June 19, 2024 • 37 mins
Jason and Mike officially welcome you to the Grimace Era. And MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi joins the show to help us remember an absolute legend.
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
Greetings and welcome inside hour two The.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Jason Smith Show with My best friend Grimace.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
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a little bit too much. The breaks are beating the boys.
Mets were down six too early to the Rangers. Okay,
it's gonna come to an end. They can't win every night.
Grimace was the chosen one.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I feel every Now there's Springsteen Fogerty or Melancamp playing
behind you.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
With that, we're moving on to Mayor mccheese. Now going
from Grimace and the Mets rally. Francisco Alvarez ties it
Pete Alonso to go ahead double in the ninth inning.
Edwin Diaz closes it out and the Mets win again
undefeated in the Grimace era. It really is amazing, right,
you get that leadoff runner bottom of the ninth and
you start getting nervous. As we're having our conversation, you
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almost refuse to look at the monitor because you were
starting to get nervous. Once Diaz came in, they get
the double. Playing the show in the ballpit, Uh, whenever
get that, we'll do the show from the ball We
gotta clean the balls, though I'm not saying I'm not
gonna go just jump in a ball.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Always got to clean the ball. Always clean the ball,
make sure they're clean.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Like we just kind of go, you know, like we
need somebody outside all the balls out and just like
rubbing them down with the u uh with sanitizer.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Oh yeah, we need some sterilization.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Yeah we don't need a hand foot and mouf.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
No, absolutely no, no, we did a big thing. Uh
not the weekend Hollins and either was a guy that
did his fantasy punishment where he had to go to
uh a McDonald's. Oh yeah, yeah yeah and be there
all day and he had to go twenty four hours.
But he could cut time off by eating. You know,
time was given to each of the line item.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Right like if he if he ate a big Mac,
it took forty five minutes off the time he had
to spend a meek.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Breakfast was two hours. Two hours. Yeah, yeah, you eat
the whole seventeen hash browns.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
You know what. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
If I would easily be okay with that, because you
would say, oh you finished last, okay, twenty four hours
at McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I'll be here about forty five minutes. I'll see it
a bit, but you go, but what do you mean
I got?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, I could take time off by eating stuff, right, yeah,
I get. I'll see it about forty five minutes. I'm
all good.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Well, the ballpit was included. You can get five Oh really? Yeah,
I don't think a lot of players still had the ballpitch?
Did you get rid of that during the it out?
Some of that?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Now they have this separate play place. It's called the
play place now that you go in to, which I
think you do the ballpit?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Yeah, the ballpit I think is did they really monitor
for agitators because one of the big failures years past
were say, you know, we were not quite teenagers, but
you'd start whipping the balls at each other and occasionally
there'd be a little kid that would get some fire. Yeah, no,
no it I got no, I got the visual. I
got the visual south Paw over the top. Watch my
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curve ball. It didn't break and it hit that kid.
Do you think Grimas is lefty? He's really you think?
So that's why you because there was a nice rope,
but because the guy who threw the ball out, I mean,
it has a pretty good first pitch by Grimace. No,
there's still a lot of saltiness that there's not been
a tops Now card to commemorate his arrival. And also
the custom guard guys are doing a hell of a
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job with it. And also, look, you want to you
want to credit the Mets for rallying.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Okay, and that's great and all, but you know who's
got to get promoted. Whoever's idea was to have Grimace
throw out the first pitch.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Nothing else. That spot held me like that.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Dude's got to be like Cohen's right hand guy, Like
you have to see McDonald's next.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
All the time, McDonald's black card, go eat forever for
free for you and a family member.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Well, McDonald's didn't even come around this till yesterday.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, I know, right, McDonald's. Now they lean in on
the socials or whatever, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
A million McDonald's in the state of New York. You
think they would have come around to this.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
They said something because they had to the here and now.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
The birthday, that's right, it was his birthday. He shares
a birthday with my brother and my mom's birthday today
sharing Paul McCartney. Paul McCartney is eighty two today he
is mom. Not quite there, mclose.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
But I think Grimace is showing you that he's a
bit of a maverick and like, look, I don't need McDonald's.
I'll make my own money. I don't need to tweet
stuff out. I'll make my own money. McDonald was just said,
I don't need McDonald's. No Grimace is saying I don't
need McDonald's. That's every fire. No Grimace is saying I
don't need mcdon'll go make my own money.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
I'll McDonald's right now.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 6 (05:00):
You could?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
If they you would chalk tomorrow. And you see guys
up on the joists and they're just pulling down the
big end and putting up a big.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
But how many times did they pan the guys in
the crowd wearing a Grimace sweatshirt or a Grimace hat,
purple hats or whatever else?
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Man?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Crazy? The Grimace era in Major League It's awesome. It
is here. I like when there's just random chaos like
that that finds its way into sports, and in a
good way, right because me and that guy get tased
running on the field like an idiot. Yeah, you know,
I hate that, you know, And but I do like
when the outfielders are unaffected look at it, go h
what do you know? And really show no other emotion
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about it. But yeah, the Grimace era is fun. Does
it mean that you're in a really good mood because
the Mets are winning? Did it get me a sandwich
each day? No? But you know what a happy smith?
You know that well? As my best friend.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I gotta keep going because I gotta eat McDonald's every
day until the Mets lose. I gotta I gotta regardless,
I gotta keep the street going. I'm already thinking, oh,
what time do I go tomorrow? What do I get tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Something tells me you proceeded the streak though.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I had a big milcher, had a big Mac and
fries tonight I took a picture of in case you
guys didn't believe me, and I'm like, okay, now what
I got.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
To go tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Like okay, Like maybe I'll go to market a breakfast burrito?
May they go, I don't know, get there before eleven
and just kind of change it up a little bit.
What if I just drive in and get a mcafe here,
you get a drink.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
It appears right now, and you know I'm probably gonna
get struck by lightning. You're actually doing what Spurlock claimed
he did without all the but that's drinking and everything. Yeah,
he did every meal. I mean, I just got to
eat McDonald's. But it was also running in parallel with
some really bad habits. Yeah that probably had more to
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do with his shold not to say that McDonald's is
a number one, but you know, saying all of this
stuff was directly related to McDonald's, as we we'd come
to find out not one hundred percent. I'd been looking.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
If you said to me, okay, I can guarantee you
the Grimace error continues and the Mets will continue.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
We have to run with us. If you ate McDonald's
every day, I could do something every day, right and
just do a different menu item. So you know, maybe
because it's getting warm here in southern California right, heat
wave across the country. Be safe out there. Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate.
But maybe maybe one day you just want to mcflurry
or maybe you will actually bring you I could milkshake
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because people keep saying you have to take care of
your guys.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
My milkshake brings all the boys to the YadA. No,
but I could do like hey, big mac and fries today.
Tomorrow I can do like a mocha mcafe, or then
next I could do a breakfast burrito, like I could
do something. It's it's middle of June. I can keep
that going to the end of September.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Have you already got ready to go? Yeah? Yeah, sure,
what do you have? I can't, I can't, I can't.
They don't have the salad anymore. I don't know what
else to do. I can't do it. Prostbury over on
your number of McDonald's that he's mapped out for his
London trip.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Oh you take the over always?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
What do you? What do you think? We said it at?
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Oh seven locations landmarks. That's how he knows where he's getting.
Where you go travel?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Which tourist things are we going to go see? Yeah,
there's one right there? Well big Mac is this double
duck of one aquel pound? You know, you know you
watch your pop fiction. We don't have metric system here
a little bit?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
What you want some row with cheese is Oh you're
like Royale, right, I know it's like thirty years ago,
but we still do Royal.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
You want that you want?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Okay? Great? Thank you?
