October 31, 2024 • 36 mins
The Dodgers take their first lead in Game 5 of the World Series. Longtime And NFL Insider Jason Cole joins Jason and Mike for all things Week 9!!
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Speaker 3 (00:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Things get a little interesting now in New York. Tommy
Kinley in in the eighth inning for the Yankees. The
Dodgers have greeted him with back to back hits. Tommy
Edmund breaking his bat a ground ball through the hole.
Volpi's able to get there, but there's obviously no play
he can make, so the Dodgers have runners at first
and second. Nobody out. Top of the eighth inning. They
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trail the Yankees six to five.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Chaos and sus Baby, come on, let's go.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
So we'll keep you updated on this game. Right now,
Will Smith about to come out meeting at the mound
right now for the Yankees going.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Man, let's get it out, hey, Will Smith take one
for the team, but Jordan for seventeen.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
So it's like every Dodger is two for seventeen in
the series except for Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Joining us now on the hot line. Check him out
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Speaker 3 (01:52):
Ikey Jordan loves how easy?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Look at that man, You're trying to make Jordan love
happen again?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Will he will play? Because he could have been a Dodger.
That's right, he could have been a hero. Freddy Freeman, Baby,
he could be empty of this theory. Well he's MVP
because we're winning. This is it, this is over.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Yeah, he was minus nine hundred coming in.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Well, let's see, he's got a home run in the
first each of the first four games and a two
run single tonight. Yeah yeah, Boldy was second in odds.
As of this morning, he was seventeen to one.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure he's gonna win. I'm
pretty sure if the Yankees win the series, he's gonna
win the MVP. How about that? Goes all Jerry west Of.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I didn't want I didn't want to say that because
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna jinx it because we're
winning tonight and this thing's over. Because I do not.
My wife wants seven games, and she wants complete and
total torture. Wow, because she she's a Giants fan, so
she hates the Dodgers. Oh and so this says, yeah,
this is this is a bad dude.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
How did you get married? How does a Giants fan
marry a Dodgers fan? How the hell does that happen?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Man?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Cute? What do you want me to tell you?
Speaker 5 (03:09):
And he keeps things spicy? When I said, yeah, you're
bullpen staates? Yeah, your starters. When I met my wife, right,
I my wife, she went to Michigan, and I said, okay,
if we had met in.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
College, let's just say at a party. But I went
to Ohio State. Would we have gotten together? And she
said no, it's.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Really no, No, we wouldn't have.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I admire that. I admire that. Maybe she was looking
for better, she was looking for a chefter.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
I was going to ask if he'd hid in the
whole Syracuse thing no, or the Jets fan more more appropriate.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
We wouldn't have know what if we met at a party?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
No?
Speaker 5 (03:50):
What if I didn't tell you what? I would have
asked you and you would have told the eventually. Yeah, okay,
wouldn't have gotten together.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
That happened, Okay, I get her. I admire her. That's great.
You know, my wife has debated it. You know she
it was it was coming into the vow, she was like, Dodgers,
really Dodgers. Okay, I guess I'm doing this. That's what
That was her auditude. That was that was that was.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Is she wearing a Madison Bumgardner jersey at your wedding ceremony?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
You're wearing yours. It's a it's a Buster bum Gardner thing.
It's got Buster Pozzy on one side, Madison Bumgardner on
the other. That's that's us. That's how she rolls. She
likes the Battery Mates that's what it is.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
There, you go, Okay, there we go, Jason Cole with
us here. All right, let's start. Now let's talk you know,
that's baseball, Susan.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Let's talk at her on that one. Now, let's talks in.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Football, all right, j Cole. Tomorrow night, Jets win by
three touchdowns? Four touchdowns?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Why?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
No? Well? No, First of all, what does Woody Johnson
come to the come to a Halloween game dressed ass
like Stephen Hawking's genius or what does that? Does that happen?
I mean, just because he's he's done such a phenomenal
job of you know, inspiring this team and really you know,
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giving that that extra kick that they need to take
advantage of the season. He's just done a fabulous job,
hasn't he.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
He's stumbledore?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I go, I have another question. So which loss is worse?
Getting beat on a Hail Mary or losing to the Patriots?
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Well, I gotta say that to you, Buddy's back and
everything else.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
The bear is that's a rough one. But I got
to say the Jets because you're actually you're losing to
your most hated rival, and they're the Patriots are literally
the worst team in the league except that maybe the
Jets exist.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Wow, you're putting panthers.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Do you honestly think that I haven't seen losses like
that for the last better part of the last forty
five years?
Speaker 4 (06:08):
You think what I saw Sunday was new?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
No, the entire the entirety of the forty five years that.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Even though it was the NFL history for whatever, that
stat was less than two hundred and fifty yards and
no turnovers and one team stinks and the other team
has high paid player whatever that status seven hundred and
fifty at all, and now they're not whatever it is
I've I've seen so many losses like that, Jay Cole.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
So it's just it's you're not your numb to it
is that what? That's what you're telling ye and Harmon
And Harmon is the one who still has hope. Oh no, no, no, Yeah,
Harmon is a dangerous thing.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Yeah, it is a dangerous thing.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
How about the fact that no fewer than six players
went down to their local appearances to uh back the
boss over eberflus.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
It's a it's a great week, even though the guy's
looking in the stands and they're blaming eber flu even
though one of their dudes is looking in the standard.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Oh no, they're not letting him off the hook.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
But yeah, no, I mean obviously, like the game should
have been won. They they didn't do it right, all
those things right, But like that's on the point that
one's on the players, Like it's not you know, you
can't you just can't let hail Mary go. You just
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know that one's that one's completely and totally on the
players and anybody who's blaming eber Flutes to that loss. Yeah,
they got it together in the last three drives and
grand there was the fumble, but I mean, come on, yeah,
that that's so that's so lame to blame Pever flu
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I tried to explain that to Harmon. I said, look,
this loss is an outliar. Hail Mary's happened. It always happened,
because well but it does, right whatever you know, And
and hail Mary's happened once in a while, and it's
always the fault of the defense.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
They don't do something.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Although I will say it's weird to have it be
the fault of the guy who's was supposed to be
on Noah Brown but instead was honking it up with
the bear stands in the stands.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
So I mean that that was a bit of a
new one. That was a bit of a new one
for me.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, that's that's it's original, but it's definitely on the players.
It's definitely original and on the players. So yeah, I mean, yeah,
not that I think that eber Flutes is any kind
of great coach. I mean, he's if you rearrange the
letters in ebra Flutes there you probably get somewhere close
to Oncett. But but but yeah, like it's still it's
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still this one's not on him. I'm sorry, it's just
not I'm not kidd I'm willing, not willing to do that.
So anyways, moving along, so we were talking about Tomorrowston
and the Jets. Like you're saying, Houston wins this game.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
What Jets? What forty four to thirteen? Forty four ten?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
What do you think forty four ten? Is that penalty?
Speaker 5 (08:59):
You're it?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
It's how many whatever you want to put and they
will outgain the Texans buy but still wind up losing
whatever whatever you want to say that.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Is, Oh, absolutely they're losing this game. You know, there's
no way, there's no The Easton is Easton is one
of the three premier teams. Yeah, it always depends, like
does Baltimore I just get this. Yeah, it seems like
two out of three games Baltimore decides that wants to
really work hard at this and really decide we want
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to be the best team in the league. And then
there's a third game where they just go, yeah, let's
make it entertaining, let's just have some fun here. Let's
like drop balls and we can't cover anybody. Yeah, And
I just don't understand what happened to their defense. You know,
they got dnps coming back and all that kind of stuff.
