October 3, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason Smith & Mike Harmon chat it up with Jon Paul Morosi as they gear up for the Divisional series of the MLB playoffs.
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playoffs coming up in a moment. But right now, just
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under three minutes to go in the fourth quarter, Defying logic,
the forty nine Ers could walk away from Thursday Night
Football with a victory over the Rams. A go ahead
field goal has given them the twenty three to twenty lead. Again,
the Rams getting the ball back with just under three
minutes left to go. Mac Jones right now, two hundred
and ninety six yards through the air, a couple of touchdowns.
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His quarterback rating is over one hundred. Kendrick Bourne, who
many people are patting themselves on the back right now
because they probably picked him up in fantasy earlier today
and put him in their lineup. Ten catches for one
hundred and forty two yards for Kendrick Bourne.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Last minute add once everybody got ruled out, Like earlier
in the week, it was all right, are they gonna play?
I don't know today? All right, next man up with
Mac Jones, guy who's been working with on that second team.
By the way, ex bear Eddie Pinero with the field goal.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Ten for one forty two. It's like it's like Montana
and Rice the way these guys are hitting its and
this is and the thing is, this is a good defense, right,
this is a great defense today. Rams, No, it's terrible today.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
You're letting long, protracted dry because that's the thing they've
had to work for every point. All these Rams are
quick ones here, yeah, getting it Tilly backups will come
in and they're working the Rams defense now still every
end was Christian McCaffrey and whoever else shows up from
the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Now, McCaffrey's having a nice night. He's got nearly one
hundred and twenty total yards of offense. But it's not
like he's running the ball really well. They stopped them there.
But he does have six catches in the passing game.
He's been pretty good.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
He's made his living this year, as someone might have
predicted on his show.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
So here's a situation where it's we're hitting the two
minute warning and the Rams again down three to the
forty nine ers, but they are driving. It looks like
a holding penalty is going to give the Rams the
first down inside forty nine ers territory. So again, we'll
have more on this game coming up in a few minutes.
But first, hey, we now know where all the League
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Division series are going to be. The Yankees will play
the Blue Jays, as they have just finished their shutout
of the Boston Red Sox ford to nothing. And I'm sorry,
can we get Monty Belong yourself. You have a very
important question for her, A very important question, Moncy, can
you tell me I forget because I'm watching who's the
picture for the Yankees that one tonight? Cam s No,
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but what's his full Cam Schlittler boom, Oh you can't, no, you.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Can't just play it on audio.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
She's gotta say it, Can Schlittler.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
She just went full Daniel Bryants.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yes, no, you can't.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Yes, ty Shirt, She's gotta ask you that lie.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
But I did say it.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah one time. You gotta. I gotta say it again.
You gotta be able to say ship home grin, Hey, wow, Brent.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Finley, Yeah, whoa, whoa whoa? Okay, okay, living in the past,
all right now okay, So Moncey Bolognoses and only Monsey Bologos,
who is the picture for the Yankees A one tonight?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
It's Can Schlittler.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
No, no, no, don't play it you. I like that
little hesitation there, You like I'm gonna do it. Yes,
I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yees. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
She was banging the table like, hey, okay, hey, hey, okay.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I gotta make this happen now.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
All right again, live only live, moncih who's the picture
for the Yankees?
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Get that dump button ready, Cam Schlittler, Oh.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Very okay, why don't you get that. Can't wait. I
couldn't wait. I couldn't hear her because Harmon was now.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
You got it.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
One per minute, No I buye, even if I'm not wrestling.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
One per minute. Okay, all right, now here's your fun
because you know I love to track the sporting card universe.
So he's now made two starts since this card sold
an autograph rookie card out of two fifty, right, so
number to two fifty Purple Parallel sold for forty five
dollars on September twenty third. Okay, he then had a
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great start against the Orioles. That's fine, and then with
this start tonight. How much is a card ready? Five
hundred dollars closing right now, ends in four minutes. It's
that's seven ten with forty six bids. Wow, there's a
number of other Parallels that are now up upwards of
two thousand dollars and flying you know you know who
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that is.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
It's slip so she can so she can get the
card and just look at it and go Schlitler.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Slippler gonna I'm gonna take it all off.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
And it's to say cam s, cam s.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
That's really how he signed it.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Cam. Okay, see we did sign a.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Yeah, you're right, miss because I bet she's misspelled his
last name before. Absolutely on purpose, you think, And then no, no, no,
you say I'm saying on purpose and then realizing, oh wait,
now I'm a Yankees prospect. This is probably not good.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
You're saying, I am a c H.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
You know, I mean, you know it's s c H.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
It's that's okay, but like if you do it quickly,
that could get lost.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, okay, but I think he signed his name pretty.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Yeah, which is why he says Cam s okay, because
that's also a lot of letters in that surname.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Again, we are just twenty three minutes away from Monty
having to say his name again.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
I think it's I don't think she's got I think
for the rest of the slit it wouldn't be the
only one to do it. So I mean, she's like,
I'm dunking all over this one. Now look this is
and thank you very much done. Uh now look this
and this is why I look at this and I
go the Yankees are gonna win the world too. All
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of a sudden, you get the catch by Ryan nick Mahon,
The New Jeter play right which we talked about it
a lot last hour. And here's Schlittler who comes in
and and shuts out the Red Sox for eight innings,
last two starts, fifteen innings pitched zo.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
He's like the new Andy Pettitt. It's like Schlittler's the
right handed new Andy Pettitt. Nine strikeouts in that one,
twelve in this one.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Like now I'm thinking the Yankees are going from they're
gonna win the World Series. Now they're gonna be the
dynasty again. They're gonna win like four and five years
or something stupid like that, telling you made this it,
you get texting from Fabi iam.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
No, I'm go I gotta block him. I gotta block
him because it's either that or it's a bad trade off. Yeah,
mostly it's bad trade off in fantasy. But then it
would be this. But you think about the Yankees tonight, like,
look when when I when when I picked the Yankees
last night to win tonight, to take Game three. The
Red Sox had control of this series, they had momentum,
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and they went conservative throughout the entire game yesterday. Right,
you had uh Eaton not scoring when when he should
have scored on the infield hit even though he was
held up at third bait let him go like you
cold see they're not making that plays. And that's the
biggest play of this entire series. Right, you could talk
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about Schlitler and McMahon's playing again. You're gonna hear it
again again, the new Jeter play. Uh, but the biggest
play of this series. First and second, nobody out, seventh
inning and Alex Korra tries to have rafaela bunt and
the bunt pops up to the pitcher. Now it's first
and second with one out. The Yankees get out of
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the inning. You had the big Austin Wells hit in
the bottom of the eighth. They win Game two. They
seize the momentum and they never gave it back and
the Red Sox never scored again following that, which we
talked about it last night. Look, you know, I hate bunting.
I think bunting is an outdated way, an outdated baseball strategy.
And why Alex Korra was playing for one run in
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the seventh inning of a tie game, I don't understand
when you have first and second and nobody out, what
are you doing? What are you doing trying to bunt
from a guy that you you know, Yes he's bunted
before in the past, but he's got what four sacrifice
buns in three years. Okay, now you're asking a butt
in the A in the divisional series here in New
York in the seventh inning, swing away, man, swing away.
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Once the Red Sox went conservative, they gave the momentum
to the Yankees and they never gave it back.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
I just don't understand how against the Yankees now you've
had they had their number in the regular season, right,
ten and four, record, all of that stuff, But this
is a team that scores runs. They will come back.
