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Speaker 1 (00:32):
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they got a base runner? Yeah? Things going good? Yeah,
Blake Snell has uh now let two Cincinnati Reds players
reach base Dodgers are thumping the Reds eight nothing. Top
of the seventh inning was a one hitter. Coming into
the top of the seventh for Snell. Uh Dodger's still
in complete control of this game. One out runners in
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first and third, uh Steer with a big single to write,
bringing Tanner Scott Tanner, Scott's coming in. I think Eric
Ganne is coming in. Anybody, everybody you don't trust can
come into the game. Now it's it ain't nothing lead
all the so basically you know, tryn and can come
in and any other relief picture this ye really that way? Yeah,
you mock the baseball guys. Go look, we're up eight
nothing nothing, you can do nothing.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
No, I would do that.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
We'll think about it though. And this is the perfect
game to get him right. Yeah, that's true. This would
be the right time, would be the right game to
get bring him, get him right. Yeah, I got it
to get it well because he can give up. You
can give up five runs and say yeah we're good,
Yeah we're okay, We're okay.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
That's not getting him right.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
This is when this is when we didn't we we
had a lead big enough that you couldn't blow it.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
You repellus. You bring in your training wheels with that guy.
You bring in your bulk relievers and there and the Hey,
all right, we're fine, give up three, We're all good.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I'll give him some virtual reality goggles and have him
out pitching the tunnel, coming out to them. Blake Snell,
will will body slam the guy if they try to
bring in someone like that.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Come on, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
This is You saw him staring down Dave Roberts. There's
no chance at hell he's looking out to that panic. No,
that guy's not coming in on my No, you don't
bring him in down. I nod to you. When I'm
ready to come out of this game.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I have an approved list of guys who can believe
me in this game.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
As crazy as it sounds, I want entertainment. This is
I love the score, but this isn't entertaining. Bringing Tannery,
bring Tanner's right away, Bringing Tanner Scott, bring him in
right away.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
That I'm not entertained. My team's winning eight to nothing.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Something you would never know. No, No, my.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Team's not gonna spend four million dollars. It's not gonna happen,
nor norm make the play over a decade. It's a
tough things. It's a tough thing. It's tough for I know,
four hundred million a deck o. No, I did get
there to play, Mike, You'll get there to deck. It's
another team that's almost that and didn't make the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
That's very yeah, yeah, very nice, you know for us.
I'm trying to be nice to you tonight.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Man.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Come on, dude, just just just actually agreed that bringing
Tanner Scott. How are you being nice?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Heye?
Speaker 4 (03:20):
You?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
What's your idea? You agreed to do it? What kind
of funn it was? You?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Sometimes you have to tell your friends it's a terrible idea,
right when when they're dating the wrong person, when they're
making a bad financial decision, when they're getting the extra
round of shots at one in the morning, and you've
been tailgating since long before the first game started, all
of those things, you have to say, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
We can't do this, my friend, we can't do this.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
But instead, what did he do, Mike? He said, yeah, Well, I.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Think for the purpose of the show of something going
off the rails, I don't think it's a terrible idea
in terms of the baseball strategy.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
No, no, no, bad, bad, terrible idea.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Now, speaking on speaking of baseball right to get to
this again. Dodgers up eight to one in the eight
one now, top of the seventh inning. They nearly got
out of the ending with a double play. Uh but
de la Cruz beats it out to first base. So
eight one, two outs, Dodgers lead in the top of
the sea. That's a professional still hustling nothing. Yeah, Johnny hustle,
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Johnny Hussell, think you can bring Tanner Scott in. It's
only seven run lead. Oh yeah, this might be safe.
Eight was okay, but seven yeah, margin changed. Yeah, it
disappears too fast that that would just go just right
where you Oh he got there. Yeah, okay, it looks
like he's there. De la Cruz is safe. So eight
one Dodgers lead the Reds. Uh seventh inning. Now, meanwhile, baseball,
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we talked about this for a second. I know it's
been very difficult because they didn't win a game the
last three months of the season. But after today, you
got a reminder why the Tigers are the most dangerous
team in the postseason in baseball. In baseball, yes, you
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get the flips. Everything starts over again. Now, Okay, all
this awfulness that we've had, we get the team that
caught us in the standings. Yes, we got to go
on the road, made it difficult for ourselves. But the
Tigers today reminded you why they are the most dangerous
team in the playoffs and they're the team I don't
want to play out of anybody because this Tigers team
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during the season, they overachieved during during the first part
of the season when they were had the best record
in baseball, everything went right from It's like the same thing.
Tigers and the Mets were the same thing. Everything went
right for both of those teams. The wheels fell off
for the Mets, they fell off for the Tigers, but
they were able to keep the wheels on a little
bit longer than the Mets are just this Tigers team
is not a great team. It's not a team that
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stands out and go wow, look at them, look at
their lineup, look at their pitching, look at their bullpen,
all of these things. The Tigers are a team that
is made for the playoffs. And that's the thing about
Detroit and this is why they're the most dangerous team
because you get into a playoff series and suddenly, we'll
wait a minute, they play. They have the biggest ace
in the game. They play defense good enough to get
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a win. Right, Their defensive metrics are right, you know,
in the top half a major league base'm not going
to cost themselves. But this is a team that's made
for the players. They're not made for the regular season. Right.
You need to mash, You need to put up numbers,
need to be able to put up bigger performances to
be able to be a team that dominates all the
way through. That's not this Tigers team. He saw him
last year in the playoffs. Boy, the total they're making
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is a million dollars, all twenty four guys of the team,
and not even make it a million dollars. Right, But
that's the Tigers, Right. You got guys like Spencer Torkelsen
hit and clean up for you. But when you get
to the playoffs and runs are at a premium and
suddenly being able to execute and play fundamental becomes a
much bigger deal. This is who the Tigers are. This
is what they do and when you can try it out.
Tarik Skoobel, who today again was throwing one hundred miles
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an hour in the seventh inning, didn't matter how many
pitches he threw. Fourteen strikeouts. He said, I emptied the
tank in the last inning, and then they said we
need you one more inning, okay, And he goes one
more inning and all of a sudden, look at what's happening.
Now he's able to go one more and have enough,
turn it over to the bullpen. They close it out.
They win this game to one. They go for the
closer tomorrow. The Tigers are the most dangerous team in
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the playoffs because when the playoffs, they are built for
much more for the plays are for the regular.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Well, vest gets the one and a third innings to
close it out, want to hit one strikeout. But Scuber
was fantastic. One hundred and seven pitches the fourteen k's.
That was just a fun little chess match between he
and Williams. Tough end for him, could only go six
eighty eight pitches before he seeded away. But you know,
it's just the margins, right, small ball fundamentals, all those
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things that we talked about last World Series with the Yankees,
and certainly some shades of that over the course of
their season. Once again, as they're on the brink of elimination,
trying to stave off elimination tomorrow, all of that stuff.
But you got another guy in case he miyes fourteen
wins on the year but doesn't go deep into games.
So that's the bullpen is going to need to do
(08:03):
more work than what they got out of Schooll Today.
They're gonna be called upon early and often, I think
to three four innings for a game two. But yeah,
to your point, you had multiple guys that were thirty
home run guys that if you asked when you look
at Torcal Singer, you mentioned in Riley Green, great production
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in the middle of the lineup, but guys that are afterthoughts.
I think in the larger national consciousness that they had
that good a season. And so now we look at
this battle. The funny thing of all these wild card
rounds becoming divisional battles, it's been kind of entertaining. It's like, hey,
I thought we got rid of you. Nope, we'll see
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in the first round.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I really you know, you going back to the old
adage that hey, momentum is your next day starting pitcher, right,
and that's clearly what is with Tarik Schoubl. But when
you are made for the playoffs, this is great right now. Conversely,
the other hot take I got for you is you
look at a team like the Padres, Okay, with great bullpen.
I thought, hey, Padre is gonna show up. This is
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gonna be a big upset. They're gonna wind up beating
the Cubs. And instead, what we saw today was the
reason why the Cubs are up one zip, going and
going in for the closer is because the Padres could
not manufacture enough runs. And this is the problem with
the Padres lineup. Right when I said, hey, best bullpen
in the game, it's gonna be great when they turn
over to their bullpen. But the thing about the Padres
is as good as no good, as good as their
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offense is in the playoffs. You gotta be able to
hit home runs, and they don't hit home runs. They
were third from the bottom in home runs this year
in Major League Baseball. If you can't hit home runs,
you're not gonna be able to move on to the
play You gotta be there's good when you're squeezing the
sap out of your bat and the sawdust is out.
