
hold of him. He's been distant from the team. You've
had some disharmony in the locker room. You already had
a little bit of legality issues with when it comes
to improprieties over the course of the last seven plus days.
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So things are not great at North Carolina, and evidently
an edict that they couldn't reference former Tar Heels star
Drake May and his win over the Bills.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
The Patriots tweets.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
The byproduct of this story today has been two statements,
one from Bill Belichick and one from North Carolina. Belichick
put out a statement saying, quote, I'm fully committed to
North Carolina football and the program we're building here.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Let it. Director Bubba Cunningham said, quote Belichick quote the
full support of the North Carolina administration. Now, this is
either a load of crap. This has either been a
story that someone took and run with and went a
little bit further. But it doesn't matter. Okay, all of
that is irrelevant because this is going to be a
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one and done year for Bill Belichick. I told you
this in the spring. He's not going to get fired.
As bad as it was, as awkward as it's been
with Belichick and Jordan Hudson. His girlfriend is part of
the story too, that hey, her constant presence around the
program is not great, but look, it's not going to happen.
They hired the guy to coach He's going to coach
this year. If he doesn't win, he's out. It's that simple.
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And the off season, North Carolina went through dealing with
the controversy of Belichick's interview with CBS where Jordan Hudson
jumped in and they dealt with the fallout from that.
That was bad enough, and it was if you win,
everything will be forgiven. Right, we know you win, everything
will be forgiven. Belichick is not winning, but not only that,
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you are seeing the worst thing that just happened on Saturday,
and that is apathy with the program. You are five
games into his tenure and fans were leaving at halftime
of this game. Fans have had it. Okay, what's gonna happen?
I'll tell you. Eventually, sometime between now and the end
of the season, Bill Belichick will be gone at North Carolina.
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Maybe it's in a week, Maybe he coaches the rest
of the year, Maybe it's they have to figure out
a buyout, or maybe it's the day after the season ends.
Belichick is gone.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
This is it.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I don't know how many more times we're gonna see
him take the field as North Carolina's head coach. Maybe one,
maybe two, maybe five. But at the end of this year,
that ends the Bill Belichick experiment. This has gone horribly
wrong on so many levels, so many levels. And again
I go back to saying I knew when college football
was too much for him when he banned Patriots personnel
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from scouting his players for the NFL. He decided, because
of his petty feud with the New England Patriots, I'm
gonna make it difficult for you to see how good
our players are. Right opening night, he wouldn't put a
depth chart out, so all the scouts at the game,
because if you start for North Carolina, potentially there's a
few guys at NFL raiders. Maybe not first round picks,
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but guy's in the third, fourth, fifth round. They all
have NFL dreams. You're starting at North Carolina, You're started
Power five conference. And Belichick made it more difficult for
scouts to get to watch his players because he wants
to play this ridiculous game. I'm now the lord of
football at North Carolina. We're gonna reinvent college football here.
Remember when he came in his big press conference, nutrition
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everything else. Yeah, okay, he was never up for the
challenge of college football, never was whether he thought he
was too smart, or thought I don't need to work
as hard and I can dominate college football because of
the coach I am. What I've done at the pro level,
I can go up and give you seventy percent and
win in college. Can't do that now. Rules are different, right,
everything is different. You see the young guys coming in
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right now that are actually doing well and coming. These
are guys that've never been head coaches before, but they
jump in because they get the nil system. They get
about recruiting players. They are tireless workers. This is college football.
You can't come in and say, well, I'm gonna give
you my system. You're all gonna buy in. He's never
been cut out for college football. I knew in the
beginning when he's making it hard for the NFL to
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see his players. Oh sorry, guys, sorry that you're my guys.
You're sweating for me every single day and we're going
through this together. I'm gonna make it harder for the
NFL to see you, to see you try to get
to the NFL. That's when I knew. And you see
how this has played out. Nothing is good. So yeah,
is it gonna end?
Speaker 5 (24:33):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (24:33):
And that's the best thing and the most accurate thing
I can say is that even if this report is
seventy percent, if it's thirty percent, sometime between now and
the end of the season is the end of the
run for Belichick at North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Lot of curiosity with all of it. Right, it was
the off season.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Yeah, he's got the girlfriend, and everybody can have their
glib one liners or whatever else. That's fine, But when
it came to the football side of things, it was okay,
now we're building. We're starting essentially from scratch, will build
this program. And you're relying on your history, your reputation,
your rings to get you going, whatever Lombardi's doing on
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the business side of things. That you were expecting some
level of confidence, well clearly it's a vote of no
confidence on that side as well. And you had a
ton of players come into the system and you're trying
trying to learn. You had a schedule that on paper, right,
We've talked with Pete Futech about this for weeks and
months at this point, Uh, the idea of all, right,
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there's there's enough winnable games on the schedule if you're
playing decent football.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Well they're not. I mean in any way, shape or form.
It's it's been an absolute failure. And now you have
questions about armand Hawkins. He gets suspended, the quarterbacks coach
he used to work with Steve Belichick at Washington.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
And you've got players allegedly having sold off their tickets,
like you've got a bunch of n CAA is not
coming around for anybody at this point. They've got no
juice yet, they're they're coming on to North Carolina who
got to skate away with made up classes years ago?
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Yeah, folks, forget about that. Nothing ever transported.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Like wait, they were making out, Yeah, we don't care.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
But here it's like aha ah, Now now.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
They're they're circling like vultures.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
And you've got a mess.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
You've got a game where you're a twelve point underdog
to cow for crying out.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
That's how bad things are. Alis, Yes, that's what that's
you're just going for good now.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
But yeah, so you've got an absolute mess and you've
canceled whatever that TV show is gonna beat. There's footage
somewhere now that now this becomes the can we get
a go fund yourself? Going to have those hours and
hours of video, Uh circumstances released so we can all
watch the the chaos and and someone plays a fiddle
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in the background as it burns. But you don't have
the juice that you had at in New England. Nobody's
giving you the benefit of the doubt, and you've got
an alumni base right to your point. You you didn't
do the players any favors week one. So is this
just a an ego trip of I want to see
if I can make it my way. That's not the
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way it works anymore.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
He thought ten years ago, I can walk into this
and do whatever I want to.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
No, it's not.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
That's not college football.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Ten years ago this you gonna come in as the Organs.
We're not telling them. Hey, dude, I walked away. You
saw how successful I was. I walked away. I'm I'm
on TV now, sitting next to the league course, so
putting a giant head on. Okay, that's what I'm doing
because I can't do it anymore. Has he not seen
the conga line between football and basketball and all of
his contemporaries who just said, to hell with it, I.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Don't want to do this.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
I just love that.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
He thought we're gonna come in and reinvent college football.
He and Lombardi know we're gonna reinvent college It's gonna
be so easy for you to win here. It's like
I'm gonna take a video game that I've been doing
pretty well on on expert, I'm gonna put it on
amateur or put it on the law.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
I'm gonna dominate.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Now, that's what he thought was gonna happen, and it's
it's turned out to where he is now.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
EMMITTT.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Smith his last year with the Cardinals. He's Willie Smith
his last year WILLI Willie, his last year with the Mets.