One run was not changing that game, because that's what
you're playing for. Right You go back and we talked
about it last I'd find the podcast wherever you get
your audio. We appreciate you, love you. But it was
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a long discussion about baseball as we were growing up,
where you always had the pitcher could be part of
the mix, so you had a lot of bunting there
instead of waving at three pitches for the striker. That's fine,
it existed then, but right now it really doesn't. Very
few teams try to execute it. Those that can't hit
home runs. Andre's had a lot of bunting during the year,
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but they did none of it in the game against
the Cubs today. But you look at your opportunity you
squandered here. You had a couple of small threats again Schlittler,
but you did nothing with it.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yeah, no, he was. He was in control of the
entire game. And I think if Aaron Boone tried to
take him out, Yankee fans would have streamed out of
the stands. It could have been it like it was
like it was the the upset win last week. We said, Wow,
that's a that's a fast running on the field. Yeah
no against Florida's.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Florida guy didn't even get to get up off the mat.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
That's how fast Yankee fans would have out there to
grab Aaron boots so he couldn't take Schlittler out.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Of That was the one thing I kept trying to
find in our online search in that post game. That
guy's okay, right, I mean the way that that crowd
he charged, And you.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Look at Schlitler and most strikeouts by a rookie in
a playoff game. You going back to, like I remember
when Mike Bottaker had thirteen strikeouts in a playoff game
in eighty three when the Orioles won the.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
World soonis such a big White Sox in the a
like this, like the side.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
It's like the third most strikeouts of rookies had in
a game in the playoffs in baseball history.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
He was magnificent. He was hitting every every boat had
them chasing absolute command. I mean, he came into the
game with his two nine six e R and certainly
we'd seen the punch out rate, but here in a
big moment like this to just dominate the way he
did from pillar to post and he was still throwing
clean and easy as he left after eight. Surprise he
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didn't come back out to win the job. Well, four runs,
I listen, if you don't have a closer that can close.
Was a four run lead in the ninth inning of
a game at home. He shouldn't be in Major League Baseball. Well,
you know you got you gotta keep it within a slam.
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
That was the old rule.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
It's like, hey, we could be down, but you got
to keep it within a slam. Get him on, get
him over, get him in now. Fantastic effort to close
out the Red Sox Uh, they'll be ruining all of
those decisions yesterday, and I know they got defensive at
the Podium's like, well, it's easy to say you're.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Not on the field.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
It's like, no, I've got a better vantage point of
how much space he had has that ball got away?
So yeah, I can say it from my perch. I
want to fight me, not Cam Newton over here with
a feather in his hat.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Let's go. No, no, no, Look, I've accepted. Yankees are gonna.
Yankees gonna win the World Series. I mean, I just
it's good to accept it. It's good there. I've accepted
it because I've accepted it. Once I accepted and they
do it, it won't hurt so bad. I have to
sit here and go look at the Mets and the big.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
All that stuff I'm gonna got. Just in a couple
of days, you've gone. You from trying to get through
the grief.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Man.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
But from the drama of Yankees red Sox to the
drama right now between the forty nine ers and the Rams.
It looked like the Rams were going in for a
go ahead touchdown down twenty three to twenty to the
forty nine ers. They had driven down to the two
yard line. But for the second time this week, we
have seen a running back take a handoff and then
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eys getting really big for the goal line forgets one
thing holding on to the football. Kyron Williams fumble punch out.
The ball is punched out at the two. The Niners
take over at their own one yard line. Okay, that's it,
Niners are gonna win. Except Rams had all three timeouts left.
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They called all their timeouts. The forty nine Ers made
them use the timeouts, So now the Rams are getting
the football back. They would have had it inside the
thirty yard line. However, a penalty block from behind. Penalty
on the Rams is gonna bring this ball back a
little bit. But the Rams are gonna have the ball
around midfield forty two seconds to at least get into
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field goal range where they could tie this game. They
were really in great field position, but now they have
forty two seconds no timeouts to get down the field
for what's likely going to be a field goal attempt
to tie this game and send it to overtime. Yeah,
that it was an unnecessary hold. Yeah, you had two
guys right, the second going.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Second guy came over and was offering assistance and instead
still grabbed the Jersey.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Rams could have two losses because of their special teams
five weeks into the season, not being able to get
in field goals blocked, getting extra points blocked like they
did tonight, or they would have had the lead in
this game and now a big special team's penalty. But again,
they have time at midfield with about forty two seconds
left to go to try to tie this game.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Tell me special teams doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
We'll have more on this game coming up next. Boy,
we're getting down to the nitty gritty and the drama.
Thirty six seconds left to go. Rams have the ball
at midfield facing second and ten. But up next we
break down all the drama we saw Yankees in the
Red Sox. Alex Tischer's listening to songs on an iPod.
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Speaker 2 (15:12):
What's in the bag for Shark or something?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
A Cardifield goal on the final play of regulation, Ricocarty said,
RICOCARTI yes, I have, I have his nineteen seventy four
Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I done, now, you guy.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
I got a couple from the late seventies with the
Blue Jays.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
The Rams and the forty nine Ers are headed to overtime,
tied at twenty three apiece. We'll have more on this
game coming up in a few minutes, but all the
drama of the day in Major League Baseball, joining us
now the hotline. Someone who I guarantee is wiped out
with all of the action everyone. He's spent today getting
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drunk with his dad after the Tigers won allegedly allegedly
I mean, I mean the Tigers did win. I mean
the other part. MLB Network Insider extraordinaire on Twitter at
John Morose. See it is John Paul Morosi. What's happening, man?
How are you bud?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Not a drop? My friend was. I was not even
on assignment in Cleveland, so I can't even claim to
have just absorbed the general alcohol content of the champagne
celebration in the clubhouse there in Cleveland. So there is
a very distinctive you've ever covered one of those champagne celebrations,
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It has a The humid intensity of air filled with
champagne bubbles is really pungent, and I'm sure I'll experience
that later on this month. There was actually one time
when I was covering a champagne celebration and the producer
kept sending me back into the clubhouse and I wasn't
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even actually sure sure if any of the interviews were airing.
I just thought they were having fun with me, and
then I basically emerged from the clubhouse with champagne and
was delicately told that I would be riding by myself
to the airport because yeah, no one else really wanted
to hang out with me.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
At that point time, I'm picking.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Up this guy he's Blast and he tells me he's
been working all night. He just like, yeah, you're at alcohol, that's.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
The thing is. So I went. It was in Chicago.
I went straight from Wrigley to O'Hare and my flight
and I remember boarding the boarding the aircraft and people
looking at me like, man, like, it's it's now seven
o'clock in the evening. Were you have you been out
on Rush Street since last night? I mean, what where
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are we at here? So at least gave me a
good story.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Wait, wait a minute, So you took a car or
did you take the Blue line?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I took a car at the blue line.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Would have been interesting. You would have gone.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Viralight, not the blue line that time. There may have
been a time that I was on the Blue line
in similar and similar stead, but that's not that particular occasion.
All right.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
So, speaking of champagne celebrations now and here, I've already
accepted this, John Paul, after seeing Ryan McMahon make the
new Jeter play Cam Schlitzler turn into the new Andy Pettitt.
The Yankees are gonna win the World Series. They're a
team I've already I've already come to accept a team
of destiny. The win tonight. They're gonna win the World Series.
That got everything they need. It's twenty years ago. The
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dynasty is now going to be reborn.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Well, let's let's slow down a little bit. That they's
have to face a Toronto Blue Jays team, which, by
the way, has their own version of Cam Schlitzler in
Treyy Savage, who I've been arguing for days should definitely
get a start. There are some people questioning, well, do
you want to put a kid out there? I don't know.
Sliller looked pretty good. He's you know, he's a he's
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a rookie, and he looked all right. So I think
that there's a there. Sometimes is in the postseason a
bit of an over reliance on experience, and Cam Schlitzler
tonight showed the entire baseball world the value of stuff.
Moxie vlo I thought in his postgame interview with Buster
Rolney was really interesting. He was kind of hinting at
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maybe just different things he was hearing from his buddies
back at New England. Of course he was from Massachusetts.
I thought that was a really interesting sidelight and subplot
of the game. But my goodness, everything after arriving to
the ballpark today. It's so funny how postings in baseball works.