We need something, We need a big hit. You need
to be able to hit home runs. Cubs today two
home runs, right, Big home runs are getting especially Wrigley
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Field with the wind blowing the way it is, you
gotta be able to hit home runs. And the Padres
are just not a big home run hitting team, and
that kills you in the playoffs, absolutely kills you.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Well, you're also leave a four runners on base, you get,
you get nobody on right. Great job by Boyd and
the relievers. They didn't exactly give themselves an opportunity to
even try to generate runs. Uh in this game, home
runs aside. Uh, the Cubs pitching staff absolutely.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Own this game.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Win blowing and we saw a couple of home runs
off the Cubs bats for Kelly and Suzuki. But you know,
for for the Padres, Yeah, it's in the margins and
has been this entire season. They're not running away and
hiding from anybody, and it's been the strength of that bullpen, right,
the antithesis of what they have from their division mates,
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the Dodgers, all season long.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
But that's all Finn of good. All that was was
keeping it from getting any worse today.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I mean, really, it's it was It was a watching
that game was just you're seeing, hey, when when you
can't hit home run, sometimes you need an easy run right,
not that home runs are easy, but instead of saying, hey,
we got to get a run, we got to get
a runner on, We got to get them a second,
whether it's a stolen base or a bunt, we gotta
find some way to do it and manufacture run. Sometimes
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you need those easy runs. So it's like getting needing
an easy bucket in the NBA, needing an easy drive
in the NFL, of hey, you know, we're five plays
down the field because we took advantage of a couple
of matchups. Sometimes you need those easy points to grease
your offense. And there's no easy runs for the Padres
because they don't hit home runs.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Well.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
To that end, you also need to draw a walk
they only had one. Then get them on, get them over,
get him in doesn't exist.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
If you can't get them on, you're not going to
get them over here, and you're not gonna get him
in the first ball swinging yeah and get nothing, I mean,
which is the story of what the Padres were today.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
And if you're you've got to be able to manufacture right.
It's a three outcome game, strikeouts, walks, and home runs
generally anyway, and if you're you're getting two of those nothing.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Uh so again that's what's called, you know, two big
hot takes from the playoffs today. And want to bring
this to you what's been What just happened between Vegas
and Indiana in the WNBA semis here again the winner
goes on to the finals, loser goes home. Indiana of
course playing without Caitlin Clark and now they're going to
likely navigate the rest of this game without Kelsey Mitchell.
(12:20):
And it was a really scary moment about five minutes ago.
Kelsey Mitchell was was trying to take the ball to
the hoop and she was coming off a pick that
was set and foul was called and she stops dribbling
with the whistle and she nothing happens like it doesn't
like there was any contact, doesn't look like anything happened.
She dribbled around the defender and it was the other
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two players who got caught, and they blew the whistle
and she's standing in the lane and she's got the
ball in her hands. She takes it, starts trying to
take a couple of steps, and all of a sudden,
she can't really step and she went down on the floor.
They brought out towels right away to hold it over her.
We don't know what happened because we couldn't see. And again,
(13:03):
you know, teammates came out and medical personnel. Then they
brought out the stretcher right away. And this wasn't just
this is a stretcher like with all kinds of this
is like a souped up stretcher. This wasn't just, hey,
here's something to get you off the court. This isn't
a souped up stretcher. And you couldn't really see what
was going on. Luckily she was able to leave the court,
(13:23):
not on the stretcher. She was helped off by two
Indiana fever personnel. Don't have any any indication on what
went wrong, but clearly she just dribbled around and stopped
and all of a sudden looked like she was having
trouble putting weight on one of her legs and went
down again. I'm just judging by what we saw over
the course of the past couple of minutes. We'll have
an update for you as it comes in. But Vegas,
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you know, has taken this last run here these last
few minutes ago on a little run to go to
the fourth quarter, with a six point lead, where Asia
Wilson in the ACE is looking to get back to
the WNBA finals again just a you know, a season
for the Fever, which you know, this would be the
chair on top of the Sunday for them, No Caitlin Clark,
but still here they are one game away from the finals.
Another player with an MVP type season in Kelsey Mitchell
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who's had a phenomenal year, and to leave the game
this way at this point, not knowing what happened with
a scary injury like you're the Fever, you go, man,
you know, boy, it's glass half empty, glass half full
season for them.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
No, that's it, right, is coming into the year, all
the great expectations, you made some changes, right, new coach,
new new attitude, all of that, changing out a lot
of your personnel and players thinking it was gonna go
through and instead you've had injury after injury and now
this one at a pivotal time when you'd fought back
from a bigger deficit to make it a game late
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in the third and now just a waiting word as
to the severity of the injury. This at the end
of the day, which we talked about now we're one
where you have Nafisa Collier lighting up the heads of
the sport. Not that the two are related because this
wasn't a contact, dirty play, any of that kind of stuff,
but it's still just coming off of those conversations about
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the league and their care for players, et cetera. Probably
about as bad a timing as you can have.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Exit ou about a Fresca exit swollen dome.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Again.
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Speaker 1 (16:37):
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(17:02):
Dodgers lead the Reds ten to two as the Red's
bat in the top of the eighth inning. So, uh,
Alex Vesia in for the Dodgers, Blake Snells, night is complete?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
You see that piece?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah? I think so well. I think you had an
eight run lead. Yeah, take me out. I'm good, I'm good.
I don't not need to go anymore. I'm okay.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
I really that's very trusting of the bullpeny. I have
the eyes, I have full faith in you. I have
this Fortnite twitch stream thing I have going on site
so that if I can leave a little bit early tonight,
that'd be great. So on, get there for the start,
go back.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
In the locker room. And he just had a video
game council.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Almost going on in that Why is that door closed?
All the interviews like he's just playing with the headset
on while they're asking if they stick the mics and
we'll asking him questions. Blake, how do you think you
did tonight? Uh? Good? Yeah, I had it working. So
things are good tonight. All right, twelve o'clock, twelve o'clock
look out, Thanks Blake, appreciated. I didn't sweat once tonight. No, yeah, no,
(18:01):
Frostburg did not sweat Blake Snell. What look, I told
you Blake Snell, Blake's but I told you last week, man,
Blake Snell is your guy. You won him. The Mets
were gonna make it low. You won him. No, I didn't.
I told you it was gonna be over and they
were gonna break my heart. I that I was right
about him. No, that was that was when you were lying.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
That was that was like.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Uh, but Blake Snell is a guy that's got to
pitch the most for the Dodgers of any starting pitcher
in the series.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Like he is.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
He has built for the playoffs. He has built to
have this type of responsibility. I'm glad they gave him
the ball for Game one and now looks like he'll
be ready for the next round as well. Uh, as
long as the Dodgers, you know, take care of business
here in the next game against the Reds.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Look at the last five starts you include this one.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
You had in a rough go against the Pirates going
back to being in September five five innings and five
earned runs, but since then six scoreless innings against the
Rock He's seven scoreless against the Phillies, one run in
six against the Diamondbacks. Uh, and then a game Uh
you look at this game against the Reds goes seven,
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so I mean it's just been a fantastic run for
him as they look to close it out, only another
six outs that's it.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Well and more in this game coming up again. You
have your big, big first day in Major League bass.
Mary left because she knew it was over, but big
news in the NFL, A quarterback change is here. Yeah,
And I feel good because I feel like I feel
like the bad guy in the movie, Like you know
in movies when when things always gone Vincent Price, Yeah, no,
(19:42):
I feel like.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
You're you're almost in the rain there too, like you're
you're something like you're not high enough in the register.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
But you got the same cadence.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
In the movies where the bad guy wins a lot
in the beginning, right, like the bat went like, okay,
he wins a lot, man, he wins a lot, and
he walks around saying, yeah, so far my evil plan
is going according to every single detail I had out there, right,
think like like Timothy Oliphant in The Die Hard was
a Diehard five, die Hard four, which the Diehard he
(20:15):
was in.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
It's a good question.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Die Diard four the one where I conflate them, but
justin Long. Yeah, but that was a good one though.
That was Maggie Q.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Was Long started showing up in schlocky horror.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
No, no, no, no, he did Jeepers, Creepers and then
he did this. No, it's not okay. So Diehard one,
Diehard two was Dulles. Dieard three with Sam Jackson was
die Hard for the one with die Hard. Yeah, that's it, right,
we had it four, okay, Diard four Diary this way.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Because two thousand and seven.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, everything going according to plan for Timothy Olifant,
right and we got it. We're all going good right
near Cliff Curtis gets involved, all yeah, everything is going great.
I feel that way right now with my Browns will
start five guys at quarterback this season. Bold prediction I
gave you in the preseason because Dylan Gabriel. According to
(21:05):
many sources, we'll start at quarterback for the Cleveland Browns
this week, replacing Joe Flacco. Now this game is not
in the United States, so okay, well we're gonna do this.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
We're gonna do it. Do it outside the United States. Yeah,
we're doing outside the United Door. Should Dad again, Schadere
is next, shoud Door will be next. But Dylan Gabriel
is here.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And as I told you, hey, Flaco, the first three
or four games, they started out oh and three to
oho to four. Then they make the change the next quarterback.
