October 30, 2024 • 41 mins
Jason Smith tells you why he’s NOT a fan of the Dodgers strategy. Texans WR Stefon Diggs season is over after tearing his ACL on Sunday against the Colts. And Freddie Freeman becomes the first player in MLB history to homer in six consecutive World Series games.
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four of the World Series. Yankees up six to four,
looking for more. They have runners at second and third
after a double steal with one out, Will Smith helping
to keep this game going for the Dodgers. He just
just dropped a pop up. Uh. And as a result,
now instead of two outs and hey, they're almost out
of the inning.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
The Dodgers have to navigate this if they're gonna have
a shot in the top of the ninth Again, the
Dodgers second tier relievers pitching the entire game. Rick Honeycut
is in for l a right now, trying to get
them to the ninth in.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
You're calling him a second level How dare you?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You actually got to go after a pop up to
almost catch it, though, that is true, you have to
you have to make more of an f he' he
hit a home run tonight to drop it. Uh, it's
it's it's really weird. Uh again, this is such a
strange game. The Dodgers deciding we're gonna try to win
the World Series in a bullpen game is one thing.
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But we're gonna try to win a World Series in
a bullpen game where he take the lead early on
a Freddie Freeman home run and we're just not gonna
bring in any of our high leverage guys on a
night we can win the World Series. That's just stunning
to me. The more time goes on, the more it's
it's amazing, just thinking, Okay, wow, this is really how
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they're gonna try to win the World Series. It's not
like the Yankees got out to a big five, six
run lead. The Dodgers had a two run lead going
to the bottom of the first inning. They still had
three low leverage guys out there when the Yankees were threatening.
We're not gonna try to protect this lead. It's no
matter what, We're not gonna go with our high leverage guys.
And even though it's a one run game for most
of the game, a two run game, the Dodgers were
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okay giving this game to the Yankees and saying, hey,
if we win, it's gonna be our way. And if
we if we lose, and we lose like this because
we didn't bring in our good pitchers, well that's how
it's gonna go, and we're gonna be set up for
the rest of the series.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Well that's the thing that's the curiosity, right is when
it became five to two, you know, like, okay, I
get it right after the Vulpie Grand Slam, Jorny like,
all right, let's see if we can chip away, and
then we make a decision and we pivot from that decision,
which they did not. They decided to still stay the course.
Knack ended up pitching the extra innings and rolling through.
(03:10):
As we see the lead now extending with Honeywell on
the mound here in the eighth.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Now seven to four. That was a horrible throw to
the plate. And that was a horrendous throw to the play.
It should have been out of the plate. That was
a horrible throw. Look, they want to blame Will Smith
for everything. This is a ground ball. It's it's right,
it's right at him, and and the throw is to
the far side of the plate. Gavin Lux makes a hurr.
I mean, this is a groundball. That's Gavin Lux doesn't
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have to move forward. Literally, he finds a way to
throw the ball to the far side of home plate,
and Will Smith has no chance to make it part
of the first base side of things, has to try
to do the big sweeping tag, no chance to get
the runner to make it. Now a three run game.
So it's like the Dodgers aren't gonna rest until they said,
we're just gonna give this game to the Yankees. Just
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gonna give this game. What's the big deal if they do,
because they could have won the world if they do,
they're up three to zero. Okay, all right, all right, well,
see okay, okay, wee get Game five. While we're on
the air, tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
No, no, no, See there's the silver lining right there.
It is selfishly. And I said this to folks earlier
today as they asked me about this this game. And
you know, obviously a lot of Dodger fans as you're
you're on the highways and byways and walking around the
neighborhood with the dog and all everybody, Hey, Dodgers can
finish it off again. It's like, but you actually want
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other games. I'm like, yes and no, right, it's good
for business, it's good for the show. It's more to
talk about Dave Roberts and the pitching staff. Gavin Lucks
multiple times tonight. He was the guy picked off second base, Uh,
doubled up earlier and now you have this throwing issue.
All of that to say, he helped this along. And yes,
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we we do benefit from having a game.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
This is charity. Let him have this game. There really
is going to be a game five. Because Glabor Torres
has just hit a three run homer to give the
Yankees a ten to four lead in the bottom of
the eighth inning. Yankee fans are going crazy in the stands.
They're throwing beer on each other, throwing popcorn, so we
are going to see most likely a Game five. Look,
it's what the Dodgers wanted. The Dodgers wanted Game five.
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Get in Game five. We're getting Game five. You want it,
you got it now. Look, obviously, history shows all of
these things. The last nine three to zero leads ended
in sweeps. That's not going to be the case, barring
some ridiculous ninth inning here. I just don't don't know
how it sits when you can leave the door open
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right where you have the opportunity. And that's not to
say that they would have come in all midlights out right,
we stipulate to that.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
It's just more from a strategy and going back to
what Dave Roberts said last night of hey, we want
to extinguish this. We need to have that sense of urgency.
I didn't see that sense of urgency. I didn't see it.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Look, congratulations, we're getting Game five. Co grat we're getting
game fire. We're congrata we win. You seem very upset
about it, though, because when a team can win the
World Series, Freddie Freeman hits a home run, the Yankees
are dead. They're dead. You could be partying in the
middle of the field tonight another home run Dods. No,
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we're gonna stick with our low leverage relievers are second
tier guys, and if we somehow win, great, But winning
tonight's game was not really one hundred percent of what
are I wanted to see. What kind of was tribute
the Pizza Rats would have brought to the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Think about that. It's a whole horror movie ready to happen. Instead,
we get two clowns thrown out of the game, and
we selfishly we do get a game five locally in
LA and five seventy LA Sports gets a game five.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yeah, so we got a game five. Okay, great, we're
getting a game five. We're gonna fight.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I mean, but our job than you are. But the
job is to analyze and questioning critique the the strategicy
and I think it is fair to ask why down
five to four, the strategy didn't change and the bullpen
deployment didn't you know, get redirected to try to go
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and aggressively win this game.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
But it's not the end of the world. It's do
you ever want to look, he's still got to win
three in a row after you ever want to let
somebody up off the mat in the World series. That's
called char Guess what we're giving it away. We're giving
them one game. Let's them celebration. Dave Roberts called Fox
today and Fox said, Hey, if you can find a
way to extend this thing by the bad days and
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maybe we work. You leave the home play Umpire out
of it. You're now facing. You leave Doug Henning out
of it. You're now facing Garrett called him a night
the Yankees' best starter. And you are coming back with
Jack Flaherty, who this second time in a series has
not been great, and we have seen him throwing. His
fastball is three to four miles an hour less. So
but let's open the door for that. Jack Flowerdy wasn't
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greatest last Let's open the door. No, but the second
time I'm in a series has not been good, right,
and he's down. He's pitched a lot of innings this year. Okay,
you're opening that, You open the door. He still Garrett Coles,
not Garrett Cole. I'm telling you Garret Cole. Grek Cole
is pretty good. Grek Hole is pretty good. He was
pretty good in Game one. He's their best pitcher. He's
the guy they're looking at he's gonna be Yankee scored
thirty six runs tonight. Okay, okay, they might, I mean
(08:20):
mon Sooto, just not. I mean yeah maybe, uh you know.
So here's where we sit right now. Again, this game
is now ten to four Yankees batting in the bottom
of the eighth inning, and it's stunning the lack of
urgency with the Dodgers pitching decisions in a game they
could have won. That that that's what that's why it
sticks out, is that this is not a game where
they were chasing any sort of of of a game
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where the Yankee scored six in the first two winnings
and it was, well, what are we gonna do. We're
down six, We're really gonna win this game. So here's
our low leverage guys. It was our low leverage guys
and relievers that we are not gonna pitch at all.
Casparius and Hudson and then Nat comes in. We are
gonna throw these guys, and honeywell we're gonna throw a
bunch of guys and and no matter what happens, this
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is our plan. And we could give the game to
the Yankees. And that's exactly what they've done. But they're
okay with that. They were okay with giving a game
to the Yankees because they felt it's better to set
up the rest of the World Series. We're set up
winning Game five, and all right, I mean I understood
it a little bit against the Mets because they got
behind early and you didn't see the decision change. All right, Well,
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we're down six to nothing in game two, we're down
five to one in game in game five, and Dave
Roberts said, the low leverage guys are gonna pitch and
the second tier guys are gonna go. We're not gonna
chase a win here. We're gonna get back and win
the next couple of nights. Won our pitchings back to normal.
It's one thing to do that. It's quite another to say, hey, yeah,
we could win this game tonight.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah not really.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
We're just stick with our bad guys. But boy, you
could bring in a high leverage guy here, just at
least a little bit in the in the in the
middle of the third inning. No, no, no, gonna start's
stick with our low leverage guys. You have to stop
your analysis. It's so bad.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Aaron Judge just got a hit. There you go, that's
how bad he.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Got a hit in an RBI. Aaron Judges woken up. Congratulations.
I mean really, I mean that's it's just such a
stunning philosophy to say, we're okay giving up a game,
but you could have it in the middle. Yeah, I know,
we still don't want it. We still would much rather.
