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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Hello, Welcome in Side hour two The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon, where we now have
three of the four teams in the league Championship Series.
The Dodgers shut out the Padres two nothing. The National
League is all set just as we all thought beginning
of the year. Mets and the Dodgers. Yeah, Game one
Sunday night in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, we'll be waiting with
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baited Bretze if Tarik School's got enough tomorrow to put
the Detroit Tigers in the ALCS against the Yankees. But
joining us now on the hot line to take a
look back and what we saw, what we are going
to see. MLB Network Insider extraordinary. You can follow him
on Twitter at John Morosi. It is John Paul Morosi.
John Paul, Well, hey, just like I told you the
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beginning of the year, Hey, Mets, Dodgers NLCS, John Paul,
you had to have faith in me.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I told you that shades of nineteen eighty eight. My friend,
it is a bit of a surprise. But we've got
the two largest cities in the United States, have Themes
now battling for the National League tenant. This is going
to be fun, and certainly the Dodgers enter as the favorites.
We would say, but as you well know, when you
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consider the Mets rotation, a lot of left handed pitching
there that will potentially be able to neutralize the Dodgers
left handed bats. So I do think, Jason, the Mets
are the team that has consistently defied all the prognostications.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
And so why stop now now before we get to that,
let's go back before we go forward, because he got it.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
We gotta be fair here. Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
This was a different Padre team from Game three. This
I mean, John Paul. The Dodgers used thirteen pitchers in
the last two games, and the Padres could not one
guy was having a bad night. This was not the swagger,
emotion filled team that put the Dodgers to the brink.
It's like they were replaced by imposters the last two games.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah, I think it's It's a great point, and I
think there was a little bit of both in terms
of the Dodgers pitching being really good. Just watching the
stuff tonight, I don't know that anybody was gonna hit
Phillips's sweeper and that was just such an an elite pitch,
and Copex stuff was electric, and Trina was electric, Vesia
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was before he left the game. Yamamoto I thought had
really good command. I did the Dodgers pitch really well?
Did the Padres lose their edge? Did they get a
little bit too swept up in some of the drama
of the series. Maybe, you know, maybe in Game four,
after the emotion of Game three, they weren't quite as
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dialed in, and that was an opener situation obviously for
the Dodgers. But I think Game five, the story was
the Dodger pitching and then the offense was two solo homers.
It was a pretty straightforward story. Fernandez Homer, Bernandez Homer
dominant Dodger pitching. I think once once Yamamoto was dialed in,
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today it seemed like the padress didn't have an answer.
And I think Tom Berducci's point in the broadcast was
excellent that the top players in the podres were facing
different looks almost every time in the batter's box, and
they just never seem to get comfortable.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Yeah, you heard Jackson Merrill and others address it, you know,
talking about how it was driving them nuts. So Dave
Roberts pulling the strings like a master puppeteer, JP going
going forward. I mean, you're now onto this next round.
How much can you coax out of Flarity and the
other starters? I mean, can you do this for another series?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
No, you can't know the Mets in four? No, it
can't do it.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Well, there you go, and that and that's the interesting
thing here you and and it's it's so interesting, guys
that it's putting our collective baseball wisdom to the test
about about the notion of having starting pitching and how
important it is.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Listen, I do think this that that.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
At some point, if they're going to win the World Series,
you need guys that you can count on at least
every third game at the very minimum, to give you
something resembling a quality five or six innings. I know
that sounds like it's a it's a bare minimum request,
but like the median start in this postseason, if you
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line up all the starts. When I checked this last
night before a broadcast in Kansas City was four and
two thirds innings. Four and two thirds is the median
start right now, which tells you that that's that basically
half of the game is the bullpen game on average,
and I think that, you know, you could probably get
by a shorter series and win a five game series
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that way. The jury is definitely out. And if you
can win a seven game series. You go back ten
years ago, the Giants won the World Series because of
Bumgarner and he was starting, Yeah, he started twice, then
he came out of the pen. But the important thing
there was those two starts were unbelievable and he was
throwing a ton of innings and that allowed the rest
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of the staff to kind of fill in. And that,
I believe is what's going to have to happen eventually
from the Los Angeles Dodgerson, and they're going to be
in a tough fight. I think anybody in LA who's
expecting the Mets are just going to roll over and
be an easy out. I just I don't see it,
because I think the Mets have more length right now
and they're starting rotation.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
All right, Hang, let me tweet this out. John Paul
Morosi agrees with me. Mets in four Oh, whoa, whoa,
there we go.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I'm not those of my life's words, and that's why
I took away from that. I be I've been this
quarter worse than that before.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Letter and spirit of the Law JP.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
As we go, John Paul Morosi, our guest, joins us
talking all things Major League Baseball as we get ready
for the league Championship series. We still need one more
participant JP. Those upstart Tigers, They've got their guys. Scoobll
he's ready to go. Can he get the job done
in Game five?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I think he will? And first of all, it is amazing.