Now I did say it first was gonna be Kenny Pickett,
but then they traded Kenny Picketts. I said, okay, everybody
then moves up one. So with Kenny Pickett gone, Gabriel
moves up to be the next guy. Then after that'll
be Shador Sanders, and then it's gonna be whoever they
wind up bringing back off their roster at some point,
(21:51):
you know, fourth and fifth, the Als, five guys. Everything
is accorded, going go according to plan. Mike Harmon, I
got Flaco through the first month. I said October first,
it's gonna be Dylan Gabriel. And here comes Dylan Gabriel
to start for the Browns.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I'd be curious if they'd actually won that game.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Going back to the opener, you know with the kickers
against the Bengals, if they were two and two.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Would they be making the change.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yes, they've gotten thumped twice. Yes, they've gotten.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Worked pretty hard two of those games, one of which
was also a lot on the offense and their failures
and down distance, et cetera. But they got absolutely run
over by Detroit this week. And it really wasn't even
David Montgomery, who would definitely be doing the running over
more and more Jamiir Gibbs and the excellence of execution.
(22:39):
So you make the change here. Look, a lot of
Shador Sanders talk over the course of the week, Pops
and chimed in about the draft and everything. So that's swirling,
and then Shador saying he's better than a lot of quarterbacks.
Might as well just put it. Put Joe Flacco's name
out of mouth at that point. Oh sure, I'm better
than that guy. Yeah's old and he's running scared.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
He anymore. He was once elite. Now he's just a guy.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
So yeah, for Dylan Gabriel, like they'll run him as
long as is it looks moderately efficient, Like there's no
rush to the lineup.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
No, no, because now that they made the change, the
two guys you have to see this year now at
this point, you would think and if you don't, you
know that they they you can get to conspiracy theory
that the Browns took him in the fifth round just
a bench him so we didn't play. Uh, the only
two guys you really have to see. Now you gotta
see Gabriel for a few weeks and you got to
see you again.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I gotta say that's that he's he's really got to
be coached up this week. And I'm talking about Shuduurh
Sanders uh because it's a Brian floor has defense coming
at you overseas. So Dylan Gabriel is gonna see some
things he's never seen before. And that guy's played a
lot of football.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
So on this report, Yahoo, ESPN Cleveland, Mary kay Cabot,
longtime Brown's insider. Now here's the thing you mean the comedian,
Uh yeah, yeah, the comedian. Uh, she's gonna be hosting
the Emmys next year. Gabriel be the quarterback however long
he is the quarterback, as you said, Joe Flacco has done.
(24:08):
Unless something happens to guys that they're going to play
at some point in the next few weeks. Because like
I said, you have to see Dylan Gabriel. You have
to see Shador Sanders. I don't think you can say, Okay,
here's Gabriel if he's not if he's not any good,
we'll go back to Joe Flacco. No, they need to
see Shador Sanders. And why wouldn't you right at this point,
(24:28):
this is the season you're in, right, I mean, I
told you should have traded for a quarterback. Your defense
is good enough, go out and get a quarterback. But
this is the way they want to go. Whatever they're
tanking for for next year, but it needs to be
Gabriel for And if Gabriel's great, okay, keeps the job right,
it keeps Alliver. But if Gabriel falters, you kind of
have to go to Shador Sanders or there will be
a revolt by Browns fans. And you need to see
(24:50):
him at least a little bit to know that, Okay,
this guy we took. You understood drafting him. You were
gonna have to play him at some point if they
don't play him again. I can get on board with
that conspiracy theory of Hey, the NFL doesn't want sha
Door Sanders to play. They don't like him, they don't
like Dion so the Browns took him as a favor
and they're gonna bury him on the death chart. But
I gotta think the brown I mean, the Browns are
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gonna try to do whatever they can just stay out
a last place. But knowing that this is this is
your situation, Gabriel, I'm sure is gonna get at least
five weeks, right. I'm sure he's gonna get to at
least just past the midway part of the season. Even
if he's not good. Things have to get really really desperate,
really really bad where the Browns are non competitive to
(25:32):
get to Shador Sanders. But I also don't see Dylan
Gabriel having that kind of an impact where all of
a sudden he's got to keep the job all the
way through the end of the season. So yeah, I
feel better than ever that it's gonna go Gabriel to
Shador Sanders. And then where do you go, right, because
are you driving a mystery quarterback Brown's gonna give him
that job or wor they go back to somebody else Again,
(25:52):
my five guys prediction looks pretty good right now, but
it's gotta go Gabriel to Chador at some point midway
part of the seat.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
It's curiosity, right. Go back to the offseason when Miles
Garrett was I want to be traded, and then they
paid a lot of money. We're gonna win a super Bowl. Okay, cool?
How does he feel now after four weeks you go
to the rookies. Now Joe Flacco's off to the side
for the moment, and you're you're sitting here at one
(26:20):
in three. He gave away a game back in Week
one against the division rival, and now you're just playing
out the string after four weeks. That's kind of where
you're at at this point already. Well, this is where
you can come back with it. But I'm rich as blank,
you know. But you got Minnesota Pittsburgh, then you got Miami,
(26:40):
New England bye week before they're on the road at
the Jets. But all of that to say, the offense,
you got a pretty good running back in Judkins. He's
looked pretty good since he's joined the squad. So perhaps
you can get into a little bit of a play
action scenario and find you just lost Tilman for a
couple of weeks, so that certainly doesn't help you. But
(27:01):
you got a couple of tight ends on the roster.
You look at Jerry Judy, perhaps you can start pulling
the strings a little bit, get to a timing offense
that that works a bit, But it's it's just for
your point and to tie to the Miles Garrett the preseason, like,
all right, have we already thrown the towel on this?
(27:22):
Because for Shudor Sanders, I can only go so far
with the conspiracy theory. Part of it is he just
may not be a guy that's showing you what you
need at practices because you gotta throw him out just beforeah.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
But but that's the thing about a quarterback. You don't
really know until you see him play. And if you're
one to ten, you're gonna go to him, right You
got to, because what if he's great all of a sudden,
WHOA said? You don't know? I get that he delivers
the ball a little late. I get that he's not
quite there, But you really don't know about a quarterback
until you see him on the field.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I would just love the honest moment with the teammates
that are working with him.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
It's like, yeah, but I think there's some team. I
think there's he's probably got some some people on the
team that want to see him play. Curious, let's say, hey, sure,
not not right now, but at some point this season
he has to start a game. When Dion said, we'll
start to get yeah, I mean again five quarterback guys. Yeah,
I've got exactly he's gonna start, and he really has
to because after this year, you're gonna turn the page
(28:20):
on this quarterback situation. Likely you're gonna draft Lenora Sellers.
You're gonna draft Carson Beck, You're gonna draft Arch Manning,
You're gonna draft somebody right right, well, you never know.
I mean, he may be great the last six weeks
and say I want to be done, but you're gonna
get another quarterback, right you did this whatever you did
in the draft this year, which was ridiculous, but you're
(28:42):
gonna move on. You need to see Schador Sanders go okay,
is everybody good? Everybody good? So we can move on.
Because outside of that, then he hangs over the franchise
of why did we draft this guy? With all the
talent everything going on. There's no there's no reason why
we drafted him in the fifth round unless we thought
he was going to play right, there was no reason
to draft him at that point because you had your
court right, you had Flaco drafted Dylan Gabriel in the
(29:05):
third round. Obviously, drafting a guy in the third round
you think maybe he can start at some point, But
then why do you draft a guy in the fifth
round unless you think at some point he can start
for us? And you know, again, a quarterback, you just
never know until they get out on the field. You
have no idea. So he's gonna play at some pointment
We're gonna get multiple starts from Shador Standers at some
point this season. It's just not gonna be for a
(29:25):
little bit because clearly Dylan Gabriel will get a lot
of run, He'll get a lot of a lot of
chances to show if he can do it, can't do it,
Like this is not gonna be immediate unless something happens
to Dylan Gabriel, uh, and then maybe they go back
to Flacco in the short term and then it's Shad
door standers. But if Dylan Gabriel is healthy and playing,
he's gonna get a while. Like this Sanders thing is like, okay,
(29:45):
he moves up next, but it's still gonna be a
few weeks before it happens.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Week five of the NFL season. That's the most Cleveland
Browns talk. You're gonna get here.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Well guys, man, five
guys are gonna start. No Red, It's right. Had Flaco
till October. Flacco did even make it to October. October's tomorrow.
He didn't even make it to.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Tomorrow, and even get through out of technicality, I made it.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
I made it by a day and a whole day
to scamn offstare on this all right, August first, what
are we doing? Hey there? He is okay, great, We're
good to go. We got we got Dylan Gabriel in there.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
What a mess?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Yeah, I mean really uh and good luck right because
you just you know, you saw it. The Vikings defense
did a couple of weeks ago to to a quarterback
who hadn't played in a while. We're gonna throw him
in there. Good luck, good luck.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
I mean he's helped by the fact that the Cleveland
defense should be able to give him decent field position
a bit because you've got a lot of injuries going
on in Minnesota as well.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Do you think in fantasy right now, I could trade
the Vikings defense for Josh Allen. Do you think there's
Do you think you're gonna get more points in me
than I am with Josh Allen?
