October 30, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason, Mike and the crew play the World Series edition of the Magic Johnson Twitter Game. We check-in with MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi to recap Game 5 and preview 6. And Bill Belichick emphasizes his commitment to UNC!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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for you every single day. Well, we're head to the
botto of the ninth thinning at Chavanz Ravine and nothing
short of five runs is gonna save this for the Dodgers.
The Blue Jays lead at six to one going to
(01:09):
the bottom of the ninth inning, blue Jays let off
the game Schneider and Vlad Junior with back to back
home runs, and the Blue Jays have not looked back
since they open it up against the Dodger bullpen, and
in three outs they will be one game away from
winning the World Series. We have John Paul Morose, the
MLB Network insider, come on your way in about twenty
(01:30):
minutes to help break all of this down.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, as we watched this thing unfold right and starting
this field, that angst and the handwringing because certainly we're
we're in Dodger country here as we come to you
from the greater Los Angeles area, and just the there's
no life for the squad right we're watching the stands.
(01:52):
Uh in this last half inning, there's one guy standing
trying to clap and lead lead a cheer, and everybody's
just looking at him like he's insane.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I mean, I don't even see marlins Man at the
game anymore, like now to I don't. I don't think
I see marlins Man. Like if Marlin's man isn't there white,
it's not like he's suddenly changed his color. He's not
a chameleon. And marl or Mary Hart, like you know
she was at least there. She's still there. She was
there in the that was a cutout. Yeah, I think
(02:20):
Pofax was there. They cut away to Sandy Ko and
he looked really stared right at the camera like get
this camera off me, Like wow, they've.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Cut away to him multiple times over the course of
They expected to come into the game and pitch.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
At this point, pitching is not their problem.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
No, that's the thing though. I mean overall, yeah, they've
now given up six runs, but they've done nothing offensively.
It's been lifeless the entire night. Right, The quality of
it bets thinking you're gonna shake up the lineup. It's
not changing their approach at all. No, it's bad a bad. Ye,
Savage was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
They and TJ clearly you Savage was classy, bougie tonight
against the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Well is that really his last name though, Like that's
one of those it's almost like he took that on
as a stage name, like his parents put it on there.
Oh no, but they decided, you know what, we're gonna
change this up, but we're gonna make it his surname.
As opposed to the popular, you know culture way of
you know, giving a guy a good first name.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I'm expecting a story like this, Hey, where did that
name come from? He's going to say, well, you know,
my dad told me the story that you know, thousands
of years ago and our ancestors there was a very
famous myth where my great great great great great great
great great great great great great great great great great
great great great grandfather uh once went into a clearing
(03:39):
against all his enemies and he slaughtered them all, and
we were able to have a community. We were able
to take over the river, and we were able to live.
And that's where that's where everybody started living. And when
everybody came through and they saw that my great great
great great great great great great great great great great
great great great great great great great great great grandfather
(04:00):
had killed all our enemies, one of his friends went
up to him and said, boy, yes, savage, And he
said that will be my name and my family crest
we are the yes savages. That's my story like that. No,
it's not bad.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Early records in the US say it population back to
nineteen twenty in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
No, so not that far. Then, why do you sound
like John Lovett's there me or him? Oh? Him? Okay,
doing your great great great great great great great great
great great great Greg. That's that see the grass milk
maids donate it. It wasn't his name, mister Mett. No,
John Lovitch was not. He would have been a good mister.
Oh you're great great great Oh oh no no no,
I just just my I'm just imagining Pop is mister
(04:41):
met I can't see. This head is too big. I
can't see anything. I can't see anything.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
This surname.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
My grandfather was only like five feet talls. He would
have fit right into the costume, but he was. I
can't see the head. I can't see. I can't see.
I don't know why. I know how people do this,
I can't do it. Well.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
He had the upper hand. You were out there doing
all the dirty work. He was cleaning up.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I know. Not sure that's Pop. That's Pop. We'll have
her reckoning at some point, Papina. Now, look, this is
a big day and a big day for us here
on the show, because tonight's the night the Magic Johnson
Twitter game is gonna go global. He got a lot
of attention earlier today for a tweet in which he said,
I mean eight point eight million views for this tweet saying,
(05:21):
with the World Series being too too, game five is
very important. Whichever team wins takes control of the series.
And this blew up today, Yeah went viral. Magic's been
tweeting like this for years. We play the Magic Johnson
Twitter game right, because it's no more obvious vanilla tweeter
than Magic Johnson. And we're gonna play the game in
a couple of minutes, a special couple of versions we're
(05:41):
gonna have tonight. And I want to say that, you know,
but now tonight, like I think the entire globe sees
Magic Johnson tweets and what they're all about, and oh,
now we get the game. Now the game gets even bigger.
Now again, this is like when when when someone has
a great idea and it's selling well and it goes
on Oprah and it's on my favorite things on the
Oh my goodness, the demand. I'm now a millionaire, Oprah,
(06:03):
thank you so much. That's what tonight is for the
Magic Jim. You always wanted to say, well, what was
her cut? Yeah, well, hey, if that's gonna make me
a millionaire, I can give Oprah cut.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
It's just going back to them not letting the private
roads be used in Hawaii. Drink some.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Anyway, back to the positive stuff and then the favorite
that Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
The book that was no good but got on that list.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
James, And look, Magic Johnson turned out to be correct, right,
the winner of Game five? Very important. He also threw
out the first all the cheries. Yeah, this may be
the first playoff game the Dodgers lose. That Magic was.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
At how about that? So he threw out the first
pitch to Mookie Bets. Yeah, that was the biggest moment
mooki Bets had all night.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So now knowing all of this, yeah, it is time
to play whoa And now it's the Magic Johnson Twitter Game.
Magic Johnson, who has been tweeting up a storm during
the World Series. We play the Magic Johnson Twitter Game,
(07:07):
the greatest radio game ever. I've got the shout outs,
we've gotten social media today ford kind of cool. No,
it's good, I get tweets game, and your job is
to figure out if this tweet is made up entirely
by me or is actually a Magic Johnson tweets. So
playing tonight myself, Mike Harmon, Isaac Lohencroft, Justin Frostburg, Alex Tischer,
(07:30):
are you ready? Why do you hesitate for my name
to making sure you were looking?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I thought he was gonna give you like a nickname
or something mean.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Well, okay, the reason I hesitated because, you know, if
you want to be a comedy team, you gotta be
you gotta be sharp. I'm waiting for you to do
your who is Magic Johnson, which you've done for the
past like three times. Yeah, I know it's coming. I
was giving you a pause to say it yet.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Now are running Austin Powers line?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yeah? Baby checked a run?
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Baby?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah. Alex ties you to watch Austin Powers for the
very first time last year. Jason, do you want to
know his name? Baby?
Speaker 6 (08:04):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
No, it's a lot of lost john Yeah. Yeah, okay, okay, okay,
let's play the gut.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Play the game?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Who is it? Even though my Dodgers lost to the
Blue Jays last night? This series is so great and
must see TV? Is that a Magic Johnson tweet? Even
though my Dodgers lost to the Blue Jays last night?
This series is so great and must see TV.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah, it's nice and generic and cheesy.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Okay, you're went out all right? I love yes? Wow?
You sound upset that you're making.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
That he's always disappointed in magic.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
All right, Frostberg, what do you got? Is that a
magic Johnson' tweet?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Well, the only guy that's saying they're his Dodgers is magic,
so yes, okay, all right, Jason, Yeah, that is a
magic Johnson tweet.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I know you're gonna say, who is Magic Johnson? No that?
Why do you say that? Why do you say it
like that? Because no, no, no, that is a magic
Johnson tweety good, very good.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Shall we check down later, baby.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
He's really proud of himself.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Hatay, I'll take it.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I think he was working on that all his drive
home and ganks for bringing that up. My sorry.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
What a game by Yamamoto in game two? He's great?
Is that a magic Johnson tweets?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
That seems too breed?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
What a game by Yamamoto in game two? He's great?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Not cheesy enough, not che I think he would have
been more flowery with his words.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Thrown some stats that we all knew in there too.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Okay, you know what complete game is?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Nine innies.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Say it again? Okay, exclamation point? What a game by
Yamamoto in game two? He's great?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Right, that's all. It's all accurate. Yep, yep, but Magic
didn't tweet it. Okay, tight shirt? What is a Magic Johnson? No, Jason,
you want to know why. I know that's not him.