He's this is what he's done. This is what he
has done to his legacy. He has decided because he's
never going to get hired again. No other team is
ever going. You were already in a desperate mode to
take this job, man, right, I mean because everybody else
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bypassed you and whatever.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Arthur Blake doesn't know what he's doing. He still told
you to go.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Belichick and the powder blue North Carolina is going to
be like Emmett is a cardinal name. That's a ram
all this and it's right along that line, man, right
along that line.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
I wanted to see him have some success, so at
least it went for a while. This is just floating
dumpster fire at this point time now to find out
what's trending in the wide world of sports. So someone
who's been called the Bill Belichick of Fox Sports Radio, boy,
that's right, she wears blue all the time as well.
It's monce, I do wear a lot of blue because
of the lawyers.
Speaker 8 (28:53):
You do, not the not the baby powder blue a lot,
but you know blue, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, speaking of blue, yes,
uh banda, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Know you're a little blue because the Dodgers aren't winning,
but not as blue as my dad. How you're gonna
tell us what just happened. You're gonna tell them what
happened at Yankee Stadium?
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Yes, I'm sorry, dad.
Speaker 8 (29:16):
As the Blue Jays are headed to the Alcs after
defeating the Yankees five to two in Game four, And
it started just the way you would.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
Think, and the O two line drive fair ball down
the right field line ricochets off the sidewall, Springer scores
with these judge on it quickly gets it into Kate
Blidney to a single and the Blue Jays lead one
nothing in the first.
Speaker 8 (29:39):
Yeah, Blue Jays Radio Network on the call. Of course,
it was Vladimir Guerrero Junior puoting Toronto on the score board,
so they're moving on. As for you, the Lawyers Dodgers
are currently down at home three to one. It's the
bottom of the fifth inning that's about to start in La.
We'll see if the Dodgers managed to bring out the
brooms or if the Phillies stay alive.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
The Tigers are alive.
Speaker 8 (30:01):
They scored nine unanswered runs to defeat the Mariners nine
to three to force a game five that's going to
be on Friday in Seattle. Cubs also stayed alive, edging
the Brewers four to three, so.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
They'll be a game four in Chicago tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (30:14):
In the WNBA, the Aces are now one win away
from winning the title. They just edged the Mercury ninety
to eighty eight. Asia Wilson dropped thirty four points and points,
including the go ahead bucket with five seconds to go.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
We also have hockey.
Speaker 8 (30:28):
The Oilers are up on the Flames one zero.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Halfway through the first period.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
King's up on the Golden Knights one zero, also halfway
through the first period, while the Maple Leaves and the
Bruins got their first win of the season today. In
NFL news, Bengals head coach Zach Taylor named Joe Flacco
as the team starting quarterback for their game this Sunday
against the Packers. No practice for Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson
because of that strained hamstring, and Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray
(30:52):
didn't practice today because he is considered day to day
with the foot injury. And lastly, here a Lakers fan
is suing Lebron James for allegedly tricking him with that
second decision announcement that he made earlier this week. It
turned out to be an ad for Hennessy. So the
fan says that he bought two tickets for the final
Lakers home game against the Calves the late.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
March two tickets because he's a dope.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Correct, a lot of people were dopest. There are a
bunch of dopes and they lick their wounds.
Speaker 8 (31:21):
Sure, So he's suing Lebron for what he spent on
the tickets, eight hundred and sixty five dollars for two,
because the value of the tickets immediately went down when
it was an ad for Hennessy.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Lebron.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
I'll drink the bottle Hennessy you put on your shelf.
I'm gonna see Lebron James right now. My name is
Humpty pronounce. I'm suing you, Jason. It's pretty impressive, Jason.
You can think how you can think that quickly on
the spot.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
I know that whole song. I'm n James.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Did you see that we're suing it for not showing
how the blaze pizza like six years ago?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Of course.
Speaker 8 (31:57):
I didn't go, but that would have been annoying if
I went.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
There were helicopters and newsvers there, and the line was
around the block, and he was almost late for working.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Any night, and his what.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
And his wife puts out a picture of him in
the pool? I know, Come on, what are you? Jason?
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Did you get any of those sauces that I did
not get any of those sauces?
Speaker 3 (32:15):
You could go?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
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Speaker 3 (32:37):
Well.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
When you advance to the ALCS for the first time
since twenty sixteen, you knock out the Yankees Toronto Blue Jays,
you get to be the play of the day.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Chef Hoffman trying to finish the job is one two
pitch is the Toronto Blue Jays have punched their ticket
to the Championship Series, going through the New York Yankees
in four games and again with standing the Yankees' best punch.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Joe Davis on FS one with the call, the blue
Jays are in, the Yankees are out? Coming up next,
what happened to the Yankees? What's the big take coming
off of this goodna surprise? A little bit with the
Yankees being, I mean happy the Yankees around, because you
know it's like the Mets winning but a little bit different,
and then you think it's gonna be as we break
(33:29):
down the Yankees elimination from the playoffs, that's next right here,
Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio, and.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
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Speaker 3 (33:42):
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Speaker 10 (33:53):
The Toronto Blue Jays are going to the American League
Championship Series, which starts on Sunday. As Hoffmans already defying.
Look at the Yankee thugout, very sad ending to a
Yankee season here in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
He's not excited, very sad. Call the Yankees radio network.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Yeah, well, whatever, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (34:15):
You think blick when there was like one out in
the in the ninth that you started unplugging stuff. Yeah,
I get ready to go, grabbing my keys, got my wallet,
ready to walk out already. As soon as it is over,
I'm dropping the headphones and walking out. Simms, we took
your microphone. You're gonna have to shout a little out, Joe.
Two outs runner at second, Hey, can you validate my parking?
Speaker 5 (34:35):
You got okay?
Speaker 6 (34:36):
Great?
Speaker 5 (34:37):
Thanks you two outs.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
You're running right.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Tag dollars if you send your dad the uh, the
gift of Dawn madding Lee partying right now?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Oh yeah, you know, I.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Really want to see I want to get a screen
grab of maddenly with the big goggles on and and
and pouring champagne over the camera.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
Yeah, I want to see that. I want to see that,
and he's flipping off the camera like Jerry Jones.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Oh that'd be fat.
Speaker 6 (34:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Normally we watch these things and it's the Dodgers celebrations,
like all right, there's people we know getting sprayed and assaulted.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Uh my god, just creeping up out. This one's for you. Now.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
We're watching for Don Mattingly because it's the un about
the Yankees. We don't know any of these people, but
we're just trying to find.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Shit.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
I'll tell you if lad Guerrero had some series, man
like goodness, but that's one of the best playoff series
I've ever seen someone have. It was amazing. Judge had
a great series too, Right, we talked about Judge. You know,
look picked the Yankees up when they were one game
from elimination, worked on his legacy a little bit with
that game last night. But the Yankees go home and well,
(35:42):
let me talk. I'll tell you this, right because here
here's the thing. Right you think, oh, Jason's gonna go
crazy the Yankees around. Yes, there is that because, like
I said, the Yankees losing is like the Mets winning.