And as we pause for a moment here, two of
the last five remaining teams in baseball as of right
now are the Mets and the Tigers. And we would
not have expected that. Even the most optimistic Mets fan
would probably not have expected that in August, maybe September,
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maybe not even October third, But here we are and
I think that with Scooble. Here's the thing, he's between
the two starters in this game tomorrow, he's got the
best chance to go deep. Now, who knows it all unfolds,
but he when you look at the way that Game
two unfolded, he took the team deep. He's gonna have
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to be great. I really think that that's the case,
because when you look at the Tigers now, there's no
The decisive runs in Game two came, by the way
with Kerry Carpenter, and he might not be able to
play because of a hamstring injury, so it's a difficult
task unning for the Tigers offense. The Cleveland has the
deeper lineup in my opinion, and right now they seem
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to be hot based on how they played in Game four.
But Scooble is the best. And this is one of
those legacy starts the Tigers. They a decade ago they
made a habit of getting pushed to the brink in
a Game five and Justin Verlander would step in and win.
And it's really kind of now the same stage for
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a new generation and Derek Scouble, who's going to be
probably the unanimous Aosplanal Award winner, to see what he's
doing right now, and certainly what he did in Game
two and against Houston as well, really impressive.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Meanwhile, this is all to the Yankees advantage because no
matter what, whoever they faced would have had to really
expend a lot of resources to get to the Alcs,
and especially if it's the Tigers, that means Scooble probably
couldn't start until Game three.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
So certainly huge, huge positive vibes there for the New
York Yankees.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
All right, John Paul Lastley, look let me throw you this.
I'm watching Dave Roberts a full of all kinds of
smiles and excitement jumping on the Fox set to talk
about the NLDS. Maybe the best game he has managed
a game ago, going eight for eight, bringing guys in
from the bullpen. Did he save his job with this victory?
Moving on to the getting the Dodgers back to the
NLCS first time in three years.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Well, it shouldn't have gotten to this point in terms
of it. There should not be a question in my
mind that he's the best person for this job. But
I believe the answer to your question is yes, if
they had after all the ups and downs of the
first three games of the series. If they had gone
out there in Game four and lost six nothing, and
if San Diego had clinched in Game four and celebrated
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in San Diego and the Dodgers would have gone out
in four games, you might have seen a change. I
don't think it would have been justified in my opinion,
but you might have seen a change. And I was
saying earlier today that this game, it's not fair to
look at things this way, but this is pro sports,
and in some ways this game was going to be
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a referendum about the entire Dodger plan, the Dodger way
of how they developed their pitching, and who they'd gone after,
and how they've spent their money. They spent a billion
dollars or more than free agency this past winner. And
obviously Otani can't pitch yet, and glass now's hurt. Yamamoto
wasn't someone who was going ep in games, but then
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today he answered the bell. So I think just the
way the script went, it was a very affirming night
for Dave Roberts as the manager of the Dodgers. Don't
I don't see any credible way that they could replace
him at this point in time and say that in
any way, it's his fault or the old quote unquote,
we need a new voice. That's nonsense. I mean, they
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need a new plan of how to keep their pitchers healthy.