Speaker 7 (08:26):
Oh you're that bloke on the radio Al Mcdall's guy, right,
he's here out Look he's with the metside. Yeah he's
got the Grimace. He's a Grimace guy. Are you Grimace?
Are you Grimace? Grimace is here? All the man in
the Grimace costume?
Speaker 6 (08:38):
Oh wonderful, Look like you want the Chuck Schumer cheeseburger.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Oh that was a rough video. That's man, Remember just
because people are in positions of power don't mean they
know a damn thing. If I was Chuck Schumer, I
would say, hey, no, no, no, that was uh, that
was photo shopped. I've gotten out of my levels. I
did not put a piece of cheese on a raw burger.
I did not do that, man, I did not do that.
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I waited. Oh boy, you would still away, man, dude,
I could find other stuff with cheese. Are you kidding?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I would just take the cheese, and he would, he would,
I just take the cheese, I see.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
And that's the thing is, I'm always the guy at
the barbecue that whenever we got dog, do you have
slice cheese?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we got slice cheese? And then
like you know, you know, families like they bring out
it's just the yellow packet that they've had for whatever.
It doesn't really terribly no, I mean, as long as
they don't have a temperature problem where it starts getting
that plasticky thing going to the edges, you'd be all right, Jeff, cheese, Yeah,
I say, yeah, cheese. Uh but you have a hot dog?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yeah, No, I want cheese. I want to put cheese on.
Can you just have jeff cheese. Well I can even
I want to eat jeff cheese cheese.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
When they bring it out to you, do you keep
the plastic on it?
Speaker 4 (09:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
No, But I'm always one that wants to get the
cheese fast before it sits out and it melts and
then suddenly it's just a big lot and you can't
pull a slice off to try to put it on
your burger. It's like you got to get the cheese early.
Like I'm getting out grabbing that cheese right away.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Just bring some dental floss. Can't let the cheese. No,
you can't do it. No, you can't do it. You
can't do it.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
But this is listen, this is the This is the
rain that must fall in the Grimace era.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
This is me. Really, it's the rain that must fall.
It really is kind of an interesting time. If I could,
you know, i'd hire someone to document your your paces
each day.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
What a great idea. Hey, let's have Grimace through out
the first pitch.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
What's it going to do? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
And now the Mets can't lose because Grimace throughout the
first pitch I took.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Away all the tension and he delivered a strike. So
all the pitchers suddenly felt pressure, you know, And it's funny.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
It's funny you say that because I always go back
to you know, people that you will say stuff, it's Grimace,
but it's kind of fun.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
It's it's a thing.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
People don't understand the power of positivity and being in
a great pot positive frame of mind. When you're an
athlete and anything in life, you're better at it when
you have a positive frame.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
When you wake up each day, Yeah, you make a choice.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Yeah, when you are going through life and you have,
you know, bad times, and it happened, that happen to
all of us, you understand that. Okay, I'm not quite
the person I I I no bad times, you know,
I've had my share. Now you put it on a
Now you put it on a ball field, and it's well.
When the Met, when you're losing, like the Mets were, okay,
it's really very difficult to think they're ever going to
pull out of it. And then you have Grimace throws
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out the first pitch. The Mets win a couple of
games and suddenly, oh it's the Grimace era and it's
a fun thing, and the players get caught up in
it and all of a sudden, your outlook changes and
you come to the ballpark every day thinking we're going
to find ways to get hits and find ways to win.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
It's the old bull Durham.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Line, right when when When when crash, Davis says, Look,
if you think you're winning because you are or you
aren't having sex, than you are. If you think you're
winning because of because you're you're putting, well your left
shoe on before your right shoe on, then you are
winning because because it's anything that puts you in that
positive frame of mind to enjoy that, it gets rid
of the clutter in your head, and it puts you
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in a position to succeed. And when that happens, you
make breaks happen and things turn out better for you.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Kevin later use another piece of that when he would
clear the mechanism as Billy Chappell in route to a
big performance as a member of the Detroit Tigers. I
think that was the last perfect game that Vince Scully called. Yeah,
I think that was what it was. Sorry spoiler alert,
Sorry he gets it and Billy Chad.
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Speaker 3 (13:00):
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Speaker 1 (13:01):
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it is some night in Major League Baseball right now.
The Dodgers were trailing nine to four going to the
top of the ninth inning. After a Hayward grand slam.
The Dodgers now have first and second, two out. It
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is nine to eight, and the Rockies are incensed over
a check swing call by Taskar Hernandez.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
That was called a ball that look was it close? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
It was close, but still, holy crap, man, this was
a really big deal and Hernandez.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Make them pay in a way. So let me tell you.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Taskar Hernandez on a one to two count checks his
swing and the Rockies dugout is insane.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
They are insane over not getting the strike three call.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Okay, still two strikes, still two outs, first and second.
The next pitch, Hernandez launches into the stands and as
soon as the ball lands, the outfielders are screaming at
the first base umpire who did not call Hernandez for
going around and look, I'll tell you seeing it it
was close. It's one of those. It's one of those
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where if they called it a strike, Okay, I see it,
but they didn't call it a strike. I see it
was right at the line and Hernandez makes him pay.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
This is now a seven run ninth inning for the Dodgers.
They are still batting. This is what to expect from
the Grimace era in Major League Baseball. Joining us now
on the hotline to break it all down as we
talked to Grimacea. Remember the legend that was Willie Mays
Fox Sports one Insider Extraordinary. Follow him on Twitter at
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John Morosi. It is MLB network star John Paul Morosi,
John Paul, what's happening? Welcome to the Grimacea, my friend?
How do you feel?
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Well? Good evening? My friends? How I feel? Is this?
Seven minutes ago there was a tweet from the McDonald's
account which which had a photo of a ball signed
by Grimace and it said I had a ball today. Lol.
So Grimace, if you look at it right now, Jason
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Grimace is now the avatar on the McDonald's X account.
So that and he's wearing a Mets hat. He's wearing
a Mets hat about the time, at this moment, at
this moment in time, Grimace, Grimace wearing a Mets hat
is the new avatar for McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
White a day all who knew?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Hey, and John Paul, let me tell you, I now
you got to talk to Sterns because I know you
give him messages from me all the time. Tell David Sterns.
The only thing I want to say is, boy, you
could have had Grimace a out the first pitch, you know,
a month ago, you know, and things are going bad
and may come.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Back today would have been a good call. Uh. Well,
we'll have to get him on the schedule for next
year on opening Day. Who knows now this what we know?
I guess what I'll say is this. In in baseball
last year, the National League champion Arizona Diamondbacks won eighty
four games in the regular season, two games over five hundred,
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and the Mets, as disastrous as they played at multiple
stages of the first half, they're now just two games under.
They're in third place in the NL East, and as
I would say, on the eighteenth of June. All things
are now possible.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
How about that madness ensues. I don't even know that
they have an official deal with the Mets anymore so
putting you know the Mets had on him and whatever,
someone's got to get a contracts out of here.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Well it's going to if there is no deal yet,
someone someone is drawing up the papers as we speak.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
To do that.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
This is one of those things where I would expect
the legal department of both the Mets and McDonald's are
working overtime.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Yeah, because once upon a time they had a deal.
Now it's time to re up given this level of success,
all right, JP, big news today, obviously baseball mourn's a legend.
Willie Mays, that bridge across generations. Jason and I talked
about it earlier. The guy always put up as the
benchmark by which all others are judged in baseball. You're
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now doing a Hall of Fame podcast. I'm sure the
name Willy Mays comes up in every one of those conversations.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Oh, without a doubt, and he is. I thought it
was very poignant tonight on MLB Network, Ken Griffey Jr.