I no longer have to worry about the Yankees winning
the World Series. So I'm happy today's a good day.
But if I'm honest about the Yankee, I think, if
you're honest about the Yankee this is not one of
those ha ha look at what they blew. This is
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not ha ha all the star talent and then look
they couldn't win. This is a Yankee team that was
pretty good. This is not a Yankee team that was overwhelming.
This is not a Yankee team that had talent up
and down the lineup. This was not a team that, hey,
we're paying four hundred million dollars and look, we can't
even get to the playoffs like the Mets. This was
a pretty good Yankee team that had holes, right and
(36:28):
clearly the biggest hole.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
And we talked about this throughout the year, and things
might have been different for the Yeah. In fact, they
definitely would have been different if you had a Garrett Cole.
If Garrett Cole was healthy, they probably would have won
the Al East. They probably would have had a better
playoff experience because Garrett Cole has been lights out in
the playoffs, one of the best playoff pitchers in the
history of baseball. I think he's twelve and six ERA
at like two and a half. He's been terrific. I
(36:51):
mean outside of not covering first base, well, Garrett Cole
has been terrific.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
That doesn't.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
Yeah, it doesn't show up there.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
But I feel pretty confident in saying that, Hey, when
you miss your stopper every fifth day, especially in the playoffs,
it's gonna be different.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
This is a very appropriate ending for the Yankees this year. Yeah,
they were pretty good. They were good in the beginning.
They faltered a little bit midway through. They had a
good run at the end. You're a ninety ish win team,
you won the first round of the playoffs. You go
home to a team that has a much better lineup.
They rake top to bottom and they beat you in
the first two games of the series. Hey, we had
(37:27):
out There was eight to nothing after the second inning
the first two games. This is very like I don't
look at this as a wasted experience, a wasted opportunity,
the Yankees embarrassing themselves. This was a very appropriate ending
for a team of this talent that had holes, that
had guys that didn't hit, and they have to figure
out next season. You have to figure things out because
you have holes to fill. With the Yankees, number one
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thing is are you bringing your manager back? Is your
general manager coming back? Those are the things you have
to start with. But this was not an unbeatable Yankee team.
If you say, in the middle of the summer, I
remember saying, well, this is a team they could go
home any time. They can make the playoffs, they can
make a surprise run, because any team can get hot
in the playoffs. But clearly if the Yankees lose, yeah,
that's kind of on brand for this team because it's
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not like they they they they didn't live up to expectation.
This is a very again, a very appropriate ending for
the Yankees.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
He go through their roster and for the Blue Jays,
just to make the note, they didn't even have Bishett
available to this point, right, he's still on the comeback trail,
so part of the lineup that you're still like plugging
holes and adequately so and then some. But for the Yankees,
just go to the pitching side. You had freedom, you
had Rodin and then he had a lot of guys.
The fact that Schlittler had to become superhuman like and
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all New York hopes were on him.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Starting pitcher until July and suddenly it's like tho, It's
like the at least a little bit more like when
Nolan McClean come up for the Mets, it's he's our
best pitcher. He's had two starts, yes, because everybody else
thinks now, but now. Schlittler was kind of a different
version of that because he's a guy that came up
the middle of the season. All of a sudden, he
now he's got to save our year.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Huge strikeout right we saw him in his last start
was unbelievable. The twelve strikeouts against zero walks. Had a
great start tonight, right, six and two thirds, two earned
runs allowed.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
You'll take that.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
Every day of the week. And unfortunately the offense couldn't
back it up. We had opportunities runners on base for
the Yankees in multiple innings and they just couldn't push
the run home. And we talked a lot about the
Austin Wells at bat, which is just awful. Right on
that plus Volpi, who was the highly heralded prospect, and
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again for for the balance of the season, the numbers
look fine, but situationally and with the huge strikeout totals,
it's a loss right, and he's he's an average shortstop
at best in terms of the field.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Overall, he is in a he is a plus player overall,
he's overall sure, but he's not.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
But everybody he thought he was going to be a
world b and it's not right.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
And and that's the thing, is that the end all
their kid that's the thing the Yankee they think all
their kids coming up are great. Everybody's awesome. You know,
I'm sorry, but the rest of the league season, Okay,
these guys aren't all awesome. I'm sorry about that. Played
a lot, was solid, not spectacular. And she keep going
on down the line. Jason, it was just last week
you said the Yankees were a team of destiny. I
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thought they were a team of dead. They would Oh,
I'm okay with not being right about that. Calling your dad,
I am completely okay with that. We'll have to do
a wellness check. But we were having this discussion if
they went quietly. Is Judge's home run now just a
joint all? It really doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (40:34):
He's going to kick your ass.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Great. Series, doesn't matter. Done.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Two big hot taggs coming off of the playoff. Next
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
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Speaker 4 (00:29):
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Speaker 5 (00:38):
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Speaker 3 (00:42):
Woo.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
We jump right into a huge night in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Two games down.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Two to go, although one sort of very slowly dripping
to the end. Kyle Schwarber has just homer. Kyle Schwarber
got a hit. Great, Kyle Schwarmer got a hit.