But I do not understand the Ravens because they are
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so suited to go want a run where they just
win like ten or eleven straight role through the playoffs
and prove that they're the best team in football because
because it's all right there for them. But it's just
there's like it's just a brain fart every like four
weeks or something like that. Or I just go, I
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don't get this team. I don't understand what you guys
are doing.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Well, but now they bolstered the offense, so that'll help
the defense out quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yeah, the guy with a guy who's like gone through
two organizations in the last fourteen months. Well, I love
when you trade a fifth rounder, you trade a sixth
and a player for a fifth rounder or whatever wherever
the heck that was. That's like, let's upgrade. We're upgrading,
(10:48):
you know, around by giving up a player. That's that's
such a big move. Anyway, it's going huge.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Hey, let's move to Indianapolis.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Anthony Richardson, Is he the next quarterback of the Jets
because he probably isn't playing in Indianapolis again, right, Uh?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
No, I think he's going to play in Indianapolis. Like
I was thinking about this today, I was at the
game where Jim Harbaugh took himself out for the entire
fourth quarter of the game. Now, granted he was dehydrated
and his body was locking up, but it's not like
Anthony Richardson, did you know, committed a crime? He made
(11:26):
a bad move. Now the bigger question by Anthony Richardson
is can he play?
Speaker 4 (11:30):
No?
Speaker 5 (11:30):
No, no, that was that was my point. I did be
taking yourself out for a play is one thing. He's
just not good.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
No, he's not good. And this is this is why
you don't draft guys who throw what is it? He
threw less than four hundred passes in college. You actually
have to play the position him and it was Trey Lance.
Him and Trey Lance are the only guy's drafted in
like the last twenty five years. He threw less than
four hundred passes drafted in the first round. He threw
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the less some four hundred passes in college. And you know,
we're you know, taking the first round expected to be good.
It's like, yeah, they might have. They actually stayed in
school and had another four or five hundred throws and
and actually worked on their craft. And Anthony Richardson's what
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you know, he's an amazing athlete who has had really
really bad luck. We've talked about before. I mean, what's
the same high school as my sons, So you know,
bad luck in high school, got hurt in high school,
got hurt in college, and barely played for the first
two years. Then you know, Billy Napier, there's a genius
(12:40):
for you, says, Oh, I've got a guy who looks
like a Donnis. But I'm going to tell him, I
don't think you can play in my system. How about Billy,
you change the system like and maybe take a guy
who's a really great player and try and turn him
into something right, you know, but you're stuck on your system,
you know, and it's really showing your performance here like
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two years later. So this, you know, Anthony Richardson's never
had a chance to train to actually play the position,
and this decision to bench him doesn't make him better.
I'm not sure anything is gonna make him better because,
you know, trying to learn how to play quarterback at
the NFL. I mean it is sort of like it's
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sort of like Woody Johnson trying to go learn calculus,
Like it's just not going to happen.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
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Speaker 4 (13:54):
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Speaker 3 (13:56):
You Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
There goes Jason Cole. Great stuff from the NFL. Now
time to tell you about what has just happened.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
In Major League Baseball.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Special Game five of the World Series. I got as
bad as the Yankees fielding has been as bad as
it is, as hard as it is to see them
succeed because their fielding is so bad. I did not
have catcher's interference on my bingo card.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
You want to talk about extending and adding a and
then and waiting for the next episode like in next,
next same bat time, same bat channel kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
The Yankees had runners at first and second. There was
a pitching change and Luke Weaver came in a walk
to load the bases, and then the Dodgers get a
couple of sacrifice flies to go ahead, now seven to six,
going to the bottom of the eighth inning. Sandwich there
in the middle sandwich was a catcher's interference that put
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shoe Heo Tani at first base. Now luckily it didn't
come back to haunt the Yankees. They would have had
to sacrifice fly for Mookie Bets anyway. So two sacrifice
flies have given the Dodgers a one run lead. Going
to the bottom of the eighth inning. They are now
hunting outs and Walker Buehler looks like he's going to
be coming in from the bullpen for the eighth inning.
(15:16):
Talk about high leverage more from an already legendary World
Series game coming up next right here, Jason and Mike.
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Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon and All Counts. Bottom of the eighth inning.
This is just a heavyweight fight.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Haymakers being thrown, Blake tryning on the mound for the Dodgers,
Walker Buehler warming in the bullpen. Dave Roberts is out
to talk to Tringing. The Yankees have first and second
and one out. In the bottom of the eighth, Aaron
Judge with one out, doubles down the line and left
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and Jazz Chisholm has walked on five pitches. Didn't look
like trying to really wanted a lot to do with
Jazz Chishlm. Nothing that was really even the ball that
was a strike looked like it was out of the
strike zone. And Chishm was halfway up the first baseline
before the home plate umpire Rippinger said, oh no, that's
strike one. The next pitch almost hit him. So right
now here are the Dodgers first and second, one out,
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gin Carlos Stanton up at bat, and Dave Roberts has
just finished talking to Blake trying, and he gave him
the Aaron Rodgers Robert Soli push in his chest. Hey
two score lead, like Roberts. Rogers did that to solid
was what the hell's going on? Dave Roberts just did
that to try and it gave him the push like, hey, man,
I don't know what he's.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Saying to bring the Jets did well, that's what remind him.
Didn't remind what you're doing. Come on, man.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
He gave the Roberts solo two handed push and so
now trying it is out there, runners at first and second.
Jim Carlos Stanton is up and his legacy is a
Yankee could be coming down to this at bat, and
on the first pitch, Stanton flies out to shallow right field.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
There is no tag, no two outs.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
There are now two outs and the Yankees are runners
at first and second.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
So Stanton's big postseason. My dad's just gonna tell me.
See what I tell you, can't it in the clutch.
A huge and absolutely huge out from Blake Tridon who
gets Stanton swinging on a pitch on the outer half
of the plate. Now that is where the ball was
earlier when he homer earlier in the game. So clearly
he was looking for something out over the plates a
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little bit too much and not a great swing, and
instead it's a shallow pop up to right field.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I know.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
The key term that is being used and maybe abused
at this point is ambush. I want to ambush the
pitcher when he tries to sneak a fastball in on me.
I hate first pitch swing almost categorically the ambush idea,
and occasionally, yeah, you're right, and you hammer it. We
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saw it with Judge earlier, You've seen it with sum
at bats, but then you have so many others where
it's yeah, I guess wrong, but I was swinging and
I hit a lazy pop up like there was no
charge behind what Stanton just did there, right, he might
have guessed right, but the location was an inch or
two maybe further to the outer part of the play,
then he thought, which means it's a lazy fly ball
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that Mookie Betts comes in and throws the third base
on one hop like there, even if Judge was I
don't know. Let's grab Vince Coleman from the analysts history.
Vince Coleman, I e really speedy guy. Even that guy's
not thinking about tagging up based on that where the
ball was so like that at bat was useless.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Uh So again Jim Carlos. Stanton, with a chance to
tie the game at least, instead flies out to right fields.