That's still the case now, It was the case twelve
hours ago, and it's still the case right now. Is
they've got to come up with a better plan. But
they at least have an NLCS in which to think
about plans, which is better than the alternative and better
than what San Diego's got because they were right there,
they had it, and you're and you're right. It seems
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like they were for whatever reason, whether it was their
own fault or the Dodgers very exacting pitching, they just
lost their momentum a little bit. And they've got a
long winter to think about it, and we'll see if
we'll see if they're going to be quite as aggressive
in spending this winner time. Of course, since the pasic
of Peter's side, there is just a it's a very
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difficult to end to a difficult year for the San
Diego podrace.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Well I'm gonna do this for you, John Paul's We
let you gonna do this because you so great every
year to continue to have these conversations with you. I
know you send notes that I send you to David Stearns,
your former roommate, who runs the Mets. I will send
a note to the Dodgers that the new team physician
needs to be your wife.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
So there you go. So you're gonna come out of
it and be the Dodgers team doctor. Will work.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I'm gonna tell you what I've learned something that basically
I don't I don't decide what kind of pizza we're
gonna get until I ask her opinion. Well, I'm gonna
have to. I appreciate the recommendation. I'm gonna ask her
opinion before I weigh in on that particular one. But nonetheless,
I appreciate your your faith and her abilities as a clinician.
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I appreciate that very much.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Thank you. He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is,
at John Morosi. I remember his pick Lion's twenty one fourteen.
This week, John Paul, we'll talk to you from the LCS.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Buddy, have fun, you gotta guys.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
And I'll say this, I am able to make my
own Lions predictions without first consulting her. But okay, okay,
but you'd probably say, John, you know, feel free at
some point time at a field goal, get really, get
really spicy and maybe have a thirty points instead of
twenty seven.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Get spicy and at a fight.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Here it is, let's spice it up on a Sunday,
let's go at anybody.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I don't talk different week chapionship, John, Paul, have fun, JP,
he goes best.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Look it's true, though, Jason.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
I mean, like JP echoed, when I've been saying all along,
I've been raising my hand for years, going what the
hell's going on in that trainer's room.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Well, look for a lot of teams, like the Mets
went through that for a while, the Yankees went that.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
It happens. Man, it's like, what happened? What go what's
going on? What's that?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
And eventually you have to fix it. And it's you know,
sometimes you're hiring a new team to a new.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Way to do things.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
You think of all the different variables that go into
a season and winning, and it's okay. When you see
all these pitchers getting hurt, it's not quite as simple
as oh, they're throwing too many innings. Well, okay, let's
take a look into this and see exactly what's happening.
What is the pitching plan for these guys? Does the
plan need to be moved? There need to be some
kind of change in their delivery because it's too much
pressure on something like and suddenly you have to change
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away you throw the ball, But I've been throwing the
ball at this for twenty five years.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Like there's so many things out there physically that you
have to worry about.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Not every year.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Okay, hey they're the Mets. Hey there guys getting hurt.
All right, great, that's it's kind of how it goes.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Yeah, we talked about all the different variables that go
in and each player, each picture different than the others.
And we'll have to make note though, you guys, you,
you and Frostburt now get to jaw on each other
for a full league championship series. My team one hundred
and twenty one losses.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Let's go the greatest and the pathetic now really quick.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
So I want to finish off John Pault with this
because we've talked about this about the Dave Robertson and
the job he has done. And he is on Fox
right now and he is jumping around like he's like
he was still playing like he like he tagged up
from Philly, he stole second, tagged up from third, and
scored the winning run to beat the Yankees back in
two thousand and four. He is absolutely going bananas and
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having fun on the set. He knows this is a
guy that saved his job that now, hey, we're back
in the NLCS for the first time in three years.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
We've overcome a lot. We're here.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I'm gonna manage this team again because I'm sorry. But
if they didn't get out of the first round after
spending a billion dollars, it would have been a new voice,
it would have been there needs to be somebody new
in the clubhouse because we're not getting back to where
we should be. And yes, every year the Dodgers think
World Series, they think top but getting to the NLCS, okay,
you know it's not a case of the Dodgers can't
win around in the playoffs. They can't get it done.
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And there needs to be a change of some kind
because you just watched the Dodgers with absolutely zero starting
pitching find a way to beat the Padres and go
onto the NLCS, but using a bullpen game in Game
four and every pitcher they put out there, Roberts making
the right moves all the way through. He goes thirteen
for thirteen with pitching decisions the last two games. This
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was some kind of gutted out mode and you no
longer have any.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Question that, Hey, the Dodgers still a lead. No, they
still are.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
They're here in the NLCS and win or lose, Dave
Roberts will still be the manager.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
King Kong ain't got what on me, because the other
thing you take away from this game is that you
did it with Yamamoto giving you five strong, all the
relievers as we talked about, but your guys at the
top of the order went one for ten, Otani, Betts,
and Freeman one for ten, and you walk away with
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the w to go face the Mets in the League
Championship Series.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Exit about a Fresca exit.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
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right after Game five ended. You have to hear what
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was said right at the conclusion of this game. You
that's you.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
You You're cool.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
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Speaker 1 (17:44):
It is the Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon. Happy Friday Night, Happy Friday for the Dodgers.