Speaker 6 (01:04):
You know what.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
That was the easiest looking swing up for a home
run that we've seen in these playoffs. Everybody else looks
like they're you know that that face, that constipated face,
grunting and swinging from the heels. This was just a
nice easy flow to right field. Yeah, just uh, just
finally a hit for Kyle Schwarber.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
This tie way.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Tommy Edmund at homeward for the Dodgers in the first inning,
so a second inning rather so. Now Phillies and the
Dodgers tied at one apiece. Philly's batting one on, nobody
out in the top of the fourth.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Inning, wet looking union.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Yeah, that's the I want to say this right away
because people understand that I always tell the truth on things.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
You know, me, Mets fan, What do I say?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Right?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
The Phillies and the Yankees losing are just as good
as the Mets.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
You may pop some champagne before it's if that happens
tonight with both of those going away, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
It's just as good as the Mets winning, right, one
hundred percent. Boy, it's really hard. Maybe it's really hard
to root against the Phillies when they're wearing these uniforms,
the the the sky blue and dark red. I mean,
it's just such a great.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Seventies look like you start thinking about Gary Madden. I
can see Mike Schmidt walking out and hitting the ball
here Rose.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
He said, shit, right, I did say Schmidt.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
We will get into I didn't s Schmittler and Schmidt
David Ortiz in big trouble on that one. Yeah, a
little bit, a little bit, yeah, a little bit. Uh,
speaking of trouble, as we say, now lead it two
to one.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
As Bryce Harper scores from third, he tries to go
from first to third on a single, Andy Poes. His
throw into third is low and in the dirt, and
it skips by and goes out of play. So Harper
is awarded at home. And now make it a three
to one lead with a sacrifice fly. All of a sudden,
(02:52):
that big error, the bad throw by paz Uh Marsh
is able to score in the sack fly. So now
make it a three to one phil lead in the
top of the fourth inning. Just like that, things have
gotten good for Philadelphia. That escalated quickly. The throw that
skips by. You know, we talk about the fundamentals, and
then you know, just the execution, especially when you know
(03:16):
you're trying to steal as many innings out of Yamamoto
as you can so you don't have to get into
the pen. All hands on deck, a lot of anticipation,
whether we see Clayton Kershaw later on, et cetera. But
the pitch count starting to rise a little bit as
another ball say, I think we might see Clayton Kershel
or someone else. Pretty quickly a double down the line
(03:38):
and right is laced. So now still one out runner
at second Young Moto's now giving up three runs here
in the top of the fourth inning.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Jason, just remember though, the Dodgers are up two games. Yeah,
but this is what's going on right now yet No, no
it's not. But I'm saying like this is a the
show is now. Yeah, this is what's happening, and and
the people in that stadium are panicking. You're getting shaky
back thereky shaky real.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Muto doubles a one hopper into the stands.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Uh. Everybody is out to talk to uh, to talk
to Yamamoto with this surprise.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
The outfielders didn't come into it.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
I mean everybody, everybody's on the mound now trying to
figure this out because it has gotten bad in a
hurry for the Dodgers. I mean, look, this was this
was hey one nothing and y'am motives look really good
so far the first couple of innings, and all of
a sudden, bang bang bang, and here's hits and wine
drives up the middle, and Schwarber has a home run,
and all of a sudden, Dodgers ace starting to get hit.
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Philly's thinking, we're getting that bullpen pretty soon.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I'm to forty nine pitches already here.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I don't know that pitch counts is the thing at
this point when no, no, no, no, he's getting right,
it's how much how much long is you're gonna be
in this game? But that's the thing, right is is
you're you're playing both as is. You're now escalating and
they're hitting the ball hard, like these are not little
duck snorts, uh that are finding their way in. It's
all starts with the Schwarber home run and now a
(05:00):
veritable conga line, a lot of laughing, and you can
see the tension just melt away from the Phillies in
this inning right coming in, everybody had that stoic, steely
I gaze of all right, we got a few innings
left potentially in this season. All of a sudden, a
big inning starts to unfold and resting easy, and you're
(05:22):
gonna watch each each batter, you know, wait for the
next mistake from Yamamoto.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
So again we'll keep you updated on this, of course, again,
three to one, runner at second, one out, top of
the fourth inning. Meanwhile, in the Bronx, the Yankees are
four outs away from elimination. However, they have a little
bit of hope right now. Ben Rice is pinch hitting
for Paul Goldschmidt against something that would have sounded crazy
a couple of years ago. But Ben Rice pinch hitting
(05:50):
for Paul Goldschmidt. Now Yankees have two on and two
out bottom of the eighth inning. They trail the Blue.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Jays five to one, and tonight, you know, they had
the huge advantage coming in with Schlitzler getting the start,
the Blue Jays are going to a bullpen game. Nothing
less imposing for the Blue Jays than seeing the font
of TBA versus Schlitzler.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Great.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
This is gonna be great. And Schlitzler pitched really well. Right.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Wasn't quite the dominant performance he had against the Red Sox, obviously,
but he pitched pretty well. Two runs in six plus innings.
The bullpen has come in and given it up. A
really bad error by Jazz chishlm on a double Playgrounder
kept the Blue Jays inning alive, which they put a
crooked number up and went from two to one to
four to one. So so far, there's a lot of
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old Yankee, same old Yankees from last year. Oh, they're
bad fundamentally, they make too many errors, they can't run
the bases. That same old Yankees has come out and
come back in a large way, and they have four
outs to try to flip the narrative on them before
they're limiting.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I mean, they've had a couple of opportunities where they
were going to fight back in the game. And then
Blue Jays making big plays defensively something they didn't do yesterday, right,
drifting foul ball, uh Grisham hit with jud John Deck
caught ends an inning with two runners on. And we've
talked before the show, you and I about Anthony Volpi.
(07:10):
At this point, you've got to do something. Come on,
the guy, guy's not hitting like, he's not putting the
wood on the ball at all. It look and and
I know, to put the wood on the ball. Boone
is gonna be yes, you always have to do. Got
to put the boone is gonna get a lot of
a lot of flak. And look and it's one play,
it's it's a runner at first, one out in the
seventh inning, and you don't pinch it for Volpi, who
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strikes out next batter gets it now first and second,
two out.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Now Yankee fans vot vopivope.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
But just just to be honest, just to be with
with Volpi is Anthony Volpi has been absolutely terrible.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
He's got multiple strikeouts and four straight playoff games before tonight.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
He's one for fourteen in this series with ten strikeouts.
When you have ten strike if you're one for fourteen, okay,
you're in a bad spot. But when you are one
for fourteen with ten strikeouts, there's a there's anything is better,
Anything is better.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
I don't know that need anymore argument.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
That that's but that's the thing is that and this
is this is one of the common threads of the playoffs,
whether it's the Dodgers and and and Dave Roberts and
the bullpen, whether it is the the Mariners and the
Tigers and there and they're pitching escapades that continue to
happen in that series. But you are seeing and and
and obviously it's it's Aaron Boone with Volpi, who had
(08:28):
a pretty good year, right, wasn't unbelievable, you know, for
shortstop thirty and seventy. Okay, But I mean fielding wise
is where yeah, there's a lot of angsty, but.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
He's at but he's a player, right, He's not going
to be Jeter, but he's a player. But the number
of managers that in situations here in the playoffs where
you aren't in a win or go home game, or
or a rubber hits the road situation in a playoff
game that say, no, I'm gonna stick with my guys
when everything tells you, hey, maybe something a little bit
(09:02):
different here. I mean that just it baffles me that
that's still how managers react. It baffles me with that, Like, okay, Volpi,
when you are one for four, when you have struck
out ten times in a series, you are not seeing
the ball, well, you're not coming, you're not anything at
the plate. So I know, if you've already struck out
twice in a game, I'm putting somebody else up there