And now Anthony Rizzo is up for the Yankees again.
Two outs, two on. They nearly had Aaron Judge picked
off of second base. Ye Will Smith throws all the
way down. However, it didn't look like.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Edmund was where he he should have been for a
play like that, and they didn't get him at second,
But it doesn't matter because Blake tried. It is screaming
to the heavens because he has just struck Anthony Rizzo
out on a breaking pitch outside the strike zone to
end the eighth inning. The Dodgers are three outs away
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from the World Series. They will hit the bottom of
the ninth inning with at least a seven to six
lead a game that looked like it was all but done.
The Dodgers were trailing five nothing early in this one.
They are now three outs away from the World Series.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
That pitch that trying and just broke off on Rizzo.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
My goodness, that was like that bat in eight men
Out when Seacott is finally trying and he throws at
one pitch the game he didn't throw in the World
Series and studs turk.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Goes, did you see that nitch? Like that was some
kind of pitch.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
We've got the door shut and we're gonna soundproof room.
You could hear down the hallway the scream as Rizzo
swung over the top of that one.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Here's where we sit right now, is Brian Fenley got
you caught? Up on everything else going on in the
night in sports to Ascar. Hernandez just let off the
ninth inning with a single through the hole. So the
Dodgers had the lead off runner nobody out as they
lead the Yankees seven to six. He's coming out of
the game right now, and I think Steve Sachs is
coming into pinch run. Let's go, Chris Taylor coming into
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pinch run. So you see what their philosophy is going
to be for the ninth inning. Defensive purposes, But the
Dodgers have the leadoff runner on looking for a big
insurance run going to the bottom of the ninth inning,
and the big thing for.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
The Yankees you've already seen. We've seen Judge, yeah right,
we've seen Stanton, We've seen the guys. Now it's gonna
be the bottom of the order, likely for Walker Buehler,
who has been warming in the bullpen. Trinan's gone a
couple of innings, likely that's gonna be it for him.
And it looks like Walker Buehler is gonna come in
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to try to close out the World Series for the
Dodger How about.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
That big game. We've seen the history.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
We know the start earlier in this World Series, a
guy much maligned a lot of questions over the course
of the season. When he came back from injury. One
in six was his record, and let's call what it is.
Once upon a time, the the golden boy for the
rotation right alongside Kershaw and the shit. Well, the Los
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Angeles crowd had really soured on him, right the oh
it's Bueller because it was no longer Bueller's got it.
It became a well, all right, let's see what he
has and now he can potentially come in to close
this thing out.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
It's so great. Yeah, I mean it's such a drama.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I mean, look for a guy who couldn't get anybody
out in the regular season. Now and in the first
game of the playoffs against against the Padres, gave up
six runs. Uh, zero's in the NLCS, zero's in the
World Series. All of a sudden, Hey no, I'm great again.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
But even that start against the Padres, at some point
he figured something out right even there, like he had
that horrible inning and then finished that outing and since
then has been absolute nails. I really got excited because
you had the leadoff hit her on, right, we have
the pinch runner and then months.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
He came up and absolutely hammered it, but right at the.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Right Yeah, Munsey tomahawks a pitch that's high, look a
little bit at but you have seen him hit pitches
like this. I hit it right on the screws. But
there is now one out flies out to right field,
one outrunner at first.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Appreciate the greatness of that a bat though he actually
hit the Ball's true.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
He did, he did, he did.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
It's like it was like watching Aaron Judge slowly go
from all right, hit one back to the pitcher. I
hit a ground ball and then he hit a home run.
It's like baby steps every time. That's where we sit.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Baby, he's not gonna need to take any more steps.
Baby steps, baby steps.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Uh so again, this is where we are right now,
Keith a Hernandez up one out runner at first. Dodgers
lead the Yankees seven to six here in the top
of the ninth inning.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Drama.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
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Speaker 4 (24:17):
Now.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Bit of drama, of course, because you know Yankee fielding,
I didn't have balk Ye.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
The part of Yankee Yankee fielding.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
Tonight, Man, I'm gonna win in blackout every last game
of the night. Weaver Boks going over to first base
to throw to to try to get Chris Taylor stealing,
and Taylor is down at second. So now the Dodgers
have a runner in scoring position with one out as
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they bat in the top of the ninth inning. So
as we continue, will it be a Dodger two run lead,
three run lead. We'll be hearing the Yankees come to
bat in the bottom of the ninth thinning, three outs
away from losing the World Series to the Dodgers. All
that more coming up next. Keep it right here, Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon, you are listening to Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 4 (25:15):
Oh, come on, Tommy Edmond. You couldn't swing like that
in the NLC. You gotta let it go. Man, Man,
he kicked your ass.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Dude, I'm not in the World Series because of Tommy's
so angry anything. Couldn't do that in the last series, jerk. Oh,
that's been the entire last days. Couldn't do that in
the NLCS. Hey months, he couldn't go over fifteen in
the NLCS. Good you do you hate Edmund or a monsymore? Oh?
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Edmund?
Speaker 5 (25:37):
I just keep seeing Edmund get hits and home runs
and make plays. And it's just the Jason Smith Show
with Mike Harmon live from the Tirack dot Com Studios.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
The Yankees get.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Out of a jam in the ninth inning, first and second,
one out. Mark Lighter Junior comes in and he gets
Tommy Edmond on a full count strikeout out of the
strike zone, a really bad pitch, but got Edmund to
chase it, then gets a ground out to third to
end the inning. So the Yankees and it's kind of
the bottom of the order coming up for them here
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in the bottom of the ninth inning, and it's going
to be Walker Bueller in from the bullpen to try
to close this out and win the World Series for
the Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
In his career two and oh with a point five
e r A in three World Series appearances spanning eighteen
innings pitched.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Yeah, but that was back when he was Walker Bueller.
Now he's like, is he good? Still kind of somewhat Walker, But.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
I get I get to at least put that graphic
up though, Buddy. I mean, that's all I'm doing.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
I'm trying to. I'm just trying to, like I'm painting
it with words here. No, you want to get the
Jason clearly didn't watch Game three.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
It's no, it's just just like the NFL wanted to
get all the Jets games out of the way early.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Hey, we got we had him. We had him this
week on third seasons, So we're gonna we're gonna tap
out of those Jets games. Lead.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Let's get him on the first couple of months while
people are still interest in Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Now, of course, one of those starts earlier in this
World Series where he gave you a five strong shutout innings,
two hits aloud, and now comes in. You know some
of us, you know, part of me would have liked
to wait, there's a surprise. They've got a giant you know,
like the medical tent on the sideline of an NFL
game where they're not showing.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
You who's warming up.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
And maybe it would be the surprise of Shoeotani wearing
glasses like he's Charlie Sheen coming in.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
But here we get Buehler and and.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
It's it's so huge, a guy that's been with the squad,
the ups and downs and certainly battling back this year
to what he's been for them in these playoffs, these
these last couple of rounds.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
It's a huge moment.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
You know there's part of me that thought, you know,
the going going back now, going back to before the
playoffs started, as Dodger getting or going the Dodgers are
on the mound to clinch the World Series, it's gonna
be Otani on the mound of the ninth, right, It's
gonna be Otani. But then clearly that didn't happen in
the injury you know, designated hitter. Yeah, but I always
had that vision that if they're gonna win the World Series.