They will host to the National League Championship Series Game one.
In Game two as the Mets will come to town
Sunday night, Dodgers beat the Padres to nothing. And I'll
tell you know, Mike, this is the thing is that
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I have friends like I don't know if it's just
the incredible Hulk syndrome, but I have friends here in
LA that they're all Dodger fans. Have lived here and
lived here in La now for thirty years now. They're
all Dodger fans, and they're all, yeah, oh, hey, congratulations
to your mets. That's so great, and so hey, that's
so cool. I'm so happy for you. Oh that's great.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
And then the Dodgers win, and now my phone it's
like I I stole all their cars and I'm and
I'm sold them across the country and you blankeny blike
were coming for your sorry blankeny Blike your mascot looks
like a blank uh you know, male part of the anatomy.
I'm like, whoa what this? This is what they said,
like mild matter to hey, congratulate now, it's that's a
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bad thing.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
It's it's insane. That's what's going on right now. I
didn't know. I didn't know my friends.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Were capable of all of this. It's like, oh, all
right then wow. And and there's women.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Didn't ask the heart was the mascot of the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I mean like, and there's and most of them from women,
Like I'm like, well wait a minute here, hang on
a second, what have I done?
Speaker 4 (19:11):
What's going on?
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Well, I mean there's like a lot a lot of
past transgressions come come to come to light. You know,
maybe you taunted them a little bit after a playoff
failure in the past, and now they have an opportunity
to right those wrongs by vanquishing you.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Yes, Jason Smith stands for all that's wrong and I've
underachieved in my life.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
We beat the Mets, this will be worth it.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Well, you kept saying we we we, and all of
a sudden, well now they're coming for you.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Hey, the emotional effort I put into the Mets is
is second to nine. Well, I have not I have
no time for the silliness of the Jets and all
this quarterback. I'll but Monday Night, Monday's like the greatest
sports day of New York history. The Yankees play, the
Mets play, and then the Jets play on Monday Night football.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Yeah, no, that that'll be a h in New York. Man,
you want to talk about a century overload, Mike.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, but we promised you there is audio that you
app sent. We're gonna get to look. I said, upset
specials coming your way this hour in college football in
the NFL. But first, this is off the field. Following
the end of the game, right, Dodgers beat the Padres
two nothing, two swings, Key Key Hernandez home run to
Oscar Hernandez home run, though the Dodgers didn't need it.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Key Hernandez, the big hero.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Look, he's a guy that Dodgers, has been a Dodger
for a long time. Then he went and he played
with Boston for a bit, came back. He's one of
those beloved guys that was embraced when he came back.
And he picks up with the same kind of role
that he had a few years ago.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Hey, keep hearing it.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
He's gonna play a little bit and up suddenly he's
the fourth outfielder. He's playing in the infield. He's playing
three four days a week. Now, that's how it goes.
Everybody has a guy like that. But this is his
big shining moment, the big home run to sit there
at the Dodgers back into the NLCS. Here, he was
right off the field with Joe Davis uh following the game.
This is interview being beamed out on Fox Live Ballpark everywhere.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Take a listen, and you mentioned that you've.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
Been part of eight different postseasons. Here he says, what
is different about this particular team? Are we live? We're live?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
The fact that we don't.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
Thank you, Yeah, congratulated you again.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
The deflated look on his face after KEYK gave that
ans that's the end of this interview. That's the end.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
The fact or the fact that he says, are we live? Yes,
we're live. As soon as someone says are we live,
you gotta I gotta go. We gotta dump that because
we bleep that that went out live, like what he
said went out live over the air. His his his
bomb went out over the air. We bleeped it for
you because obviously you know you can't do that. But
when someone says, are we live? Get ready, guy's gonna curse.