Referred to Willie Mays as the godfather of all center fielders,
and Harold Reynolds said that he felt as though it
was that Willy was a father figure to all of
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the players, especially the African American players, because he could
speak to the experience of beginning his career in the
Negro leagues and then of course going on to a
legendary career that is really without compare. I go back
to something that Ernie Harwell, the celebrated late broadcast principally
of the Tigers, said. He said Willie Mays was the
best all round player he ever saw. And Ernie Harwell
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met Bay Bruce, he covered Jackie Robinson. Ernie Harwell lived
an entire life in baseball, and I've always said, if
it was good enough for Ernie to say that William
Maids is a grandtler ever saw, I'm going to just
co sign that and say it's for Ernie Harwell said,
I'm taking it as gospel, and it was a really
remarkable moment. Really in a couple different places. Tonight in
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Birmingham rick Woodfield, They're going to honor Willie Mays. It's
always been the plan for the game on Thursday, Cardinals,
Giants and the hope was at one point that Willie
might be able to attend that game in person. Of course,
news just came out yesterday that he would not be
able to attend for health reasons, and of course the
news emerges today that he's passed away. So which is
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It's it's poignant, it's gut wrenching. As jor As Kenarthy
Junior said today we networked that it feels like his
heart's on the floor right now, just how heartbroken he
is that baseball is going to Willie Mays's hometown and
he passes away effectively forty eight hours before the game begins.
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It really is one of those cosmic moments in life
where you do feel as though somehow this is all
connected and heartbreaking and beautiful and poignant all at the
same time. Dave Fleming, a dear friend of mine, Giants broadcaster.
If you're able to the audio of when he announced
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on the KNBR broadcast tonight of the Giants game in
Chicago that Willy had passed away, and Dave is to me,
his versatility, his grace of the microphone has unsurpassed and
you could hear in his voice, his voice quivering, trying
to get the word out and the news out that
Willy had passed away, and it just it took him
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a couple of tries to be able to say the words.
And I think that just speaks to someone who is
truly larger than life, almost invincible in so many ways,
that we're that we are, we are we anybody who
loves baseball are struggling to probably find the words to
express how we feel. And I think back in terms
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of recent years in which just covering the game and
celebrating legends who have passed away. I felt this way
when Henry Aaron died. I felt this way when Vin
Scully died, And to feel this way tonight, it's just
there are certain people whose impact on the game is
so outside that it's almost difficult for us to find
the words in the English language to express our feelings.
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And I think that's certainly how I feel tonight tonight.
And how many people around the game field.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Right now, and they'll be Network insider John Paul Morosi,
our guest to Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen Love
from the Tire dot Com Studios. All right, John Paul,
we talked about this. I'm going to give you a statement, agree.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Or disagree you ready, I am indeed all right.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Willie Mays's catch nineteen fifty four World Series VIC wordz
greatest defensive play in sports history, not just baseball, in
sports history.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
I was certainly because of the stage where it happened,
how it happened, who made the catch, when it happened
in the game. I agree with that there's never going
to be and we could certainly go through and athletically speaking,
you know, there may be great plays that are made
and saves off the goal line, and Christine Lilly in
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the World Cup final in nineteen ninety nine saving a
would have been a game winning goal for China with
her forehead. There are moments like that, but I think
in the folklore of American sport, I don't think we're
ever going to see a play like that, And certainly defensively,
it's known as simply the catch, and we had the
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catch in the NFL, of course, but that was an
offensive catch as a defensive catch, and I think that
it's a very very special bit of history. And I
think too one of the one of the reasons why
I think Willie Mays is such a transcendent figure because
of how many different places in the country he is special.
But that that catch, of course, happens in New York City,
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uh for the New York Giants, and then the rivalry
and Willie they all migrate to to San Francisco. And
so there's something I was asked about rivalries and why
these franchises matter so much. You still have we still
have grandparents who are who are around who talk about
being a Giant fan in New York growing up, or
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a Brooklyn Dodger fan. And and then our country is
just so big that this rivalry picks up and moves
to the West Coast. And Willie Mays was a central
figure in all of that. And so I think that
what you have is you've got his roots in Alabama,
his roots as a player in the Negro leagues, what
he had to do to uh, what he had to
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fight against racism, the discrimination, to have an opportunity, to earn,
the opportunity to pursue his dream. And so you have
this backdrop of the ways in which Willie Mays's story
touches so many parts of America, New York City, West Coast,
the Deep South. It's just a it's a special part
of American history in the in the twentieth century and
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now into the twenty first, and I just think that
we as the people were so big as a country,
were so big that I think that in some ways
it's hard to find figures and people who are truly
unifying and special to us all, and William Mays as
that person. And I think that the way in which
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you're seeing people of so many different backgrounds, in different
ages and stories tonight coming together to celebrate a true
American icon, I think just speaks to how powerful Willy
Mays is, how powerful the game can be, and how
much pride I think all of us take in him
being an American, like he has one of the most
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quintessentially powerful American stories that we're ever going to tell.
And to be able to say that we walked the
earth at the same time that he did is a
pretty profound statement.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
John Morosi our guest Jason Smith Show with Mike Carbon
here Fox Sports Radio. Follow him on Twitter at John Morosi,
Lead out the h It's j O N.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
M O.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
R Osi. Hi, Mom, and you hear his podcast he's
now doing for with in conjunction with the Hall of
Fame so much going on in JP's world. Follow it
all there in the world of X and his coverage
of Major League Baseball. JP, we're watching the Dodgers, trying
to put the finishing touches on this game tonight, but
(25:45):
the specter of injury. As much as Jason wants to
go grimas Era and whatever else, for the Dodgers, they've
had just the injury bug creeping around. Yamamoto goes down,
Mooki is out at least two months, and if you
did the scroll, it's like the end of a cable
movie with another one starting. How do they weather the storm?
(26:07):
How quickly can they get some of these other bodies
back and maybe fortify the roster.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Well, the trade deadline's coming up, and so they may
be able to address some of those issues as you
get closer there. I do think just to pull back
for a moment, the comeback that you're describing, and however
contentious it may be, in the moment, just there are
moments in a season where when injuries are happening and
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you feel the character of your team being tested. This
is one of those nights, and look at what they're doing.
It's a special group. Just as they are right now.
I think that getting an infielder is going to be
important for them and part of the reason why it's
not just Mookie, it's been Max Monthly has been out
as well, and so there are a couple teams, certainly
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Toronto come to mind. We'll see what happens. Bobaschett right
now is on the eye all. He's not really playing
that well in terms of his numbers this season. I
think that's something to keep in mind. But there will
be ball clubs that that are comfortable moving on from
some players. And you look around, I don't think Nikon
d is going to go over to over to the
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Dodgers from from the Giants. That's given given that rivalry,
there's not that many teams that are that are necessarily
full on cell mode. Now that's that will give you
a player who's a meaningful upgrade over what they've got
right now in Miguel ROAs. So I do think as
we get closer to the deadline, there may be some
teams that are in that conversation and will be comfortable
(27:43):
doing that. But I think for now what we're seeing
is the team that's probably gonna have to stay internal
until we get a little bit closer to the to
the All Star breaker we're called. They just got Cavin
Bigio in that trade with the with the Blue Jays,
so they already brought in somebody to help them ameliorate
the situation of having one on the IL. So they
have a lot of resources. They've got a lot of
(28:04):
talent already in place. I would say this though, as
I conclude my thoughts on the Dodgers, I would actually
be more aggressive if I was the Dodgers and looking
at pitching than I would at position players. I think
they will find a way with their position players, and
Mookie's going to get back certainly well. In advance of
the playoffs, I would address more of the pitching side,
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because then you're not really sure what Yamamoto can do
in the second half when he's trying to adjust the
major league schedule for the first time. So I would
still focus on pitching, and there should be plenty of
pitching available, including the Rays as a potential seller in
that regard to John Paul.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Lastly, we talk a lot about the Dodgers and they
finish off this huge win over the Rockies, and the
Rockies are hopping mad over it at least talk a
lot about their big lead in the NL West. But
to bring things full circle to the Grimace era. With
the Mets win tonight over the Rangers, the largest lead
in Major League Baseball belong to the Seattle Mariners.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
It's a down year.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Everybody is down and Juli Rodriguez isn't even hitting yet.