I don't know if we want to run the risk
of trying to win this game as much as we'd
rather set up the rest of the series. Now, I
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appreciate the bravado.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I mean, it takes a lot of stones to go
down that path and say, you know, dance with who
brungya and move from there. I disagree with it, but
I respect it because for Dave Roberts for the Dodgers,
we've watched the bullpen, right, Rosberger, and we've watched this
all season long, Like this bullpen is well traveled. This
bullpen has pitched and finished many a game. So at
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this point, dance with who brung ya? And so he's
confident and look, it's a long order, right, And we
played the Aaron boone Q and A yesterday when he
wanted to kill that guy for asking the question about
two thousand and four.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Hey, you know it's only happened once before. Wait for it,
Wait for it. I didn't do anything. Yeah, but how
many times does it happened in the World Series where
teams give games away? How many times does it happen
in the World Series where what's that when teams give up?
Where our team has come back three? Oh, no, it hasn't.
Now that happened, hasn't happened. Relax buddy, Okay, all right,
(11:26):
all right. Let's say if you hear this relaxed tomorrow night,
when Garrett Cole goes seven inning, strikes out twelve. Oh,
we're going back to Mesvine for game six. Everything is fine.
I still gotta win two more. You think it's fine,
everything is great, don't worry everything it is. It never
goes well when you let an opponent up off the mat, and.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I will do I will say this. I do like
the level of calm because I don't think he's doing
a bit here.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
I'm actually not.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
I think legitimately he's got the The heart rate hasn't
moved like no Frostburg. Of course, Frostburg has no choice
but to believe it, because you say you had no heart.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
No, he knows in his head this is an awful decision,
and it will it will absolutely overcome me, and I
will succumb to some sort of psychosis. So what I
have to do is just say it doesn't matter, just
doesn't matter, just doesn't matter. It makes no difference, It
doesn't matter, It doesn't it doesn't matter, makes that doesn't matter.
We're all good, doesn't doesn't matter what happens. Uh, exit,
(12:21):
how about a fresca exit? Swollen down the Ja Smith
and Mike Harmon live from the ti iraq dot com studios.
All right, so we are going to see Game five
of the We're barring a seven run ninth at least
by the Dodgers. We are gonna get that. Uh. We
are still watching the Yankees bat in the bottom of
the eighth inning.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
So we'll have more on this game, but coming up next. Yes, Uh,
we get back into the NFL and the big trades
that went down to we had a big trade today
and a huge injury. It's coming up next right here,
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Speaker 1 (13:54):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon Yankees putting the finishing time is on
the winning game four, delaying the Dodgers celebration for at
least a night. Hey, this game ain't over yet, dude.
Aaron Judge got a base in an RBI games over
games over. That is fairly damn. And my dad, who
just sent me a text, not even our bullpen can
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blow this one, seven seven run lead the ninth inning.
I'm feeling uns on principle, I want Walt to have
some pain now I think, wow, he will tomorrow night.
Now that's my dad you're talking about. Only I'm the
one that says, hey, I'm okay with you having some pain.
Only I get to say that. You guys don't get that.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
He's hey, Hey, he's been a friend of the show
for a decade.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Okay, he's not new to this. No, that's that's the
last time he came on.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
The show a decade. Oh yeah, it's been a minute.
He doesn't pick up anymore for you.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
It's it's it is a late night for him. He
is uh, he is struggling to stay up, but he
will stay up to watch the Yankees win a World
Series game. What does he do to celebrate? I think
he'll probably have ice cream and then go to bed.
Oh nice, Yeah, that's my dad. No Frostburg. He's not
as how my dad. Are you sure? I am positive
that is not how he's But are you positive? Yes? Yes,
(15:06):
you can you imagine trying to sneak guests into a
fifty five and overbuilding. Hell, yeah, let's go. I'm here
to see Walt Smith. Whoa Why do you have a
boombox with you? Don't worry about it? You know? That
is what kind of light is that? It's after it's
after eight o'clock. You can't play music very loud. It's okay,
it's all right, it's all right. Who's the guy with
the inflatables? Hey?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Do you hear Cherry Pie coming from the third floor?
Go check out Walt Smith's apartment?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Rotten?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
So again, Yankees up eleven four, one out in the ninth.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
We will be going to Game five of More on
this game coming up in a few minutes. But big
day in the NFL. We had a big injury and
we had a big tray. Let's see what the injury first,
defund You mean your kicker? Uh? Real injuries? Uh. Stefan
Digs out for the season, torn acl This was a
an injury that was really kept under wraps for the
part of the like nobody knew anything about it. Stefon Diggs,
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he's hurt. But now the Texans are going to be
without Stefan Diggs for the year. They are still without
Nico Collins, although where it is he can return after
the bye. And look, Nico Collins is still their best
wide receiver, but this now vaults the Texans to the
top of the list for a wide receiver over everybody
else because right now you don't have anybody on the team.
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But that's caught more than twenty seven passes, right Like,
it's Tank Dellen, just a bunch of guys, and you
have won pretty well so far this season if you're
the Texans. Now you've not run past teams like we
thought they were going to. Hey, look there's a great
offense with CJ. Stroud. They are addings to Fon Diggs.
There's gonna be way too many mouths to feed. Look
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at all the weapons they have now they got Joe
Mixon running the football. They are still winning. They're still
six and two. The jury is still out a little
bit because they've been escaping. They have the big win
over the Bills, but they are winning games like you
would in the playoffs. They're winning by being able to
run a football a ton, making clutch plays, and they're
able to come out on top.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Defensive front is starting to assert themselves like they they
were quiet early, but they're now ranking in terms of
pressures and sacks among the league lead.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
But they're still gonna have to add because this Ye're
not gonna be able to get by with this kind
of offensive answer. Flacco becoming the court Joe Flacco is inevitable.
But they've not been as dynamic as we expected them
to be. Expected to take a really big jumping Instead,
they're a really good team and they're finding enough ways
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to win. And certainly C. J. Stroud has not been
as dynamic after Nico Collins injury. Now it's gonna be
less with Stefon Diggs. Now suddenly you're looking at Thursday night, going, man,
who's he gonna throw to? The Jets are one thing
you can say. Look their linebackers and their defensive line
may be slow, but their cornerbacks at least in theory,
are gonna have a pretty good night here. But they
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absolutely need to add somebody. They can't not do it,
and they jump to the top of the l over
a lot of other teams. They jump over the Steelers
other teams because this is a team with Super Bowl
aspirations and you're expecting Ego Collins to come back, but
it's not a for certain You know you're losing Stefan Digg.
You needed something. Because you went out and got Stefan Diggs,
you still need another threat there at wide receiver to
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keep this team where they are. And so I really
expect them to do something. And whoever is, whether it's
Mike Williams, somebody else that's there at the deadline, they
jump to the top of that list.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Well, and that's what we're looking at and trying to
figure out the next men up, right, Because Christian Kirk
lost for the season, he was a guy rumored to
be on the move, just a question of where because
the Jaguars did get active and they trained an offensive lineman.
It's not sexy, but with Minnesota losing Darisov for the
year they needed to go and find someone to help
protect Sam Darnold and keep that machine moving.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
So you get that. But in the receiving game.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
We've seen teams checking off the list, right, We've seen
a bunch of guys move. We see another one move,
you know from Carolina. We'll get to him in a second.
So you don't have a lot of names on the board.
Mike Williams, Like Mike Williams rises up as one of
the he's not a come on that. That is not
a difference because he's out there right. No, but that's
the point out. So it's a question of, you know,
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do the Patriots get rid of one of their guys
again no great shakes but serviceable pros. Do you go
into the depth charts of some of the other also
rans squads uh, and and try to pry a player
and maybe more advantageous situation. Uh, they can raise their game, sure,
but you know, most of the dominoes have already fallen
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in terms of what we'd been hearing from the rumor mill.
I mean, I guess Carolina still has Adam Thielen that
potentially you decide, hey, we we're gonna cut bait, figure
out the contract and let him go become a third
down specialist for somebody else while he's healthy.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
But look, but you could be seeing I'm just throwing
this out there because as teams don't play well or
they see that maybe we need to move on to
do different things right, you could see you could see
someone like Jerry Judy out there. Hey, the Brown signed
him to a long term contract. But you know, Cedric
Tillman's pretty good. Elijah Moore has now become a weapon.
He had the most targets of anybody.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
On the team, and obviously the other team in Ohio
because they suck. T Higgins is on the franchise tag,
so potentially make him happy by making him a number
one somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
You could see a guy like Darius Slayton get traded
by the Giants. You know, suddenly these teams that start
losing are gonna be hey, we're okay giving somebody up
and moving guys on. And the more the more you
the closer we get to the deadline. As you see
two and six teams become two and seven teams, or
three and five teams become three and six teams, there
will be more people out there there'll be there'll be
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many more wide receivers out there and available, and and
the players you can go get so they will they
they will absolutely be open for business, one hundred percent. Yeah, Steelers.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Steelers are the team that it's still curious to see
if we get to download a fall. I did find
a couple of comments in the Twitter verse and a
couple of thought piece is really fun that went away
from the wide receiver position altogether. It was if the
if and when the Jets suck on Thursday against the
Texans and then on Sunday, Not that anybody was wishing
(21:16):
for somebody specifically to get hurt, but if a quarterback
got hurt, could Aaron Rodgers get dealt at the deadline?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
People want Aaron Rodgers at this point, you know, I mean,
I don't know. Desperation is a stinking colone. We will
get to Aaron Rodgers next hour, because he has says
he has found the fountain of you. He did, he says,
he with a new drink. He said, no, I'm not
saying he's there, but we're done wasting America's time with that.