Why because he was sensational, not just great. Oh okay,
all right, that was incredible.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Okay, he pitched the whole game. Okay, that is not
a magic Johnson tweets. Freddie Freeman played hero again. The
Dodgers lead the World Series two games to one. Is
(10:39):
that a magic Johnson tweet? Freddie Freeman played hero again?
The Dodgers lead the World Series two games to one. Yeah,
where's he to night?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Exclamation point or no exclamation points?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Two exclamation points?
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Yeah, let's go all right, Ilo, I'm gonna say no,
not corny enough.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Wow, you're holding Magic Johnson do a really high This
is a guy you tweeted out. Whoever wins Game five
takes control of the series.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Well, that's what I mean. Freddie Freeman hit the ball
over the fence. And since the Dodgers are the home team,
they can walk off the field and they don't have
to do anything else.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Okay, you obviously don't read magic jobs. And maybe that's
good because you play the game better, because the more
you get involved, the more you think about it, the
moment if thebult this game gets okay, oh yeah, he
brings you down. Yeah, Frostburg, what do you got? What's
the question? Is that a magic Johnson tweet? Say it again?
Freddie Freeman played hero again. The Dodgers lead the World
Series two games to one. I mean why not? Yeah,
(11:42):
it all happened, okay, Alex eishert Hi Jason, Yeah, tough
one for you. Your sweating, sweating Jensen right now. I
just wait, you're sweating like Kenley. Jansen's on the mound
of words for magic. Okay, I'll say no, that is
(12:10):
not a magic Johnson tree. Oh another sports day with
the Dodgers playing the Blue Jays and LA f C
taking on Austin to begin their playoff run. No way,
is that we're already saying no? Okay, okay, soccer, Another
(12:30):
sports day for the Dodgers playing the Blue Jays and
my MLS l a f C taking on Austin to
begin their playoff run. Is that a magic Johnson freeze?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Oh he's part order of that, isn't he?
Speaker 4 (12:43):
So?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yeah? Maybe yeah, maybe, yeah, yeah, yeah, I love.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
You just suckered me in.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I'm in. I'm actually going to say yes, okay, all right,
is it the playoff? Is it playoffs?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Yet?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
It's it is playoffs? Said to start I said to
start their playoff run? Hey yeah, like Mike said, he
is part owner. So yeah, okay, hold on, I want
to change my answer, but no, you already you already
buzzed in. We'll just say no sorry. Ken Jennings would
tell you you can't do that already. Put in your answers.
I'll let you change your answer. What is blue Jays
(13:18):
win in game five? That's my answer? That is a
magic Johnson tweet? Very nice, good, good job changing your answer,
very good. And Alex Tye shirt letting the cat out
of the bag. Game five is in the books. The
Blue Jays win it six to one. They will go
(13:40):
back to Toronto with two chances to hoist that big
hunk of metal that Rob Manfred could give them winning
the World Series, John Morosi Coming up next MLB Network Insider,
is the World Series over? Can the Dodgers get back?
How would they do it? What have the Blue Jays
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(14:02):
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The crown is yours. The Blue Jays have won back
(16:52):
to back games. They lead the World Series three games
to two. They beat the Dodgers six to one. Joining
us now I'm the hot line to break it down
with us. A man who said last night I Am
not going to be surprised in the Blue Jays win tomorrow.
He turns out to be one hundred percent right. He's
on Twitter at John Morosi. He is the Pope. John
Paul Morosi. What's happening. Man, congrats on being right, though
(17:14):
I don't think Justin Frostburg is happy.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
With you every now and then.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I am right every now and then.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
It's rare, but it happens sometimes. And what I'll say
is this, this is what a baseball series will do
to people in terms of rationality and reason. And here's
what I'm talking about. After Game three, Dodgers win eighteen innings,
classic game, one of the best ever played in the
World Series. And we had heard this series is over.
(17:43):
There is no doubt about it. Dodgers are gonna win.
And then the Jays win twice in a row, which
means the Dodgers lost twice in a row, something they've
done many times during the course of a seven month season.
And on the opposite side, oh my gosh, the series
is over. Just out of curiosity, Does anyone remember who
was lining up to start Game six for the Dodgers
(18:05):
on the mound? Anybody remember his name? Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Okay,
so yes, I understand the Dodger bats are are quiet
right now. But last I checked, when when that guy pitches,
they usually need about two runs and maybe one and
they can win. There's a lot of baseball left, Yeah,
(18:27):
the long flight. But the good news is for the Dodgers,
they've got some guys on that plane that know how
to hit, and there's a lot of conversation, I'm sure
about just getting some good at bats and they just
got to play one good game and they get a
chance to play a Game seven for everything, and who
knows what happens then. So I am I am not
in any way closing the book on this one.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
So what we've seen, John Paul since that, since Game
three in Freddie Freeman's heroics, the Blue Jays have stepped up.
They've grabbed the game. You saw their aggressiveness jumping over
Blake SNeW tonight. If I had to say to you, hey,
what's happened to the Dodgers the last two games? What
would you say to me?
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Well? I think that, first of all, the Jays have
pitched really well. And I also think that those people
that watch the Dodgers carefully all season long, I know
that both of you do. I know Justin does. Obviously,
it's not totally shocking that they have had Really, let's
be honest about this, it's as if there's been three
(19:28):
quiet games in a row. Okay, the second half of
Game three, Game four, in Game five, They've been really
quiet for three games in a row. Doesn't happen often,
but it happens. And the Jays pitching staff, I think
has executed really well, and some of the Dodgers' key
guys Mookie obviously is in an offensive funk. We can
(19:51):
all see that they had to make the decision at
the bottom of the lineups to put an Alex call
and sit Pates. So it's been a case where Otani
historic Game three carried them for most of that game,
and then of course Freddy wanted in the end, and
then there's really been just a lot of quiet at
bats to the last couple of games. And I think
you've got to credit you Savage to an extent. Really,
(20:14):
the I thought Blake Snell after the first couple of
batters of the game, fished really well. But the unfortunate
thing is that those that bats count too. And and
I think you look at the at the Jays offensively,
a little more aggressive, a little more opportunistic, and and
to use the to use an expression that we hear
often in soccer, the Jays were just on on the
(20:36):
front foot. They were on their their good foot. They
they were I thought more more aggressive. They they they
had better takes tonight. And you just see that they're
seeing the ball very well in a way the Dodgers
are not. And this is not just a one player problem.
This is not a Mookie Betts problem. This is just
a collective Dodger lineup looking a little lethargic at a time.
(20:58):
That's pretty surprising. And I'll say this, if you go
back in the archives, the annals of most teams that
have lost playoff series, almost always you will hear someone say,
during the course of that series, oh my gosh, they
just stopped hitting at the weirdest time. That's baseball, and
baseball right now is happening to the team that thought
(21:21):
they had rewritten the rules about the game. But in fact,
baseball and all of its beautiful randomness remains alive.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
And well, that's it. We see something we've never seen before.
Seven hundred and five World Series games in the history books.
We get the back to back homers to get things
started JP. But you know, as concerning as the offense was,
you started just seeing the sloppiness and the lack of juice.
Once again, ta Oscar Hernandez gives us an adventure in
(21:48):
the outfield instead of just fielding it for a single,
gets caught between that leads to that third run. But
then all the wild pitches, etc. It just does not
seem like a team playing with any level of confidence right.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Now, You're right, and they're not executing that. They're just
not And and yet this is this is where you
look at at the game of baseball and say you
derive your energy, and especially in games like this from
from the mound. It's and this goes back to something
I remember jim Leyland all those years I covered the Tigers.