Like we talk a lot about the Yankees and the
Dodgers and the Phillies, but boy, this.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Might be the year for Seattle.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
They're a bad away from being really, really formidable when
it comes to the postseason. I mean that they're a
team that I said this last week and some people
were maybe not agreeing with me, But watch this team
play that if that they are the team that no
one is going to want to deal with in October.
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I'm not saying they're going to win the World Series,
but when when you line up this pitching up against
you and you've got to deal with Gilbert and Kirby
and Castillo and and deal with it with them in
a short series, no one is going to be eager
to run to the batrack and have that be their assignment.
And and we know this about Jerry Depoto, he'll make
some moves. He loves to make the moves anyway. And
(29:55):
so I think with some of these teams, again I
mentioned the Rays is maybe one of them more emerging sellers. Uh,
there's a lot to look at there with some potential
some potential players that could be moved. But I love
the Mariners team that I think is going to be
really good down the stretch. And you you point out
Julio Rodriguez. If he gets going on top of guys
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like Cal Rowley and others, they're going to be a
really tough team to deal with as you get towards
the second half of the season.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
That is at John Morosi, our first visit with John
Paul during the Grimace era. John Paul, thank you very much,
my friend. Please wear purple tomorrow and we'll talk to
you next week.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Sounds great. Let me tell you something. Friday night, we
got Game six of the Stanley Cup Final. The Oilers
are the chance to win it, win at home, to
prolong the series and bring it back for Game seven.
So I cannot wait to see what happens on Friday night.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
All right, maybe you get an interview with the oilers
fan with that with a woman who's gone viral.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Man, I've heard, I've heard tales of her legend. I
have not become acquainted with her, but I am familiar
with with her general story.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Next, in other words, look for John Paul's interview with
Grimas coming up.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Thank you, Don Paul appreciated buddy, JP boy back to
away from that, surey did. In other words, like hey
is my fundy? Is my wife?
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Listen?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Where's my supersuit? Coming up? Next?
Speaker 1 (31:26):
We have to get in and get in and talk
about the most controversial ending in sports tonight. Wow, is
one team just losing it after a big collapse and
a big loss. Keep it right here, Jason and Mike.
This is Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 3 (31:54):
Were and oh boy?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
You know coming up in ten minutes, do we have
a special conversation to have to commemorate the life of
Willie May's had to do with a great defensive play
that happened in sports tonight. But let's deal with what
just happened, because this is gonna be a big story
for the next twenty four hours.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
The Dodgers with a seven run ninth inning.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
This is the time this year that the Rockies have
allowed six or more runs in an inning past the ninth,
ninth inning or later.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Okay, sixth time they've allowed this. Which is why my
question to John Bamerosi was still valid. Okay, because I'm
watching the comeback, right, I'm watching the Hayward grand slam,
the subsequent Otani single, all of those things, and then
watching tay Oscar go yard. But still you've got a
(32:45):
lot of injuries that you have to navigate, and you're
not gonna play the Rockies for it.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
It was nine to four going into the ninth inning.
Jason Hayward hits a grand slam, choehal Tani gets on base,
Freddy Freeman has walked intentionally, and to Oscar Hernandez comes up,
who has had a really good season. Amazing you walk
Freddy Freeman to get to Hernandez. I understand that in theory,
but dude, the guy's gonna knock you in one hundred
(33:10):
and twenty runs.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Had what six home runs aftering the the night in
the month of June, and you're gonna walk Freddy Free.
I got it.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
You're setting up the force. I completely understand that. But
it's like, wow, man.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
And you're the Rockies and you get to a one
and two count and you're you're you're in the process
of giving this game away. In the ninth inning, you
get to a one in two count and there is
a pitch that is swung at by Hernandez, but he
holds up his swing.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
First base umpire says no swing. The count goes to
two and two, and the Rockies dugout goes insane. Bud
Black is incense. He's screaming at the umpire that had
strike three. Screaming at the umpire that had strike three. Now,
why this is significant, We'll have coming up in a second.
So the Rockies think the game should be over, and
watching the replay, they could have called it either way, right,
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it was right on the line if they had called
it a swing, okay, But they called it not a swing.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Okay. In the end, the Rockies still don't let up
seven runs in the ninth inn Wow. So I mean
I didn't think he broke No, he didn't break his
risks or whatever. And the bat didn't come through the
zone or any of that sou But.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
If they called it us, okay, was it pat? Was
it out over the plate? I could understand that. But
wherever the call was, it was there. So the Rockies
are hopping mad. They want a call.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
They think the.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Game should be over. Here's what happened. On the next
pitch to Hernandez two two swung on, heaving the air
right center fielding date this ball heading back.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
This ball's gone. It's gone.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
It's gone.
Speaker 7 (34:38):
A three run home run. Tas Car Hood on this
and the Dodgers have come all the way back to
take the lead.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Oh my goodness. Dodgers Radio Network on the call.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Immediately after the home run, the outfielders of the Rockies
were screaming at the first base umpire, you cost us this,
you cost that's this Bud Black is screaming after the
game is over because the Dodgers hold on to win
eleven nine, that the Rockies go out one, two, three
and the ninth inning, Black is screaming and other players
are screaming.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
They're still running up, going batting helmets on and everything
the line, you know, And.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
This is why I look at this and I go,
if you're a manager, if you this is where you
have to understand that when you lose your mind about something,
you lose that mojo, You lose that momentum. Right, Because
what was the worst thing I always say about the
Bartman play with with the Cubs? After the ball went out, right,
Moyes lew Is screaming for fan interference, Mark Pryor scream
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they go out, they meet you.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Whelder suddenly commits but an error that you expect a
five year old rank But.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
It's but it's that play, but it's but it's that,
it's it's that melting down that tells you that maybe
the moment was too big for you, and you lose
the momentum. They don't get the call on that, and
Bud Black decides to get out of got and screamed
and the drunkies dugout is screaming at the first base umpire,
and all of a sudden, I felt like, right there,
they lost that mojo, they lost, they lost everything. And
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the next pitch, Hernandez puts in the season right. So
the next pitch.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
He's like, Yeah, I'm gonna throw this as hard as
I can and it's gonna go right by you. He
was say O, I'm gonna throw that speedball by you
and make you look like a fool boy. All right,
I quoting uh Springsteen lyrics.
Speaker 6 (36:27):
Gus, I want to hear how it sounded on the
Losers radio and not oh boy, we have we have
the Uh the Rockies TV read a boy, go ahead
to two.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Fools?
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Waters got you gotta be kidding them channeling the hard.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Stroke out to a three hard.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Well, it wasn't a striking oof. You have got to
be kidding me, Rockies TV. On the ball, Look, you
should have made a pitch. You could have made another pitch.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
You could have not melted down and said, oh, how
dare you not get You still have to make one
pitch and you win.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
The game, and you don't do it. That's that. That
inning is all on the Rockies.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
I'm second basketball right past you. You allowed seven runs,
you get up a grand slam, you lost.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
It's on you.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Awful Coming up next Willie Mays and the greatest defensive
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
Greetings and welcome inside hour two The.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
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(00:57):
a little bit too much. The breaks are beating the boys.