Guardy said he has found the fountain of youth, and
(21:45):
it's something that anybody can get. Really, anybody can get this.
Anybody can get It's not something where.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
I don't have to go go and find it.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I don't even know you need to spend more than
like like four dollars bubble. No, it is not an
ayahuasca bubble. He has found the fountain of a new drink.
And I'm telling anybody could have it. I could probably
have it right now if I want it. Really, And
he says, this is what's alp about to get to that?
And you're gonna trust a guy that sucks at quarterback, Well, well,
here's the thing is that he's got to find the
fountain of youth if he wants to get traded somewhere,
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because right now, I don't know a lot of teams
that would want him. But the other trades. Speaking of trades,
Deontay Johnson gets dealt. And he was one of the
names we thought was gonna get traded initially when his
name was thrown out through He so, no, I like,
what's going on here in Carolina? I want to stay.
That's a great thing to say. Doesn't mean he wasn't
going to get traded. He gets Delta day to the Ravens.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Well, he was also a guy that was salty and said, look,
I can't throw the pass. Yeah yeah, like he kind
of did the who is it was it Edelmans? Not
it was not Edelman's wife, Welker's Yeah, yeah, he can't
throw it.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
He can't try. So he gets dealt today to the Ravens.
And this is one of those rare, over the top
moves that the Ravens had to have because as good
as Zay Flowers is, and say Flowers is a nice player,
the Ravens wide receivers are kind of pedestrian. And is
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Deontay Johnson an unbelievable game breaker? No, but he's gonna
immediately come in and slide in as their number one receiver.
And we see the talent he's had. He was pretty
good in Pittsburgh. We had big games in Carolina even
when nobody's can throw him the football. And this is
going to make the Ravens more dangerous. This isn't over
the top move. When there's not a lot of over
(23:28):
the top moves you can make, there's only Hey, we're desperate,
so we have to make a trade for somebody. This
isn't over the top move. Because as a season goes on,
and I'm gonna hit you with something pretty big here,
as a season goes on, they're going to have to
throw the football because eventually Derek Henry's going to hit
the wall because he's thirty years old and it's great
to see him run now, and he has been fantastic
(23:49):
so far. Right, he's I know, like like insane. You
saw last week, what did Lamar Jackson say, Hey, Derek
Henry could break the all time rushing record. And it's
great because he is on pace to potentially do that,
and he's much better, has much more in the tank
than I thought he would have, and he's been terrific.
But you watch what happened last week and you thought,
maybe we need to get a little more dynamic in
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the passing game. Maybe we need another guy out there
to throw the football too, because again, Zay Flowers is nice,
but he's kind of in every other, every third game guy.
Deontay Johnson is someone who can go for six and
one twenty five every week. Right, He's a real not
that he's going to, but he has that potential. He
is a fantastic wide receiver and as the season goes on,
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and there's more wear and tear on Derrick Henry. Guess
what he's going to slow down. He's not gonna hit
the middle of December running for one hundred and seventy
five yards a week. The guy's thirty years old. It's
the same philosophy of, Hey, I feel really good about
our starting pitching in Major League Baseball going into the playoffs.
You do, yeah, I feel great. All our guys start
at thirty games this year, I feel fantastic. Well, guess what,
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you're gonna need more help because they're all gonna be
out of gas. All starting pitchers run out of gas
in the postseason because they've had big seasons. If they're
healthy and they've pitched the entire year, guess what they're
gonna slow down. Doesn't matter who they are, doesn't matter
how good they are, They're gonna slow down because they
don't throw enough innings. They don't build their arms up.
By the time you get to the postseason. Everybody's tired,
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right even go Garrett cole Is. The Yankees are so
excited to have him on the mound tomorrow. How many
pitches they're gonna have to take him out? At eighty
five pitches because that's what you have to do because
starting pitchers where down when they hit the postseason. You
just can't count on them. And the same thing, it's
the same thing for an older running back Derrick Henry.
You can cut his carries down now. But Ken you,
I mean you've already log you've lost three games. Now.
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I know you think you're great, but you've already lost
a bunch of games. You're gonna hit the middle of December.
Get into the January. Boy, he's hit the wall. He's
not the same guy. He doesn't have the same burst,
and it's not gonna be anything bad other than he's
thirty years old than a running back thirty one years old.
So you're gonna need to throw the football. Boy, you
needed another weapon to come in that you're gonna be
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able to replay, and there's no running back out there
to replace him with right now, Which, honestly, that's something
I would look at and say, Hey, do a team
like the Patriots you really want Ramondre Stevenson, you're really
gonna use him, or hey, we could use him. You
gave him a lot of money in the offseason. You're
clearly not Remondre Stevenson away from from getting anywhere. Like
I wonder if a running back getting dealt near the
deadline is going to be something or something for Baltimore.
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But eventually they're gonna have to do something else because
Derek Henry's going to hit the wall, and getting Deontay
Johnson is a phenomenal move for that.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
There was a couple of things that go with it,
you know, you talk about their offense as a whole. Obviously,
the dual tight end Andrews the last four weeks suddenly
awake fantasy owners celebrating the fact that I think he's
a tight end five or six over the last month,
which is great. Isaiah likely still has the occasional breakout performances.
Rashad Bateman's on the radar and he's he's had a
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couple of big games. So long as that offensive line's healthy,
he got a shot. Go back to Carolina, do a
full down, full on cell right Chuba Hubbard, because you
drafted Jonathan Brooks and he's in his twenty one day
workout window to get back with the squad, your season's done.
So if Chuba Hubbard's a guy that you know you
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can get the Ravens to throw something your way.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
The other thing you get in Deontay Johnson is you
get a guy who's heading into his free agency year.
His contract is done at the end of twenty twenty four,
so you get a motivated guy for the second half
of the season who's going to bust his hats to
make Lamar Jackson look good and to make himself a
boatload of cash. So probably the best of the trades
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in that regard from a guy that could be just
that big a game breaker to come in with that
extra motivation on what is already a pretty good team.
Right for Baltimore, one of the unheralded things and all
of it is they finally have a healthy Ronnie Stanley.
They finally have a healthy offensive line, which is something
they have not been running behind the last.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Couple of years.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
We talked about and joked about it at times the
training room there in Baltimore. Unfortunately, Dobbins Edwards couldn't stay healthy,
but neither could the offensive line, which meant a lot
more of the Hey, Lamar one one thousand and two
one thousand, either just fire the ball up into Harm's
way or get the hell out of dodge and run.
Here you have more balance. So from the Ravens side,
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hopefully that continues for them as they roll. What they
do need to do and be more active in running
back would be great. They need at least one guy
who knows what the hell he's doing in the secondary.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Oh no, hey, fine, I gotta solve the bigger problemde
I don't know that you can solve that problem. Secondary
is terrible. Yeah, but Derek Henry hasn't fallen apart yet. Yeah,
but your your defensive backfield already has. Their secondary is
the out of the ri There's no fixing that. Man,
I'm trying. You gotta get more dynamic.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
I was trying, man, I was wishing and hoping that
man come.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
On exit, out out of Fresco exit swollen down. The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon. Love
the Deontay Johnson move and as fans of baseball, we
love the fact we're going to get a Game five
in the World Series. Kevin Weyer has all the details
on how we got there from here. K dow.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Yeah, the Yankees offense coming, where's this been? Basically the
whole series? The first time they have led since the
tenth inning of Game one, in a game on a
huge blast from Anthony Volpai.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
As Hudson deals song line on any they are the
left field indep that ball is high.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Let us far wells gone.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
It's a grand slam.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
That was John as Sterling on w Fan and the
Yankees Radio Network, part of an offensive onslaught from the Yankees,
although they didn't really break it open until the eighth inning.
Labor tore Is a three run blast followed a home
run by Austin Willson inning earlier to give the Yankees
a huge eleven to four victory as they force a
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fifth game. They still trailing this series three games to one,
but they are still alive and Freddie Freeman, for his part,
very well could have secured the World se MVP had
a two run home run in the top of the
first inning. He's hit a home run in all four
games of this series, and as home run in six
straight World Series games going back to the one. The
games he played in in twenty twenty one for the
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Atlanta Braves will be Game five tomorrow evening at Yankee Stadium,
with a first pitch set for a little bit after
eight o'clock Eastern time. In the NBA, we do have
one game going on right now. The Warriors have taken
the lead against the Pelicans. They're in the middle of
the third quarter. Right now, it's seventy four to sixty
seven in favor of a Golden State. Earlier today, it
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was the Mavericks and Timberwolves in a Western Conference Finals rematch,
and Dallas wins at won twenty one to fourteen despite
temporarily losing Luka. Doncci looked like he had turned his ankle,
but did come back into the game, finished with twenty
four points a low struggled shooting just ten at twenty
seven to one of eight from beyond the three point line.
Kyrie Irving leading the way with thirty five points. Anthony Edwards,
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for his part, had thirty five and to lead all scores.