Aaron Boone is just everything's in advice for him. There's
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such tension, one loss away from maybe facing some serious
questions about his job, and then he entrusts the least
experienced starting pitcher on the roster in the biggest game
of the year, and he simply deals in a way
that basically no other postseason pitcher ever has. It was
just a remarkable performance, pinpoint command, and just the Red
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Sox it never felt like they really had a chance tonight,
which is saying a lot for a team that certainly
in the opening game of the series found a way
to get to the Yankee pen. I just thought that
was sheer dominance tonight from Cam Schlitler.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
JP. Let's stay in this series a second. I mean,
obviously ten and four regular season win game one, and
then we look at Game two, Raphaela. The decision to
bunt is one we first guest on air, and as
they pack up the gear for the long offseason, we
bring it around again. Between that and not trying to
score after the I mean a great play by Chisholm,
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a couple of things in that inning that may have
changed their fortunes and sent baseball into a spiral.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Well, you're right, mikeh and I think that they're If
we're gonna look at the big picture of the Red Sox,
they they got to this spot, I believe because of
fundamental execution and an excellent manager in Alex Korra. Let's
remember that their their by brand name best player when
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the season began now plays with the Giants, and rock
Field evers their best player at his peak during the season,
Roman Anthony is injured and not available. And so if
I'm being honest here, the Boston Red Sox would have
had to have played a perfect series in my estimation,
to win it and to beat the Yankees. Usually you
look at the and again story hasn't really good at
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bats this series, so did Bregman, but the rest of
the lineup really never got going in a big way.
Nate Eaton had a nice series, but there was just
not that top to bottom depth that the Yankees have,
and I think we just saw it, and whether it
was even Volty having a moment early on in the
series in the first game A Judge, of course, I
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thought was of all the series that he played in
last year's postseason and then to this one, this is
the best series he's played in the last couple of
years in the postseason. So the Red Sox don't have
an answer to Aaron Judge. It turns out that they
didn't even have an answer to Anthony Volpi and this
particular series. It's just the Red Sox. And you're right,
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there was some missed execution plays, but they would have
had to play, in my estimation and absolutely perfect series
for them to win. They did. They kind of got
on the board with like an early birdie in the round,
so to speak, by winning with Crochet on the mound
and Chapman coming in behind them. But they just did
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not have the depth in my view, to be able
to just play the rest of the series straight up
and win against the Yankee swing for swing. They had
to do something crafty and different. They tried, they failed,
the better team won. And the better team now that's
going to face Blue Jays is the New York Yankees,
and that's going to be one heck of a series
against a rested but somewhat weary Blue Jays team that
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may probably will not, if I'm being honest, probably will
not have the services of Bobashett in this next.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Round, EMLLY Network inside of John Paul Morosi, our guest
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
All right, let's get to the ninth inning of the
Cubs and the Padres today, because as soon as this
play happened, I said, the ABS challenge system can't get
here fast enough. Three nothing, top of the ninth inning
home run to lead off the inning for the Padres,
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and then Xander Bogertz gets punched out on a call
where the ball wasn't even close to being a strike.
Now that changes the inning and changes the direction of
the game. Next two batters are hit by Keller, he
comes out of the game. Cubs wind up getting out
of the inning, but John Paul a big difference from
first and second and one out to bases loaded and
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nobody out, which likely it would happen because you know,
Keller couldn't you know, find the plate after that, So
he hits two guys, comes out of the game. Craig
Council takes them right out of the game. That should
have been bases loaded, nobody out for the Padres down
three to one in the top of the ninth inning
changes everything.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
And of course then the play and again you never
know how the how the rest of the inning unfolds.
But rich comes in and that was it barely got
Corona Worth on that slow roller. It took a really
really good play by Seaw to get him. You're right,
it's it's a miss call. There was a miss call
yesterday at a pivotal moment in the Tigers Guardians game.
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It's it's unfortunately always has been part of part of
the game. To be honest, it's less a part of
the game now than it's ever been, and next year
it'll be even less. We're just we will still have
some mistakes. That is inevitable that the human element is
still alive and well in baseball and has been for
a long time. The entirety of its existence effect. But
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you hate to see that you hate to see a
call that that swings the game at a really crucial point.
And you're right, you never know how that ending unfolds
if Boguards is on vaze, as he should be, especially
in light of what happened after that. But I think
that the Podres also they did not get on the
board until the final inning, and I think that's that's
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a very difficult way to try to win a winner
take all game. I think of the of the results today,
for me, the most stunning one was was the pod Race.
Was the Podreys losing. I thought they were gonna win
the game. Uh, the Podres only getting seven hits. I
thought that was a very very surprising outcome. Obviously a
lack of extra base power. Only two extra base hits
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in this in this game for the for the Podres.
That for me actually was so two doubles and one
in the one home run. It's just there was not
enough pump in at a time of year where you're
gonna have to ask some slug more often than not
to be able to win winton ball games. So that
that to me, of the three results today was the
most surprising, And and you're right, it's it could have
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easily gone differently if if a call had been ruled correctly.
But it's asking a whole lot to be able to
make a three run comeback in the in the top
of the ninth in a decisive game when you really
didn't do much at all offensively in the first eight innings.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Yeah, it'll be jerious see what they do in the offseason,
as only the Cardinals and Pirates had fewer home runs
this season than in lineups. That was the lamentation from
the local San Diego things. Sky's falling radio is always
fun jp.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
To be fair, I love Luis Rias and the ability
to make to make contact, but you need more than
a contact bat at first base if you're gonna win
the World Series. And that's and I think that's where
they fell a little bit short, that they need that
first base spot. I love Louis awesome player, but I
(26:37):
think they probably have to upgrade there at that particular spot.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Yeah, I made finishing top ten and team batting average
does you no good when you really need a big hit.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Could you have the Guardians who finished at the bottom
and they were in and they were nearly into the
next round of them second to twenty six. This year,
they were nearly to the next round of the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Yeah, they were. They were kind of the exception and
in a lot of different ways. I mean, And that
to me is it's so interesting, guys, that here we are,
and in some ways I love this part of the game.
We have seen two completely unprecedented playoff runs in back
to back years, the Tigers last year, the Guardians this year.
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Statistically that they were just not supposed to happen. And
I do think and listen, it's like, what are the
chances of a less than one in one hundred outcome
happening in back to back data sets? I realized there's
thirty different data sets, thirty different teams. But the fact
that Tigers made the playoffs last year and they had
less than one percent chance of making it, and the
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same with the Guardians one year later just might finally
tell us that this beautiful sport of ours is it's
very difficult to predict. And while predicting things is a
good endeavor and in fact allows you to plan and
help make decisions of your front office person, this is
probably a game that should just be enjoyed and predicted
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and scripted because man, that's a lot of randomness in
back to back years. That would suggest to me that
we should leave a little bit more space for the
surprise and for for elements like that, because it really
those two teams, Tigers last year Guardians this year are
a big reason why this is such a beautiful sport.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
All right, so it's time for you to make three
big predictions in the next few seconds.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
You ready, I am one hundred percent ready. Let's go.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Okay, the Alcs will be who, the Nlcs will be who.
And give us your Lions prediction for this week you
Lions insider, you all right?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Mariners will meet the blue Jays. That's what I've got there.
The Marriage will meet the blue Jays. The the Phillies.
I believe they're going to find a way to beat
the Dodgers. The Phillies will meet the Brewers. I think
that's gonna be a fun series two if it plays
out that way. And then the Detroit Lions this weekend
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will triumph by a score of thirty one twenty one.
I'm going a little higher scoring than I typically.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Wow, that's way highway he's hitting the over which is
forty nine and a half, and the spread is ten.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
They're playing in Cincinnati against the Bengals. By the way,
that game interesting and these are very rare things that
I know. I don't know a lot, but I do
know that typically AFC games are supposed to be on CBS,
but that will flex the Fox Baby because they know
the national audience wants more Lions. They want more Lions
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on national TV, so they flex them into the four
twenty five slot. Lions Bengals, the Detroit Lions thirty one,
the Cincinnati Bengals twenty one, and it'll it'll be a
very robust weekend of sports in my great city. And
of course they're all playing on the road, the Lions
and the Tigers, but the Lions of Cincinnati the Tigers
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in Seattle. I think that Tiger's final way to split
the first two games, but the Mariners eventually prevail in five.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
This could be and John Paul, this could be a
big weekend for Michigan, a big week for Michigan over
Ohio in general. You know you already had this, You're
gonna have it on could have it on Sunday again. Yeah,
to be a big Michigan overall.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Filo taken on the whole state. What we need is
the next Fiftons Cavaliers playoffs. Deers Well have to wait
for this one for a while. This, by the way,
is only and I always love these cross sport dynamics.
Only the second time ever that a in the four
major sports that a Detroit team has played a Seattle team.