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I don't know what he's gonna say, but he's gonna curse.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Get ready. Get that finger on the dumb man, come
on now. And it's like and he knew the interview
was over.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Okay, thank you, appreciate it, Thank you, thank you. What
makes this team different? Okay, thanks thanks guy, Thanks all right,
thank you. We'll be back after this. Go to commercial.
Go to commercial.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Isn't that normally where you would get the technical difficulties
screen with like the the guy, the drunk looking cameraman,
Oh no, no, you know, irapic that they would put up
or he looked like he'd gotten hit, so there were
stars above his head.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
It would know.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
It would go right to Joe Davis turned around, go well, guys,
we will and then you hear the boo and then
it's just the color bars and yeah, we'll be back
in a moment. We seem to have lost our signal.
Prank call, prank call. Well, you know, back when you
and I were growing up and before the big advent
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of cable, when network TV would just go off the
air at like two o'clock in the morning and it.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Would just start saying a national anthem and fate ed
we're done and there and there's no program.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
What do you mean, no program? Sorry, no program?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Nothing on TV until five o'clock in the morning, when
when the TV show started everything it would just be
star speckled bantnering good night, and it would be that
all the way through.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
That's what I thought. We're gonnat with key A Hernandez
right there. That's just wow. But I mean it might be.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
I don't know that I've seen a shorter interview in sports.
I mean once a little time. You can't say that
about Ken I don't know, you know, is stop you jerk?
Speaker 4 (23:28):
You know what I meant.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Yeah, no, I mean that that's as good as it gets.
I get you got time for one? Yeah, I'm ready,
let's go.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I should I should say, you know, not exactly what
he said, but I know there's people you know, obviously
you're gonna see. This is an incredible moment. And he's
laughing while he say it. Uh, key K said, you know,
are we live? And the question is what's different about
this team? And he says the fact that we don't
give a blank. That that's what he said. That that's
what that that the fact that we don't give a
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blank and then smiled and okay, thanks, all right, come bye,
good night.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
So there's his an everybody, I got champagne to taste. Now,
how do I how do I spend this? Hey? Hey,
here's why the Mets are gonna win.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Here's Key k Hernandez guy hit a home run, says
Dodgers don't care about playing.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
They don't care.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
They don't care where they're done, they're done, they don't
care about they don't care if they win. This is
a team that just doesn't care. They don't care that
I didn't for each other. They don't have the vibe
a Mets. They don't have Grimace, they don't have Hawk Toua,
they don't got any of this crap.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
They don't have OMG. Don't care.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
The leader don't got none of this. He just said,
we don't care. We don't care. This Dodgers team doe.
It's an embarrassment to Major League Baseball. Hey, that's how
you spend that nicely done. No, that is good.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
That'll that'll be the lead on all New York radio
and all pundits coming out of New York over the
next forty eight hours. But I mean, look to Key
k Hernandez's point, like, at some point, you can't live
off of, you know, the past, even if a lot
of the faces are the same, throwing up your hands
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like fans would, local pundits and scribes following this team.
I mean, how many articles you say, did you see
after Game two? Here we go again, right one after another,
Like all right, fine, jump if you want to jump.
I don't know what's going on in this series. It's
curiosity going forward, We're gonna see things. I mean, forget
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it and not even talking about how it ended, just
saying we knew it was going to be a different
series based on what the pitching situation was so what
does that leot lend to chaos potentially, and instead going
on to meet the Mets and Keik Hernandez saying, eh,
we don't give a blank.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
It was a forty second interview. It was forty second.
That's good and man, it's making the most of your
forty seconds. I got a minute for you. Ken. Are
we live? Like? What may you hear the thing? At
what moment? Ever?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Are are people doing interviews and they're not live anymore?
Like you really think Ken Ken Rosenthal? Like, but Ken
Rosenthal on the field is not taping an interview there? Yeah,
of course we're live. Our fuck coverage just going on
right now.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Okay, yeah, you can't only have talked to KEYK though.
All right, thanks, thanks.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I appreciate that, appreciate Well, no, but he's your he's
your first guy, right because he's a guy that had
the big home run. Look, Dave Roberts is going to
the set. Key K is your first guy. He had
the big home run. And so yeah, all right, then
this is what we're doing.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
There's your favor.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Roberts first comment should have been never in doubt the way,
let's hear it one more time. Ken Rosenthal and Keith A. Hernandez.