And in the NFL, a couple of trades going down
on a Tuesday, the Minnesota Vikings geting Cam Robinson from
the Jaguars. Meanwhile, the Baltimore Ravens acquiring Deonta Johnson from
the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Back to you guys, thank you very much, Kate dob
appreciate it, my friend. The Jason Smiths with Mike Carmen
live from the TIREC dot Com Studios. One other quick
NFL note before we get it into the World Series.
Is it about Zerline? No? No, no, no, no no, it
is in New York. Daniel Jones is going to stay
the starting quarterback for the Giants? Yes, yeah, for this week.
Are you really surprised coming off the last night?
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
I am really. They don't want to pay the guy
twenty five millions on Parkley and the owners said he
couldn't sleep at night. Mind, you're really surprised about this. Look,
Daniel Jones is bad. All right, that's the first part
of this. Daniel Jones is bad. He was really bad
last night. He crushed them with two horrible turnovers in
the final five minutes of the game. Again, I first,
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what was his turnstyle? Tackles fall more Yeah, but still TJ.
Watt actually walked up to him, asked him for the football,
and Daniel Jones just handed it to him. He didn't
even hit him. He said, hey, can I have the football? Oh? Sure,
and Daniel Jones just handed it to him. Well, I
mean he he walked up and he said, you know,
like when you were near a stove here, I need the.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Ball, and your your mom, grandma, whoever would slap down
the hand going that's.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I don't know. It was more like a give me five, hey,
give me fine. Yeah, wow, there goes a football. Now
the other play, I mean, I mean, he's terrible. It's
twenty three million like that. You had to look down
and went, no, he's terrible. He's really bad. And the
Giants are going to move on from him. And again,
twenty three million dollars is guaranteed of his salary next
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year because of injury. How long are you really going
to let him go when you know the season is over?
So this whole Daniel Jones is our guy, Daniel Jones
is my guy. Yeah, this might be a little bit
of Brian Dable trying to win enough games to save
his job, because clearly the Giants front office and John
Marra is on the cusp of okay, we're gonna be
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starting over next year with a whole bunch of people
that don't include you, and and Brian Dable's going, hey,
I want to still try to win some games. And
I don't know about going to Drew Locke just now,
but this whole thing. Daniel Jones is our guy. Let's
see how long this lasts for. Let's see how long,
because within the next few days, maybe it's this week,
we're gonna get a bit. Oh, Daniel Jones is gonna
get sat down, because that's coming from the top. It's
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gonna be John Marra's gonna have to decide, Hey, Okay, Shane,
you're out, You're gonna be gone. You're gonna be gone.
You're gone, Nameth you stay, Millhouse, your cut, your cut,
your cut. And eventually it's gonna come from the top. Man,
he's gonna gonna be Daniel Jones is gonna have to
sit and so he doesn't get hurt and they don't
have to guarantee nearly a quarter of a million dollars,
a quarter of one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Spikes his jock strap on the way out like Millhouse.
I wonder how much Daniel Jones continuing to play isn't
already coming from above and that it's money spent. And
we talked about it yesterday, the difference between the dead
cap versus injury and a lot.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Yeah, but they've all hat they hated him in Hard Knocks,
I can't believe they're still doing this. They all hated
him in hard knock.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
No no, no, no, that's the coaching stat That's what I mean,
is that it's coming down from hate him.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
No one saying get rid of that guy, get rid
of him, get rid of him.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Because you have other reports talking about friction between Jones
and Gable.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Get rid of the decision. So we'll see. I don't
know how much he really wants him under.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
I think you'd rather go to the folk hero that
is cut.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Let's let's see how long that old Daniel Jones is
our guy lasts uh. Coming up next, we get back
into what we just saw in Game four of the
World Series and in defeat, way, do we tell you
what one player has been able to accomplish? That's coming
up next right here, Jason and Mike Who no, it's
something good ty shirt? Wow? Good way do we tell
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you what one player specifically has been able to accomplish
even though they lost tonight? That's next right here, Jason
to Mike Fox, you know most people would disagree with
that take. Jason.
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Pro of the Week. We don't often get a repeat
Pro of the Week, but we did this week because
when you've homered in six consecutive World Series games, you
get to be the Pro of the week. Greddie Freeman,
who was driven in seven of the Dodgers' fourteen runs
in the series, swam in a belt at ball the
right field, looking toward the corner. Freddie Freeman simply unstoppable.
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He points to the bullpen as he rounds the bases
for the MLB record six consecutive World Series game after
a home run, AM five seventy on the call. Certainly
you thought the Dodgers another home run by Freddie Freeman
would get out and win tonight. They did not. They
used their second tier relievers and the Yankees were able
(36:16):
to win. But for Freddie Freeman, what he has done
is he has gone from a last week last week
at this time when we had all the conversation about, boy,
how many Hall of Famers are in this World Series? Right,
how many Hall of Famers are there? Well, clearly, you know,
Clayton Kershaw's going to the Hall of Fame. He's not
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playing in the World Series. Otani is going to go
to the Hall of Fame, Mookie Betts is gonna go
to the Hall of Fame. Aaron Judge is going to
go to the Hall of Fame. Right, you had some
guy and then Freddy Freeman a was kind of a
borderline Hall of Famer. He's an eight time All Star.
And after what he has done in the World Series
six games a row of the home run, a home
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run in every game so far in the World Series,
including the walk off Grand Slam in Game one, Freddy
Freeman has become a guy that boys a borderline to Oh,
Freddie Freeman future Hall of Famer, Like, I don't even
think it's a question anymore. The guy's a lifetime three
hundred hitter. He hasn't an outside chance I want to say,
outside chance, depending on how the rest of his career goes,
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how healthy he is. Maybe he is someone who winds
up dhing as time goes on. But looks like Otani's
gonna be that for a little bit. But he's got
twenty two hundred hits. He's, you know, as long as
he has another three four years. He'd been knocking on
the door of three thousand hits. But it doesn't matter
because what he did to what he's done in last week,
this World Series, this sort of attention, this performance with
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a home run in every game. Freddy Freeman's going to
the Hall of Fame. It's now Freddy Freeman future Hall
of Famer. Now, I think there's still a way is
to go.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
I think this is great, you know, being the first
walk off Grand Slam. Justin brought up the fact that
he was twenty five to one to win the World
Series MVP and barring some.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
How don't even know if they even take your bets anymore. Dang,
I guess you'd be off the board.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
But hey, there's always the opportunity, right doors open for
something chaotic to happen and for someone else to rise up.
Oh see what I did there. Yeah, no exactly. I
just thought it was kind of funny. I really was
open to hear this sterling call of the the Freddie
Freeman Homan.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
This guy again, this bleeping guy. No, he didn't really
susan cover for me. I gotta, I gotta, I'm gonna
leave for a minute. I'm having problems with this one.
He fooled me. But I don't There a certain times
you do things on a big stage that is that
are never gonna be forgotten. And Frey four home runs
in the first four games and the walk off grand
slat I add to this career he is having. But
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but it's it's a it's good degreat right, And it's
all a question of metrics. And by time he retires
and you have your plus five and we're talking another decade,
let's just say, right, he's thirty five. Now, let's say
he plays another four or five years, Maybe he gets
to those magic numbers that you speak of, right, because
he's at what three hundred and forty three career home runs,
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twenty two hundred and sixty seven hits. It's a long
way from three thousand. But is that the but?
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Is that the line of demarcation anymore. We've talked about
it on the pitching side. I don't know that we've
had the same discussions from a hitting side of you know,
longevity history. Certainly, the the All Star appearances are there,
what he does defensively, I mean, there's.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
A lot of boxes to be checked. I don't know
that this ends it, but it certainly furthers long. I
think if he retired now, he was in I think
if you're retired now, he's in twenty two hundred hits,
eight time All Star, this World Series. I think certain
things happen in the postseason that you get guys that
are big performers, and then you get guys that just
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have stuff that's so legendary.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
I don't know how you keep mouthing, well, how's Kurt
Shilling not in? Then, well, Kurt Chilling, No, no, No,
he's a jerk. Kurt Shillings had his own issues, right,
he's a and his video game company whatever else.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
That's you're not supposed to be voting on that, But
really you think that that that MLB voters just vote
on I'm voting my project.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
Well, no, I mean there's there's a lot of guys
that had been left out because they weren't warm and fuzzy.
Look all in the end, you know, we talk about
the Hall of Fame, it's everybody's got their agenda.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Of all the of all this, the steroid guys that
could get into the Hall of Fame at some point,
Barry Pond's is not getting in because of how he
treated everybody, how he treated reporters. Everybody remembers that. I mean,
I'm not saying it's right, no.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
But it goes back to, you know, the the pettiness
and silliness of the way the voters are.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Yeah, and and when Freddy Freeman, who was generally liked
by a lot of people, that has had an incredible
career and you have a performance like this in the
World Series, it's gonna happen. I really, he stopped playing
it if the Dodgers win this World Series, and they
probably are, and Freddy Freeman says, I'm done retired. Wow,
I mean, how do you how do you not put
him in? I don't. I don't know how you don't.
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I really don't. Look at that.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
They into the sentiment of it all, and certainly the
last couple couple of weeks a couple of months, there's
been a lot with Freddy.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Exit out about a Fresco exit, swollen Dome, Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon coming up next? John Paul Morosi MLB Network Insider.