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The previous time was was the Jim Caldwell coached Lions
who went out to Seattle, and I believe the final
score was twenty six to six. It was a fairly
bland game as yet January seventh, twenty seventeen. It looks
like the Lions did all their scoring on two Matt
Prade bilgals. There was there was a lot of uh
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uh and Doug Baldwin big catch there at the end
from Russell Wilson's there you go. So that was that
was That was the box score. Some goodness now eight
years ago.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
John Paul Morosi on Twitter at John Morosi as always, buddy,
appreciate it. We'll talk to you next week. Enjoy the
games this weekend.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Love the conversation my friends. You guys reach out anytime,
you know, if there's ever something that happened to the
game that you don't that you. We just need some
additional context on you. Wake me up. I mean, I'll
be all trading. Just call me and we'll make sure
that we we get on the air. And I'll even
predict a Lion's inter squad scrimmage.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
I dig that.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Final score of the Phillies inter squad. No, just kidding
you got j P.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
We'll talk to you. There goes John Paul Morosi, and
the drama has not stopped the forty nine Ers and
the Rams in overtime, the Niners with a twenty six
to twenty three lead after a field goal. The Rams
faced with a four than one inside the red zone,
they decide to go for it on fourth and one.
(32:07):
How did it turn out?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Not belong to?
Speaker 1 (32:10):
How's the answer? And what's trending?
Speaker 5 (32:12):
It was not good for La as the Niners stop
that fourth and one on their own eleven yard line.
Rams were knocking on the door to score. It was
a nice thirty eight thirty eight yard pass from Matthew
Stafford to two to out well to get them downfield,
but San Francisco makes another stop, another crucial stop.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
They win it twenty six to twenty three. Who to
thunk it? None of you, none of us, None of us.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
We're thinking.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
I thought it was going to be forty eight seventeen
rams be the it were really that number.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
It was unreal.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
And there was another hit while you guys were talking
to JP Morosi on Mac Jones, the first sack of
the game for the Rams, and I really was like,
his pants are He's not coming back, you guys, He's
dying right now, Like.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Get him off the field.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
Poor kid did not go did not have to go
back out there, but he did end thirty three of
forty nine for three hundred and forty two yards, two touchdowns,
no interceptions. Matthew Stafford was thirty of forty seven three
hundred and eighty nine yards, three touchdowns, no interceptions either.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
What a game.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
Kendrick Bourne ten catches for San Francisco and one hundred
and forty two yards.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
San Francisco improves.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
To four and one, Rams fall to three and two.
Other NFL news, Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson missed his second
straight practice today because of a hamstring injury. Buccaneers running
back Bucky Irving, who was seen in a boot earlier
this week, didn't practice either, and the Commanders have officially
ruled out wide receivers Terry McLaurin and Noah Brown four
Sunday's matchup in LA. When it comes to base ball, well,
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the Yankee shout out the Red Sox four zero two
advance to the Alds where they will face the Blue Jays.
The Cubs are advancing to the NLDS to face the
Brewers after taking down the Padres three to one. It's
the first time that the Cubs are headed to the
NLDS since twenty seventeen. Tigers are gonna face the Mariners.
They be the Guardians earlier today, six three, so they'll
see Seattle in the Alds.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Back to you guys, thank you very much. MONTI. I
guess who was that picture for the Yankees that won
eight in tonight?
Speaker 5 (34:19):
Cam Schlittler, who was taking pictures with like like a
UFC or like a wrestling belt.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, give you that belt. He
give me that best.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
Yes, he was awesome, he was.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
We'll have more baseball on the slip slip, but coming
up next. I'm like, I'm scratching on it. Slip slip
slip coming up next, not one, but the first of
two big hot takes coming off of this forty nine
Ers upset win over the Rams on TNF. That's next
right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
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push play and you'd be keep playing five, that's wrong.
(35:17):
Play Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my
best friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, I mean that was a
tush push, just inverting the uh. The Niners pull off
the upset over the Rams twenty six twenty three.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
The Rams had a chance and could have kicked the
game tying field goal that would have extended the game.
But on fourth and one, they'd go for it from
the from inside the fifteen yard line. And it was
a bad play call from the beginning. Right away. I
first guessed it. I said, where is the yard going
to come from? Everybody is stacked the line of scrimmage there.
A yard is not going to come out of this play.
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But the Rams decide, Hey, fourth and one, let's go
for it. Let's be bold, and this is how it
turned out.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
One for the Rams. Niners lead by three, a chance
to win it with a stop. Here it overtime. Stafford
gets under center at the eleven yard line. He takes it,
he turns, he gives the Karen Williams, he gets packed.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
I think he's short, Tim, I think he's short. And
the forty nine ers stored the field.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
It is all over.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
The forty nine Ers have won it in.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Over time here in La.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
I just want to let you know, Tim, Yes, it
was short, all right, so Tim knows. I think Tim
now knows that play was short. Tim the play was short.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
He thought about it, thought about it, I mean very
slow developing play.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Yes, it was.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
It was an awful play call. Again, the Niners were
stacked to stop it. They had called time out. I
don't see how the Rams thought this is gonna get
a yard. But this is why, again, this is why
the tush push is such a big deal and why
it's a big advantage when you can pull this off.
I bet you Sean McVay is walking off the field
(37:04):
right now, going, you know what, screw it, We're gonna
do the tush push. We're gonna because I can't have
that again. Cole stanfordhad and skip leg day Kyron Williams.
Two bad play, two big plays. Is fumble going into
the end zone could have won the game for the Rams.
Uh he gets stopped here on fourth and one. But
again the tush push that this is. This is why
the Eagles win. It's why the Eagles win games. It's
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why plays like this you get the third and one,
fourth and one. The Eagles are unstoppable because they can
continue to run a play like this. And really, I
don't understand why other teams haven't picked it up. I
really don't. It's not like the Eagles have ownership over
the play. It's when you saw teams running uh, you
know when when you would have the quarterback come out
(37:47):
of the game, when Ronnie Brown would run wildcat up
when the wildcat came into the league, other teams did
the wildcat. There was no problem. Other teams did the wildcat.
Most teams tried it. Okay, we really don't have the
personnel for it, but okay, but you saw other teams
try the wildcat. This is a play that you can
easily figure out what to do. Like touch, push is
a pretty easy play. Get your line in one, you
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going down figuring pushing, you can do it. I don't
know why all the other teams in the NFL haven't said, oh, well,
if they do it, we're gonna steal that play, cause
it's gonna get us a yard on fourth and one,
a third and one. All the time. We're gonna figure
out how to pull this off. We're gonna install it
during training camp, we're gonna practice it, we're gonna do X,
Y and Z, were gonna do all of these things.
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I don't know why other teams haven't done this, I
really don't. I don't know if they feel like, well,
we're infringing on the on the Eagles, you know, hey,
they're gonna say, hey, back away, this is our play.
I don't know why other teams haven't done that.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Yeah, I mean in this case, I guess I understand it.
With Matthew Stafford kind of like the fact that Philip Rivers,
for as great as he was, you knew there was
never gonna be a quarterback sneak with it. With Matthew Stafford,
I think we're kind of in that same boat right
that we're not gonna see it and then it just
becomes a question of where the ball's going. And again
the hand off being as slow at it as it was,
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that you were able to plug the gap and you
had multiple guys coming from the second level to crash
the party and keep Williams from getting to the first down.
But a league wide yeah, the fact that that isn't
a more widely.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Used and.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Perpetrated move, I guess some of it owes to the
larger question that we keep having about practice time and
scaling that back and your reliance on your offensive line,
the cohesion of your offensive line because it's got a click, right.
The fact that we haven't seen a bunch of penalties
called after the incidents of earlier in the two weeks
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ago is kind of curious. We'll see when that first
one comes out against the Eagles, But to this point,
now they're running variations of it right now and all this,
I mean, I.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Mean, I don't see how this is like it's a copycat.
If the NFL wasn't a copycat league, I would say, what,
But everybody copycats everything and they.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
Don't do it, especially this which has what a ninety
success rate.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
I don't get the rams they got to own this loss.
They gave this game to the forty nine multiple times.
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under three minutes to go in the fourth quarter, Defying logic,
the forty nine Ers could walk away from Thursday Night
Football with a victory over the Rams. A go ahead
field goal has given them the twenty three to twenty lead. Again,
the Rams getting the ball back with just under three
minutes left to go. Mac Jones right now, two hundred
and ninety six yards through the air, a couple of touchdowns.