Speaker 3 (30:57):
I gotta I gotta look up with the projections, the
Vikings defense may be projected to have more points than
anybody in the NFL. That could be the case. We're
gonna take a look at that. Oh, Tim, how to
find out what's trending in the wide get there the
top defense on the the top player, over.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
The projections.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Let's find out what's trending from special delivery Steve de Seger,
Steve O, what do you got for us?
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Well, it's a good thing the Dodgers have a large
league because now the bullpen is in play. Yeah, it's
Dodgers ten to two over the Cincinnati Reds and their
wild card opener. Top of the eighth inning, one out,
bases loaded for the Reds. A superb start for LA's
Blake Snell, nine strikeouts in seven innings, ninety one pitches thrown.
Show Heyo Tani with two home runs, including a leadoff
(31:44):
shot tonight, And that was a shot. They've had stat
cast for how many miles an hour off the bat
for the past decade This is by far the hardest
hit home run off a hundred mile an hour pitch
that anybody's had in the last decade. Previous hearted heart
hit off that kind of pitch was one hundred and
thirteen point seven miles an hour. Tonight, Otani won seventeen
(32:06):
point seven miles an hour the Dodger bullpen. Wow, not good.
This was the perfect spot for ten Or Scott, was
it not? Instead they bring in Alex Fasia. Twenty two pitches,
one out, no, and now they're bringing in Edgardo Enriquez.
See if they can finish up there. Yoshinobu Yamamoto the
LA starter for Game two against Zach Lttel. If a
(32:28):
game three is necessary on Thursday show, Hey Otani could start.
The Cubs are up one game to none and the
best of three after beating the Padres three to one.
The lost in Nick Pavetta, who did have nine strikeouts
in five innings, but the Cubs hit back to back
homers in the fifth from Seya Suzuki and Carson Kelly,
hitting into the wind at Wrigley. Suzuki has homered in
(32:48):
five straight games.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Now.
Speaker 6 (32:50):
The Padres offense got back to back doubles in the
second inning, then went two for twenty five the rest
of the game. Boston beat the Yankees three to one
in New York tonight, the Red Sox took the lead
in the seventh on a two run pinch single by
Masataka Yoshita. More on him in a moment. Garrett Crochet
the star on the mound, eleven strikeouts, no walks in
his seven and two third innings. He threw one hundred
(33:13):
and seventeen pitches. The last guy in the postseason to
throw one seventeen or more was Steven Strasburg in twenty nineteen.
The last Red Sox pitch. I think that was the
last pitch he threw in his career. Yeah, and he
was done and his arm fell off. The last Red
Sox pitcher to throw more than that in the postseason
Pedro Martinez in the ill fated Game seven against the
(33:34):
Yankees over twenty years ago. Well, the Red Sox in
the regular season when they were leading going to the
eighth inning seventy one to four. They eventually closed this out.
It was interesting the Yikes did that Basis loaded no
out's bottom of the ninth against Eraaldus Chapman but then
he got strikeout, flyout, strikeout to end it, and Yoshida,
as the pinch hitter, on the first pitch he ever
(33:56):
sees in his MLB postseason career, he gets the go
ahead team hit with his team having trailed. That's not
happened before in Major League Baseball, and yet again we
see the Yankees bullpen in action. Luke Weaver takes the loss,
ruining a great start for Max Freed. Since July first,
the Yankee bullpen has the worst ERA in the majors
(34:18):
well over five. Detroit started the day with a two
to one win at Cleveland. Detroit scored two unearned runs.
Cleveland's offense went four for thirty fifteen strikeouts, a lot
of that by Trek Scoobl, the winning pitcher. Cleveland barely
got the ball out of the infield. Angels manager Ron
Washington will not return next season. The Halos are now
looking for their sixth manager in the last nine years.
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Cardinals manager Olie marmaul will return. The sale of the
Tampa Bay Rays was finalized. The Minnesota Wild signed left
winger Careel Caprisov to a record eight year extension worth
one hundred and thirty six million dollars, and we're about
to decide who's going to the WNBA Finals. It's Game
five of the best of five semis Indian at Las Vegas,
(35:01):
tied at eighty four under thirty seconds to go, and
as you mentioned, Kelsey Mitchell of the Indiana Fever left
with a kind of scary looking either knee or quad entry.
She said no to the stretcher and was able to
limp off with help. She's not returning tonight to say
the lease back to you.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Thank you, Steve. Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon. We have controversy near the end of game
five between the Aces and the Fever. It's tied at
eighty four a piece with twenty six seconds left to go.
We have more on this end. You're not gonna believe
what one NFL head coach said about the tush push
(35:39):
going into this weekend. That's next right here, Jason and
Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (35:54):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. Uh Dodd, your bullpen getting involved in
this game, and I mean involved all of a sudden.
A ten to two Dodger lead has turned into a
ten to five Dodger lead over the Reds. Top of
the eighth inning. The Reds have the bases loaded and
(36:15):
one out. They have been rallying off the Dodgers' bullpen.
Fifty pitches now from the Dodger bullpen, and the Reds
are right back in or on the cusp of getting
right back in. This one hit would do it again.
Bases loaded, one out, now a ten to five game.
This is the top eighth inning. Tanner Scott is not
(36:35):
pitching this game so far. Now Yees not pitched, not yet.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Too two count Stevenson fights one off, one out, and
Dryer on the mound.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Man, I'll tell you this is high drama.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
They just did about a three minute montage of fans
with their hands over their their heads, going, my god,
what am I watching?
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Fred Ryer? It is fred Ryer at TJ. Clearly he's
the hunter in this situation. TJ. Meanwhile, talk about high drama.
Game five of the WNBA Semis between the Aces and
the Fever is going to overtime. Ju Lloyd misses a
tip shot. At the end, Jackie Young missed a layup
(37:16):
and all of a sudden we go to overtime. The
Fever without Caitlin Clark, without Kelsey Mitchell could pull off
this monumental upset. But I'll tell you this, You and
I talked about it a few minutes ago. The number
of bunnies, the number of layups that are missed in
WNBA games is absolutely staggering.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
We had the easy space created and.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Just missed it too hard off the glass, missing off
the glass. So again, we'll have more on both of
these games coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
But because that's the other thing they need to fix
in THEABA, yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Yeah, fix that too. But earlier today NFL, we got
a great quote from Broncos head coach Sean Payton as
the Broncos getting set to face the Eagles this weekend,
and of course he's going to get asked about the
toush push, and Sean Payton says, I love the touch push.
Wait what here he was earlier today?
Speaker 5 (38:08):
Yeah, listen, I was one that stood up in favor
of the reason I stood up in favor of is
is pretty simple. If if the powers to be don't
want it for aesthetic reasons or competitive reason, you know,
or it's hard to officiate, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
But I've been.
Speaker 5 (38:31):
Involved in those meetings for a long time, and when
all of a sudden, health and safety was pulled into
that which which might be the safest playing football, there.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
It was it might be the safest play in football. Right. So,
Sean Payton a big proponent of the Toush push.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
I wanted to see what the next sentence was because
I've got the transcript to see if it was bleeded out.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Its So but here's the here's the big part of
this thing with Sean Payton the Toush push, is that
the Eagles did the best thing they possibly could do
this past weekend. Right, line up for the Toush push
a couple of times and run a misdirection play off it. Right,
you had a pitch play, You had a play where
they went outside and they didn't run the Toush push.
(39:14):
They lined up for it and they didn't run it. Now,
look it's a fade a complete. They're gonna push the narrative,
the Tush push haters are gonna push a narrative. Hey,
you can't officiate the play. You see what the officials say.
It'll get banned in the offseason. But the Eagles aren't
gonna go gently into that good night, and they shouldn't
by by running plays. By lining up and not running it,
(39:34):
this potentially could extend the life of the tush which
we don't always have to run it they line up like,
which is probably something they should have done earlier. But
now they do this. Now teams are gonna say, maybe
this play becomes more unsompable because they did it twice
last week resulted in two touchdowns. Right, Like, the Eagles
have now taken this situation and amped it up a level.
Smartest thing they could have done is doing the misdirection
(39:56):
plays this past weekend for touchdown.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
I hope it doesn't get out lawed, Like I know
we talked about it when Dean Blandino chimed in and
talked about officiating it. And certainly, you know, we can
always do the well you get the ISO and the
overhead camera look at this guy's off to the race,
and we could do that with every snap, right, we
could call holding on every play, like, there's so much
we can do so to isolate this and the fact
(40:18):
that they've run it so often and so effectively, I
get the angst of it. But those two plays, yeah,
oh that was fun, smartest, a great theater to be like,
oh what now? Side show ba My favorite, my favorite
part of the week was them doing that because that hey,
we want to try to keep doing this.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
This is what we're gonna do. That was so smart.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Surprise Sirianni and don't go find a camera?