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It's gonna be Otani.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
No, that's one of those great storybook kind of things, right,
you know, and Bueller's story certainly fantastic as well, and
Dodger fans he's beloved, been with the squad, you know,
all these years, so on opportunity for him to close
it out here in game five. But yeah, the Otani
storybook men, come on, look at the year that it was,
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you know, it only seemed fitting that maybe you'd get
one more chapter to it.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
So right now, it's gonna be Walker Bueller facing the
b and I say, I say bottomiss of the order
because volt Yes, he's hitting seventh, but he's been really good,
yeah this series, but he is facing seven, eight nine.
It's Vulpi, Wells and Verdugo right now is what's gonna
happen for Bueller as he tries to close this out.
The Dodgers are three outs away from their first World title.
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Since twenty twenty, Chris Taylor has come into left field
defensive purposes. Remember he came in to run for ta
Oscar Hernandez in the top of the ninth inning. Look,
if you watch this game and you walk away from
and go Yeah it was okay. I I don't think
baseball's for you. No, I don't think baseball. If you
watch this series at all, I don't think baseball is
for you. Maybe maybe maybe maybe something else is your thing,
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maybe you want to make it, but but baseball is
clearly not your thing.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
You can just go through the entire playoff run, just
so many weird twists, big moments, giant performances, big hits,
big pitches made like we saw trying and break off
that pitch last inning. I mean, you just have moments
like that that you just you're you're left with that
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was it?
Speaker 4 (29:40):
The scream? Was that Munch? Oh? Yeah yeah the monch? Sure?
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Sure were you making the McAuley Culkin home alone face.
For those that don't like Arty, don't glack to.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Explain, because people think, wait, the guy from one order
much No, no different, different.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Oh nicely done one not not Munch like Bells A
hell of a runny yet with that character over several series.
But but all of that to say, it's just been
a wild roller coaster, and you know, baseball is one
of those that sometimes you need to sell people on.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
You didn't need to do it. During these playoffs.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Bueller has just gotten Vulty to ground out to Max Munsey.
There is one out in the bottom of the ninth inning,
Dodgers two outs away from the World Series. Just about
Bueller for this point, because this, look, how many times
you hear me say, how can not be romantic about baseball?
Speaker 5 (30:27):
How much do I love baseball? But this is what
the sport does, is that you hear the phrase yesterday's
goat is tomorrow's hero. Yeah, you hear that you always
have a chance for redemption. But for Buehler to be
somebody who I don't even know if the Dodgers thought
he was gonna be in their postseason plans at all,
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because when he came back from the latest injury, remember
he hadn't pitched it. He hadn't pitched hardly at all
to come back, and he'd not pitched well since he returned.
He was era was up over six. They were trying
to get him innings to think well at some point,
and then they really went into the playoffs because there
was absolutely nobody else. They know, Okay, we're gonna have
at least one bullpen game. We can't have two bullpen games,
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So all right, Bueller's our guy, right, everybody else Kershaw.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Is hurt, and and and glassnow is hurt. What are
we gonna do?
Speaker 5 (31:15):
And so because there was nobody else out there, and
he has the first game against the Padres and he's bad.
It's one really bet inning, right, but it still doesn't mean,
you know, you give up six runs and that was
the starting counts the same. I mean, that's us for
doing the nuance of how that start eventually finished. But yeah,
and the Dodgers throw him out there for Game three
against the Mets because there is nobody else.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
They had the bullpen game in game two and the
Mets knocked the crap out of that. They're up six
to one early. They win that game, and all of
a sudden, here's Game three, and look at the advantage
of Mets have and not really that game is what
probably turned I don't want to say, the entire fortunes
of the Dodgers, but it turned Bueller's fortunes because he
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went four innings, he threw the ball really well, had
a lot of breakoff his pitches, he had the Mets chasing,
and suddenly it was, hey, we can breathe easier now
because we can trust him to start a game. Now,
still we're gonna need the relievers at some point, but
we can now try if he comes back again in
Game seven or in the World Series, we can trust
him again. And then he comes back in game in
the World Series, and he has a great game the
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other night, and now here he is closing out the
World Series. He's someone that went from we don't know
if he's even gonna be on the team too. He's
only pitching because.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
There literally is nobody else to Now you're our guy
to close out the ninth inning. I mean, that's that's
just an unbelievable story. Yeah, just the run through, I mean,
is fastball hitting up at ninety seven ninety eight miles
an hour. He just broke off an off speed pitch
swung throughs for out number two. So we're down to
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the final out here. But to your point, right, nearly
a six era in the regular season, and you know,
just showing what Dave Roberts and management and what this
die your staff is done as we sit here on
the precipice of closing this thing out, is that your starters,
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we've changed what the metrics are and for baseball, you know,
It's in a strange spot, is that Bueller only had
had to go four innings to launch into another stratosphere
and to regain you know, the love, the adoration, whatever else.
Six strikeouts a four inning appearance. Normally it was all right,
I got to get seven out of the guy. I
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was like, no, you were just hoping for four or
five because you trust your bullpen when the high leverage
guys are available, that you're going to be able to
close out a game, and that your offense, which has
been a juggernaut all season long, has been able to
put up runs in this series. I mean, most of
it coming on the way of the home run, except
for that crazy ass inning that we had back in.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
The fifth Walker Bueller is one strike away from winning
the World Series for the Dodgers. A one to two
pitch is in the dirt.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Strike three.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
The Dodgers are your World Series champions. They are mobbing
Bueller on the mound. Mookie Betts is throwing his hat.
How great is it that it's Verdugo that strikes out
to end it after his dopey support of the Thugs
from yesterday.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
He's gonna leap on somebody the Dodgers are partying on
the mound in Yankee Stadium. They are your World Series champions.
In twenty twenty four. It was a breaking pitch in
the dirt, second breaking pitch in the dirt of the
at bat to get Verdugo, and now it is a party.
Aaron Judge walking off, clearly not having an Aaron Judge
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type World Series walker. Bueller is standing with his arms
out to the stands left.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
To say, are you not entertained.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
The eighth World Series Championship for the Dodgers, And I
assume it will just be They're just gonna walk on
the on the field and go, Freddy, here's your MVP chow.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
You don't need a ceremony. There's no drama here. Take
your trophy, Freddy, you're the winners. You got it. Go
hang out with your family. Here's your trophy.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
A game the Dodgers were down five nothing and it
looked like we were heading back to LA for Game six,
and then the Yankee defense went to work and.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
I don't mean in a positive way.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
No, and undone by an Aaron Judge error and Anthony
Volpi error, a mental error involving Garrett Cole and Anthony
Rizzo that should have ended an inning, and instead the
Dodgers get five to tie it. They withstand the Yankees
getting the go ahead run in a sacrifice fly by
John Carlos Stanton and getting two runs in a very
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Dodger like rally in the top of the eighth, some walks,
a couple of sacrifice flies, and two shutout innings, one
from Blake Tron in the eighth and an easy inning
from Bueller in the ninth. The Dodgers are your World
Series champions. More reaction to this coming up next.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
Keep it here. It's a must listen Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Start to party, Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Your Dodgers have won the World Series.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
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Speaker 3 (00:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Things get a little interesting now in New York. Tommy
Kinley in in the eighth inning for the Yankees. The
Dodgers have greeted him with back to back hits. Tommy
Edmund breaking his bat a ground ball through the hole.