(22:21):
He would always say this, it's hard to look good
when you don't hit, period. I don't care. Uh, when
you look around the diamond and and again you get
some energy from the mound. In this case, they were
down to nothing before people had their first Dodger dog. Yeah,
that's that's and and I think that's the credit to
the Jays for knowing, perhaps anticipating how Snell was going
(22:44):
to approach them, and did the Dodgers miss a little
bit and they're in their game planning and and maybe
having a bit of the element of the unknown with
with David Schneider being the guy to lead off, maybe
maybe a little bit maybe maybe the Jays had a
little uh, just had a little bit extra in terms
of their their ability to capitalize early, and the Dodgers
(23:05):
just I think we're a little bit flat. And and
that to me says a lot about where where the
Dodgers are now, where the J's are now, and I
think do in some of these big moments for the Jays,
this is all new and fresh, and it's all very
emotional now they know they get a three to two
league going back home the Dodgers. A lot of these
players they were here last year. They've all played a
(23:26):
lot of baseball, and and again there's no excuses here,
but but you observe and you see it this. This
Dodger team played all the way into Halloween last year,
they had an early spring, they went to they went
to Japan. If if they were tired, if they were tired,
you would you would understand why. You would understand that
it's been a They've played a lot of baseball in
(23:49):
the last decade really, but especially the last couple of years.
And I do believe that that can sometimes show up
where there's a little bit extra weariness. You look at
someone like Tryn and that a great career. There's not
as much sizzle in that arm now as there used
to be. That's not his fault, it's just that's just
the attrition of a long career. Kershaw I think it
(24:10):
was pointed out. I just saw the point made on
threads a little while ago, that you think about it,
and Kershaw I did not get in the game tonight.
His last act as a Dodger active pitcher on a
mound at Dodger Stadium was the escape against Nathan Lucas
in Game three. That's it. That's the final act on
that mound for him, which I think is a pretty
remarkable thing to look back on. Even as we're experiencing
(24:33):
everything still in the present time, you go back into
the history a little bit understand the context and the
importance of what we're all witnessing right now. But I
think the Jays, honestly, guys, they've just been the better team.
They've executed better, they're at bats to look better, their
defense has been tighter. They made some mistakes, but I
think by and large they've answered the bell. And I
think it's one of the more impressive things I've seen
(24:56):
in sports recently. That you lose that Game three, you've
got every excuse to just kind of fold it up,
and they have not. It was It was a testimony
to their mental strength, their leadership John Schneider, and their players,
the way they've played, they have they have earned every
win so far, and right now they are one went
away from Canada's first championship in baseball is in nineteen
(25:16):
ninety three.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Now I'm gonna throw this by it, John Paul Morose,
the MLB Network. Inside of our guest here, Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon is that after that Game three, Vlad Junior
waited in the locker room for every one of his
teammates to walk by and said, keep your heads up.
This is not over. You gotta win four, not two.
Get on my back. He's the lead and he comes
out and when he hit a home run every day
(25:37):
it makes it worth it. But he has the big
home run in the in the game yesterday, another big
home run today, Like I can see where the Blue Jays, Hey,
we have that guy who's gonna grab us by the
throat and drag us when we're not going well. I
don't see the Dodge. I don't see that guy in
the Dodgers lineup who's gonna say, hey, this is unacceptable,
get on my bleeping back, just because they you know,
(25:59):
looked all the Super for stars. The Dodgers have all
great players, right, but they're all really nice guys, and
they're all great, you know, they're all well respected. But
I don't know that they have that guy that's going
to stand up and go, what the blank are we doing?
Let's get our heads out of are you know what?
And I think the Dodgers need that right now.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
They may and I think this is why. And I
think it's an interesting point that you make, Jason that
when you have and this is one of the great
challenges of sports, whether you're the kids in the Chiefs
of modern times, whether you're the Chicago Bulls of the
of the Jordan era, and you take any team that
wins consistently, the Patriots, and and I think it's paramount
(26:37):
at different times to put some new some new energy
into the mix and and some new new players into
the mix. And obviously they did that to some extent
with Snell other players that have been brought on. But
it's but the core of the team, to your point,
is the same core that was there last year obviously,
and for for multiple years in the case of in
(26:59):
the case of Freeman. And that's and by the way,
why why switch in a lot of ways? Well, sometimes
the reason why you make some adjustment to the extent
that you can is you need someone in that in
that position who has some gravitas in that room to say, hey,
I know you'all have one I haven't and you're almost
you're almost desperate. It's it's the ray Borg effect with
(27:22):
with the Avalanche.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
After all, very nice, you need you need.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Sometimes who's gonna be ray Borg? Who's gonna be the
guy that that is, to use the hockey analogy, Who's
who's the veteran's going to get the cup first after
the captain because he's been waiting for so long. They
they need a little bit of that to your to
your point, again, I'll use the hockey words, a little
bit of that. Sandpaper is not the worst thing, and
and and Vladdie is not. He's not a guy that's
(27:53):
gonna challenge people to fight every day at the clubhouse.
That's not Gladdie's temperament at all. But he's ever done
this before, and so there's there's a certain attitude I'm
sure for him that like, hey, we better get this
right right now, because there's there's no promise in the life.
And I think that's the that's a great perspective to
have and and and I think that the Jays come
(28:14):
by it rather honestly in a way that's hard for
the Dodgers. The other piece is, listen, the leadership sometimes
in baseball, I think can be a little bit it's
it's it's sometimes it's a little overrated in terms of
what has done, what is said, because it's just such
a it's such a doing sport with so many discrete
(28:35):
moments in the game. If you talk about Otani, obviously
you know he lost. Is the start that he had
in Game four on the mound. Game three is one
of the best games ever. In Game four of the
Brewers series one of the best games ever. He has
had knights of brilliance to this point. He has not
been necessarily a consistently great player from start to finish.
(28:59):
The playoffs and the way that Vladdie has if if
we're going to compare the two of them, and so
I think now the now, the moment. Of course, the
fans in Toronto are going to be ballowing him again.
He's got to show up in a big way. And
Yamamoto excellent chance, he's going to show up in a
big way. And so if Otani gets the home run,
then Yamamoto is great. The proper probably gone in Game seven.
(29:20):
And and so that's why I'm not I'm not going
to overrate and overreact too much to what we've seen
because I still think there's a very legitimate shot that
we're talking about baseball on Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Look at you.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
You just went and said I want a Game seven.
Damn it.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
That that's really what it broke down to you. Yeah,
because so Tani he set in the table as much
as we've gone after Mookie Betts and and everybody else. Yeah,
he had that game with the ridiculous number of intentional
walks to you, But to your point, JP, a lot
of strikeouts, a lot of inferior at bats for a
leadoff hitter in this series, right, pressing a bit, and
(29:54):
then you Savage was just otherworldly in his first road
playoff start.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
That's it, And I mean to be honest with you,
the single best pitch that I've seen in this series
on the Toronto side of the Savages splitter. It's just
it's it's unhittable, and and it's the same, it's the same.
I'll say the same thing now that I was saying
when people were saying, Oh my gosh, you know Lucas
swung it ball four from Kershaw. Yeah, it's really hard
(30:21):
to hit in the major leagues. It's really, really really hard,
and and it's really really really hard to hit these
Savages splitter when it's on and it's being located, which
is exactly what the case was tonight. He pitched the
game of his life in what's been the month of
his life. I mean, it's been remarkable to see what
you Savage has done. And and you've got to like
(30:42):
the way that that this this Jay's team is is
looking now that you got someone in Gosmin who's pitched
so well at home and it is all set there
to pitch Game six. It's it's a really good situation
with the James there. They certainly go home with the
advantage that they need to win one, but they just
won an American League championship series where a team has
(31:04):
a three two lead after a very emotional Game five
win and then lost the next two. So the Jays
are smart to know there's that this thing is not
over yet and and basically all all though it has
to happen for us to see a game seven is
great players have to have a good night. Notice they
didn't say a great night, just a good night. If
(31:24):
the Dodgers great players are good, well we'll have a
game seven. I mean, that's that's what I that's what
I see Their talent, player for player, I think is
still the elite of the elite, and if their players
performed that way, there's there's a really good chance that
the series will go the distance, which honestly, in some
ways is what feels like is appropriate.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
And they'll be Network insider John Paul Morosi on Twitter
at John Morosi Pope. As always, thanks for the time.
We'll talk to your Friday night after game six.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
I can't wait Friday night. I'll have a little pick
there of the Vikings and the Lions, which gives you
a couple of days. By the way, I believe if
you go back in the archives last week, I said
Michigan thirty five, Michigan State twenty four. I think I
had it as a plus eleven for the Mazing Blue
Why don't you go back and check with the Marks
or last Saturday? Will we'll kut of curiosity. I can't.