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Yeah, how do you like that exit out? About a
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they got a base runner? Yeah? Things going good? Yeah,
Blake Snell has uh now let two Cincinnati Reds players
reach base Dodgers are thumping the Reds eight nothing. Top
of the seventh inning was a one hitter. Coming into
the top of the seventh for Snell. Uh Dodger's still
in complete control of this game. One out runners in
(01:17):
first and third, uh Steer with a big single to write,
bringing Tanner Scott Tanner, Scott's coming in. I think Eric
Ganne is coming in. Anybody, everybody you don't trust can
come into the game. Now it's it ain't nothing lead
all the so basically you know, tryn and can come
in and any other relief picture this ye really that way? Yeah,
you mock the baseball guys. Go look, we're up eight
nothing nothing, you can do nothing.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
No, I would do that.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
We'll think about it though. And this is the perfect
game to get him right. Yeah, that's true. This would
be the right time, would be the right game to
get bring him, get him right. Yeah, I got it
to get it well because he can give up. You
can give up five runs and say yeah we're good,
Yeah we're okay, We're okay.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
That's not getting him right.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
This is when this is when we didn't we we
had a lead big enough that you couldn't blow it.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
You repellus. You bring in your training wheels with that guy.
You bring in your bulk relievers and there and the Hey,
all right, we're fine, give up three, We're all good.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I'll give him some virtual reality goggles and have him
out pitching the tunnel, coming out to them. Blake Snell,
will will body slam the guy if they try to
bring in someone like that.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Come on, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
This is You saw him staring down Dave Roberts. There's
no chance at hell he's looking out to that panic. No,
that guy's not coming in on my No, you don't
bring him in down. I nod to you. When I'm
ready to come out of this game.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I have an approved list of guys who can believe
me in this game.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
As crazy as it sounds, I want entertainment. This is
I love the score, but this isn't entertaining. Bringing Tannery,
bring Tanner's right away, Bringing Tanner Scott, bring him in
right away.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
That I'm not entertained. My team's winning eight to nothing.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Something you would never know. No, No, my.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Team's not gonna spend four million dollars. It's not gonna happen,
nor norm make the play over a decade. It's a
tough things. It's a tough thing. It's tough for I know,
four hundred million a deck o. No, I did get
there to play, Mike, You'll get there to deck. It's
another team that's almost that and didn't make the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
That's very yeah, yeah, very nice, you know for us.
I'm trying to be nice to you tonight.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Man.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Come on, dude, just just just actually agreed that bringing
Tanner Scott. How are you being nice?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Heye?
Speaker 4 (03:20):
You?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
What's your idea? You agreed to do it? What kind
of funn it was? You?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Sometimes you have to tell your friends it's a terrible idea,
right when when they're dating the wrong person, when they're
making a bad financial decision, when they're getting the extra
round of shots at one in the morning, and you've
been tailgating since long before the first game started, all
of those things, you have to say, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
We can't do this, my friend, we can't do this.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
But instead, what did he do, Mike? He said, yeah, Well, I.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Think for the purpose of the show of something going
off the rails, I don't think it's a terrible idea
in terms of the baseball strategy.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
No, no, no, bad, bad, terrible idea.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Now, speaking on speaking of baseball right to get to
this again. Dodgers up eight to one in the eight
one now, top of the seventh inning. They nearly got
out of the ending with a double play. Uh but
de la Cruz beats it out to first base. So
eight one, two outs, Dodgers lead in the top of
the sea. That's a professional still hustling nothing. Yeah, Johnny hustle,
(04:18):
Johnny Hussell, think you can bring Tanner Scott in. It's
only seven run lead. Oh yeah, this might be safe.
Eight was okay, but seven yeah, margin changed. Yeah, it
disappears too fast that that would just go just right
where you Oh he got there. Yeah, okay, it looks
like he's there. De la Cruz is safe. So eight
one Dodgers lead the Reds. Uh seventh inning. Now, meanwhile, baseball,
(04:39):
we talked about this for a second. I know it's
been very difficult because they didn't win a game the
last three months of the season. But after today, you
got a reminder why the Tigers are the most dangerous
team in the postseason in baseball. In baseball, yes, you
(04:59):
get the flips. Everything starts over again. Now, Okay, all
this awfulness that we've had, we get the team that
caught us in the standings. Yes, we got to go
on the road, made it difficult for ourselves. But the
Tigers today reminded you why they are the most dangerous
team in the playoffs and they're the team I don't
want to play out of anybody because this Tigers team
(05:21):
during the season, they overachieved during during the first part
of the season when they were had the best record
in baseball, everything went right from It's like the same thing.
Tigers and the Mets were the same thing. Everything went
right for both of those teams. The wheels fell off
for the Mets, they fell off for the Tigers, but
they were able to keep the wheels on a little
bit longer than the Mets are just this Tigers team
is not a great team. It's not a team that
(05:43):
stands out and go wow, look at them, look at
their lineup, look at their pitching, look at their bullpen,
all of these things. The Tigers are a team that
is made for the playoffs. And that's the thing about
Detroit and this is why they're the most dangerous team
because you get into a playoff series and suddenly, we'll
wait a minute, they play. They have the biggest ace
in the game. They play defense good enough to get
(06:04):
a win. Right, Their defensive metrics are right, you know,
in the top half a major league base'm not going
to cost themselves. But this is a team that's made
for the players. They're not made for the regular season. Right.
You need to mash, You need to put up numbers,
need to be able to put up bigger performances to
be able to be a team that dominates all the
way through. That's not this Tigers team. He saw him
last year in the playoffs. Boy, the total they're making
(06:26):
is a million dollars, all twenty four guys of the team,
and not even make it a million dollars. Right, But
that's the Tigers, Right. You got guys like Spencer Torkelsen
hit and clean up for you. But when you get
to the playoffs and runs are at a premium and
suddenly being able to execute and play fundamental becomes a
much bigger deal. This is who the Tigers are. This
is what they do and when you can try it out.
Tarik Skoobel, who today again was throwing one hundred miles
(06:48):
an hour in the seventh inning, didn't matter how many
pitches he threw. Fourteen strikeouts. He said, I emptied the
tank in the last inning, and then they said we
need you one more inning, okay, And he goes one
more inning and all of a sudden, look at what's happening.
Now he's able to go one more and have enough,
turn it over to the bullpen. They close it out.
They win this game to one. They go for the
closer tomorrow. The Tigers are the most dangerous team in
(07:11):
the playoffs because when the playoffs, they are built for
much more for the plays are for the regular.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Well, vest gets the one and a third innings to
close it out, want to hit one strikeout. But Scuber
was fantastic. One hundred and seven pitches the fourteen k's.
That was just a fun little chess match between he
and Williams. Tough end for him, could only go six
eighty eight pitches before he seeded away. But you know,
it's just the margins, right, small ball fundamentals, all those
(07:39):
things that we talked about last World Series with the Yankees,
and certainly some shades of that over the course of
their season. Once again, as they're on the brink of elimination,
trying to stave off elimination tomorrow, all of that stuff.
But you got another guy in case he miyes fourteen
wins on the year but doesn't go deep into games.
So that's the bullpen is going to need to do
(08:03):
more work than what they got out of Schooll Today.
They're gonna be called upon early and often, I think
to three four innings for a game two. But yeah,
to your point, you had multiple guys that were thirty
home run guys that if you asked when you look
at Torcal Singer, you mentioned in Riley Green, great production
(08:25):
in the middle of the lineup, but guys that are afterthoughts.
I think in the larger national consciousness that they had
that good a season. And so now we look at
this battle. The funny thing of all these wild card
rounds becoming divisional battles, it's been kind of entertaining. It's like, hey,
I thought we got rid of you. Nope, we'll see
(08:46):
in the first round.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I really you know, you going back to the old
adage that hey, momentum is your next day starting pitcher, right,
and that's clearly what is with Tarik Schoubl. But when
you are made for the playoffs, this is great right now. Conversely,
the other hot take I got for you is you
look at a team like the Padres, Okay, with great bullpen.
I thought, hey, Padre is gonna show up. This is
(09:09):
gonna be a big upset. They're gonna wind up beating
the Cubs. And instead, what we saw today was the
reason why the Cubs are up one zip, going and
going in for the closer is because the Padres could
not manufacture enough runs. And this is the problem with
the Padres lineup. Right when I said, hey, best bullpen
in the game, it's gonna be great when they turn
over to their bullpen. But the thing about the Padres
is as good as no good, as good as their
(09:33):
offense is in the playoffs. You gotta be able to
hit home runs, and they don't hit home runs. They
were third from the bottom in home runs this year
in Major League Baseball. If you can't hit home runs,
you're not gonna be able to move on to the
play You gotta be there's good when you're squeezing the
sap out of your bat and the sawdust is out.