Mets were down six too early to the Rangers. Okay,
it's gonna come to an end. They can't win every night.
Grimace was the chosen one.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I feel every Now there's Springsteen Fogerty or Melancamp playing
behind you.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
With that, we're moving on to Mayor mccheese. Now going
from Grimace and the Mets rally. Francisco Alvarez ties it
Pete Alonso to go ahead double in the ninth inning.
Edwin Diaz closes it out and the Mets win again
undefeated in the Grimace era. It really is amazing, right,
you get that leadoff runner bottom of the ninth and
you start getting nervous. As we're having our conversation, you
(01:36):
almost refuse to look at the monitor because you were
starting to get nervous. Once Diaz came in, they get
the double. Playing the show in the ballpit, Uh, whenever
get that, we'll do the show from the ball We
gotta clean the balls, though I'm not saying I'm not
gonna go just jump in a ball.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Always got to clean the ball. Always clean the ball,
make sure they're clean.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Like we just kind of go, you know, like we
need somebody outside all the balls out and just like
rubbing them down with the u uh with sanitizer.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Oh yeah, we need some sterilization.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Yeah we don't need a hand foot and mouf.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
No, absolutely no, no, we did a big thing. Uh
not the weekend Hollins and either was a guy that
did his fantasy punishment where he had to go to
uh a McDonald's. Oh yeah, yeah yeah and be there
all day and he had to go twenty four hours.
But he could cut time off by eating. You know,
time was given to each of the line item.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Right like if he if he ate a big Mac,
it took forty five minutes off the time he had
to spend a meek.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Breakfast was two hours. Two hours. Yeah, yeah, you eat
the whole seventeen hash browns.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
You know what. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
If I would easily be okay with that, because you
would say, oh you finished last, okay, twenty four hours
at McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I'll be here about forty five minutes. I'll see it
a bit, but you go, but what do you mean
I got?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, I could take time off by eating stuff, right, yeah,
I get. I'll see it about forty five minutes. I'm
all good.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Well, the ballpit was included. You can get five Oh really? Yeah,
I don't think a lot of players still had the ballpitch?
Did you get rid of that during the it out?
Some of that?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Now they have this separate play place. It's called the
play place now that you go in to, which I
think you do the ballpit?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Yeah, the ballpit I think is did they really monitor
for agitators because one of the big failures years past
were say, you know, we were not quite teenagers, but
you'd start whipping the balls at each other and occasionally
there'd be a little kid that would get some fire. Yeah, no,
no it I got no, I got the visual. I
got the visual south Paw over the top. Watch my
(03:29):
curve ball. It didn't break and it hit that kid.
Do you think Grimas is lefty? He's really you think?
So that's why you because there was a nice rope,
but because the guy who threw the ball out, I mean,
it has a pretty good first pitch by Grimace. No,
there's still a lot of saltiness that there's not been
a tops Now card to commemorate his arrival. And also
the custom guard guys are doing a hell of a
(03:49):
job with it. And also, look, you want to you
want to credit the Mets for rallying.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Okay, and that's great and all, but you know who's
got to get promoted. Whoever's idea was to have Grimace
throw out the first pitch.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Nothing else. That spot held me like that.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Dude's got to be like Cohen's right hand guy, Like
you have to see McDonald's next.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
All the time, McDonald's black card, go eat forever for
free for you and a family member.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Well, McDonald's didn't even come around this till yesterday.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, I know, right, McDonald's. Now they lean in on
the socials or whatever, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
A million McDonald's in the state of New York. You
think they would have come around to this.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
They said something because they had to the here and now.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
The birthday, that's right, it was his birthday. He shares
a birthday with my brother and my mom's birthday today
sharing Paul McCartney. Paul McCartney is eighty two today he
is mom. Not quite there, mclose.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
But I think Grimace is showing you that he's a
bit of a maverick and like, look, I don't need McDonald's.
I'll make my own money. I don't need to tweet
stuff out. I'll make my own money. McDonald was just said,
I don't need McDonald's. No Grimace is saying I don't
need McDonald's. That's every fire. No Grimace is saying I
don't need mcdon'll go make my own money.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
I'll McDonald's right now.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 6 (05:00):
You could?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
If they you would chalk tomorrow. And you see guys
up on the joists and they're just pulling down the
big end and putting up a big.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
But how many times did they pan the guys in
the crowd wearing a Grimace sweatshirt or a Grimace hat,
purple hats or whatever else?
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Man?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Crazy? The Grimace era in Major League It's awesome. It
is here. I like when there's just random chaos like
that that finds its way into sports, and in a
good way, right because me and that guy get tased
running on the field like an idiot. Yeah, you know,
I hate that, you know, And but I do like
when the outfielders are unaffected look at it, go h
what do you know? And really show no other emotion
(05:37):
about it. But yeah, the Grimace era is fun. Does
it mean that you're in a really good mood because
the Mets are winning? Did it get me a sandwich
each day? No? But you know what a happy smith?
You know that well? As my best friend.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I gotta keep going because I gotta eat McDonald's every
day until the Mets lose. I gotta I gotta regardless,
I gotta keep the street going. I'm already thinking, oh,
what time do I go tomorrow? What do I get tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Something tells me you proceeded the streak though.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I had a big milcher, had a big Mac and
fries tonight I took a picture of in case you
guys didn't believe me, and I'm like, okay, now what
I got.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
To go tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Like okay, Like maybe I'll go to market a breakfast burrito?
May they go, I don't know, get there before eleven
and just kind of change it up a little bit.
What if I just drive in and get a mcafe here,
you get a drink.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
It appears right now, and you know I'm probably gonna
get struck by lightning. You're actually doing what Spurlock claimed
he did without all the but that's drinking and everything. Yeah,
he did every meal. I mean, I just got to
eat McDonald's. But it was also running in parallel with
some really bad habits. Yeah that probably had more to
(06:44):
do with his shold not to say that McDonald's is
a number one, but you know, saying all of this
stuff was directly related to McDonald's, as we we'd come
to find out not one hundred percent. I'd been looking.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
If you said to me, okay, I can guarantee you
the Grimace error continues and the Mets will continue.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
We have to run with us. If you ate McDonald's
every day, I could do something every day, right and
just do a different menu item. So you know, maybe
because it's getting warm here in southern California right, heat
wave across the country. Be safe out there. Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate.
But maybe maybe one day you just want to mcflurry
or maybe you will actually bring you I could milkshake
(07:23):
because people keep saying you have to take care of
your guys.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
My milkshake brings all the boys to the YadA. No,
but I could do like hey, big mac and fries today.
Tomorrow I can do like a mocha mcafe, or then
next I could do a breakfast burrito, like I could
do something. It's it's middle of June. I can keep
that going to the end of September.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Have you already got ready to go? Yeah? Yeah, sure,
what do you have? I can't, I can't, I can't.
They don't have the salad anymore. I don't know what
else to do. I can't do it. Prostbury over on
your number of McDonald's that he's mapped out for his
London trip.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Oh you take the over always?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
What do you? What do you think? We said it at?
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Oh seven locations landmarks. That's how he knows where he's getting.
Where you go travel?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Which tourist things are we going to go see? Yeah,
there's one right there? Well big Mac is this double
duck of one aquel pound? You know, you know you
watch your pop fiction. We don't have metric system here
a little bit?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
What you want some row with cheese is Oh you're
like Royale, right, I know it's like thirty years ago,
but we still do Royal.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
You want that you want?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Okay? Great? Thank you?