This is on the field following the game, in.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Front of Fox and the Nation and God and everybody.
Take a listen.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
And you mentioned that you've been part of eight different postseasons.
Here he says, what is different about this particular.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Team are lie, oh lie, the fact that we don't
thank you, yeah, congratulating, Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
He's like, damn you, keik I like you said thank you,
I mean Ken Rose No, he said thank you and
thank you, thank you, thank you, No, thank you, thank you,
thank you, thank you for cursing on there, thank you
for saying that, thank you for dropping that.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Appreciate Like they all.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Said, he would say, hey, thank you, No, thank you, no,
thank you, thank you, thank you, no, thank you, thank you,
thank you for saying that, thank you for saying that.
That's awesome, thank you, thank you again. Must listen audio
there again again. When you see it, when you see
it virally, you see Keky Hernandez with a smile on
his face and just to look just a moment. That
is a lot of blowing off steam for the Dodgers
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who were this close and in the words of the
immortal Tom looney, you don't.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
You can't see my fingers, but.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
They're they're really just an inch apart from each other,
this close to going home, and instead they're hosting the NLCS.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
But think about this, his first tenure with the Dodgers,
dude was already a folk hero, right. He was one
of those glue guys, clubhouse guys, community guys, all of
those things that the fans adored. Comes back, goes back
into the role revered, excited.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Hey, key k is back. Don't know what he is
at this point, but here he is. Uh.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
He hits the big home run, takes another step up
you know that that mountain, and then drops that interview.
I mean, come on, they're gonna build a bleeping.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Statue to the game. Well that's David Ortiz.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
This is our blanket city.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Are we live?
Speaker 8 (28:31):
Yeah, say whatever you want to say. Go ahead, the
world's your oyster. Go ahead, key k No, not that,
don't say that. Can no, hell the guy.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
We're live, right, because you know what I remember, like,
you know, honestly, what I what I flashed back to
seeing that is went Look the Eric Dickerson interview that
we did a few years ago. Still reverb changed the NFL, right,
because Eric Dickerson came on our show talked about the
mistreatment he had at the hands of Jeff Fisher and
the Rams, and it was a huge story. And and
three days later he was fired. And so now the
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Rams got Sean McVeigh, they traded for Matt Stafford. They
won the Super Bowl, So yeah, we get Super Bowl
rings because you know, hey, Eric Dickerson came on our
show and said it. And I knew when he said
when he came on, because he's done stuff with us before,
and you and I have done shows with him at
AM five seventy here in Los Angeles, and he says,
and he said, these guys, can I just is this
the show? Can I just say anything? And I remember
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looking at Justin Frosberg and he his eyes get big,
and I said sure, because I figured, okay, we could
always dump it if he curses.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
But what am I gonna say?
Speaker 3 (29:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Yeah, go ahead, and he said and he went and
it was, oh my goodness.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
They we ran out dumps. They pulled his tickets for
Disneyland and they wouldn't allow him on the sideline and
it was, oh my good It was a huge, huge,
huge story.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
And I at that moment when he said he said,
can I you know, Oka, can I just say anything?
Speaker 5 (29:53):
And I'm like, okay, yeah, I don't know if you
each other like the Spider Man, I don't know where Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Go ahead say it, say what you want to say.
And that's what happened to changed the course of the NFL.
That's kind of what I thought with ke Ahanander saying
are we live?
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Are we live?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
And the director in the in the truck is going
get ready, get ready to get ready to dump it,
get ready to dump it.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
We can't say it get ready. Yeah, you're leaning in excitedly.
But at the same point, same Please don't.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Now to a guy who actually lost his first job
as an up dead ACHA because he cursed on the air.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
Who very first update, it's Steve Desager with what's trending
now in the wide world. No, didn't happen.
Speaker 9 (30:34):
And actually I think Ken Rosenthal was not just thank you,
he was saying thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
By the way. As soon as the game ended in.