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four of the World Series. Yankees up six to four,
looking for more. They have runners at second and third
after a double steal with one out, Will Smith helping
to keep this game going for the Dodgers. He just
just dropped a pop up. Uh. And as a result,
now instead of two outs and hey, they're almost out
of the inning.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
The Dodgers have to navigate this if they're gonna have
a shot in the top of the ninth Again, the
Dodgers second tier relievers pitching the entire game. Rick Honeycut
is in for l a right now, trying to get
them to the ninth in.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
You're calling him a second level How dare you?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You actually got to go after a pop up to
almost catch it, though, that is true, you have to
you have to make more of an f he' he
hit a home run tonight to drop it. Uh, it's
it's it's really weird. Uh again, this is such a
strange game. The Dodgers deciding we're gonna try to win
the World Series in a bullpen game is one thing.
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But we're gonna try to win a World Series in
a bullpen game where he take the lead early on
a Freddie Freeman home run and we're just not gonna
bring in any of our high leverage guys on a
night we can win the World Series. That's just stunning
to me. The more time goes on, the more it's
it's amazing, just thinking, Okay, wow, this is really how
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they're gonna try to win the World Series. It's not
like the Yankees got out to a big five, six
run lead. The Dodgers had a two run lead going
to the bottom of the first inning. They still had
three low leverage guys out there when the Yankees were threatening.
We're not gonna try to protect this lead. It's no
matter what, We're not gonna go with our high leverage guys.
And even though it's a one run game for most
of the game, a two run game, the Dodgers were
(02:34):
okay giving this game to the Yankees and saying, hey,
if we win, it's gonna be our way. And if
we if we lose, and we lose like this because
we didn't bring in our good pitchers, well that's how
it's gonna go, and we're gonna be set up for
the rest of the series.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Well that's the thing that's the curiosity, right is when
it became five to two, you know, like, okay, I
get it right after the Vulpie Grand Slam, Jorny like,
all right, let's see if we can chip away, and
then we make a decision and we pivot from that decision,
which they did not. They decided to still stay the course.
Knack ended up pitching the extra innings and rolling through.
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As we see the lead now extending with Honeywell on
the mound here in the eighth.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Now seven to four. That was a horrible throw to
the plate. And that was a horrendous throw to the play.
It should have been out of the plate. That was
a horrible throw. Look, they want to blame Will Smith
for everything. This is a ground ball. It's it's right,
it's right at him, and and the throw is to
the far side of the plate. Gavin Lux makes a hurr.
I mean, this is a groundball. That's Gavin Lux doesn't
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have to move forward. Literally, he finds a way to
throw the ball to the far side of home plate,
and Will Smith has no chance to make it part
of the first base side of things, has to try
to do the big sweeping tag, no chance to get
the runner to make it. Now a three run game.
So it's like the Dodgers aren't gonna rest until they said,
we're just gonna give this game to the Yankees. Just
(03:57):
gonna give this game. What's the big deal if they do,
because they could have won the world if they do,
they're up three to zero. Okay, all right, all right, well,
see okay, okay, wee get Game five. While we're on
the air, tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
No, no, no, See there's the silver lining right there.
It is selfishly. And I said this to folks earlier
today as they asked me about this this game. And
you know, obviously a lot of Dodger fans as you're
you're on the highways and byways and walking around the
neighborhood with the dog and all everybody, Hey, Dodgers can
finish it off again. It's like, but you actually want
(04:29):
other games. I'm like, yes and no, right, it's good
for business, it's good for the show. It's more to
talk about Dave Roberts and the pitching staff. Gavin Lucks
multiple times tonight. He was the guy picked off second base, Uh,
doubled up earlier and now you have this throwing issue.
All of that to say, he helped this along. And yes,
(04:49):
we we do benefit from having a game.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
This is charity. Let him have this game. There really
is going to be a game five. Because Glabor Torres
has just hit a three run homer to give the
Yankees a ten to four lead in the bottom of
the eighth inning. Yankee fans are going crazy in the stands.
They're throwing beer on each other, throwing popcorn, so we
are going to see most likely a Game five. Look,
it's what the Dodgers wanted. The Dodgers wanted Game five.
(05:14):
Get in Game five. We're getting Game five. You want it,
you got it now. Look, obviously, history shows all of
these things. The last nine three to zero leads ended
in sweeps. That's not going to be the case, barring
some ridiculous ninth inning here. I just don't don't know
how it sits when you can leave the door open
(05:37):
right where you have the opportunity. And that's not to
say that they would have come in all midlights out right,
we stipulate to that.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
It's just more from a strategy and going back to
what Dave Roberts said last night of hey, we want
to extinguish this. We need to have that sense of urgency.
I didn't see that sense of urgency. I didn't see it.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Look, congratulations, we're getting Game five. Co grat we're getting
game fire. We're congrata we win. You seem very upset
about it, though, because when a team can win the
World Series, Freddie Freeman hits a home run, the Yankees
are dead. They're dead. You could be partying in the
middle of the field tonight another home run Dods. No,
(06:16):
we're gonna stick with our low leverage relievers are second
tier guys, and if we somehow win, great, But winning
tonight's game was not really one hundred percent of what
are I wanted to see. What kind of was tribute
the Pizza Rats would have brought to the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Think about that. It's a whole horror movie ready to happen. Instead,
we get two clowns thrown out of the game, and
we selfishly we do get a game five locally in
LA and five seventy LA Sports gets a game five.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yeah, so we got a game five. Okay, great, we're
getting a game five. We're gonna fight.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I mean, but our job than you are. But the
job is to analyze and questioning critique the the strategicy
and I think it is fair to ask why down
five to four, the strategy didn't change and the bullpen
deployment didn't you know, get redirected to try to go
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and aggressively win this game.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
But it's not the end of the world. It's do
you ever want to look, he's still got to win
three in a row after you ever want to let
somebody up off the mat in the World series. That's
called char Guess what we're giving it away. We're giving
them one game. Let's them celebration. Dave Roberts called Fox
today and Fox said, Hey, if you can find a
way to extend this thing by the bad days and
(07:35):
maybe we work. You leave the home play Umpire out
of it. You're now facing. You leave Doug Henning out
of it. You're now facing Garrett called him a night
the Yankees' best starter. And you are coming back with
Jack Flaherty, who this second time in a series has
not been great, and we have seen him throwing. His
fastball is three to four miles an hour less. So
but let's open the door for that. Jack Flowerdy wasn't
(07:57):
greatest last Let's open the door. No, but the second
time I'm in a series has not been good, right,
and he's down. He's pitched a lot of innings this year. Okay,
you're opening that, You open the door. He still Garrett Coles,
not Garrett Cole. I'm telling you Garret Cole. Grek Cole
is pretty good. Grek Hole is pretty good. He was
pretty good in Game one. He's their best pitcher. He's
the guy they're looking at he's gonna be Yankee scored
thirty six runs tonight. Okay, okay, they might, I mean
(08:20):
mon Sooto, just not. I mean yeah maybe, uh you know.
So here's where we sit right now. Again, this game
is now ten to four Yankees batting in the bottom
of the eighth inning, and it's stunning the lack of
urgency with the Dodgers pitching decisions in a game they
could have won. That that that's what that's why it
sticks out, is that this is not a game where
they were chasing any sort of of of a game
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where the Yankee scored six in the first two winnings
and it was, well, what are we gonna do. We're
down six, We're really gonna win this game. So here's
our low leverage guys. It was our low leverage guys
and relievers that we are not gonna pitch at all.
Casparius and Hudson and then Nat comes in. We are
gonna throw these guys, and honeywell we're gonna throw a
bunch of guys and and no matter what happens, this
(09:05):
is our plan. And we could give the game to
the Yankees. And that's exactly what they've done. But they're
okay with that. They were okay with giving a game
to the Yankees because they felt it's better to set
up the rest of the World Series. We're set up
winning Game five, and all right, I mean I understood
it a little bit against the Mets because they got
behind early and you didn't see the decision change. All right, Well,
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we're down six to nothing in game two, we're down
five to one in game in game five, and Dave
Roberts said, the low leverage guys are gonna pitch and
the second tier guys are gonna go. We're not gonna
chase a win here. We're gonna get back and win
the next couple of nights. Won our pitchings back to normal.
It's one thing to do that. It's quite another to say, hey, yeah,
we could win this game tonight.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah not really.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
We're just stick with our bad guys. But boy, you
could bring in a high leverage guy here, just at
least a little bit in the in the in the
middle of the third inning. No, no, no, gonna start's
stick with our low leverage guys. You have to stop
your analysis. It's so bad.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Aaron Judge just got a hit. There you go, that's
how bad he.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Got a hit in an RBI. Aaron Judges woken up. Congratulations.
I mean really, I mean that's it's just such a
stunning philosophy to say, we're okay giving up a game,
but you could have it in the middle. Yeah, I know,
we still don't want it. We still would much rather.