Speaker 7 (08:26):
Oh you're that bloke on the radio Al Mcdall's guy, right,
he's here out Look he's with the metside. Yeah he's
got the Grimace. He's a Grimace guy. Are you Grimace?
Are you Grimace? Grimace is here? All the man in
the Grimace costume?
Speaker 6 (08:38):
Oh wonderful, Look like you want the Chuck Schumer cheeseburger.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Oh that was a rough video. That's man, Remember just
because people are in positions of power don't mean they
know a damn thing. If I was Chuck Schumer, I
would say, hey, no, no, no, that was uh, that
was photo shopped. I've gotten out of my levels. I
did not put a piece of cheese on a raw burger.
I did not do that, man, I did not do that.
(09:06):
I waited. Oh boy, you would still away, man, dude,
I could find other stuff with cheese. Are you kidding?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I would just take the cheese, and he would, he would,
I just take the cheese, I see.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
And that's the thing is, I'm always the guy at
the barbecue that whenever we got dog, do you have
slice cheese?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we got slice cheese? And then
like you know, you know, families like they bring out
it's just the yellow packet that they've had for whatever.
It doesn't really terribly no, I mean, as long as
they don't have a temperature problem where it starts getting
that plasticky thing going to the edges, you'd be all right, Jeff, cheese, Yeah,
I say, yeah, cheese. Uh but you have a hot dog?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yeah, No, I want cheese. I want to put cheese on.
Can you just have jeff cheese. Well I can even
I want to eat jeff cheese cheese.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
When they bring it out to you, do you keep
the plastic on it?
Speaker 4 (09:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
No, But I'm always one that wants to get the
cheese fast before it sits out and it melts and
then suddenly it's just a big lot and you can't
pull a slice off to try to put it on
your burger. It's like you got to get the cheese early.
Like I'm getting out grabbing that cheese right away.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Just bring some dental floss. Can't let the cheese. No,
you can't do it. No, you can't do it. You
can't do it.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
But this is listen, this is the This is the
rain that must fall in the Grimace era.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
This is me. Really, it's the rain that must fall.
It really is kind of an interesting time. If I could,
you know, i'd hire someone to document your your paces
each day.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
What a great idea. Hey, let's have Grimace through out
the first pitch.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
What's it going to do? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
And now the Mets can't lose because Grimace throughout the
first pitch I took.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Away all the tension and he delivered a strike. So
all the pitchers suddenly felt pressure, you know, And it's funny.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
It's funny you say that because I always go back
to you know, people that you will say stuff, it's Grimace,
but it's kind of fun.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
It's it's a thing.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
People don't understand the power of positivity and being in
a great pot positive frame of mind. When you're an
athlete and anything in life, you're better at it when
you have a positive frame.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
When you wake up each day, Yeah, you make a choice.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Yeah, when you are going through life and you have,
you know, bad times, and it happened, that happen to
all of us, you understand that. Okay, I'm not quite
the person I I I no bad times, you know,
I've had my share. Now you put it on a
Now you put it on a ball field, and it's well.
When the Met, when you're losing, like the Mets were, okay,
it's really very difficult to think they're ever going to
pull out of it. And then you have Grimace throws
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out the first pitch. The Mets win a couple of
games and suddenly, oh it's the Grimace era and it's
a fun thing, and the players get caught up in
it and all of a sudden, your outlook changes and
you come to the ballpark every day thinking we're going
to find ways to get hits and find ways to win.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
It's the old bull Durham.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Line, right when when When when crash, Davis says, Look,
if you think you're winning because you are or you
aren't having sex, than you are. If you think you're
winning because of because you're you're putting, well your left
shoe on before your right shoe on, then you are
winning because because it's anything that puts you in that
positive frame of mind to enjoy that, it gets rid
of the clutter in your head, and it puts you
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in a position to succeed. And when that happens, you
make breaks happen and things turn out better for you.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Kevin later use another piece of that when he would
clear the mechanism as Billy Chappell in route to a
big performance as a member of the Detroit Tigers. I
think that was the last perfect game that Vince Scully called. Yeah,
I think that was what it was. Sorry spoiler alert,
Sorry he gets it and Billy Chad.
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an we had to talk about.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Oh. Absolutely, We'll get.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
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it is some night in Major League Baseball right now.
The Dodgers were trailing nine to four going to the
top of the ninth inning. After a Hayward grand slam.
The Dodgers now have first and second, two out. It
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is nine to eight, and the Rockies are incensed over
a check swing call by Taskar Hernandez.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
That was called a ball that look was it close? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
It was close, but still, holy crap, man, this was
a really big deal and Hernandez.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Make them pay in a way. So let me tell you.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Taskar Hernandez on a one to two count checks his
swing and the Rockies dugout is insane.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
They are insane over not getting the strike three call.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Okay, still two strikes, still two outs, first and second.
The next pitch, Hernandez launches into the stands and as
soon as the ball lands, the outfielders are screaming at
the first base umpire who did not call Hernandez for
going around and look, I'll tell you seeing it it
was close. It's one of those. It's one of those
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where if they called it a strike, Okay, I see it,
but they didn't call it a strike. I see it
was right at the line and Hernandez makes him pay.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
This is now a seven run ninth inning for the Dodgers.
They are still batting. This is what to expect from
the Grimace era in Major League Baseball. Joining us now
on the hotline to break it all down as we
talked to Grimacea. Remember the legend that was Willie Mays
Fox Sports one Insider Extraordinary. Follow him on Twitter at
(15:41):
John Morosi. It is MLB network star John Paul Morosi,
John Paul, what's happening? Welcome to the Grimacea, my friend?
How do you feel?
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Well? Good evening? My friends? How I feel? Is this?
Seven minutes ago there was a tweet from the McDonald's
account which which had a photo of a ball signed
by Grimace and it said I had a ball today. Lol.
So Grimace, if you look at it right now, Jason
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Grimace is now the avatar on the McDonald's X account.
So that and he's wearing a Mets hat. He's wearing
a Mets hat about the time, at this moment, at
this moment in time, Grimace, Grimace wearing a Mets hat
is the new avatar for McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
White a day all who knew?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Hey, and John Paul, let me tell you, I now
you got to talk to Sterns because I know you
give him messages from me all the time. Tell David Sterns.
The only thing I want to say is, boy, you
could have had Grimace a out the first pitch, you know,
a month ago, you know, and things are going bad
and may come.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Back today would have been a good call. Uh. Well,
we'll have to get him on the schedule for next
year on opening Day. Who knows now this what we know?
I guess what I'll say is this. In in baseball
last year, the National League champion Arizona Diamondbacks won eighty
four games in the regular season, two games over five hundred,
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and the Mets, as disastrous as they played at multiple
stages of the first half, they're now just two games under.
They're in third place in the NL East, and as
I would say, on the eighteenth of June. All things
are now possible.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
How about that madness ensues. I don't even know that
they have an official deal with the Mets anymore so
putting you know the Mets had on him and whatever,
someone's got to get a contracts out of here.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Well it's going to if there is no deal yet,
someone someone is drawing up the papers as we speak.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
To do that.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
This is one of those things where I would expect
the legal department of both the Mets and McDonald's are
working overtime.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Yeah, because once upon a time they had a deal.
Now it's time to re up given this level of success,
all right, JP, big news today, obviously baseball mourn's a legend.
Willie Mays, that bridge across generations. Jason and I talked
about it earlier. The guy always put up as the
benchmark by which all others are judged in baseball. You're
(18:17):
now doing a Hall of Fame podcast. I'm sure the
name Willy Mays comes up in every one of those conversations.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Oh, without a doubt, and he is. I thought it
was very poignant tonight on MLB Network, Ken Griffey Jr.