Speaker 9 (30:44):
La tonight, one of the MLB dot com writers tweeted
out excited to see that high spending, largest payroll in
baseball get to the NLCS and play against the Dodgers,
because you see, the Mets are going to be traveling
to Southern California to open the NLCS Sunday nights on
Fox TV, with Game two on Monday afternoon. Game three
will be in New York on Wednesday night. Yes, the
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top two payrolls in baseball this year were the Mets
and the Yankees. The Dodgers, not including that deferred money,
were number five. But even if you include all the
money owed to Sho Hao Tony this year, it still
would not top the Bets payroll for twenty twenty four.
LA is still alive. Back to back shutouts in elimination
games against San Diego this week two nothing Tonight's final
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over the Padres, the Dodger staff throws twenty four straight
scoreless innings to end the series. In fact, the bullpen
in tonight's contest for hitless innings with five strikeouts after
an all bullpen game in San Diego the game before,
where technically the opener is regarded as a starter. After that,
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it was seven and two thirds scoreless in Game four
with seven strikeouts. Here you had you Darvish taking the loss,
although he was great again on the mound, but he
allowed two solo homers in his six and two thirds.
The Dodgers had only two other hits in the entire game,
but two nothing the final. They're advancing, the Padres are
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headed home, and it was remember tonight the context Shohei
Otani against his idol darvish Otani struck out twice. These
guys were teammates winning the World Baseball Classic for Japan
a year and a half ago, with Yamamoto on the
team as well. He was the Dodger winning pitcher tonight,
throwing five scoreless innings Teoscar Hernandez and keik Hernandez with
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the solo homers in the Dodger win. So we had
all that scoring early in the series and here in
the winner take all finale. Quite the pitching duel, and
the Dodgers, as we mentioned earlier, face a Padre team
that was winning two games to one in the series.
Padres become the first team to have that lead in
the best of five and then failed to score a
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single run in the final two games out. Tomorrow's Game
five of the Alds Detroit at Cleveland was moved up
to one pm Eastern time due to impending rain. In
college football tonight on FS one, Northwestern a winner at
Maryland thirty seven to ten going to the fourth quarter.
UNLV ready to go to five and one this year,
leads at Utah State forty seven to twenty one, and
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late in the second quarter at Arizona State Sun Devil's
ahead of sixteenth ranked Utah thirteen to six. Tennessee Titans
quarterback Will Levis will start on Sunday after a shoulder
entry and among the four NHL games tonight, late in
the second Canucks lead Philadelphia two to one. Tampa Bay
was a four to one winner at Carolina.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen live for the
tyreck dot Com Studios. We'll have more baseball coming up
in a bit, but straight ahead, Mike and I going
to give you our upset special picks for this weekend
in college football and the NFL. I'm going big time
tomorrow for my upset special in college and going even
bigger on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
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Speaker 1 (34:15):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon live from the tyrack dot Com studios, and
we'll have more of the night in Major League Baseball
coming up in a few minutes. The big takeaway from
this Dodger shutout that sends them to the NLCS. But first,
Mike and I do it every week, give your upset
special picks some college football.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
And the NFL.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
I was just a bad Bengals collapse last week from
improving to fourteen and two on upset specials this year.
But I had to take the tie because I had
the Bengals getting three. Thanks for giving that away.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
Taking the push, Big lou letting you down again, money,
I know.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
But I'll kick things off. College foot will go tomorrow.
I got one tomorrow. One on Sunday, give me USC
getting three and a half over Penn State. Now, initially
when I talked when I when I first wanted to
pick USC, the line was five and a half.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
But I'll still take the.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Three and a half. Uh, this is got topical. This
is a typical game that USC wins. Pressure is gone,
the expectations have been lowered. Penn State to the West coast.
We talked about this with Pete fu Tech. Look, travel
this far for teams is a.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
Thing, it's new for them.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
USC's offense can move the football and Penn States defense
and Penn State's a little limited offensively. As long as
USC doesn't turn it over, they're gonna keep it close enough.
And am I a big believer that Penn State's for real? Yeah,
you gotta really show me. I've seen glimpses from USC.