Volpi's able to get there, but there's obviously no play
he can make, so the Dodgers have runners at first
and second. Nobody out. Top of the eighth inning. They
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trail the Yankees six to five.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Chaos and sus Baby, come on, let's go.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
So we'll keep you updated on this game. Right now,
Will Smith about to come out meeting at the mound
right now for the Yankees going.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Man, let's get it out, hey, Will Smith take one
for the team, but Jordan for seventeen.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
So it's like every Dodger is two for seventeen in
the series except for Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Joining us now on the hot line. Check him out
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Speaker 3 (01:52):
Ikey Jordan loves how easy?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Look at that man, You're trying to make Jordan love
happen again?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Will he will play? Because he could have been a Dodger.
That's right, he could have been a hero. Freddy Freeman, Baby,
he could be empty of this theory. Well he's MVP
because we're winning. This is it, this is over.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Yeah, he was minus nine hundred coming in.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Well, let's see, he's got a home run in the
first each of the first four games and a two
run single tonight. Yeah yeah, Boldy was second in odds.
As of this morning, he was seventeen to one.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure he's gonna win. I'm
pretty sure if the Yankees win the series, he's gonna
win the MVP. How about that? Goes all Jerry west Of.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I didn't want I didn't want to say that because
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna jinx it because we're
winning tonight and this thing's over. Because I do not.
My wife wants seven games, and she wants complete and
total torture. Wow, because she she's a Giants fan, so
she hates the Dodgers. Oh and so this says, yeah,
this is this is a bad dude.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
How did you get married? How does a Giants fan
marry a Dodgers fan? How the hell does that happen?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Man?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Cute? What do you want me to tell you?
Speaker 5 (03:09):
And he keeps things spicy? When I said, yeah, you're
bullpen staates? Yeah, your starters. When I met my wife, right,
I my wife, she went to Michigan, and I said, okay,
if we had met in.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
College, let's just say at a party. But I went
to Ohio State. Would we have gotten together? And she
said no, it's.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Really no, No, we wouldn't have.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I admire that. I admire that. Maybe she was looking
for better, she was looking for a chefter.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
I was going to ask if he'd hid in the
whole Syracuse thing no, or the Jets fan more more appropriate.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
We wouldn't have know what if we met at a party?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
No?
Speaker 5 (03:50):
What if I didn't tell you what? I would have
asked you and you would have told the eventually. Yeah, okay,
wouldn't have gotten together.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
That happened, Okay, I get her. I admire her. That's great.
You know, my wife has debated it. You know she
it was it was coming into the vow, she was like, Dodgers,
really Dodgers. Okay, I guess I'm doing this. That's what
That was her auditude. That was that was that was.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Is she wearing a Madison Bumgardner jersey at your wedding ceremony?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
You're wearing yours. It's a it's a Buster bum Gardner thing.
It's got Buster Pozzy on one side, Madison Bumgardner on
the other. That's that's us. That's how she rolls. She
likes the Battery Mates that's what it is.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
There, you go, Okay, there we go, Jason Cole with
us here. All right, let's start. Now let's talk you know,
that's baseball, Susan.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Let's talk at her on that one. Now, let's talks in.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Football, all right, j Cole. Tomorrow night, Jets win by
three touchdowns? Four touchdowns?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Why?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
No? Well? No, First of all, what does Woody Johnson
come to the come to a Halloween game dressed ass
like Stephen Hawking's genius or what does that? Does that happen?
I mean, just because he's he's done such a phenomenal
job of you know, inspiring this team and really you know,
(05:10):
giving that that extra kick that they need to take
advantage of the season. He's just done a fabulous job,
hasn't he.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
He's stumbledore?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I go, I have another question. So which loss is worse?
Getting beat on a Hail Mary or losing to the Patriots?
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Well, I gotta say that to you, Buddy's back and
everything else.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
The bear is that's a rough one. But I got
to say the Jets because you're actually you're losing to
your most hated rival, and they're the Patriots are literally
the worst team in the league except that maybe the
Jets exist.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Wow, you're putting panthers.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Do you honestly think that I haven't seen losses like
that for the last better part of the last forty
five years?
Speaker 4 (06:08):
You think what I saw Sunday was new?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
No, the entire the entirety of the forty five years that.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Even though it was the NFL history for whatever, that
stat was less than two hundred and fifty yards and
no turnovers and one team stinks and the other team
has high paid player whatever that status seven hundred and
fifty at all, and now they're not whatever it is
I've I've seen so many losses like that, Jay Cole.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
So it's just it's you're not your numb to it
is that what? That's what you're telling ye and Harmon
And Harmon is the one who still has hope. Oh no, no, no, Yeah,
Harmon is a dangerous thing.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Yeah, it is a dangerous thing.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
How about the fact that no fewer than six players
went down to their local appearances to uh back the
boss over eberflus.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
It's a it's a great week, even though the guy's
looking in the stands and they're blaming eber flu even
though one of their dudes is looking in the standard.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Oh no, they're not letting him off the hook.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
But yeah, no, I mean obviously, like the game should
have been won. They they didn't do it right, all
those things right, But like that's on the point that
one's on the players, Like it's not you know, you
can't you just can't let hail Mary go. You just
(07:26):
know that one's that one's completely and totally on the
players and anybody who's blaming eber Flutes to that loss. Yeah,
they got it together in the last three drives and
grand there was the fumble, but I mean, come on, yeah,
that that's so that's so lame to blame Pever flu
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I tried to explain that to Harmon. I said, look,
this loss is an outliar. Hail Mary's happened. It always happened,
because well but it does, right whatever you know, And
and hail Mary's happened once in a while, and it's
always the fault of the defense.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
They don't do something.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Although I will say it's weird to have it be
the fault of the guy who's was supposed to be
on Noah Brown but instead was honking it up with
the bear stands in the stands.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
So I mean that that was a bit of a
new one. That was a bit of a new one
for me.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, that's that's it's original, but it's definitely on the players.
It's definitely original and on the players. So yeah, I mean, yeah,
not that I think that eber Flutes is any kind
of great coach. I mean, he's if you rearrange the
letters in ebra Flutes there you probably get somewhere close
to Oncett. But but but yeah, like it's still it's
(08:40):
still this one's not on him. I'm sorry, it's just
not I'm not kidd I'm willing, not willing to do that.
So anyways, moving along, so we were talking about Tomorrowston
and the Jets. Like you're saying, Houston wins this game.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
What Jets? What forty four to thirteen? Forty four ten?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
What do you think forty four ten? Is that penalty?
Speaker 5 (08:59):
You're it?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
It's how many whatever you want to put and they
will outgain the Texans buy but still wind up losing
whatever whatever you want to say that.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Is, Oh, absolutely they're losing this game. You know, there's
no way, there's no The Easton is Easton is one
of the three premier teams. Yeah, it always depends, like
does Baltimore I just get this. Yeah, it seems like
two out of three games Baltimore decides that wants to
really work hard at this and really decide we want
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to be the best team in the league. And then
there's a third game where they just go, yeah, let's
make it entertaining, let's just have some fun here. Let's
like drop balls and we can't cover anybody. Yeah, And
I just don't understand what happened to their defense. You know,
they got dnps coming back and all that kind of stuff.