We need something, We need a big hit. You need
to be able to hit home runs. Cubs today two
home runs, right, Big home runs are getting especially Wrigley
(09:55):
Field with the wind blowing the way it is, you
gotta be able to hit home runs. And the Padres
are just not a big home run hitting team, and
that kills you in the playoffs, absolutely kills you.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Well, you're also leave a four runners on base, you get,
you get nobody on right. Great job by Boyd and
the relievers. They didn't exactly give themselves an opportunity to
even try to generate runs. Uh in this game, home
runs aside. Uh, the Cubs pitching staff absolutely.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Own this game.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Win blowing and we saw a couple of home runs
off the Cubs bats for Kelly and Suzuki. But you know,
for for the Padres, Yeah, it's in the margins and
has been this entire season. They're not running away and
hiding from anybody, and it's been the strength of that bullpen, right,
the antithesis of what they have from their division mates,
(10:46):
the Dodgers, all season long.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
But that's all Finn of good. All that was was
keeping it from getting any worse today.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I mean, really, it's it was It was a watching
that game was just you're seeing, hey, when when you
can't hit home run, sometimes you need an easy run right,
not that home runs are easy, but instead of saying, hey,
we got to get a run, we got to get
a runner on, We got to get them a second,
whether it's a stolen base or a bunt, we gotta
find some way to do it and manufacture run. Sometimes
(11:14):
you need those easy runs. So it's like getting needing
an easy bucket in the NBA, needing an easy drive
in the NFL, of hey, you know, we're five plays
down the field because we took advantage of a couple
of matchups. Sometimes you need those easy points to grease
your offense. And there's no easy runs for the Padres
because they don't hit home runs.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Well.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
To that end, you also need to draw a walk
they only had one. Then get them on, get them over,
get him in doesn't exist.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
If you can't get them on, you're not going to
get them over here, and you're not gonna get him
in the first ball swinging yeah and get nothing, I mean,
which is the story of what the Padres were today.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
And if you're you've got to be able to manufacture right.
It's a three outcome game, strikeouts, walks, and home runs
generally anyway, and if you're you're getting two of those nothing.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Uh so again that's what's called, you know, two big
hot takes from the playoffs today. And want to bring
this to you what's been What just happened between Vegas
and Indiana in the WNBA semis here again the winner
goes on to the finals, loser goes home. Indiana of
course playing without Caitlin Clark and now they're going to
likely navigate the rest of this game without Kelsey Mitchell.
(12:20):
And it was a really scary moment about five minutes ago.
Kelsey Mitchell was was trying to take the ball to
the hoop and she was coming off a pick that
was set and foul was called and she stops dribbling
with the whistle and she nothing happens like it doesn't
like there was any contact, doesn't look like anything happened.
She dribbled around the defender and it was the other
(12:42):
two players who got caught, and they blew the whistle
and she's standing in the lane and she's got the
ball in her hands. She takes it, starts trying to
take a couple of steps, and all of a sudden,
she can't really step and she went down on the floor.
They brought out towels right away to hold it over her.
We don't know what happened because we couldn't see. And again,
(13:03):
you know, teammates came out and medical personnel. Then they
brought out the stretcher right away. And this wasn't just
this is a stretcher like with all kinds of this
is like a souped up stretcher. This wasn't just, hey,
here's something to get you off the court. This isn't
a souped up stretcher. And you couldn't really see what
was going on. Luckily she was able to leave the court,
(13:23):
not on the stretcher. She was helped off by two
Indiana fever personnel. Don't have any any indication on what
went wrong, but clearly she just dribbled around and stopped
and all of a sudden looked like she was having
trouble putting weight on one of her legs and went
down again. I'm just judging by what we saw over
the course of the past couple of minutes. We'll have
an update for you as it comes in. But Vegas,
(13:46):
you know, has taken this last run here these last
few minutes ago on a little run to go to
the fourth quarter, with a six point lead, where Asia
Wilson in the ACE is looking to get back to
the WNBA finals again just a you know, a season
for the Fever, which you know, this would be the
chair on top of the Sunday for them, No Caitlin Clark,
but still here they are one game away from the finals.
Another player with an MVP type season in Kelsey Mitchell
(14:08):
who's had a phenomenal year, and to leave the game
this way at this point, not knowing what happened with
a scary injury like you're the Fever, you go, man,
you know, boy, it's glass half empty, glass half full
season for them.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
No, that's it, right, is coming into the year, all
the great expectations, you made some changes, right, new coach,
new new attitude, all of that, changing out a lot
of your personnel and players thinking it was gonna go
through and instead you've had injury after injury and now
this one at a pivotal time when you'd fought back
from a bigger deficit to make it a game late
(14:42):
in the third and now just a waiting word as
to the severity of the injury. This at the end
of the day, which we talked about now we're one
where you have Nafisa Collier lighting up the heads of
the sport. Not that the two are related because this
wasn't a contact, dirty play, any of that kind of stuff,
but it's still just coming off of those conversations about
(15:05):
the league and their care for players, et cetera. Probably
about as bad a timing as you can have.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Exit ou about a Fresca exit swollen dome.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Again.
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Speaker 1 (16:37):
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(17:02):
Dodgers lead the Reds ten to two as the Red's
bat in the top of the eighth inning. So, uh,
Alex Vesia in for the Dodgers, Blake Snells, night is complete?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
You see that piece?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah? I think so well. I think you had an
eight run lead. Yeah, take me out. I'm good, I'm good.
I don't not need to go anymore. I'm okay.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
I really that's very trusting of the bullpeny. I have
the eyes, I have full faith in you. I have
this Fortnite twitch stream thing I have going on site
so that if I can leave a little bit early tonight,
that'd be great. So on, get there for the start,
go back.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
In the locker room. And he just had a video
game council.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Almost going on in that Why is that door closed?
All the interviews like he's just playing with the headset
on while they're asking if they stick the mics and
we'll asking him questions. Blake, how do you think you
did tonight? Uh? Good? Yeah, I had it working. So
things are good tonight. All right, twelve o'clock, twelve o'clock
look out, Thanks Blake, appreciated. I didn't sweat once tonight. No, yeah, no,
(18:01):
Frostburg did not sweat Blake Snell. What look, I told
you Blake Snell, Blake's but I told you last week, man,
Blake Snell is your guy. You won him. The Mets
were gonna make it low. You won him. No, I didn't.
I told you it was gonna be over and they
were gonna break my heart. I that I was right
about him. No, that was that was when you were lying.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
That was that was like.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Uh, but Blake Snell is a guy that's got to
pitch the most for the Dodgers of any starting pitcher
in the series.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Like he is.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
He has built for the playoffs. He has built to
have this type of responsibility. I'm glad they gave him
the ball for Game one and now looks like he'll
be ready for the next round as well. Uh, as
long as the Dodgers, you know, take care of business
here in the next game against the Reds.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Look at the last five starts you include this one.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
You had in a rough go against the Pirates going
back to being in September five five innings and five
earned runs, but since then six scoreless innings against the
Rock He's seven scoreless against the Phillies, one run in
six against the Diamondbacks. Uh, and then a game Uh
you look at this game against the Reds goes seven,
(19:06):
so I mean it's just been a fantastic run for
him as they look to close it out, only another
six outs that's it.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Well and more in this game coming up again. You
have your big, big first day in Major League bass.
Mary left because she knew it was over, but big
news in the NFL, A quarterback change is here. Yeah,
And I feel good because I feel like I feel
like the bad guy in the movie, Like you know
in movies when when things always gone Vincent Price, Yeah, no,
(19:42):
I feel like.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
You're you're almost in the rain there too, like you're
you're something like you're not high enough in the register.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
But you got the same cadence.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
In the movies where the bad guy wins a lot
in the beginning, right, like the bat went like, okay,
he wins a lot, man, he wins a lot, and
he walks around saying, yeah, so far my evil plan
is going according to every single detail I had out there, right,
think like like Timothy Oliphant in The Die Hard was
a Diehard five, die Hard four, which the Diehard he
(20:15):
was in.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
It's a good question.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Die Diard four the one where I conflate them, but
justin Long. Yeah, but that was a good one though.
That was Maggie Q.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Was Long started showing up in schlocky horror.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
No, no, no, no, he did Jeepers, Creepers and then
he did this. No, it's not okay. So Diehard one,
Diehard two was Dulles. Dieard three with Sam Jackson was
die Hard for the one with die Hard. Yeah, that's it, right,
we had it four, okay, Diard four Diary this way.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Because two thousand and seven.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, everything going according to plan for Timothy Olifant,
right and we got it. We're all going good right
near Cliff Curtis gets involved, all yeah, everything is going great.
I feel that way right now with my Browns will
start five guys at quarterback this season. Bold prediction I
gave you in the preseason because Dylan Gabriel. According to
(21:05):
many sources, we'll start at quarterback for the Cleveland Browns
this week, replacing Joe Flacco. Now this game is not
in the United States, so okay, well we're gonna do this.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
We're gonna do it. Do it outside the United States. Yeah,
we're doing outside the United Door. Should Dad again, Schadere
is next, shoud Door will be next. But Dylan Gabriel
is here.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And as I told you, hey, Flaco, the first three
or four games, they started out oh and three to
oho to four. Then they make the change the next quarterback.