(32:16):
I can't remember what it was.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
All right, we'll go back and figure it out for Friday.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
John Ball, Hey, boys, check the tape.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Hi JP, buddy, there you go.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
You gotta guys, thank you.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
That's something he's thought about all day. Hey, I gotta
make sure they know I almost yet that game right
on the button right there. Let's find out what's trending
right now in the wide world of sports. And Isaac
lohencron I love what do you got? Fellas?
Speaker 5 (32:39):
Indeed, Game five of the World Series is in the books.
Here's how the final out sounded on radio station c
JCL Toronto.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
First now sets, he kicks to two, swinging in a strike.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
Three, Poppin punches out Hernandez. The Blue Jays intominate fashion
win six to one.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
In Game five, and they'll come home with a three
to two lead in the World Series. Spot standing up
in the studio.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
Wow, a little extra there, anyway. The story Toronto rookie
pitcher trey Ya Savage, who struck out twelve and seven
innings for the win. He allowed one to run, two hits,
did not walk anybody. His twelve strikeouts the most ever
by a rookie in a World Series game. Offensively, David
Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Junior let off the game with
(33:29):
back to back home runs off of Dodgers starter Blake Snell.
It was the first time in the seven hundred and
five game history of the World Series that a team
is hit back to back home runs to lead off
a game. And incidentally, Davis Schneider's father, Steve Schneider, find
him on Twitter at and I'm not making this up.
(33:50):
At b ball Dad with two d's four four seven
four five was recording his sons at bat to lead
off on his phone and here's how it sounded.
Speaker 9 (34:03):
Oh no way, no way, got me, day guy.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
You In other words, I'm standing up in the studio anyway.
The Dodgers, for their part, set a dubious World Series
record three wild pitches in the top of the seventh inning,
leading to two more Toronto runs, first time a team
has had three wild pitches in the same inning in
the World Series history. Else Where, a multiple outlets reported
(34:38):
that the Minnesota Twins are hiring Derek Shelton as their
new manager NBA. Right now, the Los Angeles Lakers a
one oh five to ninety one lead at Minnesota eight
minutes remaining in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Guys, back to you, thanks a bun Shiloh. Jason Smith
Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. We
got more baseball coming up in about fifteen minutes. You
want a great hot take from the World Series, we
got it for but straight ahead a crazy story out
of college football that I had to listen to this
sound twice to make sure it wasn't Ai. That's next
(35:09):
right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio. Be sure
to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show with
Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific,
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon, great big fat MLB World Series hot
take coming your way in twelve minutes, so piping hot
(35:31):
right out of the oven.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Uh oh.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
But hey, I gotta say it was nice today to
see the old slash new Bill Belichick back, because today
he gave us a great presco I had to make
sure that it was actually him and not Ai. Yeah,
it looked like it could have been. But Bill Belichick,
(35:54):
who of course has been on the hot seat at
North Carolina, we'd had reports a few days ago or
weeks ago that, uh, they could be working on his buyout.
It's just not working.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Look, they had a big game this week, nearly pulled
the upset, but they did not. They play Friday night
against Syracuse and they went for two. So that right,
Yeah they did. It was great, but still, you know,
I think they would have rather gone for it and
made it or gone to overtime. But so we get
to see them Halloween Night against Syracuse, which you know
they're gonna win because Syracuse is such a message.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
It's a house of horrors for the Q.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Steve Aangeli should be the Heisman Trophy winner.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
So you're supposed to win your orange Halloween.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
We have to win orange on Halloween.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
I think we might find a way. We have nobody
to throw the football. That's I like more than wearing
orange on Halloween is being able to throw the football.
I like that little Yeah that works. So today Belichick
feeling an ornery. Uh it is weekly Press conference, was
asked about these reports and where he sits right now
with the team and everything else going into Is he
(36:55):
gonna be a one and done. Is he gonna make
it through the end of the season. Is he planning
on coaching for a long time? Here's Bill Belichick today
giving an expansive answer on that topic.
Speaker 8 (37:05):
Do you see almost a different team from before that
to when you told them that, and see like almost
something in their eye of like, Okay, now we have
the confirmation, I get something terms from you, and now
we want to go out there and really continue doing
what we've been doing.
Speaker 10 (37:18):
Well, it's never been anything about that, And wherever that
story came from, obviously is it's already been taken down
and everything else, and it's just total you know, as
Trump would say, fake news. I mean, it's just I
don't know, it's just a novel.
Speaker 7 (37:31):
You know.
Speaker 10 (37:31):
Michael Lombardi and I came in and started hiring people
and come into the organization in December. We got here
the same day and we've been doing it every day,
and you know, that's the way it's going to be.
So I'm sure there's a lot of other people out
there that want to get you know, clicks and fuse
and you know, posts on my face or whatever, and
(37:54):
but like it's just a bunch.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Of garbage my face. I Bill, I dig that, Bill.
I Yet, you know, all the whole snap face and
instant shower is a lot we have played for him
for a long time. I get he's coming back to that,
but wow, dude, you're a you're you're a college head coach.
You got to know what all the big social media
things are that you're allowed to communicate with players on.
You gotta know that. I think he just decided, Yeah,
(38:18):
he has no idea.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
I think I think he does.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
You know, hey we can snapchat. You think he knows that.
You think he's like, yeah, you talk to them. However,
you need to talk to them to make sure they
know we like them.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
No, I think he I think he's a little more
uh adept at all of this than he lets on.
But it's easier to dismiss it and lean into that
part of him, because if he's going to come part
of the way back, he's got to go all the
way back and be full ornery Bill with those quips.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Do you guys think that he met Jordan his girlfriend
on my face.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Oh, they're gonna say, Michael Jordan, I really thought you
were gonna take that line somewhere else. And I'm like,
it's not late enough. I know which way do I
s out of the gutter? Which way do I swipe?
Speaker 5 (38:55):
To me?
Speaker 1 (38:56):
I swipe up, swiped out? What is family show? I
don't understaid. Let me go, let me get on, Let
me get on AI and see what they tell me
about swiping. Okay, I've swiped this way, swipe that, swipe up,
swipe that I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Well, I mean he's a high leverage guy. I mean
he probably has an assistant sitting next to him that
went through his my vase.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
You need to know nothing more than what I'm going
to tell you right now. If you want to answer
the question, is Bill Belichick in trouble? He absolutely is.
You can go with everything you have heard. You know,
North Carolina is not happy. We just look sometime from
when that report came out, what do we say, sometime
from that day, which is two weeks ago, till the
end of the season. Bill Belichier's going to get fired
(39:36):
at some point between there and the end of the
season because it's not going well. But you know he's
in trouble, and you have to understand that he knows
that because of the answer he gave to this question. Normally,
whenever he gets a question he hasn't like, he gives
you three seconds and moves on, Yeah, well it's not
something that we're and then the next question comes in
(39:58):
after an uncomfortable silence, Yeah that's not But here he
is big, long answer. Here's what Michael Lombardi and I
came in to try to He knows I have to
be beholden to people because I don't have that power
that I did with New England when all these other
people would ask me questions if things weren't going well,
I could just be a jerk and blow it off. No,
now I have to be a little bit more understanding,
(40:20):
a little bit night when you know he wants to
tell that reporter, what the hell kind of question you
asked me? Man? Just get the blank out of here, man,
what what the hell is wrong? Take that guy's take
that guy's press pass, and take it away. But here
he is giving an answer, and you know, I'm still
a little bit surly Bill Belichick, But just by the
fact he tells you he knows he is in tons
of trouble.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
I like that the the fire's lit a little bit
and that facade and you know, happy go lucky, everything's
going along just fine. Trust the process has gotten kicked
to the curb. So you know, I'm curious as to
as he's staring at the camera, what member of the
university administration he was speaking to directly in that regard,
(40:58):
you know, leaking about any kind of Hey, he's on
his last legs or whatever. Right as we go into
our sources, By the way, you can get into that
game Friday night, guys, let's go to Syracuse. Five dollars
fifty cents gets us in. Dude, think you know how
embarrassing that would be. That's what they pay you. Yeah,
oh okay.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
That's how much my basketball tickets were when I was
a student. No, the next that that's how embarrassing. Like
if they lose to the to the to Syracuse who
fran Brown said he may play, they may play like
three guys a quarterback on Friday because Ricky Collins is
so bad. Like if you lose that game to Syracuse,
who was just spiraling on national TV.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Swear you throw forty four on someone and just have
them do the wildcat.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Coming up next, that big piping hot World Series Game
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botto of the ninth thinning at Chavanz Ravine and nothing
short of five runs is gonna save this for the Dodgers.