But I do not understand the Ravens because they are
(09:58):
so suited to go want a run where they just
win like ten or eleven straight role through the playoffs
and prove that they're the best team in football because
because it's all right there for them. But it's just
there's like it's just a brain fart every like four
weeks or something like that. Or I just go, I
(10:19):
don't get this team. I don't understand what you guys
are doing.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Well, but now they bolstered the offense, so that'll help
the defense out quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yeah, the guy with a guy who's like gone through
two organizations in the last fourteen months. Well, I love
when you trade a fifth rounder, you trade a sixth
and a player for a fifth rounder or whatever wherever
the heck that was. That's like, let's upgrade. We're upgrading,
(10:48):
you know, around by giving up a player. That's that's
such a big move. Anyway, it's going huge.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Hey, let's move to Indianapolis.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Anthony Richardson, Is he the next quarterback of the Jets
because he probably isn't playing in Indianapolis again, right, Uh?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
No, I think he's going to play in Indianapolis. Like
I was thinking about this today, I was at the
game where Jim Harbaugh took himself out for the entire
fourth quarter of the game. Now, granted he was dehydrated
and his body was locking up, but it's not like
Anthony Richardson, did you know, committed a crime? He made
(11:26):
a bad move. Now the bigger question by Anthony Richardson
is can he play?
Speaker 4 (11:30):
No?
Speaker 5 (11:30):
No, no, that was that was my point. I did be
taking yourself out for a play is one thing. He's
just not good.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
No, he's not good. And this is this is why
you don't draft guys who throw what is it? He
threw less than four hundred passes in college. You actually
have to play the position him and it was Trey Lance.
Him and Trey Lance are the only guy's drafted in
like the last twenty five years. He threw less than
four hundred passes drafted in the first round. He threw
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the less some four hundred passes in college. And you know,
we're you know, taking the first round expected to be good.
It's like, yeah, they might have. They actually stayed in
school and had another four or five hundred throws and
and actually worked on their craft. And Anthony Richardson's what
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you know, he's an amazing athlete who has had really
really bad luck. We've talked about before. I mean, what's
the same high school as my sons, So you know,
bad luck in high school, got hurt in high school,
got hurt in college, and barely played for the first
two years. Then you know, Billy Napier, there's a genius
(12:40):
for you, says, Oh, I've got a guy who looks
like a Donnis. But I'm going to tell him, I
don't think you can play in my system. How about Billy,
you change the system like and maybe take a guy
who's a really great player and try and turn him
into something right, you know, but you're stuck on your system,
you know, and it's really showing your performance here like
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two years later. So this, you know, Anthony Richardson's never
had a chance to train to actually play the position,
and this decision to bench him doesn't make him better.
I'm not sure anything is gonna make him better because,
you know, trying to learn how to play quarterback at
the NFL. I mean it is sort of like it's
(13:28):
sort of like Woody Johnson trying to go learn calculus,
Like it's just not going to happen.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
He's on Twitter at Jason Cole Safety two. That is
at Jason Cole sixty two.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
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Speaker 5 (13:47):
Ye buy your phone because when Rogers throws his third
touchdown to the game, We're gonna get you.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Are ready, We'll call you tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
You Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
There goes Jason Cole. Great stuff from the NFL. Now
time to tell you about what has just happened.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
In Major League Baseball.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Special Game five of the World Series. I got as
bad as the Yankees fielding has been as bad as
it is, as hard as it is to see them
succeed because their fielding is so bad. I did not
have catcher's interference on my bingo card.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
You want to talk about extending and adding a and
then and waiting for the next episode like in next,
next same bat time, same bat channel kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
The Yankees had runners at first and second. There was
a pitching change and Luke Weaver came in a walk
to load the bases, and then the Dodgers get a
couple of sacrifice flies to go ahead, now seven to six,
going to the bottom of the eighth inning. Sandwich there
in the middle sandwich was a catcher's interference that put
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shoe Heo Tani at first base. Now luckily it didn't
come back to haunt the Yankees. They would have had
to sacrifice fly for Mookie Bets anyway. So two sacrifice
flies have given the Dodgers a one run lead. Going
to the bottom of the eighth inning. They are now
hunting outs and Walker Buehler looks like he's going to
be coming in from the bullpen for the eighth inning.
(15:16):
Talk about high leverage more from an already legendary World
Series game coming up next right here, Jason and Mike.
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Speaker 5 (16:07):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon and All Counts. Bottom of the eighth inning.
This is just a heavyweight fight.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Haymakers being thrown, Blake tryning on the mound for the Dodgers,
Walker Buehler warming in the bullpen. Dave Roberts is out
to talk to Tringing. The Yankees have first and second
and one out. In the bottom of the eighth, Aaron
Judge with one out, doubles down the line and left
(16:37):
and Jazz Chisholm has walked on five pitches. Didn't look
like trying to really wanted a lot to do with
Jazz Chishlm. Nothing that was really even the ball that
was a strike looked like it was out of the
strike zone. And Chishm was halfway up the first baseline
before the home plate umpire Rippinger said, oh no, that's
strike one. The next pitch almost hit him. So right
now here are the Dodgers first and second, one out,
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gin Carlos Stanton up at bat, and Dave Roberts has
just finished talking to Blake trying, and he gave him
the Aaron Rodgers Robert Soli push in his chest. Hey
two score lead, like Roberts. Rogers did that to solid
was what the hell's going on? Dave Roberts just did
that to try and it gave him the push like, hey, man,
I don't know what he's.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Saying to bring the Jets did well, that's what remind him.
Didn't remind what you're doing. Come on, man.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
He gave the Roberts solo two handed push and so
now trying it is out there, runners at first and second.
Jim Carlos Stanton is up and his legacy is a
Yankee could be coming down to this at bat, and
on the first pitch, Stanton flies out to shallow right field.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
There is no tag, no two outs.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
There are now two outs and the Yankees are runners
at first and second.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
So Stanton's big postseason. My dad's just gonna tell me.
See what I tell you, can't it in the clutch.
A huge and absolutely huge out from Blake Tridon who
gets Stanton swinging on a pitch on the outer half
of the plate. Now that is where the ball was
earlier when he homer earlier in the game. So clearly
he was looking for something out over the plates a
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little bit too much and not a great swing, and
instead it's a shallow pop up to right field.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I know.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
The key term that is being used and maybe abused
at this point is ambush. I want to ambush the
pitcher when he tries to sneak a fastball in on me.
I hate first pitch swing almost categorically the ambush idea,
and occasionally, yeah, you're right, and you hammer it. We
(18:41):
saw it with Judge earlier, You've seen it with sum
at bats, but then you have so many others where
it's yeah, I guess wrong, but I was swinging and
I hit a lazy pop up like there was no
charge behind what Stanton just did there, right, he might
have guessed right, but the location was an inch or
two maybe further to the outer part of the play,
then he thought, which means it's a lazy fly ball
(19:02):
that Mookie Betts comes in and throws the third base
on one hop like there, even if Judge was I
don't know. Let's grab Vince Coleman from the analysts history.
Vince Coleman, I e really speedy guy. Even that guy's
not thinking about tagging up based on that where the
ball was so like that at bat was useless.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Uh So again Jim Carlos. Stanton, with a chance to
tie the game at least, instead flies out to right fields.
And now Anthony Rizzo is up for the Yankees again.