(01:16):
His quarterback rating is over one hundred. Kendrick Bourne, who
many people are patting themselves on the back right now
because they probably picked him up in fantasy earlier today
and put him in their lineup. Ten catches for one
hundred and forty two yards for Kendrick Bourne.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Last minute add once everybody got ruled out, Like earlier
in the week, it was all right, are they gonna play?
I don't know today? All right, next man up with
Mac Jones, guy who's been working with on that second team.
By the way, ex bear Eddie Pinero with the field goal.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Ten for one forty two. It's like it's like Montana
and Rice the way these guys are hitting its and
this is and the thing is, this is a good defense, right,
this is a great defense today. Rams, No, it's terrible today.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
You're letting long, protracted dry because that's the thing they've
had to work for every point. All these Rams are
quick ones here, yeah, getting it Tilly backups will come
in and they're working the Rams defense now still every
end was Christian McCaffrey and whoever else shows up from
the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Now, McCaffrey's having a nice night. He's got nearly one
hundred and twenty total yards of offense. But it's not
like he's running the ball really well. They stopped them there.
But he does have six catches in the passing game.
He's been pretty good.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
He's made his living this year, as someone might have
predicted on his show.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
So here's a situation where it's we're hitting the two
minute warning and the Rams again down three to the
forty nine ers, but they are driving. It looks like
a holding penalty is going to give the Rams the
first down inside forty nine ers territory. So again, we'll
have more on this game coming up in a few minutes.
But first, hey, we now know where all the League
(02:49):
Division series are going to be. The Yankees will play
the Blue Jays, as they have just finished their shutout
of the Boston Red Sox ford to nothing. And I'm sorry,
can we get Monty Belong yourself. You have a very
important question for her, A very important question, Moncy, can
you tell me I forget because I'm watching who's the
picture for the Yankees that one tonight? Cam s No,
(03:10):
but what's his full Cam Schlittler boom, Oh you can't, no, you.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Can't just play it on audio.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
She's gotta say it, Can Schlittler.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
She just went full Daniel Bryants.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yes, no, you can't.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Yes, ty Shirt, She's gotta ask you that lie.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
But I did say it.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah one time. You gotta. I gotta say it again.
You gotta be able to say ship home grin, Hey, wow, Brent.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Finley, Yeah, whoa, whoa whoa? Okay, okay, living in the past,
all right now okay, So Moncey Bolognoses and only Monsey Bologos,
who is the picture for the Yankees A one tonight?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
It's Can Schlittler.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
No, no, no, don't play it you. I like that
little hesitation there, You like I'm gonna do it. Yes,
I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yees. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
She was banging the table like, hey, okay, hey, hey, okay.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I gotta make this happen now.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
All right again, live only live, moncih who's the picture
for the Yankees?
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Get that dump button ready, Cam Schlittler, Oh.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Very okay, why don't you get that. Can't wait. I
couldn't wait. I couldn't hear her because Harmon was now.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
You got it.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
One per minute, No I buye, even if I'm not wrestling.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
One per minute. Okay, all right, now here's your fun
because you know I love to track the sporting card universe.
So he's now made two starts since this card sold
an autograph rookie card out of two fifty, right, so
number to two fifty Purple Parallel sold for forty five
dollars on September twenty third. Okay, he then had a
(04:45):
great start against the Orioles. That's fine, and then with
this start tonight. How much is a card ready? Five
hundred dollars closing right now, ends in four minutes. It's
that's seven ten with forty six bids. Wow, there's a
number of other Parallels that are now up upwards of
two thousand dollars and flying you know you know who
(05:06):
that is.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
It's slip so she can so she can get the
card and just look at it and go Schlitler.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Slippler gonna I'm gonna take it all off.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
And it's to say cam s, cam s.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
That's really how he signed it.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Cam. Okay, see we did sign a.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Yeah, you're right, miss because I bet she's misspelled his
last name before. Absolutely on purpose, you think, And then no, no, no,
you say I'm saying on purpose and then realizing, oh wait,
now I'm a Yankees prospect. This is probably not good.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
You're saying, I am a c H.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
You know, I mean, you know it's s c H.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
It's that's okay, but like if you do it quickly,
that could get lost.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, okay, but I think he signed his name pretty.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Yeah, which is why he says Cam s okay, because
that's also a lot of letters in that surname.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Again, we are just twenty three minutes away from Monty
having to say his name again.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
I think it's I don't think she's got I think
for the rest of the slit it wouldn't be the
only one to do it. So I mean, she's like,
I'm dunking all over this one. Now look this is
and thank you very much done. Uh now look this
and this is why I look at this and I
go the Yankees are gonna win the world too. All
(06:19):
of a sudden, you get the catch by Ryan nick Mahon,
The New Jeter play right which we talked about it
a lot last hour. And here's Schlittler who comes in
and and shuts out the Red Sox for eight innings,
last two starts, fifteen innings pitched zo.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
He's like the new Andy Pettitt. It's like Schlittler's the
right handed new Andy Pettitt. Nine strikeouts in that one,
twelve in this one.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Like now I'm thinking the Yankees are going from they're
gonna win the World Series. Now they're gonna be the
dynasty again. They're gonna win like four and five years
or something stupid like that, telling you made this it,
you get texting from Fabi iam.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
No, I'm go I gotta block him. I gotta block
him because it's either that or it's a bad trade off. Yeah,
mostly it's bad trade off in fantasy. But then it
would be this. But you think about the Yankees tonight, like,
look when when I when when I picked the Yankees
last night to win tonight, to take Game three. The
Red Sox had control of this series, they had momentum,
(07:13):
and they went conservative throughout the entire game yesterday. Right,
you had uh Eaton not scoring when when he should
have scored on the infield hit even though he was
held up at third bait let him go like you
cold see they're not making that plays. And that's the
biggest play of this entire series. Right, you could talk
(07:33):
about Schlitler and McMahon's playing again. You're gonna hear it
again again, the new Jeter play. Uh, but the biggest
play of this series. First and second, nobody out, seventh
inning and Alex Korra tries to have rafaela bunt and
the bunt pops up to the pitcher. Now it's first
and second with one out. The Yankees get out of
(07:53):
the inning. You had the big Austin Wells hit in
the bottom of the eighth. They win Game two. They
seize the momentum and they never gave it back and
the Red Sox never scored again following that, which we
talked about it last night. Look, you know, I hate bunting.
I think bunting is an outdated way, an outdated baseball strategy.
And why Alex Korra was playing for one run in
(08:14):
the seventh inning of a tie game, I don't understand
when you have first and second and nobody out, what
are you doing? What are you doing trying to bunt
from a guy that you you know, Yes he's bunted
before in the past, but he's got what four sacrifice
buns in three years. Okay, now you're asking a butt
in the A in the divisional series here in New
York in the seventh inning, swing away, man, swing away.
(08:36):
Once the Red Sox went conservative, they gave the momentum
to the Yankees and they never gave it back.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
I just don't understand how against the Yankees now you've
had they had their number in the regular season, right,
ten and four, record, all of that stuff, But this
is a team that scores runs. They will come back.
One run was not changing that game, because that's what
you're playing for. Right You go back and we talked
about it last I'd find the podcast wherever you get
your audio. We appreciate you, love you. But it was
(09:04):
a long discussion about baseball as we were growing up,
where you always had the pitcher could be part of
the mix, so you had a lot of bunting there
instead of waving at three pitches for the striker. That's fine,
it existed then, but right now it really doesn't. Very
few teams try to execute it. Those that can't hit
home runs. Andre's had a lot of bunting during the year,
(09:26):
but they did none of it in the game against
the Cubs today. But you look at your opportunity you
squandered here. You had a couple of small threats again Schlittler,
but you did nothing with it.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yeah, no, he was. He was in control of the
entire game. And I think if Aaron Boone tried to
take him out, Yankee fans would have streamed out of
the stands. It could have been it like it was
like it was the the upset win last week. We said, Wow,
that's a that's a fast running on the field. Yeah
no against Florida's.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Florida guy didn't even get to get up off the mat.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
That's how fast Yankee fans would have out there to
grab Aaron boots so he couldn't take Schlittler out.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Of That was the one thing I kept trying to
find in our online search in that post game. That
guy's okay, right, I mean the way that that crowd
he charged, And you.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Look at Schlitler and most strikeouts by a rookie in
a playoff game. You going back to, like I remember
when Mike Bottaker had thirteen strikeouts in a playoff game
in eighty three when the Orioles won the.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
World soonis such a big White Sox in the a
like this, like the side.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
It's like the third most strikeouts of rookies had in
a game in the playoffs in baseball history.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
He was magnificent. He was hitting every every boat had
them chasing absolute command. I mean, he came into the
game with his two nine six e R and certainly
we'd seen the punch out rate, but here in a
big moment like this to just dominate the way he
did from pillar to post and he was still throwing
clean and easy as he left after eight. Surprise he
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didn't come back out to win the job. Well, four runs,
I listen, if you don't have a closer that can close.