The Blue Jays lead at six to one going to
(01:09):
the bottom of the ninth inning, blue Jays let off
the game Schneider and Vlad Junior with back to back
home runs, and the Blue Jays have not looked back
since they open it up against the Dodger bullpen, and
in three outs they will be one game away from
winning the World Series. We have John Paul Morose, the
MLB Network insider, come on your way in about twenty
(01:30):
minutes to help break all of this down.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, as we watched this thing unfold right and starting
this field, that angst and the handwringing because certainly we're
we're in Dodger country here as we come to you
from the greater Los Angeles area, and just the there's
no life for the squad right we're watching the stands.
(01:52):
Uh in this last half inning, there's one guy standing
trying to clap and lead lead a cheer, and everybody's
just looking at him like he's insane.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I mean, I don't even see marlins Man at the
game anymore, like now to I don't. I don't think
I see marlins Man. Like if Marlin's man isn't there white,
it's not like he's suddenly changed his color. He's not
a chameleon. And marl or Mary Hart, like you know
she was at least there. She's still there. She was
there in the that was a cutout. Yeah, I think
(02:20):
Pofax was there. They cut away to Sandy Ko and
he looked really stared right at the camera like get
this camera off me, Like wow, they've.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Cut away to him multiple times over the course of
They expected to come into the game and pitch.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
At this point, pitching is not their problem.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
No, that's the thing though. I mean overall, yeah, they've
now given up six runs, but they've done nothing offensively.
It's been lifeless the entire night. Right, The quality of
it bets thinking you're gonna shake up the lineup. It's
not changing their approach at all. No, it's bad a bad. Ye,
Savage was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
They and TJ clearly you Savage was classy, bougie tonight
against the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Well is that really his last name though, Like that's
one of those it's almost like he took that on
as a stage name, like his parents put it on there.
Oh no, but they decided, you know what, we're gonna
change this up, but we're gonna make it his surname.
As opposed to the popular, you know culture way of
you know, giving a guy a good first name.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I'm expecting a story like this, Hey, where did that
name come from? He's going to say, well, you know,
my dad told me the story that you know, thousands
of years ago and our ancestors there was a very
famous myth where my great great great great great great
great great great great great great great great great great
great great great grandfather uh once went into a clearing
(03:39):
against all his enemies and he slaughtered them all, and
we were able to have a community. We were able
to take over the river, and we were able to live.
And that's where that's where everybody started living. And when
everybody came through and they saw that my great great
great great great great great great great great great great
great great great great great great great great great grandfather
(04:00):
had killed all our enemies, one of his friends went
up to him and said, boy, yes, savage, And he
said that will be my name and my family crest
we are the yes savages. That's my story like that. No,
it's not bad.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Early records in the US say it population back to
nineteen twenty in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
No, so not that far. Then, why do you sound
like John Lovett's there me or him? Oh? Him? Okay,
doing your great great great great great great great great
great great great Greg. That's that see the grass milk
maids donate it. It wasn't his name, mister Mett. No,
John Lovitch was not. He would have been a good mister.
Oh you're great great great Oh oh no no no,
I just just my I'm just imagining Pop is mister
(04:41):
met I can't see. This head is too big. I
can't see anything. I can't see anything.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
This surname.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
My grandfather was only like five feet talls. He would
have fit right into the costume, but he was. I
can't see the head. I can't see. I can't see.
I don't know why. I know how people do this,
I can't do it. Well.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
He had the upper hand. You were out there doing
all the dirty work. He was cleaning up.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I know. Not sure that's Pop. That's Pop. We'll have
her reckoning at some point, Papina. Now, look, this is
a big day and a big day for us here
on the show, because tonight's the night the Magic Johnson
Twitter game is gonna go global. He got a lot
of attention earlier today for a tweet in which he said,
I mean eight point eight million views for this tweet saying,
(05:21):
with the World Series being too too, game five is
very important. Whichever team wins takes control of the series.
And this blew up today, Yeah went viral. Magic's been
tweeting like this for years. We play the Magic Johnson
Twitter game right, because it's no more obvious vanilla tweeter
than Magic Johnson. And we're gonna play the game in
a couple of minutes, a special couple of versions we're
(05:41):
gonna have tonight. And I want to say that, you know,
but now tonight, like I think the entire globe sees
Magic Johnson tweets and what they're all about, and oh,
now we get the game. Now the game gets even bigger.
Now again, this is like when when when someone has
a great idea and it's selling well and it goes
on Oprah and it's on my favorite things on the
Oh my goodness, the demand. I'm now a millionaire, Oprah,
(06:03):
thank you so much. That's what tonight is for the
Magic Jim. You always wanted to say, well, what was
her cut? Yeah, well, hey, if that's gonna make me
a millionaire, I can give Oprah cut.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
It's just going back to them not letting the private
roads be used in Hawaii. Drink some.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Anyway, back to the positive stuff and then the favorite
that Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
The book that was no good but got on that list.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
James, And look, Magic Johnson turned out to be correct, right,
the winner of Game five? Very important. He also threw
out the first all the cheries. Yeah, this may be
the first playoff game the Dodgers lose. That Magic was.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
At how about that? So he threw out the first
pitch to Mookie Bets. Yeah, that was the biggest moment
mooki Bets had all night.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So now knowing all of this, yeah, it is time
to play whoa And now it's the Magic Johnson Twitter Game.
Magic Johnson, who has been tweeting up a storm during
the World Series. We play the Magic Johnson Twitter Game,
(07:07):
the greatest radio game ever. I've got the shout outs,
we've gotten social media today ford kind of cool. No,
it's good, I get tweets game, and your job is
to figure out if this tweet is made up entirely
by me or is actually a Magic Johnson tweets. So
playing tonight myself, Mike Harmon, Isaac Lohencroft, Justin Frostburg, Alex Tischer,
(07:30):
are you ready? Why do you hesitate for my name
to making sure you were looking?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I thought he was gonna give you like a nickname
or something mean.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Well, okay, the reason I hesitated because, you know, if
you want to be a comedy team, you gotta be
you gotta be sharp. I'm waiting for you to do
your who is Magic Johnson, which you've done for the
past like three times. Yeah, I know it's coming. I
was giving you a pause to say it yet.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Now are running Austin Powers line?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yeah? Baby checked a run?
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Baby?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah. Alex ties you to watch Austin Powers for the
very first time last year. Jason, do you want to
know his name? Baby?
Speaker 6 (08:04):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
No, it's a lot of lost john Yeah. Yeah, okay, okay, okay,
let's play the gut.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Play the game?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Who is it? Even though my Dodgers lost to the
Blue Jays last night? This series is so great and
must see TV? Is that a Magic Johnson tweet? Even
though my Dodgers lost to the Blue Jays last night?
This series is so great and must see TV.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah, it's nice and generic and cheesy.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Okay, you're went out all right? I love yes? Wow?
You sound upset that you're making.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
That he's always disappointed in magic.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
All right, Frostberg, what do you got? Is that a
magic Johnson' tweet?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Well, the only guy that's saying they're his Dodgers is magic,
so yes, okay, all right, Jason, Yeah, that is a
magic Johnson tweet.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I know you're gonna say, who is Magic Johnson? No that?
Why do you say that? Why do you say it
like that? Because no, no, no, that is a magic
Johnson tweety good, very good.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Shall we check down later, baby.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
He's really proud of himself.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Hatay, I'll take it.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I think he was working on that all his drive
home and ganks for bringing that up. My sorry.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
What a game by Yamamoto in game two? He's great?