I don't know if we want to run the risk
of trying to win this game as much as we'd
rather set up the rest of the series. Now, I
(10:24):
appreciate the bravado.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I mean, it takes a lot of stones to go
down that path and say, you know, dance with who
brungya and move from there. I disagree with it, but
I respect it because for Dave Roberts for the Dodgers,
we've watched the bullpen, right, Rosberger, and we've watched this
all season long, Like this bullpen is well traveled. This
bullpen has pitched and finished many a game. So at
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this point, dance with who brung ya? And so he's
confident and look, it's a long order, right, And we
played the Aaron boone Q and A yesterday when he
wanted to kill that guy for asking the question about
two thousand and four.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Hey, you know it's only happened once before. Wait for it,
Wait for it. I didn't do anything. Yeah, but how
many times does it happened in the World Series where
teams give games away? How many times does it happen
in the World Series where what's that when teams give up?
Where our team has come back three? Oh, no, it hasn't.
Now that happened, hasn't happened. Relax buddy, Okay, all right,
(11:26):
all right. Let's say if you hear this relaxed tomorrow night,
when Garrett Cole goes seven inning, strikes out twelve. Oh,
we're going back to Mesvine for game six. Everything is fine.
I still gotta win two more. You think it's fine,
everything is great, don't worry everything it is. It never
goes well when you let an opponent up off the mat, and.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I will do I will say this. I do like
the level of calm because I don't think he's doing
a bit here.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
I'm actually not.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
I think legitimately he's got the The heart rate hasn't
moved like no Frostburg. Of course, Frostburg has no choice
but to believe it, because you say you had no heart.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
No, he knows in his head this is an awful decision,
and it will it will absolutely overcome me, and I
will succumb to some sort of psychosis. So what I
have to do is just say it doesn't matter, just
doesn't matter, just doesn't matter. It makes no difference, It
doesn't matter, It doesn't it doesn't matter, makes that doesn't matter.
We're all good, doesn't doesn't matter what happens. Uh, exit,
(12:21):
how about a fresca exit? Swollen down the Ja Smith
and Mike Harmon live from the ti iraq dot com studios.
All right, so we are going to see Game five
of the We're barring a seven run ninth at least
by the Dodgers. We are gonna get that. Uh. We
are still watching the Yankees bat in the bottom of
the eighth inning.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
So we'll have more on this game, but coming up next. Yes, Uh,
we get back into the NFL and the big trades
that went down to we had a big trade today
and a huge injury. It's coming up next right here,
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Speaker 1 (13:54):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon Yankees putting the finishing time is on
the winning game four, delaying the Dodgers celebration for at
least a night. Hey, this game ain't over yet, dude.
Aaron Judge got a base in an RBI games over
games over. That is fairly damn. And my dad, who
just sent me a text, not even our bullpen can
(14:15):
blow this one, seven seven run lead the ninth inning.
I'm feeling uns on principle, I want Walt to have
some pain now I think, wow, he will tomorrow night.
Now that's my dad you're talking about. Only I'm the
one that says, hey, I'm okay with you having some pain.
Only I get to say that. You guys don't get that.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
He's hey, Hey, he's been a friend of the show
for a decade.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Okay, he's not new to this. No, that's that's the
last time he came on.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
The show a decade. Oh yeah, it's been a minute.
He doesn't pick up anymore for you.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
It's it's it is a late night for him. He
is uh, he is struggling to stay up, but he
will stay up to watch the Yankees win a World
Series game. What does he do to celebrate? I think
he'll probably have ice cream and then go to bed.
Oh nice, Yeah, that's my dad. No Frostburg. He's not
as how my dad. Are you sure? I am positive
that is not how he's But are you positive? Yes? Yes,
(15:06):
you can you imagine trying to sneak guests into a
fifty five and overbuilding. Hell, yeah, let's go. I'm here
to see Walt Smith. Whoa Why do you have a
boombox with you? Don't worry about it? You know? That
is what kind of light is that? It's after it's
after eight o'clock. You can't play music very loud. It's okay,
it's all right, it's all right. Who's the guy with
the inflatables? Hey?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Do you hear Cherry Pie coming from the third floor?
Go check out Walt Smith's apartment?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Rotten?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
So again, Yankees up eleven four, one out in the ninth.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
We will be going to Game five of More on
this game coming up in a few minutes. But big
day in the NFL. We had a big injury and
we had a big tray. Let's see what the injury first,
defund You mean your kicker? Uh? Real injuries? Uh. Stefan
Digs out for the season, torn acl This was a
an injury that was really kept under wraps for the
part of the like nobody knew anything about it. Stefon Diggs,
(16:02):
he's hurt. But now the Texans are going to be
without Stefan Diggs for the year. They are still without
Nico Collins, although where it is he can return after
the bye. And look, Nico Collins is still their best
wide receiver, but this now vaults the Texans to the
top of the list for a wide receiver over everybody
else because right now you don't have anybody on the team.
(16:24):
But that's caught more than twenty seven passes, right Like,
it's Tank Dellen, just a bunch of guys, and you
have won pretty well so far this season if you're
the Texans. Now you've not run past teams like we
thought they were going to. Hey, look there's a great
offense with CJ. Stroud. They are addings to Fon Diggs.
There's gonna be way too many mouths to feed. Look
(16:44):
at all the weapons they have now they got Joe
Mixon running the football. They are still winning. They're still
six and two. The jury is still out a little
bit because they've been escaping. They have the big win
over the Bills, but they are winning games like you
would in the playoffs. They're winning by being able to
run a football a ton, making clutch plays, and they're
able to come out on top.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Defensive front is starting to assert themselves like they they
were quiet early, but they're now ranking in terms of
pressures and sacks among the league lead.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
But they're still gonna have to add because this Ye're
not gonna be able to get by with this kind
of offensive answer. Flacco becoming the court Joe Flacco is inevitable.
But they've not been as dynamic as we expected them
to be. Expected to take a really big jumping Instead,
they're a really good team and they're finding enough ways
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to win. And certainly C. J. Stroud has not been
as dynamic after Nico Collins injury. Now it's gonna be
less with Stefon Diggs. Now suddenly you're looking at Thursday night, going, man,
who's he gonna throw to? The Jets are one thing
you can say. Look their linebackers and their defensive line
may be slow, but their cornerbacks at least in theory,
are gonna have a pretty good night here. But they
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absolutely need to add somebody. They can't not do it,
and they jump to the top of the l over
a lot of other teams. They jump over the Steelers
other teams because this is a team with Super Bowl
aspirations and you're expecting Ego Collins to come back, but
it's not a for certain You know you're losing Stefan Digg.
You needed something. Because you went out and got Stefan Diggs,
you still need another threat there at wide receiver to
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keep this team where they are. And so I really
expect them to do something. And whoever is, whether it's
Mike Williams, somebody else that's there at the deadline, they
jump to the top of that list.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Well, and that's what we're looking at and trying to
figure out the next men up, right, Because Christian Kirk
lost for the season, he was a guy rumored to
be on the move, just a question of where because
the Jaguars did get active and they trained an offensive lineman.
It's not sexy, but with Minnesota losing Darisov for the
year they needed to go and find someone to help
protect Sam Darnold and keep that machine moving.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
So you get that. But in the receiving game.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
We've seen teams checking off the list, right, We've seen
a bunch of guys move. We see another one move,
you know from Carolina. We'll get to him in a second.
So you don't have a lot of names on the board.
Mike Williams, Like Mike Williams rises up as one of
the he's not a come on that. That is not
a difference because he's out there right. No, but that's
the point out. So it's a question of, you know,
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do the Patriots get rid of one of their guys
again no great shakes but serviceable pros. Do you go
into the depth charts of some of the other also
rans squads uh, and and try to pry a player
and maybe more advantageous situation. Uh, they can raise their game, sure,
but you know, most of the dominoes have already fallen
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in terms of what we'd been hearing from the rumor mill.
I mean, I guess Carolina still has Adam Thielen that
potentially you decide, hey, we we're gonna cut bait, figure
out the contract and let him go become a third
down specialist for somebody else while he's healthy.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
But look, but you could be seeing I'm just throwing
this out there because as teams don't play well or
they see that maybe we need to move on to
do different things right, you could see you could see
someone like Jerry Judy out there. Hey, the Brown signed
him to a long term contract. But you know, Cedric
Tillman's pretty good. Elijah Moore has now become a weapon.
He had the most targets of anybody.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
On the team, and obviously the other team in Ohio
because they suck. T Higgins is on the franchise tag,
so potentially make him happy by making him a number
one somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
You could see a guy like Darius Slayton get traded
by the Giants. You know, suddenly these teams that start
losing are gonna be hey, we're okay giving somebody up
and moving guys on. And the more the more you
the closer we get to the deadline. As you see
two and six teams become two and seven teams, or
three and five teams become three and six teams, there
will be more people out there there'll be there'll be
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many more wide receivers out there and available, and and
the players you can go get so they will they
they will absolutely be open for business, one hundred percent. Yeah, Steelers.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Steelers are the team that it's still curious to see
if we get to download a fall. I did find
a couple of comments in the Twitter verse and a
couple of thought piece is really fun that went away
from the wide receiver position altogether. It was if the
if and when the Jets suck on Thursday against the
Texans and then on Sunday, Not that anybody was wishing
(21:16):
for somebody specifically to get hurt, but if a quarterback
got hurt, could Aaron Rodgers get dealt at the deadline?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
People want Aaron Rodgers at this point, you know, I mean,
I don't know. Desperation is a stinking colone. We will
get to Aaron Rodgers next hour, because he has says
he has found the fountain of you. He did, he says,
he with a new drink. He said, no, I'm not
saying he's there, but we're done wasting America's time with that.