for you. Somebody else has a better chance of getting
(09:23):
it because I know how that outbot's gonna end.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
No.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
But that's the thing, right is we talk about it
as fans. You watch your favorite team and all of you,
you know, look in the mirror in the moment and
think about this is the all right that guy's do
and that's either positive or negative depending on how things
are going.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Right.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
You're a Jets fan, Knicks fan. We've chronicled this. I'm
a Chicago fan. You're always waiting for the other shoe
to drop. But you know when you've got a guy
who's going badly, who's been good for you all year, like, well,
eventually he's gonna come through.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Right.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
The Dave Roberts argument for why Blake Trining and some
of these guys, well, you know the outs they they
got us in the past, Like yeah, a year ago. Right,
That doesn't mean that he's suddenly going to come out
and pitch a clean inning. What in recent history tells
you this guy's going to be able to do the
job either at the plate or on the mound. You've
got to shuffle up the deal, right. They had the
(10:13):
big argument in Philadelphia about pinch running. It's like, yeah,
this is where, hey, do we have any other athletes
that are at our disposal to try to move things along? Right,
Sometimes you've got to think a little bit outside the box, and.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
To give you an update from the Bronx right now. Wow,
So Ben Rice pinch hits for gold Schmidt. He walks
to load the bass as Hoffman loads the basis or
as a slider on three and two that is not
even close to the strike zone. Stadium's going crazy. Austin
Wells comes up. Remember you just walked the guy. Yeah,
first pitch hunting, Austin Wells hits a lazy flyout to
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left field.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Ending the inning.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
It is a five to one lead for the Blue
Jays going to the top of the ninth inning.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
This is a bad by Rice draws the walk.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
That's nothing more, nothing more frustrating than if you're gonna
swing at that first pitch.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Like, and that's that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Like it's always easy to to backseat drive and search,
but like there's certain situations in baseball where and and
like I always go, you know, always go back.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Because now because I got I got to say these
things to players as a youth coach, I'm like, hey,
if you're good, if I'm gonna give you the swing
on three and oh, if you're gonna swing on three
and oh, it can't be a ground ball to shortstop
like this, This has got to be a line drive
somewhere or a double or something where you really meet
the ball. You're not You're not just gonna swing on
three and oh and hit the ground ball to the
short stop right, and I see a situation like this. Okay,
(11:39):
the nerves in the stadium now, everybody is going crazy
and wells, honestly, that pitch looked like it was out
of the strike zone, was right. It looked like it
was out of the strike zone, and he couldn't handle it,
and he flew out to left field like you just
watched a guy walk somebody, you know, his whatever it
is on the mount at this point, here's the first
couple of times you're in this situation in Major League baseball. Hey,
(12:00):
blue Jay's in this situation for the first time. Here
they are in Yankee Stadium. You know, Hey, the pressure
is on him. I gotta see what he I'm gonna
see what he throws. Make a pitch, and if you're
gonna swing at that first pitch, it's because I know
he likes to go, because I know his tendencies are fastball,
inner part of the plate, and I'm gonna get a
good swing on it, and that's gonna be a line drive,
but instead it's a ball off the plate that he
(12:21):
winds up hitting a lazy fly ball to. And that's
why I bang my head and go something better than that.
Speaker 8 (12:26):
Man.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
You can't just watch a guy walk and have a
great at bat and you just give it away swinging
outside because you're because you're too over anxious.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Come on again, third inning, Game one seven, nobody cares
bottom of the eighth, two outs and the bass is
juiced when you're down, like every bit checks off to.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
You've got to at least see.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
What he's got, make him make a pitch, don't go
give him an easy lazy fly ball.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
That was just that. That was just all that's in
the capitol.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
And notice has been a lot of shots of Brian cash.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Sure at some point and so you know, as my
dad would say, at some point, where get new players
in time to get new players, time to get new players.
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Top of the ninth, Jay's with a five to one
lead over the Yankees. Phillies lead the Dodgers three to one.
Dodgers batting now in the bottom of the fourth inning,
but coming up next the Bill Belichick potential buyout fired
at North Carolina. Story has just taken off like wildfire.
We break it down. Coming up next is Bell Belichick
(13:49):
in the endgame at UNC.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
That's next right here.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Hold out of your Hat's Jason run this?
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Well, No, he didn't, really he didn't.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
That's that you say that you default to that he
did not have a guess, has not been a good run.
It's not been a good Anybody will tell you this
has not been a good run. Teams they play against
will say it's been a good It is true, but
they will not say it's.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Respect judge at the foul pole.
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dot Com. Top of the fifth inning, Phillies lead the
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Dodgers three to one. Yoshinoba Yamamoto is still on the
mound for the Yankee for the Dodgers. Meanwhile, the Yankees
coming to back. In the bottom of the ninth inning,
Hoffman in for his second inning of relief. Blue Jay
Hoffman though a different Well, I was gonna say it
was gonna Hoffman all the way through. There was gonna
be Abbie Hoffman, and then it was gonna be a
Trevor Hoffman, and then it was gonna be amount of Hoffman's.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
I'm really amuta Hoffman's.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Wow, that's pretty fast to be a run out of Hoffman.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
What about Dustin?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Oh, yes, yeah, yeah, Dustin Hoffman.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Yeah, I mean that's an obvious one. Philip Seymour.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Fernando Valenzuela pitched Wednesday. That skills pitch again until Sunday.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Yeah, yea, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yankees down five to one, four hits on the night.
For the Yankees Blue Jays five on twelve hits. They
need four to keep their season going, or the Blue
Jays will advance to the ALCS to take on the
winner of Game five between the Tigers and the Marits.
Well in this game coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Think your dad's got a rally hat on or anything.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
No, my dad is so negative right now. He's so
absolutely negative. No, he is, but he's hate watching. This
is terrible. We all stak We gotta get him down.
Chishom was one of his favorite players. Now it's gonna
be gonna get rid of Chisholm. Guy can't field. He's
yawning on the field if it plays are happening.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
I don't like it. I don't like that we're getting
rid of everybody. Just keep judging, start over again.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
That's my no, Jason. You know they're going to run
it back with Cashman and Boone.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Well cool we oh Man, Yeah, I mean they are.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
There's no to take the wind out of the sales
of Yankee fans more than to hear, Oh, don't worry,
Boone and cast will be back again in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
No, that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
We're watching it here in the Fox Sports radio studios, right.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
We got no soundouts.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Keep doing the cutaways to cash but he could only
imagine what the voiceover is. Obviously, they're just saying this guy,
twenty years of this, a lot of work to be
done with this Yankee roster.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
He literally almost twenty years of nothing.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
He gets a watch if he if he pitches, if
he stays for another couple of years. I'm gonna try
to get to that the mandatory retirement age, and then I'll.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Go Jason, the old man killed this guy. Oh he
would he would have been literally years ago.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah, because just George Steinbrenner would not have tolerated this
many without a World Series, would never If you get
the Yankees with more than two years, it would change.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Change. Change.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
It's been almost twenty years, change change, almost twenty years change.
I mean, look what he used to do with Billy Martin.
There's no chance in hell this guy was gonna get this.