Is that a magic Johnson tweets?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
That seems too breed?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
What a game by Yamamoto in game two? He's great?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Not cheesy enough, not che I think he would have
been more flowery with his words.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Thrown some stats that we all knew in there too.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Okay, you know what complete game is?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Nine innies.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Say it again? Okay, exclamation point? What a game by
Yamamoto in game two? He's great?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Right, that's all. It's all accurate. Yep, yep, but Magic
didn't tweet it. Okay, tight shirt? What is a Magic Johnson? No, Jason,
you want to know why. I know that's not him.
Why because he was sensational, not just great. Oh okay,
all right, that was incredible.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Okay, he pitched the whole game. Okay, that is not
a magic Johnson tweets. Freddie Freeman played hero again. The
Dodgers lead the World Series two games to one. Is
(10:39):
that a magic Johnson tweet? Freddie Freeman played hero again?
The Dodgers lead the World Series two games to one. Yeah,
where's he to night?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Exclamation point or no exclamation points?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Two exclamation points?
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Yeah, let's go all right, Ilo, I'm gonna say no,
not corny enough.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Wow, you're holding Magic Johnson do a really high This
is a guy you tweeted out. Whoever wins Game five
takes control of the series.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Well, that's what I mean. Freddie Freeman hit the ball
over the fence. And since the Dodgers are the home team,
they can walk off the field and they don't have
to do anything else.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Okay, you obviously don't read magic jobs. And maybe that's
good because you play the game better, because the more
you get involved, the more you think about it, the
moment if thebult this game gets okay, oh yeah, he
brings you down. Yeah, Frostburg, what do you got? What's
the question? Is that a magic Johnson tweet? Say it again?
Freddie Freeman played hero again. The Dodgers lead the World
Series two games to one. I mean why not? Yeah,
(11:42):
it all happened, okay, Alex eishert Hi Jason, Yeah, tough
one for you. Your sweating, sweating Jensen right now. I
just wait, you're sweating like Kenley. Jansen's on the mound
of words for magic. Okay, I'll say no, that is
(12:10):
not a magic Johnson tree. Oh another sports day with
the Dodgers playing the Blue Jays and LA f C
taking on Austin to begin their playoff run. No way,
is that we're already saying no? Okay, okay, soccer, Another
(12:30):
sports day for the Dodgers playing the Blue Jays and
my MLS l a f C taking on Austin to
begin their playoff run. Is that a magic Johnson freeze?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Oh he's part order of that, isn't he?
Speaker 4 (12:43):
So?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yeah? Maybe yeah, maybe, yeah, yeah, yeah, I love.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
You just suckered me in.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I'm in. I'm actually going to say yes, okay, all right,
is it the playoff? Is it playoffs?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Yet?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
It's it is playoffs? Said to start I said to
start their playoff run? Hey yeah, like Mike said, he
is part owner. So yeah, okay, hold on, I want
to change my answer, but no, you already you already
buzzed in. We'll just say no sorry. Ken Jennings would
tell you you can't do that already. Put in your answers.
I'll let you change your answer. What is blue Jays
(13:18):
win in game five? That's my answer? That is a
magic Johnson tweet? Very nice, good, good job changing your answer,
very good. And Alex Tye shirt letting the cat out
of the bag. Game five is in the books. The
Blue Jays win it six to one. They will go
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back to Toronto with two chances to hoist that big
hunk of metal that Rob Manfred could give them winning
the World Series, John Morosi Coming up next MLB Network Insider,
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The crown is yours. The Blue Jays have won back
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to back games. They lead the World Series three games
to two. They beat the Dodgers six to one. Joining
us now I'm the hot line to break it down
with us. A man who said last night I Am
not going to be surprised in the Blue Jays win tomorrow.
He turns out to be one hundred percent right. He's
on Twitter at John Morosi. He is the Pope. John
Paul Morosi. What's happening. Man, congrats on being right, though
(17:14):
I don't think Justin Frostburg is happy.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
With you every now and then.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I am right every now and then.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
It's rare, but it happens sometimes. And what I'll say
is this, this is what a baseball series will do
to people in terms of rationality and reason. And here's
what I'm talking about. After Game three, Dodgers win eighteen innings,
classic game, one of the best ever played in the
World Series. And we had heard this series is over.
(17:43):
There is no doubt about it. Dodgers are gonna win.
And then the Jays win twice in a row, which
means the Dodgers lost twice in a row, something they've
done many times during the course of a seven month season.
And on the opposite side, oh my gosh, the series
is over. Just out of curiosity, Does anyone remember who
was lining up to start Game six for the Dodgers
(18:05):
on the mound? Anybody remember his name? Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Okay,
so yes, I understand the Dodger bats are are quiet
right now. But last I checked, when when that guy pitches,
they usually need about two runs and maybe one and
they can win. There's a lot of baseball left, Yeah,
(18:27):
the long flight. But the good news is for the Dodgers,
they've got some guys on that plane that know how
to hit, and there's a lot of conversation, I'm sure
about just getting some good at bats and they just
got to play one good game and they get a
chance to play a Game seven for everything, and who
knows what happens then. So I am I am not
in any way closing the book on this one.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
So what we've seen, John Paul since that, since Game
three in Freddie Freeman's heroics, the Blue Jays have stepped up.
They've grabbed the game. You saw their aggressiveness jumping over
Blake SNeW tonight. If I had to say to you, hey,
what's happened to the Dodgers the last two games? What
would you say to me?
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Well? I think that, first of all, the Jays have
pitched really well. And I also think that those people
that watch the Dodgers carefully all season long, I know
that both of you do. I know Justin does. Obviously,
it's not totally shocking that they have had Really, let's
be honest about this, it's as if there's been three
(19:28):
quiet games in a row. Okay, the second half of
Game three, Game four, in Game five, They've been really
quiet for three games in a row. Doesn't happen often,
but it happens. And the Jays pitching staff, I think
has executed really well, and some of the Dodgers' key
guys Mookie obviously is in an offensive funk. We can
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all see that they had to make the decision at
the bottom of the lineups to put an Alex call
and sit Pates. So it's been a case where Otani
historic Game three carried them for most of that game,
and then of course Freddy wanted in the end, and
then there's really been just a lot of quiet at
bats to the last couple of games. And I think
you've got to credit you Savage to an extent. Really,
(20:14):
the I thought Blake Snell after the first couple of
batters of the game, fished really well. But the unfortunate
thing is that those that bats count too. And and
I think you look at the at the Jays offensively,
a little more aggressive, a little more opportunistic, and and
to use the to use an expression that we hear
often in soccer, the Jays were just on on the
(20:36):
front foot. They were on their their good foot. They
they were I thought more more aggressive. They they they
had better takes tonight. And you just see that they're
seeing the ball very well in a way the Dodgers
are not. And this is not just a one player problem.
This is not a Mookie Betts problem. This is just
a collective Dodger lineup looking a little lethargic at a time.
(20:58):
That's pretty surprising. And I'll say this, if you go
back in the archives, the annals of most teams that
have lost playoff series, almost always you will hear someone say,
during the course of that series, oh my gosh, they
just stopped hitting at the weirdest time. That's baseball, and
baseball right now is happening to the team that thought
(21:21):
they had rewritten the rules about the game. But in fact,
baseball and all of its beautiful randomness remains alive.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
And well, that's it. We see something we've never seen before.
Seven hundred and five World Series games in the history books.
We get the back to back homers to get things
started JP. But you know, as concerning as the offense was,
you started just seeing the sloppiness and the lack of juice.
Once again, ta Oscar Hernandez gives us an adventure in
(21:48):
the outfield instead of just fielding it for a single,
gets caught between that leads to that third run. But
then all the wild pitches, etc. It just does not
seem like a team playing with any level of confidence right.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Now, You're right, and they're not executing that. They're just
not And and yet this is this is where you
look at at the game of baseball and say you
derive your energy, and especially in games like this from
from the mound. It's and this goes back to something
I remember jim Leyland all those years I covered the Tigers.