Guardy said he has found the fountain of youth, and
(21:45):
it's something that anybody can get. Really, anybody can get this.
Anybody can get It's not something where.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
I don't have to go go and find it.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I don't even know you need to spend more than
like like four dollars bubble. No, it is not an
ayahuasca bubble. He has found the fountain of a new drink.
And I'm telling anybody could have it. I could probably
have it right now if I want it. Really, And
he says, this is what's alp about to get to that?
And you're gonna trust a guy that sucks at quarterback, Well, well,
here's the thing is that he's got to find the
fountain of youth if he wants to get traded somewhere,
(22:14):
because right now, I don't know a lot of teams
that would want him. But the other trades. Speaking of trades,
Deontay Johnson gets dealt. And he was one of the
names we thought was gonna get traded initially when his
name was thrown out through He so, no, I like,
what's going on here in Carolina? I want to stay.
That's a great thing to say. Doesn't mean he wasn't
going to get traded. He gets Delta day to the Ravens.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Well, he was also a guy that was salty and said, look,
I can't throw the pass. Yeah yeah, like he kind
of did the who is it was it Edelmans? Not
it was not Edelman's wife, Welker's Yeah, yeah, he can't
throw it.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
He can't try. So he gets dealt today to the Ravens.
And this is one of those rare, over the top
moves that the Ravens had to have because as good
as Zay Flowers is, and say Flowers is a nice player,
the Ravens wide receivers are kind of pedestrian. And is
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Deontay Johnson an unbelievable game breaker? No, but he's gonna
immediately come in and slide in as their number one receiver.
And we see the talent he's had. He was pretty
good in Pittsburgh. We had big games in Carolina even
when nobody's can throw him the football. And this is
going to make the Ravens more dangerous. This isn't over
the top move. When there's not a lot of over
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the top moves you can make, there's only Hey, we're desperate,
so we have to make a trade for somebody. This
isn't over the top move. Because as a season goes on,
and I'm gonna hit you with something pretty big here,
as a season goes on, they're going to have to
throw the football because eventually Derek Henry's going to hit
the wall because he's thirty years old and it's great
to see him run now, and he has been fantastic
(23:49):
so far. Right, he's I know, like like insane. You
saw last week, what did Lamar Jackson say, Hey, Derek
Henry could break the all time rushing record. And it's
great because he is on pace to potentially do that,
and he's much better, has much more in the tank
than I thought he would have, and he's been terrific.
But you watch what happened last week and you thought,
maybe we need to get a little more dynamic in
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the passing game. Maybe we need another guy out there
to throw the football too, because again, Zay Flowers is nice,
but he's kind of in every other, every third game guy.
Deontay Johnson is someone who can go for six and
one twenty five every week. Right, He's a real not
that he's going to, but he has that potential. He
is a fantastic wide receiver and as the season goes on,
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and there's more wear and tear on Derrick Henry. Guess
what he's going to slow down. He's not gonna hit
the middle of December running for one hundred and seventy
five yards a week. The guy's thirty years old. It's
the same philosophy of, Hey, I feel really good about
our starting pitching in Major League Baseball going into the playoffs.
You do, yeah, I feel great. All our guys start
at thirty games this year, I feel fantastic. Well, guess what,
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you're gonna need more help because they're all gonna be
out of gas. All starting pitchers run out of gas
in the postseason because they've had big seasons. If they're
healthy and they've pitched the entire year, guess what they're
gonna slow down. Doesn't matter who they are, doesn't matter
how good they are, They're gonna slow down because they
don't throw enough innings. They don't build their arms up.
By the time you get to the postseason. Everybody's tired,
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right even go Garrett cole Is. The Yankees are so
excited to have him on the mound tomorrow. How many
pitches they're gonna have to take him out? At eighty
five pitches because that's what you have to do because
starting pitchers where down when they hit the postseason. You
just can't count on them. And the same thing, it's
the same thing for an older running back Derrick Henry.
You can cut his carries down now. But Ken you,
I mean you've already log you've lost three games. Now.
(25:34):
I know you think you're great, but you've already lost
a bunch of games. You're gonna hit the middle of December.
Get into the January. Boy, he's hit the wall. He's
not the same guy. He doesn't have the same burst,
and it's not gonna be anything bad other than he's
thirty years old than a running back thirty one years old.
So you're gonna need to throw the football. Boy, you
needed another weapon to come in that you're gonna be
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able to replay, and there's no running back out there
to replace him with right now, Which, honestly, that's something
I would look at and say, Hey, do a team
like the Patriots you really want Ramondre Stevenson, you're really
gonna use him, or hey, we could use him. You
gave him a lot of money in the offseason. You're
clearly not Remondre Stevenson away from from getting anywhere. Like
I wonder if a running back getting dealt near the
deadline is going to be something or something for Baltimore.
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But eventually they're gonna have to do something else because
Derek Henry's going to hit the wall, and getting Deontay
Johnson is a phenomenal move for that.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
There was a couple of things that go with it,
you know, you talk about their offense as a whole. Obviously,
the dual tight end Andrews the last four weeks suddenly
awake fantasy owners celebrating the fact that I think he's
a tight end five or six over the last month,
which is great. Isaiah likely still has the occasional breakout performances.
Rashad Bateman's on the radar and he's he's had a
(26:43):
couple of big games. So long as that offensive line's healthy,
he got a shot. Go back to Carolina, do a
full down, full on cell right Chuba Hubbard, because you
drafted Jonathan Brooks and he's in his twenty one day
workout window to get back with the squad, your season's done.
So if Chuba Hubbard's a guy that you know you
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can get the Ravens to throw something your way.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
The other thing you get in Deontay Johnson is you
get a guy who's heading into his free agency year.
His contract is done at the end of twenty twenty four,
so you get a motivated guy for the second half
of the season who's going to bust his hats to
make Lamar Jackson look good and to make himself a
boatload of cash. So probably the best of the trades
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in that regard from a guy that could be just
that big a game breaker to come in with that
extra motivation on what is already a pretty good team.
Right for Baltimore, one of the unheralded things and all
of it is they finally have a healthy Ronnie Stanley.
They finally have a healthy offensive line, which is something
they have not been running behind the last.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Couple of years.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
We talked about and joked about it at times the
training room there in Baltimore. Unfortunately, Dobbins Edwards couldn't stay healthy,
but neither could the offensive line, which meant a lot
more of the Hey, Lamar one one thousand and two
one thousand, either just fire the ball up into Harm's
way or get the hell out of dodge and run.
Here you have more balance. So from the Ravens side,
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hopefully that continues for them as they roll. What they
do need to do and be more active in running
back would be great. They need at least one guy
who knows what the hell he's doing in the secondary.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Oh no, hey, fine, I gotta solve the bigger problemde
I don't know that you can solve that problem. Secondary
is terrible. Yeah, but Derek Henry hasn't fallen apart yet. Yeah,
but your your defensive backfield already has. Their secondary is
the out of the ri There's no fixing that. Man,
I'm trying. You gotta get more dynamic.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
I was trying, man, I was wishing and hoping that
man come.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
On exit, out out of Fresco exit swollen down. The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon. Love
the Deontay Johnson move and as fans of baseball, we
love the fact we're going to get a Game five
in the World Series. Kevin Weyer has all the details
on how we got there from here. K dow.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Yeah, the Yankees offense coming, where's this been? Basically the
whole series? The first time they have led since the
tenth inning of Game one, in a game on a
huge blast from Anthony Volpai.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
As Hudson deals song line on any they are the
left field indep that ball is high.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Let us far wells gone.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
It's a grand slam.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
That was John as Sterling on w Fan and the
Yankees Radio Network, part of an offensive onslaught from the Yankees,
although they didn't really break it open until the eighth inning.
Labor tore Is a three run blast followed a home
run by Austin Willson inning earlier to give the Yankees
a huge eleven to four victory as they force a
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fifth game. They still trailing this series three games to one,
but they are still alive and Freddie Freeman, for his part,
very well could have secured the World se MVP had
a two run home run in the top of the
first inning. He's hit a home run in all four
games of this series, and as home run in six
straight World Series games going back to the one. The
games he played in in twenty twenty one for the
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Atlanta Braves will be Game five tomorrow evening at Yankee Stadium,
with a first pitch set for a little bit after
eight o'clock Eastern time. In the NBA, we do have
one game going on right now. The Warriors have taken
the lead against the Pelicans. They're in the middle of
the third quarter. Right now, it's seventy four to sixty
seven in favor of a Golden State. Earlier today, it
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was the Mavericks and Timberwolves in a Western Conference Finals rematch,
and Dallas wins at won twenty one to fourteen despite
temporarily losing Luka. Doncci looked like he had turned his ankle,
but did come back into the game, finished with twenty
four points a low struggled shooting just ten at twenty
seven to one of eight from beyond the three point line.
Kyrie Irving leading the way with thirty five points. Anthony Edwards,
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for his part, had thirty five and to lead all scores.