This is a game at home that USC wins. Give
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me USC twenty seven to twenty four. But hey, I'm
still gonna take the points. Just in case this is
not one of those, I'll still take the points.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
In this one. I'm gonna go back to another game
we covered with Pete.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
LSU a three and a half point dog at home
with the whole myths coming in sixty two and a
half the total. So get cha, popcorn, it's gonna be
a big show in the afternoon. But looking at LSU,
going back to that game against the aforementioned USC Trojans
a long time ago, you've got nus Meyer making plays
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four different receivers already with twenty plus receptions on the year,
spreading the ball out fifteen touchdowns against four picks for
him while completing seventy percent of his pass attempts. Yeah,
LSU starts their march back into the top ten.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Now to the NFL we go, and I'm gonna say this,
and it's okay because my wife's family it still loves me.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
Give me the Cowboys getting three over the Lions. Look
how about that? Look, look I feel like Christmas start.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
Look Look, look, look it's fifty two on that number two.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
It's a lot. It's a lot of points. No, and
I love the points.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Dallas is at home and Jared Goff is a different
quarterback on the road than he is at home. We've
seen that with the Lions over the past couple of years.
It's something that just can't be understated. Yes, he's had
a good game on the road this year, but you're
talking about a good sample size of what he is
at home versus what he is on the road. Yes,
Dallas is not gonna have Micah Parsons, but you're gonna
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see the You're gonna see the Lions offense be controlled
a little bit. Dallas seems to have found a spark
in Rico Daddle. Maybe he's the new Tony Pollard day
lisk Sky. All of a sudden, we got this guy
that was on the team that not getting the ball,
and he's a guy who could trust running the football.
I like a lot of points in this game. Dallas
matches up well and Dak Prescott's.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Gonna have a day.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
This is where the Cowboys get out early Detroit, Rusty
coming off the bye a bit, and the big turnover
this week is gonna be made by Jared Goff. Dallas
wins it thirty four to thirty one. But I'll still
take the points. I don't think i'll need them. I
don't think i'll need this game.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
I'm not want it, but I'll take them just in case.
USC I want the points. I absolutely want to watch
this game.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
I don't think I'll need him, but i'll take him.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
I'm gonna take every bit of the points, but I
don't think i'm gonna need him here either. I'm gonna
take the Carolina Panthers getting five and a half at home.
Forty six and a half is your total Uh, you've
been able. You've seen uh Andy don't move the ball
up and down the field. You're getting great effort out
of Chewba Hubbard, and I think he's the difference here.
Uh and fantastic thus far this season. Uh, and you
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can run the ball against Atlanta. Give me the Panthers
at home. I was gonna take the Giants until they
ruled neighbors out going to concerts and whatever else as much.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
So, if you can go to a concert, you can
play in a game, can't you.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
I mean you could do that, right, I would have
thought right, it was the old you dodge a wrench,
dodge a ball. If you can go to see the
strobe lights and pulsations of a concert, you should.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
Be able to play. But cut it straight.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Yeah, yeah, especially with the Brian Dable said, we're keeping
that in house. Oh okay, okay, yeah, a little weird
went to a concert.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Can't play Sunday? All right.
Speaker 5 (38:58):
I still think the Giants can get him though at home.
Getting three and a half forty eight to total on Sunday
night football.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Look, that's gonna be a fun game. I mean, I
know that the optic of that game is not great. Well,
the Bengals have won once in the Giants yish. That's
gonna be a fun game because the Giants have played
better than expected this year. Joe Burrow has played fantastic guy,
leading the league in touchdown passes. The Bengals are really exciting.
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That's a fun game. And make no mistake, the NFL
is glad it's on this early in the season because
just in case, you know, by week eleven things are different. No,
they're still happy it's on this early in the year.
But this is still gonna be a really, really fun
game to see because coming off of this game, one
of two things is gonna happen. We're gonna either talk about, hey,
the Giants may be back to the team they were
two years ago, or the Bengals are gonna absolutely just
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show us, hey, we're still this good.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
We just had a slow start.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
We're bad in September, we start getting better in October.
I'll take the Bengals in this one because Joe Burrow
is just too good. He's the best player on the field.
Speaker 5 (39:58):
Well, don't forget though, I mean they lose the that
the talk is the dream over for the Bengals. Remember
when they left the super Bowl after the loss, and
I was telling you how everybody in the parking lot
was it will be back.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
I'm not so fast. You also have like.
Speaker 5 (40:13):
Four games that the total is under forty, so we've
got some dogs mixed there in as well.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
So there's our upset special picks for the week in
college football and the NFL coming up. We got more
football on the way and coming up next. What is,
without a doubt, the most shocking story of the night.
Jason and Mike, This is Fox Sports Radio.