(22:21):
He would always say this, it's hard to look good
when you don't hit, period. I don't care. Uh, when
you look around the diamond and and again you get
some energy from the mound. In this case, they were
down to nothing before people had their first Dodger dog. Yeah,
that's that's and and I think that's the credit to
the Jays for knowing, perhaps anticipating how Snell was going
(22:44):
to approach them, and did the Dodgers miss a little
bit and they're in their game planning and and maybe
having a bit of the element of the unknown with
with David Schneider being the guy to lead off, maybe
maybe a little bit maybe maybe the Jays had a
little uh, just had a little bit extra in terms
of their their ability to capitalize early, and the Dodgers
(23:05):
just I think we're a little bit flat. And and
that to me says a lot about where where the
Dodgers are now, where the J's are now, and I
think do in some of these big moments for the Jays,
this is all new and fresh, and it's all very
emotional now they know they get a three to two
league going back home the Dodgers. A lot of these
players they were here last year. They've all played a
(23:26):
lot of baseball, and and again there's no excuses here,
but but you observe and you see it this. This
Dodger team played all the way into Halloween last year,
they had an early spring, they went to they went
to Japan. If if they were tired, if they were tired,
you would you would understand why. You would understand that
it's been a They've played a lot of baseball in
(23:49):
the last decade really, but especially the last couple of years.
And I do believe that that can sometimes show up
where there's a little bit extra weariness. You look at
someone like Tryn and that a great career. There's not
as much sizzle in that arm now as there used
to be. That's not his fault, it's just that's just
the attrition of a long career. Kershaw I think it
(24:10):
was pointed out. I just saw the point made on
threads a little while ago, that you think about it,
and Kershaw I did not get in the game tonight.
His last act as a Dodger active pitcher on a
mound at Dodger Stadium was the escape against Nathan Lucas
in Game three. That's it. That's the final act on
that mound for him, which I think is a pretty
remarkable thing to look back on. Even as we're experiencing
(24:33):
everything still in the present time, you go back into
the history a little bit understand the context and the
importance of what we're all witnessing right now. But I
think the Jays, honestly, guys, they've just been the better team.
They've executed better, they're at bats to look better, their
defense has been tighter. They made some mistakes, but I
think by and large they've answered the bell. And I
think it's one of the more impressive things I've seen
(24:56):
in sports recently. That you lose that Game three, you've
got every excuse to just kind of fold it up,
and they have not. It was It was a testimony
to their mental strength, their leadership John Schneider, and their players,
the way they've played, they have they have earned every
win so far, and right now they are one went
away from Canada's first championship in baseball is in nineteen
(25:16):
ninety three.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Now I'm gonna throw this by it, John Paul Morose,
the MLB Network. Inside of our guest here, Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon is that after that Game three, Vlad Junior
waited in the locker room for every one of his
teammates to walk by and said, keep your heads up.
This is not over. You gotta win four, not two.
Get on my back. He's the lead and he comes
out and when he hit a home run every day
(25:37):
it makes it worth it. But he has the big
home run in the in the game yesterday, another big
home run today, Like I can see where the Blue Jays, Hey,
we have that guy who's gonna grab us by the
throat and drag us when we're not going well. I
don't see the Dodge. I don't see that guy in
the Dodgers lineup who's gonna say, hey, this is unacceptable,
get on my bleeping back, just because they you know,
(25:59):
looked all the Super for stars. The Dodgers have all
great players, right, but they're all really nice guys, and
they're all great, you know, they're all well respected. But
I don't know that they have that guy that's going
to stand up and go, what the blank are we doing?
Let's get our heads out of are you know what?
And I think the Dodgers need that right now.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
They may and I think this is why. And I
think it's an interesting point that you make, Jason that
when you have and this is one of the great
challenges of sports, whether you're the kids in the Chiefs
of modern times, whether you're the Chicago Bulls of the
of the Jordan era, and you take any team that
wins consistently, the Patriots, and and I think it's paramount
(26:37):
at different times to put some new some new energy
into the mix and and some new new players into
the mix. And obviously they did that to some extent
with Snell other players that have been brought on. But
it's but the core of the team, to your point,
is the same core that was there last year obviously,
and for for multiple years in the case of in
(26:59):
the case of Freeman. And that's and by the way,
why why switch in a lot of ways? Well, sometimes
the reason why you make some adjustment to the extent
that you can is you need someone in that in
that position who has some gravitas in that room to say, hey,
I know you'all have one I haven't and you're almost
you're almost desperate. It's it's the ray Borg effect with
(27:22):
with the Avalanche.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
After all, very nice, you need you need.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Sometimes who's gonna be ray Borg? Who's gonna be the
guy that that is, to use the hockey analogy, Who's
who's the veteran's going to get the cup first after
the captain because he's been waiting for so long. They
they need a little bit of that to your to
your point, again, I'll use the hockey words, a little
bit of that. Sandpaper is not the worst thing, and
and and Vladdie is not. He's not a guy that's
(27:53):
gonna challenge people to fight every day at the clubhouse.
That's not Gladdie's temperament at all. But he's ever done
this before, and so there's there's a certain attitude I'm
sure for him that like, hey, we better get this
right right now, because there's there's no promise in the life.
And I think that's the that's a great perspective to
have and and and I think that the Jays come
(28:14):
by it rather honestly in a way that's hard for
the Dodgers. The other piece is, listen, the leadership sometimes
in baseball, I think can be a little bit it's
it's it's sometimes it's a little overrated in terms of
what has done, what is said, because it's just such
a it's such a doing sport with so many discrete
(28:35):
moments in the game. If you talk about Otani, obviously
you know he lost. Is the start that he had
in Game four on the mound. Game three is one
of the best games ever. In Game four of the
Brewers series one of the best games ever. He has
had knights of brilliance to this point. He has not
been necessarily a consistently great player from start to finish.
(28:59):
The playoffs and the way that Vladdie has if if
we're going to compare the two of them, and so
I think now the now, the moment. Of course, the
fans in Toronto are going to be ballowing him again.
He's got to show up in a big way. And
Yamamoto excellent chance, he's going to show up in a
big way. And so if Otani gets the home run,
then Yamamoto is great. The proper probably gone in Game seven.
(29:20):
And and so that's why I'm not I'm not going
to overrate and overreact too much to what we've seen
because I still think there's a very legitimate shot that
we're talking about baseball on Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Look at you.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
You just went and said I want a Game seven.
Damn it.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
That that's really what it broke down to you. Yeah,
because so Tani he set in the table as much
as we've gone after Mookie Betts and and everybody else. Yeah,
he had that game with the ridiculous number of intentional
walks to you, But to your point, JP, a lot
of strikeouts, a lot of inferior at bats for a
leadoff hitter in this series, right, pressing a bit, and
(29:54):
then you Savage was just otherworldly in his first road
playoff start.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
That's it, And I mean to be honest with you,
the single best pitch that I've seen in this series
on the Toronto side of the Savages splitter. It's just
it's it's unhittable, and and it's the same, it's the same.
I'll say the same thing now that I was saying
when people were saying, Oh my gosh, you know Lucas
swung it ball four from Kershaw. Yeah, it's really hard
(30:21):
to hit in the major leagues. It's really, really really hard,
and and it's really really really hard to hit these
Savages splitter when it's on and it's being located, which
is exactly what the case was tonight. He pitched the
game of his life in what's been the month of
his life. I mean, it's been remarkable to see what
you Savage has done. And and you've got to like
(30:42):
the way that that this this Jay's team is is
looking now that you got someone in Gosmin who's pitched
so well at home and it is all set there
to pitch Game six. It's it's a really good situation
with the James there. They certainly go home with the
advantage that they need to win one, but they just
won an American League championship series where a team has
(31:04):
a three two lead after a very emotional Game five
win and then lost the next two. So the Jays
are smart to know there's that this thing is not
over yet and and basically all all though it has
to happen for us to see a game seven is
great players have to have a good night. Notice they
didn't say a great night, just a good night. If
(31:24):
the Dodgers great players are good, well we'll have a
game seven. I mean, that's that's what I that's what
I see Their talent, player for player, I think is
still the elite of the elite, and if their players
performed that way, there's there's a really good chance that
the series will go the distance, which honestly, in some
ways is what feels like is appropriate.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
And they'll be Network insider John Paul Morosi on Twitter
at John Morosi Pope. As always, thanks for the time.