He might have gotten fired and brought back change, but
he would have.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Been easy on Billy Martin compared to what he would
have done with Aaron Boone.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Yeah oh yeah, oh yeah, yea Cashman might have made
it a little bit longer, maybe a little, but Aaron Boone, Yeah,
Aaron Boon would have he would have been So can.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Tell me who in America gets to keep their job
after sucking for almost twenty years.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Oh, there's actually a few people, there's yeah, yeah, yeah,
ideah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Oh no, we're not gonna make this political. I was
going away from Cashman. Oh I think I was going
away going Oh no, I can think of a lot
of guys, how did they have a lot of them
were owners in Major League Baseball though, that's that's the
one thing.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Yeah, but you can't get rid of them. You gotta
find a dirt.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Speaking of not having a job, and again we'll keep
you posted on the Yankees and the Blue Jays again,
five to one, top of the ninth inning, one out,
one on for the Yankees.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Is there a rule where Aaron Judge come about three
times in the same minue.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
If there is it, there will be after this year,
because yeah, this is going to be great for Major
League Baseball to say we're gonna beat Judge three times
in a row.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Now he's gonna go up again. I'm gonna go up again,
gonna come up again.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
The overtime rules in the NFL, No, both teams have
to get the ball. Why why it was working so
well until that one game that everybody got mad about.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
So Bill bella check. Either is going to be fired,
going to be bought out, or going to coach the
rest of the season for North Carolina. One of these
things is happening. But let's give you the backstory to this.
Earlier today, a couple of insiders came out with stories
that Bill Belichick and the North Carolina tar Heels have
(19:20):
started conversations about a buyout. Things are not going well.
Obviously they're two and three UID fans leaving the stadium
in droves. Last week against Kate klub Nicks killed Bill
Belichick and knocked the guy out.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Well, we played the audio they interviewed a girl who's
going to North Carolina saying, yeah, I was at that game.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
I failed a couple of mid terms and that was worse.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
So it's not been great. It started out the first
half of the first quarter of their opening game was good,
but that's really been it for North Carolina. But now
today again a couple of reports that the plug could
be pulled on the Bill Belichick experiment. Belichick could be
leaving if he finds a saw landing, either with another
team or with a broadcast job. Forget about being another team.
(20:04):
No one else is hiring for that walking.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Additionally, there are reports that potentially things have been weird
with Belichick and his staff the last few days during
the bye week, there were the coaches couldn't get a
hold of him. He's been distant from the team. You've
had some disharmony in the locker room. You already had
a little bit of legality issues with when it comes
to improprieties over the course of the last seven plus days.
(20:29):
So things are not great at North Carolina, and evidently
an edict that they couldn't reference former Tar Heels star
Drake May and his win over the Bills.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
The Patriots tweets.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
The byproduct of this story today has been two statements,
one from Bill Belichick and one from North Carolina. Belichick
put out a statement saying, quote, I'm fully committed to
North Carolina football and the program we're building here.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Let it. Director Bubba Cunningham said, quote Belichick quote the
full support of the North Carolina administration. Now, this is
either a load of crap. This has either been a
story that someone took and run with and went a
little bit further. But it doesn't matter. Okay, all of
that is irrelevant because this is going to be a
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one and done year for Bill Belichick. I told you
this in the spring. He's not going to get fired.
As bad as it was, as awkward as it's been
with Belichick and Jordan Hudson. His girlfriend is part of
the story too, that hey, her constant presence around the
program is not great, but look, it's not going to happen.
They hired the guy to coach He's going to coach
this year. If he doesn't win, he's out. It's that simple.
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And the off season, North Carolina went through dealing with
the controversy of Belichick's interview with CBS where Jordan Hudson
jumped in and they dealt with the fallout from that.
That was bad enough, and it was if you win,
everything will be forgiven. Right, we know you win, everything
will be forgiven. Belichick is not winning, but not only that,
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you are seeing the worst thing that just happened on Saturday,
and that is apathy with the program. You are five
games into his tenure and fans were leaving at halftime
of this game. Fans have had it. Okay, what's gonna happen?
I'll tell you. Eventually, sometime between now and the end
of the season, Bill Belichick will be gone at North Carolina.
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Maybe it's in a week, Maybe he coaches the rest
of the year, Maybe it's they have to figure out
a buyout, or maybe it's the day after the season ends.
Belichick is gone.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
This is it.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I don't know how many more times we're gonna see
him take the field as North Carolina's head coach. Maybe one,
maybe two, maybe five. But at the end of this year,
that ends the Bill Belichick experiment. This has gone horribly
wrong on so many levels, so many levels. And again
I go back to saying I knew when college football
was too much for him when he banned Patriots personnel
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from scouting his players for the NFL. He decided, because
of his petty feud with the New England Patriots, I'm
gonna make it difficult for you to see how good
our players are. Right opening night, he wouldn't put a
depth chart out, so all the scouts at the game,
because if you start for North Carolina, potentially there's a
few guys at NFL raiders. Maybe not first round picks,
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but guy's in the third, fourth, fifth round. They all
have NFL dreams. You're starting at North Carolina, You're started
Power five conference. And Belichick made it more difficult for
scouts to get to watch his players because he wants
to play this ridiculous game. I'm now the lord of
football at North Carolina. We're gonna reinvent college football here.
Remember when he came in his big press conference, nutrition
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everything else. Yeah, okay, he was never up for the
challenge of college football, never was whether he thought he
was too smart, or thought I don't need to work
as hard and I can dominate college football because of
the coach I am. What I've done at the pro level,
I can go up and give you seventy percent and
win in college. Can't do that now. Rules are different, right,
everything is different. You see the young guys coming in
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right now that are actually doing well and coming. These
are guys that've never been head coaches before, but they
jump in because they get the nil system. They get
about recruiting players. They are tireless workers. This is college football.
You can't come in and say, well, I'm gonna give
you my system. You're all gonna buy in. He's never
been cut out for college football. I knew in the
beginning when he's making it hard for the NFL to
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see his players. Oh sorry, guys, sorry that you're my guys.
You're sweating for me every single day and we're going
through this together. I'm gonna make it harder for the
NFL to see you, to see you try to get
to the NFL. That's when I knew. And you see
how this has played out. Nothing is good. So yeah,
is it gonna end?
Speaker 5 (24:33):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (24:33):
And that's the best thing and the most accurate thing
I can say is that even if this report is
seventy percent, if it's thirty percent, sometime between now and
the end of the season is the end of the
run for Belichick at North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Lot of curiosity with all of it. Right, it was
the off season.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Yeah, he's got the girlfriend, and everybody can have their
glib one liners or whatever else. That's fine, But when
it came to the football side of things, it was okay,
now we're building. We're starting essentially from scratch, will build
this program. And you're relying on your history, your reputation,
your rings to get you going, whatever Lombardi's doing on
(25:08):
the business side of things. That you were expecting some
level of confidence, well clearly it's a vote of no
confidence on that side as well. And you had a
ton of players come into the system and you're trying
trying to learn. You had a schedule that on paper, right,
We've talked with Pete Futech about this for weeks and
months at this point, Uh, the idea of all, right,
(25:30):
there's there's enough winnable games on the schedule if you're
playing decent football.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Well they're not. I mean in any way, shape or form.
It's it's been an absolute failure. And now you have
questions about armand Hawkins. He gets suspended, the quarterbacks coach
he used to work with Steve Belichick at Washington.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
And you've got players allegedly having sold off their tickets,
like you've got a bunch of n CAA is not
coming around for anybody at this point. They've got no
juice yet, they're they're coming on to North Carolina who
got to skate away with made up classes years ago?