Two outs, two on. They nearly had Aaron Judge picked
off of second base. Ye Will Smith throws all the
way down. However, it didn't look like.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Edmund was where he he should have been for a
play like that, and they didn't get him at second,
But it doesn't matter because Blake tried. It is screaming
to the heavens because he has just struck Anthony Rizzo
out on a breaking pitch outside the strike zone to
end the eighth inning. The Dodgers are three outs away
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from the World Series. They will hit the bottom of
the ninth inning with at least a seven to six
lead a game that looked like it was all but done.
The Dodgers were trailing five nothing early in this one.
They are now three outs away from the World Series.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
That pitch that trying and just broke off on Rizzo.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
My goodness, that was like that bat in eight men
Out when Seacott is finally trying and he throws at
one pitch the game he didn't throw in the World
Series and studs turk.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Goes, did you see that nitch? Like that was some
kind of pitch.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
We've got the door shut and we're gonna soundproof room.
You could hear down the hallway the scream as Rizzo
swung over the top of that one.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Here's where we sit right now, is Brian Fenley got
you caught? Up on everything else going on in the
night in sports to Ascar. Hernandez just let off the
ninth inning with a single through the hole. So the
Dodgers had the lead off runner nobody out as they
lead the Yankees seven to six. He's coming out of
the game right now, and I think Steve Sachs is
coming into pinch run. Let's go, Chris Taylor coming into
(21:11):
pinch run. So you see what their philosophy is going
to be for the ninth inning. Defensive purposes, But the
Dodgers have the leadoff runner on looking for a big
insurance run going to the bottom of the ninth inning,
and the big thing for.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
The Yankees you've already seen. We've seen Judge, yeah right,
we've seen Stanton, We've seen the guys. Now it's gonna
be the bottom of the order, likely for Walker Buehler,
who has been warming in the bullpen. Trinan's gone a
couple of innings, likely that's gonna be it for him.
And it looks like Walker Buehler is gonna come in
(21:43):
to try to close out the World Series for the
Dodger How about.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
That big game. We've seen the history.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
We know the start earlier in this World Series, a
guy much maligned a lot of questions over the course
of the season. When he came back from injury. One
in six was his record, and let's call what it is.
Once upon a time, the the golden boy for the
rotation right alongside Kershaw and the shit. Well, the Los
(22:13):
Angeles crowd had really soured on him, right the oh
it's Bueller because it was no longer Bueller's got it.
It became a well, all right, let's see what he
has and now he can potentially come in to close
this thing out.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
It's so great. Yeah, I mean it's such a drama.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I mean, look for a guy who couldn't get anybody
out in the regular season. Now and in the first
game of the playoffs against against the Padres, gave up
six runs. Uh, zero's in the NLCS, zero's in the
World Series. All of a sudden, Hey no, I'm great again.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
But even that start against the Padres, at some point
he figured something out right even there, like he had
that horrible inning and then finished that outing and since
then has been absolute nails. I really got excited because
you had the leadoff hit her on, right, we have
the pinch runner and then months.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
He came up and absolutely hammered it, but right at the.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Right Yeah, Munsey tomahawks a pitch that's high, look a
little bit at but you have seen him hit pitches
like this. I hit it right on the screws. But
there is now one out flies out to right field,
one outrunner at first.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Appreciate the greatness of that a bat though he actually
hit the Ball's true.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
He did, he did, he did.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
It's like it was like watching Aaron Judge slowly go
from all right, hit one back to the pitcher. I
hit a ground ball and then he hit a home run.
It's like baby steps every time. That's where we sit.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Baby, he's not gonna need to take any more steps.
Baby steps, baby steps.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Uh so again, this is where we are right now,
Keith a Hernandez up one out runner at first. Dodgers
lead the Yankees seven to six here in the top
of the ninth inning.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Drama.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
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Speaker 4 (24:17):
Now.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Bit of drama, of course, because you know Yankee fielding,
I didn't have balk Ye.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
The part of Yankee Yankee fielding.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
Tonight, Man, I'm gonna win in blackout every last game
of the night. Weaver Boks going over to first base
to throw to to try to get Chris Taylor stealing,
and Taylor is down at second. So now the Dodgers
have a runner in scoring position with one out as
(24:47):
they bat in the top of the ninth inning. So
as we continue, will it be a Dodger two run lead,
three run lead. We'll be hearing the Yankees come to
bat in the bottom of the ninth thinning, three outs
away from losing the World Series to the Dodgers. All
that more coming up next. Keep it right here, Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon, you are listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Oh, come on, Tommy Edmond. You couldn't swing like that
in the NLC. You gotta let it go. Man, Man,
he kicked your ass.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Dude, I'm not in the World Series because of Tommy's
so angry anything. Couldn't do that in the last series, jerk. Oh,
that's been the entire last days. Couldn't do that in
the NLCS. Hey months, he couldn't go over fifteen in
the NLCS. Good you do you hate Edmund or a monsymore? Oh?
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Edmund?
Speaker 5 (25:37):
I just keep seeing Edmund get hits and home runs
and make plays. And it's just the Jason Smith Show
with Mike Harmon live from the Tirack dot Com Studios.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
The Yankees get.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Out of a jam in the ninth inning, first and second,
one out. Mark Lighter Junior comes in and he gets
Tommy Edmond on a full count strikeout out of the
strike zone, a really bad pitch, but got Edmund to
chase it, then gets a ground out to third to
end the inning. So the Yankees and it's kind of
the bottom of the order coming up for them here
(26:08):
in the bottom of the ninth inning, and it's going
to be Walker Bueller in from the bullpen to try
to close this out and win the World Series for
the Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
In his career two and oh with a point five
e r A in three World Series appearances spanning eighteen
innings pitched.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Yeah, but that was back when he was Walker Bueller.
Now he's like, is he good? Still kind of somewhat Walker, But.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
I get I get to at least put that graphic
up though, Buddy. I mean, that's all I'm doing.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
I'm trying to. I'm just trying to, like I'm painting
it with words here. No, you want to get the
Jason clearly didn't watch Game three.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
It's no, it's just just like the NFL wanted to
get all the Jets games out of the way early.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Hey, we got we had him. We had him this
week on third seasons, So we're gonna we're gonna tap
out of those Jets games. Lead.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Let's get him on the first couple of months while
people are still interest in Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Now, of course, one of those starts earlier in this
World Series where he gave you a five strong shutout innings,
two hits aloud, and now comes in. You know some
of us, you know, part of me would have liked
to wait, there's a surprise. They've got a giant you know,
like the medical tent on the sideline of an NFL
game where they're not showing.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
You who's warming up.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
And maybe it would be the surprise of Shoeotani wearing
glasses like he's Charlie Sheen coming in.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
But here we get Buehler and and.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
It's it's so huge, a guy that's been with the squad,
the ups and downs and certainly battling back this year
to what he's been for them in these playoffs, these
these last couple of rounds.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
It's a huge moment.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
You know there's part of me that thought, you know,
the going going back now, going back to before the
playoffs started, as Dodger getting or going the Dodgers are
on the mound to clinch the World Series, it's gonna
be Otani on the mound of the ninth, right, It's
gonna be Otani. But then clearly that didn't happen in
the injury you know, designated hitter. Yeah, but I always
had that vision that if they're gonna win the World Series.