Now I did say it first was gonna be Kenny Pickett,
but then they traded Kenny Picketts. I said, okay, everybody
then moves up one. So with Kenny Pickett gone, Gabriel
moves up to be the next guy. Then after that'll
be Shador Sanders, and then it's gonna be whoever they
wind up bringing back off their roster at some point,
(21:51):
you know, fourth and fifth, the Als, five guys. Everything
is accorded, going go according to plan. Mike Harmon, I
got Flaco through the first month. I said October first,
it's gonna be Dylan Gabriel. And here comes Dylan Gabriel
to start for the Browns.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I'd be curious if they'd actually won that game.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Going back to the opener, you know with the kickers
against the Bengals, if they were two and two.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Would they be making the change.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yes, they've gotten thumped twice. Yes, they've gotten.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Worked pretty hard two of those games, one of which
was also a lot on the offense and their failures
and down distance, et cetera. But they got absolutely run
over by Detroit this week. And it really wasn't even
David Montgomery, who would definitely be doing the running over
more and more Jamiir Gibbs and the excellence of execution.
(22:39):
So you make the change here. Look, a lot of
Shador Sanders talk over the course of the week, Pops
and chimed in about the draft and everything. So that's swirling,
and then Shador saying he's better than a lot of quarterbacks.
Might as well just put it. Put Joe Flacco's name
out of mouth at that point. Oh sure, I'm better
than that guy. Yeah's old and he's running scared.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
He anymore. He was once elite. Now he's just a guy.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
So yeah, for Dylan Gabriel, like they'll run him as
long as is it looks moderately efficient, Like there's no
rush to the lineup.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
No, no, because now that they made the change, the
two guys you have to see this year now at
this point, you would think and if you don't, you
know that they they you can get to conspiracy theory
that the Browns took him in the fifth round just
a bench him so we didn't play. Uh, the only
two guys you really have to see. Now you gotta
see Gabriel for a few weeks and you got to
see you again.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I gotta say that's that he's he's really got to
be coached up this week. And I'm talking about Shuduurh
Sanders uh because it's a Brian floor has defense coming
at you overseas. So Dylan Gabriel is gonna see some
things he's never seen before. And that guy's played a
lot of football.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
So on this report, Yahoo, ESPN Cleveland, Mary kay Cabot,
longtime Brown's insider. Now here's the thing you mean the comedian,
Uh yeah, yeah, the comedian. Uh, she's gonna be hosting
the Emmys next year. Gabriel be the quarterback however long
he is the quarterback, as you said, Joe Flacco has done.
(24:08):
Unless something happens to guys that they're going to play
at some point in the next few weeks. Because like
I said, you have to see Dylan Gabriel. You have
to see Shador Sanders. I don't think you can say, Okay,
here's Gabriel if he's not if he's not any good,
we'll go back to Joe Flacco. No, they need to
see Shador Sanders. And why wouldn't you right at this point,
(24:28):
this is the season you're in, right, I mean, I
told you should have traded for a quarterback. Your defense
is good enough, go out and get a quarterback. But
this is the way they want to go. Whatever they're
tanking for for next year, but it needs to be
Gabriel for And if Gabriel's great, okay, keeps the job right,
it keeps Alliver. But if Gabriel falters, you kind of
have to go to Shador Sanders or there will be
a revolt by Browns fans. And you need to see
(24:50):
him at least a little bit to know that, Okay,
this guy we took. You understood drafting him. You were
gonna have to play him at some point if they
don't play him again. I can get on board with
that conspiracy theory of Hey, the NFL doesn't want sha
Door Sanders to play. They don't like him, they don't
like Dion so the Browns took him as a favor
and they're gonna bury him on the death chart. But
I gotta think the brown I mean, the Browns are
(25:11):
gonna try to do whatever they can just stay out
a last place. But knowing that this is this is
your situation, Gabriel, I'm sure is gonna get at least
five weeks, right. I'm sure he's gonna get to at
least just past the midway part of the season. Even
if he's not good. Things have to get really really desperate,
really really bad where the Browns are non competitive to
(25:32):
get to Shador Sanders. But I also don't see Dylan
Gabriel having that kind of an impact where all of
a sudden he's got to keep the job all the
way through the end of the season. So yeah, I
feel better than ever that it's gonna go Gabriel to
Shador Sanders. And then where do you go, right, because
are you driving a mystery quarterback Brown's gonna give him
that job or wor they go back to somebody else Again,
(25:52):
my five guys prediction looks pretty good right now, but
it's gotta go Gabriel to Chador at some point midway
part of the seat.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
It's curiosity, right. Go back to the offseason when Miles
Garrett was I want to be traded, and then they
paid a lot of money. We're gonna win a super Bowl. Okay, cool?
How does he feel now after four weeks you go
to the rookies. Now Joe Flacco's off to the side
for the moment, and you're you're sitting here at one
(26:20):
in three. He gave away a game back in Week
one against the division rival, and now you're just playing
out the string after four weeks. That's kind of where
you're at at this point already. Well, this is where
you can come back with it. But I'm rich as blank,
you know. But you got Minnesota Pittsburgh, then you got Miami,
(26:40):
New England bye week before they're on the road at
the Jets. But all of that to say, the offense,
you got a pretty good running back in Judkins. He's
looked pretty good since he's joined the squad. So perhaps
you can get into a little bit of a play
action scenario and find you just lost Tilman for a
couple of weeks, so that certainly doesn't help you. But
(27:01):
you got a couple of tight ends on the roster.
You look at Jerry Judy, perhaps you can start pulling
the strings a little bit, get to a timing offense
that that works a bit, But it's it's just for
your point and to tie to the Miles Garrett the preseason, like,
all right, have we already thrown the towel on this?
(27:22):
Because for Shudor Sanders, I can only go so far
with the conspiracy theory. Part of it is he just
may not be a guy that's showing you what you
need at practices because you gotta throw him out just beforeah.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
But but that's the thing about a quarterback. You don't
really know until you see him play. And if you're
one to ten, you're gonna go to him, right You
got to, because what if he's great all of a sudden,
WHOA said? You don't know? I get that he delivers
the ball a little late. I get that he's not
quite there, But you really don't know about a quarterback
until you see him on the field.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I would just love the honest moment with the teammates
that are working with him.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
It's like, yeah, but I think there's some team. I
think there's he's probably got some some people on the
team that want to see him play. Curious, let's say, hey, sure,
not not right now, but at some point this season
he has to start a game. When Dion said, we'll
start to get yeah, I mean again five quarterback guys. Yeah,
I've got exactly he's gonna start, and he really has
to because after this year, you're gonna turn the page
(28:20):
on this quarterback situation. Likely you're gonna draft Lenora Sellers.
You're gonna draft Carson Beck, You're gonna draft Arch Manning,
You're gonna draft somebody right right, well, you never know.
I mean, he may be great the last six weeks
and say I want to be done, but you're gonna
get another quarterback, right you did this whatever you did
in the draft this year, which was ridiculous, but you're
(28:42):
gonna move on. You need to see Schador Sanders go okay,
is everybody good? Everybody good? So we can move on.
Because outside of that, then he hangs over the franchise
of why did we draft this guy? With all the
talent everything going on. There's no there's no reason why
we drafted him in the fifth round unless we thought
he was going to play right, there was no reason
to draft him at that point because you had your
court right, you had Flaco drafted Dylan Gabriel in the
(29:05):
third round. Obviously, drafting a guy in the third round
you think maybe he can start at some point, But
then why do you draft a guy in the fifth
round unless you think at some point he can start
for us? And you know, again, a quarterback, you just
never know until they get out on the field. You
have no idea. So he's gonna play at some pointment
We're gonna get multiple starts from Shador Standers at some
point this season. It's just not gonna be for a
(29:25):
little bit because clearly Dylan Gabriel will get a lot
of run, He'll get a lot of a lot of
chances to show if he can do it, can't do it,
Like this is not gonna be immediate unless something happens
to Dylan Gabriel, uh, and then maybe they go back
to Flacco in the short term and then it's Shad
door standers. But if Dylan Gabriel is healthy and playing,
he's gonna get a while. Like this Sanders thing is like, okay,
(29:45):
he moves up next, but it's still gonna be a
few weeks before it happens.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Week five of the NFL season. That's the most Cleveland
Browns talk. You're gonna get here.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Well guys, man, five
guys are gonna start. No Red, It's right. Had Flaco
till October. Flacco did even make it to October. October's tomorrow.
He didn't even make it to.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Tomorrow, and even get through out of technicality, I made it.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
I made it by a day and a whole day
to scamn offstare on this all right, August first, what
are we doing? Hey there? He is okay, great, We're
good to go. We got we got Dylan Gabriel in there.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
What a mess?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Yeah, I mean really uh and good luck right because
you just you know, you saw it. The Vikings defense
did a couple of weeks ago to to a quarterback
who hadn't played in a while. We're gonna throw him
in there. Good luck, good luck.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
I mean he's helped by the fact that the Cleveland
defense should be able to give him decent field position
a bit because you've got a lot of injuries going
on in Minnesota as well.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Do you think in fantasy right now, I could trade
the Vikings defense for Josh Allen. Do you think there's
Do you think you're gonna get more points in me
than I am with Josh Allen?