Was a four run lead in the ninth inning of
a game at home. He shouldn't be in Major League Baseball. Well,
you know you got you gotta keep it within a slam.
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
That was the old rule.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
It's like, hey, we could be down, but you got
to keep it within a slam. Get him on, get
him over, get him in now. Fantastic effort to close
out the Red Sox Uh, they'll be ruining all of
those decisions yesterday, and I know they got defensive at
the Podium's like, well, it's easy to say you're.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Not on the field.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
It's like, no, I've got a better vantage point of
how much space he had has that ball got away?
So yeah, I can say it from my perch. I
want to fight me, not Cam Newton over here with
a feather in his hat.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Let's go. No, no, no, Look, I've accepted. Yankees are gonna.
Yankees gonna win the World Series. I mean, I just
it's good to accept it. It's good there. I've accepted
it because I've accepted it. Once I accepted and they
do it, it won't hurt so bad. I have to
sit here and go look at the Mets and the big.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
All that stuff I'm gonna got. Just in a couple
of days, you've gone. You from trying to get through
the grief.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Man.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
But from the drama of Yankees red Sox to the
drama right now between the forty nine ers and the Rams.
It looked like the Rams were going in for a
go ahead touchdown down twenty three to twenty to the
forty nine ers. They had driven down to the two
yard line. But for the second time this week, we
have seen a running back take a handoff and then
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eys getting really big for the goal line forgets one
thing holding on to the football. Kyron Williams fumble punch out.
The ball is punched out at the two. The Niners
take over at their own one yard line. Okay, that's it,
Niners are gonna win. Except Rams had all three timeouts left.
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They called all their timeouts. The forty nine Ers made
them use the timeouts, So now the Rams are getting
the football back. They would have had it inside the
thirty yard line. However, a penalty block from behind. Penalty
on the Rams is gonna bring this ball back a
little bit. But the Rams are gonna have the ball
around midfield forty two seconds to at least get into
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field goal range where they could tie this game. They
were really in great field position, but now they have
forty two seconds no timeouts to get down the field
for what's likely going to be a field goal attempt
to tie this game and send it to overtime. Yeah,
that it was an unnecessary hold. Yeah, you had two
guys right, the second going.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Second guy came over and was offering assistance and instead
still grabbed the Jersey.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Rams could have two losses because of their special teams
five weeks into the season, not being able to get
in field goals blocked, getting extra points blocked like they
did tonight, or they would have had the lead in
this game and now a big special team's penalty. But again,
they have time at midfield with about forty two seconds
left to go to try to tie this game.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Tell me special teams doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
We'll have more on this game coming up next. Boy,
we're getting down to the nitty gritty and the drama.
Thirty six seconds left to go. Rams have the ball
at midfield facing second and ten. But up next we
break down all the drama we saw Yankees in the
Red Sox. Alex Tischer's listening to songs on an iPod.
(14:12):
The ABS system can't get to Major League Baseball soon enough.
Who's walking away with wins in the next playoff round?
John Paul Morosi, MLB Network Insider is next with us
Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
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 (14:37):
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Speaker 6 (14:38):
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Speaker 1 (15:08):
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Speaker 2 (15:12):
What's in the bag for Shark or something?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
A Cardifield goal on the final play of regulation, Ricocarty said,
RICOCARTI yes, I have, I have his nineteen seventy four
Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I done, now, you guy.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
I got a couple from the late seventies with the
Blue Jays.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
The Rams and the forty nine Ers are headed to overtime,
tied at twenty three apiece. We'll have more on this
game coming up in a few minutes, but all the
drama of the day in Major League Baseball, joining us
now the hotline. Someone who I guarantee is wiped out
with all of the action everyone. He's spent today getting
(15:49):
drunk with his dad after the Tigers won allegedly allegedly
I mean, I mean the Tigers did win. I mean
the other part. MLB Network Insider extraordinaire on Twitter at
John Morose. See it is John Paul Morosi. What's happening, man?
How are you bud?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Not a drop? My friend was. I was not even
on assignment in Cleveland, so I can't even claim to
have just absorbed the general alcohol content of the champagne
celebration in the clubhouse there in Cleveland. So there is
a very distinctive you've ever covered one of those champagne celebrations,
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It has a The humid intensity of air filled with
champagne bubbles is really pungent, and I'm sure I'll experience
that later on this month. There was actually one time
when I was covering a champagne celebration and the producer
kept sending me back into the clubhouse and I wasn't
(16:49):
even actually sure sure if any of the interviews were airing.
I just thought they were having fun with me, and
then I basically emerged from the clubhouse with champagne and
was delicately told that I would be riding by myself
to the airport because yeah, no one else really wanted
to hang out with me.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
At that point time, I'm picking.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Up this guy he's Blast and he tells me he's
been working all night. He just like, yeah, you're at alcohol, that's.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
The thing is. So I went. It was in Chicago.
I went straight from Wrigley to O'Hare and my flight
and I remember boarding the boarding the aircraft and people
looking at me like, man, like, it's it's now seven
o'clock in the evening. Were you have you been out
on Rush Street since last night? I mean, what where
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are we at here? So at least gave me a
good story.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Wait, wait a minute, So you took a car or
did you take the Blue line?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I took a car at the blue line.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Would have been interesting. You would have gone.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Viralight, not the blue line that time. There may have
been a time that I was on the Blue line
in similar and similar stead, but that's not that particular occasion.
All right.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
So, speaking of champagne celebrations now and here, I've already
accepted this, John Paul, after seeing Ryan McMahon make the
new Jeter play Cam Schlitzler turn into the new Andy Pettitt.
The Yankees are gonna win the World Series. They're a
team I've already I've already come to accept a team
of destiny. The win tonight. They're gonna win the World Series.
That got everything they need. It's twenty years ago. The
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dynasty is now going to be reborn.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Well, let's let's slow down a little bit. That they's
have to face a Toronto Blue Jays team, which, by
the way, has their own version of Cam Schlitzler in
Treyy Savage, who I've been arguing for days should definitely
get a start. There are some people questioning, well, do
you want to put a kid out there? I don't know.
Sliller looked pretty good. He's you know, he's a he's
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a rookie, and he looked all right. So I think
that there's a there. Sometimes is in the postseason a
bit of an over reliance on experience, and Cam Schlitzler
tonight showed the entire baseball world the value of stuff.
Moxie vlo I thought in his postgame interview with Buster
Rolney was really interesting. He was kind of hinting at
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maybe just different things he was hearing from his buddies
back at New England. Of course he was from Massachusetts.
I thought that was a really interesting sidelight and subplot
of the game. But my goodness, everything after arriving to
the ballpark today. It's so funny how postings in baseball works.