(28:06):
It's gonna be Otani.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
No, that's one of those great storybook kind of things, right,
you know, and Bueller's story certainly fantastic as well, and
Dodger fans he's beloved, been with the squad, you know,
all these years, so on opportunity for him to close
it out here in game five. But yeah, the Otani
storybook men, come on, look at the year that it was,
(28:27):
you know, it only seemed fitting that maybe you'd get
one more chapter to it.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
So right now, it's gonna be Walker Bueller facing the
b and I say, I say bottomiss of the order
because volt Yes, he's hitting seventh, but he's been really good,
yeah this series, but he is facing seven, eight nine.
It's Vulpi, Wells and Verdugo right now is what's gonna
happen for Bueller as he tries to close this out.
The Dodgers are three outs away from their first World title.
(28:54):
Since twenty twenty, Chris Taylor has come into left field
defensive purposes. Remember he came in to run for ta
Oscar Hernandez in the top of the ninth inning. Look,
if you watch this game and you walk away from
and go Yeah it was okay. I I don't think
baseball's for you. No, I don't think baseball. If you
watch this series at all, I don't think baseball is
for you. Maybe maybe maybe maybe something else is your thing,
(29:16):
maybe you want to make it, but but baseball is
clearly not your thing.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
You can just go through the entire playoff run, just
so many weird twists, big moments, giant performances, big hits,
big pitches made like we saw trying and break off
that pitch last inning. I mean, you just have moments
like that that you just you're you're left with that
(29:40):
was it?
Speaker 4 (29:40):
The scream? Was that Munch? Oh? Yeah yeah the monch? Sure?
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Sure were you making the McAuley Culkin home alone face.
For those that don't like Arty, don't glack to.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Explain, because people think, wait, the guy from one order
much No, no different, different.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Oh nicely done one not not Munch like Bells A
hell of a runny yet with that character over several series.
But but all of that to say, it's just been
a wild roller coaster, and you know, baseball is one
of those that sometimes you need to sell people on.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
You didn't need to do it. During these playoffs.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Bueller has just gotten Vulty to ground out to Max Munsey.
There is one out in the bottom of the ninth inning,
Dodgers two outs away from the World Series. Just about
Bueller for this point, because this, look, how many times
you hear me say, how can not be romantic about baseball?
Speaker 5 (30:27):
How much do I love baseball? But this is what
the sport does, is that you hear the phrase yesterday's
goat is tomorrow's hero. Yeah, you hear that you always
have a chance for redemption. But for Buehler to be
somebody who I don't even know if the Dodgers thought
he was gonna be in their postseason plans at all,
(30:47):
because when he came back from the latest injury, remember
he hadn't pitched it. He hadn't pitched hardly at all
to come back, and he'd not pitched well since he returned.
He was era was up over six. They were trying
to get him innings to think well at some point,
and then they really went into the playoffs because there
was absolutely nobody else. They know, Okay, we're gonna have
at least one bullpen game. We can't have two bullpen games,
(31:08):
So all right, Bueller's our guy, right, everybody else Kershaw.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Is hurt, and and and glassnow is hurt. What are
we gonna do?
Speaker 5 (31:15):
And so because there was nobody else out there, and
he has the first game against the Padres and he's bad.
It's one really bet inning, right, but it still doesn't mean,
you know, you give up six runs and that was
the starting counts the same. I mean, that's us for
doing the nuance of how that start eventually finished. But yeah,
and the Dodgers throw him out there for Game three
against the Mets because there is nobody else.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
They had the bullpen game in game two and the
Mets knocked the crap out of that. They're up six
to one early. They win that game, and all of
a sudden, here's Game three, and look at the advantage
of Mets have and not really that game is what
probably turned I don't want to say, the entire fortunes
of the Dodgers, but it turned Bueller's fortunes because he
(31:58):
went four innings, he threw the ball really well, had
a lot of breakoff his pitches, he had the Mets chasing,
and suddenly it was, hey, we can breathe easier now
because we can trust him to start a game. Now,
still we're gonna need the relievers at some point, but
we can now try if he comes back again in
Game seven or in the World Series, we can trust
him again. And then he comes back in game in
the World Series, and he has a great game the
(32:20):
other night, and now here he is closing out the
World Series. He's someone that went from we don't know
if he's even gonna be on the team too. He's
only pitching because.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
There literally is nobody else to Now you're our guy
to close out the ninth inning. I mean, that's that's
just an unbelievable story. Yeah, just the run through, I mean,
is fastball hitting up at ninety seven ninety eight miles
an hour. He just broke off an off speed pitch
swung throughs for out number two. So we're down to
(32:48):
the final out here. But to your point, right, nearly
a six era in the regular season, and you know,
just showing what Dave Roberts and management and what this
die your staff is done as we sit here on
the precipice of closing this thing out, is that your starters,
(33:08):
we've changed what the metrics are and for baseball, you know,
It's in a strange spot, is that Bueller only had
had to go four innings to launch into another stratosphere
and to regain you know, the love, the adoration, whatever else.
Six strikeouts a four inning appearance. Normally it was all right,
I got to get seven out of the guy. I
(33:29):
was like, no, you were just hoping for four or
five because you trust your bullpen when the high leverage
guys are available, that you're going to be able to
close out a game, and that your offense, which has
been a juggernaut all season long, has been able to
put up runs in this series. I mean, most of
it coming on the way of the home run, except
for that crazy ass inning that we had back in.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
The fifth Walker Bueller is one strike away from winning
the World Series for the Dodgers. A one to two
pitch is in the dirt.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Strike three.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
The Dodgers are your World Series champions. They are mobbing
Bueller on the mound. Mookie Betts is throwing his hat.
How great is it that it's Verdugo that strikes out
to end it after his dopey support of the Thugs
from yesterday.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
He's gonna leap on somebody the Dodgers are partying on
the mound in Yankee Stadium. They are your World Series champions.
In twenty twenty four. It was a breaking pitch in
the dirt, second breaking pitch in the dirt of the
at bat to get Verdugo, and now it is a party.
Aaron Judge walking off, clearly not having an Aaron Judge
(34:39):
type World Series walker. Bueller is standing with his arms
out to the stands left.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
To say, are you not entertained.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
The eighth World Series Championship for the Dodgers, And I
assume it will just be They're just gonna walk on
the on the field and go, Freddy, here's your MVP chow.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
You don't need a ceremony. There's no drama here. Take
your trophy, Freddy, you're the winners. You got it. Go
hang out with your family. Here's your trophy.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
A game the Dodgers were down five nothing and it
looked like we were heading back to LA for Game six,
and then the Yankee defense went to work and.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
I don't mean in a positive way.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
No, and undone by an Aaron Judge error and Anthony
Volpi error, a mental error involving Garrett Cole and Anthony
Rizzo that should have ended an inning, and instead the
Dodgers get five to tie it. They withstand the Yankees
getting the go ahead run in a sacrifice fly by
John Carlos Stanton and getting two runs in a very
(35:36):
Dodger like rally in the top of the eighth, some walks,
a couple of sacrifice flies, and two shutout innings, one
from Blake Tron in the eighth and an easy inning
from Bueller in the ninth. The Dodgers are your World
Series champions. More reaction to this coming up next.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
Keep it here. It's a must listen Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Start to party, Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Your Dodgers have won the World Series.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
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