Referred to Willie Mays as the godfather of all center fielders,
and Harold Reynolds said that he felt as though it
was that Willy was a father figure to all of
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the players, especially the African American players, because he could
speak to the experience of beginning his career in the
Negro leagues and then of course going on to a
legendary career that is really without compare. I go back
to something that Ernie Harwell, the celebrated late broadcast principally
of the Tigers, said. He said Willie Mays was the
best all round player he ever saw. And Ernie Harwell
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met Bay Bruce, he covered Jackie Robinson. Ernie Harwell lived
an entire life in baseball, and I've always said, if
it was good enough for Ernie to say that William
Maids is a grandtler ever saw, I'm going to just
co sign that and say it's for Ernie Harwell said,
I'm taking it as gospel, and it was a really
remarkable moment. Really in a couple different places. Tonight in
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Birmingham rick Woodfield, They're going to honor Willie Mays. It's
always been the plan for the game on Thursday, Cardinals,
Giants and the hope was at one point that Willie
might be able to attend that game in person. Of course,
news just came out yesterday that he would not be
able to attend for health reasons, and of course the
news emerges today that he's passed away. So which is
(19:53):
It's it's poignant, it's gut wrenching. As jor As Kenarthy
Junior said today we networked that it feels like his
heart's on the floor right now, just how heartbroken he
is that baseball is going to Willie Mays's hometown and
he passes away effectively forty eight hours before the game begins.
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It really is one of those cosmic moments in life
where you do feel as though somehow this is all
connected and heartbreaking and beautiful and poignant all at the
same time. Dave Fleming, a dear friend of mine, Giants broadcaster.
If you're able to the audio of when he announced
(20:36):
on the KNBR broadcast tonight of the Giants game in
Chicago that Willy had passed away, and Dave is to me,
his versatility, his grace of the microphone has unsurpassed and
you could hear in his voice, his voice quivering, trying
to get the word out and the news out that
Willy had passed away, and it just it took him
(20:58):
a couple of tries to be able to say the words.
And I think that just speaks to someone who is
truly larger than life, almost invincible in so many ways,
that we're that we are, we are we anybody who
loves baseball are struggling to probably find the words to
express how we feel. And I think back in terms
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of recent years in which just covering the game and
celebrating legends who have passed away. I felt this way
when Henry Aaron died. I felt this way when Vin
Scully died, And to feel this way tonight, it's just
there are certain people whose impact on the game is
so outside that it's almost difficult for us to find
the words in the English language to express our feelings.
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And I think that's certainly how I feel tonight tonight.
And how many people around the game field.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Right now, and they'll be Network insider John Paul Morosi,
our guest to Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen Love
from the Tire dot Com Studios. All right, John Paul,
we talked about this. I'm going to give you a statement, agree.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Or disagree you ready, I am indeed all right.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Willie Mays's catch nineteen fifty four World Series VIC wordz
greatest defensive play in sports history, not just baseball, in
sports history.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
I was certainly because of the stage where it happened,
how it happened, who made the catch, when it happened
in the game. I agree with that there's never going
to be and we could certainly go through and athletically speaking,
you know, there may be great plays that are made
and saves off the goal line, and Christine Lilly in
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the World Cup final in nineteen ninety nine saving a
would have been a game winning goal for China with
her forehead. There are moments like that, but I think
in the folklore of American sport, I don't think we're
ever going to see a play like that, And certainly defensively,
it's known as simply the catch, and we had the
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catch in the NFL, of course, but that was an
offensive catch as a defensive catch, and I think that
it's a very very special bit of history. And I
think too one of the one of the reasons why
I think Willie Mays is such a transcendent figure because
of how many different places in the country he is special.
But that that catch, of course, happens in New York City,
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uh for the New York Giants, and then the rivalry
and Willie they all migrate to to San Francisco. And
so there's something I was asked about rivalries and why
these franchises matter so much. You still have we still
have grandparents who are who are around who talk about
being a Giant fan in New York growing up, or
(23:38):
a Brooklyn Dodger fan. And and then our country is
just so big that this rivalry picks up and moves
to the West Coast. And Willie Mays was a central
figure in all of that. And so I think that
what you have is you've got his roots in Alabama,
his roots as a player in the Negro leagues, what
he had to do to uh, what he had to
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fight against racism, the discrimination, to have an opportunity, to earn,
the opportunity to pursue his dream. And so you have
this backdrop of the ways in which Willie Mays's story
touches so many parts of America, New York City, West Coast,
the Deep South. It's just a it's a special part
of American history in the in the twentieth century and
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now into the twenty first, and I just think that
we as the people were so big as a country,
were so big that I think that in some ways
it's hard to find figures and people who are truly
unifying and special to us all, and William Mays as
that person. And I think that the way in which
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you're seeing people of so many different backgrounds, in different
ages and stories tonight coming together to celebrate a true
American icon, I think just speaks to how powerful Willy
Mays is, how powerful the game can be, and how
much pride I think all of us take in him
being an American, like he has one of the most
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quintessentially powerful American stories that we're ever going to tell.
And to be able to say that we walked the
earth at the same time that he did is a
pretty profound statement.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
John Morosi our guest Jason Smith Show with Mike Carbon
here Fox Sports Radio. Follow him on Twitter at John Morosi,
Lead out the h It's j O N.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
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R Osi. Hi, Mom, and you hear his podcast he's
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Fame so much going on in JP's world. Follow it
all there in the world of X and his coverage
of Major League Baseball. JP, we're watching the Dodgers, trying
to put the finishing touches on this game tonight, but
(25:45):
the specter of injury. As much as Jason wants to
go grimas Era and whatever else, for the Dodgers, they've
had just the injury bug creeping around. Yamamoto goes down,
Mooki is out at least two months, and if you
did the scroll, it's like the end of a cable
movie with another one starting. How do they weather the storm?
(26:07):
How quickly can they get some of these other bodies
back and maybe fortify the roster.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Well, the trade deadline's coming up, and so they may
be able to address some of those issues as you
get closer there. I do think just to pull back
for a moment, the comeback that you're describing, and however
contentious it may be, in the moment, just there are
moments in a season where when injuries are happening and
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you feel the character of your team being tested. This
is one of those nights, and look at what they're doing.
It's a special group. Just as they are right now.
I think that getting an infielder is going to be
important for them and part of the reason why it's
not just Mookie, it's been Max Monthly has been out
as well, and so there are a couple teams, certainly
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Toronto come to mind. We'll see what happens. Bobaschett right
now is on the eye all. He's not really playing
that well in terms of his numbers this season. I
think that's something to keep in mind. But there will
be ball clubs that that are comfortable moving on from
some players. And you look around, I don't think Nikon
d is going to go over to over to the
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Dodgers from from the Giants. That's given given that rivalry,
there's not that many teams that are that are necessarily
full on cell mode. Now that's that will give you
a player who's a meaningful upgrade over what they've got
right now in Miguel ROAs. So I do think as
we get closer to the deadline, there may be some
teams that are in that conversation and will be comfortable
(27:43):
doing that. But I think for now what we're seeing
is the team that's probably gonna have to stay internal
until we get a little bit closer to the to
the All Star breaker we're called. They just got Cavin
Bigio in that trade with the with the Blue Jays,
so they already brought in somebody to help them ameliorate
the situation of having one on the IL. So they
have a lot of resources. They've got a lot of
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talent already in place. I would say this though, as
I conclude my thoughts on the Dodgers, I would actually
be more aggressive if I was the Dodgers and looking
at pitching than I would at position players. I think
they will find a way with their position players, and
Mookie's going to get back certainly well. In advance of
the playoffs, I would address more of the pitching side,
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because then you're not really sure what Yamamoto can do
in the second half when he's trying to adjust the
major league schedule for the first time. So I would
still focus on pitching, and there should be plenty of
pitching available, including the Rays as a potential seller in
that regard to John Paul.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Lastly, we talk a lot about the Dodgers and they
finish off this huge win over the Rockies, and the
Rockies are hopping mad over it at least talk a
lot about their big lead in the NL West. But
to bring things full circle to the Grimace era. With
the Mets win tonight over the Rangers, the largest lead
in Major League Baseball belong to the Seattle Mariners.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
It's a down year.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Everybody is down and Juli Rodriguez isn't even hitting yet.