We'll talk to your Friday night after game six.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
I can't wait Friday night. I'll have a little pick
there of the Vikings and the Lions, which gives you
a couple of days. By the way, I believe if
you go back in the archives last week, I said
Michigan thirty five, Michigan State twenty four. I think I
had it as a plus eleven for the Mazing Blue
Why don't you go back and check with the Marks
or last Saturday? Will we'll kut of curiosity. I can't.
(32:16):
I can't remember what it was.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
All right, we'll go back and figure it out for Friday.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
John Ball, Hey, boys, check the tape.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Hi JP, buddy, there you go.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
You gotta guys, thank you.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
That's something he's thought about all day. Hey, I gotta
make sure they know I almost yet that game right
on the button right there. Let's find out what's trending
right now in the wide world of sports. And Isaac
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Speaker 5 (32:39):
Indeed, Game five of the World Series is in the books.
Here's how the final out sounded on radio station c
JCL Toronto.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
First now sets, he kicks to two, swinging in a strike.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
Three, Poppin punches out Hernandez. The Blue Jays intominate fashion
win six to one.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
In Game five, and they'll come home with a three
to two lead in the World Series. Spot standing up
in the studio.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
Wow, a little extra there, anyway. The story Toronto rookie
pitcher trey Ya Savage, who struck out twelve and seven
innings for the win. He allowed one to run, two hits,
did not walk anybody. His twelve strikeouts the most ever
by a rookie in a World Series game. Offensively, David
Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Junior let off the game with
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back to back home runs off of Dodgers starter Blake Snell.
It was the first time in the seven hundred and
five game history of the World Series that a team
is hit back to back home runs to lead off
a game. And incidentally, Davis Schneider's father, Steve Schneider, find
him on Twitter at and I'm not making this up.
(33:50):
At b ball Dad with two d's four four seven
four five was recording his sons at bat to lead
off on his phone and here's how it sounded.
Speaker 9 (34:03):
Oh no way, no way, got me, day guy.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
You In other words, I'm standing up in the studio anyway.
The Dodgers, for their part, set a dubious World Series
record three wild pitches in the top of the seventh inning,
leading to two more Toronto runs, first time a team
has had three wild pitches in the same inning in
the World Series history. Else Where, a multiple outlets reported
(34:38):
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new manager NBA. Right now, the Los Angeles Lakers a
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minutes remaining in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Guys, back to you, thanks a bun Shiloh. Jason Smith
Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. We
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(35:31):
right out of the oven.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Uh oh.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
But hey, I gotta say it was nice today to
see the old slash new Bill Belichick back, because today
he gave us a great presco I had to make
sure that it was actually him and not Ai. Yeah,
it looked like it could have been. But Bill Belichick,
(35:54):
who of course has been on the hot seat at
North Carolina, we'd had reports a few days ago or
weeks ago that, uh, they could be working on his buyout.
It's just not working.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Look, they had a big game this week, nearly pulled
the upset, but they did not. They play Friday night
against Syracuse and they went for two. So that right,
Yeah they did. It was great, but still, you know,
I think they would have rather gone for it and
made it or gone to overtime. But so we get
to see them Halloween Night against Syracuse, which you know
they're gonna win because Syracuse is such a message.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
It's a house of horrors for the Q.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Steve Aangeli should be the Heisman Trophy winner.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
So you're supposed to win your orange Halloween.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
We have to win orange on Halloween.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
I think we might find a way. We have nobody
to throw the football. That's I like more than wearing
orange on Halloween is being able to throw the football.
I like that little Yeah that works. So today Belichick
feeling an ornery. Uh it is weekly Press conference, was
asked about these reports and where he sits right now
with the team and everything else going into Is he
(36:55):
gonna be a one and done. Is he gonna make
it through the end of the season. Is he planning
on coaching for a long time? Here's Bill Belichick today
giving an expansive answer on that topic.
Speaker 8 (37:05):
Do you see almost a different team from before that
to when you told them that, and see like almost
something in their eye of like, Okay, now we have
the confirmation, I get something terms from you, and now
we want to go out there and really continue doing
what we've been doing.
Speaker 10 (37:18):
Well, it's never been anything about that, And wherever that
story came from, obviously is it's already been taken down
and everything else, and it's just total you know, as
Trump would say, fake news. I mean, it's just I
don't know, it's just a novel.
Speaker 7 (37:31):
You know.
Speaker 10 (37:31):
Michael Lombardi and I came in and started hiring people
and come into the organization in December. We got here
the same day and we've been doing it every day,
and you know, that's the way it's going to be.
So I'm sure there's a lot of other people out
there that want to get you know, clicks and fuse
and you know, posts on my face or whatever, and
(37:54):
but like it's just a bunch.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Of garbage my face. I Bill, I dig that, Bill.
I Yet, you know, all the whole snap face and
instant shower is a lot we have played for him
for a long time. I get he's coming back to that,
but wow, dude, you're a you're you're a college head coach.
You got to know what all the big social media
things are that you're allowed to communicate with players on.
You gotta know that. I think he just decided, Yeah,
(38:18):
he has no idea.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
I think I think he does.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
You know, hey we can snapchat. You think he knows that.
You think he's like, yeah, you talk to them. However,
you need to talk to them to make sure they
know we like them.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
No, I think he I think he's a little more
uh adept at all of this than he lets on.
But it's easier to dismiss it and lean into that
part of him, because if he's going to come part
of the way back, he's got to go all the
way back and be full ornery Bill with those quips.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Do you guys think that he met Jordan his girlfriend
on my face.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Oh, they're gonna say, Michael Jordan, I really thought you
were gonna take that line somewhere else. And I'm like,
it's not late enough. I know which way do I
s out of the gutter? Which way do I swipe?
Speaker 5 (38:55):
To me?
Speaker 1 (38:56):
I swipe up, swiped out? What is family show? I
don't understaid. Let me go, let me get on, Let
me get on AI and see what they tell me
about swiping. Okay, I've swiped this way, swipe that, swipe up,
swipe that I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Well, I mean he's a high leverage guy. I mean
he probably has an assistant sitting next to him that
went through his my vase.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
You need to know nothing more than what I'm going
to tell you right now. If you want to answer
the question, is Bill Belichick in trouble? He absolutely is.
You can go with everything you have heard. You know,
North Carolina is not happy. We just look sometime from
when that report came out, what do we say, sometime
from that day, which is two weeks ago, till the
end of the season. Bill Belichier's going to get fired
(39:36):
at some point between there and the end of the
season because it's not going well. But you know he's
in trouble, and you have to understand that he knows
that because of the answer he gave to this question. Normally,
whenever he gets a question he hasn't like, he gives
you three seconds and moves on, Yeah, well it's not
something that we're and then the next question comes in
(39:58):
after an uncomfortable silence, Yeah that's not But here he
is big, long answer. Here's what Michael Lombardi and I
came in to try to He knows I have to
be beholden to people because I don't have that power
that I did with New England when all these other
people would ask me questions if things weren't going well,
I could just be a jerk and blow it off. No,
now I have to be a little bit more understanding,
(40:20):
a little bit night when you know he wants to
tell that reporter, what the hell kind of question you
asked me? Man? Just get the blank out of here, man,
what what the hell is wrong? Take that guy's take
that guy's press pass, and take it away. But here
he is giving an answer, and you know, I'm still
a little bit surly Bill Belichick, But just by the
fact he tells you he knows he is in tons
of trouble.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
I like that the the fire's lit a little bit
and that facade and you know, happy go lucky, everything's
going along just fine. Trust the process has gotten kicked
to the curb. So you know, I'm curious as to
as he's staring at the camera, what member of the
university administration he was speaking to directly in that regard,
(40:58):
you know, leaking about any kind of Hey, he's on
his last legs or whatever. Right as we go into
our sources, By the way, you can get into that
game Friday night, guys, let's go to Syracuse. Five dollars
fifty cents gets us in. Dude, think you know how
embarrassing that would be. That's what they pay you. Yeah,
oh okay.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
That's how much my basketball tickets were when I was
a student. No, the next that that's how embarrassing. Like
if they lose to the to the to Syracuse who
fran Brown said he may play, they may play like
three guys a quarterback on Friday because Ricky Collins is
so bad. Like if you lose that game to Syracuse,
who was just spiraling on national TV.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Swear you throw forty four on someone and just have
them do the wildcat.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
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