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Yeah, folks, forget about that. Nothing ever transported.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Like wait, they were making out, Yeah, we don't care.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
But here it's like aha ah, Now now.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
They're they're circling like vultures.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
And you've got a mess.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
You've got a game where you're a twelve point underdog
to cow for crying out.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
That's how bad things are. Alis, Yes, that's what that's
you're just going for good now.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
But yeah, so you've got an absolute mess and you've
canceled whatever that TV show is gonna beat. There's footage
somewhere now that now this becomes the can we get
a go fund yourself? Going to have those hours and
hours of video, Uh circumstances released so we can all
watch the the chaos and and someone plays a fiddle
(26:49):
in the background as it burns. But you don't have
the juice that you had at in New England. Nobody's
giving you the benefit of the doubt, and you've got
an alumni base right to your point. You you didn't
do the players any favors week one. So is this
just a an ego trip of I want to see
if I can make it my way. That's not the
(27:11):
way it works anymore.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
He thought ten years ago, I can walk into this
and do whatever I want to.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
No, it's not.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
That's not college football.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Ten years ago this you gonna come in as the Organs.
We're not telling them. Hey, dude, I walked away. You
saw how successful I was. I walked away. I'm I'm
on TV now, sitting next to the league course, so
putting a giant head on. Okay, that's what I'm doing
because I can't do it anymore. Has he not seen
the conga line between football and basketball and all of
his contemporaries who just said, to hell with it, I.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Don't want to do this.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
I just love that.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
He thought we're gonna come in and reinvent college football.
He and Lombardi know we're gonna reinvent college It's gonna
be so easy for you to win here. It's like
I'm gonna take a video game that I've been doing
pretty well on on expert, I'm gonna put it on
amateur or put it on the law.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
I'm gonna dominate.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Now, that's what he thought was gonna happen, and it's
it's turned out to where he is now.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
EMMITTT.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Smith his last year with the Cardinals. He's Willie Smith
his last year WILLI Willie, his last year with the Mets.
He's this is what he's done. This is what he
has done to his legacy. He has decided because he's
never going to get hired again. No other team is
ever going. You were already in a desperate mode to
take this job, man, right, I mean because everybody else
(28:22):
bypassed you and whatever.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Arthur Blake doesn't know what he's doing. He still told
you to go.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Belichick and the powder blue North Carolina is going to
be like Emmett is a cardinal name. That's a ram
all this and it's right along that line, man, right
along that line.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
I wanted to see him have some success, so at
least it went for a while. This is just floating
dumpster fire at this point time now to find out
what's trending in the wide world of sports. So someone
who's been called the Bill Belichick of Fox Sports Radio, boy,
that's right, she wears blue all the time as well.
It's monce, I do wear a lot of blue because
of the lawyers.
Speaker 8 (28:53):
You do, not the not the baby powder blue a lot,
but you know blue, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, speaking of blue, yes,
uh banda, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Know you're a little blue because the Dodgers aren't winning,
but not as blue as my dad. How you're gonna
tell us what just happened. You're gonna tell them what
happened at Yankee Stadium?
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Yes, I'm sorry, dad.
Speaker 8 (29:16):
As the Blue Jays are headed to the Alcs after
defeating the Yankees five to two in Game four, And
it started just the way you would.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
Think, and the O two line drive fair ball down
the right field line ricochets off the sidewall, Springer scores
with these judge on it quickly gets it into Kate
Blidney to a single and the Blue Jays lead one
nothing in the first.
Speaker 8 (29:39):
Yeah, Blue Jays Radio Network on the call. Of course,
it was Vladimir Guerrero Junior puoting Toronto on the score board,
so they're moving on. As for you, the Lawyers Dodgers
are currently down at home three to one. It's the
bottom of the fifth inning that's about to start in La.
We'll see if the Dodgers managed to bring out the
brooms or if the Phillies stay alive.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
The Tigers are alive.
Speaker 8 (30:01):
They scored nine unanswered runs to defeat the Mariners nine
to three to force a game five that's going to
be on Friday in Seattle. Cubs also stayed alive, edging
the Brewers four to three, so.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
They'll be a game four in Chicago tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (30:14):
In the WNBA, the Aces are now one win away
from winning the title. They just edged the Mercury ninety
to eighty eight. Asia Wilson dropped thirty four points and points,
including the go ahead bucket with five seconds to go.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
We also have hockey.
Speaker 8 (30:28):
The Oilers are up on the Flames one zero.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Halfway through the first period.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
King's up on the Golden Knights one zero, also halfway
through the first period, while the Maple Leaves and the
Bruins got their first win of the season today. In
NFL news, Bengals head coach Zach Taylor named Joe Flacco
as the team starting quarterback for their game this Sunday
against the Packers. No practice for Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson
because of that strained hamstring, and Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray
(30:52):
didn't practice today because he is considered day to day
with the foot injury. And lastly, here a Lakers fan
is suing Lebron James for allegedly tricking him with that
second decision announcement that he made earlier this week. It
turned out to be an ad for Hennessy. So the
fan says that he bought two tickets for the final
Lakers home game against the Calves the late.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
March two tickets because he's a dope.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Correct, a lot of people were dopest. There are a
bunch of dopes and they lick their wounds.
Speaker 8 (31:21):
Sure, So he's suing Lebron for what he spent on
the tickets, eight hundred and sixty five dollars for two,
because the value of the tickets immediately went down when
it was an ad for Hennessy.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Lebron.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
I'll drink the bottle Hennessy you put on your shelf.
I'm gonna see Lebron James right now. My name is
Humpty pronounce. I'm suing you, Jason. It's pretty impressive, Jason.
You can think how you can think that quickly on
the spot.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
I know that whole song. I'm n James.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Did you see that we're suing it for not showing
how the blaze pizza like six years ago?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Of course.
Speaker 8 (31:57):
I didn't go, but that would have been annoying if
I went.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
There were helicopters and newsvers there, and the line was
around the block, and he was almost late for working.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Any night, and his what.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
And his wife puts out a picture of him in
the pool? I know, Come on, what are you? Jason?
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Did you get any of those sauces that I did
not get any of those sauces?
Speaker 3 (32:15):
You could go?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
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Speaker 3 (32:37):
Well.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
When you advance to the ALCS for the first time
since twenty sixteen, you knock out the Yankees Toronto Blue Jays,
you get to be the play of the day.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Chef Hoffman trying to finish the job is one two
pitch is the Toronto Blue Jays have punched their ticket
to the Championship Series, going through the New York Yankees
in four games and again with standing the Yankees' best punch.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Joe Davis on FS one with the call, the blue
Jays are in, the Yankees are out? Coming up next,
what happened to the Yankees? What's the big take coming
off of this goodna surprise? A little bit with the
Yankees being, I mean happy the Yankees around, because you
know it's like the Mets winning but a little bit different,
and then you think it's gonna be as we break
(33:29):
down the Yankees elimination from the playoffs, that's next right here,
Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio, and.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
We'll check in on wall.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm. Eastern seven
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Speaker 10 (33:53):
The Toronto Blue Jays are going to the American League
Championship Series, which starts on Sunday. As Hoffmans already defying.