Like we talk a lot about the Yankees and the
Dodgers and the Phillies, but boy, this.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Might be the year for Seattle.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
They're a bad away from being really, really formidable when
it comes to the postseason. I mean that they're a
team that I said this last week and some people
were maybe not agreeing with me, But watch this team
play that if that they are the team that no
one is going to want to deal with in October.
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I'm not saying they're going to win the World Series,
but when when you line up this pitching up against
you and you've got to deal with Gilbert and Kirby
and Castillo and and deal with it with them in
a short series, no one is going to be eager
to run to the batrack and have that be their assignment.
And and we know this about Jerry Depoto, he'll make
some moves. He loves to make the moves anyway. And
(29:55):
so I think with some of these teams, again I
mentioned the Rays is maybe one of them more emerging sellers. Uh,
there's a lot to look at there with some potential
some potential players that could be moved. But I love
the Mariners team that I think is going to be
really good down the stretch. And you you point out
Julio Rodriguez. If he gets going on top of guys
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like Cal Rowley and others, they're going to be a
really tough team to deal with as you get towards
the second half of the season.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
That is at John Morosi, our first visit with John
Paul during the Grimace era. John Paul, thank you very much,
my friend. Please wear purple tomorrow and we'll talk to
you next week.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Sounds great. Let me tell you something. Friday night, we
got Game six of the Stanley Cup Final. The Oilers
are the chance to win it, win at home, to
prolong the series and bring it back for Game seven.
So I cannot wait to see what happens on Friday night.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
All right, maybe you get an interview with the oilers
fan with that with a woman who's gone viral.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Man, I've heard, I've heard tales of her legend. I
have not become acquainted with her, but I am familiar
with with her general story.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Next, in other words, look for John Paul's interview with
Grimas coming up.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Thank you, Don Paul appreciated buddy, JP boy back to
away from that, surey did. In other words, like hey
is my fundy? Is my wife?
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Listen?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Where's my supersuit? Coming up? Next?
Speaker 1 (31:26):
We have to get in and get in and talk
about the most controversial ending in sports tonight. Wow, is
one team just losing it after a big collapse and
a big loss. Keep it right here, Jason and Mike.
This is Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 3 (31:54):
Were and oh boy?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
You know coming up in ten minutes, do we have
a special conversation to have to commemorate the life of
Willie May's had to do with a great defensive play
that happened in sports tonight. But let's deal with what
just happened, because this is gonna be a big story
for the next twenty four hours.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
The Dodgers with a seven run ninth inning.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
This is the time this year that the Rockies have
allowed six or more runs in an inning past the ninth,
ninth inning or later.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Okay, sixth time they've allowed this. Which is why my
question to John Bamerosi was still valid. Okay, because I'm
watching the comeback, right, I'm watching the Hayward grand slam,
the subsequent Otani single, all of those things, and then
watching tay Oscar go yard. But still you've got a
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lot of injuries that you have to navigate, and you're
not gonna play the Rockies for it.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
It was nine to four going into the ninth inning.
Jason Hayward hits a grand slam, choehal Tani gets on base,
Freddy Freeman has walked intentionally, and to Oscar Hernandez comes up,
who has had a really good season. Amazing you walk
Freddy Freeman to get to Hernandez. I understand that in theory,
but dude, the guy's gonna knock you in one hundred
(33:10):
and twenty runs.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Had what six home runs aftering the the night in
the month of June, and you're gonna walk Freddy Free.
I got it.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
You're setting up the force. I completely understand that. But
it's like, wow, man.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
And you're the Rockies and you get to a one
and two count and you're you're you're in the process
of giving this game away. In the ninth inning, you
get to a one in two count and there is
a pitch that is swung at by Hernandez, but he
holds up his swing.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
First base umpire says no swing. The count goes to
two and two, and the Rockies dugout goes insane. Bud
Black is incense. He's screaming at the umpire that had
strike three. Screaming at the umpire that had strike three. Now,
why this is significant, We'll have coming up in a second.
So the Rockies think the game should be over, and
watching the replay, they could have called it either way, right,
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it was right on the line if they had called
it a swing, okay, But they called it not a swing.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Okay. In the end, the Rockies still don't let up
seven runs in the ninth inn Wow. So I mean
I didn't think he broke No, he didn't break his
risks or whatever. And the bat didn't come through the
zone or any of that sou But.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
If they called it us, okay, was it pat? Was
it out over the plate? I could understand that. But
wherever the call was, it was there. So the Rockies
are hopping mad. They want a call.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
They think the.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Game should be over. Here's what happened. On the next
pitch to Hernandez two two swung on, heaving the air
right center fielding date this ball heading back.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
This ball's gone. It's gone.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
It's gone.
Speaker 7 (34:38):
A three run home run. Tas Car Hood on this
and the Dodgers have come all the way back to
take the lead.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Oh my goodness. Dodgers Radio Network on the call.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Immediately after the home run, the outfielders of the Rockies
were screaming at the first base umpire, you cost us this,
you cost that's this Bud Black is screaming after the
game is over because the Dodgers hold on to win
eleven nine, that the Rockies go out one, two, three
and the ninth inning, Black is screaming and other players
are screaming.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
They're still running up, going batting helmets on and everything
the line, you know, And.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
This is why I look at this and I go,
if you're a manager, if you this is where you
have to understand that when you lose your mind about something,
you lose that mojo, You lose that momentum. Right, Because
what was the worst thing I always say about the
Bartman play with with the Cubs? After the ball went out, right,
Moyes lew Is screaming for fan interference, Mark Pryor scream
(35:39):
they go out, they meet you.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Whelder suddenly commits but an error that you expect a
five year old rank But.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
It's but it's that play, but it's but it's that,
it's it's that melting down that tells you that maybe
the moment was too big for you, and you lose
the momentum. They don't get the call on that, and
Bud Black decides to get out of got and screamed
and the drunkies dugout is screaming at the first base umpire,
and all of a sudden, I felt like, right there,
they lost that mojo, they lost, they lost everything. And
(36:10):
the next pitch, Hernandez puts in the season right. So
the next pitch.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
He's like, Yeah, I'm gonna throw this as hard as
I can and it's gonna go right by you. He
was say O, I'm gonna throw that speedball by you
and make you look like a fool boy. All right,
I quoting uh Springsteen lyrics.
Speaker 6 (36:27):
Gus, I want to hear how it sounded on the
Losers radio and not oh boy, we have we have
the Uh the Rockies TV read a boy, go ahead
to two.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Fools?
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Waters got you gotta be kidding them channeling the hard.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Stroke out to a three hard.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Well, it wasn't a striking oof. You have got to
be kidding me, Rockies TV. On the ball, Look, you
should have made a pitch. You could have made another pitch.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
You could have not melted down and said, oh, how
dare you not get You still have to make one
pitch and you win.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
The game, and you don't do it. That's that. That
inning is all on the Rockies.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
I'm second basketball right past you. You allowed seven runs,
you get up a grand slam, you lost.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
It's on you.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Awful Coming up next Willie Mays and the greatest defensive
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