Aaron Boone is just everything's in advice for him. There's
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such tension, one loss away from maybe facing some serious
questions about his job, and then he entrusts the least
experienced starting pitcher on the roster in the biggest game
of the year, and he simply deals in a way
that basically no other postseason pitcher ever has. It was
just a remarkable performance, pinpoint command, and just the Red
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Sox it never felt like they really had a chance tonight,
which is saying a lot for a team that certainly
in the opening game of the series found a way
to get to the Yankee pen. I just thought that
was sheer dominance tonight from Cam Schlitler.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
JP. Let's stay in this series a second. I mean,
obviously ten and four regular season win game one, and
then we look at Game two, Raphaela. The decision to
bunt is one we first guest on air, and as
they pack up the gear for the long offseason, we
bring it around again. Between that and not trying to
score after the I mean a great play by Chisholm,
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a couple of things in that inning that may have
changed their fortunes and sent baseball into a spiral.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Well, you're right, mikeh and I think that they're If
we're gonna look at the big picture of the Red Sox,
they they got to this spot, I believe because of
fundamental execution and an excellent manager in Alex Korra. Let's
remember that their their by brand name best player when
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the season began now plays with the Giants, and rock
Field evers their best player at his peak during the season,
Roman Anthony is injured and not available. And so if
I'm being honest here, the Boston Red Sox would have
had to have played a perfect series in my estimation,
to win it and to beat the Yankees. Usually you
look at the and again story hasn't really good at
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bats this series, so did Bregman, but the rest of
the lineup really never got going in a big way.
Nate Eaton had a nice series, but there was just
not that top to bottom depth that the Yankees have,
and I think we just saw it, and whether it
was even Volty having a moment early on in the
series in the first game A Judge, of course, I
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thought was of all the series that he played in
last year's postseason and then to this one, this is
the best series he's played in the last couple of
years in the postseason. So the Red Sox don't have
an answer to Aaron Judge. It turns out that they
didn't even have an answer to Anthony Volpi and this
particular series. It's just the Red Sox. And you're right,
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there was some missed execution plays, but they would have
had to play, in my estimation and absolutely perfect series
for them to win. They did. They kind of got
on the board with like an early birdie in the round,
so to speak, by winning with Crochet on the mound
and Chapman coming in behind them. But they just did
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not have the depth in my view, to be able
to just play the rest of the series straight up
and win against the Yankee swing for swing. They had
to do something crafty and different. They tried, they failed,
the better team won. And the better team now that's
going to face Blue Jays is the New York Yankees,
and that's going to be one heck of a series
against a rested but somewhat weary Blue Jays team that
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may probably will not, if I'm being honest, probably will
not have the services of Bobashett in this next.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Round, EMLLY Network inside of John Paul Morosi, our guest
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
All right, let's get to the ninth inning of the
Cubs and the Padres today, because as soon as this
play happened, I said, the ABS challenge system can't get
here fast enough. Three nothing, top of the ninth inning
home run to lead off the inning for the Padres,
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and then Xander Bogertz gets punched out on a call
where the ball wasn't even close to being a strike.
Now that changes the inning and changes the direction of
the game. Next two batters are hit by Keller, he
comes out of the game. Cubs wind up getting out
of the inning, but John Paul a big difference from
first and second and one out to bases loaded and
(23:37):
nobody out, which likely it would happen because you know,
Keller couldn't you know, find the plate after that, So
he hits two guys, comes out of the game. Craig
Council takes them right out of the game. That should
have been bases loaded, nobody out for the Padres down
three to one in the top of the ninth inning
changes everything.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
And of course then the play and again you never
know how the how the rest of the inning unfolds.
But rich comes in and that was it barely got
Corona Worth on that slow roller. It took a really
really good play by Seaw to get him. You're right,
it's it's a miss call. There was a miss call
yesterday at a pivotal moment in the Tigers Guardians game.
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It's it's unfortunately always has been part of part of
the game. To be honest, it's less a part of
the game now than it's ever been, and next year
it'll be even less. We're just we will still have
some mistakes. That is inevitable that the human element is
still alive and well in baseball and has been for
a long time. The entirety of its existence effect. But
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you hate to see that you hate to see a
call that that swings the game at a really crucial point.
And you're right, you never know how that ending unfolds
if Boguards is on vaze, as he should be, especially
in light of what happened after that. But I think
that the Podres also they did not get on the
board until the final inning, and I think that's that's
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a very difficult way to try to win a winner
take all game. I think of the of the results today,
for me, the most stunning one was was the pod Race.
Was the Podreys losing. I thought they were gonna win
the game. Uh, the Podres only getting seven hits. I
thought that was a very very surprising outcome. Obviously a
lack of extra base power. Only two extra base hits
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in this in this game for the for the Podres.
That for me actually was so two doubles and one
in the one home run. It's just there was not
enough pump in at a time of year where you're
gonna have to ask some slug more often than not
to be able to win winton ball games. So that
that to me, of the three results today was the
most surprising, And and you're right, it's it could have
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easily gone differently if if a call had been ruled correctly.
But it's asking a whole lot to be able to
make a three run comeback in the in the top
of the ninth in a decisive game when you really
didn't do much at all offensively in the first eight innings.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Yeah, it'll be jerious see what they do in the offseason,
as only the Cardinals and Pirates had fewer home runs
this season than in lineups. That was the lamentation from
the local San Diego things. Sky's falling radio is always
fun jp.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
To be fair, I love Luis Rias and the ability
to make to make contact, but you need more than
a contact bat at first base if you're gonna win
the World Series. And that's and I think that's where
they fell a little bit short, that they need that
first base spot. I love Louis awesome player, but I
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think they probably have to upgrade there at that particular spot.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Yeah, I made finishing top ten and team batting average
does you no good when you really need a big hit.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Could you have the Guardians who finished at the bottom
and they were in and they were nearly into the
next round of them second to twenty six. This year,
they were nearly to the next round of the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Yeah, they were. They were kind of the exception and
in a lot of different ways. I mean, And that
to me is it's so interesting, guys, that here we are,
and in some ways I love this part of the game.
We have seen two completely unprecedented playoff runs in back
to back years, the Tigers last year, the Guardians this year.
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Statistically that they were just not supposed to happen. And
I do think and listen, it's like, what are the
chances of a less than one in one hundred outcome
happening in back to back data sets? I realized there's
thirty different data sets, thirty different teams. But the fact
that Tigers made the playoffs last year and they had
less than one percent chance of making it, and the
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same with the Guardians one year later just might finally
tell us that this beautiful sport of ours is it's
very difficult to predict. And while predicting things is a
good endeavor and in fact allows you to plan and
help make decisions of your front office person, this is
probably a game that should just be enjoyed and predicted
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and scripted because man, that's a lot of randomness in
back to back years. That would suggest to me that
we should leave a little bit more space for the
surprise and for for elements like that, because it really
those two teams, Tigers last year Guardians this year are
a big reason why this is such a beautiful sport.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
All right, so it's time for you to make three
big predictions in the next few seconds.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
You ready, I am one hundred percent ready. Let's go.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Okay, the Alcs will be who, the Nlcs will be who.
And give us your Lions prediction for this week you
Lions insider, you all right?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Mariners will meet the blue Jays. That's what I've got there.
The Marriage will meet the blue Jays. The the Phillies.
I believe they're going to find a way to beat
the Dodgers. The Phillies will meet the Brewers. I think
that's gonna be a fun series two if it plays
out that way. And then the Detroit Lions this weekend
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will triumph by a score of thirty one twenty one.
I'm going a little higher scoring than I typically.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Wow, that's way highway he's hitting the over which is
forty nine and a half, and the spread is ten.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
They're playing in Cincinnati against the Bengals. By the way,
that game interesting and these are very rare things that
I know. I don't know a lot, but I do
know that typically AFC games are supposed to be on CBS,
but that will flex the Fox Baby because they know
the national audience wants more Lions. They want more Lions
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on national TV, so they flex them into the four
twenty five slot. Lions Bengals, the Detroit Lions thirty one,
the Cincinnati Bengals twenty one, and it'll it'll be a
very robust weekend of sports in my great city. And
of course they're all playing on the road, the Lions
and the Tigers, but the Lions of Cincinnati the Tigers
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in Seattle. I think that Tiger's final way to split
the first two games, but the Mariners eventually prevail in five.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
This could be and John Paul, this could be a
big weekend for Michigan, a big week for Michigan over
Ohio in general. You know you already had this, You're
gonna have it on could have it on Sunday again. Yeah,
to be a big Michigan overall.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Filo taken on the whole state. What we need is
the next Fiftons Cavaliers playoffs. Deers Well have to wait
for this one for a while. This, by the way,
is only and I always love these cross sport dynamics.
Only the second time ever that a in the four
major sports that a Detroit team has played a Seattle team.