Speaker 3 (30:57):
I gotta I gotta look up with the projections, the
Vikings defense may be projected to have more points than
anybody in the NFL. That could be the case. We're
gonna take a look at that. Oh, Tim, how to
find out what's trending in the wide get there the
top defense on the the top player, over.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
The projections.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Let's find out what's trending from special delivery Steve de Seger,
Steve O, what do you got for us?
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Well, it's a good thing the Dodgers have a large
league because now the bullpen is in play. Yeah, it's
Dodgers ten to two over the Cincinnati Reds and their
wild card opener. Top of the eighth inning, one out,
bases loaded for the Reds. A superb start for LA's
Blake Snell, nine strikeouts in seven innings, ninety one pitches thrown.
Show Heyo Tani with two home runs, including a leadoff
(31:44):
shot tonight, And that was a shot. They've had stat
cast for how many miles an hour off the bat
for the past decade This is by far the hardest
hit home run off a hundred mile an hour pitch
that anybody's had in the last decade. Previous hearted heart
hit off that kind of pitch was one hundred and
thirteen point seven miles an hour. Tonight, Otani won seventeen
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point seven miles an hour the Dodger bullpen. Wow, not good.
This was the perfect spot for ten Or Scott, was
it not? Instead they bring in Alex Fasia. Twenty two pitches,
one out, no, and now they're bringing in Edgardo Enriquez.
See if they can finish up there. Yoshinobu Yamamoto the
LA starter for Game two against Zach Lttel. If a
(32:28):
game three is necessary on Thursday show, Hey Otani could start.
The Cubs are up one game to none and the
best of three after beating the Padres three to one.
The lost in Nick Pavetta, who did have nine strikeouts
in five innings, but the Cubs hit back to back
homers in the fifth from Seya Suzuki and Carson Kelly,
hitting into the wind at Wrigley. Suzuki has homered in
(32:48):
five straight games.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Now.
Speaker 6 (32:50):
The Padres offense got back to back doubles in the
second inning, then went two for twenty five the rest
of the game. Boston beat the Yankees three to one
in New York tonight, the Red Sox took the lead
in the seventh on a two run pinch single by
Masataka Yoshita. More on him in a moment. Garrett Crochet
the star on the mound, eleven strikeouts, no walks in
his seven and two third innings. He threw one hundred
(33:13):
and seventeen pitches. The last guy in the postseason to
throw one seventeen or more was Steven Strasburg in twenty nineteen.
The last Red Sox pitch. I think that was the
last pitch he threw in his career. Yeah, and he
was done and his arm fell off. The last Red
Sox pitcher to throw more than that in the postseason
Pedro Martinez in the ill fated Game seven against the
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Yankees over twenty years ago. Well, the Red Sox in
the regular season when they were leading going to the
eighth inning seventy one to four. They eventually closed this out.
It was interesting the Yikes did that Basis loaded no
out's bottom of the ninth against Eraaldus Chapman but then
he got strikeout, flyout, strikeout to end it, and Yoshida,
as the pinch hitter, on the first pitch he ever
(33:56):
sees in his MLB postseason career, he gets the go
ahead team hit with his team having trailed. That's not
happened before in Major League Baseball, and yet again we
see the Yankees bullpen in action. Luke Weaver takes the loss,
ruining a great start for Max Freed. Since July first,
the Yankee bullpen has the worst ERA in the majors
(34:18):
well over five. Detroit started the day with a two
to one win at Cleveland. Detroit scored two unearned runs.
Cleveland's offense went four for thirty fifteen strikeouts, a lot
of that by Trek Scoobl, the winning pitcher. Cleveland barely
got the ball out of the infield. Angels manager Ron
Washington will not return next season. The Halos are now
looking for their sixth manager in the last nine years.
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Cardinals manager Olie marmaul will return. The sale of the
Tampa Bay Rays was finalized. The Minnesota Wild signed left
winger Careel Caprisov to a record eight year extension worth
one hundred and thirty six million dollars, and we're about
to decide who's going to the WNBA Finals. It's Game
five of the best of five semis Indian at Las Vegas,
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tied at eighty four under thirty seconds to go, and
as you mentioned, Kelsey Mitchell of the Indiana Fever left
with a kind of scary looking either knee or quad entry.
She said no to the stretcher and was able to
limp off with help. She's not returning tonight to say
the lease back to you.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Thank you, Steve. Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon. We have controversy near the end of game
five between the Aces and the Fever. It's tied at
eighty four a piece with twenty six seconds left to go.
We have more on this end. You're not gonna believe
what one NFL head coach said about the tush push
(35:39):
going into this weekend. That's next right here, Jason and
Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. Uh Dodd, your bullpen getting involved in
this game, and I mean involved all of a sudden.
A ten to two Dodger lead has turned into a
ten to five Dodger lead over the Reds. Top of
the eighth inning. The Reds have the bases loaded and
(36:15):
one out. They have been rallying off the Dodgers' bullpen.
Fifty pitches now from the Dodger bullpen, and the Reds
are right back in or on the cusp of getting
right back in. This one hit would do it again.
Bases loaded, one out, now a ten to five game.
This is the top eighth inning. Tanner Scott is not
(36:35):
pitching this game so far. Now Yees not pitched, not yet.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Too two count Stevenson fights one off, one out, and
Dryer on the mound.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Man, I'll tell you this is high drama.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
They just did about a three minute montage of fans
with their hands over their their heads, going, my god,
what am I watching?
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Fred Ryer? It is fred Ryer at TJ. Clearly he's
the hunter in this situation. TJ. Meanwhile, talk about high drama.
Game five of the WNBA Semis between the Aces and
the Fever is going to overtime. Ju Lloyd misses a
tip shot. At the end, Jackie Young missed a layup
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and all of a sudden we go to overtime. The
Fever without Caitlin Clark, without Kelsey Mitchell could pull off
this monumental upset. But I'll tell you this, You and
I talked about it a few minutes ago. The number
of bunnies, the number of layups that are missed in
WNBA games is absolutely staggering.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
We had the easy space created and.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Just missed it too hard off the glass, missing off
the glass. So again, we'll have more on both of
these games coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
But because that's the other thing they need to fix
in THEABA, yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Yeah, fix that too. But earlier today NFL, we got
a great quote from Broncos head coach Sean Payton as
the Broncos getting set to face the Eagles this weekend,
and of course he's going to get asked about the
toush push, and Sean Payton says, I love the touch push.
Wait what here he was earlier today?
Speaker 5 (38:08):
Yeah, listen, I was one that stood up in favor
of the reason I stood up in favor of is
is pretty simple. If if the powers to be don't
want it for aesthetic reasons or competitive reason, you know,
or it's hard to officiate, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
But I've been.
Speaker 5 (38:31):
Involved in those meetings for a long time, and when
all of a sudden, health and safety was pulled into
that which which might be the safest playing football, there.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
It was it might be the safest play in football. Right. So,
Sean Payton a big proponent of the Toush push.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
I wanted to see what the next sentence was because
I've got the transcript to see if it was bleeded out.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Its So but here's the here's the big part of
this thing with Sean Payton the Toush push, is that
the Eagles did the best thing they possibly could do
this past weekend. Right, line up for the Toush push
a couple of times and run a misdirection play off it. Right,
you had a pitch play, You had a play where
they went outside and they didn't run the Toush push.
(39:14):
They lined up for it and they didn't run it. Now,
look it's a fade a complete. They're gonna push the narrative,
the Tush push haters are gonna push a narrative. Hey,
you can't officiate the play. You see what the officials say.
It'll get banned in the offseason. But the Eagles aren't
gonna go gently into that good night, and they shouldn't
by by running plays. By lining up and not running it,
(39:34):
this potentially could extend the life of the tush which
we don't always have to run it they line up like,
which is probably something they should have done earlier. But
now they do this. Now teams are gonna say, maybe
this play becomes more unsompable because they did it twice
last week resulted in two touchdowns. Right, Like, the Eagles
have now taken this situation and amped it up a level.
Smartest thing they could have done is doing the misdirection
(39:56):
plays this past weekend for touchdown.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
I hope it doesn't get out lawed, Like I know
we talked about it when Dean Blandino chimed in and
talked about officiating it. And certainly, you know, we can
always do the well you get the ISO and the
overhead camera look at this guy's off to the race,
and we could do that with every snap, right, we
could call holding on every play, like, there's so much
we can do so to isolate this and the fact
(40:18):
that they've run it so often and so effectively, I
get the angst of it. But those two plays, yeah,
oh that was fun, smartest, a great theater to be like,
oh what now? Side show ba My favorite, my favorite
part of the week was them doing that because that hey,
we want to try to keep doing this.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
This is what we're gonna do. That was so smart.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Surprise Sirianni and don't go find a camera?
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Yeah, how do you like that exit out? About a
Fresco exit swollen dome. The latest drama from the MLB
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