Look at the Yankee thugout, very sad ending to a
Yankee season here in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
He's not excited, very sad. Call the Yankees radio network.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Yeah, well, whatever, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (34:15):
You think blick when there was like one out in
the in the ninth that you started unplugging stuff. Yeah,
I get ready to go, grabbing my keys, got my wallet,
ready to walk out already. As soon as it is over,
I'm dropping the headphones and walking out. Simms, we took
your microphone. You're gonna have to shout a little out, Joe.
Two outs runner at second, Hey, can you validate my parking?
Speaker 5 (34:35):
You got okay?
Speaker 6 (34:36):
Great?
Speaker 5 (34:37):
Thanks you two outs.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
You're running right.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Tag dollars if you send your dad the uh, the
gift of Dawn madding Lee partying right now?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Oh yeah, you know, I.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Really want to see I want to get a screen
grab of maddenly with the big goggles on and and
and pouring champagne over the camera.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
Yeah, I want to see that. I want to see that,
and he's flipping off the camera like Jerry Jones.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Oh that'd be fat.
Speaker 6 (34:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Normally we watch these things and it's the Dodgers celebrations,
like all right, there's people we know getting sprayed and assaulted.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Uh my god, just creeping up out. This one's for you. Now.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
We're watching for Don Mattingly because it's the un about
the Yankees. We don't know any of these people, but
we're just trying to find.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Shit.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
I'll tell you if lad Guerrero had some series, man
like goodness, but that's one of the best playoff series
I've ever seen someone have. It was amazing. Judge had
a great series too, Right, we talked about Judge. You know,
look picked the Yankees up when they were one game
from elimination, worked on his legacy a little bit with
that game last night. But the Yankees go home and well,
(35:42):
let me talk. I'll tell you this, right because here
here's the thing. Right you think, oh, Jason's gonna go
crazy the Yankees around. Yes, there is that because, like
I said, the Yankees losing is like the Mets winning.
I no longer have to worry about the Yankees winning
the World Series. So I'm happy today's a good day.
But if I'm honest about the Yankee, I think, if
you're honest about the Yankee this is not one of
those ha ha look at what they blew. This is
(36:04):
not ha ha all the star talent and then look
they couldn't win. This is a Yankee team that was
pretty good. This is not a Yankee team that was overwhelming.
This is not a Yankee team that had talent up
and down the lineup. This was not a team that, hey,
we're paying four hundred million dollars and look, we can't
even get to the playoffs like the Mets. This was
a pretty good Yankee team that had holes, right and
(36:28):
clearly the biggest hole.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
And we talked about this throughout the year, and things
might have been different for the Yeah. In fact, they
definitely would have been different if you had a Garrett Cole.
If Garrett Cole was healthy, they probably would have won
the Al East. They probably would have had a better
playoff experience because Garrett Cole has been lights out in
the playoffs, one of the best playoff pitchers in the
history of baseball. I think he's twelve and six ERA
at like two and a half. He's been terrific. I
(36:51):
mean outside of not covering first base, well, Garrett Cole
has been terrific.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
That doesn't.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
Yeah, it doesn't show up there.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
But I feel pretty confident in saying that, Hey, when
you miss your stopper every fifth day, especially in the playoffs,
it's gonna be different.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
This is a very appropriate ending for the Yankees this year. Yeah,
they were pretty good. They were good in the beginning.
They faltered a little bit midway through. They had a
good run at the end. You're a ninety ish win team,
you won the first round of the playoffs. You go
home to a team that has a much better lineup.
They rake top to bottom and they beat you in
the first two games of the series. Hey, we had
(37:27):
out There was eight to nothing after the second inning
the first two games. This is very like I don't
look at this as a wasted experience, a wasted opportunity,
the Yankees embarrassing themselves. This was a very appropriate ending
for a team of this talent that had holes, that
had guys that didn't hit, and they have to figure
out next season. You have to figure things out because
you have holes to fill. With the Yankees, number one
(37:48):
thing is are you bringing your manager back? Is your
general manager coming back? Those are the things you have
to start with. But this was not an unbeatable Yankee team.
If you say, in the middle of the summer, I
remember saying, well, this is a team they could go
home any time. They can make the playoffs, they can
make a surprise run, because any team can get hot
in the playoffs. But clearly if the Yankees lose, yeah,
that's kind of on brand for this team because it's
(38:10):
not like they they they they didn't live up to expectation.
This is a very again, a very appropriate ending for
the Yankees.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
He go through their roster and for the Blue Jays,
just to make the note, they didn't even have Bishett
available to this point, right, he's still on the comeback trail,
so part of the lineup that you're still like plugging
holes and adequately so and then some. But for the Yankees,
just go to the pitching side. You had freedom, you
had Rodin and then he had a lot of guys.
The fact that Schlittler had to become superhuman like and
(38:40):
all New York hopes were on him.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Starting pitcher until July and suddenly it's like tho, It's
like the at least a little bit more like when
Nolan McClean come up for the Mets, it's he's our
best pitcher. He's had two starts, yes, because everybody else
thinks now, but now. Schlittler was kind of a different
version of that because he's a guy that came up
the middle of the season. All of a sudden, he
now he's got to save our year.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Huge strikeout right we saw him in his last start
was unbelievable. The twelve strikeouts against zero walks. Had a
great start tonight, right, six and two thirds, two earned
runs allowed.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
You'll take that.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
Every day of the week. And unfortunately the offense couldn't
back it up. We had opportunities runners on base for
the Yankees in multiple innings and they just couldn't push
the run home. And we talked a lot about the
Austin Wells at bat, which is just awful. Right on
that plus Volpi, who was the highly heralded prospect, and
(39:31):
again for for the balance of the season, the numbers
look fine, but situationally and with the huge strikeout totals,
it's a loss right, and he's he's an average shortstop
at best in terms of the field.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Overall, he is in a he is a plus player overall,
he's overall sure, but he's not.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
But everybody he thought he was going to be a
world b and it's not right.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
And and that's the thing, is that the end all
their kid that's the thing the Yankee they think all
their kids coming up are great. Everybody's awesome. You know,
I'm sorry, but the rest of the league season, Okay,
these guys aren't all awesome. I'm sorry about that. Played
a lot, was solid, not spectacular. And she keep going
on down the line. Jason, it was just last week
you said the Yankees were a team of destiny. I
(40:17):
thought they were a team of dead. They would Oh,
I'm okay with not being right about that. Calling your dad,
I am completely okay with that. We'll have to do
a wellness check. But we were having this discussion if
they went quietly. Is Judge's home run now just a
joint all? It really doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (40:34):
He's going to kick your ass.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Great. Series, doesn't matter. Done.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Two big hot taggs coming off of the playoff. Next
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