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The previous time was was the Jim Caldwell coached Lions
who went out to Seattle, and I believe the final
score was twenty six to six. It was a fairly
bland game as yet January seventh, twenty seventeen. It looks
like the Lions did all their scoring on two Matt
Prade bilgals. There was there was a lot of uh
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uh and Doug Baldwin big catch there at the end
from Russell Wilson's there you go. So that was that
was That was the box score. Some goodness now eight
years ago.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
John Paul Morosi on Twitter at John Morosi as always, buddy,
appreciate it. We'll talk to you next week. Enjoy the
games this weekend.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Love the conversation my friends. You guys reach out anytime,
you know, if there's ever something that happened to the
game that you don't that you. We just need some
additional context on you. Wake me up. I mean, I'll
be all trading. Just call me and we'll make sure
that we we get on the air. And I'll even
predict a Lion's inter squad scrimmage.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
I dig that.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Final score of the Phillies inter squad. No, just kidding
you got j P.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
We'll talk to you. There goes John Paul Morosi, and
the drama has not stopped the forty nine Ers and
the Rams in overtime, the Niners with a twenty six
to twenty three lead after a field goal. The Rams
faced with a four than one inside the red zone,
they decide to go for it on fourth and one.
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How did it turn out?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Not belong to?
Speaker 1 (32:10):
How's the answer? And what's trending?
Speaker 5 (32:12):
It was not good for La as the Niners stop
that fourth and one on their own eleven yard line.
Rams were knocking on the door to score. It was
a nice thirty eight thirty eight yard pass from Matthew
Stafford to two to out well to get them downfield,
but San Francisco makes another stop, another crucial stop.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
They win it twenty six to twenty three. Who to
thunk it? None of you, none of us, None of us.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
We're thinking.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
I thought it was going to be forty eight seventeen
rams be the it were really that number.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
It was unreal.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
And there was another hit while you guys were talking
to JP Morosi on Mac Jones, the first sack of
the game for the Rams, and I really was like,
his pants are He's not coming back, you guys, He's
dying right now, Like.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Get him off the field.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
Poor kid did not go did not have to go
back out there, but he did end thirty three of
forty nine for three hundred and forty two yards, two touchdowns,
no interceptions. Matthew Stafford was thirty of forty seven three
hundred and eighty nine yards, three touchdowns, no interceptions either.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
What a game.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
Kendrick Bourne ten catches for San Francisco and one hundred
and forty two yards.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
San Francisco improves.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
To four and one, Rams fall to three and two.
Other NFL news, Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson missed his second
straight practice today because of a hamstring injury. Buccaneers running
back Bucky Irving, who was seen in a boot earlier
this week, didn't practice either, and the Commanders have officially
ruled out wide receivers Terry McLaurin and Noah Brown four
Sunday's matchup in LA. When it comes to base ball, well,
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the Yankee shout out the Red Sox four zero two
advance to the Alds where they will face the Blue Jays.
The Cubs are advancing to the NLDS to face the
Brewers after taking down the Padres three to one. It's
the first time that the Cubs are headed to the
NLDS since twenty seventeen. Tigers are gonna face the Mariners.
They be the Guardians earlier today, six three, so they'll
see Seattle in the Alds.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Back to you guys, thank you very much. MONTI. I
guess who was that picture for the Yankees that won
eight in tonight?
Speaker 5 (34:19):
Cam Schlittler, who was taking pictures with like like a
UFC or like a wrestling belt.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, give you that belt. He
give me that best.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
Yes, he was awesome, he was.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
We'll have more baseball on the slip slip, but coming
up next. I'm like, I'm scratching on it. Slip slip
slip coming up next, not one, but the first of
two big hot takes coming off of this forty nine
Ers upset win over the Rams on TNF. That's next
right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
I buye even if I'm not wrestling. Be sure to
catch live editions of The Jason's Smith's Show with Mike
harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific on
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Play Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my
best friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, I mean that was a
tush push, just inverting the uh. The Niners pull off
the upset over the Rams twenty six twenty three.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
The Rams had a chance and could have kicked the
game tying field goal that would have extended the game.
But on fourth and one, they'd go for it from
the from inside the fifteen yard line. And it was
a bad play call from the beginning. Right away. I
first guessed it. I said, where is the yard going
to come from? Everybody is stacked the line of scrimmage there.
A yard is not going to come out of this play.
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But the Rams decide, Hey, fourth and one, let's go
for it. Let's be bold, and this is how it
turned out.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
One for the Rams. Niners lead by three, a chance
to win it with a stop. Here it overtime. Stafford
gets under center at the eleven yard line. He takes it,
he turns, he gives the Karen Williams, he gets packed.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
I think he's short, Tim, I think he's short. And
the forty nine ers stored the field.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
It is all over.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
The forty nine Ers have won it in.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Over time here in La.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
I just want to let you know, Tim, Yes, it
was short, all right, so Tim knows. I think Tim
now knows that play was short. Tim the play was short.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
He thought about it, thought about it, I mean very
slow developing play.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Yes, it was.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
It was an awful play call. Again, the Niners were
stacked to stop it. They had called time out. I
don't see how the Rams thought this is gonna get
a yard. But this is why, again, this is why
the tush push is such a big deal and why
it's a big advantage when you can pull this off.
I bet you Sean McVay is walking off the field
(37:04):
right now, going, you know what, screw it, We're gonna
do the tush push. We're gonna because I can't have
that again. Cole stanfordhad and skip leg day Kyron Williams.
Two bad play, two big plays. Is fumble going into
the end zone could have won the game for the Rams.
Uh he gets stopped here on fourth and one. But
again the tush push that this is. This is why
the Eagles win. It's why the Eagles win games. It's
(37:26):
why plays like this you get the third and one,
fourth and one. The Eagles are unstoppable because they can
continue to run a play like this. And really, I
don't understand why other teams haven't picked it up. I
really don't. It's not like the Eagles have ownership over
the play. It's when you saw teams running uh, you
know when when you would have the quarterback come out
(37:47):
of the game, when Ronnie Brown would run wildcat up
when the wildcat came into the league, other teams did
the wildcat. There was no problem. Other teams did the wildcat.
Most teams tried it. Okay, we really don't have the
personnel for it, but okay, but you saw other teams
try the wildcat. This is a play that you can
easily figure out what to do. Like touch, push is
a pretty easy play. Get your line in one, you
(38:07):
going down figuring pushing, you can do it. I don't
know why all the other teams in the NFL haven't said, oh, well,
if they do it, we're gonna steal that play, cause
it's gonna get us a yard on fourth and one,
a third and one. All the time. We're gonna figure
out how to pull this off. We're gonna install it
during training camp, we're gonna practice it, we're gonna do X,
Y and Z, were gonna do all of these things.
(38:29):
I don't know why other teams haven't done this, I
really don't. I don't know if they feel like, well,
we're infringing on the on the Eagles, you know, hey,
they're gonna say, hey, back away, this is our play.
I don't know why other teams haven't done that.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Yeah, I mean in this case, I guess I understand it.
With Matthew Stafford kind of like the fact that Philip Rivers,
for as great as he was, you knew there was
never gonna be a quarterback sneak with it. With Matthew Stafford,
I think we're kind of in that same boat right
that we're not gonna see it and then it just
becomes a question of where the ball's going. And again
the hand off being as slow at it as it was,
(39:02):
that you were able to plug the gap and you
had multiple guys coming from the second level to crash
the party and keep Williams from getting to the first down.
But a league wide yeah, the fact that that isn't
a more widely.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Used and.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Perpetrated move, I guess some of it owes to the
larger question that we keep having about practice time and
scaling that back and your reliance on your offensive line,
the cohesion of your offensive line because it's got a click, right.
The fact that we haven't seen a bunch of penalties
called after the incidents of earlier in the two weeks
(39:44):
ago is kind of curious. We'll see when that first
one comes out against the Eagles, But to this point,
now they're running variations of it right now and all this,
I mean, I.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Mean, I don't see how this is like it's a copycat.
If the NFL wasn't a copycat league, I would say, what,
But everybody copycats everything and they.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
Don't do it, especially this which has what a ninety
success rate.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
I don't get the rams they got to own this loss.
They gave this game to the forty nine multiple times.
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