And in the NFL, a couple of trades going down
on a Tuesday, the Minnesota Vikings geting Cam Robinson from
the Jaguars. Meanwhile, the Baltimore Ravens acquiring Deonta Johnson from
the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Back to you guys, thank you very much, Kate dob
appreciate it, my friend. The Jason Smiths with Mike Carmen
live from the TIREC dot Com Studios. One other quick
NFL note before we get it into the World Series.
Is it about Zerline? No? No, no, no, no no, it
is in New York. Daniel Jones is going to stay
the starting quarterback for the Giants? Yes, yeah, for this week.
Are you really surprised coming off the last night?
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
I am really. They don't want to pay the guy
twenty five millions on Parkley and the owners said he
couldn't sleep at night. Mind, you're really surprised about this. Look,
Daniel Jones is bad. All right, that's the first part
of this. Daniel Jones is bad. He was really bad
last night. He crushed them with two horrible turnovers in
the final five minutes of the game. Again, I first,
(31:58):
what was his turnstyle? Tackles fall more Yeah, but still TJ.
Watt actually walked up to him, asked him for the football,
and Daniel Jones just handed it to him. He didn't
even hit him. He said, hey, can I have the football? Oh? Sure,
and Daniel Jones just handed it to him. Well, I
mean he he walked up and he said, you know,
like when you were near a stove here, I need the.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Ball, and your your mom, grandma, whoever would slap down
the hand going that's.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I don't know. It was more like a give me five, hey,
give me fine. Yeah, wow, there goes a football. Now
the other play, I mean, I mean, he's terrible. It's
twenty three million like that. You had to look down
and went, no, he's terrible. He's really bad. And the
Giants are going to move on from him. And again,
twenty three million dollars is guaranteed of his salary next
(32:42):
year because of injury. How long are you really going
to let him go when you know the season is over?
So this whole Daniel Jones is our guy, Daniel Jones
is my guy. Yeah, this might be a little bit
of Brian Dable trying to win enough games to save
his job, because clearly the Giants front office and John
Marra is on the cusp of okay, we're gonna be
(33:02):
starting over next year with a whole bunch of people
that don't include you, and and Brian Dable's going, hey,
I want to still try to win some games. And
I don't know about going to Drew Locke just now,
but this whole thing. Daniel Jones is our guy. Let's
see how long this lasts for. Let's see how long,
because within the next few days, maybe it's this week,
we're gonna get a bit. Oh, Daniel Jones is gonna
get sat down, because that's coming from the top. It's
(33:23):
gonna be John Marra's gonna have to decide, Hey, Okay, Shane,
you're out, You're gonna be gone. You're gonna be gone.
You're gone, Nameth you stay, Millhouse, your cut, your cut,
your cut. And eventually it's gonna come from the top. Man,
he's gonna gonna be Daniel Jones is gonna have to
sit and so he doesn't get hurt and they don't
have to guarantee nearly a quarter of a million dollars,
a quarter of one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Spikes his jock strap on the way out like Millhouse.
I wonder how much Daniel Jones continuing to play isn't
already coming from above and that it's money spent. And
we talked about it yesterday, the difference between the dead
cap versus injury and a lot.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Yeah, but they've all hat they hated him in Hard Knocks,
I can't believe they're still doing this. They all hated
him in hard knock.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
No no, no, no, that's the coaching stat That's what I mean,
is that it's coming down from hate him.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
No one saying get rid of that guy, get rid
of him, get rid of him.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Because you have other reports talking about friction between Jones
and Gable.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Get rid of the decision. So we'll see. I don't
know how much he really wants him under.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
I think you'd rather go to the folk hero that
is cut.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Let's let's see how long that old Daniel Jones is
our guy lasts uh. Coming up next, we get back
into what we just saw in Game four of the
World Series and in defeat, way, do we tell you
what one player has been able to accomplish? That's coming
up next right here, Jason and Mike Who no, it's
something good ty shirt? Wow? Good way do we tell
(34:47):
you what one player specifically has been able to accomplish
even though they lost tonight? That's next right here, Jason
to Mike Fox, you know most people would disagree with
that take. Jason.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
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Pro of the Week. We don't often get a repeat
Pro of the Week, but we did this week because
when you've homered in six consecutive World Series games, you
get to be the Pro of the week. Greddie Freeman,
who was driven in seven of the Dodgers' fourteen runs
in the series, swam in a belt at ball the
right field, looking toward the corner. Freddie Freeman simply unstoppable.
(35:56):
He points to the bullpen as he rounds the bases
for the MLB record six consecutive World Series game after
a home run, AM five seventy on the call. Certainly
you thought the Dodgers another home run by Freddie Freeman
would get out and win tonight. They did not. They
used their second tier relievers and the Yankees were able
(36:16):
to win. But for Freddie Freeman, what he has done
is he has gone from a last week last week
at this time when we had all the conversation about, boy,
how many Hall of Famers are in this World Series? Right,
how many Hall of Famers are there? Well, clearly, you know,
Clayton Kershaw's going to the Hall of Fame. He's not
(36:36):
playing in the World Series. Otani is going to go
to the Hall of Fame, Mookie Betts is gonna go
to the Hall of Fame. Aaron Judge is going to
go to the Hall of Fame. Right, you had some
guy and then Freddy Freeman a was kind of a
borderline Hall of Famer. He's an eight time All Star.
And after what he has done in the World Series
six games a row of the home run, a home
(36:57):
run in every game so far in the World Series,
including the walk off Grand Slam in Game one, Freddy
Freeman has become a guy that boys a borderline to Oh,
Freddie Freeman future Hall of Famer, Like, I don't even
think it's a question anymore. The guy's a lifetime three
hundred hitter. He hasn't an outside chance I want to say,
outside chance, depending on how the rest of his career goes,
(37:18):
how healthy he is. Maybe he is someone who winds
up dhing as time goes on. But looks like Otani's
gonna be that for a little bit. But he's got
twenty two hundred hits. He's, you know, as long as
he has another three four years. He'd been knocking on
the door of three thousand hits. But it doesn't matter
because what he did to what he's done in last week,
this World Series, this sort of attention, this performance with
(37:38):
a home run in every game. Freddy Freeman's going to
the Hall of Fame. It's now Freddy Freeman future Hall
of Famer. Now, I think there's still a way is
to go.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
I think this is great, you know, being the first
walk off Grand Slam. Justin brought up the fact that
he was twenty five to one to win the World
Series MVP and barring some.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
How don't even know if they even take your bets anymore. Dang,
I guess you'd be off the board.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
But hey, there's always the opportunity, right doors open for
something chaotic to happen and for someone else to rise up.
Oh see what I did there. Yeah, no exactly. I
just thought it was kind of funny. I really was
open to hear this sterling call of the the Freddie
Freeman Homan.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
This guy again, this bleeping guy. No, he didn't really
susan cover for me. I gotta, I gotta, I'm gonna
leave for a minute. I'm having problems with this one.
He fooled me. But I don't There a certain times
you do things on a big stage that is that
are never gonna be forgotten. And Frey four home runs
in the first four games and the walk off grand
slat I add to this career he is having. But
(38:38):
but it's it's a it's good degreat right, And it's
all a question of metrics. And by time he retires
and you have your plus five and we're talking another decade,
let's just say, right, he's thirty five. Now, let's say
he plays another four or five years, Maybe he gets
to those magic numbers that you speak of, right, because
he's at what three hundred and forty three career home runs,
(39:00):
twenty two hundred and sixty seven hits. It's a long
way from three thousand. But is that the but?
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Is that the line of demarcation anymore. We've talked about
it on the pitching side. I don't know that we've
had the same discussions from a hitting side of you know,
longevity history. Certainly, the the All Star appearances are there,
what he does defensively, I mean, there's.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
A lot of boxes to be checked. I don't know
that this ends it, but it certainly furthers long. I
think if he retired now, he was in I think
if you're retired now, he's in twenty two hundred hits,
eight time All Star, this World Series. I think certain
things happen in the postseason that you get guys that
are big performers, and then you get guys that just
(39:43):
have stuff that's so legendary.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
I don't know how you keep mouthing, well, how's Kurt
Shilling not in? Then, well, Kurt Chilling, No, no, No,
he's a jerk. Kurt Shillings had his own issues, right,
he's a and his video game company whatever else.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
That's you're not supposed to be voting on that, But
really you think that that that MLB voters just vote
on I'm voting my project.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
Well, no, I mean there's there's a lot of guys
that had been left out because they weren't warm and fuzzy.
Look all in the end, you know, we talk about
the Hall of Fame, it's everybody's got their agenda.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Of all the of all this, the steroid guys that
could get into the Hall of Fame at some point,
Barry Pond's is not getting in because of how he
treated everybody, how he treated reporters. Everybody remembers that. I mean,
I'm not saying it's right, no.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
But it goes back to, you know, the the pettiness
and silliness of the way the voters are.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Yeah, and and when Freddy Freeman, who was generally liked
by a lot of people, that has had an incredible
career and you have a performance like this in the
World Series, it's gonna happen. I really, he stopped playing
it if the Dodgers win this World Series, and they
probably are, and Freddy Freeman says, I'm done retired. Wow,
I mean, how do you how do you not put
him in? I don't. I don't know how you don't.
(40:57):
I really don't. Look at that.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
They into the sentiment of it all, and certainly the
last couple couple of weeks a couple of months, there's
been a lot with Freddy.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
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